skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No it's not. I would go into more detail but I don't feel you are arguing in good faith, so my effort would be wasted. > It seems more like you are trying to out-post your opposition with silly false equivalences that waste time and sidetrack the discussion about drones.

I'm not arguing in bad faith, you just aren't bothering to think through your point. As your very next sentence illustrates.

> But for anyone else reading, I will say that a distinction can be drawn empirically. Body armor doesn't seem to change the types of situations in which an attack would be considered, while drones do.

That is pretty obviously false if you spend two seconds considering it. And even if you were to take that as true, what about tanks? Planes? Those unequivocally change the considerable situations.
> ZCash isn't just another fly-by-night cryptocurrency scam. It's a serious engineering effort that was carefully undertaken by some very well-known cryptography and security experts.

The implication that most of the alt coins are like this is unfortunate. Sure, a very many of the alt coins are just bitcoin clones with a different genesis block trying to get rich but many of the alt coins have had great minds behind them, that's not novel in and of itself.
I don't disagree with your general point but PayCoin was a straight up scam, created by scammers. Not a fair comparison.
The article is from 2008. Mayhaps the prostitute situation has changed?
It's actually a very pertinent issue to NYC subway lines, as many of the severely congested ones (such as the J/M/Z line) run through minority neighborhoods but they don't receive very much maintenance, upgrade, or fanfare in the way of these three new stops which, in all fairness, will do little to alleviate the growing capacity problems facing the MTA.

Furthermore the comment never once referred to anyone externally as a racist. It simply highlighted a problematic disparity. Projecting much?
This is more of a split between techniques for programming-in-the-small vs. programming-in-the-large.

All languages have this. You could write more or less the same list for Swift or Java with minimal changes.

Again, do you have any actual experience with this, or is this just your assumption? Because I have never seen this issue in the wild.
What do you mean by glances? You mean they are suspicious of your work quality? They dont want to hire you? Or they just give you a quick glance (because of the gap) and hire you anyways?
Ghostly Outfit, Hovering Mad Mirror, and Bloodstone Glider in the Gem Store
> China's proposed system opens all of that.

Don't you think it can be a big threat to national security. And why does Chinese government do that?
noscript is not uncommon
It will be interesting to see how it plays out, but it's worth noting that there is a healthy amount of suspicion, some fear, and even a little bit of animosity toward google in the US health care industry. Opinions about surveillance and marketing (mis)uses aside, getting data can be a long and difficult process even for seasoned researchers in teaching hospitals. Personally, I don't fancy giving them my medical records any time soon.
20,000 Hard Drives on a Mission
I always hear about the mythical intelligent religious person but somehow, they remain elusive. As a general rule, religiosity goes down as intelligence goes up. Consider William Craig. The man is a Christian philosopher and I would say he is quite intelligent. But he also tends to stray from much of what the Christian bible teaches. Now compare him to the highly devout and evangelical Ken Ham who would deny such basic truths like evolution.
Consulting firm vs. traditional employment pros and cons?
I'm asking the opinion of those who have worked as a consultant in an established firm vs working in a "regular" job (one employer). As a consultant I know you are always going on site or engaging new projects whereas you have to navigate the politics and day-to-day stuff in a regular 40hr job. What are the pros and cons of working as a consultant in an established firm vs being an operational employee for a company IT department or dev shop?
An "attitude" pump, really? :)

I was one of the first and most dismissive when bitcoin was released. I'm on record saying "yet another p2p currency piece of crap" one ~day after its January 2009 announcement and release. There are so many endless p2p currencies out there-- this was even the case when bitcoin was first launched-- so many that, frankly, any dismissive attitude is completely justified. You can't go around saying "you're too dismissive" because by doing so you commit the same crime you're accusing others of committing. Keep in mind that for some of us there's a lot of background in reviewing cryptocurrency proposals; it came as surprise to me to later learn that there was actual working source code associated with bitcoin rather than merely manifesto emails.

Also, "I wouldn't weigh the odds that this specific system really lasting more than 4 years out especially high" is clearly a reference to the author's experience analyzing (or reviewing) zk-SNARKs and related cryptocurrency proposals. I suspect even Zooko would readily admit that there are alternative SNARKs constructions that they might move towards over time. Heck, it was nullc who pointed out to me that Bryan Parno had published on a libsnark security hole: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/437 -- and besides, it's not yet time to say that the trusted setup and the host of new cryptographic assumptions are rock solid... otherwise let's merge this into bitcoin. "Attitude", ha.

Also... it's not clear whether a high-privacy cryptocurrency, built by a specific nameable centralized company, is able to both operate as a legal business entity while still ensuring they are not operating under secret court orders from secret courts or other adversarial government interests, such as to inject silent inflation or otherwise compromise your integrity. It's too early to dismiss the concerns (of adversarial intervention) regarding the financial link between the Zcash developers and the Zcash cryptocurrency. (It may not be clear to casual readers that, unlike in Zcash, in bitcoinland there's no protocol rules about paying developers from the mining subsidy reward amounts. There are very strong reasons for why this is still the case.)

(If you are going to have adversarial intervention like that, then you might as well use a much more directly centralized currency. It's not enough to handwave about the wonders of crypto and theoretical computer science while subjecting your work to extreme adversarial intervention. High-privacy designs in a centralized system can somewhat work, even if you were to want to explicitly make a backdoor for whatever law enforcement interests you pledge loyalty to.)
How can you be both an SVP and a CEO?
Zcash mining guide with cpu and gpu
Software engineer here. Finding my creativity is drying up.. Whats the fastest/easiest way to learn a musical instrument at the highest possible level?
"... trivial application ..." You mean something like the testing system for the Boeing 747?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511695
Those stories are usually made up after the fact. People naturally have the tendency to create interesting narratives to explain phenomenon in their lives. It's also just better PR. I know this sounds cynical, but it's more often than not true.

Kalanick may have had a hard time hailing a cab...but that probably wasn't inconvenient enough to want him to devote his entire life to building a company solving that one specific problem that he randomly had in his life.
1mm!
Invited as well: todobot.io
Probably Kotlin.
Here's a link to an old Braniff schedule showing the Concorde as a route out of DFW...

http://www.departedflights.com/BN102879p52.html
On the plus side, you'll soon be trapped with just AT&T! Oh wait...
I'm not sure where Samsung and Xiaomi are with this, but software can be used to accurately evaluate whether touches near the bezel are intended as UI events (vs simply holding or picking up the phone).
I don't understand why news about the alternative energy industry always makes it sound like we will eventually move to one energy source. Using a combined approach is the most obvious and probable outcome.
Pro: You don't have to deal with the mistakes you made in the past, or the mistakes other people have made.

Con: You don't learn from those mistakes. Consultants and maintainers will have very different views on what good architecture is.

Consultants are like locusts, moving from green field to green field and not seeing the devastation they leave behind.
I am impressed about his ANSI art scene and ACiD affiliation, as someone who grew up admiring that work through bbs's.

As a first time author of open source at age 36, I know how good it feels to finally give back. Paying it forward, especially in tech, is an important life milestone.

It's a tech mitzvah.
Hacktoberfest 2016 – DigitalOcean
They went out.
That's where the real money is. Not many people made a killing mining in the gold rushes. Quite a few made out real well selling boots, picks, booze and less savory necessities, to the greater mass of fools, though.
I am feeling the same as you! I've slowly been going through the course Syntorial to learn about Synths and general music theory. Not sure if it's the best for what you want but I have found it pretty interesting. Would be curious to hear others thoughts.

http://www.syntorial.com/
is that Walter White?
South Korea's President Revealed to Be a Shaman's Puppet
Does the inclusion of Vapor members mean we can finally declare Vapor the "winner" over Perfect?
"Turbans and terrorists" gave me a pause too. Then again, that was in 2006, where Wikipedia was much less prominent than now, which means less editors, so I took a look. If we look at the article at the eve of 2006 it's not "turbans and terrorists" at all: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Afghanistan&oldid...

I mean maybe it has some bias, it's quite large so I didn't analyze it, but it's not blatantly bad like WaPo seems to imply. I suspect they fallen the victim of what many journalists fall victim too - concentrating on rare exceptions like some troll putting there "turbans" for lulz and it surviving on the site for some short time - and not on the processes that govern the regular life of the site.
He was/is an SVP of Alphabet and a quasi-CEO of Access, which is (in the process of becoming?) a "separate" company under the Alphabet umbrella.
maybe amongst HN (i swear by uMatrix & uBlock Origin), but the general public prefers their favorite websites not to be largely broken.

completely disabling scripting [rather that just disabling third-party script injection] is not a pleasant experience, even for the technical crowd. i already reluctantly have to whitelist CDNs which can track me across the internet.
Non-Profit Cryptocurrency
https://ouramazingbet.tumbler.com/

can be the big company version of

https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Sorry, I should have checked that. I took the title from a link in a curated news list. The actual title, "Spies for Hire", isn't useful. I'll change it to a phrase from the article:

"United Arab Emirates Intelligence Tried to Hire Me to Spy on Its People"

Not perfect, because it's quoted from something else, but hopefully good enough.
The real problem with Scala is Java. Most of us over here in C / Ruby / Python land or .NET land have been bitten by dipping our toe into Java and now avoid it like the plague.
Money. Specifically infrastructure cost.
I am not affiliated with 18F but do work for a major tech company. I am not convinced that the consulting model is better for the kinds of projects that 18F is trying to undertake, such as developing the web services for government agencies.

Most tech companies invest in things such as culture, internal productivity tools, and developer and testing infrastructure that are not deliverables to clients and thus not billable. While these may incur a higher start-up cost, these are critical for ensuring long-term productivity.

Correct me if I am wrong but my impression is that the consulting world is much more concerned with delivering and then moving onto the next project, with very little shared work or infrastructure between projects.

I'm sure 18F has areas of improvement for how it spends its resources and how it tracks costs and billing. Every organization does. However, I would not be surprised if the reason 18F exists is that the government found that outsourcing this work to consultants led to higher costs and lower quality deliverables compared to products being released by tech companies and thus wanted to try a different approach.
Everything clickable (the sounds) before http://www.lightnote.co/music-theory/pentatonic/ did not work for me (on Chrome).

Still really liked it. Await the chord progressions stuff.
Which in turn is normally defined by what you do at work. Eg I experiment a lot more at home when dealing with dull stuff at work
yes fire them! just act like it's your fault, not theirs
Parent comment was referring to LSD specifically. It’s not addictive.
AMP pages are served from the publisher's server as usual, but Google can easily direct their users to their cache instead of the official site. Every AMP page also includes JavaScript hosted by Google, so Google gets pinged every time someone visits an AMP page, even if it wasn't through their cache.
All of this already exists if you're able and willing to pay for it. Private jet rentals, charters, time shares, etc.
E.g. https://www.netjets.com/Programs/Program-compare/
> It doesn't do much

You can say that again. I used it for a pretty decent sized project and I'm not sure if it added any value. It doesn't do anything.
Tim Cook: 'We Don't Buy' the Need to Give Up Privacy for AI
I just got a rejection email...
But that depends on how it's typically operated. Nobody uses an airliner as a one-person transport, but unfortunately many people use a Prius that way.
Yes, among makers of watches and phones.
> We should have had a bunch of porcelains that evolved to a nice shine. You should have been able to switch back and forth between porcelains.

That's basically what Magit is, a porcelain for git. It actually adds operations beyond what git's own porcelain allows, and makes easier the ones it does allow. Using Magit is like being a git ninja compared to using the CLI.
Check out ControllerMate. It lets you remap anything with complex logic.
> Plus, Apple doesn't care about macOS. HFS has bitrotted away

HFS is already being replaced with APFS which is excellent feature-wise, and is available in Sierra for testing purposes. I expect at this time next year we'll be seeing them use it by default on new macOS and iOS devices.
This reflects my experience in academia so much better than my rants over beers and BBQ ever have.

I had no idea, but should have suspected, that Bernays was behind it all.
The title should be:

> Google winds down its fiber operations
Cool, that change makes more sense to me.

I found the article interesting. It seems like the journalist struggled to find concrete, direct evidence that this company is engaged in the offensive work that she claims -- but found a very considerable amount of circumstantial evidence. I also appreciated that hackers were willing to talk about their concerns with doing this kind of work, and that the article mentions the way people might not know the nature of the work they (or their colleagues) might be asked to do at the time that they're hired.
Strange messages coming from the stars are ‘probably’ from aliens
Running Debian Unstable on a 2008 Macbook 4,1 and it's working quite well. The GPT partition was a bit tricky, but after that all has gone well but the camera, which doesn't work without proprietary firmware from yonder the repos. It's pretty cool to see an 8-9 year-old laptop with good battery life and reasonable performance. First time I ever fussed with a Mac and I'm glad I did. Also, I totally nixed the Mac OS partitions, for single boot.
We built collaborative whiteboards into our distance learning classrooms in 1997 or 1998. Smartboards were around for several years before we started and we wrote custom drivers to capture the cursor position and send the pointer information to the remote sites.
> The world is a messy place and IPFS does nothing to protect its users.

I'm a bit confused, why is it the job of IPFS to "protect its users"? IPFS has no liability here, it's simply trying to make IPFS a law-abiding software as a whole. So it is not outlawed.

IPFS doesn't have any reason to "protect" me from things i download anymore than HTTP or TPC does. It's a technology for localizing data. What makes you feel IPFS has to protect its users?

It sounds like you think IPFS somehow spreads files onto your system without your consent. You only download what you choose to, just like with HTTP/TPC/UPD and the whole tech stack.

IPFS changes nothing for your personal security. It's not intended to. It's a technology to lower bandwidth usage from the production of mass data in the current age. And in regards to it being ironic for having a central authority, - sure - but the problem is bandwidth that IPFS is aiming to solve is, not law and/or DMCAs.

IPFS must have some seriously bad marketing (i blame the whole "good for humanity angle"), because i feel like you and a lot of people have the entirely wrong idea about IPFS. It's a technology, nothing more.. especially in it's current form. The only thing it might "save the world" from is bandwidth, lol.
Journalist Jason Leopold Lives and Breathes by FOIA
And for anyone who hasn't seen it, his short essay "Dongly Things" is worth the reading time: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html
Are they really so brilliant then? Seriously though, I think Launchpad was designed less for managing code and more for managing a bureaucratic project. While individuals and projects can use it, it's primarily only useful for Ubuntu and their particular workflows.
Associated reading - https://www.theinformation.com/inside-the-battle-over-google... (Aug 2016) (paywall)
I have a macbook pro from .. 2013? The main reason for me would be too get a fanless laptop. That could be a reason to update even from last year's model.

But if it's as silly as the 'new macbook', then I'll probably pass.
I think it already does: Magit. :)
Get a good teacher and take weekly lessons for the first few months. Make sure your instrument is up to snuff. Make a habit of practicing at least 30 minutes a day of technically hard stuff. Most importantly, find an instrument (and music genre) that you love.
Many airlines let you use a laptop during take off an landing if it is less than 2 pounds.
This is terrible corporate speak.

It should be titled "We are killing Google Fiber for any new cities".

Why do companies do this? Why sugar coat all of this and why make me think your actually going to expand only to let me down. It's terrible double speak and it does not help your cause, it just makes me dislike your company for two reasons now. One for canceling a service I was excited about and two for being, in my opinion, dishonest.
Phones are a commodity
I'm really confused by your reply here. 1) I find it hard to believe you didn't understand what GP meant, even if he could have said it better. 2) sidestepping the issue of offending someone and instead arguing semantics isn't a very cool conversational move.

However, perhaps #1 is the case, so I'll try to clear the air. Here's my take on what the two of you are saying:

> I'm responding to your claim that both MRAs and feminists have "awful" reputations, which is false

I have personally heard more complaining about feminists, though I take that to be more an indication about the relative numbers of Feminists and MRAs in the world.

In my experience people with a strong ideological viewpoint have bad reputations outside of social circles dominated by that ideological viewpoint (Conservative Christians, Scientologists, Anarchists, Hard-Line Libertarians, MRAs, Feminists, etc) <-- hopefully you're not all of those, and so at least one was a good example.

Which is to say I think you're saying that in the circles you personally hang out in, feminists are generally highly regarded... which is to say you mostly hang out with feminists... and that GP is saying that in the circles he hangs out in feminists are not highly regarded... which is to say there are fewer feminists per capita than in your social circle.

I think both GP and you should have been more careful about misrepresenting your personal experiences as somehow universal. If you had, you would probably have avoided this back and forth.

> Feminism, on the other hand, is one of the more important social movements of the last 150 years

Feminism and feminists aren't the same thing. For example, Capitalism was an incredibly important idea globally, and is widely regarded as a good thing. Capitalists on the other hand are generally viewed as greedy. Incidentally, capitalists will often try to frame themselves as part of capitalism to subvert this negative impression... roughly the same thing you're doing here with respect to feminism.
Phones are a commodity.
Former music teacher here (and present software developer).

When I was teaching bass lessons, I'd often have friends, usually also in their mid-20s ask me, "Could I still start learning to play an instrument?"

My answer was, "Yes, but you probably won't be any good. Not because you're too old to learn, but because if you had the right inclination to be good, you'd have already found your way to an instrument." (This is totally different from learning additional instruments later in life.)

Learning to play an instrument creatively (as is your stated goal) is a long process of learning to build up intuition both about the structure of music and the way your instrument works, both mechanically and harmonically. Most of that happens in your head, not in your hands. There are methods that may be more or less efficient, but they all require years of effort.

That said, playing an instrument is fun. Learning to play a few songs on the guitar or piano is a totally attainable goal for a few months of effort. Really, something equivalent to that (including, e.g. middle school band class) is where most people get started. That remains fun even if you don't get to the point that you're using the instrument as a creative outlet.
On your first point, that's the norm in my driving (most of both US coasts.) I've sometimes wondered what the saturation level is where the left lane should just be another lane to increase steady state flow rate. I guess it's when the lane becomes too crowded to cycle properly.

On your second point, I've always just assumed that that was a tall car thing because I figured they probably get more uncomfortable cornering. The same way I probably seem irrational when I speed around pickup trucks: they probably fail to recognize that their driving in front of me is like putting a wall in my face (and unlike semi trucks the drivers are no better than the rest of the people on the road.)

On your third point, the US has baked in too many policies that are prohibitive to sensible development patterns. The implicit subsidies for low density living and the federally insured mortgage cone to mind as two of the worst.
You can subscribe to your favorite distro's security announce mailing list. In the case of Debian, you can reference their latest security announcements here:

https://www.debian.org/security/
not even F5 to refresh?
And now one of the researcher has commented https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco...
Taking six months or a year off and then jumping back into the work force was a lot different in (early) 2008 than it is now.

Edit: Tim Ferriss said (in 2007) that employers will be impressed and amazed if you tell them that you took a year off to travel. In 2016, I don't think you would get a chance to tell them about it.