skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go further and slightly more abstract by focusing on countering loneliness and/or on fostering community. I strongly suspect that technological and societal developments have increased loneliness in a worrying degree. At least based on my research and personal experience homelessness is very often a 'symptom' of loneliness, or lack of a tribe/community. I also believe that mental health or lack thereof is, sadly, often a symptom of waning communal life. Even more specifically, high-functioning autism might well be, in part, a symptom of a less 'cohesive' society.

Theory aside, I think our work as programmers has significantly changed the way society communicates and interacts. For better and worse. Would it not make sense that we continue this work, but more towards solving the issues we perceive, whether self-created or not?

I propose programmers spend more time talking to friends about challenges in their life that might be 'programmed' away, and less time on ads, tracking, manager checklist #321, or anything fundamentally centered around Business, because, let's be fair, on the whole, at least in 'the west', we as programmers have it incredibly good, so we can afford to be ideological.
Half is actually good chance, why didn't you invest in all of them?
"I understand what you are trying to say and I think that you are wrong." --Bjarne Stroustrup, to a chorus of razzes, jeers and laughter at a question in going native a few years back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-bdWKwXsU about 1:09:30

But hey don't take my word for it, my reputation is nothing and I'm as anonymous as a wrong number whether I like it that way or not. How about Ken Thompson? His doesn't seem to be similar, if you like an argument from authority - and I think such argument has a place if not used exclusively.

"I would try out the [C++] language [at AT&T] as it was being developed and make comments on it. It was part of the work atmosphere there. And you'd write something and then the next day it wouldn't work because the language changed. It was very unstable for a very long period of time. At some point, I said, no, no more. In an interview I said exactly that, that I didn't use it because it wouldn't stay still for two days in a row. When Stroustrup read the interview he came screaming into my room about how I was undermining him and what I said mattered and I said it was a bad language."
Ken Thompson; cited in Seibel, Peter (2009). Coders At Work. p. 475.

Alexandrescou openly criticises Alasdair Meredith at cpp con in a way that isn't really friendly or respectful. He also finishes all his talks with "Destroy!" as an open acknowledgement of the defensiveness he feels about the naked hostility that exists in the C++ world. I like his stuff and the bulk of his attitude, I hate the context and that it brings rubbish like this out of him.

newsgroups (remember them?), c++faq - in which the most arrogant and hostile entries seem to correlate pretty closely with all the stuff widely acknowledged to be horrible (eg auto pointer, remember that?). Think about it, remember all the c++ places you've been. Which were really, actually, you know, friendly?

Compare the general tenor of it all to the Python community, the Perl community, the Ruby. Hell even compare it to the way the python community and the Perl community interact with each other and it's vastly more pleasant. C++ is just straight up nasty, competitive, "No you're wrong because I'm smarter than you" "I've been anointed" garbage and it needs to be called as such. It really holds everything back. If I had to pick a word to describe it that word would be "macho."

I think it's reasonable to suggest that if one has a point of view, make the argument, back it with your evidence, acknowledge that those who disagree are neither heretics nor idiots is the right thing on a number of levels.
That is pure revisionism.

> It was drafted by 7 hand-picked representatives, 4 of which were basically franchists

Two out of the seven writers of the Constitution were Catalan (~1/3 of the writers for ~1/6 of the population). One of them a communist. The other one, exiled during the dictatorship for supporting Catalan nationalism.

> ratified by franchist institutions before being put to a popular vote

Before being put to a popular vote, it was ratified by the Congress that resulted from the first free elections in Spain in 40 years. The francoist party of Fraga only won 16/350 seats in that Congress; comparable to the 11 seats obtained by the Catalan party of Pujol. Half the seats had been won by centrist voters, and the other half by marxist voters.

This Congress was our "assembly of people elected democratically", that could tell the writers to go back to their drafts until the result was to their liking. Those seven writers, by the way, weren't "hand-picked": they were picked by that Congress, among their members; they were all freely-elected representatives.
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A sound is by definition something heard by someone. An unobserved universe doesn’t make sense, trying to conceptualise one would be like arguing about what colour a ganabreeshlach is.
Well, if you had a "coordination oracle", you could probably convert most of the world's people to working on science and technology to advance the human race, and not spending any time on things like sports or fashion (or art). I mean, just cut 5% of the budget the world spends on fashion and use it to pay for science, and we'd have amazing advances.

The problem with this is that most people don't want to do this or think this is ethical in any way. (I'm more conflicted... you could take 5% of what the world spends on fashion to lift everyone out of poverty, too, as another example).
I don't know what everyone's problem was with Firefox. I never noticed significant slow down with the browser, or at least the slow down I saw I blamed on Javascript bloat on websites these days (it started around the time Bootstrap and jQuery really took off). I was even running Adblock+ / later uBlock, had lots of tabs open all the time and browsed heavy websites.

I remember reading that comic that Google made to describe how Chrome worked back in 2009 or so, and thinking process-based tabs were a cool idea, but the experience I was having with Firefox was not bad enough to merit the switch, especially with all of the privacy invasion that switching to Chrome would have entailed. I also reckoned that Google would eventually start to block or make it harder to install add-ons like ad blockers - they are, after all, fundamentally an advertising company.

I'm glad I stuck it out with Mozilla. They're one of the few web companies worth trusting.
> The iOS 11 leaving the Wi-Fi on but unassociated creates a privacy vulnerability because the chipset will broadcast all of it's known SSIDs.

It will? I don't see why it would do so, given that auto-join is disabled.
Google promises 3 years only if you buy the device on release day. Our Nexus device at the office got ~18 months.

But yep, the mid/low end devices are often basically abandoned soon after release, or get 1-2 midlife updates so that December OTA has April's security patch level etc.
Not sure what you are after, exactly? They have the means and the motive to do this well, and as far as I can tell, they have been successful at it; I don't think they have suffered any significant breach of privacy.
Yubico, Klarna, iZettle...
My reading comprehension is sht, so the keys are just for show?
WTF is 'common UI' even supposed to mean in this context? Apple is not treating their users like idiots, they are doing what the users usually want when they flip wireless settings via the control center. This may differ than what you expect, but I am sure you will eventually get over it. The number of people who used the control center to flip wifi/bluetooth for privacy purposes is so vanishingly small as to be a null set, especially when compared to the number of people who simply use the toggle to disconnect from a mediocre wifi connection so that they can use cellular data instead.
From the article: "In a matter of 10 minutes, the Bitcoin was changed to US Dollars and the deal was done"

So yeah, it was "bought" with Bitcoin.
In a high risk game like this, where the rules are actually not established yet, you always risk going to jail. No amount of lawyers can protect you. The only safety is marching forward quickly so you will be one of the top three players in this game. Number one will make the profit, number two will find a way to live, number three will be bought be either no 1 or no 2. However if you lack behind so far, that you are nuicance but don't have any real market share, you actually just need to get rid off.

So what they are doing is the opposite of what they should be doing. They should invest their money and grab market share, get as many investors on board as possible, fine tune their market strategy and technology so they can beat whoever they consider competition. Short: They should earn their place at the top.

What they do instead is waste the money to buy imaginary safety (the law about Coins is still uncertain, what can a lawyer do) and then even use it as an excuse to not move forward. There's zero chance to win this way.
Here's the recommendations just about everyone follows when you've finished a BSc and MSc respectively:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

So almost the double of what you said.

The unemployment rate for educated computer scientists is around 0.4%.
If you want to /write/ code there are many options. The most significant of the ones I listed is Java. If you don't like C++, pointers and such Java is actually a nice language and people can and do get jobs programming in that language and do good work there. They don't write code in my C++ code base anymore. The overwhelming majority of people writing C++ nowadays actually want to write code in C++ and have alternatives where they can get paid, well, if they didn't. It really wasn't always that way.
Are you serious? I said what I think in the 7th nested comment, I repeated 6 times I want to know what they think before saying what I think. You have to be kidding me.
The problem here is that all the inheritants of the Franco dictatorship and their mentailty are still in the power, thanks to the Spanish transition in which the Dictator passed the power to the King. Then promoted a bi-party politics where the minorities would never be able to change anything.

It is not fair and Catalonia is fighting (again) to change it.
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Do concert tickets count as securities? What about when most of the tickets are bought by resellers using bots? Genuinely asking, seems like a badly worded law.
As someone who operated an online community website twice longer than Zuckeberg, I can confirm he is right.
American engineers who are tired of Trump; Feel free to come work with us in Sweden! ;-) Swedish startups are hiring and there's definitely a shortage of engineers at the moment.
Yup, that is the backside. I'm a Swede and patriotic enough to like my country, but engineering salaries are abysmal. You don't get rich by working. :) Pay ranges are usually also set by age, so there is little room to improve your salary by being extra competent.

Your salary number is off the mark though. Median pre-tax income is roughly double that.
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Is there a modern (latex) version? Reading the math on those pages is an arduous undertaking.
Good ol' Ben "In the Dark, All Cats Are Gray" Franklin.

Apparently, that phrase actually dates back to at least 1550 --
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_cats_are_grey_in_the_dark

Which suddenly has me curious on the history of advice on how to get "bad bitches" -- is there some grand human tradition I've failed to learn the major milestones of?

(Like fart jokes which are ~4k years old or advertisements which are ~6k years old.)
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When Apple had some interest in Ruby and things like RubyMotion started to appear, I thought maybe the Dylan lessons would be of inspiration, but it was in vain.
Yes. The SEC's involvement in the cryptocurrency space has been very reasonable so far. They're really trying hard to understand the new technology developments and regulate them appropriately, and not just be curmudgeons.

Good job SEC.
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Side note, anyone remembers the Star-Trek inspired control room the NSA built?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/15/nsa-mi...

The sliding doors with a "whoosh" sound are probably among the things every geek loves but is afraid to confess...
(Responding out of order)

> No, Apple is no saint in this story.

Nowhere did I say or imply that Apple was a saint. All I said was that LGPL allows linking with closed code and distributing the resulting work without having to make the closed code open, and that Apple could have structured WebKit in such a way as to keep most of their code from having to be made open.

This is the main difference between GPL and LGPL, and a big reason why the FSF now discourages the use of LGPL.

> The reason webkit is known today, and not KHTML, is because Apple ignored their LGPL requirements.

> First, they didn't publish anything for years.

They published their KJS changes in June 2002, shortly before they released products using it. They published their KHTML changes shortly after Safari was announced.

> Then only obfuscated source dumps with all comments removed for many years.

Citation needed. My recollection is that they published their code in the form that they used it internally. The difficulty for the KHTML developers in incorporating Apple's code was (1) WebKit was designed to do what Apple needed, which was not necessarily what KDE needed, and so the two were diverging, and (2) Apple was making a lot of changes that touched a lot of code making it hard to break it down to individual improvements that could be incorporated independently.
Their most sisyphean issue is the transaction locking. Imagine, 20 people trying to buy 19 trinkets, and you try to resolve transactions in a distributed DB, and two guys manage to buy the same thing in the exactly same nanosecond. The task is hard to tackle.

If you time-atomize the transaction, you get increase in minimal latency.

If you simply use a single server with very fast DB, you get reliability concerns.

With token ring locking, you get both.

And so on, so on, and on
Or an ever-permuting mush of probabilities that only becomes "evaluated" when thought experiences it. There's no way to know, but I personally like that interpretation because it meshes well with the idea that our reality is a simulation. No need to waste computation when it's not necessary.
Is this a joke? An ICO which pretends to do security auditing for other ICOs (why do you need your own cryptocurrency for that other than as a quick cash grab)?
> if you want us to be in Spain, please seduce us

Yeah, the tiresome "seduce us (with mo' fresh money)" argument again.

I have a better idea, why you don't try to seduce me instead to call me thief (Spain stole us) and abuser (Spain oppress us and do not let us be free) and hit me all the time with a new surrealist occurrence (don't buy spanish products, here are a list of the evil companies that you must avoid if you want to be a good citizen)?

In the last 60 years, you have been offered a lot of gifs and privileges (that by the way, I don't enjoy), and is never enough. You are never, ever, happy. Always creating drama around, like an old crazy theater lady past her prime, always demanding to be loved, but giving in return dry sarcasm and a single uncaring kiss by christmas (when there are cameras around).

So thanks, but not thanks. I will pass this time. You are not so irresistible as you think and not so beautiful as you were 20 years ago. I deserve something better.

> I haven't heard of any new independent country asking to be part again of the former one.

This does not bother me, but there is always a first time for everything.
When we met and began dating (three years ago), my current girlfriend was 20 and I was 35.

Disclaimer: n=1.
Lots more game companies too, from AAA companies like DICE and Paradox to indie games.
No. Think of profits as a measure of economic inefficiency. If there is enough competition the companies would lower their prices until their profits approach $0. Ideally income always matches expenses.
I'm only a casual observer of the financial realm, and thusly hadn't heard of a reverse-IPO.

A reverse takeover or reverse merger takeover (reverse IPO) is the acquisition of a public company by a private company so that the private company can bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_takeover
Yes, let's apply cultural standards universally, surely this will make the world a better place. At least professional artists know how to avoid offending anyone's tastes.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Boug...
I think this is more a labor of love than an attempt to appeal to the mainstream software community. The authors are also Chinese, where norms are somewhat different than the west.
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Something to think about before we all decide we want to be a "cashless society", especially when the U.S. also currently fears EMP attacks from North Korea, Russia, etc
I think more important than the welfare system (potential entrepreneurs probably don't see welfare as their backup solution anyway) is that the quality of life depends so much less on income than in say the US, so people are not that worried about earning less for a few years.

You still get the same healthcare and education, the same access to sports (even golf!) and nature (very important for us), and since there is zero stigma associated with public transportation it doesn't matter if you can't afford a car.
Here:
w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/work/2009/AIM-239-ocr.pdf
Anything iPhone 5 or lower will not - 10.3.3 fixed one of the issues, but 2 more exist.

I do wish they would at least put out a 10.3.4 to fix the security issues, but I understand not putting the resources into a phone from 2012; I'm happy to at least have gotten 10.3.3 considering my Nexus 5 stopped getting updates last year and it was release in 2013.
Team? Check!
Whitepaper? Check!
Slick webpage? Check!

Im in. Please take my money.
statistics doesn't always apply on a personal level, it's statistics :)
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great bait, wish i could downvote this
Imagine if Windows 95 stored your payment data and was bridge-connected to the internet. This will give you an idea of how I look at these smart contracts.

Is there any reason to think of it another way?
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I've considered launching a start-up of my own here in Sweden so I've given the pros and cons some thought, and it is virtually risk free. To summarise, compared with other countries, we may have even more of the upside but the downside is capped at a very anxiety free level.

These are a few of the reasons:

- highly skilled labour is cheap in absolute terms and the cost to performance ratio for such workers is probably amongst the absolute best in the world. Good for a start-up!

- For the individual worker a job as a highly competent senior developer on average in my 20 years of experience is pretty much just double that of a garbage collector. Salaried men don't get ahead much but start-up workers do to a similar extent as they do in other start-up hubs in the world. Good for the early employees getting shares or stock options.

- Social security systems would still leave me able to stay in my nice home in my nice suburb even without a job. It would not affect the healthcare or education for me and my family at all. I would have to cut down on my intercontinental vacations with my family though. It feels like bet I could make without too much anxiety.

-Sweden has had, and still have to some extent, lots and lots of world leading large tech companies in pretty much every industry like automotive, telecom, different types of processing industries etc. Lots of skills, knowledge and ideas has spun off these large companies or started as suppliers to these. I think this ecosystem is one of the more critical factors which the other Scandinavian countries lack. I cannot come to think of even one Scandinavian unicorn-ish type of company from another Scandinavian country than Sweden. Finnish Rovio is close though, but I cannot come to think of any other non-Swedish company. Sorry but please fill me in here Norwegians, Danes and Finns!

- Stockholm specifically, where all the companies mentioned in the article are from, is a tech hub with lots of skilled and nice people living and working here and lots of good tech companies which makes it start-up friendly for the same reasons it would anywhere else in the world.

- The Swedish society, compared with most other I've experienced, is pretty well oiled and modern (not saying there isn't room for lots of improvement) where infrastructure like transportation, administration of personal and company affairs etc work quite well. More time and energy to focus on stuff that matters like your business and your family.

- The weather sucks for at least 6 months of the year. No I'm serious here. Having pretty much nothing else to do than to work and watch Netflix frees up lots of time and energy for work.

My five cents…
No the treaties that led to the EU were to prevent Germany and France having huge destructive wars every 20-50 years - something it has done very well so far.
isnt it true that women are attracted to power and status and men attracted to beauty?
if you envision a sort of "coordination oracle" which divides up resources ideally

Except not everyone agrees on what is ideal, and therefore such an oracle is impossible even as a limit to be approached.
Could you please explain how to you 'some racist group' is equivalent to the Catalonian regional government, the democratically elected government of 7.5 million people?
Similar work on art style transfer usually has yielded somewhat surreal shifting results when they applied it to videos even after adding some logic that stabilized things from frame to frame.

Plus this is far from perfect, it works best if you provide a lot of hinting and even then it produces results that may look pleasing enough but are not really close to what one has intended for a particular character design.

I would guess that it can be made good enough for some novelty videos but it's still far from professional production quality.
It doesn't help working out is perceived as something manly, and many women appear to think it's beneath them. Women under 30 are used to the fact they can have attention with zero working out. They use make-up instead, but it can carry you only so far if you get flabby and overweight.

The phrase "Like lipstick o na pig" might be rude, but it didn't come from nowhere.
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Yeah I don't see FreeBSD entering the HPC market ever, except maybe for I/O nodes. Nothing explicitly wrong with that, you have to choose battles.
Is the darknet not something like this? Onion routing type stuff.