skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think that projects like Vue will pass React soon. Facebook only did the right thing because they saw the impending backlash. The PATENTS file is still in their other repos.
kind of a side note here, but the one thing, the one and only thing preventing me from uninstalling chrome is the fact that i need to use chrome to make google voice calls in the browser as far as i can tell. when i try to do it in firefox, i just get a strange message about it not being supported. this is really annoying!
So if you're not allowed to give less than 4 weeks notice, what happens if you say "I am quitting in 4 weeks" then you come to work and do nothing all day, I guess the employer can fire you then?
This is a great news, Thanks Facebook.
Wordpress has a pretty good JSON api that you can use with crud operations: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/

There's also already a theme that uses React: https://themes.redradar.net/foxhound/

With those two things you could build a pretty good web app. The only thing is you'd be in WordPress land and isn't glamorous.
I came here to make the same suggestion but he's got a gitlab link. I might just take a crack at trying that myself.
It certainly seems like an example of the broken window fallacy to me. Invoking the creation of jobs to refute the claim of wasting labor is the same illogical argument. It's just redefining bad as good and pretending it is an argument. Jobs are not a scarce resource. Labor is a scarce resource. Capital is a scarce resource. Instead of making cake for the rich, a baker may instead make bread for the poor.
Tristate checkbox without JavaScript
Protomax: Personal Waterjet
If I were you I would pick a near impossible project and work on that. As long as your mind is healthy you can always work, even if just on your own.
I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't BSD/MIT has an implicit patent grant? It would be absurd for a company to argue that they put their software out there for everyone to freely use, but "JUST KIDDING -- we secretly didn't give you rights to use the related patents that we didn't tell you about."

It would be interesting to see the backlash if a company ever tries that one. They would probably lose a lot of their own developers as well.
One of my favorite aesthetics.
Welp, implausibly, it works.
re: IBM, I'm not sure that SoftLayer/bluemix is getting a lot of traction. AWS: IMO they are the leader to be defeated by the competitors, doing well, cutting prices, making it easy for devs. Google: have heard positive signals especially around ML. MSFT: don't know a lot but I heard they are going to let you run your own Azure on-prem. HPE as a IAAS provider? I doubt it
Personally I would argue that the price of Bitcoin is driven by the same supply-demand relationship as anything else. Supply is obvious. I personally think the demand for Bitcoin is driven by its use to make payments in fiat currencies; most of the people who "accept Bitcoin" do so through a service that immediately converts it to a fiat currency, and more people are paying with Bitcoin than are participating in mining (i.e. they just buy the Bitcoin). Even on the black market this is how people are using Bitcoin: drug dealers still need to pay their rent, and their landlords almost certainly do not accept Bitcoin; drug users need to have the money to buy their drugs and whoever is paying them is almost certainly not doing so with Bitcoin.

(Why are those things almost certain? Consider the scale at which Bitcoin operates; then take a look at ACH, Swift, Visa, Mastercard, etc. We are talking about orders of magnitude in difference. For all its gains over the past few years Bitcoin remains a tiny niche.)

In other words, don't view Bitcoin as money; view it as a system for transferring money and converting between different countries' money.
I would add LTC to your list, but besides that I don't know why you're being downvoted.
There are definitely parallels. A fair amount of people in these industries were in fraternities, secret societies, or similar student organizations.
Totally impossible for a term like "responsible" to have multiple meanings.

Obviously people mean the economic term. Couldn't possibly be the everyday meaning.
Same here, this conversation is happening right now since we've built a pretty large application using React. I would much prefer to use React so this couldn't be better timing.
Yep, also in Washington, same here.
If I have to pick between Silicon Valley oligopolies and state sponsored ones, I'll take the state; at least they're trying to protect their citizens.

What's ethical about letting Silicon Valley unicorns plunder world markets?

While not a popular topic here, Silicon Valley is starting to become the enemy.
Agreed, but only the big iron. I spent 8 years working for Universal Avionics, who develops precision WAAS-SBAS GPS flight management systems for GA / BizJets: http://uasc.com/home/nextgentechnologies/precisionaviationwi...
> Unregulated markets can result in a number of situations that limit people's opportunities significantly. Monopolies are a clear example and various externalities can also have significant impacts on commerce.

Could you name an existing stable monopoly that is not a state-granted monopoly (i.e. a monopoly, that is not associated with government regulations, subsidies, grants, medallions, quotas and other things that have to do with regulating the market by the government), yet is capable of preventing other players from entering the same market?
What does having a dart mean? Never heard that phrase before.
The interaction with the equalizer sliders isn't quite right. Once you grab any slider, you should be able to move the mouse horizontally to affect the rest (draw the curve you want with the mouse).

I learned JavaScript by implementing a similar project which gets this detail correct: http://freecog.net/2005/jsamp/demo/MainWindow.xhtml

(It is quite amusing to read the release notes: "SVG features (the equalizer display) requires Deer Park Alpha 1 or later (Deer Park is the codename for Firefox 1.1, to be released in September).")
You don't even need to look at the overall rating because you can see each individual critic score and review
I guess they mean tax avoidance
(Unfortunately) they don't explain much about it.

westoncb's comment downthread points to another resource digging into B. Victor's recent work.
The click-wheel was great. I miss having such a simple, haptic interface.
Correct, our free plans offers unlimited private projects and collaborators and 2,000 CI pipeline minutes per month on our shared runners https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
Reiterating an argument that most HNers have heard, and already either agree or disagree with, does not advance the discussion. It would be more constructive to present a novel argument, or novel evidence for a usual argument.
From the context, I suspect it means smoking a cigarette. Urban dictionary confirms my suspicion:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dart
Can you give more details about your startup? Were you a single founder bootstrapping?
To be more precise, that was the state of affairs with OSS on Linux. On FreeBSD, for example, the same OSS API has been providing transparently multiplexed output for many years. I don't even know how long, but I recall it already being there when I was fighting with dmux.

Perhaps not coincidentally, the primary sound API on FreeBSD is still OSS.
The principal author of the Rat Park paper, Bruce Alexander, has a web site on addiction: http://www.brucekalexander.com
> Is there much actual crime being facilitated by Bitcoin?

How about all the ransomware(s?) that spread globally and affect businesses, hospitals, etc.?
Changes to Google Scholar
> I wonder how some of the bigger players will react (no pun intended) after their abandonment of React in lieu of Vue or some other framework

What do you expect them to do, shrug and come back? I doubt anyone who left based on concerns with their stack being owned by Facebook is likely to regret weaning themselves off of it.
Rebound, their spring physics implementation for Android (Java) and the Web (JavaScript)
Ransomware seemly pretty solidly illegal. It existed before bitcoin (mainly using ucash/paysafe/greendot codes) but bitcoin is what enabled it to scale.
Try it. The various MSPs I use report to within a minute whether I open an email or not, and they do this effectively on Gmail and other clients as well.

I see no way they could do this besides the tracking pixels they embed in email, which means that google does not prefetch, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
"great" is relative to how much free time you have evaluating all the various alternatives and finding the bugs/missing use cases nobody cares to tell you about up front..
While your argument has some validity, the statement said "New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains" not "New antibody attacks 99% of HI Viri (of a given strain)". The mutation would have to occur faster than the virus dies off.
This is factually incorrect.

At least for the MSPs I use, they report the open time accurate to within a minute whether I'm using Gmail or not. I see no way for them to do this besides tracking pixels embedded in the document, since I don't see any other outside resources.
Upvoted because this advice directly makes me money ;)
This is why I hate it when companies create new domain names for things instead of using something more sensible (like subdomains). Teaching users that other domains besides the primary are totally legit is a recipe for a disaster of the phishing variety, not to mention how much money is going to inevitably be wasted every year.
Well, there is undeniably spoofing and wash trading in these markets, I see both happen all the time- I'm not sure though why they are considered a bad thing: They obfuscate the order books, making it easier for other buyers/sellers to make trades without broadcasting their overall position to other traders.

I'd love to hear a good argument why these things are a "bad thing" besides just the argument that "it's wrong to lie". I don't really have a strong opinion either way and could probably be swayed- Any takers?
AFAIK, no. I don't know of any case law that says the reason you were unaware of the patent is relevant; just whether the infringement was "willful" — one component of which being knowledge of the patent.
> They don't get to examine all the bits coming into the country over the Internet,

You sure about that?
Wow. I always thought my technical skills would help me.
Yep, there are a ton of bugs in High Sierra. I think this is going to be a risky upgrade for a lot of Macs. From video drivers not being ready to ship to weird issues with permissions and APFS, there is going to be a long tail of misery and issues on the 25th.
Business brokers also exist and they're very similar to investment bankers for small, simple transactions.
Napster redone in HTML5 would be fun to see, or Limewire which outlived Napster by a number of years.
Who paid the piper on that one, you or the bank? Not familiar with the laws in Texas.
> I don't know what your revenue is, but I'd guess a few hundred k ARR.

Is it normal for a SaaS with a few hundred k in ARR to be worth $14 million?
New graph db helps PRC gov identify dissidents
So, the new [TigerGraph](http://www.tigergraph.com/) contains a demo (behind signup wall) called Social Graph, which uses a model of data that afaik only the Chinese government would have access to: tying everything to a person's identity including where they've slept and how they've traveled.

They then demonstrate a sample query on this dataset, called 'connection mining', identifying people who have enough data in common with a given person. Going by a [Datanami article](https://www.datanami.com/2017/09/19/tigergraph-emerges-native-parallel-graph-database/), their clients at least include some Chinese state-owned companies. If one add one and one though, Beijing might well be using this query to track dissidents by association.

This is a clickbait version of #15314127. Sorry.
Are Physical Limits All in Our Heads?
Some sketches are hard to draw even after minutes of watching. Without remembering "there is <n> <x>'s on <y> background with <z> outline ...", not many people can draw exactly what they've seen few seconds ago. Our perception and recalling works in very fuzzy way; you can be absolutely sure that logo is what you've drawn, but this is just false memory constructed by subconscious to fill the gaps. Our minds should contain fantastic amounts of these, retained and restructured there by side-effects of the thinking process.
This is really fascinating as it draws really accurate to my experience learning Japanese Kanji.

I can study either recognition, where I can recognize a large amount of them in a short time period, or generation, where I can write them but then it's slower since I have to repeat writing each several times [1]. I find out that a combination of both is best for me at this stage and for my objectives.

[1] I use my own Anki alternative, https://core.cards/
My guess would be that certain kinds of anxiety beget it.
So many replies to this comment, and none have yet acknowledged the high probability that Baron's request is sarcastic.

When frat guys with names like "Baron" claim they have superior social awareness, this is what they mean.
A cost, yes, but not a tax.
A tax is a debt owed to a state, under threat of imprisonment for failing to pay.

If you owned only property, but no dollars, you would need to convert some of your property into dollars to pay the tax, or go to jail.

If you owned only property, but no bitcoins, you would need to convert some of your property into bitcoins, to use bitcoins.
I pay for Google All Music Access and it lets me get any song they sell normally and stream it as well as download it for offline listening. Has worked wonders for me. The only thing I wish is that my Android phone had the 3 audio buttons I miss from my iPod Classic: play, reset / go back a track, skip track. At least my steering wheel lets me do it...
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies seem to be embraced by libertarians who are very idealistic and have quite a shallow understanding of economics, software, and the world at large. But I repeat myself.
you can change your Apple ID if it's a non-apple (mac, me or iCloud domains) email

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667
Wrong. Legal precedents rule all. This should be fought, not tacitly approved of via circumvention.
> The theming engine breaks on APFS (all the themes look like one particular theme)

I'm not sure if I'm running into the same problem as you, but I just opened up Bear on my Mac to check and applying the themes themselves works for me, however the preview of each theme is the same.

This is on macOS 10.13 Beta (17A306f) and Bear 1.0.4 (3733).

Does each theme look identical when applied for you?

[0]: https://imgur.com/dBswvky
[1]: https://imgur.com/jpHbS4i
[2]: https://imgur.com/LxUWWS3
>Although too early to declare victory just yet, my anecdotal experiences combined with my research on the web does lead me to think that the mass transition from HFS+ to APFS is going to be another victory for Apple. This opinion differs from all others I have read from well informed people, many of who are predicting either catastrophe or at the very least some major stumbling blocks. In this case, time will tell, but I am bullish where most others are bearish. The only thing that bothers me is that I can’t understand how they managed to pull it off.

Kudos to Apple!
As an Aussie, I don’t necessarily want to overthrow my government (what’s a circus without the clowns), but I do like the fact I can safely voice my displeasure if and when I feel it’s useful.

Having moved to Taiwan after spending many years in Beijing, the feeling of a weight being lifted off is palpable. I don’t miss those towering windowless soviet-style government building one bit.
Yep. I always installed the documentation CD and loved having fast access to API docs. But arguably Google is still faster.
> I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare

speaking of reddit's new redesign...

> Like Slashdot before they fucked it up. Or Ars before they fucked it up.

Man, it's almost hilarious
Yes, it's bad for applications. But that does not explain why people send their text based pages as javascript.
This line. The idea that diversity, strange, or abnormal may not be beneficial to society doesn't make sense. Innovation can literally be anywhere.

“By a quirk of chance Dr Imperato’s research was picked up by the American pharmaceutical giant, Merck. They used her discovery to create a drug called finasteride, which blocks the action of 5-α-reductase.

“It is now widely used to treat benign enlargement of the prostate and male pattern baldness. For which, I’m sure, many men are truly grateful.”
I think they made the changes. I once had such an "over the counter" sim card but later changed to a monthly contract with my passport. But I remember seeing on the expat magazines "last chance to keep your SIM card active". At one point you had to provide ID or they just turned off the service.
> Does React's BSD + Patents license extend downstream like that?

Yes, why would it not?
Interesting question. I work three hours ahead of most people in my company, so I take the offline time I can get in the morning and make myself available the rest of the day. Something like that may work for a morning person in an office, but without a time zone limitation blessing an early exit every day, that may not be culturally feasible without just working more.

In the book Newport runs down more strategies than regular daily blocks, everything from offsite retreats to people who can go deep on command whenever they get a small window. He described one professor who would use different modes based on his academic calendar, I think roughly by week or month granularity. During teaching times he was 100% available to students and staff, but during writing times his door was shut and everyone knew not to go in. The book is definitely worth a read if you're interested in more strategies.
WarTard?
Uh... citation needed?

A lot of Chinese I know might support their government because they are working to further Chinese interests. But I generally don't hear them trying to export their system of government.

Americans on the other hand...
Well in a sense it's quite freudian: you gotta feel the (unrealised value of the) bitcoin leaving you for it to be universally recognised as "having value"
Everyone here seems to be sticking on the specific example of smoking, but let me generalize a bit: people who experience persecution and shaming for an activity they can't help but take pleasure in, tend to be very friendly—at least to those with the same "problem", but often to people with other such "problems" that have put them through the same hardships. ("Problem" in quotes, because these traits are called that by others, but almost never by the person in question.)

Which is to say: a smoker, a frequent psilocybin user, a transgendered person, a furry, and an ABDL fetishist all walk into a bar... and hang out amicably, because they've all been through shit.

(One slightly annoying thing about this, though, is that this empathy-for-outré-groups-building effect stops happening as your own group becomes less outré. Homosexuality is accepted enough today that the newest generation of gay people are growing up just as intolerant of "deviance" as everyone else.)
Fiat currency was the first currency, developed in Mesopotamia as an accounting system run by the temple-governments of their city-states. Accounts were recorded in clay ledgers, and withdrawals could be made in the form of clay tokens that could be traded within cities and between cities (i.e. accepted for deposit by the temple of another city-state). A large trading network developed based on that money. The entire system was backed by the authority of the governments to levy taxes (mandatory offerings to the temples), collect debts, and resolve disputes (the same things that back our modern fiat currencies).
Nothing new there. The hawala system has been doing the same thing since the 8th century.
You are right that bitcoin is a commodity, but I disagree about your condition for currency. It doesn't suddenly become money when some government "recognizes it" in an arbitrary way. People make comparisons to gold, but gold is also a commodity (whether the government accepts it for taxes or not), and we now know that using gold as if it were currency is a very very bad idea[1].

A currency is a unit of measurement, while commodity is something with (perceived) value that can be traded. Those are not the same: The commodity itself has utility; and that utility can be measured in the units of a currency. The currency itself is not valuable; it merely measures the value of something else. For example, a dollar in your wallet might measure the time you spent (a valuable thing) producing its fraction of your paycheck. It's the difference between a kilometer, and something that's a kilometer long; say a length of chain. Many things have length, but they are not standards of measurement.

Bitcoin has "length" (it is valuable, for now), but it is not a very good standard of measurement for wealth. Its demand fluctuates, but its supply is fixed by the algorithm. Therefore its value is demand-driven, and there is no upper or lower bound to what its actual value could be.

Compare to a "real" currency, whose supply is increased or contracted by a central bank to ensure that the value changes slowly and predictably. Given sound decision making, a centrally-managed currency can be a consistent measure of wealth no matter how many or how few people want to use it.

So as we all know, Bitcoin's value fluctuates significantly, and therefore does not measure a consistent amount of wealth. So this makes it a terrible currency. Its volatility also can't be fixed by wider adoption or "recognition" by the government, because a fixed supply is built into its very design. So it will never be a reliable standard of measurement for wealth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
I'm at the age now where my friend's kids are getting to the sexually active stage of their life. They seem waaay tamer than what me and their parents were like at their age. I doubt that they are having more sex or even trying as hard. They certain Dont party like we did our have massive benders either.
The Coming Bear Market?
The SEC Has Set It’s Sights on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
What stops a totalitarian government from blocking Bitcoin at the national level?
the marketing idea?
Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
We cannot change the fact that our loved ones' attention are directed into attention centralisation services like YouTube, Instagram, newspapers, politics discussions, etc. But we can choose to direct our attention to the people next to us. A well placed smile can really make someone's day. :)
> Wordpress has a pretty good JSON api that you can use with crud operations: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/

FYI: this shipped in WordPress 4.7 as part of the core software, and is now available on every WordPress site. (e.g. https://www.wired.com/wp-json/)

> The only thing is you'd be in WordPress land and isn't glamorous.

We tried to shield REST API users from much of the nastiness of WordPress' backwards compatibility (inconsistent field naming, date weirdness, etc), but yeah, it's still not perfect.

(I'm the co-lead on the REST API focus, happy to answer any Qs!)
A battery-free origami robot powered and controlled by external magnetic fields
protip: Ethereum can be used by criminals too, not just Bitcoin. Though, I'm curious (not trolling), why is Ethereum's model a better way forward? Are you talking about smart contracts or what?
Revoking a license retroactively is not possible.

But since there is no patent grant with the MIT license, using the open source software is–potentially–open to patent litigation. I don’t think this has been tested in court yet.