skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that lots of people wait until the last minute to file their taxes, and the deadline this year isn't until Tuesday, 4/17. Some people, especially those who are unsure about how to report Bitcoin transactions, might take advantage of the automatic 6-month filing extension. So it's way too early to report meaningful statistics about what percentage of people have reported Bitcoin transactions.
> Society is not being destroyed by advertisements being delivered more effectively with user data.

Oh yes it is. When Russian (and American) Trump, Brexit or other Nazi supporters use targeting to deliver propaganda to those segments of society most vulnerable to it, democracy suffers.

The US got Trump, the UK got the Brexit, France the shocking rise of the Front National, we Germans got the AfD fash, Austria the FPÖ, Italy the M5S and Berlusconi rising from the dead, and the situation in Poland or Hungary went to total collapse of democracy. Most of this was enabled by propaganda on social media, especially as many newspapers and other real media outlets get their headlines from Facebook and Twitter trending topics.

One thing common to all these "movements": easily shareable (and digestible) "share pics" filled with lies and "alternative facts" creating a massive echo chamber for those lured into it. With an equally massive radicalization feedback loop - like with snuff videos, people always need more extreme stuff.
I know of at least two homeless HN commentors, and more than that who are unemployed.
How about you buy it, I'll take it apart, and you can put it back together. Free of charge, even.
Regulation to try to prevent weak links in a still perimeter-security-based design is hopeless. We need to stop substituting network of origin for real authentication and authorization systems.
Ask HN: What do you do on long-haul flights?
I'm at a layover with a 14 hour flight ahead. What do you do on your long haul flights? Do you prepare anything before hand?

In the past I've pre-downloaded and read PDF's of topics that interest me, watched films, done programming challenges, connected to the super-slow in flight wifi and tried to work. What do you do?
I visited the Bowling Green, KY factory for a tour. It is one of the most interesting tours I've ever attended. Some other tidbits about the Engine Build. You get to build as much or as little as you want of the engine. They'll put a metal decal on the engine saying it was built by the owner with your name.

Also if you visit the factory make sure you visit the Corvette museum across the road. The most interesting thing about that museum is a good section of it was swallowed up by a sinkhole. Many corvettes were swallowed up. Most were restored but several were totaled to disrepair. You can see them on display and shed a tear. There is a good section of the museum dedicated to the sinkhole mishap.
I have a friend who works in a casino, and the industry standard is to put untrusted devices on a segregated network.

Even trusted devices are segregated by vendor.
1. I don't have proof I can share publicly,

2. It's not just my opinion, and

3. I didn't say they're "well ahead" unilaterally.

This isn't unique to finance; industry labs in tech also often have novel results in applied mathematics and computer science that are ahead of academia and other industry labs. You don't have to believe me but it's not exactly a controversial topic. Not everything is published or patented.
Half a year ago in September, I left Sailfish OS and Jolla after I had exclusively used "alternative" mobile operating systems. I started with the Nokia N900, after that I had the Nokia N9, and then both the Jolla and Jolla C with Sailfish OS.

The UI concepts of Sailfish OS were great, the gestures were simple and intuitive. However, it lacked so many other features. The Android emulator was only compatible with apps for Android 4.4. Although being marketed as secure and privacy-aware, users have no control over apps, as there is no mandatory access control or any other permission system. Remember, this OS has been in development for over five years by now. Also, many parts of the UI stayed closed source, although Jolla promised from the beginning they want to release more open source components. If they wanted contributors, they would have more likely contributed to user-visible stuff like the mail app — not to some lower level middle-ware that is open source.

All of this and some more reasons caused me to finally pull the plug and switch to Android. I wrote about it in lengthy details here:
https://raimue.blog/2018/01/09/goodbye-sailfish-os-and-jolla...
Asia’s Bastion of Free Speech? Move Aside, Hong Kong, It’s Taiwan Now
Employees Jump at Genetic Testing. Is That a Good Thing?
Adventures in Lua stack overflows
Old news: this is from 2017 [0]

It's just that the attack was part of a new article, and the headline used it to make it sexy.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/27/criminals...
I disagree. Uber facilitates the process of becoming a driver, therefore there will be a larger supply of drivers. I believe the price of a fare will decrease due to the increased competition.
What I like about Casablanca is nobody knew they were making a classic. It was just another movie they churned out like an episode of Friends.
High Sierra: Help Main Menu Is Broken and Freezes Apps
A Drug to End Addiction? Scientists Are Working on It
I studied the photo to see if I could spot the Internet-connected thermometer, and then finally noticed that the caption said "Ethan Miller/Getty Images", and only after that saw that it also said, "An aquarium at a casino — not the one in question."

Forbes who wrote an earlier story did the same thing, but with a Shutterstock photo[1]. At least the original source of the story (the cyber defense company) used an illustration so it was obvious that it wasn't the real thing[2].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/27/criminals...

[2] https://www.darktrace.com/resources/wp-global-threat-report-... (see page 8)
I'm quite poor and was homeless until a few months ago. I am quite open about that and I get told bluntly to stop talking about myself here at times. I have seen evidence that suggests other poor people here are reluctant to stick their neck out as much as I do. So the number of poor people here is probably more than it seems.
Helpless Help Menu
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the high roller database itself were stored on its own IoT device linked to some "high roller analysis as a service" platform.
Android doesn't use the HotSpot garbage collector.
Yes, marxism-leninism definitely sought to build a new world on the rubble of capitalism, with the Soviet Union the starting point prior to the socialist paradise. Please, I'm not that naive.

However, modifications to core ideologies are possible, and reform is possible. E.g., the USA started by defining its voting citizens as "property owning white male". Today we have altered that.

So I rather wonder what would have happened if the ideology had been dialectically altered to form a new synthesis of post-Marxism-Leninism with a non-aggressive goal. But that's a long-past alternate time, and what was, was.
Nearly two decades in the space.

The biggest barriers to small companies doing business with government is lack of access and lack of understanding of the process.

A good procurement lobbyist and attorney can make a huge difference.
The news is supposed to keep the public informed... fusing of entertainment and information, along with corporate mergers, has brought us to this unhealthy state of public awareness. Our society is becoming more paranoid because it boosts ratings and profit.

A prime example is the American public's irrational fear of terrorism, which translates to pouring unfathomable amounts of tax dollars into the unending "war on terror". Meanwhile heart disease/cancer silently kills 1.1 million Americans every year.
'Why Do They Think Islam Is a Religion of Peace?'
What does the OS natively support? Does it have SMS, email, and a browser? Maps?
Thanks! You can use the extension in a CI setup by first installing the remote-browser extension, and then using it in your tests. You can check out remote-browser's own tests for an example of integrating the project with CircleCI [1].

[1] - https://github.com/intoli/remote-browser/blob/master/.circle...
How the Quakers became unlikely economic innovators by inventing the price tag
It's the generic trouble with museums - concentrating all the irreplaceable stuff in one location. Like the Library of Alexandria.
The Android compatibility layer is actually Alien Dalvik developed by Myriad. It is mostly used on set-top boxes for TVs. Jolla just licensed it for their phones. As far as I know, even on the latest Sailfish X, Alien Dalvik only supports the API level of Android 4.4 (2013).
50 USD/month for a bundled infotainment package (cable+internet) comes to 600 USD/yr. I think most urban Americans are going to spend at least that much.
Try making this in Python:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012...

d3 is for interactive charts
You can look into lab notebook solutions.
sure but it just means there will be a set of standardised smart contracts with a proven track record, and as much as possible other contracts will compose simple ones.

It's like saying driverless cars will never exist because the road there will involve some accidents. It sucks, but I don't doubt the future of driverless cars.
This is a cool tool. Though this tool reminds me of a dilemma I have with Google: what do you think about the fact that Google has effectively extracted value from the authors of these books without paying them, yet Google itself does not allow you to scrape them AFAIK (If I'm wrong I'd be curious to see where in their ToS they allow this)?

Though Google doesn't seem to be monetizing this directly, the fact that they're training their models on this data does likely have some nebulous value. Given that most books are for sale, surely there's a good way to reconcile the fact that the authors would like payment and organizations like Google would like to scrape their text.
Haiku OS[0] is a BeOS inspired OS, though I do see some articles about a port of it to Amiga hardware.

[0]https://www.haiku-os.org/
[1]http://www.generationamiga.com/2017/09/03/haiku-os-for-amiga...
> without the need to write assembly code

You basically are writing assembly with these intrinsics.
The erosion of the torrent ecosystem over the past decade is a little sad. Although it's mostly because the legitimate services have been slowly taking the pants off their heads and making it more convenient to actually pay them for their content.
One of the visions that tech people (including people who should know better, like Eric S. Raymond) like to masturbate to is that of a fully decentralized internet, entirely supported by mesh networking with short-range radio transceivers in everyone's PC/cellphone/tablet/other. It'll never happen, and the few times it's been tried, scalability, throughput, and reliability were all HUGE issues. Decentralization introduces friction, because you have to expend bandwidth/energy just looking for peer nodes to talk to, handshaking with them, determining optimal routes through the ad-hoc network, etc. All of this is Done For You in the hub and spoke/backbone model of a centralized network.

And that's not even taking into account the problems of available spectrum and interference in the wireless mesh networking case.
You need to ask yourself two questions:
1 - When do I need this up and running?
2 - How long do I want this stack to survive?

Question 1
Based on your skills and how fast you can learn something new, how fast you need something is crucial to select the appropriate tools to complete the tasks and you'll need that running on production (you can forget about Kubernetes now).

Based on that, you'll need to benchmark the tools you already know or the ones you want to learn based on the attributes your project will need more. Try to build a small prototype of one of the core features of your product and decide then, if you think the stack you selected is not playing along, change it and iterate on it.

Question 2
Everybody thinks they are building something to last, but that's the most stupid thing to do. Once you write the first line of code, you already set up an expiration date for that piece of software. Tools and software changes all the time and the tools you've today, they might not have support tomorrow or some technologies may come up that will solve the problem for you and you can discard a big part of your stack.

3 years is a good time for any stack to run, evolve and die. It's a good timespan to understand what you need more, build new prototypes with new technology and try new tools. So when it comes the time you've to re-build your stack, you already have something in mind.
When T-34's and Shermans met in Korea, it didn't go too well for T-34's. And some of the most decorated Soviet aces flew Airacobras.

But the most important part is that without American alloys, fuels, machine tools, let alone food and warm clothing (something USSR had a big problem supplying the populace with even during peacetime) there would be nothing to make T-34s with. That's what strategic supplies are.

Some of the important battles early in the war, i.e. stopping Germans from marching on Baku oil fields, were fought mostly with British tanks.
GOLD:Eyes Further Bull Pressure
He's actually saying that the fact that conditionals, loops, and variables are the 'top concepts', i.e. the most challenging they'll encounter in that curriculum, is disappointing.
My taste runs more to Mustang's, I'd seriously consider buying a Shelby Mustang if they'd let me build the V-8. I'd have no problem flying out to Las Vegas to do it.
> It's a pity they still didn't open source it yet

Yea. And if/when they go away, that UI will die with them, which is also a shame.
>Eee PC

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...
How does it compare to KDE Marble?
The USB support isn't quite there yet (major rework didn't make it this release) but otherwise this is a pretty good release with massive progress in actual usefulness.
Sailfish OS was not directly responsible for any of those. Some of the employees were involved, but only by virtue of being employees of the companies that started the fork/project.
People don't often realize it, but copywriters are salespeople. You need to have certain things to set them up for success.

- You need to know your budget. A copywriter worth their salt will not be cheap. Don't waste their time trying to hire them for less. If they ever accept it's a sign that they aren't that good to begin with (it's like selling a salesperson on paying them less).

- You need to know who you are selling to in general (industry and market).

- You need to have examples or profiles of prospects. A prospects list is best. A profile based on the traits of ideal customers is second best.

- You need to have your sales numbers to set baselines. Even if they are projections you pulled out of a hat.

Now, a good copywriter, will need to have a the following qualifications:

- They must know the industry and the market. They don't need to be total experts in the matter. But don't hire anyone that is an outsider. They won't be able to know which industry and market keywords to use when writing the copy.

- They must be able to sell. There are a lot of fake copywriters out there who are mostly bloggers that think whatever they write works. Make sure they can sell by dissecting their copy (ask for samples). Are objections raised and answered in the copy? Are they followed by an attempt to close?

- They must have samples or a website. Now, some good copywriters have ugly websites. Don't focus too much on the aesthetics. Read the copy.

- References or testimonials. One is not like the other. References > testimonials, but sometimes they can't give you references due to contractual agreements (NDA).

- Availability is something people dont usually consider but is important. Don't hire someone who doesn't have enough time to work on your stuff no matter what. Copy sometimes takes time to iron out (like code).

Good luck!

PS. Feel free to email me if you need copywriting or content services for tech products.
My impression is that Uber is making money of the rides.

It loses money on all its other research and investment schemes.

I don't know if there are any actual facts out?
Little authoritarians shutting down innovation with their helmet laws and whining about a scooter! on the sidewalk! are why we can't have nice things.
> The one thing I am tying to validate / invalidate is weather "spiritual" as used by non religious people, is mere hacking of our delicate physical and chemical machinery.

It really is, if our minds are entirely a manifestation of the brain.
Initial Repo Setup for Termux Android Linux Environment
Fear of terrorism isn’t just fear of dying from terrorism. What was the economic damage or 9/11?
Amortization over say 20 fairs per day * 20 days a month * 12 months a year, reducing the cost by 1 cent per ride per ~50$ dollars in cost savings. Suggests it's just not a meaningful savings.
So how do the "rest of us" profit from these IPOs?
Updating OpenStreetMap is incredibly easy. Create an account, click edit (iD, the javascript-based map editor, is intuitive and highly functional), make changes, click "save."

The hard part is learning how to map well. The documentation is fragmented: There's a multi-language wiki with a lot of inconsistencies in the translations. There are dozens of mailing lists for various regions and sub-topics. There are IRC channels. There's a web forum. There's a subreddit. There's a Stack-Overflow-style Q&A help site. There are Youtube videos. And you can often find a different answer to a simple question in each of these resources! A little chaotic. But I wouldn't quite call it painful.
Silicon Valley Challenger China Gaining on U.S. Lead with Mega VC Deals
The point is you can't accurately simulate typing without something like Selenium. Neither the standard DOM API nor the additional features provided by the Web Extension API allow you to do so.

You can simulate some parts of typing by mimicking browser behavior on a case by case basis, but there are places where this will be strictly impossible. For example, if you are working with anything that checks the isTrusted event bit, you're out of luck as you there is no mechanism for you to set that to true.

Selenium on the other hand is actually triggering events as if a person physically triggered them. So, for instance, the isTrusted bit will be set to true when you use the send_keys method in Selenium.
I've been fiddling around with my Eee PC 701 in the past couple of weeks. Is there still a community for this sort of thing? RetroPie supports Eee PC?
Thank you for writing this. Echoes my thoughts but I never bothered to write it down. I participated in a 10 day retreat in California, and was also turned off by the pseudo-science and science-bashing. I almost started back on day 4, but stayed on because my friend who had come with me stayed on. In the end, I am glad I completed it. But the pseudo science bits left a bad taste in my mouth, and I couldn't continue with the practice. I think I learned a lot from the 10 day course, and may be I will try it again in future, though.
When the time came for the scene in which Victor Laszlo defiantly sings “La Marseillaise”, one character actor noticed everyone was crying: “I suddenly realised they were all real refugees.”

If I had to pick a single movie scene as my favorite, it would be that one.

https://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM
No, "Uber passengers paid only 41% of the cost of their trips for the fiscal year ended in September 2015." Prices have not changed much since then, so they are a long way from break even.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-profitability/true-p...
for the reason he said in (2), insiders like Parity have much better odds of having their EIP accepted.

but it is your proposal so you knew that.
Genuine question: What advantage does ReactOS provide over Wine?

https://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE explains a bit but still doesn't answer the question.

P.S. oh by the way, the developers of both projects are apparently collaborating and ReactOS uses Wine's DLLs for their userspace, so my question is not meant to criticise the "double-effort" or anything like that.
This is what I use in my computer. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/
Being ad free is not the same as not tracking though. They are just saying, you get the version with no ads.
Go Map!! (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!) is pretty good for iOS.
For why USB is hard, see http://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/.
Ants, termites, and some bees and wasps live in highly organized colonies in which most individuals are sterile or forgo reproduction, instead serving the select few who do lay eggs. Yet such behavior seemed to clearly violate the concept of natural selection and survival of the fittest, if “fittest” means the individual with the greatest reproductive success.

Right, but it’s your genes that are trying to propagate, and how genetically similar are a colony of ants? If collective success still alllws your genes to spread, it’s a win. Given that social insects in a colony share the same “mother” we’re talking about huge group incentives. When you consider how few insects even reach maturity, never mind reproduce, it starts to make a lot of sense to me.
LOTS – A Text-Based Adventure Game in Ruby
Do tell
I don't think these IPOs are designed to make profits for the rest of us.
i am one of those people who think that we should allocate resources against causes of death in close proportion to the number of lives claimed. my guess is that many other engineering types also take this position.

recently however, i have come to worry that this position lacks empathy. especially in light of recent mass shootings in the US, i am forced to consider that some types of deaths have far worse second order effects than others. if ten people die on different days out in the woods, ten sets of family and friends are devastated. tragic, but if ten students are killed at school in the same day, it seems that the lasting damage is far more severe and widespread.

to some extent you can say that's just because people are emotional/irrational and they are blocking optimal allocation, but maybe the optimal solution does need to take into account how people feel about things. maybe things like terrorism and mass shootings are actually a lot more harmful than the numbers suggest.
I bricked mine ages ago, unfortunately - I really liked it, despite the keyboard being just a bit too small.
It has more memorable lines that any other movie, save perhaps Princess Bride. People know the lines who have no idea they were in the a movie (and some even weren't).
Pick the right growth candidate, hold your nose at the valuations, buy and hold for a few years until the growth catches the fundamentals up. Or wait until (assuming) the market drops at some point and buy the growth at dramatically more reasonable valuations. I'd also say buy what you know; that is, if you have experience with a company and know that their products are particularly good, providing the company a likely advantage over time assuming they're well run. I don't know much about Zuora for example (so if I want to buy it, I'll spend a lot of time on research), but I plan to stalk DocuSign for a reasonable entry point as I know their products well and I like their position.
It's paradoxical b/c paying customers are even better ad targets.

I think advertisements are OK, as long as personal data not aggregated, nor cross referenced/shared. I'm OK with google display few search related ads along the page. But it's insane to see van ads on youtube after I searched for one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_(decryption_program)