skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Converting your gold token into gold and having it shipped to you may be problematic, but once you have the gold token, it's transferrable

"I want to sell you this gold token. You can't convert it to gold, because the gold was all stolen."
As RussianCow said, I think you're misreading my post. A Python variable, from a type perspective, is a variable with a type Any/ a type that is a union of all possible types.

Using annotations you can then specify the type.

Nothing to do with weak/ strong, which merely imply some level of implicit casting.
Whenever I'm feeling bad being behind on something, I think of the F-35. Doesn't exactly make me feel better, but at least reminds me it could be worse.

Israel took delivery of five of these 2016-2017. I wonder how they're faring.
The F-35 program is an amazing thing in 2018 when every war in the last two decades has been mostly about ground insurgents. This, taken with the fact that we've had massive technological advances when it comes to drone warfare and the F-35 very much looks like a plane from the past, not the future. It would seem to be much wiser to scrap the program and re-focus on drone based solutions but that's going to hurt someone's ego so it's likely the F-35 will continue.
Actually the core of what I was trying to say is not about learning styles at all. You can use a real-world editor and a completely different learning style to create a real world application (by following along tutorials for example). The big difference, and that was the point I was trying to make, is that in a real code editor, you're learning while building in a real-world environment. Even if you stop in the middle of your journey, you will have built something that you can share with friends. Whereas these types of apps will take you through a journey which is great, but I wonder how many take the step of going to their computers, opening an editor and building their first real application.
Good question! We're building Grasshopper while we're within Google's Area 120, so the easiest way for us to ensure Google's privacy best practices are followed is if we use Google Authentication.

It might be possible for us to convince the powers-that-be to use another form of authentication, but for right now, we're sticking with just Google Auth.
Ah.

So these are two completely orthogonal issues. The question of what you do with the result of an experiment is completely independent of whether or not you can reproduce that result. The latter is what is under discussion here.

So you can, for example, observe that there was a solar eclipse at a particular time and a particular place. But you cannot repeat that observation. (By way of contrast, you can drop and object from a particular height and observe that it takes a particular time to fall. You can repeat that observation.)

What you do with those observations has (almost) nothing to do with whether or not you can repeat them.
It's trickier than that for the website owner. EU citizens accessing websites through VPN's are still protected by GDPR.
It cost $20,000 a day to protect Mark Zuckerberg
That's fair. I was specifically referring to the McDonald's bit (and what I know of their former dress code). I had meant to look up the songbook thing.

EDIT: Actually, looking at that songbook, I'd still say it leans more towards controlling than infantilizing. By having people participate in a common display like that you get them to act as a group (positive thing), but based on the lyrics they're almost like corporate versions of jingoistic/nationalistic songs. It's a brainwashing thing.

This is still very different than infantilizing. It does signal a lack of respect for their employees (to a degree). But it does not indicate treating them as children.
It's just a mascot. O'Reilly programming books have cartoon mascots too.
>We had one payment blocked by Radar due to it being from a "high risk location"

This, to me, represents the worst that banking fraud protection has to offer. Just yesterday I (from the USA) tried to purchase a software license for a tool I've been using the free version of for a long time. My card was declined, so I used my American Express. About two hours later, I got a call from my bank's fraud department saying they had blocked a transaction to the UK for fraud prevention, and disabled my card to protect me. Apparently the bank (a small US-based bank) block any transaction in the UK as it's a "high risk country"... I'm sorry, but this is the Internet. No one cares where the company is located, and I have no way of knowing beforehand that the payment is processed by Stripe US or Stripe UK. Blocking entire countries for fraud prevention is a really lazy way of doing fraud prevention.

But I've even seen worse at another bank. My area of the US doesn't have Publix grocery stores. Apparently this bank considered shopping at Publix to be unacceptable risk when I was traveling for work, and disabled my debit card because of this. Stopping at Walgreens beforehand and getting dinner the night before wasn't suspicious though.

Bank fraud is a hard problem, and taking lazy solutions doesn't solve that problem. It just hurts customers and hurts businesses.
Is anyone even working on this? I don't remember seeing foreign function bindings in wasm other than for JavaScript.

If there are no competitors, JavaScript wins by default, just like C ffi did on server and desktop.
I disagree. __init__() should do little more than assign attributes to parameter values, with the exception of handling `None` default parameters, and this exception only exists because Python's default parameters don't behave intuitively.
WebEx is malware in my opinion.
I work on Stripe support. Chat support's now available through the Dashboard Monday through Friday, 24 hours a day. We're testing phone support, and we're working to roll it out soon. If you do run into any issues, always feel free to email me at edwin@stripe.com
Yes, there are hundreds of articles about this. See for example: "The Mating Crisis Among Educated Women"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15736410
Rip-off doritos anyone?
The source of being pissed of now is higher then usual injury rates. It is good that such a thing pisses everyone off.

Valuing mans dream and ambitions over people he hurts on a way is wrong ethics. People who cancel on dreams when they are causing damage are superior.
but, at the risk of rabbit-holing, your suggestion would be a pretty fundamental change to how the web works. in effect, you'd be moving toward a splintered web, where content is basically region locked.

I think you're spot on, but that was the danger of implementing heavy-handed legislation like GDPR all along. I believe that EU citizens are going to find themselves locked out of a whole world of content. But that's the world they've chosen to create for themselves. Further, if the overwhelming support that GDPR has on HN is representative of that of the entire EU population, they welcome this newly splintered world and its consequences - both good and bad (though I believe that this support is the product of the mistaken belief that the world will simply play ball and be dictated to by the EU, rather than the rest of the world simply taking their ball and going home).
I'm starting my own ICO: it's a hitlist platform for scammy ICO-founders.
Doh. You are right. Apologies for the snark.
> I wanted this to be easy.

Famous last words :P
Isn't that literally what Instagram is for?
Wish Apple would make it so that, if a number is not in my contacts, it goes straight to voicemail (without turning on Do Not Disturb).
Moving beyond the middlebrow dismissal... The only thing wrong with the Dow is the way it's weighted. Not a particularly relevant concern for the metaphor.
>Specifically, Facebook is not managed by a "political unit". It's managed by its owners, who have authority over it because it is their property and they have property rights. Governments do not own their citizens. They only have authority because citizens agree, whether voluntarily or through intimidation, to respect that authority.

You're comparing apples (FB code) to oranges (citizens). A fair comparison would be users to citizens, or platform code to national territory.

Facebook does not own it's users just like a government doesn't own it citizens. A nation owns the land within it's boundaries just like FB owns the code on it's platform.

>And no, FIFA does not call itself a government. It calls itself a "governing body" in the text you just quoted. That is not the same thing

Again, a government is literally defined as governing body, even thougg you don't like it. Do you think there is a government that doesn't have a governing body?

>We both know I meant a group of people who get together after work to play for fun, and that the people "in charge" of that are obviously not a government. Claiming that that's false because it's not 100% true for FIFA is a pretty egregious straw man.

Claiming that we cannot call Facebook a government because a local football club is not typically called a government is itself an egregious strawman; apples to oranges again. FIFA is a far more comparable to an international entity like Facebook, isn't it?
So replace HTML with the JSON?

out({command: "new_text_box",
border: "grey",
content: "hi there!"})

looks a lot like

<div style="background: grey">hi there!<div>

The browser is complicated, because its an abstraction that runs in almost every modern environment. Once WASM gets document bindings, writing web code will become language agnostics.

Also how are you going to bind interactions with the UI? I see a global event listener, but that would become unmanageable.
I would argue the value of ETH (the asset that backs DAI) crashing from nearly $1400 a couple months ago to a low of almost $350 a few weeks ago is pretty strong. What other asset has these sort of swings in such a low amount of time? The fact that the collateral backing DAI has dipped and yet DAI has remained stable is a testament to the systems underlying it.

What could kill DAI would be ETH crashing to near zero rapidly.
> The money to keep the machine going must come from somewhere, and in this case that somewhere is a new investor willing to subsidize profit-taking by earlier participants in the scheme by committing risk capital of his own.

This exact thing could be said about bitcoin and other cryptos and any other scarcity based investment vessel. It sounds like a horrible flaw but it didn't stop anyone thus far.

The only thing this indicates is that at some point in time baecoin will loose its peg. But it might be decades in the future.

Although I think author is spot on with overall assesment. And failure after loosinh the peg will probably be anything but graceful.
Desktop Metal – Affordable metal 3D printing
Susan Fowler’s next act: Ending forced arbitration
To some degree, if your first instinct is to quit, then the email has done it's job. Elon wants to scale up production which will require sweeping changes and he will want all of his employees 'on board'. If you are not interested in helping the company grow, then quitting is the best option at that point. I suspect for most employees it is just business as usual.
Agree. We have a non-US Stripe account, so we are heavily penalised when we try to charge the US market.

Large percentage of support calls start with "my bank blocked the transaction because it was international / fraud"

Incorporating in the US is not a feasible option. This is where Stripe's "Global" reach and 150 currencies loses a bit of power.

Would be great if there was a way non-US stripe merchants could bill us customers as if they were in the US. Sure it is more of a regulatory/legal issue than a technical one.
Can you describe any difference between these two scenarios?
The stupid and uninformed do not deserve to be victimized.
That's wishful thinking. In reality, if this was a scam, the guy always was a criminal and people who invested were fools. No need to post a cliche about people who got rich suddenly...
> Elon Musk is the Preston Tucker of our time — seems to get hammered from all sides while trying to break the status quo. I have no information to comment on the validity of any allegations, but it seems like Musk is continually under attack. I was a moderate Musk fan before, but now I am really hoping for his success. It seems to me that if you are pissing off everyone, you’re doing something right.

Maybe you should read about the allegations? He's under attack for abusing his workers. This is a good reason to be pissed off, and a good reason _not_ to hope for his success.
Strange to disparage uBlock Origin while praising Facebook Container, because the latter is weaker than the former.

uBlock Origin with either "Fanboy's Third Party Social" or "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" selected will block all third-party connections to Facebook servers, period. Of course Facebook can still spy on you via other spy companies, but the "EasyPrivacy" list cuts that down a lot too.

On the other hand, Facebook Container still happily connect to Facebook servers from third-party websites, leaking your IP, useragent, the URL of the webpage you're viewing, headers containing fingerprinting information like fonts , etc. Facebook Container does one thing and one thing only: strip off the Facebook cookie. But this is almost worthless from an information theoretic perspective, because Facebook can trivially de-anonymize you through IP/timestamp/header correlation.
I don't think this functionality is anything new, it's just a design pattern. As for safety, you're absolutely right. Best practices dictate that when calling other contracts, you should mark the code as untrusted, and treat it as such. It's somewhat analogous to running untested dependencies, and stipulating in your requirements that the latest version of those dependencies should always be deployed.
The only response I can really offer to somebody using your definition is "I too hate society" (with my tongue firmly in cheek). Which says to me that it is not a particularly useful definition? I mean, dictionaries are useful for the elaboration of terms, but picking a dictionary reflective of the legal environment might be wiser[0]. A crucial nuance that the definition you quoted lacks is that vigilantism is the enforcement of the law by parties not so empowered. It's monopoly-of-force stuff. The definition you offered turns the word into a nearly null term.

"Hey, don't hire that guy or I'm not going to do business with you" is not a third-party attempt to enforce the law. It is a declaration of, like, a transactional condition. The company receiving that message can weigh whether or not putting up with that guy (or even if they are deserving of opprobrium in the first place--after all, maybe the person talking to them is wrong!) is worth the hit to their bottom line and decide accordingly. It's a transaction, it's not a violation of the state's monopoly of force, it's not "vigilantism" in any way that makes the term meaningful and useful in a sane discussion.

There are bounds we have placed on some kinds of transaction--you can't sell yourself into slavery (by some definitions at least), a business can't refuse service to a protected class (unless it can for a set of prescribed reasons)--but "hey, that guy's a jerk and I'm not gonna do business with jerks" is far afield from that.

[0] - https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Vigilantism
I recommend Privacy Badger, sponsored by the EFF, which is supposed to block trackers. I prefer it over Ghostery, which is backed by some company.

uBlock Origin is great for blocking Ads though. If you really need to block scripts, there's NoScript.

I recommend using at least the adblocker and the tracker blocker, even if only to reduce memory usage of the browser and take back a couple of CPU cycles from your computer stolen by pesky ads.
Some of my favorites:

- "Book with No Pictures" (B.J. Novak [yes, that's Ryan from The Office])
- anything by Sandra Boynton
- Boxcar Children series
- Cam Jansen series
- "Ada Twist, Scientist" (Andrea Beaty)

We have tons of books, from a variety of sources; some are duds, IMHO, mainly gifts from my MIL (tip for giving books to children: read through them first, from the perspective of reading that book every day for a month; bargain bins contain tons of garbage). Unfortunately, the kids like some of the duds, so they slip them in from time to time.
Show HN: Forget cartoon mascots, our project got a theme song
The complaint here is that moving from js to wasm means you can't tell if a package is maliciously exfiltrating your sensitive data. That presupposes that you can read and understand the js code. If your argument here is that you can't be confident in your ability to read and understand the js code, then moving to wasm is no longer a problem.
> If you want to do dynamic visualisation with something like Python or R in a browser you need need a server, and that incurs significant latency.

Not true. Bokeh (http://bokeh.pydata.org) lets you build interactive web graphics that run purely embedded in a static HTML file. No server needed.

(Of course, it also has a server-based mode that lets you build interactive analytical viz apps, with browser interactions automagically driving Python callbacks)
Big Brother Meets Black Mirror in the Middle Kingdom
> it's worth catching him just for the principle of the matter

Pardon me, I did not mean to imply we shouldn't go after him. We should. Just wanted to remind us that these scams cost the general public money. Those costs are part of what securities regulations protect us from.
Can we get an alternate method for the signup process? My children who have devices don't have Google accounts.
> I don’t know how you can link to an article about banning killing machine video content as a comparison to banning gay content with a straight face.

Many Americans value their first and second amendment rights. PS I'm gay.

Google, Twitter and friends also censor Islamic fundamentalist content and discussion, along with other subversives.

Subreddits about drug use are removed often. Talking about using drugs isn't a crime.
The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture (2016)
Interesting. Perhaps you've been using spaces all along, but somehow they appear to be tabs to you. What a twist that would be.
Just imagine how bad space heaters based on electricity are. Baseboard heating, radiant electric heat it's all terribly inefficient and turns 'steak' (electrons) into hamburger (IR radiation).
Kerberos and AFS use it! There a few others that can, but it's client dependent. It would be nice if more things supported it out of the box.
That's always been my take on it, but it's innovative, and it makes the most of what's there. I like how the article essentially points out that the cartridge, for all its primitive functionality, is essentially a BASIC IDE. Another great example of pulling functionality out of its rear end is BASIC for the Bally Astrocade, where they basically intercalate the bits of BASIC program space with bits of video memory. Of course, this also hamstrings your ability to take full advantage of the hardware, but hey, everything has its price.
Building isn't expensive. The space above the land is (infinitely) expensive due to zoning constraints.
This is from April 1 2017 and much of what was written in this article does not apply any longer. The reason the US does not go 100% into drones is because drone jamming technology is not something that can easily be countered (the Russians are jamming US drones today in Syria).

The most interesting use of the F35 is not as a weapons platform but a sensor platform for sneaking behind enemy lines and picking targets for ship based weapons platforms to attack at distance.

The F-35 is definitely not a perfect program but as far as the military and US national security is concerned, not having the first 5th generation fighter would have been a much more significant failure than cost overruns.

Beyond actual use in war the purpose of this fighter is to tell other nations that if you want to go war you need to to spend $1.4 trillion dollars and countless years of research to even reach parity.
You are correct, but current college graduates (so 56% of them women) are in the "dating pool" much more so than the 60-year olds (where a higher percentage of men are educated, but not much dating going on).
You mean like https://demo.bokehplots.com/apps/gapminder ?
Shift workers lives can be hard, but you're exaggerating that first part. Yes, the person would need to work around court proceedings, but those are known well in advance. The much bigger risk for getting fired as a shift worker is unexpected stuff like your kid waking up sick that morning or your car breaking down.

The second part is valid, I agree - background check could be a problem in later jobs. But that wasn't the question here: the author claimed that "in almost any other walk of life" a person would lose their current job. That just seems totally false.
That's very clearly incorrect.

"U.S. authorities want to extradite from the Turks and Caicos Islands a Jamaican banker accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of nearly $300 million"

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-caribbean-ponzi/u-s-seeks-...

Or for a lottery scam:

"Eight Jamaicans, including a former police officer were last week extradited to the United States to face charges related to their alleged involvement in a lottery scam."

https://www.caribbeanlifenews.com/stories/2017/5/2017-05-12-...

"Prosecutors in several cities across the United States (US) are getting ready to unleash a wave of up to 500 [!] extradition requests for Jamaicans they believe are involved in the deadly lottery scam."

https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/caribbean-us-prepares-to-r...

They'll extradite you for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton_Harris_Moore

Or if you're a Medicaid fraud commiting dentist, they'll also pull you out of the Caribbean:

[2017] "Detroit dentist charged in Medicaid fraud scheme arrested in Caribbean"

https://www.wxyz.com/news/detroit-dentist-charged-in-medicai...

They'll also pull you out of the Caribbean for an alleged murder from 14 years ago:

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/13339613-74/suspect-arre...

But you don't think they'll go after you for $50m in fraud? It's very obvious they will.
I thought control latencies still weren't low enough for drones to compete with human piloted aircraft?

Unless the solution is AI.
The cost of the alternative shape keyboards put me (and a lot of colleagues I've talked to) off for a long time. Glad I did finally save up to buy one! Pity I work on the road a lot and have to still use laptop keyboards a lot of the time.
> investigation

That's an important word, since it does not mean that he is convicted of doing so. If investigation immediately meant guilt, the world would be a very different place.
This might have been true 10 years ago with versions like PHP 4. But remember many companies have invested a lot into PHP including Facebook. In the newest version of PHP what you said cannot apply with a type system, OOP features like traits, class inheritance etc.
It seems like you need to address both: Utah has seen good results from providing housing because that makes treatment programs more likely to succeed but it's a very hard problem without a silver bullet.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678779/Is-Utah-still-...
A friend of mine mentioned how the F-35 runs so hot that it has to cool its fuel to stop it from boiling. If that is true, how does it retain stealth in the face of thermal radiation? Like, I get radar absorbing paint, but how does one stop heat loss?

Any design I can think of amounts to carrying some really cold stuff with you and dumping the excess heat there when you need thermal stealth, but surely that can't be it.
Not necessarily. I'm not talking about the weights of a neural network per se. I'm talking about something like a specific neural network architecture, or a specific feature engineering procedure.