skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lumberjack did not say that the EU does not have a freedom of expression. lumberjack did say that the EU doesn't have freedom of speech "as an American would understand it".

Article 10 of the ECHR as interpreted by the ECtHR is very different from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as presently interpreted by SCOTUS.

It's also worth noting that the First Amendment as presently interpreted by SCOTUS protects some speech that was not always unambiguously protected; see e.g., a good fraction of humans pre-1970-or-so, the evolution of the court's treatment of obscenity, speech in the schoolhouse, and so on. In some sense, even previous Americans didn't have freedom of speech as a modern American would understand it.
"Given that Tesla has never made an annual profit in the almost 15 years since we have existed, profit is obviously not what motivates us."
i don't mean to make this political, but if unionization costs jobs, why does the left consider that a victory?
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When Sugru was a new gimmick it made a gift idea for that nephew you have no shared interests with. I suspect that a lot of the initial sales were clueless gift purchases, the packaging looked legit, the product was theoretically useful and what else do you buy someone when everyone has everything (including Blu-Tak)?

Was there any need to get tens of millions in funding? If you have a deal with Target stores or John Lewis in the UK then you can order from your suppliers what they need, do a back of the envelope calculation as to what you can fund on the basis of those sales and stock accordingly.

Greed and hubris gets the better of people though. We have seen it before with boo.com and in plenty of other examples.

Much is said in the article about the 90% lost by investors, I think there is another 90% - I doubt that 90% of this stuff was ever opened or used. It was gifted by well meaning mums and aunties. Then those recipients didn't rate or use the product enough for it to become 'as exciting as cellotape'.

£2 million buys you a posh house in London, so the bank loan wasn't that big in the scheme of things, but a lot of money if your product is neither 'fast moving' or 'big ticket'.
Does the dat:// scheme have any history or did the developers of this Beaker browser invent it? Just curious since I haven't seen the protocol before.
>I can definitely see where you are coming from since that mechanism of "most token wins", sounds very unintuitive and inherintly cheatable (and in a lot of places has rightfully bad connotations like "pay to win" in video games).

It does indeed seem exactly that way. You said upthread:

>An additional actor X who knows about the ownership can add additional weight to the claim of Person A.

But how do you verify that X is someone "knows about the ownership"? What if X was someone A or B paid or incentivized to vouch for them so the consensus would be swayed? How do prevent bad actors from gaming the system in this way? If the asset in dispute is valuable enough it would certainly be worth it to a bad actor to pay a little to cheat and have the consensus fall on their side.
Okay I realize I need to clarify some differences in American and Norwegian society. In America ban and rules often involve punishment or fines. In Scandinavia we have lots of rules and bans which carry no sort of punishment. This is one of them. No parent is getting a money fine, going to prison or get their kid kicked out of school because they bundle sweets in their lunch box.

So I think you are overreacting a tad here ;-) Also keep in mind this isn't exclusively a government thing. We have meeting were parents were the pre-school comes with suggestions and parents come with suggestions as well and people agree together on common rules.

"And talk about taking the fun out of any celebrations."

You can't have fun if there aren't sweets? That is sad? In a school there are lots of kids. If you celebrate with sweets for every single birthday through the year, and then in addition have your celebrations at home with sweets that ends up being a LOT of sugar.

I think you are trivializing the problem with sugar. Kids don't NEED processed sugar. There are lots of other things they can enjoy such as fruits, smoothies, yogurts and other good food.
Tesla and SpaceX are businesses and I never understood the public fandom behind them and Elon Musk. 3,500+ people losing their jobs is pretty significant for a leader who touts altruism as one of his top motivators.
The article talks about upsides to using Standard over Flexible but what (if there are any) are the downsides?
Which is exactly what Project Treble introduces, it converts Linux into a micro-kernel design, where each driver runs in its own process with a tiny kernel presence, communicating over Android RPC mechanisms.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl/
I liked certain aspects of Go, but lack of generics was a deal-breaker for me. You approached it a way better than I (and many others) did. Instead of arguing on forums you started writing code.
My daughter's elementary school has soda machines in it.

In the US, we don't like to fully fund education with tax money, which means our public schools need other sources of revenue to fill the gap. Junk food vending is a large and crucial funding source.
That's helpful to know, thank you. Looks like there's room to improve on email deliverability.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sign the blandest of agreements – Zero summit gain
ask any Trump supporter if they believe Trump believes in gay marriage and they will tell you no

This basically could be the summary line of everything you wrote. Its about as true as the rest. If you pervert everything and don't actually listen its about as believable as Strange how brown gang members are clearly, unequivocally all animals, but this President has to point out in a group of white torch-bearing khaki-clad Nazis there are still good people!. Go look at some of the pictures of what MS-13 does, and I would hope animal is the least descriptive word.

I do blame the media because they know the outrage sells, but it comes at a cost.

That's what MAGA represents to 50% of the population. So if you want to bring it up in your technical document as a little side quip, and not give a shit about what your readers think, more power to you. But as someone interested in Prolog and would like to see it have a renaissance, I was lost as a reader on the cover page. I don't want to be reminded about the guy at the grocery store telling me to get out of "His" country and go back to where I came from while reading technical documents. MAGA.

I suppose you have similar objections to the late night comics and Tony awards? Just read the paper about an amazing language and understand that about 50% aren't monsters and don't hate people.
I was the first engineer at Crittercism/Apteligent which was acquihired by VMWare. I was there for about 5 years before I moved on to Google.

Pros.

* Lots of fun engineering solutions however I wanted to solve the problem. Moved fast.

* Learned tons. Had to touch every part of stack.

* Great culture initially. Everyone was open to helping out as well as going out.

Cons.

* Low pay.

* Growing pains. Visible shift from devs dictating the product to doing mundane things that customers wanted (necessary evil, but obviously less fun).

* Hiring of execs once you get big enough. I was unhappy that I worked there for 4 years but some guy who came in and did nothing got 4x my salary and 100x my stock.

You should never, ever join a startup if your motivation is money. Most of them fail and you end up with nothing (as I did). Even if you're an amazing engineer and think you can push it over the top, you will probably end up as a staff software eng at google in the same amount of time making 500k a year.

The only reason to work at a startup is for the learning and for the fun. You need to leave if you aren't achieving either of those, unless you're certain you will make bank. Don't bother about loyalty to the company because it certainly isn't loyal to you.
It's been around for a year or so. I was wondering when it'd make it to HN. It's very nicely done but unfortunately the only implementations are in javascript.
Are you insinuating that since carrots have sugar content, we should eat cupcakes with abandon?
Ah, intern season.
This seems somewhat pertinent:

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
if you are talking about Pokemon GO, then no. i was on GKE (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemo...).
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I can really relate with your situation. I have been through such a phase in my life and I know it's pretty depressing and challenging.

Job is something which you either have it or don't.It's kind of binary. And so there is only one solution to this problem - to find out a job.

Searching and interviewing for job is usually one of the most toughest time of a person's life. This is especially true if you have been searching for 6+ months or have not been selected in 10+ places.

The only way for you to overcome this situation is by hustling. Every morning you need to begin your day with full energy and start looking out for a job and forgetting everything about your past failure's.

You need to continuously keep on trying till you succeed.

You'll have to do a lot of stuff to land a good job such as - read books, practice programming, network with people, refine your profile etc.

And let me tell you that no one will be able to do this on your behalf. It's your fight and you'll have to fight yourself and win it.

All the best.
https://datproject.org/
> fundamental right to privacy that can’t be signed away

If you're talking about the GDPR, from what I understand you can sign your privacy away. What can't be done, is to require you to sign your privacy away as a condition to use some service, unless there's no way to provide that service without using your personal data.
That could be true but even then it would likely be because of long term higher statistical risk and a lack of medical care.
Improving extension transparency for users
I see a therapist in the same way that I see a dentist – even if there's no immediate crisis, preventative care is generally much easier than waiting until there is some sort of major issue.

If we have someone check our teeth and gums a couple times a year just to clean out the gunk and make sure everything is ok, why wouldn't we do the same for our (arguably) most important organ?
> I don't want to write all of my backend in C++.

The difficulty of C++ is way too much over rated. Most mediocre projects can be written with basics of C++ (that everyone can learn in less than 3 months).

We could have lived in a way performant world, if people would stop horrifying beginners about difficulties of C++/Rust/...

Go talk to a beginner, the moment you say anything about C/C++, the first thing they mention is, what do you do for buffer overflows? They don't even know what it is, but they are worried about it.
There's an age at which drinking a sugary soda becomes difficult...
Could be, maybe, let's just wait until thousands more die because they were denied access to these illegal drugs. Then we'll publish some "new" findings and maybe in 30 years, the filthy peasants will be allowed to use drugs under extreme supervision.
It takes 3-6 apples to make a glass of apple juice. It's easy to drink a glass of apple juice and want another but nobody is going to eat 3-6 apples. That's a key difference.
If you want to cut to the root, you have to get rid of the "I." There's no suffering without an I who suffers.

My grandma used to say "stop starring at your own belly button." There are many saints, sages, gurus (alive and dead) that guide you to shed identity with your person, but Mooji is especially compelling to me. Here's his YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Moojiji
> I'm pretty sure people respect him despite being rude, not because of it.

What you misrepresent as being "rude", which insinuates that it has no positive effect on the outcome, is actually being direct and to the point regarding technical decisions. People whining about rudeness to try to put aside the context, meaning and results, demonstrate that they either miss the point or intentionally run away from it. The fact is that his communication style is a reflection of his leadership strategy which resulted in the world's most successfull operating system project in history.

Trying to downplay the main causes and consequences because they feel their feeling might not be pampered is a tremendous injustice to the man and his achievements.
If you don't finish off that calorie budget with some protein and fat, you're in trouble.
FYI: Sugru doesn't stick to plastic wrap/cling film. So if you want to get some sugru to mold to a surface without sticking, just wrap it in plastic. When the sugru has cured, remove the plastic.
And you're pretending ECHR Article 10 § 2 doesn't exist. Freedom of speech isn't freedom of speech if there's a giant asterisk next to it.
> Which one would that be?

Anti-burqa laws, e.g. in Austria.
A suburb of Columbus Ohio is starting a review process with Lime Bike. Depending on the outcome of a trial process, they'll announce a bidding process where the winner gets exclusive access to the city.
> GraphQL offers a way to push all of the logic for specifying data requirements onto the client, and in return, the server will execute the (highly structured) data query against a known schema. The end result is a vastly simplified backend that also empowers the client to execute whichever queries they need.

Why is empowering the client a good thing?

Why is moving complexity from the backend to the front end a good thing?
> The evaporation of black holes leaks the information contained inside, avoiding a paradox.

Has blackhole evaporation been observed, or is this just a result of the equations?
Why most published research findings are false
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Running. Every time, without fail, about 20 minutes after the run i feel absolutely amazing. Like I can accomplish anything.

Whether I run a mile or three, doesn't matter. Feeling is the same.
The US absolutely, 100% has a social mobility problem. This social mobility problem is particularly prevalent among the bottom 33% of income earners/wealth owners in US society (aka +100m truly poor people).

However, when you control for this group of people (aka remove them from being counted), the US middle class is basically the same as the Danish middle class, in terms of mobility, income, life expectancy and so on.
Why? K&R braces start and terminate on their own lines, which would push up the LOC count.
Musk tweeted out the layoff email he sent:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1006597562156003328
China brain thought experiment
Wonder if their initial reticence might come partially from shitty software making it hard to find all available shoes of a given size across all styles?
but go already has generics https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
Sorry to hear it, they seem to be having a lot of troubles lately.
People can't just walk the 4 blocks? It would take less time than waiting for an Uber, self-driving or not.
Tesla battery longevity data shows this isn’t a concern. You’re not going to deep cycle the battery every night, and while I can’t speak to other auto manufactures, Tesla will be increasing their pack sizes, allowing for more “spare capacity “.

Or we’re going to subsidize residential storage (such as the 50k home project in Australia).
Thanks for the insights. I've actually never created a questionnaire before, but that sounds like a good idea.

Right now, we base our ideas off of problems that we or others find. But who's to say our ideas are the right solution? Obviously they still need validated.

Also, I like you're idea. Very interesting concept.
Turning the flashlight of your phone into an encrypted key
How about if you need some central authority to verify everything going into the blockchain don't use a blockchain and use a database instead?
Ask HN: How to remove left-hand sidebar from SO?
Recently stackoverflow.com added a siderbar to the left hand. This seems totally useless and captures screen state without any reason. I don't know why they added it(actually I do; to marketize teams but in any case) but is there an easy way to hide it?
I do too. However, it is a false dichotomy that it has to be one or the other.
His CEO pay is $37k/year.
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Yeah, but energy density isn't really significant. You may get less energy out of a m^3 of water pumped to a reservoir than you get out of a m^3 of battery, but even the smallest reservoir has a usable volume that probably surpasses the volume of all batteries ever built. You can just keep pumping.
To elaborate on this, Nashville seized all Bird scooters until regulations could be put in place [1]. This is after two women were seriously injured downtown while riding the scooters [2]. I haven't used a Bird scooter yet although they seem like a good idea, however I have had close encounters while driving with people using them without helmets because of poor visibility and cramped roads here in town.

1: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/06/07/bird-scoote...
2: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/05/14/women-elect...
Could you please not post indignant rant-style comments like this to Hacker News? It isn't that you're wrong, but that the genre does more damage to the forum than the rightness of the comment does good. A lot more, actually, so we need people to just not do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's something you can't understand without experiencing yourself. Always sounds pathetic from the perspective of people who have lived their lives having okay mental health.
Can you imagine pay, promotion, and assignment by seniority instead of skill? Doesn't sound very appealing to me.
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Mental health is an issue I live with on a day-to-day basis. I struggled for the first 42 years of my life, always finding it difficult. I experienced great short term successes but they never lasted. Finally, two years ago, after losing my wife and family, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder (Type 1) and began treatment. These days I take regular medication, speak with a psychiatrist monthly and a psychologist every two weeks.

Life is easier but it's difficult knowing that I lost everything and it could have been prevented. Now, I have a startup of eight people and it's challenging but I'm doing it for my children. They're also the reason I stay on treatment.
I think most companies would have a hard time finding 3,500 people to fire and not have it effect anything. Especially ones that describe themselves as a "growth company".
It'll take a little longer than you think.

Further, you're referencing a coal job figure, which is meaningless in this context. Coal production in the US over the past decade was higher than ever, by quite a large margin too, it's just that humans are no longer necessary for much of it.

I'm not a fan but these are the facts. Fortunately, production is now dropping worldwide, but it really is early days, it's still way up compared to 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and it certainly isn't because of renewables. It's a gas-driven change.
You are not going to count all the jobs he created in the first place, and the years of gainful employment those 3500 people had? It’s just all negative in your estimation?
I wonder if some of this is finalizing the digestion of solar city.

How many accountants, tech, and office workers did the combine company have that were redundant? Have there been layoffs from the merger (if there were I missed them) - I'm curious to see if this is the end result of that combination.
People like this only contribute to the idea that most CTOs have 0 technical knowledge.
When I flew to Munich a month ago for the D conference, I was impressed with all the rooftop solar and stretches of panels out in fields. I didn't do a count, but it looked like a good quarter to a third of homes had panels on the roof. Lots of random windmills here and there, too.
> I'm generally very pro-entrepreneur, but if my city bans these clowns, I will shed no tears. Let them serve as a warning to future overly entitled entrepreneurs.

Whoever comes up with a solution that puts both business that externalize their costs and governments with a penchant for heavy handed regulation on the losing side will get my vote.
I can recommend it. The way it works in civilised countries is that you can still attempt to negotiate your terms, however the union negotiates annual across the board increases, and critically circulates reliable information on what the salary ranges and compensation packages are. Which as you might imagine, makes it much easier to effectively negotiate.

They also provide additional insurances for things like glasses, funding for education, and a range of subsidised country cottages with outdoor hot tubs for summer holidays. Seriously, you guys are missing out.
I was a cofounder of a struggling startup for 3 years and probably one of the things that helped the most was a commitment that once a week, I meet with my band and we practice music. I play guitar and sing. It's mostly a non-negotiable commitment, so I'm leaving work on time that day of the week no matter what. I know it's not everyone's hobby, but singing does wonders to make you happy. Being around friends while doing so also helps.
His claim was:

> You don't need a "blockchain" for timestamps.

He didn't say anything about whether the timestamp services were centralized or not.

So saying "ha, but they're centralized!" is not a rebuttal.
"too often deaths occur from dangerously mixed and pressed substances" - citation needed, compared to other risk factors
> The point of prime is it's better marbled. You can get that same effect in a burger by just adjusting the fat/meat mix. I grind mine to about 20% fat, but you can pick pretty much any proportion.

You can adjust the meat to fat ratio but you can't get the >100% beef flavor that comes with dry aging. If you add non-prime beef jerky to the equation I think it could be done but with just chuck and fat you can't create the same set of combinations as you're limited by the maximum "meatiness" of your initial meat.
"Was there any need to get tens of millions in funding?"

They probably pitched it with plans of expanding into floor waxes and dessert toppings. Or, you know, more than just little sachets of goo.
I like the ideas of dat and IPFS, but I can't quite understand the difference.

What I can understand, is, they use new protocols and this is an issue in the Web today. I think the only way they can succeed would be with some laws or misstakes by big corps that would drive customers away from them.

What I also liked was remoteStorage [0] it is a bit like localStorage, but the data is managed independendly from the application itself.

[0] https://remotestorage.io/
So now that there's no outage, this post has no significance and no way to see what was happening during the outage.
Does anyone have a cached version of the page or a screenshot for some context?
It's unfortunate they refused to follow Cruz's onerous directions, it would have really made an excellent package. Is this normal for responses to Senate Committees (for us non-US folks)?
Yes it's called modprobed-db. But it only tracks what modules are loaded, not what's used in the kernel. Although maybe you could compile everything you can as modules first, then check what's loaded and then compile with all those modules build in.