skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the increase in live HD video streaming on Facebook, this is a smart move on Facebook's part. I wonder what the traffic ratios have to be before the peering partners will want to start charging.
Rewriting your front-end in a new webframework every 6 weeks isn't a thing that actually happens

I don't think any sane person would rewrite their apps everytime a new flavor of the month tool came out, but all this technical churn must make maintenance a nightmare.
That's ultimately what has to give here. Bundling sports channels into cable packages has allowed a bubble to form in the compensation of players and owners. As the article correctly assesses, it is an enormous tax that is passed on to everyone with a cable or satellite subscription.

It's plainly obvious that the exorbitant salaries that players and owners are paid has to go away for the industry to survive.
No, the problem is never improving the existing software but rewriting a new solution from scratch every 3 months [1][2], that, while it solves the shortcomings of the previous tool, now introduces a complete set of new problems. And people that actually have stuff to deliver are always playing catch up and fighting the bugs of alpha quality software.

I feel strongly about this, especially when reading a step-by-step tutorial, that's most probably intended at frontend "newbies", that for example is pushing Yarn: I played with it the other day on a working VueJS application, and got hit by a bug, causing yarn to delete important files in node_modules. My code wouldn't work anymore. Really sorry that I can't find the bug report anymore to prove my point. The workaround was going back to npm.

Teaching people alpha quality software is irresponsible. If you want to teach, or have stuff to deliver, use the battle tested tech. Experiment when you know how the pieces work together and have lots of free time.

1: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

2: EDIT: this is a big problem of our industry, it happens in all environments, but the JS community is the worst IMO. Desktop Linux is the second worst offender.
While you are right, many people (e.g. Hayek) argue that collectivism entails authoritarianism and control. That the two are inextricably linked, due primarily to the local knowledge problem.

I'm not necessarily arguing that that is the case just trying to explain why people make this argument. The idea is that, logically, any economically communist country will, by definition, eventually come to resemble the Soviet Union, China, and other negative instances.

We can debate whether or not that is so, but I think it's a legitimate debate to have, especially being that all known examples have in fact worked out that way.
Indeed. If there's no worst case time, that eliminates use in hard-real-time, certifiable embedded, e.g. aerospace, medical, etc.

You can't very well tolerate an "atypical" GC pause when you're firing a laser or radiation pulse, doing engine control, or even updating a display in a flight instrument setting.
"Big government" is responsible for the out of control costs. With government-guaranteed student loans, there is no requirement for the university or the bank to retain an reasonable cost profile.

The only loser if the student fails to repay their loan is the student him/herself, when it affects their credit negatively and they're unable to discharge it in bankruptcy.

Other than that, universities will get paid no matter what they charge, and banks will get the loan repaid whether you do it personally or not, so there's no reason for anyone to constrain costs to reality.

Outlaw student debt entirely and watch the system turn on its head. There's no reason it should be so expensive to learn how to be useful, especially with 12 years of state-funded primary schooling before university.
According to the Washington Post the results of raising the minimum wage from $9.96 to $11.14 per hour are mixed [1], [2]:

> Yet the actual benefits to workers might have been minimal, according to a group of economists whom the city commissioned to study the minimum wage and who presented their initial findings last week.

> The average hourly wage for workers affected by the increase jumped from $9.96 to $11.14, but wages likely would have increased some anyway due to Seattle's overall economy. Meanwhile, although workers were earning more, fewer of them had a job than would have without an increase. Those who did work had fewer hours than they would have without the wage hike.

> Accounting for these factors, the average increase in total earnings due to the minimum wage was small, the researchers concluded. Using their preferred method, they calculated that workers' earnings increased by $5.54 a week on average because of the minimum wage. Using other methods, the researchers found that the minimum wage hike actually caused total weekly earnings to drop -- by as much as $5.22 a week.

It seems to me that the results when the $15/hr minimum are reached are hard to predict.

[1] the minimum wage will eventually reach $15/hr however at this point it is only $11.14/hr

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/study...
The Apple iOS AppStore effectively prohibits GPLed code. So Wix is in hot water two ways. Clever of the CEO's blog post to not even mention the GPL.

"Yes, we did use the WordPress open source library for a minor part of the application (that is the concept of open source right?)" -- ha ha no.
This is not a matter of different "world views" as you call it.

The distinction you draw between paid artists and "the critical community" simply does not exist.

How many historically great artists, masters, geniuses, would you like to be named here - all who have been paid, or had patronage, or whatever, before you'll admit you're criteria is utterly deficient without depriving yourself the benefit of some of man's greatest achievements?

It's ironic, how you proclaim you don't care to consider whether you are condescending, that this lack of connection to humanity is probably related to the artificial boundary your mind has created to encircle what you call real art.

To each his own.
The first mode of transport affordable to an ordinary person was probably an animal like a donkey or an ox, etc..
I've been doing this since the late 80's and I've never even been asked about fizzbuzz.

Every time it's mentioned, I have to go look up what it means. For some reason, it refuses to stick in my head.
Where does it say you would damage your hardware? Alt modes are negotiated with a standardized protocol as is power transfer. The defaults should be electrically compatible with all devices, though not necessarily functional.
You can't amortize in real-time. You don't get a mulligan for missing a deadline because you can do twice as much work in the next frame.
There are a ton of good T-Bolt 3 dock options out there, none provide power at the moment, but I'm sure someone will have one on the market shortly.
Thunderbolt Cinema Displays required two cables to the machine -- data and power. So, not quite, right?
Not really that funny if you watch the actual video.

You can watch it from 2:00 onwards:

http://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/55ad80d461646d4db7000005...
Yea these articles with zero evidence are basically pointless. The unemployment rate being low in most places that are desirable to live such as Seattle generally are short term problems. So give it a couple of years and there will be enough workers. Many people are moving to Seattle now from many other places. The high minimum wage generally won't end up being a huge deal except it just becomes a higher tax on everybody. Basically $7 sandwiches become $8 sandwiches and so on. Also most places that have 2 workers like an espresso stand the manager will see if he can get away with only 1 worker. So you waste more time buying a latte. So the more useful article would be something like, "restaurant owner sees 10% business increase and after surveying his customers finds that nearly all of the new people at the restaurant make minimum wage of $15, also his costs are now higher so his net result in profits is about 5% improvement year over year.. This situation has been anecdotally confirmed by about 15 other restaurants in the area.. All the while the population in that particular area only increased by 2%." I guess journalists are not economists or engineers.. :-/
It's more that age doesn't actually impart you any kind of wisdom on its own. A lot of people grow up in misinformation and no amount of years can make up for it. The concepts of adulthood and maturity are not real beyond the biological definitions.
Depends on your perspective. If you had infinite money, everything would effectively be free no matter how much it costed, and "value" to you wouldn't be a function of cost at all, but rather one of factors like time and convenience.

No one has infinite money, but the more money you have, the less the cost of something matters, and in exchange the other factors matter more.

For a relevant example, I think that a liberal arts degree is a wonderful thing. The experience itself is hugely positive. If you're not already financially secure, however, I think that spending $200,000 on a liberal arts degree is a bad idea. The return on investment is low compared to some other things you could spend $200k. It is, indeed, a "ripoff." If you're already very wealthy, the equation changes. $200k has less value to you, so the education itself is relatively more valuable in exchange. If you're wealthy enough, the economic benefits may become completely irrelevant, which makes the liberal arts education an extremely efficient use of your resources because of the other benefits it provides that you'd struggle to obtain any other way.

A $200k liberal arts education may only provide minor benefits over a $50k one, so you could say it's "not worth" 4x the cost. A scam, practically. But if you're wealthy enough, the $150k may not matter as much as the minor benefits do.

Basically, "worth" is not some intrinsic property of an object, but instead entirely dependent on your frame of reference.
As an outsider my question would be why can't the existing tools update and adopt instead of being replaced?
It certainly seems like they want to move in that direction, but it's critical that they retain the developer segment. It'll be game over for them if developers are unable to be productive on a Mac.

There's likely a way to make both of these things happen, to some degree. For instance, they could start with just locking Macs to the app store as a default that is changeable. (similar to how Android is locked down)
good to know. I had heard of this stuff before but just assumed it was yet another framework.
Isn't that exactly what it does if enforced to the letter? That's exactly why companies not building SaaS applications have historically been cautious about it. Of course it comes down to the definition of "derived" and how a judge and jury interpret that.
Matt, I understand what you're saying - but that wasn't his main point. I object to the summary dismissal of anyone who has a job as unable to be a legitimate artist.
If you want to dynamically see how projection affects shapes, check out the Mercator Puzzle Redux (the original seems to have bitrotted). The object of the puzzle is to match the countries to their real locations, and it demonstrates the distortions as you drag the countries around.

https://bramus.github.io/mercator-puzzle-redux/
But doesn't this demonstrate that completing HackerRank challenges is absolutely not indicative of coding ability?
FYI, delve is integrated into a lot of editors, and basically works exactly like visual studio when used in VS Code (I used visual studio for C++ & C# for 13 years before moving to Go).
Holding the door open is just a show of courtesy and respect for other human beings. I do it for everyone.
You mean that they are using a tried and proven architecture that helped the 4.77 MHz IBM PC find success in 1982?

Yawn....

The IBM PC keyboard had its own Z-80 CPU way back then and likely every single PC of any sort since then has done this. And then there are the disk controller CPUs. Wasn't that introduced around 1984?
You go after these companies because they grant prestige and you want to accomplish a certain level in your career by being employed by nationally or globally top company. If you aren't competitive in the least and just don't see the appeal, then it shouldn't be forced because you will be miserable and not succeed.
Is it possible that they're both unfamiliar with the language/environment? I doubt I could write a working fizzbuzz in go, and it's been so long since I've written C that I'm genuinely not sure if I remember how to write a working program.
I just checked Comcast for my ZIP code (98122) and all of their double play TV+Internet pricing is on one-year contracts ("$69.99/mo for the first 12 months with 1-year agreement"). Also, Wave Broadband (both the cable company "Wave" and the fiber optic company "WaveG") has no contracts and is in parts of Seattle. CenturyLink also does one- and two-year contracts, in my experience. I have a two-year contract for their 1Gbps fiber service because I wanted the price lock and I'm never canceling.
The Github description of the Firefox "bug" seems misleading. If I've read the linked bug correctly:

- the bug is in the HTML5 spec., not in Firefox

- Firefox implements the spec. correctly

- other browsers don't conform to the spec.

- Mozilla have attempted to get the spec. fixed, but Ian Hickson has been obstinate

There's certainly an argument to be made for Firefox ignoring hixie and the spec. and just doing what works, but the Github description is still painting this in a very skewed way that isn't representative of the issue.
It would be nice to see something like #lanes@XGhz + 1 .
Depends on if it's determined to be "derivative" right?
The Academy report they link does consider the economics, and while the evidence is not super high quality, on net it does seem like the GMOs generally improve the economic situation: https://agbiotech.ces.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/NA... OP doesn't consider this anywhere that I can see.
And the battery has a MCU for charge management, and the trackpad, and the keyboard, and ...
ward cunningham has a great idea with poor execution, and he's holding years worth of commentary on various technical subjects in order to satisfy his desire to implement his idea.

I'm not a fan. I worry for the other rabbit holes of the internet that are still smart and able to be searched, mined, and mirrored easily.
Do people need air-conditioning or is it just a luxury?

I guess now the globe is heating up there is more need for one, but I've always thought of it as borrowing from the future a little, a viscous cycle. More AC, More emissions, needs more AC.

I'm in Indonesia right now and sure the houses are built for the tropics but with locals, AC is rare and people manage to get plenty of good sleep and have loads of energy.
You meant 700 Gbps not 700 gigabytes (5.6 Tbps). Both are impressive, but the latter would have been fasincating.
Yes, there are GPL licenses that apply to SaaS but the vanilla GPL (at least v2) doesn't as far as I know.
That sounds like a serious miscommunication between the person who originally reached out to you, and the person doing the interviewing.

I've interviewed several candidates, and sometimes there's been a time crunch, and I didn't do more than read their resume and do a quick google search to make sure they haven't recently escaped from a federal penitentiary or something. Perhaps your interviewers didn't know your prior qualifications, or that you were meant to have been fast-tracked past the "has a pulse" section of the interview?
I don't think 'bad performance' is a fair characterisation of Immutable.js. If you're calling .toJS() all over the place it will be doing a lot of redundant work. However there should be no need to do that, if you just pass the data structures around and access their fields directly.

That's not to say that you should necessarily use Immutable.js; if you don't understand the use case where structural sharing in persistent immutable data structures is useful and require it for your application then you should probably just leave this tool on the shelf.

However, if, for example, you are maintaining maps containing many items which are updated frequently, then you may benefit from the time and space complexity of structurally shared maps (Immutable.js) rather than creating a full copy on each mutation (plain JS objects).
Just to clarify, since I've never done a programming interview:

70% of people can't do fizzbuzz during the interview?
> > whether higher minimum wages were going to kill jobs. The early data is in, and so far it doesn’t look like they do."

> This seems like an awfully broad conclusion to draw.

Why? We have mountains of evidence that supports that conclusion, and none to oppose it.
That's the main idea -- is the hypocritical perception warranted, and would we create more revolutionary charities and easier donation systems and things of that sort if it were eliminated, or given less attention? Would the tradeoff be worth it to attract more SV-level talent?
I don't believe I used the term "real art" and if you re-read my comment you'll find I have a more nuanced view of commercial/non-commercial art. Pixar isn't tackling anything controversial because they want to get paid; this does not mean they don't produce art, but rather that there are many pieces of art worth making they will not touch. This goes for any commercial entity, and Pixar is certainly producing more work that is interesting in itself than any organization of which I can think.
It blows my mind that the Super FX not only survived the collapse of Argonaut but went on to become so widely adopted by companies that presumably could make their own tiny microprocessors.

So cool.
I think if you go around saying "you should" to artists, then "you should" also provide a link to your portfolio so they can make an informed decision on what value they choose to place on such advice.
I'm interested in what you think my main point was.
Why Sex? To Keep Parasites at Bay, of Course (2011)
And millions were killed by fascism, by colonialism, and by other -isms. There is nothing inherent to communism/socialism that necessitates killing, plus historical context is a thing.
ICANN has made $400 million with new domains. Doesn't include the $135 million for .WEB. Non-profit? BS!
Because that's what leads to monumentally difficult to use tools.

Instead of choosing between gulp or grunt, you'd need to choose which config flags you want for this hypothetical "gunt". So instead of having simple to use tools (but a bunch of them), you have a few tools which take weeks of learning before you can even scratch the surface on them. And it leads to tools that have settings that nobody knows about because nobody uses them, and weird security holes and issues because of legacy support for an option that was added 3 years ago which when combined with a new flag causes everything to break...

Gulp is very simple, it's like 4 functions, and like 3 or 4 "conventions" you need to learn. There is no config, there are no settings, and there isn't any baggage. And that's the theme with JS tools. Rather than bloating current tools, you make a new one. Switching between them is easy, as they are all very trivial in nature. The power comes from combining those trivial tools.
> If you are familiar with Austin this is a problem for all residents - housing prices have shot up because there is so much demand. It's not a minority issue.

If you're familiar with Austin, how much more demand for housing there is there compared to demand for housing in Dallas? How is that difference in demand, if any, reflected in pricing?

Austin is about as clear a case as you can get of pricing shooting up in response to extremely average levels of demand combined with severe supply restrictions.
> My actual position is that a good argument against the top comment here is that a) this is an incredibly bad place to be trying to make such a point and b) if you want to make such a point, even under better circumstances, you really, seriously need to up your game as to expressing yourself clearly, sensitively and in a nuanced manner.

I have a great deal of difficulty reading this position from your response above. But I will take you at your word. Thank you, I appreciate the time you spent further clarifying your point to me.

> It in no way justifies this heinous crime, but raking him over the coals over the deficiencies in his writing also in no way will improve his ability to express the idea effectively and appropriately.

I am not here to or improve anyone. I am here to coldly and meticulously point out misogyny and rape culture of Hacker News wherever I see it. I am not interested in correcting behavior beyond that. It's not my place or my desire to be anything other than to throw a bucket of cold water on every case of it I see.

If you feel a higher calling, I wish you good luck. I no longer care to attempt to carefully untangle if someone is an MRA or if they are just using arguments very much like an MRA uses.
The best definition of 'art' that I've heard is "Does someone call it 'art'? Then it's art". Every other definition I've seen put forward has its exceptions. Using this definition, you can't separate out 'real' art.

My own personal working definition of art is "does it make me think or feel something other than questioning the skill of the creator?". This sets a pretty low bar, but still cuts out those things like the 'artists' who just nail up a sheet of plain paper and call it 'untitled'... yes, very funny, moving on.
Contrasting: prison labour, concentration-camp labour, sweatshops, workhouses.
This is designed for new houses. That means to calculate the cost of the electricity, you first need to subtract the cost of an equivalent-quality conventional roof.
Out of curiosity, why is GPL software prohibited on the app store?
Hmm, you've left me with a lot to think about. There's certainly value to "nifty" work, but I think that value can almost always be leveraged in self expression. Hey, even pointing out nifty things is self expression.
Everyone in academia should internalize it
The Cost of Loading 10,000 modules
Alternatively, if the industrial revolution had been advanced by 1,000 years, we might be halfway through learning how long it takes to recover from fossil-fuel induced climate change.
The license doesn't reflect that as an option right? Yeah you might be liable for damages but if you could just create a product as a thin wrapper around GPL as a shortcut to get to market faster and dump it later when you get caught it would almost make the entire point of the GPL moot.
Shun the unbeliever. Shun him.
That's true, regarding the limits being for short-term consumer protection. Could we accomplish this regulatory oversight through other means than government blanket rules, however? Unbiased charity rating systems could come into play here.

I actually found this article while browsing around as myself and some colleagues would like to create a company which will hopefully inspire more charitable donations, larger donations, etc., which would have a positive impact.. however the idea of exerting startup-level effort, hours and dedication for a very limited economic benefit seems really unappealing compared to other options. Is it morally acceptable to be paid more in a charity-focused company, as long as you and the company hold that value? Charities haven't seen any revolutionary changes, and the financial limitations leave only a very small altruistic proportion of people who are willing to work and make changes in the sector.
> you're an obvious Trump supporter

No he's not. I agree with most of his comments here and I'm voting for Stein too.
The Dutch also benefitted by use of peat for heating and cooking fuel, which preserved their (scarce) lumber supply for shipbuilding. See Manfred Weissenbacher, Sources of Power, Vaclav Smil, Energy in History.