skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually thinking more along the lines of continental Europe, where class lines were really stark through most of history and in many ways still are now. The UK has a very interesting relationship with class, one I constantly hunger for new insights on. A recent article on the class divide between barristers and their clerks had me riveted.

The US is easy. We're all just temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Everybody in the US is classist against everybody else. Makes it simple really.
Show HN: Namespaced PHP functions to fix inconsistencies in the PHP language
don't ignore the lack business acumen of some VCs.
My 2c, no technical user would ever want to host their blog on a 3rd part platform when it's so easy to self-host. The exception are platform with network effects (e.g. Medium). Why should I post on your platform when I don't know if in 30 days it will still be online? And given the lack of focus on grammar and spellchecking on the landing page, why should I assume what's in the backend is better?
I'm not qualified to advise anyone on how they'll react to a substance, but I find the stats for cocaine addiction interesting. Perhaps the stats include crack cocaine, which is meant to be highly addictive and is something I'll never try, but I don't know what the big fuss is about cocaine. I've tried it a few times, it makes you feel more confident but otherwise isn't much of a 'trip'. Perhaps people become dependent on that artificial confidence.
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It split the tent. A ten thousand year old idea. Now poor screwed over urban dwellers and poor screwed over rural dwellers are fiercely blaming each other for messing everything up. Setting up a cycle of blame among the powerless disenfranchised groups is so old and still works so well.
> if a household wants a download speed of 12 Mbps with an upload speed of 2 Mbps, they can expect to pay a whopping $90.

This is the worst internet in america? Wow. That is amazing! I'm incredibly impressed at how fast the worst place for internet in america is.

In highschool (Class of 2011) I dealt with 5 mbps just because my parents didn't want to pay for more. It was tolerable as long as you didn't want to watch youtube in HD. Honestly, I have little sympathy for people with 12mbps.
I don't think pecl sees much use now, depending on your package manager you can just install most modules from there ("apt-get install php-imagick")
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What I never understood was why they were opening offices in SF, NY, and London, without having the revenue to back them up.

In my eyes that was just flushing huge amounts of money down the drain.
Does the fact that it's not their core contradict what I'm saying? Youtube is still hugely popular for people to share their own recordings and remixes.

I know that it took a long time for YouTube to figure out the licensing stuff. As I said, tremendously difficult, yes, but not impossible.
Too big to fail
'Ahorita' is not used in Spain. And adding '-ita' or '-ito' to a word makes it diminutive.
My mother lives in rural Oklahoma, and her Internet connection (2-3Mbps/1Mbps for $60 a month) is a WiMax antenna on the roof of her house, pointed at another antenna on the water tower of the next town over.

It's not great, but it's the only option she has other than satellite providers, and works well enough for Facebook, email, and online shopping.
Same. Mypy was very limited at the beginning, and have been much more improved since. I give it a try regularly. It is indeed way better now, although I'm still structural typing and taking duck typing in consideration.
As I understand it, while the talk is about speed, the real issue is reliability: in rural America if you try to get broadband, some of the time you'll get a few megabits per second, which is enough to get by, but a good deal of the time, your nominally broadband connection won't be delivering any data at all.
How I cut my AWS bill by 90% (EB to Lambda)
I'm not suggesting this is a JavaScript-specific issue, there are plenty of other languages without solid Qt bindings, and the suggestion that someone should learn a whole new language just to use one library is a little absurd.
Thomas Jefferson would disagree with you strongly, he was quite clear that he believed patents should require a very strong degree of novelty and differentiation:

See, for example:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter...

Sadly we've strayed very far away from how Jefferson thought patents should work in this age of "This thing... but on a computer" patents.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6qgbp0/dolphin...
Isn't Slack an example of a non-scalable architecture? There is a long time hard limit to the number of people accepted in a Slack channel (around 10,000 I think).
Yes, they plan to switch away from XUL. I'm not sure about the situation with Thunderbird, but I believe Firefox will be dropping XUL this year or early next year.

There are two sides to this migration. The main Firefox UI is being rewritten (how much of XUL remains after this rewrite is unclear), and extensions developed in XUL are being dropped.

https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-is-working-on-a-new-ui-f...

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/16/the-road-to-firef...
Also keep in mind that running multi-mode communication brings a new set of problems and challenges (dispersion, non-linear effects, ...) and thus the "expansion" usually comes with some sort of trade-off for a successful implementation (frequency of repeaters etc).
Sacmmer's PC destroyed
What does he mean by that? Can you elaborate please?
Wait that was intentional? I honestly thought it was my graphics card glitching.
Please tell me more about this task! Regarding Prolog and CLP(FD), I recommend asking on comp.lang.prolog or Stackoverflow for more information. Chances are high that someone will be able to help.
Why have house prices gone up?
Fantastic bit of research and write-up.

SSRF is going to be the major story for the next couple years. I've seen them all over the place and they are much harder to block since they exploit multiple protocols and the properties of URLs have many arcane rules that aren't known to most programmers.

Reading this a while back really opened my eyes to how complicated it was, even if I'd already learned (the hard way) most of it:

http://www.skorks.com/2010/05/what-every-developer-should-kn...
In a robot economy there will be no need for marketers. People can get whatever they want.
Sure, and if they only took in contractors working from these other relatively cost of living areas, then we may not see these sorts of articles. That's not to say that people working for Facebook won't be homeless at times, but at least the the pay might be above the living wage water line.
In theory the app could actually be cross platform for every platform that supports nodejs and gecko instead of being only cross platform for the platforms that the developer wants to support. You'd have a generic build where native libraries are compiled with webassembly and then specialised builds for each supported platform for more performance.
I think a few things are needed in order for SoundCloud to restore some of its value:

- They need to evaluate how their (IMHO) only competitor HypeMachine does its things, and if possible consider an acquisition

- While probably very costly they need to redesign their website (and app), their latest redesign was received very negativly
they may buy a familiar product, but they definitely buy the available product.
"TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR EXPLOITING THE RANDOMNESS OF QUANTUM PHYSICS" not sure what they mean by this. Likely it is just "avalanche noise". This is not very difficult. In fact, I build an hardware RNG that is based on avalanche noise (not my development):

https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01257868826
California’s EV charging network gets $800M spark from VW
FYI, http://deb.debian.org/ is preferred over the httpredir these days. deb.debian.org is backed by multiple CDNs, whereas httpredir is backed by the traditional mirror network. The latter does its best to avoid redirecting to an unavailable/outdated mirror, but the former typically works better.
And to be honest, if they somehow did, I would be even more scared of their power than now. I don't want to depend on one single company for every detail of my digital life, thank you very much. Just as I don't want to trust one single company with all of my digital data.

That is not the internet I want.
> Well, no it isn't. If you can't even make that distinction, then having any further conversation with you is going to be pointless.

What is the distinction you want me to make? That it has a different icon in your OS task bar?

> If Spotify followed through with your advice, those users should not be offered a desktop app at all, they should be forced to only use the website and have their browser drain the battery instead.

My argument is that by sharing resources with the browser they're running anyway, that the battery/CPU/RAM drain will be reduced. A browser is a lot of overhead and using less browsers at once is always good.

> You're effectively arguing for less choice when a native app is not an option. That doesn't make sense to me.

The reason is that these browser wrappers are marketed deceptively, so users aren't equipped to make an informed decision about whether to use them.

Users generally expect that when they download a desktop application, that it's native, has minimal overhead and performs well. Browser-wrappers don't meet these expectations. Users don't realise they're downloading an extra browser and all the overhead it entails.

If users realised that these were just another browser that can only open one website, I'm sure their feelings would be substantially different.

They think that when they download Spotify, it's going to perform like VLC or Winamp and it absolutely doesn't.
And trying to explain that to a general population will be impossible.

Secure? Yes. Workable? No.
> There have been no new breakthroughs in this area. Most of the research being done is in application of what we have known for decades in specific areas, with minor insights into tweaks and uses of combinations ...

There are 2 huge problems with that:

1) nobody is trying to "embody" an intelligence with any sort of research project behind it. Nobody's even trying to create an artificial individual using neural networks. There are several obvious ways to do this, so that's not really the problem.

Therefore I claim that your implied conclusion, that it isn't possible with neural networks somewhere between premature and wrong.

2) What if the difference between an ANN and our brain is a difference of scale and ... nothing more ? We still do not have the scale in hardware to get anywhere near the human brain, and just so we're clear, the differences are still huge.

Human neocortex (which is roughly what decides on actions to take): 100 billion neurons

Human cortex (which is everything that directs a human action directly. Neocortex decides to throw spear and the target, cortex aims, directs muscle forces, moves the body and compensates for any disturbance like say uneven terrain): another 20 billion neurons.

Various neurons on the muscles and in the central nervous system directly: a few million (mostly on the heart and womb. Yes, also in men, who do have a womb it's just shriveled and inactive). They're extremely critical, but don't change the count very much.

AlphaGo 19x19x48, times 4 I think. About 70000 neurons, and that does sound like the correct number for recent large-scale networks.

A human neuron takes inputs from ~10000 other neurons, on average. A state-of-the-art ANN neuron takes input from ~100, and since it's Google and they've got datacenters, AlphaGo was ~400.

So the state of the art networks we have are on par with animal intelligence of the level of a lobster, ant and honeybee. I think it is wholly unremarkable and understandable that these networks do not exhibit human-level AGI.

What is remarkable is what they can do. They can analyze species from pictures better than human specialists (and orders of magnitude better than normal humans). They can speak. They can answer questions about a text. They can ... etc.

Give it a few orders of magnitude and there will be nothing these networks don't beat humans on.
Contrarian here:

Soundcloud is an incredibly valuable property. They have obviously had a few managerial cock-ups, but in reality they have massive user buyin, huge network effect, and anyone who can get some equity in them during this current time of massive negative sentiment is going to do VERY WELL. I wish I had a way to buy in at this point.
> Yet, this is the leader of the free world? It's a sad reflection of where we are.

You have Trump confused with Merkel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." "

I think there are enough reported cases of drug addicts resorting to crime and assault to get their fix (and it's not clear how legalizing drugs will change that, since addicts will still have to pay for their dose), not many of people would do the same to get their fix of videogames or doritos, not all addictions have the same strength and side effects.

I'm for decriminalization (still an offense, but not punishable with jail) and investing in treatment more than policing, but I don't think legalization would be beneficial.
So is there a picture of the lens somewhere? I don't see what shape it is.
(see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883784)
In South Wales they say "I'll be there now" meaning "I'm coming soon". Though the soon can be more like "a little later". It's quite ambiguous.

If someone says "I'll be there now, in a minute, but" then they're probably coming soon, 10 or 15 minutes (but/butty is like "buddy").

A classic Wenglish phrase is "where to's by that then?" meaning "where is it?". If you can respond "[over] by er" ("by here") meaning "here" all the better.
I think it's right to speak publically when called for (for instance with whisteblowers). Without people doing that, we'd actually have much less transparency in our democracy.

Companies where employees actually keep secrets do so by earning the trust and respect of their employees, not by writing ironclad employee agreements.

In this particular case, for these employees, I think it boils down to whether they honor their loyalty to the company vision more than their employee agreement.
Well, there were several attempts from different groups, companies and people to build on their API that failed for no good reason. They simply decline the API access request without any reasoning. They could have made money from 3rd parties, or even through selling music directly on their site. I usually go to Soundcloud to discover music and than to Bandcamp to buy it. I am not sure why this was never a focus to them.
The gang that couldn’t shoot straight
What's the killer app for mouse level AI?
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Go-Hanoi – A simple exercise to start learning Golang
It seems like the BigSQL version of PgAdmin3 doesn't support SSL connections to the server:

https://bitbucket.org/openscg/pgadmin3-lts/issues/2/ssl-mode...

Is that really the case? :(
Any plans for Linux support?
I'm desperate for a postgresql admin suite that runs on Linux and in particular copes well with HiDPI displays.
Looks great! Decided to install it and test it only to be met with a blank screen, the dev console contains no errors as well. Anyone else having this issue? (windows 10, latest release)
I've improved this comment a bit over here:

http://vrodic.blogspot.hr/2017/07/my-thoughts-on-php.html
> Does the fact that it's not their core contradict what I'm saying?

Yes it does. Youtube is not about music, their focus lies somewhere else, music complements their product but they are not dependent on it and besides, it's a just one rev stream compared to their main rev channels. Another example: Apple has Apple Music to strengthen the network effect of their products, not because they want to enter the music business. So, both used labels to complement their core products. Both would survive without deals to the labels. SoundCloud would not survive without those deals because then SoundCloud wouldn't have any product.

> As I said, tremendously difficult, yes, but not impossible.

I disagree, 10 years negotiations sounds like something impossible for a company which core solely relies on music, who wants to fund a company for 10 years with an unclear outcome?? For Youtube it was a different story: In this ten years Youtube severely damaged GEMA's reputation by displaying billion times that it's GEMA's fault that user can't listen to music. So, it's questionable if any other company with less power would have been able to strike a deal with the GEMA. Anyways, Youtube could have negotiated 100 years, they still would make revs through other channels.
Somehow I am using more google than facebook (removed the damn bloated app that eats all the free space on my old phone). Subjectively Google just might succeed in things like Feed because Facebook is for situations where you want to know what the other guys around you are doing. Google is about what is happening generally like news or blog posts or announcements or anything interesting but not personal.

Can't beat Facebook at social network but at everything else Google can use similar features to solidify their market.
The quote in this article is dubious at best. There is no other evidence that Erlichman said this, and no evidence in the Nixon archives to back up allgation made in the quote, even if Erlichman had said it. Erlichman served time in prison for Watergate, and seems to have been annoyed about not being pardoned.

The records from the Nixon presidency suggest that the WOD was actually driven by Nixon's fixed belief in then-prevalent myths about the danger to America from blacks, homosexuals, drug use and mental damage.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/32247/did-ehrli...

https://medium.com/@ReachCASP/health-scientist-blacklisting-...
I dispute your two phrases there. Some parents will use "maybe later", etc., to put off saying "no" but it's not everyone that does this - indirect people will.
I hope it was Jeff Toig who raised it.
>> You think all those mixes come for free? They have to be licensed as well once the embedded song snippets exceed 30sec which most of them do (also depending on the local jurisdiction).

Again you're not understanding what I'm saying. You seem to think of music (or SoundCloud) as only EDM. When SoundCloud started it was largely amateur and indie 'analog' musicians and songwriters (i.e. people playing instruments and writing their own music). None of that needs licensed. Those people, despite not making any money, were paying SoundCloud £9.99 per month to increase their storage space and see listener stats. Obviously I don't know how many but there were badges on the profiles to indicate a paying user and there were a significantly high percentage. There was quite a large community of this type of music around a lot of genres. None of it needed licensed. If you stick to indie artists you don't need to deal with licensing. People doing mixes can use MixCloud which automatically licenses uploads some how.

So, my point is, SoundCloud did not start off with DJ mixes or copyrighted material. It started off very legitimately and had a decent business model. They could have made a nice business out of it but like most SV businesses preferred to sink a load of VC money and 'grow' with no ultimate business model.

Edit:

>> If they can succeed with this music selection and find listeners like you and who pay, great for them, but obviously they can't.

My comment was nothing to do with listeners paying - it was about artists paying. Artists have always been able and willing to pay for spotlight/storage/stats.
As a context just before that NC was explaining how advertising leads to distortion in rational decision making which is the basis for all of the current economic free market system.
Robots will be better marketers than humans.

In a robot economy all humans will just be consumers.
Ethereum Miners Opt for Leasing Boeing 747s to Ship Critical Amount of GPUS
The real logic behind the War on Drugs
We had friends of friends growing up who used a 900 megahertz cordless phone with homemade directional antennas on the handset and base station to get phone service across the valley!
> You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops.

As much as I want to agree with this statement, I can't help but feel that it's highly problematic in some sense.

When it comes to court cases (IANAL, but this is my understanding), law enforcement officials' testimony is treated with a certain measure of elevated credibility (there's SCOTUS precedent for this, but I can't seem to find the cases). Violation of that trust - as in this case - should be penalized, but I don't know what kind of remedy would be appropriate.
Work camps? Are you kidding? Why don't you go all the way and advocate a massive eugenics program, because you're most of the way there.
IMO Facebook is just 9gag now, plus a huge dose of fake news, it's a shitty forum-type of site like digg or reddit but with terrible UI (here are the top 50 comments, you want the rest, keep clicking "More..."). Nobody shares anything personal anymore, it's just weblinks and, as I said, 9gag-ish content, plus people raging on topics like politics. I think the youth are now sharing their lives through the Snapchat-features of WhatsApp and Instagram, but lucky for Facebook they also own these 2.

If Google (as rumoured) redesigned their homepage to give you a personalized "news feed", that will eat Facebook's lunch. They need some social features to keep people engaged though.
This is another crucial but obvious point that somehow gets glossed over -- we already have laws for criminal negligence, DUI, littering (for the syringes that everyone is complaining about), disorderly conduct, theft, etc. so there is no need to worry that the world will collapse into disorderly chaos.

There is zero indication that someone will decide to just do heroin because it's suddenly legal, and Portugal's recent history indicates that it's possible to simultaneously lessen addiction rates while moving toward less criminalization.
Not in rural situations like that, the line length limits are pretty harsh on DSL.
Great work, I will surely check this out. At this moment I use pgAdmin 4.1 and I don't really like it.

There is a typo in the Description field of your https://www.workflowproducts.com/about.html page.

Desktop is written as destop.
That's a disgusting reason to put people in prison.
Have to agree.
I was using pgAdmin 3 that had its issues on Mac. When 4 came out, it looked so nice and I thought "finally they made it!". But after 5 minutes I figured out what kind clusterfuck it actually became. On the one hand, I cannot imagine who actually releases such a crap. On the other, it's foss and I feel bad complaining about stuff that somebody probably built in his free time.
I could not read it on my iPad in landscape mode. Worked fine in portrait orientation. I don't know why.