skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet when you look at it, the biggest opportunities to create immense value added are on the hardware side of things: self driving cars, pharma (aging, cancer, etc.), robotics, batteries, power generation, interstellar expeditions, bringing billions of people out of poverty, etc.

I don't want to be dismissive, but the software industry might very well go through and M&A and commodification phase once it matures. It looks like oil now because those companies are big monopolies, will it last? I don't know, I wouldn't put all my assets in software, that's a bad idea in general anyway,
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Reid Hoffman said it best, when explaining why he wasn't going to change the world through the academy, when his advisor told him - "If more than a handful of people understand what you've written, it's insufficiently academic."
Hey, that looks really nice. I'm looking for something native that operates on a folder full of text files, but that is a really great site.
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My job title is just Developer, but I work primarily in a front end capacity and currently I'm working on a passion project, a cross platform mobile app that I'm transitioning from Ionic to native, a Swift project that's a pretty simple voice note recorder that starts recording when you open the app, and a teaching/building project with a friends art collective, slowly building it while teaching them how to code each part.
Passwords, which are easy to remember, are not random and not strong. If I will know that your passwords are 3 dictionary words, I will try to bruteforce them using words, not characters. 50000 common words in ^3 is too small.

Jut generate random password and memorize it, like you memorize other random numbers and strings, like lock combinations, room numbers, car numbers, etc. Learn how to memorize arbitrary long strings of characters and you will have no problems with them for rest of your life.

To make life easier, memorize short password first, e.g. Gc@b%, let call it "alpha", then, when password expired, memorize two new short passwords, "beta" and "gamma", and include your old password "alpha" between them (or rotate it, or flip, or use part of it, etc.), so your password will 2 times longer and stronger. Repeat procedure next time. In short time, you will have list of "words" - short pieces of random strings, which are hard to guess by strangers, but remembered well by you. You can use that dictionary to construct new passwords while keeping adding new random or non-random "words" to dictionary, e.g. "car" - something related to your car, "house" - something related to house, etc. Then your password might look like "alpha-car-beta-house", which is easy to remember by YOU, but hard to guess.
I suspect the authors hope is that you'll buy their upcoming book.
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I searched for 黄教 减丁 but all I see are some random Tiebas. Do you have an authoritative source on this?
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That might actually be a good thing, though. Currently I have to do it for a couple of domains every year. By forcing me to automate it, it takes me more time once, but afterwards I don't have to look at it anymore at all.
Being natural doesn't make H2S safe, especially at 1,000,000 ppm under high pressure.

There's nothing funny about it. In many areas sewer workers are required to check H2S levels above manhole covers before opening, because it sometimes kills sewage workers.

If the sewer smells, the H2S level is probably below 150 ppm. Starting at 100 ppm, H2S begins to paralyze the olfactory nerve and the sewer stops stinking.
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Well there's various degrees of tax optimization. Here's some things I've come across:

- In most countries you can set yourself up as a company. This means you can write off certain things and adjust the proportion of revenue that ends up as salary, which has implications for various types of tax. For instance in the UK NHS contributions are dependent on salary, so you can give yourself a minimal salary and lots of dividends. This is a pretty standard play, probably done by everyone in the country who has a business, eg. doctors and plumbers. I don't think there's anything wrong with this.

- At some point a guy will phone you. He finds your name on lists of likely people. He shows up at your office draws you a box diagram of corporations, with lots of little arrows. He quotes tax legal terms you won't understand, but they are always some sort of loophole. In one case I was offered to do a company with P Diddy (or whatever he's called now) in which I was to critique his new music. I had to produce evidence that I'd spent at least 10 hours a week or so on this. Now keep in mind I can't even read sheet music, have zero appreciation of Diddy's genre, and generally have no interest in him as a musician. I suppose this was mutual, as I've never heard of him being associated with quantitative developers either.

- A friend told me about what he'd been offered. Along similar lines, he'd been told there was an opening in poetry. Another box diagram with arrows, and it boils down to that you can get a tax benefit if you publish your own book of poetry. The guy in question was an old school Essex local (shoutey trader). I doubt he'd spent much time reading Sylvia Plath. So anyway, the organisers had all their City connections write crappy (who am I to judge?) poetry, print up a few hundred books, and distribute it to everyone.

- I never did any of these last two schemes. If something sounds ridiculous, you know it's a tax dodge. They tend to end up in court, where they are decided on arcane points if tax law, eating up the productive time of many people. If it goes wrong, you lose the money, a long while after you thought you had it. If it goes right, you are abusing the law in some sense. The other way you can tell is there are some plays every accountant in the whole country will tell you. Other will require a somewhat more entrepreneurial accountant, one that requires a sales operation.
It's software as communication/marketplace platform that makes most of the money. metcalfe's law + near zero marginal cost = $$$$.
In my experience there is (or at least was) very strong animosity between HAMs and people who build networks of this kind. To some extent I view that as conflict between doing things "the right way" and "it works, so what".
It's bash so pretty easy to audit
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1, from their friends, as it has always been the case there.
Search for "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away".

2, There was a short period in time, involving 2 World Wars when the super-rich was not that super rich. Before and after, this was always like this in history, everywhere.

3, 4, 5, China is suppressing information, yes; otherwise there were civil wars, and that is not necessarily better. See current Middle East.

Yes, free information is good, but totally free information would first require solving all the other issues; otherwise it leads to fights and wars which nearly never results in any good. History has plenty to tell on that.
I love the guys over at Introversion Software, Uplink was one of my favourite games out there for quite a while. Not at all realistic in any shape or form, but the tension/suspense it generated was incredible. Nothing really came close for a good while until FTL came out.
Looks pretty cool, but I had trouble getting the links to work just using a note title. I'm also looking for something native that will operate on a folder full of text files (for easy backup, syncing, and versioning).
This is bigger than trying to impress a journal editor to get a paper published, or convincing department chairs and academic committees in order to get tenure.

I am talking the process of matching the expectations of an entire community and meeting the norms of that community. College students and some new grad students are coming as outsiders who don’t know the rules of the game, but they quickly figure out (from reading academic papers and scholarly books that are assigned to them and examining the profiles of their instructors) that “publishing” is the currency of the realm.

They will begin to match their terminology, writing styles, and references to meet the norms of this community and to get their own publishing output accepted. By the time they are ready to publish their first paper they’ve been effectively indoctrinated and will continue perpetuate academic writing styles.
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most companies pay by the click.
self driving cars, pharma (aging, cancer, etc.), robotics, ... , power generation, interstellar expeditions

All of those involve very large software elements, and benefit from software innovation.

It's quite plausible that the existing winners are at the top of their ramp, so buying in today at high p/e might not be a good bet. But all the unicorn investing is betting on new software companies coming along and reaching ascendency.
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Huh, where did you hear that? I wasn't planning on dropping support for IE8 in Mithril, if possible.
GitBook also have conrefs (content reference): http://help.gitbook.com/format/conrefs.html
I have the same thing with coming home from work and just being done with screens. What's worked for me is coding for 1-3 hours before work, and treating one weekend day as a normal workday but for myself.
Start by identifying your mouse grip[0]. That is the starting point for choosing a mouse. Unfortunately, if you prefer a claw or fingertip grip the only mice available are gaming mice, which may have "flashier" decorations. Claw and Fingertip mice are usually shorter and wider.

I mostly use a fingertip grip, changing unconsciously to claw when playing more action oriented videogames. At work I have a CM Storm Xornet[1], with the recommended CM cloth mousepad (Small size).
At home I have a CM Storm Spawn[2], with the same mousepad but in Medium size.

Personally, I prefer my work setup. The Spawn has stickier rubber (which I dislike), and the mousewheel stops working ar random. The small mousepad is perfect for my needs. due to my grip I have high sensitivity in the mouse and my arm doesn't move a lot (or at all)

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[1] http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/products/mice/xornet/
[2] http://gaming.coolermaster.com/en/products/mice/spawn/
"If software is the new oil, be prepared for a wild ride. The oil industry is notorious for decade-scale cycles of over-hiring and then layoffs and under-hiring, rinse-lather-repeat."

We've already been through one. We may be on the high side of another right now. I think the mechanisms are sufficiently different from the oil world that comparisons aren't too helpful, though; the presence of some form of negative feedback in the system is often sufficient to produce oscillations. The negative feedbacks are quite different in character even if the results are the same at a sufficiently high level of abstraction.

(I'm not sure that we're in a "bubble" in the 1999 sense that people worry about, but still, if the economy ever becomes healthy again and interest rates go up, software will cease to be the only investment people can make that has any chance of paying of, which will mean that even without a "collapse" the investor money flows may dry up relative to today. However, I think the industry has a greater focus on real profits today, which will buffer the industry substantially vs. 1999. Yeah, we talk about the hyper-growth eyeball-selling companies, but we talk about they partially because they are the exception; there's a lot more "real value" companies out there right now.)
this is not amazon strategy to ever get rid of the ecommerce business.

Amazon strategy is to become a leader in many fields, they got lucky and envisionned the potential of cloud early, for commerce of goods it is a thousand year old industry with big competition from all other the world, their goal is to cut costs, not to care about short term returns and once other businness collapse due to prices cuts that they cant folllow, then amazon will be the only leader in commerce and will rule the price of pretty much everything that is traded in the world.
Thanks. Those are great examples!
Looks good, I don't get why you called it !CRUD however.
Building off what you're saying here, one important facet to academic writing not covered by the article is the concept of specificity. For most fields jargon is crafted to map single words/phrases to single concepts. In this way a 16 page article becomes an 8 page article at the expense of losing anyone that isn't already familiar with the mapping (or worse causing misunderstandings when jargon shares a word but doesn't match the accepted vernacular). Unfortunately, because of the stranglehold journalistic publications have on the dissemination of scientific work, there is little incentive to change styles or provide the tools for the non-specialist to consume the information because the general public will never have the opportunity to.
I don't think that anybody considers PageRank to be a classic neural network. It's a recursively defined centrality algorithm. It has a graph structure; beyond that it's not really a neural network.
I don't know nearly enough about macroeconomic trends or basics to have an informed opinion on this, but I do wonder how much of the software giant's cash-generating power is eventually still based on industries that 'extract stuff out of the planet'.
Even if that dependency were indirect - say by the amount of oil/minerals/diamonds needed to produce a chip that your software needs to run on - such a dependency would still mean that software can never be as much of a 'primal' industry as oil is/was.
One small note on HTTP/2: The TLS requirement never reached consensus in the working group. HTTP/2 implementations are free to add or remove the requirement.
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I think it makes more sense to say that data is the new oil, and software is the machinery used to extract, refine, store, and convert it into energy. AWS, Azure, etc. will be the Shell and BP of the data world. But not all data is created equal, and we still haven't gotten the refining process down.

Hopefully we'll be able to use digital oil to fuel more than just the great engine of personalized advertising, which seems to be where most of the revenue is coming from right now.
The thing I hope corporations and people will at some point realize is that the very reason the founders of the USA constructed the nation through the Constitution and Bill of Rights the way they did was to barricade society against the very kind of government demon that is rearing it's vile head these days.

If you take these kinds of cases and carry them to their logical conclusion, there is nothing that will bar the government from using mind reading technology to read your mind even if it is just to assess your "mental state" and preemptively remove you from society, monitor you on a constant basis, set up traps and tricks to ensnare you, etc. The worst kind of enemy is the enemy saboteur from within, which the US and other governments are starting to become.
I like the analogy, and eagerly await the arrival of a software rentier state.
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When we ban begging we take away the first amendment rights of the poor
So what's the renewable alternative to software then? And are we going to make wars over software, too?
While I would agree, I still find Judge Posner and Justice Scalia's writing full of puckish eloquence and therefore entertaining...
I'm not going to say that there's isn't plenty of obscurantism, needless jargon, and just plain bad writing in academia. But, this article paints a pretty simplistic and one-sided picture. Let me take a quote that's emblematic of the problem from one of the professors (!?) in the article: “Academics, in general, don’t think about the public; they don't think about the average person, and they don't even think about their students when they write,”[Deborah S. Bosley] says. “Their intended audience is always their peers. That’s who they have to impress to get tenure.”

Specifically this notion that "[an academic writer's] intended audience is always their peers," is treated as though it's somehow incriminating. But it's not, it's what most academic writing is for! Many academics do write for the public—and that's great, and more should do so—but they don't publish that in journals or with an academic press and when they do write for the public, their writing is usually pitched at a more accessible level. But most of the writing academics do is aimed at their peers because that is how ideas are transmitted among specialists and how a body of knowledge is gradually expanded. The notion that that they only do this just to "impress" or get tenure seems to be a really bad-faith argument.

Look, any highly technical endeavor is going to have highly technical jargon that’s pretty impenetrable from the outside. There's nothing wrong with that: it allows specialists to communicate about complex topics efficiently. Whether the field is medicine, philosophy, or computer science is immaterial. Frankly, if you want to see a place where obscurantism, needless jargon, and just plain bad writing are used as tools to disguise the fundamental banality of the ideas being presented, look no further than a lot of business writing. I'd take academic writing over management-speak any day.
thank you! It's cool to get reproducible sandboxed environment.
I did not find his one-day lecture nearly as useful as MikeNomad did, I wouldn't recommend it myself.

I do like the books I got to take home though.
Why? It is END. There is nothing after it.
Anybody with any of the IBS diseases (colitis, Crohn's, etc.) is advised to be consider some moderation in their wheat consumption, I think.

Having said that, it is regrettable that so many Americans have decided to "cure" a host of physical and pshychological maladies with the "gluten-free" diet. Every moment you spend chasing a figment is a moment you don't spend fixing a real problem.
There's plenty of ways to wear just a tie or a vest and make it look handsome. It just depends on whether it fits well and matches your outfit.

Yes, there is a tendency for it to look like service personnel, so you have to either make it look classier or more casual.

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My website itself is just peacock feathers.

The engine/CMS powering it is the more interesting part and I agree has other applications. Thanks for the feedback.
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It seems that all major browsers require or will require TLS for HTTP/2, though.
Since I'm sure everyone is thinking, "but don't we already have Docker for everything?", I'll point out that this was addressed on one of Dave's mailing list posts, in case you're looking for a comparison!

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00916.html
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Slowly starting to transition over to Medium from my own blog. Infrequent blogger but I write primarily around startups, enterprise software, the CMS landscape, and my personal hobby of genomics.

https://medium.com/@rcasey
You could say the same about holding on to property you're not using, but people resist the obvious solution: higher property tax, or in the case of domains higher yearly fees.
What Excel formats do you support? I tried a simple Excel 97-2003 .xls, with no VBA or addins, and got some kind of format error.
I'm a Mechanical Design Engineer in normal day job and I conceive spectrometers for LULI laboratory. The side projects I'm currently doing is my Startup Air Spectral (http://www.airspectral.com), where I'm developping a miniature hyperspectrale camera. I'm doing currently another project where I'm not the leader. It consist on builting a new motor concept based on the cogeneration principle. In parallele of my Mechanical education, I learnt programming and lead with my friend during a moment the project lylconcepts (http://lylconcepts.com/)
sounds really great....Fundinghunt did a great job on behalf of covering a nice startup update
In case you're thinking of mixing beer and wine, don't forget to use this scientifically proven* formula:

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I'm not convinced by this blog post that "software" is the new oil.

To me, it's the top talent of "software PROGRAMMERS" that's the "oil".

Let's pretend that Google Inc opensourced their entire software stack. Now, anyone can just spend money on hardware and datacenters and "replicate" what Google does in a certain sense. But did you really duplicate their abilities? Would intelligent and visionary investors fund such copycat endeavors?

I say no because smart people would realize you didn't replicate Google Inc's "hiring pipeline" of the best minds from Stanford/MIT/etc. Yes, we may have gotten a snapshot of Google's source code but we didn't duplicate their ability to attract desirable workers who can build <<the next future thing that's NOT in that source code dump>>.

Even Bill Gates had noticed this point: Google's ability to poach top talent from Microsoft was better than Microsoft's ability to attract Google defectors.

Same analysis can be done for Amazon inc. A person could take all their source code for ecommerce and warehouse logistics and I'm not confident he could outcompete Jeff Bezos. First, you must prove that you're hiring a better pool of candidates than Amazon.

Lastly, the "software" advantage leaks outside of the organization because others copy it (open source) or ex-employees with knowledge leave and reimplement it (legally) at their next gig. On the other hand, it's not as simple to make top compsci graduates switch their career aspirations from Google/Facebook/Apple in SV to SmallPotatoesInc in Alabama.
Maybe in terms of the income tax that we know today, but if you did any importing or exporting you paid a heck of a lot of taxes via tariffs. If you ever get a chance to read up on the pre-Civil War period you'll find that the south was responsible for about 87% of total Federal revenue and almost entirely due to tariffs.

It's an interesting subject.
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The Amiga had a far superior OS and user experience than PCs at the time, and for a long time in fact.

I think the hardware was really fun to work with. It had the copper processor and blitter which were programmable and powerful, and their use/abuse enabled really cool looking effects which drove the demo scene.

The 2d games still looked better and moved faster than on games for a good few years until directx and graphics cards started to catch up, and of course with 3D the pc win with brute cpu power
Job role: I'm the manager and lead dev of a team working on a number of military software projects for the US Air Force.

Side projects: I've been tinkering with new approaches for doing MVC and templating in JS. See my projects on GitHub: https://github.com/kethinov
One of these is a capital-intensive industry that extracts finite resources from the particular areas of the earth that happen to have them. The resource is consumed on a continuous basis.

The other is entirely dependent on skilled labour, and once deployed continues to deliver value.

Software is much more like real estate: the first entrants erect a patent barrier around the best bits and use it to charge rent to everyone that clusters around the core. It's subject to gearing-driven bubbles.