skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the sadest part is its active marketing to a (concerningly large) segment of the population that think that government involvement or regulation of any kind is an unqualified bad thing.

It must be extremely easy to fleece these people, because how many do you think report these crimes to the same government they distrust so much?

Looking forward to an endless stream of slightly tweaked and renamed reworks of the same concept in the decades to come.
Having completed the Duolingo Spanish tree a couple of times, I found that it gave me enough of the basics to work my way through books and follow some basic plot of TV shows with closed captioning.

It hasn't done a whole lot for my listening or speaking skills, but to be fair I often disable the listening and speaking exercises since I tend to do the exercises at work while I'm waiting for something to compile.

Duolingo will not make you fluent in a language, but it can give you the basics to build upon.
Yeah. I'm open to the idea of loans being an actual practical use for smart contracts (they are well suited to payment automation and offer some degree of transparency of debtors' use of and receipt of digital assets) but what is actually proposed actually sounds even more like a way for shady startups to earn money from suckers than ICOs. At least with some ICOs there was a theoretical logic behind selling tokens supposedly used to acquire product (and liquidity benefits)

This is just equity crowdfunding with the word blockchain involved, and as a result probably more dishonest or deluded companies and a greater likelihood the securities aren't even legally valid never mind attached to genuine prospects of profit, never mind attached to prospects of profit adequate to make up for the asset's lack of liquidity.

(Reading more details in their terrible white paper, the only difference between this and a completely standard security is that in order to pretend it's a "loan" they've offered to "repay the principal" at "maturity" i.e. buy back the security in 10 years' time at the price you paid for it. Which would theoretically be a good idea for an stock in a low growth business, and also a great way of creating a relatively stable Ponzi scheme...)

Seriously though, just look at this utter nonsense: https://blockhive.ee/ilp
Facebook's not worried about impact of its privacy scandal on its bottom line
I doubt it would meet the legal definition of fraud if it is true that features are removed rather than patched or if some sort of certification upstream of a given security patch is absent. But I'm not a lawyer so...
3 password managers for the Linux command line
> To tell people that you have to pay attention 100% of the time your don't need any of the details.

The problem with this strategy is that literally no one is clamoring for a self-driving car that requires you to have a license, both hands on the wheel, both eyes on the road, and to be alert at all times.

If you have to mention it, fine, but engineer the ways you mention it to have low penetration and low retention.
As far as your fifth point, they might have messed up explaining the concept. In Portuguese, starting a sentence with "E se...?" (And if...?) is the same as saying "What if...?" in English. In the link to the comments section you provided, only one person (Paulenrique) gets it right, though he doesn't explain why.

- "[E] se nós nos encontrássemos mais vezes?"

- "What if we met each other more?" (ie, what if we saw each other more often?)
What exactly is "smart" about a contractual entitlement to X% of the profits of some company? What's to stop the operators from hiding profits from the automated hands of the smart contract?

How smart contracts are supposed to work:

1. I decide to enter into some agreement with an untrusted third party.

2. Both parties put the collateral related to the agreement into some sort of smart escrow account.

3. Events unfold. Smart contract system needs to be able to observe and validate these events somehow.

4. Depending on what happens, the smart contract system decides who gets the collateral. Neither party can back out of the deal after the fact, or claim that some loophole makes the deal void -- the software is the final arbiter.

There's no way to make "give me money, and if I manage to turn it into more money, I promise to give some of it back to you" into a grifter-proof smart contract, despite the wishful thinking of anarcho-libertarians everywhere.

This whole thing reeks of sleazebags trying to trick unsophisticated investors/speculators who are catching on to the idea that "basically every ICO is a scam" into thinking that they've created a financial product with less risk. There is absolutely nothing stopping someone running an arrangement like this from running away with the money, just as with ICOs.
Ask HN: What is the acceptable timeline to look up a solution?
As I attempt to work through the teachyourselfcs.com curriculumn, I am trying to find how long is too long to spend on a problem. Now remember, I am a beginner so the knowledge base is being built. I have spent a long time on the problems in SICP and feel it is slowing down my overall growth.

What is an efficient timeline of when to give-in and look up a solution?
A Chinese couple died in a car crash. Then their child was born
I would argue that the "creates false expectations that leads to fatal automobile collisions" kind of bad is potentially a more serious kind of bad than the "false advertising" kind of bad.
Why would you get into a car with that driver? Out of the total population of licensed drivers in the United States[1], about 1% have DWI in any given year and the recidivism rate is upwards of 20% depending on the state[2][3]. Given available statistics about the relationship between alcohol consumption and likelihood of a vehicular accident[4], there's good evidence that you're increasing your risk of being in an accident by at least 60% if you get into a car with someone who has had a DWI.

Further, considering recidivism can only be tracked if people are caught and the legal limit is 0.08 BAC, a good argument can be made that an Uber driver with a past DWI would be more likely than can be predicted to have be driving under the influence again (meanwhile a BAC of 0.05 still increases the risk of an accident by approximately 100%).

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1. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/hf/pl11028/c...

2. https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/outreach/traftech/1995/tt085.ht...

3. https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811991-DWI_Recidiv...

4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/09/how-j...
Burned humans smell much fouler than barbecue, I've been told by a former fireman.
I had a sudden moment of clarity:

What's the point of advertising to people who can't afford to pay a few bucks for a social networking site? If they're broke they aren't going to buy anything anyway.

I think this whole train of thought is a logical fallacy. You need people who have more money than sense to believe that not paying is a better option than paying. It's a con.
They seem so hard to navigate though. You’d have to scroll through hundreds of different threads and there’s no canonical area that says what’s new with x today.
You would think that competition between the tech companies would drive down prices for the shops.
There have been a number of comment stating something like “the choice of tool doesn’t matter, the use of the tool and convention does”. However can anyone recommend a good tool?

We’ve been using a moin moin wiki. It’s ok, but we’d like to move to a simple, hostel solution so we don’t need to maintain a moin moin server.

We don’t need fancy, just simple with attachments, images and links.
my personal feeling with Hollywood today is that they probably can't show something new.

It seems that every corner in this medium has been covered and faded it shine(?)

I'm afraid that knowing this, they seeked to explore new grounds like games and comics books, nevermind that it basically the same story but utilizing the special effects to attract young audience.

So i think it's not just video game movies, imo it's the whole medium struggling to stay relevant.

knowing this, i keep my eyes on the black and white movies.
they don't try to impress, they're simple and easy to follow and the actors are really great.

one of my favorites is Buster keaton, the greatest stuntman ever imo.
If he can't raise prices then he's in a de facto war of attrition.
> lead to rampant speculation considering
> how high profile these accidents are

High profile? NTSB routinely handles aircraft crashes with hundreds dead. This is not even moderate profile for them. They do things a certain way because it works. If you start talking publicly, witnesses get intimidated, contractors and manufacturers get tight-lipped, speculation causes changes that are actually not safety-improving. NTSB has ZERO rulemaking power, by design. They have one job only - figure out what happened and make completely non binding suggestions on what could be done to prevent such cases in the future.
Well at least it's not digital cheese.

More seriously, in America "cheese" is a term that's regulated. Cheez-wiz in a can is called something like "cheese product" because it can't legally be called "cheese". Surely this is the same in the UK too?
I worked for an open source company about 4 years ago. It was quite popular, venture backed, and had all the interest in the world. We launched with a lot of fanfare, and adoption was quite strong. We raised a series B just before our official launch and had the backing of great investors. The problem with open source isn't that someone else is going to come and take your code and use it to compete against you. It's that it's nearly impossible to monetize something that you give away for free otherwise.

We experimented with a lot of different business models, but the reality was ... no engineer was willing to pay us for something like "analytics" ... or "hosting" ... They were just going to keep using the code.

It's also incredibly difficult to track actual usage. There was no way to enforce the use of it on our CDN, so people were likely using our product, and we didn't know about it at all. When you open source, you just give up a lot of control. When you're end user are engineers, they won't pay unless it's something they can't do themselves, or aren't already using another service.

If you look at a company like SugarCRM (open source CRM product), businesses will pay. Granted, they aren't salesforce, but they have a legitimate business model that works for them. So while it can work, before making a decision, I would talk to your customers about what they would be willing to pay for, and how much.
1. This early in the investigation process, you can't actually put that in the proper context.

2. As the NTSB noted, part of the reason for these rules is also PR-related - they want to make sure that other parties' decision-making processes on information-sharing aren't warped by the need to get favorable information out in public faster.

3. Most importantly - showing no respect for the procedures of the agency investigating you indicates a mentality that puts you above third-party judgment.
This just launched on Android. Still in beta. http://www.getsiempo.com/
Maybe, but I wonder if that is true at night with the lights off. When I read in bed at night, I much prefer light on dark text. Combined with Android's night mode to tint things red, it is fantastic.

In fact, I wish the Kindle Paperwhite would come out with an inverted mode already (although I think I read there were some challenges with doing so). It can be fairly straining on my eyes to have the sidelit screen bright enough to be legible while being as dim as possible to make reading with the lights off comfortable.
What does that have to do with nodejs?
That's the problem. If you look broadly enough, you will find someone who is offended by some of your words. You will never get everyone to agree on what is "ok".
Yes, that was ill-considered. My apologies.

So instead, Asimov's Rule#1: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
> The SEC and CFTC can't go after everyone

That’s one hell of a bet to encourage others to take. (You aren’t encouraging anyone. But the original article is.)

> limiting investment opportunities to HNWIs, while a sane approach, isn't working

I used to believe this. Cryptocurrencies have shown me the existing rules are closer to being correct. Given the chance to discern fraud from fact, investors without teams of lawyers bought into every single form of elementary fraud the Securities Act of 1933 successfully, to a broad degree, stomped out.

Cryptocurrencies’ buyers aren’t investing. They are gambling.

The fundamental problem is diligence costs money. In the public markets, reporting requirements shift that burden on companies. Many companies don’t want that burden. They stay private. To diligence them, investors must be able to bear the cost of diligence and risk of their investment.

Given VC investors, on average, fail to systematically outperform public markets, I fail to see the merits of the case “investors who invested in stupid things A (cryptos), despite having access to sensible thing B (registered securities), should be given access to marginally-less stupid thing C (unregistered securities).”
I would have guessed Pirate Bay...
Yesterday I've received an email from Google Analytics: [Action Required] Important updates on Google Analytics Data Retention and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

This is the summary:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196
Sure the main app is called Pocket Thai Master and it teaches reading and speaking, with cultural notes and historical facts sprinkled throughout.

I’ve also made a second app that is a subset of the first that only teaches reading, which I creatively named Pocket Thai Reading.

I’m currently re-writing a lot of the content to create a pared down version for travelers that teaches basic grammar and vocab through audio and transcriptions and without learning the Thai script. It takes many hours to learn the script and it is 100% worthwhile if you’re living in Thailand and it’s great for pronunciation, but it isn’t a worthwhile use of time for people that might just be visiting for a week or two.

If you take a look and have any feedback I’d be happy to hear it - I’m actively working on updates! Next update I’m trying to add some different exercises to test comprehension since it’s multiple choice quizzes only right now.
No, im saying it's no surprise that someone can learn to cook the cuisine of the next town over. In California all cuisines at every restaurant are cooked by Mexicans. Or maybe Salvadorans but again you can't expect Americans to make that distinction.
This raises some interesting questions for me.

First since I've been doing some Software radio stuff of late, I'm wondering if there is a way to build a chemical detector for magnetic fields that would allow one to pick up signals without a giant magnetic loop antenna. The paper (linked in another comment) suggests that the frequency response is low (1uS to 100uS) so it would not be a high bandwidth link :-).

The other is what happens when the poles swap?[1] Do the birds commit mass suicide as they fly north for the winter and south for the summer?

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/192522-earths-magnetic-f...
> Whatever the structure, it isn't new.

But now maybe it's order of magnitude or two cheaper and so you can do a whole bunch of them where you used to be able to only do a few. Does that change anything? I really don't know, maybe, maybe not. Maybe it makes it practical to break a company up into many many smaller pieces and allow investors to provide more specific investments, or many smaller companies in general, due to greatly reduced legal/operational fees? And maybe that let's you do something cool? Imagine if facebook (or more likely whatever is post facebook) had hundreds of smaller investment vehicles that mapped to teams and projects, and we could all choose not to invest in the privacy invading ones? Or at least had to more explicitly do it?

Sure, it's not philosophically completely novel: structural changes like this fractalize throughout technology and ultimately boil down to "that's just this, but one level of abstraction up," which makes it easy to understand, but doesn't necessarily make it useless. Sure, there's nothing new under the sun, the internet is, after all, just a really fast xerox machine, and we already have libraries.

I don't look at crypto currency and think, "Oh this is obviously the future, fiat currency and banks are bullshit" and I don't even fully buy the argument I made above myself. But when I look at all the criticism to crypto, it looks a helluva a lot like 1993 and "The internet is a fad" all over again. "It's slow, it's shitty, it wont scale, it doesn't solve any real problems for real people, it's better having publishers/banks intermediate this stuff anyway" etc. etc.

We'll see.
I'm not sure they've even gone that far. There are _plenty_ of long-standing complaints (on the Japanese course) that there are errors in the _English_ sentences, such as that they are grammatically wrong, or that you've translated something one way but later don't accept that as a correct answer. Just checking the comments, or proofreading the English sentences, would have caught most of them.
Facebook’s Failure Is a Reflection of American Ignorance
Even with the most ubiquitous language in the world using prototypical inheritance, the average (mean) programmer prefers to imagine and express themselves in an inheritance based system. At some point, everyone will have to accept that prototypical approach is fine for some, but less productive over time for the world.
LHD: Improving Cache Hit Rate by Maximizing Hit Density [pdf]
Switching from default Chrome to Brave on Android has been the best thing I've ever done on my phone.

May have to check out how FF compares
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Everything you listed as a con is exactly what I’d like the web to be.
пива (as partitive gen.) here sounds really weird to me, like you're pouring it out of a can into something else, and putting that in the fridge. If it's a can you can emphasise it with a number e.g. я поставил одну банку пива в холодильник :)

not a native speaker, just living and studying russian in moscow
In my experience it's standard to pay in person when you pick it up, whether you're using cash or credit. But if you're getting delivery they ask for your credit card number when you place the order (and obviously cash is handed over when it's delivered.)
True, although for this particular video I was more impressed by the high frequency edges of the mostly monochromatic moon surface. The edges of craters are very sharp on a 4K screen.
Makes for a better headline?
Which is why most companies aren't willing to call these things "autopilots" - Mobileye, for example, pitches its systems as assistants which will catch some of the driver's mistakes, similar to the "collision avoidance" language. This also comes with the corollary that they often aren't willing to give these systems as much control of the car as Tesla does.
> ..using .NET Native to rewrite the CLR in C#

They're already doing this, see https://github.com/dotnet/corert/blob/master/Documentation/i...
Chang'e 3 lander and Yutu rover camera data:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0128165...
I'm not seeing any significant differences there. Am I missing something obvious?
And this is why Daily Stormer stays permanently available on TOR... which is the direction Sci-Hub should go.
This isn't decentralized though. The ILP claims to be a legally binding smart contract - legally binding implies the use of a government, which involves courts and all that other sludge that tokens can help us get away from.

As it were, it's not even necessary. The Sia platform (disclaimer: I'm a founder) has a token which does something similar, but in a fully decentralized way. Sia is a storage platform, and each time someone forms contracts on the network, a fee is taken from those contracts and automatically distributed to the fund token holders. It's a similar model, but revenue is excluded to the blockchain, and it's fully decentralized.

Tokens are exciting because of what it allows us to achieve in the absence of any form of government. We can make storage contracts that are roughly analogous to SLAs, but without needing paper contracts, courts, lawyers, lawsuits, ambiguity, or drawn out battles about who was right and who was wrong. The blockchain takes care of all of that in a very compact, definitive, predictable way.

And no, it's not about skirting regulations or doing things that the law won't allow. It's about enabling things that the law already enables, but enabling them in more efficient ways.
On reflection, I agree and apologise. I should have expanded my argument.
The hair alone would be pretty nasty.
That is precisely what I was referring to.

I will say, though, that there are aspects of the Amish lifestyle and belief structure which would not be viable if they were the dominant culture, rather than just a very small minority. The big issue that stands out to me is that I'm not sure that the Amish emphasis on extremely tight community bonds is compatible with the level of economic specialization required for a nation state to be competitive with it's neighbors. There is something kind of magical that only seems to happen in cities, but cities seem to be especially effective at promoting an intensely individualistic lifestyle.

But that's all orthogonal to my original point. You can learn from the Amish without becoming Amish. We could emulate their approach of delineating very specific ways in which technology is to be integrated into our lives. But our society seems to have serious problems with the idea of orthopraxy, so I'm not counting on it.
Link to study: http://bit.ly/2EGgyVY
>> That’s civil disobedience <<

Please refrain from putting Travis K. in the same category as Rosa Parks.
> now maybe it's order of magnitude or two cheaper

Keeping track of investors and paying them dividends isn’t even close to the most expensive part of fundraising. This is akin to starting a car company differentiated solely by the material of the muffler.
Yes. They should do that. Your car gets in a crash, you sit tight and wait for the NTSB to make absolutely sure what the cause was. If you can't take the heat, get out of the safety-critical industry.
No, this is totally reasonable and basically what I meant by 'escrow' in my original comment. Most systems that perform microtransactions & handle credit card stuff themselves basically do it this way -- including Google, when it comes to Adsense and Adwords.
On some cases, agreed. But most content posted on Medium doesn't end up here.
Man... I read your blog. It's all true. I find so hard to explain this to Jr devs. They read a lot of best practices, and take it as a religion. Lots of uneeded code is created.

Anyway, I would like more skeptical devs.
Demystifying Blockchain and Consensus Mechanisms