skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I'm assuming that includes zinc oxide sunscreen, which is touted as the "least harmful sunscreen" there is.
This doesn't make it safe -- consider a lower level library inside Chromium can be exploited when processing input data. Your chat app can be exploited by receiving a crafted image. This actually happened in image processing library and network library in Chromium.
Car break-ins are a major problem in SF. I wish the city would do some kind of sustained sting operation to capture the worst offenders.
Every excel spreadsheet is an error waiting to happen.

Implicit & unexplained business rules, no tests, no version control, unlabeled cell references, hardwired variables, everything is global, no encapsulation, no logs and no documentation.

Even assembly code is easier read and maintain than a complicated excel workbook.
A Net Neutrality analogy
That format is about 60 years old. It wasn’t new when Frost/Nixon was a thing.

I agree it would be nicer very to have more of that kind of content but it doesn’t make him very good at it - just one of the only ones doing it
A forgotten Chinese tech company making waves on NASDAQ with “not an ICO” coin
This is a dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15762035)
Compared to macadamia nuts and almonds, peanuts are absolutely candy. I don't eat them, at all.
A custodian company, not a person.
The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

These two books taught me the importance of being true to one's values and not sacrificing them under any circumstances. They introduced me to Individualism and Objectivism which have profoundly impacted the way I look at the world.
I left too, but apparently actually enjoy the cortisol rush. I moved to NYC because I liked the ambition in SF but not the monoculture of having all that ambition in one industry.

For people who are wondering about the mono-culture, the question to be asking is "Does my job actually make a positive difference in the world?" Quite often the pay makes you feel like it does, but the actual work is meaningless or harmful to society.

Ignorance is bliss, so maybe don't ask yourself that question. But if you do care, it is an extremely hard question to get to the bottom of. I bet the founders of Twitter and Facebook really did think they had made the world a better place, but now that's much less clear.

In any case, it warms my hear to imagine Tim and his dog in Austin--truly a great American city. Love it there.
I've been very disappointed with Cortana. On numerous occasions it has been faster to grab my Macbook out of my backpack. Why is Spotlight able to find a file on my Windows desktop's network share that Cortana would not find?

And to top it off Spotlight shows me accurate previews of Excel and Word documents. But Cortana, another Microsoft product, does not. Perhaps that's a compliment to the team that makes Office for Mac.
Ask HN: Best online resources to learn about Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency?
Over this Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I wanted to provide my Dad (a retired banker) with some online links to learn about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

I, myself, don't know much about Bitcoin nor cryptocurrency, so I would like to read the material, too.

Where would someone start - what are good online resources that give a good introductory explanation of what it is, as well as the deeper details of it, if, say, someone was thinking about making a sizable investment in it and wanted to have a thorough understanding of it all?

It always seems to me there's a lot of people on HN that are quite knowledgeable about this stuff, so I just thought I'd ask here.

Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
I just discovered the beauty of HN. Its a great alternative to the noise of social media and cleaner (as in easier to use) than reddit.
Honest question, what's holding the development of cryptocoins without mining?
The Predatory Female: A Field Guide to Dating and the Marriage-divorce Industry by Lawrence Shannon

The Manipulated Man by Esther Villar.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
Microsoft finally unlocks Apps for Chromebooks
I'm not very keen on these things, but I do understand some of nuclear physics and the reactions thereof.

Maybe I'm in over my head, but how come satellites made for detecting radiation or nuclear explosions didn't pick up on any of this before?

If not, is it possible that satellites could detect this and produce more data for everyone on these lightning gamma ray flashes?
> Um, no. The laws of thermodynamics specifically state that all motion is perpetual, that the motion of an object will continue unless acted upon.

The spirit of a 'perpetual device' is one that does work without the input of energy, and this is in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics.
Back to Element, Introducing custom-element
It’s not a simple comparison between ETFs. The article specifically mentions Coinbase & their fees to store institutional customers’ bitcoins.
He doesn't mention it but I am sure the reduction in state tax was an incentive.
Why is sunblock bad while moisturizers ok?
3) Silicon Valley is often a culture of cortisol, of rushing, and of fear of missing out (FOMO). There is also a mono-conversation of tech that is near impossible to avoid (much like entertainment is some parts of LA), where every dinner has some discussion of rounds of funding, investing, and who is doing what with Uber, Amazon, or someone else. This can be dodged, but it takes very real and consistent effort. I don't want to spend 20-30% of my daily mental calories on avoiding the mono-conversation.

Sydney has this problem, except the conversation topics are real estate, what high school you went to, and gym memberships.
> I’m not talking about forks. I’m talking about completely different, but valid, chains.

Typically block zero is signed by the developer of the client, so there is no such thing as completely different, but valid, chains, as there is always a fork point.
Not shift click but rather shift + arrow keys. Shift + click requires moving to the mouse. The other option is using the list view - which I don't prefer. (May be I've something messed up? I can't seem to shift + arrow to select more than a few files.
What gopher client is that? It looks really nice but searching for "Little Gopher Client" didn't bring up anything.
Clarity on Net Neutrality
Well said. I would add the access to mentors and investment capital is large draw for entrepreneurs.
G2: The Grammar of Graphics in JavaScript
Atlas Shrugged is one of those books that is often life-changing. Whether that is positive or not depends wildly upon the reader and their situation.

Other books I'd put in that category are Fight Club and Walden
Looks like the superiors just replied :)

https://github.com/intel/haxm/issues/5#issuecomment-34652021...
Jira on the command-line
Oh the irony. Medium: dickbar on the top. Dickbar on the bottom. Unclosable pop-up in the middle.
Reminds me of when I meet new people in a "night out" type context and it feels like everyone vying to work in different forms of status signaling into the conversation.
Buy real estate before everyone moves there.
OK, so it's a comparison between two ETFs and then also some overpriced service from Coinbase that has similar characteristics to a mutual fund. The point still stands that there is as of yet very little competition in this space. Expect costs to come way down still.
Because of the difficulty of marketplace establishment then you are in an excellent position, if you can sell yourself in the right way.
Brian Lopes - Mastering Mountain Bike Skills. Taught me that the sound of my tires rolling on gravel is more rewarding than a place in the podium.

Patrick King - The Art of Witty Banter. Taught me how to be entertaining among non-engineers.
The length of the post is an argument against ASI. If you are not writing code for others then be my guest. Don’t expect others to put up with your clever antics. Another reason I hate the JavaScript world. Waste of talent.
That is also allowed by current law, and also has nothing to do with net neutrality.
The source of the algorithm I described is my mind. It's so elementary that I believe it is omnipresent but disguised by more complicated math, usually due to other ways to define RS codes.
We're talking about searching in the Activities view of GNOME 3. I don't think it can be turned off (usually it's great if there isn't a name collision)
If you read reviews about What the Health online, you'll see that lot of it is vegan propaganda. They've manipulated facts (like mentioning relative probability as opposed to absolute) so that they seem more dangerous than it actually is.
How to Fix Democracy
Ah, sure, and that custodian company will most likely hold the bitcoins in a multisig account.

Now you have to pay a company for this service and also have counter-party risk. Great.

Maybe the risk and cost is not worth it and setting up a multi-sig inhouse is worth it?
There is no point building your own business App anymore
Well the pocket watch isn't that bad looking......
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r25390782-From-a-WISP

Really just google WISP and Netflix or YouTube.
iMessage/Photostream?
Privacy concerns lead my family to use nothing else.
How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App
...the work of an amateur

And you’re a professional bitcoin power consumption analyst then?
I just finished reading "The Remains of the Day" earlier today!
Yes, that is exactly their goal. Google services, from the Play store to search to Google plus is all designed with exactly this in mind. What most people don't understand is "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product. When I use Gmail, I know what I'm signing up for.
I really like how your description gets at these policies creating a tipping point in the culture. Hearing about any one individually always sounded like a bandaid, but hearing about them together and then how you and other employees react to them is very encouraging. Good luck to you and the rest of the company.
> Wow, 1 economist back in 1891 considered it a fallacy.

Good to know you only have the ability to read two sentences.
This seems to be reversable, nuclear reactions causing lightings.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/11/15/how-to-make-an-ato...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosio...
Replace "Silicon Valley" with "Hacker News", and it sounds like a decent approximation of what HN is.
He's so right about #5. See what's happened to Peter Thiel. People were calling for him to be fired because he supported a major party nominee. That's not a good sign for so many reasons.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google AdWords for advertising digital goods?
I am currently selling some digital goods on a popular marketplace, but lack of analytics and policies that I, sometimes, don’t agree with - made me think to sell it on my own, and I am wondering if AdWords is still the best tool to advertise digital goods?
Create/Update Extended Attributes Using EWS and Enhanced MSG to EML Conversion
Actually, AFAIK, Apple uses the Pages rendering system for that? I know Quick Look and Preview are also able to view, but not edit, .doc and .docx files.
I guess then, can that author delve deeper and wonder what sparks that worrying, especially on behalf of other people? Is it a case of "I'm too scared to do it, so I want to talk others out of it so I'm not the only one left safe at home and missing out?"
What is the thing Bitcoin is optimized for again?
Check again - by now it has a (kinda positive) "Not sure how to do it and if it makes sense to do that in the same driver, but we'd be open for discussions" reply.
There have been many articles on net neutrality in the last couple of days, some with significant discussion:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=neutrality&sort=byDate&dateRan...
I'm no expert but I'd assume it has to do with sensor sensitivity. A nuclear bomb involves far more nuclear reactions than a lightning storm. It's as though you calibrated a scale to measure "things that have mass" but set it to 10kg, assuming everything under was weightless.

Changing those calibrations might be a physical (instead of digital) process, so maybe not.
Extreme Digital Vetting of Visitors to the U.S. Moves Forward Under a New Name
So what is the big deal about Fight Club? I've heard so much about it but haven't read it yet; trying to decide if it's worth the time.
Show me a regulator able to prevent US dollar users who have the money in their hands from making transactions, or one able to reverse transactions once made (doesn't even have to be confirmed—in fact confirmed instantly).
I seem to remember from the Las Vegas Atomic Museum that lightning would indeed trigger false positives in early gamma ray detecting satellites.

Edit: The article does note that it was picked up by satellites before but there's conclusive evidence now.
Really? I feel like HN is a bunch of people trying to fight against that.
Do many people collect bitcoins with interesting histories for their numismatic value, the same way they collect real coins? Is there a market for specific bitcoins that are worth more than their face value because they're somehow special? If a celebrity buys something from you in bitcoin, can you turn around and auction off that bitcoin to their fans?

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-nostalgia-can-bitcoins-wort...

Too bad J. S. G. Boggs recently passed away -- I wonder what kind of abstract performance art he could have done with bitcoin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._S._G._Boggs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/design/jsg-boggs-dea...

"They don’t understand the difference between art and crime." -J. S. G. Boggs

Speaking to ARTnews after Mr. Boggs’s death, Mr. Weschler said, "He was just short of being a con man, but no more than anyone in the art world, or for that matter in the world of finance — which, of course, was his whole point."
This dude is literally a scam artist.
Some examples - Cut, Paste files

You can press Command+C to copy files, then press Command+Option+V to move them.
If results were thrown out because of a confounding factor then it would hopefully be mentioned in the paper.

I've had a similar thought about these little insights. There are literally thousands of times more biology undergrads than there are people doing biology research. Biological experiments are notoriously difficult to conduct. There are so many confounding variables, data is hard to collect, etc, that experiments bomb as often as they succeed.

A lot of these experiments are extremely well supported, so you might actually be able to discover something novel if you were able to track the failures.

Anyways, I don't do anything with biology anymore, but I strongly believe that biology is a field where citizen scientists could make a meaningful impact.
"I don't think it matters much who occupies the oval office."

That sort of ignores the fact that Trump is undoing work done under the Obama administration. Clearly it matters who is in office.
He doesn't have a very unique opinion about it.
IIRC Toyota did have a real problem with clearance between the accelerator pedal and (their own aftermarket parts) floor mats. It was possible for the pedal to be wedged against the floor mat.

I don't think that was conclusively shown to the cause of any of the incedents though.
The point I'm trying to make is that this op-ed doesn't "blur the line" it's a textbook, completely average op-ed and correctly labeled as op-ed.
Kolmogorov complexity "is the length of the shortest computer program...that produces [an] object as output" [1]. Being financial inclined, I often wonder about its analogy in economics. Usually I measure weight or energy. The least massive, or smallest amount of energy needed, to make one dollar of value.

More interesting is the shortest program that reproducibly produces one dollar of value. By this measure, Bitcoin is one of the "denser" pieces of fungible information humans have invented.

"Heavy" networked bits must defend against everyone, everywhere, all the time. This enables lots of new turf. It also increases security risk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
> Fruits and vegetables are full of sucrose, it is the most commonly occurring sugar in plants.

Modern strains of fruits and vegetables.
They are all artificial breeds.
In Brazil the powerful can use the justice system to protect themselves. If everyone who posted a for or against Trump video was judged by the same standard most would be guilt of libel.

By moving the fiat money into bitcoin he moved them out of the judgde's control. That in itself proves the usefulness of the coin.
Tesla opens Model 3 order process to non-employees
> How did it even get launched in this state?

I have no idea, but I hit the exact same behavior in Mac OS’s command-space menu and iOS’s “two finger drag down on the home screen” search bar. (Sample queries: “calc”, “calculator”)

For me, the real question is: How did this behavior get cloned by multiple vendors?

Implementing something this bad is non-trivial. How did it make it into multiple operating systems? How can more than one person on earth think it’s a good idea?

How did these 2+ people hire engineers competent enough to implement it? Who told accounting to approve this project?

What is it like to work in this office? Do they keep the toner in the coffee machine, and the cream in the xerox machine, but only on Tuesdays? Do they drive like they design products (are they the reason my 9 mile freeway commute is creeping up to over an hour)?

The more I think about it, the more questions I have.
> Another reason I hate the JavaScript world. Waste of talent.

This about sums up every clever thing I've seen in JS land.

I just wonder what people who are so adept at banging rocks together could do with proper tools.
The 33 Strategies of War & The 48 Laws of Power.

Both of these are history books, but don't expect just the cliches of Napoleon and Genghis Khan. Robert Greene covers case studies throughout history, from Roosevelt to Gandhi, to some much lesser known figures of history.

Basically a lot of us deal with conflict. One book covers how to deal with politically, and the other one more directly. It's not all about attacking, but rather strategies around war - defense, deterrence, motivating your side, keeping the (moral) high ground, getting your adversaries to work for you.
This is fallacious because it assumes that the value is tied only to utility. Ebay rode the wave of the beanie baby bubble, it could be the miners in China are doing no different.
The snide version would be "100% of 433,000". (Which is what I initially parsed it as, and nodded in agreement...)
It's irrational, really. Not to say that the Golden Gate bridge won't ever get attacked, it may well. But you're far more likely to get killed crossing the road every day, and I doubt you apply the same level of calculation to working out if every road is worth the risk of crossing.

Don't get me wrong, it's totally understandable. I hate to rely on "the terrorists won!" as an argument, but terror is only effective when we allow ourselves to be terrorised by it. If we/politicians/the media applied the same amount of attention to road safety that we do to terrorism we'd all be in self driving cars by now.
They buy some from a btc atm forget about it for 10 years. They buy the company they are currently working for.
He articulates it pretty well though.
It's not a huge commitment. Maybe 3 hours nonstop. The movie completely subverts the book, in my mind
Yeah, probably that kind of momentarily thinking. Just the cog suddenly leaves to a better company and blacklists the whole company for lifetime, including giving non-positive recommendations to potential hires; the mechanism suddenly stops on that level and most likely on slacker's new level as well.
> The people are also -- in general -- much friendlier.

This is the biggest factor for me as someone who grew up in Texas and is now in Los Angeles

I feel like this happens in cities with a lot of transplants. Most people move to big cities because they are (or think they are) the best at what they do. That makes it difficult for me to know who to trust since I don't know off the bat if someone is talking to me because they are genuinely nice or because they want to see if I can be used to help them achieve their goals. It's a vicious cycle because it causes me to put my guard up and in turn be less friendly than I am with people I really know.
Now that you mention it, I'm blown away that coins with "auspicious" numbers don't sell for a ridiculous premium in China, India and other cultures that believe in that garbage [1]. Might be a good business...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
Well that is annoying :(

Can you check your spam folder for anything from jon@calhoun.io?

If you keep having issues email me (same email as above) and I'll manually get you a login link.
I didn't go to a research University, and I'm fairly sure none of the staff used mice as a model organism. I think they were merely used in student experiments.

Now some of those students may have published work as part of their senior capstone, however it's pretty unlikely. You need a lot of knowledge to get to the point where you can publish something meaningful in biology. If you were to publish a work as an undergrad, you are probably working on a professor's project or with a less complicated topic.
link please?
I had someone ask me in a job interview what high school I went to - I was about 35 at the time. Needless to say I got the impression he was someone I didnt want to work with and I discontinued the application.
And yes this was in Sydney...
This museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers
Yes. If only we'd made it illegal for cable companies to sell cable packages back then.
> few of the people using it realize they're programming

An idea I've been toying with for a few months now is an automation app (read: window manager) whose UI is somewhere between Excel and GameMaker Studio's drag & drop UI. Like where you just have a giant grid/canvas, and where you can define "routines" and "variables" as groups of cells. If I could figure it out, I think it would open up the idea of an automation app to a broader scope, to people who aren't programmers, and I might be able to make some money off it. Especially considering I made like $500 in donations for Hydra back when I was doing more WM stuff for Mac, so there seems to be some excitement for the idea of programming your Mac, but perhaps it could be a living if I can figure out how to reach out to power users who aren't programmers. And it was your comment that gave me the idea of making it more like a grid instead of more like GameMaker. So, thanks!
Mine :-), you can find it here:

http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet
Some cultures arent like this - I lived in the Netherlands for a while (and im sure some Dutch HN readers could comment too) but if you meet someone and ask them what they do straight away they are likely to answer you with "Why so you can judge me by it?"
Perhaps you're being hyperbolic, but can you give an example of an application that runs more or less the same functionality and performance on a 30 MHz processor with 12MB RAM (a high end computer from the early 1990s) as a 3GHz processor with 12GB of RAM (a high end computer from 2017)?
I find it interesting why that doctor's reasoning is flawed: in reality, people don't just follow advice wholesale, they follow some of it based on how much willpower they have for change. By choosing some things to follow over others, they are implicitly making a trade-off.

But to make a good trade, you need to know the relative benefits of two parts of the advice. Giving up fats might be good and/or neutral; but if it exhausts your willpower to avoid sugar, and you indulge, then you are worse off.
Zen is more like a philosophy of psychological judo rather than a religion, at least for me