skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After having tried both I'm very much in the WWW camp. Even though the naked domain looks nicer, it's just not worth the hassle.

> End users save an extra DNS lookup

Most intermediate resolvers will return both the CNAME and A record in one response anyways.

Another issue with naked domains is that all the cookies are automatically served on subdomains as well. It's just another hassle to worry about when trying to keep the cdn clean or wondering why a session works only in specific cases.
You're right, good point.
I don't know the man, only what any of us can have heard, but my impression is that he's untroubled by the moral dimension of things. I suspect that a combination of intelligence, self-control, and a substantial lack of empathy can probably allow one to both acquire and enjoy immense wealth.
You seem to be claiming that the results of sociology cannot be predictive, only descriptive.

If so, that makes sociology completely useless for policy. A field which cannot predict what will happen next time can't actually inform a policy maker as to whether their policy is useful.

Math mostly requires reducibility: the ability to split it into small parts and look at these individually.

This is simply false. If this is your criticism of math in economics, it applies equally well to math in geophysics, oceanography, climate science, etc.
> I totally agree with that and have been a long time proponent of liability for damage caused by software bugs.
But that would have to be all bugs, not just some classes of bugs.

Why? That goes against everything we've done to categorize bugs - we do not treat all bugs the same, and we would not consider all bugs to be due to negligence.

> D.

Only with a garbage collector or a 'safe' annotation. Rust has the opposite - a safe language by default.

> And by the way, rust is only 'memory safe' as long as you don't disable the safety mechanisms, so I think 'memory safe by default' would be a better way to describe it.

That's fine, memory safe by default is an acceptable way to refer to it. It's worth noting that I have written thousands of lines of rust code and never published code with a single line of unsafe. None of my projects have required it. So 'by default' is pretty powerful, since I've never ever needed to opt out.
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Science has replaced religion for many people and so they expect something infallible or "word of god".
Your hundreds of comments on this, all saying the same thing and replicating themselves like weeds in any remotely related context, have become so excessive that I need to ask you to stop using HN this way.

We all respect your fabulous software work, but HN threads are for conversation. Nothing spoils good conversation like obsessive repetition. Taken as a whole, your comments on this matter are not conversation, they are a harangue—apparently an interminable one. Harangue is off-topic here, regardless of whether you're right or not.
It doesn't matter if it was a nice idea but if it was adopted outside the normal and proper means of adopting regulations then it is not okay. Forms of action matter regardless of the desirability of the substance. However, nothing prevents this being adopted again in the proper fashion under the Administrative Procedures Act.
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It isn't a strength to allow ill-defined programs to silently corrupt your process.

If you don't understand what you are writing, either the compiler (rust-like) or the runtime (script-like) should complain.

C++ usually does neither. I think that's undesirable. Why it does neither makes sense, but I wouldn't call it a strength.
That was never the idea. Desegregation came about because the white schools often had better funding, thus better teachers, better facilities, and an overall better experience.

Seriously, it was never about putting people in "the general vicinity of whites". That statement just makes you look foolish.
The one thing I would have liked to see in this article would have been the benefits and downsides of both qualities. Intellectual Egotism, and Intellectual Modesty. That would have been a balanced approach.

There are people who know that they are intellectually modest that read this article, and it may reinforce their belief that being intellectually modest is the one true path! There are people who know that they are intellectually arrogant and may feel that they are destined for hell by reading this article. There are some advantages to being an egotist as well and disadvantages being modest.

The other subtle incoherence I wanted to point out is, at some point the author claims intellectually modest people are in both classes of people, conservative and liberals.
But he does say that republicans by and far are more likely to not accept a person who has "flip flopped" [may or may not be for good reasons] than a democrat. So assuming most conservative people are republicans, and most liberal people are democrats there is some intellectual quality that differentiates their bases. This probably needed more analysis in my opinion.
I remember one company that probably had two different layers of psycopaths in management, with the result that employees ended up with three different strict rule books to follow, one of them unwritten; each inconsistent with the other. The resulting triple-bind left every action by a psychopathic manager justifiable, no surprise there. The business ultimately failed when it tried to branch out to new cities. It turns out that psychopaths aren't very good judges of people (probably that empathy thing, again) so they uniformly hired thieves who flattered them and then skimmed cash until the branches flatlined. I'm not sure whether they started as management or sales, but had risen to management.
and said amorphous non-organisation also arose from a neo-anarchist online collective. And the digital crypto-currency was used to buy drugs and other contraband from digital bazaars hidden in the "deep web".

It's quite funny when you think about it, cyberpunk fiction predicted many of the most recent technology intrigue stories/events.
Regarding memory/forgetting, this was published yesterday:

https://deepmind.com/blog/enabling-continual-learning-in-neu...
Right, I could probably tell you about this for the whole evening, but here's the summary.

I've done it (twice), it's worth it, do it.

A few things you need to know though:

- Time goes fast, keep track of your money and start working again _before_ you run out. Best is actually to define a budget for this.

- After 4-6 months of resting and travelling, it will have become the new normal, you'll be well rested and ready for something new.

- Once you hit that point, make sure you have clearly defined goals as to what you want to achieve with the available time you have. Without those, time will pass and you'll probably have little to show for it (except a good time)

Enjoy !
Impact of march toward a hyper-efficient global economy
>18F specifically does not recommend using Bootstrap for production work because:

>It is difficult to adapt its opinionated styles to bespoke design work, and

They have a tool on their website to generate a theme (Bourbon and PureCSS do not), and Sass functions and mixins for customizing elements. Bourbon and PureCSS's components are just as opinionated (and there are less of them).

>Its CSS style places semantic layout instructions directly in HTML classes.

Sure, but you can just use the Sass mixins instead, allowing you to use the grid system without adding a single class to HTML.

Seems they knew this about Bourbon:

>Bourbon is a Sass mixin library that has extensions for a robust semantic grid (Neat)

The same is true of Bootstrap, so they recommend against it?

It sounds like the author wasn't familiar with Bootstrap.
This is probably a good idea. It's ridiculous that we coddle people who wastefully took out loans with the goal of improving human capital, and then failed to take advantage of them.

Previously student loans were a socialized losses, privatized gains situation. This gives borrowers some skin in the game and will hopefully give them more reason to carefully evaluate whether college is really a good idea for them.
These two companies are on my beat, so please hit me up if you have interesting insights on them! smann@inc.com
>adopting familiar icons around a website and providing a way to remove any ambiguity can enhance the experience; eliminating them altogether is somewhat of an overreaction

I think that was the point was that icons familiar to almost everybody are quite rare on the internet. Maybe no icons at all may be excessive but from personal taste I find layout and grouping clearer than icons in complex UI.
I think you're giving economics the benefit of the doubt while having a critical eye towards sociology when they're not much different in regards to objectivity and being "soft" sciences. In fact I'm not sure sociology would still have its credibility intact if it were to have as many failures as economics have had just the latest 20 years or so. Somehow economics manages this, which leads me to the next point.

I'm surprised that you're speaking with such certainty without mentioning the rather powerful relationship between economics and finance in a classical "follow the money" trail of thought.
The actual protection being rolled back:

"That [protection] forbid the agencies from charging fees for up to 16 percent of the principal and accrued interest owed on the loans, if the borrower entered the government’s loan rehabilitation program within 60 days of default."
If time is not well ordered on the quantum scale then we be damned!!
Laying a trap for self-driving cars
Some real "hacker news" here. Jesus the slide of this site...
My computer doesn't understand your new record type, so if you want me to see your site, you're going to have to wait until I upgrade.
Yes it works with a spoofed serial
Yes but it would be legal.
> Will station-less systems, who use public resources, distribute hubs in poorer areas of the city?

This is a very very good point. A 'station-less system', in effect will gradually migrate bicycles towards higher-usage areas only, thus reducing access in poorer/lower-usage areas.
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After a few years of unemployment and being treated for bipolar depression my loans were in default. Due to the grace of the system at the time, I was able to bring my loans out of default and I now pay them like everyone else. This type of thing punishes the downtrodden even more. There must be a set of checks and balances that at least attempts to differentiate between deadbeats and broke people that don't need a higher hill to climb. The loans never go away. You can't escape them with bankruptcy. Let's not make this a living hell for people that got educated and fell on hard times.
Regardless of the mechanism, can you present some evidence that desegregation fixed the black/white education gap?

As far as I know the gap still exists today, 50 years later, with only small changes over time, quite possibly due to changing measurement techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_...
First, you're defending the laptop, not the desktops. The laptops are still almost okay. Now for some point answers...

> The battery time (I think you mistyped "life time") estimation was dumb, never accurate or consistent, and people don't mind the lack of it on billions of other mobile devices anyway.

It was accurate as long as you kept doing the same task. For example, I knew how much longer a gaming session or a long build could last on battery. But this is laptop stuff and the original article and my whining is about desktops.

> Re: the LG shielding mishap, you're blaming Apple for a completely different company's product, okay.

A completely different company's product that is the only solution that makes use of the emoji mbpro's features, is sold and promoted a lot by Apple, and thus endorsed by them on their web site.

> Which demographic and what do you require?

Independent dev working from home. Running two VMs simultaneously at times, and also using the same computer for entertainment, namely gaming. Working on compiled software, not scp-ing stuff to a server for web development, so I actually need CPU power.

I could almost use the trash can, except they want me to pay for two slow video cards that are for some reason labeled "pro". Put in it a nvidia 1050+ and I'll buy it, although I'll be a bit space challenged. Some source trees take a lot of space. I'll even pay extra for the Xeon and ECC ram i don't really need, but give me a video card i can game on.

Before you ask, no, the iMac is not a dev's computer. It thermally throttles if you actually use the CPU, and makes laptop-like noise when compiling. No thank you. I've heard even the trash can throttles, and i blame the "pro" video cards.

> touch typing hostile emoji keyboard?

What you read exactly. Please explain how you touch type on the touch screen that replaced the F keys and how it is useful to me when I, like anyone who works a lot with the keyboard, have memorized every shortcut I use. It's mostly good for emoji in instant messaging, and I don't use that either.
What? Borrowers already have skin in the game. Lenders have none.

Make student loans dischargeable and suddenly a lot more people are thinking about the actual utility of college and it's costs.
I'm really flattered you like the results.

I'll be honest that when I first started the project (and continue to work on it) that I was conflicted. I truly love his work. I spent hours and my weekends analyzing his artwork. I'm still studying his usage of colors because there's still work to be done there.

With the discovery of legal threats and actions against Scott Blake I was disheartened because I don't believe he would like me working on this project. Here's an artist I admire and here I am doing something I love that he may not like. Difficult to come to terms with. Like everyone on HackerNews we're driven to create and solve problems. Curiosity and challenge got the best of me and I pushed forward.

I still plan on releasing a Windows version and eventually making the source code public once I cleanup some things. I'm not making a killing on the app either. It's been out for a month and it's averaging me a dollar a day (with initial publicizing it on /r/macapps and other subreddits). Helps fuel the coffee that goes into these after hours side projects.

Since I'm charging for the app, I plan on donating a portion of the proceeds to the MoMA as well (after all, they're the source of inspiration and I hope this helps give back to other artists).
How far HN has fallen when an intelligent comment like this is downvoted. Yes, I expect mine will be too. I no longer care about the opinions of this community.
Reminded me of this fantastic video from Zed Shaw: https://vimeo.com/2723800
- Learn the language: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

- Learn the programming environment: https://golang.org/doc/code.html

- Learn the idioms and best practices: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

... and most importantly, go practice and build something!
"Although economics has flaws [..]"

That would be the understatement of the century.
Economics theory decide how to organize society resources, so, it's a very loaded subject with a lot of interests trying to decide what is "reality".
Economics use complicated maths to justify ideologically determined policy.

I propose you a simple exercise. Go to any mainstream economic textbook and read about the fractional reserve system creation of money, that it's supposedly how the system works.

Then go and read what the people that are really in charge say about how money is created (pdf from the Bank of England):

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

If the textbooks in economics are wrong about a basic thing like that, maybe we should start to think carefully about the subject.
You're waving around your favorite poor white trash hit piece, just like you haters have been doing since it was published.
As a data point, I was putting together a super cheap "build server" (for compiling stuff on) recently. Supermicro motherboard, and dual 6 core Xeon cpu's (E5645). Cost of the motherboard and cpu's (from Ebay) was ~$US140.00. 32GB of ECC ram to match was ~US60.00. Everything else needed (power supply, etc), I already had around.

Just to see if it would work, I hackintoshed it prior to installing FreeBSD. Apart from the network ports, everything else (Nvidia card, USB, etc) worked.

Network connectivity was fixable by just plugging in a USB3<->ethernet adapter (also had one handy), and voila, usable desktop.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00XZQRMRU/

It wouldn't be surprising (to me), if newer generation Supermicro boards also worked. That would open up possibilities for lots more cpu grunt in an OSX box. :)
Right?! It's not like the TDSE is so easy to manage under the current regime. Plus I like causality...
I also used Parse on a project. They pulled the plug on Parse half-way through our development. I recommended to client that we switch to Firebase. Client asked "couldn't Firebase go away some time?" I answered that I was sure that Firebase would go away some time. But in the mean time, we are using Firebase and are very happy.

I think that a bigger risk than Firebase going away is Firebase deciding to fire you as a customer.
"I used to use a Hackintosh. It was a time-consuming thing, I feared OS updates, and I could never be sure about the reliability (you can get really weird problems sometimes. I then switched over to a Mac Pro (cheese grater) and was very happy with it. Unfortunately, since the trash can Mac Pro I'm left out in the cold, so I'm considering running a Hackintosh again..."

As the owner of an early-2009 octo-mac-pro, I am very interested in learning about how to max that system out to the gills.

For instance, I am under the impression that it is now possible to boot from a pci based SSD card on that system.

Further, I believe it is possible to add a card that gives me USB3/SATA3 (although if I am booting from PCI, I don't really care if my slow mass storage internal four drives are SATA2).

Finally, I think there is some apple-blessed video card that is quite a bit stronger than the original GT120 cards I have in my system.

I've seen bits and pieces here and there about maxing out a mac pro and bringing it very close to "modern" but it would be nice if it was all in one place somewhere...

FWIW, other than maxing out the ram, I really have no problem with the existing RAM options and the dual-cpus that I already have (which bring me to octo-core). Even 8 years later, the machine is not slowing me down at all in the cpu/ram department (and I only have 6 GB).
ssh doesn't really care about your terminals capabilities. (Yes.)
Nicely done. Sigmar Polke was another artists that I was experimenting with too.
>>the fucking literary novel, literally the most artistic medium of all time<<

This is a bold and probably controversial assertion. I for one find it questionable on its face. Even limiting consideration only to literary art forms, the novel is not necessarily "the most artistic medium". For example William Shakespeare, widely held to be among the top literary artists ever to have worked in the English Language, worked in poetry and plays. And plays were a popular medium, analogous to television today, a way for a poet to make money-- It seems plausible to me that elite critics and artists in Shakespeare's time may have asserted (as you do about vlogs and social media posts) that plays were not art at all.

Art is what artists make of some medium-- potential new media like memes, and twitter messages and social media posts may not yet have been pushed to the level of art (and certainly not yet the level of great art), but artists have not (yet) had time much time to work with these new media...
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From the article it sounds like the regulation comes from a court precedent. The court sought advice from the Obama administration. It was not an executive order.
I'd have thought adherence to ideology is the opposite of the humility described. I've met free market capitalists and revolutionary socialists that refuse to accept anything but their view on what's best for society by and large, which is the strict adherence to the tenets of their ideologies.

Is it possible to buy into only parts of an ideology or is it actually just pragmatic and a display of humility in accepting that some parts of an ideology may work in some situations?
Another one that defends the laptops when the original article is about a Mac Pro replacement :)

> Can display at-a-glance status such as time, battery etc.

You look at the keyboard when you type? Not my demographic then, i type too much for that. It's probably fine for you.

> All of the over-a-dozen developers/tech-oriented people that -I- know prefer the 2016 MBPs to everything else. They've also outsold all other competitors in just a single month.

You don't know any developers working on compiled software. And the mbpros outsell everything not because they don't annoy people, but because there's almost no alternative. Perhaps the Dell Developer Edition laptops, but Apple would have to piss me off more than they have so far for me to try a Dell instead.

And again, the article - and my OP - are from people who need a powerful desktop for work.
So OSM needs tags for doorzones?
> relationship between economics and finance in a classical "follow the money" trail of thought.

What specifically are you claiming?
"Rather than ask the question, "What if sociologists had influence?", the author should ask, "What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?""

It needs to generate 'useful' political recommendations (useful to the 'right' people).

"The answer would be rigor."

No it absolutely would not. The economics profession has been actively resisting rigor. For instance, Neoclassical (still the default in policy circles) still considers private debt to have no significant macroeconomic effect and presumes, religiously, that markets trend towards equilibrium (particularly in employment).

"This is why economics is so much more trusted."

It shouldn't be.

"it at least uses objective data"

Would you have any faith in a model rooted in Newtonian mechanics that assumed away friction just because "it at least uses objective data"?
Ask HN: Why are .io domains bad for SEO?
What are your thoughts on .io, .website, .biz, etc domain?

And why does Google hate the .io, .biz domains? Because I've often see .io domains rank lower than .com domains (i.e. the main product site being eclipsed by some .com review site). What is the thinking behind that?

What are your thoughts? Those with .io domains, do you feel your site takes the SEO hit?
So is this basically saying that time is quantized?

Or did we know (whatever that means) that already?
I came to a similar position recently. Bought a new laptop intending to run Ubuntu on it for personal development work. But the pet management story on the newer Intel CPUs just doesn't compare with Windows 10. WSL is pretty damned good and i don't feel so had using it. I'd objectively prefer to use Linux, but right now i just cant.
16% interest on student loans is basically usury