skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The B-52's were built by people who had experience building and tweaking the bombers of WWII. The practicality of the B-52 stands as a shining example of the scary efficiency of war when people put their minds to it.
I'm not confused at all, thank you. I'm of the long-standing and well-informed opinion that "pass-by-reference" and "pass-by-value" are worthless terms that need to die, and that this entire conversation is an exercise in useless academic pedantry.
Does it run FTP to read/write remote files?
What about F# and Nemerle? Why you need another lisp?

Oh this article dates 2003, that is why.
I agree with the flaws in this argument.

Imagine Deep Blue beats Kasparov 40 games in a row. "Oh, this computer is getting lucky, it doesn't really have a strategy. This is the unicorn computer that is beating our best player."

If the manager picked a single stock 40 years ago and that outperformed the market, that would be a unicorn. If the manager actively managed the fund for 40 years, buying and selling several times a year based on market conditions, and beat the market (the "best we have"), I'd say the strategy was sound.

You can always cop out and claim talent is luck (Steve Jobs was "lucky" at picking products, etc.).
I replayed Half Life 1 & 2 recently.
While Half Life did not age very well, Half Life 2 and its episodes could be slightly refreshed graphically and released as a 2015 game, it would probably be the FPS of the year. I don't know whether it is a compliment for HL2 or a shame for the slow evolution of this genre but it does many things better than most modern FPSes (long and very varied campaign, some very interesting weapons, ...) and has very certainly been an huge influence in the last decade.
It is not perfect of course, for example in a game where you spend all the time shooting at things, the game take away this mechanic at some key points, especially when faced with a traitor that many would be inclined to shoot at. It is hard not to lose your immersion in this situation.
The silent protagonist is also slightly aggravating IMO, sadly Valve seems very committed to it.
And 1:1 guns ratio is shocking for most of the rest of the world...
Reverse waypoint finding app using geometry
Two interesting bits from the story:

"He notified Uber and “right away my app stopped working.” A week after the accident, Sindi says, the only thing he received from the company was an emailed form asking for details about the crash. "

and

"Uber maintained its insurance’s unique nature can’t be disclosed publicly or it might be duplicated by competitors"

Uber apparently doesn't even know if their supposed insurance policy has a deductible or not.
I've been lucky to work for a manager who acted this way. He never articulated it because it was clear from day one that he was going to bat for me and everyone on his team. The results spoke for themselves.

I had a manager recently who did actually express a similar sentiment despite acting to the contrary. It made for a toxic environment. I would rather he spoke the truth that was in his heart than try to build trust on empty words.
New NASA Program Offers a Taste of Space
I use mg all the time. It only takes half a second to launch and lets me use the emacs keyboard muscle memory I built up over 20 years. Happily I'm able to use a modern editor for most real editing.
Funny coincidence, in some Spanish speaking countries kuka refers to the female genitalia. I have never heard kuka used in Swedish though. It does mean who in Finnish.
A significant amount is returned to the market through buybacks and dividends...
Related: Fabrice Bellard[0]'s QEmacs. http://bellard.org/qemacs/ - a 160KB executable provides a mostly complete Emacs experience (sans scripting .. sort of like Mg), but does include syntax coloring, unicode, and watching video inside the editor. A 60KB stripped down version has a feature set comparable to Mg as far as I can tell.

[0] of FFMPEG, QEMU, BPG, TCC, JSLINUX and more fame.
Unless you're an investor, nothing much to lose by doing so if the speaker is actually interesting and you really want to meet them. Alternatively, you could always sign it Mickey Mouse!
You might want to look deeper into that. Economically Singapore has been well run, every other way is up for debate.
I can't recall the statistical test being done in those papers that conclude how the funds don't do better than random chance right now, but I don't think random chance imply 50% chance to beat the market each year - so your maths following that won't hold. Why? I don't know the reason, but have a note: one year is a completely artificial cut off range. There is no reason to naively assume that it would be 50% chance of beating the market every year rather than 50% chance every 10 years, or 50% every other full moon. I think the maths will have to be done on something else and not a range period.
I suppose it is a natural extension that technology eventually becomes a fashion statement but for some reason the whole idea of they 4 and 5 figure sums for a 'designer' widget really rubs me the wrong way. What's next the $7,500 Ives St Laurent calculator?
How to mock MySQLi when unit testing with PHPUnit
It's a country that has extremely low crime, and an amazing economy. Achieved with fewer resources and greater speed than any successful country in history.

Singapore has a different set of problems than the rest of the world. I think that's refreshing.
He's the 1% and the "awful for most of us" is for the 99%.
Out of curiosity (not hostility or snark, I swear) what is it about mechanical engineering of watches that draws such admiration? Is it because the components are large enough to see but small enough to look complicated? Is it a symbol of an idealized past?

It seems quite difficult to make the case that the mechanical watch is superior in terms of human ingenuity, manufacturing / supply chain sophistication, or sheer number of "clever tricks," but I'm not entirely comfortable with the explanation that it's just a status symbol that gains its value from exclusivity or brand.
As an Emacs guy, I really like mg(1). The one missing feature is Unicode support.
But what gives me a Skylake CPU?
Are luxury watches about productivity? Are expensive restaurants about nutrition?
Few people know that Clojure was not the first lisp worked on by Rich Hickey (I think Clojure was the 5th?). This was the last one he wrote before he started work on Clojure.
I'd be interested to see how many buy 2nd generation TAG smart watches vs mechanical watches. I'm sure the 1st generation will fly off the shelves as "the first TAG of their kind" but once the novelty value dies down I wonder about the longevity of a $5k smart watch vs a $5k mechanical. In 10 years time "where's that computer to plug it into?" "oh right.... "
The whole fragment is actually about why non-private inner classes have an implicit constructor parameter. It talks about compiler "passing a reference". Sure - that reference/pointer is passed - but it's passed by value.

That last sentence is a bit backwards compared to the quote. The references are passed by value if one must put it like that. But nothing gets passed by reference in Java.
Yes. You can grab the ancestors shared and the leaf or subtree you want to modify exclusive. If all of your writers land in the root of the tree because it's a small tree, they all contend on the same lock.
I use emacs for most of my daily development, but always rely on nano or vi in the terminal due to emacs startup time. I'm going to give mg a shot this week!
The Kerbal Space Program music is a little distracting, but it's a pretty clever game!
There is nothing serious now, so what's a few months ?

I wonder if this is what the conversations were like at TAG Heuer back in September after the Apple announcement.

So, the question is: what changed in the last 6 months that TAG Heuer felt compelled to announce a competing product? It's an innocent question.

Because coming out and saying "yeah, we're starting to work on, um, something" seems really unlike something a highly respected fashionable European brand would normally do. Unless I'm wrong about TAG Heuer.

And you have to announce an alliance with Google/Intel? What message does that convey? Hey, we're great at making awesome highly respected fashionable watches but we don't know fuckall about computer hardware and software?
Windows 3.1?
Found this to be pretty fun, and it reminds me of the "Faux" technology props they use in furniture stores or staged houses to make it appear "lived in" without risking high tech stuff. My favorite was a fake "macbook" like laptop with a printed Windows XP screen as its display. Sadly it seems the company that made it, Proptronics, may be out of business [1]

On a related note, the Google book scanning project cut up a lot of books by cutting the spine off. In Building 45 there used to be some fake bookcases with the spines glued on to look like all those books were on the shelf. Kind of made me sad, sort of like a book crypt.

[1] http://www.theacme.com/?name=PROPTRONICS&product=1030206311
From the (terrible) article: "The Nicholas Fund, which he has run since 1969, has topped the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index by an average of 2 percentage points a year for the past 40 years and has beaten it every year since 2008. If you think that doesn’t make a big difference, consider this: A $10,000 investment in the Nicholas Fund in September 1974 was worth about $2 million in September 2014, roughly twice the value of the same investment in the index."

Sounds impressive, but from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway :
"Berkshire Hathaway averaged an annual growth in book value of 19.7% to its shareholders for the last 49 years (compared to 9.8% from the S&P 500 with dividends included for the same period)"
"A few weeks ago I was walking along the street in Cambridge, and in someone's trash I saw what appeared to be a Mac carrying case. I looked inside, and there was a Mac SE. I carried it home and plugged it in, and it booted. The happy Macintosh face, and then the finder. My God, it was so simple. It was just like ... Google." ~ Great Hackers, Paul Graham

So I'm going down a street and I see a Mac being thrown out :) ~ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/14378861885

such a great article, thanks for @teuobk writing this & @franze for re-posting this. It means I can have a crack at using the classic as a web client/proxy. I'm still up to the lets plug a modern keyboard and mouse stage but this is a great push forward to connecting to the network, the hard bit: MacPlus and TCP/IP.
But these are completely separate things. You can have any mix of those (c# actually has all):

- Pass by value, values hold object references. (java, c# objects)

- Pass by value, values hold objects. (c# structs)

- Pass by reference, values hold object references. (c# inout parameter, passing object)

- Pass by reference, values hold objects. (c# inout parameter, passing struct)
The US? People can own more than one gun. The 1:1 ratio is for privately own guns. Doesn't include military or guns for export.
The Encyclopedia Britannica is fun: 9781593392925
There's a related article on the site about the spacing of decimal floating-point, which most people would probably find more intuitive:

http://www.exploringbinary.com/the-spacing-of-decimal-floati...

This spacing is also why generating a random floating-point number the "naive" way will result in a non-uniform distribution.
This is not even close to being a Show HN, and this kind of job post is explicitly disallowed on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
You could also run Emacs as a server.
Show HN: NoMoreSurge – automatically avoid Uber surge
I think unionizing is actually aiming way too low for many workers. Even lower-skill ones.

As an example, people have bandied about ideas about whether Uber drivers should unionize. But Uber drivers already own the means of production. So if you could effectively organize them, don't bother with a union, just create a worker-owned cooperate that competes directly with Uber. Get 100,000 drivers to chip in $10 a month and you can fund a really nice app plus the necessary lawyers.

The same pattern reoccurs in many parts of the modern economy. Many businesses are so capital-efficient that they only exist because they're good at coordinating workers -- not because they monopolize the working capital. So if you can organize workers, skip the union and go directly to worker ownership.
The SE/30 at least had a PC-compatible floppy drive. If you could find a disk image with the desired software, a floppy disk, and a computer with a floppy drive, then you could transfer software that way.

But a lot of Mac disk images might be in some weird Apple-proprietary Disk Copy format. I think modern Disk Utility may be able to open them. I'm not sure. I haven't tried anytime recently.

Jeff mentioned a Zip drive. You could try that, too, if you have USB and SCSI Zip drives. Files are much more likely to transfer correctly if you use a Mac instead of Windows.
Another way to look at what you're saying is to ask whether a small cap index beat the S&P 500 over the last 40 years. Of course it did (see the following link for the last 10 years, as Google doesn't have earlier data; https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&... ); as higher (diversified) risk begets higher return, but the returns were also far more volatile. So if he still achieved the return of a small cap index without as much volatility, that would have accomplished something.
Makes me want to dig out my copy of Flight of the Old Dog .
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9218114
I've actually looked into this, but it seemed like far too much overhead to simply open, edit and save a file; especially remotely.
> Except that these oppressive acts are law-making: the oppressive act under discussion is the vote.

I don't understand how is voting oppressive. Bad laws can be changed; what cannot be changed are things like loss of human lives, that's irreversible. You are arguing very abstractly; perhaps more specific example of oppression (ideally from the real world) would help? I would like to see a historic example of law promoted by majority (and if possible, opposed by elites) that had extremely negative consequences for some minority.

> How is this anything but tyranny by majority?

No, you're misunderstanding. It's that majority will change their vote to conform the minority view (if the idea is good, of course), not other way around. Just look at my example - unemployment. Even though unemployed people are in ephemeral minority, unemployment is a big topic for everybody, the majority. Because many people have been unemployed in the past or know someone, who was. So if someone is proposing to help the minority of unemployed, majority will probably vote for it. Neither they are probably going to support harming unemployed people.

> the first thing it says is that it's "half-direct"

The half-direct is more precise term, direct democracy is not quite practical, but it has important advantages to representative democracy. Half-direct democracy is a good compromise between those features.

> Personally, my conclusion is that, for the United States to more likely attain a "consensual result", it needs a higher degree of homogeneity, not direct democracy.

Well, the causality is the other way around - Swiss are homogenous because they have decades of experience in building consensus. But think whatever you want.

> It's probably very difficult to understand my point when you aren't really reading what I wrote in good faith.

The point is, in a real democracy, you don't have to pick from (as little as) two packages of issues that some clever marketers designed. That really means that there is no clear minority and majority - in some issues you may be minority and in some majority. In other words, being in minority is an artifact of the representative political system (and the majority voting or two party system makes it worse).

> As far as I can tell, our actual difference of opinion can be demonstrated with this thought experiment.

You don't have to do thought experiments. There have been quite a lot of cases where Swiss people changed the majority view from conservative to more progressive one. It's a little slower process (may take several years), but it happens. There have been also some regresses (I think some anti-mosque laws and such), but these happen at the same glacial pace, and are no worse than anywhere else.

You know, Switzerland and U.S. (not on federal level, and in all states, unfortunately) both have half-direct democracy, and they have some highest living standards in the world. Is that just a coincidence? (I certainly don't see much oppression going on there, and that's why this "tyranny of the majority" argument always seemed to me as some ivory tower bullshit.)
How specifically is it not sustainable?

There are plenty more foreigners willing to emigrate to a prosperous and safe city state.
In my experience, I always write a clear, idiomic C code along with my intrinsics-based vectorized function, alo png with comment on tricky part (such as using packus for clamping thing to 0-255). You got clear code, and also optimized code (you might want C code anyway for pre-sse2/mmx and non-x86). Downside is that you are to maintained multiple copy of code, but if you have the version optimized for each sse2/sse3/sse4.1/avx2 anyway it is not really that more hassle.
The actual argument that I know of rely on statistical test being the way to determine and not just a simple classification that anyone who beats the market is lucky.

Roughly speaking, if it's possible to beat the market, then when comparing between the result distribution we have of actual result, against a hypothetical distribution where investor was using coin toss to invest, those two have to be different. The conclusion comes from people saying that those two looks the same.

Now, actually make the test and choosing all the variable in question is NOT a simple task, and definitely is a hard problem.
http://www.words4chrome.com/ redivivus.

I would love to see something like this working well, like Google Sidewiki worked for a time, but I think the barriers are enourmous.
Companies don't care about you
A related question: How do you access academic papers?

I've got a list of papers I'd like to read on the Church-Turing Thesis and Quantum Computing, but I'm just a working freelance programmer with no access to a research library. For instance how do I get this one?:

K. Steiglitz (1988), Two non-standard paradigms for computation: Analog machines and cellular automata, in Performance Limits in Communication Theory and Practice, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Il Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Tuscany, Italy, July 7-19, 1986, J. K. Skwirzynski, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 173-192.
Given that the B-52's roots are in the bomber design of WWII, I don't wanna have the circumstances that make design of "new metal" an existential necessity.
https://xkcd.com/135/
I can offer you my personal experience. Seagates are not the best from my experience. I've used them in the past and have had several troubles. One of which was no doubt my fault, it tipped while running, so I can't fault Seagate a 100%.
The problem with this argument, though, is that it's highly likely that if you have 10000 monkeys randomly picking stocks for 40 years, one or more of them will do really well. But it doesn't mean they'll do better than the average for the next 40 years.

So, yes it's possible that this guy is doing something clever or has some advantage that means he will continue to beat the market. It's also possible it's just that he got lucky, and the other 9,999 people who pursued strategies and didn't get lucky are forgotten about.
Have you ever seen a naked mechanical watch? It's wonderful to watch it work, with continuously moving/oscillating pieces driving discrete mechanics, all of it tightly packed, all of it delicate, with some pieces apparently the width of a hair, flexing this way and that. Watching a nice mechanical watch is like watching a tiny ballet of parts.

Your microprocessor is obviously much more complex, but there's no observable operation to marvel at. There's no visceral awe component.
It's very easy to criticize other people for having a different priority, such as aesthetics over price/value, from yourself. After all, particular interests often sound ridiculous if you don't share them. This is in everything from having a favorite precious metal to a favorite web development framework.

However, if you're set on making such a criticism here, the least you can do is spell Yves Saint Laurent's name correctly.
Only if the costs of each are accurately encoding their externalities. There can be a long delay before this happens, if ever.
Interesting idea, its possible though that rather than unionization the issue is a lack of dividends. The efficiency of enterprises to generate value has gone up quite a bit, without significant competition, that leads to excess profits. How that extra capital is allocated can be to pay employees more, accumulate cash, or pay it out to the share holders.

In the 30's the "profit" for the non-institutional investor from owning stock was receiving dividends on a pro-rata basis, not trading the stock. In the run up of the market from the 80's trading was more valuable than holding, and technology companies, companies that increasingly made up the composition of stocks were more likely to not pay any dividends at all.

You might ask yourself why you hold stock in any company that doesn't pay you a dividend. What are they doing with the capital they generate? Your only recourse is to sell the stock when the value goes up. The status quo is good for the company, they can put money in (value goes up) and take money out (value goes down) of your pocket all day and you can't do a thing about it (except to stop playing by selling the stock) whereas with a dividend once you've received the check the worst that can happen is the next year you don't get one.

So really the companies are giving your dividend money to their top executives rather than you. As a shareholder you should work on changing that :-)
Oh, yes, IPNetRouter was my first exposure to NAT. That horrible, infuriating technology. But NAT works so much better than SOCKS proxies, especially since my first attempt at "Internet Connection Sharing" was with a SOCKS proxy on Windows 95. I remember when opening more than a couple copies of AOL Instant Messenger meant that Windows ran out of sockets and we weren't able to load any web pages.
Doesn't work without javascript
Those monitoring systems use some backends, sure. RRD/Whisper, SQL databases,
some even use NoSQLs. But all those are abstractions on inappropriate level
with regard to monitoring. You can't do stream processing on those. You can't
do processing in real time. The only viable operation is to query historic
data; even then, it's hardly doable.

Also, you say I can query against such database. But does the monitoring
system allow me to query that database? I have no documentation for it.
Most of the time I can't easily fill events generated out of that back to the
database. And at last, current so-called "state of the art" monitoring systems
don't facilitate running custom queries, so I would need to write something
totally external just to run the query.

Graylog2 and Riemann go a little in this way, but they stopped way, way too
soon to be an answer to current state of monitoring systems.
It sounds like the more compensated made better choices. Why does risk-taking engender high pay than working for good money? If the facts in the books aren't worth a damn to the employers, maybe the higher education has no market value?

Just because someone says it's a 'good education' doesn't mean it breeds worthwhile labor in a market.
They're swiveling landing gear is pretty cool, although it does look unsettling when a plane on the ground isn't moving the same way its nose is pointing e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94AcSHpcZbI&t=39