skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uugggghhh.

I think this list hits cultural problems more than anything else and is largely incomplete. It would be better mentioned as:

* Don't be polite

* If code style is what keeps you up at night then you aren't a good programmer

Politeness is dishonesty. It is an excuse to lie because the lie less hurtful than the shame and disgrace of the truth. This is bullshit.

I am a military guy, so for me nothing is more important than honesty and mutual respect. Kindness is a quality not valued at all. Hurt me with honesty, since I am an adult I can take it. If this is a problem for you I will view you as a weak coward one hand, but more importantly I will perceive that you are a liar and not worthy of trust on any level.

We live in a wonderful modern world of awesome static analysis tools. Code style is something that can be automatically analyzed, validated, and largely corrected. There is absolutely no need for human intervention in this regard. If code style is your biggest concern during a code review I will view you as primarily incompetent since you have no ability to prioritize what is actually important. I will also view you as an expired dinosaur for spending manual time on tasks better served by software.
On the other hand, it could be argued that the statue commissioned by SHE is an example of the very dynamism he was extolling, by using a bull in Wall Street as a symbol of the American people.
The California land where no-one can live
Making any assumptions on a sample of size 1 for something as multicausal as human longevity is ridiculous
>I think it'd be hard to say Di Modica had been "defeated" as an artist if that all unfolded ...

Defeat in context of the principles the statue represents, not Di Modica personally as an artist. Sorry, I should have been more clear.

That said, I suppose the beauty of art is that it's open to interpretation, and even the scenario you outline could be construed as congruent with the principles the statue represents. Removal may not constitute defeat after all.
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You might want to find other Indian engineers working for companies in Europe. Maybe LinkedIn helps with that. Once you found a few, message them asking for how they did it.
The supermarket is going to stick with their electronic shelf labels as they are wireless updating, so no need for pulling them off the shelf to run through a printer.

There will be other niches though, one mentioned is public transport e-money/fare cards having the fare updated and promotional advertising. I can't see that happening though as this would be too slow to move through a gate compared to a NFC card. From a transport operators point of view they are unlikely to want move back towards a system where the fare gate ingests, prints and ejects a card. Have you seen the inside of a fare gate for dealing with magnetic cards? More mechanical parts than your average pinball machine, a wonder of technology but really nowhere near as reliable as an NFC reader (picture at http://www.industrytap.com/japan-railways-automated-ticket-g... and illustrative video at https://youtu.be/MIzekUVPdgY). And of course NFC is getting more availability on mobile phones so the fare card will disappear into the mobile.

And of course, there is paper, mighty cheap and comes in fancy colours :)

Edited - add ticket gate image and video
Should name it Safe Space News /s
Banks can't loan 100% of their assets so, at least 5% does just sit there.
Looks like people are continuing to spam defaced Angela Merkel pics.

How did you go about preventing spam? If you feel it might give the spammers the information to circumvent your measures, consider writing a blog post later.

How many users did the site receive over the course of the past 2 days?

Really cool weekend project btw, this is literally the first time I have seen someone follow through on the "I can build X in a weekend" claims.
In the IoT age: On the internet, nobody knows you're a fridge.
> Also, if you are in high regard and can afford it, you can do everyone a favour by rejecting certain common but harmful practices

While I agree, it's important that this is perceived as "this is how things should work" rather than "I'm high status so I can do this but you can't".
You could make it so that blank pixels are free to draw on, but it takes longer to redraw subsequent times. This would encourage the board to get filled up even with a small number of users, but would eventially allow things to be "locked down". Also would work well if you expect users to scale with time!.

For example, first draw = free. 2nd redraw 10 seconds, 3rd redraw 20 seconds... capped a 5 minutes. Not that the actual implimentation is that important.
"the other 95% of the time" haha
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Perhaps if the girl were to offer the bull a Pepsi?
Heh thanks!

I feel like there's two kinds of people who make bold statements like that: There's young people who are suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect - inexperienced but think they're hot shit. Then there's people who've actually done a lot of hackathon-type events and as a result know what it takes to pull them off successfully. (Time, caffine, and a deep familiarity your tools.)
> More companies should hire on a project basis and share the revenues.

The problem with this is employees being unwilling to take on risk. In general they want to get paid a good amount whether the project succeeds or not.
> Copyright, trademark and patent laws I think I get

Probably not :)

Even copyright law that's "simple" on paper gets sooo hairy so fast in practice - just look at all the FOSS licenses :)
The original post was comparing Flash's authoring experience to Electron's authoring experience. The fact that you can use the former in the latter wasn't relevant. It was about what would happen to animation if Flash were to go away versus it Electron were to go away.
Not sure about that:

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/medium...
This looks nice, like an evolution of FOAF. It has the proper focus on many of the key ingredients it will need to be successful: access control, identity, and the correct goals. Unfortunately, this probably won't work any better than similar solutions. It is missing something more important, a smart distribution mechanism. The web is not the answer.

So long as they continue to think in terms of data and delivery the best they can hope for is Facebook plus privacy. They can do better than this.
Aaron Swartz made a good point about the relevance of news [1].

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
No, moral rights go beyond physical integrity, but at the same time they only protect "the author's honor or reputation". I don't think they apply in this case.
I passed 40. I have kids and got a huge mortgage on my home. I used to do development but somehow I got into doing more architecture and advising.

I miss developing but try to do some on my spare time, but I have to be careful with IP because of my current contract states that anything I produce potentially is not owned by me.

My experience working as a developer was that it got exponentially harder when I got my kids. Kids suck up all your free time and then also a little bit of your working time. Especially when they are small and need to go to kindergarten, they need to be picked up early, cared for and have vacations.

Don't get me wrong, I love my kids and how I have changed as a parent - but it made it much more difficult to compete with developers without kids and without a partner.

why? imo, when I was without kids and a partner myself I was much more productive, I worked all the time, always giving 100% and then doing free overtime just to fix that hard issue that had ready by certain time and date.

It is difficult to compete with someone like that.
Ideally, the bear would have her head in its mouth.

The three pieces would become a single work warning about Wall Street threatening our future.
No risk, no fun ;)
Did you read the article? It represents a bull market. It was put there in the wake of the 1987 crash.
>I have seen hardly anyone putting in any effort to do that

Because the only people in any position to actually do anything about that are not willing to do anything about it.

But there are also plenty of examples for when the effort paid off in very big ways, like iTunes, Steam and the now thriving VoD business.

>before wrecking entire industries that you know nothing about and didn't take the time to understand

Like what? You offer nothing but dramatics while ignoring the actual realities. What industries got actually "wrecked"? And what industries profited immensely by appealing to customers demands, instead of trying to dictate to customers what they are supposed to "want"?

iTunes was a success because Apple took cues from what made music piracy so sucessfull. They took note of customers not wanting to be forced to buy overpriced full albums if they just want a single song, they took note of the ease of use.

Same story with Steam: Ease of use and massive discounts, lessons taken straight from the piracy scene and applied for business success.

VoD is going the same route right now but guess what mostly hampers the business from global expansion? Copyrights and the whole legal rattail that comes with it.
Why does my German Prime subscription not give me access to Prime content on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk? Why do so few Blu-Rays have a proper selection of different subtitles/dubs on them? As long as "buying the real thing" ends up being more of a hassle than just pirating it, that long pirating will, of course, stay the more popular choice.

>the resulting lack of revenue by saying 'lol copyright is broken.'

Try to imagine the "lack of revenue" that would exist without iTunes and Steam existing, that's actual measurable revenue and not fairy tale "nobody buys my product, can't be because it sucks, must be piracy!" revenue.
That the statue was still created as a corporate advertisement, regardless of whether the plaque is present.
I thought Robert X. Cringely did an excellent summary of the time -- in Accidental Empires as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires
Place the statue of naked Donald Trump between the charging bull and the fearless girl.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/disturbing-statue-nude-d...

Then place the coiled sculpture of Quetzacoatl behind the charging bull.

http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Sanjose/Quetzy/que...
Eat well and rest. -- and exercise. The best natural anti-depressant and life-extension technique (fine, maybe tied with caloric restriction).

TL;DR: Exercise.
What I find really interesting is that non-English speaking countries dub basically everything yet English speaking countries subtitle most of the time. Sometimes even things in English get subtitled (e.g. The Full Monty for the US market).

As a native English speaker dubbing drives me nuts. I want to see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon subtitled not dubbed.

Why the preference? I know the French are super paranoid about the cultural hegemony of English. Is this the case elsewhere?
It actually is an issue in both systems which is why in state-provided systems there are limits to what kind of treatments at what stages etc and in privet insurance systems there are limits to coverage.

The main premise of this discussion is that it's not possible to pay enough for healthcare. I.e. even if you taxed people 100% there still would be things they couldn't get because it has to be available to everyone and there are always new treatments being developed, new machines, new drugs.

Whether you find it humane or not is based on what you consider the end-game of healthcare.
C and C++ ABI is implementation defined. All major platforms have a standard ABI for both, although sometimes it's broken intentionally. E.g. MinGW uses a GCC/Linux-like C++ ABI and not the MSVC C++ ABI.

Note that "platform" means e.g. Linux-x86-64 and not Linux. Linux-ppc has different rules, for example.
> Most of us COULD run a Fortune 500 company as well as the average CEO

I appreciate your optimism; at the same time, I think it is somewhat unwarranted.

Running a 10-person company is challenging enough to have your shrink on the speed dial. As for Fortune 500 CEOs, those are superhumans on steroids (or cocaine and alcohol), who bend reality by their very presence. You have about the same chance of approaching their attitude as becoming an Olympic athlete.

Thankfully, there are other ways to achieve happiness (or make money, if you want something more quantitative) without becoming a big company CEO. One thing I know for sure: I don't envy them.
no, not really, when they launched QQ was big and I was just surprised why some people have different status to find out it's wechat, but anyway QQ was dominating markets, everything else including Xiaomi or MSN had just leftovers
The second paragraph trying to class source code disclosure programs intended to find backdoors as proof of their existence was amazing, too.

The fact that it got 1.5k upvotes is a great reminder that voting systems aren't a magic wand for solving quality issues. People just love conspiracy theories too much to think critically…
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Excellent work actually completing the challenge set! If you were to do it again, would you still use the same technology used here? Kafka especially seemed to cause you a few issues.
If this diorama advanced in time a few seconds, the fearless girl would be dead.
Yes, the common usage in America, because the article is about Italian restaurants in an American city.
These things were the 'fremium apps' of the time, 'apps' for the hi-fi.

Now the odd thing is that I bought many thousands of records, only in 12" or (rare) 10" size. Along the way I collected maybe three 7" singles, 10-20 photo colour discs, 50-100 coloured/transparent discs and precisely zero flexidiscs. To me they were not an incentive to buy a magazine or box of cereal, they had zero relevance to the music I was collecting.

Why was this?

Probably CD buyer remorse had something to do with it. A pressing of 1000 'white label' by the artist would be pure music, by the time it made it to CD it would have been remixed and licensed to a bigger label - a major label, yikes! So for my ears, CD was always inferior. Then there was the flexidisc - the music would be the Justin Beiber/Hanson grade stuff of the day, i.e. the stuff made by labels not artists. I think this article cherry picks the good from the bad, flexidiscs were bad, with as much appeal as the 99% of 'apps' you can get for your phone today.
This just doesn't add up to me.

5500 is an odd number (not power of two) which rules out some kind of overflow issue.

Was this some kind of fixed size database? Why would it have crashed when storing 5500 rows?

Maybe storing that many hit a timeout, and maybe they were stored outside a transaction, hence leaving the system in an inconsistent state? But that wouldn't explain the database shutting down.

Maybe they were trying to store 5500 but hit a limit at 4096 before getting there?

I feel something is lost in translation (between nerds and non nerds) in the explanation for this outage.
But reddit itself is a tool to bring cohesion out of a million random strangers.

As others have said subcommunities quickly formed or some subreddits themselves had a orga-thread to paint an iconic logo relevant to their niche.
There is a lot of tension between advertising and art.
Why not? E.g. both Samsung and Intel already have that level of vertical integration.
The reason these linked data, semantic web, GNU social projects end up going no where is because they put principles ahead of product. People want things they can click/tap/share and use without having to go through a manual/spec. And when the time arises to build those products one quickly discovers that the lofty principles don't match the user expectation.

Something like Snapchat that provides a very very weak guarantee of privacy but has your classmates is immensely more useful to society than a decentralized federated social network with PGP signed identities filled with crypto enthusiasts.
Sure - if a stock is undervalued, then anyone buying it should get a good deal.

But that's bit different from saying that a stock buyback will always increase share price.
Monopolies are well studied, fungible global commodities like kerosene have complex interactions. But, nothing in Titsan says a more competitive market could not drive down prices by 71%. However a more obvious counter example is Mexican telecom market.

You can't automate million dollar paintings. If you sell 300,000$ watches the cost is part of the appeal, it's just conscious consumption.

Supply demand curve, if someone wants to buy land as an investment there is no new land created which increases prices somewhere. See any city with significant vancant housing stock from foreign investors.

JK Rowling did not become wealthy by being a wise investor. The Walton family includes someone who diversified and guess what they have less money than the others, demonstrating incompetence. I could go on but having lots of money and being a competent investor are very different things.
Only to a certain, small level of complexity (or simply just size). Beyond that you are better off with documented abstractions.
That's a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid simply saying "I'm an entitled asshole"...
That's not really the same thing since a big part of the reason BASIC had numbers on every line was to facilitate interactive, line-based editing, not to make them all targets for GOTO. FORTRAN had numerical labels for flow control by that point.
I'm a designer, but one of the most useful things I learned, after Python, is RegEx. I use it all the time in Sublime Text for "Find and Replace". Saves me a lot of time.

I also think it can be learned in a weekend. At least up to a certain degree.

Here are some resources http://stackoverflow.com/a/2759417
Overall redshirts aren't the most likely to die, but if there's a redshirt on an away team they've got the worst odds.
If I want to make this distinction I usually use the term "Chinese takeout."
In Arabic, some country names get the definite article "al ال" like "(The) Iraq العراق" while most don't and "Ukraine أوكرانيا" is definitely one of them.
Intel makes phones and (significant amounts of) computers now?
Do you think somebody reading nj.com is really likely to be confused about what country the restaurants being discussed are in? This is like complaining about a US newscast referring to "our nation's capital" because every country has a different capital.
>>Copyright limitations are a reasonable thing for society to extend to content producers.

No they really are not, and have never been

Copyright, historically, is a tool for Information Gatekeeping, censorship, and profiteering. Not one of benfiting the Creators of content

See the Talk on the History of Copyright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI

We see this every day in the modern era where copyright is used to censor critics, prevent research (especially security research), and prevents more content from being created by locking up ideas for over a century

Copyright is a Negative for Society, and for Creators
Does anyone know what device is used to change image on e-ink pricetags? I know that there are some wireless ones, but I imagine that wired should be cheaper and better for hacking.

Those pricetags are pretty cheap. And on Ali Express they sell those 3 color ones. Maybe it would be possible to use them to make some fun keyboard?
For the first time in human history, its possible to be represented (almost) solely through the merits of your work.

Like anonymous works can't exist in the physical space?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_work

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anonymous_artists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anonymously_published_...
>Turn her 180 degrees on the other hand and it's clearly conveying the message "brave women lead the way of capitalist progress, and is backed up by the strength of the finance system"

Or girl who isn't paying attention about to get wrecked by a bull.
There actually is a russian phrase "на чужбине", "на чужой земле" (in a foreign land) where "на" is used when talking about another country. I guess using different prepositions is something historical, so "на" is not used anymore, but it is left in some set phrases.
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You hear that? This Representative just promised to change the FBAR (FinCEN Report 114) so that you can file it by mailing the form in! Oh and not to mention free copies of all of the various tax forms and instructions for both federal and state governments! /s

Yes, I get that this is different from using the internet as a consumer, but there are so many things today that NEED the internet in America that his statement, "Nobody’s got to use the Internet." either shows zero thought into the nuances of this topic OR that he is willfully ignorant. Seriously, how much of his job requires the internet? I'm willing to bet most of it. The most basic of which is e-mail. Given a Representative who won't use email and one who will, which do you think would be more effective at their job?
Hmm, they better start learning Chinese too...
> How did you go about preventing spam?

I can't really hide anything - all the code is on github, though its ... um, ... not pretty. It might be better if nobody looks. http://github.com/josephg/sephsplace

But the system at the moment is really simple: The site only accepts 10 edits per 10 seconds from any IP address. After that your edits get rejected until the next 10 second window begins. You can write bots to draw things for you (and lots of the images you see are drawn this way). But drawing big objects is slow. So thats ok. I think thats a reasonable compromise between bots being powerful and humans being powerful.

The giant Angela Merkel image (and some other smut that I deleted) was drawn by someone proxying edits through about 200 IP addresses. I don't know if they're using TOR, or have access to a botnet or are using an anonymizing proxy or something. I could tell they were all the same botnet because all the requests had the useragent of 'python-requests/2.10.0'. (I have an IP address list if anyone wants to take a look.)

Anyway, I figured those addresses are probably hard to replace - so I let them do it, harvested the addresses and banned them all. Worse, I made it impossible to tell which servers are banned - the server replies to banned servers like normal - their edits just never appear.

I caught about 2/3rds of their addresses before they started making their headers match real browser traffic, but I think I ruined their fun and they stopped.

I have a few more tricks up my sleeve I could pull out if that little war escalated further. For example, I could always add a captcha you have to fill out when you open the page. The captcha would generate a token that you would have to provide with each edit. Rate limiting would then be by-token. Bots would still work, but you would have to give the token to your script. But getting around the rate limiting would be harder.

> How many users did the site receive over the course of the past 2 days?

Um I'm embarrassed to say I don't know! I don't have a log of which IP addresses generated each edit. Monitoring and logging seemed much less important at the time. Its obvious in retrospect, but I wish I'd sent each edit along with a timestamp and some metadata into a separate kafka queue when I received them. That way I would have a complete audit log to play with now. I have all the edits - but I have no way of knowing who did what, or how many unique visitors I've had.
BlackRock even has more than twice that. :/
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I hope they leave her and that Di Modica pulls the bull. Perhaps his point will come across better and the fearless fraud will be exposed.
Yes, but I'm Swedish.

The average here seems to be around 3 cups per day (or ~9 kg roasted coffee beans per person and year, haven't computed the cup size that renders).