skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People who run this organization appear to be ruthless and amoral

...

>Going as far as talking about a DDOS attack on Twitter

Also, that G8 article you linked has a full page MTGOX ad on page 8. Kinda ironic huh?

Okay, enough with the low hanging fruits, now some serious stuff.

I don't see how Bitcoin enthusiasts can trivially brush off the criminal activities connected to Bitcoin. The public at large doesn't care about your shiny little toy - but they do if it's used by criminals. The article specifically mentions child pornography. Now how can CP be distributed? Tor and hidden services. But how is someone going to pay / profit from it? There was no easy solution - then comes Bitcoin, and suddenly people can be absolutely untraceable on the internet. You cannot simply ignore this. You have to acknowledge it, and then a) provide some form of solution (kinda contradicts its principles) or b) argue that it isn't as important compared to potential benefits of Bitcoin.
I'm disappointed that the devs established the precedent that if things go south they'll hard-fork. It reduces the incentive to avoid risky behavior. Having a centralized roll-back/bailout authority is what led to too-big-to-fail banks.
I just moved from this setup to GitLab. GitLab Pages is similar, but much more flexible. For instance, you can use Hugo, Metalsmith, etc, and you can use CI scripts to test before deploymemt. You can also avoid Cloudflare by using Let's Encrypt (or other) certs, and they're working to include smooth Let's Encrypt integration for easy renewals.

Of course, flexibility comes at a cost: GitLab is much more complicated, and the documentation kinda sucks. OTOH, the setup process is a good learning experience.
If you put your discrimination detector on an API, you would enable the original model's creators to eliminate bias by training against it. Resulting in an anti-discriminative model, through a generative / discriminative process.
Debt-Laden Millennials Want Their Own Startups but Can’t Afford Them
They only said they will release components of it as open source. They do not say if a coherent piece of software will ever be released but today would have been the traditional time to do so for actually open source projects.

It looks like marketers leveraging open source on their marketing blog that leverages developers.
Using Apache Kafka to Migrate to AWS
The point of fancy salts is that they're not just NaCl -- sea salts, in particular, have a lot of other trace minerals with their own flavors (to say nothing of the texture -- generally not so important in flavoring a dish as in finishing).
ah i guess immutable aliasing is useful. then it's more powerful than const and can replace it wholesale, bindings included.
Say no to CloudFlare, it messes up Tor.
im a Flow fan, but Flow's IDE support is pretty bad. WebStorm only souped it up recently, and aside for that, outside of Nucleide (and even there!) its pretty awkward/slow/clunky and in many cases downright buggy.

TypeScript's type system is very bleh, but its IDE integration IS pretty good across many editors (not just VSCode)
Holy crap, Super Mario 64 is 20 years old now. I've never felt my age more than I do right now...
If the use of IP addresses in this manner disturbs you, you should look into the the proposed changes to Federal Rule Of Criminal Procedure 41.

This is the EFF's article, which is either a highly overzealous or highly prescient: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/rule-41-little-known-c...
You can also use GitLab for the same thing.

Just chiming in to promote this a bit. GitLab is a well-known open source alternative to GitHub, which actually offers more features than GitHub nowadays.

https://pages.gitlab.io/
There's another thing that is specific to IaaS: auditability. Part and parcel of Oracle's business model is sending goons to count your servers running this or that appserver, and invariably telling you are not paying enough in licenses. A serious cloud-based architecture that can scale up and down at will (which is what you would deploy on AWS) is fundamentally non-auditable, because it can be scaled down to minimal levels when auditors land. But if you're running on Oracle's servers...
High interest rates are great for buying a home. Both for the house prices falling, and for having the option of refinancing at a lower rate later. The big complicating factor is that most people buy and sell a house at the same time, and lower interest rates sound like "lower prices".
PostCSS has this very problem, which is why I don't use PostCSS :)
If the animal is sick enough to make you sick when you eat it, it would have died long before it reached the slaughterhouse. What you'd see without agricultural prophylactic antibiotics, at worst, would be occasional mass die-offs and spikes in meat prices. So instead of chicken always being $5/lb, it would be $5/lb most of the time and $50/lb when the die-offs happen.
These days using "nav" instead of <div class="nav"> is the preferred method by default. The other two classes are just modifiers that may or may not be required. There's nothing wrong with them.

Also, I see "fixed" bug reports in both Chrome and Firefox when using flex with fieldset. To be fair, recent fixes.
It definitely has advantages. But I don't think using babel precludes shipping a binary with a standard pre-built config.
What I can not comprehend is how respectable people and experts like Snowden and others from EFF can get behind a messenger that its authentication is based on cell phone numbers!

When an application sends all your contacts to its servers (whether they are hashed or not) and more importantly when your whole access depends on a none encrypted code sent via SMS and worst of all, your identifier can be tied to your real identity extremely easy, how can they call it secure at all?

It is not all about E2E or how the crypto is designed or implemented, its also about your anonymity, your social graph and other pieces of information which are arguably more important not to give away!
This is the best analogy I've ever heard for the experience of being racially profiled. As a white, male American, I can't say I've ever had the experience, but this helps me relate to the experience in a more personal way. Thanks for this.
You can take that artificial brain and run it at twice the speed, hook it up to the internet, reset it when it goes insane, etc. A lot of mad scientist options that aren't possible with human brains.
I'd be hesitant to use that in prod code - realistically you can achive fairly graceful degradation without it as long as you're prepared to accept a non pixel perfect layout.

Also, from the issues v2.X that polyfill appears be broken in IE9 atm, which is the last one with zero flex going on. (Fun fact, our metrics have ie9 and 10 with comparable userbases - fairly standard large public facing site. 9 is fully unsupported and IE10 is no longer an active target for our QA team beyond basic layout and functionality)

I do generally use a less mixin to shim all the tweener syntax tho.
Not to limit the number of polygons on screen, but to make it feasible to precompute the exact order polygons would appear on the screen during each frame at render time. Pre-computation actually increased the effective polygon count because it also meant that the engine didn't need to render occluded polygons (i.e., the rock behind the tree you're looking at) at all.
Different salts have different trace minerals, different molecular shapes, and are ground to different textures. Why wouldn't they taste different?
I thought the choice was between expensive meat or antibiotics, or between cheap meat and /no/ antibiotics?
I've got to find the time to play and get typescript set up figured out. I've had several false starts, always running into duplicate type definition issues and similar problems - looking forward to see if the new @types from npm help things.
Yes, a software renderer would have been far too slow. The PS1 had a 33Mhz MIPS processor.
For those who don't live here I'd say a majority of the places, at least here on the east coast, don't follow this trend. This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City.

I'd hope that this article would have done a better job in explaining that this isn't the rule but that these are a few exceptions to such.
The EFF acknowledges that it's a useful piece of information. They aren't claiming that they should ignore IP addresses.
Great plan, actually. Sounds like you're synergizing opposites; simultaneously floating and swimming to your goal.
I don't think HN has any specific rules about self-promotion in comments, but their service seems relevant given all the extra features it offers in comparison to the blog post's suggested host of GH Pages.
Very much alive and kicking.

The local government here in Uruguay periodically makes calls for applications for Stenographers to work in the judiciary, at a locally very enticing wage, so lots of people train in shorthand, and you see ads on the street advertising shorthand training.
This isn't quite sufficient, because the prices are set by miners but the transactions have to be processed by every single full node in existence. That's why Bitcoin has a hard upper limit on the complexity of processing any given block.
As long as I've been reading HackerNews (all the way back since it was called StartupNews), it's been common to see founders chime in about their startups when they are clearly relevant to the topic and it's not done by a marketing drone posting on their behalf, and with a clear disclaimer.

Whether people gets downvoted or upvoted for it depends on whether readers see the comment as legitimate and relevant or as spam...
I compiled a document the other day with a lot of links on the subject of macOS virtualization, for anyone interested:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VwLJqgc2VkD-EZnMzSFmZRq0...
> I don't think society as a whole could deal with the cost of meat

We certainly could if we had to, but so far we haven't had to.
I wonder how many dummy accounts from the mid-2000s of mine were included in that.

I was born in 1990, and my insecure online behavior from 2000-2005 scare me. Hopefully HaveIBeenPwned gets their hands on this so I can scan for my teenage usernames.
Well .. then I'm not sure how anyone affords a 2.5 million dollar detached home pretty much from Yonge and Finch to Yonge and Bloor. I mention the subway lines cause working people typically have to get to work :-p
> (how one should eat sushi properly etc.)

Missed this in the article. It only mentions sushi once, at the top, so not sure exactly what you're referring to.

I think there is a difference between describing what makes something a quality ingredient ("Well-made miso should taste good. The salt and the fermented beer-like notes should balance each other out") vs telling people how to eat something properly, and I didn't feel like I saw much of the latter.
A good analogy I heard is that we're able to design airplanes because we have fundamental concepts like Bernoulli's Law, mechanical engineering, etc.

We can't (yet) 'design' an intelligence because we don't have a fundamental 'law' of consciousness to build from.
Look into further is far, far different than using it as sole evidence for a raid. IP address coupled with additional evidence would be perfectly valid.
Is there any studies to indicate FDA is useful to Americans in any way? Despite the absolutely mindblowing sh*t-pile of regulations that this agency creates every year there does not seem to be any major difference between lifespans of Americans and neighboring Canada. Not to mention the EpiPen like fiascos are a direct result of FDA's collusion from very people it swears to protect us.

FDA's existence seem to put a significant cost on doctors, pharma companies, patients and everyone related with no apparent benefit. Surely we can point one or two occasions where FDA might have saved American health but have we measured the times it actually harmed Americans by peddling falsehoods, increasing cost of drugs and delaying innovation ?

Plenty of research seem to exist to point out that FDA might be doing more harm to us than good. http://www.fdareview.org/05_harm.php
I assume it's possible.

They can't really become resistant to high concentrations of cleaning products like chlorine bleach because they just physically ruin the organism - the best explanation I've heard is that that would be "like a human becoming resistant to lava." Not gonna happen.

But in really low concentrations like in a pool, perhaps they could resist the oxidation effects...
I seriously had no idea Heroku was still even actively being worked on. Nice to see a much needed upgrade!
When to Use Value Types and Reference Types in Swift
Oops, I didn't know there was a fireside chat in Buenos Aires.

I'm in Uruguay but I didn't arrange beforehand :(

It's actually today !

In case someone's still on time to make sessions in Chile:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-office-hours-in-11-countries...
When I was poor, I didn't eat meat. If I am ever poor again I would go vegetarian. Cheap meat just isn't worth it.
The reason they cut off older macs was due to them not having AES accel in the CPU, so there was a small reason for it.
yeah, specifically [hash:base64] because [hash] will print the hex of the hash which is a bit more verbose. I think it's actually the default for css-loader if you don't set localIdentName

During development we have it set to `[local]---[path]---[name]---[hash:base64:5]` which gives massive verbose class names but lets me pinpoint exactly where they came from.

There's also one step that I left out that helps, which is to have something like csscomb[0] to order the properties of each class into a set order. It really lets this optimization shine by ensuring that different property-order won't cause different hashes.

[0] https://github.com/csscomb/csscomb.js
Actually, that's why hare is the mascot. :)
> It's common knowledge around here that PR is wasted effort for startups.

No it isn't. It's common knowledge that you shouldn't waste time chasing PR without a plan or goal.
You can configure CloudFlare to allow Tor visitors without CAPTCHA:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
they are. Flow is still quite ahead in term of control flow analysis and "soundness" features, and the type system in general is much richer, but TypeScript is catching up. Flow's tooling is getting better (though it still has ways to go).

It's pretty easy to see where things are going. Advanced type systems (Elm, Scala, ML, Haskell, whatever) have the features we really need, and tooling (IDE support, etc) can use that info to provide crazy good tooling, so any type system developed in 2016 and beyond must have all of these things to be of mass appeal.
Because if you say to management "hey, why don't we release the code that our entire business is built off of for anyone to host for themselves for free!" you'd be laughed out of the building on your way to the psych ward.
Crap situation for me then since I need CPU, GPU, and RAM to the max for Video and 3D DCC apps.

Somehow, I thought there was this magical hypervisor that would give all to one OS that I could use and then, out of nowhere, I could switch to another OS in a way that first one would go to sleep and its memory put on hard drive and the other one would wake up its memory from hard drive and show up. I wouldn't need them running concurrently, but I would like to have them switch fast.

In a way I would like to consolidate three machines into one without having to run three machines or wait for shutdown/boot sequences (with multi boot).

Bonus would be to share disks (non boot ones) and copy and paste. That would be really great.
I was a minor when selected once for SSSS. Is that supposed to happen?
The rational thing might be to let the people in the room die.

It depends on how many outwardly hidden death rooms there really are and how often the existence of these rooms is revealed by anonymous phone calls. You don't need much of a ratio there for urgent action against false calls to create more harm than the hidden death rooms.

And it doesn't have to be a binary choice; upon receiving notification of a hidden death room, the police could choose to investigate cautiously rather than escalating to extreme force. This will likely still have the effect of reducing the number of hidden death rooms without much risk of shooting innocent people in a raid.
A similar example, while not a raid, hit me closer to home a bit over a year ago.

I'm sure that if you follow US news at all, you heard about the looting and arson in Baltimore in the Spring of 2015. While the city was on edge in the wake of a citizen's death in police custody, there had already been some minor demonstrations and a brawl between protesters, baseball fans, and provocateurs downtown earlier in the month.

Then, on the day of the funeral held for the man killed in custody, word started to spread of plans for some sort of riot or mass havoc being planned later in the day. Later, authorities pointed to a digital "flyer" being passed around yet nobody investigating this outside of the police has found any source or initial copy of this flyer that dates before this was published in the media. Trust me, we looked.

In response to this alleged threat to public order, cops with riot gear and a freaking mini-tank showed up at a major public transit hub right as school let out. Transit was shut down and everyone was corralled into a small area next to a busy street and without a way home for hours.

Eventually, tensions got high enough that when the first pissed off teenager or whoever chucked a bottle or a rock, it didn't take long for others to join in. In the ensuing vandalism and arson, hundreds of thousands in damage was caused, people got hurt, the city was put under curfew for a week, and to this day, businesses and residents have suffered from the reputation gained (worsened?) that day.

Looking back, the part that really sticks out to me is how the whole thing was triggered (assuming you don't think it was a deliberate provocation) by some "social media flyer" that claimed some teens were planning to run around starting shit after school. This rumor summoned riot police, shut down transit, stranded loads of adults and teens alongside the road, and facing down a phalanx of police plus one armored tactical vehicle.

Would those shops and homes still been damaged or those stores been looted and burned in a wave of unrest without this rumor-inspired flashpoint? No idea. But it sure didn't help.
Surely those people can pool money and help pay for EpiPen patients. I dont see many of hem coming forward either.
Same here. I've gotta have at least 10 accounts from 1996-2002.
I'm going to echo this and add a bit more context. Look at the cerebellum for example. That lump at the bottom of your rear skull has ~50% of all your neurons. It is extremely important for motor control. When you grab a cup of coffee as you dash out the door in the morning, your cerebellum is what is responsible for you being able to do that without looking at the cup as you reach for it. You 'know' the cup is there and you don't have to tell every nerve to fire every muscle and to extend your forearm and then grab it with only 3 fingers and then adjust for the decrease in weight with every sip. You just do it, naturally. Your cerebellum is what is responsible for that. It is a dedicated portion of your brain that really only does those kinds of things.

Your hippocampus also deals with short term memory. HM was a famous patient that had his hippocampus removed, basically, and then lost all of his short term memory. Poof, gone forever.

In short, your brain has dedicated areas in it that only do certain things, it is NOT some FPGA that gets re-wired on the fly. Your intelligence is not dependent on the number of connections or neurons.
If you got to the youtube video [1], you'll see that the song was produced and arranged by a human.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSHZ_b05W7o
Maybe - but by then climate change might make that irrelevant with food shortages, unliveable conditions and further inequality. Perhaps rather than following Bill and Melinda's footsteps, the new generation should use their considerable lobbying power and personal wealth to start pushing for change in reduction in climate change. But hey, it's their ridiculous amounts of money and vanity - so they can do whatever they want with their name on the self-congratulatory banner. At least they didn't start another space company.
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This is a wild oversimplification. Getting press is a good thing. Wasting time trying to get press without a plan that works is a bad thing. It's easy to fall into the trap of the latter, which is the entire point of this piece.
Black, and white families, are nearly every other house in my Upstate New York neighborhood.
I'm curious specifically what friction you ran into.
It's a actually having an immune condition and/or Crohn's that made me nervous about trying that. Im concerned about my body having a permanent reaction to it like some implants cause. Id be interested in data that eliminates that possibility.
If nobody knows how much stuff was dumped into the ocean, it is because the amount wasn't measurable.

If people repeat the dumping often enough, it may become a problem (or may not - no idea, the oceans are big). But this one time case is not a global problem.
This! Enterprise DB vendors like Oracle will send a team of engineers to your site and work with you until the problem is solved. For IT managers, knowing they can rely on this level of commitment is something they will happily pay for.
Kalapana, Hawaii had a bunch of houses directly in the potential lava flow. They only moved out when it became obvious there was no way to stop it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalapana,_Hawaii

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/lava-approaches-homes-on-hawai...
Yes, this is called AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Cops are raiding the homes of innocent people based only on IP addresses
I dunno man, the racial makeup in neighborhoods in NYC changes fast, like cross the street fast: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race...
I use Hugo for my blog, but I'm not familiar with Jekyll so can't comment on simplicity.
This was my public policy research area for about a decade. In my mind this remains one of the best treatments of the topic:

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass - Massey and Denton

https://www.amazon.com/American-Apartheid-Segregation-Making...
probably meant the object spread one, not array spread.
Software Will Not Fix Your Broken Product
Why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea
I wonder if as someone learning ML I should try to train it and run it on my pc.
It's available in JSX but not outside that scope, e.g. const { name, ...rest } = person; won't work
I've had good experiences with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rtorr.vs... so far, but perhaps I've gotten lucky. When I first tried flow out a few months ago I was also very unhappy with the tooling.
What I'm trying to get my head around is how this could have been a persuasive pitch. To anyone. I'm not an investor, I don't evaluate companies for a living, and even I can say "we're going to undercut Unilever by replacing eggs in mayo with pea protein" is a ludicrous plan.
> This definitely isn't the case where I grew up, in New Jersey, and is absolutely incorrect for New York City.

It's not something that's nearly as sharply defined in NYC, but there's definitely some racial separation by neighborhood if you look at statistical maps on the subject.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/map-segregation-ame...

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1321377/original.jpg
VT-d = Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
which basically means the CPU has an IOMMU, the IOMMU is a piece of hardware for doing PCIe DMA re-mapping to provide VM isolation. VFIO is the linux driver for passing through IOMMU devices.
Happened to me once when I was ~11.