skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also of interest is Varoufakis on EconTalk[0] interview in 2013, almost two years before the Greek electoral victory of Syriza and Varoufakis taking the political position of finance minister. You might hear from this interview how Varoufakis looked at Greece's crisis negotiation-position with the EU: that for Greece, similar to the employee-management structure of Valve, there was a lack of hierarchy between peers and only a room full of equals. In that sense and through the Valve-hierarchy of equals lens, much of the tone-deaf rhetoric of Varoufakis towards his peers though the bailout talks can be interpreted with a wider spectrum of sound. Varoufakis, it seems, sincerely thought he would bring "enlightened" new ideas of successful software development management to a negotiation table of frustrated, advantaged, EU financial stalwarts.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...
I'm in the same boat, there's a lot of movement in the field of hunger/digestion recently:

* Your stomach contains a functional brain with ~25% of the neurons of the one in your head
* Gut microbiomes have widespread impact on physical and mental health

We need ~20 amino acids and some micro-nutrients to meet our nutrition needs (to our current knowledge). The microbiome adapts to break down different food sources into these nutrients and the body will adapt if it lacks certain nutrients but functionally wont work as well.

The idea that there's a signaling mechanism between all of these systems to encourage the right type of consumption is rationally sound.
I don't regret it, but at the same time I no longer buy the peer pressure to fundraise for startups anymore and I see a lot of bias and hidden motives in the system. I think we're going to see a lot more majorly successful bootstrapped tech companies in the future (at least until a much later stage than Seed or typical A/B). So, I think the current system is perhaps suboptimal.

Also, many go into business to not have bosses, and having a board and investors can often feel like that even if that feeling is just self-inflicted. So, stick to your values if that's something you know you really want, and don't feel bad about it.
It may have implications for civil forfeiture practices. But the case was about when the state holds onto restitution money even after a conviction is overturned. So it probably won't change civil forfeiture practice in the near term.
That tree structure my friend is called a binary search tree. It is essentially a permutation of the same kind of search.
Speedtest engineer on optimizing your home internet
People install extensions that have access to things like "all data on Facebook.com" far too easily from complete strangers on the internet :/
Prepack is quite complementary to traditional compilers. It's strength is that it comes with full knowledge of the JavaScript built-ins, and it uses that to pre-evaluate the code at compile time. In an extreme case, an entire program can get reduced to the final result.
I was thinking about a good OS, but I guess this helps them dodge the fine...
or maybe public investable assets? Too much money chasing too small a pool of assets? There are also a lot of private assets that could be superior investments, but average folks do not have access to.
To any lisp enthusiasts who wonder why the language family isn't more popular: this is 99% of why. You have to use an editor where "copy" is called "Kill-ring-save" is invoked with "Meta-w". Any attempt to use any other tool will be met with incredulous responses to "just use Emacs".

It's such a shame because the development environment for Lisp could be so much better than other languages. It could be mindblowingly futuristic, instead of mindblowingly archaic.
I don't know, these types of crimes have happened for a long time sans audience. Perhaps some are motivated by the audience, but there are definitely some who would've committed the crime anyway, and their broadcast of their criminal activity only speeds up their arrest.

I can see that politicians and businesspeople would not like this development, because it makes a) their cities seem more violent, since we can actually see someone get killed in it; b) their businesses seem less positive and soft and fluffy, since we can actually see someone get killed on it.

However, I don't see why those concerns should override the public safety benefit of allowing criminals to broadcast their crimes to thousands of witnesses and simultaneously preserving an indisputable copy of the evidence for posterity.

Steve Stevens was caught only because the exposure from his broadcast allowed him to be recognized by a McDonald's clerk hundreds of miles away from the crime scene. Without his broadcast, assuming the execution would've occurred, it would've just been another routine story that wouldn't have made it past the local news.

There would probably have to be some real research conducted to find out if this is a net loss by spurring new crime or a net win by allowing us to easily capture the most oblivious criminals (who are not necessarily least dangerous).
> In the rest of the dissent, Thomas discusses the due process that was available under Colorado's Exoneration Act and indicated that this law did not automatically entitle convicted persons to an automatic refund of any fees associated with their convictions, partially because state law ordered that money to be dispensed via victim compensation funds.

> This highlights a potential chilling effect of this ruling. As states are now on the perpetual hook for any monies that may be confiscated from someone who is eventually exonerated (and in the case of white-collar crime, this could be millions of dollars), and since you can't know that someone won't be exonerated in the future, states who are interested in keeping their budgets balanced will be incentivized to hold such money in escrow instead of dispensing it for victim's relief.

It seems that Thomas's dissent finds its basis in that the defendants should have followed the due process set forth in the Exoneration Act to have a substantive entitlement to the money, on the other hand in Alito's concurring opinion he quite explicitly disagrees and posits that the Exoneration Act violates due process:

These stringent requirements all but guarantee that most
defendants whose convictions are reversed have no realis
-
tic opportunity to prove they are deserving of refunds.
Colorado has abandoned historical procedures that were
more generous to successful appellants and incorporated a
court’s case-specific equitable judgment. Instead, Colorado
has adopted a system that is harsh, inflexible, and pre-
vents most defendants whose convictions are reversed
from demonstrating entitlement to a refund. Indeed, the
Colorado General Assembly made financial projections
based on the assumption that only one person every five
years would qualify for a financial award under the Exon-
eration Act. Colorado Legislative Council Staff Fiscal
Note, State and Local Revised Fiscal Impact, HB 13–1230,
p.
2 (Apr. 22, 2013), online at http://leg.colorado.gov (as
last visited Apr. 17, 2017). Accordingly, the Exoneration
Act does not satisfy due process requirements. See
Cooper
v.
Oklahoma
, 517 U. S. 348, 356 (1996) (A state rule of
criminal procedure may violate due process where “a rule
significantly more favorable to the defendant has had a
long and consistent application”).
> Every gap in the legal code that some lawyers can concoct is not valid grounds for exploitation.

Yes it is, by definition. Advocate for better legislation, rather than expect lawyers to pinky-swear not to use whatever loopholes they find.

An analogy might be: "Every bug or unescaped input in my application is not valid grounds for attackers to pwn my server! How dare they!"
> With regards to cars, I get the sense that the most realistic future is no longer mass-transit only, but includes self-driving electric car-sharing.

I see this as likely too, but I also can see the downsides to it, because people suck. Just think of how mass transit looks like in your city, and how people treat rental cars, rented housing, etc - and apply that to shared vehicles.

Though to be honest, we could make a better comparison today to things like Zipcar; I've never used one, so I don't know how often - if at all - one climbs into a car only to find it beaten to hell and back with vomit in the seats? Then again, such services aren't ubiquitous in all cities, so fewer people use them, and they might be more expensive so that those with a worse sense in using other's property are less likely to use the service?

I just know that with rental cars ("drive it like you rented it") and rental properties - it's hit or miss whether the renter(s) are going to be careful with the property and upkeep of it, or if they are going to utterly destroy it (usually, it's probably somewhere in-between, tending toward taking care of it). You'll always have those outliers I guess.

For now, though, I am keeping my vehicles, and paying the price. For one, I can't easily rent what I own (both vehicles are four-wheel drive and designed for off-roading), and one of those vehicles is a fairly rare machine (only about 5000 were sold in the United States). There are times, though, that I have been thankful I could rent a vehicle or take a cab or similar; sometimes you have no choice, or it's the better thing to do for the purpose at hand. In the future, with self-driving shared vehicles, this will be welcome for many purposes - but there will be downsides (likely, the first person to get the "destroyed vehicle" would decline it with a reason and it would be sent back to a depot for refurbishment).
When I visited Germany on a 1 month exchange, it seemed like it was the 10th graders that were doing stupid things around drinking, but of course none of them were even close to being the age at which they would have a car. Whereas in the US, I got my learners permit in 10th grade, and was driving myself to school in 11th (it saved about 30 minutes versus taking the bus).
I would agree with you if the link's README wasn't so cocky
The Workhorse W-15: The Electric Truck with a Lower TCO Than a Ford F-150
While investing is important (personally it's 50/50 stock index fund and US treasuries), another important thing to do is reduce your expenses.

1. The lower your expenses the less money you need on an ongoing basis. This means you need less savings to fund your lifestyle.

2. The lower your expenses the more money you have left over to save and invest.

The combination means you have more money and it lasts longer. This is pretty important career-wise because it makes it much easier to find a better job: when you need to quit or lose your job you have much longer to find a good job, you don't need to take the first one you find.

Expanded version here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/08/living-below-your-me...
Please don't post like this here, it breaks the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not immediately obvious what the utility of this plugin is. They say it can show me who's targeting me with ads on Facebook... well, can't I just go to Facebook to find this out?

I'm not saying there isn't any utility, but I don't think it's obvious enough from reading the front page of the site.
I was right there a year or two ago developing portable native client things for my project, Linux on the Web (I was able to get vim and python running).

Projects like that can pioneer a whole lot of new techniques and infrastructure that can be very easily applied to whatever technology is eventually going to win out.
Bet on your beliefs, you either get wiser or richer.

I personally have

- Precious metals (physical / stored / miners)

- defense values (stocks)

- crypto currencies

- cash

Guess I'm not an optimist
They have a lot in common!

For a while, capnp-rpc-rust used `gj::Promise`, which is based directly on the C++ Cap'n Proto implementation of promises (i.e. `kj::Promise`). Back in January, capnp-rpc-rust was updated to use `futures::Future` instead, and it was a fairly straightforward transition, as described in this blog post: https://dwrensha.github.io/capnproto-rust/2017/01/04/rpc-fut...

The trickiest part of the transition was dealing with scheduling. The implementation of `kj::Promise` has a built-in scheduling queue that guarantees a certain form of deterministic FIFO semantics, and those semantics are heavily depended upon in the Cap'n Proto RPC implementation. Rust's `future::Future` is less batteries-included, requiring capnp-rpc-rust to explicitly create queues where deterministic scheduling is needed.

Confusing the terminology perhaps even more, in capnproto-rust there is a type `capnp::capability::Promise` that implements `futures::Future`.
But not all states are part of the compact, so they still could be convinced to join it, and a higher popularity vote margin would be more persuasive. Hillary's vote margin was smaller than Bush(2004) and both of Obama's. A 7%+ loss like 2008 would make a discussion about the electoral college more pertinent, since it's such a rare case that someone wins without the popular vote. My argument was that if people wanted to advance a position of reform, it would help highlight the college as being too far away from the popular vote.
> ...allowing access to a micro-programmable base...

What you're probably looking for is something like Forin's eMIPS (extensible MIPS) project that includes a block FPGA cells as part of the execution pipeline to allow creation of new instructions as needed.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/emips/
I have a habit of browsing with random window sizes (usually shrunk to just fit what I want to see. I guess if I ever need to use the TOR browser, I'll need to get out of that habit! This researcher disclosed his simplest approach to fingerprinting TOR browsers but if he really has 12 factors, you'll only be safe browsing sites with huge amounts of traffic.
I’m fed up of being asked for feedback – when did companies get so needy? (2016)
Tinder as a Methodological Tool
your use of the contraction like this broke me. i had to read it 4 times before it "worked".
$0.10 per brick yields a wildly inaccurate estimate. It would be much better to look at which pieces are included in each set rather than average the cost per brick across all sets sold by year.
FinTS kinda works, and there some libraries out there to make life easier, but it's still somewhat terrible. PSD2 is coming, tough, and I'm hoping it will improve the situation: https://www.evry.com/en/news/articles/psd2-the-directive-tha...
Could you explain further?

I was very impressed with his ability to learn Chinese and speak it semi-formally in a room filled with Chinese. I think that showed a certain charisma.

I'm not personally a fan of him and I agree that this stuff is representative of being out of touch, yet this behavior does win elections.

I think he would actually be a decent centrist (Obama-style) candidate. He's mildly progressive (not full out Bernie) has no serious negative legacy (this imperfect pledge to run a mile a day stuff is a non-starter) like HRC.
That's a very helpful walk through, thank you.

I'm very naive about this and would appreciate any more thoughts - If you hit a sustained 20% net profitability with just this funding, would you be able to avoid raising more? Would investors demand an exit, and in what time-frames, and is it feasible to pay it out from your profits?

Essentially my question is whether you would be forced to keep raising the stakes for your business, and if so, till what point?
Not really, but when was the last time you saw a HN article with a title like "Google is stealing computing freedoms with Chromebooks".

Instead, the Chromebook posts and comments on here are mostly about how they're malware free and perfect for older parents and kids, and how they're selling like hotcakes taking over the education market from Windows and Macbooks.
https://intelligent.schwab.com/

The best robo offering available atm imo.
In the 70-80's, we made them with colored stock paper, hand-drawn seals, and rub on letters and border lines. You would make them much larger than the real deal, then take photos and reduce the size. That masked any imperfections.

The back side was typically just text, so we could photocopy that. Insert the photo, and find a high end laminating machine. Oh, and fake a neighboring state ID so it's less critical to have it perfect.
Can you provide any indications of the size of performance improvements?
The examples are very far from the JS I see and read, but this is definitely a very useful tool. It seems like gcc -Olevel. It would be interesting to incorporate some sort of tailoring for JS engines into this, like how a compiler might try to make x86-specific optimizations. For example, if you know your target audience mostly runs Chrome (or if the code is to be run by node), you might apply optimizations to change the code to be more performant on V8 (see https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k... for example).

I love it and can't wait to use it on some projects!
> and how to use that information to come to a compromise

Electron is popular because it uses regular web tech to build apps. Electron is slow because it uses regular web tech to build apps.

Where is the compromise?

Another question is "popular with who"..

> the developer experience, the development speed, the ability to share code across runtimes

I don't know what you mean by "the developer experience", but surely any high-level language gets you speedy development, and architectural agnosticism?
And Americans kinda overreact when there's a tradegy like a drunk driving accident.

And America believes they can solve complex proplems with ham fisted laws, like .08 percent for Everyone. (We all know that person who has one drink and is a mess.)

And America gets very used to the extra fees/grants to local agencies brought in by DUI fear/arrests.

Texas is the only state I know of that takes a person's susceptibility/tolerance to alcohol in effect when prosecuting a DUI.

This .08 for everyone is not the way. I would rather the state, federal government take some of those taxes they slap on alcohol purchases, and put it towards testing individuals when a driver's licence is renewed. People would have diifferent percentages printed right on the drivers licence. Mixing medications would invalidate that number. You could test the individuals at a remote location? "You want to drive, and drink--lets take a test?"

We all know there's people who shouldn't be driving after one drink.

I know there's people, like my decised father, who was a maintance drinker, that could safely drive after more than a few drinks.

I'll get a lot of downvotes, but I'm tired of getting pulled over by cops looking for a marginal DUI.

I'm tired of them looking into bars, and following patrons home, just hoping to make a bust.

I'm tired of cops thing everyone drinks to excess like they do on their days off. Yes--many do drink heavily, and "the flash of the badge" is still alive and well in America. Did you ever wonder when the profession with the highest rates of alcoholism never seems to get DUI's?
My understanding is that suing in rem began with ships, since they are quite valuable and movable at the same time. Thus, ships can be sued and arrested to prevent the asset from being removed from the jurisdiction. It has been expanded considerably since those simpler times, mostly I think to benefit the coffers of government agencies that could not convince legislators to provide them with bigger budgets.
on it. thx.
I don't worry about that at all.

The risk is that there is so much in index funds that the valuations of companies will become distanced form what they're actually worth.

The likelihood of that happening given how much money there is to be made in finding the inefficiencies in the stock market are, in my opinion, very small.
No, more Gentoo-ish. See https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
I go for bluechips in sectors I understand. Yields 6-7% YOY
How is ChromeOS not a limited version of Gentoo that it's based on and locked to Google's cloud for "ease of use and deployment"?
> "...whether petitioners can show a substantive entitlement to a return of the money they paid pursuant to criminal convictions that were later reversed or vacated."

In other words, the petitioners can't prove that they have a legal right to a refund. Apparently there is no Colorado law saying that if your conviction is overturned, the state will refund those fees.

That would be a fairly easy legislative fix, rather than inventing the right from thin air via this majority SCOTUS decision.
"In regards to finding a family to visit, the local newspaper The Vindicator reported he asked his staff to find Democrats who voted for Donald Trump."

No doubt an easy task using GraphQL or whatever more powerful version they have internally.
So basically, ChromeOS.
Facebook's javascript / PL game doesn't disappoint. This is awesome!
Let me counter with these facts about banking in South Africa:

1. Fees at most banks are high. (A basic account with no transactions typically have fees of several dollar per month).

2. If people are moving away from physical cash, its because of security concerns (theft and robbery), not liquidity.

3. Most transactions are done by credit card, debit order or Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT). EFTs are done between numbered banks account. Mobile to mobile phone transfers are still very rare.

4. People are stubornly loyal to their banks. If root fails, it will be cause of this.
Altri modi per usare il miele e le sue proprietà
We ask commenters to post civilly and substantively to avoid threads like this, which we detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14239655.
I will believe this is a genuine and earnest attempt to connect with people, because what other options do you think he really has?

It's all too easy to find some way to criticize his actions:
Meet with Kids? - FB shouldn't and doesn't target kids for privacy reasons.
He's the CEO of the most massive and influential social media company, he'd better do more than just sit behind a computer, but he also can't spend all his time socializing either.
Can it be plugged into webpack for production builds? (I know it's not production ready yet)
Drink more coffee.

Seriously, coffee is the universal motivator. Anything that can't be fixed with coffee will have to be addressed at the source. Why aren't you feeling motivated?
Equating suicide to a flimsy ID program, meant to track everything you do is disingenuous.

There is zero transparency on the security of the system. Even if there was transparency, I would not trust the people running the system to store my private biometric data safely. Unlike a password which gets leaked i cannot change fingerprint or retina at will can I ? Using it authentication is just stupid . There is no real need for collecting forcibly collecting bio-metric data,

This is a question of fundamental right to privacy , despite whatever the court and government may have you believe . Just like the government does not have the right to capture nude pictures of you , it does not any inherent right to your biometric information .
I wonder if it's the same barubary. I started a psx dev group in the 90's gridlock. I just finished high school and this kid barubary joined and his work was amazing. Most of us in the scene went into the industry. I didn't cuz I didn't want 80hr weeks.
How does it compare to Wealthfront/Betterment?
Google AdSense now allows 300×250 ads above the fold on mobile
Please update the section on storage classes. Auto is no longer a storage class, but a keyword for automatic type deduction. Also, register has recently been deprecated as well, if I remember correctly.