skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think profit is part of it, but I think that people running multinational corporations with more money than they could spend on themselves for the rest of their lives if they tried would have interest in shaping law indirectly via the supranational tribunals that are part of these trade agreements.

There are other reasons besides money that people get into politics and this would allow corporate owners to directly manipulate politics for monetary and non-monetary reasons without having to do the whole lobbying and/or running for election thing.

I think that profit is a cop-out when it comes to understanding political motivations. Ideological motivations are real and not merely a cover for monetary profit seeking behavior. There's this assumed idea that we live in a post-ideological era and that all decisions are pragmatic or at worst, motivated by profit seeking. I think ideology is still there, but in our dumbed down world it's never explicitly mentioned as a motivation for anything except as a vague throwaway line (e.g "Let's Make America Great Again!").
Yes it is a public service, and that's why they need to generate more revenue if they want to provide higher quality service with their fixed budget. Money doesn't fall from the sky.
>>> ... I first attempted to stay in contact with US friends via Facebook Twitter, Instagram, via VPN of course. But every US service was slow — gmail, google cal were barely working. So half way through, I decided to fully embrace what China has to offer and disappeared from US Social networking sites.

A choice? I think not. Soft censorship. The degrading of one communication pathway to shift the target onto another is espionage 101 stuff.
Interesting insights. I can see something like this working for consulting possibly. I find clients that get one-to-one coaching benefit better than those in a group setting, but on the flipside it's difficult to scale the business if all you're doing is coaching one to one (excl price increase variables)
Alternative to properly sourcing is credibility of the author.

When quality newspaper or journalist releases important article with anonymous sources, they rely on their credibility.

It's the same for diplomatic communication. Important sources don't want to end in government papers. They are named only in classified memos. Requiring sources and suspecting employees faking it is not the way to go. If the suspicion arises, people are called back.
I can see why my comment could come across as arrogant and in hindsight shouldn't have written it with that tone. However, I wrote it immediately after reading https://www.optimizely.com/statistics/ which makes a number of incredibly boastful claims about how Optimizely's approach is better than anything you've ever seen, and couldn't help but point out the hubris.

If you ever come up with a statistical method for finding the global maximum among an infinite number of unspecified alternatives, let me know.
It's entirely possible let your pilot landed manually. All major airports have detailed instructions on how to land there even in the case of zero visibility at ground level. Basically you fly to a specific point at a specific heading, altitude, and speed. Once there you follow the instructions stating you should fly n seconds, then adjust, and repeat until you touch down on the runway.
American server here. Yeah, if I provide shitty service, you shouldn't have to tip me. Personally, as someone who has served and has gotten paid less than 'minimum wage' (service industry is different in some states), even if I'm the one getting shitty service, I leave 2-3 dollars on a $60 bill. I understand shitty days and putting up with hungry people. But it definitely is a culturally economic thing too. So if someone provides excellent service, or I see them as an extremely hard worker toward the guests around me, I leave them extra. Although I definitely agree that the tip should be included in the menu items and servers should be paid more than $15 (min wage is $9 where I live) in the more populated cities.
So, effectively Ada and Rust. Which effectively means Rust.

I was really hoping that the list would be longer than that. :(

> Ada

> Spark

> Rust

Ada (Spark is effectively Ada) and Rust

> D

Nope. Garbage collected doesn't work for systems programming.

> Swift

Not sure I buy this. When I see someone chewing on an OS in Swift I might believe it.

> FreePascal

> Delphi

Dunno about FreePascal, but my anecdotal experiences with Delphi programs have left me wishing that their authors had written them in C. It is, of course, possible that the programming teams were bad, but it sure seems like Delphi isn't any better than C in that respect.
I got 'page not found' and had to go here instead: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/pinterest-worth-11-billion...
Ask HN: IBMs Extreme Blue?
I recently received an offer to be a technical intern in IBMs extreme blue internship. Does anybody have experience with this internship? What is it like? Did you enjoy it?
No, all the unicorns get their funding from the same options I just outlined. The Saudi prince invests through his private equity sovereign wealth fund.

Also wrong on the single investor. Firstly, we don't know that GM was the only investor in the round. It is common not to name all the investors. For example, in Uber's recent private equity round, Baidu was the investor, and other investors, if any, were not announced.
Quote from OP

"Most notably, Kendall also led the move to narrow Pinterest's ad focus on just two categories, retailers and consumer-packaged-goods brands, as The Wall Street Journal first reported in December."

Smallish purchases (music, books, household items, some aspects of holiday spending): I tend to go with the first thing I find that looks right. I could imagine using a 'buy' button next to an entry in a discovery system such as Pinterest, although I'm not in their majority demographic.

Larger purchases (stage piano, new laptop &c): yes, I research and have a bias towards places where I can try stuff out (I'm old).

This organisation seems to want to specialise.
And no computer has ever failed to properly hold a reserved car. "See, you know how to take the reservation. You just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM
Regarding the Sussman story, it made it into a Hacker Koan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#Uncarved_block
Wow, you can actually follow (some of?) the citations in this article and read them. Nature posts this friendly little banner: "Online access to this article has been provided by the nature.com content sharing initiative." Whatever that means.
Night service is currently only running on Friday and Saturday nights, although if I remember correctly that's due to a dispute with the driver's union, rather than TfL wanting to have some nights for maintenance.
The code has been on GitHub for a while.

https://github.com/evanw/webgl-water
SPA are indeed indexed in Google (and even without providing server side rendered versions). I guess it uses a combination of URL hash changes and pending requests.
El Chapo Speaks
Yeah unfortunatly this happens a lot everywhere : apple make it hard to go out of it's buggle, FB does the same, and in China, the entire coutry does the same. And it's scary people don't notice they are slowly but surely locked in. It's not a choice, it's a malicious strategy.
I'm always feeling very disappointed when I see Python 2 and Python 3 performance compared. :-(
When I took a test drive of the Model S recently, one thing that struck me about the autopilot was that it's not (in my opinion) sufficiently clear what mode the car is operating in at the moment. Semiautomatic mode should be a glaringly obvious UI change, but instead it's just an icon. It reminds me of certain fatal plane crashes that led to improvements in cockpit layout and operation. Are we about to make the same mistakes with cars?
They tout their integration with Apple Pay and TouchID. Is it really wise to trust your phone with the ability to authorize transactions in the tens of thousands of dollars?
ROAS numbers do not agree with you.
I understand that the cost of healthcare is rising rapidly and we need to figure out to control it. But doctors are the absolute last people responsible for this mess.

Telling the currently employed doctors to work harder is almost insulting.

Why don't we start by holding big food responsible for pushing unhealthy junk food for decades ? The biggest cause of death is cardiovascular diseases - not lazy doctors.

What about big pharma ? A huge part of rising health care cost goes towards paying for pills - and it's public knowledge that these companies have almost criminal profit margins. I do not think the biggest buyer of luxury yatch are doctors - who are still busy paying back their student debt.

Or the insane admin bloat created by insurance companies - why does a medical professional's judgment about their patient by a function of the the patient's economical value - To me that is inefficient - not doctors spending too much time with their patients.

End Rant
Well, crap, you're right. The other comment screwed me up. Apologies!
I wonder also if that possibility of unsafety just doesn't matter much to a lot of people. After all, lisps have been around forever and even today JS and Clojure are popular when the possibility of doing unsafe things is extremely easy in a language where there are no type checks. So perhaps many developers just don't worry so much about compiler checks and instead enjoy the flexibility of "weak" or "no" typing, at the possible expense of safety. And maybe all of that is gradually changing. I really really love Clojure, but find static typing very useful; but also, it's great to throw it away when you feel confident enough to do so, and perhaps a lot of developers just like this, shall I call it "cowboy", style?
Exactly. For my uses (AI systems), variable memory was the thing which moved asm.js from a cute toy to a system I can genuinely use.
Not always. I was trying to write an android application to serve as a frontend to a site by launching a background webview, drawing the elements I'm interested to a canvas and sending the pixels back to the application. (Un)fortunately, after you draw an HTML DOM element to a canvas, you're forbidden from reading the canvas pixels back and there's no flags you can set on the webview to let you do it.
Exactly. And for whole business cycles (for us, that's weeks) to accommodate changes in behaviour and traffic throughout the cycle.

We try to run as many experiments as our traffic can handle, but we always estimate the sample size upfront when planning the test.
Read it. Not sure what the full ramifications will be in the end of going with such language but clearly protecting consumers is secondary and giving power to right holders is the intention.

As an aside and speaking as a Canadian citizen and resident, Geist is someone who has been very helpful for educating and directing consumers and helping protect our rights. He's very easy to understand, covers issues relevant to consumers as they are becoming relevant, and has obtained what is in my (lay) opinion a well deserved reputation as being someone you can trust to keep you edcuated and safe as a consumer. The work he does is really valuable, IMO. Plus, he let me (among many others) add him as a connection on LinkedIn, even though we've clearly never worked together, which somehow I find very neat :)
speaking as someone who's actually purchased pinterest ads:

the review process is much more careful than facebook or google. they only really want content that would make sense organically on pinterest.

facebook and google are pretty loose about the "salesy-ness" of ads, but pinterest is pretty strict in comparison.

obviously with all these restrictions, agencies don't like it because they have to cater their message to pinterest instead copy and pasting the same noise on every platform.

pinterest probably won't kill google proper, but I could easily see pinterest killing google images.

When is the last time a company seriously decided to take on image search at google scale? Google doesn't even show ads in it's image search.

another reason agencies probably don't like pinterest is the high fixed-floor bids of 10 cents.

you could have lower effective cpcs, but your ads actually have to be engaging, and they have to get repins and shares.

bottom line: Pinterest simply demands more effort from advertisers, and they're pretty picky. Consequently, users don't mind their ads as much.

The best case scenario for pinterest's investors (in my mind) is an acquisition by facebook as part of a strategy to take on the web search market.
Is Firefox OS dying? What can we learn from this?
> If I do not like the the food I still have to tip because otherwise the nice waiter gets nothing?

I actually don't think your parent was asking about shitty service, I think they were asking about if the service was good but the food itself was bad, in which case yes, they should still tip, right? Which I guess could seem unfortunate but that doesn't seem worse than no-tipping systems for that case, so.
Do you have a quote for that? (Also might be an issue of not tailoring campaigns to Pinterest)

It seems to be getting behind Instagram, that's for sure http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/new-social-s...
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From the author of Knossu himself here http://jonathanwhiting.com/games/knossu/press.html

> [Knossu is] an answer to the question: What can you do with a Doom style raycasting engine if you're tired of realism and shooting things?

So it's a Ray caster. Which you can confirm by playing the game and looking up and down: the distortions are typical of a ray-caster.

Too bad you're using an old GNU/Linux distribution. For the record, it worked out of the box for me (Debian Testing, 32bits).
There is a big difference between being slow to update and not updating at all.

In Android world, just like in the old days of Symbian, Series OS and other OSes, updating means getting a new phone.

You aren't even safe with Nexus if the manufacturer jumps out (TI).
It's really more of a question of whether or not it's wise to accept such payments.
There are many reasons not to have zones but people often miss the very serious transition/logistical problem that would be required for any change-over -- a zone system literally doubles the number of times a passenger has to swipe or scan their payment method.

That means literally millions of swipes a day that didn't exist before, each time someone has to exit the system. Many of those will necessarily fail as people don't have sufficient funds to leave the station they are in. This is a failure mode the NYC subway simply doesn't have now, all people in the system are free to leave any any time through any available low-tech door.

The idea of several hundred thousand people trying to get out through (presumably newly installed) turnstiles at grand central during rush hour while random people in front of me stall out and get trapped because their cards have insufficient funds doesn't sound fun at all. How about a tour group getting off in a very constricted station in lower Manhattan and having 90 people trapped unable to leave the platform and no room for passengers to enter? What about stations where you can't reverse direction without leaving the station, how do you head to a station you can afford to exit?

Sure in the long run anything is possible, but I don't think people who advocate for a zone system in NYC have usually thought about the actual human scale logistics required for that to work. The NYC subway is a very big complicated and crowded system and that's a major change to how passengers flow through it.
Looking for a Technical Co-founder
I am looking for a Technical Co-founder who has experience building beautiful iOS and android apps. I am Cofounder/CEO of an education startup and we will working on an entirely different project. We will be building a team management app with some social features and a little bit of AI component. If you okay to move to India for some time that would make things better (I would take care of your accommodation). I have experience in marketing, strategy, partnership and design.

If you are passionate about building thing and love challenges, we should be talking.

PS. - I want you to be in India bcoz of following reasons:
1) The target market is here.
2) If it goes well, it would require financial support, I have good connections here.
Well you also don't want to have issues with branding down the road.
this is always a tension in writing mathematics textbooks. at one end of the extreme you have e.g. Bourbaki which are very dry, but prove a great deal very efficiently and in the utmost generality. on the other hand you have textbooks which may be not as comprehensive and will intersperse the text with illuminating examples which historically would have been the original motivation for the subject. which is best really depends on your point of view and level of sophistication in the subject. usually I try to have both types of book at hand.

what would be great is if typesetting tools improved sufficiently so that one could choose 'beginner' or 'advanced' mode when reading a maths textbook. perhaps that is too fanciful!
It's pretty easy to break it down to the common parts but there definitely is quite a bit to learn.

NodeJS or Python or Ruby

These are your fairly standard backend choices. They all have minimalist and full featured frameworks for building applications including but not limited to Express, Koa, Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, Django, Flask. Go is also fairly easy to get going quickly in. There is not really a wrong choice here for a personal project.

In the case that you want a single page application that works with the backend you made with the previous choices:

Backbone or Angular or React+Redux(any flux implementation will do)

These are for consuming your backend and any of them will do. Learning Angular is its own thing despite it being javascript. React+Redux seems a little odd by embedding html in your javascript but once you get the hang of it it's pretty neat. Don't know much about Backbone but I've heard its fairly easy to use.

Bootstrap is pretty easy to learn and use to make your website responsive with minimal effort.

Heroku is by far the easiest platform for deployment and horizontal scaling however it can get pricey quickly. AWS has a similar solution with Elastic Beanstalk but I've got no experience to share with that. If you want all the control (but more work) you can go with Digital Ocean for a 5$ VPS. Unlike Heroku you will have do all admin work like installing necessary packages, databases, and configuring a web-server but you can control every little bit of your application without having to spend more than $5 a month.
That's like asking why do you even care about it being your home? How about just a home? When you come from work, you will pick one at random and only pay for the time you spend there.

You might look at a car as a transportation vehicle, I look at it as an extension of my private space. It's my car, so I can customize it, I can make it comfortable for me, I can keep my stuff in it, I know it's always available, I know what state it is in, etc.
Charles C. Pinter – A Book of Abstract Algebra
Businessinsider is a notorious click-bait aggregator, spinning minutia into hype.

Reminds be of the Uber California court report they hyped last year, which predictably didn't really anywhere http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/business/uber-contests-cal...

That was seven months ago and Uber didn't die as many predicted it would

Some people so badly want for this to be 2000 all over again they they have to make things up. They have to turn molehills into mountains.
Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications
> Surely you aren't asserting that human thought transcends the limits of logic and mathematics?

Given that both logic and mathematics are creations of human thought, is this really so untenable?
This is probably because my explanation is very brief. I don't see how a shader (a program running on the GPU) can detect that the OS has killed a process and initiate a clear.
The Furoshiki Shoes by Masaya Hashimoto
Everybody is eating from the trashcan all the time [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg
My New Year's Resolution – Wim Hof Method
In particular, I think Aeroflot Flight 593 [0] is representative of this sort of problem. Autopilot control of the ailerons was accidentally disabled without clear feedback of the change in mode, this led to overcorrection by the autopilot using other control mechanisms as it attempted to restore the aircraft's heading and within a minute the plane entered an uncontrolled dive and crashed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_593
This is simply not an accurate response, and you are comparing apples to napalm.

Apple/FB/etc do in fact make it difficult to switch - by adding value to their offerings. Users become more and more entrenched as they enjoy the benefits of new features. Oppressive governments, such as China, or any group committing espionage, promote specific paths by degrading opposing services. These are not related, and should not be confused.

One adds value (promoting healthy competition), the other uses coercive force.
The history of copy protection would make for a fantastic article in itself.

The only sad thing about the copy protection in Dungeon Master is it's difficult to play the game using an emulator as you don't know if the version you're playing is a fully working crack until you get to the later levels.
Well there you go, new episode posted today:

http://techzinglive.com/page/1567/291-tz-discussion-no-brain...
Keep Your F***g Resolutions
You could start slowly teaching yourself more about new technologies, but try and become even more an expert on the stuff you already know.

Perl and MySQL are strong choices and there must be a lot of big companies out there who still use them because it works for them. Startups always want the cutting-edge technology (NoSQL), but sometimes a good old RDBMS like MySQL is the way to go.

Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10084449
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I don't have any tools to recommend, but I can sympathise with what you said. After working on web and PhoneGap/Corvoda apps, it feels like such a drag working on projects that even only take a few seconds compile or update.