skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes (though not exactly related to money in my case; but I've seen firsthand how money affects other people). I've experienced this pretty strongly after my open source project got some traction - And it's not even the most popular one in its category.

I often think that if the effect was so strong in my case (with such a relatively minor win), it must be far stronger for the 'big winners'.

My open source project got popular almost entirely because of luck. I worked really hard on it for many years but if it hadn't been for a single event (which came about because of pure luck - AKA "Good timing"), it wouldn't have gone anywhere.

After my project got some traction; people started treating me better at work, I started getting more (better) job opportunities, founders of various promising SV startups started reaching out to me with job offers.

Also, in the past 2 years, I got in contact with 3 people whose open source projects I liked (back when they only had a few hundred stars or less on GitHub) and now all of them have over 2K stars each on GitHub - One of those people (whom I met in person) raised over $1 million in seed funding for his project (several months after I had met him). It all seems oddly related though I can't quite put my finger on it.

That said, none of it has translated to financial success for me personally (aside from maybe a few really good job offers).
I'd add another factor the author did not mention: the market in which those "Elite U.S. men" compete is vastly more competitive than it was a generation ago.

I run a small technology business and have thought about ways to try and reduce the number of hours I work. One of the principal challenges is that every day I am fending off competition from offshore firms with lower cost structures and VC funded startups with resources to burn. That competition dictates a certain tempo whether I like it or not.
U.S. to release guidelines on driverless vehicles
Do you use it? I've always been hesitant to add another layer of abstraction, as AWS already takes forever to push updates into CloudFormation.
Yeah but he was already granted immunity to testify to the FBI, so if he wanted to expose her legally, he had his chance. And he was no longer in charge of handling Clinton's email at that point anyway.
>there's no innate superiority of western european culture.

Please expand? I'm not talking about sauerkraut, television and opera here, but about human rights, humanist values and things like that. You know, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Thoughts that are at the heart of the European culture. Things that millions of people have died for.
I grew up in a small town and thought life there was pretty good until I moved to a city for university. Once I got a taste of living in a city, I didn't think I would ever return and couldn't understand why so many people live out there.

Then I had kids and we moved to the suburbs and I like living here better than any place I've lived before. Once self-driving cars are a thing, I'm buying one and moving even further out of the city.

Interestingly, there's been a lot of office space being built around me. I think companies that have a lot of suburban employees are moving to the suburbs (including my employer).
I gave up my .name domain a few years ago, primarily because people didn't understand it. I was wondering if the recent explosion of TLDs might help everyone collectively realize that there's more than '.com', but it doesn't seem to be happening yet.
Google acquired APIgee and now API.AI. Why Google is so interested in API's now?
The US interstate numbering system is fairly common knowledge. Does it by itself really deserve a post here?
Tesla could gets lots of quality data with the autopilot disengaged and running in a passive state such that the autopilot's calculations are compared to the human driver's actions. Any large variances (such as the autopilot wanting to suddenly veer left when the driver didn't) would be very valuable. I've done this with experimental machine control algorithms a number of times.
Started screwing around with a limited version of Visual Basic 6 when I was 8 or 9. I had always liked the visual design of computer programs, so the programming was sort of a means to an end to make cool GUIs.

This limited Visual Basic had most of the features of the professional edition, except you couldn't distribute compiled programs (only run them in the editor), and they took out all the help files for some reason. I got pretty used to having to forage on my own to find decent documentation for anything, relying on computer manuals from local libraries and tutorials from random sites to fill in the blanks. I'm not really sure why I had the patience to put up with that, to be honest. I think I just assumed everyone learned programming like that. I pretty much never met another person who knew anything about computer programming face-to-face until I went to college.

When I got tired of not being able to compile anything, I ended up experimenting with Visual Basic.net in a beta of Visual Studio 2005 a relative gave me, had a bad experience with that, and started looking for alternatives. Eventually, I basically settled on Python.

I still think Visual Basic 6 is one of the best programming environments ever made. It started in seconds, the GUI designer just worked, and the autocomplete was perfect. It even opened up with a blank project you could start screwing around with without even saving anything, encouraging a lot of experimentation with the widgets and language. It was QBasic for a different generation. :(
Ghost Robotics' Minitaur Quadruped Conquers Stairs, Doors, Fences
It Sure Seems Like Hillary Clinton’s Tech Guy Asked Reddit for Email Advice
Let us also recall that every "conventional instrument" was at one time not only unconventional, but even radically new.

Amen.

Thanks for sharing the talk! I'm a proud owner of one of those keyboards he is playing, a ROLI Seaboard. It is indeed an amazingly expressive, fantastic product
Old-skool demoscener here, I applaud this effort because it's both an attempt at adding "more" to the music and because it also shows that sometimes interesting ideas end up getting developed multiple times. When I was a kid there used to be these videos [1] that just crammed interesting computer generated graphics in with a custom sound track -- the one I'm linking to here had music composed by Thomas Dolby for example.

True, the demoscene produced lots of this kind of stuff also, but with as many different purposes and goals as similarities. I don't think of your effort or the video I linked to as being demoscene because they don't share the same ethos. Sting [2], and other big pop stars [3] played around with this kind of audio-video (sometimes interactive) stuff when people thought multimedia meant "CD-ROM" and FMV.

I think your effort here sits very comfortably in the context of these kinds of audio-visual efforts. Nicely done!

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KWyXopLxac
2 - https://archive.org/details/sting-all-this-time-interactive-...
3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSdI7HEn6EU
There's no reason it can't be used to fix climate change, and in fact cap & trade is the only type of law that's ever actually fixed any air pollution problem in real life. But for various reasons congress is preventing cap & trade from getting implemented at the federal level. And while Hillary Clinton supports a carbon tax, this doesn't actually impose any legally binding cap on carbon pollution, nor does it incentivize the entrepreneurs who are able to invent new technologies to get the biggest reductions for the least money.

One place it is working though is with fisheries. Today the majority of US commercial fisheries are managed using cap & trade (called 'catch shares'), and the work is being done to get 70% of the world's commercial fisheries managed this way be 2020:

https://www.edf.org/oceans/how-turn-around-overfishing-crisi...
This is pretty huge. It establishes intent.
I learned HTML and extremely basic JS in lower school to make basic web pages and kinda-sorta knew how to use browser tools to look into network requests (i.e. cheat on addictinggames type sites) and view page source etc.

I started intentionally learning when I got an office job in college and realized that a lot of the boring stuff I was doing would be trivial to automate. After excel formulae stopped being enough for what I wanted to do I went and learned python. VBA would have been the next logical step but after some investigation I found that was a good way to get shanghaied into terrible work forever.

I learned initially through Udacity's intro to programming Python course (their original search engine one), and then Norvig's follow on course. After that I started getting better at learning from the documentation and looking up the math and data structures I needed.

After I got sick of the office job I was at I did a dev bootcamp to get some kind of credential and to get some webdev experience (all my previous code was data munging, web crawlers, really terrible home grown templating solutions etc).

When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail, but code is one hell of a hammer, so I kept coding because there was always more crap I didn't want to do repeatedly.

The thing that struck me though was how no one else in that office (filled with quite intelligent people) seemed to see the opportunity before then. This is one of the reasons I wish everyone at least had exposure to coding. It seems rather unfair that previous experience as an addle-brained 8 year making a Pokemon or snowboarding website should have seeded such a relative advantage.
The Boston Marathon bombing fiasco was the result of reddit trying to deduce stuff in the real world based on photos and video and the like. This is reddit trying to deduce information based on reddit posts, on reddit. I think that's an important distinction.
People really should learn to not reuse usernames. Unique password per site, and unique name as well. This won't protect anyone from government agents, but it will make it harder for an Internet mob to determine your identity.
i grew up in dubai, which had the very similar concept of "wasta". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta
This offshoot reeks strongly of Flowers for Algernon
> From the way it reads it looks like he is asking how to bulk remove an email address from the archived messages so when they are turned over they don't contain the redacted email address.

You don't redact email addresses when you are subpoenaed by the f'ing FBI.

edit: My bad, it was the House Select Committee on Benghazi (July 2014). The FBI didn't take custody of the server until August 2015.
> As a cyclist on the road I'm bound to the exact same rules as cars, even though motorists frequently seem to have a problem with me having the right of way in certain circumstances.

I wish more cyclists and drivers actually believed that. As a driver, I'm willing to give a full lane to a biker if they ask for it. (If they're going "too slow", you can always pass in the adjoining lane.) As a biker, sometimes I need that lane; having a several ton car buzzing me on the side is not my idea of fun.

The way I see it is that people are — in general — sloppy, both in their driving and their biking. They think that "cutting corners" is okay.

> which pedestrians never do, they just go for it

(note: grandparent's comment) the problem with this is on a bike is that you're apt to hit a pedestrian. I've seen plenty of bikers on the Embarcadero in SF nearly collide with pedestrians, because the road is a T, and they're on the through road, and mistakenly believe they have no conflicts (they have both the aforementioned pedestrians, as well as any left-turning bikers).

Being on a bike doesn't have the same risk "feeling" AFAICT as a car. A quick glance around to determine "will a car probably hit me if I do this technically illegal thing?" seems to be all it takes.

(Car drivers are just as sloppy, too, just in different ways. I spend about equal time biking and driving, and the number of illegal maneuvers I see in a car on a daily basis is appalling too.)

Most people seem to exemplify Louis C.K.'s "My Favorite Way" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAsiC5a02U)
After reading this thread on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12247401) I made the move away from gmail to fastmail with my own TLD.

I used a `.me` TLD. I love it. Works great and haven't been confused yet. Still trying to work out what to host on the domain other than my mail... maybe a resume or something.
The left turn problem for self-driving cars has surprising implications
Google's October 4th Reveal Teaser
Ahhh... the IBM PS/2 - probably one of my favourite ever computers to use. I had a Model 50 and a model 70 for years.
Do you have a source for this? A new article or something?
I'm genuinely asking as a Chinese guy: How is it difficult to grok? There's nothing mystical about 'guanxi'. It is literally the Mandarin translation of "relationship", nothing more.

There's nothing uniquely Chinese about the notion that having strong relationships with the right people can make your life easier.
Here we go again. When you say things like that, a casual reader might think you're implying that there are next to no middle class black people or, worse, that people are intentionally avoiding black people and not typical inner city crime. A neighborhood with no black people? Bollocks. Unless you can demonstrate struck Ural racism, as opposed to just stating it, your entire second paragraph seems specious.
We don't know the motive, but it seems at least equally plausible that this was in anticipation of responding to a discovery request that filtered on sender/recipient.

> The Bush administration ran private email servers to avoid FOIA requests, then nuked millions of saved emails when his term was up to avoid handing them over.

Citation needed if you're going to "correct the record."
Where in 101?
The actual facts aside, this makes her appear far less electable, as her campaign camp looks like it's being run by a bunch of clowns.

Just from a PR perspective, this could not have come at a worse time.

The collapse at the 9/11 memorial, the "basket of deplorables", and the mention of the Pepe meme on her official website. Right after a couple of muslim terror attacks, some evidence surfaces purporting that she tried to cover up email indiscretions?

Most people do believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. And this cluster of events can't be good.
DHS Readies Guidance for Securing Internet of Things
Well I don't think any significantly sized project in any framework can be expected to move to another framework without a major rewrite effort. I wasn't suggesting that. But if you are gonna start with something new then Aurelia is the way to go.
> or change their artwork.

Not true!

See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/49x7m0/chinese_wow_cen...
UBER DD0S MUST BE RUSSIA
The Crackdown on Little Free Libraries (2015)
I think you are right about that. Self-driving cars are going to lower the cost of trips and car ownership and I think that can only lead to more trips being made and cars being owned.

I can't wait to buy one.
I use 'redblacktree' everywhere, but I'm very aware that it's public and traceable to my real-life identity. (though, there are unfortunately a few sites where someone else took the name... Notably Twitter)
The Encyclopedia Reader
At the same time, for kids to play together, you need to get lucky and have other kids live nearby. A grid system is much easier to navigate for kids, even if their friends live 4 blocks over East and then 2 blocks North. In a cul-de-sac neighborhood, that same distance if drawn with a straight line is impossible to walk that way. It can quickly become daunting for kids to follow neverending mazes, often without any sidewalks.

Sidewalks are another issue. In car-oriented neighborhoods they are often non-existent, or an afterthought on only one side of the street. Sometimes they just randomly end, only to start again half a mile down the road. In older grid neighborhoods, sidewalks are wide, often separated from the street with a tree line, and are on both sides of the street. They are almost inviting kids to come play on them.
The gap in base-pay+bonus is usually like 20-30%, plus there's the fact that you're getting stock you can actually sell on top of that.
AL2 is not Genuine Free Software - http://copyfree.org/standard/rejected

If this switch happens, I will have to boycott all projects that depend on LLVM/Clang.

All my dreams of a pure Free Software BSD distro, torn asunder... 8~(
Since pretty much all the neighbors on a cul-de-sac know each other, they'll often just block off that part of the road system with cones, or even their cars while their kids are out playing and turn it into an all purpose flat space for wheeled play devices or even community activities like block parties or summer slip and slides, street hockey etc.

Even if they don't block it off, it's highly unusual for a car that's not from their particular group of homes to be down there, and all the people that live down there know that their kids are going to be out and about on the street, so people just drive cautiously.

I don't have any stats, but I'd wager that kids were more likely to be run over in their own driveways than out on the street of a suburban cul-de-sac.
A vertically integrated public cloud platform where the provider controls both the hardware/firmware/hypervisors/OS/applications/middleware. As far as I know this is first of a kind platform.

What will ultimately determine it's success is adoption and not the technology potential itself. Let's see what happens it'll be interesting to observe the impact of this.
"Public-key encryption was revolutionary for a simple reason. It solved the age-old security problem of key distribution."

Not by itself. That's what protocols are used for. A weak protocol would allow for an attacker to intercept public keys, allowing the attacker to mitm communications.
Apple Preparing Fix for Glitch Causing Lightning EarPods Remote to Stop Working
Swift isn't garbage collected. ARC is not GC. It's actually a form of manual memory management, with lots of help from the compiler. The way you structure your program does give particular objects a particular lifetime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813598
I've lived in three cu-de-sacs as a child. It's nice to bike, skate, scooter, whatever. Or toss around a football or frisbee.

> One car is enough to kill your kid.

When there's 8 houses on the street, there aren't many cars. And the cars that are there aren't driving 40mph to turn into their driveway.

By your logic, you shouldn't drive a kid in your car either, because one car is enough to kill him.
Are robots coming for our jobs?
5 and 6 years old, my brother and I played Zork on a neighbor's computer. NES, Atari. One day he comes home from the library with a book about BASIC. Not owning a computer, we spent all summer with pen-to-paper writing our own text adventure. Not sure if it would have run or not.

5 or 6 years later we finally get a Packard Bell from Walmart. Discover BBS. Warez a copy of Turbo Pascal 6. Rest is history.
The guy never had any idea what he was doing. He made a help thread about how to find and replace text.
What adam12 said -- sure, running a private email server to avoid FOIA is just Bush-level shady (though I'd hope the bar acceptable behavior would be higher than 'Bush did it'). But modifying and deleting evidence to thwart a subpoenae from the FBI is real bad.
These things always devolve into a shouting match between the planners and people who value solitude or a big yard. I agree with the anti-density folks on one thing: big yards are awesome, larger houses are very useful, and I want my kids to feel safe on my street, and I find it hilarious that planners have so little humility--they curse the foolishness of the previous generation of planners, who overlooked some very important details, and then proceed to lay out their broad-brushed scheme for utopia. What could possibly go wrong?

But I'm convinced of the following: driving has huge costs that are not internalized as part of the decision-making process about whether to drive somewhere or not. E.g.:

- driving presents a large risk to pedestrians or bicyclists nearby

- driving requires a large amount of incredibly expensive infrastructure to be custom-built to support it

- driving down a street makes that street a less pleasant place to be, in general, due to noise, perceived risk, etc.

- driving causes congestion, which delays other drivers

- pollution and environmental costs

So if people actually paid the full cost of their trips, they'd probably drive less, and would be much less likely to plan their lives in ways that require large amounts of driving. For some people, the benefits would be worth the costs, and more power to them--but I shouldn't have to subsidize that choice.

I wish the debate could be less about what type of lifestyle we prefer, and more about how to fairly distribute the costs of our choices.
First coded on my Dad's Commodore 64 when I was maybe 9-10, and never stopped programming/building software (now 33). I guarantee I was the only one in my school district who received a copy of Visual C++ 4.0 for Christmas the year it came out. Kept at it through middle/high school, then a 4yr BS in CS. 10 years later and it's still my favorite thing to do.
Yes, Language Services and the language server protocol is literally exactly what you're asking for...

For example RLS (Rust Language Service) is being implemented to conform to this protocol in the hope that the same engine can be used by all IDEs/editors.
You might be able to move around when you incur income tax a little bit that way, but you can't avoid it.
> The Bush administration ran private email servers to avoid FOIA requests, then nuked millions of saved emails when his term was up to avoid handing them over.

Who cares? "But the other guys are corrupt too!" is not a great argument for your candidate.

> I didn't see any huge circus or massive outcry about that.

We can all agree this is a problem.
I've seen the word 'React' showing up lot after Facebook released their React Javascript library. Is the that library is somehow related to what you are referring to?

I don't do any web programming, so can you explain simple what it means by 'react' or 'react like'? What is Reactive programming?
Interesting, I wasn't aware of this meaning - just the geographical region and the post-Imperial Guangxi Clique warlord organizations[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi_Clique
And that's I think is even more dangerous. You may get surprised the most by something that you expect the least.

Well, I am glad you guys could stay safe, but I would rather send my daughter to play in some sort of kinder garden, park, or some facility made for that purpose rather then allowing her playing on the street.

Still, it is my personal feeling only, because I've had never lived in a suburbs like this.
Project euler! What a blast I had solving those problems in middle and high schools and uni.
Ah, I agree. Bots need to understand language (within their domain) very broadly to be able and overcome that.
> Citation needed if you're
> going to "correct the record."

This is not Reddit, and it is not a place for accusing people of being paid shills. Please desist.
Perception? It IS power. The power to influence politicians and elections. The power to influence how we educate our youth (e.g. Bill Gates and Common Core). The power to dominate everything.

It thoroughly undermines democracy, unless we want to redefine democracy as 1$ = 1 vote.