skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once or twice in all your years online you have agreed to an alternate funding method and you think that is sustainable for content creators?

It works fabulously as supplemental income for talented artisnal content creators who make their content because they care. They'll probably still need a day job like the rest of us, but there's a good chance people will hire them for those same skills that make them great content creators, whether they write interesting blogs or make neat-o electronics projects or produce great art or whatever.

I'm all about supporting inspired human creation. Maybe we'll implement basic minimum income and some of these people can safely dedicate their life to their talent, and inspire others along the way?

It can't possibly sustain content farms like buzzfeed. I consider this to be a great positive, and wish buzzfeed as swift and impactful a cratering as possible.
That's for windows, it won't work in Xubuntu.
Sure, sent you an email.
Note that the AMA, run by doctors, is required by US law to give their approval before a new medical school may open, or an existing medical school can expand its program.

The doctors who would see their salaries fall if supply increased have complete control over supply.

This is complete regulatory capture, and it's terrible.
I don't think even people like the anti-med Robert Whitaker would be against using these medications short-term, for major clinical depression or for other conditions where patients are low- or non-functioning; the primary goal there is to get people stable so they can participate in productive behavioral therapy or modification so that they don't need the meds long-term (particularly since afaik the balance of evidence is that the effectiveness of these meds declines to the placebo level over the long term). It's the use of psychiatric medication for relatively minor psychiatric disturbances in high-functioning individuals, and for long periods of time (years), that draws most of the criticism.
Yeah, that happens. People like to have their boogiemen to blame for everything in life that doesn't suit them. I do it too. Personally, I blame everything on Orrin Hatch.
Don't bash the Employee Stock Purchase Plan without getting more info though. Maximizing that and immediately selling (i.e. I never actually held my company's stock) netted me about $10k over the course of a year. The standard ESPP rules (buy at price today or price 6 months ago whichever is lower at a 15% discount with immediate selling) are even more advantageous than 401k rules but not all are standard.
Interestingly, this was almost the exact strategy that brought down digg back in the day. They tried to partner with some news sites to auto-submit each of their stories to digg, and their users revolted. Of course, they had a looser structure than reddit does and so the auto-posted "professional" posts began to dominate the main feed, while reddit has the opportunity to keep them within their own subreddit.
It's cute. It's part of the medium. Books must have pages. Tweetstorms must have 140char tweets.
Wouldn't blame them!
Nah, 4chan is the opposite of the kind of forum he craves. Everyone is a nameless faceless anon, so unless Trump starts leaking things about himself, he's just another boring racist troll in a crowd of boring racist trolls (just maybe 5x the average age).
I think the reason that you can’t get such a CPU isn’t that it impossible to create one with other instructions sets, but that, apparently, nobody has thought it be a product that will make them money.

I doubt that the licensing cost of an up-to-date ISA is the bottleneck there. Because of that, I don’t see how RISC-V would be of much help there.

What would help is if a cheap way to make bespoke CPUs in low numbers would become available. That would enable hobbyists to order exotic hardware.

Also note https://community.nxp.com/thread/440796, which mentions a somewhat successor (http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/...) I haven’t checked its features against your list.
You just have to remind yourself that the assholes are just shadows on the cave wall, the same as you are to them.

And again, the cave entrance is never more than a few steps behind you.
Yall being unfair to GP. His dad had the impulse at the time.
Opioid addiction is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is a generation of people who are left behind, who don't have the mobility to go where the jobs are, who can't go back to school because there are no schools in the area. The disease is the minimum wage job at dollar general which keeps their employees at 28.5 hours to keep from having to provide all the social and economic obligations of maintaining a full time employee. The disease is a lack of psychologists who can treat the underlying despair and hopelessness caused by living in a dying county. The disease is a lack of physical therapists that can teach exercises to help keep the pain away. The disease is a complete lack of infrastructure that entraps people in these small towns. The disease is an employment system that ensure that a drug conviction from ten years ago precludes them from having any sort of decent job. The disease is stigma and stagnation. We won't stop this epidemic until we fix the broken system that let it happen in the first place, and that's going to take a lot more help and a lot more money than just blaming the doctors and drug companies.
FWIW, he used our product http://writerack.com to do his Tweetstorm.

I feel great!!
clicking all the advertisers links seems like an awfully nice thing to do for them, assuming they're paid per click
> If your time is so important why are you wasting it visiting pages with ads?

Because I get linked to them. Also, social objects - other people are visiting those pages, so I have to check them out too in order to participate in the conversation.

Also, YouTube.

> Surely you'd just stick with the better content that doesn't use ads all the time right?

Yeah, and I mostly do.
Yes, but again, this is in hindsight. For all you knew back then, it could crash at any time, and any other company could also skyrocket.

The point is, right now, any of the hundreds of startups you see just starting now /could/ potentially be the next Facebook. Statistically, most won't be. But of course in 20 years, you won't remember thinking about buying stocks for all the companies that failed. You'll only remember how you once considered buying stock fort his one company that is huge now.
By "advertiser guy we hate" you mean the publisher? The one who built the page you went to?
I think this message is clear to developers. I have been a loyal mac user for 10 years but will be replacing my iPhone with the pixel and my next laptop will probably be a Dell XPS 15 with 32Gb of ram running Linux. I couldn't believe the increase in base price of the 15" given the gimmicky feature improvements. Disappointment.
Re: Developers' side projects (a response to Joel Spolsky's post)
There were a significant number of leaks recently posted to the "ex mormon" subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/545v5n/leaks_mega...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/552yzo/update_on_...
It may seem nice at the beginning, but as you saturate the service with fake clicks, the PPC value will drop to near-zero.
Ehh.... I come from a family with a long Mormon history dating back to at least 1837-39 (depending on source) with multiple divisions of the family migrating to Utah during the mid 19th century from the U.S. East Coast, England, and even Iceland for religious reasons. Point being it's a culture I'm a bit familiar with (I was born and raised in Utah myself). I am not Mormon myself, and never joined the church, though I did attend for some time.

I never felt any overt pressure from any family or friends to join the religion. Sure, some expressed disappointment, and certainly tried to nudge me that direction earlier in life. But I certainly was never ostracized or shunned in any way, even after it was clear I was not going to be a "prospect" for conversion (and yes, everyone gave up trying long ago).

I have heard one or two stories along the lines of your assertion. And I have known a family that were not the "nice, warmhearted" stereotype being painted generally here either: though the misery they inflicted was primary directed inward and belief was not the issue.

As much as I have come to find all religions at fundamental moral fault, it would be wrong not to say something here about a people, who in my experience, generally don't match what you're describing.
good point

I'd still suggest that, even though twitter obviously needs advertisers, someone with a deep understanding of users and how they use twitter would lead to more user growth / more engaged users. Which is probably the thing twitter needs most.
You need to have a basic understanding of matrix products (from linear algebra) and the chain rule (from calculus). Both can be learnt on demand using Khan Academy - no need to go study math first, but just study what you need when you need it. We give brief explanations of both when they come up.

The wiki (http://wiki.fast.ai) has links to necessary learning resources for each lesson.
This SMS app will prank your friends with random Christmas carols
On my device, at various points, Snapchat and Uber have both been completely nonfunctional for days on end. I didn't think building phone apps could be so difficult for these large companies.
I wonder how much this is related to Node.js cozying up to Chakra and other non-V8 JS engines.
I'm looking at all the hydrogen laying around in the system in various forms, including water, and all I can think of is - energy. It's the stuff that powers the stars.

If only we could master that damn fusion now.
Interestingly, Facebook is surprisingly liberal with their public data endpoints, with no apparent rate limiting for API retrieval from public Facebook Pages and Groups (source: I develop a scraper and have not been yelled at by FB, yet: https://github.com/minimaxir/facebook-page-post-scraper )

Twitter, meanwhile, still has that stupid 3200 most-recent tweet limit on historical data, which is apparently a "technical limitation."
You are conflating energy in kWh with storage capacity in kWh, so you are probably off by a couple orders of magnitude. If you had a long haul truck with a battery that can be recharged relatively quickly, it might get recharged a couple of times a day. So you have to multiply its capacity times recharges times number of days in service, so it could be used to store and release 1000x kWh nameplate capacity each year.
Can't most of those projects be boiled down to dealing with scaling? Twitter has seemed to have been mostly focused inwards, trying to get themselves more efficient at being Twitter. The other companies I mentioned seem more ambitious in expanding their tech outwards.
Jesus. 30 hours straight.
I know I wouldn't work 30 hours straight in IT - I think everybody is bound to make expensive mistakes when they're tired. And how much more for doctors? When what's at risk isn't just money but someone else's life.
Is life for the median (or below) worker worse or better though, in terms of access to health care, housing, education, jobs, etc.?

As a counterpoint, US is only #8 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...
I found the same content much more readable here: http://blog.wishpond.com/post/115675436672/growth-hacking
>It sounds like their domain controller holding the PDCE FSMO role is a virtual machine.

Called it. I didn't even think about the fact that it was a virtual machine until you mentioned it. Everything makes so much sense now. The randomly disappearing files, random issues with file locking. I just assumed the problem was they had no idea what rules to use for file replication.

> I can only imagine how fragile your infrastructure really is.

Yeah, it's a nightmare. Ignoring the "files disappear and are never found" issue, files get overwritten with earlier versions all the time. I'm not entirely sure what their hosting situation is, but I suspect they are running virtual machines in virtual machines.

On top of that, most applications are only available on VMs through a Citrix connection. This isn't inherently a problem, but they have it set up so everyone is logged on to the same machine. This causes issues with most MS Office applications, because they assume one user per computer is accessing the files. So file locking is completely broken, because Windows looks at the file and says "Hey, that's me, I have that open!"

It's the biggest nightmare with Access applications, (which we have a ton of), because Access assumes that everyone has their own copy of the front-end (client) database, and each independently accesses the back-end (server) Access database. Optimistic locking doesn't work at all with the "everyone uses the same file from the same computer" approach, and pessimistic locking barely works. I've set up the client databases to automatically create a copy for each user, but as you can imagine it's a bit of a nightmare to keep everything updated.
This. Don't want me clicking on things? Don't send the URLs to me. <a href...> literally means "if you want to see this, go there".

(Now, generating new links with a for loop would be a crime, at least in the US, so I definitely won't do that.)
Yup! My goal was more to explain the math than anything else. I was planning to extend this for 25519 and discuss the alternate standard forms, but instead I'm trying to finish up that darned book.
> "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"

"Camel's nose in the tent"

Though I don't know if that's actual an Arabism or if I just heard it in some Western film.
The Influence of Innovations
Are you implying that NH is limiting its audience to politically agreeable, or that those who disagree self-censor themselves and move to other platforms?

If the latter, it does invite the question of why. Is it impossible to disagree on basic income, renewable energy, income inequality etc without reducing your comment quality below the bar that is acceptable here?
> As it becomes more of an issue you start seeing more and more anti-blocking scripts.

That seems incredibly tone deaf. Advertisers should be working on fixing the problems. Get rid of tracking, get rid of scripts, make promises about acceptable ad size and latency and every year reduce those numbers.
Unsigned addons cannot be enabled on beta or release. That was only available for a limited time. Now they can only be enabled on alpha (aka developer), nightly, or special unbranded builds.

You can make a userscript without any of that hassle, though.
The problem with generalizing about Reddit is not its size, it's that Reddit is made up of a bunch of separate forums with separate mods and rules and users and so forth. It's just a place where discussion boards live. Reddit : forums :: Blogspot : blogs.
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I see your point. And I know I am basically arguing against active laws. However, I feel it should work different here. You're building a tool that basically says 1) send clicks 2) get paid. That's your tool, nobody made you build it, if you wanted to be safe - find your own clicks. In my view, it's your responsibility to ensure any clicks you pay for are valid. If they are invalid, it amounts to your partner broke the service TOS/AUP. In which case, I see a case for civil damages sure but not criminal.

To counter with another analogy. Robbing a casino, criminal. Counting cards, severely frowned upon but not criminally illegal. When you create a system that users can game to their advantage, you are responsible for enforcing your rules - it doesn't (or shouldn't) make it a crime when your rules are broken.
I don't like the idea of keeping secrets in ENV and limiting it to config, though it's the kind of thing I'd ask other folks about myself to understand any tradeoffs. I see Kubernetes and other things supporting secrets in env variables so unsure how common it is.

The big win is simply keeping secrets out of source code, out of an general engineer's copy/paste buffer, and with errors not going to a logging platform with single factor access. Your likelihood of a short term incident decreases dramatically. Especially if those secrets have well segmented access, (IE, not a single AWS key with `AdministratorAccess` everywhere).
Metaprogramming Beyond Decency (2015)
France Becomes First Federal Postal Service to Use Drones to Deliver Mail
Tree Shaking comparison betweeen Webpack 2 and Rollup
Thanks for the great advice, already making changes to my Meetups schedule!
That's an utterly ridiculous comparison. Companies / stock prices are not a normal, random distribution like roulette results.

There are masses of information available on companies / stock market. Assuming roulette wheel is fair, there is none other than 1/32 chance known.
If you're not willing to unclog toilets at 3 AM, you should consider investing in a REIT. Considering this is HN, take a look at data center REITs specifically.
I've been saying this for a little while now: Twitter should really try to capitalize on Tweetstorms. What they don't seem to realize is that Tweetstorms enable Twitter to be a kind of inverse annotation platform. Most annotation platforms enable large chunks of text to be dissected by readers, but a Tweetstorm is the opposite: the author specifies the exact segmentation of the text as they release it, and each segment can be individually commented on or shared. It forces authors to present their ideas as a sequence of small interlocking arguments. The medium enforces rhetorical granularity, for better or worse.

I can't be the only person who sees this potential. Come on, Twitter, build this out... I'll even let you hire me to work on it. :)
Yep, fixing
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There's a (smallish) surplus of medical school graduates, there are as many people doing residencies as there are residency slots available.
Well, $7.50 in 1996 dollars is apparently worth $11.67 today in 2016.

$32,000 doesn't sound like too bad a return.
The law is the ceiling, per the wise saw that any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam. I hope we'll reach peak insanity soon, and then some trace amount of humanity will return to the industry.
That's a No True Scotsman perspective. Scaling isn't easy.
It's not arguing in good faith to imply that the only reason I disagree with you is because my view point constitutes a religion, or because I simply haven't come to a certain point of enlightenment that you yourself have presumably reached.
I've done the other way around. Leaving before 1 year and not giving a f* about options.

Even if the company makes it big later (hundreds millions), a diluted infinitesimal percentage is peanuts compared to a better offer right now.

By the way, totally used the imaginary lost-stock as leverage in the negotiation. That was probably the best way to cash it out. :D
Yeah? And Facebook isn't a social network either, it's an advertising brokerage? And Google isn't a search engine, it's an advertising brokerage? The Financial Times isn't a newspaper, it's an advertising brokerage? Spotify isn't music streaming, it's an advertising brokerage?
Compared to what?

Elon Musk and his belief that "we're all living in a simulations" versus the religionist's belief that God created the world as a test or classroom?

Stephen Hawking and his belief that there may be super-intelligent life forms out there that may destroy humanity versus the religionist's belief of an omniscient God that will return and destroy humanity?

Richard Dawkins when he tweets "Suppose your descendant migrates to Mars, whose colony then loses contact with Earth. You could be ancestor of all on Mars, none on Earth." versus the religionist's story of Adam and Eve?
This internal demonstration of NeXTSTEP shows just how much this similarity applies to what the end-user sees in macOS/OS X as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk
I had a similar experience. I've only ever taken Paxil once, for maybe a month or so. Going into it, the only side-effect I experienced was an inability to climax during sex—-yeah, I know, too much information, but people need to know what they're getting into. When I stopped taking it, I experienced the same electric shock sensations you're talking about. My eyes twitched terribly, and I bounced back and forth between wanting to kill myself and wanting to kill everyone else. That lasted for around two weeks.

After that experience, I decided it was better to just feel depressed.
But being classifiable as an "old man" myself, I rather find it more annoying that it should be taken as a negative. Maybe "old man rage" should be taken as an indicator that the lessons of experience have been neglected? Instead, in our culture, it is taken to mean something foolish. I think this says something about our culture.
Happy Holidays: Linux Mint get a major upgrade
Elon Musk says the world needs about 100 "gigafactories", so we need 3500 GWh of battery making capacity per year. At that rate it would take 7 years to reach 22 TWh of capacity.
I don't believe I have said you should do otherwise.
There was a magazine called MacAddict which I'm sure some here would remember. One of their mid-90s Christmas gift recommendations was Apple stock! I sometimes wonder how many small fortunes those few paragraphs created.
The Financial Times often has pretty good comments, that are informative. Post Brexit its got worse though.
That's the thing about reddit - it's so big that you can find whatever you want. Whether you want polite discussion about woodworking, erotic fan-fiction, or examples of horrible racism and misogyny so you can write an article for HuffPoabout how horrible Reddit is, you will find what you're looking for.

But I'm pretty sure that was true of the internet before Reddit came along, too. And I don't see how combining all of those discussion groups under the same domain made the world any worse than back when they were three separate message boards.
Ad blockers aren't a problem for advertisers since people using ad blockers likely aren't going to click on your ads anyhow. They are a problem for content creators.
I love this! Here's a quick and dirty calendar visualization I put together:
https://gist.github.com/jessedhillon/bb8282db6d109f076795a98...

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/i7Ru7
Project Tofino: Browser Explorations from the Firefox Team
Actually there is one. It's a no profit organization called Afs (afs.org). Its main purpose is to make adolescents (students between 14-17yo) explore a new country being hosted in a local family and studying in a local school. The participant makes a list of 10 (or less) preferred countries to which he'd like to go but can't choose the city. The latter is chosen depending on the compatibility with the families disponible in that country. The whole network of countries and hosting families is composed by volunteers (no economic benefits) all over the world who share the same goals: discovering and understanding new cultures. Disclaimer: I went one year abroad with afs and am currently a volunteer in my country.
Have you heard of torus.sh keyrings? I don't know how well it works for an organization, but integrating torus into my side projects has been painless.
Nope, they are not paying me for anything. Again, I did not enter into any agreement. I just clicked a link. They are expending their resources in an attempt to capture and profit from my attention. Those are very different things.

Many times they also payed to make it hard for me to get to the content that I actually wanted. This is commonly known as SEO.