skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a question I've been trying to answer:

Q: How can you conveniently and compactly represent, view and edit JSON in spreadsheets, using the grid instead of so much punctuation?

I’ve come up with a simple format and convenient conventions for representing and editing JSON in spreadsheets, without any sigils, tabs, quoting, escaping or trailing comma problems, but with comments, rich formatting, formulas, and leveraging the full power of the spreadsheet.

It's a work in progress, and I have posted a few messages about it on HN. I'm in the process of writing it up now on Medium (but I'll publish it now so you can read it). I welcome any feedback, criticisms and suggestions, please!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/representing-and-editing-json...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309132
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17360071
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17360799
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17360883

Here's an example spreadsheet -- check out the examples in the different sheets (the tabs along the bottom):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nh8tlnanRaTmY8amABgg...

Here's a sample implementation, that runs in the browser, node.js, as a Google Spreadsheet extension, etc:

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/UnityJS/Ass...

As well as parsing JSON structures out of raw spreadsheet data, that code also returns a tree of scopes that you can use for syntax coloring or error message feedback, because I'm integrating it with Google Sheets (but the parser is independent of the particular spreadsheet, and just operates on 2D array of strings).

It would be nice to develop it into a macro templating engine for JSON (or higher level structures that happen to be represented as JSON). Kind of like Genshi (the XML/Python templating system that I’ve used a whole lot and love for its simplicity).

https://genshi.edgewall.org/
That's a pretty strong argument for increasing the baseline level of social, community, heath, employment services, in addition to a focus on education. likely need to invest in those changes and then keep the programs funded and running with careful adjustements for multiple generations.

i agree, there's only so much a single teacher, or a school full of teachers can do if a lot of other basic needs aren't being met.
> I did, you asked for alternatives, I gave you Rsync and SCP.

afaict, they asked about the impact to the linux build of filezilla (not about alternatives).

are rsync and scp strict supersets of filezilla's features?
Speex has actually been superseded by Opus. Both are patent free as well.
We lost a few hours of commits and notified everyone affected. That's it.
I'm someone who often gets insufficient sleep during the week and, anecdotally, sleeping 12 - 16 hours on Friday and Saturday night seems to rejuvenate me. I've always felt like I could pay off sleep debt if I really get a lot of sleep on the weekends in proportion to how much I lost during the week.
Wealth to who?

An immigrant will capture a much smaller share of the value they generate, otherwise why use them, than a native born citizen.

This means that while theoretically 'wealth' is increasing it is increasing in such a way that those who are in the position to pay wages keep more of them and those in the position to receive them get much less.

In short then what's the point of an average in a power law distribution which by definition does not have a defined average?

Or to put it even more dumbly would you rather live in a world of 100 units of wealth distributed between the 5 quintiles as [80.0, 16.0, 3.2, 0.64, 0.128] or one of 20 units distributed as [6,5,4,3,2]. For 2/3rds of the people in the world the second would be better.
Cloud-to-Butt browser extension never gets old...
I think you might not have thought it all the way through yet.

For real, true immortality (a span of not hundreds, but also thousands, millions, billions of years), the problem shifts to what it means to be 'you'. You're not the same person you were when you were 5, 15, or 25, with different goals, preferences, and motivations.

Extend that to geological time, and there become only a few reasonable cases:

1. You stop changing; the core of your personality becomes completely fixed. I would claim this is a form of death, because although you are still physically healthy and moving about, change is an inherent part of life and growth.

2. Your personality drifts to the point that previous incarnations of your 'self' (even if you remember them) become very far from who you are currently. In which case, you're not really immortal, you're just a series of 'different people' who happen to share a single memory and narrative.

3. Your personality shifts at some point to wanting to death, at which point (assuming suicide is allowed) life ends

I highly recommend Schild's Ladder[1] and Permutation City [2], both by Greg Egan, which do an excellent job of asking 'who am I?' if we had the ability live for infinite time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schild%27s_Ladder

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
Would be a fun experiment to use something like 3 or even 1 sine to get unintelligible speech, but then pair it with subtitles where each syllable of the text is animated synchronized with the speech. (Like the "follow the bouncing ball" song lyric animations.)

By pairing the audio with the text, you would almost certainly convince the listener that they can understand it.

Edit: typo
Nah it's extremely local, that's why everybody is mad at it
Yet at the other end you will find people that in full earnestness argues for further locking down, because "owners" can't trusted with proper maintenance. This is why the "home" PC varaiants of Windows 10 force reboots and removed the group policy tool that could have made disabling it easy.
watch How It's Made[1], this one is probably not my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzUm7UEEIY

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWBkudOTaVbvkCBc0pyZFMA
The law already differentiates between “citizens” and “permanent residents”, so even if it is a regression, it had been codified a while ago.
Nintendo's betrayal of Sony – and how it created its fiercest rival
> The pressure Walmart put on food manufactures to drop prices played a significant role in the malnutrition and obesity in the us.

Making food less expensive is bad? Never really understood that argument but maybe it's just me...

There are studies on the percentage of income a family spends on food today vs. some time in the past (with "time" depending on whatever study you look at) and it has steadily declined. Less money spent on food == more money to spend on some other necessary thing to live a quality life.

Also, I'd put more blame on the USDA[0] for "obesity in the us" than Wallyworld selling people what they want to buy. People grow up believing in the Food Pyramid and end up becoming overweight through a "well balanced diet" dreamed up through regulatory capture.

[0]https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-bailor/obesity-epide... -- note: #1 result on the google for "food pyramid obesity" is the huffpo so it has to be true...
Good lord, wait until someone shows you computers. All the ones and zeros. A real mess we all can agree.
I consider all distinguishing characteristics between people or groups of people to be projections utilized by human minds to motivate and bring forth highly-ritualized purifying violence, which ranges in intensity from inconsequential name-calling to full-scale genocide. My best historical example of this from pre-modernity was the 13th Century Cathar Purge, where the War refrain "Kill them all and let God sort them out" originates, and continues forth until this day. Records point to a similar practice within the Aztec regime, with self-sacrifice a common action to sustain the empire.

Given the advanced bureaucratic practices common to empires in precolonial America, it seems the Aztecs simply required regular sacrificial deaths (via suicide or homicide) to maintain their office, in addition to regularly liquifying prisoners or the enslaved. Like a death camp which ran on self-motivated suicide, for reasons of cosmic accounting.
Chip on your shoulder?

So the State Police (NY State for me) did manufacture child pornography allegations. I am glad your experience was different.

I believe that in this case, the CIA planted this evidence.

I love my username, one could even say irrationally so.
Rain chains are common in Japan, and decorative as well as useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_chain
I can vouch for "The Man Without Qualities", the book is really extraordinary. I read it when I was 18 and I still remember not quite knowing why I liked it so much.
Ahh same deal. Geographical restrictions are for civilian law and political purposes. National Security follows different standards.
It was not my intention to create a flamewar and I will stop commenting on this.

The reason I am defensive when it comes to these articles is because they are actively used by hate groups to validate a perspective of the world where some nations are unworthy of their lives, freedom and right to self determination. Presenting these articles without an accompanying them with the context of the time does not help that situation.
I love stories like this because I love borders and other artificial constructs.

First time I left Europe was to Vancouver. During the trip I drove down the a road that runs along the border with Washington state. Pulled over to loom at the markers. On the other side of the ditch was another parallel road, with occasional traffic, and a speed limit in mph rather than kph.
Ask Germany how trying to import a class of non-citizen workers worked out for them.
Actually, in the proper context, it isn't. In fact, it's pitiful compared to the increase in wealth resulting from focusing on turning the poor country into a rich one.
THAT'S the biggest economic story of the last several decades; and to first order, immigration is only relevant to the extent that it facilitates more rapid development of China/India/Rwanda/etc. The US electorate is still more annoyed by predominantly Mexican/Central American illegal immigration than the combination of reverse-mercantilist trade policy, foreign student education and practical training, outsourcing, and tech transfer that the US has deployed to facilitate the development of China, India, and many countries before and after them. The total positive impact of the latter is easily >20x as large as the former, higher-cost policy.

You don't get to discount China/India/etc.'s growth as "inevitable catch-up growth" on one side of the equation, yet fully count it on the other side.

As a consequence, I support reverse-mercantilist trade policy, foreign student education and practical training, outsourcing, and tech transfer, especially for countries like India which both have a lot to gain and are strategically highly aligned with the US (I acknowledge that China is now a more complicated case), to the extent that Americans can continue to bear these things. (Canadians and Australians seem to be fine with continuing these practices indefinitely, while also letting a pretty high number of skilled nonwhite foreigners from poor countries settle permanently.) And I violently oppose the grossly inefficient mass-low-skill-immigration policy that threatens to turn Americans, Germans, and others against the overall project while accomplishing so little.
I once unsolved a murder I discovered online, causing very unwelcome consequences for the victim's family. So I can relate to some aspects of this story.

First, trying to solve a cold-case can utterly consume you in a way that is impossible to truly comprehend unless you've lived it. It haunted my dreams and waking hours, even ones when all I wanted to do was think about something else for long enough to relax.

Second, no matter how good your intentions or how just your cause, there will be people who resent your work. It could be law enforcement or forensic experts, who don't want an "amateur" to expose their mistakes and oversights. It could be the victim's family, who don't want to revisit the loss of their loved one, even if the reality they've made peace with is built on falsehoods and errors.

I was fortunate that my work freed an innocent man who was serving life in prison, which retroactively validated my otherwise bizarre decision to start obsessing over a 15-year-old murder.

It would be really, REALLY difficult to develop a similar obsession, feel like your time and effort produced a breakthrough, and then not get any closure. That doesn't excuse their behavior, but I understand the emotional frustration.
same Shriram that is involved in the Scheme-based Racket language, I would guess?
No object ever in society is "inherently authoritarian".

Authoritarianism is a behavior of a country's leaders, not a label on some unwanted technology.

E.g. Sniper rifles are not authoritarian in an of themselves. The use of sniper rifles to snuff out dissent is.

And that's why this debate is dishonest. Because if you support facial recognition software for the police as another tool for the good guys, you get smeared as supporting authoritarianism.

When in fact, if you deeply wanted to remove authoritarian behaviors, you would add more checks and balances to the system to prevent unchecked behavior from our leaders.

The founding father's knew that and designed the constitution that way.
>You have choices, many.

Would you like the email of my cto to explain to them why I have those choices?

>What kind of code depends on an external FTP client to work?

The type that invests your 401k's. Filezilla called from Excel macros.

>I did, you asked for alternatives, I gave you Rsync and SCP.

I didn't. You just told me I was doing it wrong and need to change it to do it right.
That's the thing, if you look at the NSA, they were and still are absolutely empowered to do what they did.

The only person who got in trouble for the domestic surveillance disclosures were the person who blew the whistle. That's because what he did was illegal and what they did wasn't.
Oracle to start requiring subscription for Java
> "Unfortunately the current set or classes of sleeping pills that we have do not produce naturalistic sleep. So they are all a broad set of chemicals that we call the sedative hypnotics, and sedation is not sleep, it's very different. It doesn't give you the restorative natural benefits of sleep. ... If you look at the electrical signature of sleep that you have when you're taking those medications, it's not the same as a normal night of sleep."

Most of the literature I've read reports otherwise, that Zolpidem actually can increase the quality of your sleep. Of course, it's not without it's disadvantages as well.
If this was true, then US being the biggest immigrant-friendly country in the world, would do so in a heartbeat. But neither the government nor corporations are advocating this. America currently has the biggest economy in the world, an average of $58,000 income, a low 3.9% unemployment rate while enjoying GDP growth rate of close to 5% in Q2, as well as close to 220,000 new jobs every month, and growth in wage increases. In some areas (like silicon valley), employees are offered 200k-300k salaries. It got to here by having a strong republic/democracy and rules and laws, support technologies in public and private sectors, limit immigration to skill-based, and recently choosing to lower corporate tax rate and reduce corporation regulations.
How would you enjoy Taipei with 25 million Filipinos in it? More, or less?

If you wanted that, would you not live in Manila?
Bacteria break-down the food, i.e. proteins, sugars, etc... and also produce toxic by-products in the process, much like your digestive system breaks down food and produces... well you know what...

In the end, you can't just re-heat this mess and re-assemble all the complexity that was broken-down and destroyed, you just get a warmer bucket of yuck...
Even hit on what we could now call “smart home” devices. He managed to come up with a lot of examples to try to illustrate to the host what computers would be used for!
ITT people are so clever in creating a workaround but are unable to perform basic maintenance. Replacing washers is a fundamental skill
>third-world values

What does this even mean? Please elaborate your hierarchy of cultures and their “values.” What about all the wildly successful and educated children of immigrants from these countries who are in the US now?
And, a generation later, their domination of the area firmly established and plainly evident, what then was their mindset? Was it their "fear" and "defensiveness" that led them to continue wholesale rape and slaughter across Central America?
The downvotes again confirm that this is indeed a correct assumption.
confirm, works fine on latest Firefox stable Android
NASA: Swingers.

I don't mind if you upvote or downvote me. Tell me your experience.
I interned in the Graphics kernel team at Microsoft and we worked quite a lot with xbox. None of those people like DRM and copy protection bullshit but the studios (both gaming and media) demand it and not having them could mean losing market share to others that are willing.

Cheat prevention is another big reason that often came up for the hardened environment.
I agree that the existence of the software is benign. I said the use of it is authoritarian.

And sure, I didn't make it explicit, so let me make it explicit now: the use of the software to identify real people is authoritarian.

If you use it to classify random cat pictures then that's obviously not authoritarian.
While the host - Max Allen - is certainly a bit obtuse and doesn't share the same technical insights & visions of Ted Nelson (hardly surprising given they had significantly different experience and careers) he's respectful of his guest (doesn't interrupt or talk over), concedes various points willingly, appears to genuinely want to understand, and actually enjoys the discussion.

The nostalgia sensation isn't just around Ted's prescience.
You're missing the escalation aspect. The risk is that the abuser starts hitting harder or switches to a deadly weapon like a gun or knife.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17375552
The cost of huge flat-screen TVs has plummeted. Meanwhile, the cost of housing and healthcare is going through the roof in most of the western world. It very much does not follow that people who have the disposable income to purchase techno-toys can support their basic needs.
I would call Tyson a good spokesman for science if he had a high regard for rigor and accuracy. But he does not.
http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/01/fact-checking-neil-...
Extending that analogy to corporate entities, you imply that anyone with competing offers from Google and local Arco AM/PM Gas Station is better off choosing the latter one, even if Google’s offer is more competitive? Because, after all, Google is likely to extract more wealth out of that careet stint than Arco, and implicitly screw the employee over?
Regardless of that we can no longer trust the developers of FileZilla.

If they need money, they should ask for donations instead. Patreon was suggested elsewhere in this thread.
Great single point of failure. Hack this center and it's like the nsa is collecting data for you.
I actually got a floppy disk tattoo on my foot in a moment of spontaneity (bottomless mimosas). https://imgur.com/a/slCG519
No taxation without representation is a huge part of the culture of the US. I'm guessing suggesting open immigration without voting rights will have a large amount of detractors for this reason. Unless the immigrants aren't taxed, which is kind of the current situation anyway for illegal immigrants.
I suspect you underestimate how massively disruptive it is to move to another country, particularly one that doesn't speak any language that you speak. Maybe America would pick up a lot of random people, being huge and wealthy, but everywhere else, I would seriously doubt it would get this kind of drive-by immigration you imagine.
There's a lot more to that problem than mere political vote flipping or blue waves.

Importing Latin American politics by way of culture would be a terrifying disaster. There is hardly a place on earth with less stable government systems or human rights protections.

Transparency International ranks Latin America as the worst place on earth for corruption, only rivaled by a few parts of third world Africa.

Latin America is the most violent and corrupt large region on earth. People that think the US has a high murder rate, have never been anywhere near a typical Latin American country. The US has a non-murder violence rate comparable to developed Europe; Latin America's rate of non-murder violence is comparable to a war zone (and its rate of murder is best described as a war zone).

London's explosion of acid attacks, stabbing murders, and extreme violence problems are a crystal clear example of how you have to be very careful when you import foreign culture. Cultural adjustment & acclimation is very difficult and takes a long time.

Very few countries in Latin America function at all. They roll from one civil war, dictatorship and disaster to the next. The reason for that is cultural (and no, trying to blame the US for every problem in Latin America doesn't actually work as an excuse; unless you're going to credit the US for Canada's success and any successes in Latin America as well).

If the US is going to import a vast number of people from Latin America, it's also very important to not import the failed cultures of Latin America that have led to extreme murder rates, extreme poverty, extreme violence, and endless failed political systems.

Latin American Socialism is one of the great political and cultural failures of the last two centuries. It needs to die in Latin America, the sooner the better. Turning the US into a Venezuela, Bolivia or Brazil through cultural import is the worst possible outcome.
Reminds me of Marimba's product Castanet (which went with Bongo). Named by the same genius who came up with the name "Java" -- Kim Polese.

https://www.wired.com/1996/11/es-marimba/

http://www.suck.com/netmoguls/96/10/18/front.html

http://www.suck.com/netmoguls/96/10/18/back.html

Kim said: "It was fun naming stuff back then. You could actually get the trademark/website!"
Bitcoin today is where computers were in 1979. A little embarrassed to admit it but I feel like the short-sighted interviewer who fails to see the applications of the technology.
Interesting. Is this the paper?

https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(85)90065-9
Fewer than you'd think. New York and California would be places you could actually live in.
nothing. But some people who think their opinions are facts don't like it.
Important to note. A lot of complex systems people turn to the NASA systems engineering handbook [1] thinking it will solve all their cost and schedule issues. It may help and is insightful. But there's no silver bullet.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/release-of-revision-to-the-nasa...
Perdido Street Station was one of the best sci-fi novels I've read. I haven't read much - if any - of Miéville's other material, but it's on my list.

FWIW, his work seems to be at least relatively well known in the US. As one example, I'm sitting at a random Barnes & Noble store in Durham NC as I write this, and they have several Miéville titles on the shelf.
This world would be a very shitty one to live in, unless you were very rich.
That's a good point. There are similar laws in the Bible, like the law that you should definitely not shave your head to mourn a death, which seems silly without the context that its something Egyptians did.