skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Laumars - Console PM and author of the post here:

Fair points in part, though …

Remember that things like Remote Desktop obviated the pressing need for command-line --> remote command-line access for many years. RDP quickly evolved into a very efficient way of remoting the entire desktop experience, not just Command-Line - something that was particularly necessary until PowerShell started to mature due to Windows' heavy GUI tool influence (for better and worse).

Don't despair though - there's a VERY interesting post coming soon on this subject, that I think you'll enjoy! ;)

I summarized 20 years of history: Simula arrived in '68, Smalltalk in '72 and then, other than research efforts, relatively little until CFront/C++ around '85. After that there was a new variant of C++ or new object oriented language almost every 8-12 months ever since - ObjectBASIC, Modula-2, ObjectPascal, Delphi, Java, Python, C#, Ruby, etc. It was practically a language explosion.

And, of course NT started as a command-line OS. All new OS' start that way it's the simplest UX to get running. The Windows GUI wasn't slapped on at the end though - it arrived relatively quickly since Microsoft was able to leverage much of the experience of having build Windows 3.x/9x etc. previously.

Command-line args are not all passed as a single string. In Windows, args are separated by space. If you use C/C++ and others, you get argv and argc, or in C# you get an array of space separated values.

Alas, when NT came along it was seen as EXTREMELY important to make it easy to run/port MS-DOS scripts and tools to encourage migration and adoption. By this time, so many tools used so many ways of specifying args and values … / vs. \ vs. - vs. none, /o=foo, /o foo, etc. … that it was practically impossible to both support backward compat while rationalizing usage.

PowerShell, though, has done much to make args MUCH more consistent, self-documenting, etc.

This said, yes, it'd be AWESOME if args could be rationalized and handled in a more consistent manner. Had a fascinating discussion about just this the other day. Stay tuned to our blog ;)
> Have we learned nothing from literally every single project the that has tried to "free" us from the evils of the centralized services? Here ya go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_software_and_pro.... Slowly they all go from Active to Dead or Stalled.

I think the issue is none of them have commercial backing and are some "fringe nerd project. The problem is unless it's a nonprofit (good luck with that) there is no commercial interest in producing a decentralized platform. (See Google and Facebook killing off XMPP for a small example of this)
If I had a popular piece of software out there, once I reached the point of feature completeness (yes, I believe it is possible if you're a reasonable person), and stability I would do meaningless updates once every 3 months just to keep people that you're referring to happy and using my product. People aren't smart enough to just "be happy" and content, so you have to trick them into product satisfaction.
The fact that the rest of humanity didn't bother with persistence hunting may also be a clue that we weren't designed for that either.
Abstracts are due less than a month after the initial announcement of the program. Doesn't that limit it to entities which are already pretty far along?
I would be skeptical about any claim supported by a Daily Mail link. I couldn't find any references to the study they "cited" on Google Scholar, either.
Hi. Windows Console PM and Author of the post here :)

Thanks for your kind words. Glad you liked it - check our blog often - LOTS more posts coming on this subject!
It may be worth thinking about hypothetical future scenarios where the interests of the chairman of the board and the founder-CEO and the company are not all aligned.

There's a quora post by Dale Strickler that gives one perspective: https://www.quora.com/Does-a-Chairman-of-the-Board-have-more...
Work is still meant to be pulled in software development Kanban. WIP limits are still a key feature.

They are different processes because Kanban is not the process, it is the mechanism for displaying the work in progress.
People want viable services not "tech".

Red flag: both their concept as well as name have YT's brand name in it. The equivalent of calling your company "Uber for X". I'm all for decentralization where it makes sense - but this seems like they might be shooting themselves in the foot everywhere EXCEPT the tech (which, ultimately won't matter if they fail).

From the article: "Online since March 2018 in a beta version, the project should definitely take off by October, based on the money raised."

Beta + $60k + 6 more months time = Success? Against a practical content monopoly.

As a guy currently doing the start-up dance - this kind of optimistic naivety almost offends me.
LOL - nothing nefarious - made a few corrections and improvements to the post - aaaaand managed to bork the publishing process which took a few mins to re-generate and refresh the cache!

Ugh!

Should be back up and available now!
I think people in general have diverse hobbies, and when combined with what's usually more than a passing knowledge of a lot of their parents' careers and hobbies, you end up with a very wide well of knowledge in any sizable group.

What makes HN special in my view is that people like to share that knowledge, and this is a very welcoming place to do so. I think the average HN user may be more open to learning new things (or at a minimum learning about new things). It's a great place to share that random trivia you know with a good chance someone will be appreciative.
My county uses the bubble form too. Accessibility is handled by a touch screen system (with headphones), which prints out a paper ballot. It's quite refreshing-- these guys usually mess things up.
Most people don’t know how to go to a podcast’s website, copy the link to the RSS feed, and then paste it into their podcast app. They just search for the podcast in their podcast app. So, if you produce a podcast, you need to be in the major podcast directories to get traction. Thus, in effect, podcasts are highly centralized.
> As an aside, I have been unable to get my hands on any modern multi-frequency GPS receivers. If someone has a link to one that I can buy with a credit card, I would love it!

Try SwiftNav or Tersus. I have not used either of them so I can't comment on the quality, but $1-2k for an RTK setup is pretty great. They are both more 'startup' than traditional suppliers.

uBlox F9 looks good but isn't quite available yet. They have a solid line of single frequency receivers so I'm looking forward to seeing pricing.

I have briefly tested some Unicorecomm from China, and they work well, but they miss your online store requirement, and the documentation is nonexistent.
Fair comment - I agree and so removed a bunch of !'s and emoji for you, though I did leave a few in to convey some of my (and the team's) excitement - we're genuinely buzzed to be able to massively improve the Console.

Hope you find the latest updated version more palatable.
Since your comment has spawned a lot of responses bringing up examples of how various sports have dealt with equipment innovation, this seems a good place to post this article, "The Boat That Almost Was" [1], about a project to design a better boat for the America's Cup yacht race.

[1] http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3541/1/Clauser.pdf
Speaking for myself: mainly Groovy and Grails, with a little Java mixed in. Postgresql when I need a relational DB. Bootstrap for basic CSS, and jQuery to add AJAXy bits. I have not yet adopted a JS framework like React or Vue, although I've been looking at giving Vue a shot. I use Ansible for automation, Git for version control, Eclipse as an IDE. Deploy to CentOS linux mostly. Just starting to go down the path of adopting Docker and (probably) Kubernetes. Cloud infrastructure is either Linode or AWS.

All of that said, I'm a big believer in "use the right tool for the job" so if something comes up that requires C++, I'll use C++. If something needs Python, then Python it will be. If Prolog is right for something, I'll use Prolog. Or COBOL, or Erlang, or Ruby, or CL, or Perl, or SNOBOL, etc., etc, yadda, yadda, ad infinitum...
We use something similar here (broken arrows pointing to each option, connect an arrow to indicate a vote).

What I never understood was what the selling proposition was for the black-box-no-paper-trail machine. You're selling a complex tech product to a very traditional, low-end bureaucracy that wouldn't normally jump on complex tech products.

It's probably not about cost of ballots. Even ignoring the up-front cost of the machines, you're going to have to spend quite a bit of money storing and securing the machines, reprogramming them after each cycle, and I wouldn't be surprised if the software is on a subscription basis. i suspect there may be legal requirements for things like absentee and sample ballots that mean you still have to print some paper forms anyway.

Accessibility seemed the best argument-- a machine with big buttons and pictures is easier for low vision or mobility users, but there's no reason the machine couldn't be an assistant only-- make your choices, and it prints a regular bubble form ballot you confirm before dropping in the box for counting.
I think this sometimes gets used as an excuse for people who don't want to deal with another layer of indirection added by an abstraction. The gist of this touchstone blog post is that we need to be willing to abandon our abstractions as soon as we start special casing them. It's not wrong to abstract, it's wrong to cling to an abstraction that is broken.
I want to say "older" PMs are more.. respected..?

To answer the title: No. But, of course, the valley's gonna valley.
There are parts of New Orleans where this is a thing - of course you will need to put some work into the house.
Postal addresses are really complicated and this page makes them look far simpler and more consistent than they really are. I used to deal with these all the time when working with geocoding at Google Maps, and I ended up braindumping a lot of what I learned the hard way into Wikipedia, because for many countries there's very little documentation available in English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_addressing_system
Samuel Jackson's 'GLASS' Full Trailer 2019
Yes, I didn't mean to suggest it was an easy case. I only read half the opinion but can see that there are several issues, and many citations of precedent to support the opinion.

But, as a non-lawyer, the fact that this level of analysis of statute and case law is required in order to make such a small step toward making the law accessible, is amazing. (EDIT: I mean, I understand that it is this way, but don't feel it should be this way)

I say it's a small step because:

- as you say, the court confirmed fair use, but did not consider the question of whether copyright is extinguished

- each referenced standard is still locked behind payment until and unless this site or another pays for a copy and scans it

If, as you suggest might be the case, it is the "obligation of legislative bodies to ensure public access to the law by refraining from incorporating obligations from sources that are not publicly accessible", then what becomes of those laws which reference standards which are not publicly accessible today? Do they become unconstitutional or void, until such time that the standards do become publily accessible? Would publication on public.resource.org be enough to count as 'publicly accessible'?

And if it turns out that copyright is actually extinguished due a document's to incorporation (by reference) into law, would the former copyright owner have grounds to seek damages against the legislature?

EDIT: in your subsequent edit you sort of answered one of my questions "(and, perhaps, find the law invalid on that basis)"
I'm ready to hear about some of your odd areas of interest that otherwise I may never think of... Please post something for pique my interest, thanks.
I'd swear at you in Welsh but I fear I may wear-out my 'l', 'e', and 'u' keys ;)

Thanks all - appreciate that some of my enthusiasm came through, though the previous poster had a point about the sheer density of my excitement so I toned it down a little while making a few corrections, clarifications, and improvements in the update I posted this afternoon.

Keep the feedback coming though - you'll also find me on Twitter a lot more than in here: https://twitter.com/richturn_ms
> Complete copyright control is something content creators (and humanity) will just have to get over. Donation/patronage-based models are simply the future of intellectual property compensation.

I fear this may be true. The war was lost the moment it became effortless and free for anyone to make a copy of content by digitizing it. We're that last unit wandering in the wilderness still fighting because we haven't figured out its over.
<img src="Eyore_looking_glum.jpg /> ;) :D
so would "rivendell" mean to "split a forest" or something along those lines?
What do you do when the OS itself is spyware? There's a reason vendors like requires all Android vendors to install Google apps on phones, because all their apps (especially Play Services) has every possible permissions enabled by default and it's not possible for consumers to disable it. Windows 10 too is ridden with telemetry and all the 'spyware options' (ex. send my keystrokes to the cloud) are enabled by default.
G'ah - PLEASE read the posts about which you're commenting - Cmder is a terminal/Console, not a shell.

Cmd.exe is a (headless) command-line shell.

A shell accepts input from a terminal/Console and emits text to its connected terminal/Console to be displayed back to the user.

All this is covered in some detail in the posts thus far.
Having worked for Nike on ads and in the publishing industry (on branded print content), I am very comfortable saying this is 100% an ad. If it weren’t, it simply wouldn’t be run, because that would justify future Nike ad $$$ to competing publications so as to not clump too much branding in one outlet, a tell-tale sign of a deal. It takes a unique very scenario for a pub like NYT to just hand something like this to a company like Nike; nothing about this even moves that needle. I am similarly comfortable asserting the rough draft was written by Nike in-house, simply because their people have this stuff falling out of their heads already. NYT leading this would cost multitudes in efficiency.
I like Newsify. iCloud sync, no nonsense, free with minor paid upgrade I didn’t need but paid to support the developer.
Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy
There are apps like Google Authenticator and Authy.

There are hardware solutions like vasco's products[1], RSA securid tokens[2], ...

[1] https://www.vasco.com/products/two-factor-authenticators/har...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_SecurID
I'm one of those people the comment above you mentioned who runs a site hosting pirate media (it's all private before anyone asks)

Looked into AWS a while ago so I could throw some encrypted containers on it thinking it would be cheaper. Storage on S3 would have cost about four times as much as I'm paying now in VPS costs, and EFS (the service I actualy wanted) about ten times as much, and that's before looking at bandwidth. Oh and I'd still need at least one VPS to handle transcoding, content delivery etc.

I think Netflix save money by using S3 for the majority of their storage but having their own CDN so they use less bandwidth from AWS.
Erasure is superior to a system that would be typesafe? Please elaborate.
World's fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics
Importance of Antitrust: The Case Against Google
That's why you make it as parameter
To refine even further, its the ability to record knowledge for our posterity to start slightly better off. Not as good as genetic memory but still one of a kind in the universe that I know of
Refactoring spaghetti would have been a breeze compared to the Console.

What stands as a HUGE testament to the Console team's effort, however, is the fact that, while re-engineering what was truly a nightmare code-base, apart from a few newly-introduced bugs (most of which were caught before release), the rapidly improving Console didn't break any any existing command-line apps or users' workflows.

The engineering team deserve a medal for pulling this off, quite frankly!
But it’s usually not GPU intensive.

The implication is that taxing BOTH the CPU and the GPU will cause performance issues. Something like compiling, which is usually just CPU intensive bursts, should see a performance improvement.
The page is now giving a 404 error (maybe was removed after the traffic spike?). But here's the most recent archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180430071524/http://www.columb...
Your reply is off topic. What does any of that have to do with the point of my comment? My point was that the indictment appears flimsy because prosecutors knew that they would never actually have to prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. There is a reason that every single person indicted here happens to be beyond the reach of the US government. If you know that you will never have to try the case, you can make all the accusations you think are reasonable (even if you know you cannot prove them) and then drop the charges you can’t prove much later if one of these guys ever actually did wind up in custody (which is extremely unlikely).
In America people will get in the car to drive 200m instead of walking.
'duck' autocompletes to duckduckgo in my google search bar. I don't see a story here except for the fact that duckduckgo is now willing to fight just as dirty as google in the public opinion space and thus have undermined the one thing I use ddg for (trusted unbiased search).
Interesting. Didn't know that.
The LCD one won’t be able to have a bent backplane like the OLED one, either, so it’ll need to have a “chin” on the bottom.
We should still use paper records with identifcation. If there is a problem with some people not having access to proper ID lets solve that problem instead of leaving our firewall down on election security to support the people still using ssl so to speak.
I assume that most people asking this question of how much it costs to make an iPhone are asking in the context of a hobby project. In the context of a hobby project, at least for me, the time spent doing something I enjoy is a benefit, not a cost.
I don't know how you come to that conclusion.

How would the manager or anyone else know that he is leaving?

He is just simply asking for a "raise". He is not going around telling everyone, hey "i am leaving, give me a raise or i am gone". Now that would be plain silly, lol.

As I said, you look around to leverage yourself so that you know how much you are worth in the market. Lot of devs out there, working at companies for over 5+ years tend to underestimate how much they are worth, and they become a bargain for the company. They are simply too shy to ask for just how much they are worth and companies usually don't give raises to employees (besides the annual small pct increase) unless asked upon.
As far as I know, addition is something you define (an axiom) in order to construct the real (or other) numbers.

https://sites.math.washington.edu/~hart/m524/realprop.pdf
But surely the reason people value a 7 minute reduction so highly is because of what it represents -- a successful effort to get fitter and/or mentally tougher. If you're simply 'buying' that reduction, what is the point, unless you're at the level where other benefits (public glory, sponsorship) are within reach?
Let's step back. What is the principle we seek to vindicate? That principle is that the law should be accessible to those who are charged with following it. Courts, however, rule on specific cases, not general principles. This case requires 40 pages because that big-picture principle is only tangentially implicated, and the court and the parties have to engage in some contortions to get to it. Public.resource.org isn't charged with failing to follow a law that was not publicly available. That would be the straightforward test case, and the straightforward resolution would be to find the law invalid on that basis.

Instead, what the court had before it was a copyright infringement action, where public.resource.org argued, as a defense, that distributing these standards should not be copyright infringement because they are necessary for people to understand the law. That adds an additional wrinkle--the court needs to not only address the end goal (making the law accessible), but the specific means public.resource.org chose to achieve that goal (distributing copyrighted standards). The complexity of the opinion, thus, arises out of the wrinkles of the test case brought by public.resource.org.

I also submit that a lot of complexity arises from the fact that the court really doesn't want to do the most straightforward thing, which is to say: that the standards continue to be copyrighted, but these laws are all invalid for incorporating obligations by reference from works that are not public accessible. What really happened here is that over decades legislatures worked themselves into a pickle, publicly incorporating these standards without thinking about the implications vis-a-vis copyright and public access. Now, the court is stuck trying to avoid the outcome of declaring all these laws invalid.
It's definitely a lot easier. To argue that an idea is flawed, you only need to find one possible reason it wouldn't work. If you are correct, you are cheered for it.

To argue an idea will succeed, you need to know and understand the whole concept, and be able to analyze it for flaws. And then you could be proved wrong by someone mentioning a single issue you didn't see before.

Even if you did see the problems people mention, to defend your point, you have to explain why each of them don't apply, which can be a lot of work.

And then, anyone deciding whether they agree with you or not would have to do the same thing, in order to be right in their opinion, so you get a lot less people willing to upvote you.

In that way, comment systems are focused on the negative and aren't a good space for creativity and coming up with new ideas. Now, please, tear into this and tell me where I'm wrong ;)
I also do not see this as a waste. I was just replying to the parent. It's silly to label this a waste when so much we do is wasteful to no end.
The title of this story indicates I would probably not enjoy reading it. :yawn:
My favorite explanation of why autonomous vehicles will be so game changing is this imagined future conversation:

[30 years in the future...]

My son: Wait...you mean to tell me that people used to operate multi-ton machines, with a minimum of training, in a range of different conditions, and relied solely on human reflexes and human attention span to avoid collisions?

Me: Yes

My son: And nobody was killed?!?

Me: Oh no! People died ALL THE TIME!

---

Look at any source you like, and it's as clear as day: the LEADING cause of death for individuals in their prime productive years (late teens through late 30s) is the automobile! If autonomous cars are even a fraction safer than human drivers, the impact it will have on demographics and population productivity will be MASSIVE.
Could you be thinking of this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17392748

("The Dark Forest" by Liu Cixin)

or maybe this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391451

("Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson)

If not, I'd poke around some more looking for the reference in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17389842

or maybe this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17302924
They like money more than selling to China. Do they like Trump more than money?
Well, he never accepted non-locality. And it turns out, quantum mechanics is indeed non-local.
VC Firm Social Capital Set Out to Fix Capitalism. Now It’s in Turmoil