skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuine question: WHy do you think it is awful? I found "Harvey OS" to have quite a nice ring to it.

It does not sound to me like a blockbuster name, but sounds good enough, like "Rust" :)
> they provide food and drink near areas where human tissue may be flying about, presenting incredible risk of transmission of disease

Well, if the physicians & surgeons consuming the food & drink don't care, why should we? Presumably they are educated and trained enough to consider the risks.

> Second, it's impossible to properly clean up hotel ballroom spaces from blood borne pathogens compared to labs available in teaching hospitals.

I imagine that it's the teaching hospitals who sponsored this report — it's in their interest to see this kind of thing banned, because then they'd have a monopoly on cadaver labs.
People who accepted the patch were "ethereum" holders and those who refused are now on "ethereum classic".

Except almost all hold both ETC and ETH regardless of the viewpoint and client they run.
Demanded cash. Only an asshole would pull a gun on some homeless man who asks if he has any spare change.

It changes if they come up and demand money.

Losing a couple thousand bucks would suck, and if that was guaranteed to be the end of it then I'd rather that be the end of it. The problem is you are dealing with people who are already willing to commit robbery, there is any number of ways that situation could get violent. Once it does then who knows what happens.
5) I have some cool open source projects (Hydra / Mjolnir) that I would love to work on more but don’t have enough time for, especially considering my wife and I have 5 kids. Getting paid for working on it would allow me to add requested features or fix bugs.
NYC has it too:

"Effective Oct. 31, 2017, it will be illegal for public and private employers of any size in New York City to ask about applicant's salary history..."

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/cchr/media/salary-history.page
I wonder if this is the strongest deterrent the government can pass to prevent paying women differently.
> Is the media hopelessly out of touch?

What income group do these media outlets think their readers belong to? If anything this kind of reporting might show why "bottom half of earners in America" are turning towards stuff like Breitbart etc.
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Yeh, start bugging your employer (assuming you work for one) to get those awesome adjustable desks that can raise/lower to different heights. OK, they are a bit pricy, but if enough people speak up about it that should make things happen. Hopefully :)
I think that just points back to reputation again.
Huh, that sounds interesting. Does it scale?

I mean, it sounds a bit like 'software defined computing' if you'll excuse the terrible metaphor, a bit like SDN which abstracted the physical networking layer.

Does Harvey abstract the hardware layer? So it could theoretically scale to a huge amount of machines that look like one giant powerful one?

Wouldn't the speed of operation be limited to the speed of the network though?

Anyway, sorry if the questions sound silly, I don't know much about this stuff.
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I think that's the Minsky Moment, basically that long periods of stable investment growth lead to increased risk-taking, inflation of a bubble, and eventually a crash.
I've seen resonance snap a 1" grade #9 bolt. Vibration and resonant vibration are real killers when it comes to mechanics and construction.
People are always swiping the digikey ones from our engineers.
An issue I've had with Xming and Cygwin, is if I rdp to my windows desktop from my laptop (potentially caused by using a different screen resolution / color depth), sometimes the X server will crash when I go back to my full desktop.
What do you do if you are asked anyway?
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How could this possibly be constitutional?
Judge rm -rf Grsecurity's defamation sue-ball against Bruce Perens
I wonder if crypto currency will survive, or if we end up with Blockchain being a useful technology and smart contracts having niche applications and still worth a lot.
its only been 16 days since the price sky rocketed. Everyone who thinks its a ponzi scheme, doesnt understand how this all work to begin with. Do take note also that its nearing christmas and many people are selling their coins for the holidays. I am sure that right after the holidays the coin value will go back up.
There are two very different ways to fall into that one big bet investment" trap:

The obvious one is greed, if you believe that you have found the best investment, why allocate funds to the second best.

The less obvious one is all about UX: when people who don't consider wealth management their life's calling happen upon a fortune, they just want that money safely out of mind. And safely, to them, includes not causing unintended disagreements with the taxman. This requires keeping things simple enough to feel confident in being able to at least roughly understand what their professional advisors are doing. Obviously, an "all eggs in one basket" approach with a mainstream investment like a basic ETF would be the much lesser evil. But when people have a high base level of distrust in any wealth management professional this can easily blind them to the all-important difference between a regular whitehat tax advisor and a sleazy ponzi salesperson, making them the perfect mark for the latter.
"Bill Gates walks into a bar and the average net worth of everyone there goes up $1M"
This is the dream, but I doubt Apple will offer any kind of proper home-screen integration like there is on Android. I can only hope tho
It's still far better than the 2x font size sites.
I doubt any reputable company would do that, if they ask, I suppose it's time to drop the interview process.
As has been said a few different ways: it's all in the translations.....I was indoctrinated with the King James Version, you know, the one that is 100 % accurate, up to knowing which books to leave out after the council of Nicaea... So in that light, the quote is correct :)
Is it really denial of service, or just deterioration of service?
I appreciate the minimal nothing fancy website design.
> Surely the answer lies somewhere in-between, that we must rest, and we must move

I think the biggest change we made that caught us completely unprepared, was that we've committed ourselves to doing the same thing 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, all year long, for decades. I don't think our bodies evolved for this kind of effort (and I use the word "effort" even when the activity requires a lot of sitting, which is appropriate as the article shows).

If you look at hunter-gatherer societies, their activity is more "bursty", more casual. They go gather stuff for a couple hours, then rest; then perhaps do something else. They go hunt something, which is harder, and then rest a longer time. Etc. There might be periods of intense activity, then longer times of rest, or diminished effort. There are also seasonal variations.

The executive functions behind our foreheads, with their long term planning and their delayed gratification, are really pushing us pretty hard in directions that we're not fully adapted to.

Perhaps something similar happened to our diet. Three meals a day, every day, for decades - that's a very recent change in diet. It used to be a lot more "lumpy" throughout the whole evolutionary past that has shaped us.
Came to mention the same. However, Wikipedia[0] says crobots borrowed the concept from RobotWar[1] on the Apple ][, but "originally developed in the TUTOR programming language on the PLATO system in the 1970s". It's a whole genre... the young'uns just haven't seen it yet! Everything old is new again!

I'd like to see a twist where you could actually engineer your own weaponry using simplified physics, sort of like a cross between Kerbal Space Program and crobots, but with WebGL. I once coded a two player button bashing QBasic[2] snake version something like that, where you had competitive weaponry like flamethrowers and manually future-operable mine deployment. It was popular in our school for a few weeks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic
> Its not a commodity it's a currency.

I don't see how this is justifiable at this point. With rampant speculation, $30+ transaction fees, the slow nature of the network, devs who keep putting off dealing with the slow nature, forking, etc...
Because it's designed around a protected group. It's the same reason why asking someone's immigration status or country of birth is illegal. The equal protection clause of the Constitution can trump free speech when they conflict.
Nick Leeson: Bitcoin – it's not all good
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-22/mike-novogratz-dela... -- Funny that the price went up after his announcement. Correlation not causation, but ironic nonetheless.
Most of the Telcos book and pay in advance to Apple for iphones. If stock is easily available means the telcos over estimated demand now it could be that sales are not as high as previously or Telco overbooked. Talking to people around me that use iPhones though most feel 8 is not worth upgrading and X is too expensive so many of them have gone for 7.
Several jobs ago, we were in the data center and doing this came up. We had an idle disk shelf with which to test, so we started up a bulk IO operation (`dd` or something; I don't remember what, specifically), and watched the dip in the IO rate correlate perfectly with someone crouching next to the shelf and screaming at it.
FaceID only fails for me when laying in bed and my face is half covered by the pillow. It works brilliantly while riding my bike. Yup, sunglasses, helmet, looking down at the phone while moving 15mph, flawless.

TouchID also almost always worked for me but failed when my hands were wet. My wife has endless problems with TouchID on her phone.
The problem with both is the same. The benefits are only derived if everyone follows the system, but human nature dictates that will not be the case. The problem is with the nature of what is voluntary. Most homeowners in a non communist country, presumably don't want to leave their home, or join a commune. When you determine everyone MUST participate, the distinction you make evaporates.
Absolutely. For those testing communities too, reputation / track record is everything. And since a lot (but, sadly, still a minority) of customers will also reagent the product themselves - a lot of them in countries, especially in the EU, where such a test is free and anonymous thanks to non-profits or even in some case government backed services - any divergence is in theory quick to appear and would cast doubt on their reputation. But that's only the theory, and as you say it's far from a perfect system.

The community I mentioned (I don't know if it's still active) used to ask vendors for samples to test; but also ordered product from those same vendors (and others) as "fake" customers in order to make sure the product actually being sold is the one they tested. They also had donation runs with the community at large (both to pay for the tested products and to remunerate themselves).
We learned from the Equifax breach that salary is part of the information collected.

"So, it's illegal to ask? Who cares, that guy's just going to lie anyway. Let's make him give us permission to check his credit report on the job application and get the exact number. Like we always did."
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Paying for a $5 cup of coffee with a debt card takes about 10 seconds and invites about $0.10 in transaction fees. Paying in physical currency is even faster and costs approximately $0.

According to https://bitcoinexchangerate.org/fees, getting a single transaction committed within the next hour costs just under $50.

I've heard plenty of ideas to make the Bitcoin network a little cheaper or a little faster. Occasionally both! I've yet to hear a good theory for how the Bitcoin network can ever get both 500x cheaper and 500x faster.
Most people are not familiar with US state codes.

I, for one, assumed that this is about Canada.
There are no common tools in nodejs, no system ships with node. I only have node on my production servers, because Rails needs a JS engine and node is fast.

Actually i assume nearly every techie tries to avoid installing hundreds of different interpreters with even more dependencies just to run tiny scripts which could be replaced by a smart shell one liner.
Well said. Rent control, prop 13, NIMBY all things that deepen the terrible consequences that are seen everyday.

And its crazy to me to visit Seattle right now and also find my way walking next to so many mentally ill homeless people.

I'm not big on most socialized solutions, but taking care of mentally ill people roaming the streets is one of those that are very easy to agree to. Yet the topic everyday is Trump this or that,while you had to walk past 10-20 people to get to the office.

There is some massive cognitive dissonance going on, that I think I can easily think and talk about because im a foreigner.
Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount
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(1) the infaliabilty of its public ledger (which means it is especially useful where trust is low and where trust is needed).

Except when they roll it back because people with more money than you demanded it after they got screwed somehow.
Wiring the interior of your house to a network connected device, whether cloud or not, sounds crazy to me anyways. I realize 95% of the "hacked" webstreams are due to people not changing the default password and forwarding the port, but there are enough security vulnerabilities aside from that where I wouldn't feel comfortable with them installed indoors.
...because it's so voluntary to participate in western capitalism?

EDIT: Point being, the economic milieu one finds one's self in, is that in which one tends to be obligated to participate — especially at the lower levels of power within that model.

That is: regular folk are trapped in the system they're born into. It is not meaningful to call their participation voluntary on their part. They may have nominally more freedom within the model in capitalism, but they're, on the whole, just as obligated to participate; they are just as much grist for the mill, under either model.
I was a bit shocked by New York’s subway; you always seems to have to wait a loooong time for a train. On the London Underground the carriages are much smaller but waiting even 5 mins for a train is vanishingly rare. Tokyo has a crazy subway that guarantees to almost the second when the trains go. You can literally say exactly when you’ll be somewhere across town down to the minute and it’s nearly never wrong.
I have more hope in projects like fuchsia, where separation of concerns is taken seriously - there are providers for "things" and on the fly configuration can glue several independent components to serve as one - for example instead of "Google Maps", "Bing Maps", or "Apple Maps" - you would have several map data providers (maybe some with higher data quality for specific regions), several map data viewers, several events, places, traffic, etc. providers - and you end up with one combined view of all them, e.g. not application but an user "story", as briefly explained here:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/modular/+/master/docs/modul...
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If you need the job, answer and lie. If you really really need the job, answer honestly. If you don’t need the job, decline.
The thing that bothers me most is.. Don't people want cookies any more??? When I go grocery shopping, I get a cookie from the bakery. I need to look at them all and pick out the best one. That's how it works! Although I'm sure Amazon will have a solution for that soon enough as well!
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Sounds like they forgot it's a volatile market where 30% drops are the norm.
No, it is basically a boring hard flat piece of wood. Think of a bit of floor raised up off the ground. No back or arms.
Ask HN: What is stopping you from becoming a freelancer?
Sure. Now compare their amounts of muscular mass, and the percentages of body fat.

I think the real problem is doing the same thing many hours a day, every day, all year long, for decades. Whether that's sitting, or felling trees, it appears to be equally bad, just in different ways.

We are shaped by evolution for a more varied lifestyle.
Same here. Thought it was a bit odd of a technology for Amazon to want to buy.
> you'll have an authentication server which does only authentication

> you'll have a file server which ONLY serves files

These sound like disadvantages. Decentralization would be better. I'd like to share the storage of all my servers and not have one auth server as a single point of failure. I imagine you can setup up a redundant auth server at the cost of more hardware but why not decentralize? This seems a lot like the old way of doing things.
I think thought this change will hurt those who are perform well but not good at negotiating a salary. Maybe they gained a high salary at their previous employer and it used to be a signal of their value. Should we also hide where they graduated from and the name of their previous employer too because a prestigious university or employer will definitely give an advantage.
The previous salary question was also a penalty for being honest or not in-the-know. All the advice I ever heard about this question was to exaggerate. This creates an undesirable equilibrium where savvy people wink at each other while newcomers miss out.
Bill's net worth is $90 billion. It would be more accurate to estimate that everyone's average net worth of the bar population goes up by several billion.
You don't think the fact that the other 99.99% of the population is perfectly happy using dollars is more of a reason?
You're missing the fact that an exchange can execute trades where they're both the buyer and the seller, and so they don't end up spending anything overall. Illegal on actual stock markets, but very easy to do in the murky regulatory environment that exists around cryptocurrencies.
More like "Bill Gates walks into a football stadium and the average net worth of everyone there goes up $1M"
We could debate the point of trickle-down, but the rich are not creating the poor. Something else is.

SF has spent 330 million dollars to tend to their 15k homeless people. 22k a year. I dont know about you but I dont see them living 22k a year lives. And I see syringes, severely sick and mentally ill people walking the streets everyday.
If you want to get rid of equality, shouldn't salaries of positions public? I'm not saying an exact number, but a range. This asymmetric information gives the employer a much larger edge in wage negotiation.
It is not a criminal trial therefore you don't have to construct an argument?

Your original reply was you got a "nicer phone that's sealed and seamless". Apple innovated the smartphone_without_user_replaceable_battery. So I am asking you, would you not prefer to have the choice of having a similar smartphone (with pretty much all the benefits of the iPhone) but then _with_ a user replaceable battery?

You know what the beauty of such a device is? We wouldn't need this silly discussion. You'd just buy a new battery from Apple and be done with it. But for some magic reason, Apple is doing it different again.
Face ID works perfectly for me every time. Sunglasses, hoodie, beanie (the unibomer look, basically) and it works perfectly.

The only annoyance is when it's laying flat on my desk and I want to turn on some music when it isn't currently playing, but I can just tilt it 30 degrees and it opens.

The swiping gestures on X also feel really great over trying to double click the home button all the time.
You're referring to the 'Productivity Paradox'[0] as summarized by Robert Solow in 1987: "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

Summary of possible explanations from the wikipedia article:
1. Computers made the biggest productivity gains early in their life (50s-70s) when they were used by banks and airlines.
2. Industrialization was a far bigger revolution.
3. Computers demand more training and attention than dumb machines which reduces their benefits.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
that would be a very crowded bar!
I'm sure Breitbart is blindly trumpeting the tax cut, just without the profiles/statistics showing what types of people it helps. There's a reason these outlets are showing "typical" families making $250k. That's how they can show that "typical" families benefit significantly.

Most news outlets also stand to benefit significantly because it is primarily a tax cut for businesses.
For comparison, he also thinks it's going to $40K by EOY 2018.

http://www.businessinsider.com/novogratz-bitcoin-could-be-at...
CPC is great. There are advertisers specialized in serving ads looking like download buttons, they will end up on the download pages and greatly confuse users. Fantastic click through rates guaranteed.

I don't think that your experience of running a popular site (reddit) is comparable to running a download site.
It seems a bit older than that. Much of the design goals for Harvey were in the early MULTICS systems of the 70's. In some ways I view Plan9 as Bell Labs attempt to bridge the great components of MULTICS and UNIX together.
Sellers can no longer leave negative feedback for buyers for this exact reason, for better or worse.

Now, they'll just buy one of your (cheap) items and leave negative feedback as a buyer if they can.

Don't sell and buy on the same account.
It's convenient to have a local scapegoat. It feels good to inflict pain on people you perceive as the guilty party. I certainly understand that. I've lost more than one friend.

But that convenience has brought us to where we are right now. If we continue to close our eyes to reality, preferring to go after scapegoats, guess what - nothing is going to change. We need to channel our anger into more productive channels.

You don't solve a systemic problem by attacking symptoms.
Im sure you could start a whole school of just reminding people of those simple statements.
DigiKey. Got a handful of them.