skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relax, you are mixing apples and oranges.

Many companies, large multinationals to small startups don't want to OWN property. It's capital intensive for them, they want to rent. Does Starbucks own its coffee shops? No. Can't you see how renting property is a service to many?

Stop being apocalyptic simply because someone owns property. Take a chill pill.
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I think "Free Code" encompasses the ideology that ""free software"" wants to be much better and more efficiently than ""free software"".

"Free Code" means the code is free as in free beer. You can get it, consume it and share it with friends. Once tasted, you can start a brewery and imitate the flavor if you want.
A lot of agile shops seem to be doing this.
What are you talking about? Evolutionary algos in walking animations have been used far and wide. These guys just took out the rules for using a upright stance.

And criticizing something like that, as unsubstantial as he did, is just fear of new tech. Those zombie movements are great.
Who cares? Fashion is not an engineering criteria, you shouldn't be factoring fashion into the question of whether or not a given tool is the right one for the job.

> A lot of the talk about it was "React is here to stay"

Unless Facebook has announced that they are abandoning React, this statement is as true as it ever was at any point in time.
What is the equivalent solution to use in the oceans?
Why do people get upset about a phone number? That's like a 1/2 step above an email address. Don't you have a Google Voice number (not on a Gmail account you use) or something for things like that?
It is taken up, just not everywhere and not necessarily at scale. I've personally seen it used eg at Finnish schools - but there the teacher chooses the tool, not the government, so i don't know how common it is.

With more and more devices in class you can expect directed spaced repetition to hit hard. But actually i don't know a single person who didn't at some point get the instruction/advice to use flashcards for foreign language vocabulary. That being said it's not used much in other subjects - because no serious educationalist thinks education is about hammering facts into the brain. It's much more about concepts and critical thinking, at least in any semi-modern classroom .
Is the material used in the part safe to ingest?
Well, they don't exactly deal with the same concepts, but my favorite scifi authors are: Philip K Dick, Frank Herbert, and Stanislaw Lem.
Knet: beginning deep learning with 100 lines of Julia [pdf]
That is true in the US, even in NYC. However, furnished apartments are the norm in London, for long rentals.
If you get such a emotional reaction out of a animator legend, on a cliche as zombies- that is success.
Not this one, where downvote to disagree is described as a bit of a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057347

Or this one, where pg suggests that people don't downvoting a grey post (I think people do downvote grey posts now, more than they used to.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683

this thread also has some comments about voting (and a bunch of other stuff, including ahem politics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696)
I saw two of the founders speak at an event during SXSW last year. They spoke about the privacy and anonymity features of their app as if they added no value and caused more trouble than they were worth.

To be fair though, half of the people asking questions during the Q&A were angry teachers and parents, grandstanding about how they don't sensor enough. I can see how that might wear you down.

I would have cut them a break if they hadn't generally come off as arrogant pricks.
They seem to have evoked a strong emotional response in him. Just not an emotional response he typically seeks to envoke in his works - but a lot of artists who do enjoy making creepy stuff would find it delightful.
Yes, it is wrong. There's no reason to disclose the security systems of your previous employer, and there's no reason for an employer to ask. Any security question that can be asked specifically about one company, can be asked and answered in a more general way.

It's the difference between - "What security controls were in place at Corp?" and "What security controls would you put in place to protect X system?"

The 1st version is bad, not just because it discloses security controls at the previous employer.. but also because it makes the candidate responsible for (possibly bad) security decisions that were outside of their control and/or existed before they were hired.

The 2nd version gives the candidate a chance to talk generally/ideally about security.. even if the previous employer did something else.
I think he is already including that in his 1:50 or 1:500 ratio.
> I agree it's lame but gotta pay the bills :)
reply.

Yep. And like Floyd Mayweather said, "Skills pay the Bills." Like it or not, Mr Vincent Dugnan is very skilled at making 11,000 / month spamming on twitter and social networks. So that's that.
> Investments in money-losing companies have a natural raise-or-do-something date called "zero cash day". And generally, the company can't raise new money without having a majority of each class of preferred stock vote for it, i.e. a majority of the money in every previous round. So if enough investors have lost confidence in management, no matter how much board control management has, investors can let the company run out of money.

I was thinking more about the situation where the founders fire all the employees, run the operation as lean as possible (to maintain their obligations), and stretch the $62M as long as they can. At $2M/year that's 31 years without accounting for any growth of the money itself.

Besides due diligence on the part of the investors to not give money to the kind of person that would do that, what prevents that situation?
Yes - looks like from his followup he's going with a D750.

So, yeah, body swap. I guess the war continues :)
Is that true? I mentioned somewhere else that being able to use vue.js without a compile step was a breath of fresh air, but I was informed that you can also use React as a drop in library without any kind of compile/transpile/task runner. I assumed the person knew what they were talking about, but I never to research it. So now I wonder what is true. Can react be used as a drop in library like vue.js?
This is purely anecdotal, but as a German, I like "fuck" because there is no German swear word that replicates its tone of voice and conciseness. But you can rest assured that I use plenty of German swear words, too. In this industry, the more languages you can draw swear words from, the better.
About once per month. I purposely set expectations low by saying it may take a little sanding. That lets me over-deliver since it's usually a perfect fit. Also, ShapeWays has a decent refund policy and customer service for stuff under their responsibility.

Also, anything that comes up that takes significant back and forth with a customer, I immediately add to the iFixit writeup. All the troubleshooting steps at the bottom were a result of questions that came in at the beginning. This was a lot of work up front, but it's thankfully just a trickle now.
You can also loan yourself a bit of your 401k to buy a home. It's not a lot but at least helps
https://smartasset.com/mortgage/when-to-leverage-a-401k-for-...
Facebook adds a 'fake news' reporting option
In 2008 javascript programmers were called "script kiddies" and the language was only starting to get wider adoption. Unless you were already an experienced web programmer back then this was advanced material for most web programmers who only used to use javascript for displaying alerts and cute dynamic features.

Speaking from my own experience, I didn't know about all these prototypes and important concepts for a long time and and did fine. I built tons of web apps without knowing these "advanced" features. It was only when I decided to learn the language seriously that I got acquainted with a lot of these features like the prototype concept, object constructors, etc.

If you can build pretty advanced production websites without knowing these features I would say these features are advanced. That said, it's a different story now because javascript is an important language. But my point is in 2008 it wasn't.

Also this guy created jQuery, if he says it's advanced, it probably was.
Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
I don't know a great deal about law, but http://www.contractstandards.com/ has been very helpful to me.
If the english subtitles are accurate, to me it seemed he was disgusted by the movements of the character itself, and the motivation for creating them, rather than the specific AI means by which they were created.
Enter gltf https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF
Oh, and I'm careful to disqualify job fairs. You might find a session about resume writing or "getting a better job in tech" but not the fair itself. I've gotten a bunch of thank you notes and tweets about that aspect.

They have their place, just not in my system.
Wait, do people use React for non-SPA websites?
> If Google paid zero tax, the economy is far better off with them than without them; look at the jobs it provides (and the economic activity those generate,) look at the return on investment to shareholders

You are saying that a successful company should have a special exemption from the law while other companies are still to pay taxes.

> Remember, taxes aren't ever paid by companies -- they are paid by individuals

Strawman.
I'll be here all day to learn from suggestions. I'm hoping for much feedback so please reference questions with the letter and number: 'Regarding R1'.
I can't judge this without understanding the context. Was his company paying for this work? Was he invited for a presentation to a university?

Anyone who knows Miyazaki's films would have known he wouldn't like it. So if they made it FOR him they deserve the reprimanding they got. But if he was just dropping by for a casual demo it then his response was uncalled for.

Also the work was pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised if they just made up the zombie excuse after they saw how horrible the result was.
The DOM Is Not Slow, Your Abstraction Is
Speaking asm.js and WebAssembly... they would be good tools to implement a Unix environment.
Are you worried about piracy?

Because leanpub allows paid user to download pdf and epub files. those can be easily shared.

whereas, on amazon, you probably could only distribute the work via kindle and printed (I'm not sure), without providing any shareable files?
Could you elaborate what's wrong with that idea?

As far as I could understand he just talks from psi-empistemic point of view about wave function collapse. Although now we don't have any way to determine whether psi-epistemic or psi-ontic point of view is 'correct' (as like as define what precisely does mean 'correct' for this question), I don't think that you can just call one of these views nonsensical, especially without support arguments.
If you think about it, this is no more abstracted than any Java program.

You compile the source (C or Java) to an intermediate representation (JS or bytecode), which is then shipped to the client and executed by a language VM.
Does not work, as far as anyone can see.

However, assume it did. Then ocean acidification is still a first world problem. If you're the government of a developing country (India, China, Brazil, ...) where most people don't even have reliable electricity, and you get to choose between washing machines for your people and a more basic ocean, you go for the washing machines. And you will burn gigatons of coal to enable those washing machines.

Globally speaking, government action will not work, because most governments don't care (for good reasons, arguably). On top of that, international agreements are mostly concerned with non-solutions like a reduction of carbon emission by some irrelevant fraction by a time when it's too late (like 50% by 2050 or some such nonsense). Even if the first world managed to do that, the growth of the developing countries annihilates any such progress within a decade. And even if the whole world was on board and reduced global emissions by 50%, we'd just fuck up the planet half as quickly, but every bit as reliably. The reality is that if global climate change really is such a big problem, we need to get to zero carbon emissions, actually negative carbon emissions, fairly quickly.

Your dream of a world police enforcing zero carbon emissions collides with the reality that they (the UN or whoever else is closest to a "world government") aren't even trying, and that they don't actually have an alternative plan.
> My passive income is quite standard. Three apartments in a new block. I bought all of them four years ago when the construction was still unfinished.

Trust fund baby?

You make it sound easy. How much cash did you have to front for the down payment total? I know that for Investment properties, Lenders require a minimum of 25% - 35% cash down (so they can hedge their risks against you dumping a badly performing investment property.)

The barriers to entry in Real Estate investing (as rental properties) is almost always the HUGE down payment.
"So if it's a work-for-hire relationship, IP automatically goes to the potential employer?
"

Yes.
I'm on no prescriptions of any kind. I am not describing memory loss, but instead the amount of thoughts lost in "filler time". What were you thinking about between the parking lot and the front door? What did you think about while brushing your teeth? How did you decide what to eat today? A lot of mental decision making and "down time" thoughts never end up in short or long term memory at all.
> until a distro with an alternative userland and c library makes it to the top

Not that it invalidates your point, but it has happened.

Alpine Linux (e.g. Docker) and Android
This might be useful for people who want to get started with WebGL and web-based 3D engines:

https://playcanvas.com/
http://babylonjs.com/
https://threejs.org/
https://github.com/GooTechnologies/goojs
https://whsjs.io/#/
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War trash
Took me 3 times to read your comment (in)correctly.
Oh, I agree that ultimately, someone must pay - but how you do it is important.

There are many dimensions in which to monetise, the simplest being getting users hooked and then charging a fee, and others that are more complex, and all of these vary in how much money they will bring in and how many users will reject them.

What I don't understand is why startups so often choose monetisation strategies that have such huge drawbacks in the context of their "killer features". In this case, in order to sell out their users (and build profiles ripe for exploitation in the most honest, business sense), they also had to sell out the purpose of the app: anonymity.

It's likely that in an alternate universe, YikYak tried something with a lower yield to what they saw with this strategy, but didn't headshot their customerbase.
" that is within the domain of the employer's work product and regardless of where that work was produced, is by default owned by the employer."

It's broader than that, actually.
I never tried photopills, I think it's iOS only.
Besides the Augmented Reality feature, Sun Locator also has a map view that shows a 3D sun dial projecting the shadow on the chosen date/time that helps you to assess the shadow length and direction.

One thing that I think is the main advantage over other popular sun position apps is the ease of use, while still showing all the relevant information.
Apologies if this is a stupid question but aren't they the same thing?
Natural Motion has done learned animation for ten years and shipped in many AAA games.

Maybe he was really disgusted that the internal team couldn't reproduce that existing art? (Actually, I don't think that's it, but that might be what I would feel...)
Didn't the CIA provide the evidence that Benghazi was caused by protests over a video? Or, was that fabrication purely the administration's work?
In some sense, science fiction isn't really a genre. It's really more the lifting of certain restrictions that are in the other genres. You want alternate rules of physics, which is how Greg Egan rolls? Well, you're pretty much automatically in science fiction... even if the story you subsequently tell within those alternate rules of physics are an otherwise normal romance, or adventure, or whatever.

So whereas a when you read a western, you basically know everything about all the basics of the world, from the basic laws of physics through having a pretty decent idea of why "the Claytons would like to burn down the town" (despite having just those nine words, a genre-savvy Western reader has already got three or four basic plots in mind), and thus those things do not need to be explained, in science fiction you need at least some explanation of how the world is different.

Jamming that into a story pretty much has to come from somewhere else. Even in non-science fiction, seeing a novel perfectly balance Character, Plot, and Dialogue, to say nothing of the other elements of a story, is extremely unusual. I mean, like, award-winning unusual. Throw in the requirement that you have World Building in there and you'll generally have to pay the penalty somewhere else. It's just part of reading science fiction.

I can not recall if I first saw this argument from Niven or Asimov (or, worst case, one of the other classic writers); anyone who does please reference if you'd like. Unfortunately, my science fiction bookshelf is all meatspace and the indexing is terrible.
Depends. If he was expecting something else, a negative emotional reaction is easy to produce.

Like if you were unveiling the iPhone prototype to Steve Jobs and you pull off the handkerchief and there's a turd lying there.
Yik Yak had 50 employees?!

I'd have thought anybody could tell them that was too many...

Wasn't Snapchat or Instagram at around that until fairly recently? Yik Yak is no Snapchat or Instagram.
Fair enough, thank you for the kind words.

I feel that a certain amount of humility is due when commenting on a field of study that's not my own. I know that there are many—particularly here, most likely—who have thought far longer and harder about these problems than I have.

Edit: by the way, the reason I picked up Clojure is because I (for some reason) watched Rich Hickey's talk Simple Made Easy and thought to myself, "hey, that person is thinking of programming in the same way that I think about design." I felt that the design principles he described that guided the development of Clojure were very similar to a lot of things I've come to consider when designing for human interaction. So I thought that by learning Clojure I might become a better designer, even though I don't write code professionally.
From co-founder to ousted CEO of 500px
Great post, but you don't need the year (it's from this Nov.), and since you link to the abstract on arXiv (thanks!) you can skip the pdf-tag as well.
How have the current experiments with BI been going? I agree we need to work in this direction, but lets not jump in both feet first. Lets build a solid evidence-based system to land on
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> And finally, what stops you from creating a custom component that works like this?

I wondered what the issue was myself, so I actually implemented that pattern in a codepen, then looked at the compiled form of the JSX to Javascript.

The essential issue is that the value of a prop is always evaluated at runtime, regardless of if the prop is actually used. In the case of props.children this means that <Then> and <Else> are both evaluated, and thus rendered, and only one of them is actually used.

Thus you can't have conditionally rendering children, unless you've written them to be okay with failing at a render, with a blanket state---which is what most people are trying to avoid writing into their components, and simply want to conditionally render in a higher level component.
Android

Alpine Linux (of Docker fame)

Lots of embedded stuff
> This seems like a tempest in a teacup, and a distraction from things that actually matter.

The point of this article is not the aging debate. (And BTW, I don't think aging is as well understood as you seem to make out, but that is another discussion.) The point of this article is that a paper got published in one of the two most reputed science journals there are, and it was bogus.

Nature and Science are the two most trusted sources of scientific news there are - if we can't trust them, whom can we trust? I hope that this paper was just a one-time screw-up, because if not, we have a major problem on our hands as scientists. (As if we didn't have enough of those already...)
Really interesting idea! Have you encountered any legal issues?
Can I see the date range chart with sunny/cloudy/rainy?

Could I compare multiple areas in one chart?

Unrelated. How could I search for the least hot areas of Florida? Or find really windy areas of Florida?
I think what he means is that control statements don't exist in JSX. You have to write Javascript to do if-statements, looping, etc.

In React, there is no 'direction' of binding---its all one way, just like in vanilla Javascript, and in fact no binding on anything except low level elements' like divs. Components only receive props, which do not do anything at all until you write code that reads them and runs operations based on their values.

Thus components are simply function calls (it's what they compile to anyways), and JSX is just a syntax to write functional code.
Sometimes it's a good thing. Often it gives me a few moments to pause and realise I really didn't need to read that article anyway.
Did you post this in /r/coffee? I think I remember seeing something similar.
I agree that a guy looks like an idiot when he thinks there's nothing wrong with it.

That said, I doubt you will come across any fast growing startup whose early codebase was exquisite enough to put on github.

A lot of early startup codebase will be messy by nature and it't not fair to "look at a company differently" just because of that. In many cases what happens is the founders try out all kinds of things to make it work, and one day it starts working suddenly, and it works so well that they don't have time to go back and refactor anything because they have to focus on sustaining the growth.

Not saying that's how it should be, just sharing my perspective on why these things happen.
This perspective is a bit uncharitable towards metaphysics - there are rules in that game as well. You're still not allowed to ask logically inconsistent questions or twist words into nonsense and expect to be taken seriously.

For instance, saying things like "Meaningness is neither subjective nor objective" sets off alarms in my mind - that's quite the claim! If you're making that claim, you better be well prepared to provide a rigorous explanation of what you mean or be laughed out of the room by people who understand what those words mean. The author chooses to just throw a couple of pseudo-intellectual sentences together and then say "it's obvious!" and move on.

Another example of this is when people say that determinism and free will are consistent with one another - it's a big claim and it takes some work to explain. A few people actually do this well, but it's because they resort to really really rigorous explanations and models of how "will" works in people - taken in part from everyday experience. Those who provide shoddy accounts of this or just say "yeah whatever let's move on" are no more metaphysicians than is the person who says "what if electrons are the particles that cause love, man??"
Are you suggesting the solution is a Sacred Engine running on... uhhh... magic and small children, I guess?

(I get it, you're implying that the release of some "cooling compound" might cause an ice age. I'm just not convinced that a 2+ hours long string of plot holes and terrible acting can teach us anything.)