skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Each of the scenarios above can have both a qualitative activation goal, as well as quantitive results to make sure it’s really happening. Whatever you do, sending a shitload of spammy email notifications with the subject line “We Miss You” is unlikely to bend the curve significantly.

> I hate those, and you should too.

For this reason, I hope he's right and Android developers pay attention. Sometimes one upvote is not enough.

Alas, I expect that by the time you're in the long-tail of that curve, you have simply nothing to lose by going the vexatious notification route.
Consider driver support. What do you do when the company that makes the driver is out of buisness and the engineers are dead.

At work we have an 300,000 USD spectrum anlyzer driven by Win2k.
I Spoke to a Club Manager
Not for large companies, but for startups this type of mentality is dangerous, not because of the $100 per se, but because all these little things add up quickly to a big burn rate.
It's funny, but that's usually the first thing I do with new hardware... though it's also because in general I put in more RAM, and an SSD. Discovering my new rMBP (from August) can't have the memory upgraded and wasn't using the same msata interface as everyone else was disappointing. I typically DIY my own desktop builds, but laptops are getting way too locked down for my taste... I would expect memory, storage and battery to be user servicable on a > $1k laptop.

Between Sony, Lenovo and now Samsung... I'm getting really sick of this kind of crap.
That website has a burger menu icon. That icon does nothing. (Chrome, iOS).
Actually fracking doesn't look like a very good business as long as Saudi Arabia can extract oil from the ground at $6/barrel and thus lower the price of oil to a level where fracking does not pay off. I think a lot of these businesses therefore went belly up recently. But again this stuff is not my thing... so I could be wrong.

Also - what do you mean "credit is tight for businesses"? Haven't businesses of all kinds been vigorously buying back their stocks lately, while issuing bonds at the same time? Those bonds having very low yields?

Maybe grandma has a problem getting a loan from a bank to run her small shop (why would the bank lend out money when they get risk-free handouts from governments?.. AFAIK banks are actually notoriously bad at credit risk assessment when giving out loans to businesses so they tend to not bother); but definitely a public company issuing bonds has no problem of prohibitively high yields.
Amazon Says Its Drones Can Deliver Packages in 30 Minutes
Why can't a plane fly slowly and let the Earth pass underneath?
Prisons are already getting paid based on their capacity and not occupancy, so sentencing would not affect their bottom line the same way public prisons would be.
The body/mind is still valuable because it belongs to a human and humans like seeing other humans do shit for them. Makes them feel important. The future jobs lie in artisanal goods and various kinds of prostitution.

Automation won't decrease the total amount of jobs, but I'm worried about inequality.
Recorded Video of Stephen Wolfram's Livestream about the Wolfram Language
From Java to JS, Building a Modern GUI with Angular
How to burn 50k dollars trying to save a few hundreds
I prefer the term TCE (Tail Call Elimination) to TCO. While it is indeed an optimization of stack space, it transforms programs that use it from "cannot run forever with finite memory" to "can run forever with finite memory".

As long as it is an essential part of the compilation semantics, the description "Optimization" is IMHO unwarranted.
Lexus Builds a Functional Hoverboard Prototype
One could do worse than having a look at: https://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html
One of the things that keeps me going is a connection to nature & outdoors. When it gets severed or disrupted, perhaps by a move to a crowded area without access to trails and open spaces, I get very depressed.

Looking at footage from the video, I would be very depressed living in such crowded conditions. Maybe even suicidal.

I wonder if part of our ecological crisis is that people are so disconnected from nature, they forget or never understood how much they depend on it - not just from nutrition & ecological services standpoint, but psychologically and spiritually as well.
50000 kilowatt, for how many milliseconds? The phone in my pocket has a 500 _giga_watt battery. What a pity it's only 700mAh...
He used a fragment shader, it's not designed for that, but it does the job pretty well and it's not so dirty.

I wish I was fluent in shaders...
In the early days of multi-user OS security, applications were trusted because they were installed by the admin and users were untrusted.

Today, we have systems which are mostly single-user, but where the applications are incredibly untrustworthy. Hence the popularity of jails and app-store systems. You can't easily retrofit this on Windows because there is very little security between windows running on the same desktop, but what I think we'll end up with is each application having its own SID and a default-restricted view of the user profile.

But in this case it's a hostile OEM, and there really isn't much that can be done in software against that.
I agree with you, but when you go to the main page of the project [0] it looks cool and I might use it soon.

[0] http://famous.org/
They have very low impedance, so you can use them without an amp. Hope you see this in time. OTOH I really recommend you buy the AKG velour pads instead of using the stock ones.
Any idea what the WinXP machines are being used for? If it a key part of running a ship, it may cause a flow on effect to changing other parts of the ship, kinda like a refit. However, I guess that there are more in their operation than just running ships.

I believe the phrase "if it isn't broken, does fix it" is at play here.
Yeah, there was definitely nothing else different in the USSR that might also make affect economic success. Apart from how they paid their CEOs, they were just like the USA.
When people say SV has a diversity problem, they aren't talking about diversity in ideas, but diversity in social opportunity. Maybe that's not useful in the abstract, but we don't live in the abstract. And racial and gender diversity become a political and marketing issues -- things you can't just ignore because you don't like them.

So your last paragraph really comes off like you are trying to say SV doesn't have a diversity problem at all. Or rather, it lacks diversity, but that it isn't a problem, because the only diversity you care about is innovation.
The obvious solution to that would be to tax capital gains above inflation, using some government-standardized measure of inflation.
We laughed at the warship disabled due to NT issues. That was seventeen years ago. http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13...

The warship has been decomissioned, but clearly Windows is more durable. They also clearly managed at least one upgrade in the past, from NT to XP. Maybe they're having trouble with UAC.
I doubt they included it on either side. How many Linux vendors still offer security updates for distributions from 2001, at any price?

As others have pointed out, paying for support is likely much cheaper and less disruptive than developing, re-testing and re-verifying new versions of their systems. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I'd imagine when they do eventually migrate they'll try to stay on the new systems for as long as possible, as well.
Unless Google is liable for 'facilitating' piracy with their DNS server and have to block it for Australians.
"The rise in CEO pay actually correlates partly with transparency."

This seems reasonable, and I don't disbelieve you, but do you have any pointers to studies that back-up this conclusion?
"Let Angular be Angular, let React be React, and let Famous be famous"
The only differences I can find between this and http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/ is that it highlights spelling errors and repeated words.

Not sure how you can justify $99p/m when there are plenty of tools that do the exact same job for free.
RubyGems developer platform could expose millions to malicious redirects
Best way to read/write files with AsyncIO (2014)
>So if you spend 10 years building a company and then sell it for 10 million, you think that you should only get to keep 1 million(ish)?

Of course. By the time you're selling it, most of the actual value is being created by people beneath you.
A Large-Scale Study of Flash Memory Failures in the Field [pdf]
Yep. There's also some good discussion on the Portland Pattern Repository, particularly this discussion[1] about how the meaning of "Controller" changed from it's original Smalltalk meaning (where it is the component that updates the model in response to user input) to the way it's sometimes used today (as an object which mediates communication between the model and the view).

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatsaControllerAnyway
Innovation: Applying “Inspect and Adapt” to the Agile Manifesto (2011)
Are you aware that your front page has "more women will apply" highlighted in a colour that looks almost identical to your negative highlight? I only saw the difference when I looked at the images full res.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt this is really sloppy logic to argue what capital gains tax should be.

A 17 year doubling rate is a PA return of 4% if you're only expecting a 4% yearly return then yes shares aren't great, no shit. Also you can control your CGT liability by choosing when to sell.

On top of that you're doing calculations on stock market investment without looking at dividends? I mean given how cheap it would be for a billionaire to pay shills for this sort of thing, and how terribly damaging an increase in CGT would be for them.

Actually giving you the benefit of the doubt frankly you really SHOULD sell this sort of posted logic as a service. LAAS the next big HN thing perhaps? :D
Real domain is kmsurvival.com. Your guess were correct, pinging the fake domain did return our ip address. I will go ahead and put in the redirect in the .htaccess file.
Unfortunately, this wasn't just Tony's fault. Labor backed the bill also.

sigh why is it only the Greens and Independents who are willing to stand up for what's right.
"""B-Link-Trees: Lehman and Yao’s paper actually discusses an innovation they researched related to concurrency and locking when multiple threads are using the same B-Tree. Remember, Postgres’s code and algorithms need to be multithreaded because many clients could be searching or modifying the same index at the same time. By adding another pointer from each B-Tree node to the next sibling node — the so-called “right arrow” — one thread can search a tree even while a second thread is splitting a node without locking the entire index"""

The big innovation of Lehman and Yao was that their right link technique obviates the need for "latch coupling", or in Postgres terms the crabbing of buffer locks. In other words, the Postgres implementation need only lock one page/buffer at a time as an index scan descends the B-Tree, rather than alternately locking a single page, then its child, then unlocking the parent, and once again locking the child (the grandchild of the original page). Certain other B-Tree implementations must do this until their descent reaches a leaf page, and locking multiple pages at once just to service index scans can hurt concurrency a lot (I think that they might need to be exclusive locks for writes, which is particularly poor).

These low-level locks are not to be confused with lock manager locks that have deadlock detection and so on. They're low-level Readers–writer locks, and are far more lightweight (hence the Postgres term "LWLock").

The basic idea of Lehman and Yao is that index scans of all types may detect and recover from a concurrent page split my following a right-link (having found that the page high key is logically less than the scankey value). It won't matter that the parent page was observed to not have the new downlink that is inserted after a page split, except that we need to look right.
Not really true, I believe lithium batteries have a discharge rate limit, but still good point.
intel's fault for developing x86
Yes, and some databases have REST APIs. In practice pure REST is usually blurred with RPC calls and optimisations (partial fetch, batch fetch). And the downside of the REST is that it’s not agile (you have to support both new and old clients explicitly), and manual: you have to write it manually for every endpoint. Good and efficient data fetch API for client-based rendering will very soon move very very far from REST.
Yes, but these are American companies, not Australian. The move is a favour to Washington, not Australian businesses. Australia has been an extraordinary cash cow for global businesses for a few years [1] although the AUD being hammered more recently has diminished the advantage somewhat.

The reason it's important is that politically, local stuff is always much more valuable than scratching the back of foreigners. Take the JSF: it was pure lobbying genius by Lockheed to locate its supply chain in what, 47 states (and 9 countries). If you want to try and make that supply program more efficient, you're going to have to ask a representative to tell his electorate that 2,000 jobs are about to get axed in his state. These kind of things need to be killed before they get started, they are impossible to stop afterwards.

But then you get things like Rick Santorum trying to stop the National Weather Service from publishing data publicly for free after getting just $11,000 from AccuWeather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service_Dutie...).

[1] I know a large, publicly listed retailer who made 40% of their GLOBAL profits from Australia in 2012. RRP was 50% higher there, and they offered free shipping. That company was present in at least 20 countries and based in Europe. The AU office was a couple of guys to answer any questions with local shipment companies - they didn't even have an Australian warehouse...
Reinstalling a clean Windows is totally worth the time. I cannot name one Windows laptop without crapwares.
How about it just seems morally wrong to create a business where the incentive is increasing imprisonment. This ranges from not just lobbying efforts, and in some states iirc, it's still correction officers working there. To over-reporting and escalating minor infractions so as to deter parole.

I understand that scandals happen in government managed prisons as well. However, the saying two wrongs don't make a right comes to mind. In this case the business model is morally wrong, plain and simple.
How much money did you make during that process?
I can confirm there are plenty of businesses running various systems on XP. It can get even worse, at work we STILL use XP 32 bit as primary workstations (at least Linux on all servers). I am a Java developer, so routinely I have over 3.5 GB of memory taken, on system that can access cca 3.2 GB max. And we're talking about virtualized remote machines, no real desktops (yes, it's crap). At least at the end of the year, Win7 64b coming.

Main reason might not be XP as much as that plague called IE 6. Couple of important intranet apps run only on this. Migration underway, but this isn't apparently such a priority for our management.

What backwardish 3rd world company I work for you ask? Well, one not really tiny private bank in Switzerland...
wait- so what _is_ it driven by?

so I can min-max
I truly believe it is a core duty of technical people to subvert this control mechanism in whatever way we can. For example by inventing and writing freeing software like Tor, FreeNet, encryption, et cetera, and educating nontechnical voters, and calling and writing our elected officials.
If we limit the scoop to consumer computers, including Linux seems odd. At least in Sweden extremely few people are using Linux on their computers. Even with Macs it's less than 30%.

Can you clarify why big brands should switch to Linux for their consumer PCs considering that few consumers wants it?
I think that they believe that they own the hardware customer bought and not the customers.
This is done at the Mondragon Corporation in Spain. Workers at different businesses/components of the firm vote to determine the ratio between the highest/lowest-paid workers. Last time I was looking at them (about eight years ago), 5:1 was the closest spread and 11:1 the widest. Most working class people recognize the importance of executives' contributions, but they were pretty confounded by the idea that anyone was sufficiently talented to merit 300:1 pay differential. So, the workers accept they may not have the most talented CEOs, but that they are also getting CEOs committed to the ideals of the firm.
reading that made me think of the Byrd's song

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Ultimately it's just another item on the long long list of why anyone should not buy Microsoft and Samsung products.

Samsung's terrible engineers coupled with a proprietary OS means users lose.
8.8.8.8 is 54ms away, must be in Australia
True true.

Also remember that these poor folks often have to pay agents and profitiers who are nothing but scam artists. Sociopaths. The poor will pay with what is usually their life savings to simply get an opportunity to escape. And these "escape profitiers" care nothing for the lives of the desperate (and therefore gullible) people. There are cases where the escaping hopefuls are rounded up and summarily executed.

The stowaways at OR Thambo airport were no doubt assisted by profitiering agents who sold the idea of yet another successful escape.
I'm sure Red Hat would welcome a defense contract that pays over a decade. They might even have a couple already.
That depends on what question you are trying to answer. To get a lot of people to apply is one metric. You seem more concerned with the quality of the applicants which is fair enough but it's implied yourcvio or human beeings will take care of that part. I could still see some use for this even if I wouldn't pay too much attention to the score itself.
Somebody clearly wasn't around in the 90s.
Reddit's low point was right before they separated out political posts into their own section (this was about seven years ago, before subreddits). The front page was full of "vote up if" self-posts and overly-hysterical articles about the upcoming elections. It's much better now that you can pick what kinds of articles you want to see.
Also nothing to gain.

The time spent on implementing notification spam can be spent better on analysis of what went wrong in the first days.
"So yes, the lessons of the ancient world are applicable to a broad range of subjects, but the art is also valuable in and of itself."

True, but I did mention studying these works through Literature courses, would this not be a suitable way to approach The Iliad and The Odyssey?

I guess I'd rather have a greater amount of flexibility in the education system for bringing together both old and new ideas. Whilst there's certainly plenty of material worthy of study from the activity of the ancient Greeks, what about other periods of time? If we have a separate course on the classics, should we have a course on the Renaissance as well (for example)?
Err, do you mean 3 years after they had two atomic bombs dropped on them, and a devastating 6-year war with nearly 3 million deaths? =)

That's hardly an apples to apples comparison.

I don't know if China necessarily aspires to follow Japan's trajectory - perhaps the rise, but certainly not the fall. Still, we'll see how things land.
So now that I know the fake host is just pointing to our IP, what can I do about it (contact registrar etc)?
Is this satire? I can't tell. :/
Vert.x 3.0 has been released
linux on the desktop failed for the same basic reasons many startups fail. They didn't listen to their users or focus on making a product that their users wanted.

By users I mean the core market of Windows - the business desktop. How often did linux outreach staff come to a large business and listen to the concerns of the customers? Never (in my experience). How often did Microsoft do this? Often (again in my experience).
500 Startups Arrives in London with “Distro Dojo”
OPEN SOURCE THE MAGIC CHALK RECIPE AND MACHINE PLANS
Link to the framework page [0]. I couldn't find any demos there or in other pages, though. I couldn't figure out how to run the examples [1] and there's no live links of em either.

This is not specifically directed at Famous... Why don't you [framework creators] show off REAL freaking apps? Show me a reasonably sized application that handles sophisticated user interactions. How do you handle routing? Data fetching / caching? Production builds? Testing environment? Dealing with your everyday CRUD? It's alright if your framework is meant as a framework that only handles some specific things, show a real-world example of the framework to highlight how it makes things easier/better/simpler/faster. I don't want to see TodoMVC or single-file examples. I know it's absolutely NOT sexy, but it's most of what I'll be having to deal with in my day-to-day work as a developer. (The only frontend framework that I know of that does a tremendous job at this is ember. I don't use ember, but I have nothing but the utmost respect for its developers.)

Specifically to famous: You touch on the topic of building large applications with Famous in this link. Your lack of reference applications (although not necessarily unreasonable, as you just announced the alpha) does nothing to gain my trust as a developer. I'd love to see a non-trivial example application that shows the full picture of what an app would look like.

[0] http://famous.org/framework/
[1] https://github.com/Famous/framework/tree/develop/lib/core-co...
One day I should finish my CP/M emulator for an MSP430 microcontroller with 2kB of ram (swapping out to external storage to emulate the CP/M 64kB address space). I got it up to the point of providing a login prompt --- it'd boot in about 10-15 seconds. You could type on it via a external PC/XT keyboard (bitbanged through the GPIO pins!), but I never got the screen to work, or any proper mass storage for disk. (The 8080 architecture is surprisingly elegant and orthogonal. The Z80's a bit of a mess by comparison.)

...what? Why are you looking at me like that?
Strange SSL cert on that website - it looks like the site is only partially encrypted and firefox cant detect who it's verified by.
List of “banished” words and phrases
Commoditise your compliments: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
I know you probably already realise this, but they obviously mean kWh.

I normally wouldn't comment, but to most people a kW is a kWh and, in context, it's obvious they're talking about kWh.
Inspiring post - I'll be sure to put extra thought into how I write my regexes from here on out.

Does anyone know a good browser-based game that trains you to do regexes well?
Google Street View Arrives on Yosemite's “El Capitan”
I can't imagine a company pushing for tablets as general purpose devices for a lot of things... as a POS (point of sale) terminal, or even for standing sales reps, sure...

But real productivity is so much worse in line of business applications on a tablet vs. desktop. Screen size/space is king, and nobody is going to work on a 20" tablet... or give up half the screen to a keyboard. Let alone how tired will your arms be by the end of a day without a mouse for anything.

I know you can tap a keyboard/mouse to a tablet, but at that point, you've spent more money than a low end laptop or desktop, with worse productivity and output.
If it were up to the actual voters, I believe it would pass. But there is no way in hell any more than a small handful of American politicians would vote for this.
NSA spying: France 'will not tolerate' threat to security
"please don't let it be another JS framework, please don't let it be another JS framewo....ahhh man !" :P