skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a generation of kids like me the definitive story of X-Men wasn't the comics or the movies, it was this TV show. The complexity and the maturity of the stories in the series might even go beyond the current Marvel cinematic universe.
This is actually already a thing., check out Gridcoin. Been around for a couple years but never really took off. I still think it's a really good idea, but might need better marketing.

http://www.gridcoin.us/
How many miles cycled = one bitcoin mined?
>I'd rather live in a world where 20 countries have 50 warheads each, then one where two countries have 4,000 warheads each.

Now instead of two political leaders to worry about, you have 20. Not sure if that's what you really want.
And why, after so many years, MS introduced Powershell.

Now you can do a GUI-less Windows server install, as manage it completely over the CLI.

Never mind that with Windows 10 there is no damned way to tell Windows to request a new address from DHCP if the initial attempt failed. The only way to do so is via the CLI and ipconfig.
Same problem as lead, IIRC.
They generally have jobs that are the least likely to be flexible with start and end hours.
Pretty clever, I've never thought about it like that. Basically they turned a computer into a heater that pays for itself plus some. Makes you think we should be building datacenters where the heat could be used, rather than just pumping it out.
Oh, you have all that med insurance shit for those smarties who can handle electricity rate plans.
> Disher: I remember us smoking in the recording studio. I remember because when I got pregnant, I had to ask people to not smoke when I was in the room. It just boggles my mind now, that we were allowed to light up in a recording studio.

It's amazing how that sort of thing gets hard to remember. Reading that paragraph, I remember now that when I was 12 or so, we'd go out to restaurants which had smoking or non- sections - and the only real "separation" between the two was the main aisle from the entrance to the back.

Boggles the mind to imagine something like that now. A guy walked into a pizza place with a pinched off cigarette over lunch, and I did a double-take.
That how lineage ships by default. It's a bit of a pain and many other apps (even open source ones) won't work, since google is providing the library for those apps to do things like access your location.
I think the prior comment references 'leadership' as a status ("Apple is the Leader in Design"), not a person or position ("Jony Ive leads the design team").
Experience Designer
At a company I used to work for we used to get a set of these every time we made a bulk order. But the company was just four people and we made those orders 3 or 4 times a year, so eventually we were basically drowning in very well insulated hand tools.
Sure, but is that implied by "reify"? My understanding is that they are reified and thus it is possible to make a timeline from them. CLI commands are only recorded into a timeline because of shell history, after all--if you call a CLI from a different mechanism, does it become not-reified?
I think specific activities, irrespective of industry, should have their external costs priced in.

I don't think that failure to do so the same thing as a cash subsidy.
> The only way to verify that a person isn't a bot is to make babies with them.

For some reason I feel like there are other ways......
I'm doing barbell rows as well. I typically do four sets of three different exercises each (plus warmup and cooldown), so I'll do 12 different exercises over the course of a workout, and what those 12 are vary somewhat week to week. It's typically about 2/3 weights, 1/3 bodyweight exercises.

It's lifting, it's a regimen, so it's a lifting regimen. And it's been very effective at quickly adding strength, endurance, and flexibility to my initially bad starting position.

Don't assume your way of doing things is the only way to do things.
Of course. You learn quickly ;-)
Don't know about the US, but in the UK all those are taxable benefits, so they would reduce employees' take-home pay.

BTW I've never heard of a company moving for its employees' benefit, unless by "employees" you mean "senior management & board members".
Likely the NYSE, they've decided to make some money off of algorithmic trading by charging a non-display fee, where it costs thousands of dollars per month to use stock quotes for anything other than displaying to a human, and have been on a warpath enforcing it, causing a large fight between the NYSE and Bloomberg, Citadel, etc. with lots of lawyers and government regulators involved.

I can't imagine they're happy about people possibly using Google or Yahoo Finance APIs for similar purposes either (since most of the uses of market data APIs are probably for non-display use).

http://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-letter-targets-nyse...

https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/data/Policy-NonDisplay_...
hey! One of said creators here! We haven't figured out how to monetize / properly fund this yet. It's more so a problem we saw and attempted to solve. The cost right now is a couple hundred dollars month in server costs.
Senior Experience Designer
This reminds me of an old osnews article i dug up a while back.

http://www.osnews.com/story/6282/The-Command-Line--The-Best-...

It basically talk about teaching older people to use computers by way of the unix CLI.
For those kind of checks why would you look at the source? Stick a proxy between the internet and the device to see what it does.

Seems waaaay easier than looking for the mythical badCodeGoesHere function.
Which city are you in?
You can have blockchains without decentralized consensus. It's how Certificate Transparency works.

You have the contract host record all operations and output on a ledger, and then ship that ledger/log out to monitors. This improves the auditability of the system, and enforces the backend logic as a contract. Deviations from the code are detectable by replay, and then provable. Flag the host and readjust your trust.

You can also find ways to reduce the cost of switching between traditional hosting models, such as using data-sharing networks (Dat, IPFS) to quickly "hydrate" a new host, and good ole configurable endpoints to make the switch.

It's the opposite of a trustless network; it's a trust network built on accountability. You watch hosts for bad behavior (such as the violation of the backend contract) and reconfigure trust around violations. No decentralized operation, but much less wasteful than PoW.
> I hate seeing people post FUD

I hate people accusing others of spreading FUD. What happened to people being simply mistaken? Do you have any proof his or her ill intent?
Founder's spouse working at a startup?
I've come across two early-stage venture-funded startups recently where a founder's wife has a "Head of X", but non-founder, role. In both cases they have the right background and seem to do good work, but it still strikes me as an odd decision - lots of possibility for things to go wrong, conflicts of interest real or perceived, etc.

Have any of you come across this before? Is it common? In your experience, has it ended badly? Do you consider it a red flag when looking for jobs?
I don't really think that we believe either of those things; it seems a lot has been written on how MAD is a rather poor sentiment to rest our future upon.

But all that aside, 20 countries each having 50 warheads seems a lot likelier to end up with 20 countries each having thousands of warheads than 2 countries having thousands of warheads and everyone else none does, no?
> the same holds for many other of the items displayed

Like what? I really can't think of anything that has the same ratio of danger to visual subtlety.
Wouldn't you rather live in a world where all governments had zero nuclear weapons each?

A nuclear bomb serves no other purpose than killing huge numbers of civilians in a short period of time. Shouldn't we strive for a world where nobody has that capability? Not to mention that in the United States, one man has unilateral and final authority to launch a nuclear first strike.

Edit: countries -> governments
Why fact-challenged YouTubers are obsessed with an imaginary coup on Nov. 4
I have Comcast and I WFH and at least once per month I have a daytime outage of several hours. They're response is usually, "it'll be back up soon, goodbye."

I would pay MORE to have municipal internet if I didn't have to put up with Comcast anymore.
Creator here! We do identify bot-like activity on both sides of the spectrum (pro-hillary and pro-trump).
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I do a lot of work with RethinkDB + Pandas. We should talk.
Yup, this ars article about Orcas Island a while back[1] perfectly illustrates that you can build a good local service that out performs and is cheaper if you aren't chasing a profit motive.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/how-a...
The 90s were truly a golden age for TV adaptations of coming books. X-Men,the Batman & Superman animated series,along with Spiderman and more were classics.
I think that's actually a feature, not a problem. A representative government will be, well, representative, of the people who elected it into power. The various social currents in beliefs and morals will find an expression in the persons of elected leaders.

What is really a problem, I think, is the lack of responsible and well-informed citizens as well as competent and altruistic leaders. This seems to be the case in modern, western-type democracies: we vote incompetent idiots in power, because there's no good alternatives and we wouldn't know one if it hit us in the head with a bundle of fasces.

The idea that you can replace responsible citizens and competent leaders with a ruling elite of (more or less) enlightened individuals given catholic powers for life is an idea at least as long as democracy itself (possibly discoursed over even earlier than Plato's The Republic). Personally, I'm not sympathetic to it.

There are other altneratives. Many of my friends and some intellectuals I love to listen to facour anarchy, but I dont' think that sort of thing really works for any length of time.

And, if we could solve the big problem of how to govern ourselves, we would probably soon afterwards find solutions to the bigger problems that confront us as a species: climate change, nuclear proliferation, poverty etc.
It could certainly be done with lenticular printing (to some extent...)
Just know that ML jobs are just statisticians with sexier names
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I don’t think it’s toxic to apply the utmost scrutiny to outlets like NYT. There have been many events that have demonstrated their decided lack of journalistic integrity (silently editing articles after publication, overt bias, playing with release timing...).

The internet has broken mainstream media’s monopoly on “the truth” so it seems a natural next step that they are viewed objectively based on their actions instead of their perceived and heavily marketed position of authority.

Postmodernism itself is the byproduct of the Information Age giving people access to multiple viewpoints. I’m glad to see the playing field leveled.
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Implementing this to replace a very low usage exchange rate form. The format of their data is... odd. E.g. -

{
"Realtime Currency Exchange Rate": {
"1. From_Currency Code": "BND",
"2. From_Currency Name": "Brunei Dollar",
"3. To_Currency Code": "USD",
"4. To_Currency Name": "United States Dollar",
"5. Exchange Rate": "0.73326846",
"6. Last Refreshed": "2017-11-03 17:37:12",
"7. Time Zone": "UTC"
}
}

Why the numbers and mix of underscores and spaces in keys?
I think there is more than one flaw.

They started by identifying "left- or right-leaning" tweets. Then they decided that everything in-between were bots. Who decides what is left and what is right, and who decided that anything other than those extremes is "fake news"? There are ethical questions here.

It scares me that we now find it acceptable to classify accounts as "bots" or "Russian-backed" because of any content in the tweets, even if it's #LockHerUp or #BuildTheWall. If people really believe these things, shouldn't they be allowed to say them? What if tomorrow, something that you strongly believe in becomes labelled "fake news" or "propaganda", and your own accounts are shut down?

The methodology is flawed in the most fundamental way.

There are other technologies that can be used for detecting bots[0]. Twitter should use it.

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2014/12/are-you-robot-introd...
The Google Play Services collect a ton of data. And for that to happen, your phone has to send this data to Google, which drains battery.
This is the correct URL: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/02/stack-overflow-lays-off-st...
Yes, I would. Please sign me up when you figure out how to do this
What’s so weird about that? This is nothing new. Before wireless that hardware switch was the Ethernet cable.
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When you don't have expertise in a field and don't have time to study it, the wisest decision is to trust the scientific community with expertise in that field (and verify as soon as you are able). Even if they are wrong they are the best informed on the matter, and are probably wrong for good reasons. Siding with non-experts who offer no serious counterarguments to the claims and evidence scientists put forth is not rational.

I have met and discussed climate change with climate scientists much smarter than me. These people research at institutes world renowned for ground breaking fundamental research and that I personally highly admire. At this point there is no question of whether it is happening or human-induced. They're now using state of the art techniques to research and predict innovation, technology's future ability to reduce climate change, impact on ecosystems and natural resources, impact on urban economies, technologies and social changes that can reduce emissions, infrastructure changes and policy that could be put in place to prevent catastrophe.

I understand most people don't have the opportunity to meet climate change researchers like I have. I don't mean to make an appeal to authority beyond acknowledging that I am not an authority and don't know much about climate science compared to these people. But I do think calling it intellectually fashionable is hugely understating the amount of intellectual and financial resources being out into solving this issue. It's the driving academic force of our time.
Your entire comment is wrong, and toomanybeersies is right.

Source: https://www.defensetech.org/2013/09/27/ohio-class-subs-to-sh...
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There have been many accidents, of a kind where even one is one too many. Given the potential damage, I certainly don't feel comfortable with your assessment that there wasn't any danger it would go off.

Likely these things happen more often than is publicly known, yet we've not (yet) seen a full-on swiss cheese kind of accident.
This is insanely great. An ideal system would be developing something like this to do PSD to HTML, instead of having it identify predefined components.
Ask HN: How do you mock a 3rd party REST server?
Hello,

I'm making a github integration, so I rely on github's rest api on my backend.

I wonder how I can do unit tests for my backend by mocking github's api?

What method do you recommend?

Thanks
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> Then we could use this computation for something that's actually valuable

So Bitcoin is not valuable?
You can't just un-invent nukes. They're there, they provide nuclear deterrence. They will continue to exist no matter how many countries "agree" to stop using them. Regardless of whether you have them, there is always a chance that someone might still keep the nukes in secret despite what they agreed to. No one would want such a risk if they have an option to avoid it.
I think you're confusing CLI (an application interface) with a command line. I would argue that CLI applications are inherently more discoverable than GUI applications, if only because `cli --help` or `man cli` give you a pretty complete overview of the functionality; the GUI equivalent is digging through menus and modals--this is getting better with Help->Search, but it's not as nice as `cli --help | grep <feature>`.

I think the real usability issue of CLI is that their potential is handicapped if you don't know how to compose these programs, etc. In other words, if you don't know your way around a Unix command line, you're not going to be able to make use of the tool that assume that knowledge.

I think this is different than what you're saying, but maybe I'm just repackaging your points?
Well, I think I officially feel ashamed to be an American now...America needs to fix both the medical system and affordable housing. It doesn't really deserve to be seen as a civilized, first world nation as things stand currently.

California in particular is worse of in many of these regards. The imbalance of political power in California, skewed to the urban population centers, to the affluent, and to the left has resulted in policies that disadvantage the less educated, lower income, and rural populace. If you go out into the countryside, you can find an anger which can only be explained by people who have been beleaguered on a fundamental level, that of culture and livelihood. On top of that, there are definite non-governmental socio-cultural systems which further work against them. (It is much easier to see these things when you are outside them or have been cast out of them. Let's just say that I've had the misfortune of a broader point of view.)

What I see happening in California is a cultural and political ascendancy of the left, which has become drunk on power which it is abusing. The political right aren't saints, but no faction of human beings are saints and the corruption of power is universal. While we nerds spend our attention on esoteric fripperies like IPAs and keyboards, our society is starting to resemble France when someone said, "after me, the deluge."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n-xhFLkgiE

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/05/california-schools-ear...
I did not need to be tearing up at work today :(
Interesting, I didn't know NYC apartments get so cold! But yeah, maybe it's just me, but I prefer sleeping in a warm (or hot) rooms.

Also, it's still actually cold outside. Coldest mornings the year I left my parents apartment were around -40C (-40F). I personally withdraw from going outside by choice after it gets below -30C (-22F). Below that point, I start having random nose bleeds of blood. People from the south may pass out.
Sometimes they pass power through, sometimes they don’t. Some are thunderbolt, some aren’t. Try getting a monitor to work with peripherals plugged into the monitor and have the laptop charge. It is a pretty incredible corner that Apple have painted themselves into. https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c
Why hello there, neighbour!
Thank you. I'm a hardware guy and I've heard about a dozen of explanations of what Docker is and even tried to set it up on my NAS but I still have no idea. And to the person about to comment with your version, I don't really care to know.
Yeah, obviously comments on this shitty message board should have a much higher standard for civility and professionalism than the development process of a major operating system. /s
As a child, I thought Dungeons and Dragons, X-Men, Spider Man (the 90s version), and the DCAU series (Batman, Superman, etc.) were really fantastic cartoon series. I've seen some of them since then, and they still hold up really well.

Most of the comic book and related shows today, including Marvel's, seem comparatively unwatchable and immature. They are definitely not designed to be for anyone but the youngest children. Young Justice is a notable exception.
Twitter already uses automation with false positives. For example get enough followers in short enough amount of time and your account can be taken offline. One of popular ways to using bots as attack weapon these days.

No false positives ship has already sailed. What you can best hope now is timely response to mistakes (and as few of them as possible).
Spun up 4.3 BSD Unix on SIMH a few years back -

Definitely puts things in chronological perspective to boot up something from that era (1986) and find it to be just about as functional as the base system today..

This is in contrast (imho) to v7/32v from only a few years prior which feels very 'incomplete' as compared to a modern system.
OK, but I did say "the (vast) majority".

Also, from what I can tell, this just happens to work better with a meaningful shape (the image of a T-Rex). It has something to do with how we confuse convex with concave shapes and the T-Rex's snout just happens to be very convenient to demonstrate this confusion (e.g., I think an image of a horse would work as well). I think the illusion would also work with an abstract shape- except it would be harder to find a good abstract shape to demonstrate it as clearly as with the T-Rex.
Because they don't serve the customer, they serve the investor. In the short term (quarter to quarter), you'll make the investor happier which means more money (or at least not a drop in share price.) You can deal with the loss of any customers by slowly raising prices and charging extra made-up fees.
Edited out for space, mostly :)

My target audience is founders of very early-stage startups, so I cut the section under the assumption that they probably won't have much technical debt yet.
that's a fairly toxic and silly attitude towards a free software project. Don't like it - don't use it.

I personally think it's great that there are people who are working on making R faster/better/popular, even though I may disagree with the methods they've chosen to achieve those goals.
Splitting utility costs between roommates is NP-Complete
> and then assumed that all their followers were also bots

This seems like a fatal flaw, are the subsequent layers also bots? I mean, if bots have no human followers, what is the problem?
Guess they're gonna have to up their campaign contributions again.
I am also convinced of Russian culpability for the DNC, Podesta, Powell, McCain, etc hacks due to evidence.
There is a big difference between "possibly biased" and "spreading verifiable falsehoods". There is a big difference between "reporting on corruption" and "inciting violence".

This kind of false equivalence is almost as toxic as the verifiable lies being promulgated by various "media" sources.
There is this company too: https://computing.qarnot.com/

It's built on the same idea but a more mature and more general solution to the same problem.
Really impressive. One question though - back in 1985, when I first logged in to a real VAX 11/780 running BSD 4.2, it was on a VT220 terminal connected through a terminal on a DZ11 (I think). Is that also available in the simulation?