skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone find it funny that the video is on a non-Stallman CC-ND License?

> Q6: Can you comment on the Creative Commons licence?

Richard Stallman: The thing is, it's meaningless to talk about Creative Commons licence. The bad thing about Creative Commons is that it has produced a broad series of licences that have nothing in common. In fact, if you look at these licences and determine what is the freedom that is common to all these licences, the answer is: nothing.

EDIT: Reference https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/transcripts/rms-fs-2006-03-09....
saved you a click: no
Understanding concepts will always be more valuable than a superficial familiarity with the content.
Oops, I obviously meant to write that no one would think that there "aren't" hard-working maintainers. There definitely are hard-working maintainers. But the government issues are serious.
But what does that mean. He is going to state his opinion and not give a damn what people think? It just doesn't make sense at least not to me. But sure. Each to their own.
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>Do you really the same framing would be used if the people involved were black? If liberals took over a similar federal building as with firearms, do you really think they would still be called "activists" by the media?

Yes, I do. Are you seriously going to pretend the press is more sympathetic to Christians?
There are two YouTube links, from the SpaceX page:

SpaceX webcast will go live here and on YouTube at about 1:15pm ET/10:15am PT. For our full hosted webcast, use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdKRJzl6y0 For views of rocket, launch countdown audio and telemetry info, use this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkz_lclGXNg
Rightfully, Hillary and Sanders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiZFXkmofgI
If you click the link titled "web" under the title, it will do that for you.
Two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8035293
My RSUs only vest after an IPO. There's still the lockup period, but even then, my understanding is that taxes are withheld by giving you a subset of the RSUs, you don't owe a tax bill in cash.
I'm not sure if everyone is switching over to Koa. It doesn't seem like it's on too many people's radar. That said, the most hardcore developers I know (including myself) do love and use it. At least, it looks that way here on the East Coast where everyone is still focusing on hiring for Express apps.

All that said, Koa is pretty great and teams should adopt it.
Recalll is crowed sourced knowledge vault, where developer community can create and curate to access qualitative knowledge. Good collection of algorithms and other topics. Any questions, feedback, suggestions please shoot.
Vimmers, you don't need NerdTree
Here is the argument in a nutshell (if I read it right): (1) The economy not really working that great even though it is working as intended. So it cannot be fixed, because it is not broken (2) For businesses to create new value, they need money. It used to be that they could make their own money, get moving themselves, but now things are dominated by bank lending. (3) Bank lending relies on continual economic expansion to work. (4) But economic growth is going to plateau, due to lack of new things to exploit (i.e. situation similar to lack of new countries for the Roman Empire to expand into). (5) There are alternative money systems that let people create things without bank domination. (6) The political Left is not savvy to this. If you want change you should push for support for alternative money and vote for such candidates.

It is hard to get what people are on about when it comes to anti-bank sentiment. But then again, one could say the same about free software. Seems like the kind of thing where one has to do a bit of their own research and their own thinking.
I did look into this briefly, but even though I only keep a fairly modest portion of my property as a lawn, I'd still probably be looking at close to $3K, which would be about a 4-year payback relative to my lawn service--which also does some weed whacking and mows some small patches that aren't really connected to the rest of the lawn. Laying the guidewire would also be a pain.

But I can see the attraction if someone had a smallish lawn--especially if they didn't already have a lawn mower. It would be just one more task they wouldn't have to think about.
>They've been working on AI for ages now with little to show for it.

That's just not true, it's just that every time the AI crowd makes something really cool and it becomes used, we stop calling it AI because it doesn't think like we do.

> People have been saying the exact same thing about fusion, and it's always "20 years away", but we're no closer to having fusion power than we were 40 years ago.

That's also not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
If your comment isn't a good (microcosm-ish) description of IBM and all their internal incompetency issues in general right now, I don't know what is.
> Why are they against militarizing robots?

I get that their duty is to their shareholders, but you have to draw a line at some point. I wouldn't want to work on tools of violence.
Something interesting: even having the URL autocomplete from having tried it on my Mac was enough to make my iPhone respring.
Koa is the new hotness.
Wow when'd that get there? That's incredibly useful. Thanks DanG et al!
Apparently this is a known issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=394296
The spacex.com video page uses livestream which seems to require flash for desktop browsers.

Easiest fix would probably be to embed the youtube video instead.
Actually, on the paged linked on your parent post, it says

> AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community
How I got a visa normally reserved for nobel laureates
Transcendental Money (2000)
Cancer and Climate Change
You might, but that costs money, and other market players are always invented to undercut you.

Because the line of how much is too much is indistinct, someone is going to guess wrong before too long. This is even before you mix in perverse organizational incentives involving short-term view or individual profit vs long-term company health.
I'm pretty sure the word "liberties" is used more by the tea party and other right wing movements than by the left. Who is making this argument? Do they have any data to back that up?
Ask HN: Should I run an API and client on the same server?
Forgive my ignorance, I only work with an internal API at work and I interface with it on different servers via authentication.

I found this repo (https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/REST-tutorial) and the code creates a Python server for delivering a REST API. It looks like the client is designed to run on the same server this API would be on.

So, what are your recommendations? I want to release some apps this year, and two of them rely on an API that I will learn how to write.
Whenever I read headlines about talent shortages, I am always surprised that there is never more talk about training people who you have already hired or could hire more easily.
Cool looking product however with a standby time of only 23hr it could become quite limited for outdoor uses.
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No, I interpret it as that he's going to definitely give a damn but he won't engage each and every person that is mis-interpreting things by accident or design.

Hence the 'bullshit' line.
I suppose I shouldn't speak for the editing side of things. If I do editing, it's basic Word and Excel stuff. It has been perfect for viewing though, which was what used to keep me stuck with an Office install.
As I said, "things that interest me". Social clubs, traveling, and world historical landmarks are great if that's what interests you and I'm happy for people who enjoy those sorts of things. Learning new things is one thing we can both agree on as always being worthwhile.

All that being said, the best "new thing" I can think of is finding creative ways to serve others using what I know about. My blog is one such way though there are no doubt others as well. Giving to the world is a pretty good way to beat back boredom.
60% of working software engineers do Not have a CS degree
It'll be really nice when publication bias is more widely understood and appreciated. I suspect most experiments fail to replicate for that reason only.
I know. I'm not saying we should ignore desktops. But things are on the right path there, I think. I can order a brand new (and inexpensive) Rockchip Chromebook tomorrow and get it going on a fully open stack. Not even CPU microcodes, although I don't know about its SSD microcontroller. I think this is remarkable.

Now, if we talk about mobile, there are only a few niche projects like Neo900 which might release extremely expensive, outdated and half free hardware. On the software side of things, Mer is pretty much dead, and Replicant offers very limited functionality only on cherrypicked old hardware.
It's interesting you say this, I currently have four weeks to run on a very well-paying contract which I chose to terminate. The money's been nice, and so are the people I work with, but I have enough in the bank now where I can take a chance on doing something different without risking financial hardship. Let's just say that, after two heart surgeries last year, I don't mind taking the risk that my plans fall over and I end up going back to an IT gig sometime in the indeterminate future :) In the meantime, I'm just enjoying the sense of possibility and freedom.
There was a link on the FSF's site about using ND for opinion: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.ht...
I'm actually somewhat surprised at the number of people writing that Linux saves them time. Clearly not everyone has had the horrible experiences I have. I'm curious what distro you people use and on what hardware. I tried Ubuntu, OpenSuse, and Debian. All of them, excpting Ubuntu, needed so much work out of the box just to get to parity with a fresh windows install as to cost me more than a Windows license. Ubuntu was the least stable after install. Updates would frequently break it. I didn't even make it a week this time, and my past experience with it (LTS version) has been that every few months something new would break after updates.
video locked up right before landing....
“Silently and Very Fast:” a novella told by the AI of a house
This pattern is correct (but has a flaw).
It is a simple worker pool. The first available worker will grab the first piece of work from the channel and process it.

If you set MAX to 1000, you will have 1000 workers — and simultaneous connections.

The flaw is that when the last piece of work gets taken from the channel, the program will end, thus the last pieces of work that at the time are being processed, will get canceled.
You could mitigate this by using a second channel, that the workers will access at the end of their work, thus ensuring that it will close only when the last worker finishes its work.
Well, that whole file can be improved on (for instance: analyzeDomains and analyzeDomain can be combined into one; the range/close operators can be used on a channel), but the pattern itself (spawning a certain amount of workers instead of one for each job) is decent for certain cases. For this case, you may be right (I haven't tested it), since a) not much data is transferred, and b) He was running this on an AWS instance instead of a low-end machine.

However, at a certain point, you may encounter bandwidth issues, timeouts, and the like due to local network congestion; that pattern has its uses there. I've tried writing a downloader that downloads every file it's given at once, and it went about as well as one would expect.
How does this differ from FastFlow?[0]

[0] http://calvados.di.unipi.it/
I agree with you. They have the right to choose but I believe that their decision is prideful.

There are great people in this world who choose to fight to the end and continue to accomplish great things beyond what ordinary men can do. These people will stand by your opinion.
Stephen Hawking.
with a limited battery life coupled with the limit of a smart phone battery and at that price point I can't imagine relying on this over a traditional walkie talkie.
>Radio stations played a great variety of really good new music.

Please. The lack of variety in the public sphere is exactly what led to the "underground" music scenes. In the 70's the new unheard music was punk and the like.

When I left for college in '79 it was an absolutely jaw-dropping, exciting experience to find an entire music store filled with this "alternative" music that no one played (outside of college stations, which played anything. Even then, some of the college stations still played Top 40. What was the point of that?)

>Most Americans had never heard of espresso.

True, although if you were paying attention to the movie, "Shaft" ordered espresso. I noticed this but still didn't understand what it was supposed to be.

>Doomsayers were worried about something they called the "greenhouse effect".

To be fair, early in the 70's it seemed to some researchers that the historical trend was downward and we were headed into a new ice age. This was widely reported. Later on more work was done to get better global temperature proxies and it was decided that the trend was upwards.
I was thinking about the other battery (the smartphone). It sure doesn't last long with bluetooth on
I'm thinking there may have been a video delay and it locked up because the landing might not have gone well. i.e. Taken out the video hardware. Just a guess... hoping to be wrong.
https://www.docker.com/products/use-cases
Edit: Not sure now
"This type of sexism or bias is well-known to the point
that I'm surprised you asked her to explain it."

Completely agree that those bias' exist. What I contest is the assumption that you hold and that I've seen many others hold that this is the only factor or overwhelmingly primary factor and that it's somehow inappropriate to even consider look for other explanations, and the assumption that the magnitude off all other factors (if any) contribute inconsequentially to the problem we're trying to address here. I really don't see why my questions I asked to gain greater understanding of specific circumstances of anecdotal information should warrant surprise or should be seen as inappropriate. The scientific process involves inquiry, hypotheses and observations. You can't start at a conclusion and work your way backwards.

Personally, I find the Occam's Razor, Hanlon's Razor and the null hypothesis to be remarkably useful tools when trying to gain a greater understanding of the World.

The reason I ask for explanation is because I can also see that exact same group of male computer nerds assuming that most of their colleagues, male or female are a waste of time because "few people hack on computers". You can't expect people (especially children in the context of the educational "prison industrial complex") are going to magically overcome this assumption for one subgroup of the general population when they likely hold a belief that applies generally to the entire population.

The reason I ask about the difference between the math and computer nerds is because there is a far greater chance that a child can identify a math nerd over a computer nerd because math is a required course at school every year. I was very much both a math nerd and computer nerd through elementary school to the end of middle school. I knew who the other math nerds were because we were the ones that were most active in math class and were known to have the highest grades on our math tests and we stayed after the bell to talk to the teacher about math. I didn't know who were the other computer nerds were throughout school except for the two semesters in elementary school that we got exposure to programming in Logo. In high school, I only knew about the computer nerds (all ~5 of us) because we all signed up for AP Comp Sci the first time it was offered at our school. Besides that course, there were 2-3 of us that would program TI calculators, but that was the extent of us hanging out. If there were other computer nerds in elementary school, middle school or high school, I didn't know about them because there wasn't a known venue to congregate and discover each other.

Basically, any time someone's assertions are based on assumptions and not on facts, I think it's reasonable to be suspect of those assertions. There are three sides to every story. In this case, there is her side, the side of the male computer nerds and there are the facts. I want to know the facts. Assumptions are by and large useless.

Related Reading from Meredith Patterson, "The Null Hypothesis Loves You and Wants You to Be Happy":

https://medium.com/life-tips/the-null-hypothesis-loves-you-a...
Yep thanks, that is useful if someone posted the article to HN. Now if you want to read any article not on HN.

Edit Cool Beans Thanks for the DownVote Mark, glad to be of help.
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The Ebb and Flow of American Democracy
The author is technically correct but leaves out an analysis of deflation.

To tl;dr their argument: if the economy consists of 10 cans of beer and also of $10, then you distribute the beer at $1 per beer. If the number of beers jumps to 20, then you distribute the beer at $0.5 per beer. Economic growth (more beer) has occurred, even though the money supply hasn't.

But what if you know that next year there will be 20 cans of beer? Then you don't buy any beer this year, because each beer you buy this year costs you two beers you could have had next year. If the number of beers goes up year after year, then it is always advisable to wait to buy beer.

However, if you don't buy beer this year, then the beer company might not be able to expand its production of beer next year. In that case, everyone loses - you didn't buy beer when you should have bought beer, and the beer company doesn't get to expand production for a market that wants it to expand production.

Deflation is a prisoner's dilemma that is solved by printing money to match, as closely as possible, the rate of economic growth.
Turning cash into an asset is not money laundering, even if the cash is dirty. Laundering is making it look like you received income from legitimate activity.
The in-article version has a time.Sleep(2 * time.Second) after the scan loop. Not exactly reliable (waitgroups or channel signaling would be better) but better than nothing.
Of course Murphy's Law is in full effect, as the video on the drone ship cuts out right before the first stage lands.

On another note, I really like the orbital animation they're using, it reminds me of Kerbal Space Program. The ballistic arc turning into an orbit is a really good visualization for laypeople, I think.
You may be surprised, but one doesn't even need explorer. Shell works in this matter quite fine, especially if one uses many relatively short-lived Vim sessions (as opposed to one huge session for all the editing tasks within the project).
> There are lot of "roads not taken" that would have been better than what C++ actually did. Clearly Bjarne could have implemented his own linker-- if Go, Rust, Objective C, etc. etc. can do it in a year or two, then Bjarne could have-- he's a big boy, after all.

Then he would have failed to have zero friction with the tools being used at AT&T and no C developers would have "incrementally" adopted C with Classes, as C++ was known back in its early days.

> Because C was a better thought-out and designed language, and can support stable APIs, whereas C++ can't.

C++ was designed to support copy-paste from C code and use the same linkers.

Everything that C can do, C++ can do exactly the same way.
Your analysis of antiperspirants and cancer is completely wrong, and you've likely fooled several people because you claim to have analyzed it correctly. The fourth link isn't the NIH's official position — it's just a paper hosted on an NIH paper-hosting service (PubMed). The Snopes link doesn't say that antiperspirants don't cause cancer — it merely states that they aren't the leading cause of breast cancer. The real takeaway is that the studies are inconclusive and more research is needed before you can state that they are or are not carcinogenic with any degree of confidence.
> Is Bitcoin Breaking Up?

If they have to frame a headline as a question, you can usually assume the answer is "no"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
Stallman stubborn and incredibly unreasonable. There are many things I disagree with him, but when he is right he is right. I'm very grateful that he exists. RMS reminds me of this GBS quote:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
Any pointers to good examples on both sides for the less knowledgeable (me)? Something I assume is happening in any argument, but I'd love to see exactly what you're talking about.
Meet the Americans Who Moved to Europe and Went AWOL on Their Student Loans
That is clever (presumably IPO or other liquidity event) I think the ideal thing would be to contribute a portion of your stock to the event to offset the tax event (like the way Google sells some of your RSUs to pay your taxes before they give you the rest) In which case you have no downside financially if the company goes "poof!" you just don't get any stock in the newly dead entity.
I don't know, I think we would have seen something if it knocked out the video. A flash of light, or spark, or something.
Right, sorry. If the tunnels were even 30cm wider this would indeed be a lot simpler, but as you say the cost of that would be wildly prohibitive in the foreseeable future. TfL would love it, though ;)

Come to think about it, what would be the optimal layout of such an underground tunnel system for single-occupancy vehicles? The current system of changing lines and the station layout that results from it would no longer be a good fit, you'd have to come almost to a standstill. It could even be that reusing the tube tunnels would be less efficient than boring new tunnels in a future where tunnels can be bored "cheaply" with very little human involvement.
As you can see from almost all commands / snippets in the article, I took the pragmatic approach for this project ;)
It'll be back on in ~40 mins after coast phase for spacecraft separation.
PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion (2013)
If it was just the video that got taken out, they'd still have telemetry and they'd know what happened. They must have lost the satellite uplink, either by losing the equipment on the ship or by knocking the ship out of position so the antenna isn't aimed correctly.
There was an orange flash on the deck just a second or two before the video cut out...
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10856554.

(Yes, we're working on a better dupe detector.)