skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bloody hell, I swear we're living in the pulpiest political-thriller novel I've ever fucking heard of.
80% of startups fail and 20% succeed in some fashion. Which means if you normally make $50,000 and take a $5,000 paycut to work there you will lose $20,000 over the 4 year vesting period in salary.

80% of the time when the startup goes bust you make 0 on equity and still lost money due to the paycut. For a total of 8x20 or $160,000 loss.

The two times you are successful you make 2xEquity.

This means your equity has to be at least worth $80,000 each time you succeed.... just to break even with salary.

Factoring in the risk of your equity being 0 you should be getting a LOT more equity.

It's very similar to calculating expected value in poker.
With the debugging benefits of a brick.
PyPy: How to make your code 80 times faster
Isn't this like 8 years old?
Chiming in to agree about Ars. I was really disappointed to see how there was no fact checking when the Voynich Manuscript "decoding" came out (granted they did publish an article retracting it, but even a cursory amount of fact checking could have told you that theory held no water), I simply don't trust any articles they publish outside of their core tech competency (and seeing articles like this hurt even my trust on that). I would like to see an alternative, but the only thing I really read for tech news past them is here.
Didn't know about the memory controller. The segfault issues didn't go far, and from the few I read it seemed to be a small problem (AMD as RMA'd a thousand and it didn't go further).
It struggles with their own logo, which it reads as "4w"
For CSP also check this great Firefox add-on by Mozilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/laboratory-by... . It generates and allow you to test the CSP header.
Libertarianism is a big tent. There are right-libertarians (like the ones you describe), left-libertarians, anarchist-leaning libertarians, Randian Objectivists, etc. These camps differ in numerous ways but there's a general undercurrent and large areas of agreement.
> If you stretch the semantics so that Harry Potter is a metaphysical entity, rather than a physical entity in a fantasy world, and so that also "reptile overlords" are metaphysical entities, rather than possible physical entities as they are commonly understood to be, then I would have no objection.

Could you please define what you mean by "metaphysical entity"?

> You cannot however change the fact that given a metaphysical proposition (there is God) and its negation (there is no God), the belief that either one is true requires an act of faith.

Erm ... that's ... just wrong?

First of all, the claim that holding either of those positions as true requires faith is itself a claim and as such itself requires evidence. While I haven't ever seen anyone holding a belief in a god for any reason other than faith, that does not logically necessitate that faith is required to accept the proposition. Evidence for the existence of the god would very much be an alternative, and I haven't so far seen any argument why evidence would be categorically impossible (unless you happen to be using some definition of "god" for which that happens to be the case). Just because we don't have any evidence as of yet does not mean that therefore evidence is impossible.

But more importantly, you seem to be implying that anyone is making the claim that "there is no god". That's essentially just a strawman. I, as most people who would label themselves atheists, don't accept the proprosition that a god exists. I also do not accept the proposition that no god exists. Not accepting a proposition does not require faith, nor any justification, other than the fact that I am not convinced of the correctness of the claim.

> And feeling all smug and superior for your act of faith (wheter in the direction of atheism or theism) is quite adolescential.

Luckily, no faith on my part.
I'm going to take a different angle:

Don't build a GUI if you don't have the skills to build a GUI. You won't be able to compete on features in the long run, and you certainly won't be able to compete on design in the short run. And certainly not without devoting 100% of your time towards it.

Instead realize that there are three primary types of interfaces that are in wide use today: GUI, API, and CLI.

If you're a backend dev the last two are much easier for you to build. So instead of building a GUI, build and API. Hire a designer to design you a basic 1 page marketing site. Keep it simple. Put up API docs on http://readme.io/ or something like that. Then iterate on features. Once you solve someones problem well enough find a second person. Iterate until finding leads is your primary problem, not closing them. At that point switch to marketing fulltime.
Awesome project, and absolutely well motivated. I would love a shell that improves on bash with sane syntax.

I'd suggest swapping stage 3 and stage 2 -- environment vars and signal and job control are more important (IMO) than everything in stage 2, and may affect the syntax more as well.
Bitcoin comparison with Gold has become gospel. And with it a typical upper bound on the price estimate of a single coin in the ~$100K range. The assumption is that the total Gold market is about $10T globally and Bitcoin will displace some percentage of that. With the current Bitcoin market valuation based on exchange rate approaching $1T and 25% or so mining complete.

But a much better estimation might arise from looking at global consumer demand for Digital Payments. By the year 2020 its conceivable that we are at 1T digital transactions. At an average value of $10 each, we are again speaking of roughly the size of the total market for Gold.

The million dollar question is: What percentage of all digital transactions globally will be made in BTC?

Approaching the problem from the FinServ lens, rather than FinTech, can radically alter your view ;)
And then she advocates pay caps.

Yep. What a surprise. An article in the Guardian attacking tech companies and arguing they need to be regulated to stop them harming society by, er, paying great wages to skilled individuals.

She also throws in "getting them to pay their taxes" as if these companies don't pay taxes.

What a poor piece of journalism. The entire story can be summed up as "industry pays better wages than academia for skills in demand". Is that really news or is it agenda pushing?
It depends on how fast the other miners disappeared so that the difficulty can adjust in a timely manner.

If the hash rate drops to fast and you are the last miner left, you will have trouble finding a block and so you actually can't mine new blocks.

Of course, as the last miner in the world you won't have trouble conducting a hard fork the resets the difficulty.
The voynich issue was a black spot. But somehow they tried to evolve bigger and got far from what they were. It was a very simple website before but the articles and people around were high grade. Now it's big thing with less quality all around.

Market dynamics I suppose.
Sounds you like have a very OO background. I'd strongly encourage you to learn more about functional programming (FP). I personally believe it's a very good fit for the types of programming you commonly encounter in data science, and it leads to elegant and readable code.

I've written a bit of an intro at http://r4ds.had.co.nz/iteration.html#for-loops-vs.functional...
If you need that, check out https://DoerHub.com
Not to mention the decision between more slower cores or less faster cores is a tough calculus for the market. For most use cases you want faster cores, even if you get less of them. Is this why we're seeing lackluster sales projections? Not sure, but its a concern. No gamer I know is lusting after the Ryzen. They want the faster per core i7. No Vmware admins I know want to migrate architectures unless they absolutely have to and Zen isn't that compelling right now. It might be with a price drop or faster per core performance.

Ryzen is a good chip, but it may not be terribly competitive outside of edge cases, specialist builds, or as typical with AMD, budget builds with binned chips with failed cores sold as 3 or 4 core versions.
Who/what I trust if I make a transaction in these solutions? Obviously it is not bitcon blockchain that I can be trusting?
Is there a way I can automatically import libraries?

Also, what's the current status on autocompletion features?

By the way, very nice work!
I don't have desktops, I'm waiting to see their laptop CPUs.
> eventually all their money isn't going to keep the pitchforks at bay.

I wonder if it will. This is where drone and automation tech can get scary.

Particularly combining drones with less than lethal tech could be super dangerous for our society. And I say less than lethal as it is a huge step to straight out attack and main people. But imagine something like the LA riots again. I suspect many people wouldn't be OK if some drones with paintball and tasers were sent to 'calm the fray' and zap a few nasty looters type thing. As long as it was controlling some 'evil few'. Then the evil few starts to expand...much like surveillance today. So if we ever see this style of scenario in our lifetime I feel people should use all political clout to stop it in its tracks. It could take society in a really bad direction and I dont doubt some people will look to take this route.
I imagine it's because Elon Musk leans liberal (or at least non-Republican), and in particular is a highly visible crusader for action to combat climate change. The American right wing has decided that denying climate change is a core value, and trying to get people to take action against it is a mortal sin. SpaceX is not directly involved in that, but Tesla is, and I doubt places like Breitbart are interested in carefully drawing lines between the man's different companies.
https://phraseapp.com/
This week:

Sony profits rise 346% thanks to strong performance from PlayStation gaming unit

Next week:

New Xbox and new Playstation will be released.

I don't get how they can claim that consoles will slow down.
There was only one industrial revolution
Putting aside the misuse of the term, "emotional labor" as a problem strikes me as possibly the least significant of all problems faced by any people group in all of history. I wonder why we spend so much time and energy tackling these kinds of issues when there are so many more pressing problems (for example, the workplace fatality gap). If "emotional labor" is the next frontier for feminism, then feminism is a distraction and thus counterproductive.
> Watch the USD. Once it plunges, it's over.

Historically ( past few decades ), during recessions and international crisis, foreign money would flow into the US, japan, switzerland, etc. But primarily to the US because we are the safe haven for the world and that inflow helped prop up the dollar.

If a major recession or international crisis occurred and foreign money didn't flow into the US, then it would signify a paradigm shift in the international political/economic order.

I don't think ( at least I hope ) we are anywhere near a paradigm shift in the world order given our preeminent military and economic position and our alliances around the world.

But I guess even the brits during reign of the british empire thought that their party would last forever.
All I saw was a large picture below the article and didn't scroll all the way down. I've updated my comment after this was raised to my attention.
I really like this idea and I really like Clojure. Though I'm curious about performance. And do you know if anyone is doing something similar with Racket? (Looks like there is a Common Lisp shell http://www.cliki.net/CLISP-Shell)
Rich people aren't pushing for it. There assets appreciate without any effort. This is the tricky part. There is a point where you are so rich that your assets itself just make money for you.
Would this mean having something in Java like the M:N thread model we see in Go, Erlang, and such?
I was referring to higher education and that graph refers to education overall (not clear if it includes research!) - but it actually makes my point, as you can see the change from Labour government up to 2010 to Conservative at which point the funding falls and then remains flat. It's not clear whether that graph is inflation-adjusted; if it isn't then that makes it worse, as a flat level would represent a cut in real terms.

Teacher dissatisfaction is extremely high, and a lot of money and effort has been wasted on the "academy" scheme. It was inherently vulnerable to being scammed by the private sector and a lot of the "flagship" heads are now either sacked or jailed as a result: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/charting-...

In re Brexit, the three big concerns are ability of foreign (especially non-EU) students to study without being deported or discouraged by the Home Office (they pay full price and effectively subsidise HE); Funding from European research bodies; and the free movement of academics and researchers, including to attend conferences.
Yeah, Oil shell is great. I got a lot of inspiration and learn how things work by reading those posts. I try to tackle it by a different approch by leveraging Clojure syntax for the programming bits but keeping things compatible for the command execution uses.
Previous discussion about this article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967371
Tailwind CSS, a utility based CSS framework, launches its first public release
Does not matter how bad it looks. What matters is you launch and get feedback / make money ASAP ( validate) Strong / successful designs allow a user to complete a task as FAST as possible. Also your app is not your business. You need to build a business THEN an app comes after. Your first goal is to validate your s business idea ( simple lading page with form / email capture) with some info about the benefits of your idea. ( freezes time, makes something more simple, less complicated ) get feedback on it, not ego stroke. You can do it. Just start with looking up strong examples THEN use pencil / paper to wireframe a BASIC UI or just copy a great app ( SO MANY OUT THERE) Perfection is an illusion. Build. Launch. Test. Feedback. Converge. Get useful feedback on why your app / business idea is NOT gonna work and for heavens sake don't take it personal ( when in feedback someone says "that shit is SO stupid) prove'em wrong with data ( i got 1k sign ups) Good Lucky!
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356760
Your comment is full of misunderstanding and sprinkled with hate. How can you say 'utterly corrupt institution'? Yes there are corrupt individuals, and perhaps, even corrupt sects. However, EVERY organization the massive size of the RCC has this and it is caused by the human fault, NOT the church itself (read about Peter). You most definitely will not see it's end in your lifetime as the RCC has lasted 2000 years and will last much longer. 'Halt progress and stay firmly stuck in the past'.. How can you say this? Do you have ANY experience or facts? As a Catholic, I can tell you the church is CONSTANTLY looking to appeal to modern society. However, it does this in an articulated fashion. Just because society has taken a stance on given topics doesn't mean those stances are good for mankind. This is why the church leadership reviews stances in full detail. To move past the hype and determine true effect on the person affected. That is the goal of the church. To help each person achieve TRUE happiness and peace. Yes, most of the RCC members are imperfect. Myself included. However, all of us in the RCC are striving to be better people and to help others do the same.
That report is so negatively biased it's suspicious.

There are ten-year high levels of shorts on AMD, so there's speculation about how much of the bursts of negative press you see is basically market manipulation to unload a position. It's one of the more volatile stocks today, which would seem to make it a possible candidate for that sort of thing.
Not found anything worthwhile really. Slashdot is still decent. Of course HN. User-run sites tend to be better. But I stopped reading Ars and The Register a while ago due to slippages in journalistic quality and various other hit pieces.
Eh. There is this thing called a market. Sometimes producers have the whip-hand, sometimes it is the consumers. We have markets in labor, and anyone who (for instance) weathered the 2000 dot.com bust knows, employers in tech don't hesitate to use it when the wheel turns.

I refused a homework project for one firm[1]. It was a highly specific problem that only made sense for one specific version of an app server, and was really a lot of work with some tricky edge cases. Call me entitled, but after I made sure I understood what he was asking, told the interviewer where he could put his homework.

I think it is important to keep a sense of the power dynamic. It is really easy to start moralizing to the powerless (here, employees) when they do find themselves with bit of leverage for a change. Not only is it a bad look - punching down is for insecure assholes - systems break down without feedback and (sometimes) pushback.

[1] Well known, I'm not naming names because it probably was a fluke.
You can reach out to your network to see if anyone needs help.
People use bitcoin to buy the other coins that are used for illegal trade.
EDIT3: Almost forgot, also you should read this comment where Moxie addressed LibreSignal: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I hugely dislike being compared to any religious figure. I don't have "followers", and the vast majority of people who use my work understand that it's just one way to do things.

The tidyverse is far from perfect, and I hope it obvious that I acknowledge my mistakes, particularly through evolving APIs (e.g. reshape -> reshape2 -> tidyr + dplyr).
It's not just plugins slow Vim down, a few things that come with Vim are slow too.

The worst is probably language specific support for LaTeX files, particularly syntax highlighting, there is even a tex-slow (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#tex-slow) entry in the Vim manual. On my old netbook (haven't heard that word in years!) it was so bad Vim lagged behind my typing, and I'm not particularly fast. I turned off syntax highlighting which fixed the lag, but missed it so much I switched to Emacs instead (and discovered AucTeX which is fantastic, so I wouldn't switch back now).
Well if you want a pet/companion, but your apartment doesn't allow pets and you work a punishing Tokyo salaryman schedule so you couldn't take care of one even if it did.
If your ideas REALLY solve an expensive problem, then the UI, what the heck, not even stability, matters.

There are 2 types of ideas where this is true:

* I can make a lot of money using your software that it would be near impossible to make otherwise.

* I can save a lot of money using your software that it would be near impossible to save otherwise.

Any other idea is just a bias guess that needs to be market tested, were UI/UX may or may not be of any importance.

If you are really sold on the Importance Of UI (tm). Read this book: Design for Hackers (https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Be...). It will not make you a designer, but it will make your UIs not fugly.

And finally, please consider on coding the software thinking it has no UI, or that the current UI is only one of many ways to use your software. It will help you to structure it so you can fix the UI later when it is actually profitable.
By definition the "wealthy" have always controlled the "vast share of assets and capital" in the world.

How could it be anything but?

The reality is that the "poor" in developed countries live better then 99.9999% of all humans have ever lived on this planet.

You disagree? Well consider this then...just very-short-90-years-ago, the 16 year-old son of the most powerful man on Earth died from a blister on his foot he got while playing tennis on the White House lawn.

We should all stop looking at the glass being half-empty.
Robinhood launches web, passes 3M users
> npm install -g lumo-cljs closh

why? seriously, is this the point that modern tooling has gotten to where for no apparent reason it has a node dependency?
I think bunder's point is that VSCode is the "something that also works on linux and is consistent across all three platforms".
I would partner or pay someone else to take care of the UX/UI. In most cases you can clearly divide tasks and the UI/UX guy implements the user interface using dummy web services and following a storyboard while you develop the other components. At the end there is an integration phase for these two parts.
browserify is the node standard API in the browser.
Learn, look at other projects for ideas, steal, or get someone to help you with it.

All of my projects don't have amazing UX.
Microsoft director installs Chrome during a presentation because Edge failed
Everything these days is polarized on a one-dimensional axis. Musk does electric cars and solar, so he's an environmentalist, thus a leftie, and thus their enemy. He also left some Trump advisory council a while back.
Sometimes. Those are very subjective factors that could involve a lot of personal decisions and responsibility. Even if they should be measured for quality of life, cultural factors are probably more relevant than how many dollars are in someone else's bank account.
It's propaganda, purposeful ignorance cloaked in feigned fright, designed to invent a bogeyman that doesn't exist (presumably to replace Soros), and to diminish/slander McCain's coming activities against Trump.

1615 doesn't restrict the military from investing in new launch systems. What it says is that we already have launch infrastructure, so if you're going to spend money on more, it either needs to be compatible/in-line with the existing infrastructure, or you need to have a good reason (which are quite extensive). That's all it says.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2810...
And they get more bang for their buck saving taxpayer dollars. The alternative is dependency on Chinese or Russian technology which also seems to be against their isolationiat views. It makes no sense to me. It just seems like they don’t like anyone who is liberal.
I have a hard time understanding your criticism. How is what you described easy? Care to explain?
Meh... https://imgur.com/a/BSrL2 ;-)
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132763&CFID=824760366&CF.... I'm not sure I've seen the ACM block traffic like that before.
Given five years of data on bitcoin prices I think it is a false flag to think any macroeconomic force correlates to bitcoin. Bitcoin is centralized enough, and independent enough, that the real motivator of bitcoin price is the whims of a handful of people who control most of the economy, whatever those whims may be.

Often those whims can correlate to shockwaves in the economy or the policies of the US and China trying to stomp out miners or trading but fundamentally they aren't reflective of broad market ideas the way most major stocks are. Bitcoin is much more centralized than traded stocks because its economy is so small and the barrier to entry so high.

People keep trying to find the trends in bitcoin, but the active pursuit of trends is what motivates the dominant whales to avoid being predictable.
I had a load of problems when I first installed it and tried to migrate. A main issue was that it took a while for the "migrate" function to appear in the Chrome app.
Boot speed is a big selling point for Docker, but Docker's isolation story is poorer than a VM. If you can make a VM boot as quickly as Docker while preserving isolation, then Docker loses a big selling point.
Node is the runtime for ClojureScript. The whole shell runs in Node.
> We achieve lightweight VMs by using unikernels

One problems with unikernels is a lack of debugging/tracing tools (like Dtrace/eBPF): https://www.joyent.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-product...