skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Buy Bitcoin' sign shown during U.S Federal Reserve testimony to Congress
Yes, but don't tear off the band-aid until the wound has healed.
Agreed. It is more dire than most scientists are willing to admit or the public are willing to hear. At this point I think the best hope is:

a) incredibly rapid adoption of renewables

b) a Manhattan project to find a way to pull carbon out of the atmosphere starting within ~1-3 decades, once it becomes beyond obvious we've already emitted far too much and the consequences of inaction are more than human civilization can bear
That's very true, one of the key aspects that I use for picking a language is the huge ecosystem. Enough cannot be mentioned about the ecosystem of libraries and tools. With Clojure, you can leverage it to lift the heavy server-side stuff like Spark, Hadoop, and use the same syntax basically for the browser UI and mobile.
you missed the parent's point.

if it paid its own legal fees it would get that much less equity.

imagine I said "I'll invest 1M at a 2M valuation but you have to burn 800K of it in a bonfire." vs if I said "I'll invest 200K at 2M valuation but I'll celebrate by burning 800K in a bonfire."

The same thing happens to the money (it burns in a bonfire / goes to the lawyers) but in the first one I have 50% of your company and in the second one I have 10% of it.

Because in the first one I added it to the equity investment before making you pay it.
I've never seen anything in-depth, but there's a lot scattered throughout pcwalton's comments on HN. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7587978.
I really hope this update will sort out the lack of meta data regarding which photos the Photo app compressed during upload. Even with the "Original" option set, the Android app would silently(!) switch to the compressed form, then happily tell you to delete the originals to save space(!!). I now have a random mix of photos both on Drive, Photos and copied over USB to my HDD but haven't found the time to unpick this schmozzle. I'm a paying customer.
Not so. The nodes in the command chain have little if any ability to question the order they've been given. Officers are even selected based on their ability to carry out orders unthinkingly. In the US military, an order from POTUS is the ultimate command. The only part of the chain that matters is at the very top, specifically, the armed individuals who surround the President. They can choose to stage a coup or declare the President medically unfit.
Does it still not count photos above a certain megapixel count towards the free space?
14M customers vulnerable in massive Verizon data leak
Except bitcoins are not instant, and aren't even guaranteed to go through.

The transactions are also non-refundable and pseudo anonymous, unlike the payment methods in your wallet. This is not a feature.

Making analogies with computers and smart phones and wallets doesn't mean Bitcoin is guaranteed to be successful or mass adopted.
Oh the irony... sigh

:/

I just resigned myself to do the Settings > tether over WiFi > WiFi only
Every time.
Pharo has it's own UI, but can also run native OS UI windows (this feature is being improved). What you are seeing in the screenshot is indeed a web interface and a Seaside application appears to be hosting it, according to the description
Does sci-hub give you the supplements? Most of the info is in the supplements for papers like this. That link is to the supplement.
Last I checked photons are not "objects". They don't even have mass.

An "object" being teleported even 1mm would be much bigger news than this.
I read an argument once that an inflationary currency encourages spending and discourages hoarding, and it follows that the reverse would be true for a deflationary store of value like Bitcoin.

And are you saying boom/bust cycles are a good thing? For pretty much any average user of money, they're not.
Python in Finance, a Conversation with Yves Hilpisch
That's like YouTube lord help you if you click on a video you don't like by mistake you'll never see the end of it in the recommended section.

It's to the point now where I just log out so I can see what's available rather than a continuous feedback of what I already watched.
Maybe im missing something

You definitely are. Disable js and try browsing. Note the quadrupled battery life in your laptop.
That'd be hilarious and tragic. Most of the internet would be flagged slow.
I have some experience in health, but not a lot, so take this with a grain of salt.

I've never heard of a true health organization (pharma, hospital, clinic, or lab) that used proprietary software that they did not develop in house. So if you break up relationships into these categories:

#1: proprietary, developed in-house

#2: proprietary, developed by a shop

#3: licensed third-party

...then I only know of the using #1 or #3.

If you're referring to public health or insurance companies, that's a different story. This company does exclusively the former: https://www.standardco.de/
I'm afraid that you have misunderstood the Bloomberg article. Nothing in it is about checking the power of the president (it says itself the president determines when to end the meetings and whether to ignore advice). It is all about verifying that The President has issued the order, and then ensuring that order is carried out. The President is contacted in this scenario simply because he's the only one who can actually authorize retaliation. He is enabled to do that independently, which is what the nuclear football is for.

Alex Wellerstein is a academic researcher on the history of nuclear weapons, and he describes the situation thus:

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2016/11/18/the-president-and-...

"""

>>Are there any checks in place to keep the US President from starting a nuclear war?

What's amazing about this question, really, is how seriously it misunderstands the logic of the US command and control system. It gets it exactly backwards.

The entire point of the US command and control system is to guarantee that the President and _only_ the President is capable of authorizing nuclear war whenever he needs to. It is about enabling the President's power, not checking or restricting him.

"""
Thank goodness the wealthy have someone looking out for them.
See https://immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/IPCOM_US/I0209... for the B2B version of this
I wonder why they didn't use moose[1]; I guess it probably started development before it.

[1]: http://www.moosetechnology.org/
If you want to develop iOS apps you need a mac. You should get the 27 inch iMac with 64 gigs of ram. This will be a lot more then $2000. If you don't need to develop iOS apps then ryzen looks like it could be good.
Ok but which Linux? Ubuntu? Fedora? Mint? etc... Which desktop should they integrate with? Gnome? KDE?

I suppose they could go the Steam route and only support Ubuntu, but then that would be Ubuntu support, not really Linux support. It would be nice to have at least some support on Linux for sure, but unfortunately deciding to support Linux isn't an answer to a question, it's opening a whole extra big bag full of knotty questions.

Until that issue gets sorted out in Linux land, providing first class Linux support in any professional, commercial grade application or service is going to be problematic.
> The abstract is more informative than the press coverage:

Isn't that usually the case? :-(
Just like the discussion in that post, that user is such a far out edge case that it's just flat out disingenuous to say that the Google Drive app doesn't work reliably. It's not perfect, but it works for 99.9% of the people using it. 700,000 files at more than 2TB is not the typical use case for Google Drive.
PIXEL [video]
Not all gigabytes are them same. If you're watching youtube in the middle of the night chances are it doesn't 'cost' much. You're essentially using spare capacity for both Google and your ISP. On the other hand if you're torrenting things from obscure networks at peak times then there's a lot more infrastructure considerations involved.

That net neutrality means that you can't use the network even though it would be available bothers me from a hacker perspective. In that sense it seem much better if there were no "speeds" or "GB" at all and you or the services pay for priority. (which probably isn't how it would play out)
Would be interesting to see an article about chronic non-yielders in conversation too. That's the other extreme from this, for people who deserve to be interrupted and usually it's because they don't get to the point, even when it's fairly obvious what it'll be!
I'd like to see form validation get a badly needed overhaul. At the same time, we can punish sites that use shitty/inappropriate practices. This would vastly improve mobile experience especially.
> Do you have a source for this? (YouTube blocking old devices)

Yes : https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?p=yt_devic...

> When Nintendo writes an HTML5 game and then blocks the Xbox browser it will be comparable.

So, you mean like this - https://html5gamedevelopment.com/2013-03-nintendo-web-framew...

I think your getting hung up on the particular method an API exists, which doesn't sit well with me. There's nothing magical about HTML that makes it more special than JSON. YouTube cutting access to devices API seems no different to me than Netflix not allowing Linux to get 4K video. In both cases, they're using their own tech to prevent something that would work if they touched nothing.

> These are not reasonable examples in my view because they are not cases where someone is actively preventing something that would work otherwise.

I mean, OSX works great on X86/X64 hardware if you hack out the mac-specific checks. You could run OSX on many Linux boxes ... if Apple didn't put work into preventing it. (The Hackintosh scene is living proof of this)

> Netflix and Amazon however do have a relevant monopoly over streaming services. There are no more than 2 or 3 in the world and network effects makes this stable over time

There are over a dozen streaming services. Your conveniently leaving out Hulu, YouTube, SlingTV, PlayStation Vue, Acorn TV, DirectTV NOW, and a bunch of others.

They might not have the specific show you like. But just like your "fart app" scenario, these services have plenty of shows so the fact that your particular favorite one isn't on that service isn't relevant, right?
Thanks reminder, this is my first time to submit, so I don't know what's the best practice.
open ID moves the user away from your service, which i think is not what some sites want because they want more user info and control. that's why openid failed.
I'm an outsider and there is a war every damn time the word Rust comes up on HN. I've yet to see bashing any language to that degree in Erlang threads, Python threads, etc. Something has to be up with that.

I'm not using C and C++ professionally at all so the only place Rust has to fit in is fun or potential long term professional opportunity (assuming Rust is a fair bit more widespread than now by then, otherwise C and C++ win in the native field for employment opportunities), I'll not have fun (and I won't learn anything I don't immediately need that won't bring me fun) in a sea of vitriol against anyone who doesn't hate C and C++ so I'm happy Rust community guidelines forbid such idiocy in official spaces and documentation.

Rust is apparently targeting C and C++ devs but at the same time the ones that like it are going crazy and saying stuff about C and C++ being impossible languages (I agree they are by far the most spartan and hardest in the mainstream right now but not impossible as evidenced by lots of quite reliable software written in it, some that lives depend on).
People do so much advanced analysis with these outrageously biased datasets (this says nothing about "developers", this has analysis of "developers who put repos on github, skewed towards prolific repo creators")

Yes, it's the only dataset you have. You still sound dumb when you inflate the importance of the population you have data for to make the anlaysis sound more useful.
Cry me a river, poor well-connected CEO will have to go Serial Entrepreneur another company on the wings of investors. These people only have to deal with mental anguish, the ones with consciences at least.

I feel badly for the employees and, to a certain extent, the customers.
I agree. This amazing company is giving a voice to the voiceless rich, whom no one ever listens to. Now we just need a company that will help them achieve political power, since they are very underrepresented among elected officials and campaign donations. /s

...but seriously, this company is a brilliant scam, like the $1M web page or that iPhone app that cost $1,000 and did nothing.
Here in Germany there is a button on the light.

Unfortunately, the picture of the cane on it isn't clear enough. All the tourists press that button. :)
how does interop works in scalajs without externs?
I love this so much. Sitting at a party that you have no interest in, reading hackernews, while everyone thinks you're just hanging out on facebook.
Opening this file in a hex editor shows that the file consists of almost all spaces, which I'm assuming are all on one line, making the text editors crash.
> that's only readable on Linux because someone broke the encryption specifically designed to disallow it.

At least it's readable with FOSS (unlike Netflix). Even RMS approves it ;)

> Hardly an example of how content providers support reasonable options for all users.

Agreed! But they won't provide an easier option if we'll just accept DRM anyway.
I've been using this Kill Sticky bookmarklet, and it's turned out to be one of life's simple pleasures. Gets rid of menu bars and popovers. It's the most-used thing on my bookmarks toolbar by a factor of about eleventy babillion. It's not automatic like an extension would be, but you'll find you get 80% of what you want with a tiny bookmarklet.

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/
Google has a weekly meeting called TGIF every Thursday.
Linux marketshare is around 1.5%, and I'd speculate those choosing Linux tend to be less willing to trust google/the cloud with their data than average.

It's just not worth it when the best-case outcome is indistinguishable from a rounding error,
Obtrusive prompt (UAC equivalent) required to load any javascript. How the web would be so much functional, to the point and responsive. Just imagine the electricity savings.

The world truly would be a better place.
Yeah, hexdump shows:

00000000 ef bb bf 2f 3e c2 a0 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
00000010 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
*
00900000 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 3c 61
0090000a

Which means that except for those first 8 bytes and the last two, the whole file is just 0x20 (space in ASCII/UTF-8) repeated ad nauseam.
Exactly! "We've made a whole bunch of really great assumptions. Can you guess what they are? Why not experiment with your precious data and find out!"
Me too, but I still can't stop using WhatsApp, it's the most popular IM app in my country, and only a small percentage of my friends cares enough about their privacy and digital freedom to switch to an alternative.
btrfs has all those features as well and my original setup was mdadm raid 5 + LVM + ext4.

Regardless, I really haven't had any operational problems with btrfs for my 3 TB or so of data and when it has managed to get wedged because it couldn't allocate more space to the metadata pool during the initial import of data from my old array I fixed it with a simple rebalance command.

A cron set up to run a minor rebalance weekly helps ensure you never run into that situation in practice and I've not lost any data so for now I'm comfortable using btrfs as my primary filesystem.

I am a little concerned about the longevity of btrfs in general though because it hasn't been receiving a lot of development work lately.
This[1] may help. The relevant excepts:

> The doctrine operates both horizontally and vertically. Horizontal stare decisis refers to a court adhering to its own precedent. A court engages in vertical stare decisis when it applies precedent from a higher court. Consequently, stare decisis discourages litigating established precedents, and thus, reduces spending.

and

> Although courts seldom overrule precedent, Justice Rehnquist explained that stare decisis is not an “inexorable command.” On occasion, the Court will decide not to apply the doctrine if a prior decision is deemed unworkable. In addition, significant societal changes may also prompt the Court to overrule precedent; however, any decision to overrule precedent is exercised cautiously.

It's worth a read (not terribly long) because of the examples and the rationale behind Louisiana having a different system.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis
2017 Voice assistant trends on IFTTT
Signed archives of trusted or untrusted fingerprints, distributed by various and independent authorities is one option.

Trust is, by definition, an extention of solidity or support. CA is a trust model, which has proved both brittle and unworkable.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=trust&allowed_in_fr...

Google and other services presently provide extended trust and validity assessments for websites: pinned certificates, malware scans, and the like. A limited number of such reliable schemes would scale reasonably well, and should prove useful.

I'm not saying "perfect", I'm saying "useful".
Are you insinuating their storage offers are offers for storage? That sounds like quite the conspiracy.
Search for ECC on that page. Some of them do. It is possible that their SKUs change with time. Currently, 3520, 7510 and 7710 show ECC support. Dell's site is quite terrible for navigation. You may have to spend some time to find the right model.
Why would long lines crash editors?
I've been working for years with a major vendors Bluetooth chip and it's been a nightmare to work with. They change the chips firmware often and have completely changed the libraries API more than once. They will obsolete older versions of the chip that your software runs well on, forcing you to port to the new API's. Their example programs generally work standalone, but if you want to combine two functions into one program you'll often find you need to use features not included in either example program (e.g., try using peripherals such as SPI on the chip along with the radio and you'll find the SPI example code crashes the BLE stack.) They've been promising the ability to be able to act as Central and Peripheral simultaneously for years and have only recently included an example program to actually do that (labeled "experimental", it hasn't been stable for me with a simultaneous Central and Peripheral connection.) However, we're a small group and they apparently have geared their efforts to working with larger manufacturers who hire them to write drivers and glue code so continually altering their API's may be a way to enhance their consulting business. If you want to do something fairly standard (connect to a sensor) you can likely accomplish that fairly easily; however if you want to do anything unusual be prepared to have to reverse engineer their abstractions. Any small device maker who wants to use Bluetooth in their design will be hard pressed to find the resources to deal with the continual changes.
Those Ferraris drive on the same public roads that everyone else drives on. They can pay the same fees to race on private roads.
Lots of folks have replied saying it's the same where they're from. Can anyone say where this is NOT the case?
Gimli: a cross-platform permutation [pdf]
The Unspoken Reality of Net Neutrality
Code everyday and look for projects that stretch your knowledge - even if it's just a copy of something else. Don't fall into the camp that says that languages are cool. They are not. Languages are created to serve a purpose so make sure the one you use is meeting your needs. Learn regular expressions well since they are incredibly useful. I use them every day.
I know this is a little tangential, but this brought some simmering anger back to the surface. Just today I was trying to communicate with a bluetooth device that provides a serial channel.

Back in the day I used to just run "rfcomm bind <mac-address> <channel>". But it turns out BlueZ decided to deprecate (read: stop building by default) the rfcomm command in favour of... wait for it... a barely-documented D-Bus interface.

How much do you have to hate your users before you decide to take away a useful, functional executable and replace it with an unspecified interface over D-Bus that requires hours of research to use rather than 30 seconds of reading a manpage?
I wouldn't care so much about net neutrality if there was open access to the last-mile conduit for broadband to my house. But there isn't. Comcast owns the coax and there is no fiber here (even though I live in the heart of Silicon Valley).

Comcast is conflicted on topics from content to voice service. So neutering net neutrality is tantamount to deregulating a monopoly. That doesn't sound smart to me.
If the editor has some built in line length limit then exceeding that limit might lead to a crash (depending upon how the editor is coded).
If this turns out to be big amongst other things, then some "big" news will come up in next few days to cover it up.

At least that how they would do it in Philippines.
Another future alternative TFS:
https://github.com/redox-os/tfs
PGP allows creation of subkeys. I'm not entirely clear that that's useful here, but it might be.
Funny. I thought it was actually pretty organised and neat considering this is rural China and an operation aimed at doing things @ least cost.
I believe Facebook has video chat also.
I have never understood the need for net neutrality. That doesn't mean we don't need it, it means that no one has ever explained the need to me in a way that makes sense. Give me real world examples. What has any ISP done that would violate Net Neutrality that I would object to?
Note that corporate personhood also allows them to be sued. Used to be that, if someone ran a train into your house, you could sue the driver (if he survived) and maybe his immediate boss. Personhood makes the corporation as a unit responsible for the actions of its employees.
C is kinda small enough, that I imagine one can maybe have some chance at trying to hold the whole of it, including all nuances/warts, in one's head. Like, maybe even actually write a compiler for it. (See e.g. Dennis Ritchie, Fabrice Bellard.)

With C++, good luck even reading and understanding The ISO C++ Standard. Not to say fully internalizing all possible interactions between all nuances. I presume not all of them may even be truly 100% fully fleshed out and explored in The Book. As to writing a compiler - even just writing a parser for C++ is famously super hard!
How management expecations vary between cultures
The call for removal of C++ is implicit or do you now say we keep extremely unsafe (in your eyes) software around and put our lives on the line? Lives and livelihoods do depend on C and C++ software in nuclear, medical, governmental, financial, etc. and somehow millions are not dying due to all this unsafe software. No software is 100% safe, even Erlang (another dear of HN but one that is enjoyed in a more civil environment than the "Go Rust, Fuck C++") is just "nine nines" reliable.

You made C++ sound as bad as Java applets or something similar. Obviously anyone saying Java applets are unsafe, bad, etc. is telling you between the verses to not run any, ever. The words you used were very strong and made it sound like everything is buggy as hell while the bugs are minor and few and far between (relatively speaking, there are lots in some places but your browser and OS is not crashing or leaking your data to hackers on a daily basis, the situation is nowhere near tragic).

Saying C and C++ are unsafe basically shitted on every programmer ever that picked them for anything important, kernel makers, browser makers, server makers, languages VM makers - all idiots, endangering people and property, writing unsafe software!