skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should people trust that the images are 'identified as rightfully owned by having RAW file details published to the blockchain' ? Who says that the data on the blockchain is correct, and what stops someone from registering other people's photos under their own name?
Found this[1] site some time ago demonstrating an SPA-style static site with no javascript. You end up having to download every article/page though.

[1]: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/12/reimagining-single-...
Offer HN: Free consultation on MVP Outsourcing
Hey HN,
as a longtime reader/lurker on HN, I'd love to pay it forward for all those times HN has helped (with knowledge, motivation, feedback, etc.).

Background:

As a CEO of an overseas (central european) company that has worked with a lot of startups, and as someone who has also hired/managed remote/overseas workers, I believe I'm in a good position to offer advice on what to do, and what not to do when outsourcing (part of) your product development. There's a lot of generic advice, but half of the problem is knowing what to listen to and what to apply to your situation.

The offer:

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To qualify:

1. Have a concrete idea/project, and be in stage where you're trying to hire developers, technical cofounders, or thinking about outsourcing (ie. be in a situation where outsourcing is a plausible option and not being sure if it makes sense);
2. Send me an email (in the next 48 hours) with a short description/links to your project and what you'd like to talk about;
3. I'll pick 10 startups that I feel I could help the most.

Please note: while I would treat any information given during the call/chat as confidential, I won't sign NDAs (while I'll happily sign NDA on the project I'm involved on, I don't want to take on a liability while offering free service).

I'll be in the Bay Area Oct 24 through Oct 27. If the schedule permits, happy to grab coffee instead of having a Skype/Hangouts call. Also if anyone's interested in arranging a meetup, let me know!
Hi rglulis, yes thats a good potential feature for further down the road, we had ideas like that. To begin with we would be limiting such a service to the sellers within the content network itself, so the intensity of the checks are not that substantial. over time the extensiveness of this service would be expanded, first to not just check as sales get made, but to generally check on the content across the network, and eventually if viable to do web wide search as service to image owners (for fee of course). This would not be using blockchain (might be nice to use golem - eth supercomputer eventually though ;-) It would simply be a supporting service of the blockchain based photo sharing social network
Except for the password rules. It took me three tries to comply, because it only displayed one violation at a time. Besides, do I really need a strong password for a site like this?

Other than that, yes, super easy.
An interesting question is to what extent people will widely accept first-come-first-served solutions to naming. This is partly the case in DNS but not completely because the trademark system was imported into the DNS in an imperfect way, which means that some trademark holders have been able to use UDRP and/or litigation to seize domain names that relate to their trademarks.

In blockchain-style naming, there's no UDRP, and if you can't get jurisdiction over the particular name-holder, you can't get much joy from litigation either. There's no registry or registrar to whom a court order could be issued.

That has advantages and disadvantages from the end user's point of view: sometimes the legal system would have undermined uses of names that they wanted to make (as in the case of censorship by seizing or canceling a domain name, or transferring it as a punishment for violating an unrelated law), while other times it would have protected them from confusion and fraud.
That isn't wild speculations.

All Non-Apple Lighting Cables require a official chip from Apple. So Tim Cook might say that DRM is wild speculation it is actually happening now with all their cables.

So in order to buy a adapter I MUST buy a cable with a chip from Apple that makes it authorized.

EDIT : I guess EFF are wild speculators?

"To its credit, Apple has been adamant it won’t use the new design to restrict your listening experience. But therein lies the problem: you shouldn’t have to depend on a manufacturer’s permission to use its hardware however you like (or, for that matter, to build your own peripherals and accessories for it)."

Currently "it’s impossible to connect a speaker or other audio device to an iPhone without Apple software governing it"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/analog-last-defense-ag...
Author of the post has posted responses to comments on Reddit:

https://m.reddit.com/u/skebanga/activity
Tab (YC W15) is hiring a full-stack developer in London
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(We're also hiring for the Growth Team.)
Perhaps a little off-topic, but would it be possible to make a chatbot whose answers or "personality" are based on somebody's emails and chat history, similar to the concept of the Black Mirror episode, Be Right Back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
Your brain doesn’t want you to live in reality
In my opinion, ads wouldn't be so bad if people didn't abuse them and make them so intrusive. The sites that love pop-ups, spam ads, and tons a flashy banners and what not ruins it for any site that tries to be responsible with their ads.
> Those Windows 10 password hashes only last a few hours when subjected to tools like John the Ripper.

Is this on a single Xeon or high end GPU or some enormous equipment farm? How can Win 10 have such a fast hash? Let me guess, backwards compatibility with some ancient windows release?
Coding A.I. Techniques in Elixir: The Generate and Test Algorithm
Then you can kill yourself. But you undeniably have more freedom and opportunity than a dead person.
I am a one man army on that point, "we" is "our company", websites are not our main business. ;-)

The only software I use regularly is InfiniteWP to have a look for updates. Although it sends me a mail to my "status messages" slack channel, so no big deal on that end. Backups run automatically by BackWPUp Pro, caching and lock down are done when setting up/finishing a new site, so there´s not really much software involved at all.

85 points or A ratings or whatever alone are "just metrics" for sure. But I don´t think that I need to tell you that if you want to reach and keep a high value on those scales, you have to take care of compressed CSS and JS, auto-optimized images, caching, fast servers etc. pp.

Which in the end leads to fast(er), better accessible websites without dropping backend usability or features.
An American tragedy: why are millions of trees dying across the country?
Why, because my attitude towards shooting elephants has anything to do with my attitude towards driving a truck in africa?

I'm just trying to point out that we're doing more damage demanding brand new phones every year, demanding that every shop around has fresh produce from every corner of the world etc etc etc. Him driving around africa has probably lower impact than an average tourist flying somewhere for holiday.
This very website we are on uses a flat-file structure (w/ millions of users). I'm curious why this is such a deal breaker for your current needs?
I've traveled a bit in Africa and in my experience the Land Rovers are temperamental and the well off locals all drive Toyotas, often Land Cruisers.
Now thats an amazing truck! Love it!
Yes, but there was still good reason to hate it - what about users who learned the pattern the other way?

It sounds silly, but ejecting disks was about as common as deleting local content. Overlapping "delete" functionality with anything else still threatens to cause unintended deletes, even if this was better than the reverse.

(It's still fuzzy with Volumes in OS X, where you can click an 'eject' button that effectively deletes downloaded content if you haven't copied it out. Check out how many Volumes low-confidence users have running some time.)
Oracle built hardware == so Solaris on SPARC?
More anecdotal : I live close to Malaga and I travel a lot in and outside the EU: only place I got mugged (at knife point) was Barcelona.
Hard is better than impossible.
I'm very interested in this option! Can you recommend any for people brand new to HAM?
that... is a way less appropriate name. But it works, I guess.
There's no real reason not to use a password manager.
Why Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden
Whenever you play three notes in sequence, no? I'll read a passage and think "tonic, up a third, up a fifth so that puts me up to the tonic again... nope."
That failed Amendment didn't seem important enough to the founders, but nowadays, it makes good sense. At the very least, it would have forced consideration of this issue throughout our history, rather than being able to forget about it since 1911.

As for the repeal of the 17th Amendment, I'm not favor of that, as this is the only hedge we currently have against gerrymandering that keeps our House in the hands of the two parties. There's a reason that there is commonly a party mismatch between the House and Senate. Once gerrymandering is removed from our system, then maybe the Senate itself is redundant in any form, and it can be removed completely.

I also agree with you regrading Citizens United, but it really shouldn't need an amendment since the idea of a corporation existing on its own is a modern day fabrication in the first place. However, since the courts went a bit sideways on this issue, it seems like an amendment will be necessary.
An opposing view: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...

And the unanimous, bipartisan report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: http://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum...
There is definitely a grain of truth to that statement. After 40+ hours of work every week, when a day or two hits with nothing to do, it can be difficult to know what to do with yourself. The mindset of needing to be constantly working starts to become embedded.
Possible algorithm to detect duplicate text in a string?
Sample string: 'a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
You can sign up (https://www.formingo.co/register) for a free account that lets you create forms that hide your email address (along with pre-verify your email address and domains so you don't have to click a verification link every time you add a form to a new URL/email address combo) :)
Why I want a microchip implant
Threema Cryptography Whitepaper [pdf]
DJ John McAfee's MGT Capital Subject to SEC Subpoena
What I'm questioning is the popularity of Solfege vs numeric interval names.

My music classes of ~20 years ago treated Solfege as being of historic interest, but not particularly common. While numeric intervals were used daily. It came up somewhat more in sight singing and vocal training than in any of the instrument or theory oriented classes. But, I think it was mostly students who were used to it using it rather than instructors teaching it.

But, maybe I just so strongly preferred numbers that I immediately discarded any instruction involving Solfege as being silly and a waste of my time.

Still, I can only recall seeing numbers (and Roman numerals) in writings on theory and such.
In the U.S. there aren't 13 fiber ISPs in any market. These are the markets grahamburger is talking about. Here, stateside, there is not a lot of competition among ISPs.
Using a VPN When in China: The Samurai Way
The f stop of the new iphone is 1.8, compared to 2.2 on the iphone 6. Both are capable of shallow depth of field, the 7 is just slightly more shallow.
Share Your Stats to Improve Code Completion via Machine Learning
How many gun deaths were there in Syria this year?
Anyone remember Metricom?

900mhz, miles of range, dial-up modem speeds.
Firefox Browser Vulnerable to Man-In-the-Middle Attack
I'll agree that the original iPhone was an exception, but not in the way you claim. The first iPhone was (basically) first at the smartphone market. But was it good? Hell no. It was extremely buggy, slow, no app store, could barely make phone calls. While I'll agree there was no worthwhile competitor until Nexus One came along and set the standard, Android surpassed iOS fairly quickly in features, and hasn't lossed the lead there yet, while speeds have been fairly equal for years.
Improving license and patent issues in the LLVM	community
Being a freelancer makes it a very conscious choice. Right now I'm only working 20 hours per week, and I'm about to go full-time on a project for the next few months.

Well, it's very different, because I like to take a lot of long breaks, and have a lot of free time for side projects. For me it's less about TVs and vacations, and more about being able to retire early. Hopefully from an exit, or passive income.
I wonder the same thing. The attitudes really do seem pervasive as you suggest, both here and on reddit. Rarely do I see otherwise.
You'll never win with facts, unfortunately: the only things that sway this crowd are half-truths, falsehood and innuendo.
The way to learn the logic behind the scales in my opinion is to learn the theory of the early Western music, up to the Baroque era, that was around while the staff was being developed. That is: learn the seven modes of Western music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music)).

Each mode is a diatonic scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale). Each mode has a particular combination of whole steps and half steps. Each mode has a "natural" key which can be represented in modern staff notation by all white keys.

In Gregorian chant, there are rarely any accidentals. Even by the Baroque era, while there are more accidentals, I would say the music is still very diatonic in nature.

Early music was more oriented towards just intonation (the whole integer ratio harmony mentioned in the article, which is what I would consider the more "natural" way of harmony). With just intonation, however, you can't just shift to any random key on the fly. Some keys sound nice and related. Some keys sound awful and horrible.

The article author made a statement: "If your music mostly relies on the seven notes from a particular scale, then it’s more compact to only have room for seven notes in your sheet music, and adjust the meaning of those notes when necessary… right?" I think that's an absolutely a correct way of framing early Western classical music, yes.

What makes staff notation harder probably is the corresponding rise in chromatic music.

The rise of 12TET instruments (equal temperament) like the piano, and the corresponding development of chromatic instruments (compare: the natural horn used in the Baroque era vs. the modern valved horn) allows for this sort of modulation at the cost of some chords being slightly out of tune. Modulating key signature all over the place is now possible. Yes, the author should realize that some composers do change the key in the middle of a song to change the mood. (For a nice pop example, here's the Temptations' "My Girl", which changes keys midway through -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IUG-9jZD-g)

Incidentally, the diatonic nature of pre-19th century classical music is the answer to the author's sharp / flat question as well. (http://jtauber.com/blog/2006/11/17/why_a-sharp_is_not_b-flat...)

This shift to chromaticism really isn't reflected in staff notation. In fact, I'm aware that some 20th century composers abandoned the use of key notation, ledger lines, etc. altogether, perhaps in part for this sort of reason.
I'm not sure I accept D) as a full defense of a confusing system.

I get that some things can't be made intuitive, and have to be learned. But "there's a video somewhere if you know to look" is a crappy justification for the current setup. As is, non-regional gestures compete with regional versions of the same motion and the enabled-by-default gestures aren't terribly well chosen.

I've watched a lot of non-power-users work their touchpad, accidentally fire off either the wrong gesture or an unintended gesture, and then sort of click aimlessly until they get back to something recognizable. That's a sign that OS X is failing users, no matter how elegant things look to Apple.
I honestly do not know who to believe, but a counter to the report: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/house-intelligence-commit...
If the pirate registers their own reconstructed RAW file, then there are two 'identical' pictures on the blockchain, and no way to tell which one is the real one. (It doesn't matter that the RAW files don't hash to the same value, because there's no authority who can tell you which version is the 'real' one).
Minimalism in Productivity
Can you quantify what "pervasive" means in this sense?
I presume they have no kids.
Oh wow, bipartisan? You mean both authoritarian business parties approved it? Surely this level of cooperation is unprecedented!
Teen Hacker Takes Control of Hundreds of US Government FTP Servers
Vladimir Bukovsky summarized it as follows: "Samizdat: I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend jail time for it myself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

(note: above quote is related to historical term, not to subject link)
We need to do everything we can to support Snowden. Do not let the cynics win. We defeated SOPA in 2012 by making millions of phone calls to Congress, and we protected Net Neutrality in 2014 with millions of public comments to the FCC. Do not let the cynics win.

Call your reps: TryVoices.com
Petition the president: pardonsnowden.org/
No one needs this advice. We already worship ideas. Especially on HN, which is full of perfectionistic, idealistic founders or one-day founders who will probably spend the first year or years of their start-up lovingly gazing at their technical vision, while their "perfect" idea and "perfect" product mysteriously don't resonate with any customers.

I get it, though. In my teens and 20s, procrastination was the closest thing I had to meditation or serenity. This is the case when you are very, very anxious all the time, and your head is full of "I should do this," "I should do that" -- tyrannical dictates that won't go away, but at least you can ignore them for periods of time and try to nurture your authentic self a bit. However, I would not praise this situation for being more dramatic (more glorious!) than true calm.
In C#, null is just one possible value of the regular type Foo. The compiler cannot tell whether you have started returning null where you previously only returned non-null values, nor can it tell whether you've handled those null values correctly at the consumption site.

In F#, None is a subtype of the Option<Foo> union type, which is different from the plain Foo type and from the other subtype Some Foo. If you change a function that used to return a plain Foo into one returning Option<Foo>, every place in your code where that function is consumed will throw a compile error until you edit it to unwrap and handle the distinct Some Foo and None subtypes.
"bots" lack any standardized discovery interface, which eventually causes frustration for users. Two popular bots - Siri and Google Now, won't tell you everything they can do, and give such useless answers to most requests that people use them as a gimmick once or twice, maybe memorize a handful of key phrases, but otherwise won't use them.

They're also typically not extensible - I haven't come across bots that allow you to string multiple bots together to accomplish complex tasks. It's all the bad parts of a CLI with none of the good parts. No one wants to memorize a bot specific query language along with it's capabilities for something they interact with very infrequently.

Instead of sinking money and effort into natural language processing, services should be building responsive, discoverable websites with all the capabilities of a customer service agent. Work on better on-site search, and expose available actions to Google.
Couldn't you just buy one the $60 tablets and use that? I get your point about appreciating the tablet more than a notebook, but even if e-notebooks were dropped in price, I couldn't see it falling much below the price of the tablets in the $60 range.

I imagine that there is also a ton less demand for e-notebooks then there are for tablets, which is probably one of the major factors as to why no one is trying to mass produce them and lower the price.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a Jeffery Dahmer. There was overwhelming forensic evidence of guilt, along with full confessions. In that case, guilt was all but irrefutable.
I've yet to hear an argument as to why someone like that, and under those circumstances, should be allowed to remain alive.

I submit that allowing such unrepentant and irredeemable evil to exist is more barbaric than a quick death.
What would D Flat be, 0.5? what about D Double flat?
It appears that he draws most of his conclusions based on what Gartner thinks is going on. Gartner thinks that the next generation of ARM is going to be a huge winner. It take a long time to get traction in the big server marketplace, he thinks it will be sooner.

ARM has some spiffy stuff, but it's not what the big data centers are looking for. There is posts about the Apple CPUs that are out. Nice stuff and if I was building a phone, it would be one of my top choices. But if I'm doing data center then I'm going to want something more general purpose. If I have 6 cores in a chip and they are all the same I can load them up. If I have CPU and GPU cores then I have to move tasks around.

If I move to ARM from Intel then I have the added task of trying to optimize my load/task to the new CPU. Granted compilers are a key driver, but lots of people have spent lots of time hand tweaking Intel CPU loads.

22 cores running at 2.2GHz in a single socket is pretty amazing. Haven't seen any ARM72's anywhere near that big.

You might see some movement in this area, but the way companies are gobbling big servers, we are not at peak Intel.

Hope that helps.
Broad Institute is hiring full stack developers