skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't a popular opinion, but my feeling is that publishers' power in the marketplace is severely underestimated. For those of us on HN who do use Facebook, the content experience is pretty similar: a few juicy friend updates per [day? week?]. One or two good articles. Then a morass of terrible, spammy content.

It's clear that actual users don't put enough into the FB ecosystem to make FB interesting for people each day, despite FB's best efforts. Content owners therefore have quite a bit of power. Because if FB suddenly stopped surfacing one or two great The Atlantic pieces per day, FB gets noticeably worse for me as a single user.

The old economics of journalism are: publications get 100% of ad revenue. The Google economics (2001 - 2012) are that publishers get ~65% of revenue and Google gets ~35%. That is self-evidently failing. [1] And Facebook built instant articles on those now-failing economics. The price system is working. Which is why IAs are getting less popular.

Maybe a decentralized web isn't such a bad thing.

[1] I'm self-interested: I cofounded a software company in this space, premised on empowering content producers.
How is that not going to be a billion dollar company?

Back then we had public utilities. In the Sixties they envisioned the Cloud to be run like a public utility. The scary thing is that this model has become entirely unimaginable to a whole generation.
The problem with micro transactions is that you're paying "real money" for information.

With so much "free stuff" on the internet, it's almost impossible to convince that your content is worth more than an infinite increase in value (1¢/free =infinite ). The "big guys" like the WSJ or IEEE can, simply by being close to canonical.
Kit lenses are often not what limits the quality of images people produce.

Pro Photographer, Cheap Camera: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ECB90D96DF59DE5
I'm not talking about "shooting in the dark", but rather getting high shutter speed, low noise images indoors where you'd swear there's enough light but you camera would stumble.
Honest question, did you all have a conversation about no porn on their network or are you making an assumption that they wouldn't like it?

I'm curious what the "no porn" conversation would be like.
The Thunderbird community is quite active, as can be seen by the activity in the tb-planning mailing list (https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/).

They know they have to pivot to a more modern codebase, and have been discussing modernizing TB on a regular basis. Most of the traffic in April is about a "Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies". Go read it!
Exactly. There are still a lot of good reasons to use a DSLR for some applications. But if you're using one with a crappy kit lens on Auto that you never take off, you're carrying a bigger camera than you need.

Even WRT the larger sensor, there are a bunch of much lighter and more compact mirrorless cameras that are either APS-C or micro 4-3rds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14122276

There you go. So even your claim that I'm making things up is false.

Intellectual honesty is a currency around here.
I don't follow - wealth itself is motivating to people who want it. Why single out the lottery?
> ... you're plain wrong.

If I expressed a preference for blondes over brunettes, would you describe that as wrong also?

Obviously thinking of "physical media" as a plural is a matter of opinion, as well as being consistent with widespread usage.

If I say there are an infinity of primes, I've stated a fact, and one would be free to label it right or wrong. If instead I try to produce a concise, general definition of infinity, the result can only ever be an opinion, a judgment call. No one would have the right to call it wrong -- because it's language, not mathematics.

> Physical media here is a collective noun ...

The singular form is "physical medium." The plural form is "physical media." This is not rocket science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(communication)

Quote: "Media (the singular form of which is medium)[1] is the collective communication outlets or tools that are used to store and deliver information or data."

Again, it's language, not mathematics -- it's a matter of opinion and judgment.
you've just described a communist utopia. I think we can all agree that this wonderful pipe dream has not been proven to work at scale in practice. Theoretically it's a great idea of course, which is why a quarter of the world tried it.
Is this at the HQ in Minneapolis? I hope to move back to MN someday (to raise the younglings) and you make Target sound awesome!
Haha for when you need another DC that's sort of across town, or you're trying to add artificial latency intra DC with enormous coils of fiber.

Not too unreasonably expensive - roughly in line with a GeForce 1080, and that's after the Official HP Hardware markup. I wonder how much the switch/cabling is...
Stars are bright, we can see black holes that stars fall into because they interact with the star. Black holes all by themselves (almost) do not emit light and we observe them by seeing how they interact with light from further away objects.

Jets are more complicated and have some open questions, but the conclusion is unchanged, if you really care then read the book.

But if you want to think you know better then you can do that too.
"Slack groups work really well for me and a few of my groups of friends. Because we know they are exclusive, and won't spam us, we actually value them. When someone has a message for the entire group... "I got engaged / married / had a kid / new job / moving to Singapore..." whatever... it's just information, not someone trying to milk fake internet points from strangers."

Your use case for Slack is not what Slack exists for... their MO is to get business information

I used slack once then realised that it was just as bad, if not worse than facebook. It is worse because it lulls you into a false sense of security. Everything on Slack belongs to Slack. It is fundamentally more evil than FB because it pretends to be a 'confidential and secure' environment but the truth is they own every single byte you give them. Slack users are morons if they think that Slack has any agenda other than to parse data and exploit the connections. FB at least is "only social" whereas Slack gets company business data via the morons that use it.

Businesses use Slack because they are too lazy to deliver an in house alternative. I pity anyone who thinks Slack is any better than FB . Stand by for Slack being acquired by FB in the very near future so that FB can fill in another slice of the control pie they are trying to bake
Interesting that a MAC was moved on-chip, but it's only Gigabit and only one channel. Sounds to me more like a BOM reduction aimed at workstations and low-end servers that don't need much network bandwidth rather than being inteded for heavy duty use (since even the Intel C2000 have 4x 1/2.5 GbE MACs).

> The neat bit is that activating the GPU on one of these Xeon E3 processors only adds a single watt to the thermal profile of the chip and only a few bucks to the cost.

Well I very much doubt that in practice. Perhaps Intel's TDP scenario here is "no outputs connected and no framebuffer active" or something like that.
in it together and to make it awesome for one another
No they are not. This is a good idea. It's important because otherwise people could be targeted by forging their address and then the replies go to them. I wonder how to do this without making it burdensome? I'll think about it. Thanks.
>> what's to keep a manufacturer like Canon or Nikon from building a mirrorless body that continues to work with all of their existing gear?

Old school management thinking. The most common speculation as to why Canon and Nikon are behind in mirrorless is that they're afraid of cannibalizing their DSLR product lines.
Hyperscaling with Consumer Flash and NVM-Express
Red Hat Tunes Up OpenShift for Legacy Code in Kubernetes
Thanks!

Yeah that should be possible, although there might be some weird browser inconsistencies, not totally certain on that. But check out the "Check Lists" example, the checkboxes are actually non-editable content that's rendered right in front of the editable text of the list item.
'Yeah... we debated this a bit in some of our groups. But most of us already had Slack running for work at this point"

so that makes Slack ok to start using it outside of business?
I had this conversation with my parents recently as I share a similar view to the parent comment. My father has made a decent amount of money from his successful business, but by far the greatest proportion of their wealth is tied up in various property assets. They put this fortune down to good timing vs being "earned" in the same way as the business profits, and believe it should be something that future generations in the family benefit from. They travel internationally multiple times a year and assure me they will continue to enjoy the good life for as long as they can, but they're adamant when it comes to their plan to leave a meaningful estate for the kids and grandkids.
Django-traffic on Django Packages
> French kindergarteners spend 90 minutes sitting down to a white-table-cloth four course meal each day during school.

No they don't, I'm not quite sure where you could've got the idea ?
Breaking safety in the name of safety is like going to war in the name of peace.
I must say that I'm fascinated by the fact that each bit is around 1 cm long while in transit, at near the speed of light (in vacuum.)

Single channel 100 GB would mean 2-3 mm long bits. Imagine that :-)
Just a note, this post has nothing to do with Haskell.
> Steam is a pile of proprietary code, full of DRM. AppleTV/XB/PS/etc are all proprietary binaries, equally full of ad-hoc DRM.

Exactly. And it's not on the web. DRM can survive off the web. We can keep the web open. Or at least, we could have, until Tim Berners Lee et al sold us out.

I have no interest in helping media companies implement a ubiquitous, single-solution DRM. Especially not at the cost of the open web.

> he's against the "web" getting reduced to a pile of proprietary code running over IP and using HTML5 (internally) as the markup language.

EME is the same effect. A pile of proprietary, closed-source, DMCA-protected code that without which you couldn't play your videos. It doesn't matter which piece you consider greater: addition is commutative. HTML5+DRM == DRM+HTML5.
This is really amazing! I have used a virtual machine + Remix OS[1] when I needed something like this, but native in Linux will make things a lot easier for me. This would be the equivalent of Wine for Android, right?

Windows installed => Windows in VM => Wine

Android in phone => Remix OS in VM => Anbox

[1] http://www.jide.com/remixos-for-pc
Life on an island...
Which consequences?
The new season is now on Netflix, yay!
>> I need to do some serious soul-searching before I continue buying DSLR equipment, assuming this is true. More research needed.

Not really. If your photographic needs are satisfied with DSLR equipment, why worry about it? Don't change for the sake of change.
That youtube lecture was really interesting.

The very ending was awesome as well!
I agree with your principle ('publicly funded work shouldn't be patented'), but that's not the legal framework we have, and it hasn't been that way since Bayh-Dole was passed in 1980 [1].

Until that act is reversed, it's foolish for UC to not behave more like Stanford.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act
It's easy to go wrong in both directions here.

The naive version you argue against here is fairly common. Some people actually think that if Edison hadn't invented electric light, we'd still read by candle light!

In reality, someone else would have invented the same or similar things fairly soon afterwards if these "heroes" hadn't done it first.

Then again, advancing the state of science and/or technology planet wide is enormously valuable, even if just by 1 month.

There is no way to measure this, but my guess is that without Steve Wozniak, microcomputers would surely have happened, but maybe 1 year later. What's a jumpstart like that worth for humanity as a whole?
Not dumb! (Author here.)

1) It depends on what you mean by substitute. It's kind of like a contenteditable that's been implemented with React components and an Immutable.js data model. It's not a drop-in replacement for contenteditable, since the APIs are different. But that is essentially what it lets you do.

2) The data is stored internally in an Immutable.js tree data model. You can convert it to JSON with the built-in `Raw` serializer. And you can define a schema with the `Html` serializer to convert it to HTML, which then you could render anywhere you want. I do this for one of my projects.
It's an interesting experience seeing some shelves in 7-11 here in Tokyo partly empty due to this shortage -- outside of perishable goods like onigiri, it's pretty uncommon to see something like potato chips missing on a shelf. I wonder how long it'll take for the shortage to end, and if they'll be able to mitigate it by importing. One thing it doesn't mention in this article is that companies are pretty strict about quality of their imported goods like potatoes in Japan, probably due to the restrictions by the government, and are known for being hesitant about US potato quality, for example.

For those interested in more information about the shortage, here's an analysis from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service: https://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Potat...
I just talked to a friend of mine who is an architect. He said most buildings look only good as model and when they are build they are only ugly blocks.

Even when rendered most architects play around with perspective to get their "ugly blocks" to look nice.

I said they should force the architects to design with VR and let them see the finished building from above only after they got the important stuff done, so the focus of the design is the people walking around and not the top down view on the building.
What a great link! I have not seen this before. Thanks for sharing.
Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions
Yep. I have both a FF DSLR and a APS-C mirrorless. I use both. I like both. Which I use for a given application depends on what my priorities are.
There's some truth in here, but I wanted to highlight this section as one which needs correction:

> He’s still us­ing 4×5" and 8×10" film cam­eras, but I bet those medium-format pup­pies at #1 above could do the trick.

Perhaps that comment comes from not working with a large format camera, so there's plenty to forgive the author. A 55mm sensor, no matter how subtly it captures the light, can never produce a comparable picture.

There's a particular quality that enthusiastic photographers may have noticed when moving up sensor sizes. Despite the very similar field of view, there's a different look to a 35mm lens on an APS-C camera vs a 50mm lens on a full-frame camera. It's a factor of the character of the lens design in combination with the resulting field of view.

The images produced from a well-handled large format camera can be truly spectacular. Looking at a good, large print from an 8x10, you'll notice a much greater dimensionality in the image. The shadows may have subtleties and a level of smoothness that are unrecognised.

This isn't a digital/analogue snobbery thing - I love digital photography, and haven't shot film in quite some time. It's purely a physical size thing. I just doubt we're going to get an 8x10 sensor in a camera any time soon, so for now film still has a unique advantage, at least for those people willing to go through the hassle.
And those were progressively better analogies. These are great terms to think in, and it's not an overstep. It doesn't have to be absolutely true to be very useful for understanding.
I would like to hear more about Oberon OS running on an emulator. Might you have a link, this sounds interesting?
Amdahl's law applies to relationships, e.g., a process/program is a grouping of related components.

By definition, if there are no relationships between components, then Amdahl's law does not apply (or rather there's 0% serialization), and you'll always benefit from more parallelization.

For example, my typesetter doesn't care that my compiler is running which doesn't care that my web server is running. There's no relationship between the inputs or outputs of those processes. And there's no synchronization.

Therefore, all else equal, as long as the cost per core continues to decrease, it's beneficial to add more cores: because you can run more things.
I've done this.

I've tailored my feed to get pretty interesting and I've added many friends that I've made on the Internet and I don't suffer the "90% trash in my feed" problem.

I pretty much get all my news from here, some people on facebook, some people on twitter.
> Think back to school, did you ever complain about your grades if you knew some other kid had worked harder? Me neither.

Not personally, but I sure do remember jealousy from people who didn't -- want to -- work as hard or thought they didn't have "enough natural talent" to be like them.

I don't think it's too far off to say human mental models transcend class and that a portion of those who rally against inequality (because they are on the victimized end) are part of the group I described above.

As for how this applies to the discussion? I cannot think of anything. I just think it's important to remember human behaviour isn't fair, rational, or black-and-white (which on the surface flies against the "widespread mental model" claim).
that's with scaling. the actual pixel level resolution of the retina mac is two times 1440x900 so 2880x1800
Meg Whitman almost bought the Governorship of California because somebody wrote an auction program. First mover.
Part of me wants to download and play that, but another part is afraid. Games were hard back then, and Dark Castle was brutal! I can still hear that weird yodel you make after a non-fatal fall almost 30 years later.
could you elaborate on the energy orgasms? I realize you've edited that part out but it was the most interesting for me personally because I had similar experiences after I learned Idris and understood the Curry-Howard isomorphism.
Ah sorry about that. I'm the author of Slate, but I didn't submit this story or else I probably would have linked to the GitHub page itself. Fixing now!
Life on an island with a historically strict protectionist food policy. There is no potato shortage, per se (per the article, I'm surely no expert). There's a shortage of potatoes from Hokkaido, and domestic consumers aren't prepared for (or allowed to) buy them from an international market.

Japan isn't the only nation to do this, of course. But they're one of the worst.
"Your last day will be X."
I think their point is that, for some reason, it is lamentable that they did not fulfill the whole of their potential. Whether or not that is lamentable is its own argument. The privilege exhibited by the talented who consciously do not use their potential is the ultimate insult to those who are not given the opportunity - not only is it in no way controllable by humanity, it can in no way be granted by any kind of affirmative action. I imagine the lament is probably sourced there somehow.
> AIUI, the larger reason for wanting EME is to kill Flash and other plugins.

EME is also a plugin. Specifically, it's the Widevine plugin.

Only now it's installed by default on everyone's systems. And Chrome is already playing games and moving the setting from chrome://plugins to being buried under chrome://settings/content.

That "it runs everywhere by default" will mean even smaller websites will start using it to strip user freedoms.

Read the comments here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675596

Website owners are chomping at the bit to stop people from being able to save offline content.

> Flash needs access to many, many more OS-level features than any EME plugin does

Then make EME plugins optional, and don't ship them by default with browsers, and don't make them officially part of the HTML5 spec. Just because something is 'inevitable' doesn't mean you have to embrace it, if it's a fundamentally bad thing. This is usually referred to as 'having principles.'

> Flash not shipping by default didn't exactly stop smaller sites from relying on it, though

But it has resulted in many sites using HTML5 video. Especially when Apple decided not to ship it on iOS.

And right now, I can right-click and save those videos to my hard drive, which is just lovely for taking videos on the go with me.
Basilisk II on a current Mac may be a more useful option for those interested. I routinely run Mac OS 8.0 with hyperCard... on my 2016 MacBook Pro using Basilisk II.
The physical resolution of the screen is 2880x1800.

The scaled resolution modes work by rendering at 2x then downsampling. So in the mode you quote it is actually rendering at 3840x2400 (!!) then downsampling, but there's still only 2880x1800 physical pixels.
In adulthood, many prodigies become experts in their fields and leaders in their organizations. Yet only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators.

My daughter is being treated for Leukemia by some amazing doctors at Boston Children's Hospital. To my knowledge, none of the health care professionals at this world-class institution have won Nobel Prizes in medicine. All the same, for my daughter's sake, I'm still glad they hit the books for a couple decades.

There are great honor and value in doing an important job consistently and well. This idea that a life is wasted if you don't remake a field in your image seems hollow when these prodigies often end up with the power to save lives.
I absolutely adore the melodic way Swedish and Norwegian sound (I know they are mutually intelligible). I also like Finnish, but i know that is Uralic and completely different. I really wish I could pick up the language. Is there anything high quality outside crime dramas and the like?
Well, I wouldn't say always. But there is no need to spend a thousand dollars on headphone 'gear'. There is also no need for a dedicated DAC unless your source is audibly noisy. MacBook pros for instance have perfectly good audio circuitry capable of driving normal impedance headphones to ear damaging volume w/o distortion. If you want to buy a DAC and amp for your 32ohm headphones that's cool, but you're just buying an exceptionally expensive volume control.
All I see here are your opinions, while the article has numerous citations and data to back up its claims.

The reason why the article is interesting is because it goes against the common wisdom "you need to know the rules to break em", and backs its claim up with peer-reviewed science. And while you may find the findings unpalatable, isn't this how progress is made?
What's so special about American citizens that makes you think they are not to be spied by NSA? Why is it that eg. Europeans can be spied at will, but it takes a mandate to spy an American citizen?
Most (maybe all) of these papers are available in HTML at the Jsoftware site:

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/
A rewrite with a skeleton crew sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Mozilla got a ground up rewrite, and even with big resources and a big team, it nearly killed Mozilla.

Then again, the tools are much better than ever. Building desktop apps can move very fast with Electron (or similar) and the like. Nonetheless, I think I'm on the pessimistic side of the argument about a total rewrite. I wish them well, but I suspect it'll fizzle out, as previous similar efforts have.