skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you gladly go to prison for it?
If you happen to use the TICK[1] stack and Kapacitor tasks, how do you test your tasks? How useful would this tool be for you? Any more ideas?

[1] https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/
that is the intention
Yea, it really confirms this as a corporate strategy.
Stack overflow checking for x86/x86_64 for Rust just landed
Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546

"Someone submitted a PR to Mozilla to fix this, and the Mozilla devs closed it"

Impossible to opt-out until about 2 weeks ago.
I feel exactly the same about the crypto space.

Yes, there's tons of hype, nonsense and even scams, but the cream will eventually rise to the top, and the best ideas will survive. I've listened recently to some podcasts with Olaf Carlson-Wee, someone who has thought long and deep about the implications of having funding at the protocol-level of the internet, and how it could swing the balance away from large, centralised web monopolies who capture most of the value, towards the users of the network[1]. Union Square ventures also have some interesting ideas as to where the future of the internet might be heading.[2]

It's hard to see where we're heading with all the short term price boom and busts though, which I agree are unconnected with reality (currently).

[1] Two podcasts + notes with Carlson-Wee- http://buynhodl.com/ethereum-investment/ether-investor-focus...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12247892
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> cropping images in general, zooming in, adding quick bits of emphasis

Preview.app can do all of that.
Employers only have that power because you grant it to them. Of course you don't have a lot of choice if you want the job.

In theory, Debian or any organization could do the same background check, but is that the best use of their limited resources? And would they want to do it anyway given the ideals of the general OSS community?
I can already imagine the pain for when I'm trying to draw an un-aliased line.
It works, it's just not enough. It's still better than the situation in the US, UK, etc where there's even less (I remind you that the OP's argument was that rent control was a bad thing).
In this future you won't own a car, so there's nothing for you to paint.
I understand the point you are trying to illustrate, but your choice of examples require more evidence than folk knowledge and stereotypes.

For example, you talk about men and academic excellence being such an example. But isn't it the case that women in general excel academically more than men? Why do you not point out/why do we not obeserve such a pattern, then?
Maybe, but it certainly doesn't follow that career preferences are the same or that culture is the primary driver for career distributions. Never mind that culture is a function of biology.
I believe there are times when it is favorable to "burn" ether or another cryptocurrency, i.e. lock up the money in an unowned account. For example, the decentralized market place OpenBazaar discusses proof-of-burn to establish a user's reputation (https://blog.openbazaar.org/proof-of-burn-and-reputation-ple...). Burning coins allows a user to show they are invested in their reputation on the platform, without being forced to pay money to a central party.
Well, the Ethereun fork itself reveals that there is some recourse.

It may be less attractive recourse than exists with plain contracts for many potential participants, though.
I have no idea who makes better software.

What I mean is this: If you mix open-source with a for-profit entity, don't be surprise when that entity try to extract profits even in orthogonal ways to the original intention of the project.

Of course, in practice, and by the nature of open-source, this is a very difficult to do and, normally, can be prevented, but the trend is there and should be take into account.
The government doesn't fear intelligent people, who are by definition smart enough not to risk their career or physical safety to openly criticize. This "sizable population of intelligent English-reading Chinese" are primarily focused on exploiting Party connections to help them build wealth, and then expatriate the money beyond the government's reach.

Nobody is talking about a revolution, that would be suicide. The intelligentsia are far more concerned with using government to their advantage, which naturally responds very well to money exchanged for favors (like how baidu got rid of Google).

It's poor people that government worries about. Because when poor people rise up, that's bad news for anyone in power who hasn't yet fled the country. And if most poor people don't read English, well then there is not much harm in allowing some printed criticism of the Party, as long as it's in English.
I believe that is a self-conflicting proposition, since I believe morality is a subjective "property"
21 Examples of Waste in Lean Product Development
D&B made a terrible mistake in 2010. They let a startup in Malibu use the D&B name and take over some D&B services for small businesses. The startup called itself "Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp". Their business model involved cold-calling companies and giving the impression that unless they paid D&BCC, their credit rating would get worse. This caused terrible publicity for D&B, lawsuits, extortion charges[1] and eventually settlements. D&B finally bought D&BCC for $360 million in 2015.[2]

This destroyed the reputation of a once-respected company.

[1] https://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/01/21/dun-...
[1] http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2015/apr/29/dun-bradstreet...
> If it triggers a poorly handled edge case that's what insurance and/or lawsuits are for.

Insurance claims and lawsuits are cold comfort for those severely injured in crashes.

I'm not saying regulating the wraps is the right decision, but regulating that autonomous cars must be able to properly react to such scenarios probably is.
Any car can break suddenly for any reason or no reason at all. It's not a tragic failure mode, instead, the desired situation is that all failures lead to this.
For some very nice Random Forest visualizations, check out the R package "forestFloor" [0].

I also once started implementing a R package for "partial dependence plots" [1][2], which are popularly associated with Random Forests but aren't specific to them.

[0]: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=forestFloor

[1]: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/ensemble/plot_p...

[2]: https://github.com/gwerbin/statsplots/blob/master/R/partialp...
It's also eventually they're going to hit a ceiling and be worthless once they're all mined. It seems like a huge bet, trying to guess when Bitcoin value will hit 0.
I think we rely on our hearing because we can only see in one direction. With an autonomous car, you can have sensors pointing in every direction, so visual/radar/lidar clues might be all you need.
> So basically what we have today is exactly what the market wanted.

If "the market" means "companies" then yes. "Users", not so much.

Much like Apple getting rid of Flash, if MS had a dominant market position they could have forced a user-friendly trend. Alas.
Well, it looks like they are including "command verbs" even if they are mistyped, for example "bulid".

What happens if you accidentally paste an AWS secret key or similar in the middle of a command verb? Will that too appear in public csv files a year later?
> especially since no one had much experience with the implications of the memory/storage/execution model of Ethereum at the time work started on Solidity, let alone the kinds of vulnerabilities these contracts would be exposed to.

Perhaps the Ethereum devs didn't have this experience, but this experience and knowledge was out there. The E programming language has been a vehicle for smart contract and security research for over 20 years. How many Ethereum and/or Solidity devs read the E research, learned the E language and played around with it?

There is also decades of research on formalized smart contract languages. Nick Szabo is well known in this space, and he wrote a draft paper on a great contract language back in 2002:

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/contract-language/

How many of the devs have read this paper?
That's wishful thinking. All evidence suggests that governments worldwide couldn't care less about cryptocurrencies. At this point, cryptocurrencies are just taxable Internet points with delusions of grandeur.
A whale in the streets of paris
He didn't cause any damages. He reported the issue including the pass he purchased as evidence and it was invalidated.
Singapore Startup Takes Bitcoin into Real World with Visa
That's true but you can make some assumptions that greatly reduce the edge cases if you apply some basic rules. e.g. I can imagine self driving only lanes with high barriers on either side, at which 200+ mph speeds are achievable.
My Volvo slammed on the autonomous brake yesterday for no discernible reason. Best guess was a leaf blew across the sensor.
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My Notes on Ardor Platform ICO (Part 1 of 2)
I toy with Linux but I mostly use OpenBSD. So I'm thankfully not that affected by systemd.

I can completely understand what the OpenBSD init system does. It's a lot harder to fully understand systemd. Plus, as a benefit of systemd, you get headlines like "Don't panic, but Linux's Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query"[1].

Red Hat doesn't care if Poettering is a brilliant genius or just a useful idiot. Instead, Red Hat loves systemd for a very different reason: lockin. Most Linux distributions are now utterly dependent on systemd, and by extension dependent on Red Hat.

systemd gives Red Hat far too much control over Linux. They were already the 800 pound gorilla, now they're almost invincible overlords. But go ahead, keep drinking the Kool-Aid.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/29/systemd_pwned_by_dn...
You just quoted three sentences from the middle of the article and ignored thousands of words on either side of your quote explaining why that doesn't mean what you claim there's "lots of evidence" it means. Who are you trying to kid?

If you had cited any authority here, I guess my argument would come closer to the caricature you provided. But you haven't. Instead, you briefly tried to pretend that my authority was a random Vox article, written by a random Vox pundit, which you are now clear that it is not.
If you do iOS development as an organisation, you need a D-U-N-S number, because Apple relies on them identifying organisations. And now Microsoft. Horror of horrors!
I really doubt it. If you think there aren't plenty of people who view this stuff like tulips then I think you're too far down the rabbit hole.
Thanks for your comment and it's fixed thanks to a hard fork ;)
In my experience, clients rarely have any technical expertise at all.
Some of the things I have come across in the last 30 years:

- flying wheelbarrow

- unaccompanied wheel

- numerous deer

- toddler on a tricycle from in between two cars

- tourist stepping backwards of a curb

- oncoming traffic on a one way highway (Romania, fairly normal apparently)

- people driving backwards on a highway

- pedestrians in a vehicle tunnel

- tourbus wheel exploding

- truck wheel delaminating

- all manner of debris, from boards to clothing and large chunks of metal

I will take your floating plastic bag over any of those. And yes, I drive too much.
The solution seems simple:

"I can't, I'm busy right now."

That's what people say when someone asks them to do something they don't want to, or where the cost outweighs the benefit.
Oh. My life is a lie :| Thanks, I don't even know where I've heard that. Still, same style of bridge.
I guess it depends on whether people believe cryptocurrencies have a future, and if they're confident Ethereum will still exist 10 years from now. I don't care if the price falls temporarily, it has the potential to make a major impact on the world and I think engineers will be able to surmount the challenges it faces today. It's as simple as that for me.
Does this ever devolve into something similar to bicycle with everyone going slow to avoid being first at the start and then doing a mad dash right at the end?
Collective punishment and guilt by association are morally reprehensible but getting everyone off the hook is equally wrong irrespective of their rank in the food chain.

I am not saying that you necessarily advocated for this position in your comment but I just felt the need to make my point clear.
> It's free speech whether you like it or not

Hmm, is it free speech to use the threat of violence to enforce your personal religious views on others? I'm not convinced.
I'm speaking on a broader more long term view. Crypto currencies have the possibility to expand into what is arguably the biggest market of them all, money. In the same sense that many previous distruptive technologies did (mp3, video codecs for music/entertainment). Many mp3 based startups failed, so did many streaming/content selling startups but the trend was ultimately sound.

Nobody really knows what bets will pay off but people are placing bets none the less in the same way they placed bets on startups before.
> This is an incredibly strong statement. Back it up please.

"The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was started by James Deb and had its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. The use of child labour was common. The working day could range from 10 to 16 hours for six days a week." in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

A gentle introduction enough to solve basic ignorance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_rights#Labor_Background

You can also look up the fact (and wonder why) that the USA is one of the very few countries in the world that doesn't assure paid vacation time and, right up there with Papua New Guinea and Suriname, is one of the three countries where there's no assured right to parental leave.

It appears that societies at large have a "narrow interest" in not working (for breadcrumbs, mostly) from cradle to grave.
The majority of the L stops I use in Chicago don't have shops (mostly blue line, some red line and brown line).

Which ones do you use that has shops?
Why is the submission title different than the original one?
My two (possibly biased, much like the author's) cents.

- No network-based tests; e.g. a typical fast internet connection (say 100/40 or 50/20 MBit/s) with a few dozen ms latency to some server or cloud service. This is of course difficult because these tend to be bad on reproducibility. For a network-based test, not only time is interesting, but total RX/TX as well.

- I'm really surprised at restic's performance. It uses far more CPU than Borg in almost all tests... and Borg is already notoriously inefficient in it's CPU usage when looking at object throughput (restic: "fast, efficient"?). I don't mean to bash, I'm just surprised.

- restic's deduplication performance might hint at Rabin Fingerprints being worse than Buzhash, but there might be other issue(s) leading to this result.

- Besides CPU time, memory (peak) usage would be interesting.

> For instance, file hashes enable users to quickly identify which files in existing backups are changed. They also allow third-party tools to compare files on disks to those in the backups.

To be fair, Borg can calculate a variety of file hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA2, ...) on the fly with "borg list". There are "borg diff" (to compare two archives) and "borg mount -o versions" as well, though the latter is generally impractical for looking at a large number of archives.

> Again, by not computing the file hash helped improve the performance, but at the risk of possible undetected data corruption.

I can't deduce how the last part follows (", but..."). Care to explain?
I doubt the gig economy will provide that either.
Most of the tools I know in this space look for known issues.

OSS teams could spend the time and money running these tests, but this seems like a good area where governments and companies can step in to help.
The consequence of forks is that their desired userbase is now seeing double, and whenever a potential user asks about it someone from the community tells them, "Don't use the one with ads and/or other junk, use this one instead."

If other companies follow along then Atom's ecosystem-- and therefore, Atom-- will suffer as a result.

Regardless, there probably should be more caution when installing plugins.
What exactly was wrong with a DAV server? I can't imagine it being more complicated than what you've settled with.
To be fair, if one is a self-described "commie", there's only one possible interpretation. Maybe avoid associating yourself with genocidal regimes? Even as a joke (I sure hope it's a joke)? Maybe?
I believe in democracy and traditional government, for all its flaws. I think the ability of the human community to outlaw things, even when there's Pareto profit in those things, is a really important safety net.

Cryptocurrency takes that away, and there is no way of getting it back. If cryptocurrency becomes widespread and socially acceptable, then you better hope all the things that people want to buy and other people want to sell are good for society, because there will no longer be anything society can do about the ones that aren't. It's not just a worthless bubble, it's a genuine threat to civilization.
This should really be handled by the carrier. Look for a carrier that allows you to use your number from anywhere via SIP or WebRTC.
Deliberately malicious behavior would land such person in jail as soon as serious accident happens. You can do a many things to trick human drivers as well to cause an accident, the only reason we don't see this happening very often is because most people in society are decent human beings.
It actually makes front-end developer feel like 'proper' software development again. Previously it felt like strapping together a bunch of jquery scripts.
Happy nobody behind you slammed into you. Brake test without a valid reason is a liability.
I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to click-wrap terms of use prior to installing Atom packages..
Awesome reply, I've been searching for a simple explanation. This is superb.
Because right now it's on sale!
Their privacy policy as of 31 of December 2016:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161231231542/https://kite.com/...

Seems similar enough to current version.
They changed the nature of powerup probability distributions to be based on distance from first, rather than position in race. It's now entirely possible to get a blue shell in 2nd if the person in 1st is half a lap ahead of everyone else. Your point still stands, but you need to maintain a large distance from 1st which A) is much harder to tell what distance threshold you're at and B) is usually too far to recover in 1-2 powerups.

I much prefer the new system, most ranked games of mario kart tend to involve the majority of people in a large group using the weaker, more skillful items to pull ahead. If any one person pulls too far ahead of the group for any reason then the entire group suddenly gets a huge shift in powerup strength to close the gap again.
Both are punishable crimes though, so I don't see what difference the point makes
I think once it goes through this bubble we're going to see it's real applications. It's like what Wired Founder Kevin Kelly often says, you have to look at the stuff that was the "next big thing" five years ago. Social networks didn't really take off until Friendster and Myspace moved first and failed. I think it's the same with Bitcoin.
lol, not sure I got what you meant by that :P lucky me I guess :)
Filecoin doesn't have any smart contracts as far as I'm aware, so it's limited to use as a decentralized storage network. I believe it would be possible to build something very similar to Filecoin on the Ethereum platform. Storj (https://storj.io/) may be trying to do that.
Not exactly, since 4 out of 8 players are usually AIs, but yeah if everyone "figures it out" it does feel more like cycling. Sometimes someone tries to totally break ahead one lap in advance with the hope that the gap will simply be too big, even with a shell, which is kinda analogous to an "attack" in cycling.
I'm not sure what their goal is with this data.

Do they want to use this data to create a good tool?

Or do they want to use the data to create a tool that appeals to the average user?
If your secret sauce is the data that you have why not sell it to your competitor?
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Let's get rid of the handful of useful features left in Windows. Next time around we'll take care of that pesky calculator, and then we're coming for notepad.
I feel you're being too permissive of the possibility that culture drives gender roles. It seems implausible that culture would cause every civilization however isolated to organize itself along very similar gender roles. I understand you are alluding to this; I just want to put a fine point on it.
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People seem to believe that cryptocurrencies are either a scam/waste/bubble or that they are an amazing technology that the future of financial tech will be built upon. And there is this battle between the sides.

I think that both are equally true! Prices are obviously driven by speculation, there is tonnes of fraud, and no regulation. It is a wild wild west goldrush situation right now. Maybe this is unfortunate but I'm also not surprised by it. Isn't this how all markets get started? I don't have great sources but I think the situation was similar for the securities markets for many years.

I also think the blockchain is an incredibly remarkable piece of technology that it will be put to use in increasingly important and useful roles and that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Both can be true.
A good set of stereoscopic cameras would tell the computer that those bicycles are not real, and even if they were, they are running at the speed limit so there's no need to break.

Radar would do an even better job. There's no reason why cars shouldn't have radars and drive better than humans, but yes, they should be able to solve that by vision alone.
Meta: So far (23 top level answers) we have: Nginx, Git, Guava, Photoshop (?!), Discourse, OpenBSD (and: other BSDs, Plan9, BSD tools, Linux, LLVM/Clang, WebKit, Chrome, Firefox, Quake 1-3, Doom 3, CPython, TensorFlow), Hashicorp's tools, Redis, Mysql, Postgresql, Apache HTTP server.

Wasn't the question about business applications?

Redeeming answers: ERPNext, Odoo, OpenERP, OpenERM
I'm not sure that can be said with certainty, perhaps it is cultural.
Yes, I agree, forks are another bad consequence and usually undesirable (though there are exceptions, e.g. it worked for the Node.js community). Had Kite not subverted the plugin, there wouldn't be a need for a fork.
The problem is not that they built some product and monetized with ads. The problem is they injected themselves into a product they didn't build. Worse yet, they're open source projects.

If you can't see the distinction between this and the examples you mention, you really don't qualify to make sarcastic comments.
>Now without any malice from the developer, the system has become racist: It saw the correlation that in the US blacks and hispanics live in poverty more often that others [1].

If the data really suggests that these factors (poor areas, foreign names, social media) affect liklihood of default, should they be completely ignored? I'm sure credit scores and salaries are correlated to race in the US too. Should those be ignored? Just give out loans indiscriminately?

They're not ignored now by loan approval. Worse, inaccurate stereotypes are used as a proxy for some of these factors that may be relevant to a borrowers ability to pay. We don't live in a perfect world where people ignore certain factors.