skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money frankly is irrelevant beyond a certain point (and most of it is in the form of share holdings anyway).

I'd be more worried about the power/political influence these individuals wield. There is generally an incestuous coterie of the rich that one gets access to after a certain point, where the destruction of freedom is lubricated with champagne and caviar. Bildeberg/IMF/WTO/G20 etc. are symptomatic of such cabals of corporatocracies and their retainers in the state apparatus that wield power over the world.
i get out plenty. my apartment is even under market. i don't live with roommates. there is literally no way to get an apartment anywhere close to 50% cheaper by yourself in the market i am in. my experience is perfectly normal here.

even in my previous city (a major US city), my rent was only 50% less than it is now. and in that market it would be equally as hard to find one at 50% of that price.

if you live for a quarter of what i currently rent, then you must undoubtedly live with roommates or live in a not so great place (which is fine) or both, all of which i consider being frugal, which he stated he wasn't. or you simply live in a completely different market.
The 36 million is most likely untrue though, we're probably closer to the 13 million one (which would still be twice as much as WWII when it comes to % of global population)
Sure they are. Web sites are a subset of apps.
I don't think it would be hugely useful, since each piece of code exists in a unique ecosystem. Think about libraries, dependencies, OS versions, etc. Therefore no guarantees would be possible, therefore there would be arguments over paying-up.

However... If you extended it to defined "micro-projects", perhaps that might work better. This would require some basic specs from those requesting the work. What version of X, what OS exactly, etc etc. Plus a reasonable description of what success looks like (and what failure looks like).

Not sure you could achieve that.

Classic tension: too lightweight and it won't work; but adding features/requirements until it does work will make the process too heavyweight to be appealing.

Solve that tension and you have a product. Not sure you'd make any money from it though :)
I don't know how anyone can think that what he's doing to public education in the states is anything but bad.
>> 'I don’t think they have any imperial ambitions to spread China’s borders—they’re not going to act like Nazi Germany or America in the 20th century'

Oh, wow, that's quite a serious yet subtly thrown-in burn...
If there really is a piracy issue, why isn't ICE doing its job and investigating Amazon's suppliers? They can't just be handling immigration matters all day.
I honestly don't know. I heard mutterings that they can become profitable if they become more lean (layoffs and less office extravagance).
Wikipedia almost always classify every billionaire as philanthropist for no good reason. The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place.
He has enough adversity managing his risky business ventures. I wouldn't say that his intentions are purely philanthropic, but he has definitely shown that he can grok the fundamentals of a completely different scientific field a lot better than most people can. Zuckerberg was pretty smart himself in his younger days (lol...relatively young), but I'm not sure how much time he spends in the nitty gritty technical stuff v/s big picture business stuff.
> an almost impossible-to-screw-up future.

Unless he kept playing football.

The rest I agree with - not having to worry about money is a quantifiable bonus in the happiness department.
Yes. 802.11ac, for example, takes both a faster transceiver and a bunch of firmware support, and time to market with this features was a big driver of sales. And that was an ongoing process - ac is actually a set of features, and it's taking years for all of them to be implemented.

Similarly, cheaper chips often don't support optional performance-enhancing features at layers 2 and 3 (link and MAC) that boost performance without any hardware investment.
I don't think that sci-hub is going to kill off institutional journal subscriptions in the developed world. It's similar to how developed-country universities didn't stop buying licensed software and start passing around cracked versions to their faculty and students. Journal revenue isn't going to plummet like CD sales after Napster, because it's not individuals doing most of the purchasing in the first place.

Individuals and institutions in poor countries may well turn to sci-hub. I certainly have. But I would venture that not much of the journals' revenue came from individuals or poor institutions in the first place. I didn't pay to read paywalled papers before sci-hub either; I got them via authors' sites or personal contacts, or just didn't get to read them at all.
Yes, but one platform at a time. We served updates to Android and iOS users almost simultaneously. Again, I usually prefer native, non GCed apps. But I also don't try to fix problems where there are none.

If Android and iOS made it easier to share middleware libraries (C++ is a second class citizen for both), I think there would be a smaller incentive for HTML5 apps.
The myth of the solo founder. I would venture that every founder has a support system that tangibly enables a business venture, whether it be family or peers or mentors.
how does this compare to Tezos?
Considering that AI will likely take away most regular jobs that leaves... Entertainment. Will super smart brainiacs really have an edge in entertainment in 30 years?
More to the point statement of the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
yea, i thought that might be the case, but it makes his comment heavily caveated since it's entirely dependent on his employment with the nfl.
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The sooner all these assholes go out of business, the better

I hope scihub has a well thought out exit plan, in case of seizure.

~ 40 M files, at 1 MB each (my own estimate). I hope they have backups / insurance files with all the papers collected this far. Given the data volume it's not trivial but surely not impossible.
I said this already in another comment, but for this reason I think a crowdfunded campaign with a bounty that Adobe can use to cover their costs would be more likely to succeed than a simple petition.

Such a campaign could also send a much stronger signal of how badly people actually want an open source flash player. Starring a repo is too easy; it's better to let folks put money where their mouth is. Imagine if the hypothetical campaign raises a million dollars. It'd be hard for Adobe to ignore.
python3, asyncio/aiohttp (maybe rxpy), postgres
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My reading of the thread, as well as watching the general discussion of PWAs over the last 6 months, is not "what does Safari need to support", but really are PWAs the right answer?

If the comments were limited to "Safari needs X and Y", and there was no discussion about the an inherent need for PWAs it would be a pretty short thread.

Safari's support for PWA features is a proxy referendum of PWAs themselves.[1]

[1] And Google's desire to not being dis-intermediated as an arbiter of access to information/functionality via web properties.
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But wait. If all they do is empty your trash, and you do nothing worthy of merit, then by extension, that tangible thing they do to support your work is equally meaningless.

If the world economy could eliminate your job without missing it, then you are no longer generating trash to clean up, and that job goes away too. The person who cleans up after someone genuinely productive therefore contributes more than someone who cleans up after someone useless.

This is, no doubt why we pretend with all the might of imagination that certain jobs are critical and vital to the economy. The idea that double-digit percentages of the whole world economy could actually just be wasted on useless navel-gazing nonsense is just too horrible to consider. It may be true, but if we believe it is true, that just means we're all wasting our lives on pointless bullshit. I'd rather lie to myself and be happy, regarding this particular point.
Firebase, to dip my toes into the liberating world of servless development. So far, things have been quite pleasant!
I was surprised that it's still considered rude to link to sci-hub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14714577#14715252

Anyone know if this is a typical sentiment? I'm just curious if it's true that many researchers are offended by this movement, and what the reasons are.

I firmly believe that there are always two sides to any topic, so we should explore the flipside. What are some arguments against blatantly opening up access to paywalled articles?
You can also give decent salaries to a lot of African people with the 10k difference between the 20K/year person and the 10K/year person... so what's your point :) ?
A lot of papers get ingested into sci-hub while they're still in the preprint/early-access stage. Sci-hub doesn't appear to reingest papers after the final version is published. It's one of my very few gripes about the system. A more quality-focused system would probably handle this edge case.
What app does save people 30 seconds? Perhaps they didn't use the app before, and now it's wasting the time of thousands?

At the very least the lady emptying the trash keeps the place hygienic, reducing the spread of diseases.
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Brilliant! I wish you every success.
PWA's use Web Technologies to build Apps. Remember jQuery Mobile? It's more like that than React Native or Xamarin.

WebRTC is an API/Protocol that enables Real Time Communication between browsers.
In 2016 (in the US) 1.08 million students participated in high school football while 821,851 participated in soccer.

I don't have stats available for middle school, but earlier than that the players don't hit nearly as hard, as they have considerable lower mass and speed.

Not sure where your 3x number comes from, but I don't think we need to include YMCA recreational league soccer any more than we need to include flag football.
In almost every Python-related project I work on, we're developing in an exciting new language called "Python 2-compatible Python 3 subset". Twice as must testing, twice as much fun!
Neo bank skeptic
I hate money
The second example is just bad code. The third example one would rarely use in oneliners or very shorts subs, maybe in a dispatch table. You can write atrocious code in just about any language. Perl 5.20 finally has function signatures anyway.
The kids at the high school down the street from me have no monetary incentive either, yet they love playing, and have played since they were kids.

I agree with everything you said except "The general public shouldn't ..." That is a very dangerous method of thought.

I agree that it shouldn't be banned, but the risks is the thing everyone needs to hear first, they should be plastered everywhere.

I have no problem bringing bloodsport back if it's entirely voluntary and the public has an interest in it. What if two guys want to voluntarily duel it out to death? Why not build a stadium and let them?
No, there's plenty of solo founders that have nothing of the sort.
On any platform which allows curating feeds: Block fuckwits.

If someone isn't doing it for you, unfollow.

1,000 is almost certainly too many.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/drLZV8sm...
How humans (maybe) domesticated themselves
I think there is no more or less sensible way. The only way is the way that actually works. Right now non of the options are viable. Going to Mars won't make humanity interstellar species because there are much more serious issues to solve than just going there, starting with the lack of geomagnetic field. If we want to change that we need to build space stations with artificial gravity and geomagnetic field so that people living on it are safe. This is probably a better option than trying to go to a desert planet without geomagnetic field.
If only. I'm convinced they will find a way to shut her down.
Thanks for giving us a try! It would be awesome to hear more about your experience. If you're up for a quick chat, just send me an email.

Obviously I'm highly biased regarding a direct comparison, but here are some thoughts:

Overall we're trying to provide a simpler and faster experience. For example, our editor is just a single stream of content blocks, providing consistency and a fast editing experience. In Notion the editor has more complexity with adjustable multi-column layouts, page header images, etc. If you don't require those formatting options, I'd argue Nuclino is a better fit.

By providing different views on the same information, we also enable you to use Nuclino for different use cases. For example, the list view allows you to prioritize lots of items, the board view to track a workflow, and a graph view to explore information.
And he did find it there
Great idea. Wish you all the luck in the world.
Subtle issues with ORMs, and how to avoid them
At Nuclino we're very happy with MobX and I would say that it is definitely suitable for complex projects and that it mostly depends on the overall architecture that you choose. MobX is rather unopinionated and there are many ways to work with it. You can even use it in a Redux style architecture if you want! In the end it all depends on your requirements and preferences. For us, choosing MobX was key to building Nuclino the way it is today as there are a few key features which would have been much harder to build with Redux.
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Robin Hood stole from the government people to give it back to taxpayer, depending on the story you read :)
I didn't even count the pension in there, just the $1.8m in salary.
Yeah, that's what irks me the most about iOS. Their whole idea of "the filesystem is an outdated concept" just never worked out and they refuse to give up on it. The greatest lie is that your iPad Pro can replace a PC, but you can't easily copy files from and to a flash drive. In the meantime, my wife's Surface accepts USB hardware just fine and she doesn't have to rely on awkward workarounds to get things done.
From the essay: "For example, it is sometimes claimed that CEOs get paid too much, or that the super-wealthy do not pay enough in taxes. My claim has nothing to do with either of these debates. You can hold my position and simultaneously believe that CEOs should get paid however much a company decides to pay them, and that taxes are a tyrannical form of legalized theft."
This article appears to have been removed from the frontpage despite the points to support it.

just making an observation, I had to go back into my browser history to find this when it was recently in the top list and visible.

I think making API calls available for reasons why an algorithm has done this would be helpful in understanding why and how decisions are made.

in relation to this article, I am observing an algorithm making a decision for me that I think I disagree with and I am not delighted about it.

[edit] : to extrapolate on this further, whether either of them is 'right' or 'wrong' I think this is an important conversation to have and design effective means of review now, before we have built complex systems using this foundation and lose understanding of why a machine may make a decision like liquidating all hedges in a hedgefund (read "The Fear Index") or causing a car to turn into oncoming traffic to avoid a deer, being able to have the information readily available for review and improvement is necessary to discuss now... not later.

a horrible analogy I am coming up with now is that the cause of climate change does not matter right now, it is having an immediate impact on people around the globe and we need to take action immediately. (it has impacted my ability to obtain home insurance, I have been denied by every single one except a small one that was recently purchased by geico -- the reason as quoted has been "home is within three miles of the coast line" -- I am on the east coast)
>Football works you harder than any other sport.

You might change your opinion after a week playing Water Polo. You've got the same level of energy required for sprints and man-handling your opponents as football, but then throw in the added bonus of getting repeatedly squeezed/kicked in the groin (on purpose!), scratched all to hell (no pads!), and the constant attempts at opponents trying to (almost) drown you. You don't just have to be physically strong to play, you've got to be mentally iron-willed to want to get in the pool with the other lunatics.
Apologies for the dumb question but what technologies do blind people use today?
Kind of the opposite, sci-hub isn't really curated at all. Its goal is to have a PDF for everything that has a DOI, more or less. And the primary way of retrieving papers is to already know the exact paper you're looking for, found via some other search method like Google Scholar. It's not at all focused on categorizing or browsing papers, just slurping all of them into a big repository.
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> I think most people don't realize just how much money the richest people have.

And yet, there was a time when the richest were significantly richer than they are now.

Adjusted for inflation, Rockefeller was worth at least four times as much as Bezos is.
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Weak AI will accelerate inequality in the world. To what degree and how quickly remains to be seen. I think we should be really careful and think of ways to slow down this force. Shame on me for bringing up such matter on a venture capital website...
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You clearly lack imagination. Monthly trips around the Moon would easily surpass that even without any yachts.
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I prefer the conciseness of Google's prompt.
The bank that owns the loan would record a corresponding $100k asset.
We all miss oink.

sci-hub is not like it, but it's more curated that tbp. You can enter a paper's URL or DOI and it'll take you right to it.

I think there is curation that should be build on top of it, especially if the concept of "review" could be moved to an online system.
I mean, he could have just started rooting for the Jets.
It seems unlikely that issues caused by bit errors in memory would go away when the uop cache is disabled, like so many people are reporting.
Not quite. Environment and epigenetics are important too.
Consider hosting all web resources and dependencies on your own domain(s). I don't need google, cloudfront etc etc to know i'm using a certain web application. Certainly not if i was paying for it.
Zen CPU sales are expected to be brisk for some time, supply yields are likely an issue as well as laptop OEMs probably feeling skittish about pricing.

AMD announced a refresh of their APUs but it's probably just a half-hearted stop-gap aimed at those wanting current-gen Vega-based graphics but too impatient to wait for Zen-based compute. The holy grail of Zen compute/Vega graphics systems are coming down the pipe but probably just in time for the 2017 back-to-school season, if not Black Friday/holiday season.
How do you get the pictures transferred to the pi?
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The lower the price, the higher Amazon's sales volume, which is their top level metric.
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In both the cases of the game and the song though, they aren't pure works of art, but also entertainment.

With pop songs and games, there are formulae that, if you just follow them correctly, you are basically guaranteed to make something that is at least mediocre. Breaking the rules is more interesting, but also more risky. For every sonic and every Green Light, there are hundreds or thousands of crappy games and songs that thought the rules didn't apply to them.

Analyzing successful "incorrect" games is interesting because it tries to pin-down the je ne sais quoi that gives them their appeal.
Thanks KirinDave!
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A friend or a partner is not the same as a co-founder. If investors were saying they didn't fund solo founders who lack a support system, that would be different. But instead they say they don't fund solo founders.

Of course you cannot build Amazon on your own. The difference is whether you have the type of friends who can work for free for a year while they co-found a business with you (and would be interested in doing that), or whether you are capable of filling the second-head gap with a good hire.
It's his first job, he doesn't have the experience necessary to instinctively find this funny.
Not sure this even matters that much. What matter is YOU.

Who cares if 12% of solo founders make a successful exit, vs 14% of two founder companies. If you are a lone wolf and want to work alone, you are going to fail if not alone. If you are a social thinker and hate working alone, you would be silly to form a solo startup.
What was the tech-stack you used to build this?
I was joking as well :)
I knew that one! is fantastic isn't it!? This is one of my favourites: https://github.com/xibyte/jsketcher
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Hi HN. I'm unfortunately stuck with Active Directory, and I wanted to make the chore as easy as possible for people. Criticism / suggestions welcome!
Does the iMac have an SSD? Because that makes a huge difference in UI responsiveness even in web browsing, much more than the CPU at that level anyway.
> The researchers shut the system down as it prompted concerns we could lose control of AI.

This seems doubtful without a citation.
29?? Why is it so expensive?
Yeah, I only included things that I'd actually want. If I didn't want something (like a trip around the moon, or a patek philippe watch), it wasn't included. Maybe I'm pretty low maintenance, but everything I added up seemed unmaintainably ridiculous to me.
(author here) by type comments your mean this : https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/#type-comments ?

I haven't seen them used anywhere, but that's an okay solution I guess.

NB : by the way, love your blog :p
The fact that they aren't legally considered property means they aren't slaves.
Awesome, I didnt know about that one (still learning!), thanks!
There's an history of ignoring how other words that start with the exact same sound are handled.
I run a 1700X with 32 GB ECC using Fedora 26 and it has been very stable. ASUS X370-PRO board.

I build stuff with just the "-j" option (unlimited jobs) to Make all the time. Had a 75 load average the other day. Also Rust servo compiles which aren't GCC but certainly load down the machine.
Yeah, I have to play the game of deleting the zfs and spl packages, deleting weak-modules and reinstalling on the new kernel. It's expected, but silly.
https://dataplan.xfinity.com/faq/

https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/06/comcasts-1tb-data-caps-s...

It's "only" $50/mo extra to get unlimited, but if you don't have it then it can cost up to +$200/mo.
I see the logic here, though I would forgive people who didn't grow up on the internet for treating chat like real life (where no-one says "hello" without a moment's pause after). I think people are slowly catching on that they can do what the post describes
I've always loved Dystopian novels. Even in the late 90's when I was in high school I thought Brave New World and 1984 were awesome. I'm glad the trend is back.

Aside from a good read, I feel that dystopian fiction is an excellent political commentary and an great view into our future. Books that make me think are my favourite.

Super excited about the upcoming Blade Runner movie.
> Yes, all you're saying is it is possible to make shitty native apps too

No, that's not what I said at all. I guess you're only going to read what you want to hear...