skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it isn't, if by full connectivity we mean a neutral net.

There are ways to provide a neutral internet for free.

See Mozilla's partnership with Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. (You get 20MB of free data for viewing a ad). More details here:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2015/05/05/mozilla-view-o...

Or Pepsi's campaign in India where you get codes on buying a soda, where each code gets you some data.

If Mark was indeed altruistic, he could get people 50MB of free data, which wouldn't have costed more than what it's costing him now(assuming that people would use more than 50 MB of fb on internet.org).

But that wouldn't have allowed him to create a sustainable monopoly, even if people would have used facebook on a free neutral network, which would still have fetched him money.

The only value of this deal to Mark is that Facebook gets to create a monopoly. This is something that should worry you.
Even Uber drivers are protesting against Uber
Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter
Look into bromium for a malware isolation solution. Detection is obsolete given the number of zero days exploited in the recent past
I tried Mechanical Turk years and years ago. At that time there were really no tasks available that paid an amount that could consistently get you anywhere close to minimum wage.

The only ones that seemed appealing on the surface were these audio transcriptions. I type over 100wpm and 9 minutes of audio took me over an hour to transcribe. I got like $2, and never even bothered withdrawing it.

If any individual on Mechanical Turk is averaging even 1/3rd federal minimum wage, I'd be shocked.

Since most of the tasks pay even far worse than transcription, and there's a significant unpaid time investment acquiring the tasks and getting them approved, and most people probably try a few tasks before leaving and never even ask for a check, I'd guess the average payout for people working on Mechanical Turk is much less than a dollar per hour.

I've always wondered how it's legal.
> It's unfortunate that video games need research to make them seem worthwhile, [...]

Just wait a generation.

I am willing to bet however, that your opinion on sports is too pessimistic. At low to medium levels sports probably helps academic performance, because it helps everything. (But for a proper bet, we'd have to agree on more precise terms, and odds we are offering, and an amount, and then go ahead and do some research.)
I have read and watch all of the videos. It is amazing to think this is for free, thanks Sam
Though, according to the docs, `y` in your first example is only evaluated once when using the shorthand chained method.
this is how JSON-API works (Yehuda Katz, et al) http://jsonapi.org/

`GET /articles?include=author,likes&fields[articles]=title,body&fields[people]=name`
Ultrasound, thermodynamics, and robot overlords (2014)
It's quite obvious where it comes from though, it first calls __iadd__ on the list and that succeeds, and then it calls __setitem__ on the tuple which fails; however, the first operation already mutated the list.

This has nothing to do with tuples, I think, as one can constructs many other examples just like this one.
It's not easy to store heat. If it was possible (practical) you could skip the compressed air and just store the heat directly and use it for energy.

The whole reason for the complicated schemes is because it's hard to store heat.
Yes - at Webflow I believe 4 of us were hired from the who wants to be hired / who's hiring posts.
sorted is always a list, whereas reversed is an iterator (at least in Python 3)
False as a valid fd: os.stat(False) (False == 0)
Tomtown
This is a really shallow reaction but I was amused by the XXX's in the document. I got into the kernel at Sun and I thought XXX started with Sun, then realized it started at BSD. Who knew that it went back to Multics? Does it go back to the first OS ever?

I'm pretty sure you can grep the sunos sources and you'll find a bunch of LMXXX in the file system and a few in the VM system (LM being my initials).

I suspect everyone here knows but just in case, XXX in a comment in the kernel indicates something that you think needs to be fixed, it's kind of a "we haven't hit this issue yet but we will".
USB killer v2.0
There are lots of great Rails jobs out there.

I would keep developing your expertise in rails.

Maybe learn some react or angular2 to complement your rails knowledge.

I second M-diggs, build some real world applications that are live online, and fill up your github profile with great work.

Oh and enjoy the rest of university. Those are some of the best times in life, there will be plenty of time for work later.
How about

>>> type(np.uint64(1) + 1)
numpy.float64
Yea, you're probably right about moderate levels of sport. On a very direct level, faster blood circulation from exercise improves brain function. There's probably also some motivation/self-esteem feelings it helps with as well.

I wonder if in a generation we'll see posters encouraging kids to play video games instead of blobbing out in front of the Facebook or whatever the new bogeyman is. I get the feeling that using a computer (or phone or whatever it is) is becoming accepted as default OK and now it's the specific types of app that can be "good" or "bad".
Defendants are weak the state is strong. There is no such thing as a fair trial in this country, holding on to that sort of wishful thinking prevents us from progressing toward anything that approximates fairness.
I stand corrected. My initial comment was just a gut reaction to the weirdness of an operation on builtins raising an error but still having side-effects.
> Americans are not ready for what is going to happen to the labor market when minimum wage goes to $15 an hour.

Lots of `informal' employment, I'd guess?
I don't find many of these wat-worthy.

In python 2.x you could redefine True and False, and this is fun:

>>> object() < object()
True
>>> object() < object()
False
>>> object() < object()
True

But python3 dropped a lot of wat-ness.

This one is fun too: https://bugs.python.org/issue13936
>Whole peoples have collectively said that the needs of life are more important than the needs of business and aligned their laws accordingly.

While others with the capacity for critical thinking have realized that the economy is what enables a good life. Greece has been pretty good about guaranteeing 'the needs of life' for government employees and look what good it did them.
I think maybe not so much, reading the original blog post announcing Galaxy:

"What about a free option? We've always offered free hosting to every Meteor developer through our meteor deploy feature. It's never going away. Now that we've had a chance to shake out key parts of Galaxy's technology stack with large production apps, we're ready to transition that free meteor deploy service to Galaxy. We've already started on that work, so that every developer can use Galaxy free of charge for simple apps, or purchase smaller plans for projects that aren't a fit for a full commercial plan."
Serious privacy flaw in iOS's new universal links feature
We have recently selected Sophos for endpoint protection, and so far it has been working great. Its admin console is a SaaS with a very decent interface.

But to be honest I'm not sure how good Sophos is under the hood, either. They have a good reputation, but we have only been running it for a short while.
Actually, there's one way to make such a change: pay everyone an unconditional basic income of, say, 24$ (= 3$ * 8h) per day.

But I agree, Frondo's comment seems to be rife with assumptions.
The advice I was given is that, as a private pilot, you should never put yourself in a position where you can't wait out the weather. Making it to your job on Monday or your meeting or whatever is less important than your life and the lives of your passengers. You don't have to go up, but you do have to come down, as the saying goes.
To address the point of "game developers don't know backends, and backend developers don't know how to build for games"... I want to think aloud about the question "how do you hire engineers who can work on the backend of a large video game?".

One issue parts of the games industry struggle with is simply coding competency. There's a tendency to hire newer grads and folks who will work for lower salaries, because people always want to make games. (And why not? Making games is awesome.) This leads to turnover, poorly thought out (or over-engineered) designs, lack of "common sense" things like load testing before launch (remember the industry standards you learned at college? if your college was anything like mine, you didn't), language soup, etc. And in my experience, the best backend systems are built by those with at least a bit of that experience already - rather than gameplay programmers trying to teach themselves what the CAP theorem is. But what senior engineer wants to work with legacy spaghetti code, or unlaunched promises (and the threat of future layoffs), when they could work at Facebook or Google or whoever?

At a previous large tech company I worked at, we built a games team internally to work on large scale platform stuff (pretty similar to what PlayFab is doing but aligned with said company's products). It was really cool - we got folks who were solid engineers but also ex-games industry, or avid gamers, themselves, advertising team openings via the videogames@ internal mailing list. We tried to combine the culture/fun of the games industry without the baggage and conditions.

But platform isn't content, and I recently joined a similar kind of team in an actual games company (which operates much more like a tech company than most, since our game is operated as a live service rather than a one-off downloadable release). Being able to work alongside artists, designers, narrative writers, sound engineers, event producers etc creates a really creative environment, and though I'm working on MySQL performance tuning and internal monitoring data pipelines, I get to hang out and talk about the new champion releases with folks at lunch. A nice balance, but for those who can't afford their own platform team, or don't have the carrots to lure us in, PlayFab seem like a neat alternative. :)
I don't think he would be a candidate to this surgery due to his age though.
Anyone interested in the history of this school of management might be interested in reading about Frederick Taylor and “Scientific Management”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Winslow_Taylor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management

Although it's fallen out of favor the unwarranted contempt for workers has been quite enduring.
I read it. And, then I disagreed with it in a couple of comments.
Takeoffs are optional, landings are mandatory.
Please stop taking HN threads on ideological flamewar tangents. That's not what this site is for.
> Diversity in any field makes it richer.

In a testable way?

I'm really interested to see which of diversity's claimed benefits hold up to scrutiny. Perfectly happy to see diversity as an end and not a means.
I've read some articles about it and most people who make $5 an hour or more tend to choose tasks efficiently that they can complete quickly without spending too much attention on.

If you rush through easier tasks you can complete them in a few minutes doing a good enough job to get paid.
16 reasons why your startup will fail
Thanks for posting your console logs. The game renders in an iframe - it's that second cloudfront request that's failing. Those ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT errors make me think an AdBlocker or similar is preventing it from loading?

To work around it you could either add an exception to your AdBlocker, disable it, or play the game in "quine mode" here: https://run-bucket-run.aerobatic.io/game.html
It's a complicated topic without nearly enough exploration in the legal area, and without any real agreement from the companies that run these social media platforms. Twitter's ToS (and their reps) have said you can embed anything without needing advanced permission; Instagram says the opposite. Media outlets use embedded tweets/Instagrams for editorial purposes everywhere, and this seems like it would be fair use (taking a snippet of a 140 character message as you would with an article makes no sense) but some people still complain. No one has any problem with embedding YouTube videos or Vines. How this all plays out is likely to be decided in the coming decades in courts and the media.

Three things that would be incredibly helpful in this area:

1) All these services should give users the ability to prevent embedding of their posts either globally or on a post by post basis. Drawing a very bright line like this makes what is and is not OK very clear. Off or on by default would be debatable.

2) Supply a UI or API for automatically obtaining licensing permission (requester goes to an Instagram post, clicks/taps "request license to use in/on {web, billboard, TV commercial, etc.}" which sends a message to the original poster, poster can than choose to consent/refuse, response is sent to the requester.

3) Make some public statements / legal guarantees (i.e., a promise to stand behind people who get sued even when using service-provided embedding tools) about what they consider acceptable usage.

Right now it's just very gray, and the safe route is to obtain advanced permission for anything with a photo, which I think goes against the frictionless spirit of the old web (i.e., just put up a link or excerpt a post and be done with it.) The service-provided embedding tools try to maintain that spirit in the more walled-gardeny world, but legal uncertainties still make that iffy. I wrote a bit more on this previously: https://medium.com/@sthware/user-generated-content-embedding...

I'm not sure what the legal reasoning would be for "hashtags as consent for photo usage", but something tells me that it probably wouldn't hold up in court if it came down to it.

Edit: another thing that needs discussion is things that seem innocent to many, but could be legally questionable. Prominent example: retweets. Let's say you embed a Twitter widget of your company's feed on your web site's product page. You retweet something someone has posted about your product. It then appears in the feed, on the web site, next to your products. Protected or not? Using some of the logic from Heigl vs Duane Reade, it might not be: https://social.ogilvy.com/celebrities-suing-brands-for-a-twe...
Don't be a Stanford Asshole
Fifth-generation programming language
Another patent-encumbered video compression algorithm.
Most likely most of those images are just random noise, and nothing intelligible. It would take longer than the heat death of the universe for that TV to display all possible images.

Let's examine an extreme underestimate to demonstrate this.

Say the TV is monochrome with an 8x8 resolution, and it can change it's image every millisecond (1000 fps). It would then take 2^(8*8)/1000/3600/24/365 = 584,942,417 years for that TV to generate all possible 8x8 monochromatic images.

Then when you consider that the TV is likely running at something more like 640x480 resolution with 24-bit color at 60 fps, you can see that it will take an astronomically larger amount of time for the actual TV to display all possible images. The time would be larger still if the TV were running at 1920x1080 resolution (or 4k!).

Further more, a large majority of the sample space is just unintelligible noise, and the vast minority of the space is actual recognizable images. So likely, the art project will just be displaying noise until the end of the human race.

I don't think this takes anything away from the artistic merit of the work, it just changes the message a little. We humans are capable of creating a machine that can display every image, but we will never be able to see them all. It is an interesting contrast between the creation of a generator and the execution of it. I don't think this is what the artist initially intended with their work, but it is interesting to ponder nonetheless.
If you like Peanuts, you should check out Mafalda, which is a sort of Argentine counterpart. Cynical but idealistic kids trying to make sense of the adult world. I believe there are good English translations nowadays, and she has enjoyed popularity in Europe for a good while now.
New Startup – trade shoes via app now
First thing I thought of too. One can only hope that the later chapters aren't as prescient as the first.
> I'm too young but I have the feeling working conditions were much better back then.

You mean working conditions for programmers?

From talking to people who worked in computing back then (like my grandfather), it seems like we have it better today. Of course that's only anecdotal, and my perception of today is as coloured as my choice of people to talk to.

Would be interesting to see a more formal study.
The problem with pie charts is that it's too easy to use them in a wrong way. I would say the only scenario when a pie chart might be a right form of data visualization is when you need to display shares of two, maximum three, components of a total. It means 2-3 data points only. Trying to use pie charts for anything else will quickly degrade readability. More data points, day-over-day comparisons, variations with the circle size, grids of pie charts -- all makes things worse.
When I checked this post, you were below zero - I'm not sure why you are downvoted.

In any case, my main point isn't that that WhatsApp is simple. When I said the parent posted was being reductionist, I was referring to Twitter's product offering. AFAIK (I could be wrong) WhatsApp is a messaging backend and multiple client frontends. The "50" engineers is deceiving becaus, despite the fact that Mnesia could or couldn't have scaled, there is a very non-trivial amount of engineers who worked on it and Mnesia is a good & proven system. In a similar light, Instagram was 13 engineers (or was it employees) and hundreds of django instances - and that maybe all you need for a photo feed, however Instagram didn't have a trending feature until earlier this year and how knows how many engineers that took.

If WhatApp hired another 200 engineers, likely 195 would either be twiddling their thumbs or working on new features outside what was needed in that acquisition to Facebook. Now we can make the argument that Twitter is bloated because they have too many products (Fabric, Vine, Crashlytics, and their numerous other acquisitions) - and the scaling back of those engineers may mean sunsetting those products - and thats fair. To imply they have 4000 engineers building a glorified 140-char mailing list is not.
This is the famous libertarian cognitive vice, assuming that the quality of government is constant:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/08/the...

Your theory needs to account for how e.g. Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. also provide “the needs of life” with economies which are rather different than Greece. It's just possible that quality of implementation matters as much as the original idea.
I don't know how useful this will be. I think being made from crushed gneiss in a jammed configuration, it should be fairly strong in pure compression. Bending stress would probably cause failure quite rapidly, and I think it would steadily weaken with vibrations of sufficient amplitude, especially if it wasn't loaded.

That said, I really don't care just how useful or practical this is because it's already so damn cool. That trick with the string is very clever and I would love to see the mathematical model they use for planning its path.
That's a deadly mass of material. In the video, when they're taking the mold off, the trajectory from the top of any falling chunks is super sketchy, too.

Would be interesting to see destructive tests. They obviously have digital designs, but could those be accurately used for simulation?

I'm sure they know what they're doing, they've wearing matching overalls. Those are just some concerns I'd have about constructing and exhibiting such a thing.
Certain monkeys have markets, the primary goods being food and sex. When are we wealthy humans going to "usurp" monkey markets and try to gain "power"? When are we, the wealthy humans, going to start spitefully consuming garbage, wild fruits and insects simply because monkeys also want these resources? When will we, the wealthy humans, claim all the forests and kick the monkeys out?

Who says we have to spitefully "usurp" the monkey markets? Don't we do enough damage by casually destroying their habitats and driving their species into endangered status or even extinct?

Same goes for wealthy people. You don't have to ascribe an utterly destructive mentality to them in order to explain the harms of what they do. All it takes is simple pride; the pride they have for the companies they've grown, the profits they've amassed, and the technologies they've developed. To then say we want to take those things away and redistribute them to the public for the greater good is to make that person into our public enemy. Why wouldn't they do everything in their power to hang on?
Interesting, thanks for the pointer.

I've wondered about this previously as I run my own blacklists for $work's mail servers, thinking about how I could slightly "penalize" brand new domain names and such, correlating "spammy" domains with certain nameservers and such.
YouTube actually allows you to disable embedding a video.
I like choice too, but a good design can go a long way: the frontpage of a newspaper for example. It dictates that the really big headlines were the most important, the medium headlines were somewhat important and the stuff on the side was interesting but didn't warrant a full article... and people liked this.
How do the PR drones who write this stuff not instantly and repeatedly punch themselves in the face? I can probably count on one hand the number of advertisers who respect "performance, security, and privacy." Text and static image ads served from a first-party domain don't bother me, but web-wide creeps following my every move to "retarget" me with invasive annoyances and act as almost-but-not-quite credit reporting agencies are the very opposite of respectful.
> all and emptiness [...]

If all would work any other way, it would be seriously broken. (Given the rules for how to convert list to bool.)
Some guy made https://www.reddit.com/r/lolhaskell and put 3 posts there.
It makes sense if there's an image with the word "ad" in the url. Probably something similar to that.