skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the feeling is that there is a massive potential for chaos and that the iron grip of the government prevents that chaos from emerging

This is similar to how Russian government presents the situation in Russia, and lots of people getting the information from government channels tend to agree with that.

The difference is that China is moving ahead economically much faster than Russia today. As soon as advancement stops, subsequent talks about maintaining stability are met with slowly growing scepticism. Stability is only good when it a stable advancement or if the state of affairs is perceived as good (i.e., after recent raising out of abject poverty). As soon as stability is preserving the undeserving status quo, it's not as good.

This change of view may not necessarily happen soon after slowdown though.
It was a simple performance bug (think N+1 query type) that was trivial to implement and trivial to be confident about its behavior vs the pathological implementation, and I used the normal channels for shipping it, it passed QA.

The only "clandestine" part is that I added the split test, and did some work outside of the set of features that was scheduled.

We had no policies around SLA, developing off-site, security or restricting sensitive information (think potential FERPA/HIPPA violation) which are yet other "non-features" that I tried to get them to adopt.

I implemented this entirely above-board, with more precautions and consideration than were taken by other developers on that team for the day-to-day.
So on top of spending $800-1000 on a new phone, you'll have to spend $80/year just to maintain its original performance.

Cheap!
This is not a cost-free shift: additional components are required to make an easily replaceable battery. So you're adding in environmental cost to every phone and in return you get environmental savings from the phones that would be used longer if the battery were more easily replaceable.

It's easy to only think about one side of this issue. To put it another way, think about the additional layer of plastic needed under the battery compartment to protect the device internals while the battery compartment is open. There are additional component changes and efficiencies lost to make this move.

Then there's the battery itself -- the replaceable ones are much more robust in design and shielding -- additional plastic. They also have to have bigger contact points to ensure a good connection.

It might still be a net positive, but it's not a no-brainer call.
I'm currently working on a sort of mind mapping system at the moment, with the idea that I can use it as a sort of personal database.

I'm using ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com/) to store ideas as collections of nodes, where the properties and details of those ideas (or objects) can be connected to eachother. The properties can be simple descriptions of the node, or documents such as html, pdf, or images.

Im doing this because my memory is terrible (ADHD), and I want to make a system that lets me take notes and record ideas in a way thats more... organic in the way that I think about things. I also tend to use a lot of documentation from the web, and have no way of sorting it other than through bookmarks. Being able to pull webpages off of the internet and reference them within notes is a powerful tool, I have found.

I'm excited for the project for a lot of reasons, but what excites me the most is what I can do once I have this personal database filled out enough. I will essentially have a graph based model of what is typically floating around my head, like a network of thoughts, interconnected by both objective and subjective properties. I aim to use this database to build a sort of personal assistant, personalized for the user.

I think that this is something that we are kind of missing today, where a lot of our interactions come from the internet, this ephemeral space where you can't exactly organize everything that you see and interact with.
As an example, imagine that you saw a neat article about cancer research that you wanted to tell someone about later. You send the URL to your database server where it is downloaded, parsed, tagged, and linked to other articles or notes that you may have (this would start out being manual, but I hope to automate it). Once that info is in the database, you can have it recalled through either a direct request for that record, or through implicit actions such as looking for scientific papers in the database and narrowing it down to the one you want.

I have nothing to show for the project so far, it still in it's infancy, but I really think that this is something that will be useful to people, if at the least just myself.
Another false dichotomy. We need both public transport and cars. I like public transport because it brings total strangers together - a much-needed thing in this day and age.

By the way Musk, psychos drive cars too: witness the new terrorist tool, the car, mounting the sidewalk and mowing people down.

And think of the trust you place in total strangers every time you drive down the highway.
I'm inspired that engineering students would make something useful for a change and something so impactful to a beautiful little life. Hopefully more higher ed programs will follow this example.
Not enough sleep.
Can’t find the post. But this was asked on Reddit the other day and the user got a three paragraph response on how to ‘simply’ monitor battery performance. Also included was optimal charging methods — common sense right? I just want to use my phone without having to worry about if my battery needs to be replaced or not. Just tell me. Like on the Mac that my battery is degraded and should be replaced.
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I like Bash's TCP thing. First time I saw it thought a coworker was pulling my leg. Since then I've used it in a few places like talking to a metrics daemon on localhost, or just debugging various issues. The most fun thing is to show it to others as almost everyone is surprised about it.
> Postings in a closed online forum of sexual nature affects standing in an online collaboration community working on software.

Okay. Under my real name/identity, I was once upon a time a substantial contributor to the Drupal project, a PHP-based CMS/web dev framework.

Earlier this year, we had a kerfluffle where someone had a grudge against Larry "Crell" Garfield, a core developer, liaison to the wider PHP community, and just general pillar of the Drupal community for over a decade. This person shared activity that Crell had done in the "Gor" (kinda BSDM plus fantasy cosplay) community, which, IIRC, included private forum posts, a dating site profile, and a slideshow deck he had presented from a convention. All of this stuff was from private web sites; eg, ones where you'd have to at least sign up for an account to get access to.

The person with the grudge, who, as far as I know, has yet to be identified, provided this material to the Drupal Association as evidence that Crell, a typical SV leftist in most respects, was actually a closeted unrepentant misogynist who needed to be kicked out of the community. Battle lines were drawn, with some agreeing that he was trash while others felt that his out-of-community behavior had no effect on all the hard work he had done and could still do within it. And bickering happened instead of collaboration and coding.

Ultimately the Association came down on the side of the agitators and disinvited Crell from his speaking position at the next Drupalcon, where he had always been prevalent. Expectedly, he became quite bitter about this and has somewhat voluntarily withdrawn further from the community.

So now a talented developer and decade-plus community member has been effectively kicked out of the community for personal, private kinks he, by all accounts, took great care to keep private and separate from this community.

Due to this and other reasons, I now use pseudonyms when joining new communities, and now some of my best OSS work is being done under a pseudonym I have taken care to keep air-gapped from my real identity - not great for my career, but I know that I, as a human, have quirks and kinks as well that others would just love to judge me by, and it's apparently what we have to do nowadays in order to be judged by our work rather than our pasts and out-of-community activity. And, frankly, I'm so disgusted by what happened to Crell that I too have disengaged from the community and no longer use Drupal as my framework of choice (though there are other reasons as well for the latter).

So, no. Postings in a closed online forum of sexual nature only affects standing in an online collaboration community working on software if you make it so.

Crell's first post about the incident: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing - see others on his blog for more.
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> With 21 million Bitcoins, if 1% of all the worlds money was transferred to Bitcoin, each Bitcoin would be worth $38,000.

Thanks for reassuring me that a bitcoin wont ever be worth anything within an order of magnitude to $38,000.
It is getting more attention these days, and the older discoveries have had enough following attention to be fairly widely known in the field. It isn't a line of research I've followed specifically, but if you look at PubMed you can follow the trail over the past decade.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=nlrp3

They have a histogram by year, and papers looking it over in the context of inflammation are getting quite common. I'd expect some sort of trial to emerge in the next few years, it seems to be getting to that point.
But there's a evolutionary problem here. You don't have eyes in the front and back of your head. Bikes are small and hard to miss. They can easily slip into your blind spot while you are looking at the road and switching to look in the mirror.

You're right, a driver is definitely required to monitor what's coming from behind them when making a turn. But when we consider limits in eyesight, moving into the lane keeps everyone safer.
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It's not silly when we're specifically discussing REALISM
I'm a Nautilus subscriber and I block JavaScript on untrusted domains along with all tracking. I've never seen an advert on nautil.us, so maybe if they'd used non-intrusive advertising rather than sophisticated surveillance apparatus then they might have served me a few ads.
The problem is that there is no way for a user to know that they can spend 79$ to fix the problem. Most will asume that is has become slow and think the only solution is spending +700$ on a new one.
One should be able to repair and swap batteries in electronics including the batteries. It is not sustainable for the environment to buy and throw cell phones every few years apart. One should alas be able to reuse components such as displays.

If one would be able to swap batteries in the iPhone and Samsung s7 there would have been a less issue.

Phones should also have boot loaders allowing free operating systems. It would help with new environmental laws demanding reapairability.
Reductio ad absurdum of the bias argument (-:
I'm working on a freight brokerage to compete against Uber Freight and the likes...

Using Elixir, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, Stripe Connect probably hosted at Packet, Vultr or DO and maybe GCP.

Not a fan of AWS or Serverless-hype.
> but identifies the potential

That's not what the parent said. They said "detect one".

"detect" != "identifies the potential"

no?
Cathy O'Neil wrote a book called "Weapons of Math Destruction" -- interesting read.

You can listen to an interview she does on econtalk -- interesting to learn more about the hidden biases.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...
I think this is a result of never truly leaving a wartime economy. We had WWII, then the Korean War, then the Cold War (with Vietnam in the middle) all on top of each other and justifying the expense for almost 50 years. I don't think America knows how to cut defense without losing military dominance. As te_chris said, Defense spending might be a red herring, but I would say it is almost certainly the foundation of the problem.

The other major budget problem is welfare/comunal programs. These have been hyperinflated over the last 20-30 years or so. I personally believe one of the reasons it works so much better in Europe is the fact that any given program is orders of magnitude smaller than American attempts. To improve quality-of-life to the level the article wants, I think America need to trim (trim, not cut) military spending and stop welfare spending entirely and let the states handle it (with parameters of course, but it would be a far less unwieldy beast for them handle).
I was referring about the brand established by the criminal behavior of Uber I read about on regular basis.

What a company says about themselves is PR. How the company is perceived is Brand.
> "In fact, it is not uncommon for a Tibetan monk to live to 120 years of age"

Just one of many sources its very well documented that monks live very long lives. Not sure why hes being downvoted.

blog.peterbaksa.com/post/9719815756/tibetan-monks-my-lama-temple-interviews
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I understand the point you’re making about Bitcoin being mechanically different from “Internet”. However the average consumer was investing in “Internet companies” in the same way people today talk about investing in Bitcoin. There was very little deeper knowledge about the complexities of what they were putting their money into. The motivation then and now was simply greed and “wow this is big!”

My grandfather, who sold cars for a living, called me up out of the blue to ask me what he should invest in after Netscape went public. I was 24 and we’d never talked about the stock market in my life. I had no business experience (I was about to get a lot, it turns out, but had none then) and while I was doing a ton of Internet-related work, it wasn’t making anyone money. Yet suddenly I was an Oracle to a man in his 60’s who really should have been putting his money into the bond market if anything. Instead he invested it in Spyglass, on my half-hearted “well this is a company like Netscape I guess”, and then proceeded to tell me all about how it was doing for the next 5 years. If he were still alive today, I could imagine the same thing happening with respect to Bitcoin (except this time I would tell him I have no idea, and to put his money into something that generates cash).
I've often wondered this. Interesting article.
The reversal seems more along the lines of the effects of the disease + side effects of the previous drug(s). Although if the new treatment stops the damage to the brain then over the course of years, not weeks or months, I could see a recovery of functionality.
People might conclude the same thing, since more crimes are committed by males than females. Are you saying it's unfair because an innocent male could become a suspect by virtue of only being male? Or for a more subtle reason?

Statistics have been consistent in reporting that men commit more criminal acts than women.[1][2] Self-reported delinquent acts are also higher for men than women across many different actions.[3] Burton, et al. (1998) found that low levels of self control are associated with criminal activity.[4] Many professionals have offered explanations for this sex difference. Some differing explanations include men's evolutionary tendency toward risk and violent behavior, sex differences in activity, social support, and gender inequality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime
The answer is clearly "never" --- the attitude expressed in the article leads toward totalitarian control over people's personal lives. Toleration, as Europe took hundreds of years to painfully discover, is the way you build a cohesive society around people who disagree. When you ban cooperation among people with divergent political opinions, you not only lose out on any positive-sum productivity gains from the interaction, but also intensify these political differences and turn them into real rifts in society.

I am disappointed in the contemporary trend to invest imaginary "harms" and propose remedies that, in the end, boil down to persecuting people for their beliefs. Altman is definitely right about the social atmosphere in tech. Imagining that we should, say, ban contributions to an open source project from someone who also participates in 4chan is part of the problem.
SQL injection is impossible with PostgreSQL.

Of course I'm kidding :)
Inspired by a Kaggle competition (https://www.kaggle.com/c/sf-crime), one of my older blog posts involved predicting the type of arrest in San Francisco (given that an arrest occurred) using data such as location and timing and the relatively new LightGBM machine learning algorithm: http://minimaxir.com/2017/02/predicting-arrests/

The code is open-sourced in an R Notebook: http://minimaxir.com/notebooks/predicting-arrests/

The model performance isn't great enough to usher in precrime, even in the best case. There are likely better approaches nowadays. (e.g. since the location data is spatial, a convolutional neural network might work better.)
Union is a curse word but I have a hunch that there are others that might make more sense. Guild maybe?
There are claims by an american pathologist, Dr. Alan MacDonald. You can find his research and videos online.
...and what exactly will they do about it? The question is about decentralized exchanges. Countries may choose not to "tolerate" whatever they wish, but the internet is under no compulsion to tolerate shortsighted countries.
I stand corrected - I did not know Big Brother started in the Netherlands. Thanks for the heads up.
Go's context is fine to signal cancellation, but it lacks a way to wait for that cancellation to complete gracefully. And the fact that it is also an arbitrary bag of values is concerning. It worries me that it started "polluting" the stdlib's API without solving those issues first. Dave Cheney wrote a good article about it: https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/20/context-isnt-for-cancella...
I don't disagree with you guys, but traditional insurance is not the only variable in the equation. As that gets more expensive, other models and options will emerge, provided they are not made illegal by government regulation attempting to "fix" the problem, while simultaneously outlawing startups and novel solutions.

And ultimately I think insurance will go back down to sane levels when it becomes more like insurance is supposed to be (this is assuming that is permitted by government to happen, which is unlikely. I actually think we're gonna get single-payer within the next few years. Even Trump has supported that in the not-too-distant past (see [1] and secondarily [2])). Right now we call it insurance but it's basically a health plan. IMHO we need to stop screwing with it and let the market do its thing.

That said obviously we have the elephant in the room regarding people who can't afford care. It's inhumane to ignore those people. We need a solution there. I have ideas but this is a poor forum for articulating those.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2015/09/28/donald...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/05/tr...
Show HN: Open Port Checker and Scanner
Can you point me to resources for trustworthy plugins?

IMO trustworthy would likely mean inspectable code.
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Wash sale rules still apply (as has been noted elsewhere). But it's pretty likely this government will start to aim for that as well.

The only policy lens by which this current congress's bill makes sense is on that "rewards existing businesses moving into new markets" as opposed to "new businesses competing with existing via new markets." And while I'm not a fan of the bill or its primary authors, I'm simply not able to accept the idea that they don't have a policy direction.
Can confirm, my 6s with an 11 months old battery serviced by Apple, 95% of original capacity, and ~400cycles throttles between 30% and 50%.
Ask HN: How does HQ Trivia work on server side?
I want to make a mobile video streaming app. I'm not trying to clone HQ Trivia, but I need my app to work exactly like HQ on the live-streaming side. What are the best tools I can use to create HQ-like video streaming app?
Nobody has explained why this was suddenly needed with the iPhone 6 and above. It's not like the iPhone 5 didn't have a battery.
At the end of the day, you're going to pay your taxes in USD. So yeah, the USD value does matter.
While it was deemed to be treated as property, IRS never gave guidance on ability to treat it as like kind transaction. Accountants have been asking for this clarification for years.

SEC treating ICO as a security. IRS needs to come out with more guidance, but doing taxes is going to be a pain with crypto to crypto. Not looking for trouble with IRS, especially when gains were plentiful for so many this year.

Pay your taxes, you don’t want to be the example the IRS makes. PR not going to look good for people in crypto, “majority of crypto owners refusing to pay taxes”.
I find it surreal that we are riding what we know to be a bubble. If we just checked out, it would deflate slowly without causing as many issues.
In January, 2016, I put my two-month-old 6S into the Apple battery case, and it's been there to this day. One of the benefits of the case is that it uses the case's external battery first. During a typical day, I never use the internal battery (when traveling I end up using both).

I don't have any empirical evidence to support it, but I've noticed no degradation in performance of the phone. Given this news I'd like to attribute that to the minimal use of the internal battery.
That is literally the IRS's job. IRS funding at the margin directly increases or decreases tax revenues, because they have more or less resources to spend pursuing tax evasion.
>This is the same tactic the British/French/Spanish etc used to justify colonization.

this is a little tired. you can say this to literally any criticism of a developing nation.
That's a false equivalency - members of a community hating each other is not the same as members of a community conspiring to oppress other members of a community.

The idea that two reasonable human beings will find something they don't have in common is not equivalent to finding out that the coworker next to you doesn't think you should have human rights.

Part of being a mature person is being able to realize that some members of a community hold positions that are fundamentally incompatible, even if they represent a net positive from a work standpoint.

It doesn't matter if your coworker has partially aligned interests with you if some of their other interests infringe on your human rights - that's when you choose not to interact with them, and to exclude them from the community until they change their ways.
In this case it's probably justified: one of the hallmarks of "modern" bubbles, or at least of modern speculative hype that doesn't work out, is that renaming a company based on the hype increases its stock price without any change in the fundamentals. This has a long history, including companies during the dotcom bubble increasing their stock price by giving themselves techy names.
Kowloon Walled City documentary -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
...but the whole point of the effects in those movies is to bring the idea to life, to make the unbelievable seem real and believable. If it fails to do that, it’s not silly to discuss how and why.
a 24 year old from a top CS college with 3 years of solid javascript experience will be better than a 40 year old with 15+ years of C#.net experience for today's job market
Why is the phone randomly shutting off at 40% in the first place? None of the earlier phones did that. It's clearly a design flaw in the newer phones.
I may be naive (or just witless), but don’t you kind of end up with vendor lock-in to serverless itself?

The first step in their example is “login to your serverless account”.