skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a good answer. It'll keep ending up a run around in the courts and deals will be cut, "business as usual" abstractions will be allowed to stand as excuses for unethical, and often ruinous behavior.

Let consumers sue people involved directly.

This isn't magic. People are going in a room and making decisions that, in scenarios where its ending up in court, damaging to others.

They should not be shielded by "business as usual", or fines, that they 1) have a direct hand in setting limits of 2) pass off the company (often endangering workers futures).

This suing abstract ideas doesn't hold white collar criminals accountable directly. It protects them directly. Which is be design.

We decided there is no divine right under-pinning our leaders claims to power. See how there is no relying on abstract ideas as shields or "just following orders" when it comes to how we persecute the proles.

This isn't magic. People go in a room, make decisions, fallout occurs. It's un-elected bullshitters that don't actually build the things we need, telling us how it is.

It's allowing a certain segment special privilege where none has been bestowed.
Just FYI, the most recent version of vscode supports huge files.

(I agree in general about Sublime performance vs Electron -- Sublime is way more responsive.)
Quick wins for businesses using messengers
It's neither poorly maintained nor "a lot of money".

It's actually the piece of software I use for 6-10 hours each day for years that I've had the fewer problems or complaints about. And I'm using the dev 3 versions...
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I wonder if this is a British thing? While Hoover is (or at least was) a very large and well-known vacuum cleaner brand in the states, I don't know anyone who says "hoover" to mean "vacuum cleaner." But I have heard it on British TV shows. (That and "Bic" to mean ball-point pen, apparently. Bic is mostly known for making extremely low quality razors in the US.)

I don't know anyone who literally means "Google" when they say to google something, though. They just generally mean search.
The only reason I used CrashPlan is that, on my home network, anything I'd want to back up is on my NAS. Are there alternative "consumer" solutions that support that?
Borg is amazing, except for the lack of public key encryption, which makes it unusable: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672
Why don't they scale their development team with it's popularity? My initial guess would be greed and arrogance. If their priorities are shifting on a regular basis, that demonstrates to me a lack of mature leadership.
Under the "collect and prompt" scheme, you are still sampling randomly.

A random sample of users experiences perf issues, a random sample of users opts-in to the collection, you get a random-sample of data. (If you suggest they opt-in to continued collection, you might even get a continuous stream of samples from the same user.)

Yes, that data won't cover the people who don't have issues, but do you need to optimize for them? It also won't cover people who have issues but still don't opt-in, but do you think that is somehow correlated to the severity of the issue? Otherwise the data will be mostly unbiased. The variance will be higher than if you made it opt-out, but if you are doing sound statistics, you will have to handle that anyway.
Let engineers decide what to build
Went through this exactly. My guess is because founders select for overconfidence (necessary for pitching investors maybe?) It also ties into founder worship which seems really common (people always dropping reasons founder is some uberhuman).

I just felt like my intelligence was insulted. I also found out a lot of the other people who "bought into" the "mission" were really just playing along.

We also did a lot of "agile" that wasn't agile at all. Make "MVPs" that weren't shippable, do work in 2 week "sprints" but never talk to customers for months etc

Like you said, I'm much happier at a place that takes a critical eye at its own projects, is actually willing to change the plan according to feedback rather than assume we're building the founder's "vision", actually dont' take ourselves too seriously, etc
You actually can remove yourself from a class action and retain the right to sue independently, if you think you will do better and win your 100%. (Or for any other reason)
It isn't artificially limiting. If my browser didn't need all of my cores to perform, we wouldn't be having this discussion. :)

And I seriously question whether my browser needs this to perform well. I am not completely closed to the idea, but I am highly skeptical.
I have found that using lsyncd works much better than sshfs for remote editing.

lsyncd - https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd
It's not "abuse" if you claim it's unlimited and people use it as if it were.
He cites the Gervais principle a lot :)
> "I think Python is a stupid language and nobody should use it,"

And if you say "there can be downsides to using Python, here's an article describing them" and the response is "you're fired, you infidel, how dare you to question The Sacredness!" then I probably don't want to work in that company.
>Both. Assuming that you can actually exclude instances of class Cat in case 1 and of Animal in case 2, that is.

Good point. I was actually thinking in terms of Python OOP, and in that, you cannot exclude those instances (at least not without some extra code).
Spending resources optimizing Firefox for how sites implement their JS seems over the top. The heaviest sites tend to be the most mainstream anyway, imo, and those are easy to pick out.

I am a Mozilla supporter for more than a decade, but this is the wrong move.
SyncThing, perhaps?
When you said "Chrome comic" I assumed it was this one http://i.imgur.com/bhfYx6R.jpg
Atom recently moved parts of the large file rendering to some C-ish. Performance has increased monumentally.
I hear HOA politics are so bitter because the stakes are so low. ;)
Another thing to keep in mind is that the compiler is still pretty much the same compiler you think it is. This is the case because it is very difficult to codify all of the information in the Intel Optimization Manual [1]. It's a harder thing to use that information and then a harder thing still to codify, use and use correctly all that information for multiple targets and architectures.

LLVM Tablegen is an approach for representation but it still requires the compiler writer to write everything down and then use it effectively and correctly. This is really hard and it doesn't get done. Instead someone ports a backend and then kinda sorta improves things until it seems better than it was.

Intel has a fine compiler which goes further. It sure isn't open source and it costs a few bucks. They're also contributing LLVM now.

The reason don't even try makes sense both for compiler writer and assembly writer is that this stuff is really hard. Also CPUs are damn fast and Intel (and ARM and ...) work really hard to solve problems dynamically (branch prediction, speculation, register renaming, caching, speculation, ...). In fact, you shouldn't even try this unless you know a lot. Agner Fog and Peter Cordes should be familiar names. But if you do know a lot, beating compilers is not difficult at all. Finding the right place to beat them? That's tough.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
Really, the language- or framework-based examples don't apply well because people aren't tools. CoCs generally protect people from bad behavior by other people, under the assumption that debating the merits of people the way you'd debate the merits of tools is, well, a dick move.
Ah! Yes the description seemed to match it very well. Maybe in the winter when I am particularly miserable on my 6am train I will read the book :)
That is some next level click bait titling right there.
There are a couple -- in this article they mentioned Escher Reality, which is providing a backend to AR. Definitely think there will be more in the future as things progress!
> Why don't they scale their development team with it's popularity? My initial guess would be greed and arrogance.

What a terrible thing to say!
Optimizely for groups and events. A/B testing in the real world :)
>I do think $70 is a lot when you look at the free competition

For a professional programmer it should be less money that they make in a day for a tool they use 365 days every year.

And whether there are free editors out there doesn't mean anything as to whether it's cheap or not. Vim and Emacs and 20 other free editors already existed when ST3 (or SlickEdit, or whatever) came out.
Scheme was my first love, before we even knew what r6rs would look like.

I feel like r7rs-small rights the wrongs that r6 dumped on us. Scheme has always been a very fragmented community especially in the technical sense, there's a lot of scheme features that don't carry over to another implementation. However, I think most scheme subcommunities appreciate the spiritual benefits of immutable data structures, hygiene in macros, lambda calc, continuations once you grok them, streams, etc.

Clojure has filled the hole for a while but I suspect a scheme implementation with as sophisticated a packaging and build system as clojure/lein could be in the works somewhere ;)
I remember seeing a blog post from Andrei Alexandrescu that I can't seem to dig up, but this SO post seems to be a nice summary [1]. In short, in 99.9999999% of usages post increment is probably better.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/38947878
> No, they simply pass those costs on to the consumers.

I believe this is a false narrative spread by those who want to reduce consumer access to courts.

Businesses don't price their goods at (cost + profit). They price them at the level that will maximize profit. Sometimes that's at a loss, sometimes that's around break even, sometimes it provides a healthy profit, and sometimes they make extraordinary profits (what do you think the cost is for that $4 soda at the movie theater?).

But the price is already set to maximize profits. If the seller's costs increase, raising the price won't increase profit or help them at all - it would merely reduce revenue due to the negative impact on sales volume. And if their costs go down, they of course don't lower the price, they take more profit.
"How does that work, then? If I sue a company and then N other people separately sue the company for the same reason, then the courts turn it into a class-action? That doesn't seem just. "

Yes.

Second, just in in what sense? If the questions affecting everyone are the same, there's no point in having 5 trials about it.

"(b) Types of Class Actions. A class action may be maintained if Rule 23(a) is satisfied and if:
..
(3) the court finds that the questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superior to other available methods for fairly and efficiently adjudicating the controversy. "
This is something I know very little about, but will machine learning evolve over time?

I mean imagine if this technology was being created before the civil war and it was fed images of slavery the assumptions it would make!

Our world and what is normalized changes over time, will machine learning reflect that?

The world I've experienced is different than the world a generation below me has experienced but if it's my generation feeding the machine the images what happens?

Images from my parents' generation would have shown women who didn't go to college unless it was for an MRS., nursing, or teaching. My Mom's only sport option was cheer leading. This is drastically different from my sister's life experience.
>make tshirts

Oh snap I just had the craziest business idea. Get this. I make tshirts... then I sell them. I'm gonna go tell the folks at /r/entrepreneur!
I'm surprised at how difficult it is for certain posters in this thread to recognize the following about our behavior and device usage:

More Data Collection < Less Data Collection
Worth noting that miners don't receive the coins they mine immediately - they can't be spent until they're 100 blocks old - so whether or not it is more profitable to mine on one coin or another is actually a question of the future value of the coin, not the present value. BCH has had some really rapid price swings in a matter of hours, so miners who choose to mine it are exposing themselves to those swings unless they hedge that risk.

Secondly, as transaction fees are a supply and demand system, demand for transactions on BTC (tx demand on BCH is negligible) can shift that profitability ratio simply by paying higher fees. AFAIK miners aren't setup to switch back and forth on a block-by-block basis yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if they start to do that in the future.
Pennies. And they have lots of them what with all that enterprise corporate schlong in their mouths. Hope that money shot tasted good, effing traitors!

Businesses over these things are stewards, they have a responsibility beyond profits and shareholders and "Put Your Biggest Customer First"
I think that React-Native or similar combined with a control kit based on, for example Material Design could work very well. I know there's some effort from the Xamarin guys at MS towards this end. I also think that React-Native itself could become a better option for more platform-friendly implementations.
It's amusing that Twelfth Night is so little known, despite the play, the "12 days of Christmas", and so on.
Well, let's hope people don't pay for your/our products with the same reasoning in mind, that $70 for a professional tool they will use 10 hours a day throughout the year is "a lot".
Here's the first account I found of what happened:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-prof...

If you can find a better account of the history of this event then I'd be grateful.

Update: Here is the HN discussion from a day ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15065742
From what I understand (on phone so no refs right now), "super compilation" is limited to a linear speedup. However, "distillation" can achieve super-linear speedup.
IMO this is the kind of AI hazard that Musk et al are decrying. Imagine if you could pay someone astronomically small amounts of money (0.05 USD/day) to do some menial task like this. Imagine now that their work would be very consistent and pretty good quality. The entire world is filled with "the obscurity of mundane activity" for which it makes no sense to track. But there is a utility to tracking this mundane activity (deterring/investigating crime in the case of this device). And as you point out there's a huge downside to tracking/mining this mundane activity.

It is a valuable, good thing that anyone's activity in public can be summarized, written down, recorded on video/audio. This way we can punish criminals and corrupt officials.

The protections from the US Bill of Rights don't shield us from law enforcement doing the same. In the past this has been (mostly?) a net benefit. If you commit crimes in public or leave evidence of a crime in public and it's found by investigators, it does not constitute "unreasonable search" of the government.

Should this be legal? It's a tough call IMO. I recognize the enormous potential for abuse, but this seems more beneficial than harmful. I would not be surprised if we cross a threshold where the amount of information gathered has more potential for harm than good in the next decade or two.
The modern editors take "mod-ability" to the next level because of tighter integration with the graphical chroming. (E.g., it would probably not be very straightforward to have a minimap 30 years ago.)
If it's through "secure" code, you can't always guarantee it in the future nor what Mozilla does with this data in the future. Also it doesn't set a good precedent to proceed in this direction of opt-out behavior in Firefox.
Absolutely agreed; I'd love to see Servo used as a browser engine for apps. And if you fit within what Servo supports today, you can already do this. I've seen people demonstrate Android applications (written in Rust) that embed Servo.
This is great - I think the search functionality could be improved a bit (a lot of results following the one I was looking for that didn't seem related, but the right one did show up first).

I wonder if there would be a benefit of a "community" element as well, as in allowing comments on the pages, to give locals the opportunity to chime in with their advice.
Anything that increases the albedo of a surface will make it cooler than it was before.

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

It's a pity that glass mirrors make for a crappy road surface otherwise they might try that :)
I don't think there's much of an overrepresentation - I haven't heard a human interest piece on a rural/conservative person on there that didn't deal with the opioid crisis in the last 6 months - and I listen every day. I look back to where I grew up which was a much more conservative rural area and frequently think about how I'd never feel like any of the stories on NPR would apply to me.
Something that I didn't like about Sublime was the random radio silence.

They'd do a few regular beta releases, then just randomly _complete_ radio silence for months, a year or so - then, bam, another release, some "I'm not dead" activity on the forum from jon, then randomly silent again - maybe for a month, maybe a year - maybe forever.

The editor was good - although not free of bugs - but that complete lack of communication - did I just buy dead software? will there _ever_ be another release?

That makes it hard to have confidence that the software will continue to be supported - and hard to build a community around. The plugin ecosystem has definitely suffered a lot because of this stop-start cycle.

Bear in mind that the bugs that Sublime _does_ have often hit plugin authors hardest and they're the ones that need docs & help from the original developer, who's often been completely AWOL for months or years at a time.
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>In many countries $70 is a lot of money

For farmers yes. Not for developers in those countries -- which can make $30,000 - $50,000 in the international market.
The bitmoji-style builder for 3D printed action figures is such a cool idea.
FWIW it was GitPrime, though I didn't think that was the sole point if this original post.
Christians agree that Easter is computed using a lunar calendar, however, various sects use different methods for computing lunar leap months. Passover is also on the lunar calendar.
Pagedown integration. I use Stack Overflow on a daily basis, so if I could write and save my questions and answers in an editor while preserving the syntax (especially the key commands I'm use to), I'd get behind that.
I had it set up super slick with latex back in college and I loved it. So much easier (for me) than dealing with word.
I agree, people are not tools. But codes of conduct are tools. They are used by people, to achieve goals.
Well, there is no reason for any standard idiom there.

Those `++` and `--` operators are something to avoid anyway.
"but I can say that the benefit to individuals is irrelevant. "

Again, never the original purpose, and while a good goal, class actions are surely ineffective at this.

" The COLLECTIVE - the whole society - benefits in a big way when the behavior of a large corporation doing very small harm to thousands or millions of individuals is punished and deterred."

Also as mentioned, I think this is very true, but class actions have pretty much not had that effect at all.
There are very few areas where class actions have been effective at accomplishing this.
The average person in SV is a cynic but the average dollar is metered by VCs.
Too bad Druva does not offer a home product.

I believe C42 allows reselling of their product. So, someone could buy in bulk from C42 and turn around and offer the same product to end users (at some markup). The issue would be moving the data from on "server" to the other. However, I think C42 offers tools to migrate data --not sure if individual one offs at a time is doable since you don't have access to their back end.
... and then there's JD combined with Delta T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T
PBS (and thus NPR) federal funding might be on the chopping block with the next federal budget, so it's not surprising to see pieces trying to get out ahead of that.

I grew up on NRP, and I LOVE This American Life, Garrison Keillor, and the reruns of Click and Clack, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that they have a pretty left leaning agenda.

The Brian Lehrer show used the anniversary of Pearl Harbor to discuss how Trump might create Muslim concentration camps in America.
> I believe this is a false narrative spread by those who want to reduce consumer access to courts.

You are free to believe whatever you want but that's a quote straight from a conversation with the CEO of a very large manufacturer of consumer goods, who - in my experience - tended not to speak stuff that wasn't true.
x++ is not the "standard idiom".
I am cringing when journalists write about their noble profession when frequently, they lose all critical distance and have become activists.

'Gawker began as a crusade to save journalism'. Sure.

When even outlets which like to think of themselves as flag-bearers for critical journalism can barely go a week without severely misrepresenting content, I have little compassion left (example: Guardian calling the Google memo an 'anti-diversity' memo https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/08/google-fi...).

In recent months, I have felt that any HN discussion has more editorial integrity than even the 'best' newspapers. Users call each other out. Nobody seems to call each other out on substandard work in professional newsrooms. Only after the shitstorm passes, the same people who made it happen like to talk about how 'the media' overreacted.
> The alternative is regulatory agencies with teeth, as you see in the EU.

I was referring to the alternatives available in the status quo legal system in the US, but I disagree that more powerful regulatory agencies are a complete replacement for class actions, though they are perhaps independently desirable.

> 'Doing nothing' is a false dichotomy unless you subscribe to libertarian/corporatist philosophy. (Which would, if it could, abolish the position of the attorney general.)

No, it wouldn't (at least, most libertarians and even more so pro-corporate types recognize a role for government and a role for AGs within that government, though a narrower role than the status quo for each.) It might eliminate state causes of action on behalf of consumers, but those aren't the whole (or even main) thing that AGs, who are the state or federal government's chief legal counsel and law enforcement officer, do.

(Also, you seem to be missing “corporatist” to mean “pro-corporation minarchist capitalist”; corporatism is a disinct politico-economic philosophy that is about as far from libertarianism/minarchism as possible.)