skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet it's not that simple, as the article shows.

First of all, a contract doesn't need to be in writing. Any time you buy a pack of gum, you enter into a contract–no signatures necessary.

If any conflicts arise from a contract, courts have to find a way to elucidate the respective rights and obligations. A naive view of property rights usually doesn't help.

In this case, it's not entirely clear who owns what. If I let you put a statue on my front lawn, does that mean I now own the statue? If not: why should a mural be different? It's entirely possible that the wall is one person's property, yet the art remained with the artists–even though the two cannot be physically separated.

If you insist on a materialistic view where the artists gave up all rights to the property owner's benefit, I'd argue that the art was possibly worth more than the building, and there's an argument to be made that if you consider the rights as inseparable as their physical embodiments, it should be the artists now owning the building, not the other way around.
Sounds like you just invented the "pre-authorize hold" used by the credit card networks.
This write-up is really interesting.

Their elixir app masquerades as a postgresql database so that existing tools that can connect to pg can connect to the AirCloak instead - that's pretty wild.

"By understanding the server-side of the PostgreSQL protocol, the Air can accept connections from PostgreSQL aware tools, such as psql. This trick allows us to integrate with analytical tools, such as Tableau"
If an update is ready, Windows (at least as of 10) offers an option to update and shut down when you open the power options menu. The random reboots and periods where the computer is unusable (while it gets updates ready) are still annoying.
Steam Community Features Have Been Blocked and Downloads Throttled in China
China is launching the world’s largest carbon market
What alarms me is the inability to think through consequences. If the artist wins this case, property owners will stop letting artists paint on their buildings. They'd be stupid not to. Permitting it would be giving artists a permanent easement on their property. But if people want to go that way and destroy an art form..
It looks like an interesting concept, but after reading the web page, I am not sure what the product actually is, how it does what it does, and why or how I should use it.

I'd put it this way, GnuPG met Box, etc. but the page does not tell me what happened next and so I am confused and left to imagine something. It might make sense to step back and think about how to explain the product. You are familiar with the product from all the time you spent building it. I am not and just use GnuPG sometimes when I have to and then I google.

As I mentioned, it looks like it might be interesting, but it is not clear what it is and why I should pay for it.

Good luck.
This is the culmination of the "everyone should code" movement. Is this really what you want?
I had a similar idea. Since we have a lot of old Disney films on VHS, I would like to be able to put the box in a place and have the system and play back the HD version from my media center. I investigated RFID/NFC tags, but what would also be cool would be a kind of ultra flat scanner.

I imagine something purely optical, with no moving parts. You have a glass plate, maybe a few cm high, that you put the object to be scanned on, and the light is reflected into the plate on to a small CCD sensor hidden on the side or somewhere else. It doesn't have to have a great resolution, just enough to distinguish different movies. I tried googling, but it seems something like that doesn't exist (probably the achievable resolution is too bad for real world usage).

Its a bit unfortunate, I'd like to bring back a bit of physicality to my computer interactions.
If the range is enough, stopping to charge up for 30 mins means one can also grab a bite to eat.

My parents took us kids on car trips during summer holidays, and usually by the time we needed to stop to refuel the car we also took the time to eat and such.
This would be a significant vulnerability if bank customers were sophisticated at security, and if those passwords were the only input into their fraud detection systems.
That does not solve exchange take over and transaction reversibility/clawback until the settlement X days in the future which is basic tenet of risk mitigation.

The reason you cannot electronically rob Ameritrade is because NOTHING can be done immediately outside Ameritrade. Since the settlement is at least T+3 there's no such thing as "Obtain control in 30 seconds and be out of there 3 minutes later with the loot"
In the crypto space this practice is so common it has earned it's own name, the "exit scam"
> the owner allowed graffiti artists many years of free usage of the space

It wasn't free

> they're trying to penalize him for it by preventing him from rescinding that offer.

No, they're suing because he destroyed installed art.

> The tax status of the building isn't relevant.

It is, because it does imply he was acting in bad faith, especially given the broader context.

> Every graffiti artist that tagged that building knew it could come down at any time. They knew they could be either replaced or entirely removed.

This is not the legal standard that installation art is held to.
Depends on how big and busy your roads are. Gridlock might be alleviated a bit due to autonomous driving and planning, but by the time that rolls around the world's population will probably have gone up by a couple billion again (wikipedia says it's projected to be 10 billion by 2050) so there'd be more cars on the road.

There'd be less gridlock if people did more carpooling, buses, or drove more on motorcycles.
If your exchanges occur on the blockchain, then you have to pay the fees of the blockchain and wait for confirmations. And at that point, why not use a decentralized exchange like EtherDelta.
Mr Robot does "product placement" for Firefox when it shows the main characters using it as their web browser. The ARG also markets Firefox because the fans wanting to play the game must use Firefox to do so.

I do agree that pushing this extension to everyone is a horrible idea though.
Check out Kubeadm. It's by far the best way to do k8s on Bare metal right now in terms of ease of use.

If you want something highly customizable, check out kubespray, which is basically a big fat ansible playbook which will deployment k8s almost anywhere.
WASM is a three miles step back for the web, along with native DRM implementations.

HTML5 was there to obsolete quirky flash/silverlight/java applets and tell people to not to confuse code and the content, now main "web ecosystem pushers" are doing everything to reincarnate Flash in a new embodiment as WASM
Or for that matter people accepting having their brand new Tesla X battery replaced with a 5 year old Tesla X battery.

I suppose one solution would be that cars have two batteries. One battery that is specific to the make/model of the car and one battery that is easily replaceable. So perhaps the cheap Renault basically only has the replaceable battery while the Tesla X has 70% of its battery capacity in it's super awesome main battery and only 30% in the 'crappy' replaceable battery which you only replace when you quickly need an extra 100 miles of range.
Joplin – an open source Evernote alternative
Is there really a HVDC to battery voltage conversion step? I thought the whole point of quick charging is that you get exactly the DC that the battery needs right from the charger.
What exactly are the requirements for building an exchange?
- Large amounts of capital, for one.
- If in the US, a banking license; Offshore, not a requirement.
- I'm not clear on how exchanges like coinbase source their crypto. Probably a totally stupid question but what happens to the cash I give coinbase after they go off to exchange it for say Ethereum? Do they have a network of whales that are selling them crypto for fiat for some sort of premium? Do they just hold crypto and exchange at market rates (which presumably exposes them to large potential loses)? I know they're linked to GDAX but this still doesn't explain how they source their currency initially.
Ask HN: How can you sell to people you don’t like?
Hi guys. I’m a working guy with a young family. I need to get a side project started to bring in some more income to the house as we’re only just managing at the moment.
I have an idea for a SaaS which I have the skills to build and market but I’m at a conflict. They always say you shouldn’t sell something you don’t believe in. I believe in the value of the product I’m thinking about, I believe I could offer benefit to the customers and it’s not immoral or illegal. I just feel like the kind of customers it would attract aren’t people I would like. It would only really suit customers who are paranoid and self interested. Not the kinds of people I affiliate with or look up to.
Has anyone been in a position where they had to balance their own business aspirations and ambitions with a responsibility for making people do better, more enriching things?
Sorry if it’s a bit of a rant. I’m happy to answer as many questions as possible for context or to just take feedback. I’m just wracking my brains at the minute with this thing. Help appreciated.
I don't know anyone who has given a fake review on a paper. Could happen. I do know that reviewing papers can be a royal time suck on people who don't really have a lot of time to spare.
Sensitive much? When a commercial service that's not widely known is mentioned without an explanation of what it is everyone complains. I still don't see why I'm supposed to know what that thing is, since I'm neither police nor a rapist.
The part underlined in red in the original article is grammatically incorrect. Apple are generally very good at not making such mistakes.
How are you defining "existentialism" here?
The car industry is one of the biggest industries of the world, so I'm not surprised. That + the oil industry.
> most workplaces won't tolerate not responding to instant messages and notifications.

This. IM conversations take longer than in person ones (or video chats), have a higher rate of misunderstandings, cannot be flagged for follow up or bookmarked for reference, and the red blobs contribute to higher stress levels. It adds nothing to productivity, IMO. Yet being ‘present’ on slack is the new being at your desk before the boss.
I believe our supercharge yesterday gave us 50kwh in 25 minutes.

I'm not disputing your point. It's a HELL of a lot more juice than people are used to thinking on a day to day basis. And it's going to change our infrastructure in fundamental ways.
I just hacked together a solution using Jinja2. I literally throw template strings in whatever fields I need templated and render the whole thing to /tmp/ using a stupid simple python script. It's not pretty, and admittedly it's a little fragile and home spun, but it works.
Okay, say every browser had a built-in tracking, cookie, ad, script blocker etc. How would you propose websites then make any money?
Especially since e-ink works in direct sunlight and progress on sunlight readable screens seems to have ground to a halt at the Pixel QI.

I would pay for a decent sized e-ink screen with a stripped down browser that could integrate with a desktop bookmark app and save content for later reading. Not this "experimental" browser in my Kindle.
CPPGrey did it for a while with an iPad Pro setup with no apps except work and with no internet in a lone office. I rhink that could work for some types of tasks.
idk if this was updated but i figured this out from the landing page in ~10secs. It's in sentence 3-4 on the page. If you're not reading the copy but instead comments only why complain about the landing page
Why do you think you need large amounts of capital? All an exchange does is match up buyers with sellers, and collect fees.

> Do they have a network of whales that are selling them crypto for fiat for some sort of premium?

This is basically exactly how it works. They have an actual exchange (GDAX) and they just do the exchange on GDAX, and then take an additional cut as fees.

> I know they're linked to GDAX but this still doesn't explain how they source their currency initially.

Why doesn't it explain that?
I say this as an active collector of pop and street art. If you want to retain total ownership of your art then you should probably own the surface you create it on.

No matter how much we may appreciate street art, in it's most common medium, it's technically vandalization. I think it's in poor taste for building owners to tear down walls and sell them to art dealers, but that's what happens when you paint all over someone else's property.
If you are talking about pure electrical cost, the average cost per kwh in the US is about 12 cents according to NPR.

An average Nissan Leaf battery is about 24kwh (although some cars have much smaller or larger batteries). So if you assume an average Leaf is totally empty, and charging to completely full, that would be a little less than $3 of electricity for roughly 84 miles of range.

To charge a car quickly takes a lot of electricity. But to trickle charge a car takes very little electricity. You can charge cars on as little as 120 volts at 8 amps -- that's less electricity than the average plug-in space heater.

A small parking lot could easily handle 20+ cars simultaneously charging overnight, with just a single standard US household circuit. (100 - 150 amps).
Not uncommon for a new protocol. Question is whether they will get around to it.
I live in a country with a good public transportation network. It takes takes 1.5 - 2x more time to get around, at only a slim financial difference. I used it primarily for a couple of years, but it was only viable because I was lucky to live in cycling or walking distance of a train station. Right now it's just not viable anymore; my commute would be 2 hours instead of <1 if I were to try it with public transit, and would involve two buses, two trains, and a lot of waiting in between.
Further discussion on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/7inu45/psa_iphone_s...
I think version control conflicts are good in this case - they indicate the level to which there is conflict within the team around what the project consists of.
Everything goes to 0 eventually. The statement is true. Gold is obviously much less likely to go to 0 unless the human race is either on the brink of extinction or extinct, but when you're talking about stocks or currencies a huge percentage will go to zero in less than human lifespan.
The question is almost never "is this art?" Because "art" isn't a two-valued logic, and the legal protection of art is similarly gradual.

Proof by absurdity: Imagine a skyscraper that is, according to your own definition, definitely art, and specifically art that falls under the protection of free speech in the first amendment.

Now try building that skyscraper in downtown San Francisco.

You'll quickly find that even constitutionally protected rights can be abridged for reasons not protected by the constitution.
The quote "These individual artists may be compensated, but what is going to be the long-term effect [is] buildings don’t allow public art because they don’t want to face damages" looks right to me.
Delphi. Similar to (inspired) C#, a non-C-style language, has ARC on mobile and Linux, and you can use the same idioms on Mac and Windows until the feature arrives for all platforms. Compiles to native. Nice features like RTTI, great UI, database, similar libraries.

Disclaimer: I work for the company that makes it :) FWIW, I joined because I like it so much.
Many sites can already afford to drop IE entirely. Frameworks such as Ember have dropped support for every version except 11. It is not going to take 7-10 years for you to be targeting evergreen browsers.
> What alarms me is the inability to think through consequences. If the artist wins this case, property owners will stop letting artists paint on their buildings. They'd be stupid not to. Permitting it would be giving artists a permanent easement on their property. But if people want to go that way and destroy an art form..

This apology is rather off-base. It's not like property owners generally permit artists to paint on their buildings in the first place.

5Pointz was a different case in that the landlord permitted the use of the building as a museum and charged for its use. It wasn't an illicit or secret subversion of the property; it was the agreed-upon, intended use for about two decades.

There's lots and lots of case law for this. It's not new. It's not like ruling in favor of 5Pointz would create some new, anti-artist precedent. (Yes, that may be what the lawyers representing the landlord want you to think, but it's very demonstrably wrong.)
Sadly, no 64-bit support.
Replacing a table saw with a circular saw (bad analogies abound) doesn't remove the opportunities for losing appendages. Especially for those who don't learn how to use the tools put in front of them.

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

Yes, Git is a sharper tool with fewer blade guards than other version control systems, including HG. That sharpness and relative lack of safety mechanisms, however, lets you do things you can't in other systems. The real problem is that folks use these tools without attempting to understand them and cargo-cult onto a workflow which leaves them open to screwing things up.

To continue the "git off my lawn" moment - I've had to use the reflog exactly zero times in the past few years, despite using rebase locally on a fairly frequent basis (and sadly remotely to fix other's bungles as well). This is only because I respect git for its sharp edges, and when it comes time to re-write history with rebase, I work carefully.
You can find a pack of ten blank NFC "stickers" on Ebay for less than $2, eg.: https://www.ebay.com/itm/10pcs-Ntag213-14443A-NFC-Tags-Stick...

They use a standard protocol[1], so I think any reader/writer that implements it should work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_14443
Well this brings up another related but often unmentioned aspect to the debate. Governments get heaps of revenue from taxing fossil fuels. If people managed to sidestep that by using renewable (yeah, or fusion!) power, what will governments do? I'm about 100% certain that in the UK they will slap a massive tax on all electricity used to charge EVs. TANSTAAFL, as Robert Heinlein said.
Google finance version 3 I mean 1 has been released
https://finance.google.com/finance

Looks like they switched back to the older version, good, hated the redesign.....
The more I read about WebAssembly, the more I think it is the rebirth of Flash, or Silverlight, or JavaFX without being tied to a proprietary entity (Adobe, MS, Oracle).

Will it be really good for the web in general? I guess it will depend on the motivation of those who would peruse the technology.
This would require to perform any exchanging on the respective blockchains, which is not how most crypto exchanges work, for various reasons (performance, cost, missing atomicity across different blockchains, involvement of non-crypto currencies, ...).

The ones that don't implement this centralized model are the decentralized exchanges like BitShares or Etherdelta. Those however can't deal with actual fiat currencies and they suffer from serious performance weaknesses, effectively resulting in them having much less volume than the big centralized exchanges. But they are pretty secure when it comes to hacking attacks - actually, if done right, they also work pretty much like you explained it, with the users holding the keys necessary to access their funds while they're on the order book.
I think a large part of the problem is that the younger generations have grown up with pretty strong expectations placed upon them to do things like go to college (at whatever cost), land a white collar job, climb the ladder, etc.

The obvious solution is to own your decisions and start doing what you think is right for you, but it's far easier said than done to step out from under the expectations you've been saddled with your entire life.
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Many exchanges just use BitGo to deal with this: 2-of-3 multisig wallet
EInk would share some of the advantages of this paper based approach, i.e. no distracting animations and great readability in Sunlight.
Is finding freelance clients really that difficult?
Decomposing Emoji
Stoicism addresses deeply rooted human tendencies. I don't think, if we are being honest, we have any more real control. We are less likely to die but we have merely stretched our individual timeline slightly in the scheme of things. It (access to modern medicine) should not change ones philosophy much IMO.
In the process they'd get key exchanges too and it's easy to correlate traffic.

I thought it was a really straightforward obvious idea. I'd do it if I were them and had such deep pockets.

QC is clearly coming. Lots of news lately.
Those of us who get frustrated by latency in our tools were left behind long ago. Shiny user interfaces, cloud to-do lists, adblockers, bloated fad frameworks of the week, electron apps, blue apron for dogs... This is our reality now.

I miss the internet I grew up with. The one before all the money arrived to ruin absolutely everything.
It's curious that they don't seem to use speech synthesis and voice recognition as another screen alternative at all.
I've had the idea since the early 00's to build "Dial M for MP3." This would have a rotary dial interface to a jukebox-style playlist on a printed card.
It happens, yes. But we're not building WAsm on a greenfield.
Furthermore (and to be the subject of much debate) there are actually genuinely useful things to be learned from large datasets in areas such as medicine, some of which don't even involve advertising/marketing, but it's very unclear if we can preserve genuine anonymity if we use that data.
On Diversity:

> Our perception of the world around us and how we see ourselves in, it is mediated by the decisions of a few privileged managers, programmers and designers[...]. To suggest any other way of living in a networked society is to risk being percieved as blasphemous, uncool, out-of-touch, escapist or simply absurd. These interfaces have become so embedded in our conception of reality that we now have a crisis of the imagination, where it is difficult to even think of anything different.

I think that we are indeed losing computing diversity. Even something as boring as an Emacs-based computing experience (i.e. doing everything in Emacs) is often considered other-wordly or out-of-touch. Not having (and not wanting) a "smartphone" is another thing that is often responded to as almost unthinkable.
> Every graffiti artist that tagged that building knew it could come down at any time. They knew they could be either replaced or entirely removed.

> This is not the legal standard that installation art is held to.

It is not unreasonable that it should be, absent any agreement to the contrary. At least, it is not unreasonable that the standard could be reexamined.
I've read the copy on the site, the comments here, then went through to the code repository, and still don't really know what this project is or what its meant to do.
Am I wrong or is there nothing on that website that shows this thing actually working?
Decentralized exchanges dont have to happen on blockchain, right?
It’s kind of difficult to do something with the bitcoins because it’s immediately visible.
I'd go further - exhibited personality is essentially acting. You can get better at playing parts. There is probably a baseline of the 'real you' that happens when you're not 'on', and we can assert that the real you never changes.

But functionally, almost everybody can learn to exhibit personality traits that benefit them personally and 'commercially'. You can be on for the interview, the meeting, the one-on-one. And you can conserve your energy when working at your desk or at home.