skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chiefr: Distributed project development model and toolkit written in Go
I'm a big fan of Rand and truly believe that pure altruism is a fundimentally unsustainable and fruitless endeavor (considering the definition is putting in more than you get out, that's kind of obvious).

Luckily, most of the things we as a society value as being a "good" thing to do are in fact really good things to do as an individual looking out for one's own self interest.

Have you or I benefited greatly from the work of Jobs & Woz, Gates, Einstein, Pasteur, etc? I'd say yes.

Would it stand to reason that we would benefit significantly from future contributions from similar people?

Well, if that is true, we should probably support social programs like good access to education and healthcare, so that those potential innovators have fewer obstacles in their path.

Does a society that revolves around mass production tend to innovate faster when the masses have stronger spending power? Makes sense - so perhaps fiscal policies that mitigate income inequality would be wise - from an innovation standpoint (completely ignoring the moral case).

Yes, there are dumb people out there who read Rand and overlooked (a) that she was reacting to having lived through the awful aftermath of the Russian revolution and (b) was writing fiction in dystopian universes (before she got a bit too cray cray and just started writing philosophy). You can read Orwell and not think there's actually talking animals. And a lot of the proclaimed Randians happen to forget that in her most nuanced work, Atlas Shrugged, the populist movement was the lesser villain to the larger villian of crony capitalism, lobbying, and government intervention on behalf of those interests.

It's actually quite refreshing to look at socialist policies from a perspective of selfishness, because if you ask yourself the question of "will these policies benefit me even if I'm not a direct beneficiary?" - the amazing thing is that the answer is"yes" given a long and broad perspective. We shouldn't as a society make the case for these policies because of moral arguments, but can and should make the case on the basis of their impact on economic growth and the rate of progress.

Most investors prefer reinvestment to dividends for long term holdings. And that's exactly what social programs, and policies addressing income inequality, are. They are a reinvestment into the country instead of a dividend (aka tax cut) paid out annually. Let's make that case using the language and reasoning they already understand.
Same in Lebanon and several other countries in the middle east. 15 cents per SMS, now around 9 I believe. So people started using WhatsApp for all their messaging. When audio messages became a feature, people stopped using their phone service and switched to this annoying method of communication. Many people now default to WhatsApp calls for regular calls as well.

When I was there, my monthly bill was over $50 USD per month for very minimal usage of both data and calls. That's ridiculous...
the police force is part of the proletariat. Those guns aren't going to be pointing the direction Trump wants for too long.
They were using it to communicate with people in need of rescue, so not really. No special equipment, etc.
I'm running it on the real deal - a 1991-ish SPARCstation IPC. 25MHz of SPARC goodness.

Most of these machines are dead because the power supply output capacitors have failed, but a fairly easy soldering job and they are back up and running. My original SCSI HD also failed (a 424MB Seagate ST1480N), but I've subbed in a SCSI2SD. Works a treat. I basically just play Nethack on it. I've also been experimenting with TeX 3.141 on it.

As far as a VM, I believe it is possible to run 4.1.4 within QEMU. I haven't personally tried, but I have had success in the past running some versions of Solaris 2.x for sun4m in QEMU. I believe you can emulate a SPARCstation 5 with tcx graphics fairly well with that.
No RIAA, I dont want to pay you 10 usd monthly so that I can listen to music on your app when it's in the background.

There, I fixed that for you.
I'm pro-egalitarianism but definitely not pro-murder-and-torture. This exchange was depressing to read.
That's because the amount of control Google has over Android is far less than Apple and iOS, and it's been said many times, for better or worse, that the policing of their own Play Store is still rather lax. But given the way things are going, and Google's own desire to emulate Apple, I only expect things to get worse for freedom on mobile devices in the future.
> They basically wanted me to remove every feature that made ProTube what it is – that includes the player itself that allows you to play 60fps videos, background playback, audio only mode and more.

> background playback, audio only mode

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-polici...

> You and your API Clients must not, and must not encourage, enable, or require others to:

> separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available as part of, or in connection with, YouTube API Services.

> promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available as part of, or in connection with, the YouTube API Services;

> create, include, or promote features that play content, including audio or video components, from a background player, meaning a player that is not displayed in the page, tab, or screen that the user is viewing;

The author blatantly violated YouTube's developer policies then complained that YouTube was upset? Why the victim complex? What did he expect? He's lucky they didn't choose to go down the lawsuit route instead.

This doesn't seem like an arbitrary policy either. If he's playing the video where the user can't see it, the user can't see ads. If the user can't see ads, the video creator doesn't get paid.
Amp doesn't really break the web any more does the trend of writing sites that generate some HTML boilerplate and then load in all the real content through JavaScript: if anything, AMP is closer to the original model of the web as a collection of interlinked documents than any SPA is.
This may have been in the past but it's straightforward now. I tried it out maybe 6 months ago and had no issues.

Just followed whatever guide I could find online.
Countries are best off that empower their people: the individual citizens.
It already is ;-)

(See the sibling comments.)
Can I buy and install Protube on my iphone without using the app store?
Reminds me of svforth[0].

[0] https://github.com/ephsec/svforth/blob/master/README.md
> If that's how you want to characterize having rights that are protected, go ahead, but it's embarrassingly simplistic.

But we're not talking about rights. We're talking about how voices are weighted within the democratic portion of our system. If a group is really into stepping on the rights of others, and that group includes rural voters, it's going to get further than a group that doesn't.

"Tyranny of the majority" is a problem, but weighting things so that we're making decisions based on a different arbitrary group is not the way to avert it.
I think the argument goes: We make table scraps compared to the amount that a corporation rakes in. Yet we're the sole reason they're able to rake in that amount of money.

Not that I agree with it, but that's an argument.
Thus Apple hoards cash because it believes the bubble will burst? Is that the Austrian explanation for Apple's behavior?

(Still an honest question. I've never understood this about the Austrian school.)
Is there a good reason Facebook's JavaScript file for websites is 400K? Is it unoptimised? Is this just what happens in large companies? Does it do more than you'd think? I would have thought they'd have an incentive to make it fast and lean so people could comment and like faster.
Calculus was a lot easier if you paid attention in trigonometry, for me anyway

Of course one of the main texts i learned diff eq from was the Mary Boas book i think she mentioned in that rant, so what do i know? :)
Part Time Labor: A Feature or a Bug
Don't build on someone else's platform unless you have a ripcord. :/
Because they had been cheating on Uranium enrichment in the late 90's while receiving food and fuel aid.

There is plenty of blame to go around, the Bush administration certainly handled, well just about everything it came across, very badly, but saying the Clinton approach worked is just wrong. It didn't work, NK was cheating on the deal while being fed and fueled. Certainly we shouldn't go back to paying them extortion and bribes, that is not a good idea at all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/08/...
FOJC. Blech. I remember first trying Tropicana Pure Premium probably 2+ decades ago now. It was awesome. Tasted like pure juice from an orange.

I don't drink OJ much anymore, but a couple of years ago I had some Pure Premium and noticed that it really tasted a lot more like concentrate than I'd remembered--it had that kind of acidic/slightly artificial taste.

So, I did a little digging and found that it is now run through a process called "deaeration". Apparently, this is well-known and the subject of controversy. The short is that they take the oxygen out, pasteurize it, and store it in massive tanks. Problem with that is that it loses its flavor. So, they add "flavor packets" before packaging it.

It's amazing that they can still call it 100% juice. Then again, it's somehow legal to say that a carton "contains 100% juice" simply because at some point some measure of 100% juice was poured in, even if the total juice ratio ends up being 2% when other ingredients are subsequently added.

OJ is a scam from start to finish: from the ridiculous claims about its healthfulness; to the slightly-shrinking packages, designed to look the same standard sizes; to what they dub 100% pure squeezed juice.
The author expects Google to pay for the storage and bandwidth cost, while the author monetizes that with no revenue sharing?

Not only that, the author also refused to release the app for free on Cydia:

> Some people might suggest that I re-release ProTube 2 on Cydia. Few people even have jailbroken devices anymore and only a fraction of my user base would be able to access Cydia. Purchases from the App Store also can't be carried over to Cydia so people would have to purchase the app again. And YouTube might still come after me.

If the author refuses to give it the app for free, why does he/she expects Google to do the same?

And it goes beyond that: none of the money the author makes by stealing traffic from YT goes to the creators. Zero. The author is defunding both the creators and YT while making money for him/herself.

If ProTube was free/oss, I could see some valid points behind it, but the creator is actually making money on that copyrighted content.

Seriously, why would anyone have any reasonable expectations of a different outcome?
That's a pretty condescending title.
I assume the article is talking about the vast majority of employees who aren't software developers...
Houston is huge and not all of it was flooded. Coordinating the private boats to actually get them in the water in areas where people were in trouble likely made the boats a great deal more effective.

It's also not clear to me how many rescues were done by the people volunteering their own time and resources vs the various government agencies (that have a lot more equipment and plans and stuff).
Studio.ml open source model management
Hate to say it, but someone beat you to it: https://medium.com/@gajus/using-react-v16-to-create-self-des... and https://github.com/gajus/react-aux .
Watsi has been doing tremendous work in this area. Congratulations!
Now to eradicate my other pet peeve - colourless icons (usually black on grey) that make it more difficult to distinguish icons from each other.
Same deal with my kids in high school, proofs were barely covered.

When I took Geometry in high school about 45 years ago, proofs were essential, and IIRC they dominated the curriculum. And that was good, because it taught logical thinking. Geometry was my favorite course in high school.

This background was incredibly useful to me in both hardware design and in computer programming.
I think they do, yes. A few generations of kids growing up learning programming from kindergarten onwards is going to ensure that programming is put on par with welding, carpentry, painting, etc.

Those of us commenting here today may not be around to see it happen, but I believe it will happen eventually.

For now things are good. We got lucky and we found ourselves in a relatively new profession that not a lot of people are trained in and we're making good money (and some of us don't even have college degrees)
Are you sure that your self reported data is right ? I tried for the past 3 years to focus just on my work, I cut down fun, relationships, friendships completely to focus on my work alone.
And I have almost nothing much to show for it.
Looking back on those 3 years, I did some work for the first year, but later on I was just depressed and even though I was "working" all the time, it was not intense work. I was mostly feeling sad / bitter and that affected my productivity.

I think a balance is important. It makes logical sense to cut down on fun and emotions to get more work done, but the human brain needs social relationships and fun to produce peak output. At least that is how my brain works

May be being a bit more lazy will help you be more creative and make the stars line up better for you. I am not being snarky here, be a bit more lazy, the brain needs fun and emotions.
You're missing the main issue here, that service he provides is an an adblocker along with other Red features. Google ProTube and every review spells it out. "ProTube as an ad blocker for YouTube"..."It's an alternative to paying for YouTube Red"..."ProTube also supports audio playback while you work in another app, which the YouTube app doesn't do without a YouTube Red subscription"[1]

Seems clear to me, this is a way of cheating Google out of their Red subscription fee or their standard ad revenue.

I'm really don't get the outpouring of sympathy here. He's essentially pirating their Red service and charging a fee for it.

[1] https://www.macstories.net/reviews/protube-review/
Hi, do you guys do international hires for FT and internship roles?
...and Steve Jobs.
Now that is an interesting question!

Anecdotally, I viewed the 1979 total eclipse with binoculars (and no filters), and at the end of totality I continued to look through them for a few seconds to see the diamond ring and Baily's beads.

It didn't harm my vision at all, even though there was some fair amount of direct sunlight coming through by then. But it was only a few seconds. The duration of sun exposure certainly is a factor.
here are some related programs

https://wiki.haskell.org/Manatee
The fact that it has a built-in switch for extracting the sound from a video to MP3 has made my library very happy.
that's just armchair quarterbacking. If they did deliver just a better win7 then people would be saying that you can't be relevant by staying in the past. Good on them for experimenting, even if it didn't pay off this time around (yet anyway)
Take a few minutes to look at their examples: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/heatmap-visualizations-sign...

Most of the "flat" designs strike me as being created or chosen to confirm the hypothesis.

Explain to me how adding an underline to a link is somehow not-flat? What UX designer would use a "ghost" style flat button for the main CTA? Etc.

The whole thing feels far from scientific.
To be honest I did't really understand your original question either. I'm not surprised that at least the first response didn't provide the answer you were looking for.
Why people think Germans are so efficient
I think we're fully in the "see what little you can pay someone to get them to do a job" optimization mode. The marginal cost=marginal benefit argument doesn't seem to apply anywhere.

On the contrary, if you're actively making something (burgers, computers) then you're usually not paid enough to actually consume those things on a regular schedule. I think that's a symptom of an emergent caste system.
Yep, in the grand scheme of things, saving actual kids lives counts for more than killing a rival browser.
Rockefeller springs to mind.
> The California State Legislature is reviewing whether the amount of health resources in the county are adequate. Its findings are expected within the next several months.

The closing lines tell that there's not enough being done if this has been going on for 10 months.
Almost like the start of a zombie movie. "Nothing going on here, we're assessing the situation" Then boom, national guard and CDC checkpoints.
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Thanks! I bought it a while back, but didn't start using it until now.
Larry Summers is also a huge voice in establishment economics.

The WaPo would implode if (many) people thought Bezos was coloring the editorial decisions of the paper to such an extent that such an opinion piece was discarded.
"But it's hard not to wonder what the past couple decades of tech history would have looked like if Apple had gone the other way."

No, it's not.

Plus, working for Sakoman? No thanks.
It's 200KB minified, 60KB gzipped, so not quite that bad but still quite large. It definitely does more than you'd expect from the documentation on a page like https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button, and then there's all the other stuff I noted in OP like it including a ton of polyfills and legacy code.

An example feature the SDK gives you is the ability to subscribe to an event that's triggered once the user successfully adds a Like, there's all kinds of extra stuff like that buried in there that you wouldn't expect when you just want to add a Like button.
But then how do you account for the possible differences in the quality of the interface? Keeping the interfaces relatively similar except for the buttons and inputs makes it easier to compare the two.

This plane metaphor is ridiculous and unhelpful. We're not trying to measure "how useful wings are", we're talking about what the buttons on the inside of the plane should look like, we need two cockpits with different buttons.
It got my attention. You can expect a review of Sia on shitcoin.com soon!
I really don't like the framing of that. Good countries get the hell out of the way while people use their inherent power of self-determination. If someone powerful spends their time "empowering" you, it means you had none in the first place.
They should move. There are janitorial jobs all over the country, most of them in areas where you could rent a nice two-bedroom for 1/3 that cost. There is just absolutely no reason to stay in the SFBA with prospects like that. I wish more people realized this. They'd be much happier somewhere else.
I'm an idiot in this area but you might find this relevant[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity
My cousin told me I should invest in a particular cryptocoin the other day. He knows little about computers and nothing about why this altcoin would be valuable.

When everyday people are investing in these coins to make a quick buck it makes alarm bells go off in my head.
Another thing that e-commerce sites probably are doing wrong? The "hamburger" icon on mobile for your product categories. Here's NN Group's video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeoPuPzONg .

All these seemingly small design issues add up and before you know it, you're losing serious money because poor design kicks your your customers out of the conversion funnel.

Also, mad props to NN Group for their work on usability and making the web a more sane medium. Their people have been doing usability research for decades and Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com used to be one of the most useful sites for web designers.
I'm not really in the design universe that much any more, but the successor to flat design seemed to be material design. It lives somewhere between skeuomorphism and flat design. Any designers care to comment what the new/next hot thing is?
Problem is, all these redefinitions of quantum mechanics via "quantum logic" or "quantum probability theory", while looking more fundamental and formal than the usual theory based on Schrödinger's equation and Born's rule, do not make it any more intuitive and do not allow anyone to say, "aha! now I get it!". This is because these new foundations themselves are just as unintuitive as quantum mechanics...

[Edit] On the other hand, I find the famous derivation of Schrödinger's equation by Feynman illuminating: http://fermatslibrary.com/s/feynmans-derivation-of-the-schro....
>>They are all generally very biased towards the direction of their donors or owners.

Yes, I agree with that. But Larry Summers' article would have been welcome anywhere, probably even Fox News. He is accomplished like few others, and having him write for you is good no matter what. It is important to separate the cases indivdually.

>>I also find it interesting that no(or few) major media outlets were so against big business until this recent election cycle.

Cases like Uber help for sure, and the income gap is ever-widening. I think it's just a natural state of being. It couldn't last forever. An opinion of a significant number of Americans was that HRC/Trump offered us no real alternative in regards to labor/business reform, and the media is playing that up after the fact.

I don't think there is anything nefarious going on or anyone trying to get on the right side of history. I think in large part the media is reflecting what most Americans are feeling right now: Malaise.

(For the record I am upvoting you, I have no idea who is downvoting your posts.)
Well, for instance, for roughly a year on my Macbook (2014 Retina 13"). It gets in a state where the keyboard and trackpad are unresponsive but the laptop is clearly still running. USB devices are probably hosed too, because attaching an external keyboard at this point doesn't help either. Started with El Capitan, continues with Sierra, and Apple support finds all hardware diagnostics are okay. My only recourse is to power cycle the laptop.

Another example, once or twice a week when waking up from sleep the wifi adapter doesn't reattach, and hovering over the wifi status in the menu bar yields a beach ball. My only recourse is to power cycle the laptop.

About a year ago my Plantronics bluetooth headset stopped reliably pairing, or rather it does pair, but the audio quality is so horrible I gave up and went back to wired earbuds.

So yes, far from perfect. I would say the product team has been distracted with convenience frills like Handoff, AirDrop, auto-unlock via Apple Watch, and so on, when what I would prefer is reliable sleep/wake and i/o devices that work every time.

Nonetheless, this is still leaps and bounds ahead of the Windows 7 laptop the corporate office insists I use. And it's a reputable brand and everything, and not a fluke (they've swapped out the laptop multiple times but every one has some fatal flaw.)
Yes. Our work shapes society. We need systems that allow us to have a say in the ethical and political implications of our labor.
It's interesting that you bring up learning pace as such a strong signal. Most of the material I've read focusing on learning types and effectiveness seems to gloss over the speed that one learns (which I imagine must vary with material) and a great deal of coursework is very rigid with regards to schedules.

I wonder, ignoring for a moment the practicalities of this, if a freeform educational system, allowing students to "rank up" at their own pace, might be worth persuing. What's the benefit of forcing slower students to rush through their work, and requiring that faster students move only as fast as the rest of their class allows?