skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perhaps "HN isn't always hostile to women" but it's enough times for every woman i know to say it is.

hacker news community, what is your goal here?
Reminds me of the people who reach out to me about building their product, and want to give me 10 percent of their "company" to build their entire product from scratch.
A comprehensive package of primary care benefits that includes all outpatient care at the clinic (e.g. preventive care, malaria treatment, etc.), limited in-patient care (but no surgeries), and deliveries.
> The author blatantly violated YouTube's developer policies

Well duh, but those policies only exist because YT is trying to sell those features.

> He's lucky they didn't choose to go down the lawsuit route instead.

Lucky? It's a toss-up whether policies like this are actually enforceable. Most likely all they'd be able to do is block the devs access.

I'll take this as my stance on this matter: a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.

This app operates in the same area as ad blockers. Would you argue that uBlock should be taken down because YT wrote a policy demanding that browser software must not 'enable or encourage' the blocking of ads.
I know this one, but it's not as powerful as using something like https://github.com/tarsana/syntax, especially if the arguments are very complicated like here https://github.com/webNeat/lumen-generators#resource-generat... and need validation.
I think part of the problem, especially in software, is that not having a P.Eng designation is now self fulfilling. So few people in software have one that the number of people who can get one is very small.

I think the solution would be to find a way to induct an initial group to get the process kick started. The challenge is verifying the training of that initial group as one needs some way other than the current method of working for 4 years under an existing P.Eng.
10.4 also marked the Intel transition. Classic was a virtual machine, so making it work on x86 would have been a huge undertaking. 10.5 still supported PowerPC, but by then it was obviously not the future.
Who should be litigated against in this case, the author or Apple?
Human Interface Guidelines for macOS Apps
I don't think there's any real timeline to get rid of Oracle just that new projects won't be using it as a DB and eventually it will no longer be in use.
It's easy to have a pipeline, what's hard is actually doing the work.

Sun completely dropped the ball on Java in the last five years of its existence.
There are a lot - limited internet, different languages, technical literacy, and eventually government adoption. It feels like a lot of what we're doing is on the cusp of what's currently possible, but so far it's working, in large part because of the amazing work our team has done.
“Simple” chess puzzle holds key to $1m prize
> a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.

Regardless of your position on whether the law is right or wrong, this is not true as a matter of law.

Depending on the pertinent applicable law, your ability to transform these bits may be restricted based on IP law or contract law.
Oops. I just didn't know that was a possibility.
AFAIU, Ethereum can do everything that Bitcoin can. In this sense, Ethereum is strictly better than Bitcoin. Am I wrong?
There is a really huge shortage of genuinely affordable housing in the US. Public housing is generally pretty crappy and in short supply to boot.

Having studied the problem in an actual college class and also spent the last 5.5 years on the street: It's complicated. But we need more solutions for people and fewer aimed at poor people specifically. Programs to help the poor are routinely craptastic.

Affordable housing and single payer medical coverage would go a long way towards reducing the problem.
You're right, which is why popularity isn't the sole factor in determining whether to remove a formula from the core repository. It's just one of the things we reference to justify our choice, when relevant.

We generally only refer to popularity after a formula comes up on our radar due to failing other sniff tests. To give you an idea for some of them:

1. Multiple subsequent releases without anybody bothering to update the formula

2. Historical problems with the package (flaky builds, complex build systems)

3. Historical problems with the upstream (patches ignored, unwillingness to cooperate with packagers, unreliable download servers)
For some real fun w/ Forth go grab yourself an old PCI-based Power Macintosh and do this tutorial through the Forth shell in the machine's Open Firmware interface. :-)
> Lucky? It's a toss-up whether policies like this are actually enforceable. Most likely all they'd be able to do is block the devs access.

He consented to a contract, violated it and caused actual damages (loss of ad revenue, profiting from copyright infringement). Given that he displayed content in violation of the license he was given and made money from it, it could even be a criminal copyright infringement case.

> This app operates in the same area as ad blockers. Would you argue that uBlock should be taken down because YT wrote a policy demanding that browser software must not 'enable or encourage' the blocking of ads.

The uBlock developer doesn't profit and didn't agree to anything.

> I'll take this as my stance on this matter: a user or program should be allowed to do anything they choose with the bits they receive. They can alter, modify, ignore, strip, or save any part of it.

A stance like this is how you get DRM and ads baked into the video stream. Would you honestly prefer we get into an arms race with YouTube? With DRM the way it is today, I'm not sure that's a battle we can win. Head down this path and we'll have DRM and eye tracking to make _really_ sure we're watching ads before we play a video.
Ironically, that's kinda what happened to BeOS--the assets were bought by Palm, right around the time Palm was splitting into two companies. PalmSource, the OS company, developed "Palm OS Cobalt," which was intended to be the next-generation Palm operating system, built on BeOS. While they completed Cobalt, the now-separate Palm hardware company didn't use it.

Also, according to Jean-Louis Gassée, an Apple engineer tried to buy BeOS from Palm for the then-unnamed smartphone project, as a third candidate between Fadell's vision of a souped-up Pixo--the iPod OS--and Forstall's vision of a cut-down OS X. Palm turned the engineer down. (Gassée didn't name the engineer, but it's hard not to suspect it was Dominic Giampaolo, who created BeFS and went on to create Apple's Spotlight and then, unsurprisingly, work on APFS.)
Because there's nothing wrong with the traditional UI design with pop up and shadow. Why introduce another ultimately flawed design that is subpar than the previous one? It's been over 15 years since it's initially introduced by Microsoft, and I still see the usability problem here and there today. 15 years seems like utterly long time to finally prove that it doesn't really work, does it?

The same argument goes to the LCD monitor aspect ratio 16x9 vs. 4x3. The former isn't any better than the latter. In fact, it has 19% LESS of screen real estate of the same screen. The only reason we all now use the 16x9 is because the mfg needed another standard in desperate to push sale because a good LCD monitor can last a very long time than the traditional CRT.
How to calculate their intrinsic value?
Complexity of n-Queens Completion [pdf]
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Isn't the balance of power between workers and employers in Silicon Valley massively lopsided in favor of the former? We have companies that are losing money paying their engineers six-digit salaries. Restoring the balance is the last thing this place needs.
For Aaron Krickstein, and a Reporter, a Covered Open Brings Closure (2016)
We first need to know that the current taxes are fully spent on the right things and that the "pork" spending is not actually larger than the amount needed to satisfy the needs expressed by the current movement.
Because Apple wants to send a message to app creators of original content that Apple has their back. In this case it was Goliath vs. David, but is probably just as often the reverse in terms of parties' sizes.
If you can obtain YouTube Red functionality by using an Adblocker, it may not work as a business model...
Does the coverage premium fully pay for the cost of care, or are there additional subsidies?
Of course, subthreshold FET circuits have incredibly low energy usage. And I do think that subthreshold analog neural nets have very high utility, but I am skeptical that they can be used to faithfully reproduce real neurons. I am however very confident they can be used to create real computing hardware that can efficiently do inference etc.
how does it make money?
Fingerprint based system seems like an interesting choice. Don't these people do a lot of manual labor that scratches fingers? I sometimes have identifying trouble myself due to finger damage and I sit in an office.
Just offering a few words of thanks and encouragement for your work regarding this. When this is ready it's ready. But thank you in advance.
While I understand the argument, I also have a big counter-point to offer.

Python is one of the top beginner languages for people new to programming, and rightfully so.

But beginners often want to build something "cool" and tangible, and need that to stay engaged.

Printing out the first 100 prime numbers after implementing a sieve of eratosthenes or a command line calculator do not fall into this category for most.

Building a website or a GUI application is way more exciting, and you need libraries for those.
the door swings both ways, I've seen small business completely ripped off by big business with a good ole' "fuck you sue me". One was an independent pharmacy, I was writing A/R software for them and couldn't get some math to work out. Turns out an insurance carrier was ripping them off in a complicated reimbursement formula for a prescription drugs. The carrier basically told them "that's what you're going to get, sue us". It was cheaper for the pharmacy to just accept the lower reimbursement than try to go toe-to-toe with the carrier in court.
Ask HN: Why aren't trains fully automated?
Prompted by this news article: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/just-17-5-per-cent-of-required-new-qr-train-drivers-ready-to-roll-20170901-p4yvog.html

Why are train drivers necessary in an increasingly automated world?

Trains run on fixed tracks, at fixed speeds, have fixed stops and have right of way (mostly because they are very difficult to stop quickly).

If there is an obstruction on the tracks, even if a human driver is in charge, a train is nearly impossible to stop.

So what are the challenges that prevent the cockpit of a train being replaced by a n automated driver?
Youtube Red features: 1) offline viewing. 2) no ads. 3) original programming. 4) background audio-only playing. 5) Google Play Music subscription.
I like how this person brags about how successful his app was and how it hit #1 in 10 countries, but neglects to mention how he was continually violating YouTube's terms of service all the while.

Here's my favorite part:

YouTube wants to sell its $10/month subscription service which offers many features that ProTube also offered for a lower one time price, so they started hunting down 3rd party YouTube apps on the App Store.

It's their service so they can charge whatever they want for it because they actually pay the bills to keep the service up and running. What's not okay is for you to sell an app to customers that, you clearly knew, violated YouTube's TOS and was subject to takedown at anytime.
> The central issue in American politics is the economic security of the middle class and their sense of opportunity for their children.

Maybe for Mr. Summers, it is. And maybe as well, for liberals generally.

But there are at least a couple problems. First, many Americans are apparently convinced that some other issue is central in American politics. Maybe it's threats from foreigners. Or from Satan, or some proxy of his. Or perhaps, it's losing their guns. Or whatever.

Second, even among those who agree that the economic security of the middle class is the central issue in American politics, many have been convinced that rewarding wealthy capitalists is the best strategy.

So it goes.

Edit: Indeed, many middle-class Americans think that they're wealthy, and so don't care so much about the middle class.
Maybe, but we'll never find out if Apple just removes the software and it never goes to litigation...
Secretive Apple Tries to Open Up on Artificial Intelligence
If you were the sole laborer on it, sure.
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Might as well give up trying to earthquake proof buildings as well because earthquakes are just an inherent fact of life.

That's doing some reductio ad absurdum on your argument but you are saying we should just give up trying to fight something that bad and give some minor help when possible, correct? We can try to do better
Of course, moderation is difficult. That's why you do as little of it, only when absolutely necessary. In this specific case, I don't see how the omission of the name, which is quite pertinent, makes the discussion more constructive. I don't even see how it could have started a flamewar. As the OP suggests, that information is quite vital to this post.
All the programs you named are chronically underfunded and subject to restrictions and red tape designed to force people to jump through many hoops to prove they "deserve" help. And there is a nasty history of attitudes among those in power as to what kind of people "deserve" help and what kind of people don't.

Well-funded truly universal (i.e., every citizen is automatically eligible and automatically presumed eligible by the administering agency) have not been tried in the US.
As I read this, I originally disagreed with the author - for me the challenge of a new language is not the language itself but becoming familiar with the libraries that everyone uses and understanding how to get things done with them - but then I saw this:

>> packages that alter its syntax and behavior

Is this kind of thing common with Python? I'm used to C#, where libraries are just libraries. Sure, you still have to learn your way around them, but they don't change the language out from under you. Even in big frameworks that completely dictate the overarching organization of your code, it's still C# you're writing.
The author suggests that while learning python one should stick to using the standard library instead of using additional libraries that sometimes come with archaic baggage or domain specific constructs that hinder learning.

I think the author could have done with calling the standard library by name instead of just calling out specific packages. And of course missing are functools and itertools and collections which I find essential in writing concise and pythonic code. Instead they single out json and csv which are special purpose
Eye tracking is surely coming regardless
> We have companies that are losing money paying their engineers six-digit salaries.

I assume that's a tactical decision on their part to bootstrap a new company. A brief analysis I did a few months ago suggests that six digit salaries aren't bankrupting established companies. The largest SV employers could arguably double or triple engineer salaries without dipping into negative salary territory:

Facebook Employees: 18,000 Profit: 11.51B Profit per employee: ~$600,000

Google Employees: 57,000 Profit: 20B Profit per employee: ~$400,000

Apple Employees: 115,000 Profit: 45B Profit per employee: ~$390,000

Microsoft Employees: 114,000 Profit: 17B Profit per employee: ~$150,000

And for comparison:

IBM Employees: 380,000 Profit: 11B Profit per employee: ~$29,000

Wal-Mart Employees: 2.3 million Profit: 13.64B Profit per employee: ~$5,000

And yet we have cartel-like behavior from SV's largest firms agreeing not to bid up the price of engineering talent not all that long ago.
my mobile phone has no webcam...
Please take your capitalist apologia somewhere else.
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> By all accounts, BeOS would've also been a fine technology platform for Apple's future.

I have heard the opposite. I liked the slick look of BeOS, but have been told since that there was very little there there. I don't know either way.
We're testing a few identification methods in addition to fingerprints, including cards with QR codes, name lookup, and family lookup. For fingerprints, we're using an algorithm created by Simprints out of Cambridge that's specifically for low-income settings where there's a lot of manual labor. Glancing at our data, it seems like so far we're getting good reads on more than 75% of scans. Hopefully we can improve that with some optimization. Another challenge with fingerprints is they don't work for kids under six, so regardless you need a backup identification method like a card.
Bitchute looks like a good up and coming contender. The UI is similar to YouTube, but the content is distributed using WebTorrent.
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I'm not sure if it was just me, but the contrast of the article text was so low that it was pretty difficult to read.
I don't disagree with anything in TFA, but a cynical devil on my shoulder is whispering that one way of discrediting these ideas might be to put them in Larry Summers's mouth. It would be difficult to select anyone more "talented" at over-arguing a point until everyone is tired of hearing about it.
Step 1 is being done as well as the various facebook and nextdoor - the software is to extend and amplify that.
Criticality in workflow might also be a consideration. I'd have to check how homebrew does this, but Debian frequently has separate documentation and debug packages as supplements to core functionality. Those might be essential in cases.

Since homebrew is aimed mostly at technical types and devs, build tools themselves are probably fairly highly featured, but those are easy things to lose in large general-public releases. (Android's abysmally poor shell tools come to mind.)

Sounds like a pretty good basic set. The flaky builds criterion in particular seems like a strong signal of a low-quality upstream.
> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if Oracle acquires your company GET OUT. Do not wait, bail out immediately.

That's pretty stupid advice since you're most likely vesting some very profitable stock options.
I'll turn 40 next year and I've worked for about 23 years in IT. I've figured out that getting some fundamentals in place has served me well so far, and I have been fortunate to play many roles in the IT space (including some non-technical ones like sales). I intend to keep learning more fundamentals and learning new things.
QNX would have been a better choice than BeOS.
Interesting. Clicking around from that link and found that the famous Chicago cholera outbreak was a myth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_...
Noam Chomsky has also written and spoken quite a bit in support of anarcho-syndicalism, a closely related idea.
I agree; in this case I don't see why it was changed. I'm not concerned about it enough to contact the mods in this case, but have in the past and gotten responses, and they lean heavily towards keeping the original title. If you're curious, I suggest emailing them via the contact link in the footer.

Your initial comment goes quite a bit further than addressing only this particular example, however. That's what I was addressing.
Starting Forth frequently appears in lists of the best programming-related books, alongside other luminaries such as The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs ("SICP").
one of the better advice i read on this topic

is to focus on creating something (in this case) using python, rather on learning python, and then find something to do with what you learned

another personal point for me, was the focus of learning on the logical modeling for a programming and treating the physical modeling as an after thought

most book and tutorial focus on creating functions, classes and module (programming in the small), but spend a lot less time teaching how to group those in file and how to compile, package, distribute and deploy the program (programming in the large)

for those reasons i have to disagree with this article, since it seems to promote learning by focusing on programming in the small
The article is from a while ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were still true: 19% of Americans think they are in the top 1% and 20% more expect to be one day [1]. So a full 39% of Americans either suck at math or actually believe that by rewarding wealthy capitalists they are actually rewarding themselves!

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/opinion/the-triumph-of-hop...
There are some additional subsidies in the form of in-kind donations that help cover immunizations, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and antenatal care.
It's a paid app facilitating breach of contract at the least and possibly facilitating copyright infringement and a breach of the CFAA. And Apple takes a cut and therefore has legal liability for distributing it.
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There are many reasons why someone can't simply move. Maybe they're caring for parents who live in the area. Perhaps they want their kids to attend well-funded Bay Area schools, so the kids can have a shot at earning more money. It could be they can't save up enough money to make the jump.

The list could go on and on... my point is, moving is hard, especially so for those with little disposable income.
Dang. A really nice write up too!
I was attempting to paraphrase Adam Smith.

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." Adam Smith

That's the context I meant for the word "empower".
Is that ("empowering" "individual citizens") what capitalism does? That doesn't completely conform to my experience...
Define more affordable? Beats are incredibly popular and are expensive as fuck.

The Beats X are solid little guys and sell for normal decent headphone prices. I’ve had no problem switching with those for example.
I think you misunderstand.

What i'm saying is, if sold by ansible to a consumer, these disclaimers are completely ineffective in a bunch of states.

The UCC (which is what governs these transactions) is model legislation, and provides for a few options that states can choose in various parts. One option allows disclaimer of implied warranty in all transactions. One option allows disclaimer of implied warranty in all transactions except those with consumers. One option disallows disclaimers of implied warranties.

Depending on which option a given state chose, the language you are citing would have different effectiveness.
I was starting my path to get my HAM license while listening with my cheap chinese radio. Harvey directly hit my area, something like 50 inches of rain. As the phones started to get unreliable and then NOAA went down, I knew cell phones in a disaster don't mix well. I kind of wish the testing wasn't as "difficult" or GMRS was a little less regulated in terms of hardware. It's kind of a "prepper" thing but more people should learn radio stuff because cell phones aren't your savior.
This. Even Jonny Ive can't ship a "view all colours" link like the one on their sunglasses page. It would have been better if they were comparing material design or metro rather than their interpretation of flat design.
Best way to know current market is to ask a recruiter who will be honest with you
Isn’t the reason 16:9 became popular cinematic more so than manufacturerers?