skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been said many times before by commenters here on HN, and is worth repeating. Cloud-enabled listening devices already have saturated society and are nearly omnipresent. They have a form factor that fits in your pocket and also includes discrete surveillance-enabling conveniences such as: GPS tracking, always-on microphones, high resolution cameras, target-specific network graph data, and access to very large (and inconvenient to monitor) data storage.

If a person is concerned with the practical security implications of Amazon's Echo or Google's Home, I expect they should be terrified of the potential vectors for misuses that their mobile phone allows.

The future state of government regulation and the ability for those in power to use the digital tracks I've left do concern me, but I've found it very difficult to decide how to combat it without fully disconnecting and moving off-grid. There are ways to mask and obfuscate certain parts of that record, to be sure (Tor, proxies, not using Echo or Home, no connected devices, etc.) but I like the benefits that technology brings to me life and I don't really want to move into a remote, signal-free location to live a spartan life.
They've stated that they have enough cash from Durov's funding to last 4-5 years comfortably, and that if they ever need cash, they will introduce non-essential paid features.
> aided by screw ups from big pharma and Government healthcare policies.

And ignorant lawmakers who try to stigmatize instead of educate with regards to harm prevention, and the private prisons who would rather incarcerate addicts instead of rehabilitate them, and the willfully ignorant lawmakers who get kickbacks from those private prisons (and likely big pharma, who IMHO is willfully complicit in this epidemic).
increasing market liquidity, sheesh
Yes, one could put it in an S&P index fund and by all historical trends, they would make an average of 2 million per year (8%) without doing anything. That is an obscene amount of money. Or if you're more conservative, you could put it in bonds and still be making many times the average salary, still without doing anything.

(And lottery participants are highly likely to be less well informed about managing money, since otherwise they wouldn't be lottery participants.)
I will mail you WireGuard stickers
I agree with the above comment. I think you should allow your users to submit their startup via email or a form on the site. Quite a few people including myself would be reluctant to provide twitter access with the permissions above.
Another small note, there's a typo on the submit page above the button "Read to show your..." I think you meant *Ready ?

Good luck with it all.
The problem is that in many situations the market doesn't operate efficiently at all in it's natural state. There's a long litany of reasons markets are inefficient (imperfect information on either side, externalities, and monopolies, just to name a few). Interventions, such as regulations are there to protect the consumers in the case of these market failures. In this case a competative market protects consumers much better than a monopolistic one so regulations that foster a more competative market would be able to protect consumers better than no regulations. I'm not saying that these specfic regulations are amazing but there is definitely a good theoretical framework for regulations being good for consumers in certain cases.
Is C# good for writing GUI apps on Windows? I saw someone in a recent HN thread about Kotlin mention C#, and say that it works on many platforms (including for GUI's, maybe). But my question is limited to Windows.
> "Who do you expect will fund these treatment programs?

The state should pay as part of the universal health care coverage IMO.

Treatment as a cost is cheap. Heroin would be next to nothing to purchase by a government. They can be tapered off or in very serious cases just maintained. When life is no longer 24x7 about finding your next fix, the person can live a relative useful and productive life. They do not need to steal, they do not need to commit crime to fund their habit. They do not need to go to prison where the cost per inmate exceeds by orders of magnitude the cost of treatment
What an incredibly arrogant and conceited thing to say. As someone who favors chat this amounts to a personal attack on me and everyone like me -- a personal attack completely devoid of supporting evidence.

I've worked at two different remote companies over the past 5 years. One was failing the other is succeeding and growing. Chat played little role in either case, it was simply one of the chosen methods of communication. One method in a tool box that also included email and video chat.

In both companies, chat functioned very well as the stand in for most office conversations. We only fall back on video chat when we find ourselves talking past each other in chat and need the higher bandwidth of voice communication to clear up the confusion. We almost never use email in either case.

I've also used it in several non-profit organizations I've served on the board of and as an organizing tool among local activists. In all cases, it has served me well, allowing conversations that could span from exchanges of long, in depth arguments or explanations to quick exchanges of information or Q&As.

Chat is a tool. It doesn't favor or dictate anything. It's all in how you use it.

If you find yourself continuously having low value conversations over chat, I think that says far more about you than it does about chat.
That industrywide, the individual companies will soon find out if the overinvested or not.
Quick Fixes with Vim and the Command Line
As valuearb pointed out, value investing basically comes down to reading 10Ks and 10Qs which are freely available on the SEC database. You read those to get the complete financial health of a company, and using those numbers, calculate what you believe to be the fair value of a company.

"Well if it's a belief, then isn't value investing just as much speculation as anything else?"

That's where the term Margin of Safety comes in. The financials of a company provide a delta, some min and max of where the company can go. When you plug in your estimates, and that delta's minimum is still less than the current price of the stock, esp by a significant margin, then you've picked a winner...more specifically, a winner over the next few years. Remember, plenty of events can occur between now and when your value is realized, and one of the other traits of a strong value investor is the ability to weather the storm. Oftentimes these companies with sufficient margin of safety will continue to fall in price before they rise again, one cannot time the market for the zenith nor the nadir of a stock's price.
Definitely seconded. They also have an excellent pamphlet with the evidence-based advice on how to be successful at whatever job you have, including advice both general to life and specific to work: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/
either that or they started a company when the hypetrain was around
I don't recall any incidents of junkies robbing people to buy a pack of Marlboros.
Beggars cant be choosers. You forgot to demonize the opposition as lazy welfare riders. :D

To add a little meat to this vampire of a political exchange. Nobody is interested in the usual defense mechanisms.. lets open the hard shell and look at the heart. And here it is:

"I know you are right, but i have just so much invested into the current system, and can with my family at debt-gunpoint mount no enthusiasm as i could once when i was a tweenager. Why should i throw my hat in a ring, who as history shows often tramples hats and wearers on both sides? And how many couch revolutionary's are there, who wave the banner on the internet, but would throw a fit, if somebody would occupy their parking lot in real life. "
Yesterday's envelope-writing frenzy was a success, so I'm throwing caution into wind and posting this on HN today...
Wikipedia Göbekli Tepe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
Walk: A Message to the Class of 2017
The article addresses the 'smear campaign' theories - that:

- the Labour front bench

- the Labour electorate

- the Guardian,

- Jewish groups

- Caitlin Moran

and anyone else opposed to this madness are all involved in some kind of organised conspiracy against Corbyn, quite well:

> Labour’s communications team lies about “the IRA thing”, claiming that Corbyn’s glorification of butchery should be seen as “helping the peace process”, as though the man who voted against the Anglo-Irish Agreement was secretly urging Gerry Adams to compromise.

Corbyn fighting against the trial of the Brighton bomber and voting against the Anglo-Irish Agreement are matters of record. As are his statements of support for:

- Hamas

- Hezbollah

- Fidel Castro

- Hugo Chavez

and other hard left groups who've attacked innocent people.

They're laughable, but more in a: "this man thinks he has a shot of running the UK". Thankfully we reject this kind of populism more than the US does and a large chunk of the left isn't participating in or voting for Labour until/unless he's gone.
You can also work a normal job and donate a non-trivial amount of your money to organizations working to make a difference.
Let's say you invest $500/yr at $50 a pop in local businesses, as part of a club. This seems like an amount of money you might be okay essentially gambling with.

Let's imagine that fund spans a moderate size metro (2mil people) and 0.1% of people are willing to join once it gets "big".

2000 people by $500 is $1mil a year. If you figure seed money is $20-100k for a small business, you're creating 10-50 small businesses a year in your local area. (Possibly more once you're good at it and can leverage SBA and venture resources to help match your capital.)

That's not a ton, and would definitely work better if you could nudge participation up to 1% or raise the average funding amount (or get another funding stream, or tax breaks, etc), but I think generating that local entrepreneurial churn can only be a good thing.

I'd pay $50/mo to see several new businesses a year get started around town, just for the added cultural value small businesses bring.
Historically and empirically, does this VC influence and control result in better-run and more-successful companies?
Shouldn't deflation come with decreasing prices all around, not just wages ? because except for a few relative small sectors, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Imagine how much energy the world would save if most people where working from home. Electricity, transport fuel. How much less pollution and traffic jams. How much less need to build cars and transport systems. How much extra time to enjoy life would people have by not commuting.

With so huge positives. I don't understand why not more research is put into work-from home.
> Yes, surely those people bear no responsibility around their personal level of civic engagement.

"Those people" started this thread and asked for specifics.

> Find groups that interest you and are effective in their mission.

That's what the poster is doing.

I don't disagree with your sentiment; the answer to "how do I do good?" isn't just going to be handed to you. I suppose I was prompted to jump in because I think somebody might otherwise confuse your comment for being a useful answer to the original topic.
Ha. I wrote the article. I'm actually a self employed consultant and company owner who works from home full time, but I spent 15 years in offices. So you have a point, in that I REALLY would have like far more work from home. But I'm also looking at this from a business owner (who's likely to have employees within a few years), and what will work best.

And IMO, there are far more advantages to companies offering WFH than there are challenges.
Well, if Labor is a function of supply and demand, then it tells us that supply of willing labor is happy to work at all, even if wages aren't rising. Turned around, in a market where people are desperate for work, corporations have no incentive to raise wages.

Still, this is overly simplistic. The problem in my mind is that unemployment rate is reflective only of those looking for work, and labor force participation rate is low. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

The result is that as employers' needs for people rise, they can siphon off those looking for work at current market rates, and then, (maybe), people from the non-participating group can gradually replenish the unemployed pool.

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My own experience tells me that there is limited wage stagnation in modern high-skill jobs and that there is low unemployment there as well. In that market, wages seem to be rising, and talent seems to be scarce. (Read some recent earnings transcripts from companies like CDI that do staffing in these industries.)

On the lower or outdated skill market, though, companies have more people to choose from, likely lower transaction costs (non-benefits/salary jobs enable more employee turnover), and also slimmer margins. Why pay any more than they absolutely have to?

Where this becomes a real problem, though is that low-skill jobs are not even keeping place with inflation. As a result, real earning potential in many of these jobs is through the floor.

Personally, I look to the huge run in returns on capital in the equities market over the last few years as the primary cause. In many cases, historically low interest rates and fast growing equities prices have diverted efforts from business growth and innovations in the "core" to financial growth and innovations for the balance sheet. This will revert, at some point. But, as we have seen elsewhere in HN over the last few days, there is a large entrenched "Business Class" that knows far more about financial optimization and asset allocation than they do about the businesses that they actually run.
> Chat has the potential of being used efficiently, where arguments are stripped of their emotion and converge faster to a point without rambling.

So does face-to-face conversation. If your coworkers manage to put away all personal feelings, emotions and opinions when behind a keyboard, I salute you - mine, myself included, do not, and instead of actually making your feelings clear through signals our brains have been optimized to understand for millennia, we either have to explicitly specify things, or just guess what the other person means beyond the ascii.
Rubygems.org is now using Elasticsearch
Telegram is 10 times better than whatsapp.
Came to say the exact same thing, all the problems mentioned aren't unique to continuations. I'm not saying this makes a positive argument to use coroutines everywhere, but it's not their fault.

As ajuc mentioned, long-running processes and early/late bound is always a thing. Same with database migrations. Heck, even clients accessing a versioned api (foo.com/api/v1/bar) vs not has the same consideration.

> How long do you wait before invalidating the session and free its resources?

Same decision has to be made for explicit session data like login state and pagination cursors in eg. Facebook's graph API. Continuations are larger and therefore this question may have more weight.

> What resources does a continuation hold on to?

Anything reachable (static and/or dynamic analysis). And if you run your program in a monad (or other restricted, pure manner), then you can control when a function can suspend, like not in the middle of paging a database.

> Does opening a new tab duplicate any held resources by the continuation?

If you live in an immutable world, you get duplication for free with structural sharing. Same goes for an OS loading a shared library once and giving the same pages to multiple programs.

I do agree that having a blob of stuff serialized isn't very nice. Same goes for closures as well. The example I always compare in my head is a functional representation of a set vs. any other data structure.

I toyed around with an interpreter that would let you reflect a closure (same could be applied to continuations) to a program, which is akin to a residual program in partial evaluation. Then you could do whatever you want with the source of the closure/continuation. For the early/late bound question above, you could analyze the reflected continuation and decide exactly which bits you want to rebind before continuing the continuation.
There's an entire community of ration reviewers on youtube, one of the best is gundog. If you watch enough videos they'll start to reference each other in trades of hard to get rations.

https://www.youtube.com/user/gundog4314

You can also just buy them, they aren't cheap though

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m5...

I've eaten a few of the U.S. ones. Most of the menus are surprisingly good. The thing that blew my mind the first time was the flameless heater. If you're clever with it you end up with a nice hot meal. Kind of amazing considering they specifically don't want to use any chemical preservatives, but still have long life and thermal range stability.
For me, on an iPad, dragging moves 1.5 slide, but clicking at the left or right edges moves one slide (correction: that's a bit state-dependent. I _can_ make it reliably work that way, but it may require some 'random' zooming to get there)
"CapX" is produced by the Center for Policy Studies, an opaque right wing think tank: https://www.desmog.uk/2017/02/08/opaque-and-deceptive-think-...

http://whofundsyou.org/org/centre-for-policy-studies

This is basically a propaganda organisation, not a news organisation. Not that the news is reliable either.
What would you like "us" to focus on? As for MVP variations and RxJava, those are useful tools. MVP variations are often for organization and writing more modular, testable code. RxJava and other Rx implementations are useful for describing data flows and transformations while also making complicated asynchronous problems more manageable.
Go sync.Map coming to standard library
Much better alternative to coal, at least. You emit far less CO2 per KWh generated and the only other byproduct besides CO2 tends to be water.
I agree that cannabis legalization could help public health addiction problems.

One idea that I don't see brought up a lot is using cannabis in a rehab setting; basically trying to get people to replace one mind-altering substance with another. I don't think that should necessarily be a permanent solution but it seems more realistic than asking someone to go from doing drugs every day to being stone cold sober at all times. Cannabis could take the edge off and provide the mind altering feeling that some addicts seem to crave. [1]

In all fairness I'm sure there are failures in this idea but I think it's worth exploring once we accept that cannabis is just nowhere near hard drugs on the harm spectrum.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-dru...
> C. Only so many investments are good investments, because in the end, there's only so much consumption, but the unnatural levels of capital driven by US monetary policy push banks to make bad investments (see every financial crisis since the Fed was founded).

If the US government in 2008 had let Goldman Sachs (and others) to get what they really deserved, possibly keeping afloat tiny investors/victims for social reasons, I think investment would be pretty balanced.

I would argue that the problem is a revolving door between Goldman and the US Gov that benefits very specific ppl and not the FED's policy.
ICOs are wildly popular (granted, not all from U.S., but crowdfunding seed capital is proving successful for the right "idea spaces")
You're not bit by this? https://github.com/containous/traefik/issues/791
Yep. I think I made a slight mistake in buying my last car as I wanted to prioritize power, so I got an AMG with 381bhp - and yeah, the car is a monster, it does 0-60 in 4 seconds, but I very quickly found out that when going on some twisting mountain roads it's just too much power to really have fun - you get out on a straight, and are instantly doing 80mph+, on a 60mph-limit road, so you just end up cruising until the next turn which is neither interesting nor fun.

In a lower powered car, on a sufficiently technical road it's hard to stay at the speed limit, so you end up working the car and having loads of fun(like I am sure you do in your Miata). In a super powerful car that part is gone, and the drive becomes slightly less enjoyable because of it.
1. No, Julian was the person of interest, he should come to the police, not the other way around. You claim the swedish prosecutor "was invited" but "declined" to question him where he wanted. Persons wanted for questioning regarding rape or any serious crime does not get to invite prosecutors where and when they want to have a conversation about it.

2. The Swedish court found that it was ok to do so because it was being dragged out, not that that it was their job.
No, asset inflation is a different problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_price_inflation
A few issues though:

- more and more capital is being tied up in parasitic activity (encouraged by monetary and fiscal policies), instead of being invested in startups, infrastructure, etc.

- all profits/capital gains are distributed to capital holders (out of proportion)
This already happens, as a result of the last "think of the children" initiative. UK ISPs are required to at least offer filtering to customers.
We changed the submitted title from "Fraunhofer promoted MP3 as "dead", because they get money from AAC patents" which is an egregious case of editorializing, violating the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and the sort of thing that will get your story submission privileges removed here.

One can see plainly from this thread how bad an effect polemical titles have on discussions.
127.0.0.1=127.0000000000B.00000000131.1
I've quoted Engels in one comment and my final score on that comment was -3. I used the same quote somewhere else and the score was 10. Could this be attributed to whether I'm posting in the appropriate thread, or is it that leftists are more interested in certain threads or subthreads? I don't know, but it's frustrating that I get downvoted in one place and upvoted in another, for essentially the same message.

I try not to make my comments dumbed down; recently I was have a discussion about the theory of surplus value, and I wasn't downvoted there, but somewhere else I talked about wage slavery in a similar way and I was downvoted there. Both times I tried to support what I was saying with quotations and reasoned arguments. So I don't know if downvoting is an effective way of helping to enforce a particular standard of comments; as on Reddit, I think it's more likely to be used just to downvote what people don't like, and that applies to propertarians too or any position that's unorthodox.
When I was developing the Linux version of a piece of software I make (https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/) I started out with Gtk but it was a massive PITA to work with.

I switched to Qt and was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was to use.
Chickens aren't really stupid.
Leave your programming at work. Find a cause you believe in or a political candidate you think will do good, and volunteer for that. Knock on doors. Call people. Do research. Organize events and people. Donate money. Change other people's minds.

A lot of these social good things need people to get involved, not software to be written.
Boss: Median latency is 100ms and 99.9th percentile latency is 1 second.

Nobody ever asks about that 0.1%...
This is true, high skilled employers have lots of trouble finding high skilled workers, and one of the main economic incentives driving gender and ethnic equality in high tech work places is the disadvantage of not being able to have the maximum amount of resources to pool skilled workforces from.

They can't get enough qualified people.