skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JavaScript is a great example. It was hastily thrown together, not well thought-through, and didn't wind up being a substantial competitive advantage for its corporate owner Netscape, which is now defunct.

But we are still suffering from the aftermath. I wonder how much better the web coding world would be if Brendan Eich had been able to spend 60 days on it instead of the 10 was given?
They may need compiled to a specific architecture, but the actual driver code itself is pretty device-independent. Unless you're doing something like implementing your own bus instead of using something like PCI, aside from weird corner cases, the code at that level doesn't care.
I see what you're getting at. The opposite happens as well though. Plenty of companies don't survive specifically because they chase problem X until there's no money left...rather than spending on a sane risk/reward curve.
The inflation would probably not be homogenous, different markets have different pricing mechanics and characteristics. Another variable is percentage going to debt financing, which will have a stimulating effect. One in increased gdp because the percentage of gdp going to repayments would likely drop, and secondly one in higher degrees of business leverage are likely, leading to bubbles in certain markets. Inflation probably won't be a general issue while the economy is not approaching max capacity, but there might be inflation in some markets, much like QE is acting like a basic income for the top percentiles through financial asset inflation. Employers in certain sectors will probably lose a lot of leverage over low schooled workers, might increase prices through cost and demand, finance will probably try to siphon off as much as possible of the extra income. Assumptions assumptions, probably way off base :)
Fallacies of composition are a norm on online forums, while all problems are treated as scale invariant - in online discussions, if someone find a negative counter-example, it will typically be employed to invalidate the whole thesis regardless of its actual significance.

I partly blame the popularity of the Action News format for dumbing people down, but the epistemological roots of this social trend run much deeper. Alas, demonstrating this to people seems to require a week of prior reading.
I agree with you, and it reminds me of Mozilla Ubiquity, and particularly this post: https://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/why-verbs/
Were the effects from volcanic eruptions not known at this time?
Okay... but you're contrasting quality with quick and dirty, not with "more is better" (ie. quantity).

More users is obviously good, as are more releases, but more commits? More repos? More LOC?
Mostly this, but don't phone and don't phone again three months later. Might get a bit of attention, but many people hate needless interruptions like that. Send very brief emails, link to a portfolio (no Word or PDFs - link to your site). Don't send a bland Christmas card, but do send an email that's a bit more personal/casual. e,g, "Thanks for working with me this year. Hope you have some time off planned? I'm taking a break between x and y, but if you need a hand after that on any projects, please let me know. I've been working on a couple of interesting things recently (URLs) but I'm available in the new year."
A few things came out of this incident:

1) Per my first flight instructor, this is the reason students now learn how to forward slip. Up until then it was just viewed as a glider move. Thankfully the captain was an experienced glider pilot. It's required to demonstrate this maneuver for your private license (not sure about sport license).

2) This ultimately led to overhaul and standardizations for fuel / weight calculations.

3) Because the engines powered the electrical systems via the alternator, the plane lost a number of electrical systems until the ram air turbine kicked in (amazing little invention and kinda saved the day). Afterwards, many subsequent aviation systems were designed to be operated independently from requiring the alternator to be running.

Good documentary/recreation on the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bct1mWUp8to. Miraculous that everyone survived, the captain deserves an accolade for quick thinking.
Don't forget about finding a place to store the helmet once you're at your destination.
Take a pitcure and AI and machine learning tell you what it is, set to music
It's ironic that a piece essentially advocating pedantry would then go on to make subjective judgements about outliers versus national averages.

Poverty is higher among Appalachians than the national average, but not by much -- Kentucky has a poverty rate of 18.5% and West Virginia 17.9%, compared to a national average of 14.7%. The typical Appalachian isn't poor...

I don't know dude, define "typical." Kentucky and West Virginia have the 5th and 7th highest poverty rates.
With the sad exception of the Germanwings flight.
I find it a little amusing that it claims "toy compilers are too simplistic and do not prepare the novice compiler writer to construct a useful compiler", and then chooses Scheme, effectively bypassing the whole process of parsing... which IMHO is half the fun of writing a compiler.

Seeing the elegance of recursive descent (and refactoring it into table-driven operator-precedence) and how it can turn recursive structures like expressions and statement blocks into linear sequences of instructions is something I think everyone writing a compiler should experience.

However, I agree with an incremental approach, and that is nothing new; personally I think Jack Crenshaw's tutorial series (started in 1988) is one of the best:

http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ (original 68k version)

http://www.pp4s.co.uk/main/tu-trans-comp-jc-intro.html (x86 version)

It's interesting to note that Jack doesn't specialise in compilers, nor computer science for that matter, yet his explanations are far clearer to me than many of those who do.
Getting code exec in other GB(C) games from code exec in a single GB(C) game
The headline implies that somehow stereotypes weren't important in American politics until recently.
That seems like a terrible idea. Unless you're hiring for a user facing role, one's personal opinions should have very little bearing on their hireablility. It's a number that literally means nothing. Hell you can get down voted for having perfectly logical contrary opinions (e.g. any thread involving politics, diversity or Microsoft). This is something you do if you're just are looking for people who think exactly the way you do.

Personally I refuse to provide any company with material that can link back to my personal social sites. It's simply not worth it. I'm not going to sanitize my digital life for the purposes of getting hired. I don't even provide links to my github because people read too much into what is or isn't there trying to parse out some signal that doesn't actually exist.
Exactly!

For that, check out our OpenReview ICLR submission on
NEUROGENESIS-INSPIRED DICTIONARY LEARNING: ONLINE MODEL ADAPTION IN A CHANGING WORLD, by
Sahil Garg, Irina Rish, Guillermo Cecchi, Aurelie Lozano
https://openreview.net/revisions?id=HyecJGP5ge
"Are you honestly arguing that algorithms of the current AI wave may possess consciousness? "

I'm arguing that you haven't defined consciousness in a meaningful way, so that question is unanswerable.

It's like debating whether or not a submarine can swim.
Differences from leveldb: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki/Features-Not-in-Lev...
I like how point 5 is just casually thrown in there:

> 4. If I need to learn something to do the task, I go learn it.

> 5. If I want to learn something new, I go learn it too.

... okay. If that's the understanding you have with your employer, more power to you, but it doesn't have much relation to the rest of the suggestions.
For a model that incorporates both neuronal birth and death, see ICLR submission at OpenReview:

https://openreview.net/revisions?id=HyecJGP5ge

NEUROGENESIS-INSPIRED DICTIONARY LEARNING: ONLINE MODEL ADAPTION IN A CHANGING WORLD
Sahil Garg, Irina Rish, Guillermo Cecchi, Aurelie Lozano
Care to explain why you have to manually do lots of data manipulation between FEA and member design? Why not write a software that can automate these whatever data manipulation? Seems to me that an All-In-One software should have no problem doing analysis, the-whatever-data-manipulation, and the member design.
I'm curious how you go about this. I can't imagine handing out my screenname to an employer. What kind of criteria do you look for in comments?
This is how these sort of attacks have always worked. Get something that's just close enough so that it passes the glance attack. If someone doesn't notice anything in the first few seconds, you've done half your work right there.
Neither of your options is the actual rule. The actual rule is that when the program runs, there can't be any runtime aliasing.

You can totally call a subroutine with several arguments being the same thing, as long as you don't do anything bad inside the subroutine.

I'm aware of this because I tried to get the PathScale compiler team to add a warning for incorrect aliasing. That wasn't possible. But I did get a flag which made the compiler obey C aliasing rules for Fortran, and it was part of the "got the wrong answer? run with these flags and if you get the correct answer, your program is not standard-conforming" thingie.
Beware of using dang here, as it might confuse people with HN admin ;)
Hyves used to be the thing you had as a schoolkid. It had support for showing your relation to somebody (through people in your friendlist), gifs, almost fully customisable pages, a whole set of emoticons and other things.

When Facebook came around, most people left (mostly kids) because of parents getting on the platform. There's a video of a lonely woman that had contact with friends through Hyves, and said "But how am i supposed to send my friends animated pictures now :("
I read the post as stating that "Quality [of releases] is better than quantity", which is patently false IMO -- in fact, I would say that quantity of releases is pre-requisite for quality. Software grows up best when it's submitted for user feedback frequently and iterative changes are made based on that feedback. Waiting until something's perfect, or even "high-quality engineering", means it never gets done. A strong shipping bias is necessary to get software that works and works well.
I don't see why not. Many agencies will be happy not to have to provide a desk, hardware, etc. If you are a painless option, that will appeal to many.
FYI: The slides are linked in the description and the comments. I found that having the video in the background and just following along via the slides worked quite well.
It's kind of unbelievable that HURD is still going. It's been the butt of many a joke in the Unix world: our equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever, or Mordeth.

I can't admire their release schedule, but you're got to admire their persistance.

One day, it might just be ready...
Microsoft remade SQL Server and optimized for Win after they bought it
I agree. Given the massive success of BSD opensource L4, I think the only reason for Hurd's continued claim is its association with Stallman. Are there any technical merits here?
Relax, I just thought you might find it interesting :)

But it's not necessary to prove the point, we can rely perfectly well on evidence and Occam's Razor for that:

- We can identify highly successful people who are confirmed or speculated to have (or have had) ADHD: Richard Branson, Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea founder), Nikolai Tesla, George Bernard Shaw, Jim Carrey, Walt Disney, Kurt Cobain, Robin Williams. Even if we aren't convinced that each of them exactly fit the ADHD diagnosis (which is inherently fuzzy anyway), we should be able to agree that they are/were all cognitively atypical in ways that are somewhat consistent with the conventional diagnosis of ADHD.

- In each of these people, we can see how their atypical qualities are/were integral to their talent and success, I.e. a rich imagination and enhanced creative capacity; being able to absorb and process many different ideas at once and mash them together to produce new concepts; being comfortable challenging conventional thinking and living outside mainstream norms; having the charisma to communicate new ideas to others and inspire action and change. We can also see significant downsides, most notably in Cobain and Williams who ultimately took their own lives, but anyone with these kinds of conditions will report significant difficulties, which is not surprising; in nature, every benefit comes at a cost.

- We can easily imagine how these qualities would have been beneficial throughout evolutionary history, and how it would always have been beneficial to any society or tribe for a minority of the population to have carried these traits, in order to find new solutions to problems, to invent new systems and technologies, and to break down outmoded traditions and practices to make way for the new.

By your reasoning, ADHD only confers a cost on its carriers, but not one that is severe enough to be selected out of the gene pool. I.e., ADHD is a genetic accident that has continued to be maintained in the gene pool despite having a great cost to the fitness of those who have carried it.

But the "genetic accident" theory doesn't survive Occam's Razor. In addition to it being unlikely to have survived and remained so widespread if it only imposed a cost against fitness, we just don't need to add it into the explanation when the explanation works perfectly well without it: that ADHD-like behaviour is beneficial in the right circumstances, and is necessary to exist in a minority of members of any tribe or society in order for it to survive and progress.
Hi kjax,

Listen, if you want to talk, I'm all ears. You can email me or you can even call me. I don't have answers. I really don't. But I'm more than happy to talk about questions. Or anything, really.
I know this is a bit off topic but is there anything to read about how to implement a microkernel? Like a real booting system for x86.
Posting via Tor now. I had to complete a reCAPTCHA before I was allowed to see the page, but no problems on logging in. Exit relay 89.234.157.254.

I don't usually use Tor but I thought I'd test what OP's saying.
Main problem is more that there is no advantage to a skyhook if you're just putting things into orbit. Every kilo you lift with a skyhook pulls it down and it has to be used to de-orbit that mass, or lifted up by rockets or thrusters etc. Unlike an actual space elevator, or orbital ring, or launch loop, it doesn't hold itself at altitude.

Also, there's really no need for the tether to be conducting. For one, you could just use carbon fiber, or have a single conductor mixed in with tensile fibers, or just use a solar panel, or just spin the whole thing (which gives you the real advantage of bringing you up to orbital velocity)
There seems to be, yes. Surprisingly little information to be had though.

http://blog.httpwatch.com/2015/01/16/a-simple-performance-co...

I don't think server push was used in this benchmark, it's arguably a poor mans way to achieve part of what's discussed in the referenced paper (serving early dependencies...early).
The art of the oppressed：There is no such thing as fake news
1050 14mm black adhesive dots - $4.50

I get that these are designer dots, and fun to look at, but come on. You can even get multi coloured ones for around the same price.

If you need to use the webcam, peel off the sticker, you've still got 1049 to use!
This may sound strange, but maybe even Visual Basic or C#?

It allows you to easily create GUI applications and I assume thats what's interesting. Switching to other languages is easy enough, but capturing interest is key.
I can't speak for miguelrochefort, but I'd say the problem is that doing those things without a smartphone is often even worse. For example, I dislike having Uber on my tablet, but it still beats having to call a cab.
Article unreadable on Firefox due to elaborate yet incompetent Web design. Moving on to the next distraction...
I'd love to see more web apps that use WebCrypto to encrypt data on the client side, but WebCrypto has a problem. It's hard to trust programs that run on the web. Even if the app promises to encrypt user data, someone in control of the server could read any user's data by singling them out and sending them a different version of the site JavaScript that leaks the user's encryption keys. This means you must trust the server every time you load the web app. Even ServiceWorker apps are affected by this because the browser always checks the server for updates to the worker JavaScript and it does not support any form of code-signing.

The best way to improve the state of client-side crypto on the web would be to close this hole and enable some kind of trust-on-first-use for the web, but it's difficult, because this model of trust is at odds with how the web works. Cyph apparently does something resembling trust-on-first-use on the web by serving a ServiceWorker from a HPKP enabled domain and throwing away the private key, but that's not really what HPKP was designed for.
The author is probably implying that being somewhat developed makes it easier to continue developing even faster, like an exponential. I agree though - that point is rather clumsily made, and my reading of it requires some good will.

The article goes downhill from there, and my good will ran out once I got to the "insight" that 99.99% of Muslims aren't terrorists, as if socio-political norms of tens of millions of Islamists aren't deeply problematic as long as they're not literally blowing themselves up. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, allow me to ruin your day by pointing to some unsettling polls: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

Amongst the reassuring results from those surveys: 60% of all Egyptian Muslims think the punishment for leaving the faith ought to be death. 35% of all Indonesian Muslims think adulterers should be stoned. Of course there is a good point here that the article was trying to allude to: barbarism of this type is in some ways a self-fulfilling cultural prophecy. But one has to wonder how coy we really ought to be about the differences that exist in the here and now, especially considering these attitudes matter to the men and women living in those societies today.
No, an APU is (in most aircraft that have them) actually a small jet engine that GENERATES electrical power, as opposed to storage. In some aircraft, the distinction between the onboard battery and the APU is quite clear. I know one jet that this is true of the the A320 family.

The startup procedure for that aircraft relies on either a tether from the ground to provide external electricity, or on the battery to provide electrical power to the instruments/HUD before the APU is spun up.
That's almost certainly Amazon's endgame.
I assume if their score is too high you conclude that they waste time on HN instead of working
We changed the title from "Why HN Blocks Tor?" because HN doesn't block Tor. Plenty of users read HN and post to HN using Tor every day, including some in this thread.

There have been issues in the past with Cloudflare and Tor, but I don't know what the current status of that is. Certainly they aren't blocking everybody, or we wouldn't see them.

The one thing HN itself does is moderate comments from brand new accounts that are posted using Tor. We do this because of past abuses by trolls. However, when such comments are good they routinely get restored by users using the 'vouch' feature, or, failing that, we often restore them ourselves. So even this isn't much of a restriction. The main problem is that it makes for a time delay between when a (good) comment gets posted and when other users get to see it.
This still smells NP Hard. I mean, in practice for simple dependencies it is probably quite tractable, but this is a combinatorial optimization problem that seems pretty similar to an online modification to Job Shop Scheduling, where the material requirements map loosely to machine-task pairings that would be unblocked by orders, acting to make the problem more complex, not easier.
You win a stcredzero "no-prize!"
It's a global platform for cheap human labor. I find it completely unsurprising that living off cheap labor alone would not result in a particularly good living standard, especially not in some of the most expensive locations in the world, and especially not when competing with cheap labor from across the globe.
Yeah, I absolutely agree that we've felt the sting of JavaScript for far too long, but the fact that it's so hard to replace only further demonstrates the point. People are optimized to expend the smallest amount of energy necessary to reach a certain point. Unless a new client-side scripting language comes out and enables something that practically everyone, even non-programmers, wants and wasn't reasonably doable before, JavaScript is here to stay.

Meanwhile, committee-designed projects like Dart have floundered and ultimately failed in their ambitions to bring a better client-side scripting language to the web, despite the backing of the largest internet company on the planet.
You mean that thing by the CIA which was successfully tested in 1958, and later was a plot device in a Batman movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
CS man! What can I say? :-)
I see > delimiters to quote the article all the time, here, actually, and I don't see a problem with it
I think the more important point is that Appalachian is kinda short hand for rural people from that region, who are poor in considerably higher numbers. Pittsburgh and Birmingham are Appalachian, but politicians aren't referring to the Pittsburgh Google office when talking about Appalachia...

(I agree w you, but If we're being pedantic, it's possible to be "the worst" and still not that much different from average...)
Pretty sure #1 isn't accurate. I wasn't required to forward slip (or side slip, for that matter) on my FAA checkride nor have I been required to do so during any biennial flight review.

Edit: I'm dead wrong. :)
Make It Rain: Building an MVP for Fun and Profit (Part 3 of the Epic Guide)
There's also a blog post announcement here: http://hack.systems/2016/12/13/hello-consus/

Reading through the post about active development on the predecessor HyperDex: https://github.com/rescrv/HyperDex/issues/233

> I've stopped developing the project for non-public reasons that aren't technically related to the project.

Along with this line in the blog post:

> not one in which a company with profit motives releases a half-open product, but one in which those interested in Consus can come together to build something better.

It seems like there was some friction around the commercial nature of Hyperdex.
Very few, if any. Enthusiasts need to reverse engineer binary blobs and write open source drivers, as usual.
you mean the domain or the website ?
Think portrait painter or graphic artist. They have very specific briefs, and a set time to complete them in.

But yes, creative writing works as well. And creative writers are given deadlines.
Fortran arrays can be indexed however you like. Code that is designed to be called from C can be written with 0 indexed arrays.
Related reading: "Fools, frauds and firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left".
Wait, Canada converted from Imperial to Metric? Wow that's amazing! I wish the US would do the same.
And, we re-hire freelancers who delivered in the past, as well as recommending you to our friends when we want to look useful to them.