skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep in mind that this is one data point in a long series.

The Christian Science Monitor, once one of the highest-quality newspapers in America, went full digital a few years ago. The New Orleans Times Picayune, like many local and regional papers, now prints only a few days a week. The New York Times and others have shrunk their print editions from the former, larger "broadsheet" format. The Financial Times published its "sunset" plan for exiting print a few years ago. The list goes on and on.

(In the case of The Independent, it was previously rescued by the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev. Like Facebook mogul Chris Hughes and his New Republic debacle, he found that the easiest way to become a millionaire in the news business is to start out as a billionaire...)

Print newspapers of a certain size are still a profitable business, if decreasingly so. While digital versions of those publications are the future, traditional media companies have largely fumbled that future, and they have been fumbling it since the mid-1990s.

Now they float in an ocean of free content produced by smaller newsrooms and full of aggregators cribbing their hard-won investigative pieces for the price of an intern. Some of that free content is coming from news organizations that are attached to a more profitable business than selling ads. Verizon's media properties come to mind. Bloomberg LP makes its money selling monthly terminal subscriptions to financial data. You could say that Mike Bloomberg's greatest act of philanthropy has been to subsidize Bloomberg News.

Newspapers were slow to recognize the decline to their advertising engine, and largely inept at responding to it. Many of them, including SF's tech blogs, are limping along as events organizers that happen to publish daily updates.

There's a lot of room to experiment in plugging news machines into other business models. The thing to keep in mind, as we do so, is that those publications will usually fail to cover one topic fairly: their owners.
I'm pretty sure the concept of offenses for which you weren't entitled to due process precipitated the Constitution.

I also don't see how a ~$1k punishment for a slight speed infraction is "petty".
Which is why there are Solution Architects who are (hopefully) familiar enough with the technical and business side of things to provide a high level solution overview and maybe a POC that will play into the scoping of the SOW.
Also helps if the same ppl who estimate (architects/PMs) then end up being in charge of the project delivery.
This will keep them honest and prevent severe under-estimations while keeping them on the hook from over-estimating provided that there's an internal review process for the estimates.
Damn, totally missed that one. http://awal.js.org/alpg/?gist=1623086148080a297155 should work, hopefully ^^
That's why you see things like bottle deposits. You pay more up front and then get some back if you dispose of it properly.
You're welcome, but of course I didn't rebut my own thesis:

1- Post says: "Sub-subtitle being "human beings utterly unable to overcome base impulses despite higher order brain functions", then?"

2- A reply says: "No, just the ones in the cherrypicked examples for this article, perhaps."

3- My post says (paraphrased for comprehension): "These aren't examples cherrypicked to show people unable to refrain from inappropriate base impulses. The only cherrypicking is for amusement. The rest of the article explains that the number of people surrendering to inappropriate base impulses was surprisingly high. So the sub-subtitle remains correct."

4- Your post.

Do you see it now? Laughter is always welcome, so feel free to continue :)
Grunt 1.0.0.rc1 released
Ask HN: How many internet-connected microphones are in the same room as you?
Maybe, but you'll do better with 3 programmers, assuming they can manage themselves reasonably well.
You can buy racehorse options though :-)
> This is definitely not always the case in my experience, although that might be due to some addon (I have quite a few) hanging the main FF thread/process.

My experience matches yours.

I think chimeracoder means that's the way Firefox works if e10s is enabled, which wouldn't be true for you unless you've explicitly done so. (I haven't enabled it either)
I agree with you and that is why I am commenting on it: Because "men are assholes" if they comment on it.

I think the reason for that is because men have so much more economic and political power than women and there is a lot of expectation that heterosexual women will get financial support for their male lover. So a woman who is not "picky" is "a whore, just selling it" and a man who is too picky about things like looks is "just treating women like sex objects." The sex for money deal is only socially acceptable when they love each other and marry for love and then the defacto situation that he probably brings more money to the table is somehow OK.

I think there are legitimate concerns there, but I don't agree with the way we resolve those issues. I do what little I can to try to change the conversation about such things.
One major issue with models is how do you model when people have an understanding of the world according to some model? Ie if everyone believes in wage-price spirals, does that affect the model? What if some people believe it, and some have an alternative view?

IMO that's the fundamental issue with modelling people rather than inanimate processes.
No, I am in favor of anti-litter laws. I had interpretted your argument to imply imposing the cost at the time of disposal, but I realize this is not the only way the cost can be imposed. I see your additional comment, but I'm not sure a straight up tax is the best solution either. If the taxes are levied indirectly then there is very little incentive for any parties to change their behavior. Any effect of behavior on the actual tax rate would be slow and dilute. If you levy the tax at the point of sale it is better, because now consumers are incentivized by price to select eco-friendlier goods and manufacturers are incentivized by the same mechanism to produce them. This solution is still lacking however, because should the consumer ultimately decide to dispose of an item, they've already paid the environmental fee, so why go through the effort of disposing it properly? It seems to me a workable approach might be to impose a materials based "environmental tax" at the point of sale but credit it back when the item is brought to an appropriate recycling center, just like a milk bottle deposit.
Relevant commentary, which I think cuts through much of the nonsense about the future of hard copy news:

When the Tribune Company recently got rid of their newspapers, the New York Times ran the story under a headline “The Tribune Company’s publishing unit is being spun off, as the future of print remains unclear.”

The future of print remains what? Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide “Click to buy” is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really.

Meanwhile, back in the treasurer’s office, have a look at this chart. Do you see anything unclear about the trend line?

<Graph showing newspaper ad revenue dropping from >$60 billion in 2000 to <$20 billion in 2010. Click link below to see it.>

- Clay Shirky, "Last Call", 19 Aug 2014

https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70
You can purchase Canadian permanent residency for $800,000 through Quebec's Immigrant Investor Program. This has a big impact on Canadian tax policy because there is no way you can discriminate between foreign and domestic ownership - foreign investors can simply buy a PR card and avoid punitive taxation of foreigners. There are still foreigners in the normative sense of the word, as in they don't and have never lived in Canada, but in the eyes of the law, they are the same as an permanent immigrant.
Secure endpoint software has to be non-commercial in that it has to be open source or otherwise trust-able by the public. Because it can't be proprietary, it would be hard to sell under any circumstances. The major portals could create this software, or they could just provide documented interfaces.

To provide default-unbreakable encryption requires a combination of commercial services that enhance the UX of using strong encryption, like web-of-trust features in communications software that make it impractical to MITM communications and key exchange, and non-commercial software that secures communications payload.

So any effective ban would ban not only an Apple proprietary system that was secure, but also those non-commercial components that are a necessary part of a truly secure communications system. That's where the overreach happens.
According to TFA, for household recycling, aluminum and cardboard are the most valuable.

Also according to TFA, the economics for plastic (as it's currently priced, externalities not included, blah blah) are not as favorable.

So TFA taught me to be less skeptical about cardboard recycling.
How does that change things? What's "operationally" ridiculous about it?
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> There are better ways to handle governance in OSS and cryptocurrency then founding a private enterprise

First, only one core developer with commit access, Pieter Wuille, is affiliated with Blockstream. Yes - the fact that founders of Blockstream are PhDs in distributed systems and cryptography, and the fact that many of them have authored essential elements of the Bitcoin system like libsecp256k1 gives them a purely meritocratic sway over developer mindshare, and for good reason.

Second, according to your words here you've done the impossible - you've finally figured out how to handle all money issues in open source projects. Gosh, that's really something. Don't just leave us hanging like that, do divulge what you think is the optimum way to ensure highly skilled developers and researchers work on open source projects for free.
We have a lot of empty space and until very recently it was way worse for the environment to burn than bury.
At the beginning (2006) dnsmasq used very naive O(n^2) /hosts parsing procedure. I was the first person ever to attempt using dnsmasq to block ads :-)

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/200...
Thanks. Sounds like a hell of a thing to prove wrong-doing, especially if it's crossing multiple legal/tax/regulatory jurisdiction's.
Structured Data Comparison with Tree Kernels – Toptal
> What is the alignment of your std::array? What is the memory type (e.g. can the GPU read from it at all? Can it write? What are cache policies?). The alternative though is not a C array, it's an explicit memory mapping.

Guaranteed to be contiguous, and semantically equivalent to a C array in all cases.

If you don't trust your vendor's STL implementation take a look at the intrusive containers in EA's STL implementation. It's very very good for games. It's also safe, which is a good thing that doesn't obscure bugs it all.

https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

> e.g. can the GPU read from it at all? Can it write? What are cache policies?

Fun fact, you can write your own template container with specific features with no additional overhead from a C "array" that's also memory safe.

> if it starts deallocating at runtime it will take longer to fail).

It can't magically deallocate at runtime. It's deterministic. I don't think you understand you give up zero control. It's just a cleaner system with less room for human error.

> obscuring bugs

What's obscure about knowing exactly where are all memory management occurs without exception? C-style malloc and free scattered all over the project is way more prone to hiding bugs.
The US (and the world in general, really) has a lot of open land. We're in no danger of reaching "peak landfill" anytime soon, and if/when we do, it will probably be feasible and cheaper to lift and launch waste into the sun instead of trying to recycle it.
it's better at public events, sure - you see stuff break on twitter because you can SEE it. But the useful part of FB is largely hidden from you. During world events the vast, vast majority of stuff people say on FB is private, but Twitter is more or less public by default. So I would disagree that FB is less "present" -- maybe to you, yes, but systemically and worldwide, I don't think so.
Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. We had a company called Four Chiefs, although that was mostly as a dodge because owners are treated different than employees insurance wise.
> comes down to experience.

Yea. I really should get into the habit of keeping better records of things so that I can look back on past projects. I write in a paper notebook as I program, but that is usually just thinking out loud or trying to artificially increase my working memory.

> If you don't have a spec, get a spec.

Yea, I think I've concluded that I need to always write a spec for myself before I start a project. I know Joel says that PMs should write specs, but I should be prepared for the reality that projects rarely have separate PMs.

The hard part is how to write out the technical details ahead of time before I've gotten my mind into the codebase Im adding onto or the new framework I'm using.

> Risk assessments

Any tips on what to read to do these effectively?

> Once you understand what is going on

So I should feel safe in disregarding the advice to "avoid trying to understand the universe"? Or at least attribute it more to how I communicate about being stuck on a problem? That is kinda a relief. I really didn't understand how to put that advice into practice.

> A few good books on estimation and debugging

I've read Debugging: 9 Indespensible Rules, Mythical Man-Month, Critical Chain, and a few chapters from Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. Do you have any other recommendations? The latter three books seem to be talking on the level of projects that are anticipated to take at least 6 months. I'm looking to start out with being able to reliably estimate how long I can get done in 90 minutes.
I work in a startup co-working space, with an open office plan. I estimate 400-500 connected microphones, probably about the same number of video cameras as well.
I would say the mission of Twitter seems to be "help people promote their personal brand". Unfortunately for them, not everyone is interested in either doing that or reading about other people doing it.
Celebrity Culture in Web Design
So why do speculators choose Vancouver of all places to speculate in?
their most important constituent

Do you mean their millions of users? In which case, is this one letter a voice for every single one of them and is this one letter the only request to come from those -- again -- millions of users? Or do you specifically mean those on the letter, in which case what makes them their 'most important constituents' over all the other organizations, open source projects, enterprise users, and developers?
Now you're making a completely different argument. You can't ban general purpose computers so now you want to backdoor them all.

But people currently buy iPhones because they want iOS. When there is a jailbreak vulnerability in iOS, they install the patch that closes it because they want to keep using iOS. And if they want to run Android or Ubuntu, they don't buy an iPhone, and they don't have to.

If tomorrow the only hardware you can get runs iOS or Windows RT then people who want something else will keep using today's hardware, in exactly the same way and for the same reasons as normal people keep using Windows 7 and nobody buys Windows RT. And they'll keep doing that until there is a jailbreak vulnerability in the new hardware. Then they won't install the patch, they'll use the vulnerability to wipe the unwanted OS and replace it with something else (or have someone else do it, but the more common it becomes the easier it gets).

The other obvious problem is that today Apple doesn't want you to jailbreak iOS. They try really hard to prevent it and still people can do it, and those people don't even have a huge incentive because you can still buy hardware that doesn't need a jailbreak. You try to impose that requirement by law on all the vendors who don't care and are selling to customers who are being forced into it and see how well it stops even everyday people from removing the backdoor or installing free software.
Gitlab is a worthy alternative. It's only missing critical mass, which gives Github the upper hand in considerations such as "all my foss contributions are on there in one place and that's what companies look at when they offer me a job".

Hey, sytse - I know you're reading this. Have you guys thought about a way of including, in gitlab profiles, user info from Github in a non-intrusive way?
The Review of Wayland Progress in 2016: Weston, Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment
I am looking at Geode to replace our Cassandra test cluster. Is Geode good for a Time series usecase ?

Do you have a roadmap/ ETA ? for the 1.0 GA. Any good architecture documentation & how to guide for Java ?
I guess I'm not okay with the ban on crypto that Apple and Google sell either, and I think that's the ban that matters more to laypeople.
For sure. And the reality also is that people can take job offers and/or move to new cities a lot faster than builders can build housing.

I don't think building more is a panacea that would suddenly mean two-bedrooms in Cow Hollow rent for $1,000 in 2017. That said, restricting market rate construction certainly only makes things worse. And building more would help at least a little.
This seems cool, are these physical or virtual groups?
Vancouver's problem isn't the house prices. The problem is to a large extent caused by the author of this piece, the Hootsuite CEO. The few tech companies in vancouver don't pay. They expect the city to provide them a steady flow of over-educated 20-somethings willing to work long hours for only slightly more than rent. For the last 15 years the city has provided just that. The complaints now are that those 20-somethings want to own stuff. They want a house. They want to own a dog that isn't left alone 10+ hours every day. They want families. So it is time to let them go and demand the city provide a new flock.

What every company in Vancouver seems to want is an employee who is desperate for work but also independently wealthy. That might seem a conflict but in Vancouver it is normal. There are thousands of young people here who are supported by parents who have enjoyed the rise in house prices. They are desperate for work, but don't much care about the pay because they have support. Hootsuite's problem is that many of those kids are now in their thirties, mom and dad have moved, and they want to have an actual life of their own. That cannot happen at 30k in a city like Vancouver.

(Lets see how long it takes for this comment to hit a nerve. Hoot is a social media company with eyes everywhere.)
Because systematic collection isn't the only, or even the most important, issue at stake in the "going dark" debate.
Wait.. am I reading the abstract of this study wrong or just misunderstanding what the author of the article is trying to say:

[Abstract http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/110/2/261/]

"However, high power individuals were more effective when working on tasks that required less coordination: they were more creative (Studies 1B and 4) and persisted longer on a difficult task than other groups"

Then in the article:

"The control groups and low power groups generated more creative ideas than the groups made up of high-power individuals."
Theoretically yes, and if you're the unicorn, then I'm sure you are very appreciated (and probably under-compensated). Seriously. I'm not mocking you.

With a person who's job is to help you and who is not above you on the food chain, you are more likely to have an honest self assessment. Also, with a third party in place, fairness becomes part of the equation. When a developer has to defend his timeline it's personal and can be very stressful. When a third party has to defend the same timeline it's just a matter of business. Conversely, when a third party is in play that is told that a developer needs to produce more, their instinct is to prioritize accordingly rather than simply add more hours to the work day (which is a common instinct among developers).
I agree. A few years ago I gave a talk in which I described a theoretical scheme called "zero knowledge proof of passport". The idea was to combine new zero knowledge SNARK algorithms with the digitally signed certificates that can be dumped from modern passports with Android phones to try and get closer to 1-(anonymous)-man-1-vote. The personal details on the passport would be anonymised using a salted hash function performed under ZKP. Of course, as an idea it has its own flaws (not everyone can get a passport, not everyone has Android phones, some people have access to lots of passports temporarily, etc).

Additionally, none of the zero knowledge proof systems on the market are fast/flexible enough to do it well. Perhaps if SGX were to be one day liberalised, it could work better. So it's not easily implementable today.

However, given that PoW definitely hasn't worked, people should have open minds to alternatives.

Even with the best protocol in the world though, you would still encounter this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2016/02/12/chinas-role...

(the last sentence is especially telling)
I blame Chipotle.
German has some solutions: http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2011/06/how-germany-achieved...
It sounds like you are saying that when I take an hour to work on debugging something, I should spend 55 minutes taking notes on the system and where the problem might be and 5 minutes turning those notes into a coherent email. Is that a reasonable approach?

I certainly prefer to think of debugging as a process of learning about a system rather that trying to try things at random without making a mental map of where I am.
Really? UK mortgage APR numbers account for inspection costs and mortgage/title insurance?
As none of what NTDF9 wrote of his experience (and nowhere did he write that it was "15 minutes of chatting") even remotely indicates her being "a little nervous" or her having said "something stupid", your two loaded questions cannot be answered in their present form.
Would you think the same if the genders were reversed?
The price-to-income ratio, a good indicator of affordability is quite ridiculous here. It should be around 4, i.e your home value should be 4 times your gross household yearly income, its closer to 12 here. I believe in this, and though my family makes a good income, in order to meet this ratio I had to move further out to Richmond. Don't regret it at all, since it eases the stress of requiring two well paid jobs just to live a decent life. But the lack of available rental properties, rampant foreign speculation, low interest rates is a pretty perfect storm.
I intend screw up here to represent both innocent error and deliberate malice. Teasing apart which is which in groups is hard, especially since it may well be both at the same time with different people in various roles.
Second if a company is going to trade on being a meritocracy....

They haven't for some time: https://www.google.com/search?q=github+meritocracy+rug