skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KnightOS, an open-source operating system for TI calculators
Interesting tutorials, and less memes than reddit. It's definitely not perfect, I could for a discussion site with slightly different topics, but the same simple UI (and I mean the chronological version at hckrnews.com, not actually this UI - whoever wrote that is a saint, because I don't care about how the upvotes are trying to train me or whatever, of course chronology could be haxed I guess). Also having a variety of different subreddits (e.g.) is kind of annoying to me, and I would prefer to actually have different, slightly overlapping, sites for each set of interests if that was doable, just based on personal browsing UX, which is usually type hckrnews.com into phone browser when I have a few spare minutes randomly on the go.
I don't agree. The goal of software isn't usually to discover some perfect abstraction with nothing left to add and nothing to take away, the goal is usually to solve some practical real-world problem. If your software satisfies the requirements without taking too much time or effort to create, then it's a success.

If a project is going to be used by a lot of people or become some kind of industry standard, then it makes sense to spend some time up-front and figure out a clean interface and a well-defined feature set so you don't have to make non-backwards-compatible changes. It also makes sense to look at the feature set and figure out if you have the time and ability to complete those features, whether they're important enough to justify the effort, and whether there's an easier option that satisfies the requirement without having to boil the ocean. All this should be driven by the project goals, though, not some abstract ideal that all programs should be complete.

Some of the most useful software is going to be forever incomplete. Web browsers, CAD packages, operating systems, etc... I'm glad there are people working on software like that.
I appreciated the humanity of it. In particularly, Robinson reflecting on his past decisions:

> "I don’t know where she [Robinson's wife] got that disease, but my guess is that if we’d stayed in La Jolla, she’d still be alive. It would have been a different life. So I look at all this, and I know I’m lucky — I’ve got six wonderful young people working here, and they’re all brighter than me so I’m having fun. But she’s dead and the [urine] profiling was delayed for many, many years. So if I could do it over again …" He paused.
Spitballin' here but, if Twitter allowed for "registering" a bot, then these sorts of fun and light-hearted bots could easily stick around.

If someone has a legit reason to fear registering a bot they run, then it's probably for "not-good" reasons. And in my estimation "not-good" could be as innocuous as those follower-fishing bots.
I did a 1 day trial... My stats
TOTAL HASHES
2.33 Milion/Hashes
TOTAL PAID
0.00000 xmr
PENDING PAYMENTS
0.00000 xmr
????? ALL IS 0, I stopped using it
This is quite false on many levels.

The problem is actually created by the government in the first place. If you fix the length of the patents or eliminate the patents in the first place the cost of drugs will drop close to the cost to produce them.

Monopolies are well studied in economics and the effects of monopoly pricing due to government granted patents are what we see here, this is a government created problem not a free market one.
So far, it looks like they are supported by VC funds. I can't find any info on how they intend to become profitable but a few comments, drawn from memory, suggest they are expecting to fund with ads and a couple of people have suggested they will have a subscription service.

However, I can't find anything official about either and Wikipedia isn't very helpful. They do have some information about their existing funding:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassdoor

A part of me thinks this type of thing would make a good not-for-profit enterprise. I'd even consider some sort of government backing. I'd say a service like that has good social potentials and can help society to make nformed choices.
> And if I didn't have the money to buy that stock?

But you do.

> the Walton kids most assuredly got something for nothing.

85% of American millionaires are self-made. See "The Millionaire Next Door" by Stanley.
I think we all can imagine it means you get the app running in the first place, it's in a stable state, ready for modifications and improvements; done in this circumstance should mean, the-first finalized version after the rough drafts-done.
Psilocybin caused large significant positive changes to life purpose and altruism
I think the point was that he probably already had a significant cryptocurrency investment portfolio. He isn't really spending money at this point, simply diversifying his portfolio.
Lol oh ok
Didn't the same problem show up at Reddit where they were capping the visible user numbers of certain subreddits? They were showing massively higher numbers on their advertisers page than the subreddit front page.

So either they're inflating numbers and lying to advertisers... or they're capping numbers and lying to make the "deplorable" subs look less popular.
I had "(typically)" in there originally. Should've left it, but it's complete so I won't change it now.
No, I didn't marry him.
> Altruism: Comparing LD-SS to HD-SS, the effect size was 1.36, which statisticians consider “very large.” Comparing LD-SS to HD-HS, the effect size was 1.95, considered “very large,” almost “huge.”

This is interesting to me. I wonder what a world would look like if everyone had therapeutic access to a substance that had a 'very large' effect size on increasing altruism.

Full text: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/026988111773127...

> Compared with low-dose, high-dose psilocybin produced greater acute and persisting effects. At 6 months, compared with LD-SS, both high-dose groups showed large significant positive changes on longitudinal measures of interpersonal closeness, gratitude, life meaning/purpose, forgiveness, death transcendence, daily spiritual experiences, religious faith and coping, and community observer ratings. Determinants of enduring effects were psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience and rates of meditation/spiritual practices. Psilocybin can occasion enduring trait-level increases in prosocial attitudes/behaviors and in healthy psychological functioning.
In years past, I had written two reviews for employers on Glassdoor.

One was positive, and it remains.

The negative review was removed.

I don't bother writing any reviews or using Glassdoor anymore.
A Statistical Look at Liar’s Dice – The Gambler vs. The Mathematician
Fsv – 3D File System Visualizer
Uncomfortable by Design
PLEASE write a decently detailed blog post about this! I and several other people would be eternally grateful.

I find that this is one of the most frustrating things about the Brave New World of immutable/container/VM/cloud/etc. It's actually REALLY hard to separate the hype from actual working things because all you seem to find is the hype and... 50 page "tutorials" on how to set Kubernetes[1] up.

[1] Random example, but the mere fact that they use a "simplified" admin program (minikube) for the tutorial tells me volumes about how fun it's going to be and how little administration it's going to require in production. /s
> are averaging 30-50 sqmt

That's still 1.6-5.3 times more than they used to be, according to the original claim. Seems less dramatic than 5-10x but for an apartment that already feels tiny, it's a lot.
> which range from hyperconservative to moderately conservative

Are we talking about the same New York Times, or are you otherwise having a "really good Times"?

> defending the status quo

Okay, you may be talking about small-c conservatism. As in "they're not in favour of throwing everything away and starting over as a civilisation". I don't know what "range of popularly supported views" you're referring to, but I doubt those views are as popular and supported among the Time's readership as you may think.

> like supporting the Iraq war, for example

Oh, look! It's their 16-year old mistake, where they trusted a journalist who mistakenly trusted her government sources who had mistakenly trusted German intelligence who had mistakenly convinced themselves to believe something they wanted to be true to impress their US counterparts. Who was, by the way, summarily fired afterwards.
It's just a few cases in 10 years. I don't think there's much of a pattern there. It's certainly not a perfect company, and conflict management is one of the hardest parts of being a manager. But overall the situation you describe was not the issue in these cases.
I am astonished that a couple of the biggest insurance companies in the US haven't banded together to form a drug manufacturing co-op. Find stuff that's off-patent and build generics for things like epi-pens. The best bit (to my thinking) is after doing this to just a few drugs, the insurance companies would have a very big negotiating stick to go after other companies pricing off-patent drugs way over cost.

If I knew a thing about pharma manufacturing I'd be spending my time trying to do this.
That is how we programmed in the 80's on home computers and it is the norm still in 2017 on many micro-controlers.

The language runtime is the OS.
Why 1M and not 1B? Why 1 minute and not 10 seconds?

Both sets of values seem unobtainable to the average "random Joe".

Perhaps you can divulge why you require such arbitrary values?
Diwali Fireworks Are Limited in India Over Toxic Smog Concerns
Questions to ask in interviews
There is nothing wrong with personal responsibility, the issue starts and ends with the patent system.

Patents are government granted monopolies, reducing the length or eliminating the exclusivity of patents would solve the high price to consumer problem completely.
I think wealth can sometimes give a false sense of superiority and invincibility
I don't think MAU numbers are being used to justify valuations. They may inform analysts' understanding of growth trends, in general. But, most analysts are looking at revenue, revenue/user, and margins.
This is a really annoying trend in blogging / internet writing recently. It's very common now for even technical articles (like this one) to have multiple irrelevant movie/TV gifs embedded, almost like the author is replying with reaction gifs to their own writing.

Not only is it a bunch of irrelevant content that makes reading the actual text more annoying because you've got at least one short video looping on your screen the whole time, it also increases the data usage massively. This article transfers over 70MB, with over 50MB of that being from the gifs.
How Waymo is designing the self-driving car passenger experience
> More than 50,000 enterprises and startups use Cloudboost...

This is an example of why tech companies in emerging markets have to battle against prejudice. People have seen just too much of this kind of dishonesty and assume the worst. Thank you CloudBoost for making the world a worse place.
Yep, for example MS-DOS programming using only BIOS calls.
I think the current champion for disgusting-but-necessarily-put-out-of-mind required California signage is the "pool diarrhea rules". See for example:

https://boingboing.net/2016/09/07/the-messy-fight-to-stop-ca...
Mastodon is federated, not decentralized. There's nothing decentralized about it unless you're an instance admin, or both savvy and popular enough to run one alone.
Also no one: "let's fix it so it won't crash constantly"
Excellent news! Purism gets it. Time to start taking back our privacy.
Almost as bad as the responses one can expect from job applications.
Are there any brands available on Amazon which meet this criteria?
I like colorized historical photos. It brings them to life in a remarkable way. I'd like to see the old B+W movies colorized (the Ted Turner ones don't count, as they were done very poorly).

Sure, the colors will never be exact, because we don't know what the original colors were. But that doesn't matter in any material way.
This is a brilliant gimmick for promotion, catch the intersection of gamers interested in game design.
if you use twitter, you're an idiot. nothing else to it.
The majority of people... in your tiny social bubble.
Full specs for fancy looking Oukitel MIX 2 released
You can pay Glassdoor to become an "Engaged Employer": http://resources.glassdoor.com/contact.html?channel=homepage...

So yes, Glassdoor's intensive structure is aligned to make employers happy. They don't take any income from individual review contributors or readers.
Yeah, all of my experiences with Amazon's customer service have been great. I usually have to Google the CSR chat link to find it, but I'd probably do that anyway.
This 98% accurate, 1/28969000 scale replica of the Moon is more than a model
New York Yankees vs. Houston Astros Live Stream
Sure, lenses are a solution. My point isn't that an alternative solution to this is impossible (or even difficult) in a statically typed language, but that static typing makes some solutions infeasible. There are some very trivial functions that Clojure has that are nevertheless impractical to write a robust type signature for.
while impressive, this is a userspace program, quite different from an OS, even acounting for their virtual cpu.

nevertheless nice experiment
Well, looks like they are now at only more than 5,000 instead of 50k, but kept the corporate logos.
It's a nice source of news that, for the most part, are not filled with as much bias as other media sources.
To protect the value of the house and stuff as evaluated at the time where you make the insurance deal (and calculate the premium), not at the time when the fire happens - generally, there wouldn't be any significant difference, so it's not a problem and doesn't make the fire insurance any less valuable.

In a small fire it makes sense to look at what exactly was damaged and evaluate the loss, but if a house and all the belongings need to be replaced, then you can calculate that value beforehand, and put that as a reasonable limit to be used for the insurance; I believe you'd agree that if you add a million dollar painting to a half-million dollar house then that would need an adjustment to the insurance policy if you want it to be covered.
We're not real time, but we do have some time constraints.

Yes, all this was kicked around and argued about.
Describe and execute Kafka stream topologies with Lenses SQL
You shouldn't imply such things without being willing to share the source.

Also, changes in personality do not automatically mean changes in intellect.
>They’re just simply functions rather than overly complicated objects.

And thus the pattern becomes almost invisible. Instead of having to fully apply it the java (or C++) way, that is, for example creating a separate class for each Strategy, etc.
... here's a current example. Just saw this promoted tweet from Prudential on my timeline. It's already generating engagements (10 RTs, 38 Likes):

https://twitter.com/Prudential/status/918475795479351296

Click on the Likes below the tweet (will show you list of accounts engaged), and tell me this is real human engagement.

You will see accounts like this:

https://twitter.com/Electriflyy

Twitter won't consider this a bot, yet this "person" already liked 192,000 tweets:

https://twitter.com/Electriflyy

Here's another account who engaged with this promoted tweet, for which Prudential is getting billed:

https://twitter.com/JonTheGr8

Again, look at the number of tweets this "person" liked (72,000).

Other "engagements" come from:

https://twitter.com/RobertT70111579
https://twitter.com/TeghanJustin
https://twitter.com/brandon_gorsuch
...
Notice the pattern?

Prudential is getting ripped off right in front of us.

This is happening now across all brands, at massive scale.
I find this funny coming from the originator of ZeroMQ. When I firt tried out ZMQ it took me all of 12 seconds to figure out that if you didn't pass exactly the message that it was expecting, it crashed the server.

That problem along with I'm sure hundreds of others were fixed along the way.

You don't achieve perfection in software development. Ever. Even when developing something for yourself where you define the scope and you leverage it for a menial task. There's always better. There's always more robust. There's always something else you can do.

That's the draw to software development for many of us. There is a constant challenge awaiting our brain. You can consistently push yourself in a new direction that you care about.

The downside is that feeling of a completed accomplishment really is just an arbitrary release ceremony. What software developers need to get good at is letting go and moving on.
> I'm also a little confused as to why colorizations always aim to restore color to the equivalent of a faded color negative, with muted tonality and grain.

Many movies set in the past, or that have flashbacks to the past, will often mute the colors. Most modern movies muck around with the colors in post production, too. The worst is when they go for the blue/orange palette.
Gosh, I love Purism. Todd Weaver is such a wholesome guy and really concerned about people's privacy.
Magic mushrooms are perhaps the most trustworthy black-market good you can acquire. Unlike generic white powders or pills, mushrooms are difficult to counterfeit/substitute/adulterate, and cultivation is extremely easy. The enterprising individual can acquire some spores and grow their own.
I asked because many people that used them called out the machines as being very productive...above and beyond lisp. Another comment here suggests it might have been CLIM.
Getting SDL2 to be recognized under MacOS is no joy
I agree that trusting the government is out of the question, perhaps we could try an open source solution. Publish drug data, studies, manufacturing knowledge, and all of the usual pages of warnings, indications, contraindications, pharmacokinetics, etc. GitDrugs.org? I think India might have the right strategy with prioritizing human need over economic factors, at least in the short term. I think the problem with funding is a multidisciplinary one, unrelated to how much they can charge for the product. If we can figure out how to match problems->researchers->funding efficiently and effectively, finding drugs and researching existing ones won't be a problem.
600k+ files at 12gigs of Repo (without history). I've been trying to work on what option we haven't to get off our old SCM. Right now Git is potentially too slow, and that's just the local system problem. Git LFS works decently well large files.

I've explored lots of different options, and hope to look at mercurial at some point, but am not hopeful.
Thanks! You made my day!!

And the "burgled-batteries" name was a good laugh! (If Python is "batteries included", let's steal those batteries!)
I agree that it's important to educate people both to question what they see and also how to question it. I disagree that this is the answer. We've been teaching that for years.

It's impossible to take everything critically, and honestly few will. So the entity with the largest bot army still has the longest propaganda lever.

Twitter and the other social networks know who is a bot, or else they haven't bothered looking. Something needs to force them to act.

I do see one mechanism: the bots go too far, and users don't want to be on a platform where they just interact with bots, so they go to more curated places to get their fill. So the business health of the platform depends on having trust. FB has a leg up on this since your friend list probably has people you've actually met. There the problem is your gullible friend forwarding you crap. A deputized bot, if you will. No level of education helps there.
Can you gauge sincerity in a live 1:1 conversation?

If someone pinged you with a transparent motive-- We share a mutual connection in 'Mike D', I'm interested in learning more about your experience in (company/ex-employer) because they a have a job opening I want to explore. Would you be open to a brief 10 minute call/Skype?

Wouldn't you tell that person the straight deal?
make
cc -o obj/Darwin/x86_64/main obj/Darwin/x86_64/main.o -Wl,-framework,SDL2 -Wl,-framework,SDL2_ttf
ld: framework not found SDL2
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [obj/Darwin/x86_64/main] Error 1

---

Yes, I have both frameworks installed. I even did the brew commands just for S&G ... same result after make command.
All big problems are composed of smaller problems
Dash is just another scam.

Within 8 hours over 1.5 million coins were mined with a very low difficulty due to a "bug".

The governance system requires you to bind up a sizeable amount of coins in master nodes which allows you to vote (and they also continue to earn more coins!). It's easy to centrally control the governance using the instamine. A lot of coins is spent on marketing luring in new users with promising buzzwords (privacy, instant transactions, scaling, governance...). This causes an inflated market cap as a lot of coins are locked into master nodes and are not used to trade or transacted with. It is only interesting if you find ponzi schemes interesting.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999886.0

If you think that's bad then consider that the creator holds a master key which can force all nodes to reprocess all blocks in the last 24 hours. Yes you read that right.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7293tw/just...

https://github.com/dashpay/dash/blob/master/src/spork.cpp#L7...
I lurk on here and don't really contribute (mostly due to time constraints). I keep coming back because of the quality of comments and discussions and the positive way people treat each other.
Detailed list of all 1856 Coursera courses in JSON with scraper
And the "kamrindanielle" that is posting here seems to be affiliated with CloudBoost whilst using "they" instead of "we". So they sure keep an eye on the threads here.