skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Dropbox to iCloud Drive: A Review and Some Thoughts
You probably could, but the likely outcome of a magnesium fire burning right underneath a LiPo battery pack might get messy.
how "bad" a person considers Trump and by proxy Trump supporters

Stop right there. There is a constitutionally protected right to support a political candidate. You should not be punishing someone for exercising their constitutionally protected rights; the fact that a candidate is reprehensible does not justify exercising collective punishment against his supporters.

At the extreme end if an employee was fired for supporting literal Nazis would anybody kick up a fuss? Not likely.

I don't know if there is a National Socialist party in the USA, but if there was then I don't think anyone should be fired for supporting their political activities.

Of course, if a National Socialist party included a paramilitary wing which was carrying out violent attacks on political enemies, supporting them would no longer be a matter of supporting a political organization; it would be supporting a criminal organization, which is certainly not a constitutionally protected right.
Experiment: Fucking read this
These are tiny details, which are immaterial for the large point - that supporting unpopular point should be ruinous, and mere association with somebody doing this must be a blemish one has to work to remove, or else.

Thiel is billionaire and he probably has way over fuck you money. He can do anything he wants. Most of us don't have fuck you money, and that's exactly the point - creating the climate in the industry where not being politically conformant, expressing or supporting unpopular point of view, doing something not conforming to the majority opinion or fashionable opinion - means being ostracized, being denied job prospects, being fired, being uninvited from conferences, being target of personal destruction campaigns, etc. Being a pariah.

Thiel is not the point, he'll be more fine than 99.999% of people here in any case. Creating the intolerant lynch mob culture is the point. They may be building this machine to use it against Thiel or Eich or some other large target, but once it's working, the potential target would be everybody. Such things are never put in storage after the first use, they are only used more and more. And what I am seeing that not only this machine is being created and successfully tested, people are enthusiastically cheering it because it's being used against people they dislike. That's always how it starts - but it never stops there.
> One of Smith’s clients pointed out to their manager how much money they could save in the budget for that year by not having to pay their salary, yet not sacrificing the investment they had made in training them over the years.

When an organization can operate without your presence for over 300 days, your role may not be very necessary.

The surprising costs of a mid-career break involve falling far enough behind industry trends and methods, that it would be faster to train a new person than retrain you. The article is very optimistic about the rate of change in any workplace, and also an employer's willingness to support this kind of extended vacation.
Took a while for me to work out that the perfect/proper/best solution doesn't exist. Took a while to work out what does exist. It goes like this (note that desired outcome starts with worst case at the top of the list, and ends with best case at the end):

Technical depth and breath + domain expertise = the best solution

The above + policital acumen = a good solution

The above + stategy = the right solution

The above + leadership = a successful solution

Anybody can obtain technical depth and breadth. Bit of training, bit of time... Technology is easy. People are hard. So these days I aim to be successful, and try daily to improve the soft skills listed above to make sure I can do that.
This detente we have where we don't fire people for their political views is extremely valuable, and we should be very very wary about breaking it.
0) I was contrasting non-compassionate responses (such as ostracism) to Trump supporters, with a sane and compassionate response, which I attempted to describe in my second point. I clearly don't consider Trump supporters to be sane, and by definition they cannot be compassionate beyond a limited group of people, since their candidate is a bigot and a misogynist. If you can't see that, I'm not going to explain it to you. The evidence is overwhelming.

1) For a democracy to be alive, it must have the capacity to destroy itself. I think we agree on that much. Trump and his supporters represent a threat to democracy -- I'm sure we don't agree on that. I'm suggesting they be fought with democratic means.

2) I didn't mention the American revolution because it was different from the others. A bourgeois, nationalist revolution that transferred power from a tiny, foreign elite in Britain to a wider suffrage of propertied white males in America. You could argue that the deeper revolution in North America was the vast transfer of property from Native Americans to settlers, and that was indeed a terrible thing for the tribes.
I don't disagree with that. But that makes it at best a "semi-necessity".

But that just makes the whole "if you give someone in need 600$, they will spend it on an iphone" MORE valid. If you need status symbols just for the symbol, you might wind up skimping on physical necessities (car repairs, rent, food, etc). Whether or not that is their fault could be up for debate, but it makes the statement itself all the more true.

I only have anecdotal evidence, but people who are poor because they have bad decision making skills would drop 600$ on some "status symbol" trifle without a second thought. People who are poor because of bad luck/circumstances will try their best to save it, or spend it on bills, food, etc.
Coulf be any number of things, but likely a hash. Something similar was done prior to the accusations surrounding Jacob Appelbaum.

https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73523010215444889...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitment_scheme
Joe, I recommend Unaccountable by Martin Makary. Martin also has extensive list of academic publications relating to the monitoring of physicians as a way to improve patient outcomes.

https://www.amazon.com/Unaccountable-Hospitals-Transparency-...
ISS captures footage of Pyongyang
it wasn't illegal in the country where it took place
Yes, you are correct! Interestingly, although a Republican, his creation of EPA and his desire to create universal health care is something we today associate more with Democrats.
First of all, I swear by Cryptopals. They are what made me realize I get, like and can do cryptography. They are just the best programming/math/crypto/anything challenges I've ever played, and one of my first and most satisfying accomplishments.

Secondly, Sean suggested I should speed run set 8 (which I have been saving to run through in a single go) live on Twitch.

People seem to like the idea, so I'll have to figure out a schedule, but this is happening. Check Twitter if you are interested or have advice.

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/787777267313303553

(For context, I think I was the first to finish set 7, which I sped run while at Recurse Center in 30 hours.)
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination
How much do you know? It seems the exercises on the site expect you can at least work comfortably with bits and bytes and manipulate them using a programming language. Some "technical background" is certainly a prerequisite, but not necessarily crypto.
Hmm, interesting. So would it be acceptable if Graham & Altman were more vocal about their support for Clinton? To my mind, they've been pretty vocal already, between their Twitter feeds and published articles about how they sit around Sam Altman's dinner table and discuss ways to defeat Trump. I suspect that Paul Graham may also have donated > $1.25M to Clinton's campaign, based on his recent Tweet about the number of non-profits that could've been funded with the money he's spent defeating Trump. But you're right that this is not covered on the national stage the way Thiel's RNC convention speech or $1.25M donation have. (Much of this may also be because everything that Thiel does that could remotely be spun into the "power-broker behind the scenes, doing evil things" narrative tends to make the press, post-Gawker, which to be fair had much of the same ick-factor as this debate.)

To me, the right answer to bad speech is better speech. It's fine to disassociate from people if you dislike them - but there's a big difference between disliking them and disliking one position they hold, or even more tenuously, disliking the people they associate with. Most people associate with a lot of other people, and these networks grow ever bigger as you get older and more powerful. If you start disqualifying people based on the company they keep, the set of people that you actually like will get both ever-smaller and more monocultural. Some people like that - I suspect many Trump supporters wish the world could be divided into black & white-Christians-who-act-like-us - but I think you'd lose a lot in this.
>Probably worth noting that the minimum transaction on SubmitHub is $5.

Ahhh, thanks. I was wondering how you were doing a service with a $1 charge (I didn't see the $5 minimum mentioned in the portion of the article I read).
Shenzhou-11 spacecraft manned launch live coverage
There's certainly a line where someone stops being "just" a supporter and becomes something more. E.g. a big complaint against Brendan Eich was that he wasn't just anti-gay-rights, he actually contributed money for the Prop 8 fight.

The big question is where that line should be drawn. You say Thiel is a Trump surrogate, but I'm not so sure. Then again, he did donate a substantial amount of money in the last few days, so maybe he really is close enough to the campaign to act as a surrogate, especialy since he is being explicitly given as an example of someone from Silicon Valley who is supporting Trump.

It's a hard question - I'm not sure, personally.

"You cannot coherently oppose Trump and support Trump's political campaign."

Well this part I don't really agree with. A big part of democracy is coherently opposing other people's ideas, while not opposing their right to voice those ideas.
WW3 AMERICAN WOMEN WILL BE RAPED UNDER HILLARY,SEE THE TRUTHIS BLOG
"It is becoming clearer that this was far from the case. One recent study actually suggests that Neanderthals lost fewer teeth than humans with equivalent diets."

Is there even such a thing as an equivalent diet? There are potentially harmful substances in just about everything these days, including foods that claim to be natural and free of any growth-inducing chemicals. And we don't even know what kind of effects most of these have on human body.
Oh, I had no idea — where did this word come from? In what circles is this word popular?
OK, but I would rather see a service than just an API. Merely API is not enough for building things.
Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/is-green-party-candidate-jill-stein-an...

I'd vote for Stein if I was confident that my vote wouldn't matter (i.e., solid red or blue state) or (gasp) if Stein had a significant chance of winning, but I'm in a swing state, so I'd rather try influencing Hillary toward my positions than deal with a Mussolini.
You want to stop people from working too hard because they want to get ahead? This is like un-american.
I'm the author of Trello Dojo https://leanpub.com/trellodojo Marketing does not come naturally to me. I feel like it's a good product, but I don't want to be spammy. By far the best marketing choice was to ask Trello to put it on their resource board. I was so nervous- what if they didn't like it? What if they sued me for trademark infringement or something? They did none of those things and put it up cheerfully, where Google Analytics says a majority of me references come from.
These get freaking hard really fast.
Something that I think is worth pointing out: that site doesn't have a recurring revenue model and also charges very low fees, two things that go against the common wisdom of "just get people to pay you every month, and add an enterprise plan in there for good measure".

The truth is that the classic three-tiered SaaS business model is just one of many possible business models, yet many developers-turned-entrepreneur adopt it without stopping to think whether it's a good fit or not for their product.
One-click solution for running Bitcoin Full-Node on your laptop or PC
The paragraph near the end addresses this, somewhat (to keep us from feeling too good):

"The fact that things have in fact been getting better – overwhelmingly so – does not guarantee progress in the future. After years of easy money and debt financing of companies and governments, a large-scale financial crisis is possible, when all the bills come due. Global warming may threaten ecosystems and affect the lives of millions. Large-scale war between major powers is possible. Terrorists could wreak havoc on a massive scale ..."
I noticed I can visit same websites (twitter, reddit, HN) few times in the span of 5 minutes. And I don't usually even notice that, it's like a habit. To help me break the loop I made this extension.

It only has basic functionality right now, and I want to add some form of statistics, and maybe more in depth personalization tools.

Apart from that, I also plan to port it at least to Firefox, but may look into Edge and Opera.

Would love your feedback, thanks!
Looks like this project was created an hour ago by cloning peerflix. Not a bad way to start, but as yet nothing to distinguish it from the more mature offerings like peerflix itself, or aria2 as mentioned in a sister comment.
Thanks, very excited for you to try it!
Just turn off your phones, can't unlock Android, at least, without the code, after startup.
Alternatively, rtorrent is a nice and mature ncurses based torrent client. It's already in the repository of most distributions.
Thanks; very insightful. I understand the other three cases, but how are males not assets?

Also, I believe females are often seen as being the liability side of the balance sheet (which is perhaps what you meant). You have to pay another family (pay a dowry) in order for them to take on the woman.

(In case there is any doubt, I strongly believe that every woman is a person who should decide for herself who she wants to be.)
Is it me, or is making this about "firing" a bit of slight-of-hand. Thiel is a partner, not an employee. Choosing who to partner with isn't the same as firing an employee.

If YC continues to partner with Thiel, everything they say about promoting women in tech is bullshit.
They were banned. Niantic ban for what they consider cheating. I figured if the OP was mistakenly banned for some reason they probably would have mentioned that in their original comment.
Can someone elaborate a little on what this is? What's a precommitment?
From a glance at your profile, you hardly seem to be a person a government would be interested in (maybe you're a drug king pin in your off hours, don't tell me if you are). What is your threat profile? If you loose your phone and some kid racks up a few hundreds $ in whatever one can buy through a phone nowadays, is that threat worth less to you than the convenience of fingerprint phone locking? Why would you give up that convenience out of fear for something that is much less likely to happen than other, realistic threats?

I know it's a snarky question because there is no way to phrase it without being so; but I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind 'convenience features are worthless/I turn them off because they're not 100% secure against [some powerful actor] that might hypothetically want to look at my phone'. I mean, they can get comms metadata from carriers; speech comms content from wiretaps; email content through subpoenas (minus those you encrypt with client-side tools, a major pain to do on a phone anyway). If you're going to run a coke line from South America or plan to overthrow the government or conspire to bomb immigrants, you're better off not using any such obvious electronic communication tools in the first place. So what's your reasoning?
It isn't a given that Trump is objectively hateful or that Trump's expressed words will personally affect any given American. Your point of view, while a wonderful work of emotionally-charged rhetoric, is not legitimate.
Thank you, enjoy :)
Interesting, I presume the Guardian is describing the lack of US cable television news such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the nightlies on ABC, NBC and CBS, as well as the Sunday morning staples Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday, taking time to cover the event and it's implications, as well as the lack of attention given by those running for office of all manners of position. Then again, you "read" several articles, and commented on one from a British source, I understand you can't see that no one is talking about it but you should be able to hear the silence
Automatic HTTPS may be the most recognized feature of Caddy but there are more that make it worth to give it a spin.

Configuration simplicity is important. For example try to properly setup a reverse proxy to jenkins from nginx. Almost impossible unless you google and find the specific nginx snippet on jenkins' documentation. Deviate and you will have jenkins complaining for an improperly configured proxy.
On Caddy the same can be achieved in one line with just two words (and a slash).

The last feature I used for a project, was Caddy's browse directive which lets you browse files in a directory (unless there is an index.html). Not only it has a great look from the start, not only it can be templated, but also Caddy will be happy to serve you the contents of the directory as JSON. So now, not only humans but also software can browse your files easily.

Have a look at its modules to get some ideas: https://caddyserver.com/docs

Also go makes it easy to write a module of your own or alter one of the existing ones to fit your needs.
Dingo v. 0.12 released (adds OpenDNS support)
Two things:

- Starting in a niche, then expanding into really competitive markets worked we'll for us

- Try every that's cheap to try. In advertisement, you want to spend a few dozen $ on everyone who's willing to take them, then invest heavily when ROI is positive. There are many people who just do google and maybe Facebook. But while that's 90% of their market, you sometimes get lucky and find a niche that gets you as much revenue as the two combined.
I'd say intermediate lanes to convey heat outside of the vertical line where surface can help dissipate. An intraprocessoral matrix to sound biological.
The app itself is the business, and is separate from his blog. (Although it works together with his blog and with many other blogs, his particular blog is not a necessity.)

EDIT: To respond to your edit, I agree he was able to leverage his blog's popularity. But his blog is only one out of 231 listed on SubmitHub. Thus, his blog's readers account for what's likely a negligible fraction of SubmitHub's users. That's not to say his blog wasn't helpful. It's just a totally separate business. The reason SubmitHub is doing so well is because he added to his blog AND to those 230 other blogs, and he did that in 10 months.
That crosses into personal attack, and that's not allowed on HN, so please don't do it. More precisely: please scrupulously avoid it.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12721084 and marked it off-topic.
The old optical mice used IR to detect the grid lines on the old mouse pads. Today's mice take an image of the surface, and compare it to another image taken quickly after. Faster chips/better optics enabled this.
Introducing Orchestra: an OSS system to orchestrate expert and machine teams
This is a false dilemma. Npm-level programming and being able to rewrite the whole operating system from scratch are not the only two options.
This is a great point. Although I would wager that the large quantity of mediocre papers your students have produced have not exactly harmed your own career. So, while your personal motives may be beyond repute, there will be many academics who think "This is the main reason senior people have a lot of students- they produce a lot of papers." Which is one of the dynamics that is troublesome. The marginal value of another PhD student to a senior professor is almost always fairly positive. Which means senior professors have an incentive to maximize the number of PhD students. This has two problems:

1) The value of the senior professor's mentorship to each PhD student diminishes (maybe almost linearly) with each PhD student added.

2) If each senior professor hires on average X PhD students per generation, approximately (1/X) of the those PhD students can become senior professors if the rate that academia grows is negligible compared to growing X times as large per generation. (And right now, X must be at least 20.)
Persecuting people who hold unpopular or incorrect ideas has a very, very long history. Pushing them out of jobs, imprisonment, torture, even killing them have all been tried, over and over.

But all that did was drive the holders of those ideas underground. I don't know of anyone who actually changed their ideas due to persecution.

Free expression in the marketplace of ideas is how to persuade people, not persecution.
This project exposes a HTTP interface that proxies stuff to an underlying boltdb instance. Host it yourself and it's suddenly a service. Or am I misunderstanding your point?
Not for me, I don't even understand your point. Of course it's up to me if I have something to hide. I have nothing on my phone that I wouldn't be perfectly OK with to have printed and displayed in a busy public place. How is it not up to me to decide what details of my life I have to hide?
> This is a truly idiotic thing to say.

We ask that you please leave these out of comments on HN. They're not OK and luckily not necessary.
When I take kratom I dose 2x a day. Drop by .25 or .50 grams for each dose. When each dose is 2 grams, I switch to dosing 3 grams 1x a day. Right before bed. Then I just taper that down at the same rate.

When I get to 0.5 grams per day, I just stop. I may sleep a little less and feel a little irritable for a few days but then it's back to normal. Working out every day and abstaining from sugary foods eliminates any remaining withdrawal symptoms in my experience.
Wikileaks shared the SHA256 hash of a file they will release in the near future.

When the file is released, people will be able to download the file from Wikileaks and verify their file has the same SHA256 hash as the one in this tweet.

One benefit of doing this is it prevents people from claiming to be Wikileaks and leaking fake files. If someone claimed to be Wikileaks and released a fake set of emails, readers will know they are fake because the fakes will have a different* SHA256 hash than the one shared in this tweet.

(* Note it may be possible to generate two distinct files with the same SHA256 hash however due to the design of SHA256 this is extremely improbable).
People skills have a much longer half-life than, say, proficiency in the latest javascript framework or machine learning trend.
I'm sure the business could adapt to our low bus factor, but it would take months at least of nothing really happening, there is really only one person that knows some of the critical codebases and they're so spaghettified that I'm not sure if anyone else could learn it.
> the right people can probably replicate them pretty well

They can be fooled reasonably well (well enough to fool an iphone) with pretty simple techniques. For details, search for a bunch of articles from 2002 referencing Tsutomu Matsumoto's work.

> it can't be recorded by cameras

Well... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/29/german_minister_fing... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611155