skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you have critical thinkers in the family, sure, it will work great. most people don't.
There's some of that, but there's also what I think are very valid points about this being almost entirely an appeal to emotion with very little information imparted. Are we actually 20% more likely to have a nuclear war? Who decides this, and is it based on data, or their own emotional state?

Is this just a way for some people to broadcast their current level of fear that's caught on with the wider public?
I find that hard to believe. Coupling state with components is exactly what makes React brittle imo.
No problem, Avi I hope we can help solve your crypto taxes! Give YaxReturns.com a try I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
My only use of Facebook is one of my friends occasionally messages me or I need to ask my network something occasionally.

Facebook news feed for me is utter garbage!
To add to this: We've found that the benefit of Cassandra's approach is when scaling out to 100s of nodes (which TimescaleDB currently does not support). But we found Cassandra's per node usage not that impressive. We'll have more benchmarks vs Cassandra soon (@robatticus is literally the person working on it), but suffice to say that users have already replaced multi-node Cassandra clusters (e.g., 10 nodes) with a single TimescaleDB instance (optionally adding read-only replicas for hot standbys).
Study: Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life

Citation: Joshua Krissansen-Totton; Stephanie Olson; David C. Catling; Science Advances 24 Jan 2018.

Link: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aao5747

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao5747

Abstract: Chemical disequilibrium in planetary atmospheres has been proposed as a generalized method for detecting life on exoplanets through remote spectroscopy. Among solar system planets with substantial atmospheres, the modern Earth has the largest thermodynamic chemical disequilibrium due to the presence of life. However, how this disequilibrium changed over time and, in particular, the biogenic disequilibria maintained in the anoxic Archean or less oxic Proterozoic eons are unknown. We calculate the atmosphere-ocean disequilibrium in the Precambrian using conservative proxy- and model-based estimates of early atmospheric and oceanic compositions. We omit crustal solids because subsurface composition is not detectable on exoplanets, unlike above-surface volatiles. We find that (i) disequilibrium increased through time in step with the rise of oxygen; (ii) both the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic may have had remotely detectable biogenic disequilibria due to the coexistence of O2, N2, and liquid water; and (iii) the Archean had a biogenic disequilibrium caused by the coexistence of N2, CH4, CO2, and liquid water, which, for an exoplanet twin, may be remotely detectable. On the basis of this disequilibrium, we argue that the simultaneous detection of abundant CH4 and CO2 in a habitable exoplanet’s atmosphere is a potential biosignature. Specifically, we show that methane mixing ratios greater than 10−3 are potentially biogenic, whereas those exceeding 10−2 are likely biogenic due to the difficulty in maintaining large abiotic methane fluxes to support high methane levels in anoxic atmospheres. Biogenicity would be strengthened by the absence of abundant CO, which should not coexist in a biological scenario.
Waze was founded in Israel
Go kick rocks. You've contributed zero new information, you haven't progressed your argument beyond pettiness. And the idea someone can deliberately mislead authorities to escape prosecution is just stupid: you're insisting these are keystone cops if they can be so easily deliberately mislead, and yet you see through it. The hubris required to state what you've stated. You are way, way dumber than you think you are.

Considering no one on the committee, in DOJ, nor the president at the time, considers it perjury - note that Wyden himself doesn't consider it perjury he considers it a lie to the American people, not a lie to the committee, and very clearly lays this problem of the surveillance state at the feet of many (on that committee including those who came before him who aren't even in office anymore) rather than being ignorant trying to pin this on one person.

If you want to be serious, get serious, stop being silly. Do better, if you can.

You have not bothered to think through how such a perjury trial, involving the discussion of classified programs and actions, witnesses who have taken oaths not to discuss it - could not be public. Had you bothered, you wouldn't say stupid things suggesting how a perjury trial would somehow gain us some introspection into our absurd surveillance state and hold it accountable, rather than making it far worse.

It's so completely idiotic that you'd focus on one person and one event instead of the elephant in the room, which is a massively dysfunctional system over decades of far worse lies and failures, it almost qualifies as trolling, except it's too stupid even for that.
All say "Remote is not ok".
I live in a region where winter days are very short. I go to work and it's dark, I leave work and it's dark. I don't understand why we have decided to go sit in buildings during daylight hours.

Even with a 40-hour week, I would love if the work day was shifted to allow one to get sunlight for a few hours each day.
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The weird thing about this is for some reason it's huge in NoVa but not so much in the Maryland suburbs. Or at least it used to be. Not sure why.
I'd say no one knows and that's kind of what really makes the clock ridiculous. It's a symbolic representation of one group of people's guess at an unknowable.
Mozilla acquired Pocket last year, so I assume they want to use it as much as they can.
Companies can choose not to be flexible about remote work because IBM ...
Someone at a ROCK SHOW blocking your view with a phone? just push them out of the way and stand in front of them.
Bitcoin isn't backed by an asset. It's not really backed by anything other than people's expectation that it is worth something now (and it will be worth more in the future).

This is true even for the miners, since they would not build out infrastructure and burn energy if bitcoin was worth zero.
I believe the "programmers should be prepared to deal with async codebases" is purely an engineering issue and async is a question of providing the necessary syntactic tools in order for them to achieve that.

There's nothing special about "async" per se. What about people writing OS code in the 90s? They didn't even hear about async and the "sync" was invented for the sake of easier control over the time shared between processors (remember all of our implementations of processes in OSs are CPS-style, where they just give up the control over their stack if run for more than X ms).

Other thing I do recently consider a lot is asynchronicity between machines:
1) receive a request
2) send a database request
3) return an error if database request had timed out
...) etc.
Having a language that spans several systems, enveloping time, execution redundancy contraints and ensuring data passed is not garbage is something that would be novel.
it's still very popular, with a suggested donation of $1 per passenger. not awkward at all (I take it almost every day)
At shows you usually go through a metal detector, which will find the phone. The venue will "ban you from going in" if you refuse to allow them to deface the phone.

Source: Me. (I'm not going to accept the whole phone defacement ordeal)
tl;dr: Stellar distributed exchange and Ligthning Network coming in 2018
Why would they make a github repo with this exploit for a seemingly not-fixed bug? If you're a security researcher it shouldn't be that hard for you to replicate it, and if you're not, there's no reason for you to have access to an app that lets you easily MITM someone's tinder results.
It was always little more than a political statement made by scientists using their scientific respect in non-scientific contexts, a major negative. But they had some justification; the Cold War threat was that the two major superpowers would fling thousands upon thousands of highly-destructive warheads at each other, and anything that might conceivably be valuable in one of their proxies, which meant every major city in the world, quite a chunk of the merely medium-sized ones, and a whole whackload of "militarily-valuable targets" all over the place.

Let's be frank; if North Korea simply goes insane and launches everything it could conceivably have 5 years from now, it wouldn't even remotely resemble that outcome. At a civilizational scale, the millions of deaths, the square miles of uninhabitable land, the major disruption to international trade and unknowable potential changes in the international political landscape would still be a civilizational inconvenience, not the end of civilization. Even if it literally precipitated World War Three somehow, it would very likely still not even remotely reach the outcome that the doomsday clock was originally created to warn against. The Cold War legitimately threatened civilization as a whole, with a distinct possibility of human extinction.

To advance the clock in 2018 "because North Korea" is, in a sort of ironic backfiring way, an admission of just how far we have in fact come since the clock was started, because back in the 60s or 70s, the thought of advancing the clock because of this level of sabre rattling wouldn't have even crossed anyone's mind. This would just be Tuesday in the Cold War world.

(Similarly, advancing the clock because of "climate change" is another admission that the world has gotten much safer since the Cold War. "In 50-100 years, things might get civilizationally-inconvenient" is not the same threat as "Tomorrow, the human race may be on an irreversible course to extinction.")
...if they want to come in a 8:00pm and work until 2:00am, why not?

Part of the "why not" is a deeply ingrained belief in at least American culture that morning people are just "better" than night people. It's so ingrained that we mostly forget to talk about it and it's just assumed. "Early bird catches the worm" and all that.

I once saw a workplace where there were night-person-friendly policies and schedules. Then one insanely morning person joins and wants to leave at 3:30 every day. Suddenly all of his scheduling preferences were presumed valid, and all night-person preferences had to be fought for and justified.

So if you want to reach a world with truly optimal flexible schedules, first you'll need to wrest ownership of the culture from the "morning people are better" people who currently dominate it.
Five Things Episode 2: Five Things About RxJS
Convenient timing to pump this coin. Seems like Stripe is getting their ducks in a row so they can cash in on their altcoin.
Oh yeah, Wyden is pretty awesome[1]. I wish he was my senator. He's got a pretty great record on tech related issues.

[1] https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/896012835448381441
The story in question, At the Mountains of Madness, isn't about any of those things. It's about an Antarctic expedition that finds the ruins of an ancient civilization, which they gradually realize wasn't built by humans.

I do think you're right that Lovecraft's ability to write effective horror was largely because he himself was fascinated with terror at the world. But I don't think his weird xenophobia is what he ended up actually communicating to most readers or what he's famous for. He's more known for misshapen tentacle monsters and cosmic-scale horror. For example, Lauren Beukes' novel Broken Monsters is often considered Lovecraftian horror, and it has fairly modern sensibilities.
Textile – Feature engineering for machine learning on any mobile device
Is this a typical Wordpress attack goal? To just get more links and improve your Google PageRank?

What a world.
Well if you stay calm its more like once a minute or two. When I learned the technique they forced us to stay in the water like this for half an hour, it does kind of suck after a while.
Why One Company Raises $25m+ … and Another Doesn’t
Keep in mind fetal position requires almost no effort to maintain.
This depends on the country. In France you would typically get the contract (not a draft) before signing.
Also feel free to ask questions on our slack channel if you prefer: https://textile-public.slack.com
Glassdoor and its effect on workplace culture
> I have never met anyone who understands what cryptography is, and supports the FBI.

I understand cryptography and I broadly support the activities of the FBI. You have now “met” such a person.

It’s fully possible to simultaneously support opposing concepts like end-to-end encryption for users and the organizational imperatives of the FBI. A nuanced perspective might consider that citizens and the FBI have separate prerogatives and competing incentives with respect to private encryption, and this is perfectly fine.

A consequence of an organization optimized to reduce crime is its natural zeal for greater control over things that grant criminals freedom. Secure cryptography represents thermodynamically incontrovertible freedom of communication, which is intrinsically antagonistic to control. In the abstract, any organization striving to (in effect) reduce the rights of criminals will produce friction with the rights of citizens in general. But that doesn’t make the organization’s goals incoherent or evil, it means there must be a system of checks and balances. The ideal goal is one of compromise - we want to reduce net criminality, but we want to increase privacy.

We have that compromise because open, end-to-end encryption (and private companies willing to implement it securely) is available to us. But the existence of arms race between parties does not indicate that one party’s overarching goals shouldn’t be supported. One party desires greater control, the other desires greater freedom. Both can coexist despite their competing incentives.
There are different definitions of ‘investment’. One is forgoing present consumption in the hope of increased ability-to-consume in the future. Another is purchasing a productive asset.

By definition one: yes, by two: no.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. One of the most frequent areas of confusion around Redux is whether you can / should put any data into React component state when you're using Redux. The answer is "yes, you can, and it's up to you what state lives where". The Redux FAQ entry at https://redux.js.org/docs/faq/OrganizingState.html#organizin... has some rules of thumb to help you decide what state should actually live in Redux.

I've certainly seen a number of people in the community who insist that you _must_ keep everything in Redux, and that you should probably only use functional components along with that. I can understand why people might want to do that, as it means there's more state in the Redux store for traceability, UI output becomes highly predictable, etc. However, I would say that approach is too dogmatic and over-opinionated. It's a valid choice if you want to go there, but not something that should be enforced across the ecosystem or taught to learners. Class components, functional components, Redux store state, and React component state are all tools with specific use cases, and throwing any of them away is unnecessarily limiting your toolbox.

(Might not have been exactly what you were asking, but given how frequently this topic comes up, I wanted to put that clarification out there.)
It (and tech innovation in general) is also driven by people scratching their own itch. That's where we started. And we actually didn't start as a DB company, but as an IoT company storing lots of sensor data. We needed a certain kind of time-series database, tried several options, but nothing worked. So we built our own, and then realized other people needed it as well.

And we picked Postgres as our starting point exactly because it wasn't new and shiny but boring and it worked.

More on this here [1] if you're interested.

[1] https://blog.timescale.com/when-boring-is-awesome-building-a...
Map Labeling Algorithms with Application in Graph Drawing and Cartography (2008) [pdf]
Net neutrality will be enforced in New York under orders from governor
I've only recently started learning Python, and the f-strings remind me a bit of the syntactic sugar provided by C# for string.Format() (var str = $"Hello, my name is {name}."; // for those who care)

I get the same feeling as well, and it's something I noticed a lot when it was a new feature to C#. Suddenly, everyone abandoned string.Format() in favour of $"", even when the code would lose a lot of readability.

Syntactic sugar is good and all, but I find it better to be more verbose for the sake of clarity.
Prayer absolutely is meditation. It's easier to see in say, Orthodox Christian practice, or in some Catholic monastic orders. While some Protestants are rediscovering it, it fell out of favour for awhile as Protestants often eschew monasticism.
Privilege is invisible to you? Must be nice.

Health of mother - Advantage.
Mother being able to take care of child in the early years - Advantage.
Dad present - Advantage.
Encouraging, safe home environment - Advantage.
Parents that expect and encourage excellence (sports, academic) - Advantage.
Never going hungry - Advantage.
Going to schools with resources and good teachers - Advantage.
Going to good college - Advantage.
Parents connections (business and academic) - Advantage.

These advantages compound.

There will be outliers with none or only some of this who still happen to make it. They are not common, and not proof that the system works as intended.
Sounds like #NoKids rather than #SpainBrain.

I'm sure it sounds like I'm being pithy, but you fall into line when your kids get home at 4 and you want to spend time with them before they go to bed at 8.

Maybe his point stands in some sense, but once you add kids into the mix it quickly becomes "9-5" again or "burning the candle at both ends."
You'd be destroying a culture of independence in the US punishing car drivers so much, and I don't think it would be nearly worth it. I greatly appreciate being able to just go where I want without having to be beholden to public transit schedules and share the space with a bunch of strangers, and have my own temperature controls etc.

The "cost" cars have to society and how "subsidized" they are is ridiculously overblown around here. I had to pay maybe $400 registering+inspecting my car in NY, transfering to NJ was a few more hundred dollars, I had to pay to take the permit test, insurance was $350/month in NY and it's $115/month in NJ, taxes used for roads benefit transit too obviously, and bad drivers pay their externalities in tickets and insurance settlements.
Even worse, it made it to the front page of HN.
> in semantic versioning terms, we need a "2.x" of the HTML API.

Version # is not the phrase you want to overload. HTML5 is the latest version and was released 4 years ago.
extensions.pocket.enabled=false
Waze has some sort of social integration. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually you could scope things to some extended network.

I’d be happy giving a fellow student or employee of my company a lift, but probably less likely to give random members of the public.
CryptoKitties AMA: ask qs now
In Linux, from the manpage:

"The only signals that can be sent to process ID 1, the init process,
are those for which init has explicitly installed signal handlers.
This is done to assure the system is not brought down accidentally."

And SIGKILL can not be captured (enforced by the kernel):

"The signals SIGKILL and SIGSTOP cannot be caught or ignored."
I believe the answer to that question is that the user can't really be sure that the code is really disabled.

Personally, I have had Pocket disabled since the moment it was deployed and I am happy enough with that. I don't really have any reason to think that they are still siphoning data off me, like Windows 10. At least, I trust that if they did I would read about it on HN.
For the elderly and home bound, food delivery can literally be a life saver.

I know it's not why a lot of these companies get started. The average person doesn't need food delivery for any substantial value in their life. However, the average person being interested in these types of services make it better for everyone.
When I interviewed with Google, the over-the-top "Google is the best place to work evaaar" attitudes I got from the majority of people I interacted with gave me the distinct impression that it was like some bizarre cult. Most of them were so green they likely hadn't had any other job, so were unlikely to be able to know how silly they appeared to me (having worked for several companies in very different fields).
"Usually right" by who's standard? You would require individual arbitrators to determine what's correct, and at that point, why do crowdsourcing?
I suggest the article is missing a key point.

> Of course, our ancient human ancestors didn’t live among billions of people, or incur trillions of dollars of debt. The orders of magnitude in their immediate surroundings were limited to what they could experience firsthand.

A square kilometer might have a billion trees. With how many leaves? One person's year might have a billion heartbeats. A pre-industrial farmer might tend a million plants per year. A sack of rice might have a million grains.

> It’s not surprising that we can intuitively visualize a 6-inch or 6-mile distance,

Asking people how tall a skyscraper is, I get answers like "a mile?". And even for horizontal miles, who is this "we" who can "intuitively visualize" miles - people who drive?

> Things that are so far removed from our daily experience [...] are inherently hard to understand,

People are regularly innumerate and clueless about things that are part of their daily experience. Far remove is not a necessary condition. Nor is it a sufficient one - experience need not be direct. How often do kids see real horses? Or elephants? Or dinosaurs?

So I suggest the article is missing a key point.

Large quantities, large differences in scale, are inherent in the universe. It's what makes estimation and approximation possible. People simplify with units, landmarks and anchors, and rules of thumb. With experience and stories. But education, and press, leave people largely innumerate, making almost no effort to teach the needed landmarks. In science, and history, and civics, and finance. The main exceptions being a few units of time, and of currency, which are taught down to K.

Think of those little lists in introductory physics. For some measure (eg, Volts), here are a few values. Usually poorly chosen. And never built upon, into a feel for reasonable values.

And then we get science folks saying nanometers are unimaginably small. And journalists that a trillion dollars is unimaginably large.

Yes, people are largely innumerate. But we collectively make almost no effort to change that.

http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/ started not from the movement to teach introductory biology more quantitatively, but out a graduate student's realization that they had no quantitative feel for their own field. A characterization repeatedly made by physicists about their own doctoral candidates. How many people here recognize a Newton-meter of torque, as being the reopening a 2L soda bottle?

So a takeaway shouldn't be researchers doing something novel, to address a new modern problem. But rather their getting around to doing something long known and established, to address a long standing problem. A problem long, pervasively, unnecessarily, and abjectly neglected.
Wouldn't this expectation be built into the current price of the stock?
Yeah, I'd definitely argue that using Redux should be the last resort. When only a single component ever needs to care about data, using component lifecycle is much more self-contained
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The Ig Nobel Prize people really should honor this group.
How is that different from any other asset? One day it can be valuable, the next it might not. It doesn't change the fact that it is immutable.