skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay employees when their company is fined for security breaches? Damn, good thing I'm a software developer.
After this long, would DNA be retrievable in sufficient quality that you could do DNA analysis of this kind?
We are allowing users with Twilio credentials to sign up for free ( up to 6 months)
I think Google will continue to have a headlock on the browser market via the forced-inclusion of Chrome (and the other 20 non-removable apps of theirs they force on you) on most all Android devices -- like Microsoft once had with IE on Windows. Mobile is the market, most people don't even own desktop computers nowadays.
Yeah it seems obvious you accept from friends and minimize leverage in rivals. There's no good, only better.
Long-awaited battery that would cut electric vehicle costs may finally be close
>Compare how many important insights that changed the world were obtained on psychedelics to how many were obtained not on psychedelics

Those could simply be insights of a different nature.

Technical insights you need to sober to come up with. Artistic and philosophic insights can benefit from psychedelics (and have for millennia).
60 minutes had a segment last night on plastic reaching the most remotes parts of the ocean. Incredibly disheartening.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch...
PEP 8016 – The Steering Council Model
For those out of the loop like me, the Apache 2.0 license exceptions they are addding are:

> As an exception, if, as a result of your compiling your source code, portions of this Software are embedded into an Object form of such source code, you may redistribute such embedded portions in such Object form without complying with the conditions of Sections 4(a), 4(b) and 4(d) of the License.

> In addition, if you combine or link compiled forms of this Software with software that is licensed under the GPLv2 (“Combined Software”) and if a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the patent provision (Section 3), the indemnity provision (Section 9) or other Section of the License conflicts with the conditions of the GPLv2, you may retroactively and prospectively choose to deem waived or otherwise exclude such Section(s) of the License, but only in their entirety and only with respect to the Combined Software.
Thank you, i tried to fix typos but im sure some are left.
I dont think that there is a strong reason, I just wanted a modern lightweight validation library where rules are easy to write and closer to buisness rules
Taking a day off to think about strategy
Everything seems common sense except ethnography. An understanding that there are people who think differently than me is difficult for almost everyone.

Ethnography was created because mass marketing started to break down. It broke down because people are not the same.
> I find it pretty incredible that a researcher would reject these very general principles out of hand, simply because Russia's landmass is located at higher latitudes.

I suspect that the article has its own motives, based on the odd statement you noticed as well as this line:

>> In Russia, Valery Novoselov is mostly known for his studies of medical documents of historic persons such as Vladimir Lenin. His review of medical archives dedicated to shedding light on the real causes of death of this great Russian politician is ready

There are many phrases one might apply to Lenin, but 'great politician' isn't one which leaps readily to mind.
Show HN: VPNHome – 1-click, self-hosted OpenVPN deployment and management app
Not sure where you are getting your information, but it isn't so cut-and-dry. 2017 had a record number of homicides in Indianapolis and 2018 hasn't been better. That said, most other types of crime are down.

From October [1]

==The FBI reported that crime dropped 10 percent from 2016 to 2017 in Indianapolis and robbery was off by more than 12 percent.

IMPD statistics show robberies are down another 17 percent so far this year and burglaries are off 20 percent from last year.

But killings and aggravated assaults, often with guns, are up.==

[1] https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/01/overall-crime-down-as-murder...
The url shown in the header [0] doesn't exist:

> The requested URL /LICENSE.txt was not found on this server.

[0] https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt
My opinion as an outsider is that McKinsey is a business cult.

This sort of over-the-top ridiculous job-applicant screening only plays to my pre-existing biases.
Those factors were picked from the lifestyles of the long-lived in the Mediterranean countries in the first place.
A company regains the control and share of profit from the stock they buy back. The one remaining stock holder in that example would not hold 100% of profit or control of McDonalds, they would hold the same percentage of profit and control that their stock certificate was originally issued for.

Edit: Downvoted? Source:

> A buyback occurs when the issuing company pays shareholders the market value per share and re-absorbs that portion of its ownership that was previously distributed among public and private investors.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/why-would-co...
I may be confused. Owning a luxury automobile has nothing to do with expectations for a standard of living. In many parts of the world, a car is required, yes... but a Cadillac, Mercedes, or BMW? No.
I used to sit in my grade 12 English class working out polygon fill-and-shade routines on graph paper instead of whatever nonsense Shakespeare we were going through at the time.

Worked out really well for me - I'm employed well as a programmer, and I got to come to Shakespeare basically fresh when I was old enough to actually appreciate the work.
Just replace 'wsj' by 'fullwsj' in the URL to access the content.

EDIT : see below for what it actually does. :)
Yes. Then I could stop showering with Perrier.
http://llvm.org/foundation/relicensing/LICENSE.txt
==The website SafeWise recently found Indianapolis to be the 10th most dangerous city in the United States based on 2016 FBI crime statistics and population data.==

https://fox59.com/2018/08/14/100-homicides-put-indy-ahead-of...
Creating First ASP.NET Core 3.0 App with Visual Studio 2019 Preview
Spring Boot 1.5.x to 2.0.x Migration – first step of migration to Java 11
>just criticizing companies who do stock buybacks to artificially inflate their share price in a down market. My argument has nothing to do with profits or dividends or ownership, just share price.

There is nothing inherently wrong with performing stock buybacks, from a cashflow perspective it is equivalent of paying a dividend, in fact it can be prudent from a tax perspective. You did imply that it is a continuous process when you suggested:

> when the money runs out, the buybacks stop

Performing a stock buyback based off the proceeds of debt in a down market makes perfect sense actually because you can significantly reduce your cost of capital if you believe your future cashflow will be strong enough to continue making coupon payments.
You can issue debt at say 3.5% and buy out shares that require 7% cost of capital and as long as interest rate and credit risk don't drastically deteriorate significantly increase the value of your company from a simple capital markets operation.
A guy who's taken "any press is good press" to heart.
> He did it on the worst system with remote batch called the Wilbur system.

I think you mean WYLBUR.

I had the "opportunity" to work with WYLBUR once in 1993, and I remember it to this day. "the worst system with remote batch" dramatically understates how bad it was. Hearing this raises Knuth even higher in my estimation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR
DeepMind's AlphaZero and the Real World
Tumblr porn vanishes today
The kind of insight that we value is obviously not a state of mind. Let's not nitpick verbiage and risk missing the point.

Valuing different states of mind and interesting artwork is not the same as valuing insight. Just because psychedelics produce value does not mean the value is indicative of insight.
Quite right. Wouldn't it be possible to cut out the middle-man, have a Steam-like storefront producers could unload to? Games are now billion dollar affairs and they don't need to rely on the likes of Viacom or the like.
OP: This has been underway several years. Is there a recent turn of events that should be considered as we view this page?
Red Hat Takes on VMware, Nutanix for Hyperconverged Storage
Never say never again
I would look at uKanren, the smallest mini-kanren cousin. I like Bodil Stokke's [1] introduction, but if you are not afraid of lisp, you can read/re-implement the original(?) [2] paper :)

It is basically bunch of combinators for depth-first search?
So if you think "I kinda want to brute-force solution for these hard-coded constraints", you might instead want to create a simple logic-programming environment first :-)

Last time I played with these, I used it for implementing a toy cryptograhic protocol verification system for a term project. It have barely worked :D

A.f.a.i.k. type-checkers often use some sort of logic programming at their core.

[1] https://paperswelove.org/2015/video/bodil-stokke-%CE%BCkanre...
[2] http://webyrd.net/scheme-2013/papers/HemannMuKanren2013.pdf
Doesn't this just allow an end-run around the license by allowing you to distribute a program that embeds LLVM, whose only purpose is to be an LLVM wrapper to avoid those sections of the license?
From the article:

>Basilisk is primarily a reference application for development of the XUL platform it builds upon, and additionally a potential replacement for Firefox.
I'll try to make my point via a completely different avenue:

Would you use Mimix to utilize transclusion to edit the code of Mimix & to distribute it?
It seems no matter what stack I use these days (Kotlin/Java Spring-Boot, Node/Typescript) I end up using Flyway for the DB migrations.
This article talks about the fraudulent practices by the vendors.

But this title made me think of the fraudulent practices by the buyers. It's a well-known problem in China, a small percentage of scammers will always try to abuse the system to its knees, as a result, vendors are forced to end their favorable policies (e.g. RMA), effectively causing a Denial-of-Service of convenient and high-quality services to the majority, legitimate customers. It is not limited to vendors, customer, but also widespread in the public services and financial sector. I think this is called a "low-trust society".

I believe having a system based on trust can be a viable solution. Unfortunately, this type proposal has been intentionally scaled-up by the government, leads to the upcoming "social credit system", based on mass surveillance.

And I think nowadays this approach as a solution is a dead-end, any similar system proposed by a government or a corporation will eventually become a mass surveillance system. Even the """relatively""" harmless financial credit system seems to go out of control, and a more concerning issue is that, unlike the Anti-Encryption Bill, a trust-based system can be legitimate, and solves real, severe problems, making it harder to argue against mass surveillance systems in disguise of trust and credit.
The R ecosystem around cloud services and their APIs still seems immature, so it’s great to see folks working on packages in the space.

I’m not 100% sure if this is providing any new functionality not provided by existing cloudyr projects or is just wrapping them in a new API. I think either is fine, but it would help to better understand why you’d want to use flyio vs, say aws.s3 or the like.

Also, there are some aspects of the API that make me a little itchy. If I’m reading the examples correctly, it seems like flyio_set_datasource sets a global variable and then there are generic functions like list_files that do different things based on that global state?

That seems risky to me, and a more idiomatic approach to this would be to have a function that returns a handle object representing a Google Cloud or AWS service, then have generic functions take that handle and dispatch to appropriate methods.

Even then, namespacing in R isn’t really a thing, and I worry that really plain function names like list_files or export_file are likely to get clobbered by other packages using names like that. For packages like readr that are intended to actually replace large swaths of IO functions, that’s fine. But I’m not sure it makes sense for a more specialized package like this.

Despite that, I do appreciate you all creating and open sourcing this. Like I mentioned, any work on cloud packages is welcome from my perspective! Interested to see how this develops.
I don’t understand the focus specifically on water bottles when this comes up, seems like any drink bottle would be just as problematic. I understand we don’t all have pipes that bring Coca-Cola to our homes, but when you’re out and need something to drink that ship has sailed.
I know there is a lot of hate for Safari on HN ( Still don't understand why )

But I wish Microsoft worked with Apple and bring Safari / WebKit to Windows, and invest in Webkit instead.

( Blink and Webkit are now pretty much different Engine )
Pay walled links should not be allowed here.
And blam! They create civilization from what was essentially an animal pack.
I don't, I was just wondering how the invoices are sent since in some countries you might have legal requirements for invoices that the solutions you build upon might not support. In reading the description (albeit quickly) I did not understand if Stripe was sending the invoices or you were just using them for payment, generating invoices sending, or some 3rd way.

Which made it hard for me to figure out if there were some possible requirements issue.
Replied to the previous poster who postulated that containers were the new everywhere. They aren't and they won't be.

Serverless is an attractive prospect:
Provide a function and lvalues and get a result.

Adaptation:
You just need to break out everything to the point
where you can farm it to function(lvalue) = ret.
Perhaps everyone misheard when he said "you're full of t-shirts."
Why the down vote? I have tried it many times and I’m posting as a unsatisfied mosh user. When it works, it does very beautifully. but folks have VPN and weird routers at work that just don’t interact well with UDP. So sticking with SSH and tmux is way more reliable for me.
It's such a common question, they actually have a thread on this:

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=18801
Perhaps virtual DOM could be on the list as an innovation used in React and Vue: https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-internals.html
There are lots of typos and grammar errors on every page of the site. I would recommend getting those fixed, as this will cause you to lose credibility with potential customers.

Visually attractive site design though!
I've come to realize that debt (at the macro level) really doesn't matter at all in our system. In fact higher levels are better because it means people are doing business. It's a completely different thing than personal debt. The direct cause of the depth and breadth of the Great Depression was seeing money as a "thing" that actually exists and must be conserved, rather than the fed QE policies of Bernanke, which saved us during the Great Recession. If anyone can point to a place where a sovereign democracy with reserve currency status ever went bankrupt or suffered ill effects from too much debt, I'd like to see how that worked.
but there are far more failed predictions of crisis than failed predictions of prosperity and growth. A broken clock is right...
Ten pieces of friendly VC advice for when someone wants to buy your company
Podcast Interview with Aaron Feuer, Panorama  Education (YC S13)
That's funny. This is the best thing I've ever found on HN. Thank you.
Dollars and cents my man. I really only see this getting worse with IoT devices and more and more tracking. When they finally figured out a reliable way for direct brain to computer interface the human race may be in a dark place indeed.
Write Your First Web Scraper in Dart
Central Londoners to be subjected to facial recognition test this week
Ask HN: Is it possible and doable to make online income?
Hello HNers,

I am frustrated reading articles, watching videos on how to make passive or online income.
Is it possible? Is it doable
What do you think about it?Is
The thing is... One satellite isn't enough to get a position fix... You need at least 4 (or 3 if you want a very rough position fix and are happy to assume your altitude = ground level)

So effectively, this QZSS system provides 1 extra satellite over what GPS would normally have visible - which is helpful, but really just an incremental improvement.
Baptists and Bootleggers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
NCSA Collaborates with Illinois ACES to Identify Genes for Complex Traits
Well, the one thing I see on HN is that people are crazy about Firefox, and I see where they are coming from. And I agree too that Firefox separates itself from the rest by setting higher moral standards, but on the same hand Brave is a good browser, atleast on Ubuntu 16.04 Brave performs way better than Firefox. Using firefox has given me frozen screens quite a number of times, they really need to improve their resource management process. However, in the meantime we should not undermine the engineering effort being put into it.
The foundation is emailing contributors asking them to sign an agreement pertaining to the relicense.
Deploying MongoDB Using Docker
Ask HN: I'm being courted for a technical position at a startup, how to proceed?
Hi HN, I am being asked to be the main technical position at a startup. I do believe the idea is great and has legs, and I have the funds to not starve at this time.

At this moment I don't know if this is a co-founder position or not, so I would definitely be clarifying that. Any suggestions on how to broach the topic?

Aside from my impostor syndrome telling me I'll never be able to do what they are asking, what are some questions I should be asking? What are some things I should look out for?
Conditional Column Join in SQL – DEV Community ‍‍
California transit agencies have 21 years to build zero-emissions bus fleets
I think the value add is the various "for free" stuff that you get listed here: https://kubedb.com/docs/0.9.0/concepts/what-is-kubedb/overvi...
I love that story, although I think the takeaway needs to be slightly updated. It's quite possible that a sorted word count was easiest to do with bash and unix utilities in 1992. Now, it's easier and more comprehensible in your favorite scripting language (which I'm assuming isn't bash).

The real lesson is to program using the most powerful tools at your disposal.
My main question set for browsers these days is all privacy based:

1. Does this collect anything?

2. Does this prevent collection?

-- does it have a vpn option?
-- does it have ad blockers?
-- does it prevent tabs from talking to each other?
-- does it do something clever with cookies?
Passwords vs. SSH keys – what’s better for authentication?
What you say about places like Shenzhen is true - there's some highly specialist manufacturing that cannot be easily replicated elsewhere.

It seems we have contrasting experiences with regard to business conditions. The local business owners that I know have suffered as a direct result of Xi's policies which favor large enterprises. Most of them have cut staff. Then in the large enterprises, there's an increasing amount of government interference which impacts business.
PewDiePie printer hacker strikes again
Sounds like a mushroom bias in their prodecural algorithm.
China's push for electrification of transportation is admirable and worth praising.

But this article is vapid click bait with nothing backing up its headline. The manufacturing of cheap junk that doesn't meet safety or reliability standards and stealing IP to bypass research and development is hardly leaving established car companies in the dust.
The site is https://visalist.io/
To me, this is one way to show evidence of mastery of an engineering discipline: The ability to do it once and have it come out right. If you asked a modern software engineer who's used to fast modern tools, they'd tell you this was impossible. Everyone's pretty much settled into this kind of workflow:

Write -> Compile -> Fix Compile Errors -> Compile -> Fix Compile Errors -> Compile -> Fix Compile Errors -> Compile -> Run -> Fix Runtime Bugs -> Compile -> Run -> Fix Runtime Bugs -> Compile -> Run -> Fix Runtime Bugs -> Compile -> Run -> Fix Runtime Bugs -> Compile -> Run -> Fix Runtime Bugs -> Git Push and Pray

With maybe a few "Write Unit Tests" steps intermixed. Totally different mentality. Is it really a faster or more productive way to work?
AdoraHack: Functions in Kotlin
Australia's encryption laws are 'highly unlikely' to dragoon employees in secret
Knuth was asked if this was true by R Munroe (xkcd) on a talk on campus at Google, and Knuth denied it.
My wife had call quality issues. Google Fi deactivated her phone and we reactivated. It seems better with a few test calls, but we'll find out with weekday use.
300 million years ago Earth had a problem with cellulose. Plants produced a lot, no one consumed it, it accumulated for millennia and later became what we call fossil fuel.

Then modern fungi evolved, and the problem went away. Just like plastic, cellulose can provide energy when oxidized, it’s just tricky to break but that’s what modern fungi do.

I wonder can we genetically engineer a bacteria or fungi that will consume that plastic? Ideally, before we have drunk the water from these plastic bottles.
I agree with you. Modern Money Theorists agree too. America can not go bankrupt because America prints its own currency. The very idea of America going bankrupt is nonsensical.

Macro debt means nothing in the age of fiat currencies.
You joke.

But there are people that buy tankers of Evian and other 'high end' water to use through their plumbing.

It wouldn't surprise me if they run it all through a water softener too.
I wonder whose circles are those, most non-technical people I know doesn't care less about evil, good or whatever.
FWIW Knuth himself doesn't think this happened nor does he sound like the kind of person (to me) who would try to cut someone down like that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24&t=26m
Data and Page Content Refresh Patterns in Angular
Overall corporate debt levels are at record highs, but the bigger problem is highlighted in the article -- the quality of debt has degraded substantially. There are a ton of companies that have been skating along at BBB/BBB- (in S&P parlance) on the brink of junk bond status. If they get downgraded mutual funds have to dump them. This creates downward pressure on debt and makes it harder for those companies to refinance. In turn, this pushes up credit spreads. This is a viscous cycle and it's going to be extremely nasty for anyone holding either high yield debt or equities. That's the debt bomb that should worry investors.

Since we're on HN, this will also make it far harder for entrepreneurs to raise money since there's now a ton of competing high yield debt opportunities for investors to take advantage of. If anyone wants to dump a few million into a really awesome startup before that happens, let me know!
You're better off just not posting if the first infantile misfiring of your brain is what you decide is fit to type into the comment box.
Seven Remarkable Takeaways from Massive Kubernetes Conference
Astronomers Get Their Best Look yet at a Supernova Blowing Up
That's usually caused by a spark or something though, not just air movement. I understand why fire/lava ignites the dust, but not why the wind does.
Will the Blockchain Deliver a Decisive Blow to Financial Fraud?
Now I would like to know more: why XUL? How is it different than the last time?

I think that this site is not yet ready for wider consumption.