skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternate hypothesis: at least as of right now†, Web Workers still don't support thread-like behavior. If I wanted to program e.g. a game in C++ or Python, I'd be pulling in an engine and some libraries that all expect to have threads available. This code would not transpile.

You can write a native app in pretty much any language that can sit on top of the current web stack—but from the perspective of most programming languages, the result is very non-idiomatic code. Not only do you have to avoid consuming most of the library ecosystem of your language; you also have to code in the "Javascript style", with co-operatively scheduled async tasks running in a single execution-thread context (plus maybe some memory-isolated "secondary process"-like execution-threads you have to do message-passing IPC against) in order to make your native code "work" in a web browser after transpilation.

If we clear that hurdle, using arbitrary languages for the web will be a lot easier, and you'll see far more porting of native apps to the web.

† https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/pthre...
1.4 gigabytes per second or more for 4K flat video work at 4 color components at 16 bits at 25fps (PAL land) each raw for each channel on the timeline saturates system real quick. For online finishing systems that would be sweet. 8 TB would fill an average 90 minutes movie if you had a finishing timeline (no additional ones over it). With over 12TB I wouldn't know what to do anymore, as of this point in time.

Sure, you can build a RAID that fast already though.
Compressing Genomes for Fun and Profit
Not convinced GitLab is the solution, but I'm definitely convinced GitHub isn't.

Not as active in GNOME these days, so my vote is not really a vote... but I do have my own reservations about both "Git-Wrapped" solutions, especially if they start requiring pull requests.

Splinter/Bugzilla is definitely not a long-term code review solution though, so something really has to give there.
So float the housing market. People are willing to place huge bets on the local polities never, ever allowing housing prices to fall. If there were some risk the housing supply could ever increase enough to meet demand this behavior would instantly disappear. Market distortions attract speculators.
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/8gBS9/http://whatusersdo.com/bl...
> Instead they are the subject of prolonged acts of revenge.

Not always:

"Whistleblower awarded $1m in $40m Princess pollution case"

http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/whistlebl...
> Do you only use software that'll run on Windows 2000?

Mainstream support for Windows 2000 ended twelve years ago.

> So where are these shitty players that can't play Oggs? I've never had one.

Apple is selling a music player called "iPod" right now. Perhaps you've heard of it. Updated in 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch_(6th_generation)

Guess what iPods don't support? OGG.

Guess what iPods do support? MP3.
This is super interesting, thanks for the perspective!

> he can tear things down without fear of destroying somebody else's house of cards.

Isn't the challenge with this that the house of cards literally belongs to somebody else - the shareholders - now?
This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
All of my supposedly unsubstantiated posts have spawned productive conversations. That they tend to be short skeptical responses is simply my service to foil the groupthink that forms around the saccharine content marketing and growth-hacked-to-death affiliate-linked nonsense that we're all staring at to fill compilation lulls.

Sometimes something short and pithy is more impactful than a big long explainer with citations. Here's a clever little comic that helpfully explains my rationale:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

I'm not in it for the internet points. I'm in it to express points of view that people like to forget about on here.
FWIW: I've ordered 0.25 and 0.5 inch wood bits from onsrud, harvey, vortex, etc,and the bits are right to my ability to measure them.

(IE i can measure them to be within 0.0005 of correct size easily, and better than that better tools on the uncoated bits i have).

I'm not sure who you are ordering from.

(as for feed rate too high to use other geometries not sure what IPM you can drive that thing at. I would expect you could easily do 300-400ipm, which seems more than enough. I can get a very smooth finish from metalworking bits with no problem)
Why is it painted as a problem? Why should you spend more than you need? Why is "enjoying a retirement" supposed to only be achieved by spending more money?

I don't get the point of the article.
Optionality has value but it decays over time. If you forgo consumption in favor of savings up until the very end then you haven't been better off, you've been worse off. The dead can't benefit from spending money.
FTA, the value of the average retiree's estate is ~300k in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Using the 4% rule (make your money last 30 years), that's 12,000 a year, and that's probably skewed upward by the compounding of the super wealthy (20 richest people worth more than bottom 50%, 150 million people). The median is probably much, much lower (I'd wager 50k). That's living off of cat food in both cases, and if you're worried about social security or your pension... Did I miss something?
There are a lot of reasons why retirees could wind up spending less money aside form 'hoarding'. For one thing, retirees often have paid off their homes, and have no mortgage payments. In addition to that, having a daily job entails a lot of soft costs that often go unnoticed - without your daily commute, your car (and tank of gas) will last a lot longer, you won't eat out for lunch as often, and even your wardrobe will likely stretch further.

If my grandfather and father in law are any indication, the extra time around the house also mean that you can do a lot of work on your house yourself that you may have had to pay a plumber, carpenter, or electrician to do before.

Basically, a retired person can generally maintain their lifestyle on less money than a working person...
Red Delicious apples actually taste really good if you can find a ripe one. It's picking them before they are ripe that gives them the bad taste.

Same thing with mangoes you find in the store.
I think there are some areas where GitLab can improve their CI story, but I agree that having a One Stop Shop for that is actually very compelling.
And the Google Home still can't do reminders.

I really don't understand how Google is dropping the ball so bad here.
Will these be available for workstations in two or more configs? Also, what's the situation with AMD and Thunderbolt? Does that exist at all?
Very true; a former coworker grew up with a "housekeeper" in HK. She told us stories about how her dad slipped the housekeeper extra pay and Christmas bonuses because her mother refused to allow it. She said her mom would have been irate if she had found out. To her mother such people were disposable servants not worth consideration.

I really can't understand such a mentality.
It's about right for what you'd pay to get something machined :)
One way to frame this is "corporations want to suck that money away." Another way to frame it is "most participants in the economy are non-rich and would appreciate that money more, so it's unfortunate if it's sitting around making nobody happy and not adding much in the way of security to an already-wealthy person."
Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for.

Personal: My mom has CRPS and walking around causes a great increase in pain for her(painkillers, even morphine level have almost 0 effect), even being in a car can be very difficult for her, but a vehicle she is able to better position herself than in a wheelchair. She can't drive because of it, but an autonomous car would make it so she could potentially go places (or follow the grand children around at Halloween). Both my parents are in their 60s and 70s and are super excited about level 5 self-driving cars.

Random other example: Parent is on crutches from injury, insurance didn't cover wheelchair, or perhaps live in area with poor wheelchair accessibility(bad/no sidewalks). But crutches are too slow to keep up with the kids, they could easily just sit in a self driving car and keep up. But not having to focus on driving and hitting other kids night, can focus on watching their kids and hanging out the window to interact with them.
The benefit of leaving my heirs a legacy far outweighs any 'benefit' I'd get from spending money needlessly...
Not many people work directly in the Reichstag (almost all offices and meeting rooms are located in adjacent buildings by different architects) but maybe I can give some insight as I visited it often at my former job. It's the main building of the German federal parliament and a huge portion of the volume is just the plenary hall.

The new Reichstag is one of the nicest buildings I now. It was originally constructed in the 19th century, burned down (the fire was used by Hitler as an excuse to consolidate power) and was left unused for many decades. Foster essentially fitted a modern building into the old one, something which I never saw anywhere else done so successfully. You feel the importance and history of the building at every corner no matter how often you have been there. On the other hand, it is very functional with short ways (if you know which turn to take which is not that obvious for the first few times).

The building has rough edges here and there as a result of a too low public budget and a short-cut everybody uses goes through a service passage behind an uninviting door with naked walls and large visible pipes but that is all really minor (or rather part of the charm). Ten thousand members of the public visit the building daily and they are very present in many parts of the building without disturbing day-to-day work at all (as you usually don't cross their path while still seeing them – it's quite nicely done). The transparency just embodies the self-concept of the newly unified country.
too frugally

hmmm...spending habit established over decades is not an easy thing to change, no matter how much money one has. I am not convinced FEAR is a dominant factor. It could simply be that people think there is no need to spend much in order to have a decent life after retirement.
One way to avoid it is to stop when it's good enough, understanding it will never be perfect.

I've fallen in this trap more times than I dare to count.
> No one is owed anything except for equality of opportunity. Are we wishing for equality of outcome? On its face, I can't understand why that would ever make sense.

I hear this frequently, but it's sorta missing the point.

Nearly all people want equality of opportunity, and not outcome.

What people are concerned about is:

1) The bad outcomes don't need to be Kafkaesque or medieval (e.g. "too poor to be sick" doesn't need to be a thing).

2) If bad outcomes are becoming more and more frequent (as we see with e.g. wealth inequality becoming more pronounced), it's a smell that something systemically bad is happening. It's probably a sign that equality of opportunity is being reduced over time.

> Do I think we're fully at equality of opportunity yet? No. But I feel that's what we should be working on. That's what we should be protecting.

As I noted above, if outcomes are becoming more and more polarized over time, it's a likely sign that equality of opportunity is ceasing to exist.

Outcomes are the dependent variable we kinda have to use for measuring equality of opportunity, because we don't really have anything else to measure.
Were there any alternatives/dead ends you went through to arrive at this technique, or any extensions you wanted to do but didn't find the time? Really amazing work BTW, this might be my favorite demo ever!
If you look ahead to a future age, and consider the state of literature after the printing press, which never rests, has filled huge buildings with books, you will find again a twofold division of labor. Some will not do very much reading, but will instead devote themselves to investigations which will be new, or which they will believe to be new (for if we are even now ignorant of a part of what is contained in so many volumes published in all sorts of languages, they will know still less of what is contained in those same books, augmented as they will be by a hundred—a thousand—times as many more).

-- Denis Diderot, 1755

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2877
No it doesent make a sound. That requires something to convert it into that sound otherwise its just soundwaves.
It's worth noting that punishments for 'employing' unfree labour in the west are also often astonishingly small, when it's prosecuted at all. Despite there being a fair bit of it around few people end up in jail over it.
What about peace of mind & financial stability? Those don't decline over time...

(Also: Estate tax as a way to fund basic income?)
The money is being used productively in their various retirement investments. It's not like this is just cash under the bed.
Probably best not to code that in.
I always wonder if people would be interested in a small SAAS providing a terminal demonstration and sharing service with web and terminal client. Users could on one hand share step-by-step demos for common tasks on the terminal (say "Let's build $foobar on Ubuntu 16.04 optimized for the following infrastructure") similar to asciinema.org and on the other hand share there terminal read-only to demonstrate live-debugging or development operations.

Obviously this is already possible using a setup involving tmux and ssh (or pixel-screen sharing via Slack), but maybe a streamlined service that has both a powerful terminal and web-client would be an interesting addition to some documentation-heavy workflows or remote debugging sessions. There is also shellshare.net, which is also a nice little project.
besides the floating header that eats-up my precious vertical screen real-estate, the blog content seems great...

thanks for the link
Excuse me while I align my values with the needs of the US economy.
Thats hardly a generalisable argument in this context is it?
There is this proverb about exceptions and rules. The vast majority of whistleblowers are ostracized and will never work again in their industry, if at all.

That's a pretty high price to pay for just doing your bloody job and society should make sure they get rewarded properly for providing some necessary transparency and safety.

Given all that what should really surprise you is how much integrity these people have, they know that they'll be dealt with unjustly, that their lives and the lives of their dependents will probably be ruined and still they blow that whistle, loud and clear.

We need more of these people, and fewer 'team players'.
Diderot on Information Overload, and the Encyclopedia
That's how much they had left when they died - not what they had when they retired. So that's after the 20-30 years of living off those savings...
If you're familiar with Indian culture you can kind of tell the caste from the surname.
Seeing Spaces (2014)
Do you foresee medicare failing?

Also, what's stopping you from setting up your retirement such that you do have passive income?
I don't get why people use Slack app.

The whole Slack deal is to get away from desktop apps and run on the browser.

This opens up freedom to start Slacks where corp is blocking app installs (but not zealous enough to be blocking/MITM'ing network yet).
Maintenance and operating. It's not far off.
I am absolutely worse off if I run out of money before I die, whereas its only a minor inconvenience if I don't happen to spend down my estate to zero before death (in my case, it will flow to my wife and/or daughter).

EDIT: I will live frugally and drastically below my means forever (and I'm only 34!) while putting aside substantial savings; the fear of running out of funds in the last part of my life is terrifying. Seniors have every right to be fearful and hoard their cash.

Source/experience: Support my disabled mother who has zero assets and substantial medical expenses. If you're not afraid of saving enough for retirement and unexpected medical expenses, you should be.
>> Cities like NYC are almost designed to make it pointlessly expensive and complicated to bring freight in from the country to the store.

Didn't I just read an article on here last week about high quality cheap produce in NYC Chinatown?
I guess I'd say lowest common denominator. As in install in 5 minutes and writing code with no experience crowd :-)
What's your solution?
Use Freesist to find people that will help you get things done NO CHARGE. enjoy
Is this all gnome projects?

I submitted my first patch to Cairo a few weeks back and depressingly it was met with tumbleweed. I tried contacting people on irc but again, nothing.

In contrast I submitted my first patch to fontforge recently too (GitHub) - it was merged in a couple of hours.

Developer interaction matters and I know plenty of open source devs who have put in a lot of good work are going to hate me for saying this - but those old platforms you're using suck for fostering community contributions. (And I thought the code quality in Cairo was great - I bet if it was on GitHub there would be loads more activity)
> It seriously creates notifications for actions done by oneself. That makes absolutely no sense at all whatsoever.

Ironically I wish this feature existed on Github (does it???). To be more specific, I wish I could get emailed when I make comments on PRs. As crazy as it sounds, it is much easier for me to track whether the comments have been addressed in a list of emails instead of trying to dig through Github's comment interface after I've made many different comments.

Of course this wouldn't be necessary if that compact list just existed in Github already...
Does Screen Hero work natively in browsers or require some sort of plugin?

I think plugins is a major buzz-kill for most people (like me).
> Edward Bernays

Sigmund Freud's nephew, who used psychoanalysis to sell products. Freud hated Edward and Anna for going that route. They are the reason more women smoke and why Americas eat bacon for breakfast.

If you want to know more, watch The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis.
There are good people and bad people. There are monsters and humans even if monsters may have human shape and form.

There is good and there is evil.

One evil act does not absolve another.

Goodness lives forever and evil does not die either
>Do I think we're fully at equality of opportunity yet? No.

I think this would be the issue most people have with the increasing income gap. As long as billionaires can pay a lower tax percentage than the lower/middle-class, I think frustration and desire for change is valid.
My problem with this is how it's priced. Why am I paying for instance hours when I don't have/need instance access. I would have thought it'd be priced like Datastore per GB used and API calls made. As it sits right now, it's fairly expensive.
I've thought before that CRPGs are decent training for how to handle money (emotionally speaking).
No need to can it, you can freeze them in ziplock bags with no loss of flavor or texture. My family makes a whole year's worth at once, though of course you need spare freeze space.
Maybe there is need for a startup that can pool the retirement money from retirees and assure them of a comfortable life style till the time they die. I think this will allow the retirees to enjoy their life much more rather than worrying about "what might happen...".
"Due to high traffic volume, your car will arrive in 92 minutes. Would you like to upgrade to Premium Service?"
I'm pretty sure the parent poster was joking.
> I don't get all the hype they get especially on HN.

I believe it all started when they got a bad rap for doing unspeakable things like supporting minorities to get into the industry, plus one actually wrong decision by a customer service rep approving a complaint about some word in some repository that could be offensive, but clearly wasn't in the context.

Next followed about a month of constant griping about how awful github is, followed by many many features being released which had been in the pipeline all along.

Meanwhile, everybody on HN was trying to find an alternative. Since going back to Sourceforge would have demonstrated slightly-to-obviously that Github was among the best things that ever happened to OSS, the heavy-hitters moved all their projects to Gitlab, which was a third-rate clone of Github at the time, and may or may not have advanced to second-rate since.

Those two projects are, apparently, really enjoying GL.
Show HN: Project Glimpse from Microsoft – Full-Stack Node.js Web Diagnostics
The usual term is "blew the whistle". I've never heard "whistleblow" used as a verb.
Unexpected healthcare costs keep seniors nervous. Although Medicare and Medigap insurance plans offer good coverage, long term care and home health care is dauntingly expensive. Many rely on a mix of family + caregivers. Even then, the hourly/weekly/monthly costs are quite high.
It's a little too pat as "Democrats got what they deserved". It also ignores the shift of the political landscape toward the right and dismissing it as "whether it was politically expedient etc." is just flat out ignoring political history. It also ignores that there are net economic gains that could benefit everyone in society.

You don't get to look at economic history and ignore political history because it fits your narrative. It's not honest and is only done to score political argument points.

The problem isn't free trade itself, it's how the benefits should be distributed.
ThomPete,

Sure these aren't necessarily applicable to ALL people, but you asked "such as?" to "Um, there are reasons other than laziness."

I gave you at least 2 specifics such as. There are plenty of laziness reasons, but doesn't mean there aren't potential valid reasons besides laziness.

I also generalized the "Various forms of disabilities, injuries, other conditions that walking isn't great for." in the beginning. And there are literally tens of millions of Americans that have at least 1 disability (approximately 20 percent of the US population). And lots of other countries like Japan has an aging population which are likely to have various mobility issues. Not including injuries, or potentially other issues. So I would say that is fairly generalizable.
What if they were drones though? Would that be more palatable to the eyes?
That's likely true across past retired generations, too.
> where's the experiment that tests a prediction of this paper

I am nonplussed by this question. Did you even bother to read the first post I referred you to? Because that is all about a (thought) experiment.
Github should donate a license for Github Enterprise to gnome so that the gnome folks can have the best of both worlds - self hosted + github. Its a win for github to have a big project like gnome running on GHE.
Franck Kessie to Milan Is a Done Deal
> Many Virtualised workloads have many VMs with light CPU utilisation on each

Which is why every virtualization platform out there lets you oversubscribe CPUs. That's a solved problem, what's the benefit of having 100 VMs run on 32 slow cores vs 16 fast ones?
You're thinking of an annuity [1], or more directly, government bonds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuity_(American)
Hitting a moving target over 10,000 yards away from a moving platform using optical rangefinders and analogue fire control computers. It's a miracle they ever hit anything IMHO.
And that's OK because discussions tend to lean in different direction, very often, and before you know it you are talking about something completely different. If you are sticking to the topic and have something really important to add, don't worry, moderators won't get in the way.