skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The voters vote these people in intentionally. They campaign on it.

Great, then let them! What's the matter, don't you believe in democracy? :-)

> And when people like you are willing to pay the full cost, including an externalities beyond just the price of tuition on everyone involved, sure.

What externalities? Private schools don't have tenure and cost on average about half as much per student as public schools do.

> It is alot like the USPS. Even UPS and Fedex don't want its unprofitable routes in rural areas because they can't be made profitable. The problem is, when you rip away the profitable portion of the process, it ends up costing the taxpayer just as much when the bill comes due.

UPS and Fedex aren't legally allowed to charge less than the post office does to deliver mail nor are they allowed to carry non-urgent mail or packages. The fact that they focus on high-priced delivery options is NOT because they're cherrypicking, it's because that's the only niche they've been able to wrest legal access to. (And they were able to do that because the post office was at the time losing money on package delivery - it was only seen as a valuable market niche after Fedex showed that it could be done at a profit!)

Get rid of the laws prohibiting competition with the post office, let the post office go broke if need be, and the private carriers would make money in rural areas too. Mail delivery would likely cost half as much if the private sector did it.

Incidentally, it has long been the case that in some rural areas the Post Office would deliver mail to the nearest "mail stop" (which could be miles away from a home) while UPS and FedEx would drive right up to the door.

>If you want vouchers, you need to fund every child equally...including the fact they may live in the wrong neighborhood. You don't get to say "Too bad, kid, you live in Compton. No one can get you to a good school on time unless we gave you more than every other kid."

Why would you expect there not to be good schools in bad neighborhoods? Absent the political incentive to centralize and bureaucratize you'd have lots of tiny schools all over the place meeting local needs rather than huge monolithic schools that folks have to be bussed over to.
I really hate how they show lowest and highest scores, and no median/mean/percentiles, or anything at all that would help you decide whether your score was good or bad.
>in order to be successful //

What's your metric for success? Perhaps the Firefox OS teams metric is enable people to get a cheap smart-phone, period.

Down thread you say:

>targeting the lowest end of the market isn't a great idea unless you are trying to make money off the sale of the device alone and not ongoing services like apps //

And that works if you consider only ideas that make a profit to be valid. Perhaps they think that others will add to their project altruistically.

Mozilla give away their main product for free (albeit enabled in that as they're supported through advertising via Google).

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
It blows my mind that Bret keeps giving talks in public and sharing his ideas for free when pretty much each of them could have been used as a startup pitch in return for likely investment. But I guess he's more interested in inspiring others than just committing to one idea for years. I'm glad we have him around.
Does this just look for library versions with known vulnerabilities, or does it do source code analysis?
It would be great, if you could detect SIMDable operations in classic JS (e.g. in loops) and use SIMD for interpret them. I think that adding low-level features into a high-level language is not good practice.
This can be seen by all of these maps of around this period that are made by Dutch/English/German cartographers that don't show California as an Island, including Munster's very popular one:

http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/other_maps.htm
Who has fixed it and how?
> How does the experience compare with using Pharo Smalltalk today?

Genera is a full operating system running directly on Lisp Machine hardware. A CPU which runs a stack machine. The network code goes down to the packets and the Ethernet card driver.

> There are Common Lisp replacements for Emacs, CL window managers, and one or two Lisp Machine style GUI libraries (CLIM).

A few thousand developer years is the difference. Sophistication. Polishing. Applications.

> rms allegedly reimplemented many Symbolics features on MIT Lisp machines.

He didn't. He tried to help LMI, but stopped soon. Symbolics, LMI and then TI developed a lot of more software. Much more.

> I'm often struck by how many Lisp Machine features have been implemented on other systems (e.g. CLIM, versioned file systems) yet haven't gained many users. There must be stories here.

Versioned file systems existed before and after Lisp Machines. For example DEC's VMS had a versioned file system. CLIM was the attempt to develop a portable standardized version of the GUI library of Symbolics. It failed to gain real traction: too different, not very polished, everybody had already a different GUI toolkit, ...

Here is an example of using a high-end Lisp machine application for 3d graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RSQ6gATnQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VmJVNYfxDc
I'll go ahead and throw my cryptocurrency into the pile too: www.siacoin.com.

For both StorJ and MaidSAFE, I believe that each has a development team which is taking money and has full intentions of completing their cryptocurrency. We are the same way, have taken around $120,000 from the community and now have a handshake deal with an investor for a substantially larger sum.

Nobody has a working prototype, so there's definitely a race right now. Permacoin looks like the newest of all, only having just released a whitepaper. They also seem to have the most complete whitepaper.
Actually, XFS checksumming will alert on errors caused by bad RAM.
I think it tends to allow more color to come through in an otherwise sea of gray panels. Visually differentiating panels is not just aesthetics, but usability.
The two things are facts:

a) It takes $1 million to own a cab medallion
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/nyregion/1-million-medalli...

b) 82% of NYC Cab drivers are foreign born(and that will be your experience in the city).
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/news/2004-07-07-nyc-ca...

So you tell me, how do these immigrants end up being the Cab drivers with such a high barrier to entry?
I noticed this as well, just giving the range is not really helpful. Also the scale is strange, 0 being the best. I was confused when I scored a 4...
Simon Phipps himself introduced Danese Cooper as -"the one who actually wrote the CDDL", at the 6th annual Debian conference where Danese Cooper said that it CDDL was indeed drafted to be incompatible with GPLv2.

I realize this does not fit 'your chosen narrative', but hey.
Lots of people are splitting coins into multiple wallets, duh.
Not a fan of icons with a grid or connected dots. To me that means "viral." Usually I don't care whether the video goes viral, I just want my friends to see it, a one-to-many connection. How about a megaphone?
Rather than "Share", read the action as "Send to".

This clarifies the author's preference for icons with the arrows, fits with the usual mix of upload/post-to-social-app/open-in-other-app actions, and removes the motivation for the somewhat out-of-place milkshake icon.

(You can keep the 'share' label for marketing purposes if you want...)
I agree. I remember on the Newton there was one button that then listed all the ways you could send the file including mail and fax.
> You actually can't prove _anybody else in the world_ besides you has a first person subjective experience.

That's absolutely true. My wife and I sometimes joke that each of us is an incorporeal figment in the other's dream. It's impossible for me to know with certainty that I am not the only real consciousness in existence. It's an interesting line of thought, but ultimately unproductive; what could I do if it's true? If it's not, then the validity of all of the other consciousnesses is just as pressing as mine. Either way it behooves me to behave as though it is true, so I suppose that's the starting point for all of my thoughts on this topic: I and all other humans have a first person subjective experience. I agree with (parent? gp?) that describing the nature of that experience is non-trivial.
What kind of work doesn't involve solving problems?
Yeah MuckRock! Get 'em!

I use MuckRock to FOIA the CIA quite often, and they are probably the third-worst agency to deal with (behind the NSA and the US State Department). They don't even accept FOIA requests via email!

Hopefully, this will lubricate them a little bit.
Well, for me at least the difference is that uploading implies a single destination (I know this doesn't always hold, but conceptually I think it does. Otherwise there are multiple distinct uploads)

And sharing implies multiple agents, be them on a single or multiple destinations. I know my definition doesn't seem clearcut, but I think the implication is that you could share by means of uploading or you could share without uploading anything (excepting maybe "uploading" the link to someone else), but you can also upload without sharing anything (i.e. I upload to my private server) and that's why I consider them different concepts.
This, along with the slew of other announcements from Nintendo, has me really excited about the future of the Wii U.

It also scares me. I remember seeing videos of ridiculously challenging Mario stages created by modders (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1BSbq5aB0) and trembling in fear.

I think Sony announced LittleBigPlanet had something like 2 million user-generated stages? I hope we see something that big with this system, and hopefully a nice system around all the content so awesome content can more easily be fleshed out.
I liked this test. I am running a calibrated display, so I am assuming the display is not a factor. Remember to relax your eyes frequently, starring at a color for too long tires the cone cells and might affect your test results as a fatigue effect.
Yeah I'm not sure what machines (or VMs) they were running Yosemite on, but I haven't had issues with flickering translucent windows even on the first beta release.
Why "sigh" at a remark that was written in order to be polite and yet still convey strong disagreement?
For me 'sharing' is about communicating, about passing on a message. A speech bubble is the best representation in my mind... but that is already used for comments.
DNS-level solutions are oftentimes misunderstood, probably because there are a couple of things that can be done at this level:

1. "Geo-DNS" is about using an anycast network to direct users to their nearest datacenter(s). This does _not_ aid High Availability at all.

2. DNS Round Robin is about distributing the load between multiple IPs. As a load balancing solution it is relatively poor, because you have no control over the actual balancing and can end up receiving most users though a single IP.

3. DNS Failover solutions that replace the IP when the server goes down, which is also a poor solution because of TTL and non-TTL browser caches.

4. DNS Round Robin but for the High Availability, not for the balancing. This is actually an interesting approach because most modern browsers automatically switch to using (one of) the other record(s) when the IP they were using goes down (sorry, I have no reference that clearly states which browser do and which ones don't exhibit this behavior). In fact, there are some sources around [1] that seem to identify this approach as the only one to achieve instant failover in the face of datacenter-wide outages.

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/69870/multiple-data-centers...
What's the long-term reliability/durability of memristors? Do they die after too many reads or writes?
on a tangent - when the hell did "zoom" and "search" icons become identical.

i find it confusing.
It would still require centralised servers for the mapping, in which case wouldn't it become immaterial?
>I am an expert on many things - women in tech isn't one of them (other than the fact that I have been one for a long time).

multi-year experience with something frequently makes an expert or at least gives others a good reason to suspect so. Have you never stated how many years you do PHP/MySql/whatever in order to communicate your experience level?
It seems like "just pick something arbitrary and everyone agree on it" is a better solution than "find a small simple icon that effectively evokes 'share' to a brand new user." In other words, this is confusing not because the icons don't represent sharing well enough, but because they're different on every platform. There are lots of things on computers that aren't immediately obvious, but once you learn the convention, you don't forget it. I don't care which one we use, but we need to be consistent. (Ok, not the milkshake.)
Distributed Messaging with ZeroMQ
Oh, I had thought the link was about Postgres-XC. So it's a different project.

"The project includes architects and developers who previously worked on both Postgres­-XC and Stado, and Postgres-XL contains code from Postgres-­XC. The Postgres-XL project has its own philosophy and approach."

So should I see a brighter future for Postgres-XL rather than Postgres-XC? It seems that the Postgres-XC respository is still making some commits, though the rate is quite low.
Yeah. I'd look at how fast the ice has to melt in order for that to happen. Perhaps 21000 might be more likely. Spoiler alert : 2100 is just 85 1/2 years away. At the current rates, the ocean will have risen...gasp....10 inches.
On a $10 fare , UBER gets $2(or $4 for 2 trips) , the driver gets $8

For the $16 trip, let's say UBER gives $10 for the driver(instead of ~$8), and takes $6. UBER still comes ahead. And don't forget the huge lockup it gets - which is valuable in and off itself, esp. in the long term as a basis for self driving cars service.

There's of course the issue of decreased traffic for drivers, but there's probably a strategy to make it work.
About 10 - 15 years ago I did some tests, animations done in After Effects mostly, showing some UI concepts that used motion blur, depth of field, translucency, parallax, etc. I wanted to play around with non-planer surfaces, but at the time you couldn't do anything like that in After Effects.

I paid absolutely no attention to how "expensive" any of it was in terms of processing. I was interested in exploring possibilities. Some of the effects were pretty amazing, it seemed to me. Depth of field control particularly so.

At the time I couldn't drum up _any_ interest. Even as a purely intellectual curiosity. Several people were actually hostile to the whole concept.
As noted in your first link, the concept of a circle based cloud was around in the 70s on BBC, if not other places too. I drew one for my consulting firm in 2006, before Mobile Me adopted one.
Using a public key to authenticate an IP address is trivial. You just sign the address (and a timestamp for how long it's valid) with the private key.

Making it private is the interesting bit. Obviously you can't have privacy in the sense that someone who knows your public key can't use it to discover your IP address, because doing that is the DHT's purpose. So what they're probably talking about is that somebody observing the DHT can't use it to learn public keys, IP addresses or both. But it would be nontrivial to do that in a way that isn't useless (e.g. storing under public key fingerprint instead of public key: now you don't have my public key, and having fingerprint is totally different, right?)
a small take on the subject http://imgur.com/a/rXXro#0
Swift: A dev’s look under the hood of Apple’s new language
Age isn't the argument that I see. The writer is complaining that HFS+ has failed to keep up with modern needs.

HFS+, very much unlike nearly every other filesystem in existence, was designed with only one real feature in mind: associating "resources" with "files." As I understand, HFS+ has two master files; one contains icons, filenames, metadata, etc., and the other contains the file data streams. This design is extremely prone to fragmentation, and it was created with static oversimplified data structures that are not forward-compatible with advances in storage features and capacity.

As a result, HFS+ simply can't meet the needs of a modern computer user the way virtually any other *nix-ish inode filesystem can. It doesn't have room in its data structures for proper error correction or failure recovery, and it's impossible to achieve atomicity or any reasonable level of reliability and performance.

Virtually every other modern filesystem has those attributes, and for good reason: They're supposed to be reliable.
I agree with what you are saying. Read my comment below.

Expanding on that, and with the clear examples you gave, maybe the thing is that traditional or classic icons pictures the channel where the information was traveling and not the action itself.

A fax icon implies sending a document because everyone knows that a fax can only send documents. So the icon is representing the channel.

Same for the envelope icon with email (or even snail mail). It pictures the channel, not the action.

If you see a group of icons, one with the Facebook icon, one with Reddit's, one with Slashdot's, etc, you automatically know that it has to do with that particular channel, even if the action per se might not be clear enough, e.g. if I click the Facebook icon, what action am I taking? am I uploading/sending/sharing/pasting/chatting/emailing?

I don't care, I only care that the channel is the correct one. The service that administers that channel is the responsible one for doing what the user expects.

So maybe a fundamental flaw, like you say, is that different actions represent different channels but we are trying to put actions AND channels under a single umbrella, then there's no surprise that you can find lots of edge cases where the idea doesn't apply.
> Fink has assigned one team to develop the open-source Machine OS, which will assume the availability of a high-speed, constant memory store. Another team is working on a stripped-down version of Linux with similar aims; another team is working on an Android version, looking to a point at which the technology could trickle down to PCs and smartphones.

I was hoping for a second there that somebody at HP had read about Loper OS and Stanislav Datsovskiy's ideas[1], or even about Symbolics LISP machines (great article on the frontpage today[2]), but nope, looks like they are just gonna repeat the same insanity of the past fifty years instead of actually doing something that will progress the field of computing.

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7878679
Well, that project, Q just doesn't even share the same thesis of Haxl. At all. Two completely different projects, Q couldn't be used for what Haxl is intended.

If you had posted the link asking for a comparison, that would've been different, but your ignorance seemed obvious to me because of the haughty wink at the end of your posted link implying we were being let in on some kind of secret.
I'm skilled in the art of breaking shit, I guess ;)

Try going full screen and back again quickly.
Try flipping through view modes in finder.
Try dragging the sidebar width on the inside edge of finder.

I'm on a Retina MBP. I installed it on a new partition.
I like this article, and I tend to agree with its conclusions about which ones are most common on most platforms, but isn't this at best heuristics and at worst wrong assumptions?

Like, I would use these as my heuristic guidelines if I was on the job and constraints dictate that I can't spend time on researching icons. But I wouldn't write a blog post authoritatively telling people that one icon is more recognized that the other without having some kind of research to back it up.

Then again, the author does say at one point that their research is extremely informal, so maybe I'm just projecting my feelings about the cowboy nature of the UX profession right now. But I still feel like they could do more to qualify that these just appear to be their best guesses about how people interpret the share icon.
I think your over thinking it from the normal users point of view. I want to press the button to give this thing on my phone to other(s). How that happens isn't really my concern (link, full file, etc.).
I never considered law and medicine, is there anything special they did to alter the balance that tech could adopt?
Hong Kong GUI, quicker than the human eye
Yellow cabs aren't hard to get in midtown/downtown Manhattan, during rush hour, when you're not going anywhere outside of midtown/downtown. If you tell the taxi driver you want to go to Brooklyn, there's a good chance they'll not take you, regulations forbidding this notwithstanding (how's that for the people who whine that uber isn't "playing by the rules"?) to say nothing if you're starting somewhere like Washington Heights, or out in Queens, or, God forbid, the Bronx.
...or tilt an lcd screen.
> Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency.

I see two advantages: 1) They get their name in the news (and in consumers minds), and 2) they get the bitcoin spenders that they may not have otherwise (an admittedly small bump at the moment, but a bump nonetheless and at virtually no cost).
Just my humble opinion, but it doesn't matter how the artist achieved the results. The work speaks for itself.

Tim's Vermeer is probably a lot like watching a behind the scenes video. If you enjoy consuming information for information sake, you might find it interesting, but a lot of work and money goes into making a feature documentary and it should be a work of art itself. If it doesn't have broad appeal, it's referred to as a vanity project.

The Cove is a good example of a documentary that is also a work of art. The story has a beginning a middle and an end and they are all made big through the story telling. The same could have been true of Tim's Vermeer if the story was told differently.

I apologize if my original comment came across as negative. I sometimes feel let down if stories are told in lazy or inexperienced ways and the article makes the story play like an episode of this old house.
You are probably right. Point taken.
The problem that has plagued microcomputers is that people that buy a computer to use at home won't buy much else, so it will hurt the ecosystem in the long run.

It was also said about UNIX, non-UNIX, x86 servers, and well, how many more iterations did we have? Oh, and I almost forgot abut Android.
To begin with complete lack of any dual monitor shortcuts or configuration settings at all. With KDE, I can configure certain apps to start on certain screen, send them to one screen on another with a key press.
> With electronic articles and other media that gets shared, you actually share nothing in that sense, you just let someone know about it, whilst still keeping the whole yourself.

What about thinking of it as you both "sharing time/attention" on the target object?
Another interesting aspect to note here is the pacific was being predominantly explored by the Spanish navy in this period. The early investments in looking west for expansion (Columbus, Magellan et al.) led to many centuries of total domination of the Americas and even trade to Asia from the western route.
Also, I'm sure there are speculators running scripts to generate new wallets and pump the bubble further.
The author seems to be quite fond of Apple's iOS6-era Share icon. It would be interesting to ask somebody who isn't familiar with Apple's products what that icon means. I've always found it a bit confusing.

In general, this kind of thing would actually be a interesting research project.
Even if it weren't a normal number it would still be true.