skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it's about profit. The internet is the only mass medium not being completely controlled by corporations. It's the only medium where truth can still be found about the real reasons why things occur.

Link tax and other new laws will make sure that networks that spread truths goes underground.
I think you have better chance getting a green card if you're an illegal immigrant than if you're on H1-B.
State of Kotlin 2018
Back-End Software Engineer
There is a cloud hanging over this World Cup and Fifa must not ignore it
Careful stating this so matter-of-factly. The law doesn't care about implementation details and implied copyright grants are tough to argue for. If I allow you to download a copyrighted work from my site it doesn't give you an implicit right to upload it to other people just because your browser has that feature.

Check out section A of http://nulawreview.org/extralegalrecent/do-not-forward-why-p....
A mixed reality race between real and virtual [video]
The reason for this should be obvious - discord has no profit model right now and wants to make sure they can monetize down the road.

I've heard them say they may introduce premium features that require payment. If you make a client that can replicate these features (like custom emojis or whatever), they might lose money.
My experience with Anki and similar programs has always been that my ability to recall the learned information is heavily dependend on context. Words or facts I can perfectly recall in Anki often didn't come to me in real-life situations.
I think just visiting for a couple of days doesn't work. You need to spend considerable time in SF, at least to build a base for your network.

- You can meet people by emailing them and asking for coffee. A cool thing about SV culture is that people are pretty open for that.
- The favorite way I like meeting new people is through friends (friends of friends) at non-work related parties
- You can meet people at networking events, but I find that there's a self-selection bias (i.e. interesting people usually don't go there, at least in my experience)
- You can just meet people randomly at bars, etc. but that takes some time :-)
Interesting to watch Kotlin grow, both as a language and in popularity. Seems like this hypetrain is going towards real wide adoption, especially with JS and Native support
Netflix approached the Hollywood studios to license their content for streaming, and Hollywood snickered and took the easy money. They expected it to be a total failure on Netflix's end.

Then, when Netflix started growing like crazy and the studios panicked. If Netflix was the only streaming service around, it would enable them to dictate licensing contracts. Suddenly, streaming was a real thing and they wanted to extract every cent possible from their content.

In order to slow Netflix down the studios pulled the majority of the "good" content from Netflix, and kept licensing them their b-movies and documentaries. To this day, you still don't see a whole lot of blockbusters or theatrical releases available on Netflix.

Netflix knew that they couldn't remain at the mercy of the content owners. So they leveraged their head start on content delivery by producing their OWN content only available through themselves.

It was a brilliant strategy, and I'm sure it took a lot of cajones to go down that path.
No offense to fashion executives and musicians, but their expertise seems orthogonal to running large, diverse content business.

Maybe they have that skillset too. It doesn't follow intrinsically though.

(And also has an interesting parallel with Apple starting to obsess about odd things customers don't really care about)
Ask HN: freelance/self-employed/startup visas by country?
Context: I'm a US citizen and developer interested in living in Europe and freelancing for a global client base. I have found mentions of programs in Sweden, Germany, etc.

I’m assembling a list (https://airtable.com/shrmNwymDiSsLCbAg/tblhYTLAEMfzEKgUc) for personal reference that also includes links to public experiences of previous applicants and various service providers. I wanted to check with the community to ensure I'm not duplicating something that already exists before investing more effort.

The requirements for these visas seem to overlap across nations so I am also exploring the feasibility of developing a "Common App" for myself to facilitate applying to multiple countries without having to re-enter information. I’m also considering developing a concierge service to smooth the process for others if there is interest.

If someone has already built this, would like to collaborate, or otherwise has any thoughts or experiences they would like to share, I'd love to hear about all of that as well.
> without any kind of public discussion about if we even want that law to begin with.

That is an omission of your politicians for not involving the public into the discussions, as there certainly are deep debates at the EU level that your elected politicians participate in.
That's funny. Moving to a different country is a complicated and long process. It can take over a decade, require thousands of dollars in expenses and hundreds of hours of work. Investing in another country's stock market takes 5 minutes and you can do it on your phone. Shouldn't it be "feel free to buy a different index fund if you're not pleased with the growth in your country's index," instead of "feel free to relocate if you're not pleased with the quality of life where you currently live"?
Thanks for sharing this. Great stuff!
> The crime was quite sizeable involving millions of dollars, a lot of employees etc.. It was not so much 'grey' as you can't facilitate the distribution of copyrighted stuff - and they were brazen about it.

All the links to megaupload could be reported by copyright holders and taken down if I remember, I don't see any facilitation of piracy.
XMPP has already been mentioned (thanks edhelas). What I didn't see mentioned was ActivityPub (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/), or some of the advanced messaging features users have come to expect (e.g., store and forward, forms, automated route handlers).

What I am curious about are the following questions?

1) What differentiates WebSub from XMPP?

2) What differentiates WebSub from ActivityPub?

3) How are you handling the N-squared delivery problem, if you are delivering content directly to each subscriber with HTTP POSTs?

4) Does WebSub currently support store and forward? If not, is that on a roadmap for a future version?

5) Same as 4, except for support for forms and form responses? Examples are a builtin Yes or No reply, or a builtin poll vote.

6) Same as 4, for automated message routing.

7) Why not have it be transport-agnostic, instead of mandating HTTP? And why HTTP? The growing trend is towards more decentralized.

8) How does this compare to Sir Tim Berners-Lee's SOLID (https://solid.mit.edu/)?
If you want to do this, then decide who you want to meet, make a list and email them all to ask to buy them coffee. Maybe 5% will say yes, so email some more...

Note the advice about making friends over the internet. Do that and then ask to say hi.

Reply to the person on this thread who suggested places to go and ask to buy them a coffee.

Don’t go to places, go to people.
"the dice you have to [roll] every time you encounter a police [officer]"? Are engineers recruited from Cambridge of the sort that particularly attract the attention of the police?
A broken right arm in my adolescent years forced me to perform the action you allude to here with great precision using my left hand.
That’s a good point; I should probably add it.
You can check abstract statistics here: http://www.businessinsider.com/sandvine-bandwidth-data-shows...

So the majority bandwidth will be videos. But as for unique users - social media and Google does make up the majority.
If I recall, the point is that if you have a record player that can play _every record_, then it can play _a record that breaks it_.

I think the piece's statement is supposed to relate to the "enumerating all deductions" bit of the Godel-numbering
IAASL also has one of the best (and easiest to understand) descriptions of non human sentience-when he talks about why he’s a vegetarian.
Then use their client. Its a free service, what are you complaining about.
Again with the "copyright math". If the copyright holders could, they'd ask for a license for breathing air, claiming they wrote about breathing air first.

TheGuardian seems to be rooting for this law pretty hardcore. I wonder what they've been promised by the law's lobbyists.
Some folks find it too easy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141374
> think he was 24? I think it's pretty incredible considering his age.

This makes sense. I read the book at age of 20 or so, and it made me to change my life and change my career path. It's very playful, it informs, connects and educates. I think older and more cynical me might not have enjoyed it so much.

I think "Metamagical Themes" and the "Fluid concepts and analogies" are his best books although GEP had the largest impact on me. They are more refined explorations of ideas.

The value of Hofstader's life work is his single minded exploration of one of the hardest problems in cognitive science. Unlike conventional AI/ML research he is tackling the problem beyond the reach of the state of the art and refusing to pick easier problems to solve even when he can't make progress.

Hofstader's main proposition is that analogy making is the core of human cognition.
He has made repeated attempts to pin it down into something that is formal using toy examples and programs (copycat, letter spirit). I think his approach has been very insightful even if nothing comes out of it.

In my opinion the "Fluid concepts and analogies" is the culmination of his work. GEB and
"Metamagical Themeas" are the predule, what came afterwards is more like prose and and maybe reflection of his personal tragedy.
I did build a temple to an imaginary fire dragon once. Unfortunately, this was before I discovered WorldEdit and its schematic saving functionality.
EU: Official public consultation on summertime arrangements
U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world
Tcl/Tk doesn't have the cachet that newer programming languages do, but it certainly still works and is a pretty neat language, and now would be a great time to have a Tcl renaissance.
>> They will just be happy if I live, pay taxes and spend money there.

And don't critisize the King or the Military. 'cause you might encounter what real consorship looks like. Unlike the EU, Thailand actually has censorship laws.
Having worked partially remote for about 12 years now, it is more because management believes butts in chairs is a sign of productivity.
The moment a plumber becomes licensed is well defined after extensive discussion. The speed limit is a constant discussion. We spend a lot of resources building fast cars and educating drivers, it's actually quite insulting to try to micromanage how fast another person drives. No, it's not.

We absolutely DO legislate exact moments pertaining to unforeseen situations. See discussion about "stand your ground" laws, which are exemptions from "murder is bad". Are they good? No, I don't think so.

Your last sentence is hilarious. We need to understand why complete strangers are so involved in the existence of babies they don't know. Really? The same reason we care that immigrant kids (we don't know) are separated from their families (we don't know either) and caged. The same reason we care about the people affected by the war in Syria. None of which I know personally btw. It's very simple: Iff an unborn baby is at any point a human individual, it has rights. They need then to be balanced with the rights of the mother. We can discuss if this is the case, and we can discuss how that balance should be found if we find that "yes". We can absolutely not discuss whether I can have an opinion on this or not.
Patriot is definitely underrated. Especially for anyone who loved the dark humor in Lock Stock or In Bruges.
>Although "Quantum Teleportation" could that theoretically be used to "teleport" a spacecraft FTL?

Everything I've ever read about quantum teleportation says no [0..2]. Even if state changes are instantaneous, the transmission of information itself is still limited to the speed of light (and a ship counts as "information" in this case), and the process of quantum teleportation would require some classical communication channel to transmit state.

All that notwithstanding the amount of energy you would need to "entangle" an entire ship in the first place.

[0]https://www.quora.com/Is-the-any-possibility-that-Quantum-Te...

[1]https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-can-we-use-q...

[2]http://www.askamathematician.com/2013/01/q-what-is-quantum-t...
That's correct. 2600 is a hacker quarterly. The 'zine has all sorts of interesting writeups, including hacker politics, 0-day discussions, free software talks, notes from people (including fuckyous as well). And the back is a picture of payphones from around the world.

And the name is a throwback to the 2600Hz tone that was used to gain operator rights on pre-digital trunking phone lines.
I'm a leftie and keep my mouse (or, if I've got any influence over the choice of pointing device, a trackball) on the right.

The biggie is that it frees up my dominant hand for writing - additionally, I've noted that my fine-motorical skills using my right hand has improved drastically over the years, to the extent that I am now almost ambidextrous.

(My handwriting is definitely readable when written with my right hand, but I find it more of a mental effort for less gain than simply just writing with my left hand...)

Think of moving the mouse over to the 'wrong' side as an exercise in building redundancy. :)
There were 5 news stories published on July 25th about the results. This story was (for a while) top story on the morning the resuklts came in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44596072
> Why San Francisco? San Francisco is the Schelling point for high-openness, smart, energetic, optimistic people. Global Weird HQ.

This could describe Seattle, Portland, Austin, Denver (from my experience) in the US, and a myriad of other places worldwide.
If you're 10–20 you should also set aside some time to have fun!
Sounds like that's about profit to me.
Difference Between the MacOS and Linux Kernels
It's only a matter of time before Tesla has to allow other service repair its cars. If they can't afford to take in all the Model S cars, they definitely won't be able to take in for repairs all the Model 3s.

If Tesla is trying to "make money" from its repair business as a business model, they're doing it wrong.
McDonald's has the best food, right?
I share the same sentiment with many of the commenters. I found GEB to be unnecessarily verbose and repetitive. But that is not to say that I wasn't impressed by the book. Irrespective of your disposition, there is a lot to take from it. First time I previewed it, I was blown away by its scope and depth that I decided to buy it. But after few chapters, I found it difficult to get past the fluff writing. I will take the advise of skipping first 300 pages and re-attempt this.

Like one other commenter, I too recommend the Open Courseware on GEB. I have only watched the videos on the chapters that I have already completed. It offers a fresh perspective and academic take on the material presented in the book.
They already have Discord Turbo. I agree that it's likely because their profit model is on shaky grounds, which makes me wonder: why do it in the first place?

What other avenues do that have for monetization? Could they potentially be collecting user data, chat logs, or voice recordings to potentially monetize off of down the road? Might they decide to start automatically injecting targeted ad content into chat sessions?
Misunderstood the question
> - action-item: review 2FA requirements for GitHub org

> - done: Gentoo GitHub Organization currently requires 2FA to join.
I have yet to see a good tutorial that shows an automated build of a kubernetes cluster. Yeah, you can use GKE, but that gets to be prohibitively expensive.
As a data point, both of my parents are like that.

Stuff I clearly remember from years ago they don't recall at all. It's probably not unusual.
Reinventing the buying process for the space industry
Looks like I got two completely different answers. Any thoughts on the sibling reply? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17462423
> I think he was 24?

27, but equally impressive nonetheless
> nobody I know has actually managed to finish it

Well, I guess that depends on what you mean by "finish it". Like the blog post guy says, he "looked at every page", but he's not sure he actually absorbed everything about it there was to absorb.
Sorry, but that's just not true. Silicon Valley is filled with stories of successful stalkings.

For example, in 2007, I loitered outside Facebook HQ on university ave until I had a chance encounter with someone who also attended my alma mater (!) and was starting his first day of work, so he took me inside with him[1]. I tried to meet with Zuck but they sicced Dave Morin on me. I ended up getting incredible access to the FB engineering team and my app was ultimately acquired, and I partially attribute that to unfair advantage.

[1] I think he's now successfully retired.
Mouse on the right, Surface Dial on the left
I read the whole book in almost one go over a weekend when I was 20. I think I took 3 hour break to sleep. I was very hungry and tired but I was unable to stop.

I read it again in next six months in small pieces afterwards.
What if the problem of auto-messaging is the potential for an infinite loop of message and auto-reply. That could cause a lot of headaches for whatsapp.
When was that? I always remember them being reversed engineered.
"People who did great things often did so at very surprisingly young ages". This is very true, Gates was 19 (BASIC), Linus was 21 (Linux), Wozniak 25 (Apple I), Ada Lovelace 27 (first algorithm), Bill Joy 21 (vi), Andreessen 21 (Mosaic), Turing 24 (Turing machine) and so on.
Besides the subway map header most of these suck. They're too wordy and don't integrate with the actual meme at all.
> In particular, try to go deep on multiple things...deep on languages, programming...

I fall under the target audience for this piece and by now I've dabbled with at least half a dozen of programming languages and their celebrated frameworks/libraries- from Front to the Back. I tried my best to go deep on all of them just for the sake of learning. But, now I feel lost and can't figure out which path am I supposed to pursue in this vast CS space. Where did I mess up ?

Edit: spelling errors
European Parliament sent copyright law back to drawing board
For one, our healthcare is free. Though many companies still provide private healthcare as a benefit. Personally I agree with OP, I wouldn't want to live in the US either. Mainly because capitalism has been taken to an ugly extreme and you might get paid more but you also work more etc. Not to mention the tax and tips culture. Of course there are problems here too; it rains a lot more, and every conversation that goes on long enough always ends up as some sort of brexit complaint ...
Automotive Grade Linux  Software Defined Connected Car Architecture [pdf]
This comment reminded my of an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast on memory -- with Brian Williams' story around an experience he had in Iraq 15 years ago. If I remember correctly, the takeaway is that memory isn't infallible.. not a video recording of the past.

He also describes experiments done on flashbulb memories (e.g. what were you doing when you heard about 9/11).. and found that people who wrote down that week what they were doing, then returned to that notation years later, will swear they remember it differently.. admit it's their handwriting but express they must have been lying at the time. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/24-free-brian-william...
This seems to be a pretty one-sided article in favour of the law, I guess all these talks about independence of journalism go down the drain when your financial interests are not aligned.
I like this point in particular -- "Don't stress out too much about how valuable the things you're going deep on are." The general stance of people is to stick to the practical stuff -- knowledge or skills that you can use right away. But, it's important to have a long view and given enough time the impractical could turn into something practical. Serendipity is underrated, and in my experience the impractical stuff is what enables serendipity.
> Metamagical Themes

It's Metamagica Themas, I think - an anagram of 'Mathematical Games'; the Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American which proceeded it.

A lovely book.
A comment I read about Amazon, and which I'd never really thought about before, noted how books were actually the perfect entry point for Amazon becoming Amazon.

The existing model was open to disruption, but more importantly the intrinsic attributes of a book itself made it perfect.

Huge market, non-perishable, substitutable, easily shipped, similarly sized, with an incredibly long tail of varieties

How many other goods fit those criteria?
I am not a vegan, but his consciousness cone is something I seem to bring up frequently with people. Usually by the end of the conversation I don't quite know why I'm not vegan aside from habit. Last time I brought it up I was eating sushi and talking about how I had decided to quit eating cephalopods because they might be smarter than humans... But then ate pork belly and just didn't really know what I stood for anymore. Pigs don't have a complex skin pattern language, but they are smarter than my cats who I would never eat. Other people's cats might be smarter than a pig, mine are pretty dumb.

I need to double down on meal planning and just really quit it.
Nope, those are not sent anywhere, only to the HIBP API, you can check the code.
GitHub All-Stars: face-api.js
Ferroelectric Memory Company raises 4.6m euros
RIP bitlbee-discord :(
Left hander who used to mouse with right, but now uses left due to RSI. The hardest thing for me is realizing how often I used the ESC key (which my left hand used to rest on).
spot 1 on front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17462089
> "problematic speech"

Uh....1984, much?
If you'd like to discuss slavery elsewhere, why don't you post a substantive article on the topic? That's what Hacker News posts are: a story and a discussion about that story.
I realize these aren't controlled experiments, but consider two sources:

1) Alistair Cockburn has a communication chart [0] suggesting that face-to-face at a whiteboard is the most effective form of communication. He's been showing the chart for at least a decade, to rooms full of engineers from all the big players and lots of little players. If he were wrong, he'd eventually run out of consulting clients, but that hasn't happened. I realize this is a weak argument.

2) YCombinator co-locates its funded teams. I'd wager they're familiar with the arguments for and against remote work, that they're technology savvy, that they're data-driven, and they're incentivized to get the most for their money. I realize that this second argument is the same as my first, but I think these arguments should make you think about why they put a premium on in-person collaboration.

[0] http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/communication.htm
I did this because I was experiencing intense pain in my right shoulder. Ten years on, the pain hasn't returned and the mouse stays on the left.
You can still pass your formula based password though a cryptographic hash function and would be fine. Although not very useful for device logins and as mentioned in some other comment probably trick to rotate passwords.