skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I didn't know that! It looks like it was a PowerPC that wasn't used in any macs though.
No, that would be "unpaid time off".
What is the business model behind this offering?
French movies don't generally suck, just like not all US produced movies are great. Some are considered classics, for example the work of Godard.
A lot of Hollywood movies objectively suck, yet they are billion dollar enterprises. There are plenty examples, such as most of the 4th of July Disaster movies, Transformers, a lot of the super hero movies, etc.. They are objectively trash, yet have a huge impact on young people all over the world.
A tweet is not a Show HN.
big difference between paid time off and just not working
So you believe that publishing private citizen's sex tapes falls under free speech? That outing others as gay falls under free speech?
Berkshire is the ultimate example of no dividends, but their growth justifies that. Amazon is probably a decade or more out from a distribution, they just have so much opportunity for reinvestment that it would be foolish for them to distribute dividends. I don't foresee a distribution under Bezos because he won't stop steamrolling markets until he's dead.

Once a company stops expanding at a double-digit pace, it makes sense for them to start paying dividends.
Thank you for posting this, and in particular for the pointer to Jolokia. Just what a Python shop needs to monitor Java infrastructure.
(EDIT: ahem, that'll teach me to not look at the code I'm editing)
>"The individual mandate for purchase of private insurance + subsidy system adopted as "Obamacare" was first proposed by the Republicans and insurance industry lobbyists in opposition to healthcare reform efforts under the Clinton administration. [...] I don’t recognize this new brand of Republicanism that is afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects. "

That's exactly right.

The Republican party of today has found itself only reacting to liberal policies. We're basically forced to put forward alternative, smaller, liberal policies to stave off the big ones. Rather than arguing to draw down Medicare, we're sitting here talking about establishing alternative socialist policies.

>"The right's also unsuccessfully pushed vouchers and drastically cutting public school funding, but when your pushing for multiple and mutually-exclusive things, "

Vouchers are in many cases cheaper than public schools -- they are not mutually exclusive.

>" you got to abolish AFDC, one of the biggest social programs in the country, and replace it with the more-restrictive TANF."

Taking a $22b/yr (out of ~$240b in social welfare programs), and replacing it with a $17b/yr program doesn't seem the big win to me that you make it out to be.

>"Religious Freedom Restoration Act"

That law limited religious freedom. It says that if you can prove a compelling interest, and can prove a law is the least restrictive way to do something, you can do it even though it steps on a person's constitutional right to free exercise.

The pro-religious freedoms version of that law, which would have been supported by a liberal reading of the constitution, would have read "The government may not limit a person's free exercise of religion, unless that freedom kills or maims another human being, or severely damages their personal property."

That was yet another example of a statist law put in place with the hope that it would stop additional statist laws from coming down the pike (of course, to no avail).

>"NFIB v. Sebelius "

Medicaid and Obamacare are not legal programs to begin with in a strictly constitutional sense. Their constitutionality was predicated on a very strange, and wishy-washy reinterpretation of the Commerce clause. (Albeit a popular one, for obvious reasons.)

Commerce, as written, was clearly denoting treaties of trade between governmental bodies (read tariffs and trade restrictions), not saying that the Federal government has a right to establish any new laws they desire, so long as they relate to money -- even requiring someone to purchase something they don't want:

[Congress has the right...] "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes." That's all.
Since I'm reading "Zero to One", let's try to answer Thiel's "7 questions":

1. Engineering - Have they created a "breakthrough" technology (10x better than current tech)? No.

2. Timing - Is now the right time? Maybe they're gambling that self-driving cars are only a few years away so they can subsidise human drivers until that happens in order to build a brand and demand/market presence.

3. Monopoly - Are they starting with a big share of a small market? Only by subsidising prices which isn't sustainable.

4. People - Do they have the right team? Not sure.

5. Distribution - Their app has widespread distribution and some key partnerships solidify that.

6. Durability - Will the market position be defensible 10 and 20 years in the future? I can't see why it would be. If they're betting the company on self driving cars, then that removes any benefit of a network effect based on a two-sided market. Fast forward 10 years and another well-funded company could pump a city with autonomous cars which would face little barriers to entry (barring regulation, but they'd probably ignore it like Uber have).

7. Secret - Have they identified a unique opportunity that others don't see? Not unless they can move into adjacent markets or have a major ace up their sleeves, but there are so many competitors that it would seem they haven't.

They are obviously targetting economies of scale which would mean their plan is to keep prices so low no one else can afford to enter the market barring major technological innovation. This must be why they're burning so much cash.

Self driving cars would remove one barrier to entry since once they exist there will be no need to have a pool of human drivers. So in that case there would be no network effect to act as a barrier, only any effects of economies of scale. That means there's potentially no monopoly being fought over, and therefore no monopoly rents to be gained. Economies of scale take funding to break into, but probably won't inherently create a monopoly with a significant defensible position a well-funded competitor couldn't break into.

Is their valuation the result of a bubble because investors have few other places to put their money? Google invested, probably just hedging their bets or buying access to a future market, and now their valuation keeps spiralling...
Ok, that's fair - I still see a few problems though. First, if you're right and the wealthy keep making more in absolute dollars and therefore paying more in taxes (IE UBI doesn't make them poorer) then we still have to index the UBI against inflation. And every time UBI goes up, it will be an upstream battle against people who had the same common mistake that you suggest that I made. In other words, in this case at least, perception is reality.

Second, what if UBI does make the wealthy less wealthy? Isn't that kind of the point of wealth redistribution? To reduce income inequality?
Step One: Define (and prove) a rational basis for morality.
It is confidence that the answer is true. 100% being fully sure the answer is true. 0% being fully sure the answer is false. 50% should be used for both true and false have the same probability.
American media is subtly hegemonising.

One could easily say that most of world culture has come about because of "subtle hegemony." The French and Spanish languages wouldn't exist in their present forms without the "subtle hegemony" of the Roman Empire's cultural exports. Most of East Asian culture would be vastly different without the "subtle hegemony" of the Chinese culture.

The problem is even worse for local ethno-linguistic minorities such as Gaelic and Welsh in the UK...Like endangered species. But with every language dies a culture and a literature.

I'm well aware of this phenomenon. However, history clearly shows that human beings will always make more culture. That said, there are compelling reasons for maintaining diversity. If you've ever played around with Genetic Algorithms, you have experienced what happens when the "winners" get to seed their information too freely -- evolution hits a local maximum, stamps out the diversity that might enable it to jump out of the local maxima, then grinds to a halt. Evolution works best with many distinct pools of information that still have a little bit of interchange. In a very meaningful way, diversity is wealth.
You realize that the people that demographics of people who like to drive for Uber are those coming from minimum wage jobs, who have none of the above either. Most drivers I talk with love Uber because their pay almost instantly doubles and they have freedom to work as much as they want.
Ok, done. Now what?
This is one of the biggest reasons that I (happily) choose to live in the suburbs. It is silent at night. Some people seem to consider this a bad thing ("it's so boring!"), but I find that I sleep much better than I ever have when I have lived in cities.
4 and 5 are clearly not aligned. If they were, there wouldn't be the support that there currently is in volume for anti immigration rhetoric and policy.
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Art of Assembly clarification?
So I found this place after seeking some opinions on Art of Assembly. I just bought first edition, and if I'm correct second edition is where Hyde "ruined" the book?

My main question is, is Art of Assembly still a good source of information, even if not for the language itself but the more technical concepts? Any help and clarification would be helpful.

EDIT:Nevermind I don't want to edit this, lmao.

Thanks!
If you own a stock that pays dividends, you know this to be false. The stock drops exactly by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date. You can identify precisely what that date is if you know the amount of the dividend - the stock chart shows a discontinuity on that date.

A simple thought experiment should make it clear why that is - Let's say a $100 stock has a $2 dividend, if the stock didn't drop by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, then I could simply purchase the stock, be the owner of record on the ex-dividend date, receive the dividend, and then just sell the stock immediately. I get a 2% return for holding the stock for a week or less. Clearly that doesn't happen.
If IO is your constraint I think the best bang for your buck in terms of learning something new, solving the problem, and growing as a programmer would be Erlang/Elixir.
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> the logic of this piece - Mr. Thiel did x as a private act in his life, therefore all Silicon Valley tech billionaires stand indicted

It's a little disingenuous to characterize the logic of this piece thusly.

Mr Thiel is not just some guy, he's the main guru of the Silicon Valley crowd, a major "idea machine" who's constantly quoted, etc.

What the author is saying is more akin to this: we were used to seeing tech billionaires as "different" (more pure, better), and this episode shows they in fact aren't.

The argument is defensible, esp. with all the talk about disruption and "changing the world". Some things are new, some certainly do change, but "the world" does not seem very different.
A couple things I did to get it down to ~.44
Press based on random environmental input (woman's voice on tv = f, man's voice = d, while flipping channels).
Do it very quickly, while paying attention to something else that utterly absorbs your attention, and don't look at the meter.
You're advocating a flawed legal system. You're basically saying: The legal system can be abused by any rich person with a vendetta, therefore shame on Thiel for abusing it.

However, it's not feasible (or desirable) to put an end to rich people or vendettas. Thus, isn't the best option here to fix the legal system itself?
You are onto something here. This reminds me of various hierarchies of logic(Bertrand Russell's arguments). To beat a person such as you, all it has to do is lie - and tell you at the end it has been lying all along.
The market is often an idiot.
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My recollection is that "The Pentium Chronicles" said explicitly that OoO had been done, but not for x86 CPUs, and that there was a significant question at the time as to whether it was actually viable for x86.
At first I was stuck at ~0.95 but I was just striking the keys really fast but then I concentrated and looked at the keys and really tried to feel which key I wanted to press and it worked. I was able to score lower ~0.4. I'm computationally irreducible for now.
In most of the country $13/hr is indeed lower middle class.
Indeed, this has been solved in Swift with ReactiveCocoa 3. SignalProducer<Value, Error> is a cold signal that must be started/observed to take effect. Signal<Value, Error> is hot. We have the lift operator that can transform any signal operator into a signal producer operator so you don't have to duplicate everything.

If anyone is wondering:

Cold signals don't do work until you ask for it; think starting a new network request. They don't send any values until someone starts them.

Hot signals send values at their own leisure and often represent things out of your control, like button taps or receiving a push notification. They send values whether anyone is listening or not.
Sure, and I know several of them personally. They tend to be freelancers, homesteaders, or involved in modest lifestyle businesses where they're scraping by doing what they love. Anything else?
So it's on "IPFS" so I'd need to buy into the "filecoin" scam which is going on? Why not just use bitcoin?
Given the amount of negative voices I hear each time OwnCloud is mentioned - and that includes German tech websites where this German company is mentioned more frequently - I don't know why the departure of the original developers should necessarily be a bad thing. The amount of negativity of previous OC users was unusual, too much to put it down with a "you can't satisfy everybody". I'm not even talking about the "OMG they use PHP" comments.

I must say does seem to be at least partially the fault of developers, since they likely had much more responsibility than upper-level managers since it was a startup founded by techies for the longest time.

So if the company manages to leave some of that baggage behind this may be quite alright.

Having worked for another German software-heavy company I must admit I understood all those complaints, because our own products were similar: Pretty good in principle, but way, WAY too little attention to details that matters to customers. With each release the number of really stupid annoying little bugs never seemed to decrease (talking about "my" ex company, I only know OC from forum comments - but OC users' complaints sound like the ones we deservedly got to hear a lot).
a good method for what?
> He did not "righted a wrong".

go on...
This article was flagged yesterday on HN and resulting discussion...
I dont think this quite works. For one thing, the users references won't be available when you try to use it in trySomethingElse(users), because it's scoped to that little arrow function above. For another, it has the effect of catching any error thrown by getUsers() and calling trySomethingElse, whereas the original code simply did nothing in that case.
Disclaimer: I work at Docker.

It's true that Docker helps separate dev concerns from ops concerns. But it doesn't prevent dev and ops teams from collaborating, or the same team to wear both hats - the most common aspects of a "devops" methodology in my experience.

In fact separation of concern makes collaboration more efficient, because everybody knows who is responsible for what. So you could argue that Docker actually facilitates "doing devops" if that's the methodology you choose.
It will never not be faster to roll your own based on the project needs. Aside from knowing how to use Bootstrap, I can appreciate the work on these CSS grid systems and frameworks but I don't see any need for most of them. Do people use Blueprint anymore?
There's a deep tragedy in Thiel financing the lawsuit. The tragedy is that you apparently need a billionaire's backing to get any sort of justice against something like Gawker.
For late night browsing/reading, I use flux's dark room mode, which turns everything into red and black.
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The Pebble Core doesn't have a built-in microphone or built-in speaker. You need to either plug in a headset with a microphone or use a Bluetooth Headset with microphone. If you used a wired headset with no mic, it can't listen to you.
Bicycle is powered by human muscles only. Bicycle with a motor is called moped: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/68/8a/8b/688a8b384... .
Agreed, flexbox is one of the best things to happen to CSS in a very very long time.
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Why not both? You can have Observables and async/await.

Also await isn't much more magical than the * operator in generators or the return operator or most other sorts of operators.
This isn't correct, `users` would be undefined.
The cold hard numbers suggest that Minecraft is well past its peak. MS sold 50M copies for 2 years, which is ~ 70K/day. 2016 they have sold 50K/day. Also:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft

And really, 100M is already "absolutely massive" in my book. How much bigger can it grow? Will everyone on Earth be playng Minecraft?
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From the text of the article, I believe its hours driven. The whole thing was a bit fast and loose with definitions, but I don't think that one is wrong.

So this is an actual hourly wage, but that doesn't mean that a move up to full time at the same wage is possible.
If it didn't drop by the amount of the dividend, then people would be making an awful lot of money purchasing stock a day before the ex-date, being the owner of record, collecting the dividend, and then just selling the stock right away.
I think the sole exception to this might be a full-blow library for Material Design since it's the only open standard we have right now, and it's very, very good.
I tried zpaq four years ago and it looked very well built, but exceptionally slow (as in, 5-10 times slower than bup at the time). Have things changed?
Software AG too :).
> I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"?

But the answer to that is "no". All of the time. No matter who you are asking it about. There is always the possibility of someone - no matter how much you trust them or pay them - screwing up your data. Including yourself.
Choosing to ignore the rules as prescribed is a great demonstration of free will.
So you list a number of hyper-extremist radical points, many of which even HAVE happened (vouchers and charter schools are everywhere, immigration is open to wealthy foreigners, unions have been devastated and barely exist, gun control barely exists, the welfare state has been cut enormously, by Bill Clinton in fact! because the left has shifted so far to the right the Democrats are accomplishing your radical tasks for you!), all of which almost no other country in the world even considers, most of which were at no time in American history even close to politically viable, and then when you don't get your insane libertarian wish list fulfilled you complain the country is leftist?
If Amazon would autoban users that have a significant number of "received this product in exchange for an honest and unbiased review", they'd probably be fine.
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Login? Inc.com what makes you think I want an Inc.com account? Now you won't be serving me any ads. Have fun monetizing your 'content.'
I think you are arguing on two different levels. I'm a professor biologist and though it strikes me as a pretty indirect mechanism (arguing the effect size could be small), I see some merit to the commenter's idea.
Honest question: If Brave doesn't sell ads, where do the sandboxed ads come from that are under #2? Presumably your software is stripping out the bad stuff and putting in something, which marketers have agreed to pay you for. Or how is it determined what goes there?
That's a good point! One favorite idea of mine is that you have a trusted identity provider, that knows you, and hands out pseudo-anonymous identities. E.g. Facebook vouches User123 is female, 20-25 years old, has been active for 2 years, and is likely not a spammer. This gives you disposable identities and the benefits of proven identity.

The problem with any kind of long-lived pseudonymous identity though is that it is really hard to do proper opsec and keep it distinct from your real identity, but I'm not sure there is a technological solution for that. I mean even your grammar can give you away (stylometry).
At least in Germany there is a lot of suspicion against US companies in particular since the Snowden documents. Surveillance is a very critical topic in Germany since in the 20th century there were two dictatorial regimes on German terrain that used surveillance methods. One of them only ceased to exist for little more than 25 years.
Since you seem to have missed the sarcasm, I'll make it explicit.

There's this thing called the internet. It allows minority producers and minority consumers to connect with each other. For example, if you wish to read fiction about the Death Star's project manager, or My Little Pony characters living in the world of Fallout, or a rationalist-themed fanfic rewrite of Harry Potter, you can do so.

There is even erotic fanfic to the aforementioned Harry Potter fanfic.

It's never been easier for producers and consumers to find each other than today. If the stuff the French are trying to protect can't survive in the age of the internet, it's because no one likes it.
Also libraries like `promise-ring` that just do this one thing without needing all of bluebird installed.
I agree. I think I was over angry when I was writing this.
I've amended `try1.js` and `try2.js` to my gist.

https://gist.github.com/Kequc/bcd80980184ed480b864581bcdb351...

I'm not sure async is my new favourite library. It seems to obfuscate a lot of behaviour out of my hands, then it returns the result of each function as an array. During processing it doesn't remain clear to me what the value of `image` is. It appears like the crop operation is being applied to the original image rather than the scaled one.

That said - it does seem to work?

Another alternative, since I am calculating the dimensions of the image to start out. Something that is easier to perceive once the code is a bit more organised like this. Is to use the library's built in `batch` functionality.

It wasn't possible because I didn't have the image dimensions up front. But now I do. So I used that approach instead of async in `try2.js`. This refactor doesn't help in situations where the result of the previous callback is important.

Would a Promise be the best fix then? Promises seem to do the same thing as async but in a more javascripty way... hey, you said no need.