skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice Bitcoin treats SHA-256 outputs as integers, and requires them to be under a certain limit, based on the current difficulty.

That way we can make small adjustments to the difficulty. If we actually used a rule like "this many zeros in hex", the difficulty bumps would have to be rather large.
The heterogeneous impact of Brexit on firms
> Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable.

Hey, feel free to invest your retirement savings in a company that doesn't grow profits year after year, I'm sure you'll do great!
I'm saying that regulating zoning in an of itself is something all cities do but they do it to wildly varying extents (e.g. SF vs. Houston) and it doesn't correlated as directly with population as you're saying it does. It's also possible to regulate something (i.e. have zoning rules) but still take a very hands-off approach.
What is Unix?
Delta Using Facial Recognition at Biometric Terminal in Atlanta
Genuine question. Is Peter Thiel known to be unethical?
Thank you! Try it again now it got a lot better :)

I think it was the fact that we've thought through the big questions of our business, as it were, and are able to show the work: how we arrived at the answers, what clues or experiments to run the validate that we have the right answer, and how we could change course if we didn't have the right answer.

They don't expect to have figured everything out -- after all that's what early stage startups are about. However, they expect you to have thought things through. Like there shouldn't be questions at the interview that are fundamentally new.

Finally, I think keeping composure under pressure helped.
There is also the association of Unions with Organized Crime in the US. In the early 20th century unions got into bed with, or were infiltrated by, organized criminal organizations and were used to extort other businesses and the government. The legacy of this is an image of corruption and “Union Thugs.” This image is used by management to make these potential issues seem like they are intended to line someone else’s pocket, thus making the idea of Union Dues and Strikes very unappealing.

To be clear, I’m generally pro-union as well, as long as the union rules/dues/etc are reasonable, just discussing where US anti-union attitudes might be coming from.
What is wrong with simply sending a confirmation link via email?
I don't use VR. However, I do have a scratch-built gaming PC, and other than having to buy a new part every couple years or so, I haven't had any maintenance issues with it.

Maybe VR is the problem in this instance?
The Oculus Quest: Under the Hood video really makes me think of a Nintendo Wii. Doesn't do much to sell what the games look like.
You still need to grow by more than the dividend or you will erode share price over time. Nobody invests $100 into a company so that a year from now it is $100, even if they get a couple $2.50 checks throughout the year on top of that.
Would it be more accurate to say: "Assymmetrical tariffs are more favorable than symmetrical tariffs, something practically every economist agrees on, for certain situations"?

Does there ever come a point where they should be normalized? From most of what I've read in mainstream news coverage, this topic seems to be considered not valid for discussion, as if the answer is self-evident (despite very few of the reporters, or readers, having any serious depth in the subject).
How bundler combines bors-ng with their own welcome bot
For me, the problem isn't so much with the nix language(it's very similar to haskell), but the lack of discoverability for docs of library. The manual is mostly incomplete and i often have to look at sources.

My most favourite thing is that i can just override the packages to compile and install a new version/extra configure flags of a package that's not yet upstream.
i work in one of the big 3 car companies. i deal with union employees on a regular basis. there's a reason why the american big 3's are not being able to compete the japanese and koreans. it takes more than an hour to undo a screw here, because the union employee is having a coffee/cigarette/....break, and i am not allowed to undo that screw because of the 'law'. i am for unions, but lack of accountability makes them do whatever they want and not do anything in time. i think i will write a blog post soon.

edit - also these are the same guys who call themselves patriots and proudly support trump.
As I read (forget the source) the purpose of insinuating they were gay had to do with convincing Russians they weren't military officers. Because apparently in Russian society it is unthinkable that a military officer would be gay, so if they convince Russian citizens they are gay that also convinces them that they can't be GRU officers.
Amazon Joins as Ground-Up Investor in Offsite Home Building
Does anyone know if they solved their "trust init script too much" problems?

Last time I checked, they were loading user-defined scripts right into PID 1, so a badly written script could bring down the whole system.

People blame systemd for pid 1 instability, but at least systemd crashes get fixed eventually. With Shepherd, any package on the system can cause PID 1 to crash, and this just seems to crazy for me.
Active Podcasts:

- Dan Carlin's Hardcore Histories & Hardcore History Addendum

- The Art of Manliness (i.e., everything I wish I knew as a teen, not specifically for men, mostly author interviews)

- History Extra Podcast (focussed on British history)

- Stoic Meditations

- The British History Podcast

- The Economist: Babbage (science news)

- Mike Duncan's Revolutions (deep dives on select revolutions since 1600)

- The World in Time / Lapham's Quarterly (great author interviews)

"Finished" podcasts:

- Mike Duncan's The History of Rome

- Lars Brownworth's Norman Centuries

- Lars Brownworth's 12 Byzantine Emperors

- Jamie Redfern's Hannibal and the Punic Wars

- Jamie Redfern's The History of Alexander the Great

- Tony Cocks' Binge Thinking History

- The Ancient World

- The History of the World in 100 Objects
NSCA Mosaic also made its way into IE. It's gone now, but as late as IE6, it was still referenced in the About dialogue.
I, Too, Left the Tech Industry (2015)
If they hit these points:

- light enough to wear for 8+ hours continuously

- not hot and no perspiring issues

- high enough resolution to read text comfortably and without eye strain

- VR gloves to simulate keyboard with haptic feedback and mouse/touchpad virtual device

- VR/AR mixed reality so that it can map close objects into view, like the coffee on your desk

- Work with external cameras to map bodies and put into VR, i.e conference calls / meetings with actual presence.

I think we'll start to see a shift and interestingly enough, none of these are difficult to do. I would say, give it 10 years and we'll probably be there.
pushed to deflect and cover it up.

I don't think deflection, cover-up, let alone trying to get western sympathy are at all the goals here.
Is anyone dynamically stitching in ads yet? Seems like a business waiting to happen, content creators follow some guidelines and use a specific tool to put their show together and then an ad distribution company distributes the podcast and pastes in targeted ads based upon the downloader's profile at download time.

As things are currently done, it seems like you have just incrementally more information than radio does, probably smaller body of listeners, and it's run very similar to radio. It's radio with downsides and fairly limited upside. A lot of the content doesn't have an age, there are 2 year old comedy podcasts that are still funny, splice in new ads and it's like syndicated TV instead of radio; plus that potentially lets them monetize their body of work and not just the newest stuff which might lead to better sustainability, their affiliate code doesn't work 16months later and then the marketer doesn't know how they got the lead and the podcasts doesn't get paid.. The pod catchers and players can provide a ton of analytical data too, no reason to not know if your ad was skipped or not. Just seems like a bit more technology is needed and it could really boom. Likewise, if you have this targeted ad stitching stuff working, you could easily have ad-free subscriptions and pay the content creator directly.

I cut our cord and basically stopped listening to radio because of the ads, tons of ads and ads that have little or no value to me. Lately, it kind of pains me to say it, but some of the targeted ads on Facebook and some other places are shockingly well targeted. Like they're hitting me up with things I'm actually interested in. I dislike being marketed to all the time but I hate these ads a lot less and I've actually bought some stuff because of it. It's pretty advanced, whereas podcasts still seem to be mostly doing it the old radio way with different distribution.
It is better now than it used to be. In the early days the effects they would add were so heavy handed. I used to feel like every 2-3 seconds some audio effect clip was playing.
Show HN: Sieknet – a dependency-free neural network library written in C
We were pretty impressed with ourselves when we replaced all of our corporate intranet sites created in FrontPage and Site Server with SharePoint.

Not really sure if justice was served at this point.
How Zinc Batteries Could Change Energy Storage
Oklahoma, Kansas and parts of Texas have tornados but those states have enough self-restraint to not regulate trailer parks out of existence.
Agreed. I've seen only a couple job postings over the years that say something like "no job hoppers". In fact, because of this much change I've been exposed to a lot more technologies/tools/architectures/etc than most people at my level of experience, which if anything has helped me in my ability to evaluate tech decisions, have interview discussions, etc.
I love it. It feels like I'm using Opera 12 again. 72 open tabs in my current window with 24 closed tabs.

What's even nicer is having tabs grouped by topics I've been looking at where I collapse most of them to save visual space in the tab tree.

Bookmark sync was the last thing I needed to switch away from Opera. It helps to have shared bookmarks when I run separate profiles for work and hobbies.
Most bigger websites and websites hosted in EU did have useless cookie warnings that they didn't need before the GDPR.
Race and low income are inextricably linked because of racist past policies, which fund schools vastly differently based on property values, which provides very different access to education, which provides very different access to opportunities in the future.

This particular commenter? I think they were 14 and just really stupid (edit: according to the Cupertino mayor, who was asked about a similar comment at 45:45 here [1]). So maybe not racist. But having spent enough time talking to adults who also talk like this, if you talk long enough the racist undertones become overtones. It's baked into our society, so though it's completely unacceptable to reveal these racist attitudes, the classist attitudes are slightly more acceptable.

It's definitely a dogwhistle to others, even if this particular commenter was not intentionally dogwhistling.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/gimme-shelter-the-califo...
The problem is what would happen in reality is that programmer B would do catch(Exception e) { log(e); continue; } somewhere, because otherwise it doesn't work or requires to change signatures to 20 methods, and all good intentions will die with it. Yes, I've seen libraries (and not just something a random kid put on github, ones which are very mainstream and recommended for their use case) with APIs just plain declaring "throws Exception" because who cares, right? We warned you we might throw exceptions, deal with it! But why go to libraries - in Java's own stdlib AutoCloseable.close() is declared "throws Exception"! Tell me again about nice exception hierarchy and versioning and stuff.

And of course writing "throws Exception" on every single test is hugely annoying. Yes, I do not want to handle exceptions in the tests, that's the whole point of the test!
How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source
It seems like YDNW is like a CMS that uses Google Drive as the "backend"/admin UI.

Personally, I see the benefits to using GDrive as the backend, but instead of having to host a server, I would rather be able to run a static site generator that exports my GDrive folder into some HTML that I can push to a free/cheap hosting provider. Is that something you've considered?

Static site generation would also obviate the concern that Google could "delete your blog" -- at worst, they could delete the source documents, but the published blog would be unaffected.
Which Siri does anyways.
That's what I do currently, I'm a full time product manager in a normal company, and I'm also working as a CTO at a startup, we are 3. Two people are working full time, and I only work part time (about 30h per week). I do that, because I like doing multilple things at the same time. But I think it is a very difficult life.

I can do that because I have no social life and everything is optimized so that I can work all the time. But I don't think I would recommend that to everyone.

Benefits are :

* You are never bored

* If one of your job annoys you, you can always balance with the other one

* You have a lot of money, because you have two salaries, but you also don't have the time to buy anything

* And you dont waste time on useless things

Disadvantages:

* No social life

* No time with familly

* No leisures

* Very tired all the time

Honestly having a startup is usually not only something you can focus on only the night, you need to answer clients during the day, you need to monitor everything all the time. But if you love working, this is definitely something that you can enjoy
I use either axel or lftp’s pget (works on SFTP) all the time. Being in Australia the 200-400ms latency means I frequently wont get full speed otherwise.
Those are definitely already a thing, unfortunately.

https://hackaday.com/tag/cell-site-simulator/

https://www.evilsocket.net/2016/03/31/how-to-build-your-own-...
All companies have the potential to do shady things. The majority of Google's changes to Chrome have benefited end-users, and not Hacker News goers. We live in a bubble here, and lately it's been an outrage bubble. There's little substance to any of it.

A recent example: Hackers hate the idea of removing "www". Why? Because it's less accurate and we love accuracy. We think about what happens to the DNS if the www isn't a CNAME for the root, and how this isn't technically accurate.

Real users don't care. The UI is cleaner and make important information like what domain they're actually on more pronounced. This may help reduce phishing attacks and make URLs more legible.

Integrating sync is the same way. I'm not surprised that hackers hate it, but end users will appreciate the convenience. Android had the feature for years already.

We need to get out of this bubble and stop assuming we're the core audience. It isn't evil to design for somebody that isn't us.
This is why I believe in Engineering and not the modern "Academia Science".

Totally corrupt, Ive seen it when I talked to professors about getting my PhD. You prove what they want proven.

One is going to have millions of customers using it, the other is going to have a few biased professors review the data.
That's especially funny that real passport data of high ranked security officer is available in leaked data and you can bribe you way into FSB's database of identity forms to get up to date info as well.

It's not same kind of investigation based on open info that bellingcat have done before.
Space-cleaner a node package
Gandi.net, located in France with strong privacy. And a good API (the new version)
It is of course entirely possible that coal/lead/nuclear/etc. provide way more benefit than the harm, too.
> Companies should only collect what they need, and only keep it for as long as they need it

For a public company that’s just not possible. They’d be trowing money out the window just for kicks. The only way we’ll ever get there is through law.
Yes, I agree with you. What was unclear about my comment?
How good is the concurrency support? a lot of schemes have poor support for it(basically roll your own via libev), except racket.
It's difficult to rewrite the digital past, and every undercover officer was a civilian at some previous point.

Essentially it's a defense in depth game. You can sever links between cover identities and real identities, but you can't erase real identities with history as easily. Pierce the obsfuscated link, browse through someone's normal digital life.

Starts to make plastic surgery look downright cheap.
KFC, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Nike, Adidas, Polo, Estée Lauder, Coach, Michael Kors, Armani, Chanel, Gucci, are all extremely popular.

Go to any department store in China and the first two floors (i.e. the prime spots) all feature foreign brands.
No one is pretty clearly a description of quantity, not a description of the people. I'm not sure why you would try to apply such an absurd and uncharitable interpretation to what I said, but if anything is toxic in this thread, it's that.
Anyone have a link to the explanation someone did to explain the 21-frame event callbacks in terms of a bus stop?

I thought it was pretty clever.
Today the primary driver for clinical systems interoperability is federal government regulations (Meaningful Use, HITECH Act, MACRA, etc) plus requirements from payers (insurers). Apple's support for HL7 FHIR has also been a positive influence in convincing more provider organizations to open up public APIs, but that's really for iPhone / iPad devices and not directly related to wearables.

EHR vendors are actively working to enhance their applications to cope with new data streams coming in from consumer wearables as well as connected home healthcare devices such as smart scales and blood pressure monitors.
I, along with two other co-founders, have bootstrapped a profitable SaaS startup over the last two years while we all three maintained our day jobs. We all have families but have put in nights/weekends to get it where it is. I just made the jump and quit my day job and the other two are just about to do the same.

In retrospect, it was a much safer way to start a business because it took much of the uncertainty out of the equation and eliminated the financial stress. It was possible for us because our startup is a SaaS business, not all businesses can be bootstrapped or built with only nights and weekend efforts. I often wished it would go faster and still think we could have been profitable a year earlier than we were but with time being our biggest constraint it didn't happen. That was the tradeoff we made for financial stability. You have to be OK with small successes and slow progress that evolves into a business/product over time rather than one massive sprint to get an MVP ready to ship in a couple weeks/months.
I don't rely on it, I leverage it because it's there. Of course I can build it and host it myself. But when compiling Chromium, prebuilt libs have value for quick iteration.
I learned PyQt(Python+Qt) and QML while making a stupid Linux app just for my own need [1]. QML is a very cool language for GUI development. Like ReactJS, QML is declarative and reactive but has a very clean syntax. Here is an example of a single-button app using QML:

import QtQuick 2.9
import QtQuick.Controls 1.3

ApplicationWindow {
title: "Example"
visible: true
width: 300
height: 300

Button {
text: "Button"
anchors.centerIn: parent
onClicked: console.log('Hello')
}
}

You can see how clean it is. The main idea of PyQt+QML is writing JS(QML) code for GUI frontend and Python for backend. The downside (for web dev) is QML has vanilla JS only: no HTML5 API, no DOM, no NodeJS API. So you cannot take advantage of npm packages.

So the decision tree is quite simple: If you don't want spend time on learning something other than HTML+CSS than go Electron, if you are willing to try much more native app then go Qt+QML.

[1]: https://github.com/kbumsik/VirtScreen
What I think will be an iPhone moment for VR is literally when we can drop our phones in a VR goggle that is socially acceptable.

I mean we convinced people that listening to music by sticking a speaker in their ear canals is healthy and safe. Why can't we do this for our eyes? The "Samsung Galaxy" moment will be when they start shipping disposable contact lenses with AR functionalities....but this requires a cross industry expertise and highly proprietary nanotech which Pentagon needs to fully test out before approving it for consumer usage, as with many of our major technological innovations owing to the military-defense complex.
Interesting, yeah I can see it. I bet they thought it would work from both angles. Westerners will feel sorry for exposing the gay tourists and Russians will feel convinced they can't be GRU officers.
I am a lawyer but I charge $600/hour for my services. I do not offer free consults or legal advice. (What I've offered so far, including this post, doesn't constitute legal advice, which is the application of law to the specific facts of a particular case. Speaking in generalities doesn't result in a professional relationship. )

CA provides an online form for your type of complaint:
https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-busine...

If you would prefer to call them directly it's best to call your local CA office (numbers available on their website) and they'll connect you to the appropriate person. (I recommend this as they respond to you immediately; the form can take several weeks.)

I'm guessing the AG wouldn't take up a complex legal criminal case involving tech if it looked like there was a good chance it could end up a civil matter. And so we're still in civil court.

I'm not sure why you think this. What you described sounds like fraud, which is pretty simple from a legal perspective to investigate and prosecute at the scale you described. And the State AG would never turn down a criminal case just because they could also go after them civilly, as the criminal case strengthens their hand in the civil case.
i have. in addition to not launching on startup, it seems to have this same issue. i like that in pentadactyl i can just start typing out the text of a link. or use a number. so im not a fan, but it can work if you insist on a major browser.
I'd recommend reading more about the 'information fiduciary' approach[1] promoted by Prof Jonathan Zittrain (and others) which I find to be among the most realistic steps in a better direction, as it offers a 'grand bargain' in the spirit of DCMA's 'safe harbor' for companies that choose to commit to putting consumers and their rights above maximizing profit.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/09/how-to-exercise-the-power-you-didnt-...
Wow check out the prices for the hardware. By "wow" I mean I can't afford this. Clearly not the Amarisoft stuff where it doesn't even list the price, preferring that people contact them apparently knowing that I can't afford it.

Are there any sub-US$500 hardware platforms for LTE play?
Is it possible to chain DNS servers or do multiple lookups for one request? For example, a dns server that specializes in malware/antivirus checks, and one that blocks ads etc?

I realize it's not performant, but it makes it hard to choose a dns provider when several have different features you like.
You mean a public Dns server with ad blocking?

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

Note that obviously since you are sharing all your dns requests with them, it's terrible for privacy... :'(
> I don't think deflection, cover-up, let alone trying to get western sympathy are at all the goals here.

Ok, I'll bite. What do you think the goals are?