skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asimov's clear style is the form I try to emulate whenever I'm called to write something. His use of parenthesis in particular is excellent at gracefully adding information to a sentence without bogging down the paragraph with excessive expository sentences or distracting from the idea.

He's even driven me to read his nonfiction for entertainment. A great wit as well, the humor is between the lines on most everything he wrote, even the nonfiction.
Hence Finland's experiment with a basic income.
That's interesting. I previously researched this with regard to React apps, and the tenor was that server-side rendering was no longer required in order to get indexed by Google.

Google itself has this to say:

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/05/understanding-web-...

Have you tried to figure out the cause using Search Console?
The Revolution of Mobile Banking
Concern Over Colin Powell’s Hacked Emails Becomes a Fear of Being Next
If this is true, the entire organization, FSF or GNU shouldn't be blamed. Only those individuals that were apart of the action or had the power to do something positive and constructive about it.

I wonder. What if something is trying to dismantle GNU or FSF, from the inside.
What Bloodline’s Cancellation Means for Netflix
I get what this is saying, but there does seem to be a nearly-unspoken assumption here that the "perfect" working environment involves high-frequency communication, including regular synchronous communication -- i.e. replicating the open-plan/daily standups/short iterations model of programming that seems to be the current thing for in-office programming jobs. That's a perfectly reasonable model, and clearly suits a lot of people well, but I do hope there's still appetite for exploring coarser-grained "trust people to go off on their own to solve problems" models as well.
Evidence?

Also FSF <> GNU.
Most of my friends still think Apple Maps is a complete failure of a product because of their badly received launch. I'm always able to get them admit that Apple Maps' satellite data is far superior when I show them the side by side (try the satellite + map tilt in a major city or try the 3d tours).
I'm partially remote working (RW) at an organization that is slowly rolling back its RW culture(1). The motto for this goes like 'teams work better if they are collocated, yada, yada'. The real reason is that managers want to feel in control (plus they want to drive away a lot of people by taking RW away). "Culture" is used as a smoke screen for more sinister incentives. (I can say that with confidence because I can see that RW is working fine while what hinders productivity is mammoth bureaucracy and politics put forward by the same people that keep blabbing about "culture".

To me it's clear that remote working is (should be) the way to go (why on earth tech jobs and consequently tech workers should cluster in small geographic areas, spend hours in commuting and feed our salaries to landlord rentiers is beyond my understanding). Then again other things in the past were a no-brainer future (e.g. less working hours - see experiments in Kellogs) but the world spinned to a different direction.

PS: Of course RW makes your tech job even easier to offshore which makes the whole thing more of a mixed bag of blessings and curses - like everything else in life :) .

(1) I think the trend started off by M.Mayer's move to roll back RW in yahoo (<cynic>leading to the spectacular yahoo growth we all know of</cynic>) but I'm not sure.
No one is being tried here. That sort of black and white thinking has no place in the real world. If you like it, go get a law degree and spend your days in courtrooms.
I'd say poor George Soros (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/george-soros-sells-off-appl...) but he's not technically poor.

He is a loser, though. That was a bad move. 3,100 shares of Apple sold.
No comments yet supporting the maintainer? She experienced real prejudice from issues at these orgs. No matter what the cause likely needs to be changed. But of course, I'm sure the super diverse community of core fsf and gnu did nothing wrong.
From what it looks like, basically full control of the browser by anyone that can manage to I personate the addons.mozilla.org. and that the fix wasn't expected or understood in the sept 4th nightly release. there's probably going to be a bigger investigation of this problem from what I'd expect because of that.
CloudMagic(Newton) and MONyog
Show HN: Solving a not-so-easy riddle with clojure.math.combinatorics
> The world-class neuroscientist with whom she teaches a free online class as mentioned at the bottom of the piece clearly agrees with her.

Yet neither of these folks seem to be doing primary research in the particular area they are teaching the course in.

Oakley's peer-reviewed resume on this is quite scarce:
http://www.barbaraoakley.com/articlesandreviews.html

Sejnowski is similarly light:
http://www.salk.edu/scientist/terrence-sejnowski/publication...

Are we going to wind up with another "10,000 hours" debacle?
Could you share a reference for "Batteries are now cheaper than peakers everywhere"
Microservices also enforce boundaries significantly more strongly. A layered monolith can still easily have random people cut across boundaries without you knowing because there are hundreds of engineers all working in the same system.

Large companies don't have problems throwing more engineers at a problem. But they will always have a problem in coordination costs.

Microservices also allow you to use different tech stacks for different purposes more easily.

Maybe use java for one involving hadoop or some GIS library. Use erlang for some message management service, use golang for some simple API service, use nodejs for some frontend web server, etc.

Overall the advantages of microservices come for social reasons, not for a particular technical reason.
> I do not believe that the FSF or the GNU
project deserve to exist.

I would say "Extremism does not deserve to exist.", but then I would be extremist.
ARC is GC algorithm.

http://gchandbook.org/
is it just me or this interview is kinda unprepared?
the questions that sama asks, the way that musk answer & the way that interview stop.
But overall, I enjoy this series, kudos!
I suppose I can't speak for the FSF, but I highly doubt they would ever come out and publicly say why they fired someone. Most companies/similar would never be willing to do that - so it is entirely possible we'll never hear the other side of this story.
I wonder whether or not the brand and legal credibility of e.g. YouTube will give them enough leverage to someday "crowdsource" the infrastructure with similar tech, but not defederate, leaving data accessible to the users. Or whether they will need to go the WhatsApp route of closing a federated system(YouTube would do this through drm and an encrypted protocol I guess).
I was pleasantly surprised when I was given a global IPv6 address at my parents house (where they use Sky). I had no idea they'd already managed to do it, and was expecting them to drag their feet for as long as possible.
Exploring std::string
Well, it is zero sum, but the actual limits are unimaginably vast. Though, there is a very high energy barrier to exploiting the resources of the entire universe. Let’s at least get to Mars, first.

There’s the matter of supply and demand. Nothing comes out of nowhere. When you create a thing, you demand some resources, and then the next person has to pay more for the same resource. Even for a creative output from yourself, you need food and shelter. (And what a controversy shelter has become, in the San Francisco Bay Area.) In the ideal case, the resources you consume enable you to create more wealth than you cost to the rest of society, and thus society benefits. (Not the now homeless person in San Francisco, though.)

Technology is sort of weird in that consumption actually decreases costs, in some situations. The semiconductor companies are paying exponentially increasing costs for state of the art fabs, and they need to keep the fabs selling at peak capacity to make a profit. Also, software is merely knowledge, with very low reproduction costs, so a small production of software can be consumed on a vast scale across the planet, and facilitate the production of more software, enriching people’s lives. This does not make it easy to reward the creators fairly.
I think Tesla is a better contractor than when California tried something similat with Enron in the late 90's.
It is possible to make a schema such that you can add whatever you want. And this only applies to exporting the data anyway.
Perfect example of indignant cathartic reactionism. Regardless of the veracity of Leah's claims I look forward to a fork, GNU-affiliated or not.
Back in 2012, I picked up energy harvesting as one of my major project for wireless communications masters at NUS. Towards the end of masters I came up with a commercial idea of using energy harvesting for charging. Thus for summer that year, I ended up attending founders institute with idea of somehow commercializing wireless energy transfer. We got a team of friends, with my roommate PhD in physics, and a friend from electronics, and another friend from MS- mechatronics.

I proposed using wireless charging at short distance, after meandering for weeks with best use case, we ended up pursuing wireless charging for robots. Thus FLUXCHARGE1 came into existence.

When we realized that patent would be a major issue, which at that time was with Witricity2, we had to give up on the idea.

I did a quick homework of the situation and things haven’t changed much in four years. There are two major companies now pursuing it, (as mentioned here)
http://www.energous.com/
http://www.ossia.com/

Also from R&D point of view my prof (Dr. Rui Zhang) from NUS is still pursuing how to do wireless energy transfer5

Reference
1.	http://www.slideshare.net/arunabh010/fluxcharge-wireless-cha...
2.	http://witricity.com/
3.	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508409
4.	http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devic...
5.	https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/elezhang/publication_SWIP...
"some transphobic cissexist people"

Funny how one can only see the hate on one side.

Other than that, really childish and pathetic post. Fork and forget this huge ego.
Screenshot for future reference:

http://i.imgur.com/XKRyolT.png

http://archive.is/d7zmR
WIFI hack
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/revealjs_presentation_format.ht...
You will have many more purposes covered than the iphone7 can give you :)
Slogan: generate logo for open-source projects
YouTube video download best way
Actually removing profit tax and simply add VAT to the final consumer sale seems like a decent starting point for simplifying the system and prevent tax evasion.
My guess would be that it's too hard (Mohs scale) and erodes the enamel. Hydrated silica is essentially sand
In my opinion this article and others I've seen like it seem have everything backwards. For new graduates I wouldn't recommend living in downtown San Diego, at least not right now. It's (relatively) expensive and can get old real quick.

Instead I'd suggest trying to find a job downtown or elsewhere and live somewhere more exciting/fun like the beach (Mission/Pacific) or any of the neighborhoods surrounding downtown (North/South Park). The rent is generally <$1000/month, the commute from any of these places is <20 minutes, and there's always something to do.

Also, haven't seen the University of San Diego (USD) mentioned in any of the other comments, but they just opened a standalone engineering school last year, so I'm sure that will also start to attract a lot more talent to the area (biased USD alumnus here).

After doing a 4 year stint in Orange County and just moving back last year, I'd say things are looking better than ever for SD, not worse. I'm glad I moved back and excited to see where it goes from here.
Bookmarked to come back to show my math in the morning.

The gist is they can absorb power at a cost that is pretty close to free (when there is excess power flowing through the grid) versus burning a fuel whose price is volatile, a steep declining cost curve for batteries, and aggressive federal government tax incentives.
If someone punches hour friend in the face, you should not have to wait for public evidence and a court conviction before you stop working with them.

More evidence would be nice, but libreboot as a project can choose to leave GNU for reasons they know.

One obvious reason they are not providing more evidence is that I am sure it is going to lead to large amounts of public abuse of the person who was fired.
Nah, it was the "so when you're outside of work, what do you like to do?" part of the interview. Not like I was whiteboarding code one moment and then all "so, GTA 5, huh?" the next.
"NotABug.org is powered by a liberated version of gogs"

What does that mean?
And then we might still be on IPv4 30 years from now.
Segmenting a market is often suboptimal. See how Intel is "segmenting" their CPU market by hard locking features in "consumer" CPUs. This effectively means they are not available unless you pay big big money.
"The platonic ideal of a 21st-century company is a CEO and a computer."

I like this comparison with Uber.
Not exactly the primary features of such a mobile app for most people .)
Nothing you posted adequately contests anything stated here. The difference between Alphabet being a shell corp or a holding company by definition is almost meaningless since everything that isn't Google is a hilarious failure. If anything it seems designed to shield Google's reputation from all their failing projects, but most nobody is buying it.
Ok, so you can export it, but only in a format that is useful to a programmer.
Does anyone have (referral code/secret handshake) for the same?
I'm not sure we'd be able to send another Apollo mission nowadays to get you back from the moon, though.

I used to work at Fermilab, the largest US particle physics laboratory. There was this ridiculous thing that mid-year, our funding would run dry (because congress decided after the fact to cut our funding, or because there was no budget to begin with) and we would be sent on furlough (mandatory unpaid leave). Thank god I was paid by an external institute.

Now I work for IHEP, the institute which is behind the CEPC (though I'm not working on that project). I share the opinion that it is currently much more likely for such a large project to succeed in China than in the US (which surprized me a bit in the beginning). It's the difference between being able to plan a few years in advance, vs. not having a budget for more than the next six months.
There is a more forgiving interpretation. Even if the FSF has not actively discriminated, it chose not to help support one of its members from the effects of discrimination. This can be seen as a protest against inaction.

How big is the FSF? If the organisation is pretty small, I would be concerned.

Matt Levine recently had a piece on the Wells Fargo events:

>“The 1% that did it wrong, who we fired, terminated, in no way reflects our culture nor reflects the great work the other vast majority of the people do,” he said. “That’s a false narrative.”

>You hear bank CEOs say that sort of thing all the time when a few rogue employees do bad stuff that incurs a big fine for the bank, but there are never 5,300 of them. It is the sorites paradox of "a few bad apples": If one or two or eight rogue employees don't reflect the broader culture, why should 5,300?

At one point actions do reflect on the entire project, though the line is fuzzy.

I think the last line is a bit strong. I've seen much worse language elsewhere, of course, but I don't know if it serves the point. Though empathy should be had for Leah, I imagine it was not a decision taken lightly.
I feel like innocent until proven guilty works for most things because it is a judicious way to look at the world, it avoids witch hunts.

The world is black and white, pretending otherwise is where we get into trouble.
"given that the prospective customers (i.e. decision-makers who control companies' funds) would have personal negative incentives against purchasing it."

That is something I would believe, push-back from existing people in companies. What about new companies selling products? (remember ways of making money in SW: internal services, contract/consulting and product)
I don't understand why you would be concerned and not elated by his effect on society. Tech has been stuck for 40 years in most major industries, and in a time when it seems impossible to overcome the entrenched incumbents of those industries, here comes a person who shows us that it is in fact possible. Now people have hope that our future will be decided not by frail, unmoving conglomerates, but instead by nimble and innovative start ups. There are going to be more science ventures thanks to that.
Brain Region Associated with Generosity Uncovered
Mob opinion is generally not the best gauge of reality.

Look at all the shit people are posting about Apple removing an ancient analog audio port, vs how many people are posting about Samsung the phone that self combusts.
This article shows practically no evidence of its main thesis. To substantiate that Chomsky has been "blown out of the water", he mentions 3 things:

1) "[...] greater awareness of the diversity of human languages, and especially the discovery by Daniel Everett of a Brazilian indigenous language, Pirahã, that apparently has no subordinate clauses"

That's the one and only evidence the author shows for this point. No examples on how the language works or how it stands in contrast to Universal Grammar, and no other mention of any other language that might be contradicting UG as well (even though the author implies that there are other languages that stand in contradiction to UG). Later on though the author says "It is not even undisputed that Pirahã lacks subordinate clauses" so the one and only evidence is still a maybe.

2)"The second is advances in cognitive psychology. [...] Nowadays we know that the human mind has complex, powerful, abstract capabilities in many areas, not just language, and new possibilities are opening up for explaining language from general mechanisms of thinking and learning."

This is not an argument and no evidence has been shown for this point.

3)"The third factor is the increasing use of data-driven methods in computational linguistics [...] In a data-driven approach, structure arises because sentences obviously consist of parts that can be recognized before recognizing the whole. [...] This predicts that the grammar of uncommon words will be simple and regular, but common words will have more quirks because we have more examples from which to learn them. That is exactly what we observe in language, and it’s a source of great clutter in a grammar constructed on Chomskyan principles."

As far as I know, the fact that sentences have parts that can be individually recognized before recognizing the whole, is not contradicting UG at all. To the best of my knowledge, UG only says that there is a structure, not how the structure comes about. So the only point left is the fact that common words have more varied usage and are harder to pin down as a particular specific element of the structure. I don't see how that relates to UG quite frankly. Maybe someone can enlighten me on this.

I have no particular love for UG, I just know of it on a very general sense, but if I was a teacher and a student gave me this article as a report, I would've failed him just for the lack of evidence.
People pick SVG because it looks sharp, has certain features that make development easier, and because they are hack developers who do not understand how performance graphics work.
Pssst, jamwt!

Don't let them buy you beer.

Insist on tasting their homebrew instead.
I listen to progressive metal a majority of the time. Instrumental/ambient progressive metal :)
It's not that you can't work in reverse and get an estimate, its just that you can't know if it is accurate. What if the journalist made a mistake in their inflation calculation?

They are clearly rounding to the inflation adjusted number, and we don't know what year they received payment.
Also stops some people from doing good things - they'd be bored, so they'd either go after politics (yup, either big or local), actual art (ok), maybe make something as in crafts (probably best outcome).
I too think that was overreaction and who wrote it is some kind of... emotionally unstable and childish. The email lacks a lot of context, sources and proves. The thread itself is less verifiable than accusations of JAppelbaum of rape.
"two 20kb toddlers."

Is that a mistype or do you really measure babies in kilobits?
I think the lesson here is that there is no hidden trick, just a lot of work/money spent over a long time frame and not everyone will be successful.
> In remote team, we get to experience the culture at its most naked form. There is no catered lunch or a hip office with table tennis table. Everything artificial is stripped away.

I totally disagree with this. The most naked form of communication is (and IMHO always will be) face to face. I can't tell how many countless times many emails were exchanged before simply speaking face to face solved the problem.

Working remotely is awesome. All power to remote workers, but no amount of collaborative tools replaces the value of face-to-face communication.
My team just started a large project; a few of us work remotely and a few are in an office. For the project, we opened a Zoom video channel, and all sit there with video chat running on our second monitors. It's working out great. We very much have the be-able-to-pop-in-for-a-question thing going on like you would in a project war room.

I'm thinking of making it a standing thing one day weekly to work this way. There's certainly a distraction tradeoff, but the communication bandwidth is just phenomenal.
Making Sense of Symbols in Scala's Collections API
gogs without non-GNU blobs.
What non-GNU blobs are in Gogs? (I use Gogs, so just curious)
Religion in US 'worth more than Google and Apple combined'
Scrum Master – Defining Roles and Responsibilities – Free EBook
What was hateful about Rowe’s letter?
Very few issues that are easily resolved f2f can't be resolved on the phone. It just takes people who are really great at communicating to make it work.

f2f is way better for teambuilding though. Hard to go out to dinner together over Slack.
I'm wondering if the license will be changed too.
One way to look at it is that KSI is a proof of stake blockchain where the stakeholders are (mostly) fixed. Often people would call that a private blockchain (or a consortium blockchain), to use the terminology from the following article:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-b...
I'm sorry you understood me to be having fun with - when I was making fun of. When I was a kid (yes, I'm one of the old ones...) the abbreviation for number was "nr" - plural, "nrs" and lynch, if one intended to hang to death, was spelled with a "y".

You don't have to think I am funny any more than either one of us thought the idiot with the car was funny, but the purposeful, obvious misunderstanding of hate-speak accompanied by finger-pointing and laughter is a valid method of calling out idiots. And I think we can agree that the dude with the car was an idiot.
Cool, does that mean we can scale down the processor performance by half and still have a phone that is competitive, but has twice the battery life? OK, I know speed and power consumption are not linear. I'd really love if one phone would skip a year of increasing CPU speed and thinness, but would keep the advances in battery tech.
> RW makes your tech job even easier to offshore

I don't think so. Offshore comes with its own challenges.
Interested in your `conference talks about databases` is there any online links to your talks? also your email address strikes me as being a bit odd. I guess you don't want the bots finding your real email address.

cheers.