skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to think about upping the contrast and/or font weight too. It's nearly unreadable for me and I have pretty good vision.

Edit - it looks way better if I disable Open Sans. It might just be a font issue with Chrome or Windows.
TakeTwo shuts down OpenIV modding tool
Actually that has kinda been solved already by http://blendle.com
Linkedin is failing big time to control spam and impersonation. Keeping these social media clean is next big challenge for the tech world.
I recall in the recent past a situation where plugging in a USB flash drive to a computer with Ubuntu installed would cause a wireless printer on the same LAN network to make a beeping sound. The printer in question was not added to the printer with the USB, nor had this computer ever been used to print anything before.

I did some Googling to understand how that could happen, and I didn't find much, except for someone claiming that there is a printer daemon that runs in Ubuntu by default and performs various plug and play notifications (I forget the details)?

I didn't have time to investigate more, but that experience made me wonder how many vulnerabilities there are silently laying around in a service that notifies printers about what I'm doing on my local laptop.
Thanks for the heads up - I'm reproducing it on firefox, I'll investigate asap.
I try to keep an open mind. I don't believe things will just solve themselves, nor do I think the market is the perfect solution. I do believe, however, that it's a better solution than government intervention, and we haven't found a superior solution.

Also, source for your second assertion?
Happened to me two or three times in my life so far.
Copyright is an automatic right however, so AFAICT it makes no difference legally if you claim it or not or under what moniker. At best it serves as a reminder to the reader.
Having an open source tool that can open files created on PowerPoint without them becoming horribly mangled, or vice versa, is a very realistic concern. Microsoft Office is well known for being extremely difficult to make its file formats portable beyond the very basic layout features.
> Swedish police has no-go zones, firefighters gets attacked - journalists keeps telling everything is fine.

This still isn't true. There are many legitimate issues with integrating immigrant populations into fairly insular and homogeneous societies. People lying about the magnitude of those problems really, really discredit efforts to make them better though.

Swedish police are incredibly well trained.. it's absurd to think they've just abandoned parts of major cities, especially when those cities are safer than most large cities in the US.
Malmo, the 'center' of all of the alleged police no-go zones has a murder rate equal to that of San Diego.. It's 90% lower than the murder rate in Chicago. The overall murder rate is dramatically lower than the rate in the US:

https://imgur.com/a/wKh0X

It's really bizarre how the right wing in the US has chosen Sweden as the symbol for their refugee distrust when there's very little evidence that their problems are anything more than those seen by every major city with large impoverished populations of any background.
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At least in my case, there's a big difference between

(a) discussing an open problem with a colleague, and

(b) explaining what's going on in my mind as I'm attempting to solve the problem single-handed.

I'm very effective at (a), and it's a skill that I've used many times as a software developer and/or grad student.

But (b) is more typical in psychoanalysis sessions.
Can you expand on "mypy is a much better type system than Java"? I'd love it if that were true.
My anecdote: I picked up a £20 note on the sidewalk in London two weeks ago.
I agree curation is value-add. A good librarian is probably as good as it gets.

Also, the internets are filled with curated lists. Book lists have come up here on HN a number of times [1][2][3], even Sci-fi specific[4].

But I get it, push button services are very appealing, and can save a lot of time. Just click subscribe and get a constant supply of books you'll love at a reasonable price. It's a business model that can work surprising well[5].

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11229312

3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12556160

4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9056319

5 - https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/
A household an a government are very different things.

A government that issue its own currency is not limited in the same way that a household.

A government, that issue its own currency, could spend (constrained by the real resources available) without creating debt at the same time.

It's true that it would be wise to spend in creating more real capacity in the economy, instead of digging holes and fill them again.
You've had 10 years to get off your duff and prepare for a 3.x migration while maintaining backward compatibility.
>It have nothing to do with how much money we have saved or how big is the deficit, but with the real resources available at the moment of paying.

My point is that the obligation is phrased as "$600 + inflation index", not "the amount of utility you could have got for $600 at the time we made the promise". Improved productivity can help you meet the latter, not the former. The latter is a more reasonable promise, but the former is what was actually promised.

>All the point of the argument is that if we have real available capacity in the economy you can spend, 600$ or whatever have been promised,

It's not true that "if the real productive capacity is there, then taxing out the money for the pensions is no problem". The evasion behavior is non-linear and there's a cap to how much you can collect with taxes before e.g. pushing economic activity underground and into other countries. (Hence the Laffer curve point.)
Yes. Many people new to the industry don't understand that the glamor of working for a game company almost always translates to bad working conditions and low-ball pay. Games are hard, but there are just so many people who want to be involved in making them, that there is a pretty excessive supply of prospective developers. Game companies take that as a license to burn people out, because they know once that crew finally tires of the beatings, there will be a fresh crop of bright-eyed devs anxious to replace them.

CRUD apps may be tedious, but getting a job at a local medium-sized company working on them is usually much more pleasant than working for a game developer.
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Laughing a sinister laugh as I super glue a $20 to the sidewalk...
I've once found an 5000 HUF (18 USD) bill on the floor in a pub. I picked it up and wanted to ask "who lost this?" then I realized that everybody would answer "me!" so I just kept it.
I don't have any strong suggestions on point 3, but there are some tools we could leverage for the other two. We have done things like this for other industries and sometimes it works well.

First, we need a list of news companies that self identify as such. Second, we need a group of people who aren't the executive or legislative branch to act as watchdogs with a solid set of rules, next we laws stating what the punishments are for lies and finally we need to limit who can say they provide "News".

We have a number of non-profit groups for those that self-identify as journalists. Some of those help organize or train people. A new one could be created or one of those could create a listing of self identifying news companies. If that is unsuitable (and the FCC weren't our enemy) then the FCC could directly maintain such a list. We Good success creating such lists, consider Voting Testing Labs (labs that test voting machines), none are run by the government, but they all follow government rules.

If non-profits or private groups are doing the list keeping then they have extra leverage to kick out news organizations s, but that is not strictly required. As long as someone can de-list a news company for extreme violation and punish for minor ones. This could be the courts, but doesn't have to be as long its it is not the people making the laws or holding the lists. A consortium of people from the industry would likely be an ideal list keeper, and they could also make rules without getting the involved too much.

Then we need clearly spelled rules on "lying". It doesn't have to actually be lying, which requires intent, it can be a level of habitual innacuracy on a given topic. It doesn't matter if it was intentional, but if your news org kept saying something demonstrably false about one candidate or one topic the watchdogs will jump in and try to leverage the rule to punish that news org. Bonus points if we can somehow get the news companies to be watchdogging each other, again the cosortium of news organizations could help with this.

Then finally "news" companies that cannot play with this kind of oversight don't get to use the word "News" to describe themselves, or in Trademarks, Logos or Names. We could also incentive people to become news organizations by providing tax breaks and using groups like the ad council to tout the advantage of news companies over entertainment companies. It would take a long time before we trusted it, but in the long I think something like this could create a stable self-correcting governing for responsible news reporting. We might have parts of this already I only have superficial knowledge that industry, this is largely transplanting ideas from other places.
Humans are good at finding/exploiting edge-cases. No matter how computationally advanced we get, there will always be a limit. And there will always be people imaginative enough to think beyond that limit. Implementation details will probably change as AI automates repetitive tasks. But software developers will be needed to the degree people like thinking outside the box and striving for improved conditions. I don't see that changing any time soon : )
> I think it would be hard to "infect" a species with stored data. ...

Yeah, but what about encoding a message/knowledge into the mating rituals of an species (or artificially-modified subspecies) from the start? [0]

> if the message were encoded into whatever makes an amoeba an amoeba, well, its definitely gone now.

Are we sure humans don't have any "useless" DNA? What about seemingly superfluous organs like the appendix?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548854
Robots are coming for our Ms. Pac-Man high scores
My eye doc recommended Flax oil - 1 Tablespoon a day.
Did that for a while with minimal results, upped it to two and it's starting to work...just have to work up to that slowly otherwise it...impacts your digestion
Backus, "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs": https://github.com/emintham/Papers/blob/master/Backus%20-%20...
For some definition of "badly" that doesn't include a huge community of working software I guess. My point wasn't that Python 3 isn't better (or even "better enough") it's that no matter how much better Your Favorite Different Thing is, it will never be better enough to make people stop using their working software.
Molly was a slang term for 'pure' MDMA at least as far back as the late nineties/early aughts, from 'molecule'. The usage was to differentiate from 'pressies' which were pressed-pills supposedly composed of MDMA plus binder plus whatever the presser wanted to add, usually amphetamine though sometimes DXM or methamphetamine.

Molly, in contrast, was sold in loose powder form, at least back then.

Contrary to urban legends, pressies were never made with heroin as the amount of heroin required for any appreciable effect would be cost-ineffective.

Now, who knows what your 'molly' might contain. We just had two thirteen year-olds in the area die from 'research chemicals' ordered off the internet by a friend of theirs. People are taking all sorts of weird things that have undergone zero testing, even when compared to the embargo that MDMA has faced.
> Can you expand on how crypto currencies relate to positive social mobility?

Bringing those who are unbanked into the global financial system is a powerful way to help lift people out of poverty. In many cases, banks are unwilling or unable to serve the poor, so cryptocurrencies could potentially fill the gap. I don't think any current cryptocurrencies will achieve this, but there is some research being done on "stablecoins" which could fit the bill.
Circa 2005, we got hired by the district for finding problems.

Of course, we either found them during tech class (pre-req for A+ class) or after we'd asked the school tech for permission to explore (and been told it was okay as long as we documented what we learned/didn't do obviously malicious things).

I think the worst I saw was a kid get suspended for a week then kicked off the network for the rest of the year. He got caught with a ton of warez, pirated stuff, etc on his share when we got investigated by the district for accidentally taking down the network because someone left Guild Wars auto-patching on.

Good times.
I found the answer disappointing because the argument has a huge hole in it: it discounts the atmosphere. The article says the farthest objects earth-based naked-eye observations can detect are ~70 million light years away, so if you're in space in the middle of a billion light year void, you won't see anything. But if the atmosphere has just one order of magnitude attenuation (or rather you could see 10 times further without it), then maybe you could see to the 500 million light year edge of your void bubble.

That's what bothers me about these pseudo-scientific columns: they aren't rigorous and the reader doesn't know it. In this particular case, the author even changed the reader's question, and then didn't even give a satisfactory answer, just wanted to write about "cool" things.
A bad trip is probably an overdose in the context of this conversation
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FWIW, I have six years of college and I am an environmental studies major. I have also been homeless for roughly 5.5 years. I manage to camp with minimal impact on the environment with my two adult sons.

I have seen what other homeless people can do to the same area. About three years ago, some group began camping near us and what had been a narrow trail, not readily visible from the road, began looking like elephants on hashish had trampled it. Plants were broken and the trail became obvious. They were loud, rowdy and doing drugs. We soon relocated.

Just because it is possible for someone educated who cares about the environment to carefully walk in and walk out with minimal impact does not mean you can actually trust anyone to do the same. I concur with the remarks being made here by naravara.

Anecdotally: My ex was career military. While in Germany, there were strict rules about not harming the environment. They threw a track on their track vehicle. He wanted to walk it back onto the vehicle, but this would have involved backing over a tree. So someone else overroad him and called in a vehicle to rescue their track vehicle in order to protect this tree, as per guidelines. The rescue vehicle was even larger and you could hear it coming as it mowed down tree after tree after tree, cutting a path to their location.

Stupid is as stupid does. It is everywhere and it rarely benefits the environment.
That happened to me once, during a phone interview with Google.

My brain simply froze during the live coding test. I looked like an idiot, even though the coding challenge was one I could have normally handled in my sleep.

My guess is that it was due to anxiety about doing well on the interview. But to this day I'm gun-shy regarding live coding tests.
The most interesting thing to me is not the negotiation tactics that the agents learn but the idea of coming up with a more easily quantifiable (and therefore differentiable) quality metric for dialogue tasks.
The guy was using a company account.
Or, instead of depending on utopic ideals and discredited economic theories, we can just make people buy liability insurance if they want to drive a car.
Maryland would have to face the real cost of providing universal healthcare

The point is that they would have to face much more than the real costs of providing universal health care because they would have to provide care to a lot of people that never paid into the system due to migration.
You can do things to increase the odds that you'll have a constructive experience.

The basics, it is widely agreed, are what are known as "set" and "setting". That is, what your mindset (or mind state, or where you are emotionally, what your expectations are, etc) and where you are physically and who and what are around you. Try to make those positive, supportive, friendly, stress-free, and comfortable.

It's also important to have an experienced, trusted sitter or guide, and it helps to have a constructive intention for the trip, to be in a safe, supportive environment, not to have any commitments about what you have to do or where you have to be that day (and perhaps the next as well, for recovery). It might help to have some personally meaningful items with you to review during the trip. Things like photographs of loved ones, or other things that remind you of important people or things in your life. It can help to have a good mix of music to listen to.

When all of these things, and perhaps some others not mentioned here, are in alignment, it's more likely that you'll have a constructive trip. But there are never any guarantees (with this or anything else in life, but especially in regards to what is likely to be a very emotionally powerful experience where you might be confronted with all sorts of things that could change your perspective or set you face-to-face with maybe something you weren't ready to face).
Understood. Thanks ;-)
Berkeley, "Giant Brains, or Machines that Think": https://monoskop.org/images/b/bc/Berkeley_Edmund_Callis_Gian...
Digging the link to Drive File System reveals that is not Linux either. Like Dropbox's proposed product, this also seems baffling from a technical perspective. Implementing a user-mode filesystem is the easiest on Linux.
The information about account is in the sentence "received sexual messages from a banker—using his corporate account—who had been trying to recruit her."
I pose this as a question as much as a statement: Bitcoin does not have to solve the governance problem. It need merely perform some functions better than a fiat currency.

Consider economists' Taylor Rule. It represents an effort to impost constraints on a bureaucratic institution and how people manage the dollar. Cool, we pass a law called the Taylor Rule. Now just don't enforce it. People who want stuff are hard to constrain.

In other words, the Bitcoin community doesn't have to be uncompromising and immutable, like its technology, for the currency to succeed—it just has to do better than its alternative (even in narrow applications).

Thoughts?
I don't know if you are aware of who Pulitzer was, or what the award is about, but 'a media-train hop' often describes what wins the pulitzer pretty well.
This should be of interest to anyone working on any application that requires authorization from users but not necessarily from the service. Here's an analogy of the problem with "authorization" from Facebook v. Vachani:

"Suppose that a person wants to borrow a friend's jewelry that is held in a safe deposit box at a bank. The friend gives permission for the person to access the safe deposit box and lends him a key. Upon receiving the key, though, the person decides to visit the bank while carrying a shotgun. The bank ejects the person from its premises and bans his reentry. The gun-toting jewelry borrower could not then reenter the bank, claiming that access to the safe deposit box gave him authority to stride about the bank's property while armed. In other words, to access the safe deposit box, the person needs permission both from his friend (who controls access to the safe) and from the bank (which controls access to its premises)."

EFF thinks "authorization" shouldn't be defined only by computer owners (the bank in the analogy)--especially when the purpose of the computer crime statute was to address crime, not limit the evolving technological ecosystem. For practical purposes, however, it probably makes sense to get authorization from both sources while this gets sorted out.
Yes! This needs to be on here: http://elixir.community/talk
Uber 2.0 doesn't need a Travis 2.0 – even if he does change
In my opinion, some people are not good candidates for psychedelic use. This is primarily people who have control issues about 'letting go' but also people who have issues with reality and contrary ideation.

But I think if there wasn't the stigma legal or otherwise, the use of these substances would be much safer. An experienced guide like a sitter or a shaman can guide people through rough experiences and encourage the uplifting ones.
Didn't Ruby 1.9 also offer a meaningful performance boost as well? Whereas early Py3 was actually about 5-10% slower than Py2.
Experiment, create and take on fun/small projects just for the fun of it. You like music, experiment with music. You like games, code small demos/prototypes. You like science/data visualization, do that. Find the joy, don't be too serious.

In 2010 I barely knew how to code, was a bit depressed. I started doing small JS/C experiments/art projects for a few months... changed me forever.
Boole, "An Investigation into the Laws of Thought": https://books.google.com/books?id=DqwAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=fron...
But if you count that then you also have to count the billionaires spending money lobbying to be allowed to continue pumping carbon into the atmosphere or for more bombs to be built. If you start using that method of calculating utility, I wouldn't be surprised if the marginal utility is actually negative at some point.
That's a kind of an apples to baseball comparison. Methane becomes vastly more important over extremely short time frames but with a 12ish year half-life it's long term contribution is mostly as a carbon source.

Further, tiny dams produce very little power. So, if you play with the numbers you can get extremely different results.

On the other hand if you look at the annual 13,100 GWh from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._A._C._Bennett_Dam times the 49 years it's been in operation that's the equivalent of (1,000,00 kg / GWH from coal) * 13,100 * 49 = 707,573,630 short tons of CO2 which is vasly larger than all the biomass in the lake to start with. Further, you can log the land before you start minimizing the total biomass flooded.
Bush, "As We May Think": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
Completely devalues working with prototyping though.
What is the connection between this and Fowler? Seems like two completely separate issues involving entirely different people and industries?
Unlike email accounts (firstname.lastname@company.com) or accounts at various services and vendors tied to those emails (such as Photoshop, Jira, etc), many, if not most Linkedin accounts stay with people across jobs. In case of Sales Teams or Recruiters, companies might pay or reimburse for the premium services that Linkedin monetizes, and the employees might use Linkedin in the day-to-day work, but they're also likely to look for other jobs, build non-work related professional connections, etc.
von Neumann, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC"

Mimeograph:
https://archive.org/details/firstdraftofrepo00vonn/

Retypeset: https://archive.org/details/vnedvac/