skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the image itself, it seems Stripe was compelled instead of acting on their own volition

> Please know, Richard, that it would be our absolute preference to continue working with your business, and this decision is in no way a reflection of our feelings towards your business, from either a moral or legal standpoint.

> Rather, this is a restriction imposed upon us directly from our financial partners, who use have an archaic and frankly antiquated view of non-traditional businesses. As such, our hands are truly tied here, I hope that you can appreciate that.

These financial partners, I assume, are the same forces that engaged in a blockade against Wikileaks back in 2010 [1], except in this case the motivation are not as cut and clear as they were back then

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...
George Macdonald Fraser did a funny sendup of this in Flashman and the Tiger, where Holmes creates a completely wrong narrative of Flashman using true facts he observed about him.
HNers: Others studies relating to this?
Then they're clearly bigger than a cubic meter.

You want to use blocks that are as big as possible so you get more energy out of each trip. 2.4 tons isn't very much at all compared to the carrying capacity of a crane -- you want as heavy as possible while still being comfortably within the lifting capabilities of the crane. Their design says 35 tonnes and that does indeed make more sense. Where is your doubt coming from?
Perhaps -- some people do move away when they retire. But moving away from your (surviving) friends and the environment you've become used to (weather, shops, etc) isn't generally attractive to people late in their life.
I bet you'd see a positive ROI given the profitability of other safety devices.

So many parents would pay an extra $5 to be at a drone shark patrolled beach.
The implementation for frexp uses type-punning.

Also, it adds a denormal and inf check which I don't need in this particular hot loop.
If you really want to get the test, you can do it yourself online (usingonline lab test sites) - at least in most states in the US - cost of the D3 blood test is only about $40 if you pay out of pocket. You basically buy the test and arrange a blood draw at a local Quest Diagnostics / LabCorp. The lab then sends you the results directly via email.

If you want you can then bring that to your doctor for guidance
Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf]
About 15 years ago. I don't remember why. I thought they were pretty effective, though it was an unpleasant job and, TBH, not that nice to be around.
Don’t Do This in Production
> the United States should work with its allies and trading partners to pressure Beijing to open up the Chinese market to foreign companies, curb its preferential treatment of Chinese firms

Ironic given the US government blocking investment from China in US firms, blocking takeovers, blocking China Mobile etc.
I often need to know how many steps are in stairs in my house. For instance, just a couple of weeks ago I got a new mattress and to carry it up I count the steps as I take them. It helps me to not gouge the walls.
Now you've got more moving parts though. You have both trains and cranes involved. I think it's probably simpler and cheaper just to have the one big crane than to do a mixed mode system.

I guess the only advantage the train approach has is if you can get a lot more height out of it -- imagine an elevation difference of 1 km from top to bottom, way more than you could get with a crane. This still uses a lot more land though and needs a lot more rail; just having several crane installations might still be simpler and use less land.
I'm sorry, but the internal evidence is that Twitter's internal bias is not left-leaning. It took a storm of complaints and publicity to get them to punish Infowars, for example. There's lots of anecdotal data that has Twitter punishing minor infractions of left-leaning users harsher than major infractions by right-leaning users.

This looks like an elaborate excuse to give conservative/fascist opinions a little affirmative action.
He is already a wealthy man though. Being wealthy is not just about driving a flashy car, its about having the mental security that if shit hits the fan, you would be taken care of.
There seems to be a goal of making this possible:

"We want to make it possible, at some future point, to introduce a shared proxy for use by the Go community, similar in spirit to those used by Rust, Node, and other languages. At the same time, the design must work well without assuming such a proxy or registry."

https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module
Funny to see this here :) Born and raised right next to what is now Buitenschot, lived there until 3 years ago. For the last few years, my brother and I had the unusual habit of going for a run over these ridges and ditches every Sunday.

There are in fact at least two listening ears, a few hundreds of meters apart, but they’re not exactly opposite each other so they don’t communicate. Also we never realized the meaning of that weird pond haha.

AMA
New software helps uncover Mafia crime masked as ordinary business
This blog post describes my motivation for writing a blog. It's mostly a written memoire for myself to remember in detail what motivated me to start writing, but I thought HN readers might have some good feedback, so here it is. Would love to hear any stories you have of production fiascos.
Because wildly speculating and passing judgement on others based on it generally leads to poor outcomes.
No, you're supposed to stop breaking when you're in 1.x.x
FOSS android user here (I'm on the HN Materialistic app now actually)!

I had the same issue with my bank, but I resolved it using the F-Droid app "Yalp Store", which wraps the playstore. Now I have my banking app on my phone!

It's not FOSS, but even on my Linux PC I have binary blobs for drivers and stuff. It's good enough for me, it might work for your app too
What happens when a Pacific island upsets China
Ask HN: What would be your next dream job?
If you were to land a new job tomorrow, what would it be (title and company)?
I marvel at what a terrible hand Obama was dealt when he entered office. I don’t support everything he did, but I’ve got to give the guy props for getting anything done. I miss “No Drama Obama.”

Obama may not be quite the boy scout that Carter has been, but my expectations are that he’ll become an elder statesmen of the republic that we’ll cherish similarly.
I just read a story about Obama and Arethra Franklin yet you think Carter is the most visible ex-president?
"If I had property rights in the water, I could sue those farmers" What I love about libertarians is that they are forever optimist about their place in the future social order.
But if we're looking at things like a trilogy, or a series of papers in the same small area, it only appears to be a streak due to a (somewhat artificial) decision about divvying up the results. These sorts of "streaks" could be interpreted instead as single events, and the whole premise of the article goes out the window.
Go developers made a reasonable choice. Unstable API is just another way to say that there is no API. And with zero API any change is compatible and cannot break anything. So there is no need for v0.
They already do use drones for shark detection.
yeah but allows less load because it's more difficult to keep balance than with two wheels cart
> that might be a safety hazard.

You can get around that, and they probably have to anyway, by just having a perimeter around the system that must be cleared by humans before the system can go active.
I was likewise shocked at how good go compared to python in this regard.

Resolve your deps once, at build time, and you're done.

Compare that to dealing with the externalized deps that is deploying a python app on a machine that might have the correct version of python and all dependencies, or not. virtualenv? good luck. You end up bringing in docker and other tools just to deal with it. But what do you do if the machine is locked down by corporate IT and they don't allow docker or the installation of other python deps?
Yeah, as much as people complain about hacker news' negativity - and it certainly is around - there's still a high concentration of thoughtful people interested in having respectful conversations.
How many hours do you work in an average week?
Emulator? Software archive? Documentation? Open source projects to replicate?
I went to school at SUNY Binghamton which is right next door to Endicott, NY, founding place of IBM. Super interesting that your father was around there during the town's heyday.

After the Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company and IBM packed up and left, the town collapsed on itself and hasn't been able to recover since. It's crazy to think years ago, people migrated from California to upstate NY to work. OP if he ever told you about his time there, I'd love to hear about it.
Depends on how much the inferiority of the concrete vs. that used for construction affects its durability and longevity. It needs to be able to withstand weight from blocks above, impact whenever it or an adjacent block is moved, and corrosion from any metallic material within.

I could almost imagine these blocks needing to be tougher over time than something made from cement used in construction, to avoid crumbling under those conditions.
Cheers, I'll look into that!
I don't think that sitting straight all the time is desirable or even possible. I think that a ball makes you change your position so that you exercise (a little) all the muscles of your back. And for me this is a more interesting goal
This looks pretty great - I really like the look of Picnic, the author's lightweight (10KB) bootstrap alternative as well: https://github.com/franciscop/picnic
Looks like the 2018 models haven’t exactly solved the keyboard issues.

https://twitter.com/ismh/status/1030260782699892739?s=20

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/1030523625726779394?s=20
I am a man with no gender agenda whatsoever. I was just trying to justify my pronoun :). Interesting to observe the level of vitriol pointing this out led to.
I don't want to be "that guy", but haven't most people moved on to something like Vue instead of manipulating the DOM directly? Every developer I've worked with learned the basics of Vue quickly (less than a day) and marveled at how great it was compared to manipulating the DOM through jQuery (or something similar like Umbrella JS). But sure, there are edge cases where jQuery and similar libs still serve a purpose.
Energy Storage Using a Rock-Filled Train on a Hill (2016)
Who downvotes these comments how about you make an actually response.

Gave you personal anecdotes on why you might want ultra light 13” laptop with thin keys and just a downvote.

Starting to realise the people who actually know what there talking about don't comment to much because it's not really worth our time.
Energy Storage Using a Rock-Filled Train on a Hill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17794547
They can access the bank accounts, but can they legally perform any meaningful transaction with the data/money they access?

For example-- suppose that person dies and these 7 relatives access the account and wire themselves some money. With no other arrangements made, doesn't that constitute bank fraud?

On the flip side-- if the relatives also have to go through the time-consuming processes of meetings with an estate lawyer and bank managers in order to fulfill the wishes of the deceased, what function does the cryptography perform in this case?
Ask HN: Doing calisthenic or going to gym?
Goals: gains weight
I generally try to vote for the presidential candidate who grew up with greater economic hardship. It tends to be a pretty decent predictor of character. (Admittedly, a pool selected for those who did and who rose to become candidates)

No comment on the opposite...
Thanks! I will check Datalog out, i have never used it (though i know Prolog a bit).

So the main difference is then that my version is SQL based:
alter table transactions add constraint c_amount check (amount > 10000 -> auth.name = user.man.name) # or something similar, where you refer to other tables via a chain of foreign keys.

Another extra feature is that you can use aggregators in constraints in case of a one to many relationship:
https://github.com/gsvigruha/cosyan/blob/master/src/main/res...
I was not suggesting a positive or negative answer. Merely a question to consider at the individual level.
In-Kernel and Userland EBPF Runtime for FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS
Vue and React make sense for large SPA-style applications, but I often find myself wanting to drop a few lines of JavaScript onto a page to implement something simple without pulling in a massive framework dependency that requires a webpack compile step.
Thanks for noting, I missed this crucial detail completely. :(
Far and Away did a decent cinematic retelling. It'd be interesting to see something which does a more complete job.
> True, but all those migration scripts/patches/table locks add complexity and inconvenience (less agile).

I don't think so. You could say exactly the same thing about maintaining tests for your code. Explicit schemas and constraints (and the effort that goes along with maintaining them) are very much like having tests for your data. They both help ensure that your code actually works when it needs to.
Huh, someone did to the china tek for thousand years. And someone declared that typography was his invention, but I don't think you will make similar declaration even travelling time.
Ubuntu Budgie could be just as nice as Deepin, plus it makes sense if you also have Ubuntu on your servers.
Yea, it seems to occasionally bubble up, unfortunately I've noticed that happens in real life to people as well, I suppose that is what gets called passive aggressive - deep internalized, unresolved issues. Always makes my heart hurts to watch.

At the end of the day, a lot of us here are developers, engineers, programmers, still. A knack for pedantry, precision, and clarity leads to coming to, and accepting an awareness. Otherwise, bugs, bugs, bugs. Bugs everywhere. Clear thinking. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and so on.
Slightly off topic, but I have this OCD that my brain hurts when I see people use wrong capitalization for products.

> It is strongly influenced by jquery...

Please use jQuery instead, thank you.
Wha? I was never into paleo, I think it's stupid, every damn vegetable and animal has changed since, and it's not like we are sure people actually were so much better of back then...
Recruiters?
>I’m going to leave out the west coast, which has a nutso way of doing things.

Just for interest, could you elaborate? How does the West Coast (of the US, I assume you mean) do things?
For BitBucket:

git config --global url.ssh://git@bitbucket.org/.insteadOf https://bitbucket.org/
Im not sure I understand how you intend to do that: the silence problem is that the majority of experts don’t post their recommendations, right? Even if you have their names from linus, how will you get their recs
What would hacker news addiction be?
I applied for a thousand jobs on Indeed and went to about 40 interviews until I got one where I clicked with the interviewer. I passed the first round with the Director of Operations who subsequently ended up getting fired a week before I started. My second interview I ended up with the Project Manager who was also an alumni from the same university as I was.
The article states “people who believed they needed to be socially accepted in order to have worth as a person were at higher risk of using Facebook in compulsive and maladaptive way”.
There are a lot of opportunities to make functional structures attractive (even attractions in themselves) but this approach seems to have fallen into abeyance, in particular in the USA and the UK, for some reasons over the past 50 years.

For example instead of brutalist bollards and jersey barriers, pedestrian ways could be set aside via grade elevation or attractive, gapped structures that invite walking instead of looking threatening. Water plants could have "water temples" again.

It seems like some theory that doing anything beyond the functional minimum is a waste of the taxpayer's money. But isn't a crude structure also a tax on the psyche?
Nice, the mental health defense. The river forgot to take its meds that week sir.
This is something I'm better at than technical interviews, if you want to practice my email is in my bio.
Yes UVB to be precise. Vitamin d lamps are much narrower spectrum, often even a single wavelength of 311 nm. One popular model is fda approved and proven to be effective. UVA is the problematic wave length spectrum and vitamin d lamps stay clear of it (unlike tanning lamps that are focused on UVA). Exposure is also very short of 3min max.
Very true. It is sad that anyone could forget about August and the month-long celebration of chocolate penises.
secret sharing for javascript, https://github.com/grempe/secrets.js
Through the Open Source Looking Glass – Henry Zhu – React Rally 2018
Water right, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_right
Of course, with Pam for sudo authentication you could use otp, u2f with or in place of a password.
I think with uncertainty some people may err on the side of “supplements can’t hurt” and start or continue to take them.

For another perspective, I get a yearly physical and about 15 years ago I was having elevated ALT/AST liver enzyme results in my blood test. This lasted two years in a row while my primary care physician ran a dozen tests including for hepatitis trying to figure out what was causing it. Everything came back negative. She asked me if I took a multi-vitamin and I said I did, a daily Centrum.

She told me to stop taking it. I have never had elevated liver enzymes in the 15 years since. She told me overdosing on some vitamins was causing live damage as my liver struggled to process them.
Well the idea was that an app might be able to adjust what it did to help preserve battery life.

The reality is "woohoo, free money." #enable price_gouging.
You should try a wheelbarrow in muds even raining cats and dogs.
Like Cincinnatus, returning home after the war and taking up his plow.

Two things have always struck me about Jimmy Carter:

1 - He was willing to nominate Volker to Fed chair even though he knew Volker's plan of raising interest rates massively would cost him (Carter) re-election. I believe he would have survived even the Iran crisis but for that, but it was the right thing to do. Reagan got all the credit for it since it started under Carter's watch and finished under Reagan's.

2 - he has such a reputation for Polite gentility and self sacrifice (see above) yet his maneuvering through the primary season and at the democratic convention was masterful -- he was dispassionate but brutal in putting the (political) knife into rivals, and was happy to do so publicly. That genteel/man of the people schtick extended to his use of the pronunciation "nukular" even though he had worked for Rickover and attended to the navy's nuclear school!

A complex guy whether you like him or not.
Suppose I asked if there's a practical example of merkle trees in the wild. Someone answers, "of course: git." Then 7 troglodyte friends and I jump on github/gitlab/whatever (which is super easy because everyone already uses one of these user-friendly services that wrap around git) and immediately see how git helps us develop by leveraging merkle trees. We realize that the merkle trees are leveraged so that we can ensure (most of the time) data integrity in the history of our source code. Thanks, git!

Now suppose I asked if there's a practical example of SSS in the wild. Someone answers, "of course: ___." Then 7 troglodyte friends and I jump on ___ (which is super easy because everyone already uses one of these user-friendly services that wrap around ___)and immediately see how ___ helps us develop by leveraging SSS. We realize that SSS is leveraged so that we can ensure ___. Thanks, ___!

Fill in the blanks.
I feel like all those job sites are a waste. You apply and apply and apply and hear back from pretty much 1-2% and if those even less get into anything beyond a phone screen.
You don’t have to use webpack with vue. Only if you want single file components. You literally just include in script line and you can use vue. No harder than jquery.
But what is the advantage of having a large number of small vs a small number of large blocks?
Not all of them. There are still plenty of sites that aren't SPAs, especially those built with CMS' like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla (or various forums, wikis, etc). In those cases, you don't want to have to redo the whole frontend in React or Vue, you just wanta simple way to manipulate DOM elements for things like a dropdown menu or modal or what not.

Something like this may work fine for that purpose. There are still thousands or millions of websites that don't act like an SPA/
Well, it has a thinkpad-sized trackpad directly under the home-key center, plus some extra area to the right ;)
Vanilla python socket chat server
I’d really appreciate if these were flagged not English. This is the fourth copy I’ve seen of this story on the front page of ‘new’ here, and none of them are English, and none of them are marked not English.
Peak calculator for me was that Casio MG-880 with the space invaders game. Many an hour of math homework was consumed with frantic tapping.
Funny you should say that on the anniversary of the Gwangju uprising, where Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students protesting the US-installed military dictatorship in South Korea
Summary: The author clickbaits the title with "don't do X". Proceeds with a life story of his struggles ommiting what X is.
Nice, that sounds even better.
Electric Scooters in New York City? They Just Might Work
Swisscows – The secure search engine
[Not Smalltalk] Squeak.
GrapesJS – Next generation tool for building templates without coding
I’m running Mojave on my cheese grater 2011 Mac Pro, but I’m guessing that’s because I already had upgraded the graphics cards and didn’t realize it (also upgraded CPUs, RAM, and a bunch of other stuff too). The cheese grater Mac Pros were one of the best machines Apple ever shipped imho.
You could probably leverage 2-3 years at Amazon to a much better job somewhere else as a cloud guy. It is all about credentialling and other signalling, to get your foot in the door. Remember the only purpose of a CV is to secure an interview.
Sorry about that. I guess I didn't really think much about the title sounding like clickbait. The phrase is what motivated me to write the post, so I used it as the title. Perhaps I should put quotes around it?
I have read her book, and it is fascinating. Go ahead and make your assumptions about her motives, but I believe you are doing yourself a disservice. Before the 20th century, we ate a lot of saturated fats, and it wasn't until the creation of vegetable oils (which are made through extensive industrial processes), was there a move to start restricting saturated fat. The current low-fat diet is an experiment that has America has been on for forty some years. Please take a look at this.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/low-fat-d...

And in general, the American population has been following this diet, and we are fatter than ever before, suffering from Type 2 Diabetes. And the "science" behind our current health policy is driven by organizations like the American Soybean Asociation who are more concerned with making money and less on science. And when you start talking about money, the science research will follow the money, because the scientists need to eat.

Please take a look at this videos,

https://youtu.be/Q2UnOryQiIY
https://youtu.be/7Lww5WH7INI

I would read her book before you pass judgment.
Yes if it already exists lets certainly not make it
HSR Parallel Checker – Check for deadlocks and other concurrency issues in C#