skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title is misleading. The article's title is "IRS cracks down on Coinbase users" while this makes it sound like it's cracking down on Coinbase itself, by leaving out the 'users' at the end.
Here's the commit:

https://github.com/apple/cups/commit/e310189747c161ac6e737ee...
Here's two things that science can't deliver for us:

1. The x-factor. Contrary to their claims, chemists and food scientists don't have it figured out. They are only 99% of the way there. It's true that people won't be able to tell the difference, but it is different. This is similar to the science claims that we can make a drink that delivers all our nutritional needs but a pure Soylent diet leaves many people with headaches or cravings. Sometimes the tiny 1% x-factor ends up punching above its weight.

2. Authenticity. Honestly, I like the taste of cheap Japanese blended "scotch" more than any $500 bottle of 23 year old from the highlands. However, that Japanese blend isn't an authentic scotch. I still buy expensive scotch. I want to be able to tell people that my whisky sat in a barrel for decades, using water from a specific river and distilled according to an archaic set of rules. Lab aged whisky, no matter how good, will just be plain whisky and not part of a historic identity. This is similar to people not wanting to buy a lab grown diamond, even though the lab grown diamond is just as pretty and isn't responsible for child soldiers dying in Africa.
Heise.de has been covering the whole Munich Limux project from the early days to the corruption and lobbies that lead ultimately to the demise.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/LiMux-Aus-Muenchen-e...

Basically M$ tried over the years with a lot of force to convert them back, they even sent Balmer as CEO back then to convince them, but failed. Then M$ moved their German Headquarters to Munich city and the city major changed (now from to another party that is M$-aligned). The major engaged a M$-owned agency to assess the current state, and they suggest to switch to W10 and Office, which will cost 25+m more. Now you can call 1 + 1 together. Exactly that Heise.de news media did, the did a lot of investigative objective research and uncovered the scandal. Guess what happens, ...nothing.
- Look in the toolbar where there's a back/"Browse" button, and also many links in the description text ("PlinyPedia is reformatted to be mobile-friendly", Search and Browse to find out even more".

How can I make that more obvious?

- No joke!
"If they were instead physical documents buried somewhere hidden where the police could not possibly find them without your help the court still has the ability to hold you in contempt if you don't produce them"

Are you sure this is so, this sounds awfully similar to compelling you to testify against yourself. Perhaps you are confused.
I have a small open source react component library for showing speedometer like gauge - https://github.com/palerdot/react-d3-speedometer

I created it because I had a need for such a component, and there was almost no such component available. The only one that was available had no documentation.

After I created, I primarily posted in reddit, HackerNews and few react specific websites. Now, I get some organic traffic from search engines and some steady stream of downloads. Among the websites I posted, reddit was the single source of major traffic with some react newsletters/websites coming second.

Personally, I created this component for myself. But after releasing I made couple of major and minor changes based on the use cases for some real time users. That is gratifying for me.
> This is different than routine shredding because the moment when they become inaccessible is when you refuse, not the moment you encrypted them.

Not true. The moment you encrypted them, they became inaccessible without your consent.
Huh? There are dozens, if not hundreds, of things one should consider when contemplating taking a job. That an article focuses on things on one particular category (business viability) does not imply that the author thinks that things from other categories (such as ethical considerations) are less important.
Ask HN: Why don't languages such as Java support json-like object literals?
Note: This is a sort of a technical question which I'd ideally like to ask on stack overflow, however if asked there the question might be closed due to being too broad (upon my inference of programming language design questions of similar nature asked in the past).

Why don't GC languages such as Java support json-like object literals? (For reference check out the code snippet on this stack overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34727831/create-a-json-literal-in-java-without-need-for-existing-class)

My conclusion is that the processing would be solely at the parsing stage and not at the runtime stage of the program, so there shouldn't be any conspicuous perf hit in including this feature.

Note that this is all assuming that the programmer would in any case use the type Object to be agnostic of types specified within their json-like object even if they didn't have access to an object literal.

Are there some unforeseen issues (perf and non-perf related) to accommodating such object literals?

FYI this question is not just about Java, but extends to other GC languages (such as Golang, etc).
I dont "have a lawyer", and am not sure what people mean with "my" in phrases such as "talk to my lawyer".

In the situation you describe, how would I go about finding a lawyer to receive communication and how much would it cost me out of pocket to simply be allowed to use their name and address when telling nintendo "talk with these guys, their my lawyers"
At my startup we just bought 4 new 2017 13" MBPs.
We bought some expensive USB c to HDMI adapters so we could connect two monitors to them.

3 out of the 4 MBPs have a fault which causes the second screen to flicker and bug out. We tried every combination of the adapters but the 3 MBPs were consistently faulty.

After searching the web, it turns out this is a very common defect in them since at least 2016.

The repairs will be covered by Apple care, but it doesn't excuse the fact that our brand new laptops have to be sent for repairs before they're even used.

Plus we've lost time whilst we wait for them to be fixed.

Learned the hard way to make sure we buy stock in advance so we can test and repair it before it's needed.
Try to figure out a problem you yourself face on a regular basis. That you have a certain depth in understanding your users who will also be facing the similar problem.

Don't worry if the problem seems to general at first. Just keep thinking about it and you will come to something specific, and soon you will have an idea for a product.

Creating something that solves your own problem is generally a good way to start a start-up.

Good luck! :)
Ask HN: What should recent engineering graduates look for in software companies?
What are company characteristics that are especially important for newly graduating software students to consider when deciding between companies? Culture, career development, work-life balance, etc. What is the most important in the beginning stage of a career?
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A fork is just a protocol upgrade that is non-backward-compatible and where both the old and new protocols have significant amount of validators (in PoW, this means miners) operating with that protocol. Since the protocols are not compatible, they have a different transaction history after the fork. Since they used to be compatible, if you had 1 BTC before the fork, after the fork, all validators still agree that you have 1 BTC, but 1 BTC on one chain is not the same as 1 BTC on the other chain, so it's equivalent to having (say) 1 BTC and 1 BCH.

Everything else is just supply and demand, ie what's the market-clearing price for 1 BTC and for 1 BCH and how does it compare to before.
Apologies, but this is giving me a brain freeze.

Previously, you talked about chains of suspicion (Liu's term for it). It was couched in a denial of there being any expansionist nature of civilizations. All the other things you said were exactly right, but, at the same time, Liu did indeed suggest expansionist tendencies of civilizations as an axiom for understanding Dark Forest theory.

And now you're saying expansion is relevant to relative strength or weakness of civilizations? You seem to be clarifying what is meant by expansion. But we can define expansion however. My point was more that expansion, however defined was definitely included among Liu's axioms.
The sweetener is never enough compared to cash in hand from a traditional tech job (in my experience). Top dollar is top dollar, there is no substitute.
There is no good solution from a service's side, paid community, closed community, they all bring their side effects.

Even these voting systems will only surface the popular opinion and not necessarily the right opinion.

Best you can do is to ignore content and comments which are irrelevant to you, that way quality always meet your standards.
You misinterpret my reference to "frame rate." And you're cherry picking.

In the sense that flicker is detectable, when we view a movie in a dark room, we know there are frames in a film reel, if the shutter speed of the projector mechanism operates below a certain frame rate, as an artifact of the media. I'm not claiming that any sort of digital recording occurs, only that the stream of sensory stimulation has a degree of fidelity.

That stream of stimulation affecting the chemical sensitivity of our eyes produces a continuous signal, and go ahead and try to tell anyone that a human brain cannot resolve the visual signal carried by the optic nerve. No one will argue with you but only because it's simply not a conversation worth having.
Show HN: Relacx – State management in React made easy
Graphics? Like what exactly? Often when I see frame rate comparisons for nvidia cards on linux vs win10 they are pretty similar with each side winning some. Media? What like video playback? Even a raspberry pi can play back 1080P. Any random linux desktop with a nvidia card can play back 4k with low cpu usage.
It is decentralized, therefore the rules can change. The core devs can try to push changes, but miners and users can choose whether they upgrade (e.g. adopt the new rules) or not. If people disagree about the rules, then you have an actual fork with diverging histories (e.g. Bitcoin Cash vs Bitcoin)
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yeah, it's a tough situation. People who are financially secure enough to not worry about having a job are not gonna be tempted by some small financial incentives; whereas people who may find those financial incentives appealing tend to need jobs to survive.
That's the moral of the story - but a lot of people don't

I still haven't convinced my own brother that he needs to move his coins off-market - he said he'll "get around to it at some point"

Also have tech friends who keep coins in Coinbase/Coinbase Vault
> You can install packages from anywhere... as long as they conform to your package format... and they aren't incompatible with the way your distro's repository does things... and they aren't too old... or too new...

You have to have a standard to make it work. But you need standards to make portable apps work too. There's no reason a package standard has to be more complex.

> And since when the hell can you choose where to install packages?

My argument is that it's possible to make a package standard that can do it, and be simple. It's not inherent to package managers that these things be hard.

> the complexity and limitations introduced by a package manager more than outweigh the extra space

In some cases, sure, but I'd have a bunch of OS installs that suddenly triple in size or more and that's not worth it to me.
Can a mod please fix the typo in the title with the word 'changing'?

Current: Apple announces CUPS changeing from GPLv2 to Apache licensing

Fixed: Apple announces CUPS changing from GPLv2 to Apache licensing
For FaaS (like Lambda), if a function hasn't been hit in a while, it'll be cold started when it is needed next. (Even though it's "serverless" behind the scenes they're likely containers that stay up for a little while to handle subsequent requests; a cold start means there's overhead of starting up the container)

A hack to keep your function warm is to call it via cron or a service like this.
HN often feels to me like like are two intermixed sites: the HN with good deep technical and business discussion and a site of web developers arguing politics.
Jeff's business model relies more on ETH than Bitcoin:

"The current launch plan includes launching on Ethereum chain, which will require paying ETH to obtain MTN tokens"

20% pre-mine

price starts at 1.67 ETH per MTN token

Remember Tezos? That raised a quarter of a billion dollars. There is way more money in making an ICO and saying "Bitcoin is broken! You need [new coin]!"

Brian makes money when you convert USD/BTC/ETH into USD/BTC/ETH. They announced they are adding more coins soon.

The main "2x" supporter runs "Grayscale Ethereum Classic Investment Trust" and tries to sell investors on a coin that nobody has ever used for anything ever.

The people who are "all in" on Bitcoin (the developers for example) think the "2x" fork is a terrible terrible idea. The people who are heavily invested in other coins want the "2x" fork to happen.
Is it different from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
Forks foster creativity
Thinking you can beat the market. Trying to trade individual stocks. Thinking you can make a genuinely new SASS product that noone has ever thought of before.
On the page there are photos with worker doing other things like putting things in place, where torque reaction arm is fairly useless.
Using EBPF and XDP in Suricata
You are right, of course, statistics without context cannot possibly be racist (how could it be? it's just a bunch of numbers after all). That's why I said "deemed as" not "can be".
That’s a little misleading — the latter period started around age 40. E.g. Bose-Einstein statistics was from 1918, which would be age 39 if 1905 was 26. The EPR paper was many years later still. Also, you can’t leave general relativity out of his most significant work.
The Container/View Pattern in this article, isn't this MVC?
Tribune, Kansas - seems to be DSL or cable, <=50 megabit (why does no one mention upstream speed?)

Marne, Iowa - Marne Elk Horne does fibre, up to 200/5 (hope you never want to upload a YouTube video!), but it'll cost you.

Curtis, Nebraska - DSL? Because of regulation: https://www.fiberconnect.org/page/nebraska-137

Harmony, Minnesota - http://www.broadbandsearch.net/service/minnesota/harmony says Centurylink has fibre, but the main game in town appears to be fixed wireless.

Baltimore, Maryland - Xfinity in some areas, but seems like it's pretty bad? 2015 - http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/technology/bs-md-ci-bro...

New Haven, Connecticut - https://broadbandnow.com/Connecticut/New-Haven says they've got fibre, but another source says it's not in many places at all. Also, how do you get 115 megabit downstream on DSL?

Alaska - Initially I laughed, but it's okay. https://broadbandnow.com/Alaska

Colorado - apparently you want to be in either Denver or Phillips: https://broadbandnow.com/Colorado

Wyoming - https://broadbandnow.com/Wyoming. Teton, maybe?

I'm not from the US, please correct me.
> This is different than routine shredding because the moment when they become inaccessible is when you refuse, not the moment you encrypted them.

If it really had anything to do with when you refuse then you could just proactively refuse as soon as you encrypt so it happens at the same time. And it would imply that if you were killed before being asked to decrypt then the government would have access to the data because you never refused, which is obviously not true.
I will have to ask my kids and their cousins tonight :)

I remember when it was everywhere, and I remember being a bit concerned really, and yet thinking about it I don't recall it being mentioned in the past 6 months or so at least... maybe everyone moved on. On to what?
Not only that. If I remember correctly, contributors also had to sign a contributor agreement which gave ownership of the code to the project.

If they didn't, I guess they would have had to ask every contributor if they were ok with a license change.
Hope they make this right.
Hmm.. if they claim that the blue tick is the sign of a verified account (not an important or exclusive account), then they should simply open up the verification process for everyone - not just important people. Ask for proof that you are who you claim you are in the twitter handle and lock down the handle and identity description from any changes once verified.
The real challenge of 8K is in focusing the lens. While some lenses can do this in mid-aperature ranges, they require a certain attention and process to set. The market for this camera should know that.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply otherwise. It's pretty interesting, IMHO, but just didn't get upvotes/visibility.
Exactly. Informing the user does nothing except maybe clear your conscience. Expecting the user to extrapolate to how you will use that data, what will be inferred from it, what risks come with centralizing and storing it, all of that is not the users job. It’s the job of the collector to be as conservative as possible. Any company that treats users privacy as a resource to be extracted is not somewhere I want to work.
You don't know what's in the file.

Police need reasonable cause to take action.

If all you have is an encrypted file, there's nothing to say it is incriminating. Encryption is necessary for a whole range of things.

Would you like banks to be forced to use weak encryption when processing bank-to-bank transfers?
So you have a ledger... Somebody makes a copy of it and adds "Gold" or "Cash" to the title. Then continues to use that ledger with some people however they want.
The Memorex ad showed Ms. Fitzgerald breaking the glass live. It should be noted though that they used amplification for this purpose.
> I'm not from the US, please correct me.

Surprisingly, San Francisco has pretty shitty Internet too and it's one of the most expensive place to live in the US.
This search engine was mentioned a few days ago on HN: https://wiby.me/
It looks like Apple pay for the majority of work too, assuming @michaelrsweet is paid by Apple to work on cups.

https://github.com/apple/cups/graphs/contributors
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But how do you design a strong encryption algorithm that can be trivially unlocked once a warrant is provided?

Answer: you can’t.
Let people protect their finance in peace.

If I earn money by creating a good product that consumers love I have the right to do whatever I wish with this money.

Socialism is evil. Let people be free to use their wealth for the benefit of society by producing more, donating, and so on. Why the hell would I want to give money to politicians to generate war and tragedy? It is a shame so many socialists try to destroy California and whatever is left of free-market in America.
Now, if it didn't suck so bad with usb printers, it would be amazing.
Agreed; the FBI is clearing politicizing the issue of access to encrypted devices.
Shops make everything slightly more expensive if most people use a credit card... So you still end up paying for it.
Impostor syndrome is mostly marked by the feeling of being a fraud which can run in parallel to feelings of "I know I'm smart, but I feel so dumb compared to everyone else."

It's a constant self-doubt in spite of knowledge of what one is capable of; self doubt that one should be in a particular position, because while one knows what they're capable of, they think they should be capable of more when comparing oneself to one's peers.

One doesn't need accomplishments to feel like an impostor and a lack of notable accomplishments doesn't mean that one shouldn't be in a particular position.
Maybe to replace the hard drive or fresh install. Or want a backup to return to after testing out a linux install which might fail.
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Seems you've had a bad experience with mentions. Maybe people have been using them in the wrong way, where you've seen them.

At work, we were using Slack, and @mentioned each other "all the time", and I'm fairly positive we would have abandoned Slack if people couldn't mention each other. Mentions are like going to the other person, and saying, "Hi, look there, you knowledeg & help is needed over here a short while". And then the other person takes a look, replies with help or status update for example.

Our mentions were related to none of driving clicks or opens or engagemenet — instead, it was about getting work done, directly rather than ... some day later when the person happened to maybe see the relevant comments.
Another great way to consume it (and this is what I do) is the todayilearned bot for telegram (https://t.me/todayilearned).

Not sure if it takes from /r/todayilearned though?
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I think a proper blood test for proteins should detect cancer e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-fetoprotein test to detect liver cancer
I haven't used desktop Linux in a while, but when I did it was common to install Fire Fox and Open Office via the package manager. The Ubuntu apt repository had thousands of desktop applications. Has that changed?
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Maybe someone does think the guy hasn’t been paid enough and is deliberately providing a justification for “damages”
Europe sees that cycle every year, and have been for more than a century, so if they cannot handle that, they should be inside in a heated room.
Well, depending on how you install certbot, it sets up a cron job automatically for you (on Debian, anyway). It's no big deal - it just creates the cron file /etc/cron.d/certbot.

I'm curious as to how you get certbot to renew automatically without a cron job or some sort of script in the Docker container that periodically runs 'certbot renew'.
Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius' Steganographia (1998) [pdf]
Actually, this is basically how it is done in circuits, with some minor optimizations on top and without the explicit doubling operation.

It's about as simple as you can make a task like this. The grade school mechanism doesn't look so bad, when you consider that where multiplying by a digit 0-9 occasionally involves some carrying and non-trivial work but multiplying by a binary digit is a simple AND operation. The result is that with fixed operand size and no carrying, each digit you would write under the line using the grade school method can be determined directly as the AND of two bits of the input, and what's left is only a bunch of binary addition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_multiplier
> "apt-get install visual-studio" would do this, it would only update dependencies of visual studio.

When I install VS I don't want other applications sharing dependencies with it to get upgraded or change.

> What do you mean here? Updating clang should only require a handful of developer tools to be updated.

No because the newer clang is not in the repo. By policy most distros will only backport security fixes not provide updates to applications.
I've always wanted to pull code out of this project to make a simple utility or script that would print a PDF from the command line without needing to set up printers or run a daemon. If I have access to an IP address or a USB port as a user, I want to be able to print using a self contained utility. Does anything exist like this, and if not, is this now the right time (as I typically develop everything with Apache/BSD/MIT licenses.)