skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If LinkedIn are being that negatively affected by a single scraper, they should deal with it - block it, only allow a specific number of requests from an IP per day, anything that doesn't involve lawsuits. The problem is them trying to pretend that publicly visible content is really private if they say so, without them trying to protect it in any real way.

With this, I agree 100%.

> No, the straw man is pretending that a copy is the same as theft. Theft is theft because someone is depriving you of the original, not because you imagine you might have had more sales if the copy didn't exist. There's a reason why there are different words for different things, and pretending that a copy is the same as taking a physical object it a lie. Period.

That's just pedantry. The debate isn't between "copy" and "theft", it's between "theft" and "copyright infringement".

> But, you put the price up too high, so I opted not to buy it. Maybe borrow the CD from a friend, or listen to something else. Or, you decided I couldn't buy it in the format or region I wanted. There are real issues, but pretending that a copy = a lost sale is utter bull that's been debunked time and time again, yet is regularly repeated by people trying to inject emotional arguments instead of facts.

This is wrong on so many levels, I'm not sure there's any point in continuing this debate. Are you accusing me of using emotional blackmail instead of facts because I point out that "you can clone my work, but I can't clone my food"?

I'm not using myself as an example because I want pity. I'm doing it because it's easier in writing, and because I'm a software developer.

My work takes hours of hours of time and effort (not accounting the hours I spent in school). If it' ok for everyone to clone my work, I won't make any money from it. We still live in a society where goods and services are exchanged with money. I exchanged my hours of work for no money, but I can't exchange no money for basic living necessities such as food. There's no feelings involved here. In the current economy, work going in, and no food coming out is not a viable business model. And if nobody payed for digital content, there would be a lot less digital content.

> pretending that a copy = a lost sale is utter bull that's been debunked time and time again

This is another straw man. Whether or not an illegal copy is or isn't a lost sale is irrelevant. You don't have the right to make that copy in the first place. If everyone made illegal copies, there would be no sales. So then why should only some be entitled to illegal copies? There isn't a distinction between people who can make copies and people who must pay for copies, so either everyone must pay for copies or no one must pay for copies. That's how law and economy work. You can't make exceptions by yourself. Either everyone is allowed, or no one is allowed. And for digital content that is for sale, no one is allowed illegal copies. If laws are made that allow poor people to receive goods for free, these laws must address both digital and physical goods.
"We are under attack day and night from people who do not share our liberal values....". In order to combat that threat, lets remove those liberal values.
> doesn't involve network connection

In my very limited experience, this makes programming anything several times more complicated. Writing a document editor? Difficult. Writing a networked, multi-user document editor? As difficult as the last thing but with asynchrony and lots of new failure modes.
Needs to dispatch a team of highly skilled monkeys.
Came here to make the same recommendation for Julia Evans' blog. Ask questions, find answers, expand your understanding, repeat.
Big yellow newsletter box interrupts my reading that I was compelled enough to open inspector and remove it.

The pricing makes no sense, that or its not obvious what you are getting in the full-course.

The testimonials appear phony. I believe in products when I recognize programmer celebrities or the testimonials link to a github or something to prove they are legit.

The pay box is sketch. Even though its powered by stripe. I'm not dumping my credit card without CVC, expiry and postal code.

There's nothing on here you can't already find for free. The value to me is saving time. I've done this before but forget because web-programming the last 10 years rarely required to commit this stuff to memory.

I'm a different use case I suppose but I want a super abridge version. I just don't want to a spend a week. I want to spend a few hours.

Theres nothing telling me how much time I will spending having to read through this course material.
D is very enjoyable to me. I like the way type conversions are handled. followed by python. :]
The Apple watch has tap to wake, I find myself accidentally triggering it a lot. If I cross my arms and I'm wearing short sleeves, I often accidentally start a stopwatch.
Someone needs to explain Slack what sourcemaps are and what they are used for ;P
so...zapier?
There is an additional irony to how all this proceeded, in that Congress seldom ever moves to meaningfully limit the President’s powers in the foreign policy arena — see the blocking of Rep. Barbara Lee’s AUMF repeal amendment earlier in July — but on this rare occasion, when they have in fact limited the president’s powers, the impact is to constrain his ability to use non-military options to address problems, and effectively force him to take a more belligerent posture. Should this bill formally become law, Trump (or any future president) would be barred from modifying the expanded and codified Russia sanctions regime without approval from Congress.
It's not that huge--just compare what is illegal in NY State versus most of the others. The discrepancies are rising even in the US and our freedoms are being hemmed in more and more each go around. All because people believe the lie that the government that is all-powerful can give us all the peace and security we desire.
I once read something about games or ads using facial recognition to get a better feedback about how their game/ad is performing. (I think it was Kinect).

Developers can then check what levels are fun to play, and what are a chore. That way they can optimize their future games, or even change the level architecture based on the emotional level of the player.

I think you can apply this strategy to ads too, to learn what kind of ad an user likes or dislikes, so they can target the ads a little bit better/easier.
Plenty. Discord, VSCode, and MongoBooster are all apps that I feel hit 90% of native performance while still being based on web tech. Hyper terminal is another one which has very specific reproducible performance issues, but overall is pretty great and fast.

Its incompetence on behalf of Slack and Github, not the tech itself.
he's not wrong. police seize more cash through civil asset forfeiture (without due process) than all robbers. its pretty sad
There's a "cheat" to avoid this situation in the technical spec[1]:

In case the MTP of the tip of the chain is 12h or more after the MTP 6 block before the tip, the proof of work target is increased by a quarter, or 25%, which corresponds to a difficulty reduction of 20%.

So as long as the BCC keeps lagging behind massively (less than 6 blocks every 12h) the difficulty is reduced by 20% after every new block.

[1] https://github.com/Bitcoin-UAHF/spec/blob/master/uahf-techni...
Ask HN: Are any of you exploiting the ICO hype?
There are so many ICO's in cryptoworld right now. Someone even started an ICO for a "useless coin" and collected something like $60k.

So, I was wondering, if HNers are taking advantage of that, either by conducting their own ICO or by providing some services around it?

What do you think about this hype? Is it worth doing business in that area?
Yeah, plenty of people in Poland would just wash their clothes either by hand or with a really cheap washer. And dryers were rare and land was plentiful, you'd just air dry.

Not that people don't own them now, but what they own now is a straight-up upgrade from what they had before.

At this point I'm sure there will soon be a market for laundromats in Poland, at least in the more urban areas. But it'd be a hard sell for the vast majority of Polish folks.
Beware of wet paint smells
You are absorbing a lot of Venezuelans, they are just called asylees — rather than refugees — because we are able to arrive in the US with tourist visas.

Last year Venezuelans requesting political asylum passed China and is now the number 1 country. 3 years ago we weren't even on the top 10.

https://www.voanews.com/a/veneuela-china-us-asylum-requests/...
Of course do it! - pretty much I'm doing it with couple restarts since 2011: http://lukaszkups.net ;)
> but they charge a significant markup

Having explored some investment opportunities in the restaurant industry in the past, I don't see the markups being that large. Competition is fierce enough that there isn't a lot of room to go overboard with the margins. Even McDonalds makes the vast majority of their profits from being in the real-estate business[1], rather than the food business.

> Actually it would be a shame not to use them, those would be wasted expenses.

That I agree with, but the cost of the kitchen is still baked into your rent/utilities. You cannot simply ignore the cost because you happen to already be paying it. It is a very real cost that affects how much it costs to cook at home.

> A lot of the times I'm simply not home

Which, I would argue, is also a cost that should be considered as part of cooking at home. Time to get home, cost of travel to get home, giving up the opportunity of whatever else you may be doing, are all costs involved in cooking at home when you are away from home. And it seems that you have found eating out to be the cheaper option under these circumstances.

[1] http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyo...
It's South America. I figure there's a ton of corruption and just plain stupidity. Look at how China runs things--they don't fix anything, they just build stuff and let if fall apart. It's a different way of thinking.
Load data from redshift into a pandas DataFrame and vice versa
Show HN: CodeSideStory: Keep the conversations about your code next to the code
Dumb from whom?

It makes a lot of sense, unfortunately it's more of a hassle which hurts small businesses relatively more.
An armed society can retaliate and react to these types of actions. As they add up and become too much an armed society can gather to fight a despot who has continually abused their power to take away inalienable rights of the people. An armed society can more easily get the backing of military generals and form a credible resistance quickly. An armed society might make a potential despot think twice about going down that route.

In the scenario you describe, you're right. But as a government continues this type of abuse eventually an armed society can rebel against it. It is their responsibility to rebel against it.

An unarmed society is crippled in this regard.
ohh, the company/startup is called "500 Startups", for a while there i thought canada is falling apart .. and a count of 500 startups were shutting down
Gas has actually been this cheap before, and for a long time so. 20 years ago oil cost less than a third than it is now, and yet then fossil fuel prices weren't an issue.

The real reason is deeper than that. Nuclear is simply put very very expensive and has a high risk attached to it.
> We've tried for 70+ years and have as yet not succeeded to use nuclear as a financially feasible energy source.

Nuclear is used widely. It is definitely a feasible energy source, by definition.

It is becoming financially infeasible because of cheap natural gas. The same is happening to coal.

> Why has a nuclear facility never been able to be fully privately insured without government backing?!

For something to be privately insured, there needs to be a statistically significant data set. We don't have that for nuclear incidents. There just aren't enough of them.
The rumor mill suggests that the face detect is used for authentication, and is there because Apple hasn't been able to get the fingerprint sensor to read through the screen, and they need a quick-unlock feature like TouchID.

I hope it works - I rather like TouchID and would be disappointed to have it replaced by something crappier.
Russia bans anonymous web surfing tools
App sizes are out of control
It's been about 10 years since I left Caterpillar --- but I don't think you can weld (reliably) on PM / sintered parts. This was one of the concerns the crotchety old manufacturing engineers brought up when I proposed replacing some expensive machined bosses with a much cheaper PM part.

Then again, those guys really loved to say stuff like "no, that's not how it's done." - so maybe they're wrong / tech has improved significantly.
I think the claim that the "vast majority" are against ads because of privacy is questionable at best. HN is not a good representation of the concerns of the "vast majority". I don't have any data either but my guess is that the average ad blocker user installs an ad blocker because the ads are annoying, not because of privacy. That's not to say that the privacy concerns aren't legitimate or that more people shouldn't be aware of the privacy concerns, but I just don't think that's the reality of why most people use ad blockers today.

If ads become less intrusive and annoying less people will use an ad blocker, but there would still be a market for the privacy conscious who block ads for privacy rather than convenience.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, I don't work on ads or Chrome, I do use ad blockers, my opinions are my own, etc.
Because when everything is a class (even better, every selector is a single class like BEM strives for) overwriting rules is much easier because they all have the same specificity.

When you mix element selectors with class, ID, and multi-class (.foo.bar) selectors the specificity of each is different, and overwriting them means writing needlessly complicated selectors that are then in turn harder to maintain.

Bootstrap 4 goes as far as eliminating most sibling/child combinators (>, +, etc) because they add specificity. Anyone that's tried to write custom classes for list elements in Bootstrap 3 (.list-inline>li) has experienced this.

http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/#navs
> I think you can apply this strategy to ads too, to learn what kind of ad an user likes or dislikes, so they can target the ads a little bit better/easier.

Which is exactly why I will refuse to give any facial recognition data to third party apps.
Sure, but a bouncer is another layer on top of your connection to the server, when architecturally it's much better to have the server manage that for you.
I have to admit, I really respect the absolute transparency.
Sounds like Atom. It would probably have terrible performance issues.
>And blacks were clearly against apartheid and fighting fiercely for decades. Have you talked to many locals in China and found out they were against their regime?
No, they were all killed decades ago. Why does it matter if it is black vs white or chinese vs chinese? Sounds like a double standard to me.
Basically every place I've worked for in the last 35 years has been desperately seeking new grads who can actually program a computer. And it's getting harder to find them.
FWIW, I tried Discord recently and it felt more sluggish and heavier than Slack on macOS.
The emacs analogy is a terrible one. I start emacs once a month (or longer). I start slack once a day, sometimes more.
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Definitely. I was in exactly the same position, and just started blogging about stuff as I built it.

'Experts' often don't explain the simple stuff as they assume everyone knows it already. Often, reading about someone's experience as they were first learning a technology is far more useful than trying to learn from an 'expert'.

An you'll be suprised about being 'attractive for recruiters.' I wrote a tiny post about setting up a MongoDB and Flask 'Hello World' app. I definitely wasn't an expert, and the post had flaws, but it still led to a job and a book deal :)
well my take away was, don't start a project unless the design is understood. I am all for nuclear power but a utility company should not be the breaking ground for new designs that are untested and not fully understood.

If so, they the federal government should guarantee backing of a pilot plant/upgrade so that we don't end up with these fiascos
Just did a scan of the Focus source and I don't see it using the native Android webview -- it appears to use Gecko.
I mean you are wrong. My family had their farm, property, and businesses taken away. I've argued for years against socialists that its not some socialist paradise. now that its impossible to hide, people still don't admit their wrong. this is on bernie sander's site to this day:

These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?

- Sanders (https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...)

Instead they just deflect about oil prices. Are oil prices shooting protests and abolishing free speech? Is Dubai (with less money) able to stock tampons and basic medicine?
Tech Incubator Faces Challenges of Tackling Sexual Harassment Among Investors
You can buy USD paper currency in Venezuela, how do you buy bitcoins with that?

I'm not sure what's the story with credit cards there, but I assume the limits are strict.
I agree - I think Touch ID is fantastic. It would be a huge shame to lose it in the pursuit of cleaner lines and a better look.
A simple records system using MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node
John Oliver's style is more akin to pointing a finger and laughing at someone than actually deconstructing why they are wrong. And even when he does deconstruct things, I think many of his arguments hinge on emotion and non-sequitur (e.g. It's 201X). I am an anti-fan of him, personally. He's basically the young peoples' version of a right-wing talk radio host or TV personality, yet people do not at all seem to realize this.
Thanks for nearly crashing my server this morning xD

If you like Shoelace.css, would you vote it up on Product Hunt? https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shoelace-css

Thanks :)
Yeah I guess it depends on your viewpoint. I definitely don't always get the most relevant GIF but that tends to add to the joke in most cases.. ;-)
> WinForms is so similar to VCL

But very inferior. And is slow in contrast.

Delphi is #1 for GUI. Period. Nothing alike, No QT, No Wx, No Winforms or XALM or anything else.

Just what is available in the lowest tier is far more complete that any other tool in the market, and you have sourcecode for the VCL and related components.
Ok, we'll revert it to the title on the page.

Submitted title was "Bitcoin forking to Bitcoin Cash with a higher block size". That breaks the HN guidelines, which ask "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Unfortunately you cant. They have already exempted themselves from any type of monitoring. Only the proletariat can be spied on or forced to account for themselves.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
You mean like flywheels? What's their efficiency like? I always thought that they needed magnetic bearing to get to higher (70+) efficiencies. But they seem cheap over the course of decades when compared to battery lifecycles and maintenance of other storage methods
Show HN: Cornea, AI-enabled app for photo popularity prediction
The people responsible for writing 90%+ of the code changes to Bitcoin since 2013 are all heavily in favor of SegWit, and heavily against Bitcoin Cash and also against SegWit2x. These guys are the researchers and engineers with the deepest understanding of decentralization, game theory, and adversarial blockchain design.

The most politically active exchanges, miners, and payment processors are all in favor of SegWit2x, and against the bitcoin-core developers. These are the people who are most familiar with business, who are closest to the userbase, and have to deal with the practical problems associated with running Bitcoin businesses in ways that the core developers do not. At the same time, they often miss significant security and stability risks in the changes that they propose.

A small faction of highly passionate users with relatively deep pockets and effective social media skills favor Bitcoin Cash. This group passionately distrusts the bitcoin-core developers, has a strange vendetta with the EFF-commended company Blockstream, and is the source of a large number of conspiracy theories. This is the same group that passionately backed the failed Bitcoin-XT project, the failed Bitcoin-Classic project, and the failed Bitcoin-Unlimited project. Their following I think was largest during the Bitcoin-Classic days, but at this point I think they've disenfranchised a lot of their early community members with their stubborn anti-bitcoin-core rhetoric.
While a majority voted for Brexit, a movement very much aligned with alt right. There's not a clear message here but for some reason right wing popular politics are on a rise where the left more or less stands still in terms of ideas.
Certainly hasn't been my experience, I can't think of a single project in the last 5 years that didn't use a preprocessor. Personally I would never go back to not using one. It's incredibly easy to set up and you have to set up a postprocessor anyhow.
I find this comment particularly interesting. I have a suspicion that believing in good and bad people is a product of fairytales and religion. I've never quite understood why authoritarianism, religion and the right seem to go together, maybe this is part of puzzle.
What kind of nuclear reactors were these ?

Were the new molten salt reactors that require no cooling source ? Or were they the same old westinghouse models that require external cooling (and external power) and have the capability of melting down ?
I started WristWatchReview.com when I wanted to learn about watches. I was dumb for a long time and still am but I know a little bit more now. Go for it.
I apologise, I did not mean to say that it hasn't happened at all, rather, it has not happened on the scale that would be required for the abolition of private property. I am curious, what kind of business was it?

I can't really defend Sanders on that point, ultimately he and I have different goals, my goal is not to reduce income inequality, but rather to create the material conditions such that things like "income inequality" cannot manifest themselves.
You misunderstand me. I know that WoSign is crap. I would not ever trust WoSign again.

My point is that Startcom seemed decent until they were acquired by WoSign and started adopting their shady practices. If they are completely disentangled from WoSign, I might be willing to trust them again.
Amber Rudd claims “real people” don’t care about end-to-end encryption
It is, which is why I'm curious how this improves performance compared to exactly the scenario of hitting NVMe storage over the bus.
Like a reverse ssmtp?
I think we'll be able to solve the storage-grid engineering problems and scale solar faster than we would be able to scale nuclear. Nuclear is expensive to build.