skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the behaviorists said that human beings are nothing special because they're just like animals and plants, responding to stimuli in law-governed ways; now the object-oriented ontologists say that human beings are nothing special because animals and plants (and hammers and black holes) all possess the traits of consciousness and desire that we have traditionally believed to be distinctive to us. The goal of the philosophical redescription seems to be the same: to dethrone humanity, to get us to stop thinking of ourselves as sitting at the pinnacle of the Great Chain of Being."

Reminds me of a bit from the Jargon File's chapter on "Anthropomorphization" (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/anthropomorphization.html):

"Almost all hackers subscribe to the mechanistic, materialistic ontology of science (this is in practice true even of most of the minority with contrary religious theories). In this view, people are biological machines — consciousness is an interesting and valuable epiphenomenon, but mind is implemented in machinery which is not fundamentally different in information-processing capacity from computers.

"Hackers tend to take this a step further and argue that the difference between a substrate of CHON atoms and water and a substrate of silicon and metal is a relatively unimportant one; what matters, what makes a thing ‘alive’, is information and richness of pattern. This is animism from the flip side; it implies that humans and computers and dolphins and rocks are all machines exhibiting a continuum of modes of ‘consciousness’ according to their information-processing capacity.

"Because hackers accept that a human machine can have intentions, it is therefore easy for them to ascribe consciousness and intention to other complex patterned systems such as computers. If consciousness is mechanical, it is neither more or less absurd to say that 'The program wants to go into an infinite loop' than it is to say that 'I want to go eat some chocolate' — and even defensible to say that 'The stone, once dropped, wants to move towards the center of the earth'."
Can you elaborate on use html5 <video> like everyone else? I am not familiar with this technique.
With the small number of nodes they can offer (compared to the tor network exit nodes), traffic analysis seems relatively easy, especially with standard VPN software that may have no fake traffic generator capability.
Wouldn't it make sense for a startup to begin in a single state and only expand once they have enough money/time to comply with laws and regulations in other states?
In the Netherlands it is almost universal to discuss salaries in terms of monthly salary amount.
Thanks for that link, the tale of Schiit is great.
It is sad that EU is slowly moving back towards the over-regulated and bureaucratic regimes of the past. This will further push the EU economy down the drain and prevent people from innovating. I just hope it does not lead to jail sentences and labor camps for people accidentally leaking the data as some in this thread are arguing for. The history does not provide much hope here unfortunately.

I don't see how this law benefits anybody except filling up the EU budget by collecting fines. The companies are already careful with their data as any leak would affect their image extremely negatively.

If one needs a good example of why Brexit happened, here it is.
Revoking JSON Web Tokens with Example Node App
Rust is pretty cool. If I were writing code for a platform like this I might use it (but probably only if I was convinced that GC issues were going to be a real practical problem if I used OCaml/Haskell/Scala-native).
Imgur pushing it's own website over direct image links is the exact reason I've stopped using it. I understand they have to make money by but I just want to put a damn picture on the internet and send the link to others. I don't want to have to deal with Imgur's album/site link crap and dumb expansion into being a social network. It's hard now to even find the direct link, nevermind avoid Imgur's annoying messages about downloading its app and using its other features.
Hello HN! We at Rigetti are really excited to announce and release Forest. My colleague @dangirsh and I will be here today to answer any questions that might come up about Forest and quantum computing!

Some potentially HN-interesting links:

pyQuil, a Python library for quantum programming: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyquil

pyQuil on RTD: https://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Grove, a collection of quantum algorithms in Python: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/grove
I work on collaborative projects, some use spaces or tabs and it makes no difference to the ease of collaboration. It's just a setting in the .editorconfig.
Bloggers using Medium is primarily from the same camp as who added these "UI/UX enhancers": smug post-hipster developers who worship all these things like "growth", "disruption", "engagement", "UI/UX", "mobile-first" and companies like Uber and Snapchat. Medium is the most cancerous and disgusting blog service ever.
> Turkey will never be part of the EU proper. 'Never' as in: not in a couple of life times. Turkey has been given the runaround for the last 30 years or so not because there ever was a serious push to integrate them into the EU but because of the fear that Turkey would align with Russia.

Yeah, even with a secular democratic party in power they would not have a chance (a 80 million people country, mostly Muslim, at the time where there is an islamist terrorist attack every month in Europe? Never mind the number of terrorists with a Turkish background, nobody would agree to that, and that's not even talking about its own stability problem and the neighbours Europe would acquire). With a proto-islamic dictator like Erdogan, forget about it.
Yea I'm in the same boat. It's nice, though there are definitely warts. For third-party stuff stubs are a big help. For stuff I'm actively working on I've found comments/docstrings (I've used reStructuredText) to be useful:

self.ivar = 1 # type: int

self.ivar = [1]
""" :type: list[int] """

def fun(arg1, arg2): # type: (int, str) -> str

def fun(arg):
"""
:param int or str arg:
:rtype: str or None
"""

I like the comment version (e.g. `# type: int`) better (plus its officially defined in PEP 484), but sadly they tend not to work as well, sometimes due to not being able to `import typing`, and sometimes for other less clear reasons.
The JPEG Format’s Days May Be Numbered
As someone who is using Django for small projects and still learning my way around it, hints like removing unused middleware are appreciated.
Swatch launches Swatch X You, a custom design system for true watchanistas
Your best financial decision will be to sell that ETH for a profit.
No, they hate publicity.
If they change your status without you knowing or acknowledging, that opens up all kinds of legal issues.
"This ruleset you have? Oh, just merge it with the old ruleset; the old laws are not being repealed. Merging is easy, right?"

In other words, it's not a replacement: it is an additional set of rules to keep (although most of it would be a superset of various national laws).
MongoDB Stitch – Back End as a Service
Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares
Those names doesn't exist. So, it's really a joke
Abduction – Modes of Inference I
10 years ago people where getting 1Gbps bandwidth for <100$ a month in some areas. Talking about how fast things are moving when you reference stuff from 20+ years ago is hardly convincing.

PS: 10Gbps is being rolled out in some area yet many places are still at under 1/1,000th those speeds. The gap has nothing to do with back-haul capacity it's all about monopolies squeezing there customers as much as possible. Consider, South Korea has 1Gbit/s connections for $20 per month. Yet people in the US are paying ~10x as much for 1/10th the bandwidth.
I know it doesn't address the root of the problem, but if you are running Python in production, you should always be using a virtualenv. Virtualenv is essentially a separate Python runtime with it's own packages and interpreter. You can have as many virtualenvs as you like on the same machine and have them all configured completely separately.

> At one point a simple letsencrypt refresh ended up re-installing some critical python component eventually resulting in a full re-install of a server.

The letsencrypt developers explicitly recommend using a virtualenv to run the certbot script.

The best part of virtualenvs is that you can almost use them like little containers. For instance, let's say you have a script running a web interface and another script that performs data calculations both on the same server.

Your web application can have its own virtualenv and be listening for proxied requests from an nginx instance. The data processing script can be running in it's own virtualenv as well and listening on a local unix socket for incoming data to process. The data processing script is 100% independent of the web application script and vice-versa. They each have their own interpreter and dependencies. Hell, you could even run your data processing script in Python 2 and your web application in Python 3 if you needed to.
It's no less secure than the one password she's already using.
Firstly, isn't labeling this epoch "Anthropocene" somewhat premature and mostly political in nature?

According to data surrounding the channeled scablands[0] in Washington state, the earth has been through at least 19 severe cooling periods in the past 2 million years, the approximate time homo sapian and our very close evolutionary ancestors have survived and, in our case at least, thrived beyond all possible expectation.

All this with mostly just the barest bits of technology...fire, sharpened flints etc etc. These cooling events have been massive in scope; Manhattan Island was under 2 miles of ice and glaciers came all the way down to north Georgia.

In other words, we are really good at dealing with a changing environment no matter what the cause could be.

As I read the article, this "philosopher prophet" seems to be nothing of the kind, unless you consider a religious-type zeal for a silly and pretentious prediction of the total destruction of the earth's ecosystem some sort of deep insight.

That's utterly preposterous. Ice core samples[1] of greenhouse gases (you know, actual data points not so-far-very-inaccurate computer models) show we seem to be right on cycle basically and show little scientific basis for the hysterics that this man is being genuflected for in the article.

Of course we should all be concerned about keeping a cleaner environment...who the fuck is for dirty water and air?

Others say the blame for the despoliation of the Earth
should be laid at the feet not of humanity in general, but
of (predominantly white, western and male) capitalism.

Oh now we are getting at the meat of things. Sure of course blame "white men" for all the worlds ills. Predictable...and for the record I am not a "white" male.

Aren't these the same "white men" who basically gave us the industrial revolution, anti-biotics and vaccines that have saved 100's of millions, and a global economy tied to the WWW that is lifting 100's of thousands out of poverty daily?

More to the point...would this be the same capitalism that is responsible in the US for an over 12% reduction in CO2 over the past 10 years?[2]

Yes I know..all this just becomes political in nature and I certainly am not going to change any minds here or anywhere, really. I just can't for the life of my understand why so many people feel the need to underestimate humanity's abilities to fix and deal with pretty much anything the environment throws at us.

Besides a huge meteor impact of course.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands
[1] http://cdiac.ornl.gov/images/air_bubbles_historical.jpg
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8714#results
See: https://weworkremotely.com/
Though it may have started as a, "parasite upon reddit," imgur does stand pretty well on its own now. Try out their mobile app and you'll see a pretty active community.
Completely one sided as usual. How about the lives saved by guns? Why is that never looked at... oh right... it doesn't fit the "guns bad" narrative.
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They typed in hunter2, but all I see is * * * * * * *.
> I hate it when leaders that probably never served in the military use metaphors they don't understand for pushing employees to the limit.

It's a brilliant bit of persuasive rhetoric, though. Very few people know what special ops does. They only know what they see in the movies, which is that they're badasses. The best of the best. Elon is taking a negative (no resources for you!) and making his employees think of it in a positive and flattering way (we're the best of the best! Only we can take so little and use it to make so much!).

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a reprehensible way to take advantage of your employees. But it's a good lesson that can be applied in other, better ways. It's also good to be able to recognize dark patterns like these so you don't fall victim to them.
Doesn't help that the Imgur community tends to be incredibly toxic toward reddit's, which is hilarious given the parasitic relationship you described. There's even a subreddit for it! /r/IgnorantImgur
How Googlers Avoid Burnout (and Secretly Boost Creativity)
This kills the joke.
If they got it, would they not become the subjects of more lobbying and therefore become less democratic?

It is easy to represent someone when you don't have much power. It becomes harder when you have power. Maybe different people seek to become MEPs for example. As today it is not a very highly regarded political job IMHO.
I reloaded it a couple times to verify that it was a joke. Unfortunately, my Grandma was looking over my shoulder and is now using this password on Facebook.
Misty Robotics
In all collaborative projects I've been that allowed tabs, all files that had been edited by tab users were a mishmash of spaces and tabs that made no single tab width configuration workable. If you chose tab width as 4, some parts of functions would look right, others would have messed up indentation. Ditto for any other tab size.

The theory of tabs for indent and spaces for alignment works. But when collaborating, the practice requires too much support from tooling and too much education for humans -- so it's just not worth the tiny benefit.
Ah yeah 242-FZ, definitely a different purpose in Russia
Which would basically be a password that is randomly generated from very poor quality entropy, giving almost as much insecurity as the current example, while fooling even more people (because it changes). Nice idea.
Not sure I like this. The reason I tend to use external job sites is that they don't know who I am so I don't have to spend three weeks beating off recruiters with a shitty stick. Google knows who I am.
It could successfully metamorphise. Without reddit, it would have less traffic, but also less hotlinking, so it might be more profitable. But reddit traffic might be its lifeblood, I'm not sure.
Last time I looked I could still copy paste a web address and post it as a status (deleting the preview) - which seems like a fairly clean way to disseminate a cool post - at the very least copy paste should work perfectly.

Of course, it's been a couple years so i don't really know anymore...
How does one even start investing? Aside from a 401k what sort of things should people be looking into? Would your casino funds be something that (you) actively manage?
Casync – A tool for distributing file system images
The original story reminded me of this site: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Yeah.

It's really easy to look back and say, "I could have been rich!" But when I catch myself doing that, I try to look at the basket of equivalent choices at the time. I'm sure there were a zillion random guys in weird houses proposing schemes they thought were brilliant.

It's the same thing with startups. There are a million people who think they'll be the next Jobs, the next Zuckerberg. Approximately one of them is right. The people who come up with that guy will, exactly as you say, decide that they're geniuses, not just lucky.
What do you mean? If some devs are using spaces, and some tabs, wont that create pretty unpleasant whitespace differences?
Reddit's URLs got much shorter within a few iterations of the product.

As to why compete with imgur? User experience. It's much easier to share a picture on Reddit now, with it being a native feature, rather than having to go to imgur or elsewhere, upload something, find the best/right URL to share with, and the submit that to Reddit.
I suggest adding a big notification dialog that explains this when you first try to do an OCR request.
Some developer's might actually use it.
Remote.com
If it was different every time you visited, how could you retrieve your password if you forgot it?
I will share it in a couple of weeks if I get some time to finish it. It aggregates a lot of info from climate, financial market status, things of cultural interest, native languages, recruitment etc.
I don't believe either of those can compete with python+numpy (or matlab if you're masochistic) for numerical computation (and everything that comes with it).
> The letsencrypt developers explicitly recommend using a virtualenv to run the certbot script.

Yes, but virtualenv is not always available and updating a certificate should not require a large amount of software to be installed on the sly on a machine, it should just upgrade the certificate and be done with it.
Because clearly it's not enough to "finally be as fast as the one that beat you, five years later."

Now Firefox needs to be faster/more secure/better than Chrome, and it will also take it 5 years or more to recover the market it lost from that point forward.
"We can do nothing about the stupid."
Sure we can -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)
The Virtual-Currency War That Threatens to Tear Bitcoin Apart
Making a game, is hard to fit the market???

Most people who are super excited to make games are gamers themselves, and it seems to me that most gamers are pretty open minded. In my own research it seems to me that most indie titles that "don't suck" turn at least a modest profit. Don't suck needs to be defined objectively, but not being riddled with bugs (unless that's the point [Goat simulator, Desert Bus]), having a consistent even if primitive art style and being fun to at least some gamers is a reasonable definition.

The breakaway successes like Minecraft and Super Meat Boy should not be examples. Better example are Rovio's 50 games before Angry Birds. They made enough money to live on and make the next title while having a decent but not affluent lifestyle.
yeah and reddit a parasite upon the internet it's the new yahoo news
Ask HN: What are some interesting and open realtime APIs/streams of data?
Like e.g. Twitter Public streams.
To be honest, if he was that disoriented it sounds like your dad should have been calling 911 and not Uber. I have no idea how you could expect anything short of an ambulance with trained medical personnel to provide the requisite support that a mentally incapacitated cancer patient may require.

It might be better to ask what you had expected the outcome in this scenario to be?
And your friendly neighborhood electrical engineer will insist on having that discussion before finalizing a design for a fridge controller.

Yes, it's important o keep a fridge in certain temperature bands. But there;s a lot of timing leeway in those bands, and it's exploitable as a form of energy storage.
Title of the article is misleading. The article title seems to imply that we just don't need storage. Really it is about needing to worry about on-demand output as we convert to more renewable (wind/solar) power generation. The only brief mention of what can take the place of storage in a renewable world is thermal and hydro generation.
It is sad to see. I get the impression that a lot of Brits have just resigned themselves to Brexit and kind of thinking "Just get it over with quick". I personally don't believe much good will come out of it.
I think it'd be even better if they delved into the math behind why this password is so secure. It should then become apparent that the site is satire, and that the site doesn't randomly generate secure passwords.

Bonus points to only have the password below-the-fold so that those who aren't going to read the explanation will be less likely to copy, paste, and carry on.

Ideally, as mentioned in an earlier comment, the password could be seeded through the browser's fingerprint to allow the joke to remain (it'll be the same password upon refreshing) but still won't be as damaging for those who don't get the joke (it's still not cryptographically secure).
Why not use Dropbox public links or something similar?
Just a quick historical excurse from the certain doom and inevitable gloom: Once upon a time, there was a browser that held 95% of market share, and there was no way this monopoly could ever be broken.

No, it wasn't Chrome: it was called Internet Explorer. "What is Internet Explorer," I hear the younger members of the audience asking. My point exactly.
I wonder when will such briefs include information about cryptocurrency mining performance on a regular basis.
Yes. But it requires them to have a CA certificate which requires special contracts with a CA.

Now, Cisco could certainly do that, but for smaller companies, that‘s probably not feasible
I usually start splitting files around the 3k line mark into more encapsulated modules and classes.
> Especially since imgur was still a fairly adequate host for the site.

I'll argue against this. Imgur used to be a good site to host images, but they started getting way too big, bloated and slow. Reddit probably saw this as degrading their viewer experience, and rightly so, imo.
The only yellow car in the village
Too late. Switched everything to Devuan.

No systemd (and pulseaudio if desktop) for me.
It was made for Reddit, not by Reddit.
A new password is randomly generated, reviewed by a committee, and deemed less secure, every time you visit the page.