skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that hold up in the modern sense of internet browsing history? If someone stumbles across my browsing history, they cannot publish it while I am living, but can once I am dead?

Sounds like Haruki Murakami should have installed uBlock Origin and that the library shouldn't have enforced a real names policy :)
I suppose that makes sense, but it's not really a dichotomy. The ultra-wealthy pays taxes and the state does decide how to spend it. Should the ultra-wealthy get taxed more than they are now in the US? Yes, probably.
One of the benefits of the Tor Browser Bundle is that they do great job making all the visitors to websites look identical. Same version of Firefox, same plugins, etc.

Perhaps something similar needs to be done for hidden services. A pre-generated VM or Docker container, widely used, that would make it difficult to do software package analysis on a hidden service.
Well the parasitic corporate/government relationship thought it was a good idea. But few hosts care to listen to the votes of their parasites. And it wasn't really a tank, but some sort of useless hybrid designed to maximize the number of US casualties in any conflict with a modern army. I kid, that's just the side effect of maximizing the amount of graft which flowed into the companies involved and then back into the hands of the politicians involved.
do you have a source for that statement and does that source take into account the basically fraudulent "charities" that exist to pay their ceos
Its the fundamental flaw with our broken copyright system. HBO should do fund-raisers for new seasons of Game of Thrones each year, to the sum of whatever amount covers costs + profits they want. Then the finished product can be public domain. If they are worried about year to year revenue they can do a rolling campaign, and episodes are produced when revenue is generated to pay for them.

You can still do investorships in such relationships - an investor can pay for the pilot, and then the studio can charge a surplus on future episodes to reimburse the investor. The risk is in how popular the series will be, and that is the risk the investor assumes - you just need to offer them enough of future episode profits to entice them.

They could still hold a trademark on the series so nobody could impersonate them, but if someone else wanted to take Song of Ice and Fire and make a tv series nothing would stop them as long as they aren't impersonating HBO or George R.R. Martin.

This whole disaster around licensing produced works is hell and a huge burden on society and culture, and this is one spec is a sea of immorality around it.
Well, I can imagine things like what you describe (regarding Cherokee Nation) and I won't find that especially odd.

But Tibetians are much more numerous and they've lost their independence much more recently, making their case incomparable to that of Cherokee. Your parable is shaky.

You seem to think that Dalai Lama issue is either solely about annoying China, or solely about self-presentation. It is not. People are genuinely interested in Buddhism because it looks elegant and less stained than other major religions.
Does that discussion of his $100 million donation simply not count in your book? Did it not show up in your browser?
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I upvoted you, but disagree with your assessment.

> wouldn't it be better to have all this power be in the hands of the democratically chosen

In a word: no.

Although the state spends some money on things that aren't abhorrent - broken clock politics as it were - it also spends money killing, torturing, and imprisoning people.

So I think it's a very defensible moral stand to give the state as little money as possible.
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If the money always belonged to the state, and the state simply allows its constituents to keep some of the money they earn, your logic stands.

But if the money ever belonged to the individual, then the public cannot "subsidize" the individual keeping what he/she earned.

Put another way: if I walk up to someone on the street and forcibly take their money - and if that wasn't mine to begin with - most people would call that 'stealing' (or at least 'coercion' of some sort). If I chose to not forcibly take their money, and they then give that money to the homeless person on the corner, I'm not "subsidizing" the person whose money I didn't forcibly take.

It was theirs to begin with - not mine.
This is JWZ's opinion (in strong terms):

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/12/zuckerberg-has-not-donated-...
I agree. Mailman is fantastic as it is. There's a technical brevity and image it gives off, and that's an important aspect of design. This isn't really a statement about usability or what's beautiful in design.

I design user interfaces and creating a new UI for basically what mailman does would really just be an attempt at grabbing a different target audience.

mailman has an image behind it. People associate with different images, and certain looks and feels make certain people gravitate towards them.

The type of people I would want in my mailing list are the type of people that appreciate how mailman looks as-is.

I try to practice great design where it matters most. A reskin of such software would be more aligned with the goals of junior designers and people who rehash weather apps with nice gradients on dribbble.
Works fine in Chrome for me.
How about asking him, instead of speculating here?
> of course it is not possible to write a Swift compiler in Swift before the language exists

No, but you can do a self-hosting port after you have a first rudimentary compiler. Many compilers have been built like this. Some did it early in language development with a purpouse built one-off bootstrapping compiler, some did it after the language was somewhat stable (eg Go).

ObWP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29
The money does belong to the state. Examine the front and back of any bill.

Where do you think Federal Reserve Notes come from?
Yep. And plenty of people who have donated lot of free time towards making the world a better place in unglamorous ways, even when they were struggling with many other responsibilities.

There's a huge difference between someone who's always spent their life working for others, and someone who has ignored others for most of their life, but then throws money in that direction after they've made so much that they realize what they really want to spend their excess billions on is buying popularity.
Yes: https://incubator.apache.org/wave/
That would be great. It's surprising to me that every docker startups is focused on running large clusters, instead of a few focused on running very few images on small embedded devices. I could see a really nice continuous integration pipeline for the devices and it would speed up deployment for new users wanting to explore IoT.
It's just a philosophical difference in opinion about who should decide what to do with the billionaires' money - elected officials or billionaires.

Fixed that for you.
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The Apple Watch works well for my (N=1?) use case: I have an iPhone 6 plus, and no, I don't want to pull it out of my pocket or bag dozens of times a day.

I had an iPhone 5, and loved the form factor, but not the battery life. The 6+ can handle a couple of days of use as a smartphone and mobile internet access point. The larger screen is irrelevant to me, but the larger battery matters.

I like that when the phone rings, I see who's calling on the watch. Same for personal messages from my daughter, son, or +1. I like paying for coffee with a bar code on my wrist. I care about the weather and appointments on my wrist, and yes I have used it to call an Uber. The watch needs a better battery life, and it will be a game changer when it becomes untethered. But for now, it is fine just the way it is. I think the Apple Watch is a successful product.

As for the post, the title speaks to the watch being a failed platform. It may well be that, Apple has commoditized iOS apps, the opportunity for people to get stinking rich from watch apps is going to be smaller.

But if it can be a successful product, I think that is enough. IMO, Apple is playing defense, not offense. Apple wins if people keep buying iPhones. The danger with wearables is that by the time you can make a watch that replaces a smartphone for a lot of use cases, Apple might get disrupted. Likewise if watches tethered to smartphones were to become essential, Apple could get disrupted if it had a poor experience.

The last thing Tim Cook wants is to wake up one day and find people walking into stores, buying a Pebble Gizmo2016, and asking the clerk, "What's the cheapest phone that works with my new Pebble?"

I have a feeling that the Apple Watch 1.0 is doing enough to hedge against watches disrupting smartphones. As the leader in smartphones, that's its first concern.
This would make a good submission for "Show HN". If you resubmit, start the title with "Show HN: " and it will be placed on that page.
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It depends on what you like. Many people are probably happy that organizations like the Ford Foundation will advocate globalist left-wing anti-Americanism forever. Bill and Warren and Mark's money will do the same as well, no matter their intentions. O'Sullivan's law.

There's no point in arguing about whether the state is better suited to handle the money. It would actually be better off cashed out, piled up, and burnt. Literally. A tiny deflationary event vs. eternal troublemaking.
Of course a system misbehaves if you use an (intentionally) broken application. That's a Google Chrome issue and not an issue with pinning.
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That's not true. The estate would be taxed at 40% for any value of the LLC over about $10.5 million (today's estate-tax exemption).

Family LLCs can work for reducing the estate tax if you transfer ownership interests during your lifetime at a reduced valuation, owing to the fact that the membership interests are not marketable, giving them a lower value than the market value of whatever the LLC holds.

The only way you avoid the estate tax is if you transfer an asset to an irrevocable trust or your family members before the asset gains significant value. If you own, directly or indirectly, an asset that has significant value, it is taxed at death.
I don't need to check notifications right away - but I like to. It's definitely a personal preference and nowhere near a necessity. This is why I don't see smartwatches becoming as universal as smartphones.
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> It's just a silly gimmick

I think expectations are to high and it has a low ceiling in terms of potential. Apple shouldn't have gotten into this market for years to come but the pressure from investors forced them.
> It is all just a bad transfer of power from the state to billionaires.

And who owns the state? Last I checked, it was billionaires.
501c4s, aka SuperPACs are nonprofit "charitable" organizations.

It's not like the government confiscates 100% of wealthy people's money as soon as they try to do good, it just taxes it like it does for mere mortals, whenever it changes hands. Using a legal construct to avoid personal tax liability, is quite literally depriving the government of funds it would otherwise be entitled to.

I think both sides of this debate have legitimate viewpoints, but I personally have a problem with the excessive opportunities given to the wealthy to avoid contributing to the funding of our shared system of governance and infrastructure.

Historically, they've never had it this good both tax-wise and income-wise, and to cry victim is in poor taste.
> as someone that moved their entire backend infrastructure to Go

What did you move from?
While that is true, and a problem, it doesn't make the point of the article any less valid. If anything, you are agreeing with it now.
Politicians should decide how your money is spent, not you.
Congressmen are mostly rich people rented by richer ones, but a small amount of plebian influence is surely better than none at all if you're into that whole "democracy" thing.
Private companies used to spend money killing, torturing, imprisoning, exploiting, robbing, and oppressing people, until the public stopped them through the means available to them in government. And you're saying this is a bad thing, and the power should mostly rest with private companies? At least with the government, the people staffing the bureaucracies and agencies don't have their (non-existent) bonus tied to how hard they fucked a customer over.
It's not relevant because their current pledge is significantly different in how it is managed (previous was a 503c charitable contribution, current is an LLC-based corporation that will have stricter control over allocation of funds).
Government efforts never fail, on the other hand.
> An advantage of Go over Rust is easier tooling due to a simpler language

I'm curious how "tooling" is easier in Go than in Rust. To my mind, dynamic tooling (instrumentation, profiling, debugging, etc.) is much easier in Rust than in Go, because Rust uses the OS facilities and looks much like native code, while Go's runtime reinvents the world.

This is in fact what we've seen—Rust didn't have to write custom profilers, custom debuggers, language-specific race detectors, and so on, because the native system tools work just fine.

(NB: I'm not saying Go made the wrong decision with a userland scheduler; I'm objecting to the idea that it's somehow simpler to do that. It's much more complex.)
Billionaires ARE democratically chosen. Think that all the way through. What is more democratic than direct voting with ones dollars? Politicians in the US are actually not all that democratically chosen. The individual vote accounts for almost nothing. Look into how the electoral college system works for example. There are 2 great ways to learn a bit more about this, one in the form of an Adam Ruins Everything episode on voting, and the other in the form of this video by Cenk of TYT network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcc0Q_6pZYU
The taxation as theft argument implies that you believe that society (through the state) isn't entitled to a share of your money as payment for providing the system that allows you to become rich in the first place.

Without the infrastructure provided by society as a whole, no large business would be possible.
Trusted computer is good. But TNO (Trust No One) is the only way to really be safe. Think. DeLL Cert fiasco and how that sort of think would break this.
I don't know what solution they should have done. I'm not paid millions of dollars but more importantly, I don't know what the structure and politics are like at at that company.

But I'm amazed by how many people are willing to give Mayer a pass despite so many people from inside the company at the C and VP level leaving for reasons that include a confused strategy and mismanagement, specifically from Mayer, has undermined any attempts at a turnaround.

Here's an excerpt from a Forbes piece:

> But perhaps none of these incidents damaged morale more than Mayer’s reorganization of Yahoo’s product teams. When Mayer launched the effort last fall, everyone agreed the existing structure had outlived its usefulness—for instance, mobile products was partitioned from other groups. But Mayer embarked on the process without laying out a grand vision for it. Instead, she began sketching out different scenarios in one-on-one meetings with various executives, floating one plan by one exec and a different by another. Unable to make up her mind, the process dragged on for months. “She went through 20 different permutations,” says an executive with knowledge of the process. “The product guys were twisting in the wind, not knowing what they were going to run.”

> Product releases slowed to a trickle, and a turf war brewed as executives became concerned with their futures. Jon McCormack, a star executive who had joined Yahoo in January from Amazon and was promised a broad engineering portfolio covering critical areas like mobile, landed in the vacuum created by Mayer’s indecision. He was gone by the end of February and now works for Google. When Mayer announced the new structure in April, it was too late. “That was the beginning of everyone losing faith,” says another senior executive. “That’s when people started to look for other jobs.”
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I personally trust Mark Zuckerberg more then I trust our government with the money. I think it will go a lot farther. I wouldn't say that about every billionaire though.
You can also run eliom (http://ocsigen.org/eliom/) which offers reactive DOM elements. Not as seamless as Meteor, but you get something pretty close with the benefits of type safety, down to the HTML you generate.
I still remember max howel tweet[1] in which he publicly said that we was rejected by Google. Looking at his linkedin profile[2] , he was later hired by Apple in August 2015. Now he is biggest[3] contributed to Swift package manager. It is good to see that the person who has lot of experience in handing Apple and package system is handing this stuff. I guess, things happens for good.

[1] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxhowell

[3] https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/graphs/contri...
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The trade is this: if you made $100 and your marginal tax rate is 20%, you can either (a) let the government spend $20 however it sees fit and you spend $80 however you see fit (which may be an $80 bottle of wine); or (b) you spend $100 on any charitable cause you see fit (which must meet certain requirements).

That doesn't seem like a bad trade to me, especially since rich people have fairly low marginal tax rates.
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My mother is stuck with some neighbors on the second floor of my house. First floor is 3/4 flooded. They are OK for now but food and water is going to become a problem if the rains don't let up :-(

My aunt had to be evacuated by boat from her place. I haven't lived in Chennai over 15 years but it is surreal to see the pictures.

Very frustrating that the government spent money on laying fiber and setting up a subway system over the past few years without doing anything to improve the drainage system. The city faces cyclones every year. This was just waiting to happen.
Watch or not, why is there a human in that loop at all?
It isn't necessary to believe that the private sector is well run and wise for that statement to be relevant. All that is necessary is for the private sector to be better run and wiser than the government. In the US, that isn't hard to fathom, although I could probably accept the premise if we all lived in Germany.
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There is no real explanation for why the article is "bad" except for the tired argument that private foundations imitating the state are good and the state is bad. There is no further clarification or explanation; We are supposed to accept this as some sort of given, without pretext or afterthought.

Comments like this are bad.
I'm curious about this response. Could you please explain or point to something that explains, for a common person who doesn't code or cannot build code or cannot maintain servers, how Signal would provide more control and avoid being locked to a single vendor when compared to Telegram?
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Github repo with the scripts
https://github.com/narkoz/hacker-scripts
That depends on where you are – this German billionaire, obviously, is German. It’s not nearly as bad over here yet.
It seems pretty consistent with functions in a set-notation sense, with functions that map a tuple of stuff to something else. The mapping being indicated by an arrow instead of a colon.
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50 billion dollars is about 1/2 the budget of the State of California for a year. It's really not that much in terms of government expenditures. However, If used creatively, it could have a huge impact on the world, but that takes vision. Money without creativity and vision does nothing except raise the price of everything.