skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profiteering is when run of the mill greed crosses the moral hazard line in a spectrum of greed.

A businessman seeking to acquire obscure companies in order to exploit the sick isn't following some force of nature, he's a disgusting human being. It's no different than swindling refugees or the elderly.

People who do this should be socially shunned, and the government should provide grants or free credit to encourage others to manufacture drugs like this.
ARTFINDER:+-+One+of+my+“Unidentified+Living+Objects”,+an+ong
My brother!
Donald J. Trump: The Long Road to the White House
Customers demand Apple find cure for iPhone 'touch disease'
> Or do you also think that if you buy some property straddling a river, you can dump waste into it and say "my property, nobody can tell me what to do with it" while making everyone downriver pay for the cleanup of what you did?

You can't actually own the land around a river, but I get the point you're trying to make regardless.

The point is, if they're causing a ruckus, report them and have it shut down. If they're not, leave it alone. And having multiple different vehicles in the driveway isn't causing a ruckus.

This is basically FUD. What if they do something the neighbors don't like!?! Then deal with it at that time, stop being thought police.
From abstract: "Provided a library of application-specifc
processors, we load on-the-fly the specifc processor in the FPGA, and we transfer the
execution from the CPU to the FPGA-based accelerator."

Key takeaways: (2.2.2) neat trick to accelerate reconfiguration; (3) sample applications involving BCD arithmetic; (4) efficient scheduling to avoid thrashing the reconfiguration.

(Personally, I suspect that until we have a good, open or OS provided API to FPGA configuration we're going nowhere. 3D acceleration required this in the form of OpenGL and DirectX.)
Ask HN: Developers using Wordpress etc.. for personal site
For whatever reason I always assumed as a developer I should always build my personal website without relying on anything like Wordpress.

(This was my mindset when I was first looking to make a site say back in 2008-ish)

Is this a normal opinion - As looking around today with services like Squarespace, Webflow it seems it's much more accepted to just use rather than build...
> I'm a very average HN commenter.

An 11k karma is not average IMHO. You're way above average HN commentator.

I think that you just used the best tool for the job. That doesn't really mean anything about comments. You read what I consider low level comments and high level comments on technical and social subjects from the SAME nickname all the time at HN.
Sorry, I don't really care about your theoretical questions. IPFS is nice and fun technology. If you don't want to participate, you don't have to.
I never argued anything positive about shell programming. Ever. :-)

I still don't get your point, but assume you are saying that Unix is a poor replacement for a real lisp machine environment?
right, someone has done it somewhere. I knew that when I made the comment, it doesn't change the general applicability of the point.
You can argue on "most" advocates, but not "certain" advocates. Since you asked for a citation, how about the famous "Not relying on type safety is unethical"?

https://twitter.com/queertypes/status/513510398570795008
I'm not talking about autonomous AIs, I'm talking about controllable AIs.

And I absolutely don't consider it a programming problem. You'll notice I said they will help us negotiate, not negotiate on our behalf. It is a design challenge, which makes it partly a social problem and partly and engineering problem.
> The scope is to understand what the function does from its name, arguments list and the way it is invoked.

Good names mean a great deal, but this is too much to expect from them. Understanding what a function does includes issues such as its time complexity, whether it is thread safe, what (if anything) it modifies, what exceptions it might throw and what exception safety guarantees it honors... And there may well be specific corner cases - for example, in a function with 'find' in its name, what does it do if there are zero or multiple matches to the key being sought?
With so many tales of "terminated my account; KEPT MY EARNINGS", I can't help but wonder if a class action lawsuit isn't appropriate.
In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train
Having seen one or more family members suffer for years from Alzheimer's, I'm inclined to agree with you to an extent. Dementia is not a desirable end state. But I think the parent's point is also very important. Those family members also had other things killing them at the same time, so it was really a race between diseases.

We need to fix aging (and address the cultural belief that it's necessary), we need to cure cancer and heart disease, etc. Postponement, if it distracts researchers from the real goal rather than acting as a necessary stepping stone, is ultimately counterproductive.
I've given JavaScript about six years to prove that tests make up for static analysis and all I've learned is that we need MORE static analysis.

I've met about four people in a dozen years that write better tests than me, and pretty much everyone else is writing garbage. And when I look back at my own I'm never satisfied.

Essentially the only thing worse than no tests is thinking you have test safety when you don't.

Particularly, negative tests in a dynamic language are easy to write but are virtually guaranteed to break at a later date without anyone noticing, because you are now looking in the wrong spot for a piece of data.
They have a non zero chance of activating it in cars that they are selling now (or at least in the near future). You can't do that trick if you don't commit to the hardware.

More broadly I think you are right, it's hard to see where the different groups really stand from the outside.
> Given a URL for an HTTP resource, how do you know it does not contain child porn before you retrieve it?

You don't, but then again regular browsing does not automatically download the illegal content, start seeding it and announce to the world that you have it on your computer. Big difference.

Also since IPFS deals with content hashes, you not only could and should, you absolutely must ensure any content you download via IPFS does not contain known instances of illegal content.

>> > seeding
>
> https://freenetproject.org/help.html#childporn

How is this in any way relevant?

Freenet provides anonymity, IPFS does not. Again, big difference.
Race Condition vs. Data Race (2011)
Sewers don't have induced demand.
Upon further reading, it appears that it may be impossible to verify the security of an IPFS cached page, simply because the hash is calculated post-fetch on the client. That allows any sort of shenanigans to be performed on the original content before it's stored.

If content is created specifically for IPFS-caching (similar to Freenet or Onion), then it may be possible to be authoritative, but content cached from the web should never be considered so.
The Average Lifespan of a Webpage (2011)
...Which is why us millenials hang out on sites like HN and other forums (or 4chan, for the truly insane), where this kind of crap shows up less.

Some people accuse HN of being a circlejerk, or a groupthink. It's not. I can tell, because if you want to see real groupthink, look at sites like Tumblr, where "speshul snowflakes" are in abundance. Look at Twitter, which is so filled with skub at this point that it's just a rage machine. Look at Facebook, where saying anything offensive is rare.

It astonishes me that people on these sites can have the audacity to call themselves "liberals" and yet don't believe in something as basic as the idea of freedom of speech. And I'm using that correctly, yes: it's not that they say "that shouldn't be allowed on our site," it's that they say "that shouldn't be allowed anywhere."
Do you really think that he didn't do anything visible for hours and then had a magic spark that led him to delete 2000 lines? GP was careful to only point out strong negative signals.

Even if you do a lot of work on paper you're going to look stuff up online or in the code base, which is visible on screen.

That doesn't mean that this tool can't be abused in both directions, but it seems like an unfair critique of the GP post.
People aren't anxious about the range for their typical commute, they are anxious about rare or unforeseen long-distance trips.
Where in the (observed) solar system is there space for a black hole, even a small one, considering the continued existence and observed orbits of the planets?
Wiring up neo4j, spaCy and AIVA for a chat bot with structured memories
Yeah but that actually happening is wildly optimistic. In a good way, but still...
Several QA automation tools picked by Softwaretestinghelp
Because I've received Content ID notices before. The wording is very different. First you "dispute" the Content ID notice, and then the appeal is rejected, and it gives you a separate form to send a "counter-notice", which contains explicit warnings that the copyright holder can then sue you after you send the notice. Sure it's an assumption, but based on the reading of this article, it seems very clear that this was the result of a DMCA notice.
Death by Snoo-Snoo
I can't agree with this more, and with the addition of Turbolinks in recent Rails versions you get the snappiness of a JS front end framework in areas like page load. After building a service oriented architecture with React and Rails I truly realized the benefit of a tightly coupled front end / backend for speed of development and deployment. Building bespoke API's for other clients isn't as much of a headache as it's been made out to be.
The Great Slowing of the American Runner
I think that's undervaluing the time value of money.
Today I learned...

The Warren Buffett piece your article links to is great!

My favorite section:

And, ah, here we have my McDonald's card which lets me eat free at any McDonald's in Omaha for the rest of my life. So that's why the Buffett family has Christmas dinner at McDonald's. It explains a lot of thing. (Laughs.)

Becky: Does anyone else have one of those cards?

Warren: There's just a few of them. Bill Gates has one. His is good throughout the world, I guess. Mine is only good in Omaha, but I never leave Omaha so mine is just as good as his.

Becky: Who doesn't have one?

Warren: Well, I think President Clinton wanted one very badly, but I don't think he has one. I think he has to go to McDonald's with me.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/21528623
1. I work with Django, Django Rest Framework, React, works well. I heard that Vue might be an interesting option. Honestly there's a myriad of tools/framework around there, you have to ask yourself what are you trying to achieve? Is it a one shot app you'll build over the week end? Something that you'd like to maintain over time? That may scale? Are you working alone on this or not? Is it an exercise to learn a new stack? I started a startup 4 years ago, asked a friend who's a ruby/rails dev for advice about tech/stack, his answer, yes rails is awesome but as you already know python go for Django as my goal was primarily to get stuff done business-wise not so much to learn cool new tech. So be aware of your options and definitely spend some time to know them but in the end they're just tools, don't forget why you use them in the first place.

2. I stumbled upon http://stackshare.io the other day, I can't vouch for it but seemed nice to have a quick overview of what languages / framework / services are used around.
Most successful people have a schedule planning out their days https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/08/daily-rituals-...

Your productivity skyrockets and it becomes automatic after a few weeks. I started by just getting up early and scheduling my mornings to finish technical books like CS:APP and it worked so well I now schedule my work week as much as possible http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three-rece...
Background wipe would be a good brand name for toilet paper.
Honestly, just stick to the tech threads. The SV nonsense is where the worst of this shows up.
A kettle can draw 1500W+, so you'll need a lot of devices (or Internet connected kettles...) to cause a similar effect.
It seems I was trolled, but in a funny way.

I discuss how you can see bad behaviour from even old accounts at HN, dismissing serious references with just hand waving.

This got a well written answer about how non serious my example reference was, arguing with a family anecdote.

When I ask for better sources (I don't know the writer or his/her family from Adam/Eve) -- then I get no answer. :-)
While I agree with you in spirit, there are two points to consider

1) it may have been unsolicited (you mentioned this), and
2) humans tend to be very "fuzzy". Maybe he should have towed the line, and now he's learned his lesson about why you always cover yourself.

But 99/100 times the human being on the other side just wants to get you the information you need and is just too trusting. We've all had those clients, and it's up to us to be trustworthy and not be the one who teaches that client what can happen if you don't protect yourself [1]

[1] Obviously what I mean by this is that you shouldn't be fucking over your client, educating them is another matter.
It is starting to be a while ago since that was true. Today usage by far contributes most to pollution, not the manufacturing.
wouldn't you be able to type in a correct email with a probability of 0.94 of it being correct?
Many devs build their own because they find it interesting or because they want to tune details just how they want it, but if your goal is just to publish content (which normally is the primary reason to have a website) and an existing tool works for you, it makes no sense to build something DIY just because you can.
Interesting methodology. Obvious too, but when these kinds of thing happen your mind goes astray and it's hard to keep being organized.

I didn't log anything but I was quite precise and trying to isolate things. Went on a clean diet right away. Tried to find what activity would get me in stable condition, since failing cardio is a vicious circle, I wanted to find a minimum amount of things to keep the machine active without further injury.

Someone suggested your 4th idea. By the time he talked me about it I was a bit lost. I even tried to talk to a hospital cardiologist, the secretary looked at me like I deserved to be in a mental institute.

I tried all I could to ensure discussion, but all the time, they look at me like a poor thing that needs a mood pill, because after all my BP is fine, and I could walk to him so why am I worrying. It's so difficult to find someone that looks at your problems. And to go back to the original topic, medicine is slow to evolve (as expected) and still too invasive. To investigate one told me I'd need a coronarography which is not a trivial exam. There's no in between for them, even though some have access to more recent tools (ultrasonic artery check, instead of echocardiogram, which doesn't take coronaries in account).

ps: at the 4th doctor, I did cave in and accepted anti depressant. It did relaxe muscles for a few days, leading to smoother blood flow. It didn't cure me of my problems, it just made me suffer less for them. The last night event had more impact on my health and mood than 6 months of visits and treatments. Medicine is hard, it's complex, people are human, these guy makes an important and difficult job dealing with pain and problems all day long, I don't deny that. That said, medicine needs to evolve, and I feel they're too satisfied [1] with their result to really reach the best.

[1] surely other factors are responsible for sub par health. Economy, politics, sociology, education... I'm not ignoring this too.
Sure but it´s not really unavailable I mean.
> Perhaps so, but if your plan for resiliency is based on the kindness of strangers in countries where the DMCA nor censorship does not apply, it's not much of a plan.

Have you ever used Bittorent? It works great.
Isn't this essentially a tone argument?
DSx86 Is a PC Emulator for Nintendo DS
> Property based testing frameworks tend to show you the simplest concrete example of your error. Type checkers tend to show you the most abstract example of your error. Maybe if type checkers started to to incorporate more concrete examples of error, people would generally find them more appealing.

I think this is a really important insight! And in fact, there is some recent research about making type checkers produce counterexamples: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5355. Ergonomics of type systems is an unfortunately understudied area.
Then spending the majority of his time as POTUS travelling to do fundraising dinners.
That function looks like this in Rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Index.html (it's heavily generic, it could be slightly less verbose if it didn't have to handle Sized)

The compiler will errr if x isn't indexable, or if it is but not by the type of a, in terms of your function's names.
What if you accidentally revealed a private key on the screen during the screenshot? Are you willing to forfeit 10 minutes of time to keep your SSH or whatever else uncompromised? Or are you going to trust Upwork and your client to not somehow leak it, even accidentally?
IPFS is, more or less, an implementation of Named Data Networking.
You're contradicting yourself
An underlying question is whether the organization treats differing and possibly contrarian views as a positive or a negative. All of your points follow from that.
The issue with your question, I think, is over the exact meaning of the words "best", "basic", "web apps", and "popular".

By many measures the best and most popular stack would be mysql, php, html, css, and maybe a little jquery sprinkled on top. It powers an enormous amount of the web, it allows very rapid development, and it's about as cool and hip among the hacker news crowd as a cod liver oil enema, and with good reason!

Of course, you can improve it, but you need to figure out what metric you're looking to improve it on. If you rule out PHP or jquery or whatever, then other answers start to look like the most popular.

> Seems like React frontend

React has a lot of buzz, and it widely used for new projects trying to build web apps with heavy client-side functionality. Of course, there's simply an enormous amount of Backbone, Angular 1, or random jQuery client-side apps out there, plus an even more enormous amount "traditional" webapps with minimal client-side functionality (like hacker news). You have to define your search quite narrowly to make React look like the most popular tech.

> perhaps Vue

In the last couple of weeks Vue has probably got more buzz in terms of people talking about it on HN and /r/javascript than React, yes. From a certain point of view that makes it more popular than React; from basically all other points of views it's much, much less popular. Then again, why do you care about popularity? The wisdom of crowds is probably least useful when judging hype-driven popularity contests.

> and Node being the popular backend?

For small hobby projects among people who mostly know JS and have no particular reason to choose anything else? Yes. And low barriers to entry mean it's used in a large number of projects.

On the other hand, in many ways it is an objectively inferior backend. And in others it's objectively excellent. It really depends what matters to you.

> Is there a site that keeps track of [...] how their popularity progresses?

Depends how you want to measure that. You can use google trends, or compare github stars, or npm downloads, or the number of topics posted about it on /r/javascript, and get different answers.

Realistically though...

...none of it matters. Any vaguely functional stack is good enough; the odds of your project failing because you picked Rails instead of Django, or Mysql instead of Postgres, or Coffeescript instead of Typescript is nil. What does matter is that you pick a vaguely functional stack and start writing code.
And a lot of todays power-plants can't regulate supply to meet demand easily so power is often wasted or sold at negative price. This is a particular problem at night time. With EVs charging at night one could handle excess power production without expanding total electric production in any way. EVs are simply a good match for the limitations of today's power production.
These free perks are technically income. It seems like a billionaire would prefer to just pay for the food out of pocket rather than worry about the accounting overhead of declaring gifts on their income tax.
Um, no.

You have no guarantees that the content put up via IPFS is by the original copyright owner.

Thus immediately after you receive the infringing content over IPFS and start seeding it, you are infringing on the copyright owners rights. You have no recourse and no legal defenses to protect you.
> maybe replacing the useless "comments" link

I've found the comments link useful for finding the newest comment activity. That said, it's been useful only because I've been spending an inordinate amount of time on HN as I get started. There's likely a better way of accomplishing the same thing.
Having both "person@ü.example.com" and "person@xn--tda.example.com" be both valid and equivalent makes just abstracting over it more problematic.
Well of course it makes your account less secure. It's another attack vector. As shown in the post, Google doesn't say add a phone number "to make your account more secure", it says "so you don't get locked out". Intuitively, making it more difficult to get locked out of your own account would likely make it easier for someone else "not to be locked out" of your account.
I agree. People should go there for the content and insight rather than the personalities (unless it's a personality gathering). It's not like going there is all about interacting with Mr Cantrill. One would hope people are going for the content and the many other attendees who might offer something to talk about.

On the other hand, if you don't want to go, simply don't go.

Why is there a need to shout out decisions? HEYYYY, I'm not going to the Safeway, the CASHIER looked at me CROSS-EYED!!! Ok, fine, go to another grocer. Do I have to tell everyone of my choice?
>Personally, I suspect that until we have a good, open or OS provided API to FPGA configuration we're going nowhere. 3D acceleration required this in the form of OpenGL and DirectX.

There's no demand for it. There's nearly nothing that the consumer does that requires that level of hardware acceleration (with the possible exception of Photoshop) and server type applications are perfectly fine with custom software interfaces.
Reddit a crossroads of the usenet and 4chan cultures: it's where they meet. However, Reddit actually doesn't totally adopt the common-carrier approach, and aren't decentralized: they try to take responsibility for their users to a greater degree than either of the previous sites ever did, resulting in things like hateful subreddits getting taken down, and the voat split.
>People who take statins will still end up in the same bad place in the end, just a little later.

For many many people, this is enough. By the time we're 55 or 60, most of us have so many risk factors for various things that getting a delay of 20 years from statins means something else will most likely kill us before we have to worry about congestive heart failure.

If I'm going to die of cancer at 75, and I can use drugs to push Alzheimer's back to age ~80, then it might as well have been cured. Functionally there is no difference.
Yeah, that is very true unfortunately. I'm really into node though, so js is all I need :)
Beware anyone on a metered connection - in 20 or so minutes, the ipfs daemon has used 3 gigabytes of bandwidth.
There's no reason it shouldn't be a typed null though. It doesn't have to be a tagged Option type.