skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there are lots of Bay Area HNers. Here are some comments from a Clevelander who lived in Berkeley and worked in SF and Oakland for several years.

You will notice two things pretty quickly if you work here. First, and I don't know why more people don't mention this, the public libraries (in Cleveland and statewide in Ohio) are infinitely better than you are accustomed to. Second, while walking around downtown you will miss the human poop, humans pooping, and general human poop-related concerns that you might have grudgingly folded into your daily routine in SF. (I find the "dirty" comments below amusing)

Other than that, probably the best concise way to characterize it is: an extremely small version of Chicago with less distinguished architecture and a less developed waterfront (but better public parks and easier traffic), a couple of museums and a classical orchestra that are on par with NYC, food and theatre that is good but limited in scope, and hospitals that are as good as anywhere in the world. All the sort of postindustrial stuff you can read about the midwest applies to one degree or another to the larger metropolitan area. All the major league sports if you're into that sort of thing.
Financial markets in general are propped up propaganda. We trade expectations. If the prices agree with the propaganda content, most market participants believe it to be true... until something unexpected shatters their belief.
I wonder how that differs with this more recent data: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...
I mean of course. But if I am 3 miles into a wooded trail, they will be waiting a while. Aside from CPR I'd such is needed, not much to do. I'd certainly appreciate a call or a message being sent in that case.
> Especially for a company with no money.

Reddit doesn't exactly have "no money": https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/31/reddit-just-raised-a-new-r...
HBO Now has 2M subscribers.

Netflix has 100M.
We price based on the amount of review being done per month. $49 is the base threshold; individual reviews can vary based on the amount of code being reviewed at once. We're figuring out the exact pricing model for individuals and teams that'll be easily communicable.
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I don't think you understand what fascism is.
This article is 99% insider trading, 1% biotech.

Still interesting nonetheless.
Cogent isn't sending traffic to Comcast willy nilly. Comcast customers are requesting the traffic. It's part of Comcast's cost of doing business to size their network to meet their own customer demand. Or at least, it should be, because most of Comcast's customers have no other choice of ISP, so normal market pressure doesn't work. So yes, this is (should be) a Comcast problem, not Cogent and not Netflix.
No, the ocean is where it started.

If we're going to speak meaningfully about where Europeans come from, we need to include wherever they picked up Neanderthal DNA (hint: not in Africa; no African population has it).
Noting that something does not meet the definition of “fascism” isn't condoning it.
Apple and Aetna met last week to talk about the Apple Watch– what they discussed
Personally, I've found that polishing my boots is a really enjoyable task, it's quite cathartic to sit there for a few minutes with dubbin and a brush and clean your boots up.

It's funny, because I used to hate polishing my school shoes as a kid.

I only polish my boots around once a month, so it's a couple of hours a year. I spend more time sewing up clothes and sewing on replacement buttons, which I've also discovered now that I'm an adult is a cathartic activity.

There's something nice about trying to distance yourself from the throwaway disposable consumer culture we have now, and actually fixing things.

I guess I've become a hipster.
> Today, it would be at best extremely difficult to (profitably) run a web site targeting the same audience.

This makes me think of https://lwn.net/

If I remember correctly, the site has struggled to keep going at times and most of its income is from subscriptions:

https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn

How does LWN make its living?
LWN is primarily supported by its readers, through subscription fees. We also bring in a small amount of money through advertising, but that is typically less than 10% of our revenue stream.
OK, we've updated the headline to clarify.
FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky
Why Elixir (2014)
I thought this was quite high, since the net neutrality issue had a lot of coverage in the media, see for example the two John Oliver talks about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak
Why would the legacy chain be dead? Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin, both still run.
Certainly not for a general screen, but then we just know that the specificity is in the range of (98%, 100%) now, not the exact specificity. And we don't know what other refinements might improve upon what they did here.

But their data is too valuable to hold back until they had the final result of a test that could be taken to the FDA and approved for general use. This is valuable science, that impacts the directions that others are taking with their research.

I'm not saying you're doing this, but it's a common trend on HN and for other non-scientist technical people to forget that scientific journals show the process of science, not completed science. A journal is not a textbook that one can pick up and read a complete, final story, where all the false starts and uninteresting tangents are skipped. Journals are a way for scientists to communicate about their current progress, and that's an essential part of the scientific process. There has to be room to say: "here's where we are." Especially when they are able to get to the point of where they are right now.

Also, this was published in a very high profile journal, on a highly competitive topic, so take it all with a huge grain of salt. The senior author of this paper does good work, and many people are talking about similar preliminary results, but it takes time to prove these things.
Hi everyone, I'm one of the cofounders of Clerky. We are super excited to be partnering with B Lab to launch this!

For those that may be unfamiliar with PBCs, the high level overview is that they make it easier for founders to build mission-driven companies. With a normal Delaware corporation, you're supposed to maximize stockholder value - but with a Delaware PBC, you're supposed to balance that with the public benefit(s) you chose, and with the interests of anyone materially affected by your company's actions.

B Lab is the non-profit organization that spearheaded public benefit legislation in the US, including in Delaware. They're also the folks that certify B Corporations (some famous ones include Kickstarter, Patagonia, Method (the soap company), and Plum Organics).

This launch is exciting for us because up until now, Delaware PBC startups had no way to get all their formation paperwork done online (there are some incorporation services, but that doesn't give you everything you need as a startup).

If anyone has any questions on the legal details, or in general, feel free to ask :)
Joe Rogan and Lawrence Krauss on Artificial Intelligence
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I believe it tends to either be constant or slightly positive, actually. Of course, if all you want is happy people, happiness is heritable and so you can do embryo selection on it or genetically correlated traits like personality factors (for Extraversion & against Neuroticism: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/twin-research-and-hu... )
That's somewhat orthogonal to my point - these forks are conjuring money out of thin air for those who already hold the currency.
Uh, they usually do cost more. Click the "Tall" sizes.
The Strange Story of Tether, the Digital Money That Claims It Isn’t Money
Lawmakers Call for Investigation into Validity of FCC DDoS Attack Claim
Seriously? Still, with all the Early Bird Checkin and stuff?
A few choice websites have definitely colored my view of React (e.g. Airbnb, multi-second delay clicking onto a form text field on current generation Android and iPhone? I hope they see some of the techniques in this article).

It's hard to know if this is due to the way the article is written but it seems like you're sacrificing both developer ergonomics and runtime performance in this situation. I am curious to hear about similar scenarios in competing frameworks like Vue.
http://www.ronunz.org/2014/05/22/does-race-exist-do-hills-ex...
Discogs, Bandcamp, Hardwax and Boomkat have been more than enough for all my music needs with curation from Resident Advisor and Pitchfork. I got the free month to Spotify recently to see if I have any need for it, but I've been mostly playing my own music anyways, so I guess I'll just cancel that subscription.
I disagree that's what they're saying, because of the "it could be possible, though it's very hard" framing. I think they're saying that if you understand how SEPOS works, you can trace data and secrets through it.

(In fact, this is probably a case where the "market value" of the bug greatly exceeds Apple's stated bounty value, because you could probably charge governments a nosebleed per-phone rate to extract secrets from locked phones.)
It's not as if I believe in slavery or Fascism myself, however everything should be examined contextually.

The historical alternative to slavery was mass murder. Dan Carlin will tell you that.

> There is no 'lesser of two evils' when those are involved.

There kind of is. It takes no imagination on my part to come up with dozens of historical examples of Bad, Badder and Worse.
From another comment on reddit:

This is not an "upgrade", and the Bitcoin project has outright rejected it, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support

2x doesn't even have an accurate spec and only release 'candidate' software is released for it, created by basically a single relatively inexperienced developer.

Unfortunately, the S2X developer is going around posting notices of a "bitcoin upgrade" and not making any mention of the serious opposition or the major technical risks.
Maybe. This was a subscription local BBS as opposed to a commercial service like CIS. But the main board wasn't really an underground/hacker/warez demographic. As I recall it was a pretty civilized atmosphere. Also was definitely post-teenager demographic.
I can't recommend reselect enough if you're using redux. Not only does it save time when computing derived data from your reducer state it also isolates your components from the structure of your reducer state. Change the location of some data in your reducer? No problem, just adjust your selector in one place and none of your components need changing.
Covertband: Activity Information Leakage Using Music
Look up the research on how height effects wages. You're still coming out way ahead.
I act as sort of a clearing house / accidental DB admin within my department. The amount of time I have to spend cleaning up people's Excel input data is absurd.
Once you've earned a bit of trust with the approach in the article the above post shows you how effectively to destroy any relationship you've now built.
Why Tech Startups Need to Rethink Cloud Security
Code Warrior
You are right in your fear.

I don't know if you have already linked it yourself, but this is why there has been orchestrated removal/damage of confederate monuments in multiple cities recently. They are trying to taint and delegitimize the original writers of the constitution by associating them with slave ownership/racism, in order to then delegitimize their product, i.e. the constitution and especially the 1st and 2nd amendment rights.
>Are there any "white" Americans who don't assume they have a few percent worth of some second ethnicity in their ancestry?

We're talking about white nationalists, people who base their identity and self-esteem on a belief in their own racial purity. They wouldn't be seeking out these tests to validate something they already know to be untrue, or even suspect could be untrue.
I'd be happy to discuss over a beer. I don't believe there are any hard and fast rules in life, and I've tried to help people more than once in my career (currently I do it in a non-management capacity which is arguably harder). But I think we can agree some situations aren't going to be saved. Good management is knowing how hard to try and when to stop.
Free speech were very popular ideas in France/England/USA in that time period. [1,2] France even had free speech protections before the USA did. [2] The USA's notion of free speech was directly influenced by/spawned from Europian ideals and legislation. [3,4] It is ignorant of history to suggest otherwise.

While they may not have made it into law has solidly as in the USA, free speech ideals were very present and popular ideal in France/England at those time periods.

Europe's "hate speech" laws and censorship of speech/press are from more recent times.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Freedom_of_sp...

[3]: http://constitution.laws.com/declaration-of-the-rights-of-ma...

> Articles 10 and 11 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) were written to address the prohibitive nature of the government in preventing the freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege
Regarding Broadpwn: I wasn't aware of it, but at the same time -- has it actually been exploited, and has it been patched in more recent hardware or OSes? If the upgrade doesn't help mitigate an actual, existing threat then upgrading doesn't solve anything.

To put it another way: if you learn of a very serious exploit like this in the wild and an upgrade is the only way to solve it -- by all means, go ahead and upgrade. I'm not saying you should never upgrade, nor am I saying serious security vulnerabilities cannot pop up. But neither in any way implies you need a periodic 1-2-year hardware/OS refresh. A refresh could be justified in 1 day or in 10 years; it just depends on what the actual threats and mitigations are. Remember what the original discussion was about: it was about whether the periodic refresh is justified.

As for the rest of those (StageFright and other attacks) -- I've addressed them in other comments. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15040745
Concurrency in Swift: One possible approach
I don't have anything to add to this discussion, but I just wanna say that I'm impressed by the bulletin's clarity. I'm used to reading government information that's difficult to parse and dive into. It's easy to fall into a belief that government agencies don't really know what they're doing, and it's just a bunch of monkeys banging at typewriters, but seeing clearly written posts discussing current and relevant events helps to silence those beliefs.

I'm seriously wondering, though... Have there really been that many ICOs? As an outsider the general impression I get (which I recognize might be completely inaccurate) from most coins is that they're "get rich quick" schemes.

A while back I was trying to read up on Ethereum, and despite their nice landing page and superficial info.... Once I tried digging in further into the actual code and actually running any stuff, it was a horribly confusing mess that made me hesitant to put my trust in them. All their docs and wikis seemed full of outdated links and information.
I also have Celiac disease, somewhat less severe than nibstwo, and I also have recurring dreams where I eat something (usually pizza) and midway through realize it is made with wheat dough. This was further compounded when once I ate a package of vegetarian chicken wings (made of wheat gluten) which was mislabeled at the grocery store (gluten free tag on the price label) and next to veggie burgers by the same brand with the same packaging where ARE gluten free and I had eaten before without a problem... I was sick for about a week, couldn't work or think straight. I won't make that mistake twice!

Another funny angle--I also have Type 1 diabetes (diagnosed when I was 9) and for a long time after diagnosis I had dreams about drinking a 64oz soda only to realize it wasn't diet, and panicking since I would probably be in DKA soon after!

Maybe there is some immune system disease/nightmare link that has gone undiscovered :)
That's a very low bar for an essay... at least in terms of length. I'd be surprised if this took long to write which isn't a criticism so much an expression of confusion as to why you called it an essay. It's also a little weird to call it inexcusable they didn't acknowledge Hanlon's Razor because it's hardly a common reference. Even the wikipedia page only gives two instances of Hanlon's razor being used and one of them is an acknowledgement that the general idea is very likely much older than the Jargon File glossary entry.
Upvoted on PH as well - You did a great job mate. Well done on the UI and the concept.
This IS a genetic tax, but I propose to you that even if you are treated unfairly on airlines, that doesn't make up for all the advantages of height over the course of your lifetime.

As someone who is 5 foot 5 inches tall, I receive many benefits, like being able to buy my suits from children's clothing section. But if I was given the opportunity to trade my height for yours, I would pay more for my air travel every day.
> But what am I supposed to do? Saw my ankles off?

I don't see how that would help your femur-length problem.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032360
oh that's what happens with early rigid body simulation, it's float unstable and can create absurd new coordinates .. leading to spikes.
Or you could see it the other way. Just because you are genetically luckier, should you pay less?
Especially on mobile. Every imgur image displays properly on my phone. Every time I click on an i.reddit image, it's 1000px wide so to see the entire thing I have to scroll vertically and horizontally.

I've just stopped clicking on any image links from i.reddit.
I recently cut the cable and installed a digital antenna with a HomeRun for the AppleTV. I wanted to make sure I get football games when the season comes around. I couldn't be happier, the picture is as good as cable. We get around 42 channels, but a few duplicates.

I got Hulu which I'm not overly happy with. Playstation Vue was a lot better.
> I don't have that model...

No. Nobody else does either.
ANS author files counterclaim against Google ANS patent [pdf]
Slippery slopes are alive and well, particularly in this domain. Go back to 2006 or so and tell them that in a decade, bakeries would be getting sued for not catering gay weddings.

It is entirely right and proper to consider the likely future implications of an act before you decide it's a good idea. Even if it feels really good to stick it to $OUTGROUP just this one time.
But if the results are generally unreliable, everything is open to one's own interpretation. In the article, they quote an genealogy expert who says the science is "murky":

>J. Scott Roberts, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, who has studied consumer use of genetic tests and was not involved with the study, said the companies tend to be reliable at identifying genetic variants. Interpreting them in terms of health risk or ancestry, though, is another story. “The science is often murky in those areas and gives ambiguous information,” he said. “They try to give specific percentages from this region, or x percent disease risk, and my sense is that that is an artificially precise estimate.”

I assume you're comfortable with the idea that you're descended from a slave and thus have chosen to override prior evidence to the contrary. But if you weren't comfortable with the idea, you can say the test is flawed and have just as powerful an argument.

Unless 23andMe can show statistical rigor behind their methods, everyone is going to see what they want in the results.
Has this (a) been exploited in the wild, and more importantly, (b) even actually patched in more recent phones?

Otherwise, how is this a justification for upgrading your phone? It seems like you may have forgotten what the argument even was. I was arguing against routine 1-2-year upgrades, not against the entire concept of upgrading for something wiht a serious security vulnerability. If a serious exploit appears in the wild and your only solution is to upgrade -- by all means, go for it. But is that the case here? And this happened periodically every 1-2 years for you to justify upgrading equally often?
I suppose- mostly I'm unsure to what extent "sub-boards for meta issues" makes sense when card data is drawn from an external source, as in our product.
As I said, I admit I might be a bit harsh. I took a slightly bad example of what I had in mind and went ahead and said what I wanted to say.

The bulk of my comment is about the general trend, as well as the coding community.
> Before his arrest, Michael did not have a criminal record. That day, he gained one with a vengeance. For the watch and the wallet, Michael was charged with robbery; for the car, attempted carjacking. Both charges were “enhanced” because of the gun. He was also charged with the two earlier robberies. Four felonies, two from one incident, and all in one week.

The tone here confuses me. Robbing somebody at gunpoint certainly seems felony-worthy.
Check out Real Python (https://realpython.com) for learning Python with web development. Real Python takes an experiential, learning by doing approach.
> Again, if you think that software hasn't advanced much, simply use the software from 10 or 20 years ago, and see if you can stand the experience.

Try 1987 Ventura Publisher. That's 30 years ago. You can publish a whole magazine or a 1000 page book on a modest (<4MB) PC with 286 processor with it. It has a great GUI, excellent usability and, dare to say, isn't slow at all.

On the IDE side, the IDE environments for Lisp on the Lisp machines of the early 80s, or the Smalltalk environment for the early 80s Xerox computers have nothing to envy the modern IDE environments that are commonly used for languages like Java.
Congrats to Steve and the whole team at FL! They've been working on this for a long time, and Steve can really hustle. I'm excited to see what they can do with YC behind them :)

edit: phrasing. apparently 'huslter' has connotations other than 'one who hustles' lol
This is one of the few cases where I'm happy to be a stumpy little 5'6" guy. Airline seats aren't fun for anybody, but the savings on tickets are worth the cramped conditions for me.

I just wish the airports had better chairs for napping during long layovers. The airplane has a fixed amount of space, but what the hell is the terminal's excuse? Even the VIP lounge is still upright chairs. Rent me a freaking hammock.
Being a good tool and have a bad management are orthogonal things.

If wanna take a look for your self you can install Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/, discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14973706) a close clone of Delphi (version 7).

Or download the free edition (modern):

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter/promotio...
> And the deadliest cancers are the ones that grow quickly, quickly enough that early detection is extremely difficult.

If a blood test can detect it, couldn't it be economically feasible to have people do it monthly, with a mailed kit and return envelope? Doesn't seem like much more work than taking vitamins, certainly less than going to the gym.
If the new chain gets, say, 1% of the hashing power, then blocks will be found on average 100 times less often, which extends the time to reaching a new adjustment period from two weeks to 200 weeks...enough to arguably kill it.
>And there are a very large set of domain registrars

Oh, I totally agree, but the prescient is unsettling to me.
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