skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an understandable engineering reaction

The point about switching to an alternative isn't an engineering reaction, it's a political suggestion that is based on sending the right message. When MS does something you find objectionable, the way to signal that you strongly disagree in a capitalist system is to vote with your wallet. Continuing to use Window only sends the message that the recent changes are acceptable.

> For others it isn't that simple.

I'm sure it isn't, but that was one of the risks in building a business that depends critically on a product you have zero control over. MS has a very long history of doing things their own way, and usually in their own interest.

> What would the Linux proponents suggest we do with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in software not available on any other platform?

Accept that you may have made hundreds of thousands of dollars in bad investments? You invested in tools that depends fundamentally on a risky platform. Investing in new tools and/or rebuilding your business to not depends on tools that are risky or unavailable will probably be time consuming and expensive. Do you want to start paying those costs now? Or do you want to continue using Windows, encourage MS to abuse their product even more, and generally throw more time and money at your current situation? I suggest paying for past mistakes now, because problems tend to get more expensive when you ignore them.

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Note that none of the above comments mentioned Linux. I do recommend moving to a Free (as in speech) platform, but the point about switching is to leave MS. Often there isn't any alternative; fortunately Linux/BSD and a lot of really good does exist, so you have an alternative, even if it isn't perfect.
I share that sentiment. The complete decoupling of UI presentation and logic all the way up to and through asset deployment via Flex Skins was interesting and had a lot of potential.
Anecdote: Bingo Card Creator got a lot of customers from the checking account generations. Anyone offering to send in a check (or pay via a school purchase order) got the software for free, because accepting a check would cost us more than the value of the software.
Reading this obituary reminds me of Michael Jackson's death. Someone dies and suddenly all the bad things in their life are expunged. Berry was a very influential and talented musician but he spent time in prison related to being caught with a 14 year old suspected prostitute. He spent time in prison for robbery. He spent time in prison for tax evasion. He settled a lawsuit for video taping 50+ women including underage girls in the bathroom of his restaurant. I get it, no one is perfect and a person's death is a time to celebrate their life, but these crimes are part of his legacy. Not even giving them a passing mention in his obituary sends a horrible message that if you are talented enough you can get away with anything.

EDIT: This is currently the top comment, which likely isn't fair either. These things are a part of the story of his life but they also probably shouldn't be the top line. My point is simply we should be talking about his entire life and this is a poor obituary for not even mentioning it. The New York Times has a better obituary available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/arts/chuck-berry-dead.htm...
Nope. That'd be marketing.
Just to be clear: anyone can sue for (almost) anything whether it is reasonable or not.

Whether they win has a lot to do with many, many details regarding the contract, and details like where you registered it, what your job is, and others.
So just like using Linux then? /s
Its always seemed to me like a company driven by committee. And that committee is strongly non-technical business types.
Great article from Grantland (RIP) on Diplomacy:

http://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-th...
Samstave must be joking because Risk is far less than a century old.
Developing flexibility
Why isn't this thread being flagged/deleted?

EDIT: I mean the comment thread, not the post.
There was no haitus. That is a myth and falsehood you're propogating.

http://thebulletin.org/global-warming-“hiatus”7639

The 2007-8 financial crisis is the most significant economic event of the preceeding 78 years. And it was virtually completely unanticipated by mainstream economists. Alan Greenspan, head of the world's most significant central bank, has conceeded his worldview was deeply flawed.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/economy/24pan...

The Queen of England has asked why no one saw the credit crunch happening.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/338635...

So: not only are you incorrect in your example of false predictions, but you're severely discounting the scope of economics' failure here.
Moonscape – The Apollo 11 Moonwalk in HD
I have a homeless friend who lives in a van. He's in the Bay. He cleans around where he lives, keeping the area tidy. I'm sure he'd love to know more about stuff like this.
I agree, it was entertaining. You can imagine the next James Bond car has a gadget with two paint dispensers that shoots out on a rail to one side of the car, starts firing paint and then moves out to the right drawing a double yellow line that forces the bad guys in their self driving car off on to the shoulder :-). And no, I don't think any self driving car worth it's salt would fall for this. Fun to simulate though.

I enjoyed that 'smart car' joke that went "I was standing in the garage because I had forgotten where I had parked my self driving car, then it hit me."
I have a hunch you upgrade at least once every six months or so, often to music (;

My point was that your wording made it should much more like a hardware upgrade, which is on a slower cycle for sure.

And I think you'd probably good. I hear your preferred OS has a good track record for implementing new networking stuff quickly.
Ask HN: Do you think VueJS will surpass React?
Considering boarding the Vue hype train but I'm left wondering: will it be worth it, or am I just wasting my time? React already has a firm hold in the industry it seems, and I'm just not sure if Vue would be able to top it. I'm curious if anyone really involved in the industry would be able to tell me their thoughts on the rise of Vue and if it'll be able to persist like React has.
I remember reading that when it was first on comp.lang.c! His normal .sig was to quote Richie about Noalias, IIRC.
All analogies are leaky, and I think this one is particularly misguided. Why would you want to draw parallels between uranium and AI? You can go a long way speculating about...

What's the equivalent of enriched uranium for healthcare?
What's the equivalent of enriched uranium for calculus?
What's the equivalent of enriched uranium for sweatshirts?
There are other countries who went much further in their support for the poor, with much better outcomes.

This was the line taught in my freshman sociology class, but I have since been convinced that money spent on social welfare does not explain international differences in various social ills.

The idea that allowing businesses to discriminate poor minorities would actually help them is the worst kind of revisionism.

That is not what I argued.
The first video is some one and half hours long. Any idea where to skip for the Berry performance? edit: Ah, I get it, the second link is the Berry's performance starting at 22:34.
The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001)
Let's just be realistic here, the general public is not ever going to switch a Linux desktop. I've been hearing about it for 25 years, how this year is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. Not ever happening. Mac MAYBE, but Linux, never. And for the handful of us nerds that do switch, Microsoft doesn't care. The Enterprise is where they make their money, and they are DEFINITELY NOT switching away from Windows desktops.
The fact that the field ignored a gigantic signal until the world economy had nearly ground to a halt suggests, to me, that there's more going on than missing one prediction.
See link [2] above. Watch his body-language. His facial expressions. His unique dance-movements. Where did all that come from? He was an original
Doterra Alternative
I have to say that I'm absolutely in love with Arch linux. It's some work to set up, and it's not exactly novice friendly, but once it's set up, you barely have to muck with it—it just works. Truly a wonderful OS for the tech savvy.
I read this earlier today, and I don't remember the author calling out the accelerator by name. Was this a later edit?
Assuming you mean the GUI side, as a full time Linux user: Unity is infuriating. I run MATE and recommend trying Cinnamon (Mint), Gnome3 (Fedora), KDE (Kubuntu), or https://elementary.io/ for strong hints of apple flavor.
Funny how they said: "With typical French - and scientific - caution ..."
These are all hugely underrated uses of mobile phones. Having drawings and documentation to hand, downloading manuals for random pieces of equipment without leaving the field, being able to stick your phone in behind equipment to get photos of stuff you can't see, talking to network equipment... This stuff can save days of wasted messing around.

Also just quickly recording things. Terminal block wiring inside the case of a VSD or other equipment (so when later you think 'oh wait, what was wired in to X5' you don't have to isolate the damn panel again to get in and check). Mark up drawings and take a photo to document it. Take a photo of that scribbled-over page of the manual that the client's been using for 10 years to configure their product and that's not recorded anywhere.
> It's a rule of thumb.

It's a very flawed rule of thumb for information products, as the MS debate clearly shows.
This. In spades.

J.K. Galbraith (an economist himself) has claimed largely the same himself, and he's hardly the only one (within the field).

(Update) Some examples:
https://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/tag/economists/
There is also a lot of more dangerous nuclear material scattered all over the country in bombs and power plants - none of which are designed to last more than a few decades. If society does collapse, and that collapse is not precipitated by total nuclear war, then it seems like the spent fuel won't even be the worst of the nuclear worries out there.
VueJS does not have the backing of Facebook and cannot compete on that issue alone.
>There are a lot of niches, and no doubt some of them still rely on Windows desktop software or Windows drivers for related hardware, but they're niches because most people aren't that interested in them.

Each individual niche is tiny, but once you add up all the niches, it adds up to a significant part of the market. Windows has a huge "tail" of niche software on it, and just finding substitutes on Linux is a daunting task, to say nothing of actually getting back up to the same level of productivity as one had on Windows.

>Remember one popular switch already is from Windows to Linux, when home users dump the traditional PC entirely and just do things on their Android phones/tablets instead

Is that an actual trend? Yes, PC sales have slowed down. All that means is that the PC market has reached saturation. Pretty much every household already has one PC that meets their needs. I don't see any evidence to indicate that people are throwing away their computers and using their phones and tablets exclusively.
> play Kerbal Space Program.

Or watch Scott Manley demonstrate the unreasonable orbital dynamics you just described.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS6VKNXY6s
It should be.

It's been several years ago and I don't keep up-to-date on Windows server tech anymore but, at the time, I knew many people (devs, mostly) who chose to run Windows Server 2008 on their desktop instead of Windows 7.

It was quite easy to do because 7 & 2008 shared so much of the underlying code. I'm not sure if the same is still true (e.g., with 10 and 2012/2016).
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Look how much influence the Laffer Curve has had on economic policy, when in fact it is a pretty boring observation that taxation at a rate of 0% produces no income for the government, and taxation at a rate of 100% produces no income for the government (because of the lack of incentive to work), therefore the optimum is somewhere between those two points. That broad idea was enough to argue that the highest tax rates were way too high and had to be cut substantially.
So basically the installability of Linux circa 2003, but with the bonus that security updates might brick my system?
"i could almost turn "could macs be good value?" into a mandatory interview question, because those who say no don't understand how trading money for time works. working with such fools is incredibly tedious and painful."

I would advise against that, unless you are in the habit of interviewing people who value their time at $200+ per hour, such as in your above example. Otherwise, their answer may be coming from a slightly different mindset.
The creation of money is actually among the more sensible elements of economics, though fractional reserve lending may not be the best route to doing that (I'm not sure that it is or isn't, though I'm pretty certain it's not the bugbear people claim it is).

I'd look at economic definitions of cost, value, and price, of ignoring the reality of thermodynamics, and of much of the theology (Thorstein Veblen uses the term "mythology") surrounding supposedly rationally-acting "homo economicus", market failures, and the role of information, amongst many others.

Money is first and principally a mechanism for exchange, and gumming up that role leads to problems. Fractional-reserve and central banking greatly assists in this, and is by and large hugely useful.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/snow-canyon-japan

"Sometime in early March, a bulldozer specially equipped with both a GPS and a mobile satellite phone is sent up the mountain and over the Snow Canyon. The GPS and sat phone work in tandem to provide the driver a detailed video screen image of the dozer’s location in relation to the center of the snow-buried highway. This driver’s job is not to clear snow, but simply to lay out an accurate track of the road itself."
Indeed!

http://i.imgur.com/fUYLPFB.png
http://i.imgur.com/WwUXZMd.png
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13900632
For anyone interested, I wrote a standalone bash script wrapper for it a while back https://github.com/knolax/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/image....
I don't have to care about this on Linux, why should I on Windows? What good does it give me, the user?
Keep in mind that soc, psych, poi-sci, and econ all emerged from "moral philosophy", generally in the 19th century.
Google could do great in the enterprise. But they have been resistant to offering the support that companies want to buy with products they rely on.
Yes. But it's best to serve your entire website (including the HTML pages) via a CDN to reduce latency.
When my machine isn't portable, I'd much rather have my upgrades mounted inside a generously-sized case than a tiny one surrounded by a rat's nest of cables.
> wealthy people lack authenticity

What is "authenticity"?

> seemingly lost their ability for self-reflection

???
4 mannequins would be funnier.
Sounds like me as a teenager.
Seconding this. It's a fast, one-sitting read. Very difficult to put down once you start.
The Protocol Buffers Team (2009)
How I Went on 150 Dates in 4 Months
> Apple Computer

Edit: From Wikipedia:

During his keynote speech at the Macworld Expo on January 9, 2007, Jobs announced that Apple Computer, Inc. would thereafter be known as "Apple Inc.", because the company had shifted its emphasis from computers to consumer electronics.[93][94] This event also saw the announcement of the iPhone and the Apple TV.
Their primary product allows businesses to manage their online location listings. So the locations, hours, coupons, all that jazz.
If you actually want people to subscribe to your podcast and listen to it, you need to give them what they need to do that. Put the words "RSS" or "feed" on the page with a link to the feed. Don't make me view the page source to find it, which is what I had to do.

https://rare-technologies.com/comments/feed/
With a 10-day supply of opioids, 1 in 5 become long-term users
Could you remind me what his conclusion was?
That's a bit of a selection / attribution error.

It's not that most economic policy isn't adopted (true -- it turns out there's a whole mess of heterdox economics theory), but that adopted public policy (or far more significantly: legal doctrine) is justified on the basis of some economic theory or another.

There's a camp of economists who are particularly capable of developing policy either specifically to, or which incidentally, supports various viewpoints.

See as a classic instance, what Adam Smith actually wrote, vs. what he's presented as writing by such influence-peddlers as the Mont Pelerin Society / Atlas Network disinformation industrial complex.
> GUI are infinitely valuable in that case. Windows allows to do quite sophisticated stuff all the way with a UI. You can always observe the state of the system, know what can be done from there, etc.

People from Windows commonly have this impression because in Windows everything is either a GUI or the registry, and nobody wants to touch the registry without a long pole and a hazmat suit but you occasionally have to anyway. So you quickly build the intuition that anything without a GUI is painful and wrong, which isn't the case on other operating systems.

Most configuration files on Unix-like systems have manual pages that list what options you can set and what they do. For example the man page for logrotate.conf says you can add the line "mail address" to have it email the oldest log to address before deleting it. It's no more difficult to read the man page and find the option you want than look through seven pages of GUI settings to find it, and often easier because man pages are searchable. With the further advantage of actually describing what the option does rather than just giving you a GUI text box with the word "mail" next to it and letting you guess whether you're supposed to type an email address or a filename to mail or something else.

> like creating a VM.

There is a GUI program called virt-manager to do this on Linux. Most desktop Linux distributions have GUI programs to do a lot of things like that, people just don't use them as often because the GUI-alternative on Unix-like systems is actually reasonable. Although you picked a good example in the sense that creating a VM directly using qemu-kvm is harder than it probably ought to be.
It serves the HTML or assets directly
What we can learn about the future of meetings from Google
Removing the debt protections for the industry (ie. allowing students to default) would be the surest way to limit the proclivity of institutions to offer bad investments to students.
Maybe this is just the beginning, to get everyone used to it.
I think it's great that he's doing this, but I can't help but think how these kind of stories follow this weird American pattern of social problems being the hobby of the wealthy and/or an opportunity for cleverness. Why are we so fond of these narratives?
>I kind of judge people who use MS tech by choice and while claiming to be technologists as being in the lower end of the skills spectrum.

In return, I judge people who use technology choice as an indication of skill as inexperienced. At one point, I was like that too. I was all about tweaking and customizing Linux; getting it to run just so on hardware that, in some cases, was actively hostile to it (I still haven't entirely forgiven Broadcom). Moreover, at that time I was time-rich and cash-poor, so it made sense for me to spend extra time in order to gain open-source versions of closed-source tools that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

But, at some point, I realized that I wasn't really getting anything out of it. Watching stuff fly by on the command line, and tweaking config files by hand makes you feel like a 1337 h4x0r the first time you do it. But after you've had to tweak config files to get your wifi working for the twelfth time, after you've had to apologize to your collaborators because you can't edit their documents, after you've wasted people's time because your laptop can't connect to a projector, you realize that the real determinant of success isn't whether you're using Windows or Linux. It isn't whether you've memorized man pages or obscure command line flags. It isn't whether you can rattle off the contents of your xorg.conf and smb.conf by heart. It's whether you get stuff done. All the rest of it is just means to that end. And I realized that Linux, on the client, was more of an impediment to getting stuff done than a help.

I still use Linux. I have a half-dozen or so Linux VMs running on this machine right now for various projects. The fact still remains that new programming languages and server technologies come to Linux first, OSX second and Windows much later. But in terms of desktop/laptop experience? Linux still requires far too much tweaking and configuration, and I find it much easier to get stuff done with Linux on the server and Windows on the client.
Reasoning under uncertainty, game theory, and counterfactuals.
As someone who grew up in the mountains, I can tell you that the plows (and tire chains) do a fantastic job of stripping all the road markings away.
Economics has avoided this dilemma by disposing of unbiased research.

W. Brian Arthur has pointed out that virtually all significant economic research explores specific policy questions of the day. Usually with a particular point of view in mind.

The results can be ... amusing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4xe2k1/chamber...
i heard something similar about designing questions for maths exams -- about half the questions should be pretty basic, so students who have studied and have a basic grasp of the concepts should be able to get them right and pass the course. then the rest are harder, with e.g. one or two questions being more difficult extensions of what was covered in the course.

it sounds like the structure of the marine officer training camp avoids the problems some students have with poor "exam technique" - if you are given a fixed block of time to use to attempt all tasks (e.g. the obstacle course, the exercise room) then there is the risk of students spending all their time on the hardest task, and not leaving enough time to succeed at the other easier tasks.

edit: on another hand, you could argue that "a student's poor exam technique" could equally well be called "poorly designed exam / measurement process"
Is textipal cool or not?
More readable: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hzhilstmj94jvlx/1940-sciam-harring...
I feel like there's a cyclical gridlock between businesses and business software vendors in which neither party can afford to be the "first" to move to a new platform.

It's like a comical game of chicken because in less than a decade all of this software is going to be in a web browser anyway.
Wait was Michael Jackson ever convicted of a crime? How can you conflate the two?
No, but he settled lawsuits accusing him of being a child predator before they made it to court.
ComDB2: Bloomberg’s Highly Available Relational Database System [pdf]
This is the real intersection of games and art, for me. I'd love to see it in person.