skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience some of the most toxic criticism short of physical violence comes from not acknowledging what someone believes are logical conclusions.

So wearing a dress is fine if the person wearing it is willing to concede at every moment that they're being socially deviant. The moment that you just wear a dress and make no attempt to justify yourself in terms of larger culture is when things get bad. Wearing a dress and acting like it's no big deal is an affront to the logic of someone who knows for a fact what you're doing is deviant..and they're convinced that you deep down know it too. You're more or less saying they think wrong in a very fundamental way. That gets people very upset.
I've been thinking a bit on this idea - the idea of a cryptocurrency, this network of value going down to zero and if its even possible. I have one example: Bitconnect. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitconnect/

This currency us a classic scam. They listed a 1% guaranteed daily interest on investment. Every notable and rationale person can take a look at bitconnect's offering and can see it's a scam/ponzi, or at least, something that's too good to be true.
The price peaked $400+ with a market cap of over 2 billion.

After regulatory intervention, the price dropped off a cliff. Of all the tokens to go to zero, one should expect an exposed scam token to be there. But that didn't happen. It dipped all the way down to around $8 and started recovering.
During the current dip in crypto market prices, bitconnect is still sitting at 2.63 with over 24million in market cap.

Why is this scam token not at zero?
There's something interesting at play here. Factors may include the reporting of market data, the markets themselves exchanging this token, and token hodlers who will not sell.

I wonder if there are other factors that's novel to crypto technology. Possibly something associated with the network effect of these crypto tokens, the proliferation and effects of memes, or the natural of decentralization.

It may simply be that something like this take time to go to zero. In any cases, it seems to be quite interesting the market dynamics of these tokens.
> In fact, I would imagine that the data privacy advocates I often see on hn should see this as a logical extension of the privacy protections they want to see across the web.

The question is whether or not my likeness is my data, which I don't think has ever been settled. Anyone can take a photo of me in public and the photographer owns the copyright. Are security cameras recording me violating my privacy? On the other hand, football players have to be paid to have their likeness appear in games.

I think this might be the catalyst to resolve these issues once and for all.
Banning the_donald would stir up a pointless gigantic "censorship" shit-storm. A similar sub would emerge within a few days. It's not worth the drama.
Sadly, they seem to have taken down the corrected version. :(
Right. They pretty much do whatever they want, and lie as necessary to frustrate oversight, and protect operational methods. They are, after all, a branch of the military.
Jekyll for Freelancers
If you are not taking about military gear then why bring up militarization in the same context? Of course there are kickbacks in any government's procurement, even if they are just buying staplers or catering. People spending other people's money do want to be rewarded for the effort.
We should start a gofundme for him, what a horrible fiance!
All you need to know about Progressive Web App – codeburst
The fundamental observation behind quantum computing is that an irreversible bit flip releases a minimum amount of heat, while a reversible one releases none. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle for the theoretical limits to classical computing based on this. But there are, to the best of our current knowledge, no theoretical limits to how much computation can happen reversibly.

However the requirement that the operations all be completely reversible is very strict. For example logic operations like "and" and "or" are off the table. BUT when physicists like Richard Feynman looked into, what DOES happen is that your computation can progress in a quantum superposition of states. And there is no upper limit to how many states are in the quantum superposition.

So in essence what you get should be a very hard to program but unbelievably parallel computer with no upper limit on computational speed.

The first demonstration that this could be useful for problems that people care about was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm for factoring integers. The fact that we do not know how to factor integers quickly is an underpinning of public key cryptography algorithms like RSA. However we know how to solve that if we had a quantum computer. And this is just engineering, right?

Everyone recognizes that it is a very hard engineering problem. But the minority opinion laid out in this article is that the engineering problem is not just a practical problem, but the physics makes it intrinsically hard in a way that cannot ever be worked around. No matter how well a quantum computer works in theory, it is physically impossible for us to build and operate one that does better than the classical computers that we already know how to build.
This was brilliant and disturbing. The legal implications are crazy---even if the owner of the house has agreed to the EULAs of all the devices, their visitors have not. Is their a legal obligation to notify visitors that data about them is being generated, collected, snooped through, and potentially sold?

If people could be made more informed of what their devices are saying (and to whom) perhaps they'd be more reluctant to "smartify" their homes. Transparency would enable more informed decisions.
Im interested in their earnings release in 7 quarters from now. I expect this to remain poor for awhile.
Yes, you can and will be targeted. So if you go that route, you'd better know what you're doing.
I too think they're massively removed from the world regular people live in.
go non profit and create "open source vehicle" certification and lobby in local communities to ban autonomous driving of cars in their communities unless they have the cert.,
Imagine you have a classical bit string 0101, there are 2^4 possible different configurations of this string, and the classical computer will always exist in ONE of them.

A quantum computer, with a qubit register 0101, can be put into a superposition state between all 4 qubits, where the state of the qubit register is ALL 2^4 different configurations simultaneously....now scale that up to 50-100-1000 qubits and you get the idea. The quantum computer has a ridiculous advantage in terms of holding state spaces.
Figure out what matters to you personally and frame exercise in terms of a means to achieving or aiding you in that matter.

For example, if family is important to you, being strong and fit makes it easier to take care of a young family. If you're a woman I assume pregnancy goes easier if you're physically robust beforehand. Good health ensures longevity and gives you more and better quality time with your family.

If your career or work is important then you can note that being in better health puts you in a better position to achieve your professional goals - lower chances of RSI or lengthy hospital stays, easier to put in long hours without getting tired. And of course physically fit people are more attractive and, on average, attractive people do better professionally - they get paid more, are perceived as more competent etc.

If you care about the environment, becoming fitter makes it more likely you'll walk or bike instead of driving. You'll also require less healthcare in your old age, which means fewer resources are expended on you.

I could keep going - practically any personal goal could get a bit of a boost from better health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits#United_S...

If you read that and you will quickly realize that most of the changes have been to ignore large portions of the unemployed population. Essentially, if you become unemployed, you are counted starting when you are 1 month unemployed (not from the day you lose your job) and you stop being counted in the 7th-8th month of your unemployment (depending on a few factors, can be up to 12 months).

So the vast majority of drop in unemployment rate is government lying. Gig economy actually increases the unemployment rate.

Why ? Because it enables the long term unemployed to be employed for a short while, then "lose the job" for valid reasons (ie. lack of demand), and then get unemployment benefits again for 8 months. I'm convinced many unemployed have realized this, and use it. This enables them to not lose benefits and as a side effects reintroduces them to the stats. But the vast majority of the time, they're unemployed. And some periods of the year, e.g. Christmas, it's easy to pull of.
Cryptocurrency Laffer Curve: limitations on bandwith and fees
Macro frameworks such as spring a curse or a blessing?
Did anyone go to laracon online 2018?
I spent a while learning about sewing machine timing and repair a couple of years ago after buying a very nice vintage Elna at a thrift store for $20. Turns out that the way most of the timing is set is based on the height of the needle when the shuttle mechanism underneath is in a particular place. You loosen the set screw on the collar that connects the upper and lower mechanisms, set the needle to the height of a gauge block from the manufacturer and then rotate the lower mechanism until something lines up, then tighten the set screw. Those blocks are almost all long gone for anything that's still mechanical, and the modern machines are all electronically timed with stepper motors in the top and bottom. Fascinating stuff if you dig into it.
Lucyd – ICO Scheme Wrapped Around Worthless AR Patents
The NSA does have lots of skilled hackers. But so do other national TLAs. And there are many freelance hackers.
Kerrisdale Capital's blistering crypto pre-mortem for Kodak
Neat, thanks for sharing!

(edit) Wow, that looks way more powerful and embeddable than I was expecting. I'll have to give it a try.
In theory all those things can happen, but it's hard for the press to separate success from price. So one way you can help them is to fix the price by design so that it never goes up or down. This will also drive away speculators who probably aren't helping your system anyway.
Windows 95 (and later) always seemed to just miss the mark: they added new things but were just so close to having something that would work much better. It was as if they saw useful features to add from other systems but only copied what they could see without really understanding the behaviors that needed to be copied too.

Examples...

The original Start menu was in a corner of the screen but without the crucial zero pixels of separation from the physical corner, turning what could have been a massive target into a tiny one. (Fixed in XP though.)

Menus were sluggish as hell to open, and they lacked hysteresis to make diagonal traversal a lot easier. Also, there was no consideration for how to handle a task that might take awhile, such as locating the names and icons of dozens of items; the menu would not show anything, you’d just wait. Sadly they were experts at efficiently making menus go away so one accidental mouse movement and you start all over.

The ordering of frame buttons, “minimize, maximize, close”, on Windows does not clearly separate the most-dangerous action from the least-dangerous action, nor are the actions ordered by similarity. Instead, a very common action on Windows (“Maximize”) is right next to the most dangerous and polar opposite action (“Blow This Away Forever”), with zero pixels of separation. On the Mac, the order is “close, minimize, maximize”: if you mis-hit Minimize on a Mac while moving toward Close, the window will still go away (more or less what you wanted) instead of becoming gigantic and still visible (polar opposite). Also, on a Mac there is significant pixel space between the distinct options so it is harder to mis-click.

The ordering of dialog buttons, such as “OK, Cancel”, meant that it was not possible for memory to take over. In some dialogs “OK” was in the position that Cancel would be in, in others it wasn’t. Also, Windows tended to have very generic names (Yes, No, Cancel), probably because entire APIs for opening messages had only those options; this required reading every word of a long-winded message to understand the options, rather than just clicking something obvious like Save.

Windows 95+ tend to add hierarchy in lots of places that don’t benefit at all from hierarchy. I hate having to remember some obscure vendor’s name so I can find “Unnecessary Company Name, Inc. >> Unnecessary Product Suite Name >> App Name” in a menu for example, when “App Name” in a flat list is the only sensible option. (Fortunately, Search was a reasonable way to avoid this. Until it became slow and couldn’t actually find things that clearly exist.)
But that’s the enterprise way!
I'm a man:) Sorry I don't know about fashion apps for men. I feel teams are building the infrastructure focusing on the big opportunity (women's fashion). Then, expanding to other categories will be way easier.
The Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (2010)
Loved this article, especially the idea of what sports can teach (and have taught) enterprises.

Items he didn't cover:

- Build solutions that require fewer developers.

- Use modern technologies that appeal to developers.

- Practice loyalty to employees (this takes a while) as a means of retention.

- Allow developers autonomy, mastery and purpose

Also, he didn't do a good job of discussing how the developer market is by no means flat--like most labor markets it is very lumpy, by person and geography.

But his overall points were great.
Wonderful feat, SpaceX! Congratulations!

But I have this one observation on watching the launch, and landing and I hope someone can explain the discrepancy to me:

How come the two boosters when they stick-landed have different colors than when they were launched - so soon? I mean, they were all real shinny white when blasting upwards from the launch pad. Are those the same ones that stick-landed to perfectly?
Conversely, as someone who has spent a majority of their life as a non-conformist, the exercise of feeling comfortable in your own skin can be quite empowering.

Not that it's an inflation of ego, but knowing you can convince others of your intelligence regardless of your physical appearance is a healthy challenge.
JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
> "As soon as I saw the two guys, I did feel like that pail belonged to me"

What an asshole. He deserves to be ripped off.

If he wanted a career based on values like that he should have worked on Wall St.
I urge Jim Carrey and every other celebrity to discuss this at length with their personal circle of friends.

But otherwise shut up about everything political. I'm sick and tired of hearing celebrity political opinions.
"Principles of Adult Behavior" by JP Barlow
To me it looks like voat is just the ulta-toxic communities from reddit joined together. I am a fan of real free speech without banning stuff that could offend some people, yet voat does not feel like a solution for that (same goes for Gab, seems like people there are more interested to see Twitter fail than coming together as a community and create a viable environment).

That said, I think this will again drive some more people to voat. What it definitely won't do is stopping people from doing deepfakes.
Meanwhile:

The Nissan Leaf is expanding where it is being sold.

https://electrek.co/2018/02/06/nissan-new-leaf-sales-seven-a...

There are now 300K Nissan Leaf's on roads:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastianblanco/2018/01/09/niss...

Kudos to Tesla for pioneering and kicking off electric cars.
It's also possible to double click anywhere on the top bar of a window to "maximize."
> the only way to have a CA database is to only have a single node.

I know that this is meant to mean: in the real world you cannot just write off partition resilience and still call your system highly available, since partitions will happen sooner or later and when they do your CA system won't be available.

But in the other hand, having a system that is always available _except_ during a network partition is a useful thing: you can design a network where partitions happen much rarely that the rate at which individual machines die.

I.e. in practice a single node, while if you nitpick is the only true CA, will available for less time in average than a multi node CA system which if you nitpick is not CA (provided that the underlying network is partition resilient; it's not a boolean, it's a probability)

(See Google spanner)
Right, that's why Lavabit shut down. And that's why ProtonMail operates from Switzerland, and CounterMail from Sweden. But the best hardcore option is not being vulnerable to coercion.
Thanks! Do you mind adding a review for The House Of Air Trampoline Warehouse? Or I add it on your behalf? I would really like to collect these type of stories for each location :)
There are many ways to get paid. Even before Bitcoin etc.
Who else knew Barlow as a Grateful Dead lyrisict?
> but the society/system it exists in will still be biased

Is biased even the right word here? Maybe I'm just nit-picking, but bias implies some level of intention IMHO. The "bias" here is really just the coincidental effects of nature.

I'd say it's more like, "So the service can be unbiased, but trends will inevitably emerge from natural arbitrary properties of the system".
No, its enough if it just does that, but does it perfectly. Pen and paper are still superior when you are trying to think. If it can just archive/OCR your notes, maybe prettify your diagrams, I for one would pay $600 in an instant.
I really wish Tesla would succeed. But between their build quality issues and their production issues, it's not looking good.

And this isn't even their biggest problem, which is that the cars are too expensive for the mass market.
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The prices of modern appliances have come down due to really intricate miniaturization of many components, which enables larger scale manufacturing and cheaper supply chains.

Because of the prices being low, it's not really worth it to repair consumer goods anymore. And if it's worth it in some cases (iPhone), it can only be done by a specialist due to the extreme miniaturization.
You've linked to info about unemployment benefit and you are pretending that rules about eligibility for those benefits have something to do with the unemployment rate. But, that's completely wrong.

See, e.g., https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm – particularly the second question, which addresses directly the mistake underlying your entire post.
> Clicking "Save" while a directory is selected will not save, but navigate instead.

That's one of the most absurd and glaring usability bugs I've ever heard.
> The aftermarket suppliers are locked out of the market because they don't have the private keys to handshake on the bus.

That is a potential problem, especially for "hacker" type suppliers (offering performance components for example). That said, the manufacturer I work with sells their diagnostic tool to the aftermarket, so at least aftermarket garages can get access for repairs.
Published 8. February 1996, 22 years ago today (depending on your time zone.)

> Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
Do Apple's app reviewers review applications really serious?
They rejected my app with the following reason:

---
Guideline 2.3.7 - Performance - Accurate Metadata
Specifically, the following words in your app name or subtitle are considered keywords or descriptors:
A simple editor and can convert content to a image.
---

I changed the subtitle to `A simple editor`, and I submitted again, and they rejected again with the same reason.

---
Guideline 2.3.7 - Performance - Accurate Metadata
Specifically, the following words in your app name or subtitle are considered keywords or descriptors:
A simple editor and can convert content to a image.
---

But I changed the subtitle, they still give me the old reason, do they review the app really? I feel they are so perfunctory, I asked them why they still reject with the same reason, because I had changed the subtitle, and then they give me another rejected reason

---
Guideline 2.3.7 - Performance - Accurate Metadata
Specifically, the following words in your app name or subtitle are considered keywords or descriptors:
A simple editor.
---

Are they kidding?
Multi-factor Authentication? How would you do that with a system that is explicitly designed to use asymmetric keys?
Is weights better than HIIT for over 40?
If you want to change your diet for environmental reasons, I would recommend going for net positive rather than vegetarianism. It cost a bit extra, but products like honey (bee farming is generally seen as a net positive on the environment), fishing from overpopulated lakes, and meat/plants from invasive species are examples where additional commercial pressure would do wonders.

Invasive species in general often carries the problem that hunting them cost more than the population is willing to pay, so they are "allowed" to spread and cause havoc with the ecology. Overpopulated lakes generally stay such because the fish is seen as undesirable, often based purely on local cultural views. Vegetarianism do not address those issue and generally the veggies being grow are those that is already being grown beyond what would be healthy from a bio diversity perspective.
To be honest though I think this is where a lot of the resentment of non-conformists comes from.

A conformist feels on a gut level that you're doing something "for attention" and resents you for that.

Of course even if that were true such resentment is ridiculous. But to me I think there is always an element of "cultural challenge" in non-conformity (even if say 99% of a man wearing a dress is deeply personal choice).
Did you read the article? He was arrested in Ecuador, sentenced to a year in prison, and was out after 9 months for good behavior. There's no extradition treaty between Ecuador and the U.S., so he wasn't sent back to the United States (where he had a criminal record and the sentence which would have been much higher).
so is speeding on the highway... and yet.
With startup, George Church bets cryptocurrency will boost genome sequencing
> Are they?

Yes.

> If you distribute movies and media to the public, you normally are breaking laws.

That's not what we are talking about. You can transform any public image for parody, criticism, etc. Porn is considered speech so anyone can make pornographic parodies/etc. This is especially true if fans are doing so for fun and not for profit.

Of course reddit has a right to ban it from their platform, but you as a fan can transform any public image and criticize, parody, etc it.