skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally I try to give the benefit of the doubt, when the plan was just to use the funds for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative it was an acceptable decision to me as presumably Mark's desire for the CZI to succeed would mitigate his risk reduction.

The larger issue to me is allowing Zuckerberg to maintain control while working in government, private and public sector interests shouldn't be comingled like that.
>Stallman has never shown the slightest interest in making software that the general public can modify, or in designing, promoting, or doing anything at all to encourage the existence of such software.

Define "general public". As far as I remember, Stallman was a MIT hacker working on stuff like compilers. It is not exactly the kind of thing the "general public" want to know about.

He did some significant parts of Emacs. 30 years after it's creation, this piece of software still exists, has been modified by thousand of people, including non-programmers.

Stallman is not only a software hacker. He is a "hacker", and hacked a piece of law that is a serious little trick that actually created a revolution. Torvalds hacked on the hardware/kernel part under the basic law hack and things started. That's a real success!

The arguments about terminology "GNU/" VS "Linux" are fun but I think we underestimate the law hack.
Yes, but it was created from scratch rather than relocated from a pre-existing well-established capital. It was also set up relatively close to the large cities at that time, unlike the examples I've given, or a location deep in the Midwest.
Some distros don't even set a root password in the default configuration, and I generally would expect in all larger environments that if a root password exists, it isn't easily accessible to an individual admin. If someone leaves, you just have to turn off their account and not replace the root password everywhere.
As I scan this article I can almost see Gartner's hype cycle in the background. This is exhibit 1 of a "trough of disillusionment" following a "peak of inflated expectations". 2-3 years from now, look for the "slope of enlightenment".
No it's not. You can't communicate cross components with just react, you're stuck on a parent-child relationship.
“An insult to life itself”: Miyazaki critiques artificial intelligence animation
Not directly, but the main method of driving revenue was giving away the first few chapters. We know almost exactly how many sales we'll drive based on how many people read those chapters.
well, they most certainly are not a switch, which makes them a hub. packages are essentially all broadcasts, LAN members filter by the MAC Address of each packet. This is unavoidable with the wireless medium. And you have way too much faith in the transport layer validation, if you think the UDP/TCP Error Code Fields can counter all package corruption. They catch a lot, but most certainly not all.
And thats the problem - there are just so many corrupted packets on WLANs.

The faulty packets are mostly dropped in the application layer on fully fleshed out systems, but this is exactly why the niche vendors with their closed source controllers are so error prone in that regard. And i'm merely pointing out the to me most obvious problem. There are way more edge cases around.
"you should take some of that salary and spend it on actively building or backing businesses, not just passively."

Active investment is highly context sensitive. I'm not denying someone might be plausibly in a position with sufficient information, domain knowledge, connections and a small amount of capital to operate as you suggested.

Your claim that operating on this manner is the obvious best choice for everyone is highly controversial. For starters, private investment requires trust and communication and just the culture barrier to understand the true rules of business and engagement are non-trivial for someone who's native culture is for example northern european.

Basically, I'm totally clueless. I have no idea how to a) hire an indian software dev for a few thousands b) what value added activity I should require of them and c) to whom to sell their work to.

I do know, however, how to invest into low cost index funds with reputable finance organizations. Thus the latter from economic perspective is a highly more enticing option.

I presume you have some specific situation in mind. Perhaps you could give some 'hypothetical' scenarios and what their profit model is?
Please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We'll use Snakes to solve the Rat problem, then we'll send in Boars to take care of the Snake problem. Of course, we'll need Bears to deal with the Boars when they get out of control.
And you may be correct in that perhaps a self-taught programmer prefers a self taught programmer and that's the sort of group we have formed. Hence my "anecdotally."

But in the end, the proof is in the pudding. When you've got to deliver, and the people who deliver best are self-taught, then in really reinforces that assumption.
Two decades ago you might have asked how firms like Long-Term Capital Management can exist

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/LTCM.png
And that's bad, because?
> bringing the power of python's syntax to objc iOS development

If that's your goal, it could be less work to embed a python interpreter in ObjC and write nice bindings for the iOs APIs.
What would be a good starting place to learn more about doing this? Also, is it possible to do with a small amount of shares in individual companies if the bulk of my investments are in indexes?
I wrote a program I fancifully called 'Human Unit Tests' to aid me in my studies (learning a diverse set of constants for biophysics). I can very much attest to the effectiveness of spaced repetition.

But, /boy/, do you need to stay on the ball. You can't really afford a cavalier, let's-see attitude with this (given any non-trivial amount of items-to-be-memorized).
The review process needs to be as much part of a daily routine as workouts ... Yeah.

On the other hand, there's one reward that doesn't usually get mentioned (as in the fine article re-submitted here[0]): the strengthening of corollary knowledge (or coordinate terms, for the linguistically inclined).

[0] Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5809762
>Free software should be an integrated part of a wider movement for emancipation

This is actually what FSF claims to do as far as I understand. GPL is a law hack.
The problem is when someone else gets ahold of that data who has the time and patience to mine it.
I'm always happy to see new stuff from gwern. If you like his posts as much as I do, you should contribute to his Patreon: http://patreon.com/gwern
> It's not ideal.

...if your government does not allow for solid social security and health care.
What's the difference compared to https://duckduckgo.com, https://startpage.com etc? There is even a search engine that is distributed (peer-to-peer): http://yacy.de/en/index.html.
> In the US and Western Europe a strong individualist ethos has led to societies where government is the fall back for individual and immediate family misfortune.

I don't understand this. Can you explain?
Also they've made painkillers harder to get a prescription for, so the supply isn't there and addicted people look for alternatives.

I really liked the full episode of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbWtwlQkdE
25$/month in Adsense. Not much, but it's passive and it grows.
Everything started as a fun small project. http://random.country/
This is me. I know madness and it's horrible, it's not scary it's an emotion of pure confusing intensity. I've been able to medicate away the intolerable symptoms, and it was never so severe as to be debilitating, but if I had to live like that day-in and day-out I would end my life quickly.

Until I experienced the emotionless emotions/feelings I couldn't have imagined it. We take for granted that our brain functions properly, even depression and other ailments are comprehensible, it's the incomprehensible emotions that can't be lived through.
The same could be said about mobile phones and electricity though, they're not compulsory to use but pretty universal (and regulated). Certainly Whatsapp and Google Search have so much marketshare in my country (Netherlands) that they might as well be utilities.

Something like a common carrier model might be better for society, where the bundling of some services is deemed to be too monopolistic in combination but not as separate entities. Sort of like Rockefeller owning both oil production and (almost) all the transportation facilities and used the transportation to squeeze out fellow producers.
Once winter rolls around, the bears hibernate and the problem disappears.
Running DC/OS on Small Digital Ocean Droplets
Whoops, I missed that bit, that would be why. Thanks.
You can avoid the 10% tax penalty for early withdrawal for your first home if it's in a Roth IRA, up to $10k. It's not very tax advantaged though.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p590b/ch02.html
who says it's bad?
ADsafe – Making JavaScript Safe for Advertising
I'd be curious to see any standard service agreements that people are allowed to share. Those I have seen are pretty weak - no mention of change request procedures for cases where customers could try to 'annex' IP, for instance.
I don't think it inherent to the species, just to the way we've organized society. Only the privileged few among us truly get to self-actualize - to become our true selves and leave our marks upon the world before fading into oblivion a scant 8 decades after our arrival.

It is no wonder then that so many find a life of ultimately meaningless toil and distraction so dreadful, and akin to those words by OP.
> The government simply can't process all the data they collect.

This is only a matter of time.
Which x86 instruction is <MARQUEE>?
This article reads like a propaganda piece. I'm not saying the switch from fisherman to scooter delivery guy is a bad one (I can think of a lot of other nice things about it too), but the whole thing reads like an ad for Economy 2.0. It even has the, "And he even lost 70 lbs doing it!" zinger at the end.
By patterns, I mean what types of jobs are easily self-employable?
The 262 "Spy Documents" are actually from an internal newsletter called "SID Today".

While the newsletter itself is classified, my understanding is it's distributed to everyone in the agency, from HR to the security guards.

The articles that proclaim the NSA is "drowning in information" are not specific. They're not from an Inspector General or other internal review.
Alan Kay's work is not about how to ship the product within the next 2 months. But it can be helpful to listen to his talks in order to maintain a longer term view and to see fundamental limitations in the way we do things.
A technique from CompSci for reducing risk of malicious JavaScript. Worth posting given many here claim they block ads due to malware risk. The technique needs further review for its security and usability.
THREE.js is awesome but it is not WebGL. It's a 3D Library that happens to use WebGL (and can use other backends as well).

If you want to learn WebGL itself try http://webglfundamentals.org

If you just want to get 3D on your page without having to learn WebGL use THREE.js
Just launched Wolfpack, a little botnet (distributed task-based agents). You can check it out here: https://github.com/dpgailey/wolfpack
I too observe the best colleagues I have historically were not Computer Science degree-holders. In fact two have no degree at all.
Africa|Nigerian Church Collapses, 160 Dead, Says Hospital Director
True but Nvidia has a first mover advantage which should not be discounted.
I expect there are significant tax credits available for investing in that kind of research. In the UK there certainly are. You can characterise an awful lot of software development as R&D and write the cost off as research and claim a tax credit, which can be very substantial. The last place I worked was running this "scam" and offset it's dev budget by millions of pounds a year.
Thanks for the PR!

It's certainly possible that there are some TLB issues with transparent huge pages that mess up the results. I've had a terrible time debugging the performance across different machines, browsers and OSes, and there seem to be an uncountable number of things that can go wrong, especially with the JITs in play. I'll try to track this one down later today, but I can't make any promises.
Is the Narrative on Russian Hack of the DNC Fake News?
oh alright then. it's not surprising either
This is why real education is so important. The government wants gullible and apathetic citizens. They got what they wanted.

To bad it will destroy the US. We need longer school days to help 2 income families, we need year round schools as well (yes we'll have to buy air conditioning for summer school).
The majority of the Midwest is within 200 miles of a major population center. And then any effort to establish more government offices would tend to choose areas at least nearby existing centers.

(You can check this with chains like Cleveland-Detroit-Chicago-St Louis-Kansas City; each interval is less than 300 miles)

I don't disagree that it would need to be an incremental process.
> Because it's not just about showing an ad to the user, it's about knowing which user to show that ad. The ad networks track you across the web, and in the process learn a great deal about your demographics and interests. This alows businesses to target you specifically.

Sure if you're not clearing your cookies, obfuscating your User-Agent, and rotating your IP address regularly. All that aside, the real baseline of comparison isn't a targeted ad, it's no ad at all. It doesn't matter how great third party ad networks are at tracking users, if their third partyness is what makes them so easy to block then they're going to go the way of the dodo.

> Spiegel can only track you across their own site which might not tell them much about you, making the ad space less valuable.

I wonder if that even matters. They already know what article I'm reading and possibly what other articles I've read (again assuming logged in / tracking cookies / etc). Should be more than enough. I really think a steady income stream of un-blockable but not quite as effective ads will win out over blockable but hyper targeted ones.
What kind of shops were these? Can you give some examples, please? Where those his OWN shops?
The Probability Distribution of the Future
Airbnb listings in NYC, BOG, MDE - make enough to live almost anywhere I want.
Would you be open to taking another interview? I'm this handle @gmail
Like Uber and Lyft drivers who can't take pee breaks, or accept rides after they begin giving birth.

http://gizmodo.com/lyft-thinks-its-exciting-that-a-driver-wa...
I make about $80 a month from (http://redreport.org/), mainly from organic search traffic.
And the dems solution to the opioid crisis was to ignore unemployment everywhere but in the coastal states :^)
I am still unsure if there is a legit use case for Vue or React over plain HTML+CSS+JS.

I can understand the use case for React native. To build native applications on multiple platforms.

But what is the use case for React, Angular, Vue etc? Can somebody give a minimal example?
Unsure as to whether it's the market for the book, the quality of the book (I hope not and don't think so given the positive feedback I have had from those who have bought it), or a !total lack of marketing! that's at fault.

i dont think your unsure you know :)
Well the company name is "SpotHero" so...
MRQ
"Summer is the peak season, people place orders late at night, and Jin has to deliver until one or two o’clock on the morning before waking up at seven or eight to start work again."
I am and im out of long beach, ca. I'm pretty much a one man team. I'm looking for collaborators. I like working with node and python. email me at socalnug@gmail.com I love to code
What deck(s) do you use? I've been looking for a deck that ideally has one side where there is an image of the country, and I give it the name, and another where there is the name of the country and I click on it in an image, but it's hard to find such a deck.
4. This won't work if one of the branches errors, because they are both evaluated. You can, however, pass a callback. But a simple ternary operator does look better.
Hmm, it's my own custom design and not a copy of Breville's. The blade geometry is especially different. Is that the angle you were thinking of?
What's that watermarking tool of yours?
I really disagree.

We need education metrics that reward schools for achieving outcomes with less classroom hours, not ever expanding classroom hours. We need to stop pretending that a single curriculum can serve people that are and people that are not interested in college equally well.

I think inexpensive child supervision is a good thing to make available to people that want to work, but damn anyone to hell that wants to tie it to education.
Wow, the designer even started crying in the video.

I do respect Miyazaki; his works being really wonderful storytelling. Still I feel like this was a bit of a "get off my lawn," moment. He's old and sees this new age and is either unsure or afraid of it.

Getting AIs to help with animation could be a huge cost incentive. We're a long way from that. This group's attempt shows that, but they also realize it could be used in zombie/monster style games (doom, resident evil, etc.)

He had some good points about pain and how the demo creatures might lack believability because their movements don't make as much sense. But instead of using that as an insult to fail, they should use it as criticism to try to make what they're doing better.

I hope they continue their work, inspite of his response. He was kinda being a dick.
Akka Actors to Akka Streams: When You Should Care
After making some simple <If> <Loop object="">, etc custom components.... I've wondered why they don't exist in react by default, or arent the common pattern.

They are very readable... maybe people just dont like the "logic" in a tag... i guess... whatever, made for some really readable code...
Article doesn't mention the negative consequences. Acid rain destruction of animal and plant life as well.
Which were those domains sold?
A Christian Approach to the Philosophy of Time [pdf]
I'm a designer and not a coder, so I feel obliged to provide my comments with salt added up front.

That being said, JSX vs. wrapping HTML in if-statements seems like the same kind of trouble to me. I've done a few simple prototypes in Clojure/Script, so my reasoning is heavily influenced by the fact that I know very little about other languages, and only have moderate amount of knowledge about Clojure.

The solution I've encountered in Clojure is to represent the entire page as a data structure. Conditionals and transformations are applied directly to this data structure, which is then sent as-is into the rendering pipeline (which commonly seems to be React). The HTML is never really written by hand, it's just a final "coat of paint" on top of the data.

To me, this seems far easier to wrap my head around than splicing two languages together in the same file and potentially finding that the interaction between the two is not as harmonious as one may wish.

Rendering to HTML, rather than rendering within HTML (so to speak), seems like it would remove the entire decision point where you have to pick between one library or the other based on the quirks of how it looks when it's spliced into HTML.
> Since it began in 2013, the company behind the purportedly anonymous messaging app has never had, and still doesn’t have, any obvious source of meaningful revenue. Yet somehow, Yik Yak was valued by venture capitalists at $400 million in December 2014 after Sequoia Capital invested $62 million.

Do investments of this size/nature typically have a raise-or-pay-us-back date associated with them? i.e. are they usually done as a convertible note to force the issue or pure equity?
Yeah those pretty much always make people rich.
It's about maintaining complex UI state for me. Not sure how to fit that in a minimal example. Those all look like Vanilla JS can handle it.

But when things get big, or sorta complex, or try to have very fine UI behavior for complex workflows then React, Vue or my fave Riot really shine.

If it's minimal you don't need these. When it's not you'll be glad you have them.
The USA has already started a long-term decline. Peak was 1998/1999 if you go by peak productivity and real GDP/capita.

Unfortunately, not much can be done. We're in a situation similar to that of the British Empire prior to 1915.
In Defense of Inclusionism
If you know anything about giving birth, theres a tremendous amount of time between water breaking and labor. Women and encouraged to go for a meal and take a shower and rest up before the contractions get close enough so that you need to go to the hospital.

So it's not like she was in an emergency situation, it really is a fun little fact that she took one more ride before realizing that she was going to give birth that day.
This paper didn't seem to deal specifically with compilers, editors, browsers, or intellisense. But I'm curious what counts as "modern" -- how often should I replace my personal machine, or what should its specs be, so people like you don't call it "ancient"? (I already know that I should be using LightTable or Atom or IntelliJ to be "modern" in terms of editors.)
I still think we should discuss it via a real fiddle we can test the approaches with. Talking about pseudecode with placeholders is much more nebulus then talking about real code.
Agreed. It doesn't matter how efficient the algorithm is if people get bored and stop using it. At Polly Lingual (https://pollylingu.al) we tried to tune our space-repitition flashcards for this. We aimed for small lessons that move more quickly, with optional follow up for difficult items. For casual learners this doesn't deter them, and for advanced students, they can still go back and see where they need improvement or just simply do the lessons again.
Vietnam internet can be quite quick. It's also cheap there.
You can use open-source version on any servers you want. But if you'll use LB servers, you'll get a bit more )
It's not the same. Advertisers can negotiate with AdBlock Plus about what reasonable advertising should be. If we all choose our own block lists there is nobody for them to negotiate with. The war between ad blockers and advertisers continues forever.

That's not to say AdBlock Plus does a great job (I don't know) but some people think collective bargaining is a good thing.

For more read about countervailing power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countervailing_power
Read-after-overwrite makes it clear that it's in contrast to and distinct from read-after-write. Sometimes different words mean the same thing, and you pick the word based on its context. And in this context, the readers aren't "normal people"--whatever that means--they're engineers. Where the specific meaning of "update" and "write" can vary depending on an even more specific context.
Started a hosting company: its very small and only offers shared hosting right now, but it is almost making money. I never wanted to get into hosting, but so many of my clients were using Godaddy etc I just had to get them away from that chaos.

Note: I'm also looking for a partner in this if anyone has any experience let me know.
Yeah that makes absolutely no sense. Either way they need to parse the obj, but then why convert the same data to a less efficient format for that data type that can now no longer be used directly by another application?

Sounds like they just liked json
I think it is another way for them to make money on the side. They get access to secrets and are directly responsible for companies to move forward. That way you can pay someone to block competition or get access to their trading secrets. Simply put, this law is enabling corruption on an unprecedented scale and privacy argument is just convenient to steer away conversation from what really it is about.