skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poorly. I used to use Flickr, then I tried to curate my own subjects and periodically print out books. But in the end I just take pictures, video, and audio, and dump it in my computer hoping one day my future self will sort it out.

I wish it were dealt with more auto-magically (and interchangeably) on the Os level.

But in the end I don't really care too much. Life is for living and communing with loved ones, not documenting. Still, I post frequently, careless of who "owns" it. I kinda fail to see how it can have value, all those pictures, even in aggregate. It just seems like noise.
I have been asking that for years without getting a good answer. It's a really cool technology! I wanted to use it for something!

But cryptotulips aside, every real-world use case I've looked at can be solved some other way (e.g., real-time published transaction logs). Humans are pretty good at creating trust contexts (see, e.g., 99% of commerce), and they're quite averse to doing anything significant in truly trustless contexts.
> and the evidence is overwhelming that the Syrian government was behind the vast majority of the attacks.

What evidence might that be?
I love that story because it reminds me to always look for the deeper reasoning behind shallow first impressions - the only reason a pen seems like an expensive waste is because I'm ignorant of the full complexity behind the decision to use pens over pencils. As a programmer, it's easy to walk into a room full of seemingly simple manual processes and tell everyone they need to be automated out of a job, but it's highly disrespectful to their years of specialized experience.

Always good to be humble and remember that I'm not smarter than a rocket scientist in their own field.
Horseshoe theory in action.
Most of the things they test are true of any text-based format, and many of them are true of any serialisation format. E.g. 100000 opening brackets. You could do the same in XML for example and I expect many parsers would fail.
In the world of signed requests, but flips are less of a concern. If the signature doesn't match, reject the call. Which implies I clearly don't mean accept literally everything. Just work in your confines and try to move the ball forward, if you can. This is especially true if you are near the user. Consider search engines with the "did you mean?" prompts. Not always correct, but a good feature when few results are found.

For system to system, things are obviously a but different. Don't just guess at what was intended. But, ideally, if you take a date in, be like the gnu date utility and try to accept many formats. But be clear in what you will return.

And, typically, have a defined behavior. That could be to crash. Doesn't have to be, though. Context of the system will be the guide.
I probably should have qualified that with "widely used". :)

On the other hand this list is to some extent relevant to the point I was trying to make, as most of these languages are somehow related to Algol/Simula/Modula (as is C++) and not to Lisp/Smalltalk (as is Java, Python, .net...).

Object Pascal has the problem that there are at least two unrelated languages with same name. And the duffernce between Borland Pascal 7 and the Object Pascal used by Delphi is that the latter is firmly in the camp "there are only references to objects". (ie. for classes defined by 'object' keyword common pattern was "PFoo = ^TFoo", while for the 'class' ones, eg. essentially whole VCL, this is implicit)
"So many male calves are shot and discarded instead of becoming food."

Now that is disgusting. Good job finger-waggers, you've just caused more waste and inefficiency in the world because of poor ethics.
In my opinion most parsers are just too lax. They support some fancy extension at the beginning (like comments, which are not a good idea), get more and more "feature-rich" and then support syntax that is not specified in the standard.

Other parsers now have to lower their "standard" (no pun intended) to compete which leads to more complex edge-cases that we also find in undefined behaviour and compilers.

E.g. if your HTML is broken, it mostly renders somehow in your browser, which is in my opinion bad design - the same is probably true with JSON.
> why would Syrian consumers suddenly begin demanding or abandoning their use of rubbing alcohol?

I would imagine getting bombed would increase demand for basic first aid kit componenents.
Give Them the Button
your comment might make sense if you wrote it up as valid Java, as it is I think you are losing a lot in the translation
I think you’re right that human drivers makes it a lot easier to blame the victim (even though it’s really the whole system that made it possible for the human to make such a mistake that is responsible... the system isn’t held to account because it’s just so easy to blame the human for making the proximate fatal error).
here's a direct link:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pggg3z/what-happe...
> Throwing infinite money and developers at something does not make a good product.

Of course not. But it gives them more time to try and more attempts, where your runway is limited. You would eventually run out of funds if you don't find product market fit. They will not run out of funds, ever.
> If we can figure out how to rid ourselves of the desire for prestige, we will become much happier in the process!

Why not just take this to the limit and become a Buddhist then?

I'll answer that question: because our desires are possibly adaptive and are what keep us alive. The problem is not prestige, it's holding the wrong things to be prestigious.
Clickbait article anthropomorphizing nature.
Agreed. But at this point there are some relatively easy things to compete with Facebook on - have less advertising, and less crap content (shared things, memories, mentions etc.)

Basically recreate the Facebook experience from around 2008-2010.

Probably still not enough, and people would definitely doubt your motivation ("they're going to sell out like Facebook anyway...").
Cryptocurrency miners hacked my blog
I'm an anonymous architecture astronaut, so usually I have those "should look like" high-level pictures in my head.

But that's just a fucking picture. A plan. That usually does not survive contact with the changing requirements and implementation reality.

Anyone incapable of admitting that there will be changes should be taken upstate to a nice farm, then shot behind the barn. Usually these people are on the client's team. :(
Martin Lewis seeks damages for 'fake' Facebook ads
As someone who's currently looking to purchase a first home in Boise after living here for the last 9 years, all I can say is "meep". There's nothing like the crazy stupid money that Californians are brining in to the housing market to make we wish articles like this would stop shining the spotlight on Boise. The housing market has been nuts this season and I can't help but think that it's all the Californians coming in and buying houses off of the market in cash.

I don't mind more people coming in to our city. I don't care where you're from. Boise is a lovely place and I would love to have more culture and different perspectives help contribute to the current lifestyle of Boiseans. I just wish it wasn't to the detriment of the current lifestyle of the people who already live here.
>He went way too big. This is a business plan that needs to start very locally. Trying to hit retailer shelves with this is counter to the premise of sustainability.

That sounds reasonable but the scale and population of NZ prevents this. Many 'Cities' here, excluding the biggest few, would be considered small towns in most other countries. Regardless of the small scale, corner stores are owned by one of two big groups. The non-retailers you're imagining him leveraging don't really exist here on any scale that would work.

The population, outside of these few cities is so sparse that there's no small-scale retain presence. So if you attempt to start local you're selling to a market of a few hundred, at best. Of that market you would need significant uptake to make any headway.
That sounds interesting! What about breaks for sleep?
>Here's my case. I have problems trusting any centralised cloud service out there that is significant for my privacy. I have problems with Pocket, because it knows what I read.
If data would be stored on the decentralized nodes and accessible over the smart contracts, my zen would be way closer.

The problem is that most users don't agree with you. In fact, most users don't know enough to know to care about this. Those that do very often favor convenience above all else.

Blockchains don't solve the problem any better than existing centralized providers; in fact, they can literally only do worse on any dimension most users care about.
It's frustrating to me that I can't just go to my Wells Fargo account on the web and send money from my account to my recipient's account by routing and account number.

I can do that with my USAA bank account.
> Disappointed Alacritty was not in the comparison.

It does appear to be included though?
Get Kubernetes Logs with Elasticsearch, FluentBit and Kibana in 5 Minutes
Not the commenter you're responding to, but given that they said they'd like slower change, "continuity" probably refers to continuity in the rules/the way the game is played.
Earth-Mars and Mars-Earth fere-return launch windows over the next decade or so
My 2017 Thinkpad x1c touchpad is as good as any Macbook. And the keyboard is probably the best on any laptop I've ever used.
Unfortunately the laptops with that CPU all suck. If the XPS 13 would include Ryzen as an option I would have chosen it.
You could try adding controversy to the author name and searching then. As mst correctly notes, I am trying to avoid reigniting said controversy while indicating my distaste.
Up to ten days if the Cranker can't get committee approval for third season overtime. (Sucks too cause then mandatory tea breaks swap out biscuits for bread and jam)
Yes, but they also learned from that and created one dayers. Even that proved too slow for some, so now we have 20-20...
right, so the object is passed by reference, and the object reference is passed by value...
If you're in tech, yes. There are a lot of tech related jobs that Boise has a huge deficit for. You won't be compensated at the same rates that you would be in California, but the cost of living would make up for it.
I really liked it, the sound design especially.

As much as I dislike promoting amazon their UK site is the only place I can see it for sale. I'm told it's on private trackers.
Here's a crazy notion: maybe political philosophies aren't a one size fits all, but different approaches work well in different times and places?
The article seems to be about how it is that the brain can process so much information at so slow a cycle speed, but it doesn't really address power efficiency at all. Even assuming 100% parallel operation, our current chip designs use something like a factor of a million more energy to do the same amount of computation. I wish I knew why- it's not like we're ignoring power efficiency. Depolarization of an axon must be incredibly power efficient.
Why does everyone struggle so much with security?
"The White Helmets" -- there's your problem.

> There is a reason Assad’s government blocked inspectors from examining the latest claimed attack.

That did not happen.
Readable by everyone != decentralised / blockchain

Blockchain code literally runs in an open source, open memory environment. Which means you can guarantee the execution of code without interference.
By the title, I was hoping someone had finally written an expose on the Google / click fraud symbiosis.
Same problem, it’s a shame because it looks like a good article, but too distracting with the layout jumping around. Not sure of a way to take a screen recording on an iPad though.
I have this bug! I've read that in Dell's support forum that there's a firmware fix for it coming in the next months: https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-13-9370-Keyboard-Skip...
Most of the Californians who went to Oregon in the 1980s lobbied for right wing policies in the new places they moved to (which created a number of issues), hence the fear of those disillusioned with California leaving and bringing destructive political views with them that could seriously harm wherever they move.

Edit: Downvoting me doesn't make the long term effects of what ex-Californians did to Eastern Oregon go away, small towns in Eastern Oregon are still hamstrung by policies and decisions implemented in that era by ex-Californians.
The argument wasn't from the opinions of others as you read it. At some stage he wondered if he had gone mad or if the world had. In his discipline he probably knew a lot of use cases for SQL but could not see how Blockchain would help for any of his clients problems in many verticals. Of course he saw none. So he asked his mates. That is good, not lazy.
Exactly why Google needs to be reined in.
Or more like a younger Nicole De Boer.
An Airborne Solution for Off-Grid Energy
In Pursuit of the Purest Quartz
I was responding to this gem of your’s: A government is an institution which has monopolized the use of force in an area.

What you’re on about now, I have no idea.
To be consistent, let’s prevent their access to the sea.
Be careful about generalizations either.
That's why I said timestamped.

You would generate a new package, with the same biometrics, but with a timestamp after the revocation date of the previous package, just like today you can get a new passport with the same data as the old one.
This was my first thought as well. There are plenty of other legitimate uses for what amounts to rubbing alcohol. Especially when a war is on...
No saved places, and it also breaks time estimations for journeys
The blockchain enables a set of use-cases around trust, value exchange and cryptoeconomics. With these building blocks, there are a number of companies working on amazing projects that are truly revolutionary.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html
Financially speaking, what good paying jobs are in Boise? I have cousins out there who both graduated with solid degrees, yet can't find work outside retail, and have learned the hard way that becoming management in retail has massive downsides (esp. on one's family).
> Does not actually provide trustless consensus once 1/3 of the miner nodes decide to collude.

Source? This does not match my understanding of POW blockchains.
Because I want the stream receiver to be my own software.

A common use case is that I play a game and want to stream it, but also want to have music in background, and control that from my phone.

So currently I use YouTube TV mode in a browser elemnent integrated into OBS as audio-only stream, with the youtube app’s cast mode to control it.

But obviously I’d like to make this nicer.

And I also want to stream music to my raspberry pi, so it can play it on my sound system (which is dumb speakers with custom amp and setup)
Is this OSS? Is it available for use anywhere?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16898463
Would you rather take it from someone who has not had a taste of prestige, or even from someone who lost prestige?
Beginner Friendly Gentoo Based Sabayon Linux Has a New Release
> So many male calves are shot and discarded instead of becoming food.

Well, at least now I think I found out where all that cat and dog food comes from. Seriously, 90 million cats and 70 million dogs alone in the US, that's a huuuuuge load of food.
California is massive, and it isn’t all SF and LA. You’d think that electing Schwarzenegger governor would have been a hint as to some political leanings! California has a sizeable rural community, which is typical Right wing.

http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kfsn/images/cms/automatio...
> but more that these companies would/should have known that exporting it to Syria is a big risk given the current context.

The flip side is sending antiseptics such as isopropanol to a war torn country is akin to humanitarian aid.
> almost JSON: {'label': 123}

Almost is not enough. The parser of an API should reject to transform this into an object. It may be valid Python, but I would blame the first parser (see discussion on Postel's law here).
Mainly tech. I work in tech and have had no issue looking for work.

> 7,000 science, technology, engineering and math jobs went unfilled in Idaho in 2017, double the number from the year before.

Sources:

[1]: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state...
I found this list of all the different sorts of isopropanol uses interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol#Uses
I'm a big fan of having automation enforce as many rules as possible, but mostly because the cost for a person to enforce a rule (overly simple example being tabs vs. spaces) from a relationship standpoint can be absurdly high.

I'm tired of wanting to be a stickler but having my coworkers hate me for it. Getting the machine to stand in to take the brunt of the push-back is fantastic.

I'm fairly skeptical of how one could automate the more complex points of expertise, however. What would a DRY enforcement mechanism look like? "Found copy/pasted code, please refactor" comment in PRs?
Tickettailor.com is a good indie alternative. Easy to use and no ticket fees.
G Suite for Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar + phone support + other stuff: https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

Or, Drive storage by itself, which applies to most products with storage quotas such as Gmail and Photos: https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/

For YouTube, YouTube Red: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6305537

Another interesting experiment in the willingness of users to pay to remove ads is Google Contributor: https://contributor.google.com/
Boise is absorbing a lot of people who either can't afford to live in California any more, or don't like California's political environment. Boise is currently the fastest growing metro area in the US.

This is happening in a lot of mid-sized cities in the western US. California's economic / housing policies result in very high cost of living, which causes a significant migration of poor people out of the state and into places like Boise, Denver, Las Vegas, Beaverton, Fort Worth, and so on.

You can frequently find articles like http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20180203/packing-up-and-mov... from those places.
> A holocaust is happening currently

Jeez. You do know that Israel had it's 70th birthday only a couple of days ago and you sit here and, basically, relativize the Holocaust. Please don't do that. Thanks.
I totally agree. JSON to me is actually pretty straight forward, it's the parsers that interpret it differently.
You know that assembly lines are periodically rebuilt from scratch right.
It depends what you mean by 'improve'.

Preventing permanent injury is in everyone's interest and the synchronised interest can mean it happens quickly, yes.

On the other hand, video reviews in soccer create a bit of controversy and a human element that people enjoy.

FIFA's 2005 comment on this: "It's part of football" is undeniable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16896672
No they won't. They'll know that there exists a person who probably likes pizza and is gay. They don't know who that person is.
Wikileaks Claims Coinbase Has Shut Down Its Online Store's Bitcoin Account
TL;DR for those of us on small viewports?
I just heard someone mentioning above that it was based on Google, which I wasn't aware of.. I will do a search on that :)
She can, but the threat model here is so amazingly different than traditional threat models for username/pw that it is ridiculous to say that biometrics are usernames. Biometrics are biometrics. They are simply different. They have different threat models and failure modes than passwords. They are neither better nor worse.
Ethereum beautifully solved the problem of "how do I cheaply make a token with trustless trading semantics?", and it's been used to raise billions of dollars of funding. So that might depend on the problem you're talking about.

There's an enormous amount of interesting blockchain technology, so sweeping dismissals of it tend to be lazy and ignorant.
They're included with the motors I linked. They're basic urethane wheels with mediocre bearings. The hub motors require the built-in wheels, but you could replace the front trucks and wheels with something better.
World's oldest person dies in Japan at the age of 117
Best hosting services for Node.js
I worked with one person at Amazon who had a significant physical disability. I can't speak for him, but he is highly valued by the organization because of the quality of his work.
Automatic renewal has also been added in 10.7:

https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/ssl.html#automatic-...
Because the banks are trying to do something to replace cash. No one will ever find me if I pay for a fraudulent transaction with cash!

They could probably use some kind of reputation system to warn that a transaction may be fraudulent... But let's get real for a minute. You need to take some responsibility when you're making a purchase to make sure that the other party is going to come through. When it comes to concert tickets, doesn't Ticketmaster already offer services to allow people to transact in tickets?

Edit: One thing the banks could do, is differentiate between a person-to-person transfer, and a merchant requesting payment. There could be some kind of fraud restitution system when the payment is sent via a Merchant's request for payment. If someone asks you to send money without the normal merchant system then you know that it could be a scam. The banks could always warn that the person to person payment system is like putting cash in an envelope and cannot be refunded if there is fraud.
One interpretation of this is leaders viewing a young, "hungry" employee who likes to spend money as being more reliant on a salary than someone who's identity isn't so tied to spending money. If the hungry one needs a steady salary to maintain their lifestyle, they're more likely to be loyal to the company because they can't afford to leave. Of course that depends on the employee being someone the company actually wants to keep around and and whether the company can afford to pay them above market value.
A voice of reason can quickly be overshadowed by a wave of ignorance. The comments sections on most of the news articles I've seen, when they're up, are usually divisive noisy trolls.
>> That did not happen.

Counterpoint: It did happen. Only the country currently propping up the regime's genocidaires with all-out military support is claiming it was unspecified 'militants' who blocked the inspectors.
I don't see why this wouldn't be of any interest. Such a story would definitely be a hit. Lot's of laughter guaranteed.
pro tip: objects are never passed, object references are :)
This reads like a rhetorical question – 'what could possibly be the application for something this deliberately bad?'

I won't speak for what "blockchain" can or will become, but you might see the hype more clearly by considering the ideology inherent in asking specifically for the "proper application." You imply that you or someone in a position you understand might "apply blockchain" to a "problem," as you commonly understand it.

I see "blockchain" more as a movement, which completely evades "application" in the common sense. People building these technologies, and organizations around them, live in a separate world that makes little reference to the broader world of which most of us are a part. They start with distinct priors, which rule out most existing solutions on the grounds that they demand political centralization (see: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...).

You can summarize this ideology as: 'if there's a sysadmin, the system is broken.'

It may very well be the case that they are creating a new world that will be marginalized and outcompeted by incumbent systems and organizations, but that's how I understand what's 'actually going on'.