skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see why there's no direct integration -- isn't it better for a company to ask permission for your data before using it? Like how if you want to sign up for a website through Facebook or Google, they ask first.
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Seriously? That leading photo is like the "Worst. Photoshop. Job. Evarrr!!!111"
why not use AWS Maintenance windows for this?
Just do it.

Can you save up $5k? Then you can live for a year in some parts of the world and work remotely :-).

If you fail, you would have traveled at least.
I was wondering if you have a public policy in place which outlines what would happen in the event of a Parse-like shutdown or other end-of-company-life event occurring?

I ask in the hopes that it won't be taken as too negative a question but your company is VC-backed in the database space and we've lost a few too many of those this last year.
Surely there's a free implementation of COBOL around?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL
No one writes in formal way on a discussion board. Which statement in particular you personally do not like?
List of problems and their solutions in C++
Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Snap are the new Hollywood.
Improving account security with delegated recovery
People who were displaced out of agriculture didn't necessarily go get factory jobs either. The industrial revolution was massively disruptive socially, and a lot of people didn't come through fine. A lot of them drank themselves to death, much like the opioid crisis today. It was their children who adapted to a new economy.

> So back to the question: What does that person do? How do they feed and house their family?

We need to build the political will to take care of them through guaranteed basic income or equivalent. And even if we do some of them will still drink themselves to death anyway, because they see welfare as shameful.
We would all go crazy trying to report all the bugs we found in every piece of software out there these days. When there are too many or something is too difficult to use, you move on. To a large extent, finding bugs is the responsibility of the developers. When users submit bug reports, good ones at least, they should be thanked. My point is, as a developer, you can't blame the users for not reporting bugs.
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Sick but Not Sick
You realize they do have quite a bit of revenue via yahoo right?
The value is not in the information itself, but in the personal use copyright license attached to the physical medium of the book. A similar demonstration using one of L. Frank Baum's Oz books--which are no longer protected by copyright, yet still available in printed form--would reveal that the book publisher must be able to purchase paper, ink, covers, and binding glue at significantly less than your retail price. Also, the printed information found therein can be digitally copied to an e-reader device at very close to zero cost.

The limited-supply good is the copyright license, not the information. The natural value of the digital information is zero, and it is still possible to sell value added services such as printing and binding for a sufficiently popular work.

The real question is for how long should the copyright privilege--and its arbitrarily set licensing costs--be extended?

(A DVD full of ones might be worth more than a movie DVD, and is definitely worth more than a DVD full of zeroes, if it is actually a blank writable disc. The zeroed-out disc might still be of some use as a diffraction grating or drink coaster.)
Listen to Daedalus and then check out the project he has with Jazz Quartet 'Kneebody' called 'kneedlus' or 'kneedless'

He plays a kind of live improvisational electronic music.
...but as yet, nobody has been able to procedurally generate one convincing block of a city street seen at ground level...

I'm wondering if technology might also make it much easier to shoot on location. For example, given modern digital camera systems it might be possible to shoot in low-light conditions (late in the day, overcast, etc.) and correct the lighting in post to appear like broad daylight. I've also wondered if it would be possible to shoot in 3d (i.e. using 2 cameras in a parallax setup) then use the 3d data to selectively remove foreground or background parts of the image which can then be replaced with CGI. So we can continue to use the real world to provide detail, while using CGI just for the parts that give us the most bang for the buck.
dylanfw showed you a flaw in your facts. Sartre and Camus were in fact philosophers by any reasonable definition of the word.

Or rather, dylanfw claimed a flaw in your "facts". But your claim - that they were not philosophers - was just a claim, with no supporting reason given. It can be dismissed just as easily (and with more justice).

And, dylanfw said "... with no supporting argument". He/she can'd dismiss your logic because there is no logic - just some dogmatic claims, with no support whatsoever.

> Arguably, with Hegel, at least in the west, the term philosophy lost any meaning and became mere abstract speculations, similar to theology.

With Hegel, philosophy became irrational. For a good explanation, see "Escape From Reason" by Francis Schaeffer.

> Fortunately, there is Eastern philosophy too.

You think that Eastern philosophy isn't abstract speculation, similar to theology? Why?
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> either you pay for the DVD-with-unskippable-ads

Blu-Ray seems to have avoided this slide into the adware sewer so far, which surprises me a bit. Maybe there's language prohibiting it in the spec, I dunno. They're not significantly more expensive than DVDs any more, either.

Unfortunately the content industry seems to be winning the war on ripping for BDs, so I've had to stop buying them for the time being.
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This isn't a gameboy. If you want toy security I can sell you a phone painted black. But if you want to stay alive when the Syrian police are hunting your people you might want to rethink that.

I know people click through warnings. If that warning could keep them alive, as a dev I'd better do something that'll get their attention.

Also, if they only softly bricked these phones the counterfeiters would just click-through the warnings and sell the phones that way. They have to essentially burn them, for the safety of people who need to be their customers.
Not only the BASIC programs you wrote (which do indeed live in VDP RAM). The BASIC interpreter itself was stored in GROM, which was read-only but had a similar slow 8-bit interface with an address port and a data port on it, and written in GPL bytecode which was then interpreted by a GPL interpreter which lived in real ROM.

If they'd written the BASIC interpreter in actual machine code and put it in ROM then your BASIC programs (and the interpreter's own volatile data) could still have lived in VDP RAM, but everything would have been rather faster...

http://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/gpl.htm is a detailed description of what GPL looks like.
Having just read Myth of Sisyphus, the first 3rd is essentially dedicated to the idea of suicide and how to process that choice in the face of "meaning".
The unfortunate bit is that it is done against the better judgement of consumers and is only sustainable because of monopolistic behaviour.
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I see what you're saying, but in this case it's hard for me to see how Trump is "under the hood". DHS is doing what they've been told to do. There are reports that in response to questions to why they're doing what they're doing, border security have been explained it's because of the Executive Order. Using your analogy, you might as well blame all US citizens. I don't think that'd be fair, either.
hmm, that is the opposite of my experience. My mom has an original fitbit and me and my wife have the fitbit charge HRs. I actually thought when I read the title that it was due to lack of demand as everyone I know has one and sees no reason to get a newer one.
That's right! The government could potentially misuse the certificate and because the root cert is trusted people would not know they are on an insecure or malicious website.
Of course, but there are no free Mainframes around.
I wish they used an example in which the history of how the decision is made is relevant. In this case, how you found the new pizza place is unimportant. You find it. You go. If you like it you go back. If you don't like it you do another search and skip over this place.

If you wanted to track which articles you read on a site and which you didn't, maybe this type of interface would be useful, but that is what :visited and :active are for.

(By the way, does anyone else think Hacker News should properly implement :active with a different color than :visited so that you can tell what article you just read if you wanted to jump to the comments or look at the next article in line?)
You can always call 311 and report a bad cab driver in Chicago. Your information will be taken down and you will receive a call back asking about the incident.

I've done this several times. I do not know if there were any actual repercussions for the drivers but in talking to cab drivers they seem to believe there will be. This is almost exactly the same as the uber/lyft model except the uber/lyft model put that feedback mechanism front and center.
Imagine performing a molecular dynamics simulation. Your simulation occurs in a 3D box, and if you visualize it, it looks three dimensional, but the way the information processing works is that you have a list of atom coordinates stored next to each other in one dimensional RAM.

It's kind of the same thing with the holographic idea. Information locality is 2D (information is "near" other information as if it were on a two dimensional plane), but our perception is that of a 3D universe.

(Standard disclaimer about loose analogies not reproducing mathematical equations...)
https://github.com/ellzey/libevhtp

Not sure how "small" it is. Seems like a significant work to me, worth some appreciation, including a financial one.
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Since you asked...

If you can model your data flow as pipelines that run when their inputs update, you might interested in Pachyderm (https://www.pachyderm.io/). This uses Kubernetes and Docker images to run multi-stage computations. It's still a bit rough around the edges. (I wouldn't recommend the current version if you work with multi-gigabyte binary input files, though they're currently working on fixing an issue affecting that use case.) They do have some examples (http://pachyderm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/readme.ht...), including one using TensorFlow.

We're experimenting with Pachyderm at work, and the design feels "right" for our use case.
A bit late, but hopefully still helpful.

The main insight here is that people don't need more software. There are a lot of people out there that can validate whether your product is cool, or provides something that nobody else does, or that there is a pain point they're currently working around. But especially in B2B, most people aren't in the business of buying software.

To get around this, you need to paint the picture of what life will be like after they've bought your software. With good products, this can be as easy as explaining it to them, then helping them rally the support to sign the $25,000 check to purchase the software. With less good products, this can mean doing providing real, actionable advice that the software sort of supports.

I'll give you an example. I used to sell performance monitoring software: think of New Relic or Datadog, but better for distributed environments. This is pretty crucial for bigger teams, as performance problems tend to cross ownership boundaries. Most engineers believe that performance is important. However, it is not easy to convince any given engineer to make performance their crusade, especially their crusade across multiple teams. So not only do they have to be convinced the product is easy to set up and maintain (a good onboarding flow in product can do most of this for you), but you also need to educate them on how to sell this to their boss and how to evangelize this to other teams. Or go evangelize for them. Our best customers had one person who was fired up about what we did, but a lot of their help was to point us to the right 5 people in their organization that might also care about performance.

Freemium helps here, but if the main problem is "getting my coworkers to care sounds hard", freemium and frictionless signup will never be the answer. So you need to sell the product, even if it's something the organization desperately needs.
I look forward to the day when people can criticize a product for churning an API twice in one year without receiving the obligatory "if you don't like it, don't use it" cliché remark.

Improvement or not, to buy into a product that has churned twice in one year is a bad investment and for those who are lucky enough to not be caught in the middle - should be warned.

edit: I've used V4 and it's a vast improvement, but I stand by my remark.
Ask HN: How to begin learning .NET Core?
I am a Ruby dev. I only have one computer I can use for coding, a MacBook. I want to learn .NET Core to the point where I can do everything I currently do in Rails in .NET.

I'm having more trouble with the initial setup of the environment than I expected. I have been flailing about with Visual Studio for Mac and the .NET CLI suite for about a week now to no avail. I understand that VS for Mac is not fully ready for ASP.NET development, but things are improving. There is another editor called VS Code, and some CLI tools available, but at this point, no one tool or combination of tools seems to provide a complete dev environment on a Mac.

I am trying to get started as soon as possible for free on the equipment I have. I don't want to buy a whole 'nother machine for this. Has anyone had luck with coding .NET a VM? How about online classes to help with setup? Or should I just give it a few months and try again? What do you think?
Yikes, I just picked up a FB Charge 2. I like it so far. Disappointing to hear that it may fail prematurely.
I went through 3 charges in 13 months - two had the band delaminate and split, one bricked during a firmware upgrade.

Warranty replacement was fine in that first 12 months, just a week or two to get the replacement. The final one they just offered a discount on a new purchase. At this rate it's more like you are leasing their band a year at a time. I'm done.
Because games are more like art than products, so we give credit in a similar fashion to books, movies, tv, etc. The same way we don't say Penguin Books created Moby Dick. Or Valve created Braid.

Even then it would be a poor journalist that wrote "Steve jobs creator of the iPhone." Jobs should be credited as the CEO of Apple. I won't even go into the larger issue of how keeping credit away from engineers was probably part of Job's anti-worker philosophies, some of which were made famous during the release of the "poaching" emails. Jobs probably didn't want to create more celebrity engineers and product managers like Andy Hertzfeld or Steve Wozniak who could challenge him and became thorns in his side.

>Toru Iwatani

As a side note, Toru really seemed to relish his new found celebrity in the 80s and seems overall like a fun goofball. If bored, you can do a lot worse than reading stories about him or doing a google image search for all the cheesy promotional photos he took in the 80s.

Interestingly enough, he was looking to create a casual game, especially one aimed at women:

INTERVIEWER: What was the thinking behind the design of Pac Man?

IWATANI: First of all, the kanji word “taberu,” to eat, came to mind. Game design, you see, often begins with words. I started playing with the word, making sketches in my notebook. All the computer games available at the time were of the violent type–war games and space invader types. There were no games that everyone could enjoy, and especially none for women. I wanted to come up with a “comical” game women could enjoy.

The story I like to tell about the origin of Pac Man is that one lunch time I was quite hungry and I ordered a whole pizza. I helped myself to a wedge and what was left was the idea for the Pac Man shape.

https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/toru-iwatani-1986-pa...
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The analogy no one wants to state in public (because its partially wrong) is holography is like Fourier transforms or x-ray crystallography.

Today everyone is very chill with using FT to convert say a pile of voltage and time measurements into frequency/phase and power, and back again, and manipulate either side to see how the other side wiggles in response. This is all basic EE stuff this is how your DSP or software defined radio works (well, not exactly but close enough)

Photo negative human scale holograms use monochromatic light to store all kinds of interference pattern stuff into splotches of black and white. If we were (are?) smart enough we could print out something on photo paper and shine a laser on it and a hologram would appear.

Another analogy which is pretty decent is its like x-ray crystallography where about half a century ago a popular use of computers was to take a crystalline material and shine xrays thru it making a very modern art ish looking photo of holographic interference patterns (sorta) which would be analyzed by a computer to reverse the transform and turn it back into a 3-d model of the atoms in the crystal.

So a lot of this is almost cryptographic hash like in that flipping a couple bits on one side almost always results in a huge change on the other side.

So if instead of talking about atoms you take a film and laser hologram of two coffee cups the splotchy hologram film doesn't really have a concept anymore of two coffee cups next to each other, you can't point to a splotch and say thats the cup on the left. You definitely can't slice the film in half and project each and expect one cup on each half, probably you'll have two holograms each with two coffee cups and 3 dB or so worse signal to noise ratio.

Badly mixing analogies its like running a crypto algo on 2 bytes of data and asking where exactly the two bytes are in the output. Well, um, if the crypto algo is anything better than ROT13 they're both kinda smeared everywhere across the output of the algo.

Really badly mixing analogies its like taking a .scad file storing a 3d object (or stl or cad program of your choice) and encoding it into one of those legacy 2-D QR codes and then asking where in the QR code can you see your 3-d object ...

The whole point of this is we kinda sorta have a 2-d holographic picture of the cosmic background radiation sorta. Its a very distinct picture. So whatever crazy simulations we try, we'd best make sure if you hologram-ify the cosmic background radiation, it best look similar to what our telescope have already seen. Kind of like stellar astrophysics isn't just making stuff up, your theories better match what spectrum analysis of star light often actually looks like, if your nifty stellar astrophysics theory predicts Sirius is a red giant or a black hole or something then your theory is messed up because we have lots of data about the real Sirius as opposed to theoretical models.
meanwhile I'm still in love with my perfectly working apple watch (1st gen). There was (and is) laughter about the topic and apple doing it, but really, this $300 device integrated in my daily life to the point of missing it when not wearing.

Plus, it is way more than "just" a fitness wearable. Where I live (northern germany) I see more and more people silently migrating to one, it is even impossible to get a watch at any local retailer now, sold out everywhere.
> How does the medium or your ability to copy it change the fact that my cat needs to eat, and in lieu of getting paid for my writing so I can feed him, I'll need to do something other than write?

It doesn't. But "you need to get paid" != "I need to pay you for the copy of your work". It's only a possible implication. One that we accept in physical world, but that doesn't work well for digital one - hence my point about finding some other way in which you get your money for writing, without me having to explicitly pay for a copy of your e-book.
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You say that... But have you compared the quality of youtube videos today to those from 10 years ago? The quality of writing, effects, and production have escalated sharply, even when done by a single person.

Youtube is unlikely to disrupt Hollywood, due to it's format (video shorts), but it makes it clear that there's potential for someone else to step in and fill the gaps.
$5K seems immensely optimistic for a year, even if you exclude airfare. Do you have any links/blogs where people were able to pull that off?
Plenty of millennial in the target audience of this website are doing A-OK and are perfectly able to invest, though perhaps not afford a house in Silicon Valley.
How electrifying the air in parking garages could clean our cities
That's because people outside the bay area don't care about the distinction. People don't generally differentiate between Boston and Cambridge either. Is that sloppy? I'd say it's just understood that references to a city are often, maybe usually, referring to the surrounding region as well.
In Latin America, women code a better future
I don't intend this in a mean way, but has your girlfriend went to the doctor about narcolepsy?
For example, there was some updates to understanding in article studied yesterday and last week: http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2016844
"Those are some nice pictures you got there. It'd be a real shame if I started a useless argument just to prove how right I am rather than simply enjoy them."

- HackerNews
Yes when all the assumptions that hold in theory are in place, in reality I wonder.

"Markets are never in equilibrium, thus don’t be fooled by prices, but consider quantities: The short side exerts power."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/shifting-from-central-planning-...

In this situation none of the tenants hold. Information is not perfect, it's not a free market as only certain channels can provide the IP, prices are fluid.

For the balancing of supply and demand supply would have to be finite. In a digital world it is in practice infinite.

None of this guff works in the real world. Time to put all our econ 101 books onto a big boat, push it out to sea with a burning torch.
Anecdotally, I've seen a steadily decreasing stream of posts on Snapchat stories and a steadily increasing stream of posts on the equivalent IG feature.
TI-98? No such thing as far as I know.

The TI-89, now. That is a calculator. Also a significantly more capable machine in virtually every respect.
It doesn't claim to be "journalism." This was published on Medium, which is pretty clearly for essays and opinions. I'll grant you that some of the speculation is pretty far out there (like the Rosneft sale being tied to Trump). But the author is trying to put together a cohesive theory that might explain the chaotic moves being taken by the new US executive branch. If you want to disagree with the theory, point out where it's faulty. But claiming it's "not real journalism" is a non sequitur -- it was never intended to be a reporting of the facts.
sorry force of habit it should have been http://www.nubank.io
>then you should do that for two reasons:
>1) He's the original founder and should be respected out of courtesy.
>2) He just gave you an amazing opportunity to not worry, so take it.

I don't have anything against the AGPL, but it seems like you're just saying "The AGPL isn't a problem because RethinkDB's founders are nice smart people". And then you explain how it's a great thing that a project yours is using a less-restrictive license like the AGPL critics are hoping for.