skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say there's someone who wants to reduce inequality, and we ask them whether they approve of various scenarios:

Situation: "People living on a certain well-off island discover a way to farm more efficiently, which means they produce 10% more food, but that technology only works on their island. Is this good or bad?"

Inequality reducer: "This is bad, because that island's average income will go up while the rest of the world stays the same"

Situation: "We discover a free, simple cure for Alzheimer's"

Inequality reducer: "That's horrible, because Alzheimer's does the most damage to highly educated countries - those countries will now have way more mentally together, experienced 70-year-olds making them even richer, which will increase economic inequality with poorer countries where fewer people suffer from alzheimer's"

You have got to see this is a bit weird, right? It's a focus on minimizing local distortions sometimes can have a bad effect. In fact, imagine we really did have "equality" - the anti-inequality advocate would object to any change in that world, since it would lead to a temporary bit of inequality as information about the change propagated through it. Even simple things like the first invention of mechanized agriculture, or machines to make clothing, introduced tons of inequality at first, since there was only one copy of them at first! But we're better off now that our civilization doesn't have to devote 50% of everyone's life to growing food & making clothes by hand!

The other way to think about it is that that we just have to make sure everyone has at least a basic level of food, health, education, and freedom. That lets us focus on the main problems (people who don't have enough), and never could lead us into condemning gains in human quality of life.
No, it's running on a 8-bit microcontroller. Just as a SNES emulator that plays SNES games doesn't magically transform your computer into a SNES.
Not strictly resolution dependant. The same problem is present on current model macbook airs and non-retina imacs.
Because it interoperates with Maven. It can fetch and install code from Maven repositories, can read and write a pom.xml file, and uses the same groupId/artifactId/version format for specifying dependencies. And it also depends on a few org.apache.maven packages. So without looking at the source it would be easy to mistake lein for a Clojure wrapper around mvn. But it's more like a Clojure implementation of a superset of Maven's functionality, I guess.
while true, is there someone in venture capital that isn't getting the numbers contained in this post before giving people money? revenue, profit, expenses, etc seems pretty basic. I can't imagine investing in a company without asking, hey, how much money did you make last year?
The animations were very cute (umbrella guy, brain hearts).
Query: is something still class warfare if it is true?
Also, this is part of the final build?

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*EdAxsHqdZmZ7...

Really, this bug was reported in the original beta, 6 months ago!
This is amazing, although it looks too advanced without at least intermediate proficiency in Chinese. Would love a few different difficulty levels.

Does anyone know a Spanish learning tool similar to this?
wow this is awesome I wish I knew it about a while ago.
It's a little less clear than that, unfortunately. Apple chose to not support third-party Bluetooth LE dongles, which might be a reasonable engineering limitation. However, if you upgrade your Mac with a BT-LE capable board used by other Continuity-capable Macs, you still can't use Continuity by default; you need to patch some kexts and disable kernel kext signing[1].

It really does feel like Apple blacklisted older machines from using Continuity; only third-party kext hacking can get things started again.

[1] https://github.com/dokterdok/Continuity-Activation-Tool/
It's not actually that JVM startup time is slow, it's Clojure startup time in particular. See:

https://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/2014/02/11/jvm-slow-star...

And the other articles here:

https://nicholaskariniemi.github.io/
>it lets the OS theming feel fresh on a regular basis

I doubt they will be making significant changes every year. 2014 was the exception

>it keeps all the OSS binaries more in sync with the fast-paced OSS world

Too many key utilities are extremely outdated due to GPL3. Apple also seems to be moving away from free software wherever it can

>Each release contains the byproduct of massive amounts of research/data.

They seem to be letting the consumers do a lot of the testing (with the open beta for instance). Many features seem half baked, conceptually, and in execution.
There are already JVMs written in Java like JikesRVM, Graal/SubstrateVM and a few others.

There is little that Rust safety could add over Java memory safety.

There have been talks that Hotspot might eventually give place to Graal, but no plans were ever given.
Ask HN: Whats your “zen” software stack?
I'd love to know what sorts of software stacks "feel" right to people. Everyone has their own way of thinking, and in my experience when you find that particular method/language/framework of coding that works in a similar way that you think I've gotten this wonderful zen moment.

I'll start: For me as a web developer its recently been Node.js with a browserified frontend. Its easy to pick up a module/concept, write it as its own little machine, put it down and hook into it from the bigger structure. I can quickly zoom out to the larger view of the project and dig right back down to a problem area. I get to make a machine to handle a thing once and only once, and don't ever need to repeat myself.

What makes you giddy to work with?
Agree. The article's main argument is that the Sony attack is similar to one that happened last year -- but provides zero proof that the previous attack came from North Korea.

And a key similarity between the two, according to the article, is the graphics left behind by the hackers: lime-green type on black background, with pictures of skulls. In other words, similar to a ton of hacker sites.

A smokin' JPG is not a smoking gun.

jwz called from 1999, he wants his color scheme back.
Ditto. I'm happer with pdf.js than with my external acrobat pro. Also, it takes a few sessions to get used to it, but I don't see much of a difference in how I use FF with australis (i.e. its kinda good but nothing to think about too much)
This is a really great concept. I hope you'll be adding a whole range of other books in the future for learners of all level.
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jobs died in the middle of his plan of covering osx and ios and forever owning apple consumers. now crook is executing it without the reality distortion powers that jobs had.
That reminds me, maybe the creator can do a version of Xi JinPing's book for all Facebook employees.
May be a faster safe version should be contributed. The current state is that unsafe rust takes half as much time as a safe go program in this benchmark. That is not very interesting because the benefits offered by rust are being given up to perform better, for a problem that doesn't really need unsafe memory access.

Same is the case with spectral norm. It is unsafe rust beating safe go there too.
One way to promote scientists and creators is to allow them to warn money so they can keep sciencing and creating.
Same here. It usually blocks, gives blocks instead of characters and has hiccups when switching pages.

I usually configure PDFs to be saved, so that I can enjoy a native PDF viewer instead.
> Australis is bundled with Firefox, too, and it's almost universally hated

[citation needed]. remember that people bitching on web forums does not equal the general population's impression. firefox has extensive telemetry in the browser -- i'm certain that if australis hurt usage metrics, there'd be changes, or at least discussion in the mozilla community (which, of course, is essentially all publicly visible)
buy a phone from Motorola. the pc phone integration for that is pretty good. and been there for ages
Watch Seinfeld. While some of the things are dated almost every single meme from that show has been fully integrated into american culture, so much so that its become cliche. But as a person who used to be diagnosed with Aspergers, I've had to learn all the same things you're learning now. Seinfeld is one of the best at teaching the subtleties of the culture.

See: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Seinfeld (warning: tvtropes link, do not click if you need to be productive)
Yeah, regardless of transparency settings, WindowServer seems to get really slow after it's been running for awhile (days? hours? it depends.) Restarting the login session or doing a full reboot seems to fix it ... for a little while.

Performance goes downhill faster for me with an external display connected.
> What he actually says in it is that poor people are kind and rich people are not

Behavioral economics studies have indeed shown this. Subjects who were primed with the concept of money/wealth were less empathetic towards fellow human beings. Anecdotally I've seen this happen all around me. E.g., in a road accident, in Bangalore, two wheelers and auto-rickshaw drivers are the first and only ones who rush to tend the victim. And personally I very much sense that I've gotten less empathetic towards others as I've started earning more.

There is a detailed discussion on this topic in "Thinking, Fast and Slow".
Old versions of OS X that you've previously downloaded are always available for re-download in the Mac App Store. You can use those downloads to downgrade.
not to mention that until you realize it, your maid can answer calls to your cell phone from the tv
The Constitution calls for a limit. I argue that and time frame greater than the average life of a human is virtually unlimited. I doubt the intent if the Founding Fathers was for the limit to be an insane amount of time.
What security advantage would that yield?
I am so happy to see a project from South Korea hitting the HN front page.
If the research is sound, then there is no shame in "backing it up with science." Can you denounce the science presented, or is your argument simply limited to your adherence to righteousness?

(I'm playing devil's advocate, and I wish the video provided links to its founding research)
I think you need a Chinese friend. Haha...
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Have been holding off on upgrading to Yosemite until the dust settles. I find it funny that I'm not even getting nagged at all to upgrade (unlike on iOS where I was getting nagged constantly to upgrade to iOS 8). It's almost like Apple themselves aren't even confident enough in Yosemite to be usable right now.
Have you used iOS 7.1+ on an iPhone 5/5S or better? I haven't noticed any performance issues since iOS 7.0. I think they've optimized the hell out of the blur effect at this point.

Bugs and generally poor software quality, however? Yes.
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It seems fairly trivial from the back end - it depends really how much you want to deter cheaters. Assuming you're playing with friends, why not just have it all in the frontend and just transmit move orders and chance/community chest cards via a websocket?
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That's an absolute straw man - someone wanting to reduce inequality doesn't want to do it at the expense of all other considerations, which is the assumption you've made.

Complaining about an increasing wealth gap does not mean that the only other option is perfect equality of wealth. Have you seen the breakdown of wealth in America? The gap between, say, the top 1% and the rest of society is staggering. The top 0.1% have more wealth than the bottom 90%!

It's a broken system that results in some people having wealth so wildly out of proportion with the rest of society, and its hard to argue its proportional to the value of their contributions.
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Agree with the other people replying. I tried twice in the past to switch but always got stuck at some important nonported package. Recently, however, I jumped in and was mesmerized that i) most packages worth installing are already ported to py3, and ii) py3 has some sweet things that I didn't got with 2.7 that make it worth it.
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Kinda works with http://popjisyo.com
:
http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/AddHint.aspx?d=8&e=GB2312&r=...
That's good that you're contributing to free software. I like free software, you understand. But your sneering at "fanboys," your acting like someone's choice of operating system is a moral stance rather than a matter of convenience and personal preference, still says that you are not being as rational as you think you are. Only fanboys accuse people of being fanboys. Your choice to use free software may not be a tribal identity, but your choice to mock people who don't absolutely is.
For people with intermediate proficiency in Chinese, I want to point out that Project Syndicate (http://www.project-syndicate.org/), a website which is basically a bunch of Op-eds from a host of famous individuals, has its articles translated into Chinese.

For example:

English: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ruble-collapse-c...

Chinese: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ruble-collapse-c...

Not a bad way to pick up extra vocabulary, if you read them side-by-side!
Multilingual blogs? Are you talking autotranslation a-la the Azure/Google translate APIs?
JavaScript is only unpredictable if written by a poor developer. It's just a language, and it is as powerful as you are. Weakly typed languages are not hacky - merely different.
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Tell that to the emulated system :-)
I do agree that Yosemite has had some performance regressions, but people seem to remember the older operating systems with rose colored glasses. I used 10.3 to 10.5 on the 2005 PowerBook G4 (1.67 GHz) and it was incredibly slow. Spotlight was nearly useless. The fans would frequently spin up. And let's not talk about Finder locking up when a network mount disappeared. Right now I use 10.10 on the original 2012 Retina MBP, and even though Yosemite is a bit slower than Mavericks it is still leagues faster than (Mountain) Lion on the same machine (which is what it shipped with). The biggest performance regressions I've seen have been in Safari, but Chrome doesn't seem to have the same problems.

I think they are paying attention, since 10.10 performance has improved considerably since the first DP, but they need to do more. I wish they would stop fucking with it on a yearly cycle and just release a stable, fast operating system with no new features. The graphics system needs more optimization and they need to kill HFS+ (but that's a whole different can of worms).

(Edits: wording)
Okay, BeamSyncDropper is awesome.

I put this [1] in `~/Library/LaunchAgents/self.beamsync.dropper.plist` and it starts immediately in the background on login. (Make sure to change the program path).

[1] https://bochs.info/p/8k7aj
That's no problem, just upgrade your ram!

Oh wait...
> it's not uncommon to visit sites that don't work properly on a browser other than Chrome

I think you're exaggerating : I use Firefox for everything and I wouldn't be able to name a website where I had to use Chrome instead.
This is probably one of the crazier projects I've ever seen. I've often contemplated what running a "true os" on an 8 bit CPU would entail, and TBH the idea of an emulator never struck me.

On top of that, a hand-wired linux computer with hand-written arm emulator? Ridiculous.
While loitering in the local Apple store, I got on a new 5k iMac and started launching a bunch of applications with multiple windows, alt-tabbing and clicking around really fast, etc. Normal dev workflow stuff..

Discovering the glitchy flash in the system preferences pane was really unsettling. Almost a uncanny valley type situation.

I'm still on Mavericks. I've been waiting for bug fixes from Apple and application support for non-Apple apps before upgrading to Yosemite. But after seeing the glitchy-ness on the 5k and reading these comments..

Both recent upgrades are pretty disappointing. When I first got an iPhone 4, I was astonished by how there were practically zero bugs, especially compared to my previous no-name OS, bug-infested phones.

Are there actually more bugs in Yosemite/iOS8? And if so, can we identify potential factors?

Technical challenges shifting to Swift? Regular product life cycle growing pains? Decreased focus on OSs from Apple Increased product-lines/technologies? Pivot from price-skimming to market-capture business strategy?
Not really sure what causes this, but I learned that Apple changed the layouting algorithm to Cassowary a few years ago [1]. Because languages have different word length (eg. German words tend to be much longer than English words) and UIs should be readable in every language. Apple now uses constraints to layout the UI and the algorithm tries to find a good solution through iteration and has to reiterate for every size change. Visual effect might also trigger this.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_%28software%29
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I just stumbled on this set of lectures, slides, and notes, from ETH Zurich, which seems like it would be useful supplementary material: http://dcg.ethz.ch/lectures/podc_allstars/
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And now you get the funny black corners in the hud when changing the volume... Polish is needed.
I think it has to do with the way the developer approaches the problem, their background, and their preferences.

Personally I'm with you, I enjoy a small, isolated, component based approach where each component follows the unix philosophy. I think this lets you write the most performant and resuable code. Also, I think when following this style, it limits the scope of your dependences, which is another big plus. For instance, you might need a library for crypto, but you won't need one for doing your authentication system, and you won't have massive modules for handling auth that would come from a framework getting compiled into your production code.

But when you go this route you do have to make a lot of "right" decisions that are made for you when using a framework. Also, I think a lot has to do with deadlines and developer speed, it initially takes a little longer to write good standalone components that are reusable, and just grabbing some framework will help get shit done in the short term, but might have the same detriments as technical debt in the long run.
Within a team, a JS framework is critical to making sure people are writing (and even thinking) in a cohesive way that is maintainable 2 years from now.
Programmable Christmas wishes and carol, how cool is this?
That is quite interesting!

I recently quit coffee, though not caffeine altogether. I just substituted about one liter of coffee per day with about one liter of green tea, which - at least the kind I am drinking - has way less caffeine. (And it tastes soooooo good! The coffee I used to drink tasted like industrial sewage in comparison!)

Before, when my alarm clock went off in the morning, I used to roll straigt out of bed into the kitchen and turn on my coffee maker before even getting dressed. Now, I make myself a pot of tea, when I arrive at work. I am still groggy when I get up in the morning, but less so, and it clears up pretty much by itself before I leave for work.

I remember the mid-afternoon crash rather well. ;-) I still get tired in the afternoon, but much less so than before.

I am not sure I want to quit caffeine completely (and besides, I really love the taste of green tea), but I find this post encouraging, if I ever wanted to try.
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For anyone interested in the context of the Keynes quote in the first paragraph of this article, here it is in full: https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/...
>Who was the joker who kept insisting that iOS 7 was really better and very few complained?

The majority of the population?
>Focusing solely on wealth inequality leads to strange conclusions:
>
> The richest people should destroy productive resources

Where does that come from ? I can't find that quote in the linked articles.
That would be handy as it seems like it would get around some of the pretty big list of businesses stripe can't get involved in due to restrictions from their banking partners.
I'm curious - is that a common practice with backend applications - writing only with MySql application code and not using anything else like Java/PHP/Python/C# etc?

I know Oracle has pretty sophisticated stored procedures, but even so, most of the application logic of systems I've seen had program code written in an "external" language.
I think that only happens when UI transparency is disabled. I don't have the same issue[0]. I find Yosemite to be fine with a few exceptions, Safari is not as fast as I'd like it to be, and I've had issues when attempting to answer the phone on my laptop. I think Apple needs a Snow Yosemite, where they focus on fixes and performance with minimal new features.

[0]: http://imgur.com/KIIbsfr
Looks like Dartlang + Polymer is what you are looking for
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>If Yosemite, iOS 8 and other recent changes have shown anything, it is that that problems are not consistent across the user base -- some users are plagued by bugs, while others are somehow, inexplicably completely problem-free.

Not really inexplicably: different graphics and airport cards (in different Mac models), different wi-fi routers, some have installed BS haxies while others have not, some have updated their OS on top of the previous installation for 3-4 OSes, where others start from a clean slate, etc. Regarding Hangout, it's also different iOS device version, proximity to the phone, etc.
Could be a retina thing. I see it on my MBPr 15 2013.
Its especially bad on the 13" rMBP which has a relatively weak GPU. When using scaled resolutions the UI lag is very noticeable, i also get some redrawing issues of icons. You can improve the situation by disabling transparency effects, but that produces some graphical glitches.

In the end i disabled retina resolution and am running native 1680x1050 now. Definitely not as crisp but i got used to it and system load is considerably less (especially when playing back video and such) now and battery life improved as well.

Current GPUs in the Macbooks are just not ready to handle the massive resolutions used for scaling. Just try to run a 60fps youtube video in a scaled resolution and you will see your system load go up to the point the video might even stutter.