skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OK, but the primary reason billionaires are so rich is from running or founding companies that produce much more value than the billionaires extract. Take away the idea that a successful founder can keep maybe 1% (at most, probably a vast overestimate) of the value they generate, and you'll have vastly fewer founders unless you find another way to motivate them.

You are contradicting yourself. The value is generated by the company, i.e. the workers. Not the founder. The founder just extracts this value and makes themselves more powerful.

There can be no clean separation between money and political power. Politics is the struggle for the power to allocate ressources. Money is ressources.
Yet less than two months ago many HM commenters though Europe should give up on building space launch rockets, and just buy from SpaceX:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17575635
In a global world one thing you always have to keep in mind is that companies, as they become successful, can simply relocate to where the best opportunities are. And opportunity is going to encompass a wide array of things such as minimal tax obligations, minimal regulations, maximal funding, maximal talent availability, minimal talent costs, so forth and so on. You can weight all of those in some way or another and come up with n. Without some notion of nationalism, which the EU is rather less than interested in fostering, a company working in their best interest is simply going to relocate wherever n is maximized at the earliest opportunity.

And then there's also the issue of mergers and acquisitions. Imagine some country goes out of their way, likely at great cost and rule 'flexibility', and helps foster a new tech company. Then e.g. Facebook perceives this company as a potential threat and initiate their borg routine -- you will be assimilated. Fortunately in this case that just translates to throwing a ludicrous amount of money at the founders and then scrapping the company, marking it up as an acquihire. The taxpayer in whichever EU nation is probably not going to be terribly thrilled about their money being used to achieve little more than turning Facebook into even more of a behemoth.
Re: "Why we are doing this", see https://vivaldi.com/company/

From wiki:
> "Vivaldi began as a virtual community website that replaced My Opera, which was shut down by Opera Software in March 2014.[15] Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner was angered by this decision because he believed that this community helped make the Opera web browser what it was. Tetzchner then launched the Vivaldi Community—a virtual community focused on providing registered users with a discussion forum, blogging service, and numerous other practical web services—to make up for My Opera's closure. Later, on January 27, 2015, Vivaldi Technologies launched—with the community in mind[16]—the first technical preview of the Vivaldi web browser."

--

As for income, it's the standard browser model – partnerships with default search engines and bookmarks.
Ebb and flow. I'm elsewhere in the world, but I imagine whoever is next in the position will fix what Trump got wrong, and there will be some things which prove to be better, even if by luck. I think of it as a bit of tree shaking, pen testing, chaos engineering, maybe anti-fragility. Considering the term is only four years I've not understood all the fuss, an awful lot of which seems to have been aimless hysteria, achieving nothing, distracting people from getting on with things.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic of not, but the intent was to wipe the drive of data for another user of repair, and keeping the drive usable. Not to simply the delete the data to the point of no recovery.
Any non-US government using Palantir software or services is basically handing over their intelligence infrastructure to the US, now a declared foe of the EU for a start. Nice job Peter Thiel.
Yes, I know those, though - technically - they are not a waterproofing membrane, they are intended (at least here) to be only a mechanical protection and a separation layer, and the height of the knobs is anyway too small to have an actual ventialtion.

Besides - usually the "top" of the layer is not properly sealed/protected so - over time - the space (at the bottom)is filled with fine sand/dust brought by wind/rain, of course preventing any ventilation where it is more needed.

"Bigger brothers" do exist, like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxj9mTN9NE

still they are usually placed over the waterproofing layer, this should guarantee:

1) that the actual waterproofing is not punched by a stone or whatever when filling the excavation

2) that the waterproof membrane is not "immersed" in humidity
I don't think we're being radical enough. I think this kind of art is fantastic, but it copies human-designed art. Let's do things that aren't possible with paint or crayons - let's do multi-dimensional time-shifting video art.

I guess we need to do stuff that looks like 'normal' art first, to get people used to it.
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Hold on a second.

Which is larger depends on if you use nominal GDP or PPP GDP. Your link has tables for both, and the US and the EU swap positions in the two tables.
For what it's worth, the paper does acknowledge this view in the section 1.3 (and your quote of Knuth does appear in a Bernstein's talk, referenced from that section). The main reason the authors still pursue this direction is, to my best understanding, that:

* As you pointed out, we are moving to higher-level constructs and languages (this is directly addressed by a Pugh's talk as well); and

* "[...] in any case getting high-performance executables out of high-level
languages seems to fundamentally require aggressive compiler optimization".

In the other words, the widespread use of higher-level languages does not prove that the (automatic) optimization is not needed, but rather that the needs for higher-level languages are very high despite of the cost. And indeed, all languages you've mentioned have highly optimized interpreters or JIT compilers, albeit crafted by humans.

I also feel that the paper importantly discusses the speed and correctness of code optimization along with the resulting optimized code (Thesis 1), and it is not just for the fully-automatic optimizer as you detest. The correctness of such program transformations will eventually require many tools mentioned in the paper.
Shameless plug: Inspired by "inconvergent" I have built a plotter and started working on my own generative art realised with pen and paper:
https://www.instagram.com/framedbyher/
The YouTube far-right community is much bigger than one might expect. There's a lot of actual fascists on youtube who get a lot of algorithmic promotion, but leftist youtube tends to be smaller and much less extreme - no "far left" by most definitions.

The same tends to be true in most spaces in my experience. Whatever the "far left" is tends to be a poorly defined boogieman, not a cohesive group--almost as if it were the eternal enemy of standard far-right ur-fascist theory!
One of my pet peeves: non-portable devices that have WiFi but no Ethernet port. For example the Logitech Harmony Hub, Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod.
Ok so the next president fixes up relations, but what about the president after that? The US just demonstrated that they can become a declared hostile power in the scale of a couple of years, and does not have the popular, political or institutional will to stop that happening. Who is going to trust their security infrastructure to US interests in a world where that has already happened?
This censorship 2.0 mindset has permeated even HN, the supposed bastion of rationality.

No discussion, no counter argument, just downvotes for posts like this.

Anyone who's expressed this kind of opinion has probably seen their score fluctuate between double digit positives and negatives until finally settling into downvoted flagged state. This is clearly a divisive topic, but the censorship side is dominant.
Color is not a social construct.
Wow. So many static site generators.

A static site generator needs good themes. A static site generator ranking based just on GitHub stars isn't telling much.
For some reason, Firefox reader view removes all section headings and some random paragraphs. Made for a confusing read until I went back and reread it.
And Tarantool as well please.
But countries can, and do, overrule "global" corporates on a regular basis.

For example the USA blocks M&A activity relating to Chinese companies taking over strategic US companies. Will those US companies simply relocate to China to get round this, I doubt it.

There is realistically a balance to be had between enabling global commerce and protecting national interests. At the moment the EU seems keen to move that balance more in the direction of their regional interests, no doubt partially related to the current trend for more national interest based policies from the US
I don't think this algorithm is very common. In particular, the colour palette can usually be chosen last, and a lot of generative art (at least all that shown in the article) will not need multiple resolution passes. I think a more common discovery/refinement process is to go from more random to less random, or random in particular kinds of ways. For example, you can specify the values or distributions (or at least ranges of values) for particular parameters based on things you think will look good or which should end up similar in ways you like to things you've found already.

Generative art is a search in an extremely high dimensional space. The more you go into it aiming for something in particular, the more nailed down it is and the closer to traditional art (and the harder to pull off well IMHO, think how much difference slightly changing the position of one of the elements in these images would make, versus slightly changing the position of someone's eye). If you go looking for "new and interesting" or "looks good" without really aiming for anything in particular, it can be a lot easier to find good things.

I've seen a couple of really interesting talks recently about the surprising successfulness of objective-less search by Ken Stanley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI (40 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZBViI8ZaU0 (90 min.)

He started off looking at human-directed machine-evolved generative art, and ended up with a far more general discovery.
Deadly fire exposes millionaire Hacker's network of secret underground tunnels
It's an academic research project focusing on coordination-free stuff. Sort of the opposite of aerospike and foundationdb that use coordination and are products. There is no point comparing to them because of that. Coordination is generally slower than not doing it and you won't be using Anna anyway.
Monogamy was your first unrealistic assumption.
Are your crypto investment goals realistic?
I think it's two-fold. One thing is the message, regardless of your personel point of view any government has the right to adress any topiuc they wish with other countries. And then there is the communication part. There are long established diplomatic standards which are ignored and even violated on a constant basis.

The last part is in itself a serious problem, flawed reasoning behind the messages are a compounding factor.
I think discipline is more about being completely honest with yourself than habit.
Annonimity
Just a side note: Change 'recognize' to 'recognise' since we use Proper English ;)
Nebosh Course in Dammam – Nebosh Course in Saudi Arabia
It uses the same engine as Chrome/Chromium, my guess would be in 99% if not 100% of cases they will behave the same.
I agree that in the past this has been done poorly, and also state aid rules are problematic.

To me though, that doesn't rule out the concept so much as suggest different approaches to the same issues are required.

Assuming the US continues the trade approaches of the current administration, it seems prudent for the EU to rely less on US based corporates in the long run.
Nothing Snowballs Online Like Fear (2016)
True, and I'm already working on it! :fingerscrossed:
SEC cracks down on Bitcoin product, while Citigroup considers jumping in
How to nab a HTTPS cert for a stranger's website
One could argue that Bash "is not supposed to do that", because it is supposed to allow you to use a tool like `jq` instead. So the shell remains agnostic (JSON, XML, YAML, whatever).
HTTP-only? Nope, nope, nope.
Doing something that is only possible with machines in art is indeed what I think this "genre"/period needs in order to be seen as something truly unique and new.

As you point out this is merely creating the same kind of art with a new tool. The use of Processing to create familiar works is the same as picking up a piece of charcoal for the first time in human history and using only one of its worn-down edges to create hand print images on a rock wall. It's interesting and fresh, but it's not taking advantage of the medium.
Robot can pick up any object after inspecting it
I read this book not long ago:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Next-Kin-Conversations-Chimpanzees-...

And in it the author (who spent decades working with and teaching chimps) concludes that chimps have the intelligence to talk but not the vocal chords. They can understand humans talking (in the same way that a dog can understand verbal commands) but they cannot do much besides grunt or hoot back.

However when you change the conversation method to something else (such as sign languge) chimps can talk back exceedingly well. In the book mentioned above the author has video proof that the chimps can talk to humans (and each other) at the level of a two to four year old child.

This is the main chimp in the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washoe_(chimpanzee)

This doesn't seem to just apply to chimps either. Gorillas (and other large apes) can do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)
Ask HN: Solutions for collaborative code review, pair programming?
Hey HN,
Me and a friend of mine want to do a series of screen casts of walking through and modifying open source code of popular libraries. The idea is to help people dig into OSS and to understand how the software they use work under the hood!

I plan to start with JavaScript based front-end libraries. So other than the editor and terminal, there is the browser as well that needs to be shared.

Any hints on what tools I can use to collaborate with my friend online? Final product is a open video playlist on YouTube. Ideally I'd like my friend to also modify the code when we're playing with it!
Ok, I will bite the bait... Why?
You are quoting the paper in a dishonest way. Did you get 16% from this?

> Using human-chimpanzee dX/dA and human diversity data from genome-wide surveys we obtained estimates of α between 2.7 and 5.9, again assuming β between 1 and 1.4 and a range of ancestral population sizes
Yes, it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
> You are contradicting yourself. The value is generated by the company, i.e. the workers. Not the founder. The founder just extracts this value and makes themselves more powerful.

This is just ideological rubbish. It's not either-or. Workers perform the manual labour and such, but management plans, organises and directs. Labour can't exist without management beyond a trivial level, and the founders (or more realistically, the executives) design and direct the whole company's strategy. If you look around you can see plenty of examples where incompetent direction can kill a company and strong direction can build an extremely valuable one. Founders also accept the risk of failure, and are expected (in any sane workplace) to make more sacrifices than the employees while the company is still small. In essence, the company is the vehicle for the founders' will. Labour is fairly interchangeable compared to that.

> There can be no clean separation between money and political power. Politics is the struggle for the power to allocate ressources. Money is ressources.

You know what I mean. Elections should be won on the strength of the platform, not the size of the budget won from super PACs or wealthy single donors. Of course politicians, when in power, shuffle money around.
Nice one! So is the trick that:

1. JPEG allows text comments

2. Browsers don't enforce correct HTML (alternatively, is "����JFIF,,��r<html>" correct HTML?)

3. And exif tools mostly work based on header & statistical analysis?

Or am I completely wrong here?
Monogamy is something that is mathematically well defined.
The electric city
Its not a higher level of http, its more like lets use torrents instead of http because they are distributed and scale better. But the web is more than http, its dns and email and logins and all of that stuff, it all scales poorly, it can all be improved with distribution, lets not replace http with torrents lets replace it all with distributed stuff.

As an example you talk about needing a special device to manage keys which presents problems. It centralises your identity to your yubi key (instead of email), lose your yubi key and you lose your identity, what if it gets wet, crushed, corrupted, your fucked. Instead we encrypt the key and distribute it across the net, if a copy is deleted or corrupted there are other copies and its available to you anywhere anytime. Currently your identity is centralised to your email, if your email goes down you lose your identity, if its distributed and a copy goes down you just use it like normal.

Distribution solves pretty much all the problems centralisation creates, its just really complicated so we generally don't bother.
Western countries have always spied on each other, jostling for position and influence. That is nothing new. Openly declaring hostile intent against an ally - that's new. I'm not sure if people in the US really understand how horrified everyone, of every political stripe are about Trump's behaviour towards us and the elected Republican leadership's complicity in it.

It's not just about Trump anymore. He could be kicked out of office at the next election, sure. But the elected republican leadership, who have their own democratic mandate, are just rolling over and letting all this happen. If they can't be relied on now, they can't be relied on after Trump either. As a conservative Brit, that grew up politically during the titanic partnership between Reagan and Maggie, this is all bewilderingly horrible.

I still remember the Falkland war and the way that, while it took the US a while to realise what was happening, in the end here was never any real question over here that we would be able to rely on the US in the end. I don't think that would have been substantially different under any subsequent US president even right up to Obama. But now? I don't think there is any such confidence. Can you imagine a British Prime Minister worrying about what Trump might tweet after we sank the Belgrano?
Optical fibre made in orbit should be better than the terrestrial sort
Ask HN: How to sell to SMB's and Enterprises?
Top 15 CRM Software for Enterprises: Analysis of Leading Systems
Self-Driving Cars Are Not the Future
Future directions for optimizing compilers
The file picker runs in a separate, trusted context. Only when you select a file and confirm the application gets access to that file.
Pretty convoluted to me...
> Summers made the comments after a presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the persistence of low interest rates in global economies, a phenomenon which he explained as excess savings pursuing a shortage of investments.

So central banks printing trillions of dollars (aka Quantitative Easing) to prop up asset prices (and thereby drastically increasing income inequality in developed countries) had nothing to do with record low interest rates?

These people sure have a way of "explaining" things without really explaining anything at all.
this is just icing on the cake. we need to urgently dismantle Heimat and Interior
Yeah this threw me for a loop, but didn't try to get it corrected - did anyone follow up on this glaring error when the book was initially for sale/proof-read more widely?
Easily one of the best channels right now.

Every video is hilarious.

* thejuicemedia - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKRw8GAAtm27q4R3Q0kst_g

Suggested videos similar to the one above.

* Honest Government Ad | My Police State! - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlUQMH19BkQ

* Honest Government Ad | Article 13 (Internet Censorship Bill) - YouTube || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZkydX0FPw
> For these we don't really need optimizations.

While it's true that many sites with high volume are written in high level languages, it's still true that these will require more CPU and memory than something which is highly optimized written in a lower level language. The trade-off is that it takes less developer time to write code in the high level language and the savings there are enough to invest in more computing power.

However, if you can optimize code for high level languages even further, you're still reducing the hardware requirements and ultimately saving costs. If you can build a stable Ruby VM that runs with 10% fewer resources and is compatible with existing applications, I think you'll find people willing to throw money your way.
"Software Engineering" is merely a collection of principles, techniques, heuristics, structure and practice all validated by trial and error. As such you have to read a variety of books to get the overall picture. Specifically books with sizable code for various problems. You may find the following helpful to get started (many of these can be bought used and cheap);

* Fundamentals of Software Engineering by Ghezzi, Jazayeri and Mandrioli

* The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike.

* Code Complete by Steve Mcconnell.

* The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan & Pike

* Advanced Unix Programming by Marc Rochkind.

* C Interfaces and Implementation by David Hanson.

* Large Scale C++ design by John Lakos

* Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens.

The key is that while reading the above you need to "get" how the code is "structured" rather than the details. For example, how does the code for a TCP server and client "look like"? It is a kind of spatial knowledge which you can then consider as one "module" of functionality and reproduce as needed. Large Systems consist of a bunch of layered and well partitioned modules exposing simple and clean interfaces. There will also be modules which cross-cut all the functional modules like "Error-Handling", "Logging" etc. This is the core of "Software Engineering", everything else is details.

Finally, you would also need to read a book/source where you can see all of the above principles put into practice while building a non-trivial (initially not overly complex) system.
Looks interesting, but I'm unable to judge the production readyness of their solutions.
>local internet

>sub-internets

Not on my Internet.

IPv6 is the only way going forward.

EzIP would be damaging to IPv6 adoption, and shouldn't be given the time of day.
Wait, I don't think my line has the one with the buttons below. I have a P40.

Could you tell me which Yoga model you had and which trackpad did you buy?
Real work vs. imaginary work
Those people saying the same things were always there. They just get more news time nowadays.

As long as the scientific progress is not hampered, I don't really care what the PM or some enthusiasts believe in. I think it's as harmless as people believing/not believing in God.