skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its like thinking breaking windows adds to the economy because someone gets paid to fix it. In the end the window gets restored to its original condition and money is simply transferred from one person to another but no value has been created. Stifling innovation in a way is like handing everyone a hammer and telling them to break things to stimulate the economy.
Someone should definitely sue Kite.
Let this story remind us that America is a special place that we must protect.
And it ensures that the economy is based on time and low pay rather than valuable skills or invention. It removes the incentives to innovate in areas of life that are time consuming but have lots of workers.
Anything similar to Paint in general, not just this specific use case. Paint covers a lot of uses that Preview doesn't.
> those [privacy] tools should exist and be legal

I made a comment recently about why bitcoin developers think that privacy and fungibility is important: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14678032

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-adam3us-fungibilit...

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-confidential-tran...

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2016-11-...

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/milan/fungi...

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/privacy-and...
Off topic: I posted this exact article four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813807

In the past, when I post exact duplicates, HN redirects me and automatically upvotes the original instead. I wonder why this doesn't always happen. (I'm not bothered, just curious.)

Double off topic: It's very interesting to see how much difference timing makes. My original had a single upvote, and this hit the front page.
Neither RT (Russian government propaganda) nor Al Jazeera (Qatari governmennt propaganda) is sufficient by itself, if you want to figure out what’s going on in the world.
Seems like an especially left field whataboutism. Why can't we be concerned about both?
Is there evidence that this is better for reading? It seems to make reading harder for me. Perhaps it's because I either a) became aware of it too early and am distracted, or b) don't read in a linear fashion.
"Economically illiterate nation harms itself once more."
The primary reason is exactly the reason you cited (u2f support is not ubiquitous across browsers..especially mobile). We may consider allowing folks to use u2f exclusively in the future, but we started conservatively given the already risky proposition of account lockout with regular 2FA.
Mobile is on the way as well. There are a few challenges on that front though...
I enjoy my local MV, LA, PA papers too. Thankfully I read and subscribe to WSJ and Economist, which cover the controversial/poorly conceived policy of the administration but very little of the tabloidesque gaffes. I was at dinner with friends yesterday and I was struck by how little of the "this person said this ridiculous or ill-informed thing X" I knew compared to my peers.
The Economist is good, if you can swallow their ideology It's very open about it, but it does not conform to most people's idea of what news should be.

Süddeutsche Zeitung is good in Germany space, although it may do a bit too much of normal and national news.
Given India's infrastructure and assuming it will be not a 100% driverless cars , this is not an issue indian legislators need to worry about. At least until India can achieve a 100% literacy rate and assure driving licenses given out are genuine.
I'm confused. I thought AI was already about this.

Are they introducing something new, or is it just gimmick and buzzwords?
How neuroscience and AI can help and influence each other
I suppose there's some path where they might exert some negative PR and get a temporary win.

But any "victory" with a corporate customer of their employer wouldn't help the guy down the street behind the counter at a BBQ restaurant, making less for similar work.

I would put more energy into the union mentioned in the article. Which could grow to have leverage beyond one situation.
And the Show HN didn't even do well. What's surprising is that you got positive feedback from the few comments, a rarity among Show HN :)
I'll easily vouch for this.
In a darker aspect, it seems the gov’t values the lives of their citizens so little that they can’t be afforded modern technological gains. The rich of India will sure experience it, as they travel abroad.
Making Money via Emoji
12 months? Perhaps for taxis and private hire vehicles, but not for the population as a whole. In the first year, perhaps 10% penetration, but more likely 2-5%, as for most it will be a premium feature. I'd say 5-10 years for normal models to get full self driving capability.
Malware is a game-over scenario either way. It can simply steal your session keys or send requests from your browser with an active session.

That said, there seems to be some sort of TouchBar integration[1]. It doesn't currently store the keys in SEP, but that might become an option at some point[2].

[1]: https://twitter.com/mastahyeti/status/889546786221678592

[2]: https://twitter.com/mastahyeti/status/889548782035124224
>Business news sources tend to be clear headed, because they are in the space of news you can put a dollar value on, and hence will pay for to make more accurate.

It also pays to put out dishonest hit pieces against competitors, or dishonest reviews of your own products to make them seem better than they really are.
I don't know if it's designed to do that or not, but that's been a huge trend for a few years now. I still have people request that I design a site like that, where the only thing visible by default on the homepage is a 68pt logo and on specific pages is a 68pt title. A navbar at the top and a navbar under the logo are also requested, both navbars displaying the same options.

I don't get it either.
Even more radically, you might as well just give everybody a universal basic income instead of heading back for a pre-industrialized way of life (though the Amish people seem to like it?!).
Damn. I live in Australia and I had no idea that Teardrop was the actual theme the House MD!
Providing anonymity services is not that different from selling food. No one aids anyone by guessing who their customers are. But a sudden turn towards pro-government bullshit from people claiming to be "privacy experts" sounds rather suspicious, merely an attempt to construct a narrative. It is likely that they were in fact threatened by the government.
In the past month I only found less than 10 remote jobs, and I had the skills to apply for about 8 or 9. To me that feels like a very small pool in the first place. And yes the 8 or 9 didn't hire me but that was probably because like someone else mentioned here, there's just tons of applicants, maybe I was severely undercut by someone who doesn't have a wife and 5 children to provide for.
I'd like mining pools to offer sale of coinbase bitcoins for people who truly value their privacy. I would buy a 12.5 BTC coinbase transaction for maybe up to 13 BTC. That makes the pool's effective block reward 13 rather than 12.5 BTC. More reward means more users so the pool would get bigger, mine blocks more frequently, more profit from coinbase sales. I honestly don't see a downside.

NB. When I say 'coinbase' I mean coin generation from mining reward. Not the company. (I hate that they deliberately chose a name to confuse new users)
I find this discussion pointless as driverless cars that can drive on Indian roads are a long way from becoming a reality.
There are Reuters 'viewpoint' and 'big read'-type stories, roughly paraphrased. But as a wire service they tend towards facts, as perfectly as you'd expect from humans.
If we had less rules, we could make it happen. More industry standard regulation, then things could evolve much more naturally and not have to be lobbied for all the time.
I have learned, directly from people that would know, that even in affluent cities in the US one-third of the people having surgery do not have insurance and simply refuse to pay any of their hospital bills. In some cities, hospitals have virtually no paying patients.

This surprised me, but I suppose it makes sense that cost have to be born by those of us that have the means to do so.
Bitcoin is useful for normal transactions because it allows the users to avoid a lot of hassle. As transactions become more complex, the hassles accumulate.

To accept a card for a domestic transaction, merchants must go through a lengthy approval process and forfeit some portion of each sale to the payment processor (this has gotten substantially easier in recent years; before Stripe et al, you had to get a bank to underwrite your business before you could accept credit cards). Customers must possess a supported card, which also require approval and often come with other fees that the consumer must bear. For foreign transactions, you have to try to figure out whether your card will work in the first place, and if it will, many cards will charge foreign transaction fees, currency exchange fees, have additional verification and paperwork hoops, etc.

From this perspective, bitcoin is like cash; it is simple no matter what you're doing with it, and it doesn't require the permission of any bank. If you have bitcoin, you can distribute it as you see fit, without middlemen (ignoring miners since their controversies usually don't have a direct/immediate impact on users).
> the biggest thing that bothered me about the job was the pervasive idea that you could fix computer problems by buying additional software

O my god yes. I worked in corporate IT and Management was sold on more complexity all. the. time.
I've found Vice News to be great for firsthand reports, but lacking on background material.

For example, they did a segment [0] on brown coal strip-mining in Germany. The reporter examined the stark human and environmental toll of the mining, but failed to address why such a dirty form of energy was in demand in the first place. I had to do my own research to find out.

What I found, in part because I knew some of the background already and was confused by the Vice report, was that Germans chose to abandon nuclear power - a cleaner, safer form of energy - in the wake of the Fukushima disaster [1]. This boosted their dependence on coal, and was a direct cause of the increase in strip mining portrayed in the Vice report. The devastation caused by mining to the landscape and nearby villages took on a different meaning for me with this information.

Overall, I enjoy and appreciate the out-there, unfiltered style of journalism that Vice sells. However, I'd encourage you to do your own research and not rely on their reporting to capture the bigger picture.

[0] https://youtu.be/xCrVYd3aKcA
[1] https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/10/26/green-germa...
IMO, it's hard to imagine an artificial currency being met with so much enthusiasm 30 years from now, yet see where we are today :)
>but would argue that it's likely not true for a sizable amount of the population

I'm afraid you are incorrect. This is neuropsychology.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/your-money/why-people-reme...
Making Smart Contracts Smarter [pdf]
Nothing is sufficient by itself if you want to figure out what's going on in the world. Reading from different sides even biased sides, Chinese, Russian, Qatari or Western 'propaganda', is the best way to train a critical mind and not be fooled into believing simple 'truths'.
Let's get Archive Team on it. I'll suggest it on IRC now, I suggest you do the same.

http://archiveteam.org
When I was in grad school, I had quite a few colleagues using FEMM for various electromagnetic clutch designs, looks like it worked well.
I submitted logtrail (https://github.com/sivasamyk/logtrail) 312 days ago (more of a side project of mine) and made it to front page. Got lots of stars :). Helped me boost my confidence and currently has active users and made multiple releases with new features. Happy I did it.
There are a couple of forces at work: 1. Medical folks charge more over time, for...reasons. 2. Previously insurance could be sold tailored to the customer's ability to pay; but that insurance didn't actually cover many useful things and had a low cap (hence was almost worthless). ACA disallowed that and made insurance industry offer policies that cover the stuff a regular person needs covered.

So you could have the impression that you had "cheap insurance" as long as you never need to have significant healthcare paid for.
I have had really good luck with these boards. http://nanopi.io/nanopi-neo-air.html

$20 but they do not need a permanent SD card and they need a heat sink. The Allwinner CPU's seem to get much hotter than the Raspi Broadcoms. The issues I have experienced really have been nuances of the Linux distros but very workable.
It would be legal as long as there is no coordination with the campaign but I can imagine enterprise ending class actions against FB by minority shareholders if the Board violated their fiduciary duty to shareholders by involving FB in the campaign.
> ...they have no interest in building more

"They" are easy to motivate, though. You just need to make it profitable and possible to do. "They" are actually very reliable that way.
Where do I sign up to be one of the idle workers?
There are a lot of Tesla owners raising kids in the suburbs, and going on road trips. Totally fine if you don't want to be one of them.
If you do this, you'd also logically have to ban imports or tax them at an extremely high rate.

By banning any sort of technology, you're indirectly increasing the costs of domestically placed goods, by increasing the costs of production.
Were there attempts very early on because I remember them drafting a bill no one even had time to read. Republicans were going to vote anything down and it seemed like Dems waited out the clock so it would be forced in at the last second, either way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/your-money/why-people-reme...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
I have a Roomba and in no way does it have any capability to connect to any type of network, Internet or otherwise. Is this only on the high end models? I've never used the app because mine doesn't offer it, does the app require sign-in so they can know who you are?

But I mean... of all the privacy invading pieces of tech I can think of, a representation of the floorplan of my house might be the least concerning. Considering I'm typing this within range of at least a dozen potentially always-on microphones and cameras, and have no idea where my keystrokes are actually going.
For the uninitiated, TOTP is....?
In my neighborhood, most of the houses were built from a fixed number of designs sourced from an architecture firm. Wouldn't the floor plans be the IP of the architect?
The kind of problem described in the OP doesn't seem orthogonal to ACA. It looks to me like the problem is part of the adjustments that the market has made in response to the regulation. One of the biggest tools used in differentiating between the various levels of ACA marketplace plans is the breadth of the network they allow access to: getting more providers to accept your plan will cost you additional money.

It only makes sense to at least postulate that the converse is true as well: if you find yourself stuck out-of-network, it's because these regulations created an environment where the insurance companies could do better by eliminating the providers it partners with. So it's reasonable, at a first approximation, to guess that this problem is the result of ACA.
Experiment: simple conditioning of WGANs
As I recall, the rough idea was to adopt a Republican plan (RomneyCare) in order to achieve bipartisan support (and "stake holder" support). And then it became the evil spawn of the Democrats...
On the plus side at least Matt3o12_ pointed out solutions! Still, he/she appears to think that this is a huge issue because that's their personal situation.
>Although the proposal for the League to accept Esperanto as their working language was accepted by ten delegates, mainly from Asian countries, the French delegate used his power of veto to block the issue.

What an odd thing to veto. Was there a good reason for it, or was it just to preserve the "lingua franca" over a new contender?
Clozemaster might be a useful complement to the Duolingo course - lots of content for Esperanto as well as a bunch of other languages. https://www.clozemaster.com
I use Makefiles that run "git push $branch" and then call a Jenkins API to start a build/deploy of that $branch. This way I never have to leave vim; I use the fugitive plugin for vim to "git add" and "git commit", then run ":make".
Without a doubt the business news has a greater interest in delivery of facts on the ground than your typical national newspaper. To that end I pay for (and only pay for) the Financial Times due to their attempt to seek out truth. For example, on controversial issues they'll have editorials from both sides, long articles, and they publish letters criticizing and correcting articles. As it's investment-minded and British owned, there's more of an international focus.

The sad thing about the FT is how expensive it is.

Investors tend to care about facts more than feelings, so objectivity becomes a worthwhile pursuit. When you're investing in a commodity, foreign currency and so forth, you're going to read everything with squinted eyes, looking for the facts.
Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann was the trigger that started my transition from someone basically writing "script spaghetti" in an OO language to someone that could actually decompose a conceptual set of processes into decoupled parts and assemble a software system from them.

It came along at just the right moment in my career, when I was struggling to understand how I could build things in a more elegant way. I picked up the book thinking I was going to learn about some esoteric design pattern, and came away with a much better understanding of the languages I was using and all of the other design patterns I thought I had learned about previously. It's clear, concise, and focuses on concepts over specific tools and libraries, but most importantly it's practical - it has real, practical code examples and explains how to actually build an object-oriented system. It's such a stark contrast with most presentations I've seen of the Gang of Four patterns and of SOLID, which usually come with really weak examples that aren't helpful or motivational.

Everything snowballed from there. I started using composition a lot more than inheritance, I started identifying problems with side effects and eliminating them, I started writing real unit tests, I was able to better critique other peoples' code. I felt like I was finally using the tools available to me in the way they were supposed to be used.

What's funny and satisfying to me is following the author's blog and seeing that he has since moved on to focus primarily on F# and functional programming, which I naturally started to do myself after more practice with the concepts in his book. Once you start decoupling things well, and you've built a few systems big enough that you have trouble finding the actual implementation of your IWhatever and an AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean actually does solve your problem pretty well even as you realize the insanity of it, the encapsulating borders of classes and the need to assign everything to a noun start to feel more like a hindrance rather than a guide.

That said, I still think that most of the world's code written in object-oriented languages would be better off if everyone using them had brief, practical training to understand the value of specifying the behavior of an object through the interfaces it depends on, giving it other objects that implement those interfaces right when you create it, and doing all that creation up front (or specifying other objects that can defer that creation to later). I still see so much C# code from developers at all levels who clearly create classes only because the language offers it and it seems like the right thing to do, randomly jamming methods and fields into classes with names vaguely related to the domain, calling static methods to access databases and external services, and proudly adding unit tests for their one loose little function that mushes strings together. I push this book as hard as I can on junior devs.
Ask HN: Self employed who have transitioned to a job: Is it worth it?
I am considering applying for a job and seeing what it's like working in a team.

For now, for work I spend a couple of hours a week maintaining a website.

Most of my time is spent travelling (9 months of the past year) and really enjoy hiking/skiing/mountain biking/surfing with my friends.

The idea of working in a team, learning from other people, having some consistency all motivate me.

However, when I imagine myself losing all my free time, having to wake up at 8 or 9am, spend all day behind a computer, lose autonomy over what I do, I start to think twice.

Am I missing out on a lot by working alone and not in a team?

For those that have never had a job and then switched to employment how did you find it?

A few other facts about me:

* I've never had a job, I've always worked for myself.

* 21 years old

* Withdrew from top university in my country after 6 months (skipped classes I was enrolled in and chose to spend my time at the lectures that interested me instead).

I also am very much a generalist with no specialist skills. What employers would this be valuable for?

Any advice or thoughts would be much appreciated. I'm really unsure what to do. =)
Problem is, the beneficiaries and the victims are often different people.
> As I understand it, bitcoin doesn't track coins so much as it tracks the funds associated with account numbers.

It's actually the opposite. The blockchain does track coins, but not accounts or account numbers. Rather, each transaction involves "scripts" which specify some conditions with which coins can be used as inputs to another transaction.

In a normal transaction, one key can spend the coins, but e.g. it is possible to send coins to a script that is impossible to satisfy, therefore the coins are unspendable, yet don't exist in an 'account' at all.
Genuinely curious - why are you hoping to see an uptick in Esperanto speakers? I'm not sure I see the advantage of Esperanto, although I do find constructed languages fascinating.
I've heard this called "breakthrough noise", and whenever I'm walking around and hear an obnoxiously loud noise from a vehicle I exclaim, "My Tesla doesn't make that noise!" Fortunately my walking companions generally find that amusing.
completely unrelated as in if you follow the transaction graph they haven't crossed paths, so you'd need the mixer log to break the mixing.

It's difficult to know what they do with the coins, but they could be selling them on an exchange to move onto a different currency and then buy bitcoin again.
This project is so impressive, and I'm so disappointed with HN's reaction.

At this point there are only 7 comments and 42 points for the thread. Yet this is one of the most unique and creative pieces of coding that I've seen on a here ever. I wish the community would take a second look at this. It needs more credit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_One-time_Password...
To just validate the numbers themselves, you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm

Beyond that, I'm not sure what that person is talking about.
If you give people a universal basic income, you need to both increase taxes a lot and completely restrict immigration - a basic income in the US is incredibly luxurious for people who live in sub-saharan Africa. Or else the universal basic income is going to be too low in first world countries to make a difference.
These ideas seem to come up a lot. I see people advocating these ideas everywhere, even on HN.

How can anyone think that job creation is better than job elimination?
I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't even try to do the math.