skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I'm happy for every person who accepts such a freebie but doens't let themselves be bribed. They disincentivise such manipulative behaviour.
Doesn't have to be that minimalistic - I could see up-to-date CSS being a good member of a document-only web.
Fraud is illegal.

Banks willingly hired workers to change records
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> not rationally but according to their outward threat to ourselves

If we did that, it would be rational, and an improvement. The unfortunate truth is that we tend to judge people for being outsiders, so while alcohol causes much more harm to others than heroin or crack cocaine (citation below), “we drink alcohol so it must be fine”.

Same with terrorists: if the killer is one of “us” they are “a troubled lone wolf”, if the killer is one of “them” then “that just goes to show how nasty they all are”.

Same with child abusers: “stranger danger” is what people worry about, but most documented abuses are committed by close relatives.

(Relative harm: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness#/media/File...)
The way I understood you is that all mortgages should have been paid off by the government. So if people keep the houses and their mortgages are paid off by a gov bailout that is essentially like giving free houses to half of population while the other half that is renting gets nothing.

That is a huge moral hazard. It is essentially same as giving 300k cheque to a selected part of population based on arbitrary logic. How can that be fair to do that? The only fair way to do it would be to just write a cheque for everybody. So all people get the same handout. Any other way is super discriminatory.

I understand that it's appealing for people with mortgages but you have to see how massively discriminatory and unfair that would be.
Ask HN: How to stop avoiding hard decisions?
I have made a habit of avoiding hard decisions, either leaving them until the last minute or ignoring them entirely.

This is an example of a recent, but frequent episode I have:

—-

I don't want to decline an invitation to a social event that I don't want to go to because:

1. I fear it will upset the inviter and

2. I will start to be excluded from future invitations to other events that I do want to go to

I’ll then ignore the invitation while I try to figure out how best to reply.

Over the course of the week I’ll struggle to find the phrasing to communicate 1. that I do not want to attend this specific event and 2. but I still would like to be invited to future events without it feeling rude or entitled. I’ll then start to procrastinate further with the invitation, contemplating whether I should lie with a made-up excuse to avoid upsetting the inviter and safeguard my invitations in future.

Eventually it will be too late and the event would have passed. Often the inviter is offended that I have ignored their invitation or no-shown because I’m too scared to decline the invitation out of fear or upsetting them. I might as well have just declined the invitation in the first place and burned that bridge at the start of the process because the net outcome from trying to be tactful about the situation is no different.

Do other people on here struggle with this? How do you manage these situations?
Oh the same way I can trust Canonical to include advertisements in Ubuntu? ( https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2221490/eff-urges-... )

Easter-eggs, to me, means something like "press a key combination, get a list of developers" or "go through the levels in a fast time, unlock a secret level" or "on march 14th there's a message about Pi day". It doesn't mean "if you change xyz settings, we'll sell some control to your system to a third party for our profit".
> pretty ok and necessary.

There is NEVER a ethical reason for a dark update channel to exist.
Altering the functionality of installed software without consent or notification is an act of sabotage, even when done by the vendor. If you want to disable broken features you prompt the user to have them disabled.
Worst case (say something that allows malware to propagate or puts them or others at active risk) you disable it and display a message telling exactly what has happened.
This is good news, but somewhat incorrect. There hasn't been an official vote, rather an agreement that has been reached among a majority of the members of parliament, in regard to the budget planing for the next 4 years. The fact that this agreement involves parties from the far left, to the centrum-right is quite unique and promising. The fact that they did this in a very public and bold way is also a good sign. This would have been unthinkable just 2-3 years ago.

(I live in Norway, and follow the drug policy closely.)
> Using a memory-safe language like Java makes it exponentially harder for developers to accidentally write remote-code execution vulnerabilities, and makes it harder for malicious developers to hide remote-code execution vulnerabilities.

Weeell...In currencies like Bitcoin it's crucial that everyone have the most efficient implementation. Otherwise nobody will bother mining, if they can't do it efficiently.

I guess IOTA doesn't depend on the proof of work in the same way. But then again, IOTA seems hopelessly broken?

As I was reading the article and the "promises" of IOTA, I was thinking, "Okay so they must not be using Satoshi's solution to the consensus problem". It's not surprising to hear they don't have a solution. Sure this means the software might not have to be efficient. But that's cold comfort if it doesn't, you know, work.
It is hard to evaluate an idea without being tied to an implementation. How would you evaluate Monads as an idea without talking about Haskell?

The primary problem with REST is that most people learn it by example. Then they believe it is about web services returning JSON or about pretty URLs. It is not.
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People are too quick to overreact these days. - it's as much fun a burst of dopamine and involvement as any gamified mobile game.

And it's not like we have any massive problems to unite against (that we can actually feel like we can help with).
From the white paper:

“As a transaction receives additional approvals, it is accepted by the system with a higher level of confidence. In other words, it will be difficult to make the system accept a double-spending transaction. It is important to observe that we do not impose any rules for choosing which transactions a node will approve. Instead, we argue that if a large number of nodes follow some “reference” rule, then for any fixed node it is better to stick to a rule of the same kind4. This seems to be a reasonable assumption, especially in the context of IoT, where nodes are specialized chips with pre-installed firmware.”

Is this for real?
It's not the product which is rated, but if the reviews seem to be genuine.
I was talking more about the philosophical side of things, what with laws often being cultural norms in writing. So when you have multiple different norms things can get ugly and misunderstandings happen. In some countries they are looking into introducing multiple different laws to alleviate this.

Obviously a big part of crime comes out of desperation (hunger) which might be going down as you say.
Of course, the goal is to reduce risk of bad outcomes as much as possible.[1] I'm just saying, with the same level of effort, you could save a lot more lives by solving transportation problems than by preventing the more rare kinds of crime.

I submit that learning how to evaluate these sorts of statistics, and this sort of risk management is an important part of the basic education that is essential to all citizens of a democracy.

[1]And nobody has brought it up, but it's possible that the average person just thinks that a child being kidnapped by a stranger is an outcome that is thousands of times worse than that same child dying or being mutilated for life in a transportation accident. In that case, maybe society isn't acting irrationally; they just place a lot more value on 'manner of death' than I do.
They get more house supply, at a much cheaper price. What tended to happen (at least in places without non-recourse loans) is that all of the people in houses pay way too much towards their mortgage, have to make sacrifices in other areas of their spending, and loads of retail/service employees get fired.
SV is an oddly judgemental area. When people have unpopular opinions they tend to discuss them quietly.

My wife doesn't work in tech, but she did lose a job over a post on a message board that didn't agree with her boss' politics. (She thought it was a waste of money to rename a school)

I'm wide open with the co-workers that I'm close to (i.e. in my working group). I'm more reserved among others, and since I work for a large entity, I'm aware of the people that pose a political challenge and do my best not to piss them off. I know of a few people in tech who let the wrong words out and ended up losing jobs as an indirect result. (it wasn't "you said X, you're gone", it was more "he said X and a few weeks later - surprise surprise... he doesn't work here anymore") I haven't seen anything like that outside of the bay area and I've worked all over.
I wonder what percentage of HN users would subscribe to this sentence for some values of X and Y: "I am worse at task X than person Y for genetic reasons."
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No legal validity whatsoever
Thus forever proving the existence of god.
Hi everybody,

Sorry for the unresponsiveness. The responses have been crazy on Reddit and I forgot a bit this thread. My bad :/

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So strange...

I walked to kindergarden by my own when I was 4 or something and after that was never accompanied by my parents again.
I think cryptodogemoon is talking about monetary inflation, not price inflation.
A couple of things:

What happens when/if your private key is compromised? All accesses will be compromised
All accesses need to be rekeyed

Some factor that's unique to the service would help to minimize this, something of an unique extension to the public/private key, something like two keys for the service, the general one and the other one (this is something other than your password, so the server would still need no password)

Tooling is key . Not only being able to manage all those public/private keys but also backing them up and make sure that they aren't lost. Or perhaps using email or other channel to reset them

Keybase could probably be an excellent tool to manage such key.

This is still a tad raw, and somehow user experience isn't factored in. We have a very powerful computer with fingerprint recognition in our pockets, why do we still need to type in passwords? (think WhatsApp web login)
Keybase had something for that if I'm not mistaken
For a relatively new design, the GreenArrays chip is highly unusual:

1) Asynchronous logic.
2) Stack machine design.
3) Extremely limited memory per cell.
4) 18-bit words.
5) No MMU.

Chuck Moore gave a nice presentation on applications and his rationale here:
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip

I thought it was pretty neat how in some of his design docs, a column of async cores are used as a memory controller.
Then rent like the rest of us. Don't take a mortgage if you can't afford it. Rent and save a bigger deposit so you can take mortgage with lower repayments.

The idea that people should be rewarded for making poor choices / taking loans they cannot afford is really worrisome.
These days, in Queensland, it's illegal for children under 12 to walk to school on their own. (Although, for better or worse, both the letter of the law and its enforcement are unclear.)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-09/how-long-is-too-long-t...
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The most important factors I'd say would be:

(1) overall wealthy (compared to the rest of the world)

(2) political stability, strong rule of law, low corruption

(3) no extreme differences between rich and poor, with the majority being 'middle class' (neither rich, nor poor).

(4) social redistribution and welfare system, reinforcing (3) by avoiding poverty traps (health issues, low education, debt spiral).

(5) near mono-culture whose norms and values value conformity and avoiding social friction ("the needs of the many ...")

(6) relative isolation to the rest of the world, very strict immigration laws, reinforcing (5)

I can see the same properties (somewhat differently, of course) and results in Norway or Switzerland.

All factors naturally reinforce each other. There's undoubtedly more, but I think those are the most important ones.
People's expectations of travel time is dictated by the speed of cars (which also include traffic interestingly).

I walk to work. Briskly, it takes me 20 minutes, leisurely 40+. Because of heavy traffic, it's pretty much impossible to drive there in less than 15 minutes, so that's the distance it's assumed to be.
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I really wonder if that's the best she can do. Article states her rent is $800 instead of double that, $1600. But it also states she has $400 in commuting costs. (and citing the environment is a reason to take the train, heh).

But she's moved into that home when her children were still kids. Surely she doesn't need the space now that they've moved out, and surely something else must be available.

I mean, she works 9 hour days, travels for 6... If you add a normal sleep pattern of 8 hours, she's got 1 hour left for life, so she breaks down her sleep structurally. But even then, there's just no time on any of her working days to actually live.

In addition, it's as if she had to spend 6 hours in a room every day, unpaid, on a noisy chair.

I can't imagine she can't optimise that. I'm hearing: I spend $400 per month to sit in a room 6 hours a day without pay/productivity/leisure, to live in a home with 2 redundant bedrooms, because equivalent rent is $800 more expensive.

Surely: 1) can live in a smaller home. 2) can find a slightly better rent. 3) can reduce her commute costs. 4) can earn money through extra work (to trade for leisure) or get more leisure time by cutting commute costs.
Why not run a poll rather than speculate idly? (Of course, the interesting comparison is probably between the percentage that would say that with "better" and with "worse" respectively. You'd also want some restrictions on the set X is drawn from to prevent worthless positives from low-status values of X such as sports, social skills or rote memorisation)
>>social redistribution and welfare system, reinforcing (3) by avoiding poverty traps (health issues, low education, debt spiral).

Japan has a Spartan welfare system:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/world/welfare-as-japan-kno...
This is 20 years old, but there is something weird about Japanese crime statistics. They might not be as good as much of a low crime society as commonly stated: http://sci-hub.la/10.2307/29766810 (Is Japan Exceptional? Reconsidering Japanese Crime Rates)
School buses are the real thing in Poland, my father has been driving one for the last 15 years :) It's just that they are more popular in rural areas (you know, grabbing kids from all those small villages and driving them to school in the nearby town).

In big cities, like Warsaw there actually aren't any, as schools are usually within walking distance, and if they aren't then the normal public transport is supposed to fill in.
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I think the degree of integration in the Japanese society is higher, so people who deviate are quickly pulled back into the fold. It makes for empty prisons and low crime rate, but peer pressure can be very stressful - that's why there are high suicide rates and hikikomori.

The key to having such a degree of integration is to spread the good equally between social groups - there should not be first and second class. Everyone must be in the same class. Otherwise, the discriminated class will resent it and think of themselves as not part of the same society, so, why respect its rules? Example: black neighborhoods in NY.

The Japanese way of reducing crime - by reducing class difference and keeping everyone well connected in the social web. But I perceive the risk of reduced diversity, lack of creativity and innovation in that kind of system. Integration must be balanced by differentiation and vice-versa, if it is to work well.
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There's also http://aimp2.us/, which, AFAIR, in some respects whips Winamp's ass. Sadly nothing comparable to either on Linux.
Is this for IOTA? As far as bitcoin is concerned the coin issuance is built into the protocol and there is no case of too much or too less.
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I've actually recently gotten a fake from Macys.com, so it seems to me that sites like Amazon and eBay are saturated with fakes, and the scammers are infiltrating supply chains in general. (They refused to accept the return, however, so I don't think the problem is that widespread, or maybe they're just not aware of the issue yet.)

This might be brick & mortar's last laugh. How do you protect against fake merchandise? Don't worry about it, customers simply won't buy the obviously incorrect items, and you can identify and deal with them when you take inventory.
> And while on the surface that might seem to reveal his having an agenda and disqualify any of his analyses, do we feel the same way about physicists that believe God created the universe?

I don't, but only so long as they don't ascribe magical or supernatural qualities to physical phenomena.

It's one thing to believe alien spacecraft as an extremely unlikely possibility, and another to consider it not only likely, but indisputably so. The lack of skepticism combined with unfalsifiable claims are what disqualify him, in my view.

There does seem to be a fringe of interesting events in the field worth studying. I'm not convinced that there aren't plausible explanations for them - after all, how many "black triangle" sightings are likely to have been classified stealth aircraft? But I also think the negativity serves a valuable purpose as long as it keeps people from entertaining flights of fancy.

I'll believe the Robert Bigelows and Bob Lazars and Whitley Streibers of the world when they can back their claims up with undeniable and irrefutable evidence. Given the nature of their claims, I don't believe that's an unreasonable bar to set. Even Einstein was doubted until someone proved him right.
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So basically she's trading the commodity time for the commodity money.
Trying to understand blockchain by making one
There are two reasons for that:

First of all, almost everything and its opposite can be argued from biology, and evolution. Among the reasons for that is a sort of circular logic, because many ideas of early human life we still hold are based on today’s stereotypes.

Secondly, arguing from biology denies the single most important difference of humans and other animals: that we are unique in having the capability to overcome our biology.
Teslas in Norway were until recently sold with free supercharging for the life of the car. It follows the car not the owner. It is presented in the documentation as a feature of the car along the same lines as the fact that it is four wheel drive not as a contract term. I'm not a lawyer but I suspect the courts here would take a dim view of that being unilaterally removed.
Maybe the best strategy for designing a cryptocurrency today is actually to make it really stupid? It's kind of like the scam logic, where you only want to get good marks in the door from the start.

If your cryptocurrency is really stupid, then only the true believers buy in, and then they all hodl. You don't want anyone too influential, and you definitely don't want people to say "okay I was tricked, I fodl".
>biracial children have a lower probability of organ donation matches, and a drastically lower probability of bone marrow matches.

Sure, but the vast majority of people will never need this in their lifetime. I doubt this alone would make a noticeable dent in life expectancy statistics. (Also we are within a few decades of being able to clone organs anyway.)

On the other hand biracial people are believed to have stronger immune systems and potentially other characteristics ("heterosis").
I think that there are still problems with the algorithm. The tangle was in a bad shape a few days ago and I considered selling my IOTA but I decided to hold because based on my understanding of how the tangle works, these problems are fixable.

Until I find something fundamentally wrong with the idea of the tangle, I'm going to hold.
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Not to mention Docker on OSX just runs an underlying Virtualbox (HyperKit on newer versions) instance. So just run the VM, Docker is not doing anything

Not to mention if I had a dime for every case of people running full-blown distros under docker I would have been a millionaire by now
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Nice language. Is someone use it in production?
Ask HN: Which blockchain related project has the most impressive technology?
Let's forget about valuation and co. 2 min to talk about real disruption.

In your opinion which blockchain related project (coin or not) has the most impressive technology and could really be a game changer on this side?
Maybe one reason one might prefer using Clang over MSVC is that it's open source and it runs on all major platforms so you're hopefully less likely to run into issues. Although I admit I'm just taking a guess, since I'm only a casual Windows user.

I write many simple scripts with node just because it works everywhere with minimal quirks. I also have a few incredibly simple web apps which I use to visualize or explore small datasets. It's great to able to open up an html file in the browser and have it work everywhere.

Docker containers aren't an ideal solution, but they make it easier to get things running everywhere. Consider why stuff like Electron is so popular, despite its many quirks.
Stupid question: is the order of elements in matrix notation just convention or is there a deeper reason for it? Could we just as well have used „transposed matrices“?
Disrupting webpages was specifically what that thing was designed to achieve, right?
Then people need to learn to slow down and back off - my privacy is a major part of my time's value. I will gladly spend a few half-seconds longer to be more private and more secure on an XUL-based browser rather than ever use an insecure WebExtensions-backed multi-process mess that accesses the Web without my consent or control.
GP wrote "without a permit", so you can get one if you have a good reason for it like "I need it for my job"
Sorry, but I see nothing minimal in their screenshots [0]. Same iTunes for my taste. I do believe the performance footprint is minimal, but that't not the first aspect for an everyday app.

[0] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/screenshots/0.6/screenshots....