skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By far the most interesting book I've ever read on piracy was The Invisible Hook, by Peter Leeson. It's an analysis on the economics of piracy.

It was so profound in fact that much of it was the inspiration for our business model:

https://blog.fountstudio.com/yes-we-have-a-pirate-code-1aa1b...
Where can one find out what percentage of Wikimedia's developer staff resources (as opposed to open source contributors) are being allocated towards what projects? They are spending $31m this year on staff: what percentage of that is being spent on what kinds of staff (ex. software engineer vs. community manager), and what percentage of their developer staff is being used to build these aforementioned projects? If that number is extremely low then you can just discount that issue, but if that number is enourmous then more questions have to be asked (which would of course involve looking at the success metrics on those projects and what validation was done on them while they were designed). As it stands, Wikimedia is constantly asking for more money using the threat that Wikipedia will collapse, when for all we know most of their staff time is off building stuff like Wiktionary.
Is it all combusted perfectly, or do they lose some and just leave droplets of toxic liquid propellant in their paths as they fly?
Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey:

https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story.html

Our founder, Milton Hershey believed in making happiness accessible to all. That belief, along with tremendous passion, perseverance, and vision, helped him grow the Hershey Company, so that millions could enjoy his delicious chocolates.

My recollection is that he tried multiple sweets related businesses before he got something that worked.

According to Wikipedia:

Early years[edit]

After an apprenticeship to a confectioner in 1873, Milton S. Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia. This candy shop was only open for six years, after which Hershey apprenticed with another confectioner in Denver, where he learned to make caramel.[7] After another failed business attempt in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where in 1886 he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company. The use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful,[8] and in 1900, after seeing chocolate-making machines for the first time at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000[8] (equal to $28,788,000 today), and began to concentrate on chocolate manufacturing, stating to people who questioned him, "Caramels are just a fad, but chocolate is a permanent thing."

In 1896, Milton built a milk-processing plant so he could create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies. In 1899, he developed the Hershey process which is less sensitive to milk quality than traditional methods, and in 1900, he began manufacturing Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars, also called Hershey's Bars or Hershey Bars.

I also found JR Simplot's biography inspiring. He quit school at age 14 and hunted wild horses to feed piglets that he got from farmers who were going to kill them rather than feed them because of a glut on the market. He then sold dehydrated onions. He later went into making French fries and became a supplier for McDonald's.

https://portal.clubrunner.ca/994/Stories/making-of-a-french-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot

You might also enjoy reading up on the founder of KFC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders
Great explanation of this: http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/the-cancer-of-the-great-la...
Perhaps one of the reason rents are so low is the economy of the country has been stagnant ever since its real estate bubble burst a few decades ago.
> Bad experiences for new and established contributors mean less motivated contributors.

This has nothing to do with the financials of the foundation and is completely a community issue.

> Not enough focus.

This is a valid point but I think you're being too scorched earth with it like saying that Wikipedia shouldn't do any political outreach at all. If its millions of viewers hadn't seen the SOPA blackout, would it have been as successful? If it didn't fight for freedom of panorama and other copyright issues, would it be able to exist in the same form as now? Your suggestion is like telling Japan to go back to isolationism. Sure it might work if you're self-sustaining, but it's no way to run a global project.

> Non-free academic media is hurting the project.

If you are part of a university, you likely have access to such media. Many public libraries also have such access. Lastly, there's the Wikipedia Library. [0] I'm not sure what you want Wikipedia to do here past what it's already doing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Librar...
> in 2014, 2% of the counties in the United States accounted for about 51% of the murders,

But what percent of the population did those counties represent? "Counties" are fairly arbitrary divisions, after all. New York County, NY (better known as the burrough of Manhattan) has a population of around 1.6 million.

Kalawao County, HI has a population of 89.

It doesn't really make sense to compare homicide counts by county.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/21/jean-marie-le-...

was on the news a couple years ago. seems like it was her daddy. my bad.
I have no doubt that some day (soon?) neural networks will be able to explain themselves (using language). But the explanation they give will be less than satisfactory to our aesthetic criteria. Occam's razor is a great aesthetic rule, but it doesn't guarantee beauty. We will most likely find out that the computational vision of the past had managed to find some rules covering some cases, but it missed many more, most of which will be higher-order and not that elegant. And it may turn out denoising was a rather messy problem, as was probably speech recognition.

Drugs work but we don't know how a surprisingly large number of them work. Yet chemists don't complain about them. Theoreticians should not complain either. Deep nets give them a huge subject matter that probably hides many interesting insights in it. I mean, don't convolutional layers look like gabor filters?

The question of what can be understood from them can go deep, to the limits of the ability of language/math to express ideas.
anyone presenting human social grouping decisions as a law of nature is usually full of it.

the only 'natural ' aspects of the larger social organization of society come from man's evolutionary social upbringing in small groups.

civlization is based on man's 'natural' use of his reasoning and social communication to transcend his 'natural ' 'primitive state'.

there is nothing un-natural at all about trying to change ourselves. it is perfectly a function of man's natural capacities to use reason .

the 'un-natural' lie is that there is anything more 'natural' and therefor valid about how our society is supposed to be based on human biology operating at the higher civilization social level.

biology does play a role in demographics. for example society cannot transcend age demographics except by social level decisions to invent medicine and life extending technology or, the opposite, to intentionally CULL human beings by starvation and other methods ( killing is historically efficient for this purpose but very costly in blowback and resources)

if it is natural for a king and his henchmen to do as he pleases, then what is unnatural about altering human demographics by inventing medicine or by genocide?

do queen termites violate natural law by subjugating the hive only to decide when to split or breakup.

the problem with describing things as natural and 'un-natural' is that it more likely reflects the bias and subjectivity of the person attempting to propogate their views as 'good and bad' more than any meaningful discussion of what qualifies as more primarily and deeply embedded aspects of human behavior versus those that are emergent only at the social and civlizational level.
I think the article was questioning if this is suitable for a Charity. A business should be able to estimate its growth and sales, and can re-invent itself if a path isn't going to be profitable. The growth in a business should also be growing revenue (or it should be creating the foundation for later revenue).

A charity is based on how much people are willing to donate, which can change VERY quickly. Imagine what would happen if the public perception of the people behind wikipedia was to dramatically change and next fundraising campaign only brought in 20% of last years?

Additionally If people start to believe that the finances are squandered or not spent as expected, there could be a movement to NOT donate. This happened with the Red Cross after 9/11 where people felt they were duped by the fact their donations went to a consolidated funds (often to fund overseas activities) rather exclusively to 9/11 victims.

Charities also tend to need to keep a few years of funding in the bank to deal with a change in markets, as a charity typically can't use debt to get through rough years (economic downturns / recessions). Exponential growth makes this nearly impossible unless your running extremely lean.

I think the article is a little sensationalist (and maybe it needed to be to reach certain people), it seems to have some sound concerns.
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Exactly. There's this folk belief that the main risk with non-profits is that that they will pay themselves above-market salaries or otherwise embezzle money in outright fraud. And when people criticize the non-profit for inefficiency, they often defend themselves by saying "Look! The salaries for our legions of workers are market rate and we have all these noble sounding projects."

But this is a red herring, because outright fraud is relatively rare. Rather, the much biggest issue is a terribly managed organization spending resources ineffectively. Non-profits shouldn't be judged on overhead or executive salary (who cares?), they should be judged on what they accomplish for the amount they spend. And WMF does terribly on this metric.
I was going to ask how a remote pckg could do that. Not knowing how rust works (or package managers apparently) I didn't understand how it could be widespread. Makes sense, damn; that's substantial.
Secret rendezvous with Extra-terrestrials? Just kidding of course but was I the only one that had a flash for a great sci-fi plot?
But HK has some of the most expensive housing in the world...
Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (May 2017)
[ Inspired by the monthly 'who's hiring' threads. Felt like there was a gap for intern candidates. If it's not OK to post this, please let me know and I'll take this down ]

> Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.
Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

> Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.
How was the dataset produced?
I always imagine it creeping up on unsuspecting satellites like some kind of space puma. All up close and personal like, giving them a sniff and then slipping away undetected.
It's pretty trivial to prove that thinking is faster than speaking -- just read a 200+ word article out loud vs. "in your head" and the difference is clear. The gap in speed will become larger as the overhead behind speaking grows.

The real question is: does it matter? All around me I see people interrupting each other and failing to comprehend what each other is really trying to say due to impatience. Neuralink is interesting, but would probably exacerbate that particular problem.
I still don't understand why $firewall isn't simply a psuedo fs like /proc and control is simply managing trees or chains using basic command line tools.
Capsules aren't inferior. In fact they can land on planets and moons without atmospheres, unlike space planes. And once propulsive landing of capsules is implemented, they can land on Earth without a landing strip, and even on boats.
Why would a company with mandatory dividends have no chance of succeeding?
>On the one hand, we have the "clearly superior" Rust approach to error handling that checks a lot more at compile time than Go does, but on the other hand, Go programmers don't ever need to "learn error handling" at all. They have a simple convention with a reasonably low bug rate (IME, anyway).

I don't think you misjudges the differences in complexity here at all. But wouldn't that have more to do with the different approaches to memory management?

>aforementioned cognitive load without giving up those sweet sweet compile time checks

I would argue the cognitive load comes mostly from nominal typing and lack of type inference. A counter example would be the Crystal language which has a very strong type system, but is exposing barely any of it as 'added cognitive load'.

This correlation between 'cognitive load' and 'expressiveness of a typesystem' seems unfair. Having to keep track of all the patterns that are valid but not supported by the type system is also a type of added (hidden) complexity.

Even the poster-feature of Rust has a (IMO) much easier cousin with the same (and more) advantages called 'the Clean programming language' in the shape of 'uniqueness types'. And most of the complexity in Rust is the result of the type system not being expressive enough for how they are attempting to use it, rather than the opposite.
Other magic aliases include CON, PRN, AUX, COM1-9 and LPT1-9. They are aliased to respective devices in Win32 namespace "\\.\". COMs and LPTs above 9 don't have aliases in global namespace and must be accessed explictly in Win32 namespace, eg. "\\.\COM10" (which itself is symlink to NT native "\Device\Serial9")

In fact, it is possible to create files named NUL, COM1, etc. using \\?\ (eg. "\\?\C:\NUL" is valid path) prefix which disables parsing arcane Win32 magic files. Unfortunately these files are causing strange behaviour in applications that don't use that prefix, Explorer included.

source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
Ah, I was just misunderstanding the format of the repo. I was assuming it was more similar to a ports tree, where each library is specified in the index using a directory which can have random files sitting in it, like Makefiles, .patch files, etc. along with a metadata spec file.

Looking at the repo you linked, there's no allowance for that, so at least in this case you should be safe.
damn that is cheap.
consider their a la carte ranges from 700-1000. I live in germany near freiburg and all michelin star rated restaurants here start at like ~3200 yen per meal.
(well there is prolly an exception an japanese restaurant in freiburg which serves from 600-~3200 yen per meal)
All the ways organisations waste money Buffet describes would be categorised as expenses or investments, so occur before profit is even calculated. Setting arbitrary goals independently of the cost structure of the business or its competitive environment is like setting a flight plan for a plane using just a map and then flying it blind without instruments or a weather report.
"It doesn't really make sense to compare homicide counts by county."

It does if you're a tourist needlessly worrying about getting gunned down while you're visiting the Grand Canyon, or a student needlessly worried that you're going to encounter open gang warfare in a small midwestern college town.

As it happens, the worst 1% of counties have about 19% of the population but about 37% of the murders, so it's not just that these counties are more heavily populated. They really are more dangerous.

Even within those counties, murders are heavily concentrated by neighborhood.

Edit: here's a map that lets you zoom down to the individual census block level, and which shows the rate (thus controlling for population).

Note how much of the country is in the 0-50 category.

http://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/splash/index.html...
Nice! I did a far simpler 'Top HN News' project [0] as my first foray into Vue.js programming as well. Some background for anyone who is interested in how I built it - [1]

[0] - http://tophn.info/
[1] = https://hackernoon.com/tophn-a-fun-side-project-built-with-v...
No. NCR probably supports the new self checkout hardware. This company supported the Windows infrastructure. AFAIK most of the registers are old and still run Windows.
I agree with parent that it's a bit crazy; but I wouldn't be as critical. to your point; presumably even if they dropped DOS support something between DOS and now likely relies on that. It's a fine line.
But ramen takes notoriously long to make

See http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/how-to-make-tonkotsu-rame...
My guess was to refuel spy satellites. I imagine those sats are tough and can survive a long time. But when they get low on gas they can only do station keeping. If you can count of fuel coming, there's a lot more freedom to shift the track a half a degree as needed.

It may be all electronic surveillance. I guess, you can count on satellites not changing after they're launched, so the electronics package would be good for a couple years. come back, get a new package for new surveillance.

Just delivering fuel though, has a lot of value, and you could keep using the same platform for a long long time. Seems to fit better with many multi year missions.

I'm sure somebody knows. But, you know, not me.
> "We would rather have left the minefields as they were. They are all clearly marked, clearly fenced. No civilian has ever been injured. We said to the British government, 'Don't spend the money here, go to some other country where they have a much greater need to free up farming land.'"

> "Unfortunately," Elsby adds, "the British government have signed up to the Ottawa convention, which puts a duty on them to do this."

> The 1997 Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty compels signatories - which include the UK - to clear minefields in territory under their control.

> Since 2009 the British government has spent tens of millions of pounds on mine-clearance in the Falklands.

It's quotes like this that make me despair most for human civilisation. Our inability to design systems - or empower people - with the ability to act within a loose framework and avoid institutional insanity.
At a guess, because you distributed the code. It is one thing for it to be in the platform and you are using it by virtue of another's actions. If it only works when you personally bundle and distribute the code...

Just a guess, though. IANAL and all of that.
It really isn't.

What makes cancer special isn't just that it grows. It's that it grows and thereby kills its host: it consumes the resources the host needs to live, or blocks tubes that need to stay open, or squashes things that are damaged by squashing, or whatever.

None of that seems applicable here. Wikipedia is getting more and more donation money, and spending it. That's only cancerous if it's spending the money on things that harm it, or if somehow this process is diverting resources away from things Wikipedia actually needs. There's no sign of any of that, so far as I can see, and to tell a scary story the article makes predictions of hypothetical future doom.

If those predictions come true then OK, we can say that Wikipedia has cancer (or maybe some other ailment that's a better analogy). For now, so far as I can see the analogy just isn't there unless you take "cancer" to mean absolutely anything that grows. I don't think that's a helpful way to use the term.
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Not only the algorithm can be biased but also the underlying dataset could be biased. See

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/even-artificial-intel...
And the paper
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/55288/
Eh, I don't know that I would really blame the Ottawa convention.

I think it's more sad-larious that we can't just not despoil an area unless it's protected by landmines.
>The entire furore was in response to his refusal to participate

Ok, but it seems we only have your word for this? I reiterate that the normal response to a barrister not wanting to do a particular job would be to get another barrister to do it instead. (He is not in fact a QC, by the way, as the blog post you linked to notes.) The furore surrounding his comments in court seems eminently explicable given the nature of the comments, so I'm not inclined to believe that there's any more to it than that unless there's evidence to that effect.

>I trust a man I've known over thirty years over the tabloid press.

I'm not trusting the tabloid press. I'm looking at the transcript of what he said in court. If it's "normal" to describe thirteen year old girls as sexual predators in court then that is a scandal in itself -- and probably the reason the PM weighed in.
Highly paid executives? https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salar... shows that the top executives are paid less than individual contributors at other companies in the area. If anything, they're underpaid.
Binding information requests are court orders, which can, as you note, be appealed in court. I am unaware of any instance where a company has lost an appeal in court & refused to turn over information to the court in an instance where civil disobedience would be relevant. And yes, fiduciary obligation does not require absolute compliance, but it certainly does demand that corporation do not direct employees to violate the law. Indeed, context does matter--that's also why agreed upon definitions of, eg, "civil disobedience" are so important. Otherwise, among other things, its very hard to understand each other. Glad that we found a way:)
1.0 also added lambda, map, filter, and reduce.
Agreed. It's for this reason that we have to be as free as possible to create new institutions. All institutions, no matter how well-intentioned and self-aware their founders, succumb to these forces. The only way to prevent perverse misallocation of effort and resources is to allow for a steady turnover of institutions.
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