skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
drugs involve physiological dependency and addiction, so the comparison seems like a stretch. consider that there aren't gang wars and other wild stuff going on (dealers on every corner) over banned substances like ephedrine, because there aren't strong secondary factors (addiction) propping up a significant demand to exploit.

as well, drugs are "the product" to a large semi-captured audience, but guns don't share this sort of situation. it's not clear that "illegal guns" and "illegal drugs" share much in terms of the market behavior.

most progressive drug reform isn't necessarily for legalized production and sale (perhaps it is for some libertarian progressives) - rather it's focused on decriminalizing most end-user behavior so they can both work with police without fear and have much improved access to help getting sober.
Hah, I had not thought to separate out social progressiveness from infrastructure progressiveness. That's a good point, they in no way have to go hand in hand.
Fair enough, when I tried to spend it with them I got pretty bad exchange rates so I stayed away. g2a accepts bitcoin and I saw more reasonable rates there.
well I presume that MS does not provide access to code to direct competitors. Which is OP’s concern- client is building ML team and so on and they ask access to code.

National agencies such as FBI are not threat to MS to become competitor, unlike OP’s client.
I dunno, man. I spent a few days working on building a house in the pouring rain, and it was better than the last 5 years I've been doing behind a computer. Only reason I didn't quit then and there is because I have financial obligations.
I disagree; most of the produce at Whole Foods is mass-produced organic food, which is in between the quality of megafarm produce and small-farm produce.
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Hi HN! I've 9 years of working experience as a full stack developer and this month I decided to take a step back to study zand try to get a remote job. The problem is that I can't showcase most of the jobs that I did and I didn't contribute to open source. How can I start to build a portfolio being unemployed, perfectionist (most of the time stuck at analysis paralysis) and not very good at english?
I filled out the paperwork (and they submitted it to my insurance which also knows my info), but I did not keep a copy of that. So I've no proof that would be admissible in court.
> Unfortunately, European politicians apply precautionary principle also to cases where an overwhelming majority of scientist think that, for example, GMO crops are safe.

What percentage of these scientists allow the general public to modify the DNA of their food however they want?
I can't think of any Google product that isn't dogfooded by Googlers, to be frank.
> It's not clear if they have information that caller ID doesn't - like whether they can track down spoofed calls. I'm not sure.

Yes and no. CID can be spoofed. But there's another ID (I want to say CNA, but not sure) that cannot.

VOIP is a different matter, but even there they can at least get to the originating provider (though they may not be in the US, and may have varying degrees of cooperation).
For companies interested in addressing licensing concerns before they balloon into real problems, FOSSA builds a platform which analyzes code and automates license disclosures and legal boilerplate: https://fossa.io/

Full disclosure: founder is a friend and all around great person.
Corps have to pay taxes on profit.
It sounds like they want to understand how an algorithm came to it's decision. If I were in your position, I would ask if rule extraction would satisfy their needs.
I don't see the need for integration testing as being an indication of poor design, I think it is just what happens to testing as you put together your well-understood abstractions to solve larger and more complex problems.

I think we are all agreed that the way to deal with complex problems is to break them down into smaller, independently-solvable problems. An inevitable consequence of this is that there will be at least one level of abstraction that is concerned with the interaction of little-problem solvers, and things can go wrong even if all the components are working as you think they should. Complex systems generally have emergent properties (that's what we make them for), and some of those emergent properties might be bugs.

In fact, the more you practice divide-and-conquer, the more your time will be spent on assembling units and dealing with the issues of their interaction, rather than in making them.

If some of the assemblages have broad applicability, we make them units - for example, we can use matrices to simplify a broad range of mathematical processes that would otherwise have to be done as a mass of bespoke scalar operations - but the integration testing must be done (at least once) before they can be used as units.

A system is never going to be abstract generalities all the way up, however. At some point, towards the top of your abstraction hierarchy, you will be solving a unique problem - using matrices in a control system for a specific vehicle, for example - and that is going to need integration testing.

Insofar as integration testing is a consequence of divide-and-conquer, we might say that the inability to create unit tests would be a symptom of poor design, as it would indicate that the system is not composed of self-contained elements having well-defined interfaces.
Multi platform/OS/browser password manager
The taking of a gTLD for private use simply to associate an entire generic concept with a single corporation is an abuse of the public's interest in top-level domains to be used to navigate resource on the world wide web.

The Chairman of ICANN said at the creation of gTLDs: "Today's decision will usher in a new internet age. We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration. Unless there is a good reason to restrain it, innovation should be allowed to run free."

Taking the entire ".DEV" TLD for a single corporation, as if Google is the only development corporation in the world, is not providing a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration. Potentially millions of users of this TLD no longer have the option.

I am not the only person who feels this way: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/13/google_developer_gt...

Google also tried to take ".BLOG", for sole use by its Blogger platform. Luckily they were outbid.

When Amazon proposed it taking the ".BOOK" TLD, publishers objected because, duh, this would be a hugely unfair attack on book publishers, sellers, and authors.

On top of the above, Google broke private use of the TLD for literally everyone who wasn't using TLS (and not just for domains Google registers in the TLD), but I'm sure lots of people simply don't care when Google does dick things, so nevermind that.

My position is that a corporation should not be able to stifle free and fair use of the internet. It's not about entitlement, it's about the fact that the internet is a global economic engine intended to be used by everyone, and not just exclusive corporations with money and influence.
huh. so i'm going to benefit from these tax changes.

interesting.
I think completely the opposite. The sooner we can stop depending on the user to behave a certain way so that we can be secure, the better.

We told users for years to look for a padlock and https in the address bar before entering passwords or credit card details to make sure it was encrypted. Now we have HSTS so that websites can enforce https without having to have the user manually check things and risk missing something. HSTS does not place a burden on the user, we took responsibility from the user and fixed the issue without having to involve them. That's exactly how we improve security.

Clicking links in emails is another prime example. We can try to teach the user as much as we like for as long as we like but ultimately there's almost 8 billion people on Earth, so yeah, good luck on that front! Instead we can enforce policies like SPF/DKIM/DMARC to ensure the sender is genuine, check the reputation of domains linked in the body and filter them, scan attachments for malicious content, prevent execution of scripts, remove administrative privileges from the user and countless other technical measures we can deploy without even having to speak to the user once.

Every time we have to ask the user to do something or to not do something, the technology has failed.
Charges to expired cards are not accepted.

Charges that are both flagged as recurring, and set up before expiry can be accepted.
> GMO crops are safe

My objections to GMO crops are more around an aversion to industrial scale farming, monocultures, corporate-controlled seed stocks, and ultimately authenticity in the food I eat - not the health effects of the food itself.

So I'll vote to oppose GMO crops, and I think it's right for politicians to reflect that opinion. Little to do with science, much more to do with the kind of life I want to live and the world I want to live in.
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In ML, that's a problem lots of people want to solve!
The irony is that in spite of its inferiority, because we were using other Amazon services like S3 for storage, it essentially "forces" us to use other Amazon services for everything else as well.
I have tests that do this :-) Well, not for an order, but with a sort-of-monolith sort-of-microservice system with email, dashboards, reporting, a JS SPA and a lambda/flask/zappa based API thats decoupled from the admin app, we want one live, round trip of all the data flowing and actions along the way... we can point it at staging, production, and I think dev (via docker-compose, but that part wasn't done last I worked on this). It relies on some special hard-coded/pre-setup accounts and stuff, but they're real, just marked as test related in their names so everyone knows not to touch them.
The fact that they had warships is pointless. We've seen companies today tank the global economy for no reason other than their own gambling fetish.

People died because of it. Entirely families were wiped out economically. People are dying from lack of preventative healthcare because corporations think it would be too expensive.

Corporations don't need literal guns to destroy lives.

The courts are bound by laws and their historical interpretation in the court. Judges, scholars, and lawmakers themselves say we need to change the laws. But the location of the goal posts are well known to power players, and how to succeed within.

You want free market competition, make them learn them again. We're stagnating because we have to mind the MBAs, and stay within the boundaries they've been told to maintain.

We've moved beyond open warfare. The damage is being done in different ways. Set aside your guns fetish; nukes mean that large scale resolution of differences through war is not tenable.

It's clear to me this conversation will not go much further. So I'm done with it. TTFN
Are you perhaps looking for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve ?
>>>2. Everyone who thought the price won't continue to exponentially increase was wrong

So far.

Want to bet on the price of bitcoin in 1/5/10/25/100 years?
The answer is no. I had huge enterprise customer do the same thing, asking lots of questions. We didn't tell them much but they were asking very detailed questions as to the how. They didn't follow through with the deal and released a competing product about a year later.

They were simply fishing us for answers on how to solve problems.
> Laws and/or customer requirement often require that data be kept onshore, of course.

Ah, I see. That's of course an important point.
with the notable exceptions of: software failures, adversarial exploits, malicious design, et al
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Nice to see the property work finally removed getClass hooks. I remember trying to remove those like 6 years ago, but I thought the breakage would be too big to even try. SpiderMonkey is in good hands!
North Carolina with the Duke Energy spills?
Earlier this year, tcc (re)gained the ability to compile gcc 4.7:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/ms...

This is an important result for activities such as Diverse Double-Compiling (a response to the Trusting Trust attack), and as part of the exciting work being done towards bootstrapping a modern Linux environment from source and a hex/assembly base:

http://bootstrappable.org/
I don't know about that - I can pick up a ESP8266 dev board for under $5 individually on mouser - I feel like I should be able to get that cost down significantly if I am building millions. I am not an expert in manufacturing at all but it seems like I should be able get a small enclosure and battery for under $1.50 in high enough quantities.
One thing I would note is that the individual employee might not be authorized to sign a legal document, such as "a non-compete and or a non-disclosure". My company informs us told to actively refuse to sign any legal documents (even at visitor check-in) -- we have a Legal team for that. All documents should be signed by Legal before I step on site.
I'm not sure what you mean here by external service, the solution you describe is just "build everything in house" which is possibly not reasonable.
Integration tests are meant to exercise your external dependencies, ie. Make sure that the external API you depend on still replies that 2+2=4 as it did before. Unit tests prove that your own code is behaving consistently, and integration tests prove that your external dependencies are still behaving the same too ... The point is to assure that nothing unexpected changed, it's not a direct measurement of the quality of the design.
In the video below, Tom Scott explains why paper ballots are intrinsically more secure than electronic voting. If you're reading this and don't think that electronic voting is a terrible idea, I urge you to spend the next eight minutes of your life watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Con: Voting systems not only require confidentiality, integrity and availability, citizens must have confidence in those properties. Very few people understand blockchain; it would be a mumbo-jumbo black box to almost everyone and invite suspicions of tampering, manipulation by politicians, and actual tampering.
Interestingly, Wyoming is actually the worst pick of any state that they could choose. As of 2013[0], it was second in the nation (New Jersey) in balance of payments with the federal government (give more than take). It was one of only two red states, along with North Dakota.
Per capita, it paid the most of any state in corporate taxes, 3rd most in estate taxes (behind CT and FL), and 2nd in excise taxes (ND).

[0] https://osc.state.ny.us/reports/budget/2015/fed_budget_fy201...

I can't find a more recent pre-compiled source, and too lazy to run the numbers myself. I doubt it has changed significantly enough to make the
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The ambiguity wasn't necessary in that election, politics made the ballots confusing and they can do the same thing with electronic ballots. And even with that ambiguity, a recount would have solved the issue. The Supreme Court decided that election by stopping the recount.
Sounds more like an administrative solution with a blockchain as a 3rd wheel. If we're going full administrative, could just PGP it, and limit the franchise to nerds.
You should consider showing how they change over time, since a lot of the personal deductions will be phased out.
Just curious, why do you censor "fucking" but not "bullshit" in the same sentence?
Check this out: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/ESP8266-ESP-12-ESP-12F-CH340...

$2.72 for a single programmable WiFi device, delivered for free. All you need after that is a cheap battery, button, and enclosure. The existence of the ESP8266 is changing the way I think about electronics.
I think this is more prevelant. VC/Angel/Series funding doesn’t get a great rep.

For serial entrepreneurs who just want to build, grow, and get out, leveraging someone else’s money to do so makes sense.

For first-time, or even veteran entrepreneurs, who want to maintain control and velocity of their business, taking outside capital might not yield the results you want.

If you can scrape funds together from yourself, family, and (contractually) from friends, do that. Then check with your city, state, and even federal resources for Small Business Administration loans. Then go to a bank and get a loan. Then, and only when all other avenues of funding have been exhausted, should you then consider getting those other funds. But YMMV, and if you just want to grow as quickly as possible, maybe you have a vetted business plan, maybe you just have an idea, if you need capital, seed funding will get you there, but caveat emptor.
Individuals can benefit from the same thing which harms the whole (and thus, the individual).
That link has nothing to do with what we're discussing here. The video is about active electronics. The article being discussed here is about variable reflection of RF signals based on pure mechanics and zero electronics.

The project discussed in this article is exactly like a mirror, but for RF. If you'd attach a mirror to a spring and had it rotated back and forth with a cog-like thing, you'd have built the exact same thing they're presenting here, except for light. You wouldn't want to call it "Li-Fi communication" just because the mirror can reflect the same frequencies Li-Fi devices use, though. Which is why calling this project a "Wi-Fi device" is wrong.
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I've thought of doing this for all the stuff kids need for school, plus our own keys etc.

Rather than "IoT" tags, I'm of the opinion that we should use dirt-cheap (a few ¢ each, rather than $10+ for a full "IoT tag") RFID tags, and have a reader that can be accessed by a phone over Bluetooth (or have a few permanently installed around the house). Just need to drive the cost of the readers down.
That was my experience. All my math degree ever did was mildly impress potential recruiters, but I had to learn how to code things unrelated to mathematics to get a job.

The only job I was able to get as a mathematician "outside" of academia was a brief stint teaching high school mathematics. Which was fun and I would do again if the pay were higher.
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You can also combine them with Yoga. I find it complements the other excises like running and cycling.
I was responding to a comment that stated that rural folks believe that they subsidize the cities by pointing out that belief was contrary to the reality (at least in the States; I don't know much about Canada's rural vs urban divisions, but I'd guess the dynamics there are similar).

As far as what I prefer: I have no issue subsidizing rural areas, within reason. I support everyone having access to basic infrastructure, healthcare, and education, regardless of where they live. Beyond that, there's no particular reason for government to provide incentives to live in one or the other; let the market sort that out.
I agree, Niklaus Wirth's compiler book is a good introduction to the topic.

To showcase Wirth's approach, I wrote a self hosted Oberon compiler for the JVM: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

The compiler can also be used to compile and run the source code of Oberon0 provided in the book, all you need is a JVM installed.
I think the point was to notice the continuum between completely fake stubs that only have enough "real" behavior to facilitate unit tests and a full-fledged production scenario. Integration tests are not the same as production, but they are much closer than unit tests. In integration tests as much is real as possible vs. unit tests where as little is real as possible.
Isn't this one of the big research areas in the ML space? ie explaining how a model made a decision. This is hard if you have the source code. Personally, I'd look into how to explain your model without giving away the secret sauce.
pick one project.

so you have an answer to what your doing now.

find one technically challenging part of it. do that. so you have something to ramble on about for a second or two about the project.

try for an interview. fail. do more stuff to your project. repeat until someone hires you.

don't talk about the business side of it when you interview.
being unemployed is the most easy way to build portfolio. i am employed and if i want to build a portfolio i just could't find any time at all.

you said u r a full stack developer.

simple pick 5 bleeding edge technology which u think u can figure out and build 5 simple applications, it can be anything website, app, github project... whatever that is presentable/ demoable to anyone. u can try to cover as many techniques in those 5 technologies slowly u can build more as u can...

if u would like to team up ... u can share ur email id with people here in case any wants to connect with u they can also join... as people here are always making one prototype or other.
Before smartphones the Japanese still had feature phones, and games with micropayments and gacha ("loot boxes") in them.

Btw you are talking with someone who worked in the games industry so unless you've got certain credible source to refute what I am mentioning here just concede the point.
Interesting. I think it could be argued that some small-ish amount could be paid for the brand. Developing relationships with buyers is not an insignificant part of ranching and farmers, and you could probably justify that as a 10k/year expense.

(Not a lawyer, not a tax preparer.)
"Mr. Weinstein’s final, failed round of manipulations shows how he operated for more than three decades: by trying to turn others into instruments or shields for his behavior, according to nearly 200 interviews, internal company records and previously undisclosed emails. Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way or reasons to stay silent. " [1]

Why would Time give platform to Weinstein’s business partner Tina Brown to declare herself an innocent victim.

How do you explain it?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/weinstein%E2%80%99s-co...
Trump announces Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
JsonTransform[1] by the same author made me giggle.

"Transforms JSON to JSON using JSON"

[1]:https://github.com/RussellSprouts/JsonTransform
Wait... you have written a "makeshift" graphics editor that can already use Photoshop plugins? I would love to hear more about that!
No, personal web pages have been replaced with Facebook accounts. Nobody wants or needs a website to show off photos and videos and personal updates anymore.
Isn't the logical question to ask "Why do you need to see how our algorithms make their decisions?" Surely if this is due to legal issues then they can point you to the relevant law?