skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea!

Some feedback though: I found the tagline "It's a pain to look up every band coming to your city. Now just follow your favorite venues and genres and get a weekly Spotify playlist of upcoming music." intuitive but the heading "Stop Typing Every Band in Town" didn't make sense to me.

I'd go with something more straightforward like the title used for this Hacker News post. I immediately understood what that meant.
This isn’t an argument to not lie, it’s an argument to know what you are lying about. I’ve seen plenty of people lie their way into great jobs.
This looks like a fun product! One thing though, I am not a huge fan of the long transitions when activating the colored cubes on the right. They take like five seconds to activate, and it makes the experience kind of frustrating and painful!
I think it's more that we think that they're not even bothering to test those things, because they're not thinking about it.
This announcement was made last November, I'm not quite sure why it's resurfacing now (though I welcome it!), but there's been a substantial amount of trade on the platform since it began.

I've been running the swag store and we've sold hundreds of tshirts, pins, stickers, etc. But I always get excited when a merchant reaches out and tells us about the sales they've gotten.

No question that it doesn't even have a small fraction of the users of major platforms, we've got a long way to go. But there have been about 42,000 unique nodes on the network since Nov 2017, and I'm pretty happy with that number. It's a fairly radical proposal to have people run their own store on their own computer, but there are at least that many people in the world willing to do it.

Just wait until the mobile app and the browser client are finished!
Do you want to make a case that health and safety have gone down since we adopted our current “economic system”?

If so, when was this? AFAIK, health and safety have been trending positively in a significant way for well over a century, with nation-state conflict causing the most significant regressions, not profit-motivated corporations.
Dark matter is a theory that fits the observations. Prior to the 1980s nobody had ever been able to image a single atom as well, atoms are just theories that fit the observations. Proton-proton fusion has never been observed directly experimentally, and yet we confidently say that it is the primary method of energy generation inside our own Sun and many other stars, because it's the only theory that fits the observations. This is how science works.
Doesn't that just mean your browser window didn't have focus? I can scroll on apps in the background with scroll wheel but not arrow keys, etc.. That's just an OS thing
Just like you described for BitTorrent. Your node only downloads and serves things you have explicitly downloaded/viewed. You can purge that data if you want but not yet remove only specific content.
Is that a problem with consumers or a problem with unregulated markets? I'll leave it at that.
You're trying to advocate for Google to make a certain decision by asserting that it is "necessary". I'm doing the same by asserting that it is decidedly "not necessary".
As I said in my original comment, the data might have been used in aggregate, for things like campaign strategy (“go campaign in Tallahassee!”). But the articles on this subject that have gotten the most attention imply that this data was used, specifically, to target ads on Facebook. Therefore my extensive experience with the platform, that you rudely sought to trivialize in your comment, is directly relevant. Once again, you cannot use the data they had to target people in the way that is being implied in most of these articles.

Finally, to put your comments to rest (hopefully), the data wasn’t used even off of Facebook in the way that you and these articles are claiming. See [1]. Enjoy the rest of your day.

[1]https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/20/17138854/cambridge-analyt...
Well, the difference is that we aren't living in the web. So even if the web goes down, the rest of the internet is still there and even without the internet we would survive.

So if we would live within the web, I would certainly demand to formally verify every web app before it would be deployed.
What's more sinister--Google accurately reflecting the gist of the content and information available on the web, or Google carefully scrubbing it to better reflect a chosen set of cultural sensitivities?
Yep, what I do as well.
Look how many times different mutations of the Red Delicious apple has been patented. 42 patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious
Using GMO to make plants resistant so they can dose at high levels is exactly what they are doing vs trying to grow a super carrot.
How did you get hired for email archival? Started looking at online applications and every single one has something like "Why do you want to work for us?" and yesterday I saw "How do you add to our diversity?"
We're in free fall relative to stars, but not relative to cows. So I guess every cow affects us more than every star?
Outward Bound: Colonizing Venus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI-old7YI4I

Caution: don't click unless you have nothing else to do today.
Gene Medic: retro edutainment game for the Atari 2600 in 6502 assembly language
So the item I've always wondered about this is that we don't actually know that the universe is expanding, we just infer it from redshift. But there are two components in frequency, meaning two ways to make redshift. Either change in position or change in time.

We see redshift and infer that a pulsar or other know quantity is shifted and assume it has moved because space has expanded. Why don't we ever assume that the length of a second has shrunk in the billions of years that have gone by? Space and time change in relativity, why is only change in space considered in the history of the universe? What's wrong with time?
> "Some" here means WebP is literally a single VP8 frame shoved into a RIFF container :D

Though it's less used than the lossy format, lossless WebP is a thing too; if I said WebP was exactly VP8 intra someone might nitpick that. There's no winning, haha!
I've often wondered why the cost of adding even the most basic of animations to my React applications feels so high. It's great to see such a dead simple way to do some of this.
They lost $2b, on $11b in revenue. That's the problem!
"Facebook" is more like a suite than a single service. For example, I use Facebook almost every day, but I never look at my newsfeed, and virtually never post to it. I basically only log in for 2 specific private groups that use it for scheduling.

It would be easy to replace, if that group of friends/colleagues decided to use something else for collaboration. We don't need to replace all 100 services they offer. We need only a couple.

I suspect that's how Facebook is going to end. We're not all going to stop going to "facebook.com" overnight. Someone will steal away chat (Twitter?), someone will steal away photos (Flickr?), someone will steal away events, and so on, until it's been picked clean.
My point was that it's easy for the average person to want to avoid GMO foods, but harder for them to give up their Coca-Colas, Oreos, etc.
gotta be careful, might get bombed by the israeli's
This isn't a push network, you only cache and rehost the data that you have requested (by visiting another user's page). And if you visit something you don't want to rehost then you can clear the cache.

So yes, users have complete control over what content they are serving.
Is this true? My business partner and I started doing iOS app development in august of 2008, and we were distinctly afraid we were late. edit: Ok, the SDK arrived in March '08. I guess we weren't that late.
Health and safety typically increase in response to workers advocating for additional health and safety. Those increases were won in spite of the system not because of it.

Noam Chomsky makes the following point: Slave societies also exhibited improvements over time. It wasn't an argument for slavery.
There's no way I'm visiting that URL.
I'm not with OpenBazaar, but I believe with how it works it's not possible to do anything. It's decentralized. The government should go after nodes hosting the illegal content.
I'm not sure I understand all the way. Qubes is more for people looking to have their internet connection completely private, and almost everything in the way it's run (preferably from a VM, I guess) is for that reason. Steam is best kept on Windows because it would be pretty obvious since *you're connecting to your Steam account and you would lose the privacy from it. Linux is also not the best environment for your video card, either, because nVidia doesn't have open-source drivers available. Now, yes, there are drivers available for some version of Linux, but they are generally close-source and very likely not the best for privacy reasons.
Back in 2011, Solomon offered his team to help us out with some background job pool issue--mostly Paul. Thanks, and hope you planted enough little seeds along the way that you're able to get back to doing what you do best--making seedlings grow.
You cannot. If you have VT-X and VT-d, you might be able to create a Windows HVM and pass through your GPU, but Qubes official support for this is close to nil, and success is very dependant on your specific setup. Some cards plainly won't work, some won't work with given CPU/Mobo combos, etc.

I made my GTX980 work on Arch, and tried on Qubes, but Qubes itself was too unstable for my daily driver, so I never got it complete.
That's exactly right, and there's really nothing more to it than that, conceptually anyway.

Now, one possible alternative to dark matter is that gravity itself doesn't behave the way we think it does. There is a group of theories that we generally call MOND (MOdified Newtonian Mechanics), which propose that gravity is stronger than we think at very low levels of acceleration. When is acceleration very low? Well, it's low when an object is very far away from any other sources of gravity, and this actually describes most stars in galaxies. If a star isn't too near the center of a galaxy, the gravitational force on it is extremely small -- much smaller, for example, than the pull of the sun on the earth. Most stars are traveling in nearly a straight line, bending only ever so slightly on an enormous circular path. That bending is caused by a teeny tiny acceleration -- a gravitational pull -- toward the center of the galaxy's mass. Which is always more or less right in the middle.

MOND theories propose that as objects get farther away from each other and experience less gravity, the gravity still remains stronger than is predicted by classical newtonian mechanics. Thus, the gravity experienced by most stars in a galaxy is greater than we think, and therefore they must rotate faster for the galaxy to maintain a stable shape.

These are attractive theories IMO, and they explain some things that dark matter has difficulty explaining. However, the galaxy described in the article is a serious problem for MOND, because MOND says that it should be rotating as fast as all other galaxies of its size. But it isn't. It is rotating at the rate predicted by the classic newtonian model of gravity, which would naturally seem to rule out any other modified model of gravity.
While rotation curves were one of the earlier indications of dark matter, we have perhaps stronger evidence now from CMB measurements, gravitational lensing studies, and structure formation considerations.
I prefer proggit to HN these days. This place is mostly political commentary. The rules around engagement - while outwardly all about having a good conversation - just make this whole place feel passive aggressive and limp-wristed.

A lot of the trolls and flaming on proggit is funny. HN feels too much like that episode of South Park where Kyle moves to San Francisco and everyone is huffing their own farts.
> if you think that the problem of malnutrition is mainly a technological/agrological problem, that's very disingenuous

This is true right now. But a sane world has to plan ahead. Our existing agricultural system can easily feed the world today without GMOs. But if the world population really does grow as anticipated this century (I have my doubts), with a fast-changing climate, high levels of topsoil loss & degradation, there is zero chance without every technological trick we can muster.
As someone who works in the cryptocurrency industry, it's refreshing to see someone dedicated to building something actually useful instead of another depressingly transparent get-rich-quick P&D scam. I will download and try OB this week.
How do buyers make sure sellers are not scamming them?
When I listen to my neighbor he thinks that welfare is around 60% of budget, foreign aid 20%, social security/medicare 10% and maybe 5% goes to defense.
Don't forget Red Hat! http://overpassfont.org/

What are some other corporate fonts?
> Is that a problem with consumers or a problem with unregulated markets?

Consumers are voters, so it's both. The number of voters one can productively engage about thoughtful GMO regulation is basically zero. People are against it or don't care.
I have a engineering-physics degree, and while I will admit my day job involves more down to earth physics software simulation rather than advanced cosmology and particle theory, I would categorize WIMPS more so as the model with the least amount of gotcha's when compared with alternative gravity theories. I for one lean towards alternative gravity theories.

"They behave similarly to neutrinos except are much more massive..." And yet we can build neutrino detectors and "see" neutrinos. So far similar detectors for dark matters have failed to detect anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Underground_Xenon_experi...

Lack of detection, plus this sparse galaxy with no sign of dark matter, is starting to slowly rule out the simpler explanations by virtue of outliers that don't fit any model.

You yourself mentioned it, but I always remind detractors that the standard model IS WRONG.

The sparseness of this galaxy is what intrigues me. What if the lack singularity at the center is the key?
Shenzhen's Homegrown Cyborg
It is a problem with GMO labeling requirement. GMO labeling requirement should be abolished because it is a meaningless distinction and consumers have no right to know such things.
Maybe the crackdown on H1B visas will change this? I'm sympathetic to the valid cases, but it was/is being abused.
Wouldn’t this finding mean we can rule out modified gravity theories?

if Modified gravity were real wouldn’t all galaxies have to show the effects?
Exactly, they failed to monetize their installed base through ads, so decided to call it a "feature".
Well thank you but actually you are right. Pilots are NOT paid rest. Per regulation they can work 1000 hours per year and they will ensure this is fully utilised. Airlines cannot just hire and not use pilots or, of course, they will jump ship to someone who can.

It's a pretty interesting industry.
How about, actual Tetris? https://tetris.com/play-tetris/ (To turn it into a "Mac app", just wrap it in Electron.)

Tetris online games: http://www.tetrisfriends.com/

Nullpomino: https://github.com/nullpomino/nullpomino

Cultris: http://gewaltig.net/

I have to say, it is sort of silly that the Tetris company doesn't take a bit of effort and port one of their current Steam, iOS, Switch or XBox games to Mac. I can't imagine that it wouldn't be profitable for them.
Things in nature are rarely in equilibrium. What you see with your eyes to today is the aftermath of what remains after multitudes of systems have overloaded and destroyed themselves.

To assume that markets sort everything out is folly. Nature tends towards entropy.
Apparently the answer is not settled on that yet.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600850

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/01/492091546/ho...
Man, so much of what seems defensive pushback, I don't get it.

Here's the deal. I ran a small company for almost 2 decades in the valley. Everyone worked with everyone else very closely. One bad apple can screw up the whole company, make everyone miserable. So I used every chunk of info I could get to make sure that a potential hire was gonna be a fit. That's just being prudent.

If you are posting on mailing lists about how you screwed your boss out of a pile of work by outsourcing it to some dude in India, yeah, not a great fit. If you are posting on facebook how you partied all week on your companies' dime while they thought you were working, yeah, not so much. Etc.

If you are in to Harley-Davidson motorcycles (which I hate), well, not gonna hold that against you, though I'll let you ride my r1200gs (every Harley guy who has taken me up on that walks away looking at that GS like that's the bike he should have gotten).

I'm somewhat surprised that people question a hiring manager looking around. If you were building a team that had to work together are you seriously telling me you wouldn't look? I'd like to hear that from anyone who has successfully built multiple teams and then have them explain why they wouldn't look.
The intersection of the pedestrian walkway (red line) is "close to perpendicular" with the roadway (yellow line)?

https://imgur.com/keA4Xsw

(From Eric's twitter stream, it seems like the collision may have even been at the pink line, which is even farther from perpendicular than the red line.)
> You’re doing something wrong.

Yeah I mean possibly, but I'm a programmer, not a javascript tool yak shaver. I want to get work done not learn the ins and outs of "webpack".

Of other tools get me their more quickly and simply then I'm going to use them.
Certain old but powerful gangs like to flash their signs by doing things in sidereal time, so the same stars are overhead.
Welcome in the club. :)
Public things are that we're working on crypto trading and a mobile app right now. We're also building out some basic reputation services starting with our Verified Moderator program. I'm not a business guy so I can't give you details on possible monetization routes.
What is this epicycle phase you reference?
I totally agree with you.

I think part of the problem is that technical people tend to understand that aviation autopilots are supervised assist mechanisms, whether via indirect knowledge or direct knowledge. Aviation is a common interest among technical people, and flying is a reasonably popular hobby in Silicon Valley, at least compared to areas with more typical incomes.

From that POV, sure, what Tesla offers is pretty comparable to a plane's autopilot. But the popular conception of autopilot is much different, closer to an autonomous robot that makes the pilot completely superfluous, and that's what needs to be considered.

Even if it weren't an actual hazard (which I think it is) to set that expectation, that perception is probably not doing Tesla's image any favors as it tends to remove any assumption of responsibility for an accident from the human driver. From a strictly business standpoint, it feels like the wrong move.
Thank you for your feedback! Those are all very good questions! I do have categories built in the backend (currently not visible to users). However, right now I am more focused on getting user submissions to help grow the content. Eventually I would add search functionality when there is enough content and demand for it. And yes, those mini materials blocks are pretty cool!
Hey SamPatt, what are the top 3 products being sold on OpenBazaar? Also, does it accept Monero?
There's irony in complaining about unfair standards applied to CEOs, whose primary aim is essentially to extract the maximum possible surplus labor value from their employees!
Nobody puts labels like this on products unless they (1) respond to a regulatory requirement or (2) convey something positive about the product. In both cases, the label implies there's something wrong with products containing genes that aren't "strictly Copyright (C) Mother Nature".

You may think the only issue the ethical problem of enforcing genetic IPR, but casual consumers do not give a shit about IPR ethics. They assume "genetically modified" is in approximately the same category as "contains toxic herbicides".

Ironically, the most commercially viable way to produce non-GMO crops are toxic herbicides.
> "GMO labeling requirement should be abolished because it is a meaningless distinction and consumers have no right to know such things."

I can understand why someone would argue it's a meaningless distinction. I don't agree with the idea that a consumer has no right to be informed. Let the consumer know, make the case that your product (any product) is safe, and let the consumer decide.
Does anyone know any good guides for installing this on a X1 Carbon Gen 5?

I've been wanting to try this out on my X1, but there isn't really any nuance when it comes to guides for it. Just a list of problems and what does and doesn't work.
This article is good, and there's literally nothing of value I could say better than the author - which is why I really like Massive's (the site's) commenting system. I've never seen a comment system allows so few people to participate, and I wonder if this model ought to be tried elsewhere. By restricting comments to approved scientists, Massive lets us observe informed discourse without risking the mess that so many other discussion systems devolve into.
How is the Master Password protected with Touch ID? Seems like it goes in the Apple Keychain, which then Apple wants to sync to iCloud.

Can Apple then get my Master Password (along with FBI w/warrant, etc)?
Looked up Bob Young on Google:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Young_(businessman)

and it seems he also was a co-founder of Linux Journal! Didn't know. Cool. His work has had quite an impact.
You are lucky you live in a rich, first world country where you can make decisions to not eat certain foods.

Guess what? GMO food saves millions of people from malnutrition in the 3rd world. But yet it's just not good enough for the cocky American consumers, despite that scientists agree it's perfectly safe and despite that GMO food is everywhere (without you realizing). I happily by GMO food, I proudly support GMOs because it saves lives, and I can't believe ignorant people would rather these people starve.
I don't think this cynicism is warranted. No matter how much benefit you think the goodwill of others is towards you for giving away your money, is dwarfed by the benefit of having billions of dollars.

If the political benefit really outweighed the costs, then every single billionaire would be doing the same thing, purely out of selfish interest. How many of them are?
I'm not a physicist, but that was my thought exactly.

Black holes are weird objects, they are enormous, have huge mass and density, almost no radiation, have great gravitational effect on surroundings and they are hard to detect etc.

They seem like a perfect candidate for 'dark matter'.

Could anyone explain why it is wrong?