skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kinda like me saying how to comfort a child is not part of the C++ standard, and you replying someone used an app written with it to comfort their child when they had to work overseas. Nothing in the C++ standard says they couldn't also have used it to send them hateful messages, or a drone. That's the point.
Apparently according to Wikipedia the term is used in both contexts: to specifically refer to the toy, and more generally as another term for potato cannons.
We changed the url from https://qz.com/1064061/house-flippers-triggered-the-us-housi... to the original source. Hopefully this will make for a more substantive, less sensationalized discussion.
There's a strange theory that banks and brokers had to be forced to reluctantly write bad loans, when in fact they were desperate to write more once they had a way to dump the risk on clueless speculators.
> as novice bicyclists can have difficulty maintaining 25mph

That's 40 km/h. Are you trolling or is that a typo?

I've been bicycling nearly daily for >45 years and I've never gone that fast.
I think he was referring to the bit of the article where it said bicycles were "haphazardly along streets and public squares, snarling traffic and cluttering sidewalks" rather than bikes being ridden.
I don't understand the hate that's being directed at this article. This author isn't the person basically said, "LOL. I'll string together some python in an afternoon and do it." This author tried to replicate the "How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code" article, and unsurprisingly came to the conclusion, "No, he didn't."
> sling Java­Script for their local bank

That's a scary phrase.

And I think why it's scary is also why "coding" isn't going to be a "blue-collar" job...

There's a serious disconnect between what building modern software is and what the author thinks "coding" is.
As oliveshell said, it is essential. But also the electrolyte balance seems to be more important than simply the amount of sodium.

It may even be that most of the purported negative effects of a high sodium diet are caused by this.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/sodium/...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/sodiumpotassium-...
Amazon major accounts breach
Multiple Amazon account has been hacked.

I received an email with title: "Updated Language Settings" from auto-confirm@amazon.de:

You have successfully changed your default language for browsing, shopping and receiving communications from Amazon.de to "English".

Follow by second Email:

Thanks for visiting Amazon.de! Per your request, we have changed the e-mail address associated with your account

The e-mail address associated with your account has been changed. The old address was my_email_address@gmail.com. The new address is aefjlkse@mail.ru.

Checked on Twitter and Reddit, seems it happened April 2017, and people start reporting this issue once again on Sep 1, 2017.

The amazon account associated with the email is no longer able to access through amazon.com.

https://twitter.com/search?q=amazon%20account%20hacked

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/6xom2j/amazon_account_hacked/
This seems to strongly support Milton Friedman's basic income (along with sane interest rates). BI provides the boost, while sane interest rates reduces the drag.

So the question left is how do you communicate this to the public.
Digital carpentry. I've been saying it for decades now.
Two things I'm hopeful for: project treble which has seen extensive discission on hn and the steady progress in finding the balance that places more restrictions on background apps.

Personally, I'd like for no app to be able to run at boot or run in background or go online without explicit (revocable) user permission. I agree with you. I am not very optimistic about it.
Superbug in China
N-Korea, N-Test
But New America isn't a news agency. It's a public policy think tank. So it isn't at all unethical for Google to stop funding a think tank if it disagrees with it's research.
> "coding" isn't going to be a "blue-collar" job

It already is. Sure, the higher levels incorporate architecture, engineering, mathematics, etc. But 90% of people in this world who need a coder don't need that. They need someone to build something solid that works. They want an events calendar for Wordpress, a sign-up sheet, a simple 2D game, etc.
North Korea: Tremor detected in sign of possible nuclear test
It seems to me that govt agencies could still pay contractors to build these things, just with the requirement to make them openly available as part of the contract.

If others step in to offer support contracts as well, great! Competitive environments for that would probably be good.
I have no idea where his experience comes from. I've mentioned this on HN before, but my 5 year old Galaxy S3 has only gotten faster since launch and the battery lasts longer; with its current 7000mAh extended battery lasting 10-15 days without needing to recharge, and no that's not a typo.

I swapped the Samsung ROM to CyanogenMod (now LineageOS) shortly after release; inmediately gaining some speed from the process and noticeably improving with each major Android version bump.
How seismologists are tracking North Korea's nuclear weapons tests
> Economics is not a science.

Yes it is. Economics is a social science, like psychology and archaeology. The empirical precision of physics and chemistry are not required for a discipline to be scientific; standards of rigor and reproducibility in methodology are. Moreover there is a significant amount of rigor in much of economics, despite widespread memes that the entire discipline is wanton fluff.

That aside, we encounter flaws and unresolved problems in many theories in every scientific field of study. A coherent argument can be posited that denying the supremacy of capitalism as a broad, categorical model is analogous to denying that the Earth is round. I don't necessarily endorse this view, but there is enough evidence to construct a sane backing for that position. It's not absurd, even if it's not absolutely correct. We need not understand everything about gravity or resolve all issues pertinent to its existence to more or less agree on the main points. Similarly, for specific definitions of social stability, productivity and happiness, capitalism is demonstably superlative given the implementation track record.
Also reported by the BBC, no paywall:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41139445
Wow, The Game I had totally forgotten about. Along with the 4 Hour Work Week, those are two books that gave me totally new measuring devices for success and attractiveness when I was in my early 20s. 4HWW redefined 'elite' as young entrepreneurial globe trotters (location freedom), and was probably the main igniter of the digital nomad movement, while The Game redefined attractiveness (for men) as a predominantly behavioral thing - boldness, non neediness, confidence etc. - not a wealth, credentials, or even primarily physical attributes thing (and pretty much ruined going out to bars for half a decade). Agree or disagree, those books really, really impacted thinking for millennials.
Why is it scary? Coding is a skilled trade like any other.
It's not terribly hard for a fit male to maintain 40km/h for a while on a nice racing bike. But I think 25km/h is a more reasonable top speed. It's also the speed where electric bicycles stop supporting the driver, at least here in Germany.
Learnwebcode is good
That chart shows cost per watt for a 100 MW utility scale project. Smaller projects like this one tend to have higher costs per watt even if they're also in the multi-megawatt "utility scale" class.
Wikimedia 2017 Monuments Photo Competition
Indeed.

How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code

The thesis is that the author created the equivalent of the multi-million dollar project.

"Replicated", not "imitated", "prototyped", "created a POC", etc.

Titles bring clicks; titles bring scrutiny. Live by the sword, and die by the sword.
yea, good point. There's some misunderstanding about the issue - OSS in gov't could mean both adopting pre-existing OSS rather than contracting for bespoke software, and also to open source new/existing bespoke software as OSS (which makes sense, since it was public money that developed it).

Both are worthwhile goals.
That's similar to the system here in Helsinki. There are specific stations all over the city where you can collect/drop-off your bike.

You get 30 minutes of free time each time you "checkout" a bike, and are charged extra if you go beyond that.

People do seem to use the system sensibly, taking a bike to go somewhere. Doing their stuff, then taking a second bike home such that the don't keep the same one for >30 minutes to incur the extra (small) charges.
I am currently living in Shanghai and I use Mobike, Ofo, or 赶赶单车 to get to work everyday. I have logged over 250km between the services.

This article is largely unfair. The city has large swaths of sidewalk established as bike parking zones. I can almost always find a bike zone within 10-50m. Furthermore, there are almost always parking attendants and security guards outside of malls and subway stations ensuring that bikes are parked correctly. Even when these people aren't present, I rarely ever see bikes anywhere but the bike zones. And as much space as the bikes take up, it is NOTHING compared to the parked cars along the streets.

Furthermore, I see company trucks collecting and relocating bikes multiple times per week. They are constantly shifting bikes of high supply to areas of demand. There are certain times of day (eg Saturday night at the Bund) where there are untold legions of bikes, but car traffic is flowing well.

Many of the trips that I've taken on a Mobike were out of convenience. In American cities the fastest mode of transportation is almost always a car. However, because the bikes are essentially door-to-door with no delay, I can almost always beat a hired car because there is no delay and I can zip between waiting traffic.

Chinese cities are being strangled to death by the crazy growth in car traffic. There has been insane immigration to cities and average income has gone way up. The net effect is a lot more car usage. Every taxi driver I have complains about the ever-worsening traffic conditions, year-over-year trip times increasing etc.

Bike sharing does A LOT to alleviate this by providing a convenient, quick, and cheap ($0.10-0.20 / 30min) method to travel. This is all ignoring the obvious ecological impact of the many tons of CO2 not released by the saved hydrocarbon fueled trips.
North Korea is enabled by China; without China, North Korea government will never be able to get all the technologies/parts/fuels it need to survive. It would have collapsed.

We (US) and the world enable China by allowing manufacturing to be offshored to China, an authoritarian government which has horrific track record of censorship, human rights abuse, pollution, etc.

We need to stop, and punish China for supporting North Korea.
Thanks, belatedly added.
That means you are probably using a limited set of lightweight apps. Or maybe competing for the longest lasting S3 award :P
Usually, people tend to install more and more apps and those apps themselves are getting more and more resource hungry. That's what's driving the higher and higher hardware requirements and that's how the manufacturers survive.
This is not even Android or iPhone specific pattern, this is true for all my laptops as well. Several years ago a dual-core 4Gb ram laptop felt like a hell lot of power and now, with Docker, VirtualBox, tonnes of services running inside of them, and a video call on background, my i7 16Gb macbook feels like a turtle.

Add:
Skype, I think is a great example. I used to use it (maybe through immo.im) on Nokia 5233 and it was fine. And today Nexus 6P is getting hiccups.
Because, as basic economics teaches us, there is no production without consumption, generally speaking.
Then you must hate all of your software. It's impossible to always continue in the direction that happened to be chosen more than a decade ago. At some point, you will run into problems, which in the case of Firefox were severe problems in performance, security, maintainability and complexity as well as stability of the extension API. You can't fix all of these problems without breaking things, without doing things differently.

And yes, it is to some degree subjective whether this is worth it, but at the end of the day, you, as someone who uses lots of extensions and complex extensions, are only a very small fraction of the Firefox user base. Most users have no extensions or just the obligatory ad blocker. They don't benefit at all from keeping onto the old architecture with all of its problems, which they are suffering under.

And then, yeah, Mozilla has to at some point piss you off in order to help the majority of their user base. It's not like all other browsers had such a complex extension API and Mozilla is just being lazy by dropping it.
When Is It a Good Time to Implement DevOps?
How much can you pay? There's a formula. If you can pay market value 0%. If less enough to make up for you are not paying based on current and projected cost of the company in 4 yrs assuming a 4 yrs vesting cliff.
I don't agree. To put it bluntly, I think there is a much higher floor for intelligence in even basic programming below which one has negative productivity. I think it is at least in the 90th percentile of intelligence and maybe a little higher. It will never be blue collar work.
What I really want to know: how to permanently delete your entire presense of Google. All your emails, sent or received, all your G+, all your calendar reminders, Hangouts, etc.

Seems a daunting task. Especially the part where you have to contact everyone you know and ask them to delete their emails and hangouts with you.
Delete mainstream news while you are at it.

I cut out facebook and all news save HN and a couple of subreddits and a strictly local news site.

My life has improved.
I cannot see any IoT revolution. Let's globally forget about the consumer market, already dead, but focus on the industrial applications.

Going from $10 to $1 a sensor didn't trigger any change. Not surprising when yearly maintenance/battery replacement/shipping/installation/network fee is circa $50/y per sensor and this economics didn't change. Big data didn't change anything, as the cost of storing info was already peanuts before.
ironically Google ads showing fb ad to register.
LOL

What's wrong is this:

1) the government teaches its people that Chinese culture is superior to others, and perfect too so they don't need to improve

2) this is aided by the fascistic control of the media so even those who might want to learn, can't

3) socialism - just like in the USA - is messing them up. I don't expect American socialists to understand, but libertarians have surely noticed the main problem in TFA is the lack of private property

Most hilariously, I absolutely love to read these articles in leftist media who are always shocked that something doesn't work. Riot!
> punish China for supporting North Korea.

How?
Dipshits like you are the reason why a word from 1563 which has no relation to a similar sounding pejorative can't be used in modern parlance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%...

As such, I feel no need to censor my language to meet your lack of understanding--to paraphrase Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP.
Nice to see simple instructions with direct links to relevant leaving Facebook pages. Hopefully they remain up to date as Facebook makes changes to its "exit policy".
Hamburg has these bikes too, since about 5 years or so. They have an App to unlock the bikes from a station. These stations are everywhere. It's such a nice addition to public transportation! And it's free for 30min, which is enough for most rides.
We can't know because it's a socialist hellhole where the government decides.

They don't pay any road or fuel tax so I'd say they don't have any right, but again this is China where the government decides for you.
Well, that's not really the idea behind React. You could say local storage is more a convenience than anything, React is primarily about rendering your data.

The problem is that, with Redux at least, composing data stores is a major pain. The only pattern supported out-of-the-box is horizontal slicing (have different reducer for separate pieces of data). This may work for separate pages, but it does nothing for you as soon as you need data sharing. I don't think React itself should change, but I haven't found a really satisfactory solution to the problem of sharing stored data.
Technology is finally getting political. And that’s a good thing
Preach it friend. I use my headphone jack several hours every single day. To me, it is absolutely essential. I have feared that after Apple did it, all the Android manufacturers would follow them off the cliff D-:
Agree fully. Personal projects let you experiment, they let you try things out to see just how hard or easy building that set of features you were contemplating is.

Now, if you personal project is intended as a gateway to your bootstrapping of commercial venture you _must_ make completely different choices in what/how you build (lean, and minimum useful/viable project) tec.
Mentioning a single pro for each subject is naive. The arguments for and against each of those are less shallow than you make it appear. You completely ignore systematic detrimental effects on society.
Isn't the road and foot path a public right of way? Is there anything rivalling cars in terms of public space taken up by private property?
ICO (Initial Coin Offering) just refers to the specific phase where the company sells tokens for a limited amount of time in order to get the tokens into the hands of users. For most, simultaneously or later, the company creates a smart-contract system that the tokens are to be used in. (The tokens may act as a limited currency to get the smart-contract system to do something for you, the tokens may have voting rights over how the smart-contract system can be upgraded, etc.) An ICO being complete just means that the token generation/selling by the company is over. Users are free to buy and sell the tokens between themselves at this point, and use them in the smart-contract system whenever it's live.

Any prices listed on that page are intended to be recent; a price there means that people are trading that token now for that amount.
Great list, thank you. Dhalgren is incredible. Glad to see it.
What did what last election?

I heard rumors of people thinking there could have been problems, but nothing more than rumor came of it.
It's impossible to come up with objective metrics as to how a society should be organized and what it should prioritize because that is an inherently political endeavor. That's why economics will never be a science, just like politics will never be a science.
> That means you are probably using a limited set of lightweight apps

That's a good point. I do have three messengers installed (WhatsApp, Telegram and Riot), but I don't have any apps from the usual social media bloatfest. I do use "Swipe for Facebook" but not the official app nor Messenger.
No, that's not what re-entrant means. A re-entrant function can be called multiple times at the same time.

That could be from different threads or from an interrupt handler. It can even come up in single-threaded code: you call function A() which internally calls B() which results in a nested call to A(). If A is re-entrant that's safe.
To average 40 you'd have to live somewhere quite flat I suspect.
Gradual nuclear proliferation continues to bring us closer to hell on earth. Can we please ban nuclear weapons before this happens?

We've banned chemical and biological weapons. Why not nuclear? They post a much greater threat to humanity, and that threat is growing as states like North Korea improve their capability.
You're right. What could go wrong just? Just "sling some code" around and and slap together a front-end for managing people's money.
North Korea has been making peace offers for a while, South Korea has been in discussions with them, the US has turned them down without much consideration.

North Korea, China and Russia all think Trump's bellicose attitude towards North Korea has been unhelpful. This test is a quite rational response to the pressures that are being turned up on North Korea.
Moto X 2014 user here. I love this phone and sadly I would have to replace it soon because it is half broken.

I don't have crappy apps like Facebook or Snapchat which drains the life of any phone. I think the biggest problem of Android is the background process and how devs use too much this and not for improving the user experience but for revenue. Facebook tracks everything it can in the background to show you better ads, this is not possible in iPhones. Android Oreo might solve a little bit this big problem, so let's see.
Blockchain producers will be Tier-1 Internet providers with fiber connections
i would love to find a blue collar job that pays the $175/hr i make as a software engineer. good luck on that my friend.
So many things...

> They need someone to build something solid that works.

That takes more than "slinging some code" around. Enough that it would qualify as not "blue-collar"... And costs more than most might think...

> a simple 2D game

Pretty sure that's an oxymoron.
How does industry get built without capital? (Honest question.)
Interesting to note that the time when the wealth redistribution parameter must become negative to match data for the US economy is around the 1980s. This is also around the time when a lot of "neoliberal" and "free-market" policies were introduced.
I know there are lots of outrages going on today, but put in perspective, the situation with North Korea is far and away the gravest concern.

We are talking about literally millions of lives at stake -- perhaps many more if it gets out of control and becomes a war involving both China and the US.

I don't have a solution, but I think we need to be prepared for tough choices. It may be that no good outcome is possible at this point.
Wouldn't that be even a stricter bubble than what acebook serves you?
I think you underestimate good carpentry.
I still have a Galaxy Note 3 from either 2013 or 2014. It does OK, though has had a cracked screen that's only getting worse (I drop it pretty often). Battery life is the biggest issue, but it's still just within the OK range. Normal use and it will get down to 20% by the end of the day.
But was not sustainable.
A victory of socialism.
Are you from the UK? It's usually munters who cause problems in NZ and Australia.
While it is indeed a hilarious book, it is also worth noting that a lot of the Gergel sites are now Superfund cleanup areas.

And it's not like they didn't know at the time how toxic this crap was. They just didn't care.
In the somewhat hilly Madrid, the system is of electric bikes.

In Paris, if you leave the bike in Montmartre (high hill) they give more time in your hide.
Government was making things worse in this area in so many ways in 2008, it's always maddening to hear this one floated.

Yes, those loans probably made things worse in some neighborhoods. But those loans didn't trigger sudden, widespread foreclosures in the suburbs.
Big tech companies like Google and Facebook often tote the protections they have on user data, i.e. datasets are anonymized and access is tightly controlled. But does this extend to all acquired companies? Do acquired companies that may have lesser protections ever get access to the parent company's data?