skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Boundaries are imho critical to give structure to society.

Looking at history I would even say that boundaries, as in the "need" to give a superior moral position to a favored class, whether an economic class, intellectuals, a military class, or priesthood, was always where these boundaries were. The thing you can't see is that your/our "boundaries" are no different.

And every single time, those boundaries turned out to be, not "for trade" (e.g. the Roman Empire), "for the military" (e.g. the second Islamic dynasty), intellectuals (e.g. the French revolution - the first part, or Communism in Eastern Europe) or "for morality" (e.g. the West in the middle ages). I mean, I'm sure there was a period of, say, a decade, where they actually did what it said on the label. It never lasted.

Every single time, those "boundaries" served to guarantee the comfort of a favored class. Firstly, to safeguard their positions of power and comfort, their fortunes, but later even their ideas and egos.

The real boundary we are wanting to impose is that "we are right".

And it's real, real simple. There is a tiny little issue:

We

Are

Wrong

Boundaries do impose structure. The structure does not change, and the world does. That's fundamentally why the boundaries are wrong and the structure will not hold.

I do not know how or where exactly we are wrong, but we are wrong (although I have some ideas: any 5 year old, old enough to talk intelligently, but not old enough to be assimilated yet, will tell you when you walk with them through any city what we are terribly wrong about. There's plenty, I might add).

And that sucks. If it turns out that we are most catastrophically wrong about a moral issue, it will suck REAL bad. And that's happened before. Plenty of times.

It is funny how you see the bay area aging. When we started out, most were in our late teens, early twenties at best. And of course we all felt the same: society is VERY wrong. In all sorts of ways. For instance, women are not different, and certainly not inferior. We KNEW that 20 years ago. But now we're 40, and we feel that, dammit, we're right. And these kids, who seem to prefer economic gains over social issues. Lazy bastards !

And, like the rich 30 years ago, we've decided (whilst having pretty much every creature comfort we like) that moral issues (that just happen to keep our place in society safe and secure) are real important. And these upstart youngsters (who do not in fact enjoy many of our creature comforts), they're bad, mmmkay ! Dammit ! They MUST be stopped.

They will, of course, defeat us. Nothing can stop them.

And they will clobber more than some of our ideas.

And, they will abandon some of our morals.

The thing is, this is a good and healthy thing to happen.
This Hacker News discussion from 3 months ago explains why there is no such single thing as "The Old Behaviour".

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228940

It also explains that "The New Behaviour" has some roots in RFC 1035, which discusses keeping state about which servers are responsive in section 7.2.
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My antivirus marked this as malware!
If I was interviewing you and I told you that if your laptop stopped working during office hours you could be brought up on criminal charges that could include jail time - would you take the job?
> I thought the "hacker culture" would be supportive of the idea (…)

Oh, it is. But this isn’t the hacker culture. It’s startup culture. Take care not to confuse the two.

To quote myself from three years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9149922):

Saying “Hacker/Startup culture” is a little like saying “C/C++” – they are not the same and should not be conflated. Actually, it’s more like saying “Lisp/Java” – many people are enamored by the latter and thinks that the former is very similar, but it is in fact only similar in some superficial ways, and completely different in design, values, and style.
I will keep working on CryptoProphet.co - a smart alert system to keep you updated on any unusual changes of prices of your favourite cryptocurrencies. We send our cryptocurrency price alerts through Telegram.

https://cryptoprophet.co/
I’m in Kyoto. Previously, Nagoya.
I find it very disturbing that other commentators on this post are encouraging to subscribe to this magazine. If you don’t pay your employees that’s pretty bad. If you actively mislead people into thinking that you can pay them that’s even more horrible. I find this behavior reprehensible and we should wait for this joke of a magazine to end.
> John Steele was paid $2,408,000 for "consulting fees" for the publication of the magazine.

That can't be true, and if true, disgusting. That's half a million more than they claimed to have paid for the totality of their content from the start of publication.

If an editor who made millions from a publication by extracting what must be a majority of its revenue as personal income allowed it to go $180K into arrears with the low-paid providers of its content without even making a personal loan, I'm grossed out.

I'm deciding this isn't true. You should add a link.
porting and finishing a game I made to the nintendo switch
> This is necessary because GitHub has a 5000req/hour rate-limit which would be reached very quickly if you tried to analyze some of the bigger profiles on GitHub.

Can someone explain me how starring the repo will fix this issue?
I will keep working on CookArr, and maybe get my 2nd game out :-)

http://cookarr.com
State funds are not a major portion of the budget:

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/project/mta-funding/

(the Petroleum tax and State & Local operating assistance combined are less than 10%)
My DIY 'Stranger Things' Alphabet Wall, Part 1 – ESP8266
Standing on the side lines, indirectly referring to participants as animals (crypto-zoo), shaking your head from your percieved superior position, generalizing participation as gambling / speculating demonstrates you are squarely in the biased 50% camp.

My Disclaimer: I have positions in several crypto projects (not IOTA specifically b/c I don't like some of the decisions they've made). I make no predictions as to which (if any) cryto projects will succeed but ultimately I think that the long term outlook is positive for a few.

edit - typo
im reading this like the opening scene in trainspotting
A bit disappointed, but not surprised, that this retrospective chose not to discuss the origin of the 0day itself.
> deeply opposed to gay marriage, but a fantastic coder, that should not affect my standing within a community that is entirely code focused

Do you think someone can really work effectively with their gay married co-contributors in this case?

Being inclusive is great, but you have to recognise that including certain people drives others away from the project.
I have 3 big ones.

- Nulis - a tree text editor for writers

https://nulis.io/

I have built a beta that was very well received, now it's time to clean up the code(rewriting it from scratch), add some cool features, and follow the roadmap to complete v1.0.

- Helix - a habit tracking app

https://helix.startuplab.io

Designed this app mostly for myself, but I think it turned out great, has a lot of potential, and users seem to love it. My goal here is also to complete all the functionality I've set out to complete with my roadmap and reach a solid v1.0.

- Startup Lab - blog

https://startuplab.io/blog

I want to seriously pick up the pace and quality of my blogging. I want to finally develop a sustainable daily writing habit, and make some successful posts.

====

If I succeed, I will have two awesome SaaS projects to sell, and a great traction channel(articles + medium publications + reddit) to promote them.

I've estimated that I will need 40k total visitors(or 9 months of 150 daily visitors) to reach my goal of $1k MRR

(40k visitors * ~5% retention * ~10% conversion to paying customers = 200 paying users. 200 users * $5/mo = $1k/mo).

If I successfully accomplish my plan - I will finally achieve my dream and become a successful startup founder.

====

As a bonus, I would love to find a good voiceover actor and produce YouTube videos out of my articles(or learn to speak better and do voiceover myself); and I would also experiment with engineering as marketing(I have 3 smaller projects I could promote and use as a traction channel).
Add more features to my personal todo-list app, while still keeping it simple: https://five.today/
This is a myth perpetuated by medical schools. There is no regulatory limit to the number of residency slots hospital's can create. There is a limit to the number Medicare will pay for, and teaching hospitals generally refuse to create slots that are not paid for by Medicare.
Bitcoin and Blockchain for Beginners. Recommend watching.
This seems soon. If appropriate you may want to share a general region in case anyone here will be able to help out, unless she is specifically targeting remote work opportunities (which would also be worth sharing).
I went to Ghent for the first time this year, just passing through.

That place is amazing, getting rid of cars should be a #1 priority for city centres with ANY foot traffic.
I'd rather be watched by surveillance camera than killed by extremists.

How about you?

It is inevitable; before 911 there was almost no security check in airports. Boarding was not too much difference than shopping in Walmart.

This is one kind of insurance: most time accident is not happening, but when it happens it can be deadly.

Life consists of compromises. Some are unavoidable.
I also live in the US. I think your feeling is just that.

Two of my neighbors have internet-connected surveillance cameras around their homes. There are cameras at most street lights. The police have cameras in their cars, including ones that scan license plates automatically.

I live near a school, which is festooned with cameras (and has a constant police presence, too, with their car and body cameras). The stores I shop at have cameras mounted everywhere, mostly behind shaded plastic globes so they're not obvious. (Small businesses tend to have fewer cameras, but still have them.) ATMs have cameras, as do gas stations. My workplace has cameras at entrances, elevators, stairwells and hallways.

And that's before we get into cellphones, Facebook and government surveillance, or the advertising- and data-mining-driven stalkerware that haunts you on the internet.

It is not that you are trusted to do the right thing. It's just that until you somehow gain the attention of some persons or powers with access to all that surveillance, they don't care what you do.
There's also quite a bit of corruption in the MTA... I've heard multiple first-hand accounts of construction kick-backs, intentional sabotage, and other awful things going on internally at the MTA. The problem isn't money, it's awful leadership and politics.
How Tough Is It to Change a Culture of Harassment? Ask Women at Ford
Ask HN: How do Bitcoin millionaires cash out?
Can a vegan work with someone with a non restricted diet?

Can an atheist work with a muslim?

In either case, the answer is the same: if the individuals behave professionally, yes.

If the married gay couple are the ones freaking out at work about my hiring someone who posted against gay marriage on his blog two years ago, they are behaving unprofessionally and should be let go.

If it is the anti-gay marriage advocate who is making snide comments about his colleagues at work (or, in the context of a non work environment, in a shared community forum), then it is he who should be excluded.
Facial Scans at U.S. Airports Violate Americans’ Privacy, Report Says
Clarification: the last machine wasn’t a NeXT machine with PentiumPro processors (no such machine ever existed, they never even graduated beyond 68040 processors), but a machine that ran NeXTStep/OpenStep. It was a NEC Express 5800/130Pro with two 200MHz PentiumPro machines and 256MB of RAM.
I will continue working on NodeZA: https://nodeza.co.za - will focus on content creation and interaction between members.
Surveillance doesn't prevent that, however.
Where’s the evidence for a big increase in demand for labor? All signals suggest the opposite.

The article and post that I replied to talked about aggregate income, which isn’t the same as demand. Aggregate income is a particularly weasel-ly and misleading stat, as wages across the board have been falling in real terms, and usually excludes the people out of the labor force. When you eliminate midrange and low end jobs, and don’t include the people making $0 in the average, the average goes up.

Even in tech, specific verticals are in high demand. Once things get stable, the relentless pressure of offshoring and *aaS deflates labor value.
not read it, but i'm guessing her tedx is a tl;dr? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8el8m9mLM
I started out trying to figure out what a weekly sprint kanban board might look like if it were a pocket notebook. Ended up somewhere a little different (https://1rick.github.io/bluebird/), but it suits me ok for my own pocket task manager.
Ignoring age is the right thing. The title of the job will do the filtering for you. I'm not going to apply to a Jr Dev position. The pay and position handle all this for you. And if someone with extra experience wants the role, what's wrong with that?
Hm. I live in the US. Our police have no cameras. None on the streets, none around the vast majority of homes. None in the schools. Shops have fake ones behind plastic globes (that's why the globes are there; so you don't know that all but 1 or two by the door are fake). Businesses have none.
I've been trying to switch to Spanish Reales, but the coke machine wont take them.
What is functionally different about that illustration other than the cyclist having to make odd movements when going straight - which would be incredibly confusing to oncoming cars turning left?
So if you "thought" that Bitcoin will go over $50k - why not buy the Bitcoin itself now at $20k (or whatever it is today)? i.e. what is gained with the call option here?
Hah!

There's less people getting killed by extremists than people dying from tangling in their bed sheets (or something similar).

Not only is it a a bad trade. Camera's and surveillance don't stop well planned terrorists attacks. At a certain 'level' of terrorism, or any combative action in enemy territory, you operate under the assumption that you'll get caught and/or killed.

If you truly cared about the loss of life you'd be campaigning against the current speedlimit for cars, and the fact that there's no mandatory alcohol locks for starting your car.
If that sort of thing becomes commonplace, that won't be an issue, because they'll never work at all, and actor will slowly but surely cease to exist as a profession at the high end. See the comments upthread about Hatsune Miku and such; Japan is much farther down this road than the US is.
I have been developing https://useragentinfo.co/ as a side project. It's a simple device, browser and OS detection. Currently it's running in a single server setup over linode. By Jan2018 I'll be migrating it to AWS Elastic Beanstalk for stability. This will be my weekend timesink.
They meant latitude.
We wouldn't have VR/AR today unless we pushed our GPUs till they cried. We wouldn't even have deep neural networks today if we didn't push hyper-realism because most deep neural network training without today's GPUs would be too slow to be useful.

The truth of the matter is that just because it seems trivial in one domain doesn't mean it won't benefit other domains, the problem is that we can't see the future so who knows what is going to pay dividends.
There are more bikes than people in The Netherlands, it's part politics, part ego (when I was on exchange in the south of NL I was told cyclists had assumed right of way no matter what)
Funny thing is, I just wrote about this the other day[0] and I shared some of your drawbacks too.

Personally I'm staying away from Serverless for now.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/should-your-next-project-be-b...
Well, if you don't want entangled in a lawsuit you dance around it better than that.
I am 100% pro-gun and always will be. But we Americans are not winning the war against our freedom and owning guns is like 1% of that fight, however, most people you ask think they are free because they can own guns. WTF? The monster has grown up all around us. Technology will enslave us unless we make conscious decisions about not letting our lives be ruled by Skynet.
Pedestrian-only town centres are getting pretty common.

I can't speak for Ghent but it's fairly normal to have periods, early morning or late evening, where goods vehicles are allowed access.

It's worth bearing in mind that the centres of a lot of European towns and cities are fairly small and not very vehicle friendly anyway. One of the advantages of being pre-industrial is that it can take less work to be pre-industrial again. I'd expect that, in general, doing this is the US will be harder than a lot of Europe as the towns just aren't built that way.
Strcat Linux kernel bugdoor
I'll try adding few more feature to my static blog generator https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog
It's also pretty much common sense. In a car, or on a bike, sometimes something ahead of you makes you slow down. The problem comes in when the bicycles are ignored, and "right hooked" by cars turning through the bike lane when the cyclist needs to go straight. In Chicago at least, that move is illegal (passing a bicycle then turning right is as well, but let's see that ever get enforced)
> Do you think someone can really work effectively with their gay married co-contributors in this case?

Yes.. But to be fair, adults are in short supply these days.
The behaviour differs per city. Cyclists on sidewalks isn't tolerated in my city. Eventually they'll start checking and handing out fines.

What's super common is ignoring traffic lights. I also do that regularly. That's mostly due to pretty terrible traffic lights. IMO it just smooths things out.

What they hardly enforce is ensuring that cyclists have proper lights on their bike. Often nothing, sometimes something as bright as the a power indicator led (meaning: not at all). I often have trouble seeing such cyclists while cycling myself! They often also wear dark clothing and have a bike which doesn't have any reflectors.
Netdata, the open-source, real-time performance monitoring, released v1.9.0
I guess kicking out one of the top contributors would hurt your FOSS project more than the indirect connection to white nationalists. And if it helps against white nationalists, I think that's debatable.
An appropriate authority is a judge, and appropriate circumstances are if and when it passes the requirements to be shown in court or accessed with a warrant.
I've just started a native Android project for wrapping Wakatime operations (I find current offerings not good enough). So that will be a project going forward into 2018.

Also going to create some free example applications for hopefully teaching more advanced native concept on Android to any who want.
Last few months I've been building digital musical instruments for Android [0], I guess I'll continue working on that. So far I've built a few 'instruments' that emulate traditional instruments (guitar, organ, choir...) that you can play in real time on your phone. During next year I would like to take advantage of interactive platform, to make the instrument actually respond to your playing (and then to augment it).

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.castlewrat...
There's plenty of things you can't photograph in reality, but are no problem digitally.
America is much better about this sort of thing. Aside from a few obvious holdover examples like the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, the US doesn't bother with such ham-handed, last century techniques.

It's much easier to just coerce the media and get the public to consume the propaganda as entertainment.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/21/entertainment/la-ca-...

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-...
I will be definitely working on Appure ( https://appure.io ) - screenshot generator for App and Play stores, adding new features, improving existing stuff. Still, have a lot of hopes for this app
The Strange WannaCry Attribution
Same as last year. New publishing platform for independent journalists https://www.demotico.com.

Looking for beta testers to give feedback at the moment.
Christmas icons for last-minute designs
You can create a system with authorization, ACL and an audit trail with justifications. It is less complicated to implement and can be audited after the fact.

When you need access to an information, the system ask a reason (a procedure number or something) the system can grant it or not and all is logged. You can have a third party or authority notified and they could grant access to more sensible information.
If you're making a digital image of a car being crushed... only when it is, and will remain in future shots, cheaper to crush a physical car.

(Note that in some domains, such as video games, the cost of actually crushing the car is effectively infinite. In others, such as movies with animated talking cars, it may only be ridiculously high.)
To finish the implementation of an XMPP server written in Go (Golang)
https://github.com/ortuman/jackal
I went to Urumqi about 10 years ago. It was nothing like this. It was actually an amazing place, full of diverse culture and awesome people.

In 2009, when these riots happened, I remember we lost complete contact with the factory there. The Chinese government simple cut all communication in and out of the region, till they had the situation under control.
Mainly I'm devoting my free time to a native REST client in the vain of Postman or Insomnia. It's also been an excuse to learn the Qt framework and brush up on my C++ skills. So far, I've found C++ to be insane, but I quite like Qt.

https://github.com/tmstieff/Woke
I have a point of sale system for mobile devices. https://posangel.com
I'd like to port the entire authorization module from my open source Python project, Yosai, to Rust and use it as a shared library from Python. I PoC'd this work last January, resulting in the release of my first crate and Rust tutorial. I haven't touched Rust since, though, but intend to push on further.

A complete Rust implementation has the benefit that it can be adapted to myriad other languages and thus has a much wider audience appeal. It's also about 10x faster than cpython, but pypy may eliminate that gap entirely. Of course there are the usual other benefits, as well.

Since Rust is in its infancy for application development, such an authorization library would address a growing need by the Rust ecosystem.

If any programmers want in, email me.

References:

Yosai: https://github.com/YosaiProject

Python-Rust adapter:
https://github.com/YosaiProject/yosai_libauthz

authz.rs: https://github.com/Dowwie/rust-authz

blog post: http://daringordon.com/rust_tutorials/
It's quite possible they are functioning just as often when not needed, and that this only seems malicious because of selection bias.
You're assuming that it's naked (in the technical sense) speculation.

If they're covering a short position then this is just akin to insurance to limit the downside. Entirely sensible and the reason why they were invented in the first place.