skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- You recently spent time making an (essentially) empty github profile and adding it your HN bio. Not sure having a github does much for a writer. Great that you are learning and trying new things... but perhaps you could have used this time to file your taxes instead. On that note, you probably could have filed your taxes in the time you spent writing me this wall of text.

- I gave you sympathy, but you say "I get zero sympathy" - perhaps you're ignoring the sympathy you are getting?

- Making money as a writer online is hard. Most people who try fail and find other work: fewer jobs available than people who'd like them.

- HN leaderboard isn't a big thing. I had never seen or heard of it before you discussed it. I don't think you should expect it to get you a job.

- Have you been applying to normal jobs recently? From your description you sound qualified. Self employment has a high failure rate and lots of risk: most people who try never make money. If you need cash, may be time to go back to a bigger company with a stable salary.

- Calling 'not having your taxes done before the day it is due' 'poor planning' is not a personal attack, its an accurate description of your situation. Again, victim mentality.

- ShowHN's are hard to get traction with. Typically you either need to: 1. be doing something novel and cool with computer science or 2. be a ycombinator alumnus. Most of the 'boys club' effect on HN you are referring to I suspect is actually the "YC alums club". I've posted programming projects and gotten no traction. HN has a computer science focus, perhaps your content isn't landing because it is a bit off-topic. Your ShowHN post was essentially just a classified ad - I'm not sure why you'd expect people to be interested in it here.

- I really do hope you solve your problems, but tweets like this make me want to help you less. You seem to be holding on to a lot of negativity, perhaps speaking with a therapist could help.
https://twitter.com/doreen_michele/status/986358399221710848
Will post link to all results here once compiled and cleaned up. Or fill out the form and you'll get sent the results via email
Pornhub Partners with Verge Cryptocurrency, Shifting the Future of Porn Payments
Been working on a 100kloc app and it hasn’t been a problem.
Minecraft players exposed to malicious code in modified “skins”
just noticed it is written in clojure, always nice to see clojure (or F#) used
Interesting quote. I have often wondered what would happen if there were more studies into the benefits of the placebo effect, it seems it is only studied as a side effect of other studies.
How to live a good life is the main goal of Stoicism. https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/stoicism-101/
There wouldn't be any coins, instead double entry accounting I (pubkey:ae32...) owe (pubkey:af41...) 10 US dollars. Medium of exchange is agreed upon by the two parties, USD is one option.

If you're my friend or a business, and you see my balance is deeply negative, maybe you don't give some service.

If your my friend or a business, and my credit is not too bad, you follow my repo and give me some service. You commit a change that says, (pubkey:ae32...) paid (pubkey:af41...) 10 US dollars and reference my repo and commit.

I don't think there could be double spending because the receiver of the money acknowledges the credit offer on record (the git repo that paid).

If there are identities and entries in my ledger that are questionable, maybe you don't count them. For example, you might say credit only counts from those identities that are willing to answer a two-factor sms challenge. Or, if my git repo is credited by a google account, that's something worthwhile that could count toward my balance.
Thank you! I will go check that now.

So, tomorrow, for anyone who is wondering. That's actually meaningful to me. I managed to pull all my records together this morning, so progress.
maybe they wrote pleather meaning faux leather instead of plastic leather
How about just whitelist the good guys?
If they wanted to they could associate them other ways by just looking at the IP address and/or browser fingerprinting.
It's easy to launch new Firefox profiles if you create an alias something like:

$ alias ff='firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote &'

You can also make desktop icons that open different profiles quickly.
Does it support lisp? If not, any plans to add soon?
yes, i'd forgotten about those; we got one installed at our house a couple years ago, iirc at no charge from PG&E. it's definitely better/safer than the per-appliance solutions.
This must be the reason that you can't say Legos online without being corrected.
Also read between the lines about biodegradability - I'm betting this stuff breaks down relatively quickly?
What about ips?
> that definition is so broad as to be useless

How is it useless? That definition includes exactly all of the relevant features to this discussion. Groups of people with leadership. How they relate to each other.

Your objection that the definition 'useless' only makes sense in the context that you didn't bother talking about anything but the definition. Focus on the material of the discussion, and perhaps it will seem less useless a definition.
Trademark is as much to protect consumers as it is to protect companies. For example, this kid could have shopped his services to unwitting small business owners in town, the kind of folks who might believe it when someone cold calls and tells them they have a virus on their computer. Turns out he's probably not a jerk, but how's Microsoft to know that?

All that said, this was clearly a case of bad PR management by Microsoft. It can't be that hard for Microsoft to buy off a 12th grader.
Awesome interview, thanks for the link. The end of the interview where Chomsky describes the Internet as a double-edged sword and (correctly) suggests that it could turn into "a home-marketing service, and a way of marginalizing people even further" is particularly interesting.

https://youtu.be/suFzznCHjko?t=27m7s
"As nicely as possible, the approach you are taking is not a good way to be encouraging to bitter people."

Then what is a good way to be encouraging to bitter people?

I mean, something that is actually encouraging rather than discouraging, and not something I don't believe. Because I am hopeful about relationships, and don't believe in simply isolating oneself because the only people you're going to meet are going to be users and abusers. I just don't believe that's true, even if some people have been unlucky enough to only meet and be abused by such horrible people.
Another such word: 'fringe'
I think that Heidegger was more concerned with the human condition than you give him credit for, at least in Being and Time anyway. Given what you said, I think Derrida will certainly be of interest to you.
@simplygoodjars
Canada pulls diplomats’ family members from Havana citing sonic attacks
So as you've set things up, the radius of the sphere we can see is 13.8 billion light years. That means that the diameter of that sphere is 27.6 billion light years. But here's the rub, the visible parts are all moving away from us, so while we see them as being 13.8 billion light years away, they've been traveling for 13.8 billion years away from us. Along with that, the rate that they're traveling has been increasing the further away (in time and space) they are.

Now since we've found ways to correlate the distance and velocity that things are traveling on large scales in the universe, we can actually figure out about how far away the objects we can see should be from us, after traveling 13.8 billion years. This is where the 93 billion light year figure comes from, how far away those "edges" have traveled since they emitted the light we see today.
You could say the same thing about flu:

* Half a million die each year of influenza

* Most are very young or very old

* Flu is preventable ($1 face mask)

* Flu is easy to treat in the developing world

The way we think of flu in the west is roughly similar to how Africans think of malaria: a pain in the butt but not the end of the world.
Imagine what we would do if rich Africans arrived and started handing out face masks during flu season. We'd probably do what Africans do with malaria nets: say thanks and throw them in a drawer.
Your post is very dangerous from a security perspective and may misinform many people who are still learning about digital identification.

> the role of proof of work is to establish a somewhat strange kind of identity among anonymous participants.

The role of proof of work is to make the creation of information one-way based upon a pre-specified amount of work. Therefore, in a properly constructed system, a participant cannot steal the results created by another party.

Identification is generally accepted in the security community to come from something you are (biometrics), something you have (bank card), and something you know (pin for your bank card, password, etc). For safety, two separate classes are normally and simultaneously required for identification, hence the term two-factor id.

An identity is something entirely different from work. Proof of work, since it is one-way, proves that work was performed. This has nothing to do with identity, which cannot be proved by work.

Something You Can Do is not a new category of identification but a statement about processing power. This can be seen by simply sharing the private key of a wallet. In two factor identification, you could make a copy of someone's eye or face to try to get into a system, but two factor identification would stop you.

> And this is what proof of work does, it limits your ability to invent identities and cast as many votes as you would like by making casting a vote really hard respectively expensive.

Proof of work doesn't have anything to do with the ability to invent identities. It ties the result of processing power to keys. Digital keys are not identities any more than physical keys are houses. To construct a house, you need to perform the work. To get into a house, you need a key. To take possession of a key you need to identify yourself.

> a 51 % attack is just someone using a lot of money to buy more than half of all the available identities in the Bitcoin system granting him the majority of the available votes.

A 51% attack is when someone who may or may not use a lot of money forces an alternate version of a blockchain data structure by having 51% or more of the processing power. This has nothing to do with purchasing identities. You can test this for yourself. If you create two bitcoin wallets, you clearly didn't create two digital identities. You are the identity in possession of two keys for two separate wallets.

Besides, a 51% attack isn't 51% of the nodes but 51% of the processing power, which could be only 1 powerful node. Those are entirely different.
That's fascinating. From what I was taught, I'd have expected Nietzsche to have held that position for Foucault. Did he change later? When does that quote date from?
Think of it this way: the block is the input to SHA. When the puzzle is solved, that block happens exactly at the time the puzzle is solved, and no one cannot dispute it. There is no other way (or at least none that I can think of) to link a pile of data to a point in time.

The only way you'd get this level of accuracy with a traditional clock is if you could measure/record Planck Time, which isn't possible and might never be. And if we could have Planck Time accuracy clocks, such a timestamp wouldn't come with a cryptographic proof like the PoW timestamp.

Everything else is secondary, an add on. The ordering is determined be the longest chain, recorded as a Merkle tree, transactions are tied by the strength of Elliptic Curve crytpography, miners motivated by rewards, etc.

But without that timestamp, none of it would work.
Whatever meme you learned that phrase from does not deserve the respect you think it does. A government is not synonymous with a monopoly on anything, in any sense.

One can very easily imagine governments that share responsibilities with any number of arbitrary organizations.
Space has expanded in the interim.
I assume there is no hiding from Google unless you black-hole their IPs. Also, don't let an Android device with links to Google be near you.

It'd hard to ban Google from your life even if you want ti. I think governments should help citizens achieve that when they choose so.
Please be more like Nietzsche and don't post unsubstantive dismissals to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is Barbara the only person in history to have blood ties to more than one president and live through both of their tenures as president? I looked at Abigail Adams and co but it seems that she didn't live through both her husband's and son's presidencies like Barbara.

Perhaps the most influential woman (literally) in American history edit: politically.
Cool paper. Thanks
I experienced this the first time I shot a deer with a bow. I swear the arrow took 5 seconds to get there.
I love your riff on Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to a corporate lawyer."

Shall we call it Cryptonector's Razor? You invented it, you name it :)

edit: someone else (not me) should name the principle that explains why so few people on HN have any sense of humor whatsoever.
Given the flexibility of it, I've seen some people claim that this is essentially String Theory, and that's why it's not a suitable model. While the math works out, it also has so many tune-ables that you can make any kind of universe you want, and take any observations and make any number of universes that fit those observations.

And since these tune-ables aren't inherit properties of any kind, just numbers (or other kinds of values) you can plug in, there's very little predictive power in the theory. You can just always re-tune the whole thing to any observation, and make a nearly infinite number of predictions from it still. There's no way to try to select for anything that looks like a fundamental property of the universe.
Los Angeles spending $40K/mile painting city streets white to combat climate chg
In that case everybody in the exclusion zone better start selling their real estate. Help the short term housing crunch while they're at it.
18pfsmt, that's an interesting question. Do you have any specific examples you can point us to?
When I think about a network drawn atop of say WebRTC connections, it's possible for a message to travel realtime via hops from person A to person B via persons C, D & E even though persons A & B have no direct connection, obfuscating the path and connection information that lawl alluded to with STUN/TURN/ICE servers.
A similar situation exists for offline messaging polling between data storage where we could obfuscate that transaction via another user's client (i.e get person C to poll for messages from Person B to Person A offline).
I'm not sure if this is what you had imagined or if you were thinking of something else?
San Francisco’s big seismic gamble
I don't see a significant enough difference between the negative bits of how credit card companies are run vs. how the rest of the banking and financial system is run, so I honestly don't understand the distinction you've drawn -- to your own financial detriment. I guess I do plenty of irrational things for emotional reasons too, though, so I can't fault you too much for it.
For more on this subject, see the 1945 essay by French mathematician Jacques Hadamard, An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field.
https://archive.org/details/eassayonthepsych006281mbp
I just want to (anecdotally) note that this does not work for everyone. I had (generalized) anxiety issues and unfortunately weed never helped me, instead it gave me my worst panic attacks. I can rarely handle trace amount of weed in social occasions (say, one puff) but anything more immediately fractals into a 911 call. I probably have an extreme case, but I know at least 3 other people that weed makes them anxious. This is Bay Area, I also tried "high CBD low THC" strains without any luck.
Erdogan tells 6-year-old she should die as a martyr
Obviously you don't know how many people were asked to leave that day/month/year and their skin color. You're inventing your own contrapositive that you want to believe is true.

I'm sure lots of people have been asked to leave at lots of starbucks of all stripes. And then they did, so it didn't get to the trespassing/police part.
It would seem better for the controller on a problem flight to be able to transfer all the rest of the flights to colleagues?
There is not a repo yet. The demo is running a lightweight vue.js app for the front end. In the MVP spirit, I simply hard coded the tutorial steps and code revisions in the JavaScript. Reading and processing repository diffs has held me back from creating this for such a long time, but I wanted to throw something out there and this was the easiest route to publishing a concept demo.

I'd be happy to publish the front end on GitHub, but without the ability to read from a repository it isn't functional for anything beyond a demo.
The newest pattern I'm trying to learn ... on macOS whenever I copy text then switch to Chrome and click on a field ... I need to wait 3 seconds before pasting otherwise Chrome freezes 15% of the time.

Since it doesn't happen all the time it's hard to instill.

And another I just noticed ... the HN 'add comment' button disappears behind the text box on Android... fixed by switch to landscape the back to portrait.
Eleanor Roosevelt was distantly related to both presidents Roosevelt (closer to Theodore). She would be an obvious rival for most influential first lady, as well.
Instead of your hypothetical ideal online news feed, we get the opposite: headlines which now attempt to directly program the reader's attitude about the thesis of the article, because nobody reads the article anyways these days (in this information economy), just the headlines. Thus, the body of the article is increasingly useless as a persuasion tool, especially compared to the headline, so the result--the headline which tells you the thesis of the article and how to feel about it in the same breath--is only the logical conclusion to what social media is doing to our brains, and to society.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=and+that%27s+a+good+thing

https://www.bing.com/search?q=and+that%27s+a+bad+thing
Southwest Airlines flight 1380 engine failure air traffic control audio [video]
The pragmatist philosopher C. S. Peirce [sic] has been credited as an earlier user of 'logical matrices' (i.e. truth tables) than Wittgenstein. [0]

Otherwise, I might also have mentioned Wittgenstein's alleged invention of truth tables in my reply!

It seems Wittgenstein was simply an early user of them. Perhaps he coincidentally came up with the invention himself, but probably not.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2429.pdf
JavaScript was not their idea, so that's clearly not a problem.
A lot this size would sell for at least $2M in the Sydney harbour area, even if the house is just a wet cardboard box.
My problem with GCM is not the implementation on the client, but the fact that Google sees traffic. I don't want Google to see my data nor my metadata.
Not necessarily. It depends how you define "service". There are two interpretations of Conway's Law: 1) orgs "just" end up making software partitioned like the org structure due to human nature, or 2) orgs should partition software like the org structure.

My experience heavily leans to #2. If your software doesn't "fit" the org, friction happens. For example, if you try to share a common service but there is nobody with sufficient power and staff to manage and coordinate changes in that service, then it's not clear who to blame when bleep happens.

A technician can make a shared service, but then the technician is left holding the responsibility bag when there are conflicts or complaints among the shared service users. Managers don't want to let "lowly" techies control such decisions. Almost nobody is used to that.

Either create a formal org sub-structure with a sufficiently ranked manager(s) to coordinate the shared service, or split it and live with redundancy.
It's astonishing to me that people seem so determined to finger-wag at someone who is clearly in great difficulty and distress, and yet has conducted themselves perfectly within the IRS's stated requirements.

For what it's worth, I know what it's like to be in in a chronic state of desperation trying to figure out how to overcome a debilitating illness for which mainstream medicine offers little help, while simultaneously trying to generate sufficient income to survive day-to-day.

I can assure you that doing your taxes are not a high priority when you're not sure how you're going to pay for food or rent the next month/week/day.

But even still that's beside the point. Michelle has sought to play by the IRS's rules and work within their systems, and that should be the end of the discussion.

Please give it a rest.

By the way, I'm very familiar with the concept of the victim mentality and, speaking for myself only, I'm well aware of the ways in which it kept me in a state of poor health and poverty. But to hound somebody for having a victim mentality when they're clearly in a profound state of distress and doing the best they can to play by what they can understand are society's expectations of them, is nothing more than cruel bullying.
Ironically, I took multiple philosophy courses at the university of Texas taught by both Bob Solomon (one of the “eminent philosophers”) and his wife.

I graduated from the philosophy program with a profound distaste for analytical philosophy, believing it to be pedantic BS that really only shows the limitations of whatever language you’re using for discourse. Hence the abstraction into symbolic logic, but symbolic logic only works as a pure abstraction: any link to the real world becomes limited by the language constructs you can use to describe the world, the subject/object relationships, etc.

There are many languages and writing systems in the world. I expect the peculiarities of each to rear its head when attempting to use them to do “real” philosophy (I honestly view most of the analytical offshoots of philosophy as mathematics; somewhat telling, the university disagreed and forced all CS majors to take logic classes in the philosophy department).
Jeb Bush lived through both his dad and his brother's presidency too (though his career might not have).
Apparently she was one of the Navy's first ever female fighter pilots:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/04/tammie-jo-shults-pilot-southw...

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-pilot-who-saved-that-s...
Dependency injection on Android with dagger-android and Kotlin