skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Canadian, the copyright extensions are what really bug me. Cheaper dairy I can actually get behind.
You should put one up on the Afghanistan border too if you don't want to be overrun by ISIS.
Ask HN: What is the right path to learn JavaScript
Trying to learn javascript and feel overwhelmed with the huge number of JS and framework.
Whats a good path to learn javascript? Resources would also be helpful
This whole post that we're commenting on is about exactly that distinction, so this is a bogus argument.
She's not complaining about people being offended for some obscure cultural reasons. She states that the community is abrasive and led by assholes. The significance of being spat on is open to cultural interpretation; the significance of being stabbed with a knife is pretty unequivocal. Let's start with that.
It's not a straw man. If you have never run into people who explicitly excuse their asshole behaviour by saying they're just being "blunt" or "honest" you're either lucky or unobservant.
For standard web stuff HTTP2 should make a difference for people with high latencies, possibly some kind of converting proxy might help for legacy sites too.
Do you think it would be possible to dynamically adjust the chunk size for optimum performance on different hardware/browsers? That would be very useful.
Pulling up that link in Safari on mobile really demonstrates how bad the UI/UX is. There is no obvious way to see anything other than the first tweet in the series:

http://m.imgur.com/7JSETBc
One Decision, a New Beginning
Glad to hear that they've improved enough to look good on their own benchmarks :-)
Ah. In my generation, who actually watched the program, there is no ambiguity. No intent to deceive was detected by me. Its not supposed to be a trick question. Its supposed to illustrate how far off our intuition is about statistical behavior.

Monty himself mentions that he would occasionally try hard to argue contestants into swapping. They would always refuse. He would even explain that 'his door' had the better chance - nobody would listen. But I suppose that's confounded by the suspicion that he was trying to trick them.
So you don't manage it centrally, you manage it regionally and monitor stock levels.

One item taken = one sale, so you have the same level of information to manage the economy with.
I first read this as "Twitter names Jack Donaghy Chief Executive" and thought I was in for a good laugh. Now I'm disappointed. :/

Edit: To be clear, I thought Twitter was just expressing a good sense of humor, and I was disappointed in that I was expecting something humorous but didn't find that.
One problem I found with web workers is that they do not respond to messages when inside a tight loop, which can be problematic in certain circumstances. I actually used a similar technique inside a web worker for that reason.
I don't think it contributes to the conversation to point out that when inexperienced-by-trade people (managers typically don't code) observe inexperienced-by-laziness people (devs who don't learn how to write maintably in any language), they walk away with impressions that have zero correlation to reality.

Especially when they conflate two completely different languages to boot.

There's nothing to take away here other than "some people are beyond being helped".
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if your plan for dealing with content creation on the web includes overhauling the economic system of the world, then you may have a mismatch between the size of the problem and the size of the solution.
It correlates to a domain for a site I'm in the process of building. I haven't registered the brand's trademark yet, so I'm unable to claim the Twitter username based on that criteria. Seems like the only route they provide for this kind of thing.
Fine now
U.S. to hold final auction of Bitcoins from Silk Road case
I think it is because Pixar wasn't originally an animation studio. In particular they didn't intend to produce movies themselves. When they became one, he was a founder.
Oh, I'm fully aware of the information theoretical limit. I just made an back-of-the-envelope estimation on the absolute theoretical upper bound, assuming a system operating at 0K and zero noise floor. My intention was to show, how small the available bandwidth is already under those idealized circumstances.
I don't think a law proscribing billboards is particularly analogous to a content-blocking API.
Pretty sure they're aimed at the wealthier muslims who don't want to stay in crude and overcrowded camps, not at non muslims.
Yup, shrinkable to graphical icon is an exclusively masculine trick, that's for sure.
You got to have balls of steel to short a company like Twitter. I would rather short oil, gas, or commodity companies . Facebook stock, for example, is up 200% since 2012, leaving a lot of shorts burned in the process who thought it was overvalued.
Amazon sets sights on Internet of things opportunity with new cloud offering
Here is a better insight: don't user Uber. They have seriously become one of the most distasteful companies to give money to. Try Flywheel in SF, it is virtually identical to the Uber app, the drivers are way better, the app doesn't mislead you about driver location, there is no surge pricing, the waits are (in general) less, and drivers are just as polite :)

Wait what was that last part? Yes it is true. When I first moved to SF 4 years ago taxi drivers were unbelievably rude but the one good thing Uber has done is change the bar for customer service for the better and make rating drivers in an app a standard. The result is that there is no reason to use Uber in SF. I don't know the details of other cities but I know other major areas like NYC have similar services.
Everything old is modern again. Cool links. I spent weeks fighting (and mostly losing) to a designer that wanted every website to use no more than a 300 font weight and no italics or other differentiating typography, all because it was "modern and light and airy". Wish I could have been like "Nope, here's people in the 19th century complaining about it" back at that point.
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Despite all the best will in the world on the behalf of the developers and users of Diaspora and other platforms designed to replace Facebook, there is no alternative to Facebook until everyone moves there.
He literally says his vision for the logo is to discourage misogyny in the parent post:

> I also take it as a given that we want to discourage misogyny in our community.

All I want to know is what does the one have to do with the other? What does a butterfly logo have to do with the concept of sexism towards women? That's it. That's my question. I have no idea how to state it more simply.

Someone suggested that "discouraging misogyny" does not necessarily mean femininity, so I asked what "discouraging misogyny" does mean in this context, and you replied "not overtly masculine".

That response does not simply allude to the idea that masculinity is misogyny, it is literally saying that masculinity is misogyny. Hence my reply that the very idea is itself sexist and dangerous. It was my response to your saying masculinity is misogyny, and your interpretation of Larry's original statement about the logo to mean as such. That is not projecting, that is simple reading comprehension.
And? It's still a clear example of how the ISDS would be used (by other corporations).
Then don't pay taxes. See, right now you have North India as a buffer against West Asian hordes like ISIS. If North Indians stop defending you, then you will have this border right up to your nose.

Before you are overrun.
You are creating a delineation to in order to obfuscate that you want to deprive content creators the option of charging you directly for their work. The unit costs of digital copies are irrelevant when the alternative, patronage, doesn't covering the fixed costs of designing/making. Instead, you want society to bear that cost because ... anything on the internet should be free.
US/Mexico: http://visiblesuns.blogspot.com/2014/07/us-mexico-border-at-...
The Linux kernel is structured in a tree-like hierarchy such that most neophytes will likely never directly encounter Linus, but be chewed off by a subsystem maintainer long before that.

In contrast, Theo is just another hacker who also happens to be project leader, compared to the more "ivory tower" approach of Linus.
Automated payments are that great of an idea, because then I have no idea how much I'm actually spending. And you're crazy if you think most people will go in and look at their itemized "content bill" unless they find a huge charge on their credit card.
Online daters are not the be all and end all of humanity. What people say in studies on dating sites may not be representative of humanity as a whole.
It prevents elected representatives from making amendments.
Half-Life 2 remade with Unreal Engine 4
I am - that's how I know how long the surges lasted: by how long I had to wait for the 'surge ended' notification.

This also means that all my surge time estimates are underestimating the actual length, since I've only started measuring while the surge has been active for a period of time.
That's flatly untrue. I've got a good example: SMS

When texting started it was almost universally $.25 or $.10 or so per text. One would definitely be aware of that fact when communicating with friends but you get over it because it's useful.

Wait I have another example, $0.99 songs via iTunes. That was the model that created the largest music retailer in the world from whole cloth.

It's not that complicated, all it would take is for someone (gee I wonder who) to standardize the price (or price tiers) and have a quick modal OK to continue on to the article for one credit, or equivalent.
So this senator thinks that if the pharma companies figure it out, the government will like it? Shouldn't the ideas be coming from both sides in order to achieve a result that is satisfactory for both sides?
Will tech kill the cocktail bar?
This app was a really really bad idea from the start. PG and YC often tell people to look for ideas that "seem bad" but this is a whole new league. Even if used properly by 100% of people 100% of the time it would still be a bad idea and fundamentally could never have worked. I"m just surprised someone ponied up the cash to see it realised - perhaps theres an ulterior motive. I don't know.
I agree it would help to see the problem in action.

Again, the part I missed was "it would be silly for him to reveal a car".

I get that now, but that was not something that I intuited, and so the omission of that information I will continue to argue is at least a little bit deceptive.

Even if only to those like myself who have not seen the program.
There may be short lived websites that exist only scam a large number of people out of small amounts of money. What makes this worse is that most people would (rationally) not consider it worth pursuing the website operator unless recourse were very easy. Is it really worth your time to chase down $0.25 from a scammy website, other than perhaps doing it on principle?

Any mircropayment protocol design should take this into account.
Notes on Startup Engineering Management for Young Bloods
Micropayments are fundamentally bad for websites. It is an inferior business model.

Think about it this way. Businesses need stable, predictable income. If they depend on "micropayments," then they would depend on producing consistently high quality articles. I am a subscriber to the New Yorker. They have some of the best writing out there -- but some of it is just not that good, in my opinion. And yet, I still pay for it.

A subscriber is willing to forgive bad content -- and still give you money. You're able to build a relationship, and ask for the money once (a year), not constantly.

$70 * 1,000 subscribers = $70k a year. Plenty to support the livelihood of a good writer.

How many "micropayments" would they need? What if they struck out a few months in a row?

They'd have to find another job.
>>No one thinks they're entitled.

Said every entitled person everywhere. This also applies to people who talk about privilege.

>>Also, why use that word "whine"?

Stylewise:

"Disappointment" demonstrates leadership. "Sad" demonstrates entitlement.

>>Linus [...]

I don't think anyone who leads people should defend Linus' behavior. He's an asshole that has provided a powerful, free & useful kernel.

Until there is a better FOSS alternative to Linux, it makes sense to endure him. But deciding to defend his behavior indicates a lack of compassion for people's feelings.
Are there really asteroids so big that a nuke could not even chip off a small fraction at escape velocity? If ablative impulse could cause enough of a course change to miss earth, then why would detonative propulsion not do that job even better?
Will digital books ever replace print?
Why would link aggregators be paying? Who pays them then?
There is a handful of companies which offer the multiple choice variety. They often use a smartphone app to scan a QR code (ID student) and the answer bubbles.

This software is often expensive to license and from what I understand heavily patent protected (like much educational software), making it an absolute minefield to enter unless you're a massive publisher or similar.
and soon to be President of the USA!
the lyft app requires less permissions and they don't surge prices like that.

also you get lots of promotions, like Mondays 50% ofg
I guess they have enough data after my 100+ trips with Uber.
It's a good thing that tobacco is the last harmful or controversial trade product we'll ever see.
Yes, but generally, when the tit-for-tat is likely to be understood and acceptable to the electorate, such deals tends to be smaller and more focused. In such cases there's no reason to pile it on, because it can withstand scrutiny and debate. So you come agreement, and move on to negotiate another agreement.

The larger such an agreement becomes, the murkier it ets. Given the complexity, it will take at least a decade after TPP is ratified before all the implications become clear. We better hope we like the results. But I'll predict that long before that we'll have a string of lawsuits filed over the effects.

(Similarly, once TTIP comes up for ratification, I equivalently expect ratification attempts themselves to be met by a number of legal challenges across the EU, followed by a number of legal challenges over the effects of it; If ISDS is part of a final ratified agreement, I'd expect it take at least a decade to sort out the legal mess alone)
This is over. The organization that was leaking CloudFlare routes had been contacted and they have stopped.

If you are interested in knowing about route leaks affecting different companies I recommend: https://twitter.com/bgpmon
New EU privacy rules could widen internet “safe harbor” policy gap with America
Don't focus on theory, focus on what you want to build. Find a project that you really want to build and learn whatever is needed to get it built. Try to pick something non-trivial (a to do list is ok, but it will only get you so far).

JavaScript is broad, you can use it on the client and on the server. You will probably need to learn a front-end framework (just pick one, don't bother too much on picking the right one) - AngularJS, React are both very good choices. With this and some HTML/CSS knowledge you can build a pretty cool static app.

Meteor[1] gives you some server-side capabilities. The JAWS[2] framework does the same but in an AWS environment. I'm also working on a project called Sync Ninja[3] that will be like those two but un-opinionated (though it's not ready yet). You can of course use pure Node.js on the server if you want.

[1] https://github.com/meteor/meteor
[2] https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS
[3] https://github.com/syncninja/syncninja
Ok, I looked it up on the book of knowledge:
"Right-wing populism is a political ideology that rejects existing political consensus and often combines laissez-faire liberalism and anti-elitism. It is considered populism because of its appeal to the "common man" as opposed to the elites."

I thought populism was associated with just saying anything that is popular but not necessarily true and based on circular references or other obfuscating techniques to score easily with people of low education/IQ/logical reasoning skills.. I see I was wrong. In that case, perhaps my original remark is not valid.

Actually, I agree with Trump very much. The TTIP is horribly elitist.
What is a route leak? DuckDuckGoing was unhelpful.
The startups: ‘We need a presence in Silicon Valley, that’s the way it is'
> Just a reminder: the TPP, like most trade deals, is negotiated in secret, but ratified in public. The final version of the deal will be published in 30 days, and then Congress gets 90 days to consider before an up-or-down vote.

It's a maximum of 90 days after the implementing bill is introduced in Congress. There's no deadline for that bill to be introduced, but the bill can't be introduced until at least 30 days after the final text is submitted.[1] from [2]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/k6Je0Dz.png

[2] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33743.pdf#page=26
Using Wolfram Language in the Classroom: Math
That finger is for Nvidia. There is a chinese proverb that say: "When the sage points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.".

Nvidia is the problem here, not the finger.
I don't know enough about propagator systems to know if there is a mismatch between what MJD and GJS are talking about. I do know that GJS's propagator model does more than the simple Farenheit-Celsius conversion problems (this example is actually in SICP chapter 3, but not in this paper), such as tracking the reasons why cells hold the data they do and withstanding logical contradictions.
>The issue is when your views start pushing changes to the models and you then jump into a recursive cascade of updates.

No. You can only get into a recursive cascade of updates if your model pushes changes to the views in response to changes occurring on the model. Otherwise the two are decoupled.

In a typical MVC app, there are at least two phases: first you react to events and make updates to the model and send out change-notifications that invalidate those parts of the view(s) that represent the bits that have changed. In a second phase, you update the bits of the view(s) that were invalidated. Repeat.

No update cycles, as long as you only invalidate in the first phase, and only repaint in the second phase.

EDIT: The temptation is huge to "optimize" this process by having the invalidation notification do the actual work of repainting. That's where you get into trouble, you need to keep it decoupled.
My understanding was that he purchased Pixar from Lucas for $10mm when Lucas didn't think that there was going to be a very lucrative animation business.

This was told to me by employees of ILM when I was building the letterman digital arts center.
Indeed. That's where I saw it initially as well.
Could 98% be an artifact of the 100's of millions of people who have tried social games? 2% is at least in the high millions if not low 10s of millions of people.

I (and it appears a significant number of others) ended up paying for the Economist - the 10 articles free / month was conditioning enough.
So if I suggested that say there is a 100k line update scattered amid a 20M line in-production codebase and you have 90 days before that code goes live and cannot be changed and cannot be revoked. Would you feel that 90 days is sufficient? I wouldn't.

It's not just staff to read the text, it would be identifying and lining up experts with context in each area to weigh in. So far corporate lawyers have been embedded into the process but few representatives of the people. So I think we should approach this with deep caution.
Since Muslim literalists quashed non literalists such as Mutazila back in the Middle Ages and Islam is in free fall at least from an intellectual point of view.
"We already pay for every byte of data that moves across the wire"

You're paying for that byte to get from Point A to Point B. You haven't paid for the creation of that byte, though.

"The right answer to the current problem of asymmetry in communication pairings is peer-to-peer content distribution"

Again, that helps with the cost of sending that byte somewhere. It does absolutely nothing for the cost of creating that byte (writing the article, drawing the cartoon, creating the song, etc) in the first place.

"Meanwhile, the right answers to the costs of content creation are universal income and voluntary sponsorship, not DRM, paywalls, and moneyware."

Are they? I mean, why do you feel entitled to read someone's content without paying for it?
I believe many others feel differently, but personally, I find the Go mascot a bit scary. Dunno the reason, but it's something that I can't easily get used when reading the articles on Go.

FWIW, Russ Cox's GitHub icon[1] is similarly scary to me.

[1] https://github.com/rsc
Anyone else experiencing issues with CF more frequently lately? We appreciate the service provided, but we're averaging about 1 customer-impacting issue per week over the last few months. And we are considering alternatives. Today's incident was particularly bad, and you'd have no idea that NA was impacted from the status page.
You're describing things that were inconvenient and made convenient with a nominal transaction cost.

You couldn't just buy one track before. Now you can for $.99. You couldn't send a text message at all before.

Try $.10 per email and see what traction that gets.
I dunno how real the story is, but this bring to mind the exchange between Disney and Microsoft over who should be paying the other. Either Disney for using MS video formats, or MS for using Disney content.

The whole thing basically heads face first into net neutrality territory.

That said, back during for pay phone services the service got paid by the telco, and then the telco added the cost to the callers bill.

So should perhaps my ISP bill me for my Netflix viewing, rather than me paying Netflix directly?
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

- Douglas Adams

Chances of anything striking anything as a result of human intervention are quite slim. Effectively nil.
Hillary vs. Trump: Who does user engagement better?
Bilberry herb
Quoting http://www.pixar.com/about/Our-Story

>Steve Jobs purchases the Computer Graphics Division from
George Lucas and establishes an independent company
to be christened "Pixar."
Average people don't purchase itunes songs all day every day and they have a high replay value. It's worth the mental energy.

You don't want to be deciding whether to pay on every little pageview.
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>States (and the federal government) are stripped of sovereignty which is given to unelected judges.

...appointed by elected representatives.

There's simply no comparison to the ISDS.

>I also have no particular affection towards democracy

It shows.
We wrote about this in the past when Google went down: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-google-went-offline-today-an...
I don't see how that is related to immutability. Immutability gives you the ability to verify that it's unchanged in O(1), but it doesn't change your ability to do optimizations like that...
I think one of the big dreams of the "biotech revolution" that has yet to materialize is to reduce barriers to entry in drug manufacturing so that drug companies have less market power, at least for drugs/jurisdicitons that are not encumbered by IP. Fingers crossed...

Isn't it weird that we can custom order synthetic cathinones from China for $100, but apparently no one has tried this with theruputic drugs?
> The boorish Saudi Royal family is turning this into a religious disneyland.

My guess is that they're doing it to put a Wahabbi stamp on things and erase everything else.