skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never underestimate the role that climate plays. Looking at a weather map for the United States today and it’s a hard sell to convince someone to move the Midwest or stay in the Midwest.
You say this, but what do you do when everyone has run out of things to talk about and everyone is just watching TV? Heck, going back for spring festival is this times ten. I’m all for family time, but I’d rather spend it doing something together.
Losing Ourselves in Holiday Windows (2013)
“Internet Chemotherapy”
Reminds me of “I Dated a Robot” from Futurama.
One of the most concerning things this year (2017) was the incessant talk of Zukerberg getting into politics.

Our democratic principles cannot dis-allow him to contest. At the same time, imagine a rouge group of developers within FB, guided by Zuckerberg, digging dirt on political opponents and info-sniping anyone in his way to power.

Google might have browsing habits, purchasing habits and perhaps emails (though who, especially young people, communicate their thoughts through email?) but FB has peoples thoughts, political leanings, influence of news on their world outlook, detailed data on how to manipulate them, what angle of a piece of news will best influence them, their personal lives, their friends, family and acquaintances, their dissent, their passions and a very detailed timeline of their lives.

And they also have detailed real time analysis on chats in WhatsApp, browsing habits, detailed biometric information, GPS location details and what not.

We have a lot more to fear from FB.

Imagine how useful that info and power will be to a politician.

Imagine, as a retaliation against European Anti-trust and data security issues, FB delays implementing tools to fight Russian social media influence in Europe for a few weeks before election?

Imagine FB using AI to automatically change news stories to feed off the leanings of it's audience.

Imagine FB preventing flow of atrocities within communities.

Imagine FB covertly publishing dirt on people trying to investigate it.

If FB went rouge, is it possible for the current political and media systems to really counter its onslaught?

The whole world should be afraid of FB. It has too much data and too much power. Its the one true cult.
Fake Leahy Comment to FCC Decries Net Neutrality
Keeping Your Data Secure with Web Application Firewall
It's horrible, people will have to have reputations, be careful about what they say, and consider who they trust again.

It wasn't the good old days or anything, but that was how it worked for a while. There will be value in being a trustworthy source of information again.
If I’m understanding this correctly, a big difference is the potential for the value to fluctuate in relation to fiat. All of these examples are measured in denominations of US dollars. But, if these tokens are viewed as products rather than currency, therein lies another question. Is there a way to reach a conclusion on that?

Maybe I am just being pedantic, but it seems most tokens could make an argument that they are products just by the fact that they build a brand and may have a technology that differentiates them from others. I have little hands-on financial experience but the terms of abstraction by which we define what a currency consists of seems like a philosophical topic to me. I am curious how this gets resolved.

It seems cryptocurrency may offer the puzzle piece which illustrates this spectrum of abstraction to a degree which is truly painful. A year ago, I had no idea what a security is, and after reading about them for a year, I am doubting that they exist as a logically defined objective category. Like many things in finance, the concept of these securities appears to be a relative conjurement, dependent not on logical definitions but on contextual gaps of unimaginable forms of abstraction. As cryptocurrency implements the unimaginable, those gaps are filling. We will eventually face a continuum of abstraction limited to philosophies of material.

I tried to read the linked release, got about 1/5 of the way down it and was just incredibly bored. I hate to sound so lazy and will try to read it again later.
Aaaand my friend with a BA in journalism got accepted into it.
Data Migration Pre-Check Failures and Solutions
I hardly play any video games. When I heard about the Xbox One X, I figured it was the successor to the Xbox One like the Wii U is the successor to the Wii, but I found out that it's actually a high-end version of the Xbox One. It can be confusing!
Considering the relative tameness of the motion controls in the post-Wii era, I think you can safely forego the straps. It would definitely simplify things if nothing else. I've only used the straps on mine very briefly, and find them more comfortable without them anyway.
I don't think it's a good suggestion for someone to learn a web app framework in a tutorial that teaches the basics of Javascript.
If he wants you to go do better, then he should be happy for you to go now when you have the opportunity.

I would tell him about it and I'm sure he will have a favorable response. Help him make a good transition and find someone to replace you.

Oh and it's non of the other company's business what you say between you and your friend. Don't tell them anything about it, it's not ok for them to even ask.
Realistically, that’s looking like a 2019 goal but yes we’d love to offer that fincancial support. We currently offer partial scholarships to veterans for both products.
Also I have to believe that there is a "robot critical mass" that will top out fairly quickly.

Robots are expensive, to be able to afford them you need to have customers that can afford to buy them.
They will only be able to afford them if they have enough work to earn the money to buy them.... I just dont forsee the "jobs apocalypse" that the dog whistlers seem to fear.
Maybe that would play in other countries, in the US I think would work just as well as the 3G support on the Vita.

I had one of those come up but surprise surprise I never hooked it up to the cell network. Why would I? Just cost a whole bunch of money for something I’m not really going to use.

Look at what happened with Apple. They managed to get “special deals“ from the carriers to allow the new Apple Watches to be on for ‘only’ $10 a month. Of course it was something like $17 or $18 after all the taxes and fees. And they were had been Android smart watches you could add to your plan for only five dollars a month before hand… but the carriers were nice enough to “fix” that.

I’m not a huge online gamer, but even if I was I don’t feel like $20 a month just to use my switch. If I want to do that I’ll use the free tethering I have.

If I had kids? I don’t see why I would pay $20 a month for each of them either.

The idea of putting cell radios and everything seems nice but the truth is that in the US it’s worthless because it’s so expensive to use.

As for a web browser? I have my phone. Frankly I’m happy that the switch is nothing more than a gaming machine. I can sort of see the idea of using it for Netflix watching since it has a decent size screen.

I can’t imagine myself ever opening the web browser once. Featuritis one of the problems that Microsoft had this generation. The WiiU had it also. It’s nice to have a focused device.
nobody is making fun of PHP out of jealousy
I believe he means dividends.
While the objectification is bad, I think the issue of determining truth from lies should be solvable: public key cryptography seems simple enough.

Have every public figure have their own key pair, and each official production have its own key pair. Then publish a signed hash or similar for each production the figure chooses to appear in. Any production without such a signature or with one that can't be verified is probably fake.

Would be a big shift in process, and would only happen if this sort of thing becomes a serious problem, but once it did such a scheme would stop it in its tracks.
Any ideas why, though? I can understand not wanting to be on the latest-shiny until the inevitable initial bugs are fixed... but does Apple even provide security updates for 10.6?
RocketLab (New Zealand rocket company) attempts to send a rocket to orbit
I think this is crucial.

Rigetti Computing (where I work) has open-sourced several packages related to quantum programming, including pyQuil: https://github.com/rigetticomputing/pyquil
Its no the difficulty, its that it is more work and takes more time. A small example: with a SPA that's needs a backend (most apps) you need to do routing in two places, the backend and fronted, versus just doing routing in the backend.
> Intel does not want to have the 900p eat into the P4800X which is a higher margin product. As a result, this is the kind of article (Optane 900p in servers) that Intel specifically would not want us to do. Since we buy hardware, we can.

Intel has not to my knowledge actively discouraged or tried to prevent anyone from reviewing the 900p in an enterprise context. They haven't expressed any negative opinion about me including the 900p in my review of the P4800X, even though they provided hardware for both.

I agree that they probably don't want the 900p to hurt the sales of the P4800X, but I don't think they're particularly concerned about that happening. Most potential P4800X customers aren't going to go to the trouble of buying and installing large quantities of 900ps instead.
Oh, come on. Don't downvote this. Had a big chuckle xD
Just make sure that key rotation works, no one ever loses their credentials, etc.

Also — do you really need a signed signature to verify a celeb isn’t actually in a porn? It’s not like they’d sign that anyway...
His LinkedIn profile states:

>"Responsible for overseeing core growth components, building new systems to maximize adoption and virality and growing Facebook adoption throughout the world."

Then he's quoted in the article saying:

>"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”

Yes its a global problem sir, why wouldn't it be? This was exactly your mission according to your LinkedIn summary.

It's interesting that these folks never seem to have moments or self-reflection or concerns for the greater good while they are sitting in strategy meetings and taking these company's money and stock options. How convenient for him that he can now make such headline-grabbing pronunciations for his own self-promotion.
I wouldn’t read this with rose colored glasses. This is not pro or against crypto. He’s simply doing what the SEC does and warning speculators of the risks involved and saying that these will, despite what anyone has told you, be subject to federal securities laws.
Putin's Game
Ya I agree it’s annoying. Will flag this with our marketing team.

We teach the MERN stack with some CS theory (basic data structures & algorithms). There’s also a heavy focus on building so your portfolio pieces will start with wireframes and end with deployment and code reviews.
There are many things about the Switch which I love but there are a lot of lessons that Nintendo is having to re-learn the hard way since they’re not watching their competitors.

I remember there was an interview a few years ago with a flat out mentioned that when building an online service they never looked at Xbox live. At all.

That’s how you get to the point that in 2017 you launch consul that doesn’t support cloud saves and ties purchases to the hardware instead of a single account. If something goes wrong with my switch all my purchases die with it. I have to send it in to Nintendo and have them fix/replace it and move my purchases over. And of course if something happens (including a bad software update) I could lose all my progress in all my games.

Sony and Microsoft of had solutions to this forever. You have to pay money for the cloud save back up (which really annoys me) but my games are tied to an account and not the hardware. When my Xbox 360 died? I just bought a new one and all my stuff re-download it. When I bought a PlayStation 4 Pro I could easily move all my stuff from my PS4.

There are a few things were Nintendo could make some small adjustments and make life MUCH easier. I know numerous parents would love the ability to buy a game once and play it on two or three consoles (one for each kid) the way you can with stuff on iOS or the PS4. Instead you have to pay 60 bucks a kid.

I love Nintendo for making fun, interesting, colorful, lighthearted games. It’s nice to have something other than the latest major zombie shooter to play.

But in some ways they still live in 1993.
> you can't get heated seats and cloth seat coverings as one example

Is this example supposed to be a true fact? I have cloth seats that are heated.
Something about that bothers me. Even in this thread some are discussing this as "SEC says". In a way this is a 'pump' for cryptos and that [1] footnote could have been straight up front in the "Public Statement".
More about the wider implications: faked interviews or public statements etc.
GGMM A1 Portable Headphone Amplifier
Maybe this would be a good job interview question for PMs.

If you were creating a new class of software where this could be an issue, what would you do?
Why is a poor family in Appalachia less deserving of inexpensive drugs than a poor family in, say, Venezuela, or Somalia?
Np! Just went through a rebrand to make that a bit clearer. Btw excited to see Harsh build a great team and lead HR, he was great to work with while at MakerSquare :)
Just bought a car and wish I was better prepared, but that's on me. They get you in so many ways. I think I won 2 rounds out of 5, so I don't feel too bad. Love my car though (VW GTI).
After all this is written, you'll still find someone tryna peddle their little tokens out here!!
It could be, but I feel like the relentless focus of the device is what makes it so great. I would guess that almost no time at all was spent thinking of ways to compromise the system to make sure browsing was a good experience.
It was more than marketing. The fact that they made the gamepad drastically increased the price compared to if it was TV only. At the same time they needed the TV side of things because they couldn’t put enough horse power in a portable cancel.

And of course a 480p resistive touch screen didn’t look very good.

The end result was the system was too expensive to be competitive because the graphics were too poor, even if people actually understood what it was.

You’re right that much like some of the stuff on the feeder it ended up being a pointless costs in case people didn’t even really use it to its capability. It was so different from the other consoles that no one was going to put the time into it since the box never sold enough in the first place.

That said? It was a great system, and you’re right that all those games were fantastic. I LOVED super Mario 3-D world, it was one of the best games I’ve played in years.
I saw the quotes around "jokes" and didn't read the article.

Bias is obvious, it's not going to be informative reading.
How is this less intrusive? I'd just reimport the hell out of drugs from the cheapest country I could find.
How closely does the KAPO (Estonian Internal Security Service) monitor e-Estonia?
The answer is to gather feedback from early adopters, not avoid users entirely.
tl;dr because of piracy
As already said, pick a niche, and make sure you're known for it. Generate content in that area, you're a game designer, so blog about the issues you've faced, how you've overcome hurdles. If blogging isn't for you, create a podcast, just create content in whatever medium you're most passionate about and do something that makes you a thought leader in that space.

When someone is searching for a solution to an existing problem they face and you can demonstrate how you've solved it, and many more in that domain you're immediately valuable.
I think the rate of technological change will force the SEC regulatory system to adopt an RFC process open to the public (bypassing Congress), similar to IETF, and I think Direct Democracy is an inevitable outcome of such disruption.
Sorting pixels in rust
Awesome! At some point I would like to get into Homebrew development (I'm already familiar with Ruby).
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Not only that, you can get some pretty good party games for the switch. Both the latest jack box party pack which is a ton of fun, and overcooked or available. I’ve had a ton of fun with my family with both of them.

I believe this is also the point of 1-2 switch, but I haven’t played that.
New trend: Random spaces in existing buildings becoming rental housing
Henry Ford once said "If I had built what people wanted, I'd have built them a faster horse."

Smart man, Henry.
So much capital movement in VC circles, don't be surprised that the gossip about it sells too.
The creepiest is that whenever there is a discriminant network for judging/identifying sth, there is a generating method taking advantage of this network to make artificial one to fool the network. That means, one day we can take advantage of 3d-printing to make face masks to disguise as anyone, making anyone's voice, and making anyone's handwriting. The existing identity system will total break down.
(I'm from China, here exists a kind of company which loans to you solely by ID card scan and webcam verification. Just imagine one getting lots of loan using stolen ID cards and artificial realtime face swapping videos and artificial voices)
Apologies for bad English
I think that's just how old people talk sometimes.
No, you're back to "we can't build HEAD in a multirepo", which is fixable with CI rules. If you can, you can bisect exactly the same (well, with a fairly simple addition to bisect by time. `git bisect` is pretty simple, shouldn't be hard to recreate).

In any case, unless you have atomic deploys across all services, this is generally untrue. Bisecting commit history won't give you that any more in a monorepo than in a multirepo.
USCIS Director Cissna’s statement about H-1B requests for evidence (RFEs)
> Not saying this is practical or even desirable, but clearly it would change people's priorities quite a bit.

Historically, the problem with indefinite liability has been government abuse and degradation of evidence (witnesses age and forget, documents are purged as part of regular scheduled maintenance, etc) which work together to create an unfair environment for the victim or perpetrator depending on the specifics of the case. Statutory limits "clear the docket" of potential cases, so to speak, which prevents the government from using an infinitely growing list of crimes and violations combined with selective enforcement to target "undesirable" or opposition elements within the populace.

I do believe that indefinite liability for felonies and fiduciary responsibilities is very desirable in a fair justice system (balanced with a case by case evaluation of future criminal potential so that people who have reformed without prison aren't too heavily punished) but I'm afraid it will require a massive societal change. A system as complex and noisy as the justice system cannot both be an underfunded afterthought and fair. Kind of like healthcare makes up almost 20% of US GDP, so too should the justice system if we are ever to properly align the incentives of management and the public. With the seemingly unstoppable pervasiveness of data collection and surveillance, it might even be practical in the future to prosecute very old crimes in a fair way as long as enough resources are dedicated to enforcement and oversight.

Unfortunately, the people who decide these things are extremely disincentivized from implementing the kind of sweeping changes we'd need.
Dear keybase,

Please let us delete chat messages.

Every chat program has this ability except Keybase.

Besides that, your service is awesome. Keep it up!
Kicking off Stripe’s private beta in India
Nope, the F9 expendable price was $63M before it was ever re-usable. They just haven't cut prices from re-usability (yet). The FH price is actually unclear, but it appears it won't have an expendable version. It's got too much payload capacity as re-usable.

But again, it doesn't make much difference. SpaceX will definitely put a pound of cargo in orbit for less than 1/10th the cost of the SLS and may as little as 1/20th the cost.

In any rational world, you'd rather launch your space vehicle in two parts and mate them in orbit than spend over 10x as much to launch your vehicle already assembled. But in reality, the SLS won't be able to launch interplanetary space vehicles in a single launch. Like Apollo, even their Lunar transports will need some in-space assembly.

And if BFR is actually built and fully re-usable, the cost for 300,000+ lb payloads is going to be less than the cost of a Falcon 9.
Yeah, I consider reddit/hn to be more of a waste of time (for me) than videogames. Still, it's easier to browse Reddit than progress in a videogame.
Your claims are fallacious. Most people, i.e. 51%+ don't use USD or EUR. Many people also make international transfers. There is a use-case and your observations that zero people use btc are anecdotal at best.

Pray tell what kind of legal issues would suddenly arise if it became mainstream.
More cynically, the difference is 100k/year :P.
Wonderful, well played sir!
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The Wii did have a few distinctions from the GameCube. However they abstracted them in an interesting way

The Wii itself was still a G3 PPC chip, just add a few hundred Mhz

It also had more RAM (which allowed the "Twiizers" attack over a decade ago)

All the Wii-centric functionality (USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, SD card, etc) was abstracted away inside an ARM co-processor inside the GPU. Named "Starlet" by the homebrew community

Wii software was then written that would simply poke at the API's it exposed to add that functionality
you don't have to pay fees to transfer to yourself, assuming there is no rush.
I LOVE CarPlay for this exact reason, the OEMs system is terrible.

When I bought the car I read reviews that said it was head and shoulders above the previous model, which terrifies me.

Even if the software was good/fast there’s plenty of hardware problems with the system. It has a nice big touchscreen. They obviously asked around and found out the people love iPhones (surprise) and so obviously doing things with touch is the best way. So they replaced all the physical controls on the radio with capacitive touch strips.

End result? You can’t use any of them without looking at them and being very careful. In the next model year (or perhaps the one after that) they put the controls back as physical buttons. Good.

But, they added a capacitive touch strip to the steering wheel to make it “easy“ to adjust the volume by various amounts. My mom has that car. She CONSTANTLY adjust the volume up or down a whole bunch accidentally do to that control.

All because of a “fad”.

If it wasn’t for the up and down volume buttons (and I mean BUTTONS) on the steering wheel I wouldn’t have bought the car at all.
It includes detailed pages for Common Lisp, Julia, Racket, most ML languages and Haskell.

I'm satisfied. Very comprehensive language list.
I don't understand how the administration can support this change.

Allowing carriers to discriminate against content providers seems like legalizing extortion.

Is there an argument in favor of this change that would convince a reasonable person?
Google and Facebook are large and rich enough to replace the ISPs if they felt they needed to. They've both dabbled in this area and would surely turn it into a serious effort if their core business was threatened. They just haven't done it because it's still cheaper (for them) to let the existing ISPs do it.

Comcast/Verizon/etc don't want to pick a fight with Google or Facebook. They want to pick fights they can easily win and gain extra money from: companies too small to pose a threat.