skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I so much hope that one of these countries will quickly change local laws to reduce copyright length to old levels (like 25 years after the life of the author) and start legally distributing (or even producing) movies featuring Mickey Mouse and other Disney "properties".
http://cowlark.com/mercat/com.awk.txt

This is neat! Question for you regarding the formatting/syntax used-

Why the slash-newlines in function declarations?

E.g.

function scope(name, \
s) {
Strong Federations: Blockchain Solution to Centralized Third Party Risks
Link to the man page, for those curious:
http://man.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...
I would love more discoverability for Github - but can't help but think this doesn't reflect what is "trending". Github does, fairly accurate, show what's trending - I think it's just that trends in software development can fatigue and annoy a lot of developers.

From what I understand, creating an algorithm to reflect what is active/popular/well-supported and well-contributed, without creating the over-saturation/bubbling/reddit-like effect is hard to do, and doesn't necessarily get easier with a large data set.

I hope someone more clever than myself can come up with something, though!
You are right in general, but in this case, Rust's lock-free channel implementation and core piece of Tokio (futures-rs) were done by the same person, who was employed by Mozilla when both work was done. So it does reflect Mozilla's priority, not community whim.
All of my employers are already banned.
The headline is not representing the article correctly. It says, "Plan to repeal ObamaCare will..." in reference to dead legislation from the last Congress. There is no such "plan" from the Trump administration as yet. They are also not stating how much of the "loss" is from the expiration of temporary (24/36 months) Federal subsidies.
Yes, I don't get that. What justification is there for another party signing with your root?
How the World Builds Software (An Interview with GitHub's CEO Chris Wanstrath)
Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
You said yourself, big companies don't want a single messenger app to exist, but you don't say how you'll get around that. How exactly are you planning to get around the "big players" banning your API keys?
It is mostly tinderisation coupled with self-aggrandizing delusion: a lot of businesses may just do with above average candidates, of which there is a plenty almost everywhere.
Shocked to hear nobody asked about past projects, that's usually the core of the interview. What are they asking instead? If behavioral questions, are you practicing those?

And if they are not asking about algorithms, you're likely not interviewing at startups or major software companies. I know startups tend to go for experienced engineers, but you still have established s/w companies.

Short answer is to contribute to a popular open source project, that should raise eyebrows. I find meetups are also motivating. Finally, I have a developer career course (link in profile). Will help focus your efforts.
Your numbers ($1,800 now, $4,400 before ACA) seem off. Is there a typo in there?
Yep! Undo every Ohbummer legislation that doesn't put America first.
Well, do what all the 'cool kids' are doing in physics: comp-sci, neuroscience, and finance. Seriously though, the 'heroic' physicists out there are moving to other fields and are doing very well. They are smart people, and they can see that most of physics is stuck in a rut until a massive increase in funding comes along or some kid gets really lucky with the math. Neuro and the bio fields are getting shook up with the incoming physicists around, the nanoscope revolution has been kicking for about a decade. Finance has had quants for a while, but a pipeline to Wall Street is starting to emerge in force recently. Comp-sci has always been inundated with physics undergrads and PhDs, and we see the result in Silicon Valley's wealth.
The economies of these countries have already been ruined by ECB policies - that is why they are (and have been) discussing leaving the EU. Britain is the first of many, in my opinion, and their economy was strong relative to others in the EU who are being screwed.

It appears to me that the EU is finally learning what the USA learned long ago: economic policy is sovereignty. If you cannot control your own economy then you are subordinate to who can: the states are subordinate to the federal government just like the lesser EU countries (Greece, Italy) are subordinate to France and Germany.
Since they're akin to user accounts on windows, I'd assume a decent number of users understand them.

Even though people don't use multiple-user-accounts too much anymore, it's still usually present in schools and in older family computers.

Conceptually they're very similar.
Get ready for more, it may be that the only way to neuter national discontent with Trump is with outrage fatigue.
> You seem to have a lot of faith in the lowest common denominator of high school graduates

If the material is taught in high school, then educators must have decided that high schoolers can learn it, right?

> I still don't really know what domain and codomain mean :)

someFunction :: Domain -> Codomain
Swine flu is a virus and doesn't have anything much to do with antibiotics.

It certainly seems possible that chimeras would create new opportunities for diseases to cross species.
Well, it's only been one day.

There's more to come. Power to the people of the United States!
WH press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds
I'm curious how he figures a nation leaving the Eurozone would be 'required' to pay off their debts first. Wouldn't the debts just carry over anyway?

It's not like a country leaving would necessarily default on their loans, just like staying in the Eurozone doesn't ensure timely payment of loans.

Good luck enforcing this, especially when multiple countries vote for nationalist governments...
EU withdrawal isn't necessarily the question here, however, rather Eurozone withdrawal.
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You're confusing two different things: the EU and the Eurozone.

The Eurozone is simply the currency union of several European states. The EU is the political union. Many, but not all, EU states are also members of the Eurozone.

The implementation of Article 50 and the two-year negotiation and withdrawal period pertain to the EU and not the Eurozone, of which the UK is not part. The two-year period can be extended up to a year by unanimous agreement.
Handy!

Quick UX improvement I can think of:

Make the movie title an anchor to the page's IMDB instead of the score. Or both!
Well said. By shunning TPP instead of bringing it back to the table for renegotiation, this administration has set the tone for American/European economic involvement in Asia for decades to come. The consequences of this will be severe, and will materialize in the form of harm to the poorest segments of our population.
There are also issues that you normally wouldn't have to worry about. The biggest is the risk of being audited by Oracle, and the threat that they will make you either purchase other products, or sue you for a lot more money.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207495

They recently did this with a Java as well:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_...
If you have to start several jails upon init, each running its own rc.d start sequence, it can easily take more than a minute. Heaven forbid if you have something like tomcat that takes ages to start, you might be looking at much more.
Leaving the Euro zone has nothing to do with leaving the EU. Italy and Greece have borrowed too much money from Germany and want a way out of it. At the moment the EU seem rather keen to stay together against Britain and against a hostile sounding US president
I know your comment was sarcastic, but NAFTA has been around since 1993, which precedes Obama by several administrations.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agre...
I don't like those quotes (like 'the harder I work, the luckier I get') because 'luck' by it's very definition is random. We had a horrible situation in Melbourne yesterday where some nutbag drove his car down a busy sidewalk killing 4 people. It was luck (very bad luck) that those people were there in that moment and killed. That's luck. And btw, my partner and kids were there only 5 minutes before.
I've heard of Kristen Stewart, but only the actress, not the scientist. I assumed the same. "Ah well, suppose that must be a common name."
Very interesting. I'd be curious to see a subset of this data related to venture capital, where there seems to be a high proportion of 'professional investors' -- although funding from friends, family, and personal savings certainly plays a role in Angel rounds.
No, they are separate things. There are non-EU states that use the Euro as a currency, which demonstrates that EU membership is not a necessity. The practicalities of a seceding member state retaining the Euro would probably be fraught with difficulties, though.
What the 90s debate over Clipper Chip can teach us about digital privacy [2014]
Instead of responding to trolls, just click the timestamps on their comment to find the "flag" button. (I'll delete this comment in a few minutes to clean up the thread; you could do that too.)
Alternatively you can just block third-party cookies.
Which you will hear a lot more of in the UK and US press than you will in Germany
This reads suspiciously similar to a get-rich-quick or multi-level marketing pitch
I'm not sure what your point is. He built that trust by accepting patches from people without to much hassle. That was the difference between linux and the BSDs and one of the reasons why we are not running [386|net|free|open]bsd these days.

This means people got experience by writing code, and having it merged, bugs and all, until they gained enough experience to be "trusted". Today, there is a mindset frequented by maintainers that new developers should have to jump through lots of hoops rather than being aided by the maintainers. Linus is/was famous for bitching about something, and taking it anyway. Today, that is incredibly rare. Most of the core maintainers had it easy, they didn't have to setup complex SCM's, figure out how to split their patches into bisect-able chunks, read a whole bunch of howto's, guess at the coding variation accepted by the maintainer (no checkpatch is frequently not sufficient), and on and on. They simply had to run diff, pipe it to a file and get it on the list somehow. Frequently they would get bitched out, but it was rare to submit a patch more than twice. These days you can find bikeshedders on many of the mailing lists complaining about function naming in a patch that has a double digit version number.

Consider what happened to my first kernel patch. I submitted it and Linus pointed out what he didn't like, while simultaneously correcting it, verifying with me that he didn't break anything and then merged it. What happens today is a nightmare by comparison, and yes, that include me because I'm infrequent enough, and my patches rarely land into the same subsystem, that no one really recognizes or "trusts" me.

There is another whole discussion about whether "trust" even belongs in the lexicon of an engineer. The old saying is "trust but verify", where the verify part is the most important.
More soothsaying.

It might temper your confidence to know that most forecasts have routinely been wrong about President Trump.
You can find a kernel of truth in anything and extrapolate it to your favored conclusion. After all, Bernie Madoff was the chairman of Nasdaq at one point. His marks were so convinced he was on the up and up, because their returns were so good. He was 4x as successful as Donald Trump. His investors had no problem seeing up as down, and black as white, because they were making good money. Their consent was trivially simple to manufacture. Madoff was eventually found to be a charlatan, but it's only obvious in hindsight. What if there's another charlatan who is a master negotiator, and simply needs to read enough single issue voters. Then he could just promise them all of their single issues will be solved. It might help to take credit or claim to have a simple solution for general trends that have existed for decades, like sensationalism in the media, or violence in places we've bombed for 50 years. Also, if you have no reputation to ruin, and are a billionaire, you have no incentive to act civilized, so just the simple act of the media predicting your political demise allows you to point out their inaccuracy as proof that theyre out to get you. You'd probably find it trivially easy to manufacture a whole bunch of consent. But that would never happen, right?
It undervalues our profession in the eyes of other that are not part of it, heavily. It also undervalues your dedication to your work in their eyes. Your coworkers and others may not say anything to you, but from personal experience, your bosses will notice what you are doing and you will be skipped from promotions and seniority.

With the best of my intentions, and please don't take it any other way: If you want seniority, and the compensation and perks that come with it, plan for it much in the same way you plan development.
Bipartisan bill aims to reform H-1B visa system
The real surprise here might come from Lockheed-Martin's fusion project.[1] They're pursuing an unusual approach to magnetic containment. It's not a tokomak, and it's not a stellarator.

Many people have treated this as a hoax, or a joke. But the work is being done by Lockheed-Martin's Skunk Works, which has quite a track record. (The U-2, the SR-71, and stealth aircraft came out of there. ) Lockheed-Martin is doing this with their own money, and last year, when asked about it, the CEO said it was doing well enough they were putting more money in.

[1] http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...
Does Trump have the best words? A data analysis of inaugural addresses
An OSHA inspector is a government official, performing inspections in the course of their duties to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations; they can only do so as precisely prescribed by said regulations. Along the same lines, it isn't trespassing if the police come to your home with a warrant in accordance with due process to investigate a possible crime.

Neither of those serves as precedent to allow a random non-governmental person access to private property for any other reason.
If everyone withdraws from them it does stop them.

And by not participating, the bad things the US (i.e. Hollywood) wanted don't end up in there. And the bad things other countries wanted won't apply in the US. And the treaties can't be used for domestic policy laundering in the US.

The problem with these deals is that free trade is generally good but these deals aren't free trade. They're not about eliminating restrictions, they're about imposing them. Which we can do perfectly well on our own via our democratically elected governments, if we want to, and not if we don't.
Icebergs off Miami? Troughs plowed in the sea floor are iceberg traces
Was it the cost or technology?
Unfortunately, the Berne Convention exists and mandates a 50 year post-death-of-author minimum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

Mind you, 50 years would still be an improvement.
As far as I can tell, "keeping the Euro" would simply involve for the country to declare the Euro legal tender. Even if the EU wanted to prevent that, it's not clear to me how it would.

That does not mean that the country would have a say in Euro governance (controlling the mount of Euro "printed"), but the ECB is fairly independent anyway.

According to this list, several smaller non-EU countries are using the Euro already (and several countries worldwide are using the Dollar, including Zimbabwe—pretty sure they don't get invites to FOMC meetings): https://qz.com/260980/meet-the-countries-that-dont-use-their...
Author interviewed on the John Batchelor Show:

https://audioboom.com/posts/4535847-iceberg-coast-frozen-met...
Target2.

While you may take this tone, there are serious shortcomings. Such as a bit of Germany's budget being financed through Greece's misery and borrowings from Target2 when Greek funds were put into the German banking system.

The way the ECB works is its built on National Central Banks lending each other funds and paying interest on borrowings to each other. So take Euros from Greece and put them into Germany means Greece borrows those Euros back.
The TPP has nothing to do with copyright lengths. Copyright length is covered by the Berne Convention, first signed in the 19th century.
Buffet and Carlos Slim did, did they not? After starting out in trading (for ~30 years, no?), Carlos Slim got bigger with Telmex (while I don't know how much collusion was involved with that; I assume it couldn't have been none, which probably isn't fair of me) before going large with investing again...

The rest of the list includes Ingvar Kamprad, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Amancia Ortega, and none of them gained the majority of their wealth through inheritance or investment either. Now, their kids on the other hand... :-)
So its just a matter of phrasing. If I were to create a governmental body responsible in assisting labor unions in communicating with workers. Then such a representative could be granted that power?
His press secretary is already blatantly lying to the media and complaining that they reported the news accurately, so that surely bodes well.
I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
As far as I am aware, there is currently no way to leave the Eurozone without also leaving the EU.
You'll just front load the "bidding war". You will still be able to negotiate incidentals like PTO, signing bonus, etc. When recruiters from e.g. Japan or some European countries reach out to me it's easy for me to dismiss them out of hand since their comp is stated up front. This is also more fair to demographics which don't like to negotiate, and women in particular.
> On the other hand candidates in the UK (at least) are in the habit of putting dates on their CV for the major events in their life, like school leaving and Uni graduation...so age is kinda obvious.

True, at least in the most common case. A name on a CV can also suggest nationality and gender, and multiple studies have shown that the name on a CV alone can significantly change the response to an otherwise identical CV.
FHE does in principle allow you to do this, but it has the limitation that the outputs of the "Tor node" will themselves be encrypted. That's ok if you have the decryption key and are the one interacting with the Tor node. It's not ok if you want the Tor node to output useful data like network packet headers that anyone can parse.

There is another field called cryptographic program obfuscation that tries to avoid this problem, and actually create "encrypted" programs that can output useful unencrypted outputs that anyone can use. There are a lot of restrictions on that type of program. Here's another long (and very high level) blog post on that: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/02/21/cryptogr...
Yes that's correct
It will take decades to undo the damage from this latest bout of isolationism and protectionism. There was a wealth of FUD surrounding TPP, obscuring the benefits and over-inflating the effects of the more controversial issues like intellectual property rules. A number of TPP criticisms would lead one to believe that intellectual property rules were the main element of the agreement.

Instead of pushing to deal with those criticisms, the entire deal gets scrapped. And along with it, we now have an isolationist push against NAFTA and international trade in general. It'll be interesting to see the damage that's wrought in a vain attempt to somehow stack the deck in favor of "America First."

Sadly, it'll take much longer to fix than it did to screw up in the first place.
There is an interesting pattern developing lately.
From the numerous examples: Lavabit relaunch now requires name/personal details on signing up for the email.

Now the Megaupload 2.0 will add an exact record to their service.

How are all these services that praised anonymity now requiring less of it?
the accepted mechanism for leaving the Eurozone involves leaving the EU via Article 50 (same as the UK is doing)

alternatives include unilateral withdrawal, a treaty change (impossible), or a council vote (difficult as they don't want it to happen)

see https://acelg.blogactiv.eu/2013/03/22/how-to-exit-the-eurozo... for a more detailed version
An Evening Stroll
Surprised to see this at the top of the page. Doubt HN is a good place to discuss this.
It seems overly simplistic to say that our current ills are due to lack of skepticism or critical thinking and obeying authority figures.

In fact the Internet has torn down existing authorities and given people the ability to create new communities as well as new authorities.

For example, climate skepticism explicitly posits that traditional authorities (scientists, the news, etc.) are wrong and seeks validation in creating new authorities and sources of truth. You might claim that these people are lacking in critical thinking, but any act of skepticism, no matter how ill-founded, is in itself an attempt at critical thinking. Same thing with anti-vaxxers -- nowadays anyone with a crazy theory can find an online community that validates their beliefs.

The internet has also majorly eroded trust in our existing institutions based on elite opinion and one-way media, while not creating replacements for those institutions. At the end of the day, one important role of institutions is to 1) make a decision and 2) get everyone to go along with it, even if the decision itself isn't perfect.

The Internet has provided the tools for everyone easily criticize and pick apart any decision, without providing a viable alternative means to come to consensus.

TL;DR you think the problem is institutions and authority, while I think the real problem is that the Internet is helping break them without putting them back together again.
Withdrawal from the TPP gives China the opportunity to take the lead in those regions. Xi understood this and is taking full advantage:
https://www.ft.com/content/8662c3b6-a72b-11e6-8b69-02899e8bd...
I don't want to be too greedy (considering that the presence of this feature on the desktop is already great), but is there any chance that this will be coming to Firefox for Android? It might be a challenge to implement this UX-wise; however, it would also be extremely helpful since it would help in isolating mobile "web-apps" while still using a decent browser (Firefox for Android instead of Chrome), especially as profiles, which exist on the desktop version of Firefox, are not available on Android.

(Googling does not seem to have produced any relevant hits.)
I'm not sure if you got my meaning - I added the part you quote at the top of your comment as a "CYA" (cover your ass.) For example say someone is a 22 year old very expert programmer with a degree from a top school who for some reason is only making $35k. I would advise them to have zero qualms to lie and say they are making $75K (with the cya line that this number could be off substantially) if they were interviewing for a job paying $80k. Because they are being paid to do a job, not to be of a certain age or have a certain salary history. That's my opinion anyway.

If what you've given is further cya points - then by all means, use them.