skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question."

What difference does it make? Do you feel offended if other men are seen as sexy? If you're concerned about painting someone as a role model, what do you find offensive about what @RealSexyCyborg is doing? Is being comfortable being sexy something bad? Is she sending a message that the only way to be a female maker is to emphasize your looks?

Speaking personally, I'm a straight man, but if @sexyengineer ever shows up, I would have zero problems with that. If a male model or a female model shows an interest in engineering, good for them, if they decide to break conventions about what an engineer is supposed to look like, good for them.
The edit wasn't necessary to support the first sentence. There are thousands of tech companies, large and small, and most of them monitor employee performance. Meanwhile: allegations of sexist bias in review processes are infrequent enough to be newsworthy. QED.
Some counties in Washington state have a Public Utility District which runs the fiber, then sells it through local ISPs. Lots of areas have 1Gb connections available for below $100/mo.

What's more interesting to me is the effect on rural access. Plenty of lake-side cabins in the woods with fiber available. One ISP has taken to putting up poles with Ubiquiti airFiber antennas, creating a mesh network that extends beyond the already large fiber coverage. In Chelan and Douglas counties you can get a 35/2 connection nearly anywhere over this extended wireless network, even way up some lonesome canyon.

It's amazing what a little competition does to the ISP market...
This really depends on which mall you go to. The Mall of America is not far off of Disney's Epcot center in terms of the amenities it provides. The Galleria in Houston is almost a city unto itself. I remember seeing a bridal party walking through it once, I'm guessing there was a chapel or function hall inside. A typical mall in Tampa, Florida, or Salem, NH has less charm, but those areas aren't working from a high base to begin with.

In dense urban areas, malls tend towards the high end and can be quite nice. The Shops at Copley Place in Boston is fairly high end in terms of shops and the architecture is nice. The Westfield in SF is nice in my recollection.
Possibly, but I doubt it is possible to create a system that is worse than stack ranking.
Filecoin and Burst already do that
Andreas antonopolous sold a lot of believers on their investment as an investment in 'anarchy'. As such, any fork represents a dissolution of their original investment principle
Republicans will help them get by long enough to become the Democrats' problem.
The statement from Apple includes "Apple’s effective tax rate on foreign earnings is 21 percent" but that is not the rate they've actually paid. They state elsewhere that they believe the majority of taxes should be paid in the U.S., but they're not actually paying them here, either. Instead they're holding the income off-shore to avoid paying the taxes where they say they should be paid, and waiting for the rate to be lowered or even eliminated in a one-time holiday.

IOW, that 24.6% absolutely does include the money they say they expect to owe when they eventually repatriate those earnings.

In the meantime, they earn returns on the money they've set aside that they "owe" for taxes they aren't actually paying, so deferring the payments is very profitable for them. They've even taken out large loans in the U.S. to pay dividends, because it was cheaper for them to borrow money and pay it back with interest than repatriate this money.

It's fair to say I love Apple, and I've been described as too ardent a defender of their, but they're being ridiculously disingenuous here, and it's clearly working, as you took that sentence from their statement at face value.
> The flaw in your logic is that sexuality has nothing to do with being "legitimate."

Yes it does. PR companies have the opinion that sex sells, so if someone in a technical conference is overtly oversexualized, that makes me suspicious of their true motives.
Waste: use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose.
Which media files are stored? I assume images yes, videos no?
What Apple does is exactly what the US Tax code wants them to do, nothing secret about it. If it were to repatriate it's foreign earnings every year, it's tax rate would skyrocket from it's current 24.6% to around 50% (leaving less than 30% for shareholders after dividend taxes).
Do they even own the copyright to all of it?
Toronto also has a large underground section downtown.
Video shows abducted mom Sherri Papini running to safety
And the one after that will be Y.

I always tell people that BFR stands for "Big Rocket." It's more fun to let them fill in the blank.
The title is misleading. It should say that the license was changed to Apache 2. I favor APL over GPL in almost every instance but can anyone speak to how this would affect end users?
Show HN: SSL/TLS handshake analysis tool
BTW, GH already has a feature that if a repo gets deleted, and it had forks, then the most starred (AFAIR) fork becomes the "master fork" and other forks have their link "forked from..." updated.

It would be a good idea to do as you propose: if the maintainer doesn't click a button for X months (and the button is prominent when you're logged in, impossible to overlook), make another fork a primary fork.
Exactly. “More power” is a solution with commercial products available. Even a common DC fast charger is 440v, which is about the same voltage they hook up to commercial buildings.

We just need enough EVs on the road so that it becomes economical.
tip: The landing page could be more clear about using Whatsapp for surveys.
We use Colaboratory internally and it’s wonderful. It especially makes teaching and learning ML quite a bit easier. :)

I’m excited to see others getting access to this tool.
Augmented Reality Headset that conveniently hides the cash stashed offshore by Apple.
It was pretty common to use https://github.com/tajo/react-portal for modals before React 16. It provided most (or all, I haven't really compared yet) of the functionality React 16 provides now so they've re-written it to just be a nice wrapper around the `createPortal` API.
That sounds very much like "we the people have voted to take your factory". That is, it sounds like the "democratic" in "democratic people's republic".

Fortunately, we have this Constitution that places limits on the amount of democracy we have, partly to keep it from running amuck in exactly that way...
This sort of thing affects functional languages in the ML family too because type unification ("algorithm W") takes exponential time.

Here's an OCaml example: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/6617/concise-example-...

And a crazy ML example: https://gist.github.com/spacemanaki/72ed52766e0c7e0b85ef
'“Being in tech puts a badge on you. Things are going bad for a large section of the economy in this area and here’s a shiny beacon of people getting paid far too much for what they do."'

While I agree that the execs are paid way too much, this isn't exclusive to tech. And if they're talking about your run of the mill software engineer (like me) then I disagree completely. There are multiple logical reasons why tech salaries are "high" (though really they're not that much higher than many other engineering disciplines' salaries). Another way to see it is that all other salaries are too low, but that's beside the point. As someone with tech skills, I can leave tomorrow and start my own business. If the salaries weren't high enough, I would either do that or work in a completely different career. Why would I do software if I could work an easier, less-stressful job for the same amount of money? And finally, let's face it, most people cannot write software and will never be able to write software no matter how many coding camps or classes they attend. Writing software isn't like making coffee, a process anyone can learn. So people who have never written software, and probably don't have the capacity to do so if they wanted to, complaining that run of the mill tech engineers like me are making too much money have no idea what they're talking about. I challenge them to learn tech, get into the industry, do real-world work, and then do that for 1/2 or 1/3 of your typical salary, if that's what they think the jobs are worth. Either that or shut up and stop being jealous, judgmental children.
Only if you consider Pale Moon as "an older version of itself".
In my town (Southern NH) the local Simon Mall actually solicits clubs. My wife's "Mom's Club" is offered freebies to host events there. E.g. they'll comp a photo package with Santa in the winter knowing that it'll get 30 middle-class moms in and shopping.
People do depend on malls as part of their area's social fabric. That's more true today than when Mall Rats was filmed, even though it's less cool now. It's the social fabric itself, not just the malls, which is disintegrating. Suburbia was never economically sustainable.
A VPN with FEC(Forward Error Correction)
The real free market maniacs, don't want the government involved at all, in anything, in any way whatsoever. Private streets, private pipes, private prisons, private judiciary system, private police...

While I think pipes owned by the people and leased to private ISPs is a very interesting solution, I don't think it would fly with the zero-government crowd.
Different people are buying and selling.

There were many people that sold off a lot of their altcoins for bitcoin, so that they could be positioned for the fork coins. They are buying their altcoins again.

There are many people that can't make any decision in the face of uncertainty, and have shaky confidence in bitcoin to begin with, now the biggest uncertainty is gone and they are able to buy now that this is out the way.
For me, people are the most important. Unfortunately haven't figured out a way to figure out if this is a match until the in-person interview. Some companies are overly introverted or big into competition and accountability. I usually mesh more with an extroverted, relaxed, "mistakes are okay, just learn from them" crowd.

Flexibility is #2. Prefer to work in the office over remote, but like to have the option for either. That way I can see the family a couple times a year and use my vacation to actually vacation.

#3, since I prefer the office and live in Los Angeles is commute.

#4 is pay.

Benefits are basically the same everywhere. But I wish Kaiser insurance was more popular here...
I don't see how this is better. It sounds like we have to waste power running hard drives now. Isn't Ethereum's Proof of Stake better?
Things I won’t buy without trying on or looking at in person, unlesss as a last resort:

- Wetsuits
- Ski gear
- Shoes
- Bikes
Yeah I should have used past tense. I don't think malls are cutting it now at all. But the "thing to do" there when I was young was to just with your friends without needing to spend any money, without any parents around, and in a busy enough place that you could get lost in the shuffle. Hanging out at a friend's house involves parents and going to the movies is expensive.
I'll copy a response I left below:

The value of full nodes is widely understood by bitcoin contributors [0][1][2]. Increasing the block size directly increases the amount of resources required to run a full node. Increased bandwidth requirements is especially a problem.

It is up to the candidate (s2x), not the incumbent (core) to show that no, it won't be harder to run full nodes, or to show that you can have just as much security by running an SPV node. Because the candidate has failed to back up their proposal with evidence that security is not harmed, the proposal should not move forward.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/3eq3y7/fu...

[1] https://medium.com/@morcos/no2x-full-nodes-889c20100a8d

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node
This should be a WTO principle or something: you’re only allowed to sell products/services to foreign countries thay you allow to circulate internally and on similar conditions.
Where do you see cheap electricity? Here in San Jose it’s some of the most expensive electricity in the country, yet EVs are extremely popular. Even with expensive electricity the EV is still cheaper than gas and better for the environment.
This Aussie Teen Wanted People to Understand His Autism, So He Made a Video Game
You mean country. This sort of out of control capitalism does not happen everywhere.
I know I have but not because of their business practices (which I agree they've done some not good things). Lyft is $3 - $4 cheap, consistently, for me in the East Bay. I know for a ride the pricing of either is pretty decent but some days I need to take several rides so I try to save money wherever I can.

Most of the people I know who use or drive either because they seem them as commodities and don't really care. They just pick the better priced or closest one.
Cannot heap enough scorn on Comcast. It just seems SO WRONG that they have so much influence and continue to kill any competition.
What is a homogeneous culture, Trebek.
As eesmith suspected, I'm referring to a service running on top of the MINIX kernel, similarly to Apache running on any of the thousands of Linux servers out there.

I'd say if one day the courts decided that Apache running on Linux had to be GPL'd by nature of being a derivative work, we'd experience so many fundamental issues with so many projects that Intel ME would barely register on the list.
Do you really know what unidirectional data flow means in Angular
Segwit activation in August was a blocksize increase, and a much more elegant solution than just doubling the blocks. An agreement was made by a few corporate entities to allow for segwit after a long standoff. They also decided on doubling the blocksize later in the year to appease the miners. Miners reneged on the agreement when Bitcoin Cash or BCH was forked when a small minority thought a better solution was to allow miners to control blocksize with a consensus mechanism. In the end it was clear the agreement and the hard forks never had community support.

Segwit2X was never about a blocksize increase, it was meant to seize control from the Bitcoin Core developers and switch development from the original Bitcoin repo to the newly created Bitcoin1 repo controlled by Jeff Garzik. It was not open to the Core developers and incompetently run, it was built on an old version of the software and resulting bugs were disingenuously blamed on Core developers.

Had this been a success it would have signaled the transfer of control of Bitcoin from the many developers and contributors to corporate banking and wall street interests. it would have been the end of decentralized crypto network open to many and the start of a corporate controlled network open to only a few.
The California DMV has an appointment system that will let you avoid (mostly) waiting, just go at your appointed time and (in my experience) you'll be served within 10 minutes of that time, if not earlier.

They also have a online wait-time monitor for offices online, so you can look at neighboring cities for a shorter wait, it could be worth a 15 minutes drive to a more distance office to save 45 minutes of waiting.
Curious, do you prefer working in the office or remote? Just because you mentioned flexibility and commute being so important.
yep, this, at least when I was at that age.
What kind of couch do you have that can fit 6 people? Looking for a new couch.
We don't. But dev teams keep creating them. It's IMO much more appropriate for new coins to make an announcement, provide a whitepaper + source, and start the network at time X.

But I can (somewhat) sympathize with their desire to be rewarded. What if someone just aims their ASICs/GPUs/cloud cycles at their new coin for the first months after the announcement and reaps the lion's share of the rewards? While that seems unfair to them, it is traditionally the fairest/most honest method.
Reference for that?
Sure. But as they say, the problem isn’t what you don’t know; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.
How to Hire Fake Friends and Family
Have you signed anything with the clients? If you have you might want to look into "breach of contract" with a lawyer.
Ask HN: New PrimeNow “Security” Checks?
I'm a pretty frequent PrimeNow customer in London, and tonight I had an odd request from Amazon in the name of security.

They (presumably they...) called me from a number with a different country code than the country I live in and asked if I was expecting a delivery.

I asked who it was, and they repeated the question.

Because I suspected it was Amazon and that odds were small it was some phishing attempt, I said yes. They then proceeded to ask me my full name and address; each time I asked them why they were asking this, and I got the response that it was for security.

I responded that it seemed more like information they should be giving me to confirm they were really amazon, but that was clearly off-script.

It turned out they also had the delivery guy on the phone, who had apparently been waiting outside for about 5-10 minutes for Amazon to perform their 'security' checks before he was allowed to turn over my packages.

It's likely I'm inferring more into this process than meets the eye, but as someone who works tangentially in the security field, this seems like an absolute backward way of making deliveries more secure and indeed seems like it conditions people to be even more open to phishing attacks than they already are in order to make some people inside Amazon PrimeNow feel a bit safe. Am I taking crazy pills, or is this absolutely backward?
that's utterly ridiculous. what about students who can't afford smartphones?
So it's nothing new. Ethereum and Peercoin and Nxt do proof of stake.
"Beyond Hellman's time-memory tradeoffs with applications to proofs of space" https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/893.pdf
This is slightly OT, but a great prank is to use the 'say' application on OS X (there is a ladies' voice option that sounds very similar to Alexa but the name evades me) and hook up the Alexa as a BT speaker.

You can also use a sleep before the say command so that you can be away from the computer and have deniability. I did this to my family last April Fool's Day and it was hilarious.
I don't think anyone is claiming that, it does however seem quite likely that it will have less.
Sounds a lot like Underground Atlanta - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Atlanta
At least a few years ago, when there were bad news the prices would reflect that.

As someone who was there and paid close attention, this is not true. E.g. silk road's closure didn't impact BTC for more than a few days, but everyone universally would've said it'd tank BTC's price.
The SAM pattern in Swift
While I understand your sentiment, "free market" folk generally exclude "government-provided" from that notion. This is because those services are often coupled with sector-wide regulations that are counter to laissez faire principles, the government is able to subsidize operational costs against its tax base (unfair competition that distorts the market), and other such complexities.
Ruby/Rails vs. Elixir/Phoenix
It's not necessarily superior; it's subsidized and doesn't have to actually make money, or even break even. Ultimately its costs can be hidden away in taxes or debt, where they're still present but unseen. Municipal broadband also often gets fast-tracked or special-cased in regulation; governments don't do a good job of regulating themselves.

Private ISPs can't do any of those things; they actually have to pay for infrastructure, follow regulations in installation, etc.

Personally, I'd prefer to see either community-run pseudo-ISPs ("we laid some fiber and contracted for bandwidth"), or fiber made available as infrastructure but the bandwidth handled via the market (much easier to have healthy competition).
The hypocrisy is that he's publicly taken a principled stance about paying taxes whilst actually going against that in private.

> Individuals try to minimize their taxes.

This is an oversimplification. For example, I might vote for a party that would raise my own taxes, and happily pay those taxes if I thought good use was being made of them.
> Sexy dudes targeted at women look different.

Like the covers of these romance novels? https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_11/1016611/fabio...
> On the other hand, in theory,

We basically agree -- in theory.
Yeah, why else shouldn't it happen yet? At least for testing they could have released an Android version with Fuchsia.
I’d put the number at much higher than 25%. And not just “tech” knowhow, but knowhow about any subject, whether that is archaeology, law, clothing production, journalism, astrophysics, or web programming.

Schools are in general pretty bad at teaching people that everyone is pretty smart, brains are incredibly plastic, and you personally can learn any topic and take up any field you put your mind to, and make a positive contribution, just by trying. For some fields getting to the cutting edge might take 10 years of intense study, and having a meaningful career might take credentials, but usually it’s possible to make some contribution much earlier than that.

I have some friends who are willing to let themselves be curious about a topic, and just dive in and start trying stuff, and they usually can get incredibly far in a short amount of time (months), and come up with new ideas that have not been tried before, often surprising and impressing the “experts”. And other friends who are outright terrified of anything that seems confusing to a layman at first glance, and never try anything they aren’t already good at. For the most part schools rarely pushed the latter group to break out of their cocoons, and often explicitly held the former group back.
Neural network hallucinates missing details to make image upscaling look natural
They also banned it so the Chinese social graph is not leaked out to hostile countries.
There are more benefits to be had than time for a browser to render an image.
The ones who organize these deals have already taken the money and are long gone. The ones holding the bag after it collapses are the employees, suppliers and institutional investors.