skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if I would hold your breath. 10 years ago I think most people hadn't even heard of git (it was ~2 years old) and Google Code was the hot new thing, and GitHub was a year or so away from creation. At the time most people seemed to be pretty content Subversion and hosting on Sourceforge (before it turned evil) or Google Code, but in the next ~5 years everything changed. Granted git, GitHub, etc. have far more momentum that anything that came before, but this is a field where it feels like the only constant is change.
I know three people with them, two of them now have them sitting in a box somewhere the other one said he doesn’t use it for anything other than the weather or time but is now seriously concerned about it’s privacy implications so is considering unplugging it. Personally I use Siri on my phone probably more than 20 times a day on average and find it very useful, it helps me set reminders, events, send quick messages etc... without the full cost of mental context shifting.
It wouldn't at all surprise me if Sarkeesian sends herself anonymized harassment. Its a valuable currency for the advancement of her career.
EA caves again to social media outrage over its ‘Star Wars’ game
> This particular firm has twice as many Seattle U. grads as Harvard grads, so clearly being a local carries substantial weight.

You can't come to that conclusion unless they have an equal number of Seattle U applicants as Harvard applicants AND that they are somehow measured as being equally qualified.

A company located in Seattle having more graduates from a Seattle schools than outside schools seems pretty normal? I think you could replace Seattle with practically any city with a decent university and it would still be true except maybe super prestigious companies who only hire from top N colleges.
Is ICO a New Way to Raise Money?
The article said that the orcas' diets and hunting behaviours vary by geography and population. Cetaceans are known to be extremely intelligent and able to learn. I'm not sure it's obvious whether this is a learned, cultural behaviour taught to offspring, or an instinctual, evolved behaviour.
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About 95% of investment in InsurTech distribution models will be wasted
> The trial is scheduled for June 2019.

The US justice system is baffling.
Eric Newman, Whose Coins Told of America’s History, Dies at 106
> Basically all the comments are about how this can’t be done, which aren’t super helpful.

I dunno. The truth seems pretty helpful. Not pleasant, perhaps, but that's a different story.

> What if they created a smart contract that held a signed pdf of the title deed (turning over the property to the token-holders) in the event of default?

Default of what? This isn't a lease contract, it's sale of a non-possessory interest that entitles token-holders to a share of the value price when the token-seller transfers it. The only time a failure of required payment could happen is after a transfer of title to some third party.

> Thoughts?

As well as likely not working legally for a number of reasons (if they can't access the deed until default, they also can't validate the deed until default, plus the problems with an unrecorded presigned transfer deed that isn't delivered until default, although the particular problems depend on the form of the deed, plus the fact that the unrecorded (in title records) encumbrance does not stop the recorded owner from burdening or disposing of the property adverse to the interests of token holders), your rental scheme isn't what the OP was seeking, which is to sell rights which give an interest only on the value at transfer.

So you've proposed a system which doesn't work for what you intend, and which even if it did wouldn't do what the OP wants.
In Julia:

while true; print(rand(Bool) ? '╲' : '╱'); end
The source being open puts huge pressure on the developer not to put in backdoors.

Overmore, your claim

> Nobody outside a tiny minority of geeks treats free software as a selling point.

is wrong. Just to give one counterexample, the European Comission is not a bunch of geeks and they strongly prefer free software.
Agree, although strace is a curious tool in that — by exposing the fact that userspace is "just" syscalls — it's highly educational about UNIX in general.
Sounds a bit similar to Google's Piper (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...) that lets you check out a portion of the monorepo, no?
Whatever the reason was, that a family or people where able to accumulate that much wealth: I believe, there should be an upper limit.

It is not okay for people like Bill Gates (i do think he is a good person) or Mark Zuckerberg to have that much power on such a small planet.

It is awesome that someone like Bill Gates spends tons of money for research etc. but he should not be able to make such huge decisions in a modern democratic society.

There is a good reason to allow people to accumulate wealth. Why shouldn't someone be allowed to not spend all his/her money for alcohol, party and cars or whatever and instead put the money into real estate for there children. But something like 5-10 Million per Child is still super reasonable.

Perhaps that leads the way to a more fair feature where it is not necessary for anyone anymore to horde money for the familiy heritage.
You live there because you don’t have to put up with the crowds that necessitate having three grocery stores. I mean, $DEITY H. $DEITY on a pogo stick, you need three stores from which to buy your food or you can’t imagine living here? You’re being sarcastic and it went right over my head, right?
Technically its not a ban of specific merchandise, since they were already illegal. Its more like, say, a police raid against an arms dealer (=> thats not an arms ban).
Censorship doesn't work. We must beat poor ideas with good ones. What happens if they are the ones who end up with the power to silence?
Child abuse on YouTube – The Times
What depresses me about it is that many people, probably even many of the authors colleagues and readers here, do not feel that he has any right to that money. There are suggestions that even the author himself does not feel he has earned it. This is a pretty big philosophical problem, but it's very worrisome. At least in certain cultures, people are willing to take significant personal losses just to prevent someone else from "getting a windfall". There is even behavioral research about this tendency, the 'Ultimatum Game' research is pretty much centered around it.

I agree with you entirely, he earned the $30k bounty and DJI is both morally and, one would hope, legally culpable in trying to defraud him of $30k. While it sounds like a great deal of money for "not much work" (we are, I suppose, to take the extensive education and experience utilized as something that appears from the ether and one is simply anointed with, unearned), it is really a paltry sum when considered reasonably. How much money has DJI saved by not hiring staff capable of building the system correctly in the first place? How much money would DJI make from retaining the lucrative clients that will hopefully drop them like a hot potato when they learn of this bungled exposure of just how little they care about security? (I am guessing that those .gov clients and any similar will be hearing from their engineers and getting this document passed up the chain soon. And I don't know about DJI specifically but at least in the US most companies rely upon the government as their largest customer.) $30k for the work performed, and the consequences if handled only as honestly as a child on a playground who makes a promise and feels bound by it, is a stupendously tiny amount of money. And yet, DJI is so shortsighted, mean, and cheap that they're not even capable of honoring the agreements they freely made of their own accord.

Do you think anyone at DJI simply thought that their systems were secure and no significant bugs would be found? If so... what are those people thinking now?
Matt Blaze Recounts Teenaged Harassment By John Draper
> I don't have time. I want to teach electronics and stuff because I want to help people who are marginalized to have the opportunities that frankly, I didn't deserve but I wish everyone had. But I also have a lot to learn first, and I'm not going to do that if I spend all my time like I did my first couple of years here, doing forced social things with people who will never want to see me again.

No point teaching people who don't want to learn. Plus, it comes off as stuck up to tell people what should be important to them.

It's great that you have a passion for electronics! I'm surprised you aren't able to find a meetup or something with others who share that interest.. Maybe you could visit the local colleges to see if they have clubs or classes and join in?
Wal-Mart says it’s preordered 15 of Tesla’s new electric tractor trailers
Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15672343
Nice, still hoping for it to arrive in germany.

There was one supermarket where i was able to pay with there app (it used a 4 digit code). It was quite nice to receive the digital bon per email.

It would have been easy to make automatic analysis from them but after just a few weeks, the supermarket switched brand.
I don't. Why bother? I've seen sitcoms, a few months out and I'd be taking odd bus routes or wearing sunglasses and a hat around the office or some crazy shit like that.
Addressing the root cause of why people are leaving the platform would be a good step.
I love this... So much hope :)

The search for Dyson spheres was happening. Here are summary of results so far: https://home.fnal.gov/~carrigan/infrared_astronomy/Fermilab_...
Mirasol display technology. I wouldn't be surprised if the display's colors simply weren't saturated enough to be marketable; but I still pine for a screen that I could actually see better under bright light instead of struggling with glare.
What does it take to make 7 figures at your tech company ?
> They're not singling you out. Seattle people don't talk to random strangers on the street or transit unless there's an actual reason. This aspect of the city is well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze.

Is this unique to Seattle? I don't think I've lived anywhere (lived in both north and south CA previously) where people just talked to random people.

I feel like that's just one part of being in a big place? No point saying hi to every single person because there's way too many people and you're unlikely to see most of them ever again.
John Draper is "Captain Crunch".

Context: Kevin Collier's Buzzfeed piece about conferences banning Draper due to his habit of persuading young (teenaged) attendees to participate in private "exercises" that are clearly tantamount to sexual molestation:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/hacker-hero-is-said-to...
"Thiel isn't the only one departing the program. Y Combinator has shuttered its entire part-time partner program in which Thiel participated"
COPPA.
I can't recall the name of the site off the top of my head, but I know there is at least one site which ostensibly functions as a marketplace for selling security vulnerabilities to government and other "trustworthy" (ow my sides...) organizations. My understanding is that that site actually pays some very competitive prices against the black market. And heck, even if they are not USING the vulnerabilities and simply turning around and disclosing them to the manufacturers while driving up the prices cybercriminals have to pay... that seems like a grand idea to me personally.
Beyond gouging: $221,000-$571,000 Total Estimated Pre-ICO Investment, PLUS 5% of the funds raised.
I've run a 6TB pool (6x disks across 2x raidz2) on 2 GB RAM for several years. This was on desktop hardware. In fact it wasn't even an Intel CPU but some crappy AMD thing.

Initially I ran Nexenta, then OpenSolaris before finally switching to FreeBSD. Network shares via Samba as well. I didn't have any performance issues for day to day stuff. Scrubs used to take a while, as did resilvering whenever I had to replace dead drives. But normal day to day operations worked fine.

It was only around 5 years ago when I finally switched up to the Xeon with 32GB RAM machine I have now.

Also FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD.
I'm calling BS on the Quora guy's statement that Google offices typically run to 8pm. They do not, by a longshot. The typical schedule was 9-6.

Now, # hours a week is a different question. Just because people leave a 6 or whatever, they often come back online at night, or work some more on weekends. That was very common.

And your last point, I honestly can't put together how you think my statement about committing code had anything to do with # of hours.
I agree wholeheartedly. If not only for the fact that the data was transmitted and stored without any encryption.
I don't want a family sedan, I want a small, reasonably agile coupe. My current car is a Subaru BRZ. I want something that still has that kind of handling.
Yes, the NSA is surveilling the populace 24/7 through Microsoft Equation Editor.
> I disagree that it very obviously cannot be done.

If you can get a jurisdiction to make the ledger on which the smart contract operates the legal source of truth for real property rights, it can work. For real existing jurisdictions without that, it's unworkable.
Pretty clever take on an old technique.

At reddit we would store a field on the user recording the last time they voted on something. If they loaded a page that was newer than that timestamp, then we could skip reading any votes for that page since we knew they couldn't possibly have voted on anything on that page.

This basically takes the same technique and puts it a level down and reverses it, saying "this database has any update this user could have made".

I like it.
replace the ski resort with a money printer. That money printer has value, given it can print money.

You can also assign a dollar amount to how valuable that money printer is. So you can justifiably stick it on your balance sheet since this is a way you're making money.

There's a whole thing in accounting about assigning dollar values to things you own, here it's no different. I would argue that you shouldn't really assign potential revenue from the ski resort, but depending on your circumstances it _could_ make sense.

Accounting is a bit arbitrary in the end, since there are multiple logical ways of representing things. In most cases it's impossible to claim that one way of thinking is wrong... at worst you can claim that it doesn't match accepted practice.
> Having a single common language spoken by everyone would be enormously useful

In the same way that having a single programming language would be, right? :)

Joking aside, I find having multiple languages part of the charm of being a homo sapiens. We would be missing some colour in our world if we all communicated in the same tongue and, indeed, I don't think it would solve many real-life issues around _miscommunication_.
This one automatically mutes new tabs until you explicitly unmute them: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-mute/
I've implemented all points that @tptacek mentioned (except the web extension, that will be a future update), and will also activate HSTS when I feel comfortable with the server setup.

I switched from CryptoJS to TweetNaCl which seemed fit to purpose, and also moved all CDN depencencies locally as well as removed Google Analytics :)
- OpenGL programming in C++

- Unity development

- General game development (with... a dozen or so VS subprojects converging vaguely towards an MVP at some point)

- Webassembly, maybe. I have the portable SDK and finished a Hello World but that's already a lot of BS on my plate.

And in more abstract, non-tech terms, how to deal with being 40 and officially "old."
I think wall street is still the best option to make a lot of money.
I was thinking that the domains would be broader things that are not likely to fall out of fashion or change faster than an individual can keep up. Things like “security” or “networking.”
If it were merely used as a representative workload, one would apply a discount to the complexity and size of the compiler since it can be assumed that compiling a larger and more complicated program should take longer (i.e. the measurement would be something like loc/s). But that's not the case here, because the value of simplicity and size is pitted against performance.

I think the delta of agreement here is small; I just mean to note that “justified” here includes the value of the simplicity of the compiler. I have a personal bias towards the paper of course, because I would love to be downstream of a fallacy that gave me the development ergonomics of any of the Wirth or Wirth-like languages.
Similarly, I think one reason that the programming-language community likes functional programming more than most people is that a compiler is fundamentally one big pure function.
What the Internet Cannot Do (2000)
You really think a jury is going to buy this?

Imagine this for a moment: the Brave browser ships with a VR headset that automatically descends upon the user's eyes and ears for the duration of an ad, shielding them from their own screen (and thus the Youtube ad playing on it) and playing a different ad (or no ad) instead.

Does the same liability still apply?

I think that Brave lawyers will have an easy time convincing a jury that a merely drawing the user's attention to a different piece of content is not tantamount to damages to some website that happens to be among those open in their browser at the time.
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I don't know. Somebody needs to make those huge decisions, and it is not always clear if that should be by democratic means (here is to you, Trump and Brexit).
Yes. For more on this context, see:

http://www.nature.com/news/us-struggles-to-offload-telescope...

In order to bring new telescopes like LSST online, something has to be cut. NSF has tried to offload these older telescopes to consortia of universities who can still use them.
> > How do the token holders know the documentation they will receive upon default will be legit?

> That's a risk with any type of transaction,

No, it's not; particularly, traditional mortgages (the closest real world analog to your proposal) don't have this problem, because there is no hidden-until-default document transferring interwst, there is an interest of the named mortgage holder registered against the title record when the mortgage is initiated. This is a solved problem, but the desire to try to move things into smart contracts means you can't use the solution.

> but easy to verify with a good lawyer.

How is a lawyer going to validate that a deed PDF that can't be accessed until default is a valid document in advance of the actual default?
Hey Matt!,

That's great to hear. I have heard that space companies like BlueOrigin, spacex are not allowed to hire H1B's or non-american citizens. Is that true?
Imagine using that yardstick to guide what optimizations to implement on a FORTRAN compiler -- it would be absurd! Most workloads don't have a lot in common with a compiler.
> But if they need to build this out by subverting YouTube's advertising and revenue flow and replacing it with their own, that is not going to last.

...why not? Subversion of Youtube's advertising and revenue flow sounds like a prospect which enjoys high demand and low supply at the moment.
The relevant Xanadu concept would be transclusions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion

http://www.jucs.org/jucs_11_6/fine_grained_transclusions_of/
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Relatively easy does not mean little work.
This isn't mixing debt and value. The core point is that if the business is taking on a debt we should have regard for what the debt is being spent on, and the principle is that taking on a debt shouldn't immediately reduce equity in a business because it should be balanced by an asset.

> You can be in more debt but overall have a more profitable enterprise, right?

Yes. But if the businesses are identical in every way (management, worker skill, etc, etc) then they should have identical earning potential. If they are different in a way that is profitable, that difference is an accounting asset.

It doesn't matter how similar the hypothetical sauna in the desert is to the profitable sauna, the better location will result in better profits.

> This again confuses me - the debt is a sure thing. You signed a contract, meaning you have to pay up no matter what.

No. Nothing about the future is certain. I don't even mean that in the pedantic philosophical way, it is a very practical concern. If, eg, my fictional ski resort was buried in an avalanche that the rent would be extinguished (in sane jurisdictions, anyhow). The business might also be limited liability and go bankrupt - same $0 loss worst case as the desert.

> there's a million ways you could mess up and make less money than you intended.

That is true of any asset. Risk is an accepted concept. Even 'risk free' assets are only risk free assuming the law doesn't change.

> If guessing the future value of productive assets was simple, then investors of all kinds would have a super easy job. So how could we possibly put the productive asset in the books with a straight face?

Because 'we' think it has value. It passes the 'someone with money is paying for it' test. Guessing values isn't easy, but at some point we do have to do it to compare options.

> Isn't that borderline fraud?

I'm not going to try and lawyer and account at the same time, but accounts books aren't some magical tome that is always right. Sometimes erroneous valuations make it into them. The accountants do the best they can.

There are no set of accounts so correct they can make things true. There are reasonable and unreasonable assumptions. "I think this lease is net-positive for equity" can be a reasonable assumption. In fact, it usually will be.
The problem is line attenuation 90% of the time in middle america
A fascinating read but full of statements (without any citation or justification) such as: "sentences like the opening line of the Declaration of Independence simply do not occur in conversation".

Here the author seems to state that complex, multi-nested, compound or recursive statements do not arise in spoken English - obviously we must allow that the language has changed somewhat since the DoI was written - however, I know - for a fact - that I have personally uttered sentences that make the DoI's opening statement look quite concise, given my habit towards verbosity ... etc etc ad nauseam.

I apologise to anyone trying to parse the above paragraph. Spoken language does not have to worry about punctuation, spelling and can mess around with grammatical constructs. You can get away with a lot when speaking. You can use rhythm, pauses and all sorts of other tricks that are unavailable in print. You can also use facial and other gestures as well. You can fiddle with accents and other quirks as well.

That said, some written prose/documents seem to somehow transcend the limits of being pinned down on a page and take a life of their own. For example, Mr Shaksper (probably one of his famous variety of spelings) was quite handy with a pen according to a few people.
My best guess would be that orcas love eating fatty things like shark livers.
If I buy a computer for $2000 it goes on my asset sheet at $2000 and depreciates over time according to GAAP rules. Shouldn't my lease contract on a $1000/month 5 year contract be a $60,000 asset and a $60,000 liability with the asset depreciating at $1,000/month? In most of accounting we get double entry bookkeeping to work by assuming the cost paid for an asset is the value of the asset. I think in many cases reporting it this way would be more accurate (Although depreciation expenses would be a giant loophole that needs fixing).