skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonderful! This quote sums it all up for me: ”I didn’t have other projects that were this front-facing, customer wise. And I discovered I immensely enjoyed it”. Wow, does it show :) By the way, the quote was not a TL;DR - it was an invitation to read a great story. I am glad I did.
> I also don't understand why you would hold the founding fathers responsible for things that happened several decades in the future.

The Constitutional explicit protections for both slavery and the slave trade were written in by the framers, they did not occur several decades later. The concrete divergence between UK and US policy on slavery began no later than the UK 1807 ban on the slave trade, which was less than two decades after the adoption of the Constitution while the framers were still politically active in many cases (Jefferson was President, for instance).
> Force people to spend it or tax it at 90% when it's passed on.

Your whole line of thinking seems absurd to me. Why is it totally fine (by you) for someone to spend all their money on themselves, but not okay for them to gift it to someone? You're saying if it's a gift (or estate passed to children/spouse), tax it a second time at 90%. But if they spend it on fancy hotels, luxury cruises, etc. there's no double tax. This is absurd, and irrational.

> The top marginal tax rate in California is over 50%.

How is this relevant? Marginal tax rate is a different unrelated thing. I for one, support a marginal tax rate of at least 70% on very high incomes. I think the people making less than $100k should pay a near-zero income tax, and people making above, say $2 million, should be taxed at least 70%. (Or, even better, at 90%.) But I want to keep taxes zero or nearly-zero for the middle-class, especially for the poor. In a tax system like mine, the tax-as-a-percentage-of-GDP would remain fairly low. So your comment on the "top marginal tax rate in California" is absolutely irrelevant.

> You can't give it to someone else, for instance, in excess of $14K per year you have to pay a gift tax.

I'm well aware of the gift tax, and I support it (at the current rate). It was created to prevent people from circumventing the estate tax (which I also support at the current rate). Now, notwithstanding the fact that this also is irrelevant to the point I raised, I'll point out another error: you and a lot of people think the gift tax exclusion is the only things there is, and forget about the lifetime gift tax exemption. You have a lifetime gift tax exemption of $11.18 million, and an annual gift tax exclusion of $15K, as of 2018. Only after you've given away $11.18 million, does the annual $15K limit kick in.

> You can't open a brokerage account in a foreign country and buy assets there

This is patently not true. Plenty of countries let you open brokerage accounts without being a citizen or resident there. And US law doesn't prevent you from opening brokerage accounts abroad. (The FATCA has made it a PITA for foreign financial firms to deal with American clients, and they might turn you away; but for those who are not American, that's not an issue.)
Yeah, no thanks. I do not want anyone else living on my property. Especially not in my garage.
Maybe the average social credit score in the US is higher than the average in China.

Being added to the no fly list could be the result of an equivalently low score under both regimes.
No; this a band-aid, not a solution. A solution is changing laws and allowing or encouraging development to happen and allow all kinds of development, from mixed use, luxury, middle class and subsidized, not necessarily in the same place. Allow gentrification to happen, but also build housing for the poor.
When I proposed package management for web assembly in 2015 I suggested that it should be a fully distributed system. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/320
Gimp was never meant to do those kinds of operations, and it still can't - at least not "easily"; it's still as cumbersome as before.

You can still do "pixel level" editing - you just can't do primitives.

Honestly, though, it's not the right tool for that.

If I need to do vector art, then I'll use a vector art program like inkscape. If I need to do CAD, then there's a number of options in that space as well.

If I need to do pixel level editing, or something similar, my go-to editor on Linux is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrafX2

...mainly because I'm familiar with it since it is virtually a clone of various editors I used on my Amiga back in the day.
I'd argue consumers are benefiting greatly from Amazon's profits. They have overall re-invested those profits into other businesses that benefit consumers.

Ex: Purchased Whole Foods and have brought down those prices overall plus building Amazon Go stores which offer a much better consumer experience than traditional grocery. Amazon's Web Services platform has leveled the playing field and enabled many startups. Amazon has pressured almost all other retailers online & offline to offer free or cheap delivery which is great for consumers. Walmart would likely never have done this without pressure from Amazon.
Full of shit as usual but I guess we'll see.
It’s “easy” in the sense that reusable rockets are “easy” - they’re possible, but noone else is working on them.

Musk was way ahead of time, again.
That's ridiculous. There is no law that mandates consumers get a specific percentage of the economic surplus. Amazon is worth about a trillion dollars. Amazon has 100 million prime customers, not to mention all the non Prime customers. With these very generous assumptions NOT in Amazon's favor, $10K equity per prime customer is totally on par with the amount of lifetime consumer surplus a Prime customer enjoys thanks to Amazon existing, possibly in gasoline and shipping savings alone! Amazon probably does anti competitive things, and competing vendors and their low skill employees and contactors maybe earning less, bit it's laughable to claim that customers are suffering.
The problem is the same. The fact that we can hide most of the kernel memory is handy, but it shouldn't be up to the software to do that - user processes shouldn't be able to access memory that pagefaults. Definitely a dropped ball by the manufacturer
If thats the best that can be said about it then it seems it really was a pointless device.
"My entire life I’ve been tracking people who are the best in the world, and hiding their identity,” he said in the interview.

Such as?
>The last part of your comment hints that your objections to Rust’s governance may be more political than language design related.

I checked the code of conduct and it didn't seem too political to me, internet forums have had those kinds of rules for decades. What it is, though, is an example of an administrative artifact, too many of which will suck energy away as top level people spend more and more of their time not thinking about the end product.
Yes, via vertical integration[1] - this should be obvious to anyone outside of the FTC[2].

[1] For people unaware of Amazon's practice of pushing out middlemen who conduct high volumes of business: http://fortune.com/2016/04/20/amazon-copies-merchants/

[2] People inside of the FTC are almost certainly aware, but happily continue to shove their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la I can't hear you la la la".
I assume it will be a free upgrade to those who paid for the self-driving hardware?
> on some guy for possibly damaging an incredibly small portion of their income

No, they're maintaining the precedent that piggy-backing off the fruits of their labour without consent is unacceptable. When they go easy on one thing, that gives carte blanche to the next.

It's not dirty, it's business.

> but their art loses it's charm when I think of the nastiness that their lawyers are wreaking

> the more I think about it, the less happy I am playing their games

The issue is with the copyright game, not the players who see no alternative but to play it. They have shareholders' investments to protect and must be seen to take action.

All I can say is that Nintendo's lawyers have been doing things like this since the NES, and if Nintendo's art wasn't tarnished in your eyes back then, then this really does sound like a knee-jerk reaction.
Most of the software I rely on feels done to me. If anything, I'm afraid that some of the companies have built monstrosities that just aren't sustainable.

Evernote, for example, feels like it should be made way, way smaller so that it can be maintained by a small group of people.
It also implies mind reading. How do they know that for sure? They don't.
Another cool (and more functional) compiler is Peachpie. You can compile WordPress and run it on. Net vm. From the reports it's even few times faster than "native" php :)

https://www.peachpie.io
Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Hiring VP, Sales
You’re right, soon we’ll be using their solutions.
Compensation, including perks, is usually very good in tech in comparison to many other industries. Most people rationalize and convince themselves that they're not really doing bad things, and that it's someone else who's the problem.

In some companies, the culture is also that of being oblivious (or acting oblivious) to the harm caused by the work. Facebook is the best example of this. Has there been any conscientious objector in that company? People like the WhatsApp and Instagram founders, who grew a conscience after getting billions in their pockets, don't count (even if one or two left some money on the table when quitting).

Money tells many a true tale of what goes in in people's minds.

The article, sadly, does not mention Facebook and all the surveillance that it enables and grows, along with oppressing people by forcing them to use "real names".
I think it largely depends on the person interviewing you. I know candidates interviewing for Machine Learning positions get asked with typical algorithm questions.
I think you are missing the point of the parent comment. They implied the U.S. founding fathers made progress toward universal suffrage, not perfected it.

While accurate, your point on slavery misses the point too. The parent comment was implying that significant democratic progress was made despite contentious disagreement on important issues like slavery.

Your "in spite of" comment comes across as if it's saying "their system was flawed, therefore it didn't make any meaningful contributions and society would have been better without it". Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good...

This exemplifies the parent comment's original point about Google's AI ethics committee of throwing the baby out with the bathwater because they were unable to meet the expectation that everyone agree on everything. If that maxim isn't met, they just take their ball and go home and the overall system is no better than when it started.
Definitely, proprietary software should be supported. You could either let developers upload the binary directly, or just not offer sources to download for users, optionally deleting them after they have been built.

Debian has developed an amazing set of standards for software repositories which I think should be applied universally to all package management ecosystems that want to have open source at their core.

E.g. they require that the source code has to be actual source code, aka "preferred form of modification" and not something minified. They also have separate repositories for proprietary and DFSG-free software, allowing users to choose whether they want to use proprietary software or not. Also, they run their builds without internet access, so the source code (as well as the dependencies tracked by the system) is actually everything needed.
My graduate stats teacher used a system like this and it was horrible. His handwriting was so bad on the tablet, but much better on the chalkboard.
For free mind you (at least in this case)
It's depth vs breadth.

Depth is good but it limits breadth. Before internet, and then before printed books, being narrow-minded was easier.

With that, the easy accessibility of information also helps depth in those who care.
> universally, the domain name always comes first, the business idea comes second.

I wonder what others think about this quote. Could he not have started the same exact business with another domain? Is owning the "right" domain that important that is should "come first" and be forgotten without it? naively I'd think Google@2019 gives more importance to content then to the domain name. No?
You could. Maybe not by the commonly available ROM patching tools. But you could write a program that takes as input the NES ROM and outputs the C64 ROM, such that that program contains nothing copyrighted by Nintendo. It would convert the level layouts and tile/sprite artwork and sound effects and music and so on (maybe even the 6502 assembly routines for jumping and physics and such), from the NES ROM to whatever the C64 port will use natively.
I buy the one beer unless it isn't sold individually. Only maybe once a year would I buy a six pack and only drink one.
It's shocking in a timeless sense. If I built a time machine, and traveled to the 1st century AD, and asked a random farmer in some random place on Earth how he felt about giving 50% of what he produced to the state, his reaction wouldn't differ much from a person alive today. That the French (or other Europeans) are acclimatized to nearly 50% of their country's GDP being taxed, doesn't really say much. Fact is, 50% is incredibly high -- even a little child would agree.
My semi outsider observation is that it's a crap shoot which sector you place your bets on. Doerr lost his shirt on green tech when it went out of fashion. We are arguably now in another dotcom style investment bubble: KP lived through the earlier dot com boom and bust and was probably overly cautious in betting on which platform companies would be winner takes all post web 2.0 era. You can only have the midas touch for so long before age and experience gets in the way as much as it helps
This view, that prices to consumers are really the only thing that matters, is why Amazon was able to use the Justice Department to remove their only real competition in the eBook space (Apple).
The natural gas pressure at a stove inlet is supposed to be something like 0.25 PSI, not 60 like in the underground service lines. A pool boiler might need slightly higher, but in general the pressure in the building lines is very low.

https://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Gas_Pressures.php#Natural...
Mcafee is not of sound mind, and definitely not to be taken seriously if anyone has even followed his antics in the absolute loosest sense of the word.

I don't know why the article says it's "hard to know". Mcafee is an attention seeker.

Sloppy journalism from Bloomberg to even cover this.

Also sloppy to assume he must be dead. Someone who is going to invent something like Bitcoin may very well have strong libertarian and perhaps anarchistic political views, it's entirely likely he doesn't care too much about making money himself.

This is how to tank your reputation as a journalistic outlet.
If it ever became the major world currency and those coins were assumed to just be lost, their reappearance could cause single-day 6% inflation.
Eh as someone who lived in the UK for a number of years I didn't notice much of a difference than the US.

But sorry, I won't detract from the token US bashing that must go on in every single thread on the entire internet as if these types of issues are uniquely american.
A good practice is to ask people to write as opposed to speak. You can give some space for everyone to put their thoughts on post-it notes before the conversation starts (or to put things in a doc before the retro meeting).

There are so many dimensions: shy v. not, or introverted v. extroverted, or active v. passive thinker, or oral v. written communication, etc. Ideally you shape practices that can account for this diversity of thought.

And +1 to setting expectations so that people who are very vocal don't take up all of the space.
Benefiting now perhaps, but isn't the point that in the long run customers will be worse off because of what Amazon is doing?
This was an amazing read. Not only do you sell onions on the internet but you are an amazing writer! I had to stop and comment before I dived into what else you've written.

I copied the quote “take the path to Nothing, and go Nowhere until you reach it.” and got it turned into a canvas to hang above my desk.
How does this compare to netflix conductor? I've just started experimenting with it and somehow I missed this during my evaluation
OTOH, Linux desktop marketshare hovers around 1-2%. So maybe the replacement for X11 has effectively been buying Windows or a Mac.
Not everywhere, which defeats the point. When O'Reilly used to sell ebooks directly, it was available a lot more widely.
You might be conflating IQ with EQ.
Free delivery isn't free; it's just amortized baked into the price. The real savings come from logistics like getting one shipment from the Everything Store instead of 5 separate shipments.
the 'weird thing to highlight' is that your average Joe thinks of that era of mobster as Italian...
>> I think this doesn't quite jive with human nature. People have a naturally strong drive to build something and give to their kids.

Sure. Give something. But let a huge percentage of it be returned back to the society you got it from in the first place.
Granted, there are other factors (obviously), but it seems odd to be quibbling about even 400W on a car with a 100KWh battery pack. 0.4% difference in consumption accounts for less than 2mi of range.
It should be obvious from the word "convert" in the title, you don't simply call it a living space and bingo, you're done. You actually have to outfit it as such.
Contributions to the EFF (or maybe ACLU) might be a better predictor of responsible professionalism, than membership in ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
I am generally in favor of supply side solutions to housing, but I'm also pissed about the environmental cost of that develop ent, especially in a market favoring construction of giant homes on giant lots.

Not just environmental. Very productive and irreplaceable farmland in the east side of California's Central Valley is be being eaten up by housing development.
For the memory model you can take a look at some of the best research in the subfield:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/weakmemory/index3.html
I wouldn’t consider using Spotlight as a calculator a ‘trick’. It’s a very powerful way to write out complex expressions.
Flameshot is a recent discovery for me, and it has saved so much time.

Before, screenshots was one of those things that really sucked when using Linux.

Amazing tool.
Do VC firms take 2-and-20 fees?
> There was never more than a small number of scientists who speculated there might be net cooling.

a) No there wasn't and b) if you can't see why this isn't science, then I'm afraid I can't help you.

> the warming effect from greenhouse gases,

There isn't one and the models have been wildly incorrect so far.
Agree with you.

And everyone out there is about becoming a billion $ or more company... What happened to normal ideas, ideas that can literally feed a few families and make you have a good life as well...

Person behind the article seems to enjoy himself and also seems to be feeding a few farms as well that provide him with onions. Amazing work!
This software is what Cadence will gladly charge you $1M/seat. Seems pretty ambitious to pull this off for free.
LastPass Achieves SoC 2, SoC 3 and C5 Compliance Standards
There is nothing to see, McAfee is a well known charlatan and it's sad to see Bloomberg covering such a story.
Ask HN: Has social media made us all less happy?
Reading HN comments, I realise it has gone downhill in the last two years. People are arguing more often here. I wonder if all social media eventually turns toxic.
Hah, same here. I was indifferent but introduced to sweet onions while in Mexico when they were being served, grilled whole, by a street vendor. I have been hooked since and buying them now whenever in season.
My last bit about florida was a sidenote, because I never considered people living in a garage a thing. Here in Florida I never see that kinda thing anywhere I've lived, but I'm just one person and there's a whole lot of Florida I have not seen.
They can't, or choose not to, remain unoccupied with their own thought. This has disadvantages. It's all about the things they spend their seconds on.

Endless bejeweled games are likely as bad as idle, empty thoughts. Reading, learning, even solving puzzles is a good use of the small shards of time like being in a line.
I don't know if I completely believe the more room for your memory part. That's my excuse for not memorizing things that take a few minutes to look up. I don't necessarily believe it as a truth. I've heard the memory of people in countries where paper is scarce tends to be amazing. This was before the everyone had a phone. I think we would have to measure how much memory is achievable for certain tasks before we can calculate room saved for concepts and where the threshold becomes an advantage. Anyway I'm a skeptic either way.
It's more depressing that some people think of programming as programming a language rather than a machine. Languages are just fluff that all reduce to the same thing when crunched through a compiler or interpreter.
Streamline file collection with the file request API
If tire chalking constitutes an unconstitutional seizure, I wonder when we will see followup suits over towing and booting
It’s not a privacy issue, it’s a censorship issue.
Water walking–the new mode of rock skipping
Does that mean VC Fund My Life may eventually be irrelevant? I'd hate to get outcompeted by someone blowing VC money to undercut me, and it seems like standard practice.

http://www.vcfml.com/
redact207, could you please tell me if I understood it correct?

Say, I have two services deployed individually working in their own domains.

UserService and EmailService

When the task is a simple user signup & welcome email

1. Workflow requests UserService.signupUser

2. UserService.signupUser creates User, then dispatches UserCreated event.

From my understanding, this is where it's different between having Workflow and not having it.

3. Workflow receives UserCreated event, then requests EmailService.sendEmail

IF I did not have Workflow in my design, then EmailService will be listening to UserCreated event from UserService directly.

It sounds almost same as having an orchestration service called UserSignup Service, and do the same thing what Workflow does.

Can you say my understanding correct? Thanks!
I'm interested in low latency WebRTC datachannel. Does this apply to that as well?
Won't stop everyone from piling on as always
I thought it's because VC only had a smidge of capacity to absorb capital. You can't fit everyone's $10-$100B funds into VC projects.

Less then 1% of Facebook's value is VC funding.
Isn't that just confirmation bias though? If you hadn't made those decisions you just as likely could have met someone else some other way, married them and been just as happy or successful.
I have read that according to terrorism experts, one of the main reasons Islamic terrorism is so widespread today is that for decades rich Saudi's have spent billions of dollars supporting radical clerics and madrassas in a great many countries. Does anyone know if this is still going on?
You can do it from Preview. You can even CMD c a video frame in QuickTime and in Preview select File>new from clipboard.
If you hold Bitcoins it's great. Every lost coin makes all the others more valuable. A true constant/deflationary resource, much more so than even gold.
A lot of those conversions are illegal and substandard. It has been going on for decades. The various city fees for a 500 sq ft ADU, when I investigated it about a decade ago, ran well into 20-30% of the budget for the ADU.