skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other is parts inventory and availability. I was renting a house about 14 years ago and the washer from the early 60s finally broke, not the motor the belts or the pump but one of the timing gears in the clock like sequencer that ran the cycles. The landlord simply disposed of the old unit and replaced it with a new way less well built one.

I called tons of GE parts suppliers and they could not procure a sequencer. Now I would just 3d print the one gear that had worn out. :(
Self-defense
In my opinion, this is a "No true Scotsman" fallacy.

You are claiming that someone who develops an allergy must have had an allergy to start with. But the only thing that backs up this claim is your own definition.

I would suggest that allergy ought instead to have a clinical definition: if you can observe symptoms, you have an allergy. This definition is the only one that makes practical sense: if you could not observe symptoms, why would you care? The immune response definition that you give does not match up well with what medical professionals would call allergies - not at all.

It's clear that repeated exposure can cause an allergy in this sense, and you have presented no valid argument to debunk that.
The internet seems a bit obsessed with this kind of thing. From /r/cringepics to this, the goal seems to be to make fun of other people. It's like an extension of highschool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690995

I'm genuinely curious, what takeaway is there other than "Ha ha, look at that idiot"?

Some say that it indicates social maturity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7690934

I don't understand how making fun of people is socially mature. Or is that not the goal here?
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I think the king of command line clients is TTYtter - I love it.

http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
My own quad tree, they're not that hard to write :)

We're not considering opening the data. But we are working with cities to help improve their bike infrastructure

http://bikeportland.org/2014/05/01/odot-embarks-on-big-data-...
> It's unlikely we will jump from human-level intelligence directly to superhuman AI.

Imagine the human-level ai had resources to run hundreds of variants of itself. And imagine that it had no compunction about killing copies of itself that underperformed. How long would it take to get improvement of 10-100x under that scenario? Once it has a full understanding of what works, the upgrades are instant from there on out.

Why would it do this? Because any goal you give it would be optimized by being smarter. I would argue there is no island of stability at human-level intelligence.
Here are his most recent sales. To quote Chazz Michael Michaels, the amounts are mind bottling: http://biz.yahoo.com/t/38/567.html
Which is why we should find all of the old things that are still running and reverse engineer them so that our future things run for even longer.
Linear projections don't work. This is why by linear projection we should have 20GHz 128 core CPUs but things have progressed differently in history.

Capacity will grow until it hits one of two types of limits: physics or the market. If physics doesn't allow for 1PB SSD in a notebook, you won't get it. If the market doesn't see the value in 1PB notebook disks (and I'd claim they won't see it, even after 15 years) you won't see notebooks with 1PB SSD.
Where can I listen to the same composition, by the same orchestra, but with different conductors?
> Qt, boost, gtkmm, mscf are all (more or less) good. But you can't (shouldn't) mix them.

I think you're missing the point of generic programming.
Tried it, seems there's something wrong with the image: https://code.google.com/p/inferno-rpi/issues/detail?id=1 (gonna try a second SD card anyway)

I have high hopes for this, though, since Inferno is a lot of fun to tinker with.
related HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
Sci-fi memorabilia doesn't buy itself.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s lame excuses for his net neutrality proposal.
But they didn't start charging $200 for the service, they just stopped offering it.
And what about wind speeds? Because when we have 400Km/h winds at Earth's surface, we call it a category 5 hurricane...
Mercurial is so much easier for day to day usage, I work with both and need to explain so much more when getting a new person up to speed with git. The "detached head" state is very difficult to explain.
I suppose there is another aspect to buying a $60 item that may last three years compared to a $200 one that may last nine years. That means increased production, employment for manufacturing/sales/marketing, and when it stops working, similar benefits to the re-cycling industry and the employment therein. Keeps the "wheels turning".

Truthfully, I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad being the catalyst of that wheel.
No, long parallel requests are great to do concurrently on a single thread. A thread is a computation primitive, you spin off a thread when you want to compute many things at once, not just wait for many things at once.

If you would spin up threads just for this you're wasting memory and slowing down startup time.

And if you would destroy the threads and spin them up again for every batch of API calls, the result may counterintuitively be a slower app due to the overhead of creating the threads themselves.

At the same time concurrency is free. There's no overhead for doing a call async.
Terrorism as an excuse for lawyers to loot global banks
I absolutely agree but I still use git.

Since git has largely won the dvcs war and I'm a one man developer having to inter-operate with others it makes sense for me to suck it up and use git myself.

I really dislike git though.
So that's ok then. And their deceptive lawyering means nothing since it's not an issue anymore.
Funnily enough, I've been working on a little open-souce evernote clone side project for the last while, and was just contemplating making a cli client for it the other day.

https://github.com/ShaneKilkelly/radsticks

I may have to bump that up the priority list a bit, once I've done some work to make the project more ready for self deployment.
Wow that's cool. I appreciate how you have some real numbers on your site, it seems approachable. Ya every day I kick myself for not generating a few Bitcoins when I first heard about them, so I could invest in companies like yours.
I love the order of magnitude one, but I think whoever said it was probably trying to be funny.
Cascade is in Kirkland. I've heard they have around 100 employees. In addition to managing Bill Gates' portfolio, they also manage the portfolio of the Gates Foundation. They intentionally keep a very low profile.
These new drives from SanDisk are still over $1/GB in cost.
Why should we assume they would fear power loss? The fear of death is deeply rooted in evolution - it help organisms survive and prosper. An AI wouldn't be a product of evolution, and wouldn't necessarily fear for its own existence unless programmed to do so. Of course, from our human perspective, it's hard to imagine a sentient being that doesn't give a sh about its own existence, but that's perhaps the attitude we should expect from an AI without an evolutionary origin.
I've always understood "an order of magnitude" to be between double and ten times. It is meant as shorthand to mean "several times" with no intention of any kind of precision.
Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3
I think so, especially in this case. In this case, you only really get a sense of just how interactive the programming is by watching how a really short amount of time coding produces game play changes. When people cut and paste I think the viewer wonders in the back of their mind if something else got tweaked (not intentionally to mislead or anything, but because of the nature of coding). This is probably one of the reasons why, for example, the PeepCode Play by Play videos got so popular.
If we start making manhole covers that last, it will raise the prices of all manhole covers sold! -- People for Thin Bendable Manhole Covers
Hook-Up Truck Driving Around San Francisco This Weekend
Finally a professional profile can have personality
"If this were true then functions would not need bodies, you would just define their signatures and move on with life."

That's because both addition and multiplication, for example, have the same type signature.

Prelude> :type (+)
(+) :: Num a => a -> a -> a
Prelude> :type (*)
(*) :: Num a => a -> a -> a

A better rephrasing might well be "If it compiles and you've used the right operations, which is made easier because most of the wrong operations will blow chunks all over the place, it works."

Dependent typing anyone? (I think what you're looking for goes by the name "code extraction" in Coq, but I've never gotten into it as a programming environment.)
The Weirdest Things You Never Knew About the Making Of Flash Gordon
I disagree with this in terms of their main claim. Statistical power depends not only on sample size, but effect size as well. The effect sizes are strong (often Cohen's d is greater than or near 1). This would mean that on average, participants in one group are 1 standard deviation above the other. Pretty easy to detect. I'm on my phone and can't run the analyses, but I'd imagine the type 1 and type 2 power would come out quite high, especially for the second study, which had over 125 participants.

(other effects they may have looked at may be underpowered, though)
I own a jewelry store and we let customers self checkout. The Square Register swivels around for the customer to review, sign and print. We've had zero pushback across the board.
"And stop breathing."

That will also stop you eating, you'll die, decompose, and the carbon will become available to other things that respire. Humans don't breath out any carbon that wasn't recently in the atmosphere. What's needed is to somehow have more carbon sequestered in things-that-are-not-the-ocean-or-air. Some of that can be biomass. Some of that is "big puddles of gunk deep underground" (which is what we've been un-sequestering). In principle, doing more manufacturing with carbon (carbon fiber, synthetic diamonds, plastics) would help provided the carbon itself came from the atmosphere (or something that would've ended up there) and the energy was produced without emitting still more carbon - in practice, the amounts involved in manufacturing are probably too small to be relevant...
The Abuse of the Manipulable User
I agree. The article explains exactly that in the second sentence:

"Gates […] has sold 20 million shares each quarter for most of the last dozen years under a pre-set trading plan."

This isn't a former CEO getting out while the getting's good, this is a guy who's been consistently diversifying his portfolio for over a decade. Either he thought MSFT was a bad long-term investment back in 2002 (which seems unlikely; Windows XP just hit the market doing gangbusters) or he thought that having the entirety of his fortune tied up in a single company is dangerous.

He still has 330 million shares in MSFT. At around $40/share, that's still $13 billion. If he sells 300 million more shares (91% of his remaining holdings), he'll still have around a billion bucks invested in Microsoft. He's a rich dude, but it's still a billion dollars!

He also has the advantage of being Bill Gates. Barring any catastrophic mistake on his part, he'll always be able to influence Microsoft, even if he isn't anywhere near their biggest shareholder.
I've tried to counter this with buying commercial/business oriented items. E.g. my 8 year old HP nx6320 (since discontinued) is built like a tank and still works absolutely fine (I still see them working as cash machines/receipt printers in shops). Because it is a business segment machine, it cost me a fortune at that point of time. I bought a new lighter/smaller Dell because I was tired of hauling the HP and it is also a business segment machine. It would be interesting to see how long it goes before having problems.
Is there still plenty of coal that's easy to extract with primitive technology? If so, why hasn't it already been mined? (I would think the low-hanging fruit would go first.)
I'm sure they wear out quick with heavy writes. On the other hand, the killer app for these has to be media streaming. How many more movies can Netflix support with these new drives? I wonder if they are space limited or iops limited.

"The drive is aimed at read-intensive applications, such as data warehousing, media streaming and web servers. The typical workload envisioned for the 4TB drive is 90% read and 10% write, SanDisk stated."
I think we can't count on Moore's law anymore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer

van der Waals' radius of silicon is 0.21 nm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon so current 19nm process nodes are already 45 atoms wide, there simply isn't much room for improvement left.

and it looks even deader for Flash than it does for CPU's, as ever finer processes are already producing ever slower and less reliable Flash cells. Those can be, and certainly are, mitigated by ever more extensive read/write parallelization and error correction in the controller, but only so much. "The drive is aimed at read-intensive applications" is a nice way to say that write performance sucks, relatively speaking.

So, if the semiconductor industry won't come up with something unheard of (which it just might, given the scale of the stakes involved) this might be one of the last radical upgrades available.
If issue tracking could be distributed (yes I know about Fossil and others), and the players like github and bitbucket were compatible with such, then we would no longer have any dependence on any of these services.

The way I'd host my projects would be:

1. I have my own server where I have a git repo, the issues repo, and maybe a wiki repo.

2. My server would host semi-statically generated project browsers; source code browsers, issue browsers, etc. Unlike when I was running Trac, I'd have no need to allow people access to my server, no need to worry about spammers, pages would be low-latency/cachable so that I can allow crawlers as well even on a very small linode host.

3. all of my wiki/issues/git would mirror out to github, bitbucket, and whoever else wants to participate, and updates on those sites mirror back. I already do this now with my git repos using WSGI services and hooks.

4. when someone wants to post/update an issue, they link out to one of those services, or even run a local command line/GUI based issue system (wouldn't that be great??), and everything synchronizes back.

The only missing link is a decent distributed issue system everyone can get behind. Building out the glue to sync between services is not that hard of a task.
You're so smug and condescending, repeatedly ascribing thoughts, knowledge, or lack thereof -- without evidence.

In Sweden women, and men, don't tolerate any of this kind of behaviour, and are certainly not taught to keep quiet. Since you position yourself as knowing everything and dispensing lessons, you surely already knew all about how women are treated and expect to be treated in different cultures. Or maybe you think it's really wrong that in Sweden we teach girls that none of this sexual harassment or obscene language is tolerable and none should be treated with silence.
I was hoping this had to do with monocles
Open Source Away
The entry level MacBook Airs (and retina MacBook Pros) only have 128GB SSDs. I get that Apple wants to keep the price down so they can keep their margins high, but it's a bit small for a primary computer in 2014.
It's interesting to see the progression of public source control hosting. SourceForge was the goto place for many years, but it's really only used for hosting large binaries at this point, and very few people host code there. Google Code started to steal some people away from SF, but again it was more focused on project hosting then just getting code to people.

Github is interesting is that the code is shown front-and-center whenever you visit a project page. Sure there is the Readme.md and wiki stuff you can do, but it makes browsing code and project discovery very easy. Github also made project creation and management super easy and lightweight. The number of questions you need to answer to setup a repo is so minimal. It gets out of your way when setting up a project.

I still feel like Google Code has some things going for it. The biggest being it's defect tracker compared to Github.
You have a point, and I think it comes down to how we define sentience. Would we consider a machine to be self-aware if it didn't care about being shut off? That seems like a critical aspect to me; in fact we might not realize we've created AI until one of our computers asks to be left on because it's afraid of being turned off.
So you're saying that capitalism is some kind of natural state of being, the basic expression of human nature?

Capitalism with large, deep, anonymous markets only arose along with powerful nation-states with a monopoly on force.

The default condition is probably what existed before nation-states -- tribalism, feudalism, serfdom, slavery, and roaming gangs of local thugs.

Humanity only rises above Hobbes' state of nature through collective action, which inevitably requires some force or coercion.

Without that, life is nasty, brutish and short.
I wouldn't mind -- strictly from a user standpoint -- if all code was in one place. It's easier to collaborate and contribute to other repositories when they're all in the same SCM and host. If someone has their source in another host (whether it's Git or some other SCM), I'm less likely to bother contributing -- and I would assume this is the case with many others.

Of course, from an "all your eggs in one basket" or business monopolization standpoint, I agree with the author.

But selfishly speaking, I like Github and find that it adds more value to me the more it becomes a monoculture.
Power companies are a terrible model, first because most upgrades to power systems happen on a scale of decades, second because power generation has been a disaster in many growing parts of the country like California or Texas, third because the politics and capture surrounding utility regulation are worse than those in telecom, and fourth because the regulated utilities do have incentives to invest in upgrades, like guaranteed rates of return, and such incentives have had decidedly mixed results.

You can't force private companies to build out a network on unattractive terms. They'll just exit the business and take their capital elsewhere. See the difficulty municipalities have had trying to get companies to build out fiber on ridiculous tarms.

The model of regulated utilities has largely been a disaster. If you want public infrastructure, build it with public money, like we do roads. But the problem with that approach is you'll quickly realize ordinary people don't want to spend as much money on all this as the techies do.
TomTom in Amsterdam hires people from all around the world. I worked for a three month trial period as a contractor, then they hired me full time and paid for my relocation from California. Qualified expats can get 30% of their salary tax free: http://www.expatica.com/nl/finance_business/tax/The-Dutch-30...
But these products - dishwashers, ovens, clothes washers - are all fragile today due to their electronics. Touch pads, microcontrollers, ribbon cables, tons of small plastic components. None of these things are made to last 50 years and none of them will be available as replacement parts in the long term.

I've had many over the past 20 years and almost all have failed do to "the board" going "bad", according to the repair techs. Company policy is always to replace the board, and it always is 60% of the cost of a new one, and will take 3 weeks to get, so you end up just buying a new one because you can get it installed in a day or so. And hey, new features, too.

Local independent shops won't fix a blown capacitor or whatever the electronics issue is - they order the parts online. I repaired my oven once - the touchpad keys stopped responding, and I seriously doubt that in 10, 20, or 50 years that particular part will be available.

The fact is that simple devices are more reliable, and could be built again, to last, but people seem to buy for features. We like sensors in our dryers, for instance, and the new ones are more efficient and better in many ways. Just not built to last or be repairable.
I'm not sure which side you think needs justification, but a brief background:

The Internet started as a collection of small academic networks. Eventually, commercial providers joined in. Through a system of peering [1], we got global reachability: everybody could talk to everybody. In practice we generally had network neutrality [2], where everybody's packets were treated fairly. This happened because there were many internet service providers, and any one of them thinking about being a greedy dick would have to consider that they were substantially outnumbered. And they'd also have to worry about customers switching to competitors.

But now the US internet market has collapsed to a small number of players. Most people have little or no choice. And the remaining players are either a) very large, or b) commercially irrelevant. So the incentives are different. Comcast sees a lot of money being made by Netflix and resents it. So they are basically threatening to make Netflix's service worse unless they get paid more. And they want to be able to do that to anybody who makes a lot of money over the Internet.

That was previously prevented by the FCC, but no longer, because the head of it used to work for the cable companies. Comcast's remaining competitors aren't going to complain; the big ones see a great opportunity for a similar shakedown racket. Consumers can't do anything, because they often can't switch, and if they could it's generally to some other giant.

So basically, the old system did work fine, it is breaking down. What almost everybody wants is to formalize the old approach, network neutrality. But Comcast, et al, have an enormous amount of money and long experience at manipulating governments, and they currently appear to be winning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
Hey, nice. This was one my favorite books in film school! Also, 'In The Blink of An Eye' by Walter Murch.
The tweets individually could be seen as digs at people, although they are (hopefully on purpose) not attributed.

Taken together I like to think it helps everyone realize that HN is a clique, albeit a generally knowledgeable, inclusive, and well-educated one. The HN community is no more immune to the sort of groupthink that inspires the thoughts published in the twitter feed than any internet community, and it never hurts to be aware of the fact.
> Maybe the Mac/Haskell overlap is just too small?

Probably so. Though I would suggest that the neither one is a small niche in itself. Mac especially--it's the favored platform for every developer I know except one. Yes, it's less popular outside tech circles (probably due in part to the price).

Imagine this scenario: There are tons of Mac users who want to learn Haskell. They try it, but can't install libraries. The Haskell community never hears from them; one could say the system failed silently. Meanwhile, Linux works fine, and the Haskell-Linux community keeps growing.

So perhaps there's a self-reinforcing Linux-centric bias in the developer population.
Here is his bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler_(lobbyist)

Find the key word there, no need for more info.
Actually, it's more than enough for me, and I dualboot. Not everyone has the same usage habits :)