skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a brief conversation on github with Zack few years ago over cryptocurrency implementation, great guy and really knowledgeable about cryptocurrency. Knowing Aeternity had him on the team, I immediately told my friends who invest in cryptocurrency they should pay close attention to it.

I also wanted to look into its code and help, but I'm not an erlang programmer.

To be honest, when I checked Ae's official website and found out that only one member is a technical person, I thought the structure is weird. I too have been approached by non-technical people who wanted to form a team, but rely on me to come up with both the idea and the product. I don't trust people who can only talk.
When I say "reality" as a scientist, I mean experiment, and the standard model does a pretty decent job of fitting experiment/observation.

I just had this conversation last week actually, where a group mate and I were discussing "determinism" and basically, we agreed scientists have weaker definitions for words like "reality" and "determined" and such that essentially mean "within the error bars of repeatable experiment."
This is the most reddit-like thread I've seen on HN.
What reason do we have to think that for e.g. Google, marginal cost of hiring another engineer is not equal to the marginal benefit? Be careful not to confuse marginal benefit with average benefit, which as for almost all inputs in the economy, is always higher than marginal benefit.
> Not ideal obviously, but there'd be no way to avoid the inflation "tax".

Buying property?
Europe is not a country. The only FTTH provider in Athens gives you a locked-down Huawei GPON modem/router where you can't even enable bridge mode to bypass its routing/NAT
This is probably obvious, but the easiest way this can be avoided is by investors not investing millions of dollars in something when the ownership of that thing is not clearly defined.

Alternatively, if you don't know how ownership is to be divvied up, don't raise tens millions of dollars until you iron out the details.
This is why I fought my doctor and my insurance plan for the HepA/HepB vaccines. Doctor did not think it was needed as I was not a medical professional. Insurance company was being cheap. I had to point out that they were both on the CDC recommended vaccination list for all adults.

The moment there is a safe enough HepC vaccine out, I will be getting it. I'd rather have AIDS over HC. Nasty disease with nasty drugs.
There are multiple, overlapping interests oppressing undocumented people:

- Compliance (low-pay / unsafe conditions / unreported victims of crimes) - such as at many of the mega meat-processing facilities. Undocumented workers at mega-facilities are rarely hassled (except for token raids and rare criminal-related issues) because their companies have the clout to keep ICE/CBP in check. (I can't recall the name of a documentary, but there is a good one on this topic.)

- Indefinite incarceration in for-profit detention centers (prisons in all but name), run by companies like GEO Group, such as TNWDC. Also, underpaid detention labor and the monetization of inmates essential needs. The family and female detention centers are also horrible.

- Militarized-police-industrial complex - ICE/CBP leadership want ever-expanding budgets, increasing stats, org-chart pyramids and loftier titles, and their vendors want bigger contracts.

- And, of course, convenient scapegoating and projection against marginalized group(s) for socioeconomic conditions (The -ism's).
This would make a good addition to the related-work section: http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers/ie/i... from 1988.
He quoted Alan Kay during the iPhone launch to explain how Apple went about doing things: "If you really care about software, you should build your own hardware." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfTXYa36f4
Isn't the code open source? Can he fork and start his own company?
It would be really ironic if Marissa Mayer's fear of going to jail for not cooperating with the NSA would turn true. Except she would go to jail for cooperating with the NSA and leaving the backdoors in, which others may have later exploited to cause the data breaches.

I think it would send the right message to every other tech company executive even considering doing back room backdoor deals with the NSA.
I am not sure it is not a coincidence that the same idea keeps resurfacing. I remember reading pretty early on that HTML/XML/XHTML would eventually lead to a world where "chemists would have their own tags to represent chemical formulas" and similarly each discipline would develop their own tag language. Browsers would just know how to render them!

People have tried to materialize this idea in multiple ways over time - HTC, microformats, web components etc. It should not be surprising that the solutions are similar. This isn't to say the first implementation was the best, and the others have just forgotten history. I am sure there are some pretty senior web developers around who remember their history, and were even part of it. If anything we should be optimistic that the new implementations have learned from the mistakes of the past.
> Website 'Like' buttons on the other hand, are useless, tacky, cheap and chunky. Nobody cares how many likes your webpage has.

Google have said Facebook likes aren't treated as a ranking signal but your page showing up on newsfeeds will bring in more likes and more backlinks.

> Makes zero difference to any visitor what that number is. It's not any measure of performance or anything.

You don't think a large number of likes makes a page look more newsworthy than a page with zero likes?
The thing I say is "what underlying reality?" If you can't measure it, how can you make a theory out of it or research it (or publish papers on it unless you're a string theorist)? If something is not measurable, then how can you claim it exists or not?

Whenever people ask me these "deep questions" after I tell them I'm a physicist, I tell them that. Science is all about the reality you can measure, not about meaning and what lies "deeper".
They certainly are. Also, geometric proofs are considered the origin of all mathematical proofs. They might seem crude, but open up to any chapter in Elements and you'll see many difficult problems solved using those 5 axioms.
Your characterization of your proposal as a "fair system" is sophomoric. It's an immature, oversimplified idea that's ~miraculously~ aligned with what appear to be your own political desires. We might have something to talk about if your ideas actually engaged with some of the real complexity behind concepts such as "fairness," but alas, they do not.
A gem tells you what financial year is now, and also the date range of it
VastuTips for the #NorthEast #Corner
Would you have represented your client for the litigation?

(Or would your firm have?)

I'm just curious to understand how your own incentives don't point you towards court. Are you in-house counsel? Are you a small shop with no litigation department?
Oh my yes. I still have a Toshiba Portege that boots BeOS R5 because at the time Windows 98 was a slow beast, and linux was terrible on the desktop. BeOS was amazing on that tiny thing. It was like the modern day equivalent of using a MacBook Air or Ultrabook for the first time. This small laptop can do everything I need and quickly.
How to choose a user research method
In the Netherlands there is about 30% tax on financial returns and an additional 1.2% tax on assets (wealth) above a certain threshold.
Because we know what the alternative is, it is happening now.
How does a lawyer resolve anything if there's no contract? And by extension, why should he refrain from publishing zero days if there's no contract? It's his software.
Telegram and Snapchat are probably the most reasonable companies.
> 90% is insane, folks.

Why? Why is that the magic number that is insane??
> why should he refrain from publishing zero days if there's no contract?

I can probably think of 77-million potential reasons that he might not be able to / want to.
I think your position needs to be defended just as much as the position you're arguing against, and right now you're not doing a convincing job of defending it.
> "Explain to me how adding an underline to a link is somehow not-flat? "

"Hey, I'm definitely a link"

vs

"I may or may not be a link".

As the study explains, link colour difference was enough to balance the scales. It's when link text looks the same as normal text you have a problem.

Flat design can go too far and everything looks the same, requiring more effort from user to figure out what's what, and also remember what's what for next time. I find this with iOS, my memory of the interface is quite poor ever since they introduced flat design. I'm only an occasional user of my iPad, but still... the flatness is irritating.
Ask HN: What kind of developer am I?
I build tools and set disciplines which assists fellow developers during their development process. You know tools for project automation, opinionated API frameworks, client side application architecture etc.

Am I just a developer or do I belong to a specific class of developer? Just curious :)
Is the Midlife Crisis Real? Economists and Psychologists Can't Agree
I was genuinely surprised to find hydroponically grown tomatoes here in the UK that are consistently delicious. They're called 'Pink Temptation'. They're expensive but the taste is worth it.
I think leaky abstractions are not really something to worry about when you're learning. Maintaining interest while learning, especially at first when everything is strange and new, strikes me as a much bigger problem. Magic addresses that.
maxerickson says: "It's also not clear to me how many rescues were done by the people volunteering their own time and resources vs the various government agencies (that have a lot more equipment and plans and stuff)."

Did they indeed have more equipment and plans and stuff? Is there some clear role that they played and were clearly beneficial in this emergency? Could/would not almost everything they did that was useful be done by civilians in their absence?

I'm not impressed. I don't understand why the National Guard(NG) was necessary. Early on, the government agencies and NG brought trucks and helicopters; civilians wisely brought boats. [OK, to be fair, later the NG brought some amphibious vehicles and boats, but we're not taking Omaha beach here, folks]. Mostly the National Guard and FEMA guys in the field just stood around their trucks at attention or drove around. The inside people _did_ help set up shelters, food, etc. The helicopter fellows _did_ some rescuing but I question the value of that since helicopters are costly to run, dangerous (they fail frequently with disastrous consequences), cost like heck to maintain and the same thing can usually be done far more safely with a boat (or a lifesaving ring).

National Guard might possibly serve in a policing function but New Orleans/Katrina pretty much showed how that can fail. NG isn't really a policing agency, it's part of an army. Armies are good at killing people and I want my Army to be strong in that manner. So let them train and deploy at that.

Events like hurricane Harvey appear to be mostly minor training operations and photo ops for the National Guard. "Feel-Good" stuff, in other words. It might be best for the victims _and_ the NG if the NG didn't participate. And it would save our tax dollars.

Local law enforcement agencies (the various police and sheriffs' offices in the Houston area) have plenty of law enforcement officers familiar with local terrain and culture who are eager to earn overtime pay policing flood areas. They're also less likely to bust a cap in your ass for stealing gasoline.

"The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/08/secret-histor...
I was just remembering that we discussed this a few days ago. This really does suck, and I hope you can find some work at Nexenta or Joyent/Samsung or one of the other businesses that help develop illumos. There's a page on the illumos wiki with links to job listings: https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Jobs.
even clinically, sane vs. insane is a judgment call
Possibly of interest though not of much use to your end users: Decentraleyes local CDN emulation

https://decentraleyes.org/
Strive to avoid lying by learning to be comfortable with yourself (e.g. just be honest why you don't want to attend something instead of making up excuses) and by getting away from people and situations that you feel push you into telling lies. If you feel forced to lie a lot there's probably changes you can make to your life to help this.
I was just using the parent comment verbiage. Perhaps I should have quoted it.

I meant a mistake by society, i.e. it's a mistake to put people in a dead-end job, functionally ever.
None of those reasons apply to him.
The First Certificate in Deep Learning
Is it any less mature than essentially screwing him over and assaulting him?

Talk about blaming someone for slapping a guy ready to shoot you.
Depends on your ethics. In mine that is absolutely unethical.
The whitespace is there because people design first for mobile, then port to desktop browsers as an afterthought. That's not going to change any time soon.
I wish they could recognize "I want to use a real bugtracker, not yet again low level human support person!"
Was the title changed? As it is, it clearly says '16% of the code', and to me that does imply only the javascript.
I fantasize about having a job that doesn't involve me sitting on a computer nearly 100% of the time for the same reason.

edit: formatting
Microsoft Azure Bringing Blockchain Closer to Real World Use
Wouldn’t this help implement sendfile for TLS connection as well?
My work laptop rarely makes it through the night without crashing/rebooting. I started closing all my apps before leaving partly to diagnose the cause (which is none of the apps I use apparently) and also to at least know what I'll get when I come in.

Waking from sleep takes ages. It doesn't on my home MacBook. Think waking a windows vista device from sleep.

Back in the fall, the OS's file save/open/select dialog would hang any apps that tried to use it. Imagine writing an email in Gmail, going to make a link, and then needing to restart your entire browser because you accidentally clicked the 'attach file' button. My fear of file operations lingers.

That experience prompted me to update to sierra - I was reluctant to upgrade because el cap trashed my apps (notably the fancy new office that I depended on at the time). That solved the file upload issue, but it also broke Preview's page numbering for my textbook PDFs.

My home MacBook now has glitchy Bluetooth. I'm constantly having to restart it, and the UI seems to have a 50/50 chance of being consistent with reality.

I saved the best for last: every time I plug in my DAC/amp to my work computer (I like nice headphones that need an amp), macOS resets the balance to heavily favor the left channel. I spent so much time fiddling with cables trying to figure it out. I thought the equipment was broken, or maybe my hearing, or maybe my sanity. The workaround is easy, but as a result, I have to go into system settings daily. It sucks, but at least my home computer isn't affected.
"Why I left"

No contract.

"For about $3.5 million I was willing to work exclusively on Aeternity."

This sounds very weird.
This feeling of behindness for me comes in the form of thinking that I have squandered my potential compared to someone my age who didn't mess up. I should have graduated in 2011, and could've been saving up significantly as a senior/staff/etc engineer at a BigCorp in Seattle/SF making a nice low 6 figure comp and be on my way to buying property with my SO. But instead I graduated 3 years late, worked at a string of failed startups and only began my career now making 50k USD in Canada. Yes, maybe those experiences met something, but I felt that I've been too much of a drifter, and am paying for that lack of focus and career climbing now.
Are you making a modest proposal that people should go from four kids to one, post facto?

I think everyone deserves to be able to have vacation time, especially single parents.
Tax land not wealth! You can't move or hide land, unlike other assets.
The idea of inheritance taxes are that once you are dead, you don't care about paying taxes. However, leaving wealth for your children is a huge economic incentive. As Friedman puts it: "People go to an irrational length to provide their kids a better life than they will ever get".

If you could effectively put 100% tax on inheritance(which you can't in practice), it means your utility of leaving wealth around becomes 0. Now you want to spend that wealth as much as possible, and it turns into consumption. You would sell and spend everything you have for lavish expenses, which means a reduction in capital investment, which means slower economic growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4
I just wanted to echo that I'd be interested in an automatic recurring donation system. I'm sure you guys have thought about this way more than I have, but my understanding is that those kinds of donations are a significant portion of funding for other non-profits like NPR

By the way, the link to "learn more" on the FAQ for "can I donate monthly?" links to http://wwww.https//watsi.org/universal-fund which confuses my browser so I get a connection error
> Flat design can go too far and everything looks the same

Flat design, done well, makes signaling easier because there's literally less visual noise.
Bad design is just bad design.
Here's what it says right now,

"We take patient privacy very seriously. It’s important to us that every patient posted on Watsi understands what Watsi is and how it works. Our medical partners are responsible for ensuring that every patient understands Watsi and explicitly wishes to participate in the program. If a Watsi Crowdfunding patient doesn’t wish to be featured on the website, we give them the option to have their healthcare funded via our General Fund without ever appearing on the website."

Is that different from when you looked at it?
I really tried with Polymer (for the last few months) but it was particularly verbose.

I remember implementing an "<iron-ajax>" tag, and thinking that this is so wild and "Out There" that I may simply never understand.

Annoyingly, there is a whole "Hybrid" mode as well. So there is no distinction between V1 and V2. If you are confused,you go to the docs, they aren't giving you what you need, so you go to one of the sample elements, and it is written in V1. So you have to read the migration guide to translate what is actually happening....

Then Polymer Summit happens, and now it is all JS based which, is far better for me but now it seems pointless to stay on Polymer 2.0, and Polymer 3 is a preview with no docs...

So I aborted this path, went to Angular and to be honest, it is beautiful. It is almost trivial compared to the bag of questions and confusion I had going on with Polymer.

I do look forward to going back there though when 3.0 is available.
https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/ ?
Pervasinve multithreading and C++ would have meant a very unforgiving app development platform.
Hopefully next time he'll hire someone to do the voice-over, or at least get some coaching on delivering lines.
> There are two reasons

Three.

For some reason, two of the people I text most will not receive any subsequent group texts as soon as any member of the group includes an image. And two different members of my text circle cannot do group SMS, so group SMS conversations wind up being super confusing. This appears to vary by phone and provider.

Whatsapp works exactly the same for everyone I know, on every device, all the time.
Much as I loved BeOS, I disagree with you regarding the Unix part. NeXT was built from the ground up as a UNIX. BeOS most certainly was not ”built on top of Unix”: it had a POSIX compatibility layer (but then, so did Windows NT) and that may enable certain superficial similarities, but at the base it was a very different, and somewhat indifferent, beast. For example BeOS never had, and never planned to have, multi-user support and different permissions.
Not everyone uses YouTube to listen to music in the background. I want to listen to podcasts or just listen to videos distributed by casual content creators in the background - they're not forcing me to get YouTube Red, YouTube is. Which is fair, because it's their platform, but to blame it on RIAA is wrong.
YouTube can't stop me minimizing my browser window on the desktop and nobody is accusing them of violating any licenses for failing to prevent me from doing that, so why is mobile different? Just because they have the technical ability to tell the difference?
Troy Hunt adds two new domains for Have I Been Pwned?
It would appear that Troy Hunt has added two new 'Have I been Pwned?' domains to his list after registering with the extensions of .info .pw .net and .co

The following also belong to him:

https://haveibeenpwned.eu
https://haveibeenpwned.ninja

Though neither appear to have the site uploaded as yet which is a tad strange.
Sounds like the company did a token sale for $77M based on his work. So, no- he's not overvaluing his contribution.
A lot, but note that this is only the record layer, after the most error-prone parts kuike the negotiation, certificate parsing, etc are done.

(Sadly there is a X.509 parser, used for other purpouses, in the kernel.. http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER.ht...)
"Third party widgets" was the use case. The idea was to build a marketplace for frontend components, much like existed for Visual Basic, eg. the average web developer would buy/download BobsTreeView.htc and bind an XML file and that would be it.

The actual issue was that very few people was doing any serious frontend development back then. Netscape and IE had completely different DOMs and the environments were not super stable. But there was an attitude that frontend was for designers and "real programmers" were backend-only.

So the real programmer found a backend component for ASP.NET or GWT and wasn't interested in the frontend sausage.

(This article reminded me of the DHTML Dude column[1], and yeah some of us unreal programmers were doing this bleeding edge IE-specific front-end stuff for clients. Then we spent many years atoning for our sins. However, I think 90% of "IE-only" apps never used this stuff, they just had the wrong box model or some dopey ActiveX upload component or something.)

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb263969(v=vs.85).a...
I agree. Doesn't mean I wouldn't engage in that unethical behavior though, I just wouldn't try to justify it as ethical.
Nice; I used these "back in the day" while at Google to implement the illusion of native SVG support in Internet Explorer 6-8; I used hidden Flash for the rendering and Microsoft Behaviors wrapping it all so that the fake SVG would look like it was part of the DOM for full JS scripting. Fun times. Check it out here: https://github.com/BradNeuberg/svgweb
Guinot, the French Cosmetics Company, Bets on Tennis Underdogs
Hold the phone. While there are types of copyrighted content uploaded to YouTube that definitely meet this (like copyrighted TV shows or music), there are an equal if not greater number of videos that are either unmonetized or that contain no content that's copyrighted. All users who upload videos comply with this:

> However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.

"in any media formats and through any media channels" certainly covers audio only.