skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I acknowledge it's just my feeling not based on any psychology research that I know about, though if you'd seen any of the other comments I've made in this thread you'd see that I absolutely don't make excuses for Linus's bad behavior. Quite the opposite.

And I don't think you understood what I was trying to say regarding the dark side of what drives a successful leader, I didn't communicate it particularly well.
Really beautiful. A nice little palate cleanser of a game. Well done!

My only comment/complaint is that I wish I could turn off the rankings display. I understand that it provides the "level up" mechanic, but I long for the Zen of exploring for exploring sake... I suppose that longing is very anti Zen though. Haha
For sure, we are also starting to see more minority district attorneys and attorney generals. I don't have stats to back this up to sense a trend but America recently had their first black AG (Holder, Lynch) and California and New York have had minority AGs recently (Kamala Harris & Becerra for CA, NY recently elected Letitia James for the democratic nomination and she is likely to win the general)
"Pay attention to price early" rings true. Everything else in the article seemed very anecdotal or cherry-picked.

This is what makes case studies about product success so difficult. With so many factors involved, any bold proclamation like "Price before product" is bound to have enough prominent counterexamples to render it useless in application.

Studies like this always remind me of Jim Collins' "Good to Great" controversy where several of the heralded companies went bankrupt a few years after the book was published.

Setting a good price before releasing a product is a lot easier said than done. Particularly for startup products which may not have great reference points. People are also generally not that good at figuring out what they're willing to pay for something.

I take "Price before product" as simply a catchy reminder to "think about price" as part of the long list of product requirements.
Linux Code of Conduct: Let's revamp it
Coke eyes cannabis-infused drink market
It was meant to sound ironic.
I don't consider dumping nuclear waste being a solution at all.
A few unrelated points-

1. This is an article to sell a book. "I took the job as part of the research for my book" This isn't unbiased factual research. The author is obviously going to cherry-pick the the craziest things he saw- with 1200 people over six months you are going to see crazy things. If the author didn't do this is would be bad marketing for a boring book.

2. The nice thing about low paying jobs is they are normally easy to replace. These workers didn't spend a ton of money going to school to specialize in Amazon warehouse work. If Amazon is that horrible work at McDonalds, Walmart, etc.

3. The nice thing about low paying jobs should be low bills. If you only make $1600 per month your bills should only be ~$1400 per month. Big houses, lots of kids, debt, etc should not be part of a formula to figure pay.

4. This reminds me of the Trump travel ban. Can judges now say based on Bernie's intentions (using the bill's name) any legislation he now tries to pass regarding this is obviously mean spirited and targeting Amazon? This isn't a factual point looking for legal analysis, a similarity just struck me.

5. I worked in a WH where a guy crapped his pants and kept working. This isn't because the company forced him- people do weird things.

Points 2 and 3 are personal- not trying to force my views onto others. I am not trying to tell people that work at Amazon they need to be happy and satisfied because from my view it looks like they should be. My point is that I always liked the idea that if my main career fails I can pay all my bills with a 35 hour week at minimum wage. Outside the urban centers this is not too hard. My grand total monthly bills including food, netflix, housing, car insurance, cell phone, food, etc is about ~$1400. (no, my parents do not pay any of my bills or give me an allowance.)

$1600 per monthly is a perfectly "ok" wage. Sure it isn't great but you can live happily on it in many locations. A single parent with 5 kids and a ton of debt can't, but I don't think laws should target a company based on the worst scenario.
It might be slightly more convenient to be able to just walk in and out of a shop without having to insert your card anywhere, especially when you forgot to bring it with you.

On the other hand, the value of that would mostly be in the novelty, and given the current level of facial recognition technology, the hassle of disputing incorrect matches would likely make it more trouble than it's worth.
One advantage of IPFS is its developer ecosystem. They are very focused on providing building blocks to developers, and there is a very active open-source community building on top of it. Contrast this with Bittorrent which is more mature and has more nodes (I think), but is less flexible and not designed for me to build interesting new applications on top of it. It's definitely possible to hack cool things on top of Bittorrent, but you'll spend more time navigating arcane documentations and deserted web discussion forums... The difference in community momentum is palpable.
Ask HN: Lisp and the Personal Computer Revolution
What impact did Lisp have on the Personal Computer Revolution?

I'm particularly wondering what, if any, the interplay with Apple Computer was.
"Publishers are probably costing their audience more in battery life and bandwidth than they are ever making from the ad they are showing". Have you done any calculation? The bandwidth/battery life cost for serving JS negligible. It's nothing compare to fetching/rendering images/videos, or even your mobile OS.
My guess is that Apple is positioning themselves for an inevitable future where privacy is taken a bit more seriously or at least legislated against. While this seems far fetched right now in the United States with the Google ad monopoly, I think it will eventually come after some form of catastrophic leak (from some user data harvesting conglomerate) involving politicians or other powerful figures.

Build the trust now, reap the rewards later. Glad they're doing it.
Ancient amber reveals lacewing diversity during Mesozoic
My guess is because the bundling long was a profit source which helped them keep the margins low by selling their spare horsepower they needed for peak load. Although the retail portion has risen in profits I believe so that is less relevant now.
You'd think there would be less, and this is not via VPN.
> Rigging a polling place is not viable because...

This argument is sounds great but doesn't match reality

https://i.redditmedia.com/NITi8srtcW0xIfOQXPZda6zJNrpb_jRbwg...

Edit: Link to the paper:
http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2012/09/20/1210722109...
Waiting until I'm forced, then going for the most stable minor version is my current plan.
They're given a couple days to submit apps built with the golden master version of Xcode. Usually, this is on the day the new iPhones are announced.
Yes it is a marketing move but it also makes things a lot easier for Apple. It can’t be forced to give up data to law enforcement that it doesn’t have and it lessens the amount of data that can be stolen in a security breach.
I don't think it's just about the money. Right now there's enough money on nearly every side of every issue. It's just people tell themselves "it's too important an issue to hold myself to a higher standard of truth, objectivity and rationality - if I just give up on that this one time and my team - which I know are the Good Guys - wins, wouldn't it be better for everyone?" And of course the other team does the same, and it happens every time.
"Remember 40 hours is the minimum we expect of you. Overnight installations are just part of the job."
We have demonstrated systems with a handful of quantum bits that worked as expected. There is a tremendous amount of work left before anything practical can be build, afaik.
As of a few days ago, the rumors were that Waze support was still in early beta and a ways (sorry) off, but that Google Maps would likely land in October.
Can't they just buy a Bank?
Is this triggered by many "real" websites, or just by a site that's designed to trigger it, e. g. a proof of concept? Is it a security risk or just annoying?
It's not FUD to say that Google track you across the internet and that if you don't want Google to do that you can use DuckDuckGo.

I have no problem with DDG using Bing or Google for search results so long as tracking information about me isn't sent to them as part of the process.
DDG has been working well enough for me that I haven't had a good reason to compare on technical or other topics. However, DDG is worse looking for local information for things like store opening hours, Google knowing your location is an advantage there.
Yeah I think this is for office workers. It's also useful as a baseline for overtime pay though. Even professions that work 12 hour days still pay overtime over 40/week. We could move that back to 35/week and let workers and employers decide if it's worth cutting back hours or hiring more people to reduce overwork and overtime pay.
Trinity Desktop Environment
The Developer Coefficient [pdf]
Fun article.

We followed nearly all of the advice just from following our own worldviews and from taking simple approaches to the "problem." 1) No candidate names were discussed outside of the immediate family 1a) To make discussing the baby easier, we had a "project" name as a
placeholder, so we could refer easily to things having to do with the baby without being limited to saying "the baby" all the time. Our code name was "Spartacus." So it was, "What color should we paint Spartacus's room?", etc. 2) We stayed away from anything in the top fifty (or one hundred), and we used Babynamewizard to help with that. No one wants to be the third instance of a name in their classroom or circle of friends. 3) We wanted a name that was easy to spell and that people were familiar with, so we weren't going out on a limb and creating a name or repurposing a noun to be a name (e.g., "Feather","Tiger", &c.). 4) We wanted something from the family if we found something we liked and that met the other constraints.

Finally, when we found one we liked, we quickly agreed and it was an easy call. Then just wait for the big "day of delivery."

Reveal: We had a boy and went with 'George.' (Post hoc discovery: living in LA, I now know to say "George with a G" or else "Jorge" may be written down instead. It's a tiny thing & not a real issue — and kind of funny, tbh.)
Nuclear waste is largely a solved problem. The digs in Yucca mountain and in Finland can accommodate nuclear waste with a very high degree of safety. The proposed failure modes for these plans are incredibly far fetched: what if people in the future lose knowledge of the buried waste, decide to dig a mile down in a remote location with no natural resources, uncover the waste caskets, don't heed the warnings because all knowledge of 21st century languages are lost, and never figure out that the stuff in these concrete blocks is poisoning them? Sure, this possibility exists, but it's up there with meteor strikes in terms of how useful it is to try and mitigate it
iOS 12 has been significantly more stable for me than iOS 11, even back when it was in its early betas. So I wouldn't hesitate to not update.
Salesforce Billionaire Marc Benioff to Buy ‘Time’ Magazine
I didn't know that Terminology has GPU acceleration. I would be happy to include this in the future!
20 hours mandatory service hosing shit off the sidewalks would be a better deterrent anyway.
> desperately dedicated internationals

"Cheaper labor willing to work more" is how I read that, and the antithesis of efforts to reduce the work week.

I'd prefer US law be tailored to incentivize US companies to employ US sourced labor, where our labor law can further ratchet the work week down (we're already incredibly productive compared to 40 years ago, but wages have been stagnant [1]; we've already earned a reduction in the work week we haven't gotten). I wouldn't want our country to export environmental pollution or labor externalities like child sweatshops, and in the same way, I would want to prevent our multinationals subjugating employees outside of our country's internal labor regulatory framework.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTuo.jpg
> - If I run an IPFS node, will I be hosting other people's data? What if these files are illegal? How can my "computer" (I guess a node is the terminology but whatever) be sure I won't be hosting some bad stuff?

Thats some of the reasons why i prefer the 'Dat' and torrent(be it classic or DHT) model of distribution per content, instead of IPFS which is per block.

The IPFS model make a lot of sense for cloud storage.. You might create a whole CDN based on its model where the clients dont even need to care about your backend storage layer.

But in the per-content p2p distribution model, we have the 'page-rank' effect, where popular or important stuff, curated by human reasoning of whats popular and important.

This model has worked pretty well with torrent, and public interest should drive the p2p storage model, where by using blocks, you lose some of the control and the context. And to see how this is a problem, the IPFS folks created the Filecoin to deal with the problem of the incentives, which on the 'per-content' model of Dat and Torrent, its a non-issue because of the natural page ranking indexing of content drive by public interest.

If something doesnt matter much, it will go away with time, just like our human brain works.

(Of course, if IPFS add some form of indexing of content by public interest on top of the block system, and even let you control what you serve. That problem would be solved)
I'm quite happy with the Rigol scope I used (DS1054Z), and would recommend it to anyone who wants an inexpensive scope.
I've always thought fraud would be much more preventable if credit card companies would simply send you a text or verification code each time your card was charged, or require a PIN.

It seems this is difficult for the big credit card companies and banks (which is why it hasn't happened), but I wonder if it might be easier for Stripe to incorporate something like this into their Issuing product.
I got stuck with a custom domain on ProtonMail and opened a ticket, and they responded within 45 minutes to help me. That sucks you had issues.
IPFS is not a store, it's a protocol. You still have to pay someone to host it.
I know you mentioned below that you don't like their current news feed, but for what it's worth, Yahoo Finance is going the opposite direction of Google, upgrading and adding features and integrations, not removing stuff. For example, apropos of the article, Y!Fi not only has the same watchlist functionality that everyone is angry Google removed, but you can now link your live brokerage account for real-time portfolio tracking across their apps/site. If you reach out to them with constructive feedback they are pretty receptive.

(Full disclosure: I work for https://trade.it which provides the aforementioned broker API functionality to Yahoo Finance)
That sounds more like a problem with the police, and not a problem with the law.
Yes, unfortunately. "Reveal Codes" FTW :)
Maybe spend a small fraction of that million on a child much earlier?

Making jail "cheaper for taxpayers" tends to mean things like more mandatory labour, more phone calls that cost $5 / min, etc. Trying to squeeze money out of inmates will only make them resent the system even more.
You are still on iOS 10?
I think another issue is the first rule of network security - don't trust the client.
It was a proof of concept; something like a thousand divs overflowing a buffer or something like that. I haven't seen anyone write an exploit for it.
Arc Studio Pro and Highland are very different.

Highland is macOS only and more of a minimal editor built around the fountain format (think markdown for screenplays), and has a very unique formatting UI.

Arc Studio Pro wants to support the full process and offers collaborative editing, automatic versioning, feedback management, outlining and visualization tools, etc.

Both apps offer a free version, so give them both a try.
> In March, former Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon also said Congress should look into splitting up Amazon.

You can only win so hard before the other players want to start a new game.
I just saw the two first photos and I already feel I'll like this book. Good job for the authors.
So, just curious, how does filtering out spam work, if the email provider does not have access to the contents? Not saying it's not possible, but I wonder if any current users of ProtonMail could comment on this? If you use ProtonMail, are you mostly just on your own in regards to spam filtering?
> having to rely on all the existing crappy hardware for taking payments is a pain in the a$$

This is the same crappy hardware. Look at the page - it's Verifone terminals. It's an app based POS that communicates to standard POS card readers, so the same hardware. This is unlike Square, who built their own hardware.
I'm using iOS 11 on an almost 4 years old iPhone 6, and it works fine for me too.
Technically, the original paper does call for ahead-of-time sharing of popular datablocks. SO for example, if piracy caught on quick here, then this functionality could push pirated data through.

Even though this was discussed in the initial paper, it was never implemented.
I am continuously shocked by the amount of defense that people have towards Stripe. I remember mentioning Stripe's 3% fee being too high for me the other day at a community event and I was attacked by people defending Stripe and their fee. These are people that don't work there, and have no true involvement with them (other than using their APIs).

Sorry everyone, but you really don't understand that Stripe's position is literally the middleman of everything. Their "product" is the API. Simplifying and unifying what the various processors have done and marketing the hell out of it.

That 3% fee that everyone defends is truly almost pure profit for them. I currently work with another payment processor (one of the top three largest in the world) and our credit card fees are measured in basis points. For those that don't know... a basis point is one-hundredth of a percent. The fees we are charged by our processor isn't even whole percentage points, it is measured in basis points. Granted it is more complicated because there are different fees for AMEX, Mastercard, Visa, etc. But it is still all totaled out to fractions of a percent.

Keep in mind that my credit processor is still making money while charging me in basis points (and they have way more employees than Stripe does). Stripe is a competitor to this processor. So if this processor makes money charging fees in basis points, than Stripe could make money charging in basis points too.

And before people think that I work for Walmart. I'll just say we charge about 2M a month in credit cards which is relatively small.

I promise that Stripe is doing very well off their 3% charge. I am not saying that they aren't allowed to make good money, but I really hate when people defend them like they are barely scraping by. Stripe is laughing their way to the bank with your 3% processing fee. They laugh even harder when they read you defending their outrageous fees.
> I am the most happy or at least the most focused when I finish all of these things thus the clean up day

But what happens for the week or weeks in between that? Are you also equally as happy because those tasks are out of mind?

For me, I just constantly think about "I should have done...", "damn it, I really should do...", and before you know it, you get overrun by those thoughts and nothing gets done. The only way I've learned how to bypass that is to just do things as soon as possible. Sometimes I'll delay things from the morning to do at night, but I really try my best to do them now.

Then you're just constantly crushing out tasks and getting things done and it builds up a lot of positive momentum.
How to make friends.
Great reading & comprehension skills.
As much math skills as you can learn.
There is a great Hidden Brain episode that talks about similar topics. Why there is this requirement that people to need to work more when there might not be enough work for them.

https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/hidde...
That might make sense as long as "streamlining" doesn't also involve subsidies for things like catastrophe insurance. Would nuclear be cost-effective without subsidies?
Check out http://duckduckgoog.com -- which is google search with a sprinkling of DDG's bang commands
Nice excuses. What I heard was the media, and the "experts", did a bad job.

A poll, your favorite. Let's hope they used a good model.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/197090/majority-voters-think-me...
In my part of the world, most payments are through cash and very few people uses cards on day to day basis,hence face recognition.

https://www.businessinsider.my/7-eleven-facial-recognition-t...
There are plenty of presses that can make pressure vessels that small. That's why smaller civilian reactors are such a good idea!
> Considering I spend 99% of my time either in a terminal or a web browser, I don't think it will have too much of an affect

Sure, for you, because apparently you just need a web kiosk and an ssh server. Some of us actually do want a personal desktop computer.
> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This the most stable iOS beta I've ever used.

It's exciting to see Apple focus on quality, even if the marketing page doesn't end up as flashy.
2000: Craigslist creates a "rideshare" platform

https://web.archive.org/web/20000620091420/http://www.craigs...
Contiki is an RTOS and ipv6/lowpan library, intended for modern rf-capable microcontrollers with no UI.

This OS on the other hand is a desktop OS for an ancient 8-bit processor (far less capable than modern microcontrollers) and oriented around the user interface.

So... not much to compare really, they're completely different beasts.
Cryptography is not that big of a deal imho. Post quantum cryptography is already a hot research area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography so we'd probably figure something out to keep the very important secrets secret. More important is the tremendous advantage quantum computers will give is in materials science, chemistry, and biology. Suddenly we'll be able to efficiently simulate large molecules and their interactions. This will speed up research in those areas a lot because you need fewer difficult experiments. As I see it, scalable quantum computers are the key to Drexler type nanotechnology based on proteins.