skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it important as this is a direct bit of official information from the libreboot.org website itself, and libreboot is often mentioned in many other threads on HN with regards to privacy, laptops, and Free alternatives. I imagine it would be of interest to many here. Please forgive me if the submission is flagged, I can understand the distaste for drama. Let's keep the discussion civil.
Practice. Practice in dealing with day-to-day risk. Pretty much everything we do that doesn't directly contribute to our survival is practice for the things that do. We also call this play or, in cats, mindless torture of cute furry animals.

In humans modern life comes with problems our biology was not designed to deal with and it fucks us up.
Ask HN: How to get certificate of employment on a startup?
Hello, my family recently got a car loan in which I'm a co-author of it. Now after approval the bank is asking for a certificate of employment. Currently, I'm working at a startup where in we are still developing the app. We only have Mutual Trust that binds me and my co-founder.

How am I able to get or process a certification of employment if my employer is in the US while I'm in Asia?
This would need way more explanation to make sense. The part I like is that the equation pyramid looks like a Christmas tree ;)
Great piece. It's a great example of the dark sides of results-orientation, accountability, transparency, and the fear of punishment from spending "Other People's Money." These things are good, but when they take over the entire process, we've got problems; things need to swing back and settle into a new equilibrium that's more tolerant.

These are exactly the kind of things that governments and universities with large endowments were good at funding. Right now, we're dependent on large corporations like Alphabet subsidizing moonshots to do this kind of basic research (and as some recent articles indicate, investors are already getting antsy about these.)

Short-termism discourages deep thinking and deep working. VCs already understand that one winner subsidizes all the losers; so too is it with basic / speculative research. Until we're will to culturally accept, openly and without reservation, that there will be waste and that fact is OK, we're not going to get anywhere.
I think you're missing the point when you say that people working in the PHP dev space "refuse to move foreward." Other people above have made the point that there is PHP 7. PHP is now a modern language with namespaces. It's strange to me when I hear people commenting about PHP as if it's 1998 (or even 2008) or something.

Some people enjoy developing in PHP now. And there's plenty of work there, let me tell you. And all of it that I've seen pays a lot more than chump change.
I use Termux[1] on my Android phone (Nexus 6P). It's not strictly a terminal app because it's actually emulating a terminal running on Linux instead of just being a terminal app, but it does the same thing and a lot more (it's got a version of apt with lots of packages). It's brilliant. I can do everything from SSH'ing in to a box to writing a node.js app all when I only have my phone with me. Even things like running an express.js server on the phone and visiting localhost:3000 in the phone's browser works. Plus, I didn't need to root my phone to use it, which is a bonus if you don't fancy doing that. I don't use it a huge amount but I've very glad it's there when I need it.

One thing to note is that the stock Android keyboard doesn't give you things like ctrl or tab, so you need to find a better one. I use Hacker's Keyboard[2].

[1] https://termux.com/
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
Eh, telephone doesn't help that much either. Video you can at least get some indications of body language, but on the whole I'd be perfectly content if I never had to make another phone call. Bad connections, constant reverb from garbage mics, people forgetting they are on mute, incomprehensible accents. None of these are problems in text communication, and the signal-to-noise ratio is higher.
That anti-counterfeiting measure (secret yellow dots encoding a serial number) was originally on color copiers. Then it got extended to color laser printers.

Do we really know that it hasn't been extended to ink jets as well?

I think the grandparent has a legitimate observation. It would explain why you need to have working color cartridges to be able to print in black and white. (It's obvious that paper money is not going to be counterfeited in black and white, but maybe they decided to hide serial numbers on all printouts, not just color printouts.)
That article was 6 years ago and I haven't really heard of anything about printers containing adware since then, so I suppose the amount of negative reaction that generated was enough for them to abandon the idea.
Over the Moon: Alibaba Engineers Fired for Mooncake Hacking
You're making an ideological argument, not a factual argument.

How anyone can argue that working-class people have too much economic power today is just bizarre to me. The decrease in the share of the productivity gains to the working class and the rise in inequality tracks almost exactly with the decrease in unionization.

http://www.epi.org/blog/union-decline-rising-inequality-char...
They might be buying the output, but it is unlikely that the actual MW output will be what is feeding their data center. A lot of people have trouble understanding that.
That's pretty amazing! Clearly a lot of thought and effort went into getting the design nailed down.
Sounds like a lot, but compared to industrial pollution since WWII those are probably just "drops in the ocean" (pun intended).
The editor could have a setting for that.

But mostly I meant that you don't have to close the autoclosing tags.
What's up with the Al Jazeera logo with swords underneath it? Might be misunderstanding but I thought misappropriating branding logos was usually something that was a touchy subject (i.e., no license to modify the brand logo).
How Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness (2015)
Abu Sayyaf releases 3 Indonesian hostages to MNLF –military spokesman
Not sure of the exact figures, but whether or not the wind farm is in a constrained area or not generally determines if they can generate full out or if they will be capped at a lower level to keep from overloading the transmission grid.
Would you buy a water bottle that contains a certain amount of water but closes itself after X sips regardless of remaining content?
FYI, the linked article now begins with:

Update: clarified that we exhaustively tried to resolve the situation amicably, but our friendly requests over multiple channels were ignored. The DMCA request was our last resort.

There are more specific details a little later in the article, and the line quoted in the parent post appears to have been amended.
The very smart, very shrewd, hard-working folks at Simple tried building a new kind of bank... and found out that the business of banking is FAR more complicated than it seems. Ultimately, Simple decided it would be best to sell to a giant established bank, BBVA (USD 800 billion in assets):

https://www.simple.com/company/the-next-chapter

The OP is a short ambitious document written by two guys who think they can do better. They think they can build a new kind of "bank for tourists." So far, they have a landing page and a mobile app: https://www.wrinq.com/ ...They will need a lot of luck.
But then they wouldn't be getting all this attention...
If only there was a way to effectively measure the impact a charitable program has on it's service audience/region.
Yes, this is the most telling part of this story, imo.
I'm really surprised that piracy hasn't been pushing them to more a more reasonable price point, like file sharing did with music. When I went back to school, almost every single one of my textbooks was available in some pirated form. Sometimes one had to settle with the previous edition, which was usually identical to the current edition with some pagination changes. It can be a bit of a pain to get them, but it wasn't $300 per book's worth of pain.
It's also worth mentioning that one of the main contributors of Libreboot responded[0] on that mailing list thread, and on his website[1] that "[..] Leah Rowe is the only person who has git commit access to the website, libreboot.org, and also the only person who has git commit access to the codebase, [..]".

[0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg0006...

[1]: http://zammit.org/libreboot-screwup.html
There are other legitimate ways to protest.

Breaking down the unity of the GNU system is unwise and a childish fit, at best. Promoting unity among GNU should be the first priority of every project in the system. It is not immediately clear that Libreboot leadership did anything to address their concerns, they simply walked away.

Energy going to causes like this detract from the real mission of GNU: a free operating system. That should be its only concern. There's going to be a lot of flamage on this comment, but the community needs to prioritize technical progress over other things. Other organizations exist to deal with those issues, and so we shouldn't confuse GNU's real purpose.
>Is the word "myth" here being used in the sense of being true but connected to storytelling nevertheless? Because the Great Pacific Garbage Patch really exists

From TFA, which pretty much says the same thing with different words:

>In fact, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was barely visible, since it comprised mostly micro-garbage. It can’t be scanned by satellites, or scoped out on Google Earth. You could be sailing right through the gyre, as many have observed, and never notice that you’re in the middle of a death-shaped noxious vortex. The patch is such a wishy-washy phenomenon, with wishy-washy impacts, that its extent can’t be described with any certainty. (“No scientifically sound estimates exist for the size or mass,” notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.)

What doesn't exist and is a myth is the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" as usually described in the media (the miles of visible floatsam, actual whole garbage thrown in, etc).
My networking hack during startup school
The demoscene has a rich tradition of executable music albums, badly termed "musicdisks", with various levels of visualizations and interactivity. This stuff has been going on for decades so I'm not sure about that "world's first" nomer. But musicdisks are cool, and so is this one! Consider adding it to pouet.net :-)

Here's a selection of a bit over 3000 musicdisks. http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B0%5D=musicdisk&page...

Many in there are pretty cool!

Some personal favourites are Kooitriplex by the Serbian art group Kosmoplivci (made back when Flash was cool, please cut them some slack): http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10734 and anything by YM Rockerz, who can do any style of music on an Atari ST: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56810
Constructor Theory: The Physics of the Possible vs The Impossible
Same case here. Back this assessment 100%.

I was prescribed desoxyn once back in the 90s -- it is methamphetamine, and my body could not handle it.

The Adderall IR tablets however (30mg bid) - i have no problem with tolerating - and would venture to say that my functional life would be difficult without it - I certainly could not be a software engineer and probably would have never even finished my degree.
It's worth noting that we didn't barge in with the DMCA, so I updated the blog post to reflect that. Besides, nothing wrong with a DMCA. It's a valid, and expected way to take down infringing content. Which Al-Jazeera chose to ignore.

We're not treating them as a sales lead. What they did is not a great start to a fruitful relationship. We just would like them to take down the infringing code and at the very least stop using our bandwidth for their stories. It's kind of ridiculous.

As you say, we're small. So when a large bully steals from us, that makes it okay? I really don't understand. People go to jail for copyright infringement but when Al-Jazeera does it to a small startup nobody bats an eye. We chose to speak up after it was clear that Al-Jazeera would keep ignoring our friendly requests and formal demands.
Almost being the operative word here. Compared to the eventual payoff, yes, almost nothing. But I'll bet Tew actually spent quite a bit of time working on the idea, time he might've spent on something else with much better prospects for success. He's a classic case of survivor's bias: we only know about him because he was successful. We don't know about the thousands of others that pursued similarly dumb ideas (maybe even the same one) and failed.
Strange I have no problems with Wireless at all using ET-2550.
The key being that the municipality won't give you crap for an "illegal settlement" until the land you're occupying suddenly becomes worth something.
I do feel there is an important discussion to be had, and the first half of the post seems quite reasonable. Punishing the victims of harassment can never be acceptable.

I don't understand the second half, though; it seems that the demands for mass removal of FSF leadership are not proportional and would not have the desired effect of preventing harassment. Do these types of demands commonly work, and I am just unaware of the examples?
> consider piping the list through shuf each time you try something new. You know why.

No, I don't know why. Can someone explain? (without being condescending, preferably)
so is it just sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y or do I need to do more?
"Freedom" and personal responsibility in America is largely a shibboleth-- an idea to which only empty homage is paid.

In reality the USA is a highly regulated, conformist, and centrally planned society and has been since the days of "manifest destiny." This for those who don't know was the federal push to settle coast to coast and was sort of America's first centrally planned megaproject.

Of course most other nations are at least as much this way if not more so. Just pointing out that America is not really special in this regard.
So, why does risk justify a higher reward? The usual answer is that without a greater reward there is no reason to take a risk.

My conjecture is that reward above a certain threshold is not actually that meaningful of an incentive when starting a company. I would be interested in hearing founders' perspectives though.
It would appear to be a modification of the Anonymous Pirate Flag. They're making a 'statement.'

They were so mad about this event, they photoshoped Al Jazeera's logo.
It's not entirely clear to me either, though I would assume it's so that the first server in the list doesn't get constantly hammered by a hundred people going through the list sequentially.
As a general rule in pharmacology: putting a methyl- group on any molecule increases its ability to cross the blood-brain-barrier and have increased psychoactivity (and neurotoxicity):

METH-amphetmaine

N-METHyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)

di-METHYL-tryptamine (DMT)

etc
The statement initially contained words "the person who was fired ... has given permission for this opposition to be made against the FSF". Later, Leah Rowe silently removed these words with commit message "typofix".

https://notabug.org/vimuser/libreboot-website/commit/18c0a56...
Nothing strange at all about MWh/year. A MWh is just 1000 kWh, which is a very standard unit of energy.

With wind farms it makes more sense to talk about it's production in MWh rather than it's capacity in MW. The actual energy produced by a 253 MW array will vary significantly based on where it is sited, etc.
I saw "world's first" in the title, immediately thought of demoscene musicdisks, and was expecting something about the real "world's first" musicdisk...

Then again, the demoscene isn't really well-known amongst the general public so I'm not surprised someone else reinvents the same idea.
Neat. I guess I just assumed that the capability was new.
On principle I hate the idea of encouraging people to submit reviews for products that they haven't purchased. It's a crime worse than time-bombing generic printer cartridges and makes online reviews basically worthless.

I don't give a shit about your moral stand against HP. Give me an honest review of a product you own or don't say anything.
For 2015 the average across the country was 32.5% for wind. [1] Texas appears to be several percentage points above the average, and newer plants often are better than old plants (if they have similar sites).

Here is state data from 2011-2012 [2], with a handy map [3]. It looks like Scurry County might be in a good part of Texas. In principle, the data for 2015 is available here [4], although one would have to process it.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...

[2] http://www.windaction.org/posts/37255-u-s-average-annual-cap...

[3] http://s3.amazonaws.com/windaction/attachments/1962/US-WINDm...

[4] http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/
Yea, that was my first thought as well. Imagine this scenario playing out in international politics: "We'd like to trade with your country, and knew there must have been some cultural mis-communication when our diplomats met, so we quickly bombed your capital with nukes and waited patiently."
It's possible/likely that's what they mean. However the final markup is generated, make it minimal, shout-out to react, packagers, minifiers, etc
Design process behind incremental update to Moscow metro map
You misunderstand me....

You can think of revolut as a front end for barclays client pool account. This is a very simplistic explanation but what I'm trying to emphasize here is that the money revolut manages is effectively with Barclays.

So the idea of having Barclays is not to get traction or to have their own participation method later but to have the muscle of a bank that can handle large scale international payments.

There are other big banks who don't have something like revolut. So our solution can be a good proposition for them (Not saying that we don't have ideas for any new features. We do, but we've been caught off guard by the new announcement. It'll take a few more days to make it's way to the pitch)

>"Barclays has been known to help startups by lending them their (global) infrastructure in the UK"

Yes, but why? Barclays profits with every customer that revolut brings/ will bring. Other banks would want to profit in a similar way.

I didn't know about BOE but I don't think that switching banking partners after about 5 years of operation is going to be that easy... Not sure could be wrong.
The rational parametrization looks like the Cayley transform, which IIRC does not cover the whole circle (you can't reach (-1, 0) with a finite mu). Does this happen here as well?
The article mentions how many discoveries come from individuals. I think it's worth considering that human knowledge and technology may be so advanced that a single individual, however great their creativity and intelligence, simply can't make a large contribution like they used to be able to.
Just because the flotsam isn't visible doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The concentrations of the garbage are quite high. And being microscopic, they're very hard to clean up.
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- Vote on bills (similar to Countable)

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I think RMS' intervention is appropriate as reference:

> The dismissal of the staff person was not because of her gender. Her gender now is the same as it was when we hired her. It was not an issue then, and it is not an issue now.
I would add taking a value receiver when you meant to take a pointer receiver.
hmm. Yeah that makes sense.

Would be better if they simply stated that instead of playing insinuation based guessing games.
Stripe integration for a few dollars "support the developer if you can" is really easy to setup and I've gotten a lot more money out of it (tens of dollars) then I've ever gotten out of advertisements.
Microsoft have tried to run Windows on multiple platforms before, and IIRC, failed. NT was available for the Alpha and MIPS, but I believe almost everything had to be emulated.
> ALL software are at risk of being poorly maintained and abandoned.

Yes, sure, but open-source at least gives you some hope of maintaining it yourself (even if poorly) if the creators abandon it, and it also means you can try to fix bugs that creators don't care about.
I took this course about a year ago and really enjoyed it.

The main things I took away were:

* focused and diffuse thinking - I now take short walks at work if I'm struggling with problems for a bit and often find I come up with an alternative approach when I'm not focusing as tightly

* repetition and recall - I take notes and then create flash cards to force recalling information

Additionally, learning the science behind why you lose information so fast after a cramming session has been helpful too. I really wish I had learned this info before attending college, it could have made a big difference for me.