skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just my personal opinion, but I think Boston dynamics robots show a lot of potential in the near future for military uses, however seeing big dogs in the battle field could generate pretty bad PR for Google, a company whose motto is, still, do no evil.
> That said, the most damning item isn't that they posted the video

This might be true from a legal standpoint, but from a practical/moral one I think that is the most damning thing. I can't recall of any other time a major news publication put tapes about anyone's private life and snarkily tried to push it as news.
Have you heard of Oberon? That's like three people in a year. Including building the computer. ;)
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Soulless algorithm designed by living humans, hosted on a website which features user-generated content, designed by a human. It's not like it's AI.
Agreed- if there are 2 real people debating, it's much more bearable. Ironically some of the canonical Socratic dialogs (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm) have the same problem - Meno's slave is too obviously Plato's mouthpiece IMHO.
Some facebook internal compensation numbers -- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E1Jz00naFjdfP5RVC3AY...
This is not only problematic with slums, also with native villages in various parts of the world.

For me this boils down to the question: Is it better to build a school or library with the profits or is it better to give them to the people and let them decide whether they want a library or rather better housing, equipment or whatever. Most tour operators do the first, pocketing most of the money in the process.

In Suriname, people pay up to 800 Euro for a 3 day tour to visit a native village in the jungle. It is claimed that the profit benefits the villages. But a lot of these tours are organized by people who get European salaries, so are the aid projects. To put this into perspective: In the capital, a full meal can be had for 2.5E, a hotel room for less than 20E. One tour operator openly admitted (after a few beer) that they don't have an incentive to actually heighten the standard of living in those villages because "who would book a tour to see people in modern houses with TV?"

In some parts of the Amazon one has to take a boat for hours to find people who still live the original lifestyle. Everybody within a shorter distance basically lives from tourism. "See Amazonian village for 2 days! Fly in, stay in a hotel, go by boat to the village the next day, go piranha fishing, sleep in hammock, go back, stay in hotel, fly back." The problem is that the villagers just make a little bit more but never enough to make real progress, most of the profits again go to the tour operators.

I have traveled both of these regions extensively and have found tour operators that are really interested in bringing wealth to those communities. But they are rare, very rare.
Contracting:

40 work weeks are workable
15% fee for agency
200 eur / month insurances
8k/year pension
Slightly more favorable tax

The 40 weeks is 6 weeks holiday, 6 weeks downtime/sick. Insurance covers longer-term sickness (thus the cost).

When you consider that the best developers tend to go contracting the rates actually start to look low.
Free trade is fine but you need free and high quality education from daycare on up to make up for it.
> As usual my advice on this is: look at the people who build things you find highly impressive, and study how they did it.

Are there any big popular open source projects that follow TDD?
And rust only hit 1.0 on May 15, 2015 (I looked it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%2... )
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Have you ever heard of a place called Tibet? It's pretty interesting. You can look it up on Wikipedia.
> As usual my advice on this is: look at the people who build things you find highly impressive, and study how they did it. This is much more fruitful than reading the output of people who want to spend all day telling you how to program (which leaves very little time for them to build software that is impressive, i.e. they never even test their own ideas!)

"Uncle Bob" Martin has built a lot of impressive things. Most notably FitNesse [1] the service level test framework. He tests his ideas out and is a great teacher.

I've been doing TDD for years thanks to Uncle Bob, Martin Fowler, and Roy Osherove (who have all built impressive things) and I've leveled up as a result. In fact my entire team has leveled up with this simple discipline.

I've yet to meet an anti-TDD zealot who has actually spent a month developing the art of TDD. The detractors tend to be people who write really brittle tests that are a pain to maintain.

[1] - http://FitNesse.org
Why haven't salaries and demand for jobs increased?

Because non-wage compensation is tax advantaged so it's cheaper for companies to increase compensation there. If they spent $1 more on health care, you get $1 more worth of health care. If they spend $1 more on wages, you get $0.80 in your take home pay.

Real compensation per hour has increased, both across the economy and in manufacturing.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRNFB

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/COMPRMS

That increase just comes in the form of health benefits/retirement/etc.

If you want to fix this, eliminate the Obamacare employer mandate and push everyone to the exchanges and increase taxes on non-wage benefits. (You can make it revenue neutral by reducing taxes on wages commensurately.)

There were and are much better ways to achieve the same goal.

What are some of these "much better ways" to reliably and effectively achieve the same goal?
The issue is not on-boarding costs. It's statutory requirements or political issues that prevent companies from doing layoffs to respond to changing economic conditions. Layoffs are not impossible in countries like France but they are very hard to do and very expensive. France has a dearth of innovative small companies for this reason because you can't hire aggressively to try to get risky ideas to market.

The effect is that by protecting existing jobs you lose out on future ones. Over time this pretty much cuts you out of any industry where there are waves of creative destruction.
Tdd is actual engineering: requirements first, set expectations, plan, estimate, build. Silicon Valley (generalization) has extreme shortsghtedness when it comes to building software, there are a lot of prima donnas, hipsters using whatever is cool,tech decisions made on opinion rather than measurement, and NIH.

Have a spine and push for tdd. The prima donnas will attack you ad hominum and call you slow. But it feels pretty damned good to be right.
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My home projects become tragic when they get past the trival size and I haven't been TDD'ing and designing all the way through.

I think part of my problem is that I cannot devote a consistent level of effort every week to my current home project. Sometimes I'll leave and when I come back to it, I'm lost without a test suite and wind up rewriting huge swaths of it.

Really good tests also serve as up-to-date documentation of your design. If you code in Java or Groovy, check out the Spock Framework. Spock tests read like a story. I wish there was a Spock-like DSL for JavaScript development.
This doesn't answer your question, but many farmers are happy to plant GMOs because they have a different risk profile than non GMO.

(For instance, Roundup Ready crops get planted because farmers prefer the risk profile, not from lack of other seed)
You are clearly wrong.
By any mean and comparable criteria, the situation in Israel is far less worse than in any other conflict in the world.

The most trivial comparable criteria is probably the number of casualties in the conflict. If you look at the number of the Palestinian casualties during the Israeli-Arab conflict, and compare it with the number of casualties in any other conflict in the world (such as US's war in Iraq, NATO's war in Kosovo, The war in Syria, The massacre in Sudan, and sadly many other places), you'll see that the Israeli-Arab conflict is far less deadly than those any other conflicts. If only the UN would have given all the other conflicts in the world as much attention as it gives the Israeli-Arab conflict, many people's lives would have been saved. But the UN doesn't. That's probably because the UN's committee of human rights is controlled by states that, let's just say, don't care too much about human rights.

By the way, the organization you linked to is considered biased and unreliable in Israel. This organization "collects" evidences about supposed crimes that Israeli soldiers supposedly committed, but mysteriously refuses to share those evidences with any authority in Israel, despite requests from the legal authorities for such evidences in order to open an investigation and put the soldiers to trial. This organization claims that it has evidences for supposed crimes, but instead of passing those evidences to enable the trial of those who committed the crime, the people of the organization prefer touring around the world telling fishy horror stories, while trying to generalize and present all the Israeli soldiers as criminals. Reasonably, this raises an eyebrow or two about the reliability of those stories.
That's why you build tooling around it so your engineers don't spend time on it.
I really wish the restrictions can be reduced so @pmarca etc can tweet more on the companies of which they are directors. I am thinking that Reg FD should be pretty broad too, making it clear that most public social media posts qualify while private ones may not be (providing list of examples would be a good idea).
@gravypod if your college library doesn't have it you should ask them if they can get it through interlibrary loan; most colleges (in the USA) participate in this program which gives you access to virtually every book ever printed.
If they don't trust the number you were quoting, I wonder why they would trust you to scan.
Thanks, jonty. I like your layout choice, makes it more readable. What do the colors and arrow tips represent?
Not necessarily, actually Microsoft is plugging the gaps in the applications offered on windows mobile using it's own applications, like replacing here maps with an improved maps app. It is a matter o taking over everything, and hope people will want to switch over
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That's a confusing post. You talk about WebAPI which is all JSON/AJAX, of course you can cross communicate there, the above poster is talking about direct inter-CLR calls (which you can do but have nothing to do with WebAPI).
"Free trade" is a misnomer for what is, in practice, freedom of capital to cross borders in search of lower labor. The dynamic certainly helped transform the lives of many people here in China for the better -- many people made rich from creating basically widjets for walmart, but in the US, many working class people lost both their jobs and their entire communities when Capital left.
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I think it's more of a defensive thing, where pkg should drop privileges unless it's performing an operation that absolutely requires root access. Technically, `pkg audit` doesn't need to run as root, since it only downloads a package catalog and compares it to the list of installed packages.
Nice. Saying "XXX [redacted]" is an even better way to draw attention to something than just writing it out.
> * A number have been shaken down by Oracle sales reps who threaten a license review and potentially stiff penalties and litigation if they find anything at all out of order - unless they purchase software they don't need.

Woah. So essentially Oracle's "sales" reps behave like the mob. How have they gotten away with this for so long?
Was the SHA sum of revision 102 of pagefault.c correct?
But how many are they ? And can you afford them ? And do you really need a unicorn for this simple job ?
The 1st Amendment protects you from the GOVERNMENT, not from INDIVIDUALS. Bollea was forced to leave the WWE, and his brand was damaged as a result of this action. He suffered real monetary loss. This is literally an example of the textbook definition of defamation, which in CIVIL cases, the first amendment does not protect.

You are not allowed to say harmful or malicious things about another person that has the potential to cause damage to their reputation.
Americans are living way above their means with rampant entitlement mentality. You see a lot of these paper-shuffling office jobs where nothing of value is produced; people studying worthless subjects(sociology, political science, gender studies etc.) plus there is an assumption that everyone needs to go to college; trades are looked down upon; push for $15/hour minimum wage; entitlement mentality with welfare etc.

You have very little of that in China + some other countries and that is their appeal.
Ha, funny story. "Hi we're a private market company that will give your employees liquidity if you'll let us, no need to go public with all those regulations and everything!"

I get that this is what the secondary markets would like after all a stock market without pesky regulations is so much easier to make profits on if you control the market, than one where you have things like "rule FD" and that whole insider thing which everyone hates right?

Here is my prediction, the secondary market stuff will grow for the next 5 years. Once really significant sums are passing through it there will be a big scandal that wouldn't have happened in a more regulated market and the government will swoop in and regulate it in a similar way eliminating much, if any advantage.
>There's no doubt that free trade is a big net positive for the US.

Eh, I'm not so sure that cow's so sacred. Is free trade positive for the American economy? Yes, of course. It moves our country toward a richer, more intellectually-based economy, which should lead to greater quality of life for everyone: fewer shitty jobs building stuff, being hurt by industrial processes, working really really hard to make little money.

I guess I'm going to parrot you a bit here, because I agree with the rest of your point, but what's happening is the second part of that equation, the benefit for the workers and the individuals, is not being met. Our economy is flourishing, but workers who have been displaced are not being supported.

Our rich, rich economy should be able to either 1) train up people who were formerly doing the blue collar work to succeed in an intellectually based economy or 2) provide them with a standard of living given their inability to find good work (the standard income idea).

We are not even attempting to do either.

College costs a fucking shitload and social programs are drying up left and right. Our kids are getting dumber, relatively speaking, so they will be less competitive in a global workplace.

So no, that is not what I would consider a "net positive" as a net positive, in my mind, means that what's happening is good for most people. Clearly, it is not. We shouldn't make it a platitude, because then we don't get to say, "Free trade is clearly good, but if and only if..."
They can definitely block you. Right of first refusal clauses make no mention of timeliness. You notify your company that you found a buyer and they just ignore it. Supposedly this is very common with Uber. Only the selected cool kids and favorites get to sell.

I work for a YC company and wanted to sell some shares. EquityZen said it would be easier to sell if I didn't work there any longer, because suing your employer isn't fun. A lawsuit was going to be the easiest way forward.

Also take into account that investors only buy the big name hype companies right now. They're not buying anything small but with good fundamentals. Why? Because they don't get to see the books and why should they trust anyone at their word? But hype? Hype sells. This is the last time I work at a small, but slightly profitable startup that just drifts along. It can't go public and we can't sell. Except the founders who sold at series A.
Yeah. To be honest the only unit tests I ever wrote... I wrote after I built something that I understood through and through and is likely to change very little.

I really only did it cause people tend to say... "don't use open source unless it has tests". I even did all the code coverage stuff... got it to 90%+

It was fun and amusing... certainly not a validation of TDD though.
There should have been no need to do so.

"One would almost expect in this day in age of miraculous digital enhancements to everything we do, and the related improvements in the efficiency of production... That prices in the absence of [The Fed's] monetary exertions would fall, so I suppose that a little bit of inflation is itself an anomaly... One ought to have seen kind of a dividend for the working guy in the form of everyday lower prices."

The failure of improved trade and technology to be the rising tide that lifts all boats is not a failure of policy to redistribute, but rather a consequence of interventionary monetary policy. The even scarier thing is that these policies are enacted by an unelected government organization (the Fed) on behalf of the people (I'm sure the Fed thinks that what it is doing is good for all of us). The net result: Despite his agitation for Fed transparency, Bernie is so clueless about economics, that it's likely that he will listen to cheerleaders like Robert Reich who stump for lowering interest rates and make the upward redistribution of wealth worse - and Donald Trump - well who knows what the hell he will do.

If you don't believe that the fed stoking inflation is bad for the little guy, consider 1) if inflation weren't bad for the little guy, we wouldn't have to raise the minimum wage periodically, and 2) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hig...

"When you have very low inflation, getting relative wages right would require that a significant number of workers take wage cuts. So having a somewhat higher inflation rate would lead to lower unemployment, not just temporarily, but on a sustained basis."

Read that carefully, and between the lines. One of the policy justifications for inflation is that it cheats the working class out of the value of their earnings, in the name of "employment".

Finally, consider the words of Keynes, who is one of the advocates of monetary intervention to control the animal spirits (although even he would go pale seeing the one-sidedeness of the interventions that we've been doing in the past 40 years):

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become “profiteers,” who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat."

I think this is a perfect prediction of what has happened to our system of "capitalism".
Not that it matters...
Apparently rust-lang is named after the rust fungus not the chemical reaction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28programming_language%2...
Funny enough, you could probably apply this line to a bunch of different industries/practices. "Workers see costs, not benefits, to _______".

For instance, investing in security. "Workers see costs, not benefits to security".
...but only if workers in poor countries don't count.

I'd like to see a video of the Mexicans receiving the news that a factory is opening in town, and it's going to need lots of employees.
For someone uninformed, what did they change? I'm able to scroll using the keyboard keys, scroll bar, and arrow keys on my keyboard. Is mobile scrolling what's broken?
> From the C# project's perspective, the F# assembly is just another assembly with static methods.

It sounds like he's calling the F# functions directly.
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I'll give it a go. Hopefully they do and I hope Minix has the chicken and egg problem sorted out of loading a microkernel.
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Consuming C# code from F# works fine.

Consuming F# code from C# works pretty well for the most part, although F# specific types are cumbersome to use (records, discriminated unions, computational expressions aka monads). This just means that if you want an F# DLL to be usable from C#, you need to think a little bit about the exposed API (perhaps by adding a C# specific wrapper).

Having said that, IMO the interop between the two is better than the interop between JVM languages like java, scala & clojure (Kotlin is probably different).
Hi,

First I thank you for your work. Everybody that implments strong crypto for the masses should be commended.

1) Can I use my own GPG key, even if only for GPG users outside of ProtonMail?

2) Do you support access to Smartcards (NFC) or OpenKeychain (it supports Smartcards)?

3) Can I use TOTP/HTOP/U2F for app and/or web login, specifically U2F over NFC on Android (maybe Bluetooth LE on iOS).

4) Is your HTTPS connection pinned?

5) Do you live in Switzerland and if so, would you speek at a Hackerspace about ProtonMail crypto?
Health care coverage requirements + environmental regulations + other nations without these things that you can ship your goods to the US from without paying a tax penalty...

The US citizens don't need cheaper iPhones, they need decent paying jobs. The average citizens DOES NOT benefit from free trade deals. The average international company does. If these other nations had the same regulations, then it wouldn't be cheaper to move the jobs there either.

Free trade is bad for the environment and bad for domestic low skilled workers. And with all the unemployed college students around, its clear that educating people for jobs that aren't there won't fix the issue. You're selling out your citizens for your corporate overlords, and now that Bernie is all but out of the running Trump is the only one left speaking the truth about this.
the initial discussion was about the price not the fanciness of food

And this is one of the main reasons to buy your own food - you have a choice of what to buy! While eating out, your choice is much smaller.

You pay for some extras you may not like but you cannot remove it from the menu. Even if you can - would it affect the price? I doubt so.

Composing my own meal gives me the flexibility of choosing only the things I like + saving money.

On the top of that, the nice extras like tea/coffee/dessert/fruits come with increased margins.

Especially fruits due to their short shelf life in cut form.

Let's look at the following example; though it does not involve the restaurant prices, I still think it is representative.

In IGA (a Canadian grocery chain) a fruit salad comes for $1.30 / 100 G. A mini watermelon is $5 each, and its weight is ~2.72 kg (6lb) with 70% of it being edible. This gives us the cost of $0.26 / 100 g.

The fruit salad margin is like 500% ??? Isn't it crazy. Of course, there are other fruits in the salad but the one can easily satisfy their sweet tooth with eating one fruit instead of eating many.

(the prices are in Canadian dollars)
And now you each have $1000 to pay income tax on.
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