skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inconsistent spelling of names in the article: is it Hogeway or Hogewey? (It's Hogewey. Or De Hogeweyk, which is the name of the fake neighbourhood, whereas Hogewey is the name of the nursing home operating in it.) And the town it's in is called Weesp rather than Wheesp.

Other than that, cool article. It's not far from where I live, but I'd never heard of it. Hard to get in, apparently. I hope they open more places like this before my parents get to the point where they might need it.
> Do I think that the average HNer could do this 6 weeks after having announced an intention to seriously start doing this? Yes.

It's statements like this where I very carefully consider tossing my day gig aside and committing for 12-16 weeks. Just to see if its true.
Weird. Emailed you for details.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

But is the obvious discrepancy in accepted quality of public art linked to regions or the time period? Or just the platform for the art? I.e. some illustration in a book that is copied by a novice in some monastery probably has a lower minimum standard than something like a public mosaic in a large house.

For example, this mosaic in Hagia Sophia dates from 1261 and is pretty nice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deesis_mosaic_Hagia_Sophia...

Anyway, after reading of the state of roman and greek civilazations in the antique period and observing art like in the linked article I get often the feeling that the medieval period in europe really was quite dark to the point were it skews our perception of the achievements of prior ages. Against this background renaissance does not seem like an amazing birth of human achievement but actually the period where the european civilization just got it's shit together once again.
> Children abuse their elderly parents. They do this by stealing their money; by neglectig them; by subjcting them to physical violence.

I am taken back by your formulation here. Do you imply that children abusing their parents is the norm?
At first I thought it might be an useful site providing all annoucements and warnings in one place.

But the copy on this website sounds like a lame attempt on black PR. Especially the part "Don't buy before they die!" made me cringe. Am I supposed to buy after they die or what?

Also those descriptions that are supposed to be substantiations of the rank often lack... well... substance.

Not to mention the fact that the page lists something like 10% of Google services and looks pale compared to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_se...

My outlook for this page: Days numbered.
"It will be hard for Google and Microsoft to keep up given AWS head start."

I too, am impressed with Amazon's velocity - but, I'm curious - once Amazon lays out the product roadmap - storage, message queues, DNS, archiving, etc... what's to prevent Google/IBM/Microsoft from just cloning those services?
But like I said - that's the deal with signing to a major label - you agree that they will take a lot of the profits for your album in return for shouldering the costs of recording and promoting it. Artists can always remain independent and just pay a unit cost for distribution, but that means taking the risk of spending their own money on recording, and doesn't necessesarily come with the marketing opportunities that come with being signed to a major label.

I don't see Spotify as ethically dubious at all - they've had agreements with major labels from day one, and have only ever streamed music which they had a license for (unlike, say Grooveshark). Spotify only pays you if people lsiten to your music, in the same way that iTunes only pays you if people buy the music. It's the same deal, just on a 'per listen' not a 'per purchase' basis. The only issue with Spotify as I see it is that they don't pay artists (or their representative labels, which again, the artists signed up for) all that much, but like I said, they're not actually earning that much money either.
This really isn't the case in London in my experience

See: the hundreds of people who attended Silicon Milkroundabout yesterday
Adoption? Immigration?

The US is supposed to be a nation of immigrants, after all.
Why Did Apple Take the Israeli Flag Out of Mac OS Yosemite?
Yes, that was confusing. It's not hard to do the math, but the comparison would have made a lot more sense if they'd done it in the article.
> what's to prevent Google/IBM/Microsoft from just cloning those services?

Nothing. That's the best part about commodities. Their price gets driven down by competition (note what S3 and EC2 pricing started at, and what it is now).
Actually o_async is, imo, broken on linux. Forcing it to direct precludes the use of readahead or the page cache.
Xiaomi's Hugo Barra Is Building a Huge New Company in India's 'Silicon Valley'
I was making a distinction between the customer's schedule and budget and the developer's estimates.

If your customer (or employer) has no schedule or budget, great, you've landed a job at the next cool startup.

For every other business that is paying for software development the value of the software usually has budget and time constraints. When a customer/employer asks developers for an estimate they are either asking for a commitment to deliver within time/budget constraints, or starting a negotiation where features are changed or removed, or "resources" (more developers) are added.

You are right that it's very hard to get estimates right -- one of the biggest unsolved problems in software development, and one that has been known and written about for decades.

For the jobs I take on, I ask the customer to break down the work into a list of bugs or missing features or missed requirements. Then I ask the customer to put the list in priority order and assign a dollar value and schedule. Then I determine if I believe I can commit to addressing the list, item by item, within their cost/schedule constraints. If I don't think so I tell the customer, and they either change their requirements and constraints, or they go look for someone else -- I don't charge for determining if I can commit or not.

You can do this in terms of a MVP (minimum viable product). If my customer has nothing -- green fields development -- another way to look at that is none of their requirements have been met. So let's put those requirements in priority order and assign maximum costs and schedule to them. I've never been entirely successful at getting customers to actually do this for new development (one reason I rarely take on green fields projects anymore), but when I have tried it they have generated requirements with costs and times that are at least as realistic than any estimate I might attempt.
Possibly not much. I've never used XCode for C++ development but I imagine it
has pretty nifty Clang integration, given Apple's investment in Clang. Anyone
who suggests using ctags, GNU Global, gtags, CEDET's own parser (implemented in
elisp!), etc. for C++ navigation is basically saying "use a C parser to parse
C++ code", which works well enough if you're writing 1990s style C++, I
suppose. There are projects out there to integrate with Clang (such as rtags
mentioned by another poster) but it will require hours/days of setup &
frustration, and the result won't be as good as a dedicated C++ ide.

BTW I say this as an emacs fan and the author of
http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html and
https://github.com/drothlis/clang-ctags/

Where emacs shines (for me, at least) is when you spend a lot of time in
different languages. Maybe you spend 50% of the time in C++, but the other 50%
in shell, makefiles, python, etc. -- and the benefit of better C++ code
navigation begins to seem like a micro-optimisation that isn't worth the
tradeoff compared to Emacs's support for navigation, version control,
compilation, linting, grepping, etc etc, all of which are consistent across all
languages. Not to mention Emacs's great support for text manipulation in
general.

Also Emacs seems to me the best bet for the "one true editor" you'll still be
using in 20 years (by which time hopefully few of us will still be using C++).

I'll also point out that on OS X, Emacs has a lower learning curve than any
other OS, at least as far as the basic keystrokes: OS X's Command key still
works for the usual shortcuts (cut, copy, paste, save, open, quit, undo) while
the quirky emacs bindings are on the Control and Option keys. This doesn't make
it any easier to set up a C++ navigation solution, of course.
Yes, although the Russian index Jedis already have an even faster solution for that (also the most appropriate name ever, VODKA).

But of course PG got you covered, until VODKA gets out you can index specific fields using functional indexes though.
> The Ukraine crisis starts and suddenly Russians turn out to be massive homophobes, huh?

Suddenly? They'd been widely criticized for their new homophobic laws well before the Ukraine crisis.

Also, the US torturing people doesn't make other atrocities okay. I keep hearing countries and their fanboys say "yeah, but that other country also does bad things", or "but China is even worse!" Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's okay for your country to do the same. It means that the other country should stop. Can we stop making this a race to the bottom?
> That view would put it in competition with iTunes (320kps AAC/MP3 ought to be enough for anybody?)

Apple has its own lossless audio codec that's supported by iTunes called ALAC. Created in 2004, it was initially propriety but as of 2011 it is now open source and royalty free under the Apache License.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
with hot master failover and command forwarding [...] like I get with MongoDB.

Failover is documented to not work very well in MongoDB (data loss): http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

On the postgres side RepMgr makes dealing with replication quite easy: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/repmgr

See also this recent thread on the PostgreSQL mailing list: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Fully-automatic-streaming-repli...
> and way more false leads, with biased algorithms that lead to the harassment of tens of thousands, if not millions, and without them ever knowing why they are even harassed in such a way.

If there is one thing I feel like people should understand about algorithms and computers, it is about this. Just because something is computed does not make it more accurate. It just means greater precision based on the specifications and initial assumptions. More inaccurate calculations does not equal better. Greater dependency on machines to do our reasoning for us, I am partially concerned, has our species ignoring their own capacity to reason for themselves.

The thing I can't understand is how these people who do spy have any sense of self of which to reason with. The more they focus on that which exists outside of themselves, the harder it is to discern between what they are and what they fight against. I wish people would just honestly, sit down for like a year or something, and take a good long look in the mirror and introspect, rather than everything being action action action. Just because everything looks like it's moving doesn't mean it actually is.
One reason could be that the current version of both Chef and Puppet are licensed under Apache, and this is GPL licensed.
Japan also has a strong social bond culture where elders will stay friend and meet often making their lives much more meaningful. Seen in a documentary.
Why not VP9?
No "wijk" is the dutch word for a neighborhood of a few streets. Or a small block if you prefer. It just so happens a few towns used that suffix, a nimble expression.
Your broader point is well taken (e.g. Harvard's FY14 budget was $4.4B), but no university relies on distributions from its endowment for most of its operating budget. The balance comes mostly from tuition and government funding, with fortunate universities like the two you mention also receiving gifts earmarked for immediate use.
I thought OpenCL is a standard interface to create decoders. Moreover a DSP could be exposed as an OpenCL machine.
Its CNN. They convert between rocks, limbs and miles, so this should be easy.
Ask HN: Is Rosen and relational biology nuts?
I've been reading about Rosen's work[0] for a day or two and can't get it out of my head. He authored Life Itself[1], Anticipatory Systems[2] and few other books and papers, and started a branch of relational biology[3]. From my understanding, he used category theory to describe living things. The central premise is “throw away the matter and study relationships”.

I'm well-versed neither in biology nor in mathematics and I can't understand if this field is totally nuts or full of awesome. It doesn't look like the field of relational biology itself is very active, but he is certainly being cited[4] by folks studying and modelling complexity.

Is this stuff legit? Why is there so little people working directly in his field? Does the mainstream biology ignore him because of obscure mathematical language in which he conveys his ideas, or are his ideas considered unworthy?

[0]: http://planetmath.org/sites/default/files/texpdf/40938.pdf

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Itself-Comprehensive-Fabrication-Complexity/dp/0231075650

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Anticipatory-Systems-Philosophical-Methodological-International/dp/008031158X

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_and_theoretical_biology#Relational_biology

[4]: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=18217259493743889095&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en
9.4RC1 this week!

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/23861.1415719135@sss.pg...
CNN World published their item on YouTube:

Untold Stories: Dementia Village

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwiOBlyWpko
David’s Health Tech Newsletter: No. 32
US State Department network shut amid reports of cyber breach
Yep fictional, ironic.

> The only things Google seemed certain of was that the campaign was massive and persistent, and that China was behind it. And not just individual hackers, but the Chinese government, which had the means and the motive to launch such a broad assault.

Are we all still so certain that it was the Chinese government? Google must have pulled off some top notch detective work to work that one out, with their extensive overseas network of men on the ground.
That's a good reason, but I don't understand if the use case scenario is the same or different. And if different, in what?
Why the description on Orkut is "dajlfskdjflas"? Is it wrong or it's a joke I don't get it?
Two reasons:

1. The average developer is bad. Really bad. You can easily work 4 times as fast and produce code that's much shorter and more maintainable.

2. The $200/hr developer gets paid according to the value he provides. It's not hard to provide that value if you work on the right stuff, even for an average developer. Remember that Apple has $460000 in profits per employee per year (and that includes all employees), which already translates into $200+/hr. When you provide a service that costs $200 but makes the company $1000, they'll happily accept that. If you frame it without that reference $1000 then you just sound like a very expensive code monkey.
That analogy seems to ignore that FLAC is literally the lossless format that is used everywhere - except on Apple devices, and has not and never had patent concerns. On top of that, ALAC is clearly based on FLAC but has effectively been worsened. It is pure and 100% literal NIH. The same can't be said for JPEG2000. Not even close.

Nobody's complaining Apple doesn't support actual MPEG ALS, for example.
>Are there not just as many paths towards protective, helpful <or insert one of many adjectives here> AI futures?

No. "Bad" is just the state of the universe by default. "Good" is an extremely small island in a sea of "bad".
For the record VP8 sucks for anyone who needs to support it because it eats up to 7 times more resources than h264 does for transcoding.
Visual Studio heavily makes use of WPF thus seriously doubt it:

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/wpf/

As for using Visual Studio on Windows and cross-compilation to Linux:

http://visualgdb.com/
And you believe this is because women are working now?
I don't like this benchmark. But as long as you don't heavily rely on updates or big documents I'm sure Postgres is at least competitive with Mongo.
> Many contracting firms are taking anywhere from 50-75%

The only firms I know of taking that kind of cut target governments, which carries a lot of risk and is very high-touch. They need a fancy office and a lot of overhead just to stay in the game. Perverse, I know, but the way things are.

The firms in question then charge very high rates to cover all this, and keep a large percentage of it, as you say. The contractors who actually do the work end up seeing about as much as they'd see in private practise (~$800-1000/day from a chargeout of maybe 1800-2200)

Source: friends working for this kind of company in Australia.
Typeface designers are really annoyed about this. It's not just Word and Pages that don't have this stuff available to users, even Adobe is behind on it.

> OpenType was introduced in 2000. It is now 2014. How is it possible that [...] users are still unable to properly access and exploit these fascinating typographic possibilities because the font menus in apps with typesetting capabilities have barely evolved?

http://ilovetypography.com/2014/10/25/why-a-better-opentype-...
Guix seems to be a package manager. Chef/Puppet are configuration management tools. In short (from what I understand, I have only read about guix), you can use all of them to install software. But Chef/Puppet give you much more - distribution of configuration data, runtime search between machines, control over services / resources, etc. In practice you'd probably want to use one of them to install guix and run guix commands locally when setting up the hosts.
There's some side effects of the custom as well. For example, in Japan and Korea (and possibly parts of China), the custom is for the woman to move in with the husband's family where she'll spend most of her time providing household services and attending her parents-in-law every wish. Her mother-in-law, having done the same thing is now ready to relinquish her role as the home caretaker and well...mother-in-law/daughter-in-law friction (at truly dysfunctional levels) is a common theme in conversation, movies, tv shows, books, etc.

In Korea, being cursed with a difficult mother-in-law is a leading cause of divorce.

It more or less guarantees to take women out of the workforce as they now have a house to run, take care of the kids and the in-laws. And unless you don't have kids or your husband's parents are dead or otherwise able to care for themselves, there's nothing you can do about it.

Not surprisingly Japan and South Korea have among the lowest female workforce participation among OECD countries.

It also means that incentive for higher education among women is mostly as a social marker for marriage, but then any education is thrown away once she gets married (and especially once she has a child).

This also puts enormous pressure on the husband to be the sole provider for himself, his wife, any kids, and his parents.

What about the daughter-in-law's parents? Well, they better have had a son at some point who finds a wife who will take care of them.

The list of social issues that come from this arrangement are long and madness inducing to study (or live with).

(edit) I'd add, there's a culture-bound psychological syndrome that's related to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwabyeong
It would be perfectly possible for a browser to support H264 high profile in WebRTC and refuse to decode it in a <video> tag, for example due to licensing restrictions, so what you're saying is irrelevant.

Remember WebRTC also covers encoders.
There has been piecemeal adoption of various "digital signature" technologies across Europe, but it's mostly limited to specific areas dealing with tax and government communications. Accountants and lawyers might have encountered this sort of tech at some point, but that's about it.

Digital signatures are extremely disruptive of long-standing legislation, so they require excruciatingly slow rollouts anyway: first you have to change all laws dealing with contracts and identification, then you have to define what technology you're going to use (and pray it doesn't change in 2 years), then you have to modernize State infrastructure to deal with the new setup, then you have to persuade regular citizens to change their habits. And of course, as for all crypto schemes, the result will only be as strong as the weakest link in the chain (e.g. the Diginotar fiasco).
Someone is confusing (crappy) implementations with standards.
define success. It's not necessarily a good formula for tens of billions $ ipo level success; see facebook, twitter, google
WebRTC requires low-delay realtime encoding.
> They'd been widely criticized for their new homophobic laws well before the Ukraine crisis.

I'm not so sure about that.

> Also, the US torturing people doesn't make other atrocities okay. I keep hearing countries and their fanboys say "yeah, but that other country also does bad things", or "but China is even worse!" Yeah, but that doesn't mean it's okay for your country to do the same.

I'm equally against all "countries" (=governments, in practice). You may have noticed they all do bad things, either currently or eventually.
The (blogspam?) article slyly omits mentioning a date, but I think these are mosaics recovered more than 10 years ago, and currently on display at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum.
Seems like a marketing recipe for disaster. http://www.easycabs.com
But then doing that would mean that you split a single system configuration through two different tools, right? I don't think it's ideal in practice.
Intel lost a fortune following Steve Jobs
I think he may be missing what people mean by "it's easier without an argument". It's not just "only one option" - what I see in reality quite often is: "curl http://...", screen is filled with garbage, ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-c, damn I'm on a remote host and ssh needs to catch up, ctrl-c, "cur...", actually terminal is broken and I'm writing garbage now, "reset", "wget http://...".

I'm not saying he should change it. But if he thinks it's about typing less... he doesn't seem to realise how his users behave.
Is this correct:

> Back in 1997, they managed to get 16MW of electricity from a fusion reaction, though they needed 24MW to make it happen.

I thought that the efficiency was much lower, like 1/10.