skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: When will the React trend fade away?
I'm surely not an expert coder, but I've work with the web since setting up BBS in the 90s. I've dabbled in react a few time only to find myself annoyed by it's complexity. I have a deep feeling that this type of framework is only a trend. It is changing the way we think about the web, and will surely inspire better way to code the web, but I feel the fad greatly surpass the usefulness of this new paradigm. I wonder how HN feels about it?
Agreed. I was mainly thinking about timing, but I let the words pick my meaning a bit there. I ought to have said that if bitcoin amounts to anything (ie: if new technologies built on it begin to affect everyday life), it's likely to happen over the next one or two years.
> On the contrary, they always want to redo what community did to drive off their creations...

While they've missed a few here and there, their development strategy has served to make them approximately a hojillion dollars.

As a fan (I built tower defense, RPG, and Diplomacy maps as a kid--MAN do I miss Diplomacy maps, those were great), I kinda wish they would return to encouraging that stuff and push it to the fore. But I get why they don't.
As if they'd give a shit.

Right now they want to un-insure 24mil people, re-introduce the whole pre-existing condition scam.

you really think a ruling class that has no qualms being "pro-life" while denying young mothers healthcare will care about your nerd bullshit?
I don't. I was just pointing out that laissez-faire business-as-usual nothing-to-see-here-folks attitude is rarely suitable for municipal bankruptcies.

None of the recently bankrupt municipal entities in the US - Stockton, Detroit, San Bernardino - are fun to live in, and most are in a downward spiral of cutting government services, which leads to employers leaving, which leads to residents moving, which leads to cutting government services, etc.
Thanks! Should have dug there myself... Appreciated!
As a paperweight.
If you work remote for a company and are filing in PR, you need to pay Medicare, Social Security and taxes to Hacienda.

http://www.hacienda.gobierno.pr/sites/default/files/tablas_r...

Simple one, http://www.hacienda.gobierno.pr/individuos/contribucion-sobr...

Last column translates to,

> In excess of $61,500; $8,430 + 33% in excess of the $61,500
>Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources.

I simply do not understand this. Moders created an entirely new genre and basically brought Competitive Gaming to the masses, yet Blz won't allow modding on Overwatch. I've had discussions with people who support this and their rationale basically boils down to (1) they don't want to fracture the userbase and (2) they love the design and don't want to upset it. Both are ill founded. The userbase is in the millions and mods would get ppl like me to play again. Also, any graphical mods can simply run on my local machine, exactly like DotA2.

The game engine itself is superb and possibly hanfles/plays better than any other FPS with maybe Destiny being the only competition.
There is no doubt modders would create a superior gaming experience. Learn from Bethesda
If it's digital, it's traceable. If it passes through DARPA wires, or FCC waves, it's traceable. There are ways to obfuscate. But never completely like an 'air-gapped', transaction wherein I hand a cashier $5 in exchange for ice cream.

I'm clearly in the 'it's nobody's business except for the parties involved' party...
Suppose you are able to distinguish fake and real watches - then noticing someone wearing a fake one (without revealing your knowledge) acts as a defense against the Veblen good.. and I suppose for some levels of wealth, that information is good for figuring out someone else's intentions?
B/c they chased the Jews out in the 40s
Technically, producing excess heat is the only thing we ever do
Applying Machine Learning to Security
Ask HN: Upstream software release watcher?
The Debian project uses devscripts/scripts/uscan.pl to watch for new upstream releases while the Fedora folks have created Anitya.

I'm looking for something similar, except that I'd like to track multiple upstreams; Think multiple distributions, vendors, etc.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.
That definition of symbols! So good!
Yeah, but if transaction 1 is in person (card present) in your home area, then transaction 2 is card present 800 miles away in a short amount of time, shouldn't that raise a flag somewhere?
The typical terms of a VC round give the VC sufficient actual power that they are difficult to ignore. They will have veto rights on major company decisions. And, assuming they have a board seat, you will be having regular board meetings in which they will have the opportunity to weigh in on strategic decision-making.

I have been involved with board meetings pre and post-VC investment, including with top-tier VCs. And it is night and day. Pre-VC investment, these meetings (if they happen) are informal. Post-VC, they become akin to a presentation to the VC, with the VC taking the role of the real "boss" in the room.

What I tell founders I am advising is this:

1) Delay VC funding until you really have use for the money and cannot fund through other means (bootstrapping, angels, etc...);
2) The best time to get funding is when you have leverage to negotiate; and
3) Most importantly - USE that leverage.

The terms of your VC financing round massively impact the founder's ability to control the company's future and enjoy the economic fruits of their labor. So, you really need to push as hard as you can - as hard as the VCs will - to get terms in your favor. Your VC will sell you as your partner and that can be true. But when you are negotiating investing terms, they are not your partner. That negotiation is simply a zero-sum game.

Your VC will want to position the company to their benefit (which is totally rational) by:
1) Minimizing their risk and pushing risk onto the founders;
2) Extracting as much of the economic benefit of any potential exit or pre-exit liquidity;
3) Obtaining as much control as possible.

This does not end when your Series A closes. For example, your VC will likely pressure you to hire their hand-picked attorneys. This is a smart and calculated decision on their part. These will be attorneys who count on the VC (and not you) for repeat business and there will always be an element of a conflict in the representation. Think about it - when you are negotiating your Series B and the VC's hand-picked counsel is trying to "help" you negotiate with the Series B investors, are they really going to play hardball with your Series A VC to take or share the dilution and control hits that your Series B investors are trying to foist on the company? Of course not - at least if the attorneys want the VC to come back to them with work again...

Don't get me wrong. A high-quality, well-chosen VC can bring experience and connections that can help your company immensely. And funding can help you achieve things you cannot achieve by bootstrapping.

But, at a minimum, go into any funding round with your eyes open, good advisors on your side, and a willingness to negotiate as hard as your VC will. Remember, a good negotiator will usually respect you more if you negotiate as hard as they do.
And the politicians who make the decisions to run up the debt have zero skin in the game. They just get to spend other people's money. In many cases it goes out the door as political payoffs for getting votes.
I have no strong evidence to back this up, but I believe that odds exactly why the price of the S&P500 in terms of price to earnings is so high right now.
I suppose it depends on what you think of as "near future", but I - and I have no special insight, for the record, just speaking as an outside observer - would put around 75% probability of a robot that can wholly replace a janitor existing in 15 years, and 95% in 20.

In terms of time needed to politically and socially prepare for that situation, 20 years feels really near term to me. I don't really expect our existing political structures and processes are capable of dealing with the challenge adequately in time. It's one of my top three fears for the <30 year future. And unfortunately the other two (global displacements from climate change, and bio-/nuclear-terrorism by desperate or angry people/groups) are synergistic with it. If it weren't for my normalcy bias, I'd be kind of terrified.
I think sexism and racism play a part. I'm a white man and I wouldn't wish to swap that with any other race or sex because my experience tells me that other races and sexes face more obstacles, are taken less seriously. Which means they have to put on more work to get the same results.

I don't think that means I owe anybody anything because of who I am, nor that I need to feel guilty anyway. But I would try to get beyond my own internalized biases when interacting with people.

From what I can sense about being other race or sex, if I were, I wouldn't want to apply for funding since I'd assume the game was rigged, mostly. I'd just try to go my own way. But that just me.

After applying to YC and funding a few times and failing, that's pretty much what I'm doing anyway.

If anyone is having trouble sensing the barriers of race and sex, you could try asking yourself, would I want to be another race and sex from what I am, to asses your own biases, and perceptions. That's what I did to realize I wouldn't want to swap it.
>> everything you'll need you can find on their GitHub

The fact remains that app installs are bundles whose base source could come from anywhere. There's no guarantee that what you install from an app store was built from their GitHub. On a non-jailbroken iOS device, you're installing a closed-source binary with no inspection possible. I believe you could build your own Android apk from their GitHib, but how many users would ever do that (let alone rebuild it on every update)?

As I mentioned, I suspect that the first attack against one of the major password managers will result from a commit to the official repository (ex: GitHub). Users are not looking at every commit to GitHub before updating an iOS app to make sure that the latest version doesn't have a backdoor.

At the end of the day, you must trust the app publisher with your unencrypted data within the app. Anyway, for this ssh product, I wouldn't be all that worried. Password managers though... I'm waiting for the first attack to happen, at which point I can point to my HN history to show I saw it coming. ;)
> more restrained in 2016

Huh? https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/ar-vr-startup-funding/

EDIT: Another report: https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/vrar-breakdown-vcs-inves...
Hey! I fixed reviews so the example should work now and pushed out a change to the developer site to fix a broken example I noticed.
http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/debt

There is an English transcript there and a lot of stats. The pension funds, for example, are effectively the people of PR.
I don't plan on having kids soon,

> Q: I was in a place with risk of Zika recently. How long do I need to wait after returning to get pregnant?
> A: Men who have traveled to a place with a CDC Zika travel notice should wait at least 6 months after travel (or 6 months after symptoms started if they get sick) before trying to conceive with their partner. Women should wait at least 8 weeks after travel (or 8 weeks after symptoms started if they get sick) before trying to get pregnant.

https://www.cdc.gov/zika/about/questions.html
You learn this job by doing it. There are no training courses, and so you learn from the experience of your team members.

https://careers.boskalis.com/testimonials/sylvia-tervoort/

I found the description of her character fascinating. It reminded me of another character whose book I read years ago:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RVNHYE/

Freighter Captain, by Max Hardberger. Here's his wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hardberger
Isn't there a pretty big difference between something installed by your government, that is illegal to disable or shut off, and something that you willingly install and turn on?

Just where I'm sitting right now, there are at least 3 cameras pointed at me. My laptop, my girlfriend's laptop, and the camera on my phone, but they're all (with reasonable probability) turned off right now.

Implying that this is comparable to the videoscreens talked about in 1984, when it really isn't, means that if there ever is something similar to that, people will be a lot less receptive to criticism of it. Boy who cried wolf an all that.
Maybe not the MPI protocol specifically, but there are probably more users and implementors of HPC style applications in the business world using Java than in the scientific computing world. It's become mainstream with all the ready to run data-crunching-in-cluster stuff available on AWS.

Stuff like: http://spark.apache.org/news/spark-wins-daytona-gray-sort-10...
@whitequark and @backus are the first that come to mind. But anybody on the ruby core team, working on parser or even rubcocop could do it.

Disclaimer: I contributed to rubocop.
Living an hour east of Toronto new houses are going for $800k. No, these are nothing more than 1400 sqft homes packed together with no room to breathe. A few years ago those would have been $300-400k (and overpriced at that).
Please do it. You could crowd source some writing and act as editor.
Fun fact: Veblen died on Sand Hill Road.
"Disclosed" funding and deals often trail the real rounds by anywhere from 6 months to two years.
Kaizen Offers an Effective, Manageable Way to Achieve Long-Term Goals
Disclaimer: I agree with you but I always struggle to convince people that this line of reasoning makes sense.

The government can already enter anybody's home upon receiving a warrant to do so. If you don't let them in, they can bust through a door or tear down a wall. We trust the government not to do this without court oversight. We trust courts to provide good and honest oversight. It is far from a perfect system, but we set up lots of human-level checks and balances to keep power distributed enough that this basically works.

The problem with strong encryption is that this is impossible. Even if there is a very good reason signed off by an honest court, it is impossible to get in. This breaks that human-level checks-and-balances system. What replaces it?
It’s Time for Men to Call Out Manterrupters
> The device owner actually has the password or key.

The device owner might be dead. Given that the context is law enforcement, that's reasonably likely (I forget - wasn't that the problem with San Bernardino?)
Where are you searching from? If you click "Go to repository" on the top left of the home page you should be able to find a specific repo by typing "colemickens/repo-name".

If you don't see a repo that you know you have, then it might not yet be cloned on soucegraph.com because we clone repos lazily (try navigating directly to https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/colemickens/repo-name to trigger us to clone it).
I want my html css and js to live update. Only css and only sublime seems quite a limitation. Something like npm reload does a lot more.
The idea that the US has a problem with too little accumulation of intergenerational wealth is patent nonsense.

This is different from parent leaving you stock and bonds.

Father dies, leaves company that makes engines to son and $50 million in cash because he has invested most in his company. IRS+State: son, you owe us half+ of what your father left you, or $1.1 Billion. If he borrows half of company's worth that's not going to be a healthy company anymore. So he sells it and selling is not always the best thing for employees.

Edited: If I was made King, I'd look to lower the inheritance to children to say 10% and abolish trusts that fund generations of lazy, spoiled brats living from their great-great-grandfather's money.
Judges absolutely can force work and do it all the time. See the discovery process Uber is going through now. For an example more relevant to the Apple case, look at the Lavabit court orders.

The idea that writing software not intended for public release is compelled speech under the standard of Wooley v. Maynard is laughable. Nobody except a few gullible tech bloggers (are there any other kind?) took that argument seriously.
Agreed - this is also a good option.

The main downsides I see are:

(1) It would affect people's Docker workflow

docker pull org/foo:tag

->

aws ecr get-login

<run docker login command>

docker pull some-aws-url/foo:tag

(2) We need to keep some history (to allow rolling back apps). So either need that in DockerHub or would need to move old images to ECR if we planned to fully nuke our DockerHub account.
You'd have to pay me way more money than that to keep such a pungent cultural artifact buried. What a shame!
I've long thought this to absolutely be the killer app for VR. And just imagine the advertising options.
Would a vendor like coinbase be subject to any legal repercussions if its employees purchased litecoin before the option to purchase went live, and the price spiked?
New virtual 'bilur' currency,tied to oil, takes aim at Bitcoin
AngularDart 3.0: Easy upgrade, better performance
The most recent statement from google said that "no other data was accessed" so interpret that as you will
A Simple Bloom Filter Library
Can you? Where?

Until this year, China was unable to manufacture ballpoint pens.

"It was a years-long effort that cost millions of dollars and required the leadership of a state-run corporate colossus. It was front-page news, widely discussed on talk shows and celebrated on social media."

...

"China doesn't possess the advanced alloys and machines necessary to make a high-quality pen ball and socket."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-16/china-s-l...
Can Blockchain, a Swiftly Evolving Technology, Be Controlled?
Mate the entire point here is that it's your own code, not reviewed by anyone else.
Ask HN: Is there any open source bank?
I've seen projects like openbankproject.com, but can't find any info on banks actually using the software. Is there any 100% open source bank where you can open a personal bank account?
Does this work the same way as Monero?
Try Taiwan - especially for LEDs. It'll cost more but the QC is much better.
Here is one of the sources: http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-en/debt

You want to read about law 936 and also understand that the bonds were sold to retirement funds and individuals. 22% of the debt is by local agencies. If you listen to the podcast (or read the transcript) it will make more sense.
For example, if there is a new ice age triggered due to human activity, would that would agree with both the global warming and climate change ideas?
>and I’m also worried about it being a disincentive for our investigators to do it at all

How "important" can the investigation possibly be if this serves as a "disincentive"?
This is bizzarre headline to me. I find people in Austral-Asia smile the most, Eastern Europeans the least, and Americans somewhere in the middle. Just anectdotal, but Ive at least spent years abroad (but never to Africa or Middle East) .
This article breaks my heart to read.
check out GHEdit https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit
I've often idly wondered if you could do Software Development as an apprenticeship. Use industry tools in your work day, and theoretical computer science at night schools/block courses.
I wonder if the sudden increase in price over April is related to to Coinbase buying up LTC to fill their reserves: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/
A lot of things are common sense. OK, "this part must go here because it looks like it does X." We just need a little motivation.

Granted, doesn't mean you should rewire your house using YouTube videos
An atomically thin layer of water stores more energy and delivers it faster
Charlie Lee has mentioned it coming a month or so ago. And a week or two ago posted an image of an internal Coinbase version with Litecoin available.
In jest, you should just build a graphical model of likely states and then feed in some evidence to get a conclusion.

Couple ideas: mapping regulatory networks behind some phenotype or biological pathways. Building sensor networks
based on some biological inputs. Encoding biological data into some kind of probabilistic database. Simulations. Applied neural networks of some kind.

In anti-aging research you would breed worms, mice, and fruit flies and look for anti-aging biomarkers in some set of conditions thought to promote life extension. You would also try to map known pathways between organisms to each other. You would sequence a ton of RNA... Also you would sequence genomes and RNA of people who are old and have lived a long time etc...

As a control sequence everyone else. Feed all of that into a NN and see what pops out.
No, winning from having a privileged place in society is only prohibited in the securities market. And only kind of, and only in America for the most part, and only for now with the new court

Other markets that arent securities have no prohibition on privilege. Cryptocurrencies arent securities, although some ICOs could be determined to be securities, retroactively, so trade on inside information with that in mind

The stock market regulations are primarily a charade so that unprivileged people feel confident enough to put their money in a nonseasonal and liquid market. At the time, perpetual stock companies were the only ones that fit, compared to commodities currencies and real estate, so it has to appear more fair.
Europe Set to Invest in Quantum Tech
This rise is driven by Coinbase alone. The premium there was like 30-40% to other exchanges at one point.
The story was that CDC had the densest cores (5 mil?) made at what was termed the Hong Kong core house.
About Being a Polyglot Software Engineer
This is so German actually.

I've been living in Australia the past year (which has a lot of Germans) and twice I helped someone change a flat tyre. Both times a German also came to assist, and both times it was an American who didnt know how to change a flat (there arent that many of them in Aus).
Non-US Entrepreneurs: You can sell products into the US without paying US tax
I think the idea is to replace more-wasteful wealth signaling with less-wasteful. I don't think this is meant to be a part of the economy which everyone partakes of - it's for people who would instead buy yachts and jets.

It seems possible to make private art more cool than private jets, at least in some circles. But I suspect that the overall effect on resource consumption would be smaller than OP thinks.
So little activity until 1st of April. What gives... https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/litecoin/btc/90_da...
Love seeing a public GraphQL API out there - my company is very interested in also using GraphQL to power the new version of our API sometime this year, it looks like an awesome way to bring customizable endpoints to the end user.

Is there any information on challenges developers have found with GraphQL out there?
40 lanes / CPU is the maximum afaik.
Blz isn't Gaben. Gaben makes it rain. http://whenisthenextsteamsale.com
Not so, Segregated Witness adoption pushed it from $4 to about $15.
a lot of beauty products are petroleum based
Karma is a ... -- Being honest had always been having its perks for me too
That is $1000 more than Blizzard was obligated to pay. Of course in the long run Blizzard is spending more than $1000 on this guy.
China Races to Show Quantum Advantage
probably meant: G "has one of the biggest low income employment sector"
- less than 1/3 of median income
- < 20% of all employees (Dec 2016) with decreasing tendency
Exactly.

You run a process that exits with a non-zero code. Is that an error that should be logged? Or just informational? (E.g. `diff`.)

You request an HTTP resource that doesn't exist. Loggable error? Or normal result?

Only the caller knows.
NBA does this already.

https://watch.nba.com/page/vr