skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most recently, the Trump administration’s flat refusal to implement the Russian sanctions

And not that long ago he put more sanctions on them than was requested by Obama. So you can not read anything into that.

I skimmed your timeline. It's pretty much junk. You can make a timeline like for basically anyone. If you have enough public activity some of it is going to line up.

> All of that investigation is currently secret however.

That's not an excuse for you to declare case over. So far every time people claim to have some evidence or other, it's all been nothing.

Trump says a lot of stupid things, but I've never found anything that makes him beholden to the Russians. And in fact, even if they did help him, Trump, of all people, would feel perfectly free to completely not care.

He's already well known for ignoring political norms. Ignoring the norm of helping people who help you would be completely typical for him.
Artist reimagining the UK’s national parks in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s maps
They did not have much choice, it was either ally with the germans and receive aid, or get taken over by the USSR.
To the people upset with CloudFlare: please explain why it is better for random startups and multinational corporations to set and enforce policy, than for elected officials and governments and courts. Because that’s basically what you’re saying...
Writing eBPF tracing tools in Rust
One of the required components to keep a bubble market moving higher, is the lack of wide-spread loss trauma by investors. This is the first time there has been mass-market trauma, where millions of people will have taken a bad hit. That trauma will prevent Bitcoin from bouncing back quickly as it has in the past. Coming out of this, Bitcoin will have a reputation that it's a very unsafe investment and that will stick to it for a long time.
> a society governed by the rule of law

* stifled laugh *

our actions are governed by the reality of enforcement. our planning is governed by the expectation of enforcement of the rule of law.

this should be apparent by now.
> It's a big part of why I take the time to maintain the bookmark database I've got: I don't trust that I'll be able to find articles like this one in the future.

I go further than that - and I assume many do: For stuff I think I'll want to reference in the future, that I find important - I'll take a copy of it; ctrl+s or ctrl+p for basic stuff, other things I'll take the time and space to mirror (using wget or something similar).

Given that we've seen major portions of the internet literally shut down or "destroyed" over the decades, this isn't something one should find odd or overkill.

I too keep a huge bookmark stack, but sometimes I don't properly sort things, and just put them in a "general" location. Recently I started going back thru these bookmarks, just to organize some of them - and many of them were no longer valid; 404s were the norm. That said, in many cases having the bookmark name or description (and even the old URL) was useful to find a copy of the information, where it moved (if it did) or maybe somebody archived it. But in some cases, it simply vanished.

I do agree with your assessment, though - Google and the internet has this "short term memory" problem; a big part of that is the (now) dynamic nature of websites, which doesn't allow for easy crawling by some systems (like the wayback machine), as well as allowing the data to move or vanish at a whim.
Please just use EDN: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Most of the content on HN appears to be about business, rather than about programming itself, or focuses on lucrative but technically-uninteresting corners of programming (like web design). This business focus makes sense, since HN is run by a VC firm and a lot of non-technical users who would like to run tech companies hang out here.

There's a related category: technically-uninteresting posts about technically-uninteresting projects that are essentially advertising for some small business. This is probably, again, related to HN being run by a VC firm.

(For context: I browse HN daily, but I never use the front page -- the values of the average HN user are far away from mine, so sorting by newest produces more interesting content. If you find the HN frontpage devoid of posts about programming, try sorting by newness rather than popularity, since technically-interesting stuff gets fewer upvotes here than wide-audience stuff about cryptocurrency or large corporations.)
A radical idea to improve family life in America: babysit your neighbor’s kids
The iPod was a catch-up product in a crowded music player market. The iPhone was a phone in a world of massive, dominating phone makers. Heck, the Apple II was a computer in an IBM-dominated world.

Apple is not “first” that often so who cares if they didn’t make an Alexa before anyone else?

Instead, Apple tries to get it “right” (and sometimes they still don’t but that is their strategy nonetheless).

Alexa has plenty of flaws. It is functional but not intelligent.
$20m when? Since the value changes significantly each day.
But ... what is the value of 1 BTC? If it's not reasonably stable, then what is being stored?
I highly doubt that "political activism" will appear anywhere on Spotify's IPO application.
Two sides of the same socialist coin.
First Show Preparedness Guide – The Blogging Musician
Ziploc bags work for used liquid fats (after they've cooled sufficiently)
Now I understand why it's so slow.
Yes, and my point is they owe that to themselves. Exercise control over content once and you lose any kind of common carrier argument that you might want to make in the future.
To keep this in perspective bitcoin was under $1000 at the start of 2017. It is still a 700% increase since just that recent time.
Note to contract author: you're not using SafeMath if you just include the library at the top of your code. You have to replace all the +, -, * and / operators with the equivalent functions .add(), .sub() etc.

Also, contract appears to be throwing exceptions when trying to sell coins. This might be because it's failing one of the 'require' statements imposed in the contract code, but there's no way to tell from the UI that it's not just broken.

Really, there's no reason why this 'experiment' needs to be on the main (real currency) blockchain. If you honestly don't want people to gamble real money on this, you should have deployed it to the testnet, which anyone smart enough to install metamask would be able to figure out how to switch to just to play along.
Under the Hood of the JVM – Cliff Click's Blog
This is pretty interesting. I've seen similar problems at various places I've worked, and having a library that uses a CRDT to solve it is a winning proposition.
It seems like it would lose a lot of its effectiveness if the people at the store can see what you rate them.
It there a secret sauce or barrier to entry here? This seems like an a weekend project to replicate...
This will be the most useful for high school kids cheating at tests :D
> John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
Besides technical challenges I'm not privy to, there's this quote which might help understand why it took so long:

"Actually, this was a request for this one early on in the CSS1 days as well. Me and my aesthetic thinking, I'm not a designer. You have to know that. But to me those rounded things; they look like something from the 1970s. I said, 'Nobody is ever going to need rounded borders on something.'"

https://fronteers.nl/congres/2010/sessions/css3-hakon-wium-l...
I understand what they are saying, but that was always true.
Not an option unless he ends up in prison, in which case I guess he maybe could get to finish his sentence in the UK if he is very lucky.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
For entire classes of online crime, from a purely data perspective I wonder if providing a way to anonymously report a crime would help? Things like extortion, cheating spouses, lewd photos, revenge porn tend to be quite embarrassing, and perhaps pursuing justice isn't worth getting exposed. But knowing names, emails, patterns, and other details might help at least paint a better picture of the true nature of online crime.
Normalizing man page section numbers in Solaris 11.4
I'm torn over these mini dsls that creep into code like printf and regex formatting strings. They are so useful, but so often a cause of bugs.

Any solution to then I've seen like doing them entirely in code (c++ io streams or many of the various regex builders) seen to overshoot too far in the safety direction and destroy their quickness and usability.

There has to be a better way to print stuff out that is useable in languages like C and Java without blowing the budget on code length, object creation, etc.

I once once wrote a zero garbage logging library for high performance java code and i just defaulted to essentially copying into a buffer.
> Not that I can be bothered to look, but there's surely playlists against gun control (starring Ted Nugent) and the like?

Not official Spotify playlists accompanied by a statement on why the company is against gun control.

I had to read pop up about the company's stance on DACA just to browse new releases a few weeks ago. I have a feeling that folks on the left are less prone to noticing this, considering most of pop culture is inundated with left wing politics. It's easier to not notice when it's inline with your worldview.
That comparison makes no sense. I'm saying that if you lease a server and allow a third party to distribute data through it, you should be considered someone who partners with that person. Whether you store the content on your server or use your server as a pass-through layer shouldn't matter in this case.

I'm not saying the same thing about routers.

Cloudflare is not operating routers that make the internet work. They act in the interest of their clients, not the internet in general.
That honestly wouldn't surprise me either, I have very little trust for the exchanges.
Title should be "The Term 'Open Source' is 20" but no one would have clicked that link.
How to teach kids what real news is
PoC: compiling to eBPF from Rust
Lots of people pointing to fraud here, but I suspect the fact that high proportions of BTC are in the hands of early-adopting true believers (compared with other assets) has played a role in the lack of massive crashes
Pretty close. Around $13m right now at $7k/BTC.

Until 2020 this is the formula:

12.5 * 24 * 6 * price
Planets Discovered Outside Milky Way Galaxy for First Time
To those unclear, Cloudflare is terminating Sci-Hub due to court order, not their own censorship.
What needs to happen to the price of Bitcoin for GPUs to become available to gamers again?
centralized identity management system. Facebook seems to have filled that role.

They blatantly cannot do this unless they actually implement their real names policy. Which they won’t.
I think cyclists would need it more than runners, but cyclists are too small of a market to be worth the r&d cost. That's why current offerings are bad. Cyclist-oriented tech has to piggy back on more popular tech, the way bike lights got a LOT better very quickly after smart phones started pushing li-ion tech.
ETH is off almost 45% from its peak too. For a few days it was stable and it looked like the BTC drop was just a reshuffling within the crypto world, but it seems like that buffer has been blown through and we're in a full-on correction now.

Not the expected crash, though: it's been going steadily down, which surprises me. I've always though the lack of liquidity would produce a crash-to-zero when the bear market came. But there appear to be people buying BTC even now. ... Who?
George Soros: Remarks Delivered at the World Economic Forum
I'm not familiar with that movie, but how does Google Clips violate your privacy? As far as I understand, everything is local on the Clips device (including the AI). You can view pictures on your phone and choose the ones to save.

This is completely different from a device like Echo which sends your voice (and everything it hears in the background) to Amazon for processing.
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Actual paper published in the Astrophysical Journal - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa5fb/m...
> Bitcoin is a store of value. 1 BTC will always be worth 1 BTC.

You really want to look at a store of value in terms of other goods and services, not itself. (Major world currencies tend to be stable in value against common goods baskets in the short-term with slow inflation in the longer term, so comparing—especially over a short term—a more volatile store of value to a major currency can also;make sense.)
https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/miner-revenue-value

About $20m yesterday.

You have to subtract the transaction fees:

https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/transaction-fees-value

About $2m yesterday.
Several years ago I made jsonmerge, a Python library for merging standard JSON structures. The rules for resolving conflicts are encoded in a standard JSON schema document that is extended with some (non-standard) keywords.

https://github.com/avian2/jsonmerge

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/articles/talks/tomaz_solc...
Growing up I was interested in learning a language that was very different than my native English, and ended up settling on Korean for a number of reasons, but the simple alphabet and lack of tonality really helped.

Now I find myself wishing that I learned a tonal language, but it's much easier to say than to do.
You really think flag football can potentially become a major sport?
China Enlists Its ‘Great Firewall’ to Block Bitcoin Websites
Since this apparently isn't obvious to you, creditors have different interest rates and different loan terms for different risk pools. Your risk pool is determined, in part, by your history of borrowing and paying back money.

It isn't that lending doesn't exist without credit history, it's everyone gets the same shitty terms and shitty interest rate and banks are much more conservative in lending.
Right here. This is a much needed correction and one that any typical trading vehicle would experience with a run-up similar to BTC. Good times ahead.
"holographic grading" should really be "holographic grating".
The Bulletins are nice. I particularly enjoy the "recent acquisitions" Bulletins they put out to showcase the highlights of what they've added in the last couple years. Those cover objects from broad swaths of history, from antiquity right up to near-present day.

They say a bit about each object and usually include something about why it was an important item to add to their collection. Some nice perspectives in there.
As a sport, yes. We do the same with the 100m dash, and there is no-one anywhere who would employ humans based on the business utility of being to run 100 metres fast outside of entertainment. Pro chess is in the entertainment business; the strength of the players isn't really material to that.

You're confusing the economics of recreation and entertainment with the economics of efficiently making things. They both exist, but they're very different.
Pentagon Says Russia Is Building Nuclear Torpedo Described as “Doomsday” Weapon
Very sorry for the frustrating experience. Can you please let me know your support case number? Thank you for being a customer.

https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/176660...
The effects of 137 minimum wage hikes, in one chart
Who is to say there isn't wash trading going on and that their volumes are fake? Wash trading by insiders who don't pay fees.
Sometimes they don't ship the artwork, like tiles, but "just" the engine. Not that this lessens the achievement, it is still impressive.
There was a noticeable drop in quality on HN after we started allowing political content. I think it's brought in a new crowd of HN users. I remember how in 2006 to 2010 Reddit changed from a place mostly frequented by programmers to a place filled with memes, trolling, and politics.

Edit: I generally hate the "the past was better" type of attitudes but I think in the case of HN and Reddit one just needs to look at the quality of 6 years ago to today.
It's being 'walked' down. This is what happens when you've got low volume and institutions manipulating the price.
Maps of Modern Cities Drawn in the Style of J.R.R. Tolkien (2014)
A Safer Rails Console
Genetics Dominate Environmental Influences on Self-Control in Children
It's useful to discuss mental ill health on HN, but Hari isn't a good starting point for these discussions.

He's mostly wrong; he misrepresents the current thinking; he mangles the science; etc.

We spend so long correcting his mistakes that there's little room left for discussion.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/...
I am a native English speaker and at different times could get by (albeit with plenty of confusion on both sides) in korean and spanish. I thought the phonemes for spanish and korean were really quite similar, I even kept on mixing the two.
I imagine it will kick in when the truth comes out about Tether and USDT becomes worthless. Right now the evidence is overwhelming, but there's still no smoking gun. When Tether/Bitfinex declares bankruptcy, or the CEO is arrested at the airport trying to flee to Vanuatu with a suitcase full of cash; that'll be when the bloodbath starts.
He's saying

- Sci-Hub is doing good, but breaking the US law.

- The US law in this case is immoral, people don't like the law, and the law is bad for the country.

- The US government is unable notice that these laws are bad, and so will continue to doing bad things (like shutting down Sci-Hub).
In that situation, the only funds for those agencies would come from fines. We're not at that situation.

And I'm all in favor of the CFPB getting pretty heavy handed. I wanna see some Enron style prosecutions start.
It's not even taxes. If you get a dollar it means someone else borrowed it and they have to give it back at some point or a powerful entity with and army, police and legal system will go after their assets. Your dollar will always be valuable to someone with debt. BTC are just pretty tokens once the craze is over. There is no reason for anyone to give you anything for it.
Life on the wrong side of the wall was mostly boring, sometimes unfair, and, in some cases, certainly inhumane and traumatic. But the collective experience was probably far less of a burden than the balkans in the 90s, or Syria today.

The Second World War and the Holocaust had a much deeper effect on the German psyche, one that to this day defines its thinking and action. None of the other similarly-sized countries has embraced European unification with such insistence, or rejected nationalism and militarism to such a degree: The glorification of the military on display, for example, during yesterday's Super Bowl, would be unthinkable in Germany.

That mindset is summarised in sayings like "If it happened once, it can happen again", or "not guilt, but responsibility" (for today's generations.) It's probably the reason why Germany managed to take in 1.5 Million refugees with the hard-right not getting more than 15% in the next election, while around 15,000 refugees each were apparently enough (among other things) for xenophobia to triumph in US elections, and Brexit.
How to Make an Event App
> Anyone who works in an office complex does.

My office is full of cameras.

None of them are pointed at my workspace.

It's the difference between having the street full of cameras, and having them pointed at my living room window.
Ask HN: How does your company manage secrets like API keys?
Fellow HNers,

I'm collecting data on how companies of various sizes handle sharing and deploying secrets like API keys, database credentials, etc. in both production and development.

If you have a minute, I would love to get your answers to this anonymous, 4 question, multiple choice survey:

https://goo.gl/forms/Mx97T9HD3s91DFLv1

In a couple days, I'll aggregate and post the results along with some analysis and pretty graphs.

Full disclosure: I'm the founder of EnvKey[1], a secrets management service, which is why I'm especially interested in this topic.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
You can actually just place a random diffuser directly on a sensor -- this is work from some colleagues at UC Berkeley which I (surprisingly) didn't see mentioned in this article
https://www.medgadget.com/2018/01/diffusercam-lensless-3d-im...

DiffuserCam was previously discussed on HN but I couldn't find the link.
It's slow cause things are quite large there (just saw a 2 gig book). I'm using delays, don't worry - hence "in a few hours" <3 <3 <3
Ink? Relax, no ink! Just HP Proprietary Multi-Agents (source: HP video on youtube link below)
How many data points to drop to gain perspective?
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I could replicate this with a knockoff rpi and some arcade buttons in like a day.
My biggest problem with HN commenting is the rate limiting, if you get too many down votes other people can respond but you are barred from responding, any attempt get met with "you are posting to fast"

I honestly do not care about the down voting, I do care about being silenced... That is what is frustrating to not be able to respond to people. I understand the rationality behind the rate limiting but personally I find it to be an affront to free speech.

HN actively works against controversial conversations and promotes the echo chamber by the way the moderate and implement commenting.
Thank you for the links, these were just vague concepts to me before where I understood the intent, but I shall read up on the specifics now.

In planned events and traditional health care your argument makes sense.

I was specifically thinking about emergency care or other situations where communication isn't always possible or made in a timely manner.

If a someone comes into an ER and turns out needs say a stent put in, when do you get clear agreement? (caveat I am clearly not a medical professional and this might be a terrible example).

My assumption is largely the hospital does not wait to validate someone's credit to execute what would otherwise be something done for normal retail transactions of similar size.
Maybe because transactions are so slow it’s not possible to sell fast enough
> Have you seen Patreon?

Patreon, Bandcamp and Tunecore collectively pay out about $25 million per month [1]. That's minimum wage for 21 000 people, assuming each artist gets an equal share (which they obviously don't). This doesn't seem like a lot to me.

[1]: http://musically.com/2015/02/16/what-are-musicians-making-fr...
While I am sure the HP solution will run circles around this, in both quality and in price, but XYZ Printing has introduced a (low cost) inkjet+FDM 3D printer. Basically it prints a layer with the FDM printer, then prints a layer of color with the inkjet.

Now, it seems pretty hard to find any good reviews on Youtube about it. Obviously their marketing material shows it printing fabulous vibrant prints, but the "3D printing professor" did a review of it, and he ran into a whole slew of issues. This is his success video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFxKxdGvV0w

Interesting stuff, but looks to be at the infancy stage.
The King of Kong is a seriously flawed work:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1303

> Too bad it’s loaded with falsehoods. And by loaded, I mean packed, and by packed I mean like the last Japanese subway car before they have to shut down the line. I have seen both the screener and the final work of this film, and then I spent a lot of time listening to a lot of people, people who should know about the events portrayed in the flick.

[snip]

> What I’m saying here is that a good percentage of what makes the documentary “good” are made up conflicts, inaccurate reporting, smoothed-over narratives that are meant to make you root for one side or hate the other, when in fact reality doesn’t hold up to these allegations.

The post goes into detail on specific things the movie got entirely wrong.