skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks Ranidu, Justin, and the Whale team for creating such an awesome product! Has anyone experienced any other platforms where real life was the same?
Family Planning Trends in US
Isn't it pretty much the definition of fraud?
This shows you that you can achieve even if you're based on an isolated island on the other side of the world from most established technology and capital markets.

I always thought launches had to be close to the equator though, hence Europe launches from Guiana, the US from Florida, Russia from Kazakhstan, etc. so I wonder why they're doing it from the NZ mainland and not an island further north.

Their original plan was to do it from Canterbury which is even further south.
Didn't you hear, no one could find enough evidence to convict anyone.
Not only that, it's relatively easy to counterfeit - a modern currency note is probably harder to counterfeit (easier to validate) than a gold coin.
Surely the analysis exists, but China isn't dumb enough to publish such things.
That site is struggling under the HN load. Maybe they should have optimized prior to today?
Sort of. Facebook never told him. But he guessed that it was because of either real name policy or more likely because one of his clients ran a single semi spamy marketing campaign.
Oh god that's just disgraceful.
It's garbage, ignore the post.
Wouldn't it be a little too late if they aren't accounted for?
You'll have the same problem with minified JS too. If your browser's dev tools don't clean it up for you then you need a better browser. Obviously everyone _should_ be using source maps, but you can't rely on that.
Just sent you some feedback using the extension :)
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"The author's time to market using hybrid development was less than the time it would've taken to learn iOS/Android native development and ship."

So in other words, he spent less than 50% of the time needed to build both an iOS and Android app (if we assume learning Java and building the Android app will take equally as long as learning Swift and building the iOS one). Sounds like a huge win if one can live with the other tradeoffs.
From 2012. This part is quite dated: "Facebook can disable your account if your display name is different than that on your birth certificate".
Totally agree. I think the parent comment was a little heavy-handed in implying that large technology companies like NVidia are anti-competitive via political and or legal means. There certainly are markets that have these qualities... but chip manufacturing is not one of them.

The economies of scale and necessary R&D investment needed to be competitive are the primary things preventing new upstarts from making an impact. This is because the industry has matured.
This article is somewhat misleading about the exceptional nature of Google Map's road network data, particularly the claim that "I came away convinced that the geographic data Google has assembled is not likely to be matched by any other company."

In reality, though it seems the journalist didn't bother to try and find out, all the leading electronic mapping companies(the ones that have been building electronic maps for decades, long before Google got interested) have this level of data too.
You win "usage of the term 'irregardless' award".
This would create a lot of noise for the regular readers of his blog, who already know the definitions of these terms. The terms are not even obscure. This is also a blog, not a piece of technical documentation.
To summarize:

* be really really verbose

* use fully.qualified.names.at.all/times
Sharing your failures build a track record that could potentially get in the way of future success. When an employer wants a "proven track record" they don't want a huge string of failures, and probably wont hire you if that's what you have. Thus the incentive to hide failure and highlight success.
> In reality, all modern news is fake news.

This is the correct answer. Surely there must be a blog out there that deconstructs "news" articles from highly respected sources pointing out what people think is news is actually propaganda....anyone?
My friends and I used this for benchmarking new PCs. Hardly anyone got over 20fps consistently back then.
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Congressional candidate charged with assault after 'body-slamming' reporter
Of course this is from Portland.

What's next... enjoying ethnic food is an attempt to devour a cultures labors?

Some people are so fucked up. Almost as fucked up as the author of the article for giving them a voice
> Surprised this sentiment isn't more popular, they've proven themselves to be both dishonest and incompetent.

Maybe because the question of whether they are dishonest and incompetent is a less interesting ad hominem (ad companis ?) than the question of whether China can or cannot sustain its debt-fueled binge.
Outside of ceremonial duties like Tama-chan or the publeash or perish crowd from the OP, many more dogs work as police or military, in roles from combat to bomb-sniffing.

Also: Laika, the cosmonaut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

And elsewhere in order Carnivora, an army corporal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)
They minify the JS because 1% reduction in file size will save them thousands of dollars in bandwidth costs. Most web sites doesn't, even HN doesn't minify. Then there's those who obfuscate their code because they don't want their visitors to know what the code does. With JavaScript though you can, within the browser (no extra tools needed, just right click and inspect), beautify the code and set breakpoints etc.
Of course, but how can we encourage that first crucial phase, an environment that allows ideas to form, incubate and flourish?

How do we recreate the bedroom coder and garage inventor culture of the 80s that got this industry and world here in the first place?

We don't even have devices that you can code on out-of-the-box, anymore...
New Zealand space launch is first from a private site
I think the only credible credit rating agency is Standard and Poor's. It'll be interesting to see how they react to this downgrade by Moody's.
Darpa selects Boeing for spaceplane project
I believe you're being downvoted because the prevailing wisdom is that currency was created to allow specialization and portable stores of value.
No true Scotsman in action. If all examples of capitalism eventually devolve into crony capitalism I think it's time to conclude it's part of the inherent nature of capitalism.
From my experience, it's nearly impossible to get help from Facebook/Instagram if what you need is not listed in their help page. I used to have two Insta accounts and two FB accounts(personal & professional). When Instagram released a new version to add multiple insta accounts, I did the mistake of adding my work account. But Insta was so buggy that it merged my imported FB friend list of both my Insta accounts. This incident made me never trust Insta/FB/Whatsapp again.
On the one hand, I cannot help but feel for this person - Facebook, without an explanation, did significant damage to this person's career. At least that's the way he paints it (though he mentions a rule in his mailbox that deleted mail from facebook automatically, so there might have been a warning and all that - we'll never know).

On the other hand, well, that is precisely what some people warned us of - give a single company that much power, and it will inevitably be abused, be it by malice or incompetence.

But it is not easy to give any useful advice, because there is basically no alternative to facebook - you can go with the flow or stay away from it. But there is not "something like Facebook without all the problems that come with it being a single large profit-driven corporation". The only solution I can think of is for lots and lots of people to pool their money and start a non-profit Facebook. And even then, I am not overly optimistic, because by now the network effect is far too strong.
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With the amount of leverage in the system and the culture of "privatize profits, socialize risks", if China hiccups the rest of the world is in very serious trouble.
While I think programming can be a good way to teach general thinking skills like perspective, clarity, precision, and abstraction, I'm dubious about the claim that it is the best way to do so (§2.1).

Perspective - does learning multiple programming languages engender more awareness of different perspectives than say, learning multiple foreign natural languages?

Abstraction - does learning programming languages develop better use of conceptual abstraction than say, mathematics?

Precision and clarity - does learning programming languages develop better precision and clarity than studying philosophy and logic?

These are all empirical questions and no empiric data is provided. The lack of support in the argument for the conclusion given also hints that maybe learning programming isn't _the best_ way to learn clarity & precision after all.

Where I thinking learning to program stands out as superior is that it teaches a skill that is currently in high demand - programming.
The Bush Administration, under Paul Bremer, tried to build The New Iraq as the ideal capitalist state. They even implemented many things that could never get full traction in the US, like very low, flat taxes [1]. I can't say that I followed much of it closely, but at least Iraq was inspired by right-leaning principles and ideology.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/11/02/u...
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Whether or not it's "interesting", the trustworthiness of the source seems rather important.
None of those languages you listed are for systems programming, which is the one niche you need to excel at if you want to replace C and C++. People who care about that stuff tend to care a lot about managing memory.
DeepMind's AlphaGo Continues Dominance with Second Win in China
Ask HN: Do you ever feel disillusioned with tech industry as a whole?
I find more and more that I don't really care about a lot of startups or what the Big Four/Five are doing. I care about how technology is shaping society and how design can improve my quality of life but beyond that, who really cares?
The bank notes are valued at what it costs to make them (paper, ink, shipping, plus small margin). If you want to do the work it takes to make one, you can make one and the note will be accepted on the market.
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I actually have that leaderboard alias in my gitconfig already.

I work on a codebase that's over 20 yrs old. A while back, I was interested to find out who had done the most commits, and what kind impact moving to git, with it's "commit early, commit often" mentality, had pushed newer players up the ranks. Suffice to say, it hadn't had as much impact as I was expecting yet.
I know the article is old, but the author showed a severe lack of common sense.

Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account, then it is as 'at risk' as if you only kept on the hard-drive of your ageing laptop that you bought on discount in Walmart/ASDA ten years ago.

This oft quoted adage also applies: 'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'. The author seemed to think that Facebook owe him for some reason, and that he is fully justified/entitled in begging for his account back. Facebook is a private company who most of the time let the general public mingle in the lobby of its HQ[1]. As their lobby is still their property, they can refuse entry whenever they like.

Something needs to be done about Facebook's near dominance of the Social Media space. If we let this run unchecked for much longer, there won't be an 'internet' - just millions of stale, abandoned websites all simply redirecting you to their respective Facebook Pages instead. It also wouldn't surprise me if at some point, new phones will be released where the browser app is no longer installed by default, but the Facebook app is. Even if this happened today, most non-technical users wouldn't even notice.

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[1] Because the lobby is full of adverts from Facebook's business partners and Facebook gets a nice cut if you buy something being advertised.
Why blog? For ad revenue.
> Whether or not it's "interesting", the trustworthiness of the source seems rather important.

Not really. If the question is about the popularity of a sentiment, then of course the interestingness of the sentiment is relevant.

But as with every argument, it's the quality of the argument that is important, not the arguer. The only way that the trustworthiness of the source is important is if you are unable to evaluate their argument based on other factors and were planning merely to trust them or key information they relied on based on their perceived authority which I agree would be a bad idea.
I recall Digital Ocean lets you whip up a 1-click VM instance with OwnCloud all setup and ready to go.

As an alternative, you can just:

# curl -O http://vestacp.com/vst-install.sh
# bash vst-install.sh

which would setup the entire LEMP stack for you (along with a full-featured, minimalist hosting admin panel) and then you can install any of the available file sharing tools.
> The 8 years of Obama doubled a national debt that had taken about 230 years to accumulate.

It's obviously bad to have out-of-control debt, but it's worth expressing national debt as % of GDP for two reasons: (a) the GDP of a nation is an engine to be used for repayment and (b) it accounts better for inflation (in periods that the nation is off the gold standard). In that context, the Obama years did not put us back up to the record (WWII).

Here are some visualizations (I assume the data is correct, I'm not affiliated with this site):
http://metrocosm.com/history-of-us-taxes/
You either do it for yourself:

- So that you have some place to store interesting solutions, things you've learned, notes, et..

- So recruiters / others can find you and offer to hire you.

Or you do it for others:

- If you spent the last two days bashing your head against a problem and found a good solution, then chances are that there will be others out there looking for the same solution. Just as you found solutions of others useful, this is a way for you to give back to your fellow developers.
If this happened, then under the EU data directive facebook would be obligated to still provide all data they have on someone even after they disable their account. So, the data would not be gone as long as it was not deleted.
I think to be able to say you're a "decentralized alternative to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud", you really need some way to search across all the servers in the network or at least interact with them and as far as I can tell, that doesn't exist. In the tour there's not even any mention of decentralization that I can see.

Is there something I'm missing?

Also in terms of self hosting, something I'd really like is the ability to point it at a pile of files and have it ingest them in place. Any idea whether that's possible?
I have used project-per-virtual-desktop approach for years. I assign "shared apps" (Mail, Slack, etc) to all desktops (option-click via dock icon). My "project apps" are mostly terminal, text editor, and browser windows.

There are couple of issues¹, but this is still by far the best approach I can think of. Actually, I don't understand how other people can manage their stuff without per-project virtual desktops.

¹ cannot rename virtual desktops on macOS, not all apps can restore their windows on correct desktop after reboot, not all apps support multi-window workflow (e.g. Slack), "minimized windows" area in dock should be per-desktop instead of global
You can slightly mitigate this particular problem mentioned in the article (the author used it to manage FB pages): I always use at least 2 personal accounts for managing a FB page. One is actively used whereas the other one is just a backup in case something happens to the first one. Redundancy is always important, also in social media.
Good for me that I read HN otherwise I wouldn't have know this vulnerability.

What is really worrying is that this is 1 year old yet the unifying receiver which came with 2 products I bought a month ago from a larger retailer (AMZ DE) had an older FW. And while it is understandable that the stock AMZ has might be older than a year, what is unacceptable is that they don't integrate a warning in their software eg. Logitech Options, which should inform you to update the vulnerable FW on the unifying receiver.
> The only solution I can think of is for lots and lots of people to pool their money and start a non-profit Facebook.

See https://diasporafoundation.org/

Not that they've actually made any sort of dent in the problem - as you say, the network effect is just too strong.
You're confusing Libertarians with Anarchists. As an aside: I've always been waiting for communists to declare North Korea heaven on earth.
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> You can't start a GPU company because they are the GPU Mafia. They'll run you out of business...

You seem pretty emphatic that it's impossible. Also, before you call Nvidia a rent seeker you might wish to look at the amount they spend on R&D and what they're doing in self-driving cars and deep learning.
Please don't post ideological rants to HN. It degrades discussion regardless of how correct your underlying point is.
I love both of the above stories. Mine is not quite as good. My wife was assigned to test my code (Microsoft's CodeView debugger ported to other processors), and one of the reasons she married me was that it didn't introduce new bugs.
Solid strategy
I think they are primarily targeting polar orbits, so there's no big advantage to being on the equator.
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> As I recall, the goals of that project were somewhat different.

There were many, from "truth serum" against captured enemy spies through mind control over the US population (they considered adding psychedelics to tap water) up to "pacification" of Soviet leaders in the exact way you described.

> Hallucinogens have been successfully used clinically to treat addiction and other self-destructive behaviors. Anecdotal reports from recreational drug users sometimes include sensations of being connected to everything else on the planet, and coming down with a profound and newfound respect for life. MDMA reportedly enhances natural empathy.

It only worked that way for people who already wanted it to work for them that way.
> you should only be able to sue against profit a company makes

So nobody should ever be able to sue Amazon for infringement? Do you think other companies accountants would have trouble making profit vanish to avoid lawsuits?
I have seen some Common Lisp code which also uses that notation. Of course it could have been CL code written by a clojurian;-)
Site down. Cached copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170525042302/http://www.optimi...
It's not that 20% isn't good. It's that, this drug costs $389,000 a year and they are only making 20% margins. So, even if they were a nonprofit they would still have to be charging $311,000 a year to break even. You can argue they shouldn't be profitable, and OK even if that is granted, that still wouldn't make these rare drugs cheap.
with 93 billion dollars, one can, say, invest in all reasonably promising startups in the world continuously for, say 10 years, perhaps? And a couple of them will turn out to be Facebook/Google. (I have no data at hand to back that up, but 10 billion a year sounds more than enough? there are about 20 top VC firms in the Valley, and few of them has funds bigger than a billion dollars, and they typically invest over 5-7 year periods).
> Do you want companies to hire based on how smoothly you're able to bullshit about what you can claim to have done in the past?

I want to work for a company that doesn't start with the assumption that I'm a liar, yes.

Going further, it'd be nice to have a company that basically knew what they were looking for, and knew how to evaluate that in a casual conversation.
I agree, it's bad for candidates but companies might like it. If everyone gives out take home assignments, it would be harder for candidates to negotiate by lining up multiple offers.
their fund did well in China between the late 90s and early 2000s. It has not performed as well since, but still a reputable institution investor in China.
Nextcloud VM https://github.com/nextcloud/vm
sets it up automatically. Very easy to use.
I remember being in awe just at the parallax scrolling on Shadow of the Beast on a friend's Amiga. At home we still just had a lowly C64.
This applies to almost any online service including Amazon, Google, etc. Basically, these services are so unreliable and risky that using them for anything critical is dangerous. Even if you pay for them. They can and will shut down accounts for no reason. That is a risk people should be more aware of. Since the services are not dependable, it's a mistake to depend on them.
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In theory that's where consumer protection and antitrust laws should kick in.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410329 and marked it off-topic.
Only for those that never had a Nokia 7710 on their hand.
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So you are afraid someone could learn and be inspired by your code ? And that would not be an advantage to you ?
>"Curious to see this here, given that I've been trying to set up some of these "decentralized services" at my home servers and figuring out if it is really possible to replace the common mainstream services."

Just in case its not yet on your radar, you may be interested in Sandstorm:

https://sandstorm.io/

It bills itself as a 'self-hostable web productivity suite', but it's much broader than that, it's really a platform for self-hostable decentralised apps. Sandstorm manages security and app interoperability, so that developers and users can focus on the core functionality of the apps.
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Slack has a flawless multi-account implementation, which surprised me in this era where corporates try to aggressively create links between our accounts (import/suggest users, merge, or share the advertising ID). But, for example, if you do politically controversial activity on one Twitter account [1], I wouldn't add it in the multi-profile iPhone app: I would be too afraid of being banned from one and losing all accounts together, or the identity of all accounts be shared with law enforcement. I wonder what Chrome shares between multi-accounts profiles, but I have low trust in it for isolating data.

[1] I criticize my city's law enforcement, by filming where crime happens, where the police really is and the faults they do. I don't think it's illegal but I still wouldn't want my identity shared to them.
I don't get it. US workers still have 5x higher average income than China. Doesn't this suggest there are still a ton of technological improvement left to exploit? Why can't China just keep walking the same path of technological improvement as the US?
We've banned this account for making personal attacks despite our asking you to stop.

I agree with you that people are far too quick to cry 'troll' and that it's not a legit move unless there's evidence. But that doesn't mean you can personally attack people and expect not to get banned here.