skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a solid response.

I’d add some of the obvious. At a startup people are spending more team creating, taking advantage of technical advantages and asymmetrical opportunities, taking ownership and getting things done. More likely to work directly with a higher ratio of people that are innovative, outstanding problem solvers or seem smarter than you in one or more areas. Learning everyday on the job, but also “putting the chairs away” everyday. Can be painful if some essential role, say marketing or sales, is not sufficiently covered by the band and thinking from those specialties influencing the offering.

Software creation does not currently scale well, so overhead exponentially increases, specifically middle management and project management. The Peter Principle comes to mind: “an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach the levels of their respective incompetence.“ You have products and systems and real customers, so a lot of time becomes spent on negotiation and compromise. With less ownership or more specialized ownership often comes less stress. At larger companies more likely to be able to achieve work/life balance, but will also encounter political manipulators. At larger orgs more likely to have mentors and educational opportunities, but may also include cargo cults. With rich sources of data and systems at scale more opportunity to explore your theories as your leisure (as long as you can get access). More likely to have a crippled “secured” laptop where you can’t install or even security update software until it is IT approved. Large organization means more likely to find communities that match your interests — as long as the interest isn’t entrepreneurial ;)
Two words: Shia Labeouf
What Was Once Hailed as First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Is No More
I run a fairly large Django app. Looking at the release notes, it doesn't seem like it will take more than an hour or two to upgrade.
I think you might have misinterpreted my comment as an argument about moral.

Leaving babies to cry or separating them from their mothers for extended periods of time is primarily a health issue which I believe should concern society. [1][2][3] Unfortunately, it fits our economic model very well -- so there is that.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.432...

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/development-and-psyc...

[3] http://champagnelab.psych.columbia.edu/docs/champ11.pdf
>Does this sort of activism really help?

Yes. It reduces the company's bottom line until they either inflict bad publicity on themselves, sit and cope with it silently, or submit to the demand to pay their lawful taxes.

>I think a more effective form of activism would be to flood representatives' offices with requests to change tax laws and to vote for candidates willing to do so.

You're getting downvoted because we've got a lot of Americans on HN. For us, that approach failed as of last night.
That is exactly what the article posits as a hypothesis.
> Politicians frequently make speeches at private events in hotel ballrooms (e.g. fundraising dinners) that are open only to approved audiences. I don't see Twitter as being much different.

That's a completely different situation than what the OP is talking about, which is public officials acting and communicating in their given public roles. It's illegal as hell to spend government resources on campaign purposes. That's why officials have separate websites for their public office and for their campaign:

https://issa.house.gov/

https://www.darrellissa.com/
I sense a pattern in her tweets, not just sarcasm.
"Kill all men", "kill all white people", ...

Besides, in this age when you cannot joke the rules must still apply to everyone equally.
The protesters may not want to let justice run its course.
Try Yodlee
You could probably make pizza from Emacs :P

https://www.xkcd.com/378/
How in the world would you ban this? Perhaps you could convince governments not to use such features themselves, but there's no way you can ban this in general.
Could you be a bit more specific? A few examples would be helpful.
If you look at the historical voting data, presidential election participation has been up since 2004. Mid-term elections have been about the same since the 70s, though 2014 did have unusually low participation. But I don't expect that to repeat in 2018 with all the divisiveness now.

http://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#voter_turnout_101
The solution here is not technical - we already know the technical solution. The solution is to introduce a cost to the risk.

Right now the "risk" has no cost - if you expose people's data there's not that much consequence besides bad PR. We should assign some dollar value to each person's identify leaked. That way, businesses can properly asses risk and reward when they start these types of projects

Overtime, I think businesses would rather avoid the liability of storing people's info in the first place
That really really sucks because state taxes in coastal cities are already extremely high relative to the rest of the nation and $100-200k earners in these cities aren’t rich
If space transportation costs were to fall dramatically, would there be any commercial value in traveling to the Moon, or building a base on the moon? The only one I can think of is Tourism. Are there any others, such as rare minerals perhaps?
They're different sites, so it's more like media needs an upgrade.
Not necessary, Emacs has a mode that makes pizza.
The thing is there's lots of schadenfreude whenever Apple stumbles. Part of that is just being king of the hill for so long. But even before that Apple always chafed nerds because of how they came at computing (appliance-like) and the whole intersection of liberal arts and technology thing which targets a mainstream audience. That changed in the early to mid 2000s because of OSX and the Intel switch, suddenly a lot more nerds started buying Apple stuff. But Apple didn't really court them, they just switched because Apple's implementation details (NeXT underpinning and Intel) attracted them. A lot of nerds, including myself, had a change in outlook to Apple's perspective once they switched, but a lot of them still have your classic nerd outlook. That's the root cause of a lot of things (like the MBP teeth gnashing).
"With very simple and inexpensive tools"

Lampworking is the most expensive hobby I have taken up. Also my favorite.
I'd love to outsource sales. I'd want them to work for a variety of similar shops, and work out deals that use the best services for each job... instead of trying to shoehorn the staff we have into whatever jobs they can get.
Or you could just, use a secure anonymous coin like say monero and forget all this time consuming effort to try and anonymous a non anonymous coin.
This is great news! The Django project is such a wonderful project, I've enjoyed working with it over the years.
That's true only if you practice good OPSEC. You must be using a wallet that's not associated with your meatspace identity. Not in any way. Not through bank accounts, IP addresses, etc. Nor through any Bitcoin transaction. Once a wallet is associated with you, all past and future transactions involving that wallet are also associated with you. So it's prudent to have many wallets, and to always mix when transferring among them.
Monero still ok?
My running hypothesis is that people can't see any way to enact change that also serves as a socially-acceptable life path.

Or, to put a finer point on it: some people think the only way to fix the system is e.g. "violent protesting", but they abhor being seen to personally enact violence more than they want change. Other people think the only way to fix the system is e.g. "becoming involved with politics", but they abhor being seen as a politician more than they want change. Etc.

There are problems people want solved, but the same people that want the problems solved have things they not only care about, but which society expects them and tells them and perhaps in some senses brainwashes them to prioritize over their own needs. Everyone in the modern world is afflicted to some degree with a social anxiety telling them that their families and friends would disapprove of their doing anything so outré as actually fighting for change (rather than preaching-to-the-choir about change), especially when that could hurt or endanger said family and friends. As the thinking goes, you're just not supposed to risk the people you love for something as silly as bettering democracy.

(And yes, that's even true when a person's family and friends are outwardly exactly the people who claim to want change, and who hold forth about the change that needs to happen, and disapprove of the people who don't similarly hold forth. The people who spend their time signalling that they care about change, are some of the least interested in associating with the people who actually enact that change.)

Modern Western culture seemingly has entered a failure-mode unprecedented in history, where we have nobody willing to go first, to stand out, to do what needs to be done, to enact the changes everyone else wants. We've run out of empathetic iconoclasts—people who see the suffering of distant/distributed others, and for whom that aggregate suffering outweighs the risk that might come to the comfortable-life-in-obscurity of all their closer companions. The people with hearts that bleed for their fellow citizens, but then don't shrivel back at the thought of their companions being the ones who end up bleeding.
The Moon has a fair bit of Helium-3. It sounds like that is partly what this mission is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraction_from_extra...
Should be the top comment.

1) Accurate

2) Succinct
I guess you must be from some country were there are no safe bike lanes and everybody is supposed to drive a car.

Most of my commute is a 10 mile bike lane along a river. No pedestrians, no cars, no crossings, eyesight of a mile back and forth. And audio books are not like music, you can hear the whereabouts pretty well - it is less distracting than talking to a buddy while driving.
Web-of-Trust means there's a link between you and the other entity. The number of people who trust something is not really relevant, so crowdsourcing wouldn't matter. I know there was a service called WOT that relied on that, but in my opinion they were simply misusing the concept.
Some people say that they are using "=" to mean something else, and relying on context to distinguish which "=" they mean. But it's less fun to say that the sum of the natural numbers "is associated with" -1/12, especially if you have to say how, exactly.
My guess is just a QA burden: they probably test the firmware cleaner utility on those operating systems, and they don't have the resources to test and certify the firmware tool on every conceivable distro.

Maybe it will run fine on Fedora, but if it bricks your laptop, they don't want to get blamed.
This would make "Satoshi Nakamoto" a criminal for not declaring the genesis block on his taxes.
It is a neat idea to separate the semantics and the syntax. However, for some reason, it didn't get enough popularity.

Apache Commons has an SCXML package which parses scxml statechart format (standard) and produces dynamic java objects but this couldn't see the daylight and suspended at version 0.9 in 2015.

I had nice experiences with this separation logic though. It is more flexible and extendable than regular finite state machines. There is parallelism and timeouts built-in the standard and as mentioned in the presentation, it solves a lot of if-else kinda structure without a hassle.
I can't agree more with you.
That's the one and only reason I'll stick to the 1.11 version.

Garanty of compatibility between Django and ALL my external packages is a lot more valuable that a responsive admin panel and a new syntax for urls.

I would love "important" (yeah it's opiniated) packages move to the official Django repo (like Channels), to help reduce this risk when migrating.
It's actually surprising how often I can't find the compatibility information of a Django package.
The more I study (halfway through a tough PhD now), the more I realise there's an obsesion with making hard things harder, sometimes just because you were taugh that way, other times because hey, "it's post-graduate education! it´s suposed to be hard".

And the many times me and the research group I work with have sat, read things from the basics upwards, doing an effort to explain everything as simple as posible, while not hiding complexity, it took a lot of effort, but our work was highly praised and moved back into the courses we teach. And students are happier (or at least not miserable as they used to be when teaching hard things was done "the classical way").

So I agree with (1), and all I can say is that, when in a position of teaching, it's best to take the time, work our material from the ground up, and teach it in the simplest posible way.
Here's a link to the actual article in Science
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6366/1078
Not only is private by default, but also when you have a public bucket there's a big freaking "PUBLIC" label in the UI. Doesn't get more clear than that,
If you have an account with 100 mill in stolen bitcoins and use it at a coffee shop then looking at security footage is relatively trivial as there is a clear time stamp involved. Cash on the other hand might be traced at the bank, but it it's hard to directly link it unless their is a clear pattern of behavior. Even better, a random 5$ bill may not end up at the bank directly if someone get's change at the end of the day.

Worse it's not just the government that can track bitcoins. I can easily see a gang keeping an eye on transactions looking for people with large accounts so they can use physical means of persuasion to liberate it.
Closest is probably Luminus, but it's really just a Leiningen build tool that can pull in your choice of libs to stitch together. It's good, and speeds up Clojure web dev, but is in no ways a framework by itself.
I think a dedicated device (e.g. smartcard or USB dongle) is a better option. I know they've had their problems, but personal computers get owned all the time, since they're simply too exposed.
Judge overturns Trump delay of ‘startup visa,’ siding with investor group
Is there any reason people can't engage in both kinds of protest?

Also, I think the chances of Apple deciding to pay its taxes due to this kind of pressure are at least as high as politicians in X country closing loopholes.
The quality people got sick of living like a peasant in the high cost of living areas surrounding apple and took jobs elsewhere.

Its only a matter of time until every silicon valley tech company faces the same problem.
As written, it'd be easy to interpret even a private wallet as an "account", since there's a record of it on the blockchain.
You must compartmentalize. You can buy and sell anything that isn't linkable to your meatspace identity. With enough virtual wealth to hire the right consultants, you could probably retire comfortably somewhere.
Digital countries
The email in this advert is fake and not a valid email for the company.
Let's also not forget about what happens to those empathetic iconoclasts: they are routinely assassinated. In fact I believe that the main reason Bernie Sanders is still alive is because his campaigns have been largely ineffective.
Set literals are nifty. If they're in stdlib rather than built-in, they can't be literal syntax.
To those saying that Apple has a fiduciary obligation to maximize profits, shouldn't by that logic Apple respect the environment at the minimum required level by law? But on the contrary, Apple highlights in a lot of their presentation how green and environmentally conscious they are, going above and beyond what the laws require:

https://www.apple.com/environment/

Maybe because today being seen environmentally conscious makes you more money than you lose by paying for greener technologies? If people can make avoiding paying taxes seen in the same light, things will change.

I wait for the day this page exists:

https://www.apple.com/paying_taxes/
As someone smart and technical enough to hang out on HN, if your argument for dropping out of the political process boils down to “I can’t be bothered to understand how my country’s electoral system works”, that’s pretty weak.
Once Monero is accepted more widely, sure.
looks totally like an admin shortcoming to me though
Heaviside's comment, famously, was "Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?"
Exactly, would we even know it if china's hypersonic military were in our airspace right now?
Yes, but before people believed Standford's lies that aid was needs based, so if they had money from a job or something, they would expect to get nothing and not bother applying. I was in a similar situation, my parents both worked, and was offered nothing in terms of financial aid. Now that we know aid is not needs based, and in fact a lot of aid goes to people with the most finance experience, it makes sense to apply even if you have money already.
There's no reason. If rabbits overeat their environment and they die of hunger, and humans do the same on a planetary scale, it means we're not even as smart as rabbits, don't you think?
Shorts and T-shirt.
Amazon Macie: A machine learning service to discover and protect sensitive data
Ask HN: What indie print magazines do you subscribe to?
The two print magazines I am currently subscribed to are The Atlantic and Nautilus.

I am wondering are there are any good indie magazines out there with high standard of journalism and storytelling?
It does have red-flags. When you try to set a bucket to "public" in S3 it literally tells you: "This bucket will have public access. Everyone will have access to one or all of the following: list objects, write objects, read and write permissions."

I mean, there's a difference between being a novice and being stupid.
Depends on which country's banks. So far I've lost more money to banks in my country than to my mattress, and so has almost everyone in Uruguay and Argentina:

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

Funds were forcibly converted to worthless bonds.
More pointing out that 3/4's of the votes are effectively meaningless.

Don't forget China holds elections, but that does not mean people's votes count.
Are you being sarcastic?

https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/04/estonia-freezes-resident...
By your own argument, animations != accessibility. Animations MAY be a matter of accessibility for some people and an accessibility problem for others - real accessibility would be making it optional instead of the default.
If there is some sort of regulation that is harmful (do you have something specific in mind or is this just a generality?), it seems like the thing to do would be to reconsider that regulation, and not to simply allow a handful of savvy investors to skirt the regulation while the average person is still subject to it.
If you go through the election results there are actually quite a number of 1-vote write-in winners for this position across the various ward divisions - and a few with no votes at all. Quickly scanning through the hundreds of results I didn’t see any that even had more than one candidate.

Looking at the electoral ward division maps it’s not hard to see why: these political units only cover a few streets. There are hundreds of these subdivisions across the city. I’d argue that this is too minor of a role to even bother having an elected position for.

I suppose since these divisions are so tiny one might have a chance of knowing any individuals who might be running against each other, but otherwise, what criteria would one judge the best candidate?
Oh, the good old `Escape-Meta-Escape-Control-Space Pizza`.
"I wasn't concealing ownership, I just thought I had lost the key to unlock my wallet. You see, it all started with my friend's unreliable boat."
>Since 2014, eight other babies have been born to women who had uterus transplants, all in Sweden

Just to show that single payer system can be good for medical innovation, not just universal healthcare.
Shareholder value and making money are not the same thing (and the job of the CEO is to maximize shareholder value, not money). I'm a Tesla shareholder, and I would be quite disappointed if the company would stop caring about scaled sustainability and would just stay as a luxury car brand (which would make it easy for Tesla to not lose money on research).
Should I be open to discussing everything? Why?

Why not? If an idea can't withstand a debate, that says a lot about the idea.
Only if Satoshi is American. And if he's still alive.
Hiring more QA staff doesn’t mean more bugs will be fixed if the bottleneck is engineering output and deadline-driven features. The latter might be better fixed with a re-org.
National ID card would be a non-starter in the USA.
From the source looks like it just opens the browser to pizzahut.com. Would be nice if it could order too - maybe in a future release!
Such a limited number of device models to support?

iPhone 5S to X (plus iPads, Apple Watches, and the iPod Touch) is a lot. All with different aspect ratios.
Reminded me of https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com.
I'm guessing you're referring to this - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6795202/django-count-in-...

Another solution not mentioned in the link is the `Subquery()` expressions added in Django 1.11. A lot of databases will optimise those just as well as the `SELECT ..., COUNT() FROM ..JOIN..` that you would write by hand.
> Income from investments is supposed to be reported to the IRS.

Bitcoin income has required disclosure since 2013, this bill seems to say that even bitcoin just sitting idle in an account need to be disclosed somehow, which is a MAJOR breach of privacy. This is like saying to someone "If you own a nice painting in your house you need to let us know about it" even if it generates no income.

They are basically saying "if you value your privacy you are a criminal, even if you aren't breaking any other laws" which should scare everyone.
> people are required to carry it on themselves at all time if they are outside

... while in other contries there is an ongoing discussion about whether it is against the Constitution to (begin to) require to show an ID when voting!
Exactly, there are best practices to avoid these scenarios. The engineers are just being pushed to produce so quickly that they end up doing things like this.

The problem has been for faaar to long that doing tech right takes much longer than the business side of the company is willing to wait for.
"free" is a broad term, as someone obviously has to pay for it, either from his pocket or via taxes or whatever. Nevertheless, everybody has access to health care after all which isn´t true for India and water supply.
Not if you use aws-cli. But I think the larger issue is that Amazon doesn't provide a low-friction, secure way for applications to access their buckets. A good way would be for each bucket to come with its own access key, or expiring tokens that you could query on the backend and use from the browser. Just spitballing of course.
Call it inappropriate, call it biased, call it funny, but don't call it irony.
The Accidental Bestseller (2014)
This is exactly what will happen in Europe next year.

With the General Data Protection Regulation, any leak of private data caused by a major cybersecurity gap in a company will lead to severe financial sanctions such as a fine based on 4% of the company turnover.

This law will indeed give the risk a “cost” :).
>We need more observational studies and randomized trials — more epidemiology on how people collect, manipulate, analyse, communicate and consume data.

I don't understand what is meant by "epidemiology" in this sentence.