skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Although admirable, it is not apart of the Bill and Melinda Gates pledge that many billionaires (notably, Buffet) have taken of giving away half of their new worth before they die."

Are you referring to The Giving Pledge [1]? Both Mark and Priscilla have signed it [2]:

"We salute the Giving Pledge movement, and are proud to be part of its declaration that those who have been fortunate should give back at least half of their wealth during their lifetimes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Pledge

[2] http://givingpledge.org/pdf/pledge-letters/Zuckerberg_Letter...
It would be nice if someone who groks the async "with" statement could add proper opcode support for it in pycdc. Better to do it when you have spare time than when you've clobbered an important .py file and want to recover it from the .pyc file ASAP. (pycdc can be a life saver.)

https://github.com/zrax/pycdc/issues/70
I think it's assumed that because an adult is more autonomous they are also more sapient, and typically not needing the same protection.

It's why some countries have banned certain advertisement mediums targeting children, and why you won't see many tobacco billboards by schools.
>their roadmap makes it clear there's nothing coming in the future.

In fact, the roadmap makes the opposite clear. Not only have they maintained a steady stream of quarterly upgrades and new releases, but they specifically committed to continuing to do so: "Adobe is continuing to develop and improve both Flash Player and AIR. As we progress forward and commit items to our quarterly releases, we will update the release timing for these features in this document. In 2015, we will continue the attention that we give..."
> Personally, I think the work a person does to earn that kind of money, assuming of course it's from legitimate commercial activity, is plenty enough, one shouldn't feel morally compelled to donate it back.

Agreed. And not to get too political, but I'm thankful that individuals in the U.S. are exceptionally generous, and do think about these things. And that those who DO earn copious amounts of money have the choice of what to donate it to - rather than having 90% of it confiscated and doled out by someone else who didn't earn it.
"During our lives" doesn't specify a time frame such that it will happen in the next 5 years or 50 years. What he appears to be really saying is "our heirs will only inherit 1% of our Facebook shares". Until both Chan and Zuckerberg pass away we don't know how many shares (or wealth) they will have access to.
With you littletimmy. I couldn't read it after first few lines.
You're right in that a lot of this is common sense. But I think the strength of the message is in making the implicit, explicit. It's the same reason people suggest "writing things down" rather than letting thoughts/plans live in your head. When times get tough, or things go sideways, you have a manifesto to fall back upon to keep your vision clear and to hold yourself accountable to your original intents.
Great list with "standard" tools that you'd find on most systems by default.
From my experience for virtualized servers you might also look at:

- system and stolen cpu to show virtualization overhead and VMs starvation for CPU (in vmstat)

- interrupts and context switches which might indicate that VMs might be running non-optimized OSs or non-paravirtualized drivers (vmstat)

- abusing VMs/Containers (platform specific), ie for KVM: virsh vcpuinf, virsh dominfo

- socket summary and dig from there: ss -s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10657913
Telegram has better cloud sync. Signal doesn't have a desktop app AFAIK, only a Chrome plugin which is still in development.
The Matrix: an app store for the internet of things
I've heard "These, them, or those?" used to indicate a 3-step progression.
With vscode there are some clever architectural choices they made to create a near native experience. They use stdin / stdout integration between native services (like those for Go programming language) and the editor itself. It's anothe form of reuse for the libraries that already do intellisense, compilation, or other syntax-specific functions.

In the 2nd and 3rd generation codenvy systems, we tried to duplicate some of the JDT capabilities for Java directly within the browser with webworkers. We had to write that in JavaScript. I believe this is how C9 handles their support for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

We had pretty decent support, but there were all sorts of issues: having to rewrite JDT services is nearly impossible and really the domain of language teams, the browser has limited context where many intellisense services need access to multiple directories and meta information, and there were some performance issues in certain edge cases that are hard to resolve without having certain I/O and cache mechanisms (which are readily available on file systems).

So the VSCode model of reusing the language services and then layering on a stdin / stdout protocol is pretty smart. We are doing a similar approach with Che, but instead of stdin / stdout, we are packing a restful interface on top of the JDT & JavaScript services. We see some potential to consolidate vscode & other approaches into a multi-language intellisence server, powered by REST + stdin + stdout. That would be really fun to have all programming languages remotely accessible through a common protocol.
although in less power-hungry ways

Yes, well that's 100% the distinction.

The OP seems to think that the obvious choice is for money to "go to something meaningful" without specifying what "meaningful" actually is. Within this context, that would seem to mean the "meaningful" thing is "greater -good" charity. My point is that more frequently, this type of money go toward direct influence of power like setting up Super PACs, hosting power networks like Sun Valley Conference, establishing think tanks, grants to universities for certain research etc...
Press Release: Basecamp Valuation Tops $100B After Bold VC Investment
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has a great segment that talks about this event.
A pure functional toaster would work one of two ways:

1) It would just be a solid box with no openings. Inside would be full of wondrous magic, but interacting with the outside world involves side-effects so interaction would not be allowed.

2) It would have a glass panel on the side, which you'd hold your untoasted bread against. A slice of toasted bread would pop out of the top. You'd never know where it came from, but you'd be happy that your original slice hasn't been modified.
I am most amazed that the technocrats who were sent copies of this book anonymously all decry that it's probably some kind of marketing. Alexis Madrigal: “It’s so weird in this day and age to just do an art project.”

Seriously!? People are doing pure art projects every minute -- they're call artists! I feel like this would make Mark Twain smile, like writing satire about a dimwitted socialite, who then reads it and thinks the book is great because it's obviously about someone else.
In the US you can change your name to anything. The guy can change just as the girl can but it is very uncommon for the guy to change his last name.

Honestly, why are you disappointed?
I'm dismayed by the lack of focus on the environment here. Humans as a species are doing just fine. Health gains just marginally improve that. We need to focus on finding balance with nature that doesn't involve mass extinctions and subjugation.
Useless? I think it is a constructive criticism.
Revamped LHC goes heavy metal
>You spend $45B on changing the way governments and populations live work and how power is balanced.

$45B is even overkill for that. Each presidential candidate spent (or had spent on their behalf) roughly $1B in 2012. Zuckerberg therefore could have doubled a candidates spending for each presidential election for the rest of his life and still have half his fortune. $45B is that huge.

EDIT: The multiple downvotes seem to indicate I said something that is disagreeable. I'm not implying that buying elections would be a better use of Zuckerberg's money, just that he has so much money that elections are just more "stuff" he could buy without even thinking hard about it.
I'd go one better:

"Everyone ... wants to shape the world in their specific ideal."

Most people give up on this idea in their mid-20s though or never really believe that they can.
What would it require to make it a federated system? And interconnected?
You're saying that her daughter won't get the warm fuzzies in 20 years time over a PR release veiled as a "future note to our daughter"? Me neither.
I agree with a handful of your points, but I think the biggest thing broken with enterprises is that accountability is hyper-distributed, both internally (through massive org/bureaucracy) and externally (by selling things to your users', bosses', bosses) and not having a clean enough feedback loop.

It makes them effectively irrational machines, who can survive (or die) fairly independently of their ability to create value.

I think these misaligned incentives are the reason Enterprise projects suck, not because people are lazy and stupid (is anyone really honestly arguing that?), but also not because we've literally reached some hard-limit on the theoretical ability for 6,000 people to do great work.

I also disagree that the problems enterprises purport to be tackling are all that large or overwhelming... not that they're not large or even overwhelming, but the idea that some group working on Oracle's Business Intelligence Solutions is saddled with a much harder problem than I dunno... Google, or Oculus, or NewRelic is super hard for me to swallow.
Some thoughts:

* Addressing a public press release to your private child's name

* Naming the initiative with your family's name

* Calling for "change now" as if the world isn't already working very hard every day towards progress

* Looks like a move out of a strategic playbook some advisers gave for "how to be President someday"

* Looks like they're marketing themselves as the royal family, like Facebook is the new kingdom

* Looks like that smug thing that's hip today where people compete to be most charitable

* Reminds me of the Melinda and Bill Gates thing, and the Google medical research thing

Part of this is the perspective of engineers who believe everything is solvable if you just build something to do it. If it isn't built yet, it must be because we're not working hard and fast enough. That if someone has billions of dollars, and are just willing to fund an initiative, they can take credit for curing all disease.

Part of it is the fear that's faced by people who felt invincible when they become old, or have a newborn infant. When you can purchase anything, the new difficulties are things like bacteria, viruses, and entropy. When you are a god in the eyes of the society and economy, yet a worm in the eyes of biology and ecology, there's no longer a clear path towards how to solve your daily concerns. If you're poor and need food, there's simple steps you can follow to acquire what you need. But when you're wealthy, what do you do to get well from illness, to escape the pains of aging?

These people, and much of the digital society today, need perspective and psychological understanding beyond what they have. But you won't see an initiative for that.
Cool, thank you for the response! I'll probably give it a shot for my non-gmail.com emails and see how it goes.
I would like to see the citation too.

Joke: in the late 80s, Stasi employed nearly 1 person for 50 people in East Germany. They just say they can do that 5 times better with internet, not impressive in 30 years of technical progress. Give us more!
MIT Figured Out How to Make Cheap 3D Scanners 1,000 Times Better
Wow, that's a lot of pro-facebook comments for a "Hacker news" site. Shouldn't you people be browsing reddit or better yet, facebook?
Okay yeah there might be a lot of flaws or criticisms about this, but at the end of the day, this is a net win for society. Go Mark and Priscilla!
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> Begging the question. I do not think it means what you think it means.

The transitive use "begs the question X" (where X is some actual question) is commonly used that way and well-understood (and this usage is, while idiomatic in structure, fairly obvious from the usual definitions of the words involved.)

This is readily distinguished from the intransitive use "begging the question" or "begs the question" to refer to the petitio principii fallacy (an idiom based in what was, at the time, a poor translation into English that hasn't gotten better with age.)

Even better, the intransitive use can be seen as (though this reverses the etymology) a special case of the transitive use in which the question begged is the original one the argument sought to address -- the justification for the conclusion which has been assumed in the petitio principii fallacy -- so that the transitive use that you complain about both generalizes the special intransitive case and rationalizes it with common usage.
If we define "power-hungry" so broadly that it encompasses merely wanting to make the world a better place, I'm not sure what use the term is anymore.
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"There's a big difference between 50% and 99%. There's a big difference between leaving your children a few hundred million and many billions."

There is a saying "you can name the price if I can name the terms". Zuckerberg saying this and when he actually does this are two different things. (Per my other comment). I am not saying that he won't (how would I know?) but this is a promise that is based on a future event that, given the age of both parents, could easily be 50 or 60 years in the future. And of course exactly nothing will happen if he changes his mind (he isn't going to issue a press release on that) and nobody has any access to his finances anyway. So he is free to say anything he wants for any reason and that of course could change. That said it's his money and he can do what he wants with it. And there is no reason to even announce this if not playing some PR angle.

Edit: And to my point I just got a WSJ Technology Alert email with the headline "FACEBOOK'S MARK ZUCKERBERG IS GIVING AWAY 99% OF HIS SHARES" and then further down in a paragraph "over the course of their lives".
> Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader.

Realistically, we can't all avoid being garbage collectors or street sweepers, can we? Or will automation really replace all unsavoury jobs with high-paying professions?
“V.C.s have become San Francisco’s de facto philosopher kings, doling out financial, political and spiritual advice while amassing enormous cultural sway”

What an incredibly sad state of affairs for such a historically great city, and what a fittingly excellent project. Hats off to whoever is responsible.
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Creating Your Own EC2 Spot Market (Part 2)
Kerala was third poorest state in India when Communists came into rule in 1953. I will commend the communists for improving the socio-economic indices, not sure but perhaps the only state with 100% literacy in India, which they have done in 90s. But because of the LDF coalition, many businesses have stayed out of the state, on the economic front Kerala has ways to go.
It's possible to do anything with your band. I'm disappointed he didn't choose Suckitwinkelvoss.
His Charity is so great- that He simultaneously saves the world's poor while providing fodder for season 3 of Silicon Valley.
We've been blocking off Wed/Thurs as no meetings day for engineers largely inspired by this article. It's amazing how much you'll get done with 2 days a week uninterrupted. Down side is that it's tough to schedule a meeting (and room), so some meetings get pushed back by days or weeks.
Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million dollars to Newark public schools a few years ago, and they ended up no better for it (and arguably worse off). Here's a great article on the topic -- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/schooled .

The main reason for the failure of the donation to create positive change was that the community wasn't engaged at all in the reform process. The first time Newark students and parents heard about the donation and the accompanying "reforms" were when Zuckerberg announced them on Oprah.

I completely agree with your sentiment, and wish philanthropy wasn't seen as an unmitigated good thing.
Yeah... how's that for burying the lede? I almost didn't get that far through the post.
What about the concrete initiative of just paying taxes in each countries where the real business is done?
IncludeOS: A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
This is a corporate blog post. The title reads like a news headline, but the writing has a tint of marketing in it. Worst is the last section, which is simply an ad for its service.

Is there any better source for this?
React datepicker component, still in progress
Instagram is a native app.
Schedulers, Part 1: Basic Monolithic
The current capital gains tax rate he would be avoiding is 20%, or $9b at today's Facebook market cap. There is also a 3.8% Medicare tax added on that would come to another $1.7B. The state of California would also get their hands on it and take another 13.3% (or about $6B).

tl;dr Giving capital gains away is very tax advantageous!
Reminds me of the quip that goes something like this: "What's the best way to save 10 dollars? Earn 10 dollars more."
Expensive shot at Bezos and his distate of charity. Well played, Zuck.
Yeah. I have an extended family member who took both names and a friend who opted to just take on his wife's maiden name and dropped his. Another set of friends came up with a last name that was new to them both.

The hyphenating of both names is an interesting concept, but would in all practicality be a difficult thing to pass on after a few generations if it were the standard. Though maybe I'm not thinking thorough it properly.
I agree it's off-topic, but I'm not sure I agree it's a "Well-actually". Language is imprecise enough as it is, we don't need to make it even more so by letting common mistakes become accepted practice.

Bad analogy: imagine if the Python docs were to recommend handling try-blocks with "except: pass" simply because many people do it.
It's .. the same thing. Now, bear with me: I don't say that it doesn't offer something over Telegram (most probably: Far better privacy/security), but it's a centralized service, hosted by a single entity, using your phone number as 'identity'. Ignore the first points, but the latter is so broken, Signal could be the most usable and glorious app ("Everything just works") on the planet and I'd still hate that idea.

Right now, Telegram suffers from the same faults (phone number = identity, closed/central server), but excels in usability and client availability. Signal is - for me, right here - worse. And I _should_ be part of Signal's target group.
I think this letter and http://givingpledge.org/ are good.

But we all give away wealth when we die. To someone or another.

The pledge is not necessarily one of generosity other than looking past one's family. Which is something, but less impressive along the generosity dimension than giving away more earlier (while that money has a very real opportunity cost to you).

That said, if I had billions of dollars, I'd be investing in my own research and not giving it away. But that's just me.
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For instance, interfacing with c in factor works like this. You have an internal dsl that allows you to express what the signature of a c function is. It is designed to look like a function declaration in c, but it is actually valid factor. And... that's it! You can now call that function, and some meta programming drives from that pseudo signature all the information to translate values back and forth
> I'd point out those "plural forms" are now "singular forms" as well

No, they're still plural, just as they are when combined with other grammatically plural pronouns that are used with singular semantics (the royal/editorial use of "we" and -- even more commonly -- "you", the second-person plural pronoun that has in virtually all uses displaces the singular one.)
"Chan is a diminutive suffix; it expresses that the speaker finds a person endearing. Thus, using chan with a superior's name would be condescending and rude. In general, chan is used for babies, young children, and teenage girls. It may also be used towards cute animals, lovers, and close friends. "

It's otaku humor.
It works if you disable XHR on the page (yes, really).
English already has a perfectly good singular, gender-netural pronoun: "it". We're just not used to using "it" for non-child people:

When the baby is hungry, it eats.

When the person is hungry, it eats.

If you adopt "they", you have to either adopt plural verbs, or allow "they" to be associated with singular verbs:

When the person is hungry, they eat.

When the person is hungry, they eats.
Those things were known before psychology named, published, and formalized them. They were just called "common sense" and presented alongside a number of competing ideas. Buddhism is no different in this regard: everything it gets right is not known to be right until someone uses a reliable process to verify it. Until then, there is little reason to accept it as a known truth.
> I have no idea why so many other languages force you to stick a gender on something without any genitals.

Btw, Swedish has a nice version of this, the masculine and feminine genders have merged together into the common gender, and then the other is the neutral gender. For example:

en katt (a cat, common)
ett hus (a house, neutral)

You are still burdened by having to memorize the gender for each noun, but at least you are spared from having to think the words as masculine or feminine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar#Nouns
That is some horrifying code...
The Future of the (e)Book
My opinion is that at some point, things will go the way of Facebook. Facebook started as a college-student-only social network, and then eventually became available to the general public. I feel the same will happen with this idea. :/
Please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive and/or inflammatory comments to Hacker News. We ban accounts that do that repeatedly, and you've done it repeatedly.
Great Disk Fee Fallacy