skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my request to participate in the parameter generation is granted, I'm going to use TAILS with no persistence to generate then manually copy the base64-encoded public key over to my other computer, then I'm terminating the other machine.
Letting markets function has helped poor countries like India, China and even North Korea. Making decisions on behalf of poor people has hurt poor even in the richest countries like USA. Common sense to me.

There is always an issue of law and order though. If theft is a common problem then this may not work.
That would require plugins which are being phased out and for good reason.

Namely, because they allow something like Adobe Flash Player - which doesn't come close to supporting all the platforms the Web runs on - to become a defacto standard. Thus restricting a large portion of the Web to just a few platforms Adobe wants to support.
As the OP has already responded, he's talking about the 70s and onwards until Musk came on the scene.

The days up to and including the Apollo missions were the US's glory days; all the great innovation in rocketry was happening then, and it culminated in the Saturn V, which was a big success (esp. considering the level of overall technology back then, and what they were trying to do). And, as you pointed out, it used kerosene. It still remains (I'm pretty sure) the largest and heaviest-lift launch vehicle in all of human history. We still haven't surpassed it, and it was designed in the 1960s.

What have we done since the Apollo program was canceled early? Nothing as notable. A bunch of really expensive launches to LEO with an overpriced space-going pickup truck basically. And a bunch of small launches (satellites, probes, etc.) using rockets that were designed way back then for launching nuclear weapons. We're still highly dependent on rocket engines built by Russia. The whole Space Shuttle idea itself was stupid: the costs and complexity were huge because of the idiotic requirement of being able to retrieve military satellites from orbit and bring them back intact and in secret. If it weren't for that, they never would have come up with such an absurd design, and would have just stuck with much cheaper capsules like the Soyuz and the upcoming manned vehicles by the US.
> Those who take this behaviour outside of the stadium often tend to salute their comrades with a straight arm, and resort to knives and sticks to prove their superiority outside of the pitch.

Or... they launch rockets into space, and land them back on a small platform.
Microsoft shows off a touchscreen that can predict your movements
In terms of major cities, San Francisco is among the best choices in terms of year-round weather. Snow, subzero temperatures, and associated clothing needs would definitely be much more problematic in your suggested cities.
I would suggest it's so he doesn't move out of the potential area for users/testing/investor meetings/hiring, but if he's living out of a van, that's probably adding more challenges than it's resolving.
Seems like a great experiment. I think this will do wonders for both the people, and our knowledge of how to best provide aid.

2 things I'm interested in seeing:

1 - Does it make a difference if it's USD sent over, versus local currency? (Is it a cash shortage, or a foreign cash shortage?)

2 - How much inflation will occur?
Correct. Or you become destitute/homeless.
"The Invisible Hand will right all moral wrongs" is an argument that is unconvincing and historically hasn't been true. As is the idea that market forces will overall select for less discrimination.

After all, it has been a massive market opportunity to include women in the workforce since almost the dawn of civilization, and yet it's taken centuries for the allegedly rational market to realize this (and even then, not fully).

Ditto in the height of the Civil Rights era there was a massive market opportunity for restaurants that were willing to serve people of color - yet this largely didn't happen.

The market - and its participants - are frequently irrational. Or maybe more accurately, sociopolitical forces have the power to skew market behavior in huge ways.

This is also why I'm also often skeptical of attempts to cast equality as an economic good - it frequently is, but basing a worldview around it seems dangerous, precisely because the market often selects against justice.
Professors intentionally slow down science to make themselves look better
Sweet. News to me, thanks. Will definitely try this. :)
A future project for me is to see if I can render the comments out to a string at the moment when Hugo is rebuilding my blog.

Then the comments would be in the DOM before the JavaScript is even loaded. I've done that with React apps before - it works great.

If that was working, I could rebuild the blog after every comment even, using a system like yours.
The Wall Street Apocalypse Is Now
Both issues are illegal. Fight both or none.
Honestly, I don't understand your question. I am not using HN for hiring leads, so I don't understand how skillsets of HN users are relevant to my question.

I am not looking to draw conclusions, just to get an answer to my question.
I'm not an economist so I'm sure there are variables I'm not accounting for, but here's my opinion. I think the difference is that an endless supply of money (we know it's not truly endless, but a large influx of cash) allows commerce to occur and people can buy/sell more than commodities. The mere existence of a bank doesn't improve the lives of citizens if said citizens have no money to purchase food/goods and no assets to offer as collateral to take out a loan in the first place. There needs to be some sort of economy in place before a bank will benefit a population anyway. The bank could also benefit because residents now have assets to leverage when seeking cash above and beyond their basic income since I'm assuming starting a business may cost more than donations or a basic income would provide.

I would love to hear others' opinions on this.
Oh yea, for a game I would almost certainly decompose into some sort of union of easily handled convex shapes. There are definitely applications -- robotics, engineering, hell, even film -- where more accurate mesh-mesh is needed, however, and most solutions are super domain specific and ad hoc.
For horizontal axis turbines two speed generators were historically a thing, usually with two sets of windings which were engaged at different speeds.

This works, but is less efficient and mechanically more taxing on the machine than variable speed, variable pitch angle systems.
I have a little bit of code similar to yours for comments, I just wrote some glue to require Google or Facebook authentication through AWS Cognito to make comments. Some people will hate that, but it worked.
I used google sheets as my database for a similar setup with s3 and lambda. Sheets is completely is free AFAIK
Terrified by the concept of the green thumb
Kudos. I like your style. I paid $42K in federal taxes last year, I'd pay more to get universal healthcare and real social safety nets here.
Stick with your name. You earned it.
Hm. I guess because everything I've built is out here. I know I have a TechShop membership that if my car breaks down, I have tools, I can prototype hardware there, etc. I have a good solid 6 years here in the city for friends and community that I could tap into if I needed to. It's just nice to see the people that I care and love for. Also for startups this seems to be the place to be.
It also misses the obvious cause of the move from groups to Anonymous: snitching. Adrian Lamo, Sabu, 5hm00p, etc.
... Since when is 0x09 followed by 0x10? Why denote your release numbers in hex if you're just going to chicken out when it's time for hex to not be the same as decimal?
Yes, I am usually assumed to be male here, and addressed as such. I don't mind it really, and I understand why it is happening tho.
> But if the availability of these devices leads to lower levels of smoking (and my understanding is that it does), safer is what matters, no?

If safer is what matters, then it matters not only whether it leads to a lower volume of smoking but whether the (volume of smoking) × (harm from smoking) + (volume of vaping) × (harm from vaping) is lower under one regime than another. Its possible for the "no vaping" case to be safer in total than the "with vaping" case, even if the harm from vaping is lower and the volume of smoking is lower with vaping available.
At least in Washington State, unemployment payout is almost immediate, within two weeks of losing your job. You can use the time before it runs out to apply for other federal or state assistance programs. These may take longer and have more complex qualifications.
Smartphones uncover how the world sleeps
QuickFix: show statistics and reviews of denied booking.
Yeah, even sleeping through the winter down in Palo Alto was a little tough with a sleeping bag + comforter.
I don't know much about wind turbines and the behaviour of moving volumes of air with regard to airfoils but there's one point I picked off of the article.

If I were to put my money either in the most advanced big-farm wind high-tech or in something that is decentralized, mass-produced, and well-abused by all kinds of groups of people, it would be the latter.

The article mentions that one billion is not enough to enter the game. That surely excludes a lot of the smartest and brightest people who might come up with new innovations and the billion-scale investments also seek conservative returns, further culling new ideas.
I don't have wsj access to read the article, but for those looking for some help in doing the math Danielle Fong has an interesting collection of notes on calculating lithium ion storage growth (page 19) : http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/refs/DanielleFong-Growth...

(found via the energy storage section in http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ )
My approach was to just pump the entire comment through the "markdown-it" markdown processor, which promises to emit safe HTML. It's a popular project, so I'm banking on the fact that they go a good job of sanitizing in their pipeline.
Unemployment benefits aren't the same as welfare they're paid into by your employer so when you're laid off you can maintain some kind of salary while you find work elsewhere. There are tax based welfare systems in place in the United States that provide assistance to people in poverty but it isn't the same system as "unemployment" (as it's generally referred to here)
I didn't know Signal used Twilio on the backend to verify. I haven't used it myself but know someone that works there. Maybe they can help look into it.
That was a spin on the Heartbleed theme and personally, I like it.
Because intellectual community is extremely hard to get. Unless you're moving to Ithaca, it's hard to find a place that is full of interesting people and ideas. This pushes you in ways you wouldn't get in places like Buffalo and so on - the culture of a city like San Francisco or Boston is full of smart people with a certain background (i.e., people who are interested in tech) who can stimulate you. You're far more likely to overhear a conversation about Claude Shannon or minimum spanning trees in SF than you are in Buffalo.
> What? There's no ad-hominem there

"oh boy, a Chomsky quote"? That implies no connotation there to you? There is no ad hominem you notice then.

> Chomsky claimed in the quoted sentence that things like huge corporate profits were not reported, your parent post says that's incorrect and they're often reported

Does that address the central point, or does it take one sentence out of context, then takes it literally without seeing the woods for the trees? Call it a straw man, call it not getting the point and splitting irrelevant hairs, same difference. Yes, all sorts of things do get reported, nope, doesn't change anything about the gist of the quote.

Here's a random comment from you to explain it better:

> your remarks are no different than a 7 year old putting down somebody for throwing like a girl.

Does that mean that's what they are literally saying, saying word by word the exact same sentence any 7 year old would say? Is the discussion about throwing? You didn't say "similar to", you said "no difference", after all. It gets worse, notice that you said "7 year old", not "roughly 7 years old". So a person who is exact 7 years old, no day, no minute, not even a second, not even tenth of a second older... but hey, it would take too long for any child to say a few words while they are still exactly 7, we could even wonder if that exact moment can even be found. So that clearly makes no sense.

Imagine getting such a response of someone either acting dumb or not getting it, and when you call it out as such, you get MORE games and a downvote. You would notice the problem quite easily, why don't you notice it here? Maybe because you don't even feel forced to seriously think about it; the difference is not that the Chomsky quote has been dealt with even just one iota more seriously or more honestly, the difference is in where the status quo lies, and what power doesn't care about or even supports. When you are on its side, one can get away with "oh boy, a Chomsky quote" and other such nonsense. Just like you could accuse someone of throwing like a girl around jocks no questions asked. Nobody will ever take you to task for your response to me. It's not like you just called anyone a racial slur, you just supported someone dismissing words with utter sophistry. Nothing to even skip a beat over, right? And the interwebs is positively littered with that, that's kind of one of the reactions Chomsky evokes. You might call him a litmus test.

And you know, I said "ad-hominem and straw man" because I didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence with this rant. It's not that I can't back up what I say in however much detail you need, I just find it unproductive. Just like I tend to collect and re-post quotes that say things I agree with; which I could say in my own words, in more words and less elegantly. Why do that, when there is a "quote for the occasion"? When people interpret a quote as saying "this is true because X says it", that's their problem, I don't operate that way.
> After a few years I did not need much "training wheels" and could continue to increase proficiency regardless.

Every teacher's dream outcome. Congratulations! :)
I'm a little perplexed by you just dropping the statement: "I've found a way."

It's a little like being a 17th century French lawyer and writing an allusion to a proof in the margins of a book.
Photoshop as game editor
> And Windows can operate as a server running all sorts of things like Active Directory, Exchange, etc. - that's because Microsoft bundles the software with it to allow it to do this, but the underlying operating system remains the same.

Actually, it seriously isn't - Windows Server has a hugely changed set of features compared to Windows on the desktop, from the kernel upwards. The software in question is tied heavily into every piece of the OS - there is almost no major component in Windows 10 that is exactly the same in its equivalent server build. This is very different from both OS X and Linux.

OS X is very much not designed to act as a permanently always-on server in a business-critical capacity - what I'd expect from a server OS. The fact that Apple sell a product called "server" doesn't change that, any more than that XAMPP exists for Windows 10.

To put it in a question - would you run your SaaS off of OS X?
To each their own. What starts as an awesome technological event, ends with thought-stopping cult-like behavior. I guess the two are entwined, eternally, throughout human culture, so I shouldn't be surprised ..
Also while you're receiving unemployment you have to apply to two jobs every week or two weeks.
Why do you think they're unrelated?
I'm not trying to be rude when asking this but why would you choose to become homeless to prototype a business/product?? I've seen this come up several times on HN over the last few years and every time it blows my mind, especially when the person then goes on to talk about how difficult life is.

I'm guessing you're in tech as you're on HN - why not keep your day job and work on your business from 7pm-3am every night. Save some money while you do this and then leave your job when you can afford to?

It seems like a lot of tech folks have adopted the whole starving artist approach to starting a business when it is entirely unnecessary. I mean, even if you don't want to be an employee and want to focus on your product, move somewhere inexpensive, work freelance a few hours a day to support yourself. It just seems insane to me that anyone in this industry would choose to be homeless when they really don't have to.

If a lot of people are making this choice voluntarily I'd say there's a major problem in the industry and how people view the path to a successful business.
Interesting perspective. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and send your thoughts!
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The wealth of a society is a reflection of the quality of the people in the society. 10 million in my hands isn't worth as much as 10 million in the hands of warren buffet.
Posted at least 4 times. Guys please keep it clean. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cipherli.st
Yes but I'm referring to general hosts. I don't think AirBnB recognises illegal hotel chains, officially.
I'm not sure, I think about that a lot. I've noticed a lot of homeless do carry cell phones, so maybe more free chargers, free and ubiquitous wifi? But that's dumb tech me talking.

I think a lot of barriers just come from the social stigma of actually being homeless. So thinking reasonably, showers, laundry, snacks or meals? A place where one could feel human and a part of the naturally accepted society again.
Ithaca is a special place, I agree.
I tried to use onedrive for business and it was so bad, I faced an internal user revolt! I now pay extra for another service with identical specs on paper but far better performance.
> try this: for the next few weeks when you're out and about, pay attention to the types of ecigs people are using in public

I suppose one might think this is a valid comparison, but it simply is not. Who you encounter isn't a representative sample of the population, its skewed by your own age, location, socioeconomic class, etc.
In the majority of AirBnb bookings...it really is. I've used the service 10+ times in multiple cities, countries, and continents. A 10 minute overview of the area and how to read the Wifi password is about as personal as it's ever been. Let's not overplay this narrative that people are sharing a home with you as a means to rationalize discrimination.
Isn't one big issue for homeless people that they need an address when applying for jobs, bank accounts etc. and don't have one. Maybe a place to help them, not only find an apply to jobs, but to use as an address, shower before the interview etc.
Yes, they could each hire a cathedral builder for 50 gold bars.
> I use an ecig myself, and I live next to a college campus

And college campuses (and the areas around them) are totally a representative cross-section of the general; population on all things, including mechanisms of tobacco consumption, right?
It certainly proves the thesis of the film, which is that the "good guys" are not so good as to be trusted with everyone's secrets.
>I recently sold everything I owned and started living out of my converted dodge caravan while I was prototyping what I wanted to build next. With an eye on my burn rate, I lived as cheaply as possible. I can tell you without a doubt that there is no natural system in place for homeless to get out of that rut, and it looks and feels dehumanizing.

I think it's reasonable to assume that anyone who has enough skills to "build things" has enough skills to get an average software job. So, just curious, did you choose to build things and be homeless instead of getting a mundane software job and not be homeless?
Bad cops: A new database collects information about cop misconduct
Haha, I keep forgetting that there are other applications for collision detection than just video games :)
If informal atmosphere of a cafe influences your productivity
For me I've noticed a huge difference in creativity and authenticity in my products when I've devoted 100% of myself to it.

There is a major problem in the industry. There is no one path to a successful business.

I find my time is more valuable than my comfort. To each their own.
This isn't really a statement about the relative importance of certain professions, it's mostly a statement about China. They're a lawless country, and we should probably just disconnect their country from the rest of the internet until that changes. Or at least fine them and issue sanctions until they pay up.

It would be a very bad idea for a US company to start a renegade hacking team that broke into other companies and stole their documents. That would get you thrown in jail, no matter who you were.

It would be an even worse if you started counter-hacking random ips that attacked your machines, because you'd end up with soccer moms crying to politicians on national television about what you did to their kids.
> Just because you're not managing a server doesn't mean it doesn't exist

Wireless internet is still connected to the rest of the internet via a wire somewhere; the obvious point being made is that your phone or laptop doesn't need a wire. Serverless here doesn't mean that servers no longer exist, but that you are not working at the server level to accomplish what you're trying to do.
Detroit is not lacking for interesting people and ideas. We may differ on the what the word interesting means, though.
> The social stigma associated with the word alone is hard for people to get beyond.

That's why you call yourself a digital nomad. Instead of people distancing themselves, you get people asking "Wooow how do you do that? I would love to do that? What's it like?".

As a homeless person with a van, you probably have a more permanent base than most digital nomads. Or at least more than what I did when I was nomading more properly. (and yes, I do miss it)
I'd start by legalizing every form of 'marginal' housing, e.g. boarding houses, micro-apartments.

I have no idea where to start if one accepts the current political, legal, and cultural environment as-is. Assuming you did just accept the status quo as a given, I can better appreciate why the idea of 'just giving homeless people housing' is so enticing. [And there is evidence that it works well. I'm skeptical about the long-run costs and skewed incentives, especially in places in which lots of people want to live.]
"Ditto in the height of the Civil Rights era there was a massive market opportunity for restaurants that were willing to serve people of color - yet this largely didn't happen."

That's untrue. Black areas had high density of businesses that catered to blacks, and by large discrimination was legally mandated, not a market outcome. Business groups were in general in favor of dismantling segregation because it increased their potential market.
I'd also advise you to remember that SpaceX isn't taking kindly to employees passing out internal information.
I agree re: community
> Serverless here doesn't mean that servers no longer exist, but that you are not working at the server level to accomplish what you're trying to do.

So, just like every PaaS everywhere, since long before the new buzzword.
Lol what you talking about? That the only leak you read?

I'm clearly talking about all the foreign, classified operations that were both legal in US and whole reason NSA exists. He had no need to leak them to protect Americans' Constitutional rights.
...Eagles aren't generally bird hunters. Bald eagles for instance, eat mostly fish.

It's a nice thought though, just kill off the big birds, and watch the benefits "trickle down" to the little birds. /s