skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The hard fork was simply an abandonment of an obviously unjust law, a revolution really.

This is what Ethereum users actually believe.

Want it or not, Ethereum is very much led by a small group of people, and when those people lose their money, they ask the community to hard fork because really it would be a shame if the cryptocurrency they invested in lost value and became worthless. After all, it's not as if every cryptocurreency was nothing more than just a way to speculate.

Ask a thousand people if they want to lose money or win some, they'll all answer win. Even if lose is the normal (and in Etheureum's case, codified and agreed on by everyone) course of action.

By the way, the vote was at a default 'yes' and had to be explicitly disabled.
In my experience: You basically get instant and sustained traffic and figure that some fraction of people who visit will pay. The problem is you don't know what that fraction is, and so you end up guessing based on variables like the type of community.
Is it good for daily use?
> Accumulating money that way might be legal, but it's neither fair nor square. You are exploiting the production capacity of other people and using economical leverage to enforce that exploitation.

No, you're also getting paid for the lack of appreciation of the capital in the machinery, the possibility that the machinery loses value, and the maintenance and upkeep of the machines. If you're a landlord, you're paying for maintenance, property tax, and code upgrades in exchange for money for shelter. It's just a means of exchange of goods for money, like any other.

Or do would you rather that productive machinery (including capital) be not produce, and capital locked away from productive use? By not charging money for the use of goods, you disincentivize the purchase of capital machinery/real estate as there is no upside, only downside to ownership/usage.

> Because sooner or later the unemployable, hungry masses will be rallying in the streets with pitch forks and torches, demanding heads to be rolling.

You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. It isn't right for people to charge rent for the use of capital, just because, and you have to redistribute wealth because otherwise you'll be forced to anyways, screw what's right. Either argue from the moral high ground or sheer pragmatism. You can't have both.

> I'm among those that should be taxed more!

Nobody is stopping you from donating more money to the government or any number of good charities. Why should extra taxation be necessary and involuntary when people with consciences like you are willing to act on your better impulses rather than just whine about the status quo?
EDIT: it was Erebus not WannaCry
I still wouldn't buy a drill today, but I'd consider renting one from Home Depot before asking neighbors (mostly because the idea of asking neighbors wouldn't cross my mind, to prove GP's point).
FWIW, I don't find these gradients especially pleasing. (They're fine, but I find some of them a bit much). I don't know why I would be different, but there it is.

Just throwing a hypothesis out there--I'm not a Mac nor IOS guy, and if those that find them especially pleasing by-and-large are then maybe that's the link. Again, that's just wild speculation without any data to back it up.

Then again, some of these style gradients are used in Ubuntu graphics too (and I again find their presence there a bit much,) so maybe there is a bigger shift towards them.

In any event, I'm guessing it is cultural and not hardwired by monkey-grandpa genes.
The wikipedia article on Ponzi Schemes draws a fairly subtle distinction between a classical Ponzi schemes, economic bubbles, and pump-and-dump schemes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

Most ICOs seem more like pump-and-dump by that nomenclature, than like true Ponzi schemes, in which the Ponzi operator is directly involved in all of the transactions in and out of the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
HEADLINE: More fine grained meta packages as community recommendations.

DESCRIPTION: There are a few Debian meta packages but they are really broad. Example: it would be great if there were a few developer leaning packages grouped into one meta package.

For instance, I always install etckeeper, apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs. I think anyone following testing or unstable would want to install those and I'm not aware of any real alternatives to those. I can't imagine using unstable without apt-listbugs to warn you when there high priority bugs in the packages that were already uploaded.

DISTRIBUTION: mixture of testing/unstable.
I have the same problem. have 163,836 bookmarks as of today thinking i will get to them one day, Would be better to use some kind of machine learning , nlp to organize and make it publicly accessible someday or When a better summarizer comes along will use it to skim through.
Whenever I see c-web devs I get reminded of https://blog.fefe.de/, a blog i used to read. Scroll down to the end/check the faq
> I don't, in general, trust direct feedback from someone I turned down (or hired, for that matter).

Would you please share where you're working so we can avoid applying?
I don't think your theory holds water.

Quantum mechanics can be formulated to be time symmetric. With time symmetric quantum mechanics decoherence happens symmetrically in both directions in time.

If you use many-worlds interpretation as illustrative as metaphor for decoherence,
reality splits also backwards from the current moment in time symmetric quantum mechanics. In fact I think Stephen hawking uses QM backwards in his quantum cosmology theories. Calculating every possible history of the that leads to next event might tell us something about early universe.

As a final point. Quantum decoherence cant' explain existing CP-violations that are not time symmetric.
How does AI fit into that picture?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)
I thought the whole point was to do away with "implicit" or "everybody knows" or other human-interpretation/subjective factors?

If the premise is "the code is the contract, period, except we reserve the right to change the contract at any time or even to cause the contract retroactively never to have existed, based on implicit or subjective factors decided by humans and not by code", then it's a very different beast.
Not sure why, but the comment linking to the source code is dead [0].

The source code of the project is available here:

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579854
I'm disappointed by the idea that all of my waking minutes should be devoted to producing value for someone else. Sometimes, I need some minutes to produce entertainment value for myself. Thus, internet comments.
> This is obviously not good advice

No. It is good advice. It's very good advice if you want to find a place where you fit well. Unless you're starving and just need a job, any job, right now.

Allow me to explain: After some ups and downs in my career I resolved to be true to myself. In my case that means calling bullshit on ridiculous things. You know what happened? I found out really quickly where I would have been miserable, and I was totally surprised by some incredible groups that wanted someone just like me, they just didn't know it.

Actual responses from me in interviews that found me a great fit:

Q: <contrived hypothetical completely unanswerable>

A: I don't know that sounds like a contrived question. I'd be asking why you have that problem in the first place.

Q: "people who do what you do are often vague and noncommittal"

A: that's because most people who do what I do haven't bothered to read the foundational texts, thus they rely upon tropes and ceremony. This field is full of muppets.

Q: what's your greatest weakness

A: sometimes I'm just a little too awesome smirk that says "are we really playing this game?"

Q: are you <blah blah> certified?

A: no I've purposefully avoided <blah blah> certification.I think it's heavy handed bullshit and I don't want to be associated with it or asked to do it

No joke these were real responses that got me great jobs and client engagements. They also quickly helped me discover people I wouldn't enjoy working with.
I wasn't aware that borrowing things wasn't a thing these days. I'm forever borrowing and lending things. Just yesterday I borrowed a hammer drill from a friend because it's ridiculous buying one to drill some holes for a curtain rail.
I do three things to cut consumption: borrow, rent, and "rent". "Rent" is buy high quality/high value, and resell for a significant fraction of retail when you are done with it. I learned it from a friend at work. She bought a Dell Deal high-end desktop with free monitor. She sold the monitor immediately, which covered most of her layout for the initial deal. Then, three years later, she sold the desktop for about 60% of retail. The items were being enjoyed by new owners, and she recovered the value she put into them.
I found this graph in that article particularly interesting:

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/jizjAuIFp6g2ADWJCZv3tfj34cA=...

The alternative explanation for those items is that items whose price is subsidized and/or not fully disclosed to the consumer tend to rise. The graph shows everything dropping in price except:

- shelter (slight rise - real estate is tax advantaged and routinely debt-financed over decades)

- medical care (significant rise, and insurance and tax shelter of insurance and government programs hide the full cost)

- college (very heavily subsidized, by government, schools, and parents)

The other items the article mentions (summer camps, veterinary care, and broadway shows) are all luxury goods. At least if you're not a farmer/rancher for a living.

Yes, the thesis that services become relatively more expensive is interesting, but the effect of subsidies and hidden prices is well understood already.
>This is precisely the problem the OP is talking about. When's the last time you ever did anything as low level as reversing a linked list? It's a solved problem, and something an employee would NEVER do in your company, let alone search for the optimal solution in 10 stressful minutes while you breathe down his neck.

The thing about such things is I know I can do it. But maybe it'll take 5 minutes, or maybe an hour. Maybe I'd attempt to do it differently given an unfamiliar scenario for which to be doing this in the first place; maybe I've never done this specific task in this specific language, and I'll take some extra minutes figuring out how pointers or references work in the language I'm using in the test. Maybe I've recently enjoyed some momentum on high level concepts (i.e. I produced software that fulfills a business need) and it'll take me a while to refocus my attention on low level implementations.

Engaging one's brain carries some very variable overheads. If you just give me 5 minutes and watch me write every single line of code and comment about it while I'm doing it, then it's just not going to happen.
I've managed to compile tensorflow with MKL on Mac OS X. The ingredients were roughly:

1. Download MKL from Intel's website, install to /usr/local/lib/

2. Change tensorflow's configure script to look for the downloaded library on OS X instead of just aborting.

3. Possibly change some other bazel build files to look for .dylib instead of .so files.

4. Build with extra flags to look for the appropriate libraries.

I'm not sure if all these steps are necessary but they were sufficient.

The reason I had install to /usr/local/lib/ instead of Intel's suggestion of /opt/intel/something was that, with the latter, even though I passed the appropriate directory to the linker, I think there was still some intermediate binary that wasn't seeing that path. Putting the dylibs in the default directory solved that.

I can't contribute my patch because I did this on my employer's computer and it'd be an enormous hassle to work out the licensing stuff.
HEADLINE: nginx-rtmp support in Debian

DESCRIPTION: At https://fosdem.org , we are using the nginx rtmp module intensively. It seems it is becoming a de facto standard when an in-house streaming server is preferred, as opposed to an external streaming platform. It combines excellently with ffmpeg, the recently pacakged voctomix and several components of the gstreamer framework, to create an excellent FOSS video streaming stack. Some debconf video people too seem to be interested. Some positive interest from Debian nginx pacakagers. Unfortunately, no clear way forward yet.

Hopefully, Buster opening up might create some opportunities to get things going again!

SEE ALSO: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843777#23

DISTRIBUTION: Debian 10 stable & Debian 9 backports.

ROLE/AFFILIATION: http://fosdem.org staff (= all year round volunteer), responsible for video streaming & recording since FOSDEM 2017
The Mosteller Hall Puzzle
Homeless, assaulted, broke
Volunteers collecting data in remote areas and syncing or uploading to Google Form oncr back in network. Many spots in India and other where are out of network.
I think this point is great.

When you name the resource you are naming a directory/table. You pick a file/row in it by either using an ID or query parameters. That's how you reduce the many to the one.

Just like how you say "one of the students" (singular lookup, /students/42) or "students who study CS" (plural query, /students?studies=cs). Not "one of the student" (singular, looks ok: /student/42) or "student studying CS" (plural, but reads as singular: /student?studies=cs).
Eliminate all the scripts that go into a package, moving them to runtime. This is the only way to eliminate instability caused by buggy scripts that then prevent upgrades.

Also get rid of all interactivity during install and upgrade. It's deadly for managing big fleets.
Stored Procedures a bad practice at one of worlds IT software consulting firms?
If this gets huge, how will it create net positive number of jobs?
Please check https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification, https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/EssentialOnDiet and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/ImportantField.

We should discuss some of this at some point on debian-devel.
I've mused that a solid "delayed clipboard clear" feature would do some kind of atomic Compare-And-Swap, because otherwise the originating program could conceivably blow away something it didn't put there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
Give me a break, since when does sophistication count for anything? The most sophisticated /b/tard in existence could write a magnum opus about how he dominates you in every conceivable way, it still wouldn't count for anything based on the verbiage alone.
Operators have to inform you when they start charging for roaming, and cannot start charging before you have been informed (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/faq/frequently..., questions 17)
What history says about inequality and technology
I typed in "hillary assange". Autosuggest came up with "drone" as the first suggestion. I clicked on that, because that's exactly what we're talking about. I read the first three links, from Politico, Snopes, and Washington Examiner. Hillary doesn't recall making the joke, but if she had done, it would have been a joke rather than a serious suggestion. Whether she actually joked thus is unresolved, because no one related the story on the record. Apparently, "sources at the State Department" is "a vague and anonymous reference that does not yield to verification". (That seems an important consideration when consuming the excretions of the modern news media.) Immediately after the meeting at which the hypothetical joke may or may not have been cracked, one of Hillary's aids sent an email about "nonlegal" strategies for dealing with Wikileaks, which is the organization with which Assange is associated. It is noted further that "nonlegal" is not the same as "illegal" or "barbarous" or "murderously cynical and corrupt".

If you operate the Google, you too can learn trivial bullshit like this. Of course, you already have, and I haven't told you anything you don't already know. Your comment was entirely pro forma, a meaningless gesture that one makes while under the influence of the mind-killer. I encourage you to read this thread: I'm not the one who referred to this bizarre occasion in the first place, and my point is not that Hillary is an any way an exceptionally awful national politician. Most of them are exactly the same as she is.

[EDIT:] Congratulations on successfully trolling me, I guess. Since you just jumped in at this point with your "I'm not a huge Hillary Clinton fan" shtick, and I was the first to successfully spell her name even though the thread discussing this has been up for nine hours, I have to wonder: do you have a continuous alert running on HN for political discussions into which you can interject your uniquely anodyne brand of mainstream Democrat advocacy? Your request for citations, such as it is, would have been more reasonably inserted upthread.
This is exactly it. The drill in question is the kind of thing you find on special at Home Depot for $30. Likewise for (just riffing on the stuff I see in the photos in the linked article) the therma-rests and tents for camping, or the collection of board games[1], etc...

Basically, the causality in the grandparent's analysis is wrong. We aren't refusing to borrow stuff from our neighbors because we're unable due to some modern affliction, we don't bother because someone gave us that drill for father's day last year. The junk is the cause, not the effect.

[1] Which is hardly a new phenomenon. The home I grew up in 40 years ago was drowning in these things too.
> isn't it reasonable to have an exception clause

It absolutely is. Which is why you don't say "code is law". Which is why Ethereum is dumb.
How restrictively can users grant you access?

For instance, let's say I think this is great (I do) and wish to use it, but as I've a mountain of important personal stuff accessed via my Google accounts, how specifically can I grant just certain access and not give freedom to routtle around on things unrelated to form filling? Is this done with users needing to trust you not to overstep or does it happen in a way where the control sits with the user/Google?
Debian has reportbug and reportbug-ng.
It's not obvious - because I bet most of HN is wondering right now. It's not necessarily all wrong to be coding microservices in C - it has been done, and has been done in C++ as well. I like the pledge approach.

I would like to see nginx support here instead of just OpenBSD's web server. Perhaps this is because nginx won't work with pledge?
> What do you mean "faithfully"?

A good question! I mean that future states are produced by past states according to physical laws.

> For sure we can all agree that this encoding is irreversible - i.e. we can't reconstruct the past state from the present.

Not with full accuracy, no. But past states are constrained by present states in useful and interesting ways.
I know what an unicorn is.
I think there's merit on staying small-ish. Not every framework has to be a giant that dominates the industry.

Having a small community means the potential for focus and strong canonical learning resources, as opposed to the mess of poorly written React and Angular posts/"guides" we get every week. The community feels tighter and it may be easier for the maintainer(s) to manage it and the codebase.

Ember is a good example. Ember's community isn't small (sold out conferences every year), but it's not in the spotlight like React or Angular are. That doesn't mean the framework is doing poorly. If anything, their community and meetups are "better" than React's (for my definitions of a good community/meetup).
Back in 1999 I managed a similar thing written in C with flat file storage. The whole tool chain chucked out a static binary and a directory full of templates and you just cp'ed it to the target and restarted the process.

When I look back I've got to be honest and say that it was actually a thing of beauty. The heavy lifting required for some core functions was quite bad but the whole thing pales in comparison to some of the enterprise and microservice based c# behemoths I have looked after since which require literally hours of head scratching to deliver a simple change.

I'd rather spend that time writing C than scratching my head. I'd have a lot more hair now.
That metric (grown beyond a certain value) is much harder to get for private companies, and private valuations are all pretty fuzzy anyway. Exits represent a real, verifiable, concrete event.

I don't think his metric is perfect, and there are other ones (how many companies just shut down and returned what was left to investors) you can look at, but overall I think it's a good proxy for "what percentage of ycom companies have a positive outcome".
This has been part of the dpkg roadmap for some time now (https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap). And something I'm slowly but progressively moving towards. But TBH it has been low priority. Knowing of projects that require it, and specifically which parts, or that are already using the static libdpkg library are very valuable, so that those parts can be improved.

If there's enough interest, my plan could be to expose just a subset of the current libdpkg as a shared library for buster.
DeepMind's AI Creates Images from Your Sentences
In many cases the person conducting the interview is just a manager who was pulled in to help screen candidates. They don't have a lot of experience interviewing, so they resort to common questions like those in your example. It doesn't mean it's a bad place to work.
Go is Not Python
I used this as my primary search engine for a little over 6 months, eventually I switched off because of a bug. I would make a search and it would return no results, then I would re-run the search and it would work. Other than that, I had no major complaints about it.
Did you actually read the essay? Because the whole point was to address this exact issue. In fact, the second sentence of the piece is, "All measurements are in principle reversible."
There's some modern precedent for operating large cities differently than the major territories in which they sit. For example, China runs its larger cities at the national level, while the provincial governments handle the rest of the territories at a local level.
Thank you. Re-uploading.
No, the shared economy is about corporations paying for peoples' time as piece-work, while avoiding or minimizing tax, benefit and liability expenses.
I'd need a good reason to use this over pass. Does it have something that pass doesn't?
Having used all three, it feels like Vue.js will grow to occupy the role that React occupies today. That, or React will (smartly) take on some of Vue's core features like single component files with actual HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in them. Vue is far easier to start with yet feels more powerful too. Angular 2+ is a separate animal for larger teams, so will probably remain for that use case.
How does indemnification work in this case? Some of these tools could be dangerous for weekend warriors.
See also: A dump of the stories, comments, and users from the Firebase API as a SQLite database with a full text search index: https://archive.org/details/hackernews-2017-05-18.db
Uber's series of scandals has yet to put a dent in ridership
I think in the industries and positions where employees have bargaining power you do tend to see excellent healthcare plans. But that's a minority of the workforce.