skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not "just" limited tools and a need to train developers. A language having a small community results in a lack of library and collaboration; you end up dealing with tool vendors who barely manage to keep themselves afloat, let alone invest in development, with long unmaintained libraries, with months, sometimes years passing between when a new architecture or OS is available and when the compiler and the libraries you use get updated.

It's not too different from how things are in Common Lisp land, a language (and a land...) that I'm pretty familiar with. It's a great, probably the best language. There are a few success stories, but truth is, in 2017, most large-scale, non-hobby projects are failures.
EINE was the first Emacs written in Lisp. Actually Lisp Machine Lisp by the then young Dan Weinreb at the age of 17. Dan passed away way too early a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Weinreb
My guess is they're referring to the impact the porn industry has had on the direction of technology (e.g. VHS/Betamax). If this kind of tech finds success in porn it won't be long until you're sitting in a special seat to watch regular movies and experiencing the sensations of a character as he gets in a fight (or something like that).
> They seem like awfully indirect measurements of relevant skills and perspective

Well, maybe that's the thing: they aren't measurements of relevant skills or perspective. Instead, you might consider it a form of stratified sampling: trying to include sub-populations that may not be as well-represented so far but may supply valuable contributions.
Thanks for the reminder - I forgot to reup for christmas and seeing this got me back on the train.
Do you know of any discussion of rewriting parts of existing micro-kernels in Rust? There's lots of nuts and bolts details I don't know, but it seems like having OS components as separate services/processes would provide a nice way to start phasing out C/C++ and phasing in Rust.
Its like buying a Ferrari because its fast and cool and then filling it with diesel because that's what all your other delivery vehicles run on.
If he was a company providing a service this wouldn't even be a subject for discussion. It would be a non-issue. Also he's been pretty much instructed by the company not to rock the boat. It seems pretty clear they really don't care as long as the work gets done.

I've known plenty of sysadmins that have significantly automated most of their work and mainly just monitor and maintain, good for them. Nobody ever criticised them for this, in fact it's good practice. Finally he's not really being paid for hours worked. If it took him every hour of that time the first few months,but then he got better at it and later it took 30 hours instead of 40 nobody would care. In fact I'm sure the company fully expects something like that to happen, again they just don't care.

He should stop introducing errors though.
Are they? I thought parser combinators made parsing context sensitive grammars easier than when using parser generators.
TIL I have an odd obsession with swearing. I never knew. I swear a lot so I'm glad you mentioned that, as an American, I don't like swearing.

(All joking aside, perhaps trying to generalize 300+ million people is too coarse of an approach :)
What is considered ethical or unethical always depends on who you ask.

Ask most slave owners a few hundred years ago if it was ethical to whip slaves (or even own slaves, for that matter) and you'll get one answer, but quite a different answer from the slaves themselves.

You'll get different answers to this question whether you ask it of employers or employees, capitalists, socialists, or communists, people who feel exploited or the exploiters themselves, and so on.

I'm not sure how much one could make out of such a survey other than on controversial issues there are great differences of opinion.
I agree, for the most part, but what other reason or intent would you have in inserting deliberate errors than to be duplicitous or fraudulent? His best bet would have just been to let the script do its thing for as long as he could until he was asked about it. Chances are he never would have been asked and would have been commended for his accuracy. Now, though, he's totally on the hook for fraud if this ever comes out.
This is something other languages do as well. Lisp zealots seem to think every other language is banging rocks together. Lexical scoping/closures/whatever are traditions independent of language or implementation. Nobody but you is having trouble understanding the scope of the algol example.
No, it's not true. From their Terms of Use:

"Except as expressly stated herein and without limitation, you agree that you will not, nor will you permit or encourage any third party to, reproduce, publicly display, or otherwise make accessible on or through any other Web site, application, or service any reviews, ratings, and/or profile information about real estate, lending, or other professionals, underlying images of or information about real estate listings, or other data or content available through the Services."

So yes, McMansion Hell could be violating their terms of use.
Thought that was totally made up. Apparently it was coined in 1975 to describe remote sex where sensations are sent over a datalink.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
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I'll have to look into that.

I'm finding Beats + Logstash to be very convenient though.
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Businesses pay tax on income but natural persons do not.
It's fun. Chill out.
For me Keen 4 will always be the best one, it was the one I played the first :)
My comment was explaining that negotiation is a stand-in for knowledge and efficiency. The comment I was replying to implies that bosses should just know exactly how valuable a specific employee potentially is. It's impossible, which is why you have to stand up for yourself.
When you get to the bottom of this kind of thinking, there's always some form of a just world fallacy. Despite the fact that the wealthy engineer circumstances to keep the poor in their diminished condition for their own profit, it's never "unfair" because of this foundational error. See also programmers thinking they're "highly paid" despite years of collusion by tech giants to reduce their salaries and capital owners eroding what they do earn through rent-seeking real estate investments.
When the 90's dotcom boom first started to slow down, a friend of mine joked that we'd all end up working at porn sites if things didn't turn around. Fast forward almost a decade later to 2005, and I was working as a .NET engineer at the company that ran NakedSword.com* (as well as a few dozen other sites).

Now I make a proactive effort to track both my job security and the job market so I'll know when the optimal time is to go back into working in porn.

*NSFW. Duh.
The letter sent to Kate was a C&D, not a DMCA takedown.
Once, long ago, I did two weeks' worth of work for a multi-person team in about a day, thanks to a little sed/awk magic. The work would have gotten done a lot faster if I didn't have to deal with the completely shitty X-over-dialup remote access setup they forced me to use. The project manager was actually upset with me because now we couldn't bill the client for 80x5 hours worth of work or whatever it was. Needless to say, I quit that job the following week. It's one thing to have a little downtime now and then to recharge oneself. It's quite worse to be bored because there's nothing fun/interesting/useful to do.
I agree with you completely, but if I actually had a chance to talk to my 18-year old self, I'd tell him to put every penny he could spare into Apple ;-)
I would claim ANTLR is such a tool.
> My first big lucky break happened in 2009 when Georgetown University hired me as a philosophy professor on their campus in Qatar

Apparently going to high school, studying and passing the SAT, applying and being accepted into university, studying, passing, and graduating university is just luck.

Have we we reached peak luck yet? Is there nothing ever we can do to improve our circumstances and our lives?

This is like a new age of economic predestination, where everything has been predecided for you by God and there's nothing you can do. Calvinist and BI proponents apparently have a lot in common.
Plenty of couples enjoy watching porn together.
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For anyone that continued past the paywall, is it worth it?

I started this game back when I was in college but stopped at the paywall because I didn't have the money at the time. Forgot about it till just now! If this can teach more advanced vim concepts via gameplay then I'd probably be open to buying it now than I used to be.
I really do not see the logic in seeking input from those who did not sign the letter. The reason I signed was specifically to help show them that a very large number of infosec experts disagreed with the reporting (And I am sure that is the reason many others signed).
I'll take the VHS/Betamax era porn, with all its schlock and graininess, over the PornHub era any day, thank you very much. At least they seemed to have some semblance of a sense of humor about this stuff, in those days. They also -- this cannot be under-appreciated -- tended to show human bodies the way they actually were, by and large.
If you don't have at least some uncertainty and doubt about how Musk does things you aren't paying enough attention.

Innovation necessarily means uncertainty.

I know the Model X already launched, but it launched late, and at a slower production rate than expected. Musk himself acknowledged that if he had to do it over again he probably wouldn't.

My point is that innovation is expensive in time, money, and attention. Musk has learned to overcome some obstacles that traditional competitors had already overcome; but that comes with some Not Invented Here mindset.

P/E is a single number, that's true, but find me a traditional manufacturer anywhere, anytime that has been rewarded by the stock market for embracing innovation so much that they have a negative P/E.

Investors treat Tesla like a tech company in their valuation, not like an automaker. We'll see if that valuation method is more accurate.

Anyway, I'm continually amazed by what Musk has accomplished, but it's important to acknowledge the risks.
Well, it depends on the target: using a sledgehammer to crack a nut can leave you with more damage than results.
Management have incentives to do this, more staff means more prestige and usually more pay.
I assume that, as with mobile gaming, that there are a relatively small (compared to the total user base, much of which is F2P) number of “whales” that have very large, recurring spend that is driving the industry.

I could be wrong, though.
this seems thoughtful, but there are some absolutes that get in the way of this relativistic argument. one is that people who are really poor cant eat enough, and die sooner. to me, it is unfair that you would have a shorter life because you are not born into wealth.
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One reason is missing.
When Google has dominant market share, they use it to destroy the web and move to Google.

You may or may not like AMP (I don't) but they way it is implemented is to create a Google only parallel web, and as long as users are on Chrome they see that web only - and it becomes the standard.

They have suggested changes to what ads are acceptable and how they should be handled, and I don't trust them to set that standard either.

An example of this is the recent webassembly changes, where Google ceded to Mozilla's vision [1].
As they gain more of a monopoly with their platform, they will abuse that power more.

Keep FF around so that they can have a hand in what becomes standard on the web.

Also, as far as privacy, it is not stressed enough. Most people don't realize that all of your browsing on Chrome is sent to Google. What page, how long you visited, etc. I've read that Chrome has special handling of pages with Analytics installed. The privacy invasions of what should be called Google TrackingTool would make "browser toolbars" and viruses of past ages proud.

BTW, I have more than 600 tabs open now in FF [8GB ram] and it is browsing along fine. Now, I know that I am insane, but try just 60 tabs in Chrome and see all sorts of weird crashes.

[1] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/webassembly-mozilla-won....
I couldn't disagree more. As a society (and this goes from a community to a global scale) we should make it a priority to give everyone the resources to meet their maximum potential. I don't mean that we should give everyone a million dollars to invest of their own. What I mean is that we should ensure that everyone gets provided with a good education and food/water/shelter, etc.

The author specifically mentions the people making about $7 a day doing manual labor in Qatar, and that they were a lot shorter than he was primarily due to lack of nutrition. Do you believe that these people should only be able to aspire to making $14 a day? Maybe not all of these individuals are hard workers (by nature. I'm sure they are essentially forced to be hard workers to survive) or smart, but a lot probably are, and it's because of an unfair system that didn't give them access to food and education that they have to work in Qatar to make a living.

You may see this is simple economics, but I see this as a modern form of slavery: keep people poor, underfed, and uneducated so that they will always be a cheap source of grunt labor.
> I learned something that day, though I'm not sure what.

Get paid for your output, and not your time?
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I think there's a difference between "fast" and operations that take a while. Apps that do slow things should still be fast, even if fast just means "fast to pop up a progress meter".

Also, I ditched TurboTax for TaxACT in part because it was a much less ponderous experience. Anecdotes aren't data and all that, but I doubt TurboTax is super sophisticated about measuring their in app funnel.
for the record I'm speaking of a "Real" multiplier (taking in account inflation / standard of living) . IMO if every generation is 2x-ing their parent's lifestyle, its nearly instantaneous wealth in the scale of humanity.

In the developed world today's poor live like kings of old. In 1000 yrs I would imagine that their poor will live better than our wealthy "Playboys" of today. I see nothing wrong with people being in different places, so long as they have the ability to better their circumstances.

The ability (and actuality) of improving circumstances is more or less happiness, happy lives are definitionally worth living.
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CP system is about not working when it is not available, otherwise you have no consistency at all and it is in fact very important to consider the whole system, not only the database part. Eventual consistency lets you fetch and store a tiny view of the database in the client and allows the user to work completely within the local storage, synchronizing with the global storage only when the internet connection is available. Which enables fast and always available user experience.
The core of the article is luck into making way more money than you need. Use spare luck to find a honest someone that knows what to do with that money. Retire.

That's not really what personal finance are about. Unless Vegas Holiday Brochure count as Personal Finance: go to a casino, win big, retire.
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Nice article! Had a good time reading it.
I take it you're single. Factor in the requirements of mortgage and supporting a family then consider whether you have the option of only doing what you love. I'd love to programme exclusively in Clojure but the job market dictates otherwise. Python's the most likely and at least it's not PHP or Java but that's as good as it'll get for steady money.
Which is exactly the issue I mentioned.

You get on some distros by default something that that makes you subject to DNS amplification attacks.
I'd rather drink after I'm done with work at a happy hour than drink during lunch and have to work the rest of day.

From a job performance perspective the happy hour seems better anyways.
Hey, South Bend made an article on the internet and it wasn't even about our mayor!

Rental income here is a bit weird because you have in general a very poor town, with a very expensive private university with old money funding houses for students. I bought my house here for a fair bit less than it would cost to rent something half the size.
> in general, faster operations leads to a better user experience

That's just too general of a statement. That's like saying a landing page with a hero image is, generally, a better page. It's a good place to start, but it's just bad advice in the long-term.

I agree that response times from the backend should be fast, especially the initial response (as the article mentions). But anything on the frontend experience should be judged on a case-by-case basis.
I wasn't talking about porn, per se.
Effort is irrelevant though, if they spend their effort on something that could never succeed or is useless or irrelevant to the market then their effort should obviously fail and it is not unfair. So it matters a lot what they choose to apply effort to. Generally life is an IQ test and rewards those who make optimal choices WRT events in their life.
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The postal service is not taxpayer funded!

Yes, they are indicated in the Constitution, and they must service each and every little town, and they must go to Congress to gain approval for rate increases, but they are not supported by any tax revenue.

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/top-10-things...
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Entrepreneurs have incentive to ensure everyone meets their maximum potential because this is the place where there is the most to extract.

If my value is $10 per day and someone makes my value $20 per day, there is $10 per day worth of value for us to negotiate over. We _both_ have an incentive to maximize my potential.

Also:
>we should ...

thats a morality statement but without a canonical source of ethics that some do not ascribe to. But, I would assume that "self interest" is more or less universal, and thus we can build systems that use self interest to ensure good outcomes for all.
Ignoring the logical fallacies the author makes, one thing jumped out at me. He's not buying the average home in South Bend. If he's only paying $180/year in property tax, the assessed value of his average home is around $9K. A quick look at Google shows the median price (from Zillow, so a grain of salt is recommended) of $65K. If he and his brother are buying up $9K homes, his average mortgage is under $50/month. I'm sure that he's doing the socially responsible job of only charging his tenants just a little over his full costs...
Fair point, I agree that extrapolation could be important here. If the effects of the $13 minimum wage are considered positive in Seattle, that would be good for the Portland government to know.

I guess my issue with your first comment is that it seemed like it was trying to consider minimum wage increases as generally good or bad, which I disagree with. I think it's much more nuanced than that, and it sounds like you agree.

The question I now read your first comment as asking is, "Why have studies shown this minimum wage increase as more harmful than other minimum wage increases? Of course, the answer is just that the elasticity of demand for low-wage labor in this case appear greater than in other cases.

The question is: what does the labor elasticity graph look like? And that's what these studies are really trying to figure out.
This is interesting and lines up with the time zone offset on my last rant a couple of years back. Peak in upvotes UK afternoon followed by downvote pummelling at around 4pm UK time. Without wishing to don the tinfoil hat too much, actively squashing critical discussion on your product is a dick move if it's true.

This has got so bad on some parts of reddit they removed the voting buttons.
You cannot mention efforts to teach programming to school-age children without talking about the work of Seymour Papert:

https://www.media.mit.edu/events/papert/

A few comments have already mentioned Logo, which came out of Papert's work.
(Unmediated) Human personal perception has always been CP. But then we humans are akin to mobile agents that visit co-local (thus non-partitionable) data spaces and perceive a coherent 'classical' (as in Physics) world that is equally available.

But AP is (by necessity) baked into the story of collective human perception. Collectively, we are more akin to static clusters that communicate information about data spaces.

("Your full deposite will be available to you the following business day. Your book balance is x. Your available balance is y < x." Dealing with AP is a day to day common experience as old as organized hills.)

I think the root of the surprising fact that programmers find it difficult to reason about AP data spaces (given the fact that that is how we humans achieve 'civilization' and 'culture') is due to the personal perspective nature of iterative programming. We see this again when we consider the quite related issue of correct understanding of memory models.
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Yep, I remember that level. My sister and I called it the Pepsi Maze, because of its maze-like layout and the fact there were Pepsis everywhere.

I believe this is the secret level: https://www.commander-keen.com/level-maps-1.php

We called it the Teddy Bear Maze, for its higher occurrence of teddy bears than other levels. Though looking at the layout now, I don't think it quite deserves the 'maze' designation as much as the Pepsi Maze does. But all those teddy bears...you could rack up a few extra lives if you managed to snag them all.

Looking at the levels, this one raises my curiosity: https://www.commander-keen.com/levelmaps/1/015.gif Note that there is a yellow keycard, but not a yellow door. I'm thinking either the level was never quite completed, or whoever took the screenshots to make these images took one after opening the yellow door. Reflecting on it now, I think perhaps the latter was the case, though I don't remember where the yellow door was. Either by one of the robots, or right before the drop out of the colored area.
You're right that ethical axioms are subjective. But most arguments tend to center around the application of those axioms . I often find that people are in complete agreement in their axioms, but come to different conclusions in real world scenarios - due to flaws in their reasoning or refusal to consistently apply their own reasoning for personal reasons (I know this is wrong, but I really want to do it).
A few years ago Tom Hall almost accomplished to release the source code of 4-6 online, i still can't believe we lost it on the final step. So close yet so far :(

I've created a twitter account just to ask Tom about the progress.

I still have hopes of seeing commander keen released as software libre.

Here's the discussion on twitter
https://twitter.com/0samueloph/status/668911938844401664
Saying "but the lawyers made me do it" doesn't get you a lot of sympathy.