skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, every country is protectionist when it wants to, and projects itself as egalitarian when it doesn't hurt them as much. The 'do as I say' and not 'as I did' approach has a bit of a smell to it. Walmart shoppers overwhelmingly purchased cheap Chinese goods and made their American owners very very rich, while giving average consumers access to a larger section of goods and services than those provided by US companies. Rising unemployment signals the end of that gravy train.

>China doesn’t let US companies buy Chinese companies

Is that really true? I found this stat - https://imgur.com/a/z5eAykw
Seems like there is a lot of inbound activity.

>Leaving aside notions of fairness, what is the theoretical basis for arguing that the US should nonetheless allow Chinese ownership of US companies?

The US has sold bonds to China. It doesn't mind taking money from China to finance itself. I'd say the same foreign policy should extend to foreign investment, no? Oh and it has the power to stop legal purchases of US businesses from China (e.g. Micron) when it wants to. The US government can and has exerted a lot of power to keep certain kinds of tech in the US.

And as a point of comparison .. Not sure if there are any Chinese companies here :-

http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/

But there seem to be a lot of US companies here http://www.fortunechina.com/fortune500/c/2017-07/20/content_...
Great. Let’s all get rich writing a bunch of do-nothing software that will get thrown out in 5 years.
Usually Andy Borowitz is their satirist, and those articles are clearly marked as satire. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report
Absolutely, I guess I've just never viewed the Internet as a proper archive for that sort of thing precisely because it's so easily manipulated, censored, and changed.
Distributed trust is the solution to the world's most important meta-problem: coordination.
A 4% consumption tax wouldn't be nearly enough to maintain current tax revenues. And consumption taxes are highly regressive; the poor have to spend almost all their income on consumption.
I cannot take credit for it. I got it from Harry Roberts (@csswizard) on, of all things, CSS naming conventions https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/539697101853429760

> Modularity, DRY, SRP, etc. is never a goal, it’s a trait. Don’t let the pursuit of theory get in the way of actual productivity.

> That’s not to say Modularity, DRY, SRP, etc. aren’t great ideas—they are!—but understand that they’re approaches and not achievements.

I know it might sound lame, but these two tweets have stuck by with my as probably the best piece of advice I've ever read. "approaches and not achievements" has found itself useful on so many occasions.
Having worked with both recursive descent and parser combinators, I can say that I strongly prefer parser combinators. Haskell has some libraries that are fast, easy to use, and have good documentation.

I've never managed to find a parser combinator library that I love outside of the Haskell family of languages. I'm not sure why that is.
good god techrader is annoying, redirecting if they can't show the ads, luckily you can bypass that by simply blocking first party scripts as well
You're correct that this isn't really the type of case that will set a precedent for the most troublesome applications of civil forfeiture. I wish cases like these [1] would reach the Supreme Court. In one of those cases, a man that had just won $50,000 in cash from a casino had it seized, even though he wasn't cited for a traffic offense or charged with any crime. It would be nice if legislators simply outlawed the practice, but the political will doesn't exist. A Supreme Court case where property was seized without any charges is likely the only way we will see any progress on civil forfeiture.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/03/12/...
Or, they became something different, not worse. For example, Victorians would have looked silly to scan the skies for aliens by looking for soot clouds in their atmospheres, because all 'civilizations' would have steam trains.

We're looking for radio waves. Radio waves! Like a million-year-old civilization wouldn't be communicating with nano-soliton-pulse masers across interstellar distances. And to receive one of those, earth's orbit would have to accidentally cross its path, and then only for an instant. The chances are trillions to one, and we wouldn't recognize it if it happened.
Whatever its other faults, SCOTUS is usually pretty good about not letting crummy defendants blind them to setting good precedent. For example, Miranda warnings came about when they threw out the conviction of a man who had almost certainly kidnapped and raped a teenager.
You can just use Google Videos Search for that - type the interesting topic e.g. "machine learning" and set the date & length filter. No need for a dedicated website.
I'm not OP and I shake my head at the "blockchain will be the future of software!" cultists, but I can imagine storing hashes of private operations (just the hashes, not the data themselves) on data in a publicized blockchain, for auditing purposes.

So one can probably suspect that a business whose ledger is totally different to the publicized hashes might be laundering money. And to make sure the publicized hashes aren't faked in the first place, somehow one would need to combine it with the hash of a receipt.

Just thinking out loud: taxman-sanctioned smartphone software that takes as input the time, business ID, and the purchased products, and generates a hash as an output. A shopper can compare the hash to the hash on the receipt she got, and later on she can check if the hash is in the blockchain.
Solar farms are just as much of an eye sore as coal plants.

I’m all for renewable energy but I don’t want huge solar plants everywhere either.
Well yes, that's because they immediately tried to differentiate themselves with fun stuff like Microchannel Architecture to try and make their machines proprietary again.
I have a Pok3r and a Core, and while I love the Pok3r, my one complaint is that its macros are a bit limited. My Core lets me make macros that are pretty long. For example, I have a macro on my Core (at work) that just checks out the current working branch in Git and pulls it (basically just `git checkout v1.0-working&&git pull`). This macro is too long for the Pok3r but the Core will accept it.

I can get around it with git aliases, at least.

Of course, if your macros are small or just keycombos, then you're fine. The Pok3r is probably a better fit for most folks as a 40% can be a pretty big adjustment. I can't wait for the Poker 4, that's for sure. The Poker line is pretty nice.
Traditional security issuance vs. blockchain-based tokenization
Trust is inescapable. You've simply shifted yours from reputational trust to trust in the decentralization of the computing frontier of a specific hashing problem.

But while reputational trust is cheap and a well-solved problem, the trust you're using _requires_ large amounts of computing value to be burned continuously, in the hopes that electricity and computation are decentralized enough in the real world that multiple non-collaborating actors will be burning it.
Most math textbooks are full of proofs of theorems and examples solving problems. This is not better than direct feedback from an expert on your own proofs (e.g. a tutor, professor, or TA), but it is in my opinion exactly what you are talking about. Students should read the proofs and the examples, and try it themselves until they really understand it. Then the exercises usually fall into place.
So in your opinion, should the US government buy back the $1trillion+ bonds it sold to China?
You can just click on the time stamp of a comment and reply there. Should probably remove this edit because the whole thing is then completely unreadable.
Considering the lower courts all agreed that the forfeiture was excessive, I'm not inclined to worry too much about that.

It appears to be going to the supreme court b/c the Indiana Supreme Court said that the amendment regarding excessive fines doesn't apply to the states.

So the real question being asked to the SC in this case is "Must states abide by the 8th amendment?"

Since they must 1st, 2nd, and others - I don't see why they would not be required to do so.
Curious... What is your setup ?

AWS ? GCP ? ... managed k8s or you running it ?

Outsourcing your operations and pretending the problem is cured by docker is just a bit silly.
> In an era in which the internet is increasingly controlled by a handful of large tech incumbents, it’s more important than ever to create the right economic conditions for developers, creators, and entrepreneurs.

I'm happy to see that people are taking decentralization seriously. Blockchain has its place as a public ledger, but as everyone knows, scaling it has issues.

Recently, MaidSafe released a new whitepaper for a new decentralized consensus mechanism, called PARSEC, which they detailed in their blog post[0]. It does not use a blockchain. I'm surprised it didn't get more attention. I'd like to see some serious peer review on the paper.

Perhaps A16Z should get in touch with them?

[0] https://medium.com/safenetwork/parsec-a-paradigm-shift-for-a...
iOS 12 Public Beta released
I believe if you're labelled as non-performant or whatever, they don't allow you to move elsewhere at Amazon.
I happily pay for a number of subscriptions.

Sites like The Guardian, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc seem to do a better job. Newspaper funnels are entertaining - I spent some years in the newspaper world when this experimenting with paywalls started.

As a technologist, I see value after consistently accessing more than a few articles a month.. closer to 10 is where I see enough value to pay. I'm sure I'm only one persona though in their funnel.
Such public transit tax boondoggles always include buses and commuter rail in one measure. But the OVERWHELMING majority of such spending (ignoring the other trendy items such as hiking trails, beautification and congestive bike lanes) is for rail — NOT buses.

Buses are FAR cheaper and relatively much more efficient than rail. But central planners LOVE choo-choos.

Rail is NOT desired by most commuters. From 1985 to 2015 the Los Angeles region spent $9 billion on transit improvements — almost all on rail. At the end of these 30 years and with a bigger population, public transit in the region has fewer riders in 2015 than they had in 1985. Not just a lower PERCENTAGE of rail travelers — fewer ACTUAL riders.
http://riderrants.blogspot.com/2016/02/billions-spent-but-fe...
Does Elm support dependent types?
Story and Lessons Behind the Evolution of XGBoost
This is not a substantive comment to make but calculating a tip is very easy. 15 percent of course is that standard amount. That is 10 percent plus 5 percent. Finding ten percent is as easy as moving the decimal over one place. If the bill is 15.69 ten percent of that is one dollar and 56 cents. Call it 1.50. we know that five percent is half of ten, so just divide that number in half and add it. So half of 1.50 is .75 and 1.50 plus .75 is 2.25. it's very easy.
Which basically sums up my problem with it. It is sad that the primary angle anyone looks at this from is as an investor or even a VC. That results in lots of wasted time, money, and specifically for most blockchain businesses wasted carbon ouput.
It's because of selective incorporation. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/incorporation_doctrine). For example, the Second Amendment wasn't incorporated against the states until 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago.
This is why fast DC charging makes a huge difference. There are a number of car service fleets using Teslas (e.g. the Schiphol Airport taxis in Amsterdam). When you can re-load 200 miles in 30 minutes of charging, the driver can recharge the car over their lunch break.
The video is a useful start in understanding the Idris experience, but I guess it would be useful to see how much tooling helped in this definition of quick sort?
I don't think it's too hard to find potential problems it can solve, but it's not necessarily needed to solve it.

1. Imagine you use FB. Instead of FB having all of your data, it's stored on the blockchain (encrypted). The problem we have now is if a new social network comes along if you create an account you lose all of your previous data (which may or may not be what you want). This would let you easily bring in any old data that you want.

2. I want to transfer funds/ownership or whatever to someone in X number of years. Instead of going through a lawyer, paying money, I make this a smart contract.

3. Right now most payment processors do not work with adult industries and the ones that do charge exorbitant fees. Blockchain can bring those fees down a lot and let performers keep a lot more of their money.

4. We rely on sites like stackoverflow and what not. If those sites were to go down we would lose all of that information (if it wasn't archived). If that was run on the blockchain as long as a few people were still using the site it could stay running.

5. It's also just a solution to the problem of "send money to someone". That was solved by banks and cash, but blockchain can be another solution that doesn't require an insane amount of infrastructure, employees, call centers, etc to run. Ya, it creates its own set of problems (no chargebacks, still may need escrow services, etc) but maybe those can be run more efficiently than our current system.

6. I think voting is something that could happen on the blockchain. Boom, now anyone can verify the results of the election. People can't as easily scream election fraud.
Hopefully it's a congrats to the employees as well, but startups rarely reward the employees that do all the hard work.
What value does storing the data on such a private blockchain add?

Or since you actually said that using the blockchain "does not mean you also have to use it to store data", what are you using it for in that scenario?
Early Adopter Margin Call
"Right to work" typically refers to laws that prevent union membership being a requirement to work at certain employers. I don't think that's what you mean here.
I believe the actual problem this solves, the "killer application," is already out there.
That's usually called "rhetoric", which is fine because Oliver is arguing for a particular point of view, he's not a news source, as it were. We make distinctions between John Oliver and Rush Limbaugh say vs. The New York Times.

> using loaded language

You mean like using a loaded word like "propaganda" to describe "rhetoric" and "honest debate"?
I’d love for this to be true. Have you had anyone come in and do an audit? I find crazy stuff when I show up at No Ops shops and poke around.
Meet B. Yellowtail, an inspiring Native American fashion designer and CEO (2017)
ok but here you are really advocating kubernetes, not docker.
I learned analysis from a self guided inquiry based learning packet: http://jiblm.org//downloads/jiblmjournal/V090212S/V090212S.p...

And the reals were introduced to me by the completeness axiom phrased like this: "If M is a point set and there is a point to the right of every point of M, then there is either a right-most point of M or a first point to the right of M."
Show HN: The Task Switch – time tracking gadget
Part of the problem here is the 'tradition' of tips being a portion of the staff's wage.

I'd prefer to see the 'tip' build in to the prices, workers paid a living wage, and any tip being purely an optional thing for great service.
Funny - half of my experiences talking with nonprofits were telling people with an Access database to migrate to a proper SQL database.
I have built a little box of buttons which I can use to record the time I spend on each activity at work. Mostly just for my own amusement. I’ve open sourced the entire concept, software and physical designs.
Heh, see I had no idea what Room 641 was.
Parser combinators are basically just libraries for writing recursive descent parsers, aren't they?
You seem to be arguing exclusively from simple textual definitions of the term "propaganda" from the dictionary and Wikipedia. I don't think that's a fruitful approach because it fails to account for the nuances in meaning between different words and the contrasts and distinctions that those different terms are used to illustrate.

I think Oliver's segment is more accurately classified as an op-ed piece with some satire, it's not propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
Political will is getting there. A couple of states have banned the practice, and more are removing the incentive that police departments have to do it(that the funds go to the police).
JSLT: An open source language for JSON processing
I'm not a user or support of Uber as a company, but I appreciate everything else about your post. The bizarre dysfunctional tipping tradition has so much wrong with it besides the math. Better that all employees just actually get paid reasonably to start with.
Where do you run your containers?
Show HN: TrendSpider Automated Technical Analysis and Dynamic Alerts for Traders
Crypto is a new proper noun?
As a sidepoint, I'm going to have to argue that while a soul can be considered a rational concept, it is by know means scientific. I have not aware of any peer reviewed research utilizing the scientific method to show that a soul exists.

But to get to your main point, my question again is why are plants excluded from this state? I really don't get it. You call out that animals are different because they aren't inanimate beings, but neither are plants. Plants are complex, highly evolved multi cellular organisms that are certainly not inanimate.

If the argument is that animals are a life form that are closer form of life to humans so that's why you shouldn't eat them, I can buy that argument. It's a similar moral argument for why you shouldn't eat humans.

But that's a lot different from claiming that animals have souls/spirit/animus and plants don't. From any biological perspective plants are just as alive as animals. Plants communicate, respond to touch, many even actively kill other organisms (venus fly traps, bird catcher trees, etc.), they've been experimentally verified to exhibit some type of memory, and they respond to all sorts of stimuli (for example, turning towards the sun). Rationally, isn't that pretty darn alive? It seems shortsighted to think that plants lack a spirit/soul.
You should take a look at Feynmann’s lecture notes on physics, yes, but they aren’t guaranteed to be good for you. At the very least, you will need some math background that you may not have yet to be able to follow them.
Individuals invested in crypto currency are excited about hard currency outside of the control of government policy. See “End The Fed” by Ron Paul.
I think I'd have to argue that real estate has existed for much, much longer than a few decades :D

I'm a pretty big sceptic on all of this crypto BS, but the ownership of real estate assets seems like a pretty archaic system of not easily inspected pieces of paper. Having a public, provable system for recording this information (and possibly other related info, e.g. liens) seems like it would be of some use. The system we have works, but it could work better.
Blockchain probabilistically solves Byzantine generals problem. That's pretty awesome result with significant business consequences once people start applying it everywhere where they need to trust somebody in trustless environment. If its devs manage to address scaling issues, it could be one of the backbones of Internet, e-commerce, sharing economy etc. It can be also misused to cement certain societal divisions.
IMO AI/ML scientists are drastically underestimating the complexity of biology.

Once scientists in biology and healthcare get on board like they are in linguistics and computer vision I'd expect things to pick up.
MOST political contributions by billionaires go to Democrats and liberal causes. An inconvenient truth you class haters refuse to confront.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/blue-billionaires-on-...
> It's distributed trust. That's the problem it solves.

As someone else has pointed out, trust is still not distributed. You still have to trust whoever created the rules and wrote the code (from maliciousness and errors).

Especially when that distributed trust is paid/earned with CPU cycles. The incentive is not clear besides periodic speculatory bursts.
And the building has "reinforced concrete foundations"! Wow, sounds exotic! Just kidding... not sure if they mean something else, but "reinforced concrete foundations" might be the most commonplace thing in structural engineering. (Most foundations involve concrete, and most concrete is reinforced.) So this is a bit like saying your car has a paint job. But hey I used to be a structural engineer, and unfair ballbusting of the poor hapless journalist aside, I'm still kind of curious what feature they were actually describing.

Edit: I'll wager it's a seismic upgrade. The building's vintage is from back when they didn't have as good of a handle on the seismic stuff. And the Cascadia Subduction Zone is no joke!
I'm calling it now: 6-3.
Thomas, Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan in the six.

Thomas has made his position clear about this in the past, Roberts sensibilities are often libertarian, and the others are liberals.
How is this new. Have the authors ever been in a British (gastro)pub? Order at the bar mate. Also, no silly tipping rules.
Given that this was created 4-5 years ago, I'd say it aged perfectly.
There is only one possible place where this can really grow to be that kind of a problem: It's when ops isn't being involved.

(And if the relationship between development and ops has broken down to the point that each one is trying to work around rather than with each other, you're already screwed. The rest is just details.)

If ops is involved, then there's no real reason they can't take charge of making sure that anything that is running in production is being built up from minimal images where they can keep track of the technology stack and all the different versions of xyz lib that are running in production. They've just got to do it using a different tool chain.

And if ops isn't involved, I'm not sure how different this really is from the typical status quo, which involves unquestioningly running whatever uberjar full of unknown (to ops) 3rd-party packages that probably have their versions being selected using Maven's default version conflict resolution strategy, so that nobody, not even dev, really knows what exactly is running in production.
There's a restaurant very near me. It's a New York-style pizza place: its name is Bob's Pizza (the name isn't really Bob), and it serves pizza by the slice or pie along with Italianish sandwiches and a few salads. They have great, reasonably priced dine-in lunch specials, e.g. a slice, small salad and soda.

They have table service. I would go there much more frequently if they had counter service. The servers are very friendly and generally attentive, but the table service aspect just makes no sense, especially at lunchtime when it's all solo diners with limited time.
Why we must oppose the new copyright directive
> 2. Instead of going through a lawyer, paying money, I make this a smart contract.

What is a "smart contract" and how would this contract be aware of legal requirements?
Yes, all of Europe. (Most of the world, in fact. The USA and Canada are the exceptions.)

It's occasionally difficult to catch the waiter's attention if you want to pay in a hurry and it's a bit busy, but I prefer this to the unwanted interruptions from waiters in America.
What do you mean? Are you referring to the Docker Hub in particular?