skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What sort of evidence would you consider dispositive?
> There are so many good ideas and existing uses of IoT tech

Could you give some examples? I've yet to hear a single IoT thing I'd be willing to pay money for.
Tweetnacl (http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/) would be a good candidate for porting to Rust, since it's very small. Others have done it successfully in other languages: https://github.com/dchest/tweetnacl-js

Someone has given it an attempt: https://github.com/jmesmon/sodalite But the port doesn't seem to be too mature yet.

(Edit: For those not aware, Libsodium is based on a portable rewrite of NaCl.)
A simple theory of Moore’s Law and social media
> Anyone putting their money in IOTA is an absolute idiot.

I bought in when it was trading well under $1. I'm holding long term so I don't much care about today's price, but it _is_ nice to be up >700% so far.

I don't consider myself an absolute idiot on this one.
The Civil War was, essentially, fought to preserve the institution of slavery. The period after the Civil War was marked by incredible violence against blacks by the KKK and racist whites and white mobs.

Blacks protected themselves, their families and their communities through armed resistance. They could finally "shoot back". In fact, some of the earliest gun control measures were taken up TO KEEP GUNS AWAY FROM BLACKS, so that they could not resist against the atrocities of slavery.

It isn't talked about because white liberal academic elites are so hostile to guns, but armed resistance and guns were a central part of the civil rights movement.

Recommended reading for you:

We Will Shoot Back - Umoja

Negros With Guns - Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., Truman Nelson

Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms - Johnson
> Nobody, or next-to-nobody, would want to have that.

Hi, I'm your nobody. I'm constantly running out of soap and shampoo and other trivial home goods because I always forget that I need them until the moment I get back home. Why wouldn't I want a feature like that?
Prediction for the future of tech: Open by default
Teacher-based metrics in schools turn out to have extreme variance.

In cases where the same teacher was subject to multiple assessments (there's a Math Nerd writing for Bloomberg who presented this, I think at TED), there was no correlation between the multiple measurements.

Straight-up noise.

Cathy O'Neil, "MathBabe", "Algorithms are Opinions in Code".

Starting at 2m22s here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2u_eHHzRto
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What is 'better' in this context?

Loving everything new simply by virtue of it being new?
That only reports base salary, making it worse than useless.
> If I mute the TV and go to the bathroom while the commercials play, am I stealing? If I read a magazine and flip past the ads, am I stealing? If I change the channel on the radio on a commercial break, am I stealing?

I think everyone can agree that adblockers go far beyond these examples you listed. Adblockers are an automated, shareable process.

> But never before has a media existed where someone could force you to look at advertising against your will.

Last time I checked nothing is stopping you from muting your computer and going to the bathroom during ads. Like I said, you just want your cake and eat it too. If you block ads on my website and I detect it, It's fully within my rights to blacklist you for stealing.
It's also very ironic if you think that in the bitcoin based economy you have to pay more than half of your groceries cost to the transaction itself. Bitcoin is inferior, it is for speculators, no longer for the idealists I count myself among.

Yesterday I wanted to install bitcoin core... the blockchain is 153 GB and will eat CPU for days to validate everything. It's crazy. If I look at my early transaction history, I transferred mere euros around and they arrived and were confirmed in seconds/minutes. Unthinkable now. We need something else.
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You're avoiding my point. But that's ok.
Try https://github.com/antirez/disque. Written by the same guy behind Redis.

> Is Redis a one-man show? (plus contributors)

Well, yes, started by one man, and he continues to lead it, with many contributions from the community.

Update: I fixed the wrong URL.
I find wifi lightbulbs very useful.
Amazon Prime Video arrives on Apple TV in over 100 countries
Another one is https://www.sqlteaching.com/
I don't think go is interpreted in the way python is
Surely you wouldn't hash a car?
I have to wonder if they've ever run into 'call me when your formula matches my number' (in nicer / more convoluted words). In that case a simple transparent table would save them a lot of time and blog posts.
> I've read about it and I'm still waiting for the definitive proof that his denials about sexual misconduct are false. Although, I understand the standard of proof required for the court of popular opinion is much lower than an actual legal court.

The standard required in an actual legal court for anything other than a criminal conviction is much lower than what you demand, and even the criminal burden of proof is singificanrtly lower, as “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a far cry from “definitive proof that denials are wrong”.

Ironically, the standard you demand is exactly the standard many people apply in the court of public opinion for rejecting their priors, especially when those priors are tribal (e.g., political partisan) identity markers, like “the guy on my team is virtuous”.
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That's not because of the cement but the geology of Pittsburgh itself. Limestone bedrock and the "underground river" contributes to potholes and other geologic anomalies. If anything, adding bioswales and having a way to put the water back into the ground would stop the potholes from happening in the first place.
Just yesterday, it occurred to me that an IoT thermostat would be nice (if and only if it doesn't mean that a server failure results in me freezing). Right now, I have the choice of heating the house all day (thus wasting heat = energy = money while I'm not home), or coming back to a cold house, turning up the thermostat and then having to wait 1-2 hours until the room is pleasantly warm. (My apartment is understaffed in the heater department and I cannot change that easily since I'm renting.)
nice try IOTA
Good to see Google finally doing this. Amazon anti competitive behavior had to be checked. Amazon banned Chromecast and Apple TV from their marketplace 2 years ago. That day Google and Apple should have removed Amazon app from their stores.

Google created the Chromecast and within a year added YouTube to the Roku. Versus a couple weeks ago Amazon pulled Twitch from the Roku.

Hope this straightens out Amazon. Big Amazon customer and fan of the company but their behavior is just awful and so unnessary as they won ecommerce and cloud.
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Intent to Ship: Web Authentication (Firefox)
That's a great interview. I didn't know anything about Tina Brown before, and I like hearing her voice in it.

Maybe you're being downvoted for somewhat over-the-top criticism? It's easy to criticize successful, energetic people -- they're always making mistakes and often learning from them too. But it comes across as jealous and petty.
> why doesn't this happen anywhere else

I think this is a misguided perception:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jun/...

https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from...

But anyway, thanks for the thoughtful conversation!
and the rest of the world just source their content via explicit means. Because they find their time more valuable then a "legal grey area"/"moral high ground"/"doing what is right".
I'd argue D is better than all of those in some ways.

D development is lively and active. I enjoy the language, and I plan to keep using it as long as I keep enjoying it.
For mine the Wifi was always gated but ethernet ports were open.
This doesn't seem new, or confined to sexual harrasment and assault allegations.

So while it's concerning, and I'd like to see it fixed, it's kind of orthogonal to this particular issue, and affects e.g. climate change, the impacts of the tax bill, the healthcare discussion and so on.
Don’t have any blue ray reader or DVD drive. I went entirely streaming two years ago.
> In the same time it costs you to boot up notepad.exe and create a HTML wireframe, create-react-app/electron/etc has already set up an application that is modular, knows dependencies and resources, is debuggable, can hot reload, etc. The time you would spend to get this manually ... it wouldn't even be fair to compare.

Most of the times you don't need any of those things, you don't need modularization, you don't need a dependency manager, you don't need a debuggable version (because you are working on plain versions without minifies or module bundlers that compress your code), you don't need hot-reload (because you aren't using a transpiler/compiler-to-js), you don't need the hot-and-untested framework, sometimes you don't even need a source control.

The big difference between that and going from scratch is that you choose what you want based on your needs not because everyone or a framework tells you "this is the right path", current state of web development increases "lego developers" to rise and shine like if they were expert.
Coming from someone who's not very familiar with classical music and who signed up to start getting into it...

Why am I forced to 'star' 5 composers and 5 works upon registration? I recognized a most of the top ~10 composers but I'm sure most people will just click the top 5 and move on which really defeats the purpose doesn't it?

And then once I'm at the homepage, I don't immediately see where I can review / change my stars.
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Poor choice of a passing fad. Next year the runner ups Presidents Trump and Xi will be far more influential.
You seem to be a pretty big bitcoin fan (all your other comments), so I would say it is fair that you may be slightly biased against IOTA.

IOTA does not proclaim to be finished, it is still in beta. Hence the need for the coordinator. The coordinator will be turned off once there are enough transactions to secure the network.
In a Global First, Shenzhen Aims to 100% Electrify Its Bus Fleet by End 2017
This is really just a form of passive radar. It's using ambient signals instead of an active beam, but the analysis techniques used are essentially equivalent. It's like stealth technology in reverse. You are intentionally creating a recognizable radar signature.
Really cool story, but he never mentioned where he got the fake reviews that propelled him to #1 in the first place. There was one mention of the original “celebrity” endorsement, but what about all the reviews thereafter? Where did those come from?
The only thing the blockchain is certifying here is that you're buying a real product and not a counterfeit, which can be very dangerous for medicine or food.

But of course it doesn't protect you if the real product has been tampered with.
Some people think it's evolved and some don't, but that's a very good reason to get the Government out of the business of regulating what is a marriage and what isn't - otherwise you're forcing one social group's beliefs on another group.

My getting married - according to my definition of married - doesn't affect you in any way, shape, or form, so why would the Government prevent me from doing so?
Wow, this is really terrible. This looks like a PR explanation for why they're slashing everyone's salaries. A cursory glance shows everyone either staying the same or dropping.

> One of the toughest decisions we made with the new formula was to remove the annual 3% loyalty increase given to teammates for each anniversary from their start date.

> We looked at a lot of options and in the end decided to remove it as it created an unsustainable, compounding affect on pay.

3% is at or just above inflation. If you can't afford to give these raises, you will see severe wage stagnation and, hopefully, a mass exodus of employees elsewhere.
This one is on Amazon not Google. Amazon anti competitive behavior had to be stopped. Amazon has now pulled Twitch from the Roku.
Both the Russians and Chinese had big civil wars in which the governments you mention eventually came into power. The question of armed resistance isn’t a hypothetical. It was tried and it failed.

The notion of gun rights as essential to defending against tyranny is inherently self-defeating. If all it takes to defeat gun owners is passing some laws making them illegal, won’t a tyrant do that before they start with other forms of oppression? If gun control works, tyrants will use it too. If it doesn’t then you don’t have to worry about it.
I really like how D combines these two. The functional programming tools are a lot easier to use than C++ and a lot more practical than Haskell or OCaml. I absolutely adore the idea of purity in D: no side effects. That's all it should be, really. What this means is that it allows you to write pure functions in dirty, imperative ways as long as all the mutation is confined to the function and doesn't leak out.

I really like it.
Timed thermostats would probably get you 90% of the way there.
Trump probably won, but pissed off the selecrion committee last minute.
To be fair, there's no way for the website to know you already have Chrome installed. The annoying popup is just bad UX.
This is BS .. where is the full text?
Have you anything more substantial as proof than your word for it?
It's a matter of degree: non-transparent salary "formulas" (to the extent that they are at all formulaic and not just based on random stuff like negotiation) tend to be much, much more convoluted and inconsistent than this.
> 6 large companies who do not want competition

I don't think we are disagreeing, but if we're being pedantic and frame the discussion to axiomatically state that, by definition,

1) business firms value profit over people

we should also pose that

2) large companies do not want competition

continuing,

3, .., 98) the human condition, etc

finally,

99a) arseholes

99b) and why we can't have nice things

because, defending that "businesses value profit over people" as a fact of life instead of, well, fighting it as something undesirable (like stealing, mass murder or poisoning a town's water supply), kind of sounds to me like a lot of twisting and turning because deep down you really want to retain the option to value profit over people, for yourself, your own business, because surely you can be trusted to responsibly mind your own business unlike everybody else who believes the exact same thing and on that note I refer back to my earlier points 3 up to and including 99b.
Here's a simple solution: next time you buy soap, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc, buy two of them and put the one you're not using in a closet.
Anyone that finds this interest should look at how “The Thing” (1945) worked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

EDIT: Here are some diagrams of how it works:

https://hackaday.com/2015/12/08/theremins-bug/
How about just pay them to the value they bring? Why did location ever play a part?

If the dev works on a rarely used admin app, surprise, you pay them lower.
Li-Ion Battery Pack Cost for EV's Fell 24% in 2017 – To $209 per KWh
What's an advocate in this context? It's their biggest department, bigger than marketing?
This is total nonsense. Complete FUD.

The coordinator is not a 'masternode', and it is not a 'single point of failure'.

For ex: The coo was shutdown a month or so ago and -> Txs still were being processed, and some being confirmed.

The coo just literally makes an array for tip selection, for helping bootstrap the network. The COO will also be opensourced soon anyways, and ontop of that, it will be removed at some point. (It is 100% optional for a fullnode to even listen to the coo giving the array for tip selection purposes anyways), you can run your node without use of the coordinator.

So your post is actually a complete joke, massive FUD, and disinformation.

The crypto being rolled, is actually being reviewed by cryptographers, and also it is being evolved and optimized/perfected by Artificial Intelligence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/70ya29/time_for_a_par...

Let that sink in.
The antenna is made of a conductive plastic.
I think a good idea would be for the brands to "sign" each product they're selling, so that you could verify the signature in a very simple way (scanning a qr code? ).

I think the blockchain is not really necessary here, and it solves a problem that's not very likely to happen (someone hacking the pharmaceutical's database to remove evidence of tampering).
Amazon is at fault here not Google. Amazon has now pulled Twitch from the Roku. Hopefully Google can stop Amazon anti competitive behavior. Heck Google created the Chromecast and then added YouTube support to the Roku.
You get timer-based units that reduce the temperature at night (optionally also when you are at work). They cover a good chunk of the usecase and will give good amounts of savings. No Internet, mobile app or machine learning needed.
Virtual Voting in hashgraph requires a 2/3 agreement.

Of course PoW provides some protection against sybil attacks, but the reality is that with enough hashpower the network can be overtaken. (Hence why HashGraph is a closed network.)
This may surprise you, but this is just a dumb arbitrary thing one magazine picks every year in an effort to sell more advertising. It doesn't actually have any constraints.
I'm not equating anything with anything, you are. I'm just saying that banning guns doesn't solve the violence problem - it just makes it less politically sensitive, since guns can be used from a distance and invoke all kinds of militaristic responses - whereas grandma's kitchen knife is a 'nice' kind of weapon, since .. you know .. its harder to kill masses of people with it.

But the crime still rolls on, regardless. Knives don't kill people - violent maniacs kill people. They also injure, maim, disfigure and disable people.

And the UK is no good at dealing with insane maniacs, just because they banned guns.

I'd much rather defend myself with a gun against a knife-wielding maniac than, you know .. get my shit all cut up to hell.
Succeed in business?  Meditate you must
I love seeing that GPL license. Nobody can try to pull an Apple with the OS stealing valuable momentum and userbase. Whether you approve or not of such behavior, it's pretty unambiguous that it happens.
That is true. In many countries, there have been efforts to create a "software engineering" profession, mostly motivated by the desire to elevate software development to the level of a profession, with the attendant standards, professional accountability and governing body.

However, this has been fraught with problems, because software engineering differs from physical engineering in fundamental ways and many people have realized that applying physical engineering principles to software leads one to commit an fundamental error in paradigm.

At a basic level, software is a procedural epistemology that manipulates ideas that do not necessarily have to correspond to physical objects. It doesn't mean that physical principles cannot be applied to a subset of the software development process.

However, there are usually better ways to achieve ends in software if one is not constrained by paradigms adopted from the physical world. Even paradigms that are natives to the virtual world (like mathematics -> category theory, functional programming) have not gained the kind of widespread acceptance that one would think they ought to.
It takes quite a good dev to generate 50K more valuable than another dev in another area. There are cases where that is true, but it's not universally true. In this particular case, there's a baked-in assumption that a beginner dev in SF is worth more than a senior dev in a low-cost area.
> How would you define a function that accepts/returns FancyDataStructure of any type or only of a type that has X embedded?

I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mean that it accepts any type known at compile time, then you use the code generator (we're talking about a function template, after all). If you want this to work with any type known at runtime, then use Go's interface since you need the vtable.

> BTW type erasure isn't necessarily a bad thing when the compiler can prove the code is correct at compile time.

Sure, though I'm not sure what the performance implications -- and while I can think of some counter-examples were this wouldn't be the case, in most cases the impact would probably negative.
Programmable thermostats have existed for a long time and it's easy to find internet enabled ones these days.

The problem is that you're renting so you can't do any cool home automation stuff.
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This story just gets weirder and weirder.
Yes, but that still doesn't mitigate the rapid freeze/thaw effects on the concrete/asphalt that the City of Pittsburgh uses.
Are you kidding? We are living in an age where unless you are a 'victim', you're not that interesting to society. It's not that brave to "come forward" years after someone touched your knee now that it's suddenly socially celebrated to do so.

Look at TV talent shows! No one gives a damn about your talent unless you have a decent sob story. Got cancer? Disabled? Gay? Orphan?
It's really interesting ReactOS can run both Chrome and Firefox. The latest versions of these browsers do not run on any old Windows: Chrome has required at least Windows 7 since version 50 (April 2016) and Firefox has required this since version 53 (April 2017) - although Firefox 52 ESR is still supported until May 2018.

Although I don't follow ReactOS, I thought they were working on supporting older Windows (Wikipedia says they try to run on Windows Server 2003 drivers). So does this mean they are catching up so fast to newer Windows versions or are we in fact seeing (very) old browsers in these screenshots?
It was an explicit compromise that was added in order to pass the original national background check legislation. A loophole is generally something unintended which this was not.
"The CBS News 2017 Alabama poll is conducted by YouGov using a representative sample of 1,067 registered voters in Alabama between November 28–December 1, 2017. The margin of error based upon the entire sample is 3.8 percent and for likely voters is 4.8 percent."

This is a poll done by a standard polling company. You seem to be mischaracterising how they are done and, two comments up the chain, you attack even professional polls based on their performance in the last presidential election, where they were very accurate in predicting the popular vote.
I agree that a church should not be broadly exempt from taxation as the current system allows. Perhaps it could be narrowed to only exempt the value of actual goods and services provided to the community (like operating a homeless shelter or soup kitchen)
Yes, I am interested to know not just the UI but the algorithms and data structure used behind the scene.
Haven’t they? I thought a lot of countries had draconian anti-drug policies like that.
I am jealous of Tina Brown? I don't think so, I have no idea who she is, this is first I've heard of her.

Whats "over the top" about my comment. Don't you think its fair to ask her why she continued to take money from him if she knew within 25 mins of meeting him.

I don't think Weinstein case was simple bad guy vs innocent women. There were many enablers, don't you think its fair to ask tough questions to people who got into business with him.

I think media like Time have gross "us vs them" biases, Tina is on their side so she gets asked no tough questions.