skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One would think so. Doing open source consulting in Montreal I've discovered that Canada is pretty backwards on average when it comes to having access to lots of forward-thinking companies to trade with. Many investments seem to be very focused on cheapness and "deliverables" with bad specs as a preferred approach to software development, when most engineers have acknowledged for a long time that working iteratively is better.

The Canadian environment is extremely fertile for exploitation by US companies though, and we're having some success working with them already. It helps that the exchange rate is favourable. I would like to see much more competition and American money around here if only to teach the crusty old guard what it means to be innovative.

I'd love to see services overtake natural resources as a main export because it would be more sustainable and it would improve the lives of regular people a lot more than, say, unrefined oil or softwood lumber do.
Never had a bad moment, really. Joined a Silicon Valley company out of college (Stanford) doing OS work which was nirvana. Came back to Iowa, did Neural Network simulators and then Java stock charting apps (yes there was a connection). Back to San Jose to design a Fibre Channel Switch product that we sold to Dell. Then an InfiniBand implementation that didn't go anywhere. Then consulting for big $$. Then another startup - web collaboration tools. I did the network and media management parts. Now consulting again.

At all times I was employed for good money, happily married with 3 super-bright boys, involved in community and family.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500188
Why should someone have the right to release smoke from their land and spread it over other people's land? It's generally agreed that you don't have the right to dump trash on other people's property without their permission. Why would it suddenly become acceptable to do this just because the trash consists of fine particles instead of diapers and hamburger wrappers?
They have become this mythical creature in political rhetoric along with "small business owners". A lot of stuff is done and claimed in their name. Little of it becomes true, but the rhetoric of appealing to "hard working men and women" never fails.
...and this is why we're not moving to SSGs even though this almost exact article gets posted monthly here.

Its trivial to put in a cache level that generates and stores static html in from of WP, Drupal, etc. So you get both worlds; the tools that dynamic CMS's give you and the performance of a static site.

I think it took me 5 minutes to install varnish on a WP server I have. Varnish delivers these pages straight from ram. My page load performance is fairly absurd. If that's too technically daunting or your webhost doesn't support varnish, totalcache is also good. Boost for Drupal is good too.
Well if X people are no big deal, why not start with you and your family? I mean... its good for the Earth and all, I'd wager Indonesians have a smaller carbon footprint than you do.
What is the dollar sign in JavaScript, if not jQuery
A Country is a company metaphor is probably the most common source of misunderstandings. It's everywhere in political discussion. A company or a household is open system. A country is best modeled as a closed system with feedback loops.

Classic:

https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company
Like this in what sense? https://blog.andyet.com/2015/08/06/what-the-flux-lets-redux is on my readlist...
Shoot me an email and I'll get it all fixed up - wes@wesbos.com
This comment is completely unacceptable and racist at its core.

> ignorant majority ethnic group

In fact Indonesia is has thousands of native tribes that constitute many different ethnic groups with a huge diversity of cultures and languages. These are the NATIVE people of Indonesia: Indonesians.

> rides on the backs of the East Asian immigrant populations that actually value education and hard work

Those Chinese immigrants are notorious in Indonesia for being exploitative businessmen who treat Indonesians, regardless of education level, as an underclass, funnel money out of Indonesia and into China, and hiring exclusively Chinese to work in their businesses. Because of the weak government (Indonesia was admirably non-bloc during the Cold War years, leaving it economically vulnerable), Chinese businesses since the 90s have been able to bargain their way into the country in order to harvest its natural resources while giving as little as possible to the Indonesian people.

> actually value education and hard work

The argument presented in JPKab's comment is a common slander against poor countries. Similar arguments have been made by the US about basically the entire people of Latin America, and by imperialist European countries. But an examination of what motivations are actually driving them reveal the true sentiment: "You're not harvesting your countries resources for me well enough!"

The "absurd laws" that aim to protect the Indonesians people and their land are some of the most promising things, as they are long-term assurances that the country will not grow up to be a two-tiered society, ruled by the Chinese.

JPKab and those who think like him would do better to do business in their own countries rather than forcing their way into countries who dont want them while simultaneously spreading bigoted lies about thousands of tribes and hundreds of millions of people that make up the "majority ethnic group[s]" of Indonesia.
That doesn't really explain it. Stuff that really needed to be dynamic would be. But we (I was at Yahoo 2003-2005) took privacy seriously and a lot of seeming quirks of login state etc. were well thought through and had good reasons. E.g. we were regularly reminded not to mingle data that identified browsers (that could "follow" an unlogged in user across sites) with data that identified users (as that would let us tie a userid to data the user explicitly had not knowingly shared with us).

And many particularly personal properties such as mail, or the billing system (my area), would take extra precautions about what information could be made available on other properties (e.g. what info from mail could be shown on the homepage) even if the user was logged in, to prevent leaking information that shouldn't leak. This would lead to extra logins that I'm sure seemed unnecessary, and logins where the user probably thought they were already logged in, but where non-personal information was keyed to the browser rather than their user id.

I'm sure there are bugs and unintentional quirks too - the system was crazy complex already in 2005, but I really hope they've stuck to their guns when it comes to how carefully they treated personal data back then.
I can recommend Redmorph. It bundles everything that is in adblock/ublock and donottrack into one extension. Also comes with paid for proxy and VPN services if you're into that.

https://redmorph.com/
anytime i see shit like this, all i can think is: fuck the industry and the market, fuck commerce, mass production, mass consumption. fuck socialism, communist and capitalism. fuck "democracy" and the fact that it never existed in the first place. and most important of all, fuck class warfare and everything it represents!

this week is Indonesia fires, last week was china insane pollution from gadget manufacturing. next week will be something else. we wont ever be free while all the above exists..
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One sees what one wants to see. There's also a correlation of consumption of any meat and health issues. I don't claim to know what is the real causation here, but presumably it's more complicated than "processed==bad", especially as "processed" has no good definition and is mostly used as a fnord to make people uncomfortable.
I spent several years in Asia and never met someone playing Go, just a few Chinese chess players. Would it really make headlines anywhere?
You receive samples first and check them. Another option is having an agent in find on your behalf perform QC before you pay the balance on your initial deposit. That's what I do..
> Yahoo hired Rasmus Lerdorf and switched to PHP starting 2002.

Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. When I left Yahoo Europe in 2005, there was still Perl all over the place both in Europe and the US at least. I managed the Yahoo Europe billing system, and that was mostly Perl on the backend, for example.

[small world, btw., courtesy of some minor profile-stalking: I interviewed with Ed about a position a few years back; your service looks interesting - I have a client that might be interested]
Here's one for HN, though Reddit can get much worse: https://levels.io/hacker-news-number-one/
I have to assume that's 128-bit precision in 3D rendering -- partly because it's Carmack, but largely because 64-bit color would be... well beyond human perceptual limits.

This StackExchange post claims ~2.4 million colors for the limit of human color vision; it cites CIE color science: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/10208/how-many-colo.... 64 bit per channel color would produce ~2e19 different colors; if it's 64 bits per channel it would produce some even-more absurd number like ~8e57. (Besides the ridiculous numbers, I assume those numbers are per-channel, because it's not divisible by 3.)

And yes, higher bit precision is really important for drawing 3D graphics. Look at the price premium you pay for Nvidia's Quadro cards, which can process in higher bit precision than your stock cards... they're typically 5-10x a consumer card: http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro.html

Mostly advertised for high end CAD or VFX, where bit precision errors can result in odd display artifacts or incorrect rendering.
There have been quite a few car name mishaps though:

* Mazda Laputa - 'the whore' in Spanish

* Buick LaCrosse - slang for masturbation in Canada (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3208501.stm)

* Kia Provo - nickname for the IRA (an Irish terrorist group) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21678741)

* And Ford Pinto - Brazilian slang for 'penis'
The problem is that at high enough concentrations, a single breath is all it takes. Did you remember to purge your mask before taking a breath when you put it back on?
I'd honestly highly recommend using a third party firewall.

Comodo is pretty good.
What does it provide?
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> We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers.

Wow. Really?
it's not just advertising anyway. What makes me close the tab is the popup with 'subscribe to our newsletter' (on my first visit) or other shit that is supposed to force me to click it, so that they can validate that I'm a human and not a bot.
Also the location is right next to the University of Washington, maybe that's also a factor
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Surprise surprise, world's central banks are engaged on the largest bout of central planning the world has even seen and... guess what, it doesn't work!
I believe that drugs should be liberalized. I don't believe this because I think that drugs are totally cool and don't cause problems, I believe this because I think that loosening drug laws will cause fewer problems overall, including fewer problems due to drug addiction.

From what I can see, people who want to keep drugs illegal believe that behavior always moves in the direction of the law. Nobody is naive enough to believe that outlawing something will stop it completely, but a lot of people believe that outlawing something reduces its incidence. That seems to be the approach taken by drug prohibitionists, and looks like it's your approach as well. It boils down to, X is bad, so we want to reduce the incidence of X, so let's outlaw X.

The problem is that outlawing something doesn't always reduce it. The experience of countries like Portugal is that loosening drug prohibition reduces drug addiction.
I spoke with Alan Bellows from 'Damn Interesting'[0] on Reddit after his site hit the front page via a TIL post and he revealed a little about the traffic load.[1]

It was very interesting to see and was quite a lot of traffic for sure.

Bear in mind that the screenshot he posted is for concurrent visitors too.

[0] http://www.damninteresting.com/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct/til_a...
Bitcoin to be 6th largest reserve currency by 2030: Research
It blows my mind that Keynesians can't identify busts that were caused by bubbles.

When the US real estate market started tanking, how was the boom supposed to continue? More construction in an over-supplied housing market? Re-train workers overnight and give them jobs in other industries? Transmute wood, concrete, shingles, tractors, bulldozers, and excavators into other materials and tools for other industries?
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But, surely, they are going to improve the system, and fast.

I would bet that in a few years is going to be clear who is superior, the machine or the human.
Suicide can be a rational option, in the face of certain agony followed by death.

The vast majority of suicides don't qualify, but we shouldn't say it's always irrational any more than we should say it's always rational.
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Progressive enhancement truly is dead. :(
I was going to point to the ability to seed large backups to CrashPlan's cloud, but it doesn't look like this is an option anymore.

You can still seed to a private cloud of your own, friends and family, but not to CrashPlan's server.
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Steam records your gameplay statistics, and it is something you have agreed to.

It's not even remotely comparable to what MS is doing with Windows.
Anyone else wonder if much of their R&D and design on this is coming from international espionage? Chinese exfiltration of sensitive industrial data is becoming pretty well known.
I never click on articles with titles like "classic game programming hack", because it's invariably another discovery of that quake inverse square root. The old chestnut that hypnotizes anyone who has never read HAKMEM or "Hackers Delight".

Happy to be wrong for once ;-)
> It's comparable to how frustrated my tech friends and I get when television shows cross the threshold of comical technical inaccuracy and progress into a zone of visceral opposition

I don't mind it when comedy bits are inaccurate about the things I'm a subject matter expert on, because it's not meant to be taken seriously.
Indeed. Their eula is the worst contract I have ever read, and most of it could not be enforced in Europe.

The best part must be the claim that they own all Accounts, which means everything you buy using online transactions is not yours.
What has inequality got to do with it? The 24/7 issue is whether people have a decent life day to day. Why is the existence of insanely rich Mrs X a cause of suicide? Of course there is an issue, especially in the US, whereby wealth translates into power. No more office boy to president! There seems to be reluctance to tackle this but that's up to Americans. Assuming you believe inequality is a bad thing in itself, you can only counter it by taking money from the rich. One does wonder however whether taking money from a hard-working entrepreneur and giving even more of it to an organization that has run up astronomical debts already (most Western governments) - to dole out to others is such a smart move. Opportunities here for fresh thinking.
And since when has anybody really benefited in the long run from being given money. Give me a multiple of my income and I'll down tools and do something interesting but not necessarily economically productive.
This is kind of the elephant in the room isn't it? I know there are a lot of mediocre FOSS software I tolerate solely because its FOSS. I know of several commercial or free closed alternatives that are better in a lot of ways, but the FOSS angle makes it interesting to me and others (others who freely contribute support in forums, code, etc).
If I remember correctly, a fatal concentration of H2S is actually lower than HCN (hydrogen cyanide).

Many people each year succumb to H2S poisoning. It's a pretty insidious poison.
>If we did, they could point that finger right back at us and ask us what happened to our forests and peat? Uhm, we chopped it down and burned it all before Indonesia was founded. But you shouldn't do that.

That's hardly a reason they should be allowed to do it. Hypocrisy should make us feel bad, but it in no way invalidates our request that they quit shitting up the environment.
Same here, except Debian/Arch for all my non-gaming computing activities.
It's why numerous large organizations exist such as the WTO, UN and so on.

If you have a million farmers causing it, then it has to be elevated to a national level, as an enforcement issue. It becomes no different than if country A were allowing radioactive run-off to flow into country B's territory.

If you then say that those international bodies don't function properly, such that they can't or won't punish Indonesia for failing to stop the mass pollution that is directly harming Singapore, then that is a huge inter-governmental failure that obviously needs to be corrected.

Property rights are enforced at the government level (judicial, police, military), not by corporations. Any failure on protecting property rights, is inherently a governmental failure in one regard or another.
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In the past, I used stars as bookmarking. However, I noticed a shift towards more "like" behavior about 1-2 years ago amongst my twitter network.
It seems that IRCCloud also offers mobile apps with push notifications, so IRCAnywhere may not be a complete replacement.
BAE Systems and Reaction Engines develop a ground breaking new aerospace engine
I'm doubtful. Smoking is a fairly recent phenomenon for the most part, while drinking long predates written history.
Yeah, but if you get people like me out first who is going to advocate for exterminating the others? ;)
Do you have any issues with drivers for things like mice, keyboards, joysticks?

I have a RAT5 mouse and am X-55 Rhino HOTAS for Elite: Dangerous and as far as I am aware, there are no drivers for these under Linux.
I love pelican as a generator, it's great

The one static generator I wish there was (unless there is one and I just haven't found it) is one that would take a tree of code files and display it kinda like github does, in a browsable file browser hierarchy with syntax highlighting when drilling down to individual files.

Kind of like a precompiled static file browser, there are several dynamic file browsers around but they all require server-side code (php usually) to do the directory listing and so on, but I think it should be possible to precompute all the directory display pages with symlinks to the individual files, and do the highlighting in those in JS/CSS

I might end up writing this at some point as it's definitely an itch I'd like scratching unless it does exist already and somebody kindly points me to it
They seem to deny that there is anything called malinvestment. All that matters is aggregate demand.
Just use Conversations. It can now use the same protocol and is the best XMPP client there is.

I'm completely baffled that the Textsecure people insist on using the gapps package, which is of course an extreme privacy risk.
I am related several different ways to blue collar people: they see the sham.
Blue collar white Americans are being replaced by cheaper, less demanding migrant labour.

It is a bad time for those that are not academically gifted.
There you go:

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore

An open-source replacement of Google services. You can use Signal with this.
on holoween (oct 31/nov 1) depending where you were, pagefair, a pretty big advertising company/cdn/anti-adblock company was hacked and served maliscious software to many people.

The timeframe is similar, and I suspect there is reasonable overlap with users of pagefair and freelancer (customers) but it could be entiry councedential.

http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/02/pagefair_malware_snare...
> In practice, GPLv3 may only offer hope that one could some day prevent violations after the time and expense of litigation

That's overly pessimistic. People abusing your GPLv3 licensed code would be almost the same as people pirating your proprietary software. It would still be copyright infringement and with prices already set for commerical license exceptions it would be relatively easy to sue for damages plus legal fees.

It's funny in this case that the Free Software approach may actually be a more viable business model for RoboVM than the OSS approach. Many people consider Open Source to be better for business and Free Software to be a bunch of hippies. But had RoboVM used a viral license and sold commercial exceptions (a model that the FSF considers acceptable) they could be defending user's freedoms while also building a viable business.
The Transhumanist Movement Is Having an Identity Crisis
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Gmail is getting smarter and even filters out YouTube spam
Vaguely reminds me of the chapter on suicides in Tipping Point (iirc). I wonder if this can be explained in a similar fashion instead of by macro trends?
No! They American work ethic has historically been work hard to provide for your family because that's ... what ... you ... do!

It is failing because greed has become the norm. People's attitudes have gone from help your family and friends to help yourself. It has moved away from community to individualism. That's what's changed.

When Andrew decimated south Florida people were in dire straights. Everyone wanted to help. When the convoys of utility workers, food and water were allowed to go in finally, people pulled off the side of the highway and cheered and wept because, finally, help was on its way.

Contrast that to the bumbling eff up that was Katrina. People were falling over themselves trying to blame everyone else for that.

That's the difference now. How we got this way, I don't know. But it's disgusting.

A basic income doesn't fix this. We need an attitude adjustment in this country.
I wonder why Fabrice hasn't already done this. Too busy? Does anyone know?
Being able to merge in progress development to your main branch is an important part of reducing product in development and reducing cycle time. When dealing with big features that aren't going to reach a viable end user visible state for months to years it can be a real challenge especially when what your are working on feels like a it "touches everything."

This is more than just the technical capability. I've been on teams that insist they are completely unable to iteratively develop and deliver big features. As a result you end up with huge impossible to review patch drops at the ends of months of work behind closed doors. It's a disaster every time.

I'm still struggling to communicate to people how to do it and what the benefits are.
The sword cuts both ways.

Here is a story about a white poet that used an "ethnically sounding" name, as he would not get published as easily using his birth name.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/09/10/439247027/...

I might start submitting a few submissions for conferences using a pseudonym....
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