skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That is, Coca-Cola supplies and products were required to transit a Soviet occupation zone, while being transported between the Lambach bottling plant and the Vienna warehouse

man, what a logistical nightmare. can't imagine having to deal with something like that if I was trying to get coca-cola from A to B. they must have been grateful for the "unusual consequence" of almost no soviet-zone stoppage.
Wow that is scummy. Can't you do a chargeback?
Kik's user space app approach is novel - https://github.com/kikinteractive/starter-kit - basically allows developers to extend Kik with simple apps written in html / js. That said the most popular apps seem to be about sexting - guess that's a popular use case with Kik's teen audience
the cost is not everything... sometimes it is impossible to get the features that you need in the form factor that you are seeking
I'd love to see more advice regarding optimistic state and when it should be used. For Instagram or Facebook, it seems worth it to give them satisfaction even while the request is processing - if they're lied to, it's not a big deal. In a financial app, this isn't the case.

Anyone have any articles or resources about this? Is there ever a place for optimistic interfaces in financial or otherwise-serious apps?
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Anything realy. Udemy has a terrible signal to noise ratio, and they do scummy stuff like what's going on here. Read a respected book, try Udacity or Coursera, or ask the community what course is good.
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thanks for the thoughtful comment @coltea. Where do you see that silent reading is an urban legend. My major source is the History of Privacy series, but happy to look at others. As for the beds: yes, they were quite expensive. Many did sleep on rolled out mats in a big grand hall. Either way, not much privacy
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i've updated the graphic. I was using the generic term for camera, which was misleading.
Thanks for the reply...I definitely get the advantage and popularity of lexical scoping. I'm not sure about your claim about every language doing hoisting though; take Java as an example:

class Example {
String f = "foo";

void foo() {
System.out.println(f); //foo

{
System.out.println(f); //foo
String f = "bar";
System.out.println(f); //bar
}

System.out.println(f); //foo
String f = "baz";
System.out.println(f); //baz
}
}

I understand that Java doesn't perfectly match var or let, in that the lexical matching of local variables is not the same as either. But Java really doesn't seem to be doing hoisting here, and it's certainly clearer what f refers to before the local variable is declared (though I like the explicit error the TDZ gives the best).
"Sometimes buying nothing is better than buying Cards Against Humanity. This is one of those times."
Of course they are profiting these (pirate) courses. Content creators with infringed content have already charted these waters. One creator had $7k+ of his (stolen) content sold. There were no refunds and Udemy refused to reimburse the creator.
Lol you people are really amazing. No sense of irony? Really?

Hey guess what, Silicon Valley has been doing this for nearly 20 years to other people. Funny how the HN crowd gets riled up when it happens to programmers.

Movies cost tens of millions to make and employ hundreds if not thousands. Tv shows are maybe an order of magnitude smaller, records maybe one more. Any of those media products blow these aggrieved programmers out of the water, impact wise.

But the founders of YouTube -- who played this little copyright game like a fiddle -- are heroes in the Valley. So are the founders of Napster, one of whom helped get Facebook going.

I guess "move fast and break things" is a great motto until it's your stuff getting broken.
Because udemy has money and are easier to go after, if rob was to go after the person who actually stole his content they might be insolvent or in a country is too expensive to go after them.
> Because the greatest Black Friday gift of all is buying nothing. We’re offering that for the rock-bottom price of $5. How can you afford NOT to seize this incredible opportunity?

Great salesmanship.
i tend to agree with this assessment. I think i fear people I know more than those i don't, which is why lack of privacy in small communities seems all the more worrisome. Yet, there was little and folks seemed to be OK
the people who dream up this nonsense are so out of touch that when they see that empty bench year after year, they're more likely to blame the shy students for not using the tools given to them than accept that it's a poorly thought out concept.
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Can you link to this information, I am not saying your wrong but if true this is relevant to the discussion, because if they kept the money then that is the real thing we should be talking about, as this is highly questionable behavior.
Zen of Python? This is funny.

Python is a terribly structured language, full of atrocities
like unicode handling, decorators/metaclasses, object system, crippled lambda, braindead "functional" style, idiotic module system (hot code updates yay! oh no it doesn't really work!)

It started out as a Christmas hack and it hasn't really evolved much from then on. The same crap in the core, just more sugar on top. A language aimed at the lowest common denominator, designed to make you think "programming is easy!" but ill-suited to solving any sort of hard problem in a graceful fashion.

Why would anyone want _any_ of that on the Erlang VM?
Great marketing!
Ants can be though of as a super-organism. This makes them super interesting:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superorganism
- http://news.wisc.edu/17398
- http://jn.nutrition.org/content/137/1/259S.short

as much as they are a manifestation of good algorithm design

Evolution can be thought of in this way:

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/1869.abstract

These are usually not signs of "collective intelligence"

This is where I disagree. A collection of ants is >> one ant.
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Besides piracy, udemy itself is just a terrible platform. Unless you agree to sell your course for $10, you'll pretty much never get promoted there organically. They want YOU to do all the work of promoting it to your list, etc. What's worse is that they close off their system as well, making it impossible for you to collect email addresses or send marketing messages.

It's a much better idea to use your own platform.
The info is scattered all over the place... Here is one of the posts https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/651215238470090754. People were complaining Udemy didn't even refund users who purchased videos that were posted for free elsewhere.
Could anyone please simplify this and explain how this is different from playing videos with HTML5 <video> tag?
And so it begins.

Yet another government rushing through poorly thought out laws that shuts down freedom of speech and expression to 'protect people from terrorists'.

It's especially sad given that A, this is France we're talking about and B, this sort of fear is exactly what the terrorists want people to feel.
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Strong AI is not something that almost anyone can do intentionally, given that it's currently impossible. And any predictions on it becoming possible within a definite timeframe are total bullshit [1]. I think it's rather telling that the only people who make those kinds of optimistic predictions about neural networks do not have extensive research experience in / are experts in artificial neural networks.

[1] I certainly think it will become possible, but the timeframe is indefinite. If we get really lucky and breakthrough after breakthrough is achieved, it could be within 10 years. But it could be 20 years, it could be 100 years.
Also, you should include the name of your service itself, especially if users can produce content.

Edit: for similar reasons to blog./login./support. etc. (just read other comments)
I don't know why kids these days are so down on programming ebooks. I have a ton of them in a Dropbox folder, and they're my main source of learning new programming languages. Sure, they date fast, can't be updated fast, and aren't interactive. They're old school now that we're in the era of MOOCs.

But you can still learn a lot if you know what to look for, know how to skim, and know which books are good.

Alternatively: maybe I'm just old.
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That doesnt talk about how the users who actually bought the content werent refunded though?
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There's no planning, forethought, or central driving will at play here.

Do there have to be these things to show intelligence? Simple markets without central planning absolutely destroy central planning in terms of efficiency:

http://www.realussr.com/ussr/queues/

Maybe the intelligent, planning, ants were overtaken by the unintelligent ants :-)
If Udemy is such a bad service, what are the hurdles to create a better, more ethical competitor?

“It’s not like there’s a database of copyrighted content out there you know”

Ahh so a database of copyright might work. cf https://twitter.com/robconery/status/670389852974657536
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There's no need to query elements with Aurelia either, and it also does not render anything that isn't visible. I only use Aurelia because that's what they were using when I got hired, but for my personal projects I use Virtual DOM.

React is just way too heavy for my needs and if I'm going to put markup in my JS files I might as well just use Hyperscript so it actually is javascript. By pairing virtual-dom with redux, my entire application's state, including how the UI currently looks, is held in one large immutable object which I just apply reducers to when I want to change the interface. React, and all the other modern front-end frameworks, still have to deal with state living in two places (in stores and in the DOM) whereas in my apps' state only lives in once place - the Redux store.

Don't get me wrong, React pushed front-end development forward in a big way, but a lot of cool stuff has come out of the woodwork in response to it that is definitely worth checking out. I'm more interested true functional-reactive web libraries than React. Cycle, Elm, Ohm, and Mercury are a few I would recommend checking out.
Atom tern-js is a keeper! I also use mancy, which is a javascript repl with really good code completion: http://www.mancy-re.pl
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Isn't this either very border line or even illegal in the US (genuinely asking)? - I thought every contract between 2 parties required an exchange of something, so money can't be traded for nothing, but maybe I'm wrong.

Edit: getting downvoted, not sure why, explanation would be helpful
Nice. If they're smart, they'll donate it all to Oxfam. That, or post InstaPix of spending it on hookers and blow.
It is a much better story than: Former prison camp detainees join ISIS with renewed vigor (certainly the most likely scenario)
I don't fucking care about you. Pick up a philosophy book and leave me the fuck alone.
Probably not any different than just donating to a GoFundMe fundraiser. It's not actually a deductible charitable donation, and you're receiving nothing in return.
var { email, full_name } = get_user();
send_email(email, `Hi ${full_name}!`);
helpdesk is a pretty good choice to reserve just to keep people from doing some foolish things.
In Buddhism, nothingness or emptiness is actually a "thing".
It just means the buyers could easily get a refund. It's not illegal.

Similarly, technically minors can't enter into commercial contracts except for life necessities. So if an <18 buys a car, they could return it whenever they want. Whether they'd have to pay something for its use/damage is debatable.
I see a rock star dev as the guy that seems the best from the outside: most likely because he completes tasks fast at the expense of being maintainable, documented, or understood by the rest of the team. The rock star must be smart because they're using a ton of technologies that nobody else understands. But do you really want that?

Part of the disagreement is surely semantics: if you want to define "rock star" as the best, then I guess they're the best (however you measure that).

But being a jerk is not semantics. If that works for your organization, great. But I don't want to have to deal with that.
or just force all lowercase and keep the support burden lower and save yourself a ton of trouble when dealing with foreign systems. Add a rule on incoming e-mail to convert all addresses for the local domain to lowercase to complete the package.
I don't have this update either.
1Gbps is not 100X faster than Wi-Fi, unless you're talking about 802.11g under marginal conditions.
It sounds reminiscent of the "I am rich" app[1], and even more to the apparently apocryphal copycat "I am not stupid" (which was presumably sold for US$1.99)

[1] See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
When I was at Quora, people posting Udemy courses were a major source of spam content. The system clearly has very broken incentive systems.
Corn seeds are not wind blown, the pollen is. It is a fact that GMO <> Non-GMO corn cross pollination happens, and when that does your seeds become tainted. To collect and replant those seeds is patent infringement. Wikipedia has a lot of information about Monsanto court cases.

Monsanto actually has a page "busting" the myth, but I'm going to link to it because it clearly states that monsanto has the right to enforce patent fees in this case.

http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally...

Here is the quote:
Monsanto has a long-standing public commitment that “it has never been, nor will it be, Monsanto’s policy to exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits are present in a farmer’s fields as a result of inadvertent means.”

So they are saying that, yes they own those patent rights, but no they won't enforce them. It's pretty clear cut that one has a legal obligation to pay monsanto, but they're being nice by not enforcing their rights. ( If you watch Food Inc, you'll see how nice they are about non-enforcement in reality ).
I believe that crowdfunding platforms solved exactly the legal issue behind that. I have no idea about the details but I imagine that 1. they take care about taxes and similar, and 2. someone you're donating money in exchange of being part of the cause, whatever this legally means.

What I'm asking is specifically related to the term "nothing", which (I think) can only have a single interpretation.
> It is absolutely essential to bring rogue law enforcement officers to justice, particularly in a post-Ferguson world in which violations of constitutional rights have come under intense scrutiny.

That's an odd way to word that. It's essential not because there is more scrutiny, but because it's wrong to allow it to continue. Whether it's being looked at more often is a problem for those that are worried about their conduct, not those that are concerned that justice is not being done.
IANAL but I don't see how it could be illegal.

There's no misrepresentation. Both the "buyer" and the "seller" know what is going on and agree.
This is why I wished the 6502 crew had followed up with a processor. This price and Intel pretty much killed any 16-bit or 32-bit follow-on to the under <$200 market after the C64 / Atari 8-bit era.

For some real joy, check the 88000 pricing and see why it failed.
I've come to take the BBC's tech reporting with a pinch of salt.
Cards against Humanity has great marketing team, but I'm still pretty sure people are buying in because they think there's a chance they're getting something still.

There was that time recently that cards against humanity sold a box of literal bull shit, and then people were disappointed when they got just literal bull shit.
Who is "you people"? People who pirate, or people in tech? What makes you think they're one and the same?
I think ECC is inevitable. With 128GB DIMMs being produced now and NV-DIMMs (DDR4 flash-on-dimm) just around the corner, some kind of hardware error detection is necessary.

This is similar to high capacity spinning drives. With smaller ones you could just go with RAID5 and not worry about anything, but when drives are 3-4TB and up, you have to use RAID6, because the spec error rate becomes too high to rely on a single parity drive.

Here, too, when you machine has 1-2TB of hybrid RAM/NVM you HAVE TO have some way to detect failures, even if it's not particularly good. Performance characteristics of RAM preclude the more robust algorithms such as wide (32bit) CRC from being used (narrower CRC could still be doable in hardware, though), but parity is a complete no brainer as the first step.
Perhaps; what we might think of as 'lay users' might have more dimensions to their experiences of responses, though. A lot of novice users certainly don't have much idea of what happens in an install or on the OS (at this level, technology is often 'magic'). To that end, something unanticipated can be unsettling. For example, my mum might install an app (which she can just about do). For her, she's installed it and only seems to expect to interact with it when pressing its icon. When a notification appears, it causes her to slightly panic or become uncertain about what has just happened and why, so she'll often consult me (when I'll simply swipe it away for her). It doesn't matter that the notification might give a clue about what it relates to - it's already thrown her. It's this kind of experience which makes me very reluctant to have my grandparents using a tablet because it is so unpredictable for them, despite there being some fantastic apps and functions that they could make use of to assist them in elderly living.

The worst notifications, of course, are the ones written in Chinese characters. I've no idea how to eviscerate my mum's phone of the app responsible for them.
They don't ask for your address, there's no way they'll get anything.
It is likely being sold as a service.
I don't disagree. My point is people are not smart. =|
It would be even better if they had it as $10 crossed out, 50% sale price: $5
you are so wrong that's not funny
Using DCMA is a good first step when trying to deal with these issues, posting an angry blog and defaming a company as being made explicitly to sell stolen content on twitter shouldn't be your first action.

https://support.udemy.com/customer/en/portal/articles/150577...
front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637316
A large percentage of all personal communication between humans is about the pursuit of sex
I have ~4 years of experience and I make 60k, and feel like I'm worth closer to 35-40.

Wonder where this industry will be when the bubble pops.
Only if you didn't read the article. This is an app with history and traction. The Facebook bit of the title is linkbaitish.
Riak, Postgresql, and Zookeeper are the only ones that never lost data. Consul, and etcd were mostly correct.
Give an illegal action A, a seller could sell a service that does A. If you buy A, it doesn't make it legal just because both you and the seller know what is going on and agree.
>So if an <18 buys a car, they could return it whenever they want. Whether they'd have to pay something for its use/damage is debatable.

Can you go more into detail on that or tell me what law says that? Does that mean I (17/US) could walk into Walmart, buy a shirt, wear it for 6 months and expect a full refund?
Yes but statutory damages will not be available and according to our lawyer. The statutory damages is what gets people to comply because it is the one that can multiply exponentially as it applies to EACH violation (download, sale, ect...). If you use the implicit copyright you can only go after actual damages which will be harder to prove. I'm not suggesting you file a copyright for everything, just stuff you want to absolutely protect. In the context of this discussion it is education videos.
There is no contract—it's a gift.[1]

That probably also means it's not income and will be tax-free.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_(law)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States
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Ok, good explanation. Thanks.
> People keep spreading stories about a secret government conspiracy to know everything and use that power for shady means, and in an uncertain world, that's kind of comforting.

Unfortunately, it is not comforting at all because we are not talking about one coherent group holding all the strings behind the scenes. No, there are many cabals fighting in the "shadow" government for domination and power and since they're above the law in theory and practice, it's really a scary scenario for all of us.
>genuine question - why should anyone feel patriotic at all? shouldn't we love/like the whole planet?

I think it's natural (as in "logical") to feel more attached to the place (and by extension country) nearest to you, as its the one you are more familiar with, you get to know it better (both its good and bad sides), and it gets to shape you far more than some remote place that it's just some abstract word to you.

"Brooklyn, place X" immediately evokes memories for a Brooklynite, of people, places, shops, relationships, buildings, restaurants, stages in their life etc. Copenhagen and Osaka, not so much.

It's also not "just because we were born there" -- it's because we grew up there, which is inherently tied to our lives and who we are, not some random momentary accident like "being born there" is meant to convey.

This probably breaks down for people (immigrants, etc.) that came to some place later in life, or to people who the place they live oppresses. Then again, even black slaves have loved the South as a place and a landscape, because it's the place they grew up, fell in love, walked, played, etc. Also tied with all the older persons in their lives they loved and who later died, etc.

There are also practical benefits besides the emotional bonds. If you don't love your place more than some abstract "Earth", you're less inclined to improve it, defend it, etc.
I hope not, I'd be so disappointed if they tried to rob me of all that premium rate nothing I ordered!
But I'm not too worried, I'm pretty sure they'll hold up their side of the deal, especially since they didn't ask for people's info.
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Yes, a variation of the System 7 finder. Personally I used MachTen which was a 4.3BSD variation which ran on top of the usual system.
IBM has been recently promoting Docker on z. IBM argues the high I/O capabilities of their platform are a good fit for the container model. (I don't disagree with them. The many-application-on-big-hardware model is not a new concept to IBM. Hell, they invented it.)

Anyways... Since Docker is written in Go, the only way Docker has been available for s390x was by building with gccgo. My guess is that native Go support is in the interest of Docker on z and would be a worthwhile investment for IBM.
...the activists were demanding that [Eich] renounce his religious beliefs.

They did no such thing. Why do you think it is helpful to base your arguments on overtly counterfactual assertions, such as these?
If it shot to the top its very possible they were spending money on marketing & promotion through the affiliate program -- not just uploading it and cashing in. If that was the case, who knows, may be you made more money than they did.
I would really recommend reading the whole article, but especially the middle half discussing how Kik is bringing in brands.

It sounds like a texting interface for an AI for major sites; really cool.