skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Why? When the human condition was marked by hunger and famine, it made perfect sense to crave condensed calories and salt. Now we live in a food glut environment, and we have few genetic, cultural, or psychological defenses against this novel threat to our health. Similarly, we have few defenses against these novel and potent threats to the ideals of democratic speech, even as we drown in more speech than ever."

In the past, mass speech was difficult, expensive, and centralized. Now it is cheap, universal, and everyone can partake -- so the limiting factor becomes the attention of the audience.

Memes that grab people's minds spread through the population, and oftentimes the most extreme and unreasonable ideas spread the most quickly, just like weeds can grow quickest first.
It's hard enough to get bike lines built, let alone a separate road system.
Ask HN: Founders, where to find an accountant to help prepare business Tax?
I'm based in San Francisco, any recommendation?

There are many high-level startup advices from successful people, but it seems very difficult to find information for operational & mundane things of running a startup (e.g., finding an accountant...) :)
This is the same United States where just about everyone already carries a tracking device by choice, where lots of people have installed 24/7 network-connected microphones in their homes, and where everyone believes you need ID to fly. This is the same United States where a common political argument is that of course ID should be required to vote because ID is required for everything else, and citizens should just carry ID. This is the same US where a special police force arrests and detains citizens and forces them to prove that they're actually citizens. It's been a long while since we actually objected to the "papers, please" world.

After all, these beacons are not mandatory - they're only needed if you want to use the roads as a pedestrian or cyclist. If you don't, you can drive your car like any real (read: non-poor) American, or use a taxi or bus. Pedestrians already aren't permitted on highways, what's so different about restricting pedestrians on surface streets?

And if you don't carry the beacon, that's not illegal, it's just your fault if you get hit by a car. It's not the government forcing you to carry it, it's algorithms and corporations, which makes it okay, right? If these beacons are produced by the free market, why should government regulation step in and stifle innovation?
c) the government accepts taxes in it
How Students Can Shape the Design of Their Courses
Baby's First X64 ASM Program: Advanced EMT Drug Calculations
I have looked at Flow. I have to admit, I am biased toward good-looking code. Unless you use something like LightScript[0], Flow's syntax is not as clean or straightforward as that of TS.

Edit: I just took another look. I thought parameters had to be annotated via block comments (that's how you have to do it if using CoffeeScript 2). I was wrong.

[0] http://www.lightscript.org/
Along the same lines: a whistleblower's account of problems in the UK's "Trident" nuclear defense program from 2015: https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15611122 (2017Nov:1307 points, 502 comments)

#oneofus https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13226170&type=comment (click a 'comments' link on the search results, then 'parent')

I've connected similar sentiment here for about a year now; I've appreciated mention of several helpful tools in this thread.
My dad had a similar experience. He's taken several different DNA tests, and all of them give him different results. His great-grandfather apparently had an affair with a Native American women, who had a baby but didn't want it, so his great grandparents took the child in and raised it as their own, only revealing the truth to him later in life.

My dad has taken several tests. One said his DNA is 10% East Asian, another said he had no East Asian DNA but that he was ~8% Middle Eastern and ~1% African. He's currently waiting for his 23andMe results, but mine said I was only 0.5% Native American and that the remainder was European, so I'm guessing it'll be similar for him.
500 years later, scientists discover what probably killed the Aztecs
Reminded me of this: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9072-bgp_and_the_rule_of_custom

One of the better talks I watched from this years conference.
NO!

Lesson learned: Don't be a shady asshole.
Let's not forget that Google is an ad company, operating a search engine for that purpose.

I bet long-tail queries, while capable of carrying very targeted ads with a high CTR, are just too rare and thus less profitable. Likely much more people have basically no clue and formulate queries approximately, and very few query precisely in improbable ways, so getting the majority to the results they "meant" gives better financial results.

To tell the truth, you still can enter the "verbatim mode" using a menu, and try to find that improbable cluster of words. It's an advanced feature now, requiring a bit of digging, but it's there.
DigitalOcean vs. Linode (Comparison) in 2018
Mobx is built with typescript. https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
Only if the long_secret was made public.
Could I use a CDN plugin (I found yours in a comment) in the Wordpress development environment itself? (I won't be hosting Wordpress live in production, only the static pages.) Thanks!
Medical device startup consulting
Yeah I mean it's definitely a cool idea (and) implementation
Don't think it would be a huge loss. Most common use case is for unicode characters to render font icons (i.e. font-awesome).
EdX has a course on hyperledger https://www.edx.org/course/blockchain-business-introduction-...
Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?
I'm curious what books everyone is currently reading. What books are you currently reading?
Technically correct, this is a style guide template and not a complete design system. Good catch.
It follows urban design, in most of Europe jaywalking isn't a concept, because most urban roads are not large or fast-moving enough to justify it. Most people would not cross dual carriageways just by default, but that is a rare enough case not to require enforcement. And people carrying those ideas of pedestrian-friendly streets into the way new urban areas are designed. When urban motorways and dual-carriageways are the default, then the idea of what is normal is different, and those ideas are applied more generally to enforcement on other roads and planning new roads.

It would be interesting to see data about the existence of the crime, and its enforcement. I know about the US and Europe, not so much elsewhere.
I'm aware of that. When I said POSIX, I was referring to a POSIX-compatible sh implementation.
django-flash: Caching done easier in Django
Legal way to blackmail. Cool! But, alas, she can be subpoenaed which overrides any gag clause.
Hi! I'm the creator of Leap. Glad to answer questions here.
According to the "HN Who's Hiring" monthly post, nobody hires Engineering Managers. At least, not the kind of companies that post to that thread.
If true, this appears to be a calculated move to draw away blue electoral votes from the biggest state in the country. This is a historically large move of Gerrymandering.
A provocative title for what is more an opinion piece, lauding the value of Twitter, and other methods of speech communication.
So she thinks she deserves around 1 million a month for him being not a good guy.
Good gig if you can get it.
Video from SciTech conference https://livestream.com/accounts/6056055/events/8001237/video... starting at around 41 minutes
I graduated from high school in 1968 and I find that media and its contents including the internet are more centralized and homogeneous now than they were then. The internet did not not just add to the mainstream media, it replaced some of its most interesting parts and replaced much the underground media that existed alongside it. In those days it was not just Time/Life/Newsweek/ABC/NBC/CBS,
you could also find on the newstand left- and dissident
journals like Ramparts and Evergreen Review, and their right wing counterparts. And, some of the contents of the mainstream media itself were higher quality and more varied.
Compare a current issue of Esquire or Rolling Stone - now mostly entertainment industry promotion and fluff - with a 1968 issue, where they had very long articles by authors like Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Oriana Fallaci, and many more. Beyond that there was a thriving world of underground papers and newsletters with contents ranging from sharp and pertinent to crackpot, with odd and sometimes wonderful DIY production and design. Not just print media - the FM radio station I listened to was literaly underground, their studio was in a church basement. People organized huge demostrations using these DIY media.
Yes, it is probably easier now for a random person to get their opinions in front of a lot of eyes, but most of these carry little information, they mostly just repeat what the writer has seen/read elsewhere - and it appears on the same homogeneous platform with everything else. It takes a bit more energy and ingenuity to express your opinions or self-expression in a self-published mimeographed or xeroxed newsletter, but it contributes more variety and might even make a bigger impression.
Well yes and no not really cites would have been covered in horse dung a major health issue in pre automobile days.
“I don’t plan on going to prison, the money is in the chip sales.”

What is it about these chips that makes them so special?
I actually forgot there's ads in Google's result pages. It's been ages since I've last seen them, uBlock is the first thing extension I install on a fresh Firefox.
Synthetic species made to shun sex with wild organisms
Show HN: TrueUX prototype, text command wireframing
Could be both. The UI looks like a home-built web 1.0 page from 2001.
Where can I learn more about this?
Cost isn't the only issue, the A380 is probably slightly cheaper overall (a few dollars/ticket - assuming you fly the and maintain the airplane on the most economical replacement schedules), but it flies each leg half as often to reach that (presumably you have either half as many large planes, or the large plane covers two routes instead of one) which means customers don't have as much convenience in choose when they want to fly.

If you have 400 people every 15 minutes wanting to make a flight, then a lot of A380s makes sense. However if it is 400 people per day you can make them happier by running 2 200 passenger airplanes one for those who want to leave in the morning, one for those who want to leave in the afternoon. (and 100 passenger planes might make even more sense running 4 times a day, down to 25 passenger planes running hourly)

More smaller planes also allows more routing flexibility.

These are very complex decisions that each airline has too make.
"We've somehow forgotten the old maxim that a protocol is not done until we have removed everything that is not needed."

Would software and web developers ever consider adopting this maxim?

As a user, I would enthusiastically support the experiment.

(For example, results might be smaller program size, and less code for interested users and others to audit.)
No, sidewalks in suburbia are super useful for walking between houses. They're not useful for shopping or commuting, but they let kids walk to their friend's house to play. Not every trip is a commute downtown.
If you look into the history of Sears you'll find the CEO, Theodore Houser, addressed this issue in in the late 1950s with a book he wrote called "Big Business and Human Values".

Mr. Houser retired from Sears in the 1960s when it was doing very well. When we read his book now we find an interesting contrast with his successors as time evolves and especially with his current one.

It's not a leap to say ignoring human values is exactly what led to Sears current position, which was akin to Amazon.com when Mr. Houser was running it, and for decades before him.
PSA: "Plague is widespread in much of California, including in the Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills. In a typical year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about ten cases of plague in humans per year in the western United States. However, during 2015, 16 human plague cases were reported."

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/plague.htm
>John Stuart Mill’s notion that a “marketplace of ideas” will elevate the truth is flatly belied by the virality of fake news.

Wow. I think this sentence is a great example. The author makes no attempt to convince us that fake news is actually winning out over real news - they just assert it along with their primary claim in the hope that we will be carried along into both by the momentum of their article.

Yellow journalism goes back to the beginning of press freedom and lying goes back to the beginning of speech. We've had ways of combating these things for generations - ways that can't be used to make false statements - but people have always wanted to reach over and silence their opponent through (sometimes abstract) force. The problem with that? Your opponents can sometimes do it to you, too.
Distance makes speed irrelevant. The moon is traveling 1km every second but that's hard to directly notice.

If you every watched a jet moving at ~600mph then I think we can agree something going 10 times as fast would still be easy to notice.
To be fair, regulations put in place because kids are jumping in front of cars could be anti-pedestrian, but it could also just be anti-fucking-idiot if drafted well.
Flights of the Mind is the best straight-up autobiography that I've read on him. The new Isaacson book is supposed to be great as well. It sounds silly, but How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci is also surprisingly pretty decent.

Also, check out this link: https://fivebooks.com/best-books/martin-kemp-leonardo-da-vin...
Right but this part doesn't apply

> and the voters having no say in the matter
It's necessary because otherwise the encrypted credentials could be copied and used to access the service.
"23andMe’s ancestry results were the most confounding of all. It found that I was only 3 percent Scandanavian, a number that, based on my recent family history, I know is flatly wrong. It also found I was only 5.5 percent Middle Eastern and a whopping 62.6 percent Northwestern European."

I get how their statistical models come up with those numbers, but I have a very hard time understanding how any reasonable person would put this much stock in the interpretation. "3% Scandinavian?" "Flatly wrong?" Where does the author think Scandinavia is, if not north-western Europe? Does the author think the borders of "Scandinavia" were closed in 1000CE, with no interaction with the rest of Europe?
The tokens on a blockchain fulfil the goal of providing economic incentives for the perpetuation of the network itself.

I would gladly spend time explaining this over and over again but it seems all my comments are downvoted so I'm not motivated to provide free content on hacker news.
Take something like an SR-71 blackbird... It flew subsonic until it was often near the edge of space. If it was vaguely near takeoff or landing, it would be possible to see with the naked eye.

If you're a fan of the SR-71, this hilarious interview with pilot Brian Shul is definitely worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmyAvRKDvJk
Signed REST requests are good too, more secure. And what’s wrong with delegated auth?
It's a command based UX tool prototype. Current focus is on wireframing, but should grow beyond that. Let me know what you think!

Some background info here:
https://medium.com/proof-of-concept/introducing-the-trueux-s...

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Rodent Plague Surveillance in California

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/ImpactSummary/index.html?appid=6...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/33942804-phillip-rhode...
Almost all European road signs are ideographic, for obvious reasons, much more so than US signs. And they are, of course, tested as part of licensing.

There's a design language you learn: circular for mandatory, triangular for advisory, square for informational. Blue background for positive, red border for negative.
> If that confirmation window is on every message drill or not, then it would be completely useless. Users have been trained to click past/ignore pop-ups.

That would apply to something that's used routinely, I'm not sure this system is actually used that often. Do these emergency systems send out "this is a drill" messages really that regularly? As a non-US person that sounds like a quite scary way to live.

Even if it is something that gets used regularly, adding additional levels of confirmation, depending on the kind of alert that's gonna be sent out, would already go a long way of preventing this kind of mistake.

For the real deal add some bold and flashing text along the lines of "This is the NOT A DRILL message, are you sure about sending this?" which pops up as a second confirmation screen, while drill messages have only one confirmation screen.
Please work. Please work. Please work.
This couldn't come at a better time. I've got "convert site to TS" looming on my to-do list for a large web app. Anything that saves me some interface props/state typing tedium would be great.
A Nitpicky ChromeOS Review
China Wants to Use a Laser to Clean Up Space Junk
That's certainly true. It was definitely a proxy war and iirc the North definitely received, at a minimum, support from China. I'm not incredibly well versed on the subject, especially the geopolitics at the time. Perhaps with all of that considered, the US was hamstrung a bit.
"Sure! Can you put that in an e-mail?"
What it meant is that people were throwing money at really bad idea, because they didn't understand the web, they just FOMO.
Hyperledger is a better term.
Distributed Ledger Technology is a better blanket term.

See https://www.hyperledger.org
> The "cure" for the plague was 40 days off isolation of affected homes or cities.

In what way is that obvious?
The chocolate science hype machine
That is not the key part. The jobs didn't get automated out of existence. They just didn't get done at all:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/american-infrastructure-fallin...

Severely restricted fiscal spending got converted into tax cuts for the wealthy. Necessary work didn't get done. Robots were made a convenient scapegoat for that process, probably because of their natural immunity to pitchforks.

The US is getting leapfrogged by poorer countries like China on infrastructure largely because of this process.
How so? The client needs to have the username and password to call the login function over and over, as well as managing the session token. It's just incredibly annoying with no benefits in nearly every scenario.
The Pentagon Papers were originally commissioned as a way of reinforcing the war effort and tuning it to find a way to win. They ended up being, among other things, a compendium of the reasons why that outcome was very unlikely.
And how does it relate to cryptocurrency tokens? If I take the course would I understand most of the tokens being sold?
I truly cringe at the thought of a ban on human drivers. There's a considerable amount of freedom in that ability to get in the car, and drive. Otherwise you're beholden to a machine, a corporation, and likely, a government. Trapped and unable to go anywhere unless they authorize it.

Aside, you might find this short-fiction story from Vice interesting: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xygzvz/one-star
'a Lockheed vice president a “digital transformation” arising from recent computing capabilities and design tools had made hypersonic development possible.'

The "digital transformation" part alone gives this up as vaporware...
Shutdown looms as Republicans seek short-term spending deal for government
I find this (http://ncase.me/trust/) to be the easiest point of entry to game theory.

If you are serious about learning cryptoeconomics please feel free to ping me and I'll help in any small way I can.
it's not "terrorism" it's a "terroristic threat" - same root, but different words and very different meaning as commonly used. no one is equating a drunken bar confrontation and suicide bombing, except you.
Bronze Gods by A.A. Aguirre
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15808271-bronze-gods
Tutorial: Schema Stitching in GraphQL from Scratch
I plan to move a small react project to TS so it will be easier to work with complex objects coming from API endpoints. Having used TS quite a bit with "vanilla" JS and seen the advantages of using strong typing (eg. easier refactoring), it's strange for me to see that the majority of React developers prefer to stick with ES6 instead of TS
An image containing the back of the sign doesn't contain a sign. A sign is the front. The back is just a flat surface, not a sign.
There'll be an investigation, he'll be cleared, and he'll be back on the street in a few months.
Just to clarify the Bloomberg article: OTC/P2P trading is not banned in China, but match-making services are more similar to a private exchanges. It's those match-making services that are now being targetted in China. It's about unlicensed trading, not about blockchain / tokens.

NEO = REGULATION
you can also use colors like red, yellow and green (in this case, why not some yellow for tests and red for actual alerts ?).

And for certain actions (such as deleting a file or letting a population know an IBCM is coming at them), it could be a good idea to add a msgbox asking "are you sure you want to ? [yes] [cancel]" ^^
I just flipped over my React app to typescript + react, and as a word of warning, support for some React libs is sketchy. For example, typings for redux Thunks are wonky/problematic and required a few hacks to fix. Very cool stuff just buyer beware :) You will probably have to work around more than a few issues if you use anything more than vanilla React.
There probably is a plan, but nobody wants to be taught it because of backlash to civil emergency plans.

The "Duck & Cover" stuff is lampooned for being rediculous, but it's actually what you should do. The idea that everyone will die from being incinerated in a nuclear blast is a misconception. Most people in America would survive the initial nuclear blast from a full Russian strike (and China, etc. have even smaller arsenals).

In the short term, act like you would in a Tornado. Basement or if you don't have one, an room with no windows.

Longer term--stay in side for as long as you can because fallout will disipate. The longer you don't go outside the better.
Customers personas in growth hacking
Government should have less power, not more. This is a terrible idea, just like UBI always was.
I also sell, do marketing, technical writing, negotiate with vendors, manage multiple product roadmaps, manage teams of people who program, manage servers and networks, manage sysadmins, cook, and so on. But because I was also AS21863 for a decade, I've always been a sysadmin who programs, and not a "programmer" who runs a network (and does these other things). But this isn't really about my job title.

The point is that I've been programming for over three decades, and over time this skill became just one of many things that I do.

"Programmers", are people where that's all they do, so they look to solve problems with more programming. Wanting to call them "software engineer" or "software developer" or "potato" anything else doesn't matter to me.
I don't mean to sound insulting or naive but maybe I am doing so by accident. Let me try in another way, what is the motivation for hobbyists and companies like Fidelity to buy mining hardware to secure a public blockchain?
you really don't need to shower and change your clothes. You can if you want to ride your bike fast and push your physical limits, but generally casual biking won't make you sweat more than if you were walking.