skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resale value definitely affects new car purchasing.

For one, lease prices are partly determined by the expected resale value, and a lot of new car drivers get them by leasing them
True, but what about the Wizard of Oz? Most kids will relate to and enjoy that, despite its age. There are just so many other aspects of movies. Maybe video games will hit that point, but right now, the impression I get is much like only the special effects element of movies - inevitably limited by our appreciation of the technology of the time behind them.

Maybe games will eventually reach a point of broad cultural acceptance as complex art form that can produce timeless classics in the same way as film, but I'm not sure we're there yet. Will we ever be? Yet to be determined.
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They've not entirely recovered in terms of what comes up in search results, but they're still the go-to for anyone I know who looks up lyrics on a regular basis.
Studio Ghibli's Animation Software Is Now Free
Sharia is the codification of the laws of Islam to make it easier for Muslims who want to live according to those laws to follow the laws. Without such a codification it is difficult to know what is a religious law and what is a tradition (for example). It is an absurd notion that Muslims want non-Muslims to live according to Sharia... it doesn't make sense. If you are not Muslim... why would you live according to such laws?
I presumed that that was the version which GP was referring to because the other ones are also dated to 2016.

And I chose to mention it because Ebert rated Aliens highly, at 3.5/4. In retrospect, that may not qualify it as sublime art as opposed to a really good film. I'd have to refresh my memory of Ebert's scale.
Spotify, Pandora, slacker, and all the rest will all get the same deal from the copyright holders. Google, Apple, Amazon will be the long term winners because they have ancillary revenues and music is a loss leader.
It varies heavily by institution and country, but CS is moving increasingly towards caring about citation metrics above anything else (with "selectivity", i.e. a high bar for peer review and low acceptance rate, being the main other factor). Unlike in most other fields, conference papers therefore hold weight, not only journal articles. This does sometimes cause trouble at higher levels of large institutions, where a CS dept strongly recommends a candidate for tenure, but when the case makes it up to the dean level, the dean, who is a physicist or biomed person, wonders how they could possibly recommend tenure for someone who has "just" a bunch of conference papers and few journal articles. But that is becoming rarer at places with top CS departments.

Anyway, as a result, I don't see a reason why an alternative-format journal would necessarily fare any worse than conferences have in terms of becoming accepted, if the reviewing standards are high and if it attracts citations.

For the hiring side (more than the tenure side), to some extent, oddly enough, the first-order decision here is in Google's hands. A lot of CS hiring committees nowadays unofficially do a first cut sifting of resumes by typing candidates into Google Scholar and looking at their Google-computed h-index, so what "counts" is basically up to Google.
Film industry, mostly post-production but not exclusively. Mix of music-oriented projects, documentaries, corporate gigs, other random stuff.
Europe is not doing a good job on recidivism. Please provide counter-evidence. And Sweden is rather mono-chromatic.
This kills the human (joking... I don't really know)
> while some competitors are leapfrogging to new design paradigms

Which competitors/designs do you think are beating out Apple?
To clarify: do you think there are sets of semantic decisions using S-expressions that would still "get rid of the whole debate", and not make autocomplete harder in practice?

(not that it's important of course, but your remark made me curious, and the reactions to my question even more so)
Nice application. How do you calculate the time of travel. Are you using any google or other apis?
I think it's unfair to paint Carlyle with too broad a brush. The French Revolution is a really, really fantastic work. It's a little sad, to me, that Carlyle's contemporaries considered him one of the, if not the, greatest writers of the century - even though almost all of them radically disagreed with him - and now he's fallen into relative obscurity because of his political opinions.

Carlyle's philosophical/sociological commentary is on occasion cited by neo-reactionary types, but I'm not convinced he would have been terribly fond of them. Carlyle did have antidemocratic sentiments, but so do a lot of people nowadays - witness the criticism of the Brexit vote, or even the possibility of the election of Trump. But it's not that he thought aristocrats or kings were necessarily better. Carlyle was a critic of both sides, and never really formulated an idea of how-the-world-should be. You see some of this in Emerson's Carlyle essay:

http://www.rwe.org/carlyle/

If a Tory takes heart at his hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, "Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind." It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness (the source of all strength) in his companions.

Carlyle was a great critic, a tearer-down of systems, and he had a lot of insightful criticisms about his society and the direction it was heading. He isn't always sympathetic(for example, his views on slavery were repugnant then and even moreso now), but he's usually interesting. I think, to the extent he's a reactionary, it's mostly a case of "there are some good things about the old days, and we're throwing them away in the blind pursuit of the new"-type, rather than "older is always better".
Also known as "Trigger's Broom" in the UK.

From Wikipedia: In the episode "Heroes and Villains", Trigger wins an award for having owned the same broom for 20 years. He reveals that it has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles, but insists it is still the same broom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(Only_Fools_and_Horses...
Let me amend then: "A fast copying collector _in D_ would require write barriers". Of course with other languages you can have GC without that limitation.
Nick DiLiberto's work is incredibly inspiring and shows you the power of discipline and long-term planning. Years ago my university featured a talk with solo traditional animators. It's a grueling life. You wake up, start to draw, eat, go back to drawing, sleep. Repeat for x months/years. Indie hand-drawn shorts are a popular niche in France and, to a lesser degree, in Italy.

Via Curiel, 8 (10min short) required 2 years of work and more than 4000 hand-made acrylic drawings. https://vimeo.com/141520314 Animation is not my field, but it's interesting nonetheless.

"An hour of my animation is made up of about twenty small films, twenty years of work and thirtyfive-thousand drawings" – Simone Massi http://www.simonemassi.it/index.php?menuid=3
My Toshiba laptop's generic keyboard for most of the time.
Burden of proof is on you. There isn't any magic pixie does here-- if it were the case someone would show it, but they can't.
Vote for it: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BSERV-4577
The thing about the lightbulb collusion is that it's exceptional for being one of the only examples of such collusion that's verified.

I don't doubt it exists in some cases, but if it were as ubiquitous as many say, I'd suspect to find evidence of other conspiracies. Many other industries also lack a centralized organization (one ostensibly for standardization) to facilitate such a conspiracy. Overall I just find the argument very weak, especially in the face of normal market forces and cost-competition being sufficient to explain much of the observed changes.

I do agree that appliances likely represent a real decline in durability over the past couple decades.
What is wrong with more free trade policies?
This reminds me a lot of the "code is poetry" crowd.

As a (former) coder and published writer/poet, I have an appreciation for both. But code is definitely not poetry, not by the meaning that you could expect to use anywhere in the world outside the "code is poetry" crowd.

People want their craft to be lumped in with some "higher" aesthetic. I get that, they want to be afforded the respect (and the attraction from the opposite/same sex) of being "artists" and not just craftspeople.

But you know how you do that? Make art. Write poetry. Don't keep on doing the thing you're doing and ask the world to make it into something it isn't, just to scratch your own ego itch. Do the hard thing instead.
> the only reason why I follow the ones that I do is so that I'm not put in prison

Ok, so you are aware of disincentives. Well, patents are incentives.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915838 and marked it off-topic.
Yeah, but you have to guess at which cab company to call and then dig up the number.

With the Curb app, your request goes out to multiple cab companies and you usually get a cab that is very close.
A bigger factor than lack of open space would probably be things like parents getting accused of neglect for letting their kids be outside by themselves.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents...
>The EU is less than half the size of the US. The problems you are describing are ridiculous and irrelevant.

By what metric?
http://www.fonerbooks.com - because of the "content first" design, and because its demise was caused by a major change in the Google search algo that promotes social media hype and interaction more than readable and valuable information. It has been an inspiration for many years.

*I'm not affiliated in any way with the author
> But you're describing some kind of theoretical ideal world. We don't live in that world.

Everything is "theoretical" and "ideal" and "impossible" before it actually happens. Electronic computers were an impossibility to James Watt era engineers. Steam engines were an impossibility to the architects of the Parthenon. Raising large stone edifices was an impossibility to hunter-gatherers roaming the savanna. Yet all these things happened in due course of time.

> But looking at history and the current state of the world... what do you think is more likely?

I see a generally ascending arc, with local dips and bumps. The trends look good in the long run, although the short run is always difficult to predict.

Of course, that is not an absolute guarantee of success. Nothing is. The best case scenario is not going to happen without a lot of effort, some substantial amount of time, and likely some sacrifices along the way.
> If enough consumers do this the market for junk should fail

I think over the long run we've seen evidence for the opposite due to consolidation. Markets aren't perfect; so I am highly skeptical of such a claim.

it almost seems like the more the market matters to society, the less choice consumers actually have.

I am more interested in trends over time than point-evaluations of dynamics at a specific moments.
Haha, I had assignement to built a recursive descent parser for a simple Ada-like language just 3 days ago. It was fun task, but if this guide was posted earlier, I could have used it.
If you can safely disable the GC, then you can safely disable write barriers.
Unless you know something I don't, the SOTA in ASR is a hybrid system that still has all the complexity of the traditional generative model plus NNs on top.
The home of the L-series: We tour Canon's Utsunomiya factory
Ok, we changed the title to use your suggestion. If people object, we can change it again. (But please suggest a better—i.e. more accurate and neutral—title if you do.)
Password Cracking RAR Archives with Perl
How Netflix Took Over Stand-Up Comedy
This is a great thing. I am currently tracking down a problem at work where we have a Win32 PE with a lot of DLL bloat.

I've written a few hacky exploratory tools for it but nothing of this quality.
I once worked for a small company that decided to sue their competitor for patent infringement. Not only did it take a huge amount of time and money, but in the end they lost the suit anyway. Eventually they ended up merging with said competitor so the only winners were the lawyers.
imagining printing out all of the e-mails and transcripts of phone calls you have with your friends, family, and lovers. I suspect we produce even more text now than they did in their own time, but we now rarely get to see the sheer volume of it.
It's an interesting idea.

Personally, I wonder how much of the benefit comes from facing and overcoming that unpleasantness. I feel that must be a part of how exercise engages your mind as well as your body.
I'd like a pet one, but I'd also like to eat one.

//edit// But only after they become as ubiquitous as chickens or similar. I'm not a monster.
I was hoping the article would at least mention Pleistocene Park, an effort to mitigate climate change that depends on the recently extinct wooly mammoth. If it had, the question in the title would be better stated: "Can We Afford To Not?"

Some solid info on the project is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/pleisto...
Weld: Fast parallel code generation for data analytics frameworks
Braid is pretty timeless, and I think The Witness will be too. They are both examples of "sublime art". The goal of emulating reality perfectly is fine for some kinds of games, but hardly necessary to create an enduring work of art.
There's a pretty staggering breadth of admissions requirements for the various accredited medical schools in the US, and plenty of offshore schools that effectively will take anyone — basically MD mills. The Dominican Republic, in particular, is well-known for this.

(Yes, many of the offshore medical schools are LCME-accredited and legit, and have trained some fantastic physicians, but broadly speaking, they're taking people who couldn't get into an on-shore school.)
It looks like it had 0 success, maybe even less than 4 years work's worth of revenue (I couldn't find any data on it), so the conclusion should be the opposite: even if people slow other people down by getting on agreement, the final quality is usually better.
> left as lead developer by Satoshi Nakomoto

No he wasn't, he granted himself that title. Then largely left on his own in ~2013 to focus on the (now discredited and defunct) "Bitcoin Foundation" that he created.

The people developing the Bitcoin project have been pretty stable since 2011.

There is this lovely time coded git-blame chart that was put up last year: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1337008.0

People like Mike Hearn were always outsiders to the project, and have spent a lot of time doing this like arguing for blacklisting, blocking tor, and other things that most contributors think of as strongly at odds with the principles of the project.
Most people aren't intentionally misleading. It is natural to share happy photos, announce births etc. The problem is due to a) it being unnatural to publicly brag about financial problems, divorce, etc, and b) the sheer number of Facebook friends making the same sort of milestone posts, combined with Internet time replacing in-person time where more topics are discussed, resulting in a perception of being surrounded by non-stop happiness.
Author here, you are absolutely right. Want to see me angry? You should have seen me when I found out my 90 year old neighbor lady is on her second Whirlpool made vertical modular washer in the past 5 years. (top loading washer with the led lights on the control panel) Not everyone can afford to be ripped off and sold garbage washing machines that WILL break within 3 years.

I think your power tool analogy is a good one. Same with most consumer goods, people know that when they are buying a plastic version of something that it likely won't last, so they wrestle through the tradeoffs.
There's certainly some evidence that hot baths reduce sperm counts[1] but nothing I see about testosterone levels. At the same time, it's clear that men in cultures with traditions of soaking or saunas do still seem to father children...

1: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2007/03/5541/hot-tubs-hurt-fertili...
Americans can't feel that strongly about it... the current president and his (current) wife are 24 years apart in age.
Sinking ship? Microsoft's financials are quite solid. And just look at the comments here in this thread, on "Hacker News", a site you think would be full of techies: they're mostly advocating sticking with Windows. How on Earth is Microsoft a "sinking ship"? Apple's laptops, by contrast, are the ones that seem to be going downhill, with that company concentrating on its mobile phones. Where are all the Windows users going to go? Not to Apple, and apparently not to Linux either judging by the marketshare numbers and comments here.

Microsoft is doing exactly the right thing here, loading up their OS with spyware and adware to make money from their users. I see nothing at all wrong with them abusing users as much as they want, with forced reboots, forced ads, poorly-QAed driver updates causing system malfunctions, etc. Their customers have proven over and over and over that they will not abandon the Windows platform no matter what, so it's perfectly sensible for Microsoft to exploit this for monetary gain. And given that the techies on sites like this are generally libertarian, anyone who complains about MS's behavior is most likely a hypocrite.
You should check out abom as well. He is a bit more hardcore as a manual machinist but I binge watched his whole channel and still catch up with him regularly.
S3 has a new UI
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It's been said a lot of times before, but I think Braid and The Witness are both pretty clearly examples of sublime art.
Awesome haikus for that inspirational kick
Of all the circles of internet hell, religious flamewars are particularly to be avoided. Please don't do this on HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13915801 and marked it off-topic.
By land, obviously. Meaning that immigration is much easier to control if they want to, culture is much more concentrated and therefor much harder to "erase", and that there aren't giant empty rural unprofitable flyover states like there are in the US. Inequality in the US is much greater and has always been much greater than in the EU. The only difference is that in the US nobody gives a shit.
Netdata v1.6.0 just released, central netdata, ephemeral containers and more
Ask HN: Little knowledge a dangerous thing?
I have been learning(trying to be an expert) about new technologies for more than a year now. But, I have not learned any technology to its core or rather map its real implication in real life. I am interested in almost all domains of computer science - ML, AI, Distributed Computing, Browser networking, Game development, IoT, Web development and what not. But, what I have been doing for the last one and a half year is just reading about them and try to do some basic project only to start doing the same (diverge) when I read about other domain which seems interesting to me. What should be done to streamline things so that I could learn a technology in depth? How do people working on different domains learn all things and still be an expert in those domains?
That was effective in cities with good (or any) taxi service. In Pittsburgh, Uber and Lyft have utterly changed people's ability to get around the city.

One Saturday night we wanted to go out to a place 10 minutes away. We called a taxi cab around 7:30/8:00. We were told that it would be between 2.5 and 3 hours for a cab, if one came. We were considered "out of the way" when we were a 10 minute ride from downtown/the main bar area in the city. Forget about getting a cab back from those bars. We used jitney cabs all the time to get home. Yellow cabs wouldn't bother or were too infrequent.
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I always wonder about the effects of pervasive air conditioning. Living in cool environments all through the summer certainly isn't natural, right? Maybe the energy required to regulate body temperature in warm environments is actually a good thing, and air conditioning prevents us from getting the benefit.
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It doesn't indicate a preference for dying but it does indicate that they don't have much preference for living either, when it's the "but" clause after "I recently had major surgery."

I understand the whole thing to be saying, I accept mortality and it wouldn't have been so bad to forego the surgery and die. Which makes me wonder why he went ahead with the surgery and foisted the resulting high cost onto their mysterious benefactors.

I could understand (if not agree with) "I was prepared to die, and it wasn't worth the cost, so I'm dying now." I could understand "I was prepared to die, but preferred to live, even though it came at a high cost." But I can't understand "I was prepared to die, but preferred to live using other people's money, but by the way insurance is terrible and I only buy the minimum required by law."
my objection is that his definition of art appears in no part of this essay. I don't need it to be "mathematical", I just need it to exist.

As for the claim that I am more interested in reasoning about art than appreciating it. Do you actually think priorities are exclusive like that? May I not both reason and appreciate? Is this not an essay which itself attempts to reason about art, should I not appeal to that in a response to the article?

The argument you make against my response to the article could be equally applied to the article itself, yet you take the author's side, which seems dishonest to me.
Touching or suggestive language without explicit verbal or written consent would be one example.

I've personally been raped thusly on numerous occasions.
But again, it comes down to.. "We want to be self-empowered, self-reliant! Corporations, save us! Governments, give us a job! We can't have meaning unless someone comes in from outside to give us things to do!"

Grow up, rural folks. Figure this shit out for yourselves, if you want to be so self-reliant.
This is single-cell bugs vs multicellular organisms all over again.
May also be worth looking at Wolfram open cloud: https://lab.open.wolframcloud.com/objects/wpl/GetStarted.nb
>There's no replacement for hard work.

Not yet for physical health. But that saying kind of annoys me in a general sense given that the majority of technological advancement has specifically been to replace hard work we don't want to do. So there's good reason to believe a technological solution for physical health that doesn't require hard work will exist some time in the future.
I disagree. Whether it was done in bulk or not is irrelevant to the recipient. The easiest way to prove this is to find a message you consider to be spam. Forward it to someone of your choosing. The message previously considered to spam won't magically cease to be spam just because it's only sent to a single person.
Apologies, you are correct.
I was actually trying to tacitly refer to both the original and 2016 version because they both can apply to this discussion for different reasons.

I think my main take away from 2016 is that it is nearly flawless execution of an equally well-understood concept with an attention to detail that can rival anything to which it may be compared.

What I actually consider most impressive about the original is the marvelous ingenuity of its 'construction' which I think is more deserving of comparison to architecture than film.
http://textsfromsuperheroes.com

Un-informative and distracting. Probably doesn't make me a better founder. So funny.