skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't speak German, but do speak English it's possible to live in Frankfurt. To live in Paris, you have to speak French.

I speak French, but not that well. First time I went to Paris ('94) it was indeed close to what you suggest, but my French-teacher was right about one thing: As long as you got the pronunciation right and tried people would fall over themselves to try to help you.

Last times I've been in Paris, on the other hand, people would impatiently interrupt me when I tried to practice my French, and switch to English. It was outright annoying, as it made it hard to improve.

The most inconvenienced I've ever been was in some little village in Provence a couple of decades ago, when a shopkeeper didn't understand my French. But he proceeded to stop random passers-by until he found one that was willing and able to translate.
Why do people write ][ for the Apple II? I've seen it in a bunch of places now.
The case against Standard Oil was pretty explicitly because of anticompetitive behaviour, not price inefficiency.
Seems like point 1 would not be satisfied, because you are actually clicking the ad. I suppose someone could argue that you're still deceiving them about your intent but it seems like quite a stretch.
Correct. That's why it's such a massive task.
Servo is pretty decent at supporting a lot of web standards now. Unfortunately, the real web is made of quirks and implementation targeting workarounds.

I think the biggest lesson from Servo is that entry barrier to the web market is already much higher than we would like it to be.

Having a great new web engine supporting 100% of web standards does not get you even close to being ready to serve the web.

And the willingness of web developer community to take the "one browser only feature" bait is a major part of the problem.
Rich College Donors' Big Tax Break Is Suddenly in Danger
Microsoft SQL Server Is the DBMS of the Year
One of my favorite West Wing moments. So good.
Isn't the W-series business-class? This seems pretty out of place for marketing towards corporations.
Kind of and depending on who is being talked to. As soon as you leave office you lose the reason people care about you: your ability to influence levers of power. That is unless you start something else big or had something big before you came into office.

So yea, former presidents aren't really power players after they leave office - they still have influence but nothing at the same level as the people at the top of the Forbes list because they control so little.
Jeff Meyerson's 2015 interview with Quincy Larson of Free Code Camp provides a good overview of the project.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/10/28/free-code-ca...
Looks more like an OEIS sequence identifier to me.
I keep hearing the word async come in these remote working threads, what does that mean exactly in this context?

What does this single source of truth look like? A google docs spec?
Thank you! That's something I wouldn't have discovered so easily and makes my learning about it much easier.
So then, America now is TexasOklahoma? If those two states went blue, Hillary would have won. This argument is extremely weak.
French farmer on trial for helping migrants: 'My job is feeding people'
I wouldn't describe that as groupthink. Groupthink has a fairly clear definition and set of symptoms, well, clear by psychology standards anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

What you're describing doesn't have any obvious "out" group in it. I think instead what you're describing is what you'd expect to see in an environment where judging the merits of tools or processes is very hard and requires a lot of experience, which may be lacking. In such an environment it's natural to look to very successful companies and just copy whatever they're doing, even if you don't fully understand it, in the hope that it works out. And sometimes it will.

This isn't helped by the massive expansion of the developer workforce over the past decades, the fact that experienced people tend to get promoted up into management where they lose touch with coding and become 'architects' working entirely in the abstract, the fact that it's almost impossible for firms to correctly match team sizes to the amount of work required resulting in frequent periods of either overload or boredom (that then leads to reinvention of the wheel simply to find something interesting to do).

And yes, finally, fashion plays way too large a role in things these days. If I had a dollar for every time I read a blog post along the lines of "we had entirely generic serving problem X and we had to pick between Rust, Node or Go", with the far older and more mature .NET/Java stacks not just discarded but entirely unconsidered, I'd be a rich guy. We end up locked in a vicious circle that works against maturity of tools and processes:

- Profitable but slow enterprises look at startups, envy their ability to get things done and wonder if it's because of the stodgy old tools/processes they use.

- Fast but money-bleeding startups look at enterprises and say "we aren't a stuffy enterprise shop so we'll do whatever cool thing I read about on hacker news the other day" and often end up boxing themselves into a corner with immature tools or business approaches. Eventually they (might) turn into big slow companies themselves, often entailing either a rewrite along the way to use more traditional tools or absurd investments into digging themselves out of technical debt (Facebook's PHP runtime efforts being a case in point)
Video games aren't the only place that you can get away without practicing it.

Places I've seen bad sportsmanship do fine (or prosper):

- All major sports (NFL, NBA, college, etc.)

- Business: Steve Jobs, (everywhere else)

- Presidential Elections

People in these cases (and more I'm not thinking of) generally don't care about how much of a jerk you are and some even respect you more for it.
I'm not seeing anything, but I'm on mobile. Does it only work on desktop? That seems like a pretty big deterrent to using it if so.
As we learned from the Nixon Kennedy debate, appearance matters. Mark may be a very capable tech leader but little of that carries over to commanding the most powerful military in the world.
The downstream effects on consumer spending would absolutely result in this being fixed. The alternative is large numbers of people going bankrupt and that's going to hit several sacred cows in this country, particularly housing. There's lots of reasons that I'm damn near convinced that SS will still be around, principally that the gap is actually not that bad if it's dealt with in advance so that the trust funds can take advantage of compounding interest. But even absent that, the fact that corporate america is going to be Victim #2 almost guarantees a fix.
The U.S. economy exploded after the end of slavery, precisely because a capitalistic economy where everyone participates generates a lot more money than a Southern slavery economy. The South was significantly poorer than the North, partly because it had a really backwards economy that didn't incentivize innovation or technology.

Slavery made a lot of individuals quite wealthy without doing any real work, but it's a poor system to build a capitalistic economy on. A consumptive economy like ours needs as many people as possible to have money and to spend it.

Slavery is one of the defining stories of the founding of America, but ending slavery and increasing equality has allowed the U.S. economy to go much further. Additional actions to further increase equality and get more diverse economic participation will only help the U.S. economy.

The U.S. also has a reprehensible history with American Indians and did not properly compensate them for land. And the U.S. doesn't always have the best past with immigrants to this country. But, again, getting more people involved in our economy has only helped the U.S.

It's one thing to say that the founding of America was built on the plunder of nonwhites; it's quite another to say that it's current wealth is based on that. Engaging more people in the economic system is precisely what allowed the U.S. economy to get so big.
I am not expecting metered paywalls will help with that.
> is too offensive to say out loud

Not only offensive but also very hard to prove.

>Absent a solid scientific reason to believe that one gender, one race, one country of origin, one level of income, etc. is truly better at the job than another (as opposed to better thanks to circumstance and existing systems of oppression), a non-diverse candidate pool is an arbitrary subset of a diverse candidate pool. This is both unprofitable for the industry, because you're skipping qualified candidates for no good reason, and unjust to the candidates whom you're skipping.

There are objectively less qualified under represented minorities and females in the tech industry. Just check CS major demographics, stackoverflow demographics, etc. It's an undisputed fact.

If you want to cry foul on why they are less qualified, citing unequal representation is not adequate proof of sexism or racism.

Sexism, racism and discrimination are useless concepts unless properly and concisely defined before discussion because everyone's definition is different. It is very annoying to have people classify everything as "racism" or "sexism" to lazily avoid the need to justify arguments.
> They're referring to any unique characteristics that give Bitcoin value in competing with other cryptocurrencies, which is mostly true.

The unique characteristic that makes Bitcoin more valuable than all other cryptocurrencies is liquidity. The order book depth for the USD/EUR Bitcoin market is more than an order of magnitude greater than all other cryptocurrencies combined.

The more liquid a monetary unit is, the less friction is involved in using it for exchange, since you pay the spread (which increases with order size) every time you enter and leave the Bitcoin market.

This is the only reason gold is still so valuable: it has immense liquidity/market depth, meaning you can quickly offload it on the market when needed. This is very useful, and the defining property of money.
The supply of workers will never be exhausted. The program will be tweaked, as it has been all along, to ensure it remains fully functions.

Read up on it, it's a lot more interesting than the "it's going broke!!" stuff makes it out to be.
My issue with the Roth is that I don't trust the rules to remain the same in the future. I pay taxes now, before the money goes in, with the promise of tax-free withdrawals. I fully expect that money to become taxable on the back-end at some future time. It might be a lower rate (like capital gains today) or be income-based, but that pot of $ will be too tempting to ignore, I fear.
That's a leading question and a false dillema.
Maybe. You have to by law divest interests during the period of service and it would be a really weird power shift back and forth.
I can't take any of this "how to work for yourself and make money" seriously, if the main way that you make money is by charging for these lessons. It's like a pyramid scheme where the real money is in getting people to learn from you and pay for the privilege. It would be a lot more credible if you made the ideas freely available, but, alas, that will not pay for your rent in NYC.
The Reality of Developer Burnout
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31 October 2016 (Down's syndrome)
A new noninvasive test for Down's syndrome will eliminate the small risk of the current test.

This might lead more women to get tested, and abort fetuses that have Down's syndrome. Let's hope so!

If you'd like to love and care for a pet that doesn't have normal human mental capacity, don't create a handicapped human being to be your pet. Get a dog or a parrot. It will appreciate your love, and it will never feel bad for being less capable than normal humans.

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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161101101115/https://stallman....

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31 October 2016 (Down's syndrome)
A new noninvasive test for Down's syndrome will eliminate the small risk of the current test.

This might lead more women to get tested, and abort fetuses that have Down's syndrome. Let's hope so! According to Wikipedia, Down's syndrome is a combination of many kinds of misfortune. When children with Down's syndrome are born, they are human beings and I wish the best for them. They deserve the best care, which will enable some of them to live independently. However, when we have the chance to assure children are born without Down's syndrome, it's our duty to do so for their sake.

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Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20161207215342/https://stallman....
Are you using noscript or something? it looks great for me.
> We have no way to determine whether an explanation is true, false, or simply a post-hoc rationalization

If we have no way of determining whether something is true or false, then I can say the same thing about your own statement quoted above. I can just say it is false and go on with my life.

I sincerely hope you realize the obvious self contradiction :D

Logic 101. :)
Youngest laptop here is from 2011:

Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965GM

Maximum OpenGL version for that chipset is 2.0, apparently, though I can't find a way to push it beyond 1.4 on Linux

I appreciate that six years old is ancient by SV standards but I would be interested to learn what proportion of Firefox users are on equally old hardware. I did try launching Servo with CPU rendering but it hung indefinitely.
It's quite obvious. Just tried it myself [1].

You first select an identity to use to auto-fill. When doing that, it will tell you the data it will insert in the subtitle.

You can also click customize and choose what data to place into each field.

[1] - http://imgur.com/a/HL59q
+1 See? I rest my case.

(C.N.E. = Certified Novell Engineer, but who would know that nowadays, or care?)
Well, speaking for myself, definitely not the Futamura projections. Way too high a level of abstraction to remember.
I'd rather have only the field I selected autofilled and be given a secondary option to have every field (or maybe choose which fields) in a form autofilled. This bothers me in innocent, non-phishing forms too—especially when the designers don't put labels on the fields and only use placeholders, which I can no longer see after autofill.
Are there any educated, rich people with a healthy lifestyle living within 200 m of a busy road around? I would be interested in your stance on this.
Why does it need to support one?
Falcons, Drones, Data: A Winery Battles Climate Change
It's worth noting that if there are benefit cuts of 25% that it's unlikely that each individual will see a 25% cut. It's more likely (in my opinion at least) that we'll see some sort of means testing where seniors with other income (from 401Ks, private pensions, other savings) see their benefits cut much more than 25% while those with low incomes retain their full benefits.

So if you are saving a lot it could, ironically, be a self fulfilling prophecy that you get no social security.
Good points but it's worth considering what the world will look like in several years. The appeal of a predictably dry personality that centers around data-driven approaches to policy might be a welcome departure. A generation of youth, foreign to life before FB, would also have a deeper connection despite any complaints. In a sense, Zuckerberg already governed their lives, it's familiar and if a Trump administration brings hardships it will even feel nostalgic from a more innocent era.

To be clear, I oppose all Kings, just speaking to the circumstance.
That does not sound healthy. Good diet needs variety. How about adding other veggies in with the potatoes ?
I suspect there's an additional factor incidental to the "skills and talent" issue- the ability of employees to care. I would wager that there are few engineers who are really, truly passionate about Oracle or Salesforce, but for some reason people still get excited about Google, Facebook, or the next Uber-for-dogs startup. This means that the latter category get an entirely different kind of value from the skills of their engineers.

If you're a good programmer, you can optimize for various different things- getting something done quickly, writing pretty code, making the boss happy, following every last implied detail of spec, or, importantly, making the software as useful as possible. What you need is for an engineer to be able to think, "well, bossman won't necessarily like it and it will take another ten minutes, but I should write this in this specific way because I predict it will prevent some problems if this code gets reused in certain contexts." There are innumerable small things engineers can do solve problems that might happen, but no salary can incentivize them to do this (or even to look for the opportunities to do so) since there's effectively no way to tell if they're doing it- engineers who don't care will likely be optimizing for making their bosses happy, so engineers who do care will even often seem worse according to any effectiveness metric the company employs. And if your employees don't care, you quickly accumulate technical debt that weighs down the company, even if everyone is happy and productive.

I don't particularly think there's a solution to this. A sad fact about industrial economies is that a whole lot of boring things that no one cares about need to get done. Even most of the applications that are exciting now will be boring in the future (someday, internet search will be an old-hat, commoditized field everyone takes for granted, and Google will fall.) Maybe someday company lifecycles will just be considered a fact of nature, and everyone will simply expect the next Microsoft to roll over and expire when its flagship product becomes irrelevant; it might make things more sane.
This would be so much fun to jailbreak.

The solution to media content distribution looks a lot like what companies in the United States have tried again and again to do, but have failed - with perhaps the recent exception of smart phone and tablet devices.

Another trick the DPRK might consider is making much of their software a service and requiring always-on connectivity to use the application in question. This not only restricts what a user can do, but it also allows the 'stewart' body to track usage, collect metadata and a number of other useful bits for state security. Often, the use of the app can be track to a geolocation.
Used to actually do this back in the day. I would send them back their offer with something like "I regret to inform you that I am not interested in your offer. Have a nice day." on the top page. I figured that going out of my way to let them know that they shouldn't expect a sale from me was simply being polite. I used their handy return envelope to send it back to them.

There were stories of people who would attach their return envelopes to heavy objects and try to send those back to them.

Maybe some day advertisers will come to understand that if their ads affect me negatively, then I will do my best to make it unprofitable for them to present them to me.
The 2FA apps on the phone (like authify and google authenticator) use a shared secret between the server and phone, plus the time, to generate the code. (This is the alphanumeric or qr code you set up with)

If someone can remotely root your phone, they can remotely retrieve your shared secret, and thus generate your authentication tokens.
Just to clarify on #2, it doesn't even have to really be in your employer's control. One of the biggest sales targets of mortgage-backed securities prior to 2008 were pension plans, they were AAA-rated securities.
Really nice! I'm not into the graphics world enough to contribute code, but I noticed in your Gallery it mentions running stuff on your laptop. I have access to some nice dual socket Xeon servers with tons of memory, so I could run some bigger simulations for you. Email me if interested.
> acting unpredictably from time to time can disorient the enemy commander, expand their loop and therefore allow you to act at a faster tempo than he

I disagree that this is a good idea. I think acting unpredictably gives your opponent a reason to look deeper into your strategy which ultimately might end up sinking it. If you perform an unpredictable move it should be for a hard and fast strategic gain.

Ideally you should move in a fashion that is entirely predictable by your opponent without incurring significant loss to yourself. This will caused them to be surprised when you eventually break from your predictable normal activities and perform an unexpected maneuver.
There have been a few issues with how Facebook has calculated some of their views as well so it's not surprising that there maybe issues with Snapchat.

But regardless of whether they are misquoting some of their growth numbers or not I think even without that they are going to have a difficult time with their valuation and IPO. They are already at $25B in the private market and with an IPO investors would be hoping for at least $40-50B. To justify that price just look at some of the companies in that range and the amount of revenue and growth they have in order to justify it.

Snapchat is not a ubiquitous service like Facebook so ultimately it's going to be in a category somewhere between Twitter and Instagram.

Instagram has one of the easiest on-boarding processes and with their static stream from friends that are now directly hooked into FB you are immediately immersed in what the experience is. Snapchat is a bit more complex.

Regardless to justify a $50B valuation they are going to need a substantial revenue growth story with no hiccups. And they are ultimately going to have to prove out to about $2.5B of revenue in 2017 which is impossible.

Comparatively speaking FB IPO'd for $100B in 2012 and had $5.2B in revenue for that fiscal year and also don't forget that it lost about 30% of it's value after IPO before rebounding substantially and their revenue growth and profitability has been world class.

So I'm not looking at Snapchat with a commentary on it's product, but simply from a financial perspective and it's hard to create a story that validates their $40B-50B IPO target that they are most likely shooting for.
Fading French town offers hope of new life for Syrian family
Indeed, bread is a processed food. Would you elaborate on your comment? I can understand it in one of two ways: it's pedantic with nothing more implied; it's implying there's no meaningful distinction between bread and, say, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Doritos, or TV dinners. Or do you mean something else?
Nothing. However there is nothing saying that it's going any other direction either, so I don't think that's worth considering.

Do you contend that Zuckerburg would be running to become emperor for life of the US? I don't think that's a reasonable argument.
Maybe she doesn't get to work 4 days a week? I could see that cutting into their together time on weekdays.
Just to be clear, the guy's talking about Corporate Strategy. And he's correct in a way yet incorrect in others. As he says, secrecy may lead to competitive advantages (e.g. Apple's control of the supply chain meaning advantages in both New Product Development and in Marketing and Sales).

But some companies take advantage of the public's perception of their unpredictability, and foster the perception, e.g. Paddy Power's marketing campaigns, e.g. Ryanair's pricing strategies. Obviously unpredictability for unpredictability's sake - i.e. nonsense manoeuvres - is senseless, but there's not necessarily anything wrong with a perception of unpredictability.
autofill actually annoys me, which is why it's one of the first things i disable when setting up my browser(s)
LastPass has previously had autofill exploits (not with regards to CC though). I would highly recommend disabling auto-fill.