skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's true in general that chaotic systems tend to fare better than planned in our world, I think the problem is with limitations of human cognitive capabilities, not with the idea of planned systems per se.

For one, there's a reason that successful designs tend to have one person's vision (even if many are involved in actual construction). We all know "design by committee".

Secondly,

> A chaotic market will beat communist central planning every time.

I am starting to believe that central planning has failed so spectacularly because people can't handle that much complexity in their heads + you actually have a distributed system. If we tried that again, but with computerized economy and a centralized algorithm running global optimization, I think it could fare much better than previously, and much better than distributed market systems we have today. Yes, it will cost us some economic freedom, but this very freedom is what is driving humanity to its grave by destroying the environment and pretending we're not running out of cheap energy.

> A chaotic fight for life via evolution will beat robots every time, etc.

This I strongly disagree with. "Chaotic fight for life" works almost infinitely slower than human mind it crafted. It might have evolved a dog over half a millenium, but Boston Dynamics got halfway there over few years. We can optimize better and iterate faster. Evolution is cool and all, but let's not discount the minds we have and the fact that they, not biological evolution, are now the driving force on the planet.
I wonder if this guy has actually worked in the "enterprise" before because it sure isn't what he is talking about. Companies like Facebook, Soundcloud etc are nothing more than bigger startups. Go work for a bank sometime and then tell me they are comparable to Spotify.

As for Go. What it really needs is a great story around Java integration. JDBC drivers and libraries need to just work out of the box. Then you can talk about building cute little micro services.

And Scala's toolchain is pretty simple at least with something like Play.
I spend half my working day in Word's review feature wrangling redlines so, yeah, Github is a non-starter for something like this.
It's an autonomously rolling cart, I fail to see why we would need special new laws for that.
Addressing each of your points in turn:

- What's the difference from a spec?

There used to be a FAQ on our site emphasising that at its core _wym_ is a spec. Our reference implementation, itself made up of multiple pieces (wymd, wymsy, oneweb, ...) provides a way to actually make use of that spec and to validate all the guarantees of the strict interfaces.

Also, I'm not a fan of entities who would define a spec in isolation without a reference implementation alongside it - where's the proof that you're making the right decisions? We provide that implementation to keep ourselves grounded.

- Won't multi-language limit features?

Not really.

For one thing, since we're self-hosting we can't afford to lack power and expressivity. For example everyone has the ability to refer to types (as per generics) else we wouldn't be able to implement the core. ;)

Our interface language - it's quite simple, to make the addition of new language bindings trivial, but we expose built-in services to use more powerful features simply by switching which nodes you're holding on to - there's a data-implementation divide, where a node needn't understand a feature in order to deal in its data.

The net effect is that language bindings can be created trivially and evolved to support features as a good way of dealing with them is found (e.g. in the simplest case, Javascript Int64 support).

- Having a central authority is better.

This is an interesting one :D - I agree, in a way. A wymd cluster self-starts a consensus using a lock service, performs master election and then uses this consensus service for registration and discovery.

We have an elected distributed authority. :P
Trainwreck indeed. However, I wouldn't call that the "other side of this." Going into business with your (depressed?) significant other is an entirely different ballgame from trying to maintain a healthy relationship while one partner is involved in a startup.
Yes it will.

Although some of the tuning there-in can be used for improving performance on any workload (handling NUMA, for example), it's probably not necessary for the majority of environments because it involves intimate knowledge of hardware, software and application stack.

It also talks about disabling a bunch of power management which is really only necessary when you're chasing microseconds.

BTW if you're interested in NUMA and memory management on RHEL7, my team mate Bill Gray wrote an awesome whitepaper:

http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/01/12/mysteries-of-numa-memo...
(sorry, again login required)

OP: please consider RHEL :-)
More details: https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-ap...
The central point (IMO) was economical: self-hosting frees developer from expenses. Trivial installation is just a pre-requisite for self-hosting to be acceptable.
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I bought a 50" RCA in October for a really good deal. No smart features at all. Don't need em, don't want em.
They're not kidding, significant wave height in that area is 20 feet at the moment. Yikes.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41047
Casetext?

They already did a annotated SAFE: https://casetext.com/contract/simple-agreement-for-future-eq...
not to be flippant, but this is exactly why lawyers go to law school and then work on such docs for years to develop expertise. The value of a lawyer is precisely in what to leave out and what to put in -- and how to phrase it.

The annotations just for California law would be 10x the size of the document.
That's an interesting point. Does Go have an equivalent of Sonatype's Nexus ?

This is basically mandatory in most enterprises since often you can't just go into the wild to pickup new dependencies. Plus keeping build artefacts managed is pretty important.
Sure, the bar of 'fully understanding' is ridiculous. People don't have 100% accuracy with anything. Most people would also fail the same measure if the document was spoken vs written so despite the name it has little to do with literacy.

Note: The bar for functional literacy includes banking paperwork which is intentionally designed to be confusing. If more people understood it they would rewrite it to be less clear. Also, your failure to understand what you linked precludes you from the ranks of 'functional literacy'.

PS: While high, you might reasonably interpret at least intermediate as an acceptable level for college graduates and that's well over 80%.
godep isn't really meant to be for versioning dependencies. It's meant to freeze source code so that you can reproduce builds 100%.

With that being said, I'd recommend http://gopkg.in, or if you prefer hosting yourself https://azul3d.org/semver

Disclaimer: I created `azul3d/semver`.
>There is a reason you see more pro-China pieces than pro-Russia, pro-Syria, pro-Cuba, or pro-Saudi pieces for example.

I'm fairly political so I imagine I pay attention to this stuff more than most, but you bet your bottom dollar people here and on reddit and slashdot sing the praises of Cuba, Syria, and Russia. Usuallly the sentiment come from Europeans and others with an anti-US bone to pick. As someone who has done business with both the Chinese and the Russians, its incredible how shitty and dishonest their business culture is. I don't think a lot of the people cheerleading them have any idea what they are talking about.
I dispute the assertion that American goods were considered cheap knock-offs by the end of the 19th century. By the mid 19th century, the "American Style" of assembly-line manufacturing with interchangeable parts was considered to be the most efficient form of manufacturing [1] and was thereafter adopted in Britain and the rest of Europe. This method was derived from various aspects of the English system and was not invented in America, though it was first widely adopted there. Though there are well-known examples of industrial espionage, American innovation in manufacturing can be attributed a combination of vast natural resources, dynamic social structure, and widespread generalist education (as opposed to the apprenticeship system of Britain at the time) [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_system_of_manufacturin... (the article is sufficiently cited to support the claim)

[2] McPherson, James M. (2003). Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7.
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From my experience, it's very difficult to achieve low latency on modern Intel processors (after Sandy Bridge) because of SMI interrupts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode

Some of the SMI interrupts can be disabled by smictrl, but there usually remains an interrupt every 10-20 seconds with 100+ microsecond latency. See plot here:

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FixingSMIIssues

SMI interrupts are used for fan / thermal region control and cannot be fully disabled.
The vast NAAL you referred me to has four grading scales:

below basic, basic, intermediate, proficient

Your term was "functional." Basic on the NAAL scale is what qualifies as being functional.

~85% of college graduates fall into intermediate or proficient (ie 85% above even the basic functional level). You're beyond blatantly wrong.
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Something overlooked at is that products bought in China are often fraudulent and cheaply made versuses made in Europe and citizens in China and abroad know it.

Citizens in China will travel to Paris to buy a handbag instead of a cheaply made knockoff in Singapore.
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I suppose the other part can be explained by culture. I'm a brown guy who came to America sometime ago, my family relatives are right now basically all priming their kids to become doctors. They are so committed to the idea that their kids are going to become doctors that I would bet a good amount of money that the kids will get good MCAT stores, will get residency, and perhaps even open their own clinics (they know this is where the money is, and they let their kids know this too).

The path of lifee I think is more conservatively and clearly defined in India than in America or other Western societies. In America, if your son wants to be an artist, a painter, a musician, you tell him to try his best. Indeed it is socially acceptable both by families and our society for a person to aspire to be anyone he wants to be, to do anything he or she wants to do. In contrast, the strongly knitted social cohesion and solidarity of places like India and Bangladesh impose a certain structure and path: you go to school -- you try really hard, you respect the hell out of your teacher, you go to college, you get married, and you try your darndest to provide as much as you can for your wife and kid. And that is not done by playing with high-risk games -- it is done by going the way that is known and suggested by community leaders, friends, families.

I don't think I've answered your question very satisfactorily or completely, the best I can say is it's the culture that's responsible for this. And I'm totally not happy right now with mainstream culture of America (especially the one lead by corp: misogyny is rampant (have you read the shit Eminem says in interviews? Why is Chris Brown still so celebrated?), math/science aptitude is equated to unattractive geekiness, etc. etc.
Because not everyone is using it, or because it doesn't work.
I fully agree with you, but it's no use; no matter how polite you're, somehow they will find your comment offensive, confusing fat shaming with common sense.
I work with one person who went linux -> OSX and two that went OSX -> linux. All seem very happy.

It's almost like OSX isn't the One True OS, and that different people have different preferences.
This is awesome. I have something like it that I bought on Amazon [0], but I think this is better looking and far more detailed.

[0]http://www.amazon.com/World-History-Timeline-Schofield-Sims/...
Firstly: The idea of open sourcing docs like this is great.

Secondly: 4 columns of approx 25 characters - that has to be the most annoying layout ever applied to any legal document.

Thirdly: The document could be significantly improved. If enough people are interested in a markup + comments from a customer and vendor perspective based on 15+ years experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating docs like this, I am happy to provide such within a few days. Please indicate your interest below.
The future is cool.

Only a matter of time before someone figures out how to combine this with Spot and a legion of four-legged robots start delivering your groceries, mail and pizza.
Not here to say that one style is better than another, although I've used gitflow almost exclusively for a few years and it's served well. Pushed features/hotfixes/etc. out the door in a timely manner, and never felt held back by the 'ceremony' necessary to push to prod. CI handles most of that and with the 'git flow' plugin you can easily do a two command deploy while not compromising good branching/repo maintenance practices.
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In my experience, most users don't have surface or windows tablets. And they came from XP or 7. As far as I can tell, they use windows 8 as seriously as when they used xp and 7.

You can dismiss the vast majority of people who have that experience, but that would be ignoring the reality for most people. Fortunately for Microsoft, MS has decided to listen to the huge amount of complaints and get rid of the problematic interface.

I've always wondered what the win8/8.1 supporters would have MS do about the situation. Tell the vast majority of "unserious" users to suck it up, shut up, and use Win8? No change is necessary, you just have to get serious about using it? I'm asking because I don't understand the point of view of win8 supporters.

BTW, I really do think that there are MS fanbois out there. Not trying to be insulting or anything, just something that seems to be a new trend. Peace.
"US policy often encourages investment and job growth outside the US... and then hold/reinvest those profits offshore rather than pay high taxes repatriating their funds."

That's the most important part of the article. It's what made China rise in the first place.
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales to Receive $1M Israeli Prize
The article makes a case that large energies are needed and insinuates that it's necessarily unsafe.

The power per passenger in a jet is about ten fold compared to a car, where it is perhaps ten fold compared to riding a horse which might be ten fold compared to bicycling.

Which do you think is safest, and why?
I think the problem is that we are talking about 2 different things. You want to access a particular piece of content without being forced to connect to a particular server. I want to avoid the same name designating completely different pieces of content depending on factors outside the control of the end user.

These are both good goals. It's possible to reach both. I just want to make sure we don't sacrifice one for the other.

> the primary beneficiary of this policy is the Docker Registry

That makes no sense. When you download an official image from Docker Hub's servers, you are not charged in any way, and you are not required to create an account. The hosting and bandwidth costs are enormous, and there is no business benefit. The only reason the Hub hosts these images is because it improves the experience of using Docker, which in turn creates a larger market of Docker users to sell various services to. It is absolutely in the company's interest to allow for mirroring of the standard library, so that the burden of storing and distributing it is spread out across the ecosystem, and the company can focus more resources on things it can actually sell. It is also in the community's interest, because official images maintained by open-source maintainers shouldn't become unavailable if Docker Hub goes down, for example.

> I think it's clear that the patch that users want isn't welcome

Respectfully, it would be more intellectually honest of you to talk about the patch that you want. Just because you happen to have a soapbox on this forum doesn't make you a representative of "the Docker users", and it doesn't bless you with any particular insight on what they want collectively. That is a rather large group of people.
"Show HN" is for things that people can try out now: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
From the AT&T page:

> All the device’s service commitments and installment plans are completed, and all early termination fees are paid in full.

I assume that means that if you got a "free" phone with a two year contract, you have to wait two years to unlock it.

https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/#/
At the risk of getting down-voted for self-promotion...

I see a lot of comments around Word being not the right format for "distributing, sharing, commenting".

My startup Documize [1] is just a week old and is currently being tried out by a handful of legal professionals and the like for handling what happens around structured documents.

The premise is that MS Word is where structured documents are born in the enterprise world. It's what happens after they come into being that is the problem: network drives, file sync folders, email tennis, Word-track-changes, manual consolidation, etc.

A real pain.

Documize aims to help people distribute documents, collate feedback, provide version control and even allow for private notes. From a browser.

Working towards that vision at the moment -- just thought I'd throw this out there.

[1] https://documize.com
These total-factor mortality studies tend to be over large populations and long time-periods, so it's difficult to administer a test protocol like "check their blood alcohol many times a week and find a peak."

It seems almost certain that intensity of drinking has some effect on total-factor mortality, if only because if you get blind drunk you're more prone to accident than someone who drinks only to being buzzed or less.
I wonder how often this is abused. Are people relying on change tracking, or actually using the diff functionality? I've seen at least one where people just used change tracking. It would have been easy to change something and accept changes and could have slipped by or changed negotiations.
JOMO: Joy of Missing Out
If you factor in the carve outs, notice requirements and the calculation model, it's not that bad :-)
I am no expert. Taking 2.5 years for a Master's thesis seems long to me, so I would wonder what took you so long. Eg, the MS for CS at Illinois, currently ranked #5, at https://cs.illinois.edu/prospective-students/graduate-studen... , is a three semester program, so four semesters is already on the long side, much less five. Cornell, ranked #6, is a two or three semester program, suggests http://www.cs.cornell.edu/masters/academics/faq .

If you answer that it's because you didn't think you understood machine learning well enough, with that being your field of interest, I would wonder why you didn't start with a focus on that topic. Did you only realize that was your interest as the end of your studies? Otherwise, why didn't you start with that topic coming in, including research in the topic? On the other hand, if you've been doing ML for two years, and think you don't know enough about it, perhaps you really should be in the PhD program, since one extra semester isn't all that much time to really understand the topic.

So as a potential employer, I would be wondering if you really were interested in the topic, and what took you so long to graduate with a Master's degree, and if you understood the point of a MS degree.

(I can understand if you use it as a delaying tactic for visa purposes to get a job, but you haven't said that you've even started looking for a job.)
For your specific use case, Tumblr is almost certainly the right call. It's a more capable platform than I think people sometimes see, even for long-form text, but "easily sharing photos and videos of things you like for no particular reason" could pretty much be Tumblr's corporate mission statement.
Is the data behind this visualization available anywhere or do people need to run the BigQuery queries themselves?
The same process took place in Japan.

The camera industry is a familiar example— both Canon & Nikon began by making copies of German Leica and Contax cameras, then tweaked them, then moved into innovative original designs. By the 70s or 80s, Canon and Nikon had surmounted their industry, while Contax was bought by a Japanese bit player and Leica was reduced to a niche luxury manufacturer.
http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/canon_story/1946_...
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/rangefinder/sp.htm

The same thing happened in the bicycle industry. Shimano began by manufacturing upgraded copies of European derailleurs, and by the 90s had reached a near-monopoly on bicycle component manufacturing.
http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Shimano_derailleurs_-_pu...
http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Shimano_derailleurs_-_fr...
Thanks for sharing the examples -- really appreciated.

I'm not convinced that HTML is preferable to other representations of the DOM, particularly for representing UI's and applications (rather than documents). The clojure script wrappers for React I've seen seem to believe, for example, that lisp is better at representing the DOM than HTML and I tend to agree. Especially since any configured IDE should be pointing out missed commas and have rainbow parens.

One thing that is different between your examples and the DOM I've been creating with React is that I tend to make custom tags, and I don't end up with tons of repetitive looking stuff. Your last example is quite readable to my eyes, and would be even more so if perhaps decomposed into some helper functions and, of course, if loops were used and the DOM was populated from some data structure.
Thanks for the Messerschmitt story, haven't heard of that before.

> projects of the kind that would never get off the ground in a democracy because they make absolutely no economic sense.

I think here's the crux of the problem. Not everything that makes economic sense is good, especially if we're talking about current, greedy (as in, locally optimizing) economy. Sticking to fossil fuels until very end makes economic sense. Not investing in basic research makes economic sense. Slave labour makes economic sense. Stupid resource-wasting zero-sum games like political campaigns or advertising make economic sense.

Among all the good things it does, following the economy also leads to completely batshit insane decisions. This is, I think, what many geeks have problem with. They seek solutions that are powerful enough to get us out of the holes we're in despite the economy.
I'm often to picky or not patient enough to put up with random stuff. It's not as if I'm not wandering off beaten paths - I like jazz, ambient, soul, electronic music, post rock, 80s pop - really, genres have absolutely no meaning to me. However getting through all the noise and finding the good stuff isn't getting any easier these days.

I really like good curators in this regard - labels for instance, there are a lot of those that don't fit into the evil, greedy corporation narrative. Numero Group for instance - a fantastic re-issue label that digs out forgotten, rare or unreleased material and puts it into the spotlight, often for the very first time. Their track record is quite impressing.

However I get your general idea, I use it with my own collection - I actually have one of those smart playlists that picks an album for me I haven't listened to for quite a while. Sometimes you re-discover things you almost forgot about.