skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can tell it's react native if it lags (at all). No native app should lag on a modern phone.

I wrote an app that locally loops over 5MB of JSON and then sorts it based on a datetime string (which is converted to a date class) - and it does this every few seconds. You can't tell that this is happening though, because the phone doesn't lag. It doesn't even use a significant amount of battery. It just works.

I wrote the same app in React Native + NativeBase earlier, and even though I implemented that in a smarter way, the app still lagged. Even just a general react native app that doesn't do anything weird just feels "off" sometimes.

Source: Wrote the same app 4 times (Swift, Java, React Native, Flutter) - Flutter was the clear winner, and a joy to work with.
I know every mention of this seems to get downvoted because it's a cryptocurrency, but that's what the second half of the IPFS plan is, FileCoin. They've found a way to incentivize storing files by allowing people to 'mine' FileCoin. Mining in this sense isn't a waste of energy, or staking of coins. It's proving you have available space and proving you're making duplications of the data. This causes a race to the bottom for the pricing of storage while balancing it out with reliability.

If you want to host your website on IPFS, pop it up on a domain through Cloudflare and set up a bid for storage space.
Because the point isn't necessarily to kill the victim, but to induce fear in the general population. Poisoning is similar enough to illness to be imaginable but different enough to be scary, and we tend to associate poisonings with horrible suffering rather than sudden and painless expiration.
That cliche about "aspire to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are," rings true.
this is what I was referring to

someone else mentioned employers would have to be fair - yes, but that would not address the problem that 33% of your employees are crazy and/or delusional.
It's really close to a US Air force base...it's entirely possible the helicopters were just coincidence. That being said, I had sort of leaned toward it being a case of espionage that had been busted...so, this -could- be a cover story. I don't know why they'd lie about it though, unless it involved an ally.

I think the stranger parts were that they shut down surrounding areas/homes and even the local post office. That still to me makes no sense with just a child porn ring.
that was not even google drive, but her myactivity page..
she logged into google when using the app. the stuff is in her account, and she looked at it. and then it was a local fox story.
I'm glad she mentioned that too, sometimes it feels like there's cultural pressure thag if you aren't hacking in every non-work hour then you're a slacker…
Imagine if you charge 10 times more a fan from a rich city than the fan of other cities? They would feel discriminated.
Absolutely, I think in an ideal world it would. I'm not arguing against it. I just think in practice, it will tend to create issues which probably won't get resolved.
Are you saying software is unimportant or music is unimportant?

A choice between the two, like choosing to be blind or deaf, I'd choose music, I'd choose blindness.

Music is much more fundamental to the human condition than, <laugh out loud>... software <more laughing>

Gather round the keyboard family, let's code together, you do the functions, I'll write main!

(This is intentionally harshly written, in response to the obvious hyperbole of this "Not to mention there's enough music already made to cover everyone's need" - whatever that is).

I'm aware it's all subjective, but I'll still write this:
Music is life, Software is lifestyle.

moetech, find some music that elicits a response from
a part of your lizard brain you didn't know existed, that makes you cry with connection. That's just the beginning of the journey.
Honestly, I feel the exact same way about your position. What could be tougher than this:

U.S. Forces Killed More Than 200 Russian Fighters in Syria Attack

https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-us-forces-killed-more-t...

And there are sanctions:

Trump administration slaps more sanctions on Russia after Skripal poisonings

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/politics/us-state-department-...
In real terms this was an illusion. It was the beginning of the new age of personal debt (which then rose like a rocket during the Clinton years).

The best realization of the American dream was on the decade after the end of WW2.

Incidentally, it was a period with comparatively high corporate taxes. Now we have historically low corporate taxes, not even counting maneuvers like the Irish/Dutch indefinite tax deferment scheme.

What has been promoted as common free market wisdom at least since the 80s has no subsantive evidence to back it up. If you want a current example of reality vs "common wisdom" economics, compare California to Wisconsin, Kansas, or Texas.
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Nicely done friend! Learned everything from your writeup too!
Crowdstrike,Carbonblack,windows atp,etc... Are "nextgen av". You can call them by their self proclaimed category as well.
> Even after I know what I'm optimizing for I cannot use data to optimize for it. I know from experience that unintended results will happen. Some of them will be very base which will force me to come up with a whole new set of things to optimize for.

You can't use data to optimize anything? Google and Facebook must be wasting their time collecting all that user data, then.

> You are also assuming we can agree on what to optimize for. In fact we do not, and will not.

We agree on lots of things to optimize for. There are cases of disagreement, but very very broad agreement as well.
I’m sure this is what it is. But... if it actually was aliens, this will certainly make people totally dismissive!
The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media
That emphatically didn't work out for me with Valiant. Remember, options have expiries. And also it only makes sense if market implied volatility of your options contract is way below the upside move you expect.

I.e buying calls at 50% IV when you only expect a 30% move before expiry is... suboptimal.

In other words, there's no substitute for truly knowing what you're doing when trading options. (Learned this the hard way, AMA)
If copyright only lasted 10 years would you take those prints down before expiration? There wouldn't be sufficient value in building name recognition?

Note that if copyright only lasted 10 years you could take them down but somebody else could simply republish them. The real question is, with only a 10 year copyright would you take and publish fewer photographs overall?
As I suspected might happen, the article mentions at least one or two of the discovering astronomers are asking the IAU to officially designate the planet "Vulcan."

I find it a brilliant hat tip to an inspiring franchise that likely influenced a generation or two of wanderlust dreamers to find their passion in the final frontier.
Signed up
That is just the military industrial complex spending public money. Russia is doing the same thing. The loss of lives is clearly irrelevant to the leaders of the two countries.
I'm in the same boat. We have measurements and the bar gets moved every year. Now we are at 150% profitability compared 2 years...and the bonus were nice. Now to get our regular size bonus we need to keep it up. In other words, the company makes more money than before, and pays less bonus.
You can also access it via the normal website: https://fn.lc/post/dropbike/ (or via AMP cache: https://fn-lc.amp.cloudflare.com/c/s/fn.lc/post/dropbike/)

I've had IPFS support on my website for a while now and figured since one of the top HN posts was about porting a blog to IPFS I'd share the IPFS link.
Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built a Better Bitcoin
> Why assume that making money means you are benefiting society, in general?

Because when you make money, someone is paying you for a product or service. When someone chooses to pay you for your product or service, they are expressing a preference for that product or service over the money, and vice versa (you express a preference for the money over the product/service). Which means, that when money is exchanged for a product or service, both parties benefit. Value is created. The utility points of the universe increase.
It did work out for me with GEO (doubled my position on the sharp drop) but I bought stock because I had no idea when it might rebound.

Options are far less forgiving if you're wrong on timing.
I'm not familiar with "proof of stake", how does that make mining less wasteful in terms of resources?
An Equifax exec went to Parana Bread (of all places) and later had trouble even understanding what a security researcher told them they had an API with customer data that was easily found and queried from the internet.

The executive got confused and suspicious when the security researcher offered to send additional data and talked about sending that data securely via PGP (it seems like he simply didn't know what the request for a PGP key... even meant).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/paner...

It would seem a lot of Equifax executives are happy to act on their own in spite of their own ignorance.

I know a handful of folks in security, they run into complete morons in the security industry all the time. It's scary how wildly variable the talent in the industry is at all levels.

To some extent that talent variability is everywhere, but the sheer volume of people are so clueless that they could be described as a liability in some situations is surprisingly high when it comes to security. I know security folks who have changed jobs simply because they didn't want to be associated with someone who took over at their employer. Reputation among the folks who know seems to be a big deal to many of them.
> Which is why USD backed up by the worlds strongest economy are used for vastly more international transactions than all cripto coins combined.

In what sense do you believe USD to be 'backed' by the US economy?
Well if you go back before the 1800s, heterosexuality was not only not even a word, but it was not a concept.
Loads for me :)
So, sarcasm aside, it sounds like you support people using their skills and resources to seek profits mining cryptocurrencies. Do you also support real estate investors using their skills and resources to seek profit in rental properties?
Link without IPNS, for those who hit cold caches:
- https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTUZvRskteBwACHPAepefPLDKhJctWmY6E2XJG...
- ipfs://QmTUZvRskteBwACHPAepefPLDKhJctWmY6E2XJG9v78oij (with ipfs-companion)
Sometimes, I wonder what percent of the people who upvote these links actually read them. I hit my free limit on WSJ opening HN links and can't read this.
The ipfs-companion extension provides `window.IPFS` in Firefox, Chrome, and others :)
The only problem with this position is that it doesn't go any way to improving things. It's a silent protest. This opinion is immediately excluded because it's non-participatory.

It's a conundrum.
it's an uphill battle, even the HN audience, at first glance consisting of people capable of independent thinking, is brainwashed and uncritical beyond belief.
Yeah... just sits loading forever here too.
Recently Australia lost our Prime Minister due in part to (alleged) agitations by Rupert Murdoch.
- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/19/turnb...
I don't understand how you can compare violation of property rights (breaking windows) to a completely voluntary system such as Bitcoin, the private production and use of which violates no property rights.
You said, "US-legal sanctions against Russia have simply not been enacted by the Trump administration". I just showed you, from a neutral source, that they had been enacted.

It is plausible that Trump owes some wealthy Russians a lot of money, but on the other hand, there is zero actual evidence that it is true. Lot's of things are plausible. It is plausible you are a Russian agent planting propaganda to undermine faith in the government, but there is zero evidence of it being true, so I wouldn't go around claiming it.
Are you an egg/sperm donor? That's a freebie (possibly even paid) means to increase selection for your own genes...
> They can say "no", tell these regressive regimes

The US has made pretty similar demands from Google and Twitter and Facebook not too long ago, in the context of "Russian election interference" and even before that on the basis of "terrorist radicalization".

The big difference here is that if the US demands it, it becomes the de-facto global standard. The results of this are subtle, but creeping. [0]

At this point, the aforementioned three are subcontracting a whole little industry of "content moderators" in places like Manila in the Philippines. Where hundreds of people do nothing but "moderate" social media content, they literally "okay" or "delete" videos and pictures on social media.

French channel ARTE made a really interesting, and quite creepy, documentary about it called "The Cleaners" [1]. Sadly it's only been available in French/German, and has been depublished by now, but an English version was shown at Sundance, so that should exist.

[0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxdv5/the-artist...

[1]https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/069881-000-A/im-schatten-der-n...
While I love decentralization progress, the great majority of end-users look for UX don't matter what is behind. They don't care if it is decentralized, federated, or centralized. Git is decentralized but most people use GitHub and the UI cannot be decentralized. Also there is a lot of irony here where most decentralized projects use Slack or Telegram for messaging.
The issue with just sharing the /ipfs/ version instead of /ipns/ is that I can no longer update the site and I just made a small edit to clarify some stuff so that link is already out of date.

As an alternative, I'd recommend either my website: https://fn.lc/post/dropbike/ or the cloudflare AMP cache https://fn-lc.amp.cloudflare.com/c/s/fn.lc/post/dropbike/
Members of congress seem to make most of their compensation by other means. The military I don't really know.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/how-did...
They are - but, where, say, 5-10 years ago VIP might only be the front couple of rows, for some tours now it might entire sections, especially on the floor.
Thanks -- that was a very informative link. It sounds like an awful situation for everyone.

I genuinely didn't mean to put down your original comment. I've been badly misunderstood in the past, and have reacted poorly to those reactions, so I don't easily discard others' experiences when I see similar things. What Wil did and what he wrote in his blog post aren't wholly incompatible in my mind, and it sounds like everyone came away from this hurting.

I see that my comment, too, could easily be taken hurtfully, and I'm sorry for that. I meant only what was at the surface: I couldn't tell whether it was a parody or not. Clearly, not -- and now I understand where you were coming from. So, thank you :)
I work at a company where they're very transparent about bonuses. I've been told by the VP of my department that it's always advantageous to align my compensation with that of the higher-ups. They usually opt for higher base bonus percentage from their merit increases. Our base bonus percentage is not fixed. It can increase each year. You can start at a 9% bonus, but 3 years later it could be 15%.

Each year they announce how much, by percent, the bonus pool will be funded. And as long as I've worked there the bonus pool has been funded at >100%. The company is very fiscally responsible and they do everything in their power to meet their targets.

There are 4 categories of performance and if you meet the top two, you're guaranteed 100%. The policy for how much bonus % you receive is in the employee handbook. So your bonus is: (your base bonus percentage) * (performance percentage) * (bonus pool funding percentage) * (base salary). The only way you can get screwed is if you're tagged as underperforming. I've only known one person who's to ever receive that tag, and he was definitely underperforming.
Payday lenders can charge excessive interest rates, or “fees” (worded however necessary to make it “legal”) because they know the people getting them have no choice.

If you need your car to get to your job, then if it needs immediate repairs you have no choice but to get the money for a mechanic immediately.

If you’re on a low or minimum wage there is not any kind of safety buffer for you, and banks won’t lend to you (collectively low income people are higher risk of default so it’s easiest for banks to just say no than do it case by case).

The problem is that once you have needed a payday loan once, you’re trapped: if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, then once they take their cut you don’t have enough money to pay the rent, so you need a loan ...

And so from a single loan they now have a permanent source of income, and it’s a higher interest rate than any other (10-20% per week is “reasonable”)

In principle I don’t have a problem with the concept of a payday loan (it’s essentially a secured credit), but something about that industry drives them to fee gouge and ruin people’s lives.
Don’t be sorry! This is such a great write up! Thank you for sharing and I hope they realise how lucky they are that you properly disclosed BOTH vulnerabilities with a 30 days notice before public disclosure. I hope they will follow your advice, or else I believe this won’t be the last vuln of this scope to hit them if they chose to ignore good security practice!
Really, one kind of assassination is very much like another. I'm not saying that to be edgy; I sometimes wonder if a limited number of obvious assassinations isn't better than an open-ended number of casualties in conventional war (viz/ Syria for example).

It's true that drones tend to be military rather than espionage assets, and as insignia-bearing military hardware in a designated battle zone they're legally equivalent to a sniper successfully killing a distant target. However battlefield snipers generally make opportunistic choices based on tactical considerations, with little regard to the identity of their targets. A great many drone attacks begin with intelligence about a specific target and then deploy the resources to eliminate that person, which for me puts it closer to assassination. (This is an idiosyncratic definition and I doubt it lines up with accepted laws of war.)
Hacker News UX Review – July 2018
He made a point of specifically “fixing” his pronoun usage and then uses a gender-neutral pronoun when a non-neutral one could be used. What’s the point?

Is it to prevent future thoughtcrime in case the person in question decides to use another pronoun again?
Did you see any lag when using Flutter?
To be fair, apps can lag because of network latency and poor use of blocking calls.

But you’re right in general.
It’s weird how that kind of thing happens everywhere. I remember when the surging fuel prices meant that everything had a “fuel surcharge”, eventually the sign disappeared but the price stayed the same.
You're right - I basically timestamped the then-current version of the name into a hacker news comment :)
This should stay on the homepage. The claim that Linus's recent action was in fact a reaction to their story is new information, that substantially changes conversation. This is not a dupe nor a needless rehash
>The only good indicator of what somebody knows, is to ask them to demonstrate facility.

That's true. But not making the pool as concentrated as possible before asking them is a waste of limited resources.

Candidates cost money. When resources are limited, such as money to fly candidates out, time spent screening instead of building, time for senior people to work on interviews instead of getting billable work done, time to get a project done, then it is very valuable to winnow the search to places where there is a higher chance of finding a candidate.

So, one doesn't interview people randomly sampled from the entire populace for a reason. Sure you will get the best candidate, eventually, but the cost to do so is silly. Finding predictors that make your search smaller is extremely valuable.

Thus many jobs have educational requirements. Having hired probably 100ish people in my career, (as well as many friends of mine who have hired similarly), I can without a doubt tell you that demonstrated academic aptitude is a good predictor of overall candidate quality for these types of jobs.

>Having a degree does diddly-squat to the requirement to interview.

So you would claim for jobs using advanced math there is zero difference in mean skill among those with only a 6th grade education and those with a PhD?
I wouldn't say "rarely" is representative.

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

The code in demoscene productions is not just a means to make art, but in and of itself can be considered a work of art to a savvy viewer.
Anyone have a link to the unsealed documents?
I think its already >50% for me...
The problem with FileCoin is that the math behind it - Proof-of-Spacetime and Proof-of-Replication - just ... doesn't exist yet. That's what the delay has been, trying to figure out how to actually turn those into usable cryptographic primitives. It's not clear that a practical, scalable implementation of the system described in the FileCoin paper is actually even possible.

(There's been some progress on getting proof-of-replication working, but it's still early stages and I haven't seen anything on proof-of-spacetime.)

Also, the economics of FileCoin don't make a lot of sense ... https://blog.dshr.org/2018/06/the-four-most-expensive-words-...
Have you heard of Beaker/dat?

https://beakerbrowser.com/
Besides flexibility for the employer, there's one more reason why they prefer bonuses over salary raise: if you leave the company in the middle of the year, you don't get half of the bonus, you get nothing.

I understand employer's perspective here: they don't know how well the company will perform, you can't predict everything. So bonuses are a good way to say "if we achieve our goal, you will get part of it as a reward".

However, very often recruiters include the bonus as part of annual salary when presenting the offer. This is unfair to the candidate - since bonus is not guaranteed, it shouldn't be included in the annual compensation, it should always remain separate with a clear information about conditions under which the bonus will or won't be granted.
You’re selectively quoting.

He said learning a fashionable js framework would be more desirable because few companies hire kernel hackers.

He said nothing about women being drawn to it because of their gender.
I don't think we should maintain bad policies because some people are crazy or whatever. In any case, that's not why salaries are secret. Employers would publish them in a heartbeat if it were profitable for them. They keep them secret because keeping people in the dark suppresses salaries.
I recently made a video on the possibility of using the insights from deep networks to automate science. https://youtu.be/Y-WgVcWQYs4

I find the possibility of automatically deriving science from raw data intriguing. Is anyone working in the area?
The nice thing about React Native is that you can always write native code if necessary. Though, I've used plenty of laggy native apps, so it's more about the software engineering behind it than the technology used.

Additionally, with JS most code runs on the UI thread unlike most native apps. If you use a web worker with RN you'd get similar behavior to your native app.

https://github.com/devfd/react-native-workers
Seems we have a copyright perpetualist here on HN.

Why do you reject the notion of the public domain?
> Very few Bloomberg Terminal users use more than a “small percentage” of the thousands of functions available through it, according to Fortune.

This is proof that the Bloomberg Terminal is a power user system.