skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So when Reddit links to another site, it isn't "brigading" and the potential DDOS is just an unfortunate consequence, but when a Reddit clone links to Reddit they are the devil incarnate?
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I would never give up a passionate side project for such little return. I would return their offer with a much higher sale price that you would definitely be happy to get. Let it be their loss and your gain if they don't accept it.
One issue I see with so-called free software is the coming era of AI. The software might be as free as RMS would like, but we still would not be able to decipher what exactly it does.
My sibling was an architect in NYC for a couple years. He found it very difficult to keep on top of the different regulations which are amended occasionally. They come in books, PDFs, old janky online tools.

We're working on a startup to bring all together into a modern search engine. It's called UpCodes.

There's a lot of space in the area of construction compliance that needs improving.
Hey. Keith here.

So first of all, I want to apologize. This is a huge mistake on my part, and I take personal responsibility. I have been cold e-mailing people directly literally for months (getting people to test out your project is hard work!) and we've been very lucky to have found super positive community members and feedback.

That is not the case here, however. We've been growing massively since we presented at AWS re:Invent. As a solo founder, I've been torn between hiring / building product / talking to investors and I took a "shortcut" --- we hired some growth consultants to do some cold outreach for us. There was a mix up, e-mails were sent out with wrong names (etc.) at a larger scale than I'm comfortable with and I was just notified about it as of this post.

I'm really sorry to you and anybody that was affected by this mix up. I'm thankful you brought this to my attention. As per cold outreach, I will focus on owning the process myself as much as I can on the personal scale I'm accustomed to. If you have any suggestions as to how we can improve stdlib to increase exposure without cold outreach, I'm more than happy to listen.

If anybody reading this was affected by this e-mail, feel free to e-mail me directly - keith at polybit dot com. Please remind me in the future and I'm happy to discuss giving you some free platform usage once we're out of Developer Preview.

Thanks again for bringing this up --- and truly sorry for any inconvenience.
The vast majority of communities are user-created, so it's kind of expected that there would be a long tail of community size, especially since there aren't any "default" communities like on Reddit. I think the most popular communities are still fairly active. I'm confident that there'll be more activity now that more people are joining.
Short version: alcohol.
I just lost my best mate from university to alcohol. Growing up in Britain, this is not my first friend I've lost because of alcohol. I'm in tears... I've struggled with drinking too much myself, this hits very close to home.
Thanks for bringing up specialized optimization tools such as Halide. Recently there's been a proliferation of domain-specific languages targeting this automatic optimization-from-intentions paradigm. While it's great for testing new ideas isolated from the complexity of modern day compiling suites (academic excursions), actually devoting your codebase to these tools is a huge burden for future maintainability, and eliminates the possibility of future improvements provided outside the small development effort of a single academic group.

Many of the techniques given here (and elsewhere in the glut of DSLs) are quietly folded into mainstream C compilers within a short timeframe -- first as requiring explicit hints just like the DSLs, then secondly simplified to allow the compiler to automatically infer hints from well-structured code relying on transformation guarantees of standard C idioms.

So if you stick with strict C and come to understand the implicit assumptions/guarantees the standard dictates while conveying structure in your code, in time the compiler suites will march forward in improvements that come with each update 'for free.'

And most importantly, update your testing infrastructure to be formally verified each refactoring (such as with CBMC) so that there's no regression problems caused by compiler updates with free reign!
You are missing the point. Your secondary intention has no relevance because your primary intention is to "invite the strangers". When you invite strangers, you should expect anything.
I used a Respro while mountain biking in AZ; when breathing & inhaling very heavily there is some resistance. But otherwise I liked it.

There is also this inhaler containing ectoine, but this wouldn't protect against particles entering the brain via olfactory nerve:

"An inhaler that protects the lungs against air pollution has been developed by scientists and could help the many millions of people affected by toxic air to avoid its worst effects."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/16/new-inha...
Drone delivers transfusion blood intact
Here's something that might work for you -

Try copying something.

That's right, try and copy some other program. For instance, if your domain is app development, try writing a twitter clone, or a snapchat, or a flappy bird.

If your goal is education, not money, than sometimes building something someone else has built can be a great task.
I think that's a bit of an insensitive summary.
Is the point of hn to make a bunch of bot accounts on proxies to massively upvote your ad in the first hour?
Indeed! It generated ᖗᗒᎲᗕᖘ, which I think is one of the best bears I've ever seen!
It's really important to eliminate single points of failures in home control systems. I've wired my apartment with Insteon controllers, which are capable of talking to each other without needing a central controller. I also have a server setup that can control all devices from my phone or Siri. When the centralized server fails to work, I can still control devices via the Insteon switches that talk directly to the devices.

If you're interested in building out such a system check out the home-controller nodejs package, InsteonUSB PowerLinc modem, and of course any insteon devices.

In my opinion the best home automation systems are decentralized networks of devices that can work independently or cooperate with each other.
I love finding blogs like this that I did not know about before. Thanks HN! If anybody knows any other cool blogs in the same vein, please tell me!
Encryption yes, but compression encodings haven't.
Reminds me of Facebook six years back: "There's no way they're worth $33B" [1]. Now they're worth 10X, publicly traded, and printing money. Respectfully, even professional prognosticators (ie. VCs) get this shit wrong 9 times out of 10... so lamenting all the ways it could "fail to be a great business" isn't really that insightful (in the probabilistic priors sense).

TL;DR: You could be right (and frequently will be), and you could be spectacularly wrong. But we're just Monday-quarterbacking while they're trying to make the future bad-ass with magical "autonomous" cars (whether human drivers or computerized). That's cool in my book; I wish them the best of luck!

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...
How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer
I remember reading this a few years ago, and it touched me as it is touching me now again.

I don't remember computers without pkzip/pkunzip. They've always been around, many copies on floppies containing games and other software, maybe just in case someone ever found a computer without them.

My school computers also had them, and we quickly learned there wasn't any benifit of compressing a compressed file. We had pointless discussions about comparisons with arj and rar without even knowing how they worked.
Expecting anything doesn't mean putting up with everything.
GA Secretary of State Just Accused DHS of Hacking Its Election Systems
I wonder what can be changed to help find and prosecute the distributors of malware?

By the way I think that the ones held responsible and paying for the damages should be distributors, not malware developers especially if they did not know exactly how it would be used. Making malware is like making a gun, it is allowed in some countries. Maybe it will be used for good purposes.
Looks like they've fixed it now.

Running behind a Cloudflare SSL Certificate, valid from 11AM December 11, 2016 GMT (today), expires in a year.
Ask them for 100k, no questions asked. If they don't agree balk. You can also say it's an acquihire where you will continue to work on the project, if they pay you your existing salary +20%, in addition to the 100k bonus, plus any relocation fees. If they are going to be working on your project, it's better that you who wrote it to begin with continue to work on it.
I posted + wrote this article. I'm disappointed I'm in the front page of HN and there's not a single comment here. Not even a "Nice article!", or a "Stopped reading after the 5th grammar mistake", or a even "This guys doesn't know what he's talking about because X"!

People hate on the comments section on HN, but the silence is much worse.
I'm pretty sure raattgift was referring to neutrinos when he said hot dark matter was "coursing right through you". He wasn't assuming the existence of any speculative form of dark matter.
Users can't benefit from the fourth freedom, specifically the right to republish their own modifications to their own software, without having the skill to understand and edit that software to begin with.
You think that the only reason someone would disagree with you is because they're a literal KKK supporter, but this is somehow fighting against an authoritarian monoculture? Right. Had nothing to do with said clique's awful treatment of LGBT people, dubiously moral tactics, tendency to see anyone who disagrees as literal neo-Nazis, and utter refusal to brook any kind of internal dissent over anything at all, of course. All those times they went after gay and trans men for daring to claim to be oppressed were sure a-OK with me. The fact they could only claim to meet their own basic moral standards by banning anyone who held them to the same standard as the rest of Reddit over anything, as a matter of policy, has zero to do with my assertion that it's not that simple or easy.

(Hell, the ex-Reddit CEO's since confirmed they had a history of IRL harassment campaigns against the families of Reddit admins who didn't go along with them.)
Wow that was difficult to read. Not that I'm an alcoholic but I can relate to some of the things he was going through.
Steroids are a common class of organic molecules and don't preclude membership in the group we've labeled "vitamins".

Vitamins are a label we give, not on structure, but on function and our own ability to synthesize them.

Vitamin D likely wouldn't be a vitamin were we all still running naked in Africa, but that's mostly not the case.
The "Antipatterns" section of the site is the verbatim text of "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis" [1], which is one of my all-time favorite books, but doesn't seem to credit the original at all. Is this site ripping them off?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arc...
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Seems to be what all commenters above are focusing on though.

(and thus completely miss the point)
I imagine he meant Cal Tech.
For this reason I wouldn't be surprised to see the FSF advocate using machine learning only as a last resort when normal algorithms can't be used.
>Their basic premise seems to hinge on the idea of "tipping people's niceness".

This isn't actually true. Some news article decided that was our basic premise because it made a good clickbait headline. Our tipping system is the beginning of a larger business model that we hope to implement in the future.

https://medium.com/imzyhq/why-imzy-doesnt-have-ads-and-what-...

We don't want to have advertisements on the site, and the tipping system is part of our strategy to avoid that.
A more poignant and better takeaway:

"It tore him up inside when his father died. One
time we went to his grave," Fischer says. "He'd always
say that when his father was alive they'd go fishing
and do man things."
It doesn't take a genius to spread malware. Install said malware on a USB stick and then drop it in a parking lot, or just go ahead and use it on a "friend's" computer etc. Using an existing affiliate network is much less effort than building one.
It's interesting knowing that I enjoy running the most when I'm starting to feel tired.when I get out of the shower after running I feel like I'm super light, redbull like.

I guess every person has it's own rhythm.
William Poundstone is one of my Guilty Pleasures. I've been reading (and re-reading...) his books for years, starting with his Big Secrets series, and he is always interesting and thought-provoking, while not taking himself too seriously. Think a better Malcolm Gladwell, but with a worse PR team.
I agree that this is bad form, though, as the original article is very supportive of the Free Software movement, the author may have assumed a Gratis usage of the image.

I could not find on Hackaday any specific information about using their content, or not, but they do explicitly mention their general copyrights in their footer...

Edit: what I did not say, is that because there is nothing explicit it can not be assumed that you can use it without reference. Accreditation should be given where asked, technically it can not be used unless it was agreed upon. That's what my ... meant.
Wow. You all misunderstood my message judging by the comments and the downvotes.

I was talking about hand written C vs hand written ASM. This has no relation to the compiler.
Again, you're looking at secondary matters. Look at the consequences which results due to the primary intention.

Besides, nobody opens up their houses for strangers. So it is a flawed comparison as well. You need to be honest with the premise. You are talking about an online community which is built for a purpose. Your purpose is two-fold. You want to be a nice contributor towards some ideal (nothing wrong with that). Your second purpose is to be self-sustaining (so you can continue your goals). Again, nothing wrong with that either. But none of this has anything to do with open and inviting house, or even strangers. But look at what your purpose does: it necessarily invites strangers. You then have consequence.

You also know in your heart of heart, that if you do not invite strangers (let's also remember that we're talking about the online world), you will never be able to achieve your ideals. Because no matter how big your social circle may be, you cannot achieve your ideals through just the people you know.
NPR ditched comments this year for the very reasons you cite.
Yes - it's like Amdahl law, the faster they do their job, the more percentage of work that remains is marketing and finding clients.
Our skin stops producing Vitamin D once it's synthesized about 10,000 IU.

The RDA is only 400 IU.

There's mounting evidence that a regular intake in the thousands of IU (or synthesis from sun bathing, depending on your skin tone, latitude, and cloud cover) has health benefits beyond keeping you out of the hospital.

Examine.com has a comprehensive summary of the current research: https://examine.com/supplements/Vitamin+D/
>There are certainly licenses offering more freedom than GPL v3.

It's up to you what 'freedom' really is.

For me, I wish my smartband had more features than it does now. I wish my non-smart phone vibrate when the opponent attends the call. Lots of my wish (and many others) won't be fulfilled as long as there isn't an easy way to modify the underlying software/firmware. I call that 'freedom'. Most of these limitations comes from the software/firmware in it.

[AL]GPLv3 assures the freedom to its users. And every person is a user. A developer is a user of IDE, compiler, build tools, OS, etc.

It is the freedom to control what [s]he own and not to be in control.
When is this useful? There's no real multiprocessing concurrency in Python. So using this on a computational example such as the one given:

result = [i async for i in aiter() if i % 2]

won't speed anything up or put multiple CPUs to work on it.

Python's new "async" features are useful mostly for servers running many network connections simultaneously. Too many for one thread per connection.
That use case used to be handled by "Twisted Python", but now there's language support. That's useful. But a list comprehension doesn't make sense for that use case. The PEP lacks any useful example.

The motivation seems to be to make async comprehensions have the same capabilities as regular comprehensions, even though that's not particularly useful.
[video] 23 Data Visualizations and When to Use Them
Definitely feels like a variation of Shadowrun.
There are actual neo-Nazis around here with 10k+ karma.

https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/806302878524575744
I think it's a good summary nonetheless. Short, to the point, and may not have to read the article after it.
There is a "strong relationship" between the two concepts:

R S Stephens, A Probabilistic Approach to the Hough Transform
http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/1990/bmvc-90-012.pdf
Show HN: Library of community APIs for sites without APIs
Let's imagine a world exactly like our current world, except that I am allowed to punch anybody in the nose at any time, with no negative consequences for myself. Is that world "more free" than this one?

My point is that "freedom" is a messy concept, and the freedom to do one thing (punch somebody in the nose, or to make proprietary software) is often at odds with the freedom to do another (go about your business without being punched, or to control the software that affects your life). That's not RMS twisting words, that's just an awkward philosophical truth.

I guess you could say that the term "free software" is biased because it emphasises society-wide freedoms over personal freedoms, but I think it fits nicely alongside more widely held ideas like "only police should be allowed to fight crime" and "politicians should not write laws that directly benefit themselves". Both those ideas significantly limit personal freedom, yet they're very important parts of a free society.
Awesome introductory example of `ptrace`. Thanks for sharing.
Isn't the business model the real premise? Without which, you won't be able to self-sustain, which then renders any other supposed premise, useless.
> if lisp was such a great secret weapon, there would be a hell of a lot more visible success stories by now

Not necessarily. There are other possible explanations of Lisp's relative lack of commercial success, not least of which is the fact that a widespread belief that "there must be something wrong with it because no one uses it" can become (and I think has become) a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But another important factor is that the Lisp community seems to attract people who are really good at tech but really bad at business. I think if someone (or, more likely, some pair of co-founders) could bridge that gap they could still kick some serious ass.
Or, as every millennial with a liberal arts education learned the hard way, it's really fucking hard to contribute enough value to some organization for it to pay you a living these days, and passion rarely if ever comes within a hundred thousand miles of cutting it.
Thanks for the feedback, I should test with that. I'm curious whether/if CDNs like google-hosted libraries are normally blocked.
I mean, obviously because some system gives you more freedoms than others doesn't mean it's the system that best preserves freedom. In the USA we don't have the freedom to enslave people but that doesn't make us less free.

For the record I'm not an RMS-ite and I don't actually mean to compare proprietary software with slavery.
I've always considered Stallman as somebody who strategizes in decades instead of tomorrow. He sees a future of locked devices that imprison people and so seems radical to everybody stuck in the state of present day. I don't know if his strategy will work but it seems better than any compromises that could lead to dumb terminals running proprietary webasm binaries watching everything you do.
What's wrong with Julia? 1.0 should be coming out in a bit less than a year.
This is I don't get. How much money Facebook have made so far vs how much they have burned on operations and various acquisitions?

Yes Facebook is earning money but will it be a great business to justify 300B+ valuation in long term?
It's awesome to hear when it's been a long-standing tool in the utility belt. The original version had charts/graphs (simple pie charts, etc.) which I need to bring back, were you considering more Wolfram-Alpha style 3d plots?
My point wasn't using an existing affiliate network versus bulding one. Was having the skills to spread malware and using an affiliate network to get the malware, versus having the skills to spread malware and coding your own malware. But ok I got your main idea.
SmartThings relies on their cloud setup in order to execute the logic for the smarts you have inside your home. This is why it might take more/longer to get a command to execute.
One hub that has all the logic locally, inside it, and that you can program it with Lua is VeraPlus by Vera Control.
Lets just say I had some infra problems... I think everything should be better now?
This is Web 3.0
Our emails use Pixel Tags, both our sendgrid emails and our intercom ones. That part of our Privacy Policy is boilerplate from the lawyers, I included that section because of the emails. Sorry if the phrasing is sorta awkward.

Regarding DNT- I should mention that we don't actually have advertising on the site. I feel like this might be a bit of flamebait on my part, but I think a lot of the time, DNT is just privacy theatre. Some sites (like Medium) have done a great job with DNT implementation, but I think the initiative has largely not worked out nearly as well as people would like.

(My opinions about DNT are my own, I'm not really speaking on behalf of Imzy regarding that.)
That's my concern with converting my home. Thermostat, lights, security, plugs, etc. Would hate to have to replace it all shortly down the road.
Thanks for the feedback. The colors are more syntax highlighting (vs indicating anything important), I'd like to research best practices here. I wonder if there's any client-side settings I can detect to indicate a different stylesheet should load.
This is what Python devs should have done...
Was just about to write a nice comment. Oh well ;)

No, but nice article, there are some things I absolutely recognize from my own journey of learning to program. I especially went overboard with the "read all the things" mentality and now know a lot from going down the rabbit hole time and time again. You do have to have the free time for it though. Furthermore I'd like to add as something I found really hard to get into is just trying things. Just get the general idea on screen and work to get it to compile, then refactor until satisfied and work out the last kinks. As I would categorize myself as being in the 'perfectionist' category I found it really hard for quite some time (years) to work experimentally like this.
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