skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building small app with a friend. It should add some features to Instapaper, Pinboard and Pocket. We are having some trouble with different APIs, but a good thing is that I extracted boilerplate for this kind of things.

https://github.com/Stanko/react-redux-webpack2-boilerplate
It includes minimal but complete set of features to get React/Redux app going.

I plan to keep it up to date, as a starting point for my personal stuff, as well as our company's projects
Yes, I'm planning to do a series of blog posts about it. In general, Rust is shaping up to be a great language for video games. There are some things that are known problems and that are hard to work with (such as recursive self-referencing data structures) but those are corner cases.

There general tooling of Rust is really nice. Much less so about Vulkan: It has a very limited compiler ecosystem with few optimizers and in general programming GLSL shaders in Vulkan is error prone, hard to debug and you'll be doing a lot of manual loop unrolling.
Someone please explain to me how the workers controlled the means of production in Nazi Germany.
> Where is the hole?
America. And in our hearts.
Hi Ian. That was a very well-written account of a very serious vulnerability. I just thought I’d let you know that there's a typo in the closing sentence (being discussed here), “they claim to of rotated all secrets”. That should be “have” rather than “of”. It kind of threw me a little as I read it. Le gach dea ghuí.
There is no link. It never happened. That was the point.
I don't think that growth and employment being "ever so slightly up" gives the full picture here. The value of Stirling hit a 31-year low after the vote, which obviously made the UK an attractive market for overseas buyers (such as Japan's SoftBank buying ARM) but wasn't so good for the people of Britain. This is before Article 50 has even been invoked, and any optimism in the market may reflect the belief that Britain might have second thoughts about leaving.

The policies of the "elite" economists have lead to economic growth that Britain as a whole has benefited from. What did hurt people, though, is that in the last 30 years, UK governments haven't shared this growth fairly, nor have they sufficiently invested in public services, policies which the EU had no control over and will only get worse if Britain leaves.
> With regards to the statement about being a "tax paying entity" or not to have a voice, that is an extremely dangerous road to go down. See "poll taxes".

Not at all. Every person has the potential to pay taxes, whether they do or not. We have wisely decided that people who make below some vague amount don't have to pay taxes. But they'd be eligible to pay if they made more money. As opposed to a theoretically non tax paying corporation.

As for corporations "speaking", the people controlling the corporation are using the productivity of their workers to speak for those workers (if money is speech, that money came from the employees' productivity), whether their employees want the to or not. They're unjustly gaining extra speech, beyond their individual speech, which everyone already has a right to.

EDIT: taxes and speech, I probably wasn't clear. Any person can vote, whether they pay taxes or not. They have skin in the game, because they're people. Their population determines congressional districts at every census, and corporations do not. I'm not saying you can't vote until you make enough to pay.
Personally I like it a lot but I hated their chicklet keyboards so

another plus is that the laptops bottom edge no longer digs into my wrist
Awesome! Really nice what Nicolas and the whole community of Haxe contributors are doing to push language, eco system and targets.

Thanks to all of you involved for working on this!

> Just-In-Time compilation (actually Ahead-of-Time)

Also I do like paradoxes :)
A bit off topic but: our country has a real problem that was hit home last night by a comment made by a dinner guest. He is a democrat (my wife and I are also registered democrats) and was over joyed at the prospect of a recount and/or electoral college delegates putting Clinton in the White House.

I pointed out how disruptive this would be to the country and the fact that Clinton has acknowledged that Trump won, and that Trump will probably end up with close to 2/3 of the electoral votes, kind of a landslide. I stated that we could have mass violence in this country if the election were overturned this late after the election.

Our friend said that mass violence was better than a Trump presidency, which seems like a really stupid point of view. I find it troubling that his view seems to be reflected by many people. In my opinion, we should respect the office of presidency, give Trump a "honeymoon" period to see what he actually does, and most importantly, get very politically active before the next interim elections.
I think any real world systems C project will have undefined behaviour. I'm sure HotSpot, V8, .net etc are all totally undefined.
employers pay payroll taxes. not the tax that gets taken out of your check -- there's an additional tax they pay for every dollar they pay you.
>But I recall eventually thinking that if the mantra of communist revolution was a forceful overthrow of existing government -- by definition not the will of the (majority) people - then a ban on the parties (public) existence was justified. Do you agree with the premise and if so does it affect the equality of your comparison at all (the free speech restrictions)?

Depends. Is your country trying to restrict even democratic socialists, respectful of human rights, from operating openly? Does your country use infiltration and assassination to grind its Left into dust? If so, you may just have to deal with the tankie communists.
Couldn't bad players just send and receive through other peoples connections, maybe even pretend to be someone else on purpose, in order to get them arrested? It's pretty trivial to jump on someone's wi-fi, and use throw away emails.
So, it's exponential growth, but with a slower rate.
Clean up your existence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Micro economics is not science either as people are conscious and adapts(find loopholes) around them whenever its possible to do so.
This makes me wonder of what one would say of the faceless individuals that worked behind certain governments to indirectly cause death and suffering of millions of people, say in a place like Africa.

Like the well-known western government(s) that deliberately destabilized The Congo early in its independence and installed a dictator, because they did not like the ideological leanings of whoever was in power then? A conflict that still continues 56 years later?

But then it becomes hard to pick out a specific person and say how evil they are, and how they're different from me and you.
> locking his people in a prison island...

Oh the irony. Gitmo is in Cuba too :)
"double taxation" is not an entirely accurate/honest term. corporations are "persons" and we tax money flowing to people. it's taxed just like everyone else. what's odd is that it has a different, and largely preferential, tax treatment relative to other persons.
Floating Cubans
I don't think it has anything to do with the actual cost of digging. IMHO the primary reason is they don't want to keep digging for weeks. By baking in an artificial cost increase they make sure this will stop after a couple days maximum.
Something that also happened with Batista.
Something that happens with Putin.
If I were that technical (and mature) co-founder, I would look at strong traction, real profits, and no bullshit. I care more about traction and bootstrapping than having investors, except if those investors are top VCs. Very improbable without a technical co-founder.

If the project didn't start yet, I would only take the bet if you have real experience and real companies/champions [1] waiting for your solution.

My company had a lot of startups as customer. Many of them with strong business and technical teams. almost all died. Full stop.

[1] http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/champion.html
Thanks! I appreciate your encouragement. =)
iirc, Cuba's health success is due to its socialized health care.
I don't see that happening in the U.S. This person's campaign would be subject to a flurry of DMCA takedown notices[0] and mafia style legal threats.

[0] Legal or not.
>I think most people believe we already know. Suffering --> Revolution --> Dictatorship is a very common pattern.

Then why have people been allowing the upper classes in almost every developed and developing country to grind down the common people with suffering? How are we allowing the 1930s to happen over again if we've learned our lesson?

Franklin Roosevelt is turning in his damn grave these days. Every attempt he made to moderate the horrors of capitalism so as to avoid the worse horrors of totalitarianism is being rolled back! This must not be allowed!
This is perhaps part of a lesson they're trying to teach.

Every one of us can think of ways this money, or any lump of money, could be put to good use. But instead it's being used to dig a huge hole.

And the same thought can be applied to many things in our economy. Gargantuan wastes of resources that __could__ be used to do good, but are instead squandered on pointless work. And none of us do anything about it, we just sit around and go "herp derp let the market solve everything".

This stunt highlights some of the naked stupidity of our society and how it allocates resources.
Have you ever read anything about Cuban democracy besides the propaganda put out by the US government? If you're actually interested in educating yourself, there's an interesting sociology paper called Representative Government in Socialist Cuba.
30$/ week or 130/month for 50 years ~80,000$. That's actually not that high, IMO.
I've been working on improving my server-side JavaScript - Node/Express etc and basically taking a break from client-side frameworks, React/Angular etc. I miss the simplicity of just building a server-side website.

Anyway, I made a little job board https://wehire.io/ Nothing fancy, but fun to build.
Well those $77k are helping run CAH! They are making a huge profit on this, and they deserve every penny of it :)
> Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages.

Are corporations desperately brainstorming to find ways to pay their employees more, only to be foiled by freedom-impinging corporate taxes?

> The populist governments...need to deliver economic growth and benefits to the disenchanted workers who have brought them to power. One way to do it in a way everyone would understand would be to abolish the corporate tax

The article posits replacing corporate tax with a 25% VAT. These disenchanted lower-income workers would see their cost of living increase substantially, but presumably they could dip into their newfound corporate tax savings to cover the difference.
Show HN: A minimal static site generator
What does the Touch Bar look like with Boot Camp?
Taxes. Taxes. Taxes. As a single individual making a little over 200k you endup with 120k net. The gross income means absolutely nothing since you're giving away 80k every year.

middle class, not a place to be
One of those accounting tricks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
Oh right, and the United States has never had poverty.
Looking at the article date (Nov 17) and the dates for Supercomputing '16 (ended Nov 18), if Intel had actually announced preferential release to specific customers, it would have been confirmed already. Combing through Google News, there doesn't appear to be any article covering Intel's announcements at SC16 that mentions such a preferential release. So, it's probably just a false rumor.
I had a Tandy Color Computer 2. It hooked up to my TV and used cartridges for games and programs. I was about 7 years old (1986). I tried to understand programming BASIC, but it was beyond me at the time and I didn't have anyone to explain it to me so I used it for the games for a few years. My favorite game was Dungeons of Daggorath which I still crave to play sometimes.
dude, you're a critical thinker - I liked the text classifier post, I'll have a proper read when I'm next on a train - Milo is a first class troll - Breibart has perspective on some current topics - there are no longterm gains from censoring that
This is what I use to create my personal website.
Nice job, could you provide some example configurations in the readme?
Dangerous to the point that not even $20/hour gets him enough workers. That's a job that cries out for automation.
I think the Dada art movement would disagree.
It's all down to the Reynolds number, which relates viscosity ('sluggishness' of the fluid) n, length scale L and speed v. Re = v*L/n; if this number is low, stuff "happens slowly", if large, stuff "happens quickly".

So if you scale things up, making L larger, you can get fluids that we usually think of as "slow" to act like they're "quick". Like magma: very sticky, but a big enough lava flow can outrun a car.

<insert standard disclaimer about handwaving in above comment>
Business as usual.
On the main site they have all kinds of examples.

http://www.zapcc.com/benchmarks/
> Yes. Because - assuming you keep the paper ballots around somewhere - someone 2000 miles away can't manipulate what those paper ballots say.

But someone on the premises can. It's not as if there was never election fraud before computerisation!
Looks like the speed isn't compromised. Scroll all the way down on this page:

http://www.zapcc.com/benchmarks/
It's interesting because I suffer from perfectionism as well, severely so. Probably for worse, I've also been able to achieve it in a lot of aspects of life. This reinforces my desire for perfection.

The interesting part is that programming is the one place where perfection escapes me, as in I haven't desired for it. I realize there are bugs and caveats to written code. My flip side here is that I strive for perfection of the user's experience. I do get disheartened when a user experiences something negative in the code based I work on.

The key for me has been focusing on the perfection to a user and not perfection of code. There may be a dark edge that they never see, and it's fine.

When there is a careless bug, I still struggle balancing empathy and drive to fix it. That's fine, however, as I'm aware and work to not do it. I could see where someone who strives for perfection would easily get disheartened and feel misalignment in values.
Hell, even if this only gives a speedup with template heavy code I'm on board. We use a number of header only, template meta programmed to death libraries (RapidJSON, Eigen, ViennaCL), and compilation speed improvements would be a huge productivity boost.
> It is quite profitable for a company to screw over customers.

Because companies are beholden to investors and not customers.
Cubans do not live in poverty. There are neither rich nor poor. And if you think there's an "efficient" way to escape poverty in the UK, you've never been poor.
I wish I could give more than ~$1.797693 x (10^308).

That means that they can't dig longer than ~3.417998 x (10^300) years.

If you'd like to find the exact amount, you can copy this into the custom amount field and keep altering digits until you come up with the right number:

179769313000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

I have a feeling whatever the actual number is would be extremely important to our survival as a species, like something I'd need to enter into an Apple II+ every 108 minutes to discharge electromagnetic energy safely or the "Underworld" hieroglyphs would be displayed.

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Hieroglyphs
I think what amuses me most is that the biggest donors seem to be people looking to advertise.

At the moment it's a vehicle code scanner, LEO/Tachical gear, flavored nicotine (I guess?), and a BBQ thermometer.
Uh? They prototyped on FPGA but what is currently deployed across their data centers is custom made ASIC silicon.
I backup my main system to Backblaze, and then back it up to an external drive every month or so. That external drive gets plugged into my laptop and the files get copied there. Yeah, I have Dropbox, but I also have a music collection that's a bit too big.
If I'm a shareholder I don't want 10%, I want as much profit as possible. This is why economics is based around the assumption that stakeholders are profit maximizing.
Ask HN: Did you switched from objective-c to swift 3.0?
And why are you not switching yet, or why did you switch? Pluses/minuses
Looks more anti-consumerist than specific politics tbh.
> Perhaps they would be happier as a designer, where they can make everything fit into perfectly neat boxes.

Typically I'd just downvote, but was that condescending comment really needed? This is the sort of toxicity that turns people away from our community.
So now we'll just have private offshore holdings instead of business holdings?
I don't personally think it's a commentary on government, but it's a reasonable conclusion. It was John Maynard Keynes who famously said (talking about government stimulus) that the government should "pay people to dig holes and fill them in again". As a result, a hole is the classic example of a useless government make work project.
Aside from what everyone else has said, it's also a shameless knock-off of Apples to Apples, which preceded it. It's basically the same game, but more profane.
Maybe the solution would be to switch to working on a different kind of software, where everyone agrees that getting it right really is critical?
>US sucks at finding and supporting right side.

No, they do a perfect job at finding the right side. They always install, whatever is best for them, ie. American Corporations.

The US does not care about human rights, it's all just used to legitimize their position. Capitalism has no conscious, it ONLY does what is most profitable, whatever it might be. What should they gain by having a democracy somewhere else? "Free Markets", is another topic. The US loves those, especially if their companies can expand their "market" or, even better, use the locals to produce under inhuman circumstances.

Considering that, I believe the US is a "great" imperialist power, and really good at choosing their puppets. What a pity those "stupid cubans", didn't give the US a second chance to exploit them under a different puppet. It would have been a lot better.
This is awesome, and a big step forward for OCaml. Only criticism is that it seems difficult/awkward that you need different functions/values for each phase. In other staged macro systems (Scala/LMS, Rust/Compiler Plugins) you can refer to the same functions in any phase, and you can also splice values from the staging phase into the runtime phase without explicit use of a function like Expr.of_int.
One question is missing though: what if they find gold or other precious materials? Will the backers receive part of the returns?
>The only way (I can think of) to optimize this is by cheating, i.e. by writing an algorithm specifically fitted for the kind of input we have to deal with.

Programmers must stop equating cheating with engineering.
Saying "I don't believe fibromyalgia" without any further explanation sounds like you are denying the fact that fibromyalgia sufferers are experiencing pain, that they're making it up. I would hope this isn't what you mean.
Wouldn't this be the same as simply not taking money out of the corporation in the first place? I'd be more concerned about losing tax income from personal consumption complexly disguised as corporate spending.
Someone who held no free nor fair elections for half a century, imprisoned his political opponents after trials presided over by crony judges, completely controlled all the national media and installed his brother as his successor? And that's not a tyrant?
textbook imposter syndrome
1) Best business advice I ever received was to put an attorney on retainer. Best money you will ever spend. Being able to have someone who is available to answer questions from time to time or provide advice is worth the price.

2) Having a general understanding of basic business structure. Knowing the basic difference between an LLC, C-Corp, S-Corp, and sole proprietor is good. You don't have to know all the differences or legal intricacies, but having a general idea of the difference is good.

3) Depending on your hiring plans, some knowledge basic employment law can be helpful.

4) Basic tax laws and filing requirements for your state. Do you need a business or professional license? Are their quarterly, annual filings required? When are they due?

Not sure of a book, most you will learn over time, but a general intro to business book may be helpful. Because laws can vary by state and even county or city, it will be tough to find one source for everything. That is why #1 above is important in my book. Unless you are an attorney it is almost impossible to know all the laws. You can easily fall victim to the "know enough to be dangerous" theory when it comes to law or accounting. It's good to understand what they are talking about at a high level, but let the professionals handle the details.
Maybe she should quit doing user-facing stuff and try getting into systems programming for a change. Or some other area where sloppy solutions lead to tangible reduction of business value and thus are not tolerated. Tech is big, no need to quit all of it.
There is not much to configure at the moment.
But yes, you are right, I should describe how it works.
I change the readme now.

[EDIT]
Done. I hope it's clearer now.
Or maybe they'd just rather do computer science than software development.

There are lots of branches of technology work that prize understanding over shipping.
Droning doesn't kill only terrorists. There's plenty of collateral deaths (what do you think the ratio is, 1:10 intended targets to unintended when explosives are involved in civilian settings?) not to mention the labeling of who is and isn't a terrorist is hardly infallible. Of course those giving the go ahead are so far removed from the consequences that it must become easier and easier to order drone strikes when intelligence tells you it will "save American lives".
True. With paper ballots it is more localized. Chains of custody along with observers from multiple parties help prevent collusion. Like all security, you can only minimize, not eliminate, risk.
I don't see any indications of imposter syndrome in here at all.
Belongs in an enterprise environment IMO. That mentality works really well with unlimited budget where projects can live forever.
I think thats the emotion this is meant to evoke.
> What we might want to prevent is giving the money to wealthy shareholders or them buying a second, a third, fourth home, getting a new Mercedes every six months, whatever it might be. That's where we want to have the taxes. We don't want to prevent Microsoft or General Motors or whoever it might be from investing more in improving their product line. That's a good thing in my view.

Sounds like a use tax would be more beneficial?

I have no formal economics training and would love to hear from the more educated.
They sell it. About a year ago fb decommissioned an old server design, leading to a huge glut of used Xeon E5-2670s flooding the market. Gamers snapped them up for next to nothing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3smipw/psa_th...
Its similar to Marcel Duchamps urinal. Its meaning is up to the viewer.

Throwing money at a hole in the ground.
That isn't how it played out in 2015. They said give us money for nothing and then they spent it on stuff including giving a week off to their factory workers and buying stuff for the staff.