skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine you'd need to be normally resident at the time you're applying to university, which is a bit more difficult for the average 17-18 year old busy with their final year of school.

The university would presumably also expect a Scotland-resident student to take Scottish exams at a Scottish school, which is a separate system to England, so even more hassle.
And those "translations" were criticized from their inception onward by non-authoritarian socialists/Marxists.

For example, Bertrand Russell only 3 years after the revolution (thus 1920):

In a capitalist state, the Government and the capitalists on the whole hang
together, and form one class; in Soviet Russia, the Government has
absorbed the capitalist mentality together with the governmental, and
the fusion has given increased strength to the upper class. But I see
no reason whatever to expect equality or freedom to result from such a
system, except reasons derived from a false psychology and a mistaken
analysis of the sources of political power.

I am compelled to reject Bolshevism for two reasons: First, because
the price mankind must pay to achieve Communism by Bolshevik methods
is too terrible; and secondly because, even after paying the price, I
do not believe the result would be what the Bolsheviks profess to
desire.
The Reason Tumblr Vanished from the App Store: Child Pornography
Spending it on public unions would probably raise the incomes for non tech workers in SF.
If you can classify houses, trees and boats, you can classify "problematic" things. That would actually be somewhat useful.

In practice though, if somebody wants to deface something, they'll find a way to do it. You can't sacrifice creativity to preventing that.

/r/place has shown that people (or redditors) are cooperative enough to maintain a reasonably "clean" environment, without any form of external moderation.
She is not from LinkedIn :)
They exist; I've seen them in fairly remote parts of Sweden, but I don't know what the economics are.
I love Silicon Valley as much as I loathe Big Bang Theory. Talk about a show that plays to what "regular" people think nerds are like. I am absolutely dumbfounded how popular it is. Then again, Chuck Lorre has a track record for that type of garbage...
There are two reasons for this I can see:

1) All mutations and key ranges are stored locally and submitted when the transaction commits. Lots of data to transfer.

2) the optimistic conflict checker can process one range (even if it is a lot of underlying keys) a lot easier than each individual key in that range
Same. Never used FB actually
Microsoft supported Windows XP for 12 years. They didn’t even need to use the “LTS” branding. (That may have changed now that they’ve moved to rolling updates.)

Neither Apple nor Google do anything comparable.
You guessed correctly that I had JS disabled. Thank you!
Looks very interesting, but the doc is very busy right now. If you want to download a PDF copy of the doc for reading on the go, here's the link (let it load for a while): https://docs.google.com/document/d/104qgagSsp2rQQEDORGbYC0uq...
That's called milking a story. Writing a single piece can't address all different aspects of a story, such as covering the impact, reactions, etc.

It is pretty much standard fare, and would be surprising if they didn't do it. You can also see the same in any big story the NYT or other papers publish, good or bad.
A New Yorker "Shouts and Murmurs" piece mentions Infinite Jest:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/what-i-have-in...

FWIW, I've only read the first 1/3 of IJ, and much of it is now burnt into my memory like the scars of a branding iron. Resolved to never pick up the book again.
BBT is punching down not up.
My question exactly. Can’t exactly use long polling for this.
Can you invert a binary tree?
You're right that we could already re-seed decellularized pig ECMs with human stem cells, but we have also already been able to derive stem cells from the stomach. I think the main claim that they're making is that by deriving both the ECM and the Stem cells from the patient, the resulting tissue engineering scaffold is less immunogenic than other methods.

While this is somewhat interesting, they get into trouble by going on to claim that they've been able to generate "functional
cardiac, cortical, spinal cord, and adipogenic tissue implants". From what I can see in the paper they saw increased expression of a few markers associated with those cell types and some minor electrical activity, etc.

The idea that differentiating stem cells into vaguely tissue-like phenotypes is equivalent to being able to manufacture organs brings back memories of the shenanigans that went down at UCL a few years ago [1].

1. https://forbetterscience.com/2016/12/21/birchalls-trachea-tr...
> At this point Diana has been completely gaslighted as to what her hotmail password is, because my phishing site said the wrong password was right, and then said the right password was wrong, and she thinks it’s the real Hotmail.

Most underrated footnote.
Chrome made a better walled garden out of the web than any other browser.

People want apps. Not browsers.
3 Pro Tips on Alignment (UI Design)
A few months ago I wrote a certain story here and to my surprise I received a call from Dan Lyons, one of the writers of the show. We had long discussions about silicon valley and his new book coming out (I'm featured in it). A few weeks ago he was in LA and we had another long discussion about the show.

Silicon Valley is the show most startup founders will refuse to watch. My startup was featured on TechCrunch Disrupt, we were on stage talking about how we will change the world with our product. Then things didn't particularly go as planed.

I discovered the show and started watching it shortly after. It was painful to see that they portrayed our exact journey as it happened. Only the show poked fun of the mistakes we were making. I watched it not only as a comedy, but also as a documentary that would predict our fate. It was eye-opening!

My favorite part (and most humiliating) was when we pitched our startup to a non-silicon valley investor and she simply replied: "OK, cut the crap. Which website are you scraping?"

All my co-founders were offended by the show. I must admit, its painful to watch someone else make fun of the things you put your heart to. But from time to time, someone has to make fun of you or you start to take yourself too seriously.

If you are trying to make it in silicon valley, please watch the show. At best, it will help you make your startup more grounded.
Nobody has dropped out or decided coding isn't for them? It sounds like you found students who really know what they want. How hard was it to find students and what was your selection process like?
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I use local self-hosted email service. I do think public API endpoints would be good thing to have, and/or other protocols, that you will have command line programs to use. (That is one reason I invented remote virtual table protocol, although other existing protocols can also be used for many purposes; in some cases, HTTP is best anyways, too. And some protocols are too complicated! That is why to have a simpler one, such as httpdirlist instead of WebDAV.)
on the contrary for the first point. i suspect that most enjoy notmuch with their traditional interface because there are not many alternatives. probably most people looking for interface alternatives switched to gmail.

commandline UI development in particular seems very conservative, and attempts to explore new interfaces are rare. that's why i love this topic and am getting excited about any attempt to change that.

i obviously can't comment on what it takes to integrate notmuch with lumail, and i grant that one may possibly have to develop a mailclient with notmuch in mind for it to work well.

greetings, eMBee.
Scenarios 1 and 2:

1. I did something very similar and got a legal threat from a Fortune 100. My attorneys had successfully litigated similar matters but told me in my case, the law was clear-cut in the F100's favor. My attorneys attempted to negotiate a license agreement that would allow me to continue, but it fell on deaf ears and I had to shut down my business.

2. Like most things on the internet, sure, you could. But someone could stop you with legal force if they were inclined to do so.

Even though cases like Feist supposedly say that facts pulled from fact-collections aren't subject to copyright, that doesn't really work out on the internet for a couple of reasons.

The biggest reason is the CFAA. Anyone has the right to tell you to stop talking to their servers at any time. Such notice doesn't even have to be explicit; in Craigslist v. 3Taps, the judge indicated that IP blocks should've been sufficient notice that 3Taps's presence was unwelcome, but companies frequently go even farther and say that the fine print buried in the Terms of Service banning "automated access", "spidering", "crawling", or similar is sufficient notice. Judges frequently accept that argument.

Failure to heed these notices very likely constitutes "exceeding authorized access" under the CFAA, which is both a tort and a crime (meaning, you can both be sued and be put in jail for it). Companies use this to bludgeon upstarts all the time.

The other thing here is:

a) very few facts on the internet are really alone; interesting data is almost always encased in HTML or some other copyrightable superstructure.

b) a legal philosophy called "the RAM Copy Doctrine", which is very well established at this point, means that storing any copyrightable work in system memory for any amount of time, even if it's just long enough to extract a non-copyrightable fact and then throw the surrounding copyrightable content away, meets the legal definition of a copy and is thus potentially infringing. This effectively allows rightsholders to instantly double any infringement claim, and attorneys actually have tried to posit that each instance of a copyrighted work getting loaded into memory for e.g. network transmission to another source should count as an independent act of infringement.

The 9th Circuit ruled that memory copies meet the Copyright Act's definition for fixed, non-transitory copies in MAI v. PEAK (1993) and that has been (mis)applied to most digital copyright controversies since. This is the effective equivalent of stating that the reflection of an image from the human retina onto the optic nerve is a separate potentially-infringing copy.

Scraping is most certainly still a legally dubious business. You have to take the Google route and get too big to fail before you'll start to see inconsistent outcomes like Perfect 10 v. Amazon, where the judges effectively gave Google a pass because they were scared of the widespread ramifications of shutting down Image Search, despite the clear legal reasoning that would've mandated this.

IANAL
This took me a while to figure out, but it’s incredibly powerful once you get it. As others have suggested, I was working on a Redux-based interpreter.
Any other interesting ones like this people are aware of?
This is because zoning laws largely prevent additional housing construction. Converting existing housing isn't blocked however so converting them to vacation rentals makes sense economically.
Not really surprised. And I think Meteor got in trouble precisely because it appealed mostly to small teams, so that doesn't seem to be a viable business model.
Zinsser's On Writing Well. (i.e. on writing non-fiction)

The first half of To The Finland Station (1940) was absolutely fascinating (the second half is the story of Marx, Lenin etc which I know more about so didn't read) - about 19th C French historians, and the origins of socialism. I had no idea that 'socialisms' was the name given to those experimental farms/communities all over the US in the early-mid 19th C - that's what the word meant at the time - there's a lot on the history of those. Brilliantly written.

Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics - the history, science and philosophy of comics. Plus it's a comic.

Crucial Conversations - I added this to You Just Don't Understand on my 'Essential Guides for Anyone in a Relationship' list. Equally important for other areas of life.

Deep Work on different ways people like/need to work.

On Not Being Able To Paint (1950) by Joanna Field (Marion Milner). I read her A Life Of One's Own and An Experiment in Leisure (both from the 1930s) 25+ years ago, and loved them dearly. A Life Of One's Own is about her using her diary to learn about herself, something I'd started doing at the time. I owned a copy of On Not Being Able To Paint for many years, but never read it through until very recently. It's surprisingly great. It's about her learning to paint, or rather, learning what painting is, and I found she learns pretty much exactly the things I learnt when I spent 5 years writing orchestral music. (after having been a pianist and painter for many years) Well, maybe I was too young to appreciate it before.

Books I'd read before, but read at least twice more this year: the Zanders' Art of Possibility, Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist and Share Your Work!. Various essays of G.K. Chesterton and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The wage floor has been continuously getting raised. Many areas of California have the highest minimum wage laws in the country. That isn't going to solve the problem.
Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion.

This article is about low-skill workers, and has nothing to do with tech companies being against unions.

But, it could simply be a tangential discussion, and those are often interesting! My main concern was the

Capitalists are well known to conspire together and create capitalist unions to block workers of all stripes.

generalization, which turned a potentially interesting discussion of tech unions into an "capitalism vs. xyz" ideological battle.
> And yet just doodling something raw and having something presentable come out is way more fun than choosing stuff from drop down menus.

It's fun for thirty seconds, after which it is just tedious. If you actually want to "get stuff done", like building a toy city, you will want the menu that shows you what's actually available.

> Why even have a GUI why not a CLI which parses a config file that says "house boat".

Because that's obviously a bad interface as well. It's not like scribbly interfaces are the next step of evolution in human-computer-interaction. They're gimmicks. You're not going to go to Amazon.com and start scribbling something you want to buy. You'll type it in.
To suggest that basic literacy and educational attainment are somehow indicative of above average intelligence or the ability to understand complex and abstract ideas is a bit of a stretch.

With grade inflation and babysitting modern age students, what are the realistic requirements to attain a university degree in a low-difficulty major at a mediocre school? 80 IQ? 85?

The literacy argument is trivially refuted in a similar manner. Reading by itself is not indicative of higher cognitive function above an elementary school child.

Also, proportions are what matter here. I doubt the proportion of people with high fluid/crystallized intelligence is higher now, than it was, say in 1850. The only difference is that now a higher proportion of the general population have degrees.
Considering that certain paths of inquiry are off limits socially, both Left and Right, I don't think you'll get that any time soon.
All the ones I've seen (domain listings) route me to eBay to close the deal, just a nicer/aggregated listing of items for sale across multiple sites
> I understand what a drawn position is

To make this more concrete, the following link is a drawn position (it is trivially easy for either side to avoid checkmate, indefinitely)

http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/?p=---k------------------...

However, checkmate is still possible (White can checkmate Black if Black makes severe blunders that even beginners probably wouldn't make)

Do you think the players should be forced to play on here?
This is interesting stuff but I don't think the article describes anything groundbreaking. The cells used by the scientists in the article are called adipose-derived stem cells and their applications are already well known in the regenerative medicine industry. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3668445

The biologists I develop software with have been talking about adipose-derived stem cells for over a year, so I was hoping the article was going to announce a technological leap in organ manufacturing. It did not.
The main reason that renewable energy looks cheaper is that most countries chose, as a policy decision, to count the costs of dealing with its intermittent nature entirely against the non-renewables that have to fill in the gaps rather than the renewable generation. That's why Germany has wholesale electricity prices that regularly go negative thanks to green energy and some of the highest consumer electricity pricing on the planet - the renewables get the right to sell to the grid even when their power's not useful and the non-renewable have to pay for this, and then ultimately consumers have to pay when the non-renewables need to fill in for dips.
"It's a sign that web standards are getting too complicated."

Is there precedent for standards significantly simplifying over time, or do they always tend to get more and more complex?
> I personally find it very sad that we've prioritized rewarding a tiny, vocal minority at the expense of literally everyone else

you mean the tech industry? I mean, sure NIMBYism is a big problem but the tech industry gentrifies everything it touches.
> Capitalism is given a higher priority than democracy.

Given the American historical experience with politically aligned papers, I think we might be well-advised to consider the failure modes of state-owned media. To put it another way, we rely on capitalism to support democracy because the alternatives we've tried did not produce a vibrant, independent media. Instead, they produces one bound and beholden to our politics.

Have you ever wondered what the "Free" in "Detroit Free Press" referred to?

But, let's skip past that for the moment. Let's assume that infinite independence is possible. How does one go about having effective press at the required local level in a cost-effective way? Being cost-effective is pretty important for anything that might need to function without being profitable, after all.
I used to like BBT, but lately it has devolved into the characters just being mean to each other all the time. You are spot on with your comment, too.
Broadly speaking, does this mean that all we have to do now is figure out how to rejuvenate the brain and spinal chord because everything else is replaceable?
> it would be a rather interesting discussion to hear from the VC's vs workers vs founders.

I'd love to hear that conversation, I think it'd be very interesting. That is very tangential to commentary on capitalism itself, which is purely ideological.
> A little trollish, but now that Democrats have a veto-proof majority

They don't. They are one vote shy in the Senate. Now, they will when the next session starts in December, but that supermajority can't reach back in time, and the economy takes time to change.

> (meaning Gavin Newsom is really just a spokesperson, his opinion is irrelevant, he cannot veto legislation)

That would be true on legislation, in effect, if every Democrat in both houses of the legislature always voted together.

This is decidedly not the case historically.

Also, the Governor's powers aren't just the veto power.

> Not only can Californians no longer blame Republicans

That doesn't mean the actions from when they did have policy power aren't part of the reason for present conditions.

> they can't even blame the Governor.

Well, they can't blame Newsom much, because he isn't Governor until January. But the idea that he will be powerless is unrealistic on many levels.
> Disclaimer: I'm not a mod, so you don't have to listen to my opinion.

So... You're masquerading as a HN mod? Damn.

Now, that seems like a bannable offense.
And no childcare for their children.
The Correspondent is the international offspring of the Dutch news website with (almost) the same name, which has been pretty successful. It is purely member-funded, without any money from ads. They are currently having a membership rally.

They also have an interesting stance on the subjectivity of journalism: "At The Correspondent, we don’t think journalists should pretend to be ‘neutral’ or ‘unbiased’. Instead, our correspondents level with you about where they’re coming from, in the belief that transparency about point-of-view is better than claiming to have none."
Are the policies bone headed?

I'm not American so may not have this perfectly right but the Detroit of the past seems to be a good analogue to SV. Lots of well paid jobs in a single industry. When the eventual downturn occurs you don't want to be left with a ghost town.
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I use Firefox as my daily driver and I am consistently amazed by how slow Chrome is whenever I load it up for a debug session or to access a work related site (it's the new IE, sites only support it).

Most Google sites are faster than Firefox (big surprise /s) but most everything else is the same or slower. I thought Chrome was supposed to be fast, it feels like a turd.

I have a Yoga 2 (4 years old) and my laptop fan revs up like a harrier jump jet whenever I load Chrome. Firefox only manages to make it purr loudly.
> and reselling it to the highest bidder.

This isn't a thing that Google does
Maybe over-complicating things is a way of eliminating competition from Google. If it wasn't so complicated, someone could easily offer a competing, privacy-oriented browser; which Google would not like-- so make it so hideously complex no one can do it without $50 mil? There would be more innovation if things were simple, because anyone with a good idea could contribute.
So the implication is that Reagan instituted broad and substantial tax reduction for the rich in combination with the institution of enormous federal deficit spending in order to offset rising oil consumption following two oil crisis the previous decade?

We saw how oil turned out in the long run. Reagans policies, if anything, only gave dictatorships another two decades of unmitigated dominance in an industry we have seen the US itself rapidly commercialize internally. Most US consumed oil is now domestic, and most of the growth happened in the rebound from the 08 recession. I'd be really interested in comparing the economic policies of how Reaganomics protracted foreign dependence while the late Bush / Obama era bailouts and recovery stimulus somehow exploded the domestic market.

Or that neither of those had anything to do with oil, and that the development of the market and industry as a whole was detached enough from federal law of the US that neither president is responsible for anything in that regard.
It appears that no argument was made as to whether the material was actually under copyright or not, because the plaintiff wasn't alleging copyright infringement. You could perhaps read into this that it was something of an ambit claim.
There's far more than two internets.

Russian, Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, German, French, Italian, Brazilian. And on and on.
I'm not trying to masquerade as a mod, I'm trying to gently suggest that ideological battles be fought elsewhere, and for us to focus on the discussion itself (tech unions).

I've edited my first comment to make it more apparent - I thought that sort of comment was a common thing, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Site broken on mobile. Do they talk about scala-Js? Really underappreciated how good it is
I think for organisations such a thing is called a cartel. Cartels are usually illegal, but only ever get noticed on the sale side, and some are downright legalised (eg OPEC).