skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think that employees stick around because the CEO/leadership says "we've got this new direction we are super excited about" and they would bail if they got "nothing... has created a viable business"? That is, are the employees who stick around happy to stick their heads in the sand as long as the leadership throws out the "we're excited" bone?

I would prefer the honesty about the hail mary and I would think most HN readers would feel the same, but I wonder if that's the norm and CEOs/leaders just can't/won't (shouldn't?) admit the reality regardless of how obvious that reality is.

EDIT: I should also say that I'd likely go to the mat for the person who's honest about the hail mary.
> The obvious shenanagans that are ramping up here will eventually lead to a massive consumer backlash and a regulatory hammer coming down

Not if ISPs maintain their monopolies, and convince government that they don't have the funds to improve service if they can't keep their "freedom" to dick over consumers by charging more for the same stuff.

Sure, there would be backlash, but as long as these regional broadband monopolies persist, it's quite difficult for the people and government to negotiate with companies.

As hard as it seems to fight today, we are in a much better position now to prevent these monopolies from gaining more power than we will be if Title II is repealed.
I have to press my disagreement.

Claim drafting is a specific broadening process - overly broad claims (I'm coming primarily from a UK perspective [ex-professional]; I can't cite chapter and verse of EU/US but consider myself a well informed layman in those areas). Yes claims must be supported by the description (UKPA S.14, EPC Art.84, no idea for USC) and not cover a plurality of inventions but multiple independent claims specifically cover a multitude of implementations of the same invention.

The claims shouldn't cover multiple inventive concepts (called "plurality" in UK terms), as you intimate, but covering multiple _implementations_ of a single inventive concept is kinda the whole point. An example being drug patents [not my former area] where the functional chemical groups will be claimed when paired with many other standard chemical forms. Another example would be for an allowed compression algorithm that could be implemented in silicon as part of a co-processor, or which could be implemented purely in software [to gain a real technical contribution in the inventive part of course].

FWIW your cited case (discussion here is useful https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/13-298; I only get an abstract at your link; cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...) concerns a different issue entirely, that of claims being made to a financial concept rather than an invention per se, basically the contention upheld is that the claims were to a financial fact that falls within excluded subject matter. It's nothing to do with breadth or multiplicity of implementation.
Insync is a Google Drive client that has been "providing first class Linux support in any professional, commercial grade application" for years. Also, what do desktop environments have to do with Google Drive clients?
> The better question might be why so many companies continue to put cost-inducing barriers like signup in their flow before they fully demonstrate the value-creating potential of their product.

Because it works. If it didn't work, companies wouldn't be doing it.
Yes yes, but...

The President can make the call to launch and everyone in the room can ignore him, arrest him, tape his mouth shut.

Or just shoot him.

Edit: fixed a word
I think Facebook does that now with live videos.
Agreed. Anecdotal, but I was in a "band" in high-school. We recorded our music and that music was and is solely hosted on soundcloud. I like to go back and listen to it occasionally as a part of my life that's fun to kind of laugh about, but also appreciate the good memories I have of it. It's both sad and strange to see that part of my life is fading from the world already.
How do the current Democratic districting plans fare in terms of the efficiency gap? Can't tell by that graphic, and if the gerrymandered Democratic plans at the top are historical then do you see how Kennedy's conservative leanings would be relevant?
Disney, instead of using fancy "wait in line" tech just stop shoving so many people into the park. Problem solved.
Unfortunately that requires mass standardization (adopting the spec), which is probably unlikely given that no one standardizes on the registration form to begin with.
you're stupid.
It makes for good drama. Like House of Cards. Or Fallout. We enjoy thinking our way through doomsday scenarios.
Creating a new module or UDF requires exporting new special symbols for V1 calling convention.

Rust's hygenic macros don't let you do that. So defining a UDF has a bunch of boilerplate, unless I am missing something.

Procedural macros should alleviate this, but it will be a while. I might just release and document the boilerplate needed.

EDIT: Yes, I am trying to be mostly safe. I will see how close I can get for at least the basic stuff.
That's because a middle layer emerged on top, the game engine.
Thumbs up/down might not be the best for training a recommendation engine, but as someone who just switched his product's rating system from 1-5 to simple up/down, let me tell you: people have no idea how to use a star rating system. I would get people raving but leave a 1 star review, some people would leave a 5 star review and say bad things, some would leave a 1 star review but seem pretty neutral in their review.

A person is smart. People in general are dumb.
I always wondered why Disney doesn't open a third park somewhere square in the middle of the U.S. There's literally no competition with Disney parks as they're one-of-a-kind and it would both open more space at their other parks and bring in a huge segment of the population that doesn't go to their parks simply because of travel costs. Disneyland and Disney World are always busy. Look at the data. It might be time.
Battleforthenet Widget
I'm running one right now with 64G of DDR4 ECC.

Not low power though, 1.3v each 32G DIMM.
That’s another one of these half-assed solutions that the world has too many of, just like credit cards or using SSN as auth.

No.

We’ve solved all these issues before, OpenID was a good solution, and OpenID Connect – a complete rewrite – can be used to replace it, and is used already for Google and Facebook login.

Just use OIDC, on every page, and allow users to choose an identity provider. Problem solved.
Some of the most amusing things I saw while I was in academia were "proofs" of various things sent in from random people. I admired their desire to contribute even while I marveled at how "not even wrong" they were.
Less code can also be the consequence of having less superfluous features.
Clickbait-title but actually great content. Never seen this before.
The US government probably would fight such a thing too. They already fight municipal broadband.
I'm skeptical this wouldn't end up being like Mark's plan to give free "internet" access to India, where "the internet" is selected websites.

Anyway I kind of doubt Musk's plan comes to fruition before more threats to Net Neutrality come up. Right now we need to address it at a policy level. New ways of accessing internet won't prevent people from trying to monopolize and control it.
> Getters

> Scala generates public getters for all public member

God what a sad, sorry existence you must live to be writing about "getters" in 2017. Java programmers and their descendants are the true Luddites of the programming world.
Please, what are the results? There's too much useless text behind that clickbait headline.
population density maybe? for both customers and ensuring a steady supply of workers.
Re-writing a story and translation are different things entirely.

If I describe at an abstracted level the working of a C++ program to you and you implement it in Java then you have not copied the work, nor even created a derivative, ergo clean-room implementation being a thing.
Very nice to see this conversation ...
The list is nice and reasonably comprehensive ... it may seem long but it is not as daunting as it looks ... would like to think it is a guidance ... knowing the material does not mean one would become a good theoretical physicist, not knowing all of them does not mean one cannot become a good physicist. Since physics is an experimental science, it makes sense to know in a bit of detail how the observed facts are connected to gain one's own intuition ... this would help to make the list seem short and things become natural ... it also makes sense to know the landscape of the fields and the people in the community ... this will help one to avoid reinventing the wheel or wander into the wild with no return (to reality :-)) ... keeping these in mind, one should be able to enjoy physics or even do something meaningful at some point ...
It looks like by the article raising ticket prices did not reduce the number of people into the park. I think they should have just capped the number of people in the park at one time, in addition to the increased ticket prices. I feel like Disney is a melting pot. It's affordable at some time interval for just about every family. If the prices keep going up it could risk being less of that melting pot, and more of just the pot with more money.
Curious, what is on spacecrafts.
Maybe not really efficient at all, because weight and reliability is way more important out there, and also abundance of raw sunlight.
> I honestly prefer Google Photos to SmugMug. It has decent RAW support and with a $10/month Google Apps account you can get an unenforced 1TB quota (i.e. unlimited). And they don't police the stuff you backup, only what you share.

So there's an official 1 TB quota, but for now it's unenforced? Presumably, it'll be enforced at some point, no? If you're putting up raw files and/or videos that exceed their free tier, that can add up quickly.

The TOS and PP issues are bummers. Have just added on to why I don't want to use SmugMug.
"Disney Heartland" right smack in the middle of Kansas would be huge, not just to the local economies, but also to the tax base, and tourism.
Tell HN: Can't believe the giant tech companies can't defend net neutrality
These huge companies - Apple, facebook, Google, Microsoft have practically limitless resources.

The only reason they have failed to protect net neutrality is because they have not really tried. And they have not really tried because in fact they don't really care.

So don't buy it when Google and Apple and Microsoft and facebook stand up today with their phony and weak initiatives to protect net neutrality.

These companies are playing a game in which they want to give the appearance of protecting net neutrality, but not in fact genuinely solving the problem, which they could easily do because it is simply a matter of money influencing politicians, and these companies can easily afford the trivial amounts of money required to influence political outcomes.

Hypocrites.
When there's a really good technical improvement in an area, and few compromises required to make the improvement, then the press release, the abstract, and the full article can be about equally informative to someone wondering whether or not the touted breakthrough actually matters. Here's an example with a genuinely impressive improved flow battery chemistry from Harvard:

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2017/02/long-lasting-flow-...

When the good news is a mixed bag, like this article under discussion (high efficiency solar cell... but not a record setter and touted numbers required concentrated sunlight) then the abstract is more informative than the press release.

When the "good" news required severe compromises on one or more key axes, then both the abstract and the press release (if there is one) will usually hide the important compromises. It's fun to guess which common pitfall the reported advance fell into before you read the full paper that reveals the bad news not found in the PR/abstract.

Caveat: if the press release is about something that the general public can't contextualize easily -- metrology, basic research before applications, algorithms... -- then the press office rolls a die to randomly determine whether they should claim that the new advance may one day cure diseases, cure pollution, or make your cell phone run longer between recharges.
This is apparently what I've been doing for about two years.

Except I still haven't gotten to the "engine" part, it's more "a bunch of wrappers around Lua and SDL2 and some random stuff that seems useful, and probably the worst ECS ever."

I actually did almost get to an actual game, though. But I was so disgusted with it that I gave up and started everything over from scratch. Mind you, everything worked fine, I just hated every thing about the code.

And this is why I am an amateur programmer and a professional box-pusher.
Boston: Amazing Tech Witho the Misogyny
Java -> Kotlin is still pretty low. It would be interesting to revisit this in a year.
A population that's 2X the fairly optimistic projections of global population growth slowdown roughly double energy needs, at a time when, at best, renewable energy faces both enormous opportunity and enormous challenges in replacing coal and oil, and when cutting greenhouse gasses is critical to human survival. Just making that twice as large a challenge is reckless and dices with extinction.
A few years ago I had to manually add a few specific people to my "close friends" list because Facebook decided to stop showing me their posts completely. One of the people was the best man at my wedding, another was my wife. You know, just the two people I care about most in the world. Just completely stopped showing me their posts, but I would see a ton of stuff from my wife's cousin that I'd never liked or commented on. So now I get a notification every time they post something so I can have a chance to see it.

I like Facebook's utility but man their algorithm sucks.
I don't think it's population density. I grew up in this town called Augusta, Georgia. Every year there's this event that draws people from all over the world. Despite two hours, give or take, major cities, it draws them in. Another point of view is that areas with less population density are use to commuting long distances. Put something like a Disney park in the middle of Kansas and people WILL come, and within ten years the cities closest to that park will be booming too.
A browser vendor who peddles privacy and uses "not google chrome" as its selling point, decides to track its users and sell the data to google. Hackernews absolutely explodes, as it considers tracking evil (unless its them doing it). The rest bikesheds on privacy policy and nothing of value was lost.
If only customers were so forgiving if their webpage didn't load within 500 milliseconds.
So true. I feel like I'm frantically bookmarking all the Facebook/Bandcamp pages of musicians that I've found on the service.
They tried: http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-america-theme-park-his...
The problem is that nobody else's opinion matters. If the president wants to retaliate based on 0 evidence, they can.
The worst is when a non-technical person tries to bring up the Fairness Doctrine, as if net neutrality is in any way related to the government regulating content. But it is a handy way to identify people who get their news from bullshit sources.
Exactly, just rebuild the entire city.
Do they do staggered ticket pricing based on what attractions are accessible? Last time my family was passing through LA, I looked into taking my 3 and 7 year olds. We could only see the one ticket price. Thought it was just too expensive considering the younger kid wouldn't have been able to nor would have wanted to ride most of the attractions. It would have been nice to bring them just to poke around...
Those that didn't are largely not around to let us know whether or not anyone was raising the alarm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapa_Nui_people
Guess how many California-licensed real estate BROKERS Redfin employs? The answer is here:

http://www2.dre.ca.gov/PublicASP/pplinfo.asp?License_id=0152...

A total of six BROKERS. Helped out by 528 SALESPERSONS, who have little or no financial responsibility.

A curious fact that no RE agent or Realtor will tell you: Under California law, the terms "real estate agent" or "Realtor" have no significance.
It's very interesting that most people here mentioned changes only to the top layers while one of the most urgent problem is in the BGP protocol that help route traffic between ISPs.
Many times in recent years governments and ISP used it to steal the traffic of entire countries, or to block websites.
Totally agree. I had a pair of Plantronic Backbeat Go (Wireless earbuds with a wrap behind cable) and the bluetooth has horrible. Dropped in a pair of the QC35s and it's been like a dream. You really seem to get what you pay for.
I am guessing weather has something to do with this. Do other places in the center of the country have a similar all year mild weather as So Cal or Orlando?

Overall this a great idea though, families could fly in to an airport close to the amusement parks, stay for a few days and directly fly out -- you're right in that there is little reason for an amusement park to be in one of the most expensive places in the country.
Good question. You could donate to the ACLU or Fight For the Future.

Also, certainly being active online and discussing it openly helps.

I think you'd want to refrain from commenting on the FCC website or otherwise pretending to be American. While there are anti-NN folks doing impersonation, it's not a good behavior to copy.
I think that you are suffering way more downvotes than you deserve because your actual point (which becomes clear in this comment) is really good but your original comment is a little too vague and your tone is somewhat abrasive.

But I do think it's true: up until very recently, Java features that break compatibility in any way whatsoever have been rejected out of hand simply on that basis. If the standard had been a this loose in the past, we might have a better Java now. That said, I feel like this change really just means that it's time to start proposing changes that give major benefits at the cost of minor compatibility breaks, rather than trying to resist the change of standards.
This little pet blog post is not going to lead anywhere good.
How the Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
There's a lot of API stuff they used to have but don't anymore. Like how I can read events from their API but can't create an event using their API. Not sure why Facebook doesn't want me adding content to their site but have no problem with me pulling content from their site.
I couldn't disagree more but there's plenty of browser add-ons that allow you to do this.
What would the benefits of that be?
They already do limit the number of people in the park, it just only tends to get hit a handful of times a year.

And for good reason IMO. I don't know about you, but if I planned a vacation and then wasn't allowed in the park during that time I'd be pissed, even more if the reason was so that those who did get in could have less wait times and I couldn't even get into the park to experience it.
Critical hit! I didn't realize that cancer patients and the starving were part of this discussion of Soundcloud's layoffs. I will go lick my wounds and perform the required penance of reading five PG essays for suggesting that CEOs have it relatively easy.
Apparently this somewhat works. http://jsfiddle.net/Ac6CT/
I'm doubtful that land area is really a significant cost for most solar installations. Small ones go on rooftops that people already have, and large ones go on marginal land in the middle of nowhere that's cheap.

If there's someone with knowledge of the numbers, I'd be interested to be shown otherwise.
Too far from an airport.
Why? It's not like they say they do, but then don't. I've seen far more implementations where the product is listed as supporting a whole bunch of profiles and technologies, but then either doesn't implement it in a useful way or simply never works no matter the device. Most often this is with devices that originally used audio, but then added support for calling, address book, media controls etc. but implement them poorly or downright broken in a fashion that makes the base functionality even less usable than it was before.
What's to stop them from de-prioritizing or blocking traffic recognizable as VPN?
Is one of those less nerdy than the other?
Not the same thing. Disney America was an American History-themed park that was going to be outside of Washington, DC. I mean a park like Disneyland or Disney World, but in Kansas or Texas or something like that.
In 2-3 years, I guarantee you that Elixir will appear strangely absent from this blog post

Source: Consistently steep slope over time of Indeed job interest in Elixir plus the fact that ElixirConf doubles in size every year
My argument is that they do emerge, though not spontaneously. They are the emergent result of the neural abstraction hierarchy that the brain forms based on the sensory input it receives, and its own sense of that sensation. The "feel" of something is therefore a meta-sensation, a sense of what a sense is like, in comparison with another, within a neural abstraction that models the brain itself.

Like you said, colors, tastes, sounds, etc. aren't "real". They themselves are emergent phenomenon. A colour is arrangement of electromagnetic radiation, a sound is an arrangement of air molecules. And radiation and matter are themselves the emergent result of the interaction of even simpler forces. Often, the nature of the emergent phenomenon seems inexplicably complex in comparison with the basic interactions that give rise to it.

If you examine intelligent life, you can see that it sits at the top of a pyramid of emergent complexity, reaching down through biology, chemistry and physics into quantum physics. It would be very strange indeed if, at the very top of this pyramid, there was another complex phenomenon that somehow did not arise from the interaction of simpler parts beneath it.
Tornados would never let that work.
I think the mistake with that was the focus: "the park was to have been dedicated to the history of the United States"[1].
Given the popularity of existing parks, I think it's fair to say people (especially those with kids) seeking a vacation at Disney want castles, Mickey Mouse, Space Mountain, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America
It would be pretty straight forward to buy tickets in advance for a specific day.
First thought when reading the headline: Backlinks.

Jaron Lanier explains... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpdDtK5bVKk&feature=youtu.be...
Ask HN: How do you think mankind is going to 'solve' climate change?
The Tears of Denis Johnson
I thought about weather but there are places in Arizona and Colorado or even Texas that weather would not be a problem. It would almost definitely need to be in the southern half of the US, but I think it could still work.