skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vandalism is an ugly crime, but I'm viewing this incident as someone who (now) knows what Hitchbot was and what its creators' intentions apparently were. We don't know that this was the case for whoever destroyed Hitchbot. Maybe society was substantially more innocent/optimistic about technology in 2015, but today I'm not surprised when some people become hostile at the thought of robots roaming around taking photos and uploading them to an unknown source for unknown reasons.

As to whether Hitchbot's fate was sealed because it ventured through a high crime area (article doesn't say specifically where in Philadelphia) -- I imagine such neighborhoods may also have highly suspicious attitudes towards automatons with cameras.

edit: More context:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150806_Pranksters_admit_...

tl;dr Hitchbot was found dismembered in what sounds like a touristy, bar-filled area of Philadelphia. Someone claimed to have footage of it being dismembered, but it turned out it was just a prankster who faked the footage to capitalize on the attention. So it's not even certain where or when Hitchbot "died". But Hitchbot is not really a "bot" as we (or at least I) think about them these days, e.g. the "suicidal" security bot in D.C. that stumbled its way into a fountain [0]. Hitchbot was entirely dependent on people picking it up and dropping it off. The chances of someone choosing to drive late at night to an area of high violent crime seem low in general, nevermind to drop off a robot there.

Ironically I think its chances of survival would be just as good in inner city Philadelphia as it would be near any sports bar in America (or the world), late at night.

[0] http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/robot-security-guard-comm...
That does seem like an advantage, but the downside is that people who don't have access to fancy diagnostic equipment potentially just die of things that could be cured with some antibiotics....
An HOA can eventually put a lien on your home and repossess it if you fail to pay their fines.
> BART uses it to pay gate agents $150k+

citation needed
I actually find this discussion really interesting.

The piece of data I was missing was that I didn't understand that people associate "mate" mainly with animal behaviour these days. It didn't have that connotation for me at all, it was a perfectly natural way my mother would have spoken about a lifelong spouse with children.

In quoting me on "logic and reason" you missed the additional "and clear communication" in my sentence. I thought "mate" was clearer than "wife" or "girlfriend" because it's more specific to what I was trying to say, something more like soulmate to raise children with. And I now acknowledge that it wasn't a clear way for me to communicate, given the discussion above.

(Still, however, my brain isn't wired in a way for me to be able to analyze all this in real time, or pick it up intuitively like normal people do.)
I'm Joining Microsoft, Because They're Doing Open Source Right
You must live in SF or on a coast to think there is an infinite pool of richer tennants that you could upgrade and sell to.
Teleport 2.4 released
Despite having the same icon, that’s not the same M; it’s completely separate.
> My argument is that Google made inferences about his public policy beliefs based on his "memo", and fired him for those inferences.

Well, it's your assertion. I don't see an argument supporting it.
Probably to make maintenance simpler? That's the most expensive part of operating a helicopter.
A Typology of Business Charts and How to Use Them
Likewise, who decides if the judicial branch has rendered decisions which are inconsistent with the Constitution?

It's turtles all the way down: the legislature's laws are reviewed by judges or ignored by the executive; judges & members of the executive branch may be impeached by the legislature; ultimately the voters decide what they're willing to let their government get away with.
> I don't know if gated communities have an HOA by definition

Almost every new/private development (as opposed to houses built along public roads or something) has one. That's how the resources to build up the common area are marshaled.
Ask HN: What would your ideal programming language be like?
I'm a language designer. I know I love writing compilers and interpreters, but I always had this constant problem of fitting the languages I create into a niche.
I always aim for the ultimate swiss-knife kind of language or I always end up doing that. However, many people have told me, I'm wasting my time creating general-purpose languages, instead I should focus on a niche. Now I'm looking for the niche.

So I'm directing this question to you coders, old and young. What do you think a new programming language should have and not be considered a waste of time? What features or environment do expect from a new programming language? Why do you think current languages cannot have those features? In short, what areas do you think current languages suck in and would be a good starting point for a new programming language? Or should I just give up on language design and compilers and get a life. Bjarne seems to think that.

It helps if you can describe your ideal programming language in respect to your field and why you think it will work there.

Thanks.
These features cannot “cost” ad companies something, any more than my higher fence “costs” thieves in lost opportunities.

Ad companies survived with basic magazine-style ads. The only reason they complain now is that they are being forced to shift from “absurd money grab” to “ordinary company profit” for the first time in years. And there are small violins everywhere playing for these whiners.
You can fork the blockchain, but you can't make the game use your new fork. The blockchain allows the developers, players, and everyone else to agree on how many of thing X there are in the world and who owns each of them without requiring trust.
The only interesting stuff I've seen is in China with the way WeChat seems to do everything.

All of this is gleaned from fawning articles in the western tech press though, I'm not sure what it's actually like from the average Chinese citizen.
How to grow product with KPIs
No, the notification of a new member joining is always sent. Subsequent messages might be blocked.
It's part currency, part forex, part stock, part game money (like Wow gold or whatnot) and a couple of other things. It's also a vehicle for people from less than stable countries to store their money. This market is fundamentally underserved. They can't trade the US/EU stock markets easily. Crypto is volatile but very possibly better than the local currency.
You should have led with, “In my opinion,”, because it’s hard to take your remark at face value.

For example, one could argue that by removing the incentives to lend to buyers with sub-prime credit, Obama actually hurt the ability for the lower and lower-middle class to buy a home.

But primarily, I don’t think the tax bill, a few weeks old at this point, and in effect for less than 10 days, has had its effects studied adequately enough to conclude that it is the largest problem with developing home ownership since GWB.
I suspect music is pretty lucrative for gyms so I think they will keep it.

At LA Fitness they play "Zoom Media", which is a station which seems entirely payola-based to promote whatever new artist the labels are interested in. (Payola is illegal for stations on the public airwaves, but since this is in-house at a private business I assume it's fine) It's even worse than Top 40; it's more like Top 7, over and over, all day.
Works for me, but just in case:

http://archive.li/Oux0N
1. I see no realistic route to the introduction of that option - you would need to convince a fairly large political apparatus, most of whom has no interest in the option regardless of party affiliation, to support it, and you'd probably need to change many state constitutions.

2. I'm not sure that option is actually a good idea, since the effective result is that either the incumbent continues longer - which means the none-of-the-above vote is a vote for the incumbent, so it's still rational to vote for the "other party" - or the office is empty. That's good if your goal is a small and weak government, which is a totally reasonable thing to want, but probably not one that reflects the will of the majority of Americans.
In some respects I'd rather have my data managed by a Chinese company than a British one.

It's exponentially more difficult for the Chinese government to wield data against me than it is for the British government, as I do not live somewhere where the Chinese government has any power over me.
Because people in the United States glorify violence.
> cannot has no good enough

SyntaxError. What are you saying here?
At the very least, thrusting radially away from the sun while moving towards it during an elliptical orbit would reduce the energy of the orbit.
> Dr David Perlmutter

He doesn't seem reliable. http://nutsci.org/2015/08/03/fact-checking-a-perlmutter-inte...
I could possibly believe that, in a vacuum, the home mortgage deduction doesn't serve its stated purpose and should be replaced with something else. But I find it easy to be cynical when it's paired with tax breaks for all the costs associated with being a landlord for up to 10 properties. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/12/republican-tax-plan-poised-t...
good list for generating model data / fake data
If all four on one side went out, I assume you'd be in big trouble.
This exists, for the most part, but is prohibitively expensive. Sony's Trimaster EL OLED range for instance. Why it is so expensive, (compared to consumer OLED TVs) I don't know.
> putting most of the state changes off-chain, without compromising security, is literally solving the blockchain scaling problem

Isn't that the approach taken by the Lightning Network for Bitcoin?

I think it's totally fair to say that Lightning technically isn't production ready, but it does seem to be in the late stages of testing / early release candidate stage of development.
Hah! Meanwhile in Facebook group chats, anyone can add anyone, and they get to see the whole conversation history immediately and completely irrevocably (even if someone removes them later, they get to keep the history until their removal, and you can’t delete Facebook messages either).
There's only one criterion for a good HN post: does it gratify intellectual curiosity? All topics are welcome as long as they do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As a backend dev that knows almost nothing about this, I thought the article was a pretty good intro into the world of content marketing, dropshipping, and Facebook/Instagram advertising.
The secret sauce aspect here is a bit of a worry.

I wonder how many other products are secretly hand cranked. When you talk to Alexa, and the algorithm can't tell what you are saying, is there a guy in a call centre somewhere typing up what you are saying? Either to service your request or to provide a dataset of transcribed tricky samples?

Alexa is bad enough, the idea that a human really is listening to me in my home is somehow worse.
Given that there have been less than 4 instances of people arrested for "registering dead people to vote", your spin of things of this as a "hugely Democrat issue" is mountains out of molehills.

> The former doesn't even affect the vote count.

Some of the people mentioned in my example _were_ shown to have voted twice.

> Quit playing for your side

My side? I'm a US permanent resident, I'm not eligible to vote. That doesn't make me blind to the fact there are huge issues with the system here, and fault to be found on both sides of the aisle.
I wish more states did what Oregon does for termed leases. Specifically Oregon rent code makes it so that a renter can never be liable for more than 1.5 months of rent due to a lease break (although correct me in the exact amount). That was something that made it much easier to sign a lease in Oregon just in case it turned out the state's largest gun range was behind the house. I love guns but damn I don't want to hear them go off 10 hours a day. The neighbors were crazy and no longer heard them. shutters... I have since moved out of Oregon because too many Californians have moved in (LOL).
Yep. Anything more and you’ve turned it into a side job that doesn’t pay.
Yup, and self driving cars full of one person each who is taking a nap on their longer commute.
The fastest transfer rates I could get were all with Dropbox (specially upload, as I have fiber at home and I expect a decent paying service to be prepared for customers). I decided to cancel my iCloud subscription because it was terribly slow for my godzillions of small files. I still pay for some Amazon Glacier storage too, for real long-term backups of memories and personal archives (haven't touched them in the last 5 years). If only Dropbox Smart Sync was cheaper I would pay for it so I don't have to sync all my stuff everywhere or selectively check out some folders only.
There's a few things glossed over that I don't think AI can solve. For example, if I want to deliver flowers, I kinda want to chose what they look like and how do you do that without, essentially displaying a website with images which would turn it into a glorified google search. If I want a restaurant recommendation... it basically opens yelp and tells me the first hit. And I kinda want to see pictures of the place and read reviews, otherwise what's the point of searching at all?

You can reduce it to a flow of information. And chat is not always the best way to convey that information.
It's a nice start, definitely. I used to use a gym that ran CNN constantly, and during the Casey Anthony trial I realized I was actually being put off working out by the thought of seeing more lurid garbage about the case.

That said, the article still offers:

> The big-screen TVs at all clubs will now air “USA, A&E, Discovery and HGTV, in addition to local stations and ESPN”

I'm delighted to have found a gym that simply doesn't have massive TV screens within every line of sight. Put optional ones in cardio machines, sure. But I don't actually want to watch anything while I'm working out, and it's strange to me that screens are so omnipresent in gyms.
> But primarily, I don’t think the tax bill, a few weeks old at this point, and in effect for less than 10 days, has had its effects studied adequately enough to conclude that it is the largest problem with developing home ownership since GWB.

Not my claim, though -- rather my claim is that it is the latest signal of the intent to stop promoting home ownership, which was also signaled by Obama's murmuring about ending the 30-year mortgage and failure to prevent foreclosures despite avenues to do so.

I think this paper was really compelling and it's a big part of the thinking I'm working out here: http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=242...
Why does HN allow nytimes articles? They are always paywalled and I'll bet most people don't even read them.
Racial Bias in Policing: An Analysis of Illinois Traffic Stop Data
Threema has a system where contacts are verified using a QR code scan: https://threema.ch/en/faq/levels_expl These three dots are shown throughout the UI, so with the identity of a contact you always see the trust level.

This is much easier to explain to a non-techie than comparing security numbers or hashes.

- Red = No trust

- Yellow = You trust that the server has verified the identity

- Green = You have verified the identity yourself

(Edit: Formatting)
That's an interesting thought. The only reason I can think of that such a thing might not exist is that each state and city might have a unique set of regulations and licensing, which would make it difficult to operate nationally.
I would very much appreciate that article as a follower and fan of your work. You lead me down the Wasp Lisp road! Shen is amazing in that it combines a lot of things I am looking for in a PL. I wish I could contribute to libraries for it, since they will make it more useful from the get go.
That u-turn sounds legal for everybody.

I think one the purposes of traffic law is to make the behavior of all participants predictable. My only issue with cyclists is I feel I can never predict what they're going to do.
I'd prefer Rocker, a Docker written in Rust :)
Visualizing the effect of transit rich housing from SB827
You're right that this is not solely a Republican issue. But it does have a partisan lean; the GOP set a deliberate target of getting control of state map drawing processes, and have substantially more gerrymanders in their favour than against, as the maps stand.

I'm from the UK, where the idea of letting politicians draw their own boundaries is anathema. We've had a standing Boundary Commission since 1944; it does a very decent job.
"can't deal with" seems like an unnecessarily personalized argument. Maybe they just like music better?
That ends up with the same fundamental issue as a third-party run. If I think the Purple Party's candidate kinda sucks but the Fuscia Party's candidate would be an absolute disaster, I'm incentivized to vote Purple instead of "wasting" my vote on an alternative that I don't think has a realistic chance of winning in order to avoid what I see as the worst case scenario.

It's a natural side effect of a first-past-the-post voting system[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
But I get value beyond just point A-B travel out of that.
"...who's been investing loads of cash into BTC and doing well."

I have a problem with the terms "investing" and "doing well" here.

Buying bitcoin is not investing. You are not funding any productive enterprises---not even indirectly as in buying stocks on the secondary market. You are giving someone money in return for a ledger entry. You expect someone to give you more money for that ledger entry at some time in the future, which is the problem with...

An "investment" in bitcoin isn't doing well, or doing poorly, or doing anything. A stock can do well, if the enterprise it represents is producing economic value and thus the stock represents an increasing value (and assuming the market recognizes the increase, which is another discussion). If you BTC is worth more today than it was yesterday, the only thing that has changed is the price (and the conversion of some more coal into heat and carbon dioxide) and prices don't have anything resembling inertia. The "doing well" can turn to "doing poorly" tomorrow with nothing more than a change of market opinion.
I remember this article in Wired https://www.wired.com/2015/08/how-facebook-m-works/, interesting to see that come full circle
That would open them up to hundreds of copyright infringement claims!!!
We’re very much snowflakes and what’s even worse, most of us believe we’re special petunias.
SEEKING WORK - US Remote - Fullstack Developer

I have 5+ years of experience building ecommerce sites for companies of all sizes, and 8 years of experience developing overall. My expertise is with the Magento platform, but I've also built shops in Shopify and WordPress. I'm also an experienced web app developer and love tackling interesting projects.

Location: Long Beach, CA

Skills:

- Magento 1 & 2

- ReactJS and Redux

- Elixir/Phoenix

- Ruby on Rails

Email: david@diweirich.com
well, what I mean is, imagine a company that will have no cashflows for 100 years and then with probability 0.01% will have cashflows of 100 trillion gazillion. Buffet doesn't invest in those types of companies normally, that's not his edge.
Regarding your b):

Yeah, you can trade your Cobinhood tokens for Binance coins, but this is an artifact of the fact that each built a closed ecosystem. If both platforms used the same currency (ETH, USD, whatever), then there'd be no need or the inconvenience to trade tokens around.

Also, note, not all dapp tokens have liquid secondary markets, so I'd argue that it's almost an exception that your dapp tokens can be monetized externally
My AppStore preferences do not even have a lock icon on 10.11.6. Must be in newer versions only?
> I wouldn't be surprised if they got a kickback from the channel.

Outcome Health was a startup that put ad-loop TVs in doctor's offices. They definitely got paid by the ad runners, and were either placing the TVs for free or were actually paying for right to place them.

(They were apparently also faking their numbers, hence my past tense.)
> 1 hour of fuel

> 70 mph speed

This means that the maximum legal range with FAA-mandated fuel reserves is 46 miles (assuming no wind). Also despite shots of it on a driveway, it would most likely be impossible to actually take off or land on your driveway due to local ordinances in most cities. Oh and it doesn't appear to be properly equipped for IFR, so clear weather operation only.
Yes you can. Pay $100, provide your birth certificate, you can get a passport!

But...uhm, what if you don't have your birth certificate lying around somewhere? What if its like California, you have to pay $50 and wait in line for a few hours? Or what if you try to get a state ID and they want a utility bill to pay your residence?

There are billions of little things.

You can do a lot without an ID card. You can even fly with evidence of identity that doesn't require an ID. You can actually bank as long as you know your SS# and can provide another form of identity (e.g. birth certificate). You might not be able to get a credit card, but those are rich people problems.

Anyways, there is an entire world that you and I are not very familiar with.
I'm on the edge of Sacramento, and retail especially is still dead across the board in this city. Commercial has picked up, but it's the seat of one of the largest governments in the world.

Drive around from downtown to way out here, though, and you'll see an extremely high vacancy rate for retail. And it's clear that it's been that way for some years.

Given that residential has a shortage and commercial is booming, I don't know if retail is ever coming back, ever.
Show HN: Flaws: learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS
Or, from what I gather, previous ones (given that the server is compromised) and then sent later (after the new member notice).
Because stereotypes?
Seriously, Us born and raised, and I don't think my fellow citizens are on average any better or worse than anyone else around the world... just a different set of cultural and historic baggage, interpreted differently by everyone as well.

Belated RIP HitchBOT
Simon Wardley on containers, serverless, and “legacy DevOps”
My peers considered the USSR and China at the time as living embodiments of Big Brother at work, so each generation finds their corollaries I guess. It feels good to feel or know something and relate it to the world around you, that is true for better or worse.
Yep, and he kicked it lovely in Solin. Smart guy, unfortunately I’m not there yet, or else I’d ditch too. Sad thing is, I used to live for this profession.
1. If you are already incorporated, is it possible to still use this service?

2. I know the world doesn't revolve around CA but a sure lot of tech happens here. Any chance you'll add CA franchise taxes too?
Gas station 'news' has rapidly become one of my least favorite things. It usually comes with a mute button, but frankly if it's going to exist I want a little readout telling me exactly how much money I'm saving by being turned into a captive ad audience. (I'm betting it's "0.00", but...)