skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished re-reading Cryptonomicon. One of the business ideas in that book is to create a stable digital currency to replace failing Asian currencies and help their economies grow. I don't know that an accessible, anonymous, global, hands-off libertarian digital currency is the ideal situation, but it would certainly provide some interesting alternatives.
What would Pythagoras say?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
Sure, you have a point there.

So perhaps the issue we see now is that we have lots of humanitarian hotspots around the world and we need another organization than the UN to deal with it? Can they co-exist?
That's a wonderful perspective. One thing I feel that's really missing from our field is some of the traditional engineering learnings and approaches from other industries.

Nothing made me scoff at the idea of a "Software Engineer" more than when I started digging into some of the EE stuff. When you have a $1M tape out that goes wrong if one transistor is miswired.

I just throw crap at the wall and see what sticks, EE and stuff like that is real engineering.
I'd be kind of bummed to lose dark matter as a concept. I want to hold onto the idea that it's just as rich as our matter, with its own quantum chromodynamics and an equivalent to the electromagnetic force, leading to a "shadow" universe with their own planets, life, etc. that exists side by side us, trying to figure out why their gravity measurements are just slightly off...
> Fueled in large part because Rasterman ran afoul Gnome and RH office politics during his stay at RH labs.

I recall Rasterman running afoul of pretty much every organisation he was part of... I recall issues with OpenMoko, an early linuxphone company, as well.
That'd be awesome! I'll keep an eye out.
I have used a similar service, and found the results to be helpful in finding a general practicioner.

Tracking revision and mortality rates for surgeons would be much more helpful. I have been told (by engineers who have worked on joint replacements) that some surgeons have revision rates well over 50% (and frequently leave patients with one leg longer than the other), while others have revision rates well under 10%.
The author is arguing that the reduction of addiction to a neurological concept ignores a long list of other components to addiction, some of which are moral, some of which are environmental, and others.

The author further argues that people make this reduction because they think it prevents addicts from being blamed for their addiction, and that doesn't make sense because when you talk about what is going on in someone's brain, you are talking about most of what you consider to be the person, including that person's personality, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, etc.

So, it's not an attempt to blame anyone. It's an argument that the mechanisms people use to deflect blame don't make sense.

In other words, people who blame addicts for their addiction have no reason to stop blaming them if addiction is reduced to a neurological pathology, and people who don't blame addicts have no reason to start blaming them if addiction is reduced to a neurological pathology. The neurological pathology thing doesn't make a difference.
I would agree with this. They need to get re-branded and completely ignore the accusations of ageism in the industry, and instead just focus on finding high quality mentors with many years of experience, who will all be older.
They are slowly strangling every single golden goose they got from Sun.
Wars aren't to placate the populace. Wars are started by elites grabbing for wealth and power, who propagandize thr populace to their cause.
I was with you until the straw man in the last sentence. No one here is suggesting that age "precludes" you from understanding modern marketing media, only that it's less likely. Whether that's true or not is a question of actual data, not broad statements about ageism.
Even if life is meaningless, you still only get to do it once. Sometimes its more fun when playing on cheat codes if you know what I mean. If life is meaningless then its impossible to fail because the failure had no meaning to begin with. It is however possible to succeed by setting out a goal and accomplishing it. There lies the fundamental difference. The meaning of life is determined solely by the individual and not an exterior presence. You give your own life meaning based on how important of emphasis you place on your goals. If your goals are meaningless, then so is life. If your goals are meaningful, then your life is too.
I believe it has ever since going Retina. It wasn't always presented up front, but it was an options.
Also price controls. If you work for government, let's say your minimum wage is 1000 bolivars a week. (Just a nice round number).

The official exchange rate means you're earning 100 bucks a week, unofficially you're earning about 10 cents.

Government caps bread prices at 10 bolivars per loaf, to make sure capitalists aren't gouging people.

Oddly enough, people stop baking bread, as it costs them more money to bake the bread than the revenue they make when they sell it.

Extend that to almost every other necessity of life that has been price controlled, and you can see why there are massive shortages.

EDIT:

This works to some extent in a closed economy, with no imports and a surveillance state. Once you start relying on imported goods to produce, you're in trouble. Your foreign suppliers want hard currency and will laugh in your face when you tell them what you think the exchange rate is.
A little confusing, I know, and it doesn't help that the HN title is currently different from the blog post title. I find it plausible that the author was wondering what the project was really for, because it wasn't an official SpaceX project. It wasn't even contracted by SpaceX, but rather intended to be completed and then pitched to SpaceX and hopefully sold to SpaceX. But the author wouldn't have had any interaction with SpaceX and therefore is wondering to this day whether there was a real chance that SpaceX would have ever used this code.

Edit: That being said, I'm a little surprised the author thinks this code would've been used for anything related to Silk Road.
A claim of sexism at a tech company is not in any way "extraordinary".
Generally, most countries don't accept they they've "failed".

NK doesn't think they've failed, nor does Assad, nor any govt. that continues to stay in power.
>I refused with the argument that it wouldn't benefit any of us and I explained why.

That's a bit of a lesson learned in terms of "Things not to do in your first week".

Aside from criminal activity, I can't think of any situation where you were in a position to understand things better than the person asking you to do the task, and even if you where, where it would be a good idea to make such an immediate disagreement vocal and public.

You should probably test the mileage of making an apology for trying to assert yourself over a senior person (regardless of whether or not you are in fact correct) in your first week before you do anything, really. I have a funny feeling that it might go further than you think here.
> Java and ist crappy OO

* There are those for whom writing an AST acting on lists of lists of lists comes naturally. They have Lisp. For us idiots who model things in terms of state and behavior, and who prefer to let the compiler do the hard work of figuring out an AST representing our ugly, step-by-step solution, there is "crappy OO".
International law isn't law if it isn't acknowledged.
> What he did was not the point.

But the way you talk about him totally is. You shouldn't defend people who give you undeserved favors at the cost of others, if this is what he did. And you absolutely shouldn't be surprised by the consequences, if you do.

Your coworkers may have felt equally threatened by this supervisor as you did by them. Associating yourself with people like him will do you no good.

> I feel like you are totally missing why I wrote this piece by focusing on one sentence.

No doubt. People have their own agendas to play, not everybody will support yours.
Dashing is dead :(
There is so much negativity around Java that I wonder why anyone starting on their journey to becoming a programmer would want to learn it or work with it.
Don't believe in it one bit :) I'm on the other side of the market.
> The official US position (shared by most of the world) is that Taiwan is Chinese territory.

Citation? It helps to be clear when you use "Chinese" in this context. It is certainly not the US position that Taiwan is PRC territory. They are deliberately ambiguous on this.

> The settlement on that issue is that Taiwan will be fully and formally enveloped into the mainland, along with Hong Kong, the 2040s (IIRC).

First I've heard of this settlement. Again, citations?

> The US (and most of the world) does not recognize Taiwan as an independent sovereignty. Think Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico does is not de jure independent and does not claim to be. Completely different. The ROC is de facto independent.
> cultivated an "average guy" persona that had a disdain for expert/elite opinion

I think you need to untwist these opinions a bit.

Firstly, "cultivating" implies that his "average guy" activities were an act. From all accounts, it sounds like he has continued his activities after leaving public life (something I am eminently grateful to him for). I really don't think they were or are an act.

I would also say that "expert" and "elitist" are two very different things. Considering expert opinions does not sound like something he didn't do.

> doesn't excuse the (bad) decisions he made

I really can't agree more, but its the reasons why he made those decisions that I find important. Previously I just felt like he was an idiot, and therefore made stupid decisions. Now, I've basically come to the opinion that while I disagree with him on serious issues (for fucks sake, why did you invade Iraq!) he didn't do it from a malicious point of view or because he was an idiot. He was merely wrong, with terribly catastrophic results.
Nietzsche had his own mental problems, not the least syphilis, but in the spirit of life's values let's go to the text:

"Much that passed for good with one people was regarded with scorn and contempt by another"[1]

1. http://4umi.com/nietzsche/zarathustra/15
agreed. think in terms of game theory -- if you can hustle your way out of there, you could be saving yourself a lot of emotional wear/toll.
How many of these were actually invented?
In my experience, I've gotten some flack for "lady" directed at an individual woman, but not for "ladies" directed at a group. The former seems to be a regional and agewise thing, not a universal thing.

EDIT: Thought about this on my drive home. I think a lot of this has to do with intonation and context. "Hey, lady!" can be taken many ways depending on how you say it. "Alright lady, let's start this meeting." would be an awkward expression, even if 99.99% of the world takes it as totally inoccuous. Versus "ladies" which is easier to use, as in "Alright ladies, let's get started." without any odd implications by tone or inflection.
It's culturally stereotypical, not racially stereotypical.

> it's clearly applied to an entire race

Clearly? How so?

You likely think I am playing a game of semantics, but I genuinely think if we keep playing this game of trying to find reasons to be victims, things will never get better, even if that is what all parties want!

The reason I brought up comedians is because they seem to allow normal people a view into this world, where we can admit that black people in the south eat a lot of fried chicken. Know why? Because it's cheap, and delicious!

Do some racist rednecks still say things like that with an intent to cause harm? Yes, and what should we do? Laugh at them for using such an old, tired, irrelevant, pathetic joke of an attack. Because really, it's really nothing more than that, the rest of "what's there" is often purely in our minds.

We're telling helpless teenagers that don't know any better over and over that a huge portion of the population hate them because of their race, and it is simply not true! We seem determined as a society that racism lives on forever, and it is really unfortunate.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgSQDQC0qc

What should New Zealander's do here, fire up the navy for a show of force off the coast of Sydney? Or should they crack a smile and say "good on ya mate"? Will we forever think of people who have a different color of skin than us...or actually, to be more precise, that have non-white skin, because that's what it's really about, isn't it, thinking that people who are non-white are "different" and must be handled with extreme caution. I reject that completely.
> Also, recursion arises in a different form in lambda calculus than it does in the approach to computability that is based on general recursive functions. Again, I think that LISP is closer to Gödel here than to Church.

I think I understand most of the rest of your post, but I got lost here. Could you describe what difference you see here, and how it applies to LISP?
Is #2 just another name for NATO? Because it's (not entirely, but in large part) responsible for a number of humanitarian crises. Iraq, Libya, Syria spring to mind. All three were much better off before they were invaded, or pushed into civil war.

Oh, and the UN is a red herring. NATO does as NATO wants - UN approval is only useful in improving their domestic cases for going to war.
It seems like all the features that require a license are those that require launching the Oracle JVM with `-XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures`. If you're not running with this flag enabled you should be fine. Note that those features are not in OpenJDK to begin with.
Apache UIMA AS 2.9.0 released
Richard Stallman was right about Java all along.
Because I can finally download the same file and run it on my distro of choice without installing it as a system package. This is not a replacement for traditional linux packages. It has it's own set of advantages and disadvantages. This may lead to a good solution for app support fragmentation on linux.
I do think teasing, especially in cis male friendships, is very often a big piece of the bonding experience. It simply doesn't translate well to the work environment and should be left out.
Exactly. Without numpy, Python is orders of magnitude slower at numeric computation than Common Lisp. With numpy, it's faster because numpy is basically C.
Awesome, I gave it a quick glance. This line from Readme makes me happy:

> code shared across platforms (browser, server, native mobile)

I'll definitely have to take a closer look. Thanks!
Perhaps this is lazy, but I often read the Hacker News comments to decide if an article is worth reading. I'll upvote posts that I think promote my strategy of depending on Hacker News to filter for me. That posts like zwieback's post are easily found reaffirms my faith in this strategy.

This is partly because I don't fully trust my ability to comprehensively generate or iterate through the most serious criticisms or strong points of a technical matter, but I trust that a sufficiently large Hacker News will capture all low hanging fruits. I want to know these low hanging fruits prior to even giving an article a chance.

Another reason is because even when people have something interesting to share, they often pad it with unnecessary prose, maybe because that's the current blogging trend -- to make technical discussions seem more narrativey and personal.
Because these are all regressions.
Not in the slightest. I probably wouldn't initially go as far as an apology, but asking someone what they think you've done to them is a damn fine tactic in building understanding.
Just wondering, is clipboard an "unsupported hack" or "feature needed for an uncommon setup"? What about video?
Are there any good charities that work in Venezuela? There are regularly appeals for other poor or war-torn countries but little for such a close neighbor that seems to really need food & medicine.
Could basic income be basic free food instead?
I upvoted you because I think we need discussions like these! I just think you're not aware of the facts of the case. Meekro points out some of them, but it's worth reading the Popehat saga about it(I've been following it since its launch).

The kind of activity Prenda engaged in probably still happens quite often, and people are forced to settle and everyone moves on. What Prenda did(quite exceptionally) was their aggressiveness in pursuing their "victims", the complex shell company structure they set up, then subsequently lied about, their contempt for court proceedings, their perjuries in many cases, etc, etc...basically, they pushed the system to its brink with no consideration, and after 3-ish years, the system bounced back with all the built-up inertia and squished them.

To address your specific points:

- If they were creating "art" in form of porn they had copyright to said work. No law broken here. - yep

- No law broken if you upload your own work to the cloud. You have right to do it. - yep

- Finally, no law broken if you try to pursue those who illegally download your copyrighted work. - yep. Except the only question is, are they "illegally" downloading your work if you put it up yourself for free download? This was one of the earliest things that courts grappled with vs Prenda, before the whole thing turned to crazyland.

It's useful to check out the early posts on the subject, for example https://popehat.com/2013/03/06/what-prenda-law-is-facing-in-... Notice how even "early" in this case, things were already shifting away from your devil's advocate position and into allegations of fraud against Prenda and fights with the judges themselves(if you want to take a dive into the crazy, https://popehat.com/2013/03/06/deposition-reveals-prenda-law... is a good start..)

Here's also a comment from one of the people that were following Prenda closely before Ken got involved, "Die Trolls Die":

> Going after porn pirates requires a real investigation which requires much time, effort, and money. One recent case in IN had a Prenda local attorney only doing 5 hours of work – only one hour for the investigation. These outfits were not designed to do this. IMO it is a business model more than any effort to protect the content owners. As none of these porn copyright infringement cases have gone to full trial – judged on the merits (since 2010), it speaks volumes. Dismissals and default judgements only. Saying that, copyright infringement does happen and the content owners do have a right to take action. I just happen to disagree on how they are doing it.
It appears that you can, it's just hard: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/4t64zt/gettin...

It looks like most of the linux issues are due to MS doing some weird architectural things (touch calculations on the GPU, etc), but that's just what I was able to find out with 2 minutes on the first thing google popped up.
The UN currently functions as more of a common public forum, where any country may voice their opinion and all are heard and may discuss.

Even North Korea has been admitted to the UN. In fostering discussion and enabling rational diplomacy between nations, it has been a success.
List of Publications of Paul Erdős [pdf]
I have not used windows in a while, but the 2 things I found annoying with Microsoft and the reasons why I switched around 8 years back were:

1) Most of the windows laptops doesn't age very well. By the 3rd year the computer starts feeling like its become quite old. I needed hardware upgrades every year to keep my computer running. One of my friends suggested me to try Apple. I am running a Mac pro which is almost 5 years old but still runs everything and I am confident that I can use it for 2 more years. I can't say that for Windows laptops, partly the reason is the hardware is manufactured by Dell/Lenovo or some other vendor. I hope Microsoft surface books provide some longetivity.

2) My internet experience with Microsoft pushed me to move out of Linux. There are so many viruses/malwares out there trying to corrupt your system. You cannot live without an anti-virus and even then chances are that you will end up corrupting your system and has to do re-install windows or format your hard disk. I am done with that shit now..I don't remember doing any OS re-install or formatting in last 7 years. As a developer I can focus on writing code and browing internet.

Just before writing this comment, I had to work in a client's remote windows machine and it was still a terrible experience. Windows still doesn't have a decent way to tail the logs!!!

One more thing If I am running a server, Can someone tell microsoft :

1) why I need a GUI running on it?
2) The user home folder has "Music" & "Movies" folders. What is the purpose of those folders in Windows Server OS?

I agree that Microsoft is becoming more open as a company and embracing new technologies. But I really think they should drop Windows completely and build a new OS from scratch(Just like they dropped IE & started edge browser) rather than doing patch works and improving it. It has some serious underlying architecture issues.
Why a subscription model?
"I've noticed that you do <X/Y/Z> to me and it makes me uncomfortable. Why do you do <X/Y/Z> to me?"

Uhhmm ... well, I'm not sure this is the best approach, in my opinion.

1)

By framing the discussion as 'why do you do this to me'? It makes the assumption that 'she possibly did something wrong' etc. etc.. It's just a shade accusatory, and I'll bet $100 this person will assume as much.

2)

"Either she'll explain why she's a jerk, in which case you can ask her not to do that anymore, or she'll realize she'd been doing something she wasn't aware of and stop."

There's no chance of the former, and a very small chance of the latter.

If you're going to have a 1-on-1, I think it should probably avoid the specifics of the past (because it will just be something to argue over) - and say something like:

"Hey, Mary Sue, it seems we got off on the wrong foot here, I'm pretty new, I don't know how things work, why don't you help me figure out how we can work together and get things done"

1) By being a somewhat apologetic without admitting any wrongdoing ...

2) By avoiding 'things in the past' to nitpick ...

3) By assuming some humility about 'being new' and therefore maybe not knowing everything ...

4) By not making any reference to her 'doing anything wrong' or 'being wrong' ...

5) By being 'forward looking' and 'trying figure out ways to get stuff done' ...

She'll likely give you a piece of her mind with respect to what she expects in terms of working together. How she handles that might help you decide wether to stay or leave.
apart from a few hot spots like the bay area housing and living costs in the US are very low compared to most of the developed world.
This isn't a very constructive comment.

You know what else isn't constructive? Copying memory around and around and around and doing basic blitting when we can share GPU memory and have it all composited by the GPU for less power and much faster than the CPU can. And you get all sorts of other effects for free.

There's a reason OS X does it. There's a reason iOS does it. There's a reason Android does it. I don't know about Windows but I think they started in 7 or 8.