skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the argument manyoso is setting up here is based on sophistry around the concept of "physical laws". His stance is most likely that quantum woo is part of the physical laws, in the same way a fundamentalist religious person would assert that the content of a holy book is part of the physical laws.

What I - and I hope most people - mean by the phrase is different though, it's the body of actual physical laws that have been shown scientifically.

> I'm not sure what his position is on computers that incorporate quantum magic though.

Interesting thought experiment. I suspect he would be fine with those in theory, however since he already declared this special connection to the supernatural for humans it'd be interesting what computer components he would consider equivalent. But the beauty of his position is that, in the event of a generally intelligent computer emerging, he could always claim that any given nanoscale computing component is the silicon analogue of "quantum microtubules" (which was his woo-related organelle of choice in neurons). It's not like he ever has to prove his claims in order to be taken seriously.
FWIW, I haven't thought too much about the case of the preprocessor, but this series of blog posts might help:

http://trevorjim.com/how-to-prove-that-a-programming-languag...

My initial thoughts are that the property of being context-free only refers to a parser, not to the lexer. A lexer can be line-oriented, as mentioned.

The blog post mentions the lexer issue. The definition of a context-free language is fuzzy because you could have an infinitely powerful lexer, but he gives a precise definition.
He was like essential hip college freshman reading, which often comes with being hated for being popular, weird, abstract, etc. I havn't actually read the book, but I've certainly heard about it.
Tell Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Apple, Samsung, HP, Dell, GM, Volvo, Ford, VW, in fact any company that makes things. What a little stick in a wasps nest!
Niantic initially developed Pokemon Go as a lighter version of Ingress. Except that game wasn't much fun, either.

It's as if they only had a very vague concept of what it was actually like to play a single-player Pokemon game on a handheld.

BUG CATCHER wants to BATTLE!

You catch wild pokemon by walking through the tall grass, and you make yours stronger by training them against wild pokemon and other trainers. Other trainers can test your mettle by challenging you to a battle that you cannot refuse.

At launch, the only way your kids could fight with their pokemon is if you all pile into the car and drive to a nigh-random location too far away to reach on foot and fail to displace the otaku-whale that managed to put a level 500 Vaporeon on the gym with the Rattattas, Pidgeys, and Weedles that are the only things to show up in your neighborhood.

The game still needed to be both fun and playable entirely within the bounds of a single neighborhood, and it just wasn't.
It is not just a proposal. In fact the two most common bittorrent implementations, uTorrent and libtorrent, added support for it for a few years ago. The proposal was adopted as BEP 44 which you can find at http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html .
Something I've searched for but not found a layperson introduction to: any idea why that doesn't apply to real estate? Deed restrictions that purport to put conditions on how property can be resold have repeatedly been upheld, except for a really narrow, somewhat recent carve-out for no-selling-to-black-people deed restrictions, which were held unenforceable, but specifically because they were racially discriminatory [1], not because of any general principle that covenants can't restrict alienation of property.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer
TruffleRuby looks really promising for those who like Ruby but would also like better performance.

Whats the easiest way to install it these days ?

Last time I thought of installing it, it required signing up for an account on the Oracle website simply to be allowed to download it, at which point I abandoned my attempt.
Android co-creator Andy Rubin launches Essential smartphone with modular add-ons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945552
Usually I throw a first-person pronoun in there to make it clearer.
The Kenya system is very centralized - there's one big player. It's not hard to make that work. The question is whether the central operator does a good job. Remember PayPal's customer service problem.

The Kenya system is expensive to use. Wikipedia says that fees take up 27% of the funds transferred. That's huge. Almost as high as the Apple Store. Most transactions are tiny, and the fees add up. This is far more expensive than credit cards.

The author discusses a W3C scheme where money transfer services become "dumb money pipes", with the browser in charge. The money transfer services lose the relationship with the customer; all they do is transfer the money in the background. This is a good idea which will be hated by money transfer services.
I failed a group member over this. They did put a small amount of effort in, but the problem was that the parts of the project they agreed to take on ended up having to be done or re-done at the last minute. If we had just known he was going to do nothing, we at least could have planned for it. In the end, putting in that small amount of effort actually hurt more than putting in none at all.
If there's a fad, it's a small one. My sense is that people have been more critical than they were immediately after his death, but that's not really hating, just retrospection.
IMHO it's because, once you decide to go open source, you're creating with the intention that this is a "for the community" type of product, not a "for profit." It's like a non-profit company with unpaid volunteers. There's a cause that many people believe in and anyone can help work towards that cause to make it a reality.
Have you seen this?: https://github.com/nodejs/node-inspect
I used to think the same about being "good enough", but unfortunately my nexus 5x still struggles to give me a day of battery life, despite the fact that I only check e-mail and chat on it.

It's slowness is a little annoying, but definitely good enough.
"So far ad revenue has helped to cover costs and to justify the time I spend on keeping the site and data up to date. That's been fine and dandy, but wouldn't it be great if you could help support the site and have an ad-free experience at the same time? This is where the Patreon comes in!"

I'm fine with seeing a couple banner ads, instead.
I think the easiest way so far is still the Oracle website:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oracle-labs/program-langua...

It has release 0.23 from a few days ago.

I think the home-brew recipe is not so recent (but may be wrong here).
When you open source a project you don't always want to monetize that project but it fits in your plan to make money. For example big companies release open source projects so the community get expertise in their tools which means it will be cheaper to hire people with that expertise and it becomes easier to move the community to use your other paid tools. Another example to open source a project it is because it is not a key thing in your product and you can have people to use it at the same time they help you to maintain it. You can open source your pet projects so they gave visibility to you and makes easier to find a job.

Monetize it is not always the goal.
It's the verb/adjective sense, as in "I ran a marathon and am exhausted." rather than the noun sense, as in "The car's exhaust was unpleasant to breathe." In the sense used, "exhaust" means "to use up" or "to reach the limit" (in that you can go no further). The patent holder's patent rights are exhausted at sale, or the patent holder exhausts their patent rights at sale.
True I am inclined more towards entrepreneurial methodologies, in fact bootstrapping a small startup. thanks for your insight. I like the way you played the question "why MBA".
Yep, this is easily the best way to deal with people who are committed to messing with an online community.. Make them think they're still having an impact when they're not..

I believe HN does something similar but I ran a small forum back in the early 2000s and we could flag one or more people into groups where their posts were only visible to each other, but not to anyone else.

Since the site was invite-only, there was no anonymous access so they had no practical way of finding this out on their own.

Eventually they got bored of "being ignored" and left on their own..
Not quite. The court determined that sale exhausts their ability to sue under patent law. They explicitly left open the possibility that they could sue (and prevail) under contract law. (The problem with suing under contract law is that they would have to sue the original purchaser, which presents significant logistical challenges.)
I lived for those "a-ha" moments too. I remember when the theory of computation clicked and the rush of understanding that washed over me that put everything I'd done in that class in perspective. It was probably the best feeling I ever had in my academic career.
LinkedIn acquires Heighten
I think you'd then have to enter some kind of a lease agreement, which would be a big turn-off for customers that would like to just buy a replacement cartridge without signing a contract.
Intellectual curiosity doesn't only mean studying great work or deep problems. It's closely allied with a playful spirit that likes to do things just because. That playful spirit is vulnerable to being dismissed as unserious, so it needs protecting. We protect it here.

Of course opinions will always differ about any given submission, but that's the general approach.
I think it's that A: you have to have a huge open source project for the 1% of the 1% of your audience who will actually pay in any useful quantity to be big enough to support you and B: by the time you've grown to that size, you must have found some way to become that large without the direct monetization, so you may not feel much of a need.
a lot of high profile open source developers/projects are sponsored by commercial entities (redhat, intel, google, facebook, etc.), thereby eliminating the need for direct revenue generation by the contributors and maintainers.
The NES Classic has a CRT filter to make games look properly old school (2016)
I just can't see myself coding for next 20 years whilst everyone else around me making millions just with getting C-type roles. I love technology!
Because most of the time you can't monetize it enough to be able to escape your day job.

So at the end of the day, it's just beer money, and just creates more headaches (legal, taxes etc.)
ARM isn't close to competitive, unfortunately.
How about "Docker has evolved to packaging applications"? This is where things are today, with official support by Docker for non-Linux systems, and official support by non-Linux systems for Dockerised apps.
If you think the programming tools are the hard point, I have a proof assistant and program extractor to show you.
> If the only reason to buy a token is because you expect to sell it later at a greater price, then this is known as a pyramid scheme, not investment.

I don't agree with this. Would you classify Google stock a pyramid scheme? You get zero dividend, zero voting rights, etc. etc. The only utility of owning a Google share is to sell it later when it's worth more. An important difference is that Google generates value to back its increasing stock price, whereas pyramid schemes do not.
I want to believe that this Android devices will have the support they deserve and not stop updating them once the sales season ends. And probably see an alternative to Google services in the long term.
I wouldn't recommend reading it on Kindle unless they made it easier. 2 bookmarks and a physical copy is the way to go.
The thing I dont understand is the exceptionalism and lack of understanding research. You'd think that an investor would want to choose the path that increases their odds of success.

To me this looks like:

1. Sleeping hours seems to be genetic, telling an 8 hour sleeper to just sleep 6 is going to undermine chances

2. People's productivity seems to drop after about 40 hours per week, especially if sustained long term. Outliers exist, but coercing a non-outlier to try and act like one leads to a reduction in total productivity, not an increase.

3. If investors really want people who are outliers they should find a way to test/verify they're working with outliers. Burning out the leader of a company they've invested in is counterproductive, it will just lead to the loss of their investment. Once the company is funded the investor should do what they can to make that specific person do their optimal path, which may include sleeping 12 hours a night.
Restrictions and covenants and so on are very common, but actual restraints on alienation or sale itself aren't so much, at least not enforceable ones; they're heavily disfavored in the realm of real estate as well.
It's the competition. Free as in Free and free as in free are better than free as in FREE TRIAL ACCOUNT.
Interesting that even with importation fees, it was cheaper for Costco to import watches.
Unfortunately the reality of trying to monetize open source projects is that Red Hat will just eat your lunch if its any sort of real significant business.
John Carmack Receives Honorary Degree
If you want to learn about a really interesting aspect of the "first sale doctrine" and how it applies to software, you should have a look at "Vernor vs Autodesk" in the USA and compare it to "Oracle vs UsedSoft" in the EU. Basically, in the USA the courts determined that if a company sells you software, but in their terms & conditions claim that they are merely granting you a license, then you can't resell the software b/c you aren't considered to own it. In the EU however, if a company sells you a permanent life-time license in exchange for a one-time fee, the courts determined that you aren't merely licensing that software, you own it and you are allowed to resell it.

I think these different rulings haven't been fully appreciated yet. For example, if you buy Apple's Final Cut X for $299, you should be allowed to resell that software if you live in the EU, but there is currently no way to transfer licenses between users, preventing users from reselling it. It seems to me that by preventing users from reselling their software, Apple (and the Google Play Store) are probably violating EU law on this matter.
One barrier is that it's no fun to set up and keep going, so unless there's a pressing need, it won't get done.
I'm kind of confused about the difference between TruffleRuby and JRuby. Are they... using different VMs? If anyone can point to a blog post explaining the difference, that'd be helpful. I'm mainly a Ruby dev and know little about the JVM or GraalVM.

Aaaaalso, how does this compare to Eclipse Ruby+OMR?

https://github.com/rubyomr-preview/ruby
>Jokes aside, if you don't know who he is you probably don't need a smartphone.

Wow, how incredibly dismissive and insulting. There's estimated to be something like 2 billion smartphone users globally. Sorry that some of us aren't as cool/hip/in touch as you to know the name of one (admittedly important) person involved in their development.
People tend to think "what could have been" based on expectations and trademarks behind a product.

If they pulled some real social-interacting game, pokemon-like, at the scale they currently have...
Not particularly a fan, that analogy is solid. To me, a pig in lipstick seems somewhat more disturbing than one without.
I second this, the posts usually detail how each person acquired their customers.
Do you have any numbers to support your premise? "Few" is relative and in the eye of the beholder, and I personally don't have the impression that only few projects 'monetize'. There are a lot of commercial open source projects, I find out about a new one almost every day. However, you may be right if what you want to say is that only a small percentage of the total number of open source projects monetize. The same probably holds for proprietary software, too, most of it is in-house or developed by hobbyists and only few proprietary software projects successfully 'monetize'. And let's also not forget that the vast majority of all projects, be they open source or not, are probably abandoned/given up.
> Plywood still comes in 5/8" and 3/4"

You might see it signed as 5/8 and 3/4 but usually it's 15mm and 19mm.
Semi-off-topic: I've noticed that Coke's writings are a bit more similar to "modern English" than other things I've read written in the 1600s. This surprised me, because he was a judge and probably wrote in formal language for the time. Formal language, to me, seems perpetually set back to the way people talked about 60-100 years previously. Thus you'd expect Coke to sound like he's writing in the 1500s, but instead he sounds like an 1800s writer.

Perhaps I've caught a time-traveler? If so, to Coke: I'm having some friends over for dinner tonight, and you're welcome... email's in my profile if you need directions ;)
Intel Shows Optane SSD Publicly for the First Time
I really do not understand how so many people manage to fool almost everyone for so long.

To me, it's quite simple. Lack of teaching the fundamentals of programming. CS programs want to teach object orientation in first year CS. How can you understand object orientation and complex data structures until you've learned what a pointer or structure is (C code, yeah)? How can you understand a pointer unless you have a basic understanding of the machine, and in particular, how simple variables are stored in memory.

This is the boring stuff for professors and administrators of a CS program, but an absolute if you want to produce quality CS graduates.

Otherwise good students get lost in their first year of CS, which is the real shame here, given the shortage of CS talent. I advocate for better teaching of fundamentals, preceding more complex topics in computer science. Without it, we will continue to see CS grads fall down in the work force.
Great article.

This aside is counterintuitive and interesting:

> Smeed...collected statistics...under an enormous range of conditions, the number of deaths in a country per year is given by a simple formula: number of deaths equals .0003 times the two-thirds power of the number of people times the one-third power of the number of cars. This formula is known as Smeed’s Law. He published it in 1949, and it is still valid 57 years later. It is, of course, not exact, but it holds within a factor of two for almost all countries at almost all times. It is remarkable that the number of deaths does not depend strongly on the size of the country, the quality of the roads, the rules and regulations governing traffic, or the safety equipment installed in cars
After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like EdX Still Matter?
Moreover, many critical projects are already done by FSF or Apache Foundation, which are non-profit. Other by RedHat, IBM, Google or Oracle, which already monetize them.

Some were done in a "scratch an itch" fashion and author is not interested in maintenance.

Some are research work where a given university (and not the author) would have to draft a contract for anything monetary.
I think you're misinterpreting that sentence. He's not saying all mobiles were dumbphones right before iPhone. Rather, "a decade ago — before <a well known event that happened _after_ smartphones existed> — all our mobiles were dumbphones."
As someone trying to build a portfolio such as yours, could you recommend me something fun to build? :)
Bonnie Kalanick dies in boating accident
This is why computer security industry exists.
Clever Ways to Keep Cool This Summer
Server room with seismic isolation floor in Japan earthquake disaster [video]
This becomes a big problem for smart casting, e.g. if (foo.bar is Baz). If truly immutable vals were allowed, bar could have its type assumed.
As an example, being "technically correct" is important for building a design to match a specification or for winning a logical argument.

But it is not an important skill for persuading people, or for cheering people up.
It's also the first youtube result when you search WebAssembly ;)
The most interesting one from the failed business perspective is Blender, commercial project turned open-source via a bounty.
Google Abandons the Nik Collection – Won’t Develop It Beyond CC 2015
Sachin Kulkarni Describes the Architecture Behind Facebook Live
I can't believe that the printer market has not been disrupted by someone offering a decent printer without ridiculous ongoing printer cartridge costs.

I just bought a £99 printer that will cost more than £99 in printer cartridge costs after just a few months of casual use and I did not spot any alternatives.
I would think that Upstart will evolve into a marketplace type of business where the onus is on the business (buyer) to do their due diligence before shelling out money to a newsletter (seller) in the hope of increasing their reach.

Of course if the feature of showing metrics (subscribers, open rates etc) proves to be popular enough they might consider ways to rank newsletters using metrics that are publicly verifiable or internal metrics from running Upstart after several months (that cannot be easily be gamed).

Hopefully @pixelfeeder will respond.
I work for a company that provides automated voice calls that use real voices. You'd be surprised how often people think it's a real person even though the voice is not responding to them or speaking conversationally.

I think that's the fundamental problem here. It doesn't matter if it's a real voice or not. It's about the content of what's being said.
who fucking cares? does anyone still play this?
All they really need to do is make cartridges rentals instead of sales, no?
In that case, they should brag about it: "I never finished any programming assignments, because I managed to make other people do it for me."
I think a lot of it is a mostly failed competitive aspect - they wanted to make it so players had to compete, which makes the game more exciting, but also motivates cheaters and prevents those with limited play time from really succeeding.

Not sure what the alternative would be though, a single player version would have been incredibly boring. Maybe some sort of co-op based multiplayer instead could be done, but I'm not sure what that would look like.
Cost Allocation and Deep AWS Cost Analysis for EBS Snapshots Made Easy- Botmetric
I'm a little surprised that Ginsburg dissented here, and also dissented from Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley: naively, she's "liberal", and (at least in my bubble) being "liberal" is associated with wanting less strong IP protection.

But I see also that she wrote the majority opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft, saying that the 28-year extension to copyright terms was constitutional.

What's the right way to understand her legal thinking here?
Is she known as an IP maximalist? Or are there other principles she's using to reach these conclusions? (I don't completely follow her logic that, because US patent law doesn't provide any protection in other countries, US patent rights are preserved across a sale in some other country.)
How to Know Your Value a Freelancer
This must be a very tough time for Travis Kalanick. The death of a parent is one of the most stressful experiences you can go through in your life. How have other founders dealt with such tragedies while running their companies (esp. one which is in crisis, like Uber)?