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Somewhat OT, but from the second paragraph in that page you linked...

> Taylor was known for his high-level vision and invention of the "any" key: "The Internet is not about technology; it's about communication and choice, if you want to press any key. The Internet connects people who have shared interests, ideas and needs, regardless of geography."

What? Am I understanding correctly that this is a joke about "the any key"? :-)
This looks great. Almost too good to be true.
> the growth rate for Facebook can NEVER be greater than the growth rate of the population of people born into households with internet

> Am I missing something?

People who are already born but not a member of Facebook?

Households who newly have access to the Internet?
So this art is advertisement. It isn't like we don't look back and marvel at the glory of old movie posters or anything... Those were advertisements. It doesn't matter if it started as an advert.

I'd have been offended if they did shitty art, but in this case, they took care and did an actual piece.
It's often hard for people to appreciate the scale at which the CEO has an impact. As an individual engineer, if you're replaced by someone who's not an engineer, they are going to fail big time... But the amount of damage they can go to the company is very limited. Someone else will just pick up their slack, and the financial loss to the company is likely less than a million dollars.

At the CEO level though, even if you don't fill completely, even if you're 99% as good as the previous CEO, that 1% difference on a massive company translates to a loss of tens/hundreds of millions of dollars. And that's assuming you're 99% as good. If you're only 90% as good, the damage is even greater.

Can you scrape by as CEO without bankrupting the company? Sure. But there's a reason why boards are still willing to pay millions of dollars to hire the best possible candidate. Because when you're managing assets worth billions of dollars, scrimping on a few million is simply premature optimization.
From the point of view that the data was successfully collected, yes, it sounds like it went well. Actual data analysis will take some time. I imagine it will be published in Nature which means that the results may be embargoed for a few more months after data analysis is complete. I'd say that we might hear something in 1.5-2 years.
A slightly better explanation: https://www.universetoday.com/134996/black-hole-imaged-first...
I tried to take a frame snapshot with Snapdragon Profiler to be able to make specific comments, but that didn’t work because the app doesn’t have the INTERNET permission listed in the manifest, which is required to communicate with the profiler.

Now that's a problem I would have never even imagined being possible.
It would be interesting to see some data on recent prices for TV station license transfers. The market value of AM radio station licenses has plummeted in recent years. I suspect the same is happening to TV stations, in particular the little independents that live off of syndicated feeds and Star Trek re-runs. (I've seen TV control rooms far, far, less luxurious than the station in Weird Al's movie "UHF"...)
98% of my facebook timeline is pure shit. I once went to facebook to keep up with friends and family. Now, all I see is clickbait and memes.
Shift yourself to a new job where you get options!

Or if you can't find an opportunity like that, some kind of meta escape?
Matt is an interesting character and I recommend people watch him at this National Press Club talk back in '98. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvcA75f9_ik If you can't spare the 40 minutes to watch it all, skip to the end when he takes questions.
Perhaps, to paraphrase the old chestnut, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, consult."
The Supreme Court is actually a very poor place to decide this. A court does not have the ability to gather facts, but only to decide on what is presented to it. It is a very poor way to create law.

A legislature, on the other hand, can call witnesses and do fact finding. Congress could very well create law that would specify more exactly what the Constitutional clause means.
> A disadvantage of pattern matching is that it's relatively easy to write a function where you define a variable and then first access it 500 lines later.

I've written plenty of OCaml, and I can't see how this would ever be a problem. Are you writing 500 line functions in OCaml? It seems like it would be difficult to write such a long function in OCaml. An why would pattern matching cause it?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
TV may thrive again if they improve the content. The biggest hurdle network TV has right now is that people are leaving because there is nothing to watch.
In the connotation of 'startup' used in Silicon Valley and among venture capitalists (as opposed to how 'startup' is used in other places and/or by other types of investors), a startup is a company designed and striving to grow to a large size. In that context, startups are a well defined subset of new businesses.
Crazy question: could some of North Korea's weapon test failures be deliberate?

They know their tests are being watched by the world. They know that if they get to a point where they are an believable imminent threat there might be preemptive action taken against them.

Given that, it would be in their interest to make sure the rest of the world underestimates their progress.

One way that could help with that would be when doing a test to test X make it so it looks like it is actually testing Y, and make sure that the Y test prominently fails.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124258 and marked it off-topic.
Imagine having 5 important, large-scale customers. You need a dedicated representative per such customer. You suddenly don't have people for doing development.
Craigslist is another example. Dense, "ugly", but the wheels continue to spin.

There is no magic bullet in design. Drudge Report's design would never work for a product like Facebook, or Stanford.edu for instance - your design says specific things. Drudge is like a Costco; it's intentionally "raw" to give the (false) impression that it's simply so focused on delivering a product that they don't have time/don't care about design. Lots of approaches work for different reasons.

The reason why you should avoid using out-of-the-box UIs like bootstrap is similar - by taking a generic approach your design says nothing...
I've read what the statue is supposed to convey but what I see is a sassy looking girl that is just about to get gored and stomped by a charging bull.

I guess it's nice she is standing up and all but given the situation she isn't going to win. Apparently this girl has very little understanding of proportional weights and forces.

In short, I don't see brave but rather stupid. Not an admirable quality.

Sassy girl needs a horse and a lasso or rocket launcher or something. Or else a plate and a knife and a bottle of A1 steak sauce. Then I'd get the point.
Thanks for the feedback John, I'm going review the vimrc comments and as well the write up ones. Cheers!
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Mucrosoft patched a lot of the vulnerabilities within the last several months. That doesn't mean that they weren't serious vulnerabilities (i.e. the scope of the exploit) or that they weren't actively used (since the exploits could have been used from the time they were found by hackers to the time they were patched).

Also, I see a lot of green accounts in this thread...
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use of CRISPR in humans is what Harvard/MIT want to protect. According to the judges, UC Berkeley didn't make that clear.

Even being a biologist who understands CRISPR well and having trained at Harvard/MIT (disclosure to provide context about biases), it's not clear what Harvard/MIT will gain with winning this fight. Because the incentive is incredibly strong, I feel like everyone will find a way to work around whatever patents Harvard/MIT collect. I see UC Berkeley's side in these patents because their discovery proceeded Harvard/MIT and Harvard/MIT (Eric Lander) is just sucking up airtime like Trump does to come out on top. See this: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1825
You're being overly pedantic and on top of that you're plain wrong. Physical media here is a collective noun, so "is" is the correct word.
And it's mediocre because?
It's a lot of little random things. For example, the ~keyword: syntax, the need to paranthesize where other languages don't (e.g.: "foo -1" doesn't work, you have to do "foo (-1)"). The way argumentless functions must be declared with "function". The expression termination issue (";;") is a lot less elegant than, say, Haskell's whitespace awareness. Operators not being overloaded is annoying, although there's a valid argument for explicitness.

Overall, it's not a terrible syntax, but it feels a lot like someone just invented things along the way as they needed them, without a cohesive plan. Lots of pragmatic but visually ugly choices.

I also take issue with the tooling; things like error messages, or just the antiquated feel of the CLI tools. For example, having a REPL without built-in readline support (rlwrap to the rescue) in this day and age is not acceptable.
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I'd like to propose a Star Trek test. A lot of people get extremely worked up when sci-fi cooks up something entirely unrealistic, and Hollywood has all manner of advisors on call just to keep fans from jumping down their throats.

People in computer programming professions should extend the same courtesy to the social sciences we expect from Hollywood. There's no reason for Hollywood to care that they're making stuff up, but they have enough shame to care that their imaginary worlds pass the sniff test. Our pronouncements on education, politics, and economics should require us to do the same.
I wasn't responding to "approximating OS X," I was saying you can get the UI to be "as good as" OS X, with some work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchy_%28theory%29 promotes thinking out of the box
The Oculus Home app (GearVR/S7 edge) recently received an update that has literally blown everything out of the water in terms of quality. I simply don't feel like launching an app now, just want to look at the scenery. I didn't see anything about it on HN, so here are a couple of links about the update:

https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/03/carmack-on-oculus-home-updat...

https://uploadvr.com/new-john-carmack-software-doubles-oculu...
I wish I could buy a small and light E ink typewriter. Size of iPad mini, but with a keyboard, and stiff enough to be used on my laps.
Australia's patent on Wi-Fi show that patents held by the education sector can be big money for Universities. But in the article they're talking about how these two schools have already spent tens of millions on this. That's money that could have gone to research, scholarships, grants, and reducing the insanely high tuition fees students have to deal with.

I hate this model of how Universities, instead of seeking to help each other and help the world benefit from open innovation, instead are willing to pay huge legal fees so that one of the two gets a massive payoff while the other is stuck with a large legal bill.
SSDs have to hold electric charge to retain their data, so if they are unpowered they slowly discharge. The warmer they get, the worse it is: afaik common specifications only guarantee one year data retention at 30°C, but with lower temps it gets better.
i kind of feel the same way about Netflix and Amazon too. I've watched most of what I want to watch. Neflix has never been as good as when they had the Starz deal.
However though, are the other 99.5% actually seeing your mails, or have most of them just blacklisted your domain and your mails now go to junk automatically?

I think the blacklisting/mark-as-spam is MUCH more prevalent than people unsubscribing due to the harvesting of active email addresses (as mentioned above).
Ok, didn't know that. It's upto him how he wants to do it. But really a generic post without naming anyone would also get the point across, just my opinion.
They won't have the data processed until later this year, there is no picture right now.
Use an old laptop as box.

Install NextCloud, eg via "snap install nextcloud" on Ubuntu. Now you probably want to configure NextCloud a lot via its web interface.

You are 90% there. There might be a hurdle to access your box if it is behind your home NAT.

Not available to non-techies, but you could sell such pre-configured boxes.
> First, inheritance provides a strict superset of standard ADT functionality.

That's not true. Much of the value of ADTs in OCaml is full type inference. Scala has type inference, but it only sorta-kinda sometimes works.

In other words, a lot of the value of OCaml's types are that they are quite flexible, while still having enough restrictions for the compiler to usefully reason about them.
It's not exactly without consent
To stretch your analogy: "Tennis balls colored for enhanced human recognition." So they're patenting a method to 'improve' CRISPER, in this case 'adapting' it for use in humans. To technically use the Harvard / MIT patent you may still need the UCB one.

Why this happened from my experience patenting through UCB and dealing with Harvard is that UCB does not have the best patent department when it comes to helping inventors draft patents that are defensible in terms of pushing for sufficiently general language, or including defensive dependent claims (like for use humans) for precluding people patenting specific extensions as Harvard/MIT did in this case. (They just put my patent memo in the appropriate legal format with a few minor modifications.) In contrast, Harvard/MIT as organizations are far more serious about intellectual property and have the legal departments to reflect it.
Disney shows off Star Wars Land, and just shut up and take our money
I don't need your tests in my production
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"You could tap it while driving..."

This probably violates the Google Maps EULA if not the law in some places.
General Electric fought to patent life.

New Zealand banned software patents.

I feel like we're going to see similar analogies between bioengineering and software in the future.
> So what are you doing here?

HN is a nice stream of links with comments, not a community with a revolving cast of characters like SA. Totally different use case.
I agree the discussion is tech-focused and doesn't address economical issues when it maybe should. My banal explanation for it, though, is that the technology side of things is an intellectual challenge we ("hackers") enjoy to solve, whereas the economical and societal issues are outside of a nerds' comfort zone.
I don't think the authors understand the term "command and control" as it is traditionally used. I'd infer from this article that they believe it means, "provide overly detailed instructions, then micromanage". In fact it's a military term of art describing how to manage large teams in a chaotic environment in which leaders never have all the information they'd like (e.g., combat).

The "command" part is leaders telling the people who work for them what end state they need them to achieve -- not only at the outset of the mission, but periodically throughout operations as the situation changes.

The "control" part is subordinate units/leaders providing real-time feedback. This might be something like, "we are carrying out the mission as planned" or it might be, "hey you told me to stay on the north side of the river but I need to cross it to accomplish the mission"; importantly, deviation from coordinating instructions in accomplishing the mission is a key feature of the mission orders-based warfighting doctrine currently in place in most major militaries.

In the words of US doctrine (which uses the common abbreviation for command and control):
> C2 is not a one-way, top-down process that imposes control on subordinates. C2 is multidirectional, with feedback influencing commanders from below, from above, and laterally.[0]

0: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/f...
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://hackerfall.com/story/pixels-dont-care and banned that site since apparently it not only steals people's articles but eats their punctuation.

Your site isn't banned, and we don't moderate sites based on what they say about "Y Combinator's investment strategies". I'm not sure where you got that.

Your site was getting mildly downweighted. That could have happened for a number of reasons, including vote manipulation and/or too many lightweight articles. I've taken the penalty off.
Why not have part of each grant be placed into a fund for replication studies, or even directly allocated to other independent teams to replicate the study. Might do some fields rather well.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/why-uc-i...

"The UC’s filing covered gene editing with CRISPR, but it did not specifically cover eukaryotic cells—complex cells that include animal, plants, and humans—where all the lucrative applications are likely to be. The Broad’s patents did cover eukaryotic cells, and its lawyers argued that getting CRISPR to work in bacteria or free-floating DNA did not automatically mean it would work in the more complex environment. Hence, there was no inference—the decision that UC is now appealing."

https://www.statnews.com/2017/02/15/crispr-patent-ruling/

"The patent board said in its decision that the achievement of the Broad’s Feng Zhang in inventing a way to use CRISPR to edit the genomes of mouse and human cells “would not have been obvious” from the invention by Doudna and Charpentier “because one of ordinary skill in the art would not have reasonably expected a CRISPR-Cas9 system to be successful” in those higher-order cells."
There's no benefit to me in outing the professor at this point so I'm not going to do so. If you feel that undermines my credibility, I'm OK with that. I don't need a lawsuit.

But the reason my own research was never published was that my post-doc advisor demanded my work achieve the same Nobel-prize worthy result that this professor was claiming to have attained. To put that into perspective, imagine if the requirement to submit a machine learning paper to arxiv was building SkyNet. And this was a status quo requirement for publication so researchers tended to make bold claims about doing so, all of which eventually got debunked, and there still hasn't been a Nobel prize for the achievement yet 20+ years later. There has been significant progress though.

The professor went on to complete a long and successful career but the work in question was exposed as bogus shortly thereafter by a competition that was the equivalent of ImageNet for the field. It was yet another example of predicting the training set in an age when people didn't really understand yet why that would be a problem. And it wouldn't have amounted to data fakery except that said professor denied there was any issue whatsoever when I presented counterexamples to the model located by adversarial search and then proceeded to threaten me professionally, paraphrasing: "Your data could take me down, and if that happens, I'm taking you with me."

It's mostly behind me now, but I bring it up in this thread because I don't see how this new model of funding would have prevented this or a myriad of other issues with science funding.
May be due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
It's possible that in the near future we'll see Republic of China become Taiwan, officially.
I agree. Whatever happens this is great on so many levels. The antagonism between the owners just further heighten the symbolism.
Thank you!

> Vim's built-in file explorer already does everything NERDTree does so why did you decide to add a second file explorer? Maybe you should explain that to your readers, don't you think?

Chalk this one to personal preference but I really like NerdTree and find it easier to use.

> Vim doesn't do autocompletion to begin with so any kind of autocompletion is like steroids.

I was making reference to Omnicomplete

> Like with NERDTree, why Syntastic instead of the built-in ':help :make'?

Syntastic, again comes down to usability I love having the inline display of errors, have the syntax checks on file save and have the ability on languages like elixir to run 3 different tools automatically.

> Vim is not your IDE; it's the editor of your IDE.

Fair enough, but it doesn't make for a great title doesn't it ;P
When I want to transfer money, I don't want to talk to the bank VAI (voice AI interface) I want to talk to my personal AI and have that hook into the bank API.

I don't want to have to chat to 20 or 30 different 'voices' a day, some good, some bad, some that understand me, some with a tiny vocabulary.
As terrible as this sounds, this is a successful marketing strategy used for millennia. Countless luxury brands quietly do everything they can to prevent poor demographics from using their products.

For example a lot of high end clothing stores destroy extra inventory to prevent it being sold at lower prices and subsequently worn by the poor. I'm sure there's countless other examples that fly under the public radar.

I'm not defending this guy or this strategy, just trying to remind everyone that this is business as usual, and we should save some of the pitchforks for the Ubers and Enrons.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5130559.
Dark Castle! It was so great for the time.

https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2
That would make for an interesting A/B test.
I must say I found it a bit tacky to attach one's own sculpture to an existing public work of art. Not that one should never do it, but to me it's a bit like drawing a mustache on Mona Lisa - one could do it for fun, sure, but it's infinitely lower level of art than the original creation.

However, now that I know that this fearlessness symbol is actually part of corporate marketing campaign pushing some obscure (at least for the general public, and I don't care how many billions they manage) investment fund, this acquires so many deeper meanings that I actually start liking it a lot. The symbolism of it so rich, it's even better than selling Che T-shirts with slogans "Fight Capitalism" for $39.99. And much more prominent.

Ah, and yes, I completely agree that the meaning is in the eyes of beholder.
"I think the audio CDs are undervalued. They contain no dorky software -- they are lyrics + music + drawing, just art. Dorky art sure, but no software..."

Perhaps an occasional audio CD might be fun? No pressure. No need to worry about freeze date impact on the development process. I just bought the 'Sargent Pepper' (5.8) poster as it has the developers on it.
Cool idea! This seems to work oddly for high-DPI displays: the cursor is microscopic and doesn't seem to escape the viewport.