skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
long hours != work hard

so sad people in that forum even don't realize it and are so proud of their so-called "hard work" while getting exploited by their employers.
The Supreme Court first ruled in 2008[1] that the right to personal ownership of guns is a valid reading of the 2nd Amendment (devoid of any military/militia purpose -- a departure from previous Supreme Court decisions).

While it is correct to argue that Supreme Court decisions are "case law", the Supreme Court is the final appellate court in the US -- so the only way to change their decision would be through a constitutional amendment.

So, opposing the second amendment is the only way to effectively oppose the rulings related to it (assuming that's what you want to oppose).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
Show HN: Crowdsourced and curated list of books by women
Cone Programming Langauge
Can't reveal too much about the technology as of yet, but the key thing is our technology is not incremental improvement. It's orders of magnitude improvement to what currently exists. You're right that it's a crowded market, but in our minds the market is currently offering horses while we'll be offering Teslas :)
One little correction.

Hedge Fund: Convince customers to invest their money in the fund. Extract as much of it as possible through fees. Doesn't care much where the market goes, charge a fee either way, a bit more if it goes up.
Very disconcerting. I guess organizations can now kill people based on a hidden 'citizen score' or a similar political metric.
Hi, creator of this project here.

I am a software product manager with background in programming. I am creating #BooksByWomen at thebooksbywomen.com, curating a list of books written by women, especially in the tech/business category as a side project. You could head out to https://www.producthunt.com/makers-festival-2019/voting#tiny... and vote if you like it.

Made with:
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The love and help from the communities at WomenMake, Women in Product, Tech Ladies and a lot of my friends.

I read Cathy O’Neils book on algorithms: Weapons of Math Destruction, I absolutely loved it. It resonated with me on a lot of insights I was seeing myself in my career. So I paid attention to women authors in my network and there are so many that never would have reached me through traditional marketing and social media if I hadn’t sought them out specifically. This is why I am curating and maintaining this list and want it to succeed.

What I would ideally want to do:
* Create a page to honor my supporters
* Publish regular bi-weekly interview with women authors about their journey
* Publish featured books based on common themes, coming up
* Create a browser extension where this content can be shared effectively
I do hold a fulltime job, so carving out time would be a challenge, any support helps.
You can also support me most directly by visiting the site and buying some books from awesome female authors, I make a small affiliate commission from Amazon.

You can also support me by buying me coffee or ramen on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kalinaz
Reading a story like this, which is based entirely upon the information provided by Gal, and drawing any widespread conclusion about travel into the US is utterly irrational. From this story there is zero ability to determine if it really happened, or assuming it happened, you have no idea what the actual interactions were like between Gal and CBP agents.

Some of the facts presented don't even make sense. You don't take the fifth when refusing a search. You're relying on the fourth amendment and refusing to consent to a search. Searches like this having nothing to do with self incrimination.
If it was economically viable, it would be done. Forget the US and complaining about the darn treehuggers. Look at countries that don't particularly care about the environment. Russia gets about 20% of its power from nuclear, and is currently scaling back expansion plans due to cost. India gets only 3% from nuclear, and new development will get that to maybe 5%. China gets less than 4% of its power from nuclear, and is backing off from new construction plans as well.

If nuclear were really cheap, and environmentalist resistance was really the problem, we'd see much more nuclear power in these countries, both existing and under construction.
Ask HN: Should a software free trial be behind an email sign-up wall?
Hey, I'm looking for people who have provided a free trial of digital download software before. Did you put your free trial download behind an email sign-up wall?

I currently have an application I'm working on that requires people to provide their email address into a form before they're allowed to download the free trial software.

I do this because it allows me to directly reach out to users, provide them with on-boarding emails/updates, and build a mailing list of people interested in keystroke automation (my domain of software).

However, I recently posted my software to Reddit and it got a very angry response from prospective users who didn't want to enter their email addresses. They said it put up a barrier and turned them away from downloading.

So in your experience, is the added barrier to entry of an email signup worth it, given the richness of interaction you can have with customers over email? Real world experience and examples would be excellent (if you have them).

Let me know your thoughts, experience and wisdom!

Cheers,
Robin
You are arguing against higher level abstractions. Absolutely nothing in your post is in anyway specifi to Mathematica. You could substitute the language and the api call to any other and have the same argument.
One problem with your nuance here is that this is the internet. Numbers mean basically nothing when one group with extreme views can then go 'alert' their echo chamber to an 'incident.' Whether the only comment you receive is me or whether it's me and my 50,000 adherents should not sway you more or less. What should or should not sway you is the logic in what I say. And so too with Linus whether 10 people say something or a million people say something is nowhere near as relevant as what they say.
Only in the realm of digital stuff. The moment it hits real physical world it becomes clear that the entire castle is built on sand, using sand. Since we have not figure out yet how to feed ourselves and house ourselves using the crypto assigning it such attributes is rather odd.
How “Good Design” Failed Us
Yea dude. I don't think its a slur either.

let me rephrase as: 'people who grew up in caste system societies', are more likely to normalize 'caste systems'.

I think it is a bit disingenuous for you to censor that and really makes me question the integrity. That is in no way shape or form racist or national. It just so happens that there is one particular country that has a predominant caste system. For you to censor that fact I believe goes against the spirit of this community.
Sometimes? If I see a person in their 20s or 30s that have other status items (expensive clothes/accessories) but a $50 smartphone I assume something isn't quite right.
Duh!

The mother, who overwhelmingly takes care of cooking, laundry and many other child-related activities, cannot spend as much time working as the father (who on average spends less time on those activities).

It's not a wage gap, but a lower pay for less work. That hasn't changed for at least 500 years.

But now it apparently takes a left-leaning social scientist to figure this out and wrap it into a gender discrimination theory.
I takes over so much of regular infrastructure - starting and stopping deamons, logging (writing log entries into binary files only systemd itself can read), login, time synchronization, network setup, and an ever-increasing number of unrelated tasks remotely associated with managing computers.

Some of us like the Unix way where things are predictable and composed of small, transparently-working programs that do one thing, and do it well. Nothing that systemd solves is worth abandoning established ways of system automation and follow Poettering's (author of systemd) vision instead. Systemd in its entirety is approaching the size of the Linux kernel itself. If I wanted that kind of monolith, I'd be running Windows, or AIX (where ironically Linux is heading with RedHat being bought by IBM). Have fun with IBM Tivoli SystemD cluster manager some ten years down the road.
Web-Based Monte Carlo Simulation for Agile Estimation
Suppose what everyone is saying is true: "We pay for the services companies provides us with our data".

Normally, depending in which jurisdiction you're in, you could get your money back for "bad" service. If someone still wants to use our data as a service payment, how do you propose we get our data back for bad service?
Individual ownership of data doesn't solve the problem because there's an inherently unequal relationship between the data's owner and the data's consumer. The consumer whether public or private has limited use for an individual data point and is really interested in the collective sum of individuals' data. We see this unequal relationship in plenty of other domains and it always collapses into giving into the demands of the larger entity just for the privilege to participate.

What really would make more sense is the collective ownership of data. Allow for data owners the power to form a body to collectively bargain with entities that want access to their data.
Here's other takes:

> Fox News exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on

([1])

> CNN exacerbates poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on

(removed hoaxes since I couldn't find much in that line, but feel welcome to correct me [2])

> Big media companies with political interests exacerbate poisonous politics by creating filter bubbles of like-minded partisans, spreading hoaxes and inaccuracies, inducing anxiety and paranoia, rewarding clickbait and outrage, and so on

([1], [2])

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_controversies

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_controversies#Persian_Gulf...
> MCAS is a compensatory system that is meant to allow the plane to be certified airworthy

Where did you get this information? My understanding is the airframe has the potential to nose up due to extra lift provided by engine placement (eg, lift not commanded by stick pull). MCAS is used to prevent this stall condition during high AoA.
I'm sorry about that, I didn't mean to offend anybody, but here it looks to me that the owner is making money from lying to people. I'm travelling a lot and I got sometimes surprised by how much worse a place was in reality than from the first impression on Booking.com. I should have explained myself nicer.
No mention of possible resistance from fossil fuels interests? They have trillions of $ of assets to defend, so I would expect some unconventional methods to prevent renewable from growing quickly: buy some media, disrupt elections, promote FUD, get some big countries into war (an autocracy like Saudi Arabia certainly have this capability, or Russia since its regime also massively relies on gas to keep its economy afloat), etc.

Energy is not just about cost, it's a huge power that can make and destroy countries and empires. They will certainly not die without a fight.
Thanks very much for your post. I'm intrigued, but to be honest, your post set off a lot of warning bells in my head in that it talked about things very much in generalities, but I still don't really know what you intend to do. Perhaps that's just because you want to keep your cards close to your chest for now, but how should I think of your company. Is it like Firebase but instead of "consumer mobile" focused it is enterprise focused? How should I think of it in comparison to the PAAS offerings from AWS, GCP, Hiroku, etc.
Toxic crap in solar? For silicon panels, which are the vast majority of the market, what specifically is toxic in the panel itself?

I can only think of lead in solder, which is the same issue for all electronic devices.

There are toxic chemicals used in the processes for making the panel, which need proper environmental regulation, but that doesn’t mean the panel itself contains toxic materials.
Why did you choose Clojure?
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Huh, i guess that confirms widevine's illicit use of pushing unsigned libraries is being covered up.
Your odd story does not in fact provide logical evidence for the need to "nuke [anyone] from orbit".
That site is heavy on generic clip art photos.
The code that their F*->C compiler (KreMLin) emits is…interesting…

https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star/blob/evercrypt-...
The club promoters are real influencers.
You are merging the invariant with the variant.
The loop invariant is supposed to tell about the state of the variant at any loop start.
The variant in this case is the tupple (i,sum).
Your version does not say anything about the stepwise evaluation of the sum.
I wonder how many of these "influencers" have as much to offer as Nikola Tesla. I imagine not... any.
You might want to check the username of who you're relying to.
Adopt These 10 Practices to Boost Your Brand’s Performance in 2019
P.S. For reference, the software product is here: https://numpadsuperpowers.com and currently still has an email signup requirement before downloading the free trial.
U.S. SEC issues guidelines to help analyze crypto assets
> Totally can, FairFX and TorFX (both UK-regulated money transmitters) will safely and securely make an MXN to GBP transfer for right around 2.5% and believe it or not Western Union is usually quite competitive. Next time check out cuex.com which compares options for you.

I tried both of them and I can't (I am living in Mexico). I don't understand why you think BTC is a nightmare. For me, living in Mexico, and dealing with MXN and GBP (my brother is in Northen Ireland) it has worked wonders.

You are assuming that Bitcoin exchanges in Mexico are unregulated, when they are VERY regulated. You are making negative assumptions for every Crypto step while making positive assumptions for every step in your scenario. I does not make sense.
The article has invariants in comments. I like to put invariants in assertions so they get checked at run time.

I know this is common practice but I haven’t seen it mentioned here and it might help someone.

edit: Jonsen's reply question, for which I don't have an answer, is instructive: these loop invariants are often impossible or impractical to achieve in assertions. I modified the above to be less wrong.
By that same token there is no reason to complain about how difficult it can be to enter the U.S. for certain individuals -- or working as intended as you call it. I also find it a bit disturbing how easily you apply law & order in the name of a country that was not involved in deciding the validity of that decision or the circumstances behind it.
You mean +50 or +150% ?

Either way, it's insignificant and you're actually losing money. The stock of all the big companies went up tremendously in the past 5 years. Anybody who invested in large US equities made just as much if not more.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/why-does-chrome-sandbox-need...
Setting a minimum wage and enforcing it has always been a government's job. And when I say government I not necessarily mean federal government. It can be a state government (like California) or city government (like San Francisco).

A single company can enforce it in a limited manner and that doesn't have any discernable impact on the society.
Numberphile created an entertaining video regarding Bolt's speed, the speed of light, and the distance he actually covered while sprinting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tflf05x-WVI
> Some vegetarians are just very grossed out by it (I'm one of them).

I find the fact that you eat cheese, dairy and eggs disgusting too. Why haven't you gone vegan yet?
Do you have an equivalent ticket status of "Unable to reproduce" available? I have in the past put tickets in "On Hold" status with "Unable to reproduce" as the reason for the hold status.
Because "self-evident" doesn't hold up to analysis. Just because you see a pattern, and you decide that it's obvious and common sense and everyone would recognise it, doesn't mean you're right in any of those assertions.

Without formulating hypotheses and then proving (i.e. testing) those hypotheses, your assertions are opinions; good for the pub, questionable-at-best for basing arguments on.

Especially when dealing with "common sense": don't believe yourself. The moment you go "but it's obvious that", actually prove it to yourself. And if you can't (and very often, we can't) then by all means keep thinking it _might_ be true, but that you have no true basis to believe that and you can't use it to back up arguments.
Yes, you hit the nail on the head! The societal impacts have to be considered. If you rely on each person to rationally decide whether or not to sell 'their own' data, you'll have a tragedy of the commons situation.

Maybe we will see a health insurance company that costs half as much as the rest, but to apply you have to give them all your social data and they run "CREATE TABLE rejected_applicants AS SELECT name, id FROM insurance_applicants WHERE health_risk_level >= .7".

All the healthy people will rationally sell their data and try to join this company, and all the other companies will have sicker pools and have to double their prices. For a person who couldn't get accepted into the cheaper company, the fact that they can sell their own data is cold comfort.

Privacy harms will always fall disproportionately on the marginalized: the poor, the sick, dissidents, and minorities. The framework of 'data ownership' can never make these harms right because it fails to recognize that half the people selling their data often hurts the other half.
I've always felt that buildpacks in Heroku / Cloud Foundry are the way to go as they offer a higher level of abstraction than Docker files. The resulting containers are often production ready with good default settings. In docker you are re-inventing the wheel more often than not.
I think a lot of that controllable consumption could be done by the computing power of a $6 ESP8266.

It shouldn’t be hard for my fridge or hot water heater to buy a kwh of electricity anytime over the next 7 hours to do it’s thing.

Same for dishwashers and clothes dryers: I’m 100% okay with pressing “Clean/dry within 8 hours” setting.

Same for electric cars: I don’t care if it charges between 2AM and 4 AM or 7AM and 9AM, as long as it’s topped off by 9AM.

I wouldn’t mind a piece of code on my laptop that would switch to battery when the electricity price became massive for a small period of time.

Hot water heaters are effectively thermal banks.

It shouldn’t be hard to convince people to replace their AC with a unit that makes ice overnight if it cuts their electricity bill in half.

If it’s exonomically viable, you’ll have people knocking on your door trying to sell it to you while still being beneficial to the buyer.
Not clickbait in the slightest. This is not about Facebook per se about persistence of their shared data - my information - once it's made public. HIPAA, by comparison has all sorts of statements about PII and business associates. But apparently FB can share with whoever has a pulse and I can find out about it later via Shodan.

I wrote this even with the original link and version of the headline.
I know, right? For now, you have to know somebody who knows somebody who knows Kelly. :-)

Word is that they're going to start opening up reservations for full-day events, sometime this year. Maybe $30k for the day (but that's just a guess). One wave every four minutes. 7 hours in the day. You can bring a dozen friends and surf until your arms (and legs, because the rides can be a full minute long) are noodles. Or you can bring 30 friends and still get eight or ten waves for the day.

After being lucky enough to tag along to a group that surfed there last year, I've spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about what my income level would have to be for the $30k to seem like a "reasonable" outlay, once a year. The answer is "a lot lower than is sensible." It's a clean, head-high face, a super-fast down the line wave, and two legit barrel sections. Better than the best waves anywhere on the California coast outside of a handful of days a year.

Of course, $30k is just the entry level option. They are starting to think about licensing the plans and tech. For maybe $10M you could build your own! (No idea what it costs to run it per year.)
Vogtie is the example that proves the rule. Originally, it was supposed to cost right around USD14 Billion. Cost overruns have pushed that, not to USD25 Billion, but USD28 Billion. (And the online date has been pushed back from this year, to 2022.) Keep in mind, the DoE was supposed to back USD8 Billion of the original USD14 Billion price tag. So needless to say, the financials have changed considerably. So much so that the consortium behind Vogtie nearly fell apart due to the latest cost overrun combined with the fact that they could not pass any more cost overruns on to their customers. (The customers under state law are not allowed to switch energy suppliers.)

Vogtie is a slow motion train crash. When it comes online, the customers will be forced to pay more than wind power customers BECAUSE the government intervened and prohibited any customers from changing suppliers. And I suspect that's gonna go over about as well as a fart in church.
You've entirely missed his point. You were "bullied" but "ended it quickly", meaning that there was no meaningful power differential between you and your "bully". Many (most?) bullied people don't have that luxury, and, to extend the analysis all the way back to Linus, none of Linus's victims did.

You're not doing an especially good job of defending Linus on this thread. I don't think he'd find your arguments especially useful as a tool for persuading people that his previous behavior was acceptable. Your comparison between him and Theo de Raadt, by the way, was especially cringe-y.
I'm surprised you associate it with autism and not gender dysphoria.