skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why not just invest in those things directly?

Example: GPS was invented by the military. But you could have a different government organization work on all the useful stuff that comes out of the military that has nothing to do with blowing people up.

You could also argue that if you invest trillions of dollars into digging holes, that might result in useful technology. Taking the example of GPS, maybe you need to very accurately know what your position is, so that you can pinpoint exactly where you want the hole to be built.

My hole digging government department could have invented GPS too!
Just talking about glassdoor, and their rankings are to take with a big grain of salt, especially for early stage startups and medium sized companies.

I worked for a company that had some issues with management and saw its glassdoor ranking plummet after several low scores were given by past employees with mention of harassment. They didn't claim the profile on glassdoor at the time. Unsurprisingly, after a few really negative reviews, they most likely encouraged current employees to post positive reviews to counter-balance for the purpose of claiming the profile. It was obvious because positive reviews were for most of them on the same date or very close to each other and came in bulk while reviews were spaced by weeks or months before (most of them rather negative).

The gist of it is that while negative reviews may not reflect the current state and culture of a company (disgruntled employees happen), positive reviews could also be misleading. And I'm not even accounting for people that have an interest for putting up positive reviews regardless of the working environment because they have big stakes into the company.

Best thing to do is to chat with several employees in different departments and ask for their honest opinion and share their experience. Generally people are open about the pros and cons of their own working environment if you talk to them behind closed doors.
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Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up
You say that like every single German personally executed jews and other minorities.

Yes, a lot of Germans did. Yes, more Germans went along and didn't do anything against the Nazis.

But only a minority of Germans knew how bad it was. My grandmother told me that they knew about some labor camps were certain people were put. She said that she didn't know anything about the industrialized murder. If you look on the map, you will see that the extermination camps (the concentration camps constructed to kill people) were located outside of the German Reich so that the German public would not get to know about it. Hitler knew that the extermination camps could weaken his position and enrage the public.

Most Wehrmacht soldiers followed orders and marched against the enemy they were told to shoot at. Yes, this is also bad and "I just followed orders" should not be an excuse. But the recent 72 years showed that most Germans were peaceful and just wanted to live their live. Homecoming soldiers didn't jump on the next minority and beat them up. The overwhelming majority was just happy that everything is over. Hitler was never elected by a majority and he came to his final power through a coup d'état.
If you want some more historical fun, go back and look up which newspapers were supportive of Japanese internment :)
Would you please stop going on about this? You've done it a great deal and we've now explained to you that (unless you have actual evidence) it's off-topic.

If you have concerns about abuse on HN you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it, but you're not welcome to dilute HN discussions with what amounts to nothing more than tedious fantasy.
If you're rich and pushing UBI, that probably means that you'd be willing to pay significantly higher taxes, or why would you do it?

That doesn't mean you have to be a sucker and do it unilaterally when nobody has to do it. It's a collective action problem.
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so.. you're running debian minimal with no window manager then just invoking chromium via commandline and browsing to a web app?
Hilarious iconoclastic talk.
I'm pretty sure you can find an expert in any field (provided enough 'experts', which for TLS there certainly are) who will have a given opinion on the topic.

I myself am not entirely happy with the way TLS works. It invites for bad configurations and in our pen testing reports, it is extremely rare to see setups that do not have some recommendation. I have yet to see one, but I'm sure someone in the office will have seen a "perfect" setup on some odd assignment (once again: given enough samples, you'll find one...). And then there's the fact that almost all TLS connections use endpoints written in memory-unsafe languages, which has caused its fair share of vulnerabilities. (Alright, maybe a lot more than its fair share.)

But the notion that OpenVPN is bad just because it relies on TLS is mildly ridiculous. The only reason I could agree with "let's move OpenVPN off of TLS" is because too much relies on one protocol. Then again, that makes it an extremely well-vetted protocol, which is one of the things that makes it so good, and it's a fairly versatile protocol. Most of the important parts can be swapped out with a configuration change.
Note the user field in the above command. Desktop file managers can do this too.
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You use Linux :-D
Just that nox doesn't have all the gtk/x deps built in, functionally mostly the same as far as I have been able to tell.
Fair enough. I concede the point.
Context matters and the context of my assertion was "Nowadays information is just a Google search away, so knowing a lot doesn't really mean as much as it used to."

Knowing a lot still means a lot ;)

I do generally agree with you though I'm hesitant to use the term "truth". There is a part where it is first world solution: a lot more information is now also available to citizens in the first world.

But you are wrong that it is not that hard or that it is an issue of googling a bit more. In many areas Google's improvements in these decades has been incremental. And if your search term matches hot commerce terms then likely no amount of googling will get you where you want to go.
Nice to see projects that convert HTML to markdown. Projects to convert in the other direction (md to html) are far more common. Parsing HTML is tough
Also, a 'Waffle Generator' written awk in https://busybox.hypermart.net/waffle-generator.html feel free to use as so compelled.
But with the military, you are already taking that money out of the economy and putting it into a few people's hands directly.

I wasn't suggesting redistributing money from one company to another.

I was suggesting having some sort of government agency, that spends trillions of dollars a year on doing all those R&D things that the military does that have nothing to do with blowing people up.

Literally just "The military, minus the guns, bombs, fighter jets, and everything else that involves killing people".

That wouldn't be perfect, but for the purpose of making the economy/world a better place, such a "not killing people military" seems like it would be strictly better than our current military.
Exactly, That's the smallest (AKA cheapest) setup I can think of.
Does anyone think that when the crypto bubble bursts, that will cause a stock market level crash?
That shouldn't be coding or should invest some hours for learning regexes...
The World’s First 3D-Printed Bridge Officially Opened
What?

Let's say that the US somehow did implement UBI. You would almost certainly have to be a citizen (or at least be someone who pays taxes with a valid SSN) to get the benefits. Just being in the US doesn't mean you'll get money every month. Beyond this, how does getting UBI benefits give you a cut on your taxes? You would most likely get taxed more with UBI, given you have a job.

There haven't been many studies on it, and sure some people would likely opt to not have a job if they get UBI, but don't discount the amount of people that would be brought up out of poverty and could possibly do something more than they could now simply because they have better circumstances.

Even though I think that UBI will certainly probably never be implemented in the US, given the current system of politics, I would argue that it's inherently a good thing for society even if you are maybe, potentially marginally worse off. A UBI would likely be implemented in such a way that you will have money for the essentials like food, but if you wanted that brand new phone, you would need to have a job to make money to afford it. UBI doesn't mean everything is free, it just means that you don't have to worry about feeding yourself.
Achieving PCI Compliance with Postgres [pdf]
Pandoc may be of interest.
Very nice game. Runs really smooth on my Firefox 53 Win10. I played just 2 levels and its an excellent one and really enjoyed playing it.

I also checked the console, and found this that may be of interest to you:

[WARNING] trying binaryen method: native-wasm demo.js:1:6927

[WARNING] asynchronously preparing wasm demo.js:1:6927

[WARNING] binaryen method succeeded. demo.js:1:6927

Unsupported sample rate : 48000 demo.js:1:1633
the technical term is "boustrophedon" (etymologically "in the manner of an ox ploughing a field"), google it up for some nice examples
I think the author is attacking a strawman. The common ground to most successful technologies is that their potential was recognized early on, and many people worked on realizing them, at least after breakthrough proofs-of-concept. That was the case for airplanes, televisions, computers, mobile phones, etc.

But what people "dismiss" -- although, I would say question -- is not the technology's ultimate success, but its timing. Machine learning, and the eventual AI, was Alan Turing's dream years before the first computer was built. He talked to his friend Claude Shannon about supervised learning in 1943, and Shannon proposed letting computers absorb culture and arts, too (playing them music, in particular, an idea that Turing first found surprising). In 1946, Turing wrote about unsupervised learning, talking about equipping computers with wheels, arms and cameras, and letting them roam the countryside. Neural networks were invented circa 1942, and Turing started researching them in the late 40s. The algorithms used today for machine learning were invented in the '60s, but the theory behind them pretty much stalled in the '90s.

The question is, then, not whether AI is ultimately achievable, nor whether current machine learning is useful in some domains. The question is how far is (actual) AI or generally useful machine learning. Given that we've been working on the problem for 75 years now, no major theoretical breakthroughs have been made in the past few decades, and that most successes are due to better hardware but with uncertain future scalability, I see no rational reason to expect a breakthrough in the next 5 years (very smart people in the '40s, '50s and '60s were equally convinced that AI is around the corner). I would never dismiss the promise of AI, but I would certainly question the unbridled enthusiasm some people have for machine learning's current form.
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> The researchers also say that it’s high-time regulators dispense with the kind of lab tests that US and EU governments have required for years. Instead, some kind of active scan for illegal code needs to be developed.

Alternatively, combine the lab tests with imprecise real-world tests as a sanity check, or keep the exact nature of the lab tests a secret and vary them over time. Really, the first of these seems like a good idea regardless of what else you do.
I'm sorry. My intent is not to insult, but to express a thought that only recently occurred to me: democratic societies need a basic legal "literacy" class in the education of every citizen as much as people who may need to save money for retirement or borrow for a home purchase need basic financial "literacy" classes.

In my public schooling, I had two year-long classes about the structure and function of the United States government. One was in middle school and one was in high school; I was not required to take any course on the subject as part of undergrad. Neither course taught me much more about courts than that the Supreme Court is the highest court of appeal and interprets the Constitutionality of laws.

Courts are complicated and laws and regulations are different from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but there are some fundamental, low-level principles that apply to proceedings across most (possibly all?) courts in the US. An educated citizenry in the US would, ideally, have at least some exposure to these fundamentals; these basic principles (which would include at least a little on contracts) are too important for the vast majority of the population (i.e. almost all non-lawyers) to not understand.

I told a lawyer friend about this idea and she strongly agreed. She said that her sister had taken an undergrad class which roughly fit my description-- "pre-pre-law" was how she described it. Her sister's evaluation of the course was that it's description of legal principles and their operation in courts helped explain a lot of the mechanics of how government, private institutions, and society function.
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I hate this conflation of "small-government" and small federal government. It's just too difficult to manage a country this large and populous from D.C. We all would have better control over our own lives if we did more at the state level, and the smart people will move to the better run states.
yeah, what he says is wrong.

there are classes with older pupils (~19-30 years old), but they're the minority. most are, as you kindly noted before, between 15 and 18.

and i honestly can't agree on this constant praise for this system. i'm just finishing with my apprenticeship and the school part was a total joke. i think the highlight of my time there was me entering the class and saying 'good morning' to the teacher, who responded with 'shut up, i want to sleep'. which was followed by 270 minutes of "self study" on the internet.

and the payment for this exercise is a joke as well. you actually get less than our social security (hartz iv) would be giving you for doing nothing.
> A very literal reading of the Merkle sentence on wikipedia could conclude that it's stating each block of a blockchain must contain a valid Merkle tree, and so technically that sentence on the Wiki is incorrect;

That is not incorrect. That is exactly what is happening.

> because, aside from re-hashing the prior hash (along with each node data), the blockchain algorithm doesn't care what the 'data' payload is. I was giving the Wiki editor the benefit of the doubt, assuming he just worded that sentence incorrectly.

At the blockchain level, sure. But the Merkle tree exists at a higher level of abstraction.

> The only difference between an order-one (degree-one) merkle tree (wired like a 'linked list' graph) and a blockchain, is that merkle doesn't require new data to hash on each non-leaf node, but has data only on leaf nodes.

Right. This means that a Merkle tree of degree one can only contain one element, because it always have one leaf. That is why I called it useless in an earlier post.

> So this means from a coding standpoint every order-one merkel is a single line of code away from being a blockchain. That is: The line of code that adds the 'node data' byte array to the SHA256 Hash Digester input stream, before outputting the node's hash. However this may also be a case where the Merkle wiki is not fully complete and accurate, because I cannot fathom that Merkle never thought of a case where each node contains data of it's own to add into the hashing. I bet the original source material from Merkle does include node data as an option, and would make him technically the actual first inventor of blockchain.

It is only a one line of code difference, but it is a very important line of code. Changing the Merkle Tree in that way complete breaks the two main algorithms that make it useful [0]. Data structures aren't just about the way data is organized. They are also about ways to manipulate that data in that organization that allow for algorithms that wouldn't be possible otherwise. This is why Merkle didn't patent the idea of including data in non-leaf nodes, and that is also why most people don't consider any linked list using cryptographic hashes instead of pointers to be a blockchain. Because the way data is manipulated is just as important as how it is stored.

[0] https://www.certificate-transparency.org/log-proofs-work
you might also try flint os, the active chromium os build

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-flint-os/

or running a light wm like xmonad / i3wm instead of just running from command line using x depending on the functionality you want http://www.alandmoore.com/blog/2011/11/05/creating-a-kiosk-w...
Would it not be...

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

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The assertion that the peak of this curve is skewed towards the left (low tax rates), rather than the right (high rates)?

That is, that if the "job creators" don't keep enough of the margin on goods produced, they will just get pissed off, take their marbles and go home, rather than actually bothering to hire a few more people to grab additional marginal income?

The way the Laffer Curve was usually presented, was to give one the impression that there were marginal tax rates so high that they were somehow greater than 100% and ate into income earned at a lower marginal rate, which would otherwise have been retained had there been less of it.

Thus, "trickle down" being the idea that when the rich have more money, they will for some reason voluntarily use it to hire people to produce products and services, regardless of whether or not there is any actual demand, or anticipated demand, for them.

Yes, a marginal tax rate of 110% would be bad. Good thing we don't do that :-) (I guess I should be ready for some example from 1880 where combined locality through federal taxes did for some specific dollar amount - but hopefully such freaky exceptions don't really exist, or at least often enough to matter)

Edit: I realize that the Laffer Curve was primarily about tax revenues, BUT, a large component of the theory was that as the activity increased to generate the tax revenues, it was due to somebody doing the work that created the additional earnings.
Ask HN: What APIs are good for financial data?
I've been scouring the net for a while and can't seem to find anything thats open source and free and good quality. Free isn't super important to me but I really just want something that has all the data and doesn't cost a ton of money.

I'd like to use the data to build open source financial analyst tools I need.

Thanks in advance,
That is a completely valid pragmatic concern, but it is a problem with the law. Not a problem with the technology.
:) , why would that happen?
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I "live" (not starve but that's all) in a Vanagon in SV on ~$300/month on GA, SNAP and Medical (Medicaid).

I can barely afford two required medications that I copay out of pocket (Walgreens), and the price of the expensive one just jumped from $22.50 to $38. Can't afford auto repairs, can't anything entertaining that involves money, replacing anything should something break or saving for emergencies much less retirement. I would like to convert my vehicle to EV (a-la Electric Samba) and add solar, but that's currently well beyond my reach. (My and others MPCs are higher because of inelastic demands to survive, not "avocado toast.")

Thankfully, propane is cheap ($9 every 3-4 years).

UBI will likely never happen because it reduces economic violence on those unable to earn more than minimum wage. Poor conditions, union-busting, minimal benefits and maximum productivity benefit the ruling class to extract more profit from people, keep people busy and keep them "in line."
It's also magnitudes larger than BTC...
Please don't do programming language flamewars here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14435298 and marked it off-topic.
The real world sanity checks for cheating make sense. But the nature of the regular tests can't be secret. Carmakers need to know the bar they are supposed to hit. Building something on the speculation that it might pass, maybe, is a whole different business model.
Interesting personification of Explorer. One might think it were a person the way it is described.
I'm very sorry that the recording doesn't show the screen properly. Especially for this talk, where the demos are crucial. I may have to recreate the talk as a screencast.
"This will go down on your permanent record."
You can have private ledgers.
But you dont want it to be the desktop. You said want it to be your serving infrastructure where things run on.
Basically there is no adaption that works against bad circumstances that adapt to you - besides intelligence. We might wipe out all bigger life-forms where we go- but in our shadow, intelligent life might grow.
Arras able to do take out orders from unoccupied flats.
Foxes able to open trash cans.
Wild boars, planting ambrosia to keep allergic humans at bay.
Algae and Fungi able to eat electricity and plastic.
Nature has a nice come back swing. Not very Disney, but nothing is.
Don't underestimate the kind of things that the finance industry is bad at keeping track of :) https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/dole-food...
A+... this is like a geek storm in a glass of water... the average investor will not be harmed at all...
I agree that there are times where you want to nail things down so they cannot be changed. It's just that it's easier to restrict the behavior of a live system than to customize a "dead" one. Hence liveness needs to be at the foundation.
I think the author has hit the nail on the head here. Blockchains offer two useful things:

* Decentralized authority

* A way to make digital goods scarce

To my knowledge, no one has created a business that takes maximum advantage of these strengths to provide value to the user. I can't imagine what kind of business could do this. Someone who can will make a lot of money.
> focussed on what customers and developers want

I would hardly agree with the modern web being focused on what "customers" want. How many web pages today hijack scrolling, fill the screen with ads that lie on top of the content and don't scroll with the page, and so on? How much bloat is there? How many MB of unnecessary JS frameworks must be downloaded, often on a metered data plan, to support all of that? The web is a horrible mess these days. It may be a rip-roarin' good time for (some) developers, but it's absolutely awful for users.
OK, but there are test details that are known to the manufacturers but seem irrelevant to the thing being tested. Like the bit about the angle of the steering wheel. Surely there are multiple ways one can test for the same standard?
In every post i've made it has been crystal clear I'm referring to "blockchain the data-structure"... The "consensus component" is an algorithm for detecting if one blockchain disagrees with other blockchains, and ignoreing it if it does.

https://youtu.be/_160oMzblY8?t=5m5s
E-Trade finds more millennnials are taking up options trading
I've always felt that React is a constantly churning ecosystem. The patterns keep changing too fast for me to settle down or catch up. That way Vue.js has done an amazing job. Sort of reminded me of Rails. Today I'm happy with Vue.js for my small to medium applications. Keeps things simple and beautiful.
Broken-promise: compliant Promises/A+ implementation which doesn't actually work