skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who choose to contribute under their real names or easily cross-referencible pseudonyms are taking a calculated risk. People who participate in political structures like the TSC -- which despite its name is a political, not a technical effort -- incur risks that are intrinsic to being in a high-profile leadership role.

"Cold hard code" contributions are an option available to anyone who feels comfortable with donating their labor under an opaque pseudonym. It's a good way to proactively shield oneself from disputes of this nature. It's a natural continuation of the quip "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" -- except if you tell everyone you're a dog. Plenty of people contribute to collaborative projects solely on the merit of their contributions, even as many projects have come to follow the trend of considering other factors as well [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14539465
> He is opposed by his own party,

He is opposed by a significant fraction of the other elected officials in his party in some issues, but he's also carrying out a campaign to bring he party to heel (and has not been especially constrained in taking extraordinary executive actions by the intraparty opposition, though that has limited his legislative success.) While his public support is weak overall, it's mostly concentrated in the committed electoral base of the party. So he's actually positioned better than one might expect for the intraparty struggle. If he remains in office through the midterms, I wouldn't be surprised to see him in relatively undisputed control of the party after them.

> Ghandi didn't wear a mask, Malcom X didn't wear a mask, the kids at Kent State that were shot by the police didn't wear masks

Another thing that all those people have in common is being shot for their activism.
Lucky(?) for you Mexicans and Canadians are not eligible for the diversity lottery :)
Not just that - but the first total solar eclipse where everyone in all of the Americas would be able to see it in a century!
> Trump doesn't reign, he barely has control of the executive branch of government over which he has direct authority. He is opposed by his own party, congress, and big business. There is no collusion of power behind Trump like there is behind Putin. They are both seen as strong men but only one is really a strong man.

Yes, because in Russia it is history, you can study it and learn how nazi and antifa theme was used to attack free speech. That is what Trump is doing now by all means (fake news etc.). The result in Russia was anti-extremist law [1], see SOVA reports, they monitor it: http://www.sova-center.ru/en/misuse/
This year it was even used to take to court a child [2] because someone (likely a policeman in fact, account was fake and action was taken this same day) posted emoticon with swastika on his page (the guy has a pro-libertarian YouTube blog).

> A mask indicates you are there to do harm.

It indicates they fear being identified by nazis and/or government.

[1] https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/anti-extremism-poli...

[2] https://tjournal.ru/57191-kurganskogo-shkolnika-obvinili-v-e...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/32815525/wig...
Many credit card companies are headquartered in Delaware because that state doesn't place any limits on interest rates for credit facilities, iirc. States don't always negotiate well and may opt to enrich themselves at the expense of consumers in other states. This is a problem with letting the market dictate solutions; more often than not, things will tend towards a lowest-common denominator, and the financial incentives for firms, consumers, and states are often perversely aligned.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clairetsosie/2017/04/14/why-so-...
There's a big difference between a few rednecks illegally modifying their personal vehicles and a company selling millions of vehicles that fail emissions standards and trying to cover it up.
I've seen a few companies use HackerRank for this. They provide a few problems, one or two test cases, and then run your code against other provided test cases that you don't see.
Once somebody has decided someone else's guilt, all following stimuli is interpreted through the lens of confirmation bias by default—and it takes an uncommonly truth-seeking mind to see past it. No matter how "heartfelt" or "thoughtful" a written or verbal apology is, it won't change any minds that've already been made up.

This has been happening more and more recently, both online and in geopolitics.
Ask HN: Any good resources for creating a blockchain?
I'm interested in learning about how blockchains work. I see there is alot of information on cryptocurrencies but I know there are other applications for blockchain. Have you found any good resources? Some kind of how-to or tutorial would be awesome!
Thanks! I'll share this comment with our designer :)

Our business model will be similar to that of BuiltWith's, i.e selling list of websites using a particular technology. For eg., list of websites using Drift chat (https://www.whatruns.com/technology/drift) will be a super-useful competitive intelligence for other live-chat start-ups.

Also, we are planning to introduce a predictive sales system which will suggest clients based on their technology adoption. For eg., if a company migrates to Magento, they are a potential client to Magento extension developers.
Add to that in Sweden you also have:

* Long (1+ years) state funded parental leave.
* Childcare at a negligible cost.
* Free education all the way through University.
Yes there is a paucity of articles on the benefits of climate change. Is it because of conspiracy or because the effects are overwhelmingly bad?

Overwhelmingly physics grads enter grad school believing that the Earth revolves around the sun. There's a lack of articles in physics journals to the contrary. There's a lack of skeptical literature.

The lack of articles touting the benefits of climate change do not indicate there is a conspiracy nor should one think that there should be such articles in any but a small amount. This is especially so given the political climate in the U.S. where people are skeptical of climate science.
> In some cases you might even be required to report such illegal requests to some authority.

That's absurdly naive of the laws. At this level of management and up, these requests are not passed along in a traceable, litigable form, unless you have spectacularly unaware executives performing the demands. Look how far out of hand it had to get at Wells Fargo before there was action, and how long it took at VW before there was any sort of action.

Also, anyone with mediocre Internet searching skills can see the egregiously poor track record of whistleblowers' treatment everywhere. Unless you already are set up with your FU money, you'll die of starvation before seeing any justice in most cases.

Legislators and prosecutors need lessons in how these policies are enacted and implemented in the real world to actually catch this form of malfeasance. They need to catch the equivalent of Frank Abagnale who performs these kinds of misdeeds, gets caught, and teaches law enforcement and legislators how to actually nab others like him. Until then, they're just blind pigs accidentally stumbling upon truffles while going to take a piss.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale
Who is the "us" that needs to make hard choices? Those that are seriously impacted by climate change and those that stand to benefit from the status quo are very disjoint sets, and the latter have shown quite an aptitude for persuading the former not to worry about it. The time for making those hard choices is quickly passing by without any significant motion. It's not time to give up yet but it's also not a good idea to just assume people are going to come around on this.
> you saying all these stabbings, shootings, driving of vehicles into the crowd, gang rapes etc etc are made up by the press?

A lot of them are, especially these days when you can have nameless blogs pushing crap into facebook. Statistics are bent or misread, tales exaggerated, and then the correction is printed two weeks later on page 31 on a single line in size 7. The actual statistical risk of immigrants committing crimes is much lower than average - don't take it from me, ask people who study this stuff: https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-sa...

Of course actual terror attacks are another story, but those would likely happen anyway - you only need a tourist visa to do anything from 9/11 hijacks to renting a van.

And going back to Sacco and Vanzetti, if you think the contribution the Italian-American community made to the US over 150 years are not worth an (alleged) murder or two, I honestly think the only way of life that would satisfy you is closer to an Amish lifestyle than anything vaguely modern.
PSD is an industry standard.
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Given how many people in the western world are pre-diabetic due to diet and lifestyle, maybe curing that would be a miraculous result in and of itself.

I mean, it wouldn't directly help those of us who aren't on that path, but in terms of general societal health and average lifespan, it still seems pretty great. I like it when people don't die. It could potentially save all of us some money, too.
Anyone else going insane from trying to scroll on that website
Dr. Ward Dean is a huge supporter of taking Metformin and it fits his Neuroendocrine Theory of Aging [1] [2]. You can watch a short video about it here [3].

[1]: http://warddeanmd.com/articles/neuroendocrine-theory-of-agin...

[2]: http://warddeanmd.com/articles/neuroendocrine-theory-of-agin...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bdoiHdhjbM
In effect, it did happen. A number of American citizens were prosecuted and convicted under the Federalist-supported Sedition Act of 1798, which included the following:

"And be it farther enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the constitution of the United States, or to resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years."

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=16&page...
Irrc, in one of the articles posted about Metformin on HN a couple weeks ago, they discussed how diabetes patients on Metformin were living longer and had less cancer than people with diabetes who were on other diabetes medications. That does seem to counteract the effect you were suggesting.
We totally understand your point. We started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects. Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well!
I was also very curious how they managed to get my '09 "fixed" somehow via a simple software patch. I would have understood it if it had lost 20% performance or got 20% higher fuel consumption - but that didn't happen.

So: if it was that easy to fix legally why did they cheat in the first place??

Of course it can't be that easy. So of course my car is still polluting over the limit. And I think this is a story that isn't getting the coverage it needs. A proper fix for my car would have been to install an AdBlue system into it, at great cost. Had they been forced to do that - or buy back the car - they would be in serious financial trouble.

That also answers why the German government is giving them some leeway here: it's not exactly in their interest to kill Volkswagen.
What about management that ordered or approved this in the first place?
Linux/Ruby systems used openssh sftp. Windows Server/SQL Server used some POS SQL Server SSIS sftp plugin.
This is definitely a good experiment to see if a project that is so centered around its CoC will prosper or wither on the vine.

My bet is on cold hard code, but who knows? Time will tell.
I believe the last big improvement in power consumption was (at least for Intel) was the 5th generation Haswell chips. What they have been doing is cutting back support on older chips (2nd and 3rd generation specifically).
I think it's really a good idea to start looking for a job before you need to.

I've actually never looked for a job per-se, instead I've looked for companies that I've found interesting and then figured out how to get a job at those companies. This usually involves networking.

I would start by creating a list of companies that you think wow that would be a cool place to work. Then start figuring out if a job opened up who you need to speak with.

I've never landed a job by submitting a resume to a job board or to the HR department of the hiring company.

In fact, I already had an offer from my last job before HR even saw my resume.
I always wondered why is this and I think it's just a habit and somebody do it because everybody else is doing it.
Love that there are many events in LA! See you there :)
The USA is the only country with America in it's name as far as I'm aware.
Amount of sunlight is not the limiting factor on plant growth in most places. In fact, it's often the opposite - plants shut down respiration during midday to limit water loss because it's too hot.
Here's the background:

https://thenewstack.io/node-js-forked-complaints-repeated-ha...
Those are hardware mechanisms backed by software that tells the hardware mechanisms what to do. You have a lot of trust in them!

I recently discovered that my Windows machine wouldn't boot because my boot sector had been replaced with some random XML. That's exactly the sort of thing that hardware protection is supposed to prevent - nothing during a normal run of the OS should be writing to the boot sector, at all.

Do you restart your OS when it oopses and kills a process? Linux in fact catches bad memory accesses from kernelspace and attempts to just kill the current process and not the whole kernel.
Deeper Than Deep
Yeah will take a look into it.

Minestrone is good too.
Very nice, two straw men in the same comment!
What should an immigrant employee know about 401k and stock options in their startup? Is it worth their time investing in these?
Another very good book is "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Anders Ericsson. I'm in the middle of reading it now. As I suspected (since he mentions studies on chess masters), he's part of this article, and in fact he's the author of 2 of the 5 "More to Explore" sources listed at the end of the article.
Wait, anarchy is not the opposite of disorder, it's the opposite of authoritarianism.
As mentioned in my previous comments, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better) than our counterparts like Wappalyzer:

1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them).

2. Ability to follow sites (and know what techs websites started using/ditched).

3. Very lightweight compared to our counterparts, and arguably better UI ;)

4. More accurate data. BuiltWith can be very inaccurate as you might've already noticed. Wappalyzer is fairly accurate, but limited in technologies. WhatRuns is trying to be the best of both worlds.
And they are deeply respected...

Just saying Antifa would get a lot more support if they changed their look. People in black masks busting up Starbucks are not who anyone wants in charge. They just do Trump a favor.
Lots of real people aren't robots, and are concerned with other feature software the environment in which they choose to spend time to make a product than just the resulting output. And those people are going to choose environments based on the features of concern.
One option would be to work with Ethereum. You can boot up your own instance of it and write your own applications that run in it.
Oooh. Great question.

I'd vote for Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
heyy how about something helpful?
No falling edge clocks? Good luck writing a proper SPI peripheral.
Ah yes, that is possible. Simply export your existing Chrome bookmarks as HTML. How it can be done is described here:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816

On link.fish you can then import them by clicking on the three orange dots right of the collection name. In the appearing menu choose the option "Upload Bookmark File".
It will probably take a while depending on how many bookmarks you have because it has to visit each page. But after it is done you will receive an email.
Not sure this is entirely true. RFC 3848 (http://www.rfc-base.org/txt/rfc-3834.txt) covers the implementation detail, and a lot of consideration was given to the prevention of email loops.

Section 4 states that auto-responders should send the response to the email address given by the Return-Path header (usually set to a VERP address for identification of bounces) or if absent then fall back to the email address given in the From header.
Does the love of death make one more left-wing?

https://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-...

http://www.scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/
As others stated the negative consequences most likely outweigh the benefits (by far). Just for those who want to enter their weekend joyfully here is a list of possible positive outcomes:

* Siberia and Alaska become huge new areas for plantations.
* Siberia and Alaska become habitable, wonderful nature reserves with Mammoths roaming about.
* Due to rising CO2 levels plants grow faster and bigger
* Due to rising temperatures the earth gets much wetter[0]
* If you are lucky you might even witness the re-greening of the Sahara (not predicted by most simulations though?)
* improved access to minerals on the ocean bed
* increased fishing near Arctic
* ice-free shipping lanes.

To limit your euphoria: the situation is much more dire for the Oceans. Also the system gets more chaotic with consequences spelled out and unforeseen.

[0] A parcel of air that is near saturation may contain 28 grams of water per cubic meter of air at 30 °C, but only 8 grams of water per cubic meter of air at 8 °C.
I agree, these days a Core 2 Duo or a Core 2 Quad is getting long in the tooth. Sandy Lake and beyond are still decent performing chips.

Edit: I guess I was ahead of the curve, because my Core 2 Duo box had 2 Gbs of ram out of the box (upgraded to 4 GBs of ram later, requiring me to reinstall windows to a 64 bit edition, and then swapping the chip for a Core 2 Quad).
You have to get behind someone to stab him in the back (I'm confident that you are not that kind of person).
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The original sin.
Every idea for geoengineering as a solution to climate change is insane. They're either nonsense, like solar chimneys, or they're like this one: way worse than the problem currently is, and WAY worse than not emitting CO2 would be. Take atmospheric sulfate aerosols[1], which I often see touted as the solution, usually by conspiracy theorists. The kind of people who think "big green energy" is money play, and this simple solution is being hidden for some grand reason.

"Atmospheric sulfate aerosols" means spraying sulfuric acid into the air. It's all the joy of this solution with the added bonus of primarily blocking visible light, destroying the ozone layer, and scattering light so that solar panels and plant life don't work as well. Oh yeah, and SPRAYING ACID INTO THE AIR. Intentional acid rain, forever. It's an incredibly foolish, destructive idea that people with zero drive to do basic research support vocally.

The cheapest, easiest and safest way to fight climate change is to stop emitting CO2. It would be so incredibly easy to stop 80% of anthropogenic emissions. These geoengineering plans are worse in every way.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfur_aerosols
> the forkers have a somewhat reasonable argument, in that Vagg did violate the Code of Conduct

Vagg seems to have a somewhat reasonable argument as well, in that he cannot correct behavior that has not been noted as problematic by himself or others.

If that's true, even though committee members ended up leaving for the fork, I could see their behavior as extreme enough to drive away people who try to contribute to the fork.

Edit: I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Either case seems possible to me given the dearth of objective information. That I'm collecting upvotes while you are getting downvotes is odd, and IMO unwarranted.
Startup packages vary a lot depending on the tier of the university (I have seen $300K to $1M at research universities). I imagine the housing subsidy is due to the high price of real estate in Shanghai. Some US universities offer favorable loan terms to faculty in places like UCSB, so perhaps not that strange...
Passing around functions is great, but it's easier to read and reason about when the functions have names. I see a lot of complex/nested anonymous functions in JavaScript code, even with promises.
I don't consider the Facebook logo itself to embody a level of unique creative expression sufficient to qualify as an artwork. Obviously, if contested, that decision could be overruled by a judge, but I like my chances there.

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I understand your concern, but as I mentioned in my previous comments, we started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects.

Also, our counterparts got a majority of their traction from browser extensions which made it our obvious priority (even though it wasn't the easiest of options).

Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well!
You're comparing industry-wide fraud with an illegal practice that individual citizens do? I'd wager that there are easily 100,000 trucks on the road in the US for every one that can "roll coal".
TLDR: core contributor displeases blue-haired SF nobodies, who fail to evict him from the project.

They proceed to throw a temper-tantrum and create a useless fork which so far has done nothing but bike-shedding.
What do you like about them?
Antifa are not neo-commies and not all commies are bolsheviks.
If there was a TLDR, would you believe it? What if there are two TLDRs that say completely opposite things?

I don't follow Node, but I've seen the Bitcoin community get to a place where understanding the politics alone could be a full-time job. It's pretty sad.
> I wouldn't recommend Icarus Verilog, it's not a very good simulator.

Haven't really used it much myself but fair enough :) I suspect many people on HN would be more comfortable with free opensource tools. Which is why I mention it.

The majority of the EDA world is proprietary software and huge licensing fees, free limited versions available for home/educational use if you're lucky. A bit of a culture shock for someone used to the software world!