skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is so full of overly board generalizations and quite pretentious. To draw conclusions about all of China is silly. To describe China as a nation surrounded by minor gangs of barbarian is absurd. One of those "gangs" was the Mongolian.

That he so easily dismisses the idea of Kissinger as "flattery" is dishonest. Let's not forget Kissinger is among the greatest statesmen in history and has had an enormous role in US and Chinese history. His strategy of using China to counter the USSR is what eventually lead to the disarmament agreements with the USSR. Kissinger also remade the face of Middle Eastern politics by moving Egypt into the US camp following the Yom Kippur War.

Edit: My problem with this article is that while long it is not nearly long enough to encompass the topic he's talking about. He gets around this by drawing conclusions for us. I wish he had taken a much smaller bite and talked in much more detail about the supporting ideas. For example, why does he dismiss Kissinger's idea on China? I would like to see what he thinks and see if I agree with those ideas. Painting Kissinger in broad strokes and in negative light seem to play a crucial role in this article.
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What are you missing? I always just used the one in the browser and that did most things just fine. Just recently used JOSM which of course has some advantages, but the basics seems to work everywhere.
Probably a lot of people missed this point of the article. It certainly seemed odd to me.
Lisps have been used continuously for university level introductory programming courses at least since MIT's 6.001 in the 1980's. Today, PLT (the group responsible for Racket) might be considered to be the leader in research into the pedagogy of computer programming and Felleisen's How to Design Programs and student language sequence are used by several schools. I believe they include Rice, University of British Columbia, Brown, and Felleisen's Northeastern University.

The PLT Group's homepage: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/
Once you "accept" transpilation,you can use any language in the browser and you stop asking yourself these questions.

You still need to know javascript though. Dart,CoffeeScript,Typescript,ClosureScript... IT's not like people dont have the choice today.And sourcemaps work well when debugging,usually.
I'd hold off on the Internet rage for a bit and realize that Att has been required by law for many years now to assist in telecom surveillance. CALEA. Look it up.
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Arrays in javascript are not what you might think. They are defined by the spec to be maps where certain keys (those that are string representations of Uint32 numbers) are treated differently, and a magic property length which is always one more than the largest such key.

They are not necessarily dense - there can be gaps, and any kind of relationship to a contiguous block of memory is purely at the discretion of the implementation.

I presume that your complaint is really about calling such a thing an array, because a 'keys' method is certainly not a further bastardization of what was already in the spec.
He seems to be a victim of his own pattern recognition. This can be a paralyzing effect.
You wouldn't have enough images to generate anywhere near the data that Google, Bing, Yahoo has. This may change if amateur automated drone imaging takes off.

Now what could be done is crowdfunding an imaging run by a satellite imaging company, and licensing the data under an open license.
They can't lobby per se, but propaganda is what they do for a living.
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I had to laugh when I came across this. first the I feel dead part and then the numbers (hint hex em).
Does anyone who's got some background with DNSSEC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnssec) feel like comparing DNSChain to the basic idea of embedding certificates or signatures in authenticated DNS records? We've had a lot of different proposals for the latter over the years and my impression is their lack of adoption hasn't been because DNSSEC is fundamentally broken (though it is flawed in several ways). AFAICT it breaks down like this:

Against DNSSEC + certificate records:

1) There's a centralized PKI administration issue, but less so than the current CA morass
2) Administrative/rubber hose/legal/monetary compromise of the DNS root administrators (currently US NTIA) would allow substitution of the TLD keys, but this would be blatantly obvious to every organization or individual paying attention
3) DNSSEC has some annoying properties with regard to name enumeration and such
4) Need to either use a primary resolver that supports DNSSEC (Google Public DNS and Comcast, among others) or do a separate query to one who does

For:

5) Minimal extra infrastructure, already supported in some libraries
6) Extremely cacheable with low resource requirements (root & TLD keys, MRU/MFU certs)
7) No need to add a new dependency on a previously untrusted source of code and crypto data
8) As long as the parent TLD has deployed DNSSEC the organization only needs to get their key set up, add a theoretical cert record, and sign records as needed.

I think issues 1 & 2 are at least as big a problem with DNSChain because in practice the hand-waving of how you pick a trusted DNSChain chain is ignoring a huge class of vulnerabilities. Issue 4 is still a win over implementing a large chunk of infrastructure or trusting okTurtles'. The "just use Javascript" bit seems to apply equally to either, though I guess the _query_ portion of DNSChain is relatively simple.
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I love F# dearly, and despite having spent several years writing C# code earlier in my career, I still find switching back to C# from F# painful in lots of little ways.

But I think this post is off-base. First, it criticizes C# both for incorporating too many of F#'s features, but also of stagnating. I just don't see how anyone can consider C# to be stagnating... of the heavily-used-in-industry set of languages, is there any that's evolving faster? Java's just now getting lambdas, for instance!

Secondly, I think the lack of promotion of F# by Microsoft is somewhat lamentable (though the community has done a great job of picking up the slack). But I think Microsoft's in a bit of a bind - they've received a lot of criticism for having too much churn in the ecosystem (e.g. ADO -> ADO.NET -> LINQ-to-SQL -> LINQ-to-Entities). So how would the community react to the statement, "you should really be using F# instead of C# going forward" (even if decision makers believed that)? Undoubtedly people would feel that the investment they'd made in learning C# was not worth as much as they thought and they'd start looking into more stable ecosystems (I'm mainly referring here to LOB app developers, who seem to greatly value stability of their platform).

Furthermore, in some ways these changes make the on-ramp from C# to F# even easier, which is a good thing. And C#'s still missing so many great F# features that it doesn't make sense to get too worried about the ones that have been mimicked. And I think it's somewhat true that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and having many great features spreading to other languages is a good thing.
Ah, yes, the old Don't want to be nannied from cradle to grave? Well, here's your ticket to Somalia! routine. One of my all-time favorite thought-stopping arguments.
> he is homeless or living in a weekly motel that has no wifi

Yikes, you guys can be so harsh.

Some people don't like to work at home all the time.
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I'll be adding the license terms some time soon, thanks for bringing that up!
It's just protection money. No regular user actually cares about EV certs. The lowest thing that passes validation (domain validated certs) is fine and that's trivially automated.

The exorbitant fees are a joke that don't result in any improved security for the end user.
Ok, you have fun with that.
In this context, it's not an argument that Apple must win or lose. It's an inquiry that if the CEO thinks that a detailed answer is not warranted, and does not legally require further disclosure, than a CEO could legitimately decide to make a short answer. I think Cook was just cutting off an extended argument regarding climate change, a discussion that likely has low to negative value in the context of a shareholder meeting.
The ES6 spec draft is in its final stages of being revised. At this point there shouldn't be any substantial developer-facing changes except to a few final things that are being ironed out (mainly modules).

The features that are being shipped in Firefox are ones that are stable in the draft spec and not expected to change. At the point of spec stability, these features need to be actually tested in broader distribution to help find any potential compatibility corner cases, similar to the issues found with Array.prototype.values [1].

[1] http://www.esdiscuss.org/topic/array-prototype-values-breaks...
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Glad to know there's interest in it! I'm making it primarily because _I_ need it--not easy to find what you need down there. I was always surprised there wasn't one yet, so I decided to make it as a fun side project.

Both iOS and Android. I'd love beta testers, you can get a hold of me through my bio.
Being an ok chess player(FM) I used to be a big believer in Polgar story, but lately I've realize you do need more test cases. With such a small sample size it is hard to make conclusions.

If one of the Polgar daughters had been adopted, this would lead more credence to theory that practice by itself leads to excellence. I fear that you need at least some modicum of talent.

I've realized tutoring my own kids and my nephews that there is quite a range in natural abilities for certain skills in otherwise seemingly normal children. One nephew in particular is miles ahead in picking up chess concepts and he is the youngest of the group (at 7 years old). If he was not going to a specialized music school and getting his 10k deliberate practice hours there, I am sure he could become at least a master.
Which is consistent with his story since he claimed the hazards went out "While the tow truck was setting up to load the Tesla" which was a 15 minute process.
All iterable objects (Arrays, Strings, TypedArrays, Maps, and Sets) come with the same set of iterator-creating methods (keys, values, entries).
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Also given speculation[1] that the proposal is a PR stunt to put pressure on suppliers, not an actual idea.

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-02-28/tesla-is-a-...
For isolated or risky areas I agree, nothing can replace high altitude views. But for lively places ... are you sure ? millions of cellphones, a few snapshots with geoloc and orientation, that amount to a lot of data.

I wish for drone imaging too, but automated cars aren't legal, and I think drones won't be for even longer (unless Amazon unlesh some nice lobby-fu).

About crowdfunding satellite licensing.. I just remember a lot of people are sending high altitude balloons, maybe that would be a cheap middle ground.
The post implies that he must know where the wifi is and that his money is dwindling down to nothing. I have a problem with it because there are lots of people on HN thinking "maybe I can start a business" and stuff like this is needlessly discouraging. Further, if he is successful, he will have shown a wrong and very dangerous approach to starting a business. Going "all in" on something as failure prone as a new business is something no one should do unless they simply have no choice.
Valve VR prototype is "lightyears ahead of the original Oculus Dev Kit"
The popularity of frameworks is largely due to the non-modularity of the languages in use. Frameworks are much less popular in languages that support proper modularity where small, composable libraries are the norm.
Arguably this helped startups, since an ex Apple guy who couldn't go to Google could found a startup (and then maybe sell to Google later). Still lame though.
1. Just because an individual has personal flaws doesn't make the entirety of their work worthless. (re: Steve Sailer)

2. You oppose pre-digested conclusions in articles? You don't want an author to have thought about an issue - and reached a conclusion - before writing about it? Sounds silly to me.
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I for one am not totally convinced by all the hype around electric vehicles. Battery capacity has never in the past been able to make gigantic leaps. It has always been slow incremental year-over-year progress. Nothing seems to indicate that situation will change any time soon, but I'd love to be wrong about that because I certainly like the idea of having a car that doesn't need oil changes and all sorts of other routine maintenance that we take as a given with internal combustion engines.

All that being said, Elon Musk is no ordinary entrepreneur and you ignore that at your own peril. I think Wall Street is making a long-term bet that he's going to pull this whole thing off. Has this author not read "The Innovators Dilemma"? This is straight out of the playbook. Capture a small portion of a market largely being neglected by the established players and use it to work into larger and larger pieces of the market, learning and refining as you go.
I am not saying that BART or LU Drivers are overpaid - but that the average SV programmer or London developer is not overpaid when compared to them - techies are not very good at organizing collectively.

Name me one SV tech company that has a final salary pension open to new joiners.

And sorry 95% of the safety is in the TPS system and I would probably bet that the EE's that design and look after that system for London Underground are not paid £60k plus overtime
I had to laugh when I came across this, first the I feel dead part and then the numbers (hint hex em).
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I looked up the documents on it and Bay Trail is surprisingly open for an Intel SoC... although there's probably still plenty of stuff they won't tell you about.
A lot of old articles (some as early as 2011) have been popping up in the popular list on BBC News. In the past this had been due to it suddenly being shared on social networks although I can recall one occasion when it displayed a list of the most popular articles from exactly one month before.
You work with what you've got.
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When governments pass asinine laws like "Nobody can take photos in public except us," there are consequences. Maybe the citizens of Austria will think about why they don't have Street View coverage during the next election.
I don't think it is missing that many business listings, after all foursquare is for example using OSM.

What it lacks is a service that extracts the data, makes it searchable and has ratings etc.
California judge says driving while using GPS does not violate hands-free law
The design of the current Tesla battery would have been significantly driven by the nature of existing capital investments in battery manufacturing processes. There's no indication that batteries would necessarily be in that form in a process you build from scratch. The Gigafactory could very well plan for variations around their core production process. And, based on the production volume that Apple could consume, Apple certainly has the investment capital to make that variation worthwhile.