skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their goal was never to be in the hardware business, Eben's goal was to expand coding understanding in the UK.
I wish there was a TLD that was regulated such that only a legitimate not for profit organization could have it, similar to .edu. Change having a .org TLD is incredibly misleading. It's not a non-profit, and no, B corporations do not count.
I don't dispute any of those points, but I think it's still silly to talk about anything in terms of "product" that isn't their community. Reddit the software could come and go, it's essentially irrelevant to the workings of the site (barring radical changes). Whatever you call the community of users that's still the thing you have to try and cultivate, the thing you are presenting to investors, the thing that increases your revenue.
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It's really not that hard. When I have multiple peers of the person coming to me saying that someone is not putting in effort, and they aren't dependable, and they don't follow through, that's a pretty clear signal.
I love this. Then again I'm the kind of person who sits wondering, if you were running from an elevated sniper, trying to get to the treeline, would it be effective to change direction after 3 steps, 1 step, 4 steps, 1 step, 5 steps, 9 steps, 2 steps, ... :-)
I love this!!!

I'll ponder it a bit and respond...
Bullshit.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/08/msg00...

For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support
the multiple available init systems in Debian. That includes
merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing
support without a compelling reason.
I think the bike market is already in the process of being disrupted by online sales. Many shops are struggling or have already closed. There are several successful online-only brands in the mountain bike world such as Commencal, YT, and Canyon. One difference I see between those companies and Vanhawks is that they clearly offer the best value in their market segment (in terms of price). The Vanhawks bike is not directly comparable to other bikes out there, so it's hard to know if it's a good deal or not. I also wonder how many commuters will want to spend $2k on a bike. The mountain bike brands I mentioned are all aimed at enthusiasts and are able to leverage professional sponsorships and mountain bike specific media outlets to validate their product in the eyes of potential customers.
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> If you want to be 10x, you need at least 10 stackoverflow tabs open to copy and paste from

I open pages that interest me, I might read them later like I did this discussion or just drop them. Add in open tickets, reference pages, the build server, youtube, etc. and the number grows over time.

> My grandmother, for example, usually has 100 or so open by the time I get a call about her having computer problems.

Maybe she should use Firefox instead of Chrome?

> There's no logical reason I can come up with for doing this instead of using bookmarks.

I did this when I started, by now I only use bookmarks for high interest pages, no point in bookmarking everything.
To be fair, AlphaGo probably utilizes ensembles of networks in some form anyway. So, in a way, it's kind of been playing as a team this whole time :)
Change.org could remedy this by adding a feature that would Mail, Email and or Phone the person and or group . If you would do this people would take it seriously.
i am sure you have the right intentions but programmers tend to need some time to get up to speed. besides, nobody really wants to work at a shop like that. every employee will think you don't care. meaning you will have to deal with people leaving you for a more dependable company. recruiters won't like you as they are unlikely to get their money and need to find new people all the time.

it is possible if you offer employees a lot of money. some financial companies do things like this (fire 5% every year) and manage quite well but i doubt it works in sectors where personnel costs are significant.

If you have been fired in a week or so then you know the psychological impact of these practices.
the fire consumes all the fuel that it receives.

Although his concepts look nice on paper I dont understand what the solution is to stop people to breed exponentially. And then we are back to the same problem we have now.
UBI is supposed to be some kind of safety net, is that right? Isn't that what savings are for? i.e. you're supposed to have 3 months emergency savings, which falls under the personal responsibility category. If you remove personal responsibility, what happens?

Any any rate, I don't think the numbers will ever pencil out, end of story. It's a non starter.

And of course Zuck advocates a UBI, so more people stay at home surfing FB!
And I choose to feel okay about that.
Though interesting, there remains a large sticking point that is more of a 'second order' effect not often thought of: the effects on marriage and child birth: https://www.nber.org/papers/w23408?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medi...

"There has been a well-documented retreat from marriage among less educated individuals in the U.S. and non-marital childbearing has become the norm among young mothers and mothers with low levels of education. One hypothesis is that the declining economic position of men in these populations is at least partially responsible for these trends. That leads to the reverse hypothesis that an increase in potential earnings of less-educated men would correspondingly lead to an increase in marriage and a reduction in non-marital births."

Based on this (single) study, it is reasonable to hypothesize that UBI would have an adverse effect on marriage rates and would increase the number of bastard children. The societal norms that we have about manhood, family, and marriage are somewhat based on economic models and radically changing those models may introduce severe disruptions in our social norms and family structures.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the 'economic status' that men in these regions have is a relative measure. Meaning that the researchers found that the men were being judged based on their status relative to other men in the area to determine if they were marriageable. UBI, by definition, would level out the playing field. If the means then that all men would become more attractive for marriage or all of them would become unattractive is an open question that needs to be studied more before UBI would be implemented.
That looks really great! I'll definitely use it in one of my projects. Thanks
Power users are always different.

My MacBook is my work life. My phone is super important to me, but given some devil's choice, I'd go back to a StarTac before giving up the laptop!

My wife is the opposite. For her, in both professional and personal contexts, the computer is more like a screwdriver -- just another tool. The phone is where the computing happens, and you'd have to pry it out of her cold dead fingers.
This statement is false and has been since the very first work done on the npm cli. npm has, in every version of it that has ever existed, since before there was even a package registry, installed preferentially from its local cache of packages where possible.
I have put down the deposit and don't really care until final unveiling. I understand their goals in upselling Model 3 reservation holders.

I don't really mind that the $1000 is holding my position in line at Tesla. Otherwise it would sit useless in my bank account.

It is a bit depressing how they downsell the Model 3, but I'm hoping it's just their weird strategy. If some people pull their deposits then even better, I can get my car sooner :P

But I definitely won't be buying before test driving it.
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There has to be a progression in order for leaders to take them seriously. It has to start with a petition, but there has to be something that happens if the petition gains critical mass but leaders don't acknowledge it. It has to go from petitions to protests and electoral losses at the very least.

If it stays a petition, it's much too easy to ignore.
Making hardware and software for it is hard and doesn't bring in money. Going this route they can rise salaries for administration.
It is not a characteristic peculiar to vim/vi. There have been several modal text editors over the years. TEDIT, for just one example.

* http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?T
Vault 7 proved that "signs of Russian hacking" mean nothing.
FWIW: this exact scenario (capture a local and add it to the lambda's argument) is treated in the Rust book on closures, and the solution picked isn't yours. They want to use Box::new() to explicitly allocate a heap block to track the closure (in C++ the compiler does this for you and puts it into the function type):

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/closures.html

I'm not expert enough to decide which is "official". But honestly... this is really not a situation where Rust shines aesthetically.
is this true for even evergreen browsers? Is this true for pages that's hosted in non localhost domain or drag n' dropped into browser from the file explorer? (file:// protocol)
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As an aside, here's a funny, totally made-up story about intellectual property rights that has no bearing on this discussion. But your Wiki link made me think of it:

https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-fiV362r1M2ikxo8m/nks_djvu.tx...

(_why the lucky stiff's Nobody Knows Shoes, which is definitely not titled A Gundible Journey)

I apologize in advance for wasting your time but it made me laugh. The fore-word is the thing. Also, the PDF version in case you actually wanted to read the whole book:

https://cloud.github.com/downloads/shoes/shoes/nks.pdf
Every time when Bill Gates kind of people invest on something, my alarm bells start to ring. Something is not right.

Agenda will change for sure, investors will change the company.
Officially, vi was the visual interface to ex, rather than ed, where ex was the extended version of ed.
The culture of Lyft (which will merge with the culture of Uber over time I believe) has been more friendly, more conversational where I live.

I always sit up front and talk with the person, learn what else they do, how long they've lived in the area.

When I try this with Uber (esp in SF), they often show me a thumb pointing towards the backseat instead!
I was talking the other day that it would be convenient if AI could automatically extract pieces of music fragmentarily.
In Japan, I use the cut music for mobile phones / smartphone incoming calls, but do you use fragmentary music in other countries like the United States?
The "humanitarian" part is just PR:

"Brin wants the gargantuan airship, funded personally by the billionaire, to be able to deliver supplies and food on humanitarian missions to remote locations. However, it will also serve as a luxurious intercontinental “air yacht” for Brin’s friends and family."

If by "also" they mean "primarily"...
You could say the same thing about shoes (Zappos) or mattresses (Casper). I think you're conflating your preferences with those of the entire market.
The way the job market works is the larger problem. It usually forces both employers and employees to make a big commitment based on deeply imperfect information. It's like asking someone to marry after the second date, usually when they're already married and can't survive long without being married.
Or https://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2017/05/airlander-10-larg...
The people assuming Moore's Law will last forever are the people who are making "today I made some radiologists redundant, tomorrow not many jobs in medicine" connections

I'm arguing "as things get cheaper because fewer people were used to make it, you'd better have really good reasons to believe people won't just use the excess money to buy more stuff as we've always observed them do in the past". If there's one resource that seems to consistently fulfil Jevons' Paradox it's labour. We might have fewer radiologists instead of more X-ray scans in future, but I see little reason to believe that won't be offset by the need for highly trained people to calmly reassure them about other diagnostic tools that have only just been invented. Throw in a bit of Veblen "people with excess money actually really like paying people to do things for them in unnecessarily laborious ways to signal how wealthy they are". It's rooted in human psychology as well as a couple of hundred years of empirical observations.

I rather think the burden of proof - especially when calling for drastic action - is on the people arguing this time it'll be different, and they're the ones reliant on projections of trend lines to try to argue that computers that do everything better than humans are [still] only a decade away.
> Could I easily configure this? Have one of the VM's be the VPN server and configure it to "exit" trough the commercial VPN?

This is easily doable, but it comes down to how much you trust your commercial VPN host. As it is, most of these service providers are pretty shady to say the least. If it were somehow possible to provide a service that is provably secure and log free, that would be a different story.
As someone who used to live in Brentwood, the Brentwood fiber rollout was very disappointing. Sonic used to have maps of their planned rollout that now point to dead links [0]. The house I used to live in was marked as planned to receive fiber by fall 2016, but when I put in the address Sonic says they currently don't service it.

For those who don't know, Brentwood was slated to be one of the first places in the Bay Area to get fiber, mostly because Brentwood required fiber conduit houses built for all developments after 2000, and because its city council was fairly generous to Sonic themselves. I don't strictly blame Sonic here... they took a risk doing this and likely were unable to drum up the support and enthusiasm in the community that would make a true city-wide rollout economically feasible. Seeing Sonic's experience in Brentwood makes me believe that the only way FTTH will be vastly deployed in the US anytime soon is through government subsidy.

[0]: https://www.sonic.com/get-involved-brentwood-fiber
Not Op but a few reasons why I prefer Lyft: The app is (subjectively much) nicer, the company seems to treat their drivers better, tipping let's me thank excellent drivers (rating less than 5 stars hurts their livelihood and I reserve for safety or other exceptional cases), Uber drivers annectodally have been less courteous and have canceled on me or refused to actually come to my spot, and Uber the corporation has garnered a bit of a reputation I am hesitant to support.
You're right but we have spent a lot of time cleaning and tidying up the designs and formatting the final piece of art.

I'd also add that our final product is of the highest quality and most local print shops couldn't give you the same service.

Saying that there is an original patents page on the site for this purpose. We're happy if you're hanging patent art either way :)
Similar experience as you with taxis in America. About 6 months ago a good friend was getting married and we booked 3 taxis from one company to take us from his house to downtown. Ultimately the taxi company only sent one guy to drive back and forth 3 times, making it take almost an hour to get everyone there. Coming home 3 of us simply ordered 3 different ubers and we all got back in 10 minutes.
I already consider this. Math still doesnt add up
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Unbelievable. Like, I literally don't believe it.
I get a lot of value from a VPN that prevents my ISP from spying on my traffic. I see from looking around this conversation that two other people cited this same reason.

I could totally see that many people wouldn't care about this particular thing.
I've once read someone comparing the energy efficeincy of the human brain compared to all the CPUs used by one of these neural networks. The human brain turned out to be more efficient by many orders of magnitude.

Sadly I have no recollection of where I've read this.
They started by outsourcing it, then eventually took it over and raised the prices by a lot. Sounds like it was pretty dramatic.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/business/05nocera.html...
I wonder how difficult it would be to disappear like that today. Is it even possible in first world countries ?
Glad to know they addressed the issues why I switched to yarn (speed, save by default and lock file).

Definitely will give this a try once it is moved out from pre-release.
What, exactly, would you print? The whole patent? A drawing or diagram? Which one(s)? Without the context of a title and subtext?
Using .NET and Docker Together
Pollution is responsible for thousands of deaths every year. "Deadly" is perfectly accurate.
Creating Network Diagrams with Vis-JS
I use Lyft over Uber because Uber is an awful company run by a scumbag and there have been dozens of different high-profile reasons over the years (and many of them in the past couple of months) that any one of them would be a good reason to drop Uber.
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Thank you for sharing this article. I thought Sketch and XD are the only two options.
I think this is a very good idea! I know many people around where I live who use local Uber drivers whom they trust to schedule early-morning rides to the airport and things like that. The rider will have the driver come to his/her house at the specified time, and then the driver and the rider will both turn on Uber and the rider's request will be filled by that driver because nobody else is nearby that early. This would would make it much easier to do something like that for both the rider and the driver, and I see this as an important use case because it's really the only remaining one which many people would prefer to use a car service or taxi service than Uber/Lyft. It's also much more profitable for the driver so drivers will like this a lot. Great move on Lyft's part, maybe they could consider allowing riders to directly send requests to certain drivers. The point here being that riders using Lyft like a car service have drivers they trust to come on time, not cancel, etc. which are the only potential problems I see here.
No, it's a redistribution of wealth and will lead to a massive dichotomy just like any third world country.
I agree. Land ownership is also theft from future generations.
In SF I always take Uber to airports. I never had any problem.
Great idea - we'll look into this, thanks!
It's obvious that money is not a sufficient abstraction for resources and/or the usage of money eventually leads to world b. The "money system" is killing whatever resources it's supposed to represent.
Looking forward to some Lodsys or Intellectual Ventures pieces, patents are great
I still want npm-search improved.

I want to be able to search by tag, constrained by license and with packages that use dependencies I already have installed floated to the top. There are so many ways this could be nicer.
> AWS instance is easily traced back to you.

Define "easily" as used in this context. Easy is a product of whom your enemy is.

Is your enemy your ISP? If that's the case, I don't think it's "easy" for them; they would have to pay Digital Ocean or Amazon to get your data, and probably isn't really that valuable to them.

Is your enemy the MPAA? If that's the case, I still don't think it's particularly "easy" for them. Unless you are a MAJOR pirate distributor, the extra effort(money) to track you down isn't worth it.

Is your enemy the NSA or the FBI? If that's the case, then yes, it's trivially easy for them to Subpoena digital ocean or amazon to get your data, but similarly they can use techniques on PIA to get your data too.

In the end, it comes down to whom you trust with your data. And whether you want a managed VPN service, or are willing to put up with the inherent problems of maintaining your own system. will PIA sell your surfing habits to advertisers, will DO sell your surfing habits to advertisers? Who gives faster speeds?
How to build your initial hardware engineering team
The "try a demo right now" link on the MediaGoblin homepage is just a link to Sandstorm.
The original Iridium was viable when it came to operating costs, they just had no hope of success when they also had to pay back the ~$6 billion in capital costs it took to build and launch the satellites.

The current incarnation of Iridium bought the constellation for only $35 million, effectively discharging the massive debt and allowing them to profitably operate the satellites without having to pay back what it cost to put them up in the first place.

Come forward to today and satellites are cheaper and more capable, demand for communications is higher, and launch services are much cheaper, so Iridium thinks they'll be able to put up a next generation constellation without repeating their history. It looks like they're planning on spending about $2.1 billion to build the satellites and $800 million to launch them, which puts the new constellation at about one third the cost of the original taking inflation into account, while being vastly more capable. (The current Iridium system gets you a connection which provides either a single voice line or 2.4kbps (!) data service. The next generation will go up to 1.5Mbps.)

Iridium is a fascinating story of hubris, spectacular failure, and eventual success.

Unrelated fun fact, an Iridium satellite was involved in the first accidental collision of two satellites. Iridium 33 collided with the defunct Kosmos-2251 in 2009. The relative speed was over 26,000MPH and sprayed a bunch of debris around the two orbits. Iridium has spares in orbit, so they were able to patch up the constellation without much trouble.
I too get annoyed when people don't abide by history as I know it.

Then realize it's a silly thing to waste focus on and move along.
No, I mean G precisely because it has that loop at the bottom. I see it near universally in Poland, and 100% in Germany but with a terribly small sample size.
Thanking you kindly!
I like how the first 2 comments here say that:
1) online sales are destroying in-person bike retail
2) in-person bike retail can never be replaced by online sales.
Oooh that is a good work!
Very nice.
Not surprised all that much of Apple's hidden tools. I'd totally sign a NDA in order to see the hidden past of Apple.
There's a contact us section on the site where we collect all patent requests - please feel free to submit some!
I'd rather my editor recognize a .json file and treat as such. I don't have a .lock convention
I assume/hope the driver app has reminders and confirmations before the ride.
Hmm, my experience has been pretty much the opposite. Even without optimization, React's renders won't cause a DOM update unless there is something to diff - I can't say the same for jQuery or Angular 1.x. As well, being big on the "don't use it unless you need it" bandwagon I tend to wait until I see components and re-use in my code before I import React in the first place.

If the total re-render is occurring under 16.67ms (60fps) in a non-trivial use-case I'm usually fine leaving it as-is. Most render cycles taking longer than that involve operations on large data sets or events firing at the millisecond level (mouseover, drag, etc) - and those are worth fixing as they'll actually have noticeable impacts on the user experience. But I tend not to optimize just to pat myself on the back for "optimization".
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Which is an injustice, because corporations are people.
It's even worse. I would sometimes accidentally write infinite recursion in chrome and it would lock the computer. I think this happens if your recursion involves the DOM because chrome unsafely uses privileged resources to accelerate layout. The same code in Firefox would only slow to a crawl and be recoverable.