skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PMS

Sure, if you want to annoy potential female contributors for no good reason.
A couple of “small world” connections:

1. SK8 was implemented in Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL), which was a product of Coral Software in Cambridge, MA. This was one of the justifications for Apple's acquisition of Coral in 1988.

Coral became Apple Cambridge, and went on to create Dylan, which was implemented in MCL.

2. There was a period of time where I had moved to California but continued to work on Dylan. Whenever I returned to MA to work out of the Cambridge office, I stayed with my father-in-law, who had originally proposed “frames”.
Just taking a cursory look to their blog, there's PWA/WebAPK, Payment Request API on desktop, Web Share API, WebUSB, WebBluetooth (in progress), improvements to WebVR, Network Information API, new headers like Clear-Site-Data, the new Web Push Encryption format, out-of-process iframes, headless support, native notifications on macOS and IndexedDB 2.0.

And of course, there are countless bug fixes and other small improvements, and all of this has to work on six operating systems.
I knew C++ compilation was slow but 30x slower? I'm sure the compile-time memory usage will also show a similar trend. It would be interesting if somebody could explain the reason for this disparity.
Ah yes, the bad old days: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8H9i9IUwAEBo5s.jpg
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And Windows ("#define _UNICODE", which actually makes everything use UCS-2)
Kodak was also paying for Evans' degree, which seemingly was a requirement for her to get her professional-track job.

How can somebody have the mind to take classes when they haven't had a holiday in years? Or when they work from 6p.m. to 2a.m.?
"Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself." -Mary Schmich
What is the future of photography
Resetting the Urban Network
What kind of imperialists do what we did for Japan, Europe, Vietnam etc. without, oh, I don't know, getting territory or reimbursements out of the deal?

"According to an annual report titled Allied Contributions to the Common Defense published by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2004, Japan provided direct support of $3.2 billion (about ¥366 billion) and indirect support worth $1.18 billion, offsetting as much as 74.5 percent of the total cost.... [in 2017] It said Japan will pay ¥192 billion in the current fiscal year in direct support. U.S."

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/31/national/much-j...
No, but experts in the field tend to believe a yield this large is explained by a hydrogen bomb:

> That means it's probably "only" a few hundred kilotons depending on depth. 8/
Still a staged TN weapon. But I need to sleep. 9/

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/90419708681554329...
A few years ago I lost patience with my health insurance company's automated phone system and shouted a profanity or two. I was relieved to find I was promptly connected with a human operator.

I thought the system may have simply detected the volume of my voice, but when I heard about profanity detection it made a lot of sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15161445
I feel that Sun did the same thing to the Cobalt RAQ product. Karma's a bitch.
Nuance have pretty good solutions.
I agree, but how would we enforce a wealth tax? Seems like it'd be really easy for rich people to hide their money in assets.

What about just printing money? Not ideal obviously, but there'd be no way to avoid the inflation "tax".
All I can say is... I stopped reading self-help books 10 years ago because they all bored me to tears. I HATE fluff. I hate repeated ideas and concepts, I hate long intros... I usually will stop reading books 30% in because it's like "I get it".

This book, however, is written by a guy who basically died at 87 and studied self-esteem since he was very young. So basically he's studied the same topic for 60 years, and his ability to convey certain concepts is absolutely profound. He truly understands the concepts down to the core. And it's such a hard thing to explain when you get past the 'surface level', but he repeatedly does over and over throughout the whole book. I probably have over 100 passages highlighted on my Kindle, of particular sentences or paragraphs where I put the book down and was like........... DAMN.

I've referred the book to 2-3 people and they all were blown away. It's a book in a league of it's own. I heard of the book from my friend who mentioned it's his #1 self help book out of his favorite 10, and I can definitely see why.

Basically it just comes down to how well he can talk about such an abstract topic in many different ways, without repeating himself, and eventually one of those ways will 'click' for you.

I find it's also affecting me day to day, in a positive way, which is something books like this have never really done in the past. I tend to like/absorb the info but I don't vibe with the author or their knowledge on the subject enough to commit to whatever exercises they say to do, etc.
Twitter support bots can be really fun to mess with. Verizon's in particular at least was pretty aggressive to assume you had a problem. Also fun to get two of them together in a thread.
true. large companies are way less likely to sue or be anal in general than small companies/individuals.

also it's way easier to negotiate the "definition of done" with them. typically if all of their requirements are addressed and bugs reported in UAT are fixed by the go-live they are good. their teams take over and unless you're hosting the system (which would be covered by a separate hosting agreement) - you're pretty much done.

also smaller companies tend to demand "warranty" after the go-live (mostly due to the fact they don't have the staff to maintain the system).
Is it plausible to flag yourself via other people so your account gets blocked? Wonder if that would yield a permanent removal.
I'm already bored
But why? Tools can parse text just fine, and create its MPS structures in the background to do whatever it needs. Why expose this to the programmer?
Honestly, it's probably better than T-Mobile's talk like a teenager training for customer service.

Example of the weirdness: https://imgur.com/RPyhtkH
Iran hasn't been bombed or hacked to oblivion for trying it[1]. Russia hasn't been bombed or hacked for trying to kill it[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/worldbusiness/25i...
So, popcorntime-cli?
Seems like a lot of work to make a few million dollars. Not to mention downside risk.
Would an emp blast damage solar arrays?
In America, licensing of physicians was often used to drive women, jews, and minorities out of the profession.

See "Competition & Monopoly In Medical Care" by Frech, pg. 54 for a detailed discussion.
What about imessage?
Lol what a fuckup of a language. So glad the entire internet depends on it.
Let's see what will happen outside China. Then compare them with data :P
> What about teaching everyone non-sociopathic realpolitik instead?

Teaching about an oxymoron?
>This might have less statistical bias, but would bias against individuals of a race who are in truth not at higher risk of recidivism.

This is true of all predictive variables and all predictive models. It doesn't justify the recent panic aimed at ML at all.
codePointAt still takes the same type of index that charCodeAt does. It doesn't address the issue at all.

$ jsc
>>> '\u{1f4a9}A'.codePointAt(1).toString(16)
dca9

And what was the committee supposed to do with all those string indexing functions that have existed since LiveScript times, remove them? Change their semantics overnight and break countless software in the process?

If there's any thing JavaScript has been doing right so far, it's backwards compatibility. For better or for worse.
> For the love God, why is the opacity set to 0 on the text? So that JS can be used to fade in the text...

Ah.

How long was I supposed to wait for this fade-in? I skim/read the HN comments, went back and the body was still blank.

"Too cute to read."
Like with south Korea?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/09/02/trump...

EU?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/05/hopes-of-eu...

Canada and Mexico?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/27/donald-trump...
While I disagree with the comment you are replying to, your comment isn't correct either.

There is a non-trivial amount of oil traded in the euro, and also see [1], [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/worldbusiness/25i...
For nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
Honest question as someone who never got comfortable with Lisp languages. Is the code in parser.mud easy to read. One of those 100 line functions, could you jump to the middle of it and start understanding the meaning as someone familiar with C like languages? Even though I can figure out the syntax it looks like line noise to me but perhaps it is because i've not done much Lisp coding.
There should be no customer service.

It is not bad news. Automated registration of user complains should drive product development.
Few people complained to a bot and problem should get to kanban board of developers.

If you need service, you got a bad product, good products need no customer support.

Bots are good scalable way for constant improvement based on feedback. It's a temporary crutch.
Universal healthcare helped get me over there and it's one of the reasons I'll settle down there. I think all the socialized services are great. Excellent value for the taxes you pay.
Parking money in index/hedge funds is not "investing it back in the economy". Bank lending is driven by demand, not deposits.
I thought it would have been clear from my comment that I don't regard the new ES6 methods as flawless.
Your first paragraph, on supply and demand, is fairly accurate, but to say that "some people are able to produce much more than others" is oversimplifying.

Consider a fast food restaurant with one cleaner, two people at the tills, three people in the kitchen, and one manager. Remove any of them and the lines will become too long, the place will become unacceptably dirty, etc. However, none of the employees is "producing" more than any other.
Cassini is crashing into Saturn. The final photos are astounding
claiming that there is virtually no intellectual property protection for fonts in Germany, and how it would have been impossibly expensive to register for type protection… but somehow a lot of hobbyists and small fish managed to do it.

What kind of protection is there? I've read that claim before.
I'd say most web app developers can keep the toilets sanitary, if needed, with little training.
Physicist creating a laser-cannon system to propel miniature spaceships to
The reason fixed income vehicles pay out income is because those funds are spent on productive investments.

So, they do circulate through the broader economy. There's no silo of cash sitting somewhere paying dividends.
> Then there was the time I wanted to hire my first full time employee. I was apprehensive to do it because I only had enough money to pay him for 2 months, unless I got another client fast.

> “Worry about that in 2 months,” Dad said.

Gosh, and people wonder why tech employees seem disinclined to be loyal to companies.
And yet here we are, discussing a thing that I seriously doubt happened by random chance. Was there an internal forum where the thousands of bad apples came up with this? Or were they reacting to obvious and enforced management preferences?
FWIW this article is 3 years old and much has changed in the shoe game.
I've both been responsible for hundreds of systems as a full-time job and written software as a full-time job. Over a couple decades the ratio has changed from job to job but I'd also describe my style of system administration as automation-heavy and had been encouraging people to think of the job as writing code to manage systems rather than manual work since around the turn of the century so there was definitely non-trivial crossover even before the DevOps coinage became popular. (And, lest that sound vain, that wasn't exactly something I came up with. It took a long time for the automation community to go really mainstream – HPC was years ahead by necessity)

I won't claim that systemd is perfect or that I'm happy with every detail of its development history but in practice I find it's not something I need to think about very often. That was true of later Upstart releases, too, so I mostly don't get the bitterness some people have: flip a coin and either way we have a nice quality of life improvement over SysV. Yes, Red Hat carries a lot of weight but they also employ a ton of open source developers so it's not like that's unearned.
Notice that MDL is almost Common Lisp:

<DEFINE WAIT ("OPTIONAL" (NUM 3))
#DECL ((NUM) FIX)
<TELL "Time passes...">
<REPEAT ((N .NUM))
#DECL ((N) FIX)
<COND (<OR <L? <SET N <- .N 1>> 0>
<CLOCK-DEMON ,CLOCKER>
<FIGHTING ,FIGHT-DEMON>>
<RETURN>)>>>

(defun wait (&optional (num 3)) ; same arglist
(declare (fixnum num)) ; similar declaration
(tell "Time passes...") ; some call
(repeat ((n num)) ; some loop macro, see below
(declare (fixnum n)) ; declaration
(cond ((or (< (setq n (- n 1)) 0) ; old-style COND, OR, <, SETQ, -
(clock-demon clocker) ; some call
(fighting fight-demon)) ; some call
(return))))) ; return from loop

Where REPEAT would be implemented as:

(defmacro repeat (vars decl &body body)
`(let ,vars
,decl
(loop (progn ,@body))))

Common Lisp basically got type declarations, rich argument lists, ... from MDL.
Again, that is not disputing the facts I laid out. We can argue about the gold standard but that isn't what my argument was. I was pointing out that the currency is worthless because it's fiat. Also inflation is a hidden tax.
Inflation harms wage earners farrrr more than capital holders. Capital holders can put it into assets that rise with inflation. IMO it's one of the driving factors of inequality of the past few decades.

Those with capital / assets can leverage up, borrow more money, and then pay it back with lesser inflated dollars.
Oracle Finally Killed Sun
Within the office and industry, it was "sneakers" everywhere. [1]. All the guys in the office and anyone seriously collecting or lurking on the forums pretty much always said "sneakers". Anyone who wasn't into the scene though would say trainers.

I'm from Northern Ireland, so until I moved to the "mainland" I actually referred to them as "guddies". [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20131031030318/http://www.crooke...

[2] https://www.inyourpocket.com/belfast/How-till-spake-Norn-Iro...
I suspect a lot of it has been invested in overseas locations, including manufacturing operations globally. It may be that the money did indeed "trickle down", but not into the US.
For the same reason Siri and Ok Google isn't just a long menu of 500 options.

Having a tone dial menu works as long as there are only a few places to route you, and as long as all situations only have a handful of answers.

Furthermore, you can have tricks like looking for keywords in your human speech to make sure the guy you get patched to has the expertise to help you. If you say "my router won't turn on" you won't be sent to a password reset monkey.

At least, that's the theory.
I'd like something better than UNIX V and that I can understand.

In my experience, systemd fails on both points. For example, and understanding of user permissions under systemd is probably beyond 99% of developers' expertise.
There is no guarantee that pursuing complexity as a goal in itself will lead to intelligence. The one thing going for mannigfaltig's proposal is that it has been known to work, though very inefficiently, and we don't have enough examples to estimate the yield. One might suggest that having the right definition of complexity would produce the desired result, but coming up with that definition takes us right back to CuriouslyC's point.
The fear of regret can be quite motivating, but regret itself is unremittingly demotivating. Isn't that strange?

Perhaps the best mindset is to always forgive yourself for past mistakes and believe that you can accomplish everything that you want - but only if you get to work right now. After all, if you don't, you'll regret it.
I'm similarly fascinated by the use of the passive voice when they are describing Wells Fargo committing more crimes. Imagine if the crime was committed upon them instead: "Bank robber uncovers that he robbed bank for more money than originally admitted."
Red uses DSL's to make it pretty easy. It's a REBOL-like language that's easy to parse and macro kind of like LISP. Here's an early demo of how that looks with examples:

http://www.red-lang.org/2016/03/060-red-gui-system.html

I don't know Haskell but I know Galois does DSL's like Ivory language with it. So, I imagine doing something like Red's GUI in Haskell would be worth exploring. Alternatively, building such a clean abstraction on top of a cross-platform library with messy stuff generated automatically from DSL version.
I can already smell the breath of the alternative (read: fake) medicine version of this as I type. Is the liquortarian diet more effective than the fruitatarian diet? You betcha! Just look at this study!
> ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software.

I think that's a more apt description of CA, BMC, or Symantec. Places where tired old software goes to die a quiet death. What Oracle does is worse: kill software that still has plenty of life in it. I've seen them do it by acquisition, and I've seen them do it by stealing code or ideas from partners (personally, twice). So they're not so much a graveyard as a slaughterhouse for software.
Well, I don't want people unskilled in programming to write programs to manage environment I operate in.
>You maybe skilled, you may need skilled people only in your env, that's your choice and yours only.

Not everyone make same choices. My whole point is, you don't have to be a very skilled person to do the automation.

If you wanna spend all your time to prove yourself to be a skilled person in automation that's your choice.
This isn't universal, but prepare for a bunch of BS :). The bigger the company the less efficient they need to be to survive. Shenanigans and lazy work are often overlooked as individual contributions matter so little to the overall bottom line. Expect the need to be polite and at the same time tolerant of those who aren't. With big companies you end up with a few people that want white shoe behavior and they'll make a bunch of noise if they don't get it.

That said, it's very difficult to get fired once you settle in. You usually don't have to work too hard or too long. Pay and benefits are comfortable and work is stable if a bit boring or meaningless.

Your job satisfaction depends maybe 90% on your direct manager so make sure you like them during the interview. Your relationship and boss quality will make or break your enjoyment of your job most of the time.
"And what if the company goes under?"

That's been a problem since before subscriptions became mainstream, even software with a perpetual license has often required activation.
Are sneakers significantly different from beanie babies or Magic the Gathering cards?
It also covers things not usually in this genre of articles. For example, the section on DOI/LSD and inflammation is new to me.
> When the word "literally" can mean, casually, either "literally" or "figuratively" then it ceases to have any real meaning.

i don't think i can agree here, at least not with the gist. in a sense, words already don't have 'real meaning' (they're just noises or scribbles depending on the medium), their meaning or communicative value is bestowed by their actual use in a specific language, place, time, etc.

if you mean to say that we can't communicate the non-figurative sense of 'literally', consider: when someone whines 'you mean figuratively, not literally', this necessarily implies that the complainer understood what was said. if they can comprehend this distinction, it would seem utility remains and the complaint is informed mostly by a resistance to change (imo).

> We really do need to take some care here or else we'll soon be spelling "lose" as "loose."

this seems like a separate issue. the words 'lose' and 'loose' are not being used interchangeably (afaik); my sense of it is that it's just an issue of transcription because the spelling is extremely similar.
clear() works for me consistently.
At the same time, I had cases before when sendkeys was not sending complete string, so I had to compare it with get_attribute('value') to be sure.
Look at this chart, you can see that inflation started to increase really fast since the 70's: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000+1776+dollars+in+20...

(sometime WolframAlpha doesn't display the chart you might need to reload the page until it does, then click on the button that say "Linear scale" to display in a linear scale instead of a log scale)
Avoiding inflation due to printing more cash would look like not holding cash. Your proposal would tax people whose lives involve mostly currency, not other assets. I think it would actually have the opposite of the effect you intend.
I've done hundreds of interviews for candidates over the past twenty years and couldn't agree with you more. The ultra rare occurrence that someone can talk their way through and elude b/s detectors is usually caught later in the interview process anyway.
Does the eclipse make the sun stronger or something? I've pointed my camera at the sun for all day long taking timelapses and nothing bad happened to it. I guess maybe you need a really hardcore zoom lens to get damage like that...

P.S. Here's the video pointing at the sun all day long: https://youtu.be/HgbG--t3Bd8
I should said: "Investing in things that help society." Arguably, the bit of money in banks that gets loaned out as mortgages and then repackaged and sold off as mortgage-backed securities which then get bet on with even more leverage as collateralized debt obligations is helping the financial industry middle-men who cash out on the fees a lot.

Obviously the classic depositing/loaning service of banks is essential for progress. But hundreds of billions of those deposits are going to making the rich richer. It would be nice if we could come up with a way to provide capital to people who need it while also maintaining a strong middle class. I don't know how to do this but it's worth talking about.

What I really want to know is how much of people's savings (passively invested in banks and things like index funds) is going to fund things like the new Facebook vs. how much is not really doing that much.