skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, the lack of friction has not been a positive... meaningful experiences and events are reduced to social media spam. Quantity over quality.

As a producer and consumer, I prefer the pre-FB days because the bar was high.
This is a nice pattern and there are surprisingly many problems that can be solved that way. AFAIK you do not have to join() here as the processes die after the map call.

Often the challenge is a big amount of (hopefully read-only) data that you want to access in every 'your_func'. The naive solution is to copy the data, but this might blow your memory.
I found this gem in the source for the $70bn loss figure:

By the way, the chance of AOL buying Yahoo is next to never.

It is kind of ironic given the Verizon deal which merged it with AOL.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/a-key-figure-in-the-...

The $70bn appears to have been in the value of SoftBank stock he held during the crash. I'm not sure when SoftBank IPO'd but if it was after the crash then it truly is paper losses. Otherwise, he had the opportunity to cash out.
> Companies don't do this in part because text chat introduces other biases, but also because most people ignore their own bias.

Mostly likely it is because it doesn't mirror how they work. (Text chat is SoP for remote-first work, but remote-first is far from the norm.)
High fees, no good coins, bare bones functionality.

Why would I use this when there a dozen better products that do this and more?
I think Nix is the superior package manager, but you can already usw it with Debian for years now and not many people do it, so the problem seems to lie somewhere else...
I still use f.lux because it has way more options and control than the built in Apple product. I wish I had it on my phone too, but I just suffer with Night Shift instead.
Well, self-paced options typically have very low graduation rates. It's hard to compare a self-paced online course to something that's live, full-time and >40 hours a week with instructors, TAs, etc.
> What these programs need most of all are cheap dormitories that offer room/board.

That's also true, but it's much more easily for someone to find a place to crash for six months than to come up with $10k out-of-pocket.

Eventually we'll be able to provide a stipend for living expenses and/or dormitory style living as well, but for now it is what it is.
true. but if you look at apple maps vs google maps/waze. google is succeeding despite not being integrated with ios. if f.lux is the better product and apple screws up royally by ignoring, f.lux still has a chance.
What’s (still) wrong with meritocracy (2016)
It's probably not an issue for AMD, as they sell either way, but it does push up prices for the gamer.
It's worth playing every single game Nick Case has ever made.

Incredibly though provoking and makes you feel very different about the issues by actually involving you. I think there have been few pieces of media that emotionally impacted more than Nick's work. This is, what I feel like realizing the full potential of moderm media looks like.

Some links:

EDIT: I should have probably also mentioned the fact that the Author has made a site collecting these types of sites: http://explorabl.es/

WE BECOME WHAT WE BEHOLD – a truly shocking game about mass media: https://ncase.itch.io/wbwwb

Coming out Simulator: https://ncase.itch.io/coming-out-simulator-2014

The most famous one, Parable of the Polygons: http://ncase.me/polygons/

behold the beast! the magnificent 2d matrix!: http://ncase.me/matrix/

NEUROTIC NEURONS:
http://ncase.me/neurons/
Any potential for time changes in the future? I'm on EST and being in a class M-F 12p-9p is a bit harsh.
Yeah, even Purdue University uses income share agreements, it's not widespread but it's not rare either.
Well they completely failed at that, then. They are anything but frictionless as described elsewhere in the comments. Bad user experiences abound after purchase.
Where to go now? Beginner developer
I am going to write this in a more "hacky" manor to get the point across faster.

I am starting my last year at school and I'm about to go into uni after that.
Currently I'm interested in Front-End development and have been making considerable progress,
I've been making decent functional sites with HTML5/CSS/Some JS and some JS heavy side projects for task purposes so I can learn JS properly and I learned that over the last 2-3 months. UI is fine, practice makes perfect as they say.

So really what I am wondering right now what to do: Do I push myself to pursue small work or try to become better on my own, building some kind of a portfolio, maybe do a gig or two for people that know me(I'm currently making a static site for a family member on my own will)?

I'm interested in finding small gigs for experience (and some pocket change isn't bad really, computer parts can be expensive)

Also is work for free advisable for building a portfolio or I'm better off making up clients and making websites for them?

Also secondary question: Do you have any DOs and DONTs for beginners learnign front-end or programming as a whole?

I've been trying to find an answer but the content I've found has been bloated with bs for the most part.
Yes, this is an excellent example which further debunks the labor theory of value.
I think the mysteriousness is part of the marketing. Makes them seem more obscure and thus desirable to some.
With GTK, QT, Tk, etc we used to have a fairly good near-native cross platform story before mobile happened. Apple's reluctance to accept non-native code, Google's pick of Java for Android and early smartphone resource limits made native code a necessity. Meanwhile the web developed into a universally supported application platform which made it inevitable that JavaScript made its way to mobile as processing power increased.

The desktop became just another platform to target. Few cross platform apps can afford to not target the web with all of its benefits like instant, no install required delivery. A whole generation of developers is growing up on Webpack, Babel and React.

Who can fault Electron for existing?

As a user I mourn the cost at which this new wave of desktop apps come. If it were only memory I could buy more – up to a limit – but many of these apps put us back a good 10 years in responsiveness and even screen real estate. My workstation feels like a two year old phone. Who thought unchecking “Show window contents while dragging” would ever make sense again?

Luckily, to get to the original question, we are getting new options. I'm quite excited about Xamarin, which lets us provide a good experience on mobile, against the native toolkit if we like, but also a fast, familiar desktop app.

This isn't worth anything as long as we can't target the web and this is where I hope WebAssembly will bring us.

I remain hopeful. We must be able to do better than ship web browsers to our desktop users, but maybe we're not quite there yet.
Synapse does a lot more than Prosody though. If a Prosody server hosting a MUC goes down, the MUC is down. If the Matrix homeserver that created a room goes down, the room's still there as long as there are other servers participating. That decentralization does have its tradeoffs.

It's also the first Matrix server, so there's that. Its replacement is in progress: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
Exciting to see that Google is strengthening Tensorflow. Thanks to TF that popular and elementary AI is now easier to implement for more startups and developers.
No, isolating the communities from which extremists are drawn causes further extremism, isolating extremists does not.

There is a challenge in isolating extremists while not isolating (and, indeed, productively engaging) the communities from which members are radicalized, and quite often brute-force efforts to isolate extremists (especially ones keying on race, nationality, and religion) end up isolating the feeder communities with the extremists, which is about the worst possible outcome.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/uber-is-t...

To be fair, this doesn't (I believe) take into account if traditional taxis are still dominant in some countries
Principles for building a great consumer tech company
> Which system is better only time will tell, but what's happening in the USA right now does not have a parallel in Europe.

Likewise, a lot of what's happened in Europe does not have a parallel in the USA. Elections have been seriously contested and sometimes won by the likes of Golden Dawn, Le Pen--both father and daughter--the BNP, Alessandra Mussolini, Jorg Haider, and so forth. Sure, in Europe you don't have a hundred white nationalists marching down the street carrying swastika flags, but you have an awful lot of them in the European Parliament.
AWKWARD every day situations
What cowards for hiding behind the cover of "we care so much about this once in a lifetime company" (cough, investment). So all this while, when Travis was fucking up but building Benchmark a giant return on their investment, they were fine with his behavior. And now they're calling it out?!

So basically Benchmark's people on the board are incompetent.
Your not wrong, but I just want to make an aside about how I think 'obvious' is a dirty word. Things are only ever obvious when you already have domain knowledge, which you can't assume of everyone even in something as ubiquitous as diet. Yes, once you understand hobbies or dieting the vast majority of down to earth honest advice is going to be HIGHLY boring and repetitive. But Some people still might not have got the message, and some messages are worth repeating to help them out. All this withstanding, I also don't feel like this stuff is HN material.
Generally, yes it does require you to do so unless you also have it in writing that whatever document you just signed is not in fact binding. Even verbal agreements can be enforced as a legally binding contract so having a written document is a pretty high barrier to overcome legally speaking.
By new I meant post WWii. It hasn't had time to become iconic, I would argue. A north face also is not yet iconic. Maybe this is unfair, as most outdoor consumer products didn't come about till around the 60s and 70s... However baseball and children's iconic backpacks have generational nostalgia and have become very iconic. It's possible, I don't know, that the mountain fox itself had become ironic in Sweden in short period of time before production was shipped overseas.
I suppose that's a risk we have to take, though being willing to forgo $10k of income for two years ($20k) in order to avoid paying $20k seems a little silly; all you'd gain are the taxes, but you'd also have a hard time getting a raise, etc.
a) Use an IP address.

b) Use a Tor hidden service.

c) Petition the US government to force private businesses to serve their organization.

d) Start their own registrar with a ToS allowing such content.

Multiple options available.
Admittedly there are edge cases and military planners like nothing more than dreaming these up and devising countermeasures. The Suez and Panama Canals are not small, so it's not as if all the ships have to crowd together and be trapped in a small area. But yes, there are threats and their probability of success is never 100%.

Here's an interesting lesson from WW2 which shows the danger of previously unknown coastal torpedo batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Drøbak_Sound
What are you talking about?

Even if Apple had data breaches that it was responsible for (you do know that the celebrity titty-shot photos were all social-engineered/re-used passwords right? None were actually iCloud breaches), that isn't about privacy, that's about security.

Google literally builds profiles about it's products (the eyeballs looking at *.google.com) to better place ads in front of said eyeballs, because that's how they make 90% of their money.

Apple does everything it can to anonymise what data it does need to see: there's no sign-in for maps, it reset's it's random identifier periodically, and each route is split into multiple segments.
I'd rather argue for neither. Name-to-number resolution is too much of a strategic choke point to allow anyone to have too great a degree of control over it.

But in the system we have now, domain registrars and DNS providers should not be engaging in viewpoint-based discrimination against the domain owner, or in content-based discrimination against anything they may have on their servers.

I can certainly condone web hosting service companies embargoing troublesome customers, but anything closer to infrastructure than that should not be cut off for any reasons other than failure to pay the bills.
There's an interesting story about mulberry trees in the UK:

"Elizabeth I, sent some mulberry trees to Reading to encourage a silk industry there - the leaves are the sole food of silk worms - but it was James I who got serious and ordered them by the thousand because he wanted to take control of the silk-making business the from French.

Unfortunately, the scheme failed because the gardener planted the wrong sort. Silk worms eat the soft leaves of Morus alba but had no appetite for the leathery leaves of Morus nigra, the tree that produces such delicious fruit."

From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3311801/The-fruit-of-qu...

I'd love to try making mulberry gin like they mention. We make damson gin each year in Autumn which tastes awesome.
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Yes! That's the point of free speech - private entities can accept and reject ideas they like or dislike. The founders knew this, and they omitted any mention of private entities in the first amendment:

The text of the first amendment is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It says nothing about private entities regulating private platforms and that's on purpose - free speech means nothing without the private means to accept or reject it.

I feel that most of this confusion stems from people who live in different countries conflating their free speech laws with our own. In the United States, the government cannot regulate speech on the basis of its content, and this has always been the case. In the United States, private entities are free to regulate speech on private platforms, and this has also been the case since day 1 of the republic. This is nothing new for us Americans, and nothing particularly scary!
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Hmm, I don't see it. Maybe my karma's not high enough? Looks like my e-mail's not visible either; sorry I'm not too familiar with HN's system.

Anyway, my e-mail is [HN account name] at x0.ms.
One perspective is that Google runs their own DNS that many people and services use as a convenience.

Also, as I get chastised for using Bing (because they pay me) and much of their traffic comes from browser defaults, it's arguable that if they stopped hosting on google.com it may not be that negative of an impact.

To the same degree, note that Amazon CHOOSES not to list their more specific apps in the google store and force customers to download THEIR store and change their phone permissions.
Just yesterday I gave Apple Maps another try for turn-by turn and the UX is far superior to Google Maps. Apple Maps changes perspective dynamically depending on how far away the turn is, when it is far you get an angled view that allows you to see the upcoming roads. As you approach a turn the view switches to a top-down view that makes it easier to see the layout of the intersection. When you arrive at your destination Apple also does a better job indicating which side of the street the address is on.

Google still wins on the lane awareness but that's their only advantage.

It absolutely staggers me that nobody seems to bother making sure street names are actually visible on the map. I don't know how anyone that ships navigation software without visible street names sleeps at night.
Wait...this didn't make it easy at all. When you said "women are women" were you speaking in terms of gender or sex? After that you said "trans women", so I take it you mean gender only? If so, does that mean a biological female who identifies as a male does not count as a woman in tech?
Any examples of companies that have done significantly better after publicly ousting their founder CEO?

I've worked at more than one where it turned to shit...
Even hate speech is free speech.

Is it? Really?

Many people disagree. Many countries[0] have laws against hate speech. In Canada, for example:

> it is a criminal act to "advocate or promote genocide" — to call for, support, encourage or argue for the killing of members of a group based on colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.[1]

"Stirring up or inciting hatred" is also against the law.

I have no doubt that The Daily Stormer would be illegal in Canada.

Also illegal, under another part of the Criminal Code, is assault; including "nazi punching". Not everyone who thinks websites like this should be shut down support physical violence against those they disagree with.

There is no slippery slope here -- shutting down hateful propaganda is not the same as full blown censorship: a provision prevents "people from being charged with a hate crime if their statements are truthful or the expression of a religious opinion."[1]

I know that might sound scary to some of you (who gets to decide what is true, or what is a religious belief?), but in Canada, we're lucky enough to have reasonable judges. The system works pretty well -- check out [1] for a few examples, and you can see what you think of the courts decisions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/when-is-it-hate-speech-7-signi...
The UX might be good but I've heard nothing but complaints about the app quality from teenagers and that's on iOS. They are starting to straddle snap and Instagram.
Ugh, no! I love a good bargain guitar myself, but I can also tell what's a diamond in the rough, versus what's just bad. I can tell what repairs are needed, etc. A lot of cheap guitars are unplayable, and can never be made to play well and sound good, no matter how much effort you put into them. Just because usable cheap guitars exist does not mean that all, or even many cheap guitars are usable.
But then the student is caped at $49k for life, when they should be able to double or triple that salary over 20 years, which will easily pay off the loan.
> I hope you realize why a better approach may be to reengineer that one component...

Top comment is proposing basically Erlang or an actor model.

As for immutability... well they have to either have it or manage mutable state.

That task of engineering is not something to scoff at and I think building a new language or using an existing language with those ability would help. Erlang is not a number crunching language. But there are others such as Pony.
So if homosexuals weren't a protected group, you would support that?
> And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers.
For psychology studies, sure. Not for landing airplanes, unless they're paper ones. Depends on your context, I guess.
> As someone finishing a PhD in this field, my perspective is that there's a big lack of software engineering talent here.

As someone with a PhD in computer science who did a postdoc in a bioinformatics lab, I can vouch for that.
A lot of people disagree with what my eye tells me?

OK. But I still can't distinguish. I have no clue if a person is Jewish or not from just looking at her, unless she's wearing something indicative.

As for people not being at war, even if that was the case now, who's to say it won't be in the future? It was in the past. The Ottoman went all the way to Vienna. The Umayyad conquered the Iberian Peninsula. The Mongol hordes reached central Europe.

I'm sorry, I understand the desire for separatism even if I don't totally agree with it; but to want it for oneself while calling other's "supremacy" is just hypocrisy.
The upcoming and currently unfolding autonomous transportation revolution (self driving cars + drones) is definitely a "shit your pants big" shift that's going to change absoloutely everything in our economy. It's the internet scale shift of this era. Uber may or may not be of the many companies to capitalize on this shift, but his statement makes sense to me on that level.
Then there's either something wrong with how they introduced the trial, or there are just fewer qualified female candidates. Either way, I really didn't understand why they backed off on the trial.

If you can reasonably assess that your process is fair, I don't think anyone should care how the numbers bear out.
Apple's a margin business, not market share. They might not capture the entire pie but their portion of it is a lot more willing to spend.
>The only judgement which should occur at this point is in the courtroom.

But why? Why can't other people judge him for him previously selling other malware similar to Kronos under the handles "Gone With The Wind" and "iarkey" on Hackforums?

Surely it's not for lack of evidence as anyone with access to google can easily verify this.

If he's being framed, we're talking about at least a 7 year long operation to do so: https://i.succ.in/CWcDhXxi.png
Back in the day fixing bugs meant buying the next version, with a possible discount for being an existing customer.
> In a society that values the ability to speak freely, you can't pick and choose your winners based on who's OX is being gored this week, or which party is currently in power.

I agree with that. Until we're talking about a party whose sole purpose is to take away those rights from others. That's one rule in the democratic playbook that we should all subscribe to and that should be a prerequisite for being allowed in the sandbox.
Yeah, it's a similar idea with a few differences.

Lambda School is six months long, online, and teaches CS fundamentals (computer architecture, operating systems, C++) in addition to full-stack web development and mobile development.

Lambda School also doesn't require a deposit.
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It may have to do with the fact that he just wanted some new challenges to sink his teeth into. As an old school hacker myself, I can relate. Even really cool technologies start to feel mundane and tedious after you've done them for long enough.

The real challenge with senior positions is adjusting to new environment/dynamics, not to mention the expectations that come from "legend" status. I'm not a legend, but I certainly had a much easier time in the earlier stages in career just focusing on the tech direct. When you're the hot new hire, a certain group at the new company expects a lot form you, while others who have been there longer think it's just hype. (I'm assuming something similar happened at Tesla).

Wish him all the luck on the new adventure! And being an AI geek myself: NO AI cannot solve everything. Not even close. (at least for now)

Sentient machine conversations are straight up funny to me. Still, I can't help get over the cool/geek factor of working on Machine Learning/Deep learning or exploring new algorithms that could significantly improve the field.
What about large constants?
They rose really fast on the appstore charts