skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

https://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Wrath-John-Steinbeck/dp/014303...

“The Western States nervous under the beginning change.
Texas and Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas, New Mexico,
Arizona, California. A single family moved from the land.
Pa borrowed money from the bank, and now the bank wants
the land. The land company--that's the bank when it has land
--wants tractors, not families on the land. Is a tractor bad? Is
the power that turns the long furrows wrong? If this tractor
were ours it would be good--not mine, but ours. If our tractor
turned the long furrows of our land, it would be good.
Not my land, but ours. We could love that tractor then as
we have loved this land when it was ours. But the tractor
does two things--it turns the land and turns us off the land.
There is little difference between this tractor and a tank.
The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think
about this.

One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car
creaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a
single tractor took my land. I am alone and bewildered.
And in the night one family camps in a ditch and another
family pulls in and the tents come out. The two men squat
on their hams and the women and children listen. Here is the
node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these
two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each
other. Here is the anlarge of the thing you fear. This is the
zygote. For here "I lost my land" is changed; a cell is split
and from its splitting grows the thing you hate--"We lost our
land." The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and
perplexed as one. And from this first "we" there grows a still
more dangerous thing: "I have a little food" plus "I have
none." If from this problem the sum is "We have a little
food," the thing is on its way, the movement has direction.
Only a little multiplication now, and this land, this tractor are
ours. The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side-
meat stewing in a single pot, the silent, stone-eyed women;
behind, the children listening with their souls to words their
minds do not understand. The night draws down. The baby
has a cold. Here, take this blanket. It's wool. It was my mother's
blanket--take it for the baby. This is the thing to bomb.
This is the beginning--from "I" to "we."

If you who own the things people must have could understand
this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate
causes from results, if you could know Paine, Marx,
Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive.
But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes
you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we."

The Western States are nervous under the begining
change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action.
A half-million people moving over the country; a million
more restive, ready to move; ten million more feeling the
first nervousness.

And tractors turning the multiple furrows in the vacant land.”
I think it's curious that there are four comments in two hours because this industry - like many ready for big change - are unsexy.
Looks like a pareidolia fractal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
That's in all likelihood the same issue - Qihoo de facto owning two CAs who currently cast two separate votes in the CA/B Forum. Not sure if it would be a concern otherwise (i.e. if Qihoo were to own just one CA and not disclose that fact, I don't think that's relevant for the CA/B Forum, leaving aside the problem that they're also a member as a browser vendor ...)

I think the voting rules are part of the bylaws (and not the Baseline Requirements), so I'm not certain if that's something that's looked into during the audits.
Hehe, by the guy who sued CERN, because of the possibility of a black hole emerging. (he didn't think it was likely, but not unlikely enough to him)
If their intent was only to distribute passengers evenly they could simply use demand-based pricing like most rail networks. There's no reason to introduce additional randomness other than price differentiation.
I don't think someone can argue that technology does not destroy jobs in the short term. There's a reason why Joseph Schumpeter called it Creative Destructions.

It's hard to accept because the people hit are not necessarily those that will benefit from the newly created opportunities. But if History is clear on one thing, it's that the number of winners outweighs the losers.

Every economy that resists creative destructions in favor of short term social peace ends up watching prosperity pass by.
This is Jeff from SE Daily. Thank you so much for these comments.

I did try to address the downsides as best I could and I think they are even better addressed in the follow-up with Preethi.

Most of the downsides of leaving your job are not instability because for most people in tech, that instability can be stabilized with stuff like debt, contract work, living in super cheap housing etc.

The main reason people do not go out on their own is either:

-lack of recognizing there are alternatives to the corporate meatgrinder

-laziness and addiction to video games, drugs, or other consumptive behaviors

-shame/defeatist/nihilist attitude

The epidemic scale of all three of these in tech industry is pretty disgusting--all the more reason to jump ship.
I have been tempted to go down the bug bounty route, but in this particular instance I might get a small win, but not contribute to the larger problem of browsers and javascript themselves. Browsers are a teeming big ball of complexity and rather than patch and forget, I would rather stick to a single duty, stripped down program like Lynx, or a hardened version of Firefox with heavy about:config tweaks. And of course, Javascript turned off at all costs. I routinely ask people on public forums to switch to Firefox and block JavaScript, and I am a firm advocate of Lynx for surfing text-based websites. I might not be able to view some websites, but that's on them. It's a webmaster's job to make a website accessible, not mine.
You should actually read up on the Luddites. Their main goal was better treatment of workers; smashing machines was just their preferred means of protest. The image of the backwards anti-tech fetishist was a propaganda smear by the industrialists at the time, which was so successful that people are still buying it now.
do you have any kind of side projects that you could list as projects while you were "self-employed?" When I was a consultant the consulting company took projects that I worked on for friends and family and listed them as projects under self-employed.
The Living Computer Museum in Seattle has a fully functioning Alto, as well as a bunch of other vintage systems.
If you buy a house in the $227k range on a $55k income (With NO insurance and NO property taxes, the monthly payment would be ~$1,736.53), you will have to live very carefully to get by comfortably (considering $55k after federal/georgia taxes would net about $41,013.75, your monthly takehome would be $3,7k leaving you <$2k after mortgage, ignoring again insurance, property taxes, and other bills).

Zillow and other home pushers are interested in selling houses, not in the consequences for the buyers thereafter.
Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (2009)
It's a simplified view :)

The team works really hard both on privacy and on open standards. But let's set that aside for a moment: There are many other companies contributing as well. (Opera, Samsung, Intel pop out when I just browse through the commit logs, but I'm sure I'm missing more).

And you as an individual, are free to contribute as well. We welcome OSS devs who want to help make Chrome better. Send me a ping if you ever get stuck, should you choose to contribute.

Yes, the project does not accept all changes. We can't, and no OSS project can. Some don't make sense ("Render all text blinking!" ;), some don't work for what the general idea for Chromium is ("Let's remove JS!"). But in general, the team tries to be accommodating when somebody wants to land a change.

I can understand when people say "Hey, Mozilla aligns more with what I want, I'll contribute there". It's awesome. You should work on something you believe in, and I'm glad you've found a project that works for you.

But Chromium is certainly happy to accept contributions, contrary to what the OP said.
With a dozen exceptions for the diamond (elected) mods, all the moderators are from the community and got to that point with contributions. Nearly all of the are still contributing and moderate as part of the process of trying to find things to answer.
I bought the Pro Version last month. Haven't really got to test this a lot, but the interface is nice enough to make me shift from other really shitty bookmarking apps.
This is why d3-node is the way to go...
https://www.npmjs.com/package/d3-node
Eh, 1999 was right when the split happened, so regardless of the label, it was still basically an HP product at the time. Still, that doesn't help you much; the 16505A only worked with the 16500 series analyzer. There was a 16700, IIRC, that was basically an 16500C with an integrated 16505A, but that doesn't help you much.
It is far easier to store such structures as object graphs in-memory (i.e. your "foreign key" is a pointer/reference to the actual object). The navigation patterns would mostly be looking up properties on the item referenced by inventory, so it's not like you need to do joins etc (but even if you did, a join on in-memory object graph is still pretty easy and blazing fast).

For C++ especially, I would recommend looking at Boost multi_index library. This gives you the ability to do fast lookups on a variety of keys across the same data.

Pretty much the only benefit I can see from SQLite in those small dataset scenarios is when you need persistence and the ability to change subset of data in an atomic way (if you only need to save the entire in-memory dataset atomically, you can always just do the rename trick to ensure atomicity with far less overhead). Well, and, I guess, optimization of complicated queries - but I'm somewhat skeptical about the ability of their optimizer to use indices in a query that's really complicated; and simple ones are trivial to do explicitly.
9 things you didn’t know about the UK’s tech scene
I was not specifically addressing you. I was just laying out some of the dated arguments about why humans need meat. But anyway, you are saying in many ways how YOU personally dont like lentils and veggie burgers. I already addressed this in 4.

I am not mandating that Indian food replace everything else. I am saying there is plenty of good cuisine out there that does not include flesh. Like you said we are brought up eating meat in the US. This is nothing more then a cultural tradition, not a requirement. While vegetarianism is not necessarily free or easy for everyone, it is very accessible. It is lazy to continually blindly support an industry based on violence (or argue for it in your case).

You like its "easily packed density", but somehow hundreds of millions of vegetarians manage to survive. Hm.

And, like you said there are more people eating less meat which is an indication of this cultural change. Speaking of impossible vegetarian burgers, what you say cannot exist already does. In fact it is even called Impossible. I have tasted one. To me they are disgusting. But that is because they actually taste like flesh. These were designed for meat eaters, not vegetarians. Of the people I tried it with, only the meat eaters had any appreciation for it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/21/482322571/sil...
Redesigning Chrome Desktop – Google Design
Is there a way to do this properly in AWS without nginx? It would also be great to have features to switch only percentage of the traffic to an app when doing blue/green deployments.
> I also described why I want to support the current system.

Right "Local business owners". But Taxi drivers aren't. They're contractors without any of the benefits of being an employee, or of owning the business. Uber drivers meet all those criteria and more.

Taxi drivers pay to rent their medallion, guaranteeing the rent-seeking owner their profits even on days when the poor driver goes negative. Uber drivers don't even get in their cars until the app lights up. Taxi businesses are clearly predatory and wouldn't be allowed if they were proposed today.
There was a good start of an answer to that in Perspectives [1] (and later Moxie's Convergence), but sadly those projects are technically dead now.

I still think those were good idea, but nothing is ever going to replace CAs without the support of major players such as OS and browser vendors.

[1] https://perspectives-project.org/
The .NET MVC thing is off.

ASP.NET MVC is a web framework that implements the MVC pattern, as opposed to ASP.NET Web Forms, which was control based. ASP.NET MVC versions 1-5 run on the full .NET framework.

ASP.NET Core includes MVC, and the API has stayed as close asp possible to previous versions of ASP.NET MVC. The lower level bootstrapping / hosting / middleware / config stuff is pretty different (much improved, IMO), but your application code (models, views, controllers, services, etc.) should move from ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core pretty smoothly.
With Positional Goods I believe he's strictly talking about keeping up with the Jones type things. So I get a fancy car just so everyone knows I'm fancy, but I don't really care about it. While to some extent I think that's true with larger housing sizes for instance, I don't think that's the main reason why houses have gotten larger. Let alone computers and other inventions that we have now.

In terms of concentrated wealth I do think that's an issue, but once again it isn't the whole story. The average person is richer then they were 20 years ago, and the person 20 years ago is richer then the person 40 years ago. This is true if you look at middle class, but also if you look at people making minimum wage.
Although this may be true for US and other Western nations, in 1950 billions of people outside the Western world live in dire poverty and many starved to death. Since then, over a billion people in India and China alone have been lifted out of poverty, life expectancies have been increased dramatically, several diseases have been eradicated and contained, food security have been expanded. Yes, some of it has come at the expense of populations in developed countries, but if you put a global lens on it, 2016 is a much better time than 1950s
The search for purpose and meaning assumes there is one. It's hard to understand how one can ask that question with presupposing that there is some thing as an "objective meaning and purpose" and it's just really confusing to me. If you don't see how the pasting of that quote is confusing, that's what I meant by confusing.

The search for reasons and hows and what happened and what's next seems a lot more interesting of questions, to me personally.
Thanks for the compliment. I'm usually hired for that attitude (and my ability to hide it except for the few meetings where it really counts) ;)
Plus, kube-aws doeesn't really allow of easy maintenance of the cluster (i.e. cluster updates) as far as I know.
Video claiming drilling into iPhone 7 will reveal headphone port goes viral
wouldn't serial killers just form a government and say they have diplomatic immunity?
I've been using https://www.decosoftware.com/ and like it a lot, but I really like the documentation on the Exponent website.

Part of the allure of writing React Native apps for me is that knowing React would make me a more valuable developer. I'm curious to see how comfortable I feel saying "I know React" after using these IDEs long-term.
Baidu Research Announces New Open Source Deep Learning Benchmark
Without any evidence whatsoever, Larry Summers posits that the four-decade long trend of an increasing share of young men not working implies "job destruction caused by technology".

Instead, I think this trend is far more likely to be caused by an increasing share of young women entering the workforce over the same timeframe.
It's worthwhile pointing out that many of the original Chromium developers were previously employed by Google to work on Firefox. Now, I don't know whether this is true in Ryan's case, but it doesn't seem that surprising at the end of the day.

Equally, Google ultimately has an interest in the security of the web platform (as well as its interoperability), as their entire business is built on it. They'd have a far harder time selling some of their products if people believed it to be insecure.
Working with Jeff Dean or Sanjay Ghemawat.
My guess is he was a contractor and not a FT employee?
Awesome work! Please open source this.
That's a really interesting topic. The first thing that came into my mind was Jarvis from Iron Man. Sure, the suit is something else but having a computer that is capable of understanding nearly everything you say (and hopefully also some sort of sarcasm) is more than just "cool".
I think as the developer of such an advanced technology I would like to open source it but I couldn't image if this would be a good or bad decision.
I'll definitely do it, too bad for the 50 nodes limitation that can't fit my use case.
Understood. If you have any ideas for cool diagnostics or other guides, I'd be interested in hearing. I couldn't think of anything offhand, but that's probably just my lack of imagination. I would love to see some static analysis help for finding retain cycles and recommending how to break them, but I'm not sure if that's practical.
In one example cited by the Labor Department, Palantir reviewed a pool of more than 130 qualified applicants for an engineering intern position, about 73 percent of whom were Asian. The lawsuit, which covers Palantir's conduct between January 2010 and the present, said the company hired 17 non-Asian applicants and four Asians.

"The likelihood that this result occurred according to chance is approximately one in a billion," said the lawsuit, which was filed with the department's Office of Administrative Law Judges.

You'd kind of expect them to,† given the near certainty that they're being actively snooped upon by various foreign governments. Still one wonders what Labor's definition of "qualified" was in this case, and whether the need for visa sponsorship played a role in the selection process.

† Which should please not be construed to mean that I condone such discrimination (if it's happening to the degree alleged), or that I think it's inevitable. Only, one would suspect, not unexpected behavior for companies working in the so-called "intelligence community", or overlapping it to a significant degree.
One of my teammates working on Exponent was experimenting with ClojureScript and got it running, and one of our YC batchmatches wrote their app with ClojureScript and RN. It's still the very early days and I expect compiled-to-JS to get easier to use. Compiled-to-WASM might also be a good option one day.
Collaboration like this is really great.

I hope the KDE guys never go bonkers like the Gnome/RedHat guys and keep up the nice modularity they have achieved by now so other DEs can reuse some of their functionality.
I setup an automated script to setup a AWS g2 instance, train my neural net using tensorflow, copy my model to my personal computer, and spin down. It costs like $5-$10 to train/test most neural network models. My most expensive model cost like $100 and required a ton of time and resources. It took like 4 days or something.

You really dont need $2k workstation..

Of course, for personal use I do have a gtx 1080 because I like to game and play tensorflow/caffe
> From what I can tell, the NIMBY-types in SF only have...aesthetic concerns?

They also often have economic concerns, to wit, that increasing the supply of housing will, ceteris paribus, reduce the market clearing cost, reducing the value of the housing that they own.

There are also quality of life concerns relating to expected effects of increased density on crime, on transportation and other infrastructure, and other things, as well. Those and aesthetic issues are more likely to be cited in public debate than the economic issue above, but I suspect for homeowners the economic issue is actually the overwhelming one.
Observer Design Pattern Classic Implementation in Automated Testing
Wage stagnation is definitely a thing, but it's due to increasing wage inequality between different employees not due to capital grabbing an increasing share of national income. Labor's share is remarkably stable over time:

http://taxfoundation.org/sites/taxfoundation.org/files/docs/...
I recognise the first very strongly. Somewhere I got to a similar flip and procrastinate everything no matter how simple until it is "house is on fire" urgent.

You're probably right about depression, I was on Prozac a while but while I was still in the down spiral. It seemed to make me a happy flake, mask some symptoms but the downward direction and apathy remained. Now I feel a bit of motivation again I think they might help, or maybe CBT.

I had one brush with depression some years ago, and it felt different, but that was a much cleaner cause and effect. A short spell of SSRIs and I was able to break out quite easily.

Thanks!
The decline happened when the rich realised that expropriation was no longer a risk. The aftermath of the Great War (the rise of communism and the Great Depression) scared the owners of capital into giving a much larger share of production to labor (the split went from 50-50 to 70-30). By the late 1960s the risk of expropriation had gone and so capital owners started taking back their share until we are now back to 50-50 and heading lower.

The masses know that something is very wrong, but they don't know what to do and hence the thrashing around for alternatives. As long as the rich keep the door to upper middle class open to the cognitive elite they are safe.
Impermanence could be considered a value in certain cultures. "Disposable Culture" vs. "Repairing Old Stuff" isn't a useful dichotomy. Everything has an expiration date, and often that date is carefully considered as part of a product's design. The goal shouldn't be fixing old stuff, but finding out how to increase efficiency either by making product's expiration dates further in the future, or compromising having an imminent expiration date by making the product easy to recycle.
It's promising.
I wonder how different is it from Appcelerator Titanium ?
I used it 5 years ago and it converts the written JS into real native code. The downside is that if Apple releases a new set of APIs, you have to wait till the editor (Appcelerator) releases the JS bridge to those new APIs.
Piracy did hurt the PS2, it just had a high enough install base to counteract the negative effects.

I remember buying a second hand PS2 for Guitar Hero. The aforementioned game was pretty much the only original game that came with it, it was also bundled with a Swap Magic disc and about 100 pirated games. Clearly pirated PS2 games weren't hard to come by. However, the PS2 was hugely successful, so from the point of view of a game publisher even if you lose a high proportion of potential sales to piracy you can still make a profit.

This article gives some insight into how important strong software sales were to the survival of the Dreamcast:

http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/7/4599588/why-did-the-dreamcas...

Whilst the Dreamcast did not have the worst ever attach rate, any downturn in sales was not something sustainable. As I said in a different comment, if the Dreamcast had been released with a DVD drive (even if this bumped up the retail price) then this would have helped immensely, not only to counteract piracy (DVD burners were much rarer at the time), but also to take away one of the big reasons for waiting for a PS2. Whether they could've afforded to do so in 1998 is another matter.