skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/HospitalRun

Open source, modern software for charitable hospitals in the developing world.

Find some open source projects for some issue you care about. The medical community could use a lot of help, anything that automates some part of their job means medical staff is available to help more patients. There's a lot of room for automation in this field.

Personally I think anything in renewable energy, sexual education, and poverty alleviation are good highly effective causes to get behind as well.
Psychology of drug use is rare and hard to find. We need to do a better job studying these dangerous drugs to learn to help addicts better.
Accessibility?
I don't really follow this:

> First, it confuses technological innovation (impressive to engineers) and economic innovation (valuable to consumers). Second, it confuses gross and net benefit — of course, when government does X, we get more X, but is that more valuable than the Y we could otherwise have had?

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> And don’t forget Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology that has the potential to decentralize everything from web apps to logistics.

The latter here seems like a rather good example of the former. EU is about to introduces the revised payment services directive (PSD2) which is set to force banks to interface with third parties. I would expect this action to have far greater value to people than the blockchain.
Government does engage into efforts/projects that end up being wasteful.

But, market forces should not be heralded as panacea of there being no-waste.

Every private sector bankruptcy is wasteful for its investors.

Yahoo, HP, Former Dell, Anderson

Ton of examples of failed efforts, pure waste, nepotism, bribery and downright illegal (civil/criminal) behavior in private sector.

I look at it this way... The will of the people also acts as a market force. I think most would agree with that.

Whether there is waste or if it is most efficient, is immaterial. Will of the people, in terms of government's willingness to legislate, will always be a market force. Push and pull is given and is to be expected. Let the battle rage on.
But, from what I know, Scala is compilation is really, really slow. So if you're only familiar with Scala and not Kotlin, you may get the wrong idea.
For America Yes, for Europe no
What area are you in? Possible I can make recommendations albeit unlikely. I've found a fairly strong correlation between recruiters whose company I enjoy and their competence. Also: look at the spread of the jobs they're in, do they sponsor conferences and communities?
Hu?

Basecamp and Automattic are basically full remote companies with world wide reach of their products. Automattic is even global marked leader with Wordpress.

What else do you need?
Interesting that he mentions Elon Musk when his companies are literally kept alive by billions in government subsidies and contracts.

I don't like the binary view of "Give all power to corporations, with no government intervention" and "Let the state control all means of research and access"

The ideal is clearly in between, where the state should break up monopolies and punish companies that have detrimental externalities to their functioning(like polluting the environment).

That's not to dismiss government funded research either. We have Computers and The Internet in large part due to US Government research. Once an idea becomes marketable and profitable, private companies can swoop in, like Microsoft or Apple with Computers.

But decades of unprofitable research is not feasible in a corporation. You would need the government to fund that.
Resurrection is unwatchable in my opinion. I didn't even bother with the AvP films.
eventually you'll find out google doesn't really want your $59/month either.
Hi Heather!

Looks like you've got a Hacker News effect on your shoulders. :) Servers seem to be overloaded.
I would be willing to buy into a crowdsourced VC fund- I give money to the fund for a slice of it, which in turn vets and invests in early stage startups. They hit a big payout, my slice becomes more valuable.

The thing is, I don't want to do any work. I want someone else to do the vetting and the paperwork to invest. Obviously, they get a bigger piece of pie.

Basically, I want an index fund for early stage startups. It would be high-risk, but it's the same risk (in principle) as VC firms have.
The refraction doesn't matter, its the precision. Given a reading (of 02 ppm), how can you prove that it matches the reading a ground station would have made?

How could you filter out the noise from materials in the ~100km of atmosphere between the satellites and the targets? More pragmatically, could you explain it in a courtroom & convince the jury that it works?

I understand that you're disappointed that this extremely useful idea doesn't have a simple solution.
The Many Faces of Middle-Earth, 1954-1989
>Oh, is that a new one?

Not at all. We dealt with a similar collusion between the government and private banking industry in the housing collapse of 2008. Cheap money along with bad policy is problematic no matter where it occurs because the cheap money ends up in the stock market/speculation market eventually.
Worth noting though that the budget deficit of all countries varies a lot over time and that the budget deficit as % of GDP of Scotland now is actually less than that of the UK in 2009-2010 and I didn't hear much about the UK being evicted from the EU because of that.
Very cool! Always wanted to get into Clojure, I just don't code for a living anymore so only do it in my free time so I tend to turn to tools I know. Bookmarked though!
"And then gain a reputation for being unreliable?"

If they tell people what they are doing and why, and only do it for established certificates, I'm not sure that would happen.

"Let's Encrypt should offer testing servers which are down for well defined periods throughout the day that people can use to test their platform against."

Who would use them? Anyone who cares enough to simulate LE failure is presumably already doing it.
He keeps warning not to write thousands of lines before talking to customers (as you often hear from biased survivors). But it sounds like they didn't find PM fit by talking to customers. Rather they identified -- perhaps out of desperation and exhaustion -- 0.1% of the code they had written that they thought might be useful and threw it out there. The takeaway really seems to be write as much code as you can, if one-tenth of one percent is going to be the golden nugget. Also, I suspect that they were able to use that other code and the processes around it to capitalize on their good fortune.
Because Swift doesn't interoperate with Java, ergo removing any path forward for a gradual migration. And if it did, then it'd fragment the Swift ecosystem.
What you quote is part of the summary of the article I critique. To avoid any confusion, that's certainly not what I believe. :)

That said, both of those are good examples that I don't even mention in the article.
There are so many languages available these days, so the first thing to ask is "what is unique and beneficial about my language?" (valid answers might be that it is a unique combination of features seen elsewhere, that it addresses a specific domain's problems better than any general-purpose language, or that it is an experiment.)

Someone made an interesting point about Kotlin recently: as one might hope for a language coming from an IDE maker, it has excellent tools. I have heard Alan Kay make a similar comment about Smalltalk. There are a couple of semi-popular languages that I feel are significantly disadvantaged by their lack of tools support (primarily in debugging and documentation.)
What if there's a reason to restart the server or spawn a new one?
I can't seem to find anything that would let me do what you did, but with Ruby. I'm not opposed to using Node, just prefer Ruby more.
> Donating to charity is, almost by definition, interest in the wellbeing of society.

...or dodging taxes while getting good PR and also giving jobs to people in your own country (instead of elsewhere)?
Only Android users can get the good version of Facebook Messenger
This is good advice, thanks!
Nice! I basically did it the same way. I'll push my code up to a public repo soon and let you know to compare.
github was an example until they changed their policy - no ?
Iirc VC as an industry loses money (or has poor returns), with the top 10 firms dominating the returns and some small number of startup firms posting great returns (iirc this is from a Jason lwmkin's post)

So i think your index fund performs quite poorly.
It's not new at all. It's actually fairly easy to demonstrate. I recommend Murray Rothbard's America's Great Depression[0] from 1963.

The quick hit is this: A. US Monetary policy provides large banks with extremely cheap capital B. Large banks competing with each other in the free market must make use of that capital C. Only so many investments are good investments, because in the end, there's only so much consumption, but the unnatural levels of capital driven by US monetary policy push banks to make bad investments (see every financial crisis since the Fed was founded). D. Those bad investments fail, and mass margin calls lead to an economy-wide de-leveraging that destroys economic growth for months or years.

Systemic financial crises can't happen without cheap, printed money.

It's also reasonable to question whether giant companies could exist at all without US monetary policy. Companies of that size are almost completely dependent on the financial industry, which is completely dependent on the Fed's cheap currency.

[0][PDF]https://mises.org/files/americas-great-depressionpdf-0/downl...

Edit: added PDF label
How long do the sound waves from speech persist in a gaseous medium, or the often equally gaseous white matter between your ears? How long does an email, backed up and archived by sender, recipient, archiving software, compliance department, etc, etc persist.

People tend to actually think before they write something down that will last forever. Much less so when they're flapping their gums in real-time. High quality, premeditated communication trumps low-quality, off-the-cuff communication, for me, anyway.
Part of the problem of prohibition is that it drives up the potency of drugs which leads to the situation where you get fentanyl instead of heroin. This effect was coined the "iron law of prohibition" by economist Richard Cowan. More powerful drugs lead to stronger addictions and more accidental over doses.

Reference:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_prohibition
A few years ago, I built a compute-intensive REST API: applied machine learning that did 3D reconstruction of human heads from images. After careful spec'ing of the system's requirements, it was clear that any of the cloud services were exponentially more expensive than running my own hardware. I needed a $96K per month spend at AWS, the lowest of the cloud services at the time, or I could spend ~$50K and build a globally scaled server cluster of my own. People speak as if there is some issue with locating quality devOps individuals, but I seem to find them seeking work all the time. So I hired one to help me build the cluster: he re-visioned my specs, adding a hardware firewall, I purchased the hardware, we assembled the cluster at a local co-working space, and then we installed it into a local ISP, in a rented cabinet. Total expense to build was about $65K (less than one month of AWS), and the monthly cabinet rental was $600 a month. And the month to month maintenance was a whopping 5-10 minutes a few times a week. This is NOT HARD FOLKS and it SAVES A SHIT TON OF MONEY. Don't believe the cloud hype - it is all hype.
Thank you. I have been struggling with this for a few months now. I have had multiple depressions in the past. I am better, with family.
Redundancy increases the the ability to detect errors, like a checksum in a code.

take foo("one", "two") mis-typed as foo("one" "two"),

instead of getting a "missing comma" error, you get "wrong number of arguments", unless the function can take one argument, in which case you may get some other random error.
One important difference is that Theresa May is leader of a major western country, while Berkeley students you saw in a video on the internet aren't. This makes one of them a much more pressing threat.

True among people on the same "side" of the political spectrum too. The Tories' brand of authoritarian conservatism is much more dangerous than Westboro Baptist Church, for example. You can find Westboro advocating plenty of outrageous things, but they aren't in charge of a country.
I wonder how they are letting people know about this. I wasn't aware this was possible and I still had in mind that you had to be "credited" investor, even as a Hacker News reader, somehow this was flying under my radar. I don't expect a lot of people to know about it.
Exactly, leverage happened to work out really well for him, but true big the same idea can easily end up with you broke.
> I'm actually for legalizing all drugs like several other posters but I don't think society is ready for that.

If society isn't ready for that, why are you for it?

(fwiw, I'm with you on marijuana, and hope to see the day when it's as legal as cigarettes - but people have been optimistic about marijuana for decades :/)
A small startup ditched stock photos in their ads and saw a lot of improvement
> with the V6

Are lots of people actually driving V6 Camrys? When I look at normal sedans the V6 engine is always a significant cost increase and completely destroys the car's MPG
(naturally, the very first thing I tried to evaluate is scala.io.Source.fromFile("/etc/passwd").getLines.mkString("\n") . Spoiler alert: it works!)
Actually I'm not sure if Kotlin's code is that performant. It'll create new ArrayList on each step just to discard it after. It won't matter for tiny lists, but even for moderate lists it does matter. If you want to iterate without creating new arrays on each step, you'll need to use Sequence. And now there's another problem: Sequence doesn't know its lengths. So when you'll collect computation result, you can't just allocate exact memory, you'll need to allocate some memory, then grow it, and so on. Java streams are lazy and they try hard to know expected output size, so they are better in some aspects.

That said, Sequence have very simple implementations while Java Streams are hairy monsters under the hood and you can use Java Streams from Kotlin without problems, if you're targeting JDK8.
I have been working remotely for 6+ years and it would be very hard for me to go back to an office. I have complete control over my life right now, can work from anywhere, make my own hours, etc.
Hint: help the Scuttlebutt P2P project https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/. It can be used for social media in areas disconnected from the global internet, through gossip replication of social feeds. Can be quite useful for communities in Syria, Amazon, and Africa.
Assuming a god like figure can exist, why would you assume only one can exist? 10 or 50 or a billion sounds just as Logical as one. God knows our universe would make more sense if it was designed by committee.

Aside from that, given what we know about human evolution and how not unique we are, it stands to reason that a creator was subject to similar limitations.
That's a whole industrial complex in of itself. Their thirst to shut things down is unquenchable, as they aren't to just going after circus, sea worlds, and farms, but they are also going after zoos and such.

and of course they will never be satisfied, making 'documentaries' and collecting donations is big business. they wont ever say 'well there is no more good to do, lets close doors'. They will just take their agenda to the next victim.
I think there is some interesting things going on with patents that need looking into. Especially the root cause.

Someone should look at wisdom of making the Patent office self funding, seemingly incentivizing them to give out more patents (if they're valid or not), and having them being seeming immune to penalties for issuing bad patents.
I think it's just an example of a different name to explain a feature. Not something anyone would actually implement.
This sounds like you think they should die. The US lower/middle class live according to their means, and the housing created for them to live in is horribly dependent on cars. You are fortunate to have falling into a location/social class where your potential properties are pedestrian-friendly & close to point-of-interest. Hundreds of millions of people do not share your fortune.
It isn't a tax dodge.

The cost of the donation always exceeds the tax benefit.

People do things like setup foundations and then appoint people to work for them, but that still doesn't allow the money to be kept without paying taxes on it (the foundation has to engage in bona fide charitable activities to maintain tax status).
sync.Map is kind of a big deal.
It is pretty disturbing to me we as a society have yet to learn the prohibition lesson. I believe that sensationalize of Al Capone and gangster culture in media leads people to not thinking the same stuff is happening today because they don't see shootouts and police chases in the street.
DNSSEC has a 1024-bit RSA root after Web PKI ( at least Mozilla-flavored) no longer did.

Are the TLDs audited like CAs? Having to change the domain name to evade the TLDs bad security practices is more disruptive than switching CAs.
I think that if they actualy want a crowd to do this that they have to improve discovery of not only the ability to do this and the companies that want to be crowdfunded. Up until know I vaguely knew that the JOBS act contained this wording (and I presumed that something changed about the JOBS act) which was false. The other part is discovery which could be helped by either partnering with Kickstarter or making an independant website that would do this.

On the other hand it could be that Kickstarter is performing crowdfunding to the point that the technique of using the Jobs act is not needed. Adding up 2 or 3 large kickstarter projects and you get the total amount raised. Currently Kickstarter has funded around $3 billion dollars.
I am suggesting people will put political pressure on the government to help pay for treatment as part of the solution. As others here have suggested that if drugs were legalized the tax revenue could fund things like this.
I think it's under-appreciated how shifts in culture and behavior affect the practical liberty of the individual. We worry about government limiting us, but the mass choices of uncoordinated individuals can just as easily curtail our choices, sometimes opening up new ones, yes, but also cutting off others. To the extent that laws shape these things, our choice not to limit certain behavior or liberties can de facto limit some other behavior or liberties, and thanks to coordination problems this can happen even if everyone prefers the liberties they're losing to the ones they're gaining.

If government is the Leviathan, this undirected but quite strict framing of our choices is Cthulhu.
There is absolutely a reason to get rid of it. Net "neutrality", as currently implemented, attacks the peering arrangements that were put into the spotlight by Netflix's CEO, Reed Hastings. He famously said that ISP's were holding his members "hostage" until they paid up. Then the net neutrality rules changed that. But if you look at what Hastings wants you'll see why it's a bunch of crap. Peering agreements exist for larger entities to trade bandwidth without having to keep paying each other for it and then have that count as income. It's much easier, for example, to have entity A send X TB of data to entity B and have entity B send X+Y TB to entity A and instead of each of them charging the other for the total bandwidth, they instead agree to just have B pay for Y and A pays nothing. Or if Y is small enough, they just consider it a wash because in the next month/cycle A might send more.

What Netflix does is 99.99% all one way traffic. And he wants to send it for free. Currently he's getting away with that explicitly because of net neutrality rules. Otherwise, Netflix was facing huge transmission fees - and rightfully so. It is estimated that during peak hours Netflix consumes more than 1/3 of all internet bandwidth during peak hours, which is insane.

Hastings wants this for free. And currently, he's getting it. So if the ISP's aren't getting paid for all that extra usage, who's paying for it? The ISP are increasing the cost of their plans to account for this since Netflix isn't paying them. This means that non-Netflix customers are subsidizing the cost of the service for all Netflix streaming users!
Learn Java first. You must be able to read existing code at least from StackOverflow and it's Java.
Why do you say it would be high-risk?
There's very little serious literature that points to "cheap money" as a source cause of 2008. Neither does banks taking risks because they are "too big to fail".

The main cause you get by reading the research on 2008 is that bank managers were incentivized by their shareholders to take excessive risks. This is because 1) shareholders are pretty shortsighted and 2) managers suffer comparatively little personal consequences by crashing a bank (clearly they don't go to jail; they still get the massive bonuses in the years where they pumped returns with excessive risks, etc.)
I wonder if they've thought this through. That's one more reason the Scots will have to exit the union. Right now is not a good time to rock the boat like this.
Personally I find it appalling how freely Polanski moves around (for what is worth I like many of his films).
People not just children need supervision and guidance when it comes to information going into their heads. It is why whichever culture you pick across the globe, "education" involves having a "teacher" figure around. There is no system anywhere where you can just drop of the kid at the library and magic happens.

Take this community, you will find the ones that are good at what they do aren't just good, because of access to information, but because of the kind of mentors that have been around them or they have run into in life.

That's really the missing piece in today's internet. Despite all this information access it's still hit or miss that a kid or an adult will find the right mentor.
Python was designed for new programmers, rather than existing programmers. Ruby and JavaScript also broke many existing conventions. All have had enormous success.
> These are false gods:

> Minimizing keystrokes. Maybe this mattered when programmers used paper tape, and it matters for small languages like bash or awk. For larger applications, much more programming time is spent reading than writing, so reducing keystrokes shouldn't be a goal in itself. Of course, I'm not suggesting that large amounts of boilerplate is a good idea.

Couldn't agree more! No one needs another perl or bash. Languages should be as concise as possible, but not more.

Also good points about familiarity and helpful error messages.
When it comes to cryptography, I don't think the burden of proof is on the critics to prove it's insecure. Everything is best assumed to be insecure unless there's convincing evidence otherwise.

I gather that there are enough experts in this sort of thing that aren't convinced that it seems fair to say it's insecure.

Ex: If someone built a bridge, but wasn't an actual engineer, I would assume the bridge was unsafe. I don't need an engineer to actually inspect the bridge before I make that assumption, and I would probably tell everyone I knew not to use that bridge.
What do you mean a terminator is required? I think he's talking about cases like https://blog.jondh.me.uk/2011/04/javascript-gotcha-implicit-...
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oh my god, a website in the internet is currently down, let's discuss that.
It is, obviously, it's just assumed that he'd rather like to leave at some point..