skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My high school cliques were the nerds and the band. Generally speaking, the nerds were not attractive people, maxing out at about a "6". Our group identity mostly came from our self-perceived intelligence, dedication, and skill.

So when an obvious candidate for the dolls clique presents himself or herself as a nerd, I know I am not the only one who might question their "qualifications". The hot bodies had far better options for clique membership, so we tended to get paranoid whenever one showed up. What do they want from us? Why would they choose to hang out with us? Most people didn't like us, so we held our noses, lowered our standards, and made do with liking each other.

Out in the real world, it turns out that being a nerd any time after 1970 can make you quite a lot of money from jobs that require knowledge of math, science, technology, and engineering: our presumed forte. Because of that money, one of the motives for hanging out with nerds could be to get at some of it. It's bad enough when the broheimer partyboys crash our con, but if the pro cosplayers and booth babes also turn out to be more than just eye candy, that means the nerdity wasn't about being smart, but was actually just being ugly, awkward losers with no social value. That hurts, psychologically.

It might feel like every time we make something nice for ourselves, the beautiful people just strut right in and take it away from us.

So yeah, I'm prejudiced too. It comes from a lifetime of the pretty and popular people being inhumanly rude to me and "my people". If you must insist on being born beautiful, at least do me the courtesy of making yourself morbidly obese, or giving yourself some disfiguring scars, before pretending to be an insider of my social caste. If you can't shim yourself down below a "7", you're just going to make us feel suspicious and uncomfortable.
Which gen Miata? IIRC NA had something like 5.5x14" wheels which are tiny. But if we look at bigger production car wheels even modest 8x18" could weigh > 30lbs.
Second, (unsprung mass/sprung mass) ratio is the thing that counts, not the mass itself. So, while 40 lbs wheel is terrible for the Miata, it might be quite ok for the vehicle twice Miata's weight.
2,596,993 people die every year in the US. That number cannot really be changed. People have to die of something. 35,000 means my chance of death by car accident, over my lifetime, is about 1.3%. That's minuscule. That I don't drink, or drive a motorcycle (anymore) pushes my likelihood down further, far below 1%.

Driving is not statistically dangerous. Doing it wrong (drinking) can make it dangerous but compared to any number of other activities (light aircraft, horse riding, scuba diving etc) it is remarkably safe.
Yes, they purchased the source code when they hired the lead developer.

https://www.cups.org/blog/2007-07-11-cups-purchased-by-apple...
Because nobody skilled is going to build this without payment? this thinly veiled criticism of ICOs has that obvious logical flaw.

Computational proofs take a long time for the development team to get funded, and this delays go to market strategies. Look at the graveyard of mineable projects before this year's ICO boom, broke underfunded devs with no ability to mobilize a community to fund the tiniest things. Pitiful bounty systems where the payouts can't even motivate the imagined Indian developer.

If you don't think current ICOs align economic incentives well ENOUGH, then discuss that particular nuance instead.
I can when the government gives itself advantages that it doesn't give the private sector, like subsidies, taxes (paid whether you use the service or not), and regulatory exceptions.
Proof of Stake is still pointless
It's coming! From the VSCode Vim v0.10.0 path notes:

> One more thing. I apologize for less work being done on the main repo. Much of my effort recently has gone into the neovim version of this extension (still in development).
Or gridcoin. At least Science is advancing with hydro bills there.
>Suppose we waved a magic wand, and suddenly all of Disney's employees and shareholders were middle class people. Would that change Disney Inc's incentives around IP lobbying?

I'm not sure the shareholders are the actual issue, since it is Disney's concentration of wealth that allows it to change the laws (and gives it incentives to do so). It doesn't much matter who owns the wealth, since the chain from owner to actual employees carrying out the actions that change the laws ends up removing most impact of the share holders.
It might be appropriate to change the headline on this one, since it's still an open source project, just under a more permissive license. I doubt I'm the only one who panicked that it was going to become closed-source until I clicked the link.
Are you sure about that? Seems more like 2-to-1 according to this: http://www.wisdc.org/pr072512.php
peddle your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
And further contributions are covered by a CLA [0]

[0] https://www.cups.org/AppleContributorAgreement_2011-03-10.pd...
Nothing is cheaper than proof-of-work
LinkedIn Just Made Writing Your Resume in Microsoft Word a Whole Lot Easier
Personally, I think it would be morally reprehensible to use energy to keep BTC alive if there are vastly more efficient alternatives that achieve the same goal. Though I am interested in counter-arguments.
Jinja 2.10
The Fort Collins vote was to allow the city the option to take out $150M in municipal bonds for city-wide fiber installation. This was pretty much the last voter hurdle before the city moves forward.

Boulder is still in an earlier phase -- the vote was to allow the city to start the planning process. Greeley also voted in favor of something similar.
It's the classic, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings" apology.
I like your ICE analogy, but likewise ICEs have gone through a century of constant innovation to make them more efficient. Likewise, Bitcoin may be the first example of a distributed consensus blockchain, but isn't the only way to implement one.

We're just in the process of coming up with alternative ways of doing what Bitcoin does in a more efficient manner, much like what ICE innovation has done and continues to do.
IMO it's none of those, and I think I'm being honest and fair here -- not just a bitcoin fanboy.

What's the baseline for a corresponding transaction? Maybe that's a credit card which will cost (not waste here either) 1-2% of the purchase price. But even that's not quite fair because the merchant is taking some risk on this purchase that usually amounts to some additional cost. Also credit cards can't be used to secure transactions of >= millions of USD (and if they did it would be at a significantly higher cost). Bitcoin transactions at the low end of that spectrum are prohibitively expensive, though.
I don't follow. I didn't suggest changing the average effective rate. There would be no change to the amount paid. I just suggested splitting it more fairly.
Most if not all of these services are provided by property management companies. When you view a property on Roofstock, you can see the PMs that we have partnerships with and you can then go to their site and see what services they provide. Here's an example of one of our partner's services: http://pragerpm.com/management/property-management/ With that said, I don't think you'll find any realtor or company that will sell you a house for a 0.5% fee and will then handle every issue you have with that house. What you want is a high service level property management company. We try to provide good ones at a discounted rate.
Having seen the system work as a grad student, this would absolutely gut higher education research in the US. No chance would I have attended grad school if I were being taxed on tuition as income. Wired has another thorough write up here:

https://www.wired.com/story/grad-students-are-freaking-out-a...

Likely far fewer people would pursue a PhD, harming every part of the innovation food chain. There are major problems with the higher-ed and grad school system to be sure, but massively increasing taxes on grad students is not a solution. Much better would be to find a way to make non-professor academic positions and other science positions more stable, among other options.

This proposal taxes the front lines of science to finance a corporate tax cut, it's just shameful.
Sectional.
Protecting children from harmful drugs. I'm not saying it does that, I'm saying that's the argument to be made.
I thought so too until I read this http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/#is-a-work-indep... and, maybe there's counter arguments? But it seemed like a pretty good argument to me.
I don't know that it is for online purchases. My wife is buying clothes and shoes off Amazon lately and we are on our third return for one pair of shoes because their size guide online doesn't correspond to what they send us at all. That's a 200% return rate on a single item, and that's only if we get the correct one shipped to us this time. Non commodity items have turned into a major crapshoot online.

Online shopping has spoiled me for convenience compared to shopping in person though. What's happened is that I've just ended up not buying as many things because I was trained to expect convenance and then it was taken away
The infrastructure collects fees to pay for itself, generally. It isn't provided to private enterprise for free.
Also, mining implies PoW, whereas this is not always guaranteed to be the case. It's my favorite, but it's falling out of fashion, unfortunately.
Probably not, but your lawsuit risk is a lot higher if it's sexist against the wrong sex. It's probably easier to just make your performance review system sexist against the correct sex.
Beer giant ABI bought many craft brews and is now buying beer rating websites
An important part of this is that Lua is generally embedded into larger programs. This is pretty much the #1 production-grade use case of the language. So when a new version of Lua is released, no one is actually expected to update their old versions. Rather, they use the new version in future projects. This allows the language designers to improve the language in ways that are backwards incompatible (imagine if JS could do this; the `let` keyword wouldn't even exist because you could just fix the default scoping).

So Lua 5.3 has a lot of breaking changes without a clear upgrade path. LuaJIT simply isn't going to support this, because its users generally use it more like a normal scripting language like Python and expect more stability.
There's a huge difference between "getting screwed over" and "your cool scrolling effects having glitches".
Don't tax you!

Don't tax me!

Tax that person behind the tree!
I am not convinced. Many sovereign nations will think twice before handing a foreign corporation the keys to their mass transportation industry. They will have the motivation, and the means, to keep manufacturers in check, and play them off of each other. Hopefully this will prevent runaway monopolies from taking root.

I think it will be very hard to convince French regulators, for example, to allow any foreign corporation to have more visibility and control over the national transportation system than the French government itself.

And unlike ridesharing, which appeared practically overnight, self-driving car technology is under mainstream scrutiny several years before achieving meaningful scale. This means regulators have more time to prepare.

The car industry, and the national transportation infrastructure, is considered a matter of sovereignty, and a politically sensitive topic. This won't be anything like ridesharing, consumer electronics, or advertisement.

I think (and hope) that the result will be that Waymo will fail to get a winner-takes-all stranglehold on the global self-driving car industry. Instead it will be forced to compete on a relatively level playing field, against Didi, Apple, Amazon, or whoever decides to compete in the space. The more the better.

I am rooting for the regulators on this one. If they fail to protect our national transportation systems from Google-style walled gardens... Then that sends us down a very scary road, where almost every aspect of society and government ends up privatized, and managed from either the US west coast or China, with no accountability or representation.
Honestly? I think Snapchat ought to go away completely.

This idea that images in Snapchat are temporary and therefore of little consequence is not a bug, it's a feature. It's the defining feature of Snapchat, the reason for its success, and they absolutely positively captured a large chunk of their marketshare based on the idea that young people could exchange risqué photos privately on Snapchat like they could nowhere else.

When a platform is built on marketing something horrifying, I don't think we need to feel any responsibility to come up with an alternate business plan for them. I don't have suggestions for Altria Group either, other than just: stop selling cigarettes and go out of business.

Enforcing a minimum age of 13, and actually trying to enforce it, would be a good start. Using the ML tech they're so proud of to recognize nudity in photos and popping up warnings, including refusing to send photos if there's a chance the sender is a minor, would be a good start.

But really, just shut it down.
> Part of the problem is that the inequality leads to behavior that protects the inequality.

Oddly, that statement (which I completely agree with) has nothing to do with being rich or poor.

People in power want to stay in power - whether it's the US or a failing state like Venezuela, they use that power against others.

I'd much rather be in a rich but unequal society - it's much more peaceful.
So your only focus is on full nodes. So where's the research of how expensive nodes are and how many nodes would be lost if an upgrade to 2MB would happen? How big of a loss would be acceptable? Ideally how many nodes should exist in the network for it to be sufficiently decentralized? How much bandwidth is needed? How long can we expect our storage to last?

There is no credible research done, there are no numbers, yet even the smallest size increase is blocked.

It's also blocked by the same people who have previously supported even larger increases. What made them change their minds? Sure isn't any new research.

But the fundamental issue is that not everyone need to run a full node as long as you can connect to sufficiently many nodes yourself. There's simply no point in engaging in full node fetishism where everyone need to run one where the worst internet connection hamstrings the entire network. Most people run SPV wallets today anyway and the important nodes are the ones run by businesses and wallet services.
Okay, so instead of waiting at the platform 30 minutes, it becomes waiting at my destination (e.g. restaurant, office, whatever) 30 minutes for everyone else to arrive or for the meeting/event to start because it is unprofessional to arrive late, so I must arrive 0-60 minutes early, dictated by the train schedule. Doesn't change the fact that I have to waste 30 minutes on average either way.

In many cases, running, biking, driving would all waste less time because I can leave on-demand, even if the actual transit time takes longer.

Public transportation needs to be either frequent enough (e.g. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York, etc. where rush-hour trains arrive about every 1-2 minutes, non-rush-hour every 5-8 minutes or less) or on-demand (e.g. UberPool, autonomous cars) to cut the time waste.
> At least a few years ago, when there were bad news the prices would reflect that.

Even when the news were predictable or already known! Bitcoin has never been connected to any "market fundamentals", just hundreds of day traders trying to predict each others reaction to random scraps of news as they come by.
I know everyone is going to say it is, but what if it's not a bubble... What if the huge demand and very limited supply is the driving factor behind the current price? I mean, even if you don't like bitcoin, there are a thousand more coins and there might be something in there for everyone... but you typically need to buy bitcoin first before you can get most of those coins.
To be fair, other places work with this issue. Ljubljana gets plenty cold and has a lovely downtown - one of the prettiest I know. However, it has very little parking (part of its appeal), meaning it would be illegal to build it in the US.
Game Over We Have Obtained Fully Functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI
Why the Bitcoin Segwit2X Scaling Suspended?
I think it's more the case that roving gangs of teenagers put adults on edge. And for good reason. When you put 5 or 10 of the most conscientious teenagers together, collectively they're like a bull in a china shop.

Adults aren't much better, but they're much less energetic unless they've been drinking.
Malls should transform into upper levels for residences and lower levels for businesses and relaxation. landscape all the parking down to a decent size business parking for those in the mall and separate parkign for residents.

no reason failing malls cannot be remade into such. It has been done and no reason they cannot be a hub for such.

but as mass transportation and cars whacked mom&pop stores so the internet reduces the needs for boutique type stores and small chain merchandise oriented stores.
Preface: I think we should have municipal options in places with adequate service (as a backstop, because I also think we should eliminate build-out obligations that require private companies to serve insuffiently profitable subscribers.)

That said, municipal governments are not sovereign entities, they derive all their authority from the state. States get to decide, as a general matter, what to make a public service and what to leave to the private market. Moreover, municipal governments do lots of stupid short sighted things. Remember, they’re the ones who are responsible for giving companies monopolies in the first place, which Congress had to step in an fix in the Cable Act of 1994.

There is also another matter of politics to consider. Municipal services are heavily unionized. Telecom services are also pretty heavily unionized, but less so. By shifting telecom from a private service into a public one, you’re giving more power to public unions. That’s not a good reason to oppose municipal broadband, but its undoubtedly a major consideration.
The low resource usage version is a great idea.
Regardless of complexity, what I find interesting in the deployment of Redis for this use case is the following: if for the use case the consistency provided by Redis is sufficient, or even more, when a relaxed level of consistency and durability are enough for the business requirements, being Redis an in memory system and because of the specific design of the Stream inside Redis (a radix tree of blobs), you get a very high number of operations per second per process, with a memory usage which is very compact compared to the other data structures. This allows to scale certain use cases using a small percentage of the resources needed with other systems.

About the use cases where strong guarantees are needed: for instance Disque (http://github.com/antirez/disque) provides strong guarantees of delivery in face of failures, being a pure AP system with synchronous replication of messages. For Redis 4.2 I'm moving Disque as a Redis module. To do this, Redis modules are getting a fully featured Cluster API. This means that it will be possible, for instance, to write a Redis module that orchestrates N Redis masters, using Raft or any other consensus algorithm, as a single distributed system. This will allow to also model strong guarantees easily.
I think you just showed me what my next major purchase will be. Those look awesome!
> * The US manufactures and exports cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, but tightly regulates them at home.

Add alcohol and gambling to the list there, and I'm not sure if pharma should be on it given the opioid rise...
Ask HN: How do you figure out who is throttling your connection?
I have recently found that certain websites time out for me, but only with certain user agents, i.e. with Safari but not with curl. What do you use to diagnose these "traffic shaping" issues?
In this context, Voldemort. They're clearly embracing the role and even playing it for publicity, like a classic villain going "muahaha!" about their evil plan.

Contrast the new 'social credit' system in China - it's (IMO) pure evil and a disturbing example of government mind control, but presents itself as orderly virtue.
There are two instances of unfair.

It's unfair for the dropbox guys to lose $27 on the permit.

But it's also unfair to have your neighbourhood change too quickly for you to be able to adapt and continue living there.

What I'm saying is that there are moral categories to strive for beyond fairness.

IMHO, humans are too caught up on fairness. In a way nothing is 'fair'. Morality has to be situational, and trying to impose a top down moral framework is only a necessary evil.

We should strive to do the right thing in the moment.

If you want moral certainty, then you'll never get it. No one can give you that.
> And aren’t you just exercising a black or white binary fallacy when we are really comparing a light shade of grey to a much darker one?

And which are you saying is which?
Nah. You're just making emotional arguments because not all risk-taking immigrants are entrepreneurs. We're not running a charity, why would you talk as if we are?

> (We should also welcome all the refugees we can get, of course.)

What trolling nonsense. We must control who comes and who gets turned away, it's the only fair and equitable option for the citizens and resident aliens who already live here. Because priorities.
Most of their concepts are like that; I wouldn't expect a model for sale to be that low.
I have seen them pop up on YouTube and it was the last time I ever let my children use it.
Throughout the 1990's, Buckhead had a TREMENDOUS club/nightlife scene.

In 2000, Ray Lewis was in town for an away game or whatever reason. He and his entourage got into a nightclub altercation that lead to a stabbing death... you know, just read his Wikipedia entry if you're not already aware of those details.

Anyway, it was an EXTREMELY high-profile story in the local press, and shortly thereafter the bar and nightclub scene was drastically curtailed.

Now, it's definitely arguable whether this should be attributed to Ray Lewis. The truth is more complex... political pressure from wealthy local residents had been building for years, and the Lewis incident was really just a "symbolic" tipping point. Regardless, a lot us lifelong Atlanta residents tend to remember that incident as one of those miniature 9/11-ish moments where a culture shifts abruptly.
> "If absolutely everyone just keeps to themselves and has their own standards of right and wrong, no sense of community ever has a chance of forming."

Judgement of the personal lives of others does not have to be the cornerstone of a community, especially one that has nothing to do with the personality of others. How someone chooses to dress out of their own free will is completely unrelated to their interest in tech.

What I find to be disappointing is when people who can't/won't see past looks. Yes, our first reaction is likely to be visual, but if a hacker can't recognise a fellow hacker just because they look different to what they expect, that's a real shame. When I look at a video like this, I don't just see an attractive woman, I see a hacker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBcZeElCxxk
Even criminal cases don't need "iron clad" empirical evidence. Only "beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt"... so like... 95%-ish.
Port of CCTray written using Electron
Wrote a port of CCTray using Electron. Was a bit annoyed that there was no version for Fedora so wrote this. PRs/contributions welcome - https://github.com/riggerthegeek/ci-menu
...and much of the normal rail is running at Level 3-Level 4 equivalent.
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