skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In 1983, the year Project Athena began, it was still possible for students to receive a science or engineering degree from MIT without ever having touched a computer. That was despite digital computers having been on campus since 1947, when the Navy commissioned Whirlwind I, one of the world’s first real-time computers. (It was powered by vacuum tubes.) But at the time, computers were nearly all provided by research funds which restricted their use.

Pre-Athena, MIT students who needed to use computers could work on computing systems such as CTSS. These systems did have some drawbacks, though. For one thing, students often had to wait in line at all hours of the day to do their work. In 1969, the Institute moved from CTSS to MULTICS, which was supported primarily by research funds with limited access for educational purposes. It included a timeshare aspect which meant that if students went over their allotted time, they weren’t allowed to run any more programs until the timeshare refreshed.

“(Before Athena), there was no internet access or email, no way to share files, and no standard anything. There was no @mit.edu address,” says Earll Murman, the director of the latter half of the eight-year project. “Athena changed all of that.”"
I saw the Reddit thread and couldn't find any particularly 'fundamentalist' views in it, not to say that a fundamentalist belief in user freedom is wrong.
I use Apple Pay when I can. Apple provides only a token, not a CC number. All websites should enable the use of Apple Pay as well as mobile apps and in-store purchase terminals.

In short, use Apple Pay and not CCs whenever you can.

Since BA and other firms have been warned since 2015 of this sort of problem, it seems clear that they are not hiring experts in security such as Mandiant / Firefly or other similar firms.

https://www.fireeye.com/services.html
Matt Billman, the Co-founder of Netlify came up with the name to try to counteract the perceptions of non-technical users that Static Sites meant sites that didn't have any kind of dynamic functionality.

He came up with the name in his living room over beers.

Neat podcast episode about the etymology here - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...
In the south people use the expression “boy” in non-racial contexts all the time, you’re wrong to suspect he hasn’t seen it before. Have you ever spent time in the southeast, outside of Atlanta?

Your Roots reference is correct but it doesn’t prove your point.
There's no trail (or not an easy trail of evidence) to know for sure where cash payments went from and to, whereas blockchain provides that trail - you just need to figure out who owns or has claimed to own the wallet etc; having that as a resource would make conviction much easier, and magnitudes easier to find people involved. I don't know how pleading ignorance would hold up depending on the role you played in any illegal activities.
One of the nice 'features' of QR codes is they're instantly recognizable as QR codes due to the 3 registration marks, and so it's obvious you could pull out your phone and scan one (not that anyone does that).

JAB codes just look like a jumble of colored pixels -- it's not obvious it's encoded data, if you were to see this "in the wild".

It kind of misses another potential feature, which is registration marks could also establish a baseline for colors, which a reader/scanner could then use to compensate for differences in color reproduction (due to printing / screen settings / etc).
The statistic of .3% of desktop users on Linux is miles off. It's somewhere between 2% and 3%, or, by some measures, almost a third of the user base of Mac OS. Admittedly quite small, but not nothing.

https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp...
I think if the general economy cared about cryptocurrency the effects would have been felt already
Personally how I got over my social anxiety and awkwardness was by powering through. Realizing the things I thought I handled horrible didn't even blimp on peoples radar during or social interaction. Just being me was more then enough, and to stop trying to be the person people liked (not in a popular way, but in a don't want to make people uncomfortable long story). I would suggest you find one person and go out of your way every day to make small talk even if it is just seeing how there day is going. Once you get comfortable with that you be surprise how easy it is to approach others, and expand your social circle.

Also a side note even the most social person can be really antisocial. At one contract I had we had one guy lets call Joe that was the social butterfly would setup after work gatherings for the team and everyone seem to like. One day at lunch one of our co-workers was going through some bad stuff with his family, and Joe was pressing a joke on him that was getting him so upset that I had to hold back the co-worker from beating Joe. After lunch when I got Joe by himself I try to explain the situation, and why the joke wasn't consider funny and such in case it was just going over his head and he didn't realize what he was doing. Come to find out Joe understood, and did it on purposes. Joe actually disliked everyone on the team, and his way of blowing off steam was basically picking really random fights. You wouldn't think it from looking on the outside, but after learning that I start realizing all sorts of things.

Be polite, be considerate, don't take anything personal, don't over think it, and be yourself. I know easier said then done, but you got to go at it if you want change.
This doesn't seem like an inherent flaw in crypocurrencies as much as a feature of an entirely unregulated secondary market (BTC to USD).

Obvious counterpoint: a viable secondary market is a necessary step to adoption of a cryptocurrency.
Whilst I do agree, I don't see this as a problem so much as the increasing amounts of technology between the driver and the road. Car makers have borrowed styling cues off each other for decades (just look at Ford's definitely-not-Aston-Martin front grille), so the convergence was pretty inevitable. It's drive by consumer choice anyway; so long as people keep buying these designs, someone is going to think they're good and keep incrementing on them. Same reason every company is building SUVs, despite them being neither sporty or utilitarian; the design is popular, people keep buying it, and there's only so many designs you can cram on the market before things start to overlap.

Make no mistake, I love the aggressive angular styling of my 80s Supra and the non-threatening, friendly look of my Outback, my issue is with cars becoming computers on wheels and now having uplinks back to the manufacturer, able to collect data in real-time. This article only hints at the possibility Ford may be exploring, they haven't admitted they would do so, but the option is certainly there.
Vote selling also doesn't occur in that sentence. There's a reason we don't tear off a hash from a ballot right now to be given to voters, enabling them to verify later their hand counted ballot wasn't discarded or used to vote for somebody else, because it enables vote selling since now you have proof you voted for a candidate. Foreign superpowers could even automate this with a smart contract. Upload a signed txn proving you voted how they want you to and collect your $100 worth of coins. SuperPACs with hundreds of millions of advertising dollars would cancel ads and buy your vote.
The money raised is being used to build the product and hire talent. It isn't being used to enrich Brendan Eich personally. If you have evidence to the contrary please post it.
Considering the number of French generals who were sacked in 1914 after the start of the war [0] (one third of them), there was still a skill problem.

[0]https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limogeage#Liste_de_généraux_li...
How do you take someone seriously who says, "Mathematics, so useful a tool in the past, cannot describe this situation. The only way to describe this system is by using the system itself; there are no shortcuts. Math, philosophy, reason and order are inapplicable because they are only rules-based approximations of a chaotic state."

That's tantamount to saying that his theory is not based on data, logic, or even sound reasoning, and cannot be proven. Pretty much the definition of a crackpot theory. Of course, what he is actually admitting is that he doesn't understand and can't do the math.

Or how can you take someone seriously who says, "We’re stuck in a paradigm that doesn’t result in any valid fundamental predictions." This is so obviously false that the only possible explanation is that he is ignorant about the foundations of modern physics, what they are, how we got here, etc. The field is freaking loaded with predictions that have been proven.
Show HN: Free legally-valid timestamps for your intellectual property
I always considered Robert Silverberg and his 50's era optimistic SF to be the Golden Age; the Buck Rogers type.
Fun, but outputs unprintable or non-used characters and only functions on the BMP?
This is one of the best arguments for UBI. Imagine how much humanity would innovate in science, open source and other public gift economies if everyone didn’t have to worry how they will eat and pay rent next month.
I went to the sample page and you can generate one with up to 256 colors.
source control is the biggest problem with visual programming. i remember doing something we eclipse modelling tools which actually supported merging of models but you just lose so much going from languages that are supported by the existing text based eco-system to languages that are not.
There's this big wall between "buying illegally" and "buying anything". The only reason people are using it to buy things illegally is because they can't use normal methods like credit cards. It's strictly more annoying and higher friction to use than a credit card for non-illegal purposes.

It's kind of like those free speech platforms. If you're a free speech anything goes platform, but everyone who isn't saying terrible things isn't encountering any problems on Twitter, then you end up with only people saying terrible things on the free speech platform even if that wasn't the original purpose.

All this is to say, I think for Bitcoin or crypto to overtake credit cards, it has to provide massive benefits above and beyond credit cards to get people who have no problems with credit cards to switch to it. Right now, that's not the case.
That is an Apples-to-Oranges comparison. The Z-series already changes your mental model of what a computer is if you are not yet familiar with it. A Kubernetes cluster is not a computer, it is a cluster of computers.

The end result (computations being done) may be the same but the way you get there is radically different between those two setups and you're going to have to do a lot more work on your application on a cluster vs a very large computer with some awesome hardware capabilities thrown in. Not cheap, but for some applications well worth it.
I had some 1 on 1 leadership training years back and it was actually very effective - what was particularly horrific (from my perspective) was when I was videoed in one-on-one meetings with senior team leaders.

Definitely think that training helped me a lot and one small thing I still remember to do all the time is to always ask "What do you think?" when discussing things with people!
For a more concrete widget example: self-driving cars will have negative externalities on professional drivers. I'm not sure what definition of externalities includes climate change, but not job losses.

I also think it's a bit simplistic: what if we find that the carbon energy sector is not capturing all the value of what it provides and has positive externalities that outweigh the negatives at current levels?

What do you do about systems with non-linear effects like the climate?

I think we shouldn't try and seek a general operating principle from a known hard problem that we are failing to address and is pretty different from others we face.

We should have a carbon tax, because it is a useful tool in fighting this battle, not because it is the right tool for every issue.
Any chance this talk was recorded? I would love to watch it!
Our company develops a software for alarm receiving centers. In our software our customers can use a visual code editor http://pfau.de/images/beispiel002.gif to program their own processes for alarm reactions. That is actually our main selling point. They can control the user interaction (what to do, who to call, etc) in reaction to an alarm, access all the data to change process outcomes in response to data or user interaction and automate a lot of processes (filling forms, mailing reports and even automated invoices). They can even call external programs (on other computers) and fill and read databases to interact with other systems.
That generally works well as long as people use simple flows and standardise a lot. But as soon as people start to program complex flows you can really see who is a “programmer in disguise“ and who is “just a user thrown in way over his head”.
Lawyers also can't give illegal advice. No lawyer in the history of corporate lawyers has advised management to sexually harass employees yet here we are.
There is: PhotoDNA. The name sounds neutral, by design, but don’t let it fool you: unless your boss explicitly tells you this is your project now, I’d recommend you stay far away.

Well, I’m not sure it’s FOSS or anything like that: it’s maintained by the police (a weak assortment of the services that handle that in different countries) and it has a key feature: it’s a bloom/hash filter of sorts, i.e. you don’t need to open the image to make it work (because even opening the file would be illegal). It recognises photos similar to those already flagged (which are absolutely not free, open or available in any way for obvious reasons). A typical implementation is to move the flagged image in a dedicated folder with very strict access-control, keep really reliable traceability and send details to your local dedicated police team. Even access to the filters is tightly controlled too, because the wrong kind of people could use it to sift through a lot of images.

Because it’s a fairly standard tool for any image hosting company, I’m surprised Tumblr has been shamed. Either they messed up their integration, or they ignored police requests. It’s odd.
This is something I have been thinking about (and mindfully being unattached to either side). We know what it's like for society to go through an economic depression and how poverty effects developing countries, and I think it's pretty clear if we start wiping out the economy (which is the core of the problem besides over population) the save the planet, we will create one.

How many jobs exist/created from engineering, manufacturing, selling, marketing, transporting, and managing crap that we don't need? What would the world look like if we wiped out all of those jobs? How will developing countries be affected when their income from manufacturing these products is drastically reduced?

What do we have that replaces plastic for transporting and storing goods/food? Sand (silica?) is expected to become low in supply (e.g. for glass). How many trees would we have to cut down to replace plastic?

Part of me is wondering if the route we are currently taking is the best one, because change will happen gradually, giving us time to adapt. A sudden kick to the balls of our the global economy, on the other hand, would have an immediate, devastating impact; especially on developing countries.
I find it difficult to believe that a local identification card is a high bar to clear.

If you live in a country, surely you have some legal status there, which implies some sort of identification, no? How long would I be able to live in London without needing a local ID card?
Neural Network in general is indeed nonparametric because the number of weights are not something that is fixed in advance but learned from data. If they are considered fixed, for example for logistic regression then its considered parametric.
Specialised police units.
Simple....and well crafted ..but this is not limited to BTC and company. The same pattern happens in other markets , equity, bond and debts , fx , and the rest. But BTC was unique because one does not need to pass lengthy huddles before buying it unlike say buying Google stock if you live say in Libya .
> Javascript APIs Markup

In other words, every single page application ever built?
5 things to do when you have too many feature requests and you can’t decide
How+to+make+money+online+from+home.+Or+“how+to+internet+marketing”+
What's the capacity of this thing? Don't see it anywhere obvious.
Hey all,

I’d like to share a decentralized app I built a couple days ago as part of the #24hrstartup challenge on Product Hunt + Twitch.

Claimby helps you protect your intellectual property by creating a blockchain timestamped proof of existence for any file or piece of text. Basically, it generates a unique SHA-3 hash of your file & writes it to the Ethereum blockchain. While it isn't the same as filing a patent or copyright, it is still proof that you possessed that file or idea at that exact moment in time. This can be useful evidence in any type of intellectual property ownership dispute. As of recently, China and many U.S. states (Arizona, California, Ohio, Tennessee, Wyoming) have ruled blockchain timestamps as court-admissible evidence & valid e-signatures. Many of these ruling are recent (within the last 2 months), so it seemed like the perfect time to build this.

Hope you like it!
"Personally how I got over my social anxiety and awkwardness was by powering through."

I think these are areas that definitely get a lot easier with age.
The more restricted an item is, the more a few remaining loyalists will pay to obtain it. We've seen this play out a thousand times with drugs. I infer, then, that there's probably a small set of people making a mint by literally raping children to distribute the resulting images and videos.

And I still think enforcement of these laws should be absolutely draconian. This isn't a victimless crime: real lives are being absolutely destroyed. It's not like legalizing weed where suddenly you have a lot of people using it openly and responsibly. There is no acceptable degree of child rape that we can tolerate in society.

I'm 100% with you if we were talking about file sharing. I'm 100% opposed to you on this specific subject.
Except if said colors fade over time or change their hue due to UV exposure like most pigments used for printing.
Options are a pretty small part of CA income. Most of CA techie equity is in RSUs.
CA taxes capital gains if the gains are realized in CA, which happens unless the owner retires out of state before realzing. CA has close to the highest tax in the country, and it pro-rata taxes RSUs even if they vests after the earner leaves California.
Or an enterprise platform with actual enterprise customers: https://www.outsystems.com
The "Uber for X" mentality exists, but as OP admitted, it exists without the source code. Uber is not open-source, nor is Twitter etc. and yet, they still get cloned. So did Reddit, as an idea, but I don't think the availability of that code helped the clones much.
Proper IPL is done through switches on a front panel ;)
If cars are so crappy, why are people keeping them so much longer than they used to? https://wolfstreet.com/2018/08/21/average-age-of-cars-trucks...

We've got a 11 year old car. Not too long ago a car that age would be a broken down clunker and we'd be looking for an immediate replacement, now it's newer than average and running fine.
I have, and it is not that I want to view other people it is that I want to see what I do. Our brains are not good at saving the type of mondane day to day activitys that make up most of our days.

It is for my own consumption. So while I don't think it is unethical I am sure that some people will react negatively. Which is why is has to be discrete, also I don't want to think about the camera at all, that would negate it's purpose.

Its purpose is to give me objective information about my own life. Something that my brain can't serve me, it only gives subjective info.

There is also a diffrerance between video and audio and a snapshot every 20 minutes.
>Generally, I don't see a lot of these "snakes" out in the real world

You don't seem to understand why the term is "snake" in the first place. Of course you don't see them. They're hiding in the grass, and you're not going to notice them until you step on one. That doesn't mean the people around you aren't getting bit.
It's also a long-term maintenance challenge, especially when you have complex models.

Great for prototyping stuff fast, but hard to maintain in production. It was designed for people who aren't programmers to be rapidly productive especially when interfacing with hardware (in a lab environment). However, debugging complex topologies can be a real challenge.

We have Labview models that are being rewritten in conventional programming languages due to aforementioned challenges.
Resources:

1. The Ask A Manager Podcast and the audiobook on Audible.

2. Take a co-leadership course or read their book http://coleadership.com
This story pops up from time to time. There's an old Rooster Teeth video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmx0lYBTko
Daniel Gross is one of my role models. An all around brilliant guy!
This looks like it might need FDA approval.
There's nothing illegal about it, but depending on how you go about it, there may be plenty that's unethical about it.
I’m not disagreeing about the source of the plastic. I’m suggesting that talking about the source of the plastic without also discussing issues such as western oil and chemical companies operating in the regions this plastic is generated ignores fundamental issues such as the undermining of regulatory regimes by these same companies to keep costs down. CO2 has a similar story. India didn’t wake up and come up with this technology on their own. The infrastructure to produce this plastic is in place to supply more than just their demand. This is geopolitical and not purely technical.

Edit: if it was purely technical then god help us given Silicon Valley’s view on regulation.
Milk is not necessary in cake, chocolate or bread.
I think you are almost correct. A victim of racism or an advocate for a victim of racism is not being racist for calling out the racism. However, a person blaming racism without evidence and where it does not exist is indeed engaging in racism themselves, because it exposes their own notions of the group they are attacking. Calling out "racism" is not automatically a sainted argument above reproach. This is a general statement, not directed at the case in the article.
Have you ever spent time in the southeast, outside of Atlanta?

I was born and raised in South Carolina (a town called Moore), and actually went to college in Atlanta, and served in the military in Alabama and later Louisiana, and I recall quite vividly being aggressively called boy from everyone from high school disciplinarians to police officers.

So yes, I have spent considerable time in the southeast. I know quite well where I come from, what's your point?

If you want to sit here and quiz me about my lived experiences as a black man in the southern US, knock yourself out, I suspect most of the answers I give you aren't going to be what you think you want them to be.