skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Roko gave the example of Elon Musk as someone who has the resources and the motivation to make a worthy contribution, and will be duly rewarded. As for the rest of us, if we don’t find a way to follow through, the AI will resurrect us via simulation and proceed to torture us for all eternity."
I think the more relevant distinction here is between feeling unsafe and being unsafe. Or perhaps between feeling unsafe in that you fear that that people will call you names online, versus feeling unsafe in that you fear that people will kill you.
I was thinking of the RS!
There is not a trusted oracle
FCC removes competition requirement from Charter-TWC merger conditions
At the kind of scale Google operates on it's not crazy for one person (especially an executive) to drive $100m in value.
My point is that category theory is useful for discovering nice abstractions such as algebraic effects and handlers or Monads for that matter. It's like all math, just a clever way to write/solve problems...

As for the semantics of algebraic effects and handlers, if you are not really interested I won't bore you with a long winded explanation. Suffice it to say that you can get the advantages of Eff in Haskell by using free Monads (the syntax of Eff is nicer though).
Sub-addressing of the format username+foo@host pre-dates Gmail. I think what is unique to them is being able to include periods anywhere within the username, e.g. us.ern.ame@host, user..nam.e@host, username@host are all equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing
This week I've started reading The Design of Everyday Things after HN recommendations, and the author makes a distinction between objects themselves, and their 'conceptual models', which may differ for the designer and the user. A single user may even have multiple, conflicting conceptual models of a device and its use. These are sourced from what he calls the 'system image', or overall set of information available about the device including past experience, appearance, sales literature, manuals, websites, advertising, etc. Needless to say, people can operate successfully on an incorrect mental model as long as it serves its purpose.

PS. Australian here. Yes, people do speak like that, but I agree with your conclusion.
You don't beat bad ideas by stifling them, that doesn't work. Beat ideas with better ideas. And once you cede authority over what is ok speech to someone else, you may not continue to agree on that definition.
Downscaling works fine for me, so I don't know what I'm missing :)

It's probably going to look better with Wayland's per-screen DPI setting, but in the meantime, it's good enough (tm) for me.

Why Linux font rendering exceeds the macOS experience for me: I like the FreeType rendering much better than macOS - less "blurry". Probably comes down to taste. Unless I'm mistaken, macOS scales down for non-integer sizes while Gnome can be configured to render at a fractional value.

Obviously it's much more polished in macOS (otherwise I wouldn't have had to type out the tutorial above), but I'm using Linux for other reasons beyond that and having good font rendering is just a plus - it used to much, much worse.
I lived there some 20 years ago and it really seemed like a golden time. The conflict in Chiapas was more or less over, and as a foreigner I felt comfortable traveling anywhere in the country with only a US driver's license and a birth certificate. Times have certainly changed, and I can't imagine how it is for Mexicans nowadays living with the cartels.
It appears that no one has even presented napkin math to justify the price. Total addressable market is interesting, but doesn't even qualify as napkin math without even a rough idea of margins, capital needed, rough growth rates.

I am basically seeing an argument that Tesla is smart and will figure out ways to make money to justify a 50B mcap. That may be true, but I was hoping for more.

I will likely buy puts on this once the squeeze subsides.

All arguments so far I would basically describe as hand-waving which gives me more confidence that the market is too optimistic.

All that said, if you have been long this, congratulations.
H1b visas have primarily been used by consulting companies to bring in less expensive junior engineers (<$100k) [1]. If new directives make it harder to sponsor junior engineers, it will shift the mix to more senior engineers. This will shift the supply/demand curves, so that US salaries will come down for senior engineers and go up for junior engineers.

[1] http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
It's 2017 and a $60,000 Audi still won't let you start it up remotely from your phone and run the heater/AC so it's comfortable by the time you leave your house.

Seems like the most basic, obvious, easy to implement feature but they still can't manage it. Apparently because it's "illegal in Germany" to have a car running without an operator behind the wheel. What a joke.

Tesla will wipe the floor with them.
This is interesting. At first I was on the side of Nissan Computer Corp., but on thinking about it: it's only because of Google that I know Nissan.com is not the motor company. This must have been a major pain for Nissan motors before Google. Nissan.com probably has many, many more hits due to visitors trying to find Nissan Motors. In such cases, I think we need to have a means to acknowledge that there is probably a stronger argument in favor of Nissan motors owning the domain.
How release canaries can save your bacon
> For what its worth, there are not small groups of people running around with Hakenkreuz flags and SS uniforms in the US. A dishonor to all the victims of the Third Reich. Please do not tell me you find this acceptable in any way.

I absolutely find it acceptable. It's proof that the 1st Amendment is alive and well. Consider these groups as the canaries in a coal mine. As soon as they're shut down, based solely on the content of their ideas, the whole point of free speech is doomed.

You may think that only certain categories of ideas should be protected speech, and strive to enact that into law. But when the political winds change and your ideas become unacceptable, you'll have nothing to stand on when your speech is criminalized.
Well said.

We ran a 130+ remote company, we found that even just meeting once a year in a big group meetup where half the company came every other year connected people so much for subsequent google hangout calls.
I saw it on Netflix and loved it. I also highly recommend it for anyone that wants to watch a unique documentary.
Agreed, also we work and advise many in Mexico who are not what some might call "real journalists" in the sense of working for a newspaper. Many of the people who have been targeted are bloggers, part time activists etc.
This algorithm is slower than existing approaches (Pollard's rho); the ridiculously small "largest group" that the author considered can be easily tackled in a split second with even inefficient general algorithms such as Shank's. It's surprising that such a boring non-result made it to the front page of HN.
The GNOME Tweak tool can help configuring GNOME for HiDPI settings through scaling factors. Also changing fonts, themes and such.

The default GNOME themes are functional but I never enjoyed them much. Sam Hewitt made an excellent theme for GNOME, including a full icon and cursor set. It really does improve the look and feel of GNOME.

https://snwh.org/paper
This comment seems historically substantive at first but then veers into trollish weirdness. Please don't do that, especially not on inflammatory topics (of all of which this is the mother).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14024458 and marked it off-topic.
Why should a US worker be prioritized over an Indian/Pakistani one? I cannot even begin to understand the logic behind such a decision.
What Makes This the Best Mechanical Keyboard and Mouse
Though globalization is a definite trend, so much of a persons money is spent on the basics of food and housing, where the money spent is usually higher in the US and more of it will stay local. As these things still need local jobs, and more of those jobs requires more middle class jobs to care for their needs.

And I mean no offense here, they would need to spend more on housing than yourself in the short term, making them a net positive relative to yourself almost immediately.
>OS/2 existed for quite a while before Warp came about.

>OS/2 was to go along with the PS/2. A update on the PC platform that was much more bespoke IBM compared to the largely assembled from off the shelf parts that was the PC/AT.

Yes, I was aware of those points, that Warp was a late or last version of OS/2 and that IBM tried to make the PC architecture closed with the PS/2 line - after it being originally open with the PC (which was what led to its success as a platform, due to the adoption and all the clones and extension cards and software for it). Had read about it. That doesn't change the fact that Warp had good reviews. Didn't try it out personally though.
That is a very expensive oversight if they did not already negotiate.

I would not be surprised, however, if they already have an agreement (and kept it in his name until after the announcement, so that it would not be 'leaked' by the whois changing).
Let them stop selling phones with Android, create their own forks and lets see whose devices the public will bother to buy.
And who gets the power to decide what's "right-extremist"? You?
It depends what you want to do, if it's just for a logo or a one-off small task I reckon 99 designs might be the right fit. If you need something more involved then I agree with the others that Dribbble/behance is a good choice.
fun fact: The founder of Blackwater is the brother of the newly minted Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Drain the swamp, lol
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Verizon should upgrade all their DSL to fiber optics, instead of wasting time on AOL/Yahoo.
Note that this is a discussion with the current maintainer of duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org/), which does block-level backups to any of a variety of remote storage services including S3, Backblaze, Dropbox, Onedrive, Google Drive, etc. with various backends contributed by whoever wants to build them. Backend requirements are minimal.

One thing I wasn't entirely comfortable with is that it sounded like it was pretty much a single retired maintainer with a few active contributors.
Along these lines, the first major Python project I used I was amazed Python was used. It's a real-time 3D reconstruction system operating on a live video stream. That was ten years ago.

There was some assembly and C at the very core, but every point generated was a Python tulle at one point in processing.
Looks cool. Are you hiring Product folks anytime soon?
Britain still had homophobic laws until early 2000 (section 28). The lack of contrition among the bad actors involved is pretty striking. The government's past behaviour should be treated as abhorrent and criminal.
Companies start implanting microchips into workers' bodies
I don't have a good theory - it's just based on reading biographies. Almost no famous thinkers lived on passive income (although, as I've said, annuities and bonds have been widely available for over 500 years). And probably not any kind of job will do. The most plausible explanation I've read belongs to Richard Feynman:

> I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something; I am making some contribution" -- it's just psychological. When I was at Princeton in the 1940s I could see what happened to those great minds at the Institute for Advanced Study, who had been specially selected for their tremendous brains and were now given this opportunity to sit in this lovely house by the woods there, with no classes to teach, with no obligations whatsoever. These poor bastards could now sit and think clearly all by themselves, OK? So they don't get any ideas for a while: They have every opportunity to do something, and they are not getting any ideas. I believe that in a situation like this a kind of guilt or depression worms inside of you, and you begin to worry about not getting any ideas. And nothing happens. Still no ideas come. Nothing happens because there's not enough real activity and challenge

http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
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I just wrote a check - pretty much the only check I write any more, to pay my lawn guy.

The only other time I've used a check in the recent past has been to void one for direct deposit at an employer.

I wish there was a way around both of these - I hate writing checks.
murder is already illegal
I'm guessing there's more to it than the risk. Maybe it was in financial trouble, maybe the owner(s) wanted out anyway, maybe they were threatened directly or paid off, or maybe something else.
Yes. Def hexrays/Ida
I mean, there's chips that have that in their top metal layers, and there's still crazy people out there with electron microscopes and tiny pins that subvert them.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20111124050620/http://www.f...

I wouldn't be surprised if increased physical security on ATMS isn't worth the practical difference in losses.
Google distributes patches each month to OEM's 1 month before they're released. Some OEM's merge them into their code base and create a patch while others don't really care.
How many people are killed by the Islamic state? I don't think they have strong free speech protection there.

Free speech and evil are not causal links.
.NET Architecture Guidance (Common Application Patterns)
Is it? It's understandable why they'd want to claim that, and why a culture might exist of mutually rewarding "brilliant leadership" with "competitive packages", but... come on. What do you think the ratio of people who are actually, individually responsible for $100m in value, to the people receiving compensation as though they were, might really be?
Sliding Window Technique Problems
H1b abusing consulting companies tend to pick the job title with the lowest average compensation no matter what, since the official job title governs allowed salary limits in H1b.

This is why the average salary for a "software consultant" is so much lower than most other titles. These companies all pile on the same lightly used job title to synergistically lower the average salary.

I don't think it has anything to do with seniority levels, it's money. The fact that most of these devs are brought in as junior engineers shows that these companies don't really need employees with specialized knowledge, which is the whole point of the program.
Open Letter to the Free Software Community
That's stated in the article
>Free speech doesn't encompass fraud.

Indeed it doesn't, which is why fraud has been illegal since the foundation of the country.

Is "disinformation" the same as fraud? Who shall decide what constitutes "intentional disinformation" and what doesn't, and at what point it rises to fraudulence? We already have laws that address these questions -- how do you suggest modifying them?

If we're using the election as a meter of the impact of this "disinformation", and, obviously we are, since the moral panic over "fake news" was a propaganda campaign to respond to Clinton's loss, it would seem that the country is pretty split over whose information is credible, and which side is perpetrating a fraud.

Let people decide and listen to the sources that they find credible. Why is the market not good enough? Is it because you don't like the decisions people make when they're free to select their own sources of truth?

How long until I should expect to see you at church, pulling the minister away from the pulpit to correct his "disinformation"? Wait -- don't answer that.

How can we have any freedom once we go down this road? It goes right back to the old ways of "might makes right". Whomever has the most power at the time will be able to decree some speech "fraud" and "disinformation" and punish people for speaking ideas that are too dangerous to entrust to the hoi polloi.

You know that in restrictive regimes, they don't go around saying "It's great living in a non-free country." They go around saying "We are free here, we just don't allow evil men to defraud the people with lies".

Ultimately, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder. Just gotta watch it to make sure nothing you believe ever shifts out from under you and becomes "hate speech", "disinformation", or, plainly, "fraud" without your realizing it.
In addition to the one-dimension vs two-dimension distinction, perhaps it useful to think of CSS Grid as for page/application-level layout, whereas Flexbox is for component-level layout.
More demand for senior engineers will decrease their salaries?
Stable coins still have volatility, however the volatility is pushed to a different set of players (in this case the mkr holders). These mkr holders have a big incentive to promote adoption of dai (the stable coin).
Remote? Super interested, but not relocating.
Is there any opportunity for remote work?
Just want to say - I don't recommend this company. A warning to all: Extremely clique-y and they'll fire you if the wind blows the wrong way. Don't be fooled by the "unlimited vacation" and "ping pong and arcade machines". It's a joke. Read the Glassdoor reviews.
From their viewpoint: The biggest cost for the company that implements something is their employees' time, and that's likely true of your customers, as well. Your costs are easily measured by you; the customers' costs aren't. Reading the article, it's a little grating that their costs aren't given the same weight as yours.

From your viewpoint: You've got a large constant X (representing time taken doing something un-optimizable like I/O), a small constant Y (representing the "language multiplier"), and a small constant Z (representing CPU-heavy work). So you've got something like Time=N(X+Y*Z), which for values of Y and Z in your work, means that X is by far the largest timesink.

From my viewpoint: You're talking past each other, imagining different constants. It's also interesting to me that a program is still considered written in "Python" if the interesting parts are actually in C, and called from Python. You make points that I agree with about premature optimization, but I think the way you wrote your article opens it to easy misinterpretation, since everyone will view it through their workloads (which may vary strongly from yours). I would've limited the discussion explicitly to the kinds of use-cases you're thinking of.
Yes. But there are many who will not read it\skim it.
Making acquisitions and executing on a cutting edge market opportunity are two different things. When GM adds something unique to the AI transportation market, then they'll be relevant. As of now they're just an outsider trying to get in.
If the product lines are named "Hand," "Skull," "Eye," etc. I really don't want to be anywhere near them.

"Vecna was founded on the idea that people matter, and that businesses can be profitable, ethical, and socially responsible." [...] "The name ‘Vecna’ is derived from the Czech word věčný, fem. věčná, meaning ‘eternal’. Our company and products are built to last."

And they named it after the Lich from Dungeons & Dragons (pre-AD&D even).
Bitcoin has a trusted bunch of bootnodes hardcoded into each client. If they act poorly, its trivial to swap them out. Just like its trivial to swap an exchange rate oracle.
I think there are very, very few people who are worth $100m, but I absolutely believe that there are those people, especially within a company like Google.

This isn't the first time Google tried to keep an exec by paying them $50m+ (nor is it the second)

http://www.businessinsider.com/neal-mohan-googles-100-millio...

http://fortune.com/2016/03/29/googles-pichai-received-100-mi...
Amen, brother. I guarantee you if some brilliant guy thinks he's worth $100MM and you refuse to pay it and he walks there will be a very long line of equally brilliant folks who will settle for $10MM.
Tesla doesn't have billions of miles of data. You have been lied to and you bought it Hook line and sinker. The data Tesla collect are high precision map based on Gps logging and radar blacklist for false positives.

All that data is useless for anything other than level 2.

You're a portrait of the Tesla hype. But I don't blame you
You don't think the IDE automatically bringing up the documentation for the function arguments is more efficient here than typing terminal commands for each function you're using? I don't understand why people insist on using bare bones text editors when IDEs with more automation exist.
I don't think those too ill to work are homeless for very long. They either find a way to get medical treatment or, most likely(in the US at least) just die.
"Oracles are trusted external actors tasked with providing continuous price data" https://github.com/makerdao/docs/blob/master/Dai.md
Don't get me wrong, warts regarding high DPIs have existed for far too long and definitely need some love, but I'm a bit sadder the few complaints I see about design direction were not taken on board.

Running what appears to be a touch UI (definition: very few buttons, those that exist are large, lots of dead space, information density very low) with a mouse feels shockingly unproductive, and at least personally, conveys the impression of working with a mobile app toy rather than a workstation used for getting work done.

GNOME3's launcher: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/GNOME-3-16-...

You can't look at this and not see shades of iOS's Springboard. Very touch friendly on small mobile device screens, very wasteful on large ones, like the kind most of us have at our desks.

...and like the kind that most of G3's users will be running it on.

I'm forced to write off G3 as yet another misguided attempt to unify touch and mouse UIs, in an attempt to appeal to the kind of newbie user that wouldn't even be running G3 in the first place.
Why this VC wants to make traditional VC obsolete