skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want something quick and easy to spin up, just set up an LLC in your state of choice. Set up an accompanying business bank account(if you will be processing high volumes of transactions look into the per transaction fee structure). If you will need to collect tax in your state, you must of course, file with your comptroller.

If you have multiple members of your LLC, set up an operating agreement. Set up a Federal Tax Id, i.e. the Social Security Number for business, aka EIN. Consider if you want business insurance.

I think other things can fall into place. Start recording books from day 1. Easier than it sounds, and some of those things are optional. There are a lot of 10 step guides online. You can always change structure later, LLC -> S corp, or C-Corp.

Make it as frictionless as possible for yourself now to keep momentum.
I think the poster replying to your comment has validated your point unintentionally.
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> If we don't want to live in a world where companies pull this sort of shit on _every_ user to the point that the privacy-conscious among us have no choice, we want fewer people around us to be okay with it.

So, people who fit that "if" clause. I assume it's a significant number of people here.
Go shouldn't be compared to BEAM at all. It doesn't have processes. It spawns a lightweight thread (goroutine) on each request.
Does it matter?

It's their platform, they can choose the rules behind app distribution. They chose to allow it through methods controlled by themselves. If a third party wants to distribute apps, then they have to abide by the terms set by Apple.
‘The Hacker News Frontpage Protects Itself’
Scientists give a robot self image to learn faster
Facebook hires prominent privacy managers ahead of end-to-end encryption rollout
True. lol People have been saying just wait for electric Toyota or BMW and it still hasn't happened yet.
I am really impressed by the responsive layout -- the UI adapts to different window sizes! Nice touch :)

Some favorite modules to check out. First link is link to modarchive site, second link is direct link to Bassoon Tracker with the module pre-populated so you can listen instantly! So handy!

Matrix Cubed - Fluff https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

DeusEX - Joy https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Sybaris - Welcome to the Gods https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Mindwalker - Evoke '98 https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

xerxes - hesse's sovesang https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

"me and kenet" (unsure of artist) - Beautiful or not? https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

drax - repeating patterns https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Tim Wright - Agony (intro) original version https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu... | https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Unfortunate some mega favorites like Skaven's "The Alchemist"[0] and Vincenzo's remix of 2nd Reality[1] are Impulse Tracker modules and won't play in Bassoon Tracker. Maybe .it support will be added? :)

[0] https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
[1] https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
>There is no apparent “fundamental theorem” of AI, (except maybe Marvin Minsky’s ”The most efficient way to solve a problem is to already know how to solve it.”

Personally, I consider Richard Feynman's method (1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write down the solution.) to be just as fundamental.

The reason being that steps 1 and 3 are actually very important. Step 1 asks that you model the problem you're solving, otherwise you might solve some other problem instead. Step 3 asks that you model the domain of solutions. This helps ensure that it is possible for solutions to even exist.

One of the big problems with unresolved and open-ended philosophical quandaries is that people never specify what they expect a solution to look like. Like if you don't expect a solution to look like a string of plain words, and instead expect it to look like some mystical revelation, then you can't honestly expect to get an intelligent resolution communicated to you.

I'd also say it is integral to understanding the difference between simply solving a problem and intentionally solving a problem.
I stopped using Windows 10 – 8 Major Reasons
As a math major, this makes me giddy. It's like a family reunion, all my old friends in one place.
In particular, this is a way for companies to skirt the law, specifically the Doctrine of First Sale. By never letting consumers actually purchase the product they aren't afforded many of the legal protections that were hard fought for on physical goods.
Disable ‘always-listening’ on your smart home assistant
OP:"Non-dualism doesn't make any sense to the rational mind"

Well, someone seeing consciousness arising from matter (materialist monism/non-dual) isn't impelled to say anything like that. I mean, I'd view the forms of consciousness the OP describes (acid, meditation, hypnosis) as a being experiences where immediate language-generating mediation is suspended, "direct experience" but one shouldn't confuse those sort of sensations with an experience being beyond relation analysis. There are lots experiences where you can't think about what you're doing at the point you are doing it but you can certainly think before and after.
The Professional Pilots Rumor Network (PPRUNE) is a pretty awesome forum full of aviation professionals discussing aviation at a high level, I always go there for aviation news commentary. The thread on this isn't very extensive yet, but has some interesting commentary https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/617426-ana-787-engines-s...
superbad still exists.

http://superbad.com

but world new york /memepool/ suck/ are all memories. Its hard to keep up the content creation.
I'd venture to say that stunningly few people actually actively thought "I think I'll go and ask someone to mentor me" and then went and did it because of all the reasons you say and more.

I would imagine most mentorship is of the incidental kind that just happens as you work with colleagues and some of them teach you things that take you to places you wouldn't necessarily have gotten to on your own. You may in turn do the same for others without realising it.

Definitely working alongside good developers naturally benefits you greatly.
Theoretically base64+gzip and gzip should be almost equivalent. For more aggressive compressors they should be equivalent.
This was sort of accurate for me. I grew up in Denver, moved to the plains as a teenager, then to Seattle after high school. It showed me as Reno/Santa Rosa/Stockton.

There were a few questions were after reading the other answers, I realized that I would have said it differently 20 years ago, but I now say it like the locals.
The whole market is up due to today's announcement of interest rates remaining the same, not any unique announcement to Facebook.
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Apple’s FaceTime Bug Will Be Investigated by New York’s Attorney General
You don’t seem to have an understanding of the concept of ‘slavery’.

It’s a word that is used willy nilly these days.

Collectivism by coercion is likely more apt to be considered slavery than free market capitalism
That's an amusing one, I like English science fiction.
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To date. But more and more manufacturers are biting at their heels for the chance. With better and better cars.
Wisconsin deserves this for its incredibly poor voting habits.
> They developed writing, as did we. But their writing soon began to no longer just mean what it said. For them, the writing was what it said and their words were what they meant. The flow of the language froze and they began to stack individual concepts one onto the other like stones. Their language lost its spirit. They were still very clever, but without spirit. They built the tower of their words higher and higher and converted everything magical, which they feared, into dead material, and filled it with new, spiritless life. But they completely control this undead material.

-- Albion ( https://i.imgur.com/8GHPl6S.png )

> Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word, let us say, if I say "I love you," the word is meant to be an indication of the reality which exists within myself, the power of my loving. The word "love" is meant to be a symbol of the fact love, but as soon as it is spoken it tends to assume a life of its own, it becomes a reality. I am under the illusion that the saying of the word is the equivalent of the experience, and soon I say the word and feel nothing, except the thought of love which the word expresses. The alienation of language shows the whole complexity of alienation. Language is one of the most precious human achievements; to avoid alienation by not speaking would be foolish -- yet one must be always aware of the danger of the spoken word, that it threatens to substitute itself for the living experience.

-- Erich Fromm ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/fromm/works/1961/man/ )
Bitsy: a little editor for little games or worlds
Google offers the verbatim mode (search for exact words of phrases) which you can activate in tools or by adding the tbs=li:1 parameter to the URL.
I kinda wish I could run a copy of Winamp 3 on my *nix box at home - but that ain't gonna happen...

/well - maybe with wine
Great to see this product evolve since v1.0. And a terrific tool for teaching game design and programming.
All of this crap is why I'm now a fan of Zigbee. If I have to set up a new network anyway it might as well be better suited for the iot.

A down side is that there's no nicely integrated module like the ESP8266 available for diy.
Aren't like 99.9% of people always leaving something on the table?

At least that's my gut feeling...
well think of the other possibly bigger perk: they get your business and loyalty again in the future at a discount since the card was given as an enticing amount (e.g. "$50" but after markup is only really $28 to the business).
No, but it's worse to do so while you say you're "making the world a better place"
There's an information asymmetry that some multiplayer games have exploited to solve this sort of problem (namely, pit all the cheaters and troublemakers against each other), but I think it's that lack of global information that lets it work.

In other forums I think it's easier to detect that you've been shadow banned, and that the reason only certain people are responding to you is that they're the only ones who can see your rants.
The internet IS fun and weird

there are tons of niche communities doing crazy stuff

http://reddit.com/r/reptiliandude
http://reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle
http://reddit.com/r/sarahai
http://reddit.com/r/echerdex
http://reddit.com/r/tao_of_calculus
>they often would expect me to have read certain textbooks or know C before they would send me the link on standing up a LAMP stack

My other favorite response was when you would google a question, then you find a forum where someone says to google the question
Not quite unique - Reddit’s mobile experience is similarly full of misleading and redundant prompts to sign up.
Wait, but Crossbeam does have a GC inside it.
I use it on an rPi and LOVE it. The system will boot quickly, and unless I `ibu`, I just reboot to clear my changes.

I use the rPi for dnscrypt-proxy2.
I love the idea of it but as a company why tf would I ever go " yea ill pay for something i get for free now " when if i need their code based maintained i just pay my existing developers.
I just answered OP's question.
I think the better analogy would be the origins of the coffee house.

https://ineedcoffee.com/the-coffee-house-a-history/

They rapidly became a place where people from all walks of life could, and did, come for lively discussion. And their rapid increase in popularity caused them to collapse from their own success.

Early access to the internet was, by definition, limited to people who were on academic or military networks. But by the time BBS culture came about, it was the thrill of finding like-minded folks from wherever they might be- it was not a culture based on exclusion per se, like what you would find at a country club.
It's not a math theorem.

From http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Church-TuringThesis.html

There has never been a proof, but the evidence for
its validity comes from the fact that every
realistic model of computation, yet discovered,
has been shown to be equivalent.

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~salil/cs121/fall12/lecnotes/...

The Church–Turing Thesis is an extramathematical
proposition, not subject to formal proof.
> steal something so silly and simple

According to Huawei, it took T-mobile 4 years to develop the robot and the software that controls it, and the Huawei engineers had difficulty building something of equivalent performance. Appearances can be deceiving [1], so it's probably not as "silly and simple" as you seem to think it is.

[1] How long could it take to make an easy button, it's just a button! I don't care what you say, you've got a week to do it!

> Something like the robot being biased on the QA process and manufacturers only getting US gov certification if they pass that test, which they have to pay US companies, because the certification device is a trade secret, and because the device is biased you have to pay severals interactions to "reverse engineer" the false positive failures you get.

As far as I can tell, that's nonsense. The robot clearly sounds like it was performing testing to evaluate and improve the touchscreen performance of phones T-Mobile planned to sell. Being able to pass the tests is clearly something a phone manufacturer would be very interested in.
The real question is when are people going to get the message?!

The incentives of commercial online publishers were clear from their very beginning. The pattern of retroactively pulling content began quite some time ago.

I'm sympathetic if someone really doesn't know any better, succumbs to all that advertising pushing them towards $proprietary_service and thinks thats the cool path, only to get ripped off later on.

But anyone familiar with the idea of personal computing has no excuse! Stop investing your mindshare into this proprietary app-poverty. It's mildly easier in the beginning, but you're paying incrementally every time the business invents a new way to fuck.

Meanwhile if you do a slight bit of self-actualization to adopt a personal computing based setup, it's not just going to shift out from under you. Your ROM collection won't just disappear out of the blue one day, nor will your emulator stop working because eg the developer went out of business or insists on pushing a new one with "improved" advertising/surveillance/control and it's incompatible with your usage.
Apropos, the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_reversal) mentions number of events where an engine reverser was deployed in flight, one involving a 767 which resulted in the loss of the aircraft.

That counts as a pretty serious thing to avoid :-).
At this point Android is such a privacy hell hole that creating a secure messaging app will be doomed to fail. It matter little if the app and its protocols are secure if the device is rooted or otherwise exploited and typed conversations can be siphoned which would expose both the sender and the receiver. The receiver might be an iOS device, causing the communication security/privacy integrity of an iOS user to be at the mercy of any Android device.
What makes you think that Google is the big competitor to Messages in the US, rather than FB Messenger? I know more (non-tech audience) people who use FB Messenger than any of the google products. Does Google default to Hangouts messages when using an android phone, if the recipient also has an Android (vs. straight MMS)?

Personally, I use Apple's Messages, but that's because it's installed by default and integrated with SMS. It's basically just enhanced MMS, so a really really easy transition.
Wisconsin’s Foxconn Debacle Keeps Getting Worse
>if someone actually reads the manual

Uh, I thought everyone does.

>I don't see how manuals can be useful in the real sense

I'm...not sure how you can say this. Maybe you mean, reading a manual cover-to-cover. I don't think "RTFM" means that. Don't read the whole thing if it's boring! But I find once I'm well into using/learning some piece of software, and want to know everything, reading the entire manual is fascinating. Plus they vary in quality and readability. The python docs are extremely readable..aren't they? (especially if you have a high tolerance for Monty Python gags). Man pages mostly suck for learning software the first time, but are brilliant for refreshing the memory. Mostly, I google lists of the best books on a subject, and read as many of them as I can get my hands on. If I'm not enjoying one, I turn to another.
This blog post author accuses the Israeli startup that its discovery to cure all type of cancer is a lie because some Australian doctor went on their website and looked at their published data. It’s like going to AMD’s website to check if their 7nm Chip is real... i’m Not saying the Israeli startup is not selling unicorns but the article evidence is a stretch...

Ps: the HN author use of all caps sounds like he’s happy about this, but we all lose when the cancer cure is not found
Russian executive loses job after bragging about sex with subordinates on Twitch
I haven't done a ton of go programming but the last small web app I wrote we sent closures over a channel to serialize access to a sqlite database. Channels felt like a nice clean way to handle that.
I'd approach this from a different direction. I think the purpose of copyright should be to remunerate creators, not to control their works - controlling the works just happens to be a good way for the creators to get paid. Thus if you're unable to legitimately acquire a work (distribution stopped, or geographically limited), it goes public domain.
> Meanwhile, I scarcely have a need for insurance. Come up and get me.

I don't live in the US but I have 5 insurance policies - home insurance (mandated by my bank for my mortgage), car insurance (mandated by having a car), health insurance (optional but less so if you live in the US), Travel insurance (traveling for work mandates I'm covered by a policy) and life assurance (the only actual optional one) - should I have to provide all of these groups my social media details even though I don't "want" to have them?

Further, whos to say they decide that by me not participating in "normal" activities online, that they won't decline or offer me a substantially worse policy?
I wonder if it could be ice in the fuel line.

Ice doesn't leave trace by the time it melts. This has happened in the past on a different type of plane (Boeing 777).

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1950444/Heathrow-cra...
> People chose to buy German technology from small to medium enterprises because they get bespoke quality which lasts centuries. They buy American mass-produced technology for a disposable culture.

What is this uniquely German tech that lasts centuries?
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The robot name is Alex who using "Hey there!" type responses. I am 100% sure he is robot not a human.
I have bought myself and many in my family Apple Watches - a fantastic product IMO.

As voice dictation gets better, answering email and messages on the watch lets me often just leave my phone at home.

I can imagine a future when many people only have a watch as their personal device but use other larger devices that are shared, instantly personalized by a watch.
I think the old internet is still there. It's just buried under the new internet. There are billions of people who think it's a good idea to communicate with proprietary platforms and use SaaS. But software freedom and communities that encourage users to become producers are also flourishing -- you just have to know where to look.
.. Are you serious?
I share your fears, but I do have some doubts about their metrics (see the link to a chart in another thread).

But maybe (just dumping some thoughts), after the scandals, DAU and MAU might not be anymore as relevant as in the past for Facebook's data collection if users, who are now (supposed to be) more aware of their data being shared and used actively for not only good stuff, just keep using it for only e.g. trivial posts (e.g. "I bought a bike today" instead of "I support/hate the president blahblah") or maybe make it more challenging for AI/aggregation using "irony" (algorithm would understand it as it's written, but the human interpretation would actually be the opposite), etc... . But maybe I'm just a desperate deluded optimist :)
Only if you use the perversely tight definition of 4 or more people killed (not including the shooter), not in a robbery, not as part of gang violence, not as part of domestic violence, and not including sponsored terrorist events, on the same day in close geographical proximity.

As soon as you drop some of those requirements the numbers increase dramatically.
While a good quarter for FB despite all the scandals, reporters have pointed out that there's potentially a lot of lag between Ad spend and user growth: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1090726978271903744
Oh, that Dark Mode Toggle!

1. the widget has a secret toggling hotspot that is only discovered when the user clicks the circle and observes that the action failed to toggle the widget.

2. widget looks like it should behave like a mobile widget (where touching any part of the widget will trigger a toggle) but behaves differently

3. dragging the little circle to the other side of the widget generates a dragging animation, but does not update the toggle. Instead, upon releasing the pointer the little circle will animate back to its original position, defeating the user's expectations.

4. attempting to drag the circle past its own widget boundaries will fail to drag the circle to that distance. However, it will succeed in toggling the widget! So the obvious analogic behavior in #3 fails to trigger the desired widget behavior, where this fantasy-world interaction does (e.g., like sliding a penny with one's finger past the edge of a borderless table to get the penny to stop right at the edge, yet moving the penny right to the edge will cause it to travel back to its original position).

5. the cursor icon changes from the "move" icon to some other icon when attempting to drag outside the widget bounds. But remember that #4 requires a drag to the outside of the bounds to trigger the toggle. This means that the user is likely to see the wrong cursor icon the moment before a successful toggle event occurs. I.e., "cursor change to reflect a concern other than this widget" likely means "this widget is about to do its thing!"

I'd like to suggest the following additional feature to the Dark Mode Toggle:

* when user drags the toggle with the pointer outside the bounds of the widget and then releases, immediately show a dialog that reads: "Ok to Cancel Toggle? [Ok] [Cancel]"

Edit: clarification