skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Releasing their source does not imply that they are providing a working turn-key product that another company or individual could just one click install and have Digg back.

Except that exactly what most people will want and get mad if it's not easy to run. The backlash from that isn't worth it.

> I just feel that this is not a barrier for open-sourcing their product.

IP alone can be a bitch and that coupled with the fact that a number of companies have secrets (key/tokens/passwords/etc) in their code and cleaning those out (AND removing the git/svn history) is no small task. Lastly there are number of open source RSS readers out there, I seriously doubt Digg was doing anything particularly innovative in this space and I don't imagine many people care to build on something they made 5 years ago and probably didn't update much since then. Especially if it's not built with the "New hotness".
The Russian empire?
My 2 cents (and from the perspective of someone who has not used Word in ages and who tends to largely prefer typing commands to clicking icons).

> 1) Everyone uses it. You get documents from co-counsel, and you can flip on track changes and send some comments. Track changes is better than version control (for legal documents). Word shows you what you just deleted, so you can be sure you haven't changed the meaning without intending to. And co-counsel doesn't use git so sending diffs around is of limited utility.

Not everyone. I do not, like many others. First, it's expensive; second, it's not 100% available. It came very late to the www world. Moreover, it might be a good tool for legal writing, but it is horrid for code typesetting or for maintaining a bibliography. Finally, it handles very badly very large documents.

On the versioning side, one thing I loved about Latex was the ability to comment and uncomment entire sections of the documents, which is AFAIK absent in Word.

> 2) Typesetting is built-in. Yes, this is one thing that's terrible about Word and great about LaTeX. Separation of content and presentation is good. Except when it's not. Word is, for the most part, WYSIWYG. That means I can tweak my hyphenation or kerning as I go, and when I print to PDF 5 minutes before the brief is due to the printer (as in dead trees), I can be pretty sure what it'll look like. LaTeX lets you control that too, but the "production" step is often longer.

Why would you make manual tweaks to the typesetting? This sounds like a nightmare when you have to maintain many of these manual typesetting hacks. I remember I spend a lot of time skimming long documents to check that a new line didn't break the document a few pages later.

> 3) Speaking of formatting: legal documents, and often other business documents, aren't just mechanical. For something like an appellate brief in an important case, thousands of people might read it (and its enshrined immutable in the public record for posterity). The content is the most important thing, but they also have to look nice. Markdown, as far as I can tell, gives you very little control over typesetting.

To my knowledge PDFs generated by markdown are pretty decent. Maybe they are a bit boring and they all look alike, but I can't say they are ugly. But, again, this only is a personal opinion.

My personal idea is that Word is a bad software on which people who can't really use computers created suboptimal processes. Of course, we (the developers community) can't really expect that one is capable of writing his own css to have a nice typesetting or to mentally parse formatting tags to image what the output might be.
> Chemical plants (and other such facilities) should not be Internet connected

Ok.

> The equipment and tools should not even have a network stack

How do you imagine sensors and actuators will be operated instead ? People running about everywhere with handheld radios, reading gauges and turning valves ?

I know a guy who develops simulators for refinery operation. He explained to me how each refinery is a unique setup, cold-starting one takes a couple of days of non-stop valve twiddling with eyes on gauges and has plenty of ways to end in a fiery inferno if you do it wrong. Computerized control systems are not optional.
Perhaps we should be praising women for deciding to embrace the work/life balance to a greater degree than men instead of viewing it as a problem that needs to be fixed. Biology certainly plays a role in this.
You're totally right ha. (I mean I'm still not convinced it'll move to 100% driverless, but maybe)

Back in the day, we used to drive without seatbelts.

Back in the day, driving drunk was socially acceptable.

Back in the day, we rode horses.

Etc. It'll be something.
Agreed – a very welcome trend, and still not widely known outside of the Emacs bubble.

I've spent a long time going back and forth between Atom/VSCode (too slow on my machine) and [neo]vim (where language integration/autocomplete/file tree/etc. still feel like bolted-on hacks). The I discovered doom-emacs. It's the best of all three worlds: the speed and power of Emacs, the modal editing agility of Vim, the beautiful UI of Atom (after some configuration).
2018 Design in Tech Report
They don’t really want your feedback. They’ve already decided - and generating feedback from people who haven’t recently/ever logged in to the gateways will only cause them to ignore feedback in general.
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/15/irish-startup-wake...

I thought it was a clever idea as well. Some of the Tech Ireland things can be hit and miss but I thought it was good.
Yup, and I'd imagine that in their next Uber trip where they are forced to make small talk with their driver about the weather they're going to be missing their robot driver.
I mean, I think it's the end game of any capitalist, extract the maximum value from whatever resources are available. That generally requires acquiring and ultimately consolidating resources either drive the value of what is produced or dictate production costs. They are able to manufacture popularity through choosing what music is most widely available on their stations and streaming services. Then, they use that ability, along with the data they acquire, to decide what artists to book for what festivals and where. It's similar to Netflix using its streaming data to decide what original content to produce, down to the second, no less.
It is true that if Wikipedia wanted to use legal means to prevent it then they should change their license, but it is equally true that if Google want to prevent users from scraping their site then they should stop making the search site public available. The web is open for everyone, and thus following your argument the rights (legal or moral) should not apply.

Naturally Google won't prevent users form accessing the search since that would invalidate the purpose of their site, and equally naturally Wikipedia won't change the license since it too would invalidate the purpose of their site. Both however do complain and may invoke blocks when they feel that people are abusing the permission that is normally given.

From a legal stand point, Google can arbitrarily revoke access to their site and in similar way wikipedia could revoke access (which is not the same as changing the license) to Google. They could block Googles bots, or change the targeted information for which they intend to scrape. Wikipedia could publishing a explicit statement on how Google (as a legal entity) may access their servers and Google would be legally bound to follow it or be charged under hacking laws.
If you limit yourself to incorporated places. There are a lot more places in America that aren't incorporated.

And just because a town isn't incorporated doesn't mean it's small. Pahrump, Nevada, for example, is 40,000 people and it's not incorporated.
Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous
Now we just need a decade or two until consumer computing power can actually power it.
I appreciate there's a sense of logic that manufactures the sounds that this produces.

But, in every practical sense, the sounds are seemingly random to the listener.

Abstract expressionist art can be enjoyed regardless of the fact it's visually just a bunch of random scribbles.

But the sound this machine produces has to then be sculpted - lest we listen to a droning tone.

Would be cooler if you could describe the timbre of a sound you want to hear, and it produces that...

"I want a woody.. tinny.. percussive sound" (out pops some kind of glockenspiel marimba hybrid) or "I want a breathy sounding noise that sounds synthesized with the tone of tenor vocalist but a punchy distorted entry".
Every one of those businesses "fail" at something every single day. At best, they make sub-optimal decisions which is still failure. Failure doesn't mean catastrophic failure and it also doesn't mean taking unnecessary risk.
It's probably not going to be cheaper in an interesting way.

The up front cost of a vehicle is something like 1/3 of the cost per mile (probably less for commercially operated vehicles), so even a pretty big decrease in the purchase price will only have a moderate impact on overall cost.
It seemed to me as if the author semi-sheepishly is admitting being caught up in the fervor surrounding Theranos:

> I used to refer to it pretty regularly as the Blood Unicorn, Elasmotherium haimatos, because it was a Silicon Valley unicorn with a peak valuation of $9 billion that managed to raise $700 million from investors.

I suppose if "unicorn" is meant to describe fundraising activities, it's accurate. They really raised that money.
I kind of use that “would I pull out my laptop” question as a guide to mobile phone politeness. In any social context, if it would be rude to pull out a laptop and start typing, then it is also rude to pull out your phone and use it. Rule of thumb, there may be exceptions.
If you don't count IRC and Usenet servers, every day I visit:

Hacker News [0], El Reg [1], PacketStorm Security [2], CNN Lite Version [3], Weather dot Gov [4], Github [5], CentOS [6], Ars Technica [7], Sometimes Serverfault though burnt out answering questions [8]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

[1] - https://www.theregister.co.uk/

[2] - https://packetstormsecurity.com/

[3] - https://lite.cnn.io/en

[4] - https://www.weather.gov/

[5] - https://github.com/

[6] - https://centos.org/

[7] - https://arstechnica.com/

[8] - https://serverfault.com/
The intermixing was complex. Many groups migrating and interbreeding at various times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/science/a-new-theory-on-h...
Poor people in the US often lead nightmarishly stressful daily lives to make ends meet, having to work long hours doing self-destructive jobs, and being ever exposed to ruin by chance events. Their likelihood of achieving peace and happiness is quite orthogonal to whether they have plumbing, refrigeration, TVs and smartphones. It need not have anything to do with jealousy.
Nice weather, nice roads. The conditions seemed pretty ideal. Couldn't tell from the video but it didn't look like they were on a road with a speed limit of anything faster than 45 MPH?

Plus, "viable" might not only have been referring to the tech itself. Public opinion and existing regulations, for better or worse, are a part of viability.
Does it have to? I sort of assumed it would be the antitrust regulator. Amazon is too big and smart to engage in outright tax or securities fraud.
Hashgraph a fast blockchain like distributed ledger [pdf]
I've heard about co-mingling, but taking a chance with "sold and shipped by Amazon" is about the best I can do.
They are already doing this https://thepointsguy.com/2017/12/emirates-virtual-windows/
I think steering wheels still are needed, the car will not be driverless for all cases.
The text of the article seems clear that women are largely choosing careers based on meaning compared to men choosing careers on pay. The idea that this means women are losing to men is backwards and preposterous.
Safe-money: Money in the type system where it belongs (2017)
Things I learned from Saas project's private beta period
Except look at this situation... Amazon clearly does.
Are you suggesting that by mating with similar 'ethnicity' that someones genes are more likely to carry on? I thought it was common knowledge that more diverse DNA has a better chance at survival.

Seems like you're suggesting inbreeding is favorable for procreation.
Ambivalent (and its the same in German)
PRL made 55 Stephen Hawking papers open for access
That sounds an incredibly risky strategy, are you commenting from direct knowledge or just taking a wild guess?

There's literally no such thing as "known to be safe" on a road, a crash could happen right in front of any of these cars, the car promptly kills its occupants through a mistake and then that's the end of self-driving cars for a decade.
I’m saying the semantics of a simulation are boring. I think the actual tests are pretty cool. :)
this has impact in lenses as well, because with high enough resolution you could emulate lenses on the screen.
My original comment doesn't assume anything for or against -- I think your analysis of "it doesn't usually pan out" with associated data would be perfectly reasonable to include in an article like this.

I'm fine with arguments for or against HQ2; I was commenting more on the sheer amount of hand waving in these articles.
It's strange because one is seen as a retaliation and the other as preemptive aggression.
Retaliation is more tolerable than preemptive aggression to many people.

It's very important in this context, because the article goes out of its way to try to point the finger to Iran, but it fails to establish the context. That it was not only attacked on its Nuclear facilities, but also had cyberattack on its oil facilities via the "Flame" malware [0]

Which if this was an Iranian attack makes it a retaliation.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/flame-virus-hit-iran-s-oil...
Does the hardware do anything interesting, or does it only process midi input and provide an interface to mix between generated sounds? From their instructions on creating new sounds, it looks like they're pre-computing the generated sounds: https://github.com/googlecreativelab/open-nsynth-super/tree/...
I recently got one of the Silk super slim wallet cases, and I haven’t used my separate wallet since. I carry around my ID, a debit card, and a bit of cash, and it works wonderfully. Feels so great to only have to worry about 1 thing when I leave the house instead of 2. And, I’ve found myself using Apple Pay more since I’m reaching for my phone now anyways to pay. I really thought I’d dislike it, with the added width to the phone, but so far pros heavily outweigh the cons.
That's what I said in my last sentence, so I guess you agree with me, otherwise I am not sure what your point is.
Amazon isn't going to the state with the most favorable existing taxes. It's staging a competition to get its own special tax breaks. I can't do that, and I don't want to move to Alaska.
I did not way "it wouldn't help". At all.

I said that it super-helps Mexico, but that because of the specific situations in both regions, we should not anticipate getting anything like their results.
"back in the day, a lot of people were paid to drive people and things around in vehicles"

Just like "back in the day, computing was done by humans", "typesetting was done by humans", etc.
I believe they are legally still required to have the steering wheel and have the ability for a human override. What you are describing is the core aspect of Level 5 automation (and a little bit of Level 4). We're seeing the first production Level 3 vehicles this year, so we are still a ways away from no steering wheel (probably ~10 years, depending on when laws are updated to allow for it)
> Facebook had that problem with 30k react components, their processes are fine.

Ah. The old fallacy of "if it's good for Facebook, it's good for me".

> Versioning creates an explosion of REST end points in fast changing code bases. GraphQL solves that problem.

So. What happens when you change your GraphQL schema to an incompatible one? Just don't tell me a GraphQL schema is magically perfect from the start.

> That seems oddly defensive of REST, which is the de facto transport for a GraphQL query (they aren't even mutually exclusive).

It's not defensive. It's questions about the reality of things that every and all GraphQL proponents dismiss and brush over.
Why do you say it's FFT based? The paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01279.pdf appears to be generating temporal samples, the FFT based one is their baseline comparison.
That metaphor is ill fitting unless there is an anthopomorphic entity designing flawed software. It smells a hell of a lot lite Pascal’s wager.
Steve Blank on the history and future of lean startup
The problem is people mix personal motto with social policy. Social policy isn't about personal comfort with the concept, it's about what actually works, and if luck matters to social policy, then it needs to be taken into account, regardless of how much you pay attention to luck on a personal level.

> People choose to control what they can

Don't worry, everyone already does that. The difference is do you look down on other people (or even yourself) who are not doing as well?
Not to mention schools being funded by property taxes, so people living in high-density, lower-value areas (depressed urban, almost always nonwhite) always have underfunded schools while those who live in relatively low-density, higher-value (wealthy suburbs, almost always white) areas have extremely well funded schools. Also, rampant employment discrimination based on name alone (Are Greg and Emily More Employable Than Lakisha And Jamal, 2003, pdf: https://tinyurl.com/ydghdzuc) Also, higher police scrutiny than whites, and even higher conviction and incarceration rates than whites for the same crimes. etc. etc. etc.

While there are economically depressed whites who have some of the same problems as economically depressed non-whites simply because they're economically depressed, their situations are not equivalent. Saying that they are is nothing more than a way for white people to distance themselves from the fact that we are in fact privileged because of our race, and that our relative success isn't solely attributed to our hard work, smarts and persistence.
The word meritocracy was invented as a sarcr term to describe aristocracy wearing false dressing of equal opportunity.
That's why people clamoring for "meritocracy" today are
looked down upon for their self-unawareness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
Apples to oranges. Amazon is getting its own special deals.
"Do they actually fail in practice?"

There's not enough data for cars specifically to know if they do anything in practice, let alone fail. With other things, though, cables come loose and voltages get spiked/sagged and so on - yeah, not common failures, but common enough to be forseeable.

My point, though, is more that if these sensors do indeed fail, I'd much prefer to be able to have at least enough ability to sense my environment to still safely navigate, even if I have to do so with much greater caution. That is: losing my sensors shouldn't be as catastrophic as losing my windshield wipers in a heavy downpour.
Even with a lower rendered resolution, this would kill any spec of Screen Door Effect left on the current generation of VR headsets (talking about the Samsung Odyssey and the Vive Pro).
Fostering a learning environment for your tech team
We already tried genetically cleansing away the lower classes. No thank you.
>Even easier to policy launder with direct democracy, since most people voting will vote for the headline purpose of the law

Only if the direct democracy is set up to behave that way.

Any directly democratic system could in principle let people raise objections (e.g. "this law is susceptible to the cobra effect") and have those objections viewed by the people voting on the law.
Another way of saying it is that both men and women have about the same internal work/life balance, but for more men work is life.
Some design choices boost the performance: V8 JavaScript engine case study
Sounds horrible but is true: a lot of stealing and copying. Eventually you kind of start to develop a knack for it and learn to create your own flavour. You also start to recognise the patterns you see everywhere and why they work.
I remember a few similar things, forgot the names, lispbox or something like that. They were very nicely packaged but were not maintained so I'm happy to see new activity in this domain.
Does anyone have the GPUs to drive this tech though? I've been thinking lately that the main reason why the 2015-2016 hype about VR completely flamed out is that, on top of the ~$500 headset, you needed a new ~$1500 gaming PC to do anything with it. As a result, not enough consumers got on board to kickstart the virtuous cycle of more consumers -> more spending dollars -> more content developers -> more attractive content -> more consumers. The kind of GPU you'll need to drive a 5500x3000 display at 120 Hz certainly isn't going to help with that.
All this sounds like a great coverup for a CIA company :)
The delta of the ice on stone speed between the sides is not dependent on the rotational speed but liner speed in relation to the rotational speed.
Thinking about matching algorithms
[2015]Inside the Mind That Built Google Brain: On Life, Creativity, and Failure
You don't need tcp/ip for that
That’s not a good comparison. What they’re doing is taking out loans against the business’ future value, buying it, stripping all of the assets and charging large mismanagement fees, and then letting it go bankrupt so other people pick up the costs. There’s not really a market where I could take a distributed computing loan against your computer, put the CPU into a different system, and default on the loan.
I think we should be striving for a 5+5 plan: you should expect feature updates for five years and security updates for ten years. More would be better - certainly for security updates, but these are the minimums we should be expecting.
>What do you get for the man who has everything? When it comes to Jeff Bezos ... billions of dollars in tax incentives.

To he who has much, more will be given.
I'm afraid that we'd need to see the performance jump that came with the latest generation of nVidia cards many times to be able to get there. Even a single 2160p 144Hz monitor is hard to satisfy unless we are talking about an SLI configuration, which is extremely costly given the high demand caused by people after easy money.
An article whose subject is literally about the political controversy around giving public tax money to private corporations, and quotes a variety of political action groups, not to mention city and state political leaders, doesn't qualify as "about politics"?

The guidelines clearly state "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." They've covered this on TV news, a lot.
Writing the Silliest Go API Ever // Good for Go Beginners
They introduced talent as a bias in capitalizing on doubling events (the less talent, the less doubling events in proportion). A priori you would consider that this should lead to the talented being overrepresented in the higher percentiles of capital, yet they discover this bias does not dominate over the underlying uniform randomness of merely encountering a doubling event.

So no, I wouldn't say the conclusion is foregone. It shows an example where something that can reasonably be called talent (the ability to capitalize) is not as important as luck (the chance encountering of an event where you can capitalize).