skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the fact that they're hiding the data and using it as a smoke-screen to do whatever the corporate side would like to do at the time or an excuse to play with whatever side project the head dev en vogue was playing with, regardless of what the userbase wants and needs to be 'dubious' from the start. So the world of difference is a non-starter in my book.

Frankly, there needs to be more community input, more opportunity to speak & act against wrongheadedness. It's part of why I prefer Pale Moon. If something is asinine, I can talk to the head dev and the team. They'll either show the community their sources for making a change or put it to a vote of the active users.
This makes sense... So IIUC, it's not clear whether government restrictions are a net positive or negative for the US economy: it helps against one source of IP theft, but hurts in the sense of lower global competitiveness due to higher manufacturing costs.

A very difficult trade-off I guess.
I dont use NoSQL that much, but I also dont use relational databases much either. most of my work is in pyspark / spark on top of s3.
Google’s China search engine drama
What specifically? Did they sell vaporware or something?
>>Then they went after the ones that promised big returns and didn't deliver. The SEC won again. That settled the issue of whether an ICO is a security. It is if it passes the Howey Test.[1]

As far as I know, they never won in court. Everything was settled out of court.

A case recently went to court and they lost a key argument:

https://twitter.com/msantoriesq/status/1068246911533092866?s...

Former securities lawyer Louis Cammarosano claimed back in July 2017 that 1. token sales are a threat to Silicon Valley and Wall Street, 2. that the SEC doesn't want to bring an enforcement action if their case is not ironclad because they fear that a court will disagree with their interpretation:

https://youtu.be/psqCMwhDxZo?t=12m29s
I thought distance was more tied to effective radiated power, installation, and frequency selections. Off the shelf 2.4 GHz 802.11ac gear can easily do 30+ mi.
Google should claw back bonuses and promotions involved in creating these services that get assassinated, to get people thinking more long-term. While I intensely dislike Google's product management, I feel like there might be a point in their favor that these developers or teams who are driven to only launch new stuff instead of maintaining and enhancing the old stuff are creating CS nightmares that can't be refactored, can't be extended, and the original developers may not even be found there anymore. In other words, to be fair to Google, this may be a problem of their own incentives.
"High temperature" is relative, they still have to be cryogenically cooled to temperatures around -100C. So no SMD superconductors yet.
> Yes but how do I know that you didn't swap the barcodes or you didn't fiddle with the GPS or the thermometer was working or a million other things?

Game theory. Without DLT you make more money by doing these things. With DLT it just becomes the cream skimming problem, where you're just paying money to shuffle assets around but you're actually losing money because the total value of all the assets is still the same.

E.g. if you replace Wagyu beef with flank steak, A) you can only do that once rather than infinite times, like you can currently, because each asset still needs to have been originated somewhere B) you now have to either sell Wagyu beef as flank steak or else sell it into an unregulated market as a potential lemon, where you'll take a huge price hit anyway.

So it certainly doesn't eliminate all fraud, but it eliminates the vast majority of fraud by A) ensuring you can only commit fraud at most once per genuine item produced B) vastly reducing the profitability of any fraud you do commit.

Keep in mind that once DLT is common place, what's a status symbol isn't going to be the watch itself or whatever, but rather it's going to be having your purchase of the watch recorded in the DLT. This means that even if you do defeat all the tamper proof mechanisms or whatever, the original item is going to be basically worthless.

Whether it's going to eliminate 99% of fraud or only 97.5% of fraud or whatever in each industry is difficult to say, but regardless of the exact number it's going to be high enough that everything not on the DLT is going to be both considered a potential lemon and also carry substantial legal risk, and as such will priced accordingly.
Florida College- Supports Jihad Muslim Professor Upholds Christian Ban
Yes, Talkyard has an online users list. It's a Q&A + HN like forum with chat hybrid oss software (both async and sync communication), https://www.talkyard.io, I'm developing it. But there's no mobile native app.
You misunderstood. You need to look Japanese. It doesn't matter if you actually are Japanese.

This video pokes some fun at it, taken to an extreme for comedic purpose of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLt5qSm9U80
Its a fucked up situation. It is not equitable at all. For some reason the ever increasing government functionary class gets more and more of their fellow citizens hard earned wages.
Sound Investing When Markets Are in Turmoil
It seems more likely to me that the ning account was compromised, but this is fun/interesting nonetheless.

For example, reading through his initial launch post is kind of fun:

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-sour...

> I've developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It's completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper: ...
Ask HN: What's the longest you spent on a personal project that you gave up on?
I just wasted five months on an animation that would have been a kind of cool way to animate in a dialog https://steganographyjr.com/s2/index.html. I finally gave up after the hundredth time of thinking all the bugs were worked out only to find new bugs in a browser that I thought worked. When I think of all the actual work I could have gotten done in that time I feel a sense of true loss. I don't know how I threw myself so hard at something so stupid.
Wow the conversation went from "these cars are highly desirable, and GM doesn't want to sell them" to "these cars are shit, but a Tesla". I don't understand Elon musk fanclub
I feel that Mozilla's misdirection is one very large issue encompassing many problems.
To be fair they did learn from this. They can now run defender in a sandbox to analyse files. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-sa...
4 Ways Docker Changed the Way Software Engineers Work in Past Half Decade
I wonder what would happen if they stumble upon Alexander Shulgin's research on phenetylamines and tryptamines.

What other most impactful and potentially revolutionary revelations await us there ...
We decided a couple decades ago that an 'immutable ledger' would indeed be useful. And you don't have to expend tremendous amounts of time an energy creating such a thing. See Hash Chain[1] at Wikipedia, and notice the second sentence.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_chain
Google Duo needs to bring long distance calling service if it is to replace Hangouts.
Several thousands out of the 500 million that stayed at Starwood properties are indeed that important.
What happens if you choose to walk?
For anyone who cares about this genre, I'll throw in strong recommendations for

- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

- Virginia

- SOMA with the monster interactions turned off (they don't bother me, but with interactions it's not strictly a narrative game)

and moderate recommendations for

- Dear Esther

- Ether One

- Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Check out Talkyard if you're interested in an async + sync hybrid that takes inspiration from Discourse, HN and Slack. https://www.talkyard.io, I'm developing it.
Just set it to equal the current number of h1b slots
That research on the biggest loser participants has since been disproven. Sorry can't pull up those studies easily by mobile do I'll try to update wheni can.
I’ll never forget being stuck for months until I learned “INSERT CARTRIDGE”. Great memories indeed :)
I still use the XMPP client, though, it never stopped working.
Leaving aside that minimum wage hardly applies to semiconductors - I don't think you can pull this off. Legislate wages down and you're risking a real revolt against your government. Paraphrasing Machiavelli, people would forgive just about anything else, even the death of family members, more easily. Even a democracy couldn't do this, they'd never get re-elected.

There are much easier ways to achieve the same end, like devaluation of your currency.
I went through OT for eye-hand coordination for several years. I wish I had the means to provide that level of accommodation or to successfully convince my schools to do so.
https://github.com/robotrovsky/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-Driver

It appears that the author has upstreamed his work and the module will be available with one of the next Linux Kernel Releases.
While $117/sq.ft. is the average cost nationwide, the average in Los Angeles City – where Cover operates – is a lot higher. In addition to that, Cover offers backyard homes, which means they're smaller than a full size home. They're typically between 300-900sq.ft. A lot of the costs of a home are the mechanical systems, kitchens, bathrooms – which you still need in a small space. So the smaller you go, the higher the cost/sq.ft. When you look at the numbers – you can build a 900sq.ft. Cover backyard home in Los Angeles for $300K. It's hard to even find a good apartment at that price in LA. Full disclosure - I'm the cofounder & CEO of Cover.
Gotta get that spaghett ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is exceedingly likely that if Satoshi was not Hal Finney, s/he has probably been somewhat active (under a non-Satoshi nym, obviously) this whole time.
I find it a bit odd that this entire article and every comment (so far) doesn't even mention HyperLedger? [0]

The open source private blockchain project championed by IBM, Intel, Cisco, etc...

It's powering CLSNet right now. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperledger

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/goldman-morgan-stanley-go-live-with...
Still need to compile once, but I use https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide#Implementi... and it saves plenty of time. Also, when I deploy a new box, I copy over the portage tree, so most of the packages are pre-built and ready to install into the chroot.
Cheap water, lax environmental regulations.
Ah, Skype for Business. Which can't actually call other Skype accounts, and requires a desktop executable if you want clients to be able to call you. Meaning it is neither "Skype" nor is it useful "for business".
> east Asian languages (which benefit the most) almost only use UTF-8

China, a major user of East Asian languages, uses GB2312, certainly not UTF-8.

UTF-8 assigns 3 bytes to Chinese characters so it can use the 2-byte space for European characters; that's not exactly a big selling point when you're using East Asian languages.
It indeed means that in Arabic and a bunch of near by languages.
I don't know where you work, but this seems like a weirdly racist thing to say.

Based on my experience, it's also complete bullshit.

I work at a chip company in the US. Our (chip engineering) workforce is probably about half White Americans. The other half are predominantly Indian, with significant numbers of other Asians. (It's also almost entirely male, because 2018.)

At my previous employer, also a chip company in the US, the workforce was even more heavily skewed to White Americans. Probably at least 70%.

I can point to a great number of very smart, hard-working, dedicated, and capable co-workers in every one of these racial groups.
I have the site archived and a domain quite similar. Maybe one weekend and some beer will breathe life back into it ;)
Google has actually been making improvements to their Google Voice client again, and it is looking descent. I'm thinking the issue is they don't have a Slack/MatterMost/Zulip/Discord/Matrix type of chat client and that is what is in style now. Truly Hangouts is not setup for Teams using ChatOps, nor managing multiple channels for Enterprises.
Unix -> unices, much like index -> indices.
And that's bad because?
Thats seems extremely naive given that Google is also the browser vendor and they greatly benefit from tracking, and last to adopt privacy features. I highly doubt users will be given an obvious choice to turn this off.
FWIW, the antidepressant effects of ketamine (7-14 days long) are unrelated to the hallucinogenic effects (45-60 minutes long) experienced at time of administration. You could be unconscious during the “trip” part and the antidepressant part would still do its thing.
How do we know what addresses are Satoshi's? I guess the genesis block reward address...
Aggregate Bitcoin Energy Consumption Declining with Price
Yes, what AMD did was basically give intel a dedicated GPU die with HBM which was then glued on the same package as the CPU.
MAD is still in effect?
Well, unless it's a generic device, one or more people have to extend an existing driver or write a new driver entirely for it. This doesn't happen magically, even for popular devices. So you should be asking Apple why they don't offer a Linux driver for their hardware.
You’re describing exactly what Google is doing with Gmail and Inbox.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but my projects are only tangentially related.
Ethereum core devs want to meet in closed session
I used riot.im as my primary IRC client (via its IRC bridge) from home, work, and on mobile, for a year or so. Unfortunately there were lots of issues and bugs, to the point where I couldn't trust that when I wrote someone a message they would get it, or vice versa, so I had to give up on it. I'm now a happy IRCCloud user.
This article provides more background information than the original story:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/mike_lynch_autonomy...

Earlier in the year the former CFO was convicted of fraud:
https://www.ft.com/content/49411f5e-4ccb-11e8-8a8e-22951a2d8...
F*&! impression management. Buy used clothing, shoes, and furniture. It takes "2,700 liters to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt".

I support my local cobbler, new soles on my shoes, look great, function great.
I support my local tailer by buying used clothing and getting tailored to fit me properly.
These are real makers, sure they don't use fancy 3D printers, but they are masters at their craft.
How so? If you are not disciplined, then you are gaining money by not using one.

On the other hand, my debit card is accepted anywhere where a credit card is.

(btw I'm in the EU, so I don't get the obsession with CC in the USA)
I had my doubts about that too, thanks for checking.
I remember random recruiters talking me into speaking with 4 blockchain companies for remote gigs. I had a hard time understanding the value proposition and asked the founders types of questions like, why is this knowledge base better than stack overflow or why does this rating system work better than other systems? It came down to answer the question because "blockchain blah blah". Not giving the actual value to the consumer. It was more touting what the technology allows rather than real value. The killer app of blockchain is crypto currency at this point IMO. Not much else but I'm rooting for Vitalik as that dude is a genius and I still feel like something amazing will come out of his work. I would guess if you are going to use blockchain for something, make it something that cannot function without it and is one of a kind in being a new thing that people will want, not a clone of an existing tech + blockchain.
I need to read Marx.
There is perhaps no better exposition of the "double freedom" - freedom from society's productive capacity and the products made therein, and freedom to sell one's labour - of most people in society than the example of Chinese people buying iPhones made in China from the U.S.
One good reason is that while corruption in india is high there isn’t a government effort to obtain IP from all foreign concerns as there is in China and Russia.
If they wanted to referrer to the original dialogue or images, it's easy to do without the source. ScummVM and other projects already have tools out there to extract all the game data from old Sierra games.
And by doing so crash bitcoin value since it is believed those early wallets with lots of coins are effectively destroyed.
Google's New Earbuds Translate Dozens of Languages in Real-Time
Do you really think the team that made, say, Google Talk, were the ones who wanted to kill it and push everyone to a different product? I don't know who made either one, but I would be shocked if the decision maker that pulled the plug had anything to do with the creation of the product. I, personally, don't like to kill my babies.

Clawing back bonuses for something out of the control of the engineers seems like a dystopian nightmare, and any company that tried it would, hopefully, die a fiery death after an exodus of talent to more reasonable employers.
FEMA: 2018 National Preparedness Report [pdf]
Where did ⊻ come from? The only symbol I ever learned for xor was ⊕. (Though I see that according to wikipedia, "It is symbolized by the prefix operator J and by the infix operators XOR, EOR, EXOR, ⊻, ⩒, ⩛, ⊕, ↮, and ≢.")
It's not immune from abuse. It's immune from abuse of the particular sort I describe.

I'm not so naive as to think that all problems are magically fixed by blockchain, but given the number of posts on HN and elsewhere who complain about the power of big tech companies and assume they're tampering with or misrepresenting data for their own profit, it seems like people consider this problem to be important.
If you're okay trusting another party, M:Tier builds updated versions of stable OpenBSD packages. See https://stable.mtier.org

This is generally the accepted solution if you don't want to follow Current.
Linux is superior in hardware support and the amount of software Linux can run, which it not trivial, but beyond that FreeBSD and Linux are about equal in performance and capabilities when it comes to being a server. Also I would say that containers(jails) on FreeBSD is better than containers on Linux in terms of security. FreeBSD also has a more robust COW filesystem(ZFS) than Linux. The Linux crowd will get btrfs or an equivalent filesystem battle tested in the future because they are smart, but ZFS is currently the more battle tested filesystem.

Also when Netflix's open connect team finally open sources TLS sendfile than mainline FreeBSD will have much better file serving performance than Linux does. The FreeBSD downstream fork running on open connect appliances was doing 100Gbps of TLS encrypted traffic last year and I believe are doing much higher now[1].

Finally for me when I first got into Unix and Unix like operating systems I found the huge amount of Linux distros to be hard when it came to documentation. Generic Unix commands were pretty much the same across distros, but each one had a different package manager and different filesystem layouts, and different ways of upgrading, etc. With FreeBSD you just look up FreeBSD directions and don't have to worry about differences between distros.

[1]: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an...
i never said it doesn't work well for end users.

I just question the intentions when they do a huge PR campaign for an internal project...then the leader of that project leaves to start his own company shortly after.

And no...more PR about heron is not going to convince me that 'it's a huge improvement over Kafka'. Kafka has massive adoption, and almost no Kafka users I've come across have expressed a burning desire for Heron or Pulsar.
In the past few years there have been some large storms that missed Tokyo by a fairly small distance. The people who operate this system say that it would have been over capacity if those storms had hit Tokyo directly.

It's an impressive system but there are definitely still storms large enough to overwhelm it. But, combined with the other flood defenses in the area, it has made flooding less common in all normal weather scenarios, which is a big win compared to the situation before it was built.
Satoshi is Kira. Mystery solved.
Why not just use a git repo for reviews? You can clone it and all that good stuff...

What, specifically, does a review system gain with The BlockChain?

And who pays for it? Blockchain’s aren’t cheap!
That is a blockchain, and provides the validation and history integrity that is core to (and where the name 'blockchain') comes from.
Is the title misleading? Is there really mid-Atlantic radar coverage? It looks more to be like some satellite IR imagery.
At present the game hasn't even received enough reviews to have an official review score.
iOS has some copy-pasted BSD code, but is probably the mainstream operating system that feels the least like {Free,Open,Net,Dragonfly}BSD. These feel even more "open-source" than Linux. Every one I have used installs the source code to the entire OS in /usr/src and make it very easy to change and recompile the system. On the BSDs I mentioned, if you don't understand how something works or you want to fix some bug, it's usually pretty easy to go find the source code, read it and learn how it works, and fix it. On most Linux-based OSs you would have to go figure out which random organization makes the component that has a bug (Linux project for the kernel, GNU for a lot of utilities, zillions of others for everything else), figure out how to download and build the source and install it into your distro (which is probably totally unsupported since your distro will expect to be using RPMs or DEBs rather than random stuff installed from tarballs...)

This is the most salient feature of the modern pc BSDs to me. It's impossible to describe how different it feels to be truly in control of your system and understand/change it however you want.
Yea that's what I thought.

This might have been made before modern NDAs and all the IP documents you handover when you join a tech shop today, or maybe Ken and Roberta W made some special deal with him since he was there really early on with the company?

Even if that's not the case, there's a good chance all the original contracts were lost too. I mean, it really all depends on if Activision (or whoever currently owns the original LSL/Sierra IP) finds out and decides to come after him.
One of the rationale behind trade wars.
Except that's not how it happened. The original 2000 bill permitted localities to provide 17 days of early voting and it turned out (not something that was known beforehand) that Blacks disproportionately voted during the first week, and especially the first weekend:

"The data also showed that black voters were more likely to make use of early voting — particularly the first seven days out of North Carolina's 17-day voting period. So lawmakers eliminated these seven days of voting. 'After receipt of this racial data, the General Assembly amended the bill to eliminate the first week of early voting, shortening the total early voting period from seventeen to ten days,' the court found."

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/29/the-s...

This isn't even one of those issues where one can employ whataboutism. The motivations and behaviors are express, unambiguous, and unilateral.

It's one thing to be concerned about voter fraud and fairness. But when one group selects solutions out of a large basket of potential solutions that not only happen to consistently disadvantage a particular group but are express in their motivations.... I mean, come on. How many of these Republican states have thought about improving ballot audits? Just today Paul Ryan made a comment about how California's voting rules were too susceptible to voter fraud, but they fail to mention that California actually has very robust auditing processes and continues to improve them. And, notably, the pro-immigrant camps aren't crying foul.