skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, but I would take it further...

It solves a problem that people other than web designers care very little about, but costs me money and creates a slew of other problems...

Personally, I wish it was easy to just turn off!
In principle you are correct; in practice the commonly-available emulation environments don't do anything to hide the fact that they're emulations. If you ask the OS for the name of the graphics card and get "VirtualBox Graphics Adapter for Vista and Windows 7"...
I would agree - I just finished my PhD in October. I did my PhD (Computer Science) while working full-time as a research associate and I was objectively less productive as a scientist while doing my PhD. I did it for the "union card" and I am now applying for faculty positions that would otherwise not have considered me without the PhD.

It also agree it is very disruptive to family life and I think it not only drives women away from pursuing such a degree - it can in some cases contribute to women having fewer kids than they would like and/or increases the odds of them pursuing expensive fertility treatments later in life.
My advice is to avoid anything that might possibly create an expectation that the project is open source. Pitching a closed source product to Github users is probably tough enough without creating an excuse for people to have a negative reaction.

Less deceptive isn't the best way to phrase it. Be upfront. Let people get to 'no' quickly if closed source rules the product out. That will let you validate your business decision to make the product closed source. At some point potential users will learn the product is closed source. Respect their time, don't waste it.

In the end, your customers are going to be people who are ok with closed source. An approximated sales pipeline:

1. People who hear about your product are an approximation of prospects.

2. Prospects who hear about your product and are ok with closed source are an approximation of leads.

3. Leads who are shopping for a product like yours and are comfortable with your price are an approximation of qualified leads.

4. Your sales will only be to the approximation of qualified leads.

Effort spent on moving people with an aversion to closed source down the pipeline is an inefficient use of resources if there actually is a market for the product. It is inefficient because you have to sell your product and convince the person they are wrong about closed source.
"The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken." — General John L. DeWitt, head of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command

Insane reasoning.
Some tech info:

- Built with ReactJS using a modded version of Ali's awesome starter kit: https://github.com/alicoding/react-webpack-babel

- Backend is FireBase (I may have to change this as cost could be a huge issue)

- All randomization uses the probability-distributions library (double plug!) which I built to have a JS package with the same syntax as R (go R!).

- Icons for avatars built use the fantastic IcoMoon service: https://icomoon.io
The occupants of Japanese internment camps in the U.S. were Japanese American.
I read a study in the 90's comparing more experienced and less experiences multimedia programmers given identical tasks. In short, it concluded that the more experienced ones took longer to do the tasks, but did them to a higher level of quality.

That has always rung true to me, and I see that happening today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldIwEG9xQ-M
> Using the known Internet Explorer vulnerability CVE-2016-0162, the encoded script attempts to verify that it is not being run in a monitored environment such as a malware analyst’s machine.

So this would work only on Internet Explorer?
what do you mean it's the "same argument"? are you making an analogy that VC money is exogenous -- like steroids?

So is it:
CLAIM: "yeah-I-take-steroids-BUT" I work hard and it pays off.
Fact: the steroids do most of the heavy lifting

CLAIM: "yeah-I-take-VC-money-at-a-$1.7M-valuation-and-then-$10M-and-then-$100M-because-I'm-in-a-very-special-club-BUT" I work hard and become a millionaire by compressing a lifetime of work into a few years. Fact: the VC money does most of the heavy lifting.

Something like that? The reason I'm asking is that you don't go ahead and spell it out, I could be the one reading this into what you've written.

Without this, though, I don't see where the argument is 'exactly the same'; where is the analogy for the steroids?

The reason I don't like my interpretation of what you've written is that taking VC money isn't usually considered cheating (or anything like it)... I feel like I'm putting words in your mouth and that it would be better for you to write more clearly, what you mean...
For anyone that doubts that America is capable of truly awful, horrifying things, well, guess what, we are.
SICM is indeed mentioned in the pdf references (I linked it below)
I mean, they'll at least have the job until the project is finished. You're boss probably won't care if another framework comes out. Then there's all of the legacy applications that will need support. There's an entire market for that. In the meantime you can learn something new :)
Just to be clear, there's zero talk of any Muslim internment other than in the fevered world of the anti-Trumpers, who are using it as a straw-bogeyman to stir people up.
With today's political climate I can't help but think that something like this could happen again.
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Or something for webbrowsers in general :)

But then you need to share all your urls, not sure if everybody would be comfortable with that.
Suppose any rich man wakes up in the Amazon jungle with nothing to his name, no clothes and no money. He may in fact be the richest man on earth, but in the jungle it doesn't matter.

Society is their wealth. It's even the source of their language and ability to express themselves. In the past, Athenians realized this idea. They realized that Athens is what gave wealth any meaning at all. Literally the word wealth and also the supernatural amounts of wealth that some individuals accrued.

It's through this lens that we should consider a wholistic approach. Let Athens first take care of itself, then reward those who helped her grow better and stronger. Don't let a few wealthy athenians confuse you and say, because I'm wealthy, I get to make decisions legally and in the clear that enrich me and hurt Athens. No, we should not allow Athenian wealth be destroyed for the sake of a few Athenians!

Personally I count opportunity cost too, so all this time that wealth is being siphoned off into a few hands is creating a different future that we might otherwise have. What if we didn't siphon a trillion dollars into an expensive war in Iraq? What if my friend had not died on the battlefield? That stain still hasn't quite come out of our fabric yet.
I haven't done much with Paxos and friends and I only read the blog, not the paper, but this seems like elect a coordinator, send all changes through the coordinator which creates an ordering and sends out the ordered changes to the group. And by the way, hide the coordinator in your switch.

This seems pretty straightforward -- running MySQL replication in a sane way is essentially appoint a master server, send all writes through that, and hope you don't need to have a new election.
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> [Pokemon Go's] "AR" is extremely limit and I strongly suspect most players turn it off

Wandering around the real world with it gamified on your mobile phone is augmented reality. You can turn off the camera, but not AR.
Wouldn't the most obvious solution be to open-source FA fonts and include them in Linux, Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android? If they were installed on all systems then we wouldn't really have this issue at all. Given the ubiquity of some fonts this doesn't seem impossible.

Or and sorry to say cause I like FA, screw them and see if Apple/MS/Google can have an open standard icon font that doesn't suck.
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https://github.com/ticki/tfs/issues/5#issuecomment-266031657
Ads are as old as media, but that doesn't mean I have to accept them in all possible forms. A Google or Project Wonderful text ad - pure text with a link - is fine with me.

This nonsense, though? I don't remember the last time a classified ad leapt out of the newspaper and stole my grandmother's credit card.
Non-facebook link: https://toolsoftitans.com/foreword/#main
By renaming the CSS file from `font-awesome.min.css` to `fa.min.css` they could save 660GB a day:

73,000,000 sites * 1000 visitors * 10 bytes / 1024^3
Will be interesting to see how that pans out. If google makes a different search ordering solution for me its ok because i get to choose on the results page, whereas with this its like pressing I'm feeling lucky every time.
What do George Soros, Warren Buffett and a computer have in common?
Show HN: A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with syscalls
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I mostly agree, however there are exceptions that prove the rule. Some engineers are working on standard libraries. (someone has to write that code!) Some people are taking advantage of their data set to write special-purpose sorting algorithms that blow generic algorithms out of the water. (guilty!) Some people are putting stuff together in interesting ways that requires them to understand and sometimes even re-implement the standard algorithms to take advantage of internal data structures or other interesting effects. (It's bad practice, but knowing the order a map will iterate things in can be helpful if you don't expect it to change -- and make sure to have a unit test that proves it!)
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Yes it is, the testing machine I mean. The entire business with patents and team I think not, we have a 3-5 years plan relying upon the booming UAVs market, our r&d capabilities, the new IDB index as a possible universal efficiency standard and the legislation / certification aspects to come worldwide. Feel free to send in an email, just in case, ref. Hacker News. Thanks.
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> Google doesn't work the way it does to be successful. It works that way because it is successful.

Correct, and commonly the case. There is a corollary as well - often the company (not commenting on G specifically) does not know precisely why they are/were a success, i.e. what very specific details were important vs other specific details that look important, but aren't.

This lack of insight happens all the time and company culture can become fixed on things that they did as they became successful but were red herrings. A kind of cargo cult effect. One example I would give from Google is the early focus on "top school, top grades" "A" players as hiring filters - turns out that was useless, or worse. Kudos for figuring that out - but there are probaby at least a dozen other strong beliefs cooked in to the culture that are simply coincidental to success, not essential.
That is why in OSS communication is the key. Imagine how much money would be saved if they have asked maintainers first.
> If a story broke, I’d got to Fox news, CBS, Aljazeera, Politico– even fake news sites like The Onion or CNN.

Zing!

> Tkinter- I knew I’d have to enter my gmail username and password, and I didn’t want to hard code it knowing I was going to share my code.

For something like this that's intended to run forever or at an interval via cron or whatever, you're much better off pulling credentials from a config file or environment variables than requiring user interaction, especially via GUI.
The font on this page is terrible. Bad legibility!
Migrating a TSDB from Python to native C
And, of course, the advertisers are eating sky-high fraud rates from many publishers (even legitimate ones, after the ad has been laundered through a half dozen markets and resellers). Off-page display, clickfarm views, even just lying when it comes time to bill.

There's really no one involved who isn't getting robbed at least some of the time.
This is awesome, thank you for sharing.
Is there any kind of genre or name associated with epic organ music?
It's not clear what the author means here. This is not a very mathematical article.

(Nit: d is a distribution so it can not always return 0 -- it has to sum to 1. But your point stands.)
When I cared about staying up on current events, I subscribed to The Economist and read it cover to cover each week [a non-trivial commitment]. Though I'm American, my typical mainstream news source is the BBC website on my phone. Mostly for I'm there for football though.

I've discovered that just about everything important makes it into my bubble through other channels. Except local news and my beloved follows that.
2 is gitlab

4 is soundcloud
I must be missing something obvious, but how is 0.86n better than n/2 and n/4?

EDIT: I just noticed the space/polynomial space distinction, so I guess that's the improvement, but I don't know what that means.
>> Governor " Just because he's an action star. He won for because of the lols"

Actually a story had been circulating for years about him and Jesse Ventura. I guess they've always had a very healthy competition and close friendship. Jesse said they had both talked about going into politics for years, and after Jesse became governor in Minnesota, Jesse said he called him and boasted that he had beat him to the punch.

Sure enough, right after Jesse was elected, they had the recall in California and Arnold jumped in and won the recall election. I've heard in several interviews Jesse stating the only reason that Arnold got into politics was because of him.
I did not know the ACLU fought against the Japanese internment camps. Donation forthcoming.
This was appalling and obviously sucked a lot for people who underwent such treatment; however as someone born in USSR I'd say that it was surprisingly humane (hot water not always available) compared to how people were treated in the USSR around the same period.

Case in point: Ukrainian Holodomor (genocide by famine) http://www.rferl.org/a/holodomor-ukraine/25174454.html

Edit: also, Chechen and Krimean Tatar deportations, and many many others
Ironically (?) no such problem on mobile!
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Those second and third generation Japanese Americans wouldn't be able to read it.
Umh... http://www.kettlerusa.com/?fullSite=&cartId=&division=kettle...

The design. The url. Clicked "add to card" - default JS alert popup. Then some HTML pop up showed up saying something about my IP being banned because of BOTNET? What? Now refreshing the page I get a timeout.

This is literally the worst eshop I've seen in the past few years. I wouldn't hire a man who made this atrocity and sure as hell wouldn't like working with him.
I realized this way back in the mid 1990s when suddenly everyone wanted a "webmaster" with 10 years of experience, when suddenly HTML - a document markup language - became the most important "programming language" one could know.

Since then I have studiously avoided specializing in any technology. As soon as I feel like I've spent enough time in a particular stack to start to "know" it, I move on. I have refused to be pigeonholed into any particular tech.

The coding / language skills are the very least important skills I have, I intend to keep it that way. However I can present an extremely long laundry list of technologies that I have built solutions with - the length of the list, not the presence of any particular TLA on it, is the key to demonstrating my learning ability.
Which makes it all the more ridiculous of a paranoid, senseless, knee-jerk internment.
Anecdotally, I think a lot of my vocabulary came from reading older novels. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc.

Recently I've started reading modern scifi/mystery novels and found the vocabulary to be very simple (smooth? Like the text is lacking texture) by comparison.

If you can't get through novels without falling asleep, try audio books (preferably unabridged). Lots of classics on https://librivox.org
ticki and the rest of the crew working on Redox (jackpot51) are really doing some neat stuff. a lot of it is over my head but it is cool to see something being built from the ground up using some new techniques and ideas.
I've met people who I would say are 100-1000x better at doing and understanding technical problems than others I've met. They can and do achieve in a decade what would take the others a lifetime, if at all. These gifted people have a much easier time when it comes to survival because they are able to accomplish things that society values. (Happiness, personal meaning, feeling of community, etc is another ball game).

Furthermore, the grandparent was pointing out too that even gifted-ness aside, what family / community one comes from also has a huge impact on what possibilities are afforded them. The odds may be stacked against / for oneself before they even lift a finger.
I preferred when (way back when) it showed the actual vote totals (or up/down numbers, I don't quite remember). It also greyed posts btw. At some point they changed it, the justification was something about vote gaming/brigading and spam, which was reasonable but it wasn't a crucial fix to a very critical problem either (IMHO).

Most importantly, this change was made before dang became moderator, to try and fix certain ways the community worked, and nearly all of those ways have changed a lot because of the changes in moderation, so I wouldn't mind seeing that decision to be revisited. I doubt that'll happen though, it's just too safe and easy not to show vote numbers.

As for actual greying, I dislike the fact that it makes reading harder very much. If some people have downvoted it, doesn't mean I don't want to read it. For the same reason I have 'showdead' on in my profile settings (I really wonder how many people have this btw), also because (as I have explained in older comments of mine) I am very much against the concept of hellbanning as it is applied on HN. Again only last week I saw a few 'dead' accounts posting just reasonable (not super-informative or upvote-worthy, but just "fine") comments. Checking their post history I could see some "bad" comments that surely deserved all the downvotes they got, that probably triggered the hellban, but that doesn't excuse in any way to waste these people's time like that, writing reasonable comments, thinking they are participating in conversation, unknowing that the large majority of users won't even see their posts. There's no justification for that, if they need some kind of lasting sanction, have them be notified about it, maybe a posting timeout or something.

What would be better if comments with a certain number of downvotes would auto-collapse, like Reddit does. Even better, adjust the threshold per subthread so the total number of visible direct replies is between 10 and 15, or some number. I'd have locally scripted this myself a long time ago if the downvote-numbers were available.

However, you also seem to have a problem with the greying that it's signalling "unpopular opinion!" to other users, if I understand your remark about "stigma" correctly. Meaning that even if it didn't hamper legibility, if they used a different colour or perhaps a sad smiley in various states of desperation (I dunno), you'd still find a problem with that? Cause I'm not very concerned about that at all. IMO, the signal is the message, like say your posts in this thread, came off to me as somewhat whiny, regardless of the actual opinions in your post history that you were complaining about getting downvotes (which I still haven't looked at, btw, but I'm not sure I would want to), that kind of tone signals a lot stronger to me, downvotes or no, grey or no, opinion that I agree with or no. But maybe once you manage to take downvotes less personally, this particular side of the issue will become less of a concern for you as well.
Out of the 110,000 incarcerated, 62% of were American-born citizens. Since they were all living in America, and this all happened in America, English certainly makes since.
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I wouldn't call this "logic" at all :)
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My biggest problem with JavaScript is that I never can seem to wrap my head around the multiple null/undefined type of values and how to correctly test for them, as well as type introspection. Or, more appropriately, my problem with JavaScript is that it makes that confusing, and I use it just infrequently enough that I forget what I learned last time regarding that. Of course, that's not entirely JavaScript's fault, it just doesn't make it very easy.
You could just compare it to the Nazi internment camps for Jews, if finding "worse" conditions is the goal. (I'm being sardonic.)

(OT question: sarcastic is to sarcasm as sardonic is to ____?)

These were second and third generation "immigrants" living their normal, everyday American lives, torn away from their homes, communities, jobs, schools, churches, friends, and families. The crime isn't in the living conditions at the internment camps, the real horror is that people could be sent to them just for having a great-grandparent that came from Japan to the United States. The real crime is that hardly seventy years later, this internment is largely forgotten, the details are glossed over, and the American public (of which I am, by and large, proud to be a member of) have deluded themselves into thinking it's just another another unfortunate chapter in human history "that wouldn't happen again today" or that "desperate times called for desperate measures" and leave it at that.
I would have been fine. I've owned two small businesses that paid well at the time. I worked a lot of hours but I had fun with those companies.
Wonder how long until corporate IT policies mandate the use of adblockers
Life IS a learning treadmill. Have you looked at the state of employment today? Unless you don't care about income at all, you have to be constantly learning, because things are constantly changing. Even outside the employment space, I'm amazed at how fast the world is changing. My little girls get music playing by talking to a tiny box in our kitchen. Do you realize how crazy/cool that is?
A web development background certainly wouldn't hurt you, and could be a slight benefit as Js_of_ocaml becomes more popular here. That said, we tend not to look for specific backgrounds as much as strong programming skills and a good foundation in CS (not to be confused with a formal education in CS).

As far as whether I'd recommend applying - that's why I posted in the first place :)
this is not specific to SV, or US for that matter. 10x developers don't get 10x salaries of they work for bigger companies that have sort of rigid pay structures for given positions.
If you would be having same salary (apart from bonuses) as say some senior executive/CEO, well that won't fly, no matter of your added value or semi-magical skills.
It kind of already is happening in the US right now in the form of "Family detention centers" intended to detain non-citizens slated for deportation.

If Trump's administration seriously plans on "rounding up" millions of people for deportation, they'll have to be lodged somewhere while they are tried (assuming they're granted trials, who knows anymore) and travel arrangements are made.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/magazine/the-shame-of-amer...