skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they need to have a majority of mining power moving to the new fork for it to work though...
Using china as an example, taxis (and Uber equivalents) are much cheaper there to use than the USA while non labor costs (gas and cars) are actually more expensive than in the states. So I would guess labor is a large part of the cost, or it doesn’t really make sense. Maybe not 10x cheaper, but half as much is probably reasonable.
Reading that makes me feel sick.
But who cares? They convinced us somehow that self driving cars are important, but it’s just self-important, gets the investors attention and money. Now time to move on to the next big thing.
so many questions...
Also see the Grenfell Tower fire, and the follow-up investigations which showed that many other buildings are at risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
While \this\ is understandable, it is a lot less professional than italic text. It's all about presentation, and this is a shortcut to a better presentation with the same amount of effort.
> "Trump won, and we didn't foresee it, so it must have been Russia tricking stupid, dumb rednecks into voting for him"

I disagree that is what the narrative is. I agree, though, that it's not likely any significant number of people (if any) switched votes.

To me, the narrative is that Russia was, and is, sowing discord into politics. They are just trying to incite more civil strife and divide us more. And that is what seems to be working.

The recently publicized ads, for example, all just reinforce right and left-leaning stereotypes. They don't try to get anyone sitting on the fence.
Once again, this is supposed to be better than, and different from, "traditional" law! It has no purpose if the contracts don't actually do what they say. The whole point is that computers evaluate the contracts and do what they say.
There are no FAA regulations regarding phones/electronic devices other than a blanket rule that you can only enable them with the permission of the captain. The rules regarding cellphone use on planes is from the FCC. They don't want tubes full of transceivers broadcasting at max power (phones ramp up power to search for towers where there are none) high above the earth where they can broadcast over the greatest physical area. At 30k+ft this is not a huge concern (too high for a noticeable increase in the noise floor) but in terminal areas they could conceivably tie up bandwidth on every tower in the city. Whether this is a concern with modern cell towers is up for debate however.
The demand for locally trained highly trained people is stifled by the easy access to highly trained people trained by someone else. Reducing the influx of highly skilled immigrants may have the virtuous effect of increasing the demand for local high quality education, which may, in the long term, reduce the the education gap between US and China / Taiwan / Japan / Germany.
"Human nature" that's been heavily shaped by cultural norms.
Global Travel API's for flights, hotels, activities, trains
I'm willing to bet that EVs would have arrived without Tesla due to better batteries, but I would not wager on reusable rockets without SpaceX. The culture of the conventional aerospace industry is hyper-conservative and would never have even attempted such a thing.

Of the two I consider SpaceX to be the more important and less replaceable company.
P.S. I can of course search for appropriate phrases, and did, one result was this:

https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/services-sell-digital-products...

but I am more looking to hear personal experiences of users of such sales sites (mainly as sellers, but also interested in feedback of buyers - assuming that either the seller has got feedback from the buyer, or that the seller is also a buyer on the same site).
> Also, is not like torrents, if disconnect your node, the file disappears

How is it not like torrents? If you're the only seeder and you turn off seeding, does the file not disappear?

> Read IPFS docs please

You're the one who should read them, if you think IPFS is not like torrents.
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My problem with round earthers is that their rebuttals to "specific" arguments made by flat earthers are not adequate.

It is one thing to say that satellites and Foucault's pendulum prove that the earth is round, but if someone makes an argument (as in the linked article) that the visible peak of a mountain should be 900 meters below the horizon, and the round earthers response to that is some poorly exposited fact about refraction, it doesn't help the round Earth case in the eyes of the flat earther who raised that point.

A better response would be to include some references to some facts about atmospheric refraction in addition. Hopefully the flat earther might understand it.

So in effect I am not actually a flat Earther, but round earthers should be able to explain observations which are not consistent with round earth expectations better.
Really nice.

Small suggestion: It would be really nice if the table of contents allowed me to click to the section itself.
The stated purpose of the H1-B program is to allow companies to fill vacancies with international applicants if they are unable to find US employees qualified for the roles. I've never heard any sane, rational person object to this use case.

The issue most people have is that the program seems to be rampantly abused. Companies are replacing US workers with H1-B's sourced from companies like Tata and Infosys at much lower salaries than US employees would normally command. In some cases, they're just bringing in foreign workers for the time it takes to train them, then having them work remotely and paying them even less still.

Disney even made their US employees train their replacements before laying them off: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...

Southern California Edison was another company that did the same: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2879083/it-outsourcing...

It's this type of abuse where US companies are simply looking to fire US citizens so they can pay slave wages to foreign contractors for the same work that people are up in arms about.
Unbelievably Trump even won overall with white women, he got 53% of that vote.

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14061660/w...
I'm running mutt, and right now it's only consuming 8.5MB (out of an image size of 12MB). That still feels large to me, but my first computer had only 16K of RAM (I've written larger emails) so I might still have a bias.
Likes on bringing such a retro concept back; but seems like you don't have any kind of spam control :D would be nice to have one.
This isn't really an abstract problem that requires reductio ad absurdum type arguments. I grew up in the UK and I visit the valley sometimes. There are several things you immediately notice:

1) Every building is incredibly short.

2) Every building is spaced very far apart.

3) Every road is incredibly wide.

Even fairly unimportant roads, the sort that have rinky dink little cafes on them, will often have three lanes in each direction or more.

The Valley has a homelessness problem because the people who live there refuse to let anyone build tall, dense housing complexes. There's so much space here you could crush the homelessness and poverty problems instantly by just relaxing zoning rules, it wouldn't even take a social housing programme. But instead all the space is taken up with tiny low rise buildings surrounded by enormous parking lots.
This administration continues its onslaught on American values. Crippling those avenues that enrich our culture and civic life: a pro immigrant credo we have fostered for years. Where talent, wherever they may be, were attracted to America for different reasons but almost all envisioned a better future for their family and the world. Trump with friends are facebook, Twitter, google, and reddit have by de facto unleashed the most toxic elements of our culture. I am this close to closing Facebook, I use duck duck go for search, I really regret hosting my domains with google this year, but if the hijacking continues. Everything I do will be blockchain. Fuck Silicon Valley. The place is a dump anyways.
Paleoconservatism/populism isn't concerned about the economic benefits of immigration; it's concerned about "protecting" culture so that immigrants don't have the opportunity to reshape it in any capacity.

A sizeable portion of Trump's base believes that they are in danger of becoming a minority in "their own" country and will sidestep the economic benefits of immigration to retain a demographic majority. To these voters, power and influence is a zero-sum game where the many exercise absolute reign over the few (constitutional equality be damned), and sharing the pie with immigrants puts them at risk of becoming the few.
Well if nancyfx is micro so is Javalin. NancyFX is nowadays built on Kestrel from ASP.NET Core.
Not to fanboy, but the "Who is Hiring" thread posted here on hacker news on the first of each month. In my experience, the rate and speed of responses from that thread is dramatically higher than anywhere else.

Obviously it's not the UX that makes it shine, but when you're looking for work, you care about the results. I recommend that thread to anyone who mentions looking for a tech job.
I imagine some specific types of disabled people might really appreciate it too. Plugging a cord in required a fair amount of dexterity and grip strength; far more than using the phone itself requires. But Qi charging? You could probably nudge it into position with your nose if you had to.
Facebook wants your nudes (to fight revenge porn)
Dragonlance offers much depth in its world and mythology, although its use of traditional high fantasy tropes may come off as cliche and make it unappealing.
I'd disagree - the H1B process can absolutely be argued to be the main bottleneck for hiring skilled foreign tech workers right now, especially as the cap has been exceeded by such an enormous number for several years.
You're wrong. The consensus which Satoshi meant is the consensus inside the specific protocol, so that everyone agrees about the same transactions.

Developers choose which software they want to develop. Users choose which software they want to use. There's no need for a consensus. It's like every other open-source software.
> I looked into Solidity and concluded that due to the poor design of the language, large-scale problems like this would be inevitable.... In my opinion, smart contracts are a good idea, but smart contracts written in Solidity are a bad idea.

Yes, and it's sad that they continue to try to patch around and nibble at the problem. The foundation is borked, start over.
Neither of those are an option on Chrome/Android, and I don't think they apply on Firefox/Android (not sure about disabling JS).

Firefox does offer uBlock, at least, which is a massive relief. I also run (on the router) a large, and after significant modularisation by me, flexible dnsmasq blocklist that addresses another large set of issues.

On desktop (Linux, MacOS), I have and use: NoScript, uBlock, uMatrix, and Stylish, as well as Reader Mode.

It's still often less aggrevating to grab source or rendered text and create a standalone Markdown text, for various reasons.

I'm looking into the notion of a browsing mode that presumes the website designer is an idiot and that the HTML markup is at best a hint at what the semantic structure ought to be -- see concepts such as POSH (Plain Old Structural HTML), and ... a few other things. Work in (very slow) progress.
Even established companies not in the obviously-sleazy Tata/Infosys abuse buckets play games here. "Write up job description consisting of specialty skills your H1B candidate already has, but that you don't need in your company in that role, then use them as a generic webdev" type stuff.
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This looks like a fun TodoMVC equivalent for testing addons, I think I might try to roll my own!
Well the only way a 20 year old is getting weirded out by a Win 95 interface is (1) he has never seen a Windows machine because Win 10 basically reverted to the same Win 95 interface or (2) never worked on a desktop/laptop with KDE, Cinnamon or the other DEs inspired by Win 95. And Win 95's UI rocks IMHO (and I say that as a person closer in age to those annoying pipsqueaks in that video). You go to a button labeled "START". It has clearly labeled folders called "Accessories", "Programs", "Internet" etc and then you get to where you want to. For 90% of the UIs, a tree like that is a perfectly good data structure.
The more annoying thing is why is it that software like Office etc take two orders of nagnitude more RAM while being essentially 90% similar in functionality to Office '97
It doesn't even sound particularly fluffed up. Most new grads that took a database course would probably fit that description. There are plenty of people qualified around.
Additionally, what's to gain by making art unavailable to the public? Many of the things these people produced are very high quality artistically. Polanski is responsible for Chinatown for instance.

Limiting the reach of these works ould not be a good thing for society. What we need is a mass critical reevaluation to help us better understand these works in the context of these monstrous artists/producers.
To play devils advocate, at this point in time with the highest rate of immigration in the history of the country (i think 13%) "conservatives" are looking out for the american citizens that are losing out to these high skilled (and low skilled) immigrants.

Why is it that we cannot compete with foreign companies with native workers? Why should those countries be okay with losing their top talent?

Shoudnt we solve the problem of native workers not having the right skills before we open the borders to everyone else?

The other argument I understand is cultural. How much immigration can a society take before it is unrecognizable to the people that live there. You can't say that if you moved 100 million indians to the US ( A fairly small number of the population) it wouldn't look and feel completely different.
Basically nobody in Germany uses the chip for identification. I once opened a bank account with it just for the novelty but even the one use should put me into a very small group of active users. Even most government agencies don't offer to use your card.

Actually signing is performed differently and since this summer they switched to a cloud signing process where you don't have access to your key. You cannot get a certificate for a key on the card anymore. Not that anyone actually used that feature.
Those games were all big fish in their markets, but they weren't the money printing machine WoW was. I don't remember the numbers, but they skewed heavily toward the MMO. That's why every studio came out with its own MMO in the years that followed.
Hell yeah golang templates rock!
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As chrisked mentioned - definitely my previous clients and friends.

The best long-term contracts I received was through a former colleague, classmate or a friend. Recently, linkedin provided a steady source of leads (not talking about recruiters) via niche groups, 2nd/3rd connections etc.

One great site is https://whoishiring.io - an amazing job aggregator that parses (in my opinion) the best sites for work. This eliminates my need to go hunt for jobs on job boards.

Avoid freelance marketplaces like upwork, freelancer and others.
Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess?
> Calculator input lag bug

> Hitting airplane mode now drops connected bluetooth devices

> Swiping right to open a text or app from the lock-screen will cause touchID to fail

> Battery life has absolutely collapsed (pretty much have to have low power mode enabled to make it through the day with moderate usage)

> iMessage bug corrects "I" to some unrecognizable symbol [1]

> Siri App Suggestions now appears to suggest most recently used apps, not frequently - defeating the purpose of the home-button double-click (I assume this was done to support functionality on iPhone X since that doesn't have a home-button).

This is just what I've experienced before noon today. Why the decline in software quality?

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/304153/ios-11-autocorrect-bug-typing-the-letter-capital-i

Edit: More since lunch

> Using bluetooth headphones to control Spotify music app...sometimes, but not always, pressing the button to restart paused audio will start iTunes music, even though I never use it anymore.

> I don't know what happened in the Podcast app, but my saved podcasts are not there anymore and the library is difficult to navigate.
It's our tribal nature. We like to be part of a group, and have enemies that are not part of our group.
Mass homelessness in one of the richest parts of the world is already a disaster!
As an aspiring immigrant, I feel this is great. Instead of a situation where immigration to US sort of works, sort of doesnt, is a hassle, but not really a bad one, a lot of companies were still keeping major offices in US.

Now that Americans have made up their mind that they dont want immigrants, companies will spend more money on opening engineering centers in immigration friendly countries (Canada\west Europe\Australia(maybe),etc) which from a personal perspective are great countries for me to immigrate to. And this time I might would be able to catch the first wave of immigrants (who get to convert to citizens) if there is a genuine boom in jobs in such countries (unlike US where its near impossible for an EB2 immigrant to get citizenship if moving today)
What US Democrats ignore is that practically every damn country in the world does this too, often to a higher degree than the US.

So there's a pragmatic question of how to avoid putting yourself at a disadvantage by being comparatively overgenerous that you don't have to be a "paleoconservative" or Trump supporter, or even Republican, to be concerned about.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a single owner, Glenn Taylor.

Source: I work for the Star Tribune.
That would muddy the waters. A review of any sort of something they haven't seen due to Disney's behavior would be unnecessarily vindictive. It would also far more negatively impact the people involved in the movie (outside corporate Disney) than necessary.

Point out why there isn't a review the opening day, with a reference to the original article and Disney's dispute. And then post a real review (or don't bother reviewing at all) once they can see it. That is far more responsible and professional.
> I just don't understand why we wouldn't want to make it as easy as possible to steal talent

Because that's not what the H1-B is. The majority of H1-B holders are the IT body shops: Cognizant, Infosys, and Tata are the top 3 by a wide margin [1]. I agree with you in principle but I think the H1-B system is not a good implementation of those ideals. I have a hard time believing it does much more than depress the wages of American white collar workers.

1. http://fortune.com/2017/08/03/companies-h1b-visa-holders/
Able Health is hiring Rails engineers to help doctors improve care
Blame TED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0TUI9r-So
IMO this new design is "fine w/me" in the way that ethereum is "fine w/me." If people want a not-so-decentralized cryptocoin that's not-so-trustless, then so be it.

If it handles transactions faster, better, cheaper, and with less emissions, then so be it.

Unfortunately bitcoin's popularity/ubiquity makes it superior (for the time being) and hard to unseat. Other (decentralized) altcoins make really great improvements over bitcoin but never became (and perhaps never will become) as popular as bitcoin.
Ah yes, gotta love H-1B threads. The latent nativism among the Hacker News crowd is laid bare.

Here's a radical proposal: give anyone with a clean criminal record and a job offer a green card. No limits, no $100k minimum wage, no protectionism. If you, with all the advantages that natives get (networks, language, NETWORKS), can be beat by an immigrant with zero social connections, you probably are worth less than you think you are. Time to compete, pal.

Anything less is opportunity hoarding based on the patch of dirt you were born on.
It's great that these RFE's are happening, and Trump should have closed things up even earlier. There are plenty of people with skills out there who may not know every feature of Vue.js 2.5.3, or who are 30 years old and thus "not a culture fit". Companies will start having to look for these people instead. Enough is enough. There's not even an argument, it's whether the programmer gets to make a salary in an industry where you're chucked overboard at 40, or whether billionaire heirs get that money added to their pile of riches. It's no contest. As far as Indians, they can work in India, or Europe, or apply for a green card.
Oh no, not from Google! You're right, I should read the original page.

Results from opening the original page, without adblock, and scrolling down to read the article:
Over 1000 requests, 30MB, and 2m later I killed it early to save my poor browser (it's ok, FF, I won't let them do that to you again). 121 unique domains, including a dozen from google, as well as amazon, yahoo, facebook, maybe 10 other ad networks I didn't recognize, at least 10 analytics sites, and over a dozen separate CDNs. 2 separate auto-playing videos. As I scrolled back up it reloaded the ad slots a second time.

AMP? 145 requests and 3MB in 5s. 42 unique domains, fewer google domains. One ad. Nothing autoplayed.

Still not pretty, but I know which one I prefer. I'm not trying to argue HN link submission policy here, I'm just saying AMP might be net good on the web and maybe we should consider leaving it next time for the good of other readers.

And to be fair this website probably has one of the highest adblock user ratios of any online (both html/amp go down to 80/40 requests with uBlock Origin enabled) so this doesn't affect us as much proportionately. But at least AMP is doing something with this dumpster fire.