skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s something to be said for only using those features of C++ that you really need, if not because the platform demands it, then at least because it goes easier on the language-lawyering part of the brain.

I for one am perfectly happy with “C with destructors and templates”. The usual criticism of “C with classes” is levelled at a specific kind of code that’s neither particularly good C++ nor particularly good C. But not all “C with classes” is necessarily that way.
The only app that I've used for Reddit is Relay, and it's one of the few apps that I've liked enough to pay for, and I've been very happy with it. The gestures work so well to navigate, great for one-handed operation.

Can anyone compare the Reddit app to Relay?
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I like to think of them as the trailing edge of the late-adopter curve.

They consider the social and lifestyle impacts of technology. Which can be quite profound.

There are also differences among Amish settlements, with the Swartzentruber Amish, of Michigan, the most conservative:
http://amishamerica.com/who-are-the-swartzentruber-amish/

(The site generally has a great deal of information on the Amish.)
It's still called the frontpage even if you're logged in.

But yes, when you're logged in you only see the subreddits that you're subscribed to.
In which countries? Seems like this particular patent is in the EU so that rules out the EU countries...
This story reflects most poorly on the author himself.
That the stall speed at altitude (give or take). 75 mph winds aren't uncommon at altitude, but that might work to their advantage to loiter. I've hovered my dad's Cessna before to take pictures and such when the headwind is there, so they should be able to take advantage of that as well.
Edward Snowden designs phone case to show when data is being monitored
Instead of "start a startup and have it acquired" I think you mean "join a startup and sue it for non-existent sexual harrassment." That's the ticket!
>"The future is probably something where people pay a small amount to access a forum that's somehow distributed on their machines (phones, PCs, etc) and not controlled by any organization. Data transfer (even mobile) and storage are getting cheaper. It'll be like bitcoin, but for discussions."

No. The future is the next Digg, the next Reddit, etc. Just like a torrent site, when one goes down (for whatever reason), the next in line pops up to take its place (and users). The internet does not want to pay money to access a forum. The internet also does not want to be advertised to. So the cycle will continue.
But it seems to be an EU patent based on this link (on the Wikipedia page) https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC...
The two party system really sucks and I find it really troubling when LGBT are mocked by liberals for being conservative (eg Caitlyn Jenner).
Bathroom bills are the highest expression of the modern US right wing: freedom and liberty for me, but not for you. Endless forgiveness and acceptance for me, Old Testament fire and brimstone for you. Religious freedom from things that are offensive to me, belittling as "PC police run mad" whenever something offends you. A nation built on the backs of immigrants like me, which now has to keep out all the immigrants like you.

Lest you think I joke, this is literally what Donald Trump espouses: Mike Pence, his running mate, gets to make mistakes and be forgiven. Hillary Clinton makes mistakes? LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP!

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/28809...

And by endorsing that mess, Thiel basically forfeits any moral high ground he might think he holds.
I really don't have a clue how Thiel can endorse a Trump / Pence ticket. Pence advocates "conversion therapy".

Edit: I realize Thiel does not "agree with every plank in [his] party’s platform" -- I'm guessing he loves the tax cuts he will gain of course (so I suppose I do have a clue how he can support the ticket after all). Unfortunately that's also going to throw our country deeper into debt.
This reminded me that one of the things I felt would be interesting for Apple to do, would be to drape a conductive net over the center of their new campus with supports to hold a receiver above it at the focal point, turning their headquarters building into a 1,000' diameter radio telescope.
I'm not sure which way to read this statement. Is he saying Republicans shouldn't waste time with bathroom bills or that Democrats are wasting time by arguing against them?
I disagree on Digg. I didn't mind the ads. Not enough to stop using the site, anyway. What I minded was the transition of the content to advertising. Plus, at the same time they did a site redesign that made it look like one of those auto-generated news sites.

Comments on youtube... yeah, they're crap for most videos. I guess technically comments are user generated content, but I never really think of them that way. Even more so on a site like youtube where the videos are the important bit.
Yeah. The notation should ideally have some obvious spatial symmetries/structures that correspond with the symmetries of the operation (sticking a smaller triangle in the corner doesn't LOOK like it cancels out, and it should.)
That assumes that it would be profitable to fund those ventures. But as supply increases and prices are driven down by automation, it becomes less profitable to fund ventures in general. It becomes relatively more profitable to charge rent on things that can be monopolized. Therefore, fewer ventures get funded, leading to even fewer jobs. As the demand for rentable capital increases, its prices increase, and therefore the rents. Fewer jobs means that labor rates decrease, resulting in lower pay for those remaining.

With higher rents and lower pay rates for fewer jobs, people cannot afford the consumer goods even though they have become cheaper with the increased supply. That decrease in demand further drives down the prices such that even with maximum automation, that business is no longer profitable. The people maintaining the robots get laid off. What happens then?
Do you know what I would give to help make this a reality? I would literally drop $10k, in cash, right now, to get faster treatment.

I have the money - I worked my ass off to earn it (while sick, no less!) What I (and the experts that would use this machine on me) don't have is the political freedom to use it as we see fit.

This thing could literally save my life. A team invented it, tested it, and it's just sitting there. I'm just sitting here.

Waiting.
Will this hurt Thiel's deal flow? I know if I were fundraising I would look elsewhere after reading this article.
It would sound very absurd, coz speech is not just about statistical relationships between words based on some large speech content.
The president makes judgement calls not the VP. If you have bad judgement as the president you have no hope. Plus the opposition's job is to disagree with the government when they are wrong.
It has nothing to do with freedom or liberty. Men are men and women are women. Then you have psychologically sick people who get confused about what they are. Only liberals could manage to turn this common sense topic into a debate. That billions of people for thousands of years weren't confused about gender is a coincidence, or maybe they were all right wing conservatives too right?
That's talking about a backup battery for the real-time clock on the phone. That type of battery is usually not rechargeable and doesn't support enough power to make any sort of call. I've never heard of an emergency backup battery for just the 'baseband' in any phone, but I am open to being proven wrong.
From what I read previously about Thiel's views, I would've thought he'd endorse (and generously donate to) Gary Johnson.

Not sure why he wouldn't take the chance to endorse a third party candidate when both of the main parties have extremely disliked candidates [0].

[0] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-distaste-for-b...
I thougt that Thiel's speech was very good, making a good point that Trump is more likely keep us out of stupid military conflicts and has some decent economic ideas.

That said, the idea of Trump or Clinton being president scares me a bit. Usually I more or less like both candidates running for president, but in this election both candidates concern me.
You could argue that having a presence at the RNC as an openly gay, wealthy and successful person could make a strong counter against the prevailing GOP beliefs on sexuality
With the advent of the cloud and the ubiquity of mobile devices, the next Digg won't be controlled by anyone other than the users. They will supply the storage and bandwidth. The community will truly be in charge, and also be responsible for policing it. When the cost (time) of policing it becomes too much (even with machine-learning bots to remove ads, child porn, hate speech, harassment, etc), then a new version of that model will appear.
I'm largely disagreeing with you here.

There is, I think, ultimately a problem with having to unlearn old skills which is difficult. If nothing else, you end up with a workforce in a particular area, say, if retrained, who bring in very widely divergent backgrounds on how to do something.

This might not be all bad if your goal is to mix and match methods and come up with something better. But that's rarely a firm's primary goal. Rather it's to have a uniform workforce, performing a uniform process, producing a uniform product.

As you climb up through the complexity of tools, tasks, products, and processes, this seems to increase. I suspect it hits the tech world rather hard (it may be a reason for the intense battles over editors, languages, frameworks, operating systems, revision control, etc., etc.).

That is: the problem isn't the educational system, it's us.

(There are other reasons to believe that education isn't a driver of economic growth, including the rather inconvenient fact that education seems to trail economic growth rather than lead it.)

I'm of several minds on AI, but a thought intruding increasingly on my awareness is that it's quite likely that programming will be among the first-affected employments. The training set is intrinsically amenable. Wether this proves an augmentation or a replacement remains to be seen.
You'd be amazed; even Borat frequents HN
Jon Stewart (paraphrased) pointed out "These guys say 'why are blacks so sensitive [about issues]', 'why are muslims so sensitive [about issues]' .... but god forbid you say 'happy holidays' instead of 'merry christmas', because then it's fucking war"

Can't recall the exact point he said it, but it's always interesting to hear him speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da5VYSPsoE0
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Poor is better, because then you aren't worth their time. Why bother with the small fries when they are plenty of big fish out there?

When I was younger and traveling in China alone, I fell for one of the "tea house" scams common in the bigger cities. The leader of the heavies sent to intimidate me was somewhat nicer when he figured out that I didn't have much money or a credit card and wasn't lying about it.

He gave me some life advice: "don't go anywhere with a stranger" then took ¥10,000 (about 300 in Chinese money) and sent me on my way. It was pretty surreal.
> When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.
> Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?
> “Making America great again” was the casual reply.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/magazine/how-donald-trump-...

Edit:

I don't know if this is just a gaffe by Trump Jr but it seems to be Trump Sr's style -- hire someone to do the job for you.
Not even biology agrees with you. And if you want to speak about thousands of years, perhaps you should read up on Greek lit.
And...

> That makes it really hard to render into ascii, which is one of the many reasons I think it's a bad idea.

...this is one idea that I really dislike. We have touchscreens everywhere, soon 3D glasses everywhere, a whole plethora of input devices, and at some point we'll have usable direct electric bran-computer-interfaces. Why limit to ASCII?! Heck, even 3D is not enough in my mind - you can "easily" imagine RGB color displayed on 3D objects as a secondary attached 3D space, hence boom, you can "easily" (probably not for most, but with enough training doable) visualize 4 (3 space + 1 time) + 3 (r, g, b) = 7 dimensions using sight alone!

Heck even programming languages should move away from 1.5D text. I can't wait to see the first really cool visual syntaxes. I imagine that the Perl 6 equivalent of a visual 2D/3D programming language combined with a more useful input device than a keyboard would look awe inspiring!

Imagine how cool would it be to play with 7D mathematical notations and to what cool insights they will lead :) (though for teaching and publication 2D is probably enough for math as the cool thing about math is still that you can do it with just pen and paper or in you head while using the 3D-processing part of your mind do things like walk on the street...)
Having a successful company that appeals to a broad range of users is related to having a diverse staff.

Reddit has serious problems with blatant racism, sexism, and harassment on many of the larger subreddits. Until they start taking these issues seriously, they will have a hard time expanding their user base to include more women and minorities.
So your problem is more with the publication of government corruption and bribery than with government corruption and bribery itself?
Well, Garry Kasparov who I thought Peter was "friends" with has some really great tweets on how this election is like 1920's when people
said Hitler's racism was just an entertainment ploy to fool the masses into his real... more politically savvy agenda.

New York Times 1922:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn6vn_SW8AIsuZc.jpg

Garry on possitive correlation words vs policy. Strength, Power, Greatness
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn8BwA5WEAAbp10.jpg

It's frightening. We grew up saying things like "If I lived in Germany I would not be evil like those guys"

Well here is Peter Thiel, Investor of Facebook, Investor in Hulk Hogan's lawsuit, and now investor in the end

of the United States of America as we knew it.

We will look back at a later date and say, "Back in 2016, America was pretty great"
I believe I've spotted a typo:

"Hillary makes mistakes"

was probably meant to read

"Hillary jeopardizes the security of an entire nation by leaking top secret information to our enemies and then denying everything under oath before getting caught by the FBI".

Let me know if that made it clearer, just here to help. Thanks!
> Irlan (left) wouldn’t let me take pictures when I was in custody, but over eclairs he let me sneak one in.
The level of condescension required to write something like that is truly astounding. Not only are you assuming everyone who disagrees with you is wrong - but you are assuming that the error stems from youth, and in particular from "bad decisions" as judged solely by you!

How arrogant do you have to be to observe humanity and decide that "bad decision making" is not only all around you but you are also somehow immune to it - and a distinguished observer and commentator, to boot!

If this is not a textbook definition of bigotry[0], I do not know what it is.

[0]: "intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself"
I interpreted it as both, actually. It seems quite clear that his point (whether you agree with it or not) was that it is a distraction that take time way from (what he sees as) more important issues.
"Finally, what is the point here? An more economically "equal" society, or a society where people like me don't die waiting in line for care? I stridently advocate for the latter."

this is a false dichotomy. To get more doctors you need more people who can afford the education. Not less. I'd say check your privilege- Any of those options you listed for getting an education still take a vastly greater amount of resources, than you are giving credit for. You can't study out of a book if you don't have a house to live in.

as for whether my comment was out of line, I'd say if your argument is to take away government subsidy for infrastructure, force people to pay for their own education, leaving out the basic costs of the education is a critical part of the argument you left out, and for a transparently self serving purpose.
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The team has really done a remarkable job -- shipping more in the last quarter alone than over years before.
Founder CEO staying on as quasi CTO while professional CEOs are brought in? Nobody tell OP about what Larry Ellison's done with Mark Hurd and Safra Catz.
Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVHoGiSCfmU

This is what an attempt to change a party's rhetoric from the inside looks like. Kind of fun to watch, really.
But do some, imperfectly fitting, filings act as a diode?
It would be pretty high up, although still reachable by fighters.

I doubt people in a friendly country would shoot it down, although I could certainly see Iran having issues of someone flying one along the border providing "free" Internet to people inside their borders. No doubt they would be able to successfully jam it's electronics.

Perhaps more worrisome would be having these things fall out of the sky. Being a long as they are, structural failure by suddenly overloading the wing might turn them into the moral equivalent of the Maple Seed of Doom[1] on their way down. Probably reasonably low risk in rural areas but something to think about if they are taking off from airports in Kansas city for example to fly out over the great plains.

It's that latter bit that makes me even more curious. In the write ups so far, both the 'project loon' and the Aquila videos suggest this very expensive piece of equipment is going to be flying over sparsely populated areas to provide Internet. But with so few customers how do you cover the cost? Simple economics would suggest you'd want to fly it over a really densely populated city, then you would have a huge addressable market rather than over the corn fields of Iowa or the back roads of Oklahoma.

It suggests to me that its easier to spend a million dollars operating a couple of these over a small town than it is to get permission to pull a fiber along the power grid. The latter is more of a policy issue rather than a technology issue though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4urT74yq6c
It has a BMC and On-Chip Controller (OCC), but the firmware for both is open source.
Sometimes the Mythbusters do interesting things, but their ad hoc methods, largely uninformed by theory, are often so haphazard that they prove basically nothing.
I doubt it's anything so pedestrian as tax cuts; Thiel has been quite vocal about his disdain for the democratic system and his desire to see the US run as a quasi-private fiefdom led by a strongman CEO. Since it's hard to find a national-level politician who would support an effort to effectively shred the Constitution, Trump might be his best bet to promulgate his thesis. Thiel is, if nothing else, the kind of guy who plays the long game with his obsessions.
Are you actually suggesting US companies compete on a free and open market, with consumers deciding which services and products deserve to survive based on the quality and price of the service/product? Then they might risk failing as a company just because consumers didn't like what they had to sell. Well I never! /sarcasm
To have a successful business, there must be an underlying assumption one of your goals is to actually become a successful business. That would seem to be self-evident, but in the discussions I have seen regarding reddit ever turning a profit, their leadership says it is not a priority. I'm not sure why anyone would have expectations of business success in such a scenario.
Here was a fun surprise: when he said "I'm proud to be gay," the crowd cheered. At the Republican National Convention.
It can't really be both. The one is a reaction to the other. If North Carolina hadn't brought it up, we'd scarcely be talking about it.
I was referring to old school gotos, not like those in c. But yeah, we are in the same page.
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<cynical thought>90 days? Thats just over 2^23 seconds. Wanna bet some timer overflows a 3 byte signed int? Brings new perspective to a "crash bug"...
I remembered now of a church pastor I know, that was an antenna.

The story: this pastor, and only this pastor, would make wireless microphones in certain frequencies act up.

Eventually the audio team found out that somehow this particular pastor worked as an antenna for a particular frequency, matching a nearby radio transmitter, that due to its enormous size would overpower the microphone transmission and corrupt the data.
> You could argue that having a presence at the RNC as an openly gay, wealthy and successful person could make a strong counter against the prevailing GOP beliefs on sexuality

You could also argue that he has a net worth of $2.8b and will gain massive tax cuts if trump is elected.

Thiel is endorsing the party which is well known for its racism, its xenophobic rhetoric, its hatred for gays (as evidenced by policies and actions). Trump built his platform on fear and hatred, and he chose a running mate that is known for advocating a dangerous, dehumanizing pseudo-science.

The only message I'm getting out of Thiel's endorsement is greed.
Maybe he understands that neither the President nor the Vice President has any authority over "conversion therapy", and finds their positions (or their competencies, or whatever) on the things that they will have authority over as being preferable to Hillary Clinton?

Just a thought.
Which is more brave?

(a) for someone to say that they're proud to be gay at a republican convention

(b) for someone in Silicon Valley to openly support Trump

I'm actually not sure.
That strategy did not work well for Ernst Röhm. Given that the entirety of Trump's campaign seems to be one of political expediency, I don't see Thiel being anymore than "Trump's best friend is gay, so of course we're not against gay people!".
$10 to pay for an app that only previews animations of an app that you pay $100 for? This is highway robbery! Origami & preview is free
The "Secure" flag has nothing to do with protecting against XSS. It protects against anyone who can proxy your requests (i.e. when you connect to dodgy wifi) being able to steal your session simply by injecting <img src="http://yoursite.com"> into any non-secure web page your request. That is a massive security hole and not theatre in the slightest.

The HTTP-only flag is less important but still useful. As I said, you're still in deep shit because of course they can make actual requests and if you think it's all you need to protect you then that's a problem. But there's still a difference between an attack that can be persisted, and one that gets interrupted as soon as the user navigates away from the page.
Oops I meant Oracle vs Google, cannot edit it anymore.
To me, it seems more analogous to coders who go into legacy spaghetti code repos to clean them up.

I enjoyed establishing process with a team and iterating on it with a mostly functional team. I don't really care to get between drama and infighting, but I certainly see the value.
That's why I personally have self-censored myself from using Facebook at all.

I've discovered that there are actually zero things that I want to announce to all my friends and family at once.
I am surprised that the core Reddit functionality is not run mostly on autopilot.

I only subscribe to a few subreddits (lisp, Ruby, Haskell, AGI, and a few others) and the user supplied content is plenty good enough for me to visit the site once a day.