skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got "Interactive" confused with the "Immediate" window. Things like the Immediate Window have been around for decades in most version of VS, but both "Interactive" and "C# REPL" are new to VS 2015.
Reminds me of hoodwink.d by why the lucky stiff. Anyone remembers it?
> Who cares

Government, for the same reason they cared about abolishing prohibition.

> why change that?

Because now you can tax it and regulate it.

> keeps a lot of people employed and makes a few of them very wealthy,

These people first need to "pivot" into the new revenue stream.

I hope we can get in touch on hn in a decades time to see how legalization turned out.
The simpler answer is that counting on the other party to do right when you have absolute information asymmetry has always been a sucker's game.

Yes, this time it may be different. But even the classic Nigerian scam is based on the premise that you cannot verify the claims – you cannot involve the government, the police or any other third-party, you just have to trust the relative of the disgraced kleptocrat to receive your millions.
Take it easy on yourself mate ;), you are not Euler, and you don't really know what kind of father he was, you never know maybe you are doing a better job and got different priorities!, good luck and keep pushing!
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What makes you think it's a very small list? HN has been around since 2007, with a lot of submissions. Any guesses on the size of that? I think it's bigger than
The discussion about whether or not blockchain technology is useful has literally nothing to do with cryptocurrency bubbles. Further, I gave specific examples, and you reply with a joke tweet (which, as an aside, no one has any duty or obligation wasting their time replying to, and is the sort of thing that yields an insular bubble of groupthink) and then more hand waving.

Neat.

The rest of us are just busy building solutions as the industry evolves.
It’s funny because all spices are plants. So if you, for some reason, wanted to cut out all plant matter you’d be the one with a bland tasteless world.
Ah I see! Looks good!
> Rent-seeking is used in a negative context when it implies capturing rent _without_ adding value.

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. And I'll explicitly say that SegWit is run by rent-seekers. Yes, they do add value in the sense that they allow bitcoin to scale, but they do so by making it federated: at which point they're an immature, lower-value implementation of the traditional banking system. If you're okay with federation, just use traditional finance. If you're not okay with federation, then you aren't okay with SegWit. In neither case does SegWit add value.

> I'm trying to think past that to what value could be added to the blockchain to justify collecting rent while preserving the decentralized trustless nature of the vision.

But why though? If your goals are to centralize money in your pocket, using a decentralized structure and keeping it decentralized is like using a screwdriver to catch butterflies. It's the wrong tool for the job. It's using a decentralized, untrusted structure to achieve a centralized, trusted goal.

All the existing models I know of for making money off developing a blockchain involve some form of centralization. Either centralized mining (premining, ICOs) or breaking decentralization entirely (SegWit, Ripple).
Part of the point of voting machinery is to make it impossible for the government to see which way a specific person voted. (Excepting a totally unanimous vote, I suppose.)

But I figure we could tag each vote with a unique hash that's generated by, and known only to, the voter.

Then, when all votes are cast, the database can be made public, including the hashes. Then each voter can check that their vote has been registered correctly, without the government knowing who voted what way.

This wouldn't be good enough, though. We want to make it impossible to confirm to anyone else which way you voted, even if you want to, in order to prevent vote-selling.

> But what about someone who claims their vote was eliminated after voting occurred? There's no way to verify that either way.

You mean someone who cast a vote but then doesn't see it turn up on the public voting database? I imagine we could solve that with crypto. In my model: when you vote, you are given a cryptographically-signed proof-of-vote that is tied to your unique hash.

> would not be possible using a blockchain

Unless I'm missing something (which is entirely possible), I've shown that blockchain isn't the only solution.
I hope you enjoy paying a few dollars for every message and wait for at least 10 minutes before your message makes its way into a block.

Or you could use PGP.
Perhaps "plant-based" is the term they were looking for.
1 - I enabled it on my site. It's late night here so I disabled it.
2 - I use it.
3 - The app is almost developed. I need to upload it.
People skeptical regarding that video won't view Tesla as a laughing stock, they'll view them as not living up to the previous standard of quality they set with their higher-priced cars. That is bad enough, really.
Veganism is a commitment beyond diet. Every vegan I know does not intentionally make use of anything that contains animal products in any form. There is a huge industry for cruelty free cosmetics, for example. You’re mischaracterising veganism. A person who follows a diet of no animal products but uses animal products elsewhere in their life would usually say they follow a “plant based diet” and not claim to be vegan.
I think its quite rare for a product to find widespread adoption because it reduces costs for the users unless a portion of the reduced cost can be captured by the entity building the product.

The way this reads now, the only products built on blockchains will be industry consortiums trying to "cut out the middlemen", which they will then use to limit competition by excluding new entrants.
It can get tricky. Analysing web performance is not a direct requirement to fulfill orders, so you would need an explicit opt-in from your customers that lets them agree to their personal data being used in this way.

With Mailchimp you probably need to let your customers separately opt into their e-mail being used for marketing purposes, as again that use is not strictly required to fulfil their order.

Same with any other information - your customers need to be aware of all the ways you will use their data. If any uses are not covered by a legal agreement, there needs to be an option to opt-in.
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> Or do vegans often ponder the "ingredients" in everyday objects?

Yes.

> Is vaccinating your kids vegan? Are all vegans anti-vax?

There is certainly a lunatic anti-vax fringe. But no, not all vegans are like that, even though many vaccines contain animal derived products. I find this interesting: http://rvgn.org/2015/05/09/anti-vax-and-veganism/

> Are soaps, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, tires, and lubricants made with stearic acid and other beef products vegan?

No.

> Vegans for ethical reasons seem to only not want to consume a single part of the animal, but consume the rest, which is a pretty large portion, by weight.

No vegan I ever interacted with fit this description.

> And if you're eating organic food, isn't it more likely that your spinach was grown in a bath of bone meal, blood meal, fish meal?

Possible, but if everyone stopped eating those animals, the prices of these products would presumably make their use uneconomical, so promoting veganism would change this.

Though I admit I haven't heard vegans I know ever discuss this particular point. They are probably not aware of how the plants they eat are fertilized.
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I wonder if this event will get a mention in marketing classes in the future...
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Is there a security feature that's intended to prevent you from misspelling random text in an application?
In their last example, I'd argue "MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN" should be in the list with BEEF and WHEY. :)
> Obviously, this means that you can’t rely on timezones to determine business times.

Of course you can, you just need to know in which timezone they are (except for the China case, maybe).
Mind you an IP address is personal data only if it identifies an individual. Same goes with any other information.
Not parent, but I was surprised when I first heard of it. I thought it must be infeasible - in retrospect, for no reason other than vertical-standing rockets are associated with kitschy cover arts of old sci-fi stories. It didn't fit the more modern sci-fi aesthetics I grew in.

Since realizing that I became more wary of unconscious biases picked up from environment, and how they affect what I think is technologically possible.
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I like the design, especially with all the graphics. Did you do create those yourself ?
This was something I never considered as part of the model of the US market. I have long considered US equities to be overbought based on P/E ratios and other fundamentals when viewed on a historical perspective. However, I never took into consideration (even though I was acutely aware of it) that there are thousands less public companies now than 20 years ago.

When you view it as a supply/demand, it becomes more obvious. There was ~27 trillion that people had in the US market in 2016, from the numbers I am looking at. And that's with roughly 3,800 companies, giving us an average market cap of about 7.1 billion. If that number were to go back up to ~7,500, all else being equal we would very likely see those market caps cut in half as the funds dispersed across the rest of the market. Yes, this is a vast simplification and there are many factors at play like fundamental ratios and proper valuations to determine what companies are worth. But I think this is something that is certainly a factor and not something I had considered before.
> Verifiability by an individual voter

This is, in fact, undesirable. If verifiability is possible by an individual someone can ask you (under thread of violence) to verify that you did or did not vote a certain way. It's especially undesirable if verification can be performed a long time after the vote is completed because laws and social mores can change turning a previously innocent vote into a black mark.
This is more like a Proton launch. Proton and R7/Soyuz survived the fall of the Soviet Union because they were cheap.

BFR might be more like Buran/Energia.
I'm replying to a comment which specifically mentions gluten. Gluten is an allergen, and hype aside there are people for whom gluten is an actual health risk.
> any possibility of ambiguity is effortlessly dealt with

"(+ 1)" is rather ambiguous and evaluates to 1, compared to "1 + ", which is very straight forward-- it's an incomplete expression and no evaluation can be done.
Serious question: are scallops/oysters vegan ? They have no central nervous system, but are living beings.
Wondering how hard it would be to build something that takes a picture of ingredients on a food label for text recognition, which feeds into this... or something like this
Mostly because it is a free extension and I don't want to pay for a server :)
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Supposedly they taste good and part of their spread is intentional. See the bottom of this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01624-y?utm_sourc...
Thank you for the kind words. This is my first post on HN so I thought of taking some liberty in the title.
It appears I was mistaken and you do need a licence, though it's free. You should also ask the landowner's permission.

I had thought you only needed the licence to set up traps, which I'd rather not myself as there's a risk of catching/injuring/killing other species, particularly native crayfish or otters. Sorry for the inaccurate post. Sadly it's too late to edit it or I'd put strikethrough all over it...

More details about catching (mostly with traps) and licence details below.
http://foragedfoods.co.uk/how-to-catch-signal-crayfish/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/permission-to-trap-crayfish-eels...

To answer your questions, I'd wait until at least spring; I've only been in summer. Not sure about speed or depth (I've seen them in fast shallow streams and in a slower metre-deep river) but they like lots of hiding places like rocks or overhangs.
You're right, it's actually 6.

When I first read it as "PIN" I assumed it was some kind of quick password alternative for recognised devices and it would need a full password for unknown machines but nope, it's the whole password.

It horrifies me that at some point they thought, "A 4 digit pin isn't very secure, 6 should be enough!"
Are there any other websites/apps that are known to respect DNT flag?
Out of curiosity, why did you choose to set up analytics as opt-out? What do you even need them for?
Yes - depends on the pricing model but definitely sounds useful.
very well said. I also want to add that SpaceX has forced many engineers to rethink their life because they are believing their current job does not matter (for valid reasons), does not make a difference in the world for the sake of GOOD and does not bring actual progress. Many would argue that working for FB, Twitter, IG or other big tech companies merely provide anything good to human existence.

Engineers are builders at heart. They want to put their effort to good use.

Alrighty, feel free to argue!
Not great if you are looking for a DIY solution, however in the SAAS space I run the Engineering team at a company that is doing essentially this, https://www.pagecloud.com . Blog (If thats what you are looking for) and some other goodies on the rapid site construction side, coming very soon.
> C# has null, that's a fact of life, it's not dismissive to realise that a (granted, very annoying) part of the job of writing C# is dealing with null. So, using this doesn't make this technique any less safe than any other way of writing code in C#.

If using this technique requires breaking one of the rules that you have to follow to avoid getting nulls in C# then the technique is a safety problem.

> Not specifying a `struct` constraint is a bug. If you provide the constraint then it's safe.

Ok, but how do you enforce that? If you've got a technique that requires manual review and reasoning at a distance to use safely, then again we're no better off than we would be using dynamic casts.

> At no point was this trying to force you to use this technique. It was a reply to "Once you've got return type polymorphism, you really start to miss it in other languages. The simplest example possible is mempty".

If you don't have a typesystem feature in a safe way, you don't have it.
Yes, it gives, because oneself decision to give back US$ 2k in a year to the government is peanuts, you don't impact anything, disagreeing on tax cuts in a societal level means more money is on the pot to be divided in projects that benefit the society.

You can't stand your ground on every issue that demands that a large part of society support it to work, that's not how it works. A lot of principles are only helpful if a larger part of society shares and act on them, individually they are useless.
Why are currencies needed to store wealth? As we see there are plenty of assets that people are parking their money in. Why not simply use money as a medium of exchange?
2 reasons why I am not offering a free plan:

1: I want to see if actually anyone wants to pay for the product.
2: There is hardly anything in the app which I can give for free.
> we only started seeing strains of banana blight effect it in the last few decades. ... it's probably worth thinking about a bit.

It was likely an oversight to not mention why we started to clone the Cavendish.

Panama disease devastated the also cloned Gros Michel cultivar over 60 years ago. That's why, today, we eat a different banana than those who came before us.
Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16115353 (Jan 2018)

>chrisfosterelli: This is a neural network that takes an image and predicts very simple blocks (like BODY, TEXT, BTN-GREEN in the bootstrap example) and then uses a map to convert them to well-formed HTML

>jamesjyu: I've always wanted to do a contest with other frontend coders to see who could get closest to a complex layout—like the NYTimes—in one go. >>janneklouman: these types of contests exist! I went to one of these[1] maybe two years ago in Stockholm and I had a blast [1] http://codeinthedark.com/

Pix2code: Generating Code from a GUI Screenshot | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416530 (May 2017)
>"If everybody were to stop eating animals"

So is part of being vegan trying to make everyone else stop eating animals? Or is it enough to just control what you eat yourself? Because if your point is to make all the other uses of animal suffering cease to exist, then it sounds like a hopeless cause unless you try to convert everyone else in the world into vegans.
Yes, millions of designers use Sketch, Invision and Adobe XD. Photoshop is getting disrupted at every low end feature-set. Photoshop will remain the standard for complex image editing despite AI or whatever, because decades of cutting edge research and patents.
Another option is using a bloom filter (just like how Chrome does it for malware URL detection)
I never felt comfortable using SaaS for checking the grammatical mistakes. If you are linux user then "the language tool" is your best option.

https://languagetool.org/

you can download it and run it as stand alone application
I'd say, at that point, it becomes a security issue. They'd probably agree.

Just because it isn't categorized as a security issue doesn't mean their engineers aren't looking for solutions, even if they're publicly trying to downplay the issue. And just because its not a security issue today doesn't mean it can't be escalated into one when we know more about the exploit.

They're not dumb. In fact, I'd say they're acting with more logic and measure than the alarmists in this thread.
He really is an alien. Human PR usually involves making a slick show, and having skilled communicators express vague messages full of bullshit. Musk is an exact opposite of that.
For the curious, it's Musk's midnight-cherry red Tesla roadster, with a dummy in a spacesuit in the drivers seat, David Bowie playing on the stereo, and a towel in the glove box along with a copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and a sign that says Don't Panic.
I use DNT with Firefox 59 and I often see DNT notices, but usually for YouTube embeds.
The diagram in the article really showed just how quickly they came into the game.

I see the little blue lines, a few per year, then all of a sudden there are more than you can easily count!
All of these solutions I've seen still have manual override.

If my nest isn't connected to the internet, I can still go over to it and turn it and the heat will come on (or go off). If my smoke detectors can't talk to the internet, they'll still work like a regular smoke detector. And even control my Nest through it's own mesh network (If I want them to). I can't speak from experience, but I'd bet that my garage door remote will still operate the door even without a wifi network to sell my open/close times to the highest bidder.

Regardless, I don't think Craftsman is interested in my garage door habits; they're interested in selling me a new garage door that I otherwise wouldn't think I'd need to upgrade. Smart home functionality is just one way to get that sale in. And it apparently works.
Thank you for your reply. Though I think you’re being a bit idealistic, I do agree with the overall sentiment.
This presents an interesting question about what renders food non-vegan.

The system between wasps and figs is mutual. The fig doesn't trap wasps against their will—the wasp enters voluntarily because they have evolved to lay eggs in figs, as the fig provides a brilliant environment for the eggs to safely grow. I do not know of any mechanism where the fig benefits from the death of the wasp—that the opening is so narrow that the wasps wings detach is, from what I can gather, in order to protect the wasp's offspring, which is to the benefit of the wasp, not the fig. It is therefore not really a killer plant. The wasp is the one that keeps squeezing as its wings are torn off.

If fig is not vegan because an insect voluntarily died in the process of its pollination, then I simply no longer understand the concept of veganism. Not eating fig is not about avoiding animals or animal products, nor about not contributing to their production (If you consider the fig an animal product due to this process, note that most plants absorb nutrients from dead animals through the soil).

I hate figs personally, though, so I'm not trying to contribute to their consumption. And wasps.
20 loc, great job man. Keep on sharing, impressive (for vegans)
Fedora - Stable but still up to date.

I used to use arch, but you have to be selective and careful with updates otherwise you find you can't boot into x. Takes time to go and fix.
Ya, I am really new to HN. I will take care of the suggestions you posted. Thanks.
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> This extension will check your text by sending it to https://languagetool.org over an encrypted connection. Your text will not be stored.

Gives me a "privacy policy", "continue and don't ask again" or "cancel" hyperlink, nothing else. If I want to use it the first time.

But if you open the extension options under the "more tools" > extensions tab you can set the LanguageTool API server URL[0].

Going to try to setup a server over the weekend, thanks.

[0]: http://wiki.languagetool.org/http-server
> The model's decision function is represented by the blue/pink background, and is clearly nonlinear. The bright red cross is the instance being explained (let's call it X). We sample instances around X, and weight them according to their proximity to X (weight here is indicated by size). We then learn a linear model (dashed line) that approximates the model well in the vicinity of X, but not necessarily globally.

So is this sort of like a local SVM classifier?
A centralized blockchain does not guarantee that at all. In fact, it's probably impossible to guarantee this for any kind of centralized service. In order to be able to trust centralized ledgers, clients need to keep a local copy (or a local history of hashes) so that they can detect manipulation (regardless of whether you're using a blockchain or something else to store your data).
Designers and developers are oversimplifying complexity
> There are two quite separate kinds of "activist":

> One kind wants companies to make more money by being meaner: They call for efficiencies, stock buybacks, mergers, less spending on perks, etc. This stuff is often stereotyped as enriching shareholders at the expense of workers and other stakeholders, and as harming long-term value by focusing on short-term stock-price results.

> The other kind wants companies to make less money but be nicer: They call for more social responsibility or environmental studies or other things that might reduce returns on investment (at least in the short term) but achieve broader social goals.

> They are not so much opposed as they are unrelated.

from https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-08/what-do-i...
At least change it so it sends a hash of the URL to a server that knows the hashes of all the HN submitted posts. That way if there is no match you'd have to have hashes of all legal URLs to leak anything.
Maybe depends on if you can sell them to someone. It breaks the social contract though.
I removed the baby from title. I also realized that there was no need to mention baby here.
You're best holding it and wait for it to pop again, theres suckers like you every minute