skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a very real example: Discord is working on video chat right now. As part of that work, it's not unthinkable they'd need to severely rework the voice/text protocols because they want to bring all of them in line with one another, reduce their tech debt or what have you.

If it's an open standard, they need to check in with everyone, document the move, potentially have to explain it or depending on popularity won't even be able to justify doing it. And suddenly, you see they're losing their competitive advantage for the sake of pleasing a few people on HN.

If it's a closed standard, they do whatever they want, don't have to justify or explain it to anybody. They can turn the protocol into fairy dust, run two versions of it for a while, and require a client upgrade if you want video chat.

Now, a few years down the line once Discord is established, has a solid business model and the protocol is clearly not changing anymore, then we can talk about making it open, allowing third party clients and we can really seriously start bugging them about it.

I very much want this to happen but Discord does need to be successful first. You'll get nowhere by bugging a startup to spend time on what could potentially kill the business.
Nothing but fear-mongering, even if you could somehow wave a magic wand and give these climate lunatics 'everything' they want, literally nothing would change. 96.5% of CO2 comes from natural sources. It constitutes less than 0.04% of the atmosphere... That's not even one tenth of one percent. You are not going to stop volcanoes or decaying organic matter (aka the Seasons on planet Earth). I'm all for helping the environment, but there are bigger pollutants and concerns. Most of which don't require destroying the entire economy and exerting State control on every aspect of your life from cradle to grave. Given the option of that, or the world ending in 9 years... I'll take my chances.
The hard science behind this doesn't care what you think, and scientists shouldn't be concerned with how their work will be perceived. That's the job of the press to better situate it, not the scientist to not be too negative in their conclusions.
Good observation, so perhaps it is better to say that there are some established publishers use Kickstarter as a de-facto pledge program. Granted, these publishers are not the major players like GMT or Decision Games. Some smaller players that do rely on Kickstarer are Mayday Games [1], Worthington Games [2], and Queen Games [3].

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/maydaygames/created

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1456271622/created

[3] https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1016374822/created
I've been on HN for much longer. I just decided to start over because I've changed a lot over the years.
FFS how many of those we've heard since 1990?
Oh, that's news to me.
Well, that's pretty bad already, and one of the reasons I'm not interested in using Chrome, but no, it doesn't seem any worse.
They do focus groups instead. When you are spending your money on the game you can as well try to check against a representative sample of your target audience instead of random people brigading some on-line polls.
To me, this much conjecture just serves to deride the rest of the article. I couldn't get past the unprofessional tone.
Key is if they start trying to shove prime down your throat with bloated and ridiculous shipping prices, check for the identical product at Walmart.com -- guaranteed to shave off several dollars. I do this regularly now that Amazon has gotten to be a greedy little dickasauraus Rex with their business practices.
Don't you think that's a bit strange ? The dude was helping the massacre the Bantus in Africa and suddenly becomes a "messiah" in a few years after returning to India ? I mean that is a miracle [1]. I wish historical figures were reassessed every few years in light of contemporary ethics, but this never happens with those the establishment wants you to see in positive light.

His antics are well-documented (with lots of references here).

https://sringeribelur.wordpress.com/2015/07/23/gandhi-articl...

He probably single-handedly delayed India's independence by ~20-30 years (was't that convenient).

[1] Okay that was a bit of an exaggeration since the Liberal movement essentially believed that it was the burden of the white race to civilize the barbarians (to paraphrase John Locke). Indians were I guess A-san (3rd class ? Or may be 2nd back in those days)... which is what Gandhi too believed.
I'm surprised lithography hasn't been replaced with something more nanoscale in origin like some kind of atomic deposition process where individual atoms are precisely bombarded onto the substrate to build up the features atom by atom.

It would take longer to manufacture each chip, but if the machines to do the deposition were relatively cheap and simple to construct, they're not that far off of electron beams, the result could be a massively parallel manufacturing process.
Mattermost is an existing OSS alternative to slack. It's terrible.

Gitter is more likely to be good but to be completely honest, it will take a lot of work to not be mediocre.

Freenode is part of the IRCv3 working group and I believe uses it internally somehow. IRCCloud is the largest IRCv3 implementation, they are fully IRCv3 compatible afaik.
I wrote https://www.smsforecast.com using Angular2 and personally love the changes made from 1.X, I'm happy to see 4.0 come out along with it's bug fixes and features.

1.X felt messy, but writing web apps in Angular > 2 feels really clean when done right.
The damage might be done before the EULA is even displayed.
It's an article about a paper published in Nature about X-Ray tomography to image nm-scale features in modern ICs.

And the only image presented in the whole article is a completely unrelated Chipworks die shot at about 10um per pixel.
One could also argue that MJ growers are fighting to pay taxes just to legitimize the industry, meanwhile Big Pharma has entire departments of professionals working to minimize those contributions, instead preferring to pay out via private incentives to our elected leaders. You choose which is worse.
> But it shouldn't necessarily have to be that way.

If it's not that way, it soon will get worse. An optimal amount of suffering lies on a ray between tyrannical order, and unbounded chaos. Excess order drives chaos. Excess chaos creates unbearable suffering, which drives order.

> I demand it back.

They want theirs back too! Society is an open question as to how this can be done decently.
My prospective cofounder could not move to the US, so I applied as a solo founder. Co-founders must be in the US for three months?
Yes except it wont be the website server returning chain of trust but nameserver.
The most common problem working with indian developers in my experience was that they cannot say 'NO'. the culture maybe?
Great summary - thanks.

I read into it a bit more. The original FTC suit was brought against AT&T in 2014, but in 2015 the FCC reclassified ISPs as common carriers under Title II. So the 9th Circuit's August ruling just reflected that reclassification by the FCC.

The FCC's new consumer protection rules from last year are much harsher for ISPs than the previous FTC rules, so now there is a two-tiered system of data protection.

Senator Flake suggested in the WSJ that he wants the FCC to come up with consumer protection rules for ISPs that use the FTC's framework. (Source: https://archive.is/hKz0a)

To protect consumers from these harmful new regulations, I will soon introduce a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to repeal the FCC’s flawed privacy rules. While the resolution would eliminate those rules, it would not change the current statutory classification of broadband service or bring ISPs back under FTC jurisdiction. Instead, the resolution would scrap the FCC’s newly imposed privacy rules in the hope that it would follow the FTC’s successful sensitivity-based framework.

This seems pretty reasonable, but we still need Congress or the FCC to come up with another system that will fill the regulatory gap left by the 2015 rule change.
I didn't infer that he himself had something valuable to say on the subject, only that he suspects someone does, and laments their apparent reluctance to say it.

I think part of the source of this suspicion is that the abolition of slavery was a result of the Enlightenment and the rise of natural law as a source of ethics, and virtually every aspect of the West has abandoned natural law as a source of ethics or principle, leaving modern ethics in a drunkard's walk around the positions last reasoned to before that jettisoning.
"Better" is entirely too vague. Sure, I can get a VR headset now which is awesome, but the middle east is even more unstable now and thousands of species have gone extinct since then.

For a lot of people the core idea that "the world is slowly improving" is so fundamental they miss seeing basic ways many things have gotten worse.
Some do, some don't. The emerald triangle has traditionally opposed legalization efforts in CA, it negatively impacts their bottom line.
It's mind blowing when I see a new image like that and it completely changes how I understand the topic. I wish I could find more of those.
Come on, Eisenhower was provably wrong. Countless times throughout history people have suffered the worst horrors imaginable because their side was militarily weaker. So much unjust loss as someone wanted more power and took it just because they could.

The truth is that military spending, benevolent and power checked leaders, and government at least capable enough to not collapse in on itself are all essential.

The hard question is only how to attain these and in the right balance. Too much military spending surely will cause unnecessary suffering, too little has been proven just as capable as ending in ruin.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I think about this stuff a lot, how much ancient and modern overlap, how much Eastern and western overlap, yet how people still want to divide everything.

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and the intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world… Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.

Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic, it is learned and it is the great achievement of Western civilization. In the villages of India, they never learned it. They learned something else, which is in some ways just as valuable but in other ways is not. That’s the power of intuition and experiential wisdom." - Steve Jobs

Carl Sagan was really keen on seeing 'the bigger picture' too, can't find the particular quote I was looking for. Maybe later.
https://warisboring.com/test-pilot-admits-the-f-35-can-t-dog...

felt like I've seen this complaint about the performance of the JSF not too long ago. Maybe things have gotten better?
From that article: "Over the lifetime of the project the US is expected to have spent $1.5 trillion designing, building and maintaining 2500 planes for its own use: enough to forgive the entire nation’s student debts, or pay for the healthcare of every low-income American family for the next three years, or build a border wall that encircles the Earth four times."

Waste
I would not equate those two things.

Even today, or, 200, 2000 or 4000 years ago, I would suggest slaves (as we understand the word) would by and large prefer to sell their labor for a wage rather than be legally held as a kind of property. There would certainly be a few who would suffer from something akin to Stockholm syndrome, but by and large...
It may be the case that Amazon is looking to make the Prime membership akin to the Costco club membership but with a lower barrier of entry. This would be a smart and interesting move if they did that in future, "you can only buy here if you pony up $100 a year" or something to that effect. Sure, Walmart would be able to eat the leftovers, but that doesn't mean Amazon would be out of business or "fall" necessarily.
No, it's not. What you're proposing would be like the government saying you can only use this specific service, which may be run by the government, to communicate with others. Standardizing IM is making is so that if you want to talk to your friend across the country you're able to using different applications but the same protocol. Forcefully standardized would be mandating any messaging app that's used in the country would have to follow the protocol. It's almost the same thing that happened to fax machines in the 70s and 80s before the Japanese government stepped in.
Building a plane is very costly. I believe Elon being a billionaire had a lot to do with success of SpaceX and Tesla.

I'm still skeptical on how far boom will go before having a working sellable plane.
>If it's not that way, it soon will get worse. An optimal amount of suffering lies on a ray between tyrannical order, and unbounded chaos. Excess order drives chaos. Excess chaos creates unbearable suffering, which drives order.

Please excuse me, but are you trying to be obscurantist and vague with this? I just don't understand what point you're trying to make here. Why must we have suffering at all, when it can be avoided? Why must there be exploitation? I'm talking in concrete cases here - people are being exploited for their labour.

There is no "golden middle" for suffering. The idea that there must be, or that a middle solution is best, is a logical fallacy.

>They want theirs back too!

Who does? The capitalists? I'm not taking their life; rather, I am selling my labour-time as a worker to them, in order to survive, reproduce, and replenish the worker force. I start with the fundamental idea: nobody should have to sell their time to someone else in order to survive for themselves.
Hopefully you have a good attorney.

Make sure to demonstrate that you have ties to the community. Get letters from friends, teachers, relatives, coworkers, etc tonget in front of the judge and prosecutor.

You sound like someone who got caught up in something. Show that regret and accept responsibility. I haven't been through this, but I know people who have... good luck.
The appeal of board games (obviously, other than their entertainment value) is that they promise something of physical permanence and portability. When they manage to deliver, even if the quality isn't great (compared to professional products), you at least have a physical memento/token/souvenir.

But when software delivers a piece of crap, you end up with much less. Some of the successful iOS games I've backed from small devs don't even work anymore because they eventually stop keeping up with changes to iOS.
From August, 2016.
How soon people forget that peace among nations is not the norm. If you think that the indigent are forgotten now, consider what their plight would be if the clouds of war were gathering.

"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you desire peace, be prepared for war.") is just as true today as it was in Vegetius' time.
If a person can't inquire about what a job pays it hardly seems fair for a company to inquire about their ability to do the work.

I'd think given this she wouldn't want to be there anyway.
>would by and large prefer to sell their labor for a wage rather than be legally held as a kind of property.

I very much agree and I do not contest this. There are also feudal serfs who would love to live like workers today. However there are workers now who would love to live like truly free men who are not forced to sell their time to survive.

I think that those slaves 4000 years ago would like that too. Probably more than the feudal or even capitalist mode of production.

Yes, comparing the horrors of slavery to the current situation is hyperbolic - but the same format of exploitation is still happpening. That is, the format of selling labour-time to others in order to be afforded the luxury of life within the system. I think that Engels missed out that there is greater mobility nowadays. Even though it is very unlikely, a proletarian who has amassed enough capital can become a capitalist himself. But this does not do away with the exploitation of others.
Always on through Find My Friends.
I pray this company perishes solely on the demerits of this email exchange. They flew their true colors too early.
It's high for America, low for Canada. Afaik, WealthFront haven't opened a Canadian arm yet, while Simple are based here.
Is anybody surprised anymore when Google shutters a project? It's almost like their calling card.
Oh, well, i need to adjust my view then.
Thanks for your reply, very insightful indeed!
I bet all that hindsight really helps you sound like some sort of visionary. Flash was alive and well long after the introduction of the iPhone. Ignoring the fact it was hardly available internationally, and only on a single carrier in the United States. Nerds hated Flash, but it was still seen as a somewhat acceptable and expected technology to come across.
While I agree that the OTP perhaps is not as easily statically typed, since it was built with Erlang in mind, I do think that static typing adds a layer of robustness to distributed systems, especially if you design it that way upfront. In my experience the problem comes when you try to apply static typing to a dynamic system.
SecureRandom is thread safe, and the global initialization is volatile. What am I missing?
Engineer? Build search software at Swiftype
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949986
> Further, the resolution is not very good. They can currently trace back cars and humans walking, but the features are not great.

Yes, it's pretty hard to even tell it's a human from aerial image. This is how humans look at 7cm/pixel (DJI drone at 150m altitude): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9P9V4RHDRkkalJYcmZWTG1JeFk..., https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9P9V4RHDRkkTEN6Y0hQVTRIbG....

Shameless plug: We don't plan to do any surveillance, but at tensorflight.com we automatically detect a few object classes and our automatic human detector is almost ready. https://twitter.com/tensorflight/status/843606859399405568 , please get in touch at kozikow@tensorflight.com if you are interested in this space.
> I would argue, however, that very few of the issues we are facing at the moment stem from lack of understanding.

My 11 year old nephew sprained his ankle a few weeks ago playing basketball, badly enough that he started walking in an odd way to compensate for the discomfort. He kept playing sports, including soccer on a rough grass field, every day at school recess, despite us having talks several times about how he needs to stay off it and let it recover or else he risks causing lasting damage. He nods and says, "I know" when I tell him that, but he keeps doing it. I think we are collectively much the same: we 'know', but we don't really believe that the abstract, distant bad thing will ever really happen to us.That is not understanding. That is lip service.

My argument isn't that IQ makes every individual behave better - it is the statistical argument that if the population average went up 20 points (and that number is one I just threw out, but I do think it's close), then we might cross a tipping point where there would then be enough people who take abstract, distant bad things seriously enough to take meaningful action, to form a significantly politically effective bloc.
Seems a bit contradictory. Which is it, corporate backing or novel ability?

I would like to see language advantages better quantified. How confident can we be a language is a practical improvement, in what contexts is it true, and what do the improvements buy in cost, quality, innovation, etc.

If we had all this data for a new language it would probably be easier to gain critical mass.
The base state is not that we do nothing (I don't think).

The base state is that people (pre-agriculturally, pre-societally) have to scavenge, forage, hunt. If they did not put their bodies to work, or someone else didn't offer to lend them work, people would have to toil and "work". The hunter-gatherers, of say, South Africa, I don't think, is a lifestyle most people engaged in wage-for labor economies would prefer to go back to.

We just have to visit rural China where people opt away from subsistence living to work in these factories. Same for your Oaksakan indigenous who migrates to MDF.
This is true except in the case of structural satisfaction for interfaces. You can't trust a rename function in a IDE in go for instance due to this.

And in the case of channel select behavior...and ranges over a channel...and the context object, etc.

My point being "magic" seems to be code for "familiarity with the language and it's idioms". Which I'll grant might be easier in go because of how limiting it is.
$20 billion in 2017 dollars
Why does deep learning work?
> Who does? The capitalists?

It sounds like you've set yourself up in a dichotomy between yourself and "the capitalists", if you keep this up, you'll be constantly baffled.

The slave, by definition, is being denied alternatives by the master. If there were a master which had better housing, and less violent staff, the slave can not apply for that job.

You, on the other hand, have the choice between serving your employer, serving other members of society, serving a master as a voluntary slave, or foraging in the wilderness. You are free, but that doesn't mean the world itself is pleasant to anyone. Your employer works for somebody too.

> I'm not taking their life

They aren't taking yours either. But if you give your effort to them, they can help save you from suffering the world on your own. I doubt you would prefer to live alone in a prairie, forest, or bog. I doubt you could survive even a week in such conditions. Furthermore, what would it be worth to live alone in the prairie, forest, or bog? Nothing you discover, say, or think will ever mean anything if you refuse to serve others.
Angular is being overengineered, why for example do you need dependency injection having modules system. It's better to go with VueJS, it can do all that is needed being simple, fast, lightweight and VERY developers friendly.
The wikipedia page lists three types of polymorphism. Duck typing is linked in the page as another kind of polymorphism. I've seen several other types in the wild, such as link-time polymorphism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(computer_science...

The general idea is that you can have one expression dispatch to many different concrete implementations depending on the context. Virtual function calls is one approach, but C uses function pointers, C++ uses templates, dynamic languages use duck typing, several languages use message passing, and so on.
More like HCL is so cheap they don't even want to spend the pittance they give their fresh engineering hires anyway. And besides it's not like they are selling software in the first place. What they are selling is labor, and more precisely warm bodies on their "bench". A live 12th pass kid is just the same as a fresh engineering graduate in that respect. The real tragedy here is how the "journalist" has just parroted HCL's bullshit in their headline.
So what would it cost to distribute safe heroin?

I mean, restricting availability of Oxycontin etc clearly hasn't worked.

Edit: My point is that the Drug War is immoral.
There are many things that are real and not on the radar of Trump's administration, including climate change. I'm not sure Mnuchin is doing anything but cheerleading here.