skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always outraged when I see NY Lotto ads on the subway.

This is just a way to profit off people who don't understand math and have some sort of addiction.

It's a poor tax.

I once saw an ad that said something like "if you are putting in your resume to be a door man, it's time to play the lottery"!!!!

Not, time to go back to school, time to vote for better income redistribution, not good for you for looking for work -- no, the city decided to trivialize unemployment and poverty AND make the claim playing the lottery is better than hunting for a job.

Regulation seems to be about limiting who gets to extract the profit from the poor, not protecting the poor / the people.
Don't touch this with a 10 foot poll. Read the code yourself and cry.
Night hours are best for shortwave reception. You could also need an external antenna depending on how far you are listening from. Another problem, probably the biggest one today, which affects reception on these frequencies (and generally on the HF bands) is the radio noise generated by many bad designed switching power supplies and appliances. Switching regulators (power supplies, converters, chargers etc.) for efficiency and size reasons have moved from the tens of KHz through the hundreds of KHz and recently they started working above 1 MHz which means having into our homes one or more transmitters with antennas (mains or output cable) that if not properly designed, filtered and shielded will render reception on HF bands next to impossible.
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I work on https://pisc.junglecoder.com as an exercise in building a stack based language that is a little less arcane than most that exist at the moment. It was inspired by Factor, Lua and Javascript, and is built in Go. I like using it for little tasks of generating bits of boilerplate code, and have some long term ideas around IRC bots, shells, and the like.
MACs aren't unique and can be changed. Certain fly by night Asian manufacturers just make up MACs randomly. It's a big problem with counterfeit gear, too.

They are supposed to be unique, but in the real world they are not.
Extremely large telescopes use segmented mirrors to avoid this problem.
Very True!
Thank you for posting this.

We see this a fair bit in formal methods of software construction. I can write a specification that proves that given a precondition a particular state will eventually result in a consequent state. The model is mathematically sound but it doesn't state when that transition will occur or how long it will take. And for the purposes of the specification it is likely not important!

The level of detail that is important should be deliberately chosen. A specification of a distributed system can choose to abstract away the details of the TCP protocol while still proving that the properties we do care about, consistency perhaps, are maintained.
When I was an intern at Inkling in 2013, the engineer that started Habitat, the eBook editor we were working on, showed us HyperCard. It was amazing how many of the features we were working on had been in HyperCard for 25 years. Now Habitat is limited to enterprise publishers, things have come full circle.

https://www.inkling.com/habitat/
Maybe I'm the exception, but I invested in filecoin because I'm excited about IPFS and believe coin-incentivized storage would be a very powerful feature and something I would love to spend my week-ends hacking on. I'm also an early investor in the company behind IPFS for the same reason.

I haven't invested in any other crypto-currencies, and don't have any plans to do so.

Just one datapoint.
Wait, so you said someone who pointed out they marched with Nazis spread 'nonsense', then admitted they march with Nazis but the problem is the people who bring up they march with Nazis? The marching with Nazis is not the problem?
Typically, I find that toggling Javascript Off works - like with Wired.
homophobic or not, name-calling does nothing to advance the conversation.
Sad but true :(

If we could only remove the logjam in congress right now to get some real work done... currently the two parties are deadlocked in a power struggle and have completely forgotten why they're there.
Does this mean a full stack developer hasn't got one?

I'll get my coat.
Thanks for the feedback. I added the word "transactional" to say that we can't send batches with the lib. Anyway it's not a hard limitation because you can always make a loop.
If you're making a fantasy world (which is not a past or future Earth in disguise), you don't have to stick to plate tectonics and volcanism as they exist on Earth. Geology varies a lot between planets, even in our solar system!

That's without even going into whatever makes your world "fantasy". Un-Earthly geology could be plot relevant (The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin). Or it could be a bit of colorful background that's still scientifically valid. Maybe you live on a tidally locked moon, or a geologically dead world with a cold core, or an ocean world with an ice crust (not of water necessarily). Maybe the locally important geological phenomena come not from inside the planet (plates, volcanoes) but outside (asteroids, meteors). Maybe your planet's liquid core has currents so strong that islands float around at meters per second and bounce off each other.

Fantasy only needs to be consistent with yourself - not with our Earth. Otherwise where's the fun in worldbuilding?

Relevant article from the same site: https://mythcreants.com/blog/should-your-fantasy-world-resem...
I never see butts on instagram :/, but I just use it to occasionally share photos I'm proud of, and that's usually the only time I also happen to browse what my friends have posted. I have zero interest in any social/communication aspect that instagram may offer.
With his article on the NYT, he has become one the principal actors and is contributing to make the drama bigger.
I'm not the one saying that Damore is part of "the alt right". Neither is 'geofft. One of his supporters is. I have no particular reason to believe they're right. Most conservatives, even the ones who write bad memos, aren't "alt right" people, just like most liberals aren't actual communists. My interest is in establishing something about "the alt right", not about Damore. So, can you answer the question now?
McMansions are also non-functional buildings. It would be possible to ape the 'incremental build' style of a building that's been around for 100s of years without the aesthetic dissonance and massive space wastage of the average McManison.

If you have a different style of window in every fitting without a strong aesthetic tie then you've just raised the build and maintenance cost of the property for no reason except cargo cultism.
You might be interested to note the IPFS DMCA policy:

https://discuss.ipfs.io/tos#8
'Don't look at the flash or fireball' – Guam Homeland Security fact sheet
The logo looks like a recoloured Telegram logo [0]. I'd recommend you change it before this gets big to avoid trademark shenanigans.

[0]: https://telegram.org
Evidence does. Maybe you should learn the difference between just calling someone a name and providing evidence that their character is shit.
Value is only realised by completed features, so a developer that can deliver completed, value producing features by themselves is a good thing. Teams should aim to have compositions of experts in single fields with developers who know enough in all fields. This way features can be owned by a single developer, pairing when needed.
Yes thanks, using something like node-cron can resolve your problem.
Publically accessible content simply wants to have their search engine pie (public content) and eat it too (paywall).

Ad-blocking makes sure they have to make the hard choice of putting content behind authorization. A user-agent's job is simply to be the user's agent, and not the publisher's monetization platform.
Other countries have copyright laws too. Most of these laws have some kind of notice-followed-by-takedown protocol, and my understanding is that in many jurisdictions, a DMCA takedown notice qualifies as such a notice. Probably the only major difference would be the amount of effort the infringed party would have to go through to enforce the takedown notice if the infringing party is non-compliant.

Disclaimer: IANAL.
How would you know what you missed, since you missed it ?
I've been impressed with that actually, works very well.
> but they don't have a huge, heavy set of components and requirements like Bootstrap.

But that's all optional, Bootstrap is modular [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/customize/

[2] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/blob/master/assets/st...

[3] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v3-dev/less/bootstrap...
Are you sure? The quickest sources I could find claim it's the other way by a significant margin.

> There was approximately $1.56 trillion in circulation as of July 12, 2017, of which $1.52 trillion was in Federal Reserve notes.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm

> In FY 2017, total US government revenue, federal, state, and local, is “guesstimated” to be $6.56 trillion

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total
I contacted them about this, actually. I subscribed to The Atlantic's digital edition expecting ad free: it turns out you need to specifically get an ad free subscription from them. The one offered on the block page is what you need or it doesn't count.

Bonus: After I asked The Atlantic, they partially refunded my subscription and a magazine arrived at my door (for my now cancelled and partially refunded digital only subscription).
$186M ... that's crazy.

And here I've been sitting wondering if anyone would bother investing in my idea for a Bitcoin mining co-op. I want to create a U.S. based mining farm that allows anyone to buy-in and have access to a portion of the hashrate. The idea being that, today, the average Bitcoin user has no way to reasonably voice their opinion through the hashrate because they can't compete with the efficiency of the big miners. We fix that by being a big miner; build our own ASIC, hardware, everything, and sell that back to average users at market rate. Level the playing field.

But the level of investment needed is in the tens of millions (custom ASIC, custom hardware, custom datacenters, etc). It's not an incredible amount, and I'm not worried about the technicals (I previously co-founded a company making FPGA miners and my previous company was a hardware startup), but it's enough to give me pause and sit on the idea for now. But if Filecoin got $186M through an ICO ...
I've already given the answer to your question:

Whoever marches in Charlottesville represents those who march in Charlottesville. They don't speak for the rest of the "alt-right", whatever that is.
Isn't this just the result of Republican policy? Enabling regulatory capture?

The official GOP stance is that industry can police itself, right?

Seems pretty simple.
What a ridiculous article. It just takes a lot of experience to become an actual Full Stack Developer. Most developers begin in the front end and then have to claw their way out of that to become back-end developers. But that doesn't mean a back-end developer suddenly forgets everything they used in the past.

Also, there are developers working in smaller companies who have no choice but to be a full-stack developer. It just takes a lot of work. Disparaging the concept just because you've not mastered both ends does not in any way disparage the concept itself.
Isn't this just an argument of generalization vs specialization?

Of course the specialists will know more about their domain.

But the generalist is more useful in many situations. Both play their role in an effective team.
But if you read the document itself you'll see that this guy is an avid leftist. The whole purpose of the document is to increase diversity ...

This guy, by any measure of the imagination IS A PROGRESSIVE.

That's why, I think, the left has just created a few million more "rightists": leftists that feel personally attacked. Even within Google where rightist viewpoints are few and far between.
Perhaps. They are losing people like me though. I will never pay for a subscription to read a website and I will continue using adblockers to get rid of annoying ads.

But they could still profit from me. There are less annoying ways to monetize which I might accept.

For example affiliate links to buy products I am interested in (books, video games, gadgets). I'd be willing to pay % extra for some nice product in order a fund a website which pointed me to it. Or extra traffic I'd refer to their site.
It is still not very clear at this point if Tgres approach is sufficient enough, and if timescale adds significant performance advantage over native array based Postgres implementation.
Pushing Price Alert Notifications with AWS Lambda, SNS, and Node.js
Already happening in some form with Blendle. It will always be bundles though, the internet is too huge.
That's what open in new tab is for.

Close tab is way better than back. Easier, more consistent and faster.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this alternative: disable JavaScript.

It's fairly easy in any browser to create a list of websites to ignore JavaScript on.
I use privacy badger, and unless I'm mistaken, it doesn't use a list to block content, it just blocks any 3rd party request that send cookie information.

Why are we relying on a list?
IIRC in the Bloomberg interview linked from the article, he explicitly rejects that he would identify with alt-right (that's because the interviewer asks about it), and explains that he is pretty much a centrist. He does claim though that conservatives are victims of bias in Google, but that doesn't mean he _identifies_ with them.

Kinda similar worldview to Jonathan Haidt, for example.
Google Wave comes to mind. Great tech, but marketed to the wrong group (developers) and didn't solve any problems I had at the time.
grep functionalclam.com /etc/hosts
0.0.0.0 functionalclam.com
Well Intel isn't screwed at all. Shareholders are just gonna be angry when Intel is forced to lower margins and they see a drop in profit.

Also, while Intel maybe winning the mobile (really only laptop) market now, ARM is slowly catching up. It's really only a matter of years before say someone like Apple chooses to ditch Intel in favor of using their own A processors in their computers.
Google Docs: Interface is stuck
The web is a flexible place. When I started writing code for money, I was working up user-facing PHP interfaces to databases, and I was called a back-end developer. 7 years later, doing fundamentally the same work only moreso, I was called a front-end developer and paid 10k less a year. Everything is always in motion.
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Ask HN: Predictions on what will be the most surprising technology in 10 years?
I often read articles talking about the next big thing in the short term (2-4 years), but thinking about the Bill Gates 2-year-10-year quote* has me wondering about 10 years from now:
Will the most surprising thing be an expansion of an already rising technology? (AI, blockchain, biotech, nanotech, AR,...)

Or will it be something most people have never heard of yet?
Thoughts/ predictions?

* "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten."
This is irrelevant because ipfs.io may act as a proxy but content is stored somewhere on the network and accessible via IPFS.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14988585 and marked it off-topic.
FBI Says ISIS Used Phony EBay Listings to Funnel Cash to US Operative
I've completely quit facebook and noticed that I just replaced its usage entirely by reddit. With facebook I usually just saw what my friends were up to; with reddit, I just see a bunch of strangers and recurring figures, and threads where everyone is an keyboard comedian. I think my reddit usage is extremely unhealthy because I just browse the same things over and over again in my free time. But most of the time I feel like I just don't know what to do (or don't have time to do what I know I should) on the internet anymore.
I agree in general, but made an exception in this case:

1) The original comment appeared on a thread that fell off the front page soon afterwards, so not many people saw it;
2) I thought it offered an original point of view;
3) It received some upvotes, which I interpreted as meaning that it put into words something that others had been thinking, but hadn't quite figured out how to say.

Anyway, it has now had a chance to be viewed by an appropriately large audience, so I will happily retire it.
not that I'm aware of, and they would probably charge high fees.

Personally I target a 60%/30%/10% spread of ETH/BTC/MISC. I use Gemini for ETH/BTC and Kraken for the smaller coins.

My total crypto monthly spending is between 15-25% of my monthly savings budget, FWIW. The rest gets split between a traditional index fund and a regular savings account.

If the whole crypto market burns down tomorrow I'll only be out 15-25% of my total invested savings since I started putting money into crypto, and if it takes off I'll get nice returns but I'm not banking on it.

I invest in crypto because I believe in the tech, not in getting rich off of it. Me putting money into is my vote of confidence and nothing else.
The https://lbry.io/faq/what-is-lbry is just as empty buzzword bingo as the Filecoin docs.
Have you considered trying to do just remote work for a while ? It may, at the very least, give you some time to relax and not be subjected to the crap that you've been dealing with. I think you'll find that dealing with customers, while still problematic at times, can be much, much easier than dealing with coworkers that are jerks. You can always fire the customers. :-)
On the contrary, when native apps support styling (e.g. through React Native), it's invariably very slow compared to all the optimizations that have gone into browsers. They generally can't compete with the decades of optimization that have gone into the Web platform.

Sure, cascading of certain properties can be complex. But the compressed in-memory style representation, style sharing optimizations, parallel restyling, etc. more than make up for this. Each one of these is at least a 2x speedup on its own. Every single implementation of native app styling that I've seen hasn't even begun to implement any of these optimizations.
Why are people treating engagement as a new thing?

AdTech companies use the same strategies that newspapers used to use. Yellow journalism has become fake news. Tabloids are now blogs fueled by rumor mills. Newspapers trying to promote celebrities are the same as having a twitter / snapchat / instagram account.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.
Plus requirement gathering and support and throw in a sales pitch to the board
Good Leaders Are Good Learners
You realize that everyone CBS, Disney, everyone is starting their own subscription service and (for many) pulling out of Netflix.

Besides grasping at maintaining stranglehold over distribution. They are hoping to replicate the cable model. Pay for the base package where all the crap no one wants is, then pay for all these extra premium packages.
Sundar Pichai Should Resign as CEO
Technically.
That is because the average startup culture thinks everything other than web/mobile is not interesting. All the system architecture guides I see these days consist of load balancers, webservers and databases as if that is all that matters.
how much money did you actually spend on all of that?
> currently the two parties are deadlocked in a power struggle

You mean since about 1790? There have always been two parties in congress (minus the era of good feelings) and they have always had opposing ideology, and have almost always blocked one another's proposals.

It is very naive to think the current Republican congress is anything different or new. Their inaction is intentional - they need to pass their anti-citizen legislation they were appointed for when people are not watching them.

It is also somewhat inaccurate to blame it on "deadlocked parties". The factions within them to varying degrees stifle them. The parties aren't monoliths of ideology that uniformly vote the way the chair swings.

If congress isn't passing good legislation, its because the constituent members of that congress aren't a majority good actors. Regardless of color. Regardless of excuses given.

Politicians always act in the interest of someone. Sometimes its themselves. It used to sometimes be for their constituents (because they had to appease them for votes). Today it is mostly for corporate campaign donors. And those donors want the status quo. They don't want the changes average Americans want. The whole point of their buying and owning of politicians is to impede change. Of course a congress filled with men told to maintain gridlock and prevent reform by their masters will do so, and they do it in a way optimized for themselves - by always blaming someone else and taking no responsibility for the gridlock you cause, your base can just keep reelecting you despite hating congress in general. As long as the voters remain ignorant to this con, the business interests get what they paid for - usually corporate welfare.
Not directly to the point, but look at this:

"Hedge Funds Investing in Cryptocurrencies ‘Exploding’ – 62 in Pipeline"

https://news.bitcoin.com/hedge-funds-investing-in-cryptocurr...
Yup. I think what Keller's main talents are in putting together and leading a great team.
It's still early. Had you bought at $1 or even $0.01, would you have really held until $3500? At $40 you would have had decided whether to sell or not, then again at $200, and at $600, and at $400, and then at $1000, etc. I think people like to gloss over all those difficult compounding decisions about whether sell or hodl.

On another note, seeing these as assets that merely store value for speculation may be a shallow view. However, it may be the case today. Long-term, the industry is betting that there are far deeper drivers of utility that will be unearthed in the next couple of years. This is where the real value can be captured and where fortunes may be made. Thinking about "what currency should I make a quick buck off of" misses a lot of the potential.

Here's a reading list: https://medium.com/@dwr/digital-currency-reading-list-6219f1...
If in the future I am forced to view ads, I won't click on them and I won't buy any products advertised via forced ads.
also, few (if any) have the understanding of technology to affect appropriate reforms, which leads to industry lobbyists crafting legislation.
Ask HN: What would happen if an AWS data center was suddenly wiped out?
For example, North Korea nukes North Virginia. I'm wondering how AWS currently backs ups data in regions... and with a scenario like that, how would it play out for the huge amount of East coast customers?
I believe EasyList only accepts ad servers onto their list as a general rule, not adblock warnings/blockers.
$99 for such simple themes is overpriced
> Also, it's a job. It won't be fun for the vast majority of people. Why do jobs have to be fun? My father worked on the line at a factory all his life - it wasn't fun.

Thank you. I thought I was the only one exasperated by this (relatively new, as far as I can tell) idea. I don't know anyone of my parents' age who thought jobs were fun.
Economic interests drive ideology, not the other way around.
There are many alternative words available to describe someone of poor character. Words that are not homophobic slurs would be less prone to misinterpretation too. You may have presented evidence about Dan's character but your use of language was mostly informative about yours.