skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a design decision. Gifs used to always be eyesores, so it made sense not to support them. They've improved a lot recently.
> Why can't hiring people be cheaper?

Because it doesn't matter? All of the data from minimum wage increases indicates that employers are not employee constrained, they are demand constrained.

So, minimum wages increases bump demand significantly while hurting employment weakly (if it all).
I have big hopes for the future of Haskell.

Haskell is backed by a truly amazing community. A lot of effort has been put into making Haskell more "beginner" friendly or production-ready. There is obviously still a long way to go and things to improve (cabal?) but what has already been achieved is something that Haskellers can be immensely proud of.

I am certain that this will pay off on the long term. Haskell will continue to inspire people to build better, safer software and contribute to make the line between software engineering and mathematics blurrier.

From a sociological aspect I hope that the values of tolerance, respect and benevolence that most of the Haskell community is supporting will also contribute to make tech a more friendly and equal place for everyone.
As I stated much earlier (I believe it was during pre-trial), Ulbricht was convicted in the court of public opinion, even before he went to trial.

Some may hail this sentence as a victory for justice or some similar nonsense, but there is a deeper problem here. Civil liberties continue to be eroded at an extremely alarming rate in this country that the concept of "justice" applies in a very political context. It's pretty much a joke.

The message here is that if you attempt to live outside of this current system, you will be punished.
How would that work? There's no homomorphic encryption schemes anywhere near general enough for that, as far as I know.
In a desert with plentiful sunshine for an application where you don't need to worry about distribution and storage, I would expect solar to be quite competitive with even the notional price of fossil fuel.

When you compare it with the real price of fossil fuel (i.e. add the negative externality of carbon dioxide emission to the notional price), solar wins by a country mile.
Spellbound, 13 Years Later
> Unfortunately judges no longer have that much discretion to weigh the competing arguments because of the mandatory sentencing guidelines Congress came up with.

You mean the ones whose provision making them mandatory was struck down as a violation of the right to trial by jury in 2005, and which have since been advisory only? [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Federal_Sentencin...
There are still a lot of software which uses network masks for authentication purposes. When something like that can be become key components inside an enterprise, you can't really talk about enterprise security when inside the walls of the firewall. There simply isn't any.
> "kernel isn't a place for feelings"

wow, you seem to feel pretty strongly about that thread
I've seen that happen before with a startup, they actually shutdown just because Google launched a superior product first.

Then less than 1 year later Google cancelled that project and now there is nobody to provide that service.
Your "because" is wrong. DPR's own words about killing Curtis: "ok, so can you change the order to execute rather than torture? ... he [Curtis] was on the inside for a while, and now that he’s been arrested, I’m afraid he’ll give up info." So, Ross himself says that the reason he wants Curtis killed is simply because Curtis might help the authorities (which Curtis did).
>Critics complain that the idea of “evolving standards” is a mere pretense to wrap personal preferences in a scarf of constitutional law. But more than half a century after the concept was coined, “evolving standards” is deeply woven into Supreme Court tradition. The Justices all know that the modern death penalty is a failure. When they finally decide to get rid of it, “evolving standards” is how they will do it.

Does anyone else oppose both capital punishment and the use of judicial fiat to bring about its abolition?
Well, yes, what these guys call "fluent" is not really what I would consider "fluent" is what I suppose I'm getting at.
> Cars and guns also hurt people but pretty much anyone can sell those

When car or gun buying addiction becomes more then a negligible problem, you'll have a terrific point.
It's not the same. People drawing pensions are simply collecting on a benefit they earned earlier in life. In the US, anyway, if you don't pay in to the pension system when you're working you don't get a pension. Also, the exact amount of your check depends on what you paid in.

The government take 8% or so of my paycheck every pay cycle, and when I retire I'll collect a pension because I paid for it.

That's a whole different world than paying someone because they don't want to work.
Not completely, no, but I think that's a big part of it. You can't have respect for yourself if you're mooching off other people.
Right, and the notion that murder is illegal makes no sense to the universe as humans are "merely" an aggregate of matter no different than any other. Nothing makes any sense to entities not capable of reasoning, that is a pointless tautology with no relevance to the discussion.
> Zygote is more about memory than performance

Memory = performance. We disabled Zygote and performance took a hit (ie, apps start slower because classes aren't preloaded).

> Google is using 3.10 on the devices they sell, not 3.4.

3.10 is on some new devices such as Nexus 9, including Lollipop upgrades for Samsung S6 and HTC M9.

Google Nexus 5/7 is 3.4.

So basically <=3.4 is on 99.99% of Android devices...
The first Q episode was the first episode.
The future of tech fashion. we will merge. project jacquard
> OpenDNS

> 23andMe

> Uber

Does startup just mean company in USA?
After feeling too much, sometimes it's hard to feel anything
I don't think this is new. http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/
> This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Japanese release of the Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo Entertainment System on September 13th, 1985.

Wait... what? They're like 4 months early.
If there is any justice, maybe he'll get a pardon in 20-30 years for good behavior.

The government said they identified six individuals who overdosed and died of drugs they purchased on Silk Road. The parents of two of those individuals—25-year-old Bryan B. from Boston and 16-year-old Preston B. from Perth, Australia—spoke at Friday’s sentencing, pleading emotionally to the judge to give Mr. Ulbricht a harsh sentence.

More people die of prescription and OTC drugs.
You're triggered by software while female Kurdish civilians spontaneously turned into soldiers face an enemy that rapes captured females.

Please for the love of God, go back to tumblr.
Google's Project Soli to bring gesture control to wearables
Houdini is proprietary, and even people whose idea of fun is getting fucked over by proprietary software might balk at the price tag.
I'd be reluctant to allow it, just like with other drugs. As with other drugs, if it can be shown that a particular drug is not overly addicting, then I'd be fine with that drug being sold online (but only from licensed and regulated dealers, with enforced quality standards).

So, online beer would probably turn out to be OK, as would online marijuana.

Cigarettes are an interesting case. Nicotine is pretty high up on the addicting list, but experimentally even heavy smokers don't seem to consumer so much that they ruin their lives the way, say, a heroin addict might. Probably because cigarettes don't really impair your functionality. So probably they should be allowed online.
The End Is Near Facebook Adds Support for Animated GIFs
What changes did you have to make to get it to build?
Deep Learning – Reading List
I'm a bit surprised, there was enough thought put into this that facebook won't end up looking like a buzzfeed article.

> GIFs will auto-play on Facebook in line with your current video autoplay settings. If you choose to disable autoplay in your settings, you can tap or click a GIF (as indicated by “GIF” in a white circle on the image) to play it instead.
This is a really great question. I don’t know the answer yet. I struggle with this problem every day when I design things in OpenSCAD, because OpenSCAD doesn't give your parametric model access to the results of the modeling operations in any way (!!)

I think that Antimony kind of suffers from the same problem, but because it's using distance fields rather than plain CSG, it does have a “blend” operation (https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/blob/develop/py/fab/shap...) that attempts to fillet the union of two shapes. Now, Antimony has inversion (complement, more or less), and set A \ B is just A ∩ B', which by De Morgan's Laws is equivalent to (A' ∪ B)'. So what happens if you attempt to approximate a filleted A \ B with invert(blend(invert(A), B))? I don’t know. But damn, I’m sure tempted to try it!

Of course, even if that works, that won’t fillet a specific edge resulting from the subtraction. It will fillet all of them. Invariably, that is what I want.
Edit: I didn't know he ordered ordered 5 hits before writing this post, but i'm going to leave it up. I guess he got desperate and crazy towards the end

Seriously. The way he invokes the words "our social fabric" makes it out like Forrest was personally affected. It's easy to imagine Urlbricht rehabilitating and becoming a productive member of society but instead his life has just been destroyed. It's not justice and it's not the right thing to do.

If one person decides to put another person in a cage for the rest of their life, it's clearly a horrendous stomach turning crime. It's no less horrendous when the justice system does it. But we've decided that it's a necessary evil that society requires. We should be working as a society to minimize the necessary evil and rehabilitate people but we're not and it's a tragedy.
The labor theory of value is a mistake with roots in both Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The Austrian school of economics explained and demonstrated how it is utterly wrong, and they have presented a much better theory. Look up (and read) Carl Menger.

George Reisman has developed a brilliant, modern presentation that dismantles the problems with the labor theory of value, and the related exploitation theories. [1]

[1] https://mises.org/library/classical-economics-vs-exploitatio...
Interesting to see that this is a thing people have talked about before. I've thought of this as being obvious for a long time and brought it up often.

Personally I've found a sort of class divide in how people respond to the arguments.

Working class people can generally easily see how the regulations work against them.

Take taxis as the example of the day. Even now, in non-Uber cities, it makes sense for someone with a bit of free time to go ad hoc taxi driver. Glue a taxi sign to your roof and drive about. Except this is illegal, for reasons that are completely irrelevant to you personally.

The middle classes wouldn't be the driver because they don't need to and probably don't have the time anyway. Generally they ignore possible cost savings and think about the tiny chance of meeting a serial killer or whatever.

Loads more things really. Rich countries control commerce to an incredible extent - the free market is a complete and utter fantasy. Something as banal as baking cakes and selling them to passers by is illegal, presumably because way back when big businesses were cutting their flour and sugar with chalk.

In a vague sense, almost every low barrier to entry market has been made illegal. No street sales is really quite odd.
The Onion: How to Successfully Sue Other Moms Who Steal Your Parenting Tricks
Ask HN: What to do about a client's bad programmer?
I'm a freelancer developer. I've been in sort of the technical lead position for my one client's project. I have a couple of guys who work part time for me. My client has a few people who work full-time for him.

One of his programmers in particular--who is currently his most-senior on-staff programmer--is bad. He's the sort of programmer who can make the code work, eventually, for the right set of inputs. But there is zero emphasis on memory (doesn't dispose IDisposable), error handling (every parameter is stored in a System.Object, later to be ToString'd, then to be Convert.ToInteger'd or whatever the original type was before it got boxed in Object), performance (database calls in loops, O(n^2) algorithms when much better exist in the standard library), or safety (just found a ton of SQL injection vulnerabilities because he thinks he doesn't have to use the ORM for everything).

And I've counseled him on this and I've told his boss about it. His boss just says, "well, not everyone can be as good as you". I don't want him to be "as good as me". I just want him to use the flipping ORM, which handles the vast majority of all cases where he has these problems!

Do I try to counsel him again? Do I tell my client again? Do I shut up and just fix his shit for him?

Or do I just quit?

EDIT: slightly more context: I've been working for this client for 3 years. In that time, I've seen 5 other developers come and go in a company of only about 50 people. None of their staff programmers have been there over a year now.
The most obvious difference is that it doesn't require line-of-sight. The spatial resolution is presumably better as well.
Show me an AI that can beat the best human at Chess, and I'll show you one that can beat the best human at any game?

Your mistake is assuming that a sizable portion of the work these jobs involve can't be replaced by "dumb AI", which is what ML is all about, and that they require a fully general AGI.
And thus Geocities is reborn.
Are you saying that Esperanto is harder to learn than English, Chinese, or Spanish?

Yes, definitely, depending on what language the learner has as a native language, and especially if active speaking and listening is included as part of the test of language proficiency to an equivalent level.
Civilizationally, technology has pretty much always saved the day.
Maybe, but it's hard to get me too worked up about this mechanism when the government has people lined up to be killed.
We need a debt stimulus for the lower class, by lower I mean the bottom 90%.

Back when they gave the stimulus to the banks, it almost would have been better to get money/stimulus to the people to use strictly to pay down debt (credit card, home, student loans). Even if it was only a chunk, not only would this have helped free up debt load, it would also go directly back to the banks that had been lending to the lower 90% all along.

Instead they gave money to banks to help with loans/lending, overlooking the fact that it does nothing to help consumers. They gave it to groups that weren't really lending to the 90% of consumers.

Trickle up is not just trickle up, it is trickle up and down. When you give money to the lower 90%, most of them give it right back. When you give it only to banks and upper 10%, it typically stays locked up in that 10%.

Anybody surprised by this consumer economy sputtering hasn't been looking at it and doesn't get that you need to get money to the lower classes to prop up the upper classes and banks.

Wages have stagnated this entire century so far, when people were surprised in 2008 when it came crashing down, it wasn't housing alone, it was that people had no money, less raises, while costs rose immensely.

I won't go into the trillions on war spent on credit by the country as well that further harmed the downturn. We financed the wars with China's credit, it is almost as if China wants to break us with debt and ongoing, un-winnable wars. We aren't playing the game very smart and the greed is thick.

In the future, stimulus should mean lowering debt loads of personal and state debt from the bottom up. Again, rich people mad by this aren't thinking it through, it is a two step hop and it is right back to them. But you'd have the lower classes now with more debt room and or room to spend. This is the only fix.

If you were playing a simulation to create a good economy in a game, you'd probably do something like this instead of enrich modern day kings to hold onto, hoard and lock up more money in the upper 10% backdrift that does not make it's way to the lower 90% with enough force.
How does this brings additional security?

If Alice types a message in her phone and the phone is compromised -- such as the telecom owning the baseband processor which can access all of the device memory -- how does it guarantee that the text entered is not captured by the telecom?
An important thing to remember is that SR did NOT just sell drugs. They also sold hacking tools, identity theft kits, credit card fraud kits, and weapons.

It was not a harm-free marketplace. It was basically 'whichever criminal shit made him money' marketplace and drugs happened to top the list.

LOL @ getting down voted by Libertarians for a COMPLETELY TRUE statement that they wish wasn't true because it fucks up their bullshit narrative.
It's the 2nd main call to action in the middle of the page: http://cl.ly/image/230t2d0H403a
He does have a point, though: Japan is probably (and hopefully) an anomaly in how they dealt with the crisis. It's one of the last places on Earth where Confucian ethics still hold a great deal of sway at all levels of society (for now, at least). And that ideology has its strong points, but it is hardly compatible with democracy.

It is probably not a good example for how most of the West will deal with the same problem, though whether we do a better job of it remains to be seen.
Maybe we should make an app where you put in all the apps that you have on your iPhone to find your perfect match. We'll call it appxappxappxappxappxappxappxapp.
I think the law guide I linked it to would file this under "there is no chutzpah defense." He had legal options that did not include "hire a hitman" ("do nothing" is a valid option) and he had a big hand in creating the problem to begin with, or there would be nothing to blackmail him with in the first place. And the state didn't corrupt him, he was already leading a criminal operation when they set out to catch him. You don't get to protect yourself from a lot of things you otherwise would when the problems are caused by your own illegal activities and you'll see this again and again with the other defenses, if you read more of that guide. It refers to those scenarios as a someone trying to invoke the "chutzpah defense," following on from the old story about a child who murdered their parents requesting mercy because he is an "orphan."

The overarching point here to protect people who weren't committing crimes from being dragged into them ("corrupted") and the rules are set up to avoid protecting criminals who were merely fooled by the police into exposing their criminal nature.

Nobody made him hire a hitman. They gave him a reason to, but they didn't make him do it. If he needed protection from a blackmailer, he could have turned himself in as well as the blackmailer.
You have just related a lot of facts that show that English is a success as a world interlanguage. The British Empire has barely existed during my lifetime, and the great majority of people now living were born after its demise. English has a majority of speakers who live outside the "inner circle" on English-speaking countries, and a very widespread use of English is as an interlangauge among persons all of whom are not native speakers of English. I have seen numerous conversations in English in the country of Taiwan among people who grew up in various countries of Asia where English is not a native language, and I hear news reports literally every day with interviews in English from people all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Geographical_...
Patent fees in the US already depend on the size of the entity applying. Also, I believe most of the cost comes in the attorneys one typically hires to assist in the application, not the patent office fees themselves, particularly if you want to try to enforce your patent.
Watson can do diagnosis (a lot) better than the average Doctor. IBM is working on the law now.
> "If anything should be open and free, it's art."

Sure, and by extension, if anyone should have all their living expenses covered without question and be given whatever materials they need free of change, it's artists.

I mean, your utopian vision is great, and a world in which it was economically viable and politically acceptable is one that many artists would willingly embrace. But in the meantime, when artists still need to pay for food, rent, studio space, and supplies (to say nothing of health care, education for their kids, and retirement) your view seems...less than intelligent.

Indeed, what it really sounds like is bullshit - not unlike "We're going to reinvent leverage by diversifying engagement until we get a critical mass of traction with enough disruption to convert our best-in-class imaginings into free unicorns for everyone!" Because that's what happens when you remove political and economic reality from any equation and add a bunch of hype to all that remains.

> "instead we've (framed) the discussion to the degree that everyone refers to music as an article of commerce and not as a work of art, to the point that even artists speak that way and buy into the 'threat' of the Internet."

No dude, it's not the "framing" that makes artists think about their work in terms of needing to make a living. It's the need to make a living that makes them think about the need to make a living.
Go to https://www.meteor.com/ and Start tutorial.
After installed you can go through the tutorial in an hour or two depending how deep you go, and it comes with a number of examples (show with "meteor create --list").

Discover Meteor has some more; they were giving their book away
(see https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/we-made-our-book-free/ -- first 4 chapters are free).

That may be enough for the basics. Then look at telescope, or one of the chat apps listed here or search on github. Also plenty of conference talks on youtube.
To this day, Insync is still infinitely better than the real client.
Ok, poor question on my part, but a great answer. Thanks! Yes, wavelength-division multiplexing can expand the capacity of a single strand.

I meant, packet switching.

Switching packets of photons would be done by transitioning from transparent to opaque/inverted polarity/shifted wavelength/etc.

I'm way out of my depth here but an interferometer seems like one method that current research is looking at to accomplish that. What do you think looks the most promising?
His "solution" at the end was some thinly veiled communism. His proposed economy didn't even make sense. There was nothing stopping people from accumulating wealth and basically taking over.
PTSD is almost all about the P and not about the T, and that the number one defence against long term psychological illness is a supportive society, such as that of Israel, where the war is close and the vast majority have served and understand what service is, than the US where we are relatively cold to one another and really give only empty gratification ("Thank you for your service").
User interface components for web apps
K, not k.
Scalable Distributed Transactional Queues on HBase
You misspelled your Japanese. In Chinese characters the term is "頑張って," and in kana it is "がんばって." Google Translate did the best it could with what you wrote.
No worries, I guess I'll try again in 3 weeks. :)
Plus it was using about 30% CPU for the one page.
What other issues would you prefer be decided for us by unelected judges using nebulous legal doctrines hardly reconcilable with the document from which they supposedly derive, and further, how can you still consider yourself a supporter of democracy despite these thoroughly anti-democratic leanings?