skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> buying them becomes “easy”;

That's precisely why systems where powers are concentrated among the hands of the few are bound to fail.
I just completed my first Firefox for Android build and I have to say that Mozilla makes it really easy to get started [1] - I plan to run a personal fork/modified Android version from now on if this works this smooth.

Ignoring the huge download, this has been one of the easiest open source projects to build so far. I'm impressed.

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
> people are under no obligation to
> report vulns privately

Legal obligation, no, you're right. Moral obligation? Why not?
It’s a RICO case, no?

People organize to do something illegal. RICO
Legislatures pass all kinds of new laws to restrain new technologies. (Sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not.)
The experimental data will be more valuable to the rest of the world than the $500 will be to each resident. It will be interesting.
Yeah, ideally. They're still adding on features pretty quickly.
"This whole place has lost its collective mind on the subject of crypto!" (tm)
Alrighty, it’s now available on the website. Tell your friends :)
I'd pay for a protocol or API test suite to help me build compliant clients and servers.

For example let's say I want to make my own HTTP client like curl. Instead of relying solely on the RFC or spec, I can additionally use this test suite to run my code against the spec and as many edge cases possible. I expect the HTTP product to cover the usual header grammar but also timeouts, HTTP/2 upgrades, encoding mismatch, etc.

I can see myself paying $100 and over depending on complexity.
Ha, yeah that is weird. Random thought: Maybe to help prevent package theft? It usually takes about a month for shipping, so I imagine a lot of people forget about their order. By sending the throw away package first, the recipient is 'primed' and is more likely to be on the lookout for the real thing, as opposed to letting it sit on their doorstep for a day or two where it can be stolen.
Took me a few hours. Use `-dbcache=n` where n = bytes of memory... will make sync super fast if you have +8GB of RAM. I think default is pretty low.
BTC is what the distributed consensus says BTC is. You can’t fake that without pouring billions into building up mining infrastructure to organize a 51% attack and even then the distributed consensus will simply fork around your amazing achievement of successfully doing a single double spend?

So yeah, BTC is definitely not like gold, it’s way better.
Go down the path even more and you land at direct democracy, where every citizen can vote on any legislative decision. Corporations can not buy half the people.

Because it can be a lot of work to dive into the details of a decision every citizen could delegate his vote to someone he trusts - delegate his vote in general, per topic (economical decisions to Betty, foreign affairs to Tom) or just for a single decision. You can change your vote delegation any time. This is Liquid Democracy.

Our current parliaments are just a special case of Liquid Democracy: You delegate your vote on all decisions to a single person but you can choose only between a handful of people and are not allowed to change your choice of delegation for the next 4 years.

Different Pirate Parties all over Europe tried to establish this new concept of democracy but I am afraid it was not well understood/they did not explain it well enough.
Good luck buying some BCH and spending them as BTC.
What does this mean? I'm in Japan right now and if anything, Japan is a cash society still and most small stores don't even take credit cards.
Pretty popular and not a niche book, but I enjoyed Give and Take by Adam Grant very much [0].

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/lessons-learned-give-and-take/
> Pocket

That's just a plain extension they bundled...
Things like this make me wonder if I can really even call myself a programmer.
Also please hire someone who can write/document better. The author of this article may be a good coder, but is not a good writer.
US regulator says Silicon Valley is threat to internet
I was really surprised how it is able to recognise accents, I have friends with so many different accents and it could recognise them all.
or some other reasonable lack of choice in the matter? thats where packages and tiers lead. if you want to do anything but use one of the predefined tiers, then its business plan for you. if we offer it.

it may be worth it to pay the 10x for you and I, but if it isn't for 80% of everyone else, that would be a pretty big change.

that may sound very drastic, but I don't see any reason why in the absence of any regulatory framework why the consumer market wouldn't end up that way in 5 years.
My experience is admittedly tainted because we migrated away from a Rails codebase and it was not fun. The Rails code was extremely convoluted and encourages metaprogramming in a way that is very un-typed.

Basically, I think Rails is inferior because it encourages bad practices, has no distinct advantages over Python, Python seems to have a larger talent pool, and Python has uses outside of Rails that make it a better choice for a one-language shop (i.e., your tools can be in the same language as your code and can utilize that + Python is everywhere, Ruby has extra devops costs incurred).

I won't say you can't be successful with Ruby. That'd be silly. But do I think there is a reason to choose Rails over Python if you can start fresh? Nope.
I think that that's an issue regardless of the action you're taking. I buy nice kitchen knives on Amazon because I cook. Lots of people buy nice kitchen knives on Amazon because they cook. But if I stab someone with a nice kitchen knife the day after it arrives in the mail, I bet that that purchase is going to get a reaaaaaaally careful look when the "premeditated" bit comes up in court.

(There's another issue here about normal everyday things being painted as unusual and bad. I think that that's what drove the post that I originally responded to, and I can't fault the overreaction - too many people have in seriousness said things like "if you have nothing to hide". For the listed reasons, however, I don't think that that's what's going on here, and I'd prefer to avoid giving the anti-privacy group ammunition in the form of weak arguments.)
Thank you for the feedback, I agree it is a bit mysterious at the moment, I am working on the MVP atm and once that is complete will be able to present more in terms of screenshots & functionality. Maybe a bit too early for the landing page then... :S
Are those not the same thing?

> ... In the case of a discrete domain of definition with equal intervals, it is also called geometric growth or geometric decay, the function values forming a geometric progression. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
Never have seen this so well explained. Alternatively, fiat can be printed. So there is a case for something that is limited, transportable etc. You can always sell your bitcoin to pay the taxes. Is just that the limited comodity would have the tendency to sell for more if the fiat is being printed
For all intents and purposes finding a large deposit of gold is the same as duplicating bitcoin. Except the former can happen easily and the latter requires some immense investments to achieve.
I just got an Echo for black friday. I can't get how dumb the thing is with all this press?

Alexa play some ambient music...

"I think you'll like this... playing Selena Gomez"...

Alexa I hate Selena Gomez...

"Shuffling Selena Gomez..."

Alexa Stop

"Playing Stop & Erase by Selena Gomez"

Literally happened here just now.
Like many things in life Gerrymandering has cons and pros. We know the cons, but the pros are people who would otherwise be unrepresented (by being a minority in a majority district) get to have a voice.

The major con is that it's the politicians who decide the boundaries rather than a neutral party (say semi-random boundary selection within certain bounds)
But, Firebase only exists at Google and has serious limitations.
The OP meant "trust that it will continue to hold value", not (merely) "trust that transactions happen as intended". The blockchain crypto-magic only ensures the latter.
> Moreover, with such a small number of people, buying them becomes “easy”;

Not to ignore your point, but there's actually substantial contention in the Political Science field about the impact of money. Does money flow to views, or do views flow to money? It's a difficult topic to study and is certainly not settled. Fun to delve into.
I agree, and if you look at online poker in the US, they were able to drastically reduce the amount of people playing and money involved by simply restricting payment processors' involvement.
Gun is awesome but I'm still confused about mobile support. Has that story changed?
Neoliberalism and Education
Seems like it's having the opposite effect though--the throwaway is causing people to think they've been scammed and makes them no longer on the lookout for the real package.
Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II
You can't escape Erlang when working in Elixir, and Elixir doesn't try exist without Erlang. Elixir tries to offer stuff that Erlang doesn't offer, and doesn't want to offer, including: anonymous functions, more flexible macros, variable reassignment (a=a+1), better string handling, polymorphism (via protocols), etc.
It's official 1 Bitcoin = $10,000 USD
am I at the right place? what is this?
> “We had to think outside the box of just understanding English. We had to train Alexa to understand the proper noun in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Malayalam, among others,” says Kumar

Alexa India's true test will be on how it handles ____glish (where ____ = the base language) that's very common in everyday spoken interactions, esp. in the South.

Ex:

Tanglish = Tamil + English mixed-in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanglish

Kanglish = Kannada + English mixed in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanglish

Even TV programs have this. For instance some of the Tamil Soap operas on youtube have this message at the beginning

"Marrakama Bell Symbol-la Press Pannunga, Subscribe Pannunga".

= 3 Tamil words, 4 english words. 1 Tamil+English word.

Translation. "Don't forget to press bell symbol and subscribe."
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You have the right idea, but your completely made-up numbers are not even close --- the standard is 80% capacity after 500 cycles at the normally specified (1C) charge rate. If my vague recollection of the last time I read about this is correct, at 2C (twice as fast), after 500 cycles the capacity remaining may be more like 20%. It's definitely nonlinear.

Heres an "entry" article: https://kabru.eecs.umich.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/St...

and you can follow the references from there (into SciHub etc. if need be.)
(I think they meant the forms AWS puts up, which could have a "login and fill AWS account details" button to automatically fill the thing out).
>>How is the might of the US military relevant here?

Say tomorrow, a large portion of poor in the US, decide to teach the top 0.1% a lesson. They decide to stop trading in dollar, and start their own currency. They would also make it impossible for the current wealthy to liquidate their existing wealth in the new currency. What do you think will happen to the US economy in this situation?

What we are talking about is basically a group deciding to decimate the entire economy and start over. The only way to stop these people is using some kind of police/military kind of a force.
Why would they want to crack down on visa runs? Those people doesn't take any jobs from the locals, and I'd assume they spend as much as any other foreigners.. seems like a win-win?

I've spent about 10 years living in various Asian countries, including China, and I have never met anyone who would bother to register whenever they changed apartment. I'm also certain if I asked all my contacts in China, then none of them would know anything about it.. and I'm talking about hundreds of people, including students/professors at their best universities. You greatly overestimate the amount of info you can get by doing research/asking around when you go abroad.
Chatbots are like IVR systems and phone trees. It's a neat idea, but they are a pain in the ass, nobody likes them, and their benefit over a human is marginal in a best case scenario.
Very timely product from Amazon. AppSync comes with subscriptions and looks quite useful. Do any of the other GraphQL startups out there offer subscriptions?
Partisan gridlock is a long way from wu-wei. They may bear a superficial similarity but the situation we currently face is not really a choice between more rules and regulations and fewer. It is the difference between running a well-ordered state justly and efficiently, and leaving the most clever and ruthless individuals to carve out their own stakes unchecked.
The Athenians had real problems with direct democracy. Plato is still relevant:

Plato rejected Athenian democracy on the basis that such democracies were anarchic societies without internal unity, that they followed citizens' impulses rather than pursuing the common good, that democracies are unable to allow a sufficient number of their citizens to have their voices heard, and that such democracies were typically run by fools. Plato attacked Athenian democracies for mistaking anarchy for freedom. The lack of coherent unity in Athenian democracy made Plato conclude that such democracies were a mere collection of individuals occupying a common space rather than a form of political organization.

Corporations don't need to buy off half the people, they just need to convince a winning minority to go along, which you've made easy because you've divided all of your political issues into things people pick and chose not out of expertise but out of ignorance. There are other issues like control of the agenda which aren't obvious but hugely relevant to controlling democracies.

Was Prop 8 in Cali, with lots of outsiders weighing in on limiting other people's rights a good thing?

This is my macabre favorite story about Athenian democracy:

The news of the victory itself was met with jubilation at Athens. Their joy was tempered, however, by the aftermath of the battle, in which a storm prevented the ships assigned to rescue the survivors of the 25 disabled or sunken Athenian triremes from performing their duties, and a great number of sailors drowned. A fury erupted at Athens when the public learned of this, and after a bitter struggle in the assembly six of the eight generals who had commanded the fleet were tried as a group and executed.

Sucked for those generals. Win the battle, lost men due to storms, then you get executed because the mob is angry and some orators know how to harness that. Modern direct democracy wouldn't be voting on executing people, but you can see where things can get just as twisted.

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

spoiler: the Athenians lost the war. Turns out getting rid of winning generals cause you're mad is dumb.
Easily reported but not easily verified.

There are many cases of people getting shipped drugs and then having the police called on them once the package arrives. It could happen to anyone really. It is also fairly common that people ship drugs to anti-drug politicians.
Just keep cash on an exchange until it crashes.
It only works for UWP apps to start.
Do you still think the Tether is still held by the thieves? They traded it for other cryptocurrencies, out of Bitfinex, the second they stole it.

That is, of course, if it actually was a theft, and it was actually for $30 million. It's a single source currency, no one but the people running Tether knows what's actually behind it.
lol, go back to your cave
I think a better solution would be to lower the outrageous prices charged by the USPS to us.

If you want to send a 1oz 'package' to, for example, France, it will cost $13.50. It used to cost closer to $3.40, and then they doubled it overnight to $7, and now it is freakishly high.

Why is this? Because the USPS has a monopoly and is allowed to rob us!
When my wife needed an emergency C-section, I couldn’t schedule a conversation with the chargemaster to price shop. I just assumed I’d either negotiate once the bill came in the mail or file for bankruptcy, depending on the total amount due.
If you’re an eBay seller, that advantage makes it nearly impossible to compete on a lot of cheaper products. Also, the return shipping is usually astronomical so a lot of buyers just end up stuck with merchandise they might otherwise return.
Press "command" and the "space" keys at the same time.

In the Spotlight Search type "Terminal" and press enter.

At the terminal type "passwd" and press enter.

The terminal will prompt you to change the password for "root".
Popularity, and all that naturally follows.
Your question isn't really specific enough to answer directly. It's a story about an event in Vancouver.
I think they are great, I can load them up in one window, keep working, respond when necessary, and get my problem solved. Much better than a phone call where I have to wait 30 minutes, and can't cut and paste.
How would distribution contracts have anything to do with someone wanting to give me money on the side?
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FYI, the associated paper from PNAS is http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/21/1713450114.full...
The article makes it clear they are unveiling/announcing their plan/intent to develop this chip design. Follow the links to their website and it feels like they are so far from “ready” it hurts.

TLDR: They are just getting PR for their not yet developed hardware designs, and they haven’t even explained who will be buying them.
In an ideal world with infinite competition and perfect knowledge about competing products, perhaps you'd be right. But in the real world where we live, it happens all the time.

Start by reading about the Phoebus cartel: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/t...

I remember my first electric razor. It failed after a couple of years, so I took it apart to find out why. I discovered that the electrical contacts to the motor were just little pieces of graphite, and when they wore down to nothing the razor was finished. Definitely planned obsolescence in action!
United Nations document on German waste management.

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/dsd_aofw_ni/ni_pdfs/NationalReport...
I find it funny the article implies this only happens across international borders, and would otherwise be policed and stopped if it only happened within the US. I receive unwanted junk mail daily and it isn't even addressed to me, but to 'Current Resident'.

The real solution is to allow residents to whitelist or blacklist mail. Or better yet tie mail to people and organizations, not places, and allow people to route whatever mail wherever they want.
I don’t know if it will or won’t. My intention was to point out information from the article that the OP seemingly missed. That information would have further informed their opinion, had they not read the article, but perhaps not altered it.

FWIW, I agree with you that no doubt kids would find a way to mess with this thing.
inb4 org-mode
Pointing out the obvious in a minimum of words is not lazy.

Expecting people to stop pointing out the obvious is optimistic at best.
Plato preferred aristocracy; how many people do you think would like to live under a government that abandoned any pretense and outright called itself an aristocracy?
I have not been to France in a bit, but I recall seeing lots of "Soldes" signs (perh clothing nad other retail is considered "seasonal" and therefore can be discounted whenever).

I'm not sure how preventing any time sales helps sole proprietor shops, as big enterprise can simply sell barely above cost till they sink the mom and pops. If they are looking to protect the consumer a better tact is preventing the boost and cut pricing tactic to make a sale seem like a good deal.

So I guess no BOGO/BOGOFs?
In my experience, autistic people are far less likely to offend people than charismatic "leader types", mostly because they are willing to learn and don't just blow off feedback with some bullshit about having the right to be offensive. Don't use them as a shield. And yes - people who don't agree on the value of inclusion cannot be included without destroying the inclusivity. Popper, paradox of intolerance, etc.
Ongoing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803714
About time. Before this the only managed choice within AWS was IoT, which definitely felt not quite right for just some MQTT/websocket work.
We all due respect, browser.html can do so little that it's hardly more than a prototype. Also, Servo itself as a web engine is still far from supporting enough of the web stack to be usable in a daily browser.

I guess putting effort in Stylo diverted some resources from Servo - I feel it didn't progress much the last year in terms of "sites I can browse for more than 5 minutes". At this point it's clear that Mozilla is unlikely to staff Servo to fill the gap (although cpearce and others are working on getting the gecko media stack in Servo), but I wonder what will happen once WebRender makes its way in Gecko; are there any other pieces of Servo that can be useful?
I think the better application would be car batteries - you have huge incentive for a really fast charge. Imagine charging the battery in the same time it takes now to fill your gas tank!
In fact a lot of the older people I've talked to think "net neutrality" means the government can censor partisan comments on the internet.
Do you think it would be better to have more localized state/city governments? Couldn't that solve some of the issues of congress being in gridlock so often?
Does that make his criticisms of democracy any less valid?
The Postal Service can’t just raise prices as it sees fit. It needs approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission. Also they’ve had to pre-pay something like 30 years of retiree health benefits. You can send packages to France without using the USPS.
You can’t use Fedex or UPS or DHL?
Would have to be a high FPS camera. Some cheap linear rails and a NEMA 17 motor. Of course you would have to get the "sync pulse" out of the camera, then you would probably have to do a delay move to move into position before the next snap.
It's actually refreshing to know this is happening somewhere, thanks for sharing.
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I believe this is the source for the article:

Educational Gradients in Parents' Child-Care Time Across Countries, 1965–2012[1]

It's behind a paywall, but the PR from the UCI study states:

Study findings were based on the Multinational Time Use Study Harmonized Simple Files, which focused on parents between the ages of 18 and 65 living in households with at least one child under the age of 13 [2]

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jomf.12305/full

[2] https://news.uci.edu/2016/09/28/todays-parents-spend-more-ti...
> the inability to tell whether some value is heap allocated or not from the type is one of my main gripes when working with Go

Why is this important? The whole point of GC is to not spend time debating this point, as long as performance is good enough
It is about the increased risk fellow users will have due to this style of disclosure. Who cares about the vendor, but they are best situated to resolve the issue quickly for everyone.
This is the followon to SX-10 core. I really wish NEC would make this chip more available...the SX is a well understood, well supported, very capable architecture. They had the SX-6i and SX-8i "deskside supercomputer" versions in the past, so if they've reduced SX-10 to a PCI-e card, please package it with a compiler and let us have it.
* wasn't
It's also the philosophy behind Clojure and why it's tied to the JVM:

https://clojure.org/about/jvm_hosted

Rich Hickey had said this is a purposeful decision and not a matter of expediency.