skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the encouragement. I agree on the importance of setting reasonable expectations for community members, especially early on. If anyone reading this has lived in a hacker hostel I'd like to hear about expectations vs reality.
If you want to compare track records of close sources software with open source, we have IE6 and flash. We have windows 98 and XP. We have every snake oil product ever sold that the producer knew wasn't safe but sold anyway. Heartbleed and Shellshock were big bugs, but they did not create the concept of botnets nor was they so successful that they created a market where before there wasn't.
You just described this: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
The only thing I fear with this (Brave) is that it is gameable. Whenever you create a pot of money, it will be gamed. Someone will come up with the Brave equivalent of a "One weird trick slideshow!" to extract maximum dollars.

Subscriptions, however, are consumer-empowering. And everyone gets how they work. (Netflix, Prime, etc.)
isn't that just saying that 'head' shouldn't return [] on an empty list, because [] has a type which is never the type of what 'head' should return? that's separate from why 'head's type isn't [a] -> Maybe a.
In Scala, Option[Whatever] may also be null. The difference is that it's considered "some Java compatibility leftover" and never exploited by any sane piece of code.
But it can be. See "Wake me when it's over".
The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world. There are literally enough privately held small arms to arm every man, woman, and child in this country. The territory is so large as to be impossible for all but the Chinese [EDIT: and Indians, however no one ever suggests that India will be a potential invader] (with mass conscription) to try to hold with manpower.

The only effective way to invade would involve some combination of nuclear/chemical/biological agents and subterfuge leading to a coup of some sort in multiple regions so that people were peaceful to the invaders.

Given the paranoia present in US culture, and its general xenophobia, this second part seems unlikely.

Instead, you'd end up with a massive, bloody war with low chance of success (at least, the US may be wiped out, but the cost of conquering would decimate the invaders resources).

As for an effective economic coup, that's more feasible. But I'd say the US will do it to itself without needing anyone to push us along. We've been pretty shortsighted about our relationships with other countries for most of our existence, but the past 50 years or so in particular. And we're fucking up our next generation by weakening our education system, driving them into debt for college, and poor mentorship/apprenticeship practices for beginning careers.
Yes it surprised us too, we didn't even think about looking into Messages until Shubs jokingly started sending payloads to me using it.
It's just like cable used to be! Before they started serving ads anyway...
The site looks great. The design is really clean and attractive. Best of luck!
> Yahoo Japan switched to Google many years ago

What is Yahoo Japan? A completely different company or something?
In the long-form radio story, the cop very clearly presents that it was the shooters apparent gender that confused him and nearly cost him his life and the life of the perpetrator. They also noted in the story that officers are briefed on active shooter situations to assume a white male suspect. This was in Nevada, a state that has become (thanks largely to this and other similar stories) a paragon of officer education on the nature of cognitive biases and how to understand and use them to greatest affect.
I agree that businesses need estimates, but the problem is the form they take. It's always "2 weeks", or maybe at a better place it'll be "2-3 weeks" both of which are basically lies because they imply high confidence. What it really ought to be is "2 to 3 weeks with X% confidence" because there's an absolutely massive difference between "2 to 3 weeks at 90% confidence" and "2 to 3 weeks at 10% confidence and at every place I've ever worked they both get treated the same. The 10% confidence one might be roughly equivalent to "2 weeks to 6 months" with an implied high confidence but good luck giving an estimate with that kind of range.
Yeah. I'm a fan of mandates when it comes to things like compiler options. Everyone should just suck it up and work with the same constraints. Warnings are just errors without balls.
Damn! That's a nice idea :D
Forwarding it to the relevant team.
The people, whom represent a Russian bank, deliver money to Clintons.

It's apparently not uncommon for banks or their representatives to deliver money to Clintons, but saying it's a non-huge, non-story sounds like what you would expect from apologist propaganda.
https://twitter.com/wilkieii/status/684270238158958593
Show HN: Distributed dmesg at Facebook
youtube-dl.exe does not need a separate Python installation.
Sorry, dumb joke. Mahayana Buddhism is also known as "big vehicle" or "great vehicle" Buddhism.
Get the most out of eCommerce trends 2016 with these seven actionable tips
Many! Science exists because the world is not yet fully known and isn't likely to be anytime soon!
Funny as that happens to be exactly what I'm arguing. "it's not as simple as cal in vs out."
Devops is dying. And the secret weapon is not mentioned in the article (Docker).
With Docker and a scheduler (swarm, kubernetes, etc), what are you going to use Chef or Ansible for? Just to install Docker on a Linux instance? Docker is just getting started, and we can already see that they are going to make a lot of tools and companies obsolete.
I don't disagree with any of that. I wasn't arguing that the spirit of the law should be enforced despite it not being written, I was arguing that the law should be rewritten to better conform to its spirit. And I agree that probably the best way of accomplishing that is to simplify the tax code. You'll get no argument from me there.
They don't just have ties, John Podesta is Clinton's campaign chairman. And the Podestas aren't just lobbying for Russia's biggest bank. As the article states, the majority shareholder in Sberbank is the Russian Central Bank. From the Wikipedia page on Sberbank of Russia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia#Ownership):

"The majority shareholder of Sberbank is the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, owning 50%+1 voting share of Sberbank's voting shares."

Effectively, the Russian Central Bank controls Sberbank, but ostensibly Sberbank is a private institution. The Podesta Group registered as a lobbyist for Sberbank, which effectively gives the Russian Central Bank a lobbyist in Washington. If the Russian Central Bank had registered directly with the Podesta Group, as the article states the Podesta Group would have to register as agents of the Russian government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The wikipedia page on the Foreign Agents Registration Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac...) states:

"...[requires] that agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or quasi-political capacity" disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related activities and finances. The purpose is to facilitate "evaluation by the government and the American people of the statements and activities of such persons.""

Arguably, the Podesta Group is not facilitating evaluation of statements its making on behalf of Sberbank, and by extension the Russian Central Bank, because it registered as a lobbyist for a bank controlled by a state-owned bank. The Russians suffered heavy sanctions recently. It doesn't stretch the imagination that the Podesta Group received money from Russia to lobby Washington to drop those sanctions.

As the article states towards the end, if Clinton wins the election, John Podesta stands to gain a position of power in a Clinton administration. If John Podesta benefited from money provided by a foreign government (again, Sberbank is controlled by the Russian Central Bank), then that's a relationship the Clinton campaign needs to explain.
The actual roadmap is here:

https://trello.com/b/ZnTQyumQ/slack-platform-roadmap
Yes. It's a joint venture with Softbank.
Facebook May Jump in the Bot Game
Will the new API be backwards compatible or will it break existing code?
"Existing tools don't deliver on these four points because..."

What are the existing tools and/or your competitors?
What a heart-breaking introduction to the world of cancer research. I personally know an immensely bright person working on a vicious type of childhood sarcoma cancer, and his work is innovative and may, in time, lead to a highly specific form of treating cancer that won't have the same long-term side effects as the "one size fits all" type of chemo approach. It's important work, and he has received both private and public funding for his lab because he's making progress. It's slow.

One thing I have learned though, is that once a parent discovers their child has a diagnosis of that type of cancer, they go online and look it up. Eventually they find his name if they look long enough. Some of those parents write pleading, begging letters to him looking for some kind of treatment - anything. Other than giving them a name for the best clinic in the US in his opinion, there is nothing he can do to help but continue his work. Such letters do appear to take a toll on him, emotionally, because he does care.

As a person with a rare, permanent genetic condition myself, I have come to accept and live peacably with the outlook that people, as a group, simply do not find ways to care about other people's problems with a sliver of intensity that they do once one of those problems becomes their problem. It's just the way our species seems to be wired for now.
The Need for a Chief Data Officer
Rust is still being designed and Go doesn't have a mature optimizing compiler.

Swift has a lot of developer growth, cross-platform library possibilities, and a two optimization pass compiler (SIL and IL).
We're currently not focusing on the Chinese market, and afaik they are mainly focusing on it. The website is in Chinese language, but 100% looks and feels like ours.
For your use case, I think Fluentd may work fine. LogZoom currently deals with structured JSON log data received from hundreds of hosts around the world. It could be modified to handle arbitrary logs (and wrap a structure around it) and integrate with Docker, but that was not the goal here.
> So in the comparison to shopping around, you really can't fault this type of corporate action, until they actually go illegal.

Watch me.

There are many times when people have incentives to take actions that harm those around them, and yet somehow a lot of us manage to act ethically.

There are plenty of behaviors that are legal but unethical. I could, for example, cheat on my significant other. There are some strong biological incentives to do so. But nobody would say, "you can't fault him for cheating on his SO until he actually goes illegal". Laws exist to disincentivize the extremes of unethical behavior. When you consider that the rich have an inordinate influence over what laws are passed, it becomes clear that often behaviors which are unethical enough to be illegal remain legal because the rich benefit from them.

The people exposed by the Panama Papers knew they weren't behaving ethically, otherwise they wouldn't have gone to such lengths to hide their actions. I have no qualms about faulting them for their actions.

In business, "I was just following incentives" is the new "I was just following orders". They're teaching this to business students in college, that the only responsibility a company has is to its shareholders. Any person or corporation with this ideology is effectively a sociopath, and society should treat such corporations the same way we treat known sociopaths.

I agree with you that we should disincentivize this kind of tax evasion, but any disincentive that assumes that there is no fault for following incentives will simply plug one leak: the rich and corporations will simply find another way to be avoid contributing to society. If you really believe that incentives are the problem then we need to create a real disincentive: jail time for persons and seizure of assets for corporations.
I recently interviewed a PHP dev who asked me why we even have backend developers. From his perspective, we could just use Parse and it would do all the "magic" of the backend.

Then Parse shut down.

I think the lesson here is, you should never trust your core product to a third party. Also, when you use cookie-cutter services, you really limit the kind of things you can do, and vendor lock-in really, really limits your options in the long run.
I understand everyone's frustration around this issue, I hate site that block adblocker users as well. However, this article is an example of unethical journalism.

TL;DR

Article says "Well, how about they start treating their ad inventory with at least a percentage of the care with which they treat their content?"

The researcher who discovered the issue says "Forbes almost immediately reached out and we started a dialog. We shared logs, events, and descriptions of the ad."

In contrast, when the researcher reached out the correct the Engadget article that started this and quoted him, he got no response.
You want another Bush? We have another Bush.
Try doing a Google search from tor. The catches that tor users get are borderline impossible because of the suspicious ip and/or browser.
'BLATANTLY ILLEGAL': 17 newspapers slam Brave ad-blocking browser
> Now, with some simple filtering and statistics, WhatsApp the service can deduce your phone book with some certainty, but I believe most would agree that it is materially different from actually uploading your phone book.

No, not really. Both implementations give WhatsApp a complete list of all my contacts. The fact that one of those implementations might not be 100% accurate because of deleted contacts changes nothing - if you're someone who's worried about a third party having your contact list, it doesn't make sense to think "but hey, they don't know I removed $FOO last week, so their list isn't 100% accurate!".

Both implementations mean you'll have to take their word on what they will and won't do with the data, so there's really not much of a practical difference.
How can subscription to a shipping service be compared to membership in a community? Where is the "community" in this? Do Prime-subscribes gather sometimes to discuss how they are subscribed to Prime?
Partly. Tsuyoshi Ito's answer on that page is IMO better than the original: `head` mattered at a time when pattern matching didn't exist; but today the only reason to use `head` is to form some sort of pointfree expression operating on lists that you've already filtered to be not-null. That is, you're doing `map (transform . head) . takeWhile (not . null)` or something, or maybe `takeWhile` is replaced with `filter` or so. If you cannot assert that the list is non-null then you have to handle two branches, and this code will generally look clearer if you pull it into a `where` clause and write it with pattern matching rather than with an adjusted `head` followed immediately by an appropriate `maybe` function.
So basically the theory here is that if you look back to software written in the mid-to-late 1990s, you tend to find insecure software.
Well yeah, to be fair, TNG had a lot of problems, particularly in the first two seasons. The first season was a near-disaster really, between Wesley's horribly annoying character, Q, Data, a whole lot of wooden acting all around, and really awful scripts like anything with "the traveler". Season 2 was pretty bad too with Dr. Pulaski trying to ape McCoy vis-à-vis Spock in her interactions with Data and failing miserably. Basically, the problem was the Gene Roddenberry was too hands-on at the time; the guy was just like Lucas: he had some great ideas, but really sucked at execution, and things went much, much better when he sat back and let other people do all the nitty-gritty work of writing, direction, etc. After he got less involved and his drinking buddy Maurice Hurley left the show, and they brought back Crusher (who Hurley had forced out) and put Rick Berman in charge, that's when we got all the greatest episodes, at least until the writers ran out of ideas in seasons 6-7.
Fortunately, I was running an image site and they hot linked my images. So I only served users with their referrer thumbnails instead of full size images. I also used image magick through PHP to append a footer with my site URL and logo stuck on the bottom. Free advertising win!
The glib answer I usually give people is that it would be great if someone stole my idea because then the world's economy would fix itself without my help. I'd just go back to having fun and doing my own thing.

I've long assumed that basic income was inevitable. I didn't know how we'd get there, but I was optimistic about the future. I still believe that basic income is inevitable, but now I have a way to help it happen sooner and more smoothly.

But I'm sure my investors won't be entirely happy with that answer. I actually do feel it's important for Gresham Dollar to succeed. If someone else tries to do it, they might do it wrong. If someone else tries to execute on this idea, but they don't get it quite right, it'll be a rough road for our economy.

How could you guarantee it's only you?

The answer is that I can't guarantee that it's only me, but because of the network effect inherent in money, it has to be only someone. Money is a natural monopoly. So if we're the first to disrupt money in this way, it's going to take a lot of resources to dislodge us.

The more popular Gresham Dollar gets, the more someone else will want to copy it, but the harder it gets for them to be able to succeed in doing so.

In fact, if there's even a hint this is popular, I expect to see this co opted by big corporations or entities with far more resources. Wal-Mart Dollars, Amazon Dollars, might all show up, which actually destroys the trust of this kind of system.

I don't know. The less people trust Gresham Dollar, or any Gresham Dollar-Type (GDT) currency, the more likely they are to spend it. Lack of trust, in some ways, actually boosts a GDT. What's critical is that we make the whole thing user-friendly. It should be seemless to switch between spending GD, USD, other GDTs, and any other currencies that are in the mix.

It's always been the plan for Gresham Dollar to integrate well with other currencies besides USD. This should include other GDTs. I can imagine a scenario in which the various GDTs work synergistically together. You could have multiple big corporations each with their own USD reserves backing their own GDT and providing their own basic income and we'd have a system for exchanging between the GDTs.

For example, let's say Walmart has Walmart Bucks as their GDT. If you can only spend Walmart Bucks at Walmart, Walmart Bucks aren't going to take over the world, but they could be an important part of the overall GDT eco-system. We would hold a reserve of Walmart Bucks and provide a facility for people to exchange their Walmart Bucks for GD at slightly less than par. If a GD user wants to shop at Walmart, he can save money by first converting his GD to Walmart bucks. Ideally, this process would be automatic.

Wow, crazy idea.

Thanks!
Business opportunity:

Browser extension that gets all the articles, post-processes to strip the ads and serves the content when user asks for the same article url. I'd pay $9.99 for it. If the publishers won't get on board a unified subscription service, let's just go around them.
I worked at a company that hired a developer who was slightly consumed by his regret at being an early employee and then getting out of Groupon pre-IPO. We'd be at a bar and the conversation would die down and he'd look sort of glum and say, "I should be on a yacht right now...". I felt bad for him.
It's not clear what you would accept as a good language for the web. Could you elaborate?
Looking at the issue tracker ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+m... ) looks like a windows DLL preload attack & another unspecified bug (currently a placeholder).

If we take a look at the release branch though, it appears it might be crypto related: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/release-branch.go1.6

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/4afe4c803ec378d7a0d7fbc3...

https://github.com/golang/go/commit/2d8ecac3d0dbceed8830a43a...
Interesting bit of history. The usage I've heard is that 'tabling' means to postpone, putting something on the table means to present something. Generally just 'table' means, well a table. Then again, Canadian here.
And as xori points out, they are all examples of irresponsible clickbait journalism.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11455718
I would believe you but their copycat car industry is a direct refutation of such "proactive brand defence" you claim exists.
What's the first thing you notice when you start slipping?

Now that your know yourself better, are you more aware you slipping and take preventive measures early on?
It's not China specific though, surely it would be the same in pretty much any non-English speaking country? What happens if a company in Romania/Bulgaria/Nigeria/Chile clones your US startup?

Even in terms of legal jurisdictions if a company in Australia clones it, and hosts and develops everything in Australia, you may need to hire an Australian legal team to fight it.
I think more than conversational commerce the true power of BOTs will be conversational planning assistance within chat. Imagine a personal assistant always available in your chats with friends that can help you plan dinners by finding restaurants everyone would like, making reservations, booking movie tickets, putting the event on everyone's calendars, sending reminders, giving directions to locations when you leave for the event, etc. now that's powerful and useful.
You'd be amazed what an Nginx configuration serving a conditional message in favor of freedom of expression and self-determination for Taiwan can accomplish. Not much for international politics, but it will resolving the hotlinking problem very, very quickly.
Have you done anything to improve your experience with their email, or are you just using the stock web version? I haven't used the mobile version yet, sensing it wouldn't be much better than the web app.

I might give it another look and try it on mobile though.
> There seems to be the underlying notion that: because it's China, any riposte is acceptable

I disagree.
Rather, its: "Because its not anywhere else, you have no option to defend the business you have created for yourself and your employees."

This has very little to do with China and more to do with the company has little other options given the circumstances.

If I were a web developer of said clone company, and I noticed hotlink protection had been enabled (easily, 301s, 404s), I would have already scraped all of the content on the page (new content notwithstanding), and onError I would serve up the copy of the content I had saved locally.

The only thing I could imagine you doing besides the retaliatory measures listed above is removing the site from SERPs. However, Baidu won't respect your wishes.
eSports, really? Is that even legal in Germany?

http://www.gamblingsites.org/laws/germany/
That's true. Same in our case as well.
Yeah, it's so frustrating to read this tired regurgitation of the same old debunked info. The body uses cholesterol to repair lesions in artery walls. The lesions are the root problem, not the cholesterol, which is the body's only fix.
Seems like a perfectly good thing to have as an app-wide setting tbh.
> It is unthinkable right now, but what will happen with Amazon/AWS goes bankrupt and no longer exists? All these AWS Certified Engineers who are not actually devops will suddenly be lost.

Or they could just read this document and move to GCP.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/google-cloud-platform-for-aws-...