skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender is amazing. Check out the new Eevee realtime renderer[1] in 2.8 as well! It's astonishing :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAVjwXEjDdo
At work I use wee-slack ( https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack ) a plugin for weechat that uses the slack API (not the IRC gateway.) Images / code snippets / etc. were rendered as an HTTP link. It works pretty well, CPU and memory usage are low, unlike the web interface.
We got enough traction that we could get a seed investment.
Its different for every product so lets talk about the futures market as it is the most transparent and [likely] deepest:

According to the US government there is currently 57 billion EUR in open futures contracts, which is currently 68 billion USD. A new market participant that needs 23% of this current level of liquidity should be able to attract the interest they need without moving the market.

http://www.cftc.gov/dea/futures/financial_lf.htm

Qualified participants are able to negotiate non-standard sized futures contracts, and wouldn't have to worry about broker commissions.

In the futures, the rolling transactions would have to be maintained.

IDK technically it should be near free, but the other banks are pretty greedy so hard to say. Really shouldn't cut into the free-ness of the yield and bond issuance.
Well, I certainly disagree with your rhetorical bait-and-switch here.

checks and balances and enumerated government powers were put in there explicitly to constrain those in government and prevent them from thinking that they could shape the government however they wanted without fundamentally altering the Constitution through new amendments.

I was talking about people, as in the electoral, shaping government to suit the public interest, whether by the passage of laws or by constitutional amendment.

For some reason you switched that out with 'those in government' - whether you mean professional politicians or bureaucrats, this is a completely different thing to what I was talking about.

Treating the government like it's a parent there to fix all problems for the children has led to failed state after failed state as leaders assume more and more power over their people.

You're the one asserting that government is being used that way. I say that the regulatory role of government is entirely valid and constitutional and reject your claim of paternalism. Your argument is tantamount to saying that any kind of legislation is questionable because it undermines the constitutional role of government, which is absurd.

But the left still doesn't seem to grasp the fact that Trump isn't as bad as it can get - assuming he doesn't do something that makes things even worse. Keep increasing the power of government and a future incarnation of Trump will really terrify you.

You don't seem to get that the left understands this perfectly well, and indeed better than you. You seem to imagine that dictatorships result from an excessively powerful government whose levers are suddenly seized by a bad actor and switches to becoming evil overnight. In reality institutions (both formal and informal) are corroded over time, from within. Hitler had been in power almost a decade before the nazi government began to implement the 'final solution.' You may wish to reflect that the Nazis never abrogated the Weimar Constitution but maintained it as a legal figleaf for their totalitarian policies. The US Constitution is similarly capable of exploitation, eg via a3s2.

Your thesis seems to be 'we must keep government weak so that it can never be used to oppress us' but this is absurd on its face. What keeps governments in line is the granting or withholding of the consent of the governed.
I work for the company that built the ice coring drill used on this project. It looks like one of our old models circa 2000 that they've refitted slightly. Seeing this just made my day.
I didn't downvote you—no one, including mods, can downvote direct replies. But if you have concerns about HN quality or moderation you really ought to send them to hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines ask (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Nice!!!!! Congratulations!!!
I had to look the defninition of Non-Cognitive skills. Below is an example.

https://blog.udemy.com/non-cognitive-skills/

Once I understood what they were I realize that I have encountered the behavior in my life anecdotally. Also, I realize the ones that I am deficient in.

EDIT: The study has a definition that I missed when reading it. See tboyd47's comment below.
I'm not saying money makes the process easier, but saying you can achieve most benefits of a post-graduate education while being gainfully employed.
Slightly unrelated, but it would be great if the main shop could have an API.

Tesco has this, with support through IFTTT https://ifttt.com/search/query/tesco

My use case is most often in the kitchen, hands covered in flour and realise I'm running out of product X. At the moment I bark at my Echo to add something to its internal "shopping list" feature, but I'd rather those commands hooked directly up to Ocado!
The article indicates that the "free" stuff on the internet was hidden away in weird places - ftp servers and the like. No google to find it for you, the only way was by word of mouth, or I guess via published book.

Answers a question I always had about "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. The main character, Hiro Protagonist (I still giggle at that name), sometimes did work as a kind of data wrangler - "gathering intel and selling it to the CIC, the for-profit organization that evolved from the CIA's merger with the Library of Congress" (Wikipedia).

I always wondered what made that feasible as a sort of profit model, and I guess now I know - that was the state of the internet in 1992, when the book was published. Seems like a way cooler time period for Cyberpunk stuff, I'm almost sad I missed it :(
This seems to share some ideas with ometa[1], but perhaps arriving at those ideas from another angle?

[1] http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/

https://github.com/alexwarth/ometa-js

See also ohm:

https://github.com/harc/ohm
But how do they know it's not based on just a few bright stars? Milky way is pretty hard to see with our large human eyes. Insect eyes are good for panoramic views, but much less efficient at low light acuity.
what a ludicrous idea. libraries lose thousands of books each year to theft and vandalism. what would happen to all those bundles of cash?

just keep the money in banks. that's what they do.
Remind me again. Why did we stop doing World Fairs?
Three months is aggressive and not standard. This is a red flag in my book. To me it means that very ugly situations come up in the company, and they feel the need to lessen your ability to respond appropriately to them.

There is no good reason for them not giving you the offer they promised you. This is the first of many times this company is likely to take advantage of you. At this point I'd consider walking away even if they did manage to correct the offer.
Pretty cool. Learning more about cars is something I need to definitely brush up on, especially when it comes to things under the hood.
If you can't or won't stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN we're going to end up banning you, so please stop.
I'd be more worried about the content becoming even more extreme.
I’ve been working with a US based ad agency recently, who asked about some features a bit like this.

I’ve had to educate them on this idea with the fact that if you give the internet a ‘pen’, sooner rather than later, they’ll draw a cartoon penis.
I'd prefer them to interact with the rest of society, you'd hope that the need to engage with normal people would provide some moderation.

Either let them be or put them out of operation with the force of the law, but covering a problem issue with a blanket and pretending the problem is gone never worked.
SV / SF is no place for a family. Most of it is high crime and quite seedy. You'll pay significantly more for housing. Only the 80% of SF which is rent controlled is affordable (as an outsider, you'll never get this). At market rate, For 6K/month you might be able to rent a tiny 2 bedroom apartment with no parking. You'll never be able to save up for a condo and you can forget about a house. Most of us, are trying to get out of SV/SF. I wouldn't recommend you come here unless you'r facing homelessness or absolute destitute.

If you do come, I recommend, you ask for 170K minimum. Even then, you should make plans to leave within a few years.
While this group is heinous, I can see this happening to a legit organization one day. This will be interesting to watch what happens when the web becomes closed.
Most gyms provide childcare for a fee. If they can do it then I'm sure movie theaters can figure it out.
I do and I test my personal website on lynx. Doesn't change the fact that sites like this are under the misguided impression that it's cheaper to ship 2 MB of JavaScript with each request rather than just responding with the fucking 2 KB of article text so they end up looking like:

# I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked - Motherboard
#motherboard

Quantcast

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Pre-industrial societies used hydro, wind, solar, animal, and chemical power (wood etc) making the direct energy comparison moot.
I don't think you can really conflate capitalism with philanthropy like that. They're just... different things.

"Capitalism at it's best" isn't people giving away money... it's people being competitively compensated for their contributions to society-- the ability to take risks and reap the rewards.

Of course then you can argue that tax is a way to enforce a minimal amount of philanthropy onto people, forcing them to contribute to the greater good whether they want to or not... but people who seem to be very vocally in favour of pure capitalism also seem to be very vocally against high taxes.
The content is already beyond the pale of civilisation.
I think for Carnegie it was more of a philosophical point. His belief (if I remember correctly) was that the idea of a birthright was fallacious and possibly counter-productive. Rather than pass his holdings down to his descendants, he believed that we all have an ethical prerogative to use what we've earned in our life to benefit society at large.
It's not like they're moving to a completely closed invite only community so LE can still pretty easily monitor activity on the site if need be.
ah, ok - don't think I tried USB. Guess the radio of the car then takes control and tries to use the phone as an external drive, overriding the native music app.
To be fair, the primary reason that my wife and I don't use Allo is because it was never available on the web.

EDIT: And now after signing in, I realized that what I /really/ need is a desktop app...
I'd say that depends on the church (lower-case "c") and its affiliations. That particularly wealthy religious organizations exist in Rome and Salt Lake City (for instance) doesn't mean a typical small-town church can't struggle to pay its bills.
> That's not what happened here, there has been no ruling on any agreement, and the injunction order that was given only applies to HiQ, only temporarily, and nobody else.

I didn't say it was.

> It is not a statement on the validity of EULAs or of LinkedIn's EULA, and it is not a statement on whether LinkedIn is being anti-competetive. It is an injunction and nothing else.

An injunction is not given without merit. It has meaning.

Injunctions are regularly denied when the arguments are clearly in one direction or another.

The injunction strongly suggests that the judge finds hiQ's argument, that LinkedIn's public pages are not bound by the EULA, to "not be without merit".

No precedent has been set, but the conversation is definitively in the opening stages.
Here is what happens when I connect my iPhone to the USB in my Honda Odyssey, which has a specific iPod input on the menu (as opposed to a generic USB input device). As soon as I plug it in and select iPhone on the car audio, it starts playing "About a Girl (Nirvana)". I usually want to go to youtube to find a song for the kids, but have to sit through 10 seconds of the song EVERY TIME I PLUG IN THE PHONE. The upside is that my kids have learned to like Nirvana; also, my wife's phone has some spanish language kids music as the first item in the playlist, so it could be worse. But, I'd rather not have the phone decide "you have connected to car audio, PLAY MUSIC TIME HAS ARRIVED!"

This doesn't happen with bluetooth, and rarely (???) with headphones.
MoviePass Campaign Lets You Go to the Movies All You Want for $10
I can't really say I'm surprised about this. If your income depends on the corporate policy of a 3rd party you don't have any contractual business relationship with then you have to be able to take the hit if/when they pull the rug out from under you.
I've always considered the main reason we don't have a larger home grown drug problem is the same reason high-end crime is relatively rare: you're selecting a technically capable subset that our society already rewards fairly well.

Such is the setup of Breaking Bad: were Walter White not terminal, would he still take the risk?
I really don't like standing up for Nazis.

I don't think I'm okay with this. I'm okay with them telling them to get a new registrar in short order. I'm not okay with a private company revoking a domain name and, if I understand correctly, not allowing it to be registered elsewhere.

I really don't like Nazis, but if I can't stand up for the reprehensible then how can I stand for the good people? Surely, there must be a more reasonable solution than allowing it to be done by a private company, without representation, without process, and without appeal?

Yes, their speech is horrible. Yes, they suck. I mean, they are Nazis. That's pretty much the definition of the worst people you can find. However, much like I believe they deserve rights, I believe they deserve due process.

I'm not okay with this. However, I'm willing to consider alternative views. Yeah, they are crappy people who do crappy things. Still, they appear to have been deprived of property and due process,

To be clear, I'm okay with the registrars saying go find another registrar. Revoking it seems like a huge step beyond the line. Doesn't ICANN have a process for this? Isn't there a legal way, with due process, for this?

Damn it... I really don't like defending Nazis but I have no reason to believe it will stop there.

Edit: It looks like they can get their domain name back, in 60 days. So, it may not be permanent, but I'm still not okay with this. I can't be okay with it, without due process and a process for appeal.
It's already gone up a petabyte.
I sincerely doubt much of "the rest of society" has accounts on the daily stormer, it's the online equivalent of going to a Klan meeting. Sure you can do it, but most normal people have better things to do with their time.

Edit: No one's covering up the problem, people are just refusing to listen to or help them. This is the other side of free speech at work.
The missus uses Ocado, they really have their shit together in the UK on the logistics side (a field I work in but not groceries), the deliveries are on time, the process is slick and professional and the drivers are polite and helpful.

She swears by them, I mostly swear at the bill.
Ford v10 would have about the same amount of stuff per cylinder but 2.5x as many cylinders.

SOHC I4 from a "manual everything" economy car with 1st gen EFI would probably be about the lowest part count without getting into flathead territory.
"Please explain."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15020232 , up or down thread a bit.
Bezos solicited public feedback on Twitter for causes he should support.
It's a weird paper. It's quite long and takes an eternity to reach this simple point. It's also littered with "security concerns" which are confusing at best and misleading at worst; in reality, none of the generators it discusses are suitable for "sensitive applications", even in the corner-case scenario it discusses of needing permutations of all the b-bit integers, a problem we already have cryptographic tools to solve.

But I'll confess to not really understanding what all the fuss is about insecure generators.
Alex, beautiful work. What kind equipment does one need to do stop-motion pictures? How did you learn about the process?
"WWW.MICROSOFT.COM is running Microsoft's Windows NT Server 3.5 and EMWAC's HTTPS"

EMWAC supported TLS 1.2 already back then. Amazing!
When product liability lawsuits start flying, every point the product touches along its route to the consumer gets named. The ones with deep pockets especially.

As big as amazon is, this could have been noticeable exposure, especially if they are partially self-insured and/or have other risk-sharing provisions in place.

Think: class-action lawsuit on an order of magnitude approaching asbestos.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but Amazon is wise to avoid total reliance on their position as facilitating a marketplace as opposed to being the seller. I don't think too many courts would toss a lawsuit over a newly vision-impaired 12 year old just because Amazon only got a cut of the sale as opposed to was the seller -- TOS provisions be damned.
I know i should know this, but i dont really.

"Dark web" - can somebody give me a compare & contrast example, say with a house (rooms, driveway, address???) as the example.

In the "regular house i ...." in the "dark house i...."
Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits following FTC charges
I think I only had one recommendation from my work manager. Perhaps the number of recs has changed (I applied in 2014) but as the acceptance criteria say, current supervisors should be perfectly acceptable.
I work on a SOA team at a large healthcare enterprise. We currently write mostly SOAP APIs (yeah, I know, 2017 and all that...), and follow a typical pattern as what Stripe describes: Whenever we do a version bump (which is extremely frequent, since a WSDL breaks a contract the moment you sneeze at it), we create an XSLT transform from the new version back to the old. So if you're calling version 2, but the current version is 10, there will be transforms back for 10->9, 9->8, 8->7... all the way back to 2. It works well enough.

We're in the early stages of deploying a new RESTful stack, and versioning is a hot topic (along with getting people out of the RPC mindset and into a resource-based paradigm). While version bumps should be much less common, we'll probably end up doing something similar to our cascading transformations. Essentially, the old version becomes a consumer of the new version, and as long as the new version continues to hold to its API contract, everything should work with minimal fuss. Of course, that's assuming that we don't change the behavior of a service in ways that aren't explicitly defined in the API contract...
Thanks for this. I was wondering the same thing. Terrible term, for sure.
I installed it today out of curiosity - 15 contacts had it installed, and google play reports over 10 milion downloads - so someone must be using it.

That being said - i was perfectly fine with hangouts and hate fragmentation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15017872
From a layman's point of view, I have always wondered why hackers rather create tools to hack normal citizen rather than go for those guys. I understand it is often about the money involved... But maybe they do and we don't hear about it ?
Anonymous is a weird group, sometimes you think they are acting for the good of humanity hunting down criminals, sometimes you hear them push a political agenda that is frankly debatable and arbitrary. Going after neo-nazis and promoters of hate is on the other hand an indisputably good cause...
Hadoop (and hence HDFS) is a stack of services designed to work together to serve a file system and manage jobs. The hadoop stack has a pluggable authentication/authorization by design. And yes, the default is "no security".

Given the distributed nature, HDFS runs on multiple machines. In linux distributed service security fits well with kerberos. Normally if you want a "secure" HDFS you must "kerberize" the services such that any hadoop operation requires a valid/authorized TGT.

To most people kerberizing a hadoop cluster is a major barrier to getting hadoop running. I dont see this changing but certain vendor hadoop distros break down some of the barriers.

Sometimes it is OK if you run a cluster insecure. Please dont do it if youre handling my financial or medical records though. As Mr.T once said 'dont write checks that yo ass cant cash'
PKI based identity on a blockchain
Is it richer and deeper now?

Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the "inter" (different) "net" (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook.

When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it's basically Wikipedia at the top, with results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.
To be honest though, notice period is not really something that can be enforced. Your contract might say 3 months but if you get annoyed you can just leave office one day and not come back. I don't think there's anything a company can do if you just walk away.
Hooray for Bill. When I was young the joke was how he was a crazy man trying to monopolize/take over the world. Seems ironically he may be the single man who has given the most to the world.

Hopefully other billionaires can take inspiration from him and recognize that helping the species is a more fulfilling game than "How many 0s in my net worth."
That must've been extremely long ago, yeah. I remember that Postgres always only allowed local connections by default.
What does your wife do for the non profit? Is it something transferable to the corporate world where the pay would be a lot better? Or is one of your goals for her to be a stay at home mom?
Throwing flamebait into a flamewar will get you banned here, so please stop posting like this to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009988 and marked it off-topic.
I'm enjoying "Home Comforts".

It's a scientific look at cleaning your house, it's great :-)
Perhaps I am just risk averse, but this sounds enormously financially irresponsible. This man literally shoved all in on with a vendor he neither understood nor had a previous relationship with. I don't think you should be risking making rent for this type of thing.
How do you go about evaluating the accuracy of the themes and action items? Do you create a test set with obvious themes and actions and check the results for example?
The Snopes Fight Is Even Way More Complicated Than We Originally Explained