skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"f this were software we'd be looking at a multi-year software project with a few hundred programmers delivered on-time, within the budget and working flawlessly on the day of delivery. I have yet to see such a project."

I agree with a lot of what you're saying in this thread except that you keep missing high-assurance engineering in statements like this. Altran-Praxis regularly does what you describe minus "several hundred developers" since they try to keep the systems simple enough to not need that. Galois can do this. Cleanroom Software Engineering teams did this often on the first try. There's companies doing business requirements in Prolog with standardized components for plumbing. The DO-178B/C and similar companies are delivering all kinds of software that's tested from specs to code to whether object code really matches. Hamilton and Kesterel generate some systems straight from logical specs with correct-by-construction techniques while others in CompSci and industry do that by hand. iMatix had their DSL's and generators to do a significant chunk of this without formal methods. One company even specialized in high-availability conversions and migrations like you describe in the bridge example albeit I can't remember the name. Quite a few Ada projects also happened in defense sector with a bunch of subcontracted components that integrated painlessly due to good specs and language's features.

There are companies and groups straight-up engineering software that has few to no defects in production or maintenance activities. They actually have a significant number of customers, too. It's just that 99% of software isn't done that way. It has the problems you mention elsewhere in this thread. Let's be fair and give credit to those actually pulling it off, though. Also lends credibility to our claim more of that 99% could be as well.

EDIT Added specific links in another comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12801963
Internet Archive should look into distributed models such as IPFS for storage of the archived sites.
Your understanding of WeChat is not very accurate. It's on a completely different level of integration with daily life than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or anything else. It doesn't really do ads because companies run their shop on WeChat. It has a payment system, it lets you book and pay for taxis, order lunch, etc. In comparison, Snapchat is hot air.
Really? You Americans and your strange ways :-)

I can see then, why for some, the argument that "e-voting can enable use of standover tactics" falls on deaf ears - because the risk is no different than what is currently the case.
Can someone shed some light on the asian claim? Seems like a really weird thing:

a) to bring up at all
b) to bring up in an article about ipo

what does it have to do with the company going public?
You can trot out that 640k comment to sell any piece of technology, it doesn't make it true. I could have said the same about Google Glass.
I've seen keyboard issues in JVM based IDEs before, specifically Webstorm.

I've also seen some keyboard shortcuts not mapped properly in Firefox and Chrome. e.g. in the Chrome console the home and end keys don't work as expected under macOS

I always assumed these were cross-platform library issues but I don't know for sure.
Lawyers do now but they used to search through large books for them and it's only in maybe the last decade or two that computer skills really became important and many law firms were really resistant to computerization. She hasn't practiced law it seems since before I was born and I can pretty easily say that you could have definitely been a lawyer then without computer skills. I don't think the whole thing was against FOIA requests. I might be wrong but I thought she had originally tried to get a more secured blackberry like Obama has and that would've been subject to FOIA requests. She deleted emails before turning them over to the FBI because she didn't want them subject to an FOIA request but as someone who would not want every conversation on his phone public I can't get too mad about it. As always my opinion on it is same as my opinion on most dumb things people have done, mindbogglingly stupid, but not malicious.

Fun Fact: I was talking to a Westlaw salesman and apparently when the Westlaw website first came out he was trying to sell it to a law office and after telling the lawyer how much time he was going to save because of it he just replied "why would I want to save time when I bill by the hour".
Literally, all of those trusts in that scenario are with 'people' which are indeed quite easy to corrupt (or fail without awareness). Possibly more so than potential crypto and chain/ledger based systems.

And again if "probability is low" is the bar, then we can surely keep _exploring_ Internet voting systems without engendering rejection as academicly 'impossible' for the whole concept.
Deliberate communication is, I have experienced, usually a whole lot higher quality than ad-hoc, informal "collaboration". Let people go away and think about it, do their homework, and come back with backed-up, researched, opinions.

Or, you know, you can just interrupt everybody for a useless bike-shedding session at the drop of a hat.
The problem with the Snapchat glasses is their re usability and if it catches on.

If your friends aren't using them and you're the only one with a pair you'd be less inclined to wear them. Everyone thought Google Glass was going to be the future but those glasses made you look like a total douche. Hopefully the Spectacles wont be branded as such.
Oh, I think you may be on to something... ;))

Wait, no, it's just you that are a dysfunctional couple. Don't project your weird marriage dynamics on others. You have a very strange thing going on, I mean, it's really interesting the idea of marriage, and strange impositions, being something that is "forced" upon you... I wonder how you think that is normal.

Oh and if by this tirade you're implying that women in general are expensive item-obsessed creatures whose only desire is to buy expensive crap then, well, I think I may have found (one of the) reasons that you have such a dysfunctional relationship with the opposite sex ;)
>Cocoons are always bad in a non-homogeneous society.

The most non-homegeneous society I know is New York.

I remember walking it and seeing Chinese area, black area, finance area, etc.

People always try to create bubbles around them with people they know they can trust. Or "facts" that supports their world view. Or familiar ideas. This all helps them spend less energy on "uninteresting" things.
> But... even if the worst is true, and Google treats its search results like its own personal pulpit, is that so bad?

Yes.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/24/google-antitrust-eu/

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/19/google-could-face-3-separate-...
Lots of people are going to wear those glasses. Is there some site where you can bet small amounts of $ with strangers on the internet? :)
Paper money is not real money. You won't act and respond in the same way as if you're dealing with your own cash.

Trading.. well, you'll probably lose your shirt. Investing however is very doable. Start with the stuff you understand well (i.e. probably tech). Why not just put in $5k and see where you end up? Even small amounts can teach you a lot.
I launched https://askdns.com a few months back and making around ~AU$75/mo just from Adsense. There are around ~3M links in G now so the traffic coming in is slowly increasing.
Should I really care about some ideal?
Thanks. Couldn't remember funcall but I knew there was a better way.
This sort of nonsense should get you summarily expelled.
It's safe to assume that 1.2Tbps isn't a big deal for Google/MSFT/AWS/Cloudflare/Akamai/Yahoo/Verizon/etc.

DNS is normally a low-bandwidth protocol so if you only provide DNS services, needing to purchase 1000x your normal bandwidth to handle these bursts would be miserable. If a DNS provider were also providing video services (Vimeo/Twitch/etc), then a 1.2Tbps increase in traffic could be easily absorbed.
no need. Twitter announced it was firing ~20% of it's userbase.

Guess Google can swoop in and buy it now :)
Worst case scenario, he'd have returned the money for any specific painting that couldn't be done, right?
How Famo.us Refused to Admit They Could Not Achieve Native Rendering After All
Really? iPhones seem to have somewhat predictable cycles. I have owned 4 and every time I pretty much knew when a new one would come out.
The sound quality of the EarPods, which presumably the AirPods are based on, is good but definitely a very subjective thing. I've found them to be excellent for the price/form factor. Things I like:

- Great, deep bass response (when you position them to create a good seal between your ears and the outside world).

- Reasonably detailed mids.

- Somewhat diminished but still relatively detailed highs.

- Comfortable for wearing for long periods of time.

- Isolation isn't too strong, even with a good seal (helpful for maintaining situational awareness).

My only complaint is that between different pairs, the ability to get a comfortable seal can be inconsistent. However, I wouldn't consider them high end, and while their lack of noise isolation can be a downside at times, given the cost and the excellent bass and overall clarity, I think they're a great earphones.

If the AirPods have better SQ, that'd be awesome; but if they have the same sound quality but without the wires and with good (and hopefully passthrough when possible) audio compression, I'll be eager to buy a pair. And I think as more and more people wear them, they'll quickly become fashionable to wear.

On a related note, I hope Apple and others are eventually able to move to lossless, even lower latency compression for wireless audio. I absolutely love the lossless compression the AirPort Express provides via AirPlay.
That happens if you visit the article first from your browser and then use the google-hack to try to get around it. If you really visit the site fresh from Google, you get the article.

I just tested. I know I'm over my WaPo limit, but I could pull up the article from Google, since I hadn't gone to it before.
The Old Testament of the Bible is a lot taken up with the rise of kings over judges, with prophets then warning people that the only reason to have kings is conquest, and that this is Hubris That Will Arouse The Ire of $DEITY.

Whether it's really on a timeline or adapted, it's kind of an interesting idea that much of that old book is about that. It's especially interesting when you consider the idea that in order to survive, a system like that has to become ephemeral; that Judaism survived the destruction of various temples because it became much more of an idea than a place or thing.

But we remember the conquerors because the stories are better :)
Wow. I really love the internet archive as a project. This is a great usage. Looking forward to see how that will work out.

I wonder if they will publish a list of replaced links after the fact?
Feminism as a subset of Tech
They're the least cringey maybe, I don't think anyone considers them to be high art or anything though (certainly not in the last 5 years). Large PR events for the mass media are always going to be at least a little cringey, no matter who's giving them. 'Courageous' is going to be used sarcastically for the next decade, no matter what computers people prefer.
Palantir’s workers “need to know they will have liquidity at a fair price,” said Mr. Karp

Unless there's a subtlety I missed, isn't this more likely to be driven by their VCs?
There is only one camera on the Spectacles. No stereo.
I agree with patrickk that it isn't that people want his companies to succeed so much as they want the product he is bringing to market. I've wanted a no compromise electric car for a long time before Tesla came around, and got it in the Model S, now I don't want the company that brought it out to fail before there is incontrovertible market proof that the demand for electric cars is real and will continue. That takes on the order of 10 years of market participation AFAICT.

I also wanted to exploit the solar power that is available in moderate climates like the Bay Area. I did that by "over paying" for my solar install in 2003 but at the same time the creative financing that Solar City brought to the market enabled tremendous volumes (and a price war from the Chinese government helped of course but that is a different story).

I also want to go to space for less than $20M on a 1960's tech space ship to a kludged together of modules. Back when Regan's Star Wars vision was creating capital availability for companies like Rotary Rocket and DC-X I was hoping that would finally be the point where regular commercial access to space was made possible. It died and I spend a couple of decades wondering if we'd die as a species on this planet. Now Bezos and Musk are racing to create a capability that promises to take me to orbit for significantly less cash, I'm all for the product and so I want the companies working on that product to succeed.

It wasn't until the decade of the idle billionaire that this even became possible.
The idea that you should have a right to dictate what your neighbors can and cannot not do in their own homes is not uncontroversial, and a slippery slope.
What I Want in an Apple Watch 3.0
You mean like a prediction market? Yes, hundreds.
Sample size of one..._but_ I love material design apps.

For me, it is a attempt to give folks simple / functional patterns that work across different screen sizes and encourage good behaviours such as widget reuse.

MD hopefully discourages organisations from making their own (often weird / lower quality) widgets that only work on certain screen sizes, certain platforms yak yak yak. Furthermore, the standard MD patterns, iconography etc. should decrease the time necessary to understand new apps - reducing user frustration.

I also love their color swatches[1] and naming convention as it allows devs to easily switch colors throughout their apps / widgets.

Sure some might view this as “utility” design _but_ it does give the great unwashed access to good design (quickly and at low/no cost). That enables folk to focus on adding some value.

[1]: https://material.google.com/style/color.html
"The hardest part was actually conveying that it wasn't just some print or photo filter, and this is something I still have difficulty with today."

I can see how you'd have that problem with the name "Instapainting". If someone didn't describe to me exactly how this works, I would think it was just another photo filter app.
I have some questions in to them, if they get back to me I'll try to remember to reply here.
Docker was always intended to run in production. That was the goal from the beginning. The developers recommended against running it in production before the 1.0 release because it was in beta. Developers of many products that are intended to run in production do the same thing before the first stable version is released.

That is not the same thing as saying that Docker was never intended to be used in production, and was only ever intended to be a development tool. That's the view I'm arguing against, and it's not trivial -- it denies the fundamental purpose of Docker.
"Separating yourself from people with differing views doesn't do either side good. It actively works to reinforce an "Us vs Them" mentality. Instead of speaking to each other, you speak past one another. Two groups unable to communicate with words tend to eventually resort to weapons to "get the other side to understand"."

Kinda hard to listen to someone who thinks me being transgender makes me subhuman or mentally incompetent. It's a basic standard that you have to see the other person as a person first before any meaningful exchange is possible. And to assert it is my moral duty to make them understand is nonsensical.

"aken to extreme, as many people seem to do on social media, filters your social bubble to only "Other Yous". I feel doing that actively harmful to one's self. Stifling their own view of the world and limiting it only to the parts they agree with."

I've ranged the political spectrum more than most. From nationalism (with some racialist notions) to currently a Mutualist. I seriously doubt there's anything I can learn from the likes of Ben Shapiro when it comes to conservatism. Those folks are light weights compared to George Will and the late William F Buckley Jr. If I want to refresh my memory on conservative ideology I got dozens of essays by more competent people from years past to read. I don't need to listen someone spew an Obama birther theory to expand my horizons.

"The line between "Those people are violent and dangerous and I wouldn't save their lives if I could" to "Those people should be rounded up and killed for the benefit of everyone else" has been historically thin and often crossed. If they're such bad people, does the world really need them? It's an easy and rational conclusion to make if you truly believe it."

Yeah cause me not listening to a bigoted relative tell me that water fluoridation turned me a "tranny queer" is going to lead to people putting them in a concentration camp.

In all seriousness, your logic is very tenuous as there's no evidence of a massive liberal or progressive wave of hate coming. I don't know of any mainstream liberal or even a decently read anarchist advocating for the extermination of social conservatives. Rather I read every day CNS or Free Republic or Townhall how being a "transgendered" is "dangerous and delusional." So frankly, I'm not gonna be friends with such people. Would you?
I am complaining about my recently purchased 2016 Mercedes e-class doesn't include similar autopilot features as 2017 e-class.

Check :)
"(the people who tend to use Groupon the most)"

Maybe it's more accurate to say 'the people who easily fell for Groupon's sales people'. In my area the various daily deal sites have very aggressive sales fleets, who literally go door to door in shopping streets convincing owners to put up a deal. Many of them lose money or barely break even; but then again some of them owe it to themselves (I bought a deal once and went back afterwards; she then said 'I'll give you the same price you paid for the groupon, because other customers have complained that they didn't think it was fair they had to pay more when they came back' Wtf?)

Anyway, I don't have exact data of course, but I've been interested in the business model for years, so I tried to get as much information from business owners as I could every time I bought a deal. The overall picture I got even after a few years (so since 2010-2011 maybe?) was that the typical groupon customer had distilled to the cheapskate vendor-hopping type (before that, when groupon was the hot new thing, it was mostly early adopters who weren't really price sensitive, but for whom getting a 'deal' was more about the social validation aspect of looking like a savvy consumer).
Faculty at most universities sign the rights to their inventions over to their host institution as part of their employment agreement. I believe MIT is the same way. Universities generally have a technology transfer office (at MIT, it's called the Technology Licensing Office) that manages all of the intellectual property created there, with the hope of commercializing some of it.

From what little I can read, The Engine is a separate entity from MIT, which gives them freedom to work with entrepreneurs without the restrictions in faculty contracts.

Some technologies invented at MIT(1) will be licensed by companies(2) that will leverage The Engine(3) to accelerate their development, with the expectation that the development will take place over a longer-than-usual time scale (10-20 years).

Maybe I'm optimistic, but I'm guessing that this is less about the return on the money for MIT, and more about bringing impactful technologies to market that previously have not fit well in the existing funding ecosystem (and inspiring others to do the same).
I'm curious about how Palantir works as a public company. It has always looked like a data-centric McKinsey clone to me, and those kinds of consulting companies are usually partnerships.

Granted, Goldman Sachs and other investment banks that were once partnerships are now public. But that move hasn't necessarily been a good thing for the companies in question, and some argue it has been damaging.

Basically, Palantir looks to me like a law firm/consultancy, those firms typically find it advantageous to stay private, what is the advantage for Palantir to go public except to provide a cash out to investors?
Recent Updates to Marketing Campaigns
They arrive via Windows update.
> My LL just put in new electronic locks in on my building to make sure it was significantly harder to lend apartments in the building out on Airbnb.

Can you explain this part? What do the electronic locks do to discourage lending?
That's more targeted cloaking, but cloaking nonetheless. I mean of course I can get around it by clearing WaPo cookies but that isn't the point. I just hate that these large sites think they can do whatever they want - and for the most part they get away with it.
Unless you tie it into their feedback ratings. Presumably your system drops or deprioritizes artists with fewer than 2.5 out of 5 stars, for example. So you could set something like: 3+ stars as the default 1.0 multiplier, 4+ stars gets a 1.1 multiplier, and 4.75+ stars gets a 1.2 multiplier. This may create an incentive for the artist to put in more time and produce better quality, unless the artists are already putting in their absolute best effort rather than cranking out paintings as quickly as possible.
My impression is they more hate Trump because he is taking the party in a different direction than they want and has also said some things that many people think do not reflect well on the Republican party. I do agree though on the influence of money in politics and that's one thing that's so interesting about Trump is that he just seems to say whatever he wants.
Good idea, after that it's really just rate limiting and perhaps only looking up the same URL every X days. Perhaps a per domain limit as well. No problem they probably haven't already solved.
sorry, couldn't resist.
"Government (political), law-enforcement and security agency software company whom happens to use data-mining"

Perhaps this is shaking the trees of institutional/sovereign wealth funds/investors is in order to make them seem like they'll miss out.

IPO, these days, is a move of desperation and often a murdering of remaining agility.
Dealing with growing pains without sacrificing sustainability
http://i.imgur.com/6X1zqDp.png
> Just like the classic iPod.

I don't think the classic iPod is a good example here, the iPod line still exists.
I think something similar might happen with the Mac line, we might see the end of the Mac Pro, Mac mini and even the iMac (less likely). But I don't see the Macbook and Macbook Pro going anywhere soon.
The longer you pillage, the more you raise the interest in being opposed. That's why the Mongol approach was so effective - you had a really short conquest period that happened once, then tribute was paid. The tribute was more than made up for by being on the Mongol trading network.

IMO, all empires are small compared to the Mongols. They had it all.

The Danes just had lousy farmland and good boats, especially during long cold spells. The Northmen in general had more impact as traders than as raiders.

A similar pattern emerges in the Americas - the Apache word for the Comanche is Apache for "those a$$holes" because the Comanche were much more predatory of the Apache than the other way 'round.
In NYC former Mayor Bloomberg used to say that about all the entrepreneurs trying to make it with original ideas and gusto

"there's eight of you here"