skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C and C++ have a lot of wiggle room when it comes to implementations. I prefer C (when possible) just because there's less surface-area for arbitrary behavior (which is already more than enough arbitraryness).

I'm writing this mostly as a plug for DJB's proposal for a "boring" C compiler: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/boring-crypto/48qa1k...
Our Go is fine but our SQL is great
Basic Multilingual Plane always make me think of Cthulhu... it lives beoynd
"I think the limit will be quickly raised." I can't think of a single instance of regulation where a limit has ever gone up with inflation, or for any other reason, ever. 10k limit across borders for, uh 30 years? It gets more harsh, not less.

EU: "Cash controls - New proposal
On 21 December 2016 the Commission proposed to extend the already existing controls on amounts of cash entering or leaving the Union equal to or in excess of 10.000 euros.

The measures will extend cash controls to unaccompanied cash such as cash sent in postal parcels or freight consignments

and to precious commodities such as gold, which serve as 'quasi-cash' and are used to circumvent the obligation to declare.

The proposed changes will improve the exchange of information between competent authorities at national level and between Member States

and allow them to act on amounts lower than the declaration threshold, provided that there are indications of criminal activity."
As a publisher, clicks have nothing to do with how much I am paid. I am paid for impressions
It's a catch 22 really - If adverts are modified or removed, the dom will reflect that. If you completely spoof that you effectively break the dom for everything else.

If you only spoof the advert's own properties, you can infer state from other inline elements.

If you block domains you can check for their response on the client.

If you proxy the incoming asset before it hits the browser and replace it's content is harder to detect client side but the ad provider will be able to see what happened and would most likely not display your modified content, taking you back to the conventional detection strategies.
I like the buried lead here - you jump from "inconvenienced restaurant owners" to over half a million dollars under floorboards. That's taking, conservatively, >$10000 a year of losses from cash rate interest alone just sitting there.
This is a very political comment. The Core developers are free to do what they want. The software is open source and running it is the choice of the users. The Core developers are not compelled by any means to do any implementation even if the majority of users, exchanges and investors want it.
Leprino not giving his chief engineer/scientist any equity at all is definitely not a small fault. I can see why ShabbosGoy might say Leprino is worthy of scorn.

"I would tell people,'Lester is the man that made me rich,' " Leprino says. Notably, though, Leprino never gave Kielsmeier any equity. While Leprino got rich, Kielsmeier — who came to work every day right until his death at 95 in 2012--would have to content himself with being very well paid."
What is really claimed by the Catalan's government is the right of self-determination, that is the right for people living in Catalonia to decide their future. Spain's government oppose to that right, hence the conflict.

To put in perspective, there have been other situations in the history of humanity where various stakeholders did not agree on rights being granted, sometimes even involving violence or even war. Examples are the right of women to vote or the abolition of slavery.
You're implying the internet wouldn't exist without advertising, with is laughably false and exactly what the people with loud, shitty, privacy-invading ads want you to think.
I'm suspicious the large criminal operations are using cash (or crypto). They are probably using Banks, Politicians and Regulators. These laws are meant to control the simple citizen, or the smaller criminal operations.
Indeed. Out of six years of reading scholarship applications, the most impressive extracurricular activity I've read about was working at McDonalds -- because it was clear that they had been given nothing in life for free, and had spent years working every available hour trying to put together money to cover the cost of their education.

That demonstrates commitment in a way that volunteering for worthy causes never will.
> Peer-to-peer electronic cash has numerous uses beyond tax evasion and money laundering

What are the biggest ones? I don't see any point of physical cash personally but I'm in a country where no-one uses it.
I keep wondering why people don't mine open source commit histories for bug fixes to train a classifier to recognize buggy vs non-buggy code in order to help draw more review attention to code that the classifier thinks smells buggy.
Through virtual credit card numbers you charged from crypto.
Quick heads up that your website doesn't display properly (I can zoom out so that your entire site is a thin column on the left of the screen) on my phone. I'm on Chrome on a Samsung Galaxy S5.
Already familiar with it; doesn't make it right, or justifiable. And there's plenty of case law in both directions on reverse engineering and cloning; the exact boundary would depend heavily on the details of a specific case.

In any case, it'd also be much harder to prove any harm caused by a variant like this, which is designed specifically to be un-fun, as difficult as possible, look nothing like the original, and not have any commercial interest at all. Which makes the presumption of illegality entirely inappropriate.
> Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency tries to get back to the idea of peer-to-peer financial exchange without needing that third party

What's the benefit? I suppose it becomes faster but seeing that Bitcoin transfers takes hours to verify currently I don't know if that's an argument.
There's also Snoopsnitch from SRLabs (Nohl et al).

Most of these software seems to suffer from the combination of hardware dependencies and device churn/neglect. Neither have received updates in a while.

We really need to gather all these resources together if we want software that works. Ideally, there should also be a simple way to know that it's working.
Container Linux on the Desktop
> the quality of the cheese is terrible IMHO

It can't be that terrible, because they had to inject it into the crust when they ran out of room on the top to satisfy consumers' desire for it.
The kcc compiler is really good at being predicatable.
A formal semantics of the language gives warnings whenever undefined behavior occurs.

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics
My bad, I thought you were referring to `typeof` being the code that still executes. Now I read that tweet more carefully and noticed the `getOptions()` call is in a comment. A strange feature that I suppose is useful when dealing with complex anonymous types, though in my experience such complex types tend to be named.
Still, are those benefits really worth it? Seems pretty minor to me but maybe I fail to see the bigger picture. Sounds like these things can be achieved easily with traditional money as well (like how it works in South Korea, where the social tipping you speak of is very popular). How are states supposed to collect taxes if they can't see anything?
Do you have any examples of those?
Is not gratifying your wife's complaints about the size of her house a fundamental affront to her dignity, or is it merely settling one of the many compromises that individuals make when they choose to pool their responsibilities, energy, spirit, attention, and resources? Presumably someone winds up with a too-small house because they can't afford a bigger one. Coming to afford things in the first place usually involves purposely enduring a significant amount of discomfort. Very often two people in the same place find themselves both unhappy with circumstance, and there's no way to bring them both to paradise.

That's why it pays to have someone by your side who isn't a complainer. You relieve burdens from each other not because on the whole it makes your lives objectively better in sum, but because it's easier to endure the unavoidable pains of life when you have a good human reason: Family.
My six-year-old nephew sat with rapt amazement as I assembled a standard PC in his living room while hanging out with the family. It was a very straightforward build- just motherboard, CPU & RAM, no addon cards, hard drive was already in the case. His mind boggled a little when he saw all the wires from the power supply, but as I pointed out how each group of wired to key into only certain ports, I could see the 'aha!' in his eyes.

(He also just about jumped for joy when he saw the color-changing LED fan I put on the case.)

Obviously at that age he doesn't quite have the manual dexterity to do the work himself, but I let him touch the RAM as I installed it so he could feel it click in to place, and showed him how to close & latch the CPU lever.

He appeared to really enjoy the experience. The next time one of the offices I work for retire some desktops, I may clean some up and partially disassemble them, so he can 'build' one himself. I really want to impress on him the fact that things that look complicated can be understood, if you just break down the task into bite-sized chunks.
You can create credit cards on the fly and charge them with bitcoin. Another possible action is to use the money for advertising, product development, etc... and build a somewhat legitimate business. The business might not be quite profitable but that's the price you pay for laundering?
Waymo is now testing self-driving trucks
Why not? I mean, buffalo mozzarella is pretty nice right? Are you saying you don't want food you can appreciate?
I've been having an experience very similar to deja vu, but not quite the same. I've developed some kind of accidental mental hack where reading nursery rhymes to my kids makes me fall asleep. I could be wide awake but I'll literally open page one of a book and yawn immediately. My wife thinks this is hilarious.

As I'm just reaching the edge of losing consciousness, my brain starts to manufacture false memories about whatever nursery rhyme I'm reading. For example if I'm reading "sing a song of sixpence" my brain will say "ah yes, I remember this one, the king and the maid are having an affair, and the queen learns about it and has her killed". Then I'll shake off sleep and realise that it was a false memory

It's an odd feeling.

Similarly, sometimes when drifting off I'll find myself at the end of a train of thought which I did not have. I don't know how else to describe it. It's like my subconscious was having a train of thought and i jumped in and claimed it.
The political discussions here are valuable precisely because we can't do that here; HN members are self-selected by interests that cross-cut political lines.

That's only the case because the guidelines and moderation practices are set up to keep political flamewars off the site. Those benefits would evaporate very quickly if HN was allowed to become a political free-for-all.

The perspective that politics shouldn't be discussed because it is difficult is the rationalization.

The difficulty of political discussion isn't the rationalisation; the rationalisation is the predictability and mundaneness, and pointless incivility; i.e., people get emotionally heated, but resolve nothing and nobody learns anything. Nobody benefits and the quality of the site only degrades.

Topics related to politics are discussed here quite successfully all the time, and when it happens it's because the topic and resulting discussion is gratifying to one's curiosity and/or evidence of some interesting new phenomenon , as per the site guidelines.

the underlying motivation for some is the desire to treat tech and the work we do as apolitical, because to do otherwise would have uncomfortable consequences.

Few people are intelligent and socially-aware enough to be a high achievers in their business or career and yet naïve enough to think that their work is apolitical. And plenty of prominent HN contributors are perfectly capable of expressing strong political positions in their tweets and blog posts but keeping them out of their comments on HN.
Since you don't get a mold beforehand I'm guessing this is 3d printed. How do you get the 3d image of the tooth ?
Gambling and founding a startup are two vastly different things, they are not on the same scale. While gambling is a zero-sum game and you have little control over the outcome, a startup creates value (or at least, tries to) and you do have the ability to change/improve the product based on feedback from the market. I might be too idealistic, but I believe this is what motivates hackers to found startups: create value + take control of their lives.
At this point in the short term, what Intel does and says is irrelevant. All they can do is cut prices on their current offerings, but their current offerings at best take second stage. AMD is presenting a series of very interesting products which are a quantitative and qualitative leap ahead of what has been in the market for years, and are offering them at very interesting prices, and Intel can do nothing to change this.

Perhaps in the medium or long term Intel can do anything to change this, but right now the only thing that matters is AMD and the company's new product lines.
Zillow sells advertising not homes. Basically a newspaper with a real estate section and some incredibly dodgy statistics.
> the "joke"

It's "hilarious", you're missing out on "a witty insight" about "valuable programming skills".

alt post: it's as much of a joke as xkcd's "I understood that reference" performance pieces.
> Capitalism is founded on exploitation

As opposed to being founded on stealing other people's stuff.
Is payroll tax paid by the person or the employer?
I'm experimenting something using "noise" the new database from Damien Katz (CouchDB). I can feed JSON-LD document and query them. Very useful for microservices because each services only need to know one part of the overall schema/data model
Satoshi Nakamoto also intended for the block sizes to go up after an amount of time, yet the bitcoin core team isn't willing to upgrade and tries to promote their own agenda (blockstream).
This is a great essay.

I love so many of the quotes:

[the RDF Working groups] continue[s] the narrative that the Semantic Web community creates esoteric solutions to non-problems.

When you chair standards groups that kick out “Semantic Web” standards, but even your company can’t stomach the technologies involved, something is wrong. That’s why my personal approach with JSON-LD just happened to be burning most of the Semantic Web technology stack (TURTLE/SPARQL/Quad Stores) to the ground and starting over.

As someone who has actually built a non-trivial RDF/SPARQL/Quad Store based app (and would love to avoid having to do that again..) I've avoided JSON-LD because of it's association with the semantic web. Maybe I should reconsider.

I'll add another quote for good measure:

"The semantic web is the future of the internet and always will be." - Peter Norvig.
There's a hypothesis that this is why we (normally) forget our dreams; it prevents us from getting confused about what's real.
It will be interesting to see if we can use this in linux with minimal changes to the test if the system

(I am looking at you systemd)
Devops is kind of diminishing with advancement in docker, kubernetes and paas. So full stack developer is not really a myth if only one sticks to one front end tech right now. I think it's a good time to be full stack dev. Thinking of being one beyond 5 years was probably difficult.
Maybe in a different society with massively punitive taxation across the board (ie no escape to elsewhere), these people who are driven would be driven to create an organisation that was massive and successful just the same, and their brand would be recognised everywhere but that would be its own goal and the wealth generated would be spread around? I don't know, but its a nice thought..
Pan-frying was the original Neopolitan way to make pizza. Learned that from an Italian work-colleague whose family back home still made them that way.
Hard work has no intrinsic value. Show me teh monneeeh!
See Wikipedia entry for Leapfrogging for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leapfrogging
Twitter will mangle your PNGs into JPEGs unless they have an alpha channel.
Can’t use it because it requires too new a MacOS version :)
There is a simpler solution make it impossible to seize assets of any variety without getting a conviction first.

If you can't prove a crime you have no business seizing anyone's assets. Innocent until proven guilty is a thing.
That explains what exactly? You should never allow a culture where one employee departure can endanger the whole project.
Sounds like textbook regulatory capture?
I posted the story because, egged on by Google's 'Rich Data Cards' item in their search console, I finally snapped and I thought that I'd try it on one of my sites.

I am not encouraged by lots of handwaving in various docs, apparent schoolboy errors in (eg) Google's examples, and apparent incompleteness in the spec for such things as temporalCoverage (can an open-ended and still-continuing data set be indicated with "temporalCoverage":"20140721T10:13Z/" ?).
Unless something has drastically changed, everything you said is completely incorrect. They sell ads to agents.
I wouldn't be especially surprised if they just added more slack for sufficiently large customers to negotiate against.

I was going to say I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the pricing for vendors without changing the suggested retail price, but no, that would rapidly ripple across the marketplace as soon as one vendor cut the price.
Very true. I would like to see more of that from owners and investors.
Sorry: didn't see this in time to edit the title.
None of the usability problems you mention have to do with the registry, so I fail to see how getting rid of it would materially improve the windows experience.

The core problem with windows 10 for me is and remains the crappy driver situation. Drivers on windows are far less robust than on OS X, and OS and/or driver updates create many more problems. This isn't tied to any particular windows version, but W10 suffers from it more because updates happen with much less control over the when and where, which means drivers break in more awkward moments.

An example from my own workplace is that a lot of my coworkers have had their laptop keyboard break after a W7 update. Windows reboots to update, and ctrl-alt-del no longer works, not on the built-in keyboard and not on an external one, so you're locked out. The solution is connecting via remote desktop and logging in once, after which windows update picks back up and fixes the problem, but that's not always a convenient thing to do. I bet that microsoft doesn't even see that in their metrics, because to them it's just a remote desktop login, so they probably think those updates don't have any problems (after all, the update gets installed and people seem to go back about their business).
Comparing the momentary release of coal combustion with the 10,000 year waste management issues of nuclear in the way only "science" journalism can.
Like I just said, browser ad blockers have been around for well over a decade, but their installed base has been a pretty small proportion of users until the past few years. A lot of people don't seem to be hugely bothered by a certain level of advertising, at least not enough to go to the effort of installing an adblocker.

Personally, I'd much rather have no advertising at all, but until recently I tried to only block problematic sites, use ABP's Acceptable Ads, and so forth, because I want to support the sites I use regularly even at the cost of very minor irritation. I switched to a scorched-earth policy when it got so bad that many sites were suffering major performance degradation, and many others were plastered with bottom-feeding ads that were actively offensive to me. If things actually improve by some miracle, I'd consider throttling it back a bit.
How so? I make sure to spend plenty of time with my family. My day job (developer) takes up 40 hours a week. I probably spend another 5-10 hours per week on my side/personal projects. It's all about drive and being focused. I'm far from an outlier.
You're being downvoted because he WORKED HARD. Don't you want to WORK HARD?
I think its fair to say that Hinton's justifications are post-hoc. I think a lot of neural network scientists also do that, as there are many basic components that dont have a biological analogue or even contradict biology, like backpropagation, LSTMs, RBM training layer-by-layer, semilinear activation functions. I can't think of an instance for example where the designers made a choice of connectivity "because that is how the brain does it" and they ended up having a better performing network. There have been recently attempts to match ANNs with spiking networks (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021692/), but only rough sketches of ideas are provided.
This CIA Tool Hacks Windows Computers Silently Over the Network
Transactions solely transacted via physical cash don't require a middleman be paid at every step. Even if you never see a line item for the middle man its effectively part of the bill you pay when you check out anywhere that accepts plastic.

The middlemen by setting costs that include a minimum charge per transaction also make transactions below a certain threshold non viable because the transaction fee would be higher than the actual charge.
Considering the download size of the games, a 16GB (128Gbit) chip is more likely
There was a program on British TV a few years ago where they took some fast food and presented it on a plate as if it had come from a gourmet chef then asked people who don't eat fast food what they thought of it.

They all praised it.
Have to comment on this - so the fact that the owner of the largest electric car company in the world and a huge solar company really liked policies that would cripple his competition is surprising? This is not exactly principled opposition here.
I initially reacted poorly to that part. However, on further thought, some people just don't want partners, which is where granting equity leads.

We don't know what being very well paid means in this case. If Kielsmeier was making $500k or $1 million a year, that wouldn't be too terrible, and perhaps would in the end be as much as he would have gotten from whatever equity he might have gotten.

Of course, well paid might have meant only $150k a year, which seems less fair. But really, we don't know and shouldn't jump to assuming that no equity didn't mean unfair compensation.
As I see it, the most powerful criminals control governments. And then they get to define whatever they don't like as criminal. The game is rigged. But fighting is pointless. It's better to just walk away.
We'll discourage risk taking if everyone who chooses the relatively secure path of an employee gets to share the upside but never the downside.

Yeah he can lose his job if entrepreneur fails... if the job is in demand he'll easily get a new one, if it's not in demand it's his poor carrier choice irrelevant of the entrepreneur.

Plus most entrepreneurs put way more on the line and go through several rounds of failures... if you're not there when entrepreneur fails and have part in the downside why should you take a cut larger than you deserve as an employee from the success.

But here's the thing... the chef is replaceable... that guy who built that company, he's #1 in the industry and probably in the world.

Yeah you say you owe him success because that's what leaders say... but he'll do it with or without there's no doubt about it.

Lastly, as an employee he was likely paid more than anyone in his position and achieved higher success than he could ever hope as a chef who voluntarily chooses to stay employed.

EDIT: if you're downvoting, at least counter with an argument... don't be hypocrite.