skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess part of why I posted that is the audience - I imagine in submitting this article to HN, it is meant to resonate with two subsets of people here:

That's a pretty limited view. There are plenty of non-entrepreneurs on HN who are looking for interesting technology and tech-related society articles. It could also be meant to resonate with people who just think that the gig economy is questionable development.

> So I read this and bring up my point because it seems like contract work, inherently, is not the problem. The problem is, what others have mentioned, that the government regulates employment in such a way that we tie benefits like health insurance to the employers, and do not align incentives properly. Would you say that's an accurate assessment?

I don't agree with that. I think the problem with contract work, especially the gig economy kind, is that it's a further progression of the dehumanization of work. More an erosion of the social contract than a failure of government regulation. That dehumanization reduces the buffers between actual people and the more sociopathic aspects of capitalism.
The right way to fix your low-converting landing page
You have an obnoxious habit of trying to police the behavior of other members here. I don't routinely call you out on it because I am not a moderator. But since you are all up in my business, it is well within my right to say back off. Policing my behavior is not some right of yours.

Edit in response to your unmarked edit: Please kindly provide me the link to said white paper instead of continuing to lecture me and I will have a go at trying to read it.
It's only overengineering if it is superfluous, and in this case it's not.

The counter-counter-transaction solves a very real problem and makes the entire system counterparty-risk-free. It's no more "overengineering" than your airbags are overengineering.
If someone said "crypto capital" I would immediately think "hidden capital" ala "crypto-Jews" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-Judaism
Why would you want that? I mean it. Why should your employer pick your health care, returement savings, or life insurance choices?

Even if the best case where they act if your best interest, you have to deal with all your benefits changing when you change jobs.
Is this something a person would be able to perceive?

I am moving my eyeballs around and imagining I can also feel my ears move, but that might just be the muscles around my ears in my head, or I'm completely imagining the effect.
There's a few different ones that have made huge jumps forward; RaiBlocks can apparently do around 7,000tx/s.
It's not excess/surplus when computed on mining-specific ASICs.
Does the EU? Do they produce EU-wide crime reports? EU-wide economic reports?

If not, don't blame the media...
At Amazon, the debate to set up brick and mortar stores used to come up at every year's planning session. For Amazon it was never simply about doing brick and mortar stores for the sake of having brick and mortar presence, but categorically how would our stores be fundamentally different (experience, value to customers). If there was not a clear answer to this, the discussion was punted to next year.

With their bookstores they have fundamentally altered the buying experience. And now with their grocery store too, they have fundamentally altered the experience. They only open it up to public once the "experiment" has worked. Expect this to be just the beginning. But over the "long-term" this will become the new normal. There is no question about that.

It is the long-term thinking that leads to these experiments and initiatives in the first place. Not all long-term thinking is alike (comparing Amazon with other companies). At Amazon, it manifests into every aspect of business, strategy, and operations.
The elite of the world own trillions in US treasury bonds. Its why the US can continue to run up their national debt. The US is the safe deposit box of the world. There's simply not enough debt elsewhere to rival the US.
Tracking Protection blocks network requests to domains that are identified as trackers. This means that tracking scripts don’t load (faster page load) and run (more responsive web page).
The lightning network will be far less effective than people are hoping. You have to a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it, and b) each stake capital in that channel for it to be functional. This is useful only in specific scenarios like exchange-to-exchange transfers. Exchanges are going to be very unlikely to ever set up channels to customers. They haven't even implemented segwit yet, there's no way they are going to bother setting up the infrastructure needed to charge for and activate lightning channels.
The government doesn't need to go beyond finding the tumbler. Here's how a sample investigation would go:

Honeypot drug purchase, paid via bitcoin to DumbSeller. DumbSeller routes bitcoins to tumbler. Using the NSA backdoor in TOR, they trace DumbSeller to VPN service, who they then subpoena. VPN service either complies or gets charged as accomplice to money laundering and other crimes and gives up customer as part of plea deal. They then trace the payment to VPN until they reach a warm body at the other end.
> There is not a direct or fixed correspondence, but as a general rule, during stable riding, a higher clockwise torque on the handlebars will cause the bicycle to start leaning more to the left

It's counter-steering! I was glad to read that counter-steering is accounted for and works in their physics simulation like it does in the real world.

I don't have a source handy, but I believe that there is a fixed correspondence between steering angle and the resulting turn that depends on the bike's speed, lean & steer. (And maybe tire radius counts too.) A bike riding in a stable constant clockwise turn will have a slight right lean & clockwise steer in steady-state. Steering clockwise from there will turn the bike left, or increase the turning radius until it's straight and then start turning counter-clockwise. Steering counter-clockwise from steady state clockwise turn will turn turn the bike right, increase the lean and decrease the turning radius.
Is search still the core of their business? Or does most of their income come from things like advertising, AppEngine, google apps for business and android-related stuff? I too feel that google search has been decaying, and saw many people here complainin about the same thing. Maybe they don't want to bother that much with it anymore if their focus has moved to stuff that they actually sell.
I agree. But my point was that there was a natural resistance to scaling to global levels. Which is detrimental if you are in a market which has a potential to be dominated by a global mega corp.
Easy to say after the fact.
> I could buy gold now and sit back and not worry that the price was about to fall through the floor.

Lots of people have believed that in the past. Sometimes they've been right, sometimes not. The future supply of commodities doesn't always follow expectations.
> has home-grown homelessness that is rising

I'd be curious to see any stats on this. How many of the current homeless were actually living in the city 10 years ago?

I'd expect that many Seattle's homeless are migrants from parts of the US with harsher winters.
Ahh like this: https://goo.gl/images/eRKmN4

Thanks.
I tried this recipe long before it appeared on HN. I utterly failed!! :( The bread was good but there was no way to keep the shape. And it was just so massive.
"Batteries included" is almost always better than "level playing field" because of network effects. The larger the set of common types / protocols available, the higher up the abstraction stack interfacing between two unrelated third party components can be. Minimalist environments have to pay taxes in the form of glue code and adapters for different ways of representing the same underlying concepts (though the costs are reduced in duck-typed languages). Even worse things happen when you try and use two third-party components and they share different versions of a common dependency - sometimes there's no easy way out.

Inferior approaches sometimes do get baked in to standard libraries. Having a culture of versioning, deprecating, migrating, is better IMO. But it's even better again to do a really good job first time around. Not easy, but I didn't say it was!
Just to follow up, looks like Spectre fixes are now available but only for Variant 1. The following is on a 16.04 VM running HWE 4.13.0-31. Additionally, reptoline patches are not available.

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Checking count of LFENCE opcodes in kernel: YES
> STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE (114 opcodes found, which is >= 70, heuristic to be improved when official patches become available)

CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2'
* Mitigation 1
* Hardware (CPU microcode) support for mitigation
* The SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: YES
* The SPEC_CTRL CPUID feature bit is set: NO
* Kernel support for IBRS: YES
* IBRS enabled for Kernel space: NO
* IBRS enabled for User space: NO
* Mitigation 2
* Kernel compiled with retpoline option: NO
* Kernel compiled with a retpoline-aware compiler: NO
> STATUS: VULNERABLE (IBRS hardware + kernel support OR kernel with retpoline are needed to mitigate the vulnerability)

CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] aka 'Meltdown' aka 'Variant 3'
* Kernel supports Page Table Isolation (PTI): YES
* PTI enabled and active: YES
* Checking if we're running under Xen PV (64 bits): NO
> STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE (PTI mitigates the vulnerability)
I hope that the Perl 6 core devs take notice of this and other threads from the past days. Somehow I think that the efforts have not been directed enough at things that perhaps are not that exciting for them but that matters a lot for potential users.

Examples:

- Better migration/transition from Perl 5
- Performance and stability
- Killer features and explaining these thoroughly
- Best in class tooling, editor support, super easy deployment

I am sure there are efforts, but perhaps not enough to meet the demands?

I say this of course realizing that resources in an open source project are limited. But something has to happen to accelerate the usage.

Keep on writing more articles etc to spread information outside the P6 core dev echo chamber.
Yes, that is one of the main factors. And the ground reality is that right now a new employment based Green Card petitioner from India would need to wait 70 years.
It may imply what you may have wanted to imply.
So don't build an AirBnB-like solution.
Most cryptocurrency users are chasing their own moon.
I agree that it's not practical to do book keeping if you want to buy real world goods with crypto (you cannot keep calculating capital gains everytime you buy a coffee with it), but that's not the common use today _anyway_.

This is also the exact reason why it's taxed the way its taxed. There's no way government is gonna let you build wealth without paying taxes.

Private key is surely a database password that lets you do certain operations, but that exact feature make it an asset. As long as you can buy "things" that has value with it, it's a capital you need to pay taxes on.

It's hard, but it's what it is.
Email web/png not working for me
"My girlfriend works in a psychiartry for people with depression and she told me that it has nothing todo with success"

Hm, even though I don't work in a psychatry, I would claim otherwise.
But I think it depends on the definition of success.

So yes, there are lots of people having depression who are successful by ordinary standards, meaning good career and money. But maybe they focused too much on the money/prestige part and instead should have focused more on doing what they really wanted. But they didn't and therefore failed in life and now blame their brain chemistry for it, instead of their own choices.
Much easier, sure.
Show HN: Twirp RPC framework for go running completely serverless
> Assigned laundry days are commonplace...My laundry would be done on Friday night at 6.

This seems efficient but also very off-putting.
I find it unnerving that more traditional businesses are still valued on DCF, whereas it seems that if you become a tech giant, than you can get around it by saying: We're the 800 pound gorilla in this market and we're going to gobble it up. Don't worry about our cash situation. Both NFLX and AMZN fit this bill.
I hope you don't take this the wrong way. My goal is to convince drivers that cyclists are not as bad as they think they are and that they should drive safer.

> You only see cases where they lose that bet, but it's just a numbers game.

I don't follow. Seeing both is pretty easy; they drive away. What I question is that the 2 minutes that one saves at most (likely closer to 15 seconds or so on average) is worth the extra risk to other road users. The asymmetry is the problem. You say cyclists regularly risk death, and sure, they do, though the risk is probably lower than you suspect, and drivers risk death too. A large fraction of cyclist deaths occur late at night with a drunk cyclist; remove those factors and your risk is a lot lower. For someone like me who goes out of my way to ride safely, my main (perhaps only) risk on the road is bad drivers, who are by large tolerated or encouraged by western society.

> As to speeding, we have actual data on this stuff. So it's easy to demonstrate the risks are very low directly from accident rates vs # of speeders.

The NTSB says speeding contributes to about 10,000 fatalities per year in the US:

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Pages/2017-DCA15SS002.aspx

Doesn't sound low to me. Maybe it seems low when you compare against how frequently people speed, but that's a red herring as far as I'm concerned. It's unlikely you'll die while smoking any particular cigarette, but clearly the net effects of smoking at significant. I focus on the net effects. I don't think the time the speeders save justifies the life lost, even neglecting those disabled, etc. As I said, I think speeding provides mostly psychological benefit.

> As to personal data I only have ~45,000 cyclists which may be high or low. But it feels like a very large number.

You have seen about 45,000 individual cyclists on the road? I find that hard to believe. That's comparable to the total number of transportation cyclists in Austin. For comparison, I suspect I've seen at least several thousand individual cyclists on the road. If I see only two new cyclists on the road per day I'll see about 7000 after 10 years. Seems reasonable to me.
It's not out of line for other works of similar scope. You don't pay for the materials.
Best effort. If you went the lengths to "cash it out" because it was free money, you should pay someone to keep track of it for you, if you don't intend to.

Wasn't the whole point of bitcoin that it was auditable? IF you know and want to use a fork for something, you can figure out the exact price fork has happened.

IF you don't know, you have plausible deniability.
Honestly, when reading about that, I find the panels reasoning of: "Circuit panel unanimously ruled that Congress could regulate the internal manufacture of firearms within Montana because the creation and circulation of such firearms could reasonably be expected to impact the market for firearms nationally."

Seems a bit of stretch if you ask me. I am not sure I would call that interstate commerce.
If you look at the Mac security updates lately, you can see avalanches of "execute arbitrary code" fixes for every release. It seems that Mac Os X has more holes than a factory of Swiss cheese.

EDIT:
Why was this downvoted?

If you down vote at least you can comment why.
These are the security updates since Oct:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208165

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208315
You are not supposed to change title!

Put the title back to what NY times has it "How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine".

The policy is: Just because you happened to be the one to submit it, does not mean you get to pick the important part to put in the title.

For the record, the title right now is the very inflammatory: "Israel came close to assassinating Arafat by downing a commercial passenger jet".
The market is indeed pretty small. However, I have several rich rich friends who live for this sort of unique item.

They'd probably buy several, frame them nicely and put them in an obvious place in their house. Then when they're entertaining a large VC or banking crowd someone will notice them and ask WTF they are and he'll have a nice story to explain them and how unique they are. Golf claps all around and my buddies will enjoy having something their other rich friends don't; and of course the short lived adoration of his dinner guests, which is almost better than money.
Zurich pay can eclipse Valley pay. I have friends who went to ETH for grad school and were getting close to 100k CHF a year. This is grad school -- the pay goes up from there.
If your payment is denominated in BTC, you can't pay it with BCH even though they're a fork of the same blockchain.

BTC proper is scarce, regardless of how many times the chain is forked.
Yes, fair enough - hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.
You can just Google for "bitcoin white paper". It'll be the first link. It is probably the most famous document to be called a "white paper" in the last 30 years.
It would be nice to have an option to remove the House Rules / Contact section. I just want one for my home.
Yes, you seem like more of a target.

It looks like you've decided the risk is worthwhile. I hope your luck holds. I think I'd be completely terrified. I found big cities scary even when I was a strong/fast 20-year-old male.
Intel Microcode Update Guidance, January 23 [pdf]
Woah, hey, it's me! I wanted to share this on HN but wasn't sure if it was kosher. I guess someone else did it for me!

I just started working on these last week and they were very well received on Twitter. Then, to my astonishment, Edward Tufte retweeted it!

https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/954537749234765825

I have one of his books but didn't realize he was on Twitter until that moment. I was blown away.

A lot of folks asked to buy one, so I made the page that this HN post links to on Sunday night. Within hours Tufte reached out to buy 3 of them! :-o I have 6 other buyers so far as well. So I've been busy fulfilling these requests and trying to figure out shipping and stuff.

Interestingly, about half of the buyers so far are in neuroscience.

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jou...
So what? 30 sec download time.
Long time Firefox user and since Firefox 57, everything has gotten worse for me. A lot of my extensions no longer work. This includes session management extensions which just don't work properly anymore. And of course I just upgraded Firefox and lost all my tabs. The browser completely freezes every 10 seconds for a few seconds (I'm typing this and my cursor gets stuck, then 5 characters show up all at once). I'm glad others suddenly think the browser is great. I guess they don't know what they've been missing with previous versions.
What's the source of truth for deciding whether it was friendly fraud or not? Is it the chargeback reason code?

As far I know there isn't a specific reason code for "friendly fraud" (i.e. banks are passing along chargebacks telling you as a merchant that they think it's not actual fraud) and more often than not, especially having worked on this problem at scale in the past, friendly fraud chargebacks just come back with a "this is fraud" reason code.
From https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/kubernetes/, the best way to run GitLab on Kubernetes today is the gitlab-omnibus chart:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/kubernetes/gitlab_omnibus...

It's in beta, with some limitations on it's production-worthiness - basically that the Postgres Helm chart that it depends on isn't configured as well as the Postgres built into regular Omnibus.

I know it's confusing that we've got several charts, but we're trying really hard to reduce that down to one as quickly as possible.
Kohl's seems to be doing pretty well with that system. They print a high price on the tags, then discount it by rack, and mail out 30% off coupons with short expiration dates to some of their rewards card holders every month.
Second Measure (YC S15) is hiring an infrastructure lead
Then it shouldn't take you any time at all to give me the link so I can be confident I am reading the correct paper.
What are you using to generate the default "favourite places" list? it picked some pretty good ones.
This means you will never build anything with zero marginal cost. That cuts out a lot of opportunities - and with software eating the world, more and more opportunities over time.
No, edge computing will not replace cloud computing
I used to be in SF and in South Bay. Recently moved to Seattle , closely associated to the India and Swiss tech ecosystem.

In my experience further away you are from SF, less cutting edge you are. In my experience even South Bay is 6 months behind SF.

SF is a big melting pot, where a huge amount of talent are trying out new things and they are open to sharing their experiences - be it about latest technologies or latest customer acquisition strategies. Because of this, you find out about the latest strategies and associate advantages and disadvantages much earlier. By the time these strategies turn in blog posts and capture popular mind share - it takes months and years.

Of course there are exceptions everywhere and some companies outside SF are great at being at cutting edge. However on an amortized basis, further away from SF you are, more likely you are to be behind the cutting edge.
Efficient Functional Programming Using Linear Types: The Array Fragment [pdf]
It exists in its early stages, but it's terribly impractical, hence no exchange or end user is in a rush to adopt it. Its design is almost like someone took a hard look at Bitcoin and concluded "Gee, this is not cumbersome enough for people, we need to make transacting a worse and more confusing experience".
That's perfect for the office too! A nice looking poster highlighting all the nice 5-7 meeting spots is really cool.

I wish we could edit the "House rules" title for something more corporate.
Can you try again? We had to restart the servers to push a fix.
I've confirmed it for you: it's the first link.
Is this the second or third time the're fixing Meltdown?
True, the EU is a confederation. Also true: it's not a country.

What's a country? Well, it has a single currency. The EU does... almost.

A country has a border that it controls. The EU does... more or less.

A country has a military. The EU absolutely does not.

And a country thinks of itself as a country. The EU does not. I suspect that this last reason is why the media doesn't report on the EU as if it were a single country.
With the same logic, my stocks in my brokerage is an entry in the database where i hold the password. I don't ever recall owning a paper stock, for example.

If i keep it in the brokerage, without withdrawing the cash, why do i pay taxes? That sounds stupid right? Then the next thing you know, people sell each other stocks in exchange for goods.

"Plumbing service stock" on a broker, if you buy it, you get legal right to have plumbing service at your house free of charge. This way you can keep everything in brokerages.
Of course there are flaws with the argument, but saying "crypto to crypto isn't taxable" ignores the fact that USD taxation happens based on USD.

PS: while i said usd, i mistakenly wrote USDT, which was very ironic haha.
I could listen to the plotter go for hours.
I don't know much about electric motors, but I think these are typically 230 or 460V AC, three-phase motors in the 10-30hp range.

They operate in extreme conditions though, so that's certainly a factor.
Interesting. Too bad Tracking Protection doesn't apply to Mozilla as well. ;)