skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom to me is having the means and ability to follow my heart. I was lucky enough to come from a family that enabled that freedom, and later sold a business that enabled more of it.

Maybe everyone should have those opportunities. Maybe that’s the future. Maybe it’s the bright side of the consolidation of wealth that’s only accelerating.
Have a better relationship with my dad by being more kind and accepting.

Proper exercise 2-3 times a week.

Less time reading random stuff online and social media, more time writing and learning.

Switch jobs to learn more and progress in my career, don't get comfortable and stuck in one place.
Here's a grumpy economist disagreeing with a famous IMF report on subsidies.

I think he's wrong and the IMF is right. I'm really not sure why he's taking the tone he does, but it gives you both sides of the argument at least:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/08/04/the-imfs...
This article is very anecdotal and it doesn’t talk about the underlying reasons for why niche communities are making a big comeback.

It mentions that Patreon has risen in popularity but doesn’t talk about the YouTube adpoocalypse or the reasons why that occurred.

The adpocalypse and it’s impact on everything from news commentary to comedy channels is one of the biggest factors driving creators and hence users onto YouTube alternatives.

It doesn’t talk about said Youtube alternatives such as minds, steemit etc or why vidme shut down. It doesn’t talk about their differences or why one is better than the other.

It doesn’t talk about the economics of video hosting or how sustainable these platforms are.

It mentions the alt right but it doesn’t talk about twitter giving tons of those guys the boot or the rise of gab.

It mentions the alt right & Patreon but it doesn’t talk about how many of those people and other right wingers got booted off of that platform. It doesn’t talk about the cottage industry of Patreon alternatives that sprung up to cater to those people.

It also doesn’t mention mastodon or anything that’s going on with similar technologies.

It doesn’t mention why mastodon got big in Japan or talk about any similar niche services.

It also doesn’t talk about the possibility of advertising on twitter/Facebook/google being regulated by the USA/EU. It doesn’t talk about the testimony all three companies gave in front of congress nor its implications for the future of niche communities.

In summary this article provides neither a survey of the niche community landscape nor an explanation for why 2017 was the year niche communities made a comeback.
This looks interesting:

United States ‒ Progress Report on Fossil Fuel Subsidies

https://www.treasury.gov/open/Documents/USA%20FFSR%20progres...

There are a number of tax preferences, described below, available in the United States to producers of fossil fuels. The preferences below are all permanent provisions in the tax code.
SOURDOUGH OLIVE AND SAGE LOAF
I started flat out refusing hackerrank/triplebyte bullshit and guess what happened - most companies just waived the test =D

Hackerrank and co are the field sobriety test of interviewing.
It is ivory that comes from legal sources, like old stored ivory, ivory coming from naturally died animals(like in a zoo or in Africa reserves when animals die) and so on.

Of course when there is a legal way, you have a window and so many ways to trick the system.
I have personally been in a few of these moments in my life, when I was thought that I would be killed. I have never been a hostage on my way to my own execution, but I have narrowly escaped death in combat a few times when I thought beforehand that surely I would not make it. There is a lot of adrenaline, and the human mind definitely employs some tricks to shield us from realizing our own fate, or at least to stop us from applying much critical thinking about the situation. Being so close to death is a very base, very visceral, animal thing. Incidentally, this is closely related to one of the reasons I grew to feel at peace while fighting and at war -- and the chief reason I have such a hard time with civilian life afterwards -- and in a way, I came to enjoy it (I waited a couple of days to post this comment because the reality of it will shock the conscience of many, but I wanted to be honest). Not of course the moments where things are going quite badly, but the more base existence.

That feeling is totally unique, of being there on the edge of life where everything is so simple, and where nothing else matters, or nothing else seems to matter very much. From talking to people and hearing stories, I suppose most people think of family when they're close to death. I didn't so much think about family as much as I had kind of very simple and straightforward "aw-shucks" moments of regret about not doing the things I wanted to do in life before I got into those situations where thought I would be killed. Incidentally, after my tours, I traveled a lot in order to settle those regrets and ended up meeting a woman that became my wife. I also created some very deep and meaningful friendships. I'm kind of getting off track here, but my original point was that what you've said is true, but at least for my part, "the long wait" is only happening after the fact. Navigating through the civilian world has been a really tough experience after all that, specifically those times where I thought surely I was a dead man. That was something I didn't expect, "the long wait" coming after everything else.
What about non nutrient addiction path ways ? such as twitter / facebook ? any one knows research about hippocampus and social networks ?

Also I do believe that I have multithreading addiction. I can't stop switching tabs whenever I'm bored (internet zapping).
what do you mean by excuse? you realize that Kenya is a country on another continent, not an American state? the culture is completely different. for all we know being early is the thing that's a cultural taboo and needs to apologized for.
My resolution is to stop worrying about my career and stop doing Python in my spare time and instead focus on GNU Guile code!
I'd recommend to be careful when mentioning nationalities together with diminishing words ("dirt cheap") - even if it's not discrimination, it can impact your judgement and its validity.

For example, if you would have said "the market is flooded with dirt cheap programmers", the next question would have been: are the competent, therefore really valuable from a value per dollar perspective, or not? Once you mention their nationality, the reasoning goes elsewhere and you don't make your point (you do not follow-up on why they're dirt cheap, how this connects to their quality of work and why it causes the 60k cap).
There is a Gömböc statue in Budapest: http://www.gomboc.eu/en/site.php?inc=&menuId=12&hirId=79
It isn't a loophole of GPL, it's a feature of the project in question.

If having GPL-licensed code execute non-GPL binary components violates the license, then it would be a license violation to execute any binary that is not GPL-licensed on such an operating system running a GPL-licensed kernel. Such a limitation would be absurd.

From a high-level, project-agnostic perspective, there is no difference between a kernel module and an application binary—they are both external binary blobs with the intention to extend the functionality of the initial project (in this case the Linux kernel). The differences are low-level and kernel-specific (kernel- vs. user-mode, API availability, intended functionality). The GPL does not distinguish between a printer driver or a calculator application.

Another aspect would be the use of a GPL-licensed header file. However, coming to the conclusion that using an untouched header-file (which usually only contains an API surface) from a GPL-licensed project taint code to require GPL-license for compliance would have huge consequences. Many projects would be rendered in violation overnight. This would likely hurt GPL.
Fermentation
Yeah, after writing that I realized that design is a lot more expensive. You can still get a decent coder who doesn't care about his work, but you can't get a decent designer who doesn't care.

It's important that the designers really understand the user journey, and that's not really something you can buy for just $5,000.
I have a similar experience. I am still at university and not a native-German, but I am asking around, and for a non-IT German, 60K (gross) would be like super-rich money, and companies are not willing to give you that much. However, my experience is not based on the big cities, where I know 50-60K (gross) would be the starting rate for a Master's student.

I would be interested to hear other's opinion and experience, as I will join the workforce later this year.
> ... including racist Europeans who until today continue to plunder the natural resources of the whole region.

Funny, I didn't know you could generalize the tendencies and behaviours of the inhabitants of one entire continent with wildly varying cultural tendencies.

And Kenya is in East Africa - the Chinese are now moving in for resources.

For most corrupt governments Chinese companies are far easier to deal with. They just want the resources - don't really care about paying bribes or human rights violations unless it starts cutting into their bottom line.

Note that the only thing that runs on time as mentioned in the article is the train line built by Chinese people.
It's not just that, people spend way more time going through mathematical proofs, finding, and formulating them. If you give programmers time to muse about every function for weeks and write no more than 50-100 pages of program text per year or even less, then their programs will be almost bug free. You get what you pay for.

Note: I'm not claiming that programmers should be treated like mathematicians or vice versa, I'm merely pointing out the differences of the activities.

Edit: There is of course also a more trivial reason. On average, research mathematicians are probably more intelligent, skillful and diligent than typical programmers.
Life cycle for a ngView controller
By renouncing citizenship he probably did the US a favor.
http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2012/04/what-to-do-about-ri...
Let them decide: give some of your wealth to finance BI or else renounce citizenship.
that's called a pizza van/truck and there are already plenty of those in any major metro area
> Usenet is free

Last time I checked it needed you to subscribe through some provider who charges money, ISPs used to offer it with the Internet access. Is it really possible to access for free?
Knee-jerk dismissals are more bullshit.

It’s not a fucking Facebook poll, it’s a peer-reviewed multi-population study.
I've been testing Discourse out and it seems pretty cool. Really fast UI too.
You can just press and hold the power button to shut a Macbook off. I assume this is a hardware level interrupt as I’ve never seen it fail. Granted not quite as satisfying as physically pulling the plug!
Giant smoke monster creates life-long friendships between flight passengers? They better get ready for a big plot twist.
Being able to find and converse with people who share my niche interests is one of my favorite things about the Internet. It was depressing to be interested in something and having no one to talk to about it.
Answer: Maybe your property isn't all that important.

I initially thought this was a troll account, and was very disappointed to find out otherwise. To see such arrogance and callousness come from someone who is ostensibly literate, maybe even educated, is very dismaying indeed.
I have seen the terrible effects China and Asia market had on elephants and specially rhinos in Africa. People in Africa earn very little money so poaching means you could be a hero in your village, buy cell phones, computers or cars, even if you risk your life.

About cultural heritage, in the past Chinese artist used their hands to carve ivory. Today they use dental drills that are extremely fast carving in industrial scale. It is not sustainable.

The only way to preserve Africa's animals are for the demand dissapearing: that is to make people ashamed for owning ivory instead of proud in China.

This will take time, but today news is good news.
In a proper experiment, another group would be told they will perform better if they eat candy, and are not given candy until the 4th tape
Not only free, but you don't even have to register:

https://news.aioe.org/manual/faqs/#f2
What's wrong with "weird"? It means: fateful, uncanny, magical. It's never properly been an insult, and those who misbelieve otherwise and deploy it in a pejorative fashion accidentally do that which they so label a favor by avoiding it - nothing ruins a small, special space like an influx of people who neither understand nor care what makes it special.
I agree. I've concluded it's good to have this self-improvement mindset, even if you never get to where you want to be (because it's always changing), and you should accept that, because human society is built on that uncomfortable feeling that gets us to make things.

Related video (it's a bit weird, but stick through it, it's a good one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkq7btSQvs
> Well, that's not clear.
Now I get your point. Of course the ratio of servers in a given country should not be the basis of taxation.

The situation of these large companies is they have a web of shelf companies just to optimise their taxes. E.g. neither Facebook nor Google or Apple does their core business activity and R&D in Ireland or formerly in Luxembourg. They simply extract the profit on arbitrary measures.

In classical companies (manufacturing, automotives, media, etc) when there is a holding company, usually there is a realistic “commission” that the child companies keep on sales revenue, e.g. 40%. This is an extrapolated number to a company level based on what the company would pay to an individual salesman in commission. There are holding companies for intellectual properties in the UK, e.g. ARM or WPP, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, etc. If you are interested, I'd have a look to their quarterly financial reports to see how they divide the profit among their subsidiaries.

But, we can reverse the question: how less would be the revenue if Facebook or Google would have no office presence in the country? If they can answer this question (and they do when they make their quarterly financial reports), then it is easy to measure how much tax is fair to pay.

> I would argue that it's this dizzying maze of laws that causes these problem

Sure, fewer laws the better. Yet, safe havens for stashing money from questionable sources are individual cases. Their economy is based on extracting money made in other countries and the tourism related to stashing the money. There are plenty of whitepapers with ideas how to resolve this situation, yet nothing happens, because the people who can make it happen, personally are not interested in it.
Yes, if you don't care about the binaries groups, then there is at least https://dotsrc.org/usenet/ which offers free access.
Could it be that you were just more tired, or otherwise not at top mental capacity that day, causing you to succumb to "phooey to that" in the first place?
I built my first startup (Socialwok) in 2008 on GAE Java it had just launch then. Since then I've totally been sold on the Google Cloud and building products with serverless tech like GAE.

Even today surprisingly few people know about it. So I finally authored and published a book on building products using the Google Cloud this year. (Free to read on the site)

http://www.howtobuildthefuture.com/
My wife got me a gomboc for Christmas a few years ago. It's actually surprising how simple the shape is.
A lot of it is just so fake. Pretty much everyone I know does the fake smile for the selfie, and then they immediately stop smiling.

Many people I know, when traveling, have a check list of the selfies they want to make to show everyone else how great their life is, when I know it isn't. And they miss the actual fun of experiencing traveling - to them it's just a series of selfies.

This was 99% of my Facebook, and that's why I quit. There was only one guy who was regularly posting interesting articles (tech, space, futurism). I ended up deciding a diamond in a pile of sh#t wasn't worth it, and HN/Reddit are better.

As for the social aspect, most people's lives are boring, and most people are boring, they only look at what's happening today, worry about what other people think of them, and other boring drivel.

/Rant over
With maths the requirements are made by other mathematicians. With code they come from the real world.

QED . []
Whether you like it or not this is the migration dynamics in this part of EU. For Russians/Ukrainians it's geographic proximity plus salaries higher than in home countries. Many Americans/Canadians idealize this part of EU (Germany in particular) as some kind of promise land, eventually have romantic partner over here. All of them are in volatile and vulnerable legal situation (e.g. visa depending on employment contract). Either way most of the times I end up visiting the company I talk with an American, Ukrainian, Russian, and a local national. There are quite some Romanians as well, but they emancipate quickly (Romania has been EU member since recently).
Happy New Year 2018 – Wish you friends in style
Public Domain Day: January 1, 2018
Every article doesn't have to mention every thing.
Shenzhen electrifies all 16,359 of its public buses one year ahead of target
Really depends on your interests. I frequent several programming language/platform specific and photography subs, plus r/mechanicalkeyboards, and several from my local area.

Reddit's multisub feature makes grouping them easy (so I visit six places instead of 40).
Turning images into bead patterns with a limited palette and dithering
Goodbye to 2017, a Prime, Sexy, Odious Year
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018
Would you mind writing some answers to those questions?

I would love to read these a lot more than the author's weak attempt to force politics on an otherwise really interesting topic.
These days programming languages actually are used for expressing proofs. They can automatically check them to. For example the Coq theorem proving language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

Some would argue that writing code IS more fault proof than writing proofs the traditional way.
C/C++ developers rely on knowledge of compiler optimisations all the time, the most famous case being the NRV optimization in C++. But exploiting knowledge of where data structures will be allocated is another example.

Java can be used for numerical work but it's not ideal for the reasons you cite. However this isn't fundamental to the technology or language. It's more a problem of incentives. Java isn't used for such work, so the applications that people care about and try to optimise at the JVM level don't tend to benefit from them, so the cost/benefit ratio of such optimisations seem low, so focus goes elsewhere.

C2 can do quite sophisticated auto-vectorisations but I suspect those optimisations rarely trigger because work that benefits from vectorisation was moved into C or assembly a long time ago. It's rather forward looking work. Graal doesn't even focus on it. They put all their effort into optimising large 'business java' type apps, along with language interpreters (Graal's party trick is turning interpreters into fast JIT compilers).
I am also from Germany (not German) and I have no problem getting over 60k EUR and I live in one of the cheapest cities.

And I don't think the market is flooded because in our company we have difficulties to find good engineers and we pay over 60k.
> I feel that expecting me to be exactly on time to non-work events is even more disrespectful because the stress of trying to make it on time makes my cortisol levels go up and probably shortens my life expectancy.

You could always have the best of both worlds by aiming privately to get there half an hour early. If you do run late you won’t be as stressed because you have a half hour buffer and if you are on time you can just chill somewhere until the appointed time. No cortisol either way.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
Chemists provide theoretical interpretation to understand chemical reactions
As I said, concepts don't fall out of thin air, it takes time to come up with the right ones. This is the major part of doing mathematics, once you got the right concepts nailed down, the proofs fall out basically automatically.
When they had power buttons you could
Algebra, Topology, Differential Calculus, and  Optimization Theory for Comp Sci
GER:
B.Sc. CompSci

Applied to 10

Interviewed at 5

Job offered from 4

50k annual (which is considered much for a starting salary fresh out of university)
If you are looking for open source, I think Discourse is the best out there. We tried to move a community from an old phpbb forum to a newer software some years ago and checked several projects and most projects are either unmaintained or old (with old style PHP programming) or new but lack features we needed.

We ended up using NodeBB because the person who was going to maintain it was more comfortable with Javascript than Ruby.
The article is indeed of middling quality at best, and prone to malapropisms. The phenomenon it struggles to describe is real nonetheless.
It probably can. Graal certainly could.
Adding to the arguments present here already, it's also often easier to work with mathematical formulas and concepts compared to programming concepts. For example:

pi. Easy in "math", effing hard to do in code. You don't have to worry about iee floats in "math". You don't have to worry about computational restrictions like ram, cpu time, null pointers etc.
I've seen the same sort of economic weirdness with music gear right here in Australia. Gear from M-Audio and Rode - both Australian companies, costs me more to buy here than if I ordered it from US based resellers.

I am assuming that aside from currency variation, there may be the case that it is cheaper to ship direct from the factories in China to the US than to Australia.
Yeh he's completely glossed over this. Australia is also off the list, due to its very high alcohol tax. Paradoxially, Singapore is on the list despite having just as high, if not higher, alcohol tax.
I worked on various toy projects mainly in Scheme but also in Python:

- Scheme: I learned more ReactJS+Redux and implemented a similar framework using BiwaScheme and snabbdom. Here is an example app: https://github.com/amirouche/scheme-todomvc

- Python: I started a project but without a good idea of where it will go. It's based on asyncio, aiohttp and a custom ReactJS based framework inspired from my Scheme work (read the point above). The project served me well, as template for asyncio+aiohttp based projects: https://github.com/amirouche/xp-socialite

- Scheme GNU Guile: I slowly improved my search engine, I reworked the database schema and querying algorithm: https://github.com/a-guile-mind/Culturia

- Scheme GNU Guile: I create binding for termbox and made a tiny editor https://github.com/a-guile-mind/azul.scm

- Scheme GNU Guile: I added ffi to Guile JavaScript backend https://gitlab.com/amirouche/guile/tree/compile-to-js-2017

- Scheme: I started a dynamic blog engine (a la wordpress) https://github.com/a-guile-mind/presence
Add a browser plugin that detects when you are hungry based on how quickly you switch tab to something meaningless and just feedscrooll. Popup which asks, are you hungry, want me to order you a pizza on XX?

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