skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jon and I are good friends, and we have very different styles. I don't write for a mainstream audience - I write for computer architects, programmers, and IT folks. My greatest strength (IMO) is that I can write clearly and in great detail about complex topics such as CPUs, GPUs, etc.

Jon's strength is taking a very complex subject and making it much more approachable to a larger audience. Sometimes that involves simplifying things, but that's quite reasonable.
120GB * ($0.25/GB)/Month * 12 Months/Year = $360/Year correct?

So, $30/Year buys you only 10GB-month of storage on Tarsnap.
>Why would it be better to own stock in a company subject to the control of ever-changing third parties whose goals and motivations I cannot know?

Actually motivation of the board of a typical is well known: to get as much money as possible. Most of public companies are owned by institutional investor, i.e. mutual, pension, hedge, etc funds.
I'm surprised at the fixed sale price.

They should have Dutch auctioned it if there was sufficient interest from the big labels.
Suppose you want a compact, clever formula for the function:
f(x)=1 if x!=0, f(x)=0 if x=0

If 0^0 were defined as 0, you could write the above function as f(x)=x^0.

With 0^0 defined as 1, you're forced to write something like f(x)=1-0^|x| (absolute values to avoid division by zero), a bit more complicated.

This is silly though, and of no importance anywhere.
"Wu Tang is for the children."
It took Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell 379 pages to prove that it "logically follows", and that was before they even defined addition! http://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/umhistmath/aat3201.0001.001/401?...
I traded in Russian stock exchange and many companies had "preferred" stocks which didn't have voting rights. Usually, they are traded substantially lower than "normal" stocks.
Am I only one who found it odd that WinJS uses GitHub while TypeScript is released on CodePlex? Make up your mind, Microsoft!
Both statements about art are true: you will never achieve perfect simplicity, but you should try to get as close as you can!
>"The statement that mathematicians uniformly say it is 1 is simply false"

Not really. No serious mathematician would dispute the fact that for every real x,
e^x=sum(n=0 to infinity)x^n/n!.

But the above fails at x=0 if we don't define 0^0=1. So even mathematicians who claim to not use 0^0=1, can almost always be convinced to admit that they do indeed use 0^0=1, using the Taylor series for e^x.
What Standards Does IE Support and Are They Planning to Support a Specification?
VIA has basically been pre-empted by Intel's Atom line, which is more power efficient and higher performance. It's not that they have been forgotten, but they are still using ancient process technology...meaning uncompetitive products.
Apple's portable computer at the time was the //c, a really well designed computer. of course, you had to bring your own monitor. but still, that was a nice machine.
Ouch no HBO Go.
The Problem With Tech – And How To Solve It
Linq (cough)

Delphy (cough, cough)
As a website based on critique, I'd like to see an example of a series of photos showing incremental improvement. I know this takes time, but it's the main driver for how others see your site as a benefit to them - increasing their skill level and also participating in critique themselves.
Except in reality you cannot ever separate the two. Money doesn't just happen. Transfers don't just happen. There is no "neutral" way of transferring money. Everything has to happen in a context and via a real material existent system of interests and resources playing off one other...

I can comment on a $500 billion "simple transfer" separate from a bureaucracy, government, population and politics of sufficient size and complexity to actually achieve it in the same way that I can comment on how the extra mass of Santa's obesity is hindering him from delivering his presents efficiently at Christmas each year...

Which is to say, forming a serious opinion on it implies ignorance about the true nature of what it is we are discussing (a fantastical non-existent entity and an inherently impossible state of affairs).

Or at the very least it requires a willing suspension of disbelief purely for the purposes of entertainment...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7513884
It's a definition of what "2" means.
Google has had Class A and Class B shares since the beginning; B carrying 10 votes and A carrying 1.
NASA cuts ties with Russia for most space operations
Its almost like more than one person works at Microsoft, there might even be multiple teams of people who make different decisions for whatever reason.

Codeplex at least supports Git.
If the calculator is powerful enough (as in the case of Mathematica) to evaluate Taylor series, for example the Maclaurin series for e^x when x=0, then in doing so it implicitly admits 0^0=1. If it simultaneously says 0^0 is not 1, then the calculator is inconsistent. (Mathematica IS inconsistent in this example)
Thank you for taking a look. Yes, that's a part of the idea. You can upload revised photos once you edited based on critiques. Critique is the first step but idea is to create a platform for photogs to collaborate. Thanks for taking a look. Any suggestions for improving home page?
Love the bit about conduits, lenses and data abstraction, really excellent stuff. The intro may not be interesting for people already into haskell but he makes a solid case for it if you're not sold.
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I thought the same but was not excited, because Calibre is almost completely perfect already. If anybody reading this ever wants to convert ebooks from one format to another, or turn web pages into ebooks, or any such thing, definitely check it out.
I'm talking about the shareholders who choose the board, not the board itself.

Institutional investors change their holdings all the time. And many of them are controlled by people I believe should never see the outside of a prison. (And even the ones that aren't, might be tomorrow!)

So again, I ask, why is it better to risk my money in investments this ever-changing cast of characters can control, rather than companies like Google?
I seriously doubt that Microsoft has such advanced language processing capabilities that can work offline on a smartphone. For example, as of a year ago, Xbox speed recognition was still based on an ancient technology derived from Tellme networks, you can see it by yourself during Xbox One voice recognition demos. And now you're saying that phone has more processing power to do that better than a full blown gaming console?
The definitions only decorate the truths. By unwrapping the definitions, the truths can be expressed using just the barest predicates and function symbols of the background language, and logical operators. Whether you define 0^0 to be 1 or not doesn't change the unwrapped truth.
Weak, Strong, Static And Dynamic – An Introduction To Programming Type Systems
Yes, if you're 13. Why nerds are never really leaving puberty?
You’re probably doing your household budget all wrong (2013)
Yes, but eventually they'd have issued enough class A shares to make the class B shares less significant. Now Larry and Sergey can keep their majority votes safe forever. In the long run, to the likely detriment of Google shareholders.
Although standard mathematica notation glosses over the difference, it's important to distinguish between the following two versions of the power operation, which I'll call pow1 and pow2:
pow1(x, y) = x^y where y is any integer
pow2(x, y) = x^y where y is any real

The value of 0^0 is 1 for (pow-a) and 0 for (pow-b).
Agree, and you've basically described the concluding message in the last minute of this awesome video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TINfzxSnnIE
Look how long it's taking IPv6 support in consumer NAT boxes, and that's something that's hyped and all vendors are officialy drumming for it, and has been finished spec-wise since the 90s.

SCTP has had 14+ years - SCTP made standards track in 2000 (rfc2960) and was in use before that. Chicken and egg.

This is why NAT is bad. It's has introduced a systemic freeze in the Internet, breaking the inert router/smart host model that used to enable deployment of new protocols.
That's what jumped out at me as well. First the article extols how the Wisdom of Crowds is smarter than the experts. Then it goes on to say how some of the crowd are superforecasters, (essentially experts), and the rest of the crowd makes no difference.

It would be interesting to see how small the group of superforecasters would need to get before their accuracy falls below that of the CIA analysts.
Note that Google already had this, with classes A and B having a 10x difference in voting power.

Though if it's a bad thing for a company, having more of it probably makes things worse.
Don't get confused: Amazon will always sell you both razors and blades. They're not in the business of winning one specific category: they want to win everything.

That's why you can use the Kindle app on your iOS, or Android, or web browser. Or Amazon Prime on PS3/4, Xbox One/360, Roku, iOS.

They don't have to kill the iPad; they just have to win every book reader.
>Wu-Tang is pretty much the opposite of what the stereotype about rap culture is

As a die hard rap and Wu fan I would just like to say that very few artists actually fall into that stereotype. There's no "rap culture". Rap is about expression, and it happens to express different things when made by different people.
Not JavaScript, but Typescript. What if Typescript will implement now features incompatibile with future JS ?
how hard is it to google your app's name before releasing it? or do you know and just not care that you're taking somebody else's name?
Easy, just set a number of traits for each company/product and let the user decide what doesn't they want to buy.

Add info about country of origin, political affiliation of owner, or things like that, and you have a nice tool for boycotts.

Didn't something like this already exist?
How Pinterest saved thousands of dollar using Spot Instances
I agree it will take re-education, but it's not really risky. The rate of deflation of bitcoin is pretty stable, and predictable.
For example the new Google Maps runs horribly slow in Firefox, I have to open Chrome sometimes just to get a map to render.
Couple of differences from Akka actors I see:

1. Actors are "Virtual" and "Cannot fail" (?)
2. Actors have "typed" interfaces.
Why in the world do colleges have their own police force for this kind of thing?

Is the some reason she can't call the police about this?
My perspective on art is a reaction on the elitism of the art scene, so basically my comments are art.

Edit/addition: Honestly, I could have much more respect for this project, if Wu-Tang made it only accessible to homeless people, or only to prisoners, but effectively, they make it only accessible to the riches. I really do like the Wu-Tang Clan, but I am really not impressed by this stunt.
How do you know if she's a victim or not?
> C# is a much higher-level language than C, with a much richer set of libraries that can be relied upon to be everywhere. That's why it matters.

Actually this is not true. I've just been tasked with maintaining some C# code that is used as a business tool.

No problem, I thought, I'll just use Xamarin and Mono on my Mac. I made progress, but as soon as the C# code went to use the OleDbConnection stuff (to write to an MS Access database and make Excel files) it threw a DLLNotFoundException. So now I have to find a Windows machine to do the rest of my debugging.
Student Job Searches Finally Move Into 21st Century
I haven't seen much of this myself, although I can imagine it happening.

From what I've seen, bloated code tends to be code that is copied (either literally or in style) from somewhere else, which doesn't fit the task at hand. So you have functions that have lots of options, but only ever get called once with one set of parameters. The fix is to rewrite everything so that the abstractions are taylored to the task at hand.

What you are describing is a kind of excessive elegance. But this is fairly independent of the problem I described (and the article is describing).

I'll also say that there is a limit to bloat, and LOC is often a good guide to functionality. E.g. if I'm interesting in re-implementing something, I'll first look at the weight of the code. If I thought something would be a half hour job and the code is 5000 lines, I'll probably re-evaluate. Sometimes I've pondered reimplementing certain libraries, only to find they weigh in at a million lines of code.
Very astute question. That's the reason the proof-of-work function has to be "progress-free". Each time the miner performs a hash and finds an insufficient value, they are no closer to finding a block than when they started. Each hash has a liklihood of being a solution of approximately 1 / (difficulty * 2^32), but is also a a truly random lottery. Finding a trillion bad hashes doesn't make you next hash any more or less likely to be the solution.
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I'm glad Microsoft is finally catching up with the major smartphone OSs. Virtual assistant is indispensable feature (I'm using Google Now with my stock Android), it's very helpful and combined with great integration between gmail, calendar, driving history, purchases, etc. etc. it's realistically my dashboard to go a check stuff. Is Cortana doing the same? Because I think Siri is more like a useless to y to brag about, but not really helpful at anything.
I'm surprised the article doesn't say what it is that makes the National Academies Institute of Medicine to say there is no way to ethically change standards.

In other words, what are those medical dangers which can't - from NAIM point of view - be adequately handled?
How should startups look at AWS Price Cuts
It's really great seeing Trevor contributing on the IETF [TLS] working group mailing list.
> Absurdly expensive? That's a bit too harsh, don't you think?

Compared to what? Compared to this?:

http://ipython.org/documentation.html

How can my comment be regarded as harsh, when someone is relying on public ignorance of freely available, open-source documentation, written by people in the public interest, to sell a substitute without any chance to preview the materials?

> One thing - $10 per page? Not quite sure I follow you there?

Fair enough:

http://i.imgur.com/CT8nu5e.png

Which word didn't you understand?
Google pays no dividends, and by all the public information they have ever released, they never intend to.
I was surprised at the difficulties I had using R at my previous job. It's simultaneously a language I enjoyed, and one I'd feel hesitant to recommend a friend because of the flood of complaints I'd have directed at me as they learned it.

I love the concept of vectorized operations, but God almighty did I struggle with the differences between indexing a list with list[1] vs list[[1]]. Other hangups included the differences between lapply, sapply, apply or the difficulty with which one has applying operations to the rows of a dataframe. Other frustrations like naming conventions are apparently results of legacy code.

I'd strongly recommend the book The R Inferno[1] by Patrick Burns. It eases you through the nine circles of R hell that most newcomers seem to endure.
The goals that you set -- are they objective, dependent upon a real configuration of the real world such that your goal is achieved, or are they purely subjective, dependent only upon your opinion that the goal is complete?

Since you seem intelligent, I entirely disbelieve that you think an "equally valid interpretation" is that any failed goal was misguided. Presumably you've written buggy code -- do you want to convince yourself that you didn't want correct software enough to trade other things in your life? The only way we improve is by acknowledging mistakes.

(You can always blame external events, so I'm not going to touch that, except to say that for the responsible person, everything is their fault.)
"That's because you aren't a software engineer, and if you are saying so then the feelings of being an impostor are entirely warranted."

At face value this assessment feels very unfair. Where do you draw the line? Experience -- is a year not enough? Deliverables -- is YumHacker not enough? Education -- is it lack of formal training that separates the engineer from the coder?

Is it the ability to build non-trivial software systems that makes a software engineer? And we should rely on whose definition of "non-trivial" to assess her engineering ability in that case?

I'm not saying you're wrong in stating she isn't a software engineer, but I doubt you possess the knowledge of her ability required to make such an assessment with any degree of validity.
It's a peer-reviewed journal, accredited academic researchers, thorough methodology (probably better than average actually, not badly done) ...

What exactly is your problem with it ? What is the problem with retrospective-scare-quoted studies ? I personally have more problems with non-retrospective studies for obvious reasons.

Like all academic papers there are loads of problems with the research and conclusions, mostly stemming from an inability to do real experiments on humans and limited budgets, and of course these do introduce caveats. But if you're going to start judging papers on sample size ... first you don't understand statistics, secondly these guys are using more people than most (because it's such a widespread phenomenon, it's easy to get a big sample size of course, but still).

And frankly, artificially limiting your intake of different foods ... results in some chemicals not being available to your body ... first of course results in weight loss (because a lot of these require a lot of chemical energy to manufacture, or can't be manufactured at all) ... and then result in bigger problems.

It is only outside of medical circles that the benefits of modern food are in question. Nobody in the medical establishment doubts that processed, meaty and fatty foods are pretty much the best nutrition possible for the human body. Just yesterday I read an article about what everyone thought was an epidemic of the plague, at the end of the last century in Chicago. It wasn't, it was contaminated grain that made it into bread, was effectively invisible, and quite deadly. For obvious reasons this grain was grown perfectly natural, if only because modern stuff didn't exist yet. Yes, it makes you fat. Yes, there are historical screwups (not nearly as much screwups as with "natural" food of course, but somehow the screwups with industrial food are judged infinitely more important).

And yes, there are some, including medical researchers and so on, that doubt the morality of processed foods. I find this distasteful. Medical research and all science should first and foremost be value-free. Morality should be shut out (with the potential exception of describing methods to do direct large scale damage, ie. I find it acceptable that the exact gene sequence and samples for say the bubonic plague does require you to sign a letter you won't use it for nefarious purposes, even if I would have major problems with similar requirements for the cure).
Haskell has a much more baroque syntax than Lisp and it really doesn't compare to the C family syntactically or executionally. At best it's a kind of Pythonized Prolog that thinks Perl is a model rather than a warning.
The Soviet Union did actually fall, as well; that was before globalization. Iran will never fall while the world buys its oil. China will never fall while it makes your computer.

But this point is too far afield to be useful here.
Just a few representational ideas. You're a photography based website, but the the main photo on the page is covered up with a large transparent black box, let the photo serve as the overall branding of your site. Quick web tools mock up - http://i.imgur.com/aI3tFvs.jpg
Similarly the other photos on the page are filled with content (but justifiably so) or are far too small. I really feel that the photograph needs to have a stronger presence.
In the past when they've spoken about why they delayed implementation it was often due to security issues (e.g. Webgl) or due to the standards proposal not being mature enough and them being worried that supporting it would lock in a bad version of the spec because people would build code on top.
Objc.io
I think the trademark issue should be OK.

My understanding is that you can have overlap in trademarked names when it's in very different markets, but IANAL
I've just upgraded my early 2011 MB Pro with 16GB of RAM and SSD. Wow, was that refreshing.
If you're serious about it you'd probably consider App-V [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_App-V
What are the use cases for the FPGA realistically? Then only piece of easily downloaded and installed code is a SHA based crytocoin miner.
Holding and speculating is a valid use case for BTC. Many people see it as an investment and don't use it as a currency so it's not absolutely false.

If you are going to use coinmarketcap, at least filter out the non-mineable coins, Dogecoin is in the top 4.
> "Ownership" without control gives you precisely nothing

This statement implies non-voting stock is worthless. That is untrue. There are people willing to pay good money for nonvoting stock.

Imagine a dual-class share company. Class B shares cannot vote. Class A shares can vote - they own 100% of the vote share. But both classes are pari passu in economic terms - if Class A gets a $1 dividend Class B must receive the same. Further, let there be 1 Class A (voting) share and 999,999 Class B (non-voting) shares. Would you believe those 999,999 non-voting shares are worthless?

Both voting and non-voting stock take part in a company's cash flows - their discounted cash flow value is identical. The only time the difference (or "spread") matters is in the event of a proxy fight or takeover, i.e. a contest of control. The spread is a function of the probability that your vote is decisive - that absent your vote there would be a tie - in a meaningful contest of control. Small odds, which is why voting-nonvoting spreads are minor in the United States (I did a thesis on the subject - in Italy these spreads are around 10%).
There's some great utility in having campus police forces--a great many sorts of dumb things are better handled with a softer touch than you'd get were you to use the normal cops.
From past experience, their support is good, but one significant thing I missed was type inference:

// function signature
getNumber(context: any, callback: (result: Number) => void);

// calling that function
// unfortunately, here the type of num is any
// unless I specify it manually
getNumber(..., (num) => { ... });

Visual Studio figured out the type on its own.
Okay.
1) I don't believe I'm relying on public ignorance. I think I'm relying on the fact that a lot of people feel a video-based lecture works better for them, than static documentation.

2) It's not $10 per video. You pay once, and you get the whole course. That's a UX problem with Udemy.
There was an accessory for the //c called the "Apple Flat Panel Display", which was an LCD monitor you could attach and make the machine almost portable.