skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that. I'd only run across the fragment from which I'd quoted above, and even that is tremendously informed,sightful, and illuminating.

I've been digging into the history of information and communication (and only just scratched the surface of THoI website), including the explosion and dynamics of information as it spread across Europe.

There's a paper which looks into the total number of books (volumes in total, not simply titles), from about 600 AD through 1800. That grows from perhaps 30,000 volumes -- about 1 per million inhabitants -- to nearly 1 billion in 1800. The 15th century, with the invention of Gutenberg's press is an absolute watershed, and the consequences, social, religious, political, scientific, are immense.

I'm starting to wonder just what the hell it is we're unleashing with the Internet and in particular the Internet in your Pocket, across the world.

Not all the previous developments have been postive.
Well, he is using an anaerobic bioreactor I believe, so not sure what the exact conversion figures or alternative aerobic products would be. (The methane he extracts vs equivalent farm decomposition)
> Users don't use things because they are developed in a particular language.

If the users in question were the standard near tech-illiterate masses, you might have a case but we're talking about a developer tool in this specific instance. I'd also suggest that you go take a look at the reviews on the Android app store for most banking apps, which are typically webviews. They're nearly always terrible and often due to the webview itself. Users don't distinguish between native and webview wrappers because they don't understand the common factor in the terrible experiences they're subjected to.

> HTML based components can be made to fit into OS styling quite readily

Yes, this is technically possible but I'm yet to see someone actually do it.

> and by keymapping shortcuts you can get the exact functionality as native OS controls.

To do this properly requires the developer to implement keymapping properly, which again, is possible but I very very rarely see it done.

> They can perform equally well.

No, they cannot. HTML components are always burdened by the overhead of a browser. At absolute best, you can come somewhat close. Futher, performance includes not just UI latency but the CPU and memory impact on the machine, which again, can never match true native apps due to the overhead of the browser, which is insane.

> Optimizations can be made in JS code as well.

Unless something extreme has happened in JS runtimes recently, you can't optimize your code to use SIMD instructions and parallelize, you have to leave that to the compiler. In native code this is not the case.

> The advantages of having a cross platform application developed in 1/3rd the time especially for new applications are huge (faster time to market, larger number of people for validation)

I'm not entirely sure the premise here is accurate. I suspect that an experienced Qt developer could produce a basic native application in roughly the same time as an Electron developer, but with a fraction of the overhead.
Yeah, or when they started.
I prefer the Interceptor extension to using proxy settings.
hmm...not sure I can make use of..it but Good Luck !
tstg
Even then, they probably know, albeit at lower precision.
It's actually 87 lines of code, with a disclaimer comment, ample empty lines, a callback to play a wav when clicked, and an error message for when it's not run on NT. So, like 30-50 lines of actual Hello World necessary code. And that includes the starting up boilerplate.

Petzold's Hello World is far more than what I'd consider a Hello World in Win32, because in addition to what you noted, it also creates a "full" window with all the associated complexity of managing its drawing yourself. A more suitable Win32 Hello World is not that much more complex than the traditional C one:

#include <windows.h>
#include <winuser.h>

int main() {
MessageBox(0, "Hello World!", "Hello World!", MB_OK);
}

From there, one can progress onto "dialog-based applications", where the bulk of the layout is declarative (in the resource file) and the C part is two functions, a callback for messages and a main() which just calls DialogBoxParam(). No WM_PAINT handling is necessary for those. A "full window" application is actually not necessary for many use cases. I've been working with Win32 for over a decade and a half and written at least a dozen little apps for various things, but the vast majority of them are not "full window" apps.

In other words, I'd say Petzold was at least partially responsible for giving the impression that Win32 is impossibly complex even to start with. Fortunately others have come up with better introductions like http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ or even https://win32assembly.programminghorizon.com/tutorials.html since then, but it seems that the damage has already been done and a whole generation of programmers have gotten the "Win32 is hard" notion embedded into their minds.
Have models tended to predict disproportionate high-latitude warming?
It seems that lockstep versioning makes semantic versioning less meaningful

A major version bump for a module could signal a breaking change, or it could just be due to the packages it's locked to having had a breaking change
Writing to /dev/null had the advantage of being far faster, and far more predictable.
> One good year does not erase the structural problems facing California in the coming years due to climate change and poor water management.

True, but desalinization plants can cover the vast majority of people.

After that, let the agribusinesses knife each other until there is no more water and the Central Valley can dry up and blow away.
First, I would suggest that you realize that the VAST majority of society does exactly that. Then I would suggest that you realize that you are not special and that you should do the same. You don't have to do it. But you also shouldn't expect any sympathy.

9AM? are you fucking kidding me? Grow up
So, you seem flummoxed by the downvoting. I'm not sure it's warranted, but here's an explanation so you don't run into it in the future:

Most climate change denialists don't know how science works. Or, if they do, they cynically prey on the public's ignorance. I'm not up to date on sea level data, but even if what you say is true, you didn't just disprove climate change and proved that scientists are a bunch of conspiratorial UN socialists.

Multiple lines of evidence all feed into AGW as a theory. No area of active scientific research has everything fit together neatly. Anyone who has spent a cursory amount of time genuinely researching the issue knows this. But the approach that denialists take is decontextualizing one piece of evidence and claiming that it disproves AGW, or at least makes it a 50/50 proposition.

Your comment falls firmly in this tradition, if unintentionally. The scientist's response to seeing a crazy outlier isn't to immediately fall into spin mode; it's to go, wow, that's weird, what's the strongest explanation?

It's akin to someone posting about an awesome new discovery at CERN about the standard model, and then someone else jumping in and going "well the Standard Model doesn't explain X perfectly, so this is just a conspiracy." It's unproductive and toxic to scientific discourse.
Yes wow! She is agreeing to give up some shares in a company that would probably be worthless after the lawsuit, in exchange for avoiding that lawsuit. Not all of them, some of them. Win win. A saint.
I'll join in and say the Galago was one of the worst computers I've had.
>Materialism can classify qualia as an illusion

But can it? To say something is an illusion is to say that is really an experience of something else. And qualia are qualitative experiences, so the claim is that certain experiences are not experiences… which is problematic. Of course, a proper argument needs to be fleshed out more than that, but eliminativists face a real difficulty, unless they broaden the definition of materialism (which would take us closer to Aristotle).
Yes, it is an old exploit. This ArsTechnica article [1] has more on the timeline

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/new-wikileaks-dump-...
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Interesting overview. Thanks for your insight. Thanks for the Wolfram Functions link, too. I was previously unaware of it.
Seems it mishandles the difference between Premiers and Prime Ministers.
I'll be that guy.

I'm sure the Angular team are great people, and they're clearly talented devs... but stay away from Angular.

It doesn't help with the problems you will actually face. Typed Javascript is a cargo cult. Angular just plain confusing for no apparent benefit. Dependency injection is bizarre. The distinction between modules, components, and directive is unnecessary. The Javascript community in general is moving away from OOP towards functional programming, but Angular has hitched it's wagon to OOP. It's reliance on the decorator pattern is maddening. It's view layer performance is sub standard. It's opinionated in all the wrong ways.

And I say this as someone with a lot of experience with Angular 1, Angular 2.

Trust me, go for libraries over frameworks every time. Redux, React, Immutable, Sagas, and reSelect. That's the future of web app development.
Glad you guys have thought this through. I bought a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition in 2015 that was marketed as a perfect Linux laptop and came with Ubuntu preinstalled. It had a 13.3" screen with a resolution of 1080p, so the text and UI was almost unusable. Two years later, there's still no fix.
Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background
Makes sense, thanks. For some reason, I was set on parsing the "env" values into instances of the same class, regardless of what type they were in JSON, but it's not really necessary. I'll also look into writing custom converters, because I'll likely need that in the future.
TL;DR:

The Canadian government realized it could increase​ taxes by appealing to moral outrage, with terms lime "tax advantage" and "loophole". End the tax advantage by lowering taxes and reducing the size of government? Out of the question.
You're not the target market if you couldn't figure out what they are. I've never heard of it but one look at the screenshot told me exactly what it is.
Yeah, that's usually how this works. They can also rewrite the code or something, though that's tricky to do correctly.
Every classification system has false positives and false negatives. Just because something is blocked, doesn't mean it's objectionable. And it especially doesn't mean that the person who created the video is objectionable.

The alternatives are: schools completely block youtube, preventing kids from getting a lot of information, including LGBT information. Or creating an opt-in restricted mode that will inevitably have false positives, blocking kids from seeing some portion of the information. At least in the second case kids have access to a portion of the LGBT information.
My logic was more from an insurance perspective related to a point you brought up - re: transportation improvements will likely be related to population dense environments.

Looking at the quad copters I have some doubts regarding navigation and/or performance during a catastrophic failure where others might be put at risk. That's not an unreasonable concern for life and property.

As you noted, again, there are high thresholds regarding crew and passenger parameters. I think those also extend to functional operations. For commercial aviation, there is a good 50+ years of accident records and ways that companies have paid out for tragedies and whatnot. Adding in a new component - the quad copter model - is most definitely outside of the norm and I think will be viewed as high risk at first, even if there are great financial rewards to be reaped down the line pending success.
When you say "Republican ideals" do you mean lower case 'r' republicanism vs Republicans?

It's a pet peeve of mine. Same when people use democratic vs Democratic (party) interchangeably.
Thank you this is very interesting.
I wonder about your initial train config, wouldn't it be more efficient with time in mind for demo purposes, to use more wav samples with less epochs?
Yes. "When climate warms or cools, the changes are generally much more drastic at high latitudes than they are closer to equator. Temperatures measured in ice core bore holes in Greenland show, for instance, that central Greenland temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum were about 20 degrees lower than today while the tropics were only a couple of degrees cooler."

http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/climatechange/mo...
> It is also (according to the OpenBSD mailing list) a huge loss for LibreSSL and OpenBSD because they can no longer take patches from openssl.

Apache 2.0 is a permissive license; they could certainly take patches from OpenSSL and ship them under that license.

They might choose not to, of course. But that's the choice of the downstream project.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
Mouse sensor accuracy test (G900 vs. G700s vs. G9X)
If you're not familiar with the iPhone platform and you're interested in just one technical detail to help navigate these stories, let it be this: the iPhone 3G platform bears very little resemblance to the modern, post-touch-ID phone. The platform security system at every level, from boot chain to hardware domains to OS security, evolved more in the last 10 years than any previous platform had in 20 years prior.

That doesn't make an iPhone 7 impregnable, but it should inform any analysis you do of stories about phones being tampered with "starting in 2008"; that's a little like talking about SMTP server security "starting in 1993".
I'd pay if it had the effect where anyone mentioned with @whoever in the tweet would then have it pinned on their page, given enough gold.
There are conditions in which I would consider limits. If you look to the origins of the concept of free speech, and in particular the false equivalence, "the marketplace of ideas", you'll find that those who proposed free speech didn't (for the most part) consider it utterly unlimited.

Jill Nelson's essay is particularly good as concerns Mill:

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9710146591/john-s...
Every single time the models have turned out to be wrong it's always been that they've been overly optimistic.

Not once has there been an "oh, it wasn't as bad as we thought" moment. It's always worse.

It's going to be bad. A little panic is not a bad thing. If we panic for nothing that's better than brushing it off and having the worst possible outcome unfold because of inaction.
The fact that this is Tweetdeck makes me believe this isn't a core initiative by Twitter's leadership, but probably a side project initiated by some individual contributors at Twitter. So this shouldn't be taken to be some big strategic shift by Twitter. IIRC Tweetdeck was also based in Europe so that accentuates the possibility that this is not a core project.
Hughesnet and Exede satellite internet both offer a voip service.
Delphi developer here - nice to be noticed :-)

Still thinking about moving to the fire monkey framework but no need to rush these things
Or stubborn.
I don't know what they do (story very light on details) but "Mashape" is one of the more unlikeable names I've seen.
$100B isnt really all that much as compared to California's GSP of $2.5T [0]. The US spent, percentage wise, quite a bit more on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $2.4T [1] out of $18.6T GDP [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War

[2] https://bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm
AT&T and Johnson and Johnson Pull Ads from YouTube
What does "caching" mean here?
My initial thought is this would only be used to spam/harass people but if it's tied to actual money maybe it'd be enough of a barrier to be semi usable.
Sad, but it's absurd either way that 1 person should write the next file system. A team is needed.
I feel like your imaginative capacity could stand to be exercised more. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways in which intelligent entities could meaningfully differ from us, and which would lead to different political circumstances​.

And we ourselves are not that far from being able to deal reasonably with problems like this. If nothing else were different about us, except that average IQ were, say, 120 on the current scale, I think we'd be able to respond sensibly to non-immediate threats.
> This is a claim, but rarely actually seen. More money is thrown at "defense", while less is put into supporting the American people.

It's not even thrown well at defense. The army wanted to close certain bases and centralize others here in the U.S. It's not like the the army is entirely clueless about importance of operations. They figured they would be able to have the same capabilities, but lower staff and operation count. But you know what congressman/senator is going to allow job / industry to ship away from their district?

You get the same story in weapons and tech. They want to have fewer but more focused efforts when it comes to next-gen development. Same thing, but this time it's corp jobs in the district vs local army jobs.
People love to complain about the Sydney desalinisation plant investment as it's usage has been limited. Given the importance of water and the number of times Sydney has been in drought seems a short sighted view.
fair enough, I've never been able to stay with emacs long enough to collect the plugins.

The 1-2 second startup was slow enough that I couldn't even stay with the Emacs evil mode.
If they tried to make money before the IPO it'd have only demonstrated how impossible it is for them to generate revenue.

Them actively searching for monetization strategies now seems to indicate an understanding that the capital well is running dry.
Millions of fake comments. Sad!
Zip 250 (and above) drives do not have that problem. The Zip 750 drive can read Zip 100 disks, but not write to them.

If you work in IT, a huge percentage of your knowledge (much like the above) becomes redundant with every year that passes. I think this is true more for IT than any other industry.

I feel old.
It depends on the perspective. If you spend your time learning, doing new things... That is incredibly enriching for the individual. However, those experiences are usually made possible by others. If you venture to do these things, create new stuff, only to have it trashed or never see the light of day, should it ever have been created at all? Things happen and projects fail that is true. But my goals are to ensure that the things I learn and apply can give back to the community and lessen the suffering of others. If I learn things and keep them to myself, they may as well not be learned at all.
This is the funniest thing I've seen today.

Did they not get the memo that Flash is dead?
Didn't OpenBSD fork Apache 1.3 over this exact issue?

http://apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#PatentScope
I think that the fundamental problem is not the one technology. Election systems have this odd requirement (compared to most stuff we build) they are used both very intensively and very infrequently. These 15 year old systems have probably been used less than 30 times. From a procurement perspective it seems wasteful to need to replace something after so little use, but so many of the computer systems that we use have anticipated lifespans of only a handful of years.

I suspect that an electromechanical system that records votes onto a medium that can be easily interfaced with technology du jour (and audited by humans when necessary) would have an expensive but long lived set of components that deal with the large numbers of voting actions, and then the ticker tape (e.g.) output can be read with a device that plugs into an off the shelf computer
Makes sense, these apps are insanely bad at setting the pickup spot where you actually are. Free $10 for them, so why fix it. Whee.
I just feel absolutely horrible that I'm not doing anything. It's like I'm watching all the opportunity pass by. I know I should have been part of the early tech scene. Instead I was stuck in hell with a mega neurotic family who still tries to control me to this day. It doesn't affect me as much now, because I learned about their disorders and why they are that way, and I learned about my own disorders, mostly inherited from their psychotic ways. But now I have nothing other than money being managed by some CFA whom has done a relatively decent job, but is badly outdated (I have to do all of the performance tracking on my own). So if the market has a bad crash, things aren't going to go so well for me. I have thought about just taking over the account and making my own investments, or just putting it into a bank until I figure out what I'm going to do. It stresses me to no end.
If someone can synthesize this peptide and sell it as a nutritional supplement right now, they'll make a killing.
Do I know any chemists? :-)
They could sell antigold too. Or maybe semi hide it behind a "related gold tweets" tab.

I assume there's a pretty bad dark side, but it would enable a "premium customer support" of sorts...A very visible complaints box.

Would have been interesting in the Susan Fowler tweet. Would have cost Uber quite a bit of antigold to take that down
They'd have that in earnings if they laid off half the staff.
If they compared like to like, inflation would be far lower. Comparing like to like directly asks the question "how much would it cost to live a 1970 lifestyle in 2017".

As you conceded above, that would be pretty cheap.
Amazing Benefits of Playing in Natural Waters (Nature Goes Viral)
That's exactly what an NSA stooge would want us to think!
No one is arguing with the legal argument, there are a lot of legal arguments that most people don't believe should exist.

So using the law to defend yourself doesn't really apply here.

> Thousands of hash collisions would require prior knowledge of the values and a concerted effort to deceive. It would be more realistic to say that human perception is broken when looking at the media than it is to argue with the mathematical reality at play here.

This confidence is why my anecdote applies. That confidence is flat out scary when you hear people in law use terms like "impossible" or "virtually impossible" when speaking about things that are not.
IMHO calc.exe has been getting worse since XP:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791667

(Note that the "Calculator Plus" mentioned there has --- not suprisingly(!?) --- disappeared from Microsoft's download center, but you can still find the official, signed installer by searching for "CalcPlus.msi".)
if you're interested in how iOS security works, apple publishes white papers on the subject.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Winning the lottery is 1:140,000,000

I think those individuals have much better chances!
Of course Uber is a marketplace. A marketplace doesn't need the ability to set prices individually. Abiding to pricing standards are the conditions to offer your services on their particular marketplace. Don't make up rules that don't exist.
It's strange reading about this and realizing that to be able to do something about it I would have had to have been born twenty some-odd years before I was born. That it's literally too late to do anything about it. I was raised to care about these issues, to save the rainforest, to cut down on pollution, recycle -- to do something about it. And that it would've taken a concerted effort from everyone to take the same care.

Scientists have been warning about this for decades. And we've done nothing. Not even to slow down!

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...

Indeed.