skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike the myth that business leaders and entrepreneurs who are motivated by money do not matter. There are plenty of income-motivated people who are building meaningful products.
Try this review of What Computers Still Can't Do from 1993.

http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/haugeland/dreyf...

It might help to know that What Computers Still Can't Do (1992) is a slight update to What Computers Can't Do (1972).

This review was written by John Haugeland who in his own right was an influential, pioneering, and much loved name in the field of the philosophy of AI.
I think that's the point. It's a great way to trade trinkets. It's an ok system for other things. It's horrible for tracking role models and life work. Taxes are a "quick fix"
It supports .NET 2.0!!
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ReactOS-...
Chrome for Android does not support extensions.
I don't get it, you don't like these articles because you find the idea that govt. negligence can actually kill people who rely on the govt. offensive?
Fear. Fear of the other. Fear of a widening disparity between the haves and have-nots - and they're increasingly in the have-not category. Fear that their children won't be able to do as well or better than they did. Fear. And Donald Trump expertly capitalized on that fear while Hillary chose to ignore it. Trump won. I'm not convinced we progressives/liberals fully understand this because we're still ignoring this fear.
I've been with Gandi for over 10 years and I can confirm that their customer support is indeed quite crappy, even with simpler matters.
Some of my saddest friends, at least when it comes to expressing themselves politically, are my liberal friends who have beliefs just a bit outside the left-norm. Things like owning firearms, or support for free speech even when it's ugly.

These folks are shunned by both groups. One guy told me once he had friends of 20 years that wouldn't let him in the house when they found out he owned a gun.

But the question one asked that I keep getting back to is this: would the Civil Rights movement stand a chance today in the world many in the left wants to set up?

Another commenter mentioned being assaulted by a ROTC cadet for expressing liberal views. As bad as that is, I'm much more supportive of open fisticuffs, along with a jail sentence for whomever started it, than creating systems of political suppression that many major SV corps seem intent on doing. It doesn't get more fucked up and evil than that -- and I have no doubt in my mind that the people doing it are nice and well meaning. All the worse.
For sure, no one knows and no one can predict the future, but I think the real AI will emerge from the military and probably will inherit some of the "human dna" so to speak and we all know what happens when more intelligent/technically advanced race meets somebody who is significantly behind...
Which Chrome for Android does not support.
Nobody can tell you what to feel, and it's unfair to expect you to not feel angry about stuff that is important to you.

But it's fair to expect that you won't get into a fistfight with someone just because they make you angry.
Nothing feels cleaner than storing everything (notebook, raw data, cleansed data, misc scripts, etc.) in a docker image when you're finished with the project. Data science and docker are meant to be besties.
Actually, I think the market has created this. To me it looks like universities have moved from things like subjects that represent the apex of current human knowledge (hard sciences, philosophy, literature...) to a far more vocationally focused curriculum (business, marketing, game design, hospitality...).

To me this looks like a loss of idealism and a move towards a market idea of what sorts of things make up valuable knowledge. It also seems like a real loss of something important.
This is getting very weird.
Using youtube-dl: Probably ilegal, but no one cares because you need basic technical skills and it's very dificult to chase people who use it.
Using an add blocker during streaming: Very likely ok until people also start getting arrested for going to pee during tv comercials.
Using youtube or spotify in a public place: This one makes peoples brains hurt, let's not even consider it.

In the middle of all this how much are the artists getting for the streamings? how popular must one be for getting more than a cup of coffee worth of royalties each month?

If authors are not making that much money do the copyright laws make any objective sense? Since after all they were created first and foremost to protect them. If they are not protected than music be free/libre because of the cultural value it has for humanity.
See my response to zhte415 for more on What Computers Still Can't Do.
> no outside-of-store advertising plays a part here and in-store advertisement I typically ignore

Having read about the psychology of these things, I suspect you are more influenced than you would like. Even simple stuff like putting a more expensive product at the right height, and arranged in pleasing rows of identical objects, while the cheaper products are lower or higher (so difficult to get to) and in smaller quantities (so less of the pleasing identical objects effect) etc.

There are books on supermarket psychology, and I recall a good BBC documentary also, but can't think of any names right now, sorry.
> A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.

The ONLY thing that makes Google close to a monopoly is government power - hear me out:

Google has patented all of their search algorithms. This is akin to patenting all of the O(nlog) sorting algorithms. Competitors are left with using Bubble Sort.

The simple solution is to invalidate some of these patents. Then the "monopoly" problem will fix itself.
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> Is writing docstrings with argument types a thing in Python? If so, wouldn't these developers benefit from using actual type annotations (or a language with static types)?

In theory yes (at least for Python 3) but it's a bit more nuanced. Python type annotations are still kind of... annoying? You have to import the things you need from `typing`, for example, and refer to classes differently if their definition comes after. A lot of this is based on convention and what IDEs implement since there's no fully fleshed-out standard. I think it's a good idea if done right -- I find myself more productive in TypeScript than JavaScript so it is possible to add value by transplanting a type system into a dynamic language -- but I don't think it's there yet.

As far as other languages, I think Julia has the best chance of eventually overtaking Python and it has a more deeply-embedded awareness of types.
Honestly, none of those things matter to me. I vote on the second amendment and fiscal policy. As a libertarian, I am an advocate for civil rights, clean energy, equality, and so forth. I care about those issues, but you can't be a moderate without making idealogical compromises.

Net neutrality was a disappointment, but myself and others in the tech community will learn to deal with the inconvenience.

The plight of illegal immigrants and the "religion of peace" has zero relevance to me, I simply don't care enough one way or the other to vote in favor of them.
This is a brilliant comment, Dan, both in the message and the wording. I loved the image of the "common astroturfy warbler". Previously, I hadn't considered much the importance of who comments on which posts, and how this changes based on the perceived slant of the original article.

Going back to my hobby-horse, I wonder how much user-flagging of posts is caused by similar perceptual biases, and what effect this has on others' perceptions of the site. From the outside, it looks this article was flagged off the front page: http://hnrankings.info/15171291/.

Was it someone who disagreed with the anti-Google slant of the article, or someone who didn't like that many of the comments appeared pro-Google? Even if there was some non-flagging reason for the sudden drop, I'm sure that both "sides" will view the demotion as evidence that the site (admins, users, or both) is biased against them.
It's useful alright, however every time I'm reading records in a stream I prefer to have it prefixed with the record size in bytes.

However, having a new line delimiter is sure easier than trying to find the end of a JSON structure.
i use mine the field to perform repairs on my racing drone. it is 100x's better than any normal soldering iron in this situation because i can 1) fit it in my bag at about the size of a pencil 2) power it off an existing lipo i already have with me.

the best camera is the one that you have with you. same goes for irons. how this dweeb can rate something as junk without having ever used it is beyond me. i've been pleasantly surprised at how capable it is ever since purchase.
> It's got to the point where "free speech" has become a dog whistle for the alt-right.

Because pride parades and Occupy protests don't benefit from free speech at all, right?

It's more concerning to see the meme of "I don't like what these people say so I'm going to add the 'dogwhistle' tag to it so other Right Thinking people will know to avoid/condemn it without engaging properly".

Free speech is critical to the success (such as it is) of the United States today. Deciding to self-cripple because some small groups we don't like are using it is absurd.
I think it depends on the situation. In many cases these can be handled at the app level, in particular relationships. If you use any kind of ORM, most of your queries will be on primary keys so there is less need for other indexes. Views are perhaps replaced by pre-processing data pipelines to some extent. I haven't seen database-level users or ACLs for a long time.

But I don't know, I don't really do this stuff anymore. At Google we certainly have storage and database systems with a lot of non-CRUD features (look at Spanner for example).
Yet none of this is nearly as details as your web browsing history.
In my country broadband Internet connection provided by two major ISPs has a price that increases by about 1.5$/month, if you don't agree for your personal data to be used for marketing purposes.
friends and/or a membership in a community can be nice too, and is one of those "often correlates highly with happiness" kinda things, so i'm just adding specificity from my life to an item in your list.
Yep, that's a better tl;dr than the one I tried to give before I rambled off.

That and confirming the aspect the person I was replying to had mentioned where as income increases one tends to change the goalposts.
Use youtube-dl manually or via telegram bot https://telegram.me/utubebot, for example
I've used ReactOS at the past to automatically create Win32 builds for software (the real hardware ran Linux, ReactOS was booted in a VM), the command-line stuff tend to work fine. The main problem is that there are still tons of issues with the GUI side, including glaring things like region clipping (you can see obscured windows sometimes being drawn above other windows or areas in some windows not being drawn at all) and a single window being able to hang the entire UI (seems all window message handling is synchronized).

Older software tends to work ok (i ran Borland C++ Builder on it without major issues, beyond the GUI glitches i mentioned), but not perfect. Also old software sometimes tends to include 16bit components that do not work yet with ReactOS.

The file manager was also rewritten at some point and it seems to have issues (e.g. you need to manually refresh the desktop/a folder to see changes, drag-drop doesn't always work, etc). However it is much better than 1-2 releases ago, which shows that it gets a lot of development.

Command-line stuff seem to work perfect (although the current shell is quite primitive) though so, if nothing else it can be used for automated tasks.

IMO they should try to pay a bit more attention to getting the basics of the GUI side working since this will attract more developers who are interested in helping with the higher levels (as higher as working with stuff like user32.dll etc can be anyway) but don't want to mess with the low level stuff (graphics, etc). I think ReactOS is still at a point before the "snowball effect" with its developer popularity.
We would end up with a small section of middle class consumers who are aware of the privacy issues and its effects and willing to choose businesses based on merit as well as price.

I worry that this still leaves most people in a class comprised of those who can't afford choice or doesn't find the issue pressing enough (either because the are not aware of the amount of data compiled on them, or because they don't find it harmful; or even prefer it).
Pragmatically speaking, supporting Republicans who hate gay people because you don't think the government should be in the marriage business has the exact same effect as actually trying to block gay marriage: straight marriage is allowed; gay marriage isn't.
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A better title might be, "Your kids will see internet porn. HOW TO deal with it."
If we increase our energy consumption 100-fold this estimation of net loss in wind would approach 1% which sounds bad. I guess we might need wind protector after all.
Yes having a separate target that isn't automatically invoked unexpectedly is important---the user doesn't expect network requests during build traditionally. Environments that build in isolation with no network access would fail as well.
I've been teaching my 7 year old using the "Coding Games in Scratch" book, and he loves it. I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu 16.04 to run flash, and it works fine.
Last time I checked, Edge still sent all your keystrokes to Microsoft in plaintext and over HTTP (not HTTPS).

So yeah, they are (at least were) monitoring not only what sites you went to, but also what you typed into them.
I guess I see what you're saying.

...couldn't you classify the data with if/elsif/else statements though? And store likelihoods of past records within the database?

Do you need to use a, "Bayesian Classifier"?

Is this all that Artificial Intelligence means now? I thought it was like, "a machine that can pass the Turing test"? Sorry if I'm just naive.
Out-of-place artifact
I built this mainly to teach myself Angular, React and Vue. As the title suggests it's inspired by todomvc.com, though it's got a long way to go before it hits those dizzy heights. A few new examples are in the pipeline (React-Redux, Ember and Vuex).
Parent is updated, perhaps?
I just could not find out how to do it. Here [0] they mentioned that from 2017, it should be possible to open an account without physically going to Estonia. Judging from the comments below, there are also other confused e-Residency card holders with the same issue.

[0] https://e-residency.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205283661-...
We did lose our temper to be honest, however we could only publish the errata once our domains were transferred away which took 6 weeks or so to complete. We've moved to Gandi if you were after a recommendation!
Agreed. It went from #2 on front page, to #215 in half an hour.
No company is "supposed" to do anything in my eyes; and I'd rather if they all did a lot less that wasn't defined as "produce this one very specific product that does one thing well". If anything, the agencies that are supposed to do anything for the infrastructure of the Internet are the various governments and the UN, to support an open Web. The problem is that at present the US, UK, Russia, China, North Korea, and several other key nations are trying to destroy the open Web, so it falls to companies, who are better off setting up their own walled gardens and forcing every user into the digital equivalent of the old mining company towns.

We need to stop bending to any of these groups just because they're "the big guy". If the largest Web company is building "free" and "open" stuff in an anti-competitive manner, then make sure that's painfully obvious to the end-user, make it public (i.e. an NYT article's a nice start) and then file federal lawsuits, calling on users as witnesses. The people of America beat the Robber Barons before, I don't understand the reason why we are so unwilling to do so now that they've moved to the Web. Stop spoofing, stop capitulating, stop compromising, and start fighting back.
Please don't spam the site with sound-bites; we're after a conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree. It is definitely a completely different thing and even though 'egg' is a cool word I wish it was just 'hatch create my-app'
The only widespread reason that I have seen for restricting the rights of gay folks is one of ignorance fueled by religious dogma. This was a common view at the churches I attended during my youth. I wouldn't call this "evil", but I would call it harmful.
#1 is stay humble. If you're humble you will never stop striving and learning to get better. By the way, that's probably the most important thing for everyone, not just software developers.

Whenever I think i'm hot shit I go watch some SpaceX videos on YouTube. That gets my feet back on the ground and my nose to the grindstone pretty quickly heh.
r u kidding ? bush was largely more evil than trump.

trump is just randomly going from one to another mostly unconsequential decision.

bush went to war, purposefully let torture be instigated (while trump say ok for torture motsly to look tough) and promoted hugh oil conglomerates.. he's also the governor who order the most inmates to be sent to death row

Learn to see the difference between talk and action.
Now it's 215+.... Very strange
Toxic != controversial.

Toxic means poisonous. Toxicity in communities spoils the community because people place bickering, verbal fighting, and beating other people at insults over communicating ideas, debating, and respecting one another. It damages and will eventually kill a community as people get upset and then tune out and go other places. And if they don't feel they can go elsewhere, they'll feel stuck, wounded, and bitter.

Hate speech is an example of toxic behavior. At least, that's the reason awful people use it: It's a disruption. It distracts people and angers people so they act out in their own possibly negative ways. It's the whole MO of people like Mile and Ann Coulter: Say offensive things, but then attempt take the high road when people get visibly upset. It's a pattern that can quickly convert otherwise healthy communities into group of screaming upset people. That's toxic.

So, yes, "toxic" is a great word. And communities should protect themselves from toxic behavior.
Yeah I've been using DuckDuckGo exclusively.
Fundamentally it's very similar. That's why there is a proliferation of licenses. The MIT vs BSD vs Apache vs GPLv2 vs GPLv3 vs AGPLv3 debate is fundamentally a debate which restrictions are reasonable and which go too far
Assuming you mean VB6, apparently yes but with some glitches:

http://s14.postimg.org/7xggyma75/VB6_React_OS.png

(not my image and it is 3 years old so it might work better now)
From what I can tell, the egg subcommand doesn't create any kind of egg file, just creates a new project.

But I agree. Creating a new distinct keyword for that command (why not just `hatch new my-app`?) would be far better. I've tried to get into Python packaging, and it's the biggest PITA I've dealt with as a dev.
Oh so all we need to do is eliminate the principle of Federalism and govern the entire country as one large state then?
I'm appalled at the responses to this story.

Yes, role-models tend to be people who are well-known.
Yes, Bill Gates is rich.
No, not every single dad started to drive their children to school.

The stroy is still about choosing to do something you were not required to do, being a precursor, and initiating change that others emulated.

The secondary harmonics of the moral of the story is still that people are, dozens of years after the fact, holding grudges and bias toward Bill Gates and Microsoft.
This is particularly messed up because you know poorer people will take this option so they can afford their next phone or device. It preys on lower-income individuals unaware of what is going on. People who generally aren't aware of what rights are being tossed out, or may not even have the luxury to put personal rights above cost.
Most democracies don't have winner-take-all systems like ours. I would argue as part of the "wasted vote" crowd that this viewpoint is entirely justified given the mechanics of a U.S. presidential election, and that the best any of us can do is take our idealism to a more local level.

Parliamentary systems with proportional representation and "coalition" governments exist throughout the world. The U.S. just isn't one of them and would require a big overhaul of the Constitution in order to change that.
>>> Time for Makefiles to Make a Comeback

Until your build chain is f----- by the tab VS space issue of makefiles. Then abandon makefiles again, for good.
Yes. Note I referred to early employees. Cooks and massueses got rich off Google in the days when there were only a few of them and the company was run by idealistic founders who weren't responsible to the stock market. Now there are hundreds or thousands of such people globally, and things went back to normal.

My point is that "janitor who became CTO" is not really a common story at any company, even at Kodak.
Shouldn't the market take care of this? Only if students can pick their HS, rather than be placed in one by their zip code. Bad schools, make bad students, but students can't leave bad schools, due to their zipcodes... Education reform on zipcodes is a MUST.
Hi Larry.
It's quite far, man. If I had to drive, I wouldn't do more than 15 minutes each way. With public transit, total door-to-door I'd do 30 minutes each way.

This is quite common: (caveat: this link is a UK-specific post) https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/feb/12/how-do...
"An unpopular cause" being one that was supported by around half the electorate at the time, IIRC.

Unpopular with a powerful lobby within the liberal tech industry, yes.
But maybe you voted for him because you thought he's just purposefully saying stupid shit and none of that is serious, because you thought he won't get elected anyway, and this is a good way of expressing your disappointment with the US politics in general?

Or maybe you didn't vote for, but voted against (I hear some studies say this is the primary way people vote, btw.)?

Or maybe you had some other reason? I could invent plenty more. The point being, judging someone by the sole data point of their choice in the voting booth, without knowing reasons for it, is one of the most stupid kind of thinking imaginable. In fact, in less emotionally charged contexts, people generally don't show that kind of stupidity.
I am relatively okay with it insofar as that it is an opt-in program instead of an opt-out program. There is a clear requirement that you agree to give them access to the data, and in fact, from your Verizon account you can flip a switch on each line that prevents you (or any user on your account) from accidentally agreeing to Verizon Selects, that you'll need to go in and uncheck before anyone on your account can sign up.

However, I am doubtful this is an act of goodwill on Verizon's part, as opposed to being due to the much stricter privacy requirements ISPs and telcos are held to compared to your average tech company. If Verizon could just silently collect your data and sell it, I'm reasonably confident they would.