skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Existing forms of social assistance in Western countries often are available to non-citizens and are usually more strongly linked to past payments into the system and/or intention to work and contribute to the system when they can. For obvious practical reasons (a suggested stipend of $10k PPP is well above the median salary internationally) if one destroys the link with work contributions, then numbers must be managed by imposing more onerous restrictions on non-citizens' entitlement to move to a country and claim subsidies higher than they presently earn. And however unjust it might already be, the existing systems that mandates employment for foreigners seeking residency generally aren't built on the concept that it's an affront to dignity to impose work requirements on citizens wanting handouts.

But the wider point is that the "nobody should be forced to suffer the indignity of having to work for their living" rhetoric behind UBI simply doesn't reflect any feasible near-term system that any person has actually proposed, and the "people should not have to work unless they were born elsewhere, in which case their continued labour to produce low cost goods for those who have chosen to become permanent UBI-dependents is fundamental to the system getting close to being affordable" reality is a bit less philosophically appealing.
No need to be needlessly sarcastic.
Data-driven means that you collect various metrics on dev workflow, what slows productivity, or on the product side (user patterns, retention, etc.) and use those when making decisions.
Unfortunately, many companies still base their decisions very simplistic metrics and/or on "instinct".
The Washington Post, one of the three best papers in America (NYT, WSJ, Post), is $50/year if you're a prime subscriber.
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The scientists calculated the contribution of other causes, not only of CO2, and here is how it compares to CO2:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
I think that might be colored by the "culture" of tech workers where you happen to be, that has certainly not been my experience. The smart folks I've met in tech, including the outright geniuses, have been almost universally well-rounded with a strong set of "soft skills" and typically a widely varied set of interests outside of their work specialty. Indeed, I'd describe them as "fully fleshed out human beings", perhaps more so than the average human being in fact. The number of "smart tech workers" I've come across who I would describe as "high-functioning autistic savants" I could count on the fingers of one hand, and even then that description would be a decidedly uncharitable characterization for them.
Yeah as the article says they were only added for object literals in ES5, which is the main place the 'issue' comes up, and where I was making the comparison to Elm. That works in IE > ~7/8? without transpilation.
Valentine week, Agile way to propose a Client
And now script kiddies would be blackmailing prominent beginners: "pay us $1k or we get 25k bots to follow you".
And yet in Melbourne we're possibly going all summer without hitting over 40 degrees.

(Lots of high 30's, but no 40+)
who thought Windows would replace Unix

Windows now runs all the workloads that Sun, SGI, DEC, HP, IBM yadda yadda workstations once ran. I don't remember the last time I saw a real Unix workstation outside my home office where I keep an Octane for nostalgia's sake, and the wife has her old SPARCstation.

But you are right about C and POSIX.
Are you sure about that, I thought ones with Americium were more sensitive? I'm pretty sure you can still get both.

Edit: Seems I'm not right regarding sensitivity, wiki says:

"Ionization detectors are more sensitive to the flaming stage of fires than optical detectors, while optical detectors are more sensitive to fires in the early smouldering stage"

Wow it also says:

"Where an ionizing smoke detector has been the only detector, fires in the early stages have not always been effectively detected."

That's worrying.
maybe because the equivalent of "middle class" is so rare there?
Imagine you are doing procrastination in a structured way. Everything you do will go on to this algorithm before you even do it. So the combined effect of all these might take you to a new direction in life which you intent not to be in.
If you haven't seen it, take a look at elm-sortable-table [0]. It's an example reusable view, written by Evan, that's meant to demonstrate exactly what you're asking about.

[0] https://github.com/evancz/elm-sortable-table
It is common in Germany," too.
I see in the comments there are still some workarounds to this paywall. Good to know. Cheers.

Just a reminder another workaround to the paywall is to you know actually subscribe to the newspaper. That is an option they offer. Obviously not possible for everyone. But if you have the money and want to read and support journalism... WSJ is really far from perfect but it's not the worst newspaper one could be subscribed to.

Also I think their discounted corporate plans program is huge, so depending where you work you may get a discount or it could be free, never hurts to ask.

Also, maybe YC could negotiate some sort of group WSJ discount for Hacker News users above a certain karma count? Just an idea...
Looking at that list, I'm struck by the fact that it includes most of the applications users know they're using, but only a small minority of the processes running on an OS X system.
Another quote mine is "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe the chemist.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...

Examples:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
Interesting, compared to what's common in the automotive industry it doesn't even mention the terms "requirements", "specifications", "estimations", "project plan", "tracability", "UML", etc...
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Containers are to a large extent a solution to an artificial problem. It your app is a single binary file + a single text configuration file with no dependencies apart from system libraries (i.e. libc POSIX) then you don't need a container, you're just a process. Containers are necessary because applications now consist of hundreds of small files with complex inter- and external dependencies.
> It's easy to be a skeptic when there are so many low quality articles like this

It isn't "low quality."

This article reports about the current weather conditions, it was not intended to "prove" anything about the cause of climate change. You expect from the news article something that nobody can give you (understanding of the causes) unless you have the capability and the wish to acquire it.

When the weather conditions reach all-time high, it's news. Especially if it matches the much longer trend.

See my other post here for the links to the graphs with the context.
That all might be true, but I am still not sure the solution is simply being subscribed to a single very credible newspaper. That still means a single editorial line and no ability to share (links to) articles between people. It seems like an artifact of an old medium of distribution. When you had to get a bunch of pages at your doorstep, it made sense to have a single "provider" that bundled the news and analysis for you and decided what you got.

Now a days what we have is: individual journalists/teams that investigate and produce analysis, aggregators like HN or Reddit who point our which content is interesting/relevant and traditional media outlets which mostly serve to vouchsafe to some degree that the content is factual and credible. We can't get rid of the last component because we end up with no way of distinguishing real news from propaganda, disinformation and innuendo, and also because we haven't found a way to directly pay the first group except through the media orgs. A fully centralized system that certified news "accuracy" is the stuff of Orwellian fiction, though, so that's a non-starter. You could have a federated certification system, I suppose, where articles are published by individual journalists and then groups and institutions vouchsafe for the veracity of stories or the record of the journalist (sort of like TLS CAs or a web of trust of journalist peer review), but you still need to come up with a good way to pay all of the parties involved. That said, in principle, I'd rather pay for each individual article, or a monthly fee for access to nearly-all the articles available, than for a subscription to a very specific collection of articles in the way you do now with news subscriptions.
Not poorly written, just it's very easy to forget things, and even very well-written, readable, documented C code usually has memory-related bugs, as long as it's written by fallible humans. Nearly every networked C program in existence has had a buffer overflow CVE at some point - that's simply not possible in Rust.
Great to have a full-featured, professional post-mortem. Incidentally I work at a company that suffered data loss because of this outage and we're looking for ways to move out of GL.

My 2 cents... I might be the only one, but I don't like the way GL handled this case. I understand transparency as a core value and all, but they've gotten a bit too far.

IMHO this level of exposure has far-reaching, privacy implications for the ppl who work there. Implications that cannot be assessed now.

The engineer in question might have not suffered a PTSD, but some other engineer might haven been. Who knows how a bad public experience might play out? It's a fairly small circle, I'm not sure I would like to be part of a company that would expose me in a similar fashion, if I happen to screw up.

On the corporate side of things there is a saying in Greek: "Τα εν οίκω μη εν δήμω" meaning don't wash your dirty linen in public. Although they're getting praised by bloggers and other small-size startups, in the end of the day exposing your 6-layer broken backup policy and other internal flaws in between, while being funded at the tune of 25.62M in 4 rounds, does not look good.
Less sensitivity (or rather, being able to have a higher threshold for sounding the alarm) is actually a good feature for general domestic applications.

You don't really want the thing going off every time someone burns a bit of toast or it just becomes an annoyance, and therefore at risk or being removed or disabled.
> only a small minority of the processes running on an OS X system.

Which are anyway not POSIX.

https://www.amazon.de/MAC-OS-Internals-Amit-Singh/dp/0321278...
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https://github.com/adnanh/rye - simple url-catcher on our slack channel (live at http://rye.hajdarevic.net/) (Using slack outgoing webhooks + https://github.com/adnanh/webhook for catching the webhook and running a simple shell script that parses the slack message and extracts all URLs and then hits rye with curl to store and crawl them)

https://github.com/adnanh/mikro - my personal micro blog that I mainly use to store interesting links (live at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/)

I'm currently working with a friend of mine on an MVP that we plan to offer as a service, and the source code is not open, but the stack is: React (JSX + ES6 + Webpack) + Tachyons for frontend, Ruby (Grape + Sequel) for frontend API, Golang for workers and processing, PostgreSQL as a DB and Redis for caching
An Introduction to Statistical Learning free book is your first way to go here: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
Yeah that's true, I guess personally though I'd rather put up with some false positive alarms from toast etc.
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Quality news shifts to a paid-for model. And that’s a good thing. But…
> there is no way this warm period is caused by global warming because you can't equate local weather to general climate

No. There's no way that some warm or cold period can only be caused by global warming (or that it can disprove it). Since thevformer are extremes at the specific point in time, the later is the trend (averages, compared year-to-year).

But some period can be so extreme that it's a big news if it breaks the records compared to all previous measurements. This is the case this time. If it breaks the records in the direction of the trend, it can point to trend getting even stronger. You won't know if the trend actually got stronger until you make new averages, but it is worrying enough.

To compare with something you know: you drive every day 1 hour between two places. You know that your speed at some specific point in time never gets under some value, for example, you never had to stop. If you stop somewhere and wait 1 minute, it doesn't mean you won't have chance to speed up and still get on time. The average can still be the same. You'll know when you're there. But if you day to day have to wait, first day 1 minute, the next 2 minutes, after some number of days you can know that you can't think "maybe I'll still be on time" when you break the wait "record" of all previous days. Now, the climate is one level above: it's not even how fast is one car but how fast are all cars everywhere, if we speak about the whole Earth climate. That's why the denier claiming "but I feel I drove this small route here faster" (i.e. "it seems warm in my town now," not even comparing the actual historical measuremens) is not disproving "it's warmer every year on the whole planet."

The averages are here:

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/global-temperature-t...
I visited Olongapo a number of times in the late 80s with the US Navy. As the article mentions we had a very large number of Filipinos in the USN and there were whole departments completed dominated by Filipino leadership (at the enlisted level).

It's interesting that as our bases shut down and we left that our cruise lines started picking people up.

I think this article should be a cautionary tail to those who would think that large businesses can be trusted to treat people properly on their own.
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As I alluded to I think the HTML version is less weird because it is close to what you're going to see when you open your browser DevTools. So the JSX/HTML style requires less mental gymnastics overall.

Also there are some things about Elm's DOM style in particular that are especially awkward, compared to other function-style dom creation syntax [0], like the [ ] everywhere.

> The main difference is that the Elm "bracket soup" is just a composition of functions

So is the JSX counterexample I gave, (it de-sugars to function calls), which is why elmx [1] can exist, and seems like an improvement to me.

[0] https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript
[1] https://github.com/pzavolinsky/elmx
I would go Linear algebra, probability/statistics/bayesian reasoning, optimization,

Also, have a look here: https://github.com/off99555/machine-learning-curriculum
> The idea of free access to news is relatively recent

Recent or not, it's an extremely important idea.

That said I agree with others that the real problem might be that no one so far is willing/able to replicate the kiosk model on the web.

Imagine if the only (legal) option to consume a physical newspaper were via subscription. Sounds absurd? It's just as absurd on the web.
This list is a bit scrappy and seems to really only have relevance to Ops staff who work at Gitlab.

I like Gitlab and use it everyday.

I am also really impressed at how open they are with this stuff... Just not sure I need to know how they resolve faults.
^^^ Comment of the day right there. Upvoted.
Thank you. In fact the Quiver data storage seems very easy to work with.
Terrible by what country's standards?
> Go spend some time around people significantly more mentally challenged than yourself...and I think you'll find some things they genuinely enjoy that are just too simple for you...

Speaking as a non-smart person of boringly average IQ, so perhaps I'm inflicted with the myopia of someone without the raw intellectual horsepower of a 2-3 standard deviation smart person. But I do have an insatiable curiosity about the universe: for context, having the capabilities of a Banks'ian Culture Mind would be really neat to me.

My theory is people get bored because they self-select what interests them. That is, out of all inputs pouring in through their senses, their mind too-aggressively prunes the torrent of data, and they're left with a paltry amount, and as a consequence correctly declare that curated trickle as "boring".

Take your example, "watching a single youtube video on repeat dozens of times in a row". On the first pass, the video repeats over and over, what is there to counter that it isn't boring if you remember all the details? But do you really remember all the details, or are you fooling yourself? See if you can predict tiny details of the presentation in the video, for instance. Say you have perfect photographic recall, and you really can recall with perfect precision and clarity every moment of the video. Wouldn't that be sufficient cause to claim it is boring to watch it over and over?

Peel back a layer, and wonder about say, what would have motivated someone in the video to pursue whatever it is that they are displaying in the video. What kind of training would it take to say, balance a spoon on your nose? What kind of time commitment?

Peel back a different layer, and wonder about what specific details the young child is capturing with each pass. Talk with them about if they noticed some detail in the video after a certain viewing pass. Ask them what they like about it, in specifics.

Peel back yet another layer, and wonder about the implication upon cognitive neuroscience research. Are there pleasure hormones that reinforce repetitive learning better than without those hormones? How does that impact our understanding of machine learning?

Once you start looking around you this way, the details you can uncover go recursive and fractal. Lots of old religions and mysticism have expounded upon this way of perceiving the universe. If it helps to visualize in more modern concepts, then I sometimes liken this approach to "playing computer", except pretend the computer is the one that runs the simulation of our reality, and imagining all the details and principles that would get expressed in the simulation "software", right down to the quantum level. There is literally not enough time in the universe for a human mind running on chemical connections to run out of entertaining lines of thought this way.
I sit in a very small half dozen person team in an office and still need to fight non-stop to be told what's going on.
It has a fan. There's no need for more watts to make it hotter.
The H1-B program isn't just about techies. Translators, for example, might not demand a $130,000 salary, yet the top talent will often be foreign.

I'm sure Trump would like SV to form a movement behind this, much like the inroads he's trying to make with various tech leaders. It's just not as simple as looking at one type of worker and calling it a day.

Any changes to such a policy would need to be properly vetted across all industries.
I still think it is pretty good for following interesting people. I have signed off from Facebook because I kept getting drawn into useless political discussions. That happens on Twitter, too, but it doesn't lend itself to neverending arguments in the same way. And it is easier to follow a diverse crowd of people.
Totally agree, the authors seem to be missing the point that these libraries are a new layer between the posix api's and the end result which is typically a GUI application. The fact these libraries also bring a walled garden to the table which bypass the posix api's also demonstrate how security is being bypassed.
Plus with the analysis only featuring the 3 os's Android, OS X and Ubuntu, they would have noticed that Windows OS's pretty much mirror what POSIX does as well.

1 "usage is driven by high-level frameworks, which impacts POSIX’s portability goals.", that's the libraries/frameworks fault, plus have they heard of GCC? It works on many OS's.

2 "extension APIs, namely ioctl, dominate modern POSIX usage patterns as OS developers
increasingly use them to build support for abstractions missing from the POSIX standard" Perhaps they have missed the point, that without the POSIX standard these extensions would not exist in the first place. They might just complain about procedural coding practices being outdated when comparing to OOP coding practices, even though OOP brings slow bloat to the table as well. Perhaps a better question to ask is, why has a framework/library got some functionality which could have used some of the POSIX api's but didn't? Was it expedient to keep it within the framework/library and bypass the Posix API's altogether?

3."new abstractions are arising, driven by the same POSIX limitations across the three OSes, but the new abstractions are not converging." So abstractions are a new name for libraries and framework and not the concept like OOP coding is an abstraction. Perhaps complaining to the authors of libraries and frameworks that don't port would be better?
POSIX is like a foundation that allows creativity to take place. This is why we see the differences in libs/frameworks, different OS's have different parameters, different design ethos or objectives. Even in Windows, some API's are used more frequently than others, for example I cant remember when I last used the API's involved in getting a dial up modem to work, or using API's to print direct to a dot matrix printer. This paper just seems to be an analysis of API's not used as frequently as they used to be, sometimes because libraries/frameworks have rightly or wrongly replaced them for a myriad of reasons.

Qudos to them for downloading so many apps and analysing them though. Just what you need if you are looking for backdoors en-masse or exploitable bugs.
Yup, there are quite a few.

Steam functions as the main one for the HTC Vive - obviously it's focused on games but also offers non-game utilities.

Vive has Viveport, although I honestly don't know how well that's doing.

And Oculus has Oculus Home: ditto.

I believe that GearVR has its own store too. Daydream does as well, but it's not accessible to most developers yet.
That's a gross generalization. Plenty of unique overseas talent could not be utilized at $100k minimum. Translators, for example.
This. Has been my solution for most "major news outlets with paywall" in German for quite some time now. It has a couple of English papers as well (could be better, though).

You can even get your money back when reading accidentally (guess that doesn't work 10 times in a row, but it's a good feature).
> I'd say no and this is why rules restricting how powerful the vacuum cleaner can be is stupid.

I agree that strict limits on vacuum energy use are overreaching a bit, but it has had good results. People wrongly believe that energy use = suction power.

Before the limits, vacuums were advertised on how much power they use. All manufacturers had to do was to put in an inefficient motor, and stamp "wastes even more watts" on the box.

After the limit, I now see vacuums advertised with some standardised "cleaning performance score" on carpet and hardwood, and airflow per minute. Hopefully this means that manufacturers will focus on (advertising) metrics that more closely match the actual purpose of vacuums.

Now the same result could probably have been achieved with just the advertising rules. And energy efficiency & environmental goals could be achieved with pollution tax on electricity and everyone making their own decisions on energy-efficient devices. But that's a much more complicated political move, with a lot of people opposed to it.
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