skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still remember the first time I saw a pre-roll ad on YouTube, and the first time I saw one in the mobile app. For years, the thing that separated YouTube from the other video sites was that it didn't have these video ads that got in your way. Then they ran out of new land to conquer and I guess they decided to milk what they had.
No this isn't correct. The government imbues value in their fiat currency by insisting you pay your taxes in it. You may think bitcoin is the best thing ever for many reasons. But if you live in the USA you gotta get USD to pay your taxes or they are going to put you in jail.

We see this globally with the huge effort the USA puts into keeping oil priced / settled in USD. It matters.

USD has a store of value because if I hold USD I know the US govt is going to make people hand over a portion of their labour in taxes which keeps USD demand up.
The biggest danger in evolutionary thinking is "just-so" rationalization of the present state of things where we take the way things are and assume they are the way they are because they were evolutionarily efficient, and then construct a story that explains why some particular trait is particularly adaptive. Once you dive into the weirdness of biology and the madness of evo-devo, one of the first things that strikes you is how weird biology is and how many strange compromises bodies make as a consequence of selective pressures, and how many "spandrels" or side-effects there are. Boredom might be a spandrel, a decorative side-effect, of intelligence, which is probably the chief evolutionary advantage of human beings. Anyway, the wrong thing to do is to take some trait and reason back based on the assumption that it was evolutionarily adaptive. That's basically evidence-free speculation. Or fiction.
I'm blown away that I'm hearing this rhetoric on HN. The left has problems, but it is nothing like the insanity of the right. Conspiracy theories abound, and "right" media tends to be extremely right.

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2017/11...
I love wittgenstein with the gist
> The answer to starvation is is to store food now.

Or, maybe, we could prevent it all from happening in the first place.

I don't understand why you're so stuck on not preventing mass death. Did you not think this through before commenting and now your ego won't let you back down? Or are you just trolling?
> pay taxes in USD

bingo
> Seems strange for amazon to propose entering into a house instead of just selling a locked box that you and deliveries could use.

I strongly suspect that streamlining deliveries is a pleasant side effect rather than the intended goal of this.
The _only_ solution is coming up with a globally-accepted open source base set of instruction for any and all AI or AI-capable code.
No, you're right, I read the "reproducible builds" page and it's a good formal definition for the term.

I just think that if you ask ten average devops people on the street what "reproducible" means in the context of their devops jobs, eight of them at minimum are not going to know this definition, or insist on a bit-for-bit representation that arises directly from pure source code like what meets the definition at http://reproducible-builds.org

We're going to think you mean "has a BDR plan in place." Or maybe I've underestimated the reach of this concept.
like your logo
Touch typing while being pretty much blind is very difficult. It can be hard to even find the keyboard.
Yeah these guys are a bit disorganized o.O

Which is rather disappointing considering the potential of the space.
I saw this a few days ago and thought: Okay somewhat "yes" to the sentiments expressed about over protectiveness. But-- and this is a very, very big "but":

This article completely ignored the big-picture question "are kids actually safer?" if favor of anecdotal examples and feelings.

And there can be a whole bunch of reasons for why the answer is "um, yeah. like, really a big 'ol YES". Cause & effect can be debated, but they are.

How do I know? I went to the data. CDC Wonder data, specifically filtered for incidence rate of accidental death from 1999 to 2015 for 3-year olds to 17-year older.

Results? Gradually, year by year and across all age groups, the number of deaths per 100k people dropped to from its 1999 rate to less than half that in 2015. IIRC, it amounted to more than 4000 fewer dead kids.

Keep in mind, this was only the really bad things, the accidental deaths. Not injuries, trips to Emergency rooms, maimings, etc.

Oh, those other things decreased too (Thanks you CDC WISQARS dataset!) by roughly 23%, which amounted to over 1,000,000 fewer non-fatal (but serious enough for CDC reporting) accidental injuries.

So, have we lost a bit of that ineffable, wild-roaming childhood freedom as a society? Yeah, I guess we have in some ways. Of course that same free-roaming exploration and curiosity is also now funneled to other things instead, like the ease of plunking down $50 for a kid-friendly robotics programming kit that I can sit my 8-year-old in front of and say "Have at it!".

I think the trade off for 4,000 fewer dead kids each year, and 1,000,000 fewer seriously injured, is well worth it.
A bunch of tweets disappeared from my Twitter account in early March of this year without any reason or trace. I had them cached on Twitter mobile app so I had the proof it's not my imagination. I reached out to Twitter support, didn't get any reply and wasn't able to figure out what happened :/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55870/55870-h/images/

So what ones should I look at? :-)
Let's say I do this, and arrive at a verifiable mathematical proof that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and whomever else aren't as vilified.

What will I have learned?

If I'm a decent human being, what different choices do I make for having learned this?

At the end of the day, all three of these people are horrible, murderous thugs. UBL will of course never have a chance to apologize or make amends. We can hope that Bush and Rumsfeld have life-altering experiences that cause them to dedicate themselves to making their victims whole, but history is somewhat short on these sorts of stories.

The best we can do is to live lives as decent human beings, helping and loving each other and refusing to work for welfare-warfare states and crony capitalists. There's no additional benefit, as far as I can see, to efforts to parse whether some murderers are vilified in proper proportion to their war crimes.
Interesting. Company I used to work for reduced their LA office to a handful of people after laying off 2/3 of its workers to move operations to Vancouver. Everyone was considered 'contract' despite being on W2s so not sure. I think we did get a notice but not months to look for new work. I had a week.
>I didn't say legislate;

Are you sure? You also said:

>While I’d advocate outlawing tobacco, I think products based on sugar should carry a hefty tax to fund healthcare costs and dissuade their consumption.

Were you talking about costs related to private insurance, or government-imposed taxes?
Perhaps the confinement was the part that made social interaction necessary, if humans were stuck sharing a small area rather than expanding into the neighboring territory.
Interestingly, this is the opposite of the direction much of the tech industry has been moving with post-mortems.

- http://firstround.com/review/this-is-how-effective-leaders-m...

- http://code.hootsuite.com/blameless-post-mortems/

- https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Podcasts are following the same pattern as other media. I think it's a vicious cycle. The medium starts out with a few ads, at a higher price. Once the novelty wears off and people are used to seeing these ads, they can't fetch as much money. So the publishers start shoving more and more in, driving up the ad saturation and driving down the value (and income) from each ad.

I've been listening to podcasts since about 2010, and in that time I've witnessed podcasts that used to be ad-free jump on the Blue Apron / Stamps.com / Dollar Shave Club bandwagon. First they started with a little sponsored ad at the end of the show. Then one at the beginning. Then one commercial break. Then multiple commercial breaks. It's the same downward spiral that television went through and it's absolutely painful to watch it happen and be powerless to do anything. Maybe I should have done a better job of supporting those podcasts; I did donate to many of them. But I envision a time in the future where I'll no longer be able to feel good about listening.
FT8 is remarkable tech, but it’s essentially computers talking to each other. Not the same as person to person through the static noises, which is the old ham way. Refer to the recent discussion/dismay on the Topband (i.e. 160 meters) mail list.
Lion Tattoo design meanings
Base-Metal Electrode-Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors (2003) [pdf]
I still use a Samsung S5 because of it's two radios - I can talk on a phone call and browse/charge a credit card/etc. at the same time.

The Camera on it started acting flaky about two weeks ago and it stopped getting pictures stored intact. So, I finally found a new open source camera app and it works perfect again. The default camera app seems to be buggy.

I wonder if a system update was engineered to 'encourage' a phone upgrade...
>Apple pays more US tax than almost any other corporation

It's not about what you pay. It's about what you owe. In Apple's case, Apple owes a lot more than it pays. Tax avoidance == leeches.
the core issue is the activity focused on influencing a US election, which foreign nationals and foreign corporations are prohibited from doing [1]

if Twitter cut off CIA from firehose access and then tried to sell Twitter advertising and analytic services to RT for a US election then that seems to be some poorly constructed PR staging by Twitter

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09...
Not if he’s tried as an enemy combatant, which there are legal grounds for given his connections with an entity with which the US is at war.
> Social media was weaponized by a foreign power to sow dissent,

Surely, there was no dissent sown on Twitter and other social media before Putin thought about using it.
> Were you talking about costs related to private insurance, or government-imposed taxes?

To be clear, I'm for both, as I believe that government should provide a single payer system and activities that make you unhealthy and have an excessive cost to treat should be taxed to fund those treatments.
gnus FTW!!
I've read the article and most of the comments here. Still not sure what ethically questionable things we're talking about. Is serving content related to your personal interests questionable? Or is collection of personal data for commercial (but benign and legal) purposes questionable?

I can see that selling and wide-scale distribution of personal data can be a problem unless explicit consent is obtained. Can someone clarify who's doing that and for what reason?
A few ideas mentioned in the article sound interesting:

“But VR can transform and augment that trusty keyboard – so easy to disregard – into a contextually aware companion for whatever application you use, becoming a palette for your creative workflow, dynamically providing you with any commands and shortcuts you need.”
The WARN act is part of US labor law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...

For larger companies with layoffs beyond a threshold, they employer must give 60 days notice. I think they can instead give 60 days severance.
You are almost certainly an exception. The next time you are out in public, just look around. VoIP phones are everywhere.

Hell, I have a Cisco VoIP phone on my desk in my home office, tied into $work's phone system.

(I actually have three VoIP phones here at home, but I'm a network engineer for an ISP/CLEC.)
Can we please, pretty please go back to using pages for the majority of web sites? There I said it. You have a web site, not a web app. At least most people do.

Remember the days of semantic markup and the CSS Zen Garden? When you could actually read and understand a web page's source? Now we have these javascript behemoths that are as clumsy as they are stupid.

I have a feeling we are in for a renaissance of simplicity, and its going to start with a page, and end with a page. Pages are scalable. Google has like 50 billion of them. Pages are nice. Now do me a favor and kill off react.js and every walled garden like Facebook.

Can we please just fix them from the inside? If you're an engineer at Facebook, why don't you take it upon yourself to actually do something about this mess?
How'd you miss on Domino's Pizza? Could have picked it up for about $5/share back in November of 2008. Closed at $178 today. You'd be up about 3460% in 9 years. Google (+574%), Amazon (+2000%), or Chipotle (+350%) can't touch that - assuming you bought all three in November of 2008 and sold today.
My number one feature request for VS Code is the ability to detach multiple windows and move them around on multiple monitors.

For example I want the project sidebar thing to sit on a separate monitor.

Would be really nice.
Glad you landed on Salt, I've used both as well and came to many of the same conclusions. But once I got to grok salt, it's been serving us pretty well for over a year.

For deploys, I've thrown a slack bot in front of the salt master; this lets our engineers deploy from slack, get a quick summary of what's going out with a link to github, and then post back the result of the deploy with a final success/fail message.
Twitters TOS are already selectively enforced so it’s a logical step to extend a privilege to a VIP account (in the revenue sense)
What about MCVR on this page?http://www.davidegrayson.com/signing/
Has anyone received a call from today's interviews? Thursday Nov 2nd
What time do you think emails or call will be done?

Actually, we think no call till this late means no ;/ any ideas?
What about MCVR on this page? It seems to be more than just for the dialog box? http://www.davidegrayson.com/signing/
Unfortunately I can't edit the comment anymore, but I meant to put both links there, and made the sily mistake of putting a "/" between them...
This essay is very informative
There are billions of banking transactions every week. If they all took the same amount of energy as a bitcoin transaction, they would use enough energy to power every house in the world. So clearly regular bank transactions are orders of magnitude more efficient than bitcoin transactions.
Archaeologists also regularly go to mountains to see fishing villages that are thousands of feet above sea-level. What does that say about ocean level decreases back over a few thousand years pre-industrialisation?

In relation to areas that were once occupied and were just above sea-level, which are now below sea-level or well above it, what are the various known methods to achieve this?

Islands have risen out of the sea and other islands have sunk back into the sea even in the 20th century. Investigations at the time established that tectonic or volcanic activity was the likely source of this up-down movement.

Don't be so quick to jump to the conclusion that the sea level is rising to any significant degree..

One question that is completely ignored is where has the energy been coming from to melt the land-based ice to cause significant ocean level rises in the short periods envisaged. The quantity required is so huge that there would be other effects on the environment before any large scale ice melt would occur. These effects would have long wiped out all life on the planet first.
> Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers.

I guess this is fundamentally where I disagree with SO's staff and/or moderation team. I occasionally find those questions and their answers very useful, when there are answers, and again more useful than the perhaps ideal, specific, and ignored questions that fill the site. When questions get too specific, the only person that might benefit from the reply is the person that posted the question in the first place. At that point it might as well not be part of a public forum.

My favorite SO pages are those that generate multiple replies with different perspectives, and often different languages or at least libraries. Those questions are admittedly usually vague but I think that given the result (many interesting answers from different people) that is a net positive. You might say that the answers given look like guesses, and that'd be completely fair, but there's still value. Certainly more value than an unanswered question abandoned by both the asker and the one person who expressed a small amount of interest.

I do see the difference you're describing (between Atwoodian and Spolskyians) and I can see the merits in both sides. I'm not satisfied with either, but that's more on me than on SO. In any case, I doubt I'm making any unique or new arguments here. I'm mostly just frustrated with SO and Google in general because I almost never find a solution to my problems.

As a sort of aside:

> The key distinction to make here, in my mind, is that all questions are ultimately in service of the people answering them. That is the audience you need to satisfy if you want to have any hope of creating and sustaining a community of peers learning from each other.

That seems to be how you make a site by and for narcissists, or people otherwise interested in hearing themselves talk. It'd be a different story if the answers were paid, I guess, because at least then the motivation would be something more tangible.

To be honest, I probably would have written SO off entirely if I'd seen this comment earlier.
NASA updates the ISS printer
On a nuclear powered ship, yes, since you still essentially have a steam engine, the engine telegraph (throttle) isn't actually linked directly to the engine.

On a modern diesel or gas turbine ship, no there's not. Obviously there are limits to what the engine can do still.
Don't get me started about TVs. When I grew up our family TV turned on in seconds, and pressing channel up/down reacted in tens of milliseconds.
Twitter: Employee on last day took down realdonaldtrump
Part of the reason might be the variety of warship designs and handling characteristics compared to civilian ships. I would think it'd make it easier for Officers to transfer between various ships.

I do think the Navy has difficulty delegating and tends to try and focus power on a few positions.
Probably not well, in the long run? FTS is just a plugin to SQLite where as Sphinx and ES are purpose-built software. It all comes down to what your actual need is though.

I think for most smal projects SQLite + FTS offers a pretty simple easy to setup solution that doesn't require much compute power, either. The simplicity is also a bonus.
Should Kids Learn How to Code?
why even assume you have to 'look at' the keyboard?

the keyboard can follow the user's view... along with the silhouette of the user's hand...
Why your voice UI likely sucks
The perfect world you're talking about has Personnel departments instead of Human Resources. Personnel departments deal with the tactics of staffing a company without the strategic planning that HR departments do. Interaction is okay. They just shouldn't be part of the decision making process.
And all the movies about those folks show the same right? We, the norms, get to live vicariously through their partying, dishonesty, stupidity, etc then the fall comes and we get to laugh at them too. But secretly, we all think we can beat the fall part and have the fun, right? Or at least, in the US.
Wow, thanks this is exactly what I expecting in the comments here! I was expecting it to have some cool application but according to wikipedia there are no known uses for it yet.
They only publish true stuff, yes, but that's not normally what one means by 'selective'. They're not a hacking organization, they don't go around hacking people to obtain stuff. And yes, someone gave them some Russian stuff not too long ago.
Man, I hope things have gotten better! I've said a prayer for you.
Ack. Yes. This is why my girlfriend is the one on track to become a CPA, not me!
What Every VC Should Know About Initial Coin Offerings
The more serious such takeover was when Hearst (longtime owner of the San Francisco Examiner) bought the Chronicle and took it over.
Show HN: Multiverse – A Gem to Manage Multiple Databases with Rails
I touch-type in the dark without seeing the keyboard just fine.

But that's on a physical keyboard that has something which virtual keyboards lack: tactile feedback.

Tactile feedback is one of the missing pieces of today's VR devices. Without it typing on a fully virtual keyboard is just not going to be nearly as accurate as on a physical keyboard, and providing visual feedback is just about the only thing you can do about it.
> they're not among any I've ever known

You just met one. In the mid 90s, when I was writing firmware and drivers for HIPPI[1] networking equipment, the Malaysian government bought a bunch of out hardware (indirectly), as part of a big system that was supposed to receive a bunch of TV channels from satellite, buffer it for a couple minutes on disk, and then re-broadcast the streams on local TV channels. The buffer, of course, allowed for the "live" TV streams to be censored on the fly.

This was before flash was cheap an ubiquitous, so the firmware for the FPGAs was on a socketed EEPROM. Changing the firmware required removing the chip and a computer with PROM programmer hardware. Bugs happened[2], and my boss decided I needed to make "our biggest customer" happy by flying to Malaysia with an --undeclared-- bag of EEPROMs with better firmware and personally updating their hardware.

It was my first "real" job, but I was still 3 more years of classes away from my bachelors, so I was getting crap intern wages of $11/hr. When I started to suggest I didn't really want to smuggle chips into an notoriously authoritarian state to help them censor their TV, my boss immediately offered me a 6-figure salary and a $60,000 cash bonus. I was seriously tempted. Instead, I gave them my 2-weeks notice the next day...

(side note: a few years earlier, the NSA offered me a full 4-year scholarship (inc. housing and cash stipend), but the "you just need to work for us for 150% time (6-years) after you graduate" price tag made that offer a lot easier to turn down)

[1] https://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/hippi/procintf/pcihippi/pcihipde...

[2] actually, it turns out our PCI interface chip was faulty[3]

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10609033
The medical companies etc that use the low background steel should be held to the same level of responsibility as apple or anyone else making tech.
To be fair, it makes no predictions that the global population of fish will be >0 in 2100.
Twitter Censored Hashtags Critical of Hillary During US Presidential Election
Very interesting, I had no idea that Cheetahs had such an insane bottleneck. One question though, what do you mean by
"they are so genetically close that they can take each other"?
Maybe Web 3.0 can be a movement to reclaim what we've lost - honesty and transparency in the interaction between websites and users.

Webbkoll ought to offer a badge the same way "Verified by Verisign" did when SSL was new.
I love this service! I think ease of adoption you can allow pre-made scripts to be shared so the non-technical can easily set up work flows that go right into their email. For the technical folks, I think it would be great to have examples of things you can do with Apify that is a hassle to do with your local chrome headless.

Great job!
Yes it is. But the lessons for the HN crowd are to pay attention to the ingredients of your success. Even after nailing so many aspects of the business right out of the gate, they had to discover the factors that made for a good location. A/B testing is a wonderful tool that these folks didn't have.