skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter exists as a platform that allows politicians, entertainers, businesses and more communicate more quickly and cheaply with people interested in them than ever before. The profit a user gets out of Twitter depends on what is put into it.
Whoa. Drivers only make $0.18/min? Did I read that correctly?
How much do you think it'd cost to replicate the software as an open source tool? I've written grants before for funding open source projects, and this anecdote boils my blood.
Hiya, I wrote the article. What might not be captured here is that this is above all a community of people all working on AI so it's not like anyone is really emotional and/or aggressive about this issue. It's more that it's always better for an ecosystem to have multiple dominant players who are all relatively equal. Torch & Theano people were saying it's non-optimal if TF becomes the majority framework, which is a fair point. Everyone I spoke to for this article said TF was engineered well, albeit a bit of a black box in certain aspects.
I think that's a false dichotomy. If these sites were unambiguously legal, people (like myself) would donate money for the costs of running them. But the problem right now is, that even if a site wasn't making any money (no ads, no nothing), the operators could still be thrown into jail.
the only situation they aren't is when a line starts with a [ or a (

In every other scenario, a newline and a semicolon are interchangeable.
Burgeoning sector in the gig economy: picking up other people's dog poop. http://pooperapp.com/

(Seems ripe for a Augmented Reality / Pokemon Go integration.)
I also grew up in GR and moved to Seattle a little over 16 years ago. Reading the term "lake effect" cracked me up since it has been so long since I last heard it. Have you been back recently at all? Downtown has a bit more going on but wouldn't want to move back at all. Those winters are brutal.
The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how the reviewer came to those conclusions.

If a reader had never heard anything about World War 2 perhaps it wouldn't be the first book to recommend or even number 10. Given the exhaustive pop culture coverage in movies along with endless documentaries and books one would assume reading Human Smoke in context would not leave a reader believing that Hitler was desperately trying to avoid war.
Apple is not really a leader in software the same way they are in hardware.
Setting aside the specific Julia functional merit questions, the answer is that in general, no, the difference between 51 and 52 is not particularly significant.

That being said, the macro perspective - in which Julia is growing more slowly than other languages, or arguably not at all - is relevant for those wishing to see more adoption.
Lobbying is what I was referring to, and it basically is bribery legalised.

You cannot hope to compete with lobbysists from Disney, the MPAA/RIAA etc. It's heavily skewed in their favour.
You think doing an "as-a-minority" blog post or talk in SV takes strength?

Why?

The most echoed responses are all praise, especially praises for 'bravery'.

Really man, do some higher order thinking here.
He makes up a lot of facts on the fly and then claims that he has been misinterpreted. The whole wall to Mexico thing and have Mexico pay for it is ridiculous. Now he questions the NATO treaties.

I haven't heard anything from him that indicates deep thinking about an issue.
> There's nothing admirable about "going against the grain" in itself.

There is if you think the grain is a corrupt and unfair system that needs dismantling. The enemy of my enemy is my friend thing.

I would consider myself to have overlapping social thoughts with most liberals but it's really terrifying to me to have an absolute aggregation of media and executive power (in our industry) along one line of thinking (even if I agree with most of it!). Power needs to be distributed, not consolidated.
And we should all learn esperanto because it is so much more rational and regular than English. Somehow it doesn't work that way.
I heard some horror stories about working in Japan. The country is absolutely astonishing when you visit as a tourist but enduring the rigid traditional culture as a worker is a completely different story.
> Add controls to our load balancer to disable the healthcheck – as we believe everything but the home page would have been accessible if it wasn’t for the the health check

Wouldn't regular users, trying to access the homepage have yielded the same effect?
Regarding FP: My daughter is a (non CS STEM) student at UC. She knows one language: "R". (I tried to get her to learn Python in high school, but it never took)

While R is certainly not a general purpose language (yet?), it is very much an FP type language, and gaining in popularity. I have only tinkered with it a little, but it looked pretty sound.
It shouldn't be more than a couple of seconds between you making the change and it being updated in your live app. And projects remain up permanently if you log in (projects by anonymous users are removed after 5 days).
The article is mostly light gray text on white background, really hard to read for me as well.
Are they really that homogenous? I'm not from the USA, but it seems that there are both republicans (Andreessen and Horowitz, for example) and democrats (Eric Schmidt and Jack Dorsey, for example) among VCs and CEOs. Younger generation might have Sanders-style social democrat tendencies, but there are a lot of libertarians like Thiel in startup circles, though most of them don't mix conservative religious stances like Thiel does.
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No, because that is not logic.

The main thing you're doing to cause a slide into a "lawless hellhole" is continuing to make pointed statements with no evidence in order to elucidate your world view that you have no responsibility whatsoever for abandoning impoverished communities. You do have a responsibility, even if you really don't want it or think you should have it. It's a civic responsibility that everyone in a democracy has. And it directly benefits you a lot of the time, which is what I find so ironic about this position.

You are trying to perpetuate ignorance and selfishness, which does indeed contribute to a "lawless hellhole", not that I or anyone else has claimed such is the state of things, but the hyperbole sure helps your obviously misguided and uninformed argument. I recommend you stop fearing your culpability, and accept that anyone who isn't helping is indeed making the situation worse. Collecting wealth at higher social levels, deepening social and financial inequality, willfully segregating communities and ignoring their problems, yes, all of this makes things worse.

If you reply again, please make it with some kind of evidence or other remark that isn't inflammatory or puerile. Trolls are boring.
> The eccentric investor is not like anyone else in tech. By Kara Swisher @karaswisher

> ... And many of those who like him personally and call him a "dear friend" are even perplexed, going as far as not talking to him of late because of his Trump support. "I’ve tried," sighed one such friend, who described a number of colleagues trying to pull him off the Trump train, including PayPal Mafia family member Reid Hoffman.

http://www.recode.net/2016/7/21/12241648/peter-thiel-trump-s...
>The purpose of the statute isn't to destroy <insert Internet activist claimed right>

What difference does the intended purpose make if it does indeed destroy <insert Internet activist claimed right>?

If that was indeed the purpose of 1201, the the law as written has unintended consequences.

But my feeling is that they knew damn well that they were going to sweep up non commercial tinkerers as well.

These days the line between commercial and non commercial is blurred. With the internet a hacker can publish some circumvention method and software with the same reach as a large company.[1]

[1] I personally see no problem with that. BTW. The law is being used here to prop up outdated, often monopolistic, business models. That's the company's problem, and shouldn't be externalized onto all of society.
Your linked wikipedia page states that it's patented. Yes, it's silly one can do that but it gives some legal credibility to the case.
People do target Google and Apple too.
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Actually a good reason might be scalability. Authenticating every single request creates a big load on your authentication service. That's a lot of RPC's, particularly if you're using single sign-on and those RPC's are coming from every web app you run.
Intercom Launches the Messenger for Business
Thiel has opposed mass [1] immigration to the United States which should not be mistaken with opposition to all immigration.

For context, only 15% of new lawful permanent residents in 2014 were selected for education or skill (the employment-preference category).

[1] like (but not limited to) anyone who likes strolling over the border or overstaying visas
Yup that's why everyone was buying CDOs from Fannie Mae and flipping houses in 2007.

That's why everyone in 1940s Germany thought it was a good idea to eliminate the Jews.

Groupthink ftw!
Amazon gets into banking
Smartwatch shipments drop 32-percent in the second quarter
How long is “permanently” supposed to be?
The problem is not that the notation exists and that there are multiple ways to say the same thing, it's that students are forced to memorize all of it for its own sake.

In fact, there aren't just "three" ways to describe 2 * 2 * 2=8, there are infinitely many. Because 2 * 2 * 2=8 shows up in so many different contexts, and notation in each of those contexts highlights a different (hopefully useful) feature for that context, you'll never be able to have "just" one way to say a thing. You can have your favorite, sure, but all notational preferences are aesthetic.

FWIW I think this triangle notation is also misleading in its own way. Students have to memorize arbitrary rules about how "mirroring" the triangle changes the operations at each corner, and whether they actually connect that to the underlying arithmetic operations is just as tenuous as with the classical notation.

You see the video maker say, as an afterthought, that once the students are fluent in this beautiful notation they can go about understanding why the it works, but the same problem as before! They're memorizing arbitrary symbol shuffling, maybe reducing cognitive load but also introducing random extra facts along the way like parallel resistance (which algebra students care about that, again?), and the connection between the true idea and the work they're doing is thin.
We changed the misleading title to a more representative sentence from the article. If anybody suggests a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
It is true that GoChat doesn't need to be that expensive to maintain and his analysis is pretty much correct (I've maintained something that had similar amount of traffic, similar dynamics, and didn't cost me arms and legs at all, far from it. It's amazing how cheap you can start a company nowadays)

But no need for bashing someone else. These things are a fad so this GoSnaps thing will probably go the same way as GoChat anyway.
In addition to back references, Perl also has forward and back assertions, IF/ELSE, and recursion IIRC. I'm not sure if anyone actually USES those features, but they are there.

Python adopted back references as well as forward and back assertions, but not the other stuff.

Perl really turned regular expressions into something else entirely...
If that's not a weird joke, I really want to hear why you think marrow is going to absorb more microwaves than any other part of your body. Because it won't, it's an overall heat like sitting in a sauna. At low power it's warm, past that it's unpleasant, past that you have heat stroke.
Could have been a space lizard as well.

My attempt at humor aside, how do you tell if someone is "just" a publicity-seeker, vs. someone who employs publicity for other purposes? If his goal was to use theatrics to persuade others to get involved in the anti-war movement, then it was a success.

His activism continued when he was underground and living under an assumed name, with the Save the River campaign. Was that also publicity seeking?

Were the Dadaists also "just" publicity seekers?
Dockerized prediction.IO
>You don't realize how just ugly and tacky billboards are until you live in a place without them for a few years...

I recently visited San Francisco and was appalled by the billboards. There's something very jarring about seeing internet memes on a billboard.[1]

[1] http://i0.wp.com/digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bill...
This is more or less our position. COBOL has never been ranked, for example, because COBOL isn't highly visible on GitHub or Stack Overflow. The last time we checked, for example, COBOL was present in 11 total repositories on GH.

Which obviously stands in contrast to the reality that there are many enterprise systems - some of them mission critical - still running on the platform.

But from our perspective, that tells us less about what might be used moving forward than what is actively being discussed and written in by developers on the platforms we survey.

So no, we would not argue that these rankings accurately reflect the current distribution of languages within large enterprises. We do feel that the actions of a large number of developers from two different properties has the opportunity to be more predictive, however.
Fuzzing with AFL is an Art
With LinkedIn [0], Microsoft has much more in its arsenal.

That said, who cares. I've hardly seen anyone use uBlock Origin, Ghostery or Privacy Badger. OTOH, people love tools [1] that read your email and notify about due bills and the like.

[0] https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617

[1] Google Now
2M active users on a $20 server?

Would love to hear more about what you're doing.
"Telemetry off"

Haha... Right.
I didn't down vote you because I don't agree with anonymously down voting people when I disagree with a comment like a sneaky coward, but maybe I can shine a little light on a possible disagreement.

Twitter is made up of it's shareholders and workers. The workers have been receiving a salary(profit essentially). Twitter shareholders make money when the market cap goes up(profit essentially). It's likely a semantics discussion about what "profit" specifically means to each person more than anything.
The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early
HN is hardly an active supporter of unicorn style VC pump and dump. We poke fun of it all the time.

This is a common criticism of HN I hear on Twitter by people who clearly don't spend much time here.
Actually, I'm hoping to avoid TypeScript. Its use in Angular 2 probably makes it inevitable, though.

At the moment, still using ES 5 (for an Angular 1 app), as we have to support IE 11 and started the project a while back before Angular 2 shipped.

I'm more interested in the functional-friendly features of ES 6 / 2016 (tail call elimination, gather/spread params & return values operations, etc) than I am in emulating Java with TypeScript. Also, I actually like JS, and would like to avoid a transpiler step.
This is a laptop shell with an 11.6" screen, a keyboard, and a built-in, supposedly '8 hour' battery.

Given that the only other option in this space is the long-discontinued Motorola Lapdock [1], this sounds very useful.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Lapdock-100-Smartphones-Pack...
First thing that came to mind when I read your question - I found the story of Bertha Benz pretty amazing :

https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/classic/berth...

https://medium.com/start-up-vision/a-tale-of-karl-bertha-a-r...

Of course, the history of science is full of stories of perseverance despite personal and social obstacles but I am unsure whether that's what you meant by technological breakthroughs.

Closer to the modern day, there is the story of India's sanitary pad man although not sure if that counts as technological breakthrough (although it was iterative and fueled by perseverance) :

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26260978
Snowden designed an iPhone attachment that detects unwanted radio transmissions
i feel like the usual best practice for studying math is to use the same concepts in as many different settings/with as many different terms for the same thing as possible. By this I mean, literally, knowing the subject so well that there's not a context that can confuse you. Notation is no exception to this. If you know 2 ways to correctly solve a problem all the better. If you know 3 that's even better, for instance.
Why is building a wall ridiculous? Humans have been buildings walls for thousands of years.

Yes, NATO countries should be fulfilling their obligations under the NATO treaty.

Seems reasonable to question that.

> I haven't heard anything from him that indicates deep thinking about an issue.

You haven't heard anything as filtered through CNN, NY Times, Huffington Post, Vox, or whatever other rag you read. Just watch the man's speeches about foreign policy or the aftermath of the Orlando shooting.
The net immigration rate to the US is 0.38%. That's hardly 'mass immigration.' I take it that means he's happy with the status quo?

And, if not, when is he going back to Germany?
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Is this a calculated derailment technique?
Why MS? Because MS is the subject being discussed in this post, is why. Wanna talk Apple? Open up an Apple privacy related article's comments and you'll read the same concerns accompanied by more red herrings asking 'why just Apple?'. Repeat for Goggle, if you need further clarification.

Why not Verizon? Why not NSA? Why not the traffic strips counting cars? why not the ticket guy @ the cinema?
Our site (https://motionarray.com) does things differently. We take the entire site's earnings each month and distribute 50% to all of our producers based on their products' download percentages.

For example, if one producer somehow managed to have only their products downloaded for the month, they would take home the entire 50% of the site's earnings.
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Do you ban airplanes? Or the taxis that get people to the airport? Or apps that tell people when flights are scheduled?

Right, of course not.

It's not that you shouldn't care, it's that you should care in proportion to the seriousness. 234 death is fifteen days of 2014's driving fatalities.

Why do you hate the children so much that you don't care to save them except from movie-plot deaths?
> The billionaire tech investor has been a staunch opponent of immigration. Back in 2008, Gawker found that Thiel had donated $1 million to NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration group that has consistently been labelled racist and a firm fan of active population control.

...

> He then invested in the SeaSteading Institute which wanted to turn Thiel’s dream into a reality. The reason? He felt the government wasn’t doing enough to keep Silicon Valley stocked with foreign talent. [0]

Some mixed messaging here...

[0] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/10/shouldnt-surprised-...
You could certainly start by adding a lines to your /etc/hosts file:

google.com 0.0.0.0
2.83GB.

Voice sounds fine at 8kbps. Reduce it even further if all you need is to understand what's being said.
No, riders pay time and distance, you missed the distance part.
First flight of Facebook's Aquila solar-powered plane
Atoms and the voids: Individual atoms offer ultra-dense information storage
>No more jQuery from Google CDN, no more analytics/exception tracking/fonts from your favoured provider and no more advertising conversion tracking

Those all sound like reasonable best practices for building a website.
Ok, we replaced "led to" with "and" in the title above.
I think it's more subtle than that. The racist thing is a perfect example. I absolutely 100% think that Trump's opinions are racist. _However_ I also find the "progressives" who attack whites and objectify every other race to be equally racist. But because the latter controls the narrative in our industry and the framing of the message, many can't see the racism there or won't even acknowledge that it may exist.
He mentioned them in the blog post (Title 2, paragraph 3).
Beautifully explained. There certainly is a lot of Groupthink in Silicon Valley, but that doesn't extend to everything.

In Thiel's case, it unfortunately seems like he's turned into one of those rich people who is so far away from how most people live that he does not understand the consequences of some of his ideas. A common problem with the elite: although self-made elites usually have their past to reflect on and make better informed decisions (unlike e.g. the Koch brothers)
I'll be honest I haven't been following a lot of his positions on things other than what spills over into the tech/security folks I follow on twitter and various other sites. I didn't know about the NATO comments but here's what I learned about him just today [0]:

(edit: talking about whether Trump would defend Turkey if Russia invaded unprovoked): Trump said he would have to think about whether those countries “have fulfilled their obligations to us.” Trump clarified, “If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes.”

It seems pretty rational to me; he's saying that if a country like Turkey wants to acquire the benefits of a military alliance they need to pay their fair share. On the surface that seems reasonable to me and honestly, from reading here if Erdrogan got attacked by Russia I doubt most of Trump's enemies would shed any tears about his stance on NATO anyway.

[0] http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/21/trump-doesnt-care-about-er...
Millions of illegal immigrants (~11 mil by DHS estimates) and porous border through which they come and go as they please is definitely a problem.

And no, pointing these out as important issues that need attention is not "xenophobic" even if some politicians (or ppl in general) are afraid of addressing these for fear of being labeled a "xenophobic hate monger" :)
I find this thread a little confusing. That sample application is using Ueberauth (https://github.com/ueberauth) which appears to be a rich plugin-based authentication framework with many preexisting plugins. You don't run the sample application, you use the framework.
"deleted 20507 characters in body"

Hahaha
Trivia Is a Competition, Competitions Need Scoreboards
Oh sorry - just heard that this item has moved to a new blog host https://folknologylabs.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/a-perfect-st...
This story is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12136578.
"If the company changes the software too much, then other companies that have adopted it will need to make a copy of the software and rewrite it to suit their own needs -- an expensive and time-consuming process known as forking."

Seems like it's the opposite? Forking a project is technically easy. Writing something equivalent from scratch is much harder.

(Of course there are marketing considerations - it's "just a fork" so it might not get much attention.)
I don't really understand what the service worker that makes an extra network request adds here.

Why not just have the code that validates the session just do an `if (short_session != valid) { lookup_long_session_in_db() }` then return a fresh short session cookie with whatever request you're currently handling?
You know nothing about French history.
Link for Trump statement saying he wants to deport Muslims?
Cold? I remember at least one of the past two winters, SV was warmer than Dallas. It rarely dips below freezing.

It does get cold outside of the Bay Area, but the Bay Area is one of those special areas of California for temperature (along with San Diego).
Good catch! If only other languages were as simple :D
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 added the exception for Americans who are hard of hearing and watch American-made movies subtitled in English.