skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm old enough to remember being excited about FOAF too.

The idea came out of the world of blogs; if you have a blog, so the thinking went, you basically have an online identity endpoint. So if there was a simple way to describe relationships between those endpoints, you could write software to follow those relationships, and then... voila! A completely open social network.

The dream collided unpleasantly with reality in two places. First was the problem that running a blog implies a commitment to continual writing that most people are never going to make, so when your first step is "set up a blog somewhere" people think you're asking them to make a huge commitment and run away. And second, FOAF was built on RDF; RDF makes my brain hurt just thinking about it, and I'm a professional nerd! (The refrain was always "it doesn't matter how complicated the format is, users will only interact with it via tools that make it simple." But every time I hear this about a format it reminds me of all the other formats I've heard that about in the past, all of which are deader than doornails now.)
For context, I grew up in the US with parents who moved here from India, so I'm wondering what others think about this. In my experiences with Indians, few seem to have a native understanding of a language with comprehensive vocabulary. It seems that many students take later science/math classes in an English-language school or university, for example, and so they use those words in English when speaking an Indian language. Colloquially at least in a city in India where some of my family lives, it seems like nearly every sentence includes an English word for something few would know the equivalent of in the Indian language.

It's worth clarifying that I don't see this as a problem or limitation, but it can create difficulties with regards to English fluency.
warning: not all of the graphs in the venturebeat article start from 0!
Super, super interested.

Would it be possible to extend this by using NLP to parse worlds from existing stories?

This could really go places.
Ignition is an absolutely wonderful book, I send it to everyone I meet who thinks they want to be a scientist. It is also absolutely hilarious.
They do make sure to remind you that it is an experimental implementation, which you need to specifically turn on. Definitely not a good idea to write significant amounts of code based on experimental stuff.

Microsoft's C++ people are good now, and heavily involved in the standards process. Their eventual non-experimental version of modules will conform to whatever the spec is.
How long before HOAs start flying drones over their members' backyards?
Yes, that's surprising. Another es6 compat page: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
I'm hoping Chrome steps up its game. It's embarrassing.
Ace Combat 7 is exclusive for PlayStation VR
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And let's not forget spending a decade rampaging about China raping and murdering.

So, yeah, it turns out that when a country goes out and commits mass murder for ten years then carries out a surprise attack against another country who thinks they should maybe just cut back a bit on that whole raping-and-murdering thing and has otherwise stuck to their own borders for a couple of decades, the first country gets the blame for the ensuing war. Go figure.
Nobody has to explain why nobody uses it.

For one thing, the claim is an exaggeration. Lisp does get used. It gets used enough to keep a small number of Lisp companies alive. Yeah, it's a niche language; so what? People have been claiming it's doomed for over half a century, and in all likelihood will be claiming it's doomed in another half century.

For another thing, the reason people don't use it is obvious: they like something else better. So what? All that matters is that Lisp is a better language for Lisp hackers. It makes them happier and more productive. That has kept Lisp alive. It will probably continue to do so.

Its relative popularity--or lack of it--implies little about its technical merits. Technical merit and popularity are at most tenuously connected.
I'm in love with Paul Ford's writing about technology. His What Is Code? cover story for Business Week was amazing: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-cod...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9698870

This is just a short piece, but I think it is so interesting to try to introduce non-technical readers to some of the knotty problems that everyone on HN takes for granted. And, the fact that the world's largest graph database (Facebook's) is built on top of a SQL database really is ironic, and it's great that he succeeds at explaining all the concepts well enough to get that across.

For dinosaurs like myself who still use an RSS reader (I'm a big fan of Inoreader), here is a full-text feed of his New Republic writing, made with Feedity and Five Filters: http://ftr.fivefilters.org/makefulltextfeed.php?url=https%3A...
As someone that is planning on patenting genetics post-TPP, I completely agree with the parent. TPP a terrible monopolistic IP-grab, but every patent/copyright/trademark scheme that came before was just as bad.
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Why do you care about the sed dependency? It's a basic unix command that everyone has. Unless there's some strong time penalty, it'd be better to use sed over some weirdass bash syntax.
Propose the amendment!

How are you going to get it ratified?

And once it is ratified, how are you going to contend with state constitutions?

And once those are out of the way, how are you actually going to pry firearms from the hands of their owners?

There are orders of magnitude more private firearm owners than sworn persons in the United States, and these groups largely overlap.
>Note that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" is a precondition, according to the 2A, for a "well-regulated militia"

Arms are indeed a precondition for a militia, but it seems to me the 2A only exists because the need for a militia was perceived at the time. I'm not so sure that's the case today. In any event, you make a very good point about the danger of 'creative' interpretations.
Is this referring to Vagus Nerve stimulation or something different?
Japanese culture perceives time differently than western culture. For example, a train in London is considered "on time" as long as it's within 14 minutes. In Japan, a train is considered late if it's not within 1 minute of schedule. Those perceptions of "lateness" permeate throughout the culture.

I don't claim any authority, but it's important not to project our own views of cultural permanence onto other cultures. Japan has businesses that have spanned over a 1000 years contiguously. I would not be surprised if Japan had a view that spanned much further into the past (particularly during the days of the Emperor).

Oh, just another side. Those are only a couple of examples of Western aggression in the previous century. Europe and the U.S. had been quite active in South East Asia. There likely would have been Japanese alive at the time who had a living memory of events like the colonization of Vietnam.
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There's certainly a stigma in the US that affects non-native speakers of English. It reminds me of this post that was upvoted a week or so ago: http://antirez.com/news/61

I'm not sure I agree that grammar proficiency is not an indicator for intelligence, however. In my mind it's an aspect of intelligence, but one that is irrelevant when talking about science, math, or a variety of other fields.
It's fair to point out American imperialism and colonialism in the past, and even ongoing to a certain extent in the 1940s, but leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor it hardly matched the intensity or blatantness of Japan's own imperialism and colonialism, particularly in Manchuria and the Pacific.
Let's not forget the black ships forcing Japan to open up. Many right wing Japanese still link the entire war period back to that and they do have somewhat of a point.

I strongly recommend Ian Buruma's "Inventing Japan"
I'd like to see you win armed insurrection today without cars.

Also, The 2nd Amendment refers to a state government sponsored and maintained military force. The idea there is an individual right, is a novel invention in the last 30 years. In fact, it was never recognized until all-to-predictable 5-4 decision in 2010[1].

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...

edit: spelling
Sandy Hook, Colorado (3 times in recent memory), Lafayette, San Bernardino, et cetera, et fucking cetera.

Every time one of these shootings happens RKBA repeal gets dragged closer to the Overton window. The only question is how much more human blood must be shed.
I'm more wondering what sort of similar things are happening in my (USA) government that I can't perceive because I'm too immersed in it all.
How well would you consider yourself to speak Spanish: "very well", "well", "not well" or "not at all"? Your English writing is perfect, and I assume you speak English just as well.

> Same with bad grammar sounding less intelligent, it's not actually any less intelligent as long as it still communicates the message.

Where do you draw the line, though? For example, using "bad" instead of "poor" seems acceptable and not an indication of low linguistic competence.

However, consider the sentence "dum talk no mean u dum". It communicates the message, but would you consider someone who said that to be as intelligence as someone phrased it "Same with bad grammar sounding less intelligent, it's not actually any less intelligent as long as it still communicates the message"? I wouldn't.

There is a line between being a snob and being someone who expects something above bare-minimum competence. I can understand the meaning of phrases like "dum talk no make u dum", but I find such speech unacceptable.

> It's funny when Americans claim that British people just 'sound smarter' when British people are just that: British.

That situation is indeed funny, but I think it's beneficial overall. Having a prestige dialect discourages the development of parochial dialects, and helps unify speakers of the language across different regions.

It's the same within the United States. My parents are both monolingual English speakers, but have heavy regional accents. My wife and I both have standard American ("CNN English") accents, and occasionally make fun of their accents between the two of us. As American English is to British English, so is regional English to standard American English.

We recently moved to another region of the country. Noone here speaks our parents' regional accent, and most of the locals also speak our standard American accent. I think we've met new friends easier than if we both had our parent's strong regional accent.
I wrote both sentances.

The boards like Cubieboard are stuck with a 3.4 kernel (if you want to use GLES), because unlike other manufacturers, they don't pay people to ensure proper software support. Some manufacturers also claim software compatibility with the RPi images, which is impossible, but may trick some beginners in buying their hardware. Dishonest, right?

And yes, we sent a mail to the RPi foundation to ask for some free sample (we are not a commercial organisation) and they told us very politely to not expect anything from them. They ignored our request to include Lakka in NOOBS two times. Still, their hardware works and they pay enough people to work on software so if you want something that just works, go for it.
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Considering the US was way undermilitarized after wwi compared to European nations, it's hard to think Japan would consider the US as an immediate adversary. Specially considering a growing USSR.

Mostly they hoped to take out the US naval fleet and have their way in the pacific while Germany kept the allies busy, and then eventually win in Europe creating a world wide axis.
I see multiple dependencies.

No runtime dependencies, but the code is still difficult to audit due to depending on external libraries at some unknown versions.
You are precisely right, and people with a devops mindset are most of the people that are building the cloud platforms that will render the role largely obsolete.

A typical developer just wants to code against an api, and shouldn't have to care about the infrastructure. As cloud providers (both public and private) move up the stack from providing just virtualized machines (ec2) to higher level services (dynamodb) to more complete frameworks (lambda), the developer cares less and less about what runs underneath that.

Devops does indeed sow the seeds of its own destruction. :)
Discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678872
My main point is that it's impossible to reconcile your lofty claims about Gun with, frankly, the unreadable mess you have in your repo.

It doesn't matter if your ideas are great. You keep putting Gun forward as a kind of shiny, superior successor to Riak, Cassandra and CouchDB, which I'm afraid only makes you look foolish.

You seem to have done the branding before you did the code. First you need to demonstrate solid, mature code. Then you can try competing with the big boys.

A detailed critique of your code would take a lot of effort, but I've made some notes [1]. I find the code to be unreadable and full of bad code smell. With all the mutation and callbacks and events and what not going on, it's just too hard to tell how the code is intended to flow. I don't see a clean API, even an internal one, nor I see a clean structure. It needs a lot of cleanup [2].

When talking about code, it's rarely just aesthetic. My philosophy is that if one can't even manage the trivially superficial aspects of code (formatting, structuring files, naming variables, and so on), it's not worth talking about its inner workings.

Sorry if this comes across as terribly harsh, but I hope you can see I'm trying to be constructive.

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[1] A few examples:

* Your code is littered with arbitrary console.log() statements that have no actual utility. They look the kind of temporary logging I insert whenever I need to trace a difficult behaviour.

* No code is documented, aside from childish comments like:

} // IT WORKS!!!!!!

* Lots of what looks like global state.

* Lots of anonymously named variables like r, u, n.

* Big chunks of commented-out code (e.g., in radix.js).

* Lots of what looks like test data. Are you telling me this is part of the project?

rad('user/marknadal', {'#': 'asdf'});

* Lots of mutation. E.g., in s3.js you get some kind of event and then you modify the inputs.

* Syntax formatting is inconsistent and shoddy.

* require() calls in the middle of code.

* You have a test folder, but it's barely got any actual tests. You do have at least one commented-out test in the middle of everything (list.js, line 25).

[2] You may want to look into replacing callbacks with promises, and restructure it using more classical ES6-based OO, as opposed to the prototype-based, lexically-scoped style you're using now.
Not sure how early it is tho. Seems like the first commit was in June this year.
He asked about xxHash, not CityHash
Mondragon corporation is pretty big. Of course this brings up larger questions of "worker owned cooperatives" based on the Roman Catholic economic theory of distributism versus the 1960s counterculture version of "worker owned cooperatives."
So if a convicted murderer moves in beside me, it's partially his fault if I attempt to murderer him in his sleep
History does not tell you about new things. For example, how will technology affect the outcome of war. Evolution is another such thing. You're poisonous caterpillar that no one can eat, you prosper, then suddenly you get decimated by a bird that can stomach your poison.
Indeed, I'm making an is-ought distinction here. Ought there be a protection of RKBA? Maybe not. The anti-gun lobby has a fairly strong case. But there is, in the form of the second amendment, and if we try to circumvent the Constitution through Humpty-Dumptying rather than addressing its deficiencies through the amendment process, the Constitution means nothing.
It is if there are no legal authorities more powerful than the both of you (as was the case). Actually, your use of the word "convicted" is nonsensical in this case.

The more accurate analogy is if a murderer murders your neighbor, and then moves into his house, and the police don't exist.
Slavery was not a white problem, it was a humanity problem of multiple skin colours, and in some places, still is.

No one should be held accountable for their ancestors actions. I certainly don't look at anyone Who is Japanese and think "Pearl Harbour", it's just not sensible.
It seems stupid to have humans anywhere near this stuff. Robot chemistry labs would make a lot of sense -- doing the same operations over and over, exactly the same way, with limited downside when things go wrong.

I know some of the biochem procedures are moving to "cloud labs" -- using inherently small amounts of chemicals and repeating things many times. Doing similar things in larger scale labs also seems worth it.
I don't think anyone doubts the value of completely understanding what's going in the brain, but it's clear this is an insanely difficult task. It's incredibly difficult reverse engineering something as complex as the brain when we have little understanding of its capabilities and limitations unlike a digital computer. Until then, I don't see the problem with using various therapies to attempt to cure conditions. I definitely don't see the value in asking people who are suffering to wait until a seemingly unsurmountable task is completed.
so... why is long-term employment at one employer a good thing?

I think this is an important thing to think about, because labor has been fighting for rules to get companies to reduce turnover for a long time, and I'm not sure that is in the interest of laborers as a whole.

I certainly agree that employment is very important (especially under our current economic system... but personally, I think that having a job might be important even when you don't need to fear for your food.) - I think that lowering the unemployment rate is one of the most important things we can do for the happiness and health of our society, certainly as long as we use our current economic system.

but... I don't see why that means you should work at the same place forever. As is common in my industry, I jump around rather a lot; I don't think I've worked at a company I didn't own for more than five years (and five years was about the max I worked full time at my own company, rather than contracting myself out for venture capital)

In fact, I'd argue that greater job mobility gives the worker more power not less... the coercive power of the capitalist boss only exists if you think that after getting fired from this job you can't get another job. I would argue that workers as a whole would be better off at a same total level of unemployment, if changing jobs was easier, not harder.
Maybe you have also read that the distribution of men is wider spread out - more rich men, but also more poor men compared to rich women and poor women.

I think the pressure on men in society is simply higher. Women at least have their wombs, men only bring their achievements to the table. And traditionally women were loath to marry down, for example, whereas for men it was pretty common. I guess to prevent mass shootings, more feminists should marry down instead of complain about male competitiveness (which is 99% driven by women's choices, as mates is part of what men compete over).

I also seem to remember reading that the "running amok" thing also used to happen in traditional societies, so assuming it is a symptom of Neoliberalism is probably incorrect. The word "Amok" apparently is derived from a traditional culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_amok
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Upvoted for the discussion.

jaquesm has some very interesting critique here.
Is this even noteworthy? I've never drunk coffee or tea and stopped drinking alcohol 12 years ago and never thought to mention it to the Internet.
Datomic much? :)
I attended @marknadal's talk at Distributed Matters Berlin (https://2015.distributed-matters.org/ber/speakers/#284925727...). It promised a lot.

After the talk, I was left with many unclear messages, lots of promises, few detailed explanations, IMVHO many flawed statements, and only one clear outcome: gun is a "script" (I wouldn't call it database) that offers "conflict resolution" based on data's lexicographical order (!!!).

I just probably understood everything wrong, or I'm simply inexperienced enough to appreciate gun. My apologies in advance.
One thing we could learn is that the pre-war Japanese Constitution had a serious problem. The Constitution gave all powers to the Emperor and let him govern the country through the parliament, cabinet, courts, army and navy. That was interpreted to mean the army and navy did not have to obey the cabinet as long as they obey the Emperor. The Emperor didn't actually govern just like UK, so there was no head of the country. Japanese leaders had variety of opinions, but once the atmosphere that a war was inevitable was made, no one had authority to stop that.
That's ridiculous. Let's take a long view on China from Japan's perspective:

* Han Chinese displaced people in every direction, throughout what is now China and even into Malaya.

* Chinese moved south & west, killing native peoples. (numerous Mongol, Dzungar and Tibetan elimination campaigns)

* China takes land from Tibet (1930-1932).

* "Chinese unity" includes a lot of places that aren't Han Chinese. (routinely interfering in Mongolia)

* China previously demanded tribute from Japan.

* Republic of China oppressed the Manchu, killing hundreds of thousands.

* China wanted to kick Japan out of the mainland.

It was only logical to feel threatened by China. If properly unified it would outclass and defeat Japan. They had a momentary advantage and felt compelled to take action to protect themselves against a hostile China.
Who gets to decide what's a morally acceptable way to become injured and what isn't? If the 80 year old has turned their life around at 65, and has been mentoring at-youth kids, do we still reject them for their earlier mistakes? Should we give it to a 25 year old who injured himself playing hockey, despite that being a high-risk activity as well?

If there is a scarcity and we can't heal everyone, those choices have to be made, but my original context was that the answer is that we can afford to help everyone. In that situation, I don't think there's an ethical reason to not help everyone.
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> Here's the rub with that argument though, Japan was not a great power in 1945

Well there is an active (and unresolved) historical debate about whether the bombs were justified, but Japan had been a powerful Empire that defeated the UK in Asia and gave the US a run for it's money. It is not comparable to a bunch of rebels however you frame it.

> other than to view them as the ultimate insurance policy against humanity's darkest nature

Or just an instrument of global stability. How many times would the cold war have gone hot if it wasn't for the fact it would have led to nuclear Armageddon?
Did someone say FOOF?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioxygen_difluoride
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"Bypass control flow guard" :)

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Zhang-By...
> For example, how will technology affect the outcome of war.

That's one thing you do learn from history. You'll win this one if you have the technology and your opponent does not. Otherwise you lose. The next war, you'll both have the technology.
Where is the ridiculous part?

Aside from aspect that many national governments were expanding and conquering, as they are wont to do.
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Never had a problem with SBCL on any VPS provider.