skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't it be much simpler just to distribute copies of the change log?
Sadly, not right now. We need accountability, liability, network of trust, security to decentralize capital - full distribution is really hard.

We need deregulation in the sector to build future banks to reduce "too big to fail" factor.
If you know what you are doing it's fine, but it might cause incompatibility issues from namespace collisions.

You can rearrange the code to accept a context as the first argument if you are worried.
So I read your eclectic sources; the first shows a slide displaying 80 companies in a "strategic partnership." This is never defined in a meaningful fashion. Later a random slide is cherry-picked to support the tenuous argument. Surprising, considering the level-headed image "Revolution News" is known for.

Your second source shows a slide that has a picture of some networking equipment, which the website claims is manufactured by Cisco. Presumably I could "collaborate" with Whole Foods by buying some mangoes, if I use your definition of "collaborate".

Please use factual premises to support your assertions. Some HN commenters actually critically review sources! I'm not claiming that no malicious collaboration exists, just that there's no evidence.
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The US and a variety of other [EDIT: countries] use the FHWA Series fonts (aka Highway Gothic) which, in their original form, date to 1948.

Tobias Frere-Jones came up with a typeface called Interstate in 1990s that's quite similar but adapted for print and screen. It's a nice typeface. Red Hat released a FOSS variant called Overpass. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overpass_Fonts
Here's the thought: if they really went through hell they would appreciate stay in any decent EU country. But most of them really wasn't in danger when they decided to travel to Europe. In fact, such a travel, as organized by people smuggling gangs costs about $10k so it's obvious that they were pretty wealthy before they decided to come here. Also, most of them openly admit that they are here for economic reasons, not running from war. Please, get some info before posting such stupid comments.

Also, if this was really about finding safe haven from war, there are rich, muslim countries like Saudi Arabia or Turkey, which are much closer and would be much better place for them anyway, due to similar cultural background, but for some reason they prefer EU with it's social benefits.
You could accomplish this in gnuplot, but guff does have some nice defaults that don't require you to write a script before you do the plotting.
I grew up in the south-east, but then moved out west... in both places we said fourteen-four and twenty-eight-eight.
I've always thought it's a shame there isn't a better C (and C++) preprocessor -- people go to heroic lengths to do things with the terrible pre-processor they have by default (the lack of recursion, and dodgy comma handling are particularly painful).
It would be interesting to have a map of this and explore a new city by going to the spots with the most photos. It'd mainly be the tourist spots but it'd be more exciting than regular sight-seeing as you'd never know what you were on your way to see.
Even if income could explain the whole difference it would still not be a very agreeable explanation.

Even though it's a naive idea, I still think that everyone should be entitled to the same level of legal support in a criminal case regardless of your socio-economic status.
Apparently so can gnuplot, however the syntax is really awful.

awk 'BEGIN{ for(x=-5;x<6.5;x+=0.1){printf("%s\t%f\n", x, sin(x))} }' \
| gnuplot -p -e "set term dumb size 89,30 aspect 1;plot '<cat'"

Gnuplot really isn't made for that kind of usage, so guff does fill a valuable niche. Though you could also just write a wrapper around gnuplot with an interface that works better for command line usage(this probably already exists).
> UberPop is only banned because they did not want to insure the drivers.

Do you have a source for this? Uber insures its UberX drivers in both Canada and the U.S. so I don't see why they would be opposed in Germany. There must be something else.
Why was I downvoted? Everything I said is the truth. Why would someone want to be a programmer in Europe when the pay and respect is so bad, and with what money can a programmer be expected to start a startup when they're only being paid a €3000 a month salary?
I think it would be hard to go through everything, but off the top of my head:

https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/collect/snowden1/...

Quote:

For the past decade, NSA has lead an
aggressive, multi-pronged effort to break widely
used Internet encryption technologies

Their Motto:

"We penetrate targets' defences."
This person is not talking about people with serious ambitions; he's referring to the would-be near-idle or idle rich. Many of us would do a great many things:

- become VCs/angels

- build bigger, self-funded businesses

- donate big money to charities, or start our own

- do direct giving to those need (my preference to charity)

- donate to institutions doing basic science, medical research, life extension, youth preservation research

- pay to attend a prestigious university beyond our financial means and time budget

- spend more time producing free software, music, art

- go work somewhere just to work on interesting things / fun without fear of making the best choice earnings or reputation-wise, or just beyond one's current abilities due to lack of the proper background. Example: someone is very interested in working on robotics. They work "survival tech" jobs that they can't just quit to magically attend the MIT robotics program, which would lead to to work in the field. Their potential is wasted at present; if they had the money, they could contribute a whole lot more.

Some of us would make fantastic millionaires.
It's funny to think in another 20 years kids might see this movie and wonder what are those weird small rooms with phones that people go into all the time. And they have to pay money to make a call!?
Volkswagen doesn't need to speak Chinese in order to have a plant cranking out parts in China for approximatelythe same reason why a computer user doesn't have to know a programming language to read their e-mail.

A small management team at the top of the org chart above the workers just has to be able to communicate with the parent company and "program" the organization below in their native language, to produce the required results.
Slightly OT:
If more publishers defaulted to SSL, they would thwart lots of corporate ad filtering that strips out Adsense and the like.
Having opposites (Like/Dislike, Up/Down) is natural and Facebook tried to create behaviour which is not natural. I think this is a great proof that Businesses have to adapt to the users and not the other way around.
One could write an algorithm to accurately predict application of the death penalty here in Florida just by factoring skin darkness, wealth, IQ, sex, and age. The particulars of the case beyond that don't matter.
Maybe time to dust-off Modula-2 or something similar. It worked on constrained, diverse hardware.

Ada would like to have a word with you. :-)
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Should you be using something instead of what you should use instead?
Probably very little. Still, if I were a bank, I would want to be on top of researching anything that could someday replace me, including the blockchain.
Blackberry, until recently.

Canada suffers from dutch disease; it's simply too easy and profitable to dig stuff up (oil, diamonds, gold, potash, etc.) instead of producing value through software or technology.
If you haven't seen it, there's also a documentary (in English) called Helvetica that isn't about Frutiger but certainly gets into a lot of discussion about the international typographic style more broadly.
I was never that upset about Hackers, but I've had my fair share of laughs at it over the years. I've had some revelations since then though.

If you don't document things yourself, you don't get to write history. There just isn't that much material out there of how things were. In hind-sight I also think it was more accurate than given credit for. Partly because a lot of the things it described, like phreaking, isn't a thing anymore. So technical accuracy is no longer that important.

The people who made the movie to some extent understood hacker culture better than the hackers themselves. They realized that it wasn't the technical details that was important, but describing the sentiment among hackers. Otherwise they could have made a movie about security researchers at Microsoft.

PS. Regarding hacking traffic lights, back in the day you could supposedly flash a light at the same frequency as emergency vehicles to turn the lights green, or at least that's what the textfiles said.
No, unless the model has shown at least some consistency with the real world, it is useless as a predictive model.
The more time you are to remain in a context, the higher the risk of being punished.
Given the current specs, I am not aware of any way to do it, but in theory, you could do something like:

<div visible="after:5pm">
hello world
</div>
World’s Biggest Banks Form [______] Partnership

What could possibly go wrong?
The article is framed in terms of the 1965 Moynihan report, so I feel I should quote the recommendations Moynihan had at the time:

"Moynihan had lots of ideas about what government could do—provide a guaranteed minimum income, establish a government jobs program, bring more black men into the military, enable better access to birth control, integrate the suburbs—but none of these ideas made it into the report."

Unfortunately, racists and demagogues eventually decided it was easier to just throw people in prison and be done with it.
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It seems that in Europe that's the only kind of adopters. If early adopters were plenty we wouldn't have this discussion in the first place
If you believe that trade hurts workers, shouldn't we also cut off trade between the states?

I think it's hard to deny that in general free trade produces net benefits. (If it didn't, then we would presumably each make all of our own stuff and never trade.) I could well believe that a particular trade deal has problems or is even net bad, and I don't have a strong opinion on NAFTA. But but even if NAFTA is bad says very little about whether all trade is bad.
I can already tell you that the idea that a phone number calls a house rather than a person is foreign to a 7-year-old.
Root CA status is conferred by the individual user-agent developers (for example, Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Apple, among others). Some browser or OS developers may try to follow others' lead to avoid duplicating effort or creating big divergences in trusted status of a given cert.

Each entity that maintains its own root CA list has its own policy and process that people can apply through in order to propose to become a root CA. For example:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA

These programs have certain criteria, which became more formal and rigorous over time (it used to be quite informal when the CA system was first set up). One commonality is generally to get a WebTrust CA audit, and there are also rules and meta-rules for CAs from the CA/Browser Forum.

https://cabforum.org/

This will require creating and publishing a certification policy and certification practice statement that have certain elements, and the auditors will look at those.

There are also physical security issues. For example, CAs use hardware security modules (HSMs) to perform their signing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

The HSM will sign requested data, but won't export its private keys into a less-controlled environment like the CA's web server. It's akin to storing your crypto keys on a smartcard, only more expensive. :-)
Yeah, it made me really sad. This is not a comment on this project specifically, but it seems to be the way the world is going - so many platform specific dependencies that even a cross-platform project is made specifically with one development platform in mind and that is considered normal.

I've been in Windows for a long time and it uses to be the opposite a long time ago - everything would be released on Windows only and Macs were left abandoned - so I guess I'm seeing the other side now. Not a super fan of Microsoft, but still annoyed I'll have to eventually switch just because of stuff like this.
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Memories...

Good soundtrack, even if the film did make me cringe. When it came out I was knee deep in oodles of Perl on a shit-hot upgraded SPARCstation 10 machine (not camo painted I will add). Whacked the soundtrack in my external caddied CD drive and plugged my headphones in, then spent 2 hours of frigging #defines trying to get the fucking thing to compile a CD player that worked on SunOS 4 OpenView that I'd downloaded off Usenet via a 14.4k Hayes SmartModem (which I still own)

And that piece of crap cost more than my car at the time...

Edit: I just realised one piece of tech I still use daily survived from back then; a lowly TI-85 calculator.
No one read the article?
You can also use key pinning with Let's Encrypt certificates. Hopefully a future version of the client will provide tools to make this more convenient.
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We do a lot of the client testing on AWS, but a bigger question might be which OS image you use.
You would an additional feature to ask the poster for consent before the hug button becomes enabled though, I am not if that complexity can be easily designed.
Since the world at large does not have trigger warnings, it must be terrifying for those effected to even leave the house. How does one even function in the world when at any minute something could trigger without warning?
Yes, a stack trace at a particular point is often the most helpful bit of debugging info.

I'm not sure if it would be nearly as helpful in Go to step through an chunk of unknown code that crashed, since python's execution is generally linear, whereas Go usually has a high degree of concurrency.
I looked through the transcript of that talk and could not find a reference to that statistic.

I was prompted to actually look into this claim because the incidence of white-on-black murder is extremely low and I imagine the incidence of white-on-black murder where the victim is a woman is even lower. I would be surprised if there were even 5 such cases in the past 50 years in Alabama.

Do you have any sources? Or can you post the relevant snippet from that talk?
We could really use someone like Moynihan these days but sadly none compare. How is Obama so silent on these issues?
One wonders whether the relative fragility of black families made them the unintentional first targets of efforts to dismantle patriarchal social structures, putting them at a relative disadvantage to a more conservative (qua slow-moving) aggregate.

Moynihan [...] began pushing for a minimum income for all American families. Nixon promoted Moynihan’s proposal — called the Family Assistance Plan — before the American public in a television address in August of 1969, and officially presented it to Congress in October.

For all his faults, Nixon was a much more radical president than is often remembered today, though of course he also helped to launch the war on drugs, the burden of which has historically fallen disproportionately on black Americans. I wonder how things might have turned out differently if he had not had to deal with the mess of the Viet Nam war when elected - though I suppose you could argue that without that particular running sore, he would have had much less incentive to undertake radical domestic reforms than he did. Would love to get the perspective of older HNers on this issue, as I was born in 1970 and outside the US so my impressions of this period mainly come from books.
This, yes. Some institutions have problems with bad actors, and this sort of stuff can limit that risk.

Sound bank-y enough? :-)
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Could any NodeJS web developers chime in on how suitable Node is for building larger sites?

My understanding has been that Node web dev frameworks are still difficult to use for larger projects. Perhaps this has changed in the last couple of years?

On an unrelated note, Google search trend charts always struck me as poor tools to judge popularity of technologies. For instance, here is a chart that shows "javascript" search volume dropping from 94 in 2004 to 24 today: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=javascript
Which can be really cool, but has its downsides:

Hey cool, I can change these classes live!

Let's solve this tricky problem by changing the class at runtime. Cool, it works, now on to the next problem.

2 years later...

What's causing this super-weird bug? It's like the code isn't doing what it says at all.

1 week of debugging and head-banging later...

Oooh, something got screwed up in that runtime class change code. Fixed.

2 years later, repeat...
You mean not including the vast number of Unity based games that are there?
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“I am a feminist, but…”
Absolutely. It is open hardware, open-source firmware, open-source apps. Plus the devices have a Bluetooth Low Energy API.
Wow weren't they already in the process of cutting around 30k people? Is the total now up to 60k+?
Saying the bankers "brought the world economy to its knees" in 2008 isn't that much better than saying the tech industry did the same with the first dot-com crash. It is a huge oversimplification and assigning blame in that way dissolves everyone else of their responsibility in the situation. It means we haven't learned our lesson and the process will simply repeat itself at some point until we do.
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Barclays and UBS have been both recently giving the eye to Ethereum. My bet is that they are going to go for Ethereum, maybe with a fork a la IBM, and put it behind a firewall.
I think you do need "bug for bug" compatibility between semantics—because the other choice is worse—but that drives home what it takes to genuinely have alternative semantic choices: sufficient concision of definition to be able to maintain the choices! This is standard for programmers, though. It's architecture like any other.
Have you not noticed how bitterly his comments are rejected when he does comment on them? I'd imagine that this will be his signature post-presidency issue, as he established a foundation called 'My Brother's Keeper' that aims to address the specific problems of black male youth. But you have people on the left demanding that he tear down the entire structure of white patriarchy, and people on eh right insisting that this is all he has done since taking office.
I wasn't being sarcastic, I wanted to hear your reasoning so I could attempt a rebuttal and here it is:

With respect to your argument, I would consider Mexicans and Canadians to be part of the 'greater population' I was referring to. Sure, globalization is terrible if you're used to making $20/h with no education in a factory in Detroit. Globalization is great if you're a Chinese peasant who can now earn a meal in an hour at the factory instead of 12h of subsistence farming.

Overall I'm pretty sure it's a net positive to humanity at the expense of the American lower-middle class.
Thanks for answering.

Here is article on the network of global corporate control
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
As usual, nothing in the homepage to indicate why anyone should choose this toolkit over existing, mature competitors (like D3) in the same space.

Unless you're legitimately doing something that's never been done before, just saying "it does X" isn't very interesting. How does it do X better?
Sneakers was better.
Was "anonymous justice" ever attempted? What if judges, juries and lawyers worked on cases where the accused and the victim are anonymous. Neither their sex, nor race, nor anything is disclose. Would they help fix these bias where blacks get harsher sentences than whites and women lighter sentences than men for example?

I don't know if it's realistic.
> an odd mistake for a historian to make.

[final footnote, wrong temple]

Well, the text also swaps eastern for western when referring to an emperor ...

I don't think I ever read a text so ambiguous about its own declared thesis - the good writing bit - when it makes abundantly clear how much the writer's prejudices flawed the result.
In all fairness, that's a news story precisely because it is a "man bites dog" situation. It's not the norm for every lemonade stand and bake sale to be shut down by overzealous regulators.

That said "In the US, you can do whatever you want as long as it's not explicitly illegal" is somewhat hyperbolic. Certainly there are things like zoning regulations and other laws that limit what you can do with your property, for example. However, I do think that there is a greater presumption of being able to do and say things in the US so long as they aren't specifically prohibited in some way. (Obviously private parties have the ability to govern a lot of behaviors on their own property.)
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You should include both of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Durant

And yet, this is the exception that probes the rule. The above quote has an element of humor in it, and it is basically saying "No modern marriage would allow this, as no modern spouse allow themselves to be ignored for so long." But Will and Ariel Durant did not have a modern marriage. Such a marriage is now illegal everywhere. Will Durant would now get 10 years in jail for announcing his feelings.
There are too many poor whites for the impact of lawyers to be that bad.

But the number of death sentences in Alabama isn't large. ~250 since 1980. The percentage of murders that are white on black is about 3% of all murders. And white men murder women about 30% of time they commit murder. So we are talking about probably 1-2% of all murders are white male on black female.

So you'd only expect 2-5 white people on death row in Alabama for murdering a black woman. That is way way way too small of a sample size to make bold claims on.

Though, I'm pretty damn sure racism has an impact on sentencing.
The Zero-Sum Economy
Are we "owed" money beyond what we earned from the coin flips or essay grading? Maybe not but perhaps we feel that way. One analysis of the "wasted employee time" due to slacking off with solitaire and the like - clearly this is an old study - found it was basically a way for employees to only do the amount of work they felt they were being paid for. A little way of getting back at the employer for being, as they felt, underpaid.

Which is to say, I wonder if this effect might change if the participants were offered more money?
I also stopped at that figure and thought “I really like this one — I get it”, which surprised me because the other examples looked too trivial to appreciate or too messy for me to understand.
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"That's true of any startup"

no, not really. its only true specific contexts. which was the point of the previous comment. but you're right in the second part, that's sort of a confidence game...success begets success.
I have not downvoted any of your comments. Whoever did that was someone else.

My point was just that there are two ways we run prisons and Sanders proposed shutting down one of them, for various good reasons mentioned in my links. Many people call that type "private," including major news organizations. I actually agree with you that it may not be the best term, but it's the only one I've seen in common use. The basic facts are the same regardless of nomenclature.