skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably thinking of Knuth himself. He's mentioned several times how he never intended to make a programming language, and how puzzled he is that people write programs in TeX macros.

E.g.:

> In some sense I put in many of the programming features kicking and screaming [...] Every system I looked at had its own universal Turing machine built into it somehow, and everybody’s was a little different from everybody else’s. So I thought, “Well, I’m not going to design a programming language; I wanted to have just a typesetting language.” Little by little, I needed more features and so the programming constructs grew.[...] as a programmer, I was tired of having to learn ten different almost-the-same programming languages for every system I looked at; I was going to try to avoid that.

etc. (https://www.ntg.nl/maps/16/15.pdf)

and:

> I was really thinking of TeX as something that the more programming it had in it, the less it was doing its real mission of typesetting. When I put in the calculation of prime numbers into the TeX manual I was not thinking of this as the way to use TeX. I was thinking, "Oh, by the way, look at this: dogs can stand on their hind legs and TeX can calculate prime numbers."

(Coders at Work interview)

In fact, if you use TeX the way Knuth intended and uses it, then the use of macros or programming is really quite minimal. It's only LaTeX that to pursue a better document interface for the user, ends up writing horrifically complex macros -- Mittelbach mentions that nine out of ten "dirty tricks" mentioned by Knuth in the TeXbook are actually used in the source code of LaTeX!
Why should there be any limitation on hours, or any fee for access? It’s a public easement to allow access to public property, and it predates his ownership by decades. And night time visits to the beach are awesome.

He bought an asset, and is now trying to take value from the public to increase his own enjoyment of the asset and the value of that asset. An essentially private beach in California, and enforced by Supreme Court decision would be pretty cool, and insanely valuable.

He should have no control over the access and should be liable for any attempt he makes to hinder or hide access.

I’d totally make regular visits if I lived in the area.
Sure but US healthcare is a vulture out to rip you apart in pieces. My plan, make fuck your money in US, retire in Australia. I also hope the economy crashes some time in Australia because the prices there are definitely in a huge bubble.
I know this is in poor taste, but it's the best thing I could think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2ZBVk6gpFA
I did a Google search for elaboration on this and apparently there is disagreement that ISO-11179 says this at all:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/d5f2f...

> Yes, this is the same version as I found, but the closest thing I could find to addressing table names in the paper itself was an "Object Class name", something like an OOP Class or something you'd find in a UML diagram, but not really the same as a table name, and in any case all the examples were singular.

> Was actually kinda hoping Celko would deign to comment on this himself as he seems to be the chief proponent of the "collective identifiers as specified by ISO 11179" meme.
What's wrong with asyncio? For those of us not in the loop.
Saleae gives their software away for free, there's not any need to pirate it but still using their software is morally shady IMO because they put a lot of effort into it. I prefer Sigrok anyway, even with the actual Saleae analyzers.

Also worth noting that Sigrok loads the analyzer with open source firmware, you're not using any pirated code. The hardware is basically a clone of the original Saleae logic analyzer, but the Saleae hardware is just a standard reference implementation of a cheap Cypress chip so that doesn't really bother me.
it's still shown as 5.5k in grafana. what am i missing? the unit is events per minute.
You're proposing an additional $2500 a year tax on a $250k home? And a $5000 a year increase on a $500k home? I don't foresee this being very successful.
Many would disagree, but having bureaucratic makes it easier to blame someone when things have gone wild.
As I recall, he has also argued that there was some sort of treaty that pre-dated the California Constitution. None of it makes sense, he's just decided this is a fight he wants to fight.
I wonder how much I'd pay for a full content rss feed from a good blog... Maybe 20cents/mo.? I know, cheap, but there is lots of content...
I was referring to the title of the article.
Perhaps foreigners who flagarantly and repeatedly violate our laws should be prioritized for deportation. Why should some rich foriegner be allowed to break state and federal laws for years with no serious repercussions?

Edit: If you disagree, please reply with an explanation!
Interesting! Researchers have successfully listened in to VGA signals using professional equipment [1]. Could the same be done with rtl-sdr receivers?

One application I can imagine is to build an osmo-fl2k transmitter that looks like a USB memory stick, ask someone to plug it into the projector computer at church, and then record the video stream with the lyrics. Most projectionists have been helpful and willing to share their PPT files so I can study Chinese, but some are refusing to share them because of copyright issues. The translated songs were not officially licensed, so they're refusing to distribute their data. It is usually possible to ask someone to plug in a USB device (e.g. "to charge"), so if that's a possible entry vector then it would interesting to develop the transmitter further.

[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iss2006-tempest.pdf
Many decades back there was scaremongering among the western nations that overpopulation in China and India will lead to hunger all over the world, which lead to a lot of programs that may have actually lead to US / Europe sponsoring these technologies to become widely available in China and India.

Ford Foundation is often cited as one of the main culprits pushing the ultrasound technology in these countries, the result of which is the current situation of skewed gender ratio.

Upward mobility of women (in search of grooms) leads to more and more frustrated men at lower levels, leads to more crime and overall desperate situation.

Sadly many recent articles follow the typical propaganda based approach and look at blaming patriarchy etc.

src:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/what-money-can...
https://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Selection-Choosing-Girls-Co...
http://indiafacts.org/was-ford-foundation-culpable-in-aborti...
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I think it's even simpler: No one is owed advertising revenue. There are entire classes of content for which the risks of being associated with outweigh the benefits as far as advertisers are concerned. This goes well beyond YouTube; it's affected a lot of network and radio shows as well.
The most recent example is Laura Ingraham, e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/laura-ingraham-advertisers-drop... .

I think that the best way to support video creators going forward is Patreon or YouTube's built-in sponsorships. You can't rely on ad dollars from big companies anymore unless you yourself are a big content producer, on the level of an actual network.
terrible retail experience, yes and quite standard for retail, especially that that purposefully encourages the whine and cry for things they want at eye level at registers.

I avoid certain stores in order to avoid the whole "I want this, I want, I want, whine whine" in the store and then at the checkout. I understand Toys R Us playing to this, going in you know it's going to happen...

but rather than really trying to increase it with impulse things at the entrance and then at the checkout, especially with things like candy, they could innovate.

Giving the kids a scanner like some of the walmarts have available and letting them zap all their wants, like some stores have with wedding registries, then letting them print a list or send to an app and then be able to sort by most wanted, etc - easy sharing.. could increase sales, and take care of the whining problem for example.

I'd also support a non candy aisle by spending more money if it had fresh fruit / veggy snacks for example, and I think others would as well.

The wall street greed that pushes some of these methods of selling is backfiring in some ways that are uncountable - if your app could detect the times I need something, yet drive by your store because kids and your impulse check out aisles..
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>Users are entitled to certain rights when it's a monopoly. And YT is essentially a monopoly.

YT is essentially a monopoly in what market specifically? You have tons of options to host content you make. They are under zero obligation to provide services to you.

>Think of it this way: Why are you entitled to privacy from Facebook? You can simply stop using Facebook, right?

I don't follow. Please clarify what you mean. I didn't say I'm entitled to privacy from FB. (And FWIW, I don't use FB.)
That makes sense though. Imagine it cost $1000 to visit the beach, opened only 4a-5a and had no clear signage. That's pretty useless. The requirements should be clear.
Your comment is all good and well, but while the tone is dismissive/combative, its content doesn't interact with peterhandlaw's point.

Just so you know :)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4421826-Prager-Dismi...
> The issue is that even if video hosting can be done 'cheaply' (and it can't if you want speed!), the ad money won't come to a self-hosted video site.

That's definitely the big barrier to all of this. There's been a few groups trying to build another platform to compete with youtube. So far most of them seem to either have found small niches that are working for them (vimeo et al) or they've got belly up (vid.me, etc.). I'm aware of a ffew that are trying but haven't fully launched yet, such as Linus Media Group's (linus tech tips primarily on youtube) FloatPlane venture, which seems like it's going for more of a youtube-red like model where you pay a subscription fee, and what you watch determines who gets a cut of the fee.

I really do hope that someone manages to get even a modest competitor going for content creators, even if it doesn't smash youtube down it could do a lot to give them a bargaining position on what kinds of content can survive.
There are a whole lot of native apps I just won't use because I don't want to go through the hassle of installing software. The macOS App Store is bad; Windows installers are worse. Entering a URL is a lot less friction.

I don't think the user experience of Web apps has to be worse than native, but even if we grant that it's worse, I'll take it over the pain of installing apps. And, based on the experiences of numerous SaaS companies, I'm far from alone in this. A lot of native app developers wail and gnash their teeth about how the Web is a technically inferior solution (which, again, I disagree with, but let's leave that aside). But, from my point of view, native apps on the mainstream desktop platforms have consistently failed to get deployment right, and that's terribly important to users in practice.

Take, say, LibreOffice. Is it better than Google Docs? Sure, probably. But I have such basic needs in word processing and spreadsheets that the marginally better user experience of the native app doesn't make up for the added annoyance of downloading LibreOffice and keeping it up to date. All indications are that most users are like me.
The 60-year-old mom who still cooks for her seven sons + her husband... Noooo! learn how to make your own bread - at least.
I love the Launchaco platform for making these pages, but you might want to remove the name 'Launchaco' from the title bar on the plan's and pricing page.

https://www.startmode.co/Plans%20&%20Pricings
Given how the state of California has ruled, is there any practical obligation for local authorities to prevent people from using the road? Would a federal ruling change that? This reminds me of the marijuana situation where states are making their own decisions without federal support.
Google’s Reader fiasco did more to kill RSS than any other actor in the community before or since. Cornering the market damaging their AdWords business with a free product subsidized by that very business and then shutting it down was really gross.
Really liked the idea. Best wishes!
How well do these handle mathjax and the like?
Interesting that the decline started in 2007. That seems like a long time ago in internet time.
The 1st Amendment is a protection against the government censoring speech. Any private or public company has the right to set its policies as it sees fit, as long as no other laws are violated, such anti-discrimination laws (which do not protect political alignments).
Well there won't be 330 million people for long either. There are also a lot of other animals to eat other than deer.

The people who have rifles will have a better chance than the people who don't. The people without them will have to rely on the kindness of others to live. I think people stuck in or near cities will have a low chance of survival regardless of if they have a rifle.
Well, if Khosla paid for the land the road is built on, I agree that the state should pay the fair price for the road. Seems straightforward and fair to me. Can someone help me understand why this is not that simple? And then we should have a law that prohibits private ownership of any land that is the sole connector between two public pieces of land. i.e, there should always be a pathway at least enough for 2 cars to pass through that connects 2 pieces of land. This should be verified every time a new land deal is registered. That should prevent such mishaps in future.
I have that book in my pile. Skipped it last time I picked up the next one, due to not quite being in the right frame of mind for a depressing read.

> So I'm pessimistic that we can solve the issue in a more pleasant manner.

Oh, I'm quite sure we can't. The peaceful dissolution of the USSR has been a miracle, although that story isn't really over yet. The U.S., at least, will not have a pitchfork moment so anywhere near so quietly.

The question of 'how bad does it have to get' is quite relevant to those of us who have enough money to be planning for retirement, but not enough for his'n'her's yachts - what are the odds that we should maybe start scoping retirement-nations with the best combinations of freedom, opportunity and tolerance for refugees from a place famously losing tolerance for refugees?
The 90's also had ClearCase, which is quite revolutionary for its time and I guess it still is. It was a beast to maintain and IBM was making a killing in annual license fee (~3000 per license)
Just like in the intro to Idiocracy.
This. Buying your way out of public access easements, is bad law. Really, really bad precedent, to let the commons be bought.
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Its not just a trail through the private property to the mean high tide line. Its a whole sandy beach, an access road, restrooms, etc. And it was always demarcated as private property—the previous owners operated it as a business.

That’s why the case isn’t just about an easement. The county wants Khosla to keep operating it as a beach, not just to let people get to the water.
Yeah, academia is another whole can of words. Apologies if I didn't make it explicit, but I was talking about SWEs. And anecdotally I added a lot more than $60K to my salary by moving to NYC, so I'd have been fine to cover an increased CoL of up to $34K/year; in actuality, it increased by far less than that, less than $10K/year, thanks in large part to saving $600 per month after selling my car which I don't need here. Also, my current employer provides three meals a day, which saves a surprising amount of money (even if I don't eat dinner at the office everyday). That kind of perk simply wasn't available at most tech companies where I moved from.

Speaking of Stanford, one of my coworkers left to go teach there for a year and then came right back. She was actually losing net worth there because they didn't pay her enough for the area, and she didn't want to cut back on her lifestyle and live frugally like one would have to to make a future on that salary. It's sad, but there you go. Maybe there should be a tuition surcharge on CS majors to allow them to actually pay instructors enough to retain them, vs running right back to industry.
Kickstarter campaigns follow a similar pattern to the ethereum graph shown in the article. It’s not because of a malicious user who wants to secretly own all the kickstarters. It’s because time-limited crowdfunding campaigns tend to attract the most donations at the beginning (when enthusiasm/press is high) and towards end of the campaign (when FOMO is high).

Also the author should really state in the article that the swarm graph is not cumulative.
Does anyone knows if this can be done in Vue.js?
Quite impressive. So, have you launched the app yet?

Best wishes :)
Does anyone have an idea as to why the testicles weren't included in the transplant?

My best guess is that the testosterone produced wouldn't be "compatible" with the recipient and they would want to avoid an immune system rejection?

Additionally, I suppose that if sperm is still being produced, you could effectively impregnate a woman with someone else's DNA. That would be... strange. I can see how that might be unwanted by both parties.
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Facebook and Google: Skip the F8 and I/O Infomercials; Fix Your Problems
Here's a highly relevant quotation from the above linked article.

> There has been no permit or other final decision requiring Petitioners to charge visitors $2 or any amount for vehicle access, or to advertise any message on its property

So Khosla's claims that he is being forced to charge $2 and operate a business are lies. Obviously he looked in to restricting access by charging an exorbitant fee but found that he could charge no more than $2 and only if he applied for a permit that would likely be denied.
Because the people who would secure the micro transactions would br counter party to tons of risk & compliance costs.

If you are going to be take on tons of counterparty & compliance risk it’s easier to make money in other markets.
The previous owners ran a business allowing people to access the beach. Its not at all clear that he knew what he was buying into.” Put differently, your point is at most a standing argument. Either the previous property owners suffered the taking, or Khosla did. But somebody did.
Excellent point, and very true. I wasn't a great SWE when I first graduated. I've always been smart, but I wasn't learning great development practices at my previous companies. None of them even had a great culture of code reviews, testing, or continuous integration. I've become a much stronger developer now that I am at a top tier company working with very smart people who have very high standards; in a way it's allowed me to reach my potential.
Is it the religion playing a role or education/wealth?

You see the same divide between North and South India with education and wealth, Southern India is more educated and wealthy compared to the Northern regions.
Take this garbage back to reddit. The recipient was a young Afghanistan vet who lost his urinary as well as sexual function. Have some empathy without resorting to some cheap internet laugh.
Unless he's just completely making things up, the previous owners had limitations and charged a fee.
Perhaps it has to do with personality. People who don't need to brag, go about building their lifestyle biz. Others are driven by their ego and need for recognition, etc.
It's ridiculous that you assume cooking is a burden for her.

I host family meals regularly and really enjoy cooking for everyone, plus it provides an opportunity for everyone to get together.

Maybe stop looking at everything with such a negative filter.
Life isn't short it's the longest thing you'll ever do
>>“In the future, there will be millions of men who can’t marry, and that could pose a very big risk to society,”

May I suggest a war between the two countries? This problem will be solved. I was being semi-serious but I remember reading about war being more likely since China had so many men.
Holy shit. Is that why when you plugged in a cartridge a little weirdly, the nintendo logo would look all weird and the game wouldn't boot? it was a simultaneous legal protection and a harware protection? that was fucking genius!
The article I read earlier specifically said there were ethical concerns with him potentially being able to father children with the donor's genetic code. Which is a weird ethical concern I'd be intrigued to read more about.
"The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep" by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is excellent. The terminology can feel alien or intimidating, but if you're receptive you can see results quickly. Bonus: The author & his organization give many workshops, in the US and abroad, even online.
Hm, I've heard of PVM but don't know much about it. I don't doubt that there were projects to to unify memory/disk/CPU across distinct machines before Inktomi/Google.

I don't think they used Ethernet and Unix sockets, but I don't know for sure. It's debatable how important that distinction is. Although, to me, commodity clusters also means commodity networking, not just commodity PCs, because otherwise the clusters wouldn't have been as cost effective overall.

Probably the more important distinction is how many nodes are working together, which of course correlates with how many faults there are, and the sophistication of the software that handles the faults.

I imagine earlier systems were in the 10-100 node range. Inktomi and early Google were more in the 1000 node range as far as I understand, and Google's clusters are up to at least 10K nodes and 100K CPUs/disks (probably more by now).

At every order of magnitude there are different engineering challenges. There are always precursors, and the NOW paper cites a couple in section 2.3 (MiLi91, Zho92). A 10 or 100 node cluster is definitely a precursor, but you could still call it qualitatively different than 1K to 10K nodes.

Also one funny thing is that Google/Facebook no longer use "commodity" clusters, if you take that word literally. You can no longer buy what they use in small quantities! e.g. a design from http://www.opencompute.org/

They're back to the model of highly engineered, relatively homogeneous, relatively reliable hardware. Not a bunch of PCs cobbled together with clever software!
Since people actually enjoy cooking for their family, believe it or not.
Coincidentally, I just switched to consuming news mostly through RSS. There just wasn't any better news aggregator that let me focus on news I actually cared about, and filtered out the crap I don't.

What I long for is something like Google Newsstand, with the power to scrape the whole web for my interests- except Google Newsstand incessantly shows me all the inane "hot", "trending", "popular" etc mainstream stuff no matter how many hundreds of times I mark, "show me less like this".

Using RSS is a little limiting because there's so little discovery for related subjects from new sources- but I can completely turn off the firehose of pop news.
This is an interesting point. But it really just points how silly it is to only make a beach public up to the high tide line. The public doesn't generally know where that line is anyway. Either they are allowed to use the beach or not... doubt anyone coming in by boat will check the high tide line and not stretch their towel out over the sandy beach.

It's also not an absurdly low price considering it only allows access to a public area.