skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you're right, the two are pretty well intermingled. To me, laundering is more about the "paying taxes" part, but there's definitely an element of obfuscation.
> Google just tosses these bikes out on the streets

That's the thieves, not Google. Google tosses the bikes inside the campus only.

> doesn't seem to care too much if you call them about a misplaced bike

If you ever call them, they'll send a van to collect the bike, as buying a new bike costs more money than rescuing it.
I mean, people live different places for various reasons. If you want to have a horse, for example, you need a certain amount of acres. I live near Annapolis, MD, but go 10 minutes west and it's horse farms. The bigger question is: to what degree should people in the city subsidize that lifestyle?

People talk about treating the internet "like a utility." But much of the county I live in doesn't have public water/sewer (many places more than 20 miles outside DC don't have public water/sewer). People pay to have a well/septic system built. We don't force the folks in the city to pay a lot more for water/sewer to subsidize the folks in rural areas. We just got public water/sewer where we live and we're paying off a $25,000 tax bill for the hookup charges.
US state voting literacy tests were problematic because (i) the criteria for being able to skip the test tended to be racially discriminatory and (ii) it wasn't practical for most of the affected citizens to move to a state which treated them better.

(i) does not apply; regardless of whether you intend to argue for or against a point made in the article, you're responsible for knowing the same things about what the publishers think they said. Furthermore, even oarsman:regatta-style test bias is of negligible relevance because (ii) also does not apply; as we can see from the 2016 election results, enough people "disenfranchised" by NYT/WP/etc. policies were able to communicate effectively in other Internet venues to produce a catastrophic outcome for the old gatekeepers.

Most of the Internet comments that produced 2016 were either written by folks who'd easily pass this sort of test, or on venues that won't add this sort of test in the future; I wouldn't worry about the impact of this on dissent. If you want to fight against anything a specific media organization does, fight against selective reporting/censorship [1]; but it's not a big deal, the Internet has demonstrated itself up to the challenge of routing around it.

1: If you have a signal with 0s and 1s, and a filter that lets only the 1s through, what is the information content of the original signal? The filtered signal? Incidentally, this is also a major problem in science today.
Stupidity has very little political bias, fortunately.

Such questions are rarely useful. They tend to be either trivial to the extreme (such as the continent of France or the first letter in the alphabet), politically opinionated, or more complex than you think. (What was the last world war? You and I might think it was the Cold War but with in depth knowledge would have more nuances to their answer.)
Gases don't care about g-forces going through an expansion loop/bend.

We still haven't solved the thermal expansion problem for railroads. Hot weather can cause tracks to buckle. It can also cause roadways to buckle.
Looks like I beat China
Looks like I beat China, ap-northeast-1 for the win.
https://news.ycombinator.com/delete-confirm?id=14887284&goto=item%3Fid%3D14887156
I've seen many technical articles link to an HN post for discussion instead of using Disqus or hosting on something like medium.
Pretty cool. Saw this when it was trending on reddit. It probably fits a similar niche as Urban Dictionary (which makes ~$50k a day IIRC). It's going to be interesting to see if and how Hoodmaps ends up being monetized.
Just for curiosity's sake, here's the patent application: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...

Here's also the founder's Medium post about the creation of this service: https://medium.com/startup-foundation-stories/about-my-11-ye...
I am glad we used "oligarchic dictatorship" to overcome it. Phew. That was a close one, wasn't it?
Why not use crowdsourcing, and add some inputs to the detector? That might make it more reliable. The crowdsourcing could be limited to peers, which could increase the reliability further.
Great idea. I signed up but I'm unable to save my profile photo, FYI
Any idea how to get code formatted properly?

https://medium.com/@mcguire.crsr/applied-formal-logic-brute-...
Why do people use stuffs like iphone, windows and intel cpu that contains spies?
I was hoping that because the statement was so glib and so placed, it would be communicated that I was being tongue-in-cheek; I made it only because the countries I mentioned happen to be so important to Calvinism, which roughly connects to recreational drug use being perceived as antithetical to the Protestant work ethic. Apologies if that's still too far off the mark even for a jibe.

I admit I probably only know a little more than the average about Calvinism, but far less than those who 'know' about it, so I didn't understand your point entirely. You prompted me to do more reading, which was interesting, so thank you for that.

More seriously, I think the causes are so multi-faceted it's difficult to interpret precisely where to place the blame. I think 'Reaganism' is a fine target, but it's a little short-sighted to lay all the blame there. 'Social planners' triggers associations with Edward Bernays' and his legacy, and what else I know from Manufacturing Consent, if that's your gist. Would you mind expanding on your view?
Gross. Be a better human.
He found out. Not sure he used any Clojure.
To the point criticism of Medium, very detailed and the OP is picking the right issues of Medium.

While Medium looks so beautiful and clean at first glance it really disappoints when you use it on a daily base both as a creator and as a user. Everytime I use Medium, I am surprised that Medium is successful. Its appearance feels definitely premium and significantly of higher value than any other blog system but the usability is a nightmare.

So we are back to square one. Which blog system should we use? SSG on Github Pages?
I don't live there, but I do live in a remote part of California, near the Mendocino/Humboldt county line. It's 20 minutes to the post office and about an hour to the nearest "real" town. In some ways it's more isolated than the area described in the article, because of how steep and dense the terrain is (read up on the Lost Coast if you're interested).

The only available Internet is satellite (which sucks, it's like a phone plan with a certain amount of data and after that you're severely throttled).

I moved up here recently after working as a developer in SF for a few years, so my situation and my reasons are a bit different than most of the local population. I did it because it is a beautiful place, I essentially live in a forest with no real neighbors. I have space to grow food and build things and just feel relaxed and free (I love the energy of the city but the lack of space gives me anxiety). Everyone I meet up here seems happy, friendly, and helpful. I feel more connected to the local community because it's not a writhing mass of millions of people. If you ever go camping for a few days and feel kind of rejuvenated by nature, it's like that, except permanent.

As for the economy, that is definitely an interesting question. This area was previously sustained by massive logging operations, and when that was curtailed things started going into decline (lot of abandoned/decrepit buildings around). Now there's a very strange shadow economy based on marijuana farming, that is starting to transition into a lawful enterprise. My own economic interests are around lodging/hospitality/resort type offerings.

I would say most people that live in the area like it and don't have any interest in moving to a city or something like that. I don't like calling it a "slower pace of life" but of course it is in some ways. We're not running around innovating and pushing the boundaries of technology and whatnot, but a lot of the people I know who are doing that don't seem very happy either.
> But the Google Campus is not a small town, and arguably one of the fundamental aspect of being a large city

Have you been to Mountain View, and to the Google campus? :) It takes resolution to walk to the Googleplex, grab a bike, and ride it all the way back. Even if the campus were in the middle of Mountain View, it's definitely not a large city.
Why do these two groups of people need to be served by the same service? Why couldn't there be a site for young producers to easily publish their music online and connect with the fans? If I make a song, I can't even imagine what would it take to get it to Spotify. I'd probably have to pay some agency. SoundCloud with its community is the perfect tool for this.
Could TEMPEST attacks be defeated by defenders transmitting RF noise around the target within the same frequency spectrum?
Google defines hapless as unlucky, but that's not true either.
It depends on the project. Most of the people using my GUI plotting software Veusz [1] are not devs. Therefore I get a lot of questions on how to use it, bug reports, complaints and feature suggestions, but little in the way of code.

[1] https://veusz.github.io/
Statically typed SQL for F# compiled to SQLite/TSQL/Postgres
Details of Chinese sea-skimming lethal drone prototype emerge
I am sorry but where is that criteria codified?

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
That I understand, but those two bikes weren't placed in the station by Google. Someone stole them originally and left them there.
>"How many bright technical entrepreneurs have been crushed by rent-seekers milking the royalties out of a 40-year-old track?"

Anything after Jan 1st of 1978 is now capped at 35 years, so these are becoming less and less See:

http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/gosainkaplanrecapture123.h...

>"Copyright has completely lost the plot."

Well the copyright of the of recording is there to protect the record label's investment. They aren't going to finance a record and it's promotion if someone else can come along and also release the same recording and collect money for it. That was always the plot.

That being said artists don't have to sign contracts with record labels if they don't want. With technology and the internet it is possible today more than at any point in history to successfully release and promote your music without a record label. I thought this was the great promise of platforms like Soundcloud. If an artist decides they need the marketing muscle of a record label they can license their recordings to a record label and retain the recording copyright. I really believe this is the future: See:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/29/reco...
https://github.com/realpython/flask-skeleton
I've had a couple of cases where companies pay me $5-10k for an commercial license of something I released free under GPL or AGPL - its rare, but it does happen. You can add a note along the lines of "commercial license available, contact me for details" in the readme.

I do require that contributors assign copyright to me before I'll merge their PRs.
That's right. Some actions we take help our families or our society survive and propagate.
Read the essay.
It still seems like a good supplementary approach to the ubershader hybrid mode. Perhaps it'll be an idea that gets revisited at a later date, after the speed of changes to the graphics emulation code have slowed down.
Can't be this, since they don't have on-page ads.
They've got some interesting content http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/

A lot of ideas about what was only theoretically possible at the time - good time to revisit.
The "issue" is architectural, it has every reason to apply to more or less every game on the GC base.
The key new idea in Save the Cat is that both dramatic elements and pacing are standarized. Save the Cat tells you on what page of a screenplay the various elements should appear. Screen time allocation is rigid.
As someone with some relevant industry experience, I can tell you that nearly 0 professional screenwriters or development executives are consciously sticking to a rigid structure as prescribed by some book. Instead, what you're seeing is the difference between after the fact analysis and the process of creation. Things like the three act structure and certain beats appearing in many movies exist because those are just natural ways to tell a story. The three act structure is, at the most basic level, just the series of beginning, middle, and end. Of course any movie has these sections by necessity and there are better and worse ways to navigate through each.

Just to be clear though, no one is sitting around talking about Snyder's beats or terminology. In the industry, the only terms you'll here from these books are discussions of the three act structure because that is so vital to this sort of material. All that said, I do think the books are a good starting point for someone who wants to think critically about story, but don't think that these are blueprints for Hollywood success. If they were, every screenwriter would be paid scale.
> (which is honestly fine)

I thought that it was counterintuitive, glitchy, and annoying. I thought that Chrome was having a problem, like it did on a site I visited yesterday
Microsoft Toolkit 2.6.6 Windows and Office Activator 2017 Free
I wonder if a site that sells minimal support for open source projects as a broker / support tracking site passing the majority of the money to the developer/ project would work for companies.
hired.com for moonlighting nice!
In the back of my mind, I knew there was was a "this is not technically a saccade" situation but couldn't remember why. Thanks for the clarification.
O'Regan and Noë theory of phenomenological consciousness [0] propose an approach to bridge the explanatory gap, with testable hypothesis.

1: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Sensorimotor_theory_of_c...
I took a course in combinatorics as an undergrad, so I know what Ramsey's theorem is. But our professor didn't go over the proof of Ramsey's theorem, our professor said he couldn't expect us to understand the proof because he didn't understand it himself.
I might have gotten more out the article if there was some explanation as to what a "finitistic" proof is, and how it differs from the "infinitistc" proof. Maybe the concept is too complicated to explain in a short article.
So you’d rather lose your savings than have anyone reveal your holdings? This seems to me like a rather extreme point of view.

I mean, you have to keep your savings somewhere, right? You need savings for when you retire. And no alternative offers 100% anonymity, so in that case you would risk your anonymity for the security of your savings, right?

I’m not saying cryptocurrency will comprise even a minor part of your retirement savings any time soon, but perhaps in 10/20/30 years?
Yes, accidents are a big concern.

But malevolence by humans is also.

I don't worry about machines suddenly getting motivations. But many people have seen a lot of movies.
Can't someone start a brand new music business model from scratch?
That's a scary thought.
Totally agree. Code embedding is also limited on Medium, I think they still lack syntax highlighting.

Btw, great tip wih Netlify. How is your experience with them, what are pros cons compared to Github Pages and can I run server code like Node for free?
About the dickbars:

1) I uBlock them on my phone and tablet. Unfortunately there are plenty of random sites on Medium with their own domain. I don't follow any of them and get there from HN or similar sites. Blocking all of them doesn't make sense because I'll probably never get back to that domain. I agree with the author, the button in the middle of the page really sucks.

2) On desktop, the button and the dickbar never show because I'm running with NoScript and they are a JavaScript thing :-)

The author misses another inconvenient feature of Medium, the login. It's either by oAuth (I don't remember which providers) or by email. That means they send me an email with a link to click to login. In theory it's ok, because obviously email is safer and more convenient than a password stored in a password manager (/sarcasm). The first time I used it the mail didn't arrive until the day after, so I've been primed against it. Probably almost everybody just login with Facebook or something so, quoting the author, "I’m not a part of his [Ev Williams] vision".
Yeah... and that's not really accurate.
I've never heard the Hs pronounced differently here in the US. Perhaps its too subtle for me.
Show HN: Sapiyen – The reading list that helps you read more
Apparently the word has to appear in half their books. I don't know if he took the whole of Asimov's 900+ books
She's also only been working at Facebook for 2 months, if that.

This whole article is clickbait. Whoever wrote this should not call themselves a journalist of any kind.
Asking if Kenji stole recipes is like asking if Modernist Cuisine stole recipes. You'd have to be unfamiliar with either to ask.
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Which UX issues are insurmountable in a web app?

Generally speaking, they can all be worked around by a good designer. The inferior install, update, and cross platform experience for native apps can't be worked around.

Are you talking about like realtime video authoring apps or games? I'll admit in those categories the web is often not the best choice.
This is truly the direct parallel.

"I'll be leaving soon" probably means within a half an hour.

"It'll be done real soon now" - means possibly never, but probably eventually.
This. When I got my first explanation of "serverless" (i.e. the details of the runtime and server are managed by the vendor for you) I almost laughed and said "Oh, like PHP on shared hosting."

I've wondered for years where else this aspect of PHP might be appreciated and show up in another ecosystem. In retrospect it almost seems obvious that it'd more likely appear in the form of convergent evolution combining another benefit that's higher status in the industry if less frequently needed.
Accountancy will change due to PSD2
In 2018 with introducing PSD2 in Fintech also the accounting industry will change I think. Unfortunately this industry is very traditional and will not adjust quick. I think this is a huge opportunity for the industry to collaborate with the banking industry and other third parties with smart API connections to provide better services to customers and SMEs
No news here. This excellent blog post is from 2013:
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you[1]

[1]http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...
If you're a halfway decent programmer, deploying a simple blog is trivial. There are many existing solutions that don't even require you to write a single line of code, and the problem is simple enough that you could write the entire thing yourself.
> Which blog system should we use?

Hosting your own WordPress site? It's simple and easy. Why did anyone ever want to be on Medium in the first place? Most likely for the name association and the visibility that comes with it.

I think we have a responsibility to promote self-reliance as part of technological culture. If we want people to move away from centralization (which I do), we have to teach by example (which I do).
NK does not respect the freedom and natural rights of its citizens, so we shouldn't respect the rights of that country.
He said china wouldn't accept any international troops
Not if we nuke it.
Agreed... some people hit $50k or more.
SoundCloud Is Closing in on New Funding to Help It Stay Afloat
I disagree. It doesn't matter what kind of coder you are, at some point you always deal with a shell. And setting up a blog on bare metal is done in few minutes on a shell. If you have never faced a shell or a remote server as a developer then you should find a toy project to do so. It's not the worst skill to have.

Moreover, I wouldn't see basic HTML or CSS as specific knowledge. This is something every coder knows (like English), of course not advanced layout stuff like Flexbox but the basic of HTML and CSS are common knowledge. And you do not need React, Webpack or any advanced stuff to make a simple SSG blog. You even don't need to understand HTML or CSS if you just stick with the standard templates. Just Markdown.

Edit: Why the downvote?
Because when I switched to Medium my blog posts went from ~50 impressions to 1000+ impressions

Exposure.
That helps a little bit but it's not automatic and even when that's done the music is still under maximum copyright for another century.
I can't really imagine how. Content needs to be licensed if you want to profit off of it legally, and I'm not sure how you can disrupt licensing unless you already have many billions of dollars to throw around.
Failed Startup Interview: Brisk
lot of help that did...
The way to handle this is to develop the solution, but don't reveal or pitch it yet. Instead, position yourself to hear about it when people start recognizing the problem and start looking for a solution. Then, be the one to solve their problems, and that's the kind of initiative that gets rewarded. Success depends on not just having the solution to a problem, but having it at the right time as well, when the market is ready to adopt it.
The overhead I suspect will mostly be IO bound, which is already at a premium on the Pi.
> None of the regular project users have stepped up

Most projects' development processes are under-documented, even healthy projects and those run by people not looking to get out. This may be the case with yours.

Have you written up a short description of your practices and the things that a maintenance takeover would entail?
I'm a huge fan of Lambda and use it extensively at work, but IMO at the point where you need to solve the problems this solves, you should transition out of Lambda and onto something like EC2
We own what you think (2004)
This is not a matter of political biais. If someone wants to vote extreme left or right and knows who is the current president - fine.

I do not want biais, I want people who get to vote know the very basics of the world they live in.

Someone who voted X because yeah, the current president is wrong, but this "current president" happens to be a TV celebrity and not the president - such a person does not deserve to have voting rights.
You would be surprised where people put France...
>I use(d) SoundCloud because everything on SoundCloud sounded different than everywhere else.

Because they have the lowest bit rate MP3s out of all the big streaming platforms?
As a reader I avoid Medium based articles.

For one thing, the UI for wildly different blogs are the same. This means that I am unable to place anything I read in context. As a visual learner, one of the ways I remember stuff I read is by remembering the entire context (for blogs this is usually the look of the blog). Medium completely eliminates that crutch for me.

I feel the overuse of annoying funny GIFs in the middle of articles is far more prevalent on Medium pages. I suspect because it's one of the only ways for authors to personalize their content visually.
I've had this same problem on many websites lately and it's because they require Flash. Soundcloud and Glassdoor to name a couple.

Sad state of the current web.
When You Need to Transfer Petabytes to the Cloud, Amazon Will Send You a Truck
The comment wasn't intended to be diminutive. There happen to be many shameless people looking to make a quick buck, but few of those people would pay if you didn't open source in the first place (or if you offered them a chance to purchase a commercial license). Even with your coworker, the only reason he received money was because the offender made a lot more from it.