skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* If they publish them publically to a literal extent then they MIGHT actually have to follow them! *

Conversely, to the extent that they are public and transparent (eg I think twitchy is pretty specific about feedback for content removal) people will game that information and either refine their content to fit within the letter of the ToS while spreading it as widely as possible, or seek to litigate the decisions depending on what's least costly.
The goal is "encryption for the masses" and "the masses" aren't going to put up with "wait, I have to jump through hoops to log in on more than one device?"
Perks in lieu of cash have a history that goes back to much more progressive tax structures.

I don't know that they always work out that way these days, but the benefits also represent something they can claw back later. Taking away a small perk and giving you a shitty raise gives them an overall cost reduction relative to inflation. Cutting your salary is much more overt.
And here I am still writing asmjs by hand. Do we know if that's fully deprecated or are there any plans to keep it fast and loved like wasm?
You are basically saying that social engineering never works, but there are many stories about how social engineering sometimes works.
I agree with all of this and spent my youth as part of a really great troop that did lots of great youth-led events. It was a wonderful enriching experience that has had lasting value in my adult life. But it was not a replacement for all the time I spent hanging out shooting the shit with my friends. Both things were really important to me.
Except by the standards of the mainstream media, the economy is ROCKING. Even Twitler himself says so! So if the economy is actually bad, that points to a problem with how we're even discussing the economy.

(I'm not saying it's not. Read Andrew Yang's The War on Normal People for a superb analysis of how we're talking about the wrong things, economically.)
> But they didn't worry about liquidity, about speed of transactions, about the energy/processing costs

Go to any of the dev listservs and you'll see that's basically all anyone has talked about for the past decade. The lack of progress (in implementation, not ideas) in this arena forced the wholesale split of the community.
Nationalistic flamewar will get you banned here, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. Please do not post like this to Hacker News again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oops. I linked to some other book with a similar name. This is the correct book: https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Alms-Economic-History-Prince...
Basque is not an ethnic identity? Wikipedia would seem to contradict that:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism
You’re just pretending the server is outside of scope. In reality you have to consider the security model of the whole system.

The server is not outside of scope.
In the case of "learn to code" the context was the content, not harassment.
Apple iPad Air 2019 review: happy medium
> Why is this better than giving employees a $1200 higher salary and saving on the $6/mo fee?

It is better, from the employer’s perspective, because it is a new way to slide age discrimination under the radar.
> police aren’t that bad (compared to other cities)

You mean the police department that was investigated by the DOJ for being engaged in a "pattern or pratice" of violating constitutional rights through excessive force, specifically against minorities?

The same police department that turns a blind eye to _any_ property crime?

Just making sure that we're talking about the same Seattle Police Department here. SPD has been a disgrace for the past 10+ years.

In fairness, they are improving IMO.
X1 Extreme and P1 fill a void between the X1 and P52. More ram, but lighter.
I disagree. You’re most likely going to get a “CEO answer”.

The problem with asking these questions is - what is the criteria for a good vs bad response? What are red flags?

These questions sound super handwavy and can be answered easily by polished talk. They’re useless mostly.

Instead ask specific questions that can reveal deeper issues. If you’re asking about time, then ask - how many months until X? If they waggle around then follow up again - specifically, how many months or quarters do you think it’s going to take to do X?
Libertarian isn't equal to right-wing, but neither is nationalism or racism or anything else that you may see in fascism.

Fundamentally, the left is about collectivism and the right is about individualism. The difference is whether you think the state is a provider or a parasite. It's about wanting the government to take care of you or get out of your way. It's about wanting the government to make everybody have equal stuff or an equal opportunity.
Recently read this book in a business book club. It's A++ and is a great mindset shift for business. Make high percentage decisions, and don't discount a decision if it was a good decision but the outcome happened to not work out.
As anecdotal evidence, their results seem to be indicative of the real-world browser performance I'm seeing with my (largish) application. There is a perceptible difference between Safari, Chrome and Firefox, in that order.

I really hope that Firefox catches up with JavaScript performance, BTW.
Plus going for something that you feel solves a problem, or at least scratches a personal itch, makes it so much easier to actually go and learn/tinker/build.

Without that motivation, a lot of us struggle with going beyond various ineffective learning strategies (reading the docs, doing a hello world, getting sucked into the particular language's bike sheds).
For anyone who doesn't get the reference, people keep declaring bitcoin dead:

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
Oh god. The towels. That may have been the longest thread on Mini Microsoft ever. It was talked about for weeks.

They saved $100,000 on towels and how many developers stood around the water cooler for hours complaining about it? I bet they lost more than that in labor costs.
wow! aren't you edgy?
> Now, feasibility of any of this aside: that just depresses me more than anything I’d heard in a long while. You won’t even try? C’mon! What happened to “we are doing it not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard”? The mentality that we can do literally anything we put our minds to?

They are going to try. Just a month before, Trump himself had signed a bill outlining a manned Mars mission, and the timeline to actually do it.

What they said no to was a spur of the moment request, made without discussing feasibility (or anything else about it) with anyone else before making it, to do it way way way faster than that.

Here's an article with the details [1].

[1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trump-offered-nasa-un...
Marxists have done enough harm thorough the history to justify ban. Stalin, Mao, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Khmer Rouge are just few examples off the top of my head. Just because they didn't do anything violent recently shouldn't mean they are allowed to spread their ideology.
Same here!

I first came across the story here on HN, and every time someone mentions it I re-read it. It truly never gets old; only now I just got goosebumps. I think it's the people bonding part that gets me.
There is no such thing as "dogfight at close range" with an aircraft that travels at Mach 3+ when cruising into enemy territory.

Even the slightest turn at those speeds moves the airplane by 10s of miles.

Any attempt to intercept or shoot down planes that fast happens at great distances and is totally dependent on computers, radar, and missiles.
It's not an issue for like 95% of the users, which is why Wireguard went that way. For the people who really need something better they are left to figure it out for themselves. Normally this is OK, but sometimes it leads to situations like PGP Email where key distribution is never really solved and the whole thing kind of lumbers around in a half dead state forever.
C'mon, that's an absurd misreading of those comments.

> He says he rejects nationalism, independence, and sovereignty for Other Races. He thinks the Aryan Race, being a conquering and wandering global people, must destroy and dominate all the world.

"I'm not a white nationalist because I want the entire world to be white-only" is a nonsense quibble on the terminology.
The JVM was designed as a compile target for a very particular kind of language. One with a Java-like object model, with some later concessions for more dynamic languages.

C, C++, Rust, etc. do not fit into that model at all. There's a lot of software written in C, and there's a lot of performance to be gained by dropping down to that level when necessary.
There is this really weird hindsight about Apple products that I just don't understand.

Apple products have always had weird quirks and defects. Always. All of them. The joke about Apple was to make sure you ALWAYS got AppleCare, because the odds of a failure within three years were high and for most repairs you were looking at a minimum of $300. Any repair of a logic board was $600+.

I've been using a Mac as my primary machine since the Intel transition in 2006. Every single one has had an repair bill covered by AppleCare that was larger than the cost of AppleCare itself. The video card on the logic board on my first Core Duo iMac failed at some point. $800 repair. My polycarbonate MacBook had the super drive fail. That was like $250 alone. Something else failed with that one but I can't remember. Battery or trackpad maybe. My MacBook Air from 2012 — the screen delaminated — $300 for a new screen + labor that I don't recall. Had it replaced right before the warranty expired, but it's happened again with the replacement as well. And it will eventually happen to every single MacBook Air ever made.

Mac products are not designed to last (that's not saying that they can't, but they aren't designed to). They are not designed to be repaired. Never have been. They are designed to get you into a 3-5 year upgrade cycle. Once you realize that it's actually quite freeing because you just don't worry about it the same way you don't worry about the quirks in a leased car. You buy a $3,000 MBP and keep it for three years. You sell it for $1,000 when the warranty expires and get the new one for $3,000. It ends up costing you $55/mo forever, but you always have a new model MBP. That's the Apple model, and that's the way it's always been. If you want a computer that's designed to last you get a ThinkPad or a business-grade Dell/HP.
A couple of good past discussions:

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207495

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717982
You can construct a client such that the server IS outside of the scope. You can determine if a client has such a property from the client alone. I would only want to use a client such that the server is outside of the scope. It's strictly better if the client has this property even if the server is open and magically trusted to be running the code you expect. The keybase client is such a client. If it isn't please inform someone with details on why.

edit: Do you audit all of the software running on all of the routers between you and keybase's servers? Why or why not? If not, why does this reasoning not extend to the servers? Why would the routers not part of the whole system, top to bottom?
I'm sure that it's at least rumoured in other degrees apart from economics (we are a cynical bunch), that the purpose of getting a higher education (aside from the ivy leagues where it's membership of a particular class) is not learning, but signaling to employers that you'll 'eat shit for a couple of years'.

Few better ways to take that to the extreme in many cases than a PhD.

Also, as a foreigner, can't help but point out that there seems to universally be a lot of assumptions made with academic qualifications and the like with many countries immigration laws and systems...
Again, you're conflating free speech with indexing. You're as entitled to be listed in a newpaper's classifieds as you are entitled to be indexed on a search engine or hosted on a private website. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be listed by someone else through force.
Spacex-cljs – Simple App with ClojureScript and Re-Frame (React)
I'm happy that I found this subthread here, which in a sea of comments talks about the really relevant point: Signal's goal is not to provide the most secure communication channel ever to targeted individuals. It's to mitigate passive eavesdropping on a whole population. This creates the smokescreen that the actual targets require, and prevents people from actually becoming a target in the first place.
As with everything, there's an emacs extension for it : ).

;;; youwill.el --- generate meaningless marketing hype

http://www.splode.com/~friedman/software/emacs-lisp/src/youw...

I got:

have you ever been forced by your TV to eat peaches? or been transported to an alternate reality where you lost your piglet? you will. and the company that will bring it to you: AT&T
Shall we demand hackers to never touch network-connected computer as prevention of future incidents?

I don't think life-long sentences is OK for all but most severe crimes. And a single DUI, especially on lower end of punishable spectrum, is not such.
i made a mailing list and slack

slack: https://baxx.dev/join/slack
google groups: https://baxx.dev/join/groups
> There is no such thing as "just a place where people can post content" in the sense that you are going for.

It's a bit contrived, but the internet itself is such a place. I think it's widely accepted that the internet itself, and to some extent DNS, is a common carrier in the sense that it shouldn't be doing discrimination based on content, just on bandwidth. I mean, I don't want to start a whole net neutrality thing here, but a router or the operator of a router does not face any consequences for routing traffic, no matter how offensive or illegal that traffic is.

Web sites that are principally public repositories, where people can upload their content, seem to be a borderline case of that -- if they want to offload the risk of hosting the content, then they can do so, but it seems to me that they have to provide a service to society in return, namely, some sort of neutrality about the content posted.

I think it's equally reasonable to say that they should have no shielding at all -- society has no vested interest, necessarily, in allowing such a site to exist that has absolutely no say over what is posted on it. Allowing users to contribute to a site is fine so long as the site, in the end, bears the responsibilities for societal negatives associated with posting content (primarily libel and copyright, the two unambiguous restrictions on free speech).
Ask HN: Document Management for Startups
My startup scans and shreds almost all paperwork. What tools are there to index and understand tens of thousands of scanned pages to get useful information out of them? Tools that are simple for end users, not for document management experts
This is the thing that always gets me. It has been hugely painful for hundreds of thousands of people living in the bay area, for 10-15+ years now. Sure, maybe in 20 years people will give up and prices will go down again. Maybe. But what a pyrrhic victory it will be for the long term landowners who got their way only through imposing hardship on others for 30+ years.

But I guess they just don't care. "I got mine; fuck you" seems to be an attitude prevalent around here.
Thank you for your service!, and for sharing.. I didn't know that.
Storing UTC is still usually right because in many cases rather than dealing with calendar times, developers are dealing with instants in time that have already passed/are passing (creation/update timestamps, logs, etc.) I think this basically is only important when you might store a date in the future. If you have timezone rules incorrect for present or near past dates, well you're going to have a hell of a time dealing with that no matter what you do, really.

Handling calendar times and recurring times have their own complications.
Brexit: Man and woman arrested for tweeting threats to a Remain MP
Not optimal in all situations. But if you're playing with a full table of weak/loose players, it is good to play even tighter than that. Only play a high pocket pair or AK, and play them aggressively. Your hope being to take people 1 vs 1 for all the money you can.

You don't need to be any cleverer than that until people pay enough attention that they won't call you unless they think that they have you beat. Then you will have to go for a wider range and start to play a better strategy.
I'm convinced a lot of people do not understand "free speech" as it applies to the First Amendment and as a fundamental principal of democratic systems of government.

The First Amendment puts limits on congress. It's a check against government oppression, full stop. The Fourteenth Amendment extends that all the way down to local governments.

I feel like many people are then trying to bend its scope past the breaking point to fit their worldview.
By doing that you're effectively turning these websites into 4chan. Can you imagine a website like Hacker News if no moderation was possible, nobody could get banned and nothing could be removed without a court order? You'd just have every thread spammed by bots.

That's the problem with unmoderated online discourse, cheap inflammatory posts are easy to make and draw a lot of attention while in-depth analysis takes time to write and to read. Why bother coming up with a clever retort if you can just spam "no u" and "fuck off" until those people are driven away?

In my experience no moderation doesn't result in more varied opinions, instead it turns into an echo chamber where the bullies take over. Again, look at 4chan or some of the most popular, less moderated subreddits. It's pretty crap.
I think the ~30K number comes from the American Community Survey, run by the census department. At present, the most recent numbers are for 2017, and list 31K "vacant" units. https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/17_5YR/D...
Combining apartments not currently occupied (including just transiently between leases), condos which haven't sold, AirBnBs, etc, I don't think this number is crazy.

I'd be in favor of a tax on unoccupied units, and it should be painful. If we want to change policy to build more housing stock to house people, surely that policy choice is less effective every time some speculative investor buys a house or condo, and chooses not to rent it because tenants will drag down their resale price.
Yep, this is totally right and an important part of the program. But still not a substitute for spending unstructured time with peers. If nothing else, teenagers should be spending time with possible love interests, flirting, saying the wrong things, saying the right things, figuring out why which is which, that sort of thing. For the large majority of kids that wasn't going to happen at BSA events. Maybe that will change with the broadening to include girls, but I suspect that sort of stuff will be frowned on rather than encouraged; it's just not the goal of the program.
Could the Shuttle not be fitted with jet engines? Or do you mean there was no official spec to actually do that, whereas with the Buran there was?
Yes. And that bike storage would be full in no time if people started putting cargo bikes in there en masse. The beauty of bike parking is they're lightweight and easy to put in a very very compact manner. Cargo bikes take up space of several bikes and require much more space for manoeuvring.
That only matters as long as those services are alive and people bother to keep the data.
I realize I kicked up a hornet's nest by accidentally omitting one word: "physical" – I meant to say let's start by stifling speech that directly calls for _physical_ harm.

The next would be maybe an argument of banning speech that _indirectly_ calls for physical harm, since that leaves room for interpretation. Calling for a white ethno-state indirectly calls for physical harm to all non-whites. Why? Because how the hell else are you going to move us out, other than by force? Are you planning to pay each of us $2 million to leave the country? Obviously not.

The third would be all other forms of hate speech (which arguably would cause even more debate).
Also Android to Windows phone to Android to iPhone. All of those transitions lost all chat history.
Gotta love the downvote storms, huh?

You want orthodoxy? Every downvote that you're getting on this is HN political orthodoxy by a bunch of dudes who think they're Free Thinkers who believe in Free Speech.
See also the quasi-illegal adventure of Rail Riding, where you bring your own tiny rail car and ride on abandoned track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBsSY3Ktqss
iCalendar Is Wrong (2007)
How is it age discrimination? There are tons of people in their 40s and 50s still paying off student loans.
The CLR is not a great target for running unmodified C code. I suspect that was included in "practically any language."
Anyone think it strange that a phone company wouldn't see the emergence of the smartphone?

Guffawed when I saw those phone booth picture phones.
(PhD, Condensed Matter 2015)
I am a quant at a trading firm. I have more daily challenges and unsolvable problems than I have ever faced in physics. Obviously it pays well but 12+ hour days take a toll. Beats working a post-doc for N years, on the other hand...
I was impressed that my non-technical parents challenged my brother when he (or someone claiming to be him) (claimed to have) lost his phone and other possessions travelling.

I think as long as the meta message about the change of key is prominent/scary enough, even non-HNers will be as on edge as necessary.
Looks like the flaws are:

1. "overstatement of activity"

2. 7 transactions/second

3. constrained currency supply (21 M)

4. fraud in exchanges

Odd that only one of these points (2, scaling) relates to Bitcoin the protocol itself. And that scaling issue has raged from Bitcoin's first public disclosure. This clock has been stuck at noon forever.

The remaining three points have little to do with Bitcoin the technology and more to do with how Bitcoin is being used. All can be viewed as either a feature or bug, depending on your worldview. Consider the counterpoints:

- Nobody knows exactly how often Bitcoin is used for payments or what it's used to buy. As such, its users can enjoy much more privacy than they can with other payment methods.

- Constrained supply means protection against inflationist central banks.

- A currency that isn't used to commit fraud isn't very useful. Therefore, to say that Bitcoin has failed because of fraud is dishonest at best.

The article does to mention Lightning Network, but doesn't give enough context to make anything of. It's operational now and there's been a flurry of development activity in the last year. LN has the potential to:

- increase transaction throughput well beyond 7 transactions/second

- increase user privacy

- increase usability

I don't expect journalists reporting on Bitcoin to go very deep. But it would be nice if they changed the playbook every once in awhile.
So as I understand it Amtrak doesn't own the track. Could these owners not negotiate access with the track owners? They could use vintage engines also, if that's their thing.
Another Billion-Dollar Industry That Sells the Illusion of Better Health
It would be great to audit all of the software running on all of the routers I use. I hope that we someday move to a model where all routers run open-source attestable software.

Let me phrase this another way: if there's nothing to hide on the server, why isn't it open source?

We can go back and forth on this forever. My position is simple: strictly speaking, it's more rational to trust open source software. Trusting closed source software ultimately boils down to "trust me". I would love to reduce the degrees to which we have to blindly trust the systems we use.