skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's related to the engineering practices at Google (3.1 below)

> "Engineers are permitted to spend up to 20% of their time working on any project of their choice, without needing approval from their manager or anyone else"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf
Duck and cover, kids. This ain't gonna be pretty.
I enjoyed Frank Nothaft's talk about ADAM at Spark Summit East, cool to see y'all in the wild :)

FWIW I'm at a Scala shop where we use SBT exclusively. There's things about it that suck, it's definitely symbol-happy, but for our purposes it sucks less than Maven. Haven't looked into Gradle, all the other comments here have made me curious to try it out.
What value does Leslie bring to the table with all the racist whitehate speech?
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The Lesson You Never Got Taught in School: How to Learn
Are you saying 23&Me gives you a file with the full list of chromosome's ACGT data? I've always wanted that.

Also is prometheus and open source analyzer?
The US government forcing a private company to reveal my identity because of an opinion I hold is terrifying to me.
RensenWare Will Only Decrypt Files If Victim Scores .2B in TH12 Game
The rule against harassment.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

> actively posting racist tweets.

[Citation Needed]
1. The U.S. and ISIS are on the same side in this war.

2. Assad is a secularist, modernizer.

Shudder.
The topic is not moral value. The topic is freedom as an individual to say and think what I wish within the eyes of the law. When a special interest of people decide what is right and wrong in the eyes of the law, it becomes well... the law. If the law is "you may not verbally harass someone" then what is the interpretation of what verbal harassment is? What is sufficient harm to a victim that would justify legal action? What is the legal action for verbally harassing someone (not in a workplace but in a public setting).

Some sad news for the social justice crowd... these types of internet harassment problems are simply not that important to enough people, and do not cause enough harm for laws like this to be enacted or even seriously considered on a federal or state level. Corporations like twitter can do as they wish, and will be scrutinized for censorship by all Americans who value their first amendment right.

Who...surprise...are the majority! The united states has made its military so strong and has armed itself to incredible levels of overkill just to protect these rights from foreign powers who disagree. That's not just coincidence. The people who founded this country, as well as the ones who now live here clearly want and value those rights and freedoms. So much so, they are willing to die in massive numbers for them. That's almost the opposite of genocide.
This precisely. What is going on in here? This story has nothing to do with Twitter banning certain accounts, so why is half the discussion about that?
It doesn't frame them as anything, it just documents the fact that the firm has made a legal filing in response to a summons.
I feel guilty: I didn't respond on the initial post because I doubted the really outrageous/far-out ideas like "dump everything you've been working on for the past five years" would actually be fruitful, but man, Shuttleworth shut me right up haha. Congrats on the Ubuntu team for the courage to make bold changes when necessary and to actually (finally?) listen to pointed community feedback and constructive criticism.

I haven't been this excited for Ubuntu since 2010.
Just a slight overreaction on your part. Just about every President has launched punitive strikes against targets for bad behavior. None led to WW3.
You talking about Leslie Jones? He photo-shopped some images to look like screen grabs of Leslie Jones saying racist things. Can you link to a racist tweet she has actually posted?

And the TOS term he broke was actively inciting others to personally harass Leslie Jones.
> Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were pretty good. Then both shells lost their way. Why do they try to be a bad clone of macOS rather than keep being a Win98 on steriods (KDE 3) or a more simple shell for normal users (Gnome 2).

I completely agree with this. Back in the Gnome 2 days I was very happy using Ubuntu. As someone who has used MS Windows for a couple of decades, the way the Gnome 3 desktop switched to Mac-style interface, without any option to change back really irritated me. I don't think I'm alone, I think there are a lot of people who have used Windows who were alienated by the gnome changes and gnome devs preference for creating shiny new things over having things that worked and had few bugs.

I have tried to customise gnome in the past and it didn't have sufficient customisibility to have a windows-style bar at the bottom with apps, start menu and clock and also menus on the apps instead of on a common bar. I did try Mate but the distro wasn't up to the quality of what it was trying to replace. This was probably 3 years ago now though.

Making the file manager like the Mac finder was pretty annoying too (I think that was KDE 4 though). So much functionality went away when they did that.
How many of them were under the protection of Russia?
Twitter is not bound by the First Amendment, nor should it be.
"It actually takes a significant amount of both balls and goodwill to give up on the product that you invested so much into for the sake of aligning better with your open source community."

They didn't do it to align with the open source community. They did it because Canonical wants outside investors, but potential investors don't think Unity can make money.

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=14056369
You could still run into issues. Imagine twitter stock crashed and you took out a large loan, you're still on the hook for that amount and now you don't have any assets. I would also assume that the ventures that he claims to be going into (charitable donations/VC funding) would require you to have the assets in hand.
Staff, projects shed as Ubuntu maker Canonical tries to lure investors
I'm a bioinformatician, but haven't really pondered doing this on my own DNA too much. Wouldn't be terribly complicated to sequence and analyse your entire genome though.

Provided you could purify your DNA, sequencing wouldn't be an issue - just send it off to someone like BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) and download the seq files when they're done. Purified DNA is stable and inert, so no special conditions required for posting it.

Sequence files are just text (if they're in FASTQ format), and all the common tools are open-source. No doubt someone somewhere has put together a Docker image with software for the entire workflow (FASTQ file processing --> read alignment --> variant calling), so processing isn't a big issue. As there's no de novo genome assembly or anything like that, the whole thing can be done on a run-of-the-mill PC, and would take a few days, depending on the depth of sequencing.

My guess is cost would be approaching US$1000 now.
Note that sentiment tends to also jump at the ends of grammatical phrases. For example, "Seriously, the screenplay AND the directing were horrendous" [sudden drop in sentiment without punctuation] "and clearly done by people who could not fathom what was good about the novel."

This seems to have to do with a pretty deep understanding of grammar; the model waits until it the low-level neurons have something to pass up (decoding of a complete unit of meaning) before using that to update its sentiment neuron.

A lot of next-character or next-word prediction ends up working like this - internally, the model keeps some state and makes big changes to its understanding at points that have to do with the structure of the stream.
Not just not granted, rather even, explicitly forbidden.
LORD OPEN THE KING OF ENGLAND'S EYES
The first amendment does not guarantee a right to a platform.
> But after this time the best we have is a nasty hack that can kind of disable it.

That's not true. We have the Novena. And the EOMA68 laptop is currently being worked on here:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

Have a look at the past few months of messages on the EOMA mailing list to get a sense of the intricacies involved in shipping such a product:
http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook

But even if the EOMA68 laptop ships, it must ship with the mali-400 gpu disabled to be fully free because that gpu doesn't have a fully free driver.

So to answer your question about numbers, let me ask here: can anyone reverse-engineer the mali-400 and write a shader compiler for it in their spare time?
You didn't need to know about it to be guilty of structuring. I'd posit that most folks who get hit by this crap likely didn't know about it until their money was gone.
Could you link me to that ample evidence you speak of?

On-demand car sharing is the future, making Tesla's consumer car ownership model outdated. Uber is 5-7 years ahead of Tesla on the operations side of managing and deploying a fleet.
Dude, you can do better than the Daily Star!
Getting a job at Google means two major changes for 90% of programmers in US:

1. Doubling the salary

2. Working with very smart people on very interesting problems

Each one is worth a couple of months of extra hard work, if you ask me. But if given a choice of doing a cool project for a week, I'd choose that over drilling on red-black trees.
It's not correct to call this a VM. It's an optimized template language/renderer.

I'd like to see an example of the same static gzipped HTML content delivered to the browser and a template rendered with this.

I have doubts this is any more efficient than the browser's built-in gzip decoder on a time basis nor do I think it beats gzip in terms of space efficiency.

It's hard to take seriously those who claim to be optimizing things when they don't have any measurements on what they are trying to improve vs. the new method.
By the way, here's an article from last summer on the same topic, quoting Uber as saying:

“With upfront fares, riders agree to a fare that’s calculated in advance while drivers get paid based on a per-mile, per-minute rate as is normal with uberX,” the spokesman told Fortune. “Because no predictive model is 100% perfect, what riders pay and drivers earn on a trip may differ slightly from time to time.”[1]

However, it is confusing, and Uber's own site makes no mention of upfront pricing and says:

"Drivers using the partner app are charged an Uber Fee as a percentage of each trip fare."

Those two statements are at odds with each other, and both are from official Uber sources.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/10/0...

[2] https://www.uber.com/info/how-much-do-drivers-with-uber-make...
I think we're in agreement here. My point was relating to the legal freedom of speech, not any obligation on Twitter's part re. the use of their platform.
Milo wasn't banned for hate speech: he was banned for encouraging harassment of Leslie Jones.
Timing. It solved the online publishing problem at the right time. Then it snowballed into what it is today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14056254
Have you considered http://startupr.com?

I am not affiliated with them, but are using them currently and they are providing great service.
An online course on how to make money.

It won't be easy in that at $500 it better had be comprehensive. And you may need to contactable via slack or something.
Where can I get my full genome sequenced?
Why should Twitter be coerced into publishing racist tripe?
> People who actually engineer things and drive innovation are not looked up to.

In the US? Compared to whom? Doctors? Bankers? Lawyers? Politicians?

Who do you think that you are better than?
I was skeptical of that - and still am. His Wikipedia page says his father was an "Esperantist" and that he was taught Esperanto, as opposed to learning it as his first language. I find that more likely.
Even if this only allowed device based training and not privacy advantages it's exciting as a way of compression. Rather than sucking up device upload bandwidth you keep the data local and send the tiny model weight delta!
U.S. strikes Syrian military airfield
I have to say yes, I have been mentoring and in fact leading the project. I can't disagree with the fact that hiring a 25 yo as a senior is scary.
I saw a white one in downtown Toronto last week, so they're definitely out there..
Yeah, I had never heard of it before, so wasn't sure of it's reputation & whether or not to post it. (...guess not)
Porsche drag coefficient: 0.28

Model S drag coefficient: 0.24

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_drag_coefficient
If all he'd done was criticize a movie or a celebrity, nothing would have happened but what what he actually did was to repeat racist slurs[1] and incite other people to attack her by reposting fake screenshots as if they're real[2], and continuing long after it was clear that she wasn't interested in hearing from him or the rest of the GamerGate brigades.

As a private company, Twitter is under no obligation to provide anyone with a forum and their terms of service (https://twitter.com/tos and https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311) very clearly exclude that kind of behaviour:

> Harassment: You may not incite or engage in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.
> Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.

1. Called her an ape, echoing a long history of racist comparisons: https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755182965060169728
2. Examples at http://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12226070/milo-yiannopoulus-twit...
> I'm not really sure I see the difference between capitalist planning and communist planning.

Other than the fact one of them scales incredibly, has been proven to work in practice, has a strong theoretical basis, and the other has none of those and is entirely different in every way...

...yeah, they're very similar?

> Don't corporations have growth targets and multi-year plans?

Many corporations are managed internally along non-market ways (ie, socialist, bureaucratic, etc.), yes.

We're looking at a higher level: The entire market for copper, the entire supply chain for pencils, or the economy as a whole. At that scale, growth targets and multi-year plans do not work, have never worked, and will probably never work.

> Don't corporations regularly do incredibly stupid, naive, uninformed, and self-destructive things that would be impossible if the kind of distributed intelligence claimed in this article was a reality?

Of course. But the market as a whole works around it. At a big picture level, we don't know how to make companies that never do bad things, but we can create a system where bad companies are (mostly) starved of funds and killed off, whole good companies are (mostly) rewarded and allowed to grow. A planned economy also doesn't know how to stop companies (or the equivalent economic unit) from doing bad things but also can't allocate resources from the bad companies to the good ones. It's strictly inferior.
1. The US is also fighting ISIS. Despite the popular saying, "the enemy of my enemy" is not the same as "my friend".

2. Assad is also someone who uses chemical weapons on his own people. (All right, the other side of a civil war, but still citizens of his own nation.) He's a guy who turned protests into a civil war by his brutality in response. "Secularist and modernizer" isn't the same as "good guy".
Probably not that often - but it doesn't sound like its risk less for them
23&Me will let you download a text file with the ACGT data, but only for the SNPs that it has. 23&Me does not sequence your full genome, so the SNPs available are a small subset of your DNA.

Prometheus is not open-source (I think), but all it does is read various files with DNA data (like the 23&me export), and match it up with the information in SNPedia (a Wikipedia-like open repository of what we know about certain SNPs), and then exports it to a pretty HTML/JS web report for you that you can download and save.
I am not sure I like some of the new changes. It seems to me like JS is expanding both towards an upper level language and a lower level language, which frankly makes it look more like a Frankenlanguage. I guess it's the limitations of having a single real language to be used in the browsers.

Edit: just check this tutorial. I'd venture to guess to 99% of JS developers it sounds totally bizarre: https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem/blob/master/TUT...
>>>The physical appearance of your bowel movements can already reveal a lot about your body’s digestive health, and color changes can even indicate more severe problems. But scientists at Rice University want to make it even easier to spot medical problems in your colon, by tinting your poop a rainbow of different colors

Literally the first line.
You mean like Python?
I agree.
(Title is poorly chosen.)

I've asked this question before - why didn't the Roman Empire progress to an industrial revolution?

The Roman Empire never developed the concept of the corporation. They never got beyond the "one rich guy" or "rich family" stage of business organization. They never had much in the way of inter-city businesses. They didn't have common carriers for shipments. They had the roads and the legal system to make that work, but somehow never developed something like Wells Fargo, the stagecoach line. They lacked the organizational tools to scale a business.

The Roman Empire had figured out how to scale government, training provincial executives in Rome and sending them out to govern. The Empire had a sizable grain and oil shipping operation, but this seems to have been done as a Government contracting operation, not as a private business.

Another argument is that the industrial revolution needed coal, iron, and water power in reasonably close proximity. Italy doesn't have much of that that. England and France do. So do parts of the US. Once you've got railroads, the proximity doesn't matter as much, but until then, it's hard to get started.

The political importance of land ownership may have been an obstacle, but England had a landed gentry all through the Industrial Revolution. The landowners couldn't stop progress, although some of them opposed it. They couldn't even stop railroads; Parliament could and did approve "compulsory purchase" of the right of way.

It's a good question. For a thousand years, the Roman Empire couldn't solve this basic economic problem. What are we missing about our own society?
> Build/Package/Release logic is complicated, and deserves sophisticated tools and abstractions just as much as the code it builds.

Disagree. It should not be complicated. We dumped Maven for Gradle. Huge mistake IMO. Instead of trying to simplify build and get rid of the million build exceptions and different conventions, we persisted on them, now with a more powerful tool.

We used to chop our legs off with a knife. Now we have a chainsaw.
http://www.politico.eu/article/russia-says-support-for-syria...

(Dated today.)
I'll donate $100 to Canonical if they can convince them to offer a one-time-fee option and I don't even use Adobe products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Why not? They have byte code (sort of) that translates to actions...

I don't get the gzip comparison because this is about updating views in an SPA framework (Ember)
Missed the boat, unfortunately. Selling at the height of the hype cycle eould have been much better.
It's not cold when your actually killing people.
I started my professional experience at 18 I have indeed been through the struggle of proving myself to older members of the team who at first disapproved. Although now I feel like I know how to handle these situations.
And yet just today Rand Paul told Trump not to take unilateral military action, that he needed to clear it with Congress first. (Maybe Trump briefed them. Maybe that's good enough, but I think the idea was that Congress needed to have a chance to vote.)
Append to 1.: "moderate rebels," like Al-Nusra Front, who were actually caught in Turkey with chemical weapons [1].

Ron Paul is questioning the origin of the attack, but here we are.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia is moving forward as of earlier this week, and the Turkish stream pipeline can't move forward until the Syria question is settled. Add to that in late March Russia announced it was coming up with an alternative to the SWIFT banking system. Collision course.

Vlad doesn't seem like the kind to back down. Not looking forward to this one bit.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-syrian-rebels...
Here's a perspective on FOSS and Ububtu. One point of free open source software was we didn't need to be stuck with features we didn't like, that were decided by some majority, or leadership, because we could fork our own and customize as we like. So I think the enthusiasm for responsiveness of a central body to feature requests, is an enthusiasm for a thing not normally associated with a FOSS, which therefore demonstrates that either: that the Ubuntu ecosystem says it is FOSS, but actually operates like something else, or that FOSS fork-your-own theory doesn't apply in practice on large projects with lots of people, or that this perspective just related here is missing something.
That account, run by POTUS himself, is regularly cited on national TV and in major newspapers. Why would they ever do that?
There's a Lebanese newspaper with the same name with a very good rep
It's not quite as simple as "giving the user full control".

Doing so requires you to disable many checks and safeguards against other more prevalent kinds of attacks. Having an unlocked bootloader, unsigned OS, modified system partition, and putting all of the power of root behind one closed source binary...
Has python gotten much more low level recently?
I didn't even know about it, and I've kinda vaguely kept an eye on Libreboot since it launched (I even used to subscribe to the LinuxBIOS dev list when it launched like two decades ago, so it's an ongoing, if only mild, interest).

I certainly don't consider the project perpetually tainted. People fuck up. People deal with mental illness. People sometimes have poor interpersonal skills (this is not uncommon in technical communities...several BDFLs are widely regarded to be assholes to varying degree). All I usually want from someone is an admission of what went wrong, and a sincere effort to never repeat it and to apologize to the folks directly harmed.

I don't know enough about this to say who owes who an apology or who ought to be making amends. But, really, people have been assholes on the internet since...probably the first day the internet existed. If we let that stop us from working on cool stuff, OSS and the open internet would not be what it is today (hmmm...I guess the internet being what it is today isn't exactly a bragging point or proof of my argument).
I believe we're both right :) Seems to be a strategy employed by both sides.
Deep breathes. This may be Donald trying to make good on his campaign promise of sneak attacking without announcement.
Heh...I think Windows 3.11 already had that feature (Ctrl -> Circle zooming in to mouse) :)
This is great. It opens up a lot of possibilities for our online 3D editor - background worker threads that each work on a segment of an array.

Now if only Node.JS could support worker threads at all.
Wonderful news! Finally, someone standing up to Assad and Putin! Who would have thought it would be the US president who Putin "absolutely didn't" put into office?