skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something special about this total eclipse over others?
Why is Ethereum's price rising? It's because of breathless articles like this. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Wonder how much this guy has invested?

If those dapps are so great, why isn't there a single one that regular people are using today?
What about the rest of the world!!
Don't worry he won't find it. Publications pertaining to firearms from a public health and safety standpoint are my bread and butter: I am unaware of any single piece of literature out there that makes this claim.

In fact the CDC report commissioned by Obama after Sandy Hook showed that there is in fact a protective effect (obviously) from firearms possession.

Sources:

[1] - http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-s...

[2] - https://www.nap.edu/catalog/18319/priorities-for-research-to...
Common Sense 2017.

Snarkiness aside, you don't need an antivirus on your Mac. As long as you run as a non-admin user, enable a firmware password, and stay away from Adobe Flash, you are golden.
Details matter--get this one right, please!

Twenty were _fired_ for sexual harassment issues.

Given what we know of Uber's internal culture, my money says that many, many more were counseled, reprimanded or whatever than just those twenty.
I don't disagree. The the parent comments focused on how often the harassment happened—not Uber's response—so it piqued my curiosity.
I'm expecting the comment to get flagged and detached so I figured it was a good time to suggest a general rule that Godwin's Law breakers will not be tolerated.
Yahoo owns 15% of Alibaba, due to an investment done a long time ago. Alibaba is considered to be quite valuable -- so they are spinning off the core of the company in order to be able to behave more as the investment company they became, since they couldn't extract the Alibaba shares without paying a massive amount of capital gains tax on the increase in value.
It's timely that you mention this - I was thinking of hacking together my own sleep sensor but I'm married and I keep going round and round trying to sort out a system that if doesn't work for two accounts for one in spite of two. It also needs high wife acceptance factor (waf).
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Keystroke Level Modeling (KLM) or CogTool (github.com/cogtool/cogtool), which divides up UI interactions into discrete actions with specific times. It gives a pretty reasonable estimate overall, and is great for comparing between multiple competing concepts/usage-models.
Eh? He and others were looking at a rape victim's medical records, apparently with the conviction that she was making it up and was paid by their competitor to smear them. If that doesn't raise concerns about the company's culture, I don't know what will. There are few precedents for such shitty conduct in the 21st century corporate world.
Now that the browser isn't the primary target for dart, is there work going on to make threading possible?
He is telling people not rape people and not have sex with your subordinates. It seems pretty reasonable to me. Maybe the wording could be better, but it isn't too scandalous.
I thought that's what internet is for.
Is Outer Space a Perfect Vacuum and Death by It
You're thinking of the EPA car classification, which is defined for the purposes of comparing fuel economy amongst similar vehicles. It is one of many vehicle classification systems in use by the US government, but it does not apply to the NHTSA.
Thanks for the update, and appreciate your work. I had been keeping an eye on your nnbd prototype here, https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/prototype-nnbd

Any updates on that? Do you still think it's a go?
Enough to build a Dropbox inside Yahoo.
GitHub adds support for nested organization teams
>Take away Marissa Mayer from this story, and replace her with a generic CEO, and I'm not sure we'd see the same mood in either comment section.

Uhh.. What are you talking about? Everyone complains about the pay scale of CEOs. Especially CEOs of failing or under performing companies. That's been a thing for years. She's a failed CEO. She was brought in to turn Yahoo around and didn't.
I think we've found a real life bully.
You're right that I should have said "At the level of the software as understood by the hardware" or something instead.
'Mafias' in the broad sense and the Cosa Nostra in particular don't often interview external candidates.
/sorry
Personal attacks get accounts banned on HN, so please don't post like this again. Repetitive spats like the current thread are bad enough as it is.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14546626 and marked it off-topic.
The commenter was not being combative or abusive in any way. They did point out the other person was wrong politely. They still got downvoted to hell.

People don't come to HN for civility. They come because they can be smug polite idiots around other smug polite idiots and "the rules" protect and enforce this behavior.

If you don't believe that disproving something stupid is hard, I give you Donald Trump. Sometimes you just need to speak out against stupidity without providing a groveling mathematical proof.
That's higher than in all US states. The highest US state sales tax is 7.25%. The highest municipal+state sales tax is 12.8%.

That's a huge outlier, though. The average is 5%, and many states exempt huge swaths of goods (such as groceries) and some have no sales tax at all.
That is mentioned elsewhere in this very thread, where it is also pointed out that that isn't a general solution (`yes` can print more than just y).
From my POV:

- Friends and family don't mix with business. Their perception of what happens will be different than yours.

- Handshakes are only as valuable as mutual self-interest. If you're doing business and need to hold people accountable, you need written contracts.

A friend is someone whom you have a mutual emotional attachment with. That connection is between you as individuals, not your business. To be successful in business relationships means that you need to be willing to walk away.
I could be missing some shady history, but off the top of my head how about Square?

Edit: Dropbox, Craigslist, GitHub, PayPal, Instagram, Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter

Anyone feel free to jump in if I'm ignoring any exploitation or shadiness.

Bad examples: Spotify and Snapchat.
from I-80 (in Lincoln) take highway 77 south towards Beatrice. The closer you get to Beatrice the longer the totality. Lincoln will get about 1 min, Beatrice gets 2:35.
>IMO it's because she's a female CEO who, when viewed through the lens of consumer products, failed miserably but was still paid a sum of money that sounds absolutely ludicrous to most Americans. She's an easy target for people who want to claim that she only got the job for being an attractive female.

Who said that? The non-existent, hypothetical people?
Just because the bubble is going to pop, doesn't mean that it will pop to 0.

If bitcoin prices crashed to 1000$, everyone would call THAT a "pop", but it would still leave anyone who bought in a year ago ahead on their investment.
At that point, it might be too late. It's hard to reset expectations in the middle of a project that's already gone off the rails, short of pulling the team and replacing them with a client relations person, hence my advice.

If OP is "just" an engineer, I feel like they've still neglected their responsibilities as a consultant, and I think all my advice stands, because it means they didn't talk with their manager about this project, they just went in blind, full of assumptions.

At the consulting company I mentioned, everyone had to go through consulting craft 101, everyone had to learn how to be "client-facing," because at any point someone from the client might want you to add something out-of-scope that should be just five minutes and you might want to do it to be nice and make friends.

I have absolutely had loud, difficult arguments with technical leads and project managers who did not do all the due diligence necessary to inform my scope of work. That's my responsibility to make sure I'm able to execute, I'm set up for success, and the project doesn't fail.
She was a bad CEO by the measure of ALL CEOS, not just Yahoo:

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/top-10-management-mistake...

https://qz.com/314225/everything-we-learned-from-marissa-may...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2015/11/20/marissa-ma...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262704/why-wont-anyone-tal...

http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-may...

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13332877/1/yahoo-ceo-mayer-i...

http://variety.com/2016/digital/features/marissa-mayer-yahoo...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/12/30/worst-ceos-20...

http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-worst-ceos-in-corporate-...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272469

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...

Do you want more?
Ethereum's adoption has already surpassed Bitcoin's with several metrics: number of transactions, trading volume, mining reward, and number of nodes. ETH also has ~80% of BTC's market cap.

True, it does not have the name recognition that Bitcoin has, but its not just a price bubble that is driving this.

This site has real time updates as to the status of the "flippening": http://www.flippening.watch/
docs: http://docs.reconfigure.io/

github: https://github.com/ReconfigureIO
I posted my general thoughts on this topic yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14538761
it comes, mostly, from the online game sites and other shiny honeypots for kids - google "X game" click top link - the game sites themselves override Chrome search bar and home page etc. - they click yes and put an email in to every single prompt to get to the game

it's completely and utterly broken
Interesting post, but the title is quite misleading - something closer would be “Someone can hijack your Uber account and charge you for their rides”.

The title gives the impression that your credit card can be used for transactions outside of Uber by attackers.
It's "relatively" easily accessible for those living in the United States and covers a huge swath of the country.

Many total solar eclipses happen over the middle of the ocean, or at the poles, or in a location that is not as easily accessible.

The next eclipse (after this one) to pass through the United States is in 2024.
As places to hustle for your project go, HN is probably one of the gentler ones. Just build first, THEN plug.
Effective restrictions on guns would be a 100% win for her

"Effective restrictions on guns" don't exist in the same way that "effective restrictions on drugs" don't exist.

So no, your conclusion is not "reasonable". It is completely unrealistic and runs contrary to the most basic laws, not to mention the culture of the country.

I'm much more interested in realistic solutions that don't involve trampling on basic rights and removing the ability of people to defend themselves from an assailant. If you expect such discussion to be not emotionally loaded, your conclusion is unrealistic twice over.
yeah very good argument. you never install anything from the command line or what?
It is a complete shame that some SJW cause like the contemporary definition of sexual harassment (like talking about ones sex life at work[1]) can be considered more important than revolutionizing transportation.

[1] https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...
Ask HN: LLC for Devs Lawyer
I'm not really sure if this is the forum to ask. But, I am a developer living in New York City. I started an LLC in 2014, which I've done nothing with via a legal website (incfile). I need to make sure all back taxes are paid and the LLC is in good standing. I'm not a startup, I'm a freelancer / 1099 contractor and my next contract would prefer to contract directly with an LLC than an individual. How do I find an affordable lawyer to help me clean this up? I've already checked the NY State website and the LLC is marked active. But I'm not even sure if the website would report any issues. How did you find a lawyer to help with these types of issues? Moving forward, I need to handle bookkeeping for the LLC is there an affordable accountant with works with small LLC?
I disagree. That ratholing and reading is not resting at all, it is procrastination. If you want to rest, go to lunch or take a coffee break, or meditate or something.

> You can only concentrate so many hours a day. Without that resting your productivity drops.

This is the kind of thing people tell themselves to justify procrastination. If you are unable to concentrate for long, maybe you have damaged your attention span by too much internet browsing, and the cure is just to stop?
At $5/month I'd probably grudgingly do it. At $10 I'd deliberate and postpone, and it's unclear which side I'd land on.
Can someone explain why the claimed shadow of the moon is vastly more bumpy than it ever appears in the night sky? Or how to square this with the fact that altitude of the highest and lowest points on the Moon differ by less than 20km, or less than 1% of the diameter? The shadow looks like it has bumps of about 5-10% of the diameter.
Definitely. When the government steps in, it's always the boards and executives who hire the lobbyists who write the laws and regulations. They don't do so with common stock investors' interests in mind. The system will not solve the problems with the system.
Isn't that basically a currency with hyper-deflation? Shouldn't a currency be relatively stable to be useful for payments?
New feature: Direct access to the crt.sh DB
I put them in a google keep list, and whenever I feel bored or lazy I open that and pick something to work on.
Attention Is All You Need
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14546390
That sounds like it might be a derivative of the oft-quoted statistic that gun owners in the US are more likely to be harmed by their own gun than to use it successfully in self-defense. The problem with that statistic is that it includes suicides as instances self-harm. Of course they are, but that is clearly a deceptive use of the statistic because after suicide cases are removed, it shows that gun owners are much more likely to use their own guns in self-defense rather than be harmed by them. One might be able to make the case that suicides should be included if those gun owners considering suicide would give it up if they had no gun rather than simply choose another method, but that has not been established.
Sure, to unpack the intent of my original sentence a bit more:

In some societies, such as the US, the biological need for security is met by the socially acceptable practice of gun ownership.

In other societies, it is not socially acceptable to meet that biological need with the practice of gun ownership.
euske may be using one of the operating systems (one such being mentioned on this very page) where there is no seq utility.

JdeBP ~ $seq
ksh: seq: not found
JdeBP ~ $

Of course, on the one mentioned there is jot.
I'm reminded of Marc Andreessen's guide to startups, particularly on firing executives:

"Demotion as an alternative to firing (or, alternately, "I know, we'll hire her a boss!"). Hate it. Great people don't deal well with getting demoted. There is an occasional exception. Unless you are positive you have such an exception, skip it, and move directly to the conclusion."
http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part8.html
16 commands to check hardware information on Linux
My thoughts were largely "this is probably the phrasing most likely to actually get his staff to moderate their behaviour in the mentioned ways, so I don't blame him for writing it that way" ... combined with "I do, however, absolutely blame him for letting a culture develop where that was the most effective phrasing"
And it will leave a lot of investors with a loss. That's the nature of market crashes, and it'll hit the smallest and most inexperienced investors the worst.
Why do you talk about females like they are precious snowflakes?
Doesn't it seem like they should sell the amount of Bitcoins needed to pay off any debt in fiat and then distribute the remaining coins to each user proportionally based on the amount they had on the exchange? Then you're not flooding the marking with 200k Bitcoins. Also, MtGox users are losing substantial value in this deal since the value of a Bitcoin is pegged at $483 and they're now worth well over $2,500. MtGox shouldn't become solvent once they pay all Bitcoins owed at a $483 price, they should return the remaining value to each user proportionally.

Doesn't this seem like the most logical/fair approach?
That's 0.2%, not 0.001%.
What % of all ETH is currently held in ICO accounts?
The Theory of Moments
> I don't really understand why.

When something like this happens, it's because the story runs counter to the listener's / reader's deepest assumptions and the foundations of their Weltanschauung.

E.g., you're a deeply religious conservative, and you hear a story about a gay couple who are great parents, you block it out.

You're a Democrat and you hear about Hillary making millions from speeches to Wall Street tycoons, you block it out.

You're a MAGA type of person, and you hear anything negative about Trump, you block it out.

You bite hook, line and sinker into the whole free market thing, Ayn Rand for the win, and you hear anything bad about some entrepreneur who made a fortune, you block it out - you ain't got no time for that, cause you've got empires to build.

---

What we do not perceive says more about us than what we do perceive.
A few seconds on google:

http://gizmodo.com/early-spotify-was-built-on-pirated-mp3-fi...

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/05/09/spotify-illegal-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Statistical_paradoxes
Largely, yes. People with high IQ live longer healthier lives, make more money, have greater life satisfaction etc...

Even Google admits that IQ is the best predictor of job performance but they go on to say that the metric is discriminatory.
If they really believed that then they should have fought those laws in the political arena rather than just ignoring them.
Web was a bubble too once. And then it wasn't.
As a human, what do I gain from this?

Word is probably one of the most successful software products ever devised. There's a reason -- it solves a problem.
I sort of agree, there is no way that Marissa Mayer could have avoided this outcome, and it could honestly have been worse, in terms of value to the shareholders.

For Yahoo to survive it would have been forced to become something it didn't want to be. Yahoo had/has a series of good and potentially valuable properties, like Flickr, Yahoo Finance and potentially BrightRoll. The thing is that Yahoo would become a vastly different company, a much smaller company.

None of the people and companies with Yahoo shares would have excepted that Yahoo was going to be reduced to a minor, even if profitable, online company. The perception is that Yahoo is a key internet property, despite that this perception is 10 - 15 years old.
My position here is "I am entirely capable of hating Kalanick and the reporting about Kalanick at the same time".
Catena: a distributed SQL database built on top of a blockchain
Travis taking leave of absence from Uber
Found him/her https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14544793
John Carmack gives a tech talk at UMKC
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
Collector Comparison: Telegraf vs. collectd vs. dd-agent
Errr, east of the Cascades, Oregon is pretty dry and sunny. Look at the satellite today, for instance:

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/exper/?parms=northwest-02-48-0

Perfect example of the Cascades blocking the crap.

That said, it looks like things are going to be a complete and total mess here in central Oregon with all the people converging on this area.
Let's ignore the fact that TK is a garbage fire for a moment and talk about what an utter disaster this move is. A smarter contributor than me write a good article that basically said you shouldn't own something you're not contributing to. By this logic he should be selling his stake right now. Except no-one wants to buy it. Which leaves an IPO, which is a tough ask for a firm that's never made a profit and, AFAICT, not even on the board's radar.

That or this is a temporary face-saving measure that doesn't really change anything, and that's a disaster too.
I like Kalanik because he's not a Stanford|Harvard douche bag. Was he privileged growing up?
In theory, yes. In practice, that takes time and probably more time than they have. If you hire this many people into a culture where 'x' was ok last week and off the table this week you end up with the same kind of situation that an incoming government deals with: the civil servants have not changed.
HTTPs Server: The Node.js way
Prices continually rising is an argument for how this _is_ tulips.

The valid counterargument would be that the tulips are largely being used for something other than trading tulips.
This is outrageous, people ought to be rioting in the streets over such miscarriages of justice.

Whatever happened to the once-understood axiom that "it's better to let a dozen guilty men go free than to convict one innocent one"?

Somewhere along the way our democracies seem to have forgotten this or that justice has to be just to be respected. It's little wonder that these days so many citizens no longer have faith in our democratic system of governance.
Shape is not what defines SUVs
WhalePanda in not an economist, not a digital coin developer, nor a professional coin analyst. At his website he describes himself as: "...I’m a Belgian Brand/Online Marketing/UX consultant with a passion for Bitcoin..." https://twitter.com/WhalePanda?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwca...

Obviously partial to bitcoin but has no more "street cred" that I do: "a California fine artist, UI designer, with a passion for Ethereum."

That is to say I am using Ethereum for my art catalog or Catalogue raisonné as an ad hoc copyright tool and historical archive. What does he or most people use bitcoin for?
But that's a work-rest balance, no? Parents often need to 'take a break from the kids' and 'get out of the house' . . . that's a necessary balancing but not a work/life balance. I'm not opposed to balancing, I just think the necessity of alternation doesn't equate to 'work/life balance'. Does it?
Hey, 640K is enough for anyone!
> As a “hard fork” looms, which looks set to split Bitcoin into two separate currencies that will have to fight for custody of the Bitcoin moniker

This already happened to eth when the creators hard forked the chain in an effort to roll back operations of an eth application that was used in a way that the creators did not anticipate. If this didn't kill ethereum why would it be a problem for bitcoin? Fortunately for bitcoin, there isn't a highly influential and transparently self-interested creator lording over the project.

> Bitcoin transactions can take anywhere from tens of minutes to several hours, depending on how busy the network is.

An unsolved growth problem for the reining incumbent that remains unsolved by ethereum. Transactions take a long time because decentralized proof of work verification is slow. A lot of people will say "proof of stake is coming!!!" but it's essentially vaporware and all signs point to the conclusion that it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. Yeah, people are working on it, like all vaporware.

> Ethereum is actually a platform for new kinds of decentralized (often financial) applications (dApps) that run on a peer-to-peer network of computers

Except this isn't actually happening in practice. I am yet to see any "new kinds of decentralized applications", just toy applications that have no practical purpose besides internet roulette

> TL;DR: Bitcoin’s dominance is slipping because its utility is limited and weakening versus other more recently developed, less politicized cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin's dominance is not slipping because it's utility was marginal to begin with and eth certainly doesn't offer much in the way of compelling improvements over bitcoin.