skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in the consumer device space and from what I've seen, the flexibility of in-region supply chain for components and sub-assemblies would be very difficult to match outside of China. It allows for JIT manufacturing and incredibly quick divergences from POR during development when issues occur.

However for more durable goods I could definitely see a resurgence in US manufacturing with the right investments were made in extensive semi to full automation on the design/factory side. China factories are in a tough spot in the regard since employing more people is encouraged by the government, but automation eats away at the low end positions. See Foxconn's 1 Million+ employee count [1] and recently announced slowdown of automation take over [2].

[1] http://www.foxconn.com/Files/annual_rpt_e/2014_annual_rpt_e....

[2]http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941272/emerging-techno...
It was fueled for a landing, which means 30% extra in the first stage.
We run both nginx and unicorn through daemontools. Both have options to prevent daemonization.

Why run something terrible (systemd) when we already have something that works really well (daemontools)?
Wait, what. I've lived in Beijing in 2013. You can live off 3000RMB/month = 500USD/month. That's far from being rich, but also not barely survivable. Everything was cheap for me, and I'm from Poland.
its majority
Export post from China is heavily subsidised.
Yeah, my back of the napkin analysis is probably missing a bunch of important stuff. I just wanted to highlight the fact that simply looking at the failure rates is not enough -- you have to consider the amortized cost of getting your stuff into space successfully. Maybe tolerating a few failures saves money in the long run.

(Of course this all assumes a replaceable payload. I am sure the analysis would be quite different for carrying people into space.)
> Can anyone not learn how to read a newspaper by the time they leave school?

Yes, plenty of them. During WWII when they tested recruits something like 1/3 of them lacked basic literacy. It's probably better these days, but don't assume just everyone figures it out.
But it's a reality that there are other people out there who have a different attitude. Many (most?) of them are fully aware that there are other people out there who are primarily motivated by financial gain, and they don't care. They look out for the things they care about (oftentimes it's time with their family, a sense of purpose in life, a friendly work environment, etc.), while accepting that other people will be making a profit off of them. This isn't exploitation; it's trading something you value for something you don't. And Fred Wilson's advice here is how to provide the non-financial things that other people value so you actually have something to offer the folks who are not motivated by money.

It's only an issue when someone thinks they are motivated by non-financial perks and then realizes later in life that they actually really do care about money most. People that know what they value and are confident in that can't be taken advantage of. So put some thought into that early in life and make decisions accordingly.
I liked Seth Lloyd's earlier paper better:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
> Other animals do not exhibit the anxiety about expecting or experiencing pain that humans do.

How do you know this? I see more evidence against this statement than I see for it.
> There is nothing about JavaScript that is uniquely suited to the browser

There are, however, features about JS VMs that make them (almost) uniquely suited to browsers. Most notably, almost any other VM has a stdlib including things like open() for local system files — and that'd be considered a massive security exploit. Some languages have features (v. parts of the stdlib) that are insecure in the browser setting — for example the backticks operator in Python. Ensuring an existing VM has had all access to the local system closed off could easily turn into a massive project in and of itself.

> It's hard enough to get browser vendors to agree to standards at all, say nothing about multiple standards for a single feature.

I don't think that's fair — I don't think there's many cases of major browser vendors acting maliciously towards standards in recent times, the only particular examples that stands out to me are the whole pointer/touch events debacle (with Apple withholding patents from the W3C Patent Grant) and the AV codecs mess with various vendors acting selfishly. Otherwise, almost everything seems to be genuine disagreements about how best to do things, especially given market realities.
The SpaceX "announcer" is John Insprucker. He is a senior engineer and Falcon 9 Product Director.
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> I wonder if we'll even see JITs in webassembly-based interpreters that compile code that they're interpreting down to webassembly.

Almost certainly. PyPy.js does this with asm.js today.
But that's not a way to detect service failure. That's a way to detect potential service failure. The only unambiguous failure notification is the return code.
American entrepreneurs are the best thing that has happened to China in centuries.

If it weren't for American capital, and the American consumer, China would have developed drastically slower (if at all). China's GDP per capita in 1994 was ~$480. That's ~45 years after the Mao revolution.

There was no alternative than to pay them cheap wages to start. If you paid them 'first world' wages, nobody would have set up manufacturing in China to begin with; those manufacturers would have kept that manufacturing domestically or sought out another cheaper source. The sole reason China boomed the last 20 years is that they had 250 million low-wage workers available and willing to do low-cost manufacturing.

If we're talking exploitation, the primary exploiters of cheap Chinese labor, are the 200 Chinese billionaires that have gotten rich off of leveraging their own impoverished workers - they own all the factories, the real estate, et al. China's wealth inequality puts every other country to shame.
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Also, this isn't comparing like for like - because you're comparing the most exceptional and gifted individuals out of a human population of billions with a single robot or piece of software.

The vast majority of humans aren't particularly creative either. People who can do (e.g.) music a bit are maybe 25% of the population.

Of those, most are imitators with enough technique and expression to successfully reproduce familiar tropes, but not to be inventive.

Innovators are maybe 0.1% of the population - and that number is a complete guess, because so far as I know there's been absolutely no research into creativity in populations.

So "that special something" is rare already. The problem with computational creativity is that success is partly social and psychological - new tropes have to capture the imagination in some way, and it's very difficult for a machine with no model of human emotional and psychological responses to calibrate its output to meet that goal.
It doesn't. We use the same definition of "data race" as tools like Thread Sanitizer and Eraser do.
I still don't understand why so many are jumping on the Linux gaming bandwagon. I mean, it's nice for me and all, I just don't really see the business gains for them.
I'm pretty sure Google Sites shut down many years ago (to new accounts).
My vote is for http://www.squarespace.com
Greek crisis: Banks shut for a week as capital controls imposed – live updates
So basically... not handling it :)
My mom was an English teacher at several state colleges. She initially taught "remedial English" and it was pretty grim; in the 70s, athletic scholarship admissions were common, and she was teaching many 18 and 19 year olds at roughly the 8th grade level.
Are arXiv paper peer-reviewed? How are we sure that the papers are of quality?
You can use Dropbox for hosting. If you have got a "public" folder, copy the HTML file into it and get a direct link.

or you can use some service like pancake (pancake.io, currently i am getting 503 error though, not sure whether it is permanently down), my.droppages(my.droppages.com) etc.
The nigger is not too clear on the concept of copyright. I made an operating system. I made everything from scratch. That means I own it. The nigger brain is not clear on the concept of owning code. I wrote a fucken compiler, nigger! I own the whole fucken operating system.

With a different API and way of operating, all 3rd party must be thrown out.

The nigger doesn't know how my compiler generates exceptions. When building my distro, I run through many static code quality checks. Today, I added a static code analysis check for lines longer than 80 characters. It throw and exception and aborts my distro build.

The nigger is not clear on the concept of ownership.

My source code can have binary sprite data like a PDF.

My source code is like PDF. Today, I loaded a document and broke it into one-word-per-line. Normally, the PDF routine stores the document with each line separate, but many words together. For some reason the nigger thinks a PDF file should have one word per allocation?

Shat-up retard-nigger! I am God's chosen programmer. I am the best on the planet.

I wrote a fucken 20,000 line of code AOT/JIT x86_64 compiler, assembler and unassembler.

You're not worthy to suck my dick!

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I wrote an awesome tool that will reindent code automatically. I ran it on my entire code base.

Today, I discovered a type where I typed a comma instead of semicolon to terminate a statement. A C compiler treats them the same, in most cases. In this case I saw it because it screwed-up my indentation..

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/DolDoc/DocCodeTools.html

I'm a fucken God to you, you nigger! I wrote a compiler and a tool to reindent code!
This is exactly the sort of thing I come to Hacker News for, both entertaining and thought provoking. If you're on the fence as to whether you want to read a blog post about database schemata do yourself a favour and give it a look.
The economist has been pretty skeptical about austerity recently.
"Mood" is not a lasting effect.
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I've run into several sites that have weird issues without Javascript, but they seem to always be things that could have been implemented with traditional markup: missing form components, misplaced images, things like that. I'd say about 50 percent of the time[1], however, media-focused sites with complicated image-viewing "galleries" or a more obscure video player, are totally useless without it.

It can be frustrating to have to go through this process of navigating to a site, realizing I've broken it, and then reloading with all the crap turned back on, but yeah, like you said, it's better than having my CPU revved up just to have those "SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTERS!" modals flying around the screen.

[1]Totally made this up.
This launch, the feed from SpaceX had all of those events marked in a timeline - a new feature. From the large number of people speculating about the timing of these events, it would seem that you were all watching some other livestream? Perhaps the NASA one?

Might want to check out the SpaceX stream next time.

Edit: the SpaceX website doesn't appear to have a recording of their live stream available.
It's worth noting that that's Dragon V2.
Right, which is great, don't get me wrong. If you're going to have that behavior, having the compiler enforce it is good.

I just think it's a bit amusing, people complain about this sort of thing in C++ all the time. I can imagine if Rust takes over people will complain how you have no idea what u = v is doing unless you know what u and v are.

I'll admit my biases, but I prefer the c++ way: types know how to both move and copy themselves, and they will copy by default, but move when it's safe (rvalue) or explicitly asked to (std::move). I like looking at auto u = v and knowing that u is always a copy of v.
Looks very interesting. How come its free?
I hear this is the case in other countries. If you stay late you're seen as incapable of completing your work in a responsible amount of time. I like this and try to encourage others not to work extra hours without compensation.

I really wish I stashed this article I read a year or so ago. I've tried to find it a few times and haven't. It was a college professor talking about how normal work hours are filled with procedure; boring stuff necessary for the job. Time cards, meetings, etc. This really encroaches on productive time. Most of us chose our line of work because it's something that interests us.

In that same vein, there are things your management finds worth spending time on and things you feel are more important. Your normal work hours are beholden to your supervisor since they pay the bills. After hours, you can choose what to work on. Glaring problems will be around for years and only get addressed if someone takes the time to address time. They're never "significant" enough to get scheduled.

I don't think the answer is to work extra hours unpaid. But I don't think talks like this address the reason people do it.
Of course, Yes. Venture capital industry has more growth in the USA and they have many Tech Investors.

more preferable place is NYC or SF where many tech companies out there. SV is expansive place to living in i guess.

but i strongly recommended if you clone slack for your country
even if you live in USA
Good luck!
> It's my understanding that this is only possible with individual heaps, prohibiting shared memory.

Yes, but the only advantage is a simpler GC algorithm. HotSpot's GCs are so advanced (let alone HotSpot descendents like Zing) that they give you similar behavior even without isolation, and they include collection of shared data structures, too.

> Would Quasar, for instance, pause a tight for loop if execution was running long? Or does it only pause on blocking operations like IO?

Quasar does full preemptive scheduling but not time-sliced based preemption. This is not because it can't -- as a matter of fact, early versions of Quasar did time-sliced based preemption, but it turned out to provide no benefit whatsoever. In fact, Erlang's behavior is a limitation. The reason is that Erlang has only one type of thread -- the process, or the user-mode thread -- and therefore has to handle any type of thread, including those that are computation heavy. Thing is, work-stealing is a great scheduling mechanism for transaction-serving threads (that block very often), but not so good for computational threads. Quasar lets you choose: fibers for transactions stuff, and plain threads for long-running computations, both are abstracted into what we call a "strand".
I always find this opinion infuriating. It's a liquid fueled rocket, we've had those for 50 years, so it's not cutting edge! It's like saying a modern Formula-1 car isn't cutting edge because we had the Lotus 77 40 years ago that looked a hell of a lot like it.

You have no idea what parts of it are or are not cutting edge. I guarantee you many of the parts and pieces in the rocket required pushing boundaries. All the little bits of material science, modern computational analysis, and advanced manufacturing techniques are cutting edge.
Not sure what "more algos", "data structures" and "math" are supposed to mean here.
I used to have this view but it free up workers to be more educated and do less menial tasks is a counter argument.

Having an educated labor force would keep US be competitive. Unfortunately that means getting higher and higher degree.
Did you know that the shuttle was mostly intact after the disintegration [1]?

"The crew cabin, made of reinforced aluminum, was a particularly robust section of the shuttle. During vehicle breakup, it detached in one piece and slowly tumbled into a ballistic arc. NASA estimated the load factor at separation to be between 12 and 20 g; within two seconds it had already dropped to below 4 g and within ten seconds the cabin was in free fall. The forces involved at this stage were likely insufficient to cause major injury."

So, in a way there was a pod...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
> Erlang wins by a large margin because the JVM has to garbage collect and block everyone while doing so.

Not even close (certainly not when using Quasar). Whether or not you have large GC pauses depends on how you use the heap. If you only allocate objects that live for the duration of the request (which can be enforced by your choice of JVM language) you get the same GC behavior as Erlang (only more general), and a much, much, much, better computation performance, due to HotSpot having one of the world's most advanced optimizing compilers.
Blogger and appengine both have ways to do this, depending on whether you prefer a gui or a command line.
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Would you pay to have your ideas validated
by your customers early on?

I think you have the whole idea of customer validation exactly backwards.

Also, quit it with the comment spam. Flagged.
Homeschooling in the US works out much better now than it did in the time the article describes, because the government did something out of character: it actually returned some liberty to parents that it had taken from them. When parents were once again allowed to homeschool their own children legally, a diverse free market in educational resources re-emerged--one that had flourished in the early days of the country.

Now that there is no longer a reason to operate secretly, homeschooling parents can seek out other parents with similar homeschooling objectives and cooperate. Among the first to do this were religious parents, but every year the percentage of homeschoolers who do it for religious reasons declines.

More and more parents are doing it for reasons such as wanting to give their bright kids more advanced classes than the schools are willing or able to provide (that's my own incentive), or to more effectively deal with a child's specific educational needs, or to allow a child to have a "career" (e.g., acting or sports) while still a minor.

Even those of us sending our kids to public schools benefit from this market in homeschooling options. We would be able to benefit a lot more if the "progressive" politicians employed by the teachers unions to keep the decision-making power and money they have wrested from the people from ever reverting back to parents weren't so numerous and well-funded.

Many of us, for example, would love to switch to a partial public / partial private arrangement where our kids could sign up for some of the school classes without being forced to take all or none (while paying full price either way). For example, we might choose PE, sports, and drama (for social), science (for lab facilities), and math (parents might not know it well enough) from school, but choose to do English at home, programming online, art at a local art school, and Chinese from a parents' collective. (And I would be willing to continue paying full fare for the public school while using only part of its program if the remainder were rebated, not to me, but to low-income families in the form of educational vouchers they could use outside school.)

We can do many of those things after school, but the problem is how late "after school" is each day, and how much time after school has to be wasted on useless school homework, because of the requirement that if our kids want any of the benefits the school offers, they are forced to take it all (as part of the political strategy to make opting out of any of the government-controlled system as painful and impractical as possible.) My kids' desire for the social experience of school and my desire that they get excellent educations result in a very long day for them, and I would cut out more than half of their school classes (and even more of the homework) if I were free to do so and give it to my kids as play time.

Full socialization from partial school, higher-quality education from the free market, plus more play time? Still illegal in most states.
From wikipedia:

A race condition or race hazard is the behavior of an
electronic, software or other system where the output is
dependent on the sequence or timing of other
uncontrollable events.

Example: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/eb72f1091bd1592df552

Output:

$ for i in {0..10000}; do ./race; done | sort | uniq
0
1
What about the ULA rocket that blew up on the pad a few months ago?
>I'm not convinced that foreign investment is the most important factor here. Exports would surely go up and similarly tourism could flourish if the currency devalues.

Which currency are you talking about? If Greece defaults and institutes a new currency, there would be no devaluation within the economy, rather a complete shift from the Euro to some new currency.

Also, exports (especially in the long run) are not driven so much by currency fluctuation as they are by the cost of inputs. So unless Greece suddenly finds a huge deposit of natural resources or drastically reduces the minimum wage and pushes down manufacturing wages, then exports really won't change much.

Check out this graph: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=...

If the value of the euro and total exports are inversely related, we would expect to see the lines moving in opposite directions. Thus exports would be rising as the exchange rate declines and vice versa. We actually see the opposite happening over the past 10 years, and we see that the relationship has especially broken down in recent months.

Now check out this graph: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/fredgraph.png?g=...

We see that there truly is an (lagging) inverse relationship of exports and the value of the euro for Germany. Why? I have no idea. It probably has to do with the different type of exports coming out Germany vs. Greece.

It would be naively optimistic to hope that devaluations of the currency would lead to more than a few percentage points of increase to the overall Greek GDP, and that the (supposed) growth in NE and tourism would be enough to fund vast structural reforms within Greece.

>It will take on a value, just much less than the euro currently has. If they control the supply, why would it not have value?

I control the supply of "Roynotes", aka squares of toilet paper that I have signed and guaranteed to be redeemable for $100USD in 3 year's time. I'll purchase $50 worth of goods from you today with one note, and you'll make a profit of $50USD over 3 years for a nominal 100% return - not bad! What do you say, partner?

Joking aside, supply is only 1/2 of the value equation, and wary investors + annihilated credibility = no demand for new currency = no value of new currency.
I have seen this happen. To me, it is all legitametely wonderful, except for the naiveté of the parents in thinking they can drop their kids into the churning river of public school without any instruction on how to get along. That challenge can be addressed, but only if you acknowledge it exists.
My impression:

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Wouldn't these computation limits get invalidated if some future advanced civilization / super-human AI came up with warp drives / could use wormholes / any other loophole around the speed-of-light?

If you could "pierce" speed-of-light limit, at least for signals, even with extraordinary costs, you may get some sort of distributed computing going on, potentially unbound (up to the size of full universe, as opposed to observable universe limited by light cones and expansion of space).
Same as It Ever Was: Why the Techno-Optimists Are Wrong
Wow, a domain for sale that's in the whitelist of an addon as popular as NoScript is pretty surprising to me. I immediately assumed it was a CDN by Zend, which seemed like a reasonably trustworthy domain.
This is the best option in my opinion. You can even take advantage of their CDN if you prefer. Still pennies.