skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that would work out really well for them.
Arxiv is a voluntary service where authors upload their own papers. It covers a few hundred thousand papers, probably, since authors have to know about it, want to use it, and have copyright service; it covers only a few areas of science where Arxiv use is in vogue, and only from the past decade or two.

Whereas, SH/Libgen acquire copies of tens of millions of papers from everyone everywhere everywhen.

It's the difference between a local library and the Library of Congress.
Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan [nVidia]
Very clever! Is there any reason why you couldn't just carve out tunnels shaped like the numbers, using a stencil typeface?
> a bit like how organizations could previously run their own email [...] infrastructure

"Previously"?
The Slippery Slope to Violent Extremism – A game from the FBI
There are occasional torrents, AFAIK. Hope you have 10tb of free space handy.
Just as much as the business guy wants to avoid the vagaries of a software dev bailing, he's going to have a hard time understanding how good software is created at one hour a week.

It was worth it for the business guy to give up a bigger piece of the pie in order to ensure that the business survives. That he is unable to see that, is either because he is unreasonably greedy or short sighted. Now he is delayed for X months or years because he let his greed get the better of him.

Once a business is well into money making machine territory, the impact that a single good engineer is going to make is dramatically reduced. At that point, the leverage is much lower and the business person can make decisions like you described.
> Just when things started picking up, the dev decided he wasn't getting enough of the pie and bailed

This story probably has two sides.
That is not the framing of the article, it's a key argument made in the second answer:

"Budget experts and many policymakers (including Republicans such as [House Speaker] Paul Ryan) consider targeted tax breaks as being similar to actual government spending."

Unfortunately this is not expanded upon, but its eminently reasonable. If you don't like this way of talking about it, the argument becomes that they make the tax system more regressive than it appears to be.

So by claiming that there is some "framing" going on instead of engaging with the actual argument that is _explixitly stated_ you're only preventing discussion and analysis on the systemic origins of inequality.
The NIH now requires that NIH-funded research publications be made open-access upon acceptance. They're usually on pubmed central. These tend to be the ugly author manuscripts instead of the typeset format but at least they're available.

https://publicaccess.nih.gov/
> and humans are harder to deal with, ultimately, than computers are

I cannot imagine this to be true. Take for example the Paxos algorithm. There are few people who can fully understand it. Yet you are saying that some businessperson is doing work that is more difficult than dealing with the intricacies of distributed computing?

The only reason the businessperson is making more money is because he has maneuvered himself into a better position.
Ballot to require reporting of misissuance fails
Sounds like a useful website to have.
Thanks! I've thought about the content area before, I should do it really.

About the missing items. Only the top 25 are taken, and the top 5 from show HN. Items are refreshed every 10 mins.
It's not that simple though.

The idea with the welfare system is that if people for a number of reasons suddenly is without a job there is a system to support them and hopefully help them back on track again.

So paying taxes is in many ways a collective insurance system. Some people never needs it, good for them. Some have lived on it their whole life, bad for them. But some might have paid taxes their whole life and is now cashing in on that.
The fall and rise and rise of chat networks
How to Eat Like a Successful MyFitnessPal User (150 million user dataset)
HarvardX MOOC explains world religions through their scripture
It also seems a bit of a defeating cycle. If you lose part of your pinky, you are, almost by definition, less effective than you were before (with the exception of maybe running), thus leading you to make more mistakes.

I get tradition, but you have to wonder if 45% of your people are operating at 99% of their capability, that's quite a bit of lost manpower.
The taxes should indeed go up to optimize land use in general.

If you have a house built in 1902 in the middle of a big city, you're paying minimal taxes and find yourself surrounded by high-rises, it's very inefficient land use. Your lot could provide housing for hundreds if not thousands of people if another high-rise was built there.

Thus, you should either pay for your privilege (in taxes) or sell the lot (for a lot of money, presumably) to let other people use the space more efficiently.

However, I must say that a property tax itself is a wicked one and should be replaced by land value tax. Land is more valuable in the centre than in the outskirts of the city, so when properly taxed it creates the tendency to increase density of the highly taxed land and allows for more liberal land use where nobody else wants to build.
Bookmarked, looks useful and leaner than swig and any other thing I know of.
If you start from the assumption that everything (and by extension, everyone) is owned by the government, then this reasoning makes sense. The only reason you have anything is because the government has allowed you to have it.

Of course, the flip side is that if it is all owned by the government, they can choose to take it away at any time because it's not like you earned it.

Which is an unfortunate line of reasoning when combined with Basic Income Guarantees..
My morning routine is still http://skimfeed.com
Typically for a business person, everything is a financial decision and calculation. They will out negotiate the typical engineer. Getting 'into business' might just mean properly valuing ones own contribution. That said I do see a lot of expressions of engineer entitlement on this site(I assume normative reasons).
Stalin's dictatorship was much much bloodier than what is described in 1984. Some years of it, anyway.

Both in peace time and during the war.

1984 to Stalin is what burning is to explosion.
This is why the JS ecosystem frustrates me. We're talking about an ES7 -> ES6 transpilation, which I will then have to transpile again to ES5. And that's before we even hit the VM/JIT.
In what sense do tax breaks not distribute income? Tax breaks most certainly change the income redistributing effects of progressive tax systems. This is the main point of the article.

If you want to claim that that changing a redistributing effect to benefit the rich, is not the same as redistributing towards the rich, you are merely playing semantic games.
You'd need a lot more carvings.
Thanks for the reply, good to know! I hadn't heard of Spring Boot and had forgotten about Gradle.

In case I wasn't clear - I wasn't trying to have any sort of "point," merely asking for the sake of learning what the Java world looks like. I think my experience with Java is pretty average for a non-Java developer, though (I took one class in college, and worked a few years on the client side at an enterprise software startup, where the server was J2EE, and had no particular influence on what stacks were used in both contexts). I certainly am not complaining about Maven, just relating the fact that it involves lots of XML.
This is just incredible, would love to see a version with milliseconds support:) It'd also be nice if the numbers didn't fade in/out but had a sharp cut off point where they'd quickly switch.
For those making Google and Facebook software developer salaries what are you legally doing to keep more money in your pocket and away from the government?

When you make a middle class salary taxes taken feel like a fair share yet when jump up into other tax brackets the view of fairness gets weaker.
> Tax breaks do not distribute income. Not up, not down, not at all. Thus tax breaks to not redistribute income either.

Okay so I am now dictator of the USA. I set the tax rate to 100%. But boys get a 100% tax break. Girls pay the as listed 100% tax rate.

I am not redistributing wealth from girls to boys? Someone has to pay for the government which helps everyone. In my case, girls pay 100% of it. Boys have money to spend on food and toys at the end of the day, girls have nothing.
What do they even mean by "techie" then?

I'm assuming she's not on the hardware side.

"Techie" is such a vague term.
It has actually been used by the German Pirate Party and other political groups for a while now, see for example the instances at https://adhocracy.de/
As an old guy, let me share with you which of these I think was the biggest lesson for me:

-- We do not need to be lead by business people.

MY new rule for startups - the big engineer should be the CEO. You can have a CTO and other engineers. You can have a VP of bizdev or sales. But the big fish needs to be an engineer if you are a tech company. If you are making biotech the big fish needs to have biotech engineering. If you are manufacturing, then the big fish needs to be a manufacturing engineer.

The number one mistake I see startups make (especially when they are started by younger people) is taking some type-A business school graduate and making him the CEO.

This is the cause, ultimately, of most of the failures of startups I've experienced (and I've worked for, founded or worked with a couple dozen.)

Or, as a second order function, type-A business school graduates who have never started a company or worked a real job but do instead work for a VC firm, forcing bad decisions on your company.

Most of the fights between founders are because business guys are forcing bad decisions on the company.

The problem is, business school doesn't teach YOUR business. It teaches general business concepts. These are not difficult for engineers to master.

IT's impossible for these business guys to master engineering. (Yes, 30 years, still haven't seen that- the best ones just find an engineer they trust and get out of the way.)

As an angel investor, if your CEO isn't a geek, I'm not putting my money in. And if you look at the "successes" where this is the case, it's usually an arbitrage opportunity (Eg: somewhere just piling a bunch of money behind a halfway competent business model with half way competent employees is going to make money because the situation is the result of a structural inefficiency, usually caused by government: uber for example.)
The US says it can seize all domains whose registrars are based in the US, so .com, .org, .net, etc are all vulnerable.
No, as an industry, wages absolutely did not go down. Your salary went down because your company and some others were in trouble, but most companies did not have salary cuts, and salaries were not cut whatsoever.

If a company goes bankrupt and it lays people off, it doesn't mean that salaries all fell, it just means those employees' salaries dropped to $0. This is what happened to you. I got modest salary increases during the same time.
Well if their business model was around selling high priced fashion clothes, I suspect NYC has a much much bigger market over Australia.
Is not taking your money distributing it to you? You are presuming society or government owns everything we make.
Not only the researchers do not receive any compensation, they actually need to PAY the publishers hundreds of dollars minimum to get their work published.
Add Webpack (https://webpack.github.io/) to this list

Also Jest, Jasmine, Mocha, Selenium. I mean, unit and integration testing were entirely stripped from the list in the link.

Nexus for local NPM repo (if you don't want to publish publicly, or pay a ton to make it private).

And you should probably learn a bit of Maven if you're on a Java stack so you can figure out how shit actually comes together on the page.

The joys of front end.
Show HN: Search your thoughts with a voice journal
Note that EA had already released some of the code in 2010: https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL
As other people have said, fire or blast damage from the battery would be a sign, but they don't even necessarily have to prove it's from the battery to not cover it under warranty, just that it wasn't an inherent manufacturing defect.
>Apple: $1,865,306 per employee

Also, that Business Insider article is an inadvertent IQ test for people who want to regurgitate their figures. That $1.8 million number is revenue/#employees and not profit/#employees. Using profit calculation of $53B/98k is ~$500k. Since, a fully-loaded FTE in Silicon Valley is ~$250k, the ~$500k doesn't look that insane.

If a writer copy&pastes stuff like that into their own essay without critical thought, don't be surprised if it taints the rest of his essay. For example, the "you are not a commodity" is not fully reasoned out. In the essay, it's just an empty platitude/affirmation instead of explaining why some programmers are treated as commodities and how to differentiate themselves to avoid that categorization.
Business guys make more money, only because they convince developers to take less than they are worth. Your friend hired a developer who, by your account, was doing all the work, and then the business failed because your friend was too greedy.

Now he thinks he's going to learn to be a developer and then not need any developers. Good luck with that.

By the way "getting it funded" is not success. Making it profitable is success.

PS- the word "coders" is like the n word. Use it and we know you don't respect us.
I think it's important to separate its positive effects on the community from the merits of its UI. To me, SourceForge epitomized the "it's complicated for us, so it should be complicated for you" school of UI design. The owners didn't appear to do much to improve that over time, instead treating the site much like toxic code that no one dares to modify for fear of breaking something. No doubt that was a huge factor in their decline, which fed into the user-hostile cash grab tactics. However, the fact that it existed at all when no alternatives were available was great. I wish the new owners the best of luck in turning the site around.
The way system is setup, there is no way someone who cares for me is in any of those positions, because I did nothing to put them there, and nor did anyone who voted for them. They did it themselves and got help from people who they can help back.

You can waste your time knowing about these people and trying to get them to do something which you think is good for everyone even though there are powerful people who pay him to not do it, or spend the time to be one day in a position to get them to do something good for you by paying them.

I think the latter will be much more effective and long term that you don't need to know anything or anyone. You just need to find the person who has that power. When that person is no longer in power, just find the next one who is. If you never need those people, even better that you didn't spend time on any of those shitheads.
I think it's mostly about brand security.

If a battery works with the laptop, it's guaranteed to be a tested compatible one. Quickly slapping up a counterfeit and selling it as a brand-name thing won't work.

A battery ua a critical device, prone to fires or blasts if made improperly. One such incident would significantly tarnish the brand. Thus the over-reaction.

I wish there wad an open spec for certified batteries, to allow for third-party fixes and replacements, though.
Luckily, you can downcompile to ES5 using the exact same tool: Babel. See for an example: https://github.com/marten-de-vries/kneden/tree/master/test/f...

Anyway, I agree, the sooner Kneden becomes obsolete, the better!
And you are presuming that you own everything you make.

Both are of course wrong which is why you don't pay 100% or 0% in taxes.
Somewhat off-topic. I recently got interested in Java and its ecosystem because of Clojure. However, what bugs me is the startup time for Java. Since this is mature technology, I cannot believe it takes so long for an executable to start. One guess is that this is because of the garbage collector inside the VM, but that doesn't make much sense because NodeJS also uses a garbage collector and it starts instantly (and it even has to parse & compile the code upon startup, which the Java VM doesn't even have to do). So... I'm puzzled. Any comments? This is not meant as a trolling question.
While Prop 13 is terrible, it's the not cause of the housing shortage (or bubble).

Land use policy is the cause, preventing supply to meet demand.

California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/hou...

"Building Less Housing Than People Demand Drives High Housing Costs. California is a desirable place to live. Yet not enough housing exists in the state’s major coastal communities to accommodate all of the households that want to live there. In these areas, community resistance to housing, environmental policies, lack of fiscal incentives for local governments to approve housing, and limited land constrains new housing construction. A shortage of housing along California’s coast means households wishing to live there compete for limited housing. This competition bids up home prices and rents. Some people who find California’s coast unaffordable turn instead to California’s inland communities, causing prices there to rise as well. In addition to a shortage of housing, high land and construction costs also play some role in high housing prices."
Ask HN: Has PHP declined in popularity?
Just curious if Javascript is getting more popular than PHP
I've used GitLab before and had a very good experience with it. Meant mostly for private repos, however. I tried pushing it onto the teams I have worked with in the past but they resisted because they were unfamiliar with it and didn't want to deal with server maintenance. The latter was understandable. Still, this really is a great solution for those who want an alternative to GitHub, especially a decentralized one.

Albeit, I am little disappointed because I have finally started getting into open source and being active on GitHub, and now it seems the development community is vying for a way out. GitHub may not be open, it may be centralized, but it does offer the advantages of uniformity and easy discovery.
Library Genesis, which also includes scientific articles and provides storage for sci-hub, provides a large series of dataset dumps as torrents,
http://libgen.io/repository_torrent/
Excellent example :)

It's the interplay of tax and expenditure which redistributes income. So, to use your example: If the government spent 100% of tax revenue on the girls, then there is no redistribution.

And as we all know, in the real world US, virtually all Federal expenditure is on social welfare, defense, and interest on the debt. Thus you could cut ~75% of tax revenue before the effect you discuss comes into being.
Dying Every Day was one of my favorite books I've read in 2015. I'm interested in this period, and have always tried to read about it -- but I've had a hard time finding a book that really holds my attention throughout. And this book did just that. I highly recommend it for anyone even slightly interested in Roman history.
maybe we can start some kind of petition to have them open-source it?
It's all fun and games, until someone in the open source community wants the same copyright protections from a commercial entity using GNU code without releasing the source.
You can also install the wrong .deb files, and wedge your system ;)
I have seen an astounding amount of "biz guy" entitlement in this industry.

It can't tell you how many times I've talked to potential co-founders who were a pair of frat boy types who had business school degrees. They pitch their idea as if it were a company, but all they have are some powerpoint and a few phone calls under their belt. They wanted to be CEO and "VP Sales" and would be happy to let me be CTO, they just want the to build the product and engineering team and for that-- because they liked me so much-- they'd let me have %5 of the company! (Vesting of course, one year cliff.)

They don't understand when I laugh at them... and I think its because there are too many suckers out there and they soon find one.
These might be good for Emacs users too.
Depends a lot on the style of Scala you write. If you write "Scala is a better Java style" (which is more what I do), it is not bad. If you write it as "functors and mondads are cool", it can be very hard for the other people to intelligently code review.
Yes, but as I understand they had an app/website, not a retail shop in NYC, right?

So, maybe I'm naive but why they couldn't upload the mobile app on the app store and website's HTML/CSS/JS/back-end files from Australia?
64-bit iPhones and iPads get stuck in a loop when set to January 1, 1970
Prop 13 is certainly unfair policy, but is almost certainly not a causal factor.

New York is a great example of a place with runaway train property taxes and perennial housing shortages in the NYC Metro area.

Property tax escalation creates vicious cycles, vaporizing buying power and creating disincentives for property maintenance, especially in older houses and poor neighborhoods.

In those areas, government aid programs create a housing price floor, so property owners maintain the minimum requirements for habitability, run the property down to zero value, and walk away.
Not for talent.

I might not want to work at the crappy startups, but their additional engineering demand drives up salaries overall.
Several years back, I did this - it was called HackerSlide. A sliding bar with a few days worth of hours, slide it and the front page automatically updated - see http://peterc.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/hackerslid...

And.. no-one was really that interested. I used it every now and then to catch up but when HN moved to the new API I didn't bother updating it (although it would be trivial to do so if anyone were interested).
The narrative on copyright has been dominated by big media because every political narrative has been dominated by big media and big money.

Those of us who get information from relatively unfiltered and uncontrolled sources via the Internet have long had a different perspective on copyright than those who don't.

I too hope that big media's control of the conversation is coming to an end - but they won't lose that control without a fight.
I think both of them are, because none of the problems are really good for explaining your thought process. In fact, it is a contradiction to try and think about a solution to a problem and to give a dissertation on how you're thinking about the problem. You can do one or the other, and in the latter case you have to have solved the problem previously.

What I do is ask people about a problem they have solved and get them to teach me about it. If I learn something then it's a good result.

Asking people to solve a trivial problem AND let you into the inner workings of their brain-- normally a non-verbal activity- isn't testing their abilities.
Overview effect
Very cool!

Also apparently a 'digital' sundial was patented at one point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_sundial

http://www.hineslab.com/digital-sundial/ - The notebook drawings are cool
What the world needs is less journalism that picks any available thread out of ambiguous research to push their pet agendas. It's not just the "SJW-types", it's an across-the-board problem. It generates clicks and grabs eyeballs...

Calling that bullshit out is a worthy cause.
>If you don't know what you're doing, expect really bad offers.

An offer for a one/two-month tryout without pay has nothing to do with their skills. That's just someone trying to get some cheap labor.
They needed to build buzz in the US. That means talking to people, getting your first traction, people discussing the app on the subway, pitching it to women at bars, college campuses, etc.