skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what the product is.

Industrial production of software is as difficult as industrial productions of theorems, patents, scientific discoveries and cocktail recipes.

If the "product" is solving a real-world problem e.g. driving a robot car, than software becomes a tool, like an industrial machine.

In that case software engineering exists, and it's doing very well, and it's about building reliable systems with the smallest amount of software and complexity a possible.

Distributed systems that survive hardware failures and scale up/down automatically and machine learning are prime examples.
nah.

a large unknown force will blow the moon into seven chunks, and Neil de Grasse Tyson will lead us into space, Elon Musk will harness a comet and die of radiation exposure.

better bone up on my morse code.
Everyone has choices, it's true.

The choices that are available, however, have an extreme variance from person to person. At the extremely shitty end, Viktor Frankl, while a captive of a Nazi death camp, worked out that when all other choices are taken from a person, the only remaining one is to die with dignity.

But it's a choice, right?

At the other end of the spectrum, choices may include where to vacation this winter or if the maid should be fired.

The bottom line is that the quality and quantity of choices vary so much, depending on luck and pluck, that it's a bit glib to say "everyone has choices", including, I guess, the choice between working a crappy, abusive, mean job or two to make ends meet, or starve.
Well, to be honest my first impression was that this is what I've been using all along. I just liked that someone experimented a bit. :) Perhaps I assumed this would end up with a different predictive model. No idea what kind of corpora have been used for the input methods already available.

Edit: your P.S. made me remember the "ma-ma-ma-ma..." mouthful the Chinese language students I studied in parallel with discovered (apparently well-known - something about a horse and a...mother?). If tones are not represented in romanised Chinese, things seem to get tricky, indeed.
Those maps are so bat-shit crazy that they are awesome.
Hum, even so, I don't see him mentioning downsides to that dependance. I understand his argument, but you also can't say it's bad without showing how it is.

Cigarettes causes massive health issues. But coffee turned out not to really cause harm, and we're all addicted and dependent.

I think with the big 5 companies, it's unclear if any harm is being made like with tobacco, or if it's an addiction we can all continue to enjoy like coffee.
I heard exactly this from someone who practiced either Ju Jitsu or Taekwondo (can't recall which one) - he got into a motorcycle accident and was thrown over the handlebars totally uninjured due to instinctively landing how he learned to in martial arts.
It isn't, but that's got nothing to do with my argument.
That's not exactly hacking, I've had a similar problem (paid rent by bank transfer and the "landlord" just vanished). The bank said "you transferred the money yourself, there's nothing we can do, it's like paying cash". Which is ridiculous, but technically it's not the bank's fault :/
Open source could work together flawlessly like that, but it'd need open, standard protocols to do so - and an adherance to them.

A closed system just makes it easier for someone to do - because they don't have to care about any standard protocols and can hack together whatever they want and everyone will just deal with it.

I'm not really arguing against you - but I think it's important to note that what we have is possible, just not _right now_.

Of course, _right now_ is when we all want it.
I'm not really sure why you'd be concerned, 5 seconds of Googling and you'd figure out that Heroku is just a cloud hosting service.
The amount of time some verified Twitter users spend sending angry tweets to Trump is actually kind of frightening.
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
A chat with the new Uber executive who believes the company can change
Depends on the slave, but I call bullshit on "don't have to participate". If I don't participate, in 3-4 months I'd be homeless and with nothing to eat. What gives?
Because it will eventually go into a clustered index once it's been processed.
So awesome that the Monopoly Medallion holders are filing for bankruptcy.
Yeah, if the US wanted to become Sweden it seems like we would have done it already. But the article is an interesting counterpoint to arguments that there literally isn't enough money to be found to pay for basic income.
You can start your VPN business, but you may run into issues and cause your customers to conduct chargebacks, refunds or sue for not being able to reliably offer services. If blocking/disrupting/unauthorized decryption of their encrypted traffic occurs in the future you should inform your customers of this issue so none of them are unaware.

Now if it becomes illegal in the UK to offer any encryption services, require backdoors or lower grade encryption you may need to migrate your residence and business to another country to legally continue business operations.
Haha, you just summed up perfectly what I was trying to describe with my child-comment to another poster on here!
TJ's clearly had a opportunity - there's pent up demand for TJ products in Canada, but instead of investing in a couple of satellite stores in Canada and some bilingual labeling, they chose to spend their money on lawyers and lawsuits.
Even if we assume that allowing Google to exist as a monopoly does bring better services, that's a small price to pay for not having to be subjugated by a conglomerate.

Countries can already barely withstand pressure from big companies, by allowing them grow even further everything would just turn in a way that would allow such companies to make even more money, whilst increasing the gap between the rich and the poor.

And with regards to better services, I think the open source community has shown us that it's possible to make great services without having to work for a company. In many cases even better services because the prime objective is to make a program that would help the user, not make money for the company.
Isn't the bar for criminal liability fairly high? Doesn't a CEO usually get fired and/or fined?

I'd be interested in learning about an case where a CEO goes to prison because he didn't pursue shareholders' interests aggressively enough.
Things like Mastodon[0] and IPFS[1] are always worth checking out, if you want to get a sense of control over your data. With regards to the argument that these companies are so entrenched in our society that they are very difficult to remove, almost like barnacles, then I agree that something has to be done. The real problem exists when there is no other choice for people. For example, the default search engine on Android phones is most certainly Google and not DuckDuckGo. Another example of terrible monopolistic practice is that Android phones are so fragmented. It seems kind of odd that in order to have the most secure Android installation, that I also have to have the latest hardware. I find it very unfair that legacy devices are locked to a single Android install and can't upgrade properly. These things should be future proof and be able to respond to threat landscapes. I feel very uneasy communicating on legacy devices because there is the uneasy feeling that the device has been infected by either low-level attackers, or nation states.

[0] https://mastodon.social/about

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
So....Medium typing? Would that just be all the inference of Python mixed with the literalness of Swift?
RE Amazon: I think it is problematic that they are now one of the biggest marketplaces, as well as being a trader. Put simply this allows them to watch other peoples sales, and if they look pretty good on a certain product, undercut them. This could be solved by divesting, hiding the transactions nature from Amazon, or more radically, having the data in the open so everyone can use it

Re Apple: Technology comes and goes, but the iphone was a good one. The troubling thing for me is the amount of cash they are hording. If this is intended to underwrite Applepay as a new bank, then firstly they must allow open access to all technology platforms to use Applepay. You can't have a new dollar that works better at Walmart than Tesco.

Re Google and Facebook: These companies are advertisers. I have no problem with their size or structure at present. I do have a problem with using their easy cross border presence to avoid taxation. You cannot have the biggest revenue generators for advertising paying no tax, when everyone else has to. In the UK Google is headquartered in Ireland so the UK receives no tax from the billions of revenue. This is unsustainable for the country.

My real problems with Google and Facebook is they regard everything about us as their to do what they want with.
Looks interesting. I'm going to give it a spin on some RPi3s I have hanging around and see how it compares to having used fabric.

One thing: the link "learnshutit.html" at the top of this page is a 404.
Skyrocketing acquisitions by big companies also justify half VC economy (the other half being AirBnb-style dominance over a sector). It would be interesting to know, if the exit events were smaller, whether the seed/VC capital eould redirect to more conservative positions like old industries or emerging markets.
The key takeaway from that is the difficulty of social organization. The first proponent of early sowing will be viewed as seeking to gain some private advantage precisely because poverty creates an economic incentive to maximize private advantage. Some open source proponents overcame this reluctance in the 1980s with the Stone Soup metaphor.
There has been some progress on stopping smoking.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/ci...
Yeah, company can change. Can change people who work there.
+1 I agree!

Usually (when not traveling) I try to avoid Google's free services like search, the excellent Google Assistant, Maps, etc. That said, I use Google constantly for stuff I pay for: Google Cloud Platform, buying movies and TV shows on Google Play, pay for a YouTube Red + Play Music family plan, and use their One a Day charity site.

I would be delighted to pay $10/month for the current 'free' Google services if they strongly protected privacy.
Is "collapsing of the tectonic plate" underneath Europe a thing at all?

Even if all permanent ice melted in the Arctic and on all mountain tops, seas would "only" raise by about 200 feet, if I remember correctly. That's certainly not enough to submerge Europe like that.
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Sure. Next thing, the Treasury immediately stops honoring $20 bills. Hey, what chumps we were, accepting cash!

The analogy holds: A city government had a system where a good had artificial scarcity and intrinsic value from stable government policy. Then, it suddenly changed. I'm all for ride-hailing changing our public transit dynamic, but I can't fault the players of the old system too much for saying "What the hell about my retirement, my end of life?"
The market, i.e. customers, are saying they prefer Lyft and Uber to monopoly taxis.

Market forces are naturally driven by customer demand and the realities of supply costs. Government intervention/subsidies is the only thing that interferes with that process, and almost always that intervention is being driven by self interested actors looking to reap above market profits.

You may not like what customers want, but that doesn't mean it's not better for them.
Less hypothetically, most of the atoms in a complex living organism are replaced every few months. (One objection could be that atoms of the same sort are all identical, but that makes the issue of 'identity' even more complex.)
That's terribly limited though, since it basically relies on a land grab, and people who come along later are out of luck.
Yes, elliptic curves are huge in cryptography, but they are also mathematically significant. They are the degree three nonsingular algebraic plane curves with at least one rational point. This makes them essentially "one step up" from the conic sections. The conic sections, of course, are well understood including the parametrization of their rational points. However, elliptic curves are much more subtle! We do not even have proven algorithms for determining the size of any elliptic curve's set of rational points, and in specific the algebraic rank of that set. The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is one of the millennium prize problems, and it relates elliptic curves' algebraic ranks to their analytic ranks. Elliptic curves are also very related to modular forms, and this connection is part of the theory that allowed Andrew Wiles to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. In the study of the rational solutions to integer polynomial equations, i.e. Diophantine Analysis, elliptic curves are one of the next stepping stones that must be more thoroughly understood before we can have a more complete understanding of polynomials in general. Their applications in cryptography and integer factorization are huge in applied mathematics, but they are also incredibly important subjects to fields like algebraic geometry, diophantine analysis, and of course, number theory.
> Corporations do interesting work, but they're sooooo resistant to change, it seems like their inventions always die on the vine.

Some do, others have been able to remain relevant for a very long time. Thankfully we have a societal mechanism to prune unproductive companies, it's called bankruptcy.

> Are you thinking google would be willing to risk their ad revenue for a cool new tech? Or microsoft their os/office money? or apple and phones? etc.

So far they have. Google for instance started its self driving car project in 2009, at the height of the recession. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to dismiss the project as wasteful spending when everybody else was tightening their belt.
But you need to consider the amount of data Google is amassing from people using solely their services. And then sells that data to advertisers. If this trend continues eventually they'd be able to know more about you than even the closest of your friends.

Is this really such a great price to pay for your privacy? For it to be easier to look up your friend's phone number from your email list?
It's interesting seeing this on HN, but I should warn people that (most) of these philosophy snippets are pretty tough to understand without proper context. For what it's worth, I've never been a fan of philosophy of mind, mainly because there's a lot of speculation and hand-waving.

With that said, I most align with Strawson's view of personhood as a "logical primitive," as he described it in his seminal Persons (1959)[1] where it seems that a person is an inseparable "bundle" of things, including memories, dreams, aspirations, autonomy, physical features, and so on. In that sense, there is definitely some continuity between a 12-week old fetus and a grown adult.

[1] http://www.hist-analytic.com/Strawsonpersons.pdf
That's an absolutely valid question that doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Generalizing these insights for deployment is absolutely a problem worth solving.
> Even if we assume that allowing Google to exist as a monopoly does bring better services

How is google even a monopoly? Bing exists, yahoo still exists. In Asia Google isn't even the most popular search engine.

Want me to show you how google is not a monopoly? A company with monopoly power would be able to raise the price of its service to the price the market can bear. If google put search behind a pay wall, Bing would destroy it in market share.

> that's a small price to pay for not having to be subjugated by a conglomerate.

So now you are not using economic arguments but appealing to emotion.

I just need to point this out

First you felt the need to off hand mention your (clearly undergraduate) degree in economics which had absolutely zero relevance to the discussion.

Secondly, you are using appeals to emotion without any basis in fact. "Google is an extremely successful company and we use them in so many things! They must be evil!"

Try using evidence. I'm not going to argue against your fear mongering only point out that like almost all fear mongering, it is not based on fact.

> Countries can already barely withstand pressure from big companies

There is absolutely zero evidence of this. None of your arguments are based on evidence. The US just fined Volkswagen billions of dollars. The EU is ready to fine Google billions of dollars. Apple paid japan hundreds millions of dollars in fines. All the banks responsible for the financial crisis in America and the EU paid hundreds of billions

> In many cases even better services because the prime objective is to make a program that would help the user, not make money for the company.

Again you have no evidence of this. If smaller businesses were able to provide better services people would be using dedicated email providers, not gmail. They would be using flickr instead of google and apple photos.
These insights will be useful for my political project.
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Thanks, and well put.

Here's some things I've done (with the entire framework also - the OP is the simplified 'standalone' version):

- Developed the 'ShutItFile', eg: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/clustered-vm-t...

see also:

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutitfile

- Built a distro from scratch (using linux from scratch), with eerything automated: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/make-your-own-...

also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGp16yvSrFE

- Put a 15-year old software stack into a container, saving enormous sums in dev costs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUPmmUU3yY&t=16s

- Developed a 'training' tool:

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/linux-scales/

see also:

https://asciinema.org/a/32807?t=70

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/interactive-gi...

- Automated the testing of the migration of an etcd cluster: https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/migrating-an-o...

- Win at 2048!

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/win-at-2048-wi...
Game theory should be taught in high school.
I don't know about other countries, but in America, being a monopoly is not at all outlawed. The criminality associable to monopoly here is when a monopoly abuses their monopoly power.

If I am the only company in America that produces widget x, I have a de facto monopoly, but I am not guilty of anything until and unless I attempt to exert my monopolistic influence to prevent competitors from taking my market share. If I am a pure monopoly, then it's possible that just running a loss-leading sale could result in antitrust violations, but if I am not a monopoly, or if I am a minority provider of widget x, then loss-leading sales are a presumptively lawful activity.

Edit: I believe closeparen makes this point more precisely with his post in this same topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528355
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Best answer, thanks
Phoebus couldn't last, no free market cartel can.

Bell System ended up being heavily regulated, and it's service was second to none. It was nearly a natural monopoly because of the cost of running phone lines. If Uber ever became that, we could resolve any problems with regulation.

But in reality Uber can never become a natural monopoly, entry into their market is too easy and just gets easier over time as costs decline for systems development/operation.

What will happen if they succeed is that Uber will become a valuable brand, people will prefer it, and other competitors will be forced to compete solely on price. So far brand building is something Uber is struggling with.
More information on the site would be useful. I am reluctant to provide an email with no explanation how it would all work, specially on a site with no https.
Yes! I am. They are getting ravaged by the likes of Netflix and HBO.
Just visited Tsukiji inner market a few weeks ago. They use a huge amount of ice and styrofoam to keep the fish cold. What really blew my mind is the on-site styrofoam recycling center. Not only are they using high-value land for recycling, but also saving energy and pollution by not transporting material away. Very progressive and forward thinking.

On the other hand, the whale jerky in the outer market just made me sad.
I've been to Tsukiji a number of times, including the morning after Fukushima. Most recently I was there in September. They're glossing over the recent rules that tourists aren't allowed in the inner market before 10am, largely after business is done for the day.

Sushi Dai is good but not worth standing in line for an hour. There are dozens of restaurants along Shin Ohashi Dori with local specialities and no tourists. For my money, I'd rather get a lunch reservation at Kyubey or Sushi Iwa than stand in line forever to get squeezed (literally) into Sushi Dai or Daiwa Sushi. There's a great coffee place a couple blocks away called Turret Coffee, ironically tucked behind a Starbucks.

And please, don't bring a suitcase. I honestly cannot believe the throngs of tourists I saw last time bringing in full-size roller suitcases. The market was not built as a tourist attraction—watch where you're going, accept that your shoes will get dirty and don't bring bags. Or touch the fish.

The market is worth visiting, especially if you're coming from the US, meaning the jet lag will have you wide awake at 3am your first morning. Embrace it and head on over.
Current US cash price is $33,000.

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There is also increasingly coverage from Medicaid programs.
>If it says "filter array A to only include elements where this inlined lambda function returns 5 or more, and then return the results with an even index" it's a bit harder to figure out the intent behind it.

I'd argue the contrary though.

That the "semantic complexity" is less when you only keep intent-code, than when you spread it over 20 lines of boilerplate which you have to visually parse to get to the point.

Your examples are not analogous, because they do different things.

Let's make them implement the same example, Go/C/etc style and "terse" style:

array_2 := make(int64, 0)
over_five_index = 0
for i, val := range(my_array) {
if val >= 5 {
over_five_index += 1
if over_five_index % 2 == 0 {
append(array_2, val)
}
}
}

vs:

array_2 = my_array
.filter((val) => val >= 5)
.filter((_, i) => i % 2 == 0)

I don't see how there's less "semantic complexity" in the former for the programmer to parse. It's just less per line, but worse overall -- in that he has to now reconstruct the full intention from all the individual lines.

As for the first example, it would be:

a = b || c

in both approaches.
Do food stamps raise the cost of food?
Result: http://imgur.com/DpcqpMs
Progress on a native macOS slack client in swift3
making some nice progress on a native macOS slack client in swift3.

https://github.com/andrewarrow/boring_company_chat

using Moya, Moya/RxSwift, ObjectMapper, RxSwift, AlamofireImage, all open source MIT license if anyone else wants this. This comes from wanting to be free from Electron

:slightly_smiling_face:

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
For me the biggest advantage of strong typing is ide quality that follows - refactoring support ans code completion are much much better for example. Makes work on larger project significantly easier.
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Give him an issue of Byte magazine and tell him to copy all 30 pages of machine language to the computer using the keyboard.
Better yet, tel him that at the end of all the typing, there will be a game to play!

Yay!
governments due to lack of vision and political will never would

Yes, remember that time General Motors sent humans to the moon?