skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, front page headlines has always been subject to this.

But with the internet everything is the front page, and stories only get promoted based on how clickbaity they are. I can look past the top headline, this is several orders of magnitude worse.

Paywalls made this much worse, now every single link has to sell you a subscription. Which is bad enough if you don't pay for a subscription but absolutely devastating if you actually paid for content that only serves as bait for people that don't.
Attackers Fake Computational Power to Steal Cryptocurrencies from Mining Pools
Format shifting isn't erasure though.
Rescue lane on a German Autobahn
https://100speed.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/film-degradation/
Out of curiosity...

Why Fuji? Is there any specific thing about those RAW files or just your use case?
You may appreciate Kevlin Henney's talk, "Procedural Programming - It's back? It never went away."[1]

It's a tour of how all the best discoveries of the past decade or two really date back to the 1960s.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
MacOS: Introduction to JavaScript for Automation Release Notes
Sure, but this is presumably just a small sample of his work that he's most proud of and has self selected.

It's interesting / surprising / puzzling to me that someone who has spent a lifetime cultivating his craft and presumably knows far more about design than I do would choose to showcase something that appears to me to be a total eyesore, which makes me think I might be missing something.
A quote is not evidence, and Swinton died in 1901 according to that page. It tells us one person's perspective (in one moment) of journalism then, and tells us nothing about it now. Do we look at catchy quotes from professors in 1901 to learn what academia is like in 2018?
So if all the qualified people for a job are employed, and I want to employ one more, all I have to do is offer more money?

All that happens then is that a suitable applicant quits their lesser paid job and takes mine, but at a market level that just shuffles the problem around. There's still an unfilled vacancy. It doesn't matter how much money you offer, the invisible hand of the market can't magically conjure up qualified experienced applicants out of thin air.

This is the problem with this kind of blinkered market forces fundamentalism. The market isn't instantaneous, there isn't an endless supply of every product or service depending only on price, to fill every need. The real world is lumpy, and slow, inelastic and constrained.
Things not so often mentioned in the Hydrogen vs batteries discussions:

- just fueling hydrogen vehicles requires an substantial amount of electricity for the compressors. An electric vehicle could drive at least 10% of the distance on this electricity alone. That is not counting the compression work at any the production site and when filling the trucks.

- distributing hydrogen requires trucks. In most places, the elecricity network is available.

- refueling with a hydrogen vehicle is faster then recharging. But you have to refuel them at fuel stations. Electric vehicles can recharge at home or any parking lot with outlets - more and more companies have parking lots with electrical outlets.
My computer glasses are prescription. Next time you get an eye exam you can just ask your doctor for a prescription for working at your computer. My vision up close was already pretty-darn good, but the prescription adds just a hint of clarity (I see the pixels now much more distinctly than I had before).
Your app shouldn't suffer SSL's problems (2011)
This is a great tool but the interface are a bit simplistic, the the point that it distracts from the utility. I assume you know this though.

It wasn’t clear to me that the grade at the top changes as you choose options. Most tools would show the score at the end of the process. I scrolled to the end and then hit the email sign up, as if it was the button to see results.

I’d suggest to make it impossible to select mutually exclusive options. For example, selecting that the record is still sealed cuts out a lot of the questions, but there is no indication in the interface.
Good timing showing this on Record Store Day

"a badly warped record is most of the time (if not all) also audibly warped."

I find that there are other variables involved. I have warped records that are standard 33rpm, which play fine. If the record is 45rpm, there is a much greater tendency to skip.

The type of music also matters. With Music with a greater dynamic range, or with more "quiet" parts, you can "hear" the warps as the needle bounces up and down. With louder music, this noise will be hidden by the music.

Nice tool, I'll try a few more examples.
The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages [pdf]
Reminder that every human culture figured out how to (2017)
How can someone effectively research which centers are good? It seems really vulnerable to hucksters putting on a good show.
That will never happen because the lawmakers (i.e. wealthy elite, not democratically elected representatives) will never write laws to punish themselves. As long we live in a plutocracy we have zero hope of personal accountability for these sort of criminals.

They will however pass brutal laws sentencing poor people to 35 years to life for possession, an other disgusting shit like that, but that's another story.
Hey, thanks for writing all that out. I shared your comment with my family and it really made a positive difference in a long-standing disagreement we’ve had. I hope you continue to post your thoughts here.
Ask HN: Wireguard over OpenVPN?
I have been using OpenVPN with SOCKS5 proxy for sometime. Recently I stumbled upon Wireguard protocol[0] which seems really promising. I have started migrating my machines to Wireguard (with multihop) + SOCKS proxy setup. Is Wireguard a future of a VPN technology?
Ask HN: Presenting current employer projects to potential employer?
Let's say you have an upcoming interview with a potential new employer who's in an entirely different industry from your current one, and they'd like you to give a presentation on one project from your past that you've worked on from start to finish. I.E. what was the scope of the problem, how did you go about solving it, etc. To test technical ability, leadership, and presentation skills.

If your only projects that are big enough in scope to be a presentation like this are ones you're working on at your current employer (and you're not aware of any NDA you've signed), how do you deal with the situation? How do you know what is OK to present and what is not, if you don't want to tip off your current employer that you're looking (in other words, can't ask current employer if this is OK)? Is it reasonable to take a project you're working on now and change all the details about it, but keep the same gist of it?
Show HN: Writt – Make and publish notes from Telegram
Seconded. I currently pay for Dropbox solely to store RAW files. Would pay Flickr instead if this was offered.
Unbearable verboseness is also part of the problem.
> How much beef do you have to feed the average banker per transaction?

How much banker do you need per transaction? With modern banking, most everything uses as few humans as possible (if not simply because they're slow).

> When compared to the enormous inefficiency of the global banking system, the energy consumed per transaction for crypto comes out far, far ahead.

Do you happen to have any sources for this? I wasn't able to find much after a quick google search.
Yes, and then 30 years later, that no-longer-preppy-young MBA is still there.
He runs lambdaconf, and refused to disinvite a speaker who many people felt shouldn't be permitted to speak because of his historical non-technical writings.

(I've tried to keep the above as dry as possible to avoid dragging the arguments around this situation into this thread - and I suspect the phrasing of the previous comment was also intended to try and avoid that, so let's see if we can keep it that way, please)
[2016] Benchmarking Message Queue Latency
As it was in 2009 where me and you and every John Q Taxpayer contributed to the yacht and private jet fund for the Wall Street execs that stole pension money from millions of Americans, tripled unemployment, caused hundreds of thousands of excess deaths in the subsequent economic downturn...

Nothing pitchforks, molotovs, and sturdy rope wouldn't solve, but I guess we're just too comfortable to do anything but passively let them f*ck us in the butt.
This will be a tongue in cheek comment, but there's another thing Datomic isn't making you do either:

GDPR compliance
Buy ticket to Ecuador / Peru.
Head towards Amazon basin.
Is advertised around.

Ecuador shaman / healers / dealers whatever you want to call them are government licensed (san pedro / ayuascaha. Peru they are not. You can find good places in both, but more cowboy outfits abound in Peru
http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/CrustAbundance.al.html

From that link platinum is 3.7E-6, others [Li, V, Co] are O(2E-3), or more, by percentage of Earth's crust.
IPv6 Active Webhosts Hilbert also exist based on Akamai data as I found this d3 block by Vasco Asturiano:

https://bl.ocks.org/vasturiano/0c0f60cf193fa3a04b5d414aed6f5...

The author also has some other cool d3 visualizations of IPv6 Routes, AS, as well as IPv4 allocations.
i am almost never surprised when I am reading java code. Its almost never about the code.

With scala I seem to have wtf moments about the language every once in a while. (eg: magnet pattern)
I saw a talk by researcher in the UK who has been toying around with the concept of cryptocurrencies with useful proof-of-work schemes.

Mirror of Faye's talk slides here: https://yadi.sk/d/8ezgDZvO3PLZ6C
I'm not sure I agree with the previous poster about phones, but I never signed a 50 page lease agreement. Typically they have been about three pages. Buying a house requires a bit more and a home loan requires a lot more, but it's only once you are taking a home loan out that you end up with a contract comparable to what internet companies come up with. Further, when you take out the home loan and make the purchase, there is a human being to walk you through the details. Also, I consider a house purchase to be significantly more serious than a pay-go phone.
By lawyers of the rights owner.

I might be misrepresenting the claim, which is for offering distribution via torrent, but that is equally nonsense, as a sharing ratio below 1.0 actually impedes the system.
Kafka switched to java 100%, afaik.
Well, they do support extinctions?
Beyond Black Box Management
(In investing jargon, this is known as the "Death Valley Curve.")

All this time I thought it was a biblical reference but I guess it's actually about California. Everything's about California, really, when you get right down to it.
Where does the Internet go to ‘Change its mind’?
Wow, that's great.

Here's my attempt at building something for language learning since my listening skills trail so far behind my reading skills: https://www.danneu.com/slow-spanish/

It parses this painstakingly created file: https://github.com/danneu/slow-spanish/blob/a455da3a230632c2...

Unfortunately it's really hard to generate the source material (timestamping a transcript).

So my idea was to upload some slow-speaking audio to Youtube and let it autogen its .srt subtitle files. The subtitles don't come out perfectly, but it's the timestamp data I'm after since the goal is a UI that makes it easy to replay and scrub around spoken audio.
That doesn't answer the question. Do corporations have the right to bear arms separate to the rights of the members of the corp - can Google keep an arsenal even if none of the people in it had a gun license?
That presentation was really good! Well explained on the simulations. If one wanted to get into this exciting event and create something with FoundationDB but no database experience (I do know many programming languages) where would I start? If anyone could point me in the direction, I'd greatly appreciate it.
That's how my tailor operates, too, and I wouldn't have it any other way. If sartorial skills were my forte, I'd be his competitor, not his customer.
For any turks here who can't parse the title, this is about the "arzuhalci".
It it still built with Ruby?

I would much rather it is provided as it is. I mean No one should ever think of Open Sourcing it as a responsibility.
Thank you, that's good answer!
It's the same in both directions. It's very visible in London where all companies are in the same locations and people transfer back and forth.
Sounds like a good time for a fork of bundler.
I think this is an important point, and I know it often derided as people asking a company to give something away for free, so I want to defend it.

I admire Cognitect's ambition in going up against big database vendors as a small team, and creating something very unique. That said, as a user, it's frustrating that when I get an error I can't just pop open the source and see what's going on. It's frustrating that the console could use a few usability improvements that an interested OSS developer could add, but that don't happen. It's frustrating that the Client wire protocol hasn't been released yet, so support for non-JVM languages (which are provided by the community and do not have official Cognitect support) are stuck using the deprecated and unsupported REST interface.

I am not ideologically against proprietary software, I just think Datomic would be orders of magnitude more useful with an active OSS ecosystem around it.
Because that's not how gratis is used. In analogy to "persona non grata", that would be "America is an acceptable country". It may be gratuitous or gracious, however.
I like how this works. Need to use more extensively to understand cons.
First time I've seen a Nigerian domain name used for a US tech company. Cool idea.
I get the relationship between the smelters and the power industry in Iceland, but despite that industries problems (I am not a fan) at least there is some economic activity going on there.

With mining, essentially we are building damns and steam generators to fuel heat dispensation for the benefit of helping some speculators win bets against other speculators. This is not economic activity imo, but some fancy techno-casino. I feel I am very justified in calling it idiotic.

And lets not ignore the externalities here. Just as miners can server as price competition to the smelters, they also out-price other potential activities. Not just as buyers of electricity, but also as investment for those that are running the datacenters. As long as the mining option is on the table, these operators and investors have no incentive to find other uses for their computer farms. Just buy some ASICs and be done with it.
Just to be clear, the liberal activist community didn't start the bathroom fight. That was something that hadn't been an issue before that conservatives turned into one for easy "they're coming for your children" points.
This seems pretty silly. Facebook will probably die at some point, but you need an opportunity, some need that they are not meeting. If you look at the things that were serious threats to Facebook: Instagram, WhaptsApp, Snapchat, they weren't just Facebook clones, they did something fundamentally different that was still social, where that different something was not a good part of the core Facebook experience.

If the thesis is that Facebook's privacy issues are an opportunity, I think all the previous attempts to replace Facebook over privacy concerns should make it clear that it is not.

I think this competition's focus on teams with "ability to execute" is falling right into this trap of thinking if you just make something a little bit better it will siphon users away, but what you need it something that is social, but still fundamentally different, something you can't really achieve on Facebook at all.

And even if you are building the next Instagram, I think the recent travails with Snapchat should be illuminating, if Facebook can't buy you, they will try to copy you, and that will make your life very hard because then you no longer have a differentiator.

Facebook is not asleep at the wheel the way MySpace was.
How to attack the social media incentive and privacy problems
Hydrogen has serious technical issues compared to batteries. It is very hard to store, easily flammable, can cause metal issues -- see hydrogen embrittlement and attack -- and is basically not present in nature except as a byproduct of fossil fuel extraction.

So you need to dump a bunch of energy in creating a very difficult to handle material. In comparison, battery tech gets 7-10% better each year and has the immense economies of scale of electronics, electric motors, and power electronics all driving down cost and increasing competition.

There's a reason oil and gas companies propelled a lot of this development.
I don't drink, smoke or do narcotics, so I have no first hand account to agree or disagree with the veracity of this study. However, what I have experienced is sleep deprivation (not insomnia but self induced sleep deprivation because there is just not enough time to do stuff) makes me creative. I find solutions that are innovative, out of the box, laterally thought etc to problems that keep bugging me (I don't mean just programming or software problems). The strange thing is, the solutions come out of nowhere, like a divine inspiration or something.

And just like being drunk, the sleep deprivation, at least to me, causes noticeable loss in physical strength, makes me irritable and generally less socially convivial, causes gas, heart burn and bad breath, even shows signs of the dreaded ED, but the benefit of solution epiphany makes me want to go through it often. I know its bad for the health, so, now that I am over 35, I use it quite sparingly, only to problems that I estimate are really worth it.

The epiphany thing doesn't need sleep deprivation and there are several 'aha moments' in the normal state. I am sure most people who routinely ponder on problems have had this experience. But the quality of solutions and the thrill it provides makes the Sleep Deprived Solution Epiphany (tm) quite a stimulating and almost spiritual experience. I feel refreshed and more confident in my abilities after an episode.
...Or as I've recently taken to calling it, Smugmug plus Flickr.
Material icons generator
Da Vinci paintings in CryptoWorld
Hey! I've made smt, I think it's gonna be interesting.
You can become an owner of Da Vinci paintings which is obviously one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you. No one can replicate it, take it away, or destroy.
What do you think about it?
Here is the link https://cryptoartworks.io
I think the main advantage of Markdown is that the source is equally readable without having to run it through a processor.

I don't think this really applies to this Mermaid library. For a Markdown-like I would expect more of an ASCII-art like input, which would look like the rendered chart also in its ASCII form.
As stupid as it sounds, I stopped using Flickr because I was forced to use a Yahoo account. I just wanted to login, not have another useless email account.
That's caused by regulation. There are easily 100,000 people who studied really hard at their nursing degree or pre-med who would make fine GPs if they were allowed to try.
> However, I am considering an even more general scheme, where it is possible to define what is meant by addition, multiplication, etc., for new datatypes unimagined by the language designer

So, um, like this?

signature RING =
sig
type t
val + : t * t -> t
val * : t * t -> t
val ~ : t -> t
end

> Extensible generic operations are not for the faint of heart. The ability to extend operators after the fact gives both extreme flexibility and ways to make whole new classes of bugs!

This is precisely why parametric polymorphism is superior to ad-hoc polymorphism as a way to enable programs to work in previously unanticipated situations. Don't work with concrete use cases, work with the minimum abstract requirements that allow your program to work!

> On the other hand, some mutations will be extremely valuable. For example, it is possible to extend arithmetic to symbolic quantities.

So, for example, like this?

functor PolynomialRing (R : RING) : RING =
struct
type t = R.t list

fun xs + nil = xs
| nil + ys = ys
| (x :: xs) + (y :: ys) = R.+ (x, y) :: xs + ys

(* define multiplication and negation too... *)
end
The homework is 1 or 2 hours for the candidates and it only takes 10 minutes to review for the employer.

It's much lighter to schedule than a phone interview that requires a 1 hour time slot with everyone during working hours.

Ignore homework that takes 10 hours to do. It's abusive and it only selects desperate people with no family.
LiPo Batteries expand because they're being charged/discharged incorrectly. Batteries burn because they're being charged/discharged incorrectly.

"poses no safety risk" is a fairly high standard when discussing incorrect battery management.
In my experience, the only time it is appropriate to refer to a reporter as a "journalist" is if they are either unemployed, or dead. Reporters report, writers write, where "journalists" occupy a kind of vague institutional gatekeeper profession that is (rightly) being usurped by people taking up the former trades using tech and social media.

I have strong opinions about this.

Writing press releases, ad copy or doing PR work is only offensive to a small cadre of journalists who try to cleanse themselves of the "taint of trade" as to somehow differentiate their role from people who are judged by the quality of their work, and not their approval by an institution, credentials, or perceived political legitimacy.

A reporter is an artist taking risks in a trade with real public value. The modern journalist is a kind of official court jester, selectively using the cover of speech protection to carefully trade favors for "access."

If as a society we want better reporting, reporters need money and autonomy. Viewed this way, the availability of gigs in PR to support the art, especially at the expense of the preciousness of journalism, is of net benefit to all.
Sadly, the reason PoW works as a way to provide a trustless system that functions as long as 51% of the power is neutral, the solution has to be completely random and unpredictable. Otherwise the operator with the most powerful rig would outperform everyone else often enough for the system to be susceptible to bad actors.

It is not sufficient for the PoW just to be extremely hard.
No one considers it? Did you miss the giant tax code overhaul that was based on this? It's economic orthodoxy in the US government and corporate sector.
Practical Event Sourcing (2014) [video]
Show HN: Password Generator Online
OP here :)

True, in that there's no solution out of the box. I kind of want to make a "look at all the things I have to do", and GDPR compliance is one of those things where there are probably many ways to do it wrong with Datomic, and a few ways of doing it right.

One thing you can do, is to have a separate database for each person/user. It is trivial to join across multiple databases in Datomic, and you can even do crazy things like joining between a database and an excel spreadsheet. And deleting an entire database is easy. So there's that.

There's also excision, but that's a super expensive operation that you shouldn't be doing as part of your day to day routines, according to the Datomic team. I'd like to know more here. For example, is it OK to excise data once a week? Maybe it's GDPR compliant if deletion requests are batched like that.

There's also crypto shredding (encrypt values with separate key for each user, throw away the key on deletion request), but I'm not sure how GDPR compliant that is, since it leaves a lot of metadata behind. And you obviously can't encrypt values that you want to query on with the query engine.