skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the readme

>Cicada is a revolutionary distributed direct democracy (DDD) platform that will unleash the true power of the people, allowing tomorrow's Founding Fathers to run an entire nation from the palm of their hand. It's powered by a radical new blockchain that's completely immune to centralization and pays you to secure it with a practical Universal Basic Income.
My first couple of talks were in front of huge groups of people at well known tech conferences and they all were blatant disasters. I wish I would have made so many things differently...

BUT: I DID START GIVING TALKS!

That in itself was one of the biggest achievements in my professional life! So if there is one advice, for me it would be: Get going!

Put all thoughts of: "I need a better topic." or "I need a more suitable occasion" or "I need a smaller audience". Just go. Stop worrying, hand in your CFPs and start moving. Build momentum and get your feet wet.
AWS won’t be ceding its massive market share lead anytime soon
> If you were to tell a non-HNer that Kayak, Booking, Priceline, CheapFlights, OpenTable, and other large websites are worth 100B combined, I don't think they would even blink an eye.

Really? I think most people would be shocked.

> It's clear that HN (and techies as a whole, I assume) highly discounts the value of users, marketing, brand, and distribution.

That isn't what give pcln "value". The value is just a reflection of the boom stock market and a handful of hedge funds/etc bidding up the price of the stock.

Once the recession starts and a few of the hedge funds decide to cash out, the "value" could shrink considerably.
why does it need to be totaled?
> Musk's marketing is just marketing that's targetted at "our" demographic.

Couldn't agree more. Tech is a special demographic. If someone figured out how to target the newly wealthy tech crowd, they'd probably do pretty well.
I forget my keys all the time. Also, the code was like 10 digits and letters or something. If I forget my keys all the time, I'd forget the code thingy too, no question.
My point was that WordPress is a large codebase and exercises a fair amount of php syntax and built-ins.
Research and hard-tech talks generally work by invitation and reputation, so you have to be the local insider or an expert already. Case studies and personal experience talks, on the other hand, are more open to outsiders and still make a good opportunity to grow both your ability on stage and your personal reputation for future talks. Therefore, I would advise the OP to start applying for the latter kind of contribution.
it is clearly a cheeseburger
Do you happen to have any examples?
Assuming the company is voluntarily hiring them, and not being required by a contract or law that needs an independent 3rd party for auditing purposes, it seems like the pentesting company would do an even better job on the inspection if they had a good chance of getting repair work down the line for every issue they found.

If they make up a bunch of minor things that don't matter, you can ignore those and focus on the important ones. I suppose if you don't have any in-house expertise at all to evaluate what they say, the conflict would be more important?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944490/?report...

Also please read China Study critiques. They are good at dismantling "red meat is bad" point of view.
In my experience, this should not have to be a big issue. In the Netherlands, half of the meetups and conferences feature non Dutch speakers.

If you have knowledge about the topic you want to convey, submit a proposal (make it clear it will be English) and hope for the best.
I am not sure if P2P is a step forward. P2P is okay when you have a stable connetion, but when it comes to mobile communication you want to have some sort of always-on service to store/buffer your messages.

From the technology perspective I am quite happy with modern XMPP. There are just too few good (up-to-date) clients :-/

For the most part I use 'conversations' and while it is quite a good client for messages, it has no support for calls.
DOCX files created by LibreOffice are not only smaller but simpler in term of XML structure, and easier to interoperate. A two-page file created from scratch is 1100 XML lines if written by LibreOffice and 11500 XML lines if written by Microsoft Office.
The 10400 redundant XML lines are there to make it difficult to properly read the file. Also, they may contain non-standard elements which have been deprecated before the approval of the standard itself but are still there after 12 years.
What other apps? I have only been using a mac for about a year, but I have literally never seen this.
Exposing the BART crime reports they have chosen to stop publishing
> Are old people incapable of spending money?

What are they going to spend money on? William Shattner is 86 years old.

> Even if they do have one foot in the grave, they have a right to legacy.

Uh... Who cares? You are talking about something that has no value.

I'm sure shattner would trade all of his money to be 20 years old again.
CGI scripts used to be fairly popular back in the day, it was not uncommon to have C or C++ code facing the web directly.

The main problem is that web apps have a huge surface of attack, a huge part of any web application is handling untrusted user input. For this reason you're taking significant risks by using a memory-unsafe language. Also web services are rarely CPU-bound, so the added performance matters less.
I think he's complaining about people buying ridiculously large cars for commuter use. And saying that it's still bad for the environment if it's a stupidly large and heavy EV that's being misused in this way.
Yeah, that happens a lot to me. They installed those like scanner card-fob thingys at the last apt. and I lost that all the time too. Fortunately, it is just a magnetic sensor, so any neodymium magnet unlocked all the stuff. Granted, it was a full plate glass door for the front of the building too.
>A true Direct Democracy (DD) requires representativeless government. The concept is so new that the word representativeless does not even exist. We had to invent it

I think non-representative would suffice and it would sound better. Anyway, the project looks cool but I have a strong aversion towards direct democracy, referendums, etc. when millions/billions are involved
The key is to no longer take the fuel with you up there.
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To everyone down voting me: Please don't turn hacker news into reddit. Extraordinary claims require substantial amount of evidence to have any weight.

If sexism was rampant and common through out the entire software development industry, more so than other industries, I think we would see a lot of evidence supporting that. Look at the evidence, and form your conclusions based on that. The reason why I discounted Uber is because Uber is just one company and is no where near representative of the industry as a whole.

Silicon Valley is _also_ not representative of the whole industry.

The evidence that people did provide:

https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0
https://cherylyeoh.com/2017/07/03/shedding-light-on-the-blac...

That's one messed up guy. His post places much emphasis on the fact that this shortcoming is his own and that the rest of the company does not have the same weird ideals and that his co-founder + senior management are sound. One guy is not representative of the whole industry.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11262888/microsoft-gdc-20...

This article is grasping on straws. I fail to see what a gaming conference has to do with the software development industry. Also, this presumes that the adult entertainment industry is sexist/misogynistic, which is a conflicted position to say the least.

https://qz.com/659196/i-had-so-many-advantages-and-i-barely-...

I think this is the most honest and realistic view of the industry. Yes, I would say there is sexism in that women _are_ treated _differently_, in part simply due to the rarity of female software engineers. That is a far cry from the picture some are trying to paint.
If you are in Chicago and want to present to recent bootcamp graduates I'd be happy to host you. Taylor@Actualize.co
Wait, you can do that?!
I think OneDrive for Business is like the Skype Business (not sure the name) issue. Where they just renamed it. The exe was still Lynx.exe for some time.

I have had over 500GB syncing on OneDrive before via an office 365 account. It was fine. It would crash or mess up a lot more in early 2016 and 2015. But has been pretty good in the past year.

OneDrive still has issues though.

It doesn't understand symlinks and it doesn't allow far too many special characters in file names.
I feel the parent was referring to new projects released under the GNU banner, not software that is decades old and highly stable.
Well you're going to need to add more than 1TB each year, from the back-of-the-napkin calculations I saw.

In 20 years maybe it won't be so uncommon to have 20TB lying around, but I know I don't have a lot of things on my computer that take up more than 1TB and only ever grow. I certainly won't have two of them...
also don't consider those trucks
That's a ridiculous statement. Look at the benchmarks:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=1038&cmp[]=30...

That's a nearly 8X difference in performance.
Agree 100%

I'd be OK with a small icon in the address bar to indicate push notifications are available on a site but even one pop up asking for permission is too many.
When I started doing talks for London Clojurians there were literally fewer speakers than speaker slots. This meant that people were pretty forgiving (it also helps that LDNCLJ are a bunch of very nice people).

Nothing builds confidence better than not being very good and the world not ending.
It was only mentioned twice, and in two paragraphs in the whole article. It established the motivation for his experiment. You might draw from different motivations for trying TaskRabbit.
Source: https://github.com/ben174/bart-crime

BART has their crime reports in an email list which you must be approved for. I started this project to automatically scrape, normalize, and publish those emails to a public location.
Sounds cool. When are we expected to start tattooing HUID QR codes into eachothers hands, foreheads? /s
Thanks. I have seen these docs, though not gained much - these docs provide very tiny bits of knowledge, only covering some specific areas
Artist to debut 3D portraits produced from Chelsea Manning's DNA
Great effort and nice job.
I would like to voice that there are people who find slack not very good for very active communities.

On the one hand it's a real-time chat, on the other hand it always feels like you are missing out if you are only opening the app now. But you also can't just leave a message and come back later because the scrolling is awful and everyone has probably just moved on from that conversation.

I really prefer IRC + log and something like reddit/mailing lists over slack and have recently stopped interacting with a community that have all moved to slack.
Where is the problem? 90% of normal users just create a new account when the forget the password :-/
Since you've made a number of assumptions about me, let me make one about you as well. You sound exactly like the colleagues I've worked with who think that their time is more valuable than everyone else's. In reality, most research shows that helping others in an organizational context is strongly correlated with business success.

https://hbr.org/2013/04/in-the-company-of-givers-and-takers

I am extremely selfless in helping colleagues who ask me for help, and I would like others to do unto me as I would do unto them. To me, that sounds perfectly fair, and well aligned with the greater organization's goals.

Regarding some specific points you made:

- I spend a lot of time thinking about exactly what I'm going to say, even before I send the first hello

- It typically takes me only 20-30 seconds to write out the message immediately following the hello

- If someone happens to be busy and doesn't respond immediately to my message, I have no complaints. This is equally true whether or not I start off my message with a "hello", and is irrelevant to this discussion
> It doesn't boggles my mind at all, and I prefer Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates rather than more corrupted people.

What makes you think gates and bezos aren't corrupt?
UserFriendly
The Boston area has quite a bit of tech jobs and pays pretty well, with the main issues being that everything is falling apart and people are crazy.
> Does this mean that GNU did not pay the Apple tax?

GNU or rather, the FSF doesn't generally do releases of GNU software. That's left to the maintainers.

Even if the FSF were willing to pay Apple to sign things, and if it were possible using only free tools, it would be difficult to coordinate with all the maintainers.
I thought the OP was talking about wallets; are you saying you need to download the entire blockchain to store your wallet offline?
It's made by French! /joking

This has been my experience with most of the GNU/Free projects. They suffer from terrible UI/UX although they solve the core problem (P2P for example).

Imo, this is why private startups can out compete those free projects. The private startups focus on delivering a great UI/UX and this matters most to customers/users. Most users don't care privacy anyway. Usability comes first.
..As Chelsea described the collaboration: “Prisons try very hard to make us inhuman and unreal by denying our image, and thus our existence, to the rest of the world. Imagery has become a kind of proof of existence. The use of DNA in art provides a cutting edge and a very post-modern—almost ‘post-post-modern’—analysis of thought, identity, and expression. It combines chemistry, biology, information, and our ideas of beauty and identity.
It's pretty common with lots of free software applications.
How I tried to get into game development and failed
That's weird that OneDrive crashes consistently on your W10. How much data do you have on it? It doesn't crash on our family computer which is always an old computer. And on Mac it crashes maybe once a quarter. I have hundreds of gigs on it so that's not so bad.

MS fanboy remark seems weird. I'm guessing you'll just think I'm an MS fanboy. Which would be silly, I use Apple products far more among other companies. OneDrive might actually be the only Microsoft app I use consistently.
Trees go extremely well with FP. In fact, a lot of Elm's core data structures are implemented with trees. Dicts, Arrays, Sets. Here's an example of a zipper package in Elm: http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/wernerdegroot/listzippe...
Do people really think pure direct democracy is a good idea? Why?

We already have a problem with legislators not understanding anything about many areas they are expected to create policy on. Why would Average Joe do any better?
This is the brainchild of one the the founders of Savoir-Faire Linux. I was an employee of theirs and had to use this software for internal communications. It rarely works, crashes a lot and employees would crack jokes everytime we were told to use it. The idea is good. The current state of the app is barely useable. They just fired around a third of their employees (after promising to double in size).
> which are intentionally bloated with useless XML contents to make interoperability almost impossible.

That's just a conspiracy theory. The reason they're "bloated" is because Microsoft Office is optimizing for interoperability with its largest competitor: older versions of Microsoft Office.

Maybe Microsoft Office having "cleaner" XML would improve interoperability. But as long as Office is the standard, the ability to consume messy XML is worth more than the ability to emit clean XML.
I think that Bitcoin is an investment and not a currency. I think it is misnamed.

Currencies are actually designed to slightly depreciate over time in order to get people to spend them on buying things or buying investments. That is done completely on purpose. Not too fast depreciation but not too slow either.

Bitcoin isn't depreciating, rather appreciating because of its design -- a limited supply.
Yeah i was surprised with this not being mentioned in the higher up comment lamenting $70/yr. $80/yr for 5 people has been great for us.
> Stallman has always wanted government funded open source software, so that's probably why

Stallman wouldn't say open source. But here's his plan: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.en.h...
Why would they? Tesla has no gigafactory either (the actual battery factory and battery IP belongs to panasonic, and they can sell to whomever they wish to)
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>That may just be bloviating on his part, but it does seem at least sensible on the surface.

His biography definitely seemed to emphasize keeping SpaceX private until Mars starts to unfold
My family had a car that was once very lightly rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. No major marks or scuffing on the back bumper so my mom just drove away. Three months later, while driving on the highway, she drove into a pot hole that triggered the airbags. The airbags exploded (yes they explode) completely unexpectedly while driving at 70 mph. Thankfully she was not hurt but the experience definitely shook her. Apparently the airbags' trigger had been triggered halfway when the car had been rear-ended.
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What PHP version is Peachpie targeting?
For $80 a year like our family has had for years, your get Office Home and OneDrive 1 TB per person for 5 people. It's a great deal.

Is there any app that you use that wouldn't be covered by Office 365 Home edition?
> It's only US

I think that in densely built European cities robo delivery is a much more promising technology. The first trials are already ongoing here [0]. Putting in the hubs may not make sense if the target audience doesn't want delivery vans in a few years time.

[0] https://www.starship.xyz
The Impact of Tech on Growth Strategies
I agree. But I think all of the issues you listed would be much worse by being in prison for a few years, especially as a rapist (real or falsely accused).
Thanks, I didn't look far enough to see that the bedcover is removable. Now this truck is an option for me.
The huge significance of the BTC-e bust
"Totaled" is just a term of art in the insurance industry. It means that the cost to restore the vehicle is greater than its as-repaired street value. It doesn't mean that the vehicle has to be destroyed; it just means the insurer will only give you the fair market value of the vehicle as though you sold it used immediately before the accident, instead of paying for it to be repaired.

The problem, though, is that when an insurance company does that, it colors the title of the vehicle (e.g. "salvage title"), which makes it harder to sell and reduces its resale value.
Is this linked to the "cicada" where people solved riddles to find clues and apply for membership in something very secret?
They're a private company the same way any company that is effectively funded by government contract is. Technically it's true, but they haven't demonstrated actual viability in the private market (much less profitability). And the achievements you note have little or nothing to do with their status as a private company and almost everything to do with taking advantage of government research from the past half-century.

The bit about Nazis is entirely irrelevant.
The thing that's impossible to make up in these COLA calculations is retirement savings. Putting away 10% of $300k is very different than 10% of $172k. And you don't have to retire where you work.
Just like Google, its hard to come up with something new profitable when you are fat and lazy on your gold lying goose.
'Sort of running' and stable enough to deploy into production are different things. I really want this to work but I am a little nervous about committing to it.
ULA has one foot outside the launch business already. The BE-4 won't be ready for years. It's not inkkely ULA exits the launch business completely before it's ready, it's at a huge cost disadvantage even with the BE-4.
Every 2-door, V8, 4wd, long-box work truck ever made is a pretty pointless car. Towing power, ground clearance, an open bed, weight capacity, and most of the other things that distinguish these vehicles are utterly wasted and often counterproductive on a San Francisco street.

But these utility vehicles are instrumental in getting real shit done at countless farms, industries, and construction sites across the globe.

Don't think "Tesla alternative" when you look at this thing. Think of something more like a pickup truck, at home alongside a farm tractor, a 4-wheeler/side-by-side, a skid steer, a flatbed, or a horse.
Dell U2518D HDR Monitor Has Fake HDR
My only computer is a Macbook Pro running Arch Linux (which is my ideal setup for getting work done). In general it struggles to achieve unplayably low framerates in the small selection of games that even run on Linux.

Given that I want to play games, my options are to spend a bunch of time and energy researching, price-shopping for parts, and building out what would likely be a $1000+ dedicated gaming Windows PC, continuing to funnel time and money into upgrades as games demand more and more horsepower; or pick up a $250 current-gen console at Walmart, knowing that it'll be able to handle anything I throw at it, and only worry about upgrading several years from now when some game I really want comes out on a future generation console.

As someone with a limited entertainment budget, the latter option is by far the more attractive option.
I was thinking the same
I did something very very similar to this two years ago. I was put on a particular diet by my nutritionist and so had the same pains as this man and went through a very similar process. Had to do the shopping myself but made it clear in the task that i wanted the tasker to give me the shopping list of what i need. It all went really well. She made me great tasting food that lasted me a whole week, cleaned up the kitchen after she was done and made sure the food was as per my dietary requirements. I was really happy. It cost me £65 for the whole thing. Unfortunately, I can't afford to spend that kind of money every week at the moment, otherwise I would because i really hate cooking. But this post has re-ignited the idea at least
I was gonna' ask why not just make it smell like strong smoke as to not confuse your instincts, but the key here is that it wakes people, not just notifies them.
Travel: Planning itineraries and making purchases more popular in mobile apps
10x sounds kind of reasonable, it's harder to make things than break things.
10 years ago we didn't have gigabit connections in our homes, and or at our offices. Now that many of us do, P2P is not only viable, but likely better in many cases than supernode based architecture. Ring will likely be around longer than Skype. As long as it is distributed by Linux distros' package managers, it will remain usable. Skype will eventually be shuttered.
> ALSO: Your example is much slower than the same server written in Node.js, haha. Because the language doesn't support evented programming.

Uhh, how do you think Node.js is implemented?