skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe I've said anything about why I dislike for-profit enterprise controlling the world's most valuable institution, so I'm unsure how you could correctly infer my reasons for feeling that way. As far as capitalism, my statement was factually correct and I made no attempt to fully describe the institution. In fact I disagree that capitalism equates to the monetary exchange economy, as the latter has existed far longer than the former. I've made no recommendations for what the alternatives might be, only mocked the idea that, since the parent can't think of anything, we shouldn't ask the question. In fact your assumption that I am for centralized State Capitalism (to use Richard Wolff's definition of Capitalism) and top-down planning is again false. I subscribe to Marx's suggestion that workers should own the means of production, and do a reasonable amount of reading to support that belief.

In short, most of what you've assumed is incorrect.
Given that what's being shared is a very small bitmap, wouldn't hex would be more concise?
>By the rules of the game of life it's easy to show every living (c,n+1) has at least one living father and at least one living mother.

This statement seems incorrect. It's true that every living cell has a living mother, but there's no requirement of a living father.
Or maybe if your natural gas company's stock were in free-fall?
"We now have evidence suggesting that on virtually all issues where people are initially undecided, search rankings are impacting almost every decision that people make."

I dug into his CV and found the following related works:

- recent publications: http://aibrt.org/index.php/internet-studies

- The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) and its
possible impact on the outcomes of elections [http://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_&_ROBERTSON_2015-The_Sear...]

A talk that he gave at Stanford about SEME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSN6LE06J54&feature=youtu.be

- Democracy At Risk Manipulating Search Rankings Can Shift
Voters’ Preferences Substantially
Without Their Awareness:[http://aibrt.org/downloads/EPSTEIN_and_Robertson_2013-Democr...]

CV: http://drrobertepstein.com/pdf/vita.pdf?lbisphpreq=1
Well, don't be too convinced. I didn't spend much time on that comment.
Deutsche bank and Commerzbank refuse Bitcoin related transfers
>Rhetorical question: how many of these deaths also involve alcohol?

For opiods...few. For paracetamol...lots.
A simple ClojureScript rubiks-cube-solver app using scenejs and reagent
Why a major home builder is giving up on San Francisco
I imagine anything Microsoft releases that could possibly have gpl software, such as the linux kernel in it will have the most aggressive search for violation of any software ever. Memories are long and that distrust is not going away any time soon.
They may, but who cares? This is the internet. It is a medium you can choose to ignore or stop reading the moment you find someone's argument is unreasonable. I suppose you could fear real world retaliation if someone knew your identity, but, if you're saying something online that you would not say to someone in person then I'd say you are not yet comfortable with your own thoughts. Don't censor yourself just because people down vote you or disagree with you on the internet. That is allowing mob logic to win. Promoting discussion, sharing facts, and suggesting alternate views are all ways to stimulate learning. Even if you end up being convinced of an alternate view and disagreeing with yourself, at least you dug into an issue you care about.
I'm thinking about writing a Conway's Life MMO, where you can activate "lanterns" that illuminate rectangles in the grid with Conway Life squares. These lanterns are fueled with "living" Conway Life cells, which are harvested by the player. Sound interesting?
I guess that's where we disagree. I do consider myself a good judge. If you don't feel you have a sharp rational thought, an ability to consider a wide range of factors, including a dose of fair human compassion, then yes you probably should just help out everyone by default. That's a good default position to take, and one I do commend.

Myself on the other hand, I believe in my own ability to be fair in judgement, to straddle that difficult line between compassion and personal responsibility. I believe it IS possible to leave someone bleeding in the street because they chose to endanger themself, their family, their community, and the quality of life of everyone on this planet.

That's a position that will strike many as arrogant, entitled, and downright wrong. I can understand that position, and still choose to disagree with it. As an ideal, I hold personal responsibility in the highest regard, while still understanding that life hits you hard sometimes in ways you cant possible predict.
If you are thinking about working with either of these (or puppet) please check out salt stack it is a pleasure to work with and equally as powerful.
WeWork raises $780M at $16B valuation
RHEL was one of the first 'supported' linux guests for hyper-v [0]

[0] - http://www.pcworld.com/article/159615/microsoft_redhat_partn...
first sentence: "Mall CEO Sandeep Mathrani has reversed course on the claim."
maybe web search should be a public utility
This is the client software, what possible use could an NSL be?
It may be me but I rather like http://kubernetes.io/ as this takes the approach that you are deploying an application not a set of disparate services.
If you watch closely on Google's move in the area of externalizing internal technologies, you can see a clear trend of reducing secrecy of Google technologies.

The reason, apparently is because Google can no longer sit comfortably behind the scene to watch others play the catch up. Previously Google do not care, because they dont want to share internal Cloud with you. Now they need the profit from Cloud. Google needs to show that it is still the leader. Previously, Google does not need to show anything and all believe they are the leader. After missing the Cloud movement in the past years, Google's reputation has been tainted, and they have to show hard proofs.

For example, when choosing cloud providers, AWS is still the clear no1. People probably still believe that GCP is better than AWS. But GCP does not have the proof. However, if Google somehow can catch up and beat AWS in a decisive manner overnight, then Google still does not need to share anything; and no one will question that Google is the leader. Apparently, Google is not able to do that. It might be that Google is not focused enough. But Google cannot let people have the other impression "Google's technologies might not be as good as we thought" grow in people's mind.

Can you imagine what would happen if Google started the Cloud thingy at the same time as AWS? Then Google certainly do not need to share a damn thing with outside world...
It's a reasonable question, but consider three things:

One, part of the VC model is relatively frequent fundraising. You take some seed money, prove the model a bit, take an A round, prove it some more, etc. It's in nobody's interest to give all the money necessary to get to break-even at once; investors would rather make smaller bets, and founders want to sell as little equity as possible when uncertainty is high.

Two, if your goal is to never actually need another round of funding, then you'll be very conservative in how you spend your money. Bolder competitors will spend money with the expectation of getting more soon, allowing them to outpace you. So there's a strong incentive to spend as fast as possible, trusting that you'll get good enough results to earn the next round of investment.

Three, there are many interesting businesses that are only possible with huge investments. In the Internet world, Twitter and Facebook are good examples. Most ad-supported businesses really only work at scale; ditto network-effect businesses. For physical goods, Tesla's a good example: you have to sell a lot of cars to justify building a factory. Pharma, too; your second pill might cost $1 to produce, but that first pill can cost $2 billion.

I agree there's a lot of entitlement in the industry, but I think some of it's reasonable here, in that when you talk to a VC firm, they'll sing you a great song about how they are there to support you, that they'll back you all the way, etc, etc. People who haven't experience a downturn can be genuinely shocked at how fast supposedly bold, independent investors suddenly all stampede in the same direction.
Interview with FCC Chair Tom Wheeler
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11253603
DIY Deep Learning for Vision: A Hands-On Tutorial with Caffe
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/63905-Tesla-s-...
New Spaceship Speed in Conway’s Game of Life
Words. Punctuation, plural nouns, haiku.
It's still the finest OS Microsoft ever shipped. ;-)
I think I was unclear about my main point. Python and Perl have many applications outside Unix tooling, but then again so does C. Both sort of started out as "better shell script," and both were seen as such, but they were also seen as stable foundations for serious, long-lived software.

You can build stuff on top of C, Fortran, POSIX, etc. in 2016, and be pretty confident that it will still work with their 2026 versions. That's not valuable if your slapping together an MVP that no one will care about and will die in a few months, but it's incredibly valuable for developing big, complicated software. Or for little personal utilities you want to write once, then not have to maintain. Perl and Python moved away from that longevity, each in its own way. Maybe that will make them better suited to a world of continuous Cloud-based churn, but there's more to life than that.
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I think that there are two kinds of drug users, basically. People use drugs because of hardship and people who use drugs because of boredom. When it comes to the hardship camp, I think the best solution is to alleviate the hardship. This means making sure that everyone has a well paying, respectable job and making sure public infrastructure is healthy and so on. When it comes to boredom users though, it's hard to come up with a solution besides punishment. Look at the current heroin epidemic. Yes, it is illegal to use drugs, but affluent white kids don't have to worry about police, so they just don't care. I grew up in an affluent, white neighborhood so I have seen this first hand. In these places, there might as well be no laws regarding drugs. And I think the results are not very surprising. Dumb teenage kids try heroin and then get hooked and then suffer some horrible consequence which can oftentimes be death. I personally knew two people who died that way.

Your argument is like saying that we should make insider trading legal because people still do insider trading. Or that we should abandon financial laws and regulations because the great recession happened in spite of them. This is incorrect. Regulations prevent financial collapses. If harsh punishment were distributed to everyone who engaged in corporate crime then corporate crime would plummet. And I truly believe that if affluent white kids had a real, tangible threat to their short term well-being in response to drug use then we would see a massive decline in their drug use. I know that HN hates this opinion but I'm just being honest. Go ahead and hate me. Downvote away.
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There are definitely some people who prefer to use TFS and some teams (like .NET) that are heavily invested in Git.

And yes, we call TFVC TFS all the time :)
unix has got much bigger problems than this
I'd argue those points are relevant because price fixing laws were created to thwart monopolistic behavior and spur competition. In this case, Apple was trying to bring in a competitor model that would earn publishers more money, thus allowing them to develop higher quality content. The consumer has lost as a result of this court decision. That's my opinion and you are free to disagree.

> Because if a majority of publishers are on board, they can force the OTHER stores threatening to stop selling ebooks though them

Some of the publishers did not support windowing, that is, withholding new releases from being available as ebooks, so that argument doesn't quite hold up.
> I don't even know the point of these articles any more.

How else will the people who have been here less than 6 years get jaded?

More usefully, it may be obvious that these things go in cycles, but knowing exactly where we are in the cycle is very valuable to anybody who is thinking about raising money, or who is working at a company that isn't yet self-sufficient.
I can only speak as an immigrant to the Us. The US has a culture of pill popping. Doctors are much more likely to give you strong painkillers than German doctors so the drug use is higher. I don't think it has to do with drug laws.
Oversimplification.
Water is cheap, do people drink too much, so they loose too much salt?

People eat or drink to compensate for other things.
Happens with heroine, too, sure. But for some the right drug at the right time is medicine, to get their life back in balance.
If you have more options than just overeating or overdrinking, then your chances are higher that you find, what you need to get on with your life ...
> (Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.)

Information entropy and physics entropy are actually the same thing. You can measure heat capacity in bits.
But it's a gamble. If it fails (and so many do, in a month or a year), then you have a head full of domain specific knowledge that you can't apply to any other technology.

Let's take web templating: How many solutions are out there, and how many of those actually turned out to be winners? To ride the crest of the React wave, you had to pick it out of a thousand others, at a time when there were other "winning" solutions.

And even React is beginning to show signs of falling, with new stars starting to shine. Do you jump ship, or hold the course?
In TFA it quotes Musk himself confirming OP's claims. Why would Musk do that if they weren't true?
EU Taking Steps Towards Formal Complaint Against Google's Android
Are you in a financial position to take some risk? If there is a certain technology that you love, there may be a niche market for maintaining older code. I know someone who has been doing Smalltalk exclusively for almost 20 years. He works remotely from his home. I know someone in their 70's who was hired to port code they wrote in their 20's.
Gambling is illegal in many, many places and in the places where gambling is legal many people get sucked in and lose tons of money, sometimes pushing themselves into poverty and ruin. These are all pretty well known things. I don't know what else to say.
There are a lot of quotes in that article though. And a number are in the vein of not being sure how they were going to get from where they were to better-than-human. Not my field in any case but I think it's fair to say that there was a lot of skepticism about even the general path going forward even relatively recently.
I think it is interesting that this article is critical of valuations changing over such large time spans when the public stock market often marks up and down stocks by a significant amount on a daily basis.
Objects in JavaScript use referential equality when checking for strict equality, which indexOf uses. In your code, 'elem' and '{foo:"bar"}' are different objects which is why your code doesn't work as expected.

So

var x = {foo:"bar"}
var y = {foo:"bar"}
var z = x
x === y //false
x === z //true

This is specified in the ES3 document[0] at 11.9.6(13):

"13. Return true if x and y refer to the same object or if they refer to objects joined to each other (see
13.1.2). Otherwise, return false."

[0] - http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
I seem to recall Xenix ran on an 80286.

Speaking of which, did anyone ever end up apologising for the 80286?
The author is a German speaker. German 'Seite' can translate to both 'side' and 'page', so it is a kind of false friend with English 'side'.
Such adaptation requires additional copyright permission in most nations, even if someone already have permission to distribute the music unaltered.

It's a great comparison on a common sense basis, but could you be more specific? My impression is that in the US there still isn't any definitive "vidding" caselaw. Are you aware of some, or by "most nations" are you referring to the (primarily European) moral rights to the integrity of the work? [1]

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Moral_right_of_int...
A complete non-techie here. My takeaway is this: Wow, look at the value of saving and I've got to invest--not just save--for the first grandchild starting tomorrow.

My dad was banker and a saver so I grew up valuing saving just because. Like others here, the site makes it easy to understand how saving (as I read it, and yes, I know there is a difference) can yield lots of money! Now to share this with those in the social services world in DC so they can use it in their financial ed classes.
FBI Director becoming a political problem for the White House
I try to stick to Aspirin & Paracetamol for this reason. Even Paracetamol feels a touch dicey @ liver failure stats.

However I've been in decent pain for 1 year+ before so I know what its like & can totally understand why people go for the powerful stuff. Continuous pain like that slowly but surely grinds your psyche to fine dust over the long run. Thats the part that people without chronic pain miss...
Well, I support an experiment to test your claims.
The limited ones of decriminalizing seems to support the libertarian claims.
Huh? I didn't say anything about monetary profit. Users don't profit monetarily when they read buzzfeed articles so I have no idea how you would have got that idea.
But cloud, because cloud and cloud cloud!

We recently did the math on some cloud database solutions vs. warehousing data ourselves and using Glacier as a last-resort backup. Turns out it's orders of magnitude cheaper to DIY and would remain so unless we needed -- as you say -- a whole lot of burstable compute. In that case we could always upload (or ship) all the data to the cloud if we wanted.

Cloud is cheaper for some work loads and use cases but not others. You have to analyze your own problem and see what works best.

What cloud vendors have managed to do is put a ton of marketing hype out there to the point that cloud has captured the entire discourse. Today if it's not cloud it's not cloud and that means it's not cloud, because cloud. I've heard many stories recently of companies spending 2-4X what they currently spend on IT to put it in the cloud in order to save money. It's hilarious.
street price != value

I'm guessing by "negative externalities" you mean "people who object to having their property stolen by desperate junkies, or who would rather not get caught up in the violent fallout from drug gang wars."

How do you propose to put a value on that?
In my humble experience "1)" and "2)" are sufficiently overlapping as to be indistinguishable. Whereas "3)...identity" only demands that the same system be used for both the search compound and the database ("cloud"). For that, a particular implementation of "canonical SMILES" is perfectly respectable. But it's a notably different world once one gets into "3)...similarity". With that you've opened a vast library of doctoral theses, commercial promises, and ingenuity, (and essentially my entire career). And yes, as you suggest, DNA similarity is a wholly different beast.
It's a deeply weird paper.

From the title, it sounds like they've somehow augmented the rat so that it can learn mazes faster. However, the actual work is a lot less exciting. The rat has three electrodes implanted, one in the left somatosensory cortex, one in the right somatosensory cortex, and one in the medial forebrain bundle, and these electrodes are used to "drive" the rat through the maze.

This could still be cool, except for the fact that the rat has to be trained to (e.g.) turn left when the left S1 electrode is stimulating. I'm not a rat, but stimulating left S1 should feel like something was touching part of the rat's right side* and vice versa. Thus, they have trained the rat to move based on tactile cues and, when these cues happen to correspond to the maze layout, the rat does a bit better.

In principle, you could improve the rat's performance in the same way by solving the maze yourself and tapping its sides with a stick, but that's not nearly as sexy-sounding.
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PageRank isn't transparent and objective, it is opaque and arbitrary.
Who should pay for it then? Google's expenses are in the billions of dollars, and I certainly don't want the government to own "the world's most powerful system for freeing the mind" given that it would give them an even less adulterated look into my oh so free mind.
"but I prefer using git submodules" - nope.

Great tutorial!
Remix Video: Transformation and Tribulation
What defined "golden age" cyberpunk that set it apart from ordinary science fiction? My modern mind associates the term with movies and video games that boil down to knock offs of Blade Runner and Deus Ex.
How does nbench compare to vpsbench?
Every time I see a scrapinghub post I ask the same question: what's your strategy for dealing with CFAA suits that arise from use of your platform? Most web scraping is illegal in the United States.

I completely accept how important scraping is as a data source, but that doesn't make it any more legal. It's in a space right now where only big companies can take unmitigated advantage of the tool, because it'd cost millions of dollars to successfully defend a CFAA suit.
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The only answer to the illegitimate use of force is wide scale civil defiance.

Our government is corrupt and must be defied.
> an already solved problem

It's a hard problem to generalize.

> balance between people who want to scrape Linkedin to spam people, others looking to do good with the data they scrape, and website owners who get aggressive and threatening when they realize they are getting scraped

Agreed. No one wants to be the bad guy and most clients looking to spam people are awful clients to have anyhow. Btw scraping LinkedIn is fairly difficult/expensive and they like to sue people.
It's a recommendation engine, it's not Twitter decided everyone should read it. Obviously you read, follow, consume content related to this so the algorithm decided you'd probably like Romney's tweets too (because they were super popular)
"Tricking your brain with chemicals" is a ridiculous way to dismiss something that people like. Every desire or want we have is the result of chemicals.
You might like to look at Concourse[1], which makes explicit, checked-in pipelines of containerized builds its central model.

I am very bullish on Concourse.

[1] https://concourse.ci
I never said the hacker shouldn't be liable. I said he shouldn't be criminally liable.

By your logic, if the manufacturer puts out software that is responsible for a death, would you throw the software developer who wrote in jail? That's silly.

All this stuff is limited to civil liability.
Criddell is right about the history, and Xenix was literally not Unix either. At some point Microsoft agreed to not compete in the "Unix" operating system market, broadly defined.

An awful lot has changed since then, including Microsoft buying a System V Unix license when SCO was extorting everyone (including Sun, as I recall) into doing that. There is so much water under the bridge, I imagine Microsoft could do it if they wanted to. But why?

I don't see how it's a good idea from their point of view. An ubuntu respin is about as far as I'd ever expect them to go down that path, and even that seems like more commitment than they'd want to make.