skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t it akin to the difference between hard disk storage and RAM? A temporal difference regarding access patterns specifically.
Animate CC (the new name for the Flash IDE) can do what you're talking about these days(exporting multiple formats, creating animation texture atlases, etc).
> (e.g., inherent sexism in vocabulary), and since it's invented, you can't shrug it off with "historical baggage"

Introduction of Esperanto: 1887
Formation of the International Alliance of Women: 1904
Women's suffrage in the US: 1920

I think this kind of dismisses the claim that Esperanto cannot have historical baggage.

For Esperanto one could even claim that it is a way of making it easier by having neuter and masculine to be identical - just for like most other languages on could interpretations that make it equal, pro men or pro women ("they have their special form").

However I agree that a neutral form would probably even make it easier to talk/communicate in many situations.

One also has to differentiate Ido and Esperanto there. While Esperanto sees the language as set into stone it's most famous and related competitor, Ido is evolving, so one could pick that up in such a case and still be pretty good with Esperanto.

And one last thing: What's important about a standard is that there is one that people use an not that it's perfect. See UTF-8 vs competitors and similar. Esperanto is also primarily meant as an auxiliary language, which I think has the strong point of not manipulating society through language.

Many Esperanto speakers are actually in deference of other and especially not widely used languages, also because of the reason of especially the mother tongue defining how people think.

Disclaimer: I am not an Esperanto speaker, even though I was interested as a teenager.
Good and easy to understand explanation of Bitcoin. Looking forward to Part 3.
Well, for example when I go into Wikipedia frenzy, I can easily open 10-20 tabs, terminology, graphs, tables, nested articles etc. It's much faster to switch between tabs than close and open them constantly. Why should I limit myself to 5? And yes, after an hour or two I usually get them off the stack one by one, collapsing back to first one, knowing much more about the history of Parliament in Canada.
Dan and his team at Duke's Center for Advanced Hindsight are bringing you his newest app: Pocket Ariely. The app's goal is to help people make better decisions in life. In order to do that, we have created a curated library of Dan's most relevant work in Behavioral Economics and categorized the content into "areas of life" for easier consumption. Even though the app is not free, all profits will go back to the Center for Advanced Hindsight to fuel research that is helping advance the field of BE and decision making. We know that the app is not perfect, but we are working on providing users with a decent UX/UI, even though we only have a small team working on the app (this is a bootstrapped effort after all). Please feel free to share your comments and we will diligently work on taking care of what's important to ensure users love the app!
I often open 80+ tabs during the normal course of a day. Often times 5 of those are spreadsheets in one window with a few pdf spec documents, reference sites, handfuls a internet searches, a few for different version/pages of the application under test, and boom.

Why would I want any of those in bookmarks when I can have them open when I need them, which is now.
I'm a recovering information addict & I'm intimately familiar with the effects of these processes. PG refers here to internet addiction, which is similar to info addiction because the former's a subset of the latter.

As it was with cigarettes, all of society is responsible at all levels for its own diseases. Individuals are responsible for learning about addiction-related/-promoting processes in order to make informed decisions about what systems they choose to interact with. Companies are responsible for learning how to design systems that are anti-addictive & still sustainable. Governments are responsible for passing legislation to promote "antibodies."

And all are responsible for developing compassionate paths for recovery. It starts with listening to addicts in order to help them identify their needs/wants & help them learn how to meet them in sustainable ways.
Yeah, I'm an embedded engineer and honestly the pay isn't that good and the job opportunities just aren't there. I'm seriously thinking of switching over to backend web development.
Just fyi if you are using Kali the rockyou list is already in /usr/share/wordlists.

Also to reduce the size of the pcap file, you may want filter it for EAPOL packets only:

tshark -r input.pacp -R "eapol || wlan.fc.type_subtype == 0x08" -w small.pcap
I noticed his violent crime graph stopped around 2013. Convenient. Yes violent crime is down by the standards of the previous 50 years but I'm pretty sure it has been inching back up over the previous two, at least in cities. Nothing to panic about yet but also nothing to be dismissive about.

Also, though I too long for the old days of journalistic standards, let us a remember one of the side effects what creating the assumption that there is one correct mainstream view of reality and that anything that deviates too much from it is extremism (or today "fake news").

There is almost no such thing as a bias free reporting of facts and events in the news. Many of the things which were in the past dismissed as the views of cranks are now accepted as normal. Surely some of the views expressed in the darker corners of the internet today will someday be considered mainstream and many of the views expressed by the mainstream real news will some day be considered nuts.
No. Everything comes down to trust and reputation. The NYT has over a century of reputation. When something like that is broken, it can't be quickly replaced.
OpenAI did a thing[0] where they used a human to help train a machine learning model by picking the best of 2 models.

> Our algorithm’s performance is only as good as the human evaluator’s intuition about what behaviors look correct, so if the human doesn’t have a good grasp of the task they may not offer as much helpful feedback. Relatedly, in some domains our system can result in agents adopting policies that trick the evaluators. For example, a robot which was supposed to grasp items instead positioned its manipulator in between the camera and the object so that it only appeared to be grasping it, as shown below.

[0] https://blog.openai.com/deep-reinforcement-learning-from-hum...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14545298 78 upvotes, 7 comments
I have never been a hiring manager, but I have been a developer asked to evaluate candidates in interviews for multiple companies, and I've seen my own employer turn away qualified candidates. I've also been an employee at companies who institute hiring policies their own current employees would not pass, and then claim new candidates are unqualified based on those policies. Neither of these are particularly unusual.

I've also been a person applying to jobs, where I know I'm fully qualified (usually because I already do the same thing in the same way for a competitor) and where I'm told "we think your a good culture fit, but we're worried about your technical abilities". I can't know exactly why they said that, but when I've showed working code they say their happy with, but I know I struggled on their brainteaser questions, it feels safe to infer.

So, I've seen qualified candidates turned away because they were "unqualified" (but they really weren't), from both sides of the table. I'm not claiming there is a huge surplus of engineering out there, but there is no real shortage either. There are enough engineers, just not enough employers willing to hire them.
> "well it wasn't today! Today was just great clean fun."

Good clean fun that has erased quite a bit of usable life from your knees. Better than a brain injury, but not great.
Sweet! I've been looking for something like this for a long time, thanks for the link!
I can see the benefits, but I doubt it would be that simple. The Go code you decompiled would depend on a Go runtime. That specific Go runtime would then have dependencies on OS libraries. So for example, when you open a file in Go, I'd imagine that this functionality is built on top of the file handling functionality of Windows/OSX/Linux. You could work around these dependencies, but it's probably less hassle to port the Go runtime to the new OS.
And even being paid 150k isn't exactly a low quality of life. After tax, and rent at $4000 a month, your leftover wage from 150k is higher than my gross salary.
I don't think so, I tested and neither detector nor recognizer were fooled. Here are the results with FaceNet, Inception, MTCNN face detector and MobileNet SSD detector. Facenet also retrieved similar looking faces from LFW.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/weasqs8pxn9q7qv/screencapture-loca...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2nii4biy8aioyo/screencapture-loca...

[3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/lmq8ldqujyk3pa9/screencapture-loca...
I assume you want to represent all of the relationships on the tree in any case, so I think minimising the number of required parent-child lines would actually make representing modern relationships less messy.

You'd have a pink relationship line for each partnership (that will be the same and just as messy in both approaches)

Then you'd have one child line from each relationship line to each of the children that came from that relationship, rather than two for each child.

So in a situation where Angus had 2 children with each of Beatrix and Chloe, you would have two child lines from the Angus-Beatrix relationship line and two from the Angus-Chloe line, rather than a total of 8 lines to show all the parent-child relationships in your current approach.

If Chloe also had two children with David then your approach would add a relationship line and another four child lines whereas the standard approach would just add the relationship and two more child lines.
Justin Bieber Has Canceled His World Tour
You're double-counting - if the restitution is fair, then the unlawful arrest isn't a net victimization. Restitution just means a transfer of unfairness from taxpayers to those their police department victimizes.
What's the relevance of watered down SEAL training to H4D?
Thanks for the link. Do you live by it? may I ask how many years you are away from retirement by this calculation? How save are these 5%?
That's a very fuzzy, if not non-existent, distinction. The only real difference is the designers' original intention. Of course the Java VM was originally only destined to exist only in software, but hardware versions do exists [1]. And of course x86 was always destined for hardware, but there's more software implementations of that than can be counted. There's also a third type in the LLVM sense, where the VM is just an intermediate step in compiling from a high level language down to machine code. And that's where the JVM (mostly) falls today.

The VM described in the OP could easily fit in any of the three.

[1] http://www.jopdesign.com/
From a survey on drugs/addictive things, relevant to this thread:

http://i.imgur.com/uJ3vyxs.png

"How much worse would your life be if [various drugs] ceased to exist?" (Youtube, TV, internet, smartphones, porn, sugar)

Key: http://i.imgur.com/c0LDy8b.png

Full results: http://imgur.com/a/ElbJh
Is there an example of "cross-platform done right"? I have yet to see a case where an app is able to both exploit the depth of every devices capability and the breadth of multiple hardware and software configurations, without becoming a platform unto itself.
I'm not saying cross-platform isn't possible, but "done right" is a pretty vague target to hit.
RetroShare mobile improvements
Americans make up only 4.3% of the world's population. Thus, even if we invest much more in American citizens, which we surely should, don't you think it's inevitable that progress in tech will nevertheless be driven largely by foreigners going forward? We could choose not to let it happen on American soil, which some of the comments in this thread seem to be advocating, but I fail to see how such a policy would benefit Americans.
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Show HN: Dharma – Programmable Peer-To-Peer Loans Using Ethereum Smart Contracts
Hey HN!

My name's Nadav Hollander, and I'm the Founder of Dharma.

Dharma is building an open-source library that makes it really easy to programatically borrow and lend cryptocurrencies using smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.

Today we're launching our Alpha Testnet release -- a command line tool that allows you to

1. Access a line of cryptocurrency credit from the command line in under 5 minutes
2. Easily build a bot that auto-invests in loans under hyper-customizable, programmable criteria

Check it out: https://github.com/dharmaprotocol/dharma-cli

Why I Think This Is Cool:

1. Loans in the Dharma Protocol are basically miniature ICOs issued by borrowers -- an investor's stake in a loan is held in a digital token that entitles them to future cash flows. That means loans are just as tradeable and moddable as Bitcoin or Ether, and packaging loan tokens into tranched debt instruments of all shapes and sizes is relatively trivial to implement in an Ethereum smart contract.

2. Dharma is an open protocol. This opens the door for any client application, including existing online lending platforms, to tap into a non-proprietary army of lending bots as a source of lending capital. This has the potential to dramatically lower the cost of capital for online lenders -- and, in turn, borrowers.

How This Can Be Better:

1. Loans in the Dharma Protocol are slow and expensive. Ether gas costs are fairly steep for writing the requisite loan data onto the Ethereum blockchain, and an on-chain auctioning mechanism places a bottleneck on how fast a loan can be funded. We plan to address these issues by migrating towards an off-chain auctioning mechanism layered on top of a Kademlia-style P2P network.

2. The identity verification mechanisms we use to assess baseline creditworthiness are very weak -- any mainnet release of the protocol would necessitate much more robust KYC flows.

Please play around with the CLI -- would love to hear feedback!
> These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that.

I've thought of doing this myself. I've been DIY remodeling my 100+yo house room by room while preserving the "period" style and have done a credible job and learned a ton. Planning, floor refinishing, plaster and drywall repair, painting, trim work, light electrical, and lately just a bit of plumbing.

I've found that making something that has the attributes 1) you can be proud of your workmanship, 2) you'll enjoy using yourself for a long time, and 3) other people after you may enjoy for decades, perhaps a century more, is incredibly rewarding. People I've known in construction have told me that they feel good when they can drive by a building, point to it, and say "I helped make that."

I've no idea how one would break into the business though. I'm imagining long apprenticeships ...
If you type in the URL bar firefox will show results from open tabs. You can also force this by typing `%` before the search term.

Chrome's UI is terrible for multiple tabs. Chrome will shrink tabs down as much as possible. Firefox stops shrinking once they're like 75% of their original width, and lets you scroll instead. On top of that, addons like Tab Center Redux make it much easier to manage things by putting them on the side (so they don't get shrunk at all) and adding a dedicated search box.
I tried reading lists, didn't work. I treat tabs as pieces of information fighting for my attention. Some win, some don't and get closed after several weeks or months... :)
Shockwave Player is still supported. The latest version was released ~40 days ago[1]

[1] - https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/release-note/release-notes...
Contract templates and libraries are being developed as part of OpenZeppelin: https://github.com/OpenZeppelin/zeppelin-solidity
There's been a big push of perf fixes in Firefox lately.
In the particular case here you could opt out by not having a driver's license. Perhaps not the most practical way of opting out, but this leak only concerned driver's license data.
Football pays better than mesothelioma settlements.
Backend services that need high reliability, low latency, lots of concurrency. Lower p99 latency and better concurrency model than Java, more reliable/productive than C++.
the 110/111 stat is incredibly misleading. The article even says that "many families have donated brains specifically because the former player showed symptoms of C.T.E.". Its unfortunate that the NYTimes sentimentalizes like this. I think it's pretty clear that football causes C.T.E but the title and lead 110/111 statistic is dangerously disingenuous.
I remember Flash under Macromedia... I also started disabling it after I found out that you could access the local file system through some hacks. Actually had to do this for storing state on a project (around 2002 iirc).

I agree that it's great for 2-d animation, one of the best tools around, and why it's still used for education/training. Flex/Flash Builder also wasn't bad at all, and AS3, while verbose was interesting. Having XML as a first class citizen at the time was nice, and paired really well with VB.Net on the server, where XML is also first class.

There are a couple Flash players in JS... I do hope that Adobe opens the format up so a lot of the stuff made in flash can be preserved... the content itself was so much smaller than video files, and the interactions are much harder to setup and match using JS alone. I'm actually a little sad when I see converted flash animations to video (youtube) only because the originals were significantly smaller, without all the noise compared to video.

When Adobe bought Macromedia, my hope at the time was that the output format would evolve into straight, browser runnable JS, vector, movie and audio assets in a zip file with a manifest. So that the actual container format could be built into and supported by browsers directly. Where Adobe could concentrate on the tooling, which is where they made their money anyway.

The funny thing is, I thought Silverlight was FAR closer to what I'd wanted Flash to be, but there was just no way it would take hold, as the tooling was nothing close to Flash.
Lambdas aren't "ugly"; they are sometimes just a mechanism that is not directly relevant to the problem domain: the "how" part of the solution, rather than "what".

The point isn't to hide the lambdas, but to hide the "how", which might or might not use lambdas.

The "how" could instead open-code the procedure that would have otherwise called the lambdas; then the material just becomes embedded forms in the inline code.
I'm not sure what you're advocating so I have to guess. Are you saying, "defund all education in the US and send the money to improve education somewhere else?"

If so, the below two points will cure you of this silly idea and any similar ones:

(A) if our money-making machine (our economy) is not well taken care of, such as by assuring its supply of skilled labor, it may deteriorate, leaving less money left over to donate to the worthy causes you want it donated to. If you don't take care of yourself first, you will be to weak to help others.

(B) The education system in the US is not lacking for money, it simply uses the given money poorly. It can be improved without spending more money.

Education is a capital investment, not a luxury consumable good.
neither the article nor the year it refers to were last year. And even the article says it isn't true:

"...but this isn't exactly right: The FBI also tracks property losses from larceny and theft, in addition to plain ol' burglary. If you add up all the property stolen in 2014, from burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and
other means, you arrive at roughly $12.3 billion, according to the FBI. That's more than double the federal asset forfeiture haul."

Furthermore, a big chunk of that 2014 number was Bernie Madoff, per your atricle.

And finally, a big chunk actually goes back to the victims of the crimes ultimately linked to the forfeiture, again per your article.
No, the animation tools live on in Adobe Animate. The announcement concerns the Flash Player.
It will?

As long as there are poor people with some athletic ability and fans willing to watch them, there will be grid iron football players.
Except on Chrome, Flash always ran outside the sandbox, AFAIK.
The source for that graph is Pew, and if you look at the linked source, it looks like violent crime did in fact keep going down (at least until 2015, Pew's graph doesn't go past that) - http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-perce...
The valid reason is that we are underutilizing our own underprivileged groups, be they women, first nations, blacks or rural whites.

That said, we should find a balance where we both attract highly skilled foreign talent and develop our own in-house talent.
Basecamp. Have tried Trello, and it's great for concisely scrumming specific small projects, but Basecamp's won us over with it's ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.

Project Management (Campfires), ability to set To-Dos, keep track of Docs & Files, and look at a master schedule is awesome.

You can quickly go from an overview to nitty gritty, and its easy to see what you and your team have accomplished.
> When people were freaking out about "Russia hacking the DNC", they scoured the news and put all the evidence on the table, which turns out there wasn't much.

Why would this be surprising for a covert operation? Does this make the story a fabrication?

A "debunking" style of news is interesting provided it's not the only mode of reporting. But if you are always looking for holes in the story, you may miss out on what's actually there.
Convoy raises $62M from Bill Gates and other luminaries to transform trucking
More importantly, flash videos weren't riddled with 4:2:2 color compression and fixed resolution.
So what are the safer competitive team sports for kids to participate in?
The APIs don't exist for this now but they could be added.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14849681
I feel like with a bit more improvements to Firefox Snooze Tab [1] and Container Tab [2] extensions the need to have tons of tabs open could be solved.

What if it's easy to easily have multiple "Research containers"?

Container tab allows you to hide all tabs related to a particular container, so I feel like you can easily improve your workflow.

What about combining that functionality with snooze tab extension? But instead of snoozing individual tabs, snooze a container.

[1]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/snooze-tabs
[2]: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers
This is what we've sold for millennia. Right from Roman-era gladiatorial fights (for pure entertainment) to CNN, Fox, or Breitbart disguising entertainment as news, telling you the world is coming to an end.

While we can and should certainly aspire to a different way, plainly presented news and information has few(er) takers in comparison to shock and awe. Humans love drama.