skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 1979, when I was 13, I audited a college-level cartooning course in San Francisco by Dan O'Neil, the underground cartoonist mentioned in the article. Little did I know Disney had sued him. But I do clearly remember him teaching the class tips on how to draw Mickey Mouse, and talking about the Mouse Liberation Front. I guess he was trying to increase the ranks of cartoonists who could fight Disney by parodying Mickey.
They'd probably do it for free. It was seen as protecting American business interests. It was argued that it would protect art by incentivizing storage and restoration of old works. There are counter arguments to these arguments, but it wasn't a super controversial bill.

The biggest part of lobbying is just getting people to notice your issue. Meeting the right people and getting the right language crafted is like 9/10ths of the process. Not all (probably not even most) lobbying is bribery.
> We recognize that decentralized reputation systems are basically the holy grail of p2p systems and we don't even pretend to be solving the problem

Check out this proposed solution here. Fully decentralized; it's basically personalized page-rank, for people instead of websites.

https://github.com/neyer/respect
You said it, man! Nothing is more fun than smashing imperialism. I think I'll close the tab and go smash me some right now.
US Marshals raided a Chinese electric skateboard company at CES
How to sell what you have built, Nerds vs. Salesman
After 7-minute hearing, US Marshals raid a CES booth
Coincidentally, CEO pay has really started exploding after publishing it became mandatory.
Quick answer: use Argon2i, unless you have very special needs.

"Argon2i uses data-independent memory access, which is preferred for password hashing and password-based key derivation. Argon2i is slower as it makes more passes over the memory to protect from tradeoff attacks."

"Argon2d is faster and uses data-depending memory access, which makes it suitable for cryptocurrencies and applications with no threats from side-channel timing attacks."

The IETF draft is here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-josefsson-argon2-00
"Possibly unpopular opinion: school is not negotiable for children and so there's no guiding. It's pure coercion."

There are lot's of things which are non-negotiable for children. Things like brushing teeth, going to bed and washing hands after toilet. All of which have some intrinsic value beyond tradition.

Coercion is the action or practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats.. There are other means of guiding children to do something. These include gentle reminders, routines and and just agreement.

And, yes, coercion as well, when all other things fail. Hopefully not that much.

If a child goes routinely to school I would not call this an action under coercion, unless the child has learned e.g. that he needs to go to school so he does not turn into a destitute when he grows up.

"School was a great alternative at a time when it was the only place to get information. This is no longer true."

I don't think there ever was time when "school was the only place to get information". I would claim this is location based (if true even then). I.e. rural villages with low rate of literacy vs. a literate society with access to books.

Or, in pre-literate societies, just having access to a sufficient number of people would probably provide a venue for some information access.

Besides, providing information is not the only function a school has. My kid internalizes all math he is taught immediately and combines all new facts he learns into a logically cohesive model of the world which he has structured in his head.

However, he does need to learn how to live in a society and how to work with other people and school provides a good place for that.
looks like it's each currency's percentage increase/decrease in value from last year.
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PrivaTegrity might bring an end to Crypto Wars
So timely. In another HN thread, I simply raised a point that drunk driving wasn't the largest threat to road safety based on statistics, and was labeled an apologist drunk driver.

The real problem is that if you put your ideas out there, and someone says something like that, and you don't respond, they've gotten the last word, and your silence is a patent acceptance of their point (as it would be in a face-to-face debate). So we try to guard our opinions with "This is just my opinion" (duh, whose else opinion would it be?), or try to beat others to the counterpoints, and when you are constantly setting up defenses to your ideas, your idea loses a lot of potency and clarity.
I'm sure I've read that this has changed in recent decades, the poor are now time rich whilst the rich are working much longer hours.
That joke article is a reaction to
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/03/harvard-professo...

a 2013 article about Harvey Mansfield's war on grade inflation. What's funny is that Harvey Mansfield has been at war against grade inflation for at least 18 years, going back to his anti-Affirmative-Action debate (somehow, affirmative action caused grade inflation among the majority-white population of Harvard, according to Mansfield).

http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~lombardi/edudocs/mansfield_grade...

Back in the '90s, the going theory was that _Vietnam War_ created grade inflation, as schools gave out higher grades to help students get draft deferments. Of course, that was before GWBush taught us that you can draft-dodge just fine with C grades.
> Bitcoin Was the Top Performing Currency of 2015

The functions of a currency are as a store of value, a unit of account, and a medium of exchange. So let's see, is this article saying that:

1) Bitcoin had the most stable value among currencies? Oh...no. Bitcoin's value was quite unstable.

2) Bitcoin was the most widely used currency? Oh...no again. Bitcoin is not widely used, and it's difficult to compare items using Bitcoin prices.

3) Bitcoin was the easiest to exchange for goods and services? Oh...still no. Bitcoin is not accepted by many merchants and service providers.

Apparently there's a new 4th role for a currency: Ability to let lazy journalists write misleading headlines. I suppose Bitcoin might actually be the best at that.
One Kings Lane, Once Valued at $900M, Is Likely to Sell for a Fraction of That
They also get lost in the GUI in my experience. Too many things that are clickable or possibly clickable, too much information on the page and they get overwhelmed.

With CLI, you do have to remember commands and compose things, but somehow it is easier for them. I am actually always surprised by this. More people should try to teach their older relatives some CLI magic.
Except that you are not - if I talk with somebody for real, at least I know somebody listened to what I say (OK, or at least pretended to listen). Seems as if I could go through the effort to snap something and it would disappear before anybody sees it.

Does it also play on that basic human condition of not wanting to see options go away, so you frantically click through your friend's stories for fear of missing anything? I could imagine how that would get users hooked, but I wouldn't consider it a good thing.
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There should be a requirement that the work is actually being sold. Otherwise what good is the copyright doing anyone? That way you can't sit on a work.

Maybe even a requirement that it sells decently.
> our current state of frictionless purchasing

You've obviously never bought anything with Bitcoin if you think credit cards are lower-friction (given that one already has both in his possession).
> If you can't pull at lease a 75th percentile on your subject GRE, you probably shouldn't be trying to get a PhD in it.

Your system, has, built into its design, a requirement that for each PhD student, 3 others must try to get into a PhD program, to create a top 25 %ile.
I noticed this a lot when reading through studies on visual working memory for a paper. In one, the participants were the two lead authors and the grad students in their lab.
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I want to spend at least 3-4 months learning a new language but just can't figure out if I should spent time learning Rust or Go. I am thinking more of it from a career perspective than interest.
The future of work has been foretold
I think most people tend to buy bigger houses and more consumer goods that require more of their time to maintain.
I don't have any direct sources for this, but the word that I heard from a friend who spent some time in China recently was the following:

- Chinese investors have limited places to park their cash. Stock market and real estate are two major options, and real estate is seen as a superior investment (stock market has... problems, you could say)
- Chinese law prevents purchasing property without developing it.
- Real estate investments therefore require barebones property development--regardless of tenancy--in order to remain legitimate.

Therefore, "ghost towns" are a natural outcome of Chinese investment in Chinese growth. They can remain vacant for a long time and still satisfy the investment goals of the developer.

(edit: list formatting)
I don't think you appreciate the zeitgeist. People were building complex systems: compilers, operating systems, databases, numerical simulations, and worse in machines with less memory than an Arduino. Adding a byte to every string was widely viewed as madness.
The difference currently is primarily the design, and how you structure projects. We were avid Trello users in the past, but our Trello boards always expanded to way too many columns, which made it a mess scrolling horizontally.

With Wiplo, projects can have multiple boards (which often represent stages of your workflow), and each board is fixed to four columns, so no stage of your workflow grows too large and cumbersome. You never have to scroll horizontally, and can jump from board to board easily.

A video would quickly show the benefit of this and how nice it is to navigate, but we're still wrapping up the edits on our video.
You mean exchange rate.
I had so many of these techniques thrown at me when I was teaching that I've lost count.

I've sat in countless training sessions being taught about Six Thinking Hats, the three learning styles, the seven learning styles, the thirteen learning styles, left-right brain thinking, the learning pit, mindfulness, and growth mindsets.

Such a waste of time and energy that could have been used to prepare resources and assess work.
If you could pay taxes in Bitcoin then it would actually be currency, otherwise, it's just another commodity. You can live in the middle of the woods and barter and/or only use Bitcoin, but without USD you're still getting your stuff taken away and going to prison for tax evasion. Barter is taxable after all, and trading commodities is taxed via capital gains.
Not any sort of name, but an article on Sundar specifically cited that it was one of his early moves after taking over Android. I can dig up the source if you want it, but there's not a lot of additional info there, unfortunately.
You don't even have to force them to license it. If they specify a low value, then the damages in the copyright lawsuit should be commensurately lower.
I pay for Pro. Still can't set Telemetry 0. And no, consumers can't buy Enteprise.
Mozilla Re-enables SHA-1 Certificate Support in Firefox
Another commenter said exactly the same thing about texture size, so I think you've pretty much nailed it.

The native build sadly didn't fix much; Electron === Chrome at this level of the stack pretty much. Thanks for taking the time to build it though :)

Incidentally, I tested the 32-bit build on my T43, and also tried the x64 build on my ever so slightly newer T60; both seem to have exactly the same issue: I'm getting pages and pages of

r300: CS space validation failed. (not enough memory?) Skipping rendering.

on both machines' stdouts when I run ./solitaire. One uses (as I mentioned) an ATI X300, the other an X1400.

Behold what 2005-2007 had to offer...! xD

The T43 says:

radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000C7FFFFFF (64M used)
radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M
[drm] RAM width 64bits DDR
[TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 440758 kiB
[TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 509818 kiB
[drm] radeon: 64M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x00000000C0040000).

And the T60 says:

radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 128M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x0000000007FFFFFF (128M used)
radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000008000000 - 0x0000000027FFFFFF
[drm] Detected VRAM RAM=128M, BAR=128M
[drm] RAM width 128bits DDR
[TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1534580 kiB
[drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
[drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000000040000).

Can confirm, am firmly entrenched in old-hardware club. Ah well.

I'll try and check back here to see if you've thought of anything else; my email's in my profile.

For a few years now Google has had a little canvas benchmark in search results pages to figure out whether to enable endless scrolling. The game might springboard off of a technique like that to decide whether or not to use lower-resolution textures. (IMO, I'd target the detected screen resolution myself, I think that'd work...?)
Bitcoin's historical volatility (3-10x the currencies listed) makes for an unfair comparison to other currencies--as a currency's volatility increases, so does the probability that it will be an outlier, especially over an extended period (like a year).

Not to mention that currency appreciation is questionably positive and does not warrant the label "top performing."
Ask HN: Is there a way to search and sort threads here by topic? (eg: Health Tech)
Hi HN,

I'm a health tech nurse in Silicon Valley and only interested in stories here about healthcare technology. Is there a way to sort all your articles by that topic, or no? I feel like your news forums move so fast that I can't keep up with all the posts and am wondering if I am missing good or cool articles.

Thanks :)
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While I'm bullish on Rust being a big language in the next few years, there's not much production use yet -- it's still pretty immature from a production tooling point of view.

Go, on the other hand, has a lot of adoption. So if you're looking for a language to use on the job today, it's gonna be Go.
http://wishpond.com/ - buy traffic, start build your list. write blog posts, repeat.
Much the same in India, especially when a socialist, pro-people, anti-corporate govt. comes into power. The politicians become fat.
What is the trend in terrorist attacks? How old are terrorism victims compared to the average of the 55million?

Your version of the truth is as facty as the version you are refuting.
Exploring Swift array's implementation
This is worst that the situation with asbestos. My grand father died by a lung cancer, probably related to asbestos. He worked on a factory, many years, using it without any kind of protective suit. Far as I know, nearly all co-workes that he had, has been dying like flys this lasts decades.

I hope that DuPont's get sued to the oblivion.
Oh, okay. I'll have to check that sometime, thanks! Indicates messy retro-setup-to-be in garage
Let them have their toy if that means they won't destroy ours.
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Oh, neat... that's pretty amazing, actually.
I've been trying to do this!

Often it seems like there are so many "new" articles I can't keep up with them all. Also a lot of things stagnate with 1 point and then just disappear.

Do you know if there's a way to sort the articles by topic? (see my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863542)

Thanks.
From a career perspective, Go is currently the language you'd want to learn. Here's my list of some of the largest companies from a few months ago, excluding a bunch of Chinese ones I haven't heard of (of which there are many, considering that China is most likely Go's largest adopter (http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china)).

Walmart, Apple, Facebook, eBay, Intel, Google, Mozilla, IBM, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, Zynga, Yahoo, BBC, VMware, Uber, GitHub, Getty Images, Twitter, Stack Exchange, Docker, SpaceX, Baidu, Qiniu, Imgur, CloudFlare, Bitbucket, Dell, Twitch, Dailymotion, bitly, Cisco, Verizon, Dropbox, Adobe, New York Times, HP, Canonical, Cloud Foundry, 99designs, BuySellAds, CoreOS, MongoDB, Basecamp, Rackspace, Booking, MalwareBytes, Kingsoft, Iron.io, OpenShift, Heroku, Square, Spring, Tumblr, VMWare, Symantec, Comcast, CBS, SendGrid, Digitally Imported, Pivotal, Couchbase, Koding, Shopify, Shutterfly, MaxCDN, Linden Lab, SolarWinds, IMVU, EMC, Teradata, and I'm sure many more which I'm unaware of, are all using Go to some capacity.
Part of Sketch's draw (in my opinion anyway) is that you can buy it. $99 and done.

Alternatively, you could take that money and rent either Illustrator for 3 months or all of Creative Cloud for 2 months.

Even if I didn't like Sketch better, that would be tough to argue with.
For all we know it could be as well the food : there's a lot of people that believes that highly processed food is toxic for the organism and is the source of most of our ailments.

They're generally heavy on beliefs and light on science, but empirical evidence suggest that they might be right.
Definitely! Are you from the UK? "Swings & Roundabouts" is something I associated with that land.
Yeah, I have this problem too. I think they are trying to avoid diluting the the value by having too much content like reddit and adding categories would cause an explosion of content. Think of Hacker News like a national newspaper where only the most important stories are shown each day.
Another great piece of content from Julia Evans :)
If I could buy additional time, let's say $20 per hour... I would be a damn poor guy..
I think I read something like this in a header file for a GNU licensed compiler at some point.

The String object was a character array (presumably terminated by a NULL) which was prefixed by a size_t (it may have been assumed that String inherited another precursor class).

Still, I do like the idea of working within a bounded set. This sounds much more like a language feature where you could work within an array of known size. Though most of the time when I care about easy String handling I'm better off writing it in a higher level language.
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It's not an opinion, it's backed by two centuries of vast US rulings on what a warrant is: intentionally narrow in scope, no broader than absolutely necessary, well defined in its purpose and target, leaving as little room for abuse as possible. The 'warrant' granted in this example is extremely broad, almost entirely undefined in how it's to be implemented, and allowing for the targeting of essentially any person on earth. It's close to being the exact opposite of what the law has defined a warrant as throughout US history.

One of the primary complaints of the founding fathers was the abuse by the British when it came to general warrants. They specifically attempted to limit warrants just for this very reason, so abusive agents of the government couldn't turn them into general warrants.

The fact that this example warrant allowed for infinite targeting (ie had no actual specific targets in mind), means that it is not a warrant by the definition set over the prior 200 years in the US. It is an obvious general warrant, and non-constitutional.
I've thought for some time that Yahoo! should have moved into the streaming video business, including emulating Netflix and producing original content on a subscription basis. In the very least it would have been a way to lure people to their website and get them to spend a lot more time within/adjacent to the Yahoo! ecosystem.

Come to think of it, I'm not even sure if Yahoo! has ever done anything video related. I wonder why?
> This might cause you to default on the loan, but that's your problem now, not PayPal's.

Of course it's their problem. Instead of having $20,000 they have an IOU which may or may not ever be paid. Case 2 is exactly the same as Case 1 except for the extra interest which presumably covers the default risk.

It would be a better customer experience to just straight-up charge extra fees for creditworthy customers with high chargeback risk instead of this Rube Goldberg setup which is logically equivalent.
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I also made a small video of the water-simulation:

https://vimeo.com/151077633
From my experience I'd be surprised if a legitimate business that had proper checks for fraud and delivered their service as advertised ended up getting a high enough rate of charge backs to lose their account.
Without any scientific backing I'd argue most forms of learning are social activities in some sense and as such catering to the introvert/extrovert "divide" might be a useful approach.
The very naive version would be letting some people read about a topic and write a summary and some others discuss the topic etc.
Try and read the article before making abstract comments. It has names and links and it's bloody obvious Chinese is a blantant rip, not a "coincidence."
Learning a single tool is a small value proposition to an employer. Showing an employer that you can learn a tool quickly and effectively is a large value proposition. Either one would do that.

Pick the one you enjoy most.
> There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social dick-measuring contest

And then at the end:

> Add me at: justinkan

Why does he need to be seen by strangers if the whole point is to exchange "low quality content" between friends??

That said, the concept of "linear channel" is interesting, even if I'm not sure I understood everything about it.
> Disney Political Action Committee (PAC) paid out a total of $149,612 in direct campaign contributions to those considering the bill.

> Eisner paid Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) $1,000 on the very same day that he signed on as a co-sponsor.

Wow. Not only you can buy law. But you can do it on the cheap. Lobbying is great. Go USA!
Indeed. Its like mainframes didn't have 2-digit years because the programmers were stupid or lazy, they did what they could with what they had.
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