skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's flip this question around:

If the project owner is a known racist, should they accept a pro-equality person into their project?

Are you arguing that people should close off their communities to people with differing opinions, or are you arguing that people should close off their communities to people who you personally disagree with?

If it is the former, then you are short-sighted and petty, and if it is the latter, then YOU are what is wrong with the open-source world.

One of the major ideas behind the hacker ethic and the open-source collaborative ideal is that ANYONE skilled enough can contribute to projects, get their ideas heard, and improve the community effort. No amount of fascist and self-flagellating political bullying will make your walled-garden alternative a better idea than a truly all-inclusive community.

Yes, If a contributor spouts their political opinions on mailing lists or developer forums and derails discussions, then it is obvious that they are having a negative impact on the community. But kicking out a well-behaved and technically adept contributor simply because you don't like their views? By doing that, you have made your project appear FAR worse to potential contributors than accepting contributions from a "known racist" ever could.

The REAL "toxic people" in a community are those who try to get skilled and reasonable contributors thrown out because of childish political quibbles.
> Only in the non-relativistic limit.

That's only if use non-relativistic mass which you should not be doing anyway. In any case it's still proportional to mass and velocity - the gamma factor does not change that.

> meaning the actual momentum of the object is a thousand to a million times what the non-relativistic formula would make you think.

You are missing parts of the interaction. Say it eats an atom - it has to accelerate that atom to the same relativistic velocity - meaning that new atom now has EXACTLY the same gamma as the black hole, and steals just as much momentum as if gamma was 1.

Or in other words the gamma factor is completely irrelevant for these calculations, it cancels out.

> it would need to absorb thousands or millions of times its starting mass to be slowed down to less than Earth escape velocity

As I've shown you, this is incorrect. It only needs to absorb mass similar to its own rest mass.

> And at its starting speed it would take less than a twentieth of a second to pass through the entire Earth.

That is also irrelevant. The only thing that matters is its "width", i.e. how many of the particles it interacts with does it eat.
IIRC, the Minions promotion was in August or September. I don't usually eat fast food, but was in a huge push at work for a major migration, and just needed something "quick". I know I created an account for it, but it was so low-security for me I didn't enter it into KeePass, so can't even tell for sure when it took place.
Or you need to convince people of your forecasting ability in order to get capital.
No, it discusses lack of 3G mobile service. Landlines are full speed and unrestricted.
>> 180k in the tech industry with no degree? I call bullshit, unless you deliver trunkloads of cocaine to CEOs of tech companies.

I did it. I know others who did it. In fact, I did it in my early 20s. I'm very far ahead of that now, and I have never once struggled with this. I'm not sure how I could prove it to you, so I guess you'd have to take my word for it. I am not saying that this is the outcome everyone receives, but nor do college graduates have consistent outcomes. I have seen friends with top-tier degrees struggle.

Did you know that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon, Netflix and most YC companies will explicitly hire people without a degree?

You can achieve this goal by sacrificing four years of potential income history, work experience and a substantial amount of money. You can also achieve this goal with a significant amount of drive, intelligence and luck. It is up to the individual to decide which route is superior for their situation. In OP's case, visa eligibility might make college a very lucrative proposition.

>> Even if it was true, what about at 35? At 40? 50? It's just a continual upward climb, no layoffs, no job seeking, no "obsolescence" issues with your skillset? Are you serious?

I never said it was an upward trend forever. My assertion is that four years of a six figure salary and experience is a strong argument for not going to college.

Are college graduates immune to layoffs? Are they exempt from the ageism and obsolescence inherent in this industry? Are college dropouts one trick ponies who don't understand the underlying theory in lieu of cobbling together different frameworks for CRUD apps?

Perhaps most people should go to college, but a not insignificant number of people should not, and almost everyone should critically examine the decision.

That's all. It's not a cut and dry decision. Everyone likes to say that the bootcamp grads and the dropouts are the first to be laid off, but I disagree. I think it depends on the individual. I know many dropouts who weathered the storm in the dot-com crash because they were better than college-grads.
Your opinion is about an idea of Lisp that's simply not true. Both Common Lisp and Scheme are pervasively mutable and imperative constructs occur just as often as in "Algol." Clojure diverges from this with its nice immutable data structures, but that's a rather novel and distinguishing feature, not a core trait of "Lisp."

I'm curious about where the idea originated that Lisp is an especially non-mutating language. Some of it is just that it's a garbage collected language with first class functions, so it's easy to classify it as "functional" which has associations to "pure functional." But Lisp is very far from a pure functional language. It's more like a general multi-paradigm language—like Perl and Ruby.
He did just fine:

http://blog.fawny.org/2015/07/04/stevedorner/
"Qualcomm
Contrary to rumour, Qualcomm, which had bought Eudora early on from the University of Illinois, had always treated him well, he says. (“I am very happy to correct that impression. I was not shafted by Qualcomm. Qualcomm did very well by me.” And actually, Steve worked for that company for over 20 years.) He doesn’t have to work anymore – “and that is a blessing – it’s a blessing, it really is. It’s nice not to have that pressure. On the other hand, I’ve been retired now for little more than a year, and I do look around and question why I’m not being productive.”"
Around this time last year the city of New York approved a plan to replace existing payphones across the city with WiFi enabled kiosks[1]. When I first heard of this plan I originally hoped it would be a retrofit of sorts to take advantage of the existing vandal-resistant and tough casings. Alas, based on the designs and plans, it seems the entire payphone stand will be replaced[2].

I will miss these old weathered stalwarts of a bygone age dotting the pavements.

[1] http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2014/12/10/nyc-approve...

[2] https://gigaom.com/2015/02/01/link-nyc-explained/
Yes. If you're living hand-to-mouth, then you're already having a problem. Things have already gone wrong. It's too late to put the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff and only worry about people when they fall off - which everybody in that situation is bound to do given enough time.
Not dieing is ofcourse the key which is where the luck must kick in big time. I think most startup don't die because founders give up but rather because there are no real options left, just strong desire for not dieing is not enough. One key thing Justin mentions is being in growth market. What if you realize after 5 years that your user base for purple coat wearing alternate movie lovers isn't a growth market? The next logical step would be pivot which is technically a death followed by another cycle - if you have funding leftover. Justin.TV itself was on the verge of folding up because of inability to pay for bandwidth and if Twitch idea hadn't occurred at right moment (aka huge luck) then no one would have known them now. Luck has played huge part in probably every startup Justin has mentioned. For example, Reddit would have perhaps never taken off if Digg didn't screwed up with its redesign. Also all of those startups were immensely blessed by social network of Y and pg which average joe founder would not have and that itself reduces dependency on being lucky.

Having said all that, I think Justin has put the simple success receipe quite succinctly in this article: Produce, get feedback and iterate. Doing this enough number of times in growth market can produce very likely success. That's beautiful, powerful, compact advice.
You should do it and see if you have any original ideas others find truly interesting. It's hard to have genuinely new things to say. I think its fine to build, it's fine to think and share, and it's fine to do both. Why so many "Musts"? He has built very fine prototypes btw.
Thank you very much for your inputs and advice.

As yet, I haven't touched anything other than a Windows machine. I was thus wondering whether, while your suggestions are very good and that is where I would ultimately have to end up in, in the meantime, could I learn the basics in a few weeks just so as to set-up everything correctly and thereafter expend more time in learning the finer details of such a set-up? If that is not possible then I will be forced to just go with a hosting provider that handles some of these stuff - at least in the beginning as I learn "everything".
If you're interested in Python and Lisp, Hy (https://github.com/hylang/hy) is great. They're welcoming and funny.
FWIW Cloudwatch has logs service.
Show HN: Weekend project – hostsconfig, an utility to manage /etc/hosts
Stop paying ridiculous rents
This is what I will probably chose for the time being as I learn more about Linux and Shell.
The math for hawking radiation is far less accepted than the math for black holes. You are making a mistake by giving them equal weight.

Not that the math for black holes is all that well accepted in the first place - there are many holes in the math that quite clearly scream "we don't really know". For example a charged, or rapidly spinning singularity might be "naked" which breaks all theories and clearly shows how little we know about black holes.

> but reject the proposed properties, when the same math that postulates their existence describes their likely properties.

That isn't true though. It's completely different math. And Hawking radiation has a large information theory hole which tells us to be cautious - there is a gap in the theory, we don't actually know what will happen.

Remember neither of these theories have ever been observed, it's all math and simulations, no observations. (Super massive objects have been observed, but not event horizons.)
I try to be excessively polite but I preside over a diaspora as opposed to a proper community.
"you endorse a behavior that is in and of itself toxic -- publicly crucifying somebody because you don't agree with their beliefs... it's downright disgusting."

Lol, didn't take you long to become a hypocrite on that one!

But seriously, "someone" and "CEO of a major corporation that relies on its good image" are different things. We rightly hold them to different standards. Holding unpopular (and exclusionary) political beliefs is incompatible with leading a company like Mozilla.
Are you the owner of the copyright of the course that was stolen? If you are and if you've filed to have the course taken down and Udemy has refused, then you have a dispute and you need to sue them. You knew that breaking copyright law was something that would be settled in court yesterday when you said, "I sincerely hope Udemy is flooded with pirated content. Lawsuit fodder.

"Let the games begin."

You wanted to sue them yesterday. Ha ha. Fun game. Let's bury Udemy under stolen goods so we can sue Udemy, and screw its employees and the its content providers.

But now you seem to be admitting that you can't sue them. If they haven't broken copyright law, then you can't sue them.

So which is it? Have they stolen your content and shall you sue them? Or is someone else flooding them with pirated content for some nefarious reasons of his own?

Are they breaking copyright law so you can sue them? Or are they breaking no law so you have to settle for pissing in their orchids and stirring up trouble?
I think St. Jude's is a great nonprofit. That said, I heard a few years ago that the charity is literally overfunded.

I don't know if it's true anymore, but I wish people would look into charities before giving that much needed money.

I don't know why people who have the ability to give to charities--never seem to look into the financials?

I know what I said is sac religious, and I'm probally wrong.

I just know of a lot of smaller nonprofits that need money. They don't incorporate in delware. The principal founders don't make much money. I probally shouldn't have said anything?
Remember? I never found or needed to find a better mp3 player than Winamp. Simple, lighweight, all needed features, nothing more. Version 5.6 still running on my system.
I suspect more conservative (e.g. financial, government) firms may only shortlist those with a degree (especially if hiring is done by non-engineers), but I don't think 'most places' is true. I applied to six places and received two offers, one from where I'm at now and the other from a startup.

My Googler friend told me that as long as I can get an interview, simply having a degree or not is 'irrelevant'.

Maybe it's not a question of degree, but if you've done anything that sets you above?
I fully agree. One of their mottos is "optimized for fun" or short -Ofun, and it shows. Drop by on IRC (irc.freenode.org #perl6) and join the fun!
I don't know the answer to your question but it would be fascinating if some type of plant or organism could evolve to use some type of man-made tool. Like a plant or fungus or something that could trigger a flow of water or sunlight.
There's a sweet spot where you're right enough to say "I told you so" and vague enough that no one can use the info.
"Calling BS" does not seem very substantive and it doesn't feel very civil either. I don't see who made you the authority here.

There are too many examples to list, but the citation I gave contains dozens and dozens[1]. For instance, it turns out that North Asians really are better at math than people of European ancestry. Ashkenazi Jews really are better at learning languages and have larger vocabularies and superior grammatical understanding and usage. Cultural psychologists have tabulated voluminous data on all the ethnic stereotypes throughout the world--hundreds of stereotypes that different Asians have of each other for instance--and again and again they are found to be more true than not.

The big mistake would be to then have prejudice--to prejudge an individual on the basis of their group affiliation. While it's a scientific fact that North Asians (Korea, China, Japan) are better at math than other populations, there are plenty of people in those groups that are worse than the global average. So it would be a mistake to assume that just because someone you meet is North Asian they are better than average at math.

[1]: Heine, Steven J., Cultural Psychology. 3rd edition. W.W. Norton, 2016. ISBN: 9780393263985.
Mr Kennard is a very clever chap; he wrote or co-wrote most of the operational systems for his ISP, including the Firebrick routers.

However he often makes the mistake of applying his logical mind to domains that unfortunately don't work purely logically ( banks, customer services and the law often popping-up on his blog ).

In this example, there are numerous technical aspects which remain unanswered or unspecified. To a programer's mind that is a problem; to the legislators it's an opportunity. The Government can use that vagueness to adapt the implementation to suit their needs. They can do so subjectively and responsive to situations that occur. It's a feature, not a bug.

An example is that 'small' ISPs will not initially be subject to these requirements. 'Small' is undefined, of course. 'Internet Connection Record' is likewise vaguely defined with most detail being provided verbally.

I sound jaded because I made a very similar technical response to the proposed RIPA back in 2000. Most of the feedback disappeared into a black hole and little changed in the final Act. Within months, it was being abused by Government agencies and councils as we had predicted.
> No one has ever implemented CSS with incremental layout in a way that is even close to being competitive with native UI code.

So this is a really broad statement and without further clarification it's hard to pin down precisely what you mean. By incremental layout do you mean partial layout, or relayout after dynamic changes? For the latter, I don't see how flexbox (for example) is worse in this area than springs and struts, as it essentially is springs and struts. And for absolutely positioned UIs (the old way mobile apps were laid out), layout time of CSS is essentially zero. For the former, it's commonplace to use frameworks that will do the standard "UITableView" sort of optimizations in script. Moreover, though, there's CSS Containment [1] coming soon to allow for these sorts of optimizations without having to use JS. I agree that CSS Containment is critical to allow CSS to achieve the performance of native frameworks, but this is an area of active work, and I don't see any roadblocks in the way of partial layout once CSS Containment arrives.

[1]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-containment/
Fascinating. Didn't realize how hungry I was for more of the human story behind Bret.

It certainly makes me wonder how much creative talent is locked up within big corporations. All you end up seeing is super-refined output, like a single polished grain of sake rice. Since leaving Apple it's undoubtable that Bret has made much more far-reaching contributions that can be attributed to to his process of thinking aloud and publishing his thought process.
Julia.

Talent off the charts. Very nice people, and very supportive.
That's a little misleading. Every tech stock in the world sky rocketed in 1999, and then they all tanked.

Qualcomm topped out at $88 a share in 1999, and was under $14 in 2002. Still up 3.8x, but nowhere near 26. It's increased since then, but even right now it's only $48.
Both editions of the book were before the invention of blockchains. Integrating it in the next edition of the book would be solid work: not just explaining a blockchain but really integrating it with existing parts of computer science.
How Kindness Became Our Forbidden Pleasure
Yes, and those which involve working for money are not retirement.
You're right, we should narrow it down a bit. Let's call the field 'programming' and the area in question 'most of the US'. Within those constraints, the idea you can't get your foot in the door without a degree seems completely preposterous.
The value of a debt is nominal amount times probability of payment. If it could be settled for pennies, then it would be worth even less. This may or may not be a desirable outcome.
Betz’s Law
"So if the debt can be "bought" for pennies per dollar, why can't it be settled for this amount by the unfortunate people at the end of the bludgeoning stick?"

Statistics and overhead are part of the reason.

You can buy debt for pennies on a dollar because a lot of it cannot be collected because the debtors do not have the money and/or are hard to locate.
That link seems to be dead :/
I already work at a company (a "major one" like the Narrator of Fight Club references) where someone like me shouldn't marry a white woman (or even an Asian one for that matter).

That doesn't stop me from achieving my goals. [0]

[0] http://youtu.be/1QSFQoOL92A
Well, going to uni would minimally give you the paperwork to get in the door places. You can do it without the paper, but more and more places require it. Now, it might cost some money, and depending on the setup there, you might have to work nevertheless. Uni sometimes let you make contacts and learn things you didn't consider. This route might be your safest/easiest option, mostly because it gives you a definite edge on those other self-taughts (plus you might be able to test out of some classes based on experience/knowledge). This would defnitely be a bood way to expand your field of knowledge, since it is completely possible to learn something other than what you now know.

However, if you can make the other work, and simply get a job, that might be a better option, depending on the impact school would have on your life and finances. Might be harder to find a job and harder to expand your field.

My actual suggestion, if you think your life will allow, is to work part-time in the field while going to uni. You aren't sure where you want to be in 5-10 years, which is completely fine: This simply opens up as much as possible for you... in theory, anyway.
"We have an industry that has a history of stinginess and that does not have a good history of giving back."

That doesn't match anything I've heard or read, from what I can tell tech entrepreneurs constantly give back, or at the least consistently invest back. I'm positive this is bias, but is there another industry that creates as many investors? Either angel or future VC partners?

That's not quite the right question, because of course finance would lead in number of investors total, but I mean like created company in industry, this case tech, then invested in more companies in that industry.
"Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

Always wondered if that was indirectly aimed at me....
> The land is 2km wide, of course the Turkish fighter didn't have time to notice the intrusion,

They can see the planes on radar and warn them to stay away from Turkish airspace at any time. Even if they haven't crossed into "Turkish airspace" which is another truth which is far from simple. There's no "lying" going on. Countries can claim whatever territory they like as their own and tend to defend it as such (like the US does for US water vs international waters). The UN doesn't make the maps, they just have their own (country borders are constantly shifting), just as Belgium does, just as Israel does, etc. 17 seconds or 7 seconds, this article demonstrates the jets were violating Turkish airspace (not that I care about Turkey and Russia, it could be anywhere) according to a number of widely accepted maps. So what?
Yeah, I'm aware of Task::Kensho (although I forget about it all too often). But even that is at this point more a point-in-time snapshot of what was relevant a year or two ago. In most cases, they are still relevant and some of the best choices, but there are new items that aren't on the list (e.g. Path::Tiny) that I would argue really should be.

I understand it's a trade off. We don't have a large standard library in Perl like Python does, and that means there's a bit of searching required to find what to use, but that's often a benefit as well as a drawback. Would we have Path::Tiny if we had something that provided some but not all of the capability, and not as well? Would we have DateTime (or would it be popular) if we had a core DateTime-like module that was problematic, but mostly worked? Part of the beauty of having a small core set of libraries and an large and vibrant set of extended libraries is that the constant churn leads to newer and better things. Really what I'm lamenting, is that while there are these benefits to the churn, it still does lead to some painful situations where you find you've been using a poor choice for your needs just because you didn't know of the better choice that was out there. It's acceptable if it leads to DBIC, DateTime, Path::Tiny, etc, but it still sucks some times.