skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, that's why Dash coin has partnered with KuvaCash to help fight inflation and provide easier access to funds in Zimbabwe - https://www.dash.org/2017/11/23/KuvaCash.html

It'll be an interesting test case for the value cryptocurrencies can provide in third world countries.
Hey Matt, I received this error when trying to compile a "hello world" for the first time:

error downloading headless chrome: error making directory: mkdir /Users/matt

I'm not really clear on why it would need to create a folder under Users on Mac.

I am looking forward to giving it a try, though.
Previous winner list:

https://ig.ft.com/sites/person-of-the-year/
The windows drives are mounted as /mnt/c, /mnt/d, etc...

You can call executables in both directions, even use windows executables in a bash script and pipe its output to awk.

https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-be/windows/wsl/interop#invokin...
"He got some proper string, and made it wet..."
Content creators make this assumption way more than any other party. Webpage bloat is already several years past qualifying as obscenely bloated, new words need to be used to describe it today.
Xiaomi Said to Seek $50B IPO Valuation
Anyone have a link that explains (ideally with some math) how this works?
Nowadays, there's elm-chan's FatFs: http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html
Sufficiently advanced illiquidity is indistinguishable from worthlessness.
Put more bluntly “hate speech” is a term constructed exclusively to justify censorship against any group the political left disagrees with.

Anyone using it hates actual democracy.
I agree that those are important, but money is a HUGE indicator/proxy of how much a company respects you, your talents and your contributions.

I've quit a higher paying position because of bad leadership and no growth opportunities, but I dug myself into that hole, and I'm absolutely looking forward to a raise (and I'm not yet at the point where I'm not stressed about finances).
Options should be seen as worthless; they're mostly an instrument to deceive and screw over employees. It's like a lottery ticket.

I would never accept options from any startup. I will only accept shares if I know and trust the founder(s) or if there is a way to cash out early.

The last startup I worked for full time for 2 years added a clause to my contract which allows me to sell my shares as part of each capital raise that they do.

Over the past few years since I left, I've had two opportunities to cash out. The last one looked pretty decent but I trust the founders so I decided to hold. It's nice to have the choice.
You are absolutely right. Again my comment was directed at :
> People who call Bitcoin a 'Ponzi scheme' , type of plant or apply whatever reduction on a very complex and innovative product.

Not at the one's who are raising very valid red flags on valuation and how hot the market is becoming. In my personal opinion it is absolutely 'bubble' like behavior right now.

And i believe we both echo the same sentiment.
The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules in Node.js
I'm pretty sure you can throw IBM Watson's AI at any of these business problems and you can solve it very quickly.
Interesting! That's almost what I want, except here's the specific behavior I want to achieve:

A clean git log view that shows only meta-commits
Git blame shows both the meta-commit and the sub-commit for each line

I suppose I could get creative by enforcing that tags be embedded in commit messages and then filtering them in the log view, but it would be better if it was standard.
The French got their revenge by giving us Coq
> "We saw this approach (which we call 'threading') as an innovative way to present a train of thought, made up of connected but individual elements."

An innovative way to present a train of thought? (1/8)

Publishing multiple tweets because the character limit prevents you from keeping the "connected" elements (i.e. sentences in a paragraph) in a single tweet? (2/8)

Trust me, nobody who uses threading wants to be using threading. They want to be able to write a paragraph. (3/8)

The limitations of the platform prevent them from doing so, but the reach of the platform prevents them from publishing elsewhere. (4/8)

Sentences in tweets tend to be about the same length, so there's a distinctly wooden cadence to the writing as a whole. (5/8)

The Twitter format makes editing your work laborious, especially when the edits go beyond just fixing a typo. (6/8)

For the reader of multi-tweet writings, the Twitter format is like having to open and read a series of telegrams STOP. (7/8)

And yet, here we are at the end of 2017, where a tweetstorm has the potential to get more eyeballs than a blog post. (8/8)
What is the world of blockchain going to look like in a year?
I was interested in the story, but the writing lost me too.
iPhone X Third Impressions – Monday Note
From my understanding of US politics, once the Dems/Clintons were gone from the political scene it was open hunt on him, Fowler or not.
Why should those be tied to your search engine?
The titles are now fixed!
Why does my home's power fade and surge when I plug things in?
Correction:
Simple. Go to Safari's preferences > Advanced and check the box next to "Show full website address".

I'm definitely not defending Safari's UX choices for defaulting to hiding the website address. I disagree with Apple's decision. However, when there's a configurable way to solve the issue there's no reason to abandon the software.
Unfortunately there's a bug: https://github.com/matthewmueller/joy/issues/53

Will fix it in the morning but I need to sleep now. Zzzz...

Thanks for the kind words and please try it again tomorrow :-)
What Susan did and the other women and men who have come forward this year will have a massive impact on the business world and the types of people who read FT need to know about it. It will affect HR policies, compensation, career paths, job assignments, and the manager/employee relationship in general. Having your business outed as an "Uber" will destroy billions in shareholder value and may end up with you, the C-suite guy, getting canned, even if you're a "nice guy". You can be damned sure that all these C-level guys are reviewing policies and having internal discussions about this and making sure that they're not going to be next.

New rockets and computer products come every year and have been since 1969. Wholesale cultural shifts in business are more rare, more impactful, and more complex.
I do not understand the underlying logic of this argument. It seems to suggest that but for pesky SEC RegD rule, there'd be 10,000% appreciation opportunities for everyone, not just the wealthiest investors.

How do people making this argument think money works? People that can commit $20,000,000 to an investment with the stroke of a pen are going to get the best opportunities no matter how they're structured: they can offer better terms. Literally the only thing retail investors could conceivably offer to compete with them is "willingness to be screwed over without recourse".

Stipulate a future in which essentially no ICO is regulated, and most new venture raises happen with publicly traded ICOs. Follow that thought to its conclusion and explain to me how the best opportunities are going to provide 10,000% gains, rather than markets acting the way all logic in either direction about ICOs dictates they must act, and pricing risk and opportunity accordingly?

I see how, in the post- free-ICO world, you'll be able to bet that restaurant review coupons will 10x your money. Coupons for everything. 10x your money on dog washing and cat sharing; that'll happen too.

What I don't see is why the truly credible teams doing truly important work with a real chance of success are going to offer securities on those same terms. How does that work? How stupid would you have to be to look at a market where restaurant review coupons are worth $15MM because they're certain! to 9x your investment, and then go to market with the next generation of, say, the Cisco Catalyst 9400 switch on those exact same terms?

Aren't restaurant review coupons in some sense the ceiling on how too-good-to-be-true these ICO deals can be? I mean: that business is obviously not going to work. A reasonably sophisticated person can only put money on it in the hopes that someone dumber will buy it off them in a week or two.
If an ICO is perfectly up and up they should abide by the same regulation as other securities. If you can’t afford the regulation then you can’t afford to sell securities. It seems like ICO boosters have a hard time believing that everyone isn’t a libertarian who wants there to be no regulation on ICOs.
and yet, mysteriously, many millions of people are absolutely addicted to this product.

I say that without snark, just wonderment at how resilient it is even thought it's so totally ill-suited for the actual use.
Technically I was a free range latch key kid. I'm not sure how involved CPS here is involved in the bad parenting cases. They're probably overwhelmed with drug addicted parents and kids who's parents are criminals.

I think bad parents should be punished but I'm wouldn't go as far as to say they're criminals. It's a very slippery slope. I feel like a voluntary reversible sterilization subsidies from the government would be a pretty good idea.
Likely a reference to this view of the OS war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

Android is first by a large margin. iOS almost outnumbers Windows as well.

Microsoft post iPhone needs to prove that it's worth using a desktop at all, not that they deserve to have the highest share of desktop users. Stopping the bleeding inflicted by Macs, which sync so well with iOS, is part of that.
>If you're smart enough to tell a good investment from a scam, why don't you have enough money to be an accredited investor?

Do you not see the obvious chicken-and-egg problem here?
That's exactly the problem: selective actions favoring the monopolists are pursued aggressively (e.g. demolition of Net Neutrality), while actions which might actually harm monopolists are deferred indefinitely. Thus the effect of supposed "deregulation" is to deliver the market to the monopolists.
The good old Hedonic Treadmill ("as a person makes more money, expectations and desires rise in tandem"). I do agree with you, but is private school strictly necessary? (not judging - in your position, I'd want to send them too btw).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
You are getting clobbered, I will join you in this one.

There is no rhyme or reason for the basis for selecting a Person of the year. None what so ever. They are primarily focused in a specific part of the world. Forget Asia, Africa and other so called Third World.

Selecting a person of the year is not more substantive than sitting in a drum circle and passing the beer and talking stick. Especially since the newspaper business is now shadow of itself.

Honestly, I really do not know who the person of the year should be. The world does not revolve around a person, 10 years from now when one would have to think about 2017, Susan Folwer's Uber takedown will be very unlikely thing many would remember.
4) Because it implicates George HW Bush and/or other people still alive in the conspiracy.

5) The fact that the Warren Commission Report was a fabrication would be clear to everyone.

6) Some other illegal government action would be exposed, like the Bay of Pigs, or the Gulf of Tonkin 'attack', the 'Lusitania is not carrying arms for England', and/or other government lies.

7) < you get the idea >

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I find the small-minded among us (who down-vote when they do not like what is said) should really re-read HN Rules. Thank you.

I suspect the downvote is from a politician who is vested in having the "LHO killed JFK" inaccurate meme continue to proliferate. Fess up! ;-)
This varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. It's a crime in Texas for a licensed concealed carrier to carry a gun onto property where there are signs prohibiting the carry of guns.

http://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-30-06.html
That's what Ethereum is for.

It's completely public and can't be tampered with, so you can check exactly where the money is going.

Btw. most people people who don't know Chinese will think "Hong Bao" is some guy. Bad branding for what it's trying to do. Gives the wrong impression that we're giving away money to some guy named "Hong Bao" who's promising to give it to Wikipedia and EFF
> This seems, to me (a layman), to indicate that most any ICO will fall under "security."

Pretty much, yes. Securities are defined very broadly in the US.

Why does it surprise you that these are securities? They very obviously are selling a security to investors, who are purchasing it because they expect the price to increase. Open-and-shut case.

The fact that there's crypto involved is irrelevant.

It really sounds like people are trying to pretend these laws don't apply because they disagree with the laws in question. Which is fine, but let's not pretend like there's any ambiguity here, because there's not. It's extremely clear that almost all ICOs are securities, and if you asked a lawyer I'm 100% sure that's what they would tell you.
No one wants to see text interrupted. Just allow a long character limit text "attachment" that starts out collapsed, like a photo. Eliminating the need for people to screenshot text and post it is long overdue. The bandwidth savings alone would be worth it.
> Can these detect disassembled guns?

I was thinking about this - the only part of a gun that must be metal is the barrel and the brass cartridge casing. Those are the first things I'd look for, assuming the system is capable of resolving objects that small.

... and before someone asserts it, yes, there are guns in existence with ceramic barrels, and there are guns in existence that shoot caseless ammunition. Neither are obtainable, and they wouldn't work in combination as one of the primary benefits to using metallic cartridges is that they carry a large amount of the heat away from the barrel when ejected.
So aluminum was found? So what is the problem with this being "bad science"?
Just survival bias, for every fighter like her there are 99 others that fell through the cracks. Not everyone is born with such a strong will to succeed.
I would hope there's more to the story but somehow I doubt it. It says they went in there to test the perception that they wouldn't be welcome simply for their political views. So it stands to reason they probably would make it a point to not make a fuss and see if they were approached. If that's really the case, I agree it was really poorly handled.

On the other hand, as bristly as I know young progressives/liberals can be (we can be) I also wouldn't put it past the other students to be a bit obnoxious and trying to draw attention to their hats in an effort to have their point proven. Regardless you're right, not the path forward.
Estonia is interesting as they endeavoring to be the first landless, borderless 'digital' state. The New Yorker article does a good job of describing this.

The only longterm potential downside is the realities of globalization roll up of these concepts into world government and monitoring..but that may well be imposed anyway...
As i thought, money is backup by a government. It is represented for a country's power. But for Crypto currency, there is no country backup it. It's kind of scary though.
I did: “and yes not bail them out if those decisions turn out to be wrong”

Of course any action at scale will have impact beyond the individual. I do not believe the state (or anyone else) can determine what’s best for everyone. Such a thing is not possible and instead is used as cover to remove personal freedom.
Right, and they also want to tax income, not accumulation of untradeable shares. They seem to want to treat it as income for purposes of determining tax liability, but not income for purposes of satisfying the very same tax liability. That's like trying to have your cake and eat it too.

Reminds me of California's debt crisis and "Hey! How dare you turn down state IOUs as payment? These are every bit as good as cash. ... Wait, you want to pay your state tax bill with state IOUs? Get that crap away from us!"
>writing honestly about an abuse of power, knowing that it will most likley end your career and result in more persecution, takes a fuck tonne more courage than ordering a bunch of top people in thier fields to build a rocket/shopping empire.

If you grow up with little to lose it's hard to un-learn that.

African Americans have a particularly eloquent way of describing that behavior but it isn't appropriate to repeat here.

You don't notice most of the time when someone rage-quits their job for moral/ethics reasons because usually it doesn't lead so something like this.
Herbal Healing in Tanzania- Africa – Exploring Motherland Africa
Isn't this referencing a control group? "Previous measurements of brain aluminium, including our 60 brain study [13], have allowed us to define loose categories of brain aluminium content beginning with ≤1.00 μg/g dry wt. as pathologically benign (as opposed to ‘normal’)."
Heading to bed now.

I'll be back on this thread tomorrow to answer any lingering questions. Feel free to open an issue on github with any additional questions or ping me at twitter.com/@mattmueller.

Thanks everyone and good night!
Very cool! I enjoyed playing a little during my lunch break. I've got to say, for what it is, it's very fun. I don't feel like I'm learning, but I also feel like I'm learning. :)
But you can bet $20,000 on the single spin of the roulette wheel and the expected value is negative.

If you are allowed to do investing when young and at low levels, like many other things in life, you could learn some great lessons and maybe you won't sell your 1/2 million dollar IRA investments for 1/4 million in a market downturn.
This seems so odd to me. In the circles I am most familiar with, such behavior has always been seen as reprehensible. I suppose there have always been rumors that such behavior was commonly accepted in Hollywood, and as it turns out, silicon valley doesn't seem too different. Well, I think Washington DC deserves to be on that list, too. I wonder how common it is for more "powerful" people in other circles to get away with this kind of malarky?
> It has absolutely nothing to do with US securities law

Nobody said it did. The top of the thread specifically calls out Uber, not securities laws, for being shitty.
True, however, the 'mindset' at agencies (like companies) tends to get baked into the organizational DNA.
I'm sure Ed Lee was a great guy, but San Francisco is the worst-managed city I have ever seen (lived there for many years).

I don't expect improvement anytime soon, but everyone should get on board the YIMBY movement and push hard for change.
To put this another way: even if you are fixated on industry and finance, all of those companies have employees. The issues raised by Susan Fowler are very important to these employees. That makes this issue very important to industry and finance.
String wet with salt water conducts electricity similarly to wire.
the author is responsible for the 418 teapot incident in the early 2000's. though i am sure he is a swell guy :)
> 'Why is it presumed that at "arbitrary net worth 1 million," a person is "financially sophisticated?'

It's not so much proving they are financially sophisticated as it is saying they have enough that "they are on their own". For instance, I can't recall many people caring about the wealthy who lost so much in the Madoff scandal. Most opinions seemed to be "they should have known better".

> 'If the sec wants to I guess "protect people from themselves," why don't they have an actual certification system that is based on a demonstration of knowledge?'

You can actually be exempt from the income/wealth requirements if you are an investment advisor / registered broker. I believe you can be an executive at the issuer and be exempt to.

> 'Finally, why aren't people with a net worth of under 1 million protected from other poor financial decisions, since in your mind they are not "financially sophisticated" and thus are more likely to engage in payday loans or other predatory financial institutions?'

SEC doesn't regulate those. I agree predatory lending should be reigned in though.
Because lots of people losing all of their money on bad investments has effects on the whole economy, see the Great Depression.
You seem to forget that humans are pretty vunerable to making bad choices, both individually bad and collectively bad. By helping eachother in weak moments, building correcting and preventive systems using culture and technology we manage to do better that we could do entirely on our own.
Blame is not useful, agreed. Always have to do ones best with that cards one has been dealt. Including helping others, and letting others help you.
Regarding throughput, see UDT (http://udt.sourceforge.net/) which does reliable data transfer over UDP.
See my reply to mmebane about sub-commits. Re: UX, specifically the patch editor (git add/reset -p) is sometimes difficult to use. For example, I've had issues with changes that happen around empty lines refusing to apply for unknown reasons.
System Administrator/DevOps
I do consider the LKML-centric use case. (Often—probably more often than most.) No such realization is setting in. How about you elaborate?
Saltwater conducts electricity.