skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't call cryptocurrency "crypto".
Lots of comments here about tomatoes without flavor.

Tomatoes are seasonal too, best ones are in summer. That's why people made sauces and kept them for the winter.
Willing to have fresh tasty tomatoes during the whole year is not an easy task...

Another factor is that tomatoes are harvested green and ripened using ethylene gas just before hitting the shelves.
We - and a lot of other people in similar boats - moved from Solaris to FreeBSD a while back. That ship sailed a long time ago, there isn’t much that FreeBSD doesn’t do out of the box in a similar fashion to keep people from making the switch.

The only thing I miss from Solaris is the focus on ABI compatibility. rlib was first-class, and apart from Windows, it’s the only OS I know that is fully abi compatible between the x86 and x86_64 kernels (actually even more than Windows. The entire system, drivers and all, will work with either the x86 or the AMD64 kernel booted up without recompiling).
Could you please expand on why its necessarily better for the average Joe to invest money (without knowing beforehand whats gonna be a "productive enterprise" of course) instead of fuelling the economy directly by buying goods? (honest question)
Will Pokemon Go run?
Thanks!

A big part of the idea is representing data flow, I don't think that makes as much sense with a concatenative language where things are irregularly moving on and off the stack. You'd have to show the relation of words to the stack, somehow, or rework it to be centered around control flow. I have only a passing knowledge of Forth, though, more modern concatenative languages might have a different texture.

I did, however, take the RPN approach, which is why operations appear after/below their operands, which has always seemed more natural to me.
It's also one of the greatest things ever.
Easy, you do what is done with senior citizens who owe property taxes. The taxes accumulate without being paid and are collected when the property is transferred to an inheritor or buyer.
Yeah, so why the "last moment"? That's why I was confused.
By properly open sourced I mean that the various testing and validation suites for Java and key Java tech (like J2EE) would be available, that proprietary bits (like the Windows installer) wouldn't be silently parachuted into the JDK install, as two examples.
Hardware, vendor, consulting, and device support, principally.

All four of these factors tended to fall off in significance pretty rapidly, and by 2005 or so, the choice to go with Solaris over Linux was not well-founded. For many organisations, that point came 5-7 years earlier.

Linux was cheap and flexible. It required a fair bit of hand-holding, and you had to supply that yourself. It ran on commodity hardware, and in the world of the early Web, where that was precisely what you wanted for commodity webservers, and those were needed in quantity, Linux fit the bill. It expanded into other roles, in a near-perfect example of a Christensenian technological disruption.

The Oracle load in particular was a fair argument to go with Solaris: yes, you could install Oracle on Red Hat (RHEL didn't exist until 2003), but it was a massive PITA.
>No such thing! Strings are an array of integer unicode code points.

I'd argue that, generally, strings are simply arrays of chars, which are bytes.

THe failure here, was keeping the name "string" for what are arrays of codepoints instead of bytes.
That might just mean that intelligence is useful not only for gaining personal success, but also for raising offspring who will be successful. Is that a problem that society should try to correct?
It's like Python that forgot to shave. For fifty years.
Right, just like get power first, and once you've consolidated it then you can do all the good you promised. The amount of charitable people in the world clearly doesn't cover everyone's needs or else there would be no point in further charity.

You also lose perspective, because all the skills you've gained to make money are really only applicable to making money, and by that point your social community will only be people making lots of money and then the only problems you'll be solving are the ones for people with resources. The best minds in the world are focused on figuring out how to make people click ads and make money in the stock market.

Sure there's outliers, and the most famous are the ones of people who have "won".
Well, he says he does remember it, and that he won't provide it, because he feels it is a 5th amendment violation.
Why is fatality rate the only legitimate metric on which to judge prison sentences? People are put in prison for all sorts of lesser offences all the time.
I was actually surprised that in Argentina most fruits and vegetables are exactly the same as in Holland. No difference at all! It must be the same efficient way of growing things all year round that the supermarkets use.
> You would only be liable for something that you sell or otherwise make money from

If your business includes software in any meaningful function, you are making money from it. Any competent lawyer would be able to successfully argue that. Charging money for a license is not the only way, otherwise everybody would just switch to charging for "consultancy service", which coincidentally provides free software license, and avoid any liability.

> You would be free to publish software, open source or not, without incurring liability as long as you don't make money from it.

You as a private person would be. That's my point - that would be the only way to do open source, any corporate support of open source projects would imply full liability, which would be impossible for a product the company gets to revenue from. It would be much harder for a business to justify supporting an open source project when liability costs are added to the equation.

> The currently widespread practice of trusting sensitive user data to open source code without an audit (either internally or via a third-party, e.g. Red Hat) is horrifying

Audits cost money. Tons of money. And they don't guarantee anything - bugs in OpenSSL have not been discovered for years despite thousands of people using the code, poring over it and billions depending on it. There's no magic in "audit" that allows code to be bug-free after it - if there was such a magical procedure people would already be using it, but there's no indication anybody has invented "audit" procedure that allows to eliminate all bugs. Existing flawed procedures are already being used - every company that produces software that I ever heard about uses them - and they are not enough. So what would happen is drastically raising the costs (to the point where having a website would no longer be affordable to an average person) while not significantly improving security.
> I wonder if there's a similar overlooked-but-universal problem that someone in a garage is working on now, that'll spark a new wave similar to the dot-com boom.

Bitcoin.

Seriously, it exactly matches your requirements. Typically dismissed by everyone on their first encounter, it nevertheless solves universal problems related to something everyone uses -- money. And it's only just barely viable enough to solve that problem in limited cases right now, so I predict there will be a torrent of people responding to me with all the reasons why it can't be bitcoin because X, Y, Z. Just as any technical person would have said about the web in '96.
Seems like we've just substituted political control for literal territorial acquisition.
Broadly, I see three categories where taxes could be applied:

* Wealth (accumulated capitol)
* Income (acquired capitol)
* Consumption (utilized capitol)

The problems with income and consumption based taxes include:

* Double taxation (which side is taxed, both?)
* Inequality / Regressive (generic taxes target the poor/middle)
* 'sitting on capitol' isn't taxed

A good fresh start is probably necessary.

* Taxes exist to fund the public good.
* Taxes should target undesired (by the community) behavior
* Incentives should target desired behavior
* You are what you measure and how you react (punish/reward)

With the above in mind, I am entirely for two types of taxes.

Income: A maximum income target and a 'minimum' income target. These two numbers would be plugged in to a single non-linear formula that applies to all. The more someone makes, the more they're taxed (they would always take home more, but for every dollar over they'd take home less of that dollar). B.I.G. could be built in to this formula as a third number (mostly raising the floor); but to me the minimum number already sounds like it is this number.

Wealth: Some savings is a good idea. Having a year or two of runway (disaster preparedness). Saving to move in to a house. Investing* in active things (stocks/bonds/etc) for retirement. Owning your own means of production / transportation / housing (within reason).

Wealth is more static, when wealth suddenly shows up it should be taxed as income. When it's held over time it should be taxed at a much lower rate, but still taxed (every period, IE year). Society should agree on a divisor that is fair, and how much different types of wealth are discounted. 'wealth' (divided down) would thus be figured in to the total tax liability on the compound curve I described in the income section.
I think with climate change wine won't necessarily be as available as it once was.
Engineer at Boeing admits trying to sell space secrets to Russians
How do you attempt to fix being behind? Books, blog posts?
Well you didn't live up to your username.
Thanks for your post. I loved your list of accomplishments: it looks great and you all should be proud!

It sucks to be shutting down your group. If things don't turn around (who knows the power of a blog post), good luck on your next efforts. Whatever it is, I'll be looking forward to it :)
Thanks for you thoughtful reply.

>Apologies to pick on you without addressing your main point, but this sentence is an example of an error I see a lot yet I rarely see addressed.

You're not picking on me - you're picking on something I wrote. This is perfectly fine!

Would you think it more appropriate to talk of poverty and inequality being elements in a feedback loop?
From the article:

"The growing environment is kept at optimal temperatures year-round by heat generated from geothermal aquifers that simmer under at least half of the Netherlands."
You're going to find it very difficult to get people to invest their money in something that has no demo or detailed information. Your best bet is to create a minimum viable product and get feedback from the community (HackerNews could help).

The "Ghost" blogging platform's Kickstarter is one of my all time favourites (notice how they had something to show their users before asking for money): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a...
There's this saying about comparative advantage. But what happens when poor country doesn't have any comparative advantages over rich country? Or a few really tiny and disgusting ones which definitely won't support hundreds of millions people?
In fact, my naive understanding of world history is that territorial conquest (distinct from cultural/political/economic conquest) was largely a modern European thing

What about Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, Genghis Khan? Not to mention the various empires of the Ancient world, from 2000 BC, which had plenty of conquering; the Achaemenid reached 5.5 million km².
This _is_ technical argument, and it's not me who's downvoting you. You have to keep this thing fed, and once you factor that in, "5W" and "simple chip" become physical impossibilities.
But the prevailing power has less incentive to skirt laws if nobody else recognizes the legitimacy of their conquests. No country is so powerful that they can simply ignore how the rest of the world responds.

Might makes right is a truism, yes, but only under the presumption that somebody is so mighty that everybody else has no choice but to fall into line and internalize the new order. Things are never that cut-and-dry. Vietnam, Afghanistan (now and then), and Iraq should have made it abundantly clear that might makes right is not a concept that has real world application.

What really matters is whether and how everybody will internalize a new political order. Power is a big part of that equation--and relative power is perhaps one benchmark by which many people will choose whether to internalize things--but it's nowhere near sufficient alone.
I think it's useful to remember that the work of one webapp developer can positively affect the lives of millions of people. Tech yields a counterintuitive amount of leverage.
I saw this in the article:

"The growing environment is kept at optimal temperatures year-round by heat generated from geothermal aquifers that simmer under at least half of the Netherlands."
Apple isn't in the business of providing critical software where such liability would make much sense beyond when:

(1) their phones given enough charge refuse to call 9/11 as mandated by law at the present anyway

(2) their authentication details are leaked

(3) their operating systems suffer security bugs

At most other levels the damage could easily be contained. Note that even at present they could be sued for any and all of the above, whether such a lawsuit is winnable is beyond my expertise to evaluate but it would certainly be interesting to see the arguments both sides put forth.

So plenty of opportunity to be employed for 'non certified programmers'. Note that almost every big software provider already has a certification program of sorts but at the moment these are just used as either a revenue stream or a way to get people to invest in the eco system.
>It's not the core job, it's the fact that there's zero growth or mobility even possible that is the issue.

Not everyone is a 'striver.' Some folks just want to pay their bills and enjoy what time they can with their family and friends.
I haven't seen anything that makes me think it's more than a gimmick. The tech itself is still a few years away from being where it should be (higher resolution, wireless, better framerate, improved immersion), but more importantly I've yet to see a compelling use case for it. Until somebody can make a case for why VR, it's just an expensive toy, and not even a particularly fun one after a very short period of time.

It reminds me of the Novint Falcon so many years ago. Really cool technology that nobody wanted.
Exploring ODEs
The tomatoes themselves don't have a strong smell, though the vines do.
The problem isn't ALPR, the problem is the imagery. You must calibrate your cameras and take a few steps to get quality images, or it won't matter how what software you use.
Buy this type of cherry tomato, they're nice and still relatively affordable: http://rooi.versuit.nl/media/catalog/product/cache/6/image/9...

They won't beat summer sun grown tomatoes in warmer climates, but they're available all year round.

A bit of sugar and a bit of acidity can boost the flavor of sub-par tomatoes, for example for a sauce.
Compressing deep neural nets
Why I Quit Oracle (2010)
The other significant feature added was voice chats. The fact that it's easy to forget or not notice is a strong indicator of how much humanity has adopted text chatting as the primary mode of remote communication.
How is internet not a utility?! Some day people will look back at today and shake their head.
The demo doesn't work on iOS. Otherwise looks cool!
> I could go on

You could, but please don't because you take a one line comment, completely fail to understand it and its implications and then give a whole pile of wild exaggerations based on that misunderstanding.
"Your tone is quasi-fesicous, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars... Now all restaurants are Taco Bell"

I think Demolition Man was fortelling on several jokes!
How much bandwidth do you lose? I have AT&T fiber and I want as close to 1Gb as I can. Someone else else I saw online did something similar with an EdgeRouter and he lost a ton of speed.
You can reach financial independence in your 30s if you work for a big tech company for 10 years and watch your spending. I think that's what your parent comment was referring to.
Sometimes I think we would be better off if our languages didn't have string as a data type at all.

The text encodings themselves (e.g. UTF-8, UTF-32) ought to be proper data types. Strings are a leaky abstraction that cause otherwise competent programmers to have funny ideas about what text is and isn't, as this entire thread demonstrates.
watch
? What do you want to watch? Un Chien Andalou

Command failed: ./node_modules/.bin/magnet --rows 10 "Un Chien Andalou"

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
> The HARC group at Y Combinator Research has/had an ambitious vision of bringing back the basic research model that led to many fundamental innovations in the 60s, including a handful of groups in addition to ours.

> I think if world events had been different, the timing would have worked out well for a resurgence of this kind of research.

Are you at liberty to talk more about this? I get the vibe that, with the election of Trump, YCR decided to narrow their spending to focus in the near-term on large impact projects.
It is impossible to discuss the utility or value of Facebook without discussing the quality of the content it provides. As witness, the role of bots and misinformation, rabble-rousing, and white supremacist network coordination and recruiting in the 2016/2017 US election and aftermath.

His comment is both useful and germane.
It wouldn't actually work. Rich people end up finding loopholes to any tax scheme. Even if that loophole is expatriating.

It would have negative consequences besides that. Many, many people do things for "legacy". It's a powerful motivator. Taking away all wealth would eliminate something that encourages good long-term decision making.

It would hurt people who aren't the rich people. What would happen if Sam Walton's net worth was taxed when he died? Massive disruption to Walmart employees at a minimum. How would the net worth be calculated? Well, given his net worth, he'd be irresponsible not to have an army of lawyers and lobbyists making sure the number is as small as possible.

So, given the above, the idea isn't that simple.

Finally, there are ethical implications to that sort of policy. It implies that citizens earn at the pleasure of the government, not that the government rules by the consent of its citizens.
at least most of the time...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/731604873540685825
YouTube-encoded video is going to give relatively awful results, no matter what vision software you put it through.

Good cameras, lenses, and camera placement will make or break a project like this.
I totally agree. I find PHP CLI scripts to have a good balance between functionality, simplicity and performance. It's definitely not suited for every task, but I do think it's great for most tasks.
> The workers own the products that they make

I'm still a bit confused. If the workers own the outputs of their labor, then if I produce a tool, algorithm or machine, do I own it fully? What happens when someone else wants to use my machine to produce other goods - can I lend it or sell it to them in exchange for other goods they own, or in exchange for labor vouchers they own?

My point is that capital produces value when combined with labor - its multiplicative effect is why it is scarce to begin with. If it is to be priced efficiently, it seems to me that we are just re-constructing Capitalism from first principles.

> labour vouchers, which are distinct from money because they are non-exchangeable with others.

In the labor voucher system, why would anyone do hard labor when they could do easy labor for the same number of Hours? Who decides what labor is, and how are people incentivized to do scarce or useful work over non-scarce, non-useful work? The idea of all Hours being equal seems to intentionally flout the principal of comparative advantage.

> The absence of the state does not preclude collective action or sets of rules. In the same way that if someone appropriated means of production and forced people to work the machines for wage, I would encourage revolution against them, even in an anarchist society.

Oh, ok, so a State still exists, then. What attributes of this state make it "anarchism"?

> There is no payment, this is the whole point of Communism and anarchism. Wage labour is off the table.

I think you misunderstood me. By "who pays them" I meant: how are they rewarded for creating capital? Can they sell their capital on a market, or lend it out? If not, how do we reconcile the difference between the flat reward function for different types of work and their vastly different scarcities and social utilities?

Do you acknowledge the fundamental principle that not all labor is equally useful?
C does not own the word "string". A string is a piece if text. It is not a byte array.

Unicode strings are arrays of code points which are 21bit numbers.

If the API requires fast subscript (it usually does) then they would be UTF-32 or three-codepoints-in-int64, otherwise more compact internal representation is possible.

If you don't require supporting subscript and allow only iteration over list of code points then in-memory representation of strings can be more compact. It can use UTF-8 or even SCSU or BOCU1.

Some languages use polymorphic unicode strings which store ascii if the value is all-ascii and switch to something else if it isn't (python3.3 and factor come to mind).
> If this were a Democratic administration, or a rational Republican one, I'd say, it's time for the FDIC (too bad Sheila Bair's no longer its head) to come in, take over, and sell off Wells Fargo.

#1) but you didn't when it was a democratic administration

#2) why does the party of the president determine what you would say?

The history of too big to fail is littered with discarded ethics and increasing moral hazard on both sides of the aisle (80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s).
watch --version

1.1.0
I spent 10 years in a bootstrapped startup, I'm definitely behind. I should've stopped after 3 years.
Sure, it's an argument, but it's wrong. What do you consider to be a "simple" chip and a "complex" chip? From a design perspective, it absolutely is a "simple" chip.

And keeping the thing fed in terms of memory bandwidth is not that difficult if done on chip. Now, I have no idea what these guys are doing, but according to our simulations, (and people we've showed in the semi industry agree with the notion) it's quite possible to do that.
Restic.spoon: Hammerspoon module to manage restic backups
> But, the thing that struck me about this project and the examples is just how verbose PHP has gotten over the years. It is strikingly similar to old Java, in terms of class definitions and the like.

It's all opt-in. Nothing forces you to use Composer, classes or even type hinting in PHP if you do not depend on third party libraries backed by composer. Most of C extensions from 10 years ago are still here and procedural code from that era would probably still work today on PHP 7.
I can't imagine paying that much for a pair of headphones. I think that my most expensive ones were about a quarter of that prices. I don't place much value in getting rid of the wires, and I treat my headphones like cattle instead of pets for the most part.

I'd also lose a lot of the positive aspects of Airpods: I don't have any recent Apple devices that I use regularly, so I wouldn't get to take advantage of many of the auto-pairing features.