skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 5-10 companies out of those millions made this current model work

Stats? Evidence? I mean hundreds of of thousands of companies use PHP and other forms of less than perfect tech.

Websites all over the world seems to get the job done even when JavaScript with all its warts is used. I like JS for the record, but it does have warts.

> even if it lasts for decades.

You're saying the same thing I said. That stuff breaks. That companies come and go in and out of fashion. I also think it's interesting that you're calling FB an example of tech excellence but saying it's going to fade away. Choose one?

> How is that for your "tech excellence is not important" argument?

I never made any such argument. Not even close. I only said quality is not the only requirement and might sometimes not be a requirement at all.

Most of the code I write is high quality. I put a lot of effort into code reviews too. I mentor more junior devs around quality. My original post is actually much more nuanced than you are claiming.

> Final point: I am not arguing for 100% technical excellence. That would be foolish. We would still be refining HTTP and the WWW in general even today and internet at large would not exist.

Exactly. That's in the spirit of my original post. Maybe re-read it to see that we mostly agree instead of making my position into something it really isn't?
No. But he did live in a community of sharing that was destroyed by proprietary software and he has spent 45 years developing free software. So many should pay his ideas more respect than they do because they like to make it about his person life.
I have no way to count them. But I can give you one off the top of my head.

My dad.

Incidentally, he owns two cars.
try keto
NASA Opportunity rover pictures: 15 years of images from Mars
I agree. I think we should make it.
It really surprises me that the Australian domestic flight with Qantas is so high on the list.
What significant counterexample are you thinking of?

A few thousand people here or there is a laughable threat to whatever culture exists in USA.
Because we shouldn't sacrifice millions of people's free time just so we can have a couple geniuses do lots of work?
Academics and entrepreneurs don't get paid by the hour.
Which supposedly means I can't get on an airplane. I have since been on an airplane. But not one that required a loss of dignity.

You'll apparently "lose your dignity" in October [1].

I can't fathom why my bank would need to know if I am allowed to drive.

An ID and a driver's license are not necessarily the same thing.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-changes-deadline-for-real...
To the extent this comment can be construed as anything but content-less partisan dog-whistling, it's pretty off the mark here. Obnoxious as this particular measure is, it was passed as part of the funding for a, relatively speaking, bipartisan infrastructure bill focusing on highways and rail. It's hard to imagine what "real Americans", whoever that's meant to imply, would rather it be spent on.
The productivity-pay gap.

It might not apply to small businesses, but we're talking about the whole economy, not just small businesses.
"Everything I've been able to learn about the language is that it was designed for a non-register based hardware that never caught on"

That's a silly thing to say, especially when two of Lisp's primitive operations, CAR and CDR, are literally named after IBM 704's registers and the first implementations were done on register-based hardware (IBM mainframes and DEC minicomputers).
AR = Arnold Robbins, http://www.skeeve.com/
I have great respect for Richard Stallman, but frankly this text seems a bit paranoid. So what if they know what I watch? Is it too bad if I can have a list "continue watching" to pick up where I left off? Is it that terrible, that they can suggest to me other content I may be interested in? Is it a crime that they want to know how their service is used in order to stay attractive? I think not.
It is a WIP distributed Pandas implementation. Allows you to spread massive dataframes, their data and computations, over multiple machines vs. Pandas which is only local to your machine. It's not quite there yet [1]

[1] http://modin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pandas_on_ray.html#usi...
> the majority of people in my society would _agree_ that requiring an ID card to vote is reasonable

On the surface it seems like a reasonable requirement, but it disenfranchises people for little to no return. In-person voter fraud is difficult to do in any meaningful amounts. Estimates show the amount is negligible compared to the kind of disenfranchisement voting restrictions cause.

Additionally there have been a lot of bullshit practices put up to block people from voting: literary test + grandfather clause, poll tax, corporate thugs watching you vote, white supremacists keeping black people out of polling stations, limiting the quantities of polling stations, resisting early voting, using horribly insecure (Windows XP SP1) voting machines, voter records getting purged. Voting is a right, and it's supposed to be the foundation of our democratic republic.

ID costs money, has to be renewed, and is harder to get than it used to be. (Thanks, DHS.) What if you're older, and the building that kept your birth certificate burned down? Or just lost it? This is not uncommon. Do you just not get to vote?
See recital 23: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/

But recital 24 is an important caveat.. and the reason why you see EU blocks.

But an EU citizen accessing or ordering from a foreign website does not automatically mean the GDPR applies.
How does this work exactly?

If you are an employee and your boss calls you and asks you to work the 53rd hour, what do you do?
Just found this: https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites
I have mixed feelings about this line of argument. Both sides are technically correct.

- If you burn more calories than you take in you will lose weight no matter what the source of those calories are.

- psychological, what you eat will make it easier to maintain a calorie balance and that varies based on the individual.

For me, I ate like crap from the time I was 25-35 but maintained a healthy weight and a decent physique as a part time fitness instructor who worked out 12 times a week.

I like working out so it doesn’t take discipline to work out and my wife will work out with me occasionally but she prefers going to the gym and taking classes.

I stopped working out consistently for five years and my weight ballooned.

I then tried to eat better but I couldn’t get the level of discipline necessary to lose weight.

Then we moved into a house, I converted a room into a home gym and started exercising for 2 hours a day 3-4 times a week that burned about 1500 calories per workout. I got back down to my fitness instructor weight and size in 7 months. I also had to make it point not to eat more to compensate, and only “cheat” on the weekend.

All that being said, when I was teaching and even now I tell people that they can’t exercise thier way to weight loss. Most people don’t have the stamina, the discipline, or the time to work out enough to burn 4000-5000 calories a week and maintain a calorie balance.
The focus on low latency is a big deal. Many of the live mic apps are fine, but they have noticeable lag (really low, but there)

But also being built in is big too
They last longer than 4 hours for me.
First you have to find a tech Startup that wants to hire a mechanical engineer.
I'd like to understand why, but "infrastructure doesn't exist" isn't a reason to not create it. Maybe the argument is that Congress can't do it because people wouldn't reelect representatives that make it harder to pretend they're "off the grid", as if they already were, which they're not.

In any case, I'd like to hear arguments against it besides monetary cost, but so far all I've been exposed to is fringe right wingers whining about the gubment and lefties feeling like reminding us that Jim Crow et al was a thing and they totally promise that's not a red herring.
> Had we (the software industry at large) done better then they wouldn't have the countless examples to learn from and turn them into a habit.

Nonsense. Stuff breaks. Everything. Even stuff made to a very high standard.

> most software can be much more robust and long-lived

It can't. Not because it can't be much more robust. But because most software is simply obsolete after a few years or maybe ten years if you're lucky. Software doesn't live in a static world where nothing changes. Laws changes, accounting practices are modernized, entire industries come and go, and everything is in a constant state of change. Maybe you haven't been around long enough to see it. I have. I've seen perfectly built in-house custom inventory software replaced a few years later by something like SAP because upper management decides the pros of having an integrated logistics system
far outweighs the features of one in-house app. Sorry, but I've been in the business world far too long to fall for the idea that software is ever long-lived. There are some rare cases that it can be. The 40 year old COBOL programs some banks run to process massive amounts of transactions over night. And guess what? As long lived as they are, they are being re-written little by little because it's damn hard to find anyone under 65 who is actually interested in maintaining them. Software does not live in a vacuum.
She's advocating almost the exact opposite of the stereotypical Silicon Valley model.

This is the fourth paragraph of the article:

> "Rather than a four-decade professional sprint that ends abruptly at 65, Carstensen argues, we should be planning for marathon careers that last longer but have more breaks along the way for learning, family needs, and obligations outside the workplace."
Not all countries have certain types of salaried employees exempt from overtime and overtime pay. South Korea doesn't appear to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_hours_in_South_Korea#D...
I wrote a stack based language for the 6502 before. It's actually really trivial to do.

If you have stack code that looks like this: "foo bar qux baz" and want to convert it to assembly, all you have to do is insert JSR instructions between the words:

JSR foo
JSR bar
JSR qux
JSR baz

To define subroutines, insert a label and an RTS function around code blocks. For example, to define a subroutine called qux using the code ": qux foo bar", the output would be:

qux:
JSR foo
JSR bar
RTS

The last thing needed is the ability to push literals onto the stack. In my language I defined literals as things between parenthesis. I compiled them by outputting a PUSH_LITERAL assembly macro. Code like "foo (5) (6) bar" would be compiled as:

JSR foo
PUSH_LITERAL 5
PUSH_LITERAL 6
JSR bar

That's it! You could implement an entire compiler in 50 lines of code. (of course, writing a proper FORTH requires more than this toy example)
The beauty of RAII is that every resource is tied to the lifetime of an object, and every object is always in a usable state. Having to call extra open/close methods and check error codes breaks these invariants, and leads to objects with bad fidelity to the normal copy and move semantics the language is built on.
...living in the US. Those people have a right to vote

Living in the US and having the right to vote are not the same thing. Illegal aliens, temporary and permanent residents, and other people of varying status live in the US but cannot legally vote, at least in federal elections.
Doesn't surprise me too much. It's a very busy route -- with a smaller selection of both airlines and airports. Plus Qantas is the perrenial corporate airline.

Notice that SFO to Newark makes the list further down. If you summed all Bay Area airports to all New York serving airports. Across all airlines... You might see a closer contest.
While the numbers provided are not in the millions, it's important to understand that the oft-cited numbers are also (thought) to be incomplete. Here is one example.[1] But I see the claim fairly regularly.

Also, the discussions often focus on people who renounce their U.S. citizenship, but I rarely, if ever, see any on people who relinquish. And while the result with respect to U.S. citizenship may end up being the same for both processes, I understand that the treatment of the former citizen is often different based on the option selected.

Lastly, while the numbers may be small, we don't know the value of the wealth that they are taking with them. Could be little or a lot. And while yes, there are exit taxes, people with enough to lose will expend some energy to not do so.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/06/12/more-amer...
I don't think it's wise to be against this law because some people might be limited; by and large, this is a good thing - it means that workers are exploited less, it means that there will be consequences for those who force workers to work so much overtime in a culture in which you're not seen as being dedicated enough if you refuse to do overtime.

I immediately thought "the people you've named would just continue to work anyway, because they're 'the greats'", but I also realised that some of them would need specialised equipment, the sort that would be closed off outside of the hours permitted. Perhaps there should be some system in which such people can apply to use the eqipment outside of hours. But it could be that bosses (or even employees themselves, feeling pressured) would apply to use them, citing personal reasons rather than "work reasons".

But in the end, I really don't see it as a bad thing that "execs can go to prison"; I think that unless there are serious consequences, and the law only has monetary fines (which matter less and less so long as they aren't large proportions of revenue) then the law will be skirted or simply violated.

In the end, I really think this law does more good than it does potential harm. Overwork is a serious issue, but your proposal that we shouldn't have it raises important questions. Employers discovered in the 20th century that it would be efficient for the direction of the employee's conatus aligns with the company's, such that the employee will feel joy and even want to work longer hours - this of course being more effective than the older system (usually employed in manual labour with few levels of management) of taking advantage of the basal desire for material reproduction. With longer hours, it's easier for an employer to push this desire to the employee.

And by the way, I was much more convinced of your argument with regard to people like McCarthy, Feynman, Einstiein and Turing than our friends pg and sama :-)
This approach will work for air to air as well as air to ground. You have a rocket powered drone platform that can launch micro-drones to attack targets. It could carry thousands of them and dispatch them to destroy pretty much anything around it in a matter of seconds.

Same thing goes for surveillance. Have a supersonic carrier drone fly over the target area, release thousands of small drones to photograph the shit out of it in every spectrum and then relay that back to command.
Looks like this is a re-hash of the data from https://www.oag.com/blog/billion-dollar-route
You are right, sorry. When I first read it I internalized it as meaning to say that Performance is not an extra feature that you tack on to an existing web app (like you would implement say an offline mode as part of an update) but rather something that needs to be considered from the ground up right in the design stage. But I can see how putting it this way could be confusing.
I can't really say because I haven't used either Apple's live listen feature or any of the microphone apps on Android, but the article says live listen doesn't just amplify sound, it isolates and amplifies voices. Which sounds like a different thing to the standard microphone apps.
tl;dr I have thousands of lots of horse carriage wheels built to the highest standard that will last another 500 years. Any interest? Quite a few AM radios too...
They have a virtual monopoly on the corporate market. At the peak times of Monday morning and Friday evening seats can go for A$300-$A400 or more one way for an economy class seat on a 737 for a 55 minute flight.
Maybe a good example would be a "site" / server you have to visit with Postman ;)
What if Einstein's job at the patent office had been 60 hours a week?
I'd recommend reading Lordon's latest book, "Willing Slaves of Capital: Marx and Spinoza on Desire", which attempts to get to the very heart of this - how come employees enjoy their work, and sometimes even willing to forgo compensation? It uses Spinoza's theories of desire to augment and transform Marx's idea of the basal desire within a worker for material reproduction. Lordon describes quite elegantly how levels of management within the modern capitalist firm work to enforce strong feelings - not only of hope (joy) but also of fear (of losing one's job). Here's an excerpt:

>At each rung [of management], the desire to keep the advantages associated with one’s own position can only be satisfied at the price of a supplementary effort exacted by the rung above. Everything else remaining equal, the probability of success diminishes. The injunction coming from on high and propagating through the thick of the system diffuses in that very propagation an effect of fear, that ‘inconstant sadness, born of the idea of a future or past, things whose outcome we to some extent doubt.’ By the very logic of desire, fear and hope are its nearly permanent backdrop once taking hold of the object is postponed, and the time that separates desire from fulfilment ‘necessarily’ creates (from the point of view of the agent) some uncertainty. This temporal tension in desire gives the pursuit of its object its ambivalent passionate coloration (fluctuatio animi, the vacillation of the mind, as Spinoza calls it), since the joyful affect of hope (success) is (logically) accompanied by the sad affect of fear (failure). The ‘external’ conditions under which individuals pursue their desires determine the particular balance between hope and fear in each case, hence the dominant affective tonality that accompanies their effort.
I don't understand. Is the term psychometric screening here being used to refer to personality / aptitude tests? I think I'm confused because this is not how the term is used in psychology, but maybe businesses use it this way?
Tesla’s largest-ever Powerpack installation may be coming to Northern California
"skyrocketed" relative to thousands really still seems very small....and we don't know what each reason is.
I would imagine that these kinds of craft would be autonomous. You'd designate the area for them to deploy in, and they basically sterilize anything that moves there.
Automation is at the highest level in history. Unemployment is at record lows in modern peacetime history (with exceptions like Southern Europe which are not hotbeds of automation). If automation inevitably destroys jobs, how can these facts be reconciled?
Open offices are fine if you have noise cancelling headphones...thereby eliminating the point of the open office.
This guy's not a professional designer and the typography on the page is not very good. What's he doing making design guidelines? I guess us programmers are experts in everything.
No China locations, which is interesting. Are high speed trains dominating their domestic market?
"Should we have a minimum wage at all? Does a minimum wage increase productivity by artificially making labor more expensive?"

The goal of minimum wage is not to increase productivity, but provide a "safety net" for people at the bottom of the pyramid salary-wise.

Public education and healthcare also artificially reduce the price of these services, but the goal again is to provide a safety net to all those that otherwise would not be able to afford them.
That's because there are so few votes.
Imagine having one single exam at the end of 4 years of education.
That's a good counterpoint. A carefully constructed law might be needed, but this one sounds like it's only based on the size of the company, and has harsh penalties.
I don't see any of these training challenges being any different hiring someone who job hops, these sound like very common things a team would likely encounter onboarding just about any contributor...and I think we're drifting off course from the main conceit of this whole discussion no?
This is speculation, but anybody who was using windows 1 was either a fanboy, or used a must-have windows 1 application. Pissing of those people is a bad way to introduce your next version.
This technology is already well on its way https://www.wired.com/2016/06/ai-fighter-pilot-beats-human-n...
Well, if you went down the emacs path in 1985 when MicroEmacs was released (near as I can tell anyway), that was six years before vim was released, so I think you meant to say "vi," not "vim."

Some of us still use plain old vi and not vim, which is why I'm a little touchy about it, I guess. (I mean, what do you need with all those damn plugins, anyway? Might as well use emacs in that case.)
To answer your point directly, no. uMatrix can block entire (sub)domains, but it does not import ad and tracking lists to block individual scripts. Therefore, both are needed, because most of the time you want ads and tracking to be automatically blocked, and sometimes you need precise control over what content from each domain is allowed. Different tools for different purposes.
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” 3 major news sites aren’t HTTPS
This is completely separate from voting issues, but I tend to avoid settings where I am treated like a suspect. I certainly don't pay people specifically to treat me like a suspect. As you might guess, this means that I don't do business with commercial airlines.

It also means that I avoid sporting events that require pat-downs. Or neighborhood parties that require criminal background checks. Or schools with metal detectors at the entrance.

In general, if an event is so sketchy and risky that it requires those measures, I take it as a signal to avoid that event. When I see somebody dressed in full combat gear I know I am not where I want to be.
Sounds like regular college students are too expensive for the tech companies because they have a hard floor below which they will not work. Having a cursory look that is due to student loans being easier to service if you're unemployed than employed at a low -relative to the cost of living- wage.

So now they are looking for a pool of labor that will take even lower salaries.

Expect the vulture capitalist friends to pump up community college prices in the next decade.
Not surprised about the Vancouver to Toronto flights, its cheaper for me to fly from San Fran to Toronto and back versus flying from Vancouver to Toronto and back as indicated by my corporate flight expenses on Air Canada which usually have some kind of discount applied. This gets worse in the surge seasons when everyone is on holidays.
It seems like a any particular fad in UI design has just enough time to get well-defined before it goes out of fashion.
No need, you just use numbers. Imagine a drone carrier platform that carries thousands of smart drone missiles and releases them in the target area. The only goal of the missiles is to lock onto anything that moves and hit it. Sure, you'll take a few out, but it's a game of numbers in the end.
>The term brutalism is derived from the French betón brut, meaning “raw concrete”.

Really? I would have thought it's derived from the term brutal, which predates concrete.