skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot enable airplane mode and then proceed to enable the cellular radio without first disabling airplane mode. At least you can't on an SE.
Poison Packages in Python
um, where have you been the past 2 years? China's stock market crashed, its forex reserve down 1 trillion, its millionnaires fleeing the country, it has imposed massive (but ineffective) capital control to prevent any money from leaving, its gdp/debt ratio way above 300%, its economy propped up by shadow debts.
THANK YOU.

I find the "I deleted Facebook" meme incredibly odd. It's a website, you don't have to visit. You don't have to check/install the app. Do you really have no free will of your own?

Yes, the feed can be annoying, so just fill it up with things you like. Unfollow annoying people, like pages and groups that interest you, and suddenly your feed changes entirely.

If you have to delete Facebook to stop checking it, the issue is with you, not with Facebook. Facebook rapidly gets pretty bland and monotonous. It's useful, but not that interesting. Facebook wish it had as much power over you as some people seem to think it has.

Yes, I'm sure I'll be downvoted into oblivion, but honestly I've given up with this site. If you're not anti Facebook, pro libertarian, anti Microsoft, anti advertising...etc. you're not part of the 20 something know-it-all SV echo chamber and so get downvoted.

Yes, I know it's redundant but I think this is the last time I'll log in here. The echo chamber and shocking lack of pragmatism and common sense displayed on this website makes me think I'm living in a different world to the opinions displayed here.
Looks really powerful.

What kind of secrets do others recommend relying on third parties like this to manage?
If 20 minutes was used because it's round, then we would expect 40 minutes to be used commonly. I'd say 45 minutes is used much more often.

As for non-time-related units, I hear 25 deko more often than 20 deko when buying food. I don't think there's really a distinction between building up and down. When you're talking about 250 meters do you build up from meters or down from kilometers? I think both.
That's how net metering works for me in Oregon, too - I earn credits by over-producing all summer, and then use some of them up until Jan 1, as they won't roll over year-to-year. As a result I gave power away for free to the grid for several years, but now I have a plug-in hybrid to soak up the surplus.
You'd have to build 3x as many extra roads, because cars take up a lot more space than bicycles.
> "It’s silly compare the state of tech in 2017 with the state of tech in 2009. Just because Palm did some stuff first doesn’t take away from Apple is doing them now. Context matters, and our context today is very different."

Nice little walk down [borrowed] Nostalgia Lane .. the line at the end was especially helpful: "nostalgia looks backward and it’s fundamentally indulgent in a way that isn’t really useful in tech"
Zalando's approach to Microservices in Clojure
Regardless of whether tulip references are in a bubble, there still remains intrinsic value in a decentralized system that can transfer a tulip reference halfway around the world without fees or government interference.
> Is there a good Bitcoin use by country breakdown?

No, because you can't effectively track wallets/usage. However, you can, for example, look at Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
These phone companies are terrible. All they want to do is make money off of their customers. I stopped using phones to communicate a couple of months ago. My real friends still send me telegrams.

These telegraph companies are terrible. All they want to do is make money ...
What MS are you thinking of? Back in the day (I'm thinking 20 years ago), anything MS said was law. They had the power to destroy all other browsers so we were left with just IE6 for so many years. MS no longer has that kind of power. They can no longer dictate the technological landscape like they used to be able to do. Now the landscape is dictated by standards and consensus set forth by Google, Facebook, Apple, MS, etc.
Is that similar to "Backend Developer" in the dropdown list?
Note that the Chinese government also demanded DVDs of all transaction records at the exchanges. This means that the Chinese citizens who moved their Bitcoin off of the exchange will have to answer to the bean counters.

How could a clever Chinese citizen avoid government scrutiny of their cryptocurrency finances under these conditions? They could trade Yuan (cash) for BTC through an underground mechanism of some sort. The vast majority will already be on the record at the soon to be defunct exchanges.
It's good, works with most sites, can be configured for private browsing only.
> If I invent a flying car that runs on a couple of AA batteries, then saying so is not going to give away my secrets and allow competitors to beat me.

Your point is well taken, and I thought of that. But my concern is that if I explain the market opportunity, then some big companies or big VCs will rush to do something that looks like that. If my project is a flying car on two AA batteries, then they will come out with a flying car with a small engine that charges a 200 pound battery pack and can fly maybe two miles, publicize the heck out of it, and make my effort just ignored, no matter how much better it is.

Besides, as I've explained here, I've explained to lots of VCs the problem I'm solving. They don't care. They won't pay attention to any explanations. That's why here I focus on traction -- VCs won't touch my work with a pole 5 miles long, and about the only thing I don't have now is traction. So, we know the truth: What they really care about, about all they care about, is traction.

Maybe in the past that was good for their businesses, but now it's so cheap to start a company that by the time there is that old traction, a solo founder (they hate solo founders) with meager opex won't want, need, or accept a term sheet and BoD.

I admit that there are not yet very many such startups, but the door is now wide open to a golden road of just such successes. E.g., can get a 64 bit, x86 processor with 8 cores and a 4.0 GHz clock for less than $150. Can put it on a $100 motherboard in a $50 case. Can get main memory for about $9 a GB. Can get nearly all the Microsoft server side software for free in their BizSpark program.

But my point here is to do a big favor for HN readers, to push back against the OP, to explain that VCs just don't read their e-mail messages, want warm introductions but don't know the best people, etc. I've given up on VCs, e.g., have insulted them here. So, I'm pushing back against the OP as a favor to the HN audience.

Guys, save your time. Write VCs anything you want as in the OP, and the VCs will just ignore it, usually not even open the e-mail. I've just done you a big favor.
I'm getting an error stating `error reading user information` upon authentication with Github.
I mean as in a P&L statement. If I sold a bitcoin at $1 in 2010 did I lose $4000? no but I may regret it. If someone short sold it, then it would be a $4000 loss.
MacBook Air. Beautiful keyboard. Fantastic battery life. Screen isn't retina but meh, good enough. I've got a 2014 model. I do iOS Swift dev. Still running like a champ. If your doing web or backend work you'll be laughing.
Zero-knowledge proofs, Zcash, and Ethereum
Multi-tenant shared rate limiting with Elixir and OTP
> Even when operating a submarine?

Exactly, use the correct controller for the correct scenario. Keyboard+mouse works for many games, but for games where you control vehicles (racing games, aircraft simulators, submarines), joystick controls just work better.

Also, let's not forget that Microsoft would probably help out with hardening the security of the controllers. It's not like the Navy would have to reverse engineer the controller to figure out how to make it more secure.
hashicorp-people: do you have any plans to open-source sentinel?

It seems like something that could have broader use, outside the hashicorp-suite.

For example, many SaaS-applications (say, a system used by some bank) usually end up writing their home-grown DSL for auth or use a language library. IAM also has something similar, with JSON payloads (but that's not code).

Would be interesting to know more about how sentinel is implemented under the hood.
The salary stated is at least -10,000€ below what I get paid and my coworkers.
Ask HN: Anyone hiring and interested in trying something new?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for 50 startups that are recruiting in the SF Bay Area, interested in trying a new social recruiting iOS app before anyone else.

If interested please fill this form and I'll get back to you: https://playwork.typeform.com/to/U0rltp

Thanks,
Dan
Millennials may be history’s most competent parents
A digital currency that works to the benefit of everyone
That's a good point. I think efficiency is desired because it usually provides fairness. In an inefficient market, trades are at the "wrong" price, and so that seems unfair. When there is a trade-off between inefficiency and fairness, we seem to prefer fairness (e.g. insider trading laws make the market less efficient but more "fair").
That might work for stuff like industrial espionage, but when it comes down to embassies and diplomats, where there is awareness of social engineering, this is not that obvious.

And when someone would break into an embassy, nobody is going to believe he's just a common burglar.
5 Reasons to Fire Your Client
If your interested seeing it continue to run and are up for selling it message me. I buy old ios apps that still trickle in a small amount of sales and keep them running.
The non-existence of free will has no direct policy implication. Since people are deterministic, the knowledge of punishments would create different behaviors.
Here's the wonderful Michael Kitces with a great blog post on this idea: https://www.kitces.com/blog/indexing-2-0-how-declining-trans...
This is already happening in Canadian cities.

They can't make payment on their mortgage.

They can't find a buyer at high prices.
Discussion on AdWeek article of the same topic 5 days ago (159 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250463
No embedded engineers. No graphics work. No UI work. No keywords for things like "microcontroller", or "driver", or "Linux".
> Governments don't create bubbles. Human nature does.

And yet, OP just provided evidence of a case where, previously, we assumed a specific asset bubble was caused by "human nature", but in fact it looks like it was created through the government inadvertently creating risk-free speculation in options contracts for this very asset.
Yeah, i was confused too. Most engineers are actually backend: building APIs, distributed systems, large data compute... i would think these are the things people are doing when using 'high-demand technologies' such as AWS.
+1 on the MacBook Air. I've got a 2014 model and use it daily for Swift iOS dev. Fantastic size machine. Battery is great. Keyboard to die for. And it has USB ports not USB C.
The product just launched but there is an early active testing component to the registry. I think they called them "verified" modules[1].

For the modules that we are publishing for Kubernetes[2] we are actively testing them and appreciated that the publishing process and bug reporting process are tied to GitHub. Between that and the verified modules I think it does add some signals of quality.

Now, don't get me wrong I think the DSL could be more expressive to make modules easier to configure and deploy. I am hopeful the project will get there.

[1] https://registry.terraform.io/browse?verified=true
[2] https://registry.terraform.io/search?q=kubernetes

p.s. the registry site seems to be struggling a bit; launch day blues.
Much of the money getting made in China is ending up in the hands of government employees who should not have very lucrative jobs, and the combination of lavish personal consumption by them and obvious advantages afforded to their children ("princelings") is causing audible social discontent about corruption.

The Chinese Communist Party considers audible social discontent to be an existential threat and responds to it with overwhelming force. Part of the response is banning public expressions of discontent. Part of it is shooting corrupt officials after show-trials. Part of it is rejiggering incentives, to make it clear that you'll have to keep your money under the watchful eye of the CCP rather than discretely investing it in a country which probably won't execute you.
Yes and I also paid good money for my Apple // software, my 68K Mac software and my PPC Mac software. How far back should Apple go supporting older platforms?
Tinfoilism does not help anything.

This is a genuine collaboration effort by two of the players whose services many people are already using together, and they are making that experience better for their users.

The kind of dismissiveness and hyperbole in your comment is why we can't have nice things.
Apple seems to be the only tech giant adhering to "do no evil." I've been a developer for a long time, even though development workflows are typically more compatible running on Macs, I've resisted going all in working on a Mac. I also have an Android phone. That is going to change. I trust apple a whole lot more than Google or Microsoft. My next phone will be an iPhone and luckily my Mac book pro is already on its way.
So Backend dev
Sounds an awful more like the ways leverage (for wealthy speculators) is protected in our society. That has implications bforbthe stock market more than it does Bitcoin.

Do we know about how much Bitcoin trading is done on leverage? I suspect it's relatively low (as securities go).
Same thing happened with me, then I saw the error:

"You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. For more information on usage limits and the Google Maps Javascript API services please see: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
I really like the old version better. I really dislike this "cross platform" crap that runs terrible. It's like using a javascript app. Not only that, they don't even have it for Linux, so what's the point of doing a cross platform interface...
And the Googlers arrive right on cue, hahahaha
That brings me back. I remember Dreamweaver or Frontpage used to do this automatically in the late 90's, I was blown away and used it everywhere.

That, and image maps.
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency: The Emerging Regulatory Framework
Simon Wren-Lewis has written a bit about this here: https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/the-core-economic...

He's broadly supportive but points out that section 14.8 isn't correct.
Some people making money in China are doing so through corrupt practices, or for other reasons fear that the government will seize their assets. These individuals probably continue to invest in China. They just want some of their wealth in a place safe from forfeiture.
Here's an idea: Buy a 747 from United. Run "nostalgia" flights on popular routes - not every day, but several times a year.
But if China has the majority of mining power, they can start mining your fork and do as they please with it.
If Zuck does end up making a Presidential run, I think that'd have a very good chance of triggering a sizeable decline in its US userbase.
Monitor Your Raspberry Pi Cluster with Prometheus and Docker
Is it available somewhere ?
I personally feel like there needs to be better consumer groups. Imagine if a million people grouped together to get a better deal at a bank or cable company. or better terms in a TOS agreement with an online company.
On desktop firefox you need to enable a flag in the browser for it to start working (at least that's what MDN says, I didn't try it)
>Anyone can be a scientist simply by following the scientific method and collecting data in good faith;

That's like saying anyone can be a classic car collector by buying classic cars. It ignores people who are missing certain prerequisites. Many people do not have the resources (namely money) to do so. Many scientific experiments have a large cost to produce, and cannot be done by the average person. Many do not have the time to reach the level of knowledge needed to apply the statistics correctly.

And science is driven by consensus. It doesn't make it right, but it does make it science. If 85% of science think X, then that is what is presented as science. It may take a generation before the majority of scientist move on to Y and that becomes science. Thankfully the consensus changes faster than that in most cases. A lone outsider who is ignored won't change anything. The beauty is that scientists tend to look at the new data and give it fair weight, and respond accordingly. Even then most don't buy into it immediately but wait for replication.

And I've found in some fields (namely soft sciences), things are far less driven by even new data, with many scientist making the data fit the theory (seems easier to do with research on people than research on inanimate matter/energy).
Bubbles also tend to be driven by leveraged investment. See kindleberger.
> The question is: how much?

The article over on https://games.greggman.com/game/dynamic-typing-static-typing... attempts to answer that and comes to a conclusion that is different from the study in question.
Metamorphic: A complex event processing library for Clojure and ClojureScript
Currently in Brooklyn, NY, it's 30 min to lower manhattan on this side. On the NJ side, it's probably about the same from Hoboken/Jersey City.
Not sure if this is rethorical, but it's a great question. In hacker-news-pedantry tradition i will answer:

A. A dollar bill represents an accounting entry in a bank account. Banks are the third party that facilitate trust and the rules by which 2 actors trade.
B. Dollar bills are legal tender for the payment of taxes. They are enforced by government, which is the sole legal arbiter of coercive action. Taxation requires every citizen to hold a reserve of state currency.
C. Due to the specialized printing process dollar bills are, at least theoretically, hard to counterfeit.
D. Ubiquity as trading mechanism, barter requires double coincidence of wants (rare) or interpersonal credit (lack of third party oversight to guarantee fair play). When holding assets, these can deprecate (or appreciate) in value, and would need to be converted in cash holdings to avoid the impracticalities of barter exchange.
E. They are an convenient way of turning digital entries into tangible user objects, since they hardly take any space.

I'm sure you could keep the list going. Notice how cryptocurrencies satisfy a lot of those conditions. Also notice how bitcoin in particular fails at a number of them.
Looks nice but I personally prefer the "classic" non-electron app. I'm glad they are still keeping it around.
Contactless was narrowly deployed in the US 10ish years ago. It never took off as too few vendors had the terminals to support it. I only ever used mine at the local grocery store. I don't think you can get an RFID card from a US bank any more.
The New Red Scare
The article mentions this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=skimmerscammer...

Essentially though it's just looking for a bluetooth device called HC-05, so that is also an option.
Another blasted electron app.

32GB will be minimum system requirements for a developer at this rate.
Maybe inaccurate for the Bay Area in general.

It said $146k or so was 75th percentile in the South Bay for 5 years of experience, but I am at the second to lowest level of software engineer at my company (which is one of the biggest tech employers in the area) and my base is $160k.
Do you realize how many security vulnerabilities have been found in Windows caused by supporting legacy apps?

I have some 32 bit apps that already don't work with newer versions of iOS.
I almost never heard anything negative about vault until I did a presentation on all the troubles I had with it. Here are the slides about the issues I had:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ipP2eB9pW5j3WDvzCGz9...

At the end of the day, Vault gives you secret keys to manage which makes automating the unsealing process not fun if you want full automation.

Talking with Armon from Hashicorp they planned to work on some much improved docs around vault which should help with a lot of the issues of making vault usable, because quite frankly they are very challenging to understand right now.
> It’s like using a javascript app.

It is a JavaScript app.
right, context did exist at that point but seems limited to filenames, and symbols afaict, obviously though you can obtain much more context in a statically typed environment
Play Store tells me it is incompatible with my Lenovo A7600-F tablet running Android 4.4.2.

:-(
Is there an alternative view of the consumer that produces useful results?
Introducing Unity Machine Learning Agents
I expressly am not worried about you guys or the modules you write--CoreOS is not my thing and I think it's barking up the wrong tree in a lot of ways but I appreciate that you guys actually care about a certain level of competence and security. But you know as well as I do that the first question when it comes to infrastructure is "okay, how is this going to break and hose me?", yeah? For something so critical to users' everythings, hard answers to process problems need to be front-and-center.

(Aside: the DSL will never get there while it's pretending to be JSON. At some point, they will bolt an actual scripting language on top and pretend that HCL was a bad idea to start with, or they'll be replaced with something that will.)
Is there some sort of interface element that indicates when a setting can use force touch? Or does a user just have to do a long hold on everything to find out what does and doesn't accept force touch?
Its only gotten worse in the last 2 decades. There are a myriad of articles that pop up on HN about how bad bio had gotten. No one can replicate anything anyone else is doing and it seems like ~45% of published research these days is p-hacking to graduate students. It used to be 'publish or perish' but now its 'funding or famine'. Why not fudge the results, who is ever going to check, let alone prove p-hacking? The researchers have mortgages, college-funds, and college debt too. Nature came out and said that a P of 0.005 (not .05) is the way to fix it. Like, guys, the culture is rotten from the core on up, you need to fix that, not add a 0. It makes sense, the funding is (long-term) drying up relative to the number of researchers, there is less money to go around, so we get to see who is swimming naked.
stock bonuses are a huge part of compensation, especially in tech
I set my system's volume to the lowest possible value before mute (1/64) and it was still extremely loud and unpleasant. I'm actually impressed.
If you want to build custom Terraform providers _without_ using Go, this is actually on the cards now: as of `hashicorp/go-plugin#fa4a2a351`, plugins can use gRPC to communicate with the core of Terraform. I don't know if anyone has implemented the primitives for building providers in another language, but it's now possible without too much pain.

[1]: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin/commit/fa4a2a351f33b1...
Here is a crazy thought experiment.

What if the government rationed drugs and gave them out for free? The price for black market drugs would go down, which would change the economics of smuggling drugs and selling drugs in the US. The government could track consumption of drugs and help people who are chronic addicts.

What would happen to the amount of drugs consumed in the US? If consumption would greatly increase, then this policy probably would do more harm than good. We would have many more addicts in the US. If consumption stayed the same, then
this policy might make sense. It would greatly disincentivize the distribution of drugs and could be used to move addicts into treatment programs.

This policy is probably not politically viable in the US.