skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the pay isn't as good because the profit margins aren't as good as "the cloud" so there isn't as much money available for engineers. And because the slower pace of development makes it seem like you accomplish less per year.

My biggest problem with web development is the users. I've made a few internal websites to manage some our stuff at work, which only has to deal with a small number of users (100 or so) who are all technologically competent engineers, and I still find it ass annoying, dealing with all the weird ways they use my very simple webpages. Sure hardware can have its quirks but they're not like people.
Unless you don't have the money to do those things.
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This is also exactly my view about Facebook usage. I think it's a good, healthy use case of it, especially for people with means to (which you and I appear to be).

I think the general negative view is because people without the means (for example, money, to travel, for variety of reasons), simply become more miserable as they watch friends travel on FB.

It's probably a more complicated sociological topic. Many would like to paint it just black or white though.
What language are you working in? I've been working in Powershell out of convenience, but am looking to port my speech bot to Node.
Intel quad-core processors could finally be coming to Ultrabooks later this year
The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature
Why do you doubt that? Is it unreasonable? Students are subject to the same restrictions now.
At least in my city, businesses need a permit for a sidewalk sign, and there are restrictions on the size of the sign. If they don't follow the rules, they get a fine.
The sad thing is markets aren't rational at the end of the day.
How's IBM in that business?

IBM has a few initiatives in transportation + blockchain (Maersk, also trucking in Brazil).

Anything else?
I'm not interested in the charging so much as how they handle privacy and security for multiple users/accounts in (supposedly) a single Presto cluster.
Except they refuse to. So you see a constant stream of $0.01 to $0.03 donations. You have to manually refund every one of them out of your own PayPal balance or you get hit with a $25 chargeback fee.
The titles and purpose for these side projects are hilarious! I bet the author learned a lot though. Perhaps it's not a total waste...
> I'll be expecting a package one day and 8pm rolls around and I check the order status and it says 'expected delivery: tomorrow'

Is the carrier LaserShip? They're well known for lying in order to meet daily delivery numbers.
Z-wave plus at its core is fine, the protocol is pretty well designed for home automation, and at least the chips I've used have been fine. Sadly the ecosystem is a bit of a shitshow. Everything will work to some degree, but you'll probably end up spending an hour or two reverse engineering exactly how any given device communicates what its seeing, and what configuration is needed to avoid draining the batteries within a month or two.

I'm cautiously optimistic for Bluetooth Mesh giving z-wave a run for its money but its still very early days.
Ask HN: If HN was an independent startup, how much would it be worth today?
I started small and it's been somewhat effective, but I haven't stopped completely. What works well for me is only opening Facebook in private mode in my browser (which has other benefits as well, I was growing sick of seeing ads in FB from other sites I was using.) I have to log in every time I use it so I'm forced to think about it first. I do this on desktop and on my phone. I still use it but a lot less.
"What's the difference if a 10 year old is posting on Instagram, to a 10 year old in the 80s with a Polaroid? If kids talk on snapchat instead of over the fence in the backyard?"

Are you serious? You don't see the massive difference in those comparisons?
Are they obliged to check this, though? The only checks I've ever seen are making investors tick a box on a webpage to confirm that they aren't a US citizen. Is that good enough, or are these ICOs expected to do more thorough checking?

Some ICOs have advertised their sales in the US, I wonder if the SEC will look on that as offering their tokens to US citizens, whatever the wording they put on their websites?
> It would be really nice if browsers kept a history of your last N window + tab sets and allowed you to restore them whenever you wanted, rather than only the last one, and only after it thinks it crashed. Because when it gets this wrong, you usually have no recourse.

This is possible using Tab Mixer Plus extension for Firefox
Is usage of 'API' to denote a remote service common? It used to be that you had local APIs and remote services....
The Howey test for "is it a security?"

* an investment of money has been made,

* in a common enterprise and

* the investor has the expectation of profits, which profits are expected to arise solely, or substantially, from the efforts of the promoter or third party.[1]

That pretty much covers all "make money fast" schemes.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/blt...
> a kernel panic is a specific type of phenomena

Yes, but he didn't say panic, he said crash. Crash is often used to refer to both application crashes, and os crashes, which are also often called kernel panics. Saying something causes "Macs to crash" when you mean applications running on a Mac, as people are suggesting, is very unclear.
Will their system be able to discern fair use or just brand anything that contains samples of "IP" to be "illegal"?

Content owners already have far too much control over their wares.
> it's not the amazing friction free experience it used to be

It is if you avoid third party sellers like the plague. I only order from a small handful of third party sellers I trust; otherwise it better be shipped and sold by Amazon or I'm looking elsewhere.
I mean, this describes tax code and legislation in general. I'm hoping we can get text parsing models to the point that they can be utilized to simplify legal documents or even the entire US Tax Code. Like, Google Translate can translate Chinese to English decently, imagine if one day it could translate Legal Tax Code MumboJumbo to English as well? Or even cooler, if you could plug in your personal details (well, terrifying I guess) and it spits out all the loopholes you can exploit.

EDIT: I guess services like H&R block tried to automate this, but I'm thinking less like "oh you donated x dollars, make sure to put that on your forms!" and more like "Hey, you live in x city, did you know if you move a mere x miles away you avoid city taxes for y, county taxes for z, and can put a moving bonus for moving n miles!" or even "You are x type of contractor, consider switching your status to y because you will get these real number tax benefits."
> Or you may be advised to leave the U.S., which may be the best option

If you were in the United States and/or sold securities to an American investor, the deed is done. Skipping town to avoid the SEC only serves to turn your potential civil liability into a foreign fugitive case.
I get so many invitations to join Linkedin as well as questions about why I'm not on Facebook or other social media platforms that it drives me nuts. Why am I considered strange for not participating? It's like tattoos. Everyone where I live has multiple tattoos and I'm considered a freak because I don't have any. Maybe I just want to be a special butterfly.
Let's chat. Contact info in profile.
Volleyball is fun and challenging when played well. I'm not sure how easy it generally is to find good competition to learn from -- southern California where I grew up was a good place for it.
This gun is extremely poorly designed in the case that it doesn't fire when the person using it can't fire it when they need to. This is a solution in search of a problem because the number of deaths it will prevent is likely zero.
Good luck fending off the SEC with an argument about VPNs when you have millions of dollars of US citizen investment in your coffers.
It's highly relevant. Facebook now knows he wrote "MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOURS" and deleted it. Tells a lot about a person, doesn't it? What if someone wrote something else and then deleted it and somehow that caused trouble because facebook saved it? Just food for thought.
Terminal voltage on a coin cell is 3V, so you have to use a pair of AAAs, not just one. Ends up requiring ten times the volume.

Shelf life on lithium batteries is longer, and they don't leak, so you can ship and store sensortags with the battery preinstalled.

My impression is that it's way more of a logistics thing than a customer-value thing.
No, but if you want, I can refer you to a good securities lawyer at Wilson Sonsini.
No, it's specifically referencing "DAO" tokens, which are a subset of tokens sold through ICOs.
3500?!

and I don't even know who my grandfather was...
Comments like this are ludicrous. Do you really think the SEC doesn't understand distributed ledgers or ethereum contracts? Second, do you think anyone has technical staff that are capable of writing safe contracts in Solidity (Parity wallet would suggest not...).

In short, the idea that people must be incompetent because they're in the government is pretty ludicrous. The SEC is consistently one of the best technical organizations despite the fact everyone lobbies for them to have the fewest resources with which to do their job.

If you think all ICOs pass the smell test, maybe you haven't been fleeced enough in your life to appreciate scams when you see them?

Source: I run a crypto hedge fund and have spent a lot of time evaluating ICOs. Some of them are legitimate, philosophically sound ideas looking for funding and some of them are outright scams.
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Let's hope that other services stay up and running.
FoxMixer.com has been the mixing service that I used so far. Had no issues, but who knows if they continue operation or if they also shutdown. I don't hope so.
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There is no possible way to reverse the damage to the lungs caused by active or passive smoke(ing)

The comparison is not a strong one
I like the architecture of HA as well, but is there a way to use the HA level interface but making it program driven, as opposed to config-driven?

I know python...I don't know all of the config variables for the yaml language they encourage you to write
Read the rest of the conversation before you comment. It's already been answered why pre-orders aren't securities.
I raised this objection downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848196

@adunk says mesh nodes synchronize clocks so they're all listening at the same time, but intermediate nodes end up drawing enough power they can't actually run on a coin cell.
As a borrower, this is a perfect way to attempt to get free money, since there's no penalty for defaulting on the loan.
The stigma against smoking has a considerable class element to it nowadays. If a technology comes along that allows more affluent people to avoid looking at the phone then this could happen. On the other hand, smart watches offered that functionality among other things and don't seem to have changed much of anything, socially speaking.
I just wish they could find a way to get Mallomars to the stores in the summer
Why don't u open ur own company? And then run it without immigrant techies :)
Facebook is hiring a (human) AI Editor
I'm not sure our legal department would buy that argument
This was touched on by the study mentioned in the article which researched millions of headlines -- there was a interesting study from Wharton School of Marketing titled What Makes Online Content Viral [1] that demonstrated which emotional valences led to readers sharing content, and the biggest predictor was anger. Interestingly the valence that led to the least amount of sharing was sadness.

[1] http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~kmilkman/2012_JMR.pdf
A lot of z-wave+ devices do not implement that security portion and it's a pain to set up on top of it.

Z-wave's biggest short coming in my opinion is how easy it is to overload the network. Turning off 40 lights at once has half of the operations drop off due to the network getting overloaded and just dropping commands. If you have a few devices reporting their power usage, the network becomes quickly overloaded and you get the same command dropping crap in even simple operations like 'turn on light 2 when light 1 turns on and vice versa'.

I have a condo with z-wave everything right now, but after seeing how much of a mess all IoT home automation crap is, I'm going to sit and wait until we have something that works properly that doesn't cost $60-$100 per light switch or require maintaining something complicated.

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IMO we should have a dual network solution. Something like wifi for plug in devices which also act as repeater networks for the battery powered BLE sensors and such.
I wonder, is there headgear that would fix that?

I gave up youth soccer after a season or two at least partly because heading hurts.
I do think most of the burden should be on corporations. They're the ones that need the talent.
The ESP does self-healing mesh stuff out of the box?
"Being wrapped up in social media might serve as a way of pacifying society."

Looking at the current political climate, the exact opposite is happening.
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They recently introduced "straight python" components i believe, so you can just write in that.

Additionally there are multiple apis you can use to interface other than the front end at https://home-assistant.io/developers/api/

Also the HA front end just calls those backend apis, so if you "emulated" those you could use it as a drop in for some other backend (in theory)
Profitability? You must be kidding. I'm guessing you don't follow many IPOs. Most of these companies lose money every quarter with no end in sight.
I started to learn AS3 but quickly transitioned to other technologies because even back then, the end of flash was forseeable. I liked AS3 but it was time to move on for a variety of reasons, among them a desire to have more control over hardware accelerated rendering and general performance concerns.

Fun fact: At university, a teaching assistant at "Introduction to programming" asked in which languages we've programmed before and I said ActionScript and he said that is not a programming language :)
This is awesome! Let me know if I can help you getting started.
Figure out what you are getting out of it and find something that is similar, but without the downside.

I have read that TV watching strongly correlates to people having exhausting jobs. So, they come home and zone out in front of the TV, too tired to do anything else. I think social media serves a similar function for many people. But if you crave social connection and you are getting it primarily via social media, it is sort of like eating a single potato chip when you are hungry.

Go find better social connections and these faux social connections won't be a case of "I can't believe I ate the whole bag and now I want to vomit, yet I'm still hungry too!" I think of addictive activities as those which grow a hunger rather than satisfying a hunger. If you find a way to satisfy your need, addictive things are less tempting because you just aren't starving anymore.

Also, just get more rest so you aren't spending so much time doing empty activities because it is all you have the energy or mental focus for. Or otherwise rearrange your life so that you are getting the depth or density you need of a particular thing and these types of behaviors get crowded out by healthier ones.
Considering the largely accepted belief that a knife wielding attacker can cover 20 feet more quickly than an average trained individual can draw and fire a pistol (it is - at best - very close), it would seem to me that the jammer is the mostly problematic exploit. It firmly tips the engagement in favor of the knife wielding attacker without the pistol wielding defender understanding their weapon had been disabled until it is far too late to change tactics.

I don't see law enforcement ever adopting smart weapons.
And some businesses need people who've been through high school (and some don't). Why is college different?
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> and there's no implication of organization profit-sharing or appreciation of value, etc.

There is. These tokens are explicitly marketed on that basis.
What efforts are these? All I've seen are checkboxes on their web site making the user tick a box confirming that they aren't a US citizen.

Geo-blocking US IP addresses won't work either, because an ethereum contract can't refuse a transaction based upon its source IP address (it doesn't know it). So if an ICO publishes their ethereum contract address online (e.g. via a twitter post), they are implicitly advertising to US investors.
It has been demonstrated that social media REDUCES overall happiness. Just say that. At least that works for me.
So Dharma should just offer loans in tranches and let them be tradeable on Ethereum?

Also if you're loaning in ETH, but presumably people need the loan for USD-based operations, what do they do when the price of ETH spikes?
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Anyone else having trouble with the audio samples?
I would suggest that the narrative I choose is "educated people not committed to right wing ideology". :-)
The solution for this problem has already existed for years: Lanyrd, Eventbrite and Meetup.
Most that I've seen also don't allow US IP addresses.
Unfortunately, I broke my crystal ball already...
I still think that Musk, Hawking and the other people afraid of an improbable true AI were tricked into signing the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence[1] as part of a PR campaign for one of the "evil AI" blockbusters that premiered that year - "Terminator Genisys" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron".

It's funny that Musk accuses others of not understanding AI when he's the one equating to true AI what is currently little more than pattern matching.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_on_Artificial_Inte...
It exists technically but it doesn't in practice, there's probably 15-20 lateral passes per season (I'd say 0 before the 4th unless it's garbage time and there's some trick plays happening on a punt return) vs hundreds of thousands of plays.
If there's a binary of it, you could use it to decompile itself. A kind of reverse bootstrapping.
The databases I build exist only to serve the application and I prefer to tightly couple the data access to the database itself, thereby addressing the object/relational impedance mismatch in one simple stroke.

I usually write queries that return multiple resultsets when the caller needs to get a bunch of data from different tables all at once. (So, all of the time.) Instead of sending each table query to the database server individually, I just query one "stored procedure" in SQL Server. It saves a lot of round-trips on the network and there are other benefits too.

For instance, say my API needs to take the relational data from tables `Customer, Order, OrderItem(s) and OrderShipment(s)` and return them as a JSON object `{order:{customer: {...}, items: [...], shipments: [...]}}`. Or, say I need to render a PDF using those same tables. In either case the client needs to get a whole graph of data out of the database and with SQL Server, they can only send one little query to call my procedure: `EXEC dbo.GetCustomerWithOrderDetail @OrderId=999;` instead of sending 4 or 5 single-resultset queries.

Sometimes I do also end up sending 2 or 3 procedure queries separately, for instance the client might send a query for `GetCustomerWithOrderDetail` followed by `GetPdfTemplateWithDetailForRendering`. So, I get code encapsulation too.

The benefits of this style are exponential in my opinion. Most of the time, my client apps don't even need to know the names of the tables because they are calling procedures, not embedding "SELECT * FROM TABLE" in the client code. The only minor drawback is that the client does need to know the order that the resultsets are returned in ahead of time.

I think there are a few ways to attempt this in PG but none of them seem to come very highly recommended. I looked around just now and found this post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36717138/postgres-functi...

You can see the programmer wants to do what they need to in a very simple way, similar to how it would be done in SQL Server. However, it's not possible. Here is an article that explores some of the options in PG and the problems with each approach:

https://blog.dsl-platform.com/multiple-result-sets-alternati...
### FV Resources

These are few and far between. My paper on it is soup to nuts for how we do it in Pact which, while technical, should be somewhat approachable for most devs to grasp (I tried at least -- representing a program as equations is just an abstract concept).

Until it comes out, the best one I've found as an entry point was the approach they use in Cryptol: https://youtu.be/ruNFcH-KibY?t=897 . Cryptol, generally is a great project to look to for guidance. We're not going with the interactive approach. An EDSL in the docstrings is our approach so that you can pull a contract from the chain (pact is interpreted so the code on chain is the code that executes... well after it gets inlined and validated) and do the verification for yourself. Pact inlines at module creation/update time as a safety feature -- this way if a dep upgrades the code your contract runs doesn't change though the dep can revoke your code's right to access its tables/data until you update your contract. The "no leftpad" approach to deps.

All the imported code that's pure, however, still works. This way, when you are building a module, you know that the code you formally verified/tested against is the only code that will ever run (until you update it).

### Whitepapers

Thanks for the offer but I've already got enough people looking at them currently and we're keeping them confidential for now... a glaring stupid mistake would be embarrassing. Subscribe to the mailing list on kadena.io and you'll get updated with them the second they get released publically.

### SEC

FYI I used to work at the SEC and I was their tech lead when they formed the Cryptocurrency Steering Committee, which has been renamed to the Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group (DLTWG). I worked with Valarie (then the head of it, still is probably) on a few actions. This is the group did the investigation and put out the release.

Yep, no one is surprised by the take on the DAO and you're 100% right about the grayer-area of app coins. The key distinguisher will be, IMO, if the app-coin has real world use when it's sold + isn't supposed to return a profit as part of the app itself.

IMO, expecting to resell the app-coins for a profit will be fine in the same way that art can be bought/sold for a profit, and a profit can be expected when one purchases it, but also art can be hung (or rented out and shown for a profit). Everything else is strictly a security.
There is a massive negative externality for allowing scammers to run free in a situation where the upfront ability to assess fitness-of-goods is lacking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

the money quote being

The cost of dishonesty, therefore, lies not only in
the amount by which the purchaser is cheated; the
cost also must include the loss incurred from
driving legitimate business out of existence.
Cool idea! Thanks for doing this.
I'm not really accosting the sport itself - which I played as well and have always enjoyed. The NCAA and the NFL are the primary targets of my ire as at least the NFL has long known about this and has only begun to pay lip service to fixing what it can because of public scrutiny. So based on that, yes rich old white guys paying young poor (mostly black) guys to go brain themselves for America's entertainment does feel like en exploitative "caste regime" as you put it.