skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What kind of events would you recommend for someone trying to get more involved in the NYC community? I've been in Brooklyn for a while but work remotely and more or less exist outside of the tech community but would like to get involved.
Earth has too much baggage (humanity, politics) to suggest that it's self-evidently prudent to develop something on earth first.
What do you mean it wasn't fair or objective?
The spanish constituion explicitly states that Spain is an indivisible country. Hence, the Constituional Court (that is elected by the parliament) has ruled out that any referendum about independence is illegal.

At this point, the government says that both them and the judiciary powers are just defending the democratic rules, and Catalonia's government is the one at fault for all this hassle.

The problem is that it is accepted that there's a wide majority of catalan people who want a referendum, and here we are...
"Batteries" is a pretty good answer, but I'd argue that getting cost down is more important at this point than raising energy density. Tesla proves that you can make long-range vehicles with today's battery energy density. The batteries are just too expensive at present to deliver an under-$20k-USD vehicle that can sustain 5 hours of freeway driving between charges.

For grid scale storage, which would be needed to get to really high penetration levels of renewable electricity, energy density is even less important. A paltry 50 watt-hours/kg would be perfectly fine if the battery also offers low capacity fade per deep discharge cycle and low costs.

A battery with really high energy density, but per-kWh costs higher (or at least no lower) than today's batteries, would be revolutionary for aircraft and an extremely welcome improvement for mobile electronic devices. But I don't think that it would have the same breathtaking macro-impacts on world energy systems as making much cheaper batteries could.
Nice summary! Definitely an interesting use case, the first real world practical application for IPFS that I've seen.
Also most stores prefer to stock lower priced items.
I am going to focus on US centric problems. Here are the two areas I think Americans could use the biggest help:

1) Personal finance - Americans across the board lack basic financial competency. This effects the US across the board, people take on too much credit card debt, school debt, etc. This problem is across all classes (lower, middle, upper) - Americans do not understand basic things on how to budget, how much debt they can take on, how credit cards should work, how to invest, etc. We need financial education happening at the high school level so that the next generation of Americans don't make the same financial mistakes we have (taking on too much school debt, using credit card as loans, not taking advantage of employer 401k, buying houses you can afford, etc)

2) Diet / Eating - If you look at the list of the most common sources of death for Americans, almost every issue is linked to lifestyle (diet, smoking, alcohol, etc.). Our diets have spun out of control; Americans lack basic knowledge on what is healthy or not. I've had many friends who struggle with weight issues who lack even basic knowledge of how calories work, what their daily needs, what are necessary nutrients, etc.)
My thoughts exactly, the space has seen considerable growth... and yes, there's some bad stuff but the market gets smarter and less vulnerable with time. It's overall a large win imo.
It does not work well on Microsoft Edge too. It is a bit is sluggy and touch support seems non-existent (or not working because it scrolls the page too).
> Hamlet really does kill himself, but that truth is not the same kind of truth as Hitler killing himself. Call it different logical theories (i.e. sets of axioms) or different simulations if you're more drawn to a mathematical or computational description of different kinds of truth.

Axioms give us truth, but truth is inaccessible to us in the real world. Reality gives us probabilities, and our ideas about how the world works are good or bad based on how well they allow us to predict the world.

So saying that "Hitler killed himself" is not a "Truth" in that definition of the word, in that it does not follow from axioms, which means it can, conceivably, be disproven. "Hitler killed himself" is, at best, a fact, and facts are statistical in nature; of course, some probabilities are so close to 1 that denying them, or pretending they're uncertain, is insanity.

For more context on what I mean about facts being statistical, read this review of "Surfing Uncertainty":

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...

Hamlet's suicide is a fact about a fictional world, in that it's possible to interpret the text such that it didn't happen, and interpretation shapes meaning. Again, though, some interpretations have so little going for them, textually and logically, that they're non-starters.

So both come down to the same thing, a three-part summary where some people seem bound and determined to ignore, misinterpret, and outright lie about the third part:

1. Truth is only available to us from axiom systems, where it follows inescapably, such that it is impossible to come to any other conclusion within that system.

2. Real life isn't an axiom system. Real life is perceived exclusively as a statistical interpretation of incomplete and flawed sensory data. Compare this to quantum mechanics and I walk you through a mathematical interpretation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle with reference to waves and linear mechanics, I swear to God.

3. However, and this is the part some people refuse to understand and I mean screaming-match level refuse to get, just because we don't have absolute certainty doesn't mean we don't know anything at all. All probabilities are not 50/50, everything is not equally likely, and it is possible to know enough about reality to predict what's likely to happen. That is what the brain does on a moment-to-moment basis and most people live in the same reality as everyone else, and the same reality as inanimate objects. Reality isn't purely a figment of our collective imagination, it isn't purely a matter of opinion, and there's no way to walk on thin air.
If the road isn't plowed and salted, as we do for car-oriented roads to make them usable through the winter and ought to do for all transportation-oriented bike infrastructure, one can purchase a set of studded tires very affordably:
https://www.bike24.com/p238233.html
Yea but the part of the year when it's not cold it stays not cold all night so you don't have to think about the jacket you're going to need to change into every day all year.
integrate it with siri :D
Among my circle (and among news outlets), the hacking of election machines never got that much traction -- possibly because it has little-to-no bearing on the fate of Trump's presidency. But I also think that it has something to do with Jill Stein's attempt to uncover election hacking (in November 2016) and the subsequent finding that there was no successful hack.

It's important to note that hacking of voting machines has no bearing on:

- possible attempted collusion between Kremlin and Trump campaign

- possible manipulation of US voters via fake news campaigns (likely legal, but possibly illegal in some instances)

- possible illegal firing of James Comey

So while this particular angle has started to fall apart, it doesn't really have much bearing on all the angles that people (including Congress, the FBI, and the DoJ) are still very interested in.
So I still don't get her larger point. I think we can all agree emotional draining exists, as you articulated. I also agree it happens in relationships. But then she drags gender into it and loses me entirely.
oops -- i fixed the medium link. thanks for the heads up.

here it is: https://blog.expo.io/introducing-expo-ar-mobile-augmented-re...
> Have to admit, alcohol helps me a lot.

Helps productivity, or helps not feeling bad?
Wow, this is super cool that they thought of / implemented this.

(I think your math on bits is wrong: I'm getting that log2(1010 * 23 * 365 * 4) = 33.4, not 28.)

A few notes on the crypto off the top of my head:

1. 1714 iterations of SHA-256 seems really low given that you're going to be looking this up approximately once per person. My 2010-era laptop can compute about a million hashes per second according to `openssl speed sha256`. A second or two to look this up is definitely comparable with what a human would expect the UX to be for a dynamic website run by a government; honestly I wouldn't complain about up to a minute as long as there was a clear progress bar. So you could easily change it from 1,714 hashes to 1,714,000 without impacting UX, and you should probably do that given the relatively small key space, which would give you a factor of 1000x on the brute force attack.

2. AES-256-CBC with no IV smells funny to me. I guess every message is encrypted with a different key, but the keys themselves are easily derivable (they're just a single SHA-256 hash of the lookup key, and those are all in the public filesystem). I cannot think immediately of an attack against this but maybe someone else can.

3. Your brute-force estimates are what's needed to enumerate the entire lookup key space. The practical attack here is what you've outlined, that you know someone's date of birth and zip code (which are likely in public records). and want their national ID for some identity theft. You're not trying to find some arbitrary person to steal the identity of. That means that the date of birth and zip code are fixed, and you only need to brute-force the DNI portion, which has only 10^5 * 23 possibilities. That's extremely realistic: I can compute 10^5 * 23 * 1715 hashes on my 2010 laptop in a little over an hour.

I guess they do the right thing by only using a part of the DNI string, so you still have three unknown decimal digits, and zero information about what they might be.
They're a State. As a State, they want more power always, not less. Losing a bunch of taxpayers is untolerable for them.
Well, that assumes that all content is linked within ipfs too (which is the case here). Does that clarify it or should I explain further?
>Once everyone else realizes the superiority of cryptocurrency, they will all want to switch over, and the value of fiat currency will collapse.

You really think so? Cryptocurrency requires a massive infrastructure (the internet) and inaccessible physical locations will always have a need for physical cash. It's like saying every country will go digital with money, I don't think that's the case now or in the future. The hand-to-hand gesture is just too fundamental to being human to be circumvented by some clever logic boards.

Credit in crypto? I don't mean to come off as rude, but do you understand that proof-of-stake in crypto is an emerging issue, and that proving that you own a particular bitcoin or that you are even the owner/controller of a particular address on the blockchain, is not an easy task. Credit is built on a secondary or even tertiary idea of "how reliable is this individual to eventually bring the balance back to zero or near zero" and cryptocurrencies don't play in this nether-region, because it is already an amazing innovation that we can have a distributed ledger at all.

To say that credit is the next logical step in the evolution of crypto... I don't think you have really condensed or absorbed the very paramount differences between normal money and cryptocoin. One is a physical IOU, the other is an indication of where transactions have moved. Cryptocurrency is not fundamentally an IOU any more than a bar of Gold is an IOU. Credit is possible with IOUs, but it is not possible if the boolean value is "yes I have one satoshi of gold" or "no I don't"

Thoughts?
The greater region of Montreal considered separating from the rest of Quebec if Quebec were to have separated from Canada.

Same with some Aboriginal communities (who in some ways control vast areas of land, greater in size that many European countries!)

They were quickly denied the right to do so on a legal basis.

It never came to fistycuffs, but it could possibly have.

Independence movements are a tricky thing.
My favorite is the ad bubble of course. I have a Twitter thread discussing it with BrendanEich: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/912750677331283968
I don't know what you're talking about, but the rents are easily the 2nd worst, possibly the worst, in the country. COL adjusted, it is the worst of all the major tech cities [0] for software developers.
0. https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017
This is part of why cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum can never become true currencies. They pretend that credit does not exist. I'm skeptical that a decentralized monetary system is even possible.
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Seriously? I did not know that... so they didn't just drop that pin to the headphones just in-case? what bunch of dicks.

So lets see the full Apple response is really: "We finally rid the radio of that extra FM functionality in our last two phones, and we intentionally made it physically impossible to use in older phones because we have vested interests against FM radio even though it's a potentially life saving form of communication."

And you are defending these people why.
> we're still reeling from thalidomide

Wasn't that one of the FDA's big victories? Perhaps you mean the FDA is far to powerful because of that win.

I can see some argument for abandoning the efficacy requirement, and only going with "safe" but so few drugs actually do anything - isn't it something like a 95% attrition rate? only 1 in 50 actually have a measurable effect?

Maybe the bar is too high. Seems like the bigger challenge, and far far greater win is just making testing cheaper.
Except being Spain, the country where inquisition and conquistadores were born and where Franco ruled till mid 70s?
Technically this is true, sadly. Nationalities are not a protected group.
> It would be utterly ridiculous for any person to sign a contract that said "In the event this company gets hacked, you a personally liable." I wouldn't, and you wouldn't either

Same claim was made before SOX forced attestations.
None of the referenda have been binding referenda (which Congress could provide for, but has not) and most of them except the 2012 two-stage one have been structured, (often at the direction or request of the US federal government) to avoid a clear win for any option other than status quo (including the 2017 one, which had an additional option added at the request of the Trump administration to split voters opposed to the current status.)

Of course, the 2017 referendum was only held at all because the Statehood won by the terms of the 2012 referendum, and the federal government ignored it and the requests by the elected bodies of the government of Puerto Rico to abide by it.

The idea that Puerto Rico is not a state because the people of Puerto Rico have not availed themselves of the opportunity to choose to become one is false.
Well, as the presentation shows he's also increasing the market, attacking traditional public air transportation, as well as increasing the amount of space missions by a margin.

And in the end if the repeated flight is cheaper than a traditional rocket it will still pay off, as long as it flies enough missions to refinance its initial investment.
Trucks coming from the Amazon warehouse also have to come back.

Still, Amazon just gifted me an item when I tried to return it since I ordered it by mistake (and I was honest on the form). I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to avoid recycling returns too.
I think the OP wanted to make clear that domestic creditors far outweigh any foreign one so saying "biggest creditor" was a deceptive statement.
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Even worse of a crime? Could you be more hyperbolic?

unabst did try "other things". Did you read the thread?
I use studded tires in the winter.

http://www.icebike.org/the-ultimate-guide-to-winter-bike-tir...
>the Grid component in particular does about everything
>you could ever imagine, and probably more

Is there anything available comparable with open license?
iPhone 7: https://imgur.com/a/lRN88
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I hope Mozilla shows leadership in adopting IPFS support in Firefox. I don't necessarily want it to adopt IPFS right now, but it should have a plan for when it thinks the project is "mature enough" to be adopted in a mainstream browser, but also it should be early enough that Firefox is the first to do it.

Maybe Mozilla should even get involved early in IPFS so that it can shape the protocols the way it would prefer them to work in its browser later on (while still ensuring the censorship-resistance vision of the project remains intact).
Excellent point.

I sort of got into this discussion a few minutes ago with a friend of mine, but I think part of solving Epic Problems is revisiting the notion that one must work in order to survive, and particularly revisit the 40 hour work-week idea. If we can automate a farmer's job so that he spends 4 hours a day instead of 8 hours a day, does that change the value he provides to society? Of course not. His earnings shouldn't be dependent on hours worked, but rather productivity to society. If that farmer can employ 5 farmhands instead of 10, do the five that lost their jobs really need new jobs? Can we recognize that the economy doesn't need them anymore? Or can we cut the hours so that each farmhand works half-time?

Mind you, we're getting into UBI territory which is outside the scope of this thread, but... How many jobs can you think of that were created in order to maintain or grow a budget? How many middle managers aren't really necessary? Do we really need cashiers at Walmart or Target or the grocery store?

As automation accelerates, we're going to find ourselves more and more in a position of struggling to find new jobs for displaced workers... and I think we should challenge that premise from the start.
I help companies set up and execute these kinds of things. Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat. Happy to give you a bit of free advice if it can help any.
Which also reminds me of Harvey destroying cars and insurance companies.
Rents go up high too. Can't say how well they correlate to prices for buying outright (as your other question asks), but they are high, IME. Also, some property owners raise the rent each year. Talking about residential rents here, but I think commercial ones raise it each year too.
The crypto is far from ideal.

The situation is very similar to password storage, where you want to not make it trivial to brute-force moderate-entropy passwords even if your database gets breached. We have functions designed specifically for that: scrypt, argon2 etc. https://www.npmjs.com/package/scryptsy is a pure JS implementation of scrypt for example.

Even with scrypt the situation is not great, but using sha for this kind of thing is no longer state of the art. If people are willing to (a) download and run a program rather than rely on the browser and (b) willing to wait half a minute or so for the result then you could easily tune the scrypt/argon parameters up to 11 but at the cost of quite a bit in the way of usability. If "must work on smartphones without extra app downloads" is a requirement you're pretty limited in what you can do this way.

Another solution might be to use real servers but host them on the "dark web" - get Tor a bit of publicity in Catalunya!

EDIT: in response to a few posts that briefly appeared and then disappeared again - IPFS is fine. SHA256 for authenticating a page is fine. I'm only objecting to using raw SHA-anything as a key derivation function as in the section "A static database".
I was recently the victim of an attempted mugging, while walking. This occured on a busy road with dozens of cars driving by in the short time this took to happen, but with no other pedestrians around. No car stopped, no driver offered any assistance. I am convinced that, instead of cars, if cyclists or pedestrians were going by, someone would have helped me (even just by calling the police).

I've cycled for years, and gotten all the physical abuse, verbal abuse, horn-blowing, being cut-off, etc. that goes with it. I think a lot of drivers really aren't functioning members of society when they get in their car. They're in their own little world, not connected with reality.
P.S.: I love Haskell too.
Ouch. I'm guessing from our 3 reports it was only tested on desktop :-p
Yes,SciTE!
And if I remember correctly they had a non-monospace font with weird italics as a default. I always thought "How can the first impression of an awesome editor be so bad?"
On one of the websites there is an ax in the coat of arms.

http://www.referendum.cat/

I recognize that ax symbol from somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
At a high enough level a company's customers and employees are one and the same. Exploiting labor can lead directly to a tragedy of the commons. If all companies were able to pursue the cheapest labor possible on a worldwide scale, then the overall disposable income in this nation would proportionally decrease. That income is precisely what ends up being used to purchase a company's products and fund their ventures. In the big picture - when all companies pay less, they end up earning less.

This is also ignoring local effects. As domestic workers are displaced by the cheapest workers across the world, unemployment would increase. As wages decrease and revenues fall you have the ideal scenario to start an economic depression. Rising unemployment and an economy in depression is something that is extremely difficult to stop once it starts. Fear of even the hint of this happening is part of the reason we're already flirting with ostensibly insane economic measures ranging from quantitative easing to negative interest rates.
Do really good American developers actually want to work for IBM? Serious question....
This seems really great, but the reality is that centuries of market failures can be traced to herds of people making foolish decisions. 2008 has been at least partially attributed to the repeal of Glass-Steagal. You can look at how successful multilevel marketing schemes are even today. Opening this stuff up more is just going to lead to a fragile economy.

If those people are actually smarter than the VCs, they can probably find some other way to sustain themselves than ask for $30 million without having anything to show, which shows a lack of imagination.

I don't think that filtering by any means is morally correct: people above 18 years should not be disallowed to invest into whatever they want.

The main problem is that's never been true and never will be true in any economy which has the smallest amount of oversight, and for good reason.
This is a pretty good reader: http://hckrnews.com/

Set to 25% if busy day at work, 50% for normal, and all if you want to waste lots of time. In either case, it takes away the need to check all the time because you might miss something...
I'm on Safari 11.0 (macOS 10.12.6) and none of it works…
It’s time to give Firefox another chance
I live in Bangalore and I'd say he's correct. Bangalore might be better compared to other Indian cities, but nowhere near the level of a American city. There are issues with power outages, water quality/shortage, absurd traffic jams where you'll be stranded for hours, costly real estate and even rent.
Sorry but that's a ridiculous statement. It's like saying all the cloud technology we have today is not much more than having VMs. Yes, AI is hyped, but it made some very unexpected progress over the past 5 years (e.g., solving facial recognition). More than many experts expected.
Really cool technology, but I wish the Linux was a first-class citizen for this, too.

I know Microsoft is making progress support Linux more and more, and they have made Core .NET available for Linux https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/linux

I get they're supporting what they know best. A geek can dream.