skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems very silly to me that people want to bulldoze Coyote Valley in the name of housing when "downtown" Mountain View, flanking a mainline commuter railroad, consists entirely of single-story buildings and parking lots. There are many, many, MANY opportunities around the Bay to replace wasteful developments with real ones. Just look at the grotesque waste of the Blossom Hill Caltrain area. It's strip malls, parking, and sprawl for miles. If you go further out, you'll get more of the same.
>Eh, what ? Apple is already shipping their proprietary fork of Clang which supports their proprietary language Swift, this is exactly what Free Software which Stallman advocates is working against.

Thats exactly the point. Anybody wanting to make a proprietary language implementation, or proprietary IDE is already using llvm anyway, and would remain doing so. New projects of that nature would almost certainly still use llvm. The only people really being affected by this are people who want to use GNU tooling, but are left with deliberately crippled tools.

The ability to develop plugins for GCC has existed for years now, but nobody has used it to do the evil things RMS insisted would happen (remember, he blocked the creation of the plugin interface for many years). The main reason is that Clang/LLVM is just much easier and nicer to work with (e.g. you don't have to write and maintain your own plugin to export an AST instead of having it be part of the core project). Hence all the brightest young minds in compiler research and language development are using LLVM in their work instead of GCC and an entire generation that could have been using and contributing to GNU software are working to improve 'the enemy'.

Its hard to think of a more valuable group of people to drive away. Or a more thorough way to drive them away than to try to put intellectual shackles on them. Stallman's suggestion of only exporting a gimped AST that only allows a few specific transformations gives people involved in languages and tooling the same reaction as RMS feels when told he can't see the code for the software on his printer.

>The whole idea of Free Software is that the end user will have the full rights to examine, modify, copy, run said software, proprietary plugins in GCC flies right in the face of that, so obviously Stallman is opposed to them.

Nobody is proposing creating proprietary plugins for GCC. People are proposing a GPL licensed plugin to export the AST for use by emacs. No proprietary code involved at all. RMS has said he would block the use of such a plugin in emacs, thus deliberately crippling emacs, which is why emacs is probably going to get forked (again).
Everyone has an opinion I guess and they are entitled to it. We can either write about it openly or just to ourselves. I like the disclaimer although I dont think it help much.
This is the funniest thing I read in a long time. I find Dexter admirable.
> and then have a small safety net to fall back on if we're wrong

I think it's the years that really hurt. A student is delaying entering the workforce for a lousy paying job, for 5-8 additional years, and now a postdoc or two? Wouldn't you want for some more money at the end?

But I completely agree with your diagnosis: accountability is a great way to open some folks' eyes. It is my wish, in fact, to be able to reach biology/chemistry/genetics/biochemistry/etc. students early in their undergraduate career and convince them NOT to consider graduate school. I think the application process with GREs etc. makes it difficult to accurately weigh the opportunity cost of going for a Ph.D., and by the time I talk to applicants on interview day it's too late.
> 'patio11 is one of HN's most valued contributors (as evidenced by his position on the leaderboard). That […] would at least merit a level of respect that your comment lacks.

No. Being a person is what should afford him due respect, but being a celebrity (or “most valued contributor”) should emphatically not grant him any privileges.

EDIT: Please note that I am agreeing with the fact that patio11 deserves more respect, and that username223 was disrespectful. (I am merely disagreeing with napoleond’s stated reasons for why username223 should have been more respectful.)
Do you have any idea when the consumer version will be released and how is its estimated cost?
In another thread I criticized Dr. Stallman's responses. I stand by the criticism. _However_, he hasn't actually decided yet, he's just pursuing the matter outside the mailing list.

Could we let him either change his mind or reaffirm his initial conclusion as final before we heap extrapolations on to the pile?

Should Emacs get complex refactoring and code completion? Yes. Should it get them by way of GCC? Ideally. Will it harm Emacs and GCC if this functionality remains crippled in both components of the tool chain? It seems likely. Has RMS decided to go this way? Not yet.

BTW: The latest in the thread is a proposition which RMS actually asked for in his initial response: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...
Interesting... Now, I'm just looking forward to seeing my matches!
Seems like Scala going to be enormously benefit from this.
In photographs, I've noticed that Kim Jong-un has a Mac on his desk.
If you need massive reads or writes... I'm talking hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users, then Cassandra is probably your best bet, the tooling around your use will be a bit more difficult, you may need to shard/replicate portions of your data anyway depending on use. You reach for Cassandra when your use is going to get complicated. I wouldn't look at Cassandra if I needed less than say a dozen nodes to start with.

ElasticSearch is fairly close, but I'm unsure if it will scale as well in practice. ElasticSearch handles the middle-to-high ground very well. I'm not sure I would use it for authorative data... It works incredibly well for logging (with logstash) and the front end utilities (kibana, etc) are nice too. It's primary use is as a search, if you are very read heavy for searches, or write heavy for analytical data it works well. You can tune your use to separate the storage and reads in interesting ways.

MongoDB works incredibly well when your core data is composed of mostly self-contained documents and in need of certain flexibility. A typical classifieds website is a great use case. It's also a very natural fit in a lot of programming languages, js (node) in particular is a natural fit. There's much less disconnect between the data and your application models.

RethinkDB is very similar to MongoDB, but has a more traditional mindset when it comes to it's use. I think the programming interfaces are a little better thought out, consistency and data security is at the forefront here.

In general it comes down to... very large loads, use cassandra... easiest use is mongo... rethinkdb I've been waiting on the replication story to get better, and the geosearch support is fairly recent... ElasticSearch search or for logging (write heavy). In many scenarios where I would use ElasticSearch, it would be along with an RDBMS as an authoratative data source.
If imdb's movie /year/1979/ list is to be believed, there was a lot of self loathing going on in films in the late 70s (i.e. Vietnam).
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> Io also suffers from Scheme's problem, where a minimalist language is more likely to calve a multitude of private and mutually incompatible frameworks.

I think that could be addressed in exactly the way Ruby addresses it, by having a popular leading framework. Although in Io's case there are some gaps in the standard library that I think need filling. For example, there's no reason it has to be painful to do Unix scripting.

Another consideration is that frameworks in Io don't need to be brought into conflict. It's still a trap, but it can be navigated and I really don't think the situation is any worse than Ruby's.
I don't know about that; I think perhaps it is the opposite. Psychologically, at least: if you got another degree, shouldn't you be worth more than you were previously? Aren't two degrees better than one? (I know that sounds stupid, but these are thoughts that can flicker through one's mind.)

An informal polling of the students in my PhD program showed a large fraction (~90%) that came directly out of undergrad. Without setting foot in the real world I believe one can see believe this distorted reality. And in the economic "long term" (salary per addition year of schooling) most PhDs are probably better off than their Bachelor's counterparts, but this belies the opportunity costs.
We all know that its nothing new. A lot of people use the cloud without knowing it. We just cant ignore the fact that we are on the cloud, we just dont know it. And sometimes dont give a damn.
Here's hoping that Spartan not only is on rapid release cycle but it's fork of Trident and Chakra are developed in an open source project (e.g. Gecko, WebKit, Blink) so developers can submit fixes and features and not have to wait a year for them to be available.
Hi - I am not patio11 but I like what he writes so that's why sharing it here. Hope this helps.
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Another nail in the coffin of the Windows PC?

I don't think there's been a first nail yet.
Thank you... This was kind of my point... I will note that if you are in a situation with very heavy read usage, then replication does give you scaling regarding that. Again, my use case was for a classifieds site, where roughly have the page views are search results.
Ask HN: What does the funnel look like for YC?
What are the respective conversion numbers for the following stages:

Application => Interview

Interview => Accepted

Accepted => Funded

Funded => IPO / Self-sustaining / Acquired
Kim Jong Il had a Macbook Pro.
Military weapons have few non-violent uses. ASTs have many uses other than assisting proprietary IDEs (for example, allowing emacs to complete with proprietary IDEs on a level playing field).

It's more akin to refusing to manufacture kitchen knives and forcing all the chefs in your kitchen to chop things with spoons. Even though anybody who wants to stab people already has easy access to very big and sharp knives just by stepping into any other kitchen in the world. Also lots of your chefs keep sneaking over to the kitchen over the road to chop things and no newly trained chef wants to work in your kitchen because they think only chopping with spoons is stupid and only done by crazy religious old men with big beards. OK this metaphor is getting pretty stretched now.
Does Facebook know you're a liar?
Definitely magnets moving under the table. I used to put together a ton of window displays when I was on the visuals team at an Apple Store and it was the best part of the job.
I love that they made it look like Aqua from OS X. If only Apple could pull that off again...
Quite right. I think the whole Camino Real strip from San Jose to Daly city could be turned into a high density corridor with subway line running below (or above) connecting SF to SJ and all the new downtowns in between. Like a really long Van Ness going down the peninsula.

Old timers could keep their quaint towns --whatever, but at least allow a modern city corridor down The Camino with good density and the accompanying amenities (design it with self-reliance in mind so as not to incite needless driving). The thing that irks me most is the anti building anti progress contingent which aims to keep the whole of the bay area preserved as it was in 1964. Look at China Japan Singapore Holland get a clue learn to change with the times
It's the ad that points to fake not to the first search result.
I think he is talking health concerns, not privacy concerns.
Looks better than Ubuntu, wonder if there are bugs he doesn't mention.
Yeah just like the author, I was expecting something very ugly looking but was surprised that it looked good.

One one hand it makes sense they copied -- why spend time and effort into drawing all those assets from scratch? Take the best out there, steal it and you are done.

On the other and Apple is the epitome of your capitalist, western, company -- one that would surely be decried as a failure or an example of Western evil decadence by the propaganda. Perhaps those developing this are sort of things are given a more free reign and operate outside the "propaganda" domain.
Azure storage, each write is to two local and a third (optionally geo redundant) location... This is data that will still be there if my VM reboots... the local/scratch disk is gone if my VM reboots... if a significant number of those VMs reboot, you will lose data. I do hope that you are at least backing up those nodes regularly to persistant options.
People sometimes have this false notion of security or protecting themselves. Other take advantage of that to manunipulate the system or scam others.
I'm curious what network activity would come out of the VM if the author turned on the network interface.
If you truly have your expectations properly set, then my hat is off to you. The difficulty, I believe, comes as time goes on and problems such as a family, prompt student debt repayment and savings come into play. (That's why I love the metaphor from the article: grad school costs you your firstborn.)

To put it another way: do you think you are paid enough for the quality of work you do? And at what salary would you rather work on something less interesting? I always thought part of the problem was that salaries are mostly set--or that's what researchers think--and therefore they accept whatever the system assigns to them.
>What about other academic departments who tend to be more left wing (e.g. sociology)?

Remind me who is the President's sociology advisor?

Oh that's right...
Just to emphasize(so that my comment dont get misunderstood somehow) that this tool is really good and well designed, so thank you for sharing with us!
The UI is very OS X-like but the most obvious difference is the buttons aren't shiny enough. They have this slightly weird "depressed" look to them.
I was so inspired by this article that I spent the day coding an app / game that beautifully guides you through the questions and includes a built in timer with a sound for the eye gazing.

http://LoveActualized.com

I envision is being something that would be fun on a first date as a game.

Also - I've used eye gazing and several variations with profound results in my coaching work -- many of my clients have said that a ~3 minute session is easily the most profound experience of their lives.
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It has worse code completion and refactoring support for C and C++ than it should have. Emacs users are forced to switch to other tools (like proprietary IDEs or LLVM based tools) when they need to do complex refactoring to c++ codebases. It could be improved (should have been years ago) but RMS has stated that he would block the inclusion of code to do those things if they use a GCC plugin that exports the full AST.

This is all discussed in the original mailing list thread and it's why one of the core emacs devs suggested forking.
I've been blown away lately with these bike stories on HN. For some reason, I never imagined that "normal" people would spend $8,000 (and up!) on a bicycle. I guess living in a big city is not something that I really want to do.
The story tells of how some guy took some drug and apparently had positive effects. How does this anecdote affect me? Any medication I use should be tested in clinical trials and be prescribed to me personally, or be deemed safe for sale over the counter; i.e. non-prescribed use. Are other people using these anecdotes as sufficient reasons to actually take random drugs? I have to ask: Are these people insane?

If you have “an Everest of work”, the solution is to get less work, not to take drugs. Be the person you are.¹

① (Not applicable to actually prescribed medication or care from a licenced professional.)
In reference to DHCP vs static IP. There was an article about someone looking at their browser:

https://blog.whitehatsec.com/north-koreas-naenara-web-browse...

That one is funkier. Some ancient netscape version. The most shocking thing to me was that the whole country seem to run on a single 10.x.x.x network!
I would also welcome anyone with concerns to join us at ScienceCareers, where we tackle this problem head on. There is a wealth of information in the articles, and many hidden gems at the forum: http://scforum.sciencecareers.org/viewforum.php?f=1
The definition of light is also vibrating aka waves :)
If that's the case, then the oppression of nerds (to take an example from current events) certainly qualifies as systemic - it's definitely not based on any individual part of being a nerd. Yet many people have disputed this conclusion in the strongest terms.

Does this mean that more definitions of "systemic" are floating around?
How did you go off of it for two weeks last week?
>It's not an easy road (what is?)

I think we could work on the road, actually. For as long as a PhD is, there are ways to make it less of a slog, I believe. Early career development and more relevant classes come to mind from my institution.

Also, if a postdoc is truly required these days, maybe we can shorten PhD length to 3 or 4 years? Cutting down the opportunity cost of time has nothing (directly) to do with salary...but it would have profound changes on the culture, I believe.
I grew up in Redwood City and maintain very close friendships with high school teammates from EPA. This article caused me to make an account on hacker news so I could share a not so unique, but perhaps unheard, perspective on what it means to have a community like East Palo Alto (a.k.a. 'EPA') in the middle of silicon valley.

EDIT: this post quickly digressed into a four page behemoth that was too long to post in a single comment. It's long and I fear the formatting would have been awful. I will put up a WP site sometime tomorrow so that I may edit it and format it nicely. Below is a brief excerpt from the end. I'll make an edit to this post as soon as the WP site is up.

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If anything is to be taken away from my experience and these stories is that the men and women who are forced to grow up in this environment live in cyclical state of despair. A vacuum that requires quite nearly a winning lottery ticket to escape.

For it to be located so close to the affluent areas of silicon valley is practically criminal. It is eerily close to being the pit in which Bane grew up in during the Batman movies, the one where he lived in a prison that could see freedom and happiness just a couple hundred feet away.

If I make any sort of dime in Silicon Valley I fully intend to research and hopefully participate in philanthropy that will contribute to problems such as these.

I believe it becomes our responsibility when it is in our own back yard.
Red Star 3.0 is best OS on the planet.
The most interesting thing I've seen about Apple this past year, which is telling.
that depends on what the definition of "is" is...
Or maybe is just a very good hardware theme
Sorry, sloppy writing. It was actually about a week and a half. I wasn't very scientific about it at all, just went off for awhile to see what would happen.
New York does this too. It's important to emphasize they are talking about the speed you're going through the toll booth. It's not some tricky thing about measuring your time between two points or anything like that. It's kinda dangerous to speed through a tollbooth.
OpenGL functions by object
A flashy shop display is more interesting than a new programming language for the platform?

I think that says more about you than it does Apple.
> Maryland law allows the agency to revoke a driver's E-ZPass transponder for 60 days after a second violation within six months.

If they can revoke a transponder only of someone from MD, I know at some point you could just buy your transponder from another state. VA, PA, OH, NY.
The most shocking thing to me was that the whole country seem to run on a single 10.x.x.x network!

That would be the Kwangmyong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)
For constraint logic programming, ECLiPSe: http://eclipseclp.org/ It extends Prolog in various ways and was open sourced by Cisco a few years back.
Copying Apple? I thought Samsung was a South Korean company. (Boom!)
I think your position is unscientific. First, there's enough food to feed everybody on this planet already, but the "economical science" is not in favor of distributing resources evenly. Second, it's highly unscientific to start feeding a large population with foods that haven't passed any testing, and, no, 5-10-year trials are not enough. So, instead of solving problems we've created, the only solution is change the system that's highly unfair and that's build around the idea that only a small percentage of the world population will live well, will be wasteful, and destroying the entire planet with it's pathological consumerism and the rest will be "servicing" them or, at least, not getting hold of their resources, but suffering from their unhealthy for the environment lifestyle. Also, although I understand the positive sides of the GMOs, introducing them to our ecosystem is something, which short- and long-term consequences we cannot predict. So, if you want to help the hungry, re-engineer the political and the economical system (like The Venus Project), which corrupt system allows this global unfairness and leave the organisms (in "GMO") alone! I personally don't mind planting GMOs on Mars, just not on Earth, please, or not outside of strictly-controlled environments!
To me this community being next to an affluent community is neither here nor there. It would not be better if it were in Yolo county. If I were in the same economic position as a resident, I'd prefer to be close to an affluent area --at least there are second and third tier jobs to be had not too far(probably anyone who is able to secure a first tier job would no longer stay in the community). But if you're in a trailer park in Yolo county, what are the prospects there?

Also, let's not forget the myriad trailer parks which dot bay area cities and towns. They're hidden behind freeway sound abatement walls so people forget about them but they have it pretty tough as well.
They're completely different tools with different purposes. Ntop is a tool you run on your network to introspect network flows between various hosts. The iftop utility provides a look in to what is flowing on an interface on your local machine. With ntop, you can aggregate collectors from many locations in order to develop a detailed understanding of how data flows in and out of your network.