skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, thanks for sharing your experiences!
It’s really inspiring for other engineers
I fail to see how they will be able to make this happen... Overall, I'm skeptical of the narrative that continues to iterate that cryptocurrency projects will usurp our modern legal and financial system which always seems to market the notion that it's here today and with enough of your attention, time (and money) we can somehow overcome the fortress of legal frameworks, policies, international agreements that took at least half a millenia of battle testing and it's still undergoing developments as new edge cases arises forcing revisions, and cesspool of highly paid lawyers who poorly slave away ensuring this system cannot be challenged and that it is the ultimate law.

I find it amusing how those pumping coins seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that whatever fantasy world conjured up still lives within the confines of our legislative & financial laws.
You mean something like this?

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
Uhh, would be US adding 10 million, not one million.
Gnome at 20: Four reasons it's still my favorite GUI – Opensource.com
The iPad Pro with the Pencil is almost a perfect device. I use GoodNotes rather than Notability, but I think the capabilities are roughly the same. It's great to be able to write by hand most of the time, type when I need to, paste images, insert snapshots of white boards, etc...

The OCR is very good too and even my handwritten notes are indexed. I'm not sure if it indexes the text in images though. I used to use Evernote and it did an amazing job of that.

I used to use text files exclusively, then I moved to Microsoft Word so I could paste in images and other non-text items. I missed the handwriting part of it. Something about using those muscles and going slow helps me absorb the material better.
Strange lights over Phoenix
Same in Romania. For the first time in my life (I’m 37 now) I heard a couple of acquantainces saying something like “We’re 20,000 Euros reacher now compared to last November, our apparment is now worth 90,000 euros compared to 70,000 euros last November”. This discussion happened this summer, since then I’ve heard at least a couple other different couples saying pretty much the same thing (only the sums were different). Never mind they their investments are a hell of a inliquid ones and that the banking rules can change anytime, just like that (like it happened after 2008), which would send the real estate market collapsing.
Joey's World Tour

a rather obese, but extremely good natured and outgoing youtuber that absolutely stuffs his face during food reviews. Most of the video is him smacking while eating rather disgustingly.

Some of his videos are the literal definition of gluttony.

I love to watch his videos while cutting calories because it immediately makes me lose my appetite.

I feel like such a bad person for doing this but it is rather effective.
If we had anything that approximated beef and chicken, I'd go "vegan" right away. I've tried the alternatives and I'm just not impressed yet. I'd even settle for "differently great", and not hold it to the exact taste and texture, but there's just nothing that does it for me like meat does.
Interactive guide to homogeneous coordinates
I dont see how that matters at all.

also -- there's also page load time. if it's an intensive calculation then the overhead of sending the results over http is still less than the browser calc time.
Have one stipulation: To collect UBI you must have a physical address for the check to be mailed to. You must have a residence. This at the very least ensures that they cover their rent and would allow us to redirect money for homeless shelters back into the UBI system somehow.
If my experience in highway infrastructure is any guide, this is mostly futile. If they really want to slow it down, start with an environmental impact study. The best thing about it is the government has to pay for it and they are very subjective.

You can make a project take twice as long.
the one showing homer aging from a child to adult literally makes me tear up
Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?
They wrote "anyone":

>anyone who chooses stock options over cash is naive, delusional, or misled.

What you've written also applies to founders. Why not write: "any founder is delusional. Unless they succeed, in which case they're just lucky."

But if that is true, nobody should admit being a founder during the delusional phase. If they succeed, they should never give advice.

Except that 10,000x multipliers exist, and the reason I listen to successful founders is to learn from them.

The gp poster isn't a 10,000x-er. That says more about them and their career than it does about startups.
While this wasn't a dupe when it was posted, and the mods eventually unduped it, it did get reposted the next day and garnered a lot more comments, so please check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15701238 instead for comments.
To be clear:

A PBC just means they have some value that they will not sacrifice for profit. It doesn't mean they aren't for profit, and it doesn't mean they are democratic or anything. It's still a good thing. Not being a PBC is basically unethical always (there's NO ethical excuse for ANY for-profit to NOT be a PBC). But it's a low standard, not comparable to being a co-op or non-profit.

Also, even with Patreon being not a PBC, it's horrendous to compare them to Facebook. Facebook is an evil corporation that spends tons of resources promoting surveillance, advertising, and manipulation (and gaining power to dramatically influence politics etc). Facebook is exploitive and actively malicious. For all the real complaints about Patreon, they are doing stuff that is largely positive at least and is in direct opposition to the surveillance-capitalism of Facebook. There is NO COMPARISON. Facebook is plainly awful. Patreon is a good concept run by good people with some real problems that make it worth looking at the competition.
I had once tried rebuilding an Oberon compiler and the standard library using itself - all from the sources. I will never forget this - it only took 0.15 seconds.

Having said that, the language goes a bit too far trying to be "as simple as possible but not too simple", at least to my taste -- in a way that Go seems to be, only much more so. It also looks verbose - especially compared to C. So, while I marvel at the language and have a feel for its weird beauty, I don't think I'd be comfortable using it in my day to day activity - I guess, C and C++ have spoiled me...
Eh, that really comes down to applied theory vs. pure theory. There's no one Grand Unifying Theory of Natural Language Processing, and not likely to be a strong candidate for a while yet. Until then, there can still be a lot of good problem-solving that can be used with either traditional NLP or with neural networks, or even a hacked-together hybrid approach, and both application and research will feed into each other to refine the processes.
Or you outlaw changing cryptocurrency into fiat currency or providing any goods or services in exchange for cryptocurrency. What would bitcoin's value be right now, if it was illegal to convert into any fiat currency? No established exchanges (just black market ones). In addition, due to the power requirements, it is probably pretty easy to figure out who is mining.
I didn't think the grandparent comment is "moralizing". They aren't saying your choice of major is "good" or "bad". They are saying that when you make a sub-optimal(in relation to expected future income) degree choice then you should expect a sub-optimal result and take responsibility for your own decisions rather than complain about "the economy" or "the system" or "capitalism in general".
Just wanted to say I'm the founder. Happy to answer any questions!
Their goal is to drag out the process of eminent domain as long as possible.
Nonsense and very outdated.

We all agree that "justice" needs to be done. Before there was traditional law and order by the "state": you kill my kin, I killed yours. It kept things in order and fear of revenge made you think twice.

In Albania like in many transitional countries you could escape traditional justice by paying judges. Or the police never did their job as they should. Now, what's one to do when you see the killer walking freely ? It happened in Sicily, Corsica, it happens in Pashtun areas etc etc. It's really simple: No law, revenge takes over.

By the way, this only affects families involved, and in most cases even others inside the family are ruled out: "I only have problems with the person that killed my son, others are free."
Redpillers? What is this? English is not my first language. Thank you
Hilarious. Does he not realize how the fed works?
That’s precisely the point. Having a fear of people who you haven’t heavily interacted with, when wandering about in public in highly trafficked spaces, is irrational, because the risks are vanishingly small. I’ve e.g. personally watched a middle aged lady cross to the other side of the street in the middle of the day to avoid walking closely past some normal looking brown-skinned high school kids wearing hoodies and baggy pants, and then cross back to the original side after they were past. On several occasions I’ve seen men switch sides with their female companions so that as they walk along the man is between the woman and some unassuming homeless person sitting on the sidewalk minding their own business. Again, on a well-trafficked street in the middle of the day. These reactions are not based on reasonable fears.

Lots of people won’t let their 10- or 12-year-old kids walk around town by themselves, because the parents are afraid they will be abducted or assaulted or something. But such tragedies are extremely rare. If anything, if they are really worried about child abuse the parents should be carefully examining their priest, sports coaches, teachers, family members, friends’ relatives, etc.

Obviously if you take the random strangers off the street and invite them to your home, have a deep personal conversation, lend them money, ask them to take care of your kids, start kissing them, or whatever your definition is for a “close interaction”, they sort of stop being strangers at that point, and you are more likely to get into some altercation.
I wonder how this will work with convertible notes? Technically you are not setting a new valuation.

Unless they decide to use the cap as valuation for tax purposes. But then I imagine one could give up the cap in favor of a better liquidation preference.
Scalable Blockchain Database
Free-fall experiment could test if gravity is a quantum force
a bit of mistyping on my part...

I don't know much about bit-slice processors. They seem like an interesting historical footnote at this point. Are there any current applications for the technology?
You can use that 750,000$ to buy anywhere else that's not inflated. If you want to buy a house in an inflated area you end up in the same situation as anyone else that wants to buy a house in an inflated area.

AKA, if a prison opened up next to their current house keeping property values the same then they would be strictly worse off.
Just testing out FF devtools, I do appreciate how similar they are to Chrome. The biggest differences seem to be geared towards PWAs, such as auditing w/ Lighthouse.
Using Varnish VCL to prefetch content and other live content streaming issues
Right this second, we offer the ability to export your analytics to Azure Blob Storage, and Application Insights, where you can then join the App Center analytics with other data.

We are looking at what we can do to make the SPA + mobile workflow super easy, though. Stay tuned on this. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me as I'd love to ask you some more questions.
Take Command of CSS Flexbox
I am learning python so our team can build a microservice for predications and analytics for our SaaS product!
Yeah, appears to be dumb luck. You don't put together branding and a demo of real-time collaborative editing in a day.
>Company known for dumb publicity stunts starts a new dumb publicity stunt

In other news, sun rises in east, sets in west.
Neat observation. The "3-longest-words" approach probably works well because grammatical words tend to be elided down to as short of an implementation as possible, while longer words tend to be more demonstrative of the actual topic at hand, rather than grammatical structure.
Their goal is to sell more Cards Against Humanity games
Yep. I’m a happy owner. Maybe one day I’ll visit my square foot.

I assume the government would just have the judge bundle all the cases together. It’s a pretty obvious ploy and it seems like making the government litigate it 1000x would be unnecessarily burdensome.

Wouldn’t their cases probably end up along with all the other cases you’d see from other ‘real’ landowners?
They are to be given "sufficient to live in
dignity," and it is appar­ently to be no business of the
tax­payers if a recipient chooses none the less to live
without dignity

Dignity is subjective ofc. If you think otherwise I can understand how you can interpret the quote in another way :)
I'm sure this won't be a popular opinion on a website where most people probably make close to 100k but bail would be a lot more fair if it were based on total income.
Apparently I am satire.

I made "minecraft but you start on your own tiny-prince style asteroid in an asteroid belt, play around there then eventually maybe work to make some sort of propulsion for your asteroid so you can go bump into other asteroids and get bigger and meet your neighbors and eventually colonize really big ones, sort of mostly cubical asteroids where I fudge gravity so you can stand on any face and sort of smoothly roll around as you cross the edges".

Frameworks annoy me so I just used OpenGL on macOS and iOS. Likewise I built my own multiplayer networking. Physics is just physics, so that isn't a problem once you discover quaternions, except that I had to change it to make things work better. Spectral harmonic lighting with ambient occlusion made a nice looking world. Bump maps are hard to paint, so I built a rig and wrote a bunch of software so I could sculpt a bump map tile in modeling clay, lay it in the rig, let it cycle through 8 different lighting directions while taking pictures, then compute the bump map for the game to use.

Eventually we could run around and modify my little 128^3 starter asteroid. And I had a bush (well tree) which I made in Blender. It was the test case for the 3d models for non-cubes. If you stood real close to it you could hear me saying "I'm a tree…" over and over. Had to test my ambient audio system too.

And there it stopped. I still feel badly that if you manage to find it, run it, and the server, and mine to the center of mass of your asteroid, and pass through just the right spot with your little person you will be flung so far into space you won't even be able to see the sun. Darn that 1/ϵ hiding in the physics code.
> Fresh new grads at big companies make more than that and they employ a lot of people.

"A lot" <> {everyone,the majority,a plurality,a statistically significant number}

$125/yr average for programmers across the US sounds just about right. I live in a low COL area where new grads are lucky to hit $55k/yr. I make less than $125k as a team lead with direct reports and budgetary responsibilities, and my boss' boss (the director of our profit center) is somewhere in the $150-165k range. Sounds bad compared to $400k total comp at Netflix, but my mortgage is $900/mo, I have a yard, and I pay next to nothing (comparatively) in taxes.
Puffs: parsing untrusted file formats safely
Yup, but trust me, he didn't know that.
https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/03/important-security-updates...
I resonate with this so much. I honestly feel incredibly lucky to end up where I did. My sophomore year of high school, I took a programming class almost entirely on accident.

I took a business class with a teacher my freshman year and really liked her. The only other elective she taught was an intro to C++ course. It's like a light switch went off in my head that this is what I am supposed to do with my life.

I had my sophomore and junior year to do projects and really solidify that this is the thing for me. I had plenty of help a long the way. I had a few particularly great professors and a life-changing internship at a startup. I feel so lucky to have these experiences that are almost random chance that things worked out for me.

I can't imagine what it's like to try to decide what you want to do for the rest of your life with only a high school classes and possibly a part-time job. How can you decide you want to do something with such a narrow and outsider perspective? I had much more exposure than most to what I wanted to do and it still took a lot of luck and wrong turns to get here. I can't imagine how hard it must be with even more limited exposure.
> selecting CSS colors in other colorspace (eg. RGBA) as oppose to just hex

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but you can go into the dev tools config and change the default color unit under Inspector. The eyedropper will show values using the selected unit and style rules will be converted to that unit.
The problematic bit is that the browser itself would prompt you for your master password. Getting users into the habit of entering their master password in a browser window means that it's relatively easy for sites to create a fake prompt that's likely to fool a lot of people.

1Password does a couple of things to mitigate this. First, the master password alone would not be sufficient to get access to your passwords. An attacker would also need access to your vault files (for local vaults) or your secret key (for 1Password Accounts, their SaaS offering). Second, the password prompt isn't rendered within the "danger zone" - the part of your browser window where the page you're visiting is rendered. Instead, it's a dialog on top of the extension toolbar where it's distinguishable from the site (at least with the Chrome extension for the standalone version on macOS, I haven't checked to see if this changed).

Neither of these mitigations are perfect. Leaking your master password is obviously bad either way, and while I have some faith in my ability to detect a fake password prompt that's rendered in the wrong position, that's a bit like an anti-phishing strategy that boils down to "always check the domain", which we know doesn't work. Ultimately, not using an extension reduces your attack surface significantly, but incidentally that comes at the cost of some phishing-resistance that you gain from only ever entering your password through an extension matching the domain.
Not just that but most money isn't even in the form of cash. It's literally just numbers on computers generated by the fed out of thin air.

I'm not arguing if its right or wrong, but the author sure doesnt seem like they understand what theyre talking about.
> Writing an article about Albania and pointing to road quality is mainly an anachronism,

As an Eastern-ish European living in San Francisco ... I miss the high quality roads I used to take for granted.
drip.com became drip.fm became drip.kickstarter.com.

This service pre-dates the sites that now occupy drip.com and drip.fm.
I spent a good amount of time at the Austin shop, I loved it but it was just a little too far out of the way to make it worthwhile as a hobby space.
Every single proposal of UBI has included it replacing all other welfare benefits

Only so that their cost calculations don't go crazy and seem sustainable. No one in the UBI side is even remotely interested in deleting previous welfare
Nothing I've written is disingenuous. Perhaps you need to be more careful in the comments you make when you're addressing an international group of people whose interest goes a little deeper than talk-radio talking points.

And in case it wasn't obvious: "progressives" often find being labelled Marxists irritating. It's one of the dumber things that happens in our political dialog, and if you do it in mixed company you'll sometimes be called out on it.
I assume you aren't taking into account location.
Sorry, but I have to say that it's truly amazing to me how the left never gets called out on their arrogance and blatant elitism (which is palmed off as mere humor). Make a joke about social class from the right and you're named, shamed, and run out of town with torches and pitchforks.

(This is not a reply to the above commenter, just about the FAQ entry itself).
I'm glad you mentioned Enpass -- I hadn't heard of them. I'm currently a disgruntled 1Password user looking to jump ship.

https://www.enpass.io
If only we had politicians with good intentions, every issues would be solved !
I stress that I may have made up the article I'm referencing!

I ultimately take "allergy" to mean, "we don't fully understand the reason."
London Startup Launching Visa Card for Spending Bitcoin and Ethereum
What I “don’t really want to do” for the rest of my life is be unemployable because I got an Ancient Chinese Art History degree and struggling paying off student loan debt in the process.

I’ve never told my children to “pursue their dreams” as their career without one eye toward being able to support themselves.

Scott Adams sums it up perfectly....
https://www.slideshare.net/Scottadams925/goals-are-for-loser...
First time I heard of DRAGNN, my mind is blown: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/sy...
This is the bug for this in case you are interested or want to follow progress: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=885508
Julia Silge – Word Vectors with tidy data principles
Employees'online reviews are good predictors of a firm's financial results
We live in a world where everyone wants to make Electron apps instead of doing anything in a compiled language or anything other than JavaScript really.

Maybe it's because I've never been a webdev but I just don't understand the fascination with JavaScript. Personally I hate JavaScript any time I have to code in it. Give me literally any other language.
It's probably not idle CPU usage that the parent is complaining about.
Voters and donors, same as everything else. Even if there's no voter resistance to increased spending, implementing UBI without raising taxes or decreasing welfare would destroy the economy before your next election, so there's a clear incentive to not do it.
The results from this experiment will likely be used to influence government policy at some point or another. Whoever is funding this effort is probably going to do that in phase 2, once the results are sufficiently in their favor. Isn't this a convoluted implementation of the Wal-Mart model? Keep minimum wages low and influence policy to be as such, so that people use food stamps, which are mostly spent at Wal-Mart. I remember Bernie Sanders talking about this during the 2016 campaign.

I can't help but think that some corporate research department has already done a study on Universal Basic Income in terms of how it will affect the bottom line of the donors, and this is part of a plan to influence government policy in various parts of the world, with the ultimate end goal of lining their own pockets.

I find this to be far more believable than the idea that people are genuinely altruistic and charitable in 2017, perhaps the most vain, narcissistic, virtue signalling self-obsessed period in history, which is a period that directly follows the most egregious example of corporate greed and fraud that led to the housing crisis and wall street collapse.

I would be very skeptical of any and all data that is generated from such experiments until we know who the donors are. I think it's only fair to ask.
These comments are helpful because this is how people think.

When a suit or Talbots customer argues over a price at Wal-Mart you should hear the similar type of tone the cashier takes after they leave. Especially if they argue for a buck or two.

This is real world
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