skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article shows the dark side of filecoin

That article sounds like mostly sour grapes. The whole thing can be summarised as "How dare they give early investors discounts, when I wasn't invited to invest at the same time!!" This is followed by "how dare they raise money, and then admit they don't actually need as much to run the business!!"

The guy just sounds pissed other people are making more off of this then he will.
Merge it themselves and thank him, or write the implementation they wanted originally and ignore the commit. Asking the guy to come do the work after they rejected him 4 years later is extremely rude.
Avoiding the Fake Research Trap
Lotfi Zadeh, Fuzzy logic founder, has died
Survey shows that 50% of employees believe their business is not ready for GDPR
Just FYI, that site doesn't actually do anything. It is designed by the Peng Collective to create outrage, nothing more. The same happened during the 2000 US presidential elections with voteaction.com, a German-based site (as it's against US law) that turned out fake as well.

But of course, postal votes make vote selling possible.
Sorry, you got downvoted to oblivion because HN now believes phrenology is a valid science. Also, good job downvoters for making yourself look like idiots.
> Given we ... can check the source code

That's not a given.
> If you have the impression that serious cryptographers are knee deep in the problem space of trying to make sure cryptocurrencies are actually secure, revise your expectations.

I'd say the teams behind Bitcoin core, Ethereum and especially Zcash can hold their weight to a certain extent.

It's still very early days though and there is a lot more serious research that needs to be done.

I'm not saying that they are perfect, some of those teams have made mistakes, but it's still a cutting edge field so it will take time for more experts to get involved.
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Why remove Lua, though? I'm a heavy Lua user, which is why I use the openresty bundle of nginx. There's no reason for me to try this out. This is unfortunate!
I need to get into this Docker malarkey for dev machines.

Running on Windows, how do you share files between the Docker image and the host machine? With Vagrant I use NFS.
> Hold on there, cowboy. You're still assuming the worst about me, with no evidence, and that gets annoying by the second or third time.

The evidence is that you insist on posting a bunch of "I was under the impression" bullshit instead of spending a few minutes using a search engine. That is what is really annoying. Why do you think that your basic thesis that programs written under the assumption that there is garbage collection will not work well when there is no garbage collection is a novel or insightful contribution to the discussion about the original post?
I built something with A-Frame in two days
Featured by Apple at #1 in Board/Puzzle Games News Sections on the App Store
“dOn't InsTalL the Ios 11 PuBLic BetA, TeSTIng iTS SOftware Is ApPle's JOB”
And China was crazy for banning ICOs...
A Dutch startup is hosting servers in people's homes for heating. https://www.nerdalize.com/heating/
Not a movie. Not 'about' hacking, but there are some cool hackers-- Max Headroom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom
It's fun to touch at every thing especially in a start up. This summer I was on the phone, at the clients office, documenting everything with a videographer, mentoring the interns, making youtube videos, building the website, building the app, meeting with investors...

Mid August came and I looked back, everything was only partially done. Not only I was exhausted of everything, I wasn't having fun anymore.

I have decided to put everything aside and focus on the one thing i know how to do well. I am only programming, and in two weeks i have done more then I did all summer long.
I'm just going to point out that Elon musk says he doesn't care if somebody has a college degree. He says the attitude is more important.

I also highly doubt that he "had to hire" swedes. And if he did that would be an indication that something besides education was the reason. Education is in many countries if swedes are special, it must be something else.
The FDA won't approve any of them†. There are a number of alternatives in Europe, but they can't legally sell them in the US (except for one and it's under some silly restrictions that keep it from being used more widely.)

†Or sets the cost of approval to be vastly higher than any potential profits, which is effectively the same thing.
That was not my intention at all. I didn't realise the HN title had to match the article title, I can certainly edit the title for clarity. Nonetheless, I thought it was a really interesting article.
Most indian cooking, especially lentils use it. It's always used in tempering, which means you add it in hot oil a few seconds before you dunk it in the dish.

It is also used as a replacement for garlic in dishes, for people who refuse garlic for religious reasons.
Quake of magnitude 8 hits off south Mexico
> while it is claimed at the same time that they can be replicated by a "thief", which necessarily implies that they don't identify Alice, and hence are not an identity, therefore tautological impossibility.

Attributes can be replicated -> attributes don't identify Alice

Why do you consider this implication necessary? It sounds nonsensical.

Counterexample: to verify an identity, the verifier must possess a replication the identifying attributes. If replication implies non-identity, then identity verification becomes impossible.

Note that we're speaking of identity in the context of a technical implementation.
Generally you'll want to understand why the code is dead before removing. Otherwise it might've been left for a good reason. Chesterton's fence[1] and all that.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Eh, not necessarily. Markets don't find the optimal solutions for every problem. Look up "Price of Anarchy" in game theory. I don't claim that it's feasible to come up with central plans that beat markets, but there are cases where central planning can produce objectively better results.
Unlikely -- Tizen would be dead on arrival, being inferior in all ways to Android, including the app ecosystem.
I saw the author's structure with .bashrc under the bash "app subdirectory" in stow, and thought that it would also be handy to allow your vim app subdirectory to include some bash snippets to be included in bashrc.

You can't just have multiple .bashrc files that get linked to the same ~/.bashrc destination, but you can have a ~/.bashrc.d directory and have the end of your central .bashrc source everything in that directory (in some well-defined order). then your vim app subdirectory could add shell aliases/functions for, say, invoking vimdiff in a particular way, by adding a file in ~/dotfiles/vim/.bashrc.d/vim.bashrc .
Checking the possession of a picture is not biometry (that would be possession-of-a-picture-metry). Making a picture is biometry (measuring the body, essentially).

The hard problem with biometry is proving to a third party that a certain identity is responsible for a contract, but identification with biometry (convincing yourself that the person before you is the same person that you enrolled earlier) at least works a lot better than asking for essentially public information.
Which of course comes with a COBOL compiler too!
If you use Google Chrome, try Waitblock (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp...).

This will help shut down the neural pathway that you have built.
Hoare did not think like that.

"Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980, language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

This was in 1981, and "language designers and users have not learned this lesson." was a jab at C.

Also Xerox and ETHZ were busy using safer systems programming languages.

ESPOL and NEWP, already using UNSAFE blocks were the state of the art systems programing in the 60's.
>What exactly is preventing another company for creating an EpiPen clone?

Nothing. It's already done, it's just vanished from the news.

When the senators daughter was put in charge of epi-pen, first it was made mandatory in schools (so they had to buy it) then price was raised to $500 ( https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/epipen... )

So a 3D printed alternative was created. It costs $50 and can be made at home ( http://fortune.com/2016/09/15/epipen-alernative-cheap/ )
You don’t need a publicist
How much can we sue them for?
Sue these leeches out of existence
Just been an overall question. There might be a solution no one ever thought about. Why wind turbines? Kites could work as well. There might be a better product not yet invented to solve the problem. It might be even better to start at an earlier point by extracting heat from the oceans to lower temperature and therefore avoid the formation of tropical storms at all. Just some brainstorming ideas :)
People are willing to speculate, and until this pops some people will make money, some will get seriously burned.

The credibility of the technology or adoption of it by users isn't really important at present.
> you need so much upfront research money, that you in fact always get a anti-competitive monopoly or oligopoly

Industries with high R&D costs may be more prone to the formation of natural monopolies, but in most cases that's a better scenario than the coercive monopolies created as a byproduct of government regulation.

It could be argued that the tech industry, as one example, has similarly high R&D costs (at least in certain fields), and Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. have all been blamed for monopolistic practices, but even then, the tech world operates in a much healthier market environment than the healthcare or pharmaceutical industries.

Personally, I'd feel more confident being treated in a theoretical Apple hospital (heck, I'd even go for the cheaper Android version) than any of our real-world hospitals with shiny government seals of approval (and more inefficiencies than one can imagine) - as long as I can rely on a decent level of transparency in safety/quality/pricing of those options.
Hah, the guys in the first one are funny:

"Something's definitely going wrong there."

"Definitely... Do you think it's a new nightclub?"
BeeJ has been around for longer than why
For the app ecosystem, I wonder if webassembly isn't going to even the game between the different OSes. You will be able to code in a single language of your choice an app with fast performance that will run on every platform, current and future. iOS allows you to pin a webapp to the desktop which then looks in every way like a native app, I presume android must have something similar.
Survey completed! Maybe a bit off topic, but it would be good to create a list of music artists or bands that programmers listen the most. I'm always thinking about how Pink Floyd for example helped me a lot to finish some important tasks and how their music helped me multiple times to bring myself in to the zone :)))
> What I like about Samsung is that they do realize and accept that the software is not their forte.

I may be out of date, but I hated the last samsung phone I had because they did not realize this and subjected their users to touchwhizz.

The also need to improve at supporting their software and keeping android up to date.
Is it enough to freeze credit?
Yeah, I tried to contribute to Wikipedia and I almost died.
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Give me your login and I'll check for you!
The fact that people are buying cryptocurrency is not in itself evidence that cryptocurrency is cryptographically secure. Paying actual cryptographers to help create your cryptocurrency is evidence that it's cryptographically secure.

People use software that lies about how secure it is all the time - even when money is on the line - because they're not qualified to understand security, and additionally don't have the understanding of how to delegate that job of understanding. I'm interested in IOTA, but I've yet to see a respected security company put out a document that explains why it's secure and where potential weaknesses that we might be able to exploit in 5, 10, 20 years might be hiding, so I'm not touching it with a bargepole.

Put it this way: would you use a bank that didn't employ any security engineers and yet made grand statements about how secure its processes are?
> The choice is between amazon + tax breaks and nothing.

You're completely wrong. Amazon WILL build HQ2. This is a zero sum game from citizens/cities perspective. No city in the US should offer such taxcut, and then, surprisingly, this money is spent by amazon on taxes and effectively given to the citizens in one of the cities.

If you allow this, you put in place scenario I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15193611
No, that's not possible. These trades are only public because there is regulation that mandates Equifax to file trades by their employees above a certain level.

Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_4

Otherwise you have this trading information spread across thousands of brokers (and it doesn't become public)
FAQ: Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
> Not exactly. The library just has to treat it as a string and not worry about the encoding (i.e. not try to encode it to/from the unicode type).

Or do anything else that implies encoding. Like measure length, index, slice, change case etc.
alternative: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
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I was wondering what this means for existing HipChat users. My highlights from the [FAQ](https://confluence.atlassian.com/stride-documentation/upgrad...):

> We'll send your admin an email when we're ready for you.
> All of your rooms, teammates, files, custom emoticons and message history from HipChat Cloud will be in Stride.
> In the future, all HipChat Cloud teams will be encouraged to move to Stride.
> Starting soon, we will begin to upgrade all HipChat Cloud teams to Stride.
> HipChat Cloud will remain in 'read-only' mode.
It's good not to forget the toplevel posts, which quotes that Amazon ASKS specifically for money amount.

"Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount"

Read their RFP for more.
How is it a problem to get FDA approval for big pharma like Merck, for instance?
How do you prevent collusion between big players in a free market?
Actually earthquake quick release cycles are very good for humans as it prevents bigger earthquakes in the future. Same with volcanoes.
All these things could have beneficial ecological purposes...IN moderation... but what happens when they go to extremes ala Climate Change.. when we have 15 cat 5 hurricanes per year..or burn 10 million acres of forest per year...etc..

How much of our current excelling weather patterns are a result of global warming? All interesting questions...
The plane moves relative to the wind it is in. A 180mph cross wind, head wind, or tail wind only affects its ground speed.

I've been on flights from Asia to the US with a 150+ mph tailwind in the jet stream making the ground speed 700mph+. However, from the perspective of the air frame, it's still just traveling at a normal speed relative to the air it's in.
I use Django OR and it has migrations system included
Was there anything in the textbook that was explained better than in the Beej Guide?
Mitch Lowe co-founded Netflix, now he's hacking movie night
Get that waived with the spend on the credit card.
Amazon kicks off competition for new HQ
I myself am kinda glad it is not easy to put a medication to market. However, big pharma is quite proficient at dealing with regulatory bodies already since they have so many products on the market, so I don't think that's tthe main reason
Check out oldandtireds infallible series of calculations at realclimatechange.geocities.com
No, not part of graphql. Apollo Optics (no relation) is an option, or you can instrument the fields yourself just like you would implement any other instrumentation.
A lot of people (yes, even developers) live hand to mouth, so starting a company doesn't look that great when you can't make next month's rent. Often HN feels like it lives in a Silicon Valley echo chamber.
Even a page [1] made by Jimmy Wales himself was deleted 22 minutes after creation [2]. It was later undeleted and nominated for deletion again, sparking a rather lengthy debate [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzoli's
[2] https://www.quora.com/Has-any-article-created-by-Jimmy-Wales...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Article...
They botched the Motorola acquisition and couldn’t find a way to integrate them in their mobile efforts even though both were American companies (with Moto having a significant presence right across from GOOG in the Valley).
So now doing it all over again, with a Taiwan-based company is going to work better because...?
Yeah, yeah, Amazon is doing it because they love us.

It's for sure simple mistake they specifically asks to calculate all this intangible things and reduce it to money amount they gets from citi.

So how about..... NO!

Quote from RFP: "Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item, the timing of incentive payment/realization, and a calculation of the incentive amount"
I don't buy the regulatory argument. See my previous answers.

Patents, indeed, are a much more efficient way of keeping a monopoly, that's their whole point after all. But I don't a link with regulations in that case.
I would dare say that the fact that Linux filenames don't have to be valid strings (i.e. they can be arbitrary byte sequences that cannot be meaningfully interpreted using the current locale encoding) is the insane part.

But does POSIX require support for arbitrary byte sequences in filenames, or does it merely use bytes (in locale encoding) as part of its ABI? I suspect the latter, since OS X is Unix-certified, and IIRC it does use UTF-16 for filenames on HFS - so presumably their POSIX API implementation maps to that somehow. If that's correct, then that's also the sane way forward - for the sake of POSIX compatibility, use byte arrays to pass strings around, but for the sake of sanity, require them to be valid UTF-8.
Put it on your LinkedIn and you will be contacted. This is the reason I removed every reference to it (not because of the language perse, more because of the culture of the companies & departments that will wanted to hire me). Expect to only be allowed to work 9 to 5, on prem, have the stricktest of duty segregations, sit at an old desk and lunch with 'the team' from 11:27 till 11:49 sharp. Where COBOL coding will not get you a date, it will pay rather decent.
I see, then I don't understand this blog post at all. Is my expectation weird that an anouncement blog post for a major version +1 should contain some features? Or have I just missed that part in the article?
Comparing supposedly the best results.

oxipng optipng optimage
size 12 231 612B 12 231 612B 11 027 901B
time 23.82s 90.57s 50.8s

I keep on improving my single-threaded image compressor (http://getoptimage.com).
What If Bitcoin – Shoot I didn't invest
How lucky they are!
By "expose UTF-8" I mean exposing the underlying UTF-8 representation of the string directly on the object itelf, instead of going through a separate byte array (or byte array view, to avoid copying)
Every problem can be solved with a nuke, of course.
Functional linked lists in Python
Ada, Modula-2, Pascal dialects, Algol 68, PL/M, PL/8, PL/S, NEWP...
I think you are confusing addiction with eagerness or interest to learn about things, your curiosity. At least that's the reason i typically visit HN, i don't have time to visit all the sourced pages that were once featured on HN because they had a nice article or other sort of information. But i do want to read about new things, explore, for this HN is a great source.

For social 'exploring'/learning or just simple entertainment 9gag.com is a nice website to spend your 'idle minutes' at, the minutes you want to spend on non technical things.
I agree that iterators generally make more sense with strings. But sometimes, you really do want to operate on code points - for example, because you're writing a lexer, and the spec that you're implementing defines lexemes as sequences of code points.
But as with all other fixes, the following bugs might be worse than the actual problem.
This is not book, but it has 'content' and an 'author'.
A Coursera course: "Model Thinking" by Scott E. Page

https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
> You can still use any old pair of wired headphones with the free provided adaptor. So the removal doesn't force anyone to buy AirPods -- or any other of the tons of bluetooth headphones.

While it may in a dry sense be true that the removal doesn't _force_ anyone to buy AirPods, I will strongly suggest that their customers aren't convinced that the adapter solution is sufficiently comparable [1].

[1] (Reviews) https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
> Spanish has a noticeable amount of influence from Arabic, since Arabic speakers conquered the south of Spain and ruled there for a while

The Arabs conquered about 60-70% of both Spain and Portugal, not just the south of Spain.

And they were there for more than a while, they were there from the 700s to late 1400s, so more than half a millennia :)

I don't know the exact reason why Portuguese has a lower Arabic influence than Spain, though...
I appreciate the post, and it would do good for most of us to understand how compounding works in so many things in our lives, also in relationships etc. But it isn't one thing vs. everything, there is also a balanced middle ground. A generalist might be interested in several things, and not care if as a specialist she could be "more successful", usually measured by an oversimplified metric, e.g. number of dollars or books sold. But this is a very good topic.
>There are plenty of movies that I love watching, but in no way consider well made

This is my problem with every review(er). They keep talking about using too many same kind of shots or how something was lit and other stuff that has in my opinion nothing to do with the actual movie.

There really should be two scores, technical score and story score. I don't care about technical aspects (almost) at all. I just care if the movie is entertaining or not. (Even the word 'entertaining' is bad to use, since some reviewers like to use it as insult i.e. 'movie was so bad it was entertaining to laugh at it')