skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should be very happy that the majority of your contributions (assuming you're planning to contribute on an ongoing basis) are going to be made on a discount.
Let’s break up Fox News, NYT and all the other outlets that enables Trump
Fiat currencies value are highly pegged to their corresponding economy GDP. Bitcoin is completely free.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I've been doing it with a few friends and we all love it.
Ah, such as? I assume it's litre in France, I think it's litro in Spanish..
Fyi, here’s the demonstration project I talked about: https://github.com/tzahola/AudioFileFLACBug
I think you do, at least if you want to convincingly argue that this shouldn’t have happened. The existence of a better way is decidedly non-obvious.

It’s not as if there’s a bunch of standard alternatives they could have used. Traditionally, taxation is enforced by garnishing wages, forcibly withdrawing money from accounts, seizing property, or putting people in jail. None of these were possible here except for seizing property. The only alternative I see is to just let delinquents get away with not paying taxes forever, which defeats the whole purpose of taxes.
Top grossing f2p games are already doing everything they can to exploit addiction mechanisms.

Sure they might not go as far as what is on these slides, but it is already on the abusive side.
I don't deny, there is no business cycle. My point is, that a handful of people decide when the cycle should have it peeks and bottoms. To me it is like: "We don't like winter, so let's warm up the entire planet. And if there is a problem we can always cool it down a bit".

There are 7 billions participants in the global economy and somehow FED pretends it has this magic ball that predicts what will happen in upcoming months. And even if it had, they have no proper tools to react on it properly.
Web Audio supports it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BiquadFilte...

See how it's used here: https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/blob/master/js/me...
Yes, and you also don't have nurses having to train for different "flavors" of humans (I'm speaking in a general practice sort of way, of course there are speciality nurses). If you know how to draw blood, you don't have to learn a whole new system based on the type of hypodermic needle you use. In the Kubernetes world, you'd need to know how to use AWS, GKE, your own custom stack, etc, in addition to knowing how to draw blood on this particular version of this flavor of human.
A great intro to using case classes in Scala
Too bad it's electron. I'm working on a just-for-fun markdown editor using GtkSourceView and GtkWebkit and, despite a slight learning curve getting familiar with gtk, it's been a pleasure to work on. Ugh...electron? Really??
Use whatever adjective you want, the comparison still doesn't make any sense due to the involuntary nature of the situation.
Should English speakers who are not Anglo-Saxon also read him? Or is he only relevant in to the communities that descent largely from English settlers and have never had to deal with the political consequences of influence from for instance Celtic or Asian or African communities?
Text on the login screen is cut off: "Your credentials are used exclusively to connect you to your HN account and aren't s".

Also does HN support OAuth or something? I'd feel more comfortable if I didn't have to enter my password directly in the app.
Absolutely. No extreme is ever good. Shipping and forgetting is a recipe to do mediocre work.

But I rarely witnessed that.

What I see very often, though, is people not feeling ready to share what they have. And I've been in countless conversations to urge people to fight this instinct (which I'm guilty of too often as well).
Gold value is very dependent to its use as raw material. Any small market will peg the value of a currency.
Good thing they put some pesticide on it that makes me unable to eat these in USA....
Ah, ok.

Would a self-signed (I'm not sure this is the right terminology) cert be sufficient for this?

That way if someone MITM'd you, you would see that the cert changed, right?

But I guess if the path you use to the website is always the same, then if they MITM'd you the first time you accessed it, you wouldn't be able to tell?

Hmm, I guess that probably isn't enough then.

Is there really no good way to serve public information from a website that doesn't require periodically updating one's cert, and without risking MITM'ers changing the content?

I guess if the client already has the hash of the content, but that isn't very convenient.

Huh.

I guess example.com needs https then?
Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK
Linux Malware Analysis – Why Homebrew Encryption Is Bad
out of all of the examples I can think of for unjustly banned youtube content, that is one of the least compelling example I've ever heard of. I'm not a lawyer but that "prank" is almost certainly a crime.
Google is the worst of these right now IMO, only because fbook has agreed to change some things recently.

I am looking for a group of people to start a competing search portal to take about 20% of the google search and do it better. I've been watching the big G slide into more and more censorship and it's looking like it's going the direction of "wacky safe".

If anyone can help make a more mature portal for search, please contact me. The time is right for this disruption.

The disruption of fbook is so easy that I'm not too worried about it, when it happens it will be swift.

Eventually google will just be the new yellow pages, with a bunch of unregulated tv channels (unless youtube is split off from it)
> Fiscal policy depends mostly on monetary policy I think.

Monetary policy might arguably set (and certainly effects) the outer bounds of fiscal policy, but it doesn't control fiscal policy.
Same. Medication has really smoothed out the rough spots for me, but Robin taking his life really raised the water level, so to speak.

After getting past it, I thought about the effect someone (whom I'd never met) taking committing suicide had on me. I've since expanded that thought to my family, which has been constructive for me.
Is it really material - except in the loosest sense - that a food delivery driver lied about a Fine Arts course?

That aside, reading the linked court documents that contract has major problems. It requires deliverers to sign up for a weekly block and to be available (except under extenuating circumstances) for work, and not refuse work, during that time. That sounds like being a part-time employee to me, regardless of the preceding prose specifically disclaiming employee-employer status (why would they need that I wonder!), and saying the driver was free to work other gigs. If you're free to work other gigs how can you not often have to refuse jobs?

I'm not saying Lawson's been harmed, I didn't read enough to know, but that contract looks like it's demanding exclusive employment for a particular company within a given time range; that looks terrible for GrubHub from where I'm sitting.
Secret code from the iPhone was posted to GitHub in the biggest leak in history
Ok, we've attempted to make the title more accurate above.
Doesn't Canada only allow skilled immigrants to enter the country? I suspect that is a significant factor.
It looks like there is an 8 second delay in the style element with the attribute `amp-boilerplate` that makes AMP pages extremely slow when 3rd party JavaScript is blocked (as it should be by default).
I think the point here is that some "dumb" (brute force) software found something missed by all the field experts.

I'm sure that in the next 20 years some "dumb" math software, some sort of "Coq neural network arxiv crawler" will find some new math.
Complexity Bias: Why We Prefer Complicated to Simple
You totally can do that if you hate fun
Isn't the theory that you actually have a contract relationship with a contractor and termination is specified by the contract? Its been perverted over the years, but the original intent is still in the law.
Atmospheric CO2 levels for the last 500M years
The Curse of Dead Lambda Functions
I'm kind of curious about the "suivi", too :) I assume it was a typo, and not the French word for "followed" (from what Google tells me, anyway), since that didn't make any sense either.
> Lawson claimed the company violated California labor laws by not reimbursing his expenses, paying him less than minimum wage and failing to pay overtime.

I have also failed to do all of those things for Mr. Lawson, fortunately like GrubHub I did not tell him I ever would.
Dear Snapchat
Nvidia Q4 earnings
What William James Got Right About Consciousness
> The problem - in America, at least - is that contractors are denied benefits like health insurance and pensions/401k plans.

The problem is much larger, and the "sharing" economy companies (and YC) are way ahead of you. It's more accurate to call it the "loophole" economy. A hotel chain that doesn't have to obey health and safety rules? It's called AirBnB! A taxi company that pays its under-insured drivers less than minimum wage? It's Uber! Exploiting a legal loophole and calling it "tech" is currently a lucrative enterprise.
This reminds me of mid-2015 and early 2016. I believe it's a normal healthy correction and not the ominous beginning of something bigger. It feels like the economy has at least enough gas to keep moving to the end of 2018, but I'd be surprised if Trump completes his term without a market downturn.
> No, because most government borrowing is not borrowing from the central bank.

To be precise, it almost always against the constitution. The problem is, the amount of money the government can borrow is tied to the money supply. If FED raised rates a couple percent, US would bankrupt in a few days after.

> Empirically, that has worked out rather well .

That's arguable, since we don't know what would happen if we didn't intervene with artificial interest rates.
Employment law is not so black and white. And in the case of employee classification of contractors, there is rarely a "clearly".

Why not just say all employees are contractors and working "as needed"? No more pesky employment tax, unemployment tax, health care benefits, etc.

But that is not to say this guy was in the right. Just that it's rarely obvious.
> totally de facto dischargeable (contract says you do N jobs, if I don't like you the N+1th job doesn't get contracted)

Or you could look at like the contractor will get paid for N jobs regardless, while the employee can be discharged at N - 1 and only get paid for N - 1.
Brainpower wins over brawn when male hummingbirds display for mates
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

Which is one of the scariest things I've seen in a while. The video glosses over the fact that EMPs would probably make for a viable (if collateral-damage-inducing) defense, but still pretty terrifying.
> Blacks are another example. They're a group that has agitated for change for what seems like an eternity. It's similarly doubtful that the system will change for them either.

What sort of change are you referring to? Surely by any metric the situation for black Americans has improved tremendously?
Doesn’t that depend on wether you’re using a GNU tr or a BSD variant? I feel like the brackets were necessary back in the day.
I have a desire to be free. I'm working towards never having to look at a fucking computer again. Hopefully by the time I'm 30, I'll have enough to do only need to work about three months year. The rest of the time I'm going to be surfing or rock climbing.
Ok,today, Deep learning experts needed to help ONC meta1 project https://goo.gl/yutZP8
That's extending the sanity server and extracting relevant CO2 dissociation data. I intend to have it completed by next week's ONC meetup https://goo.gl/nz2wHr, and welcome additional help.
I wouldn't say it's impossible. There are a few ways to fight this feeling.

First, try and understand why you care so much, if that excess of care is giving you too much pressure.

Maybe you care too much because that's your livelihood, and that prevents you from taking risks? In that case, try and shop for other jobs and maybe seeing what other options are available will make you be more relax.

Or maybe you care too much because the timing means you have only one shot at whatever you're working on? Then work beforehand on having more options. Or lowering the risk of your project failing. Think about a plan B, or C.

What I'm trying to say basically is that if you feel that you're at your best when you don't care too much, find ways to create that distance or relaxation. That might need some time, logistics, or introspection, but it's certainly worth it.
Right, but if I contract a painting company to paint my office building, I don't get to fire members of the work crew.
That doesn't follow at all. I think you're confusing "contractor vs. employee" with "full-time vs. part-time". Plenty of retail employees are deployed as-needed, and none of them are contractors.
MS is huge but they don't have the dampening effect on innovation they did in the 90s.

I fully agree with your prediction that the future is decentralized and probably non-commercial though.
These kinds of dismissive comments make me wonder if the writer ever created anything of substance in their life.

For example, notice how this project is actually accessible for people to try today. Building something in the privacy of localhost is pretty worthless if you think it equips you with the power of judgement. That's the easiest part of building something. Congratulations on your unreleased hobby project that doesn't use Electron.

Let's keep this sort of comment off HN. You'll notice it only squanders interesting discussion from the pool.

In fact, that it's built with Electron suggests that the core can be factored out into a library that you can embed in a website or another project, and that's great.

So, please, spare us next time.
It's a very special trillionaire. One that can create money.
I have a cousin that is in his 50's and runs 100K and 50K trail runs multiple times throughout the year. The guy ran from Santa Barabara to San Diego to his son's wedding! I don't have much point other than to say if you are anything like him and the people he runs with, you're crazy! ;)
> One usually thinks of a contract worker as being totally de facto dischargeable (contract says you do N jobs, if I don't like you the N+1th job doesn't get contracted)

That's not dischargeable at will, that's an option to not renew after a set point.

> whereas an employee as being entirely nondischargeable due to union agreements or labor laws

“At will” employment makes employees dischargeable at will (hence the name). Labor laws add specific prohibited bases, but still make discharge less restricted than a contract. A union contract is a special case, a contract on top of general labor laws that covers people who are otherwise regular employees.
> Bitcoin is a good example of how not to do tech

Bitcoin is a great example of exactly how to do tech. I'm pretty sure we probably fundamentally disagree on most things :)

> you're under the mistaken impression that government=centralized, private=decentralized

None of the technologies I listed are private enterprises.
This is almost as cynical as the guy who said that google started Calico because you can't show ads to dead people
I'd answer: Why do we "want to get rid of" it?

I'd counter with why would you want additional degrees of freedom in your theory that don't correspond to something real? To pick up my silly example, why would you use complex temperatures to do the math if the physical temperature is real and only has one and not two degrees of freedom? I can only think of two sensible scenarios.

The first one is that you have a theory with real temperatures but you can make working with that theory easier if you switch to complex temperatures for the calculations in witch case the redundancies are purely a mathematical tool. The second one is that you suspect that temperatures are actually complex and you just haven't figure out how to detect the imaginary component in experiments.

Neither option seems to be true for gauge theories - as far as I know there are no alternative equivalent theories that don't have gauge symmetries and are just harder to work with mathematically and I also think nobody or at least not many believe that gauge redundancies correspond to yet undiscovered physical things.
I think you overestimate the scope of two things:

1) How vast the useful data gulf is between Google/FB and dozens of other entities.
Maybe they have more data overall and had a decade head start, but at this point there's tons of other software, hardware and data stakeholders that can construct a pretty complete map of your life. And even before Google/FB there was the whole financials infrastructure: banks, credit agencies, etc.

2) How actionable that data advantage is for Google/FB.
Let's say you're right and they know a lot more than the next most knowledgeable entities. They're still constrained in how they can actually use that to manipulate your life to whatever nefarious ends. They're already under a lot of scrutiny, which is good, and no doubt will remain so. There are many obvious and overt steps they'd have to achieve (all of which would garner huge backlash) before consolidating some kind of truly hegemonic power. The leap from "has the best information" to your sci-fi scenarios is pretty significant for non-government entities with like-sized competitors to worry about in the private sector.
Agreed. Apparently the avg income in Detroit is $26k, houses without all the copper torn out can be had for under $20k. Seems like going after AirBnb hosts is a bad move for the city, if a good move for Hotel owners. Especially given young moneyed consumers preference for airbnb over hotels.
Not sure why this attracted the downvotes.

This isn’t a bad thing. I’ve worked in (not fed) .gov for many years. Most government jobs are structured as career jobs, not gigs or places for mid/high level individual contributors to land.

When you want more senior talent with specific skill sets, you need contractors or short term appointed people who work for the government, but don’t have all of the rights or need to climb the ladder that career employees do.
Related: "Kill Decision" by Daniel Suarez. Talked about this exact thing. What happens when drones become so cheap and able to be armed, that a swarm of drones could come out of nowhere, commit a crime, and no one would have a clue where they came form.
We know what it’s like - the question is, how do we, as hackers, stop it?
I grew up in Texas in the 90s, in both urban and rural locations (Dallas, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and some small towns in the hill country), and it does seem to be a mainly rural thing.
What amount will make you satisfied?

1 billion dollars net, in my bank account.
Chimps and Bonobos are our nearest relatives, so presumably we might look at their diets for pointers[1] - 50% figs, 3% meat, the remainder from other plants. I do like figs, but I don't think I can quite manage that... still, it's more sensible than eating nothing but meat (which is as you say nutrient deficient, has long-term risks for cancer, and clearly is not a viable option for a global population of 7.6B)

1: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/how-to-eat-l...
> I'm pretty sure bare-metal isn't even supported that easily

BOSH with the RackHD CPI does this. It's the same basic operator experience across every platform with a CPI.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we work on this stuff.
It's amusing how there is a tendency in the media to attribute changes in the market to recent events when more often than not there is little evidence of correlation.
What is needed is a graph showing global temperatures and CO2 for the last 4 billion years
The main thing the so called gig-economy brings to the table is a regression in workers rights and benefits. That's the core. That's the profits. I can't understand why people are wilfully accepting that this is somehow the inevitable result of some smartphone app having been created.
But do you all go running in them? I feel the main post is about wearing out shoe with a lot of use.
I'm reading your comment to mean that you think federal debt is unconstitutional.

Is that your position?

If so, do you have any support for that position?
Though plagiarism software was at the heart of McCarthy's work, the use of that term in the NYT's headline is pure clickbait. Shakespeare lived in a remix culture more like our contemporary one rather than late-20th century attitudes, and even the concept of plagiarism would likely have seemed odd to him and his contemporaries. He died a century before the Statute of Anne passed.
> Actual lemonade stands (run by children)? They're usually shutdown by the police, at least in the U.S.

I can't tell if you're joking or just completely distorted by media coverage. I ran lemonade stands throughout my childhood and consistently see them run by children today.
I am not sure that’s gonna work as we all want it to.

If there is no central governing body (like FB or Google) then these decentralized networks will be pure anarchy...in which case it won’t take long for government to jump in and mess everything up with a bunch of nonsensical regulations...just look what happened with BitTorrent and now Crypto currencies.

You seriously think the government is gonna do a better job at regulating Google or Facebook then these companies themselves? The incentives are simply not aligned...it’s all gonna go to hell my friend :(
Benefits and protections available to employees but not to contractors all cost money. This is why contractors get paid more. If the benefits and protections are provided to contractors, then it will (sooner or later) come out of their paychecks.
For clarity of its destabilizing effects:

> MGM, with its multiple properties, is the largest at 4.86 percent of Nevada Power’s annual energy sales.
RISC-V processor Mr Wolf arrives to solve problems
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Gateway to Tobacco?
Seems like he got off lightly. Wouldn't be surprised if someone is looking if a prosecution is viable. Assault perhaps?

First he's not "a kid", looks more like 18 - 22. So old enough to know better.

Second there's something of an epidemic of acid attacks in London recently. So scare the shit out of random strangers for clicks n giggles.

He should try his "humour" in an airport or on a copper - I'm sure he'd get plenty of extra views.
SaaS can not interoperate. Thus feature-poor SaaS are useless.
> and prices?

You can, sure. Doesn't mean anyone will hire you.

The fact that someone offered a particular rate, and you agreed, doesn't really change anything material.

To me a contractor can decide to work that day, or not work (doesn't matter why - could be timing, or doesn't agree with the pay), and it's fine - if he works he gets paid, if not, he doesn't.

In contrast an employee has to work every day (other than agreed breaks), or he'll be fired, and no further work will come.
imo drivers are clearly employees, but hours online on the app and hours for the purpose of a minimum wage/benefits/holidaypay judgement from the court are two different things. Defendant hurts all drivers with his poor behaviour.
Yes, quite.

Ditto, say, accountancy. You have to have a clue.
Why? There's something to be said for letting dinosaurs get fatter and lazier. Eventually an upstart will come along and be able to move up to the top. In the 1960's no one even dreamed that IBM would lose its dominant position in computers, then along came Microsoft. 20 years from now, it'll be some other company.
updated for sanity. sorry!
Who told you that is how the Federal Reserve works?
CBS didn't have integrity issues as a broadcaster before expanding into news. Buzzfeed's entire business model has been based on no-integrity clickbait garbage, that's what their brand represents. It doesn't matter if they decide to hire a few "real journalists", or at least what they think "real journalists" are, they have no credibility at all.