skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And not that long ago he put more sanctions on them than was requested by Obama. So you can not read anything into that.

Are you referring to this?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/trum...
It's an obviously over simple answer to a complex issue. But fear can cloud our judgment, so try to think about things rationally and decide if it might be worth taking the leap on a case by case basis.

That doesn't sound as catchy as the fortune cookie version, but it's better advice IMHO.
My one acquaintance with Celiac loves the gluten-free movement, in spite of thinking it is bullshit. She loved bread, and can't fathom why so many people are trying to glom on to this bandwagon, but she loves how many more restaurants are available to her now.

Your point about sloppy trend-chasers is a good one, but at least so far, she's not had an issue.
If that's the case, how is the virus going to infect my computer unless I run untrusted code I downloaded on purpose? And if I'm doing that then I am accepting I'm likely going to get hacked, before and after Spectre/Meltdown, so how exactly are they making the situation worse?
My Story:

Scared of Snakes: Held snakes my at many different times. My older brother even had a pet snake. My dad had a store he went to that had dozens of HUGE pythons and I spent a while in there. I STILL HATE SNAKES

Scare of heights (Uncontrollable shakes): At 18 I decided to do roofing for the summer. Climbed up and down ladders for 3 months. I still shake and it didn't get worse.

Positive: I had the self-discipline to still do things that scare me.

Negative: I have no control over the things that still scare me. I can't make them not scary.
CFTC and SEC Testimony on Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
I want to buy my wife a new car, but when I priced it out I found out it cost $3,000 for CarPlay ($1,500 for their standard navigation system, plus another $1,500 for the Car Play compatible components).

It helped me realize we don't need a new car.
If we're getting into application development, we have a sandboxed VM that a) requires megabytes of npm/webpack/jquery/bootstrap mystery meat to paper over all of the cross-platform and form-factor potholes, and b) allows everyone and his brother to track your behavior in real time.

Go to practically any major content website and poke around in the developer console. Check the cookies, the constant ajax requests, the payloads, the file sizes, etc. It would be one thing if this were all for the sake of compensating creators and good user experience, but I don't see that. I see a dystopia where Google/Facebook/Amazon gets the sandwich, SV gets the crust, and everyone else gets the shaft.

There have been many browser forks where some heroic soul tries to strip a few of the more obvious f-yous out of Chromium or Firefox. They all eventually give up. When even the #3 company is blasting through half a billion dollars a year to put mr robot bullshit in their browser, any one-man effort in that direction will be drinking from the fire hose.
There is a subtle but important difference between trusting someone doesn't have a hidden camera pointed at you and recording vs trusting someone to not have the camera that is on their face and pointed at you currently recording.

Ultimately, yes, people have been able to take hidden photographs for a very long time. I think the concern is normalizing the removal of 90% of the steps involved in doing so.
Absolutely agree. I think my statement makes implies I believe the regulatory apparatus COULD have utility, but in any state where they can't prosecute Equifax it does not.
You put a wall around your property. It kept the dilettantes out, which means you have free time for something else.

If there’s a buffer overflow attack against SSH then you have security through obscurity. In the meantime you have security and obscurity. Assuming you’re using known rsa keys to login remotely...
If his civilisation television series is anything to go by, probably not the best person to read as far as learning about history goes.
Funny thing is that said HP still exist.

What people are complaining about is the bottom of the barrel consumer products hawked out of very storefront the world over.

I have seen similar sentiments aimed towards Acer, yet i have seen Acer business market laptops survive for ages.

Basically companies like HP and Acer have multiple product ranges with different QA protocols and different margins. Yet people keep buying the cheapest consumer offerings and expect something mil-spec.
"kids"
> No, we're talking about allergies and annoyance to other passengers

We're talking about the relationship between two things. The rights of the allergy sufferer versus the rights of the animal owner. The weight of the latter varies with medical necessity and the risk the animal poses to others on the plane.

Allergies are a medical condition. Service animals are trained animals serving a medical need. Emotional-support animals also serve a medical need, but being untrained come with a greater safety and comfort risk. Pets don't serve a medical need; when represented as emotional-support animals, they're being transported by someone who made a false and willful misrepresentation to the airline for monetary gain.
The greater fool basis for valuation runs out eventually. I believe this is simply a bubble popping.
I'm still afraid of snakes and heights and I have done a ton of things with both.
Are you kidding? Go take a look! Either you feel good about your company, or you get a chance to make it better - you win both ways!
Hypothetical: If a Tyrant rules a country why should the serfs expect anything?
This has happened before and will happen again (obviously at different USD values, but the percentages are similar). It might take a while (last time took 3-4 years) but I think it will bounce back.
If a little civil disobedience is what it takes to save public access to human knowledge, than so be it...
This is a fight between smartphone-default map apps (Google Maps, Apple Maps), and other map networks that come integrated in a different product, like a car or a standalone GPS unit. The article chooses HERE to represent the latter, whose lineage includes NAVTEQ and Nokia Maps, and was bought by the German automakers in 2015 -- but NAVTEQ has been providing map data to GPS maker Garmin for a long time.

Everyone's vying for mindshare and marketshare, and machinating in ways to gain independence from companies who could become competitors. HERE doesn't have the power of being platform-default on smartphones, but does offer smartphone apps as well. Presumably, these could integrate with the fixed units to allow for seamless transfer of state. Meanwhile, Google and Apple are lobbying other automakers to defer their in-car infotainment systems to their integration instead.

In my mind, Google and Apple would appear to have the upper hand, being able to make the case that they represent a user's discretionary choice, instead of a captive platform that ships with a car. But on the other hand, as those companies have shown, the power of defaults is strong, and if HERE delivers a good experience inside cars, some people will begin using HERE on their phones as well, weakening Google and Apple's grip on the market.

The question of ongoing revenue streams adds an additional complication. If carmakers begin requiring additional, recurring fees to make use of this service, that could blow back on HERE's platform as well, because no one likes to be nickel-and-dimed where comparable alternatives exist. And in situations where carmakers charge extra for Google and/or Apple integration, their heavy-handed approach to steer people towards their own platform will evoke additional consumer ire.
I've long thought that the whole 'emotional support animal' term is not ideal: after all, aren't any non-working dogs emotional support animals? I think something like 'service animal' is more appropriate.

> Ultimately, I hope the Department of Transportation creates a fairly strict uniform rule for all airlines.

Why not let the individual airlines decide? Pet owners can choose to fly Pet Airways, and everyone else can choose not to. It's not immediately obvious that this is a case where there must be a uniform rule (although it would be tricky if one had to switch carriers mid-trip).

> It’s true that some people honestly believe they have an emotional condition that an animal solves. But they are often confusing their preferences with actual medical needs.

That, I think, is a quote which aptly describes much of 21st-century American society: a failure to recognise the difference between preference & reality.
This probably spiked the VIX
The fear index went up like crazy
One very specific. I create a logging module on Haskell. There I put some high order functions like this:

module Log where

-- | Runs the code inside a catch, logs any exception
exceptions :: IO a -> IO a

-- | Logs every code execution
access :: IO a -> IO a

-- And so on, for several different kinds of logging

Then on the main code I do:

import qualified Log as Log

main = do
-- Lots of stuff
Log.errors . Log.access $ readSomeData
Log.errors $ whateverThatCanFail
Log.access $ shoudlntFailButICareAboutRunning

On C# each use of those logging functions will be more verbose than copying the entire function body in place. And almost as brittle.
Keeping the footer at the bottom with CSS Flexbox
It seems more like a combination of self-hypnosis and reaching out for reassurance. It's like sitting at a bar at a racetrack and muttering to yourself loudly about how much you put on a particular horse. If a stranger down the bar replies, and says that they put even more on the same horse, it's like a hug.

Pumping-and-dumping is more an public intimation of secret information, not the technical numerology of proclaimed support levels.
Another way of thinking about it is: on average, stock value over the long term (20+ years) is very likely to be in range of, say, 5%/year, plus or minus (actual number is not that important for our purpose here), after adjusting for inflation. If stocks have been on a recent runup, gaining, say, 50% or 100% over a period of a few years, then they are very likely to grow more slowly than average (i.e., revert to the mean) over the coming years. If you buy during period of inflated prices you will realize a lower than average return if you're holding over the long term.

Robert Shiller (Yale finance professor, of Case/Shiller housing index) likes to make the following analogy. Predicting the stock market is basically the opposite of predicting weather. With weather our short-term predictions can be fairly accurate, but our long term predictions are very poor. With the stock market it's the reverse, short-term predictions are worthless, but long term predictions are generally fairly accurate.
That whitelist is very likely an API endpoint or otherwise locked down, which will help them log every single url requested by your browser for "debugging purposes". Rather similar to how smartscreen works on windows
Perhaps there is a reason why they offer a mouse with the same design language?
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Stock market is way overvalued. Prepare for a crash.
I'd be inclined to give more weight to your argument, but you've conveniently left off the part where Apple has used debt to buy back shares primarily because so much of their cash horde is held overseas due to the US's wonderfully archaic tax code...which has just been overhauled. I fully expect 2019 to see Apple re-repatriating large sums in order to pay down that debt.
anyone watching daily technicals would have seen the RSI and MACD dropping last week, this should not be a surprise to anyone but noobs
I can't remember the last airport I was at where there was an actual door you had to open. Although that is probably more for convenience w/bags than cleanliness.
That's ok, Ethereum is down to half of what it was a little over a week ago, Monero is also down to less than half of it's high price in the last month, etc. When Bitcoin has large swings up or down it tends to drag the whole crypto ecosystem with it.
> Despite the passage of time, is it any easier today for a small startup or individual developer to make a living from their open source product?

You answer your own question:

> Thousands of developers make money building products or services for clients or customers using open source software.

That is the model that has grown massively. There are many more companies these days with acceptable open source contribution policies and who will pay their employees for time spent contributing to open source when that time provides the company with good value.

> But what if the developer simply wants to charge a business for using their open source product?

That's harder. But does it matter?
The YouTube CEO claims that the CS graduation rate for women in the US is around 40%.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOp8ewzJDc

So a hiring rate of 40% would indicate a level playing field in hiring. 33/40 is around 82%. The doubling down policies of "The (metaphoric) beatings will continue until equality is achieved," would seem to be misplaced at the workplace level. If there is systemic bias, it would seem to exist at the educational level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIRvtA2JIIA
Didn't you argue that CF should exercise control over content when the Daily Stormer account was terminated?

My comment you replied to is still sitting at -4 :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15032696
> How could store clerks correct or even understand their mistakes just by seeing a frowny push?

Because they are humans? Doesn't everybody learn from their mistakes? Some are worse at it than others, sure, but that's what upper layer of data analysis is for...
That’s my experience. Every time I go through Chinese immigration/customs they have these rating smiley buttons but even when my service has been slower than normal I never press the frown button because the person is right there in from of my face watching me. Too awkward.
> The narrative—and it is dead wrong—repeated relentlessly and tirelessly by many in the media and amplified by some analysts that Amazon is the runaway winner in the cloud is baseless, sloppy and terribly misleading

I honestly would have guessed Amazon was leading.
> Buyers of Alfa Romeo’s base Giulia model who want Sirius XM satellite radio must take the navigation system, too — at a cost of $1,900.

I wanted Bluetooth A2DP so I had to buy the navigation system and Sirus XM radio package, neither of which are features I want in my car. In fact I would probably pay money to have them removed.

> Even with their limitations, in-dash systems have some advantages. They’re convenient and uncluttered. There’s no need to find a way to suspend a smartphone and its dangling charge cable in the middle of the instrument panel. They use a vehicle’s built-in controls, and there’s no danger of running out of power.

I wouldn't say my car's layout is convenient at all. If anything it's poorly thought out and requires me to take my eyes off the road to use. Instead of dials that are easy to grope for volume and fan speed, I have 4 identical buttons with no tactile distinguishing characteristics. The 10 buttons around the navigation screen are identical and of the 10, I will only ever use 3 of them.

I would actually pay extra for a car that omitted the nav/stereo system bullshit in favor of a bluetooth endpoint that could pair with more than 3 devices and a place to plug my phone in to charge.
The only thing that matters is if mining brings in more money than it costs to operate.

Sunken costs (buildings, hardware) are just that - sunken. Just like the shale oil industry where people were predicting that drilling would stop after ROI became negative, but that didn't happen, it's still better to lose 60% than to lose 80% of your investment.
Heh, i knew i should have left the laser part out.

Anyways, would be interesting to see this way of doing 3d printing find its way to the hobbyist market at some point.
It's pretty easy to attack him on policy–see the story at the top of this thread. But no one cares, America is at the mall.
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Have been using azure for last couple of years and am pretty impressed with the uptime as well the ease of use. The only drawback is that I never got to use aws and am one of the few developers who have no idea of aws and the stack
Reading comprehension goes down as political divisiveness goes up.

Can't count the number of times I have seen people willingly (hopefully) misinterpret something in order to create drama.

That and "always assume negative intent" fallacy makes for an impossible task for anyone talking about certain subjects.

Bonus round, add "always defer to identity."
Ōmoto
That does not work with Docker in Docker Builds with the copy from pattern. (Especially not when running on sbt...)
Antiviral doesn't claim anything one way or the other about an attempt to influence Trump; just the election.
I'll accept your criticism, except for:

> > assuming people assign BTC value then BTC will not reach zero value

Please explain to me what's wrong with this. If there's still at least two people who value BTC enough to pay to own it, how can it reach zero value?
Good overview. Thanks!
RocksDB 5.10.2
Ask HN: I added a pic to my Reddit account, YouTube has it now
Anyone working for Google care to explain?
People upset with CloudFlare are not asking CloudFlare to set up policy instead.

They are saying CloudFlare should behave like a common carrier and NOT have any policy to begin with.

But Cloudflare already lost that privilege. And now the Common Carrier Chickens are coming home to roost.
Aren't miners mainly using hydro power right now?
hahahhahhahahhahahhah RIP humans
Writing a video player with Java Swing
So long as they are able, so long as it's profitable, people speculating in cryptocurrency will encourage yet more bubbles.
Berkshire has more than 100 subsidaries and a massive stock portfolio. I understand it fairly well, and it doesn't have any significant risks, other than Buffett dying. And if the price tanks when he dies, I'll use that as an opportunity to buy more.

Because I have a good grasp of what it's actual intrinsic value is, I can wait to buy more until it's cheap which increases my long term returns. That's much harder to do with an index fund, indexes don't get as cheap as BRK gets, and tend to remain overpriced. For example, 15 PE used to be considered a fairly priced stock market, but for the last 20 years or so the market has mostly been much higher than that.
someone responded to my post that "at least there's still Reddit" now there is NOTHING

http://www.noemi.ro/kids-are-going-to-extreme-lengths-to-rec...
> Far too many Americans delude themselves to think that their dog is well-behaved in public when their dog is really a nuisance.

I've been chased more times than I care to remember while I'm out on runs by animals who are loose from their yards or just off leash in areas with leash laws. I've actually been bitten, both times on my lower right leg. I have two dogs of my own, and I like to think that I have a basic understanding and respect for the high-stress situation that this scenario can cause. I never let them off leash outside of the dog park or high-fence back yards, like our own. It's just too risky for everyone, including and perhaps most importantly for the animal(s). Couple this with the bad experiences and I have basically zero patience left for this situation.

My experience with others has been a damned if you do, damned if you don't sort of situation. If you confront these people for their bad behavior you will inevitably be made to feel like you're the asshole, even for things as seemingly innocuous as "Hey, how are you doing? You know that animals are supposed to be on leashes here by law, right?" I actually carry a small clip-on video camera with me now, that I bought after one particularly nasty encounter last summer.
Makes sense for "somewhat happy" ratings, but I imagine that if you found the bathroom disgusting, you would still find some way to press that button.
Is CRDT a good way to add sync for a classic invoice app (that need to track multi-tables changes? like invoice header, items, payments, shipments?)
There is one of these in the grocery store near my house. The store has very long lines between 5 & 6 P and I noticed that the terminal conveniently disappears during that time. It's always there on the weekends though.
A 3D printed chain link that can lift a car. That's a pretty strong 3D part...
Still working in Java on Android. Have a feeling that I will be left behind soon.
I think the article is potentially misleading. Just because a large number of traditional enterprise customers switched their on-prem exchange/office licenses for cloud licenses, doesn't mean that MS is leading the way. Cannibalising your own market is meaningless.
Actually, as has been revealed, Margaret Thatcher was forcibly against east Germany reuniting with west Germany at a time when the Russians wanted it

At that point in history Gorbachev was in a precarious position and Thatcher worried that giving up East Germany might see him forced from office and hardliners taking over. Mitterand also opposed reunification for much the same reason.
By way of explanation - I came across this page because I was researching Eye Yamatsuka, the founder of the Japanese art-rock group Boredoms, of "Bulldozer Incident" fame. [1]

Turns out his music is apparently influenced by the Shinto-based religion described here. I mainly found it interesting because of this bit:

"The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, is revered as a god. However, all of these kami are believed to be aspects of a single God concept.

The Oomoto affirmation of Zamenhof's godhood is stated, in Esperanto, as follows:

…[L]a spirito de Zamenhof eĉ nun daŭre agadas kiel misiisto de la anĝela regno; do, lia spirito estis apoteozita en la kapeleto Senrej-ŝa.

Translated into English, the foregoing reads:

…[T]he spirit of Zamenhof even now continues to act as a missionary of the angelic kingdom; therefore, his spirit was deified in the Senrei-sha shrine."

Such a good example of why I find history (and Wikipedia) so endlessly fascinating - you start out looking into a Japanese noise musician and end up with a religion that worships the creator of Esperanto as a God!

[1] http://www.johnaulich.co.uk/japanesenoise/?tag=bulldozer-inc...
SPED – A text-based non-destructive sound file editor (2007) [pdf]
I'd be interested to see the value of the stock market compared to interest rates. My bet is the market is only a little bit high if you account for how low interest rates have been for the past ~10 years.
Ask HN: Why is microtransactions not a solved problem already?
Why is microtransactions not a solved problem already? Im not talking about crypto specifically, just in general; what stopped anyone from creating a payment solution that didn't charge tons of money for each transaction? Whats so hard about microtransactions?
$500k for a one way ticket to Mars?