skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough - that's a great point. But I do wonder if the average git beginner is dealing with such complex repositories. Perhaps there could be a `git log --simple` or whatever equivalent, and those developers working on gigantic repositories could alias as necessary.
Ask HN: What stack you use to build websites?
> If you can't get the state to stop engaging in this, how are you going to get them to pass a law against it? Or not repeal the law the minute they want to do it again?

This stuff usually happens at the state or local level, so a federal law (not sure about the constitutionality of that) or constitutional law (or judicial interpretation) seems like the right place for it.

Tax arbitrage is a problem, IMHO, and I do wish there were better ways to mitigate it. It does seem we're moving more towards a system with local taxes occur where the sales are made, and perhaps the same could be done with local income and business taxes. It would make things more complicated, but we have software and tax codes could also use some compensating simplification.

IMHO, tax policy is part of the political system, and in the interests of democracy, the political systems shouldn't be made to compete with each other in exploitable ways.
There are two benefits, both related to keys:

1. Key generation using tiles as proposed is truly random, not susceptible to attacks on a PRNG.

2. The key is never connected to any network in any way--it's effectively airgapped. This removes whole classes of key-stealing and side channel attacks.

That said, while real randomness is still uncommon, there are electronic solutions, and the benefits of networking generally outweigh the security risk for most use cases.
Ironically also, Stuxnet is the reason Iran has such advanced cyber-offensive capabilities today and the reason for this article.
I had the same problem. Companies should be forced to make cancellation as easy as registration.

When blue apron first started, you couldn't even cancel it through the web interface -- You had to send an email to request cancellation.

edit:

Blue Apron still uses these slimy tactics. I created a screenshot [0] of the Blue Apron cancellation page [1] (in case they change it.) Look at how difficult they make cancellation! The question is literally, "How do I cancel my account?" and the answer should be a simple button to cancel. Instead, the first paragraph tells you not to cancel, just delay, and then the third and fourth paragraphs are just additional needless text.

Then, when you email them to cancel, they don't actually cancel your account -- they send you a link to the cancellation page. Why do they require you to email them to get the link? Why don't they just put it on the FAQ page? The answer is that they're using slimy tactics to increase friction and demotivate you from cancelling.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/sJ16B

[1] https://support.blueapron.com/hc/en-us/articles/203146687-Ho...
I don't see the problem. I occasionally upload dance performance videos with copyrighted music on Youtube. Then Youtube sends me a copyright notice and gives part of their ad revenue to the music owner. That seems fair.
Why not Clojure on the backend as well?
Not at the scale you have today.
Amazon itself is a pretty small player here so I think only a few thousand have even HEARD of Amazon Video.

BBC on the other hand can be watched by everyone with basic cable. And Netflix has a million subscribers.
> Only programmers do the latter but that is a shame.

Part of me says this is job security for software developers. The other part of me saw non-programmers try to use Excel as a layout/desktop publishing/vector graphics tool.

But seriously, if you know how to program and you do literally anything else, then you become a developer. It's the cushiest job with the highest pay.

The other reason it will never happen is because the developer's job isn't to make the office worker more efficient (that's Microsoft's job, so I suppose some developer does it, just not all developers). The developer's job is to increase efficiency. Either internal efficiency, or external efficiency. And that means: jobs will be lost.

Rather than training office workers how to program and have them leave for a developer job, it's better to just pay developers and have them automate an entire class of office workers' jobs.

Hopefully all developers get the opportunity to witness internal efficiency planning. Most developers are disconnected from the process. But to actually meet the people you're going to eliminate with software in a month or two is truly something.
Do you still have to e-mail them for a link to cancel your subscription completely? That's the dark pattern I couldn't stand from them. Unforgivable.
I would love to walk around in a VR world that looked like the old vector displays. Slightly glowing wire frames but with occlusion. This technically doesn't even need polygon rendering, though doing so with mostly black textures except the edges might be cool. At todays resolutions I think small cylinders along the edges of flat black surfaces might look better. And that's just one stylized world that doesn't require a mammoth GPU to handle.
The store's markup may be less than the cost of appropriately packing and shipping refrigerated/fresh goods, particularly as summer hits in the USA.
Leanpub Markua – Markdown for writing books
The whitepaper that inspired this study - How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood (http://www.alleywatch.com/2017/09/how-private-equity-and-ven...)
Thanks, we've reverted the submission title to that of the article.
>so even if it's a minor optimisation (it's not)

Has it been measured?

I mean, if they have actually measured:

1) the speed difference of using those shortcuts vs arrow/page-up and co when merely typing

2) the same speed difference as a percentage of the overall programming process

3) the impact of such speed difference in programmer productivity (speed translated to results faster or better code with fewer bugs).

Or it's just cargo cult?
All of those ingredients, with the exception of the garlic, will stay good for years as well.

I find it infinitely more resourceful to have a well-stocked kitchen with ingredients that last a good while than to go out and buy a single serving of anything. I would never consider buying a specific spice or sauce "an investment" in a single type of dish given both the small cost and the viability of those items in other types of cooking. Hoisin is great when making hamburgers or chilis, for example.
> e-mail taking a week or more to make it across the Atlantic

Any reading material behind this? Really interesting, would like to read up on what caused such a delay
This decision was indeed perplexing. People don't like things that auto-play as a rule, I would be very surprised if this passed user testing.

This and the parent comment lend themselves to a bigger concern of mine: services not always owning the UX. Either the services have to design multiple apps leading to the kind of inconsistencies that arise naturally from that or the devices have to use some API against whatever UI they happen to support.

Basically, you have to re-learn these services depending on where you're playing them. I feel like Netflix has locked it down a bit but there's always smart TVs, media players, etc. that will never uniformly support a single UX for any given service.
There is a tendency to judge and predict the commercial success of this (and every) music project.

As a long-time player and designer of digital music instruments in academic laboratory and underground contexts, i can say it's almost impossible to produce a hit directly from a laboratory. It has to go through a commercial layer first. Then an artistic layer.

That's not a dig at anyone or anything. Music is a projection of life's experiences into sound... A lab can inject some tech into the music world, but we won't know for approximately 1-2 decades whether any instrument or technique is a hit or it.

FM Synthesis, formalized by Chowning at Stanford ,comes to mind. His initial implementations were idiosyncratic. His math was an organization of community knowledge. It took Yamaha's need to make sound cards and keyboards to direct all this effort those sounds into the chips and instruments we ended up buying and loving in the 80s. And it took artists and producers to bring out the best of the techniques. Also, you'll find when the tech passes through the artistic layer, there are many more mundane variables than the technology, such as re-sale value and ability to get them re-paired.

For example, if you think these sounds are non-compelling, I dare you to look up compositions by Chowning himself! [1] They are nothing like Samantha Fox's "Touch Me," [2] a famous example of the Yamaha DX-7 FM synthesizer.

The point of research like this is not really to inspire music fans so much as to inspire the next generation of commercial instrument designers and eventually artists and producers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988jPjs1gao

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1btg3mpEOc
Flagged for the ridiculous click-bait headline. No, NYT, China's internet did not "break."
>Only if you want to teach people to hate s-expressions

This must be stressed. It is very important to use a lisp-aware editor. It doesn't have sense to do stuff that a lisp-editor can do automatically, such as auto-indent, and keeping parens balanced all the time.

Also, a good IDE (such as Portacle) gives very good on-the-fly documentation of function parameters/etc, which makes learning CL much faster.
I am not sure :/. Is there some reading material you could point me at? Thanks!
I'd love to see your model. Criticizing a model is relatively easy, coming up with something that describes the reality (in this case, Pareto distribution of wealth) yet better is much harder.

> As opposed to what? What kind of distribution might you expect?

For one thing, they might have expected the result not to be dominated by luck.

> It bears literally no relationship to reality, where random massive doublings of wealth are the exception, not the rule.

I don't think this will help to control the luck as opposed to talent. I suspect the problem is in the "leverage". Having more wealth makes it easier to accrue more wealth in the future, however, the same is not true for talent. Having more talent doesn't help you get much more talent.

So eventually, regardless how big your talent can be, the accrued wealth will dominate the end of the distribution. The rate at which the wealth is accrued doesn't matter, it will only reduce social mobility.

Addendum: Interestingly, the model actually shows what we would expect for low to middle end of income distribution, that talent there is more important than wealth. Which is in line with my explanation.
Well, democracy counteracts the power of wealth when it places limitations on it (in the form of policies that aim to reduce wealth inequality and in more limited ways like regulating political campaign finance) as well as other forms of power (like hereditary authority, power through the threat of violence not controlled by society etc.).

Even if we did have a good model of power dynamics, controlling it would still be hard, as it's an intractable system. Instead, what we have is politics, where different groups fight for their power (and freedom). That's exactly what politics is. When power inequality grows too much, we have revolutions.

What scares me is that we may be seeing an increase in soft, non-authoritarian power (like the power in the hands of companies like Google and Facebook), that is almost as bad as authoritarian power but harder to fight against because it doesn't feel coercive.
please don't flag or 'dupe' this article: is it's too important
Bain Capital's goal isn't to put the companies out of business, they are trying to extract as much money from and then sell off the businesses.

They don't care about long term. You could argue that they're setting up the companies for failure but that's not their intent. They do however have complete disregard for anything but making a profit.

One thing they like to do is sell off holdings and pocket the money. This hurts the company long term as it can't use those assets as collateral. An example of this is selling off store front property and then renting it back from the new owner.
> Law of averages, those who do make it are hard working and intelligent. Law of averages, those who do not are often less so.

I don't know how you came up with this "law of averages" but I do know that you haven't seen the paper's results.

> Take "power" from [Hard working and intelligent]U[Scott Disick, Donald JR] to normalize influence across everyone?

Limiting the creation of powerful feudal lords that are close to matching in power a democratic society's government is not the same as normalizing influence across everyone. Our choices aren't limited to feudalism and communism.

> Should the group, who by and large, has contributed more to the society not have proportionally more say?

That is a question of values, and you may have different ones, but the values on which democracies are founded say no (whether or not those values are actually realized is a different question). Less democratic societies say yes. I am not saying that a democracy is absolutely superior to an oligarchy, but you must understand where your values lie. All things considered, I value democracy more.
Adrian Colyer wrote a nice review/summary of the paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/22/canopy-an-end-to-end-per... .
>Why not Clojure on the backend as well?

It is said that CL provides a nicer experience to the developer (like, for example, clearer error messages, a more interactive development experience, etc.)
He says exactly that in the first 15 seconds of the video.
Paul Krugman Explains Trade and Tariffs
Everyone is unique, and choose differently based on their history and context.
You only can switch like that sometimes, and it would have been more intuitive if there was an implicit per-branch stash and stash pop when switching branches, which would always let you switch.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22053757/checkout-anothe...
New TEDx Talk Argues We'll See “The End of Animal Farming”
Researcher Jacy Reese argues that thanks to tissue engineered meat, plant based meat, and "the expanding moral circle," we will see humanity switch to an animal-free food system over the coming decades.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmbVphZKYc
And of course, it's not the white guilt that's in fashion. It's the black pride that's in fashion, as it always has been.
Some things shouldn't even be proposed. If someone proposed to kill old people, he would be fired or even arrested. Same thing should happen here. But no, idiots and evil people can propose all kinds of evil stuff over and over and over, until it passes.
Why? Many reasons, but "it's just a proposal" is one of them. It's never just a proposal a proposal and since these people have huge responsibilities they should use their brains or it means they are evil and must be punished.
> Or in the MS-DOS 2.5D days of gaming (Think DOOM).

We're most definitely there. Here's the Original DOOM, modded for VR:

http://rotatingpenguin.com/gz3doom/
I absolutely agree ! I do see the appeal of photorealism but lots of excellent 3D experiences are far from photorealism. A sensible art direction can go very far, and I'd even argue that a less than ideal graphical experience can be forgiven if the content is meaningful and engaging enough. I think we all have examples of this in mind
I missed the DHH series. Do you have a link? I haven't been able to find them.
If we care about substance over form, papers should be written in some type of markdown -- leave publishers, or readers even, to impose a format.
Open Location Code: Easier location encoding
> It really bothers me that people write news articles about the impact of this "research".

News articles about science, even good science are often terrible. The most common problems I see are oversimplifying, overgeneralizing and overstating conclusions. Many readers then further generalize and simplify what they read in the article.

I just saw this recently with an article about a study that concluded (and I'm oversimplifying here) that NSAIDs are a better first-line treatment for arthritis pain than opioids. By the time a layperson was referencing it in conversation, they had concluded that it's never a good idea to use opioids to treat any pain.
Common User Experience Fails That Are Easily Fixed
What a self-regulatory body in cryptocurrency means?
Or foveated rendering. That'll probably be commonplace in far less than a decade.
Also HEB in Texas. Great product.
https://www.heb.com/meal-simple-mch?cid=H-P-H-GOO-T_Meal-Sim...
Pretty much all of these meal services seem to prefer the default delivery option. I understand why the companies like to do this but it's a lousy pattern for anyone for whom these services are a very occasional thing.
Securing Ansible SSH Keys, flexible infrastructure automation
So what allows for directional sweeping to make the rock curl even more than it normally would on its own?

And why does the same directional sweeping technique, except applied in reverse, cause the rock to curl less than it normally would on its own?

And why does applying sweeping with both techniques at the same time counteract the directional movement?
Additional info:

[1] https://plus.codes/developers - Plus codes are based on Open Location Code (OLC, for short), an open-source project initiated by a group of Google engineers.

[2] https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc... - Definition document - Open Location Code: An Open Source Standard for Addresses, Independent of Building Numbers And Street Names

[3] https://github.com/google/open-location-code - Github repo

[4] https://plus.codes/howitworks - How it works
Indeed I totally followed DHH example, it looked like a great thing if done by multiple persons and personally I would like to see videos like that in different areas of design than programming.
I am looking for a similar answer.

Right now I am using Digital Ocean, and doing everything in a semi-automated fashion.

I have started to look at AWS, but it will take me some time to get through the docs.
That's what the second part is meant to address. The idea is that the US will enter into agreements saying "fair's fair, both your and our police can demand data regarding our respective citizens when our respective privacy laws allow for it".
They still have to do that to get the goods to the store. Delivering to fewer locations in bulk may be cheaper, though.
if you look at the timeline of events, I highly doubt this..

https://taskandpurpose.com/mattis-theranos-questions/

for starters. Not to mention rushing approval just months prior to obamacare taking effect and conveniently lining up drugstore partnerships at around the same time.

The board composition makes everything all the more suspicious.

Not to mention the same executive of that western union..

The level of shrewdness of, and resources available to, people operating at this level makes any claims of 'over their heads' tantamount to 'gross negligence' at the very least..

the phrase 'plausible deniability' didn't get invented in a vacuum...

and lets not even get into the business about the researcher who committed suicide because he didn't want to lie long before any of this other stuff happened..
That's not his argument at all. His argument is that just because you can do some task doesn't mean you "understand" it.

You don't need some fancy philosophy and complex thought experiments to see what he means. Just look at how people learn math. You can do calculations by memorizing algebraic rules, but that's not the same as understanding why those rules exist and what they mean. Even though you will calculate answers correctly in both cases, we all know there is a qualitative difference between them.

Back to Searle. His argument is that everything computers do is analogous to rote memorization and that transition to understanding requires something computers don't have.

Whether you buy his argument, two things are clear. First, there is a difference between just producing results and understanding the process. We all experienced this difference. It's all theoretical as long as you stick to simple tests (like multiple-choice exams), but becomes relevant when you suddenly expand the context (like requiring the student to prove some theorem instead of doing a calculation). Second, we also know that for humans this difference isn't just quantitative. Memorizing more algebraic rules and training in their application will not automatically result in students gaining understanding of mathematical principles.
Doesn't remotely make it okay to hit people or change what I said.
I think you can click through to it now.
There exists a free online version of Word: https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx
How reliable are they? The Vive's tracking is pretty rock solid. I'd be very disappointed with anything less (e.g., even 97% solid is not good enough) given that any glitches are REALLY jarring and nauseating in VR.
According to another link on here, there are plans to patch all the way back to 45nm Core 2 Duo chips in the works:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12533/intel-spectre-meltdown
I think the point I would make in favour of actually using LateX is that whilst evidence may indicate Word is quicker, the time I spend in Latex is (as a programmer) better spent.

I mean that in the sense that because the interface is basically a compiler compiling my code I can logically reason about what it's doing, and have reproducible results. I can tell it where I can tell it how to take care of images and be confident it will follow my guidance. This is especially important in larger documents. In Word, editted page 3 is as likely to change the layout of page 72 as an edit on page 72 is, and an edit on page 3 will have an equal chance of effecting the layout of page 4-N.

In Latex with very few exceptions I do not manually layout any part of the document, I design the rules for how the document is laid out. Obviously that is more time consuming - as solving the general problem is always more painful than a point fix.

This really pays off when your dissertation is due in 2 days and you're trying to cut 150 pages down to 100. You can focus on content, not why Bill Gates personally believes that any image is a graven image and is therefore forbidden.
I'm glad their going to be releasing microcode fixes for older processors, mainly because my hardware still uses one:

> Finally, Intel will also be going even further back with their microcode updates. Their latest schedule calls for processors as old as the Core 2 lineup to get updates, including the 1st gen Core processors (Nehalem/Gulftown/Westmere/Lynnfield/Clarksfield/Bloomfield/Arrandale/Clarkdale), and the 45nm Core 2 processors (Penryn/Yorkfield/Wolfdale/Hapertown), which would cover most Intel processors going back to late 2007 or so.
The punch was not over creative differences, iirc. It was over a meal not being hot. Kind of the same risk nownas well, unless punching has been legalized :-)
> as if that money could go to the homeless instead.

Why couldn't it?
Why this archeologist believes New Brunswick is home to a lost Viking settlement