skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quickly looking at the article you submitted, it was the 'Not a Black Chair' that floated into the stream about a month ago.

I did not flag it, and I think others may have flagged it. The comment to point ratio also contributes to front-page decay to avoid flamewars. This isn't the target audience for comfortable or uncomfortable discussions about race/gender/privilege. In my opinion, the author of that article exhibited behavior that, if you take away race and gender from the equation, would be questionable, at best, if you were an individual working at a company (the relationship with a coworker and others). Those facts clouded what the author was saying about race and gender.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287491
Blue Origin flew straight up then straight back down and landed, which SpaceX had already done a bunch of times before them.
For Africa probably
As the documentation says "Mathics will probably never have the power to compete with Mathematica® in industrial applications; yet, it might be an interesting alternative for educational purposes.". Moreover unlike Mathematica, anyone can examine the code, a definite plus for students.
Lotto Winner for Thunderball
This made me laugh out loud.

I think that one of the great things that comes out of this is that we start using our imaginations and trying to understand the whys and hows of space travel. It's really exciting to see.
What does mean the name of the site?
Using Brave is almost as dumb as not using an ad blocker at all from a security perspective unless Eich has a plan to 100% eliminate malware, something I'd be extremely sceptical about. I don't see how his malware is going to be different from the regular malware in ads currently. Now where is the full list of newspapers because I'm interested in actively avoiding their content due to this obviously political (and extremely disgusting and greedy) move.
People who care about journalism and information dissemination care.

Yeah we could go back to a time when all you had was rumor before ad supported newspapers arrived, is that the world we want to be in where only those who want to support their view and who undertake subsidizing those views get to disseminate news and engage in journalism?

Citizen journalism is not the solution. First they may have bigger biases than professionals and they don't have an editorial board overseeing and critiquing their works, it may be more unbalanced and may have less access to the halls of power. So traditional journalism still appears to have a function.
I don't see that as self-centred at all. He is politely explaining how email fits into his schedule and offers you alternatives if you need to speak with him urgently. That is a lot better than people who get your email but just ignore it for a day or more until you end up sending a "did you get my email".

Also RMS replies to a lot of the random emails he gets. Much more than a lot of people who are as well known as him to be fair.

Sounds to me like you are just not a big fan of RMS so find a negative in everything he does that isn't quite the norm.
Why “Useless” Skills Like Juggling Are Still Worth Learning
The ultra community is great. Sadly, I expect it'll only last until there's some real money in the sport. Quietly, I sort of hope that never happens.
What's the C# equivalent of the concurrency features listed in the OP:

1 `await` (iiuc this is fundamentally not the same as the C# feature that uses an `await` keyword) and `start`.

2 "transforming ordinary code in to concurrent code with a single method call".

If you could post brief C# fragments corresponding to these two, or at least the latter (which I find the most interesting), that would be appreciated.

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Fwiw Jonathan Worthington, arguably the lead designer of Perl 6's concurrency features (following guidance by Larry, Damian etc), spent years teaching C# parallel, async and concurrent coding before the Perl 6 features were fleshed out.
Don't underestimate meth addicts.
If you pay a fee, it's a visa. Whether if you get it ahead of time or on landing (a la Indonesia) doesn't matter. A fee is a visa.

Speaking of Indonesia, they even charge you to leave!
Wifey not into space tech, but when I explained what this meant, she was like "Wow! I didn't think that it would be even possible to have a stick rocket go up, turn around and land on a little pad in the ocean". That's crazy.
Not the 2008 model. I don't know about newer ones.

"iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED"

https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2...
Because they suffer more. Suffering is good. Without it, we tend to fall apart. With it, we tend to get better.
That's the speed of focused progress. Something we very much lack these days.

Thank God. We were very close to midnight, during the 1960s and 70s.
> Not once he mentions that the behaviors the papers expose are criminal

Are they criminal? Having an offshore company generally isn’t illegal. There may be questions about how some political figures' (for example) funds were obtained in the first place, but the mere existence of funds in some tax-advantaged vehicles is no evidence of a crime.

gosh, one would think that some of the funds might be ill-gotten proceeds from criminal enterprises, but if the use of off-shore entities are prima facie evidence of criminal intent, then I'm in trouble.
Diesel electric propulsion is quietly taking over most large mobile applications. Even cars are slowly going gasoline-electric. Better magnetics would only speed up the switch.

Of ships it has what you stated, and you no longer have to build the engine on a incline to drive the propeller or have complex transmissions. Other benefits are you can have 2 engines and only run 1 during calm weather cruse. Also electric motors are able to be mounted in stearable pods, greatly increasing maneuverability of a ship (need fewer tugs to go into port). Some ships have nothing but the pods for good station keeping.

Multiple locomotive trains only need 1 engine, but run power to several for extra traction, and it enables things like traction control that can't be cheaply done mechanically.
Yes, but orders of magnitude less than being submerged for hours/days.
They didn't go to orbit. Not in the same league.
Gah. Yes. Regrets.
Can't run Wordpress on low cost 512MB VPS? You can, and superfast
I was born in a trailer park in Oklahoma. Lived in a 1 bedroom shack, and then lived with my grandparents until high school after my parents got divorced. I grew up very poor. But I loved computers, thanks to my dad having a Commodore 64.

I excelled at math, loved computers, and went to DeVry to do computer programming. I was the first in my family to go to college. Started my first tech company at 22.

With a lot of hard work, I believe anyone can break out of poverty.
You can do this sort of thing with mind mapping software
And yet Mathematica is not nearly as effective as math when done by pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician.

The value of maths is 1) it's "open-source", 2) it's free to use, 3) if you want to switch from one module to another (say, number theory to category theory) you are able to do so using the same tools (pencil, paper, and a trained mathematician), and so long as the two "modules" are inter-operable it flows so beautifully. If they are not, then you get to try to figure out ways to make them so.

That, imho, is why I think all these open source packages keep popping up. Math itself is the ultimate "open source". And in doing math one is not limited to command line interface, left-to-right, line-by-line tools. Compare the experience of writing out a derivative in LaTeX vs on paper. LaTeX is an exercise in causing pain and frustration to oneself. On paper, it feels as though you're writing music.
That statement would have been more useful if it had been followed by something which at least attempted to justify it.
Great, now even Yelp employees think that they're food critics.

Also, get off your high horse for implying that a greasy spoon can't be good or have high standards.
Are you sure? Anything I can see shows it's after the Nov 2015 Blue Origin successful landing. Not that it matters I'm just curious.
Hi julian. We're looking at the exact same page and we're seeing different things. That happens sometimes.

I see NW EU doing way too much. I see countries on the way to Europe (Greece, Macedonia, Serbia) doing even more. Btw as far as I’m concerned, that includes Turkey. I see other countries who are much closer culturally and/or geographically quite simply not doing that much.

You could say that a number of them do almost nothing. Or maybe a lot of the refugees actually choose to travel into specific directions. I.e. they want to use their refugee status for migration purposes into Europe.

About intra-European Syrian refugee numbers. You mention Spain a lot: 8,365 refugees on 46.5 million. Italy has 2,451 refugees on some 60 million people. Belgium has 14,850 on 11 million.

About intra-European muslim numbers. (You started mentioning those. They seem like a bad proxy for total immigration but anyways.) 7% (or 7+%) in Belgium. 10% in France. 5% for Spain.

About dealing with total immigration, beyond the Syrian refugee crisis. For the past 2-3 decades, Belgian society has been sweeping it all under the rug. That includes minimising and censoring events, coming up with dubious comparisons (like the WW1 canard), campaigns focusing on the racism of Belgians. There’s been a lot of social engineering and it’s not working well for anybody, immigrants included. Enough with the sweeping already. Let’s start with regaining control over the borders.
For a while there, when built-in webcams weren't quite as common, my employer would either remove the camera completely or, if that wasn't possible, they would smash the lens and sensor with a metal punch.

They eventually quit (now we can use Lync to do video calls, even) but a lot of people now put little sliding windows over their cameras (you can get them at conferences these days, branded with the Splunk logo or whoever's giving them out)
A little light on detail, but it did talk about something called 'Lean Canvas' which I was unaware of. After a bit of research, Lean Canvas is definitely something I'm going to be adopting in my work-flow. Thanks!
From the response https://www.brave.com/blogpost_4.html

> Brave is not, as the NAA asserts, “replac[ing] publishers' ads on the publishers' own websites and mobile
applications with Brave's own advertising.” We do not tamper with any first-party publisher content, including native ads that do not use third-party tracking.

Is this a refutation or an evasion? Does Brave replace 3rdparty tracking ads?

I fired up brave and visited a few sites - I don't see any ads at all...
Looks neat. I tried to download from the MAS, but I use the incompatible 10.10, and I don't want to upgrade my OS. Is there a way to download it regardless?
If you shift from property taxes to income taxes, then the total taxes come out the same, so the purchasing power of the home buyer stays approximately the same.
computer security official for a US state lottery association

I thought people who would be associated with the lottery association were disqualified from participating?
Elon has said that the engines are the biggest cost of the rocket. Having these engines exposed to salt water would drive the costs up.

See the SRB from Space Shuttle launches. NASA thought the ocean splash and recovery would keep the costs down. It didn't. Ended up the cost to refurb and launch is almost equal to building a new one.

Elon wants to avoid this hence these barge or land returns.
Myself and the other 3 main programmers in my last company all lacked a college degree. I think a degree is pretty useless for software development.
Hard to tell; Slack doesn't let you know who's online, what they've read etc.
That's not how the internet works. If they make something accessible over http, I'm free to consume it however I can.
People will pay for news, as they have for the past few hundred years. All that Internet ads have gotten us is clickbait articles monetized by ads that appear to target only the very stupidest readers. One weird trick to eliminate belly fat.
You don't want to read ad-supported content for free? Just don't read it, nobody is forcing you. But there are lots of people who want - or can only afford - that kind of content, why do you want to remove that possibility and decide for them?
Unfollow those groups then.
Americans and Canadians might need visas for Europe
I took four or five Coursera courses in 2012-2013 while trying to get into the industry. I listed the completed courses on my resume. Employers seemed mildly intrigued but never made a big deal about them, and no one ever asked to see certificates (back then they offered free certificates of completion if you completed the course with a sufficient grade--there was no webcam of typing verification back then, and I think the certificate was just a pdf you downloaded or something).

My experience may not generalize, but I'm not sure I'd worry about it.

Note: I also had an undergrad degree (math and philosophy, and graduate degree in philosophy, but no school CS experience. No idea how this changes if you don't have any degree).
Aren't they paying users a cut of the ad revenue?
Trains are much more heavily constrained by grade, radius and stopping distance than trucks are. You can't build a railway to every door. And they're far more expensive. Their main advantage is in axle weight.
There's always someone with the tendency to skip actually trying to understand the comments they read and just pattern-match it to something else they've heard, so I'll say this up-front: In this comment, I'm not saying that ad-blocking is morally equivalent to shoplifting.

You're making some pretty radical assertions without any attempt to justify them, so I'll draw a bit of an analogy to show why I feel like I'm missing something.

I don't see why your comment wouldn't apply almost 100% the same to shoplifting. I know the usual distinction drawn is that the marginal costs are different, but I don't really see how that's relevant: there's a (low) marginal cost to serving each page that's being lost. And anyway, the idea that the marginal cost is all that matters is beyond bizarre to me. There's a reason you buy bubble gum for more than the retailer paid for it, and it's because you're not only defraying the cost of the bubble gum to him.

> If you push out content and you can't make money on it without ads, then that content didn't need to be created in the first place.

"If retailers can't make money on goods without charging money for it, then those goods didn't need to be createdd in the first place". What does the mode of monetization have to do with whether the goods "needed" to be created? Isn't continual consumption of a site's content a revealed preference that pretty much by definition means that they're getting value out of it?

> Ads, to me, represent a monetization strategy rooted in "I did something, and you're looking at, so I deserve to get paid" but that makes no sense. The disconnect here is the presumption that the content has any value to begin with. I think what scares traditional content-creators is the idea that the vast majority of content has no inherent value.

"Selling bubble gum, to me, represents a monetization strategy that says 'I made something, you want it, so I deserve to get paid' ". Again, I'm not seeing the difference in this case. The idea that something that many people choose to read has no value seems so obviously insanely wrong by definition that I must be misunderstanding you somehow.
The headline and post title are misleading. Brave is not an ad-blocking browser. It is an ad-replacing browser. Blocking ads is useful and ethical. Replacing ads to capture revenue is bad and unethical.
> It is possible that USA players simply use different entities to set up shell corps and transfer money using different channels.

Pretty much that, as well as the fact that Americans are world leaders in tax compliance and these people are three sigma tax dodgers, so there will be disproportionately less Americans among them.
There is an 'or' in there. Anyway, I'm not a lawyer or a judge, and the assertion that there is a crime is not related to the point was trying to make.
*Barkley. You have to superhuman to finish one lap, let alone the race itself...

At spirit, ultrarunning is the polar opposite of tri- laid back, get it done fast or slow, have a beer after (or during...), most importantly, stop and help others, thank volunteers midrace, etc. That has been my experience thus far.

But money's seeping into the sport through sponsorships and purses, so let's not be naive - cheating is probably already happening (haven't seen it firsthand so I can't say it definitively), and it's to the point that influential voices in the sport are trying to figure out what to do about it.

[0] http://www.irunfar.com/2015/12/doping-and-the-effect-on-ultr...
[1] http://running.competitor.com/2015/12/news/ultrarunning-at-a...

(I can't find the fairly provocative piece from mid-2015 nor can I remember who wrote it, help anyone?)
I don't think that's true, or rather it didn't help but it's not the problem. The program wasn't doing so many interesting things before Challenger, either.

I think the "space race" was born with the seeds of its own doom. Wanting to beat the Russians to the moon provided the political and economic will to put a huge effort into the Apollo program - but after that was achieved the interest evaporated.

If you are more interested in the pissing contest than the science and exploration, it isn't surprising that the latter gets short shrift in the long run.
If you push out content and you can't make money on it without ads, then that content didn't need to be created in the first place. The argument then devolves to "there won't be any good content" but I'll _gladly_ roll the dice on that world to see what we're left with.

It'd be interesting to see if that's true for very many people. As an experiment, we could take a fork of good quality ad-blocker and change the way that it works so that rather than blocking the advert content when it detects an ad on a page it blocks the entire page.

That way users who don't want to reward content creators with money from adverts would no longer see the content they're refusing to pay for. And if the content creator gives users the option to pay instead of seeing adverts then a simple direct payment would make the site work because the ad blocker would no longer block anything.

I'm actually tempted to give that a try to see what impact it has on my browsing.
Both autonomous spaceport drone ships are named after ships from The Player of Games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...
That was me. I came into programming via tech support rather than computer science. I liked playing games. I lacked the home environment or support to really do very well in high school, but once I was on my own, having that tech support job helped me a lot and I was eventually able to learn a lot more IT skills.

For me and the other people I've known or mentored from similar backgrounds, I things that get people away from abusive and dysfunctional homes can make a big difference. I think I personally would have dropped out of college early on if I hadn't been able to work tech support in the summer and therefore not go home. Wonks always go on and on about what a difference parents can make, but it goes both ways.
They're really nice, too. Thick enough to block almost all light. And Post-It Note-like glue, so you can remove and replace the sticker occasionally.
It's like a TV set with a mute button.
Maybe to some degree these kids are the same kids who when society was agricultural were the ones who ran away from home despite the taboo against leaving the family went to the city and tried striking it out their own way.

It's not the dame as the George Foremans or the Merle Haggards of the world who while making good had fortunate accidents help them along the way. Or maybe it is exactly the same, just expressed differently.
But Blue Origin has sent rockets 100km up i.e. the Kármán line which is considered outer space, and landed.

I think they've done a great deal just as SpaceX has I don't understand the dismissal of what they do why can't people be excited for both?
Early SGI cameras had a physical lens cover, too. I wish that were still the norm, although I certainly see how hard it'd be to build into the frame of a thin laptop.
When I went to university, I took a 10 megapixel camera to every class and took pictures of all the notes. The first 2 years or so of notes (5731 photos) are here:

http://notes.robertelder.ca/

You can also view page visit statistics for how many visits the site got in relation to each exam.

http://www.robertelder.ca/2anotessite/visitsandexams.jpg

Also, I apologize for the site design on the notes site. It was an experiment in building the UI entirely in Javascript that I won't do again.

Finally, since we're talking about grades, here are all of my grades from university:

http://photos.robertelder.ca/view/se-grades.jpg
I don't disagree with most of what you said. I consider the US to be merely one of the many big influences in the world, and it's blatantly the dominant one by a wide margin - by almost any metric we can name. However I fail to see how the US has a weaker position in terms of its dominance / prime mover status, than it did 10, 20, or 30 years ago. There has been no actual fundamental shift.

For example, the US share of global GDP is unchanged over the last 30 years - despite China's vast GDP gains over that time (meaning the US had to grow a lot to keep its position, while other former major powers lost ground). China has essentially taken the place of the USSR as a strength counter to the US.

Calling something egocentric isn't an actual counter-point (what does it have to do with whether something is factually correct or not?), it's an argument from intimidation. The only purpose it serves is to try to embarrass the other side of the discussion (since many people consider ego to be shameful; I obviously don't agree with that).
You sound like a corporate robot when you say such things
> I'm just surprised that the cost of damage from seawater to a dumb rocket with a parachute and floats

Maybe it helps to think by analogy. Which is harder, putting a car on a ferry to carry it across a river, or just driving it into the river and fishing it out the other end? Sure, you'll have to replace the engine and the electronics and lots of other stuff (i.e. all the most expensive parts of a car), but if you're only doing it once, it's cheaper to ford that river Oregon-Trail-style than to get yourself a ferry. But if you're doing it many times ...

The point is, there's lots of extremely high precision, expensive stuff on a rocket, that don't appreciate being dunked in water in exactly the same way that, say, your computer or car wouldn't. Those engines are incredibly complicated, high performance, and expensive, and they don't have the benefits of economies of scale like other consumer goods that are manufactured in the amounts of millions or billions per year. Each rocket has nine Merlin engines on it; that's an awful lot to essentially have to replace with every launch. The barge is cheaper.
The writing is on the wall. Tough time to be a meth dealer or truck stop hooker. Time to retool for a new career.
I don't imagine Eich was very happy when he was crucified over his personal beliefs.
It's my right to do whatever I want with the bytes I download over http. Do you disagree?
Real-Time GDP Tracker Gains a Following and Some Criticism
I only heard years later about some of the Spectrum clones, machines like The Hobbit sound fascinating. It obviously did you good!
Pretty easy. Strip all script tags from ad markup.
Check this out:

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/its-about-ethics-in...