skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512045, I'm trying to figure out what gets me most excited about what DIRT and TCRs could enable.

For me, it's actually not data easily verifiable as true or false, but more for "wisdom of the crowds" type of knowledge—things that you couldn't put up on a source like Wikipedia. These tend to be lists or recommendations that contain some subjectivity, but also tend to coalesce around a mostly-agreed upon set of answers from a trusted set of sources.

In the centralized world, we usually rely upon institutions like the Michelin Guide to develop a fair set of criteria, but we ultimately as end users trust that institution's "objectivity" and judge whether we think that list is valuable. Sometimes when I research, I informally end up creating lists of lists and combining them ad-hoc if I can't tell which of them is more trusted. These lists also tend to end up being static or only updated once or twice a year and can fall horribly out of date.

I think TCR incentives could potentially be really interesting as an alternative to these lists which rely on the institution's brand. For example, I think Quora Answer Wikis (like this one: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-independent-coffee-s...) and general consensus for recommendations in forums for questions like "Which cities should I visit in Thailand if I'm looking for nightlife and places to hike?" or "Which REST framework library should I use for a Django project?" It'd be amazing if DIRT could balance the incentives for community members to contribute to this type of data and keep them as living lists, with all changes and updates maintained through a community with the right checks and balances and incentives.

From the Medium post:
>If the data is correct, it is freely shared. If the data is incorrect, anyone can challenge the data and earn tokens for identifying these inaccurate facts. Our protocol and platform makes it economically irrational for misinformation to persist in a data set.

I think the more interesting data would be data that's on a gray scale, e.g. using the above coffee shop in San Francisco example, obviously if John Doe tries to get his burger joint on the list as a growth hack even though they don't serve coffee, that should easily be verified as misinformation. But what if a coffee shop just closed for business, or moved to Mill Valley but thinks they should still be on the list, or just switched beans and raised the prices so that everyone agrees that it no longer deserves to be on the list?

Disclaimer: I know most of the team working on DIRT, and I don't know very much about TCRs.
The real world is very boring so people escape into virtual worlds.

I think a good solution for this is to make the real world a fun, good place but that requires real friends, a great job, lots of interests and energy after work etc. Everything most people don't have due to the need to get a job for money and go there every day.

If human leaders would be 100 points smarter on the emotional scale, we would put efforts into building great societies where people can enjoy their lives. Put tons of money into using tech to automate really boring jobs at a scale never seen before, and letting people study for free etc.
"our government is corrupt from the top down"

That's just not true and it doesn't help anything. There are hundreds of thousands to millions of civil servants doing good work at mid/low levels. The top level is as dirty any anything in my lifetime by orders of magnitude.
But did you read in on a Palm Pilot?
Remember when Medium was supposed to be the height of readability?
Maduro and Chavez just about every time on TV or radio claimed the US was preparing an invasion, was subverting the gov't by way of the opposition, etc. All the way back to the GW Bush, through Obama and till now.

Was/is Chavez/Maduro credible? I'll leave that up to you to decide.

The sitch down there is the govt's own doing. Nationalizing, expelling and enacting policies which drove out Industry SMEs ensured that the country would slowly but surely go downhill.
Thank you. You are correct, this is a bug. Thank for pointing it out. Fixed now.
It is most definitely the most used currency for international trade worldwide. It also makes up 64% of all known central bank's foreign currency reserves. If we were to declare a world currency, it would most definitely be USD. Hence why the poster used the term "defacto" I suppose.
Who are you to decide what belongs here? For profit or not, it epitomizes the fact that he is channeling his wealth towards decent course. What have you done for humanity lately?

https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-s-south-australian-ba...

https://www.electrive.com/2018/04/20/tesla-to-power-puerto-r...

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/10/elon-musk-spacex-subma...
I like Manhattan's compromise. Select neighborhoods which eternally trap the tourists in their labyrinth with a nice, neat grid for the commercial districts.
Agreed with you. I like being able to shoot off questions in person, and I like being asked questions in person. Four days a week at work is ideal.
> If it stays like it is and tries to be a "better Java", it will keep losing ground to more practical and "easier" languages on the JVM, possibly including losing to Java itself!

Well, to my mind the FP is a means to practical ends. I'm not attached to Scala qua Scala, I'm attached to HKT and typeclasses because there are practical problems I can't solve without them. As long as Scala has those things and Java or Kotlin don't, Scala will have an advantage - and if Java does adopt those things I'd say mission accomplished. (I mean, Odersky's original goal was to improve Java, right?)
He also made an original game with ThinkFun: Code Master, which does some fun stuff with state machines:

https://www.thinkfun.com/products/code-master/
TLDR: don't use 'unsafe-inline'. Good article though.
Writing software doesn’t require massive investments of capital like making chips does.

And if open source processors feature the same attention to detail and high engineering standards that most open source software projects evidence, they’ll frequently catch on fire or stop working without multiple bug fix patches.
If you want to travel fast, go alone. If you want to travel far, go together.
Going to take a look, at tldr and watchman. Thanks
You are a fool. I am pro musk in this case. The rules of the website decide what is appropriate to post and this does not meet the criteria by any stretch of the imagination. It is a misleading article that touches on an unsubstantive topic that is known to be controversial. It serves no other purpose than to stoke argument.
I have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, maybe 7 or 8 times. I have lost count.
Why would a relevant, detailed post that explains everything it is talking about with examples, clearly be trolling in your view?

I am guessing because it contradicts your free-market ideology?

Keep going with the lack of capitalist funding for news. Open source is socialism, and everyone knows socialism failed in the USSR and China, and USA is the land of the free, first you have wikinews next thing you know you have gulags!
I can't tell what, if anything, they were doing besides filming.
That idea didn't work. Practice trumps theory.
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

I disagree. If anything, closed minded defeatist attitudes don't belong here.
Yes, and I've gotten called to approve additional expense because there was more work needed than they estimated once they got in there.

Or the door latch on my van seized up. Tried two different independent shops I like and they both referred me to the dealer. If your general practitioner says they can't help you and you need a specialist, what are you going to do?
Purefit Keto Reviews: A Real Weight Loss Solution?
Ok great, well I posted over at r/tor, see what they say: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/8y6z0m/browsh_html_ser...
Angular Datetime – A directive to add datetime input on unsupported browsers
Pay Casper $25 to take a nap
The common trope in LA and SF is that more and more homeless migrate to the west coast every day due to the services and weather.
Bulletproofs are significant because they allows you to check that the amount being input and output in a Bitcoin transaction is correct without revealing the amounts to non-parties to the transaction. The size of a bulletproof is small enough (and they grow with O(c + log n)) that for transactions with a couple inputs and outputs, there is minimal overhead compared to a unblinded transaction.

The link provided is to a relatively new library for doing bullet proofs written in Haskell -- the README might benefit from more disclaimer about the verification steps taken and analysis of side channels for the library (probably not ready for production)
It was the birthday for one of the team members. To celebrate this day, the coach brought them to the cave(which was not the first time that they've been there), and they're supposed to race in to write their names at the first wall of the cave. Then heavy rain fell and water started flooding in when they tried to return. To survive, the only way is to go deeper in to the higher platform.
Nah, likes!
"Goodnight Moon", maybe a hundred times

"Go Dog, Go!", maybe a hundred times

"HOP ON POP", maybe a hundred times
> I barely take this into account.

> I file feedback exclusively on technical merit and communication.

I appreciate your comment, but my point is that there's no way to actually do this, even if your goal is to. It may seem that you're being objective, but the objective facts can only influence the subjective opinion that's ultimately responsible for the decision, not the reverse as we like to think.

For example, if an interviewer likes the interviewee, they would actually think that the person did quite well in the technical question, and not if they don't. We first form an opinion about someone or something and then look for "objective" facts to justify it, not the other way round.

The only way to really be objective here is to use a point system and hard thresholds which completely removes the human in the loop, like SAT.

I recommend "Thinking Fast and Slow" and "Why Buddhism is True" which go into this idea in detail, and in general about how poor we are at being unbiased and rational. You'd be surprised at how deep our irrationality goes even if you already have some idea.
Yes, this is highly ironic.
Flint, that's where. And they don't need a superhero, they need someone honest.
I think this was what started him thinking about Flint:

http://www.wnem.com/story/38593466/more-than-500-bikes-given...

Then folks saw that he was thinking about flint and asked him to help with the water stuff.
So does showering, and you do that before interacting with people outside right?
What is " the students issue "?
He specifically says the earlier, more libertarian, hacker ethos. While libertarianism ethos would not be in support of child porn, it is in support of many things that people might believe are justifiably prohibited. For instance, many of a libertarian ethos feel that all drugs should be legalized under the logic that the government has no right to tell people what they can or cannot put in their own bodies. This is debatable however, and an example of something that somebody might want to fight against (perhaps by telling people how to grow/refine various drugs), even if others might argue it is something that is justifiably prohibited.

When you're trying to find a correlation between homicide rate and guns per capita, you think looking a listing of nations by homicide rates and guns per capita is cherry picking? If so then, at the minimum, you've got some crazy cognitive dissonance going on. Though I failed in my last link to include the sources. You can see quite clearly that if there is any correlation, it's would be an inverse - though I would not suggest causality there. As I said, the problem is not guns - it's people. And even if the countries the fewer undesirables have more guns, I expect that is probably just a spurious correlation.

[1] = list of countries by intentional homicide rate

[2] = list of countries by guns per capita

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...
Cold energy storage has always had the problem of utilization and capital cost. You need to buy the storage system and then that storage system may only be useful for 3-6 months of the year during 6 hours of the day. From a thermal efficiency perspective they're great but in general they get offed by the economics. For the price you'd end up gettinf better value off a battery storage system to do load shifting.
Have the news media giants grown too powerful?
Do you have many married friends? There is frequently NO chemistry/friendship between a person and their spouse’s family. You choose your spouse but not your family, so there can be wild mismatches even with no hostility/animus.
Well bandwidth and load are irrelevant when lynx/browsh are being run on a remote VM.
It wasn't flooding in the tiniest passageway yet when they tried to escape. The only way to survive is going further in and not out of the entrance.
You don't consider it positive or you don't consider it obvious (or both)? ...and why not?
Thank you.
I'm using Angular, but no library beyond that. I was looking for a library for the diagram, but didn't find anything that suited my needs, so it is just custom code. I would like to find a library which could draw nicer arrows at least, since the diagram currently gets pretty confusing when there are many connections.
Medium is especially cruel as they offer no way to make it go away.
heres a better rephrased question;
Have the Governments Grown Too Powerful?
let us abolish the enslavement by government, and let us abolish the state, and let anarcho-capitalism take its place.
The problem is that this affects everyone, even when using safer languages.
They invested in my first company, which went through YC's S11 batch.
As Musk has said on several occasions in the past, his role as CEO is to direct his attention to what's most critical, and for both Spacex and Tesla it's his savior complex that needs work.

UNICEF claims there's a child dying of starvation every 10 minutes right now in Yemen. Maybe he can apply his engineering genius and get 12 of them some breakfast to make up for his minisub misadventure in Thailand.
It's true that people aren't engines, but it's also true that people break, and often in ways that are much more difficult to diagnose and fix (or even notice).

I think depression, suicide, and much of the time addiction are clear signs that humans can break and not have the strength to 'turn back', at least not with a ton of help.
This cave was not new to them and one of the kids didn't go because he didn't have his bike with him after soccer training. Some kids did inform the parents about it too.
There’s a subtle, lurking danger in commodification of everyday activities (ie bike racks replaced with expensive rental bikes), bodily functions (ie sleeping, toilet) and necessities that were part of the public good (ie water fountains replaced with bottled water vending machines, places to relax like parks replaced with mixed-use private patios and spaces that leave nothing for the public, in-spite of mandatory public spaces). On the current trajectory, there won’t be much of anywhere or anything left on the planet that doesn’t require spending money.. will breathing oxygen be monetized and taxed too? And if you can’t afford your oxygen bill? It sounds extremely ridiculous, but so would be VOSS water to a villager in the hills with free water, that is until corporations polluted their sources, public-private partnership works steal from the people and local sources commodified like in Ireland. Flint, MI; East Chicago; Durango; Crossett, Ark... thousands of communities can’t drink their local water because of pollution.

OTOH a social civil war/political upheaval or climate famine could be th straw that broke nearly pure crony capitalism’s back... unbounded greed and unchecked self-interest have, throughout history, led to the downfalls of civilizations.
> as well as the sad decline (and preventable) of the American steel industry

I'm not sure where you get both "sad" and "preventable" from that documentary. The tragic decline of employment in the US steel industry was completely unavoidable.

The decline of American steel company's dominance between 1960 and 1980 might've been preventable, but the human carnage wrought by automation would've happened in any case.

Watching the documentary, you can see the coming storm. Every video of people working is a prelude to an industrial automation project. And it's no mistake that the documentary ends with an acknowledgment that today's steel workers operate a keyboard and mouse.

The most important lesson from steel is that competitive pressures + new ways of automating things = huge disruptions in the labor market (read: lots of poverty where once there was wealth).
Actually, 41.9
I’d think a user that has browser extensions is the type of user that is very unlikely to get the app.
True, however given this is an hardware exploit, it affects everyone.

The biggest difference, is that because of the issues you listed, systems programmers are more understanding to the problem.
Sometimes the smartest person in the room really is the smartest person in the room.

If Unix was perfect 40 years ago, nothing would have ever changed.
The Color of Technology Must Change
I've read the classics, Dune (+sequels), Lord of the Rings, and the Amber books by Zelazny at least 20 times each over the past twenty years.

Other favourites include the Vlad Taltos novels by Brust which I've read at least ten times each (still thinking "WTF?" over Vallista though!) and Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

My tastes tend towards SciFi & Fantasy, but I have no shame about my love of romance either.

(The last set of books I read were the complete Bond novels by Ian Fleming. I don't think I'd read them again, very dated, very different to the films, and not that great.)

I've read most of Terry Pratchett's books a few times each, some more than others, along with other "comedy" writers such as Jasper Fforde, and Tom Holt (his "Portable Door" series is my favourite.)
Some people like to get things done. Some people like to sit on the sidelines and complain.
That's a reminder I've not read that for a couple of years. I should have included it on my list - that and The Tombs.
BEST PLACES NEAR MUMBAI
JFK speech (1962)
10 years of the App Store: The design evolution of the earliest apps
Talk about a clickbait title! Geez
EML to PST / Import EML to Outlook 2016
Cassava crisis: the deadly food that doubles as a vital Venezuelan crop (2017)
Remember when blogging systems allowed you to choose a theme? Or that running your own site allowed you to make the site without ads, nag bars, etc? Yeah, maybe, but just maybe, when the next medium comes along with the promise of saving the web, just stick to having your own site, where you're in control.

I know this extension is to read, not to write, but if most writers just have used, say, Hugo, we'd not be here.
Language focused docker images, minus the operating system
> We have some strong pervasive ingrained cultural beliefs that money must be worked for and not given

Money that has been earned through work gives the recipient a higher level of satisfaction than money that has been gifted.

> knowledge must be gained by derivation and struggle and not just told

Knowledge gained through personal experience stays with you longer and more effectively than second-hand knowledge. That's why the traditional, frontal lecture teaching style is falling more and more out of fashion. That's also why you can't just read a book "Learn C++ in 21 days" and expect to be a decent programmer afterwards.

> success and stability must be attained through risk and competition and not cooperation or social programs

I have no idea why you're mixing success and stability, when those are orthogonal concepts. As for success: A lack of competition leads to stagnation; monopolies lead to rising prices and hinder progress. Look to the Soviet Union and you'll see what coorporation and social programs instead of competition through free markets leads to [1]. As for risk: Risk is what you naturally get once all the lowest hanging fruit are picked and there are still ripe fruits hanging higher up in the tree.

[1] Of course, in a competitive environment you'll still need cooperation. Competition on a higher level (i.e., in the market) and cooporation on a lower one (between coworkers) tends to work quite well for companies.
If you're looking for a full-stack approach, you could check out the Meteor/React/GraphQL framework I've been developing: http://vulcanjs.org/
The article covers your first question. He blew the whistle on misleading investors by overinflating production numbers by as much as 44% and that Tesla is knowingly installing damaged or unfit batteries into cars, increasing their chance of catching fire.
>> the world of government contracting

After watching the documentary on the joint strike fighter competition I just think of Boeing as a lobbying organization that happens to make planes.
Each connection requests a different range within the same file and they download together.
Tips to Build Your Own Magento Mobile App Without Coding
Unless you work for one, or have founded a company purpose-built for acquisition, I don’t see how the answer can be ‘No’.

For entrepreneurs, the monopolistic stranglehold these companies have, make them impossible to beat with a better product. The best possible outcome is acquisition. You may join, but never beat them.

For Free Software hackers, the giants turning away from open standards, and towards DRM and abuse of the CFAA, is chilling.

For a free society, surveillance capitalism needs to die.

If you have ambitions in life beyond RSUs and a regular massage, yes they are too powerful.
> This how I deal with the annoying stuff in Medium.

I deal with it by avoiding medium. Seriously, why support them in any way with page views/whatever if you disagree with their presentation method?
Great article.

Why is CSP so under-utilized? Less than 0.2% of the top 1m sites[0]. Although only 9% use basic features like secure cookies, and 6% HSTS.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/02/28/analysis-alexa-...
The problem is so much worse than this now. There are dozens of fake accounts under every one of his tweets and it doesn't even seem like these accounts are trying anymore. Their names are sometimes random strings of letters, and they just change their profile picture to a screenshotted version of Musks. Oh and once you report one of these accounts it can take weeks for Twitter to do anything

I also find it so strange that Twitter hasn't done anything to specifically limit these accounts. They could even naively block normal users from having a verified user's profile picture and this problem would virtually not exist.
It doesn't AFAIK.
is there no way to ask for these permissions after having the plugin installed allready?

I seem to remember that the Reddit enhancement suite does that
So job hopping for better salary is not unethical;
The coach is the key. His parents passed away when he was young and he was brought up by his grandmother. He was a monk for about 10 years. He taught them how to meditate constantly even during training when the kids couldn't control their temper. This crisis puts the kids into the test, proved the power of meditation and team spirit.
How these college students built a job portal and raised $350,000
I never read a book more than once... Am I the only one?
I also miss the destructive button being on the opposite side of the window from the non destructive button. In many ways, classic Mac OS was more thoughtful and usable than OSX.