skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wal-Mart is able to survive and thrive in environments where other chains can't. They can be the first, not the last, big national retail chain to move in.

The town where I went to high school got one. Before they showed up, there were no other big chains of anything in that sort of business. The closest were some of the standard big chain fast food joints and gas stations. Walgreens, Safeway, JC Penney, none of them existed there.

I left before the Wal-Mart came so I didn't really see how things changed with it. I have no idea if it was good or bad for small businesses (of which there wasn't much to destroy anyway) or the town as a whole. I'm just addressing the idea that Wal-Mart would somehow be a latecomer.
Blocktronics 'ACiD Trip' is the Longest ANSI Art Ever Created
Larry Wall has joined Craigslist as Artist in Residence
Believe it or not, public clouds are more secure than private clouds
I also get RSUs as part of my compensation package (as any other tech company offers, by the way). The difference is that I am not getting a pay-cut for receiving RSUs. In other words, I am not making less for having the "opportunity" to maybe hit the lucky jar in the future.

> And sure, share price can go down but if you don't believe a company is going to continue building wealth, why work there?

My point is simply that IMO FB employees are not being fairly compensated for the amount of risk they are taking. If my future employer is asking me to accept a salary pay-cut in exchange of RSUs, my upside needs to be more than that. If we are talking about a revolutionary company, then sure, I'd agree with you, but Facebook?
Yes. You should spend some time figuring out why.
It' focused on inequality along a particular axis and inherits from a historical tradition which has focused mainly on the disadvantages faced by one side of that axis.

By way of analogy, there are tools to optimize loops during compliation. This is part of the broader goal of optimizing software, but to call them simply "optimizers" and call it a day would be to pointlessly forfeit semantic bandwidth. Fixing problems requires getting specific. And yes, sometimes loops don't need optimization, and of course there are other things to take care of, but there's still value in talking about the specifics.
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VEs are great for applications beyond gaming. Especially cheap and accessible VEs. Yeah, the technology has existed for a long time, but it was always expensive. Very expensive. Now it will be available much more cheaply.

One application is therapy, for example to combat phobias. So you show someone with a fear of public speaking (to the extent where they have panic attacks) a room full of people and let them speak. This is already in use, but mostly done in front of monitors.

No, not world changing but still very cool.
Do you mind posting your old robots.txt?
IMHO there's another factor at play. Back in the Commodore days very low percentage of population had computers, and the average computer user IQ was very high. So back then games were targeting a smarter user, hence a better gameplay.
Semantic source code transformations in MetaJS
Consider a common use case of wanting to mix SQL structured data and JSON structured data:

You want a logging service that records events in an SQL table. Each event has base attributes common to all events such as date, event name, component name, user id ... these parameters become columns in the SQL table. Some events can also include arbitrary custom data particular to that kind of event, and you want that data to also be in the database but you don't want to play whack-a-mole with the table schema to make sure every possible custom parameter has a column in the SQL table, in this case just stash the custom data as JSON, and hopefully the database server offers JSON comprehensions that let you access any fields within the JSON data via SQL.
A blog post about that would be cool as well
This post seems a lot more rational/fair when you read it in PG's voice.
Sure, but I'm mainly talking about using a spreadsheet just as a spreadsheet. If you enter a bunch of mixed pre-/post-1900 dates into a column and then change the formatting to display as "DD-Mon-YYYY" everything will change except the pre- dates. There isn't really anything complicated needed to make that work, implementation-wise.
Google partners with Facebook to help its clients buy retargeted ads
What's essential about your argument is the spending money on something nice, not the 3D element. We can do that today, and do with IMAX. I think making it first person will fail to work exactly the same way "edutainment" has always failed, and the 3D part is completely incidental.
Fully immersive virtual reality is nearly equivalent to teleportation. What if anyone could travel to any location on Earth that had the right camera systems? If anyone could visit the Great Wall of China? If anyone could visit the moon? If anyone could experience the Syrian civil war from the ground?

It might change our actions as people and as societies. Other mediums like film, television, and the Internet certainly have.
I wonder if Elon actually has the resources to make a functional dry submarine car with capabilities as portrayed in the movie? With some consulting from marine engineers, his people could probably fabricate such a prototype out of aluminum. He and his companies probably couldn't afford to take the resources away from R&D to actually do this, however.

Top Gear made their submarine car Lotus, but it was considerably compromised as both a car and a submarine. Can't really be debonair when a stream of water is squirting onto your tuxedo trousers. It only held water out of the cockpit by having air pumped in at a high rate.
Excellent! Plopped it onto my site where I was loading a big json package and it works beautifully. Thanks so much :)
In this case I think it means "trying out versions that isn't your optimal estimate a priori". If I were a comedian, I probably wouldn't dare do that, I would live for each performance and try to do each one optimally. Although I've heard from my comedian friends that to get really good, you need to bomb once in a while.
It was only shocking to people used to complicated behemoths of multi-pass compilers or complicated optimizing compilers with expensive internal representations.

Turbo Pascal really mostly "only" does things the way Wirth used to: As simple as possible. Wirth's languages are all designed for single pass compilation with direct code generation, and if you write your compilers that way, they will be fast. It is very, very hard not to make them fast that way.

His compiler textsbooks, all the way back to "Compilerbay" in 1977 (using PL/0 as the language) included full source code for compilers following that style, and they're so small the entire compilers fit in a few handful pages.

(EDIT: just to make clear: I do admire Turbo Pascal - I used it quite a lot, but main the genius of Turbo Pascal was to pick the Wirth way of doing compilers and integrate it with a simple "IDE" - a large part of the amazing impression of Turbo Pascal was that you did not have to write your code to disk, exit the editor, run a compiler etc. but could do it all in one)
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Straight from the article:

"Each EME has its own shock and vibration damping, power protection, water cooling systems, and electromagnetic shielding to prevent interference from the ship's radar and other big radio frequency emitters."

The military is no stranger to EM hardening their systems. They've been doing it since the cold war after all.
I disagree. Most editorializing is obvious, because people who can't see the difference between facts and personal opinion tend to make free with the adjectives.
Have you noticed your Blu-ray player doesn't have the "switch angle" button your DVD player had? The porn industry argued to have that added to the DVD standard. Nobody used it then and nobody uses it now.
Why changing titles ("reverting") is annoying: it doesn't matter if titles are reverted for new posts, but it matters for posts we have already seen/read/commented on, because it changes the name of things.

The problem is not moral or editorial; it's like when your kid misplaces your touthbrush in the bathroom or your cleaning lady rearranges your desk. It's a cognitive strain. A little thing, yes, but upsetting.

So the rule should be that titles can't be "reverted" after a certain number of points or after they've reached the front page (and yet it's the opposite that happens; reversion seems to address the most popular things first).
I wish more people dared to dream like Elon Musk does. He's a modern day Howard Hughes (minus the fingernail and pee thing).
Even if you can code you need cash. Maybe if you can't code you just need more of it..
More people would buy it, because small portfolios would be able to afford a share without ridiculous risk imbalances.
Computer is for 'elite' is getting old. I learned programming on XT for $20, my current laptop is worth $120. Cheap programmable calculators are available over 35 years.
That is part of it. The other part is that for smaller ships, you end up having over half the ship manned by sailors who can handle the engine room and reactor. The Navy has enough trouble finding and keeping sailors for their nuclear power program, so they tend to restrict how they use them, otherwise they might end up in the unfortunate situation of needing to allow less qualified candidates through nuclear power school just to keep the fleet running.
The system has to meaningfully improve on watching a movie to matter. Yet, most people did not like the frame rate improvement in the Hobbit movie because it made the film too lifelike, ruining the cinematic experience. Higher resolution is not automatically more desirable. The same fact underlies lots of movements in music (lo-fi, punk, black metal, etc).
I think there's an opportunity for a SaaS that makes it easy for companies to publish a pretty "shutting down" page. This one is very uninspiring.
Invariants across languages
P/E remains pretty stable at 30-ish

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+p%2Fe+and+price+NA...
This is the best example anyone has thrown out yet. Still pretty niche though.
I wouldn't just give away everything. Use the executive summaries as a sales tool. Make a note that for any of these startup ideas you're willing to serve as a minor stakeholder (say, 10%). That would 1. allow you to gain something from someone executing on your idea, and 2. allow the people who executed on your idea the benefit of having your brain involved in the development process. The ideas are yours and you know them better than anyone else. You've had them longer than anyone else, and you've thought about them longer than anyone else. It makes sense for you to be involved to some degree because you have far more to contribute than just a few sentence concept overview. It would be a win/win for all. If they are truly good ideas, it would be a shame to just give them away. They are your children and you their parent (that's how I feel about my ideas, at least!). Stay around. Stay involved. Watch them grow. Be a part of it!
Fair enough. What do you propose submitters should do if the page's original title doesn't give you a "reasonable impression of what content is behind it"? Simply not submit the article altogether?
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I'm not sure if you're aware but Carmack is CTO at Oculus now.
Have you seen this:

https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_e...

Encrypted dropbox replacement ... and he even wrote rsync.net specific instructions :)
So, I submitted this same thing earlier, but it looks like HN automatically kills gawker submissions.

http://jalopnik.com/zomg-elon-musk-to-turn-lotus-submarine-i...
telling someone with an idea that they should learn to code is like telling a coder with no money that they should just get rich.

I mean, sure this is possible - but this is not the way to produce a successful outcome (built idea/funded tech company) in either case!
plus, being on a Navy ship gives them virtually unlimited water to use as a coolant for the overclocked systems.
Then perhaps its time to disrupt the cable market...exactly like we've been seeing over the past 24 months.

I felt this way the second I saw XBox Live. Imagine how much more content you would be willing to consume from there if everything wasn't a la carte. You have a captive audience where you can charge advertisers a premium for getting in front of those eyes.

Instead the customers are asked to pay a monthly fee just to access online content and you either pay per download or for a secondary service.
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Easiest solution (more eyes, no new development):

Give more people title-edit privs, but set an expected-behavior standard that to edit, you are expected to (a) read the article; and (b) emphasize informativeness over either editorial-spin or originalism. Right now the "defaulting to original is always OK" rule is encouraging attentional abuse (by both mods and readers).

Far-out solution (some development/assessment needed):

Allow alternate titles to coexist; have a separate voting tournament between them.

I understand PG's priorities, but the Scylla and Charybdis of bad-submitted-titles and bad-original-titles is wasting a lot of readers' time, and biasing followup discussions in a more ignorant and acrimonious direction. (Bad titles feed into PG's 'much higher priority' as well: they are the 'broken windows' indicating that no one is watching the store. If no one has time to help get titles right, who's going to curate the much more numerous and twisty threads?)

Great titles are an art and a gift to readers. Improving titles is a major opportunity for the social news web. Empires like Drudge and HuffPo have been built on pulling out buried ledes from elsewhere, sometimes abusively but very often to the reader's benefit. HN should be open to innovation here.

(BTW, the twitter account @HuffPoSpoilers is a thing of beauty in this space, much larger than just a joke. It takes the HuffPo interest-piquing titling the one necessary step further, removing the tease and delivering the payoff all at once. It Is The Future.)
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New particle might make quantum condensation at room temperature possible
> Elon Musk launch Robots like Pacific Rim

Sarcos had the technology for full-body haptic feedback harnesses of the type that were somewhat portrayed in Pacific Rim, and they had this in the 90's, if I recall correctly. DARPA had arm/shoulder/head haptic feedback projects even back in the 70's and 80's.

The problem is that the human form factor is quite complex, and it will always be cheaper to make a simpler specialized tool. Humans are scary good at controlling things, even without haptic feedback.

Transformers: Just physically impossible for anything more functional than a movie prop. (Ok, maybe Monster Truck rallies.)
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>>(I have a rooted Kindle Fire that's still running GB, and there's nothing I can do to change that)

Well, ...not _nothing_

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26920609

...but I understand that only techies dare to go download random images from the interwebz and attempt flashing their device. Personally, my Kindle Fire is running this SimpleCM9 Android 4.0.4 quite well.
Totally agree - a while a go I posted a tutorial on HN about how to create Apple's "Your First iOS App" without using storyboards or IB. It started a pretty good discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5559216
just reading a Howard Hughes bio.

Howard Hughes was no Elon Musk. Musk is way more impressive.

Hughes inherited a fantastic business from his father and made a lot of terrible business decisions.
People running IE6 are doing it because their IT department won't let them upgrade.
When a cat looks at a human he sees a servant.
Is Seed Round Funding From VCs Good For Startups?
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I'm not very familiar with the JSON datatype in postgres. Is it possible to update subvalues without writing the entire JSON bag?

For example: {"a": 1, "b": 2} (in psuedocode)

User 1: select JSON

User 2 select JSON

User 1: update JSON set "a" = 11

User 2: update JSON set "b" = 22

What would the value of the JSON column be after that. In other systems I've worked in (where it's JSON in a database column), the answer is {"a": 1, "b", 22} or a failure on the second update letting the client know that their copy is out of date.

I'd love to know if postgres can deal with this in the normal relational way so that the result is actually {"a": 11, "b": 22}
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Well I'll be. I guess I hadn't taken a look at what's being done to modify the Kindle Fire in a while, I shouldn't have doubted someone would build a newer ROM for it :)

Thanks for that link!
Is it possible to increase the title length, or add how many characters over the current title is. I keep copying submissions into a text editor to edit the title and it would probably easier for folks if the rejection form told how many characters needed to be deleted.
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> But how is that different from the old MS battle-cry "embrace, extend, extinguish"?

It's OSS. That alone makes it different. Anybody can continue work on it or even fork it.

Postgres is an awesome database and an awesome project. I think the core developers have a good blend of being committed to supporting the SQL standard and adding new non-standard features. If you read through the docs they usually specify if a given feature is standard SQL or a Postgres extenstion. If you want to use something new that isn't standardized yet you have that option. If you don't, you have the info that it's not. The choice is yours.

> It's the "extinguish" part I'm concerned about.

I'm not sure I understand this. Are you worried about Postgres extinguishing its competitor databases (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, ... etc)? I'll be honest that I do see that happening but it's not malicious. It's just a better product. For transactional/persistent storage of data I don't see myself recommending anything else.
I was on a boomer which mostly cruised around at 3 knots staying quietly hidden.
No it is not worse! Even if the title is totally biased and link-baity and whatever at least I can still guess the approximate topic the article is about. Based on this I can then decide if i am interested in it or not. But with the original title this is often impossible.

For example a few days ago there was a submission with the title "Beer". Since i am interested in beer I clicked on it. But instead of something interesting about beer I got a piece of alcohol fueled drama in the Ruby community which I am totally not interested in.

By leaving the original title I almost always have to click on all articles on the frontpage to find the 4 or 5 articles I am interested in.

Perhaps we should get rid of the complete title to make it as unbiased as possible? Just put the number 1 to 30 on a page and link them to the articles and hide the domain via javascript. This way you prevent a lot of problems... For me almost nothing would change because I already have to click on almost all the links just to figure out what's in the article and if i am interested in it.
The Russians had cavitating rocket driven torpedoes that traveled at 100's of miles per hour.

2 mph might be fine for a billionaire's private submarine yacht. If you're a billionaire and you're in a hurry, just transfer to the private jet.
As I typed it I was thinking that debouncing change events would be nice; as I wrote the above, you'll get several events depending on what operations you're performing.

It happens that subsequent invocations of 'make' will be blindingly fast because it will check inode timestamps (by default, you can force make to look deeper if you have Reasons) and because those inodes will still be cached "somewhere" in the kernel. So, debouncing isn't critical for this particular use case, but it would give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Too many ... for me to understand what you mean.

If Robert Morris was jailed for life, would it make the world a better place?

People in the developed countries wont crash anywhere any day soon. Modern bread and circus - junk food, celebrities, TV shows and professional sports will take care of that.
Engima.io showcased their tool recently on HN with Federal Employee Salary data. They provided a link to the data dump, which I decided to play around with. I'll put the code on github once I've cleaned it up a bit.
Ideas are easy. Implementation is the bitch.
Pity be the fool who puts C++ above perhaps a 6.

I recall Mike Acton basically saying in an interview that if an applicant claimed expert knowledge of C or C++, the gloves came off during the interview--Acton is one of (possibly the?) head tech bros as Insomniac Games, and has done a lot of work dealing with such arcane things as using the Cell SPUs optimally. I would not want to take on that challenge in an interview unwittingly.
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hey why not have 2 titles, original and secondary... Moderators would simply identify and delete bad secondary titles and prevent redditization...example:

A Farewell --- Android head quits
You need to get a technical co-founder.
This makes sense and I really hadn't considered it.
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I can see it from my window as I type this over the Charleston Harbor :)
But even bankrupting the small shell entity causes enough overhead for the parent company to hesitate before attacking.
Beautiful. Really great, creative work. Would definitely invite for an interview, if I were in the market for this skillset.
10 000 hours with a manual and 10 000 hours in a very smart company sharing your interests lead to drastically different results.
Yes, there is basically no real evidence for any of the multiverse hypothesis. If they're right then physics and cosmology has nearly ended in its reach of what is knowable. It feels so much like this is premature surrender and physicists are turning themselves into religious philosophers just because they can't think of anything better. If we had been backed into this wall for hundreds of years with nothing better, then I might agree that the program was over, but I think the whole anthropic/multiverse idea is a condemnation of how sold physicists and cosmologists have gotten on one possible solution, and indicative of the fossilization of some of their ideas. We need a new Einstein to do away with the modern-day aethers...
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Indeed. I wanted to buy 'in-the-money' options not so long ago. When I did the math, I just decided to let it go and check for a cheaper stock.
> today you no longer need to be as brilliant as John Carmack to achieve success

That is a lie. To achieve anything similar to what Quake and Doom were at their time, one must possess raw undiluted talent and no amount of tools, libraries or online resources are going to help.

If it was that easy, we'd see masterpieces pop up every few months. But instead the market is flooded with mediocrity. Which really should come as no surprise, because we know that 90% of everything is crap. That includes people: most people (including myself), unfortunately, aren't half as smart and talented as they think they are. Which is why we struggle to create things that could be considered merely "good", and "great" is completely outside of our reach.
the first time i ran the tests "no return" was faster