skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a tangential comment relating to natch saying,

> I wonder if they still allow the names of admissions candidates to be revealed to the people who review the applications? It seems that hiding this would be a really basic step.

> And no I'm not saying that a name tells you the race. But sometimes it is an indication.

I guess a more relevant point is that if they think your race is relevant to admissions, then they're probably not thinking about removing names from the equation at all. I'd think that they'd happily admit to biases inherent in the process, but at the end of the day they'd argue that more information will allow them to make better decisions than less.
There is almost no archeological evidence to support your claim. There is ample evidence supporting my claim.

Money (specie: often in the form of coinage but not limited to such) was invented when a warlord or monarch captures riches (mines, cities), strikes coins with his visage, uses the coins to pay his soldiers (who are otherwise awful credit risks), then demands taxes from the free peasantry, creating a market economy in the process. States create markets. Markets require states. If for no other reason than to provide protection over the transaction with the threat of coercion.

Before money existed, the free peasantry used credit. The historical evidence shows that first came credit, then came money, then came barter. The exact opposite of what Adam Smith and most economists believe.
If the point of this money was to develop a unified approach to self-driving cars, then it could be a very good thing. Assuming the choice of unified approach makes sense.

Variably-autonomous cars operating in swarms (and thus requiring standard communication and sensor packages) seem to be superior than having dozens of car and tech companies each striving for full autonomy. In swarms, the degree of autonomy would be directly proportional to the size of the swarm a vehicle belongs to. Those on the edge of the swarm would contribute sensor input while the interior vehicles would contribute processing power. Thus achieving greater ability than a solitary vehicle, whether autonomous or not.

The advantage of variable-autonomy is that there's much less need to specially-modify roads, change the way we view liability, or have to get all the way to full autonomy.

I wrote more on the topic here: https://medium.com/@SteveHazel/let-s-do-semi-autonomous-cars...

If the $4 billion was spent on developing the standard communication and sensor packages, and promoting them amongst manufacturers, and promoting the development of compact-form-factor vehicles, it might have significant impact.
It's unclear if I will be able to license the code I post in answers as I see fit - or if SO is forcing me to use a certain license.

I don't want my code to be used in proprietary projects.
The Executive can't pass laws, that's the job of Congress. Good luck with today's type of legislative bodies, too much political posturing and not enough common sense laws. Getting Congress to agree on anything is like herding cats. Actually herding cats is more doable with practice :/
jQuery has a nice efficient event delegation mechanism, that lets you listen for events on elements that don't even exist yet, by specifying selector patterns and listening on the root element with a few global event handlers, instead of adding listeners to every leaf element as it's created. It does all the bookkeeping and event handling in one place, so it saves a lot of memory and time. So not only does it work consistently across all browsers, but it also doesn't suck!

https://learn.jquery.com/events/handling-events/#binding-eve...

https://learn.jquery.com/events/event-delegation/
it doesn't work with me (or in my presence) - i don't even need a Scotsman, i grew up in the USSR and it is like telling me that USSR (or China or Cambodia or Cuba ...) were doing socialism/communism wrong.

Recently many orgs inside our BigCo have been through couple years of the best Agile/Lean/Scrum/<whatever crap> the money can buy. It was a zombie-like horror show and a spectacular failure across the orgs. And one wonderful day the management and PMs just seem to have waken up and just magically forgot all these words. We're back to normal planning and developing features like nothing happened in those 2 years. Magic.
This. When I'm working at night on my desktop or laptop, I'm using f.lux. When I'm browsing the web late at night, I have my brightness set as low as it can go, and invert colors. Unfortunately the flickering of changing pages, images, etc. and going from a page that has a white background to one that is black (which shows up as white inverted) still wakes my wife up, so when I anticipate flickering, I have to hide under the sheets to read like a little kid reading past his bedtime.

Further, the minimum brightness on iPads is still blinding. You have to download a specific "night browsing" browser just to get it to go lower, and if you are in an ebook reader, you are reliant on them having something to help.

Ultimately, I found that for ebooks I'm just way better off with one of the new Kindle Paperwhites, which I'm absolutely in love with. However I still find myself wishing that they had a native way to invert the colors of text. This is trivial to do with common ebook/text doc formats, and I really wish they'd make it an easy "night reading" feature. Having the entire screen with a white background causes unnecessary eye strain and brightness when reading at night. Reading white text on a black background is SOOO much easier on the eyes in a low-light situation.

Taking it a step further, while I hate backlit screens for night reading, one of my favorite reading setups is using a "terminal green" on black in Stanza on my iPad. Now if only the Kindle Paperwhite could do color...
More than 70 whale carcasses mysteriously washed ashore
It's being manipulated by Chinese exchanges faking trade volumes
Having just purchased a new ICE vehicle, considering I drove my last car for ~13 years, I expect my next car will be both electric or hydrogen fuel cell and fully robotic. If it even makes sense to own a car at that point.
Sure, everyone loves subsidies when they are the ones getting them.

Having the government pick winners is a losing proposition. The correct solution is to properly price the externalities of ICEs, then let the market sort it out.
Today is a great day for Bitcoin.

I wish mike well and to never see him again.
It's kinda sad, but it's gotten to the point that heavyweight players are going to be needed to fix the problem.

I just really hope that the banks either don't figure out how to make everything go in their favor, or that the hands they play work out for the good of everyone.
"Please, sir, can I have some more?"
This might be in poor taste, not just because of my proposal but also because I'm using a pun combined with a Hacker News cliche, but it doesn't need to be a bug - it can be a feature.

A lot of people are exhibitionists, a lot of people are voyeurs. Just advertise that your Airbnb is encrusted with hidden cameras. Solved.
Because Netflix is making its own content international perhaps it needs a more accurate view of how that's doing in each market.
So most of the above replies seem to be a threat. Give us free stuffs. You have a nice website there, be a shame if anything happened to it.....

Seems like the Tony Soprano way of doing things.
It's good to be nice like that but you should still be getting a consultancy fee.
"Personal, handwritten cards..."

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Why do you wish to never see him again?

Honest question.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905009
I'm not a lawyer, but I'd just send a certified letter requesting the information you want.
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> But Bitcoin Core is an open source project, not a company.

It has some of the shape of an unincorporated association, though. There's a lot of caselaw dealing with disputes arising in those, usually from reluctant courts that were dragged into particularly petty and poisonous disputes.

Given the amount of actual money involved, people might start asking courts to settle some of these questions before too long.

(But don't ask me to do it, I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice).
Love it! I agree though, it needs some more factors to make various Githubs different.
> What if I say X is we must all stop working and you say Y, we should carry on as we are?

> Do we fire half the company?

If we can fire half the people currently working in the economy, stop the pretense that "job" is something meaningful on its own and start dealing with the actual issue, things might actually get so much better!

I mean, I'm not sure if the GP committed a fallacy or not (he probably did with that blanket statement), but you picked a bad example.
These sort of interview question posts really get to me. It's all just a power trip thing by mostly little people; "we're on this side of the table and you're on that side and it's a great opportunity for us to feel good about ourselves by asking you stupid and personal questions that makes us feel really important, smart and insightful while you're sweating bullets".

Edit: My experience is that you never really know how people turn out. Sometimes an interview can contribute to a hiring decision, but mostly not. Just hire someone for a few weeks and see how they go, if you work great together ask them to stay for another few months, etc.
I did.

Did you click the first link I posted and read all the links within it? If not, start there:

https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...

You have to understand, responding to Mike's posts is literally a full time job:

https://jasonapril.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bpgpidiigaafj...

Mike is very smart and he makes technical arguments that most people don't understand because most people don't understand the technicals of Bitcoin and all the various variables that are at play.

He introduces panic and drama where none should be introduced, proclaims a "solution", and doesn't tell you that his various solutions are centralized [1] and dangerous.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1IqaSLrq8
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There have been no logical conclusions yet as to why so many whales would just wash ashore a beach and die because they got trapper. It is almost like a planned mass-suicide. It is said that some animals have a sixth sense that warns them of an oncoming natural disaster (unnatural increase in bird sounds a few minutes before an earthquake), but could this be attributed to that? Only time will tell.

There are other conspiracy theorists who suspect some underwater nuclear testing that may have led to this catastrophe.
It would really surprise me if people at Netflix would read your comment and be shocked by the news. They are probably fighting against that localisation as much as they can, but the old structures/corps/cultures/laws are still too big and stubborn for a single company to completely beat them. So Netflix and co have to compromise. And they are still doing quite well, I'd say.
> I hope you understand how lucky you've been.

Tbh, I maintain a several-million-dollar-a-year project with essentially no IT resources besides myself and my requests are reasonable.

At this point, three developers [including someone my boss really, really was hoping would replace me on this] have failed to handle this project effectively.

So it isn't just luck.

> Would you say majority of devs have it like you?

The Devs I know personally do but they are largely my coworkers or my coworkers at previous employers.

> Because I've experienced the working hour issue. And that's not even at a startup.

Yeah, its probably because I've been largely self-managing with hard deadlines really only when we have contractual changes.
An open question is how the community should provide feedback.

Perhaps if Github used their own issues system to gather feedback on Github itself, they'd more rapidly improve it. I'm sure they'd feel a lot of these pain points in a far sharper, more visceral way if they were subjected to them daily.
Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
cool, I thought I was the only one over here with that same feeling
But how do you reconcile that with the public fear of losing jobs due to the increase in automation? I think driverless cars represent in a big way due to the prevalence of truck driving as a profession in the US; not saying they can't be reconciled, just flagging it as an issue.
7 Cities that have their own currency...

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55414/7-cities-have-their-own...

You can make your own currency all you want. You just can't make currency and pass it off as state sponsored currency without permission from the state.
Distributed revision control users whining about centralized repository lacking features.

Ummm ... anybody getting the irony here?

And, from a GitHub business perspective, why do I hear Lily Tomlin: "We don't care. We don't have to."

Everybody anointed GitHub as "the chosen one" over strenuous objections from some of us that creating another monopoly for open source projects is a bad idea.

Pardon me for enjoying some Schadenfreude now that GitHub leveraged the open-source adoption into corporate contracts and now doesn't have to give two shits about open source folks.

Lily Tomlin's Phone Company Sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgUN_95UAw
The China mining percentage could change and is likely about to change: http://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-details-100-million-georgia-...
The sad thing is I've seen plenty of patrol cars _with_ actual officers in them seemingly not taking breaks per se, but still ignoring blatant traffic law-breaking happening all around them.
Yes, because only people who want to do research for a living should be allowed to do any research at all.
Heh, the last sentence is debatable (as demonstrated). But to debate it misses the wider point of the first sentence:

> "The folly of BitCoin is to believe that technical problems are somehow orthogonal to social problems."

This. Or, to restate it, to mistake social solutions to 'money' as technical problems that need fixing.
I contacted them dozens of times in 4 years and never had to wait more than a day. I guess you’ve been unlucky that time.
Meanwhile in Georgia which used to have one of the best electric vehicle tax credits in the nation has decided to not only gotten rid of it but now requires everyone to pay a $200 tax annually for owning one. [1]

In a way this is understandable since road tax comes from gasoline sale and electric vehicles don't require gas. However I wonder how they will treat something like Chevy Volt that can run on both electricity and gas.

[1] http://www.govtech.com/state/Georgia-Slams-Brakes-on-Electri...
It seems to me that it would be a good idea to have a special-case that turns a comment where the only content is "+1" into a star request instead.
If you live in a place like the PNW where electricity is cheap there's some really awesome synergy there.

First month of owning an EV I put ~3k miles on it at ~$40/mo electricity bill increase. Most EVs range from 230-330 Wh/mi, gas for the car it replaced would have been ~$250. If you drive a lot EVs make sense for a bunch of reasons(no oil changes drop the per-mile cost even lower).
The historical evidence shows that first came credit, then came money, then came barter.

Can I get a citation on this? Literally any citation that money came before barter will work.
I must say that I find the lines confusing. I don't understand what they mean.

I think it would be nice to have a complete memory lookup written down step by step in text form. e.g.

we're trying to look up the address 0xAA in virtual memory,
the current page table pointer is 0xBB,
therefore we're reading directory entry from the address 0xCC
the directory address contains (...)
etc.
Posted yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10898840

And, article from The Guardian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10901038
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I've never actually seen people use it day to day; nor hear it talked about.

I (wildy) assume a lot of people download it, but never use it. I'd be interested to see retention stats.
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My grandparents had a TV from the 1970s, possibly 1960s, that would automatically adjust the color balance to match the room lighting. It really is an old idea.
I would add...

4. People who need to circumvent capital controls and want to move money out of countries like China and Venezuela.
Another article from The Intercept, posted yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10898840
Belgium as well
But if you understand how the system works and it seems not surprising that you will face tougher challenges. I am not sure in how far this is different from rejecting the notion that a driving license is necessary to operate a car. You can certainly learn how to operate one yourself and be really good at it. But if your are a car rental company and want to reduce your liabilities it seems reasonable (but probably not fair) to let only people with a driving license rent one.
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Where can one read more about this?
The folks at http://neo900.org/ are well aware of this and that phone is designed accordingly (details at http://neo900.org/faq#privacy). Hype-driven products like BlackPhone misrepresent their devices as being perfectly secure when this significant attack vector is completely unmitigated.

On the Neo900, the modem is connected via USB (bus; there is no physical connector) which means it doesn't have DMA. There is no feasible open-source baseband. OsmocomBB (http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/) is the closest thing to one, and it is relatively incomplete and works on a very limited range of mostly badly outdated hardware, none of which would not really be reasonable to use in a phone to be manufactured today.

It's incredibly difficult to get people to care and help with the lack of software for tasks like GSM communication. Somehow even among people who describe themselves as "hackers", most just want to run Android or iOS and buy/run closed-source apps, and are more interested in Javascript and employment than reverse-engineering and doing things that have never been done before. The potential of reprogrammable computers that, at a low level, run the code you ask them to doesn't seem to get through to most of the HN crowd.
> Credit cards take 180 days for the transaction to confirm. Paypal is able to be clawed-back for up to almost the same amount of time. Cash can be counterfeited. Even some bank wires can be clawed back. Bitcoin works as a payment mechanism.

On average, an electronic transaction on your credit card will not be visible to the consumer for one or two days, depending on the merchant. This can be delayed if the merchant and all other parties are taking in a large volume of transactions, but it will show up. Other reasons include allowing for modifications to the transaction (such as merchants who wish to include tips which is a manual process), but if the transaction is electronic, it will appear visible to you within a day or two.

With EMV being in place in the majority of the world and also ignoring some of its security problems, merchants don't have to be concerned about a fake credit card being used as much as they once had to.

With Bitcoin, the merchant won't be able to tell if the transaction is approved without having to wait an onerous and unpredictable amount of time. If this is a restaurant, are we to expect that the person who's paying with Bitcoin will wait for the transaction to be received on the other end?

Credit card transactions run in the realm of 100,000,000,000 transactions per year globally [1], or 274,000,000 per day, or 3,200 per second. At best as of this current writing, Bitcoin can handle anywhere between one to three transactions per second. A delay of one or two days of a transaction on my Visa card to show a meal I had a restaurant is acceptable considering the volume per day, but being that Bitcoin takes anywhere between a few minutes to a half-day to just process the transaction when it operates at <1% the speed is just pathetic.

You cannot tell me with a straight face that compared to credit cards Bitcoin is able to scale and act as a "[workable] payment mechanism".

[1] - http://www.paymentssource.com/statistics/
> I haven't read what problems prompted Zappos to push for these changes. Was an overly bureaucratic hierarchical culture holding a Zappos back from continued success?

Religion is my bet.
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>Why do you wish to never see him again?

>Honest question.

There are a number of reasons, but frankly they don't matter anymore.

I truly wish him all the luck in the world.
How can they do that technically? Why is nobody speaking about that? I mean you can block some traffic from famous VPNs etc. And you may be able to see that some traffic is drastically lower than other traffic. But otherwise they should be unaware about my location, shouldn't they?
I agree carbon tax is the right way to go, although politically it might be difficult(see other thread here). I'd rather have something(subsidies) than nothing at all.
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I'll admit to always being a little confused about this point with reference to StackOverflow. It's a question and answer site that generally involves small, self-contained bits of code. How is answering the question not giving an implicit license to use that answer? Are your answers really so substantive that licensing it seems appropriate? Should I not accept your answer if my question is about proprietary projects so that I can wait for someone with a different license preference to come along and give me an answer I can use?

I suppose I've always looked at SO as devs helping devs, almost like a virtual coworking space. If the guy next to me is having trouble, and I look over and help him solve the issue, I'm not then going to go "oh, and btw, I'm going to need some attribution, and you're only allowed to use my solution if your project meets my criteria."
And this medium.com post signals yet another of the hundreds of forks of bitcoin that have failed and not bitcoin itself.
The Bitcoin XT fork was not received well in the community.
I see this as reasonable and pragmatic, I have seen this type of attribution happen organically hundreds of times.

However it is obviously bad for the copy-left movement.
I am not Michael Bayer (but I hope to be more like him someday)... that said, what I think he means or could mean is that issues would be distributed along with the repo. Maybe something like a git log for issues that are attached to and/or part of the repo itself.

Thinking about it, something like this would be sweet. I would immediately have a snap shot of things that might go boom when I run said software. eta: Instead, I have to go dig through github itself, which is slow compared to greping through a git log.