skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soon even the pop stars need to fear for their jobs. We just gotta perfect robots to look like young humans make them appealing to their primary demographic and we're good to go.
What's up with the scare quotes around "official?" Is there another Syrian state we're not aware of?
"I don't recall" seems to be an unusual statement here. It seems like he's using it more like, "I don't recall it outside of certain things I don't have to/won't answer." Am I reading that right?
> 3. You need access to a reliable electric grid and reliable fast internet (the firewall rules out mainland China completely--1/5 of the world).

Every competent developer in China knows how to bypass the firewall.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the relevant 409A valuation is the most recent one done when you exercise your options and taxes on them become due. I think that's the situation GP was referring to, that this approach might help fix.

Unless you're saying that when Square's valuation suggested a share price of ~$15, a 409A done at the same time would have returned a value closer to the ~$5 that the paper suggests is more reflective of the average employee's situation.
Ben Horowitz – How to Start a Cultural Revolution
There's logic in these arguments; however, they ignore securities laws.

If BTC is a security, which the regulators probably think it is, then yes—you have to have a mechanism to bring concepts like splits, tenders, dividends to holders of the security if you are going to hold them for their benefit.

Developers considering forks will likely be required to follow yet unclarified rules around how much, how often, waiting and disclosure periods, etc.

(It's useful to consider how rules and systems have evolved governing how often Apple can split its stock or how Facebook investors are notified about tender offers, etc.)
Line breaks in Python are generally unconventional. For what it is worth, the PEP 8 recommendation is for the operator to begin the line (Knuth style), i.e.

result = ((( 1
+ 3
+ 8)
/ 2)
* 6)

How much that looks like Lisp is a matter of opinion I suppose.
Also, Canada's copyright laws in general are much saner than in the USA. For example, (unless it's changed recently - I know there's been discussion), if you have a copyrighted work, (say a CD), you're allowed to make a copy for yourself for backup purposes.

It may even be legal to break the "digital lock" on things like DVDs and Blu-Rays in order to create your backup copy, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
You know what's even more useful? A physical button, for literally everything except infrequent single tap actions (i.e. not typing) and zooming in. Even for those, I'd prefer a device be required to do it instead of my skin so I can hold the phone like I can a pad of paper.
Am I unknowingly on a forum of 8-9 digit zillionaires?

Yes, but most of us are temporarily embarrassed.
These sentiments are essentially a rough paraphrasing of One Up on Wall Street (published 17 years ago) [0] with crass language added "for the fucking effect!"

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762462.One_Up_On_Wall_St...
If you (and others on this sub-thread) like managing kubernetes through version control, I humbly suggest trying out the ksonnet/kubecfg toolchain (https://github.com/ksonnet/kubecfg and the closely related ksonnet/ksonnet-lib repo - Disclaimer: I'm one of the contributors).

Helm is nice, but (imo, and as some of the comments here are also pointing out) oriented more towards consuming 3rd-party pre-built charts from some sort of centralised marketplace/repo. (This is an important use case, and yes I know it is certainly possible to use helm to manage your own internal software too.)
I'm always happy to see community members reading others charitably, and I'm also happy to be wrong about any HN user's intentions (and unban or adjust accordingly). However, in my experience comments like this never lead anywhere good in the future, both in terms of their effect on threads and in terms of future output from such accounts. So we'd need a commitment not to post like this again to HN.
Breaking Function.prototype.toString() might actually be a good idea because now the engine has to keep the source code in memory and most of the times it is absolutely unnecessary. It would be better to free this memory.
> Also, though, what it is is necessary: a corrective for multiple centuries of --- let's call it what it is, I guess: institutionalized oppression.

It sounds you feel that the way to right the wrongs of racism against blacks in the past is to practice racism against other races today. I know you aren't alone in this view, but I disagree for the following reasons:

First of all, if we agree that racism is morally wrong, then I don't see how practicing racism today can be considered a morally right solution to racism in the past.

Second, even if we can morally justify penalizing the descendants of slave owners in order to create benefit for the descendants of slaves, categorizing people based on the color of their skin isn't a good way to do this. There are white people whose lineage had nothing to do with owning slaves and there are people whose African ancestors owned, captured and sold people into slavery.
You can say what you want. Doesn't change the fact that Chavez helped bring many of Venezuela's poor towards something approaching a dignified standard of living.
I feel more like a Democrat is just a shorter way to say a person in the Democratic Party. It doesn't sound right (to me atleast) to say someone is a Democratic. It may be where I am from but we don't use the term Democratic like that. I hear people around where I live say they are Democrats.

To me the -an suffix on Republican seems to suggest the word is about a person where as the word Democratic seems like it is an adjective so Democrat in my mind just gives it a more personified feel.

Conservatives may use Democrat derogatorily but it's still a useful term and in my opinion shouldn't be banned outright from discourse. Maybe I'm missing the context you were speaking of though.
We Offered Matching Funds for Open Source – Here’s What Happened
Please take a moment to notice how horribly unfriendly a deposition transcript is. Thousands of these documents are produced every day, in a proprietary format that is antiquated and near impossible to work with. The PDF is unusable given the line numbers, headers, footers, etc. The simple act of copying and pasting - for example, writing a brief, a blog, etc. - is painful.

I know developers could create an amazing solution, but the legal community hasn't asked yet, unfortunately.
Japan’s labor market is tight, and higher wages may be needed to retain workers
One possibility is that Dropbox hashes your videos/photos, and compare your hashes to hashes of known shared images obtained from previous prosecutions, and reports matches to police. That's not exactly "snooping through your files."

Source: I served on a jury on a case like this once. It was very unpleasant.
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Why We're Going to Start Testing Cinema Lenses
Now if you could just tell me how to explain it to the execs that would be swell.
It's not "dead"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AjhFZVfB9c
It's a weekend project, for fun. Functions that are work will not stop to work.
I'm using it and I pretend to contribute when I find a problem.
Cronitor saw our customers first impacted at 4:29, largely recovered by 5:04.

Another interesting thing is that AZ identifiers are randomized from customer-to-customer so when people report their failures, like here in this thread, it can sometimes seem like a problem is region-wide when in fact it's isolated to an AZ.
The rise of childlessness
Seems like this might be a good hedge against potential regulation. I could easily see some states or even a federal regulation or law requiring that level III autonomous cars have some sort of driver attention monitoring system.
Please don't post like this to HN. It makes the threads so much worse, regardless of how right your point is.

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Damn Oracle and their purchase of SUN Micro else we could all have had native ZFS but nooo we are stuck with an incompatible license and RedHat reinventing another ZFS like filesystem.
In school, RPN occasionally caused trouble for me as I could work through an entire problem (leaving values on the stack) without writing down any intermediate steps.
That just leaves the question of what a well regulated militia in this sense is, how it being well regulated is determined, etc open to legitimate further legislation.

To put it another way, is there constitutional justification for citizens to bear arms for purposes which have nothing to do with a well regulated militia? If so the well regulayed militia qualification has no meaning, right? So what's it there for?

Just curious, fair disclosure I'm a Brit so I have no standing in this.
Without really questoning what a "person" is, to get into a debate about abstract and concrete forms, etc. I firstly do not believe the example you have provided is a good counter example or fitting analogy given the intent of child pornography legislation, nor do I believe the material you describe should be illegal.

There is first a key difference in the kind of material I am talking about. You are talking about propaganda, I am talking about even private possession of drawings. Further, I think that it depends on if the cartoon in your scenario acutally calls for violence, or if it is merely a scene drawn in disgusting taste. I would find it disgusting, as would many others - but does that mean it ought to be illegal? To distribute on the street perhaps, but what about privately on the Internet? Or publicly on the Internet?

The key is intent. The intent of child pornography legislation is to prevent its circulation and production, for its production necessarily requires the abuse of a child, and market effects can demand more to be produced, necessitating more child abuse. As such I think it absurd to consider, for the purposes of child pornography legislation, a fictional character to be a "person". What harm is done by drawing on paper? What of keeping that paper to oneself in private? What of giving that paper to your friend? What of selling that paper for a price? What of giving it away for free?

It would be strange, though I accept, that you want the propaganda you describe to be illegal to possess or share. I however cannot agree on that principle, for I view it as a violation of one's rights of freedom of expression. In the same way, illegalising a disgusting pornographic comic I believe is also an infringement.

Finally there is no real victim being hounded in your example. There is no call to violence, threat etc. and I judge it hideous that one would prevent me from owning such material.
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What would the business model be? Or to ask the same thing a different way: who is wasting money with the status quo?
The computer science graduation stats are heavily skewed male. It happens way before the company hiring and first job phase so taking punitive actions at the hiring level is idiotic.
Hatsune Miku already seems to be doing a pretty good job of handling the physical appearance bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbbP8oh1p4
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At first I was faintly disappointed. Then it got worse:

> He likes the idea of having AI pitch in anytime you’re typing, a bit like an omnipresent, smarter version of Google’s search autocomplete. “You could have similar technology to help you compose documents or emails by giving you suggestions of how to complete your sentence,” Kurzweil says.

So he's actually helping Google get creepier and more omnipresent. :-/
Bi-directional Communication with Websocket
Of course in a perfect world that's what its supposed to be but as some other comments in the thread have pointed out, opp. lawyers are hoping to press on issues and hope you say something that can be misinterpreted as malicious or incompetent later in front of a jury.
Its better to not execute people for reasons unknown, if you can't even decide if the person was justly or unjustly executed, that is probably enough information.

Moreover, I don't personally agree with capital punishment.
Thank you so much. I'm deeply humbled and extremely grateful for this. It's the nicest thing I've read all week, and really brightened my day up. Thank you!
Ask HN: LLC vs. C-Corp
What are the benefits of LLC over C-Corp? How do you issue shares to investors in LLC?

Why did Waymo start as LLC?
In all fairness the idea of Zuckerberg running for president is a little extreme (even if true) and is likely to be the subject of ridicule and criticism.
Enough support that someone's willing to exchange cash for a "coin" from your bitcoin fork.
Good work bees! I was feeling guilty for wishing them all dead one birthday wish after I got stung.
This article is an entertaining read on that considers some of the issues discussed in this thread:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-02/bitcoin-e...
Presumably your definition of white is the convenient one that includes Asian people, right? Tech hiring has jack all to do with racism when the big companies are matching the ratios coming out of uni with CS degrees.
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Cloudera founder Hammerbacher once infamously said. “That sucks.”
But if it works...
One way hashing came up in the context of sharing email opt-outs without sharing the actual email addresses. (Send a list of hashes of email addresses and the hash function and require that no one whose email hashes to a value on that list may be emailed marketing material.)

It's been many years now, but we did some canonicalization of email addresses before hashing [downcasing, stripping whitespace, stripping periods (gmail), stripping any local tags (plus-sign), and maybe a few others I'm forgetting] since false positives were "safe".
No CS degree here either.

Variables exist in memory, right? But we only need them for some amount of time - then we want our memory back. There are many strategies for this - Java uses a garbage collector to search through memory and reclaim parts no longer in use, C programmers manually call 'free'. Java suffers from its strategy because of the performance impact of that scan/ freeing strategy. C suffers from the complexity of manually managing memory leading to many security vulnerabilities.

Rust takes this concept of how long memory should live - when it should be freed - and encodes it into its type system. Similar to how you can say 'this thing is an int and it can be added to other ints' rust says 'this thing lives this long and it can reference other things that live this long, or shorter'.

Then the compiler can tell you "hey, you're trying to access something that might have been freed" the same way it would say "you're trying to add an integer to a string".

This means you don't have the performance impact of the GC but you also have a compiler watching your back, telling you when you may be doing something unsafe.

The algorithm used to determine how long variables live and when they can / can't be accessed is the subject of the RFC.
He's making the same public motions that an office-seeker would perform. I don't think it's off base to connect the dots.
Super interesting.

I wonder if the creator has considered just not having parens at all?
Just want to say I love y'all's product. I'm a current student and I feel completely job ready by the time I finished the data analyst path.
In reality perhaps options can be very much ITM when considering private sales or on secondary markets, if allowed by the granting startup. Even considering recent funding rounds and accelerating valuations. Lyft, for example, in its recent run since the Uber woes, may trade at a premium with plenty more upside in the coming months.
Why am I spending all my time on blockchain projects?
Markets often respond positively just because doubt is removed. Regardless of what the report said, it's out, and people can look forward.
Politics, Clinton, Zuckerberg, no-concrete point to debate.

"It would be a disaster of epic proportions. It would be... the perfect storm."
In any case, I wonder if Google "senior executives" are really involved.
I have tried covering my notebooks microphone, but short of disconnecting it I haven't found anything that produces notable results.

But covering the camera still helps. Some thread scenarios are solved by covering the camera. Not all of them, but nobody is going to get 100% security anyways. No reason to give up.
At this point they don't look anywhere near as good though.
> There's restrictions around telecom providers entering new markets, and that plays to the businesses because it allows them opportunity to collude nationally

I wish we had a real free market in Canada for telecom services.
No such correlation exists.
Hmm, I can't reply so I'll post here. I don't think bans on child pornography are just to prevent children being abused in its production. I think partly it's because the circulation of such depictions make it more likely for people who enjoy such material to act on their fantasies against real children. It. Institutes incitement.

In other words I think child pornography is a form of propaganda glorifying the sexual abuse of children.
If you swap out "the coin devs" for "Ty Inc.", then your comment would be relevant about Beanie Babies.
> we have ~2.2M inmates and 1.2M reported violent crimes per year

Don't forget that many violent criminals commit more than one crime.
You were also smaller when you were younger...
This... looks surprisingly unambitious for somebody like Kurzweil, who thinks a computer will pass the Turing test in 12 years and we'll all be immortal gods in 30. I'd have expected he'd be doing "moonshot" stuff.
Thanks! did not know that.
How Importing Works in Python
Agreed. I think the profile initiative does feel quite Digg v4
My chromebook has 16gb SSD. I want an apple laptop, but the cheapest has only 128gb SSD.
I completely forgot about this podcast. Thanks for posting this here.
why does an IV bag cost $500?

I want professional operators and physicians to look at my details.

What I don't want is dozens of layers of middlemen or ticket clippers (or healthcare driven by profit).
We are going way overboard in our infatuation with technology.
The cost isn't just in dollars though. In a PET scan they inject a radioactive dye into your bloodstream. It "exposes you to around the same amount of radiation that you would receive from the general environment over about three years." [1]

The high dollar cost may also be related to newer, more sensitive machines that don't require as much radiation exposure to the patient.

[1] https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtrea...
New GOP bill to cut legal immigration
But it would be an act of faith and patience to redact and docket-file high-tech versions-- that is seamless for the low-tech PDF, which was pen-signed and docket-friendly. The PDF was even pulled from the docket and re-posted on scribd, with searchable text intact.

There also would be a time-synchronized video and an e-transcript, yes, in proprietary non-open standards.
Richard,

I think this is a terrific idea and can see the need. Do you foresee any difficulties obtaining VC? Just a bit curious given the in depth background checks they complete on founders. I hope that you get the funding that you may need for growth because I think this meets a tremendous need.

Kudos to you for making the changes you have made and then using that to help others.
I believe Larry Page is saying that you get compensation like being a C-level exec, but instead of having your own company you work at Google.
Woops - Lisp IDE using LTK
A month full of Sundays ago I looked at the shitty mess that I was and decided that it was time to stop whoring around, one language after the other, c#, c++, ruby, python, java, javascript so many sleepless nights banging it out, just to wake up empty inside. Never really feeling like a real man. I mean programmer. To progress as a programmer, I needed to pick one language and stick with it long enough to really understand it. I knew this could take a while. Like years. So it was important and I took my time making the decision.

I ended up choosing Lisp.

That was a while ago, and while I’m still not a good programmer (by the only metrics that matter (1)), I’ve started my journey on not being a shitty one.

But this isn’t a story about programming languages or becoming a good programmer.

This is about Lisp.

Yesterday, I wrote a very simple IDE (using a fantastic GUI wrapper for tk called LTK (2)). The application is just two text boxes. One where you type in code. And a second where the output of the code is shown to you in real time. The code is less than 50 lines. It’s a simple toy.

[video from yesterday]
https://streamable.com/98u01

Today, I was on my way home, thinking about how I could get the IDE to update itself. And then I thought, what if the IDE could update itself IN REAL TIME.

Then I realized it could.

Already.

[video from today]
https://streamable.com/0oltt

Lisp.

---------------------

(1) My own.

(2) http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/
I wrote a bit about this for the day job, but it's essentially same advice as I've given in ~10 HN comments over the years: https://stripe.com/atlas/guide#should-i-have-an-llc

<not legal advice>
You issue shares to investors by writing a process to do so into your LLC's operating agreement and then following that process when issuing shares; a lawyer can help you with this. Note that there exist investors who will not be willing to invest in an LLC because your operating agreement likely gives investors less protections and less certain protections than standard equity ownership in a C corporation; they may ask you to convert to LLC as a pre-requisite for taking investment. You will find this to be the market norm among e.g. sophisticated investors in Silicon Valley.
</not legal advice>
Don't companies get bought out on the basis of how many users they have not some funny-number "valuation"?
I feel like the parallel to the extended use of fossil fuels is really nice.

At the same time, the industries producing petroleum had a lot of incentive to do so. We can call this aggressive self preservation at best. At the worst, we can say they corrupted the media and global stability in order to do so. This is a very strong accusation, and not my point.

Musk and Friends finds themselves diametrically opposed to where the petroleum industries found themselves. Who then is taking the side of the petroleum industries in the AI case?
We just got McAfee installed, and the performance is horrendous on `npm install`. Even something like kicking off headless Chrome to run unit tests now takes 5 mins instead of 30s.

So yes, this is probably a major concern for a product that actually cares about their user's performance.
I read the parent comment's "I'd expect more languages to try it" as meaning more new languages.

Really interesting point about Transferables, I hadn't seen that.
Can somebody please fix blockquotes on HN on mobile?
Are there really people who would turn down a hundred million dollars for a chance at a larger potential payout in 5-10 years? Are these people even members of Homo sapiens?

A $100MM bonus seems like a career-ending bonus to me. How do you keep going to work after that?