skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another approach to "deep learning" hardware. We now have another highly distributable problem with a volume market. The last one was graphics rendering, which created the GPU market.
especially when the SLOC is around 80 for the OP.
You don't see how it's better to be indifferent to the plight of minorities (which is just your characterization of Thiel, by the way) than it is to promote hatred of those groups?
"Yeah, it does look really cool, just verbose. And you say it's easy to implement...."

It is a compiler and OS. Easy means a different thing in this context versus average usage in software. I'd say vastly easier than trying to understand GCC or Linux. How about that? Also, the original version was done by 2 people and some change. Each port of compiler was done by 1-2 people in relatively short time. Mostly students with basic knowledge in CompSci. Helps it's well-documented.

So, it's not easy as throwing together a web app but can't be ridiculously hard if you take it a piece at a time. The use I had for it, other than learning or pleasure, would be for subversion-resistent, verified-to-assembly builds. It's super easy to learn Oberon with the OS itself straight-forward. People could code it up in a local language, the compiler too, compile those (or hand-done in ASM), and bootstrap into a trusted environment. That can be used to produce the rest with compilers built on top in a memory-safe language that handles foreign code more safely. Better, no patent suits or anything on Wirth-based tech like .NET or Java might get you.

Other than Oberon system, Modula-3 (not Wirth) and Component Pascal (Wirth et al) are most worthwhile to check out in terms of practical languages. BlackBox Component Builder is still in active use with Component Pascal, esp in Russia and Europe. They love it over there since it's got OOP & GUI with Oberon simplicity & safety.
My point is that chat messages are meant to be ephemeral, so it was a waste to store them in IPFS and hash them and make them identifiable by a unique useless hash in the entire world forever.

But since I posted the comment I realized that this is actually a cool feature for a chat app to have.
With https://LaunchLister.com, I found that the best marketing I did was Twitter surprisingly.

Cater to the audience and engage with the founders and it has a steady flow of increasing subscribers.

I just make sure my newsletter has good content consistently for my readers.
> Decentralization usually brings more duplication of data.

While this is true this could be vastly reduced if the internet supported source-specific IP multicast (SSM). That way even a small box in someone's basement hosting a single copy of some niche content could serve thousands worldwide.

Alas, multicast is hard and incentives are not in favor of making it available to the end-user even in limited scopes.
Dinosaurs Probably Didn't Roar, but Some Definitely Quacked
I like your thoughtful reply and agree with you, but want to point out that you are drawing somewhat arbitrary lines here on what is fine and what is not fine in supporting Trump. For example, wouldn't you agree that any of your cousins who support Trump -- the ones you are in good terms with now, if they had Thiel-money, they probably would have donated a million or two to him?
I read somewhere: "Katakana is Kanji written tiny; Hiragana is Kanji written quickly."
> When an organization can operate without your presence for over 300 days, your role may not be very necessary.

Which is a good thing. Everyone should be replaceable in corporate jobs, maybe not a startup, which makes sense. If you're not replaceable then your business is not doing the best it can to future proof itself.

I try to find my replacement actually, I take the interns and coops in every meeting as well as CC them on all emails. I do not see myself in the same job for my entire career, what better bargaining tool to move up than say you have your replacement ready?
Oooh. That. I get a miss on a lot of it, because I'm not in industry, and I avoid Java (the natural focal point of incomprehensible frameworks), and frameworks in general.

On a daily basis, the worst I have to deal with is SystemD, which is creatively incompotent and best, and downright insane at worst. But it's got a pretty face, and the draw of easy-to-understand unit files (over, say, SVinit), so people don't realize the depths of the madness that lies beneath.
I never had a career, but I took a break anyway after 14 years as a plastics factory worker. Mine stretched to 2.5 years since I could afford it. I'm now in my second month as a junior Java developer. This makes more sense than the sabbatical, since I had no skills or connections to get stale.

I have to say the benefits really did make me a better deal as an employee. I basically went from someone who did things because he had to, just fitting everything in around work, to someone who pursued his own goals. Now that I'm back at work, I don't constantly lose sleep till I have to rush to work at the last minute; I schedule things so I don't have to, and I got my sleep habits under control. I don't bike to work just because I need some way to keep from getting fat; I sought out active, fun hobbies I can still engage in, like ice skating. I don't beat myself up all the time for being lazy; I have my own strategies now for getting myself to put in time on the right projects and not let things slip away. I also used to have trouble just getting basic things done like phone calls and finding a tailor; with my time off, I got things done and gained confidence that I could get any errand done.

I also feel so much more independent now. Google Maps plus free time to explore means I found so many wilderness sites and activities. Internet reading about joints plus time to work on the exercises mean any ache or pain that comes up is something I can solve. Compared to the time I tore a back muscle falling into a railcar, when all I could do is try to reduce the activities that caused me nerve damage and hope I got better, I'm so much better equipped to take care of my own health.

tl;dr Having full responsibility for yourself is great. I did a lot of things it would have been too late for in retirement, and the best part is the habits I learned when I had time are now ingrained enough I can do them even while working full time.
Your logic resembles that which says people who use Copyleft licenses are not truly committed to Freedom because they don't allow use of their code in non-free programs.

Being committed to diversity-- or freedom, or any ideal--does not mean you have to be nice toward or even tolerate the antithesis of that ideal.
Are you serious? Facebook developer ecosystem is horrible, and it stinks more in this case.
New paper: “Why most of psychology is statistically unfalsifiable”
Germany tells Tesla to stop advertising Autopilot for Model S, Model X
Why should they? If you take a Note 7 onto a plane that's on you.

Your idea would shift the disincentive not to fly with a Note 7 away from the passenger.
Google's nit-picky interview process is a turnoff for some experienced coders
Check their board of directors -- all very smart and established people.

A former tournament winner did well on both the public and private leaderboard. It is very difficult to do this by luck. He was also a student from Bangladesh who got the opportunity to play with hedge fund data with just the cost of an internet connection and zero risk for messing it up. Should he start working for a hedge fund now, without any finance experience? Could be a good bet. Numerai would still beat him, because they can aggregate all the top models into an ensemble. It is hard to beat 50 individuals, but near impossible to beat a team of 50 competitors. Compare the variance of a single decision tree with a Random Forest.
I tried to do this, but since the "community" had no leader, I couldn't talk to no one except its single members, and individually they didn't seem to be too interested in the product I had already built.
Honest question: what makes me a large target? I'm not in the "one percent". I have to work to eat. Not whining about it, just saying: I do not have f.u. money.

I agree with you on "the potential target would be everybody."
Our point is it's a lie to even tell users that if it's so easy to beat it. Stronger privacy would require a DRMed endpoint where it was a real pain to get those screenshots. Stronger privacy than that is not using the app at all or for anything private. That it's a company whose business is likely to sell out their users is the biggest reason why they don't really get it. Apathy to learning about these fundamental things is what lets such companies get them with false promises.
Mostly it's projects that were "90%" done, expected to compete in a few weeks are now "had some unexpected complications, but we're past those now."
In order to innovate, one usually needs to get familiar historical progress. While Einstein had to master mechanics, electrodynamics and thermodynamics in order to build his own theories, a Physicist working in today's day and age has to also master the explosive progress made in the last 100 years. The only way to mitigate this problem seems to be (at least in scientific fields and a bit in computer science too) is specialization, which is not always a good thing.
I think another important lesson to draw from this is that you should build things for domains and problems in which you have a legitimate interest/curiosity. That was something I took away from this that's difficult to accept, because it means you're probably going to be limited if you want to work solo.
The EU budget is relatively small, at €185 billion. UK's net contribution amounts to £8 billion, a bit, but not earth shattering.

This Tax won't apply to all members, just to the ones that opt-in (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain seem to be interested). And from what I understand, any revenues steaming from the tax would go to national governments and not the EU budget.
Including dependencies?
I love the principle behind the decentralized web movement, but perhaps we should start by chipping away at walled gardens and making data more portable?

Very popular nodes on distributed systems are essentially just another form of centralization. But portability of data creates a free market, low switching costs, and a more consumer-centric focus on retention.
If I had a cousin who donated millions to Donald Trump, I assume we would not be on good terms afterwards. You've zeroed in on something implicit in my argument: yes, with escalating power in society comes escalating responsibility not to do harm.

Another way to look at it is: any cousin of mine hooting and hollering about black folks and "too-ugly" assault victims is no friend of mine, either.
> Back in the days when I worked on a largish "classic" ASP site (each page is a file full of mixed HTML/VBScript) the senior developer insisted that the best approach for developing anything new was to copy a page that did something similar and then change it to fit the requirements.

You should do this in a way that doesn't introduce duplicate code but this method is a really good way of onboarding yourself on a new project: find a part of the project that almost does what you want and go from there.
Thank you for sharing.

Do you think you would be as successful in developing an audience outside Reddit as you were inside it? Where? In a blog?
> From a glance at your profile, you hardly seem to be a person a government would be interested in

He may not be someone the government is interested in right now, but as is clear in the case we all are discussing, the government is on a fishing expedition, seeking to unlock a non-suspect's phone in the hopes of making a suspect out of them. That's some 1980s USSR shit right there, and it's disheartening that our government is trying to become what they once fought against. They can get a warrant first, or they can get bent.

To put it another way, you don't want your neighbor poking around in your garage looking for something she can report to the fire marshal "just because", even though you're pretty sure there's nothing she can call out, so you keep your garage locked.
> much of the buying and selling in finance is done for the purpose of the price discovery process, which is to society's benefit,

I'm pretty sure that "most of the buying and selling in finance" happens for making a profit for said buyers and sellers (not that's anything wrong with that), the associated higher liquidity which presumably helps with "price discovery" is only a side-effect. Assuming a transaction tax actually gets implemented prices would still be "discovered" (they've been discovered just fine since we first started trading using shells and the like thousands of years ago), only that the spread would be higher and the liquidity would be lower.
Show HN: I created a Blogger/Blogspot template system with SCSS and Bootstrap 4
Which part of trump's platform makes it OK to vote for him despite his openly advocating war crimes?
I think this is what used to be rites of passage. A symbolic timeline for young ones to forget immature behavior, and "believe" in adult behavior, a quick turnaround allowing both sides to adapt. Old respect you, and you respect the old. Instead most "modern" cultures just relies on some cultural market and institutions (like legally defined adult age) which allows drifting for years before finding the inner desire to be seen as an altruistic adult and behaving like one.
Let me make this even more fun for you: I have a real problem with what happened to Brendan Eich. From what I understand, there wasn't a major effort inside Mozilla to oust him --- he did not make his own employees feel uncomfortable. His relationship with Mozilla was employer/employee. His support for Prop 8 was quiet, and, painful as it is for us to recognize this now, very much in the American mainstream: Barack Obama ran in 2008 opposing marriage equality.
I like that advice; don't build a following on someone else's platform. It could be extended to not building something that relies entirely on service X's API being open, because the moment they see the value in what you're doing, they'll want to shut it down and do it themselves.

Also - great work, congrats on the success!
What is the correct response to someone like Brendan though?

To monetarily support a movement that seeks to take away this right is morally reprehensible. As another poster said in this thread: with escalating power in society comes escalating responsibility not to do harm. I have high respect for Eich for his accomplishments, but I still think that it was important that somehow in some way it was made clear by society that this is not acceptable -- especially for someone in a high position. Let's reframe this situation to make it more powerful: support Eich was against the right to marry across racial lines. Then certainly you would be for his firing, right? But it's the same thing, only that we need 50 more years to efface the stigma that still exists with gay marriage so that saying you're against gay marriage is as bad as saying you're against interracial marriage.

You now you have the benefit of hindsight, what do you think would have been the ideal response to Brendan -- both by Mozilla and by the community? Curious to hear your thoughts.
Obama Says He Wants to Change the Free Flow of Information
this isn't reddit...
>while the JavaScript ecosystem is moving towards server-rendering, [...] and "progressive web apps" so to speak.

Hardly. Server rendering remains at best a novelty, and "progressive web apps" are not coming back anytime soon.
This seems more like a 4th amendment issue. It's great that they got a warrant, but the warrant is unbelievably broad. I can't imagine a similar one enabling law enforcement officers to conduct strip / body cavity searches of everyone in the building. Or, allowing the officers to search all of the vehicles in the parking lot.
I don' think thats entirely correct as information technology has given the individual scientist access to specialized information outside their own and the scientific community in general is much more aware.
I am an outsider as well, and from this side of the border it looks like Trump simpathizers in the USA are applying the "desperate times call for desperate measures" ideal with Trump.

Similarly to how German's where fed up with the war reparations and glooming economy which made them vote for the Nazi party.

https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/3560.html
The shapes are all able to be written in a way that visits points in the corners of the square in the same order (UL, LL, UR, LR). So 0111 and 1110 can be written with the skewed V shape because the 1's are in sequence, while 1011 and 1101 are written with rotated L shapes because they skip one of the middle bits. (Compare also 1111, a backwards N shape).
Yah. I keep $1500 in my checking to keep my "free" account. So kind of the trade. They get $1500 of my money that they give me no interest. I get to abuse them for cash deposits and large paper checks.

We have a mutually abusive relationship.
I am not saying that all papers with citations are good; rather, that most good papers get tons of citations.
How battle-ready (that is, security-wise) is this beautiful piece of software?
Sites like flippa can help with that.
Network effect is not what you think it is. It is not something about people knowing each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
That sounds like a "but think of the children" argument to me. We can conjure up ways how anything can go wrong.

But should we really worry about that scenario? If you have internet-exploitable and already-exploited devices in the ER room, haven't the horses left the barn already?
It's fine for Thiel to prefer Trump's vision. I wonder if he had thought hard about whether Trump can deliver that vision. Trump didn't deliver well, historically. You don't get ten times return but you can destroy a country fast. Think Third Reich.
Of course.

Honestly, probably not. Reddit was the perfect audience for that particular type of content, so it made perfect sense. There's only one other player in that space that I know who is really killing it and it's lifehack.org.

Life Pro Tips focused on digestible pieces of content, but in order to monetize, it seems like you need more long-form types of content (that of which lifehack.org provides).

I've moved on to other areas (like I've always done). I've had wins and I've had losses. The losses are necessary in order to keep the wins going.
Based only on the limited knowledge I have of the state of Mozilla when you stepped down, I think what happened to you is wrong.
Exactly. A tweet has no lasting impact on the stock price. The stock price will adjust to some multiple of yearly profit, adjusted for the overall climate, adjusted for the industry, adjusted for the growth rate.
You think a thief won't go through an unlocked phone they stole? Even if they don't, the person they fence it to will.
I am currently working through these in my (very rare) spare time as a means of learning Rust.

Forget project Euler or babby's first web server. This is an _excellent_ way to learn a new language, to learn a huge amount about crypto, and it's a huge amount of fun to boot. I cannot recommend them enough.
> to retroactively strip

Prop 8 would not and did not "nullify" any marriages licensed by the state in the middle of 2008. See

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Prop-8-not-retroactive...

Retroactive or ex-post-facto law is unconstitutional. I am a big fan of this principle. It protects all of us.

> it speaks very poorly

Speaking ill of me based on false information does not reflect well on you. Let's back off and perhaps we'll meet on better terms another day. (FYI, I do not support Trump.)
"...you hardly seem to be a person a government would be interested in..."

"If you've got nothing to hide..." - right?
Yep, how do we vote against logic inside jsx markup?
pinboard is a bookmarking website with a funny twitter, not the gestapo.

people giving other people shit for supporting bad ideas is a fairly important part of the marketplace of ideas.

do you draw any line where support of abhorrent politics is grounds for social shunning?
I said "might." I know they have a developer ecosystem with some way of getting paid. I didn't know past that. Figured more knowledgeable people would chime in.
Over a set of 100 million American with smartphone, statistically speaking quite a few of them would have to have a run in with the authority somehow.

> I mean, they can get comms metadata from carriers; speech comms content from wiretaps; email content through subpoenas (minus those you encrypt with client-side tools, a major pain to do on a phone anyway).

All of those things need to have their case present in front of a judge. And that is infact a major difference.
As an Indie Shuffle user, I feel happy for you!
redis was mainly used to get pubsub for the first iteration (demonstrated in June), now (demonstrated in September) orbit uses IPFS pubsub (available in the go-ipfs implementation) for a complete distributed web application.
This, for example:
https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig...
Robert Downey Jr offers to voice Mark Zuckerberg's digital assistant
I've read both, and while Code Complete covers a LOT of ground, I like Maguire's style and his practical information. I wouldn't want to be without Code Complete, but Writing Solid Code (and his followup, Debugging the Development Process) has plenty of decent info. And some dated.

Much of Maquire's coverage is VERY C++ centered, so people using anything else are going to skip a bunch. It's a short book, 250 or so pages, and an easy read.
If that is the case, you should definitely offer your legal advice to GitLab.
He missed the advice of launch and iterate below the radar with a very narrow group of customers.

For example: on the app store you can launch your app/game in countries other than the US (australia, canada). Iterate, and once you're satisfied, than launch in the US.

Launching and iterate in the fully public eye of your customer base is a risky thing to do for your general brand value.
The CIA Is Preparing for a Major Cyberattack Against Russia
That's not even taking into account the major brain drain which could come under a Trump presidency. We have a precedent.
Non-flat taxation are an attempt to make the impact of the law be equal on everyone.

Affirmative action is an attempt to alleviate the impact of prior laws and practices which made people unequal.

I am generally fine with trying to redress previously-enforced inequalities, and suspicious of anyone who isn't (protip: Google "libertarianism, starting right now" for an explanation of why this is important that you're more likely to agree with if a "LOL look how hard I rekt that dude by shoving affirmative action in his face" type sound-bite is the first thing you reach for in this kind of discussion)
It was just used for pubsub on the 1st iteration, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721898
I really like the simplicity of this. I find myself doing the same thing sometimes, e.g. opening HN almost unconsciously and then closing the tab immediately. Who knows, this might help break the habit!

Edit: (A simple suggestion that comes down to personal taste) It would be cool if I could see if I have DistractOff set to 'Stop' by just looking at the icon (in a similar fashion to how adblock shows the status via its icon) so I don't have to click into the plugin to see if it's on. But like I said, that comes down to personal taste.
Oh my god this is such a dumb reply. I was pointing out that it's pretty unbelievable that you would be a bartender for 10 years and only have had a drink (or in OP's case gotten blackout drunk) once in your life.

I would hate to order a drink from someone like that. Follow a formula for a cocktail all you want, you should still know what it tastes like. It's like a patisserie chef who has only ever eaten one cannoli.