skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably a very good move. At some point, the clever marketing behind "Keep America Beautiful" will lose its believability, and people will demand what the creators behind KAB have been trying to avoid: corporate responsibility for creating less wasteful products. What we have now, in the form of the recycling industry and its associated regulations, are an outsourcing of that responsibility to individual citizens, cities, and states.

Regulations in this area need to shift from recycling to sustainability.

"KAB downplayed industry's role in despoiling the earth, while relentlessly hammering home the message of each person's responsibility for the destruction of nature, one wrapper at a time. ....KAB was a pioneer in sowing confusion about the environmental impact of mass production and consumption."

Then in the 80s the industry faced another challenge; the landfill crises that led to recycling. Heather Rogers writes:

"All this eco-friendly activity put business and manufacturers on the defensive. With landfill space shrinking, new incinerators ruled out, water dumping long ago outlawed and the public becoming more environmentally aware by the hour, the solutions to the garbage disposal problem were narrowing. Looking forward, manufacturers must have perceived their range of options as truly horrifying: bans on certain materials and industrial processes; production controls; minimum standards for product durability."

"In essence, Keep America Beautiful managed to shift the entire debate about America’s garbage problem. No longer was the focus on regulating production—for instance, requiring can and bottle makers to use refillable containers, which are vastly less profitable. Instead, the “litterbug” became the real villain, and KAB supported fines and jail time for people who carelessly tossed out their trash, despite the fact that, clearly, “littering” is a relatively tiny part of the garbage problem in this country (not to mention the resource damage and pollution that comes with manufacturing ever more junk in the first place). Environmental groups that worked with KAB early on didn’t realize what was happening until years later."

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/recycl...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-lit...
I'd implied the same from the general player skill level. It's nice to play against people who are just as bad as me for a change!
That reasoning is a pretty substantial part of why i don't want children. Then there's this lot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Mov...
You could implement the Bitcoin protocol in Ethereum, and the Ethereum protocol, practically speaking, does everything the Bitcoin protocol does plus a bunch of other things. That's what I mean when I say "subset".
Maybe that is a consumer-protection thing that doesn't extend to commercial entities?
It is a red flag to not have social media
Absolutely, I like the way you put it.
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Perhaps. Yet the other things he points out can't be explained away so easily, so the point stands.
That's a good point. Given the choice, I definitely would work with someone who's more pleasant to interact with. But my definition of "pleasant" in a professional environment is far away from my definition of "pleasant to have a beer with".

Like you can be a very friendly, chill, and fun person, but if professionally you keep overpromising, not own to your mistakes, pretend you know something when you don't (which could make you look cool outside of work but a pain at work), and other negative traits discussed in the paper, then I would avoid interact because you're not work-pleasant.
The top linked answer blames lack of effective copyright enforcement, but I think that the availability of rivalrous homegrown porn is at least as significant. High quality video cameras are now built into millions of phones. The performers don't require scripts, crew, or payment to appear in videos. The product doesn't need localization for global consumption -- French movies are fine for US audiences even without dubbing or subtitles.

This is in contrast to theatrical movies, where Joe Rando's video clips of him and his girlfriend are very rarely an effective substitute for a scripted production with paid actors. Even with hypothetical perfect copyright enforcement on all pornography containing professional actors, the deluge of free amateur content would have dramatically eroded movie pricing by now.
So you don't think that a comment thread like this one is a context where MLA guidelines would yield the most reasonable interpretation of what someone is saying?
Maybe the JS Comcast is injecting that says you need a new modem is having an adverse effect, or maybe you just need a new modem. /s
Just checked - the battery exchange program for (certain) iPhone 6s is still ongoing as of today. Will certainly do the exchange now!
One gotcha (for me) with BSD is that I'm developing on Golang. It doesn't really debug well on anything other than Linux... so had to move to that for development.

... and for deployment, the Golang debugger doesn't even run on BSD at this point. So, going to have to setup new Linux (likely CentOS 6 - no systemd - or 7) boxes soon now that we're getting closer to first initial real world deployment for the project I'm on.
Do you have evidence that their crime rate is qualitatively different in a significant manner from the "official rates"?

There's always stories but personally I've found that there's a fetish for "actually Japan is secretly falling apart" that never really aligns with reality, or is usually more indicative of the person's lack of experience with other countries.
Maybe in clownworld.
youth, gullibility, and the desire to please
This is not (just) for fun: "But things have changed since then, as a group at UPenn (mostly Antal Spector-Zabusky, Stephanie Weirich and myself) has created hs-to-coq: a translator from Haskell to the theorem prover Coq."

I agree that haskell should be used more, at least if the alternative is one of the main stream languages.
You could argue that all are capitalists, it's just that some of us only own significant capital in the form of our own bodies and minds. My point is just that the game is very different if the 'means of production' you control are something other than your own body and mind.

It is only possible for us all to be capitalists (in the sense that is meaningful to me - that your income comes from the return on capital) in a world where the work is done by robots, or by people do the work for fun or adventure... because, you see, someone needs to do the actual work that keeps things running.
Yeah dude... what? How is it a red flag?
This really hits home for me. I spent a year in northern Japan when I was a college student and of course I was just as oblivious as this guy was, just thinking how nice it was that the service was so great everywhere. When I go back now, with more understanding of what it takes to produce that, well, I feel a lot more conflicted, let's say.
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Great game, would be nice to be able to switch off controllers though - when I bumped into my G29 it immediately registered and I had to start steering :)
Here's a list of several hundred(!) games in the IO format: http://iogames.space/
He's at Tesla after being at AMD and Apple, I don't think he was ever at nvidia.
This is fantastic fun.
What is LIME?
Launch of Bitcoin futures trading crashes CBOE site
It is?

I have no social media accounts at all and never have. I thought the very idea of facebook was creepy when it launched and I've not changed my mind since.

Who will I be flagged by?
This is fantastically written, but I hesitate to upvote it out of fear it will increase public support for forcible income redistribution and other forms of centralization.

On the subject of Japan: people overestimate its wealth. It industrialized much more recently than the West, and even pre-industrialization, was behind economically and technologically. What the society has accomplished in such a short period of time is impressive, but looking at its buildings it's clear that it still trails the West in capital concentration.

In any case, there's more to a society than wealth. The orderliness and safety of Japanese society makes for a standard of living that is much higher than it otherwise would be. There are a lot of intangible and hard to quantify benefits to feeling safe in person and property when outside your home at any time of day or night.
> There's no longer any "referee" to bribe? The fans get to vote on the winner in a free market?

Bzzt.

People end up dead.

In the case of Big Pharma, it is a fitting analogy.

> There is essentially zero drug development in Canada. Have you ever wondered why that might be? Do you think it might be a problem (for Canada) if the same policies were applied in the U.S.?

So you are suggesting that Canada doesn't participate in drug research? Or are you suggesting that government monitored pricing prevents Martin Shkreli types from making mega purchasing rights to drugs they had nothing to do with to inflate the pricing and profit so they can spend two million dollars on important Wu-Tang (?) album research?

Not sure which sort of statement you are hinting at.
> Derivatives are legalized gambling.

I don't agree with you. There is a different utility to commodity futures, for example, than to bets on horse races or blackjack games. Derivatives allow tailored hedging of real-world risks. The regulatory stipulations are different, especially for dealers, and there is a far larger opportunity for people with predictive skills in the derivatives market.

> And this wasn’t manipulation, just two parties doing their fiduciary duties.

By this logic, any profit from market manipulation would be justified because it generates a return for investors. Yet the reason these behaviors are prohibited is because they make the market worse for everyone, arguably including the long-run returns of those very same investors. "Is it beneficial to my investors" is a very poor test to answer the question, "is it manipulation?".
The advertisement on TV is heavily regulated, I hope we'll get the same thing on the internet before it's too late and a whole generation has lost its attention capacity.

Governments have a huge work to do in order to analyze what could be harmful and what is ok, and pass law about it.
Median income is a terrible indicator of poverty. Median income is guaranteed to be skewed high, since there is no maximum income, but there is a minimum income of $0. GDP per capita is even worse, Qatar has the highest GDP per capita in the world, but has construction workers that are practically slaves earning $1 per hour.

Poverty rate is notoriously hard to measure. You can't look at GDP per capita, even GDP(PPP) per capita doesn't give a good measure.

Going by the OECD's official numbers, the USA has the third highest poverty rate, behind Costa Rica and Israel. It has a higher poverty rate than Mexico.

Australia, with the highest minimum wage and fourth highest median income (PPP) in the world, has a higher poverty rate than the Czech Republic.

I would not classify the USA has having extremely high incomes. The income disparity in the USA is phenomenal. Not to mention that income is not the only measure of quality of life, or even a measure of disposable income, especially when you have to shell out thousands of dollars per year in health insurance premiums.
I think it’s funny you’re approaching your data cap and they add 400 lines to the size of each web page you visit. I hope pages they tamper with are subtracted from your cap.

This is exactly why Comcast is still the most hated company in America [1], and the only reason you have any customers is due to the monopoly deals of dubious legality you or your acquisitions bribed local officials to create back during the infancy of cable. We hate you, but we don’t have any choice.

It’s worth noting that government regulation created Comcast by allowing long-term monopoly contracts with municipalities. Remove the regulations which prevent competition in local internet and TV services; don’t add more regulations.

[1]: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-most-hated-companies-110032495.html
I don't know what to tell you if you're convinced that's the problem. I know and work with many web developers who do care about performance. I follow the blogs of many web developers who write about performance.

I don't doubt that there are junior web developers who don't know much better. But I don't really meet anyone who says that they just don't care about performance.
regional monopolies have never cared about scummy behavior.
> The point is, we will need to figure out how to keep society going (economically, or specifically from a population welfare point of view) despite declining populations.

Nobody has that figured out. For now the answer for developed countries involves allowing in immigrants to make up for the deaths.
I dislike Zuckerberg more and more everyday. What a piece of work that guy is, hiding the reality of FB behind his self-righteous mission of connecting the world while selling you to advertisers and fragmenting your attention and happiness potential.
I think the current Bitcoin hype cycle is ultimately going to be damaging to the future of the sector as a whole. Bitcoin's capability to actually be used as it was supposed to be is currently a terrible joke, and thousands of people who couldn't grasp the most basic concepts about it even if they tried are throwing large amounts of money at something they don't understand at all. The current state of Bitcoin tech is so far behind what the hype would have you believe.

The number of posts from people who delusionally believe Bitcoin is a sure thing, "safer than a savings account", and has nowhere to go but up has increased exponentially in recent weeks.. along with posts from people taking out loans to "invest".

That's going to leave a bad taste in the mouths of many new 'adopters' (speculators) when the rate of incoming greater fools slows down and the market takes a massive downturn.

This won't end well.
One thing that gets me in the US: the homeless. For some of them it feels like they are literally dying on the street (in a very non-metaphoric sense: I saw some injuries).

Also entrepreneurial homeless people, actually trying to earn money by making themselves useful however hard that may prove. That's something I never saw in central Europe -- where I think someone like that wouldn't ended up in the street.

The safety net in the US is non-existent, and that seems pretty much primitive to me.

That being said, yes of course third world countries are worse, as far as the average or median of the population is concerned. But frankly, I'm not sure if I would rather be a normal citizen in a third world country, or fall on hard times in the US.
It was the great hope early on, but it turned out to be impractical to implement.
You can shoot them a message on the ISA mailing list: https://riscv.org/mailing-lists/ .
According to the article, yes, that would be sufficient for retail chips.
A house you can live in now is worth more than one you can live in in 30 years, and any consideration of interest that doesn't also consider inflation will produce a distorted picture.
Yep, they even released a study based on the data they collected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831574
Sure, they are pretty useless in a function. But that doesn't mean that the author can go and use incorrect language. :P
I suppose, but a lot of people visit Japan and imagine they've just seen what perfect social harmony looks like.
Up one level of abstraction as a substitute for learning anything difficult
> I picked this number because it's what I paid yesterday

right, so you got unlucky and now you're sad, i get it. just don't start misrepresenting what's actually happening.

> the rest

there is plenty written on both scaling and checkpointing/snapshotting, seems you've picked your side, don't see the point spending my sunday evening convincing you of anything. time will tell.
The MPAA also has a lot less content to defend. How many theatrical releases are there a year? Now how many porn videos are released a year? I'm pretty sure the difference is orders of magnitude. This is without taking into account how much budget is behind enforcing.

Finally, it seems like there is more money in free porn than there is in free movies. This then means more incentive to keep operations going and more means to achieve that.
Some coins do sharding by not using a blockchain at all. e.g. RaiBlocks [1] uses a "block-lattice" approach. It is a Proof-of-stake-secured coin.

[1] https://raiblocks.net/media/RaiBlocks_Whitepaper.pdf
No, it extends to anyone, it's part of copyright law in the US. I'm confused thinking of how it applies to software licenses though. I guess software licenses are not a purchase of an object, but a _license_ to use it. (And of course it's not open source that pioneered this legal application). The first sale doctrine lets you, for instance, resell a book you buy -- it doesn't let you print more books. It's unclear and confusing to me how it applies to what's being discussed too. Probably who knows what a judge/jury would do.
That part just requires looking at the TCP header. So I guess the answer is "no deep packet inspection until it picks a connection to inject, and then it inspects everything in that connection". Which simplifies to "yes deep packet inspection".
> What people in the US admire about Japanese culture is their attitude to the work they’ve got to do to survive. It’s not like folks in the US don’t have to work to eat. But if you’ve ever been in an airport security line in both places you can tell the difference.

Well, yeah, they like that because they're the customers and not the workers who have to make it happen. I guarantee you those same Americans would not like to work in a typical Japanese work environment.
I really like to use project euler when I want to learn a new language. Exercises are sorted more or less by difficulty, at least for the first 50-100, and are completely langage agnostic (you just need to answer a question in a text input).

It's also very good to learn algorithm and maths. Some problems can even be solved without any programming. And for some, a certain amount of math is necessary to have a efficient solution to the problem.

Ps: you can find the first 50 problems in french here : https://www.lucaswillems.com/fr/articles/19/project-euler-tr...
CBOE exchange website down minutes after releasing Bitcoin futures
Yet, do many people use the standalone Shazam app, rather than the Siri integration?
> What’s the real need here? Old buddies you barely know of? Let them go.

I really like this attitude (not being sarcastic). People seem to think Facebook is a great way to keep in touch. I think it's a great way to waste your time, and slowly devalue your relationships.
Now that we're coming back up the other side of the uncanny valley, we might still see a diminishing of human actors. Given that VR/AR is supposed to be about immersion, it is going to be hard for human actors to provide this.
Part of me thinks the the anti-Facebook media sentiment is because Facebook replaced newspapers/magazines as the highly profitable media aggregator. Old media struggles for relevance and lashes out at Facebook, the new winner.

Facebook makes fantastic communications tool and gives them away for a whopping $0. I love staying aware of what's going on with my grandparents, old classmates, friends, and family, AND not having to directly pay money for this.

I would love to hear other perspectives.

EDIT: Downvote away, but my point is that people pick on Facebook for privacy concerns but we all know it's an advertising company (probably the best the world has ever seen). It also operates the best communications tools the world has ever seen and it doesn't get enough credit for that. In 2006, the News Feed was publicly bemoaned because of privacy issues and it's now the core product. Facebook has built great tools over time, even when people didn't initially agree. Not trying to incite anger, just pushing toward a debate.
Typing `<script>alert(0)</script>` into the chat box shows the injection hazard.

In fact this is caused by using jQuery, which (inexcusably) runs embedded scripts when adding HTML to the page. The simplest solution to this entire class of bugs is simply to not use jQuery and use the better-designed DOM methods instead, which is probably a more modern approach anyway.

Using innerHTML would solve the script injection, but you probably want to use innerText or createTextNode instead, since supporting HTML tags in a basic chat app seems more bug than feature.

The server side should be safe already as it looks like there’s no persistence.
In a procedural language:

x == 3 means:
Take the value out of the box x. Is it 3?

x = 3 means:
x is a box, put 3 in it.
The 3 lasts forever, or until someone changes it.

In a functional language:

x = 3 means:
Take the value out of box x. Is it 3?

let x = 3
in [...] means:
x is a box, put a 3 in it.
The 3 lasts for only the [...], but cannot be undone.
Here is why working on your programming pet projects shouldn't become a metric.

The Japanese bullet train was redesigned by observing how nature works: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/11/9/16628106/biomimicry-des...

"A moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu changed all that."

Nakatsu did not become a birdwatcher to become a great engineer. So if you want to become a great engineer you follow what you want to do with your free time.

Also, I think people put too much emphasis on the degree of technicality over humanism. A unethical technical genius is not a great software engineer because there is no art in the engineering work. Great architects, chefs, and musicians view their work as arts with thoughts.
I personally consider "active and/or daily Facebook/social media use" (e.g. mindless scrolling as escapism, intense FOMO fueling continued use, or a desire to uphold sense of identity) a red flag. to each their own.
There’s a quote in the back of my head which my google-fu has failed to find a source for, but is probably a rephrase of George E. P. Box.

“Everything you know is wrong, but some of it is useful for approximation.”
`var` still works everywhere, right?
- Attention! Installing cmus-osx will prevent you from opening iTunes until it is uninstalled!

This sounds like reason enough to install...
I'm skeptical. Machine learning algorithms are only as good as the training data you can provide them. There are lots of tools in genetic analysis you can use to try to understand function of some sequence (e.g. looking at conservation or homology). I don't see where deep learning would provide new value on top of hand-built statistical models that are already in use. (Geneticists have known about machine learning for a long time...)

Obligatory reference: https://xkcd.com/1831
Maybe not "one bombing campaign," but it does seem like the Iraq War has cost more than SNAP over the same time period:

> SNAP benefits cost $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016 and supplied roughly 44.2 million Americans (14% of the population[2]) with an average of $125.51 for each person per month in food assistance.

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

> NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary/iraq...
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