skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in whether one of the two extreme sides of this debate will admit they were wrong when their prediction doesn't pan out.

Either we wind up with a tiered, cable package style internet or we don't. I'm in the "we won't" camp", but I'm also more disturbed by the monopolistic nature of ISP's that the regulations emboldened.
In an article full of legal cases and law, I am a bit surprised to not hear one of the better argument for privacy.

Put me in a legal case where I (and only I) have full access to mobile data and Internet traffic for each of the 12 juries, judge, lawyers, prosecutor and their families and friends. Does the design of the legal system still work when one party can use data together with machine intelligence in order to figure out how to influence and manipulate the participants? I think the answer is a clear No, and I have heard a professor of legal history come to the same conclusion. The legal system as it is currently designed can not operate without privacy, and it is hard to imagine a system that can.
Someone familiar with databases and SQL will understand that giving an attacker direct access to write a query is going to make you vulnerable, even with zero knowledge of how the thing is implemented. A function for retrieving a MAC address does not have the same expectation. Without knowing how it’s inplemented, it’s quite reasonable to expect such a function to behave sanely on arbitrary input.
The story isn't over within the United States. Many states are defying the FCCs interpretation and enacting their own version of net neutrality.

It's going to be interesting to see if the FCC tries to strike those local laws down and how ISPs will handle the things from State to state.
Can I get a supporter of BTC/BCH explain to me why it makes sense to do this on those blockchains rather than on a blockchain with actual Turing completeness, such as Ethereum?
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. delivers first 1,000 flamethrowers to customers
There's certainly no need to write custom operating systems. China already happily customizes Android and Linux extensively across a wide range of devices. You can see this today just by walking down the street where there are street lights running linux.

As for silicon China doesn't have much choice in the matter. Their dependence on American silicon may in fact be their greatest security risk. It's clear that the US and its allies will weaponize this advantage (see Stuxnet) so anybody relying on these chips is ultimately at their mercy.
Things that make me go to a store

>Instant

>Helpful employees

Prices didnt matter if I showed up to the store, but it should be cheaper than shipping to your home. Employees should be knowledgeable and helpful.

Instead most stores have the exact products or fewer online, higher prices, and an empty store.
Ask HN: Twilio alternatives?
Does anyone have any experience with other Twilio like services?

We've now started implementing the twilio app in one of our project and I'm slowly getting aggravated by the outdated docs, incomplete/no concrete examples, awful dashboard and non-meaningful error messages in the debugger (following the code example on their docs page).
It might sound a bit radical, but I think, even using rival's products to decrease Google's monopoly is an achievement on its own. To be honest, Firefox is somewhat an inferior product compared to Chrome, but I use it just to increase diversity in browser marketplace.
> It will be interesting to see whether American and European views of the internet converge or diverge in the long term. I've noticed that American norms tend to flow towards the old world, and the reverse is rarely true, the GDPR being the most impressive counter-example I've seen.

This is a pretty common meme, but it's hardly true. For example, from a proposal introduced (ironically) on the same day GDPR enforcement began: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal....

On the matter of copyright: while the US takes a lot of flak for its treatment of copyright law in a number of high-profile cases, in a lot of ways, Europe has consistently led the trend towards more corporate-friendly copyright law. The first extension of copyright terms in the US was actually done explicitly to harmonize US law with European law at the time (though it's since been extended further). Furthermore, several EU countries already have much stricter laws or stricter enforcement of laws that make it more difficult to access content over Bittorrent - including content shared legally! - compared to the US.

The UK already has passed laws banning a whole slew of pornography that's legal in most of the world (including the rest of the EU and the US), and laws requiring identity verification for accessing pornographic sites.
What sort of places accept mattress donations? I know mattresses are not accepted by most thrift shops like Goodwill. Not only that, but you'd have to get the charity to come to your house and pick it up.
Among other reasons, capital allows you not to worry about turning a profit until later. See Github, for example, which was never profitable.
Experts warn hackers have already stolen over $20M from Ethereum clients
There's a big difference in broadcasting what you are doing and giving over every piece of data to the organization with a monopoly on violence, who demands a large percentage of all the labor you do in your life and does not share the same transparency with you.
Please let me know which countries have "America" in their name and I will be happy to refer to people from any of them as "Americans".
Not all cookies, just 3rd party ones.
I work with Swift on a daily basis, both on iOS as well as server-side. I absolutely love it. Historically, I've written a lot of Java, primarily for large enterprise apps. For a few years I took over enterprise iOS development and decided to use Swift for all new projects. I don't regret it for a second! Swift forces you to really think about your code. I can't count the number of times in other languages where developers fail to address null values. With Swift, you're forced to think about what you'll do if the value is null (unless you explicitly side to say, "Ehhh screw it!" and unwrap your values without checking.) It makes it easier to write "safe" code.

Recently, I've begun re-writing some of my personal server-side projects from Java EE to Swift. While the new frameworks (Perfect, Vapor, Kitura, etc.) are good, there are still some areas where they are lacking. Cryptography, for example. There's a real lack of good crypto libraries for Swift that deploy on Linux. I'd LOVE to see the equivalent of the JCE (Java Cryptography Extensions) in Swift. Right now, most of them are just weak wrappers around OpenSSL. But, from a performance and resource perspective, Swift is GREAT compared to Java. Faster, and much less resource overhead.
I would say start with C.

You won't appreciate a lot of the protection that Rust gives you until you have spent some time with the freedom to make the mistakes yourself. Stuff like pointer arithmetic really helps you get into the mindset of how a program really executes. Rust tends to abstract this away and put in all these seemingly arbitrary (that's probably what it would feel like coming from a GC language) rules.

Plus C is well documented and supported everywhere. Tons of learning resources and you can guarantee that if you have a question someone else is bound to have had the same question and asked it. Rust, being newer, doesn't have quite as much.
I think it’s as simple as, VCs want to believe Founders care about the things they’re investing in heavily.

The same way we would all like to think hiring is about qualifications and skills, but really it’s almost always more heavily about relationships.
Nothing the "language designers" claim can change the fact that I need to rewrite critical sections in ObjC.

There is a subset of Swift that is fast. But if you tell people that Swift is faster than Obj C, they will think that they can rewrite code in Swift and it will be faster. That may be the case at some point in the future, but right now that's just not true yet.

In my experience, the opposite is the case. Swift is a great language, it's safe, and nice to work with. But those bits where you are processing data in a tight loop -- you still may have to do that in Obj C.

Obviously this depends a lot on your problem, but I have seen 2x speedups and more for things like string processing (rewriting things from Swift in Obj C)

And as I said, that's without using the fancy parts in Swift (things like type erasure absolutely kill performance)
Reminds me of how nobody could see one of my user's avatars because the url (a hash) had started with an "ad" segment (for bucketing), as in "/avatars/ad/ad3adb33f". So adblockers blocked it.

My protest against such a ridiculous heuristic was to not fix it.
Cinnamon hands down has the best multi-monitor support out of any other non-tiling desktop I have tried.
A Deathly Hush [article on Rwanda and the RPF]
because in bcash land they can convince the miners to include tx's with 1 satoshi fee, so they can bloat their chain with all kinds of junk like yours.org Good luck doing that in ethereum land.
Siaberry's Command Injection Vulnerability
ESA's Sentinel fleet offers similar images with much higher spatial but lower temporal resolution, here's a two days old nearly cloud free view of San Francisco:

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/#lat=37.7504&lng=-1...
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Book Summary)
The urge to end it all
But still "harder", it puts a heavier barrier of entry for others to enter the same area as you. The fact that there are FLOSS alternatives has nothing to do with what we're talking about
Talking about very large real estate portfolio holders like the Vornados of the world, not small investors. In American terms, even newly-minted "accredited investors" can't avail themselves as private individuals to these kinds of strategies. In that context, when you are capitalized enough to land bank the worst-performing parcels until the next boom cycle, it makes sense to let them lay fallow and rejecting rent decreases until the asset appreciation bails out the parcel, and in the meantime use the rental income loss to offset the gains in other parts of your portfolio.

The overall portfolio cash flows profit, and capitalization is sufficient to ride out 10-20 year cycle minima on the minority of the portfolio sitting vacant until asset appreciation works in their favor again. These holdings are so large they overwhelm lay people's sense of what is feasible. This model only breaks down in "perfect storm" secular changes set within a dysfunctional government context like Detroit, and only then do you see true abandonment and not just vacancy.

To these holders, how these vacancies work is a feature, not a bug.
In the same vein as prq.se, Cyberbunker might be interesting: http://www.cyberbunker.com/web/index.php
And the internationally agreed upon definition is that people from the United States are "Americans." I'm sorry, the real world isn't perfectly logical, one must adapt to irregularity.
I suspect it's because many can't save that much early in their career and may not want to bet their life savings.

Alternatively, VC interest is both a cheap experiment in market fit and a boost to your brand. Media is more likely to report on your little startup if it's a YC darling and marketing or sales are at least as important as engineering.
Show HN: Monthly subscription flights between SF and LA for $105/flight
And what if we get tiered internet... and consumers like it? "All the websites I use for one low price? Wow!" Internet nerds assume the public at large shares their romantic ideals of the open web but that might not be true.
Ah, wonderful.
This seems pretty tenuous. As the article alludes to, snoring is considered a key symptom of obstructive sleep apnea. As far as I know, the strongest known independent risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea is neck circumference. Obesity has a larger raw correlation, but that's because it's both a cause and a symptom (sleep disruption impedes physical activity and alters metabolism and appetite); with neck circumference the correlation is still present even when it's measured at birth.
Yes, that's the surface response, but what's deeper than that?

Ultimately I think it's a rational fear of being ostracized (or worse) for having believed or done something deemed by the group to be "not OK". The right to privacy shoes us to explore the nature of ourselves without harming others and without putting us in danger of violating social norms.

The counter argument might be that with more visibility and openness, the more tolerant we all might be if each others faults, but unfortunately history does not seem to demonstrate this.
Because if you finance your idea yourself you're going all in. You're basically putting your career at stake there. If you have family then that can be a very difficult choice to make.

The other reason is that if you have other people invested in it (the VCs) they will also try to help you through things like helping you get contacts etc.

Also, even if you build an app that doesn't mean anything. You need to get some marketing campaign out and you need to make sure you don't violate any laws or regulations. You have to do all of this alone.
Scott Pruitt and the Chemical Industry Collude to Deregulate Toxics
I have gone down that rabbit hole one too many times.

I think finding an existing audience or building one through teaching are a better approach than building first.

Talk to potential users using open ended unbiased questions is important. When you get specific with questions or features, you end of creating a bias that will only give you bad data and set you up for potential failure.
Great! I always wanted a subscription management tool which let's me add bitcoin, manual payments and stripe/paypal.

Surprisingly, there aren't any options for that.
It's still not right, but if the cuts were targeted based on age I do wonder how much it would really be to do with salary/overtime versus protecting their position over the long term.

I'd expect for a tech company in Intel's position they'd be more concerned about the brain drain caused by a retiring workforce over the next 10-15 years, especially if many of those cuts would be expected to land at a resurgent AMD in the near term.
You missed the point of the article. By giving victims power, people who are attracted to power make themselves victims. The two people who purportedly started this movement (bed girl and the girl who posted her own hate message) did so purely for the power (they weren’t actual victims).

Yes, we should support victims. No, we should not make them celebrities.
The OP_CODES were 'disabled' by core because they were considered poorly tested and a consensus logic risk.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2610

Of course, the highly skilled 'Bitcoin ABC' aka bcash developers obviously tested these well, with no risk to consensus logic or users funds...
You remind me of all the people that 10 years ago were saying that they don’t need tests because they have the discipline to write correct code...
I’d take on a project that benefits from using C over Python. Maybe port something old and valuable to a module with tests and whatnot in comfortable Python.

On the Java side where I live you can also compile native modules without much fuss.

I suggest this because it adds new to something familiar.

One thing I would not do is focus on making the first project maintainable etc or you’ll never get out the gate... stitch it together and redo it. Really 2 different programmers would be doing it, so no harm no foul.

Read documentation like it’s a good book... if it’s boring or not good then you’re not engaged enough so pick another project—supporting the disposable idea.

Good endeavors grow legs.
This seems to be PR move since not a lot of people can participate and only $300 of the legal fees are reimbursed:

> Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S. (including D.C.), who are the parents or legal guardians of a child 14 years of age or younger operating a lemonade stand. Program ends 11:59pm ET on 8/31/18 or when $60,000 worth of offers have been awarded, whichever comes first. For complete Terms and Conditions, including status of available offers, and all other details, visit countrytimelegalade.com.

> [From the article]: You can’t even be 13 or younger to participate due to child privacy laws

Nevertheless, aren’t there any laws that help such “hobbies“ (considering how little money that should make, and that underage children are voluntarily “working”, one can’t really call it a “business”.
Not everyone wants to risk their nest egg on a bootstrapped shot at success. Much better to give up 10%, keep getting a salary, and not lose everything if it fails.

It’s about exporting risk.
> If the teeth are crowded, remove a couple

When do you propose to do this? You can't do it until the final set of teeth have come in. If you do it later, then it might address the overcrowding of the teeth themselves, but it's too late to do anything about the size or shape of the jaw itself. Maybe you can affect the position/alignment of the jaw somewhat. That can be beneficial in many ways, but I'm not sure it would address the snoring issue.
They also hate volunteers who run BCH nodes, 32MB blocks will wear-out harddrives quickly.
I’d suggest you’re underestimating the amount of work that needs to be done to scale a successful company
The kind of absence of privacy between consumers and internet giants is also a massive power imbalance: they know many useful and compromising things about billions of consumers. What do we know about Mark Zuckerberg?

I know that some self-serving bullshit about post-privacy came out of Facebook, but I don't see Zuckerberg or Sandberg leading by example.
It's actually established science that your fluid intelligence drops after hitting 30's, and the skills for certain tasks even earlier. It's sad, but it's dumb to deny biological reality.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SBJ2KTl2f3c/VjPN9JeWLiI/AAAAAAAAVd...

https://study.com/cimages/multimages/16/adultintelligence.jp...

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-496a52a13eaee1e99f39e3...
Can we please avoid having HN becoming yet another battleground for Core vs Cash sock puppets to dump their trollish posts?
Ah I see. You want a CEO that also has a developer role at the same time.
You are one of those that think running a company is a BS job and anyone could actually do it, so in your would it would make sense to take someone that was shipping code during the last sprint and just give him the CEO role of a 1 thousand, 300M$ revenue company.

In my world that would be completely stupid and reckless. Nat was coding full-time just a few years ago and move to leadership roles recently, so that's exactly what we need to run GitHub: someone that actually knows how to handle large organisation, and someone who knows what being a developer means so he can make sure GitHub is going in the right direction.

I don't even know why I am arguing with you though, you are clearly just doing some level condescending gate keeping, so it's not like anything I say has any impact.

Have fun being toxic.
exec cat is so odd that I can't seriously attribute it to sloppiness. It's for reading a file, and much more cumbersome.

Plus, exec is not something to be taken lightly, to the point where I'd barf if I found out a lib I depended on exec'd internally and immediately remove it, unless there was absolutely no other way to perform the action for some absurd reason.
Virtue compliance. Same reason you'd use ethereum.
> No? I don't see I need to imagine a parallel universe. I can just imagine a p-zombie existing in our own world.

I don't think you understand the issue. If the p-zombie thought experiment entails something about consciousness, then the p-zombie world thought experiment does too. And what it demonstrates is that the intuitions that the p-zombie thought experiment seems to entail are absurd, therefore the p-zombie thought experiment is either ill-conceived or missing some crucial element that would explain this dissonance.

> "absurdity or inconsistency" do not limit my imagination.

Except it must if the p-zombie conceivability argument is to have any weight. If we can allow ourselves imagine any inconsistent proposition, then any inconsistent proposition is conceivable, and any inconsistent proposition is possibly true. Which is obviously absurd, because inconsistent propositions are necessarily false if logic is to mean anything.

The only possible resolutions are to invalidate the conceivability argument entirely as an inference rule, or to constrain that which is conceivable so the logical inference holds true.
I have. I think it's definitely a step in the right direction. But I have a few observations specific to EarthData Search:

1. It places a huge emphasis on visualization. The interface is extraordinarily opinionated. The first thing you're presented with a map which is, in my opinion, completely superfluous. The intention seems to be an intuitive interface, but I would not call this intuitive whatsoever.

2. Search results are not organized in a transparent way, and metadata is not presented consistently. There is no single format for the principal name, stewarding agency, associated department(s), citation information, dataset size, category, temporal resolution(s), spatial resolution(s), date range, geographic range, update frequency, access information, etc for datasets in each result. Contrast this with Wolfram Alpha or Dark Sky, which both neatly inform you of the sources used in various queries and requests.

3. The search experience is very slow. This doesn't seem to be intrinsic to how much data is being searched - rather, it seems to be an artifact of how results are being presented. It's not actually reading over the datasets themselves, it's just returning dataset metadata. But search queries for generic climate terminology can take tens of seconds to load, with no progress indicator.

4. This site still suffers from what appears to be a systemic problem of maintainability: it's easy to trigger "Error retrieving site preferences There was a problem completing the request" errors (on latest Chrome, latest macOS). An alert in the upper right hand corner indicates that ASDC_DAAC LARC data is currently experiencing download errors and there's explicitly no estimate for when this will be resolved.

EarthData Search is one of the websites I was thinking of when I said "portals" - this is clearly a well-intentioned effort, and it's a lot better than browsing undocumented FTP servers. But for climate scientists (or cross-pollinated researchers, such as statisticians and "data scientists"), a much more static interface with a common format for searching and documenting all of this data would be much more useful.
A project I wish existed is an open source competitor to Google Earth's automatic generation of 3D models from satellite images. Their generator is pretty smart and even generates pretty good approximations of trees, bushes, streetlights, and so on. This is very useful when you need to figure out 360° line-of-sight from a point in space (i.e. a viewshed) for things like planning where to put RF antennas as topographic maps don't take vegetation or other obstructions into account.

Google Earth even has built-in viewshed generation which uses their 3D model data (works great), but unfortunately the 3D model layer only seems to exist for fairly populated areas (probably because it's computationally expensive) - so doing RF planning in rural areas requires more traditional legwork.

So it would be cool for a project to provide similar functionality for OpenStreetMap using this public satellite data. OpenStreetMap does have 3D modeling support but last time I looked it seemed pretty focused on buildings and people hand-editing the data.