skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, no. I read the whole article not realizing I know exactly what these trees are. There's quite a few around the bay. Apparently they don't smell that bad to some people but for me getting a whiff is like a slap in the face.
I give Musk a little bit more credit than brutely calling someone a pedo without any proof.

Have you missed the multiple other shit storms here lately where he smoked a blunt on camera, said crap on Twitter he shouldn't be saying, cried in an interview while looking completely exhausted, etc?

He isn't exactly putting on a convincing performance as a trustworthy, stalwart, social conservative ("respectable business man") with all his ducks in a row.
As someone who mentors a little over a half dozen adults who are transitioning into technology careers (mostly programming, but not exclusively), I disagree on several points:

1. A lack of programming experience does not necessarily imply a life of struggle. Anecdote: Several of my friends work blue collar jobs (AC install/repair, but also an electrician), and avoid many of life's vices (alcohol, drugs, bad relationships with people with different personal values because they're easy to get into bed with, gambling, extreme religious devotion, the vindication of social media mob participation, etc.). I would call them successful despite not knowing the difference between a function and a method. (Successful enough, at least, to be homeowners in their young 20's despite growing up in poor families.)

2. Programming skill does not necessarily a life free of struggle. I know several homeless people with programming skills. Mental health (which is something our industry severely neglects!) brings its own struggles to the table.

3. Adults who take an interest in programming can gain sufficient aptitude to be valuable to organizations in a short time.

Forcing programming down a child's throat does them no favors.
Notifications in Android don't always work on Chinese devices
Resources are optimized relative to their current values. Medieval construction was often labor intensive because it was the cheap part compared to materials. City housing got disrupted by a new technology, cars that made additional cheap real estate more available for use.

Central planning can theoretically avoid some growth pitfalls "skipping to the end" but in practice it has often had limited success beyond zoning promoting the obvious - high traffic areas are good for retail and often annoyance to residents. I am no expert but it seems predictive design performs best with planning.
> it is not at all difficult to rework pre-modern beliefs within a modern and secular framework;

I don't know that I agree with you here. Are you arguing we can root morality in objectivity?
Show HN: Panther – A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP
I don't know how wide their web is. I know they have partnerships with some third parties, presumably some involves tracking that data.
> I fully understand some people need anonymity and pseudonimity. But the general case

I think we often underestimate the need to have these spaces active and available just to leave room for such people.

If /b/ is where people post bizarre anonymous trash, and Facebook is where people have serious conversations about serious issues, what do the people who need anonymity do? Go on Facebook and tell their families "hey, you should go have some of this discussion in those weird anonymous forums you've heard are full of evil people, no reason, nothing to do with me having a trait you'd hate me for"?

I don't mean to be snarky, this is a genuinely hard problem. But "people who need anonymity" are by definition a group you can't wait to accommodate when they speak up and ask for it.

Facebook's real name policies regularly cause problems for everyone from American trans people to Bangladeshi atheists, and go far beyond that in silencing discussion on topics where a totally conventional opinion might offend an employer or family member. (Or perhaps Customs and Border Patrol, which can't prove how many Reddit accounts someone has but apparently challenges claims of not having a Facebook profile.)

I don't think anonymity has to be a descent to the bottom. Comparing different subreddits, or HN to 4chan, or any other pair of anonymous sites, demonstrates that. I do think anonymity and the need for moderation tend to trade against one another; anonymous fora without oversight quickly become toxic, or are simply eaten by spammers.

But I'm very concerned that real name policies look good because anonymity causes highly visible bad behavior, while identity silently pushes vulnerable people out of the discussion.
> giving worthless papers for real goods

> This war will either be won by the US on the short term, or the dollar will be dismissed as international currency.

Remind me what the Yuan, Yen, and Euro are backed by? Or are you saying that the world will go back to the gold standard?
Much harder to set a watch on that
Clarifying image creation in Aspose.Imaging
That's one possible use case, typically don't charge my phone during the day. I have a phone stand on my desk in my work and home offices without chargers. I also have chargers next to the couch, kitchen counter, and night stand without phone stands.

In my case I'd prefer a mat to toss my phone on to a stand.
Nobody is forcing you, but the forex rate adjusts so that the appropriate amount of goods is bought voluntarily.

If country A bans foreign capital inflows and purchases $10 of foreign assets, then that forces a trade surplus of $10. Yes, that $10 transaction will be voluntary because it's currency will adjust so that the transaction is made. But from the macro point of view, the foreign capital flows drive the "voluntary" transactions.
> It seems to me that my YubiKey setup (done following https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide) is substantially better in almost every respect than the state-provided smartcard.

Would you care to explain the differences in detail?

As far as I know the EU qualified certs are also required to be stored on smartcards so the only difference vs Yubikey would be Yubikey's portable format (it is a smartcard reader and a smartcard in one device).
> Many of Nietzsche's ideas are almost entirely antithetical to the cultural sensibilities of HN so the discussion that you're going to get on here is not going to be that great.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on:

1. What is/are the cultural sensibilities of HN?

2. Which ideas are antithetical to them?

My guess is that whatever your answer to item 1 above, you'll be downvoted and hated by those who disagree (I think HN spans a vast array of viewpoints personally), so maybe it's best not to answer. It is a sincere question tho.
Fair enough, although had IBM bought Sun instead, as no other company cared to do an offer, I doubt that they wouldn't have done exactly the same thing towards Google.
Your solution to increasing page size is to hope that people just stop doing the thing that they were doing?

I don't particularly care if a new standard is defined or not, but at some point you have to shift incentives and Google has shown itself to be willing to throw its weight around.
I'm beginning to wonder if this is an artificially created theme. In every discussion about GnuPG this type of thread begins and has this type of sentiment.

Maybe it is obsolete, maybe it isn't, maybe my tin foil hat is firmly in place. But it just seems like a thing people like to say to almost make sure other people don't bother trying it or using it.

Maybe that's because it's difficult to use, maybe it's because it works and does do things securely and some people don't want that.

There's so many sophisticated TLA's out there influencing 'the conversation' that who knows what to think anymore.
Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay
Google’s Dragonfly abandons “don’t be evil”
In hindsight, maybe training a neural network on Betsy DeVos was a bad idea.
Cookie law is still relevant. The only difference is that now companies can actually get penalties for not complying with those rules. Previously it wasn't really enforced.
Without consent no 3rd party scripts and content that can track visitor should be loaded, and once the change period of 1 year passes, a lot of sites ignoring this will start receiving well deserved penalties.
Why work visa applications have to suck?
>> Imagine a prosecutor telling a jury that Elon funds a lavish lifestyle (with lots of details of the excess) with loans against his Tesla stock.

Not going anywhere. Even if Tesla goes to zero, Musk still is a billionaire, 10 times over with SpaceX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Ownership,_funding_and_...

It's not greed, he just hates that some don't bow to him.
It take 5-7 years just to get a patent at the moment, the patent system is so backed up. (personal experience, I have 2 and have 4 more in the process)...
“Trade secrets” according to the Supreme Court anyway, are a “Common Law exception” to non-competes.
Do what downtown Vancouver, BC did - take out a travel lane and/or parking spots and create dedicated bike lane.

Sure, some businesses complain, but overall number of bikes on the road seems to have increased.

https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/opposition-to-propo...

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/mobi-bike-share-vancouver-rid...
> Are there any groups working on getting national/federal regulations changed to invalidate or ban non-compete agreements?

I don't know if there are, but the idea seems like a complete non-starter in the USA. I don't see any reason to forbid two willing parties from entering into an agreement that includes a non-compete provision.

I can maybe see some rationale for restrictions in standard employment situations. But for contract work? If you don't like the terms, don't accept.
> Seems like it is easy to block ~250k webpages like

I think it's unfair to look at these results and say "but it's so easy to block these". Google's time is best spent on solutions which will reliably and automatically block these, without going through fairly manual steps.

I did notice a decrease in quality in gmail's spam filter though. Increase in false positives and false negatives lately. I guess it's unlikely to be related...
>Should it be found one day and removed? Yes probably

Let's not pretend that any government is going to take it upon themselves to sweep their country's waterways for unexploded ordinance. Come on.

The hope is that it lays undisturbed long enough to be rendered inert.
I guess it depends how tight your family is. I would never trust half of mine on such matter, I would definitely trust my parents though.
Yea but you can throw legalese madlibs into a document and get it passed as law as long as you provide the legislators enough kickbacks.

Haskell has to compile at least, and be pure and stuff.

Who's up for a Pure Functional Programming government.
Keybase uses gpg at it's core.
We all know you're going to pick the Patriot Act :)
I would assume that any account or video that receives a large spike in user-generated flags would get reviewed by a person. Then if the content was deemed acceptable per the user guidelines, that account would be 'un-flaggable' for 90 days.

Is there anyone with knowledge of these systems who can speak to how this might work?
It was a company, Chubbies, that sent short shorts to David Einhorn not Elon. https://insideevs.com/chubbies-sends-short-shorts-tesla-shor...
21-24 is a weird range
At least with first generation Qi devices I think it was the device and not the charger to blame. I have a branded Lg charger and my Nexus 4 would occasionally overhead on it depending on how it was positioned. I eventually abandoned it and gave it to my wife who used her Nexus 5 with it for years and never complained of overheating.
Concept->Name mapping is not a problem unique to software and it has always seemed to me to be (and I feel like somewhat of an arrogant ass saying this) a consciousness-level problem.

In order to do this, seems to me you need:
1) Abstract pattern extraction
2) Abstract pattern to word mapping
3) Composition/decomposition of composite abstract patterns
4) Transforms on abstract patterns

Think about the game of Go. You have patterns that repeat throughout games, but with small variations and with various transformations; you've got to be able to extract the common pattern from the specific instance, and the commonalities of the variations, and the common transforms (such as something as simple as rotation/reflection).

Then you've got to have a mapping from those patterns (and meta-patterns) to words. Near as I can tell, that part of the problem is basically culturally established; whatever internal encoding you have for the abstractions is unlikely to be communicable to other entities. You have to work out with those other entities (aka, humans) what some of those patterns should be called.
This is precisely what shines so much in Pontevedra (the city featured in the article) and e.g. Oviedo (another Spanish city that aggressively adopted this policy in 1991). Local shopping benefited so much from banning cars downtown. Little specialty shops and cafes blossomed vs suburban malls.

Sadly, I think this is only easy to accomplish in mid-sized densely-populated cities (<= 250000 inhabitants), unless there's a lot of planning and investments done.

Paradoxically, shopping associations were initially strongly opposed to implementing car-less downtown plans. Only to reckon later how wrong they were.

If I recall correctly, car-less policies were imported from Aarhus and Aalborg, where majors were experimenting with turning some main streets into pedestrian only by the late 1980s.

It's also interesting to note that both Aalborg and Oviedo tend to rank very highly in a few quality of life EU metrics [1]. I know both, and they are pretty fantastic places to work and live in. Everything is within short walking distance.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/studies...
twitter wasn't around when we were in our 20s...
>>> unless the device is redesigned to be slightly thicker and larger – decisions which Apple is specifically unwilling to make compromises on for their overall design.

>> Sounds like Apple.

> As opposed to Belkin who puts their name on some ok stuff and a lot of horrible Shenzhen designed garbage?

That's entirely different. This sounds like Apple prioritizing barely-perceptible differences, and letting them either turn into roadblocks or force other unpleasant compromises (e.g. removal of the 3.5mm jack and the adoption of the unreliable butterfly keyboard).

The prioritization of thinness jumped the shark a long time ago, IMHO.
If you pause at 3:33 in the video and read the abstract, it actually says that numbers in base 2 require "at most 4 palindromes", rather than exactly 3, and "similar results" were found for bases 3 and 4. So it's not quite the same result as for bases of 5 or greater.
NY Attorney General Report on Crytpocurrency Market Integrity
I don’t really understand your point. You’re basically saying that any exponential return blows up in the limit, which means that any investment rule like a 6% return from the stock market is unsustainable. That may be, but it’s not particularly actionable or useful.

The bottom line is that for most of modern history, real estate as a whole has been a better investment than some theoretical instrument that tracks inflation.

Your point about Detroit is like arguing that stocks are a bad investment because Enron collapsed.
This looks cool. I'll get our social media manager to give it a try when I'm in the office tomorrow.

One suggestion: it might be worth making the landing page responsive. If it is, it's broken for me - I can send a screenshot if that helps. I often have a look at potential new tools from my phone when I'm at home and bring them to the office to give a test drive.
No, you misunderstand the whole point. Credentials don't matter in an anonymous setting. That's the whole point, people can converse on equal terms. The only "credentials" in common display is whether or not your account is new.

Its purposely designed that way to encourage conversation. Its not like at work where you may fear challenging someone at a higher level than you.
Apparently "allow being tracked to gain more access" somehow isn't. As far as I can tell that's what every major newspaper in Belgium is doing. I suspect they've got folks in their employ who speak legalese.

But then newspapers in Belgium are pretty horrible in general. They're exempt from paying VAT, even for content they sell online. Online-only news sites don't get this exemption and have to charge 21% VAT, so the entrenched newspapers have something of an unfair advantage there. But anyway, that's a different rant entirely. Just an illustration of their general scumminess.
> Everybody wanted to move in. It was a gigantic shift in the way we worked, because we went from being in cubes to, all of a sudden, literally every person had an office.

And now they've regressed.
He became a full professor of philosophy at 24. The youngest person ever.

I'm stunned at your brilliance that you were able to reduce him to this comment. Thanks.
I really like the idea of restricting where and when people can drive their cars. In China there are policies in place that only allow to commute with your car on certain days of the week. The other days you need to use public transport or find a car pool.

A lot of Americans think that they should be able to drive and park their car when and where ever they want. This mentality needs to change if we want to continue to grow our cities sustainably.
Musk had repeatedly challenged reporters to “investigate” Vernon Unsworth, and they did. They found no criminal records in the UK or Thailand, no marriage records, and AFAIK, no record of Unsworth visiting or moving to Thailand in the timespan Musk describes. They did however find Unsworth’s girlfriend, who is in her 40s and had been posting about her relationship on social media for years, which would support Unsworth’s assertions that he had first visited Thailand in 2011.

If Musk is as good as a human as his devout fans think he is, he’ll put truth and his grand hopes for humanity over his ego, and give Unsworth — who let’s not forget, was essential to saving those boys’ lives — a proper apology and compensation.
> Embedded guys aren't as cheap as python/javascript programmers

Not sure this is true. It should be the case, but afaik the salary polls don’t support that.
GitHub Experiments
I think it’s definitely possible, maybe even likely.

Maybe it relates a little to that concept of “we were able to do it because we didn’t know it was impossible”?

Another aphorism that might somehow relate is, mistakes are considered an important part of creativity, in both art and science.

It’s hard me for me to escape the conclusion that there were likely some benefits related to stuff like this, that can force a person down paths less travelled.

As the same time, I bet there’s probably some way to build an entire house with a screwdriver. Would you want a great architect to work under those constraints?

Tangential, someone won a nobel prize for physics. There’s a case that we was greatly impacted by autism but functional, and speculation some of those personality traits helped him get there. If that were true, should we wish he never had it?

It seems clear that ironically, ignornace is sometimes an asset, but it’s almost impossible to untangle what and how much benefit was had in a particular case.

I’m sure I would have loved to had been his friend, know what he was like in real life. Even though I believe it’s plausible there were some insights related to his disadvantages, not sure anyone who could go back in time would not want to lay the world’s knowledge at his feet, and stand back and see what happened.
In basic ipfs the address is content-dependent hash - same url should always return same content (excepting hash collisions which should be so rare and improbable as to never occur in practice).

So the short answer is that there's nothing to update: and url will return the same content (or no content if no one has it pinned anymore).

AFAIK the ipfs approach to this conundrum is a name/resolver system - which essentially adds indirection.

This is Thomas he'll always be Thomas. But for now, he's also class valedictorian. Some time in the future, Thomas will still be Thomas, but someone else might be class valedictorian.
Wait till mid 2019 when EU countries will actually start enforcing it. Unofficially there is a change period so probably no one will really be touched by it in the first year.
Well, that is how much the dollars are worth then.
Bit of an aside here so sorry, but did any successful clones of Google Reader live longer than a week?

If so could someone point me towards it?
Let's say I live in the EU but use a VPN in another country can I circumvent this copyright law?
One has to be extremely naïve not to know what "ASMR creators" are actually selling. I don't think it's all that weird that they are being banned from PP for using it to sell indecent content.
Yeah, basically if you have a work visa, companies who pay for it know you're basically not gonna leave. That's what they bank on.
You should charge more :) Especially for your business plan -- any service targeted at enterprises should get you bare-minimum three figures of revenue per month, and you should look for a way to make it four or five, or have it scale up for large enterprises.

There are a few reasons for this:

1) The difference between $35 a month and $250 a month is a rounding error to most enterprises -- but for you, aggregated across all your business customers, it will make it much, much easier to grow and achieve profitability.

2) It's easy to lower your prices if you receive consistent feedback that people really want your product but think it's 30% too expensive or whatever. It's very difficult to raise your prices once people are locked in at a lower monthly rate (especially if the rate is an order of magnitude lower than what you end up really needing to charge).

3) Businesses are used to paying a lot of money for software (sometimes up to seven or eight figures annually). For large enterprises, there is a counterintuitive psychological factor: they don't trust something that costs $XX a month to reliably store their data and scale to their needs, and you'll actually close more customers at $XXX or $XXXX a month.

4) Selling to enterprises is very costly -- they will (try to) run you through procurement, legal reviews, security reviews, terms of service negotiations, and a litany of other things. Your price point needs to take that cost into account -- you simply can't make a profit from large enterprises if you have to spend a few thousand dollars of time/resources getting them closed, and then you have to make it up $35 at a time.

Also, I agree with the other comment saying you shouldn't offer a free plan, especially since your product is open source and they could self-host if they really wanted it. There's an inversion of value -- free users still expect you to support them, and users in free/cheap plans are often actually the noisiest for whatever reason. If I were you, I'd charge about $25/mo for the basic feature set (maybe without the branding and with more than 50 form submissions); $99/mo for the "premium" feature set; and "call me" for enterprises (hundreds to thousands a month depending on scale and commitment).