skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, but there's a core fundamental issue. There has never been any legal support for the idea that the government can compel speech (such as forcing the continued false inclusion of a "binary" canary). There is a clear basis of support for the idea that the government can regulate speech, whether it's English or cryptic colored circles. So trying to speak (publish canary info) in any sort of cryptic way will still always be more risky than choosing not to speak (omit your canary). The government could always drag you to court over anything, but you still want to keep them at the downhill end of the battle.
Using this made me realize how much I rely on search suggestions/autocomplement.
> bans on HN are announced publicly

For the most part. We don't do so for spammers or (sometimes) serial trolls.
>Tyler Durden quote

So it's mainly uttered by fascists? (Tyler Durden is a textbook fascist) Sounds about right.
David Campos, who is proposing this tax, is against all house building. So good luck with that happening.

Campos's policies just defy rational thought. Last year he wanted to completely ban any housing construction in the Mission[1]. At the same time he's been actively campaigning and advocating for homelessness centers, and declaring a "state of emergency" for the homeless in SF[2].

I honestly can't reconcile how somebody can logically say "homelessness is terrible, we need to do something about it" followed by "we shouldn't build any houses". He wants to have his cake and eat it: complain about how the homeless are (in his words) "pushed into the Mission", and then refuse to allow any homes to be built that could potentially house them (via affordable housing requirements).

This is a man who believes[3] that the recent spate of fires in the mission is a deliberate arson campaign by landlords to evict their tenants, rather than the actual reason, which is many of the buildings in the Mission are a) made of wood, b) old, and c) lack modern safety systems like sprinklers and good alarm systems.

[1]: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Campos-wants-moratoriu...
[2]: http://abc7news.com/news/sf-supervisor-declares-state-of-eme...
[3]: http://www.sfexaminer.com/why-is-the-mission-burning/
Are you honestly suggesting you think you might be the first person to write a piece on the implications of billionaires destroying media outlets they disagree with in the wake of the Gawker verdict?

By the way, if you're going to respond to answers to questions you asked with "lol", then yes, I do mind you asking.
There are ideas where the concept was far ahead of the available technology. This is definitely one of those.

It's pretty trivial to do this kind of thing with automation curves in modern sequencers now. In fact you can draw tens of curves in parallel.

The sound you get depends on which softsynths you use and how flexible their modulation routing is.

Most people think of sequencers as discrete notes + modulation, not as curves or functions. So the good thing about this idea is that it can break people out of that way of working - even though there's no real need to make this device as a commercial product now.

But generally "drawing" music doesn't work all that well. The information in music needs much finer control - either with conventional sequencing, or (more interestingly now) with generative code.
They lend based on the 5 C's, anything else is considered speculative. Cash flow is the starting point and is nice, but even in college I was approved for a credit line from Chase... Up to about 85% of the value of our single asset, which they required us to pledge as collateral. The asset was a fairly popular model of a bus :)
How the FT drove digital subscriptions sales by 600 percent over Brexit weekend
I would be weary of this decision. Adding capacity sounds great, but lets assume you begin utilizing all this extra capacity for business needs. Before you know it you are going to depend on the extra capacity, and when this one-year offer has ended you will either need to pay to keep this capacity, or contract your network back to original size again. If you used the extra capacity to take on more clients, you may run into customer service impact when it's time to say goodbye to the free servers. That is not to say you couldn't bolster your capacity until then or try to diversify your business a little bit, but be weary incorporating all of it into something you're going to miss later.
With off shore holding accounts, do google et al count?
You're under the impression that employers want things to be fair.
I'd rather have free lunch brought in than have to go outside (rain or shine) and buy my lunch. I'd be more interested by a first rate company cafeteria with good (cheap or free) food.

I don't know what the food trucks are like in Seattle, but in SF they are as expensive (or more so) than regular restaurants. So if I'm going to go out for food, I'd rather go someplace where I can sit down and eat.
That will be the least possible decision. I would like to utilise and learn out of it. Not much interested towards monetary benefits.
I don't think "small web browser" can refer to anything built on Chromium. Maybe "unobtrusive" would be better.
What is the outsized unpaid work? Any studies and do the studies account for different cohorts by age range?
You didn't say it was included, either. When I see someone commenting on a document, I like to know if they're emphasizing something that the document already emphasizes, or if they're saying something that wasn't included or wasn't clear.
A lot of the "intermountain West" gets cold but sunny winters. It doesn't rain that much here in Bend - we get a lot of sun, actually. Cold and dry beats just above freezing and drizzly gray rain any day, in my book.
It's true that they use webkit (which is certainly not ideally minimalist), but even that is much lighter than using Chromium.
> how does that work?

Unpaid internship. Aka exploitation.
Indeed, ine may want to earch for "batsu and maru".
"When women try to be confident, it can get frowned upon. A man being assertive is a leader, a woman is bossy. Women are quicker to hit walls for just how confident they're allowed to be before they get the "bossy/bitchy" label thrown at them."

Confidence has nothing to being 'aggressive' or 'bitchy' or even necessarily 'assertive'.

Confidence usually means a lack of fear or anxiety when dealing with tough situations, or the lack of enough hubris to stand up to the anxiety in such scenarios.
I don't despair, because I know that to prove correctness of a program you need to use math.

For example proof assistants(like Coq, Agda, Idris, hol) are capable of proving correctness of a program.
Even when I'm not the candidate, I'm asked to conduct a hell of a lot of interviews at work, and it's a huge time sink when the signal/noise is poor.
Blake from Layer here: I've reviewed the updates from last night and I don't feel like the tone was out of line. We were simply trying to provide our customers with complete transparency about where the issue was and where we were in restoring service.

With that said, we do feel that Google came up in short in their responses to us over the course of the issue. We pay handsomely on a support contract to get off-hours responses and issue escalations. The responses we received were hand-wavy and vague, leaving us without sufficient data to make decisions. We have raised these concerns with our Google representative and will be working with them to tighten our partnership going forward.

We take full responsibility for this event and are working to cover the exposure. Building a system and business with resource constraints and complex distributed technologies is a long game of managing risk and trade-offs. We're human and we make bad calls along the way. We are very sorry and violated our commitments to our customers and their users. The entire Layer engineering team is head down right now working to make it right.
Was maybe. Zynga's cash is less than that even with the same valuation, so the math doesn't check out anymore.
Depending on how you count, Amazon has made ~5 campus moves in the last 20yrs. So far, so good...
Google says machine learning is the future. So I tried it myself
This is a bit insulting. If you find my comment unsubstantive, please delete it. I think this kind of paywall is threatening the web and thought important to point it out.
did you read the piece? this is a specific implication that I haven't seen elsewhere (you have links?). it's a pretty standard prohibitionist argument and I feel like Hacker News could have a substantive discussion about it. I'm not a journalist, I care about this because I'm also in the tech industry.
The problem with that correlation in this case, is that in all of the best examples of that phenomenon, the companies were no longer being run by their founders. I'd be willing to bet that's not a trivial factor in the overall situation.
Updated JDBC Client for Basho's Riak TS Database
0 == true is also used in C error return values, where nonzero means "false" as in "did not succeed." So it's not without precedent.

It's not a terrible idea. In most types of computing there's often only one way for something to be true but N ways for it to be false.
ah. just see you edited your comment here. glad you agree w/ the argument.
> If you buy an ID, you own it, in the Bitcoin sense.

So, until the chinese mining cartels or coredevs decide you don't?
You probably are not sloppy, because you are worried about being sloppy. The sloppy programmers are the ones that don't care about being sloppy. If you're conscientious, you have a huge leg up on a lot of other programmers.
That's great, but not everyone is in such a position to be able to do so.
>> If the US has, in fact, "finished" developing, then the future of the S&P will be bleak.

Most of S&P are global corporations. They're considered American simply by virtue of having headquarters in the US.
Stop using text based two-factor authentication
Google Chrome does this also.
> It is brought up all the time.

Around HN?
Star Trek had that stuff in the 1960's
Moral Machine – decisions made by self driving cars
You are probably in a good enough shape to benefit from HIIT. For usual couch potatoes it might not be the case; it would benefit them more to start with swimming/walking, then later running a bit and once they are somewhat in shape and have proper injury-avoiding practices, they can do HIIT.
Sounds like a wonderful plan.. But then again, I'm a homeowner in Oakland.
Actually, I think he/she does want this easily-accessible to bot creators. And I think I do, too. Because it might escalate the captcha war perhaps to something besides CloudFlare's awful policy of forcing Tor users to complete a handful of captchas every time we load a page. I don't have a lot of faith that CloudFlare would do something to improve the user experience, but I am fairly certain they would do something to reduce their internal operating costs (don't serve pages to tor users without captcha completion, don't respond to DNS ANY queries, only use SSL to the nearest edge location, etc). For those of us tired of completing tons of CloudFlare's Tor captchas, I eagerly await something that ends up costing CloudFlare more to maintain the captchas than it's worth. Such as, for example, bot creators being able to circumvent the captchas easily. CloudFlare could just turn off Tor access, but they're not afraid of the impact of their technical decisions. And there will probably eventually be some way around that, too. That's the nature of an arms race.
Here's another tiny browser: http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

At a previous job, we built and installed and ran a system test with that faster than Firefox unpacked the source tarball. OTOH, it's quite limited, and Javascript support isn't really there yet.
I can run two machines with 64GB RAM & 20 Core CPUs for the whole year 24/7. Do you still think the return will be less than 1%? I am just wondering how others do mining.
Unfortunately I think that's the default in some states. It's considered "business friendly".
I assume you have evidence backing up this correlation for large, mature tech companies, rather than startups?
I'd rather pay for my food because then there isn't the expectation that I stay at work to "enjoy" it. But I'm with you on food trucks. I just don't see the appeal (no, I don't need half of my lunch sliding down my arm as I stand up to eat it) but, damn, they are popular in urban Seattle.
Which is why I usually generalize this advice to "Read code". The majority of what you read should ideally be good code, but seeing both a good way and a bad way of doing the same thing is sometimes necessary.
I agree that having something you want to create helps to speed up the learning process, but also you will most likely not create something very good. So the right answer probably is learn programming by doing some rather basic ideas until you feel comfortable enough to create something big, until then just collect your ideas.
UX, Mind Control, and Being a Superhero (Medium)
Don't rely on sms based two-factor authentication
Thanks for this. I was having trouble finding anything discussing vocal fry in depth without having to pay. I see numerous articles on women doing it more, but so far they all seem to point to the same small studies.
> "less confident"

This is not a gendered issue. Men who act less confident are at least as disadvantaged.

> "confidence / frowned upon"

Also not primarily a gendered issue. Men who are not perceived as having the status to be confident get pounced on as hard or harder. This appears to have a lot to do with physical size. Tall men are "leaders", small men have a "napoleon complex". etc.

Considering women are statistically shorter than men, I wonder if sex-discrimination is fully explained by height-discrimination. Or maybe even over-explained.

See also:

http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/2004/08/short_g...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination
Is there an automated marketplace for solving captchas?
You are correct, though ironically the weather today is pea-soup fog, at least in Bellevue ;)
No, it has to be significant equity. Like Partner or Founder equity.
This is the most frustrating part of owning an android smartwatch. I have no idea what it can do. I don't understand why I can't just swipe right and view a list of all the voice commands. Seems like a simple enough solution. Finding tips on random websites and forums or through trial and error (where you look like an idiot barking non-existent commands into your wrist) is not productive.
That's why the President spoke last week about how we should be raising boys to have less confidence.
For unix processes, exit status zero is conventionally considered success and non-zero is failure.
Asteroid belt’s only dwarf planet doesn’t look like we expected
I see your point, but I don't find the state of things incredibly surprising anymore. Consider how huge modern web pages have grown, with a ton of poorly compressible media attachments, an embedded programming language that keeps track of plenty of state, and dozens of external resources that pull their own media and have their own state. Not to mention that we're in the middle of a responsiveness space race between browser vendors, and doing less CPU work by keeping more things in memory is one of the basic performance optimizations. With that said, as developers we have obviously been spoiled by the embarrassment of riches in terms of available hardware resources and have also contributed to the problem.
Sure RAM is meant to be used, but not when the browser just consumes it forever, until it begins grinding to a halt. What could a browser POSSIBLY be doing with 4-500MB of RAM PER TAB? It's a huge problem, and extensions like The Great Suspender should not have to even exist.
I don't know about good discussion, but there have certainly been plentiful posts.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gawker%20thiel&sort=byDate&pre...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gawker%20points%3E10&sort=byDa...
A. Yes, I did read the piece.

B. Because you asked me that, this will be the last comment I write about it. Don't ask people whether they've read things they're commenting on.

I think it's a pretty silly piece that starts with an assumption that everyone in tech must side with Thiel and ends with pearl clutching. You asked. Now you know what I think and why I flagged it. I'm just one of many people who did that, and those are just my reasons.

Hope that's helpful.
I was in Seattle a number of years ago for a training session, in January. It rained off and on, but overall I thought the weather was beautiful. Except the one day that it snowed, but the rest of the week was in the 70's.

Edit: to the response below, this was back in 98 or 99, something like that. I've looked up the historical weather, and it must have been that it felt like 70's to me, coming from Chicago (so it was probably more like 50's). I just remember not needing a jacket for most of the time I was there, and it "feeling good" when the sun came out.
Would a CPU rendering stack allow for better debugging? I'd love to be able to log to the console from my shaders.
This sounds strange; in order to refer to files outside your bundle with a relative path, you would have to be using something like "../../../SomewhereElse/filename.xyz", which is utterly fragile to begin with.

I can only assume that this was used to find other applications. Still a fragile dependency; for example, sometimes I put things in "/Applications/Utilities" but sometimes I put them in "/Applications", which means there is no single parent directory that is guaranteed to hold everything. And even if that weren’t the case, the OS has always let you run applications from anywhere you want.

Therefore, it has always been possible for apps to break when doing this, and they were just lucky if they ran on a system where it worked. It sounds like in Sierra it will just be much more likely to break.
"as much as needed" being my key phrase. The parties interested in the "benefits" of such a scheme are attackers (governments and ISPs). A scheme touting designed-in attacks just isn't that interesting otherwise.

The old field of electronic payments is littered with papers detailing "secure" systems, but who's only novel contribution was a way of defeating security. They all went nowhere because to any organization that had the power to force adoption of such a scheme, preventing any encryption still offered the best value proposition.
Maybe I'm ignorant but having Electron on top of Chromium sounds somewhat redundant to me. Don't they both have the same core more or less? I mean V8 and Blink?
Your smart home is dumber than you think
Making a web browser is hard. You will be dealing with sensitive information, your credentials, etc. Security-wise it is very hard to produce a sandboxed environment. Chromium might provide this to some extent but building on top of it might not magically preserve the same level of security.
Participate and learn what ever you like...

https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en
> no more pranking anyone by pushing all the buttons (because you can only do that while waiting for one and the system will dispatch the demanded floors to the pool)

While it would stop pranking it opens it up to denial of service. Most new elevators don't let you select more floors than the persoson capacity of the cab. With the external keypad system someone could hide on a floor with nobody around and keep entering floor numbers.

Incidentslly, I was on a full elevator when a kid pressed all the buttons and ran out (this was before the protection I mentioned became popular). I could hear the groans of my fellow passengers.
Fortunately I was shown a trick by an elevator tech for that brand a few weeks ago. I held the door open and reached up and tripped the door switch. All the lit buttons went out and I just aelected my floor again. Got a round of thank yous as everyone else selected their floor again.

> you can't change your mind once you're in. Best case is you can stop at an intermediate floor if someone is going there or called the elevator.

That could be rage inducing. Imagine forgetting something in your car and being stuck going up to the top of a very tall building. And then going all the way back down.

There really should be a button for "let me off at the next valid floor". I'd hate to be stuck in an elevator when someone gets sick and has to hurl or worse shit their pants.
Too many IoT networks? Cisco just bet on this one
If you suggest that HN has low levels of negativity compared to others sites, I should just avoid most other sites. I used to read reddit regularly and at one point the level of negativity was just too much for me and I've been happier since I have left the site for good.

For a long time, I've been an avid HN reader. However, one day, months ago, I noticed that majority of posts in most threads I was reading on HN started with a variant of "You are wrong". It may be in some form that does not make it immediately apparent but once I noticed the pattern, it was hard to unsee it. After this, I just stop reading threads which have a lot of this and in general, I've found that the few threads that remain make for (relatively) pleasant reading.

I haven't yet found something better than HN though. So, I chose to stick around for now.
I do trust you aren't an Ebay security team? ;)

http://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/ etc.
Ask HN: What is your failed project?
I recently pulled the plug on a side project after I realised that I was not able to give the time it needs. I am sharing it so that whoever has more time than me can take the idea and run with it, if they want.

The project was a guided Q&A website where participants are guided through a series of brain exercises. The concept is to work the brain muscle so that it continues to grow, to stay sharp and nimble. The website would keep stats on the well the participants are doing. It's based on the ten ideas a day concept originated by James Altucher.

Before building it, I ran a survey and got some initial reaction. Based on that, I started building it but family items caught up with me. So I am letting it go.

What's your failed idea?
True. First 3 points. Corrected.
Talking about Electron-based browser experiments, there's also Paul Frazee's beaker: https://github.com/pfraze/beaker

It has integrations for lots of mad science distributed tech such as IPFS & dat and a permission-based filesystem API based on node's fs API.
I honestly feel like this sort of thing is a waste of time.

Let's pretend someone invents the perfect "gender bias-free" system: no names, no faces, voices are flawlessly transcribed on-the-fly so you can't pick up on speech patterns. What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women? I think exercises like this may end up giving people answers they don't want to hear.

So, stop wasting time with stuff like this. If you're bothered by the fact that there's more men in your company than women just hire more women until you get your desired ratio. You've already made your minds up ("there's too many men here, clearly we're biased against women during the hiring process") and I doubt anything will make you think differently, so just go ahead and fix the imbalance.
Chromium doesn't use webkit, it uses Blink.
A lot of companies offer retirement plans where a % of income is invested monthly, a la dollar cost averaging (e.g. 401k plans). It's really easy to set up and let ride on autopilot.