skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, here's a real example of how fullstory can help provide a better product. Bug reporting. A user gets a JS error on the page, but say my application is pretty complex, and the state machine I've built can't handle a particular state. Well, I can easily walk through the recording of what the user had done and reproduce the issue.

I can actually hop on a call with this user and walk them through how to do something, while looking at what page and what inputs they have filled in. This takes frustrating back and forth of "What do you see now?" that happens without this tool.

Say I want to influence user decisions by offering subtle cues to push them towards something that will be overall beneficial for them. By watching certain key users we can know what frustrates them (erratic mouse movements, long time searching for features etc) and what things they grok easily.

The article totally washes over a super important feature of fullstory, excluding elements[0]. When you include a simple class name or specifically selecting what you'd like to exclude.

[0] http://help.fullstory.com/technical-questions/exclude-elemen...
> maybe making manufacturers liable for the damages caused by security holes in their devices

Then they will sell two versions of the same product. One lets you voluntarily waive that requirement for the same price as today, or a "normal" version where it costs orders of magnitude more.
Awesome, thanks a lot!
I thought handlersocket was like 2x faster?
For something related, see "A letter from Gaia to humanity on the joy of expectation" I put in another reply below.
Speaking of being cynical and conspiratorial, I think you're making more out of this than there really is.

HN is hosted in the United States and that's where most of the readers are. It's natural for a person to use their own country as a comparison in discussions about governments and countries that are foreign to them.

There's no conspiracy, and the same thing happens on any discussion site where a majority of users are from a specific country.
If we can automatically derive compiler optimizations, we might be able to sidestep some of the substantial engineering challenges involved in creating and maintaining a high-quality compiler

I think it's clear, but you may have assumed it's about something it's not? It's about saving effort in writing an optimizing compiler. Have you ever looked at how many and how big LLVM's optimization passes are?

The automatically derived passes may not result in code that's as fast as the hand-written passes. I assume they would have mentioned that if it were the case. But they take less effort to develop.
The simple solution being what? You left a cliffhanger
Interesting. I find paper to be far more "persistent". I have notebooks I kept in high school and college, but have lost most of the digital files from that time, or can no longer read them due to their being in a file format long dead. Corruption also plays a role, as they've moved through a variety of storage media in that time. I find digital works best for me for keeping shopping lists (that sync up with my wife, so we both know what we need and can add things), giving me reminders of appointments and time sensitive tasks, immediate communications, or as a tool for projects I'm currently on (I use org-mode heavily and particularly like its linking features for getting back to config files on remote servers, emails with instructions, etc.). All quite transitory.
Not sure why "speculators from outside the country" are worse than those from inside the country. Personally, I would prefer we encourage efficient land use by everyone, regardless of their nationality.

One elegant taxation system to accomplish that is the land value tax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
it's pretty standard in the US for the district attourney to offer a plea bargian of parole in exchange for pleading guilty. This results in high win rate for the attourney and they look at it as most of these parolees end up making a mistake during parole and going in for longer sentances.
I know right, you usually have to change a lot of code just to change versions of a framework.

One of my teammates just upgraded our django framework from 1.4 to 1.8 and it took him almost an entire week to do.
> Many of the delays came from his side. If it had gone to trial, the prosecution would have only had to prove he was guilty by a preponderance of the evidence

No, that would be true if it was just revoking parole on the prior charge (it's kind of odd that that didn't happen, but it's possible that the original sentence ended to soon after the arrest to bother), but this was a new criminal charge which would have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
> There is plenty of resources and Python 2 support is neither a burden nor this burden in any way increasing.

Aside from what others have said, NumFOCUS is woefully underfunded. If you're interested in seeing continued development of NumPy and other amazing scientific Python packages, you should think about contributing!

https://www.numfocus.org

(Not a NumFOCUS person although I occasionally volunteer with them and definitely donate on a recurring basis.)
how many people can inspect network traffic on any given device? I don't think that's even a common skill among software developers unless you have a devops/IT focus, much less the entire populace
Why the $0.3M?
I think the buyer probably had a net worth at least ≥ $4.5 billion (I wouldn't spend more than 10% of my wealth on a single painting.) According to https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/ there are only ~380 persons that would qualify. Any one knows who is the buyer?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/under-bush-a-new-...

Back in 2005, the White House was shipping propaganda to be broadcast by local TV news stations across USA
From TFA:

> So: don’t treat this as a fully general Redis/MySQL benchmark. It really, really isn’t.

> I’ll repeat this one more time, so drive-by commenters look silly: this is a benchmark of our specific use case and no other.
The keyword trick given by others is nice. If like me you are lazy, use the autocomplete feature.

First manually type the URL with the search terms and validate. Then for your second search type some unique part of the base URL and it appears because it is in your history, press down and modify the URL for your new search.

When you have done this several times, it seems firefox understands what you are trying to do and autocompletes the URL with the common parts.

Works Weil with wiktionary, wikipedia and WordReference for instance. Special mention to WordReference with its friendly URL scheme.

Works on firefox mobile too.

I canot remember how to validate autocompletion, my fingers do it themeselves. It must be something like Right or CTRL+Right. On mobile, it is a touch.
I didn't see a breakdown in the article, but it could have to do with the fees and or monetary conversion.
Well, they probably would if they had an incentive to do so.
I have gone back & forth with Notebook and Digital.

The current system that seems to work for me, is to have a ring binder similar to this : https://www.staples.com/1-2-Staples-Standard-5-1-2-x-8-1-2-M...

Then buy paper fillers : https://www.amazon.com/Avery-Filler-Inches-Sheets-14230/dp/B...

Some rules I follow:

* Every time I start a new project or topic, I start on a new page.

* Have tabs/stickers along the side of the paper that starts a new project

* If you are continuing to write on a paper/project that has stuff on it already, continue on a new page. Since its a binder, you can always move sheets around.

Once I am done with a project, I move it to digital form by arranging it like a mind-map onto a digital notebook. This serves two purposes. 1. reinforces the main concepts in my head. 2. Digital makes it easy to search.

Having tried a lot of them, the only one that I like that has all the features I am looking for is MILKR (https://milkr.io) - no affiliation.
I know hypothes.is supports PDFs, but their annotations work on selected text ranges and that doesn't work very well for math stuff (hard to select).

The main page has recently listed arXiv articles right now, we'll add the recently annotated articles soon.

As for PDF.js, it's pretty well written and easy to understand. I didn't have trouble make modifications at all.
I'm pretty confident he's not suggesting a rapid death-penalty for drug-offenders
The Swift 1->2->3 breakage has permanently poisoned the ever-important well of StackOverflow answers.

For some tasks, there are literally 5 mutually incompatible syntaxes to understand (Obj C, Swift 1234). Even though the UI can sometimes autoconvert for you, it doesn't help at at when you're looking at someone else's code.

Swift is a great example of what not to do.
Unless some jurisdiction uses “parole” to include what “probation” usually means, that's incorrect, and even if that's true in some jurisdiction it's not in Louisiana, where (as is generally the case) you can be sentenced to probation, or released from a prison sentence on parole.

So, as a parolee, he had previously been sentenced to prison and released under supervision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record

"Correct the Record was a super PAC founded by David Brock. It supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. The super PAC aimed to find and confront social media users who posted unflattering messages about Clinton and paid anonymous tipsters for unflattering scoops about Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, including audio and video recordings and internal documents."
Nice, thanks for the heads up on that. A small thing makes a surprisingly big deal. I'm unsure as to why that isn't available in options other than the monetary reasons. Nothing against pocket personally, I just clutter it up enough on my own. :) Cheers.
According to another source from BBC, the final bid for the work was $400m, with fees bringing the full price up to $450.3m. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42000696

What's interesting from the BBC article is the image "The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right" doesn't even look like the same person?

Another anecdote - In 1958 it was sold at auction in London for $60. By then the painting was generally reckoned to be the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself.
I think it would be really cool to write a text editor. But elisp is also really easy to learn. A couple of weeks and you can be writing extensions.
isn't the most efficient land use just letting the free market work without taxation? if land is best used as a store of value for someones money then thats what it is.
Uhhh what ever happened to Innocent until proven guilty? The case never went to trial so he was never even proved as guilty - for all you know he could be completely innocent regardless of his past convictions.
There were Byzantium commentators on Aristotle see

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_Aristotle

In fact most of Byzantium natural philosophy was based on Aristotle:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/byzantine-philosophy/#Top
> It's not illegal to hand money to a private company (you will not be charged with a crime); it's illegal to, as the company, accept that money

IANAL, but I'm fairly certain it's actually the solicitation part that's illegal. In theory, the company could accept it without an issue if they could prove that they didn't solicit at any point. In practice, there's no way to do that reliably, though.
~10 boards from China cost $12 with shipping, and the quality is quite good. I've ordered multiple times, and have been satisfied every time.
It's frustrating that no matter how strong the evidence, a large proportion of Americans insist there is nothing to worry about.

I have thought a lot about this and come to the conclusion it is to a great extent due to theological beliefs. A large proportion of Americans are evangelical Christians who believe the Bible is the literal world of God, and furthermore believe that the Bible says that unregulated free market capitalism is the right economic system.

So when scientists claim that unregulated capitalism is causing damage to the world that in turn is harmful to the human race, these people assume that this claim is wrong and the scientists are really atheists trying to undermine Biblical religion.

As for the libertarians and conservatives who just make scientific arguments, it seems to me they are assuming that the Earth was created such that unregulated capitalism can't possibly harm it,at least not in a way that would harm humans, no matter what new technologies corporations introduce, and on how large a scale. So they have a sort of implicit theology.
Converthmlt
TL;DR - I'm not saying it isn't real, but I'm not saying it's fake either; http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/100-million-leonardo-da-vinc...
> Poor people are allowed to legally gamble away their money in situations where its 100% known that they will lose it all.

Gambling is viewed as entertainment, both by the government and the people participating in it.

As entertaining as startup life can be, there's a very big difference between a risky investment and gambling for entertainment value.
Philippines government partners with Facebook to build Luzon bypass
Forever 21 tells customers that some credit card numbers may have been stolen
Perl6 is incompatible with Perl5, so they're also going through a similarly painful transition.

Everyone waxes lyrical about how Python 2.x was "good enough and why would you change it", but there were several things in Python 2.x that were objectively awful (unicode was broken, iterator variables can leak to the outer scope, division of integers producing integers, xrange, raw_input, mixed indentation "working", etc). And while no single issue alone would justify Python 3.x, the combination of all of these issues as well as some other semantic problems justified the need for Python 3.

Of course, that being said, Python 3 also had some issues that it took several versions to iron out.
Here's the easy 50% of it: https://github.com/alcarithemad/typetrace
Perl is a weird language language for you to cite when we're talking about languages that do major transitions well. Perl 6 was created because Perl 5 was an evolutionary dead end, took 15 years, has no adoption, and Perl 5 usage shrunk tremendously in the meantime. Not saying this glibly as I love Perl and I hope Perl 6 sees some adoption, but come on now. Also remember that Perl 5 itself was nearly a complete rewrite from 4.
I would hope that these days no rational individual could support jail time for any non-violent drug crime, with the possible exception of cross-border smuggling, which treads on some different areas of the law.
Land is required for things necessary to human existence and it's not really possible to make more of it so if the market determines that the "best" use of it is for storing money society should probably step in and overrule the market.
50.3 million dollars in fees....
Or maybe he was just innocent?
I'm in the US and have experienced gluten problems.

It's nowhere near as bad as it was, I can eat wheat with no problem, but can't eat a lot for a long time.

But, imported Italian pasta doesn't give me a problem.

I've noticed even now with US wheat I can get constipated, but not with the Italian pasta.

I've heard so many things, like US wheat has 4x the gluten, or is sprayed with RoundUp after harvesting to dry it out, so who knows, but there does seem to be something different.
The title rubs me the wrong way, it comes off elistist and arrogent. Average? Just because you are "smart" doesn't mean that you are going to be effective and excel at your job. There are other intangibles such as instincts, communication, customer interaction, business intuition.
I wonder when the world is going to have a conversation that amassing the kind of wealth this would require, to spend a (small?) portion on a painting, is absurd.

I'd like to get insight into the minds of the people e.g. Gates, Murdoch et al that are so driven by profits and wealth to the detriment of so many others.
Firefox: Octotree
Chrome: Momentum
> yes, there are ethical reasons to accumulate so many resources: because some problems are incredibly hard to solve and need a lot of resources to even start to solve.

Allowing people to become billionaires is a hideously inefficient way to solve hard problems. Most billionaires hoard their wealth, or spend it on the hard problem of ostentatious display of wealth. Billionaires who solve hard problems: Bill Gates and Elon Musk. The rest of that wealth goes on things like solid gold soap dishes for superyachts - my neighbour worked at a shipyard, and a customer had them rip out merely gold-plated soap dishes in all the showers.

If even a fraction of that money funded university research departments, say, we'd get far more problems solved.
I think if you look at it in context of the entire Oberon operating environment, it makes a certain amount of sense. While everything is written in Oberon, it seems to me that the average user would essentially be using oberon for roughly what shell scripts and AppleScript is used for: I.e. for writing little commandlets that automate frequently used functionality.
Since ~1/3 of American wealth is in homes, I’d imagine that most homeowners are not for a scheme that would cause their wealth to decrease (or restrain its rise)
I haven't benchmarked, but I think you'll find DyNet to be significantly faster than DRAGNN in that setting.

I'm also not sure DRAGNN is a good direction to head in, if that's the problem. You'll never ever be able to change anything in it, so if performance isn't good you're stuck. Writing the forward pass isn't very difficult, so I'd much rather be able to replace parts of a network with optimised code if necessary.
doesn't have to be an individual.
look to Portugal, the legalization is not the main thing.
(shorter sentences, because prison doesn't work, and treatment above all)

It's no cliffhanger - really any action would do wonders.
Instead we see systemic failures at multiple levels.
Hey it works for Singapore, Indonesia, and probably the Philippines.

I think people are easier to control, but less productive when they have drugs. So it's really a question of what your nation is optimizing for at the time.

Of course having a sub-class of previously convicted minor offenders, who as a result struggle with work/life, can also be fairly effective. It's not exactly slavery - that was mostly their ancestors.

https://ramio1983.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/image1df.jpg
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’, was sold for $ 450.3M
> I wish I had a better idea

Something that already works are various forms of certification.

Examples are:

* "Norton protected" on websites

* Underwriters Laboratories on US products

* US DOD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Critera for how the US military checks the security of a product

* ISO 9001 for quality management

* Oregon Tilth for certifying organic products

Some of these are more valuable than others, but are at least a separate stamp of approval.

With my magic wand I'd have a group come together to form such a certifying organisation and provide it with a marketing budget. The marketing would mirror the success of "check for a green padlock on a website to know it is secure" - look for the stamp on a product box.

If that doesn't happen and there are more serious incidents is that consumers would look to Google, Apple, Amazon etc. eg if the proposed device doesn't work with the Apple hub and been vetted by Apple, then they wouldn't buy it.
Fascinating to watch Rybolovlev move money in the open like this with the help of the art market apparatus. What a time to be alive.

If you're not keeping track this was almost double the price expected for a da Vinci of questioned provenance sold by the fertilizer magnate who bought Donald Trump's Palm Beach mansion for double the estimated price and then never lived in it.
10-15% is pretty standard in the auction world.
We can think of the Internet as a public resource, like the electromagnetic spectrum.[0] The FCC regulates what can use the spectrum, requiring that devices do so safely, in a manner that will not interfere with other devices or cause harm to people or property. The same could (and I think should) be required of devices that connect to the Internet.

Frankly, I'm tired of trying to find time to find specs (and then learn how it really works) to figure that out for myself; I secretly dread receiving anything networked for the holidays. It's difficult for me; most end-users have no hope of protecting themselves - and they seem to assume that any product sold must be safe. They assume it is regulated, in effect.

[0] Arguably the Internet is physically different than spectrum. Physics 'creates' the spectrum and its physical limitations make it a public good; there are only so many frequencies, and propagation is part of the equation. The Internet is a creation of humans and in theory can be recreated or modified at will. But that theory isn't realistic: The Internet cannot be replaced or substantially modified; the public has no realistic option of using a different Internet if they don't like this one. In any practical sense, it's a public good.
It will look good on the wall of a safe.
Back from DevOpsDays Cuba
To also compare: Ruby made big breaking changes similar to Python 3 and called it "Ruby 1.9".

It wasn't really a big deal. There was some pain and it became essential to have multiple versions of Ruby installed. But I haven't heard of anyone insisting on new code written for Ruby 1.8.

So languages can break backwards compatibility once in a while, and it doesn't always have to be the shitstorm it was for Python.

Early 3.x was bad, and that probably gave critical mass to the backlash. But there's no reason to care anymore about what early 3.x was like. Modern 3.x is a way better language.
I think people are still coming to grips with the incredible scalability of software. You might hate a business tycoon, but somebody worked their ass off to build that business. But today, you write a nifty little game about a bird worth a few nickles or something, and thanks to stupid-scalar you're an overnight billionaire. People don't know how to feel about that. I don't know how to feel about that.

The closest analogue from before would have been inventing something clever, making a proof of concept, filing a patent, and chaching you never have to work again and have your own Senator. And of course that never happened.

Linus obviously puts in a hell of a lot more work than that, but the simplified version is a thought experiment.

Anyway, nobody begrudges someone who had a good idea and did the world good, having it made and living a good life. But I think there's two elements that turn things sour- one is the influence of money in politics, and the other is as you mentioned that some people have nothing. If nobody was starving and we got money out of politics, it would be easier to applaud overnight billionaires with no reservations.

As for the "Hard Problems", it's businesses or government that tend to tackle those. The billionaire investor-philanthropist funding a derring-do venture out of his own pockets ala Musk is not the norm.
How is the Twisted Py3 support coming along in practice? It looks like they are steadily ticking items off the todo list, but is it ready for production use yet?
That's pretty nice, kudos! By the way, I'm impressed no one mentioned tmux' remote session in this thread.