skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the "democratic" chaos that followed was indeed a catastrophe.
>>> Mostly, these developers don't make anything. They spend months and years in almost solitude making something no one will play. Games take a huge time investment to make before anyone is at all interested. It's the starving artist profession of the nerd world.

Yeah, the Indiepocalypse.

The thing is, a lot of indie games... simply are not fun to play. And that's ok, it's hard to make a game which is fun to play. It's fine. [0]

You can treat indie games as a hobby, just have fun, call it 'starving art', whatever, but don't be shocked that people are not paying money.

On other hand, treat it like a business, with a solid product, market research, plenty of feedback from the outside (echo chamber is no good for a product that you are working on for years), marketing plan and some marketing budget. Even then, you have a chance of failure, where failure is that the revenue does not cover the costs. However, the odds are more in your favor.

These two extremely distinct segments (hobby v business) are both under the 'indie' label, however, their chances at succeeding are extremely different.

[0] I won't even talk about the platformers (there are dozens, if not hundreds, of them released every week) and they all are largely the same.
Well you'll certainly need to learn about the math behind these eventually, but you can get started and go quite far simply as a user of a ML library. You can use "systems thinking" and think of ML components as black boxes that do something for you.

A good place to start would be the scikit learn tutorials on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4bRUvvlaBw I remember going through them and thinking---wow, this covers everything from my ML class in just a few iPython notebooks...

I recommend you start with the basics (datasets, features, training/test/validation data splits) and don't worry too much about the actual choice of model---there will always be shiny new models with better performance but sometimes using the "old stuff" is good enough.

Once you get past the basics want to learn the theory, you can take an online course or find a good book, e.g. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/ (advanced, but very comprehensive).
Or, if the site you're visiting is DNSSEC enabled, you could just look for a TLSA record. If the TLSA record is present, don't allow unencrypted connectivity.

That's probably how you could replace HSTS with DNS.
Wealthy? $2.5k isn't exactly a lot, if you consider that that was the entire tax burden we were planning for. As in, $2.5k tax in total, for everything.

Sure, poll taxes and similar have been used to exclude all but the wealthy from Government. Many types of legal structure can be misused: gun control laws to disarm black people in the face of the KKK, union laws to prevent non-white people from getting decent jobs, etc. etc.

But it's not a given.

Edited to add: and especially when you consider that the so-called 'sin taxes' that particularly burden the poor would be eliminated under that scheme.
That would be a more compelling argument if it weren't for the fact that he's doing the normal thing of calling on the largest party to form the government. Yes, he gave a partisan speech, but that doesn't make his decision anything out of the ordinary.
"celiac" or "coeliac". "colic" is something else. :)

Anyway, yes, that's what I've read as well.
> free certs exists already (startssl)

Nitpick: not for businesses. If you're asking for a certificate for anything that they may suspect has slight relation to any commercial activity, the request will be denied. It may be accepted by chance, but that's unreliable.

Companies who don't want to pay currently have only single option - WoSign, and they had started to give out free certificates relatively recently (I heard of them only this February)
Please define IIRCT as I cannot find what it's meant to mean.
Don't touch my OS! If you want to install some packages, tell me to install them (or ask me!). I don't like this script so far.
Can you imagine collaborating with someone who doesn't know how to use Org-mode?
You can always decompose the components, if your render() gets to big.
Ask HN: Are there API centric frameworks that have the same traction as Rails?
For those of you who have used Rails, it does a pretty good job of exercising best practises at your finger tips. Over the years I have been waiting for a dominant winner in the API space.

I know of many attempts from across many different languages but none seem to cater for A->B development when taking into account versioning, rate-limiting and other API centric ideas.

In my mind, problems like the lack of consensus on how to even semantically create resource/routes have delayed the process.
To get the unit content of a drink you multiply the serving size in litres by the ABV value.

125 ml of wine at 8% is one British unit.

So when people say "one glass of wine is one unit" they're often under-estimating how much they're drinking. Most wine will be sold in 175 ml servings (called a small glass) and at much stronger than 8% ABV. 12% is normal. 175 ml of 12% is just over 2 units. A more normal 250 ml serving would be 3 units.

Increased risk drinking is a significant cost to Public Health and the NHS.
Attempting to tab complete the AUR packages
I can't use StartSSL because my DNS registrar doesn't populate whois the way they like it. Also, anyone relying on some sort of whois privacy cannot use StartSSL.
Yeah, but the thing with React is that it's one library, instead of having both Jade and Backbone, you can have a fully React stack and have peace of mind through it.

I've used Jade and honestly prefer the React way for sure because it combines the javascript with the html in the same file(s)
Who said I had a home abroad? And the hotel was just my longest stay, mostly for medical reasons. My primary accommodation was youth hostels and PGs, which are (materially) more or less homeless shelters.

(Of course they are much higher status. Is this discussion really just about status?)

The premise of gloves' comment (which I'm accepting for the purpose of my comment) is that the person described in the article is also homeless by choice. He certainly seems functional enough to get and hold a job at Chipotle and rent a flat in distant Brooklyn if he wants.

The suggestion is that - much like me - his lifestyle is a choice. Just like you want to compartmentalize my experience with a different label, maybe we should do the same with him and similarly situated folks.
what, blerkchain terkonology? I brought you some blerkchain terkonology to put in your blerkchain terkonology.
karma lowering in 3 2 1 ...
Yes, just started using Medium. I invest in startups (would invest in every YC-backed company if I could).

https://medium.com/@baccredited

Thanks for kicking this off Ray I followed you.
The article does mention this at multiple places. For example, “Their intended audience is always their peers. That’s who they have to impress to get tenure.”, "Others say that academics have traditionally been forced to write in an opaque style to be taken seriously by the gatekeepers—academic journal editors, for example" and some more.
"it’s important to realize that such a state of affairs doesn’t just happen by itself, or even through the actions of individual wealthy people"

Wait, wasn't that the biggest conclusion from Piketty's book? That inequality will happen by itself due to difference between returns on capital and economic growth?
Yea, I used to use Wiki on a Stick on a flash drive. When I had to migrate away, I ended up going to Evernote rather than Tiddlywiki. But it's a great tool.
My first reaction was that it seemed kind of cheesy, but it's a cool way to get some good PR. In the end it's a creative way to reinforce their image as a cool outdoorsy company and takes employees out of the line of fire for Black Friday. Wins all around I guess.
WoSign reportedly issues free certs without restrictions:

https://buy.wosign.com/free/
Is there any statement from the React team about the size?
Working hourly at a fairly high rate changed my outlook on work.

It's motivating to get up and think I am going to work to get paid vs. not burning a vacation / sick day. At the same token taking a day off for a few hundred $ really makes you feel 'important'. Where taking vacation from a pool feels like something the company gives you vs. something you earn.
Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
The question in itself is self-explanatory. Please mention your normal day job role (backend developer, full stack engineer etc) and what are the side projects you are doing currently.

This question is about having insight about what people are doing.
I really don't get it.

Although I personally did not own one, all of my friends did. I was the PC dude of the group.

So I got to use it when we gathered for some coding/gaming sessions back then.

The whole experience was awesome, how the OS and hardware were integrated together, the programming hardware that was available, some of the OS concepts like the libraries.

However in 2015, given the current computer architectures, I think nostalgia could be the only reason.
1.) Association fallacy (guilt by association) – arguing that because two things share a property they are the same

2.) "Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her." - pretty sure journalism doesn't work that way

3.) you didn't give any proof supporting the fact that innovation isn't being killed in China. Since you live in UK, what Chinese Brand/Product innovation do you see in stores in UK?
The basic issue is that food, clothing, and technology are treated as consumer goods, if sometimes durable consumer goods. Housing is treated as an investment asset, and the economy currently runs on asset bubbles.

Housing won't become affordable until we shift the growth-engine of the economy back to sustainable, wage-driven consumption.
I still build stuff for my favourite computer which was 8-bit from the 80s. I owned Amiga's after that but they did not give me the same feel. For me to stick to those massively underpowered computers seems to be that I find the hardware more interesting; with my limited free time I still understand all the hardware and can extend it, work on it; you can create mostly anything with 74series ICs and understand why it works after that. The closest comparable experience are FGPA/CPLD's but 74series are 'free' (you can find cubic meters of them on boards at your local garbage disposal or 2nd hand market or almost free on 2nd hand sites) and they look much better :)

This goes for the software as well; I understand that system in and out and I can build a simple OS from scratch (in assembler or C) and low level demos from scratch in days. The limitations make it interesting what the possibilities are; being clever with assembler and hardware can lead to very interesting results 'formerly not possible'.

For me the best 8-bit example is the actively developed; http://www.symbos.de

Then again; I would not know why you would make new hardware instead of going for the originals; it's not really the original feel / idea at least for me.
Agreed - how was your experience? Maybe it's just not a thing yet!
Don’t Destroy Your Dev Team by Growing
> "Amiga fans the original Apple haters."

Probably just jealous that Apple had decent management that didn't throw away its performance lead.

"When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (quote from former Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassée, Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996)
Hard to answer that with concrete numbers but Om Next handles optimistic and non-optimistic updates quite elegantly. Roughly speaking: each query expression is parsed twice, once locally and once in remote mode, and as long as your backend can handle Om Next query expressions, it Just Works:

Reading:
https://github.com/swannodette/om-next-demo/blob/master/todo...

Mutating:
https://github.com/swannodette/om-next-demo/blob/master/todo...
Why GitHub is not your CV
The 2010 Plain Writing Act [pdf]
This (1.75%) is a surprisingly small number! I wonder how far the reach of the internet is into retail? I know a few people who use Amazon and other sites to find products but don't even have Amazon accounts. When they've found the item the want, they look for local B&M stores for actual purchase. But they find Amazon invaluable for price reference and general info.
There's a pretty big difference between blocking porn and blocking popular services used for communication by much of the rest of the world.

I don't see a problem with one journalist or media outlet criticizing another country's policies. Given free access to information, people should be able to decide for themselves.

The question is, when will Chinese citizens earn the right to openly criticize their government without fear of being locked up?
Exploiting Padding Oracle to Gain Encryption Keys
Yes, that is correct. Here's the linked reddit post that confirms it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/2xcyrl/i_a...
Polymer is really not that opinionated. All they do is provide sugar that you would eventually write yourself after you get comfortable with web components and start to notice where the boilerplate lives.
Works great with React Devtools [0]!

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-to...
> Brave. Men don't get anything for free anyway.

What? Did I travel back to 1940 and nobody told me? What's wrong with caring for everyone in society, whether they be man or woman or anything else?
They spend much of their time and budget helping people with problems that can not be easily solved. For instance, someone with a dependence on alcohol or drugs gets priority over someone who doesn't.

A lot of homeless people could have their lives turned around with a timely and cost effective intervention but they are often ignored at the expense of those who are deemed to be 'more vulnerable'.

I was helped by a total stranger who offered me a place to stay. Within a few weeks I was working, back on my feet and paying taxes.

Many of the people I saw drinking in the park every day 4 years ago are still there, with the well meaning support of the local homeless charity.

When I asked for help I was told there was nothing they could do for me.

I'm not saying people with drug and drink issues shouldn't be helped. They should but not under the limited remit and resources of the homelessness agencies.
Especially the woman in the background who starts to weep as the first missiles hit their targets.
I didn't have any problems using StartSSL for any of my domains, and they all have whois privacy.
Org mode works on text files that are formatted in a specific way, the basic syntax is not more or less complicated than Markdown, so you can in principle use it from any editor you want.

The way I usually collaborate on things like papers / technical documentation is to assign specific sections, parts of the exposition to different people. I think it is rarely productive to edit the same part of the document at the same time, but I might be wrong or simply haven't found a use case.

Admittedly so far I have used Latex for serious projects, there you simply create a master skeleton file and then people work on different sections individually. The choice of editor then doesn't matter. Something similar could be done with org mode.

I've only used org mode only for personal note taking, todo lists and drafting documentation, but I would imagine it would scale fairly well to small teams using it.
The biggest problem is phishing, bad actors send emails from the slightly off TLD.
This is a real good introduction, but I wouldn't call it a cartoon.

It's a big text with many drawings.

Everytime I read the title I think "wow super easy panels and stuff" but then I see the wall of text.
> ReactDOM will be upgraded to comply

Except, it won't. They've explicitly stated they have no interest in conforming to or adapting the web components standard.
MasterCard wants to turn every gadget into a credit card
The problem is that the loss leaders go on sale at some ridiculous hour (I'm not waking up to go shopping at 5am when there's a big crowd). Unless you're willing to get up very early for cheap stuff, the shelves will be picked clean.
It's true that there are two kinds of game development going on. I wouldn't call the mostly mobile, metrics driven game dev 'indie' but at the same time that kind of game development has a lot to do with the same business model.

These metrics driven developers risk more cash up front and take less creative risks. Like a Hollywood movies, they pick a genre that is already successful and twist it a little. They likely even spend more on marketing than on production.

Still, even those games (like hollywood movies) remain hit driven so you'd better have a big budget backer to smooth out the edges.
So where does your friend go to get information about

1.) a list of corrupt officials and what activities they're involved in

2.) the richest 70 members of China’s NPC have a larger combined wealth ($89.8bn in 2011) than that of all 535 members of the US congress?

3.) Tiananmen square

4.) Great Famine

5.) China is insolvent?

?
Anti-Counterfeiting Security Features of the New US $100 Bill
There was an article on how much can your computer do 400 cycles (a cache miss) recently.

I have noticed that the size of L2 caches hasn't increased anywhere near the same rate as other memory capacity.

http://www.slideshare.net/EmanWebDev/pitfalls-of-object-orie...
> it's the pathology of a "system", not (just) that of the people in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
> There are free certs already.

Not anywhere that I can find. Let's Encrypt is very important or full participation on the web isn't available to the poor. The internet should be fully usable by anybody with an IP. Adding the cost of a PKI cert is a barrier to entry.

> Startssl

...won't give me a certificate. (they have in the past, I don't know why they changed their mind)

This assumption that a single private business providing free certificates (but mind the fine print) is somehow an a solution to the SSL problem is poor engineering[1]. Unfortunately, this kind of
attitude has become very common in recent years.

[1] You should always have a second source for anything critical. A design that is dependent on a single point of failure that you don't control is a design that is guaranteed to fail unpredictably.
On Slack the channel owner will form a hierarchy too, if it's less problematic it's because Slack is usually used in a professional setting where flaming is generally frowned upon. You see these kind of issues pop up on the easy-to-use Twitter as well.

It's a social question. The most the tech did wrong was not making flooding impossible in the first place.
I remember running a CBM 64 emulator inside a MAC emulator running on my Amiga 1200

I used to be unofficial Amiga support for Prestel/Telecom gold back in the Day.
Right, but it's still not unsafe. The stack unwinds, destructors get called.

And I meant some notion of 'safety', not fromMaybe/fromJust.
It may have been sustainable until the extreme couponer thing blew up on social media. Again, it worked fine for decades - something seems to have changed recently.
BFSI Solutions
No, I mean in the general case of web apps replacing desktop apps. I'm not convinced Atom for example will ever overcome its pain points that are a result of the technology it uses (breaking down on larger files, slowness, GC pauses etc).

Of course for smaller shops, donation or freeware etc, it's fine.

And for apps like Slack, which are glorified web pages.
There are babel transforms for it: https://github.com/openjsx
In fact I've seen a user use JSX-to-HTML for his Vue templates.
> a field were the very purpose is writing

This is true of vanishingly few academic disciplines.
A few years back, I hiked a chunk of the Appalachian Trail during the week between Christmas and New Year's. Despite the high hovering around something like 30 degrees Fahrenheit, my friends and I had to take off our heavy coats and hike with T-shirts on to avoid sweating. When you're moving around in cold weather, sweat is one of the most dangerous things that can happen, and you warm up quickly and stay very warm when you're exerting yourself.

Look at athletes -- when they play outside during the winter, they tend to use the same equipment they would during warmer months while playing, and then bundle up when they're on the sidelines.
Let's encrypt certificates are valid for only 90 days, and I guess the argument is that you want automatic tooling to take care of renewal if it happens so often.
Firing employees when things are automated isn't unethical. Returning worn out 15 year old shoes is.
Apple unlock: Judge compares request to execution order
Thanks.

I'm trying to find my way around flux but until now has been a little frustrating experience.

I wish something like Elm was mature enough.
Free Download Defraggler 2.17 for Files Defragmentation
Seneca – A micro-services toolkit for Node.js
Plus lack of identity validation. While the author of the article minimizes this, we shouldn't remove it from the equation just because users can't tell the difference. The right thing would be to fix the users understanding rather than weaken the product.

LetsEncrypt will be good for all those sites we deploy with self-signed certs, but won't be replacing major sites any time soon.
If someone from IBM is watching, it would be a really fun project to try to port some form of Amiga OS to run on POWER8. All of the POWER chips add complex instructions to the ISA but are all fully compatible with PPC COM(mon).
Differences between returns on capital and economic growth alone will not result in any increase in inequality. If everyone achieves the same rate of return, inequality can only remain flat - bignum x exp(rt) / smallnum x exp(rt) = bignum / smallnum = const.

If some people have income and save it inequality will go down: bignum x exp(rt) / smallnum x exp(rt) < (bignum x exp(rt) + k) / (smallnum x exp(rt) + k).

All r > g directly implies is that the ratio of capital stock to income will increase. I.e., we'll move from a situation with one factory (worth $1M) producing $1000/month in income to a situation with two factories (worth $2M) producing $1500/month in income. In this case, r=100% but g = 50%.
Wow. I'm sorry for your friend. I remember I got myself into a bad neighborhood and you're definitely right about the lack of information around neighbors. But it seems to me that any neighbor-related information would be a privacy issue.
I don't see a justification for "sustained economic growth" being a requirement?
A Penny for Your Books
Interesting how horrible the result may be when you use TDD for hash algorithm development.
$30,000 a year is owning ~$800,000 right now, free and clear.

I have always considered this 'fuck you' money, but Googleing it seems not.

I find that a little sad.

If everyone else had it though it's no longer 'fuck you' money. People don't work this way.
Hey Mindcrime, thanks for your insight. That's exactly what I think about the situation too. An SNA product on its own serves no purpose unless it is applied to some sort of specific (pre-defined) problem. Similar to data analytics I guess, one needs to know why and what they are analysing before building the solution.

Yeah I use the notebook idea! Very useful.

Out of curiousity, how are you finding working with SNA? I expect that your market/customers are primarily large companies with lots fo data.
It wasn't silent, it is optional. You'd have a stronger point if you mentioned the torrent sites that get blocked by court order - these at least go in front of a judge, but they're not optional for the relevant ISPs. (but easy to bypass for users.)

Comparing an optional firewall with Chinese oppression is weird.
Lithuanian Startups on Project Management