skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so that's a valuable service in itself, as far as I'm concerned.
Your conclusion is entirely consistent with the facts. There is little in this world that we can control. It's really important to stop the bad actors from taking the little away from us.
Rewriting an API Gateway Service from Clojure to Golang
> Obviously that's the ideal, but it's literally impossible. How is the government (or whichever organisation) going to solve all its citizens' personal problems?

If we are still talking about poverty, loneliness, etc, then the solution is to build old people's homes. As a lot of countries do, so it's clearly not impossible. The residents pay a percentage of their pension and/or fortune, if you're poor you pay little, of you're well off you pay more. But everyone can get a place to live.

The specific problem in Japan as described in the article is that the basic state pension is too low to live off. And with no alternatives you end up as Toshio. The retirement age is also very low in Japan, which doesn't help - you're supposed to live off your pension from you're 60 or even younger. That'll be several decades of very poor economy for a lot of old people.
The quality of public transit varies between cities. My parents for example raised two children without having a car.
Without IP, governments could set innovation prizes and opensource the output
Patents are often thought to be the best way to incentivize innovation. In this ETH Zurich video, a Stanford law professor proposes an alternative system where the government offers fixed prizes for certain innovations and then open sources the inventions. If the prizes are set equal to the monopoly rents under the patent regime, innovators should be indifferent between the two system. However, this would require the government to correctly price innovations.
The richest Florence families in 1427 are still rich today
I do understand that there is a serious possibility of deploying a bad black box AI, a number of questions come to mind though.

Isn't it true though, that human intelligence (and especially corporate/government/etc. intelligence) is also susceptible to biases which are invisible? Also, do we know why humans or groups of humans produce the output they do? Is there some kind of black box testing procedure we could use to increase trust in AI to a point at least equal to humans?
UK has one as well.

It's great

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint
Stealth research: lack of peer-reviewed evidence from healthcare unicorns
Differentiation for Hackers
Here's the hyperlink: https://youtu.be/RU83Mdugu_c
But it'll also be the best that Britain has, so.....

Glass half full, and all that.
It's both though. Growth is the core tent of capitalism, and it promotes consumerism that in turn requires consumers. This ethos is what's killing us. And just to contrast for you. I grew up in USSR, and the focus there was on sustainability. Products were built to last because it cost the state a lot of resources to produce them. There was no drive to make products for the sake of making them, or to introduce insane ideas like planned obsolescence. A lot less resources were devoted to frivolousness as well. So for all its faults it was actually a much better system in this regard.

It's also perfectly possible to aim for sustainability and to manage our population. Just look at how China managed to put a stop to its population growth. The problem is that the capitlist economic system is completely at odds with that because it requires constant growth.
Its so bad I mute all unknown numbers and just return calls if they leave a message. Might as well go back to beepers. This is a buge failing.
Yeah, lack of public posts is a big problem with MeWe. I think they recently added it, but you need to pay for it?

What I would like to see is some general, decentralised standard in the style of email and usenet, where everybody has their own identity they can use to post and respond, and block content from trolls and spammers without them easily circumventing that block (well, that clearly doesn't work with email, but spam filters do a decent job).
There is also this if you haven't heard of it already too:

https://teachyourselfcs.com and https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
Seeing what’s happening all around you in a single glance could improve safety in a similar way as it does for self driving cars.
This is a fairly pointless comment, but since you asked, it's Section 2.1 of https://download.developer.apple.com/Documentation/License_A... which you may need to be a registered Apple Developer to view. So, a relevant quote:

"Apple grants you...license to....

(f) Allow Your Customers to use Your Internal Use Applications on Deployment Devices, but only (i) on Your physical premises and/or on Your Permitted Entity’s physical premises, or (ii) in other locations, provided all such use is under the direct supervision and physical control of Your Employees or Permitted Users (e.g., a sales presentation to a Customer);"
Are you aware of the Test Pyramid, and why it exists?
Please review the following with explicit citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
A "deal" that has near-zero value for both parties where the EU is more trying to save face by showing it is "independent" while trying to not anger the USA anyway by applying other sanctions. IMHO this is a pretty weak move from the EU, and shows that there is no clear driver behind the EU wheel after the souring of US-EU relations.
The most likely alternative to upholding the Iran nuclear deal is Iran mounting nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles and pointing them at the United States, the same way North Korea has. There is no upside at all to tearing it down.
Maybe the NYT adjusted for inflation?
I don't know where I hurt your feelings, but I'm sorry.
Office dogs
> refuse to sacrifice anything materially to have children

There are also those that have the best motives for not having children - namely that the country is getting worse, and why inflict a negative future on them? Environmental destruction, overcrowding, pollution, insane property prices, worsening opportunities to get on in life, rampant crime and drugs with disinterested policing and lax punishment apart from against those that are legitimately defending their rights (who are punished harshly), general undermining of traditional values, etc..

Oh but of course I'm just a bigoted dinosaur for holding these thoughts.
Books are one of the best thing we have to transmit experiences but it's far from a 1:1 process. Two people can read the same book but take away diametrically opposed things due to their own experiences / expectations.

You can read all the books and notes about WW1 battles, you'll never come close to feel what they felt in the trenches.
A “gold standard” study finds deleting Facebook is great for your mental health
I’m not proposing to ban lower taxes, just company-specific deals like these. A state wants to have a more friendly business environment to attract companies? Great! Just don’t negotiate tax breaks for a single factory.
Definitely a true believer on free market!
Show HN: Free NBA API
A few months ago I wanted to create a website that displayed metrics about NBA players that I care about. I was surprised and frustrated by the lack of free API services, so I ditched my original idea and decided to create a free API. Hopefully this will encourage people to build some interesting websites!

It's completely free, and it doesn't require an email address. There are a few gotchas spelled out on the API docs, but all in all it's a serviceable first pass. I'm happy to spend some time iterating and making improvements if people find value in this. Feel free to PM me with any suggestions, comments, and hate mail.

Check it out here: www.balldontlie.io

Here's an example of something you can build with the API: https://ball-dont-lie.herokuapp.com/
> Would your opinion change if you reread the content with the understanding HTTPS is assumed when talking about web privacy in 2019?

Well he began by talking about email, so no. If we want to talk about HTTPS and 2019, then let's serve the whole shebang with HTTP/2 and not worry about reducing the number of requests, which seems to be the only advantage offered.

> Would your opinion change if you reread the content with the assumption

That's the assumption I was forced to make, and the crux of my argument. Content-Encoding: gzip works in most servers by compressing the content on the fly -- not by precompiling. Hence my comment about adding the overhead of compression to the request.
Indeed - you can tell Ron Howard is a genuine fan of the sport - he's often at races.
So how long until someone writes a codeblog post that steals your cookies when you open it? Or do they not really allow code?
> there are still bugs being worked out in basic features like “set”.

You are misreading the release notes.

What was fixed is a Redex model (a tool used in semantics to model computer languages). A change to the modeling of `set!` (assignment) was made. It has no impact on Racket itself.
This is a really good idea - thanks
If security fixes can take months, then it's not suitable for any use (especially on servers).
Not true. The US is responsible for 14% of emissions, which is unconscionable for a country that only holds ~4.5% of the world's population. You're actually doing quite horribly on a per-capita basis. China is doing far better than the US on a per-capita count.
Yep, this is a fantastic read. Came here to post it too!
We have one in our office. Great for the first day. Not so much after that.
Confusing open source license scenarios and how to navigate them
Apple’s power over Facebook ought to worry the rest of us
Decision making, for example. Someone internal to any organization will gain a sense of the way the organization will respond to certain situations. For something like national security, this can mean a contracted ex-NSA'r could provide another country with a forecast as to how the NSA will react internally to a certain stimuli.
Criticism of Taleb (about Non-IQ Stuff)
Using React Storybook to Tackle Complex Multipart Stories
Indian political news articles 2018 Dataset
Here's a dataset of Indian political articles from January 2018 through December 2018, collected from over 7 news portals, it consists about 15346 articles.

1. you can download the dataset from here: https://github.com/ONLPS/Datasets/blob/master/data/politics18/politics18.csv

2. you can find some descriptive stats of this dataset in this notebook over here: https://github.com/ONLPS/Datasets/blob/master/notebooks/politics_2018.ipynb
Why not? Suppose your commute occupies the car for 1/24th of the hours of the day. In theory you could pay for only that usage.

There would be some markup so the owning company has a profit margin, but the higher the price is, the greater the incentive for competitors to exist, which would exert downward pressure. So maybe you'd end up paying 1/20 the price of owning a car.

If you don't agree, why not?
Because social media companies hire people to make them addicting. They are literally programmed to make you come back for more constantly.
Yeah, there are Nazis on MeWe. But as far as I know, there are Nazis on every single social network, so that hardly seems like a strike against MeWe. There's a claim that the company specifically targets Nazis to invite them over when they've been banned somewhere else, though, and that makes some people itchy.
By definition, it's not really an impulse purchase if you plan it out
> does not imply that all boogiemen are actually nice.
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I think that goes without saying. But after fighting ideological / proxy wars against communism, "terrorism" and "hell, just because" I think we need a little more support.

Here we have a long-standing soft war against a country and/or people for whom Western meddling has demonstrably affected their life for the worse. Every time they do anything acting in their own sovereign interest we peg it as evil and impose some wrist-slapping or worse.

I don't for one second believe that the leadership of Iran is "good." Nor do I believe they're inherently evil. We refuse to concede any responsibility in the fate of their land over the last 100 years, continue to box them in and it seems more and more apparent we're keeping them on the hotplate in case we need a new war.

I have a pretty skeptical view of lower-case-l libertarians, most of whom are just using it as a veneer over some otherwise lockstep partisan affiliation. But one thing I've found very encouraging is that movement's general cynicism toward continued world power interventionism.
Disclosure: Did the acquisition marketing for this product across a few countries.

I think it's unfair comparing the 2. The Google product isn't grabbing the same about of personal data. It was focused on device usage, apps, media consumptions etc. Personally I was surprised Google were respectful enough to not be grabbing this data passively in the first place. This app was an add-on that was upfront about what it was doing and paid people for providing this access to their behaviour. And this desire to understand how people use products seems a reasonable thing for a company to want to know about improving and creating products.

Do people saying this is bad feel its wrong to get people in a research group for an unboxing to see how people unfamiliar with a product do things.

As long as its opt-in and clear about what its doing this seems reasonable and feels people are making a storm in a teacup... but maybe I'm missing something?
Well a deal halfway between 2 diametrically opposed view points is never going to please anyone. I think at the moment, its an exercise in moving round the overton window, perhaps at the moment we need a second window though.
Depends on the database / disk setup. For Mongo you should probably do an fsync/lock prior to taking the snapshot then release it, this will ensure the data on disk is in a consistent state. I don't think this is technically required with a single disk setup (at least with LVM, I've not used ZFS with mongo) but it's probably a good idea anyway and only causes a few ms hiccup.
A system that does both social networking and RSS reading, and enables blog sharing and commenting in a integrated way, could be absolutely perfect.
Is there an equivalent to the Skolnik books[1] for LIDAR? I keep applying radar principles to LIDAR, but it seems like the function is significantly different if it includes things like a "pseudorandom code sequence".

[1] https://books.google.com/books/about/Radar_Handbook.html?id=...
Modern Front-End Testing with Cypress
>I think one of the things that makes HN and Reddit very different, is that the content is not personalized and tailored to maximize user engagement. Facebook seems to constantly show me things that make me more upset or concerned or outraged about something.

This really depends on whether or not you set up your own account with subreddits in reddit. It is just as personalized and outrage generating as Facebook if you self-subscribe to it.
Thank you Mr. European, we'll continue to greatly consider and internalize your thoughts on what and when it is appropriate for Israelis act in self defense.

Now get fucked.

(not Israeli, but yes Jewish)
The presumed argument here is that you can challenge individual people, corporations, etc. more easily on discriminatory behavior than you can challenge an algorithm. If an algorithm happens to refuse to issue loans to black people, who's the class action lawsuit going to sue?
The Full-Stack Startup
Aaronson’s “Quantum Computing Since Democritus” is quite good. For hands-on examples, pull down the Microsoft quantum development kit, which includes the Q# programming language and the ability to run programs on a simulated quantum computer or submit to quantum runtimes like IBM’s.
Show HN: Sheens: state machines for message processing
> at some point we will run out of immigrants.

We won't. Preachy, US-centered source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
This is indeed a great story, which gives again two different views on security.

East of the iron curtain everything, even marginally secret, was very carefully controlled, accounted for and losing a single not-too-secret page meant an automatic 10-year labor camp term. West of it, control was much looser and many more secrets leaked out. However, technology was also developed much faster -- you need serious encouragement to convince a good engineer to work under East's penalties and restrictions on personal life if other interesting work is available. East put major resources of the state on stealing technology not by choice -- it had few other options to avoid military tech obsolescence.

So leakage and all, West's system worked pretty well. My 2c.
Programming and Cognitive Load
I grew up living next to the iron curtain, literally <100m away. It was multiple tall fences, guard towers every 100m or so, a road, electric fences, detection mechanisms, barbed wire. To travel across from East to West, you needed a special permit, that was given or held back depending how much "risk" you were (of fleeing, not to the regime). My parents could travel only if they left me there, I stayed with grandparents for 2 weeks.
There were regular known cases of people getting killed or jailed trying to cross.
Same with the TN visa. Spouses of Australian citizens can work though on the E3 visa.
Great business model, great cause. I really hope you get successful.

I still think GitHub should have a bounty program.

OpenSource has an unusually large impact on the world. Let’s pay people great money to have that impact.
Not always. There's usually exemptions, not that I know how that applies here.

I used to (mid-2000s) work for a SaaS company whose main customers were municipalities and universities in the US. We always had NDAs on file for customers we did business with. It was SOP.

We weren't swindling them out of billions of dollars, though. It was something that had prices in the 30k-40k annually range.
Ask HN: How to kickstart an online freelancing career without having contacts
As far as I can tell, most people get started with online freelancing either by signing their previous employers or getting paid horribly on websites like Upwork until they build a reputation.

If I were a web designer, I could put up a design portfolio on a site like Dribbble, directly contact companies that could use a new logo or a website, or even try a website like 99designs in the beginning.

If you are a software developer, is there any straightforward way of finding online software development jobs? I’m interested in finding gigs that are relatively complex, and not just setting up a Wordpress website for a business (although obviously there is nothing wrong with doing that, it’s just not what I’m looking for).

Edit: I completely agree with everyone recommending networking locally, but there isn't a very vibrant tech ecosystem where I'm currently residing in, and I am planning on moving out soon.

Moving out will take six months to a year though, and I wonder if there is anyone who kickstarted a career strictly online, while I completely understand and agree that it is not the ideal way to do it.
You do realize that the U.S. and Trump especially is super buddy, buddy with the Saudis and Emiratis, who are almost unquestionably worse, right?

You also do realize that the U.S. supports 75% of the world's dictatorships, right? You do realize that the U.S./U.K. orchestrated a coup against the democratically elected leader of Iran, right?
Yeah, it's done at the memory controller level. No the caches won't be encrypted, but it wouldn't make sense to; any threat model that says L* caches can be read by an adversary should also allow the register file itself to be read, and that's going to contain unencrypted data (after all, you have to decrypt the data at _some_ point).

I do wonder, though, whether the memory remains protected against adversaries who can put rogue devices on the PCIe or UPI buses; it seems that these would be able to get decrypted data.
The giant elephant in the room, I guess
From Wikipedia:

He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics. After leaving Penn, Elon Musk headed to Stanford University in California to pursue a PhD in energy physics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education
On the other hand, the fact that Apple applies the same rules to Facebook as it does to the rest of us small developers, is a good thing. Apple protects his customers. Of course, you may ask who controls the controller, and whether "Do no evil" is enough, but Apple plays a role that no state is able to provide currently.
Guide to crypto taxes
In the past, US allies like Germany, France, Britain, would never dream of crossing the US. A trade agreement that effectively promotes the Euro to sidestep the USD is Europe thumbing its nose at the US.

Yes, on the face of it, this is about sidestepping sanctions. But the implications of doing so go far deeper. The US posture today basically makes the US weaker in the long run.
I worked on a military site literally after the whole September 11th thing went down and everyone was super paranoid. Had armed police patrols and everything. At lunch we still cut through the same hole in the fence perimeter which had been there for about 4 years. This had been reported and not fixed and saved a good half a mile trip round the perimeter.

If anyone got any good at security in these sorts of places they usually ended up doing something else better paid for a living.
Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
"Thousands of Americans Lost Their Job and Here's Why That's a Good Thing" - Article on Cox Media.
Web Developer Monthly – What Happened in January?
Really? Then as written it's very misleading "led to some bug fixes in Racket’s implementation of letrec and set!."
No, it didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Yes exactly. Prior to the internet, the "category of people whom no one wanted to have sex with" did not exist.
It's probably a lot harder to make $200k in those places.
> Are you aware of the Test Pyramid

Yes.

> and why it exists?

Because the xUnit consultant crowd worked a lot, it is easier to make unit tests (which fossilize your code) so there's a lot of tooling around it. And the reliance on external services with no sandbox or ready to use mocks mean E2E is harder to implement. But being harder just mean you have to do your job.

When I buy your software I don't care about how you implemented some pattern. What I care is that when I click on this gizmo in that situation it does what it should in some time-frame using some resources.
Similar to the wheelbarrow, I've always wondered why a new nuclear country would need ballistic missiles to deliver a threat - a parcel service, or a Volkswagen driving across the border would be slower but who's in a hurry?
Bloomberg reveals details about iOS 13, plus iPhones and iPads through 2020
They are not apologizing for running the program. They are apologizing for getting caught. Treat them the same way they treat their users: ban all their apps and disable their accounts permanently.

Shut them down. But I suppose a different yard stick applies to these shady organizations
chlorinated chicken/steroid injected beef

Such things would be clearly labelled and no worse than the US standard. If consumers want it, they will buy it. If they don't, they won't.
Armenia was incorporated to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, not in the 20th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Safavid_War_(1...
That's what the DV lottery is with the exception of they exclude countries that have a high number of people already immigrating to the United States.
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions