skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With UbuntuBSD (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326681) the equivalent question is "Why not just use PC-BSD?"
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This is great thinking on this matter, much better than the blunt instrument we're looking at currently.

I still kinda think the blunt instrument is an improvement over the status quo, but it's hard to say.
I think OP meant that bootstrapped code, written as quickly as the developer feels like writing it on a weekend, has its own flaws as well.
In the real world, I've been listening to people like you predict Tesla's failure for ten million increasingly humorous reasons for 10 years, while I've watched my stock go up twelve times over.

Welcome to the real world.
Not to defend Elsevier, but 40k/year (entry level salary for one employee), doesn't sound high if it's life saving information...
What you need to know about the Panama Papers
Excerpts from Wikipedia [1]:

"In the default mode the device continuously listens to all speech, monitoring for the wake word to be spoken."

"... Echo only streams recordings from the user's home when the 'wake word' activates the device."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo
Not related directly to computers, but related to the use of cardboard representations in learning models:

I took piano lessons on lunch hour once a week in elementary school. For those students without a piano at home, they distributed a fold-out cardboard piano keyboard. The kid was supposed to practice on the cardboard keyboard all week, and then play an actual piano once a week during the lesson.

We were fortunate and had an upright piano at home. I tried out a friend's cardboard keyboard a couple of times out of curiousity - pretty unsatisfactory feedback loop, to say the least.

Looking at the link for CARDIAC provided above, I think that approach might have actually worked not badly. You could learn all the core concepts, hand assemble a program, and then 'execute' it by moving the values through the cells. Not the most glitzy experience, but the fundamentals are there.

I can't say the same for the cardboard keyboard; not hearing what you're 'playing' is a pretty big obstacle.
The argument I imagine (and that I agree with) is that if you aren't in touch with the code you begin to lose touch (esp. in this fast-moving industry) and you become an ivory-towered twit that your teammates can't relate to and begin to resent.

I am a fairly experienced JS dev and I can't imagine retiring to a hands-off architect role in that world, because there are so many tool choices and options in terms of programming style (even languages that compile to JS), so I feel like I need to be regularly writing 'app code' to know how to advise my teammates well.

Saying 'though shalt write TypeScript and use these libraries, and these OOP practices, and structure your app in this way' would feel fairly obnoxious if I wasn't working with the team, with those technologies to write actual code myself. If my teammates instead wanted to do functional programming in Elm, and all I could offer was hypotheticals as to why that was a bad idea, I really wouldn't expect my teammate's respect, and would expect them to be quite-rightly put-out.
That's honest. Appreciate the feedback. In case you missed the other comment, I do think we should have recognition of contribution to educating programmers in practical ways. I think your StackOverflow work and book should earn you some place high on that list. :)
Or alternately, every system that handles private information (which, for a government, is basically all of them) will be considered to be a security risk to open-source even though the dataset will still be private.

"Security through obscurity" will mean that nothing gets opened.
Awesome news!! Thank you very much for taking the time to respond, and for looking into a solution for Tor/VPNs. It's very much appreciated :D
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Planned by whom? To what end? Do you have any information to substantiate this claim?
I did not say anything about my beliefs and it is not important WHY do they care about Russia. The only thing that is important, is the result - whether these critics are justified, whether they serve Russian interests or not. They do serve. If this was not someone's goal, shame on that guy, he failed. If it was, thanks to him, he did his job well.
Which is better, career wise? iOS or Android application development?
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But when channels like Al Jazeera do the same thing with issues pertaining to Qatar, which is unethical of course, everyone has their pitchforks ready. I mean come on - everyone knows that BBC is a "neutral" news source.
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That's the thing. I oppose such a law and prefer the status quo in the US. But others who do believe in it should feel free to lobby for such a law.
That's your opinion. I think taxation is extortion. Who's to say I'm not entitled to my point of view?
"Extreme analogy, I know, but reminds me of Holocaust denialism. Some people are just determined to see past all available evidence to focus on one outcome which suits their personal biases."

-very extreme analogy to the say the least, seems someone else here has a strong personal bias to use a crazy analogy.

its great that you believe in a company strongly, but to downright shoot down any other possibility is bias.

personally not ordering model 3 as:
-dont want to be driving first iteration

-contrary to your comment, alot can happen in 2 years.

-i dont think they can meet demand, probably 2-3 years realistic

-i will likely be in a comfortable spot (hope) to afford Model S by end of 2017

-too much unknowns for Model 3
Thanks, we appreciate it. It's a style that works fine in many contexts (I always think of rugby players who beat the crap out of each other and then go out drinking together), but on large internet forums it acts the way salt does on a slug.
They state at the very outset that they worked on the data for over a year, doing OCR, analyzing, digesting, cross-referencing, etc. No one is presenting a false front -- they aren't claiming that this is a bunch of files that they got yesterday, and instead are quite up front that they've done a lot of leg work on top of it.

So yes, the presentation was clearly "planned". That doesn't make the data any less real.
This is a really interesting idea for me. Moving 'ownership' of the code away from the coding engineer makes sense. A similar concept to having automated test cases written by someone different to the implementer.
I use Apple's Notes app. It doesn't really need to be more complicated than that.
There are several textbook writers who have made significant profits from their books. James Stewart of Stewart's calculus fame, for example: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/02/04/the_house_that_ma...
Well, probably in a similar way those who fight for the so-called Donetsk people's republic and whatever will react to Putin's dealings.

We know that they know that we know that they know that their leading politicians are corrupt. Everyone fights for their corrupt politicians. It is very hard for Poroshenko to exceed the corruption reputation of the previous guy in office.
> They bought the rights

No elsevier does not pay authors, in fact:

> author gets free publication

If author wants his paper to be open access (something that is often required by their funding grants), they have to pay a high publication fee. Other journals charge paper submission (for consideration) fees as well.

But the error in your argument is at the start. You assume that the market is free and scientists have an alternative to publishing in elsevier. If scientists want their work public, there are tons of free options, preprint archives etc. The problem is that funding sources require high impact (i.e. elsevier) publications to give you grants. There is a self-perpetuating cycle between funding sources <-> (elsevier, NPG etc.; talking about biology). This is a racket.

PS. How it is different from buying servers? It would be comparable if , say, the US army had a requirement that all soldiers must do a yearly internship in amazon (paid by the army), thus amazon didnt need to pay any salaries, yet could charge as much as the competitors. It would all be legal, but grossly immoral.
Well whaddya know. I was actually thinking of the city agglomerate, FAFAIK the metropolitan area of Rotterdam breached 1M population before Amsterdam did. But I really haven't kept up with the last ten years of city developments.
Close. It's not publication by the government that is important. It's authorship.

If a work is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties, then it is not subject to copyright in the US.

It might be subject to copyright in other countries, though.

If the government pays for a work to be created and published, but it is not a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties, then it will be copyrighted and the copyright owner will be whoever it would be normally. If there is an agreement between the author and the government to assign the copyright to the government, the copyright will still be valid, and owned by the government.
I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the claims of anti-Russian "propaganda" if it weren't for, you know, the whole thing with illegally invading and annexing part of another country.
A lot can happen in 2 years indeed. Can't wait to see what Tesla and SpaceX have accomplished by then. It's going to be nuts.

I am indeed biased: I focus on available evidence. That's my bias. And all available evidence screams that Elon Musk's companies succeed at the things they set out to accomplish.
Agreed. It's interesting that this thread is almost entirely about low wage earners. Truck drivers were added to the conversation, but the truth is it's not about low wage earning, but about rote working.

In 10-20 years, i'd expect

The job of accountant being pretty much wiped off the map for humans. Turbo Tax, et. al, was a nascent first step.

Doctors, Nurses, Hospital Administrators, Staff will be significantly pared down, and given much more commoner positions, as I can go down to Walgreens, sit in the gene therapy booth and cure my own cancer, hiv, leukemia, als, etc. etc. Perhaps Baby docs will survive the longest... that's kind of icky even for a robot.

Dentists? Higentists? I'd expect in that period of time, we will be able to regrow teeth beyond the first set of adult teeth... so, really what's the point of your job function.

Middle Management? Various surveys suggest people actually would prefer to report to a computer, rather than a human, and really, will it be that hard to believe that middle management can't be done via robot? That's a good number of people without jobs.

Bus/Train/Plane Drivers, gone soon as well.

Almost all manufacturing jobs will be gone.

As automated surveillance reaches its crescendo, surely police forces can be significantly trimmed, even without the introduction of robocop.

And on and on...

If you want a job in the near future, start planning for one that is highly chaotic. But with everyone fighting for those jobs, don't expect much in pay.
it is, if you think that it's not their research, it's catalogued from public research that was given to them for free.
How does lda2vec compare with sense2vec [1]?

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06388
I know this is subjective and shouldn't matter, but I think the Bolt is ugly.

In fact out of all the non-Tesla EVs the only one I don't find ugly is the Fiat 500e which is only sold in CA (and now Oregon) as a compliance car and its own CEO hates it. It is a nice little EV though.

All of this also ignores the coming autonomous cars which I think are going to be here sooner than people realize (maybe this is the big part 2 of the model 3 reveal). When that happens I'm not confident the existing car companies will be able to compete - they're desperately trying to acquire the necessary tech now, but it's a little late.
The handle "Pink Dinner" was created 15-days ago; about the time Alexandra Elbakyan hit the news hard. If you view the comments posted by this user one might consider them agenda driven toward this sort of topic? ... YMMV
Highfiving you from Russia :)
In general, no, unless of course they were using that margin in a way that endangered low-income people's health.

I mean really...I can't believe I have to defend this position.

There is obviously certain types of data that should be provided as a public service to all of society...is this even to be debated?
Ask HN: Babies and self driving cars
My kid ask me "dad, once we have self driving cars will parents be able to put a baby in the car and have the computer just drive it around to help it fall asleep?" What does HN think? Safe or parent neglect? What if there is video feed of baby they can watch?
How is it going with photos? I see smaller ones are inserted, bigger not. Perhaps implement photo resizing?
Don't forget https://github.com/simp
I am looking forward to the Bolt, might even go that route as I like the form factor a bit more than the traditional sedan route Tesla taking. That and I would like to do 200+ mile range EV before 2020 rolls around.

The one thing that the Bolt raises more so than the 3 is that it will invalidate the pricing this year for any EV that gets under 100 mile range and wants to charge near 30k. When this car reaches the lot people are going to question how the other manufacturers think they can justify near 30k or 50k in the case of BMW pricing for sub 100 miles. Even Chevy might have some issues with range extender Volt which has 50 EV miles. I can imagine some shoppers thinking, it gives up 150EV miles for a gas engine?

Then finally when the 3 is available in quantity the other manufacturers better have 200 mile range EVs of their own or severely discounted lower range EV. Most will use EVs to up their fleet fuel mileage but some may find a real market there. Granted even all those reservations for the 3 look nice but 300k isn't squat when up against numbers of all cars just sold in the US let alone world wide
Of course, garbage collection per se doesn't protect you from segfaults. For example, there exist garbage collectors for C. They reclaim unused memory, but you can still cause segfaults if you want to (or are careless).

Automatic memory management (whether done at runtime with a garbage collector, or at compile time as in Rust) frees you from logical memory errors by making them inexpressible. But automatic memory management doesn't guarantee that segfaults won't happen - it only guarantees that they won't matter to the programmer. For example, a garbage collector could deliberately trigger segfaults (by `mprotect()`ing all managed memory) to forcibly pause the mutator during a garbage collection cycle. Every managed thread must install a `SIGSEGV` handler that waits until the collection process is done.
> whether they serve Russian interests or not. They do serve.

You're assuming that free elections would benefit common Russians. They wouldn't. You're right about one thing, though: it wouldn't be Putin and his cronies siphoning all of Russia's wealth (resourceful citizens, natural resources, ...). It would be the western conglomerates.
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do you include hybrid EVs like the Volt and Prius in your "ugly" list?

Personally, I love my Volt. I only use gasoline on rare occasions -- a couple of out-of-state trips per year -- but don't have to make long stops (30 minutes is long for me) at charging stations along the way. And I think it's a pretty cool looking car. But then, I'm over 30, so what do I know about cool?
"By the way, if I make a million dollars today as a business owner I have to give away about 50% of my income to the government here in California."

This is if you make a million dollars in salary or in profit. If you reinvest that money into the business, you aren't taxed to nearly the same extent, while still retaining the value. If you have a million bucks floating around, you're also in a position to invest your money outside the business and take advantage of capital gains rates: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc409.html

Obvious disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
> Publishers operate like venture firms in this regard - they make most of their money off of the blockbuster hits, and there's a long tail of books that are unprofitable or very close to unprofitable.

Not really true for specialist academic work publishers, they don't (and shouldn't) expect books to become hits, rather they operate a volume game. A specialist book might sell 200-500 copies so to make profit they essentially have to publish a large volume of books at a high-price point. A typical editor at such a firm will typically have to publish 1-2 books a week to make the economics work out.

It doesn't really apply for journal publishing either although at most publishers more establish journals will typically subsidize the the newer ones (a new journal can easily take 5-10 years to reach break-even point).
Fundamentally Elsevier's content is not funded or created by them. But they have a monopoly on it because most studies cannot be published in multiple places.

In the case of AWS market forces could undercut their margins.

That sort of copyright monopoly was granted by our legal system to encourage people to create intellectual property, but it is being twisted in this situation, as the creators are being funded by a mechanism completely irrelevant to Elsevier's costs.

In this case what they are doing is more similar in a sense to patent trolls.
My understanding is that the publishers make most of their profit through licensing to universities and libraries. Scihub doesn't seem like a viable (legal) alternative for institutions though. It probably cuts out income from one-off purchases, I guess, but I wonder how much of the pie that is...
Hell yeah! That might be the one I was thinking of. I recall it had labeling or provenance tagging for security purposes. Both might have it, though.
Surely there are no advanced economies without rich natural resources. Oh wait. There's South Korea and Singapore who are some the most capitalist countries on Earth.

I'm also questioning your belief that being protectionist wouldn't hurt our standard of living. Do you know the T-shirt you're wearing cost a lot more if it was made in the USA?
I'll be replacing a Leaf with a Bolt at the end of the year. I think it's an attractive looking car myself, and the hatchback form factor has grown on me. The tech features (10" tablet with android/carplay, built-in LTE wifi, rear camera mirror, birds-eye surround camera system, collision alerts) will all be exciting upgrades compared to the Leaf, which is a pretty barebones car even at the top trim level. The Model 3 could be my household's second car (currently a non-EV), but that's almost 3 years out for east coast delivery even if Tesla's perfectly on-time and 10x's their production capacity in a year. Plus, the purchase incentives will probably be long gone by then.
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Productivity in Go is an illusion but I see the appeal of it for big enterprise teams composed of disposable programmers.
Google Keep as a write-only TODO.
A sheet of paper with a pen with a few entries for my "tasks-of-the-day", and I strike any "done" entry.

Didn't find anything more efficient.
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What would happen if, some fraction of the way through the long stretch of bureaucratic meetings, someone just coded a prototype?

If they sit on it and whip it out the moment the green light is given, then what?

If they whip it out at the next red-tape meeting, then what?
> but I thought here in the west we're assured that we have freedom of press

Hell no. As long as crap like NSLs (or other secret gag orders, see UK), anti-whistleblower laws or (esp. USA) actually independent media with mass reach exist, there is no freedom of the press.
> I'm genuinely interested on what you all feel would be a good way to think about naming moving forward.

I did actually give this some thought, for what it's worth. There are problems with "GNU" in the name and problems with "Ubuntu" in the name.

But it seems to me that Microsoft has a naming scheme that it is perhaps unaware of. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417059 . (-:
The most important feature of the Teslas, in my opinion, is safety. If I had to choose between a Bolt and a Model 3 -- poor safety ratings would have been a deciding factor.

Also, I hope it can't be "benchmark-optimized" like in web browsers.
Ignoring fairness of certain taxes and issues with tax laws in general, taxes are the rent one has to pay for living in a place. If you don't have income you usually won't pay most taxes at all. It's arguable how much of the tax system works and what parts are just plain broken and favor certain interest groups, but that's an implementation detail. If you visit places where much of the population evades taxes, you'll find that the state of roads and infrastructure in general is worse than someplace with people paying their taxes. I'm with you if you argue that tax laws are unfair and do not reflect the live circumstances of most people.

If there were no taxes, you'd probably have to buy tickets to walk and drive on roads, stroll in the park, swim in a sea, etc. I suppose you want more of a pay-what-you-use society where, if you just stay at one place most of the time, you pay considerably less taxes. Whether that can work universally I don't know.
If it's the ninth planet, surely it should be "Planet IX"
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This is a great point. I'm hugely attracted to the quantified self stuff, but the fact it's not clear the outcomes of knowing all this data is net good, given our flawed selves.
I am more productive in Go and C++ than in Rust. But for sure i am more productive in Rust than in C.
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So ... in my comment I was continuing the line of the parent that minimum wage rises lead to upward pressure on wages generally.

My claim would be that general wage level increases lead to inflation.
A person on welfare today has more access to a vast number of food options than Kings and Queens of yesteryear. Grapes and wine are extremely cheap and affordable to anyone who has $5 in their pocket. A full meal of chicken and rice can also be had for $3.
The example I gave above was where you needed the processing power to run your medical startup.

>There is obviously certain types of data that should be provided as a public service to all of society

"Should" what's meant by that? If you want data to be open, you need to fund that, or develop your own and release that freely. Statements of the kind "everyone deserves scarce resource X" really mean "we should tax rich people in order to subsidize X for poor people". Which is a fine thing to argue for, but don't present it as a universal right.