skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I think about 50-100 million users in world would be looking to have paid account. Since those are valuable customers who would definitely not want to have invasive, tracking advertisements and advertisers definitely want to target them. The only way it would work is if FB totally does away with advertising.

With current numbers the way it could work is if those users make annual commitment of at least 500-1000 USD or 200-400 dollars / quarter.

So the users with loud ethical voice and concerns about negative affects of advertising can save the world from this whole tracking business by committing about 1000 dollars a year.
I saw this post for an hour before I realized I had misread the title.
Meanwhile the worker bees pay 35-50% in income tax and other withholdings between state and federal. That pisses me off so much
> FB only pay effectively 11% tax

It's the same for Google. Might be a weird one-off due to the new tax law.

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2018Q1_alphabet_earnings_releas...
The world's largest consumer market, among other things, more than make up for the inconvenience of specifying that a screw is one-eighth of an inch.
i don't understand a business concept that provides essentially a combination between what you get at a public library and what you get at a workplace for a fee.

they are a "salon" for techno-imperialists who think they are too good to stare at a computer at a library or starbucks

if they make money though, i guess they prove me wrong.
I mentioned beer because the process of capturing CO2 from fermentation and re-injecting it was invented by my family a century ago and apparently was the first of its kind (according to my uncle).

My cousin and a friend of my father are working on accelerating plant and algae growth with CO2-rich atmosphere and water, in urban farms (not greenhouse) and mixed-use aqua-farming respectively. Neither have reached scale yet, but the projects seem promising -- enough that both have considered colocating with industrial CO2 emitters.

I also believe that some people are looking into re-using CO2 to store energy from solar power: focus solar rays and get CO2 to react into longer chain hydrocarbons thanks to catalyst. I’m less familiar with that process.
I'd look a few words further back, to where the comment explicitly says as much:

I imagine [Nabokov's works] are like those of other Russian writers
I really don't get all the JS scoping hate. Especially because its quite similar to Python in that they both have lexical scoping with functions introducing new scopes, and I rarely hear complaints about Python. I guess this scoping might be annoying to people coming from C-style background, but it's really not all that big of a deal. JS even has `let` now to allow blocks to introduce new scopes too.
That’s not so much saying the F150 is efficient as it is saying the 2018 Taurus is sadly inefficient.

The F150 is a huge and heavy vehicle. While the current model is more efficient than other recent models it is not an efficient car. Not remotely.
The new MacBook Pro (2016 to current) is a mess on multiple levels, the entire thing should be scrapped and redesigned.

The 2015 model and before remains the best Mac laptop, it's too bad they couldn't just update that to have 32GB RAM and a modern CPU. The keyboard is already great, it already has many ports that are widely used, it has a hardware escape key and function keys, it does not have an annoying touch bar, it's an upgrade in every possible way compared to the newer mess for what a "pro" user actually cares about.
I totally get what it does, even if I hadn't seen it before. What I don't get is (a) the use of the word 'match' (that's unfamiliarity) and (b) the proposed syntax which looks like an absolute mess, something worthy of PHP, and the fact that we end up with something that isn't a function but is recursive. Or something.

'x => x = 1' in Javascript, is an expression that resolves to a function. I do understand the difference, and it's important.

'match(x) { {x} => foo }' is not a bag of functions but a new use of the '=>' operator that is confusing/surprising. I can get over it, but why should I have to?

'match(x) { {x} : foo }' would be less surprising.

You're saying 'match({x:1}) { ....}' is an expression, but is 'match(x) { {x} => foo }'?, What does it resolve to? It smells like it either isn't an expression (just as you can't write x = switch(x) {...};) or it's a new kind of function.
Make sense since it's basically illegal to sell large luxury cars anymore, and light trucks are the new luxury vehicle.
I don't want to buy a new machine (yet), I just want to try it out.
I'd say it's less about Lisp and more that the ML lineage is finally getting its day in the sun (and not before time).
> I've wondered sometimes whether we're headed towards a post-privacy world

If post-privacy worked both ways, I'm all for a future like that, it would be a transparency utopia.
From the appeal:

>Lundgren objected to the PSR infringement amount. He argued that the Sentencing Guidelines required the court to use an infringement amount of about $4 per disk, which was the price for which Lundgren and Wolff were selling their copies.

That's a different number than the article claims.
A quote I noticed in fortune(1) today: "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

Seems particularly apt in this context.
https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/906189639802859520

Jorge Timón was pitched it

> Was he soliciting investment though?
> Jorge Timón @timoncc Yes, he and another guy were claiming the classical computers simulating quantum would be a mining revolution.
I am not confident in my ability to do that but it's good to know there is a solution if I get desperate enough. My mechanical keyboard is saving my life right now.
Not so simple. Is their suit likely to be won? Are the unemployed able to pay expensive lawyer fees?
> I would revise "burning white hot rage I have for Debian" to "burning white hot rage I have for the Debian release team".

Debian, as a project, appointed the release team and granted them the authority to make this decision. Therefore, IMHO, it's perfectly fair to attribute "Debian" to the decision. As long as you understand that it's not the Debian MySQL/MariaDB maintainers :)
My only problem with scooters is the assholes who ride on the sidewalk and then run into you.

I could care less if they want to ride in the street without a helmet. Good luck with that.
Secure mailbox for single family homes. Solves theft and missed deliveries
The idea here is to build a secure mailbox for single family homes to solve the problem of people stealing your packages and to solve the missed delivery problem. The device would be about 1 cubic foot in size (average size of a package).

A similar concept was launched called Mailhaven (https://mailhaven.co/) which is sold direct to consumer. I don't believe consumers want to spend $100+ dollars to solve this issue, which is why our idea is give it free to consumers and charge the shipping carrier (UPS/Fedex) a very small fee when they use it. The key here is that it costs a carrier an average of $15 to redeliver a package (and our fee to deposit the package in the box would be substantially low).

Next steps:

Buy 5-10 ready made safe and put in sensors to detect when a package is inside and when the safe is open

Deploy these 5-10 protoypes in our neighborhood, targeting neighbors who have packages delivered often

Gather data, and continue pitching to smaller couriers in our city (ex: target Fedex route owners)

Concerns we have:

Our business model is reliant on getting UPS/Fedex to partner with us

We can't support bigger packages (and maybe these are the ones that matter most to consumer and carrier)

Amazon could make this faster and better than us

Any thoughts on the overall concept? Any major roadblocks I'm not seeing?
And the US system is one of the main reasons there's resistance to loosening single-payer in Canada. Wait times for MRIs (and other procedures) depends on need -- low priority cases will get bumped for more immediate issues. Psychiatrists _are_ covered under MSP (with a referral), although psychologists & counselors are (generally) not. But non-government insurance plans will often cover them as well as prescriptions and other non covered services. Such extended medical plans are often a work benefit (like in the US).
I wasn't talking about JSX one way or the other - just trying to explain what the issue with PHP was and how the industry moved away from it.
Find it strange that Europe has 1.8x the users of the US but only 40% of the revenue.
no way would i give up magsafe for usb-c
Slacktyping: script that shows as typing when others are on slack
Most people wouldn't blind update Windows versions (specially in a working environment), yet you updated your distro in a working environment without looking at release notes and are blaming the developers?

Just learn from your mistakes and carry on.
Not in a position to hire you but I highly recommend contracting, or presenting as a one man dev agency. People treat signing up with Top Development Pty Ltd much differently to hiring Mr Potential Felon.

When myself and a friend were doing it for a while we were continuously amazed at just how trusting people were. No background information, credential checking, nothing. Just "here you go" and they hand over credentials to all of their core business and customer information to some guys they just met.

We were also charging $90 hour as people who didn't really know what they're doing. I understand you need money right now, but I definitely think this is a route you should consider in the future.
I didn't say that he exposed himself to his own children. I'm just surprised a father of so many children would be so tone-deaf to how a young girl might react to such repulsive behavior from an adult.

The most recent incident involved two 17 year olds, but his previous arrest was for exposing himself to a 15 year old. FIFTEEN. 15 year old girls don't look like grown women.

I get that sometimes teen girls look older than they are, but that doesn't make it remotely ok for a grown man to expose himself.

And I must say... I hardly believe this guy has only exposed himself to girls twice.
Maybe. But couldn't we at least ask the question and have the same studies done on eliminating health insurance that we did for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementing the ACA did not exactly go as planned either.
We are not heading to a post-privacy world.

Post-Privacy means no one can get privacy even if they want it. That has never been the case.

What you are merely seeing is people are ok with the amount of data that has been collected on them. The lack of true widespread outrage means we are either at the limit or we can still collect a bit more before users get really pissed.
So presumably the mainframe has code that can parse these non standard files? Just take that code and build "on the mainframe" a tool that converts their non standard csv to something more usable.
> People have easier time learning English, and it eases the communication a lot

Is this really so? Are you sure having a different alphabet would make it harder for people to learn a western language? I am Russian, and I can safely say that pretty much every literate adult in Russia who has at least a basic school education can read Latin letters just fine, because there is no way around it; the alphabet is taught at school.

If an argument is to be made at all, it's probably that it may be harder for the foreigners, never trained in reading Cyrillic, to start reading it, but I am not sure it's of particular concern. I wouldn't expect significant numbers of people flock to learn Russian (or Kazakh) as a foreign language anyway, because why should they?
Anyone can make money while the markets rise, but HFT probably won't keep you afloat when the markets fall.
> A few billion in costs of such changes, even for a poor country, will produce a good ROI

Strictly from this perspective alone this change is a no brainer investment.
For anyone who hasn't already read it, this essay by our own Paul Graham describes this process:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I've never been to Europe but I have spent time in Asia. It is certainly true that not everyone speaks English and some people may speak English only at a rudimentary level -- but how many languages give you the ability to expect even that? I'd bet that English is also very near the top, if not at the top, of the list of languages used to conduct conversations where neither speaker is native.
I'll grant that as a theoretical rule, but most communities are not tech communities. Suppose that you're able to pick one which is not dependent on any undesired proprietary/attention-sucking/etc. medium but is still interested in the things you're looking for. (Many communities are not very fungible.) One day:

“Hey, I like what we're doing, we should set up a group for it to make it easier to keep up with events and stuff.”

“Telegram? That's what everyone else seems to use.” “Yeah, I've already got that on my phone.” “Me too.” “Yup! And I've got this great sticker pack I want to show you…” “Hey, can you show me how to install it?” “Sure, it's easy, just…”

“Awesome, I'll set it up.” (tap, tap, tap)

(Substitute Facebook, or Discord, or whatever else.)

Gradually people just kinda forget to post things anywhere else, because it's convenient and lets them post from their phone and they get all the encouraging responses they wanted there, and so it gradually becomes common knowledge that that's the place. The choice of platform isn't in their community identity, so the default is whatever people gravitate to that doesn't require doing something unusual.

If you don't integrate psychologically with the popular platforms, you're not really choosing to not be part of a specific community, because that's what “popular” means: you're choosing that the set of communities you can explore in the first place is whittled way down, and your membership in any you do find is now precarious. “Pick a community that doesn't do that” not only raises the difficulty at the beginning, but it also doesn't save you later.
Yea the number of unpublicized civil disobedience (protest, whatever) in China is pretty staggering. China media doesn't pick up on it for obvious reasons, Western media I guess is only interested when they can fit it into their narrative (e.g. 6/4), which isn't the case for relatively uninteresting protest at random factory or whatever. I mean you see some on Western news, but it's like 10 strikes/protests a day on average, and we don't see the scale of it here.

When you see that, it frames a lot of the party's actions and you see why (maybe you don't agree with it still, whatever). Basically scared shitless of a mass uprising, and trying to keep enough of the fires out, or at least mildly smoldering instead of rating.
Also worth checking out Kni, an authoring language inspired by Ink but written in JavaScript, ideal for bringing this kind of content to the web: https://github.com/kriskowal/kni
Not to mention the UK tax on it
I really miss the wagon, too.

It was made illegal by the fuel economy standards, since its a car.

An SUV is a light truck, so it has different standards applied.

That's why there aren't any large cars anymore, and the SUV market is the luxury and family market.
What blockchain technology is like, sort of
19 at University, not 16 kid

https://twitter.com/peterktodd/status/906189639802859520
If you’ve played any inkle games they’re very far from dungeon.
That chart is very interesting. It looks as if you can predict where the trend started and reversed. Any pointers on how to decide the LE and SE points?
Amazon Workers Booed Jeff Bezos in Berlin
I read this as "We can't compete where we're not protected by the chicken tax[1]. See you later."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
See also https://github.com/petertodd/timelock and similar projects. There might be a way to combine these two concepts plus ephemeral keys as used in perfect forward secrecy, so that the switching technology isn't a single decision to publish a key, but rather time-locking a share of a Shamir-split secret and constantly rolling it forward as the pings happen -- or letting it run out and reveal enough shares for anyone to decrypt.

I think it's really, really hard to guarantee that information has been destroyed, especially in a decentralized system, so you won't have the assurance that information was (1) available to encrypt, then (2) unavailable to anyone because it was destroyed, and then (3) somehow recovered, recalculated, or discovered to once again allow decryption. That feels isomorphic to the problem of time travel.

But maybe combining these technologies will provide a way to compartmentalize the risk of early disclosure sufficiently to satisfy some use cases.
In 2008, just emacs + pdflatex. Some of the bibliography pain is now easier with apps, but I didn't use any then.
15 year old girls don't look like grown women.

As stated above, I was being mistaken for an adult when I was a 14 year old girl.

You do not need to hire this man. You also don't need to shit all over his attempts to put his life back together.

He has stated that his therapist sees him as not at risk of reoffending.

Edit: I will add that I believe I have spoken to this same individual before and I politely chided him at that time because I felt he was being a butt and, no, was not reformed. He's not being a butt today, here, in this thread. I think he finally got the memo that sneering at societal mores is a good way to make sure you and your kids starve.
Speaking of which, Ethereum is not really novel either. Bitcoin includes its own VM which has opcodes that allow smart contracts too... just most of them are disabled because the reference implementation had bugs at the time Satoshi abandoned the project, and the development process is currently so calcified and politicized that development has essentially ground to a halt.

The concept of memory-hardness is not really novel either, see: bcrypt/scrypt.
Fast forward to 2018, and we have Windows Subsystem for Linux, and a very popular BSD in silver aluminum cases made by a fruit company, dominate the desktop market. You could say that the year of linux on desktop is today (in some perverse modified form, but nonetheless).
If I recall correctly, your structure describes a future not an option.

If you buy put options for X at 10, and call options for X at 10, then if the price moves down you exercise the call option, and if the price goes up you exercise the put.
Unless the price is totally fixed, you make some profit. The real question is whether this profit outweighs the price of both your options.

You need the price to move sufficiently for this plan to be worth it. Especially because in any case, either your put option or your call option is worthless. Thus, you need twice as large a price move as when buying only puts or calls. The upside is that you don't need to care about the direction of the movement.
I mean, you have no reason to suspect he was ever violent. On the other hand, if he flashes women at the office, they'll sue the company. If the company is well known, the press is going to get to that. Anyway, you have shit on your hands. If you are not the owner, just an employee in charge of recruiting, you may even lose your job. It is a bit risky.

But I don't see a problem with hiring the guy to work from home as a contractor.
I can't speak for nodesocket, but I noticed the $SYMBOL convention become popular to denote a ticker symbol when Twitter started treating $SYMBOL as a hashtag (often called a "cashtag") a few years ago.

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/230098997010911233
Many countries did - see Estonia, or Poland.

My parents' generation in Poland used to speak and read Russian, have Russian friends and so on. The majority of "trade" was also with Russia.

Nowadays, everyone learns English, the new generation doesn't read cyrylic. The trade between us and Russia is a weak shadow of it used to be.

Feels kind of like breaking up with an abusive partner, who kept you under lock for many years, telling you they are the best that can ever happen to you, and that you'll never be happy with anyone else ;)

Changing the alphabet is one of the steps towards building trade and relationships with English-speaking world. Good for them.
It was a multi-year effort including us asking specifically for the policy to be spelled out at why there could be only one. IMO the Debian security team wrote a policy specifically to target Oracle in this specific instance, as a result. Digging it out is painful, as it all happened back in 2016, but you can start here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793316
> And it shouldn't even be used for data transfer: it's a markup language

XML could never be used for data transfer. That is being done by the protocol. That would be, in most of the XML cases: HTTP(S).

GET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stones/wp:discography/w...
GET http://store.steamcommunity.com/profile/myprofile/games.xml/...

Wow! That's a beauty! And that's only because XML is BOTH a document and a data structure. It has two personalities, but only one identity. And it is not schizophrenic about it. It's always clear.

> A lot of that is because XML is objectively insane

I don't find "everything is a node" to be insane. It's like "Everything is a file" followed through up to the atomic value.

/net/host/volume/directory/file.xml/document-node/some/other/node/attribute

or

/net/host/volume/directory/file.xml//all-nodes[@where-this-attributes-value="foobar"]

Looks like a perfect match for both command line as well as RESTful access.

> monumentally over-specified

The XML spec, while having a healthy size, is not overly big: https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/

Do not confuse the additional specs like XSL, XPath and XQuery as the "XML" spec. These are your toolbox. And their volume is in no way bigger than any of the frameworks, programmers use. Also XSD is not really part of the XML spec. You don't need it in many cases.

It's a meta language, that consists of a simple convention: Elements and Attributes. You name them what you want and get a document, that, at the same time is a queriable datastructure. But I've said that already...
Shippers blame Amazon for crippling driver shortage
One can hope! Perhaps they'll remake the Ranchero on the Escape or new Ranger platform.
I’d suggest trying / making Lithuanian zeppellins. They are heavy, but good. Especially if you nail bechamel sauce!
So Nabokov read the complete works of Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Flaubert between the ages of 14 and 15. Probably each in their respective original languages. Humbling. Or he's misremembering his childhood :)
But it will never truly be post-privacy. As always, the rich and powerful will carefully guard their privacy all while saying to the rest of the world that you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.
Ethereum Classic lives on, feel free to support it with money/code if you feel so strongly about immutability at all costs
F you money
When gas prices are high, people still want and need trucks. It’s the large passenger SUVs that take the biggest hit on gas prices.
> but I never met such a person.

Probably 30-70% of every FSU republic except Belarus.
Independently of the background checks that European companies might not do, any European government almost certainly knows that he's a felon and would bar entry. That would preclude showing up for an in person interview or ever showing up for a company event.