skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cool! I was thinking of doing something similar a few weeks ago. I settled on using tools I knew well to just achieve what I needed quickly. I use tmux and emacs. I run a tmux session with a window which has a top and bottom pane. Top pane shows a shell, and bottom pane shows emacs. Thanks to tmux, I can send keystrokes to a different pane. With emacs, I tell tmux to send the current line of characters to the top pane. In the emacs session, I have open a help.org file, where I organize some commands. For some reason, this worked with tmux 2.1 but not with tmux 2.3:

(defun send-command-to-cli () (interactive)
(let ((current 0)
(the-command "")
(start 0)
(end 0))
(setq current (point))
(org-beginning-of-line)
(setq start (point))
(org-end-of-line)
(setq end (point))
(goto-char current)
(setq the-command (concat
"tmux send-keys -t top ' "
(buffer-substring start end)
" ' ; tmux send-keys -t top C-a ; tmux send-keys -t top '#'; tmux select-pane -t top; " ))
(message the-command)
(shell-command the-command)
))
Oh no! It's probably even worse then! /s
The recent price movement could be attributed to the formation of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance[0].

Here's a description from the website for what the EEA aims to do.

> "The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts. Together, we will learn from and build upon the only smart contract supporting blockchain currently running in real-world production – Ethereum – to define enterprise-grade software capable of handling the most complex, highly demanding applications at the speed of business."

Some big names that are a part of the Alliance include Microsoft, Intel, J.P. Morgan, and Accenture. The rest are on the site!

[0]> http://entethalliance.org/
I'm sorry that any user who loves this place would feel that way! I've tried to answer some of the concerns you mention in comments elsewhere in the thread—not that you'll necessarily agree with the answers, but if there's something unaddressed, let me know, and if you don't get a reply, hn@ycombinator.com is best.
This used to be true, but the right's assault on the public sector since Reagan, during Bush, and now especially with Trump, has made this idea archaic. Many states have been maintaining hiring freezes for years and raises do not keep up with cost of living. Pensions are constantly under attack, and 457s are often hobbled because of those same pensions.

You work with a constant target on your back. Your bosses have no political capital to defend you in the media, if they aren't marching in lockstep with the demagogues running the budgeting process who are calling your work "government waste", etc. The list goes on.
> The underlying technology here is far superior to that of bitcoin

Opinion

> ethereum is a blockchain with a turing-complete programming language built on top of it and enables decentralized code execution

Fact -- but double edged sword (my opinion, of course).

I have personally been skeptical of ETH for years as their team have been promising the moon for a variety of use cases.

For me, the biggest blow to ETH is the revelation that "the code is NOT law". This is in contrast to the line they were pushing for years that the code IS law. Then someone found a bug in the first major DAO and the code was quickly changed.

So much for that. If you think that is gonna be the last issue along these lines, I've got a bridge to sell you, too.
Taxi services are a centuries-old profitable business model (London had first laws regulating "taxis" in the 1600s).

Dispatch via app is a solid improvement over the old phonecalls or street pickup, automatic credit card billing is an improvement over cash, and in cities with shady taxi drivers, GPS tracking is an improvement over potentially hacked taxi meters.

So there is an obviously valuable business model for "taxi dispatch app" here even without a moonshot - just perhaps smaller than Uber's dream of being the only provider of personal transportation in the world.
He makes broad, oversimplified generalizations that are not supported by the research he cites.

This is a problem with science writing in general, but Gladwell is especially pernicious because he has a good writing style and good marketing.
Relevant Kurzgesagt "Do Robots Deserve Rights? What if Machines Become Conscious?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHyUYg8X31c
When I was there a few years ago they were actively developing a new variant on one of their languages. They seemed to be going slightly more OOP to balance their functional paradigm out.
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There is a huge difference between top marginal rates and actual effective tax rates. Since 1950, federal taxes have consumed 17 to 20 percent of GDP in taxes. Most economists are opposed to very high marginal tax rates though due to the inefficiencies they introduce - compensation being moved to non-salary, money wasted on CPAs, lawyers and lobbying congress for special deductions, dead weight losses for economic activity that isn't done, etc.

Currently the effective rates are fairly close to the past for high wage earners, lower for low wage earners.

>...In 1958, approximately two million filers (4.4% of all taxpayers) earned the $12,000 or more for married couples needed to face marginal rates as high as 30%. These Americans paid about 35% of all income taxes. And now? In 2010, 3.9 million taxpayers (2.75% of all taxpayers) were subjected to rates that were 33% or higher. These Americans—many of whom would hardly call themselves wealthy—reported an adjusted gross income of $209,000 or higher, and they paid 49.7% of all income taxes.

>In contrast, the share of taxes paid by the bottom two-thirds of taxpayers has fallen dramatically over the same period. In 1958, these Americans accounted for 41.3% of adjusted gross income and paid 29% of all federal taxes. By 2010, their share of adjusted gross income had fallen to 22.5%. But their share of taxes paid fell far more dramatically—to 6.7%. The 77% decline represents the single biggest difference in the way the tax burden is shared in this country since the late 1950s.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873247051045781516....
The "material conditions" that lead to illegal immigration in the US are lax enforcement of immigration and labor laws. If we had enforced our laws from the beginning, it would not be a problem. The solution then, is to enforce the laws we have, and remove their incentive to be here, not to go over there and make their country better. We have our own country to make great (again!).

>Because apparently the only humans who matter are those on this side of the line in the sand.

Everyone has a right to act in their best interests. Charity is never obligatory.
Video calls for Signal out of beta
So did Trump

Hell he married multiple immigrants

(And used undocumented polish workers to build Trump tower)

He is still xenophobic

He also told Jed Bush not to speak Spanish in public while his wife is raising their child bilingual.
Just think of "MoMA" as "the intranet," which is about the best way to explain it. Not super interesting.

Weird that he'd allegedly type "I've never logged into Subversion before, but suddenly I need access" into MoMA, but hey. The whole saga just reminds me that people are really bad at opsec.

The Google Drive/GAIA linkage is the most interesting technical revelation from a quick read. I'm surprised they didn't redact that little trick, because that seems to be the best way to catch the very people doing this. Most people would be forgiven for assuming that a Google consumer product might be a little more obfuscated in terms of forensics (logs access, PII, etc), and I could see that train of thought even though it's dumb. I guess they're willing to burn the technique, because the next person who attempts this will definitely avoid Google Drive.
If you don't think intelligence agency's should be doing this then what exactly do you think they should be doing?

I'm always interested in what people think the intel agencies do or should be doing. Personally I agree with you, targeted intelligence is more valuable than blanket intelligence but today with "big data" this may be changing.
> No, the hard fork for TheDAO did not sacrifice our principles.

As an observer, yes, it definitely did.

It's the thing that has most turned me off of ETH.
The textbook was more advanced, but how was well was the information retained? Perhaps most fifth graders are retaining information better now with books more suited to them?

Literacy rates have increased throughout the years:
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/lit_history.asp
Color fonts. Get ready for the revolution
if it plays out that Lewandowski did intentionally steal trade secrets, the way he went about it was pretty boneheaded.
Google Ventures owns only 6% of Uber. If they can drag this out sufficently, then Uber cannot IPO, will have burnt all their cash - and the whole company will be at the mercy of their biggest creditor who just got awarded a billion-dollar penalty payment.
Hi, I am the founder of WeekPlan, thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, WeekPlan allows for todos, repeating tasks and appointments to live together.

Additionally, you can set goals for each of your roles in your life (father, colleague, brother, etc...).

It doesn't help tackle longer term goals yet though, for that you could check OKR softwares.
Cheng Lou works on ReasonML and is speaking tomorrow at 4:30PM PST. Talk description:

> What is a piece of code? What is a library, a tool, a platform and a language? Based on my last talk on the spectrum of abstraction, this talk explores the daily concerns and the meta-concerns of writing code, and how our new effort, Reason, relates to them.
I did not know they invest in Uber! That makes this even more interesting.
Most of the excluded defaults cannot be changed / are read-only in the preferences. System files are some of it, but it includes others as well, such as all Applications. By default it also includes all ISOs and DMGs (this one can be changed but IMO is an insane default) — I store quite a bit of important info in encrypted DMGs.
You might be interested in the results of the 2016 GOV.UK assistive technology survey. [0]

iOS VoiceOver ranked as one of the 3 most popular screen readers, second to JAWS for Windows [1] (closed source, paid) and above NVDA for Windows [2] (closed source, free, donations encouraged).

ChromeVox [3] is AFAICT the only free and open source screen reader that came up in the survey, at 1%.

- [0] https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/01/results-of-the-...

- [1] https://www.nvaccess.org

- [2] http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS

- [3] http://www.chromevox.com
DragonflyBSD, 4.8-RC available
They'd own a broken company. Bear in mind that this sort of litigation can run five to ten years if you let the lawyers on both sides wrestle to their hearts' content. It becomes all consuming. Executives spend much of their time preparing for depositions, tussling about what ambiguous documents mean, tussling about what obvious documents might mean if you try hard to misinterpet them, etc.

It's no fun to be working in such an environment. Everyone who can afford to get out, gets out.
Unit Testing Costs Too Much and Slows a Project Down
"For example, yet another recent twin study (and the Karolinska Institute study) found that there was a genetic influence on practicing music. Pushing someone into a career for which he or she is genetically unsuited will likely not work."

Out of curiosity, has anyone replicated this kind of genetic study for professional musicians? It would be interesting to know how many just really don't have the talent.
> Imagine if the US just bought all the foreign media companies it could and then controlled the news to protect national security. Would that be ethical or legal?

Interesting as that is exactly what China and Saudi Arabia are doing in the US.
It is typical for the terms of the license include giving back and not using the actually stolen documents/code. The license would just allow them to redesign without worrying about the other party indirectly using the trade secrets. It's because you can't really close pandora's box.

Though in many cases its beneficial to use this as a way to become a key supplier to a competitor. If it's not a winner take all market (and I doubt this is), then it might be more profitable to take a cut from Uber than to reduce competition by one.

A Google / Uber joint venture where Google provides the software and Uber does fleet management could be unbeatable, for example.
I am homeless, with no car. I sleep in a tent. I am open about that in forums, and I blog about it. My homeless blog is one of my more successful websites.

I left a corporate job to go sleep in a tent because I have a serious medical condition and my job was keeping me ill. I do freelance writing and I also do resume work these days. My health is improving and so is my income.

I don't meet clients in person and I can't say if my living arrangements cost me potential clients. I assume it does, but it is better than the way I had.

I think if you figure out how to make this work and don't give clients excuses based on your living arrangements (and don't be too in your face about it), a lot of people either will not notice or will not care.
Show HN: [Help][GitHub] Looking for open source contributors
Hello, I am looking for contributors to my open source project on GitHub.

Some time ago I started it because I wanted to improve 3D web development for me and other people and I want to get any feedback and people to contribute with.

Github: https://github.com/WhitestormJS/whitestorm.js
Contact me: alexbuzin88@gmail.com

Thanks in advance!;) Let's contribute to GitHub and this project together!
1. Doesn't this make business logic quite a mess because normal and standard abstractions are missing? Won't new coders make horrible solutions to "reinvent the wheel" problems?

2. It would be trivial to implement a key-val data structure that is persisted to disk in almost any nice modern language. And there are very good No-SQL key-val stores to choose from that are backed by very large and credible industries.

The Node.js drivers. Are you sure those are not mainly due to legacy integrations rather than "we really just wanted to use the MUMPS db" ?

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
Great! Thanks, bookmarked.
> Not at all. I mean that any number of people inside the intelligence organizations could have opted to "wiretap" Trump

This is not true. The system will not allow you to just query a US Person, and will automatically flag such requests for review if you try to do so. Even if an analyst conducted "reverse targeting" (Querying a foreign person who the US Person was communicating with), the US Person's information within the intercept(s) is automatically minimized and specific approval would be needed to de-anonymize it, including solid proof that the US Person was actually acting as a foreign adversary, such as a spy.

I have no ability to argue that there is not a conspiracy involving multiple people in NSA approving these and OGC turning a blind eye to it and the senate intel committee ignoring it and so on, that is not impossible I suppose, but the reality is very far from simply having the ability to go ahead and wiretap Trump with ease.

> and there would have been no audit trail and no warrant.

There is absolutely an audit trail, including non-repudation for the analyst who performed the query (They must use their smartcard or "PKI"). This is good, because if you do believe that something awry is going on, you can push for a very specific cause: Put together an independent committee of representatives, have them go through the security clearance process (for those who have not already done so) to be read-in on any necessary SCI compartments to review the data, and conduct a thorough investigation regarding the audit trails of any query regarding Trump and/or associates. I personally find this to be far-fetched, but it is at least a tangible action which you and anyone who shares the belief can push for.
Or they could just buy Uber. The thing is they likely wouldn't want to own Uber, especially considering it's just burning through mega-cash.
Great, dont use it. Clearly, others don't share your perspective. That's the beauty of decentralized systems. No one is forcing you to use Ethereum or Bitcoin or anything. But your opinion on its usefulness as an outsider is much less meaningful.
Exactly! I've read many HN stories about bad interview experience and I really wish to make it an enjoyable one for both me and candidate by staying away from those new-grad leetcode algorithm questions. Thanks for the kind advice!
> "I wholly approve of them having a personal agenda here."

Any forum with a policy like that will never gain the credibility and respect that HN currently enjoys. If someone wants to create a private forum and moderate it in a way that furthers their personal agenda, as opposed to the community's interests, more power to them, but they should disclose it publicly. As community members, it is entirely reasonable if we ask them whether this is indeed the case.

Thankfully, Dang disagrees with you and isn't moderating HN in a personal-agenda-driven manner (see his post above).
In hindsight, a better crook would have accepted outside funding just to cover this line of attack (Assuming the Otto Founder is guilty; of course it might be otherwise).
> No, the hard fork for TheDAO did not sacrifice our principles.

> No it wasn't a centralized bailout.

> Yes, there were SOME shady things that went down, but all very minor. It was a very confusing time for all.

> Yes, the website says "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" and we stopped one. Congratulations. Let me direct you to Ethereum Classic. You can't complain about a hard fork when you have a community that upholds the original version. Go complain there. The rest of us are moving forward and helping develop a technology that will ultimately be fully decentralized and uncensorable. In the meantime, our community respects our centralized development team that is super awesome and competent and are committed to changing the world.

What's to prevent a similar situation in the future and why should anyone believe that to hold?

> Best analogy I can come up with is Elon Musk trying to develop automated driving cars, and a few people tragically get killed along the way due to it. That doesnt mean automated driving cars are bad, or that development of the technology should cease.

In your analogy the company set up by Musk would get sued and possibly shut down. It wouldn't stop the concept itself from being developed or promoted by others and doesn't speak to the concept itself. I'm not saying Ethereum should have "given up" but sacrificing the core point of transactions not being able to be backed out is pretty damning.
How many thousands of hours of video is uploaded to youtube _daily_ and stored on google servers forever?

And you are talking about logging actions of your own employees. Let's say 100kb per day per employee (these logs are pretty detailed).

100kb * 50 000 employees = 4.7Gb per day. 1740Gb per year. Probably much, much less then 1 day of youtube videos.
If you're interested in gaming patents, Genki patented the gameplay of Tokyo Xtreme Racer for the Dreamcast.

http://documents.allpatents.com/l/32612971/US6422939B1
> Candidate could literally be my father and is for a manager position...

Some empathy-- He might be thinking this millennial is the same age as my kids. It can be rather intimidating having a young punk size you up for a job.

Get beyond that -- focus your questions on determining if the candidate could be a successful manager. Here's a list of questions to give you some ideas > http://www.bakertilly.com/uploads/interviewing-leadership-ca...
Sorry, I can't hop on board. My opinion is that implementing anything complex and new in ANSI MUMPS would be irresponsible given the better options available.

> It has limited commands and is whitespace-aware

Limited commands to a certain extent just means a more dangerous language. Being able to give functions private scope is something that's really important to me personally, as is having named constants, and objects with methods. About whitespace awareness, I consider it a fascinating design choice that the difference between one or two spaces between tokens within the same line of code can mean different things.

> Newer developers can jump right into M, precisely because it lacks higher-level abstractions like first-class functions or closures.

The language does not support first-class functions, but it does support the "xecute" command for running arbitrary code strings, which is particularly risky if you ever use user inputs as parameters in the strings you try to xecute.

Also, I primarily want knowledgeable developers working on my healthcare and financial systems, not the newer ones who would somehow be incapable of using a first-class function.

> wicked fast at reads and writes. Great for a fast key-value store.

This isn't a differentiating feature.

> you're very unlikely to find a bug because it's been in production so long. This makes it good for mission-critical applications like healthcare and finance.

What happens when you need to change the code? Do you wait a long time until bugs are no longer found?
First line of article: In B2B SaaS, value MQLs over traffic.

Has anyone seen my Babel Fish?
I have a LIFE trello board for big things, and various other trello boards for individual things which will have daily tasks on them. So one card on the LIFE board will spawn an entire other board when I actually start properly planning it, and the initial cards will also multiply into many as I actually start doing them and breaking them down into their smallest component parts (ie. if it was programming, some thing I could do in one sitting if possible)

ps. In terms of timelining stuff I just make schedules in my notebook. Each line in my notebook might be a day or a week or a month depending. They usually dont last very long and I am always sketching new ones. I do tend to write and sketch a lot and draw the aforementioned timetables and also diagrams which really help me think about stuff. I try and keep that in chronological order in my notebook (rather than just be drawing on random scraps of paper), so only the last few pages are really relevant to me now but I can also go back and look at older long-term timelines.

So my 'what to do' and 'when to do' are seperate. Thats makes sense imo, as the way to do the best job would just be to work through the what to do in order and take as long as it takes. The 'when to do' is often an external artificial deadline or whatnot
I want to know the whole story so bad. You should write a book. :-)
I get that. That's why you diversify your assets and hold a bit of cash as well. But 6 months is a bit extreme.

It's not as if a diversified portfolio is going to drop to zero during a major recession (unless the government collapses, in which case cash might not be useful either). It might lose around 30%, depending on how you diversify and how extreme the recession is.
Ride Austin is far from "way better" on par when the service works maybe but hardly better.

This past Saturday none of the ride sharing services could handle demand and all went down. No riders could request and an no drivers could accept.

Also when the service does work glitches like seeing the login screen when you are already logged in are routine.

Source: I'm in Austin right now for sxsw and I'm a former Austin resident.

Also this whole debacle was a clear and present tax grab for the city please dont pretend it wasn't.

Now on balance Uber and Lyft ran an AWFUL campaign against the regulations when they already do background checks but still that was always about money.