skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act is very interesting from a legal standpoint. Regulating wild birds is not one of the enumerated powers of Congress, but the federal government entered a treaty with Canada to protect migratory birds and successfully argued in the Supreme Court that it could enter such a treaty despite not having the power to enforce it, and that by entering the treaty it gained the power to enforce it. This is vaguely reminiscent of the Five Eyes reciprocal spying arrangement.

During the 1930s there were some other interesting attempts at regulating things through complicated "taxation" systems, including marijuana and machine-guns (only the latter law survives today).

Creative legislative techniques like this don't seem to occur as often now that Congress has settled on just declaring everything to be "interstate commerce" (which is how the modern drug laws work, and if a migratory bird law were passed today I'm sure they would consider birds that cross state lines to be involved in interstate commerce).
Yeah that was the exact moment when I lost it, though I was sober.
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I've noticed a similar thing. I always assumed it was negligence, not malice.
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The problem is that using Bitcoin doesn't change the government's control over your transactions: you're just spending a lot of effort elaborately dancing around the issue. This shows up in both examples you cited: if the Venezuelan government wants to enforce capital controls, the people who used Bitcoin are going to wish they'd smuggled suitcases of cash out of the country instead because they've left a durable paper-trail of their transactions behind.

Some other cryptocurrencies try to deliver anonymity but even if the technology eventually delivers they'll have the same problem that almost everyone needs to get real money out of the system and that's where the normal banking laws kick in. Outside of a few cases where someone can do entirely unregulated remote work most people are going to need to convert to or from local currency to pay their bills or receive income.
I have not heard that either. According to 23andMe, I'm in the 99th percentile for Neanderthal DNA variants and my ancestry report claims I'm a disappointingly un-diverse 99.9% European.
About real new sounds: I got the feeling all sounds are already generated. This AI might generate variations of sound we already know, but could there be any new sounds we never heard before?

I got the feeling that since like 1920 until now all sounds are generated and we don't experience any 'new' sounds anymore.

Maybe AI could be used to explore sounds we really never heard.
Nice work. Can you add a favicon so that I can use it on the bookmark toolbar without text? Maybe just borrow the SciHub icon?
Heres a list of hashgraph based Projects/Start-ups
Doug Schmidt's C++ Reactor and Sam Rushings Python Medusa did async networking 20 years ago. But in the late 90s and early 2000s a lot of J2EE based server code was built in Java that used one blocking thread per client; that was a major wrong turn in mainstream SW design that took a long time to correct, IMHO.
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I had a successful front page post last week where I posted a link someone else had posted in a thread the day before. I see it perhaps handful of times per year, but I'm not really looking for them.. so it's worth trying IMHO.
Worth noting here: TRU was paying about that much (~$400MM/yr on $5B) on its debt as well.
Similar to what Cal Fussman says, "the good shit sticks."

To me, reading is more about developing an internal vocabulary that makes it easy to bridge two ideas together—ultimately enabling you to create ideas of your own. With more ideas to pull from, you can ask yourself better questions.

Here's an interesting perspective on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2P5vW-nVc
I'm not quite getting how can you put talent vs luck, when talent is based on luck you got from your genes, parents, environment etc.

I see it as the same thing.
Except that the real power is with the Commission, not the MEPs. It's the opposite of the UK parliamentary system, where the (elected) House of Commons initiates legislation and the (unelected) House of Lords occasionally returns it with small suggestions for change. Here, the MEPs effectively rubber stamp the legislation initiated by the Commission (who knows, they may even make it to the Commission one day if they behave).

It's all very well trotting out the line that "they can can shortcut Parliaments and pass the sort of laws that any right-thinking person should support, or the proles on the street might not understand", but that's the crux of my objection. The democratic rights of the populace were never yours or theirs to subvert or give away.

As Tony Benn wisely said, "I'd rather have a bad Parliament than a good King".
A vastly simplified DOM if anything. I imagine each language will use native objects, like how .NET did it for a while.

But I don't think languages will interact with the DOM extensively once it has been properly abstracted.

One major difficulty would be to have it available quickly so a page refresh doesn't take until the WASM binary has sorted out it's internal state.
But you know... you don't bring your computer to drink with friends. ;-)

BBC app is awesome it could be way more awesome when using a smart glasses but we don't have them yet. I'm waiting for that day... :)
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The original model was so abstracted that it was absurd.

There is no such thing as “luck”, it is only a name for what we call the intersection of preparation and opportunity. Both can be controlled. People tend to think opportunities are random and based on chance – they aren’t. They are the result of smaller intersections of preparations and opportunities that happened previously.
Yeah. I suck at arithmetic. For the soda example, I just round down to 3 and say: "about $1". Much faster than worrying about 5 cents.

But I also know how to solve for discount percentages, where most people would not, the article states.
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'Series 0' isn't an official term that's ever been used by Apple, it's just become common language when referring to the original 'Apple Watch' since the follow-ups were called Series 1 and Series 2.

Series 1 was the orignal Apple Watch with a better processor and a price cut. Series 2 debuted a the same time and added more features like water resistance and a brighter screen.
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This is capitalism working. Not from the viewpoint of the academic justifiers of capitalism, but the from the viewpoint of people that have an actual vested interest in capitalism (aka the ones whose opinion actually matters and the ones who are the reason why we have this system in the first place).
How is Common Lisp for SPA development? I tried to look for anything on either Racket or CL side and pretty much a dead wasteland on that front.

I've used re-frame ClojureScript for a few years now but would like to dip my toes in CL, just can't seem to get a head start. Maybe trying CL on the backend first, but even there Clojure dominates..
>See, that’s just completely unbelievable.

I was referring to this http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/i-didn-t-think-ttip-coul... article, which I had remembered incorrectly but the money quote is I do not take my mandate from the European people by Malmström.

Good one for the roaming I totally misunderstood that. I admit this is beneficial for citizens and against interests of Telcos. However many companies (especially big ones) operate throughout EU and have frequent travels from their employees so there may have been a bit of lobbyism at play here as well. But I concede that it is a rather weak argument.
This certainly seems like a legislative overreach and worth watching if it progresses. But not really clear to me why code should be a specific exception?

I’m a little disappointed in Github for trying to carve out a specific exemption just for their area of business rather than fighting the proposal as a whole.
The limits in the 2.4 GHz range are 1 W maximum emitted power, amplified via directed antenna up to 4 W maximum. (5 GHz has more complex rules, but is generally more restrictive of emitted power and less restrictive of directed amplification.) Not sure what these dongles are so I can't comment on them specifically.
> I'd wager something like Pebble (baring hardware failure) would still work in 10 years since the only dependency that has is bluetooth.

I doubt it. The watch will still work, but the app needed to sync to the watch won’t.

I’ve been really frustrated with old “utility” apps not working anymore on iOS (due to not being updated to 64bit). I’m all for upgrades and new stuff, but it sucks when a simple app that did exactly what you needed is no longer able to run.
I wrote this a few years ago:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=234

If Steve Jobs still ran Apple
A lot of features were so far ahead it was astounding.

Many applications were scriptable with AREXX (the Amiga Rexx language implementation), and we could process data in one app, send it to another, process it again, save it, etc. Unix philosophy made available for any gui app. I remember the awesomeness of adding arexx support to my program and being able to script it.

I learned basic, 68k asm, C as a teenager thanks to the Amiga, I also had Latex and a printer for high school and college papers. Then added a modem and had access to the fidonet network.

Also, remember the Fred Fish's disks ? I still call my debug functions "dbug" everywhere I can as a tribute to his work (he also was the author of the C dbug library).

I can't emphasize enough how this computer and its great hackers community changed me.
It seems to me that the dangers of direct democracy have been exaggerated (and maybe the dangers of the representative democracy downplayed).

I don't see how, at the end of the day, representative democracy save us of the dangers of direct democracy.

The people in power always will be worried about what the dirty masses would do.
The EU wants a lot of things... At some point, they are going to make the cost of doing business there too high for it to be worthwhile.
For the purpose of this discussion, the precise definition of luck doesn't matter, and can be taken to be anything that isn't talent.
Your Plex system is a home server, which have always typically been lower powered desktops even 10 year ago

The Plex Server has to transcode all types of formats to H.264 in real time. My old 2006 Core Duo 1.66Ghz Mac couldn't handle it. It is still being used by my parents running Windows 7. I also tried using a 2Ghz Pentium Dual Core.

* (I know because I was building home servers back then. In fact 10 years ago I was running ZFS off an old desktop PC with some really budget consumer RAID controllers)*

They weren't transcoding 1080 video to H.264 real time in 2008.

o and you're comparing that to a gaming machine which are systems which are typically at the higher end of spectrum). To put things into perspective, in 1999 I most certainly did not have a 3D accelerator. Yet I was still using my computer for software development and web development (including, by the way, 3D markup via VRML). In fact I don't think I even had a P2 considering my upgrade a few years later was to Celeron. I have a feeling my '98 PC was a Cyrix.

Would you still be using that computer in 2008? Could it run the latest version of Windows? Could it take advantage of the fastest speed internet that was available to home users in 2008?

o It was really common even in the 90s to run old PCs. Even in 1995 I was still seeing 386s and even the occasional 286 in use running Windows 3.x.

My 2008 Core 2 Duo can run the latest software and the latest version of Windows well. Could those 10 year old computers run Windows 98 in 1998?

Lastly you cannot really compare a watch to a PC. Sure, smart watches are basically just computers these days; but the point the OP was making was peoples expectations are different for watches.

How is a watch that runs a phone OS that makes phone calls not considered more of a phone than a watch?

I mean we have digital watches from the 80s that still work as well today as they ever have done,

The difference is that my 10 year old computer can do the same thing as a modern computer - run the latest OS and software, has just as much memory and storage (HDD vs SsD) and has a slightly better display (1920x1200 vs 1930x1080). Can that 10 year old digital watch do the same as a modern smart watch?

If there's anything we have learned in the last 20 years it's how to futureproof our products.

The only reason that my old Core 2 Duo is "future proofed" is because useful improvements have slowed down dramatically in the last 10 years. In 1998 the typical computer was coming with 32-64Gb of RAM and couldn't be upgraded to 4GB. My computer from 2008 came with 4GB RAM, the same amount as some low end computers today and can be upgraded to 8GB.

My 2008 computer has gigabit Ethernet. Which is still the fastest consumer internet connection.
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The original article is written by a software developer and for me the topmost comment used the term developer meaning 'software developer'. Maybe a problem of language, but I have never seen the word developer used to describe a hardware manufacturer.

From the standpoint of hardware I definitely agree that it should not be made with a 2-3 year lifespan in mind, especially because of the toll it takes on the environment.

> This is why developers use advertising, in-app purchases and subscriptions, or releasing major versions as new apps.

None of these are a good replacement because they do not solve the problem. If you wish to have an old version of the app available for users which did not update the only option is releasing a new app but then you can not give a discount to old clients. In app purchases and subscriptions pull everybody into the release cycle.

The current status quo is not good but from the software perspective I do not know how it could change. The prices were pulled down so far that supporting old platforms is not sustainable, unless you are one of those companies which get their money somewhere else.
The fact that they posted this drivel to HN also demonstrates that they do not know their audience.
Well, suggesting that Rust inherently has this problem is mis-representing the situation. And while it's true that lots of people use std, many people also don't, and especially the people that care most about this aspect of Rust.

> You should know harsh OOM handling is a problem for Rust users

A small number of people have this issue. It barely even applies on entire operating systems, for example.

That said, custom allocators will be nice.
There is no such thing as talent either.

No one is born with a natural skill to do something unnatural. Genetic traits are not talents, they are traits. To be born with a talent would be to be able to do whatever it is you do from the moment you are born, if you had the physical capacity for it. Otherwise, any “talent” you display later is really just the result of effective learning and practice, but that is just what you would call a skill, there is no need to build it up with all the mythology of “talent”. Just another form of ladder kicking to discourage others from thinking they could achieve that same level of skill.

So if neither definition matters, then in essence this discussion is about nothing.
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Ask HN: Where to move in the U.S. as a remote worker?
I've accepted an offer with a company that is 100% remote. I have held previous software engineering roles in big cities such as SF. I will be attempting to move to a 2nd or 3rd tier city where long term housing is affordable; ideally below the $500k range for a quality single family home.

Other important factors that I care about are things like availability of commercial amenities (coffee shops, coworking spaces, entertainment) and tax costs - states without income taxes are very favorable for remote workers. Places with a strong sense of community would be nice too.

Are there any US cities that other remote devs have moved to that could be recommended? Any up and commers for 2018?
Nice. Is there something similar for python?
This seems like an entirely hypothetical flaw in direct democracy whereas you only have to glance at the news to see that it's very non-hypothetical for our current system of representative democracy.

I suspect the magnitude of the "tyranny of the majority effect" in a directly democratic system would be determined by the structure of the system and any checks and balances that were put in place. You could configure it correctly or you could configure it badly.

It's not exactly like representative democracy came about because reasonable people got together and agreed collectively that it was the best system for all.

It evolved as a result of elites who used to rule non-democratically giving a series of small concessions over a period of centuries, often after a lot of blood has been spilled or a mass protest movement starts to grow to revolution-y size ("ok, some of you can kick us out of office but this time it's only the ones with penises who own land").
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Yes, you are, because you seem to put everything under the common label of "staring at screens" :).

You look around the bar, and see lots of people staring at screens. Were you to look closer, peek over everyone's shoulder, you'd see that the group over that table is skimming the project document they met to talk about. That couple over there just took out their phones to skim the news, the first moment they had during the day for that. That girl next to the entrance is ordering a taxi. That awkward-looking guy fiddling with his phone just got an important message from his SO, and as untactful as it may be between friends, he doesn't feel comfortable not replying immediately. Etc.

The range of activities we do over phones is so big, that you can't just bundle it together. Many of those activities become social objects themselves, i.e. something we start talking about or doing together.
It's difficult to give any advise without knowing more about your background. Finding job can be uphill task due to many things -

1. Age factor (above 40 might have some challenge finding new job)

2. One and only one skill in quiver and if that's antiquated, even more challenging to get job.

3. Resume doesn't match experience. E.g. in industry for 7 years and have nothing significant to put on resume. You wont get contacted at all, probably.

4. Interviewing for position/group/company which do not align with your skill sets or experience.

5. Lack of interviewing skill.

6. Lack of depth in domain of interview.

7. Some personality trait which is becoming hindrance.

I think all of above can be tackled in some way, one just needs to identify the problem. My advise for interviews in general is -

a. Pick one generic domain and try to learn a lot in that domain instead of glossing through tonnes of terms.

b. Pick one language and stick to it for practicing interviews, you can always learn new language on job once hired.

c. Pick companies to apply for carefully. See if their product or requisition matches with some of your skill set. If they invited you for interview, focus on those match and try to project them. Even if you dont do well on certain things, your grasp on some other area might sway the interview.

d. Be enthusiastic, even if you are tanking the interview. It's not end of road.

e. Treat each interview as preparation for next one, instead of do-or-die situation. Be mindful of your shortcomings and mistakes and then practice on correcting them before next interview.

f. Apply to companies where you know someone. See if they can help get some feedback for you.

As others said, interviews are not valid measure of skill. There is no way interviews can find if a person is in wrong business, so spend some time on job before coming to that conclusion.

* edited for formatting.
Incorrect - not all licenses are legally valid or enforcible.
>>> Within minutes of the attack at Tasnee, the hard drives inside the company’s computers were destroyed and their data wiped clean, replaced with an image of Alan Kurdi, the small Syrian child who drowned off the coast of Turkey during his family’s attempt to flee that country’s civil war.

Attacks meant to do physical harm or shutdown systems do not resort to 1990s trickery like copying an image billions of times. This is industrial vandalism and, even if a danger exists, should not be described as an attempt to murder people. Such damage, such unwanted activity within an information system, can happen without any ill intent by anyone. Therefore those designing large systems need to incorporate such failures into their plans. The failure of multiple drives due to some runaway process should never be capable of causing an explosion.
the game is here [0] but a friendly warning, the link may not play with javascript disabled and it may immediately hijack your noise.

ignoring those two annoyances, it is quite interesting, I was drawn here after watching Sebastian Seung speak [1] which I found in the rabbit hole of reading about the new 100% fatal startup...

[0] https://eyewire.org/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6nTA3DUuY
I wish they did the opposite, a NN software to make melodies. Every one I've tried kinda sucked. There are some decent examples on Youtube, but they don't say exactly how it was generated.
Well John Carmack was is very pleased with the 3D render results of OTOY: https://home.otoy.com/render/light-fields/

Edit: the OTOY capture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJUg-ja0cg
The Pebble community have created their own services to combat that (though I've not tried it yet myself as the regular Pebble app still works fine on my phone)
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This is a fair point. However, it is still a (bad) proposal and while it is possible to hope that policy makers will make the right decision on their own, some public pressure does not hurt.

This may be unlikely to pass as is, but the trend of stifling new software and algorithm development in the name of copyright (or security) is pretty strong. IMO it is worthwhile to push back using chance we have.
I meant socially those in the stem professions are looked down on.
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> the author should really find an easier url

It's now also available at https://whereisscihub.now.sh/!
Luck is anything the individual cannot control. You don't get to choose your parents, for example. I don't see what your point is.
Yes! I have watched this over and over again and marveled at how effective these corporate raiders are. There are some unbelievably greedy people out there.
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I want to use markdown for our technical documents. But MS Word really has some features that are missing that would be needed for a markdown editor to make a dent in what we need.

1. auto-generating table of contents

2. easy table creation/manipulation

3. header/footer and page numbering

4. comments/edits (maybe integrated with git?)

It's unrealistic to expect non-technical people to learn LaTeX, so we're stuck with MS Word until someone makes an amazing Markdown editor that can handle these things.
It seems as though this is only for creating ads.
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