skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see your point, thanks for the precision. I can agree perpetuated inequality does give kids a huge head start.

Taxation is already high for the rich, but the top bracket is usually quite low. I don't think the solution is more taxes, but more tax brackets; they should scale to accommodate the extra rich.
just one recent case

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15675118

All of the $18B transaction was handled by Ant Financial.
Ive been watching this repo for over a while. It's very active and I highly recommend trying it out. It's a pretty nifty project with a lot or activity.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7682439?hl=en

Iirc, last time something similar happened to me, I was able to prove my identity by answering questions such as email addresses of recent email senders.

PS: You might be better off posting this somewhere like Quora.
My brother-in-law prefers a mind-numbing job. He was a cashier for many years, until they promoted him to management and he had to have his mind "in the job" even outside of work hours, then switched to being a delivery driver, which is working out as his dream job - he can listen to sports broadcasts while driving, and when the deliveries are done, so is the job. No part of it comes home.

He has a degree in sports journalism, so he can be creative, and learn, and develop skills, it's that he doesn't want to do that for a job.
XGBoost: Scalable GPU Accelerated Learning [pdf]
"good looking person doing mundane shit goes viral"
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452765

Some good discussion there.
I just hit download and I can watch any movie on Premium, but i appreciate this tool as well
This site appears to hijack the ‘back’ functionality. I’m on an iPhone and when I swiped backward it wouldn’t let me leave. Had to go backward twice to escape.
Climate change is a global problem, so you cannot move countries to escape it. The best you can plan for is to move to minimise its impact on you personally for as long as possible, which is fine if you only expect to live another 30-50 years and don't give a crap about the next generations.
I'm surprised that he didn't try to relocate back to Germany years ago, as Germany doesn't extradite its own citizens. Did any of the court orders in New Zealand prevent him from (legally) leaving the country?
I've been using this for years and it is absolutley excellent
Full list of supported sites: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Ways AI can change democracy for the better
Okay, bad example, I guess. There’s still the entire “playaround” TAS category, mostly featuring TASes that will be the same length no matter what you do (e.g. Gradius, Brain Age.)
It doesn't handle screen rotation, so I have two identities? Mr portrait and Mr Landacape
Or brew :P
Reminds me of Sethcam way back in the day.
> By the time you launch a product, a dozen imitation pops up

They don't. But that's why some Chinese companies are extremely competitive. They fought a way out of a bloodbath.
Here's the academic paper on which this article is based:
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1753/2017...

and here is the HN discussion of that paper from a couple days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448187
Since letting kids alone on youtube, is clusterf* of a nightmare, this is a godsend tool to archive approved channels to a local media server.

This config file (with separate channel-list- and archive-files) template found here, has proven quite useful to me combined with some minimal batch job:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/858ny5/my_yout...
>If I decide to write a book and I self publish, having paid for all my tools.... and still get a profit at the end after selling a million copies.... then who is exploited? Where is the theft?

There was no exploitation and there was no theft. The boss is not the customer and I'm not entirely sure how you have come to this conclusion.

>But would we say that the delivery person is suddennly entitled to additional retained earnings (profits) all of a sudden?

The worker did not participate in any work creating the book, or writing it. The worker however is entitled to profits from the delivery services.

>Anyone that will tell you that 2 or more consenting, voluntarily engaged adults is stealing from another is being dishonest and has an agenda.

This is very dishonest itself. There is nothing voluntary for a lot of people. Work, or be homeless and maybe end up dead, this is the reality for many Americans.
There was an Australian highschool student who live-streamed her preparation for final exams last year. You never saw her face, just hands and heard her speak but she was encouraging her viewers to participate in the pomodoros.

I was doing post-grad at the time and enjoyed the comraderie even if she was 10 years my junior.
Just read whitepaper. I'll check in on this project once there they open source the code so I can run my own payment channel hub. Until then it's a centralized system (and even then.. maybe still).

"LiquidChain GmbH plans to operate several Liquidity.Network
hubs on top of the Ethereum
blockchain building the foundation for instant
and cheap transmission of crypto. Anyone however
will be able to operate a Liquidity.Network
hub once the software is open sourced."
yup. you can a quick macro in qtebrowser as well. It gets rid of ads nicely too.
I ordered some 2 pin RGB LEDs a few years back. They change color over time via some built in IC, but the crazy thing is that the IC is so small that you can't even see it. And it all fits nicely within a standard LED. I would imagine someone could even fit a similar IC within the traces of a circuit board and nobody would be able to tell.
its much bigger, size wise. Youtube-dl also works perfectly from the command line.
Did it ever strike the first victims?
The very rich also tend to hide their money offshore or play games with multiple residencies to find the best tax rates.
Clever girl. Or guy.
I've been using this ever since youtube dropped flash support. Early this year youtube began throttling certain file formats and qualities. The way around this is to call youtube-dl so that it uses an external downloader like,

--external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-j 8 -s 8"

I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc.
I think you have the wrong impression. This is one of the more well thought out projects in the space. Don't let the cover (marketing schlock) mislead you.
I hope he wins.
Sorry lovich, you're making this personal. Cannot have a personal discussion here. Only can make witty, conforming viewpoints of society and social norm's here. I agree completely with your view point and it's great to have such a open discussion with it here. This is a safe space of truth, and cast no moral, social, political bias.

Have a nice day.
Capitalism is not a democracy. By your very logic, it is voluntary authority and thus unfree participation.

> Why not use it for this determination of fairness?

Plenty of reasons.

For right now, let's just pretend we can ignore the historical bloody origin of capitalism and state, resulting in the forced removal of the occupants, stealing the original inhabitants land, property, people and inherited birthright, renting it back to them in the form of tribute, gold or money. A racket.

Simply, capitalism must rely on supply and demand to determine cost and price. However, there is no way to measure value, especially of a product.

How much does a sunset cost? Or a nice dinner with friends and family? Or celebrating events? Or a quiet afternoon nap, how much does that all cost?

Or how much are you willing to pay the capitalist who is able to monopolize the very air you breathe?

Thus you have infinitely valuable bread, which guarantees human life, that will never be eaten because it costs more than what can be afforded.

Extrapolate this, include a bit of competitive sprinkles and you will soon have an economic, social and political ticking time bomb.
Please comment on the content of the whitepaper rather than the proficiency of the English used to write it.
Robots do not destroy employment, politicians do
Ask HN: When is Wordpress the right choice for a website?
Make great again, would imply there was a time that the OS was overall better than it is today, which is of course rather silly since while there an incredibly long list of small imrpovements we would all love to see, there is no previous version of macOS that I imagine that see as being greater and thus would revert too. But would love to see app like, "Make OS X Even Better. Hard to imagine an app that could fix all of those things. As anything you defaults you can change via terminal commands are already available for free on github like the popular https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles, unless this app plans to have core functionality versus just running terminal commands once.
Not sure what you mean? Are you saying in order to be a victim of an attack one must die?

The previous victims may be alive but they are still victims.
This is neat!

I did something similar with https://tinysite.adamdrake.com where I have a website that fits into a single ipv4 datagram (at least it did when I was using my own HTTP server).

More details here: https://adamdrake.com/the-biggest-smallest-website.html
Sharks Make Splash in Brooklyn
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427026
I just meant East Asia excepting China/NK

If your stats are true that 20-40% of Japanese men have paid for sex than I am incredibly naive, however I dont believe the stats are that high
You can search through pull requests to see a few examples, but I wouldn't say it's that simple. Login in and authentication can be very different for each website.
US Online Piracy Lawsuits Break Record Numbers
Title should be changed to reflect this fact.
The definition that google returns for the word "earn" is: 1. obtain (money) in return for labour or services. 2.
gain deservedly in return for one's behaviour or achievements.

I think it's interesting to see the contrast in those 2 definitions. In the first place you concern yourself with whether or not a service has been performed. In the second place you concern yourself whether or not the money is deserved by way of the action/accomplishment.

I think this neatly separates the two kinds of thinking on this sort of topic. On the one hand, people are appalled that people are making a lot of money without providing any particularly useful service (in the case of HFT, I suppose we could argue that it increases liquidity, which is helpful in some ways, but the market had ways of dealing with that before HFT so I think it's not a super strong argument).

On the other hand, there are people who admire the cleverness, skill, impetus and daring of people who can find ways to make money without providing some kind of traditional service. To those people, the money has been earned by virtue of their ingenuity/initiative/luck.

I think the conflict here is that to many people, the world would be a better place if we valued #1 considerably more than we value #2 (possibly to the point of not valuing #2 at all). It is, of course, not the world we currently live in, but I can understand the sentiment.
Most of the developers I meet look down on Wordpress but when it comes to getting up and running quickly and support ecosystem Wordpress still seems hard to beat. Looking for balanced perspective from those both building and maintaining front-end/landing sites.
Gotta be careful sometimes. At least one tutorial video site I used it on (where an account was needed) I was blocked and had to open a ticket to re-enable my account by promising not to break their ToS which said something explicit about not downloading a bunch of their videos. (I was using it on whole courses and got flagged)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think advances in video streaming tech were pioneered by "cam girls" (porn).
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I can never quite tell whether to be impressed or depressed by the human capacity to conflate "this person is often on a screen near me" and "this person is my friend".
Perhaps it could be helpful to fly a drone over Red Square, dispersing a spray with microdots that read: "This could have been Novichok, Tovarich. Stop it, already.".
Title has been truncated to reflect this fact.
No I think it's fine. English-speaking people don't go around saying "but I'm from America, not England".
All of the puzzles Henryk Gasperowicz makes are this sort of thing. They're fun to try to figure out even if you know the basic idea, as they're pretty much all analog circuits. EG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXKSSmItls
Wagtail.

There's also a very nice library that can dump all the pages from Wagtail into a static site which you can then just copy to a CDN, giving you the best of both worlds: The ease of publishing of dynamic sites and the speed/ease of deployment of static sites.
I wonder how large a website using this scheme can practically be to work on most browsers. I know of at least one browser that limited URLs to 100 characters, but it's almost 30 years old…
They're victims.. so yes, by definition, it did strike them.
I thought Levon Arakelyan was a true hacker. I can relate this to my own side-projects. Most of them start with a simple "what-if" question in my head. Once I've started writing code, I won't stop until I have some kind of prototype ready. That aside, agreed that for digging tunnels it could be dangerous.
Url changed from https://kottke.org/18/07/the-reaction-time-problem, which points to this.
I did. The whitepaper offers no details on how this is decentralized. Please answer my questions rather that attempting to bicker.
> according to the Environmental Working Group

It's unfortunate that they are giving credence to EWG as it damages the credibility of the article. EWG amounts to an anti-science pro-organic industry group that uses pseudoscience to push their agenda.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien...
Youtube-dl works with soundcloud as well, which is a useful feature.

It can even download playlists and albums.

It also has support for downloading images from Flickr, to an extent.
China-based? China-assembled.
Ask HN: How did you learn to dance?
I am especially interested in good video tutorials, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
The penetration of smartphone in China is almost 100%, higher probably than US.
This may be my most favorite piece of software I have installed. Does what it says on the tin, nothing more nothing less. LASER-focused, I really love that about it.

mpv also comes close as great software.
No, why would you think so?
Is this because you have a very old device or just not a good device? I don’t have any ad blocking. I go to sites on an almost 4 year old device and almost 1 year old device. Haven’t had issues with either at all. Not even a slight slowdown.
I don't think that helps significantly. Check out the plot on Wikipedia [1] for the ultraviolet index in NYC. At peak on summer, solar noon versus 8am there's a factor of ~3 difference between UV incident on a horizontal surface. Since the sun is much lower at 8am, that factor is primarily from the surface being at an oblique angle to the sun. So atmospheric absorption is significantly smaller than a factor of 3 and since much of the human body is not oriented horizontally, that's the part I'd want to be considering. Either way though, SPF of at most 3 is insufficient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_index
> In addition, the agent learns to exploit a flaw in the emulator to make a key re-appear at minute 4:25 of the video

After a bit of debugging, this appears to be a very intentional feature in the game rather than a flaw. That key appears after a while if you're not in the room (and don't have one).

Based on this disassembly: http://www.bjars.com/source/Montezuma.asm

Here's the relevant code with some annotations added:

https://goo.gl/VUDr9F

I'm not sure if this is a previously known feature in the game (a quick google search does not reveal much). It would be quite interesting if the RL agent was the first to find it!

PS: If you launch MAME with the "-debug" option and press CTRL+M you can see the whole memory (atari 2600 only has 128 bytes!!) while playing the game. If you keep an eye on the byte at 0xEA you will know when the key is about to pop up.
Alternatively you can speed things along by changing it yourself to a value just below 0x3F.
When I tried to really get into ocaml a few months ago I loved it! Until I actually tried to put together a project with it. Every tutorial and doc seemed to be slightly out of date or not compatible with some package version. Real World Ocaml, while excellent conceptually, is between versions and most examples were broken.

I reeeaaalllly wanted to love Ocaml, but it just seemed like a collection of half baked tools and limited library support. So I learned Julia instead.

I would love to see a little unification and life come into ocaml to get its dev tooling up to par with other modern languages.

I gave up on it when I realized I had been spending more time debuging example code and conflicting versions of 'stdlib' type packages than i had been actually writing any Ocaml code.
Yes, while extradition proceedings are going on he is barred from leaving the country, as one would expect.
Writing your own userland implementation of prameterised queries is what you consider “very secure”?

I’d hate to see what you think is terrible then.
Montezuma's Revenge is one of the more impressive "3D conversions" done by our Apple II emulator [1]

[1] https://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5.png
"shitty ESL" is a slur against people who don't have the same background as you. That's a bannable offense on HN, so please don't do that again. It's easy to make substantive points about an article without stooping to insults, so please do that instead.
Agreed. If all worker protection laws (minimum wage, holiday, overtime, safety regulations, etc.) are repealed tomorrow, there would be a huge jump in S&P500. If America does this, should Europe follow suit lest it falls behind? It is best to maximize quality of life for citizens, not total stock market index.
Could be food poisoning from the same restaurant at which the Skripals ate. Nerve agents tend not to be so delayed or forgiving.
The man who puts together Macy’s fireworks show explains what you see in the sky
If you're building a blog and/or product sales site, it's pretty fast to get up and running. I wouldn't recommend it for an actual product web app.
Ah! I thought I searched everywhere, but how did I miss that?
Thanks!
Hamas' Cyber Honeypot Exposes Israeli Weakness and Tech Giants' Complicity
Before you learn TypeScript, transpile it
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456289
Errors in C&EN graphic reveal widespread misconceptions about slime chemistry
> This is only an issue if later players have knowledge of the action other players are taking during the turn in progress

You’re assuming full endogeneity. That is never the case. Others’ orders are just one input. Other markets’ books and orders are far more important, particularly for derivatives.
i mean... you were breaking the TOS though. that was a risk you presumably are comfortable with.
You think that's something, you should see this documentary called CAVEDIGGER about a guy named Ra Paulette in New Mexico who carves exquisite caves for customers. It's really something. Watch the trailer: http://cavediggerdocumentary.com/
The elephant in the room is obviously that this is probably illegal under DMCA.
> obscurity is net-negative for systems that need to defend against strong attackers

If that's the case, why doesn't the NSA publish Suite A algorithms?
The Cost of Surveillance Is Falling
I'm still waiting for the email.
Turkey Farming in Nigeria: Beginner’s Guide
qutebrowser does, and has for at least 2 years if not more.
Hiring 20+ Python Developers in Houston and 1 Python Developer in Plano, Texas All are on-site, must be US Citizen or Green Card. Email me is interested Melanie.gillot@acsicorp.com
Sentinel satellite exposes sulphur dioxide pollution
How to attract people to work on very old and outdated technologies?
Interesting, and perhaps indicative of different environmental conditions now?

I wonder if there's a toxicological or immunological explanation, or whether it's simply due to differing recreational and activity choices.
While most sites/apps support about 2000 bytes (2KB), some can handle more... Twitter and Slack, for example, allow 4000 bytes in a link.

4000 bytes is enough to apparently encode the full text of Poe's The Raven.

https://twitter.com/edgar_the_poe/status/1003524516440563712
The Mars Exploration Rovers Update Sols 5103–5132: Opportunity Sleeps
> The 10.5” iPad Pro is a monster, and could easily power a MacBook faster than an Intel chip.

Very true. I have that exact iPad Pro (10.5") and the MacBook 12" and I can tell you that the iPad Pro is much stronger. The damn thing never stops for breath. Even trendy games with very very detailed graphics take 10 seconds to start on a bad day (usually 5-6) and they run at 60+ FPS at all times.

If we are talking about everyday apps and Safari, the iPad Pro is the last tablet you will ever need in your life. It's simply perfect.

> The real question is what to do on the MBP and iMac Pro.

My only complaint about my other MacBook (Pro 15", 2015) are the loud fan noises, to be fair. I know Apple's thin and beautiful laptops are what people love but I'd buy some slightly bulkier MacBook if it was quiet.

Speaking of which, the iMac Pro is the quietest machine of its class out there. Definitely gonna gather some cash and buy it. I don't think I'll need another desktop machine for at least 7 years, if not 10-12...

Never been a fanboy in my life but I honestly can't wait to see Apple chip exclusive iPhones and MacBook. (I am mentioning iPhones because they still use Qualcomm's or Intel's radios and chips for their signals stack.)
Re-read the page that you linked. Fork isn't implemented on Windows, where fork doesn't exist anyways. Forking works just fine in Ocaml (on Unixes).

Unix module docs (with fork!): http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Unix.html
The list of activities that could be argued to corrode someone's "sense of virtue" or psychological well-being, yet the vast majority of people agree should be legal, is very long. One should run into that objection immediately.

You say there are those who make this argument. Do they happen to be the small subset of the population that actually would maintain that it's immoral to do all or most of the following: drink alcohol, stay up until 4 a.m. watching TV, watch horror movies, play violent video games, have a one-night stand, eat an unhealthy diet, spend your free time on games instead of work or study, etc.?

I guess I'm jumping to the term "legal". BadassFractal merely said they "find [it] repugnant, immoral, and will try to come up with victims". Do they stop short of saying that their moral opinion should dictate others' behavior?
Interestingly it's actually not a flaw, the key appears after a while if you're not in the room (and don't have one):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460392

I assume the agent somehow found this out and developed the behavior of going in and out of the room until the key shows up (which, with enough agent randomness it apparently will).
Another option is to embed youtube videos on your own web page (hosted locally or whatever). You don't need to download the actual videos, the ads tend to be banners (not ones that make you wait to view it). Works great for my 4 year old.