skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cURL is a crutch for people who think using telnet and ssh is too complicated. <sarcasm>No one should be involved in tech if using raw HTTP/SMTP/etc protocols seems too complex for them.</sarcasm>
Interview with Olivier Racoupeau – Trends in Modern Yacht Design [video]
"We are working on documenting these security tradeoffs in detail in our whitepaper (and any attempt I make to describe them here will be less accurate and thereby dangerous ;P)."

Maybe a whitelist of nodes themselves? (mostly in jest there)

I suppose an agency with funding who can endlessly sockpuppet could gain a substantial portion of network nodes, but if they're unable to censor more than per-random-packet, a surveillance goal seems more likely. While this may not meet conventional definition of 'censorship', I wonder of the chilling effect. I suppose any such move toward a censorship-free network should expect surveillance. c'est la vie.

Thank you for taking time to answer my question.
If you are so certain, are you putting your money towards this and betting on your assumptions being correct?
You have made my dreams come true. Wow, some of the most exciting things I have seen on HackerNews in the last decade have shown up just in the last year. Thank you for building this!

What did you guys use? Tensorflow? Any chance it will be Open Sourced so we can learn from it?
What political instability in the US? Please define what you mean by instability, the US has been the most stable national government since it was founded, with a big exception of the Civil War of course. Even then, compare it to the governments of any continental European or Asian or African nation that isn't part of the British Commonwealth, and we have had a stable democracy while basically every single non-commonwealth government has gone through collapse, been reformed, and collapsed again in the meantime.

I mean it's easy to say 'inequality' as some kind of Marxist trump card that you think automatically ends all possible debate, but meanwhile things in the US are fine. Fine != Perfect, of course, but it is yet to be demonstrated that you can have a socialist/market capitalist welfare state that functions outside of the Nordic countries. Every other attempt at it has been a complete disaster.
Tax evasion.
>My mind absolutely boggles at the prospect of not being able to tell the difference between null, false, and the empty list.

What's so strange about it? That's how it has always been in C for example, Python didn't have a boolean type either for a good while, and lots of languages are like that.
In terms of units, Fitbit has probably been the most successful so far (22m units sold in 2016). They don't get attention in the US, but the Mi Band from Xiaomi isn't far behind.
Kotlin. I've seen first hand an entire Java shop switch to Kotlin and love it. That's a powerful thing.
FWIW, my name was pretty prominently in Cydia, so if you ever used it, you saw it a lot ;P.
> You're not allowed to stab people in the supermarket I frequent, and yet there's nobody standing at the door frisking all the customers.

Because stabbings aren't expected there, but shop lifting is, which is why they actively work to prevent that via different methods such as mirrors and cameras.

The same thing applies here.

> they would simply make it clear to their employees what isn't allowed and expect them to do the right thing most of the time

Well, clearly this isn't what happened. After all, the filming didn't get him fired. Rather, it was the posting of the video after review copies had been sent out. He probably thought it was fine.

So clearly Apple's approach isn't working.

> That this story counts as news proves that their approach works very well most of the time.

Let's apply that same standard to something like Equifax.

Sorry, but Apple went overboard here.
I would be interested in more summary statistics rather than just mean (NIPE), particularly median. What story is actually being told by this data, that tobacco growth and sales are highly automated and they employ relatively few people, or that execs are disproportionately compensated relative to other industries, or what?
I don't feel bad for anyone, here. The father was flat-out stupid: there's no excuse for him not knowing Apple's policies around this sort of thing. The daughter should know better than to even take a video of an unreleased Apple product while in the office, let alone release it. These people are just incredibly foolish, and firing the guy is entirely justified. They're lucky Apple isn't suing the daughter for what I can only assume is a breach of the NDA she presumably signed before being let into the office.

I personally would not work for a company that has such high requirements for strict secrecy that Apple does, but this guy did, and assuredly knew that going in.
I read your comment and I picture a sort of information balkanization via endless whack-a-mole of privacy tech and organizational surveillance.

It may just be how it will ever be.
>Perhaps because of the surrounding language?

Probably not, since C also has the same issue, and it's not very important there either, while at the same time being totally different as a language from Lisp.
Thanks for he response. I don't see any of the problems you list as being generally regarded as unsolvable. There are lots of solutions for each that have nothing to do with LVT. I agree that widespread implementation of LVT would help with many of those problems, but claiming that they are regarded as unsolvable or that LVT is necessary to solve them doesn't make you seem very credible. Anyway, I agree that's it's frustrating that more people aren't aware that LVT could help.

My favorite LVT-influenced person is Donald Shoup. He doesn't talk much about LVT, but is making as big a positive difference on land policy as anyone -- in the US/English language anyway; I hope there are people informed by LVT theory making a bigger difference elsewhere, probably China.
I'm much more likely to trust my life to a company which says people own the stuff they buy, and that you shouldn't need to ask permission to do stuff with it, than a company that has every reason to lie about their products' capabilities and maybe even let your car choose to sacrifice you for someone else. I think it's quite likely comma.ai's position would never be to make a car operate outside of the owner's self-interest.
So you're saying UBI has a better chance of working if we took away private land ownership and the government was everybody's landlord?
> I wish I had a language that did optional typing

> they exist, but I don't use them.

:/

The author's thoughts (I want to write dynamically to get the code working, but then make it static afterwards) are nearly the exact thing I've heard from Matthias Felleisen when he talks about the motivation behind Typed Racket.
Drug-laced mice to be used to combat brown tree snake
US is only one destination. More striking their net migration is -1.8 million per year. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_mig...

Still, 75,000 per year is quite a bit, China has 17 million births per year so ~1/2 a percent moves to the Us each year. Assuming it's concentrated among the top 5% that's 10% of their elite just gone to the US let alone EU etc.
I used Apollo Domain machines in the early 90s at university. We had a lab full of them, they were impressive even then. I saw the World Wide Web for the first time on one of those (NCSA Mosaic). I never looked into it’s history. Everything was upgraded to HP PA RISC workstations shortly after which seemed like starships at the time. Thanks!
China knows this, which is why Chinese companies set up research centers in Silicon Valley to attract talent. e.g. Andrew Ng when he worked at Baidu.
PagerDuty is a crime against humanity.
There is active discussion of this, which means I am not prepared to say it won't happen or that it can't happen, but I am also not prepared to guarantee it will happen (as then you will ask when ;P).
Indeed. Economists have accurately predicted 9 of the last 7 recessions.
I’m not sure how I feel about LVT. It seems like the most fair form of taxation, but physical land is decreasingly tied to productivity and wealth, so it seems to make less sense than in the past.
Thank you very much for the response. I empathize with the noise-vs-signal concerns with premature public feedback. Just wanted to share my thoughts because the first thing I look for in these cases is code. While y'all's credentials are clear, we've just seen so much snake oil in the decentralized tech industry.
Clearly they don't seems to know what is encryption.

Because there are only two types of encryptions: Ones that work, ones that don't.

It's a none or everyone deal: Once an encrypt algorithm got cracked, everyone can then access to the encrypted data.

"responsible encryption", ha! why don't call it "illusional encryption"
> This would be a disruptive inconvienance [sic] for Chinese business people, deeply effecting [sic] commerce, as well as quality of life for the average Chinese citizen.

This sentence has two typos. It should be changed to:

> This would be a disruptive inconvenience for Chinese business people, deeply affecting commerce, as well as quality of life for the average Chinese citizen.

But TBH, stating that the lack of WebRTC or VPS web hosting would, "deeply affect the quality of life for the average Chinese citizen," seems like hyperbole. Maybe:

> This would be a disruptive inconvenience for Chinese business people, deeply affecting commerce and web access for millions of Chinese citizens.
Using PoW `Medallions' on top of a PoW blockchain to prevent Sybil attacks seems redundant. Why not just require Ether commitments from bandwidth providers? Users can then set a configurable threshold for commitment lengths/amounts according to individual needs.

This is the first I'm hearing of probabilistic payments. Are you aware of any other systems, proposed or operational, using this to pay for bandwidth? It seems like a natural fit.
How about the government agencies and administration leads in this area? They can use "responsible encryption" for all their stuff, with access granted to relevant oversight committees. If after several years nothing is compromised, and no agency ever encrypts anything "irresponsibly", then this discussion about implementing these laws can start.
I enjoyed it but it definitely is. Look at the speed of the candles flickering
Please don't post unsubstantive rants here.

If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
A more accurate statement might be that the government is paying people to produce cigarettes.
Well, there's always the classic for backing up an entire directory structure:

find . [optional criteria] -depth -print | cpio -ovBm -O <device/path>
It's not exceeding specifications because maximum specifications are undefined. Supose you want a 1 meter +/- 1 cm long wooden board, a board can only get closer to exactly 1m, but it's meaningless to suggest it can exceed that specification. On the other hand you can get close to the edge of acceptance at 1meter +/- 0.9999 cm.

Aka, To be a low quality chair something must first be a Chair. A decomposed Apple is dirt not a low quality Apple.
I understand the model you are presenting. My question again is, is it useful enough to guide policy decisions?

Based on the information given, it doesn't seem like it is. Perhaps there are other mechanisms in place (like this job-security council) which compensate?

How would you expect the Swedish job market to look if employees didn't have these protections?

You ask: "Why would you want to work for someone that dislikes you and doesn't want you around?"

Here's an example from the blog of a small-town teacher I read. If you are a teacher, and coach Little League baseball, and the principal puts pressure on you to place the county education board member's grandson on the team (say it's from pressure from the board member), then who's going to back you if you refuse, and end up on the principal's bad side?

Or are you going to quit your job, uproot your family, and move away? Because it's likely not easy to find another teaching job in the same small town.

To put it another way, why is it that if 1 person dislikes you out of the 40 or 50 people you work with, and that person happens to be the principal, then you have to leave? Why does he deserve that much power over you?
Author here -- boxplot distribution is in the article.

Also, any story I could string together would definitely be speculative, so just stuck to the few facts I know for purposes of article. Will speculate here, however :) -- I'm going to guess primary driver is efficient manufacturing coupled with simple product offering. (e.g. this isn't some Tech company employing X% of it's workforce for R&D purposes)
What's the weakest point in the design so far?
Conway's Game of Life Created with Lua and LÖVE Framework
I think both of you guys are partially correct, which was my original point.

I never said the Google guy was correct or wrong. In fact, parts of it makes sense and parts of it doesn't.

What irritates me is that people are making a huge fallacy. For example two people can have a whole set of arguments that conflict with one another. Let's assume we can absolutely measure whether a statement is absolutely correct or not. And two people each make their own set of statements about a topic.

Person A: Right - wrong - wrong - Right

Person B: Wrong - Right - Right - Wrong

Instead of A and B sharing their ideas and coming to a conclusion which will be

Right - Right - Right - Right

They keep fighting over small details and say "Because you have this little part that's wrong, your entire argument is wrong" to one another. This will never resolve because they each have errors in their arguments for a fact.

Any humble person would agree that he/she is not a perfect being therefore prone to errors, especially when it comes to complex topics like politics.
Are you talking about https://www.torproject.org? We have different standards for websites it seems. That looks like it jumped out of the mid 90s to me.
In low tax states, cigarettes retail for less than $5/pack. Manufacturers are likely only getting $3-4/pack, but your point still stands.
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There's a lot of projects that sound exactly like this. What they all have in common is that they all use an Ethereum (ERC20/22) token and all have very large amounts of money flowing into them, from private investors, companies, ICOs, etc.

It would be nice to see more projects take routes that projects like tor take, where the founders do not accept millions of dollars of money before they even have a working and complete protocol.

Ethereum has some amazing potential and technology behind it but I lost interest in this the second I saw they had already raised $5M and haven't even done their ICO yet. Their FAQ section seems woefully incomplete given this amount of money.
Anti-trust or a heavy wave of regulations, like what happened to Microsoft decades ago, is a significant risk. Given the proceedings of the Mueller investigation, it's certainly not out of the realm of possibilities for new laws governing internet advertising.
Is the revenue per pack $5? In some jurisdictions, a pack of cigs costs less than that, and in others double or more.

The biggest component in the price of tobacco appears to be sin taxes.
What's better?

Hashcash is interesting, but it's probably not applicable to every scenario and it hasn't seen much adoption. There might even be a bit of a stigma now around proof-of-work algorithms because of cryptocurrency mining.
Demo for Salesforce Einstein Sentiment Analysis API
this should have "keto" option
Agree, love this syntax

obj = nil
obj&.gsub("f","g") # => nil
obj = "food"
obj&.gsub("f","g") # => "good"

Unfortunately this is not likely second nature and will continue to bite us, especially where our expectations about AR models are not well thought out. A wrapping class for nillables might force safe access of AR attributes.
He's not. I don't know why people assume that red-green color blindness/deficiency is equal to colorblindness. Because it's not. There is no need to save characters or be imprecise on this matter.
Sure it may be used. But it's still a wrong usage. If you mean red/green say it. Otherwise it is not clear what is meant, and of course I'll assume total color blindness. Although, in german there are two words for this. "Rotgrünschwäche" and "Farbenblind". The first one is red/green, the other one total. People usually don't use both for different meanings.
> After all, the filming didn't get him fired. Rather, it was the posting of the video after review copies had been sent out.

Likely they did fire him for just the act of (allowing) filming, but didn't know about the video until it was posted.

> He probably thought it was fine.

I sincerely doubt that. Apple employees have it drilled into their heads that this sort of thing is absolutely not ok, and have signed legal agreements to that effect.

Hell, a friend of mine who often has very-pre-release versions of iOS on his phone at times doesn't even allow anyone else to touch his phone, based on the rules that have been laid out for him by Apple. He doesn't even let other Apple employees touch his phone unless they're also internally cleared to see what's in those pre-releases.

> Sorry, but Apple went overboard here.

They went overboard by... enforcing the terms of their employment agreement? No, they were perfectly justified here.
Because they are in the business of spying on you and your close ones, which is immoral for every decent man.
In my recent travel to India, I realized that "normal" broadband speed is usually 1Mbps. Almost everything on Internet comes to crawl. Vimeo and GitHub is surprisingly bad. I can't even download the releases of project > 1 GB due to timeouts and errors in Chrome. So I'd to VPN to my US computer, download it to dropbox and then wait for sync in my India machine :).
Just last week I basically ranted about how likely I was to just stop using sites now with reCAPTCHAs, after spending like four different attempts at identifying cars in pictures. Would love this browser plugin.
I've been seeing the 'responsible encryption' meme popping up quite a bit recently. Like this bloke, who thinks people that want working encryption are extremists. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20171024_legal_controls_on_ext...
The peculiar psychoanalysis of job hiring
You caught this answer right before it was updated with a much longer answer that I had written a couple days ago (and which fixes at least one of those typos). Would you mind reviewing it to see if you still think it is a stretch?
His explanation is at https://www.colorado.gov/governor/sites/default/files/legisl...
The engineer who left a pre-release iPhone 4 in a bar wasn't fired. The cases where they have fired employees for leaks have all involved deliberate action on the part of the employee.
Cigarettes are literally dried up leaves. Their customers light the product on fire and then buy more the next day. Given that as a viable business model, how do you not make ridiculous quantities of money?
Certain there will be a market cycle? Of course? Certain when it will happen? Hell no!

I'm fully in the market with zero intention of trying to time anything.

It will go down and back up. That much is certain. I'm ready to ride it out!
> What political instability in the US?

The election of Trump and the near-election of Sanders.

They are signs that a huge chunk of the population is discontent with our political system and with the direction of the country. A history of collapse isn't required for there to be instability in a nation.

> it is yet to be demonstrated that you can have a socialist/market capitalist welfare state that functions outside of the Nordic countries.

I didn't say that's what we should do to solve the problem, merely stated the fact that worker protection laws are important, then questioned when return on investment should supersede quality of life. A socialist welfare state wasn't involved in the 1930's when inequality declined in the US, which is proof that things can change without such systems.

I worry that if we don't do something about the growing discontent among our lower and lower-middle classes, they'll continue electing populist candidates until someone truly dangerous gets elected, and I feel that correcting the inequalities caused by globalization and the strong dollar would be a good place to start.
The answer you aren't looking for is probably something like "traffic cloaking" or "connection bootstrap", but my personal answer to that question is "so you sit down at a computer and download our software. you have a wallet full of cash and credit cards... now what?".
I usually make small mistakes identifying things, intentionally.
The coming correction is going to be a big one! <> 10-20% correction will come giving you an opportunity to buy low again

Honestly, I wouldn't consider a 20% correction big, if you're up 33% in the last 12 months.
Just posted 2 hours earlier, 145+ points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15574814
The dominant model in the US has downright cheap homes. Partly because of the parking lots and auto-oriented organization (if you can keep building out, you have a lot less upwards pressure on price). CA/NY is not representative of home prices in most of the country.

It's not perfect, but neither is the NY model, the London model, the Tokyo model, the Beijing model...
Do they have any real proposals? It would be interesting to see what they want to do. It sounds a little like "clean coal" which never materialized.
Societies that balkanize rip themselves apart. History is replete with examples. Why would we want the same thing here where we have a success story to tell the world about?

I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm saying it's a thing. As far as "success story". Things aren't too "successful" in places like Albany Ga - where factories have left, was once rated the murder capital of the US, and is consistently rated as one of the poorest cities in the US.

GA has both one of the poorest cities in America (Albany) and one of the wealthiest cities (Johns Creek) and one of the wealthiest counties (Forsyth County). Everything that you tout about GA isn't benefiting areas outside of metro Atlanta.

I've spent half my life in South Ga and the other half in metro Atlanta. It's two completely different worlds as far as opportunity, outlook, and world view.

But if you were gay, Muslim, etc. where would you rather live, Tyty Ga or Atlanta?
Hashcash. If you want to add money revenue (like reCaptcha does by making me work without payment) use something like Monero mining (Coinhive for example).

I'll take the PoW captcha any day.
I use some projects and don't mind using or being paid in their respective tokens.

That is a value greater than 0 as long as I exist. Now multiply me by 10,000 and the answer is yes?
The kind of customer that reuses passwords is probably the kind that won't enable 2FA if it's optional.