skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to imply you did.

I was merely pointing out that it is my understanding that you resigned, that you mentioned care for Mozilla as why you did, and that many people would have resigned if you hadn't. I thought I made that clear when I said "indirectly acknowledged". I guess my understanding was wrong. Sorry for that.

I definitely don't want to take a low road. We never met, but even the people who disagreed with your politics all thought you were a pleasant person and would mention missing you at the various company events. I hope you know that.
Please add the year of publication (2013) to the title.
Why do you doubt that? I've come across people with limited appreciation of what going gluten free can do for others, who rail against it all the time. If someone uses the word "hate" to describe this unglamorous product, I'm sure they're capable of the same for other increasingly popular diets.
Turns out that really is a concern for a lot of people.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/ted-cruz-dildo-b...
I think it's time we expected more from our government.
> I don’t understand why being premined makes any difference?

The issue is when A) people buying the token are doing so because they expect the value to increase, and/or B) the value of the network comes from a central party or promoter rather than from the network participants. If a currency is pre-mined, then it's more likely to be a security because the network participants aren't helping to secure the network. Similarly, if the product doesn't yet exist, then it's more likely to be a security because the network participants are unlikely to be creating value.

The fact that the token may be pre-mined or the product may not yet exist doesn't inherently matter except to the extent that they make it much more likely the token fails conditions A and B.

Similarly, if Ethereum goes to proof-of-stake then it's more likely to be considered a security, but there isn't a specific law saying that proof-of-stake tokens are illegal.
It seems to bizarre to me that of all the potential problems with AI, people seem to focus on employment. Like seriously, if we create AI good enough to displace a majority of humans from employment, I feel like we may have other things to worry about.
How did I miss that announcement?! And I just renewed for the year, ugh! Oh well, I'm cancelling it tomorrow and deleting my data.

It's so inconvenient syncing up an encrypted container[0] with Drive, but the convenience of having a place to store files that I don't have to host myself has kept me on the service... at least until tomorrow.

[0] I'm one of those crazy people who thinks storing a bunch of personal files (almost all of which are videos/photos of my family and none of which would affect my life if they leaked) -- in a non-encrypted, public cloud service is A Bad Idea(tm) and am dismayed that other services don't offer transparent encryption for such things.
I've been thinking a lot about trust, reality, and sourcing. I wonder if we'll move towards cryptographically signing content and facts so we have a verification of legitimacy.

Maybe a blockchain single source of truth, using tiered identity verification where one can accumulate identifiers and use this ID to sign content (biometrics, other verified IDs can vouch for your verification etc higher score = less risk of fake). Seems like these things all already exist the big problems would be putting it together, scale, and easy clarity. For instance making it so my mom's browser or email automatically verifies signed content (and maybe more important denotes unverified or verified false) and clearly presents this like the green lock key in internet browsers.

I wonder if something like this could be extended to verify beyond like an MD5 checksum saying this email or photo is real - i.e. solving problems like 'fake news.'
If you don’t want to engage with the community, then don’t. But if you do it behooves you to behave in a manner that respects your users and the community. Doing otherwise is how you lose that community. It’s not “entitlement” to expect the Homebrew maintainers to be good stewards of the project and the community.
Tau Prolog: A Prolog Interpreter in JavaScript
AlphaGo is interesting. But what big new problems have been solved? (rather than incrementally improved).
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html

How do you pronounce your last name?

Ka-NOOTH.
This is a really good list. I like it better than the article because it brings marketing and finance into the equation.

I've been starting to wonder if my side projects are viable businesses or just hobbies. This list suggests that while they are technologically and financially viable, it will likely fail to generate real paying users.
Why doesn’t Apple make its devices as carefully as it’s making Apple Park?
With browsers, this wasn't really possible because you needed to give the full response after a single request. But running locally you can test all you want.

The problem is when you can't get everybody to agree on a standard API, so you resort to hacks that make it work ASAP that then lead to more and more hacks till we get the insane user agents of today.
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System
I think the contrast is between statisticians and physicists
PhDs compiling GPU support... even some CS PhDs have a hard time with that... this is less important as time goes on since the engineers figure it out and make it readily available.
They didn't abandon the old business.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n09/hana-kabu_items/
I think this is the most convincing counterargument to Thompson's position; to the extent that NN was actually the defacto law of the land, his concerns about adding regulatory burden don't apply.
I might be wrong, but didn't the net neutrality regulations that were put into place before the current rule change allow zero-rating? A large part of the opposition to the rules change is that it allows paid prioritization, not just zero rating.
I think most of the money that's going in is by people with more than the 250k limit. Above that you can market pretty much anything as long as you're honest, I think. So I don't think it would be affected much, except that ordinary users wouldn't be able to use it (unless they could get it on exchanges, which may be under different laws?)

Not a simple question, I guess.
tl;dr: Advertisers blame Russia for their failure.
> I never know what to make of "people still use ______?!" comments

Usually people are assuming a network-effect that would make using not-Foo when Foo has "won" problematic. Like, imagine using MySpace as your social network today. It'd be a ghost town and nobody you knew would be on it.

In this case, I imagine people would expect that MacPorts either wouldn't have as wide a selection of packages, or wouldn't keep 100% of its packages constantly up-to-date, or some combination of the two.
Echo Dot integrated with Logitech Harmony, useful for turning multiple components on/off with one phrase.

Integrated with Sonos, easier to play music than using my phone.

Home assistants really are useful if they are integrated and work well. I want to try a RP3 version of Alexa next.
You are probably talking about something else, but the worrying should be about wealth distribution after the robots (eventually) take over. No more 'normal' employment can and should be seen as a positive for humanity but not if the production is owned by a handful of people. To me that seems more dangerous than the chance of Terminators roaming the streets.
Cassini may be dead, but a new era of Saturn science has begun
Because greed is basically the only incentive to expand. Whether you loved it or hated it at the time, 10c text messages built a lot of cell towers.
SNES Code Injection – Flappy Bird in Super Mario World (2016) [video]
It feels like reading the glossary of a well-written novel. Except it is (probably) all true.
I would imagine in ~5 years this will primarily be used in apps for the purpose of vanity clips (ala Snapchat, MASQRD, etc) and otherwise trivialized, as well as probably some very profound and moving applications (think of a deceased loved one bringing to life heartfelt messages, dissidents using a dictators face to deliver messages to their troops, or even ones we can't begin to fathom until it's so easy that anyone with an iPhone can mask themselves with someone else's picture).

All of this, IMHO, will shape our general cynicism and distrust of recorded evidence, which will lead the way to us finding other heuristics to sniff out bs. I think this is an overall net gain, but I do agree, there will be some people who's lives are destroyed by what this enables, which really sucks, to put it lightly.

The upside, at least, is that we already have people looking to find ways to deal with this right now.
We are reaching a tipping point in society. The issue of the "unemployable" class is becoming an issue now. What do we do when someone is not skilled enough to do complex jobs but no one will pay them (when much cheaper machine options are available) to do the simple jobs? We have two options as I see it:

1) Provide a government safety net for those who can not find employment.

or

2) Forget about them, dissolve safety nets and enrich only the upper echelon of society.

We're currently on the fast track to #2..
The difference is nobody would attempt to buy this participation to resell it later for a higher price
> Developers can offer both free and paid preorders. If the price changes during the preorder period, customers will be charged whichever is lower: the price they preordered it at, or the price at launch.

I wonder what happens if the app was free on pre-order but changes to paid at launch. Will the "whichever is lower" still apply?

As noted in the article, Google does offer a pre-register notification option. From an app developer perspective, has that helped in driving some traffic towards the app? and it seems Apple thinks downloads are a better option than just notifying.
Reddit discussion from 2016:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4caow0/yesterd...
That's a fairly thorough counterargument to Thompson's position. Some points are solid, but I'm not sure how much to buy this one:

> In 2008, the FCC ordered Comcast to stop slowing BitTorrent traffic on its network. Thompson argues that the Comcast case is insignificant because Comcast had stopped throttling BitTorrent by the time the FCC issued its order. But the real importance of the case was a federal-court ruling that the FCC didn’t have authority to regulate Comcast’s internet service, in part because it wasn't a Title II service.

So if the FCC didn't have authority to prevent Comcast from throttling Bittorrent in 2008, why didn't they start throttling it as soon as that verdict came in? Title II didn't arrive until 2015, many years after it was decided that Comcast could indeed throttle Bittorrent if they wanted.
I understand the need to have departure announcements like this but still resent that this kind of boring corporate blather is the go-to thing to do in this situation. It’s a very robotic kind of action that dehumanizes everyone involved.

The art of design is creativity, can’t we be a little more creative than shallow platitudes when we depart from something we built from the ground up?
Also, being vegetarian doesn't mean eating healthy. I was vegetarian in college and ate tons of fries and quesadillas. I eat meat now but try to eat mostly vegetables.
Yugoslavia, Poland

They were in the news around then because of possible attempts they were making to break away from Soviet control. Yugoslavia had already broken with the Soviets and in 1961 setup the non-aligned movement[1].

In 1956 the Poles had refused to vote against the UN resolution condemning Soviet intervention (invasion) of Hungary and there was some hope that these splits could have been exploited.

This isn't entirely impossible. In 1970 Poland and West Germany signed a treaty, which to some degree had been brought about by the Catholic church (which had been suppressed by the Polish goverment in the early '60's). Counter-factuals are hard, but Catholic JFK may have been able to change things earlier, there.

Of course some couldn't see any distinction between the Poles and the Russians ("all commies") and so you get posters like this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia#The_1948_Yugoslavia...
I always found it amazing how vastly different internet communities are from real-world communities. Skim through just about any YouTube video and the comments are filled with some of the most vile garbage. We'd all be murdering each other had this been the case in real-world communities. But, instead, we think twice about what we tell others we meet face-to-face and we deal with the impact of our actions right then and there. If we get angry, we might say something terrible to someone and quickly see the pain in their eyes before realizing the terrible thing we've done and regret ever doing so. The feedback is immediate and necessary for our personal growth. Social media just amplifies the worst in us without ever seeing the impact of the words that we put online. It pushes people in disagreement further apart who would easily understand each other by simply communicating face-to-face and sharing the emotions surrounding their differences. Instead, everything is lost in endless pile of Twitter or Facebook feeds which regurgitate apologies of "caught" offenders and cries of the offended. All of this, in all likelihood, would've never happened in real, physical world.
Context on Conservancy's Filing for Summary Judgment with the TTAB
Us poor people paid taxes to get those lines up and running we are definitely poorer.
https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/6/217734-deep-learning...
"lash and Unity Player, you can write games for the web using WASM without having to deal with JavaScript."

No, you have to go through a seriously crazy api wherein data is passed into a single managed array in wasm, and pulled off in JS and visa versa.

Ok - so accessing C libs is useful?

Are bindings from other languages to C considered to be really an important things for those languages?

Was there a specific set of libs that we were angling for?

Does it even make sense to do those things in the browser?

And what about the limitations - i.e. having to pass data into and out of the WASM container - does that play well with usage of 'codecs'?

Maybe not.

So why again does WASM exist?

What as the compelling use case?

Flash/UX is definitely not it.

I don't see any real uses cases for things like codes, nor was I seeing demand.

So where is the market/product need? And use case?

This is cool tech that's a long way off from being useful in the real world.

Having gone through the pain of writing my own little app, I realized that it's still fairly bleeding edge. I will go back to it when there are deeper APIs between JS and C, are the toolchain is more stable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15901058
The law is a funny little thing. The thing I take more issue with is the concept of how audits are handled -- "guilty until proven innocent".

I have a friend who runs a seasonal cash-only business who got audited about 5 years ago. If you knew this individual, personally, you wouldn't waste your time auditing him -- he's a super-conservative Christian fellow, who, while not being terribly big fans of The Government -- wouldn't cross even the slightest gray-area as far as ethical, let alone legal, boundaries are concerned. He hired a CPA to do his family's taxes and I guarantee he had receipts accounting for every single penny, but owing to his frugality, he appeared to have a larger lifestyle on the outside than could be accounted for with his earnings[0].

The audit went on for the better part of a year with him having to prove that he wasn't hiding income. In the end, the IRS was satisfied due to his careful record-keeping and he managed to get a few dollars back by revising his return and accounting for some deductions that he decided not to take ... out of fear of being audited[1].

[0] This is a guy who in 2001 showed me a $600 grocery bill that he paid only the sales tax on due to his careful Couponing. He also lived in his own (mortgaged) home when he was 19-years old and was only making $7.50 an hour (which, while I don't live in Silicon Valley, the area he lived in was not "inner city" and there's no way I can do the math to figure out how he pulled it off, let alone found a bank to give him a loan).

[1] And having beat the audit, he never fails to take any deduction that he is eligible for.
Difference being your Playboy magazine doesn't personally acknowledge you and make a lewd gesture for you when you give it $5.
The main issue here that stops it working is the requirement for a fixed exchange rate. If I'm industrious and you are lazy why would I exchange my output for your coins. You are adding nothing of actual value to the system that I could buy with the coins. So once I have hoovered up all the coins of the lazy there is nothing of value I can buy with them.

The result is actual inflation - all the industrious people have lots of coins but nothing to buy because the lazy haven't produced anything.

If the values floated so that AliceCoin can only be used to buy the output of Alice then you might have a system that works. AliceCoin would swap through the system like an endorsed cheque until Alice redeemed it by actually doing something.

To game this system you just need to appear industrious until you are trusted and then stop doing anything. You then get the output of those that desire to be trusted without actually adding anything yourself.

And thats how UBI works - it requires constant new blood to operate as a slave class until they are granted 'freedom' by the system. If you look at UBI systems you'll always find that slave class - a five year qualification period, a fixed exchange rate with those that don't get the UBI, UBI less than the living wage, etc.
It occurred to me not long ago that hash tables are a general solution to indexing, and arrays are simply an optimization that you can apply when the proper constraints are in place. I'm happy to discover that it wasn't an original thought.
Startup Affirm Gets Investment from GIC and a Valuation Nearing $2B
While I agree with you, I want to point that last October Health Canada decided that soylent could not be sold in Canada anymore, because it doesn't meet the minimum requirement of a meal replacement.
Does anyone know if the SEC has any process to formally approach them and say "This is what we're planning on doing and the structure we're planning on using -- this where we're unclear; how would you treat this?" like the IRS has with Private Letter Rulings/Written Determinations?
Amazing. I love this structure.
Ask HN: What are they doing there?
According to LinkedIn, Shazam has around 400 employees! [1] Why does an app like that need that many employees? What do they do all day?

Or some other tech companies: MongoDB had 820 employees as of July 31st [2]. StitchFix had 5,800 employees as of July 31st [3]. Facebook had 17,048 employees as of December, 2016 [4]. Oracle has 136,000 employees [5]!

And many other tech companies are like that. For many of them (although of course not all), their product could be built by a small team in a matter of months. Even counting for things like scaling to larger user counts, having 10 or 100 times the number of employees hardly makes sense to me.

Meanwhile, SpaceX, which is making rockets to send people to Mars, has only around 5,500 employees [6]. It's hard to see that rocket engineering is simpler than a clothing app.

So what are all of those employees working on all day?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900109
[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441816/000104746917006014/a2233365zs-1.htm
[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576942/000119312517313629/d400510ds1.htm
[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-facebook-employees/
[5] https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/ORCL--Number_of_Employees
[6] https://www.linkedin.com/company/spacex/
Apple developers to start pre order before sales date
Drop-in replacement for system() in iOS programs
I agree, it may not have to do with SHA, yet.
Thanks. I'd enroll in a heartbeat if I were able to put my remaining GI Bill benefits towards it today.
Say something to your Browser
It sounds like Pornhub is using PHP without a framework from this job posting or maybe they are just open minded.

https://www.reddit.com/r/forhire/comments/47fvmk/hiring_mont...
Yes, but that in no way implies that the method/means society adjusts it's behaviours/expectations will be desirable.

One could even hypothesise that social media bubbles are the first step precisely in that direction.
I listened to the whole thing, and I wasn't impressed. I deleted a whole rant here, so I'll leave it at that.
Well don't I look foolish, Now that you put it that way I think your boss won't mind that you are talking to Famous Company. Go to the meeting get a firm offer, then tell your friend/boss all about the offer and ask him what he thinks you should do. My guess is that he will be happy for you. I would be...
Radio Nowhere
Everybody seems to forget that this is a FREE country and everyone HAS a CHOICE. If you don't like Facebook then don't use it. If you like Facebook then go mad over it. Lets not forget the fundamental basis of this country while we play this very stupid blame everyone else for the shit your life is game that is playing out in this country now.
Well that CEO transitions makes it clear that this isn't about developing a product anymore, but selling a brand. That new CEO is not going to develop and long lasting company, he is going for the sale. And the timing is good.
Put together a portfolio. Put it on a website explaining what your value position is, why people need you. List it in your HN profile.
Ugh. I wish HN had higher moderation standards.
Your cite starts in the 60s not the 50s and it is for total crime rather than violent crime. Violent crime is about the same now as it was in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Use Pomodoro timer to help, give some short break after a long-time focusing.
Sometimes you can make more cash that way. If you put in $50k into the stock market, you'd get back maybe... $3k a month?

Whereas selling it as some kind of SaaS, you could make maybe the same kind of money with just around 20 users, or even one user who invests millions.
Thank $DEITY for "youtube-dl". It's a bummer that Stanford can't afford to host its own videos, though.
Maybe it’s just because I live in Texas so it’s always hot, but I don’t mind the leather seats. One advantage I think they have over cloth is the fact that they do hold their temperature better. Pair that will cooled seats and you have a nice match. Sure, it’s hot for a minute, but more comfortable in the long run.

That said, you should have the choice of what you want.
30-seconds-of-code: Collection of useful JavaScript snippets to understand in 30 seconds
Hi malgorithms, I like team "badges". Is it possible somehow to embed my keybase.io profile into my website, e.g. as a widget?
Apart from a few special cases, it is always the board's choice.
I would suggest finding people you went to school / are friends with at tech companies and ask them to refer you - That is typically a short circuit to getting past the piles of resumes.
Many many years ago, I was shopping for a new car. I found one model where I could get a manual transmission, but it didn't include a tachometer. To get a tachometer you needed to upgrade to a package with the automatic transmission. The stupidity of that choice turned me off on that brand for about 2 decades.