skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never invoked the right not to be "uncomfortable" so I would appreciate if you took down the straw-man.

Are these public universities? Regardless, aren't the students in their right to organize counter-demonstrations? As long as they abide by the law and commit no crimes then surely the demonstration itself is not a crime no matter how it may irk some people?
But it doesn't last long. After 3 generations, maybe less, there's little statistical difference between those descended from wealth and those not (all else equal!) The super wealthy may leave billion dollar empires to their children, sure. But if we are talking about the upper middle class, a moderate inheritance from your parents isn't going to make or break your life's outcome.
> Can you explain?

Sure. Imagine for a second that all the copper in the world has been unearthed. There's a finite supply, i.e., it's a scare resource. So if we want to produce more iPhones with this copper, then there's less copper to produce pennies. There's a trade-off -- the copper market is zero-sum: allocating copper to one thing takes it away from another.

So, with that said, we have a maximum amount of iPhones we can produce with this copper and a maximum amount of pennies. If we use all the copper to produce iPhones, then no pennies can be made... and vice versa. That's the PPF for copper as it stands now... we can produce anywhere from 0-100 iPhones or 0-100 pennies.

How can we grow this PPF?

Two ways: (1) we could find more copper somewhere, or (2) we could increase the efficiency with which we use copper, i.e., technological progress. Say some PhD-whiz figures out how to use less copper to produce iPhones and pennies of the same quality by doping it. Well now we can make anywhere from 0-500 iPhones or 0-500 pennies with our copper.

Our PPF has grown outward. The pie has grown bigger. When you move the PPF it creates a non-zero-sum dynamic because there's more to go around for everyone.

How does this apply to the ad industry? Well, let's look at another hypothetical example.

The United Launch Alliance has been charging the government $100M per rocket launch. That's the only supplier the government knows about. A plucky young startup comes along and believes they can get the price down to $1M per launch. And they do it! But the government doesn't hear about it... so they keep paying $100M until one day they see an announcement (an ad) for this startup's rockets. Now they're only paying $1M per launch.

Thus they're able to allocate their funds more efficiently (technological progress) because they're able to hear about more opportunities.

> You're missing grandparent's point.

Thanks for clarifying. If that's indeed the point, then the argument is orthogonal to what we're discussing. Whether all content creators wake up tomorrow and decide to charge for their content instead of displaying ads or not, we'll still have advertising, and advertising will still be useful. It will just shift to different medium since the digital ad inventory has reduced.

That's what I think people aren't getting. For content creators to charge consumers directly, that means that consumers must somehow discover the content creators. And how does that discovery happen? Well, now, the content creators have become advertisers. They need to get the word out about their product (content) like everybody else somehow.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%E2%80%93possibility...
Humans have ate meat for thousands and years. They did not cost stuff in radium for thousands of years.
> an eye-friendly tablet…

By this, I suppose you mean e-ink paper vs. a backlit LCD?

There is ample research[1] to suggest that electronic paper (e-ink) screens don't offer any advantage over a backlit screen (say an iPad), except may be for reading under the Sun.

People do spend more time devouring content over computer monitors and mobiles phone (both are backlit) than on any other device. Have you tried reading normally over an iPad/standard Android tablet instead?

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5934993/is-e-ink-really-better-for-my-...
Or uninstall the app, the mobile website works well and doesn't slurp your battery in the background.
The idea of completely stopping cheating in systems like these harms meritocracy. I know this sounds outrageous.

The problem is systemic - in European post-socialist countries, education is based mostly on rote learning which becomes more and more pointless in a modern world. Example on the bottom.

Students cope with that by cheating, which allows them to concentrate their time on actually useful aspects. Most teachers, except the dullest ones, tolerate that. In other words, the whole system sort-of works only because of cheating! As it's so accepted rote learning is irritating, but mostly harmless.

There's a fine boundary where cheating stops being beneficial - crib notes are great, making someone else solve problems for you, or having pre-made answers is not. That actually should be punished.

Punishing all forms of cheating is going to be incredibly damaging, because it means the best scoring students are going to be those best at memorization.

Wouldn't it be better to remove rote learning instead? Obviously, but I'm afraid that's not realistic. Harshly punishing cheating now is going to achieve the opposite: today's top rote learners become tomorrow's professors and teachers. Not only did they get great scores, but they presumably feel good in a rote-learning system.

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What do I mean by rote learning? Memorize these numbers [0] to the third decimal place. Not a joke - it's a real example, albeit exceptional in its absurdity.

[0] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lsq2xglw1e4/maxresdefault.jpg
DRM is basically in the same boat as ads, the user / operating system has all the power. The code is running in a sandbox; it can do integrity/sanity checks of the sandbox, but if the emulation is good it can't look outside the sandbox to discourage "bad behavior" like blocking ads or recording the stream for later.

To paraphrase an old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8439165

> Nobody cares about cracking Widevine to extract 4 Mbps Netflix streams when Blu-ray rips are already available on the Pirate Bay. But Netflix's content, which people do care about, is being shared on torrent sites. DRM is effectively useless.
Moral idealism, in the sense of Kant's Categorical Imperative. Utilitarianism is a very attractive philosophy; of course I would love to do the greatest good for the greatest number. But I am not omniscient: not only is my understanding of future consequences limited, perhaps inherently, but so is my insight into what is good for other people.

I can't give you a general definition of what is good. In matters of interpersonal relations or politics I'm in favor equitable rather than equal outcomes; one could invert the standard utilitarian definition to being the least harm for the smallest number, which (imho) has considerably different implications for decision-making. Most people would classify this as a form of socialism and I'd be OK with that, but I mean it in the sense of a moral socialism than an operational or economic socialism with the connotations of central planning and so forth, which I reject.

Personally, I'm mystic and artistic, and adhere to an eccentric esotericism. I apologize for the frustrations that must result.
All of that is in the article.
Open-source chip RISC-V to take on closed x86, ARM CPUs
Thanks for pointing out another trends and predicting new one! You're the saviour of JS-mankind!
A password generator perhaps, the one I use is http://getvau.lt .
First of all, what you seem to be criticizing are server frameworks such as express, rather than node. node does not impose a paradigm for how requests are handled in a web server. It only provides the building blocks for a web server framework. In theory it is possible to create a library that forks the process for each request, if so you prefer. I personally think that might bit a be inefficient.

Then, there are ways to mitigate the problems you describe. I know this first hand as someone who has been behind substantially large deployments.

While leaking resources like memory, file and connection handles is a problem, there are ways to find them and fix them. While a bit of discipline and rigor you can be safe. But a lot of people in the node community are usually disregard anything that cannot be sold and usually end up creating problems they cannot get out from. And usually make those problems worse by adding workarounds the problems they created.

With a little bit of good practices, unit testing, profiling, load testing, code reviewing, etc... something that you can achieve by still being able to have work/life balance, by thinking like an engineer instead of discarding every software engineering book you read at school, by paying attention to what you do and not allowing excessive complexity, you should be in a comfortable position to fix a bug related to leaks.

The problem are imprudent people that want to boost their careers by pushing features that do not implement non-functional requirements to get the favor of product stakeholders. That approach may work on frontend, may work on some contexts, but not on backend node software. That's the easiest way to have a cascading failure of servers on 100% CPU/100% memory usage beyond repair.

Usually those people come in one flavor: people that think that because they know JavaScript, they can write server software. That's not it. To write server software you need to know network protocols, operating systems, memory management, algorithms, databases, distributed systems, etc.
CMU still employs one of the Cyrus IMAP developers for now, but FastMail has been sponsoring the bulk of the development work for a while.

We (the Cyrus IMAP board - https://www.cyrusimap.org/overview/cyrus_bylaws.html) are looking for a new home for the project which is independent of any one single company. I'd hoped to have more news to post before this was made quite so public!
And China's government have also bought nearly all Chinese language press in Australia:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-language-newspapers-i...

And actively entering into mainstream media:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-03/birtles-australian-med...
Mathematical Treasure: Robert Fludd’s History of the Macrocosm (2014)
The junkie. And that particular phrasing hinges on strawman since the point is not that you want to see photos of your nephew, but rather that you're using a tool that is explicitly designed to maximize your desire for coming back to it.
I've had Chinese lessons and even Chinese people have problems understanding each other for example because of voice and voice emotions are so important. I think Chinese language shouldn't be role model for what IT world should be. :)
It can get pretty crazy the resources consumed by a drill rig during the average week drilling. New bits, roughly 1200 or so liters of fuel every 24 hours, all kinds of sacrificial bits of tube if they are core drilling their holes. Any hundreds of liters of drilling fluids depending on down hole conditions. I was blown away by the consumption when I saw it first hand. The fuel and drilling bits were the craziest. Then all of the maintenance consumables that you go through as a result of running 24/7.

I shudder to consider the quantities of hardware consumed to drill 4km+ you would get all kinds of crazy hard rock down there, not to mention the time it would take for rod pulls.
Wow, that's curious! Did it work in JavaScript though? Or just in name of package? :)
Why not UTF-512? :)
Recent version of Handbrake infected with malware
TIL that pro China talk is against freedom of speech, how ironic.
The thing is that in any modern nation Hitler would likely have been in jail just after the first human rights violations, so he would have to give his speech from jail or something so your hypothetical example is preposterous?

Seriously, your argument just reminds me of the "Anyone who dissagres with me is Hitler" meme and benefits little to the conversation and its an appeal to emotion -even when that wasn't your intention-.
Two options come to mind, neither perfect, but options.

1. Use a password pattern. Something like 8 random digits that you memorize and then part of the domain name or business name. Such as "goo" for google. Put them in whatever order you like. Now you've memorized one pattern but use a unique password everywhere.

2. Use a predictable algorithm instead of a password. Their are web based services for this. You enter the domain name and then "encode" it to a password. That is typically not reversible.

These fall down some when you have to change a password or when a system has requirements that don't match your password (like requiring a number or symbol). Other users will mention other limitations as well.
First, we'd have to have a good model for human decision making.
There's a lot of problems with APT. :)
Cyrus development will not be affected by this. While CMU has been running Cyrus, and employing one of the key developers, FastMail has a team dedicated to supporting the biggest open source project that we use. We have a new developer starting on Wednesday next week as well as Ken from CMU who has agreed to keep working on Cyrus as a FastMail employee and representing the project at conferences.

We are committed to improving the project and keeping it open. As a member of the Cyrus IMAP board, I'm very proud of the 3.0 release that we recently made, and we're currently planning for the 3.1 release which will include further significant improvements.
Ah yes. Just what the world needs: more organizations throwing their data over the fence at Google's walled garden.

We might as well decomission decentralized e-mail and move everyone on to GMail and FB Messenger.

Sigh.
Or just use 2FA on your password db.
Oh, this is very uncommon point of view :) Be prepared to be eaten, you're on JavaScript grounds!
Indeed, one surprise here is that Cyrus is still around.

Sad that gmail now owns ~50% of all email now though.

(I made that number up. Anyone have any idea how close it may be?)
The non aluminum ones will last 50 years, you might get a couple of years out of the aluminum one.
More specifically, the reserve currency.
did you even read the article? You're probably a Chinese shill too.
In 5 years we have the short-message Facebook (Twitter), the image Facebook (Instagram), the news Facebook (Facebook), the video Facebook (Youtube), maybe also the source code Facebook (Github [1]). That must be the market-driven diversity that my economics teachers loved to tell me all about.

[1] That one is a bit of a stretch, but you can already "follow people" and they market themselves as a social network, so...
China is buying influence Globally as the United States and Europe cede soft power after years of war in the middle east.

While not fantastic for rights of freedom loving people everywhere it is probably a good thing for Africans in general since they seem to be getting a lot of economic love from China in exchange for mineral rights.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/africa/what-africans-really-th...
The result isn't necessarily surprising, but it does show a point. Not all lottery winners blow the money immediately and foolishly. You would expect there to be at least some statistical effect. But it doesn't seem to matter. And it's probably the best randomized experiment we can do to compare the effects of wealth and not wealth, all other variables equal. Wealth doesn't' seem to matter as much as people think it does.

It goes back in time too. Winners of 1832 Georgia land lottery were given free land of significant value by the government to settle and farm. After a few decades, they weren't any better off than the nonwinners.
A moderate inheritance plus support during your education may well make or break your life's outcome vs someone born to a poor family.

'Inheritance' doesn't have to mean just what was passed down at death - it must also include all the additional resources available during development to have any meaning.
I came to a smiliar conclusion and have been working on a solution for my particular set of bank accounts. So far it downloads transactions from citizens bank or venmo using selenium. Then in a separate stage it parses them into a python object based spreadsheet.

I've also used YNAB and loved how it could categorize spending. So a part of my project is that it lets you use udev-inspired matching rules to assign categories or other properties to transactions.

You can also put credentials for each bank in an encrypted file behind a master password. I can't promise it's secure but it's enough for me to not worry about saving the info to disk.

There's still work to do: I've only implemented a couple bank backends and some core logic, and haven't got around to adding anything for analysis, or a real setup.py, or a readme. Still working on it a bit every day. Fidelity is next. Would love it if anyone was interested and wanted to add their own equally jank bank backend.

https://www.github.com/tmerr/bank_wrangler
On the other side of that, sending mail to gmail can be rather challenging. They have a tendency of 541-ing mails for no apparent reason, under the pretense of "poor mail server reputation".

Basically you don't control who gets to send you mails. You're entirely at Google's uncompromising and unreachable mercy.
Israel's been doing this for a long time. Try inviting pro-Palestinian activists to campus and see what happens.

At the end of the day, everyone has the right to protest, whether that's Black Lives Matter or the Westboro Baptist Church or any other group. Always distressing to see it used to further what I see as oppression but there's not really a whole lot to be done about it. You get your opinions and I get mine.

If people want to miss their kids' graduation, well, kinda sucks to be them I guess. Not everybody agrees with their graduation speaker, but you choose to make it political instead of being, you know, about your kids' achievements. I had friends who had George W Bush speak at their graduations, in 2008 no less.

Suck it up for 15 minutes, nobody is forcing you to march in support of some college graduation speaker.
"freedom of speech" refers to specific legal principles related to what kinds of reprisals the US federal government can take against you for speech (fun fact: there are types of speech which can send you to jail [0]). It has nothing to do with what kinds of actions society can take against you, or private citizens, or private institutions.

This is an article about astroturfing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
I wish we could somehow curb Chinese immigration and trade here in Canada. Our government seems to be bending over backwards for them.
> Should the protestors have been selectively told to shut up?

Leading questions are not a good argument.

> Are you in favor of arbitrarily saying whoever is on a podium is the only one who can speak and that everyone else must shut up and agree with them?

Your best argument is a ridiculous straw man? That must be so embarrassing...

For my real opinions see other comments I've made in this thread.
Globalism can be a real bastard.
I've noticed similar things at my university [am research faculty; disclaimer: throwaway account since my usual one identifies me].

Something I've seen often is unfamiliar faces specifically at seminars presented by academics of Taiwanese origin. My department has a pretty static set of seminar attendees, so it is quite noticeable when three or four undergrad-aged people I don't know slip into the back of the room.
The real question here is, will the web, in anything resembling it's current form still exist in 20 years? 100 years? 1000 years? And if so, will it rely on ES2037, ES2117, ES3017? Books haven't changed much at all in the last 1000 years, and although it would be naive for us to expect the internet to say the same, there will likely still be a demand for fairly simple blogs and forums well into the future.
Money is a variable but to list it alone feels a tad glib. Factors like ideology, corruption, political altruism, perceived and actual opportunity within nation, social justice etc are all extremely significant and can outweigh money when they are obviously unbalanced from expectations.
@dang or @sctb accusing people of being shills is not ok, right?
SMS has the two faced downsides of being more expensive to use in large quantities than email alongside being highly regulated making it easy to prosecute those who choose to spam.
I just don't think all that effort is going to make a difference in anti-China sentiment in the US or anywhere else.
Docker was created as an internal tool at dotCloud.
You could replace the AI bit with 'reporters' who are trained to collate and edit the news, in order to give it a human touch.
JavaScript Enterprise
His actual reading appears to be spot on, which ia fairly impressive, and well nuanced besides with regard to reliability of results in a field not especially meriting respect for its rigor.
A few of the HN mods are SJW or at least their sympathizers; clearly not @paulg but a few of the younger members.
The university that I work at switched over to Gmail and its been a big step back in terms of user experience. We canned a small team of dedicated professionals that delivered a rock solid experience for a 'free' option from Google. And since its IMAP implementation is half-assed at best and their web product is also super difficult for older people (and don't even get me started on disabled users-Gmail is completely inaccessible for them) our support requests have skyrocketed and we've got people constantly whining. So we've replaced 5 guys with a data mining product and support costs that would easily cover their salaries. A real net gain.
I once saw those behaviours described as "idle animations"(on Reddit of all places).
It was the really weird part about "AP" classes here in California. They teach you how to score well on the test for subject X but it is unclear that they impart any real understanding of subject X. And if you score well on the test for subject X you can skip taking it in college which sort of closes the loop on you ever learning the topic. Some teachers however take a better approach but certainly they aren't the common case.
'dang and 'sctb don't see everything. If you want to guarantee something is seen by them, contact them via the Contact link in the footer.
If we were to start with this as the foundation for modeling human decisions, where does this fail as a model?
There's a very interesting investigative documentary by Al Jazeera that shows how Israel funds and manages the Israeli lobby in the UK. I'll look for the link and edit this comment.

Edit: Here is a link to part 1 of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceCOhdgRBoc. You can follow the "Up next" link to watch the other parts; there are 4 parts in total.
>"Conservation of energy, momentum, information is hardcoded into all known laws of Physics. It is our integration algorithms which do not all ensure conservation of information - but that is carefully achievable with basic first order schemes, such as Verlet and leapfrog integration."

I am not sure about "conservation is encoded" part, but I can believe it. Either way, in practice the simulations will encounter issues along these lines if they are not careful. For example, I left your simulation running for what amounted to ~120 yrs and saturn lost all her moons. This is the best pic I could get, sorry (hopefully it is reproducible): https://i.imgur.com/C7emd28.png

Since you do not report anything about conservation of energy/momentum, how do we know that isn't the problem?