skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's likely that the whole project would have to be distributed under the GNU GPL (unless the GPL parts are removed). If you're only using it internally, it doesn't matter.
I wouldn't judge B addresses by looking them up. I cycle mine once in a while, I'm pretty sure others do too.

Why are you being so negative about donations? Some pick up, some don't. I don't see anything negative about even minimal donation. It means someone actually cared enough to do anything. I'd be happy to receive a $0.002 tip for some content I created - and not because it makes any difference to my account.
We use posts as 'channels'... they're generally short-lived.

There isn't nearly as much 'chatting' there as 'information sharing'... announcing milestones (pre-public baby announcements)... Etc.

For example, we just had one family decide they want to go to Knots Berry Farm the day after the wedding... Those who are interested replied, those who won't be sticking around or otherwise not interested didn't reply... so each post becomes a sort of persistent channel about a topic.

We have posts about the suggested hotel, and another post about a large AirBnB house that several families are going in on.

We're talking about 5 comments a day, max... and sometimes weeks w/o anything. We're generally fairly 'public' about things and use regular wall posts for general communication.
It's not an issue.

Did anyone here watch the video? I mean the author said a lot of cool things about being more pragmatic and all that stuff, while implementing it in LLVM/C++, what may be, as you say, a wise decision.

There's no assignment of guilt, I just found it ironic.
I studied the Hernan/Robins book for a course on causal inference, and I love it. But frankly it's a pretty niche topic, and so for the non-statisticians here on HN who are trying to get better at statistics, just keep in mind that there are so many other topics you probably want to tackle first. Many of the concerns addressed in the Hernan/Robins book probably wouldn't even make sense to you if you didn't have a firm statistical background already.

Gelman/Hill's Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models or Angrist/Pischke's Mastering 'Metrics embed ideas and techniques from causal inference into the broader context of regression modeling which makes these books more immediately useful. Those would probably be my two recommendations for non-statisticians.
FYI "dayly" should be "daily"

But very nice site
There are lots of major advances left. You can't look at the past or present as a way of saying there are no major advances left. People throughout history could and have done this, only to be proven wrong. Don't equate breakthroughs/advances with scientific research, a lot of the breakthroughs and advances we take for granted today came out of some random human beings imagination. Disruptive breakthroughs does not take the game incremental and linear ahead through a predictable path - it shows a path no one before had thought of existed or even though possible.
"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"
I assume, that no app will ever reach a lot of people if it's not convenient. That collides often with security aspects. Your Yubi-key-solution might be a good extension for eZing to still use PGP without storing the keys inside the phone, but being convenient enough to chat like you do with Whatsapp, what's a lot more convenient than using a mailclient.
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I used StatusNet when it was identi.ca for quite some time, specially because back then Twitter really allowed 3rd party clients and with multi-protocol clients was really easy to use both.

When I was using identi.ca it was pretty much about Linux, Open Source, and basically that was it. I never got the same level of interaction I can enjoy in Twitter; but that's not a technical issue, is just that a social network needs people to interact and identi.ca back then (and I suspect GNU Social today) was not used enough to make it interesting for me.

I tried, because you can argue that is silly to complain about not enough people using a social network if you don't start using it yourself; but at some point identi.ca got flooded with bots and people "abusing" the API instead of using the social network, and I gave up.

I love twitter because I can meet people based on common interests (eg, 8-bit computers), and also broadcast about my current projects (not sure who finds that interesting though).

To be honest, things should get really bad with Twitter for me to leave it, but then I don't think there will be a substitute (and if there's one, having my own infrastructure would be very low priority, in the same way I don't host my own XMPP server).
But if your usage of your computer that you bought depends on their servers, it seems they would have some sort of say in how you use it.

That is, they can negotiate with you using your desire to access their servers as leverage.

You can refuse to negotiate, in which case they can take steps to block your access to their server. You can use technological means to get around that, but then they can adjust their own technology to block your new strategy.

And then you're in a war.
So pay for WIRED. What's the problem?
"Doesn't ROI define what it means for something to be "worth doing"?"

No, it doesn't. That was my point.
However they spin it, technically you worked for TriNet. TriNet probably has some professional services agreement with your company that pays what it costs to employ you (salary, taxes, benefits), but your W2 says TriNet.
I have them in a quiet channel without notifications just to amuse myself. I have not nearly that much tho
This stuff might even be covered by FOIA, since it's just official contact info.
not OP, but I also run noscript, which I think is the culprit for me.
Goldman Sachs, rothschild banks, the world bank, 0 interest loans for the 1%, speculators, the idiotic spectacle of "trickle down theory".
Google’s Sundar Pichai receives $199m stock award
exactly. I don't have a problem with opening the code to ensure the encryption is safe, but that doesn't mean to give everyone access for free.
There is no proof that white candidates are hard to interview there.

That quote sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be an immature employee who doesn't like the idea of a "VP of diversity", or doesn't like the tone of the VP's slides, taking something small and blowing it out of proportion.

Like, they tried to recommend a friend of theirs for an open position and the friend didn't get an interview and suddenly that n=1 case becomes "OMG! They won't let us interview white candidates!!"
It seems to have triggered the Google captcha for me...
In my humble opinion, that's what ruined indenti.ca back in the day. If you're mirroring Twitter and losing the interactions you have in GNU Social, your account is just a bot and you're not really using the social network.
At least in Germany, we do not have secret courts and gag orders like in the USA.
Old Unix filesystems and byte order
That is what I was afraid of. I don't want five years of collective MIT work to suddenly turn into GPL.

Here is the issue at hand: https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/258

I've requested the original author provide dual licensing. We are also searching for alternative implementations.
Looking forward to hearing Parker's side of the story one day.
The one thing you can't deny is he built an amazing business, absolutely agree that it needs to manage the regulatory hurdles, but that wouldn't even have been an issue if he hadn't gotten them this far.

Probably not the last we'll hear from him.
Indeed.

Also, this is very dangerous information. For people who download it. There's huge potential for life-altering asshattery.
Whatever happened to finger?
From that list, I only have a google account. I tried the link for the Profile URL, but it's sending a 404. Perhaps that's because they've gotten rid of their Openid implementation as you say.

I'm sure there are ways around it. The point I was trying to make is that I thought that there would be more effort put into a frictionless signup.

To be fair, I haven't checked out the other sites linked from the gnu page, so I don't know if they have a better experience.
Politicians just need to be electable, not courageous. Why we ask them more?
That's right! But open source doesn't always necessarily means better software. Atom for sure ain't better than Sublime in terms of speed at this point of time.
"essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions" - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...

I would miss a lot of the sites that would end up disappearing, but in the end, I arguably would be better without them anyway. I hope they get to stay, and we find a solution, but if they don't.... shrug
This post is quite interesting, and I will have to re-read and ponder it some more, but there is one obvious flaw in the analysis. By analyzing the past returns of current S&P500 companies, the author is allowing for survivorship bias; companies which have done consistently well (in terms of market capitalization) over the analysis period are likely to be over-represented in current indices. To correct for this, the author should re-run the analysis using the S&P500 companies from the beginning of the period instead of the end.

This is the same problem that a study ran into some time ago when it demonstrated that the portfolio managers with the worst returns were the best investments; it analysed the returns of a number of managers over a period and found that the ones with the worst returns at the beginning had the best returns at the end. The problem is that all the consistently mediocre or bad managers were discarded, as they did not survive until the end of the period.
> when one's job only has one venturing into the front end every couple months, thus having to relearn all the acronyms and such.

To be fair, in my experience that holds true for any technology you only touch once every couple months (especially when you then quickly move on to other things again).
Wired may or may not, I don't know. But they are the facilitator for this info. Also, Facebook and Google may have "opt out" procedures, but they've been... less than trustworthy with those in the past, and I simply don't trust them.
Germany train crash: Several killed in Bavarian town of Bad Aibling
The counter would be that technology has created and is continuing to create significant economic changes that make investment predictions more difficult.

Improved transport and communications for a start have had, and will continue to have, massive impacts on both labour and assets by facilitating a more distributed workforce and changing the value of real estate (currently 60% of global assets). Those changes will definitely decrease the ROI of real estate investment, but don't necessarily reflect a decrease in production.

Meanwhile, disruptive technologies challenge traditional protected market sectors as regulatory barriers fail to catch-up with new threats to existing businesses (e.g. Uber, Airbnb). Again, those changes will decrease ROI in traditional sectors, and due to efficiencies in the new model the overall money spent in these sectors may decrease.

In effect we could be revisiting the arguments around Marx's "tendency of the rate of profit to fall" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit...).

The flip side to these impacts is that the rapid change to the economy hasn't yet been fully appreciated or addressed by current government policy.

For example, improvements in health technology have extended the age to which the Baby Boomer generation has been able to remain in the workforce, as well as overall life expectancy, placing far greater strain on social services and health planning than expected.

At the same time, "entry" jobs have far greater expectations than 30 years ago as automation has reduced the need for unskilled/entry labour, while increasing the demand for highly-skilled specialisations. This has delayed the entry of Gen Y into the workplace (with many workplaces unwilling to invest in training entry-level workers and at best offering unpaid internships) which has meant far reduced consumption and tax revenue than might otherwise be expected demographically. This has created a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem as reduced consumption doesn't justify increased hiring, but the lack of jobs prevents consumption (and experience required to add greater wealth).

Finally, effects on the value of labour have increased inequality (for better or worse as the pg essay controversy demonstrates). In effect, if there is less value for unskilled labour there is the potential for increased demand on social services (see the whole Basic Income debate). Meanwhile the scarcity of high-demand labour increases the wealth accumulated by the educated and talented. How this plays out over time is an interesting question.

This problem has been exacerbated in recent times by monetary policy that has seen far more money flow into the economy only to be captured by well-placed rent-seekers (see Occupy Wall Street etc.).

Add in the historical increases in global debt and recent geopolitical pressure on energy production and you have a perfect recipe for current economic troubles.
That seems like the worst of all worlds. Mining on a desktop computer just barely works, but I'll be damned if I want my laptop's fan to spin up all the time just so I can tip some web site. And I absolutely don't want my mobile to die on me daily because the bitcoin mining drains the battery. And considering the current BTC price, I'd burn like $3 for every $1 gained.

Someone come up with a service where you push money to (so any security breach is limited to the $20 or whatever you keep there) and then have a browser plugin that reacts to a payment challenge (either HTTP 402 or some meta-tag) and presents me with a native chrome button that can't be spoofed by site JS. And add a whitelisting option for something like The Guardian where I currently pay a monthly fee.
Ah, the Christmas tree catching fire was in Kiel in the 80s? I wasn't aware you were talking about Germany there.
Because there's more to success than simply the amount of people who click on your ads. They say 20% of their readers block ads, I would say that it's fair to assume that of those 20% maybe 5% would be willing to pay over $50 a year for reading their content or whitelist them, probably a smaller percentage of users will simply update their adblocking mechanism to keep browsing unbothered. Everyone else of those will simply stop visiting them. That's a possible 15% traffic drop.

It may not be traffic that gave them money directly like you pointed out but it's traffic from a fairly active crowd in social media, it's the people who link articles to them on places like our own HN, Twitter, /. or any number of other places. This effect leads to a drop in number of visitors who see ads which is a revenue drop.

I do like the subscription model (I'd like it better if it was a Freemium subscription model but alas it isn't), but I agree with the OP in believing that they'll backpedal this change before the end of the year.
No, it's not an incident. It's symbiosis. You know, the thing that we do in order to survive? Nobody cares what you think about WIRED or ads or whatever. We have to make compromises with things that we don't completely agree with and accept that it is our problem and we have to find a way to deal with it ourselves. Because NOBODY else cares. I know it must be hard for a special little snowflake like you to grasp that, but trust me, nobody cares what you think. Nobody will. Advertising is here and it will stay despite what you think. In fact, it will get bigger and bigger and it will play an ever increasing role in our society. We have to find a way to deal with it, acceptable by both parties. And this path does not start with spreading FUD with your self righteous anti-advertising propaganda to whoever will listen to you.
This specific mechanism didn't exist in 2000; the behavior is no different from the ILOVEYOU virus: user runs code, code does something malicious, code contacts cracker.

It all boils down to "if you require security, you can't have a default-open environment"; blaming a specific tool seems ... strange.
Having to work for everything you have is not a burden. It is perfectly natural for nearly all of humanity throughout the ages.

I personally grew up poor and while it would have been nice to not have struggled for things many people take for granted, I probably feel a greater sense of accomplishment than many.

I did count every cent. I worked two jobs before I finally went back to school. My motivation wasn't killed. But I doubt that would have been the case if that effort wasn't going to improve my situation in the slightest.

Of course, I also didn't believe I was entitled to what other people produce, simply for being alive.
One of my (language) pet peeves is when someone opens with 'Honestly, ...'

When it's appropriate I suggest to them that everything they say without that prefix might therefore be assumed to be otherwise. I suggest 'Candidly' or 'Frankly' if they mean they're about to be blunt. Or just avoid any kind of qualification entirely. Usually I'm ignored, of course.

But this is a particularly unpleasant arrangement of words -- an inherent and obvious contradiction, whereby independence of bias is claimed in spite of, and in conjunction with, proof of bias.

I wonder at the kinds of readers (of reviews or otherwise) who find comfort in such a disclaimer.
The most successful micropayment service of can think of is probably Spotify. It doesn't look how everyone was imagining micropayments but is effectively the same thing.
ahem "It also means, anyone using the defaults in OpenSSH is not PCI compliant."
Invalid mysqldump commands on GitHub
> well the JVM has a really shitty startup time

The JVM does not have a shitty startup time. Starting up a JVM takes 50-80ms. What takes time is HotSpot's warmup -- getting to peak performance. Erlang doesn't have this problem simply because it never gets anywhere near HotSpot's performance.

As to thread pools, that's an apples-to-oranges comparison. Erlang's processes should be compare to Java tasks or fibers; not to Java's heavyweight threads.
> 1. That's a false dichotomy -those are not the only options. The unstated implication (western-style democracy = success, communism = failure) is also wrong because there are many other orthogonal dimensions at play

These are typical options though. A lot of historical examples show this pattern throughout 20th century.

Remember, how originally, words "1st world" and "2nd world" were supposed to mean "capitalist" and "communist", and ended up meaning "great places to live" and "not so good"?

> 2. Is South Korea a puppet state or a colony?

It may not have been formally a colony, but it's certainly a country under enormous political influence of western world in US in particular — just like post-WWII Japan and Western Germany. I don't think that formal status matters as much.

> 3. I think what you are really asking me is if I would rather be Fed or Free. There is no correct answer, but I would prefer both. How about you; would you rather be oppressed and flourishing or free and impoverished?

This is a false dichotomy, because "freedom" is good first and foremost because free societies are fed. Freedom is just a more effective society organization.

But a lot of former colonies never actually had this choice; instead, their struggle for "freedom" from western capitalism typically ended up in communist dictatorships in the USSR's sphere of influence. It's like the "free Palestine" guys, who know really well what they're fighting against, but refuse to open their eyes on what are they're fighting for.
Yes, but

> This is mostly because of the legal system [..]. [T]he idea would never even occur to most people here.

As far as I understand it, your argument was that the US regulates hairdressers because of its legal system. Germany also regulates hairdressers but doesn't have the US's legal system (in fact, it's closer to Sweden's with regard to suing over common sense). So as far as I can tell, Germany invalidates your assessment.
I kinda like your response, and agree with many of the sentiments you express - a lot of the low hanging fruit has been picked, and the rest may be beyond the reach of most people. But the strange thing is that there is plenty of stuff "_to_do_"... but its not getting done, at least not very fast, for example:

- converting the economy to carbon neutral ( one "gigfactory" is getting build, but we could do with about 100)
- curing cancer and heart disease (not to mention all the other diseases)
- curing old age
- colonizing the moon/Mars
- creating a general purpose artificial intelligence... etc.
I found flights to Lisbon on flychecker at € 108
This is evident in PHP especially. The type of an anonymous function is 'Closure'. The problem is you have to explicitly declare the variables you are closing over and only until then does it become a closure. It's entirely possible to have a Closure that isn't actually a closure.
Why? Speed?

Visual Studio Code is based on JavaScript too and it's very fast. They even both use Electron, the JS-desktop-app core that the Atom guys open sourced separately.
Definitely a classic. Maybe I'll revisit it with the remastered edition!
> Mining on a desktop computer just barely works

You would not be mining on a computer's CPU (or GPU). You would be mining on a dedicated ASIC chip (that is already in production).

> And I absolutely don't want my mobile to die on me daily because the bitcoin mining drains the battery.

Which I why I specified in my comment that you could limit the mining chip to running only when the device is plugged into the wall (e.g. when you charge the battery overnight).
Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
> here at WIRED, where we do all we can to write vital stories

I genuinely read "viral stories" the first time I read that sentence, and thought to myself: that's awfully honest of them.

Speaking more seriously, I'll repeat what I've said before: I have only started blocking ads in the past 6 months or so, because while in the past I would simply not visit websites with obnoxious advertisements, there is now nowhere to go.

And I understand that you need money to pay your staff, and I understand that the public is not paying you, so someone has to, so that naturally falls to advertisers, as it has done for a hundred years. But clearly the public isn't going to let you do that, at least not traditionally.

So I don't know where this is going to end up, but no where good I imagine. More paid promotions, more "native" advertising, more catering to people who haven't worked out how to use ad block, more viral "you'll never guess who farted in the senate" style non-content-- the top two articles right now on Wired are literally reporting about advertisements. There is advertising sponsoring them writing about advertisements. My head is spinning.
Aside from an occasional dialog, there's pretty much zero cost to never paying for Sublime. (I'm a licensed user, but when I put it on other machines I use, I usually don't enter my license key, and I almost never notice)
Summary: Company did not find a marketing channel. Company relies on word of mouth.

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Not exactly the same, but Privacy Badger from EFF is great.
For me, the issue with Atom and speed has nothing to do with large files. It's that even with small files, it's often just slightly unresponsive--not that it freezes or anything like that, just that lots of things take a fraction of a second longer than they should, which becomes very annoying in the long run. In my opinion, this really shouldn't have to be a problem today... on the other hand, it seems like a lot of people just aren't bothered by this kind of thing.