skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However your comment seems slightly hyperbolic to me.

Perhaps, and I will say I have no hard data either so it's simply anecdote. However the older I get and the more I travel and witness other cultures - I continue to come back to this conclusion. After being a hardcore car+suburban lifestyle sort of guy in my youth.

It takes a village to raise a child and also have a functional community, and the US has very few villages left. The village empties out during the day and is basically a wasteland of people who barely know each other.

I don't think it's so much cars necessarily, it's the ability for people to self-segregate and pretend they are not part of a larger whole or part of an actual functional community. The ability to remove yourself from social situations you helped create (by simply existing), but want to ignore and shove off on other people. There are a few suburbs that are socially functional, but they are in the extreme minority in my experience.

This laughable trope that a nuclear family is a self-sufficient unit has to die.
That's literally what it takes to get something patented? For better or worse, maybe by patenting it, we won't see that solution used in many products from other companies.

Hmm, maybe I should start thinking up annoying things that future software might do for profit, and patent them now to stop companies from doing them for a while.
Major event in Michigan
I work at a ski resort, I ski anywhere between 3-7 days a week. I lug some level of gear between home and the mountain every single day because sometimes I'm keeping the option of skiing elsewhere open. Renting a car would not be effective for me.
>other exchanges (of dubious reputation

Yeah, HitBTC has the most volume, and it has a terrible reputation. See all the reports of "maintenance issues" when a coin traded there can be sold at a higher price on another exchange.
Good job the valley is not an inescapable prison conplex then.
New California declares independence from California in bid to become 51st state
Hah, sorry to self plug[0] but I feel it’s relevant. I just wrote about this the other day, except I was using Uber instead. It turns out that for my personal situation it’s not worth it to go with a ridesharing service. Right now I’m spending $4,560 a year on Uber. Does anyone have bicycle recommendations for under $400?

[0] https://pricetaganalysis.com/2018/01/15/how-much-money-i-spe...
You can, you just can't use Microsoft's provided UWP controls to do it.
1. You're a bad employer, if you're losing $400 per employee, and deserve to be run out of business as per capitalistic market efficiency.

2. I just "won" $300.
So, I've heard like 3 accounts of people taking out seconds on their houses. I don't think this is a widespread practice. Do you know how many trillions of dollars were loaned out during the real estate boom? Unless you have data to back up your claims that most of the money in crypto is leveraged on the back of all these lines of credit you quoted, I think that's dubious to say.

At any rate, the value of cryptocurrency market isn't a reflection of the amount of money that has been poured into it. The market cap is a product of the last price paid on any given exchange times the circulating supply of currency. So a $500B market cap might be the result of less than $50B worth of cash infusion, so long as the last person who bought in paid $13K for a Bitcoin.
Congrats, this looks awesome! Love the inline graphs and realtime updates!
> With a 5 mile commute, public transit 3 days a week plus Uber/Lyft 4 days a week is cheaper, hands down. Uber/Lyft 7 days a week cuts it closer but is still cheaper.

But you also have to go to grocery store, go out with friends, do errands which most of the time are scattered across the city, it can take multiple rides per day as well. Also if you have kids you should add dropping them to school and other stuff. So you end up spending lots of time waiting for uber and paying for this little trips.
Not rich but aiming to pay off mortgage in next 2 years and with kids in school we can live off one salary
Testing on firefox on android would be appreciated too, because right now the website is unusable :(
This is getting off topic, but I cannot wait for the day when we will be able to transmit music from brain to computer. There maybe genius arrangers/composers who never had the time to master an instrument or software.
I ran a website design company in Silicon Valley.
Patent number/reference please? I’d love to use this as a test case in an orbital dynamics library I’m building.
Write a property based test, ie generate a bunch of random inputs, then assert that all of them are within some (loose) margin of error.
Show HN: Gentics Mesh now supports focal point cropping for responsive images
I noticed on [1] that you list 8.8.9.9 as Google's DNS server. Did you mean 8.8.4.4? If I `dig @8.8.9.9 ..` I get no response.

[1] https://startyourownisp.com/posts/build-your-infrastructure/
<strong> (se(count)) </strong>

I’ve just built a tiny utils.re file that holds a couple of small modules, like the se function above. The built in reducerComponent with a completely flat pattern matching on the action types, values, arity and more is so lovely that I hate going back to regular React + Redux
I'm aware that tether's reserves are a little doubtful, but could you elaborate on why Bitfinex is sketchy?
(ReasonReact.stringToElement(string_of_int(count)))

MV. Bold choice.
1. Agreed.

2. Agreed-ish. Assuming 40% tax, which seems high (unless you live in a country that has nationalised health care)

3. Neither of these things relate to being paid to create jobs. You're not wrong, you're just not on thread.
> trained to maximize viewing time (and thus ads you see), instead of showing you videos you'd actually enjoy more.

How would youtube quantize how much enjoyment you're having, if not by tracking viewing time?

As an aside, when watching youtube on my TV, I don't think there's a way to thumbs up or down videos. Even on my PC, when the video is in fullscreen, there's no way to thumbs up or down either.
ZMQ uses ZMTP which is a TCP protocol, and for example, HAProxy supports TCP just as much as TCP/HTTP.
Twitter.

(Still waiting/hoping for that trashfire to shut down...)
This comment thread has been one of the weirdest internet arguments on the semantics of a word that I've seen in a while.
Any more dangerous a voting bloc than if the government gives them the same stuff but makes them perform a worthless pseudo-job to get it? If there are jobs that actually need doing by human labor, and the able-bodied unemployed can do them, having government guarantee jobs to the able-bodied unemployed seems better than guaranteeing income detached from labor. But sending people to perform work that machines plus skilled operators do faster or better, to busy their idled hands, is a cure worse than the disease.

There are a lot of cases where introducing untrained human labor into an existing production process has a marginal productivity less than zero. Adding random people to a process that doesn't need more people, or needs people with specific skills, isn't just poor value for effort. It's negative value for effort. Every additional hour that somebody who doesn't know what they're doing tries to "help," they're destroying more.

These caveats only apply if people are assigned pointless jobs that they're not even good at. It's destructive to replace high-productivity mechanized agriculture with random unemployed wielding hand tools. It's safe, though still IMO insulting and a bad idea, to make people perform some pointless but harmless pseudo-white-collar job like adding up columns of random numbers with pencil and paper. It actually adds value (though perhaps not a lot) if governments can assign jobs that people can actually perform competently and that machines aren't great at yet, like collecting litter.
One thing curiously missing from this article is ARM’s laudable in-depth analysis - https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update, and their efforts (https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update/compiler-s...) to bring in architecture-neutral compiler intrinsics to address variant 1.
Superheroes don’t work 90-hour weeks
>> some cute but unsound pseudo-algebra on infinite series.

Sure it looks like that, but, amazingly, there is a physical meaning to that number.

I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=16164915
Or apartment blocks with their own enclosed playgrounds.
Awesome. Been looking for an up-to-date list of current programming language research being done for smart contracts.
Unless your plan is to save most of your income and move back to Canada after working in the US the amount you make in CAD isn't really relevant at all, the purchasing power of your income net taxes and rent is most relevant.

Also, my experience is that the expenses don't line up either. I could be wrong but having moved from Toronto to Chicago and now the SF Bay area, other than rent in SF area, living in Canada is often more expensive, specifically: gas, food, travel (partly due to weak CAD and expensive flights), not adjusting for the currency since you are paid in CAD and also paid less.
This is exactly the market for 5G cellular, btw. You will have your pick of carriers in a couple years that can provide you with this service...
My original comment was ambiguous: (1) I didn’t predict Firefox OS, Rust, the current branding push (moz://a), cancelation of particular projects, the switch to Yahoo search and the recent switch back to Google, etc., and (2) I didn’t expect any of Mozilla’s political activity, including this lawsuit. Knowing that Mozilla qualifies as a nonprofit in the US doesn’t make its behavior any easier to predict.

I believe that Mozilla’s nonprofit status requires it to show “community support” in the form of donations from a lot of people, so the tax status does influence the foundation’s policies in some way (e.g., policies can’t upset too many donors), but I think that influence is pretty limited.

Mozilla has to make do with the same imperfect people as everyone else.

——

Even though I’m bad at it, I will make one prediction: suing the federal government is expensive. Obviously Mozilla will use the lawsuit as a fundraising opportunity. If the suit is successful, they will have another reason to be mentioned in history books. But if the suit fails, or if the fundraising doesn’t work out, this might end up as a very costly mistake.
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> short and has no ambiguous characters

Damn, I totally did not think of that. I used my last name which is neither short nor easily pronouncable over the phone (even for French/German native speakers).

Also I used a .org (.com was taken), which regular people do not “get” when telling them in person. This happened a few times now, e.g. in a store and at the doctors office, I had to type it in myself in the end. So I’d recommend choosing a .com domain over anything else.

But for me it’s too late to change it now, as I’ve been using my domain and the associated email address for >5 years.

One small negative aspect about your domain though: It might look like a spammers/spam email domain name to some, because of the impersonal nature of it. At least that was my impression when I first saw it in your profile.
Wow. Anyone who lives in Canada must get out quick. Time to go where the salaries are higher and not a backwater.
I believe the main concern is whether 1 tether is actually backed by 1 USD.
There is a series of articles[0] about why tether and Bitfinex are scary

[0]: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
The tool matters less than the content.

Focus on what the reader wants to see and stick that in a .doc .pdf or whatever they want.
idiots will pay as they paid for their bmw
Right, but Russia spends less than one tenth of what we spend on defense. Certainly the Western World can scrape together enough to defend itself from Russia. They took Crimea and Eastern Ukraine because they knew no one would do anything. I think they know where the lines are drawn, and I don’t know why those lines cost the United States $550-600bn per year to maintain.
“99 percent of those affected were making less than $100 per year in the last year, with 90 percent earning less than $2.50 in the last month,” the company says in a post credited to chief product officer Neal Mohan and chief business officer Robert Kyncl.
"Make money", perhaps?
corporations won

yes, they won the current round of games. 50 years is a long-ass time dog. nobody can see that far into the future. i'm actually more motivated to continue on my present course because of this type of attitude. see, if the things you do and say piss people off, you are touching on something... important or sensitive. i'm triggering some shit, and i'm going to keep it up. please, tell me i'm wrong and foolish. tell me i already lost. that's the battle i'm looking for. i got nothing but time.

i'm not exactly anti-corporate either. i'm anti-"the current crop of megacorps" mostly because i see them as my competition. impossibly tough competition. i love hard problems tho. i'm a scientist at heart. i want the money, but only if i can get it by being obnoxiously clever.

...or something idk just not boring and broken no point in living if you aren't fighting
You are privileged to have a choice. Not all of us do. I have cable, or 10mb dsl (with low caps) And I love in the nicer, newer suburbs of a 200k metro area...
The only thing bad about that is that there's no check whether equality is symmetric. As written it does make sense if you interpret it as "<=" or ">=".
SSRN charges for access to the file ($5) - the three links below have a free version (the first link is the site where the file got originally published)

>- WEIS - The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
http://weis2017.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2...

>- Semantic Scholar:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c592/1dd0d1176278a644d06d1f...

>- archive.is - Webpage Archiving Tool
http://archive.is/jRZw0
"But the emperor isn't wearing anything!?"
I'll take the otherside, WPF was only useful on Windows desktops. UWP apps can run on desktop, mobile even consoles. Before UWP developing across all devices was much more difficult. Developing UWP with Xamarin you can get iOS, Android, Windows platforms with very minimal differences in many cases. With .NET Standard/Core 2 even older .NET libs work in many cases except a key part of WPF, System.Drawing.

WPF was built on older non .NET Standard/Core that doesn't work for Microsoft anymore, Windows lock-in is dead and that is what the WPF/Silverlight game was. They tried to platform lock in at the Windows layer with WPF but it was too late, mobile hit soon after.

Microsoft has to be cross platform now and the lock-in has been moved up to Azure, their new OS for developers essentially.

I think UWP is a better platform than WPF even with less maturity. Lots of people liked WPF as it was better than the previous iteration in Winforms, and probably grew a liking to it, but UWP is now and trying to keep old Microsoft platforms alive is a lost cause. Devs must move to what Microsoft is pushing just as you do with Apple, if not, feel the wrath of the future.
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Reduced need to dedicate public space to storing private vehicles, a more efficient fleet (since they're incentivizes to optimize for cost/mi), no time spent looking or paying for parking, no need to maintain or fuel a vehicle, reduced risk of impaired driving, more experienced/capable drivers, freedom to switch between transit modes (cycle/walk somewhere but call a car to get back due to time of day/weather), often cheaper than owning a vehicle after considering all costs (depreciation, maintenance, insurance).

Outside a sufficiently dense city the pros might not outweigh the cons, but if walking/cycling/transit can cover most of your travel you probably don't need a car for the other half. I only have one for leaving the the city.
The Space Shuttle certainly didn't steal any Soviet satellites. The Soviets had radar too. It's physically impossible to do anything like that in space without getting caught. Furthermore the Shuttle couldn't get higher than LEO so many satellites were simply out of its range.

Likewise there is no such thing as an unpredictable orbit. Orbits are predictable, by definition. Any country with a good set of radars, telescopes, and IR sensors can find the exact orbit of every single satellite.

The Space Shuttle was certainly used for launching American military satellites into regular predictable orbits. They might have done a refueling mission at some point as a proof-of-concept but even that seems unlikely considering that it's always cheaper to just build and launch a new satellite.
Completely right. The major military uses of nuclear weapons are as sources of powerful shockwaves which are devastating to drag-sensitive targets, and as firestarters. In both cases, you can optimize for these effects over a given area by using 100kt-1mt warheads, and airbursts with overlapping blast radii.

The problem is that as yield rises, the losses to the upper atmosphere are proportionally greater, as is fallout. Multiple targeting with smaller warheads solves that as well, which critically allows for more efficient burning of nuclear fuel.

Finally, the larger the fireball, the more likely you’ll have it touching the the ground leading to losses, and kicking up more debris which will mix with fission products and unburned fuel. Of course that’s also one way to use a standard nuclear weapon in a manner more consistent with an enhanced radiation weapon, real “salting the earth” stuff. That is generally comsidered to be bad form, even among nuclear powers.
> maybe by patenting it, we won't see that solution used in many products from other companies

My favorite in this genre is IBM's patent on patent trolling: https://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837
My personally best newsletter is a feed2mail subscribes rssfeed. An my local ccc mailing list. After that comes Twitter.
The regulators exist because the entire history of our financial and legal system demonstrates that companies frequently don't "voluntarily" do the right thing when there's money to be made.
This was covered in a very entertaining show called Adam Ruins Everything. Each episode has footnotes for the sources:

http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-...

Interestingly enough, their source was an article from Vox from 2007:
https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2934608/N...

EDIT: the article references the original author's work and the book (also cited as a source by the show)
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Traffic-American-Inside-Techn...
If you don't like Windows, why do you keep supporting games that require you to have it?
This seems like a way to get customers to self-migrate droplets off of hypervisors vulnerable to meltdown/spectre
If you ever type in mysql_query it should archive your project, encrypt it, and hold it for ransom until you apologize and promise to never touch that function ever again.
Equivalent text and graph representation is the killer feature.

I previously looked at stuff like https://flowhub.io/ide/ which is a dataflow language spec and editor. Specifically the js version https://noflojs.org/example/ for compiling graphs into js for some canvas image pipeline work.

Each component has an underlying text representation that you can edit like you guys. But that representation isn't code. It's just the configuration of the node.

This isn't what I want! I want to architect the dataflow on a whiteboard, code it normally (a new language is okay), and then have it visualize the same dataflow for debugging (with help grouping/organizing if needed). Every programmer already does this in their head but without the visual aid.

(Focusing too much on the graphical representation is a mistake. There's only a handful of granularities that are worth whiteboard diagramming and people definitely don't want to code with a mouse dragging and zooming. But having the diagram at specific architectural level when you do need it is invaluable)

I haven't tried your product out yet so I don't know if you guys got it right, but at the very least you guys recognize the importance of "dual syntax representation" as a selling point!
Tl;dr: this is basically a hellban captcha.
If you trade it for bitcoin someone is selling you that bitcoin for tether. That person will go ahead and trade that tether for some other coin.... rinse repeat, but in the end someone is holding that Tether, if exchanges stop accepting tether eventually your only option is to cash out to USD. USDT is basically being used as a trade coin, to avoid cashing out (maybe to avoid taxation) or to speculate on USD with the intent to eventually redeem for USD.

At some point someone will try to cash out on the tether. And that's when we'll find out if Bitfinex really has the USD reserves to back that as they say they have.

But it's getting harder and harder to believe that money really exists.

Tether keeps getting printed by the millions specially when bitcoin is on a downtrend (just today 200M was printed). For some reason I doubt someone wrote them a check for 200M USD today.

Also Bitfinex never completed or released audits they promised.

The more you dig the more it looks like Bitfinex is printing fake money to pump cryptocoins.
@rayalez thank you for your feedback! It is very interesting for me personally. I would not have thought that video tutorials could be better than interactive ones, but it is probably because of my strong personal preferences towards examples / interactive tutorials. On our short roadmap I see new demo scenes only, but we will talk internally about video tutorials tomorrow. If you think you would like to help us with them – by providing ideas or just helping us create them, we would be more than interested in collaborating with you! :)
Yup. The first thing I think about wrt to driverless cars being adopted en-masse is how trivially easy it would be to DDoS them.

Literally just stand in front of them and there will be nothing they can do. Once people get used to zero social repercussions (driverless cars will be empty probably 50% of the time en-route to pick someone up or go park themselves by my estimation) I imagine you will see things like certain folks simply crossing streets blindly comfortable in the fact that the cars will stop for them regardless of right of way.

Many will disagree that this will happen, but I think many underestimate the antisocialness of folks when there are no consequences.
Or you could just trigger undefined behaviour, in which case it might evaluate to true.
Bitcoin: Value versus Speculation
Multi String Search, a portable tool that searches for multiple strings
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This is the fallacy. Perl never stopped growing in popularity, it's just that it was suddenly eclipsed by other languages that came out of nowhere and grew well beyond what it ever achieved.

You're also falling victim to this same fallacy. Something did eclipse PHP.

JavaScript.