skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This case is a microcosm of a fundamental tension. Namely: how should we divide the pie between capital and labor, if baking the biggest pie requires devaluing labor? There are explicitly positive and normative components to that question. Positive analysis can’t resolve normative questions, and vice versa.

Personally, I’m not interested in questions such as whether the OP has been dishonest, or what the status-quo legal regime would prescribe. I am interested in the underlying economic reality. The OP has developed a technology with real and quantifiable value. He created wealth. So: who should keep it?

At the macro level, I think it’s pretty clear that the existing economic and legal regime would have these gains accrue to capital owners. After all, markets (when they function) do a good job of allocating resources according to value signals. But that's just a default allocation; that doesn't tell us "who should keep it".
I think you are drinking the UASF kool-aid. A fork that is not supported by the mining power is going to get easily attacked. I guess the "economic majority" could fork and change the proof-of-work so that existing ASIC hardware is useless. However, I would argue that the fork is no longer Bitcoin and that the original POW coin would continue to be used and have value. It would be a lot worse than the ETH/ETC split.

I haven't followed the drama super close but I take the "New York Agreement" as the adults stepping into the room and saying enough with the crazy ideas. If they manage to get SegWit enabled and increase the block size for old-style transactions, I think Bitcoin will be in good shape for a while. I'm not sure it will go smooth though so I cashed out some of my BTC as a hedge.

It seems we both agree that the difficulty of changing the design is a good feature, even though it is frustrating right now due to scaling. A dictatorship is a great system of governance, as long as you can trust him to do good. Other systems are messy and frustrating.
Many good resources exist: https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/vpn/set-up-a-hardened...
IBM turns to artificial intelligence to solve poverty, hunger, and illiteracy
Yes, that was why I mentioned it. The article said PHP was powering their web apps, but in fact it's only powering the APIs since their frontends are SPAs.
Templates coupled with abusing operator overloading and escaping rules.

Basically, the layout is a red herring to an extent. E.g. the "\" in the shapes is only there for visuals - it's allowed because it's escaping the following linefeed, but not necessary.

If you strip out the "filler" it boils down to constructing an expression, using types and overloaded operators to represent an expression tree that is then evaluated by the C++ template processing to satisfy type constraints.

The "asserts" of sorts works by using templates to create a type that accepts only the corresponding type generated by the "literal" shapes as argument to the constructor.

It looks harder than it is because it's hard to "see" operators. Consider that e.g. "o---o" is "(o--) - o". and a rectangle boils down to "((o--) - o) | (!(!(!((o--)-o))))" or so (hope I got the parentheses right).

Sort-of. I've not bothered deciphering the exact details of how it's processed. The overall mechanism of using types and operator overloading to represent expressions is pretty well established in C++ template meta-programming, though, and is also used elsewhere. E.g. a lot of Ruby ORM query building and other DSLs is often using similar methods.
No one is rinsing their lettuce in wd40 and draino.
Sent this to Support at O'Reilly after reading their (to me, insane) e-mail.

Hi O'Reilly,

Just so you know - you've completely lost a customer. After years - decades really - of a highly dedicated customer (whose friends have written books you have published) you threw it all down the drain in one e-mail.

I will never purchase another book published by O'Reilly, or any company associated with O'Reilly, or associated with O'Reilly himself or any of the executives at O'Reilly. I sure as heck am not going to buy any technical books from O'Reilly by Amazon.

The things I liked from O'Reilly, now gone, are:

1. PDF, ePub and Mobi formats, all DRM free, so I could read them in the ideal format for each device I read them on. And, I have a lot of devices: several Macs and PCs, several iPads, several Kindles (used almost exclusively for fiction as technical works are horrible in non-PDF), several phones of various kinds. I could put both the ePub and PDF into iBooks (not my favorite app, but it does sync) and read the ePub on the subway if I wanted, and the PDF on the desktop and iPad (cause, as I said, ePub is terrible for technical books). I like my fully properly typeset color, indexed PDFs!

2. Buy it once, own it. Did you ever see me subscribe to Safari? No? Ever wonder why not? For the same reason that I don't use Adobe products anymore except Lightroom (which is still a purchase not a subscription), and why I dropped JetBrains when they moved to their subscription model and then re-joined them when they went to "Subscription + keep your start of subscription version forever". I don't rent stuff. I buy it and own it. Plain and simple.

I'm glad that there are other publishers out there like Pragmatic Press and Apress that have been publishing good content, because you just lost a highly dedicated customer who always shopped O'Reilly first even for non-O'Reilly books. Congratulations, and shame on you.
If I'm not mistaken, many publicly funded studies end up behind paywalls. Terrible model. Especially in the age of wiki based media. Combine this problem with low quality science necessitated by the publish or perish doctrine, failure to incentivize publishing of negative results, p-value misuse, and the reproducibility crisis of soft sciences, and it is almost a wonder that we make any progress at all! Also ironic that an institution dedicated to order and objectivity suffers from problems with both.

Loosley related commentary: perhaps it is illustrative of the difficulty in bridging the steep impedance mismatch between idea and practice.
I came up with some CSS to remove the fixed header at the top and increase the information density on the page, permanently applied using the Stylish browser add-on:

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Ctrl-shift-n to quickly launch a window without your extensions enabled (unless you've overridden it).
"thought crime" is a term from Orwell's 1984--worth a read
I agree that it's probably more useful to conceptualize economies as kernel subsystems with complex interdependencies rather than individual drivers. :)
Whats more remarkable is Netflix uses them! If I was Netflix I would not fund a competitor unless it was truly best most cost effective option by a significant margin. Amazon's margin isn't in retail, its in infrastructure.

A lot of big companies that compete with Amazon in some vertical have a no-Amazon policy for infrastructure. Some even require their business associates (vendors, etc) commit to contracts to do the same.
On the contrary, we've been trying to simplify programming since a programmers job was to string wires between transistors, we hit the local maximum in the 70's and every single attempt since then to simplify things or point and clickify things has been an abject failure.

Every programmer will at some point try to build a system that allows users to add their own fields, rules, etc. We try to program ourselves out of a job and fail.
This is a very tough subject. I don't think it will stop being tough anytime soon.

I'm going to put on my brute hat, so I might earn some downvotes for simplicity or unpopular opinion here but I'll take a stab at it anyway:

It seems that many people often conflate what makes a right and what makes a freedom. That is, people want what they call freedom to do something, but what they mean is that they want the right to do something without penalty. Sometimes the opposite is true. As well, being free to do something doesn't mean there is no potential for incurring a penalty or tax or that you are entitled to it.

In Canada, you are free to say whatever you want. If it comes into contrast with what is socially (and subsequently legally) acceptable at the time, then you may or may not face consequences for your actions.

In Ontario you have the right to a prescribed health care plan, nobody is free to remove this from you once registered. You are free to let your card expire, at which point institutions are free to charge you appropriately[1]. It is your freedom to remain without a health card, but it's your right to obtain a new one. Just because you're free to let your free health plan expire, doesn't mean you won't necessarily face consequences for it.

This just goes back to other commenters' point, though: Canadians and Americans tend to define something like this a little differently. I also think much of the 1st world seems to be satisfied with making mistakes along the way to a more ideal solution to the issue. It's my hope that the mistakes get smaller as we go along (and the peoples' standards grow higher, so criticisms grow stronger).

[1] In my experience this has never occurred, though. Mine has expired previously, and I've never been denied or charged according to OHIP.
Starting when I was twelve, I worked for multiple summers doing landscaping to buy a computer; mowing yards, hauling wood bark, dirt, laying sod, ripping up sod.

It was hard, sweaty, backbreaking labor, especially for a 12 year old; I did it because I wanted to program. I used that computer to teach myself to program, and got my first real programming job from someone who I'd never previously met in person, over IRC.

According to today's identity politics, I need to be aware of my privilege as a white male nonetheless, and my position on the coarse-grained intersectional hierarchy of privilege.

I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do with that once aware, or why they get to decide where everyone fits on that hierarchy on the basis of traits they deem important.
Hacker Steals Millions of Accounts from Internet Radio Service 8tracks
Yes pretty much. In NYC especially everyone goes out, grabs lunch and brings it back to eat at their desks.
Or, more succinctly: a big clue about what someone is interested in is what they are claiming they are not interested in. The things people are really not interested in, they don't talk about. :)
You should use "favorite" (a new feature) instead of upvote.
Personal swipes aren't ok on HN. Please remain civil. (Edit: It read like a swipe to me, but if you didn't intend it that way, I apologize.)

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659259 and marked it off-topic.
Apache 2 is somewhat less permissive than Facebook's choice of BSD + patent grant. I agree that people probably wouldn't have been able to spread the FUD so successfully if they'd gone for a more conventional setup, but the licenses are short (probably shorter than Apache combined) and pretty clear. It feels pretty unfair to say "Facebook's open source dev team deserve to have their names run down because they chose more permissive license terms than we're used to."
US corporations control the root name servers and seem to have no problem cooperating with government requests to fuck^H^H^H^Hkeep a close eye on everyone else.
Non-expert here, but I read some research on this topic. Since avians need to keep their overall weight light, their neurons evolved in such a way as to be smaller and less complex individually than mammals. This allows them to have more neurons in a given area/volume. Also, if I remember correctly, their brains are more decentralized and have fewer specialized structures.
I don't mind buying pure-text books from Amazon. That basically means novels. I don't even mind the DRM so much, as I read the book once and then don't really care, and because I have almost never had problems with the fact that I have literally over a dozen Kindle devices and Kindle-app running devices.

However, technical, computer, electronics, physics and math books are almost all uniformly terrible from Amazon (or even epub). These are long-term references that need a proper print layout option (PDF) and be unencumbered by DRM. A 2002 edition of Mastering Regular Expressions is virtually totally applicable today, 15 years later - but imagine if I had bought this in a DRM'd Sony version, or a Palm .prc (now part of Amazon)? I'd be SOL.
About 5 years ago, I undertook a significant web performance effort on an IR top 100 e-commerce property. We sped the site up significantly and, being the good data nerds that we were, split-ran the hell out of it and found a zero-point-zero (sub-noise) difference in average session value, conversion rate, and average order value.

Believing those then 5-year old studies, we went in the opposite direction and intentionally slowed the site down in multi-variate testing. Out to 1000ms of intentional slowdown per dynamic page, we saw zero-point-zero change in ASV, CR%, and AOV.

We kept the faster experience, because "hey, why not?" and we'd paid all the NRE for it anyway, but the project was a technical success but a big bust versus business case.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170629000311/http://chrislord.n...

https://archive.is/uoWea
I believe it was https://devopschat.co/
Netflix is small since 99% of their traffic hits CDN.
I don't know how precise the ad targeting exactly, but what if you narrow the base group down to your 19 fake accounts and your target user.

If you could the further filter your ad based on gender (as mentioned above), personal interests or other private data, you may be able to use your ad impressions to figure out things about an unsuspecting person.

I'd consider that a huge breach of my privacy.
Who are the hackers?
I left facebook last month. I don't miss it, I'm happier for it, and articles like this kinda vindicate that decision.

It's nice to see that the things I was observing there are, in fact, exactly what the company is okay with: racism, sexism, homophobia are fine on Facebook as long as you craft your posts and comments with surgical precision. It explains how, nearly every time I reported one of the assholes making those types of posts, nothing would happen.

Edit: and, as usual, downvotes instead of replies. Never change, HN.
If you see work* as punishment, I wouldn't want you working for me anyway. Bye.

*assuming you're being paid a decent wage and we're not talking about work being done to extraordinarily tight deadlines for no reason, in unusually poor working conditions, or something like that.
It's not that. It's that not everyone who desires to be an engineer/surgeon/attorney has the resources or opportunities to do so. Some people are barely surviving as it is. Intellectual pursuits are a luxury for them.
Not always true about paying taxes - inherited assets are "bullet-vested" to the time of inheritance, with taxes only on increase in value after death.
What about 4chan? As soon as they found out... Trolls, trolls everywhere!
Your definition of "at scale" doesn't seem to leave room for Amazon, Netflix, or Uber (all in tens to low hundreds of million monthly active users according to a cursory Google search) but... those.
Years ago I wrote up a quick script using imacros and calibre to create epubs based on the documents available from safari.

I would consider this fair use format shifting. Legal opinions probably vary but this was essentially indistinguishable from just reading the book so long as the script didn't grab a page per second and pretty easy to do.
Are you saying that avoiding deflation and volatility is what consolidates wealth? How?

Or are you saying that quantitative easing consolidates wealth? How?

Or are you just inserting an unrelated complaint into the discussion?
I often use pastebin.
Let's imagine Facebook spends 2 billion on servers every year. If it could reduce the number of servers by 20% because of the better Go performance it would save 200 million every year.

Go outperforms HHVM by a wider margin than 20%. I've seen benchmarks as high as 50%. Sure, benchmarks aren't real world applications, but it's safe to say that generally speaking Go is significantly faster than HHVM.
1. Don't take the laptop, preferably don't take a phone, unless you can factory wipe it before entering customs.
If this is not an option, don't go. With 10 years in forensics/ more in IT and a good/careful eye to the legislation, I have made the sad decision I can't go. (various work conferences)
There just isn't as much prestige associated with those journals, and conventional success in an academic career is all about garnering prestige. It's explained in the last part of the article, about the rise of Cell as the magazine everyone wanted to get published in.
The crucial hipster demographic. (Not joking, btw)
Maybe if we all start sending tweets to @timoreilly he will reconsider this very unfortunate decision...
> geekfeminism.org

Yeah, that sounds like an unbiased source that will totally give you an accurate picture of how the average female feels about pronouns in documentation. /s
> Cloud computing profits are - and will remain - a joke compared to the $20 billion in net income

Business are different.

Margins also means more vulnerable.

Amazon doesn't like margins. Andy Jessy routinely mock "the old guards"' obsession with margins.

The possibility that fb is Suddenly dying because of some new competitor probably is 10* of Amazon. Just random statement, you get the idea.

As for siganifance, cloud computing is much bigger, it runs the actual computing that produce things that is more valuable than ads. This is in general sense, I do not want to judge their social impact.
Please don't, even if another comment seems useless or wrong.

Instead, if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
Except it isn't universal. According to the article, each region has its own set of guidelines for acceptability.
"including new opportunities for you"

I'll be the judge of that
Khanh Academy has a very good course
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
Subscription services like Netflix are cheap. Vastly cheaper than Safari. Furthermore, Netflix allows two viewing streams simultaneously, 24 hours a day, and all five members of my household have their own profiles. We almost certainly spend more hours as a family on Netflix than we do reading O'Reilly books (especially since it's mostly just me who does that, and sometimes my son when we're doing programming together).

I'm not spending $399/year. Maybe if it were $8/month like I spend on Netflix and Crunchyroll or Amazon Prime (paid annually), sure. (Granted, this household uses Prime for delivery and ignore their streaming stuff mostly.)

Goodbye O'Reilly. Not only will I not buy Safari, I will not buy any O'Reilly product ever again.
Yes, that's how it works. Saved me twice from breaking my streak and that's why I'm at it. Also as a side note you can only buy 1 streak saver at a time regardless how many lingots you have.. So if you miss it for 2 days in a row, it's gone. This too i think increases your commitment to keep at it.

Nope never tried any other app.. Only duolingo so far and I'm only 4 modules away from completing the english to French course. Unfortunately I can't say i have learned much, don't think i can even communicate 10% of what I'm writing here in French. So even though i love duolingo and practice daily it's just like a game and nothing you can take seriously imo.
>I used to work for a large company that did a lot of acquisitions and I was on the pre-acquisition due-diligence team for a few of them

I'd be very curious about the whole process beginning to end, and what you tended to look for, what made things go through or not go through, and just general advice you have for companies that may want to be acquired in the future.
Here is the key difference.

The presumption in Canada is that there is a balance to be found between different kinds of rights, and the government can be trusted to do a reasonable job of finding it. I remember feeling that way, and wondering how a rational person could see it otherwise.

The presumption in the USA is that government is fundamentally untrustworthy and our enumerated rights exist as a protection against the government. While we may feel for the person who gets smeared by public rumor, we are scared of giving judges power to casually order the media around. This becomes in a sense a self-fulfilling prophecy. We hold our government to low standards, and our government fails to achieve them, which confirms the low opinion that we have of our government.

In the case of high profile cases, the Canadian approach is to say that the media can't report. Jurors show up each day, hear evidence, and go home. Then eventually they make a decision. The US approach is to select a jury that has not yet been biased by the case, and then put them in a hotel with no access to the media.

The controversy in the Bernardo case was because Canadian jurors could go home, turn on the TV, and hear an American station reporting on allegations that might or might not have enough evidence behind them to show up in court. So Canadians wanted American media to stop irresponsibly reporting on it. But how would YOU feel if another country wanted Canadian companies to follow THEIR laws? Yeah, that's exactly how Americans felt about the Canadian complaints.
Nintendo’s SNES Classic will be released with 20 vintage games
(It's the "touch bar" that made this my last Apple laptop until they get rid of it, but true, the keyboard is pretty darn bad too.)
This is surely the unspoken element of O'Reilly's change here, piracy of technical PDFs is rampant.
If I were around for weeks at a time more consistently, I'd probably use these services more. I actually like the idea even if I know I'm paying 2x relative to picking out a new recipe and going to the store.

I now know what ramps are for example. (They're pretty much scallions :-))
As an American, I'm perfectly happy with what Germany is doing and wish Americans were less absolutist about free speech.