skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, did you personally prove that the earth is round?
I suspect that most of round-earthers didn't prove it themselves as well.

The problem is infeasiblity; it's infeasible for a regular person to confirm most of the scientific findings.

For example, ~75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. They already have a hard time putting food on the table.

This kind of arguments against flat-earthers needs to be retired. It doesn't make sense to dare a person to confirm any scientific finding.

Let's just call spade a spade: Round-earthers believe the earth is round because they listen to the right experts. Flat-earthers believe the earth is flat because they listen to the wrong experts.

We are just listeners. Let's stop acting like we prove these scientific findings ourselves.
I know someone suffering from EDS and she is also trying alternative treatments but there is zero evidence those work. There is a special place for people that exploit terminal patients or people with a chronic illness with no cure.

I suffer from chronic pain due to a medication side effect. There was a doctor that claimed he suffered from it too and wrote this beautiful recovery story(patients with severe symptoms rarely recover to 100% and this dude was now playing basketball), which ended with I now offer the same treatments......and people were falling for it.
Jerusalem Syndrome
hacking things together in an agile environment :') just deploy to production. no worries! be happy!
nice! I've been a steemit user for quite some time but the quality has seriously detoriated. I'm going to try this out? looks like there's a tipping frenzy happening?
You might also be interesting in file.pizza. Very useful. The webtorrent ecosystem in general is very cool tech.
> many LEGAL activities that people do not want to show up in a central database

Unfortunately cryptocurrencies aren't just a central database they're a distributed database - all transactions are public. You can try using a tumbler service but since these are obviously money laundering havens they're not going to last long.
Rocket Internet Prepares IPO for African Platform Jumia
Aeoliphile is an open cycle engine and so inefficient that it's practically useless for doing work. It took the Europeans a lot of time to develop the skills necessary to build closed cycle steam engines efficient and powerful enough to do work.
One possible use case: A notary for digital goods. Crypto currencies have a built-in incentive mechanism that keeps a ledger running and verifiable. This allows for a decentralized way to verify ownership of digital goods. More concrete, you could verify that you are the owner of a very rare sword you obtained in an online RPG. Even when the company goes out of business or stops the servers you could still prove that you own it. In other words, owners of valuable digital items might want their ownership to be stored on a public blockchain rather than a database by a private entity.
Visa is very expensive. How about that?
> I don't know what the real impact is, but if your site shows me blank page without javascript(I have it off by default) I am closing the tab.

I can show you "this site requires Javascript" instead, but let's just say you're not part of the target audience and that's fine.

> I don't think supporting noscript version is costly because for me that's how it supposed to be by default.

That highly depends on the site, of course.

> 90% sites that are currently on the internet would work just fine without any js and 95% would work with as little as hackernews has.

99.9% of websites are not actually businesses that employ developers. If that's your standard, I agree. A simple webpage does not require Javascript.
So, we would seem to have two key statements being pitted against each other here:

1. Rob Pike doesn't have a strong grasp of type theory.
2. Rob Pike is an accomplished programmer.

To me, this conflict of opinions is structurally indistinguishable from

1. That shape over there is a square.
2. That shape over there is blue.

IOW, there is no argument to see here.
I'm okay with that: when I'm dead, do with my data what you will (of course, so long as anyone implicated like chat partners in chat data, are also dead). But I guess the quote refers to shorter timespans than that.
Debunking the Myth That Rich Parents Don't Want Tech for Their Kids
That isn't and has never been an issue needing solving in day to day business for shipping companies. Their business isn't giving a shit about the upstream business situation.
Here's an example of an exploration tool built using the content of books: https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/

It would be nice if anyone could build such tools, but all of that data is locked up inside of places like Google Books and Hathi Trust. Google isn't even interested in making their metadata available, other than by running searches.
blackmailing famous people by obtaining their medical records is a lucrative business. they might want to hide much more mundane things than HIV. (pregnancy, some accident which happened, drug related incidents etc. etc.)
Kettle meet Pot, Pot meet Kettle.
Amazon Carbon Free Shipments
The video is landing in Azure storage. I’m sure Evidence.com is making a good margin on the service. They were offering free body cameras to police forces, in the old razor/blade model.
Mr. Mxyztplk vs. Joe Btfsplk: Who Came First?
>to do compliance for it

FWIW, complianceless payments are dejure illegal by definition. So any economic activity being made possible by them is roadkill of the current regulatory environment, legally speaking. A nice example of Bastiat's "That which is not seen".
it's very cool. But could you improve the docs a bit? hard to understand
> "Painless Maintenance" - I would have to use it deeply before I could say too much about this. But I would guess that the danger of creating spaghetti code and a spaghetti of .css are pretty much the same and have the same root causes.

But as you pointed out, there is no cascade and no sheet. The styles apparently just apply to the stuff they are near in the code. No twisted logic to unwind, hence no spaghetti.

The potential problem I could see is that changes which would have been easy with a cascade would require lots of changes to copypasta in this approach. Like, "take the spinach out of this ravioli and replace it with mushrooms." Everything is scoped properly and the task is obvious at a glance-- it's just annoying.
I was introduced to Mr. Nordine's work in the early 2000s when some of it was played on WRAS radio in Atlanta. They played his "Colors" series as part of their regular rotation of music. Each one is a spoken word piece personifying a particular color. These were apparently done originally as commercials for a paint company, but they stand on their own. I know at least a few of these are on YouTube.

I was surprised to find out that he was still quite active creating computer art and working on his website even into his 80s and 90s. The current wordjazz.com website doesn't have everything, so I suggest you check out the Internet Archive version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030424220940/http://wordjazz.c...
> It's not a webpack add-on. It's a part of Vue's templating engine that is essentially CSS-in-JS, they just give you a template to work in.

It's regular CSS in the templates and regular CSS in the frontend. There's no JS involved anywhere, unless you count the tooling, but we already use JS tools for CSS processing (PostCSS).

Scoped CSS is an old HTML5 feature that was dropped in favor of style encapsulation using Shadow DOM/Web Components.
Rocket League hosts both high tier and low tier events. The production quality reflects this - their high tier events are very professional and have a completely different talent lineup than lower tier events, including the observer (camera man).
I think you are conflating bad with unjustified. They aren’t the same but can appear similarly themed. HN is skeptical of the utility and validity of crypto.
You must live in a community of very private people, if you haven't knowingly encountered anyone struggling with fear of stigma wrt addictions, common STDs, mental illness, neurodevelopmental disorders, infertility, harmful paraphilias, terminal illness, domestic violence etc.

It's a deep-seated tendency in mammals to hide sickness, and therefore the confidentiality in healthcare settings is essential to get people to seek care in time.
>What are you trying to argue? Taxes are good, because some part of them is redistributed back to private companies?

I'm arguing the fact that spending by government is literally the engine of our own and all other economies, and that libertarians are hilariously delusional about this bedrock fact. Without this spending/circulation there is zero facility nor security for the conduct of commerce nor is there income for the vast majority of the private enterprise.

When you rebut, please use a privately-developed communications protocol stack to do so.
There are also plenty of legal efforts (e.g. free political speech) that are actively being shut down by payment processors of all sorts; these need some means of sustainment and crypto has provided what is needed.
Highlights:

> When we program we’re writing down a very explicit and exact description of a solution to our current best understanding of the problem we’re trying to solve. Over time both the problem we are trying to solve and our understanding of it will inevitably change, often dramatically. When that happens some percentage of our very explicit and exact description is now wrong, and a liability. Taken to the logical conclusion, given time, every line of code is wrong and a liability that will need to be dealt with.

> A little discussed and poorly understood design goal for code is disposability.

Criticisms:

- I'm not sure I agree that these five buckets are very distinct, nor that they encompass all things referred to as "technical debt". They're good examples worth thinking about, but I don't think they're as archetypical as the author does.

- I've never seen it as an assumption that "technical debt" implies "the people before us did a bad job", something the author spends a lot of effort arguing against. The people before you lay out a runway, which helps determine how quickly technical debt will build up, but even the very best codebases accumulate it eventually.
I thought this was an offshoot of the Library of Mistakes[0], would like to see something other than consumer product/services.

0: https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/
By the way look at refactoring ui, they have a lot of tips for what to do about information overload when it comes to design
Have a plan B
ASOS uses warehouse technology to differentiate their brand
Juggling pre-compiled gpu stuff (css classes) exists for a reason.

Scss is like css.

Jss is css + unnecessary abstraction on top of css + unnecessary memory and cpu cycles + writing part of css rules inside flow control (which can turn into js in css in js.

GPU facing languages have always been ugly and not just in this industry. But they are like that because of their nature. Making them friendlier is always welcome, but replacing them with cpu stuff defeats the whole purpose of a gpu.
This may seem weird, but I think the idea of what they're doing is spot on. If anyone were to get access to my things I'd rather it be the government and then have them disclose it to me. Additionally, if you don't want your information accessible you've had your notice to hire someone to lock it down or lock it down yourself. I would liken the service to the government checking the insulation on your house.
Monero, Zcash, Grin. Three designs that are based on different cryptography - all three giving user full privacy.
Moreover, staying confined here has not prevented us from forming nations and waging wars... With the added drawback that all our eggs are currently in the same planetary basket.

I'm not even sure that "space wars" will be that common. War is expensive, even more so when you have to do it on top of space travel. I think that, without either some extreme commodification of space travel, or some insanely huge reward, space wars won't be a reasonable option in most cases.
That certainly helps, though you assume strict LRU vs approximate ARC. One can of course use similar schemes on LRU (like memcached does) or sampling LRU, making it approximate but reducing the lock contention. The technique that I've used is to buffer and replay events against the policy, so that reads are just a CAS into a ring buffer and replaying is under performed under a non-blocking lock. That works well with any policy and extends to other features, like expiration.
Story of my life as a front end developer... you can invent an abstraction to make life easier and simultaneously increase code size and complexity more than 10 fold. Easy is often an anti-thesis of simple.

Basic front end code isn't that challenging, but it does take some actual practice (not half-ass practice followed by a million poorly considered short-cuts).
But with MMOs, I didn't get in early or even recent, so its incredibly hard for me to get in on the action. I'd be relegated to begging and looking for groups.

Whereas games like fortnite are "download and play". Sure there's emotes and hats, but that's not gameplay. Its low barrier for me to start whenever. I'm not missing the last 10 expansions.
More to the point, you can't apply "critical thinking" to a statement in isolation. You can only apply it using the context of things that you already know, or other sources you can get at. If trust in those is destroyed, it becomes genuinely impossible to know things.

(If you want a not too controversial example of this, look at popular nutritional science, which is a battleground of constantly shifting ideas and discredited experiments)
The Sea Was Not a Mask
Modern USB gadget on Linux – and how to integrate it with systemd (Part 1)
My 12 Rules of Life
I'm genuinely curious why you post this in nearly every single thread about the topic that comes up without fail. It feels like you aren't actually interested in an answer and are instead interested in rather disingenuous in asking the question.

I am curious why you think that those 3 cases are somehow not valid or interesting enough in their own right?
'Intimate Video' of Nicole Scherzinger and Lewis Hamilton Leaked Online
Nightscape and Astro Photography – Clark Vision
I had no trouble getting if working but it regularly loses the ability to see USB devices until I restart gpg-agent.
Thomas Graf, a Cilium founder, made some comments on Twitter around this:

https://twitter.com/majek04/status/1097485987054346240
Well, people don’t have the unconditional right to trade their money as they see fit.
Not sure if pre-existing conditions is a market failure, seems like a market success to me. Otherwise people would skip insurance and only get insured after they get sick (adverse selection). However, unknown pre-existing conditions should probably be covered (and if they're not, I agree that's a market failure).
When I have the window taking up just the right half of the screen, I can't reach the scrollbar in the projects page.

The idea is pretty cool, though, and fun indeed.
Ask HN: How do you measure developers productivity?
Hey guys, i am wondering, how do you measure productivity of developers in your team? I have been using RescueTime app but is too general, not focused on developers. Also, i tried WakaTime plugin into code editor, but it is saying a much... just general stats.
Any tips which data collect? Or how to measure collected data? Eg. number of commits a day, number of pull requests? Lines added vs lines removed? Etc?

Thanks in advance
George
Then it was the proper choice, like go is today. I haven't heard about a lot of distributed databases in assembly.
Articles like this are my very most favorite kind. The scientific approach combined with the never ending quest for more efficient and higher performance from software!

I love everything about it!

<3
> Whenever I fed the wrong argument in for a void* parameter (which is rare enough), the program crashed on the first try and the problem is obvious.

Except when it isn't. Except when it crashes in production. I believe this is the kind of situation people are trying to avoid with type safety...

> Maybe the more serious problem is that people want to be able to quickly say "I want a Fibonacci-Tree<K,V> for types K and V"?

That's uncalled for, isn't it? There's a lot of non-toy problems solved elegantly and pragmatically using generics. I personally enjoy how Entity Framework uses it.
> It's interesting how something which was built on the idea of decentralization by design has given way to a clear power structure, where those who have the sway to control the fate of the technology have largely used it to pursue their own personal enrichment over the health and success of the system as a whole.

Care to elaborate? Some examples?
That is exactly what people are asking for. You just objected to exactly what people are not doing, and called for exactly what they are calling for.
They have a butterfly keyboard that's actually good, the one in the magic keyboard. All they need to do is use that one in the laptops and it would be great.
It's not just military bases, the US DoS runs a whole Spa-resorts in Garmisch-Partenkirchen exclusively for US/NATO (excluding German nationals) military personnel [0].

[0] https://www.edelweisslodgeandresort.com/accomodations/eligib...
you are describing an impossible scenario where nobody notices but overnight it becomes a global standard. if you actually make a scenario that is possible you will see most people would have time to switch to the other and the original will slowly fade. no problem with that. dollar will sometime fade too for something else as all other currencies have done in the past (google some charts online)
Oof. Manual price setting for the storer/miner, manual storer selection for the user... Pretty large barriers to mainstream adoption. I'd think that in order for that to happen, both of these would be totally automatic. Still needs a lot of work.
> So does C, C++, Java, etc. That statement is meaningless. It just means that with enough contortion, you can write some code in golang that works.

Indeed it's as capable as those languages in this domain. The productivity is higher though, thanks to the stdlib.
> But the standard generic does not fit very well with go type system, so....

Why not? Generics in Arrays/Maps/Slices fit perfectly in the language, and don't feel weird at all in Go.
This is true.
But it is go design philosophy not to hide too much magics, it favours verbose, explicit codes.

Design choice. You can't have both.
Typically, states control the money supply, and typically in the direction of impoverishing laborers to fill the pockets of privileged interests. Diminishing this power alone could be transformative.
Utterly immaterial to my post. Here's what he said: 'a Leave vote would cause an "immediate and profound" economic shock'

No mention of 'when we leave', is there?

Also if you have a special hotline to Honda management please enlighten us further, because as far as I'm aware nothing has been shared at this time pointing to it being caused by Brexit. Also there are significant global trends affecting the car industry that have nothing to do with Brexit. Please don't be disingenuous.
I regularly use this tool (nodejs) for a list of random coordinates inside a country. Or at least inside any country to avoid the oceans. https://github.com/tsamaya/random-points-generator
ProxyFront: Turn Amazon CloudFront as Dynamic Forward Proxy
GIS buffer polygons were magical when I first stumbled upon them.
This sounds extremely similar to Grin project imho... which was just released last month.
> If we reduce Go lack of features to stuff that C doesn't provide, maybe bounds checking, modules and GC aren't required as well.

Well that was the initial basic design frame: A systems programming language that removes some of the headaches of writing distributed systems software with the use of a GC and Channels/CSP.

It was intended from the start to have more features and tradeoffs than C has, and it even backed up pretty quickly from trying to be a competitor in the (not-distributed) systems programming space, didn't it?

> That even languages born before generics are willing to move forward.

C11 Generics are a pretty limited feature, basically a central switch on types instead of values. They are not a big deal. And maybe Go decided against them because Go has RTTI. In any case, C11 Generics are decidedly different from what many people expect from a Generics in Go.

> As for complaining, projects like Docker and K8s ensure that those of us that rather not use Go, have to deal with it in some form anyway.

Dude... 1) They are not Go. 2) If you don't like them don't deal with them. 3) Don't make an elephant from a mosquito. 4) Show us some of your beautiful systems software written in perfect OOP style in languages from 1975 already! We need real world proof that there is a supreme super-typesafe OOP way with functional bells that solves all of our problems!
Show HN: Minimal Viable social sharing
I've came up with a social sharing app that has only 2 screens, does not require sign up or sign in.

The app can be found on the stores:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wisaw/id1299949122

http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.echowaves.w...

Here are some guiding principles that are reflected in our Privacy Manifesto:

Extreme simplicity:
The "WiSaw" app has only 2 screens. The more complex the app gets, the easier it becomes for the business to manipulate the users behavior and the data they provide. We believe that "Less is More".

Absolute privacy:
It's achieved by never asking a user for any personal information (not even login). There is no data -- there is nothing to leak. All data we collect is short lived -- everything disappears from the system after short while -- again, this makes it difficult to leak the data which we do not have.

Complete transparency (product):
To make a software product useful and interesting for the users, it does need to have access to some data. All data we collect is public. Everyone can see and do everything with it -- there are no special roles and permissions. We do not moderate any of the content the users upload -- we believe in the power of the community to do the right thing. If anyone finds some content to be offensive, they can simply delete it, which will also improve the quality of the data for everyone else.

Complete transparency (company):
How do you know, we are not lying to you? Simple -- every line of code we write is published to the OpenSource repository in GitHub. Check it out: https://github.com/echowaves

At this point I'm looking for some constructive feedback. Am I totally wrong with my assumptions? Is this something that can become big?
Cryptocurrencies are definitely an “Innovator’s Dilema” situation when it comes to general use. It’s much worse than the established solutions. It’s confusing, error-prone, unreliable, cheap and janky. It’s also not a great business case for the establishment who are currently making billions and billions serving very rich customers.

But... it also brings financial service options to people who have no opinions or only truly awful options.

If you are a non-homeless American, you don’t need crypto. American banks are bending over backwards to serve you. But, if you are a homeless American. Or if you are one of the unbanked billions around the world. Or, if you are a Venezuelan, Nigerian, etc... then the establishment is either dismissing you or actively working to screw you.

Crypto can bring tremendous value to all of them while bringing very little to the establishment by simply acting as a PayPal alternative for the extreme poor. If it manages to survive that, it will get better and better. Eventually it will creep up to becoming useful for rich westerners.