skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is one feature that I wish hosting platforms like github/gitlab etc had to help authors and maintainers: ability to grant issue management permissions (separately from full repo access).

You'll be happy to learn that in GitLab a reporter can manage issue but not the repository already. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/permissions.html
That's the great thing about Type systems. It doesn't matter if the development team is amazing or not. Typescript still makes huge classes of errors impossible. It also speeds up development due to superior IDE support.
The majority of countries are already enacting laws/frameworks/technology that would help eventually outlaw this sort of behaviour, perhaps not explicitly, but many times implicitly. For example in Australia the govt is looking to push facial recognition cameras into public places and "only use them for serious crimes where the sentence is 3 years or more". What they fail to tell you is that in Aus, public disturbance carries something like 5 years, so now there's the very legitimate worry that facial recognition could be used on people fighting for their rights and showing support. Used the Aus example because the two countries are fairly similar law wise, and with their surveillance stances.
Facebook, google, amazon, etc all benefit from Pai's decision if they deem ISP fees affordable. It keeps competition from emerging and, with cable-like packages, would put their services in front of every Internet user.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15764071
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For ~20 years the internet somehow functioned well without title ii regulations. So yes, I agree with you that "Internet from the beginning treated all traffic the same" and "During those times Internet was neutral and all sites were treated the same". Ajit Pai's proposal seeks to roll back these relatively new title 2 regulations.

> I can't believe anyone would be ok with giving power to companies (ones that have monopoly and consumer don't even have choice to vote with their wallets) what sites we are allowed to see or not.

Likewise, I can't see why anyone would give more power to government (especially those who don't support the current government) to decide what is "fair" and "neutral".
I just wanted to thank NoScript maintainer Giorgio Maone, as he is currently working really hard to fix issues.

NoScript was my favorite add-on and I have no doubt that it will be once again, but it really is heartbreaking to read some of the reviews[1]. Constructive feedback is a good thing, but I just don't understand why some people feel that they have a right to use the f* word when reviewing the new version. Just simply describe what is broken and say you have disabled it until the issue is resolved, and thank the man for his hard work.

Thanks again, Giorgio Maone!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/revi...
The under-represented party in that video is the hardware.

Humans (regardless of whether they are male, female or other) are over-represented in that video and they add no useful information to prospective buyers.
> Outside the big 4 and a few other niches, most developers seem to just be gluing together whichever pre-made web frameworks and libraries happen to currently be in vogue

Interestingly, in the last conversation I had with a friend who is a lawyer, he made a similar argument about how his career has shaped up. Most days he's just repurposing portions of existing documents into a single new one.
There is something ironic about trusting your decentralized cryptocurrencies to a centralized institution (like a bank that offers safety deposit boxes).

Someone who keeps enough assets in cryptocurrencies to want to include them in their will, chances are that they have a preference towards decentralized systems (or a distrurst/dislike of current authority/government-based systems). Nothing stops a government from forcing a bank to turn over the contents of a safety deposit box.

I definitely know 5 people that I can trust to not collude, even in the face of a subpoena or some government-issued directive.
or Elixir
Someone who is convicted might.
>but the US has 1/3rd the population of China yet still has the largest economy

USA is first by Nominal GDP, but second by PPP GDP (or third if you count the EU). I wouldn't declare a definitive winner based on that. And it's better to leave population out of that, because per capita the US is far behind countries like Norway or Switzerland, and at only half the GDP of Luxembourg (both nominal and PPP).
> However, doesn't someone who commits treason give up their rights as a citizen?

You'd have to convict them first, and you'd have to charge them to do that. Keeping a citizen detained without charge is a violation of human rights and something you only expect from a totalitarian regime.
Maxine VM: A Metacircular VM for Java in Java
Not without due process. That's what the Constitution is for.
Super-Powered API Testing
Yea I guess my thought is that the 'carrot' in this system is growing a constellation. You dangle that out there as incentive for people to sleep healthy and wake up on time.

If people can circumvent the healthy sleeping by growing stars during the day then it cheapens the experience and I would argue reduces personal satisfaction for the average user.

But maybe the move is to leave the system as is and log how often users are 'cheating' the system to grow constellations and maybe the pivot is towards a game where all you do is grow stars.
>"Open Source Money" is a nice soundbite, but unless you can define what that actually means and how it will benefit mankind

New technology increases economic activity at least partly because of the reduction in the cost of transactions. Steam engines, cars, highways, the internet, etc all reduced the costs of transactions and were accompanied by economic growth. "Open source money" is the next stage in this trend.
This thread has it all...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15398550

My personal favorite?

https://github.com/xel/Blockchain-Stuff
how to get people to care about your computer science work

1. s/Merkle tree/blockchain/

2. there is no step 2
Fun article and a good reminder that the desires of human beings may not have changed as much as we think.

The dishwasher, as we know it, was not invented by someone who was tired of doing dishes.

It was invented 130 years ago by a wealthy woman who didn't like the way her servants handled her good China. She tried washing the dishes herself but found it too much to bear. She wasn't even the one who was washing the dishes, she just knew that her servants weren't good enough at the task described: "Assess where things are, you have to identify everything, you have to remember where it goes, you have to move it in an appropriate way and you have to do all this in some manner of real time."
Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design
Your arguments are extremely valid but to me it is like someone arguing against a penny stock scam with a long reasoned arguments about why it is hard to beat the S&P index in the long run. The icos touted in the original post are little more than pump and dump schemes as are most of the current crop of icos. Probably only about half a dozen or so are really viable, and half of those are probably way ahead of their time
As the time-old adage goes "a bad workman blames his tools".
carbon dating?
Please explain, in plain English, how this breaks the guidelines or how this is "not a civil or substantive comment".
Shall I join Entrepreneur First?
However this hardly makes it ok to continue this sort of behaviour, the top boys manage to wrangle huge bonuses, yet when a group of workers asks for 5% per year, they're a bunch of monsters.
I don't understand.

> (...) people want robots to be able to do more than to wash the dishes (...)

> (...) they would like a robot to do, (...), is clean up the dishes in the kitchen (...)

> (...) robot dishwasher (...)

So I understand that it is supposed to be more than a dishwasher, but what then?

I was lately thinking about replacing my wide dishwasher with two narrow ones. It would be a double buffering dishwasher. Then I would store most of my dishes in one and when they are dirty I would just place them in the other. When all (or almost all) dishes are in the other dishwasher I would run the washing.

I was also thinking about garbage drawers all around so cleaning would be easier. Something like from the ending of Johnny English [0].

It would be certainly cheaper then a robotic dishwasher. I would also buy used ones, as I am already using one.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V5-MQcTtCc

EDIT: also that's entirely different thing, but something to consider - fish cleaners: https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=THcKJpXwqVM ;)
How’s the work on Iota going?

Are we anywhere near close enough to get rid of the centralization?

I’m really excited about the project
In many Spanish countries we have a similar one: "le das la mano y agarran el codo", which translates "you give them a hand and they'll grab the elbow".
Living in Boeing's backyard, I regularly (if not frequently) hear about machinist strikes. It looks like the last big one was 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_machinists_strike_of_20...

Teacher strikes are also fairly common. Seattle in 2015, and Tacoma in 2011, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Teachers_Strike_2011
Ethical Autonomous Vehicles – ethical reasoning for driveless systems
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat itself to your door. Automated cars? Automated factories? Automate the routine, the daily tasks of life, and people will throw money at you.
Gnu/linux x86_64 can’t run 32 bit executables?
Do YC and PG describe world as they wish it were rather than how it actually is?
Ex: Successful founders do startups to solve problem and not more getting rich. How about Steve jobs, gates, Google guys etc, did they really startup only thinking about the problem to solve?
> So I understand that it is supposed to be more than a dishwasher, but what then?

Load and unload the dishwasher. (Edit) Also remove the scraps of food that are too big. Maybe clear the table as well.
The easiest solution is to buy two dishwashers, one for clean stuff, one for dirty stuff, and then alternate between them.
The article discussed that even habeas corpus was denied.

From Wikipedia:

>The November 13, 2001, Presidential Military Order purported to give the President of the United States the power to detain non-citizens suspected of connection to terrorists or terrorism as enemy combatants. As such, that person could be held indefinitely, without charges being filed against him or her, without a court hearing, and without legal counsel. Many legal and constitutional scholars contended that these provisions were in direct opposition to habeas corpus, and the United States Bill of Rights and, indeed, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)[38] the U.S. Supreme Court re-confirmed the right of every American citizen to access habeas corpus even when declared to be an enemy combatant. The Court affirmed the basic principle that habeas corpus could not be revoked in the case of a citizen.
> but don't have to pay any fees

That's not true.
>I think your opposition is a political one. I would argue that the free market will sort it out.

that seems like a liberterian cop-out, and it doesn't take into account that it takes time and energy to do due diligence, most people are naive and can't do due diligence, and there's a huge incentive for ICO founders to lie, which creates an asymmetry of information.

>We have a ton of high variance financial instruments on the market already, like options, and tons of people got burned. We kept the financial instruments because they were overall beneficial for price discovery and liquidity in the market. The people that got burned now stay away and we didn't need to ban anything.

at least with those instruments, you know what you were getting into. all of that goes out the window when it comes to unregulated securities, where the seller can outright lie to you.

>What I always notice is that those discussion tend to be very nationalistic, which means that its usually 95% of the world is excluded from the picture.

how? is it the mention of the SEC?

>I think the next silicon valley will be the jurisdiction that will offer the best legal structure to run serious ICOs. It will be a no-brainer for the founding teams to move to this jurisdictions. Just like many international startups setup offices in Silicon Valley to get better access to capital.

SV = in US = SEC jurisdiction. the ideal jurisdiction would be somewhere where banking privacy is high, and securities regulation is low. so probably a random Caribbean island.
Personally I'd much rather have a robot to do the laundry (including sorting, folding, ironing, etc) Dishes aren't really that big of a deal for me even with a family of 5.
History of Ball Bearings (1981) [pdf]
Optional, retrofitted checksums that aren't widely used? Also, I like how "rejects too short" is a column, implying that at some point there was Etherium software that didn't and that would just silently send youe coins into the void if you accidentally missed off a character when copy-pasting addresses.
I liked Reason's approach, where the connections could be adjusted on the "back side" of the modules (skeuomorphism strikes again). Reaktor also keeps the wiring separate from interactive elements.
Gotcha. I agree non scalable 'photorealistic' design on audio plugins and apps in particular do hinder usability. And yes, rotary knobs on screen are not always great.
It seems that in his view, simplicity and "usefulness" are correlated, and that's what is important. In fact, he says the "simpler an explanation, the more useful it is". The mechanics of an omnipotent being are infinitely more complex than evolution, so I'm not sure that it would qualify as a "useful" explanation, at least according to his perspective.
It's expensive if you lose it -- which is all that matters to these people.
Running 16-bit code on an x86-64 system is hard. There’s a reason Microsoft dropped 16-bit support in 64-bit windows.
They've been deverifying people for breaking their ToS.
You supposedly still get benefits, like wage increases.
> Well, unfortunately you do live in one of those worlds, at least as far as the flow of money goes.

What about people who pay with cash? I know people who use cash for privacy reasons but society doesn't treat them like criminals.
"I'm a web developer."

"So you design web sites?"

"No, that's a web designer. For example, on an e-commerce site, a web designer will design what the pages look like, including the 'Add to Cart' button. But I will write code that handles what happens when that 'Add to Cart' button is clicked. It usually involves changing various bits of data in a database."

"Oh, I see. Hey, Moshe, come over here and meet Cyberdog! He's a web designer now!"
Could we consider adding [Android only] to the title?
The difference is that it's possible for new Etherium nodes to sync up using just the current state without having to trust the node they got it from or process the history, whereas new Bitcoin nodes have to either process the entire transaction history themselves or trust someone to give them a valid state copy. Also, pruned Bitcoin nodes are more analogous to Etherium nodes which only store the current state without any history (~1GB according to that link). I think the pruned nodes vbuterin talks about are roughly equivalent to unpruned Bitcoin nodes.
Also, the US Constitution has a specific definition of treason.
Would be interesting to see if this could be linked to whatever these sleeping apps use to “measure” your sleeping rhythm. Bonus points for deep sleep etc.

Basically gamification of sleep rhythms. Of course with online leaderboards. Not sure what it means to be world #1 though ^_^. Maybe needs penalty points for too much sleep..
>>However, doesn't someone who commits treason give up their rights as a citizen?

Even if true, only after a court /jury decides. "Trump" can't say, "You committed treason, you have no rights," he can accuse you of treason and take you to court.
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I might take the opposite stance and ban destructed named imports, preferring default and wildcard imports.

import function from 'function';
import * as module from 'module';

Why wildcard imports over named imports?

Wildcards preserve context. `ReactDOM.render` means more than `render`. Using wildcards avoids collisions - lodash, http, https each have a named export `get` [0]. Wildcards still supports tree shaking! Try it in webpack or rollup - only the named exports that you access will be included in the shooken bundle [1].

[0]: Yeah, I know you can import { get as httpsGet }, but why would I want to?

[1]: Unless you treat the binding as an object. `Object.keys(module)` will break tree-shaking.
But the springy animation was/is sooo amusing! (Not least because audio cables are completely non elastic)
Average Thanksgiving sales cost $114
Then you would be wrong. The FCC was created to regulate and license access to the RF spectrum, because radio frequencies are a natural finite resource.
Wow, so much dudebro. That animated gif is killing me.
Writing async Mojo::IOLoop code is so much less verbose, easier than POE. It's possibly the most elegant Perl event loop. Thank you.
Very unlikely, because the calibration used for carbon dating is acquired by comparing with artifacts of a known age, i.e. experimentally, and not from first principles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_of_radiocarbon_dat...
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Deep Learning: A Bayesian Perspective, Bayesian Anal. Vol 12, Number 4 (2017)
Because it doesn't work like that, you can't deny the benefits, the way they work (in Aus, it will be similar elsewhere) is with EBA (Enterprise Bargaining Agreements). Basically, the union will go into talks with companies, agree on conditions and then they will be spread out as an effective handshake rule across the industry. The union act as mitigators between businesses and workers, which pretty much changes the entire industry. So you can't really opt out. Unless of course you go and work for companies who don't sign the EBA's, and having worked in Construction before, the majority of these companies have malicious reasons for not signing, and you wouldn't want to work for them. I've seen a handful of people try to not pay dues, and it's pretty much always because they just don't want to pay money, whilst still pulling the benefits.
Dual Lens Switching on iPhone X
It seems like they didn't want a form letter, ie thoughtless spam. They seemed OK with getting personal thank-yous where the writer put some effort into it.
> Honestly, being thanked in any shape or form does nothing for me

I'm 99% sure you meant this purely in the context of your earlier statemetn ("hey, implement this, plz"), but I just wanted to say a plain ol' thanks for me helps a lot in my motivation for doing my OSS projects. Knowing people actually use my shit, and enjoy it is nice :)
How comes you both assume the author is male? She is called Sabine Hossenfelder.
Call of Duty WW2 has made a significant step forward in face rendering
You make a valid point but it is the sign of the times that for things like that throwaway e-mails exist.

I have a serious e-mail firstname.lastname@ account and have various throwaway accounts that I let gmail Promotions tab handle.
China has banned ICOs https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/04/chinas-central-bank-has-ba...
Don't have much commentary on this as I don't have children, but this video is very relevant.

Jordan Peterson - Why not just be Child-free and Happy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4sDT9__0I
Costs are as follow:

- 14 Mio € for personal costs
- 24 Mio € for consulting (not sure why that is that high?!)
- 13,4 Mio € for it@M services (support, hardware installation, etc it@M is the it company that manages the project)
- 4,8 Mio € for HARDWARE
- 29,9 Mio € for Licenses (Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, software delivery, License-, Print-, and Profile Management, identity management and extension of the virtualisation environment)

(to be fair the pdf quotes that a big cost will be the investment into additional virtualisation, probably licenses)

Source: https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/SITZUNGSVORLAGE/4740...

Somebody read over the 'and' (edit:) and to be fair it's a wierd way of expressing something that is so important in german. probably an intention.
FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You're Too Busy Cooking Turkey
I like the concept, and loved the reviews. Definitely gonna give it a try :)
Barry Warsaw steps down as Mailman project lead, hands to Abhilash Raj
CFMEU (Aus) used to hand out bumper stickers that said:

"Is that the truth or did you read it in the Herald Sun?"
As a woman in tech (20+ years), I can say this definitely rankled with me. 2005 called and wants its metrosexual dudebro brogrammer stock photographs back.
The idea of creating a spreadsheet and projecting future Sales projections are not where the focus of a new venture should be. Instead answer the challenge of how to create value for others. If the value (in a saturated market) was high then the sales would be the result. How to create value is the key to success not spreadsheet projections.
I did, and wrote some else in here, but a lot of it boils down to poor choices in the Go code. They're using an embedded K/V store designed for high read loads and are writing to it often, there's really complex concurrent lockfree datastructures, and very poorly designed deserialization systems. On the flip side, they switched to Node and to a db that can deal with mixed read/write, nixed all the complex datastructures, and node can deal with unstructured JSON.
The union in italy have been extremely damaging to the local economy in the last 20 years. You see national union goals are too distant and misaligned from workers’

For example one of the problem is that not all professions are unionized for example, so o get more profit and power the unions need to stifle innovation and steer the government only toward heavy industry to the destriment of almost every other sector

Also being national they seldom talk directly with workers and plant owners, and prefer to play their hands at the political table, often ignoring the specificity of issues.

And since their decision have national level ramification, every singe one needs months if not years to mature, implement and execute. Like, most national contracts are expired and have wages that are ridicolous by 2017 standards and base salary need to be supplemented in various, highly taxed ways, and new form of contracts are impossible to create (IT for example is hired under industrial or commerce contract, as the gategory didn’t exist at the time and there’s no reasonable way to create it now)
I have tried different ways but in the end people didn't really get it so it wasn't very useful. Now I just say I am a software engineer and nothing else.

Sometimes I add some technical detail to a discussion like the Equifax leaks or net neutrality to clarify misconceptions. But that's only mildly related to my real work so people still don't know what I do :)
According to the article, the FCC received 22 million comments. If they spent a modest 2 minutes per comment - that would be 83 man years of time to process the comments. They obviously need to filter it down. For a system with no meaningful requirements to comment or even proof of uniqueness, quantity says absolutely nothing and fraud is a given. Even if we were able to prove uniqueness -- how should informal internet petitions, which will almost certainly not be representative of any population, be viewed?

So it makes one kind of wonder, what would be a reasonable alternative? Without proposing any viable alternatives, this article just feels like ragebaiting.
Nintendo Virtual Boy – A VR System in 1995
I wonder if something like http://nerves-project.org/ would've been suitable for his use case; not sure how seriously he was targeting a RasPi.
The Web’s Grain (2015)