skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm... while agreeing with the sentiment I am unimpressed by the lack of evidence for one of his supporting examples. What stood out for me was this bald assertion with no reference to falsifiable specifics:

"_Not_only_was_it_already_a_much_improved_agreement_from_
the_start_,but it kept being modified from the initial
public version of it to the one that was finally sent to
national parliaments."

Either the writer of this is an expert on the topic, well-known in the field and the weight of this judgement on its own is a valuable primary source; or, the writer is referring to such an analysis conducted by other experts but has not bothered to include a citation/link; or, the writer has their own critique but instead of presenting _that_ has just stated an opinion which they know to be controversial.

All of the above possibilities contribute substantially to the noise around any discussion.
My GF laughs at me and says that I'm a terrible techie, outside of computers and programming, I'm just not that interested in technology anymore, A lot of the fluff around IoT seems just that fluff, I'm excited by the possibilities in terms of things like city management, I couldn't care less if I can turn my lights on when I walk into my house or if my toaster is connected to the internet.

I don't buy gadgets, I own tablets to watch the odd movie and for device testing otherwise I would only have one, my phone is a 4 year old Nexus 4 which I broke the back on and covered in black electrical tape (I could replace it but I don't care enough to do so), I use a 17" Vostro for working the odd time I can't be at my office or at home and it's dented and has stickers stuck all over the scratches, I'm not even sure I remember what the stickers where for.

I'm just not excited by new hardware like I used to be, I only care when it'll have a demonstrable impact on my enjoyment of programming where once I'd have lusted after the latest and greatest I couldn't even name the best model of i7 or whatever at the moment, I only care about that stuff when I'm building a new desktop.

What does excite me is how technology is having a meaningful impact on peoples quality of life.

I think in a way thats just part of getting older (I'm 36).

That and every time I interact with technology that isn't one of my linux machines I come away feeling like I should hunt down whoever wrote the software with a bat and some bad intentions, one of the downsides to been a programmer is that the deficiencies of everything are so much more obvious.

Prime example, I bought a LiFX 1000 bulb (WiFi/IoT bulb) to put into a ships lamp as a christmas present for the GF, it took me 45 minutes to set the thing up, followed all the instructions to the letter, de nada then I thought "I wonder if changing the wireless channel might work" and lo and behold changing from Channel 13 to channel 9 made it work.

Nowhere was that documented in the instructions (which I read) and had I not been a techie I'd have never thought to try it, my point been where once I'd have thought "This is cool" now I just resent the 45 minutes I won't get back.
http://bespalovseminar.narod.ru/literature/MetaX2.pdf
(Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology)
What sort of damage is that ? I'm of just the opposite opinion. There's people who like to talk about programs, and there's people who like to program. Those who like to talk about it ... well this somehow seems to be appreciated by everyone but they never accomplish anything.

The thing is, I've seen people who love programming learn how to get the talking part down. I've never seen one who seem to enjoy the talking more fix the inability of meetings to achieve anything. Everybody is always convinced meetings fix things, but they never do.

The people who love meetings really seem to hate people who just want to actually do things though. I even think I know why. Actually doing something real, like creating a working program, kills what the organization, the team is doing, for the very simple reason that it's now done. And clients respond to that: either take what is actually there and working or talk about it some more ... well they'll take the working thing every time, after all, that's why they're clients. So for the meeting maniacs this sucks : no more talking about it. No more talking about the need for more people to achieve things. No more getting promoted or getting more reports. No more having meetings about the need for more meetings. No more publishing internal memos about the need for a new standard for publishing meeting standards within the organization (no joke: there is an actual file shared with everyone in my company that's exactly that).

The thing is, it's the life cycle of organizations. When an organization comes into being, there are few meetings, and only when truly necessary. People just go off and do things and little regard is placed into communication ... because doing anything other than actually programming/working would kill the business. Then they get bigger, and bigger and bigger. Not because, but despite the meetings, and at this point there come ever more and more and yet again more meetings. And then meeting paralysis finally kills the business. Nobody is able to achieve anything, why ? Because the meeting folks have convinced management to block people doing things without agreement from, by this point, thousands of other employees. Everything the business does becomes a disappointment, first just internally, then it becomes visible to clients, then someone successfully actually does what this company needs to do, and clients leave in droves. And what does the meeting-infested company do ?

They have endless meetings on what could possibly be wrong. Ironically, this is used as an argument to prevent engineers from doing anything because they'll just make it worse !

I once heard a joke that being a lawyer is a sweet gig: the more lawyers there are, and the more they work, the more lawyers are needed to deal with the problems created. Meetings truly are like that.
Only an idiot thinks that the justice system never convicts and punishes the innocent. Only an idiot thinks any justice system which convicts and punishes anyone will never make mistakes (the only process to never punish the innocent is to refuse to punish at all, which has its own downsides).

Innocent folks are executed. Innocent folks breathe their last breaths as life prisoners. Innocent folks die of hear attacks a year into their sentences. Innocent folks spend decades in prison. Innocent folks are forced to register as sex offenders. Innocent folks go into bankruptcy due to fines.

You can't get your life back whether you're executed or die in prison. You can't get your years back. You can't take back public humiliation. You can't restore lost opportunities.

That innocents suffer is not an argument against a justice system, because having no justice system at all is yet more unjust.

As an aside, I agree with you that it's despicable that inmates have to fight so hard to use exculpatory evidence, particularly when that evidence simply didn't exist when they were convicted. This is indeed a great problem.
Talking about template, I really want a standard way to clarify open source contributions during $work. Every time I have to fight with legal to get a provision added. Usually I am the first to have raised that issue so I get blank stares back.

GPL only works because of copyright. I bet most small contributions like bug fixes have unclear or illegal copyright assignment because of over-protective contract legalese.
This piece seemed kind of interesting and then lost me when it just lead to multi-pargraph heavy handed metaphor,

> But Apple’s immune system was suppressed. It allowed a disruptor to emerge from within. Apple gave birth to its future by suppressing the reaction to that new seemingly parasitic organism. It took an immense willpower to allow this to happen.

It's strange that they're criticizing Apple for successfully making a product, the iPhone, that can take off a lot of your PC work, browse/emails/basic things.

Clearly Apple is trying forge a distinctly Macbook Pro path for themselves without diving into phone/tablet territory. Until we have more reviews and impressions from the touch bar out in the wild it's a bit early to write off that effort.
Disclosure: This is starter kit is a result of the work of many JavaScript-developers at Greenhouse Group, my former employer. I decided to clean it up a bit in a fork.
It's natural. Many people on HN enjoy the videos and blogs, so it's natural that they post links.
Somebody wrote that toast would also fall butter-side-down on any alien planet with any gravity. Lots of arguments about tables, toast, gravity and mean rotation speed.
Right. Well, my story is that I'm selft taught (started programming when I was 6 or 7) and thus have been programming as a hobby for nearly twenty years. I decided not to go study CS because I suspected the amount of new and interesting material would be low compared to the time, money and effort it'd take to graduate. Instead, I went on to learn something completely new.

So one of my problems is that I don't actually know what I'm missing out on.
What about using voip such as Google voice?
> JS has the best trajectory right now of any language out there

> I've found it best to not be so opinionated about everything

Lol
Why not both?

To me, your argument sounds a bit like the argument that we shouldn't be exploring space because we have enough problems here on earth.
Well clearly they would use tau.
Why the FDA wants to know how much Nutella you scoop out of the jar
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435081
Identify with Nothing
I've no knowledge of this kind of stuff but what's the big difference between h265 and VP9?
Ha, what is wrong with America ? Is it some attachment to some kind of traditional washing machine looks that keeps people into buying them ?
Nodetodo: Public gatherings for people that want to contribute to Node.js
MAG-LEV Audio – The First Levitating Turntable
That is why I differentiated the fear of dying as not the kind that makes you get out of harms way. But the kind that make you concerned of "what happens if I die tomorrow"...The first kind is essential for survival. But the latter is not..
I find that people who sit in the greys tend to be very worried about their public perception or have very little passion beyond maintaining personal comfort.

The people I look for are those that take strong stands but are willing and able to adjust and even quickly reverse those stances.

To me it's the difference between a leader and a worker bee.
To an extent that was always going to happen as the field expanded, if you look at any established field (medicine, law, engineering) you have people who are insanely passionate about the field for the field and people who realised it would provide a good standard of living.

I don't think this is a bad thing necessarily, the overall expansion of numbers has also radically increased the number of people doing interesting things as well, you just have to find them and they are everywhere, there are still programmers doing things for the passion of doing them.
Yup that's what I meant by API versioning. Instead of having to deploy the physical app to the appstore, you are deploying your API, since basically you're building your native app on the server.
If I must use UML, I prefer using Yuml (http://yuml.me) to generate them.

Easy to use, allows you to "code" the UML structure in a simple template language, and the output looks rather nice.
Are you serious? The BBC is full of exceptional quality content. Planet Earth II is out sometime now just as an example of what is on there.
>Until we have more reviews and impressions from the touch bar out in the wild it's a bit early to write off that effort.

Disagree. There is much we can surmise and deduce from what we already know.

It runs the WatchOS, which to me seems like a singularly bone-headed decision. Why on earth would they choose to segregate it from the laptop in such a fashion, and use the OS from one of their worst products, to boot? To me these things clearly indicate bad management or lack of vision at the helm.
I wasn't able to select an answer until the image finished loading (well, it would submit the answer I selected at that point).
I would suggest making it so it doesn't have to load the image before you can respond, and maybe compress them a bit more :)
The legal didn't adapt in this case. The legislative system applied a patchwork fix. Further, the fix is narrowly narrowly tailored to vaccines, meaning that the legal system is still not equiped to deal with the same kind of issue if it does not involve vaccines.
It's a neat subject, but I think you may have missed m0nty's point, a perspective which I share, about "jazzing up" with unnecessary dialog.

I just clicked on "Fish traps" and my ears are full of idle banter between the two people making traps and whenever they're quiet for more than a moment the narrator breaks in. Someone is speaking at all time and it's obnoxious. This complaint is entirely distinct from how comprehensively they cover subject matter.

BBC historical documentaries are far from the worst offender in this area (American TV is far, far worse), but primitive tech does a much better job than the BBC of permitting the audience to simply observe and absorb.
Agreed. You are right – what I do is much more similar to ERD than UML.
Google release demos and products before they advertise them. Unlike Facebook.
You can. Just you need to go the route of a vacuum airship instead. Or go for a hot helium balloon.

While admittedly science fiction, The Clouds of Saturn
by Michael McCollum explores this a bit.
How Geniuses Got Ahead While Setting You Back
Tedu's other question was, with price comparisons, whether washer or dryers were seen as luxury items back in the 60's to 80's. Today about anyone can buy them for a grand tops. Was it the same in those time periods or lower but at same purchasing power? Has cost cutting put them in reach of more people?

You're a bit older than most of us in this sub-thread. I figured you might have an idea.
Espousing nuanced opinions and making effective arguments are often at odds though. It's very easy for people to lose the thread of an argument if it is chock full of footnotes.

I try to aim for "strong opinions, weakly held" - present a specific, actionable and strong position but be open to changing it if a better argument is made.
Cryptography. Identity is not simply a name. You don't choose it but generate.
There's an issue thread where we're discussing this: https://github.com/Jasonette/JASONETTE-iOS/issues/4
Oh great. yet another way for ad services and botnets to talk to eachother...

Because yeah, that's where this is going to be used first and foremost.

Most people are not intelligent enough to understand how to secure their internet banking, and now we're going to bake-in hosting tcp connectable servers?

These security prompts better have some real clear language and require giving permissions every time.

Now I can see some good things for this too, start a flyweb from your desktop and easily transfer some stuff from your phone for instance (something that still sucks in 2016)

I just think that most of it's use will be malicious.
One of my co-workers got his PhD with the lab/advisor that published his paper. He thought they weren't going to be able to synthesize it, so he left to be a quant.

I sent him an email saying 'hey, isn't this what your PhD was on?'. Then, I looked up his thesis and saw that this was his thesis and, but this publication was from his lab, with his advisor as co-author.

Oh man. I hope I didn't cause any existential dread. He didn't just make a decision that cost him a Nobel, right?
> even peaceful protests are met with full riot gear and ends being peaceful as soon as that first baton-swing hits someone's skull.

Is it more likely that a police baton ends the peace, or a protester's stone? Is riot gear offensive in nature, or do the police wear it to defend themselves from violent attack?

> Police murdering unarmed citizens with their arms raised.

While that has certainly happened, you are referring to Michael Brown, who did not, in fact, have his arms raised and was, in fact, beating the police officer who shot him.

> The mass imprisonment of citizens who's only committed what most people consider a minor offense.

I suspect you blame Drug Prohibition (and I agree that it should end immediately), but that's not actually true: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-...

Looking at what people actually go to prison for, it often seems like stuff we'd want to send people to prison for: murder, assault, theft, rape, fraud. Maybe we might look at why Americans commit so much murder, assault, theft, rape and fraud?
"I use computers for...well, I use them for reading stuff. That is, actually reading it. Text. Pictures if I have to."

The other day I starting thinking of a way to filter the internet down to text/plain content only. I couldn't find a way to make Google filter on Content-Type, you can filter on filetype:txt but not all urls to text/plain content will have that extension. I also looked for a aggregate site that only allowed users to submit links to text/plain content but didn't find one, thinking about making one. Multimedia, markup, JavaScript and hypertext are all really useful, but they are abused so much that I think it would be better to start with the assumption that it's useless until proven otherwise. I'd rather have to copy and paste a URL to get a picture of a diagram relevant to an article than open the flood gates for in-line media, styling and scripting just because it looks a little nicer and saves few keystrokes.
B trees faster than red-black trees?
This is one of my biggest fears about living in Texas. I've seen the justice system at work up close and it's just a mindless life crushing beast.

Furthermore in many counties there's two prosecutors in the courtroom, meaning the republican "tough on crime" judge is no more than additional help for the prosecution.
Well put. There are an amazing amount of opportunities in selling custom solutions not tied in to enterprise behemoths.
From the user's perspective, it doesn't really matter what OS it runs – it should just be seamless. The decision must have made some sort of sense from a hardware perspective.

I haven't developed for WatchOS, but I believe its SDK is a simplified version of Cocoa Touch, so it shouldn't be difficult for current iOS/macOS devs to grasp.
You likely enjoy this read too:

http://antirez.com/news/75

On the HyperLogLog algorithm to count things.
I am the opposite. I used not to care much about computers (I liked math). But I have been blown away but what they enable us to do. And it keeps getting better. Yes computers allow us to Tweet or Facebook which may not seem like a great advance. But they allow us to send rockets in space and make them come back. They allow a majority of humans to access almost all knowledge instantly. They allow my company to develop new medicine much more efficiently. How amazing!

My advice to the OP: go work for a company that uses your computer skills to do something good, something meaningful to you. It will change your perspective.
As the grandparent comment says, it is free for non-commercial use.

Of course, this also only applies in countries which enforce software patents.
Ok, that makes sense. I've never dealt with the scale you are talking about so have yet to run into these issues with redis. It may be best to put this info in the readme so people can decide for themselves when to use RQ or KQ.
It's short sighted to say "using something from their worst product is a terrible decision."

Reasons why it'd make sense to use that processor

* it's their lowest power chip with the capabilities

* it's already optimized for touch interactions

* it has security enclave built in, which is processor specific

* it allows for a secure separation between the touch id & the web cam from the processor

The last point especially resonates with me. So many web cams get hacked, and getting a wall between the internet and my webcam sounds like a good thing.
> I miss that old computer.

Emulate at the Wayback Machine

> 14.4k hayes modem, I miss that too.

Most providers offer slower speeds for less $!

> nowadays it's hard to hold on a conversation with someone without her being buzzed away by phone/watch

I live in the 2nd largest Amish community in the US, there are still a lot of people/places without buzzers attached to them.

> it is even impossible to start a conversation to people sitting next to us

This is nothing new, the best book (my opinion) was written long before any of this stuff, How to win friends and influence people.
The paper describing Emmabuntüs: http://emmabuntus.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Linux_...
Yes, that's true.

A more comparable thing to Signal is Matrix [1] and it's client Riot [2]. Theoretically, it has perfect forward secrecy. It's not as distributed as Ring is, but there is no centralized server as in Signal either.

Riot is also in F-Droid. So while not a GNU member, I find it sufficiently open and free.

A totally distributed approach with forward secrecy is Tox [3]. It needs a good code audit, though. And as in Ring, P2P causes data consumption issues in mobile.

[1] https://matrix.org/

[2] https://riot.im/

[3] https://tox.chat/
To be fair, JS does have a pretty good trajectory. When you start from near the absolute bottom, there's nowhere to go but up. I do not mean that as a crack against the language; it is an observation that even JS partisans ought to agree with if they think for a moment. I'm looking back all the way to its creation, when it was a language designed to handle onclick events that fit into one attribute tag. There was a lot of up to go from there.

However, looking into the future and seeing where a language with Javascript's technical foundation can end up, it's hard to see it ever exceeding Python 3 or Ruby, and both of those languages, while perhaps not in outright decline, are certainly looking at having peaked and entering their "maturity" phase. Confident declarations that it is the future are probably not warranted when it is at most the present. I don't think WebAssembly will "kill" Javascript any time soon, but once it really gets going it's going to start eating away at all the really big uses of it, because WebAssembly will permit languages that can fit into niches other than the 1990s-style dynamic language maxima. It's a nice maxima (totally no sarcasm, I'm just barely old enough to have tasted the paradigms it replaced and dynamic languages got as big as they did for a reason) but it's now in 2016 also abundantly clear it's not the only one.
Titanfall 2 Launch between two bigger franchises defies commercial sense
Announcing the winners of the 2016 10k Apart contest
We've updated the link from http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/7339.html to this, which looks like the original source.