skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more likely and practical outcome is using the HTML5 DOM UI instead of Qt, and JavaScript instead of Python, etc. Native web technologies the browser already has support for.

There is already a movement towards using the DOM for web game UI instead of canvas, for example this recent article makes some compelling arguments: https://blog.pocketcitygame.com/5-reasons-to-use-dom-instead...

Using web platform technologies can actually reduce the download size over native apps. In the game I am working on, written in C and compiled using emscripten, as a rough measure, the equivalent program compiled natively totals an executable size of about 2 MB, not including texture resource data. An optimized asm.js build is about 950 KB and WebAssembly only 580 KB, this includes the .html shell, .js loader, and .wasm binary itself.

This is not a completely fair comparison because I compile out some native code not relevant to the web, and vice versa, but here are a few specifics of where I believe the gains may come from:

curl: the native C app uses libcurl for fetching resources from HTTP and HTTPS servers, but on the web, we have XMLHttpRequest and HTML5 Fetch. Emscripten provides the built-ins emscripten_wget() and emscripten_async_wget() for these purposes. No need for shipping HTTP and SSL stacks because the browser already has it included.

glfw and glew: libraries for wrangling OpenGL, emscripten has its own implementation which largely simply bridges to WebGL or other HTML5 APIs, a very thin layer. SDL, too.

databases: many apps bundle their own copy of SQLite, often as the single C file amalgamation. I used to, too, even through emscripten and it worked fine (there is even a pre-packaged emscriptenified sqlite.js), admittedly I haven't looked into it much yet but the web platform supports IndexedDB built-in, no extra dependency needed.

JSON: how many JSON encoders/decoders are there out there, separate copies in all of the apps? On the web, you can rely on JSON.stringify and JSON.parse (from JavaScript, but all functionality is bridged through WebAssembly anyways).

We may see a resurgence in "small C libraries" targeting WebAssembly. There is a growing trend of header-only libraries, especially the popular stb: https://github.com/nothings/stb#stb_libs and there is a growing list here: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs I consult to find tiny libraries appropriate for linking into a web-based C application. lodepng (for decoding PNG images) and miniz (for reading and extracting zip files) are about the only substantial dependencies I have beyond what is in the emscripten standard library. Everything else is provided by the browser, the web has grown to a surprisingly powerful and complete platform.
Only IPOs transfers cash directly to a growing business, all other stock trades are shareholder trades, the company sees none of that money.

Corporate bonds do help grow businesses, but these are dwarfed by government bonds, which are just another way of transferring money from the vast majority of living and future generations, to a tiny number of current living people.
> By hoarding wealth, the richest prevent their own wealth from growing (out of risk aversion and greed)

The list of US' richest people nowadays consists of founders of Microsoft, founders of Google, founder of Facebook, founder of Amazon and founder of Oracle. So how many of today's richest became richest by hoarding and hoarding alone, Scrooge McDuck style?
Yes, but growth and appreciation are (theoretically) not. Growth is priced in. You're saying product-market fit -> growth -> appreciation. The first part of that is true. The second isn't. Assuming market efficiency, the VCs know just as well as I do that the company is going to grow, so they'll pay a higher rate, which means my options will be priced higher (or I'll get fewer RSUs, accordingly). Growth does not imply appreciation.
Didn't know the US EITC, thanks for the info. Read the wikipedia entry, it seems aweful.

I actually like M.F. negative income tax as a theorical idea, but don't think it'll ever be applied the way he formulated it.
When I was doing Bluetooth Low Energy development for IoT devices, this book was the goto reference for both the embedded firmware and mobile app folks:

https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Low-Energy-Developers-Handb...
I guess the thing that worries me is how would I know that the increased enforcement budget would actually go towards the ultra-rich? I make a middle-class income, not enough that it really makes sense to hire an accountant. The tax code is complicated enough that I'm sure I screwed up somewhere doing my taxes --- I just try to muddle my way through it as best I can year after year. I'm sure the IRS could get more money harassing thousands of people like me instead of a single ultra-wealthy individual since we don't have the resources to fight the IRS but the ultra-wealthy do.
News websites already do things this way (have a text version of a news report, with an auto-playing video version of the same report embedded somewhere on the page, that has a pre-roll ad.) I'm not sure how Google will view that—I think it might come down to whether the user was expecting the video version of the news report.
Maybe they mean to say that the amount of new bitcoin mined will not fluctuate? It's true that the amount of new supply per day is roughly constant -- even if half of the miners go offline, just as much new bitcoin is produced per day.
Perhaps the fact that catastrophe is the only thing leads to increased equality (in dollar terms) is a sign that equality (in dollar terms) is a bad heuristic for net social utility.
I tried modding Firefox once. Maybe its the tools required that are not really well made, but XUL felt like a mess to deal with.
Hah. This is a good point. I was going to call you out for having barely any employees and so of course they'd do well. But, for anyone who hasn't tried this, if you give the hypothetical employee 10% of the company, they come out with $0 in all scenarios at a $25M exit on this tool.

And it looks like this is the slider you were asking about. ;) https://captable.io/
It incentivizes all activity productive risk taking or just sitting on the couch and playing Call of Duty - which if you've delt with most humans lately means it'll likely be Call of Duty unless there's some sort of familial pressure to do otherwise
This is a huge, well written article. I wish I found such an article everyday, but they are rare. I disagree with some of the points the author makes. It is clear that he is biased towards content creators and against sharing, but at least he mentions the opposing points of view and tries to be inclusive.

It might be true that music and media have been squeezed. I find it surprising, because a few years ago there were some articles stating record profits. But let's say it is true - many traditional domains are in decline, and creators are not creating quality content as much as they used to, because they receive less income.

That is not necessarily a bad thing. People stop using old media and forms of art because they are developing new forms. In the past we were talking about fishing, now about JavaScript. We used to get all our reading from books, now the lion share is taken by forums and online articles. We are developing new ways to create and enjoy, and that is why the old ways are in decline.

For example I spend more time reading arxiv articles (and their github repos when available) instead of newspaper articles. I prefer the commentary of a small subreddit to that of most newspapers. I take music discovery in my own hands and have never been happier (much more than in the age of CD and radio, when availability was scarce). I almost never need their guidance to discover music, or their articles to discuss events. I can get the gist of an evolving media event from Wikipedia, and it's much better structured. If I am interested in gaming, I can watch free live game streaming created by other players. That is why the old content creation for money is in decline - because we are creating new ways to get what we need.
Many people believed it to be a psychological disorder.
For any of this to happen, there would have to be some serious changes in either sentiment of device makers or the legal environment. And, honestly, the number of people who want to repair their own phone is basically zero.

Where I live, there are dozens of shops that can replace just about any part of your iPhone, except the secure elements (fingerprint sensor). They don't seem to have trouble getting parts. So really we are taking about a mechanism for consumers to buy OEM parts one-off. I don't see that happening.
At least on iOS (mobile safari) attempting to download the source of a generated resume produces a binary blob of some kind, rather than anything that looks like Tex... (maybe I'll go file this as an issue...)
Are you joking or severely myopic?

Put a few billionaires in prison and there won't be any billionaires left in the country.
but by that point, the moment it's in the airport again, it's toast
If you live in linux-land and assuming bandwidth is not an issue, then it's trivial to move to a VDI solution. See Apache Guacamole for an excellent example of web-enabling remote desktop access.
When you vote, you are not voting for anything or anyone substantial. Party A and Party B have the exact same policies with simply different political tones and groups of elites that they support.

The 16th amendment was adopted on February 3, 1913. Good to read its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni... and how controversy still stands despite a century of litigation.
"Muffly, who had been sensitive to the native growth of the region for years, got it immediately. “That’s what I’ve been doing — planting fruit trees, oak trees,” he said."

The thing that's funny about it is that the pre-silicon valley landscape that Jobs was familiar with was not native at all. None of the fruits that they are planting are native to the region (though sure, the oaks are). Most of the old growth forests in the region had already been completely logged by the the 1950s (well before that, actually). This article talks about how the redwood forests that covered the local hillsides were all clearcut in the 1800s:

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1996_Nov_...

Just on the other side of the bay (in the East Bay hills) there used to be a stand of some of the largest redwoods ever known to have existed, that were used for navigation by ships through the golden gate because they were so large.

I get it -- the building is really a monument to Jobs, and so creating his childhood vision of the valley is fine. And it's a private company -- they can do what they want. I just guess I see this tree planting as a missed opportunity, one that is being given far more credit than it deserves.
The story covered the key point, which is that the way visas are granted has been changed to be even more arbitrary and have higher potential for abuse than before.

From everything I've seen so far, the only people who are going to get the "additional scrutiny" are Muslims, starting with the ones from the countries listed in the travel ban. The administration added the "national security" language in order to protect themselves in court, but it reads the same as any other instance of government abuse throughout American history. The people in the group being targeted will be required to jump over increasingly higher hurdles (like 15 years of biographical history) while everyone else gets to just step around it.
The EITC is not a negative income tax or UBI, it's a ramp-up/ramp-up means-tested and behavior-tested welfare program.

It may have been inspired by the NIT, but the essence of the inspiration was lost entirely in conventional welfare-program thinking.
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None of the fruit trees they are planting are native to California.

If they wanted to plant native edibles they'd be stuck with a pretty limited selection of berries and nuts.

Edited to add: White Sapote and Avocado are about as close to native fruit trees as you can get in California. Apples, on the other hand, are native to Kazakhstan.
The majority of Bitcoin mining is located in just a few geographic regions that happen to have inexpensive power. China, The Republic of Georgia (special backroom deal with the president and BitFury), North-East Canada, and parts of North-West US that have cheap hydro power.

If China is really rooting out the bitcoin mining operations, it represents a huge change in the makeup of the mining/hashing industry
I think the future of social networks will be turning them into a protocol, the same way we use e-mail. Everyone is connected through e-mail but nobody technically owns it.
"Trump is so bad he's good" is a tired take at this point.

Polling shows that the Russian story is basically resonating with Democrats, but not doing much on the other side of the aisle (granted, Republicans stayed with Nixon up until almost-impeachment...)

Paris has broad bi-partisan support. "Let's distract from the Russia issue by something that people actually care about" is not the best strategy is it?

Think about the absolutely massive bad press AHCA has generated, combine that with the fact that Paris is only symbolism, and you have a political move with bad optics and no effect on reality. A global minimum if I've seen one (if you have enough cognitive dissonance to think AHCA isn't a massive mess).

The problem with "Trump is a political savant" is that it's indistinguishable from the "Trump has severe ADD and just does whatever comes up" narrative.

EDIT: check weather.com (at least the US site). When your political move make a meteorological site go full-monty on you, maybe you've generated a couple problems.
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It's worth pointing out that the US model of taxation (US citizens pay taxes on income earned anywhere in the world), as much as people complain about it, completely negates the value in offshore income a la Panama papers.

Sure, until recently you could hide your income in Switzerland, but it was a clear crime -- there wasn't legal grey area.

And yes yes, there are other ways to try to avoid taxation (deductions etc) but this is a really big one that the US doesn't have to worry about.
Well when you have a substantial amount of the population voting against their economic interest, do not trust the political system to the degree they like hearing autocratic rhetoric like "so called judges" and "do nothing congress" and "rigged elections" and "fake news media" - that sort of denigration of checks and balances in favor of unity executive is totally the opposite of anything grassroots, or democracy.

It's people who have no trust in those things, and just want to go back to a simple life of one deity, one leader, a small bunch of benevolent aristocrats, and everyone else gets a basic job and they just suck it up and like it.

A significant minority is convinced crony capitalism is real capitalism, and the only reason why it doesn't work perfectly is because of government, gays, and libtards. That's the political reality of ~80% of Republicans who still approve of everything this U.S. administration is doing. That may only be 25% of the eligible voting population, but then a bit over 50% of those eligible voters could not be bothered to participate at all. So you have a sizable minority of anti-democratic people who want a weak autocrat to just fix things and de-Obamafy the country. And a bunch of disinterested people. Ergo 3/4 of the voting eligible population.

It's a problem.
Really? I thought the difficulty took several days to adjust. Edit: The wiki says it takes 2160 blocks, about two weeks?
> Well income tax was magically mandated without any sort of discussion so there's that.

The nation literally passed a constitutional amendment specifically to allow direct, unapportioned income tax.
Absolutely fair.
Sure I don't dispute that it only rules on patent issues. But, I think it is often possible to get a sense of how the court will rule on future decisions by reading their past rulings to get a sense of their thinking. And while there is a lot to be said for each justice's individual personality, on this issue they were unanimous.

My reading of the decision was that the court wasn't just clarifying the bounds of patent law, with no real interest in the consumer perspective. I felt a court that was concerned about the way consumer rights are heading.

If companies start spamming the public with grabby adhesion contracts for everyday purchases, I think the court is going to be very concerned.

Of course, this is just my intuition and reading. We won't know for sure until the next consumer rights case, but I am optimistic.
> It is also common to experience various sensations in the skin, from crawling or tingling sensations, tenderness of palms and the soles, and numbness of hands, arm, legs or feet.

That's an intriguing symptom, given that many inflammatory/autoimmune conditions cause peripheral neuropathy. I wonder if what is being described is the "unblocking" of peripheral nerves, causing a flood of signal-distorting noise as they re-join the nervous system.
CLI chat for developers
As a developer, I use my command line a lot so why not integrate chat directly into it?

For this reason, I wrote whir, which aims to close this gap by providing a simple, flexible, extend-able and blazing fast chat environment, without having to install additional applications.

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Good. DRM freaks should get lost.
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And? That doesn't change by running inside of Chrome.

The only reason that's even a concern is because you can't trust Chrome Apps to not be malware.

On the other hand, when I "apt-get install <some app>" I know it's not listening to all X keystrokes unless that's a legitimate part of its functionality, because I trust the Debian team to only add trustworthy software to their repos.
Below it says 20h of remote work, so that might just be that.
Back at it again with pretending autistic people don't become adults and can't communicate at all?
repair vs modifications vs reconstruction is actually a very open question, despite what this article claims
So people just don't understand processes and permissions any more?
I've experienced a lot of the same. Work and social life blend. And it's a loss of face to one's family to come home early every day. (Not important enough to work hard?)
I appreciate that perspective and I see your point. Most of the employee questions re: equity that I am privy too are fairly sophisticated. But, of course, many employees never ask questions and, therefore, my experience may give me a skewed perspective on the sophistication of startup employees.

That being said, plenty of larger companies convince their employees (successfully) to "drink the Kool-Aid" and think that their company is saving the world. But, of course, those employees are also being paid a salary (unlike many startup employees, as you note).
The popover doesn't seem as big an issue as the fact that you can't browse the archive of public posts unless you are logged in.

John Carmack posts public reviews of VR games frequently on Facebook. Here's one: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1717273305... But if you want to browse previous reviews, there is no mention of them on his public Facebook page. Look at these two screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/wal8p If you log in, Facebook is all of the sudden like "look at all this public content!"

Totally skeezy.
A lot it's the 5th largest website in the usa.
D for Android beta
> The 16th amendment was adopted on February 3, 1913.

Yes. 4 years after congress passed the amendment, it was ratified by the 36th state and adopted. In no way was this "magically mandated without any sort of discussion".
>oh and storing the waste in effective perpetuity

The only reason we aren't upcycling the 'waste' is because of an order issued by Jimmy Carter to prohibit the proliferation of Plutonium; we could be using it as fuel in other reactors.
Because you can reset your GMail password by sending an SMS to your cell phone?

Most services assume that your phone is a trusted device, and that SMS is a trusted delivery service. Neither of which is true if you can get someone to activate a new phone on your account, or you can hijack SMS.
Dnssec still has your data in the clear, it just signs the data. (And is not supported by most domains)
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2013/10/28/nine...
You get Fukushima by building backup generators right next to the ocean on an island prone to being hit by tsunamis.