skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feature list:
* 4.7-inch retina display
* 12MP camera
* Phone will get slower over time

No, not seeing that advertisement working.
This happens all the time whenever there is a "craze". When marijuana companies were the craze, scammers who peddle stocks that sounded similar to high flying stocks.

It happens during big IPOs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-08/mistaken-...

It's pretty much a non-story but bloomberg has to make money with clickbait.
I think things would start being priced using different units. With your example of bread costing 0.000127 BTC, that could also be written as 127 "bits" or μBTC. It would take a lot of getting used to, but it really isn't any more complicated than $1.99.
Ubuntu 18.04 Will Support Color Emoji
This is kinda of a gray area, if they really wanted to treat their customers well, they'd have easily-replaceable batteries and a notification that lets people know their phone is slowing down because they need a new battery. Still seems like planned obsolescence, or at the very least, encouraged obsolescence.
My understanding is that Uber and Lyft drivers earn about the same. Lyft pays more per trip, but Uber is more efficient at getting drivers a greater number of trips per hour. The end result is that they both pay about the same on a per/hour basis.
Mandrake Linux founder is developing eelo: an open source mobile OS
There's a good book called Primetime Propaganda, showing how exactly ABC, CBS and NBC were doing that, and are still doing it.
Private web services are fundamentally different from the FCC regulated limited band of the RF broadcast spectrum. This was a major point of contention in the Net Neutrality debate, but it certainly has no application to Facebook.
What Millennial Parents Talked About in 2017
Perhaps you can help me with my ignorance too; what advantage does it have over existing computing systems, be they centralised or decentralised, or is there a particular class of problem that they're particularly superior for?
Open source has a problem where a lot of people demand and request updates, fixes and all that without ever giving back.
I am not talking about medium sized companies or even smaller ones, I am talking to a plethora of small one or two human teams that do consulting/freelance development and simply don't have the visibility in the world of open source that others like maybe you and me have.
It feels a bit like the recycling problem, it's really easy to do yet only a percentage of the population does it correctly. In the uk, on the
defra.gov.uk website, it states that only 16% of the picked up waste is recycling... Why ? How can wr change that?
Don't you get a step up? The basis is the price when inherited.
I think there's a meaningful distinction to be made between in-app purchases of add-on functionality and other such one time upgrades on the one hand, and things you can keep buying indefinitely, like loot boxes.
You mean you don't see a UNIQUE problem here.

"How X enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda" would be an issue of interest and concern NO MATTER WHAT THE X IS.
All valid points - and the U.S. government is even worse, considering the defense budget.

But while naughty, the alternatives to these governments are private individuals / militias / warlords doing far worse against your values and morals.
Cartoon or not, or is a depiction of sexual objectification, harassment, profaning somebody’s personal space in a public context, and a denigration of womanhood. What is there to like about it?
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
Inflation and Participation in Stake Based Token Protocols
Mastalab (Android) will do this. Twidere will, too, but its Mastodon support is second-class.
I had the option disabled before they started pushing the Mr.Robot thingy ("Allow Firefox Developer Edition to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla")... You pretty much always had to disable a few things when you installed Firefox to preserve as much privacy as possible. I wish that they would change the defaults, but I will still be using Firefox for now.
>It seems like you're analyzing all of these situations assuming that one side is correct.

I don't believe I've made any assumptions about who is correct. I simply stated that there is a difference between working with someone who holds a belief, and someone who actively lobbies for that belief to be legislated. I think that's true irrespective of what those beliefs are, and the question of whether or not I agree with some specific belief or not is separate from "holding a belief" being distinct from "lobbying for that belief".

>There's no way to even know a person's beliefs without some action on their part.

Indeed, and this is one of the most vital distinctions between "discrimination" based on belief and aspect. You cannot not express your race or gender, or perhaps you can, but it requires expending significant effort. This is not true for beliefs, you can always not express a belief, even a strongly held one. I do it all the time.

>Are you claiming that all 'speech' is action?

I'm willing to claim that a donation to a lobbying group is an action. Would you disagree?

>So how exactly is someone stating that they're a Muslim not an action in the same way?

Does you being a Muslim convey any kind of information to me about the opinion you hold of me? Does you stating that convey any information to me? On the other hand, does you stating "I hate people with the username joshuamorton" convey any information? I'd say no, no, yes. That's the difference.

>Are you saying it would be fine if Eich believed that gay marriage should remain illegal as long as he never expressed that belief in any way to anyone?

I mean I absolutely do think that would be alright. I by no means think that people should be forced to express their views, so yes I would have zero problem with Eich choosing not to express his views.
I've been listening to the audiobook "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence" by Daniel Goleman, and in one of the chapters, he brought up this experiment, along with many others (I think there was an Australian experiment that followed about 16,000 kids throughout their life).

He actually concluded that focus and discipline have far more explanatory power in predicting future success than race, class, socioeconomic factors, or any other variable.
I'm assuming you mean user-replaceable, since as others have pointed out, it is replaceable by a technician. And the answer is: it would compromise too many other areas of functionality. User-replaceable batteries would mean both internal housing hardware to create a bay, electrical contact interface, and housing for the battery itself. These would either add weight and bulk, or reduce the capacity of the battery overall, and it would make waterproofing much harder. I personally very much prefer the trade-offs Apple has made, and I suspect a lot of other people do too.
> You really wouldn't have a problem with your CEO saying repub voters are subhuman?

If Brendan Eich has ever described gay people as subhuman, post a link. If he hasn't, this is a terrible and misleading analogy, and a violation of the Principle of Charity.
Unpopular opinion: valuing compatibility and standards compliance as engineering/design principles is orthogonal to making your website play with obscure (e.g. Dillo, old Opera) or pointless (e.g. old IE when you're making a website whose money is overwhelmingly likely to come from technically savvy, younger, first-world users) browsers.
Less speed stepping, making battery prediction easier?
Note that the advertisement was for a TV show _owned by a company that helped destroy net neutrality_: Comcast. How am I supposed to "Join Mozilla in defending it" (from mozilla.org) when they are going to work for their own enemies?
I mean deprecating the system of state sovereignty in its entirety. I believe this to be the inevitable effect of the internet.
> Why not integrate rust and the libraries into the existing packagement systems, like so many other software projects do?

This makes me curious: can you tell me some examples of other software projects which are not written in C that integrate libraries into existing package management systems?

Personally, I feel like `apt` could almost be called a C/C++ package manager at this point. It does have some packages written in other languages, but most languages still have their own package manager for development. For example:

* Python: has pip and virtualenv, packaging with apt is difficult due to incompatible version requirements
* Ruby: not personally using ruby much, but seems like most apps are installed via bundler or gem and not packaged
* Haskell: Small binary compatibility of libraries make traditional packages difficult (even dependencies of dependencies need to match for compatibility)
* Java: I don't even know how java libraries would work with apt
* PHP: I have never used a PHP package installed through the package manager

Granted, I may be missing something here, but the majority of the packages in apt repository seem to be C/C++, maybe some perl or python which are "made to work" simply because too many things depend on them.
They should use phone access as a carrot. Good behavior? You get more access to a phone. Bad behavior? You don't.
You're right - you can't ensure that they won't use your work for bad, that's true. You can try to lessen the impact by making sure they're not part of your organization or community. Excluding them does help me, because I don't have to put up with someone who is actively trying to make my life worse.

I think if you manage an open source project you should feel comfortable taking a stand on contributors who have/advocate for actively discriminatory positions. Just because you organize a community project that may be used by people you fundamentally disagree with doesn't mean you have to check your sense of morality at the door.

If someone submitted a PR to my project who held openly racist positions, I would deny the PR. No amount of genius or technical merit makes up for that.

One could come up with a hypothetical of an open source project that is important enough to require any help it can get, and also somehow obscure enough that only a handful of developers are working on it. Nonetheless, I don't really think most open source projects (or even for-profit projects) fall into that category. At the point where work becomes so important that you need to compromise other parts of your character in order to finish it there are probably bigger things to worry about.
I think so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15972967
From my understanding, the article is about leveraging clojurescript serverside on nodejs. Then someone asks why just not write in clojure serverside on the jvm.

I just took some example languages, maybe I shouldn't have as it polluted my point with my own biases. It also felt relevant to bring them up, since it is what people mostly end up writing in, on those respective platforms. But I'm mostly interested in the JVM vs. node discussion though and opinions.

Yeah, the single threaded model + async can be nice and resolve problems with race conditions etc. making one headache go away. But it can also be a limiting factor that you cannot change if you need to, but then you maybe choose the wrong tech to begin with if your use case can include high cpu usage etc.
It's still speculation that NK is behind these attacks, but even if they were, how would that increase the price?

If they had untold millions of BTC, they'd have to offload it at large discounts. They would be trying to trade out of BTC, not into it.
Motivation  Talent
Most things engineers make are useful. Note I’m talking about traditional hardware engineering, not software engineering of things like Tinder.
The parent may be assuming "Clojure on the JVM" as opposed to the JVM alone. Loading the Clojure runtime on the JVM can be slow.
"MACCHIATO:
ClojureScript arrives on the server"

Perfect for "Serverless"

I want off this ride!
Where I am from, "premium" devices were expected to work better than the competition, not to mislead you trying to hide the fact that they are worse.
Sometimes I think there's a perfect balance these people have between the ability to put off reward and the ability to enjoy reward.

Because I can put off rewards but what I end up doing is saying "I can live without that reward forever" and it turns into asceticism, not success.

I feel like if I could combine my ability to put off rewards with an enhanced sense of "winning" when I do finally pull something off, I could motivate myself to "succeed" better.

But then again, what is "success?"
Quite honestly, in the past 10 or so years, the Republican party has made itself extremely easy to dump on.

More so than the media leaning "left", I think they lean populist. Human interest stories, people falling on hard luck, natural disasters, terrorism. Some of these things 'feel' left-leaning, some 'feel' right-leaning.
Spoken like somebody who has never had a taxpayer-funded clusterbomb dropped on their children.

Spoken like someone who likes to speak for someone else using a curious line of reasoning. You don't want to pay taxes because taxes pay for bombs. But they also pay for poor people to get health care (yes, even in the U.S., at least up until now), older people to get health care, and much more.
> You're welcome! And thanks for your posts too.

Thanks :-)

> And also regardless of personal feelings, many people in the Rust world seem to be very excited about WebAssembly

WebAssembly and JavaScript are used to create locked-in software to deliver uncopyable experiences, to ultimately exercise power over other people. Clearly, there will be people interested in this, because the power can be used to generate profit. Ethically, I think it must not be supported. It goes frontally against the idea and intent of free software. I think this problem is glaring, and I'm interested in your view about this very aspect.

> How is Cargo and rustup better than Apt?

I didn't mean to restrict this to Apt. Many projects and programming languages are available on multiple platforms, all while playing nice with the existing package management systems. Apt is not special in this regard, and was just used as an example.
Shared IP pool for data users, I'd guess.
If TNCs didn't exist, then almost all the black cabs would have been in use and you would have been back with "no black cab" as an option. The only reason it's now easy to hail a vehicle on the street is increased competition from TNCs.
I'd say the difference is in this:

>Now imagine there is a chatbot that can enumerate every position a person could possibly take about this issue and generates a couple hundred thousand slightly unique strings of words that express each of these positions, and floods the thread with these "comments".

If there are hundreds of thousands of strings then I absolutely can't. But I'd say on most issues there are probably max a few hundred positions. If I have to crawl through the same positions restated different ways over and over then truth is lost, if I can quickly browse one unique string for each position then it will take dedication but I can suss out what I believe and have some sort of backing for it.

Dealing with information overload is sort of the unique problem of our times I suppose.
First you ask what the person is even upset about, when they made it very clear in the very post you were replying to. Then, when I point this pretty obvious thing out, you change the standard to "nothing ever happened to him, in person". What?

A) Things did happen to him. Being denied birth control is a thing that happened to him and his partners. I don't really understand the "in person" qualifier you tacked on. Are you implying people in the Bay Area are "doing something to you in particular that happened to you in person?" Any examples?
B) "I think that says a lot more about culture than news/politics issues. From that standpoint, my life here in the Bay Area scores a lot lower than my life in Houston or Cincinnati." I'm not sure I follow here? The OP was talking about a situation where they lived outside the bay area and left that other place because they felt picked on and are feeling more comfortable in the bay area. You've decided that this is "about culture", and then immediately jump to "this is why Houston is better than the Bay Area", which makes no sense whatsoever.
There's also https://liberapay.com/ if you want a minimal fee alternative.

Opencollective is 10% + transaction costs IIRC while liberpay is only transaction costs. They're funded through their own platform.

It doesn't provide all the features of opencollective (like 501(c)(3)) though.

https://opencollective.com/faq (Fee info)
https://liberapay.com/about/faq (Fee info)
After just the right amount of over paying and complaints.
"Our understanding of physics is very wrong" - this seems very likely to me. Pretty much all scientists have been proven wrong so far in significant ways. The entire structure of the universe makes no sense without tons of dark matter and dark energy we can't observe, which sounds a lot like the way we used to balance the equations of orbits so the earth was the center of the galaxy.

https://youtu.be/Zgk8UdV7GQ0?t=71

2. I think this alleges a pretty large conspiracy theory on the order of 9/11 being faked. There is a wide body of evidence from a lot of reputable witnesses of unexplained phenomena. The idea that the military fabricated that video and the pilots who are the witnesses is more ridiculous to me than "Our understanding of physics is very wrong"
New York subway 1M$ innovation challenge finalists announced
According to this recent post Google is in charge of the master list that all the other browsers use. Expect the .dev domains to stop working on those other browsers shortly.

https://medium.engineering/use-a-dev-domain-not-anymore-9521...
Today Ripple (xrp) has passed 1$ price mark
Take a few minutes to read the blog posts by the creator. Writing aside the general process and motivation around creating a custom hashing algorithm is very strange -

"Curl-P was created by following the idea of simplicity. While de-jure I can say that it was me who created Curl-P, de-facto it was created by a primitive AI created by me. That wasn’t AI of general purpose; an improved version of the AI is working on the final version of Curl now while I’m writing this post. This situation is quite funny because it look unusual, interesting if in the future we’ll see cases similar to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/monkey-selfie-... but with an AI instead of an animal. By the way, there are a lot of attempts to create a lightweight hashing function, I’d be grateful if someone confirmed or refuted my observation that Curl-P is winning this competition.

IOTA was created to be immune to quantum computer attacks, today I have revealed that it was also created to be immune to attacks from an AI. IOTA was the very first distributed ledger technology to consider imminent threat from technologies which look exotic now. NSA already validated our prediction regarding quantum computers. I think that the both threats (QC and AI) have equal chances to become real in the near future and I’m confident that in few years we’ll see confirmations that the prediction about AI was prophetic too. If someone hasn’t got it yet – IOTA is about the future and it relies only on those paradigms which pass the test of critical thinking."

- http://come-from-beyond.com/time-for-a-paradigm-shift-has-co...
What if there are no owners? AFAIK, there are protocols for atomic cross-chain trading, and there are dapps that are hosted on the blockchain itself (and are part of the chain). I think dapps have ownership, but I won't be particularly surprised to see if bazaar would be able to try something about consensus-updated codebase without explicit ownership. That could go very wrong, but nonetheless that would be interesting experiment to witness (if anyone would dare, heh). I mean, not for tax evasion purposes, but solely as a "ownerless" software development model.

Node software developers could be at risk, though.
I see that number all the time as well, but i'm confused.

There is less than 2 Trillion in Gold in the entire world. If you divide 2 Trillion / 21 Million (total number of possible bitcoins), you would get BTC of $100,000 equals the market cap of Gold. Not $500,000.

By my math BTC of $500,000 would be 5x the market cap of gold. Would someone explain how my math is wrong?
If anybody could sell it as a good thing, it's Apple. "Phone performance adjusts automatically to preserve battery life"
Yes, even if you sell iced tea:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr...
Fair distinction; added edit.

It would not surprise me if odds were indeed different by region. It would be smart to do that, anyways, since player behavior may be different.
When were they cagey about it? Not documenting something isn't equivalent to being cagey...
Most interesting. Thank you for posting this.
Netflix user targeted by ‘Bee Movie’ ad identified
Show HN: Wlacklightz
I would much rather have anonymous knowledge leaked out via participation on HN than somebody being quiet because they don't like what they are doing.
I think the assumption in the parent - which would also have been my guess - was that assets begin in higher resolution than required and get sampled down. Certainly used to be the case with games.
Great work ! I wonder if this will build on any of the libraries that let you use Objective C, X-platform - maybe on GNUStep ?
He monetarily donated to support a position that half of America supported. One simply can't expect demand that level of moral purity in a free society.
First of all, why do you claim that opposing gay marriage is causing harm? Those with the strongest arguments against gay marriage will argue that it is a false idea and that its legal recognition is harmful both to society and the individuals involved. You claim that is it harmful to oppose gay marriage why? Because it prevents gay couples from receiving the recognition of the state as a married couple?

The fervor and zeal of many pro-gay marriage advocates, their readiness to slander those opposed to gay marriage as harmful bigots, and the claim that gay marriage is a right doesn't square with the arguments they give. The thrust seems to be: everyone must recognize what I want recognized because I want it to be recognized. Otherwise, you're a hateful bigot who wishes to harm me.
> The only way to disable Pocket was to go into "about:config"

All you had to do was remove it from the toolbar. Pocket is/was lazily loaded, it doesn't do anything if you're not using it.
In evolutionary biology, there is no notion of correct or incorrect usage of a faculty. In fact, the opposite is the case. Evolution often occurs by modifying and reusing some functionality in a new way or in a new context. It has no specific goals or purposes. Things that survive and reproduce stick around and things that don't die off, no matter the details.

The sexual organs don't have a pre-ordained purpose. The argument falls apart at the very first premise.

If the actual concern is that all of humanity will turn gay and then we will go extinct, well, it's safe to say I'm not too worried about that.
Can't wait to see Rust for embedded development become more mature over then next few years!
I didn't mean to exclude other systems by naming Apt, it was rather meant as an example. The non-Debian based systems, and even the non-Linux based systems are important.

I agree that an OS independent package manager is a plus for Rust adoption. I also think it cannot replace the OS package managers, and therefore Rust should also play nice with them, and integrate as much as possible.
Touche (with an accent aigu) -- I had forgotten that. But I knew SOME kind of plural was called for.