skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There already are people who take advantage of others in this way. You will need to differentiate yourself to be successful in this crowded marketplace.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0258-fake-debt-collect...
How do you convert a VIN to the date of manufacture?
When the TouchBar was unveiled, I thought it seemed kind of gimmicky.

Last summer, I got a MacBook Pro with TouchBar, and I've used it almost every day since then. The TouchBar is less gimmicky than I had initially thought... but I still don't think it's that useful. Certain aspects are nifty (anything with a slider; emojis), certain things are "meh" (mute; extra functionality), and some things I very much dislike (the escape key not being a key at all anymore).

I remember before the TouchBar was actually unveiled there had been some rumors that Apple might show off a new keyboard where the keys had e-ink displays, such that you could change every key of the keyboard instantly but it would still be a physical keyboard (not a touchscreen). I would have preferred that, and I still would. I guess we'll see what the future has in store!
Mysterious masses of seaweed assault Caribbean islands
Show HN: Create intranet webapps with VueJS/SQLite in minutes
Go back to Voat or whatever hate site you're not yet banned from. Or grow up and get over the fact a Chinese girl uses a computer.
This is excellent.

I don't understand why there's an arc at the end when the lineman disconnects and pulls away the safety rod. That's there to keep the helicopter at the same potential as the transmission line, right? So why's there a potential difference when the safety rod is withdrawn?
The only situation where non-competes make sense and should be allowed is when someone is selling a business to someone else. If I was buying a business, I would want to be damn sure the guy selling it to me isn't going take my money, turn around and open a competing business and poach all the customers, since they know the previous owner and don't know me. That is only time non-competes should be allowed.
Imagine how much you could charge for return tickets.
presumably site A got popular before site B started scraping it; else there wouldn't be much point in scraping A. There is ofc the scenario was A was a generally unknown resource, and B realized it had the potential to be valuable if you just SEO'd it right.. but there's still probably evidence somewhere that A cropped up first (how did B stumble into it?)
Member of the App Engine team here. In the context of the second-generation runtimes, this is one of the big reasons we're pushing people to use standard libraries and public cloud services rather than App Engine specific services accessed through syscall magic that doesn't work elsewhere. We want you to be able to run your app locally or on a non-Google server (or on Flex, GCE, GKE, etc).
Maybe I am misunderstanding but “as a service” makes me think they are selling the labor to private companies.

Given we pay so much in taxes for our prisons, I’m not convinced this is just covering their room and board.

According to a quick search, Design2Part is a manufacturing trade show. I didn’t know that before.
Since Go programs are statically linked, is even something like Alpine required? Isn't it possible to just build the Go binary from the "scratch" image? Maybe throw in glibc in there
>Nobody should be in prison longer than their rehabilitation takes and the focus of their stay should 100% be rehabilitation

That would be nice, but our current justice system is not even remotely close to being anything like this. That will take generations of change. You're trying to say we should be at step Z when we haven't even gotten to A yet.
The work often offsets costs for private companies so it doesn't even go back to taxpayers.

But yes, imprisoning people is ridiculously expensive and that cost is borne by the taxpayer while offering almost no benefit. We should not be imprisoning them to give private companies a cheaper labour source.
check this out. https://pastebin.com/NGUVe7zi
I tried LYAH before I had any real functional experience, and it went poorly. I think I wasn't dedicated enough.

I took a programming languages class taught in Racket, and by the end of that semester I felt like I had finally "gotten" what functional programming was all about.

Tried LYAH again and... it still didn't quite stick. Not sure why. But I was determined, because I'd heard about Haskell so much on the internet.

So I took a follow-up "class" where we just implemented projects in the functional languages of our choice, and I chose to do everything in Haskell. I asked my research advisor (I work in a PL research lab) for guidance, and that's when Haskell really started to make sense for me. I'm not sure why LYAH wasn't good for me, when it's touted as being a great starting place for so many people, but now Haskell is one of my favorite languages by far.
Could you explain this more? A Tesla car is largely the same as any other modern car in how it functions and is manufactured. The major difference is the battery + electric motor. So besides the production of the battery and motor, how are the internals so different? Certainly nothing on the scale of computer vs. typewriter.

I would suggest mechanical vs. electric typewriter as a better analogy.
I have posted here many times before and I just want to get feedback on this experimental intranet app builder. It is open source and uses:

- Electron
- VueJS
- Bootstrap 4
- SQLite
Termfunk: A framework to execute Python functions from the terminal
You don't need a whole new language to have that though, just don't put side effects in your config.js
tl;dr

A non-profit, The Solutions Journalism Netowrk, that educates journalists about focusing on the solutions to problems rather than the problems themselves, is curating examples of their journalistic style from various news outlets. And Google will show you stories from their catalog when you say this specific phrase.

I like it. I think there's definitely space left void for meta-news curators and their mission seems pretty cool.
I understand the aggregate perspective. However this is not the standard usage of the word "poor".
It is pretty competitive compared to most other actively managed funds. Hedge funds sometimes take incredible performance fees, advisory fees, etc. They can amount to 2-4% off the top.

Not saying I agree with it, but it is well priced for the space.
See Louisiana for an example.

http://www.lafayetteowilawyer.com/helpfulvideos/beingsentenc...
Seo is a theme thing, and it barely has anything to do with the engine.
Standard scales down to zero instances, so for intermittent loads this can be very cost efficient.

I ran in to a couple of show stopper issues with the new nodejs standard env which were fine in flex (waiting on Google support on these, but very slow datastore queries and odd request queueing behaviour), so we're running flex at the moment, but for our particular use case standard would otherwise be cheaper.
What's going on with keys.gnupg.net?
I‘m all for boycotting palm oil but I think you might have misjudged Ferreros efforts to only use palm oil that has been certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Even Greenpeace says it‘s alright to buy Ferrero products containing palm oil.

[Source](https://qz.com/430450/no-you-dont-have-to-boycott-nutella-fo...)
There's definitely a number of anecdotes about Model 3 quality that hasn't been positive. Also, the insurance rates, and overall lemon reports haven't been positive either.
This from Electrek.com:

"For some unknown reason, Tesla says that it won’t be shipping the Performance Model 3 with the spoiler included in the performance package for the early production of the vehicle.

Owners will be able to have it shipped and installed at their local service center.

The badge was also a question mark for a long time since the first 50,000 Model 3 vehicles that Tesla produced had no badge beyond the Tesla logo."

https://electrek.co/2018/07/19/tesla-model-3-performance-spo...

The factory not installing something that was part of the vehicle means that the car is incomplete.
"Bitcoin always bounces back" is also silly. It could, or it could not.
If the fund is really good, they take 2% of the capital and 20% of the profits... (Actually if the fund is really good it's closed to outside investors, so it doesn't really matter.) But of course if a fund is really good it's not just a portfolio of 20 hedge-fund darlings rebalanced quarterly.

I don't know how do they select the 20 names from hedge fund filings (looking only at their long positions, as they don't disclose short positions), but it seems that diversification is not one of the criteria. Virtually all of them are tech (IT/Telecom).

The 0-20% short (using inverse ETFs! [1]) is inactive, so no hedge at all currently on this overexposed portfolio. If (when) there is a large correction it may not be enough to ensure the loses are lower than for the market even assuming that they do it in time (surely it worked well in the backtests).

But hey, it's just 1% and runs (only) on your iPhone!

[1] They track the inverse performance well each day but can diverge over longer periods and have other risks that make them not-so-good as hedges. But anyway is just 20% of the long exposure...
> Either it’s worth it to us or it’s not.

CA has to release thousands of prisons soon due to funding issues.
Do you have any pictures of the three 3s? I can see alignment being off a little, but not enough to fit a finger in the gaps.
Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternativ
Seems like a classic risk vs return scenario. If the return is that much higher than the S&P 500, then the risk associated with it will also be higher. I think the risk vs return is better balanced when you put your money in an ETF in Vanguard especially since there low fees and "choices" for particular markets.
It's weird to me. You need to know who to pay the mortgage to. The bank would have to notify you immediately when and whom they sell the mortgage to if they ever sell.

Unless they don't notify you on purpose to continue to receive the monthly payment, while cashing out on the resale, in which case that's fraud.

I can also imagine that the next buyer would try to pull the same trick. That obviously causes a problem. It seems to be what happened in the US, in which case everyone should check their mortgage to make sure who owns it.
One major problem is that the employer has the right to monetize work products that are close enough to your jobs work. So if my side project is writing a novel, there isn't much danger and the employer must basically grant the permission.if it is related to coding things get trickier. With a contract for coding I would basically transfer monetization rights to you. for that I would have to ask my employer.

So I would not do take home exams that could appear to be consulting work etc. Of it appears to be a test, it is fine(r).

Note that this is tricky for open source work too, you are doing on the side. (At least in my legislation). Contributions that are closely related to my work topics I usually ask for a permit according to company policy. For completely unrelated stuff (writing that interpreter in prolog, etc.) I assume my employer is disinterested (they really are). I cannot assume that for contract work with another company.

Anyway, a judge, given a CONTRACT with another company that was not approved has the easiest case in front of them. This is the situation I want to avoid. I wouldn't bet on a judge to dive into the details on what stuff was coded in this situation.

You mention the on-site interview. This is easy. It is not a consulting or contracting gig. So I don't need to get a side-work permit, and they are treated as any of my other absences when I don't supply a reason.
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Interesting theory.

That people want to work (more than for just the money) is one of the reasons I am very skeptical of UBI. I think that people want to work, and we apparently don't structure communities very well for people to just pick up meaningful work (or even volunteering) as a hobby.
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> "opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons"

This seems like a problem even if prisoner wages are raised. If we incarcerate people, we should provide them with toothbrushes even if they can't/won't risk their lives fighting fires for a pittance.
I’m OK with this. Wasps as far as I can tell serve no useful place in the ecosystem. They are not bees after all. They just sting people and that’s it. Good riddance!
That is... missing the point.
I don't follow. They strip out the words and post it anyways.
Interesting. Where are you from? In the US, nobody even knows about side jobs unless you tell them.
reminds me of the MLK quote:

"One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
and so what could a competitor do right here?

make the ad buyers use BAT token and store everyone on IPFS?
Fix for L1TF Issue in Intel CPUs Committed
What business does the state have telling you how you should feel? How you think think? What you believe? Rehabilitation is much more totalitarian than just giving you what you deserve and letting you get on with your life. The true content of your character is your business and your business alone. The rest of us should just be concerned with what you intentionally do.

If you think you were justified in your crime and can never be convinced otherwise, you don’t belong in jail for the rest of your life. You belong in jail for as long as you deserve and not a second longer.
Hear hear! https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...
Not 100% true. It's a small market full of inexperienced investors. It's easy enough to play it as such and come out a winner. For example, all the price movements are exaggerated because novice investors lack emotional control -- they get too greedy when the price is going up (magnifying the upward trend) then sell in a panic when the trend starts to reverse.

I often make better returns in a sideways crypto market than buy-and-hold gives me in the stock market.
> Starting on pen and paper

This is really the secret. Pencil, pen, whiteboard, crayon, whatever. Anything that lets you rattle off half a dozen super low detail sketches in under a minute will work. It doesn't need to be pretty either. Just as long as it's enough to give you a feel for interacting with the page as a whole.

Once you have a good solid idea for how you ultimately want it to come together then you can move to a computer to drill down into the individual details, but for getting from zero to concept there's no substitute for analog tools.
> root linguistic structure

The root linguistic structure of Lisp are lists of symbols:

(move ship harbour)

(move ship :location harbour)

(collide ship asteroid :with-speed 100)

(differentiate '(x * 2 + 3) 'x)

(loop from i below 100 when (evenp i) collect i)

> even bigger than nested lists

since lists have been used in Lisp for map-like data a lot, there is very litte advantage on a 'linguistic' level.

(loop for (name age) in '((fred 10) (jane 21) (alfred 9)) ...)

It makes not much different if the data map uses a different character. A Lisp user would probably layout the data so that it is easy recognizable as a map/table. A typical Lisp user is trained to read structure and not so much parentheses. It's a bit like bicycle riding - it looks difficult if you haven't learned it already.

((fred 10)
(jane 20)
(alfred 9))

What Lisp already makes usual to many is that it uses a data-structure - s-expressions - to encode programs in.

> but it's not native

Lisp-based maps were in Lisp since basically day one and were widely used. There was little demand for different maps for a long time. There is little added benefit from having 'maps' native. Lisp developers instead added flexible object systems, where the instances were map-like. There are really a zillion of them in all kinds of shades. Hash-tables were added to Lisp probably in the 70s not as a new notation, but as an efficient data structure for large amounts of key/value data - for example to implement the symbol table.

There is even an example in CLTL2 how they looked like in Connection Machine Lisp:

{moe->"Oh, a wise guy, eh?"
larry->"Hey, what's the idea?"
curly->"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!"}

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/util/html/cltl/clm/node192....

There are many other examples of these, but generally people were working towards objects as maps, with types and inheritance, etc.

Personally I don't think anonymous maps scale well for large interactive applications I'm interested in. I prefer to see at runtime, what type this map is about (is it price data, is it a product list, ...) - usually in form of an object-system, a frame system, or similar. If I don't need that and want to write literal data, I can just as well use a list (assoc list, ...). But then I've seen a lot of Lisp code and are used to it.
cost to hash, in electricity. If the cost of mining is greater than the price of the coin, the miners turn off their hashboards. Some like to think of this as a floor, however if everyone turned off their miners the system would fail to produce blocks. The network difficulty will take 2 weeks to adjust, and the miners will start mining again if it is profitable.
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Made the opposite mistake. Called this a bubble way to early (Like $1 per coin) territory and refused to put money into it.

Pretty spectacular fail right there.

Currently trying to apply the above life lesson to investing in weed companies. It's a bit more difficult though since they have more plausible substance so it's more murky in a way.
It makes sense to me.

As a person with Autism, I have always been scared of a misunderstanding with a police officer that would land me in jail, which is a common issue. I would calm my nerves by telling myself “it will be OK. I will think of it as a lot of time to read.”

I later learned books are very hard to come by at prisons, which adds a bit to my fear of going out and doing things.

Knowing I would be forced to work is terrifying because it would necessitate so many more misunderstandings.
They are a predator. They certainly have a useful place in the ecosystem.
The problem here seems to be that they seem to be striving for significantly short term goals, like meeting production targets, rather than really doing the work change the entire system and culture to one that would focus more on quality.

That doesn't really bode well for their future if they consider their current production rates that imminently important to their success.
I would love to see an official static site mode for Ghost (and Wordpress). That way we can get both a nice authoring experience and the low cost/security of S3 hosting.
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You cannot visit slate unless you accept the privacy policy. Which third partners they share the data with, and how to opt out? You never know, as you have to accept the privacy policy first before accessing the Third Party Partners page.
Is `sh -c "$(wget $link -O -)"` supposed to be better than `wget $link -O - | sh`?
I think reasonable for them to work, as long as it’s voluntary and subject to the same protections afforded to any other worker, such as minimum wage.

The problem isn’t prison work, it’s prison slavery.
There isn't some fixed end, there is only a debate between entrenched interests. Democracy's purpose is to balance those interests rather than letting one dominate the other.

Barring the birth of some Platonic philosopher king, authoritarian societies will never achieve this. The authoritarian power will inevitably come to represent some particular interest to the exclusion of all others.
That's not the only reason you can't buy a share of Uber or SpaceX. There are probably hundreds of employees who would jump at the chance to sell some of their vested shares. There are some secondary markets where you have to be an accredited investor, but most startups will block the transaction.

P.S. I think it would be a very good idea to buy some Uber shares before their IPO. Maybe try EquityZen [1].

[1] https://equityzen.com/trending/uber/
Well, for one, we can rename the "Department of Corrections" to reflect what it really is since 'corrections' is not part of their charter. Step A should be "stop lying to ourselves and face the truth".
Seems to me that it simply buys 20 stocks plus the inverse S&P ETF (SH).

Their strategy looks highly overfitted in terms of establishing the short position.

It’s easy to beat the market in a bull market (just buy momentum stocks or use leverage). It’s hard to determine when the bull market ends and the bear market begins however, which is what’s required if the strategy can truly beat the index long term.

13F filings that they use are all public knowledge that has been priced in. Furthermore funds aren’t required to provide information on their short positions and derivatives, so I struggle to imagine that they can do anything beyond “these are top 20 institutionally owned stocks” weighted by past performance of those institutions, which in itself is not an indicator of future returns.
Is one more relevant than the other?
The top comment:

> * HP created something they claimed was a memristor [1]

> * there were thermodynamic arguments about why it wouldn't work [2]

> * HP discontinued the architecture based on the component [3]

Even as a relatively informed person, the headline and the top comment made me believe "a thing with these properties won't work in the real world."

What does "fictional" mean to you?
More Than 3M Canadians Are Now Vegan or Vegetarian
AWS's offering is more mature, but has a concomitantly steep learning curve; using something like serverless[1] can reduce the exposure to that, but there's a lot of stuff to learn to get things working nicely with AWS.

[1] https://serverless.com/