skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if you don't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might get in" -- Douglas Adams, roughly. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
My guess there is no option for something like this but vim-based?
Pfff, but he's not qualified!
Spending an evening reading up on the country may result in you becoming familiar with the punishment of insulting the Thai king, or the risk of engaging in protests or anything political in China, but that's about it.. regarding China, you can't even Google the laws concerning VPN/proxy. You even give an example yourself of you failing to read up on the rules. There are millions of laws, many of which are not even available in English. You can't possibly expect people to become familiar with countries laws.. that would take months and you could still get fucked for no reason. People rely on common sense, and common sense tells you that if AirBNB is available in X country and you have no problem booking the apartment, then that's that.
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Session Tokens Explained
I am surprised to see very little mention of monero, given that it's closer to true anonymity than other cryptocurrencies.
Ask HN: Lack of Formal Education Challenges?
For those without college degrees, what are some challenges you’ve faced in building your career? And how did you overcome them?

For those that interviewed and/or hired candidates without formal degrees, were there any differences in the interviewing process for them vs. a candidate with a more formal educational background?
Ah cool, I set it to 4000 and it looks to have sped it up a bit (currently saying 16 hours to go, down from "two days"). I'm still not convinced it's a very practical decentralized currency though.
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I'm inclined to agree that bitcoin markets are far less robust than gold markets on the whole because of the long history and entrenched social position of gold. I do think you underestimate the effect on gold markets if they were flooded with someone trying to offload $70b of gold.

That's about 7 times more gold than the entire contents of the U.S. gold reserve of 8,134 metric tons of gold. I really don't understand why you think it would be easy to sell that much gold at the prevailing price.

Some random googling turned up about $100b/day of all gold changing hands worldwide, so you would have to sell it over a long period of time to avoid moving the price. If you were to try to keep your trades under say 0.5% of daily volume, or $500M, this would be the equivalent of trying to sell 1/14,000 of the total market cap each day, which would work out to about $12.5M/day if applied to bitcoin's market cap. Selling 0.5% of the daily volume of bitcoin would be more like $36.7M/day.

The reason for the difference in those numbers is that bitcoin turns over more of its market cap daily than gold, proportionally. So dollar for dollar, of course $1B affects bitcoin more than gold, but in terms of turning over 1% of the market cap the data suggests this might actually be easier in bitcoin.
Jesus Christ, that is a psychopath.

"During the video, the 1987 New Order song "True Faith"

He must have liked American Psycho

What was his motive? The Wikipedia doesn't seem to say
CVD in general is slow and time consuming, but because graphene is just one atom thick growing graphene specifically might not be too bad. Also the process gas/chemistry requirements are relatively very simple.

For reference, I used to see ~4 hour cycle times for growing graphene on copper sheets. I think most of that was in the heat up and cool down, maybe order of 30min actual growth time. These numbers might be off by a factor of 2-5, it's been a few years since that job, and I was a equipment design engineer not a process guy as such.
I suspect the response on Twitter was a typical reply from a tier 0 support person. No reason to extrapolate from that to the company's internal response.

Apple is a Rorschach test writ large. What people see in it reflects more on the observer than the company in many cases.
It's possible their multichannel logistics is easier to handle with a blanket policy.

Amazon does penalize you for not shipping on time, but it's not quite the same as eBay. While eBay lowers your tank, Amazon closes your listing, and possibly your entire store.
In 2003 I started working on a distributed file store for archival, (an "object store"). I was responsible for the metadata management component, which was implemented by a Java distribution layer over a postgres database on each node.

I needed to operate on all nodes of the cluster. cssh opens a console on each node, and echoes commands to each. But that doesn't scale well past about 12 nodes, doesn't combine results from nodes, it really didn't work for me.

I wrote a tool I called Object Shell, or osh. The idea is to combine commands by passing data over pipe-like connectors. Osh is written in Python, and the commands are customized by Python functions. E.g., to find all the files recursively inside the current directory, and add up all the sizes:

osh ls -rf ^ f 'file: file.size' ^ red + $

osh: Invokes the tool

ls -rf: List files (f) recursively (r), yielding a stream of Python file objects.

^: Pipe the stream to the next command.

f: Apply a function to each item in the input stream, writing function output to the output stream.

'file: file.size': A function that returns the size of a file.

red +: Reduction using +, combining all the numbers coming in.

$: Print result to stdout.

And then to do this for all files under /foo/bar, in all nodes of a cluster named mycluster, and to do a cluster-wide sum:

osh @mycluster [ ls -rf ^ f 'file: file.size' ^ red + ] ^ f 'host, sum: sum' ^ red + $

@mycluster [ ... ]: Distribute the bracketed code to each node of mycluster.

f 'host, sum: sum': The distributed command returns results that include the host name; drop the host name.

red +: Sum the sums from each node.

Osh is available here: https://github.com/geophile/osh
Unsurprisingly most unmarried parents break up before their kid is an adult.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-gaspard-msw-licsw/livin...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004878/Unmarried-pa...
How to Create a Free Blog on BlogSpot – Turn Your Passion into Money
sounds like kalanik should run for president
In the case of Facebook, all the “household named” developers do nothing to improve the quality of their output, be it their user-facing software or developer-facing open source.
FxFactory Pro 6.0.0.5066 Cracked Serial for Mac OS X Full Download
So the comment he was complaining about was wrong too!

I am happy python let's us use _ now to separate thousands positions.
$100_000 !
Wow not only wildly unconstitutional but given the wild imbalance in educational outcomes and just raw availability of educational resources anything like that is pretty much a new round of Jim Crow laws. And why spend any resources improving the education of this new second class groups because even if you slightly improve their lives their votes are worth less. Just an all around horrible idea.
Dude 2FA straight up sucks!

Undercover Boss Star Killer Base Edition
https://youtu.be/FaOSCASqLsE?t=3m48s

2FA is a weak link, it's been proven it's easy to social engineer access to your phone account/number. Once someone has your phone they will receive all your 2FA notifications and once they can reset your email password with it they have the keys to the castle.

Plus if you lose your phone, then you're locked out, without your printable one time use keys, that you probably didn't print.

There has to be something better.
If you're like me, you will be gripped as quickly as the first chapter!
Who uses Free/Net/OpenBSD and for what?
Just curious as to who uses the BSDs and for what purpose. Are the BSDs declining in overall use or still the preferred OS for the old-school UNIX hacker?
Ask HN: What is the business model of ICO?
Somebody just told me that they raised $16M in ICO. That is like a lot of money. How will the money be used?
Uber’s quarterly losses jumped nearly 40 percent to $1.46B
Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Autism Spectrum Disorder [pdf]
>>How big a market is that?

The Black market in countries like India is large enough beyond our comprehension. Large enough that its mixed so well into everyday life, taking action on it could cause massive economic distress.

Bitcoin is the next step in the game for these kind of things. Its like a dream come true.
Responsible vs irresponsible... how would I know? You’re assuming way too much.
Writers are not really protected copyright wise...they can always talk and explain and expand on what they write. Photographers can do requests, filmographers can naturally have rights to first showcasing.
Great find! Not only do element IDs become global variables but so do names if they're on one of these tags: embed, form, img, and object. At least it happened when I tested in Firefox and Chrome (I didn't test it in Internet Explorer).

The standard also says that it should happen for the name attribute on a frameset element, but that didn't work when I tried. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#named-access-on-the-window-obj...
Call if what you will. If Congress is serving corporations rather than the people that could lead to trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States
It's the free shipping subsidy that's the underlying cause. It's the same reason we all receive enormous amounts of email spam (for me it's a couple hundred per day) - the cost of sending email is zero.

I bet the email spam problem could be solved at a stroke if senders were charged $.01 per email.
DNA Reveals the Yeti Is Actually a Bunch of Bears
Choice snippets:

> “The U.S. is very, very competitive right now between us and Lyft, so I don’t see the U.S. as being a particularly profitable market for the next six months,” Khosrowshahi said.

(Recall that previously, Travis said that Uber was profitable in the US [1].)

> The company’s net revenue for the third quarter was $2 billion, up from $1.66 billion in the previous quarter.

Which means that net revenue grew only about 20% in Q3.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/02/18/uber-profitable-us/
> The ISP/cellphone company can choose not to give the history.

NSL's have shown us that they can't
For plaintext/markdown:
https://standardnotes.org/ (self hosted on Heroku)
https://simplenote.com/

For annotations/drawing/writing:
OneNote
Evernote
Bear
Oh. :(

Kinda depressing to know there actually are competent implementations out there.
>>Any normal criminal would think it's too risky.

Actually a simple Perl script would do. Plus if it comes down to that, those criminals can run their own exchanges.
I am still a little sceptical of WebRender. Not for its theory or implementation, but relying on Graphics Drivers and GPU to do the work continue to be a pain. There are lots of Laptop with Graphics Drivers that doesn't ever get updated.
+1. But at least it's better than Zimbu where there's a closing brace but no opening one. That's my personal bar for bad language design decisions.
> Noone ever goes into a restaurant, orders a bowl of soup, eats it, and then becomes mortified upon receiving a bill of $250.

Another problem is that even if you have the exact CPT or ICD codes for the procedure/lab and call the place to inquire about the price, the best you can get is that they will get back to you after several days and give you an approximate figure. To extend the analogy quoted above:

No one ever calls a restaurant, inquires about the price of a bowl of a particular type of soup, and has to wait for several days for the restaurant to get back to them and say it could cost anywhere from $100 to $300.
Dumb question: Why are the vendors bothering to send anything?
Saudi prince freed after returning $1B following corruption charges
I don't want to come across as an Alexa fanboy and defend it, but it would help to understand which parts of your interaction you think of as dumb.

I agree Alexa Stop was clearly a mistake (albeit, not one I've ever observed) but for the rest, it's understanding what you said, you simply have different expectations of what the best response is. Were it a human, one wouldn't say they were dumb, just that they had differing taste or ideas.

In particular what did you expect from "I hate Selena Gomez"? Have you seen any other music player that handles that kind of ambiguous "command"?
The average person who has never heard these things may act as described, but the person should be criticized for it, and if they dont correct their mistake they should be criticized for that too. Thats the point of criticism.
Demonstration on Flowave
> are there any other pieces of Servo that can be useful

I definitely think Servo layout can be made useful. There have been no indications that parallel layout doesn't work in practice. Our performance tests have had good results, comparable to the results we saw in Stylo.

I would like to redo the way Servo layout scheduling works, possibly when async/await lands in Rust. I believe that will not only improve performance but also fix a whole bunch of random bugs relating to floats where our scheduler currently just does the wrong thing. (That doesn't mean we have to throw out all of that code or anything like that; it just means I'd like to redo how that works.)

Once you have layout, style, and graphics out of the way, what remains—really, at that point, the difference between Gecko and Servo, aside from embeddability—will mostly be DOM APIs and relatively isolated components such as image decoders. It's an open question how to use Servo DOM API implementations in Gecko. In any case, though, Servo's DOM story may change with the arrival of Alan Jeffrey's Josephine or something like it, and it probably makes sense to revisit this question once we decide how all of that will shake out.

And, personally, I don't know if you consider Pathfinder part of Servo or not, but I'm certainly aiming to get that in.

One thing's for sure: we won't be running out of things to do in Research any time soon. :)
CSIR nano-centre celebrated a decade of nanotechnology research
That I can agree with. I've been using rails since version 0.9, and my predisposition is to use as few gems as possible.

Managed properly, rails and ecosystem churn is manageable. Managed poorly, it becomes reasonable to bring in an expert to repair your neglect.

But it's definitely true that rails culture doesn't make itself easy to manage.
FreeBSD has been in the works since 2016...

[0]https://wiki.freebsd.org/riscv
What we would now call "free range parenting" was normal until recently.
Soon you will be able to use Ethereum to pay drinks at Singapore-based nightclub
Uber vs. Lyft – Blood in the water
No. It would be solved if people could run a whitelist that was directly tied to your address book, and any address you sent email TO would automatically be added to this address book/whitelist.

I wish mail could operate on a similar method
A natural language interface should adapt to you as opposed to requiring you to adapt to it. The part where it comes across as being "dumb" is where it Requires. The. Human. Being. To. Conform. To. Its. Very. Strict. And. Narrow. Language. Processing. Abilities.
"Structural vs nominative debate aside, you might have noticed a major omission in the data model: closures"

Then goes on to explain that they would be hard to serialize.

Not so. If you take at how ruby handles closure members when serializing with Marshal.dump, you will see that it just writes a memory address and doesn't actually store a call graph. So why not just omit it like ruby does?
> buying them becomes “easy”

Are the People paying them enough though?

A talented trader, entertainer, or athlete can easily make ten times what we pay our President or the average Congressperson, yet the latter have vastly greater levels of responsibility.

If you want to know what a society values, then look at what they are willing to pay for. It looks like the public is not willing to pay for effective leadership.

Unfortunately a lot of people are angry at politicians and will be dead-set against paying them any more than current levels. But are we not putting ourselves in a vicious cycle of:

relatively bad pay for politicians -> incompetent leaders -> angry people -> bad pay for politicians?

Btw, a lot of countries have had issues with petty bribery of the police. How do you think they solved it? By doubling the pay of cops, not demonizing them for taking bribes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arreste...
Maybe it would help to just assume a completely adversarial model in every facet of technology so that stuff like this becomes a non-issue in the long run. At least for privacy, I don't see much point in any legislation one way or the other. Does it even matter if a piece of paper says that some agency can or cannot intercept something ? I feel that it would be better if everyone just came to terms with the fact that loss of privacy is generally implied unless proven otherwise (i.e. rigorously). Debating over specifics of this phone case or that precedent seems so short sighted. Like if you are sending postal mail, how much expectation of privacy do you have, irrespective of what the law says ?
Mentioned many times actually. And the forum is users self help. It is not monitored by Apple.
Predicting the outcome of roulette [pdf]
Self driving cars will obsolete road rage just as machines can better administer lucre than avaricious humans. c.f. any or all of recorded history.
Democracy is a very analog 18th century mechanism for collective resource allocation. Designed by candle light, its grossly obsolete in these times and could easily be replaced by an ERP type apparatus.
It sounds like the start of a good Sci-Fi novel. As do any of the last 24 mos.
WebSocket is useless? WebGL is useless?

I mean, you're entitled to your opinions, but these are pushing the envelope of silly.
Raspberry Pi Performance Test
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> Corporations can not buy half the people.

They can get them for free. See Fox News and Facebook.
Was CF $50k then? I started in 1999, version 4, and I though standard was sub-$1000 then
...get a new job?
Does anyone know what is the state of the processor that they are proposing to ship ? Has it already gone to GDS?

Or is this simply at proposal stage right now (mwani1the hardware is still RTL or netlist).
Sure, unconstitutional and undemocratic. But I don't see that the "undemocratic and tyrannical" argument applies any more to a test requirement than it does to the existing constitutional age requirements for holding office.
Are you confusing chat bots with live chat with a human?
You should be able to drag the tabs around the window so they stick out of any edge! Tabs on the left and right edges are great because you can stack many of them in a column and read all their titles -- more tabs fit on the screen that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcmQk-q0k4

https://dev-videos.com/videos/tMcmQk-q0k4/NeWS-Tab-Window-De...

http://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/tab-3.0.2.ps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HyperTIESAuthoring.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Psiber-tabs2.gif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(GUI)

Large numbers of tabbed windows scale better with the tabs along the left or right edges of the window, instead of the top or bottom edges. That is because tab labels are usually much wider than they are tall, and because it is now common to use displays which are considerably wider than needed for displaying documents and web pages. The NeWS version of the UniPress Emacs text editor placed tabs along the right window edge, and laid windows out in a vertical column, so each tab was initially visible, and the user could use them to raise and lower the windows, drag them around in the column, or pull them out to anywhere on the screen.

PSIBER visual PostScript programming environment for NeWS, with tabbed windows around objects on and off the stack.
Better yet, tabbed window interfaces can give the user the freedom to position the tabs along any edge, so all four edges are available to organize different groups of tabs as the user or application sees fit. The PSIBER visual PostScript programming environment for NeWS had tabbed views that you could stick onto the stack (represented as a "spike"), and you could move the tabs to any edge. The NeWS pie menu and tab window manager enabled users to position the tabs anywhere along any edge, and the tabs popped up pie menus with window management functions, to uncover and bury windows, etc.
Ask HN: What are some good gift ideas for this holiday season?
It's that time of year again for many people... to prepare a gift list of things you want and solicit ideas to buy for others!

I realized that I am most excited these days by the type of things that other HN readers might be: tech gadgets, software subscriptions, DIY kits, books on technical topics, you know what I mean :D

So, what are you all hoping to get for the holidays?
Internet forums are not your friend. Be careful.
Because the USPS has a monopoly and is allowed to rob us!

What monopoly? There are a number of private carriers providing international service; the USPS has no special market power. (Indeed, it's at a competitive disadvantage, because it's legally mandated to provide service to all domestic addresses, including remote ones that private carriers can refuse to serve.)
International shipment of small parcels is very expensive via those carriers. Probably on the order of $50-100 for a small box.
Sure you can, but my understanding is that all non-USPS postal services must obey a legally mandated price floor, which prevents them from competing with USPS on cost.
True, time to call it internet freedom instead.
And you know what? Some people are pining for those sites nowadays. The fact that you can write rich, computation-heavy applications and serve them over HTTP in a browser is amazing, but that doesn't mean every website needs to be a rich, computation-heavy application.

Same with chatbots. They might have some valid use somewhere, but most of the ones I have seen so far are just there for the sake of being there.
You infinitely underestimate the size of the universe.
Not a great analogy.
Check out https://electrum.org/#home -- doesn't require clients to download the full blockchain.
This isn’t a new idea. Heroku has been successful since the beginning.
WebRender doesn't actually necessitate a GPU backend. You could have a CPU backend just as well.

(In fact, I might up being the one writing it.) ;)
Proving the ridiculousness of the claim that the USPS is a monopoly that extorts its customers.
Considering the vulnerability was supposedly brought to Apple's attention a month earlier via the "proper" channels, and considering Apple's history of repeatedly ignoring and dismissing said disclosures, I'd say this was the only correct action to take.
Well, yes, for two reasons:

1. If democracy is bad, we should have some other system. Surely we should take into account the proposed alternative when we consider any criticism of democracy itself.

2. Implicitly any reference to the writings of Plato is burnished by the image of "wisdom of the ancients," so it is worth considering the flaws of these philosophers' work.
Okay yeah fuck the patriarchy too but they weren't idiots. What they did was no small task and it's.. disrespectful.. to ignore that because they weren't progressive enough for your taste. We could appreciate the fact that they created a system that lets us change the rules as it evolves because they themselves admitted it would be impossible to forsee all the future context needed to make a perfect government. IIRC we've abolished slavery and granted women the right to vote and redefined marriage--we've corrected the issues you mentioned and more. What really kills the whole thing is when we feel the need to circumvent the rules in order to push an agenda down other people's throats. The system was designed to balance a plurality of of factions by preventing abuse of localized powers while at the same time reaching concensus for majority rule.