skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making it sound like that's a bad thing. Should we prefer articles written by people who are clueless in the area they're writing about?
I think he's trying to ask for psychiatric assistance.
We should still nominate still Aaron Swartz.

＊＊＊Aaron Swartz＊＊＊
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

(From archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...)
What does the typical consumer actually get out of a networked refrigerator, or a smart TV (which tend to be almost universally inferior to even inexpensive add-ons to make them 'smart')? The IoT seems to be based on virtually pure marketing spin and manufactured demand, with a really predictable resulting mega botnet.
The web wasn't built on an economic foundation of ad revenue. The web was built on the economic foundation of both university-provided and personally/privately funded servers.

What ad revenue did was wildly expand the number of people trying to exploit the web for revenue, by generating sheer quantity regardless of content. I agree that that's a shaky foundation to base the web on.
Your question was a bad one.
Some things are too dangerous to distribute to consumers, no matter how they are labeled. Rather than repeat another discussion, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13847136

IMHO Marijuana isn't a relevant example for the parent's argument because it's not that dangerous; it still is distributed illegally except for a few states in the U.S. and parts of Europe, and (almost) nobody dies from marijuana overdoses.
Sylvan (referenced as main guru in the link) is still an active member of the Pony community and he's contributing on a regular basis. His most recent commit that was merged to master was yesterday:

https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/commit/eaf1dcd525c691feae1...

The Pony development community is still relatively small but we make good regular progress. We all wish the community was bigger and we were progressing more quickly but that is always going to be the case.

We have a regular weekly development Zoom call that is open to the public. Feel free to join. Info is available in the Pony development groups.io group: https://pony.groups.io/g/dev/calendar.

If you join the development list, you'll also get access to the recordings of the sync meeting going back close to a year. There's a wealth of info there for anyone cares to dig in. Probably more than anyone would care to ever listen to.
No issue with uMatrix/uBlock.
"Wouldn't it be scary if..." is different than being provably known to do/use/abuse.
you'll be surprised to find out where your pension fund stores your money.
> it still is distributed illegally except for a few states in the U.S.

There is no place in the US where traffic in marijuana is legal. The absence of state-level prohibition doesn't negate federal prohibition.
This isn't necessarily true. If world governments could use their records to create an OAuth-like service, you could uniquely verify citizenship without giving away personally identifying information
A disengagement doesn't mean unsafe.

Quite the opposite, a disengagement is demonstrating safe behavior.

And if you are going to her statistics, please use statistics that are applicable to both humans and machines, like "crashes" or something so we can compare them.
I imagine so, and I certainly applaud the spirit of the award, but I still thought it worth noting.
I see maybe 30 percent more between 2000 and now. Maybe google pays mor but for the rest of us there is no 2x gain.
The State-By-State Fight Over Electric Vehicles
I think the fact that this submission is on the first page is pretty damning of the community ;)
The BART extension is being built along an existing rail right-of-way for most of its distance so I'm not sure how much existing development can be blamed for the high cost.
The marketplace won't sort out the security issues, any more than it sorted out unstable banks. Consumers lack the ability to obtain information, understand the issues, and make good decisions.

Computer systems should be regulated for safety, which includes confidentiality and integrity, like everything else.
Cable and phone companies don't seem to care about efficiency in their marketing efforts. Almost everywhere they're allowed to count it as an expense and fold it into their regulated costs and make a regulated profit off it.

Putting on my cynic hat, buying lots of newspaper, television and radio ads is a good way to keep the media on the sidelines instead of criticizing the incumbents.
Why is amazon fighting this? There must be something more to the "good faith effort" than just that. What harm is there is offering the job to locals? If they aren't qualified, you don't hire them. And if they are, you hire them and are happy to have a local employee.
Yeah I agree. His arguments made a lot of sense to me.
Hourly/weekly billing are entirely standard in industry, and most good clients will not balk at them. The business does not want your butt in a seat for 480 minutes a day; they want increased revenue or reduced costs. They will not micromanaged the distance between your butt and your seat at one minute increments unless you structure your affairs such that they're required to.

Note that all of your professional analogies doing the same work for the same clients in a W-2 fashion are salaried, not hourly. They don't fill out timecards or send a report to their boss every week saying "64 minutes for project planning meeting" either.

As to how much work actually gets done in a day, part of the deal is that the business is buying an adult professional who is committed to delivering efficiently on the stated objectives in the SoW. That bounces around a little bit; most days it resembles a standard work day at the client's site (at least in my business).
Things Your Grocery Store Butcher Can Do for You (That You Didn't Expect)
It's my second home which I rent out about every weekend in the winter peak season. I say head of turnover because she runs a property management firm but I've contracted her operation only for turnover. The property management firms want too much % for the effort which is mostly being decent at yield management and being responsive on AirBnB and VRBO/HomeAway. They used to get 20-30% but with AirBnB and HomeAway, it's moving downward to 10-15%.

My wife is a superhost on AirBnB and it's not challenging - you just have to be responsive. The challenging parts are when you have difficult guests but I also pay my head of turnover to handle those issues a la carte if needed locally, otherwise my wife handles remotely.

It would be very hard to turnover my place without using a company that has staff due to it's size. Laundry takes about 5 hours alone. You have to have multiple sets of clean laundry if you're doing it right. I have a license and pay 10% TOT tax. Other operations aren't registered, don't pay hotel like taxes and don't replace with clean sheets. I did 80k in revenue on one property alone last year and I'm buying another soon. There's a lot of opportunity but you have to buy it right, meet guest expectations, and be compliant.
> A lot of internet users view "beautiful" webpages as a display of trustworthiness and importance.

Not so much. A lot of web users like simple, predictable pages. Flyout menus spazzing all over the page, giant headers breaking the space bar, and obscure hamburgers hiding useful features just confuse and annoy people who don't know about CSS element blocking.
> I think that is a side-effect that ruby in rails was ruby in the mind of many, and python was weak at first in web (before django).

Django was actually released first.
One (simplified) example usage: you have an application that you need to scale from 1 BEAM process to more than 1 in order to handle the load. If you are using distributed erlang, sending a message to a remote actor is the same as sending to a local actor and scaling is seamless from the code perspective. Think of having a cluster of BEAM vms that from a programming perspective, you can treat as a single vm.
Over all the uniting factor seems to be having an outsiders view of the world. Creativity, or mental illness will both give you a unique view of the world. Otherwise, the writing composition is beyond me
They're also taking on zero financial risk by not investing. Get over yourself.
It's not my intention to "punish" Media Lab, I like the work they do. But from the article you just posted:

> The mood changed later in the memorial when speakers began criticizing MIT’s involvement in the Swartz case. Swartz’ partner, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, asked MIT to consider whether it considered itself a “scientist” or “bureaucracy” and expressed skepticism about the Abelson report.

It's clear from the dialogue in here that this was not a sufficient response for the wider community, and that more reform and response was (and still is) expected. The perception is that there was a largely neutral response from a part of MIT that should have been one of the loudest.

I just spent a month in Cambridge, and while I met some great people working on important things, I have to say, there's definitely some ossification over there and it's a real problem. We need some very loud advocates for online and software freedom in the academic world right now, perhaps more than we've ever needed them. And yes, we still need the right to read research produced with public funding.

I agree with many of the people in here that this should have been named the Aaron Swartz Disobedience Award, in his honor. Or keep the name, but say that it being awarded in his memory. It would have sent a powerful message, both to future Aarons and to the MIT upper admins that have steadfastly refused to own up to what they did.

This award is a great idea, but the silence of not even mentioning his name in it when it's the thing on everyone's mind is deafening.
The rich will always be among us.
I've thought the same for a while, and now I'm looking to Nix[1] as a solution. Upside: strong fundamental design, extreme reproducibility, great Haskell support. Downside: small community, middling OS X support, essentially non-existent Windows support.

It's still squarely in early adopter territory and the documentation is woeful, but if you're willing to put up with that it really does feel like the "one true package manager" I've been searching for. I've been using it at work and while the setup was painful and some things are still awkward (ie statically linking Haskell executables), it's been incredible overall. The up-front work in learning the system and getting it running has paid off already, and it'll pay off even more as I continue using Nix for other things.

[1]: https://nixos.org/nix/
Saying anybody can participate is as ridiculous as Republicans saying poor people will have "access" to health care without any concern of its affordability.

You live in a bubble. You should go talk to some real people.
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Of course there is. 99.9% the safe behavior to do is to slam on the breaks and pull off to the side/avoid obstacles. And humans can't even do this simple behavior.

"oh, stale2000, but what about highways!", and I'd respond by pointing out that highway driving is the easiest thing for a self driving car to do. Also, it is STILL probably safest to slam the breaks if you are about to hit a car pileup.
Cultural consensus. So, before it became illegal, offering 100$ to homeless and drug addicts in return for rendering them sterile.
> Centralisation harms the web, the Cloudbleed event and the recent AWS outage are good reminders of the fragility of the centralised web.

Yes, but decentralization does not mean moving from one provider to another.

> Being a lazy niggard who wants to save $6 a month and 1h set-up is not a sound attitude for anybody in the long run.

It's not about being lazy or a "niggard" (I assume you mean a miser). My point was that it's overkill to use a VPS for a static site.

Also, avoid personal attacks.
It might seem like a JS problem, but it's inherent to making software. When it works, you feel amazing. And when it doesn't, you feel terrible.

Not sure about a specific plan, but I would go for a walk, take a hot shower, or call it a night.

http://meagher.co/blog/2017/03/07/set-up-is-hard/
Ah yes the "if only poor people would stop blowing their money on Starbucks" argument. You are either trolling or you are unbelievably sheltered.
Shall I go ahead and start the over/under pool on how long it would take before it was hacked? I think it's a compelling idea, but it would probably be the most-interesting target in the world.
I disagree that he has done good. Between his attacks on the media and climate change facts, he is causing permanent damage in the popular trust in science.
Yeah, this:

https://xkcd.com/927/
I love WM. I hope they stay off the radar though. If it ever picks up any momentum, RedHat or the Gnome team are going to move in and start "improving" it.
It was great while it lasted. Living walking distance from Fremont station - end of the line - meant I could guarantee a seat on the train in the mornings. But now the train will be full by the time it gets to Fremont station if it is before 9am. On a positive note there will be far fewer people getting off at 5pm at the Fremont station and clogging up the escalators.

Stand on the right, walk on the left, people!!
physical, bitchez!

(sorry, spend too much time on zerohedge...)
Truthfully, I've found that the real difference in intelligence between people isn't so large as many people think it is. People don't generally come along and solve "intractable" problems because they're so much smarter than all the people who've tacked the problem prior to them. Instead, they approach the problem in a way that is fundamentally different. This is why outsiders are so frequently the people who make major breakthroughs in a field, and "genius" is correlated with eccentricity.
Most people don't give a shit. Plenty of my friends don't block ads. They don't care enough to care about anything "technical." Kind of like how my dad refuses to learn how to upload documents in an email. So we might make decisions and change our behavior, but I can assure you that the masses just go with the flow and probably don't care. It's why people shop at Walmart and don't change their privacy settings. They don't care enough to do differently, or sometimes it's not feasible. It takes a while to lock down your Facebook properly, and even then, they still collect so much data on you. Pretty much everyone I know wouldn't care to hear about the NSA, security, Facebook, etc. None of it matters. This is a pretty poorly worded and incoherent post, but my point is that many people don't even know what could be better. They don't realize the flaws in websites or companies or government programs, and they don't want to think about it. At least that's been my experience.
HN tends to be SF-centric and SF is RoR-central, probably the reason why they flagged it.
"Essays on Cellular Automata" by Arthur Burks is a good starting point. Then there's the proceedings of the conference, "International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry".
I've heard it's some kind of weird webby thing
Who do you think is making money off open source frameworks?
The article attacks the idea that genius is normal, and it maybe suggests that it would be hard to be normal and genius.

Taking the title at face value, Your not a genius if you think you are. I will say that dealing with people who don't have basic math, science, logic, physics, chemistry and philosophy understanding it's pretty easy to convince yourself that your both genius and crazy.
I suppose living paycheck to paycheck (or having no paycheck at all) is lower risk then?
Sending the bill to the family is dumb but there's sense in sending the person responsible for damages bills. I think we already mostly do that though, they just don't always pay the bill.
Do you have any reason to believe companies would donate?

My experience is we know what code we use, management just doesn't care to pay.

(Not to knock the idea, I like it, just curious.)
and you thought only legitimate businesses had a customer attrition problem...
"Encryption has grown so strong that even the FBI had to seek Apple's help last year in cracking the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. "

Nope, that was about setting precedent using a case that is very hard to argue against morally, so that they can erode privacy and protections on a wider scale.
Thanks. Did you subscribe to find that out? Because it didn't seem like there was any other way to read the article. The web has become a very aggressive pan handler.
There were a bunch of sites like this discussed in the big Octave funding thread a few weeks/month back
If you want a significant constituency I'll give you one.

Do all the daughters of upper middle class software engineers do not exist? That's among tech leaders' families in the US.

So where are they? Or is it that they have seen their fathers' jobs and decided they want no part of it?
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> This is why outsiders are so frequently the people who make major breakthroughs in a field, and "genius" is correlated with eccentricity.

That would be nice, if it were true. But it isn't.

Those are the stories that everybody likes though, a bit like the kid with a 25c fishing rod out-fishing adults with 100's of $ worth of gear.

But in practice, most progress in most fields is made by insiders, one tedious bit at a time.
Sorry man but I have to butt in here.

The culture of hacker news-type thinking can be very toxic and lead to such thoughts as "I just wish there was a better way to figure out your deficiency than just popping some pills and wait to see what happens. A weekly blood test for vitamin levels combined with mood and health journaling would probably give me the kind of data I'm looking for, but that only seems to be available in science fiction so far."

Notice how you are trying to find a solution based around technology. Why does the solution have to involve technology? I think hanging around on forums like this, or with engineers to often can blind us to solutions which don't require engineering.

If all we have is hammer then nails nails everywhere!!

We're all guilty of it. Let's just be aware of it when it happens and move on.

Ready for the solution? It's very simple but tough to follow through with : Radically Change your diet.

Eat plants mostly, eat within a time window (don't allow yourself to oversnack, etc.), don't eat shit, not even a little bit, cut it out 100%. Be extreme, this is the experimentation phase. Later you can be less extreme, but let's see how much a radical change to the diet will affect the body.

This isn't a guarantee to fix vitamin deficiencies, but I will gladly bet that it will sure help a hell of a lot.

Finally, I would like to add that another trap that we all fall into is trying to optimize a system by changing one thing at a time. Firstly, this doesn't actually work. Secondly, this is extremely slooooowww.

If we want to experience change fast we have to be radical about changing our habits. If I am experimenting with anything in my life it's a good idea to try all sorts of different stuff. Diversify my experiments. Explore. If you are having vitamin deficiency issues and are not setting yourself up to be in the position to explore and experiment with diet, then you will have to wait for luck to come along before your issue can find itself a solution.

Again, hopefully I don't sound like an ass, I am just trying to help, given that I make the same mistake a lot in my own life, and have screwed myself over too much to not try and speak up a bit on the subject.

Feel free to be angry with me :) :(
Every time I read one of these articles about genius and madness, I become smug for a little while, then I get depressed because I realize that I haven't accomplished anything noteworthy, then I'm mildly reassured because occasionally my wife will spontaneously aver (contrary to all expectation) that I am a genius, then I get distracted and start chasing some ideas, then I get depressed again because, well, shit, I still haven't accomplished anything that anyone but my wife knows about, and anyway these ideas I chase are very interesting but once I've figured it out, I am satisfied and don't share it with anyone, because I don't really give a shit about becoming known as a genius, if I even am (which I doubt seriously).

Then, as a general rule, I start drinking if I have no obligations for the evening. Thankfully this evening I started drinking before I read this, so I can skip all the other stuff and just enjoy this awful feeling as I contemplate several of my friends who have accomplished things, and one of whom is actually a genius, unlike me.

Edit: Thank goodness for whisky. (Did I mention that I predicted Trump's victory back in August 2015? I'm pretty good at political predictions.) (No, I don't vote, and my predictions don't imply endorsement. All politicians suck, even those who aren't (or weren't) politicians.)

Also, if I ever accomplish anything noteworthy, I will let you poor HN comment readers know immediately.
While I agree in principle with your points, playing devil's advocate it seems to me that if you were wanting to integrate Bootstrap 4 with Vue 2 this project is laid out 110% better than most of us could do on a good day.

And who wouldn't want to use both of these projects together.

Seems like a sweet spot to me.
From the post :

> Eligibility requirements for the $250,000 prize

> The recipient must be living.

So that rules out Aaron Swartz.
you're getting downvoted for your comment being irrelevant to the discussion. If most of your income is salary, you will be paying a much higher effective tax rate than if most of your income is capital gains. The latter correlates with being wealthy.
There are so many keyboard options for moving through source which you don't have with a mouse...

- Page up/down (and especially with home row shortcuts like in Emacs and Vi)

- Brace match jumps

- n line jumps up or down in Vim

- top/mid/bottom of view jumps

- page shifts up and down without moving the cursor

- top/bottom of file jumps

- jump directly to a line in a file

... and more

Seriously, put an Emacs or Vi power user next to a guy with an IDE and a mouse, and it's no contest.
I spent a hack weekend recently using this API as part of a project to help with collaborating on usability testing reviews.

Upload a video, it strips out the audio, pushes to Watson for transcription, converts the result to a caption/subtitle track, and then allows people to comment on the discussion (like Google Docs).

I plan to polish it up a little and open source it soon.
yep. 25 cents per round of ammo will sound like $1 per Bitcoin nowadays.
Pulling off to the side and avoiding obstacles is continued engagement. What we need here is more information, specifically about how many of the disengagements would have presented a risk (and the severity of the risk) without a driver to handle them.

The second paragraph is a straw man argument.
imho, try Vue
Netflix, Netgate and Yahoo had an extended meeting with Intel and several members of the Foundation board during MeetBSD last year.
Sure, I meant company towns with stores.

Microsoft has housing for its interns. Not uncommon.