skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to feel bad. I really do. I have a lot of journalist friends and they have made cogent and reasonable arguments about how this will set a precedent that will quell their speech. Even if they are reporting something that isn't libelous, they will always fear in the back of their mind that a wealthy person who doesn't like them will bring a case against them that will bankrupt them, even if what they wrote was legit, just through having to defend themselves.

On the other hand, I don't like Denton or Gawker because they have no ethics. I was personally harmed by them when they decided to make their hobby doxxing controversial reddit users, and I know someone whose life was completely destroyed by Gawker but didn't have the money to sue.

I'm also not a fan of the fact that a lot of their early content was literally them reposting reddit content without permission.

So if this were anyone else with any other media organization, I would totally be on their side and agree that this is a travesty of justice that Theil was able to fund this lawsuit.

But for Denton and Gawker? Good, they deserve to go down in flames.

Edit: I would like to add that some of those journalist friends work for Gawker Media, are upstanding, ethical, and wonderful people, and will most likely loose their jobs, and I feel terrible for them. It's just a few bad eggs at Gawker that ruined it for everyone, but it came from the top (Denton).
I grew up in rural Iowa with a poor Internet connection (satellite) that dropped packets if there were thick clouds, any snow or rain, even wind sometimes. Integrity checks would have helped a lot.
> I would have even given him another chance

What value would there possibly be in giving him another chance? I mean, in this case it wasn't possible because he managed to tank the company on the way out, but had they managed to survive him, what would they possibly get out of working with him again?
I was idly looking at "age of universe", "age of earth", and "age of life" numbers and wondering something like this just the other day. The universe is only about 3x as old as life on Earth, and we've just barely gotten to the point where we can make noise nearby worlds can conceivably hear. Radio's a hundred years old. That's nothing on those time scales.

Look at this diagram of the size of the space that could pick up on our radio broadcasts with regards to the Milky Way: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/3390.ht...

If we get at all pessimistic about the likelihood of life happening, it doesn't feel like much of a stretch to imagine that we are some of the first ones. I would love to be proven wrong in this by having some advanced Elder Race show up and try to help us get out of this short-sighted, self-destrictive capitalist spiral we're in, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
I grew up in the late 70s and early 80s. I first learned about programming from my father, who worked at DEC during its prime. To this day I deeply appreciate him sharing his love of the field with me from ayoung age. My first computer-related memories are learning to program in BASIC on a kit computer we had in our unfinished basement. I loved learning in a cold basement cellar surrounded by pieces of electronic gear in a makeshift office.

My second earliest memory about computers centers around learning Logo on an Apple II (I believe) in third grade. I remember exactly what Seymour describes: being shown the basics, and then being free to explore by making the turtle do what I wanted it to. I remember sketching designs in a notebook and then asking enough questions about angles and distances to be able to implement my designs.

I think my love of programming comes from an equal mix of people like my father who I could learn from directly, and people like Seymour who created systems that made it possible to learn independently.
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.co.uk (launched by arstechnica some months ago) versus .com

The two share a lot (all?) of content.
Maybe there's some system of kudos that isn't addressed in canon. Like in The Algebraist. Working as a bus boy ups your rep and makes it more likely you get to run a restaurant or viewed highly. Perhaps there's a large contingent of "NEETs" that just hang out in holodecks all day. But society frowns on that and encourages doing _something_. Perhaps there's lots of places with robo bus boys, but it's far more prestigious

Also, at one point, there's mention of "teleporter credits" as an explanation of why going off to academy caused homesickness -- couldn't teleport on demand. Even in the Culture, citizens had to show their capability quite a bit to design a part of an orbital. They couldn't even get their own ships on demand.

Trademark enforcement would probably be one of the things kept in a post scarcity society, if there was any system of reputation left! Being an X(TM) athlete comes with prestige so you wouldn't want someone else to be able to endow that prestige at will.
Oh and P.S.: I've been in contact with a number of developers who used Kagi and have created both an open and closed group where we can discuss the situation and share news and commiserate. (The closed group is simply to allow us to talk privately if we feel the need.) Here's a link to the open group. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kagi-closure-informa...
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You misspelt "people who like intelligent discussion". A joke now and then is okay, but try to give it enough redeeming value. (And for the rest, don't worry too much about downvotes.)
> The press tends to be defensive due to the long history of attacks it's had to withstand to do their jobs.

They also tend to be fairly expansive in defining what exactly their jobs are, e.g. demanding protections to overlook and ignore criminal behaviour that no other citizens have.

I'm not terribly sympathetic here: journalists should have exactly the same rights and responsibilities that every other citizen has, period.
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Probably some of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-owned_utility
I thought indoor sports like basketball were in both. But I guess that's not the case. So basically, you can only participate in the Olympics once every four years if you're lucky.
Django 1.10 released
You couldn't get those combo packages without a merger?
Musk’s SolarCity Offer Wipes Out His Cousins’ Stock Options
I've seen a number of people do it. Hell, I've done it in the past (no bites though). I have no problem with it, not that I'm an authority of any kind.
Well, you can break "why does a country go to war" into two separate questions: first, why has war been declared? And second, why do the soldiers enlist and willingly go?

You can probably put together a decent argument saying "The second War in Iraq was because of oil", but I haven't heard any stories of soldiers who signed up and came out of their deployment with the rights to an oil well. If you want to have a discussion about the motivations for war, it seems foolish to ignore the motivations of the boots on the ground that are actually making shit happen out there.
How did you handle things like import statements? That's really the biggest thing for me: if I'm working in a large project, I don't want to have to think about what package some really obscure utility is before using it.

Losing Shift+F6 refactoring is a little annoying, but definitely not something that makes programming Java impossible. Autocomplete might get a little hairy as well if you're referring to classes that exist in Jar files too, or am I wrong about this?

As for everything else, using the CLI for source control and building is something I do anyways, even when using an IDE. At least with Gradle, that is. As long as some of those issues have solutions, though, I think this might be possible. Maybe I'll have look into it a bit more.
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This is a fantastic paper. Truly shows a deeper intuition can be gained if a rigorous mathematical description is made. Upon reading it, it seems so obvious how treating wires as point charges would give flaws, and the surprise that the radius is more important than the interwire distance, after seeing the results make sense. Remarkable work.
Mexican village uses fireflies to halt deforestation by local logging industry
Predicted before clicking this link that I would see, at the top, a typical libertarian excuse of this situation. Was not disappointed.
We have this at work, actually. I wrote a macro language for pascal in guile. At first it was a first draft, but it worked well enough and got to stay.

It generates enormous amounts of code that would otherwise have been unmaintainable. As it is now, it is just a couple of hundreds of lines of scheme and pascal code that recursively generates pascal.

We had some problems making it scale (as I said, it generates a lot of code), but the upcoming 2.2 guile solved most of our issues, and I rewrote parts of it to make it fast enough. Got it down from 1 minute to 10 seconds on a 10+ minute build when rebuilding everything.

I might be able to opensource it. With minor tweaks, it can probably be made a bit more language-agnostic.
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So much for "disruption" in startup ideology, but I guess it is China that starts bring them back to reality. This is China, nothing is fair even you optimistically believe it to be.

I'm not sure what's the fantasy on China. I'd personally prefer winning the 6b population markets over the 1.3b.

Sure, it takes time, but in a long run it is more sustainable. But obviously in a startup world, a sustainable business without the hyper-growth is not much valued.
TL;DR : Imagine if you had a non-profit soup kitchen but charged the homeless to buy your soup. That is a sports NGO.

The salary of the Executive Director of USA Swimming is $1-millon-plus dollars a year from an organization that pulls in about $41-million annually from donations and otherwise.

http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/37308384-90d5-...

The salary for a USA Olympic Swimmer, if they sign on to do fund raising events and make appearances for the organization is about $70,000 — About 55-swimmers are chosen for the Olympic team every four years. They are not paid that salary when they are not on the national team.

Though the athletes love the sports they do sport NGOs are making tranches of money of the backs of children and athletic teams who are force to "pay tribute" and competition fees just so they can get a chance to realize a dream that is harder to obtain than becoming an Academy Award winning actor or a CEO of a billion dollar company.
TL;DR : Imagine if you had a non-profit soup kitchen but charged the homeless to buy your soup. That is a sports NGO.

The salary of the Executive Director of USA Swimming is $1-millon-plus dollars a year from an organization that pulls in about $41-million annually from donations and otherwise.

http://www.usaswimming.org/_Rainbow/Documents/37308384-90d5-...

The salary for a USA Olympic Swimmer, if they sign on to do fund raising events and make appearances for the organization is about $70,000 — About 55-swimmers are chosen for the Olympic team every four years. They are not paid that salary when they are not on the national team.

Though the athletes love the sports they do sport NGOs are making tranches of money of the backs of children and athletic teams who are force to "pay tribute" and competition fees just so they can get a chance to realize a dream that is harder to obtain than becoming an Academy Award winner actor or a CEO of a billion dollar company.
> Stars larger than about three times the sun's mass

> will expire before life has a chance to evolve.

Protip: if you are looking to hide the existence of your civilization, a good place would be in the vicinity of one of these.
I cannot agree to this. Your entire premise rests upon the idea that these people are creating content for you for free. That you are entitled to someone else's work for free.
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It's laughable that Brave is marketed as a new, fast browser when it's just a Node/Electron application. It's barely more than a skin on a Chrome window with no possibility of ever outperforming Chrome.
But how many people actually think the potential is unlimited? Clearly there is a limit, but its likely far enough away from our current position that it doesn't particularly matter.
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Some of the highlights:

- Full text search for PostgreSQL.

- New-style middleware to solve the lack of strict request/response layering of the old-style of middleware.

- Official support for Unicode usernames.
> I thought indoor sports like basketball were in both. But I guess that's not the case. So basically, you can only participate in the Olympics once every four years if you're lucky.

Well, you can do it every two years if you are a multisport athlete with at least one sport in each summer and winter games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_athletes_who_competed_...
Not the American pronounciation!
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Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
I've read praise of Thunderf00t on HN this weekend and today. Skimming his content, he comes across like a rather unpleasant person who produces polemical material. Am I missing something, why do people refer to him and his content in a positive manner?
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Edit: added link to job description
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> Also, anyone think this will blow back on Thiel?

Nothing blows on billionaires.
isn't this just Net Neutrality through the backdoor?
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Is there any reason an experience from "restaurants" is meaningful in the context of what the article is about? At the very least I see not even an effort from you, as if it's all the same. It seems to me that those are entirely different categories. For example, the restaurant business is highly competitive, people can easily go elsewhere.

Regarding the article though, I wonder what the purpose of spending 99% of the budget for the article on visuals rather than the actual article was. That's a really lame piece of pseudo-"journalism". It provides a very weak argument (if any), which is unfortunate given the importance of the topic.
I can see this being useful to the average user who is encouraged to download "video.mp4" from Popular-File-Upload-Site, but thanks to a dark pattern on the website, is presented with a "video.exe" download instead.
As a child of the 80s logo was one of the first languages that I learned. Although the relative motion was difficult to understand, and functions seemed to be impossibly hard - they worked eventually. 15 years later when I encountered functional programming for the first time I remember the shock and awe that somebody had the foresight to plantvthose seeds so long in advance.

Later still I became a teacher, and learning about constructivism for the first time I encountered Seymour's published body of work. So mindblowing. The passion and the vision inspired my career.

RIP Seymour, you will be missed, but after what you have given to the world you will never be forgotten.
I still have some old Windows shareware games from the 90'ies that as late as just a few weeks ago generated a sale through Kagi (even if there has been no updates to the games for more than 10 years!).

So even if I'm not financially dependent on Kagi, I still have the account since then and this shutdown really came out of nowhere. Very little communication received from their part.