skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am acquainted with one very churchy person that admitted to cutting off all contact with a friend of theirs after that person came out.

Yes, that does make them a bad person, and that makes it impossible for them to be more than just an acquaintance to me. And it also makes their religion--or at least their personal interpretation of it-- a bad religion. My imaginary friends don't get jealous of my real friends, and if yours ever do, you might want to consider pretending to break with them instead of turning on your real friends. It's up to you to determine if your imaginary friends have ever actually prevented you from making a real friend.

Ethical development has come a long way over the last 5000 years, but even the semitic monotheist religions have all had "That which is hateful to you, do not do to others," for the last 2000. And yet the faithful still put their own hateful words in the mouths of their gods or their prophets for the credulous to hear and repeat. They do it for money and for status, and care little for the consequences.

It is wrong. We can explain its wrongness with ethical treatise, and demonstrate the wrongness with game theory and Monte Carlo methods. Private behaviors of any sort are fundamentally unsuitable as discriminators in public life. To the extent that they leak, only that portion that is visible to the public should ever matter.
This is factually incorrect. Apple can and does issue stock and buy back shares.
That chart would seem to indicate that every release of iOS (usually in September) results in some people experiencing their phone as slow. Except, strangely, for iOS 10 last year, which had an extremely minor bump in comparison to the rest.

Anyone know why? Was iOS 10 the "Snow Leopard of iOS releases", with more of a performance focus?
This surprises me all the time. Most people hire me without ever doing any research on me. I get to a job interview and they ask me if I know what "object oriented programming" means. Had they searched for my name, they would have found my name on the Wikipedia page for object oriented programming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

And I've never gone to a job interview where people knew I had a blog, even though I list the blog on my resume:

http://www.smashcompany.com/

I have to assume that other people put a blog on their resume, but its a mostly un-used site, so the maybe the employers get in the habit of ignoring personal sites? I've written on hundreds of technical topics over the years, but no one is ever aware of this when I arrive in a job interview.

Likewise, no one has ever checked my projects on Github.
In Firefox at least, you can disable auto-play media in about:config
1) Unregulated exchanges are likely operating as fractional reserve pools. Also notice how historic charts show steep, often 90° falls in spot price? Low liquidity and high latency allows exchanges to take in new deposits and delay withdraws while they shuffle funds from new deposits to pay withdraws.

EtherDelta is only compatible with Tokens generated within the Ethereum network, i.e. digital "assets" produced not by mining but by writing a separate contract that immediately creates or "pre-mines" millions of Tokens.

Pre-mined Tokens are a gimmick that amounts to a gift card for a Business, but the marketing tries to claim this is a magic software network where a limited amount of giftcards are released into the wild and you need to horde the giftcards to use the services offered by the business. Please feel free to show proof where this is not the case.

2. BTC is not a "reserve currency", it's merely referenced in the form of a ratio for other crypto-assets. BTC could fall to $0.001 USD and you would simply see the ratio as
BTC 6 : 1 OTHER-CRYPTO
Actually there's been a vigorous enough debate happening in the community about how to fix some of these problems and how to move forward toward what Bitcoin will ultimately be that the community and blockchain split.
Nitpick: Galileo was put under house arrest from the church not because of his heliocentric views, but because he publicly mocked the pope (making him "Simplicio" in Dialogue), even after Galileo was warned not to.
> network neutrality refers to network providers being neutral to the data they transmit. applications running over the network can do as they please.

Not exactly, network neutrality can mean almost anything. The way it is discussed in the FCC regards ISPs, but you can expand it to anything.

> by this argument ad-blockers violate net-neutrality.

No. And ad-blocker isn't any different from a child filter. It is a tool specifically designed to block certain content explicitly enabled by the user.

And to expand: by your logic, it would be ok then for Chrome to block all links to Firefox?

Or for Microsoft to block all links to other browsers?
It's replaceable, just not as a DIY. Apple encourages people to take their phones into Apple stores/authorized dealers to get the battery replaced.

(Also, the repair is free if the battery's capacity has declined to <80% while under warranty. If you pay for two-year AppleCare+ [$99], you've basically pre-paid for a free battery replacement [normally also $99] at the two-year mark, as long as you've used—abused?—your phone heavily enough to wear its battery down by then. So, Bad Life ProTip: if you have AppleCare, make sure to run your battery flat a lot to get its capacity down, so as to get your money's worth.)
There are a billion iOS devices out there. It only stands to reason that for a LOT of these devices, battery performance would hit a critical level at around the same time iOS 11 got installed, just by coincidence. In addition, new iOS installs create a lot of extra battery load, increasing the chances of this occurring.
If no one went to jail for what Wells Fargo did with opening unauthorized accounts I don't have much hope that there will be meaningful fines for data breaches.
LeCun, “How Could Machines Learn as Efficiently as Animals and Humans?” [video]
It's not even a NN-type middlemen issue for me, though that is exactly what's going on here. The bigger problem for me is causing regressions for users. On top of that they're causing regressions just because they don't like X traffic, and they're not even exclusively affecting X traffic - they're affecting unrelated traffic too. It's just an incredibly arrogant, annoying, bad thing to do to users who never requested this to begin with.
This is exactly how replace by fee works. If you use the same inputs, only one of the transactions can be included. The reason it's called replace by fee is that unlike Satoshi's original design for transaction replacement, which he disabled because it could be abused to waste node resources for free by repeatedly replacing transactions, it requires a higher fee for each replacement to discourage abuse. (Bitcoin Cash subsequently removed replace by fee out of some weird belief it was an attack on Satoshi's vision; this was of course nonsense, since he specifically designed transactions to be replaceable. It was also pointless, since it's a voluntary miner policy rather than a consensus rule and there's economic incentive for them to support it.)
Left-leaning politics consists largely of a collage of special-interests that band together to increase their political power. Essentially, everyone has agreed to take a stand for all the members of that collage in order to hold it together. Hence the lack of middleground.
No, it screams "planned and careful shepherding of user experience".
When the feedback is "hey you can't make a currency", that is not feedback about the name, and changing the name is a questionable fix at best.
If your fee was so low that it has not cleared in many days then it is probably not being included in any blocks. Especially in a time like now when fees are increasing, putting in another identical transaction with a high enough fee to get confirmed should work fine. I'm not sure how your wallet software will deal with it though.
So, how do you handle new devices? Get the Dropbox pass from another device, log in, then load the database in KeePassX?
> WASM replaces Javascript as the target of other language compilers.

No, it does not. Compiling to WASM is not a replacement or synonym for compiling to JavaScript. JavaScript is not locked in a sandbox, in the same way, as it has a multitude of APIs. WASM does not have such APIs as it is just the sandbox.

Here is the deal. All modern browsers now claim to support WASM. If WASM were capable of replacing JavaScript it would do so right now, but it isn't because it cannot. The demand is certainly there and yet despite that demand the results are completely absent.

People claim this is because WASM lacks DOM bindings. True, but that is only a tiny bit of it. WASM also does not have a security model around code/data distribution. WASM also does not have access to the chrome of the browser (the parts outside the DOM). I also haven't heard much about asynchronous threads in WASM, which is a huge requirement when working with distributed code execution. This list could go on and on.

This is common knowledge for people who do this work professionally. There is an incredible amount of work to do before an arbitrary compile target can replace a major platform consideration, and much of that work isn't API bindings.

The people who claim WASM as a replacement for JavaScript, as evidenced on r/programming, tend to be the people most ignorant and fearful of JavaScript. They want a replacement so badly they assume this is it without any consideration for what the technical requirements are, because they have no idea what they are.
Any plans for an IDE? For example, adding support for Crystal in IDEA would go a long way toward facilitating adoption.
They did not anticipate parties. Or rather they did, but they really didn't like them, and assumed that they would be able to prevent the political system from being dominated by them. And it takes parties to gerrymander.

Also, I think it's partly because at the country's founding, most hot political issues had a clear large-scale geographic distribution, and so geographic districts were considered an adequate way to capture the overall mood.
Cowboy Coding Environment
Hey Everyone,

I’ve been searching locally in my community for answers on this and would like to poll the general internet’s worth of individuals for their advice, anecdotes, and opinions on something that I feel is a growing problem at my job.

I’m the only developer on a project right now at a small company. I was hired with the impression that there would be small growth and a small team would be built out (1 more dev at minimum), but with the holidays approaching interviews have been infrequent, sporadic, and low in quality. During our very small team’s planning meetings we come to a pretty minimum description of requirements and are very much lacking guidance regarding how to achieve some of our current objectives. I finish these requirements as well as I can, but I really feel like expertise in certain domains development wise would solidify our approach. The farther I get away from shore (time spent coding without a team atmosphere or general companion to bounce ideas off of and peer review code), the more scared I get of technical debt, scope creep, and the overall general scale of the project that I’m starting to undertake coding alone. It's always nice to say you write tests and hold yourself personally to a high standard of code, but in isolation it becomes harder and harder with no code review process.

The way we’re doing things feels very wrong the longer it goes on, and I don’t know how to go about communicating that the lack of ability to be in a collaborative non-silo like space with another team member or dev group is severely hurting the project in ways that will only be observable when we have new people come aboard

Does anyone have experience on teams where they were the sole developer and then had to integrate new members rapidly?
How much work did you lose?
What were some pitfalls you would go back and try to avoid?
How do you bring this issue up to team-members effectively?
Thanks so much in advance.
Telling some one a sex joke is a not a crime, killing someone is a crime.

Edit: Sexual harassment, as such, is not a crime under state or federal law in the U.S. Murder is a Crime.

Makes no sense to compare it to murder. apples oranges.
It is a similar line of reasoning that led me to recognize that anything you can learn might be useful someday, thus learning as an activity is intrinsically valuable.
Ideally the hypothetical down syndrome man will be able to seek help and pay someone for their time if their immediate support network fails them. Perhaps an assisted living center. No need to introduce a nanny state to account for an edge case, need based market dynamics will do that easily enough if the person in need has the financial means.

Right now the solution to that hypothetical poor down syndrome man is the salvation army and living on the street. I see it every day with a variety of mental health issues outside my luxury apartment. The disparity is sickening, and our system is failing it's people immensely.

Personally I'm very hopeful that a combination of gene editing and AI will alleviate malodies and allow everyone clarity of thought.
> LET ME PAY FOR THE REPAIR.

Then you would know that it is totally their fault and the liability would be on Apple to fix other people's devices.
Have you tried the nearby "We repair iPhones" store? They can replace your battery for a lot less than a new phone.
> You can replace the batteries at both Apple stores

Or you know, Apple could make it easy for the user to replace the battery by themselves. But they chose not to.
Instead of a data tax, I like the idea of mandatory data insurance, with payouts to users whose data is leaked/stolen. If your company has shitty security, or a history of leaks, your data insurance provider will charge out the ass.

The financial math has to clearly be on the side of it being more profitable to practice proactive security.
There's selling tools developers / IT abd then there's selling to regular people in different functions.
Please explain how issuing/buying back shares destroys dollars.
Resuming my role as devil's advocate: How do you know they wrote them? How do you know I didn't write your new candidate's project for them?

And it should be asked, why is spending hours and hours building open source software outside of your day job a reasonable requirement? Doing open source well is incredibly difficult and requires a different skill set than working as a developer.

If you want to sit in front of a computer for several hours, then go home and do it all over again for free for the community, that's great. Sincere thanks are in order for that. But requiring it from all your candidates is unreasonable IMO.
A few. For example, the Indus seals have symbols that may be a language, but no one has been able to decipher them.
Music encoding
This doesn't seem like it should be built in at the browser level. The brower's job should be to process requests and render webpages as quickly as possible. If a user wants to intervene in that process, that is their prerogative, but it definitely should remain at the plugin level.
Excellent news!

The last time I tried to take the RER (early 2010s), I was in a train full of graffiti, with drunks (or drug users?) passed out across the seats, and few escalators/lifts for my 20kg suitcase. So after this I thought it was less painful to pay for a taxi, the experience put me off trying the RER again.

This round, the problem was a strike which surge priced the fare into 8 minutes ETA and 2x the usual.

It's funny that CDG is actually a TGV station - you can probably reach other cities faster (and more comfortably) than Paris as a result.
I like that. I've always thought of the left and the right of the political spectrum as the idiots and the arseholes.
By allowing you to double spend, it reduces confidence in coins you buy to zero, which reduces the value of all coins to zero. You still have your coins, but they aren't worth anything.
Does anyone know what happened to MIT's Enigma project?

This is their white paper: http://web.media.mit.edu/~guyzys/data/ZNP15.pdf
Wow, serviced apartments now have a pretty website. Cool /s
> Also this article shows Effective total state and local taxes in 2017. Illinois ranks the highest at $8,011 median per household, while California ranks almost at the bottom, at $4,774: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer....

Okay, but if you look closer I bet you can see the problem there. That chart refers to the "Median US Household" defined thus: annual income of $54,286 (mean third quintile U.S. income); owns a home valued at $178,600 (median U.S. home value). In Silicon Valley, that comparison would be between someone earning poverty-level wages who inherited a shack on the edge of town versus a reasonably comfortable midwesterner.

In this comparison between IL and CA we're making, the cost of living and real estate completely dwarfs the tax burden in its effect on the lower ranks in Northern CA. The difference in income tax would be hugely in favor of IL if you were at the very high end. Perhaps there's some middle ground where IL looks worse in the comparison, but I wonder if you'd really be better off financially in California. (edit: Northern California)
Show it, it at least shows you care something to work on it in your spare time.
The Walrus is normally a magazine with high standards, and very good quality content, but I find the headline a little misleading or at least sensational. Canada's healthcare system is beloved, and has surely saved a far greater number of lives than it has put at risk. That said, most would prefer it be expanded and improved upon its current state.

Canada's healthcare system has long needed improvements in mental health capacities. I figure that is what they're trying to explicitly illustrate here. The result has been iterations of separate mental health institutes, leading to driving efforts like CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) in Toronto. Sadly, many remote regions do not have ready access to these kinds of resources. The northern regions of the provinces are particularly starved for social and medical resources.

Hopefully the article will have the enlightening and impactful effect I interpret its author having intended.
This discussion is about more than just "telling some one a sex joke".
Block all ads, except Google? :P
"Making generalisations about breeds needn't override that."

Training goes a long way. Yet my experience with dogs is that there are individuals with a bad temperament. And breed does strongly correlate with size. So in situations where a bad mannered individual dog of a large breed does act out the potential for harm is higher than if it were a smaller breed.

Owning large and powerful dogs of any breed is a risk.
> The stories I've read have done a good and careful job of corroborating and verifying their stories.

There are several good recent examples of this:
- the project veritas employee trying to shop a false abortion story to the post
- the schumer accusation that was shown to be falsified
- weinstein's fake accuser that was planted by his own team to discredit investigations

When people come with false information, it gets found and reported on, because journalists do their due dilligence. News organizations are really careful about this kind of thing, because screwing up here is a really good way to get your entire org badly burned.
The forbes article is good. The original linked article is so poorly written, I thought it was a sham.

The Forbes article says that the US is one of the few countries that does not have laws requiring the protection of such information. But let me ask: what would a new law change about this particular incident?

Unless the law specifically requires that someone go to jail, then the law will make no difference. The owner of the data didn't mean to expose it all. It just happened.

We already know that when companies flout the laws, no person goes to jail. The company pays a fine and everyone continues doing what they were doing. The punishment is irrelevant. With this kind of repercussions, Laws are ineffective.
Ether is up about 10,000% over a year, while BTC is up about 2500%...
You can hardly do MMP in America. Several states have only one or two seats, where MMP would be equivalent to FPTP or block vote - a significant step back.
Best by food availability, shelter, labor.

Given that even in good years a large portion of the population was malnourished in whatever time period you want to pick before the middle of the 20th century, the rich were always better off than the poor and rich families were better than poor ones.
Planet Money launched a satellite
I don't think it is possible to separate a person from their ideas. You are the sum of your ideas. If you hold a bad belief, that is a bad piece of your whole personality.

None of us are perfect. We all have bad ideas sometimes. That means nobody can be an entirely good person.

But the converse is possible; we can separate the idea from the person. And when judging the merits of the idea, we certainly should.

Consider that if you separate all the ideas from a person, what is left? An empty shell of a body? Does it still have a person in it?
You should create a different address for each post on Craigslist. It is pretty easy and prevents this problem. If you have a website and have an address displayed for donations, then you will get multiple donations to the same address. With any one-off just make a new address in your wallet. (I use bitcoin core wallet. Not sure how others work.)
Know how I can tell you haven't designed any consumer products with a battery, replaceable or otherwise?

This is the engineering equivalent of saying, "Why doesn't someone just go to the Middle East, sit down at a round table with with the Israelis and Palestinians and Sunnis and Shiites and rebels and Baathists and Saudis and ISIS members and refugees and all those other guys, and help them work out their differences peacefully?"
I've owned two low cost Moto G phones and never had this issue.
>At issue is once again an Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage bucket that was misconfigured and inadvertently left open to the public internet, where anyone with a connection online could have found it.

I use S3 and I have noticed that by default it's locked down and secure and in order for it to be open you have to open it for the public. Maybe AWS could improve the way it can secure the S3 buckets by making it easier to whitelist access by IPs or some variant to this. Although I personally find it fairly straight forward to use in the projects I work on but it appears it may be difficult and my developers just open it up to the public so their apps can easily access it.
I recall this term being used for a gag in Freakazoid! (which is labeled "Steven Spielberg presents", although I don't know if he had any real involvement that would be relevant to the provenance of the word), complete with definition.
A Brief History of the Perl Programming Language Which Turned 30 Today
Twenty-three states have already passed the National Popular Vote bill, which will in effect switch all states from winner-takes-all when it covers a majority of the electoral college:
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
Yes but these debates have been going on for years with very little progress being made. Bitcoin is growing faster than it can keep up with, it seems.
Just set a value on the data, a monetary value, and the rest will naturally emerge through insurance and due diligence by insurers.
Experimental Philosophy
Surprised this is the only mention of Lucky.

Seems to have a lot of promise. I wrote off Crystal some time ago but Lucky has my interest piqued and I’ve been building a few things with Lucky recently.
What zero-knowledge proofs will do for blockchain