skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if being black was a choice you would be okay with businesses discriminating against black people unless they chose to be a different race?
People here are are completely missing the picture and focusing on whether or not the invention is completely original.

The message is, whether or not it is original (looks to be a no), is how he and his partner managed to succeed in launching the product and earning millions in revenue.

I take it that most people here aren't developing, launching, and marketing their own products and creating a company out of it, and don't really care about learning anything from the article.

People in general, but especially anonymous people on the internet are more interested in calling fraud, and telling you why you have no right to success.

I see the same thing on /r/entrepreneurs, MMA forums, YouTube comments, and here. Doesn't matter how hard you worked or how successful you are, even if you're the top fighter in the world who trained for a decade taking hundreds of blows to the head - people will make sideways excuses for themselves by shitting on you.

Meanwhile reality asserts itself and this guy and his partner has made millions by themselves and have established their own independence.

And the takeaway from HN is "My grandma used this 3 decades ago," and "I don't like the text and phrasing on his website."
>What if they register their ideology as a religion? Iirc it is a protected class in US so they cannot be banned due to it.

The thing about the law is that it doesn't operate like code. You can't just cast<Religion>(ideology) and expect it to work within the framework of law, because the law is (luckily) interpreted by people who expect it to be taken advantage of by the unscrupulous.

Otherwise, literally every corporation would already have registered themselves as a religion just to avoid paying taxes.
There already is a proposed technological solution to this: https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/stir-and-shaken-overview/

The FCC has recently "demanded" US telecoms to implement this [0], but at this point I don't believe there is actually a regulatory requirement to do so.

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-354933A1.pdf
Haha, fair enough! I was going to accuse you of working for the PRC but I don’t believe they’ve worked the proper use of “pansies” into their lexicon yet.
Largely because the opposition did exactly that: they started deplatforming and attempting to more coercively prevent right wing views from speaking. Deplatforming grew in popularity around 2013 or 2014. Students at Brown shut down Ray Kelly's speech in 2014 [1]. We did prevent these groups from going out into the sunlight. That gave them the chance to grow in the shadows.

Also, with regards to Trump, I largely see his election as happening despite his association with the alt right rather than because of it. It's a big liability not just for him, but the Republican party. Trump's biggest advantage wasn't anything to do with him, but the fact that Democrats had alienated manyc centrists in the leadup to the election, and fielded a candidate that lacked the enthusiasm to rally their base.

1. this is not to say that Ray Kelly is alt right. The fact that he got shut down despite not being nearly that extreme, though, is still demonstrative of my point.
I don't believe it's a bash-ism, I would guess it's GNU getopt defining the `-i` as only optionally requiring an argument, versus the built-in getopt that BSD is using:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/tree/sed/sed.c?h=v...

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/release/7.0.0/usr.bi...

So, while your interpretation of the shell splitting is correct, it's the different getopt declarations that cause this pain
That's got to be the best place in the world, imagine the solitude, the quietness and amazing scenery. Must have been an amazing experience.
The card would need to get deals with banks and dealers, which it wouldn't get. So they would need to create their own banks as well, and then they would need to construct all supporting services for those banks as well...

I think you realize that this isn't doable.
And tomorrow the line will be don't be Republican.

Republicans were banned IRL from a public parade in Portland, OR.
Got bitten by this one, I can't remember the specific details other than the bug was due to using YYYY in a system that parsed log lines.

The bug manifested itself around this time of the year, so not a great time to be called out to find billions of log lines are being rejected by the system!
sd – an intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)
I typed in the preface to Morphogenesis, and scanned the drawing inside the front cover by Alan Turing's mother of her son watching the daisies grow.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/Turing/Morphogenesis.txt

Hockey or Watching the Daisies Grow: https://i.imgur.com/AX6Bg9q.jpg

Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954. Morphogenesis / edited by P. T. Saunders. p. cm. -- (Collected works of A. M. Turing, Volume 3). Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 444 88486 6. 1. Plant morphogenesis. 2. Plant morphogenesis -- Mathematical models. 3. Phyllotaxis. 4. Phyllotaxis -- Mathematical models. (C) 1992 Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. All Rights Reserved.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=GX7NCgAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8

Watching the daisies grow: Turing and Biology

http://tokillamachine.co.uk/alan-turing/watching-the-daisies...
Just this week I read a story about Henry Worsley who died trying the same thing: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-white-dark.... After reading, I wonder if you have to a certain level of insanity for doing something like this.
Tangent.

I once met a guy who told be about a historical book of, as far as I can remember, 2 or 3 explorers who were friends (?) and were racing to explore Antarctica. Does anyone happen to know the name of said book? It's been my white whale.
Given the context, Patreon were hardly addressing hate speech in any well meaning or virtuous way. Your applause is not for a value based stance but for an ideological one
That citation is about putting people in concentration camps, not about free speech.

It is characteristic of the people now banned by Patreon - and their followers - to stylize themselves as martyrs. However, they are just unwelcome, like someone ranting loudly at a bar. There is nothing going on that threatens anyone's life.
There is a link in the article to another one about a Linaro development platform, it states that the chip can use 64GB.
What smaller company is out there competing with Cloudflare, or Partenon? There isn't, because there's a minimum size to enter those markets, and not enough scale to sustain niches.
"Right to refuse service to anyone" is a sign that was common once.
Anywhere from 0 to $90k/day.

Ok I guess we can assume that music earnings have a somewhat long tail, but hopefully you get my point - the maximum doesn't tell us much about the distribution.
> Things where a little bit different back then, don't you think? Do you believe nothing that's happened in the last 70 years (most notably nuclear weapons) changes this scenario at all?

The majority of the Cold War happened while both sides' superpowers had nukes.

In other words: nukes didn't change this scenario; they helped create it.

> Things where a little bit different back then, don't you think? Do you believe nothing that's happened in the last 70 years (most notably nuclear weapons) changes this scenario at all?

Guide? No. Inspire and/or remind? Why not.

To be fair, however, the PKD book that spawned that show, contained factual errors due to information that was declassified only after the book was written. Turns out, even if the US had been neutral in WW2, it's fairly certain the remaining Allies would have won regardless; and furthermore, in such a case it is possible the Soviets might've been so thoroughly weakened by the Japanese, that the former wouldn't have emerged as a superpower nor as the other side of the Cold War.

(And while we're on the topic of conjectures about counterfactual US neutrality: it is possible that US neutrality in WW1 would have averted the creation of the Nazi empire and WW2 with it.)
The main difference is that the us doesn’t lock up journalists for taking photos that don’t align with the official narrative.
I disagree, I'd argue that exactly 4 times a year, passive funds must sell, and must buy again. Contract expiration dates cause huge volumes of activity from so-called "passive" funds. The seconds, minutes, hours, and (occasionally) days that elapse between rolling out from current month to forward month contracts are all about the fund managers pain threshold. The exception to this rule is if your fund has governance specifying that rollovers have to happen ASAP(as in, as each <N> contracts are sold from the current month, <N> forward month contracts must be bought before repeating the process), which is not common.

edit: Sometimes I'm blinded by the part of "market" I operate within, which is the commodity futures market. I could be(and likely am) completely wrong when you apply this to the securities market, which I am less familiar with.
Let’s make it
Maybe it’s a book on Shackleton?
Hmm, maybe they're configured with different memory controllers? WikiChip and a couple others seem to say it's 16GiB, maybe that's 16GiB per DDR4 PHY.
Then why only start geoblocking after gdpr came into effect?
> most of the throwaway Electron applications won't have much life in them. But they'll suck the oxygen out of the room and kill everything else first, then fail.

I agree, and this is the other reason I dislike Electron apps. Not just because of the utter disregard for user's computing resources, but also because of the damage those apps do to their surrounding ecosystems. It's hard to compete against people who can secure money faster than you by cutting corners and dumping waste on everyone else.

It's yet another example of "worse is better" causing a setback in the industry.
Vancouver BC is the San Diego of Canada, being the furthest south, West Coast location in Canada.

San Diego has its prices propped up by this & the large amount of military forces stationed there (plus Qualcomm somewhat).

Vancouver seems to have quite a few branch offices from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft, plus homegrown companies like Telus and Absolute (maker of the LoJack and Computrace embedded malware on most laptops & desktops).
So if we knew the answer to our question (where to set it off) it would be easy to get the answer to the question (where that object is).

Well, yes. True. Not spectacularly informative though.
To think anyone can predict the market (good or bad) is foolish. You could easily flip your statement in support of crypto and it would be equally meaningless. Having participated in crypto since 2013, the only thing that I (or anyone else for that matter) knows is that _no one_ has a clue what they're talking about it.

It's pure speculation in both directions.

We could see BTC go sub $1k in Q1, or we could see it hit another ATH as those that got left out in 2017 FOMO in.

No one, not a single person, has any idea.
Because different filesystems have different features and xattrs is one which isn't implemented everywhere.

Another example of features not implemented everywhere is the cornucopia of file locking APIs which is why SQLite doesn't officially support being run on NFS.
Anyone else seeing 6 nytimes articles on the frontpage? Why not just redirect us to the nytimes at this point?
The fact that you believe what you wrote makes it painfully obvious you've never actually listened to any of what the "modern right" is saying and have no idea what message they are spreading, hate speech or not.

Perhaps you should look at your own faults before condemning others. Your misguided hard line belief makes you similar to the Puritans of old trying to suppress anti Christian heresy.

It's kind of ironic, actually.
Loop Quantum Gravity Theory Could Answer Fundamental Questions about Black Holes
Also kerp in mind that a 75% reduction in the net hashrate would result in congestion, and therefore higher transaction fees which would dampan the loss of mining power until the adjustment.
Right

https://rsf.org/en/news/us-weeklyaddress-june-11-17-journali...
Annalternative view: Corporation risk becoming ‘too big to fail’ and then get supported by the tax payer (if they aren’t already in their sector). Governments in most places are chosen by vote - that is where you get your choice.
>The most common measure of size of government

Well sure, if you define size of government as such. What about instead number of regulating agencies and their relative budgets? What about legislation and imprisonment?

I would argue that, at least by the classical conservative definition, small government is less about GDP and more about restriction of freedoms and invasion of privacy.

Not to imply that some degree of both may be necessary for a functioning society.
Ask HN: What skills to acquire in 2019?
I quit my software development job 4 months ago to take some time to travel, develop some ideas, and improve myself. I have a very flexible schedule, and I'm eager to make the most out of 2019.

What are some skills (technical or not) you think someone in my situation (or anyone else) should consider acquiring in 2019?
To an extent, yes. That can prevent monopolies, but it does not prevent oligopolies, and in this case those are just as dangerous. If you want to protect free speech, you need not just one or two, but probably hundreds of viable platforms. It's not obvious this is something the legal system can properly enforce.
Heh, if I had a dollar for every time I have encountered "what are you doing" while dealing with shell, or (worse!) Makefile, tomfoolery in open source projects, I'd be retired. So, in some sense you're right, but ultimately in the "but it doesn't matter" way because I'm not the only one writing shell, nor the only machine upon which things have to build.
I guess you can say it's less like a scheme and more like a meme.
I'm really confused, culturally we didn't really have freedom of speech the way is being described here (the freedom to be in private spaces and say disagreeable things without being ousted). Being bullied out of social circles, shunned for behaving in socially unacceptable ways (like women wearing pants, being gay, accepting interracial marriage) including speaking socially unacceptable things (like women are objects, I choose not to vaccinate my child) have always had consequences in the public space including being shunned broadly by friends, families, and business partners.
you could have put "beautiful" in quotes as well. These type of discussions are too subjective to have meaning to engineers. Every project has its guidelines and standards. This is the same problem with python, the language is trying to dictate too much.

If someone makes a bunch of oil paint pigments they are not supposed to dictate how the artist uses them.

Let the engineers and individual projects figure out how best to use the tools of the language. Any attempt to create coding standards across the board is an attempt to control others creations.

If its really good style you would not use the word "beautiful" you would use the word correct , no quotes. Engineers dont deal in vague ideas.
Great points,

I still think this coming despite all of the reasonable limitations you listed. Our society will desire some form of authenticity and I can imagine an alliance of companies coming together to provide that.
So conservatives are rediscovering anti-trust laws and concepts like natural monopolies then?
Shackletons Way is more of a 'leadership under adversity' book. IIRC there wasn't a mention of a race with others.
I am unable to edit my comment at this time, but reading it, I think it's very, very obvious from my language ("If I am permitted to send one of my recent talks[0] back with this message about our progress at NuCypher...") that I work at NuCypher. It's not like I mentioned it in passing; I mentioned it specifically to talk about my own experience.

And what are "NuCoin things"? What are you talking about? Do you even have a sense of the technology in this space at all? Or are you just pointing at things about which you've never heard and throwing a tantrum?

Your accusations with the lambos and things are just truly over-the-top. You are targeting the wrong people. We have consistently put out top-shelf high-level cryptographic tooling. We have vowed not to do a public sale until our network is functional in sufficient measure to be worth what we ask for it. And we have made good on that promise.

If you have specific suggestions about how to be more responsible than we have, please offer them and stop with the melodrama.
if it's an idle fileserver ATOM can be put into sleeping mode most of the time, so the power saving might not be as much comparing to ARM.

if it's active 24x7, then hard-drive overshadows both ATOM and ARM CPU in terms of drawing currents.

ATOM supports multiple native SATA ports and it is still hard for ARM to catch up. Marvell is the only ARM vendor does nice ARM+SATA but its chip is hard to find, plus it is used in low-end NAS devices while ATOM is in the mid-range, it's more for the cost-saving instead of power-saving though.

I was attracted by ARM lowest-power in the last, until I realized hard-drive is the one consumes most power and ARM does not do well with non-multimedia IO.
> ...you can change your mind and ideas but can't change your race

So we can ban people for/against atheism because it's an idea one could theoretically change their minds on?
You see a similar pattern every time Reddit bans a community. People wring their hands about free speech, how ideas should be "argued with, not silenced", how banning "controversial" subreddits will just be counterproductive in the long run, and how the community will suffer because the marketplace of ideas is stifled by censorship. The concerns may be worth discussing in good faith every time something like this happens, but reading what Sargon of Akkad actually said makes these concerns seem a little absurd in context. The pearl-clutching seems to get amplified and repeated by trolls who know that it represents a long-term defeat of them and their ideas.

If you want to talk about a "marketplace of ideas," this is just an example of how it works in practice. Alex Jones or users of /r/FatPeopleHate etc. are 100% legally allowed to spread their ideas in most countries and therefore still participate in this "marketplace". However, consumers themselves find certain actions and ideas repulsive and last year's young and vulnerable males have perhaps grown up a little, so websites are trying to read the market and get ahead of the curve before a smart competitor can pick up those consumers by advertising "we don't allow content like that on this platform, but you can find it on Patreon if you really want."

If the concerns about Patreon's censorship that we're seeing in this thread were really as valid as their prevalence should indicate then Reddit banning subs like /r/FatPeopleHate and /r/CoonTown might have led to Reddit's downfall a long time ago (like how very many redditors predicted), and Voat.co would be a flowering bastion of ideas and content from people drawn to its promise of unadulterated free speech. Instead Voat is a second-rate, hostile finge community while Reddit is only gaining prominence as a website. That doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.

The same thing would happen to any "alternative" Patreon, so for very many powerful members of this "anti-feminist"/"new right"/"Intellectual Dark Web" I think they might see this as writing on the wall for them and their entire movement. Maybe what they're afraid of in the long run is that their ideas simply don't stand up to scrutiny and without access to a sufficiently large mainstream community where the law of averages would budget them a steady stream of converts they would steadily lose members and just fizzle out on some forgotten corner of the internet.
Amen. “Cross-platform UI” has always meant “doesn’t work well.”
Discrimination and marginalization are actions. Patreon is a platform for media. Can you kindly show how the two are connected rather than leave us with 'This is total crap' ? You've made no effort to reply to the actual argument you called crap.
"Erik Demaine, the genius that plays for a living" https://youtu.be/g4GsDJwH2yA
Sure OTC services exist (I believe Coinbase has one) but I think the whales spending $10m on BTC might have an inkling about buy low and sell high – aka they are decidedly not buying during the period between August 2017 and today, which is exactly the period they would need to be buying at scale for all these startups to unload their disintegrating assets.
And now my reading list has 283 items.
Ideally gain skills that will weather the potential recession that should start mid-year? Not sure what those will be exactly, but perhaps others have an idea...
I'd rather read the current crop of NYT articles than some medium.com blogspam, or an announcement that yet another go-nowhere language that compiles to javascript has released a new minor version.
Not everyone's who's interested in decentralized trustless payment technology is a "shill".

You're dismissing innovation and tarring it with greed.
They exist, particularly as Kodi plugins.
Hard Work is Overrated
Agreed except each app won't need a copy of QtWebEngine on disk.
> In a language with about 50,000 characters, the creation of new characters is rare

The reason could be that both Unicode (used in China) and the Japanese JIS both represent characters as single codepoints rather than specifying them in terms of their components. If an encoding system specified Han components as their base, then new characters would be created all the time.
http://www.pilloledistoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hed...
This seems substantially less likely to be a problem since

(a) G-V-u is relatively rare compared to Y-m-d
(b) The choice-of-year problem is inherent to week-based dates, but not to month-based dates, since years are not week-aligned, so knowing the difference is table stakes for implementors of week-based timestamps

Now, "isoyear" seems like an awful name in various ways, not least of which is people seeing "iso" and assuming that this is what they really want (i.e. the same problem all over again)...
I have an issue with Patreon not following their stated policy, rather than with them not allowing everything.

Patreon, Youtube and Facebook all purport to be free and open platforms except for very well-defined exceptions like speech that endangers others.

People can and should hold them accountable to their own policies. If they want to become moderated sites that allow only a subset of content/ideas then by all means, they should be allowed to do so, but they should no longer be considered open platforms and their policies should outline what content they allow.

Walmart's policy was very clear and they actually followed it.
Freedom is the right to be wrong. If I can voice any opinion, as long as its correct, I'm enslaved.
The difference between food and waste is also obvious, still we bring the waste to the garbage can.

Also, nobody censors. A distributor decided not to distribute the stuff anymore.
If you want to repeat that in your neighboorhood in a smaller scale, there's https://www.openstreetcam.org/ (software open source, content CC-BY-SA) and https://www.mapillary.com/ (propietary afaik, content CC-BY-SA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_street_view_services
I had the same concern as you. But I figured it would take space travel to escape our past and our identities. But this AI does offer us alternatives until space travel becomes a reality.
And NYT is locked. They get so much traffic from HN but they don't let us read it. Maybe a deal needs to be negotiated similar to FB and WSJ deal so that HN referrers could read the article.