skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not sure what has this to do with hacking/IT, but

Tiananmen square massacre is mislabeled event, more people died in other parts of Beijing than average in the square, so more appropriate name would be Beijing massacre or what Chinese use 6/4.

People who died in square were pretty much suicidal since they were warned to leave and were told to leave even by their own protester leaders.

It should be always mentioned that wife of current hard liner president Mao 2.0 She Gin Pimp was singing at that time to murderers in square.

Overall not sure why are media so obsessed with this event were few thousand people died instead or mentioning millions who died thanks to glorified Mao. It's pretty good trade-off with DXP for most of the Chinese compared to trade-off gained with Mao.
> If you lean more towards the functional programming paradigm side of Scala then you’ll probably love the following about Rust’s type system

Some of the more popular functional languages have advanced type systems, but not all functional languages are statically typed. Lisp, the granddaddy of all FP languages, is dynamically typed. So is Elixir.

Can we stop conflating FP with static typing?
What makes it complete different from react ?
Ask HN: What ethical principles do you follow in your work/job?
I am also curious on understanding how and why people - specially in IT - are choosing an ethical principle to follow.
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I'm biased, I've release bits for Moose but ... Django, React, Rails, Spring, : can you tell what they are used for from the names? Does this mean that Python, Javascript, Ruby, and Java are "drawn towards unreadability than readability by attracting a kind of mindset that wanted [them] to be more 'fun'"?

In fact Moose, Catalyst, Starman, etc were all projects specifically named more fun _becasue_ their authors saw other communities not naming things "DBIx::Class" or "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" and wanted to bring some of that fun to Perl.
I'd love to tether, but don't because my carrier (AT&T) won't enable it for a single device, only for all accounts on my family plan. My family could easily (even innocently) use up our monthly data allotment in a day.

Also, how can you limit data usage while tethering? Can a device tell if it's tethered, or does it just assume it has a normal wifi connection? Do you need to turn off automatic updates on laptops?
It sounds like something automated broke into your s3 account, added it mindlessly to .js files, and moved on.
We stream off plex to a multitude of devices, iOS/tvOS/desktops/Sonos/Android/Samsung (older)/Samsung (Tizen) and it's rock solid. Specifically never tried a chromecast, though. Plex Pass is one of the best home entertainment investments I ever made.
So far, there hasn't been any killer use case for ethereum yet. Everything it does, can be done more efficiently outside of the ethereum network. Some say that its "decentralized" on ethereum though, but this isn't true, because a lot of the inputs to ethereum contracts originate from a centralized source. For instance, if you want to make a smart contract that sends you 100 eth based on the outcome of a basketball game, the centralized source where you get the trigger on who won the game, is the centralized source your contract has to trust. It doesn't really matter whether the contract was executed on the ethereum network, it is still vulnerable to centralization. Whats the difference between that and just making it work on bitcoin by having a service sign a multisig transaction sending you btc if the basketball team wins? The only way something can truly be decentralized, is if all the actions in the smart contract are primitive actions based within the network itself. For instance, if y address receive 1 eth, send x address 2 eth. Neither action requires trust outside the ethereum network.
Thanks for sharing! This looks as a great starting point. Will surely take a look.
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If your idea is good, you can obtain a patent, and afford to take a loan <$50,000 to go from "Prototype-to-Trade Show Ready" then you don't need Investors.

You seem to be thinking about "Seen on TV" type of products, not software. You also seem to be talking about companies that would never see a BN+ exit or are made to flip (never actually seen one that was built with the intention to sell quickly and successful did).

Those are great, but they are in a different category than venture backed companies so your measurement criteria are off.
Yes, "factual" was not the best word choice.
"Factual" in that context was something like "having obvious empirical and experiential basis".
I recall a study with LA demographic data that showed the statistical distribution of LA matches the distribution output by the Schelling model. Hazy on the details though :(
Barnes & Noble already did that. "You've Got Mail."
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> The areas of the economy with the most government involvement and regulation are where we find costs ballooning out of control: healthcare, prisons, infrastructure, student loans

Come on. Really? Healthcare is heavily regulated, yes, but a lot of that comes from regulating a fucked up mix between public and private institutions along with insurance companies thrown in the mix. Single-payer would absolutely lower these costs substantially. That's the opposite of less regulation.

And prisons? We have private prisons...as in, corporations that have a financial incentive to put more people in prison. Not just that, they lobby the government to create more laws or have stricter penalties to keep more people in prison. You can't seriously tell me that's too much regulation.

Infrastructure? Absolutely needs to be government run. Private companies have no incentive here, unless heavily subsidized by the government, in which case they would just balloon costs as much as possible in order to squeeze as much blood from the stone as they could.

Student loans...if a dog put on a pair of glasses it could get a student loan. That's a lack of regulation. The only real regulation making it balloon out of control is that bankruptcy doesn't absolve your loan debt (whether it should or shouldn't, that's another issue).

Military, I agree with you on! Less military spending! We can use the money for (public) schools and make sure our country isn't made up of complete imbeciles in 20 years.
Anyone who's been on the internet too long might do it - it's been a around for the past decade - more as a meme making fun of Bill O'Reilly than anything in support of him.
This is sort of like saying that "proving that stars emit light" is more exciting than using better and better telescopes to compare electromagnetic wave signatures of different light emitting celestial objects.

We will likely learn a great many things over the coming decades with this new way of looking at the universe, many of which we couldn't have even guessed we would learn!
So what would you use today?
> noticing how much better it performed compared to firefox

Given that I used Opera's performance as a basis for my statement I guess your comment, instead of being a glowing praise of Chrome, simply reflects very poorly on Firefox.

At the end of the day, Chrome ended up using too many system resources to be a viable option for me at the time. People accused me on occasion of being an Opera fanboy, but, objectively, it was hard to justify why Chrome would need more resources than Opera while delivering significantly less features.
Memory model and byte order is enough to add breakage to stuff written in all of those languages.
I agree they are not identical situations.

Driving is not a good analogy either. A 2 week prescription gives you a 25% chance of becoming an addict. That is Russian roulette odds.

Driving everyday all year has about a 1 in 10,000 chance of death.

Driving is a necessity in most places. Opioids are not.
Is there something like a crypto etf for all these high grow coin that's more passive?
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401k - I agree US equities look overpriced (because of other reasons, mainly interest rates).

>I don't think you can say it's "near worthless" to keep your value in an appreciating medium rather than a depreciating one..

I'm not sure it's useful to group all cryptocurrencies together as a single medium. You should look at them individually and make your own projections. The current valuation the market is giving to 98% of coins, IMHO isn't based on anything except uneducated speculation - there is no utility function or current/potential revenue that reflects the valuation of most coins. If/when there is a correction I don't know - people might just leave their money in for a long time.
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You can use a paid service like schedulesdirect to replace windows media center guide data, which they get from Rovi (Tivo parent) currently. It tends to be more detailed and accurate that way.
Maybe a big part of the reason is that investors and VCs are rich. I wondered about this too.
$20 million is $5 million if you just own 25%. thats almost 40 years of working at a dayjob.
I guess this was the biggest question answering piece to me. When I think of a black hole, I assume it has a gigantic mass, enough that it's always the most massive local object, and subsequently pulls in all other things. I didn't realize that might not be the case. As black holes "absorb" everything that "falls" into them, do they continue to build mass then?
its pretty difficult to argue that female sexual rights are not fundamental human rights when youve already established that liberty itself is "proven by political philosophy".

"liberty is a fundamental human right unless youre born the wrong sex and want to govern your private parts"
The article is about the protests as a whole, they ended in the "Tiananmen Square Massacre" like the first paragraph of the article says.
It's bad because it's not public transportation? Is that really an argument?

The idea is clearly that tunnels allow you to scale along the z-axis, and thus facilitate density. Whether that's car-sleds or small trains or something else, that's not really the point.

This also shows a lack of imagination with regard to public transit; yes it's very efficient in some ways, but door-to-door transport is very desirable as well. With the development of small electric vehicles and autonomous driving, a hybrid mode of transport becomes possible; small vehicles can come together in 'trains' or along special corridors that still permit door-to-door service.

There are plenty of good criticisms for Musk's various projects, but griping about a fun video is disappointing.
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Agreed, I own this book and it was great several years ago but it does not include ES5, 6 and now 2016, 2017. I think you're better off learning online. Or to get started read it and then add to the knowledge here: http://es6-features.org/#Constants (whoever set up that site is great, it's helped me out).
Vue is the first library I've worked on where I've had multiple moments of "ugh, this problem is an awkward fit for this framework and this is going to hurt" quickly followed by a skim of the docs and finding an API that specifically foresees and smooths over my pain point.
Love this:

>>Larry Page assigned the project to me. He said, “Build some kind of email something” and chose me because I had an interest in email.

This is how you know you've found an awesome developer - someone who only needs to be given only a high-level vision of what is needed, and who can then run with it, fill in the details, and deliver something more awesome than you thought possible.

Reminds me of the famous "Message to Garcia" essay from way back in 1899:
(http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/199th/ocs/content/pdf/m...)

Or, a more current parable found in a post by Benjamin Hardy(1):

A certain farmer had become old and ready to pass his farm down to one of his two sons. When he brought his sons together to speak about it, he told them: The farm will go to the younger son.

The older son was furious! “What are you talking about?!” he fumed.

The father sat patiently, thinking.

“Okay,” the father said, “I need you to do something for me. We need more stocks. Will you go to Cibi’s farm and see if he has any cows for sale?”

The older son shortly returned and reported, “Father, Cibi has 6 cows for sale.”

The father graciously thanked the older son for his work. He then turned to the younger son and said, “I need you to do something for me. We need more stocks. Will you go to Cibi’s farm and see if he has any cows for sale?”

The younger son did as he was asked. A short while later, he returned and reported, “Father, Cibi has 6 cows for sale. Each cow will cost 2,000 rupees. If we are thinking about buying more than 6 cows, Cibi said he would be willing to reduce the price 100 rupees. Cibi also said they are getting special jersey cows next week if we aren’t in a hurry, it may be good to wait. However, if we need the cows urgently, Cibi said he could deliver the cows tomorrow.”

The father graciously thanked the younger son for his work. He then turned to the older son and said, “That’s why your younger brother is getting the farm.”

1 https://benjaminhardy.com/one-behavior-separates-successful-...
As a type 1 diabetic I can say (personally) the difficulties of managing my diabetes do not stem from taking insulin, that's a solved problem. Rather the difficulties come from taking the right amount at the right time. Insulin is slow acting (2-3 hours for it to fully take effect) so you're always trying to predict/aim for a moving target, and one that can shift rapidly depending on eating/exercise. If I could just set it and forget it, or even just have the ability to be 50% less accurate when calculating/planning dosage and activities, it would be a paradigm shift.
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> Is it just to kill hundreds, to prevent the slaughter of hundreds of thousands?

A question like that can often be used to justify extreme exercise of state power -- witness raids on armed vigilante groups in the US -- but that's not quite the right question in this instance, which was a peaceful protest for democratic reform. As you say "we don't know what would have happened" here (and of course the Arab Spring couldn't have been a cautionary tale as it was decades in the future).

So the question in this situation is really "Is it just to kill hundreds, to prevent a hypothetical bad outcome you can't possibly predict, can't prove and which even if it happened you could mitigate in other ways at that time?". To which the answer is palpably "no".

In fact, it's a hell of a stretch to say oppressive dictatorships ever carry out actions like this "for the good of the many". They generally just carry them out to maintain their grip on power, which is an end in itself for them. But not one that justifies massacre, in the main.
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The story about Church protest has no proof. At least I tried to find it and found nothing worthy
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I don't understand that it was voted down. I think it is a fair argument.

I agree the reporting has been getting better.
I haven't paid much attention to Netflix originated content. Any more I absolutely dread switching over to Netflix because I know it'll be a 30+ minute exercise in frustration. My wife and older kid ignore it completely.

Unless things change I'm cancelling by the end of the year.

Amazon Prime seemed a bit better but lately it seems to be filled with the same kind of crud. Bad "B" and below movies.

Seriously, who watched this crap?

There are thousands of good movies out there. Maybe it's a revenue struggle with the studios, I don't know. The fact that you can't even find "The Marx Brother" or "The Three Stooges" or "Abbott and Costello" on these services might be a clue. In other words, you can't find popular black and white movies that by all accounts should fill these services. Or good 80's, 90's and earlier TV series. Not there. Maybe a few here and there, but not en-masse as they should be.

I was looking for Battlestar Galactica the other day. Not the goofy one, the other one with Edward James Olmos. It was there a few years back but no-longer available. My oldest kid wasn't old enough to watch it then but he could now (and it is a good series). Gone. Not sure why.
Interestingly I wrote an essay about morality that essentially follows your logic of maximizing the number of paths a person has open to them, although I used different terminology.

https://medium.com/@Med_Student/on-morality-4a30d7e20dc8?sou...
What was the motivation behind the liquidation? A quick search does not provide any details.
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The problem is the focus on exit. Entrepreneurs can live quite well on seven to eight figure businesses, provided they enjoy the work they do.
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To be honest, the dead butterflies do look aesthetically more pleasing. I can't tell if it's because the image is culturally ingrained or if the shape is simply more elegant. That said, I welcome this knowledge which opens a whole new opportunity for me to be pedantic at parties.