skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Google-Mozilla debt diagram pre-IPO (incomplete)
So they paid him to investigate claims they argue are baseless? That doesn't make any sense.
I'm trying to figure out if this will kill Bookmarklets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet)
I'm suggesting that, in an effort to ensure fairness of opportunity and no anticompetitive practices are taking place, governments might begin to see Google as the public utility monopoly that it has de facto become, and start treating it like one. Google might want to get out in front of this by being a bit more transparent and responsive to its users.
> You must run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Pop!_OS 17.10, or an Ubuntu derivative and have the System76 driver installed to receive the latest firmware and disabled ME on laptops*

Ubuntu is the distribution that once sent everything you typed into the desktop search box to Amazon so that it could deliver you ads. Current versions may not do that but it's clear that Canonical prioritizes profit over privacy.

It's disappointing that if you choose not to run Ubuntu you can't take advantage of their firmware update tool.
The esp32 has a dual core Tensilica Xtensa LX6 microprocessor. It's not ARM, and he did split functionality across the cores. I agree it's not rocket science, but it doesn't appear to have been a straightforward task either.
Add my vote for this one. I'm running a dokku server right now for this reason but would rather not.
Obvious solution: quotas. If there are 10 billion searches per month, we limit each company to 25% of that. After Google performs 2.5 billion searches in one month, they have to shut down until the end of the month. Easy peasy. What could go wrong?
> The moment you take incentive (bitcoin) out of the equation, whole blockchain will lose its strength.

This assumes that the compute power of the miners who are left after the incentive is gone will not be sufficient to prevent attacks.

It also assumes that the miners who quit, whose hardware would seemingly be ripe for use in attacks, would have no other purpose to use it for, such as another cryptocurrency.

FWIW I'd also point out that I would not be surprised if a fork were to occur that prolonged the incentive. Consider the finite incentive something that was necessary to create the initial coordination among participants in Bitcoin, but once it reaches sufficient scale if continuing to have an incentive benefits the ecosystem then surely it will (by then).
Since it appears that everyone is talking about this in the present tense even though the article is talking about the Civil Rights Movement and there are no referenced sources post-1965:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db94.htm

This one in particular(What is going on with Mexican rates of asthma?):
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/images/databriefs/51-100/db94_fig2....
Yeah I agree. But I still get a negative psychological reaction since I dislike any and all smarthome products, which colors my impression of the property. Illogical I know, but it's a reality for me and other home buyers / home sellers.

It's like staging a home right? None of this furniture comes with the house but how it's staged absolutely influences your impression of the home.
But, the very next line gives hope:

> System76 will investigate producing a distro-agnostic command line firmware install tool. Follow us on your preferred social network for updates.
Were you running a docker image on custom VMs on app engine? Just wondering how easy the transition was. Are you still running on Google cloud instances via nanobox?
You say that, but then Ethereum Classic is the 10th biggest altcoin currently.
“That's not a new phenomenon at all. We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.”

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109150/linux/linux-at-25-...
It’s a layer on top. I think it simplifies deployment to various services that may or may not support Docker so well.
Impressive, I’m surprised chip bags can make effective faraday shields. I’d consider this grounds for promotion of this guy, he’s obviously too clever for what he’s doing.
It really just depends on what their gross and net margins look like, and what elements they can ramp up/down quickly.
Are you single? I imagine you find a reasonably priced small apartment for a single person in SV. I doubt you can find a reasonably priced 3000 sqft house in SV.
Bookmarklets use javascript: urls, not data: urls.
My apologies: turns out the delay is only in Canada for TSE listed stocks and does not apply to US exchanges such as NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.
You can learn it from your university's EE department.
But at the current stage - how much stuff is "missed"?
Even though I've set up 2FA with Facebook, every time they ask for it they also send me the code in an SMS.
I need this. To bad it doesn't support deployments to packet.net.
'Perhaps we now have the link between vaccination and autism'
Is there data suggesting that SV developers have superior capabilities?
> Distributed storage of immutable content-addressable blobs is not that hard of a problem.

To do so equitably without the ability to be gamed is quite difficult. BitTorrent is quite game-able so we end up with closed communities and private trackers. To handwave these adversarial concerns away is unhelpful. Implement a s/kademlia DHT with all of the security conventions in latter papers and it becomes clear how hard it is to do safely. I am confident IPFS's DHT could be quite easily harmed (most are implemented around hash bucket closeness) if it were valuable enough to do so.
There's a truism about gender: when men complain, it's because they want something solved. When women complain, it's because they want sympathy.

Doesn't mix and match well unless you consciously try to handle it differently.
Supposedly infantry camoflage patterned uniforms only came about during WW2, and the SS were the first to adopt them.
I'm not sure, but my point is that docking CEO pay is not the way to increase wages.

The easiest way to decrease CEO pay is to obviously..have more CEO's. Interestingly enough, the more the public disdains them, the less you have.
It's definitely possible today, I just wish it were closer to seamless. For example, it seems like it would be possible to write a utility that takes a Go source file and emits a .cma, and maybe an .mli so you can see what's in there.
git rebase --bong
> What additional code?

All the code that you need in order to support smart pointers, templates, move/copy semantics, exceptions and so on. To paraphrase someone whose opinions you should take far more seriously than mine, you can't just throw Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about unique_ptr by osmosis :-). There used to be such a thing as the sad story about get_temporary_buffer ( https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/bTQByU1... -- not affiliated in any way, just one of the first Google results).

The same goes for all the code that is needed to take C++ code and output machine language. In my whole career, I have run into bugs in a C compiler only three or four times, and one of them was in an early version of a GCC port. The last C++ codebase I was working on had at least a dozen workarounds, for at least half a dozen bugs in the compiler.
I've tried using ledger in the past. I ended up moving all the data to a database. Ultimately it is much easier/flexible to work with SQL, than arbitrary command line tools. Also it's easier to manipulate and process the data from anywhere (psql, cli app, web app, ...), without fear of corruption.
This is very impressive! I have a SO pursuing accounting, and there are so many subpar proprietary systems in the accounting world it's crazy. I have used gnucash, but there are many issues with gnucash that text only systems like ledger address, but the learning curve for them is daunting to your average user. So I could definitely see great opportunity for a text based ledger system and all its benefits along with a GUI overlay.

All that, with a gplv3 license, this is the kind of project I can get behind!
I think OP's point is that "not having alternative uses" shouldn't be a negative characteristic?

To play Devil's Advocate, is Gold's current value where it is today because it is useful in jewelry and electronics? Why does Bitcoin necessarily need something to provide its value besides the value we give it?
So? Install Ubuntu, receive updated firmware/disabled ME, reinstall distro of choice. Also:

> System76 will investigate producing a distro-agnostic command line firmware install tool. Follow us on your preferred social network for updates.
Thanks for this recommendation - exactly what I was looking for and working perfectly so far.
If they kept a treasury then they can add supply to the market which wasn't already in the trading float. The contracts themselves typically don't allow for more units to be created, unlike shares.

Contracts can be structured that way, like Numeraire's.
Sure, but these comments that I refer to are discussing on IPFS, not Filecoin directly, and as such seem bizarrely misguided to me.

Saying IPFS is a useless tool because we already have Dropbox and S3 is completely missing the mark. Not only is IPFS not intended to solve "hosting" as a "problem" (in my eyes, at least), but IPFS goals do not even overlap with S3/Dropbox.

Saying IPFS is about hosting because many people use it for that is like saying BitTorrent is for porn because many people use it for that.
I needed a 4k switch. I had a nice monitor and a Linux and Windows laptop. I used the Win laptop for gaming and the Linux machine for pretty much everything else.

Everything I tried was garbage:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/4k-uhd-kvm-switches-the-starte...

There are a few in the $500+ range I have not tried, but you are wrong, there are use cases for 4k switching. I mean, do you really want to have two 4k monitors next to each other when you could just have one for half the cost?
The author's connections between trickle-down economics and depression/recession seems simplistic. It's really not clear that the wealth disparity is what caused the depression or the great recession either. That said, I found his elucidation of what's actually contained in this tax plan to be useful, and strengthens my perception that it will lead to increased wealth concentration.
Did you have your bank account linked to Uber? Is this a common thing to do?
How a U.S. citizen was mistakenly targeted for deportation. He’s not alone
Can anyone using this give us a report on the developer experience? Even simple quality of life stuff is useful like how easy is it to see logs for running containers, how fast are the deploys, etc.

Thanks!
So what is your opinion on Ethereum, given the knowledge that one of its co-founders was awarded a Thiel Fellowship?
I think a lot of the critics here fail to appreciate (or just begrudgingly admit) just how much a game-changer Uber has been in people's lives. That's real value.
Wish those were actual photographs and not an artists interpretation for an encyclopedia.

I must admit however it took me a moment to find the bow on this image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_West_Mahomet_(ID...
I'm pretty happy with my Dell XPS laptop with Linux.
This is an ARM android device, with possible Linux support, available sometime in the future.

If you want a x86 device shipping now with 2x the RAM and storage, and running an operating system that gives you the freedom to run a wider range of applications (ie Windows 10 or Linux) and if you do not care too much about the keyboard springs (ie are comfortable with a macbook like "chiclet" keyboard) check instead the GPD Pocket.

https://www.slashgear.com/gpd-pocket-ubuntu-editon-review-29...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GPDPocket/comments/6idnia/linux_on_...

I am getting one to run statistical software and Mathematica. Costs about $450 from China, also available on Amazon prime if you need it now.

I considered waiting for the Gemini, because it has LTE and a better keyboard, but the large bezel on the right of the screen made me decide against it. If they fix at least the screen I could consider getting a Gemini, even if the ARM cpu means I would need wine+Qemu to run some windows applications.
Since the number of Electron apps probably isn't going to decline anytime soon, I think I can save you some work. I could write you a little application that scans HN a few times every day and if it finds a discussion about an Electron-based project it will post a comment letting everybody know that you won't be installing it because it uses Electron.

If you are interested, let me know. I can knock it out in a day or so and it will work on any platform you use because it's based on Electron.
And of course given how things have been going for them in the courts this week all signs point to a massive hit in the Waymo lawsuit.

They still don’t have a real business (a company kept on life support by constant external cash injections is not a real business).
cheap, good, small vendor

pick two
https://blog.codenvy.com/redhat-acquires-codenvy-c84e1202a04...
So what happens when another company makes a search engine that's better than UN Search and users switch to that? Does the UN just eat them up too? Round and round? Or do we make everybody sign a Search Antiproliferation Treaty that bans private search engines?
Well, you make it a stupidhome.

Switch outlets with $1.80 switches. Yank out pretty lights and put in simple cheap hanger cans. Keep your dumb honeywell thermostat and reinstall the 4 wires. Buy dumb smoke alarms and litter them everywhere (they're cheap). Yank out special outlets and put in el-cheapo outlets.

In other words, yank out and substitute the smart stuff back to cheap dumb stuff that just works.

This isn't hard. It's a few hours to do this swap. And most of the mains stuff can be picked up at Walmart or similar for cheap.
https://sia.tech/funding2016/ ? How is this any different? I realize that this doesn't concern an ICO, but still there is plenty of VC involvement to "taint" the project.
You can get the same laptop from a different distributor for a lower price. Try searching for 'Clevo' or 'Sager' laptops. Clevo is the company that makes the base model, but they don't do any sales to consumers. Sager is another name under which the same laptops are typically sold.
In relation to your footnote, banks are third-party and would clearly fall under the ideas of third-party doctrine[0]. While this was only clearly put into place in relation to telecom in the 70s, this basic concept has existed in common law for a long time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
But it's the crux of their entire business model -- saturate markets to kill competition so they can do whatever they want with the financial side of things.
> Install Ubuntu, receive updated firmware/disabled ME, reinstall distro of choice.

For a single software update? With whatever else a normal human has going on in life? There's no way.
I'm glad they aren't blocking explicit entries. This morning I discovered I could quickly send snippets of text to my phone by writing it as a data uri and sending the tab via Fx sync.
a zit?
Stanford engineering dormitory. She was actually in education, got her last choice for dorm assignment. One of 4 women in a 200-person dorm (CroMem). Lots of competition!
Would it matter if your employer did all their business in Bitcoin?
I wrote one so that I could set hardware breakpoints and use them to extract decrypted data from an app which was heavily protected against debugging. The thing was that the app (running as an unprivleged user) had no way of knowing what I was doing in the kernel (uprobes can be used for this too providing the code doesn't checksum itself). But I guess reverse engineering is not a common use case for writing linux kernel modules though :)
The keyboard linked to above is a full size keyboard. The keys are quite ok. When folded, it's nearly quadratic, probably taller than a Psion 5. There are smaller versions of the keyboard that might use the same keys. While I loved my Psion 5mx and the keyboard was astonishing, especially in comparison with the Psion 3, I don't think it was better than these cheap Bluetooth keyboards.
How about a FREE immersive coding bootcamp?
Remove the first sentence where I mentioned Trump and my point still stands. My comment wasn't primarily about the election. It was about the absurdity of claiming to be the champion of facts in the same breath as you complain about people not believing in your "consensus reality."

That isn't a "nitpick about the liberals in my life." It's just responding to the parent comment.
> "it looks like" can be used in place of a more definitive statement. "on the surface it looks like" is almost never used that way.

It seems to me that what he is saying is, in the absence of some sort of convincing exculpatory evidence or argument that so far has not been presented, it looks like a cover-up. I don't think I agree with your analysis here.
You Can Read Deleted WhatsApp Chats
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815811
This is a strong contrast with my experience in trying to patch the vulnerability on an Asus desktop motherboard.

The process was so byzantine that I very much doubt more than a small fraction of home users would get through it, or even bother starting.

The correct steps were (1) flash a newer bios, (2) install the Intel ME driver for windows, (3) run the actual vulnerability patching tool. Discovering those steps required a bunch of trial and error and navigating Asus's really terrible website full of badly named downloads.
Vuetron – a tool for testing and debugging your Vue.js projects
It's just short-sighted greed.
You do realise you're comparing a company that makes its money from advertising on top of an otherwise video sharing platform, with a company you pay a fixed monthly fee to access the internet, right?
A trial to determine whether the accused party is guilty of intellectual property theft. I'm not sure what's unclear.
Yeah, Purism is awesome with their privacy, security, and libre focus. I'm really hoping their Librem phone is a success.
As an economist, I am much more comfortable with that statement

It is somewhat a worse situation than you describe, as though bitcoin is legal tender nowhere, it is assuming many of the features of a component of broad money supply (somewhere in the neighbourhood of M3 or thereabouts, so it can self-perpetuate for a long time indeed).

Also, as a consequence of its construction and finite supply of bitcoins, it does not allow elastic creation of money (no lending, only coining) when the need arises, so it has all the components of a catastrophic liquidity crisis: no underlying value, shallow capitalisation, no ability to adjust supply in the short term, fixed long term amount, and speculation run riot. This could be terrible.

I’m fairly sure blockchain technology will eventually be appropriated by central banks and governments and integrated into the financial system (”biteuro”?) but until the , I’m staying away from it.
I'm guessing it's really just a packaging issue. If you wanted, you could download/extract the deb and fix up the file paths and it would work.
Do AMD chips have a "management engine"?
I sympathize with you. But you seem to be making the classic mistake of assuming that everyone's use-case and needs are same as yours.

Just an example:

> I'll walk over to the lightswitch and turn the lights on.

What if you are someone who has trouble walking or has mobility issues. Can you imagine how convenient getting things done with voice could be? These sort of things can be life changing for some people.
Betalist.com, betapage.co, and getworm.com

Betalist takes time approx. 2-3 months, so you should submit your product right now so that when you are done polishing it more, your product will be live there.

And, if you get enough upvotes on betalist, you will have good amount of sign ups for your platform.

After that you need to engage with them to get the maximum feedback for your platform.
Yes, although it seems to be catching up with them.
Sign Up for the Preview of Amazon Aurora Multi-Master
If you follow the FTC link above, though, the human testers Google used liked them.
I wouldn't be surprised if ego entered in to it a little too on the not digging deeper side. "Clearly everyone else in the industry are idiots, or they'd be as profitable as we are".
Well, for $1000 I can get a Surface Book 1 and run Ubuntu on it, and it's absolutely perfect.

The Galago Pro is almost something I'd get, but I really dislike actual buttons on the trackpad: most of them are (rightfully) clickable anywhere on the trackpad.
This scenario is covered under "If it doesn't work, you call a garage door or HVAC company and they fix it."

Your typical HN reader is probably willing and able to reprogram the thing on their own, but this is not normal.
Ask HN: How to fight climate change with software?
hey all!

Do you have any ideas kicking around for fighting climate change w/ a software skillset: apps, saas, marketplaces, etc

:) <3
> Current versions may not do that but it's clear that Canonical prioritizes profit over privacy.

If we criticize people this strongly for things they've already fixed, how can we expect them to listen to us when we ask them to fix things?
Mysterious Bitcoin addresses with predicable private key
It's odd; I'm usually a big proponent of terror management theory, but I think this take applies it so clumsily it's made me more skeptical.
> Just set up a VPN before you go.

Thank you, this was something I wasn't sure of.

> This works in airplane mode.

Wow, didn't know that!

Thank you very much! :)
I would be surprised that if you had been reporting your transactions (even as bulk numbers) on your schedule C that the IRS would have an issue now that they had details about those aggregates.

And since your bitcoin trades attached to your name can be linked to your tax returns I think they would absolutely know that you've already paid taxes on yours, and they will ask for your help in tracking down people for whom you did transactions so that they might connect their transactions to taxes that they have paid on them.
I tried to use it about 4 years ago and submit helpful answers etc. Apparently I did something wrong and I couldn't submit anything. It was a very hostile introduction.

Over the last 4 years there have been numerous times I would have contributed a valuable answer but since I don't have a working account I cannot.

No, I'm not interested in wasting my time trying to get my account working. I don't care about SO "reputation".
I'm thinking of buying a Purism laptop. The only thing stopping me is that I just bought a ThinkPad a few months ago and it feels wasteful to buy another laptop so soon...
Yea I'm sure we'll see a more generic command. This was probably just to get things out the door, quickly, with the default operation systems they have installed.

Keep in mind, testing this type of update is pretty important. I'm sure they went through this several times with multiple versions of all their hardware.

Honestly for the sake of not bricking a laptop, I think they should release a bootable USB image for other Linux distros and operating systems. Flash it to a USB stick and now you have a completely stable environment, with the kernel you've tested against, and remove potential unknowns.
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If you're interested in typed APIs, also check out RESTyped: https://github.com/rawrmaan/restyped

It's an end-to-end way to type check REST API calls and responses using TypeScript.
That is correct, currently only about one third of all humans over 13 are active users of Facebook.