skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Master Switch" is a good book to read. If we apply the ideas from that book to the blockchain space, we'd expect large players to eventually dominate, as Apple,Amazon,Facebook,Google... dominate today. I.e. you might expect companies (such as the Consensys conglomerate that invests in the Ethereum ecosystem) to dominate if the space continues to grow. One possible counter to this line of thought is projects such as Ethereum, Augur, 0x, and Gnosis have non-profit foundations behind them and are working on protocols and APIs and thus do not have the same for-profit motive to grow large.

Wu also has a new book "The Curse of Bigness" that I recommend: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HRLQSLG/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
I didn't say they should avoid ads, I said (in effect) that they should avoid dark patterns.

Simply announce the intention before and with the update, be clear about it and how to truly/fully enable and disable it. Doesn't even have to be a popup.

This and many of their recent interactions have avoided that transparency and been very disengenuous with their communications before and after the fact.

When you start to think that you have to be sneaky to get ads in front of users, or to monetize at all then you are already thinking of it as 'us vs. the users' and that's quite a bad position to be in. Especially for a company who has been banking on the user goodwill market lately.

How they're going about this paints a very conflicting picture of Mozilla. The organization seems bipolar at best.
In the old days people despised the imprimatur and smuggled banned works in. Today?
that's what I figured - they had to be making some sort of kickback or referral fee or piece of that action.
I really like that site and the concise descriptions of the problem.
..it's also a little madding to read for too long as one starts to ask themselves "why did they do that" over and over again.
Bittorrent.
Personally I think that is a separate aspect - alienation from the bullshitness of the job at least in the functional sense. If someone is paid enough just having someone work one and a half hour a day for $15/hour paid 40 hours per hour could still save the company money if their boss is paid $100 hour - the $600 a week they pay would be less than the $750 a week that their boss would be getting paid to do it themselves.

A factory worker could make tons of widgets and not see any point because they are nine levels of abstraction deep from anything they can relate to. Similarly in WW2 many in Bletchly park worked completely devoid of context in what seemed to them literally pointless like repeatably rolling dice and writing the numbers down. It was important but they may feel alienated.

Meanwhile someone could be utterly convinced that their job as a paid entourage is vitally important when really they have no purpose but to signal a person's wealth and status. Their job is bullshit but they're not alienated.
The primary aim of the new democratic house is to continue in the same way under the same leadership as they have for the last 30 years. They're a conservative party who mainly want the same things as Republicans, but have somehow managed to bamboozle a whole new generation into thinking they're the party of civil rights, egalitarianism, labor, etc. They're about as interested in campaign and election reform as the Republicans.
One of the reasons why I love the bay area so much is that not only is it not hostile, it's actively supportive. Like people talk about their favorite tech companies the way people talk about football teams in other parts of the country.

Moving from Yolo County to Santa Clara county, for me, was going from a place where being what I am made me an outcast, to a place where being what I am made me... valued to an irrational degree. Like I am not saying the bay area is better for everyone, I've talked to some people who find it really unfriendly here, but... for someone like me? it was really amazing to go from being treated irrationally badly to being treated.. irrationally well.

I think that and the fact that this is home for so many people who grew up with parents in the tech industry is really the advantage the bay area has for tech industry work. I think everything else would follow, if you could move those things elsewhere. Getting good internet connectivity, even to a farm, really isn't that difficult or expensive, compared to the cost of a decent Engineer.
Bitcoin itself is a pretty good example of centralization caused by economies of scale. Most miners do not run a full node, instead they opt to use a centralized full node called a "pool" and only calculate hashes on behalf of that node with the hope that they end up getting paid.
This is quite a different mindset from the American mindset of individualism and meritocracy which works for some but not for many.

If I never had to worry about being bankrupted by medical bills or whether we could afford childcare, vacation time, etc it might make me more than willing to part with more money for taxes.

One of the primary reasons we want to make a high corporate salary is the security it provides and the comfortable life it facilitates. However, if you lose that job or never get one to begin with you miss out on all these essential benefits that should be available to everyone. Healthcare, childcare, leave, education should be available to all.
This is the same thing that makes lattes tasty. The microfoam affects the way flavors are perceived in part due to a textural difference which affects how flavors are absorbed.

Foams are a fascinating and not very well understood phase of matter. We only recently started developing mathematical models that can approximate predictions about some kinds of foams, but most of what we know about them just comes from observation. Foams are everywhere, and yet we know relatively little about them.
They already have that chance -- they can grab any existing PD work and go to town.
I suppose you could hitch your wagon to the Marshall Islands economy and see how that goes.
You stated the anti-copyright position but did not provide an argument.
It’s the latter, I think. SUVs are more profitable than cars.
I agree with you for the example with a named function P, but as Guido points out, filter predicates are typically simple expression which you don't want to create a named function for. So it would be say `filter(lambda x: x < 17, S)` versus `[x for x in S if x < 17]`. I think the second one is nicer even if the repeated x is ugly. Neither is great though. The comprehension syntax assumes filters are accompanied by maps. A filter without a map is a somewhat ugly special-case.

The real issue is the lack of a lambda syntax with a pythonic feel.
Changes the entire headline.
There are four I can think of off the top of my head:

1. We're pretty careless with VOCs and other chemicals (e.g. off-gassing new furniture in enclosed environments, or from heated teflon). Folks should open windows more often, plus it's a shame it's not more widely known how easy it is to get exposed to this.

2. There are flame retardant chemicals in just about all soft furniture in the US, which end up as dust particles and end up ingested/inhaled.

3. Phthalates in everything.

4. Glyphosate showing up in large quantities in food, particularly kids' cereal.
A related thing is contrast ratio of text on background. I try to test on at least a few computers/displays and when choosing between two almost equally subjectively good pick the one with higher contrast.
> Our results suggest replacing the flat style user interfaces with interfaces based on the design principles developed over decades of research and practice of HCI and usability engineering.

Apple should just revert HEAD to the iOS 6/OS X 10.6 branches and back-port any bug fixes. Almost all of the last near-decade of work in UIs has been a mistake.
I hope the term was the same.

The whole 4 square shenanigans is really annoying. Agreed on having your own financing lined up, I've never seen a case where a dealer could beat my credit union.

Also wait to mention your trade-in if you have one until after you have the rest of the terms nailed down(and ideally have a carmax quote before).
No I think they had piles of money and no better ideas where to stash it.
This is why I like about X11/Motif and mwm. We wrote an application in 1992 for HP/UX. Since then we ported to Red Hat Linux, GCC and 64 bit.

Most of the changes were bug fixes because we didn't read the C standard when we started.

The largest addition was code that serialize all the data structures so that the flat files could be moved between little endian and big endian machines.

It's still in production.
> I assume it's already fine to make characters with Superman-like powers but with another name

You may want to take a look at the outcome of National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc. https://bit.ly/2CHZt0i the courts have and will slap down clearly “ersatz Superman” characters.

edit: had to use a URL shortener because HN keeps mangling the Wikipedia URL
So is your position that all copyright should be eliminated? Or, that censorship is good but only for a limited amount of time? Or...?
Eh? I wasn't joking, and I've never seen "rogue" mis-spelled as "rouge".

The top post even put it in double quotes, e.g. "rouge". That makes it pretty clear it's a pun, in this case playing on rogue and red - and it works all the better because of the recent 'red danger', anti-Chinese sentiment that the powers that be are currently stirring up.
The 43 cases, 0% success article was about "43 solutions advanced in the international development sector" and not buying drugs etc.
>If your at home and have the option to sleep what I find works for me is lying flat on my back. Then relax, in sequence, your forehead, shoulders, upper arms, lower arms, fingers, chest, stomach, groin, upper legs, lower legs, toes. Take around 1 minute to relax your whole body. If you can't relax something tense it up, then release it.

This sounds like shavasana, a yoga asana (pose) normally done at the end of a yoga session, after various other yoga asanas (including active and passive) have been done - at least in Hatha Yoga.

>I've noticed recently that this is meditation, except without the sleep part.

About the rest of your comment, yes, it is similar to a meditation technique.

Interestingly, the Wikipedia article about shavasana:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana

says:

[ After so much time being bound to the actions of the body, the practitioner's awareness is hopefully turned inwards and purified of sensory distraction. Shavasana then becomes the beginning of deeper, meditative yogic practices. In a state of sensory withdrawal, it becomes easier to be aware of the breath and the state of the mind itself.

Though not the best position for prolonged meditative contemplation, Shavasana dulls the mind enough that the discernment necessary to achieve deeper meditative states becomes more difficult. This reclination can be a successful introductory practice for those practitioners who are not yet ready for formal meditation. ]
That works only when you have comprehensive coverage, but then it works really well, also because you'll avail yourself of the rental reimbursement that you have on your policy. But the OP wrote he drove an old beater car and most likely carried only liability coverage. They'll defend against claims from other parties then but won't assist you with your own claims.
A government exercising control over the media in its country is a very clear-cut violation of the value of free-speech.

The moral question is whether American companies should help foreign governments shut down free-speech. Just like google in China. And the consensus seems to be "No."
Youtube, Netflix, Amazon frequently take down content for countries. So it’s really nothing new. I mean, I don’t like the 15k takedowns listed in google’s annual report [0] for example. But it’s no longer newsworthy.

It’s entirely within companies’ ability to not comply but it means pulling out of the US or Saudi Arabia or whatever country is making demands.

In the 90s the dream of Sealand is that it would allow companies to not be forced to do stuff like take down content. That didn’t work out. Mostly because I think companies enjoy making more money the easier way.

[0] https://transparencyreport.google.com/government-removals/ov...
Agreed :) Negotiation is mostly about confidence and understanding what a fair price for everything is.

Or you can just be like Tesla/Amazon and display your fair price on your website for the user to take or leave :)
I studied and worked in parallel and really enjoyed the parallel work and grow my career in CS.

Still I would say, if you have the possibility/luxury to work less and finish your studies faster with more focus, I would go this route as in my opinion you will gain more time in the long run to focus on your next steps after studies.

If you are not overwhelmed by the 20-30 hour/week work/studies schedule and can keep up, then Inwould continue this way.

Either scenario should involve side projects.
> Exceptions to the rule of "operations on rational number produce rational numbers" are the square roots and the trigonometric/transcendental functions. For the later, I always express my opinion that if you find yourself doing trigonometry in the geometrical internals of your renderer, you are most probably doing things wrong

Is that because you can express a rotation (etc) as a matrix? If so, don't you need to be able to do the trigonometry exactly to create a correct rational matrix in the first place? What am i missing?

Or is it that you just don't need to do those sorts of operations at all inside the renderer?
Thank you for this "on site" description. Unfortunetely i think the same is happening in most modern countries in EU. And like you said - unpopular political decisions would result in political suicide (none of our current politicians want to do that - they only care about themselves thus even more populist ideas)

If you think about moving to Canada - think twice - it has its own issues. Its better to know them before moving there.

The recession is comming taking big leaps. Dotcoms colapse - i just hope it wont be the trigger - still need few years to buy a house and get myself into opsition where i dont have to worry.
> "Batman” (the idea, the concept) is still protected by trademark laws

Trademarks very explicitly do not protect concepts or ideas like you claim. Trademark only grants a monopoly on some limited and well-defined identifying design, such as a logo or brand name.
[a potential threat of] shareholders bringing suits makes to some extent up for such a requirement.
I feel like mystery meat navigation is just the new hotness, like it was before as people played with UI paradigms. The issue I see is that , as the examples in that blog point out, there is nothing conaitent to learn and apply later which is why we came back to more traditional UIs for a while.
I think it's much more entertaining than Samantha B myself.
Never heard it called turboing. It definitely works. When I bought my last car, it got lost in shipping and GM couldn't find it. I could tell them where it was because OnStar, but for whatever reason that never translated to success on them finding it themselves and getting it shipped along to me. So I sent an email to Mary Barra. I was under no illusion she would actually read it, but my wife used to have friends on the Wells Fargo Executive Response Team so I figured the odds were good GM had something similar. Yep! Couple hours later I got a call from a "Senior Account Representative" who knew everything about me, my car, where it was right now, and when I would see it on my doorstep, before she even called me. Magic! And she called back twice a day until the delivery actually took place. I don't recommend abusing the process, but it is very effective when things go off the normal rails.
That’s a bit different in the U.K. official parliament footage isn’t allowed to be used for satire or anything other than news reporting.

This was more of a copyright claim than censorship.

They could literarily have broadcast the same thing with muppets instead of the official footage and that would’ve been ok and a large part of wishes they had done just that.

“We wanted to show you footage from the House of Commons but due to a 1743 law we can’t so here it is reenacted with sock puppets...”

This would’ve been even better in my book.
- "Akshuyally there's no increase in crime when you move the reference point by including increasing population levels"

- "But why did you increase our population levels in the first place?"

- "You racist!"
Writing my network protocol in Rust
Medicare for All – How Can We Pay for It?
When Steamboat Willie enters the public domain, those aspects of the Mickey Mouse character that are in that film will also be in the public domain, so people will be able to use the Mickey Mouse character, as long as they don't use aspects of the character that were introduced in later (and so still copyright) works.

Something similar happened a few years ago with Sherlock Holmes [1]. The original Sherlock Holmes stories are public domain, and so the character can be used without the permission of the Conan Doyle estate. However, some of the later stories are still under copyright, so anything about the character which only appears in these later stories cannot be freely used.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sherlock-holmes-no...
> Do you know how many truck drivers we're going to need in 5-10 years for example?

As im working in automotive industry i can say to you: "less each year".. Companies thinking ahead will try to decrease employment of newer drivers and probably sack off some percent of current ones.
One very basic value proposition of decentralization for consumers in the context of the internet is offline usage. When you're in an airplane, that's when the need to have the capability at the end device becomes most obvious, and decentralization directly fulfills that need.
Do I hear 14?
'We are not robots': Amazon warehouse employees push to unionize
I'm always puzzled by these "Blah blah blah, written in Go" posts. Can't you write the same thing in any other language? Most of the time, isn't "Blah blah blah" just a Go clone of some tool written in another language anyway? Is Go feature-challenged, or nigh unto impossible to use, thus rendering "Blah blah blah, written in Go" newsworthy?

I'm sure this sounds sarcastic and to be fair, it is. Still, I really don't understand the need to constantly tout the fact that it is, indeed, possible to write things using Go. As a community, Hacker News doesn't seem to do this, at least not to the same extent, with any other language. However, if a new developer cracks open a Go book, it seems we have to have a "Hello, World! written in Go" article to go along with it. Does anyone else find that weird?
Just to be clear, the title is incorrect. The hole is in the Soyuz, not the ISS.
>scratching my head trying to think of any significant distributed and decentralised economic entities

The banking system? Sure it ends up a bit centralised but still most countries have their own ones.
In practice, men with big sticks dressed in blue coming and fucking up your day prevents this.
Python 2019 resource bundle
In Afghanistan, Jan. 1 is everyone’s birthday (2013)
i deny your whataboutism and counter with slippery slope!

but seriously, i don’t think it’s a big deal because

1) no personal data is shared up front

2) it's an experiment

3) you can turn it off/block it

4) some people might appreciate the discount

5) there’s a wide non-slippery gulf between complete ad blocking and complete tracking

6) mozilla might find a decent compromise between those extremes, which is sorely missing

7) i trust mozilla to course-correct if necessary, as they have in the past.

i don’t want ads everywhere either, and i applaud your principles, but please apply them to helping mozilla find non-ad and non-google revenue streams (assuming you’re not anti-revenue as well). please work through and put forth a rationale, not an emotional appeal, and refrain from condecscension.

n.b. - i've used firefox since it was called phoenix (v0.3).
The similarity goes deeper than that, given that git uses Merkle trees as does Bitcoin. There's hashing and in the typical use case there is even some distributed consensus process involved although often in git human decision making takes the place of an algorithm.

Some good discussion here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46192377/why-is-git-not-...

I think the water gets muddied by people who know very little and yet have an opinion as well as by people who know so much they can't see the forest for the trees (if you'll allow the pun).
Yep, I work for Carnext.com, a spinoff of LeasePlan and we are doing this. Its very satisfying how hard everyone works to streamline the whole process from start of order to delivery of the car.
I assumed this article was either or written by someone watching or reading about the episode. It seemed nearly impossible to not know about it in the internet world I inhabit. For what it's worth, I understood the genesis of that project to be in the series creator's mind, that it was then brought to Netflix who developed a system to accommodate the project.

From what I've read I imagine the CYOA conceit leads to the the same kind of tradeoffs relative to more linear storytelling as in the books. The story ends up serving the structure, and the necessity of generating more content leads to a decrease in attention paid to to the stor[y,ies] as a whole. And there's nothing exactly wrong with that, I guess, since many pieces of art are dominated by structure over content. In particular, the interactivity leads to better engagement with the viewer, and may be used to explore concepts such as free will. Or it can allow there creator or viewer to engage in solipsism. Or it can just be a cheap gimmick that gains attention (clicks, hours of user engagement, sales, etc.).
When that time comes I think it will be a good litmus test of where we stand in terms of corporations and the rule of law. I would be surprised if Disney didn't already have an army of lawyers, lobbyists, and fixers working on this.
I’ve been working a side project to build a more mobile friendly and scroll friendly version of NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day at http://lookupat.space

The most recent update hopefully makes it a lot more useable with including both attribution of the work and an explanation of what the picture is about. As always, there is a link to the original page, and I plan on adding sorting features soon.

I hope this helps more people get exposed to the beauty of outer space and the very awe inspiring things humans have done!
I created a flash version of Gem Tower Defense 11 years ago because I was attracted to the randomness of the gameplay. I recently release a free iOS version.

http://gemtowerdefense.com/
I am the maintainer of an application that will be 20 years old this year. It has never been completely rewritten. There have been two involved ports to a newer version of the framework it uses. It is cross-platform, and runs on Linux, Windows and macOS.

It is built on Qt, of course.

I wouldn't use a native macOS/OSX/nextStep api for anything more than the tiniest bit of integration; using Apple's native API's is crazy, for an application developer. Because of the crazy churn, because of the infinitesimal market share, because of the generally awful documention.
I love it. Champagne pairs well with shell fish and in particular with raw oysters. However, bad champagne (bubbly in general) or flat champagne is not very enjoyable. You don’t need to spend a lot but cheap stuff that’s too sweet (and isn’t Demi Sec) is pretty awful. There’s a true craft to making good bubbles.
Congrats on the weight loss! Happiness with friends and family is vastly undervalued.