skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're arguing for the remittance use case but this has been shown to be inefficient compared to other methods [0][1][2]. Maybe lightning network will change that but again, it is just a wild guess from crypto-fans right now... and that's my point: why are we spending so much on hunches? Why aren't we building this thing responsibly if we know it costs so much in electricity?

[0] https://www.coindesk.com/why-bitcoins-remittance-disruption-...
[1] https://medium.com/cryptonight/bitcoin-doesn-t-make-remittan...
[2] https://www.saveonsend.com/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-money-tra...
You can buy that smell in a spray can.
I think you meant “Splunk” :)
They want to have their cake and eat it too. In a few months, if there's any interest in that subculture whatsoever, someone will probably write a column on the impact this death had (or had not).
This project reminds me of https://www.thelightclock.com/ where the time is displayed by blended colors. Maybe this project could have a similar setting?
Yes. I began working illegally at fifteen, I was lucky my boss didn’t bother to look at the age I wrote down on my application. I was able to buy clothes and food. At sixteen I got a second job and still went to high school. I was homeless and lived with my boyfriend, I did as much homework as I could and pulled C’s that year. My mother and her boyfriend bought a house and then decided they had enough room for me to live with them. My father was missing and presumed dead. I worked and spent my free time at the library and the gym. Being home meant subjecting myself to verbal abuse. I saved my money and moved to Silicon Valley right after my 21st birthday. I became a bioengineer and now I’m a stay at home mother and married a programmer. You can escape. Work, save, study and stay away from family members. Join a gym, use ear plugs. Live in your car/van in a nice town if you must. Do not stay around others in a poverty mindset. Get a cup of coffee in a cafe in a wealthy part of town, observe how they interact and emulate them. Go to free meet ups to be around people in a higher social class. You’re going to be working harder than anyone else around you for a while, that’s ok. Follow advice from early retirement blogs, take any shortcuts you can to success, don’t waste time getting a degree. Don’t do anything risky with your health or money. You can take risks in a few years. You can make it out. If there is anyone reading this in a terrible situation I can offer more advice.
Counter to your glorious Fahrenheit 451 perception of either contemporary society or our future one, it’s just as dystopian to permit humor to be used as suppression of a marginalized subset of people. It is perfectly acceptable to expect that people not discriminate against others that are unlike them, in any way, lest that be a possibility. The key to humor that is actually funny is understanding that, particularly how the word I intentionally emphasized applies to comedy.

(Not saying that happened here, just reacting to your broadening to “policing humor.” Humor is also, you know, funny. That did happen here. Stallman should stick to his day gig.)
I just learned about Nominal Pipe Size, in which the number that precedes the word "inches" does not refer to any actual measurement on the pipe. The specific characteristic of the gas grill pipe hookup on the back of my house that makes it a "half inch pipe" is that it has a .84 inch outer diameter; there is literally nothing about it, including the inner diameter, that could be described by the words "half inch".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_Pipe_Size
For the moment. I don't know that I'd want to build a business - and certainly not an aircraft production line - on the assumption that oil will remain this cheap.
But that's exactly my point. With rational reflection you know that none of those things are true. In the moment, the delivery is going to push you into a threatened, emotional place.

Assuming that the attacker is correct and that it's your fault is not always the right thing to do. Some attackers are malicious and will use your emotions against you.

Power dynamics will not always permit you to appeal to a superior. Sometimes you need to deal with a bully yourself.
Since you mention it, let's have a moment of silence for all our ancestors who died trying out random things they found in the forest, so that future generations could know exactly what is and what isn't edible.
IMO this is much better than what IntelliJ does.
None of this has anything to do with what's going on in this story.
Your first point is not true, at least not where I live. It is legal to enter an intersection to prepare to make a left turn before oncoming traffic has cleared. This very scenario is spelled out in the NYS drivers manual— see the second example under “right of way”. [0]

[0] https://dmv.ny.gov/about-dmv/chapter-5-intersections-and-tur...
Customer service and total disregard for what customers wants. Not to mention their "mobile only" stupidity starting with Myntra which they were trying to extend to Flipkart but stopped just in time.

I just can't believe that Flipkart still doesn't have filter and sort by ratings. There can be arguments about how effective ratings are but this is one feature I definitely need for buying or booking anything - from my stationary to hotels and buses.

PS. I just logged in to Flipkart to check whether they have added that feature yet. I guess my last login was a year ago or more. Last purchase was on July 29, 2015.
The problem is that a lot of accidents are not reported and even injury severity can be very subjective (especially if there's an interest to do so[1]). I prefer counting fatalities because it's a hard endpoint - bodies are hard to hide.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ogxZxu6cjM
You won't have a problem if you buy "big-ticket" (I'm using this word incorrectly, but hopefully you get what I mean. Normal consumer goods(?).)

If you buy something used, or something with a lot of knockoffs (Xiaomi) or old tech (GameCube Controllers) there is a chance you will get a counterfeit.

I switched to buying all that stuff from eBay and it's much better. Untrusted-by-default makes eBay a very healthy marketplace to buy and sell in.
Took a class with Brent at Williams College when he visited for a year. Brent is awesome!! :)
Not much. It's just another data point on a curve clearly showing that reading news stories is not just a waste of time, but actively poisonous to the mind.
We use confluence for internal documentation that we wouldnt want public. Can that be done with Github or is your confluence used for public documentation?
Jokes may be fun to write. But when you're scouring a manual for a needed function, and you're confronted with a smarmy joke, it probably won't be as fun (especially if you're reading the manual to troubleshoot something.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives#Pentalobe
Every time I see that IANAL acronym, it's like this:
iMac, iOS, iPhone, iAnal

TMI?
>The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy.

I'm going to be just a little pedantic here and point out that the Slippery Slope fallacy is indeed always a fallacy, it's just that not every argument based on a so-called slippery slope is a fallacy.

The fallacy is in the failure to demonstrate that the "first step" leads inexorably to the "final step" which is, of course, portrayed as a step people generally wish to avoid.

If one can demonstrate a plausible line of reasoning connecting the first step to the last step, no Slippery Slope fallacy has been committed.
AptDeco (YC W14) is hiring a full stack engineer in NYC
That's a fair point. After all many Vedic recitations are replete with syllables whose purpose is strictly musical/mystical and without concrete meaning, the most famous being of course "AUM", but also the sequence "shrim, hrim, klim, glaum, gam".

If you peruse the book that Michael Wood cites in that comment, you'll find many other Vedic examples of meaningless musical particles like "ha bu" and "bham bham".

Conversely, in the Indian pakhawaj drum composition recitation system (of much more recent vintage than Vedic chanting), there is a form called Paran where the opposite takes place: The semantically meaningless, but rhythmically sophisticated patterns of drum syllables are overlayed and interspersed with phonologically and rhythmically similar words drawn from Sanskrit, usually descriptions of a deity. The words in this case play second fiddle to the structure of the musical composition. Here is an example:

https://youtu.be/hJg4NOCKTZI?t=443

The Michael Wood documentary, while overall pretty decent, unnecessarily exoticizes it in the example of the Kerala Brahmins, but you see very similar phenomena (melodic meaningless syllables) in popular and folk music around the world today, from India to Motown. In fact, there's a vocal technique from Jazz called scat-singing, that exclusively uses meaningless syllables:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing
> Some regions (esp Tamil Nadu) are actively antagonistic toward Hindi.

People of any region tend to be antagonistic towards crude attempts to force a foreign language and culture upon them. Hindi has no common ancestry with South Indian languages like Tamil. In fact, Hindi-Urdu-Farsi is from the same language family as English. Therefore, Hindi is just as foreign as English to South India and therefore it makes much more sense for South Indians to speak their native tongues and a useful foreign language like English or perhaps Mandarin in the future rather than be forced to learn Hindi.
I think people are posting based on their personal experience I got fake macbook Pro charger (sold and fulfilled by Amazon)
2 times out of 5 purchases so now just buy directly from apple when I need any Apple accessories.
Great article. Goes into how to effectively influence people to change.

The biggest takeaway for me is that people who are reluctant to change are going to be more so if they see you as someone trying to find mistakes in what they do. Instead they should see you as a friend.

Very eye-opening, and refreshing reminder that soft skills matter.
Isn't it a little hyperbolic to imply that an offhanded joke is suppressing a marginalized subset of people? Or that it was discriminatory?

Here's his full reply in context:

https://lwn.net/Articles/753654/
I'm not sure that's fair on the voters of LA. We passed a $1.2B sales tax to specifically try to go after the problem here (and not just push them somewhere else).

As for the police, I honestly don't think I've ever seen one police officer harass a homeless person (or anyone really harass them, for that matter). Santa Monica police were always remarkably respectful when dealing with the homeless population there, and I don't believe I've ever witnessed an interaction between LAPD and any of the homeless near my current home.
I'm not a potential co-founder, but was curious and visited your site. I had a strong, visceral, negative reaction. I've probably never gone from calm to angry so quickly on a non-ideological site before.

Why don't you explain what "begin" will do? What is the site for? Is it just a dark pattern to feed an algorithm and invade people's privacy?
If I'm not mistaken, car makers first lobbied to outlaw jaywalking. So if it's anything like the past, protesting self-driving cars and protesting the laws will amount to the same thing.
Biology of Disinformation
20 years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac
I've never liked style committees. I've never seen one do anything to actually improve code comprehension, but I've seen plenty of bullshit that kills velocity and sucks all the joy out of programming.
Carbon emissions from tourism are rising at an alarming rate
I'm a big fan of RMS, but I've got to say "No". He's not a maintainer. He doesn't get a vote. If he wants to work his way back into that project, then I've got no problem with it. But he doesn't. It's like the CEO telling you that he wants a joke in the technical documentation for one of your libraries. They might get away with it because of their position, but it's an abuse of that position even if the CEO used to be coder #1 on the project.

Not that it doesn't happen all over the place...
Advantages of gold over bitcoin:

If there's a total internet && computer && electricity apocalypse, a physical barter exchange with gold is more trustless than bitcoin. You can still transact bitcoin but there's trust involved.

Advantages of Bitcoin over gold:

No trusted third party (If you're moving sizable sums of gold, you're doing it with a trusted third party[TTP))

99.99226%[1] transaction uptime (Your TTP keep business hours)

No countries win the gold-geography lottery (Your country that has no gold reserves can still accumulate)

Instantly assay the value (gold takes time)

You can use latent renewable energy to mine bitcoin (the way that miners remain profitable is by using cheap hydro power that would be wasted if not consumed) No need to blow up mountains to sift for gold.

Bitcoin is programmable value (People in places without functioning judicial/commercial systems can create contracts with each other)

You cannot practically bring more bitcoin to market if the price increases (The price of gold dictates which gold fields are profitable to produce)

Most importantly, it separates money that citizens use and the onus of financial obligations that the oligopoly (Banker's bailout 2008) and political class (Endless war) place on citizens.

[1]http://bitcoinuptime.com/
This much is true. I agree.
I disagree with your statement and find that it upsets me. I am writing a report to HR.
Or, you know, install these tools and get started:

Scanners:
- Nikto (https://cirt.net/nikto2)
- A comparison of tools from 2017 (http://sectoolmarket.com/price-and-feature-comparison-of-web-application-scanners-unified-list.html)

Web Application Firewalls:
- ModSecurity (https://geekflare.com/install-modsecurity-on-nginx/)
- Enable OWASP rules in ModSecurity (https://geekflare.com/modsecurity-owasp-core-rule-set-nginx/)
- Vulture (https://www.vultureproject.org/)
- Pay $500 to have SpiderLabs configure ModSecurity for you (https://ssl.trustwave.com/web-application-firewall)
- Nginx (https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-waf/)
- Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-web-application-firewall-waf-generally-available/)
- AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/waf/)
- Symantec (https://www.symantec.com/products/web-application-firewall-reverse-proxy)
- Incapsula (https://www.incapsula.com/website-security/web-application-firewall.html)
- Smoothwall (holy cow, they're still around? https://us.smoothwall.com/utm/)
- Shadow daemon (probably defunct, https://shadowd.zecure.org/overview/introduction/)
- IronBee (same, https://github.com/ironbee/ironbee)

Hardening guides:
- Apache (https://www.tecmint.com/apache-security-tips/)
- Nginx (https://geekflare.com/nginx-webserver-security-hardening-guide/)
The ideological control - via identity politics and associated infantile concepts of safe spaces, trigger words and the 'right not to be offended' - has finally landed on the mainstream open source software development, after preparatory excursions into gaming, Tor and few other 'fringish' niches.

This ideological carpet bombing was neccessary because there is no other way to control the open source community - there is no simple corporate hierarchy and money by itself is too slow and doesn't always work.

It serves the purpose - the servility is rewarded, and the opposition is punished. The end result is more pliable "open source workforce" - yes, there is such a thing, and the assurance that it will not engage in controversial developments, for the simple reason that personal servility to political correctness is highly correlated to personal servility to the prevailing power.

In this particular case, it is about Orwellian purging of the inconvenient history. This comment was document of its time, several decades ago. Software has history. Everything humans do has history. The abort() itself is a history, as someone thought of it few decades ago. Are they going to change it to freedom() now? Why do manual pages have to look 'nice' to victims of arrested development?

What is next?
Ask HN: How can a web app operate on user-held data?
How can I reduce the need for gathering data from the user and storing it on the backend?

For example, let's say an app that I'm building is based around birthday/gift reminders, and depends on users adding important dates of their important people.

It would be nice to increase trust by not actually collecting the information, but leaving it on the user side instead. Is this possible? Is it worth it to the user to bother?

Perhaps if the data is user-side, that could require an algorithm that runs user-side. However, why would anyone want to run untrusted algorithms locally?

Just interested in hearing any ideas out there.
When my daughter was 10 we were waiting in line to checkout at a Home Depot. She asked me what was algebra. I think she had heard the older kids mention it. I responded with a question. "A plus B = 10, and A minus B = 1. What are the values of A and B?" She puzzled it over while I check out. Then her face lit up like a whole realm of knowledge had just opened up to her, and she proudly told me the answer. It's a special moment that we will both always remember. She told me that as a camp counselor that she has challenged younger kids who seemed bored with the same problem.

Do challenge your kids intellectually beyond their years and you might be pleasantly surprised. My daughter heads to CERN in two weeks to study anti-matter, and I have no doubt that our brief intro to algebra at a Home Depot has a small role to play in that journey. Maybe Star Trek did too :)
I enjoy that when the intelligence and brashness has a point other than stroking its own ego. Linus for example, is an example of the positive (imo) face of what you’re talking about, because it’s not about something petty from nearly 30 years ago and his desire to be in some kind of control. You know that even when he’s harsh and outspoken, odds are he’s making a really good and relevant point.

I’m not seeing that here, just a lot of heat and no light.
I'm not saying you're wrong.

But I prefer to think of it as who is a protected class reflects who has the political power to make protected classes.

It's a model that generalizes well, even back to when Jim Crow laws decided who was protected. And I expect it will continue to reflect the changing conditions of future society.
Problem is selective enforcement. They have a member on their core team who has advocated violence in the past. It's just that it's violence against white people so it's "OK". They also have another person who is advocating violence against men. But again, their 'thought police' cops haven't done a thing.
In reality I was just nitpicking. Doing the win-win strategy I described does require more willpower, and I understand that one employs tricks like these to avoid using willpower.

Incidentally, I somewhat envy people who are capable to pull such strategy off. It requires some amount of suspension of disbelief, forgetting for a moment that you're the game master and playing the game by the book way past the point it's become uncomfortable. I don't have that. I tried many times, but my mind just refuses to participate in self-trickery.
Others are working on that. The US military has already tested flying airplanes using sustainable biofuels. Once that fuel becomes commercially available, any airline will be able to use it in Boom aircraft (or any other airliners).

http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=96702
i am not talking about remittances though that is also a legit use case. i just meant overseas business.

i don't really see its electricity use as a big issue since market forces will inevitably reduce cost or increase supply.

part of the reason though people will put a lot into an experiment like this is that the network effect is important to its success. needs to be very liquid.

for me personally having a fungible electronic currency that cannot be taken away by law or inflation is itself valuable
Regarding standing the test of time, one of Donald Trump's first acts in office was to reinstate and expand the global gag rule:

https://www.apnews.com/868c8211b4f948d8b7f7ce58ab08a78b

That isn't a comment on whether the joke should be removed or retained, but it's worth noting that this "stale joke from the '90s" is actually very relevant to contemporary politics.
Have you read "Animal Farm"?
You guys both seem to really want there to be high-stakes politics implicated in this story, but there aren't, and pretending that there are looks pretty dumb. It is unlikely in the extreme that the maintainers who want to remove Stallman's dated, unfunny joke are pro-lifers. Presumably, they just think it's a cringey distraction, like this subthread.

The issue is whether Stallman gets veto rights on glibc commits. The maintainers say he doesn't. Since Stallman doesn't do much glibc work, and the maintainers do, presumably Stallman is going to lose this, unless they let him save face out of affection.
Its not commonly known, but the initial generation of commercial power reactors in the US is basically the result of technology transfer from the Naval Nuclear Propulsion program.
I'm not a cruise ship kind of guy either. Part of the reason is because - from what I've seen - cruise ships are just one big indoor party, with nothing interesting outside to look at. An airship flying over land would have ever-changing interesting vistas to look at.

Also, simply, flying.
The disengaging prophecy is fulfilled! For my next trick, I shall make this subthread disappear!

(Focus, people. Stallman’s commit bit. Stay on target and let’s figure this thing out. Did we get closure on the apt-get cow, or are we tabling that?)
The US used "code talkers" in both world wars. Code talkers were Native Americans recruited to pass messages in their ancestral languages. The Germans became aware of code talkers during WWI and afterwards sent people to the US to learn the native languages. This proved to be difficult as there too many dialects to learn them all. During WWII, code talkers were used much more against the Japanese and less in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker
How do you deal with the cultural challenge of convincing people there's value and selfish benefits to having more transparency?

I've noticed that in large organizations certain information are held by a small number of people who may be reluctant to share them for political reasons. Another challenge with internal prediction markets is the possibility that knowing the "probability" of an project-related outcome reduces morale and hence creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that further reduces the chance of success. Appreciate your insights.
Is it possible that in a regulated airline market $20k roundtrip went not into the marginal physical costs but regulatory overhead/profits/recovering fixed costs? If I showed you that a can of Coke in a Disney world vending machine was $3, and told you I could get a can at $0.30, would I have performed a miracle in the soda sciences?

$8K is a normal RT JFK-LHR ticket today in business class. This is vs $800 in economy. However, Boom proposes that the same $8K can support economy-style seating traveling at Mach 2.2 instead of mach .80. It does not seem unreasonable to me that 3x the speed will cost ~10x as much.
i think somebody is bored with maintaining this huge runtime library (its an important, but not the most exciting type of project) and needs a little bit of diversion...
He gave an example of something that is not possible without writing native modules for each platform in React Native.
You've just described my gastrointestinal system.
TeamTab: Synchronize your team
Don't do most of this.
κυβερνητική (almost)

It's actually the same root word as cybernetics.
Meaning governance. Hence tools named like Helm etc.

I believe it's the root of words like 'captain' too. Maybe even related to Caesar / Kaiser via Latin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics#Etymology