skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only part of this essay I didn't like was the bit about how good people:

"Ask me how they can help me. Give without expecting to receive if they're in a position to do so."

If you're in my immediate family, or you're a close friend, I'd help you for the sake of helping. If you're a random person I'm meeting, I don't think you should feel entitled to my generosity.
"Hey could you hold my phone for a sec? Thanks. No wait, not like that, here, hold it like this." :p
Well if you explain that (very reasonable argument) to the jury at your trial I'm sure they'll be understanding. In practice it would be interesting to know how many suspects are formally interviewed before a lawyer is present. Anecdotally I would think it's low, but I don't know.
For those of you who have experience with both Clojure and Elixir: what would be reasons to choose Clojure over Elixir, if any? And vice versa?
LDraw: computer-aided design for serious Lego fans (SHA2017)
hahahhahah.you have solved a major problem my friend.A huge shout out to you
1) Anything not politically correct is bigoted.

2) Anything bigoted is unacceptable.

3) Anything I find unacceptable should be beaten down with ad hominim attacks instead of properly heard out and debated.

Got it.
Lots of people seem to be confused about curl's role in other systems: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/

Maybe a similar confusion caused his boarding to be denied - but what if this is a case of similar confusion acted upon after the person arrived in the US? Or what if the cURL author was allowed to enter the US but whatever cause for denying him was flagged before he was to leave for home?
Certainly for the less tech savvy and thus those less aware of why that might be an issue.
Well it is literally designed for that. Only downside is that you have to be on the network (TOR) to begin with.
One of the mods doesn't like my conservative views. My comments keep on getting deleted/shadowed.

Lets see if this one sticks.

Yes, the states/countries shouldn't really have any debt. One of the previous presidents in the US wanted in the constitution for the (federal) state to never have debt.

If you subscribe to Keynesian economics the answer is more debt the better. If you subscribe to Austrian economics, no debt should ever exist.
"looking to get into..." -- No, not at all. It will lead you down a long rabbit hole that doesn't actually wind up anywhere too close to functional programming.

CT is great for "looking to get really good at" FP. It writes out a parallel universe where certain things are easier and certain things are harder but the same core pillars of FP are intact. In this parallel universe there are myriad examples of constructions, techniques, and conceptual frameworks which can be "ported" back to FP. Likewise, some FP concepts have interesting "ported" versions in CT.

Learn CT when you want to build intuition for how to construct functional architecture. Don't learn it to start and don't even learn it when you run into Functor/Applicative/Monad. It's _not_ useful for understanding them in practical terms.

Go learn it when you start composing higher level constructions together comfortably and start running into questions about the most efficient ways to lay things out. It's _great_ for that.
Oh sure, I was listing the languages it was scripted in. They're all C++ or C when it comes to what the engine is written in. Performance is super important in games, so you're just not going to see a high level language as the implementation language in a major engine.
That's not relevant in at least two ways:

First, being in the news does not necessitate something actually being newsworthy. Between celebrity gossip, the latest fads, and shallow exchanges between career politicians that impact no one and everybody will forget a couple of days later, a very small part of the news is actually newsworthy.

Second, something happening routinely does not mean it's necessarily not worth reporting. Especially for things that happen routinely but shouldn't -- and whose routine re-emergence invokes outrage. The shooting of a black person walking/driving around by cops is very much a routine affair (as they have been 100s of incidents), but it continues to get media coverage and rightly so.
...stupid like a newborn baby: in very early development, but gradually learning. Personally, I'm not sure that AI will ever be as intelligent as a human, but the possibility is still somewhat uncomfortable.
So what’s the explanation for getting shipped home in a body bag, id love to push this ridiculous mental exercise to its inevitable absurd conclusion as fast as possible.
So before transportation there were no roads, then Humans begun using animals and the roads were formed to accommodate animal based transport.

Then Animal powered mechanical transport(carriages) was invented and people made roads to accommodate the new means of transport.

Then the fully mechanical transport came and we just made roads for these machines.

For some reason, this time Humans are trying to keep the roads the same. Well, actually not,
there are project to create roads designed for self driving vehicles.

I think those in the software industry have a hammer and now see everything as a nail. What a successful AI transportation system would be? Probably based on specifically designed infrastructure that is using the AI tech that never worked for the old school roads.
I would also hope that the car uses contextual geolocation info. That a speed limit sign is not posted on the corner of a 4-way intersection, and a stop sign is not typically put on the side of a limited access highway. In fact I would expect that most of the driving regulations should be encoded in the map. Anomalies would be treated with extreme caution (and reported back to the home office).
This person(or people) could also just sell the bitcoin and get their money out of BTC. How would that be any less effective. I guess I'm really not even sure what you mean by "clean" or "shady."
In my state, there's a (fast) road that turns down under a bridge. From a distance, it kind of looks like I'm going to crash into the bridge.

Even though I know the road wouldn't drive directly into the bridge, I slow down a little and look carefully to make sure I'm actually not going to crash into the bridge.

When my perception doesn't fit my internal model, I gather more data (look at different parts of the bridge and what other cars are doing), or transform the data (ie turn my head slightly and look at the bridge and road from different angles)

Edit: Likewise, when someone's tone doesn't match their words, I gather more data (look at their body language).

Have any researchers experimented with neural nets to do the same? I haven't noticed any posts here about that.
Source? I see up to 2-3 blocks some hours, 1sat/byte fees being accepted.
Detecting Chrome headless
There's the automatic http://[whatever].onion.to gateway

Though I suppose that doesn't help with things like email.
One would generally hope that one's own country is suitable. It doesn't always work out in the modern world, of course.
It's legal to import prescription drugs to the UK.

P2P payment is a big one. I think kids may use it, since they can't get PayPal et al(?). Thought of that yesterday. That's a generation growing up with crypto.

Investing in startups around the world is new (via token sales).

Investing in uncorrelated assets is valuable. Eat gold.

Browser micropayments could get big (Brave browser). Ppl may even get paid for attention in the future.

Iota for the internet of thing (haven't looked into that much).

Hedge against fiat inflation.

Internet ported to decentralised infra if Trump etc start pulling 1984 bs.

Self-driving cars paying toll road via crypto (just made that up).

Solar panels off-setting their cost via crypto-mining. Then ppl have crypto to spend.

Decentralised file systems.

Decentralised storage.

That's a few whilst I whale on my legs.
In sterile processing we toss brushes, albeit not exactly a sponge, daily- if not more often- because of the bio-burden/micro-organism build up and efficacy. At home I'm a bit more relaxed as most utensils are only touching semi/non-critical tissue but i try to stay clear of anything that holds moisture for cleaning; unless I'm using it with a disinfectant ala bleach.
It's currently 21*10^8 via fractional transactions

First, if by fractional transactions you meant satoshis, the math is 21 * 10^14 (21 million bitcoins * 10^8 satoshis per bitcoin).

Second, there is no question that Bitcoin is deflationary in the long term. The fact that it can be split in smaller units doesn't change that at all.
You can push by sending Link/preload headers, which will be turned into requests by the proxy.
A client who is in a field vaguely related to gaming has mentioned we could use discord (I'd never heard of it before) instead of Skype for calls/chat.

Given how much Skype has failed lately, it might be a good option to try.

Anyone know of the mac app is a proper app and not just an electron hobgoblin?
On the Other Side of Fear Lies Freedom
Not recommended reading... the author consistently misuses the term "blocking," among other sins of ignorance.
Wasn't antimicrobial soap just banned in the US?
> I'm still going to recommend people not use either language, because I've personally encountered the downsides of 'when things go wrong'; and it's been significantly worse than in other languages.

I... Didn't ask. I appreciate your post as a jumping off point for mine, but I honestly I think what you're going to do is not relevant to me. Thanks for the heads up though.

> That's a bit of a flip off isn't it?

I'm not sure what "flip off" means in your dialect. In mine... No? You have an opinion and I'm clearly stating the following is mine.

I'm sorry if you found this combative. I took pains to face the content away from your points to focus on what I like rather than what you hate.

I could contest your post if that's what you'd like me to do, but it seems like you're fairly defensive on this subject. So maybe that's inappropriate.

> You want to call it an opinion thread? Well, you know what they say. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one...

Oh yeah, I know this one. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, but a person named shadowmint on Hacker News seems very keen to suggest theirs is ground truth with vaguely sourced points.

I had never really understood how that classic anecdote had relevance in the modern world, but here we are. Wow.
"These things will be fixed in time."

... and the solutions will be written in blood.
> Yes, but his software has wide applications including being used in DDOS attacks, downloading copyrighted content and so on.

I guess that's technically true, but practically no more so than the PSF or the GCC team.

> I find it hard to get my head wrapped around the argument that gun manufacturers are somehow exempt from being at least at some level involved in the crimes perpetrated with the stuff they make but that for software we're going to have a completely different standard where simply making something and selling it rather than using it is the bar to clear.

There isn't really any argument, just politics (lobbying groups/companies/whatever) and familiarity (of lawmakers and judges, which is why people like Judge Posner are so important to our field).
Not accumulating any debt (as a state) results in missed investments in infrastructure and other state expenses, wich may be cruicial for the economy. Investment in the energy infrastructure, payed by debt, for example benefits the whole society. Not taking this debt would be foolish since it would impair the development of your country.

Accumulating too much dept (again as a state), results in a 'trickle up' economy, where a significant proportion of taxpayers money goes directly to the banks (in the form of interest). This is foolish too, since the bulk of the population would not work for the development of society, but for the profits of banks.

>> Is it necessary to pay this money?

It becomes necessary, when you reach a critical level of debt. But I also think it is in the interest of both state and economy that a reasonable proportion of debt exists, as long as it does not exceed a certain level. The big question remaining is, what is this certain level?
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene and Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference
Speaking as someone who has possibly paid less than a millionth of his playstation 2 I think it is kind of ok.

I would preferred they found him insane and ordered mandatory treatment for the rest of his life.

This might sound weird but it's not really IMO: being found insane was the only thing he feared.

As soon as he was sentenced to life in prison it was pretty clear he wouldn't appeal to a higher court. From what we know about him it seemed he would be fine with death penalty as well but Norway doesn't have that option.

Oh - and for why Norwegians are happy to let him have a playstation 2: I guess a good reason is that it makes it much harder for him to claim that he's being "tortured" etc. : )
I don't really strong sense as to the fate of bitcoin but I think about the fact that it survived the Mt. Gox disaster. This is something far less scandalous.
Given the extremes required for sterilization in terms of either temperature or time, I'd really prefer an actual study to your intuition; pouring boiling water over something only exposes it very briefly, which may not actually be sufficient.
Push is hardly the biggest benefit of HTTP/2 over HTTP/1.
You're welcome! And "¿por que no los dos?" :) I'll keep the gists updated and will also do a blog post, I think.

With a tool like hashcat, a modern GPU or two, and some publicly available wordlists, you can get the vast majority of them without breaking a sweat.

In other words: there is almost no value in hashing them with SHA1.
In Poland you can get a "sub" simcard that will use your cell/data plan from the main one, for just 10 pln/month (sometime ago it was 5 pln/month probably some of the carriers can have it even cheaper) ~ 2.8 $/month.

It is used mostly for tablets here(main simcard is in the phone) or a mifi for car.
Boiling was specifically mentioned in the study. Previous studies only measured the bacterial load, but not the bacterial composition. Apparently the worst types of bacteria continue to survive and repopulate the sponge in greater numbers:

"Sanitation by boiling or microwave treatment has been shown to significantly reduce the bacterial load of kitchen sponges19, 21 and can therefore be regarded as a reasonable hygiene measure.

However, our data showed that regularly sanitized sponges (as indicated by their users) did not contain less bacteria than uncleaned ones. Moreover, “special cleaning” even increased the relative abundance of both the Moraxella– and Chryseobacterium–affiliated OTUs (Fig. 3B). Presumably, resistant bacteria survive the sanitation process and rapidly re–colonize the released niches until reaching a similar abundance as before the treatment (Fig. 6A). This effect resembles the effect of an antibiotic therapy on the gut microbiota40, 41, and might promote the establishment of higher shares of RG2-related species in the kitchen sponges.

Although further analyses, including controlled sanitation experiments, are needed to substantiate these findings, our data allow careful speculation that a prolonged application of sanitation measures of kitchen sponges is not advisable."

- "Microbiome analysis and confocal microscopy of used kitchen sponges reveal massive colonization by Acinetobacter, Moraxella and Chryseobacterium species" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06055-9
There was a paper that claimed those sorts of rotations and movements can help alleviate adversarial examples:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03501

However, OpenAI quickly refuted it by creating adversarial examples that continue to fool the classifier even when rotated, scaled, etc:

https://blog.openai.com/robust-adversarial-inputs/

So it looks like there's no "easy" way out here. Multiple types of sensors may help, but it seems likely that it will still be possible to construct examples that fool network over all sensor inputs at once.

Ian Goodfellow and Nicolas Papernot have a good blog on machine learning security issues. One relevant post on why this is such a hard problem:

http://www.cleverhans.io/security/privacy/ml/2017/02/15/why-...
Polya's “How to Solve It”
I've organized a couple of in person hackathons. For in person, sponsors generally provide either $ to cover food/drinks/space, or they cover a sponsor prize track. For an online hacakthon, I'd assume the former isn't a concern. So, mainly you should figure out what size sponsorship tiers make sense for the scale of your hackathon e.g. $500, $1k, $5k and then what you can provide the sponsors in return. Then go through your network ideally starting with big companies (they have more money so writing a $5k check is a less big deal to them) where you know someone relatively high up that would benefit from your hackathon. Any company that employs a good amount of software engineers is a good bet because they're always looking to hire more.

(Shameless plug: I'm currently organizing http://hackcincy.com in Cincinnati, OH which is 2 weeks from now.)
And if they happen to love the tech, which seems common with Elixir, then they might also want to stick around longer. Uncommon technology can give a team cohesion.
Art installation, made of holographic mylar and monofilament, stretches 15,000sqft
I'd be shocked if police don't try to question every single arrested person before they've spoken to a lawyer. It is the best chance the police have to conduct an effective interrogation. You'd be surprised at the number of people who talk their way into prison. There's a reason why the most important legal advice is "ask for a lawyer and shut up".
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN keep all the questions in the “ask” section?
I find some really good questions (and great answers) on HN. But HN only keeps the last 64 ones.

Why is that? How can we access older quedtions/answers?
As opposed to bunnies and in kittens like they are now?
When Does It Count? The Timing of Food Stamp Receipt and Educational Performance [pdf]
It backfires when they leave and they are very difficult to replace.
That seems to have been fixed in version 2.6.2 released in September 2014[0]:

> Implement issue549: user-provided assertion messages now no longer replace the py.test introspection message but are shown in addition to them.

[0] https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/changelog.html#id228
It's worth pondering why Google Glass totally failed as a consumer product before we get too excited about this.
Shouldn't the first block of code have "HeadlessChrome" instead of just "Chrome" as the search term?
Didn't mention OpenNIC tho.
that seems unwise.

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I wonder how many of these were deliberate, and how many were missed. Google has a vested interest in bot detection.

And by releasing headless chrome, they killed off some of the competition. (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuN...)
I think this a great discussion topic.
I am really glad that everyone loves elixir on HN but I would like to hear both sides to analyze the weakness and strong points of a given technology.
This makes more a balanced discussion instead of just praising a language.
Honestly I would personally enjoy a more technical scrutiny of a language / framework, especially from a technical site like this one.
Does anyone have a good write up on something like this for Elixir?
> ... to automate malicious tasks. The most common cases are web scraping...

I really don't think scraping should fall onto that list.

There isn't even a consensus in the IT world whether or not scraping should be able to be legally restricted.
How I see the basic difference is, you have a choice to use Bitfinex or not. If there is an exchange that really finds a way to reduce this behavior then it would be very attractive to consumers. If the federal government and their regulators are the ones that are corrupt and doing the manipulations, there is no other choice.
Ethereum Lottery Is Live (testnet) – Require MetaMask
There already are rope-free elevators, for instance:
- the hydraulic elevator (https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lFWNDQDN2hE/T3nbR7woCAI/AAAAAAAAB...)

-the Paternoster (http://www.audioguideportal.de/assets/Foto/thumbnail520x397/...)

The post title is just clickbait for a ThyssenKrupp commercial, plus it only shows animations of these new elevators. Yawn.
How Do I Protect DIY Electronics from the Environment?
I'm looking to protect a piece of electronics that will be put in the Freezer and Outdoors. I've looked into Conformal Coating to protect the pcbs from Condensation. Is this a good solution?
"World's first 3D people mover" might be a more appropriate --- and enticing --- title, because "rope-free" can also refer to hydraulic elevators (which have been around for over a century.)
Dead butterflies
bullshit article
No. For example, in my country Sweden, a major part of the national debt is between the government and the central bank. Basically, the central bank created money and gave it to the government. Viewing the government and the central bank as a single entity makes that huge debt almost an accounting detail.

"Repaying" all of that would introduce a money shortage into the economy.
>How about people just stop talking about politics at work?

If someone else is talking toxic politics at work, and you don't contest them, you get their politics.
Dark Data: Svea Eckert – Andreas  Dewes [pdf]
Storrow Drive in Boston has several bridges over it like this. The worst part about it is that a car could be stopped under the bridge and it's hard to tell until you are on top of it (the car not the bridge). Granted the speed limit on the road is low enough that if you are obeying it you should be able to stop in time.

So a self driving vehicle would have to somehow know that the road dips and from that know that they won't run into the bridge and know that there may be cars hidden after the dip.

Edit: tried to get a good photo from Google maps but since the Google Street View Car camera is high up off the ground you can actually see more clearly what is going on with the bridge then you would be able to at street level so it's not a good example. I wonder what implications camera height has on the safety of self driving systems. Also, the bridges I have in mind seem to be on Soldier Field Road not Storrow (Storrow turns into Soldier Field and I haven't lived in Boston for years so forgive the mistake :))
It really does seem like all the job ads specify either recent grads or senior team leads. Nothing in between.
You're right, I changed the code.
Excellent, looks like we’re finally on the path to the turbolifts from Star Trek!
Strictly speaking, the purchasing power of those millionaire party people would be increasing, while your purchasing power would not. So, you might expect to be outcompeted for goods and services as well as for costs to rise.

On the other hand, if we could tax the God-windfall at a high rate, then we could put those dollars toward social services and helping the most vulnerable members of society. :-)
The Mr. Robot Season 3 Trailer Is Creepy as Hell