skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That certainly make sense. I had a similar idea about the reason behind it: The local residents don't want people parking in their neighborhood. Every BART station I've been to gets filled to max capacity during commute hours. On top of that, the hours are limited so overnight is impossible, but that could be done in a residential area. Businesses around the stations have to put up signs saying no BART parking allowed (how is this enforced?). The people that live nearby wouldn't want people parking for weeks for free on the streets outside their homes. I know this is illegal and they could be towed, but I wouldn't doubt this is involved in the planning.
Unfortunately the ultimate rebalancer of wealth historically has been revolution and war. It's why the descendants of Roman plutocrats don't own the world now.

The Early Roman Republic made a distinction between Patricians (aristocrats) and Plebeians (commoners). The former were very wealthy while the latter were definitely not. By the time of the late Republic and the Roman Empire, this distinction was entirely meaningless - there were rich and poor of both of these hereditary classes.

Revolution, by definition, excludes reforming an existing system which is what happened to the Republic. Arguably, the Patricians relented to the Plebeian demands because they needed soldiers to fight in wars. However, usually when one refers to redistribution of wealth through war, one usually talks about victors taking the wealth of the losers.
I also found it very entertaining. But, that might just be my whiskey, err, Scotch.
If you had had your savings in the market in 2008 and didn't sell it, it would still be worth more now. Moreover if you were investing regularly then you would have been buying the super cheap stocks available in 2009.
Depending on the author's dev practices, the script might have been in a volume so that editing it on the host would allow the container to receive the changes as they get saved. While I wouldn't normally suggest this approach, it can be handy at times.
> Just because there are things we can't measure from inside this universe doesn't mean that those things aren't deterministic.

There is no reason to believe that non-local hidden variables are the reason for the probabilistic nature of QM.

Many worlds is another classic interpretation that works.
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How was MIT complicit?

When they involved the police, they had no idea who it was that was apparently attacking them. They just knew that an unknown party was causing serious disruptions, and was actively trying to evade their countermeasures, and had moved on to trespassing and equipment tampering.

It was only after Swartz was arrested that his identity became known.

Everything after that was in the hands of prosecutors. MIT did tell prosecutors that MIT did not advocate jail time for Swartz.
I once saw a 3.60 on eBay, but was outbid before I could confirm shipping. Not just any transport company is certified for Baltovskys - and just remember never even to breathe any hint that it might be a used one that could be a bit out of tune.

That was the last I saw on the public market. I think it's just a matter of the carriage insurance - it's just not worth it.

I've heard you can fake one up with a modified Verona cavity and a good capacitor, though. Have you tried that route?
That seems to suggest that 27% or roughly 1 in 4 Americans cite not having enough money to invest in the stock market. To be clear that is different from saving money or returning it to real estate investments or into a family business. I'd say that falls in line with expectations given unemployment rates and median wage vs cost of living statistics nationwide.
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The author makes it clear at the end of the article. The claim that PHP is "beginner friendly" is bogus now because any serious development in PHP is full blown enterprisey software engineering.
Please use the funds to implement support for the last two generations of Intel integrated graphics chipsets.

Currently, FreeBSD supports neither Broadwell or Skylake and they're probably the most common chipsets used in laptops. source https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

I would be running FreeBSD on my Dells right now if I could.
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I only have one response to this: WTF.
When I'm web browsing, I never take my hand off the trackpad. I have a suite of custom gestures set up for tab management etc that mean that most of the time I'm not even moving the cursor.
Great comment. What do you think can be done to cope with this? Maybe empathy and emotions can be learned?
Why not? Make "having taken these drugs in the past and tested positive for them in your system" a crime.

Then just systematically lock all addicts up and ship them off to freshly constructed prisons in Alaska.
What's going to happen to the universe if it breaks these "laws"? Is someone going to give it a ticket?

And why would the universe need to conform to what makes sense to us small-brained monkeys?
So why give them the choice in the first place?
Again.

Yes, "it jumped the shark when the pizza slice showed up". However, that doesn't imply that it did everything wrong. The notion of multi-codepoint characters is necessary to handle other languages. that is a solved problem, it's just that programmers mess up when dealing with it. Emoji may be a mistake, but the underlying "problems" caused by emoji existed anyway, and they're not really problems, just programmers being stupid.

We had multiple per-language encodings. It sucked.
Honestly, I'm not too impressed by the React/ES6 ecosystem either. I've built a little toy app in it, but I'm not seeing the awesomeness that people claim is there. As for what to do now, it depends on what your goal is.

If you just want to get a webapp working, I suggest going with Angular 1.x. It isn't super cool and trendy, but it's well-documented and battle-tested. It's very popular with enterprise shops, which you could say are the ones who don't care about how trendy the framework is and just want to get stuff done. Compared to the React ecosystem, it's pretty all-in-one - most of the core functionality you could want is in the main libraries, and setting up add-ons is easy. You don't need 50 different accessories and half-baked languages just to get hello world working. Javascript ES2015 isn't perfect, but its warts are well-known and well-documented, and it's supported everywhere.

If you're really determined to learn React and build something in it, you need to back off of what you're working on now and try another route. Maybe do something non-programming for a day or two and come back to it. Try something simpler with fewer helper accessories, or try a different starter kit. Maybe try using Webpack to build it instead of whatever else you're using? It isn't the simplest, but once you learn the basics, you should have a better handle on how your code comes together into the final js that the browser actually runs.
And to just pile on with this comment, "run everywhere" means much more than it ever did.

This isn't just the big 3 desktop OS's, but laptops, tablets, phones, TV's, game consoles, car navigation units, hell my goddamn watch can run websites now! X86, ARM, SPARC, PPC, it doesn't matter.

And on most of those platforms, you have more than one choice of browser.

It's a level of cross-platform that really only simple C programs can even begin to reach. And it's not exactly simple to setup that environment from scratch either.
And you can left click and middle click the maximize button on a window title bar to maximize it on the vertical and horizontal axises only. Combined with edge snapping making it easy to move a window on only one axis at that point, you can set up a few column tiles that way very easily.

Funny memory: I've been a KDE developer for 12 or 13 years. I think one of my first patches ever was a fix for the window manager to restore to correct window geometry when cancelling a partially maximized state using the restore action. A friend of mine was using the above feature to set up tiled text editors and I wanted to fix it for him.
> It's about the next person who downloads too much free stuff doing it emboldened by the thought that MIT will have their back when the feds come knocking.

Aaron Swartz was not an MIT affiliate, alum, faculty, or student. MIT had no obligation to "have [his] back" for violating MIT network policy and federal law.
This comment seems to be begging the question by tacitly comparing people who are already of similar intelligence. Most people don't even "approach problems", ever, in their lives.
I propose getting rid of tools altogether. On a new project, start with the following: a single browser (for bonus, choose the mobile version) and vanilla everything (JS, CSS and HTML). If you need a build step to run your tests or your code, you have gone too far.

Every thing you will ultimately need a build pipeline for is an optimization (bundling, subjectively cleaner code etc). I have found that if you get too hung up on optimizations before you have built something interesting, you have let the tools run away with your project. This is an easy way to lose motivation and become distracted from what you set out to do in the first place.
Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?
Developers have done some amazing things with JS, but I think everyone can agree its not the most elegant language.

I understand we are where we are because the its the only language supported by browsers. But will we ever move away from it?

Could Google or Mozilla build support for another language into their browsers while developers gradually move away from JS?

Will developers be open to alternatives? Will we finally standardize on a simpler set of tools and frameworks?

Does WebAssembly solve this? Is TypeScript good enough?
Completely agree that the market should not be where you put all of your money without having liquid reserves. I'm not advocating that.

Howerver as a long-term (> 10 yrs) strategy and assuming you also keep a pool of capital in a checking and savings account ETF's are the way to go if you just want to fire and forget.
> Should we prefer articles written by people who are clueless in the area they're writing about?

You're strawmaning here. It's an advertisement masquerading as an article to skirt HN guidelines.
But the ETF isn't going to distinguish between day-traders and long-term holders. In particular, Gemini's price was also in the $1300s before the news, and dropped significantly. If Gemini was giving the hodlers' price, that would be different.

If a handful of people trying to spike the price and trade off the news can cause BTC-USD to be 30% more than what it "should" be (i.e., what the price would be in a high-information, high-liquidity, low-shenanigans market), then the SEC is absolutely correct to say that the ETF is too wild to be approvable at present.

For comparison, on June 24 (Brexit), GBP-USD fell from about $1.50 to about $1.35, a 10% drop, and that was (IMO) much more significant news about the long-term future of the pound.
With Lantern, you don't need to worry about “The Wall”
Do they own 80% of the value because they're the richest 10% or are they the richest 10% because they own 80% of the value?
You're not forced into using Webpack with Vue though. You can go with the good ol' setup that looks like this: https://github.com/vuejs-templates/simple/blob/master/templa...
We could get into a long discussion about Kubrick's attempts to communicate in a uniquely cinematic way, but in the specific context of 2001:

Why would you expect the first direct human encounter with an interstellar intelligence to make sense?
Here is how residential parking works in such cases: posted limits like 2 or 3 hours parking, local residents get stickers to their cars exempting them from limit. That's all.
$30,000 a year

"poverty"

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p...

"more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day."
I just don't use any tooling and/or needless abstraction. It's not necessary at all, just like it was not 6 years ago. I write ES5-only code if I need to target IE9+.

I still don't get the appeal of virtual dom. Browsers already have DOM, why use another crippled parallel one? It can only cause trouble and increase cognitive load when trying to do anything fancier.

I understand the value of having state in one place and being able to call some function to update the UI to match the state. But that is a separate concept from virtual DOM.

You can do a lot of useful stuff with real DOM, actually leveraging the power of prototypical nature of Javascript. Store your own data in it, add your own methods, etc.

I don't get much JS fatigue. Perhaps because I'm working in a bubble and don't feel the pressure to adopt the latest tech quickly.

Recently I had to extend fairly complex HTML-only web app that I wrote 11 years ago for a client, and it was quite fun. It's sort of nice to see that, while it's fun to write SPAs and everything, there are still ways to write web apps without a single line of JS.
The achiles heel for voice-driven UI though is there is no silent mode. Don't you therefor have to create both a GUI and a VUI?
The Mars company historically were big on automation and vending machines, in the pre-computer era Mars were the big player in this business. I think that a lot of that expertise must have been gained on the factory production hardware before the other business came along, i.e. the vending machines and the global export opportunities for such hardware, able to do such things as reliably dispense a packet of crisps.

Once Mars and co mastered the art of automation then anything became possible. I think this was a different thing to 'mass production' as that had gone on for a long time before Ford in UK food manufacturing, e.g. biscuits in Reading.
While reading i was thinking "..but that all makes sense for any project that's larger than a few hundred lines.." and thought the author was just ignorant and needlessly cynical.

But at the end of the article, he makes a good point:

Disputes like “Why do I need PHP if there’s Java?” have become more frequent nowadays. I don’t know who’s in the right, Holly Wars are tricky. But each dispute has an argument in favor of PHP — it’s easy for beginners. To my mind, this argument isn’t valid anymore, which is exactly what I was trying to say in this article.

The notion of PHP as a beginner-friendly language has in my opinion been a harmful one for a while now. There are still people writing old school PHP apps, and there is the (mildly displeasing) wordpress ecosystem. But for anything serious, Symfony is invaluable. And the gap between old school PHP to modern PHP is almost the same as the one between old school PHP and Java/Spring/Hibernate, which is kind of what Symfony/Doctrine is cloning anyway. Plus if you do Java, you don't get the stigma of being in the same category as a professional wordpress template tweaker.
Thank you for this, it resonated quite well in me.
You have a personality disorder. Please see a psychiatrist.
>and they're still technically legal.

So why not outlaw "any substance which is not already regulated which has _this_ effect on _that_ part of the human brain".

Then no matter how anyone tweaks the formula if it has analogous effect it's already illegal. Or switch from default allow mode to default prohibit mode.
Yes and I live in Melbourne, where daylight saving was adopted in August, despite the event being held hundreds of kms away.
As with everything in life, context matters.
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Mid 30's. Also you really don't know what you are talking about. If you bought nearly anything after Nov 21st 2008 and held, you'd be way in the green since then.

Let me give you a even more conservative example. SPY which tracks the S&P and it is very conservative (in terms of stocks), is up 151% since Nov 21st 2008 way above pre-2008 levels. Not to mention all those beautiful dividend payments you received.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=0&...
A challenge with poverty rates in the US is that they often essentially proxy for "what proportion of the population recently immigrated from low-wage countries"; immigration from e.g. Mexico to the US often causes the poverty rate in both countries to rise and every actual human to be better off. California has ~10 million immigrants; many of them arrived rather recently.

(I think this is a variation on Simpson's paradox.)
There is something very important missing - the SPM poverty measure is relative poverty, not absolute. All this means is that CA has many rich people.
When my GF tells me I'm really clever I just say "not really, I have a good memory and read a lot."

I'm not proud of my intelligence, why would I be? (much of it) is determined by genetics and the environment you grew up in and I had little control over either of those.

I also point out she is the one who speaks 3 languages fluently, has a degree in finance and qualified as a shipbroker, I just explain things really slowly and simply to a very fast idiot for a living.
A lot of posts on this thread about js library fatigue are advocating for... more libraries. Go figure. :) I advocate the opppsite: use as few tools as possible, until you realize why a tool is necessary.

With my current project, I started off with just Backbone and Typscript. Eventually, after hitting a few walls, I was like "ah, that's why React is necessary over Backbone". Then I realized why Redux was necessary. Then immutable. Then webpack. Each of these little revelations coming a month or two apart.

The problem with instantly installing every dev requirement you think you might need is that you may not actually need as many as you think, and then you're burdened with unnecessary complexity. Along with, of course, the pain of learning and dealing with the intricacies of getting dependency each set up. Depending on the size of your project, Redux may not be necessary. Nor immutable, etc. But you won't know if they are necessary until you understand them, and that only comes after using them or feeling the pain of not using them.

The only tool I believe is truly necessary for any web project is TypeScript. I could write a small novel on why, but the crucial reason here is that it enables you to do all the above refactoring with ease. Refactoring vanilla js is a nightmare.
Americans waste enough food to end world hunger

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35884-on-the-news-with-th...
http://reddit.com/r/starterpacks/ ... reduces entire cultures and sub-cultures to one pithy image. Some memes just pass over your head and this is a great way to get yourself familiarised with the context those memes operate in.
I don't know if that is possible these days though. Ideas even from (relatively unknown) insiders are often termed "lacking in scope" and outright rejected. I can only think of one outsider having accomplished anything of value in math in the past 20 years (and even that guy wasn't really an outsider).

Academia has turned into a social game that is painful, and where the rewards are terrible (unless you're in CS I suppose). I think post-WW II has solidified the cult-like feeling of place, and also the increased the number of kooks. This contrasts starkly with the PR that is put out: hermits seeking truth.

It's generally hard to put this point across, since most people don't see the ground details, and the whistle-blower costs are rather high. I've previously found posts by Mark Tarver (creator of Shen) on c.l.l and on his blog to be informative, though.

Life, I fear, is no different than lord of the flies, except that the characters are rather a bit more polite.
why do you care if you accomplish something noteworthy?
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You seem to have a fixation on the idea of genius. You are susceptible to momentarily convincing yourself​ that you're a genius, which is followed by feelings of inadequacy. Why don't you try to put this genius idea out of your head? Convince yourself that you are probably not a genius, but that's ok because you do your best. You may have to grieve for a bit as the loss of your genius fantasy sinks in. If you feel a sense of loss, then it is definitely gone.
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> immigration from e.g. Mexico to the US often causes the poverty rate in both countries to rise

Both countries? How's that work if it's poor Mexicans coming here?
Maybe try restating your point in units of food and shelter. Dollars have no intrinsic value.
I never cease to be surprised at the propensity for pedantry on HN about the irrelevant, which is to say that nothing you've said has anything to do with my point.

My point is pretty simple: history has a habit of erasing wealth. War and revolution are the ultimate forms of wealth redistribution. And by revolution think the Russian Revolution.
Fun fact: most immigrants from Mexico are not poor-relative-to-Mexico.
I would have never imagined it would come to this. Now I'm reading about it and can't believe what I'm seeing. This is worrisome on a whole new level.
> Let's define reckless.

Legal statutes and prior case law defines it for us.

> Also, aside from the CEO what about the engineer who writes the code? I would think the CTO would be more responsible for reckless automated operation than the CEO.

Perhaps responsibility shouldn't be doled out by title but by actual action.

> Regardless, companies will probably have to have insurance similar to what people who drive cars have.

Absolutely, but there's no effective way to insure the value of your brand.
Is this really true for Mexican immigration? The stereotype is that the US gets Mexican peasants and Indian doctors, at least. Everything you say is true for the Indian doctor or Chinese software engineer.

Thus their departure would raise incomes in Mexico while lowering it in the US. So your point is mostly right, at least as it relates to this story.
There is no such thing as heritable genius

I disagree with this statement but is difficult to debunk unless 'genius' is nailed down. Nominally if a large part of socially communicable (and thereby recorded) analytical or creative capacity ("genius") is experiential rather than genetic, then it is heritable in the sense that it can be taught. If it is taught to many, however, then by some definitions it becomes non-genius.

Are the large number of documented ascetic/hermit traditions teaching genius? Preserving an alternative worldview? Simply crazy?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
So perhaps move those poor americans to the third world. They'll feel like top 1% with those dollars.
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It would do as you wrote, if it passes, is signed by the governor, and is approved by voters.

I don't know why they don't just do a clean revocation bill to fix the anachronism.
I was laughing because the following sentiment is what got us here in the first place:

>"Fuck it, I want to clone some boilerplate, write some code, and build/distribute it", then worry about the finer details later.
But it's a disobedience award, so... disobey the rules.
Context, yes. They can tell me about how they are struggling to make ends meet because of their two car payments and interest only mortgage. That's totally the same as having your kids die from diarrhea, because they get their drinking water straight out of a dirty river and you don't have access to simple medications.