skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but here's a bad idea I tried.

My HP printer can reorder ink when it runs out.

Sadly, that all got balled up almost immediately. The offer came with a mailer for exhausted cartridges. I put them in the mailer, put the mailer in the box (rural route). My spouse mistook it for incoming mail, ripped it open, said "Why is HP sending us empty printer cartridges?"

Fortunately HP had a button to click on the web site to get another mailer mailed to me. I clicked, got the mailer (which was entirely different from the one that came with the offer) and sent the cartridges off.

That was weeks ago. No new ink. My credit card continues to be debited monthly, but the printer is defunct and now what?

These things are so, so prone to getting in a wad and leaving you frustrated. More work than actually buying new cartridges as needed.
Consider that the width and depth of Google's anticompetitive violations is already massive, and increasing. The EU's record-breaking fine against Google was the first of three.

There is a point where the EU may have to take steps beyond fines, and bar Google from doing business in... effectively, an entire continent. I don't know where that point is, but if a company doesn't really care about the fines for it's illegal activity and continues to violate the law, you've got to escalate.

And that wouldn't just impact Google's global profits, but it'd likely entail shutting down multiple Google offices in multiple countries, and if their employees weren't interested in immigrating to another country, they'd potentially lose a lot of talent as well.
> the author discards D and other languages for lack of portability to other platforms

...but it's very portable. It has llvm and gcc backends, supporting whatever platforms those support (all that you're likely to ever use), and it's possible to compile without runtime/gc, for a small enough footprint to run on embedded.
then how do we explain that most anti-vaxxers come from states that voted for President Obama?

this is all a matter of choosing to believe what we want to believe is true. it is not uncommon for us to want to paint those we don't agree with as wrong and even better if we can find a way to ridicule them, stereotype the whole, and what not.

it certainly has nothing to do with the truth. based on the initial accusations and where they came from with regards to sexual harassment I would have to believe the left is willing to ignore it if they win on other fronts, am I right? I don't think so but you can argue it
ultrasound is completely capable of not only affecting brain tissue, but destroying it.

as with anything else: it's about the amount of energy you put into it.

Focused ultrasound would be completely capable, and share the quality of being perceptable in the targeted region, and absent elsewhere.

https://www.fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-conditions/neurol...
Exactly. And when they say "Wi-Fi", they mean "2.4GHz signals". Wi-Fi is a protocol, and "connection" means bidirectional communication, which is not happening here.

I try to not nitpick too often, but things like this really irk me. And before someone says that it's a simplification for non-specialists - this is exactly the problem. Such stupid "simplifications" only serve to confuse people, instead of educating them. They promote fairy tales (easy to exploit later) instead of building an accurate model of reality.

Writing things like that is wrong, and hurtful to the readers. Writing things like that intentionally is simply malicious.
That was before NLBs. But yeah, NLBs might be a good choice now.
Codegen doesn't require string templates, Go comes with its own AST which you can leverage for exactly what you're suggesting.

https://golang.org/pkg/go/ast/
> open sourcing both blockchains and the smart contracts that run upon them

I agree that the public, replicable nature of the system is attractive, and there's some benefit in reusing known technology. But there still needs to be a central authority to "bless" certain actors in the system, else anyone could sign off on anything.

A good approach might be for a government health authority to issue "coins" to the various trusted entities in a product's chain of supply, and these then used as proof of stake for transactions in a private blockchain run for that purpose by everyone involved. That would keep bad actors out and would be very hard to hack, while remaining quite public for any interested parties. Now that's a cool idea, however very labour intensive to discover the provenance of any one item; certainly consumers in supermarkets would rely on some kind of query service - and there's your single point of failure again. Still, it's a cool idea.

None of this however would have stopped the tampering that launched this whole kerfuffle. Blockchains are excellent at ensuring the perfect reliability of digital data, such as numbers of bitcoins or digital kittens held by whoever owns abc123. They have no such effectiveness on physical products. I mean look at this:

> "You cannot open the can of baby food without breaking the label," he says.

The melamine was put in before the can was even filled!
Victory in the Alabama Senate race is a binary signal that can hide a lot of information. If Moore wins, compare the margin of victory to pre-revelation polling. It's entirely possible that there's a major shift in public opinion, just not one large enough to make Alabama(!) blue.
Breaking bad password culture
Yesterday I was in a committee meeting, and I had an action item to create a password for a resource that only the committee would access. The password I created consisted of four random words separated by whitespace; a total of 22 characters. This was my foray into an institutional lesson on length vs. complexity.

The reaction was immediate - everyone vocal about it, hated it. It was astonishing that because this password did not conform to their expectations - that it would be shorter, with (likely) an illusion of complexity - they were immediately and passionately dismissive.

I attempted to plead a case - if I told you the password was going to be 22 random characters long, would you have any hope of remembering it? No - we would write it down, like we're going to do with the one you just gave us. Lost I guess was the notion that the password I created actually has a chance of being memorized.

My intention then was to use this simplistic passphrase example and massage the complexity over time, such that we reach a point where the idea becomes more natural and reflexive. We are a very old institution, and this password culture runs very deep. We have to start very, very slow. So this first bite of the apple cannot jump directly to the desired end state.

I guess I hoped for a more positive initial reaction, but was taken aback at how fiercely opposed some would be that I had not opted for the traditional password security theater. That instead of openness to a new, fresh approach, there would be instinctive and unfounded reluctance.

If anyone has helpful anecdotes or approaches I'd love to have them shared.
Depending on where you live, they may already be doing that every 2-3 years anyways.
Pipenv has been moved to PyPA
Amazon already offers such buttons but I haven't used them. I can certainly imagine that being convenient, although I'd want them to be a) unbranded/programmable; b) optionally adding to a shared shopping list rather than directly ordering c) possibly a bit more subtle and/or smaller in size.
Ask HN: Would a list of books recommended by founders and makers be interesting?
Is it possible to listen to classical music on your site without registration ?
The same thing happens in Canada.
We probably installed some new top secret microwave based spying equipment in our embassies and accidentally cooked our own diplomats.
This is bullshit, employees should be paid based on how much they help the company regardless on where they live.
As a general rule of thumb, if something isn't used for calculations, it probably shouldn't be a number.
That is why I think the Macbook and iPad Pro are overlap. iPad Pro should take whatever role the common 80% of user using the Mac. And let the Mac and Macbook be a powerful computer doing the 20% which is never intended for an iPad / Tablet / Appliance Computing.
No, I use the Chrome App.
I could see it being used alongside Intel SGE for DRM or security reasons, in situations where the OS and system are considered hostile adversaries, but you still need extensive mutable external storage outside the application binary.
I think the web is the only viable platform for new things.

If you look at the data[1], the most usage is on apps but nobody is downloading new apps. Everybody is using the Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, Uber, etc. apps they already have and they are not interested in finding new apps.

Most of those apps have a ton of links to content on sites around the web (FB, Pinterest, Reddit app, etc.) That's really the platform of the late 2010s: Web content.

Even Hacker News is a platform for by web content!

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/25/majority-of-u-s-consumers-...
>> I have a blocker for all news sites so i can't access them without going through like 20 steps.

Then consider no longer commenting on news related articles, sources etc that you don't know anything about. Wild speculation isn't helpful.
You are just ignoring things you don't want to see.

Russian peasants actually did stop the government from taking over in 1920. Lenin was forced to enact the NEP because their policies were literally collapsing.

There was no other plan behind the NEP, it was written within a 3 month period.

It took a massive effort and practically a civil war by Stalin to collectivize agriculture.

While the state was eventually successful in that case, it clearly shows that resistance is possible.

In many other countries in the middle east for example, the governments know that they can not implement many polices, so they don't even try.

It also depends on level, if you are 1 of 50 people who oppose the government, its not gone go well. However if there is widespread support then the cost of the government goes up hugly if citizens are armed.
> Maybe this only works for people of a certain charisma

Honestly; it depends on the audience - are you willing to ignore the person being grossly abhorrent/immoral because they say something about some unrelated thing that you agree with? (Build a wall! Tax Cuts! No Baby Slaughter!).

Roy Moore is being framed to voters as, 'Would you rather a (potential) child molester in office or someone actively advocating for murdering Babies? When framed like that; it's much easier to bite your lip and vote for the molester because really - what are the chances he'll do it again now that he's in his 70s? The other guy will actively murder babies if he gets elected.
The React and React Native Event System Explained: A Harmonious Coexistence
You almost always defined your variables. None of this `foo, err := getFoo()` nonsense.

Most functions return an error so err is already defined:

func doIt(a, b) (result string, err error) { ... }

Then you are free to reuse err as needed.

func doIt(a, b int) (result string, err error) {

var x, y string

x, err = doA(a)
if err != nil {
return
}

y, err = doB(b)
if err != nil {
return
}

result = x + y
return
}
If puppy bites were traumatizing and frequently fatal, and we had 40k+ deaths per year from puppy bites, then yeah, I'd want to consider some puppy regulations.

I understand your point though. I just think that gun regulation is a special case, since due to NRA influence "less guns = less gun deaths" is the only association we have to go on right now, and reducing deaths should be our primary goal.
> The loot boxes of Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 came after this point, and their designs were much more friendly. They were focused on cosmetic items[...]

The cosmetic items were the rarest and most valuable items in TF2 crates, but gameplay-affecting weapons and equipment were the bread and butter.

> Once in power he announces his vision for the future: Marshmallows in everything, without regard to flavor or the intended market.

It was before my time, but didn't this actually happen? In the 1950s, the industrial process for the modern marshmallow was developed and recipes put marshmallow in all sorts of inappropriate dishes.
Its called an RFID tag
Plans Emerge to Rebuild Puerto Rico's Electric Grid
What I took from Feynman's biography is that he would periodically attempt to rebuild his understanding of all of physics from first principles i.e. basic arithmetic, through algebra to calculus, mechanics etc. Looking for new insights and simplifications, he would apply new tools to reformulate and solve older problems. His seminal work in Quantum Electrodynamics used the Principle of Least Action to great effect. Despite initial scepticism, he came to appreciate the power of LA after seeing that it could be used to elegantly reformulate Classical Mechanics.

Doing this even after becoming a world famous physicist led to the Feynman Lectures in Physics - written as much for his own benefit as for his students. However, I am not sure he used this strategy when learning entirely new concepts the very first time.

It makes sense to do this as practice. To build new theoretical structures, building new constructions of the stuff we already know is a great way to sharpen a toolbox of problem-solving techniques and reveal potential shaky theoretical foundations.
Minimum Critical Mass
i find cross country comparisons that lead to multipliers very hard and often arbitrary, because of differences in taxes, social security, health insurance and of course the exchange rate.
Trump logic does not apply to reality. He was already POTY last year. The selection is not always an honor either. Let's stop pretending this is a competition just because Trump thinks it is.
I wouldn't say that Ruby/Rails is a depreciating asset. I mean maybe it is but on what timeframe? The framework is super mature at this stage, it has loads of contributors and is still widely used in the industry.

Personally I'm pretty much all in on Elixir/Phoenix. I'm missing fewer and fewer libraries and the job market is expanding pretty quickly (https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies), with some pretty big names (Pinterest, Adobe, Lonely Postmates, Discord).
An example: having your IoT base listen for frequencies made by your kettle's whistle, or your washing machine's beeper.
We already had that when the banks were bailed out.

Socialise the losses, privatise the profits.
Essentially you need one spare for this system to work. Which is great for them because it front loads cartridge sales.
All this to replace a slip of paper (aka "shopping list"). We have gone barking mad.
> “Karajan”
Karajan is a conductor. Will conductors get looped in as well? Or will they be considered “Performers” as well?
Income earned for mundane food/clothing/shelter/healthcare costs SHOULD be deductible. That's basically what the poverty line is: the minimum income necessary for basic sustenance in national standard culture. If you're functioning at that level, you shouldn't pay taxes - precisely because you can barely care for yourself & your own, so you shouldn't be compelled to pay for others (with a bureaucracy siphoning off a significant percentage for themselves). Insofar as sales taxes are a thing, all documentable taxes paid should be refunded if your income is below the poverty line[1], and even those above that line should be able to deduct "mundane sustenance" costs including taxes paid.

[1] - exactly how the transition from "below poverty line" to "above" should be handled, to mitigate the tax cost transition, will require a bit more thought than this casual comment. Suffice to say we pay representatives to sanely figure out such things.
I'd be very interested. This is actually one of the things I like to ask entrepreneurs when we first meet. I'd tell you what I've found, but it would get me kicked off HN again.
Hubspot's growthbot sucks
> I'm pretty confident I could significantly outearn the CEO if I lived in SF or NYC.

Yes you could. But not for a company the size of Buffer.

Here's the thing a lot of us often forget to realize: The value you bring to the company is proportional to the value the company extracts from the market.

Can your code improve Walmart's revenue numbers by 0.001% per year? Awesome, that's worth $4,858,700 based on Wikipedia numbers. I'm pretty confident you can get a gigantic salary with those results.

Can your code improve Buffer's revenue by 3% per year? Awesome, that's worth $468,000 according to their dashboard[1]

That's still a lot of money and I don't know if Buffer would negotiate because they like to use their formula. My point was that the value of your contribution can be orders of magnitude different for the same amount/quality/level of work and skill.

[1] https://buffer.baremetrics.com/
Aww I remembered seeing this being presented in Siggraph Asia this year. Cool to see it popping up on HN now!
Oh damn, I meant https://github.com/antirez/disque, not resque. Apologies.
History says no, TIME does not think it's the point. As noted, this is also one article published by a single magazine.
Nothing makes me more sad than this project.
Horror Film Director: Paying Bills and Following Dreams
Michigan has be fighting a similar fight for the past couple decades. Wetlands were disappearing quickly from development and they realized how important they were to environmental health, essentially turning the state into a sponge/filter. There is a law there now that removal of wetlands requires developers to build a new wetlands elsewhere. They still have 40% less wetlands than pre-european times.
I think it's interesting that this was immediately framed as an "attack," with of course the implication being that the Cuban government attacked American diplomats, since Cuba has so much to lose from attacking diplomats and literally nothing to gain.
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> 3) Large COL adjustments make no sense to me. So I work for a remote company and choose to live somewhere cheaper and they think that the value I'm providing is less? The end result of this is that remote devs get screwed on average, while the best remote devs avoid companies like this, rightfully so.

Ya I don't get this logic. High COL areas are high because there are _lots_ of perks living there. It is much more desirable to live in SF than to live in East BF Mississippi. You are basically rewarding someone by living in a high COL.

When selecting remote jobs, I'm looking for compensation for the value I bring. The dollars I earn from my value should be up to me how to spend them: living in SF with all of the glorious food and such or living somewhere cheaper and saving money to retire earlier but having to pick between Applebees or Fridays (vomits).
Ha, your cell phone is sort of like that. All that to replace, just waiting until you get home to make the call.

To be fair, this 3D trick also replaces remembering, driving, buying, restocking.
The calculator has San Francisco at >60% higher pay than Seattle because of a "rent index". That's disconnected from reality.
Yeah ok I understand that it doesn't have a memory. But you can still sort of "query" the current state of a device that is always broadcasting, like a flow or speed sensor.
Fluentd v1.0.0.rc1/v0.14.25 has been released
> So if power9 is 5x the speed of a Xeon

Is Xeon 5x the speed of Xeon? How do those institutions ever upgrade then?

I think what you're really saying is Power9 needs to be 5x the speed compared to Xeons from 5 years ago or whatever. Because otherwise new Xeons would never replace older Xeons either, following that logic.

Power9 and other Intel alternatives just need to show 1.5x-2x the value compared to Intel's latest.
They use of "Wi-Fi" is itself a lie. It's not using Wi-Fi anymore than it's using Bluetooth or Zigbee. It's scattering back EM frequencies that happen to include 2.4GHz, which is a standard frequency for most consumer-level wireless communication.
If only we could take a SHA digest of a tin of infant formula. Potential startup idea.
I would prefer tools, bc I'm a dev. :)
I bought the kindle version last night based on your link, and finished reading it this morning. Its a real WTF wakeup call.

This quote really stuck out to me.
"In the pay-per-page view model, every post is a conflict of interest."

Really frightening stuff.
> but they definitely seem to be underpaying in general

Interesting that you say that. I can't speak for US area, because I live in Europe. Looking at the Spain salary, which is about 110k seems pretty good to me.
Working as a senior frontend dev in my area (which has similar costs of living as Barcelona) gets you payed about 30-40% less than that.
Why??? Openess in work culture is great! Telling the whole world about how much each individual earn is a slap on their privacy... Just because you can, you shouldn’t. Be ready to welcome attrition.... Let me post the link of this page on each employee’s linkedin fb accounts...lol.. anything in the name of innovation.
> Large COL adjustments make no sense to me.

In the past I've been interviewed by several startups which when the point for salary negotiations came asked: "What do you _need_ to earn?". Somehow some companies (if not even most companies overall) seem to think that that's an acceptable line of thinking, and Buffer seems to be one of them. Their "dependent grant" seems to go into the same direction: "Oh you have a dependant? Then you naturally _need_ to earn more."
First, a paper written three weeks ago of an unproven currency is a bit of stretch.

Second, I didn't say it was necessary to order transactions, I said that is what it is used for, which is correct. You are replying to a point that I didn't make.
I agree this is an abysmal article.

A much much more rigorous proposal was put forward by an American mathematician several years ago regarding the geometry of trajectories of computer programs, which holds considerably more promise than whatever flimflam this author was going on about:

https://rd.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF00046564.pdf
This depends on knowing the intervals of that type and expecting them to not change.

Just trying to help. This code is entirely implementation specific.
Google actually made the first anticompetitive move against Amazon, but everyone forgot it, because Google is really good at PR.
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Lawyers are people too, they are just way better at playing the game than you or I.
Disclosure: I work for https://certsimple.com, we're a startup that focuses on making the EV verification process faster and less painful than other verification methods.

There's a few different reasons people use EV. Most are similar to verification on other platforms, eg AirBnB, Whatsapp, Facebook (Twitter is unique as that has additional requirements beying identity verification).

- You're a smaller company, handing sensitive information, and you want people to know there's a real legal entity behind the website they're giving it to. Eg fintech startups and new dating sites.

- You're a company that has resellers, counterfeiters or other non official sites and want to distinguish you're the actual brand. Typically fashion retail is the buggest demand here.

- You simply want to match a public key to a real world identity, just like any other cryptosystem, in the same way that the fields in the CSR were checked in the 90s, prior to GeoTrust inventing DV to save money in the early 2000s. Typical case here is a lot of old school sysadmins who dislike public keys that haven't actually been proven to be owned by anyone.

- Phishing.