skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
awesome, I plan on launching 100kb.org when I get some free time with some tips to get pages under 100kb. Would you be interested in giving some tips?
Then maybe you're a programmer that was so gifted you didn't have to learn like the rest of us (with hello world and simple number guessing games). If so, I completely understand why you would have the impression that simple demo code isn't necessary and everyone should just jump right into codin' apps. Sorry for the burn. You should be aware that basic demo code has quite a bit of intrinsic value especially when the users are free to try it out on their own.
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Probably. Allowing people to create chat rooms/channels is another possibility, and allows them to enter the enterprise collaboration space. Competes easily with HipChat and Slack. Most people already have twitter accounts, so groups of people can collaborate on the fly.
If WHOIS is destroyed, your contact information will still be known by everybody you're in contact with, many you've only met, possibly many you haven't met but want to meet, and millions of employees of companies you've interacted with. There is no meaningful difference between that and public information.

It is Amazon's absurd assumption that your contact information is private that is at fault here. Trying to ameliorate this by contacting fewer people is self-destructive, and cannot achieve complete security unless you're willing to eliminate contact with everybody but those you trust with your accounts. Without a doubt it is Amazon's policy that needs to change.
The corporations can't take care of their employees forever, so does the government can't take care of the corporations forever.. Wouldn't they not want this to hit a dead end?
ClojureScript and React sound interesting to me, too, and might be a good fit for the rich UI Control Panel page, which will need to handle large JS data-sets and update visualisations quickly. I've been finding that KnockoutJS is a bit sluggish when wiring up the filters as computed function observables. It could be something in my filter code, also, but I have seen benchmarks where KnockoutJS doesn't perform well in.

We should talk further ... drop me a line at my email? iian.d.neill@gmail.com
That would explain the performance problems, thank you so much!
Well, wonder how much it costs Japan to do this, and might be fun to compare with what China has put into its stock market.
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At work we've standardised on Baidu coordinates in China.

Even though they're "encrypted", the encryption is locally smooth.

Points may vary by 2km from their wgs84 equivalent, but taking two points 2km away, using the haversine formula will still yield a distance ~2km.

This means we can treat wgs84 and baidu-coordinates as equivalent, but not comparable, which makes a lot of things simpler.

Note: we don't do cross border orders, so we don't need to worry about cross border comparison.

Interestingly, Baidu uses it's own additional encryption on top of GCJ-02, so we are very much locked in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Maps#Coordinate_system
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On GitHub here: https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app
They make the maps doubly illegal if Taiwan is shown with different colors indicating an independent country ;) never mind the Spratleys, Senkaku, etc.
Indeed, but most Linux distros of the era did not force a new-ABI libstdc++ upgrade on you, breaking C++ compilation with a mandatory security update. Apple did. Therefore I bite my thumb at them.
My favorite is this issue: https://github.com/kragniz/json-sempai/issues/7

> Ever since I saw this I have been unable to sleep. Please fix.
Discounting the tripe "You go girl" tone of the article, there is no divine law asserting that there ought to be only two forms of (W2/1099) employees. The labor laws should change in tune with evolution in technology. However given the current dysfunctional congress, and from experience with other Patent/Immigration laws this won't happen any time soon. Had it been about Patent/IP litigation and any other lawyer the tone of the article would be different.

This is parasitic legal rent seeking at its worst, let's call a spade a spade.

Here is an WSJ article that calls for change in labor laws.[1]

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-if-there-were-a-new-type-of...
I second this. I've been getting more into his films lately. One of my favorites so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Ecstasy_of_Woodcarve.... It's a documentary about ski-jumping -- something I tend to think about at most once every four years (if that much), and never thought was terribly interesting. Herzog, through an impressive combination of narration, music, and photography, turns it into an almost mystical experience.

Then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Lieutenant:_Port_of_Call_N... ...
Worth checking out: someone reproduces using a fake address to get a real address.

https://medium.com/@amaz/thank-you-for-sharing-this-but-i-co...

(contains pretty great screencaptures)
It's already in trials in the wild in the Florida Keys.
I don't see how you could interpret my comment that way.

A junior dev might use a single language because they apply what they know and don't go outside their comfort zone. A senior dev might use a single language for every other reason.
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It's hard, but I've for awhile thought that developing these tools in a more bottom-up would help. And of course orthogonal components, as you say, is a good idea for just about anything.
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This is parasitic legal rent seeking at its worst, let's call a spade a spade.

Or, its someone fighting organizations profiting illegally by flouting labour laws that have protected workers from corporate exploitation for decades.

But potato, potahto, right?
A Pakistani intelligence guy tipped the US off for the reward. Neither torture nor diligent work by NSA or CIA was responsible for locating Bin Laden. That wouldn't make a very good movie though.

From Wikipedia:
In August 2010, a former Pakistani intelligence officer approached the U.S. embassy station chief in Islamabad and offered to provide Bin Laden's location, in return for the $25 million reward, according to a retired senior U.S. intelligence official.[17] This story was corroborated by two U.S. intelligence officials speaking to NBC news, and had been previously reported by intelligence analyst Raelynn Hillhouse.[18][19] The Pakistani official informed U.S. intelligence that Bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2006, and held under house arrest near Pakistani intelligence and military centers ever since. The official passed polygraph tests, after which the U.S. began local and satellite surveillance of Bin Laden's Abbottabad residence.[17]
And if you want to talk about social justice, this is what drug replacement therapy (suboxone)-based rehab looks like in some of our southern states. Addict is remanded by a court to the care of an outpatient treatment facility. Addict must show up at that facility every day with $10-$15 in hand to buy their dose. If they miss a day, the treatment center has the authority to send the addict to prison. Some treatment centers will engage a kind of payday loan scheme to allow the addict to catch up on payments later, for a price.

If the addict has felony priors (most do, using is a felony in many states), they will have a hard time finding a job, and an even harder time paying for food and shelter, on top of the $280-$450 a month for their subs. It's a form of indentured servitude, with pharma being the beneficiary. Some resort to criminal activity to support their state-mandated habit.
By "gg" you mean what? Gamer gate?
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My school's student addresses ended in @u.northwestern.edu. You can imagine this was annoying sometimes when email addresses ending in .edu were used to verify student status.
It makes me wonder, if the person is unsuccessful at authenticating, does the real owner get a follow up email? For instance, maybe he had to try 5 times to contact support before he found an agent who authenticated me using a fake address.
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I, for one, am very excited. Werner Herzog has one of the most fascinating minds, and his ability to capture new and interesting perspectives in his films consistently amazes me.

Tech needs Herzog. This industry has too much money grubbing and too much Asperger's. I'm sure Herzog will be able to break through that all to poignantly show us what is beautiful and what is banal.
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”:

http://www.thomasgray.org.uk/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc

Found via a Usenet post from 1998:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.gathering.rainbo...
I've used joker.com for years. The website isn't pretty, but you can actually do many functions via pgp email.
When we start using block chain to replace DNS and usernames to replace domains, and services to replace hosted servers, a lot of things will change. One is that there will be nobody to force us to verify who we are. These kinds of things serve no purpose other than to hand leverage up the chain.
Sure I can but I don't have an hour and a half time limit on it under normal circumstances.

You want me to do something in a rush give me the tools I am used to. Should I code in C rather than python just to prove I can?
10B for slack! OMG I'm in the wrong business.
Since another commentor mentioned it running fine on their mobile device, I decided to run it on my tablet which coincidentally also uses an Intel Atom cpu + gpu.

It chugged along at about one frame every two seconds for about 10 seconds, before an app not responding dialog appears. I reported it, and the tab was restarted. On the restart I get a bottom of Chrome message "Rats! WebGL hit a snag". It has a helpfully (not) grayed out "Learn More", Reload or Ignore. No matter what I did I couldn't get it working again, with the browser showing "WebGL not supported".

On my Nexus 5 it ran just fine - smoothly even although there is a lot of aliasing.
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Enterprise CEM System like no one has ever seen before. Not what your thinking, htlm5, Sr. JavaScript...

p.s I also know 2 people developing dating apps in NYC right now looking for CTO & mobile developers. Happy to connect.
There's Envelope-to, which is the only thing you should at. To, From etc. could be forged.
Hiding your contact information is like security through obscurity. I'm not saying it's not a good extra step to decrease the frequency of attacks (much like changing an SSH port to 3857 or something), but it doesn't add any real security. This is the crux of the problem; our addressees and birthdays are treated like passwords by these companies.
If executed correctly, then jail is a actually good solution for heroin addicts. In jail, they can't leave to buy more junk, so they'll overcome withdrawals with a 100% success rate. The hard part is staying clean.

Heroin use was popular in the Beatnik generation. In the book Junky, William Burroughs describes how had himself jailed voluntarily. Police stations where he was living at the time had a program similar to Gloucester's where users would bring in their "works" in exchange for a 21-day lockup without charges.
You're changing the behavior of import. So if somebody else were to remove the seemingly unused `from jsonsempai import magic` the file would stop working as expected.

Non obvious "magic" code like that tends to be frowned on in general, and especially in the python community
"Fighting organizations" is a rhetorical device used by lawyers to fool general public and people like you.

The reality today is that there is a large lobby of litigators actively trying to keep any change in labour/Patent laws from happening. [1]

I own no shares of Uber Inc. and any other companies involved in these litigations. But the reality is that by framing this incorrectly as David (The attorney) vs Goliath (Uber et. al.) fight the article is just pushing your emotional buttons. At end of the day litigation is not going to magically create jobs out of thin air. Uber will eventually shift to autonomous cars or will go bankrupt or might end having chinese drive the cars via video conference. It's easy to blame Uber for the mess that is the employer provided insurance.

Its not the Uber which created that problem, its the legislative gridlock which is at fault. But its cooler these days to hate Uber for all that ills the hapless middle class in USA.

[1] http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/16/how-the-tech-...
Let's call a spade a spade. Can anyone point to Uber showcasing their love for their employees? All I see is the opposite. I mean they are actively looking to replace them with self driving cars. They could care less about their 'contractors'.
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it seems they are down to $9.99/year: https://www.pairnic.com/prices.html
Who did it come from? Haskell? ML?
Because it monkey patches the way imports work. The context manager isn't bad really, although there are probably more natural ways to create a python object with the same structure as a JSON file without abusing the import system.
... and I was writing SPARQL queries against my Java source code yesterday
Abe and Koizumi to a lesser degree keep wanting to change business in Japan, but it just does not happen. Economists have been "telling" Japan to let Zombie companies die for over 25 years and little has changed. Brokers intermediaries too, they have not been made redundant through efficiencies.

On the one hand it's interesting to see a society buck the trend towards working out inefficiencies, on the other hand, they are not a closed market so they can't just keep on going like this and hope things get better.
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There is definitely a meaningful difference between contact info being public and informal disclosure through normal contact. There's a reason doxxing is a thing.
Any references/repos to learn from?
> Sounds like you worked on the Saturn back in the day?

Heh, I was only 11 when the Saturn came out. I've been involved in the Sega homebrew/emulation community for a long time though. Mostly focused on the 16-bit stuff, but I've toyed with the idea of working with the Saturn and read some documentation.
The above article is best understood as a political piece, rather than a business story.

Every single sentence in this article can be picked apart, but doing a line-by-line critique would miss the larger problems with the article. The author assumes that more productivity is always good, even though Japan has been suffering a lack of economic demand for most of the last 26 years. Big gains in productivity would only make the lack of demand worse.

If the goal of Japanese policy makers is to boost demand, and that does seem like a wise goal, then keeping 50,000 workers employed at Sharp seems like a smart bet, compared to keeping 100 people employed at some nimble, fast-moving startup.

More so, Japanese electronics firms still hold great global market share, so there is reason to think that their productivity is more than adequate to compete in the global markets.

And this sentence can only be understood if your political beliefs align with the political beliefs of that author:

"If Japan’s bailouts remind you of the U.S.'s rescue of its auto companies, you’re not alone. There is a strong argument that the auto bailouts only delayed the day when General Motors and Chrysler lose out to nimbler competitors like Tesla Motors."

Right, but the USA bailout of the auto companies seems to have been a good bet. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were saved, and the companies bounced back and paid off their debts, and the USA was able to sell its stake in GM at a profit. So it was win-win-win all the way: the taxpayers won, the workers won, and the economy won.
Rumsfeld has used a standing desk for decades, standing all day:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A946-2004Jun23...
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I took that line as saying that it was remarkable that those things are happening at all rather than saying they are safe, practical and fully functional.

I mean I'm impressed that they have actually inserted mammoth DNA in to elephant cells even if Jurassic Park will have to wait a bit. (http://www.livescience.com/50275-bringing-back-woolly-mammot...)
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At one extreme, this (???): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine
> The U.S. auto bailouts were undertaken in the middle of a deep recession, and are highly unlikely to be repeated.

Except Chrysler was bailed out before and has now been merged/bought by a foreign auto company for the second time in 20 years.
It is hard to say who gains more in a transaction.

What can be said is that in most transactions both parties walk away with more value. It is guaranteed to be a positive sum game -- value is guaranteed to be created.

The violation of this rule tends to happen if one or both parties will lose some value if they do not make the transaction, in which case they will try to minimize loss rather than maximize gain as measured by the value they entered the transaction with. This is the essence of exploitation.

These more varied classes of transactions can be a positive sum game -- where one party gets more value than the other loses, a zero sum game where they cancel out or a negative sum game where one gains less value than the other loses or they both lose but less than they would without the transaction having taken place. It is not guaranteed to be a positive sum game and value could be destroyed overall.

This simulation, where wealth is maintained at a steady state not only overall but within every transaction, is not really possible.
My favourite of his is Lessons of Darkness. It is fairly uncategorizable; it can hardly be called a documentary.

The film roams across the oil fields of Kuwait, left burning after the first Gulf War. Steadycam helicopter shots glide over landscapes set to the haunting music of Mahler, Arvo Pärt and others (there is, of course, some Wagner). There's little narration; the few fragments are abstract and prophetical. The whole film is a rather disturbing tone poem about a futuristic, burning apocalypse. It's fantastic.

The White Diamond [2] is also great. The subject matter (an attempt to fly a special air balloon to study the rain forests of Guyana) is interesting, but takes second or third place to the beautiful photography of the forests and the superb, eerie music of Ernst Reijseger, whose film music was released as the album Requiem for a Dying Planet [3], and a couple of Herzogian moments as he gets sidetracked by a weird native (whose philosophical monologue may have been scripted by Herzog) and a waterfall.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Diamond

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS1wabo4rXk&index=2&list=PLC...
I am talking about not a few articles here and there that can be googled, but rather an actual political agenda that will result in actionable laws, regulations etc. The agenda on the table specifically, is, as an example, Obamacare, which is a program that raises taxes on the rich and transfers that money to provide healthcare for the poor.
take the most left wing candidate in the presidential race today, Bernie Sanders. Is his agenda to attack wealth for its own sake? No, his agenda is to tax the rich in order to transfer that money to programs that will fight poverty. I am not a Bernie Sanders supporter, but the fact that even he doesn't attack wealth for its own sake, tells you that PG's essay is a giant strawman.
Maybe I'm wrong for thinking this but I can't this man seriously anymore. I look at him in the same light as a common criminal. He should be in prison.
That's exactly (and unfortunately) what this monkey was thinking. :(
> For example, gandi.net (and thus Amazon) doesn't hide your name when you have it turned on.

Well, yeah, I've been with Gandi for years, that's their published policy: https://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/

> By the time you find this out

You realize you should have done your homework and read your registrar's policies beforehand? I understand your overall point, but don't make it sound like Gandi did anything wrong here, just because you don't like it.
How does your evaluation change if

a) The kid would have been already dead?

b) They didn't get an answer?

c) They got the attribution wrong and tortured an innocent man?

All aside, I don't agree that hiding what they did could be morally right.

In Germany we had a case where during a kidnapping a very high-ranking police official threatened the suspect with torture, which actually got the location of the child (that had already been killed). He put a note what he did in the protocol and handed that to the DA.

He later was sentenced for it (very mildly), and the courts made clear that even this doesn't fly and cannot be excused. And of course we got a big public debate about it during the trial.

You misuse (legally speaking) your position of power to be morally right, at least face the consequences for it. Don't decide for yourself that you deserve to get away with it.
How do you reckon?

Wealth can be created or destroyed. Relative wealth has to operate in a sea of transactions that can either create wealth, destroy wealth, or, very rarely, maintain wealth.

In such a frothy environment how does the wealth of one entity hope to balance against all other wealth?
Here is the PDF:

https://mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/models/levins.modelbuild...
I set up a FreeBSD box at a computer shop I worked at in high school. We had a T1 and static IP, so I set up some routes to make it internet accessible (my boss wanted to use it to host pictures for his eBay transactions).

I set it up, threw it under a table in the corner with nothing but a power and ethernet cable, and moved on.

I was surprised when 5 years later he called to ask why it had stopped working. I told him where it was, he rebooted it, and it came back.

(My memory was a little fuzzy but I probably set it up in 2001-2002 and it ran until at least 2007-2008)
Maybe labor laws should change, but they haven't changed. "Regulation is for other people" as a business model is a bad way to effect that change.
Yes, it was just for fun.
Awesome! I'm aware that there are plugins for Chrome to capture media keys, but they never seem to work right and intercept the keys when I don't want them to. This fixes that problem of listening to my stream and having to navigate to that tab when I don't like a song.