skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this may seem like a silly response, but i mean it in all earnestness: Democracy may not be a basically "good thing." I know this flies in the face of a ton of social programming, but at some point we have to take the evidence as it comes to us, and if it is consistently pointing to something we did not expect or like, we can only re-jigger the pretext so many times before we have to confront the fact that maybe our assumptions were wrong. Maybe the internet is the perfect vehicle for democracy, and mob rule isn't such a great thing.
The Sacred Art of Concurrent and Parallel Programming
In the grand scheme of things every one dies and the universes freezes from entropic heat death, so yeah...

In the grand scheme of things, perhaps the dark energy driven expansion of space-time continues to accelerate until quarks get pulled apart, which increases their potential energy, creating more quarks to get pulled apart in an exponential cascade, simultaneously throughout the entire universe. What the hell happens after that?
Not on all apps though. Office apps do not respect that shortcut convention and require clicking on the "Paste Without Formatting" button.
>I am a bit depressed by our species ability to do rational thinking.

you can do your part by quit being a right wing conspiracy theorist?
I'm working on implementing that. Right now it's just my own.
OP, does this mess up ZWJ emoji (like any of the skin-tone-modified emoji)?
Clojure is another nice choice - https://clojure.org
Thank you. That's very helpful. I studied the quantized transfer but never bothered to ask what happens if electron is hit by the energy isn't exactly what's required for an orbital transition.
Or maybe they could focus on just the video hosting bit which they are excellent at. Charge large creators for disk space and ad tools. Then they could outsource the ad stuff to partner ad networks who would take the brunt of the bad PR, but YouTube could take a cut from the ad networks revenue.
I never thought of using for that :P
You said NPR is "omitting the certain fact that Ervine paid this "friend" tens of thousands of dollars", then offer no proof and say "This sort of thing is not reported". It's not really a certain fact then, is it? It's just your assumption.
The unkillability of cockroaches is highly exaggerated. And for dogged persistence, I'd give the crown to the humble fruit fly.
That's amazing. He screwed up and lost so much of the customers' money the company so much they had to go into bankruptcy, which pegged the company's debts at the bitcoin-to-yen rate of 2014. The company has over 200,000 bitcoins.

So the rise in value of bitcoin has made Mt Gox extremely valuable in bankruptcy (possibly more valuable than if it were properly managed from the beginning) and now Mark Karpeles is a billionaire. Is that a correct understanding?
"If you're only expecting ASCII text" categorically excludes trying to display Chinese or Hindi text from the program's specification.
So meta! Excited to follow along to learn about both podcasting and SaaS!
I know of a number of smaller business that are "as a service" that are built using Smalltalk.
Agree on class fields but there's high demand. I haven't examined the exact detail but it seems hard to please both sides here. Not sure what the best way forward is.

On .bind(this), that's exactly what I meant by keeping the old system. "Fixing" that magically would have required underlying changes. That said, since you brought up class fields and bind in the same post, there's always:

class Dog {
bark() { console.log('Bark!'); }
eat = (food) => console.log('Munch');
}

feedDog(dog.eat);
I agree. Very polished.

We use FullStory and it’s fantastic. Would be extremely difficult to convert me.

https://www.fullstory.com/
This article gets into a couple of points. I pulled the higlights:
https://blockgeeks.com/guides/initial-coin-offering/

Legality - The legal state of ICO is mostly undefined. Ideally, the token is sold not as a financial asset but as a digital good like many other things.

Profit and Loss - Many ICO has been a lucky choice for investors. ETH, for example, was sold at 0.0005 Bitcoin and is worth today 0,05 BTC. On the other side, many ICO ends with losses. Cryptocurrencies like Lisk, IOTA-token or Omni did not hold the value in Bitcoin the token has been assessed at the ICO (or struggle to keep it).

Another article: The Declining Middle Tier of ICO Fundraising
https://medium.com/tokenreport/the-declining-middle-tier-of-...

The median fundraise in initial coin offerings (ICOs) has been on a steady march downward since its peak in the heady days of the second quarter. In the fourth quarter, even the high-profile Science Blockchain (12.2 million USD) failed to come near its hard cap. Chatter at cryptocurrency conferences points to a more cautious investor base. But the truth is, crypto is starting to resemble the world wage economy: tokens that can command large fundraises are rolling in on bigger and bigger waves of money, while the bottom tier bounces along and the middle tier gets squeezed.

Kik's coin the 'Kin' has been a fairly study decline since it's high in January (then $0.0031 and now $0.0001.)

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kin/
Is coinjar related in anyway to mtGox?
Russia's influence is much more than propaganda and fake news
> Man, do I feel stupid for thinking the internet would be a force for good. That it would promote democracy, free speech, and critical thinking.

The internet is a tool and like any tool, it can be used for both good and evil. It depends on the people using it. In fact, the internet is arguably a victim of it's own success. It has democratized thought so well such that people whose ideas are morally depraved have the same ability to reach an audience that those whose ideas are praiseworthy are. That's why we are having this specific conversation, is it not?

> I look at Facebook and Twitter, and the bad greatly outweighs the good. I chose a career in web dev, thinking I would be doing something beneficial, but everything we've done amounts to nothing.

Don't judge your work by what others are doing. It's not right. You can choose to use your skills for good by doing things that are beneficial. You can work for a non-profit, a church, a community to connect, build-up, and support people. Technology for technology sake will not bring you peace or joy—technology for the sake of others just might.
This is great. Well done. The demo had me laughing in a very good way (I was genuinely having fun watching it replay).
So did RethinkDB. :(
For my edification, would someone care to explain the torrent of downvotes? I simply reported a factual, indisputable observation: That the grandparent, with a timestamp saying 16 minutes old, was displayed to me as 'flagged' and 'dead'.
Pure managers (ie non technical managers) tend to hire other pure managers. They tend to over-amplify role of management vs technical problem solving. They often believe later is just “commodity” while projecting management skills as rare mysterious abilities. It is not an accident that pure managers at CVP+ levels are able to command more compensation than entire team of 20 people. This phenomenon is purely because pure managers keep projecting management as some sacred priesthood. In all teams I have worked I have known people who can easily do CVP job at quarter of the cost and twice the efficiency and technical chops. Despite this you see these inefficient people taking away massive funds. Why do you think there is no conspiracy?
Pragpub – the magazine for today’s software developers
There are (lots) of people who work in gun factories. This is nothing in comparison.
Can you expand on the DSA/ECDSA problems? One this I greatly dislike is having "only one option" of RSA. In my opinion, it's better to have a variety of secure algorithms available and that are well studied, so if a new attack emerges we're not completely hosed.

Also, while I don't believe NIST is a mouthpiece for the NSA, I'm curious why they haven't proposed some alternatives to P-256, given some of the difficultly implementing it correctly. Is anyone aware if they are working on this?
I wonder how many people want to find this guy for personal vendetta's. His life must be a living hell
Zero width characters can also be used to force long strings of text to wrap correctly, so this may break the layout of sites that allow things like URLs in UGC text.
Are you sure? There are certain coveted demographics that advertisers are willing to pay a lot more money for than others. I don't think it's true that all views are counted the same for monetization purposes.

And then there's views that are desired so little (e.g. those on whacko conspiracy theorist channels) that advertisers aren't willing to pay to put ads on them at all, and you end up with "demonetization".
Congrats on the great advancement. It's also a coincidence that TablePlus just started to support CockroachDB yesterday. In case someone need a good GUI: https://github.com/TablePlus/TablePlus/issues/374
And if you can influence the plot, The Sims?
European data privacy is the GDPR.

If a company wants to operate in Europe and accept European customers, they abide by the law.

If they can't manage to figure out they're servicing european customers and protect their data according to the law, then they get fined substantially.

It might be complicated, but the onus is on the company not the user, making this Facebook's problem to resolve.
Apple (maybe FB too, I have no direct knowledge) is an extreme case where they take physical security extremely seriously. From day one employees are instructed that everyone badges in, even if it’s a whole group of employees entering who all know each other. You badge even while someone is holding the door for you. If you see someone behind you who forgot to badge you stop them: even if they’re the Senior VP, doesn’t matter.
Google can censor someone as effectively as any government. This is, in effect, the same as the government banning a book. It's not something I'm ever comfortable with, and I'm especially uncomfortable with it when it's an unaccountable company in charge.
I dislike Donald Trump, but, for example the CNN fish feeding story (CNN zoomed into an existing video, to obscure the Japanese president dumping their box of fish food, then zoomed out to show Trump dumping his, and made up a story about Trump commiting a faux pas by dumping his first) is provably false, and still up on CNN's site with no retraction or apology.

Likewise The Gaurdian's headline about the 'unarmed' guy with a gun is his car, which they were forced to retract by the PCC.
Agree. The race to the first headline is a disservice to the public.

Unfortunately its hard to find any news outlet these days who refrains from such shady tactics :(

I hence started blacklisting news sites that I notice spreading FUD...even if that means I end up with no news.

On social media it’s actually less of a problem because I am able to engage with the person who shared it
> GDPR still limits developer speed/freedom

Good!

This is like saying that prescription-drug regulations are limiting speed/freedom. When those things are dangerous to the user, they should be limited!

And I still don't agree that it slows anyone down. Want to launch a new feature quickly? No problem, go ahead and launch it. All you have to do is add an opt-in dialog at the beginning.

As far as freedom goes, we've seen the abuses of that freedom and it's time to limit it.
Because it is. We can kid ourselves all we like, but we all know this is where it is going. It takes just a brief detour to 4chan to know where people’s minds are at and where people’s theories are headed. It’s been a slippery slope toward explicit racism ever since Trump came on the scene and we can keep sliding down the slope or we can acknowledge it.
LogRocket is very neat looking but only does replay for Redux apps (as far as I know).

We record all events for any web app so you can replay session and fire the exact same mouse+keyboard+ajax events to reproduce the issue. Very similar tools but we wanted to make something generic targeting every web app
Well, he did ask about band gaps. Is there a way to understand band gaps without quantum mechanics? I think you only need a little Fourier analysis to get the basics of band gaps.

Anyway, that text and along with Kittel's are the references for an undergraduate solid state course that I'm taking. No prior exposure to solid state physics for me and only introductory quantum mechanics (first half of Griffiths' QM); I find the text totally approachable.
This year, I’m building a podcasting startup with my friend Jon called Transistor.fm.

Lots has changed since Basecamp launched in 2004. When they started, there were only 1-2 competitors in a vertical. Now, each category has hundreds of competitors. Some things have gotten easier, but many things (especially marketing, acquisition, and profit margins) have gotten harder.

So we decided to use our platform and record a show about what it takes to build a SaaS in 2018. We have 5 episodes, and so far, people are finding it helpful!

Any topics you'd like to see us cover in future shows?
Wonder if you get the same effect from playing music (playing an instrument)?
"As Google defends its contracts from internal dissent, its competitors have not been shy about publicizing their own work on defense projects. Amazon touts its image recognition work with the Department of Defense, and Microsoft has promoted the fact that its cloud technology won a contract to handle classified information for every branch of the military and defense agencies."

Google should stop hiring activists and start hiring pragmatists.
This is already happening. In Disney™'s Rogue One™: A Star Wars™ Story, they had Grand Moff Tarkin played by a recreation of Peter Cushing. Disney claims they won't use computers to resurrect Carrie Fisher, but I'm not sure I believe The Mouse.

I remember back when Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within came out, Square was saying that the Aki Ross character model would be like an actress. "While Square ruled out any chance of a sequel to The Spirits Within before it was even completed, Sakaguchi intended to position Aki as being the "main star" for Square Pictures, using her in later games and films by Square, and including the flexibility of being able to modify aspects such as her age for such appearances."

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy%3A_The_Spirits_W...
I'll be sure to add a link to http://zerowidth.space
GDPR requires protection for all EU citizens regardless of location of the user or the data. This means that the millions of EU citizens living in the US have to be afforded the same protection, or FB faces very punitive fines.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Will FB require users to stipulate that they do not have an EU passport? What happens if we all say we have one? How would they verify that?
Site back up :)
I wasn't complaining about labeling. I was complaining because assertions that she was an NRA or ISIS supporter were false.

I believe my assertions were true.
Here are the first two people I saw on my twitter search:

Jack Posobiec
Wikipedia: "John Michael "Jack" Posobiec III (/pəˈsoʊbɪk/ pə-SOW-bik; born 1985) is an American alt-right[1][2][3] internet troll, conspiracy theorist,[4][5] and self-described journalist, known primarily for his controversial and pro-Donald Trump comments on Twitter."

He was claiming that google removed her videos from youtube as part of a coverup because she didn't fit the narrative of conservative white males causing mass shootings

Laura Loomer
Wikipedia: "Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an alt-right[1] American political activist and Internet personality. She was a reporter for Canada's The Rebel Media during the summer of 2017, resigning that September.[2][3][4][5][6] Prior to June 2017, she worked for Project Veritas with James O'Keefe.[3]"

Her tweets are calling the youtube shooting "an act of jihad". Also made a tweet that seemed to imply, because the shooter has an androgynous name and muscular build, that she could be trans. As if that has anything to do with it.
It gets a little blurrier with pop stars though. How much of what we think we know as Katie Perry or Rihanna is really them? How many of the 'authentic' bursts of personality are real, and how many are artificial? And to what degree might they themselves not be able to tell the difference even?

While I personally am not a fan of this kind of artificiality, I'm also not saying it's something to be outraged about. I find it fascinating, more than anything.
Just curious, but why not email/sms? Everyone with a Facebook account has an email address and phone.
A lot of these examples seem rather contrived, and the whole appendix has a very FUDy feel to it. It seems like the author didn't like classes in JS, and set-out to come up with some examples to justify their dislike, rather than coming to that conclusion through actually encountering these problems in the real world. Something not helped by the weaselly tone, constantly implying that it's just raising concerns, when it's clearly been written by somebody with an extremely strong anti-classes mindset.

As a simple way to define a reusable bundle of behaviour of logic, or to construct simply base-class -> specialisation inheritance hierarchy, JS classes work fine.
I was just thinking about this the other day. I think you are on to something here. We do have test suites but at the end of the day having real people test things out is the only way to catch certain bugs and UX stuff. I mean a robot will understand everything you tell it. You don’t know how a human is going to think in which combination they are going to click.

A friend of mine hacked together something like this with mechanical turk. This seems like a much more polished version.

I hope you succeed! When I launch our product will definitely try your service out.
VB1-6 encouraged classes. The fact that OO was not more popular in VB was a failure to communicate. VB.NET didn't add classes, it removed the anti-pattern that was grab-bag modules. Again, that's much more of a backwards compatibility problem than a CLR problem. The VB team could have kept modules and still targeted the CLR, they just chose not to in the hopes of cleaning up some of the worst patterns in VB.

Just because you can "mechanically transform" code between two languages doesn't make them the same language. Compilation is a mechanical transformation to machine code, but you don't see anyone arguing C++ is the same language as Assembly.

(Did you ever look at the output of such mechanical transformations? The results were always weird, lacking proper idioms in the target language. Just like machine translations of spoken languages, I wouldn't rely on them without a lot of work to clean them up and verify them.)

Yes, VB.NET and C# share many (but not all!) components of the same AST, but so too now does F# as it is being brought over to the Roslyn compiler platform. Shared AST components also do not make a language "the same", because of that fun word "abstract" in AST. Just as most languages can be described in a BNF variant, fall into some variation of the category Context-Free Grammar, represent similar Pushdown Automata, etc. The underlying tools are very much the same across the vast spectrum of languages, but that doesn't mean all languages are the same/interchangeable.

Also, Visual Studio is a direct successor to the VB6 IDE. Visual Studio .NET shared a lot of code with that IDE. I'd be surprised if VS today didn't have at least some code inherited down the many years from that predecessor (certainly plenty of ghosts of it in source control). The VB6 IDE was considered "industrial-strength" in its time, too.

Given there's a free Community Edition of Visual Studio, and VB6 was never cheap, arguably the barriers to new developers to "just get to editing code" are at the lowest they've ever been, complexity or not. (Nostalgia is a weird fuzzy thing.)
Because networking is difficult with a lot of unknowns, P2P is a resource hog with many security issues, and encryption in itself is a beast.

A lot of the video game studios would love to use P2P instead of having to invest in infrastructure that cost money. Destiny is a example why they shouldn't. Destiny P2P system shows on average that anything over 5 users causes major lag in data transfer. Users home networks are equip for handling data coming to them, but not for data being pushed out. Same thing for cell phones they are design for small burst of data going out not constant data being uploaded. P2P is to much a resource hog when it becomes a time sensitive data transfer.

The other problem Destiny prove to be a issue with P2P is a small security issue with ddosing. You beating someone in a video game well a instant ddos and bam lag spikes. Lag spike in a P2P system are murder because they are instantly felt by all.

Another unknown issue with networking is routing you never know how or where your packets are being sent. If one user packets are for some reason being routed through Uganda then every user might have to send the same package 3 or 4 times each time till it reaches them. You would be surprise how many packet drops happen between isp and networks. This is even a bigger issue with P2P because a packet drop is multiple by the amount of users.

And finally we get to the fun world of encryption. It is fun because it is simple to say all the terms that make it sound encrypted and secure but it is a iceberg of hell and dog poop. Creating secure channels while creating encrypted message while insuring that the end party are a trusted end users while ensuring all the algorithms used are up to date and solid is horribly boring and tedious. Did you know that if you compress something then encrypted then you just broke your encryption? That is because compression algorithm has a repeating pattern that makes it easier to break encryption. It is little things like that and more why you need a whole security team of red and blue team when you ever use the word encrypted.

Also to the other problem you eluded to cross platform. Making anything cross platform is it's own major heart break issue. When you toss in phones as well (I run in corner screaming and crying thinking about it). You might say something like java can handle it all, but it doesn't. You still need to test everything over and over again. Every computer can be running a different version of the Java virtual machine each having its own different bugs. Then you get to the realm of cell phones on top of creating a desktop app, and I would just walk away. I would charge someone billions to handle that kind of dev work.

The situation isn't pathetic it is a iceberg problem. The amount of complex problems that come with creating a stable P2P cross platform encrypted solution that is easy for end user to use, and doesn't compromise in certain areas would cost millions of dollars upfront to build.
And that's the point. Youtube is an extraordinary business with an utter monopoly.
I was really intrigued by this zero-width characters thing haha
People doing things that you consider irrational is not automatically "mental illness." To conflate the two is both to absolve criminals and terrorists of moral responsibility and to stigmatize the mentally ill, most of whom are not homicidal.

Unless you have specific evidence of a particular mental illness, this kind of statement is irresponsible.
How about Carrie Fisher? She's still in Star Wars!