skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used JSPM in production for a year and a half. We had to switch back to Webpack because JSPM's bundles (even with HTTP2 enabled) were slowing down our time to first render drastically. About an extra 2 seconds on 3g mobile compared to the same site with webpack.

We're an edge case though, for most sites JSPM will work fine, and if it's currently working for you don't switch over. Switching over was a pain so I don't recommend switching unless you absolutely have to. I would not recommend using it for new projects though.
Huh ok, I only ever map it to Control so I didn't pay too much attention. Good to know.
YC Summer 2017 Stats
No, it really isn't. It will go down again a lot.
This has to be a mistake. Whenever you outright ban someone with the minimalist interaction the way Google does it, you open yourself up to accusations of all kinds of suppression. You allow the person who being banned to define why they were in the absence of any message from Google.

Now, it's all well and good to go and ban white supremacists, KKK members, hate groups, etc. It's monumental stupidity to ban an academic with proper credentials. It's even in effective. Even in the most extreme case, his careful scholarly screeds about statistics isn't exactly going to make frothing hordes of racists; not near the same way as banning him without cause, reason or explanation.

It's silly. His twitter shows him writing article headlines in provocative ways (for an academic) but, nothing even close to supporting a group like the KKK but, in this atmosphere and with Google trying mobilize probably thousands of young, probably uneducated (cheap) people review accounts for deletion, it was probably someone who saw one of these procative headlines and marked this blog for deletion without looking or realizing who this person was.

Strangely, the same thing happen to Jordan Peterson not even a month ago. Another academic but, with far more controversial views but, far more outcry came of it and Google reversed it in a few days.

All of this is embarassing for Google who for years has invested in very light touch style of customer service and it's coming back to bite them in the ass.
There are basically two options.

1. She suffered an accident on board and Madsen panicked. Knowing that his reputation would be fucked if someone died on board he threw her overboard and claimed she was let go.

2. A sexual request went wrong. Madsen is known to be very forward. He is also in an open relationship with his wife. Wall might have freaked out leading Madsen to do something even more stupid than proposition her for sex.
> but it appears most Windows users don't care.

That's very likely. Probably, most people that care are using Linux or something more niche. That's why Linux distros can not do the same.

That is similar to the walled garden situation, where Apple can wall their users, but Microsoft can't.
Until computers get a lot smarter in understanding research papers, you'll always have the problem of unknown unknowns. How do you discover things in other fields if you don't even know the terminology? For example a medical researcher reinvented (or at least claims to have reinvented) some calculus: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...

If you never heard of calculus, googling for solutions can be difficult.
I've done work for a fair number of banks and insurance companies, and my anecdotal impression is that there is always a java system siphoning data from the cobol systems...

Both stay around for the same reason: backwards compatability and a stable api+abi.

If you find and old Java system it's often trivial to do changes and recompile. Even a few years old C program is often problematic due to changes in the OS or libraries.

I have no idea if it's possible to compile a couple of years old js code...
People keep saying defensive patent but it's more likely fattening their video codec patent portfolio. This helps them stay in the game in the future as part of industry patent pools/alliances.
Proof of disinformation or stfu
> Anything bad about this question?

You didn't ask a question, you jumped to a (wildly inaccurate) conclusion.
There have been many opinions in favor of it as well, many from psychologists. So I too suggest you take the time to educate yourself of that part of the opinion spectrum.
Agreed. Based on the author's description, I think he basically is talking about what he sees from CalTrain or the 101 without actually looking into the areas he says are broken.

I live north of San Mateo in one of these "broken" areas. It is most definitely not broken, and nor are the people. But if you go down by the CalTrain line you'll see some trash strewn about and some houses that look run down. But go 200 feet away and it is no longer that.
Petrobras, Brazil dispute transfer of rights worth $30B
probably quite the opposite: e-waste disposal companies inventorying useless ICs for pin count vs barely useful ones and relabeling.. spend .01c to get .05c times 1 bazillion and you might actually make some money
Yep! Apple had the upper hand with this by having limited hardware compatibility.
One-Way Data Flow in AngularJS
About 2 months ago I switched to DuckDuckGo and have been happy with the results I get back
It certainly contributes. Rewriting an app as complex as photoshop for the App Store would be a daunting task.
React licence introduces unwanted licence complexity. If I make an OS project that uses React what is my licence?
Alice Prime: Bot tweeting prime numbers
Isn't that beside the point? Whether or not one particular woman is a great investor or not isn't so substantial. What is substantial if we have a broken system that perpetuates the ingroup and doesn't make avenues for the actual talent (e.g. Warren Buffet) in if it's not bro-y enough.
Standard service on TCP port 19 :) It spits out printable ASCII characters to anyone who asks as fast as it can.

General wisdom is that it is security hazard and not useful for anything on the open internet, but having some server with so called "simple TCP/IP services" in your internal testing LAN is useful for exactly this kind of debugging.

Edit: this whole debugging happened around january 2009, so at the time when chargen was long dead and certainly not a service offered by almost anyone on the internet.
It's a pretty decent way out of the whole "I'm rich, and I will destroy you with lawyer bills irrespective of the right or wrong of the situation" loophole. Any time you spin the wheel of fortune, bad things can and often do happen, but for these sorts of flagrant violations, where you're an honest dealer and they're not, it's probably the least worst scenario. I know whereof I speak here, but obviously can't share details.
While it may be true that the hiring process in the tech industry is has a more utilitarian basis than in other industries, it is quite a jump to go from there to concluding that sexism in tech (at the "worker bee" level) is not a problem.

Consider the high-profile stories of how women get treated in the industry after they are hired.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describe...
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

Even if we assume the hiring process is 100% utilitarian and unbiased (which itself is quite a questionable claim), the tech industry still has a serious problem with the way it treats women once they are hired.

So attempting to argue that the problem comes from the venture capital side and not the engineering side comes across as a little naive.
There's other financial benefits to marriage, off the top of my head:

Family health insurance plans

Unlimited tax free inheritance

Spousal social security and pension

Social security survivors benefits
This is fairly accurate, in my experience. I live on the border between Sunnyvale and Mountain View, and within a couple blocks is a gated street (closed to vehicular traffic) where a bunch of skateboarding teens hang out. On the Sunnyvale side of the gate are a bunch of small somewhat run-down apartment buildings, usually 4- or 8-plexes, and you can never find parking because each unit often has 3-4 working adults in it. On one side of the Mountain View street are 60s duplexes; on the other are 90s duplexes; and at the end of the street is a beautiful neighborhood with $3M homes.

The one caveat, as skybrian mentions, is that you can't really judge a family's financial status from where they live. A large number of residents in the run-down areas are immigrant bargain-hunters, often with tech jobs; even the run-down areas in Silicon Valley are better than many other countries, and so they'd rather save money than flash their social status. Oftentimes it turns out that they own 3 houses and are collecting serious rent money from young American techies who think they're top of the hill in Silicon Valley.

I'm curious whether this is different from other cities. When I lived in Boston, it wasn't all that different; you'd have gorgeous restored brownstones in the South End that were a few blocks away from homicides and drug deals in Dorchester and Roxbury.
I'd be more worried about owning part of a product/company that patents something facebook decides to "compete" by stealing your patented invention then you can't sue because you used react. Especially if your in some kind of VR company.
The JVM supports hot swapping. There's also DCEVM⁰, which supports more features than OpenJDK Hotspot.

⓪ - https://github.com/dcevm/dcevm
I think there's two things that are true -- the author is kind of a glib poverty tourist, and the Bay Area is becoming increasingly stratified in income, as illustrated by some of the things he notices. He'd be more credible if he was better informed about the people he's writing about.
California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves
The Ghost Not (1999)
I go back and forth on async/await. On the one hand, it is utterly brilliant. On the other hand, it seems like the final epicycle, trying to fit a theory of circular geocentric orbits (call/return) onto a real world of elliptical heliocentric ones (asynchronous programming).

So yes, it will make code easier, but I fear that will only serve to prolong the dominance of what is arguably the wrong programming model/architectural style. Or more precisely: an insufficient programming model/architectural style (it is great for a lot of things, just not for all).
I'm grateful to share the world with anyone who is trying to think and is brave enough to communicate their ideas in the face of career stagnation.

That said, I expect most geniuses are polymaths by conventional standards, whether we need them to be or not. Their intellectual development is neither a well-rounded curriculum nor a steady progression but marked by series of deep obsessions.
I do find it strange that their test WER is uniformly lower than their devset WER. I would expect validating on the devset to lead to the opposite effect, where the model overfits to the devset and performance degrades during test.

Or do you mean by "tuning hyperparameters to small publicly available datasets" that the datasets do not have enough real-world variability and can be fit too easily? Are there no large, realistic datasets or are those just not available to the public?
Do not rely on Google and its services if your public beliefs / opinions do not align with the establishment, are politically incorrect in even the slightest degree, or if you value your privacy. There are good alternatives (preferably open source).

https://www.privacytools.io/
https://www.prism-break.org/
I think rather than choosing one over the other a company has to find a balance. While working remotely offers employees flexibility whether it's the ability to manage different branches in different locations or as the article suggests a "reward," there's still value in human to human interaction. Digital means of communication offers instant service, it's mostly transparent, and there's limited chance of miscommunication or forgetting directives as the log of messages provides users with a written history of the conversation. At the same time, working collaboratively in an office of fellow employees yields to an established vernacular. Workers are acquainted with other workers styles, methods and tricks for business. There's more learning opportunities, I believe available for same place working, because a team of people are experiencing the same challenges in real time.
> I don't find it at all helpful when describing application architecture.

If you can draw the application architecture without anything that is best labeled a server, wouldn't that make it a "serverless" architecture?
Very cool article. I found myself strangely hit with a wave of nostalgia when the piece came upon "DTMF: dialing a Touch-Tone phone"
> It made me think of what would happen if companies started creating games for streamers to stream rather than for players to play.

Oh, my child, you have not seen Five Nights at Freddy's yet, have you?

The games that exist for streamers to squeal at already exist.
This doesn't really present any new information. All the advantages listed are the same ones that have been staples of the selling point since inception.

If you're asking if it's a good time to buy since it's been on a general upswing the past 30 days, that's not really the right question to ask.

The whole FOMO/gold rush article peddling for crypto is getting out of hand. If you actually want to invest in the tech, there are plenty of resources to help guide that decision. Just because it's up x% in the 24 hour trend means nothing.
"Shaming" to cause change doesn't' mean the recipient of shame is the same person you are trying to change. Often shame is just a first step, the second step being mob mentality taking over and other people joining the shaming, and the "change" lies somewhere in the effect of the mob. Possibly the intended target has nothing to do with the original target, and they were only chosen because of a high probability to incite the mob mentality in others. Things are not always as simple as they seem.
Bing doesn't seem to have SSL enabled by default. That's weird.
That's a really clever idea, and I am absolutely going to do that from now on.

(I just wrap 'em neatly currently. The film industry is good at techniques for cable control. But I've not heard the "freezer bag" idea before! )
You don't have to render stuff on the server?
Is that definitely true? Some time ago I was tuning code that did lots of math on a big array of floats, and I found that using Float32Arrays was moderately but measurably slower than just using [].

This may have been before TurboFan, though.
Like the HP Elite Slice?

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/elite-slice/overview.html
Eventually the Dom might be replaced with some webgl renderer.
Objects have a length overhead. At Bluebird we used objects and used a bitmask on the length so it's fast. (We use less slots than an array actually)

I was just pointing out that Objects weren't slow for indexed access.
I would be inclined to believe it wasn't something very deliberate if it was only one or a few services getting shut down, but everything is fully removed. Even his [blog](https://statisticalideas.blogspot.com) has a "this has been removed" header.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to this story than what's come out so far. I think it's worth following.
If as a Win10 user I'm getting used to searching in the "Start" menu I'm not going to google.com
To add to this, my wife and I explicitly chose to move in to a 'run-down' apartment building in order to save. Despite both of us having swanky tech jobs at the time. In fact, we conducted our apartment search mainly in spanish in order to get the best deal.
I really appreciate you giving a good, legally intelligent critique to my thoughts. Thank you.

On comparing to electric utilities I would counter with three things: first many of the regulations upon them are state or local level, which I think are appropriate for ISPs. Second, where the federal government is involved, there is a physical good being transferred across state lines--power. Finally one can make national security arguments for federal electricity oversight. Again I argue there is no concrete good being distributed by telecommunications networks. Only abstract. There should be a legal distinction, although I do not know enough to say if there is already.

On doing things in a sensible order, I respect your thoughts, but politically I am inclined to disagree. Comcast et al have big legal teams and lobbying expenses for a reason, and I think this only further entrenches the big monopolies. I think that NN would be sufficiently difficult to enforce and likewise to defend against in court that it basically amounts to a law giving the executive more power over ISPs for possible future violations of privacy and free speech rights.

Perhaps more people on here could agree with me if I advertised my stance as breaking up the big ISPs. But the FCC's net neutrality is the current topic in this space.
Use your own email, at least if gsuite takes it down you can host it elsewhere.
No, steel mill drives in both AC and DC were used.[1] They each have their advantages.
Speed control in the early days took additional rotating electrical machinery. Huge rotating machinery.

Diesel-electric locomotives mostly used DC motors in the 20th century. 3-phase AC synchronous motors with elaborate semiconductor control systems are now used in most new locomotives, but that's only in the last 20 years.[2] There are still thousands of DC-motor locomotives running on US rails.

High-speed elevators were DC for most of the 20th century.

Speed control of DC motors was, for a long time, easier than speed control for AC motors. The reverse is now true, because power semiconductors are so good.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=-thQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA308
[2] http://www.republiclocomotive.com/ac-traction-vs-dc-traction...
The only issue is where the company has gone cheap on the desks and they are not all height adjustable so people can not opt to stand at them. So people bring in their own monstrous (but good) sit-stand desktop risers by e.g Varidesk, Ergotron, Ergo Desktop, etc which are not that movable.

Hopefully, we are not long away from that being a ubiquitous option in the office.
What articles? Sounds like you are trying to "shame" HN. Shame....what a state of affairs we are in. We write articles, comments, and do all sorts of things over what boils down to "hurt feelings". Grow up world, there are real problems and actual hardships that exist, and shame has never been either.
so by contraction, self-reference is paradox? That's certainly true for the liar's paradox. But that shouldn't be mistaken for the actual statement, that some unprovable propositions follow from incomplete axioms and that the axioms can't be completed.
> Are you acknowledging that I have effectively provided that accounting? You should, but it's not clear to me that you have.

Well, I think its noteworthy that you distinguished statistics from mathematics, but apparently felt automotive engineering (which I specifically asked about) to fall under ME, and you didn't comment on mining engineering, which does not fall under EE/ME.

But for some reason, you seem to think it's meaningful, so I'll acknowledge that for the purposes of this discussion, you have indeed effectively provided that accounting.

And I stand by my earlier response, to wit, that even a full accounting of all STEM fields would not make your logic any less faulty.
In which sense inaccurate? If the server would just send a rendered page, why would a loading animation be needed?
This is because when I go to the start menu and start typing the name of the application I'm looking for, a large percentage of the time the Cortana search process is corrupted and my start menu is not searched, instead, I get an Edge window opened with a Bing search for "Photoshop"

I don't trust those numbers at all.
I think this has a lot more to do with depression/WWII era children having been brought up not to waste anything. That leads to the garage fulls of stuff that just can't be thrown away / donated. This was all reinforced during the 1970s/1970s era recessions. Both my parents are part hoarder and have basements / garages full of stuff.
You get audio and video previews on the thumbnails. It's a great user experience, but in terms of quantity, way less search results than the better porn aggregator out there.
Theory: this particular chip is obscure, and the very few who would buy it are either (1) collectors who never intended to use it, or (2) people stockpiling hard-to-find parts for legacy hardware. Either buyer won't discover that the chip is fake until the seller has long-ago skipped town.

Indeed, Ken was in group #1 (collector) but a very unusual kind who then proceeded to tear down the chip.
If government had just a little more money, and controlled prices just a little more, this wouldn't be a problem anymore. . .

. . .said every public office-holder in this area for the last fifty years.
Not GP, but as someone who has worked with image manipulation and typed arrays in JS (which seems similar to what the GP was doing) I can say that this often boils down to linearly looping through a typed array and doing very simple operations. You know, one of those "best case" scenarios for cpu utilisation where memory access tends to be the bottleneck. If the allocation happens inside a tight loop like that I can imagine it ruining performance
Not the grandparent, but it makes things a lot easier.

Basically, think of something as trivial as form validation. You need to do it both client and server-side regardless, but client side you might have additional complexity, like "if paying by credit card, show those fields, and if paying by PayPal, redirect." This means that your server might need to be aware of these branches of state that might happen, and it means complexity.

On the other hand, if you keep UI state to the UI layer on the client, the server side becomes super simple: you have an API that says something like "here are the shipping and billing details using a credit card. Charge it" or "shipping and billing details + PayPal token. Charge it." There is no "if we are rendering a PayPal processing error, re-render the entire state of the page, preserving all the checkboxes and showing the right bits of the DOM." It's just pure business logic.

Something like Vue is also much better geared at doing a UI than a server-side rendered template. It's dynamic by nature, and directly affects the DOM. The state is kept in such a way that it pertains to the UI. If you are processing something like a request to /orders?filter=recent&order=amount&page=3, you have to re-parse the state from the URL and then get the results every time. Vue/VueX will keep the state in a convenient fashion and the URL can be instructed to reflect it. No need to write custom code to interpret it.

Simple CRUD stuff is super easy with Vue + VueX + Bootstrap + Django. That's been my stack and I like it. Complicated stuff if much faster to develop using this than to try to use something like Django templates + jQuery.
Certainly it should be the government's job because it is both intended to and should be most effective/efficient to fix such a tragedy of the commons type situation.

But your comment is also sad because it shows how despite all of the iconoclast rhetoric, Silicon Valley companies are often far more risk-adverse, some could say, cowardly, in not willing to buck change. Not simply on matters involving social value or controversy, but more mundane topics that have been brought up before on HN such as willingness to embrace remote work, create better interview processes, etc.

And that of course, is also understandable. Tech companies are only willing to disrupt the economic markets and labor practices that would lead to maximum value extraction and shareholder value. No one sincerely disrupts to "make the world a better place."