skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but paying people more than necessary in a lot of ways contradicts his role as CEO.
It's gratifying to see how much more substantive and less dismissive this thread is than that one from 2012. Partly it may be that the project itself has developed, but I'd like to think that HN threads have improved too.
I'm not sure if you realize that the poor hold on to a ton of debt in this country, and a large part of it is their inability to dig themselves out of the holes they're in.

Now, it is true that financial literacy is tends to be low among those who make little, but it is also the case that many people who are financially literate, but poor, just can't dig themselves out of debt. Medical expenses, for instance, are one of the leading costs of bankruptcy in this country.
We tried the public housing solution in the 1940s-60s and it has been an unmitigated disaster.

Personally I think if we really want to subsidize housing for some New Yorkers of modest means we should do so with vouchers.
Liberal here.

Yeah, there really is a need to toss "liberal" in there. More liberal dense cities seem to have this problem much worse than dense less-liberal cities. Qualifier: American cities.

Some of it tends to be due to liberal reflexes (participatory democracy at all levels, favoring small local groups of activists over people who stand to profit, etc.) that backfire writ large. Add in a distrust of markets, and you have a recipe for disaster. San Francisco is a great example.
I have never been to any kind of conference or workshop that assumed I was into Star Wars or Star Trek and obligated me to participate in activities themed on those lines. The real argument is because they like doing that, not because "the industry" is already doing it with something else like Star Trek.
It means all of the previous sacrifices the good employees made were for nothing in the eyes of management. Therefore, there is no reason to work hard at all. It is better to go leave for a competitor that knows how to treat their hard working employees.
I can promise nearly every implementation in ffmpeg is better than the competitors. No commercial product has the motivation to keep making improvements to their code that already works "well enough", and they don't have as good a set of working optimizations to apply to new codecs.

They can get new features out the door, though. One reason for the original fork in ffmpeg was that the very strict code review culture made it difficult to get anything in that was experimental or depended on personal taste.
Taxes won't matter.

The higher earners receive a larger increase than they would have under a different regime (where everyone receives a constant $ increase [normalized for the "lowest earner"]).
In go 1.4, you need to build the go tools for a given target beforehand. In go 1.5, you'll only have to set some environment variables before you call go build, that's it, but unfortunately this doesn't include cgo:

env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=7 go build hello.go

This link is a good summary of the situation now and in future:

http://dave.cheney.net/2015/03/03/cross-compilation-just-got...

This one talks about cgo:

https://medium.com/@rakyll/go-1-5-cross-compilation-488092ba...
Mobs of honeybees kill hornets by asphyxio-balling (2007)
The shipping routes are in international straights. China would not disrupt them because Chinese ships would be at risk in other waterways they can not project power to.
Not going to happen, nor is there much reason to do so. For one, the NaI detectors are relatively inexpensive, but still you're talking about $10K each minimum for such a setup. There are other detectors that would work for this (EJ-309 for instance, you need a detector capable of energy spectroscopy), but they're even more expensive and often extremely toxic. What I was describing is a setup to measure contamination of the water while it's still at the plant.

These sorts of statistics are monitored and the data is available ( http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/6045/2013/bg-10-6045-2013.p... ), but the contamination levels are so low that you have to use a very different method. Basically they go out and collect a bunch of sea water (linked report uses 100 liters), then filter it through a microfilter and the filter, which traps all of the cesium, is measured back in a laboratory using a very sensitive HPGe detector (which cost $100K+ and require cryogenic cooling at all times).

The measured activity levels in that report were in the range of about 1-15 Bq/m^3 of sea water. That's 1-15 atoms disintegrating per second (there's ~10^29 atoms in a cubic meter of water). Those levels are far too low to reasonably measure at sea, end of discussion. Even the highest observed dispersal of about 140Bq/m^3 (which was actually Cs-134 and was in a small area immediately after the disaster) would be very tough to measure in real time like you suggest.

Much more practical is to monitor the rate of dispersal at the outlet (i.e., the pipes pumping water into the ocean at Fukushima) and simulate the fluid dynamics to calculate the dispersal. These results you then validate by comparing to spot measurements taken in the manner described in the linked paper. In fact, this is again exactly what they do. This work is widely published and openly available, but not well known to the general public because it's rather technical. My own research work is on a related subject, but different application (finding the position of a concentrated radioactive source in an urban environment).
This is really true. I've recently moved to CLJS from Ruby/vanilla JS, and it took a couple weeks to be able to make sense of it. Now I don't notice it at all. It's just an exposure / getting-used-to-it thing.
4 was awesome but I just experienced way too much grief from it crashing, hanging, and otherwise being the buggiest game I had played at the time to consider it my favorite. Later when I revisited after finding a QFG Anthology CD in a bargain bin it handled the increased CPU speed of the day even worse than the other games and would crash almost every time I left the cave at the beginning.

I do remember loving it enough the originally to put up with all the bugs and play through it. I should probably get the gog versions and try them as those are I assume the best copies available.
Do you know what happens when Paul McCartney gives to charity and charity leaks his name? He cancels the donation. That's how you do good deeds when you genuinely want to help people and not pull a little PR on a side.

If this guy wanted to help his under-40K employees, there were multiple ways to do it (a) quietly (b) without pissing off other people who worked for him. I don't know if it's a poorly throught through PR stunt or if it's just a vanity / mid-life crisis thing, but it sure wasn't executed smartly.
(If you are Eich, I apologize for the awkward third-person conversation. I don't have any proof of your identity and I don't want to attribute anything said here to him without it.)

A non-issue? Literally every article I can find about the resignation is backed by a discussion about Eich's anti-gay stance. The position at CEO lasted roughly a week before the resignation. OKCupid put up a big anti-Mozilla notice as a result of the appointment; I have a hard time describing that as "good relations." Unless you're willing to put forward some new insider information, it's really hard to believe that such noise was not a factor, if not THE factor, in the resignation.

Why did Eich resign after a week if not for the outrage at his anti-gay stance?

> your bigoted imputation of "hate"

Lol
Focus and Drive, Episode 2 [video]
The part that bothered me was the fact that the Web developer made 40K to start, and he worried that getting a boost to 70K might make him too satisfied to better himself. I was under the impression that west coast salaries where a bit higher.
As a distro packager, I find Python's packages to be much better and easier to integrate than Ruby gems. I've had no shortage of troubles with Ruby gems: requiring on the git binary to build the gem (even in a release tarball), test suites not being included in the gem releases on rubygems.org, rampant circular dependencies, etc. Python's PyPI has caused me no such issues.
I disagree. They're expensive because there's not enough high rises that would provide tons more housing space.
The crab's "intentions" are immaterial!

Like, if a human meerely intends "to grab on anything they can to get out of the [human]-pile", & they're quite rude/destructive while doing so, they're still rude/destructive regardless of how sympathetic we may judge their intentions to be.
So far the discussion here has been way better than the submission. I'm not a fan of systemd, to understate it, but this article is terrible. I wish it had less content and more accuracy.
Amazing! What a strong argument. I've never heard of this (socialist) guy. Personally, I am a life-long new yorker (and capitalist) living in a luxury, deregulated building paying slightly more than market rate for my housing. My landlord does not raise my rent too aggressively, but could if he so chose. I sort of wish there were laws in place preventing him from doing so, but alas my unit is deregulated. In any case, he probably prefers long-term tenants, so doesn't need the government guidance on what a reasonable annual adjustment to my rent should be to keep me there.

Still lol'ing about you calling me "comrade."
Specifically, in the coastal cities where this is an issue, usually both sides of the development/anti-development political spectrum identify as liberal. It's very orthogonal to the issues involved in state or national politics.
> Are there any more details about the change to goroutine scheduling?

That would defeat the repetition about scheduling order being undefined wouldn't it?

But according to issue 11372 the answer is that up to 1.4 the scheduler would run goroutines in definition order so if you started goroutines 1,2,3,4,5 it tended to run 1,2,3,4,5. In 1.5 it's biased to favour the last-started routine so it'd run 5,1,2,3,4. Again scheduling order is undefined so the order may change again in 1.6, explicitly relying on it would be an idiotic idea.

They have also introduced limited scheduling randomisation in race detection mode[0] which they intend to randomise further in 1.6 to make scheduling-order dependencies easier to suss out and fix.

> Is this more than the just change to the GOMAXPROCS' default value?

The change to GOMAXPROCS wouldn't have changed the order in which the scheduler picks routines, since it could already be set to a non-default value previously.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/202807789946a8f3f415bf00...
So you're saying no need to toss "liberal" in there because it's so obvious.

By the way, conservatives would not object to developing a neighborhood if that development meant more economic opportunities and more jobs.

If you want to split hairs over a dictionary definition, conservatives would prefer to keep things how they are and continue economic growth through expanding the private sector rather than expanding government to direct businesses on how to operate.
NSF Award: Robotic Assistance with Dressing Using Simulation-Based Optimization
Frankly i fear that the tech world is getting less and less tinker friendly decade by decade. At least in the case of off the shelf products.
My guess is that stated support for the prototypical bad housing policies we love to hate would be pretty constant throughout the political spectrum (though that's just a guess). The issue is that that in BFN no one cares about rent control or constructing new buildings because housing is so cheap and space is so plentiful; only in places where housing is expensive and space is scarce do those issues get any political salience. And since those tend to be more liberal areas, we ascribe "liberal" to those policies as a descriptor.
Sounds like me..
Dutchy? :)
Giving the same raises as secretly as possible would avoid a whole lot of trouble. If it was considered important to announce it, it would work much better if done after a couple of years when at least you could claim that it proved itself and customers wouldnt have to worry about its impact on pricing.
It's both but not having new housing built is definitely not helping
Are there any available writeups or talks which discuss these challenges for HHVM? This sounds like it would be very interesting.
Isn't this the role fulfilled by Nancy Grace? When she decides somebody needs to be prosecuted, she talks about it on her show until charges are filed. (And then pronounces the defendant guilty.)
Cool info, thank you for sharing that's quite interesting!
I'm not saying that, actually.

I'm just trying to point out that the majority of the comments in the thread are focussed on price inefficiency instead of actually being concerned with problems of poverty.

But you raise a great point because _zoning_ is absolutely the biggest market intervention problem...and that certainly is a problem of greed.
Have you tried using an equivalent amount of water and/or fiber supplements as a control? It seems reasonable to conclude that eating additional food would cause you to feel satiated for longer.
> There was obviously a reason that the tippers ... leaked confidential information to the defendants ...

> I don't see why it's material whether this reason was friendship/status-boosting or some sort of tangible, cash benefit.

Mainly because they're facing prison time.

I can think of other laws that make similar distinctions. For instance, the punishment for receiving stolen goods will depend on the value of the goods in question. Why should somebody get a lighter punishment for receiving, say, an iPod compared to a car? In both cases, they knew the person giving them the item wasn't the owner.

In this case, it isn't a question of how harsh the punishment is, but whether the people will be punished at all. However, if the SEC wishes to create lesser penalties to cover this kind of thing, it has the regulatory authority to do so. If that's not enough, Congress can always reconsider the law, but I can't imagine people getting all that worked up about it.
You are not crazy. My thoughts were that this reaction is totally predictable, no matter how morally absurd.
The downside is for the company
Did you check "CSS in JS" from @vjeux ? https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js
It can be an interesting alternative with an isomorphic app.
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8311844. Not sure if this counts as a dupe or not.
My friends and I always considered Tom Bombadil to be Tolkien's interpretation of the Christian God, as he was a Christian himself it isn't that far fetched.
There is a lot of very useful functionality in ffmpeg/libav. That doesn't make using it pleasurable.
React CSS is a good alternative too. You keep it simple in your JS and it exports it to a CSS file: https://github.com/js-next/react-style
Old laptop = Driver problems, and laptops tend to have a lot of them It's not necessarily something MS can do much about because a lot of those drivers are model-specific and if the OEM doesn't feel like updating it, you're SOL.
Facebook built a giant drone to deliver Internet to the world
Show HN: Malcheck, a tool to test memory allocation failure handling
Wow.. I was curious if the pending employment law debates and changes were going to impact their valuation, it appears not.
And still no generics. Honestly, at this point I just wish they'd add a 'void' alias for 'interface {}' so at least non-typesafe code was only as ugly as the equivalent C -_-
The ability to read the H.264 spec and the ability to write well can't always exist in the same Austrian savant developer.
Wouldn't a simple stated policy of having generous compensation have been sufficient without creating all the problems from the blunt, arbitrary minimum?
Years ago there was a similar 'potential energy to electricity' buzz and I was initially quite excited. Then I did the math on how much energy is actually available (even at 100% efficiency) from such a scheme. Spoiler - it's minuscule.

E = mass x 9.81 x height

So a 10kg mass at 2 meters can (@ 100% efficiency) provide 196 joules of energy. A modern cell phone battery has about 25000 joules. To charge said phone would require raising that weight well over 127 times.
At this point I'd say build a minigame collection. It's a no-no most of the time because it means "now you have two problems" but if all of them explore the engine, it sets the right tone.

I remember seeing the lack of design as an issue back in the initial trailer. My main suggestion for completing a design now is: spend an hour or two each day trying to kill the design on paper. As in - the only unknowns left should be tuning and balancing. Everything else - assets, systems, ui - should get a paper spec, and then be turned into tasks. This process makes for faster iteration than doing it on the computer since you can mix visual ideas with text. It lets you make bolder decisions up front and see the size of the game properly.
Certainly. The linked reference argues otherwise though:

>is a phrase that describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you."

>Individually, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless "king of the hill" competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise.
Ky. man arrested after shooting down $1,800 drone hovering ovr sunbathg daughtr
I posted the idea for this yesterday morning[1] and got no responses but I decided to make a proof of concept anyway :-). Then I made the mistake of doing Show HN but not using a link[2] which /user?id=dang helpfully pointed out was penalized. So, what the hell, here's a repost.

One problem that has presented itself is that "memory leak" is kind of a subjective concept. It's really common to allocate memory and never free it, because the memory need not be freed until the application shuts down. valgrind has all kinds of voodoo to differentiate between memory intentionally never freed and accidental memory leaks. So you end up in common situations where the number of allocations is thousands more than the number of deallocations, and there's still no leak.

So this can still help check the allocation failure handling code, but I don't think it's going to be able to find memory leaks since there would be too many false positives.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977032
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980477
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52.4 GH/s is a lot slower than I would expect for a coin with such a large following. Is the hashing algorithm not ASIC/GPU friendly?
It's pretty common for both sides to occasionally slag the other, though it seems less now than say a decade ago. The bad blood goes deep.
There are a very large number of places that are desirable and affordable.

In fact, increasing the efficiency of the housing market is one of the best ways to increase the number of such places. The downside is such places will probably not be highly desirable parts of New York City.
I have a question for OP @evanb, or anyone else who's knowledgeable on this: Are ideas from tensor networks (eg: how the relevant degrees of freedom are organized), or even neural networks for that matter, applied to lattice gauge theories? In the other direction, is it understood how to implement states of gauge theories as tensor networks?

I'm aware of Elitzur's theorem (that there is no local gauge invariant order parameter), but I'm afraid I do not know much about lattice gauge theories.
That seems like it wouldn't work... I mean, a fraction of the 'older generation' dies off every day.... and a few new people join the 'older generation' as they age.

Now, I can imagine saying things like "The progress will only happen once all the people who grew up with things being the old way die off," especially with things like interracial or gay marriage, but I don't think that applies to something like housing. Whoever owns the current houses will never want more houses built; that will only drive down the value of their property. It may be true that the people who own those homes are usually older, but that will not end when they 'die off'.
Yup. They grew well but their quality didnt scale with them. I imagine their churn was horrendous, because when I left their platform there was nothing to try and recapture me.
The cool thing about how incentives work: instead of being angry that relative slackers are now making $70K, be happy that when they are fired, they will be replaced from a pool of hopefuls an order of magnitude larger then when the company had to settle on hiring those slackers in the first place.

It's funny how libertarian conservatism gets apoplectic when wealthy people make the wrong choice. Then they get all "Virtue of Selfishness" on your ass.
It's good that the court somewhat clarified previously-fuzzier law. The underlying problem is that insider trading as a crime is so ad hoc to begin with. TFA notes the hodgepodge of agencies, laws, regulation, rulings, etc. that "define" insider trading today. I doubt if any legal thinker's interpretation of the current understanding were codified into a single bill, that that bill could pass in Congress. Codifying what currently exists would make obvious what a boon it is for powerful executives. A codification of what the public imagines exists, would never get past those executives' lobbyists.

Nearly all executives trade in the securities of the corporations that employ them. Very few are ever charged with insider trading. (I'm not suggesting they should be!) However, whenever company management catches wind of transactions that annoy them, they always have a friendly ear at the prosecutor's office.

Long before major stock [EDIT:] moves, many "insiders" knew what was coming. Perhaps some told themselves, like Madoff, that they could get everything turned around. Regardless, insiders know before the public knows. Insider trading prohibitions serve to prolong the public's ignorance, and so deepen the public's trading losses. No one is better placed to dance right up to the line concerning investment decisions and public disclosure, than the firm's executives are. That's why the majority of insider trading prosecutions that succeed, are against outsiders like Martha Stewart or the subjects of TFA. Insider trading is a crime because it's valuable for the executive class to punish early defectors.
Why are you so sure about that? And what do you think they're actually doing? I'm not privy to any inside information or anything, but that screenshot seemed to be saying they are; I don't see why they would say so if they're actually not. If they were doing something less extreme, why wouldn't they say that instead?
Games like World of Warcraft have been doing this for a decade. Early versions of the Blizzard downloader actually were Bittorrent clients.
Which has more high rises: Buffalo or NYC?

I'd argue you're mostly getting cause and effect backwards: places end up with lots of high rises because they're the most economically productive localities. Obviously at the margin another high rise will lower prices a bit, but the rate at which we'd be able to build them in SF sans restrictions would at most keep prices stable year-on-year. Which isn't nothing, but it's important to be clear that no one making, say, $80k a year will ever be able to purchase a house or condo in San Francisco, regardless of our policy choices.
But this isn't for charging a phone; it's for having light, right now.
Housing follows the laws of supply and demand like everything else. Cities with lots of jobs draw in migrant workers. Cities that raise minimum wage bring in more workers from neighboring areas with lower wages. Those people need a place to live.
Lloyd Blankfein, who grew up in a public housing project and later wrote a letter to NYCHA about how he loved growing up there, might disagree with you.

Also. http://nymag.com/news/features/housing-projects-2012-9/
Windows 10 is unfinished