skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics strikes again.

"when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster."

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
how many people really make go down to page 20 of the SERP? I'm sure it's a very miniscule number.

Unfortunately those people are the ones who are searching the hardest for the most difficult-to-find things, and thus need the services of a search engine the most. It's unfortunate because, for every one of those, there's probably millions of others who just want to search "facebook" and click the first link; a site that I don't even use yet can recite the domain name of off the top of my head.
I tried bitcoin, but what pushed me out was a market that never slept. I was constantly having to monitor it for a wild swings
Perhaps it makes some sense, but not enough sense for airlines to buy/lease these airliners. If people demanded them, the airlines would be supplying them.

Perh if Australia or Japan had 300million people and they had lots of business travelers, airlines would see a future in it, but for now, it seems they don't. Budget airlines seem to have seen the biggest growth. A380s aren't quite budget.
It's not warlords. It's pak Govt. They jailed the Osama informer ffs.
Even water can be a disagreement in politics
I question anyone who would chose any other plane over the 787 if they had a choice, especially for long haul flights. My sinuses are night and day feeling better after a flight on a 787. That alone makes up for any annoyance with the windows or other minor inconveniences people frequently quote.

> its not 11 abreast pack-em-in which is what the 787 has done

Citation needed! I just checked every airline’s seating config for the 787 and all are either 3-3-3 or more rarely 2-4-2 in economy.
Then Japan is the last of the wealthy countries deserving criticism, since they at least made a loan which had a good chance of default.
Not speaking from experience but I thought it requires heating lamps, knowledge of make vs female plants, different types, etc.

I suppose in the states where it’s been decriminalized, you can grow it outdoors and not worry about some of that stuff, but that certainly seems like more work than tossing some Sudafed and whatever else in an empty can and shaking it a bunch.

Again, not advocating anyone try meth. Do not try meth.
> On the other hand my ability to focus on a task has dropped considerably. I am no longer able to code for 1h straight. I would say that 15 minutes is a victory...
> When coding I try to be out of the critical path...

Sorry, you are no longer coding as an engineer on the team and are losing insight into how the codebase functions with a speed you are probably underestimating.
Engineering isn't about writing code that eventually works, it's about consistently delivering good-enough code on time.

> ... the company comes first, the team second and the individual third...

I think if you focus on building the team, there is no way the company and individuals do not benefit. Plus, high functioning teams often stick together across companies and employees follow managers. I'm not a manager just my 2cents.
Ask HN: What do you use to build your resume?
I was curious as to what was the best way to create a resume.
I'm not sure on the train but Spain has security scans at railway departures for long distance rail. Not as stringent as for an international aeroplane flight but, given the investment, in theory it could be.
Makes sense. Still surprises me that it wouldn't be a check more like "if not expiredOrAbsentAuthentication..."
The Carnegie Hero Fund
Anybody dissected yet how they're invoking the handler?

Given that you have to compile the binary before pushing it up, it seems weird to announce "golang support" and not "support for any binary that talks $insert_serialization_scheme" over stdin/stdout or a network socket or some such, unless they're doing fancier magic.
Tangentially related, I think he will be a tremendous disruption to the marketplace when retail pricing and change on the fly. Digital price tags will update based on volume, supply, audience, etc.
Alcohol actually seems kind of hard to make. I did some beer brewing and it’s a process. Fermentation takes a long time, contamination could make it super foul, etc.

As far as the word choice, you are probably right. It’s probsbly better to say “most easily accessible to the DIY community” :)
You don’t fix what isn’t broken when it’s a life critical system.
I was amazed by the Gboard thing though. It usually picks the correct phrases for me.
I didn’t disagree with your core point (in fact, I completely agree with it). I was just clarifying that in the case of the 787, it wasn’t the airline’s choice.
> will try to rewrite your queries and omit words

This has been bugging me too the last couple of years. Sometimes I would actually prefer an empty answer to one where various words are missing. Empty can mean an idea is still unexplored.

I've started sending feedback to Google every time this happen. Maybe it'll make a difference if more people do it?
Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but it seems advertising junk food which may come with a hefty bit of priming, works.
85% of this article is just a series of detailed advertisements for the projects he did...

Not: "How I Shipped Six Side Projects in 2017"

Good for him though.
I'm not. My battery died yesterday and I managed not to kill anybody.
JavaScript: can you have the statement if(a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) evaluate true?
you seem to be underestimating the value of lightning networks, TEEchains, quorums, etc.
Verifying My Blockstack ID with the Address 16DX8HDvc5s1cQYRYR81bS28SJnzVmsDni
Hi Chris, Thanks for your post about Go Lambda, but... should we be worried? Did something happen to Jeff Barr? Is it time to move to a different cloud provider?

Your post about Go on Lambda is certainly helpful, but feels like it's aimed towards at a difference audience than Jeff (Barr, not Bezos).
Fascinating article. I went out looking for General pencils, but the best I could find where the Ticonderoga. An art store perhaps?
Yes. The problem seems to be compounded by Google's intention to correct spelling, and (for the long tail searches) to assume you're really just looking for whatever everyone else is searching for.
If you pump unlimited investment dollars into unlimited investments, what tends to happen is that your investees and their employees/suppliers walk off with a lot of money and don't produce any goods or services that result in a sustainable competitive advantage. This is basically the definition of a bubble, and has happened over and over again, from Bitcoin to mobile to subprime mortgages to Web 2.0 to .com to AI to savings & loans. You need some sort of financial constraint - usually the threat of bankruptcy - to create an incentive to invest efficiently, where you make choices about where to allocate resources such that your firm is more competitive than everyone else.

Spreading a small amount of money across a large number of investments within a sector usually works out pretty well, though. This is a diversified portfolio, and basically it means you're betting that someone in the sector will succeed without taking a position on who that will be. If you know that the market exists and the technology is attainable, it makes a lot of sense.
There a difference between saying digital currencies will take over vs bitcoin being the currency that takes over or others with similar flaw. As the first line of OP's post points out he's not saying every single digital currency scheme will turn out to be ponzi schemes but I think he makes some very valid points about many of them.

I don't think the early digital currencies we have are going to be the right ones to fulfill the type of future you are envisioning.
It claims to have desktop sharing and presentations.

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
now that matrix.org supports jitsi, i think something like riot.im will cover all those bases.

https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html

https://about.riot.im
...annnnd no relation to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project - the Japanese RTOS. Also no relation to JTRON - the Java implementation of TRON.
The fact that other engines are able to offer up results tells me this is a Google thing, not the size of the internet.
The Bourne Spectrum
> But if you're searching enough to eat up Google's bandwidth, they're paying for that data and they're under no obligation to keep serving you as a client

Do you not see the irony?
Sounds like the very early days of web logging.
You can use Ulysses in the proprietary format or open regular .md files. I have a folder open, so I have multiple layers of folders. It works pretty well.
The proprietary is required for iCloud (if you want to share notes with the iOS app).
This reminds me a lot of another article posted here recently: http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/computings-fundamental-princ....

This behavior makes sense for most people, those who don't know what they're doing, at the expense of rendering the tool useless in cases where advanced functionality is needed. Perhaps Google should have an advanced, AI lite version.
> If this was being used to hide from a raid in Russia, people would be cheering instead.

Personally, I wouldn’t be cheering. I’m of the mind that if you’re going to do business in a country, you can’t choose to ignore the local laws and expect zero repercussions.

That said, do I care that Uber built this system, nope! But I would laugh if it backfired on them and got them into more legal trouble.
Suppressing a sneeze can be dangerous
Cobolambda
Electricity is cheap, when plugged in. Mobile storage is the hard (costly and heavy) part.
They're saying that if you pay them today, you get them for $0.80 as a "ico pre-sale". Then during the real ICO, coins will be available from them for $50. Nothing about market price
Self-contradiction in physics is found in the concept of “EM drive”
Samsung gallery app does this as well. You can even search for stuff like "selfie".
I faced the same issue with Audible. But audible refunded the amount after I called them. They even offered a discount instead of refund.
I could be wrong but I don't think shell has billed itself exclusively as an oil company since the 90s
RankBrain

Amusingly enough one of the definitions of "rank" is, according to Wiktionary, "having a very strong and bad taste or odor"... as in the smell of a decaying brain. How fitting. I almost wonder if it's deliberate. If they called it BrainRank (like PageRank), the adjectival meaning seems to be emphasised less.
Awesome.

I used to think very badly of Bill Gates. (New corporate PCs often came bundled with Word. The newest PCs wouldn't be compatible with older ones, so everyone had to constantly upgrade. It was a huge scam.)
But it's nice he's giving his money away. I look forward to hearing about more acts of charity in the years ahead.
It’s a bit funny and sad how Google has both managed to seem overly clever to the point of being clumsily useless, and at the same time, continues to offer the original search experience that people pine for but no one knows or can be bothered with: add “intext:” before keywords and it’s the experience you’re wishing for.
The only problem with calling the "top" is that this latest bubble is the 8th crash. Of course depending on what we qualify as a bubble and as a crash. It could also be the 5th if we look at round powers of 10 being breached then recovered from.

Just look at the full historic price of USD:BTC in a log graph and you'll see what I mean.
How could it be tinnitus if there is a recording of the sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwjNJ6EGyQ
Their WebRTC site at https://meet.jit.si/ works incredibly well. It's the best I've seen, anonymous, with tons of videoconference functionalities and nice bandwidth tracking tools.

And being WebRTC, it needs no plugins on popular desktop webbrowsers. Sadly, mobile ones do not support WebRTC. But their app is open, and works very well.
I am so glad the Gates foundation is doing so much good in the world. Kudos to them.
More junk news combined with junk science.

> "to include evidence that the 24 victims showed clear patterns of brain abnormalities."

"U.S. officials wouldn’t say whether the changes were found in all 24 patients." [1]

It's mass psychogenic illness.

What is interesting is that after the Guardian reported this, within hours the government released the cicadas chirping recordings. Which this junk article contradicts the earlier junk article (How does one record something that's only in ones head and has no one heard a cicada before?)

What's the governments play here? They had the recordings ready to go to attack back on the obvious mass psychogenic illness. I'd guess ass covering by someone who realizes this has gotten out of hand but can't pull it back in without looking bad.

Mass psychogenic illness mostly effects females, it'd be interesting to know the ratio here.

[1] https://www.apnews.com/bbed1d7f6f1a4320a7e60abfdce67d4d
Google Arts and Culture app find your art doppelgänger
In return to handing Nigeria's agriculture industry to Monsanto;

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matte...

[2] https://www.ecowatch.com/5-million-nigerians-oppose-monsanto...
Go seems like a great fit for this application.

Would love to see stats comparing cold start times etc. for go vs. java/python/js. One would guess that it would be faster, but measurement trumps guessing.
Since FPS (2009) in the UK Payments take seconds, not days. I'm not sure what you mean by virtual payments - all payments are entries in a ledger nowadays, they don't move physical money around.

Re the Cyprus banking haircut I wouldn't be so sure you are protected from this kind of action - exchanges, developers and miners all have leverage and have already used it to fork entire currencies, and force changes on users, impose currency controls, impose local laws (KYC etc) if you want to spend and exchange the currency.

I think on balance I prefer a slightly inflationary currency with low fees, few middlemen, and trusted counterparties and agencies to hold money (i.e. banks). Happy to ditch government control and our current system of money management though for deterministic inflation.

I also prefer one which is not at the mercy of developers or miners, and does not attempt distributed anonymity, which places severe constraints on speed, energy usage and consistency, and did not have high fees. At present Bitcoin is completely unsuited to global trade and unlikely to improve soon. I think if you were a little more clear-eyed about the downsides of current cryptocurrencies, you'd make a would be more convincing case.
I wish people would name and shame companies using these types of questions so that we could all avoid them.
I used it a number of years back. It seemed to be really buggy and not work most of the time. I really hope things have improved because a FOSS solution to teleconferencing would be dandy.
Ambition is the enemy of consistency.

Be consistent.
> I don't think it's a coincidence that it's happening now that crypto has been around for 8 years, and is increasing in size

Fedwire is run directly by the Federal Reserve [1]. It traces its history to the first electronic funds transfers, which started in 1915. It started doing automated transfers in the early 1980s. Until the 1980s, it was free; after that it costs between 3 and 80¢ for member banks. Almost every American bank will waive their mark-up (or even the whole fee) for accounts with over $15 to 50 thousand.

Internationaly, there are numerous RTGS systems including but not limited to SWIFT, CLS, et cetera.

> See the Cyprus banking haircut

See the MtGox haircut.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedwire
I don't think they necessarily make up the prices, but I wonder if there is an accounting reason for the "MSRP" on procedures being so high. I will frequently see things like a $2,000 charge to the insurance company and then it will show that they ended up paying something like $185 for the service and they disallow the rest.

Perhaps it is just to make sure they always get the max from the insurance companies. Or maybe they are able to write off the portion that the insurance company won't pay as a loss or bad debt.
Never heard about that before; thanks for sharing.
int result;
for (int i = 0; i < 77232917; i++) {
result = 2 * 2; <----- you basically said result=4 77232917 times
}
return result - 1; <--- and then 4-1=3

so of course it will always be 3
His first sentence is factually incorrect.
For Go and/or C# lambda support would it be worth even running the garbage collector, or just allocating a block of memory and cleaning it up when the function ends?

Side note I think that should be an option for web servers as well for languages with managed memory. Light isolated non-threaded api endpoints shouldn't be interrupted by garbage collection.
These problems far predate the ACA.

I come from a large family (8 kids). When by mom was still alive, I asked her if making medical claims was a pain. Nope, she said: tell your information to the doctor, and sometimes she'd have to pay part of it.

Now, even with "gold plated insurance", many of my families doctors don't handle insurance; we pay them directly, and we have to deal with the insurance companies ourselves. My wife spends countless hours dealing with what I assume is willful incompetence. For example, filing four identical (other than date) forms for a series of physical therapy sessions, and having the insurance company approve two and reject two because the codes were wrong. Or the it was unreadable. Followup calls get a different person every time, and when they review it they say: oh, I don't know why it was rejected, that is fine. I'll personally make sure it gets fixed. And then it doesn't get fixed. Having to call five for six times for one bill is common.
New CSS properties are only going to work in secure contexts?

How is local development supposed to occur?

E: there's going to be some flag to enable it for development
In May of 1998, I published a review of Lou Reed's "Perfect Night" by Kevin McGowin, and when I google (in FF private mode, as if that helps) "lou reed kevin mcgowin" it comes up #1.

If I google "lou reed perfect night review", I stopped looking after page 17 of results. There's just too many results.

If I google /"lou reed" "perfect night" review/ with quotes as you see them, the review I published is on page 2, result #3.

I feel your pain, but, as someone who started publishing content in 1995, I don't see Google as having a memory problems.

My pain points are related to how Google crawls my content, my sitemaps, and how the two seem completely independent of each other.
Western Union is up there I think. So at least for remittance it might make sense.

Anyway I agree that Bitcoin probably won't be used as a currency but more like gold. Perhaps it will be used to back some way cheaper transaction method.
Maybe you can elaborate on the reasons why fedwire is not more popular than, say, ACH? I suspect there is a reason that stems from its centralization.
I agree with this 100%, the problem is the eventual consistency model opens up the failure windows. Its the case of the private toll agency here in TX that had a full blown court case/collections agency trying to collect (thousands for literally $2.75 in tolls) from me, while sending information to my 5 year out of date address.

That despite the fact that I changed my address when I moved (says so in the TxDPS record, running on a "legacy" system), which got sent to the toll agency when I changed it. Of course somewhere in there the toll agency lost this information and never bothered to check the TxDPS record until I pointed out they were repeatedly sending notices to the wrong address.

The point being that, this is only one of many problems they have had with their newfangled toll system because sometimes "eventually consistent" actually means "we threw the update away because a newer one came in, so we lost a critical piece of information.". Critical pieces of information like, people actually paying their tolls for example.

http://www.texasturf.org/2012-06-01-03-09-30/latest-news/484...
http://story.kxan.com/txtag-troubles/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/78wp9y/txtag_paymen...
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I also find this challenging. One thing I can suggest that has helped me on my current project, is to do a morning standup. It's always brief but I use this time to set a mood/tone for the day. I try to lead with something relevant for the team or business, hopefully good news, but still try to motivate with a sense of direction towards what we're working on and where we're going. We'll each give our status and have an opportunity to bring up blocking issues, successes, or anything else. But I've found that my team looks for this ritual to assess my mood. I try to stay optimistic towards the effort, our business and the opportunities we're all working towards. When it gets slightly frustrating on a day to day basis where the "business" side may not be meeting the "engineering" side, I try to make dry light humor where we can laugh a bit during standup knowing that we're pointed in the same direction. Not an exact science, but on the day to day, try to find something to laugh about. This usually finds people willing to pair up together to take on "the cause" or whatever the team needs to get done.
Hence the challenge of 6D (2,0) superconformal field theory.
The insurance companies don't do anything that isn't automated and easy. Everything billed is coded and the insurance company already has a set price for that code. If the medical providers don't agree, they can either try to appeal and get an exception or most likely adjust the billing codes until something more reasonable goes through, or they can refuse to accept that insurance plan in their office.
It looks like the compiled binary just gets exec'd by the Lambda function and listens on a TCP port (specified by the environment variable _LAMBDA_SERVER_PORT) which accepts RPC calls to execute the handler using net/rpc.

The code: https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/blob/master/lambda/entr...
recommendations? I have yet to find a good one.
What’s more damning is the sound only occurred in certain locations in a room.
Not sure “banking the unbanked” is really the goal of Bitcoin.

Think instead because of it’s scarcity, Bitcoin could be used to back currencies. Much like the gold standard before. Transaction fees in this scenario (even with it’s high transaction fees for us normies) would be considered negligible when moving large amounts of money.

In this scenario, we can even have other cryptos which are better for daily use be backed by bitcoin.
The US Embassy in Habana and the Canadian embassy are around 5 km apart from each other, so it does seem unlikely.

It could be deflection. Target apparently random people, so that it's difficult to tell who the real target was.
Big Brother on wheels
Nice. Workflowy has some really nice ideas!
Agreed. Javascript's security model is broken if it allows this. It is just that simple. Blaming services that trust localhost is delusional.
Honest question: how does any of that help with transaction fees?