skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online discourse has been the wild west since Usenet. This was alright 10 years ago, back when it only mostly a certain kind of person accessing the internet. Now social media more accurately reflects the world demographics. I've long believed some government-issued, OpenID-like identity platform would go a long way to enable a lot of other online activities (like voting), but saying government will do a better job solving problems than corporations is misunderstanding the issue. Before we run off trying to problems, we need to figure out what kind of online society we want. I'm not yet convinced anyone has really thought that through.
If the numbers favored men, we wouldn't be having this conversation for a number of reasons.

I think you missed my point. I was responding solely to the above quote that you made.
I feel like it mainly does that because Musk fails to set realistic expectations and then goes on tantrums whenever someone is negative about the outlook.

I admire his ambition and he is great for Tesla in general but as far as managing a public company his approach hasn't been very successful.
When an article talks about "thunderbold" ports and having a desk "littled" with cables I question the accuracy of the rest of it I'm afraid.
At this point it seems clear that individual companies have disincentives that prevent them from acting against these issue. Most people in the tech community are generally opposed to the government getting involved since the government is often slow to understand and react to technological changes. I would generally agree with them. However we have to stop sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that things that are crimes in the analog world aren't crimes in the digital world (this includes campaign finance law). The only real option seems to be for the industry to come together and self regulate. Are any of the big tech companies actually working to make that happen? If no, it is only a matter of time before the government gets involved.
For those that took part in previous years, would this be suitable for those of us running (or thinking of starting..) bootstrapped startups, as solo-entrepreneurs?

I ask because the curriculum looks great, but wondered if the mentoring might be a little more focused towards the more traditional startups looking to progress to VC funding, rather than those of us that are taking things a little slower on our own.
I don't think photo ID is really the worst attack vector for Voatz. It appears they're storing credentials in the code and are lying about their security audits.

This tweet chain is pretty interesting:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026868106528993280
There is no confusion. Rust doesn't have dynamic type and Dart does. That's it.

Any talks about special traits in Rust are offtopic, while code I wrote as example can't be compiled in Rust and can perfectly work in Dart.

I wasn't trying to argue about words or terms, I was trying to say the gist: Dart has dynamic type, so you can send to your function any type and this function will just use it, without any downcasting - language will take care about it; and Rust doesn't have such type: you can't even compile code which is trying to work with variables like you can do in dynamic languages.

But then all of that useless arguing... It's really funny when I see how people are trying to prove that Rust has same dynamic type as Dart. The very nature of these languages is different.
I wonder if anyone in developed countries can actually make a living from something like Upwork. It seemed to me whenever I have looked at it, that it's mostly people and companies from the developing world who work for less than minimum wage or close to it in developed countries... and the expected cost matches these sorts of rates. So it does not make sense for anyone other than the most desperate people in the first world to try to get work on these sorts of sites.

As such that sort of labor is easy to exploit. They have no bargaining power and are already working for peanuts.
As a therapist, I have to say we have a lot to offer you if you ever decide to try it out! In the meantime, Anxiety and Depression Association of American has some legit links to things, and you could look up Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is often used to help folks with anxiety. Social anxiety might also require some "exposure" where you exposure yourself to uncomfortable situations gradually. This may require some expert help though, as it is really easy to do too much and make things worse.
> The biggest appeal of Apple is their wonderful hardware.

To you. To others (like me) the biggest appeal was the only even vaguely usable & consistent OS, supported by nice hardware. Now they have replaced the nice hardware with thin-and-light toys with fake keyboards, we're in a bind.

> It seems to me that a Hackintosh is the worst of both worlds. If you spend that much time hacking around the hardware anyways, why not use Linux ?

Quite, I agree. I don't want to futz with either hardware or software, so have gone for a Windows laptop. Windows is profoundly horrible, but it does work for me without having to mess around. We really have reached the point in 2018 where there literally are no good options. Just least-worst for the task at hand.
It's the candidates job to win my vote. If neither win my vote what am I supposed to do? Vote for someone I don't like at all? Why should I have to do that? People who don't vote have been roughly 45-50% of the voting bloc in recent history [1].

As a Democratic Socialist learning towards Socialist, neither Hillary nor Trump represented really any of my views. Pretty much none at all to be honest. Both were terrible people, and terrible candidates.

[1] http://www.electproject.org/2016g
Point taken, not familiar any libraries that was large enough to have such items shelved.
If the world's population were 100 million people then pollution would probably not be an issue.
I find it summarises the important international political/economic changes with some critical analysis.

I prefer this type of journalism rather than constant updates, although I do use both.
Theft in the UK (England and Wales) is covered by the theft act 1978 (and previous)

A key term is intent to deprive, hence most people nicking a car will be done for taking without consent - no need to prove an intent to permanently deprive.

Copyright infringement is a whole separate law and is clearly not theft as there's no intent to permanently deprive.
> In addition, the entry fields seem to have increased in length recently,

What are the new limits? I still seem to be limited to the length when I signed up on the first day.

201 characters for "What is your company going to make?" and 252 characters for "Why did you pick this to work on?"
Don't charge hourly. Charge by the project so they look at total cost and agree it's cheaper than alternatives, especially where wages are very high and they need something specific done. You make sure you price so you can get it done _safely_ where it would end up being $200/hour if it actually took as long as you quoted. More than likely you'll make a lot more per hour ($300-$1000/hour), get it done early and everyone is happy.
I can't find the link to some Matt Levine's article explaining it, but iirc it's not that the company has to be public, but that it has similar requirements from the SEC as a public company. At this point since you have to abide to the same accounting requirements, you maybe has well be public to benefit from the extra capital.
Yes, hydrolysis could be a good solution. Create hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen could also be used in hydrogen cars that we have been talking about for decades.
We Wanted Safer Banks, We Got More Inequality
Like half of the laws passed in the US.
In the oil market, stabilization of price occurs only because a handful of countries (really just Saudi Arabia) maintain extra capacity. They don't run their capital assets at 100%. This is where capitalism fails. You need one absolute authority, some autocrat who doesn't care that their processing plant isn't running at 100%, who is able to react instantly without making new capital improvements. This is the place for a state-owned market participant, either on the supply or consumption side.
The New Territories were leased for 99 years in the 1898 Second Convention of Peking. Hong Kong Island was ceded in perpetuity in the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. Kowloon, except for the walled city, and Stonecutter's Island, were ceded in perpetuity in the 1860 Convention of Peking, Article 6.
Is there something that can be done about our polarized discourse without trampling over our civil rights? I think this is necessary dialogue.
There is a very good chance you will have no problems. A lot of people have been exposed to asbestos decades ago but only small percentage got cancer. Your risk is probably higher than normal but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
> I could be wrong, but I don't believe the existence of Go was much of a problem.

It wasn't so much Go per se, but the fact that Google was pushing two new languages at the same time. It created the perception, for me at least, that Google was pushing out new languages to see which ones stuck and kill those that didn't. Google had/has the reputation for killing off projects that it lost interest in. And I wasn't willing to learn new a new language and its ecosystem only to be marooned there a few years later.

So, while I was definitely interested in alternatives to JS, there was no way I'd pick up on Dart.
Wonderful! I hate slack GUI: kills battery and too slow.

I am eager to try that!

I would love some irc bridge functionality hyperlinking the images, but it may be too much to ask.
If you keep doing this we'll ban the main account as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Bitcoin mining. This may or may not be a sincere suggestion.
I would too, but that's not a possible combination. The issue is that at any given moment, the amount of electricity produced must equal the amount consumed. Solar and wind have production curves that are defined by the sun and wind, and typically peak early morning (for wind) and mid-day (for solar), which are often not the times of peak demand. So when everyone turns on their lights, TVs, stoves, and laptops in the evenings, there needs to be a quick-responding power plant to meet the excess demand. By far the preferred technology for this is a natural gas turbine, because it's one of the few technologies that can adjust its output within seconds. Nuclear power plants take several hours to days to respond to shifts in demand, because the control rods must be moved, the nuclear chain reaction must speed up, it needs to generate more heat, that heat needs to boil water, and the steam needs to make its way to the turbines.

There's more information in the wikipedia pages for "base load", "load following", and "peaking" power plants:

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

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

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

Interestingly, solar-thermal is apparently coming online as a potential technology for peaking power plants, which could reduce the need for natural gas.
I'd object on the basis that it is hard to imagine everyone cooperating on that sort of project. It implies everyone has about the same incentives and motivations, which suggests a remarkable uniformity... so if it's true, there's probably only one civilization in our galaxy, and it's spread uniformly everywhere.
I was looking almost a year ago so I wasn't looking at gen6. Also, it may have had 2 usb-c ports (one of a very few if not the only)...so I might have been mistaken about that, but eliminated it for other reasons. On that topic of headphones (afaik all Macbook Pros still have headphone ports), Airpods improved the miserable experience of bluetooth headphones by a lot...but I feel like it's still 2/3rds to where it should be. It also still sucks during those times where you don't have them handy and need other options or the fact game consoles don't support them. It sucks that so many phone manufacturers followed Apple's lead, there.

I hope PC laptops keep getting better because I'll check them out again in 3-6 years when I look to buy another. I feel like the new laptop is worse than my previous one in a bunch of areas that Apple used to excel at; no LED when charging (I've already plugged it in to charge while the other end was not plugged into the wall), wake time is closer to what I'd expect from a cold boot with an SSD (around 10 seconds instead of 0-3), I really dislike the half-height arrow keys, and the camera has the exact same specs as my 2011 model.
Not a problem in California at least:

"Assembly Bill 2565 would give tenants the right to install an electric-car charging station at their residence, provided the tenant submits a written request to the landlord and pays for the installation costs."

(Passed already)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27ey39dRYQ

It’s the size of the download.
well since race is mostly a western construct, I suppose you mean most Asians are racially Asian. But I'm really not so sure that you can say Asia is very homogenous, culturally, ethnically, or genetically. Indeed, the issue wrt being Chinese is that the history of China is one of a enculturation into Chinese culture of a diverse set of groups throughout the mainland... where being Chinese is about acting Chinese more than it is about genetic and geographical roots.
What happens when someone else nabs that space?
Pizza is interesting. Last year I spoke with the head of r&d of a major water filtering company based in italy, the birthplace of pizza.

A little unknown fact is Water quality makes a difference on the taste of pizza. There is a saying in the states that you cant replicate true new york pizza unless you use new york water, etc.

Good pizza water tastes awful if you drank it as is. I dont recall which elements were added inside of it, but its there. Another interesting tidbit is pizza quality is sometimes compared to coffee quality for water enthusiasts.

Sometimes called "waves". A first wave coffee shop is like getting a awful espresso shot at a hotel. 2nd and 3rd wave is like starbucks. 4th wave is when a coffee shop sources their own products and knows the history behind its goods. 5th wave is everything - these are generallly operated by famous baristas who have basic chemistry knowledge and expertise operating a espresso machine.

Pizza is the similar in ratings to coffee in this regard.
Sure, or we can think of it in the same way we thought about their investment in Citigroup in 2007, their investment in Uber in 2016 or their investment in Snapchat this year.

They are masters of market timing... just not the good kind.
Golang and Rust also didn't have any killer app.
Afaik the problem is that the currently installed nuclear generators cannot stop their operation in the middle of a fuel cycle.
This leak looks like a trial balloon. I'm fascinated by the notion that requiring disclosure of people's physical location, as well as demanding that they prove their identity, would be conducive to an online culture of free and healthy expression.

These proposals seem to be aimed at intimidation and breaching the privacy of each and everyone, rather than at the surveillance-like operations and propaganda-enabling structures of the Big Ad/Social Media companies.
From the video - "no profits for anyone in the energy market if you take this far enough, which is where we need to take it to meet the legislative requirements"

This doesnt sound complex. It sounds like this is intentional.
You do have to keep in mind the further losses in converting it back to low voltage AC using very large and expensive inverters / transformers.
I think there's a dangerous combination represented by the FPS Russia video with the drone-mounted gun. But instead of going for automatic fire, mount something like a TrackingPoint computerized rifle instead. This combination could be made even more dangerous by emphasizing low noise and observability, perhaps by using ducted propellers and fixed wings. If such a drone were inaudbile from 3000 feet, it could amount to an undetectable assassination machine, requiring rich and powerful people to have a 24/7 team of anti-drone specialists.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-...

EDIT: Before you accuse me of making up fantasy weapons, you'd best read the above link, and the one below. Computer aimed firearms that perform at "sniper in a box" levels actually do exist.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/trackingpoint-shows-...
>Are we using ideas as an excuse to not start something?

Yes

>Should we randomly hack on things that we like?

Yes

>How did you get past your stage of analysis paralysis?

Start building something I love

>How do you pick what problem you'll be spending the next few years on?

Don't. It is far too hard to predict what is and isn't going to be a hit. If you really hate something, it'd be really dumb of you to pursue it just because you think you'll make money.

Build something you are passionate about.

I just keep a Trello list of any idea I have. I don't prejudge. I put ideas on there even if I think they're dumb because some day they might stop being or might morph into something else.
> I don't think that anyone from within the rave scene has ever used the term "breakbeat hardcore"; the Wikipedia article for the genre is totally devoid of references.

Really? I've seen that term used for quite a long time, since the late 90s at least. Sometimes I see the variations "hardcore rave", "UK rave", "oldschool UK hardcore".

I don't know if folks in the early UK rave scene actually called it "breakbeat hardcore" in the early 90s, but it's a relatively common term for that genre in my experience. Granted, it's been 25 years since the genre was regularly encountered, so it's more of a historical/throwback thing at this point :)
watch for the term "weaponized" when applied to speech as this is the next go to. by equating speech they don't like to warfare, arms dealers, and more, they can try to suppress it under the connotation of violence which is key because censorship of direct incitement of violence is permitted. The difference will be to twist it enough to fall under it, think of it as "for the children" but now suppressing any opinion they don't like.

as far as the big tech giants, well twitter's system was proven discriminatory as substituting white/Caucasian with any other race or religion will flag the comments; this was done based on the NYT hiring a tech writer whose twitter comments would be considered hateful but are excused because of the target and the person making them

it is not hard to prey on people's prejudices to take their rights from them. they will gladly accept restrictions if they think it only hurts people they don't like but may find one day they get in some other persons or algorithm's cross hairs
>In the 80s and 90s, enterprises were full of $$$

More than today?
Web ads are the new spam. In response to email spam, all ISPs blocked port 25 by default. ISPs will ultimately do the same to web ads using traffic prioritization techniques like PiHole.

Users in general aren't sophisticated enough to do this themselves. ISPs will offer it for a price and users will pay more to have ad free internet while simultaneously benefiting ISPs with bandwidth reductions. Some ads will be allowed through of course, but with significant costs associated with the advertising, the volume will be reduced significantly, like the difference between spam email volume vs that of postal junk mail.

If big sites like Facebook decide to fight it in a cat and mouse game, ISPs can hit them with advertising fees directly or throttle their traffic in retaliation for cheating the system. If browsers like FireFox try to defeat it by doing DNS over HTTPS, then ISPs can funnel 1.1.1.1 directly into the trash. AT&T did this and said it was an accident. I'm sure it was more like a test. They are aware of what underhanded scheme FireFox is up to. Mozilla isn't fooling anyone with their "security" cover story.
What would it even mean to install EV charging in a stacker?
I am still hopeful that the hand wringing about social media is overblown. Flat earthers for example I believe are in two camps: the genuine loonies that have always been with us in small numbers and the large number of people who just want to pretend to have whacky beliefs for the entertainment value of holding them (think people who believe in crystal healing and such). As dissatisfying as it is, freaking out about people who hold beliefs for entertainment is counter productive.

We also have to remember that discourse waxes and wanes in tone. Throughout the 1800s for example it wasn't uncommon for massive brawls to take place between what were essentially political gangs. Think of the brawls we see today between antifa and right wing groups. Also the 70s saw literally thousands of bombings in NYC by far left groups. Its probable that due to political realignment and inevitable shifts in technology we're going to see this going forward. The most important thing we can all do is keep faith in our fundamental freedoms, like freedom of speech.
Market wise, Java is still popular in the Enterprise and of course if you are developing for Android, you’re going to probably use Java (I’d rather use Kotlin), but for backend work the three most marketable languages seem to be JavaScript (Node), .Net, and Java.

Yeah PHP jobs are a dime a dozen but they don’t pay well. Python is a little better but it’s not “Enterprisey” enough for major corporations and the cool hipster companies where all the money is going are using Node.
History of the Hyperloop and pneumatic tubes as transportation
Coal already has been displaced. The reason there's less of a downturn is because there's a lot less of it to begin with:

https://www.iso-ne.com/about/key-stats/resource-mix/

There's 20x more nuclear than coal energy in New England. Proportionally, the drop in coal energy (~50%) was a lot more than the drop in nuclear energy (~15%).
Just checked out and tried to play with it, turns out this is a binary-only(closed source) release actually. I'm on a mips platform so there is no way I can test it there.
Motive and outcome are valid measures for deciding if something is moral
By paying a 20% premium he's ensuring that the short sellers will need to buy shares at the premium price guaranteeing that they've lost at least 20% of what they've gambled.
Here’s a crazy idea. Batteries?
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/06/analysis-reveals-that-w...
Sales of new cars it is, so a decade after said countries will be largely free of fossil fuel cars.

The love affair with the SUV and Stations will have to end unless technology improves greatly. It sucks but it's the price we have to pay.

Norway's ban starts in 2025:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/nor...

The Netherlands in 2030:

https://electrek.co/2017/10/10/netherlands-dutch-ban-petrol-...

France a decade later in 2040:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/06/france-ban-...
It's a problem of scale. Say 0.0001% (number pulled from my rear pocket for illustration purposes) of the population want to engage in 'recreational terrorism' or 'orc-work'. If you have a population in the hundreds of thousands or low millions, there just aren't enough of them to have any direct impact on the big picture. But once you get the population high enough, once the absolute number of evil idiots is high enough to cause real systemic damage, even though they are a tiny percentage of the whole.
Please stick to substantive posts here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Depends on your jurisdiction's view of the legality of apple's terms of use
Go outside and play:

https://aeon.co/essays/children-learn-best-when-engaged-in-t...
First stop blaming the Russians and then tell your parties to work for the country and for themselves. I think best would be if people stopped calling themselves "Republicans" or "Democrats" and stopped identifying with a party.