skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe it's been forgotten, they just ran out of time. There aren't infinite code monkeys working on this thing. AFAIK, almost all of the dynamic linking stuff is being done by one guy - Michael Hudson (a fellow Canonicaler who we're paying to help out with the Go toolchain).

Projects slip, especially ones like this which are fairly large and complex. I want Go plugins, too... but it takes time, and shared libraries were higher priority. Once the bugs are shaken out of shared libraries, plugins become a pretty logical (and hopefully small) next step.
If you are being overpaid (in some sense), you might work harder than before because you have more to lose if you get fired. Any alternative job would most likely come with lower pay.
Based upon the comments, I added some additions to the end of the post. Thanks for raising those issues!
Flexibly Agile: What does it mean to you?
When you hear "flexibly Agile" what's the first thing that comes to mind? What's your approach to agile?
You seem to have a dog in the fight. Anything to disclose?
> The ARPAnet is one of the few engineered systems in use that is robust in the way we desire.

What are others?
12kg * 10 m/s^2 * 1 m = 120j. Best 100 w equivalent led is 18 watts, 120j/18w < 10s. Let's say optimistically a next gen led gets 10x efficiency (this might violate laws of physics), you're buying one minute of good light per 1 m lift.
The title seems to imply that this is made by Nintendo but that's not the case.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966590
> Conversely, researchers have poor judgement assessing the economic value of their inventions.

Possibly. Or maybe they thought that for a government-funded vaccine that might save thousands of lives, maximizing availability was more important than maximizing economic value for a completely unrelated company. Because they weren't, y'know, sociopaths.
"last project I created a remote for my Ubuntu desktop computer to control nextflix while in bed." Mind to share source code and etc?
It would be great if the gravity system was bidirectional, so that you could just flip it upside down instead of lifting the weight each time.
The short end? That sounds like the kind of right-to-profits thinking that is working on getting us the TPP's ISDS.
Previous discussion from 500 days ago which by no means should stop anybody from commenting and upvoting here to add some fresh ideas. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8673760
Same here. Just booted over to Windows 10, and VirtualBox appears to work fine.

VirtualBox 5.0.0 on relatively modest hardware. I haven't tested it beyond running a couple Linux VMs though.
So a discussion concerning making payments, primarily living expenses and student debt is what triggered this idea to help alleviate financial burdens for entry level staff. Instead of raising starting salaries to $70k, why not keep the starting market rate salaries but offer to pay $1500-$2000 per month towards an employee's student loan debt until it is paid off?
that thing has been debunked so often, it gets boring. motorcycle couriers operating at lightspeed, with no losses? etc etc etc.
I don't get your math entirely...if a contract is two months long, wouldn't it be 150x40 or 6000? Sure, I had to tighten my belt during month one, but at the end of month 3 I've got 6k and the person who took the 100 day rate has 4k + whatever they can make in a third month. If they extend another month at the same rate, we both have 6k at the end of month 3, except I only did 2/3 the work.
It sounds like you have a lot to teach us about query writing, but gratuitously putting someone else down, even when they don't know as much as you do, is not ok here. It violates both important rules of HN comments: civility (it truly is gratuitously negative) and substance, because it impedes the absorption of real information in your comment.

In the future, please edit that stuff out and stick to the substance when commenting here.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
A World without Work
It's an interesting topic, because many of the people and posters here on HN are pretty mean. As soon as a topic comes up that goes against the narrative, personal attacks and down voting commences.

I just chalked it up to the folly of youth, but this article is right on the money.
Is your book up anywhere? Would be awesome to see it in action. Even if not, can you plug your book a bit?
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle#Efficiency

> The efficiency of human muscle has been measured (in the context of rowing and cycling) at 18% to 26%. The efficiency is defined as the ratio of mechanical work output to the total metabolic cost, as can be calculated from oxygen consumption.
The comment about being women being treated differently
when they wear a dress shows misunderstanding. The male
equivalent to that is not a T-shirt and jeans. It's the
suit. I'd sure be treated differently if I wore a suit.
I'd be trading one kind of signaling for another, giving
up technical cred in favor of business cred.
Right. From the article:

Several employees who stayed, while exhilarated by the
raises, say they now feel a lot of pressure. “Am I doing
my job well enough to deserve this?” said Stephanie Brooks,
23, who joined Gravity as an administrative assistant two
months before the wage increase. “I didn’t earn it.”

(edit) I understand the gut feeling of unfairness from the people who were already earning more than $70K, but some of the quoted assume their fellow employees who got raises "for nothing" will just slack off, and that shitty attitude seems to underscore a class division.
I think you misinterpreted the comment you're responding to.
The 5 Most Exciting Startups in the Billion Dollar Weed Industry (2015)
In the last week, I've done this 2 or 3 times: I've opened some Clojure/CLJS file of mine in a text editor, did a search-and-replace of all open- and close-parens to a single space.

Then I ask if they've seen Python before, to which most say 'yes', and I say, 'there you go, it's Python now'. And I can immediately see the look of surprise when they see that _similarity_, because the similarity is then hard to unsee!

I recommend that trick to any others trying to open minds and challenge preconceived notions in their surroundings. :-)

Side note: I've made the point that nested SQL expressions have many nested parens, too, which we've all done. And that the sum of parens+brackets+braces is similar to other languages, just the distribution is different. Neither of those 2 arguments work as well -- I guess because it's not visual and striking?
The book by DFW sounds interesting, but all I could find is "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity". Is that it?
My point was related to them being incorrectly labeled as "least known" - site visits is directly relevant to that. As for the impetus behind the acquisition, I'm not one to speculate.
Their only evidence was their own claims. Unsubstantiated in any public source.

Please please stop taking "maybes" and speculation and presenting it as fact. That's what irks me about David Axe. I'm really confused, because I have read through some of your other commentary here on programming and security issues and you seem quite intelligent and solid there. So why spread so much FUD about something that's outside of your wheelhouse? You're certainly allowed and encouraged to ask questions, investigate, etc, but you're presenting yourself as an expert on this sort of thing when you aren't.
Actually, Haiku's init is more inspired by launchd than anything, which predates systemd by some 5 years. If you actually read about Haiku's scheme, you'd see the semantics have little in common. FreeBSD is thinking of adopting, again, launchd. So far this is only in experimental feature branches and from my knowledge it will initially be tested on FreeNAS before it makes it to FreeBSD, specifically.

systemd has plenty of good ideas. None are novel, and it is not "revolutionary". Making exaggerations like this only furthers the perception of your incredulity. Preopening sockets is an old idea, having centralized service management for Unix was first done by IBM AIX in 1993 and everything else is exploiting kernel subsystems, which again, are not novel. cgroups were first done as Solaris contracts, for instance. In fact, Solaris SMF and systemd are quite similar. The former even has sophisticated hardware fault detection.

No argument to moderation was ever made. Your reading comprehension is not in good shape. "People who actually design operating systems" are not some hivemind, and you're far too historically and technically illiterate to make any value judgment on that front, either way.

obviously satyrical comment

Ah yes, the old "Joke's on you, I was only pretending to be an idiot!" defense. Always useful for backpedaling.

Satyrical [sic], indeed.

That's all from me. I might quote you in the future as an example of a cautionary tale.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983391
Do you handle fulfillment to Canada as well? Or US only?
How about Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands?
Some of these games (eg, SQ) essentially little post-modernist satires of their own genre, in that they make save/restore part of the game mechanic, and when you hit an obstacle, the search space isn't just the four screens you can walk to now, but the game thus far. Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy played this up in a very fast and funny way -- where there's about eight things you need to do in quick succession to get the Babel Fish from the vending machine, and it keeps coming up with outlandish ways to thwart you, and you need to have brought the junk mail from your doorstep.

Most of the best Fighting Fantasy books in the 1980s did the same thing -- turning down the wrong corridor would result in an imaginative and gruesome death, knowing full-well that the reader has their fingers and thumbs in the three previous pages.

Essentially, you're solving a maze through the game state -- you are supposed to hit several dead-ends before you find the right path.

I did also find it rather daft that the author of the article devotes a paragraph to complaining about being insulted -- when that's clearly the humour of it (that the designer is pouring out mock insults on you for him making that screen overtly pernicious).

There was a hacking adventure game I remember from the 1980s, where if I recall they didn't put the code you needed for one of the puzzles anywhere in the game -- because you solve that one by dumping the game code and finding it (so you get to feel like you've hacked the hacking game). Part of the point of 1980s adventures was imaginatively breaking the conventions of how games are "supposed" to work, and being "unfair" so you have to find a tricky way to make it easy.
You couldn't be more wrong. China's F-35 clone isn't even an actual program at this point. It's half mock-up, half vaporware. There's zero evidence they have any battlefield ready capabilities in place, nor that they can mass produce their plane.
> you'd switch to a more balanced lifestyle?

Don't force your value system on others.

I personally am happiest when I'm working 70-80 hours a week and appreciate being compensated for my hard work. Just because that doesn't describe you doesn't mean I should be forced to attain an artificial "balance."
I don't buy things with logos. I agree it can be kept to a minimum. It depends where you live. London is saturated with advertising everywhere, including on steps. Montreal has far less and we are better off for it. To hell with the revenue.
> How am I harmed? The pretext for my leaving Mozilla was the outrage/status-display campaign, even if that can't possibly explain all the facts. In your view, I was harmed, and justly so -- but people disagree on justice, so in general, by your own rubriks, I was harmed.

Wait, what? You lost your job because of your homophobia. I demonstrated how homosexual individuals were harmed by lacking the right to marry. I asked how you were harmed by SSM becoming legal.
So you get rid of the Osprey. Congratulations, now you have a tactical gap because you have no more medium transport capability. The CH-46 (the previous medium lift helicopter for the USMC) is officially retired as of August 1, 2015. Now you need to develop a new aircraft. Even if you choose a civilian aircraft and militarize it, you're looking at a decade where you have no medium lift.
rev 1 and 2 look better... 3 looks like everything is covered in oil.
I have noticed that lots of the people who are rich enough to relax for the rest of their lives work very hard. This has always made me suspect that without the motivation of survival tokens, boredom would still keep society running just fine.
planck is a really exciting project. What IO capabilities do you think are missing at this point?
Ask HN: Sales compensation for SaaS products
For those of you that have a SaaS business and have sales staff (1 or more), what is the compensation method you are using for them? If you are using commission, how are you basing the commission, on 12 month revenue per signup or ???
Qualcomm is actually the least worse. isn't it?

try to get anything out of samsung. or any of the newer radios. heck, most android phones have binary blobs even for the camera!
This reminds me of Dave Jones, an electronics engineer that runs the EEVBlog on YouTube.

He created a little product, a small electronic tester, and sold them on KS/IGG.

I remember a whole bunch of tweets and youtube videos about how much of a PITA the fulfilment was.

I remember that he had some particular problems with international shipping too.

ShotPut's website doesn't explicitly say that they cover international shipping, but they do, right?
really? comparing that slick UI with a text area on your phone?
This Week in Meteor #25
Something I learned by going down the daraflow rabbit hole is that it makes digital computing act like analog computing. That is, if you try to model this type of system to be capable of an if statement and Boolean expressions, you really end up "back at the beginning" of digital computing, with an environment that strains to produce a simple state machine.

But if your state can be abstracted, the architecture allows for some clean, straightforward building blocks.
Not to justify this asinine comment, but the cockpit of an F-35 opens forward, so the force of the air passing over it would prevent it from opening. http://www.vtol.org/images/dmGallery/SourceImage/fig%203%20-...
I didn't see the $60M number, it's certainly cheaper than I'd expect. I agree, I wish I knew the full story!
And from that thread, here's the Cap'n Proto author comparing Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE -- https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-...
The USA does not fly combat drones that do "detecting, intercepting and destroying".
I understand that very human response and would probably feel it myself, but if your salary is 3x the receptionist's, you're still not technically getting paid 3x what he/she does, once you factor in a progressive tax rate and public services that are used disproportionately by lower-income people.

What this guy tried to do is in effect just raise the floor of the minimum wage, which is also unfair to you.
PureScript is a very principled pure functional language with a design based on Haskell but adapted to be compatible with JS (it adds extensible records, which are a great fit for JS objects). The type system should really pay itself off in the long run in terms of significantly lowering the cost of refactoring pretty much anything [1]

Additionally, I find that algebraic data types are by far the most natural and complete way to model your data and pattern matching is a powerful way to write succinct and readable code that manipulates that data. The fact that Lisps don't normally come with ADTs (incl. clojure) is a real shame.

PureScript got its own Hoogle [2] recently. It lets you search for functions by stating their argument and result types. This has worked far better for me than any IntelliSense, and its miles ahead compared to rummaging through the docs of a dynamic language hoping to hit a jackpot.

Although the community is small, the speed at which the language and its libraries are moving is quite amazing. For the cases where a package doesn't yet exist, its very easy to write FFI bindings to an existing JS library

On the minus side, there is no "template purescript" yet, and generic deriving is WIP, so some things (like JSON serialization) are still a bit more tedious than absolutely necessary.

The efficiency of the generated code may also be a concern. For example, currying is implemented in such a way that a function call with 3 arguments always generates both the result and 2 temporary JS closures. This can be very costly in certain situations. I find that library documentation is also sometimes lacking, however types and typeclasses do help with that somewhat (the latter only once you learn what each typeclass means).

Finally, something to keep in mind if coming from JavaScript: unless you know Haskell the learning curve for PureScript is far steeper than ClojureScript. Its about as steep as Haskell's. There is a great book available to help with that [3], and almost all of the the knowledge gained there will easily transfer to Haskell. Since PureScript compiles to readable JS, looking at the compiled code made it much easier for me to understand the mechanics of certain features (Eff <-> thunks in particular was quite a revelation) which in turn helped me understand those features

I haven't used ClojureScript much, but it does seem to have more mature, battle-tested persistent data structures (vs purescript-maps) and UI library (om vs purescript-halogen, although halogen seems very promising). There is also a type system (core.typed) which while not as principled as PureScript's, its still amazingly expressive - and since its gradual, you can start fully dynamic and then add types whenever you feel like doing that to parts of the codebase.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/3e10ea/til_instant... - last paragraph also applies to PureScript

[2]: http://pursuit.purescript.org/

[3]: https://leanpub.com/purescript/
Ask HN: What do I have to do to get people to reply to my postings?
Geez...either this place is very busy or I got bland tastes!

(I'm thinking there must be cartels here or something!)
RC: a dialect of C that adds safe, region-based memory management (2001)
drop, drop, drop like a stone....
But I love that look, I actually want to see videos of the first revision
Unrelated, but I've often found that upgrading hardware is usually easier to do when you're running Linux, and it complains far less. I run Arch primarily, though, so I don't think my commentary with regards to upgrade processes is worth much--being a rolling release distro, it's always in a state of flux so there's no real "major" upgrade unless I've forgotten to run updates for a month or two.

That said, I have updated (dist-upgrade) recent (12.04+) Ubuntu installs more or less unattended with no trouble. So I think the OP was probably a troll.

My existing (home) Arch install has survived through a couple different hard drives, copied over directly from a USB stick, with various hardware changes off and on since. Prior to that, I've had Gentoo and Ubuntu installs persist across substantial hardware changes mostly unscathed (Gentoo required preparations beforehand, mostly because I was an idiot and did extensive kernel customizations I probably didn't need).

I don't understand the trolling, though. There are far too many variables that might affect one particular OS/hardware combination more than others, and that's to say nothing of PEBKAC-related issues...
What you're missing is that this has been publicized by someone inside the administration, who likely thinks the leak is the best way to force the action / inaction they want. It's not "the government" as a monolith showing their hand.
I guess I've developed a (healthy?) distrust for anything I read that at this point reading they have a source is meaningless. Especially when you tie it to a link bait title.
You got it right at the beginning. People weren't being paid fairly before.

To the point the person you responded to brought up though:

Those years of sacrifice could have been compensated through equity grants instead.
Thanks for finding all of those sources. That is indeed a vast network of intercepts, however it's not necessarily "global" in the sense that they monitor all communication. If one could choose their Tor link to include enough paths not likely to be monitored by colluding parties, then one could be more certain they are not facing a "global adversary" in the sense that the Tor site means.
""Intelligence officials say that any legal case could result in exposing American intelligence operations inside China — including the placement of thousands of implants in Chinese computer networks to warn of impending attacks.""

That also sounds like hacking into another country's systems.

The rational move is a massive investment in security technology including strong encryption and the kind of work that the NSA used to do in the 1990s of working to make Windows and Linux more secure for American businesses.

Any attempt by our intelligence services to back door computer systems, instead of working to make everyone more secure, is a grave disservice to the American taxpayer.
Yet more evidence that vaccines do work and the anti-vaccine people are idiots of the highest order.
Your thinking soundes like an example of the "sunk costs" fallacy.

It doesn't really matter what you invested. All that matters is what someone will pay for it.
I just saw this thread while browsing the Show HN section. Nice stack, Laravel is a good framework.

My only suggestion would be with the domain you have, make user pages subdomains. It's easy to achieve in Laravel and makes a more pleasing url.

Instead of https://tookapic.com/photos/21408 you could make it https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/21408

And even take that a step further and use slugs for urls instead of ID's https://pawelkadysz.tookapic.com/playing-with-light

URL design is a huge thing that many often ignore, but I feel is essential to a website.
Ask HN: Toronto/GTA mastermind around side income for big corp. dev?
I am a dev around GTA working for a big corp. I have been thinking of ways to have/create new streams of income. I love what i do, so the start-up road is not really for me. I am sure there are many other people think and playing with the same idea. Any body want to join a mastermind/study group where we think of creative ways to generate side incomes, challenge one another to take action ?
"One of the conclusions we’ve reached is that we need to be a bit more public about our responses, and one reason is deterrence," said one senior administration official involved in the debate

This sentiment should probably be read as "so as not to appear impotent to the citizens at home" instead.
The article specifies Android
Chris Crawford, who the author quotes, has written a lot of books on game design, which I've read some of and find interesting, but he has not written a game I enjoyed.

I think the reality of Sierra and games of the era was they were enjoyable because they looked beautiful and told a cool story in a new medium.

You needed pixel perfect challenges else the game was over and you had nothing else to play. Plus you made friends discussing them and the stupid bits. Different times.

But I think people really underestimate how hard it is to create challenges that are just logical, this is very very hard. But I think people in their heads think it's easy even though they have never done it.
maybe speaking from personal experience...