skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, not at all.

I just visited the site, and it has this extraordinary claim:

In addition to Link’s features being free to the public, they also come at no cost to taxpayers.

So either they have a money printing machine, or they will be doing DPI and adding in / replacing advertisements in no time.
Of course, Caspar Bowden was fired years ago, but I have a feeling Satya probably only made this culture worse. I remember this for example too: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ballme...
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The article lost me at "...it may well be best if advanced AI is developed in secret by a small elite group"

How on earth could such a limitation be accomplished? It just doesn't seem plausible. If AI offers some organization somewhere in the world a competitive advantage -- how can development of that AI possibly be stopped?
perhaps more acurately, it would motivate the budget holders... engineers work with the resources their company allocates. a large tax/fine would certainly help incentivise the right kind of response. although, the fine should be large enough to have prompted the correct behaviour in 1979!
We recently converted an apartment space in a mixed use building to an office. It was very loft-like with 18ft exposed steal ceilings and mostly glass and concrete walls. It sounded like a gymnasium when I lived in it as an apartment. You could hear the neighbor walking around his living room and could barely understand someone speaking normally across the room. An acoustics expert recommended a number of changes but for a rental space acoustic panels like Armstrong Soundsoak and area rugs on the wood floors (with high quality padding below) are two things we did that are removable and not as expensive as you might think. They made up about half of the dampening effect while a drop ceiling did the rest. It now sounds like a library and we can no longer hear the neighbor at all (nor can he hear us).
File system storage is much easier to reason about if you can't lean on a library, you can simply use the underlying OS. HN was built with a homegrown Lisp called Arc, and so can't rely on a vast community to provide a proper ORM.

Community support is why I write my personal projects with Ruby and not something like Arc. I don't want to have to reinvent everything just to get something basic done.
Because ultimately the trademark is as much the "thing" as anything else could be said to be, at least as far as I could think it through.

Everything I can read also makes it seem like the patent grants (above the GPL) are all tied to the condition of generating a compatible implementation of Java.

If Google wants to fork OpenJDK at some point down the road, they'd better have faith in the GPL.
Is it possible for a datum to be any more intrinsically worthless than an account number? Or a system to be more broken than to authenticate by 21 digits printed right on the card? Credit card companies have had two decades to switch to an appropriate system for scalable online transactions, but why bother if they can simply screw over merchants while guilting users into thinking they're responsible for "their" number?

And despite all this the subject has become a routine talking point for censorship proponents, nicely demonstrating a warped framework that prioritizes centralized whims over individual rights.
With website visits being power-law distributed, I think the HTTP real-estate is getting somewhat scarce.

They'll probably move on to DNS spoofing advertiser CDNs.
A couple thoughts...robotics needs EEs. Growth in robotics will mean an increased demand in the field.

Also, if you start in EE and study signal processing, you end up in a good position to get into data science and Big Data.
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Another good example is 50% of the method names in the Android SDK.
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Have you considered removing the university reference entirely?

The base line assumption is that you list education you completed (graduated), so anything less is likely to 'dissapoint' the recruiter.

If you can repackage what you did in university as discrete 'experience' that might give you the chance to establish a positive narrative ('I was well qualified for university but found the CS program too theoretical so decided to pursue a different path.')
I don't like how this treats "affordable housing" as though affordability were a built-in property of construction. The way to make housing affordable is to build lots of units, so that you don't have too many people bidding on too few apartments. If you don't do that, then everything is going to be expensive no matter how shitty you make it (see San Francisco). If you do do that, then you can make the units nice and they'll still end up being cheap.
But what of possible negative repercussions? I imagine that prison administrators that get poor reviews on Yelp are more likely than average to respond negatively to reviews received, and more likely than average to expend a lot of energy figuring out (even if they are wrong) who wrote the review, and exact revenge upon them.

It would be less snarky, but maybe it would be better to send these faxes to state/federal elected representatives that could act to change things for the better, and that would (generally) have less motivation to seek revenge?
Ebay?

I'm curious to know the company if you're willing to share because I grew up in Bellevue and worked at a software company downtown there as well.
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"don't hate the employee, hate the employer"

That sums it up for me.
Two huge advantages the Chinese have over Silicon Valley when it comes to innovation: Cost and Market Size.

Cost of innovation is at an all time low and is getting lower in China. VC money is increasing, more talented engineers are on the market and more of them are willing to try start ups. You wouldn't be renting office in San Francisco (a 2nd rate city with 1st rate cost) competing for a small talent pool against tech giants, and hiring/firing employees cost much less. You can hire a great software engineer (great as in they'd have no problem passing Google/Facebook interviews and successfully work there) for about $40k USD/year.

Market size is also tremendous in China. I remember talking to a Chinese engineer and they told me when they turn on A/B test for features, the small percentage of users that gets hit with the test are numbered in the 10s of millions. When you roll out a startup the adoption numbers are staggering, as in even with low marketing effort it's not difficult to see over 100,000 downloads within a week. Silicon Valley started the "fail fast, try again" mentality, and the Chinese has been perfecting it through practice.

One last thing that impressed me: The no-bs attitudes and pure capability of these young entrepreneurs. Few of them are worried about generating PR through the Chinese equivalent of TechCrunch, or super worried about upkeeping a pretentious blog with periodic entries of psuedo-philosophical opinion pieces. Many of these guys were super hard working students their entire life, and passed the absurdly rigorous Chinese University Entrance Exam and got into elite schools, and now believe in the hardworking + intelligence > anything else formula.

We are going to see a lot interesting things from the Chinese tech scene in the coming decade.
10% is hardly a rate of return to brag amount, especially since dense housing requires large amounts of capital tied up for multiple years. Assume a complex takes 18 months to build. Then that 10% is even less.
The thing is, people want their new project to get popular, because it validates them and is great portfolio and is motivating to work on, but you can't just stop once you have users. a lot of maintainers just quit when they got the users and used them for what they wanted. That's not very cool. So I don't think the project maturity is so important but rather that the project maturity not go backwards. If you're promoting your stuff on social media, positioning your work to be used by beginners, it needs to be maintained at that level until the users move on. I'm not aiming at anyone in particular right now, im just saying as a thought experiment, what if you make some great thing library and everybody loves it then a year later some idea gets back ported from Elm or ClojureScript and now someone else's stuff is exploding. Are you gonna move to the shiny thing and burn the people who believed in you? It's an impossible choice. I think a lot of people are gonna get burned on this in the next two years and JavaScript world will move back towards frameworks rather than libraries.
It arguably feels like a bigger accomplishment to deduce it from the clue. Kind of like a riddle.
"But the puppetry expands past individuals toward whole empires and movements. If God reached into the year 1900 and removed every single Communist, and every Communist book, and erased all memory of Communism, I think it would take about five minutes before someone reinvented something much like the movement, because there were a bunch of very poor people who felt desperate and cheated crammed up against a bunch of very rich people who weren’t afraid to flaunt their wealth. The new movement might have differed from Communism in minor details – maybe their color would have been blue instead of red – but it wouldn’t be hard to identify."

I think it's green...
That's true. It seems that alternatively Google could have relicensed their implementation as GPL and not have had to make any technical changes at all. Which shows that the only reason Google was maintaining their own implementation, and why they went through the lawsuit was just to keep GPL license out of their Java code. Seems nonsensical.
I'm a fan of the "why not" answer when it comes to just about everything tech. So many great things come from those two words.
Super interesting, thanks.
The problem is not architects. They know. The problem is buyers, who don't want to pay for good sound management.

And when public services in the US (NY subway, say) buy from the cheapest bidder, guess what's been compromised to lower cost?

The US is a hundred years behind the state of the art in sound management, just like most other public goods.
Obviously. But by now most have accepted that Google is just unable to provide any reasonable solution to this, and built their own libraries.

Often (ButterKnife, NineOldAndroids, etc) even better than what Google themselves provide.
In the movie The Hunt for Red October, a sonar technician trying to track another submarine reports detecting "milli-gal anomalies." This caused a bit of a stir at the Navy because at the time, the use of gravitational sensors on submarines was thought to be a secret.
This reminds me somewhat of "Commandos, Infantry, and Police" http://blog.codinghorror.com/commandos-infantry-and-police/
I'm assuming this is a half-facetious joke from the creators, but its core intent is sound: valid feedback doesn't always get to the desk on which the buck stops. Not necessarily out of a pursuit of "see no evil, hear no evil..." but just because there's too much noise in the overall dataset of complaints/opinions, and not enough tools or efforts to filter and sift for possible leads. The recent GM recall debacle comes to mind, in which 260 complaints purportedly related to ignition problems were submitted to the NHTSA yet apparently not acted on [1]. The NHTSA's defense is that 260 complaint records is not statistically significant...but...by their criteria, it seems that a lot of complaint trends would fall in that category. The bigger issue is that not enough information is gathered about the complaints to make an informed decision about recalls. Sure, but can the regulators (or carmakers) honestly say that the people who would prioritize such fact-finding are fully aware of what the complaints data (all which can be downloaded by anyone from the NHTSA website [2]) contains at any given point? It's not about taking action when the truth is encapsulated perfectly in a database, but making the effort to sift that database efficiently for leads.

tldr: there's a lot of room for improvement and innovation in filtering feedback for further investigation and action, not just in prisons but much of the public sector.

(for simplicity's sake, I'm ignoring the obvious factor of companies/regulators deliberately and maliciously not giving a shit/covering-things up...which is of course, always something to be aware of)

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/business/auto-regulators-d...

[2] http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/
That generally not how corporations use patents. Patent trolls - yes, but patents are almost always a defense.
Further down the twitter convo: https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt/status/631715218788360192
Adding the last part of the story

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Chang left his first day of work feeling uneasy. He called Duplan that evening to share his reservations. The conversation lasted well into the night. The next morning, Chang told Duplan he wouldn’t be coming back to the office. He left a long list of recommendations about how to launch Clinkle, then they parted ways amicably.

Of course, the only person who really knows why Chang left is Chang himself.

When reached for comment, Chang declined to elaborate, stating simply, “Lucas is one of the most impressive people I have ever met. I believe he will lead Clinkle to a successful outcome and I wish them the best.”

----

The comment at the end interests me. Does McCarthy and Duplan have enough connections to make Chang's life hell? Or is it that if Chang says the truth ( Duplan is duplicitous ) would that alone make prospective employers look down on him?

Perhaps both.
Sounds good. I hope that OpenJDK improves, because it's been sluggish and buggy in my experience. What Google should do is to move to something like Kotlin, which might make the whole programming environment less tedious than Java.
It's not just a promise. They have open sourced basically all the core parts of their developer infrastructure. What twitter did was be a dick and then promise to do better whereas Microsoft is actually doing it.
Maybe they'd do it because it's a good cover (e.g., you find it unlikely)?
> so that his trains would be the only option to move oil in that corridor.

Not sure how true this is. There are other options, including the using the Canadian Pacific Railway, which also operates in that corridor.
I've been thinking recently that powerful people treating the real world like a game is possibly one of the most destructive forces in society.
Hooray for too-big-to-fail institutions.
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This reminded me of NASA's GRACE mission [1] that I recently heard about. It can track the depletion of California's aquifers (for example) based on the tiny changes in orbit of the two tandem satellites.

Was mentioned on a recent Still Untitled podcast episode by NASA CTO David Miller [2], the whole thing is worth a listen if you want to hear him eagerly talking about all the cool things NASA is up to.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/
[2] http://www.tested.com/science/space/558108-return-rock-still...
Off the top of my head I imagine that most prison administrators are political appointees and probably know far less about the actual conditions of the prison and are less removed from the day-to-day running than one might expect. They have the ability to enact top-down changes in operations, but generally have no motivation to do so. I would think feedback like this would be quite valuable to them, so they could gain a perspective on what's going on that isn't coming from their direct reports.
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That's truly tragic. It's wonderful that he released his code into the public, but terribly sad circumstances. Thanks for letting us know the story behind this.
You're right, its not really a reference. But with the understanding, one should be quipped with the knowledge to make any ggplot. It's meant to be a tutorial that explains the structure to make any ggplot. Especially for beginners for whom the ggplot syntax didn't immediately click and those who struggle for long trying to get their ggplot right.
By "native" they mean Electron-based deployment of HTML/JavaScript. More info:

http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/how-rodeo-works.html
We can never be "sure" of these things, but here's an article that provides some background to my claim: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/03/08/obama-did-w...
So long sidecar
>San Francisco as a whole has in grappling with the most significant reason for its affordability crisis: the widespread opposition of its left-leaning residents to lots more new building.

"Left leaning"?

Since virtually none of the developments that are being blocked are actually affordable it's hard to feel sympathy for the developers looking to turn a profit whose interests are being represented by this article.

>But many of the San Francisco activists most passionate about improving affordability in theory are pursuing that goal in economically dubious ways that are, as often as not, counterproductive.

One thing is for certain, picking a side in the fight between condo developers looking to turn a quick buck and NIMBY San Francisco homeowners trying to stop them isn't going to help anybody apart from them.

Two things will help solve this problem: raising property taxes and using the proceeds to build public housing.
For those who are starting out and need to make a choice between AngularJs and EmberJs. Slightly longer but gives you a good basic understanding of both frameworks and points out the differences.
At this point, if I ever have to look at living in apartments/condos again, I will limit my search only to concrete high rise buildings. Which usually means at least 8 floors or taller -- I don't think it's possible to build that tall with plywood garbage.
Did you read the article?

"The full network will install more than 7,500 public hubs throughout the city, each replacing a pre-existing phone booth. Once completed, the hubs will also include USB device charging ports, touchscreen web browsing, and two 55-inch advertising displays. The city estimates that ads served by the new hubs will generate more than $500 million in revenue over the next 12 years."
I don't recall Microsoft saying that they would promise to stop. What they've done instead was to act in more honorable ways. The jury is still out when it comes to forgiveness, but they've made a pretty good start at it.
I've provided all the code you need to put the pieces together quite trivially. Using go-catching, <? and the promise library (or just the core.async snippet I wrote earlier), you should be able to write the following:

(go-catching
(<? (async-all [asyncOpA asyncOpB asyncOpC])))

And yes, that handles errors exactly like synchronous code does. The total number of lines for implementing go-catching, <? and async-all shouldn't take more than 20-30 loc, if not less.

Now, if 20-30 loc is too much for you to write, then by all means use JS.
"Once completed, the hubs will also include... two 55-inch advertising displays."
This isn't about the VM, it's about the code that runs on the VM. The Java language code, for example Object.equals(), that gets compiled into Dalvik/ART bytecode will now be OpenJDK code instead of Google's own implementation.
Here is another fool.com article suggesting other Canadian railroads that can also transport the oil (and are doing so). Including your own article, there is hardly a hint of monopoly.

http://www.fool.ca/2015/09/04/will-a-keystone-rejection-bene...
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The physical "wifi booths" they are installing have 2 - 55" flat screen TVs that will run ads on them.

Back of the napkin math time: that's $41mil a year generated over 8000ish ("over 7500" is what the official announcement said) booths, which is $5125 or just shy of $500/mo in revenue per booth to hit that target.

I'm not in the physical display advertising business, but that would generally seem pretty doable given some quick research into NYC ad costs.
"Expensive" is in the eye of the payer. Do you think a few thousand is expensive? A developer absolutely does.
Also, it takes more space, so doing it after the fact may lower your ceiling more than you're comfortable with (assuming your landlord is even willing.)

We could solve this with code updates and strict enforcement. However, pro business types will complain that it increases rents (probably true in the short term) and drives down development (probably not actually true.) Also, better sound management generates more livable spaces that better support city growth in 10 or 20 years, which is also important from a sustainability point of view. But nobody wants to pay for that. That's "someone else's" problem.
How would a city handle the pressure from telco's if they offer free, reliable wifi? Wouldn't all residential's switch to the free wifi, making telcos lose hundreds of thousands of customers?

Has there been a case where free wifi for a city has been implemented reliably where residential stopped purchasing internet from a telco?
It seems like you'd be the most qualified to tell us.
Before that Apple had to move from Motorola 68K ISA to PPC.
This is what I dislike most about free wifi. It's completely lacking in security and most are not aware of the issue. the use of mobile apps makes it worse. At least with a browser, the browser will warn if something suspicious is happening. But there's no way for a user to know if a mobile app is using https and using properly (not ignoring certificate errors).
... And now I have a new baseline as to what a pissed off software engineer looks like.
Why is there no announcement by Springer on this?
The property market in China is extremely manipulated, so you could be asked to pay SF rates in Beijing or Shanghai for space that isn't obviously worth it. And if you want to go after the international market, you can't really do that here: startups focusing on China work great, startups focusing on the rest of the world fail compared to SF given a huge lack of perspective that comes with a closed internet (e.g. what the heck is Facebook? Is that like WeChat?).

Talent...if you can find it, great! But the discount is like 70%, not 50%, that 40K USD/Year (20k RMB/month) dev is going to be junior/not that experienced in a city like Beijing.

I haven't run into these young entrepreneurs yet, though I can totally believe they exist! However, in the bigger companies, there is still deference to authority, lots of face exercises, pretension blogs, and so on. Things are totally moving here, but they are only posed to take over China; they aren't in competition with the valley.
I actually do mention I'll make an extra effort for you if you contribute to OS. I added it after recognizing the name of someone who emailed me, realizing I'd been using software he wrote for years, and feeling like I owed him an effort.

That said, I think it never hurts when asking an OS contributor for a favor to point out you do the same, even to a completely unrelated project.