skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insane to ride a motorcycle. Once you decide that you want to risk riding a motorcycle for pleasure, maybe the increased pleasure of not wearing a helmet is worth it. Why would you ride a motorcycle at all for pleasure, if your philosophy of life is safety first?
The Stranger by Camus, because it introduced me to the complete lack of objectivism in society, a revelation that explained a lot of things I had experienced in my life. In fact I did read it in my 20's, but it took me years to comprehend it.

Then, every CS textbook I have written, because there was nothing like these when I needed them.
Now that companies go public so much later, this sort of really large, really late stage fund is basically occupying the space some mutual funds did 20 years ago. Which is quite a big change for Sequoia.
Webpage owners need a way to make money. A whole class of webpages, those that are financed by ad revenue, would stop being tested/built against Firefox.
They might even block Firefox users from accessing their webpage, so that people switch to other browsers which do make them money. They have no real reason not to block them.

There's a whole load of politics like this in being a browser vendor. Just because users demand a change, does not mean that it's the best for users. Users want broken webpages even less than they want ads, they are just too short-sighted to realize that blocking ads will lead to that.

And Mozilla really is already gambling hard with such things as Tracking Protection or this referrer blocking when Chrome has no such restrictions in place and has the majority market share. For many webpage owners, blocking Firefox users would probably not even drop their revenue by 10%. Leaving it unmaintained much less so, in the short term.

So, unless Mozilla manages to create perfect compatibility with Chrome, they cannot afford to block revenue from webpages. And creating perfect compatibility with Chrome would also mean blindly following all of Chrome's webstandard choices, ingraining tracking- and ad-supporting technologies into the web, which again would be shit for users in the long run. And really, just use a Chromium-fork, if this is what you're looking for. You don't need Firefox for that.
Probably because it's dead and unencrypted to concern the Chinese government. I wonder if you can use Pidgin with OTR encryption on top of MSN for subversive conversations.
After practicing a lot, I find one of the greatest satisfactions in life to be the ability to let a project go and know it is good hands.
Very, just looked at the video and it's front wheels came off the ground.
It’s worth noting that many prominent libertarian thinkers were still more suspicious of business than Rand was. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, they worried that organized commercial interests would use their political influence to undermine free markets and promote special interest legislation that benefits themselves at the expense of the general public.

Since the phrase "at the expense of the general public" is a non-sense term that cannot be defined she rejected it as the basis for any law or moral principle. What she advocated instead was individual rights as laid out in the US Constitution. The reason she wasn't "more suspicious" of business was that under Capitalism the gov't would not have the arbitrary power to bestow benefits or punishments on anyone.
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In the linked article, "adulterated" doesn't refer to "dilute with water". Milk being sold here is mostly synthetic: made out of detergents and vegetable oil. There have been videos of people involved in doing so and they've claimed it's pretty tough to detect as the amount of yogurt or cheese obtained from such milk is often similar to what one would obtain from pure milk or even slightly better.
You think the lack of technical innovation is what makes products fail? Seems to me that it's actually the opposite that's true.
I agree with you about the news feed. FB messenger is still the easiest way to contact people (almost everyone has it, you don't need any information being a name). Events are great for easily informing people of what you're doing. Groups are great for alerting a group of people to some information (basically better mailing lists).
I'd say there are some. Dragonchain for example which I invested in seems ethically run and have delivered pretty much what they said.
I'd add that "robotic" is, in most uses of the term, extremely vague. In those uses, it doesn't have a clear meaning, it's just a term for referring to things that appear like how present-day automated machinery appears to us.

It's like people who think "computer" means something that appears like the kinds of silicon-based computers we engineer at present, rather than understanding it in terms of the rigorous notion of computation, as something that can perform computation (which can be performed in such widely varying ways, in so many different media)
I must say, that is a really sneaky way of getting you to notice their job post and then google them
real time typing in icq was pretty cool. I wonder if any other system ever replicated that?
Same here. Though I have no way of disambiguating what is FB changing and what is me and my friends getting 10 years older.
I don't know what you're current level is, but:

If you're brand new, offer to mentor a co-op.

If you've been there for a while, take an active role in helping the newer people get up to speed.

If you're enjoying doing that, tell your boss you'd like to have more opportunities to learn leadership skills.
Yeah, looks like a simple overview; something that could have been published in blogpost form rather than what they have chosen.
> You can still experience "free will"

if you have to put quotes around it, is it really free will?

I had a look at that link and I don't see anything related to free will there... what's the link you're suggesting?
Ohhh new stuff happened! ... Oh.. Wait
But musl is linked statically, therefore the image must contain multiple instances of the library. Very impressive that the Alpine image still comes out smaller
Stupidity theater maybe?

This article was seriously one of the most depressing things I've ever read on HN.
...during development of the app to test it

Money may not have changed hands, but that sounds a lot like a business related activity.
A career is not as safe of an investment as a t-bond.
Riding without a helmet is not universally legal in the US.

In the past there was pressure from the federal government on state governments to enact more universal laws about wearing helmets. Now many states only require that young riders wear helmets and a handful don't have any rule. Here is an overview with a map, too: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/laws/helmetuse/mapmotorcycle...
It's all written in C++, so from a security and reliability perspective, I'm sketical it's going to offer much improvement over Linux. I don't see any evidence yet of "new technology". I'm happy to be proven wrong.
>Why do I even care about these features? I just want to message someone...

You care that the other person will be on it too. But why will they be on it？

Mass adoption isnt just about what you want, its about what other people on the same service want as well. It has to offer a superset of your wants, her wants, his wants, etc or you will love it, but they will go elsewhere. Its not all about you. Having everyone on it is THE killer feature.
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a neutral question (honest question): Isen't the best part of a race show the sounds? I honestly don't know how a race sounds with electric cars but I imagine it to be quite different.
Yeah, I’m still (primarily) a Mac dev, but I think the community has been sort of been subsumed/replaced by the much, much bigger iOS dev community.

For what it’s worth, I still find the cocoa-dev mailing list useful.
There aren't many occasions where we can retrospectively "feel", on a visceral level, the impact of the introduction of technologies and ideas that have now become mainstream. We can intellectually appreciate how cool it would have been to be at "the mother of all demos", or to see a Monet landscape in the midst of the Realist movement, but it is much harder to feel it emotionally. After all, we use hyperlinks and video chat everyday, and you can see high quality images of so much famous art on google that it all seems banal

But every once in a while i see some piece of historical innovation that just blows my mind and makes me realize that some people just have a unique genius. I am filled with wonder and shake my head thinking how the hell did this person come up with that. These moments for me usually happen when I am learning something for the first time in a setting that provides the context of the times and with an instructor who loves their subject. The most memorable instances for me of this phenomenon are:

1. Listenting to a lecture on the political and social messages the Medici wanted to deliver in commissioning the art and architecture in the new sacristy in San Lorenzo in Florence, while in the new sacristy in San Lorenzo in florence

2. Learning about the concepts of structs and linked lists in C for the first time after having done some basic C exercises as part of David malans CS50 class -- hobbyist programmer here :)

3. Watching a live performance on YouTube of "editions of you" by roxy music, specifically Brian enos synth solo, after creating some songs on Logic Pro and learning about ambient music, minimalism and the beginnings of electronic music in an undergrad course on electronic music taught by john supko. Electronic music these days is just pop music, but Brian eno used new technology to create strange, energetic yet catchy sounds that simply didn't exist before: they walked a fine line between surreal and relatable. His solo in editions of you sits between a great sax solo and a great guitar solo, and he uses a basic analog synth to twist, chop and stretch sax samples to sound like something Jimi Hendrix would play if he were in an acid rock rendition of phantom of the opera. And you can tell that the music is such a raw, natural and forceful expression of "him". He was so far ahead of his time
> It's all written in C++, so from a security and reliability perspective, I'm sketical it's going to offer much improvement over Linux.

Are you an expert in C? or in C++?
Coming from 4chan, you'd think they would know better.
I only looked at it briefly on my phone but I don’t really see a huge difference to something like https://github.com/go-chi/chi/blob/master/README.md here that also comes with a middle ware to do all the error handling is you need that. It’s also as simple as it gets.
Well, yeah, the feature itself is not a particular accomplishment, really it's been in Firefox for years, you just had to enable it with some about:config-flag.

The big news is them enabling it by default in some fashion (that is when you're in Private Browsing), meaning that all users now have this, not just the 0.1% who understand referrers (and have not forgotten to enable this the last time they installed Firefox).

As a power user who knew about this, you might not particularly care, but for users in general it's great, while it pisses off webpage owners.

Then again, even as a power user it's impossible for you to know about all of these sort of config options, so you might care to use a browser which tries to help its users out while having to keep an eye on not pissing off webpage owners too much, rather than a browser that tries to maximize revenue for webpage owners while trying its best to hide all the ways it infringes privacy from its users.
> There’ve been other messages sent, including a Doritos ad, a Beatles song, some Craigslist pages and a plant gene sequence—as well as some arguably downright embarrassing “artworks”.

He seems to refer to:

"Joe Davis is an artist and a research affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the mid-1980s, he became concerned that no image of humans had been sent into space representing the details of human genitals or reproduction. So he led a project to transmit the sounds of vaginal contractions towards neighbouring star systems. To do so, he recorded the vaginal contractions of ballet dancers."

There's nothing "downright embarrassing" in sending these sounds, and sending them isn't conceptually different than sending all other "samples" mentioned in the whole article.

It just tells something about Stephen Wolfram (and others who share his evaluation of that).
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Yes.

It's also a legal requirement to wear helmets when riding a pushbike too, which is something far more controversial as there's research to suggest that the effect those laws have on reducing cycling participation has a more negative impact on visibility and safety of cyclists. But I don't think I've ever heard someone say that mandatory motorbike helmet laws are a bad thing.
I didn't downvote but I assume it's because you made IMO a pretty ridiculous, or at least completely unactionable statement. Life, including modern life, is all about balancing costs and benefits. One of the benefits (for most people) of modern life is that you can hop in a car and drive places. A strict training and licensing regime along with other rules and regulations similar to those that apply to pilots, especially commercial and military ones, is incompatible with that benefit. There are various laws and rules but they're deliberately set at a "most adults can drive" level.

You may not like that tradeoff but most people disagree.
As I understand it, they point out that Levy-Strauss discovered two kinds of approach to solve problems, engineering and bricolage. The former is careful planning and solving the task by building an exact tool that resolves the problem, the latter is putting together whatever you have available in an approximate solution and moving on.

In software, we would probably call them "software engineering" and "hacking" approaches. For example, in the Linux Kernel init discussion, systemd is an engineering solution, while traditional init system is a bricolage solution.
I can use your logic to prove that there is no evidence of new technology in the Falcon 9 rocket.

After all, it is developed with very similar tools compared to every other rocket in existence.
i want to use it but its a really expensive tool. I have had a few companies buy it for me, but i'm mostly coding in giant c++ and java code bases so there's just never a reason to use it. If I was coding on my own it would be great.
Complex exchange of information and response to your environment is fascinating, and should be appreciated. But if we're calling that consciousness, we've watered down the term to the point that it's just a loose metaphor for virtually any kind of complex biological mechanisms.

This really shouldn't even be a debate. It's the special kind of wrong that ought to be embarrassing, like when people equate consciousness to quantum weirdness.
I worked remotely for more than two years because I had to move to another place. I loved the company and they were quite happy as well, so they let me work remotely full time without problems. I absolutely loved it for the first six months, then I quit my job after the second year despite being a "dream scenario" for many.

I generally work alone when I want to think, but I loved the interaction with excellent colleagues and sitting at home with skype wasn't exactly the same.

I would still work remotely for 2-3 days a week, because it's so much more productive for certain tasks, but no more. I do not consider full-time remote jobs.
It's the way they broke the mobile web messaging experience that bothered me. Even if I turn on desktop mode the input box deletes the last word when I press space.

It used to be fine, minimal and functional. I won't install any fb app, I just want to use it on the web.
People don't generally use optimized workflows for each thing they want to do. They use a subset of all well known and understood tools combined in obvious ways to construct their own workflows, and because they are built out of things they understand they are robust and flexible.

A workflow designed by an engineer optimizes for some combination of time, resources, cost, etc. Most people don't want something that optimized as it is very brittle to change, so their own ad-hoc workflows are "better". At least for general users that don't have a very small selective set of tasks.
An interesting counter argument:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
I suppose that the idea is that a bricoleur jury-riggs solution with whatever is at hand while an engineer specializes in “the design and manufacture of complex products.”

McGyver is a bricoleur - same goes for the vehicle building parts of an A-Team episode.
Tony Stark is an Engineer.

Of course an Engineer can probably also work with make-shift conponents in an emergency, but it is not their preferred situation.
Rand addressed your comment about "selfish" being a pejorative (and "altruism" being a positive) in detail in the introduction to her work "The Virtue of Selfishness".

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The title of this book may evoke the kind of question that I hear once in a while: “Why do you use the word ‘selfishness’ to denote virtuous qualities of character, when that word antagonizes so many people to whom it does not mean the things you mean?”

To those who ask it, my answer is: "For the reason that makes you afraid of it.”

But there are others, who would not ask that question, sensing the moral cowardice it implies, yet who are unable to formulate my actual reason or to identify the profound moral issue involved. It is to them that I will give a more explicit answer.

==================================

I think we agree that people should read Rand firsthand and judge for themselves.
Lots of good ideas in the article - the key is to really stand out.

I take 10 weeks off a year to go travelling - true vacation time, not remote work. I know I can get a 20% raise if I switched companies (I know that because I got an offer), but I stay where I am because i can't imagine going back down to 3 weeks of vacation a year.
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More efficient machine learning could upend the AI paradigm
Well, let's ignore the reuse of the seeds, let's focus on generating random numbers in a range 0-N using a uniform random generator that gives numbers from 0-M where M >= N.

Code snippets shown use modulus (x % (N+1)) to accomplish that. This will result in the numbers not at all uniformly distributed.

Of course, the differences in probability aren't that huge but the contracts are mathematically not fair.

import numpy as np
n, m = 2, 20
binc = np.bincount(np.random.randint(0, m, size=20000000) % (n+1))
print 1.0*binc/sum(binc);
[0.3501464 0.3497516 0.300102 ]

When we're generating 0-2, from 0-20, we get 0 and 1 more often than 2.
> Russian propaganda

Sure you're not spreading your own here?
Communism will win
I run into this too. Because I have Comcast as an ISP and they engage in malicious man in the middle attacks on their users I use socks 5 proxies to remote VPS for all my browsing.

That means I end up in IP blocks that get blocked by many services or presented with captchas.

Additionally, both Cloudflare and Google are trying to set up caching services to prevent people from ever leaving their network in the form of AMP.
Also, as someone else noted in a comment to the sane article months ago (yep, it’s a dupe) the Unix set of single-task CLI utilities (sed, grep etc.) encourage a bricoleur approach at solving problems without having to write a throwaway application (or extend an existing one) every time.
Honestly I kind of feel like any company that is offering market rates for remote workers has a bigger problem filtering developer applications than they do finding great engineers. Complete opposite from the hiree perspective vs in a big tech town where everyone is desperate for talent.

Between my last 2 positions I tried looking around at fully remote jobs - sane hours, good pay, good (virtual) environment including codebase - pick 1, maybe 2 if lucky.
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I don't even know any C++ programmers who thought Eclipse was a good editor, let alone the best.

That Eclipse is now pretty much gone only strengthens that position.
Very interesting insight.

I wish we made more allowance for bricolage in software. There are some great systems that enable bricolage, like Lisp or Unix or Emacs or Forth or Excel. They are toolboxes that you can use to cobble together some solution, perhaps not the best engineering solution, but it's quick and solves the problem.

Today, it seems, bricolage is out of fashion. All applications (and all devices in fact) must be made to be "perfect" and "easy to use", not to be combined and remixed as pieces of some "erector set".
Sounds like alienation. Have you tried communal living? Getting more in touch with your friends will make you a more genuine person and you will feel more humanized.
Ok top 10 languages 2017 for SO are:

JavaScript
SQL
Java
C#
Python
PHP
C++
C
TypeScript
Ruby

The data reload in place has thrown me. I am not sure any of the above do this. Maybe I am wrong though.
I’ve been to a couple of motorcycle accidents (I worked as an ambulance driver), and I was surprised how little they got hurt. Most people here only drive with full protective gear, and it helps a lot.

Kids driving on mopeds, on the other hand, is a different story. Even though they only drive at low speeds, they get hurt really badly even in minor accidents because they don’t wear protective clothing.

Yes, motorcycling is dangerous, but your clothes make a huge difference.
Provided there are single cell organisms with eyes[1], and transcription factors form DNA-based activation/inhibition networks conceptually indistinguishable from neuronal networks, debating whether plants have subjective experience ("a view from the inside" doesn't necessarily implies visual information) is totally on the table.

Whether those organisms experience anything we can relate to is another matter though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelloid
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It’s been a no good, very bad week for cryptocurrencies
I view myself as libertarian but I believe in something called ethical capitalism which basically means the buyer/sellers in a free market all agree willingly to not engage in unethical behaviors. The idea is that buyers would refuse to buy from unethical businesses which forces them out of the market and likewise sellers would be inclined to be ethical to attract business. It ends up being a self-reinforcing cycle.
> Keep in mind that vega/plant based diets are purely political diets. I mean if you want to do them, that's fine, but there's not a huge health aspect.

It's pretty clear you have a bias/agenda considering how easily refutable that statement is [1][2][3][4][5]

1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/plant-based...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565018/

3. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PII0140-673...

4. https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/halt-heart-disea...

5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315380/
Because there's no law against it (yet.)
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That's an awesome situation.

Two interview cycles ago, I wanted a full month of unpaid vacation on top of the normal vacation package. I told each I would take a 1/12 pay cut in exchange. It was a huge obstacle for employers.
The evolution of employee tracking
That sounds pretty much like apple pay, no? If visa, mastercard, and the merchant banks can't be bothered to make it, then maybe apple deserves their cut.