skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote this in past tense but sadly they're still doing it :(
Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (2013)
Or it's too high because why should anyone pay $0.10 to post on a nerdy and tiny social network when Twitter is free and you can reach hundreds of millions?

Difficult balancing act.
I keep an old thinkpad laying around offline and do the following

Create unsigned transaction(online).
Sign it (offline).
Broadcast it (online).

There will be instructions for any wallet software how to do this on bitcointalk or their own documentation. After each txn backup the wallets to some other offline/cold storage in case the thinkpad dies. If you had millions of coins you wouldn't want to do this obviously due to usb attacks but for my <$1k wallet good enough. There's also QubesOS, can keep wallets running in different VMs
> As our general counsel wrote, we made the decision that we'd never run into the patent issue. That is still true today as it was then, and overall, we’ve been really happy with React.

Okay.

> …I'm here to say that the Gutenberg team is going to take a step back and rewrite Gutenberg using a different library.

Am I the only one missing the "why"?

> …passing down to our users.

Is that the "why"? If so, what does he mean by it? Meaning: What is the "danger" that Matt says Automattic will never run into, but that WordPress users will run into?
For file descriptors, API guarantee, specified by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2...

"[...] atomically allocate the lowest numbered available (that is, not already open in the calling process) file descriptor [...]"
Well yes, a union is organized democratically so you can vote on what you support if you're part of one. The problems you identify are central to all of democracy: what if you lose the vote? Then positions you don't support will be supported! Decisions made by the majority don't obey the will of the minority! So your solution is to eliminate the vote altogether and give away any voice you have, since you might not get everything you want -- not have unions at all; to reject any democracy altogether, and instead let a tiny few wealthy oligarchs make all the decisions. The alternative is your work goes to support whatever the executives of the company want, which is usually explicitly the opposite of what is good for you since your salary and everything that is good for you costs the company money. The profits from your labor will go to efforts to automate your job out of existence, they will go to efforts to lobby to take away all of your rights and protections, benefits and bonuses. This is currently exactly what happens in every non-unionized workplace.
There are a range of other factors.

My family owns a water company in Lake Tahoe.

We are precluded from bottling or otherwise selling our water by the PUD to anyone other than the homes for which our water serves.

The bullshit factr in this is that PUDs (public utility districts) have made deals with companies like Nestle to allow them to slurp up thousands of litres per penny from wells/springs/aquifers and then sell that water for thousands % more than they pay...

Yet they limit small water companies who own their full infra and prevent them from going after market value for their water.

So as a small family water company, fuck nestle. I find your argument BS from the front lines of regulations that favor mega-corps and fuck over small companies.

We have been trying to get our Tahoe water bottled for decades - but it takes big money. And our water comes from a natural spring, not from the lake - and should not be regulated the way it is.
I agree. Transformative technology has this effect on people. The other day I was arguing with someone that said we need true Artificial General Intellegence before full autonomy is available.

I'm fine with skepticism, but these types of unfounded claims drive me crazy. If you want to argue the companies aren't really moving the tech as fast as they claim, post actual evidence, not some nonsense about speech recognition in the 90s.
Still paid only for anything other than single node? We switched to Cassandra for that reason.
Why not Preact? It seems the react compatibility would be very helpful when they already have such a significant investment into react.
To quote this fine article: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

"Advertisers will tell you it has to be this way, but in dealing with advertisers you must remember they are professional liars."
>Micropayments have been talked about since the 1990s.

A little longer than that, perhaps. http://transcopyright.org/hcoinRemarks-D28.html
Palatable how? Pascal's syntax is not especially different from that of most scripting languages
>They definitely have, at least for the high end of the market. For example, Hired shows a 3.28% increase in salaries for SF engineers this year. [0]

So if you really look at those numbers, you left out a bunch of them that don't back up your assertion that salaries are skyrocketing like they should in an ultra-high demand field:

SF Bay Area | 3.28%
Seattle | 2.14%
Austin | 0.96%
Chicago | 0.57%
New York | 0.25%
Boston | 0.24%
LA | -0.13%
London | -1.7%
Denver | -2.63%
Washington D.C | -2.85%
San Diego | -4.92%
Toronto | -6.29%

1. Half of the areas in your link are decreasing average salary before inflation.

2. Anything under the 2% inflation target is considered a decrease in income.

3. After subtracting 2% for inflation, add the cost of living increase in SF which was 78% between 2000 and 2015, and you are probably decreasing wages.

4. A union negotiator would know that. The hiring managers sure do (or at least the CFOs).

So let me ask the question a third time. If demand for tech workers is so high, why are wages flat? Do you think Apple/MS/Amazon/Google's EBITDA was that flat as well?

http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/the-cost-of-living-continues-t...
Why would you run Darwin over other BSD systems?
Does it have some advantages or is it just for fun?
Perhaps I'm over simplifying to the point of making mistakes, but intuitively I would expect that performance and Energy Efficiency are strongly correlated, because I assume that each instruction executed takes a certain amount of time and a certain amount of energy, and that this skills roughly linearly. That is, executing n instructions takes A * n time and B * n energy, so of course making it finish sooner means less instructions means less energy.
This is a rather lazy critique that doesn't acknowledge any of the actual motivations of those looking to expand the reach of humanity to Mars (and beyond).
Interesting—I've read the original PBR book but didn't realize that such robust support and culture had grown up around it.
I think when Matt says "long-term consistency with core" he also means consistency with the philosophical aspects of free software. Note that the piece starts with Facebook's reaction to the Apache Foundation's stance against using React.

If I understand correctly, the Calypso project was related to the administrative dashboard in their hosted WP offering (and other widgets that could be used in self-hosted WP.) Going forward it looks like Gutenberg is also about the code in the pages that visitors see on published sites.
It's saddling WordPress's massive user base with Facebook's patent clause – something the userbase likely won't realise they're agreeing to when they use WordPress.
>If a thief breaks in to a home by breaking the door, the broken door is still evidence of a break-in. Let the addition of keys have a noticeable effect

Err, security is about preventing attacks -- not about having evidence that they've happened.
I hope they choose Elm.
Matt is a copyleft zealot. Of course he'd drop React over this non-controversy. Anyone paying attention to how he views GPL would come to that conclusion.
I think the end game is more like the end of individual car ownership in cities. Company-owned or ideally(!!!) municiple fleets would be much more efficient in that idle time and parking would fade away.
>> rewrite Gutenberg using a different library. It will likely delay Gutenberg at least a few weeks

I love this. How many times in my career have I heard "the rewrite will take us <some short period of time>". Good luck with that estimate.
I have seen similar differences in other programs as well (tail, head)
IIRC discriminated unions are plain C(++) unions with an added type tag, like at the beginning of the article. Brittle, prone to breakage when refactoring, etc. when compared to real sum types.
Do you really think that Queen is not using Scaramouche to mean the Commedia del Arte clown and fandango to mean the dance? If I see a sentence with cottage and handbag used like that, I don't think I'd be confused.
> Send the US Army to Malawi bearing Super Soakers?

When you put it like that it, of course, sounds silly but try to see it the other way around: Take all the money spent on wars, where lots of infrastructure (usually among the first targets) and environment ends up being destroyed, and imagine it's instead spent on infrastructure projects helping the actual civilian population.

Yes it's naive, yes it's very unlikely to ever happen, but I still like to think that the US Military acting as a demilitarized "global infrastructure building force" would have done far more good for humanity than constantly waging wars on barely defined things like "terrorism", leaving destroyed wastelands and lot's of disgruntled people in their wake.
I believe he's still with GreenArrays.
What do you mean? You can write theorems that show plus is associative and commutative for example but that doesn't make the example I gave "equal" in Coq in the sense you normally mean. As I said, it's not intuitive as we're usually very loose in what we mean by "equal".
Could potentially do both interchangeably soon: https://twitter.com/_developit/status/898952382960119808
It's getting hard to recommend React when the company controlling it clearly has threatening licensing ideas.

Better use something else open source or just pay a license fee to someone for a clearly licensed commercial framework.
OOP in C
Yes, you can hop from tyranny to tyranny until you find a dictator who will have mercy on you and not abuse you as much, losing your health insurance and livelihood with every hop, hoping you don't become homeless or destitute or get sick every time you are abused. And maybe, if you're lucky, there is a company in your area that does what you know how to do and is decent, and you haven't had your reputation as a "complainer" who dares challenges your boss spread around town.

Alternately, we could institute worker protections and support unions (which are necessary to develop the political will to institute worker protections) so they all have to treat you decently and everyone who works hard for a living can have a humane reasonable life.
I can't believe it took this long for language servers and an open editor/"language smartness server" comm protocol to be developed.
Yet that farm owner will probably have a 'crew' of self-driving tractors.
> community-vetted

i wonder if this sort of confidence makes you less-safe. something like this should've prevented heartbleed, in theory, right?
It might stop eg "share to pray" posts and viral fake news.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.lang.forth/L...

Per this, he's retired now.
>Is that the "why"? If so, what does he mean by it? Meaning: What is the "danger" that Matt says Automattic will never run into, but that WordPress users will run into?

He answered that already. He doesn't believe there's much (if any) danger, but:

"we have a lot of problems to tackle, and convincing the world that Facebook’s patent clause is fine isn’t ours to take on. It’s their fight".

So what they don't want to "pass down to [their] users" is not something they believe is an actual danger, but the anxiety about the licensing that users would face and the arguments etc that will erupt over this.
That would explain the short time frame quoted for the rewrite.
Very interesting issue although I would say as it relates to humans, our diets are already so poor and artificial that changing eating habits and what we put in our food could likely balance out some of this nutrient loss in the actual plants.
You "log on" to a mainframe. You login to a minicomputer.
i feel like this is just shuffling concerns rather than addressing them, but i'm open to being shown otherwise.
I have always been thinking about the other way, i.e. using a subset of C++ for a better C, e.g. using its class data type but not those template and abstract/virtual/lambda functions etc.
Well, for organizations of a certain size they could map reduce the job across 4 billion servers for 90 seconds (2^32 servers each handling 2^32 operations).
Not if the rockets are reusable and the fuel has zero net-carbon footprint.
Technologists have a bad habit of not taking consideration the political and social sides of innovation. The success of autonomous cars depends less on the tech as much as it would depends more on politics. As tech don't mix well with politics and the interests of the majority, autonomous cars will only happen when the tech is good enough to overcome politics. Some people think that this will take decades if not centuries.
Elm would be cool, but would probably isolate WordPress from the massive JS community. Community matters.
I've just shut mine down again and it's been off my phone for months. Things are much better without it.
I know I ran into it at one point, but I haven't slung python in anger in like a decade, so maybe the editors most people are using have started preventing this sort of thing better.

Though I do know in Visual Studio (what I do my day to day coding in these days) I've had situations at work where tabs and spaces got mixed together and at some point it finally started complaining but not right away.
The insurance company have a contract that typically requires them to provide whatever treatments are available for a medical problem and are not experimental.

It's competition in the insurance space that creates such a large market for pharma and other medical companies to bring products to market.

If you had a monopsony (single-payer healthcare), where the only buyer is the US government, then the only treatments available are those it has approved via bureaucratic process. Nothing about single-payer healthcare prevents private options from existing per se, but so many people will go without private insurance, greatly reducing the market for medical innovations and shrinking the size of the R&D market.

Take a look at these graphs:
https://www.quora.com/Which-country-develops-the-most-effect...

Single payer healthcare will dramatically shrink the US contribution to medical innovations.

In a way, the US healthcare system is socialized medicine that benefits the other 7.2 billion people on this planet at the expense of the 40 million uninsured people in the US. This is a trolley problem.

The WHO publishes a list of essential medicines.
http://www.who.int/medicines/services/essmedicines_def/en/

96 new pharmaceuticals were developed since the list was first published in 1977. There are 306 today, so 31 percent of essential medicines have been developed in just the past 40 years. How many of those 96 were developed in the US? How many fewer would we have developed under single-payer healthcare?

It's possible that we still develop as many medicines under single payer healthcare, but simple economics suggest that's unlikely enough that we really want to be sure it won't decimate the R&D market for new drugs because that is what is at risk here, if we are wrong. Are you willing to take the gamble of depriving your future self and the other 7.5 billion people on the planet of the medical innovations we'll lose without the US system. Once you hand people single-payer healthcare, there is no way politically to go back.
Too bad I wasn't able to setup Hot Module Reloading yet, otherwise I'd switched to Preact. Not because I am concerned of the license itself, but because we are heading towards an acquisition exit and I don't want that to be a factor - who knows, where we're at in like five years?
Might be interesting if 9 of the cents go to charity, otherwise no thanks.
i mean to be fair it got fixed on the onion site.
I mean, it would hurt them a lot, but it's entirely possible
The Pareto Principle for Effective Dev Team Management
It's a market. I don't care about society, I care about delivering cash to my shareholders.

All business is about repeatable process. Domain experts build a process. The operations people execute. Lather, rinse, repeat.

People are nurtured/developed/promoted because it is cheaper to do that than to go back to the market. But, every single individual is expendable and replacable. There may be pain or cost associated with someone leaving, but a viable business will survive.

If you think you are essential to your employer, film a little video explaining why, post or save it somewhere and set a calendar entry to visit it again in 5 years. You'll have a good laugh in 5 years.
Personally, I have a hard time imagining that any Facebook patents you use with React wouldn't also apply to Preact.

Then again, I think this whole patents issue is mostly FUD. The number of companies who have to reasonably consider suing Facebook for patent infringement is small and they know who they are.
Thanks!

If you want to send me your contact info, I'd be happy to stay in touch and collab on anything you have in mind :)
> With Google's warchest?

So why did Google fail with Google Plus with such a huge warchest?
> The biggest merit of STL is that is exists.

The STL is a library of common algorithms and data structures that are decoupled from one another, and the complexity of operations in the STL has been enshrined in to the C++ standard. These two achievements alone warrant granting it huge respect. Imho, it's the essence of great design and it should be the very first thing taught to programmers new to C++.

> copying all sorts of patterns for their own sake because they are seen "as the standard way to do it".

Yeah, Python programmers would never do anything like that. If they did they might all run around calling it being 'Pythonic' or something.

> Object orientation and templates should not be considered the basic building blocks of the archictecture of a C++ program

Just tools in the toolbox, and the amount of mileage you can get out of just these two features, along with other staples like RAII and function overloading is pretty astounding.
Having some limit to posts is an interesting idea. But I don't see much of a return on investment for the users in this approach. Why should I pay to have people see my post? Shouldn't I have to pay people to see their posts instead?

Anyway, all of luck to them. I'd like to know what might develop from this.

Though they really should have asked for two cents instead of ten. I mean, come on: how could you miss this?
That's true. I wonder if they'd steer clear of Preact just because it is similar to React though? Also, Preact seems to be heavily reliant on the React ecosystem and it wouldn't be much of a rage quit if they picked up the skinnier version of React when that is what they should be doing anyways because... you know... bandwidth.
Why colonise Mars at all once you're mining asteroids?

Build colonies in free space instead and avoid the time and hassle of terraforming.
> But it sucks, and the blame for this horrible situation lies largely with the people who designed WebAudio initially

Just skimming it a bit, it seems like they tried to make the same kind of "managed" framework for an audio graph that SVG spec does for vector graphics. And even if SVGs are janky the static image still succeeds in serving a purpose. But if you get dropouts or high latency in audio, there isn't much more it can be used for. (Aside from browser fingerprinting :)
Uber seem like such dickheads, I uninstalled it and used Lyft exclusively.

Good for them.
You bring up a major downside to industry-wide unions in that a single bad decision by a small group of people can make it so that an entire industry can suffer, rather than many entities battling it out with a variety of decisions, which would give employees choice, and give some opportunity for the best decisions to win out over time.

Perhaps the problem is not unions, but monopolization of an industry's workers by a single union.
There is a slight better trick. If you specify the variable as an array, it will always be treated as such.

For example, instead of

return $mylist

...you can...

return @($mylist)

The return keyword is unnecessary in PowerShell so this can be shortened to:

@(mylist)
The writing of the narration was really excellent: "Some of Cassini's orbits took it behind Saturn, an alien sunset before hours of darkness".

The six sided hexagon hurricane on the top of Saturn was the most fascinating to me, especially when they superimposed the size of earth over it saying it could "swallow 4 earths"...
Cyberspace is not some metaphysical entity that exists in the ether. Every website, every connection, is being run on physical hardware. I'm not arguing that cutting off access to something on the internet would be easy or even feasible, and it would hurt any coubtry that tried to, but it is entirely possible
You do not even need to use dependent types. You could just restrict yourself to polymorphic types if you wanted to. And you could use dependent types just for the things that don't require any "proving" work. Returning multiple types from a function, implementing type-safe `printf`, checking out-of-bound errors at compile time, things like that.

Dependent types allow you to express things such as `a == b` as a type, and proving that requires some work, but you don't need any of that at all. Idris is a superset of Haskell, you may say.
I'm surprised that there's even a processor (as in a Turing-complete machine) in those ASICs at all --- at those speeds, I would've expected more along the lines of lots of hardcoded switching circuitry with any programmability restricted to lookup tables and configuration registers, closer to an FPGA than CPU in concept. Certainly, a lot of slower switch ASICs are designed as hardcoded switches; here's one example:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
10c is more expensive than local phone calls are in alot of countries. Not a bad idea though, could make alot of spamming unviable even with a small amount like 1c. What about if you "like" something, a portion of the fee goes to the original poster?
Unless there's some kind of technical tool, that amounts to standing over the kid's shoulder any time they're touching a computer and stopping them from tapping the wrong buttons. Besides being difficult, this sort of thing causes its own problems from a parenting standpoint. So yeah, still not a good solution.
You should self-impose the tax rate you see fit and donate the difference to the causes that you would prefer your taxes to be spent towards, and encourage your other rich friends to do the same.
> Which service I use just depends on which app I feel like opening.

Which service I use just depends on 2 factors: Least of the estimated fares and speedier pick-up. And of course if the 'Pool' or 'Line' carpooling available on the route I am going.
Depending on the nerdy and tiny social network, I would pay way more than ten cents.
No.

While both acknowledge that gender is fluid personal interpretation of identity, to drag (female impersonation, but there are women who drag as men), gender identity is a joke to be made fun of and celebrate, but being transgender takes gender identity seriously.

They can be expressed by the same people (see Peppermint who won 2015's RuPaul Drag Race, she is a transgendered woman who competes in drag competitions), but they can just as often be in conflict.

Mostly. In not all cases and for not all people, and I'm probably wrong.