skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the source is looked at as a labor movement it would be a deeply atypical example of the bloc. Normally labor movements are all about guaranteeing good conditions and pay but such efforts have historically received chilly receptions despite obvious grounds for appealing to them like long hours and poor work-life balance. They appear to generally desire a competitive workforce and to reap the benefits of success. There are elements of that in other professions with guilds but those have operated in at times naked self-interest. It isn't even quite 'organized' labor per say - at least not yet. Even Free Software fundamentalists haven't signed on charters refusing to work with proprietary software for instance.

Instead ethics are what finally seem to have pushed tech workers to unify against their employer's raw immediate financial interests in spite of often having shares to benefit from them. It doesn't even seem to map consistently to either 'mainstream' or 'geek' ethics perfectly either although growing disillusionment with the government appears to be part of it.

I suppose the tech political mainstream also can be considered 'misfit' in other ways not fitting entirely in the typical left or right bounds.
Don't you think they'd have thought that through?

I admire your diligent concern, but I thought the same thing for a split second and dismissed it.

I can't imagine even a corporate churn machine with the most reckless abandon designing a device like this and missing the most basic obvious attack vector.

Well, anyways....
HN is for everyone I think, not only devs, not only 20s ...
A Lightweight User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server Base on Shiro
A lightweight User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server base on Shiro.

Pure Shiro, Fast, Easy deploy, Easy extension.

take a look at git, https://github.com/xfslove/shiro-uaa
I don't understand why this is useful. What does the comparison provide to the hungry mind?

Towards understanding, I recommend reading SICP and "On Lisp"
The expression "horse capsule" is a turn of phrase for an unnecessarily large pill, at least throughout the United States. It's pretty obvious, he's knowingly inflating values, and nods to that fact when he specifically points out that they had no good estimate of an exact dose:

And I don’t know, there must’ve
been a whole milligram of it there.

It's like saying "we took enough to kill a horse" as a figurative statement. Pair that with must have been" which clearly indicates that they bought, and were told they had some stuff, and to trust that it's the real deal. The only firm facts are that there was enough to share among multiple people, and that they did receive an amount of the real thing, which they took. He specifically says they don't know how much was in it.

The fraction of impregnated powder that each person used was probably chopped with a razor, after emptying out the contents of the capsule onto a smooth surface, and eaten.
I'm curious as to what story you think is being told? To me it's clear that the following things are true:

* Thera are 6x the number of uber drivers on the road.
* A significant portion of those are new traffic
* Substantially fewer rides are given per uber/ride for hire car

There's (much) more traffic and I have a hard time seeing what has changed in the city over the last ten years to make traffic so horrid other than Uber/hire cars. Maybe the decay of the subways? Still, ridership numbers aren't down and population hasn't grown much. If you've got any ideas I'd love to hear 'em.

Listen, I love not dealing with Yellow Cabs. They're a pack of assholes and Uber is far more convenient but you're bending over backward to justify a marginal magnitude difference in rides per car.

FWIW I think a hard cap on the number of hire cars is stupid but we are stuck with De Blasio and even Bloomberg couldn't get congestion pricing passed. Capping new ubers at 100k (the current total) is not really that onerous all considered. It's not like it's gonna make it 2010 again.
How to Start Hacking and Become a Hacker
This looks to be a treatment for Type 2, the parent comment's talking about multiple children, so, probably Type 1. At least, I hope so.
It would be more like they were limiting the new buildings that could be zoned for restaurants. Since land is a finite resource, the number of restaurants that NYC can even contain is limited.

Here the limited resource is traffic bandwidth. Without congestion tolling, arbitrary regulations are the next best thing to helping to regulate usage.
Not from those EU regulations - PSD2 is more recent than most of those challengers. They've popped up because the FCA (the UK regulator) deliberately tried to make it easier to start banks in order to get more competition in the space.
Congratulations for launching. The idea is very promising. Good luck!
"In fact, AMP keeps users within Google’s domain and diverts traffic away from other websites for the benefit of Google. At a scale of billions of users, this has the effect of further reinforcing Google’s dominance of the Web."

- http://ampletter.org/

"Make no mistake. AMP is about lock-in for Google. AMP is meant to keep publishers tied to Google."

- https://80x24.net/post/the-problem-with-amp/
Considering laziness a vice in itself is highly silly considering its inherit virtue in labor reduction and innovation - it just requires some hard work to do so. Digging a canal despite being hard work is inherently a lazy way to spare future labor. As any familiar with algorithms knows laziness is itself a strategy.
> that's the bare minimum threat model for an open secure hardware device

Yes, I agree. But if you think about it, that can't be done by a device that does not have dedicated I/O, and two LEDs are not enough. At a minimum you need something capable of displaying a cryptographic hash if you want to protect against an pwned host.
Does anyone happen to have a Medtronic device on the compatibility list that they are looking to sell?
At a glance it really looks like magicleap straight-up lifted this device.
A cult is nothing more than an unpopular religion. Christianity itself was just a Jewish cult until Constantine found it useful.
It's frustrating that transportation is such a target by Republicans. I can't see much reason for it but clearly it is some sort of "thing" where lately it is emphasized heavily to disrupt or target transportation systems for defunding.
Well, I'm not trying to pitch it or anything. I haven't tried it either for this. I do have a PhD in Materials Science, but it sounds like your experience is different than mine. For me, my experience is like this:

Step 1: Read about stuff people are doing.

Step 2: Read between the lines to understand how it fits into other things I already know about.

Step 3: Evaluate based on my intuition whether the fit is reasonable. Since the data is presumed real, if the fit is bad it usually means I didn't understand the details of what they did. See if I can make the fit with other things I know coherent.

Step 4: If I can explain the fit coherently, consider what problems might be solved by using that connection.

Step 5: Research how that problem is normally solved and why.

Step 6: Go back to Step 1 and keep going until I find something that is actually solved better using my weird idea than it is solved currently.

I am terrible at memorizing, and if I am in Step 3 or Step 4 or Step 5 it's a real roadblock if I'm trying to understand why I can't harmonize the reported data and my understanding and it's because I've forgotten which sites are interstitials in a fluorite lattice. I know the information I need, but now I have to go look it up. Of course this is why people have reference materials, but it's definitely a speed bump.

The important aspects of the work up there clearly aren't about memorization, but it sure helps me actually do it in practice. I really wish I were better at it.

Another thing that this made me think of was using it to remember student/coworker names. Remembering my unreasonably numerous cousins' kids' names would also be nice.
This is pretty cool, I think in general we need more novel forms of input in computing. We've been stuck with a mice and keyboard for too long.

Combining with some of the things pmoriarty mentioned, I wonder if you could make this more widely useable.
What's your take on new entrants at the processor level?

When I worked for a debit card startup (stripe's new feature, but worse, and years earlier), it seemed like the "bank account" parts were mostly boring money buckets, and all the interesting features existed at the processor level.

FIS was tragicomic to interface with, and they control something like 50% of card swipes in the US if i understand correctly?

Seems like if you want to make a really major play, you do to FIS what stripe did to paypal, right?
Flaw in Some Satellite Communication Terminals Can Expose US Troops’ Location
"Honeypot mpaa operatos could sue torrent users more easily"

Irrelevant, since Comcast already hands this information over to such parties willingly.
YMMV with Pfsense. I've been using it since Scott and Chris were in Kentucky working on it together... that'll date me for sure...

Anyway, I found that unless someone else has already done it and proven the hardware can handle it then it's all an experiment you conduct on your own dime.

FYI - Netgate, the parent company of PFSense, went after OPNSense by scooping their domain and used it to spread FUD. Just dirty stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPNsense
You could just have an AMP doctype supported natively by Chrome (and whoever wants it) which does the same. Google just did not went that route.
That seems to map very well to feudalism and well blood feud cultures as well. There was an interesting thing that happened in both Japanese and English linguistically - both had 'ultrapolite' linguistic elements that were discarded because they wound up used only mockingly/ironically when it went from polite to refer to your superior using thee/thou as opposed to rude. Thee/thou was transitioning to rude in Shakespeare's time and while Japanese still has many formal pronouns the most extreme were reserved for historical fiction, mockery, and the massively arrogant.
@EpiEllie on Twitter is running a "Book of Why" book club you could follow.
I have noticed that sites like reddit and HN feel implicitly anonymous. it'd be interesting to see how this helps reduce some of that. I've been trying my own ways of improving how I interact with people on reddit, maybe I'll try this.
So do you have enough funding to offer fellowships or not?

> We have secured partial funding but not all that we intend to raise. This is just a pre-application - an impr
Each time I do the OSX "need to reboot" thing and it sits at the equivalent of BIOS blowing driver updates for things like this, I think "yea, i hate BIOS, but at least I get told which devices are being re-coded" -with OSX, its a bit more opaque.

"trust us"
cmb the core developer of PFSense went over to Ubiqiti and a new company (Netgate) is now in charge of PFSense.
Most rich people don't have huge volumes of cash or anything as liquid as Bitcoin lying around.
This is probably the closest someone has come:

https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
Please allow that mess of using ar to work in LTO mode, i.e., allow bypassing the ar or replacing it with the compiler in linking mode, or something. Basically don't use ar in a way that breaks LTO.

LTO is awesome, as some code does benefit from optimizing for a minute to get 5% more speed for the next week (and sometimes even more aggressive parameters for the optimizer, if you run the code for long enough to matter).
Apple don’t have to do that. Tesla have already figured that out
> Failure/slowness of any given application would leave the existing application geometry in-situ within the 3D environment and avoid the most jarring extremes of user experience.

This is already true with even the oldest and most rudimentary AR/VR systems, eg, Gear VR. The interface and head tracking is 90fps all the time. If the app is slow, the viewport will not freeze. Just it will be stuck on one frame.
You probably shouldn't early exercise, which makes the question of 83b moot.

You are investing a couple years of your life in this. That's probably investing a couple hundred thousand dollars of opportunity cost vs a job at large tech company.

You have plenty invested. You'll do well if they do well. Spend your liquid investments in something diversified.

- sincerely, a moderately lucky person who has joined 3 companies before employee 15
Sorry, I too know many LDS members and really love the SLC area and all the other incredible things in the state. While I like lots of things about the LDS community, the society there has many of the problems of Western states with lots of poverty, plus some that may be attributed to Mormon values: the highest rate of antidepressant use of any state, and the highest rate of cosmetic surgery. As for crime, the murder rate in Utah is similar to that of Idaho and higher than Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Connecticut.
Yep.

Council of Nicaea, 325 AD [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
Ask HN: Is a cloud computing masters degree worth it?
Is a cloud computing masters degree worth it now?
There are a number of universities offering masters degree programs in cloud computing. If it is not worth pursuing, what is the best specialization within computer science, to study now?
I want my bank to offer me the ability to generate Access Control Lists, with generated accounts. I want to make an account with read-only access to all of my financial information. I want to monitor all of my assets in real time, with alerts going to my phone for suspicious activity.

That's MORE conservative. But it's only enabled through intelligent APIs, which banks in the US don't have. With Mint, you passed over your full banking credentials, which was absurd.

I'd also like to remove the ability to PULL money from my credit / debit cards. I want only to PUSH money from my bank. Allowing companies to pull is what allows the vast majority of identity theft.

That's the kind of disruption I want.

Give ME the control to organize, monitor, and control access to my funds.
I think those things are a long term thing, not so much "figured out" and finished. Also had they figured it out enough... we wouldn't be talking about Apple buying them.
While an econometrician is aware that statistics does not prove
causality, the primary goal of econometrics is causal inference.
You can prod the network panel to reverse engineer simple's APIs. I've done it for some visualization tools in the past.

It's sloppy and undocumented, but their support staff are fantastic and surprisingly technical, so I had about a 100% success rate tweeting them things like "what's the new endpoint for what was previously /bank/transactions?"

A public version of this API was one of their stated goals in 2010 or so, but they're more interested in chasing non-technical product goals like couples accounts. I expect their most technical customers don't make up enough transaction volume to justify attention.

I love simple for being the least worst, but am still saddened by what they could have been if they had stripe's passion for technical execution. But hey, at least there's an API and they won't slap you with the CFAA for hitting it.
It also doesn't fit in with even 'covering the high novelty/obscure ones' like if he listed say Georgists, and Mercantalists, and Cameralists.
Good. Anyone driving a car should be paying enough money to cover what they use, something they clearly aren't doing. Drivers get too much of a free ride.
New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
I have latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), sometimes called type 1.5 diabetes. Onset was in my early 40s, and I am now insulin dependent. I have reasonably good control (estimated A1C about 6.5) without a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump. I have been looking into the Freestyle Libre glucose monitor to get better monitoring of my glucose levels, but the cost is still quite high.

I would really like to know more about how you and your doctors cured your condition.
Actually, I think I'm okay with all "paid" votes being public. That would be analogous to a campaign finance disclosure.

Campaign contributions are currently public information and future tyrants/public servants are free to reward that information however they like.
Something I've only read up on so far but has me optimistic: http://www.pachyderm.io it will do data versioning and keep track of how intermediate results get produced.
> plus some that may be attributed to Mormon values: the highest rate of antidepressant use of any state,

I won't dispute this, but I will mention some interesting hypotheses that indicate rates of depression are highly correlated with altitude.
I wear my HP-01 every day, except when working out and wearing a Fitbit. It has a few minor electrical problems but is going strong almost 40 years later. I am returning from Tokyo and visited many watch shops but there was a decided lack of new watch features this trip. I already have a Seiko e-ink watch with radio frequency setting, a Seiko Astron with GPS setting and also self charging, a Citizen also with self charging and RF setting, various smart watches like the Fossil Q, etc., but my go to since acquiring it is this HP-01. If it had “raise wrist to enable LED display” it would be even better. I would love this form factor with modern innards.
> Really, the life of nearly everyone (who's not a taxi driver, perhaps) improved a bit since Uber entered the city.

More cars on the road hasn't helped me at all.
Masayoshi Son building Vision Fund into family, say founders
Many academic fields are overlapping, yet have a surprising ignorance of each other. Tenure is largely independent of one's knowledge outside one's own field.
Facebook mistakenly celebrated a devastating earthquake
5 Lessons from a Data Science Internship at a Tech Unicorn
That number was from 2013. Don't underestimate exponential growth :)
It's exactly how apple's devices are "magical" and displays are "retina".
There's so much cool stuff you can do with this data. Think of all the creepy shit amazon does with your browsing data, but for your spending data, and you can browse it.

We're leaving a crazy amount of insight on the table.

Shameless plug: I built some personal finance viz tools based on similar data. they also just barely scratch the surface: http://rick.xxx/orchid.html

If you're working on interesting things in the fintech space, I'd love to chat with you about strategy or execution, especially w/r/t product design. Email in profile.
Although I posted this article (it was referenced in a comment in another thread and didn't get much discussion the first time), I don't necessarily agree with with all the author's assertions.

In particular, the author seems to extrapolate all of humanity from college students. I'm not convinced that anecdotal evidence, from a sample that's highly likely to be motivated to begin with, is enough to conclude the non-existence of laziness. [1]

I did, however, appreciate the alternate perspective, which may be particularly applicable here on HN, in our professional lives, another area where the selection is more likely to be biased toward those who are highly likely to be motivated, in which case laziness is less likely to be the explanation for inaction.

[1] At least for certain definitions of laziness that include, for example, a preference for "fun" such as sitting on the couch playing video games or watching tv over "work" such as washing dishes or mowing the lawn.
It's disappointing to see the top comment here condoning ad hominem attacks.

But if you do believe that the identity of a speaker is more important than the arguments they make, note that the author of this blog post has a history of praising systemd (e.g. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdRight) There is no anti-systemd bias motivating this post.
Plenty of cities have traffic light preemption for buses. Portland does it for the MAX (not a bus, I know), and Chicago tried it when I lived there, etc. (The problem then becomes, what happens when an emergency vehicle AND a bus both preempt the traffic light? In Portland anyway, MAX wins. That doesn't always mean the emergency vehicle stops, though, with predictable results.)

I rode the bus route daily when they tried it in Chicago and it didn't speed things up much. One at a time, slowly, slowly, people climbed on board, paid their fare, couldn't move into the bus because it was crowded, and then the next person in line blocked the doors until someone moved enough for them to get on... five minutes, the bus was on its way through a fresh green traffic signal. Great.

(Continuing the rant, what about paying the fare off the bus? I've tried this in NYC, and every time I've used SBS, fare collectors have stopped the bus, slowly checked everyone's tickets with the bus stopped, and then gotten off. Waiting at a red light or two is nothing compared to that. I'm sure by the time you include the fare inspectors' salaries, some supervisors to fire them when they do the collection with the bus stopped, and recruiters for new fare inspectors... it's a mega money losing operation. But oh no, we could never make it free, only Communists would want free bus service!)
“You can find one for less” isn’t a counterargument when shown an aggregate.
The question why an alphabetic Chinese script was never developed is often asked, a good answer is here: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-China-have-no-alphabet-Why-di.... Non-Chinese speakers focus on the cumbersomeness of the script while overlooking how good it fits the tonal languages it's used for (not just Mandarin) and the benefits of radicals.

Western alphabetic supremacists weren't the first ones to suggest that an alphabetic script should be created, Chinese scholars also thought about this quite early but tradition was probably too string even at that time. A similar situation also applies to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.

Another good writeup of Tom Mullaney's work with more details on early ways of writing Chinese characters using codes, etc. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chine...
> caused by mountains to the east and the west

And very lax emissions regulations and oil refineries in the middle of everything.
> I like systemd, it's a pity some vocal people aren't enthusiastic about it.

To give some context as to why, for non-C++ developers systemd makes things very difficult to debug and understand in general.

Moreover the biggest issue /I/ personally have is the fact it was essentially forced on me by the mainstream distro maintainers.

When you discuss the merits and fallbacks of systemd it’s common for people to either try to discuss its merits only against sysvinit. Or they imply that issues that have affected me personally are not such a big deal and I should be quiet because: progress.

It’s a frustrating and exhausting position to be in. It’s like everyone shoving Windows registry on Linux down your throat, with all the opaque, obtuse and stifling qualities that would come with such a solution and telling you and your ilk to be quiet and suck it up.

Edit: I’m getting pounded by downvotes. But I guess offering any kind of other opinion about systemd for any reason isn’t met with kindness. However I can say this: neither google nor amazon use systemd to host AWS or GCP. At least consider why that is before you bury your head in the sand.
That's a sweet 100M for off-the-shelf components. Oh boy.