skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why can't a company take the initiative and grab all the customers who value this?"

They are, that's why companies like Kubota are expanding their US-based manufacturing capacity like crazy. Capital equipment like a Harvester or practically anything above credit card expense level industrial equipment is purchased on a "make or break" level of decision making. Brand inertia can only carry a company like John Deere so long before the competition eats their lunch. Remember, this is a recent (past ~5 years) development in a market where equipment is expected to last ~10 years or longer. The next time these farmers decide to buy a piece of capital equipment, I guarantee they buy the unrestricted option.
What's ironic is most of these farmers are republicans and voted in the people who enable this crap.
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You should publish because I know I and a lot of other people would be incredibly interested in divining this information during a job interview.
> The result of a free market is that the better products will always win out.

That is patently incorrect. There are many examples of market failures that produce incorrect, poor quality, or even predatory results. A recent example is the total disregard for security in many (most?) "IoT" products, and the market for lemons[1] is the canonical example of a market that specifically selects for bad results ("lemons"). Note that the latter example of markets not producing "better products" was worth a Nobel Prize.

In a truly free market, the product that is most efficient for the market wins. This is often (but not always) the most profitable product. Sometimes it may also be the "best" product, depending on your point of view, because profit (or price) is not the only metric that is used in determining which product is "best".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
That same treacherous developer can scoop up talent from a GPLed project too, such as the examples I gave. Sourceforge used to have a GPLed, but was brought closed, and the free version mouldered from disuse. Free software helped expand the reach of proprietary software. The GPL is no guarantee that a free version will always remain the most used branch either.

Going GPL also has drawbacks. Look at how Apache 2 and GPL 2 weren't compatible because of the Apache license's patent clause. That lock-in effect of the GPL means that your software package can't be used by the larger free software community. Which if you're satisfied with it, fine, but some people don't want to encumber their software as such. There's no such thing as a universal benefit.
Great point. I was just approaching it from the cost perspective.
That would scare the hell out of my users and immediately increase support volume by a not insignificant amount. There's not a lot of sense in doing that anyways since many/most of the users stuck on old browser versions are stuck due to corporate policy.
Yes, like I said, they sell their segment of industrial equipment that is also useful in agriculture to people involved in agriculture. Your link echoes that. It's also small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. Why are you putting them ahead of big players in agriculture like CNH and ACGO? In fact, Massey Ferguson (ACGO) is considered to have the largest tractor band in the world.
Kubota and New Holland dominate the southeast in my experience. I've even seen several John Deere dealers convert over to other lines recently.
What is the best way to think of this. Is this like Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation, or is this like something else entirely?
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Hah, are you kidding? Even the most advanced VM based protections are routinely bypassed by crackers. Things which have an analog hole vulnerability are just too easy.

The only way something like that would happen is a big shift in hardware towards tamper resistant stuff with hardware crypto. And if all the RE work on that tamper resistant hardware could be done in public things would get... very fun.
> But to say they reneged on providing a scaling solution is wrong.

Regardless of your position in the debate, to say that many well-known Core developers reneged is absolutely defensible, given than they signed this: https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-con...

The agreement between all these parties was that they'd all support a SegWit soft-fork if Core developers also provided code and support for a ~2mb hard fork.
Yes, reining copyright terms in, putting in strong protections for individuals and hobbyists so that copyright is irrelevant to anyone with less than $1M in revenue, and liberalizing fair use (which unfortunately probably also means seriously overhauling our judicial processes to be not horrendously slow and expensive) would make copyright far more tolerable.

IMO the ideal would be something like 10 year copyright terms, with restrictions like requiring all software subject to copyright protection to submit its source.
I always find comments like these amusing because it's exactly what people said of the Japanese in the 60's and 70's. And in exactly the same way, the Chinese (and other up and coming players) are innovating: just not in the areas that some people are looking. It starts with undercutting the market with low labour rates, but as times move on and the populace has higher expectations in terms of living conditions, the companies have to innovate on production. The Japanese transformed automobile production -- and not with low wages and crappy knock off goods. They absolutely ate everybody's lunch on efficient, quality construction. They built better cars and the rest of the world spent 10 years playing catch up.

It's this complacency, and in many cases a lack of respect, that allows this to happen. Make no mistake, they are doing great things in China right now and if western companies don't react quickly enough, their lunch will be eaten again.
Please specify what you are measuring, because the frequencies you are quoting are far outside human perception limits. These also don't match the numbers being quoted by the VR guys.

I'm extremely sensitive to refresh rates. I used to have two gigantic ViewSonic CRT monitors on my desk along with special Matrox video cards so that I could have high refresh rates.

60Hz gave me whacking migraines. 72Hz was fatiguing but didn't give me migraines. 80Hz+ and I was just fine.

I haven't had a migraine due to refresh rates on digital displays ever. Not even for incredibly slow displays.
If you don't know who Selena Quintanilla is, you might not a millennial. Perhaps you are Generation Z?
> trucks self-driving on the regulated toll roads during time that drivers have their mandated rest

How would this be possible at anything less than level 4-5 autonomy? If they can take a nap, the truck's got to be fully autonomous.
But you have no control. How do you know your success can be attributed to the interview?
Ask HN: Have a domain and want to start a programming blog,what options are good?
Few options I have explored: Medium, Wix, WordPress, Weebly.
In the US it feels to me like it's gone the opposite way. The textbook publishers are increasingly able to block people from using pirated books, or even buying used books, by including one-use online codes in the books. Then they can raise the prices because there's no other market.

Don't ask me what I think the punishment should be, for devising this system, or for a professor requiring the use of such a thing in a course.
> By the late 1960s Lebedev, Glushkov,and their followers believed that Soviet scientists had accumulated a significant amount of experience in computer technology and had a considerable production potential. They wanted to collaborate with large Western European computer manufacturers in developing a fourth-generation machine before the Americans did. Lebedev’s political adversaries proposed a different option – to duplicate the American third-generation IBM-360 system, created several years earlier. Although no scientists of Lebedev’s caliber were among them, they were the political figures who had decision-making power. The Soviet government passed a resolution to develop a Unified System of Computers, reverse - engineered from the configurations of the IBM - 360.

The history there takes a turn and after 70s they just started mostly copying Western machines. It was interesting how they would justify it to themselves copying the product of the "decadent and failing Western capitalism" while they also had to attend parades and sing songs to Lenin about how their country was at the forefront and leading the world to better and brighter future.

However, to be fair, I also learned computers by using a crapy Soviet ZX Spectrum clone. So on a practical level copying became an obvious choice perhaps. At least it would have been soon enough.

Also, I always liked Setun, the ternary computer. It ends in kind of a sad story though:

> Unfortunately, after the Setun-70 project, Brusentsov’s lab was relocated from the Computer Center at Moscow University to a windowless attic in a student dormitory and was deprived of any serious support. The new university rector considered computer design a pseudo-science. Brusentsov’s original Setun computer, an experimental prototype that had faithfully worked for seventeen years, was barbarically destroyed and carted off to the dump.
Interesting, the link doesn't go to where I had it set. I had selected 'all' on the top line. It might take a refresh to see it, and it takes the indices from 1970 to the present (approximately) the distance between the S&P and DOW indexes fall on top of each other in that view nearly everywhere.
> Heh, I can do this all day.

I can see that! :D Thanks, you've been very helpful. Believe it or not, I am learning from this interaction.

> Tact is important.

I don't disagree and I'm with you here. But herein lies the dilemma -- I've been tactful and diplomatic way too many times for my taste. I've had my fair share of politics. I am not horrible in it; I simply started lacking any patience for it and thus my mood started leaning heavily towards being blunt and somewhat inconsiderate. I am not outright offensive but I am no longer tactful and diplomatic (sigh).

I started standing up and heavily protest in the face of bad politics however. I have less patience now because I expect everybody else to do the same -- and they don't.

That's why I get easily irritated. I absolutely agree with ALL of your points -- the people might have had horrible customers (or team leaders), they might have drained the budget close to the end of the project so they probably had to cut tens of corners, they might have been gaining experience along the way... and a plethora of other possibilities. I agree.

I do have empathy and tact. But I have lost almost all patience in the last few years.

I appreciate that you might not believe such a polarized message in an interview. But I got slightly carried away sharing. :)
The brain “doubles up” by simultaneously making two memories of events
Really? So if life in North Korea is comparable to US "for some people", you will happily draw an equal sign?
Reordering or dropping transactions is a non-issue. All you need to covertly implement Asicboost is dropping 2 random tx on the left side of the tree, and 2 on the right side (out of ~2000!) That's enough combinations to find enough partial merkle collisions. So at worst these 4 dropped collisions will be included in the next block because the next miner, even if he also implements Asicboost, will statistically almost certainly drop 4 different collisions.

And it's not true that a "significant" number of blocks are empty. Only ~2% of them are.

Furthermore the reason some blocks are empty is not due to Asicboost. It's because after a new block is found, there is a small delay until a miner can assemble the new set of txs, and during this period of time the hardware has to mine on something (empty block).

Above all, it would be in an Asicboost miner's interest to include as many tx as possible in order to gain a ~10% increase in revenues from tx fees!

So, no, I disagree that Asicboost is a "problem". It's not. It looks like Gregory Maxwell either misunderstands/misanalyzed the "risks" or is simply dramatizing the situation for his own personal (political) reasons which would be part of his plan (Blockstream's plan?) to attack and discredit large-scale miners in the overall debate of Segwit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited.

Asicboost could hypothetically become a problem only if (a) mining profit margins became very thin caused for example by a multi years period of BTC losing value or remaining flat, (b) if somehow the 3 Asicboost patents (Bitmain's, KnC's, Hanke's) were never licensed to anyone else, (c) if the patents owners actually did evil things by abusing their patent rights, and (d) while all this chaos is happening everyone else sits on their hands instead of ignoring the patent and adding the optimization to their ASICs for the benefit of Bitcoin's health or survival if it came to that...

It's very unlikely that (a) (b) (c) (d) all occur at the same time.
They also should let him know that a series of rambling interludes about various "think pieces" does not a quality narrative make.

I found this to be a terrible read, from start to finish. Perhaps I missed something.
Makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

For scaling a lambda it might make sense to run your lambdas on EC2 using this: https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda. (But at that point you loose the 'NoOps' benefit of lambda and I can't imagine you'd get similar performance to just running a Node Server or the like.)
I mentioned that in my comment, though I know the comment is a bit long so it's easy to miss :P

But yes, it is a somewhat important detail. It's not a long term fix, but it makes arguments for 2MB hardfork + SegWit a bit ... odd? And a more immediate increase in block size is nice, to hold us over until the proposed "better"* layer 2 solutions show up (Lightning network or otherwise).

* I put that in quotes because I haven't studied the proposed Lightning network or alternatives (if any exist?), so I can't say for sure if they are indeed better. And again, it's irrelevant whether they're better; SegWit is an improvement to Bitcoin regardless of whether those layer 2 solutions pan out for solving transaction congestion.
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I would default to Medium unless you need more, and if you need something it doesn't need just go with Wordpress hosted on Digital Ocean.

I would consider that my default advice.
The example I would point to is the one involving American Superconductor and Sinovel [1][2]

American Superconductor was working with Sinovel on wind turbines. They made the software and Sinovel made the physical product. Sinovel decided they wanted to cut out American Superconductor so they paid an employee $1.7 million to leak to them the source code. After which they cut them off. To add insult to injury Sinovel then sold these wind turbines back to the state where American Superconductor is located.

Sinovel did not even attempt to change the software which is actually how they first got caught. They were inspecting a wind turbine and realized it was running an unreleased version of their software.

There was even an incident last year of an idea for a new selfie stick getting stolen before they even were done with their kickstarter campaign.[3]

In both cases the original creators who did innovate and put time into designing something got cut out. Is that fair?

[1]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-great-brain-robbery-c...
[2]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/business/energy-environmen...
[3]https://qz.com/771727/chinas-factories-in-shenzhen-can-copy-...
Gopnik is one of the top intellectuals writing today, and these three books are a great jumping off point for his views on Trump and other illiberalism:

"Perhaps Tocqueville’s most brilliant insight (and Mishra, to his credit, cites it) was that revolutions are produced by improved conditions and rising expectations, not by mass immiseration. As Louis C.K. says, right now everything is amazing and nobody is happy. Each citizen carries on her person a computer more powerful than any available to a billionaire two decades ago, and many are using their devices to express their unbridled rage at the society that put them in our pockets."
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I'm not sure that this is the best move in the long term. Mass produced phone-sized MicroLED screens should be ready by 2019, and MicroLED can be up to twice as efficient per lumen compared to OLED.

A large purchase of Samsung OLED displays would be a much more sensible move than an investment in manufacturing for a display tech which may not be around for long.

One explanation could be of necessity. Perhaps Google initially wanted to make a large purchase of Samsung or LG OLEDs, but neither may have the production capacity to fulfill the order. Samsung is already making 70-92 million OLED displays for a recent Apple order, and LG probably doesn't have the needed production capacity that Samsung already has at scale.
People are always terrified of the Big Brother from government, but any time I have to verify my identity with questions like "What street of the listed have you lived on?" or "Which of these banks do you have a loan with?" it makes me realize how much aggregated data private (especially financial) companies have. I can imagine these corporations selling that info for good money, like how many transactions you make at a fast food restaurant in a given month to health insurance providers.
Someone needs to tell all American political pundits that the election of a single person, even a party, in a single election means little in terms of history. The US presidential election is no bellwether of world opinion. Liberalism is alive and well amongst the people.
DARPA may be the main source of funding, but without the caliber of the team that implemented it; it probably would have either failed or faded into obscurity. A lot of people who live on the edge, tend to have a very strong independent spirit that tends to be at odds with figures of authority.
> Well sure, but you only have so much time to study for these interviews.

Considering the payoff (potentially a $40,000 to $100,000 raise on a 40 hour work week), I think that the amount of time to study for these types of interviews is very trivial. Interviewing skills can be used for interviews at many well paying companies because this type of interview has been standardized, so it's not like you're only studying specific knowledge for one company.
Looking up the actual experiment, you're completely misrepresenting the conclusions. Here: https://www.google.com/amp/business.financialpost.com/entrep...

These were their conclusions:
1. The ability to hire well is random. This is referring to individuals, not the system as a whole.
2. Forget brain-teasers. Focus on behavioral questions in interviews, rather than hypotheticals
3. Consistency matters for leaders
4. Grades don’t predict anything about who is going to be a successful employee. School grades, that is.

So, stop making stuff up from behind your throwaway account.
> The only way I see things change is a holocaust level fuck up because people think they have nothing to hide.

We already had that one and it does not seem to make much difference.
Still the norm in the defence and automotive sectors.
For most projects we deploy a static web documentation site. The content of this site is generated under change control by a select few publishers / editors.

Our reasoning is that documentation should be a "read mostly" resource. We prefer to vet and manage the updates with some manual processes. Might be sub-optimal, but the quality is high and erroneous / misleading changes can be easily rolled-back and then the re-edited versions re-released. However, most errors are caught in pre-release review stage.
So essentially 17th-century Four Loko
> Virtually no one is walking with anyone else.

They're walking for transportation. Consider that in the US most cars on the road have only one occupant.
Let's hope their bus factor[0] is greater than 1.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
You are correct!
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"Gomez was named after Tejano singer and actress Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, who died in 1995."
Real income hasn't risen for the median worker in over a decade. Nobody knows how to fix this.

Paying rent without stress is better than any smartphone.
It's more than they're optimizing on a very specific set of skills/experience - the ability to answer a particular type of problem (eg. from "Crack the Coding Interview") on a whiteboard in under 45 minutes.
Yep, science is fallible, but it's far and away the most reliable thing we have to understand our nature and forecast our future. Again, if I have to actually articulate an argument on why this is, I'm afraid were at such different positions that I'm not going to be able to convince you that science is always more reliable than religion.

You're asking for sources and claiming my argument is too general, yet you provided nothing of the sort for your own original argument. I could link you the hundreds upon thousands of scientific reports/sources that support climate change/global warming, but I'm not going to do that and condone the constant goalpost moving you demonstrate in every discussion I've seen you have on HN.

At this point in time, if you aren't taking the minimal amount of responsibility needed to listen to what is likely one of the most important problems of our lifetime, you have your head stuck in the sand. That's a true disappointment because it seems that you have the intelligence necessary to comprehend it.

Me coming up with a few sources isn't going to fix your willingness to be ignorant on this issue and not get with the program. It's too late for you.

This isn't faith. This is common sense and critical thinking.
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lukejr is nowhere near the "lead bitcoin developer". Wladimir van der Laan is the Bitcoin Core maintainer, not lukejr. lukejr even maintains his own fork (Bitcoin Knots) for stuff that didn't make it into Core.
Well you don't even need to look just at commercially available products - just look at the FOSS landscape for what gets produced when there is no financial incentive or IP law to protect the material - certainly we would be in a much different place technology wise if we didn't have FOSS as the backbone for a grand majority of technology that exist on the market today, and all of that FOSS was created without the financial incentive or the IP law to protect it.

The existing IP structure can be a useful tool and motivator for people, but it also adds in an extra requirement to all software it touches, whether the designers and coders are conscious of it or not - suddenly, there is a requirement that it make profit on top of what it actually is supposed to do. There's nothing wrong with making money - I'm not here to make a Stallmanistic rant about F/OSS. But this type of structure isn't necessary for great leaps in technology. In the past it was useful because that's how access to the development funds were locked up - you had to play under someone else's banner and their rules to bring you idea to the forefront. Software was different because you didn't need a factory to produce it, and while you still need the factory, you don't need any one particular factory anymore to do the production.

Innovation can and does happen just fine without patent laws or financial incentive.
That's a syllogism and I'm not sure it tells us anything. If you replaced interviewing with a footrace across hot coals the same assertion would be (just as vacuously) true.