skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only it was just this one law.

81 major regulations were added each year on average under the Obama administrations 8 years. Major was defined as costing over $100 million each.

The federal register recording legislation has exploded to 75,000 pages from 20,000 a few decades ago.

There are plenty of statistics which show the level of downward pressure regulation puts on small business. This isnt just mega corps wanting to dump chemicals in rivers. It's death by a thousand cuts to reach some ideal perfect consumer marketplace through extensive administrative oversight.

Meanwhile the number of people are starting small businesses has declined significantly and GDP growth has totally stagnated.

It's not a mistake that small business optimism index reached the highest point in decades (since 1980) after Trump announced major regulatory reform.
>It's not obvious having false answers is better than having no answers

But that's rather called skepticism. Atheism is a concrete antithesis to specific ideas. And why if not because of better answers. Or indeed because the answer seems rather arbitrary in the small picture and trivial in the big picture.

Edit: I'm not sure if skepticism can be seen as a form of atheism, for me it feels like it - I guess it's not black and white. But otherwise it should be called anti-theism.
There is this guy in Omaha, the one whose company owns over 57 million Apple shares, who might care.
Please change "password reuse is bad okay" to "password reuse is bad mmmmkay"

Thank you.
Thank you. Your translation of "Как вы на это смотрите" makes sense and feels natural. However, the given translation "how did you see that" doesn't seem to match. Would "как вы видил ето" work for that?
I think the point has eluded you. Apple used the slogan "think different" but are opposed to people actually thinking differently in this case.
I can see using the same specs, but using even less would be weird. You don't win any points if you use less memory than the hardware has.
Huh, I thought they were mainly using bots.
"Swift does have a book, it's 1200 pages."

It is an ePub, so your mileage may vary. On my iPad, it is 1077 in landscape, 892 in portrait (edit: playing with the font size in iBooks, I got it down to 484 pages while still being eminently readable for my myopic eyes)

More importantly, that ePub on my iPad shows only 16-ish on a page in landscape mode, 22-ish on portrait. A printed book probably would be around 300-400 pages.

In comparison, the PDF I have for "small" language ISO C 2011 has 701 pages, a draft of ECMA-262 for JavaScript 252.
The Vietnam of Computer Science Should Have Never Been Lost (2013)
The "world is round" community is also an echo chamber.

Not all echo chambers are illegitimate.
> You're free to think that Mozilla leadership is incompetent

Source on me saying that? I think they are making a few dumb decisions, but that's putting a lot of words in my mouth.

FF has very few advantages. They aren't competing on speed, mind-share, ease-of-use and now they aren't competing on reliability of add-ons. I get that this can help them focus, but pushing away their limited user-base is like using an axe to help a sinking ship.
It always amazes me to hear stories about artists that won't give him permission to do parodies (Prince, Weezer, Eminem, and the Coolio debacle).

One of my favorite stories about a Weird Al song was that Madonna actually floated the idea for "Like a Surgeon" through a mutual friend.
No, you have misunderstood. It's mandating Apple provide tools that bypass locks that Apple put in place to prevent repair.
The Terrorism Delusion: America's Overwrought Response to September 11 [pdf]
The flip side is that the value of a network of senior people at your current employer is largely tied to your current employer. Senior people move around much less frequently than junior people (that's often how they got to be senior in the first place...), and when they do move, they frequently end up doing something fairly similar to what they were doing before (otherwise they'd lose their seniority). So your network will easily get you a job working on the stuff they find interesting - but if you want to work on the stuff you find interesting, your current employer better be pretty well-aligned with what you want to do.
Tech Strategy Letter V: Commoditize Your Complement
Phenome-Wide Heritability Analysis of the UK Biobank
Well money wouldn't really work without trust. A currency without confidence is worth nothing. So if Zerocoin got hacked and someone created money out of thin air, confidence drops and zcoin is now worth less. The principle is the same as with state backed fiat.
I'm also working on a personal DB. My email's in my profile if you're interested in chatting about our ideas.
> It's still an unsolved issue.

Reducing the waste (future tech) and managing it are two different things. In Sweden there are far gone plans for deep underground storage with significant R&D (www.skb.com). Though untested, as we need several thousands years to be truly sure of its effectiveness, I would still argue that it is a close to solved problem but with a fair degree of uncertainty due to its' long time span.

> Using the same arguments we can just continue with the CO2 and say "future tech will reverse global warming".

The big difference is that at lot of CO2 emitters doesn't have to store or pay the full price of their bi-product. It is a huge difference in incentives.
Firefox 54 will support WebExtension sidebars.[1]

You're basically correct about the APIs, though. Developers of some popular add-ons don't know when or if the APIs they need will be implemented. Support for migrating gradually (embedded WebExtensions) was just released in 51 and will be gone in 57 -- not even a full ESR cycle.

Developer burnout is a problem, too. This comes right after many of them put in significant work making their now-deprecated code multiprocess-compatible, which came after mandatory extension signing, which came after a bunch of UI changes. It's not surprising some of them have quit.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208596
It's practically a trope in cognitive science and artificial intelligence that there's an implicit assumption we have that it's only intelligence/self-awareness/consciousness if only a human can do it. So we devise these tests, later find out an animal/program can do it, and then decide "oh, that's not really intelligence/self-awareness/consciousness anyway."
They are the same screws BMW uses for wingmirrors.
Didn't Congress order NASA to do that, this time around?
I tried, it works fine. Using screenflow on mac.
I found Wave Accounting much simpler than QuickBooks. It can directly download transactions from your bank account, and you can email receipts and attach them to transactions.

The simplicity means that I'm more inclined to stay on top of it rather than leaving it all to tax time.
Microsoft does not allow .NET Core debugging outside of Visual Studio
On the contrary, and just pulling a number out of my butt because I haven't watched in in awhile, I'd say there's like 20 conflicts and resolutions throughout the course of the plot. Maybe this makes the movie more of an epistolary than the three-act structure that movies are normally compared against, so zooming out until some overarching consistency emerges is not always the most faithful mode of analysis.
I think it would be better to teach kids to code. I would start with a project that makes sense to them, probably a simple game or animation. Learning the code, syntax, etc.. would be boring IMO but getting hands on might make them appreciate it and potentially become hooked.
You could sample say one screenshot every minute. It wouldn't take up too much space.
>When they use an ambiguously charged word like 'Mecca'

I don't believe mecca is an ambiguously charged word, nor do I see any evidence to support this claim. It's probably the most commonly used metaphor for a gathering place of like-minded individuals, and was the perfect choice in this context.
> Upvote manipulation doesn't work on Hacker News

I'm pretty sure that's unequivocally false. It's difficult enough to make it work that it probably wouldn't be worth it, but I'm close to 100% sure I could force something to the top if I wanted to. I don't particularly want to spend the time automating accounts to make them "look natural" and I don't really want to shell out the money to spend on IPs.

But I know for a fact the same thing is happening on Reddit with great success every day. I could spell out how, but I don't think the HN mods would be too keen on that. Any hacker should be able to figure it out, though.

Furthermore, if you produce something solid, all you'd really need is the first <10 upvotes to get on the front page and let it catch on "organically." I can promise you that is happening _all the time_ on HN.

I'm glad you keep your Twitter search running and keep calling people out that blatantly ask for upvotes; the easiest way to kill spam is just to make it difficult, but to say that manipulation doesn't work is just not true.
@gingerlime Curious to know more about your problem. Can we jump on a quick call to discuss it? (email: pradeepsridar2@gmail.com)
I live in mexico city, and I teach python to a group of kids at burger king 2 times a week.. I didnt come up with a lesson plan so I use "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" as a really loose guide on how to begin programming..
That's also true imho. Do note however that gigafactory is also fully integrated, squeezing the margins out of li-ion aupply chain.
These days, someone will be offended by pretty much anything. So just say what you want to say. No amount of pre-apologising well help you because getting offended was their real goal anyway.
oh sh.t. i was in a hurry. thanks!
> Let's say you get 50 writes / sec per node.

If the DB can only handle 50 ops/sec then the point you are making here is valid.

But see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13661349, that's a pathological worst-case number. You should find more accurate performance numbers for real-world workloads before making sweeping conclusions.

Your original comment was:

> Even if they manage to multiply this by 100 on the final release, it's still way weaker than a regular sql db

This is what my comment, and the sibling comments, are objecting to, and I don't think you've substantiated this claim. 100x perf is probably well in excess of 10k writes/sec/node, which is solid single-node performance (though you'd not run a one-node CockroachDB deployment). Even a 10x improvement would get the system to above 1k writes/sec/node, which would allow large clusters (O(100) nodes) to serve more data than a SQL instance could handle.

Obviously I'd prefer to be able to outperform a SQL instance on dataset size with 10 nodes, but for a large company, throwing 100 (or 1000) nodes at a business-critical dataset is not the end of the world.
That's a todo list, and you can maintain one in a file instead.

The folders are for keeping incoming data, references, suggestions, related concepts, and partial or completed working documents in.
It's a way to use NASA budget to prop up military contractor ATK.
> unable to adopt

I'd argue that they are able to adopt a better security model, they are choosing not to.
No but thankfully rocket scientists have publicly demonstrated that it works, and car manufacturers ensure the parts are available worldwide at rock bottom prices (with native language schematics and instructions!).

I suspect they don't gain any tangible benefit from firing further.
>I don't get to tell another atheist they're doing it wrong because there's no affiliation between us.

With respect to erikpukinskis' statement, I believe you are trying to, though.
Thanks for the honesty and sharing your tip. :)
I feel pretty strongly that managerial accounting is a MUST have skill if you're running a business. Part-time book keeping is not very expensive and if you sit down routinely and review your chart of accounts, pull financial statements, AND have a professional cashflow projection setup for you it will save you an enormous amount of stress and time. It's also possible to learn as you go with this, especially if you have an advisor or someone that can check in on your books on a rolling basis. It takes all the mystery out of tax time and will enable you to operate the business with much greater confidence and clarity. I'm partial to Xero instead of Quickbooks FWIW, I find Intuit QB to be death by a million small charges...
I thought they announced swift 4 would not finalize the ABI after all? http://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/02/16/deferring-abi-stability-fr...
Just out of curiosity: What happened in March 1997?

A list of Historical Events in March 1997[1] shows nothing relevant.

[1] http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1997/march
> Trust Apple and nobody else.

That's a straw man, you've already trusted Apple. The argument is 'trust no one else' which seems like a good idea.
> I just don't have the time or the money to shell out and buy IPs.

You need a Hacker News account to upvote, and obviously having a large number of new accounts upvote something would trip a voting ring detector.

> Furthermore, if you produce something solid, all you'd really need is the first <10 upvotes to get on the front page and let it catch on "organically."

Much easier said than done. The median score of a HN submission is 1-2 points last time I checked. (the discoverability of HN submissions on /newest is an issue, but that's another topic)

And if it's actually solid, it's not the market for vote brigading.

I agree manipulation does happen, but it doesn't mean it works and instead silently penalizes the submission to death.
And could be useful against a wall...
The extension I was using was ublock:origin. When I went to about:support, it showed e10 as enabled.
For me, I have no alternative but to pin Firefox.

No browser on Linux can handle different DPI per screen. For Firefox, there's an addon implementing that today, but it won't work with WebExtensions.

So I have to use today's Firefox - or I can't use any browser.

Well, there's also the third option of using a magnifying glass to read websites.
Or they may disagree with your choice of brand.
Yep, I think that's spot on, exclusive games for their console, and right in line with their past behavior.

No plans to develop for switch or Android tv. More than anything having to do with the consoles, just because I'm doing web dev at the moment not games. Picking a platform is a big problem for developers, and why so many release on all platforms, so I'm glad I'm not worried about it.

I enjoyed wii dev for a stupid reason: because you had to do so much old school low level kind of stuff, there was some nostalgia in it. But it was also painful and nowhere near as nice as Xbox dev. Sounds like the switch dev env is modern.
Hardware wallets can be backed up. You can even have 2 hardware wallets using the same cryptographic seed and both able to spend the same BTC. You won't lose any BTC if a wallet gets destroyed.
A better use of that would be to hire a consultant for a couple weeks a year to tweak (or determine, at first) your models. We did this at a market research company I worked at, an oldschool stats guy would come in once a year for a review and tune-up.
The Case for Bootstrapping in the Unicorn Era
Sowell is more libertarian economist than conservative historian.
Similar but better than scratch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap!_(programming_language

Better because portable, works offline, and the language itself is more sane (although I haven't checked recent versions of scratch)
The best-known forum for the adult industry is gfy.com . That'd be a solid place to start.

(I don't work in porn - but I have an eclectic knowledge of the entire "making money on the internet" landscape, and various adult industries pop up on that radar.)
CSS Base64 Encoding and Performance
Sheaves are the canonical data structure for sensor integration
You don't have to use Luminati, just RE hola and take out the keys and then you can make unlimited accounts on there for free, like I used to do.
>Upvote manipulation doesn't work on Hacker News because both the voting ring detector is strong, and flagging is significantly more powerful and serves as counteracting force to upvotes and serves as a check to submissions which legit aren't good for the site.

You say this, and it may or may not be true, but of course, Hacker News isn't releasing the code to prove it.
> Except in this case it's like removing the bed so I can't hypothetically transport large quantities of nitroglycerin (addons with tracking)

No? That's not what's motivating this at all.

The problem is the XUL/XPCOM API are fundamentally incomposable with completely sandboxed per-tab processes a la Chromium and other isolating security changes, because of assumptions they impose on Firefox internals.

If you turn on multiple processes in Firefox there's a bunch of complicated shims that half-keep some extensions working some of the time, but it's an uphill battle to support an API that never conceived of the idea. It needs to be shitcanned to move forward.
First and foremost, teach them using something that creates something tangible quickly, this'll keep them interested.

Second, depending on their personality, it may give them more motivation to use a language actual software developers use.

So all in all, good ideas are:

* Python because of the load of libraries

* Haskell because it's very human and has a great REPL

* C because it's pretty easy, and gives them the feeling of something "serious"

* Scratch because it's playish

(This is from a perspective of an 18 year old who started at 11 with C and went through a lot of languages and various programming categories. I think those are things that would've motivated me even more if I had them.)
Al is one of those rare celebrities who everybody likes. He deserves his success.
It is the future in a parallel universe where solar panels don't cost $0.40 per watt and aren't falling at 30% per year.
Coincidentally it's also the first release that I'm not going to be updating to.
Validation of work could be done in DMZ'd infrastructure. Google's servers are hardened against guest escalation, so all you'd really need is a container each for guest wallet, target service, and attacker VM.

Absolute privacy is absolutely irrational.
org-mode and org-capture or org-velocity.
Do you mean cheap (to some extent) to build, or cheap to operate?
> You need a Hacker News account to upvote, and obviously having a large number of new accounts upvote something would trip a voting ring detector.

Correct, but what if I gave myself a couple or few months to prepare accounts? Do a search on blackhatworld (or another spam forum) for "aged accounts" and you'll see that you can generally buy them in tiers - the older they are the more expensive they are.

I'm not saying it's worth it or I think it's something people should do, but saying it's not possible or doesn't work is absurd.
A good article. But the article doesn't seem to discuss "how Weird Al eclipsed most stars he parodied." I think I know the answer to that, but it'd be nice if the headline matched the story.
I'm pretty sure upvotes from different users are unequally weighted when it comes to getting a story onto the front page, and that upvotes from fresh users aren't counted with nearly the same weight as someone who's been here a while and has a track record of predicting which stories will perform well on the front page. There've been times that I've given a story languishing on /newest its 4th upvote and it pops onto the front page, and there've also been times that I've seen stories get 10+ upvotes in short succession and get stuck on page 3. It also wouldn't surprise me if receiving a lot upvotes from newly-created accounts, or accounts that have all upvoted the same things, ends up tripping the voting-ring detector.
Thanks for the kind words, Christoffer!
It would be a lot easier to get around vote manipulation detection if the code was public.
"Swift wants to be a "big" language"

My guess is that it is not ideological. Swift feels like it wants to be 'everything'.

Because of this, it's almost too much.

I want to like Swift, but I run into a lot of trouble with it.

The decision to be compatible with ObjC was one of the big issues: obviously, pragmatically, they felt that they just had to do it. In hindsight, I wonder if it would have been better to just have a clean break.
Tesla is now claiming 35% battery cost reduction at ‘Gigafactory 1’ – hinting at breakthrough cost below $125/kWh.
Read this:
https://electrek.co/2017/02/18/tesla-battery-cost-gigafactor...
Design Patterns for Humans – An ultra-simplified explanation
I recommend adding a pile of salt as banner to symbolize the intention of the repository better.
It sounds like the novelty here is in the use of NIRS. A (very) similar approach was done in fMRI some years ago.

Paper cited by the present article: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...

Original fMRI paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.cc/doi/10.1002/ana.23...
Curing cancer is only worth less than 3.9 years. Curing heart disease is only worth less than 4.55 years. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12972744_Gains_in_l...
I taught Go to 3 fresh new computer engineers, where they had no real-life programming experience. It was different to them: channels, no traditional oop and no generics, but they picked it up very quickly, and with them we were able to produce a very large application. We tried to keep things as much as simple as possible, avoided coding magic as much as possible and using Go was a nice experience for us. Not saying this proves anything, it is just a real-life example from us. Most of the times people do not need all the interesting things you think you should have in a language, and may like their "opinoniated" way of approaching to problems.
SAP License Fees Also Due for Indirect Users, Court Rules – Slashdot
I SLEPT WITH 65 VCs AND LEARNED THESE THINGS
What Percentage of users is that? I can't seem to find it, atm. If 250,000 = 1%, then sure, who cares. But if 250,000 = 50%, then that's a big deal
Games are a great way to get kids into computers and code.

Many of us who grew up around MS-DOS had to figure out ways to get around the 640kb base memory limitation and deal with conflicting IRQ ports. Did we want to do that? No, we just wanted to play Dune II. But through that, it got us tinkering with installing new programs, tinkering with configuration files, and eventually learning BASIC, putting together your own computer, etc.

Unless the kids are extremely mature and patient, the best way is to focus on an appealing end product. Don't present it as "oh, let's learn about boolean operators" today, as much as "hey, want to build a [something cool] together?"

And you know what? It may not stick; maybe they'd rather be outside, bake some cookies, or beat on some drums, and that's fine, too.
Yeah, I found both of those issues. I couldn't get it to build on Linux either.
> "we would become the mecca for bad actors," Brasch, who is sponsoring the bill, told me in a phone call."

We're in trouble when carefully manufactured 'one-line public statements' come from a philosophical opponent via a phone call to a journalist.

Where is Apple itself publicly making this statement? All references in the article are second-hand.
Every GCP Service described in 4 words or less (Google Cloud)
the reason the wii got all that garbage was because the console was such a runaway hit with the casual market that publishers rushed out to get whatever crap they could onto it. a $500 devkit doesn't have any effect on those forces. the switch probably won't be the runaway hit with the casual market, so publishers probably won't rush out to get whatever crap they can onto it.