skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the outside looking in, the most interesting part of the post is the note about their new release cadence:

> As we expect the language to evolve rapidly, we strongly recommend using the regular releases instead of the LTS releases for large projects; while this does mean you need to upgrade more often, both us and our users have found that it is generally easier to catch up on 2 months worth of changes 3 times as often than 6 months of changes in one go. We will also be re-evaluating the length of our release cycle; one possibility is that we will move to releases every 4 weeks, with these releases being supported for 6-8 weeks.

That cycle will work for FB where they are constantly iterating and also have early insight as to where the language is going before they get there but for anyone on the outside or for slower moving projects, that cadence seems fairly punishing.

Is that a big change from how they release now?
Luvit is node-copied environment, which nils “no library” downside. Lua doesn’t push it, but it is there and even works. As of no classes or ‘weird’ parts, js has more rich history of bullshit included, not included or misbehaved than any language ever. I’m not going to enumerate these here. You just get used to it and now can’t stand it in others. Js prototyping is much dumber though, so it could be hacked by 5-minute newbies easily, unlike mt/index magic. But there is no such thing like ‘being in line’ with javascript, since it draws no line.

You can write a parser that makes Lua js-like (or even better) in a couple of hours, but that woudn’t make it popular. Including it into a browser would though. But browsers still resist to include anything viable like RxRS scheme-likes at least that could be transpilation target, repeating that unsmart ‘maintaining complexity’ argument. You’re stuck with js and that’s why rants go all the way. If it had enough concepts, there would be less rants and more transpilers, but it is dumb af and oriented on end-developers rather than on library, system or metadevelopers. At least wasm is a hope, but it was not seen seriously yet in this regard.

Ps. require() is a regular one-time module-load routine, nothing to do with #include.
Here's a simple fix for free college:

Online-only courses that everyone in the United States can get into regardless of ability (no admission department). Standardized exams with rigid grading criteria (no need for TAs to grade). Lectures are recorded once, so it's only a one-time fee paid to a professor.

No athletics department. No dorms. No campus. No clinic.

There's your free college education.

If you want your sports and luxury dorms and catered meals, then you gotta pay for it.
I think part of that is our collective fascination of young self made *illionaires, as well as the more personal interactions a user has with Facebook vs Google. Heck, I bet more people are aware of Tom from Myspace, than they are of Larry Page or Sergey Brin.
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DO NOT mention Mura CMS. I never thought that something could be coded worst than WordPress until I saw Mura's code. It is an embarrassment and should just die a horrible death.
Docker also has a cache, making dependency installs not usually an issue.
To be fair, the government heavily relies on the data Google collects... I highly doubt the consequences are going to be too dire for them.

On the other hand, it does appear as if Google (and many of the other mega-corps) are pretty much acting as if they are sovereign in their own right. In this case, it appears Page honestly just ditched it, but if he gets away with it - he sets a precedent.
They removed the ~"do no evil"~ " Don't be evil" from the preface of Google corporate code of conduct April 2018.

They have "don't be evil" in a last sentence: "And remember… don't be evil, and if you see something that you think isn't right – speak up!". It's directed towards the Google employers as individuals, not for the corporation.
At first, I could not figure out why sleep mode was an issue, but I think the point is that a cold boot attack has to be performed within minutes of the shutdown, and it has to be a 'hard' (just cut the power) type of shutdown, not an orderly shutdown where the OS stops what's running and then instructs the hardware to shut down. An attacker who gets his hands on a computer in sleep mode is in a position to force a hard shutdown and immediate cold boot when he is ready.
I'm extremely interested in the story of the woman who survived the rubble.
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Because as a voter and citizen, I want my politicians keeping Google and other tech companies in check, and regulate them if necessary.
You're not alone. The story the author is talking about -- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/style/miss-america-2019-p... -- doesn't include much in terms of data analysis nor graphics to visualize it.

The story was interesting but not one that is data-driven, like other Times pieces.

The Insider essay was just hype: "Look at me! I'm a software engineer covering a beat! Go me!"
I agree, questions like: "Mr Page, have your organization used computer software to track citizen's activities?" would lead nowhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stXgn2iZAAY
This is correct, they rejected anyone but top officials.

https://www.law.com/2018/09/04/after-senate-intelligence-com...

(Disclosure: I work at Google)
Which should tell folks what kind of hearing this was.
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Yes. That's him! Awesome! Thanks!
I think the one really innovative thing that is going on at Apple is their investments in their AI/ML/N team. Plus, the silicon team always does great work with the A series cpus and all the new ones too like the S4 for the watch.

I'm going to use my iPhone SE until it no longer works. I don't want bigger phones, and I'll vote with my dollars.

I'm also in the market for a MacBook Pro, but the touch bar is not something I'm interested in at the expense of the function keys. We should be able to get the best of Apple hardware, but not at a compromise.
> what's being done to make this the default behavior in node and deprecate node_modules proper

My hope is that PnP proves that this approach can work and raises the stakes for Node to implement APIs that would allow for a better integration. It's a long term plan and we have yet to prove ourselves on the long run, but I'm quite confident :)

> If you remove support for them

I don't think we'll ever remove support for them. I'll personally advocate for them not to be used because of their subpar developer experience, but apart from that it won't cost us much to support them.
This could be one of the killer apps of Augmented Reality.
I absolutely can discern pixels on it. The comparison to an S8 is just not even close. It's an inexcusable PPI for that price in 2018 even being the "cheap" iPhone. I'm sure the X is fine but I haven't really used one much.
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That's Larry Wall
This is why remote wiping is so important for laptops. If you lose it you wipe it. If you find it again then restore the contents from your backup. You are keeping backups, right?
"the Germans were still thinking about the big bad man coming from the East"

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

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

'The majority of the assaults were committed in the Soviet occupation zone; estimates of the numbers of German women raped by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2 million.[7][8][9][10] According to historian William Hitchcock, in many cases women were the victims of repeated rapes, some as many as 60 to 70 times.[11] At least 100,000 women are believed to have been raped in Berlin, based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports,[9] with an estimated 10,000 women dying in the aftermath.[12] Female deaths in connection with the rapes in Germany, overall, are estimated at 240,000.[1][13] Antony Beevor describes it as the "greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history", and has concluded that at least 1.4 million women were raped in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia alone.[14] According to Natalya Gesse, Soviet soldiers raped German females from eight to eighty years old. Soviet and Polish women were not spared either.[15][16][17] When General Tsygankov, head of the political department of the First Ukrainian Front, reported to Moscow the mass rape of Soviet women deported to East Germany for forced labour, he recommended that the Soviet women be prevented from describing their ordeal on their return to Russia.[18]'

"as far as I could heard no mention was made in the same announcement about the "Amerikaner"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes
There's an interesting thought experiment. Break America in half by general partisan divide - allow for free migration based on political ideology alone. How long would it take before these now wholly 'unified' halves then turn to bitter and polar divisiveness? What would be the new divisive topics?

There's probably roughly a 0% chance of success, but Calexit would be a phenomenal social experiment and perhaps something people could learn an immense amount from. On the other hand, there's already an immense amount of information and history people could learn from today. But anything that's inconvenient to 'the' ideology is irrelevant, of course.
It doesn't hurt that the Zuck was the focus of a popular film.
>I have a suspicion that at least part of the drive for Brexit comes from the determination of the British security services to preserve their last little island of unaccountable Empire

That's a poor strategy then, since it's likely Scotland will have a second independence referendum and there is much strong support for independence now that it's seen as a way to stay in the European union.
Big companies are just successful small companies.

IBM, Bell Labs etc. did far more innovation than any Mom and Pop shop.
> But then those people would hang too.

I don't believe it.

Are you saying people in Malaysia are hanged over quitting their jobs? That would truly be horrible.

Edit: At no point did I advise going against the law of a country. I'm just putting the blame where it belongs.
It was always "don't be evil" [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
Looking at total GSP makes no sense. California has the largest GSP, but it is only #8 in GSP per capita. Also, when we compare countries, we usually compare PPP (purchasing power parity) GDP per capita, not nominal GDP per capita. California has a cost of living much higher than the national average.

If you look at real purchasing power, California ranks #37: http://www.aei.org/publication/adjusting-state-incomes-for-t.... The usual retort to attempts to adjust for cost of living is that iPhones, Teslas, etc., cost the same anywhere in the country. This is where inequality comes in--your average person spends most of their income on purchases indexed to cost of living: rent, food, gas, child care, etc. If you make $300,000, you'll have more disposable income in California than if you made $200,000 in Minnesota even with the higher cost of living. If you make $75,000 in California, you might be living very similarly to someone making $50,000 in Minnesota.

Nor is California like say Germany or France, where substantially lower GDP per capita and higher taxes (relative to the U.S.) is balanced by a robust safety net and ample public services. California has among the worst public schools in the country: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2018/02/08/geog.... Its public universities are quite expensive. It doesn't have a leg up in healthcare like say Massachusetts. Public transit is basically non-existent outside SF/LA. (To compare: Dresden and Sacramento are about the same size; Dresden has an extensive commuter rail system, and a tram system with 150 stops. Sacramento has no commuter rail and a light-rail system with 50 stops.)
I worked for a company that was in the process of moving their coldfusion application to a django application. We decided to move from Adobe's cold fusion server to Lucee, the process wasn't seemless but the road bumps we're smoothed out pretty quickly. Lucee is quite good.
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Hope Driven Development - everything sucks right now, but it must get better. Right? RIGHT?
"Abstraction", in the verb sense, is the process of taking a subject that isn't abstract and making it more abstract. But that isn't the only way to produce an abstract image.

For example, see abstract expressionism.
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Try the large version, it's screen is the same height, but it's just ~2 inches more narrow.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/Apple-iPad-mini_id7523/siz...
When I went to finally get my SE a few months after release all stock but the 64gb rose gold were sold. I’m a dude but I wanted the phone so bad that I didn’t mind the colour.
I watch sports a lot. A well executed shot or play is a delight to watch. Can someone explain why Miss America or a beauty pageant is interesting in 2018?
Since the event yesterday I've been thinking about how these new models play out with Apple's history of selling the older phones at a discount for two years. The X was replaced by the Xs and is no longer for sale. I wonder if this trend will continue with only the Xr line remaining for sale for the following years. It would mean producing half the number of models of older iPhones going forward. Instead of 7, 7 plus, 8, 8 plus they would only have Xr and Xr 2019 replacement two years from now. Would this save them a significant amount of money?
The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (1974)
Does anyone know the source for this? I found a Scientific American article and an Amazon listing for an out-of-print book published by Scientific American (perhaps just a copy of the article).

https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/1973/03-01/#a...

https://www.amazon.com/Bicycle-technology-S-S-Wilson/dp/B000...

EDIT: The URL includes 'Scientific American March 1973', which matches my first link. EDIT2: So I think that must be the source.
> In my experience, they typically like to pick apart others, but can't handle being picked apart.

Yes. cryoshon even states in his post that he wouldn't want to be around a person like himself. So he's only allowed to interact with masochists who like being constantly criticized while never criticizing back, because anything else would be "fake"?
tome's law strikes again!

"In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918772
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Oh wow that is a very important detail I had overlooked as well. Looking at them now the comparisons seem rather blatantly misleading.
Benioff is in the process of doing the same. None of these people have any desire to run Ops for a giant corporation. They want to focus on the stuff they like. For Page, it’s the tech. For Benioff, it’s the philanthropy, social responsibility, equality, political stuff.
This can easily be provided by the federal government. The costs are miniscule.

The best part: it's easy to recruit the best talent for providing the lectures because you'll be the face of a specific subject for many years, and being features as THE expert teacher, your side gigs get huge exposure: books, articles, commentary, etc.

You can even get recurring income by addressing questions in follow up videos.

It's like Khan academy but at the national level, and this time it's for keeps (aka it counts for education credits).
Now. But they're in serious danger of being disrupted from the bottom.

http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/

Low-end disrupters (think steel minimills and discount retailers) come in at the bottom of the market and take hold within an existing value network before moving upmarket and attacking that stratum
The article doesn't argue that the iphone was great because any of those things.

The article is arguing that technology is iterative, and that great inventions are often built on many other great inventions.

The article is focusing on the iphone as an example of breakthrough technology.. but the question implied by the article is whether or not it's great because of the inventors ability to build on a larger than average amount of previous work.. and ends with the conclusion that greater freedom of information allows for breakthroughs, not "genius" lone-wolf inventors.
You're right, Hearthstone basically normalize each card value on their rarity and the buy/sell price ration is 4:1
Pretty broad question. One thing I suggest: Do not keep downloads in your home directory. Keep them in a directory under /tmp. This avoids accumulation of download clutter.
Another day, another weird dogmatic "static vs dynamic" discussion, with inaccurate comments like "the dynamic hype is dying", or "static is making a comeback" or "static is not really relevant anymore".

Are people really that unfamiliar with the history of computer science? There's no hype, there's no comeback; both static and dynamic languages have existed for over six decades. Both styles have been around as long as computer science has been a thing and will continue to exist as long as programming is a thing.
I believe you and I differ on what we consider the results of a squat. And I'm impressed that you can dismiss my points so quickly and not even put in the effort to try and enlighten me. Who knows, maybe I'll come around to your line of thinking if you put more than "squats bad, simple exercises better" on the page?
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>But if you care enough about performance that you focus on the performance benefits of SIMD over ordinary execution, you probably should be using the GPU instead.

That's not true. There's a lot of heavily serial algorithms which do not always work well on the GPU unless they are of a very large size, larger than most applications. This happens a lot in optimization and differential equations, two of the pillars of scientific computing.

>Thus, a much fairer comparison, if we care so much about performance that non-SIMD execution is a non-starter, would be CUDA vs. Julia targeting the GPU.

Tim already wrote that article where it shows how Julia code generation can be faster in some instances for GPUs. https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-julia-programming-...

>but idiomatic Julia code still has low overhead

Where?
Many have made fun of the new names using roman numerals and moving to "Max" instead of "Plus", but I think it all makes a lot of sense when you look at the larger picture. They are clearly making a major change to the product line and the way we all think of the product line. They don't want the Xs Max to be seen as the newer 8 Plus, it's a completely new, higher-end product.
If it was just typing it would be easy. If it's Hack collections and async/await...not easy at all
Turning someone else's work in as your own? Lucky he didn't fail you on the spot!
Unless we want to start paying for google searches and Facebook, this is how it’s going to be. And personally, I actually like getting ads relevant to my life.

I do not like targeted advertising one bit. It makes the ads boring, repetitive, and potentially embarrassing. I want to see ads relative to whatever content I am consuming. If that content is so general that it can't be targeted, then so be it. All other advertising works this way, and it has been doing just fine. Not to mention 3rd party scripts running, which only happens because the advertisers and content producers do not trust each other, so they sacrifice the security of their users.
You know, if we're gonna do that, "Honeypot" and "Honeynet" have to go. They actually still mean things in parts of the English-speaking world that are seriously racist.

Hey, if the author dislikes "master/slave" in computing, maybe s/he can get us all to use "manager/employee". Functionally, there is very like literally when things go as planned. Oh wait, nevermind, we dislike word-mincing.

Maybe server/client? No, that isnt always accurate.

Words change. Perhaps we'd prefer "Roman"/"Slav" dynamic? Oh wait, the Romans took so many Slavs as slaves that their word for "people" became the Roman word for "slave".

"Foundational" / "Associate" could work well. Like the way "associate" in a law firm used to mean something. Now even the bagger on their first day at the grocery store has "associate" on their tag.

I dont care. Just make sure it communicates heirarchical data as is necessary to discern such in practicality.
If that is a problem, then let prescribe the following process flow by the app: first sound the empty tube, then the tube filled with water, and only then the tube filled with the test liquid. The first two checks should catch any miscalibrations, I think.
Neat!

Minor typo at the bottom:

s/wite/write
Same here, except at $1100 for 64GB I might have to consider going back to an android phablet.
heavily dependent

So even you concede that it's not totally dependent. Boiling elections down to one problem is a gross oversimplification. Yeah you need money, but you also need a platform people want to vote for. You need good faith with your electorate.

What good is cash if you've alienated your base? What good is cash if you've already got 32x more than your opponent (Cuomo's $16MM to Nixon's $500k)[0]?

Right now, Cuomo's at a greater risk losing progressive votes than running out of money. The memories of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez v Joe Crowley are still fresh in everyone's mind. Money didn't help Crowley there...

0 - https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/cuomo-spent-8-million-in-three...
So you're not saying to host my own blog, which I do. You're saying don't talk about anything I create on any kind privately-owned social media platform.

That makes sense. I'm not sure it's very useful, since most of the world's population are on these platforms and it's completely impossible to reach people without using them.

Doesn't matter to me how many people read what I write. I just want a chance along with everybody else. That's all. Not going online with the rest of the planet doesn't seem like a very useful piece of advice.
Yeah - if you start as a New Year's resolution you're running that puppy out by the time the snow melts, but it is simple and fast enough to be rewarding with long, punishing hours in the gym, and by the time you've run the program out you should see enough gains that you have the urge to move onto an intermediate program.
What I found interesting in the presentation was when they called the new iPhones uncompromising. I was thinking “what are you taking about? All engineering is comprise”. Stick out camera is a perfect example.
I agree with you on the smart watch and wireless earbuds (although perhaps the latter can hardly be called an achievement given the amount of resources Apple has).

They also managed to all but ruin their computing product line, to the point where people prefer to use ancient machines over recent ones.
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Those are two different things. VBScript was the Macro language used in Office Products. There is also an SDK for VB/VB.NET for developing plug-ins and other tools that's completely different.
I'm not trying to frame this as an emotional affair. Feelings was just an expression in that case. I don't have an ulterior motive here, I'm sincerely asking in good faith. What are your objective issues with Breitbart? Nothing in Breitbart seems that extraordinary to me. Let me rephrase, Can you really not imagine an intelligent decent person subscribing to Breitbart?
Which costs as much as a whole new regular bike...

Still an awesome bit of kit.
I had a $1,440 launch using just a Google Sheet
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