skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I do not necessarily agree with the following, but I think it might be a defensible position)

The hallmark of civilization is specialization. Instead of everyone having to hunt and farm their own food, build their own shelter from resources they mined/harvested/gathered themselves, only own whatever property they can by force stop other people from taking, and so on, we specialize.

The price for specialization is the loss of self-reliance. To get people to give up that self-reliance and specialize, it has to be implicit in the social contract that if they pick a useful specialty that society needs, they will be able to make a living for essentially the rest of their life. That's important because it can be very hard to change specialties, especially for someone who is older and has a family to support.

In the past when automation took jobs it usually took long enough and there was enough warning that specialists faced a slow decline in their specialty. New people could stop entering that specialty, but there would still be enough work to keep the existing practitioners going for the most part.

For instance, it took a long time for passenger aircraft to seriously take a bite out of demand for passenger rail service. That at least gave people considering careers related to passenger rail a good shot at recognizing when that would no longer be a safe lifetime career and choose something else.

Now we seem to be automating things faster. We can go from "automation is something your grandkids might have to worry about" in a given job to "there is a decade left on this job" in just a few years. People who played by the implicit social contract's rules, and picked specialties that were in demand and that no one seriously thought would be automated for several decades at the earliest are going to get screwed.

I think one could make a plausible argument that society has breached the social contract in such cases, and owes those people compensation in the form of one or more of (1) training them for some other comparable (by income and difficulty) work, (2) early retirement with some kind of pension to let them keep their standard of living until they reach normal retirement age, (3) throttling the rate that these jobs can be replaced by automation so instead of people being fired to make room for the bots the bots only replace workers who are retiring or leaving normally.

If society is not going to uphold the social contract, or compensate for its breach, then perhaps one can make the case that it is not unethical for the aggrieved former worker to also breach the social contract and turn to crime to support himself and his family, depending on the type of crime.
You have to let your interests drive you. I've got 2 kids who are 8 and 6 years old respectively. Prior to having kids, I had my own contracting business, all nighters were a part of my nightly routine and I obsessed about every new technology that came out. I tried to keep this up almost through the birth of my second child before I put myself in the hospital.

That'll put things in perspective.

Now I'm a lot more selective about what I devote my time to learning. I'm skeptical of new language offerings. If a language doesn't give me a reason other than being a different flavor of C for using it, it doesn't even cross my radar. I'm more of a server side, devops, database guy for the most part so I've largely avoided the framework a week craziness in javascript world.

You pick your battles. Something looks cool...great. Does it really add any value beyond my current tools...?

Since getting back into a full time job about 4 years ago there are 2 technologies that have sufficiently captured my interest that I make time for them. Those are PostgreSQL and Elixir.

As it turns out, because of the two of those there's very little that comes on my radar that makes me say...I need to learn that. Most new tech that comes out seems to live in the land of edge cases that I may need one day, but don't have a reason to dive into.

IBM's Watson API's are probably the only thing I could see really grabbing my attention in the last year or so. You pick your battles.
I was on Sun's X11/NeWS beta program, and each time they came out with a new release, they'd send me an entire whole new set of X11 and Adobe PostScript manuals! I appreciated it, but had those manuals coming out of my ears! It was great having all those Red Books to pass out at parties, but nobody ever wanted the XView manuals. ;)
What if

1. most work done by today is done by robots?

2. Anti aging improves and life span increases?
I appreciate your username.
> bureaucratic complacency

It also could be a problem of elected officials and public complacency. Not to be partisan, but one political party has staunchly opposed almost all government spending and has single-mindedly reduced taxpayer investment in everything they could.

That same party (maybe not the parent), as part of the campaign to reduce government activity, says government is unavoidably incompetent and blames that for all problems. Part of that is blaming "bureaucrats" (a bad word, apparently). Perhaps the problem is those elected officials.

In this case I don't know, but a LinkedIn post by someone I don't know, filled with hyperbole, is not credible evidence either way.
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AWS SDKs now support API calls to the MTurk crowdsourcing platform
>Raising the gas tax also unfairly punishes the lower income bracket who often drive older vehicles with worse MPG

Like with any tax, this can be made up as a deduction tied to income.
Also: what is your opinion re global warming?

Housing, for example, is a direct function of population growth. We are clearly showing strains in quality of living there. Thoughts?
I am a father of 6.

I could be a better father. I could be a better programmer. I'm doing a good job of both. It is a full life.

6 hours of focused work is more than most people get done in a day. You want to be a great dad and a great programmer? Cut out Hacker News ;)

edit: I guess we are listing ages. 15, 14, 12, 11, 10, 7.
On the other hand, animal agriculture on the scale we see it today is massively different than anything that was seen 100+ years ago. Trying to say "people raised cattle 100 years ago" is much different then talking about ranchers with 1000-strong cattle herds or industrialized "factory farms."
Nap time and bedtime. I actually found that my codingnon side projects went up after having kids, b/c I can't just go out and hang with friends now. I have to stay home, but bedtime is my time :)
EDIT: The attention mechanism is nothing more than a weighted average. The weighted average is computed as a running average by saving the numerator and denominator terms at each step.

I hope the description in the paper is clear. You can follow the ARXIV link in the README. Skip straight to section 2 for the details of the model
Using at work even at major product in Teambition Shanghai https://github.com/teambition?language=coffeescript https://github.com/jianliaoim?language=coffeescript
PK are great people, and definitely a good port of call.

For our strategy shift, I'd read our 100 day plan here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/our-100-day-plan , especially point 7, which is about our D.C. ground game.

We have a domestic legislative team (led by Ernesto Falcon, PK's former VP of government affairs https://www.eff.org/about/staff/ernesto-omar-falcon ). It's not something that we talk about a lot, because the work tends to be in the weeds, doing line-by-line critiques of new laws, or talking to dedicated staffers. We try and do deep dives about our legislative work in EFFector when we can, but mostly people here about our big activism or tech pushes.

One of the aspects of how Congress is directed at the moment is that direct lobbying for civil liberties within Congress may be a bit of a limited strategy (something we're familiar with from previous times in our existence). In those situations, we think it's equally important to equally emphasize the alternative strategies -- fight executive overreach and unconstitutional law in the courts, create technology to protect users, and work on legal protections at the state and international level. D.C. lobbying is part of that (and we've been thinking more seriously about other ways to build that up which I'd be happy to brainstorm with you), but we think these days it works best if you integrate it with other strategies. The power of being a D.C. insider isn't as great as it has been these days, and the strength of advocacy, court challenges, and tech is showing itself right now. - d.
The solution is fairly simple: just stop releasing software on that platform. There are millions of customers on more open platforms, so there's really no need to support them anyway.
I wasn't saying that they chose their orientation.

I am sure I flubbed the logic there a bit. But it made sense before I typed it. Give me a couple of hours. It will come back to me and I will rephrase it.
tldr - appears to affect rollout.io customers (at least for those who have replied to the thread so far).
> have you ridden the Big Blue Bus on an August Tuesday in 90+ degree heat at 5 pm?

So the buses in LA don't have air conditioning?

> The bums

It seems a bit uneconomical, if a population 10k smelly homeless prevents a population of 1+ million people getting to their work comfortably and efficiently.
Don't give them any updates for weeks, if at all. Who will appreciate hearing back from your company more: Joe Shmoe, or Joe Solitary Confinement?

If I apply for a job, and they have no interest in me, I honestly prefer they don't bother contacting me at all. Generic rejection letters are a waste of both of our time.

Once I've applied for a job, it's out of my mind completely unless they contact me again for an interview. I move on to applying for the next Job - I don't wait around wondering whether they'll get back to me. It's a much better mindset for me personally - I apply for more jobs and rejection doesn't phase me.
> Go and Rust,

Rust is not ML but takes a lot of ideas from ML and functional languages, such as options, pattern matching, traits and "type classes" ...

Go is just bad feature wise for a language born after 2005. It's a good language for managers that don't trust their developers with their intelligence though, and will lead to a generation of developers who can only code in Go, because using anything else is "too complicated"...
I teach it to my kids. The lesson is that I find out that I didn't know it half as well as I thought I did once I try to explain it to them.
Couple of reasons: I test my site builds on older browsers - proper full browser versions and OS environments/hardware. Some of my computers I keep up to date, not all.

And I don't particularly respect updates sold as "security" when they often move the furniture around, or remove features, or flog whatever new feature they think we want in our browsers.

Web browsers should be more stable, not frantically updating themselves every 5 minutes. Browsers are windows to online content - the online content is what changes and updates all the time. The browser, as viewer of those changing and varied websites, should be relatively static and stable.
Ok. This is going horribly wrong. I feel like I am being misunderstood. Or not understood right. I must rephrase.
This NY Times article covers the rollback of those rules in a much larger context of a mass reduction in public protections:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-deregul...
Interesting. I was actually joking about HN. I can't think of an example where hangers-on or bots or engagée interest groups have ever been able to sway the popular opinion en masse. Not saying the special interest groups won't take bids from any interested takers or have negligible effect. Luckily for the rest of us, it takes more than a marketing campaign to bring Putin to power or turn the tide against Trump. From my observations, the NYT (and HN) comments are symptomatic of the US popular opinion as of today that looks favorably on mass spying in the face of ISIS or Russia or whatever it is they feel requires the military/special agents to intervene.
I was planning to stop completely and operate the clone to check ahead about water-crossings, mud, bulldust, loose scree, things over the crest of steep hills and dunes and other hazards.
I wonder if this is going to hit non native code push solutions like React Native? Or if Apple are going to start cracking down on apps like Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest that do a lot of A/B testing.
Hasn't this always been against the App Store terms? I thought the only language you were allowed to download code from the internet and run was Javascript on Apple's VM.
I've found a curiosity-based learning approach to be effective for me. Rather than trying to put X amount of time into programming like it's a chore (or a prison sentence) I try to find things that spark my interest. Lately I've been trying to figure out the inner workings of the single-page application framework that we use at work and I'm slowly starting to create my own as well.

Asking questions has helped me a lot questions like "how does this work?" has motivated me to read code (which I think can be more useful than writing code sometimes) and try to learn things as they really are rather than how I assumed they were built (I've discovered some interesting patterns and came to some interesting realizations this way).

I actually try to minimize my time spent reading blogs and books but sometimes I find wikipedia to be very good at giving me really good information that isn't as dogmatic or opinionated.
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It was never hard for me. I'm naturally a late night person, and my daughter slept from 9pm to 5-6am pretty much weeks after coming home, and just got lazier until she hit 18 :)

All that said, 9pm to midnight was always plenty of time for me to keep up on anything involving a computer. For some, it might not be. The day light hours, and time before she'd go to bed, were all about her. If you run around, do homework with, cook dinner and play with your child all night long, it's much easier to get them to sleep through the night! I consider myself lucky, but many of my friends through bike racing, and other outdoor related activities are similarly active people, and their kids are exposed to active, high energy pursuits in the day time as well and - you guessed it - most of them sleep pretty normally.

Also, admittedly, the day I worry about my github commit graph is the day I think I need therapy. Life's more than contributing to code projects.
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Hey CIA, You Held on to Security Flaw Information–But Now It's Out
The whole wiki that this leak released is full of the most basic configuration options for vim/VS etc. They have version control tutorials. They can't be hiring pros.
Secret Court Orders Aren't Blank Checks for General Electronic Searches
Ok. I will address just the 'core question' and ignore the digressions for now.

Why should they be rewarded? Because it is expensive to raise children. It's a social cost. It would inconvenience those who don't see value in children.

How about that? I am not taking it personally. I am..in fact..trying to use objective/non emotional language to the best of my ability as I realize that this is a sensitive issue.
The problem with the prototypical Old Poor Widow (she lives in a million-dollar home in an excellent neighborhood, how sad) is that she votes in every local election.

The people who benefit from density -- the young, the renters -- don't vote. Well, they vote every four years in the high-drama national electoral-college reality show, but that doesn't matter. And the people working service jobs who have to commute in from far away couldn't vote for local candidates who would benefit their interests even if they wanted to, because of course they don't live there.

Politicians know that if they enact a land value tax, the elderly who lucked into amazing homes will vote them out of office. This won't change unless renters start voting for their interests.
I wonder if Apple will apply this rule to everyone, which would be fair, or if they plan on letting big name developers like Facebook or Google continue to violate the rules without consequence.
A good usecase is for when you are learning something through the video and can play with it right there. Khan Academy uses something similar and it is awesome.
It's like it went into its own bubble universe. Cheers.

As for the book, I don't know if I can recommend it. I've only ever seen a copy one other time, to check if it mentions Hamilton (it does, in some end notes) and I can't say it lived up to my memories of the first exposure. I can't even say how much of it is actually original to J. Martin and how much is strictly Dr. Hamilton's.
There's a cynical part of me that thinks this is because Apple is going to announce a similar feature at WWDC
Hmmm. You mean a water-landing drone with a Hummingbird fishfinder-type thing attached? I like this idea.
Because WordPress is a bloated mess when all you need is to host a fast, static site.
Yes, that's correct. IOS Developer Program License Agreement, section 3.3.2:

"3.3.2 An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. The only exception to the foregoing is scripts and code downloaded and run by Apple's builtin WebKit framework..."
If the author really is correct, and all that exists is Reason-Type-2, then there is no actual Reason-Type-1 by which to reject their claims. It's self-reinforcing, rather than self-refuting.

It's like 15th century herbalists who claimed that certain herbs were balancing humors, when the herbs had actual medicinal values. Their methods were efficacious, but they did not understand why and made false claims about why. We all use Reason-Type-2, and only that, because that is all that exists (if the author is correct), but mistakenly claim we're using Reason-Type-1, which doesn't actually exist (again, if the author is correct), the same way people had wrong-headed, but reasonable in context, theories about how the world worked.
I don't care about specific numbers, let's use some from androidauthority.com . ios apps make more revenue then Google Play apps. So what you say? Well you make a LOT more revenue with BOTH gPlay + Appstore then EITHER on their own.

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-vs-the-app...
Doesn't the memory impact of storing the hidden states scale with O(gamma function)?
Yes, Cirru, in 2013, which is only a language front-end that compiles to JavaScript, Clojure, JSON or HTML.

* http://cirru.org
* text.cirru.org (temporary solution)
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773813

I was trying to explore the expressiveness of graphical editing(at first using indentations). And it ends up with a nice tree editor that I can editor as DOM. With DOM, the layout of the code is actually the layout of AST controlling by algorithms that is responsive to screen size and AST structure.
The nice thing about having kids is that it forces you to think about time.

It's the time that rolls on whether you are present or not. It's the time when you said something to your kids and you realized you are becoming your father or your mother. It's the happy times and the sad times, it's the times of intense passions and times of gentleness. It's the time of living fully, without regrets, the time with the people you love, walking the path with purpose.
Seems like people have been aware of concerns about violating the TOS with these hot patch frameworks.

From April 2016

>>Rollout is aware of the concerns within the community that patching apps outside of the App Store could be a violation of Apple’s review guidelines and practices. Rollout notes both on their FAQ site and in a longer blog post that their process is in compliance.

https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2016/04/rollout...
This was my immediate question too. Microsoft offers a service called CodePush (https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/) for React Native and Cordova apps that presumedly could get caught by this. I don't have enough mobile dev knowledge to know whether or not it uses the same APIs that were mentioned in Apple's rejection letter, though.
Some comments are not meant to be brought to their complete logical consequences.
> How long something has been around is often a good way to determine how much longer it will be around in the future.

Might be some correlation there, but probably it's mostly unrelated. We did many things for a super-long time then stopped, because we found something better. For example, we used horses to get around for millennia.

We've done animal agriculture for a long time, but once something better comes around, we'll switch - and food technology is getting very close, and has other benefits too (helps against global warming, etc.).

But just like riding horses, eating animal products will never go away completely, of course.
I believe the guidelines allow Js functionality like this as long as the functionality does not change. This seems like they are doing this for security reasons so I'd think React Native is different. Not sure though, someone else might know more.
Yes. Foot meet mouth. :)
You could also run a mass driver up the side of Olympus Mons, which is a very gentle slope yet is so tall its peak is above 90%+ of the martian atmosphere.
> If you find yourself thinking that your parenting time is an annoying distraction from the coding problem you're trying to solve, you're in dangerous territory and need to re-calibrate.

I'm not a parent, but surely this is a little off; either can be a distraction from the other, the thing is to balance which the primary task is and when.

For example, say you get a phone call at work to inform you that your child's got into some kind of trouble at school (for example - I'm sure yours are great and this will never happen!) and that you need to pick them up. This could absolutely be a distraction from some coding/work problem you're trying to solve, but you're hardly in 'dangerous territory'.
You're not taking your own advice from two comments up :)
Key enzyme identified for unique mode of malaria parasite replication
Just curious to know the status on Azure;
Thanks for really valuable feedback :) Great if you want to submit and follow up at github.com/scrimba/community! We hadn't really planned for a HN launch yet so a lot of the ux is rough around the edges.
I'm not the GP, but I think it's obvious that of the spectrum of desired outcomes regarding gun control and the people that support them, there exist some that want nothing less than the total ban of firearms (as some other countries do). Any measure less than that will appease some, but others will continue to advocate.

The part that wasn't spelled out is how any appeasement helps those who want more extreme measures. I think that is explained somewhat by allowing them to then point out that you've capitulated on gun control for safety reasons, so the argument is no longer whether guns are unsafe, but how unsafe they are, and being able to reframe the argument in that manner is likely to result in further restrictions later as current events are used to pass more stringent laws.

I'm not sure how true that is or not in practice, but that's what I assume the GP was referring to.