skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm denying that facilitating crime is generally "real utility".

In the case where criminals profit from harm, the criminals may personally experience utility from Bitcoin, but the total net utility is negative. E.g., if I steal your new $30k car and sell it to a fence for $10k paid in Bitcoin, I have experienced a $10k gain. But since you experienced a $30k loss, net utility is negative. Ransomware, often seen using Bitcoin, is another example of net negative utility.

In the case where the exchange in question is low harm, we generally see society evolving toward legality. E.g., marijuana has been declining in illegality, so the need for evading state detection declines too. There are now multiple marijuana storefronts within walking distance of my house. Bitcoin doesn't help them.

I suppose you could say I have an investment in government, which I call "being part of a modern, civilized community". So I do object to Bitcoin's money-laundering potential on those grounds, and also deny that aiding freeloaders in tax evasion is much in the way of "real utility", any more than any other tax evasion scheme.

Even if we're willing to call Bitcoin's financial crime usage "real utility", I don't think it's "real" for the purposes of this discussion, which is about comparison with the early days of the Internet. The comparison is only meaningful if the early "real utility" is indicative of future utility for a broader audience. That was obviously the case for something like email (which 90% of Americans now use) or online shopping (80%). But there's no particular reason to think 80-90% of people will be excited about risking IRS penalties and jail time for tax evasion or money laundering.
You could leave your door open and still lock out the other in this case.
Yeah, mini-wiki in your file system is cool. Just started using it and have mixed feelings:

* The files can live anywhere (say, the Dropbox folder)

* The files are plain text

* The markup is minimal and there is UI for it

* The app is a bit old-school - none of the flat ui, panes, online-email-style stuff. No Electron.

All good so far. Yet the app forces the user to organize stuff into linked pages. Let's see whether I have the patience to stick with it.
There are similar ways where fixing a bug introduces new complexity as old data and code were dependent on buggy conditions, requiring to reserialize/convert all old data to newest "FIXED" format or to add an abstract interface that corrects it on the fly.
Being a good negotiator isn’t going to overturn a shareholder vote or a board decision. You’re trying to say that corporate governance doesn’t exist because in some cases it can be inefficient.
there is nothing fundamentally wrong with violent disagreement about technical issues, as someone who has been on the pointy end of the stick, you cant take it personally, its debate with people who have very strong feelings, about highly technical issues.
Ask HN: How do you deal with continuous failures?
Life is hard for everyone.

But I never thougnt life will be so hard to me. I felt I failed everything that I wanted to achieve.

Last year I wanted to have a career as web developer. So I went to another city to attend a coding bootcamp there.

In the 6 months learning, there were ups and downs. But finially I finished the training.

After the training, some of my classmates found the jobs immediately.I was not in a hurry to find a job, so I continued to study by myself.

Until last month, after studied another two months, I think I am ready. Because many of my classmates told me their interview questions, all are easy, I am very confident to find a proper job.

But the the relatity taught me a lesson. I am totaly wrong. after applying all the 200+ jobs, only 5 companies called me to interview. And When I went there 2 hours by bus, their attitude are like 'You don't have experience as web developer before？then fk off'

Yesterday, Some classmates visited me, they shared their working experience. All taskes are easy. I also can handle them perfectly. But there is just no company willingly to give me a chance.I don't know whether it was releated to my age or not.(4+ old than almost all classmates)

I just could not stop crying.At first my confidence level is 100, now is 0.

What should I do?
I'm in the UK. I have a half hour commute by car when there's light traffic. Congestion can easily add 10-15 minutes to that. There are at least three almost entirely independent routes that I can take to work that are the same without traffic so it's absolutely worth routing around it
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notion https://www.notion.so/
How? If someone from your room on purpose locks you in the shared bathroom? That doesn’t sound like a likely scenario
What if the high humidity of the bathroom causes the leather strap to break at an inopportune time? What happens if the strap gets misplaced or stolen? This is not a good idea.
For privacy and portability the text editor in Tails Live OS is no frills. Notes are basic text files, persisted to a password protected and encrypted disk partition, with the option to additionally encrypt and password protect individual files.

Notes are saved in a standard format and can locked down in an instant simply by pulling the Tails USB from whatever device you happen to be using.
I use Carto's free tiles, which are great. I only found them when I did a project where the client had a Carto licence. I've used the free tiles (with Leaflet) for every map project I've done since.
First thoughts: the branding looks like it came out of a PC Magazine from 1995. Also I’m put off with the constant donation requests and all I’ve seen thus far is a bad web site. Release something first, anything, then ask for money and fire your graphics designer and whoever is doing ya’ll marketing.
Why? It’s not a key, just a lock you open/close from inside your bedroom into the shared bathroom. Once you are in, you can just walk back into your room unless someone in your room on purpose locks you in.
I wonder if there's a vim plugin to automatically call gpg to decrypt a file, NOT put it in swp, and re-encrypt it with gpg when writing it to disk...

Edit: and there is![1] I'm definitely using this.

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645
Huh, interesting. Do you know if anyone has looked at whether the rate of genetic mutations increases during those 10k year periods of weakened magnetic field? Seems like that would cause the magnetosphere to become less effective at deflecting cosmic radiation.
> Otherwise you fall into "multipolar traps" [1] where each actor, working independently and acting game-theoretically optimally, can throw the system into undesirable states.

how does the natural ecosystem balance itself? I think that as long as each actor has enough degrees of freedom to exploit any loophole in any other actor, the system will self balance (by which, i mean become stable).
I think some kind of privacy sandbox & data escape logging would suffice to allow data leaking apps, to run on a libre type OS.

The main thing an OS like this needs is the a ability for it's users to run their own "cloud" infrastructure and attach that to their own phone.

Company can offer this as a SAAS service paid, providing they to proper end to end encryption and are not able to read the data they store. Also a good way to fund future development.
May I ask if there are experimental systems today that take inspiration from NeWS? You've blogged about OpenLaszlo, but this too is now quite old (and dead).
They can be used to treat disease, but are often used to prevent disease. Statins in particular are used to prevent cardiovascular disease from developing.
What are the Vista Best Practices? Also what are the “critical factors for success”?
Unlikely, given their statement on leaving engineering alone. I worked at Greenway. They let a lot of people go, most recently with a relocation effort that saw 70-80% of R&D from the old main campus leave vs. relocate to another state. This was apparently a very high retention rate too; they did offer relocation assistance, which probably helped.
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> Traditional UNIX keyboards had the control key in the position of where the caps lock key is now

Couterpoint: when I was working at Lucent around 1999, they gave me a Sun workstation with a keyboard that had Esc instead of Caps Lock. There were others that had a Control key there, though.

Edit: I'm searching online and can't find a Sun keyboard with that layout. Now I'm wondering if I misremembered...
Have you got a portfolio? Have you rewritten your resume? Are you writing personalized responses to jobs you are more interested instead of shotgunning the same response?
GP meant of course icons such as those of your ask toolbar, pc cleaner, some AV, some boot speedup program, a handful of other "security programs", ...
Based on the number of reactions I was completely wrong, but my point was: You are not going to see a news article about avalanches. News is always about infrequent events.
Part of it has to do with the electoral college as well. He lost by three million votes or 2.1% margin - another is that negative factors piled onto her from the Benghazi mudslinging, the timing of the reopening of the investigation, the disadvantage after a party has the presidency for two terms straight, to a general lack of charisma and ability to inspire people. "I'm with her." just says to support her not why you should do so - even by shallow soundbite standards. He won at a handicap in addition to appealing the base interests of the worst people.

The first two I can see but certainly not the last three.
Great for storing files along with notes.

Saved me a couple times with re-occurring or forgettable issues.

Recently with Virtual Box I needed to install the Intel USB 3.0 driver when spinning up an old WES7 VM. Had the note and the executable right there.
> What if the high humidity of the bathroom causes the leather strap to break at an inopportune time?

I doubt that would happen, but use something other than leather?

> What happens if the strap gets misplaced or stolen?

Replace it?
He really has to be awarded an Anti-UNIX prize somewhen.
Care to expand on that thought?
What's wrong with Gboard?
On Mac: vi

On Windows: Ubuntu environment and vi

On Linux and BSD: vi

On phones and tablets: email client

Alternate for all platforms: email client
Great article, does this also proves that pattern recognition from IQ tests can be considered as skills. Just as a chess grandmaster can practice pattern recognisiton on the chessboard.
The safety-relevant code runs on a microcontroller in the CAN dongle and is written in C.

Why does everyone assume the phone is doing all the work?
They do make usb wifi dongles.
Metric expansion only has an effect on structures larger than galaxies, so there should be no difference in 20by as a result of it. Eventually if it continues distant galaxies will redshift to black, but the Milky Way itself won’t be torn apart.
You've probably heard of http://lfe.io/, I imagine
I don't think circuit depth matters for SNARKs? Though there are other proof systems where AND depth matters.

Also, though I haven't read the CODA paper either, I think they would only need a single fixed circuit containing a SNARK verifier. Since for a given security level, SNARK sizes and verification steps are constant.
> a researcher from University College Dublin.

...who is British.

(Though I still think saying "U.K. archeologists" was a mistake)
Rest of the drama aside, I feel that deleting the signing keys was perhaps the only viable choice. He was the one making the builds. What's the point in leaving the keys in the hands of the company ? It only leaves the door open for the company publishing questionable builds with the same signing key.
All pretty different languages.

Haskell and OCaml are both functional programming languages (well OCaml has OO support as well) that have a REPL, interpreter, and native code compiler. They have decently sized communities considering that they are mainly academic languages although Haskell is starting to see industry use at some big name companies like Facebook. OCaml is maintained by the French national lab INRIA and is extremely popular at the fintech firm Jane Street. OCaml inspired much of the syntax of F# (.NET functional programming language). Haskell takes functional programming to the extreme and has a lot of academic jargon (Monads) that can turn off beginners. Scala is like OCaml in that it has support for both OO & FP, but it runs on the JVM and you can use Java libraries. I think both Haskell and Scala have excellent concurrency support. I forget which one uses STM. OCaml has been supposed to be getting multi-core functionality for a long time I think. These three languages are all pretty standard business languages that you could build a business out of. The fact that Scala can use the JVM is super super nice as a lot of Haskell and OCaml libraries are not something I would trust in production. FPComplete is a consultancy for helping firms use Haskell commercially.

Nim is a language with Python like syntax that transpiles (or compiles) its source code to C or JavaScript and then uses those compilers to get really fast code and an executable to distribute. It is still pre 1.0, but it has the option to use or not use garbage collection. A pretty cool language. It can be used for fairly high level projects where Python might normally be used, all the way to OS and video game work with some effort. Rust is mainly meant to replace C++ (closer to D than Nim, but they do overlap some). Rust uses the LLVM compiler and is being used at Mozilla. It currently has had a lot of hype for awhile. It is supposed to be a really safe language. The syntax is a mix of imperative, OO, and FP in my opinion. It is quite fast. Lastly Shen is a research language from Mark Tarver (wrote the bipolar lisp programmer essay). Last time I looked it focused on theorem proving and ran on top of another lisp (can't remember, but maybe Racket or Common Lisp). It used to have a pretty odd license, but I think it's been fixed for awhile. It has built in support for prolog functionality like some other lisps which is cool. He also has taken time to write some libraries which let you use Tk for GUI, which is also neat. I wish I had time to check it out.

Lisps are kind of like the ultimate dynamic languages, while Haskell is like the ultimate static language. Lisp has more flexibility, but the Haskell compiler will catch a lot of bugs.
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Being pedantic here, and somewhat off topic.

In general, a "date" (assuming you mean year, month and day) is not universally unique unless you provide the calendar system under which it occurred.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_dating

This probably doesn't matter much going forward, but it does matter when addressing historical dates.
nvALT on Mac. Open source but brittle and needs a rewrite. Crashes occasionally.
Kiki do you love me?
For short notes I've been using deft[1] on emacs. It gives a Notational Velocity like interface for searching/viewing within emacs. The actual note-taking is via org-mode.

For notes from online courses, I recently started using the stock Notes app on macOS/iOS because of the Pencil support on the iPad.

Not sure if this helps as I don't know what platform/editor you use and I wouldn't expect you to switch either for note taking :)

1. https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
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This discussion of federalism, while interesting, probably ought to be accompanied by a discussion of A) what many people believe are the horrible effects of this and B) in the words of Paul Simon to "measure what we've lost." What we have lost is THE public Internet. The Internet on which companies who started from Y-combinators exist was a public Internet. It could be argued that it still is. There are at least 2 or 3 good arguments first the federal executive branch can't actually "destroy" the public Internet as a matter of policy, but that it ought to require an act of Congress. ARPANet came from an Act of Congress itself.

Which may mean that all these acts to "give it away" to ISPs can be legally challenged.

From the states point of view, ISPs operate on several public easements. These probably give state and local governments the authority to regulate.
Can you please expand a bit more on your ideal note app? Results sound intriguing, but I can't imagine what it would look like from this short description.
Oh, for me it's totally the ads I have a problem with. They're distracting and I didn't visit the site to see them. I'm not surprised that publishers have resorted to moral appeals to support the business model they've chosen, but I'm not swayed by those appeals either.
And I thought I got bored at work...
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I see mostly homework problems on SO.
C++ templates are so overpowered. It has dependent types by accident.
Seconded. It's the first notes app I've stuck with for a while. It's a really cool take on notes that's makes it all feel very modular and you can build little notes pages with widgets the way you want.
The £5000 was part of a much larger sum allocated for targeted Facebook ads, and they had authority to place these ads. What they did was certainly dishonest and should cost them their job, but it's hardly illegal to use the wrong targeting rules.
Having everything as X isn't as flexible and performant as specialized types."When all you have is a hammer".

This results in systems being built ontop of narrow file-as-everything service, providing a wider interface to real data(events,sockets,pipes,messages,async IO).

Of course, people don't like it and build libraries to bypass it(and even the kernel layer itself https://blog.cloudflare.com/kernel-bypass/ ) just because the interface is inherently limited and inflexible.
I feel like a fire at a swimming pool might be more rare than a fire elsewhere, just by virtue of being surrounded by water (pool, showers, etc). Maybe I'm wrong.
I guess they should have been more specific.

Even then, why is someone stupid for getting a computer with bloatware installed that actively misleads users into thinking it's useful?

One of my friends is an aerospace engineer and hasn't uninstalled the antivirus program that came with his laptop. Is he stupid, or does he just not care to investigate all the obscure programs that came with his laptop?
No, you can't say the same thing. You open it from a shell script, you literally do get something from it.

In the email you quote, Linus gives two reasons why futex and sockets should not be files:

> there's absolutely no point in opening /dev/futex from a shell script
or similar, because you don't get anything from it.

> Perhaps because you cannot enumerate sockets and pipes?

It stands to reason that the converse of those _are_ reasons to make things a file:

I can open /dev/input/$X and get something from it. The normal thing to do is open a file under /dev/input/ and read data from it. No, we don't usually do that directly, because libinput does it for us; but that's what it's doing. As an exception, if code deals with joysticks, it seems to me that it's common to open /dev/input/js$X yourself.

I can list the entries in /dev/input/ and enumerate the input devices attached to the system.
Crafty. I like it. It's funny the little (and not-so-little) things we put up with, just so we can bask in the joy of our own creations.
I read this story, then I went into the movie Adrift with a similar storyline.
This story was much more vivid than the movie, even if the movie had impressive special effects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17526695

(and several other submissions)
Checking dynamic types us not the work of a compiler. Checking types at compile time is static type checking. If a type is wholly dynamic (determined at runtime via something like casting to a type specified in user input), the compiler can't check it.

(Also, type inference is orthogonal to static vs dynamic typing.)
Doesn't vim do this by default? Typing >> will indent the entire line. This can be used in tandem with select to indent multiple lines at once!
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I would be careful with what you put in Anki. There is only so much stuff that you can memorize outside of stuff you'd learn from normal life, because the time you have to devote to flashcarding is kind of limited (except if it's something that excites you it creates more time). I think generally when you choose to make the investment to add cards to your Anki deck you should have a really concrete use case and I don't see how you'd save time over the course of an entire life for your font project.

There are a lot of fonts out there (~50,000 families according to random Quora people). Their distribution is probably power-law-like even if you discount the ones that are preinstalled on major platforms. It might make sense to recognize a few if you want to be able to really deeply discuss the difference in how they are used for design, but just recognizing them doesn't seem like the right way to gain that understanding. If you repeatedly perform a task where you have to recognize a font, learning only the top 100 won't help you much since it will eventually become pretty obvious. If you don't do that task, then why train for it instead of looking it up as necessary?

My thinking on "what's worth flashcarding" is that there are two major categories where it makes sense. First, if you need to remember a bunch of specific facts and you will need to recall them more quickly than they can be looked up. This is the case for things like tests, but there are also reasonable possibilities for this in real work (for example, if you are a programmer you may know you are going to need to look up the parameter ordering of a standard library method that you use only once a month, or you could memorize it).

The second is where you are using the flashcards as a scaffold, but the actual knowledge is something that references or brings together the facts that are contained in the flashcards. Recognizing fonts fits into this category, but I have a hard time imagining that actually recognizing them is the knowledge that is most efficient. Instead maybe you should be studying the major categories of fonts, features of fonts, or something that would help you make quicker decisions for whatever the real task is. I used to be able to recognize a lot of fonts and it's basically only useful as a parlor trick.

Although if you are new to design then learning the top 20 or whatever could be helpful to just have a basic fluency with Arial vs Times New Roman vs Comic Sans, so you have a shared vocabulary to discuss with others. "It's like Times New Roman but more suited for headlines and all caps" for example.

This is the weird confluence of work I've done at multiple companies (in one case I basically implemented a SRS like Anki with applications to finance exams, and in another I did a lot of work with fonts for a laser cutting design editor).
And I was asking a direct question to OP's comment about what information should be actually made illegal if any.

I even clarified the question to "large swaths of people" which exempts plastic guns from the question.

Next time, please read the full comments.
A hash of things that could be corrected is way worse than a random number.
No but you can have all your org notes sync with whatever devices and whatever cloud thingy with nuage (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Release-0.1:-O...) disclaimer: Im the main contributor
Dropbox + Sublime Text
I believe that the majority of political microtargeting uses custom audiences. It's the way they assemble these lists that is really dodgy, and is the thing Cambridge Analytica is in trouble for.