skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL etc. but I do think it's a common misunderstanding / wishful thinking in the US (where I'm from). In the US you can just "be a company" if you want (with no liability protection), that's between you and the tax man... but if you want to give the operation a name other than your own, you have to register that name (they call it "DBA" for "Doing Business As")[0].

But at least as far back as the early 90's it's been common to put "(c) MyCoolDomainName.com" on a web site, and I'm pretty sure most people mean "copyright ME until/unless I get around to making a business out of this, and if I do then copyright whatever business ends up owning the domain name." And I would assume, though again IANAL, that's not quite what it really means.

Unlike, say, Germany, the US has no requirement for anything like an "Impressum" for a web site. Nor could it, really, due to the constitution. (But I Am also Not A Supreme Court Justice so my interpretation of the constitution may be less sticky than others'.)

[0]: https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/choose-register-your-b...
I was hoping someone would reply with the specifics that the article ignored, thank you :)
When the CCC worked on reforestation in the US, they did a lot of planting by first cutting furrows with tractors (many are still recognizable).

I know someone who works as a commercial forester, often managing plantings of trees in the US. They take a trailer full of trees and imported labor and go out and stick them in the ground. It's backbreaking work, one of the steps is to stomp the hole cut for the tree closed with a boot.

Both are a bit unfortunate, leading to monocultures, and in the case of many CCC forests, poor future management, so the trees are crowded and fragile.

Of course, those areas are not as protected as US National Parks, but they are much, much vaster.
> 4chan used to be a solid seat of extreme liberalism

Uh, when was that?

Some members/participants/whatever you want to call it of Anonymous had goals that align better with U.S. definitions of 'liberal' than 'conservative', but that doesn't support your assertion.
Thanks for the feedback! There's nothing in Vexlio's software stack that would prevent a Linux version (thanks to the Mono project), but it would take a non-negligible time investment to make it happen. I'll have to see if there's enough demand for a Linux version before I decide to tackle it.
> How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy?

Over the course of time, everyone falls into both categories; this idea that there are healthy people is silly, everyone's health fails eventually and often randomly. Healthy is a temporary state. Everyone should contribute so everyone is covered when they become the unhealthy, as they all will.

Better to pay a little bit all of the time than to pay nothing and be unable to afford a giant medical bill that hits you all at once. This is why everyone should pay all of the time, then there's enough money to cover the every changing subset of people, which will eventually include you, who are sick.
My guess? Energy usage.

One reason why crude oil, a fuel source, is also such a good chemical feedstock is that it contains a lot of complex, high-energy hydrocarbons. These are the kinds of complicated molecules that require a lot of energy input to form, and hence release lots of energy when burned. Reversing this process and turning simple carbohydrates plus carbon dioxide into complex carbohydrates is usually a highly endothermic reaction.
I'm no expert but I think if they use a cryptographic function that requires a lot of CPU cycles, such as bcrypt, it will still be hard to brute force as long as you use a secure password. It looks, however, like they might have used something like sha256. I don't think that requires a lot of CPU and so it's much easier to brute forced.

It's probably good enough for stuff like an informational product that you want to put behind a password but not good enough for storing your credit card details.
> Ethereum Classic is a fork of Ethereum that held blockchain is immutable paradigm

Ethereum Classic did a hardfork last October which removed null accounts created in the DAO attack. Now, while this didn't change account balances, these were legally created accounts and the historical ledger was changed. The hardfork was controversial at the time for this reason.

You can't say that in Classic the blockchain is an immutable paradigm - it changed history just as Ethereum did.
And then in some of those languages they let you create macros so in the cases where the normal function syntax looks ugly you can make it readable with no cost... But with macros comes the same sort of potential abuse as other operator overloading, so it's a tradeoff.
Why would you want to do that with a blockchain? Is it necessary to store this logging data to thousands of nodes? What about 5 servers, geographically distributed?
Did Bob Dylan plagiarise his Nobel speech?
Yeah like replace Quicken for $500 a month, maybe if I was living in a place with no infrastructure I could pull that but then I would never see the site or the post.
Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
Apparently Huxley was more accurate than Orwell ...
Pretty pretty neat. I built [something pretty similar](https://devpost.com/software/cryptopostal) to give my address to family & friends during the holidays. Includes a node generator to make your own. Enjoy :)

[video demo](https://youtu.be/zevMEiR2CZY)
There is no such thing as fake news. There's only news, otherwise you're insinuating that some speech is 'fake', and conversely, some speech is 'genuine'.

News can be false, misleading, disproven, untrustworthy, and many shades in between. In fact there are a lot more angles to information than a False/True boolean. Some things can be true in a certain context, but not others. Sometimes untested or fringe news outlets have real stories (Drudge Report, was, for example, was the first news outlet to break the Monica Lewinsky scandal). Sometimes trustworthy news outlets deliver a misleading stories, as in the case of Iraq WMDs or Y2K.

A better way to phrase things would be to use more nuance to describe the state of reporting on current events. But since skepticism and logic don't increase readership or viewership, unfortunately those qualities aren't encouraged among the discourse going around these days.
>If we go back & forth by then redefining "government" to mean "any humans coordinating" then I suppose we could stretch "governance" all the way back to human invention of fire.

And what would be strange about that? I see no reason to constrain government to only mean the modern(-ish) state. Ancient Rome was also a government, Babylonians had kings, jungle tribes had rulers and elders, etc etc.

I'd say any human community had a governance structure way into prehistory.

>If we use this all-encompassing idea of "government", then I suppose it means nothing preceded government.

Yes -- but I don't find that strange. What would precede government? If there was anything, it would more like primate animals living in packs akin to animals, but with no other structure in their "communities". As soon as some structure emerges, they also need ways to decide what they do, assign responsibilities, punish bad behavior, etc.
The party at fault may not have assets nor a job, your solution is is not a solution and doesn't help the person harmed when they actually need it, at the time of the accident.

> Financial responsibility is something to be enforced by courts, not mandated by congress.

That's a matter of opinion.
This argument certainly has some validity (see also Ensmenger's project to understand the environmental role of computing in general: http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/nensmeng/enviro-compute/dirtyb...).

However, it only goes so far, since other consensus mechanisms could have lower energy requirements. Proof of stake, e.g., (if it ever gets off the ground) could change the game. Similarly, if the economics of proof of work were re-jigged, it isn't impossible that the energy required for mining could be dramatically lowered.

But, as it stands, Bitcoin, in particular, has a shamefully large environmental footprint.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552088 and marked it off-topic.
Is fake news that's created in Eastern Europe or somewhere actually that tricky?

who does it actually fool?

There are obviously some people this stuff fools, as a class though, are the people who fall for this stuff high trust nodes in the information universe?

The problem with the Washington Post or wherever, is that when they get their facts wrong, or slanted, it takes a far more careful reader to catch it, and the people likely to spread it, tend to be far more trustworthy
Because you want all the d's to be sent to mail...
This is how the wrong name cost our startup $10,000
Ok, does it not apply to commentary or any other Pulitzer prize category?
There will be a long period of time (probably at least a decade, maybe even several) where large government agencies have quantum computers, maybe large businesses, but most people (and many small businesses) don't.

(Remember that "computers" now includes your phone. I'm not sure how soon quantum chips come to phones...)
Before the web and mobile people thought programming was done, e.g locked up on desktop by Microsoft. There's a vast unexplored space in AI/autonomous/AR/VR/sensor networks/IoT/smart things and I am sure I'm missing something.
FWIW For me first page has only sites from Paraguay (.py TLD). Second page start with their App Store, then their Techcrunch article and then Play Store. Nothing about Python before their app though.
But I am paying for these services, with 15% of my salary. Why should I have to additionally also pay for private insurance?
Funny, I've seen that multiple times on my homebuilt Fedora system.
Tell that to IBM that uses Swift in production. See IBM's Kitura open source server framework if you are interested.
> How do you justify the healthy paying for the unhealthy?

How do you justify those whose property isn't on fire paying for firefighters?
Deep learning walkthroughs with examples of real world?
the only real tutorials you see are for generic use-cases. If you know of any tutorial that does not use pre-trained models please leave the link.
9 years. Python 3 was first released in 2008.
I'm not sure you can actually know such efforts ever existed there.

We both know we're talking about /pol/ here, and one of /pol/'s things is that literally anyone disagreeing with the extreme hivemind there for any reason is considered a shill. It's to the point where an honest effort at shilling couldn't be differentiated from trolling, as they'd both be received the same way.

I'd be much more worried about paid posters on some place like Reddit - it's much more mainstream and has a much more credulous population.
You just need to be lucky and in 2 days you get 1 BTC…
I would buy a linux version of this.
The Power of Introductions: What I Learned from One of the Best Investors
LOL. Hadn't heard this one before.
6 different overlapping lines like that make it easier to read? It's amazing what people chalk up to personal preference.
Good idea in general, but with one major flaw: no self-hosting option.

I can't imagine lawyers will be queuing up to host their sensitive legal documents on someone else's server.
let me guess:

- unzip the .docx file into xml files

- parse the xml into something organizable by line (csv? etc)

- commit this other file format

- in the GUI of your app, when someone selects a snapshot in
time, go from the by line (csv? etc) format back to .docx

- open in word

- profit

(way back when we did this with excel, but ultimately gave up https://github.com/decisive-wizard/GridHub)
The Trump thing was a snowball effect. /pol/ was definitely a Trump supporting corner of the website to begin with, but since it was (especially before /r/the_donald blew up) pretty much the only place doing that for quite some time, it ended up attracting a lot more users to the website in general. Source: http://www.rank2traffic.com/4chan.org
Ah, apparently it's a much more significant factor in warmer climates: https://www.internationalrivers.org/campaigns/reservoir-emis...
> There's a significant part of the U.S. population that wants to roll back gay marriage.

Oppressing others isn't something that should be allowed to happen, period; those people are simply wrong, the position is immoral and indefensible. These things belong at the federal level, states should not be allowed to say oppression is OK because a majority of our citizens want to oppress gays.
While you might be right in normal circumstances, once the legal system tries to make humanly-intuitive decisions about the mathematical processes inside real "dumb machines", that legal system really should trigger exceptions or result in undefined behaviour.

Already, legal notions like jurisdiction are being pushed to their limits thanks to technology like the internet (look at the extradition case of Kim Dotcom), and things get even murkier with questions of copyright.

What is the difference between a forum (such as Reddit) where people can discuss magnet links/hashes (to news articles, and public domain works, and copyrighted works) and a forum called The Pirate Bay? If it's just the word "Pirate" in the title (as opposed to "The irate Bay", for example), then it seems that the law is very sensitive to single byte changes on a website, and the job of humans to classify these things into buckets rapidly becomes intractable.

We're back to "What Colour are your bits?" again: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
seems like you need people to agree on "what is truth" first?
Let's see if I can help you understand this a bit better. First, let's clarify the problem being asked. There are 2 different problems with different solutions and it helps to explicitly separate them.

problem 1) You go up to a person and ask them if they have exactly 2 children, at least one of which is a boy born on Tuesday. They say yes. What is the probability that they have a girl?

problem 2) You go up to a person and ask them if they have exactly 2 children, at least one of which is a boy. They say yes. You then ask them which day of the week a boy they have was born on. They say Tuesday. What is the probability that they have a girl?

The original problem that was posed is equivalent to problem 1, but not equivalent to problem 2. This could be what is confusing you, because in problem 2 the extra information plays no role in the selection process, while it does play a role in problem 1. In problem 2, the answer is the standard 2/3. Why are the probabilities different between problem 1 and 2? Here's why:

Think about the set of people who could answer yes to the question in problem 2. The ratio of these groups is important. A parent with BB (two boys) is equally likely to answer yes to problem 2 (100% likely to be exact) as a parent with BG and GB (also 100% likely to answer yes), which leads to the correct solution of 2/3. However, in problem 1 a parent with BB is NOT EQUALLY LIKELY to answer yes as a parent with BG. This is because we added an extra qualifier (must be born on Tuesday). The parent with BB has two chances to meet this qualifier because they have two boys, so the parent with BB is actually more likely to answer yes to the question than the parent with BG. As the qualifier becomes more and more rare (day of lunar cycle), the probability of the BB parent answer yes P(yes|BB) approaches twice the value of P(yes|BG). So now you're left with some subset of parents with BB, BG, and GB, but in this scenario you've sampled from BB approximately twice as much as you've sampled from each of the BG and GB groups, leaving you with approximately the same number of people from group BB as the combined amount from groups BG and GB. This is why the probability approaches 50%

I spend a while writing this, so hopefully it helps!
> What people forget is the covering is really designed to protect the data layer not the surface.

Right. But that this started explicitly about calling the polycarbonate -- that clear layer -- as scratch resistant. And this is just flat out wrong:

"Polycarbonate is a durable material. Although it has high impact-resistance, it has low scratch-resistance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarbonate#Properties_and_p...

I agree that it serves its purpose of protecting the data layer of the CD. But again, CDs and their readers were designed in a way that typical surface scratches and other imperfections would not inhibit reading. And so polycarbonate was an acceptable choice. The same approach applies to eye glass lenses; a scratch on a lens is typically not in focus and therefore has little to no effect on vision.

So, TL;DR: Polycarbonate the material is not scratch resistant. CDs are scratch resistant, but that is due to their optical design and in spite of the polycarbonate.
Keep in mind many of our users don't even know python. We answer about 200+ questions every day in our in-app chat, and we've yet to hear someone get confused.
>There's this amazing lack of vision and inability to see that things can and will be innovated on. Why would it be anywhere near perfect by this iteration? Why would you expect that?

Because e.g. computers despite being primitive were still very damn useful the very first time they were built. In fact their utility preceded their being built (e.g. to have them assist war efforts and research calculations), not vice versa.
Node.js Cluster API: Remove API References to Suicide
Comments like these are insidious on Hacker News because they're at once inflammatory and deathly boring. Please don't post like this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pirate Bay Liable for Copyright, Says European Court of Justice
Both seem quite readable, really.

Seems similar to the usual "list comprehensions vs. for loop" arguments; to which I always think "use whichever is readable for the given code".
>> An average, successful candidates interviewing in Python define 3.29 functions, whereas unsuccessful candidates define 2.71 functions. This finding is statistically significant.

The "average" is too sensitive to outliers and should not be used for such a comparison...

[Edit] Being bored I calculated the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic based on the chart. It is between 10%-10.5%. The number of defined funtions seems to be a significant but weak indicator.
Can you explain (or link to an explanation for) your conclusion that there exists "overwhelming biases at most news publications", or even at the NYT in particular?

I'm particularly interested in anything quasi-rigorous (i.e. not based on an individuals subjective feelings), but a well-reasoned personal perspective would be illuminating as well.

My perception is that the NYT (on the news side) is imperfect but is fundamentally oriented towards the truth.
One thing I found really interesting while playing around with gdb on a program with dynamic linking is that functions are linked lazily when they're first called. So rather than hooking up calls to printf/fopen when the program starts, those calls instead get hooked up through an intermediate table to jump into the dynamic linker's resolution code. The first time each dynamically-linked function is called, it goes through a process of looking up the symbol. Once it finds the actual address of the called function, it writes a jump to that resolved address over the spot in the intermediate table so subsequent calls won't repeat the lookup logic.

Pretty cool to watch it happen. The call lookup code in the dynamic linker involves a bunch of strcmp calls, which makes sense, but I still found surprising for some reason.

You can set the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW to make it do all these lookups at startup time.
> The key is that I don't charge for the software as such. I charge for services, etc. around the software.

Yep. Matt Mullenweg & his crew at WordPress have been doing the same thing, and are wildly profitable at it.
> built something interesting

This is really under-selling what Susan Fowler did. She exposed and reformed a massive, multibillion-dollar company with a single essay. How many journalists have done that?

Some, certainly. But not many.
I think they are also underestimating how much Adobe spends on developing photoshop.
+1. I would also like a linux version.
Thanks for this. You're absolutely right, of course, this is A New Job, not a slight re-spin of the old position.

Decisions you make now affect people as well as code.

This is critical to keep in mind, thank you.
What senior dev makes less than 100k in the USA these days?
Other companies use private ethereum blockchains. The worst part is that Ethereum community called Ripple a scam coin because banks don't actually use it for transactions but they didn't care to realize that ethereum is the same
I don't really care - I was just trying to point out what I thought OP was getting at that other posts were missing. For what it's worth my opinion is that, if there is a pre-existing word which captures a lot of the meaning, then it is probably best to go for that. If there isn't, then anything is fair game.
We changed our domain from py-app.com to downloadpy.com a couple days ago, so if you don't see us first this is probably why. Our old domain ranked consistently first.
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The implication in the article is that humans will be doing this on the fly. This solution does not fit with that criterion.
100GB for $2/month is pretty nice after you exhaust your 15GB. Sucks that the storage sizes only go up by factors of 10 though.
How is this different from the caret package? Using if(interactive()) {} as the main function and including the extremely well documented caret package seems to accomplish much of the same thing that Syberia does unless I'm missing something.
What is the blue bar on top of the page?
Agreed. Advertising in many cases also isn't a net gain for society. One of its goal is to manufacture demand where there is none. A famous example is the DeBeers diamond company, which created expectations for diamonds to be used as a sign of love in proposals. We could just as well get along as a society without any diamonds in jewelry whatsoever, and might even be better off for it. They didn't realize increase enjoyment in society so much as create a new negative situation (spouse upset/insecure with jewelry) that only money could fix.

There are benefits to advertising: it keeps consumers up to date on the current products on the market and can emphasize the positive traits of those products. But in practice it more often relies on psychological tricks and manipulation (look at any Budweiser commercial and tell me it isn't a subtle play to insecure masculinity) that don't necessarily benefit consumers.
No Linux version.
There are already solutions available when there's no counter-party or the counter-party is unfit. i.e., uninsured motorist insurance, life insurance, etc.

And who's to say the extended family or community wouldn't step up to cover their expenses?