skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally very pro-union, but I've found unions in the US are a bit... strange.

I think union membersip is more widespread in western Europe than in the US, but I feel they could even be a bit more powerful here. They can barely keep the power balance in most industries, and have to fight long for modest raises (compensating inflation at best). Even when the economy is prosperous like in Germany, it seems they can't get many concessions.

But still there is some power balance between unions and employers, and this balance is considered the normal system how wages are negotiated in many fields.

In the US, unions seem a bit like rackets. For example, some places are only allowed to hire union members (per deal with the union). Woah, I wouldn't think this is allowed in Europe. Instead of painfully negotiating a 1% raise over a couple of years (by hinting at the possibility of announcing a warning strike), they seem to dictate ridiculous policies to make a few people rich.

Can someone explain this difference? Is it just anti-union propaganda that makes them look bad in the US? Or did they kill off the European style unions a long time ago and just left the rackets?
Here's the 990: http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/463/4634857...

See the bottom of PDF page 8 under Independent Contractors and the bottom of page 27. Note that p27 is NOT saying that all that money went to John Steele, just that he is an interested person in the transaction.

It looks to me like "Nautilus Ventures" is a for-profit that actually publishes and the non-profit pays that entity. All the operating expenses are there so the 990 doesn't really tell you what they spent.
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2018 and the Internet: our predictions
I need to improve the write up, but I'm coming to the end of my current iteration of a genetic algorithm to evolve the Mona Lisa from polygons.

This year I reimplemented it in rust and did some low level optimization to make it fast.

https://github.com/peterbraden/genetic-lisa
One Million New Sellers Joined Amazon Marketplace in 2017
You're probably right:

https://www.quora.com/How-much-faster-would-it-be-to-render-...

Going by the vague dates in the article it's probably ~1 min per frame rendering Toy Story today.
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Getting users on my just-launched REST API Monitoring SaaS:

http://www.apilope.com

Initially I thought it'd be easy to acquire users since I'm speaking to my own kind - but it's pretty hard to get into developers' head :) No instagram influencers can be used, that's for sure.

Anybody have any ideas?
My experience is that fresh grads are aware they lack experience and are appropriately modest in their judgements of technologies, whereas people with ten years of experience are dogmatically confident that certain technologies are good or bad.
This is an interesting question to me, because I know little to nothing about the cryptography involved with cryptocurrencies.

1) What's the probability of the cryptographic ciphers behind cryptocurrencies being broken?

2) If they were broken, is it possible to 'move' BTC or other coins to a new cipher?

I apologize if I'm using the 'cipher' terminology incorrectly.
Well I've read about statistics regarding the subject and homosexual men report that they have the most sex and homosexual women the least. It's what they themselves report and that should tell us that there is definitely something biological going on.

I believe people today have bias towards believing that our biology doesn't matter when all the evidence suggests that it matters way more than a lot of us think. There is a lot of political views that base the entire ideology on social sciences which most often than not is extremely hard to prove.

Personally, I don't understand why female and male brains would be exactly the same. Of course they are going to be different since a lot of other stuff regarding our bodies are. It seems very unreasonable to me that evolution would leave our most important organ, the brain, completely untouched from differences.
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Market cap is not what you think it is. If there are X amount of bitcoins with the last one traded at price P, then the market cap is X * P. However, if people attempted to liquidate these bitcoins into 'real' currency, P would continuously go down. Market cap hence is not the amount of 'real' money that's contained within the bitcoin ecosystem.
The Story of $85,000 That Turned into 10 Times That Within One Year
Work on governed.io, a native app that makes it easy to fax and manage your communication with your congressional reps.
It's all about trade-offs though, right?

Compared to a native app web apps are bloated, slow, have foreign UIs, and are power hungry. On a desktop machine, it probably doesn't matter, but for anything battery powered it does. I'll choose a native app any day of the week over a web app.
IKEA's products as listed in the catalogue can be ordered (and, if required, build). Magic Leap cannot be build and has yet to deliver.

Even if Magic Leap will ship, their secrecy is unwarranted because they don't have any credit as a company. Compare to Apple's secrecy: they do have credit.
How many people killed by extremists in the US last year? Are you suggesting that US should increase their security to the same level as China (and implement a police state) to avoid more extremists death?
Relays are pretty reliable if you exchange them regularly enough. Just because the stuff is old it doesn't mean that you can't build machines with enough redundancy to make them very dependable. It's not so clear that complex software solutions as in modern interlockings are more dependable than the comparably simple electromechanical solutions of yore. Cheaper, yes, more capable, sure, but more reliable?
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I am teaching computers how to interact with the environment via touch, its a machine learning project: github.com/jtoy/sensenet
This article is a poster child for jumping to conclusions. It's just as possible that there's no impact because there aren't a significant number of violent actions performed by police with the mindset that it is not justified.

We seem to have a great understanding of the detachment with which a doctor needs to operate to handle a stressful and high stakes daily environment, but somehow totally lack this empathy when it comes to police.
I will continue working on "The Better Wiki", which is a proxy to Wikipedia with better readability. Inspired by "Reader View" of Safari.

https://thebetter.wiki/en/
I'm interested in doing similar. Due to time constraints might be be per 2 months.

Some ideas:

Poker variant - quite hard but thought of a way to do it without a trusted oracle.

Hodl contract - forces you to hold for X months

Simple asset price contract where 2 parties bet each way. Requires an oracle.

Sports betting. Oracle.

Reputation coin - prove your general rep by aggregating HN, SO, Reddit etc. scores. Oracle.

The usual lottery

A "ponzi"

Let me know if you want to get in touch and I'll stick an email in my profile. Would like someone to bounce ideas and help each other if stuck.
The pilot's opinions are a perfectly good example, must communities shun that airline as religiously impure if an individual pilot disagrees in any way with current authoritarian enforced doctrine?
Learning video editing and video production to a level somewhere between OK/meh Facebook video and Casey Neistat. I know it can be more an art than a science, and I am learning from every videographer/producer/tech person that I talk to. Just getting a workflow down is a WIP. No one reads blog posts anymore, and I think this is a good skill to cultivate. I've done my share of volunteering as a teacher/tutor, and I'm beginning to believe I can better bring value to these organizations by helping them share what they are doing through snappy, informative short videos. I don't think I am a good teacher/tutor, and I am a natural storyteller. Does anyone have tips, suggestions, recommended sites/books? I will be using Adobe Premiere Pro.
I really don't understand the mentality that you should act as your opponent is a decent person while at the same time claim that they're spreading lies. If someone would act like this against me, I would try to crush them in court. I'd never act as I like them. Is this an American cultural thing? Or maybe a crowdfunding thing?

If Woodshed are to be believed, D-Cal has basically tried to crush their reputation. They did the right thing not responding to tweets.
Paramount and Bigscreen to Bring Movies to VR Starting with 'Top Gun'
> Antwerp also recently introduced a measure where only cars with a low amount of "exhaust gases" (can't really find the proper name as of writing this) are allowed in the city centre. I haven't been there since, but it's also something I truly admire going into the future.

Amsterdam is introducing a similar system for scooters. Older scooters are no longer allowed in these designated zones due to 'environmental concerns.' I don't really buy that as the reason though; the government has been actively making the centre more and more bike-safe, and scooters are an active threat to cyclists due to the shared lanes.
The MMTOA is 10% on its own, so I am not sure I see your point.
... And even though i don't have a lot of users, existing ones are very loyal and happy with the tool. It gives me a boost every day knowing that someone actually benefits from what i'm doing.
It's 2 to the 32nd power, not 232 :-)
Too many cameras exploits in the wild these days indeed.

Need a OSS system for the cameras, just like OSS firmware such as Openwrt to replace vendor firmwares.

Camera itself does not have enough resource to deal with DDOS or brutal-force attach or updating-with-CVE-quickly if they'are exposed to the public internet _directly_, they should sit behind some firewall. I hope those important cameras, or privacy-concerned cameras, are at least not installed with a public IP, not sure if that is true though, otherwise more exploits will keep coming.
> You can easily transport 3 children in the back of a car without difficulty (try doing that on a bicycle).

I see this everyday in Copenhagen:

https://christianiacykel12.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/image...
Very nice!! I look forward to reading through all the structured concurrency stuff later.
Well most of the software is free, you tell me. :)
Any chance of a ELI5 of this?
I am a fairly avid cyclist and I agree with you, especially the second part. Unfortunately I think well over half of the population in my country, the United States- regardless of political leaning- truly dislikes cyclists.

My personal opinion is that the car culture in the United States creates an environment where everyone is enforcing their own arbitrary set of rules on the road, and in most cases, cycling is very much against these rules(regardless of any legal or logical basis).

Reading any comments, as a cyclist, on almost any social media platform regarding cycling becomes disheartening to downright scary. It's as if there's not even a discussion to be had.
Pro-tip: if you pop a shell, only use it to run your own dropper. Use locally available tools as little as possible. Automate your entire post-exploitation payload and cleanup and get out as soon as possible.

Reading this article is like reading about elite navy seals who storm an enemy outpost, get inside, and then get distracted trying to refashion a stapler they find laying around into a lock-picking device to open the safe.
Which will never accumulate a backlog because it is happy to kill your task. ;)
Many years ago, I sold real estate. With some regularity, I'd e-mail a list of homes to an eager young professional couple. The sort who always say the correct things and always vote the correct way.

One of the homes in that list would be so well shot, and so well priced, that they'd take time off of work--they had to see it right now! They chatter excitedly on the drive over. We slow down as we enter the neighborhood. Their excitement is at its apex. Then the excitement drops an octave. I scan the horizon, pondering, "What is this disturbance in the force?" Then I notice, we just drove by a black guy raking his yard. After the next black guy in his yard--silence.

We pull up to the house. As I let them out of the car, I am met with the faces of two people searching for an excuse. One of them breaks, "It's not that we're racists. Some of my best friends are black. It's just that, um, we don't want to be the only white people in the neighborhood."

They get back into the car. I take them back to the office, and I never see them again.

Nice neighborhood, great price, neighbors that take care of their yards--obviously no rational reason to scrub the showing, no one screaming the n-word, no "far-right" politics, just a couple higher-level office slaves quietly reclining into the old tribalisms.
Apple admits slowing down older iPhones
Indeed. Anyway, I hope that Apple release a thicker iPhone, with bigger battery. Maybe we are reaching a maturity level of the market, where they can differentiate the iPhone more.
> - Vendor lock-in: although I try to minimise this and have a clear picture of where the lock-in lies, it is very much present.

The post isn't loading so I don't know exactly what it's in reference to (AWS lambda, the framework, the more generic idea?). But, the serverless framework[0] supports all major cloud providers (AWS, Google, & Azure) as well as self-hostable options like OpenWhisk and Kubeless.

[0] https://github.com/serverless/serverless
Driverless Car from GM’s Cruise and Motorcycle Collide in San Francisco
Gosh, those marshmallows looks devine! I'll make sure to link to it within my side-project (once the new version is up).
> Cyclists need to be trained as well.

You can avoid the majority of the unsafe situations if you have the right infrastructure. Meaning: a simple line on the street or some line on the pedestrian path is really poor safety wise.

A bike line should be on its own. Not close to parked cars, not a part of the pedestrian path. Further, it should be super visible (always painted red in the Netherlands). So many countries there's either no separation or it's just some sign.

Similar for crossings. There's loads of video's explaining the Dutch system. Whenever I go abroad I find most bicycle initiatives unsafe and poorly thought out.

Plus all of this can usually be done without actually needing additional space.
I'll be continuing work on Jam Together.

Jam Together is a web application which you can use to play some music together with your friends, remotely.
Right now it's possible to play with a midi keyboard as well as just your laptop keys.

I've got a piano, a synth and a drum kit working (if you create a free account. Piano only without an account).

I'll be adding more instruments, work on reducing latency (anyone here with multiplayer game development experience that would like to help out?), different jamming modes, and most importantly work on some marketing to get more feedback on the app so I can evolve it in the right direction.

Check it out on the link below.
A couple of disclaimers though... Chrome only, optimised for people residing in the EU for now, otherwise latency is too much of an issue to reliably play.

http://jamtogether.eu
https://support.gdax.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2819552...
No mention of their arrested employee...
I recently found a book for children featuring "NLP" for making them sleep. Apparently it's a best seller on Amazon. I think I'll buy it and adapt it for spicing up relationships. It's gonna be huge. Sigh.
> 2) Cut service overnight to increase maintenance times

Absolutely not!
Overnight service is an essential element of the NYC subway system. It's what makes the subway go from being a convenience to being a utility. Knowing that I can absolutely rely on subway, or at least a shuttle bus, at any time of the night, is a completely different experience than living in a city where I have to plan might night around the train. Even if it very slow at night, I know it will be there. Like a road.

Besides, I doubt that shutting down all 400 miles of the network will significantly improve maintenance efficiency. They already severely cut back service to a few trains an hour, and they coordinate with maintenance crews pretty well, and crawl past them at 5mph. And the system is big enough so that they can shut down parts of it.

I think the only time the city completely shut down service was during 9/11, but they had partial service again a few hours later, to areas that did not pass through the neighborhood.

But I can tell you that proposing we shut down all service after a certain hour is as ludicrous as saying we should close most of our bridges after a certain hour. The subway is not an add-on for NYC like in it is in most cities, it is an essential feature.
(removed, it shows they paid a company fully owned by him, but there is no way to know where that company spent it's money)
What a ridiculous idea. If you are deeply opposed to gay marriage, the only way that becomes an issue is if it bleeds over into your work. This sort of bigotry becomes a problem because people who are deeply opposed to gay marriage can't shut up about it or stop themselves from trying to apply their 'values' to others who didn't ask for it.

This inability to separate emotions and passions from cooperating on a shared focus with others, of differing emotions and passions, but equal interest in the shared focus (community) is deeply damaging.

This is equally nonsense. Being alive and being a functional member of society means realizing that there are passions and emotions that do not belong in any work environment. Being intolerant of gay people is one of them.
Hi there, I'm assuming TA means Teaching Assistant. I'm a CS teacher on a small polytechnic university and I'm looking for ways to transition some of my current courses from lecture-based with labs to project-based like this one seems to be.

Could you expand a little bit on your experience? Like, was all the course divided in 3-4 week-long projects, was there theoretical classes, how were the students graded (i.e., did they have exams as well, homework, etc.)? What were the other projects?
It is not even state by state. It is city by city and most cities in the north east either ban right turns on red entirely, or post a sign banning it at every intersection.
It makes it easier though.
It's so bad for North Korea that they operate series of restaurants for the sole purpose of bringing exportable cash back to the country. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/08...

It's so bad for North Korea that they "sell" large groups of laborers to friendly countries to work in remote areas for the sole purpose of bringing exportable cash back to the country. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kwnw3w/north-korean-labor...

It's so bad for North Korea that for many years they operated a factory town on the border with their active enemy South Korea that used low payed North Korean workers to make goods to sell back to South Korea, under South Korean management for the sole purpose of bringing cash into the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region

The list goes on.

The GDP of North Korea is estimated to be about $30 billion with the per capita income being around $1,000 per person. North Korea is deeply cash strapped, has few trading partners, and produces very little that anybody would want anyways. It doesn't take much money to move the needle. To not be aware of this is to not posses even remotely moderate critical faculties.
I think an issue is that by including some people you are by necessity working to make other groups unwelcome: the choice to be apolitical is a political choice.
Solid-state electronics from 1967? Eight nines for individual components doesn't sound at all implausible to me.
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It's complicated. There's different sources of revenue for a system like that. Does Greyhound increase it's fare if the roads need to be repaved?

The funding for the tracks and the other parts of the system come from different places, with the farebox only having to partially pay for their upkeep. And there's a lot of politics involved because the rest of the state of NY helps pay for the subway.
Shockingly, it turns out that there are people in Venezuela and Zimbabwe who have demand for unconfiscatable/uninflatable stores of money beyond daily transactions.
Unless I am mistaken, you have allowed your feelings to set the limits of what you are willing to accept as true?
All those issues can be postfixed with "... on Lambda". They're specific challenges that will come up when using Lambda as advertised in production :)

As with most system improvements we're not really talking about removing complexity, just reshuffling it into a new and more pleasing form. Lambda will let you wildly simplify some things, but pain points otherwise accounted for in larger deployments will get moved onto your lambda services to compensate.

Cold starts, for example, aren't generally an issue at the function level in web applications as the application itself is/isn't warmed up. By introducing a Lambda back-end you get to take a stance on that per-function while caring less about it in your webapp front-ends.

The OP is trying to highlight where these new and less obvious challenges arise in the new stack, not pushing Lambda as the end all of app dev.
How does Hookdoo differ from plain old CGI scripts? I have no idea why I would need it.
> When does it make more sense to simply photograph a car than to try and make a digital image of a car look as real as possible?

If you're making a movie? Not as often as you might think.

With real cars you have to acquire them, transport them, close off streets to film them, in many shots rent out a helicopter to get a shot in, you're limited to certain times of day to get the right lighting...

Animation became part of film and (especially) TV quite early, and it wasn't about some stylized unrealistic aesthetic; it's just plain cheaper. And then of course you're going to want to get around the limitations of the form, and put your anthropomorphizing eyes onto objects that are as realistic as possible.
The Big Bang of Nanophotonics
We used this same project when I was GMU. I definitely enjoyed this project and some of the other projects we had in the same class such as implementing a TLB and page table and the "binary bomb" project.
I know a number of gay and gay-friendly people who disagree or oppose gay marriage laws to various degrees, for a variety of reasons. So, huh, of course yes I think they can!

Important: disagreeing with or opposing a gay marriage law is really not the same as being against inclusivity, diversity, or gays. Some people will have both traits; the problematic (for lack of a less polite word) one is the latter, not the former.
It doesn't seem to include data that I have done for other organizations. Is that the intent?
From what I've gathered in this thread, people support the writers, not John Steele, but he ends up with most of the money they give.
"It becomes hard to attract contributors when the project gets defined by the actions of one of its participants."

I'm unaware of anyone ever making a decision about contributing to a software project based on secret police level surveillance of current team members political or religious opinions. Even classified DoD stuff I've been involved in isn't that creepy.

Its important to focus discussion on extremes such as murders when the actual goal is to make sure Republicans are unemployable.
I second this. You can internally build your monolith in a way that makes a transition to microservices easy. Avoid global state and build single concern processes which have their dependencies passed to them on creation.
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I feel like his previous work was better, but still a great game. If you haven't heard of this man you definitely need to check him out. http://www.zachtronics.com