skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yea, the transmuxing is unfortunately buggy though. i had to recently switch my site back to flash because so many browsers have issues with it. it loads way faster though
IMO it's also worth considering the issue of synchronous vs asynchronous logging during the process.

Throughput gets better but latency's a tougher nut to crack.
https://www.messenger.com also gives a messenger-app like experience on web, with no non-messenger notifications :D.
I'm checking the main sublink under the link kindly submitted here, that is the link from the University of Richmond,[1] to see how well it displays under the demand of being visited by many Hacker News readers.

An interesting fact about immigration to the United States is how much more some regions (broadly, the north after the Civil War) than other regions (broadly, the territory of the former Confederacy after the Civil War) were favored by immigrants during the peak period of United States immigration (the end of the 1800s). All of my ancestors arrived before peak immigration--in particular, all before the founding of the immigration station at Ellis Island in New York harbor--but immigrants throughout the post-Civil-War era strongly preferred settling anywhere but in the former Confederate states.

[1] https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/foreignborn/#decade=1950&c...
I think I'm missing something in your position.

Why is the solution to tax people who go off grid?
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None of those technologies are bulletproof. Tor can be (and at least partially has been) compromised.
I really wonder what Sinclair's rationale for quitting his day job to work on his app was.

I wonder if he had some sort of analysis that made him think it would be more of a success which turned out to be wrong (e.g. projecting early sales numbers into infinity, whereas in reality they dropped off), or if he just jumped into it thinking that if he built it they would come.
> What do you say to the Indian coder who today is working on his WhatsApp competitor? tough shit, facebook already bought the internet in this country?

How about saying to him that he should make his WhatsApp competitor work well on feature phones and low bandwidth connections, and then submit it for inclusion with Free Basics?

Free Basics is open to almost any site that can meet a few technical requirements, which are basically that it works well on feature phones and in low bandwidth scenarios and when going through a proxy. There are also some non-technical requirements, such as giving permission to use their logos in Free Basics marketing. [1]

[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/internet-org/platform-t...
Because they aren't metrics, but search integration. So as I understand it, they equivalent to google instant (safari literally; spotlight on the same vein) and they claim not to retain data on them.
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I'm not cherry-picking anything; these are quotes from the published opinion. And both leave space for doubt, because the science is not conclusive. As I said, I support their decision; it's definitely a "better safe than sorry" situation.

And why does there have to be an agenda, as opposed to simply being an unresolved scientific point of contention? We don't know if there's life on Europa either, and I'm sure there's scientists on both sides. But I wouldn't say any of them have an agenda except for making the best educated guess they can, lacking any solid evidence one way or another.

EDIT: Also, to reply to an earlier point:

> There's no even any logical proof that the radiation, that even in the lowest dosages destructs the DNA whenever it hits it, can make beneficial mutations instead of simply producing a cancer.

It can also just kill the cell. If it kills problematic or pre-problematic cells more proportionately than healthy cells, then the net effect could be positive. Such disproportionate effects are the very basis of otherwise indiscriminate treatments like chemotherapy [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy#Mechanism_of_acti...
I think the important thing about Erlang (the system as a whole) is that you really have to understand what it does first. It's not one of those platforms you just jump into and start toying around and then maybe things work 'good enough.' Once you do understand what it does, though, it is exceptionally good at that.

This post does a great job of explaining what Erlang, as a whole, does and why it does it.
Just a note. Properties almost everywhere have almost doubled entirely due to interest rate declines over the last 8 or 9 years.

Say a house rents for $25,000/year. At 2007's rate of 4.76% on the 10yr T-bill plus ~200 points for the risk premium, the value of the house is $369,000 based solely on the NOI.

At 2016's rate of 1.85% + 200pts, the value of the house is $649,000, and that's with the same rent as 2007, not even adjusted for inflation.

That's a 75% gain on interest rates alone. Add in other factors such as increased economic activity and capital flight from overseas and you arrive at doubling.
It's a little disappointing he had to go out and criticize how "media people" used "Unity" to do these "simple things that game engines are total overkill for." He was talking about the last VR conference, where artists, non-programmers, etc. were showing their relatively straightforward panoramic stills and videos with an Oculus powered by a Unity app.

That mentality sort of bodes poorly for Oculus. Of all things to say, why does he have to open with, essentially, 'The people who are actually getting things done and most excited about my platform are doing things wrong. I'm going to tell them they're doing things wrong, and then I, who haven't released a game people wanted to play in years, will show them how they should be doing things.' It's the opposite of inspirational.

I know he's a phenomenal programmer and all. But he's such a blowhard. There are lots of blowhards behind all sorts of platforms, but usually those platforms have so much momentum that the platforms grow in spite of the blowhards, not because of them. Nobody is using Oculus. Facebook really nervous to specify the number that were sold. [0] And this guy right here isn't helping.

And before you downvote me into oblivion, I'm mostly commenting on his condescension. VRScript will be useful to someone, like many tools out there, and I'm glad he's working on it. But his language like "media people" isn't so easily ignored as an advocate for the platform and a representative of the very best of engineering.

If you're at Facebook in charge of this stuff, you should take a close look at this sort of rhetoric.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1fo7069mbokcc0/Screenshot%202016-...
People downvote you but there's definitely some truth there to find.

Thing about these projects is long-term gain. Maybe these toilets will pay off in 20-30 years, they have to, if they want to be sustainable.

But yes, a single plane flight would negate all of the savings. It definitely negates all of the energy you save by showering with cold water, by recycling, by turning of the light.

It is definitely a gigantic problem when India, China, Africa turn into energy hungry giants that already are Germany, USA, UK etc.

We'll see how it all will turn out to be, business seems as usual, hope that's going to change fast.

http://www.withouthotair.com/

A great book that describes how simple and easy it is to analyse sustainability - purely by numbers.
The Yahoo user base is decreasing every year.
This looks awesome, but, oh, the irony...

A language to replace C implemented in C++. ;-)
Interesting stuff. In all my distributed systems work so far, I've assumed that a distributed lock is a thing to avoid. I really should take another look at them, just as a tool to have at my disposal.
I did iGEM in 2006 as part of the Princeton Team. It all started when I took Biology I and we made glow in the dark E Coli. And I got excited.

So that summer I did Princeton iGem with Ron Weiss. It was pretty disorganized, but I did spend 8 hours a day in Biology lab and learned more genetics. No longer remember any of it.

Now you can do it at home. That's kind of awesome. Possibly dangerous?
When I was a freelancer working on my own, a few companies would include a non compete clause. I challenged them on this always and they were all very happy to alter the wording. It's about the wording mostly, and about definition of competition. For example if I am working for a web agency shop that does e-commerce websites for sports and I am just working on a site for a surf shop, I would alter the clause to read "in the realm of surf shops" rather than competition in general. They were happy to change it because it kept the spirit of the agreement, what they actually meant there. Yeah, I was fine not making directly competing in a specific domain, but I wasn't going to be limited by contract in competing in a general sense. It was also clear that reducing from 12 months to 6 months is usually acceptable also.

Now. The worst clause in a permanent contract is the other works / open source projects etc. They sometimes want to own all your code even the things you do in your spare time. They will ask for a list of all projects you contribute to before working, and if you want to contribute to something new in your spare time you will need approval from management. Now, I think this is very unreasonable, and I've pushed back on this so much that I've rejected job offers because of it. What I do in my own time is my business.
The superbowl website requested flash to be installed.
Shouldn't we ALL save our money instead of blowing it on a phone that can run Facebook better?

What standard are you trying to hold these teenagers to? I don't understand why they would need a cell phone less than any other teenager, or any other person really.
I just went through the exercise of outfitting my home lab, and I think $200-300 is a bit low. Most of the stuff on ebay that goes super-cheap is just broken. You'll spend a lot of time debugging and fixing stuff that is unrelated to your experiment.

For the centrifuge, I'd do 3d-printed rotor on a dremel (https://diybio.org/tag/3d-printing/) I use this already to spin down cells and is... cheap and not very safe.

You didn't mention an autoclave- that's needed to make sure all your buffers and equipment aren't contaminated.
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Same as any other code--via debug step-through, or logging, centered on the code that processes the annotations. It's actually much saner than heaps of "marker interfaces" and is readily testable.
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Aren't these sorts of zero days worth a LOT of money? He didn't go all the way to RCE, but he probably could have gotten there. It makes you wonder how many people are out there with Tavis' skills who just farm these things and sell them to the highest bidder instead of making us safer.
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> low power

> high bandwidth

> high distance

The laws of physics compel you to choose 2.
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PaaS on a Raspberry Pi 2
Annotated methods are also much easier (to debug) than a ton of callbacks and in theory have less GC stress.
Android version or equivalent?
I'd be interested in being added to that list too :)
Behooved by the System
Probably the "If i build it, they will come" mentality.
Agreed, but it's still a lot of people in aggregate and I suspect it has a notably higher percentage of the inexperienced users who would be most vulnerable to this and probably aren't like to switch to Google / DDG any time soon.
Congratulations..this is great news for India!
Psychopathy isn't necessarily inherited.
I think it is an important insight that founders who do not need the money will make different decisions than ones that have never had money. It doesn't follow that they make "better" decisions however.

I think what Chris Sacca did was excellent, keep the "everyday" fears away by taking care of imminent personal financial threats, helps founders a lot. But taking FU money off the table prior to a success/fail determination is a dangerous thing to do as it screws up motivations around success.
Here's a devil-in-the-details question that you might consider adding to your excellent article:

You have a web server in there, and also a storage system. What happens when the errors propagate up and the storage system dies? Does it force the entire node to reboot? Shouldn't the web server stay up to keep users informed that there is a serious problem, rather than simply going away? What's the best way to accomplish that?
and shady business tactics on top of that
in development right now, sorry :(
Blockchains don't need independence from governments. Blockchains are independence from governments. Blockchains allow individuals to enforce rules on their governments without needing to navigate bureaucracies and legislatures that are already captured by the wealthy and powerful.

Inalienable rights are a powerful concept. It suggests that there can be rights that people aren't using—not because they don't have them, but because they don't know they have them. This was the story of the Enlightenment, and I believe it's the story of blockchains as well.

Blockchains give the people information about their economy that they can use to see the flow of economic power, and they can use this information to decide whose power to submit to. No one can take this right away. Rejecting power used to require a violent revolution. Soon it'll only require an app.

http://meritcapitalism.com/
I'll agree with that, I haven't seen someone retrofit their own before.
You need to read the glorious days of protectionism and economy of India from 1950-1990. 4% growth has its own nick-name, "Hindu rate of growth".
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In one case, I needed the job and a non compete was a condition of employment.

Instead of signing, I wrote in cursive "Won't Agree" on the signature line.

It may not hold up in court but it was enough to satisfy my personal ethics. If I decided to do something that was contrary to the agreement, I wouldn't be violating my own code of honor.
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I guess we should let a billionaire with obvious conflicts of interest hold control over what poor of the country should use.
When is a big rewrite the answer
So you are working under the assumption that without the aid of Facebook et al, India will cease developing internet connectivity?

Frankly, I dont see a scenario where the third world remains unconnected through 2030, including India. There is much profit to be made connecting Billions (with a b) of people to the world economy; far too much profit that something as insignificant as running cable will forever keep them unconnected.

14 years of technological advancement. What radios do you think the iPhone 14s will have built in? Are you willing to bet an entire country's access to the (actual) internet that it will be the same radios we have available today?
I mean, it's definitely a thing you want to avoid whenever possible, because it's a strict point of slowdown in a distributed application.
It's turned on or off based on your choice in OOBE wizard. At least on Nexus and Sony devices, other vendors may do something else.
Accuracy Over Precision
1(a). A thing inside which you write notes.

Plus the document model used — a mix of different kinds of "cells" — has a history of being called a "notebook interface" (cf. Mathematica, IPython/Jupyter notebook, https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-notebook-interface-in-progra...).
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Surely you provide your customers something more than just a building with some trainers in it? I'd focus on that, rather than silly contract games.
It's really not very helpful to read a deck of slides.
Perf for sure, but I was typically more concerned about availability.
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The former is equivalent to

fac' f 0 = 1
fac' f n = n * f (n-1)
fix f = f (fix f)
fac = fix fac'

so if the second is indeed faster then explicit fixpoints beat tail recursion
There are many cases where it’s much more user-friendly to have proper control over audio/video players and proper event handling: custom controls to change resolution/quality settings, synchronization of the audio or video with accompanying material, integration of video with other content, having interactions elsewhere on a page adjust audio or video to match, remembering which tutorials a user has finished so you can start with the next one ready to go next time, and that’s just what I came up with in a few seconds.

Sure, if you just want to play your free videos from a site where each page is basically just a wrapper around the video element, and you don’t need any configuration for quality settings and the like, then custom control and events might not be particularly interesting. However, HTML5 media elements should let us do much more than that.
Similar to this happens all the time in India. Seller1 sells his property to buyer1 and gives all the property papers after transaction. Before _registering_ this property with the government Buyer1 finds another Buyer2 and sells the property. Buyer1 now avoids paying tax which is what registering property is.
This is true in many states actually. (This model is definitely true in the state I live in)

Nevada specifically seems a bit messed up right now. Politics will have to duke it out... I am not actually on the Solar side of things.
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Similar things happened in Canada under the Harper government. When everything is viewed from a monetary gain perspective, a lot of research that has no foreseeable innovation or gain becomes obsolete, but this viewpoint is extremely distorted. Imagine if Einstein had only worked on theories that had foreseeable monetary gain. We would never have the theory of relativity and decades later we would have not had satellites in space.
> Twilio offers employees a Kindle plus $30 a month to purchase books.

Why not just provide $30/month extra salary? Why is this restricted to books?

> Twitter is well-known for providing perks such as three catered meals a day

What? Why would you need dinner at work?

> World Wildlife Fund employees take Friday off every other week, also known as “Panda Fridays” at the nonprofit.

Now this is a perk!
Not the parent, but I know our production web servers have very limited logging since they were already highly optimized and handle a huge amount of traffic, so logging was taking up something like 15% of all CPU time (and since they were CPU-bound, 15% of cost), so we have stats like those described in this article instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11052614
A court has to decide that. The employer likely has more resources than you and can tie you up wasting time and money in proceedings. That is the real issue behind this article. This company decided it was in their best interests to make an example of this person, and now she's unemployed.
> In a real game, I found that almost everything was optional, so I ended up with simply:
> {Position, Optional_Stuff}

Or in other words, {Position, Everything_Else} :)
Strictly in the UK a compromise agreement is to stop the employee suing the employer.

I know that some uk employers offer them to all outgoing employees - makes me think they have something to hide.
Having an independent failure system to take place as interface ?
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Computed GOTOs and GOSUBs are very underrated in modern programming.
I wish the site had a contact address for feedback or an announcement list. It looks like a good idea; I'm looking for more information. Digging for the Kickstarter to look for more information there...
I do wish the author didn't continually repeat that "rusty pipes" were the causative factor in the Flint crisis, as it was the exposure of lead pipes to highly corrosive river water that was the primary concern. Having said that, corrosion of iron pipes consumes chlorine used to protect against pathogens, so while the presence of rust was itself an unpleasant but not itself harmful signal, it was symptomatic of the corrosion that unleashed toxic levels of lead and risked the growth of harmful pathogens.
I'm an Australian. The answer to your "so what?" is that so far Australians can't be prosecuted for bypassing geoblocks.

HTH.
In theory, yes, that’s how you’re supposed to do it. Unfortunately, part of the real world problem with switching to HTML5 media elements is that browsers have an awful track record in terms of quality of implementation. At various points, even quite basic events simply haven’t been firing properly in one browser or another. And with browsers updating every six weeks and frequently changing things like the default controls you get on a video element, you’re constantly aiming at unnecessarily moving targets as a developer.
But the debate here [US] looms on...
It wouldn't be so bad, if they would show you more than one or two different ads. I remember Hulu being especially egregious about that. I'd watch a couple hours of the back catalog of some show, and see maybe 20-30 ads in their "commercial breaks", except it was always the same ad.
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More concretely, Phoenix sets itself apart through its own features, Elixir's features, and an (as far as I've seen) unparalleled commitment to the community:

* PubSub, so if you're building a communication-based app your job is automatically easier.

* asynchronous jobs by default (it's a language feature), so if you need background processing your job is automatically easier.

* Rails-like database interactions. I don't know of any framework that makes dealing with the database as simple as Rails, and Phoenix (really Ecto, the ORM it uses) matches that simplicity. Models, validations, transactions, queries, migrations - it all feels very well thought-out. First-class support for PostgreSQL arrays and json(b) are nice-to-have, too.

* Fast templates. Template rendering is one of the biggest performance problems in Rails, and Phoenix solves it with some compile-time tricks.

* Built-in support for multiplexed real-time communication channels. If you need to push data to clients, your job just became easier (notice a trend?). It supports both WebSockets and long-polling so you don't have to make the hard choice about whether that new feature is worth the risk of losing users on outdated browsers.

* Asset building, another built-in goody that very few other frameworks have. The choice to use Brunch (rather than WebPack) is debatable, but I think that having a controversial build tool is 100x better than having no build tool.

* IRC support: If you ask a question, you will get a complete answer without anyone telling you to RTFM. This is both good and necessary because, although the official documentation is pretty good, Phoenix and its dependencies don't have the huge number of blogpost tutorials and StackOverflow answers that make Rails so easy to learn. I suspect this will change over time as the community grows.

* It keeps getting better. This is an outsider's perspective, but after lurking on #elixir-lang, Phoenix-Core, Phoenix-Talk, etc. it's obvious to me that Phoenix and Elixir are going to be better in 2017 than they are in 2016. Its core contributors are knowledgeable and dedicated, and many of them are being paid for their open-source work. That gives me confidence in the future.