skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't done so recently, but for some time I would look at the latest Mac development tools. They were always just too forbidding. "Hello world" can't require 1000 lines of code, or several pages of instructions to get it working.

Hypercard was a breath of fresh air. Not only could I write useful programs quickly, but I could share them with others, with little risk of mishap. I even wrote software to control rudimentary hardware gadgets using a couple of code resources that I wrote in Pascal.

Today, the point may be moot if Python and Javascript work well enough on a Mac.
I get the sentiment but the attorney general is hardly the person to debate this with.

Clear laws need to be established to govern encryption,unfortunately in the US it will end up mirroring australia's laws that were passed recently.

Perhaps educating the public would be best. When doctors tell the public something is bad for them,the public generally listens and demands the government enforces the doctor's opinions. But when technologists do the same it quickly becomes a partisan issue. It could be because there are too many power hungry actors in the government that want to abuse tech,but I think it also has a lot to do with how technologists in general have opted to use a "taking sides" approach to social issues in general.

The US is polarized, right now I feel confident at least half of the country will oppose strong crypto simply because they don't trust tech companies and technologists and their attempts to educate the public can be mistaken as a partisan propaganda.

But regardless of the outcome laws must be enforced and this will have a cascading effect all over the world.

All that said I wonder why "presumption of innocence" as a doctrine can't be applied here? I am innocent therefore suspicion of guilt without probable cause can't be used to force or forbid me to communicate with other innocent persons in any particular way. A company offering me a particular means of communication can't be stopped from doing do because I or any other person might be guilty.

If it comes down to it,perhaps an OTA update with remote access to a suspect's device (after warrant has been issued) is the best way to do it. Even if popular apps backdoor crypto,it's not that hard for actual criminals to get a hold of apps that perform good crypto or even steganography! For legitimate lawful intercept,backdoored crypto is not that useful while device access is. Backdoored crypto is useful only for dragnet surveillance, to retroactively decrypt content.

Since most americans have never been anywhere near an actual hostile government that uses informants and surveillance to "disappear" dissidents, they will not side against backdooring crypto.
I posted this in a separate comment, but if you're still using Quagga it is mostly dead - its fork FRR[0] is miles ahead.

[0] https://github.com/frrouting/frr
$ seamonkey-bin --edit

::ye olde Mozilla Composer appears directly::

No you wouldn't, but you can ;) How high is your tolerance today?
> Where's the flaw in this argument? Does the same flaw apply in the theological argument?

You've matched the argument pretty well and I think it does serve as a useful analogy

> Therefore by proof of contradiction, Pennywise the Dancing Clown must exist.

I see no problem with this: We know that Pennywise exists. We don't know much else about Pennywise, but we do know that if we are postulating a candidate for Pennywise it must be a clown that is postulated as existing.

To see this, examine this rephrasing that more closely matches the original:

> A Pennywise understood as real is scarier than a Pennywise understood as imaginary (2).

Thus, if you grant the truth of "Pennywise The Dancing Clown is that clown for which no more horrifying clown could be conceived", you cannot be a Pennywise atheist. If you use the term "Pennywise" to refer to something that you believe doesn't exist, you are deliberately misusing the term.

Note, that even this definition does not preclude the existence of a "Super Pennywise is the scariest clown that could ever exist" which has as potential candidates all the potentially real clowns whose true horror cannot be conceived.
Ask HN: Looking for Beta Testers for CallStop, a 100% Effective Robocall Blocker
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I think it's time for HN to replace the now useless 'web' link with one that lets me hide submissions from inaccessible domains.
Hmm. Unity scripting sort of works like this if you if ignore the closed source parts. It's kind of nice to edit the editor.
At the same time, having the power to corrupt your runtime is arguably more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah I see your point. When I work alongside the founder though it's awesome. We have similar values and will just basically work nonstop, like when we were getting the YC application ready. He is just a professor/lab director and CTO of another company so his focus is split until he leaves in ~6mo. I definitely see the potential in the technology, brand, him etc. But these are not small issues to ignore...
:-) I would love to be on a debate meeting-room to argue with you on this for hours :-)

I was attracted to it because skilled manual labor was practically abandoned by techies.
15 years after I started oDesk there are plenty of startups that are tackling the problem of building global/remote teams around engineers. Nobody is helping the crew that comes to my home to fix my fence or driveway or floor.

I saw a space that is as big as 10% of the workforce of most countries, the skilled, often licensed technicians that work in the home improvement, construction industry - that huge slice of the workforce still remaining abandoned by the techies - by the disruptors. By people that tout wanting to "shape the future of humanity".

You may find it surprising that the answer here is both around remote work and pretty advanced technology that enables a remote architect/civil engineer/drafter to draft/design/spec and a "local" customer to visualize the end result ahead of time and a local crew to follow the instructions/spec and build.
Having a tracker is faster and also helps you bootstrap your DHT if you're having problems connecting to the bootstrap peers hardcoded in your client.
Dabgotra@usa.com
Local manufacturing works great for some industries, such as band T-shirts. I know from chatting to Anberlin after their show in Sydney that they get T-shirts printed in each country they tour in.

It simply wouldn't work for electronics. A company could lose its brand recognition just because of bad PR from an incompetent assembly plant in one region. Customers wouldn't be able to tell the difference between regional variants, and outrage on the Internet would spread worldwide. It's just a whole lot safer to keep it centralised with proper quality controls.
As a teacher, I would love for it to be easier/more intuitive to build my own tools.
> a language that was never really designed to run inside of a layout engine.

They should make Houdini available to use not just with JS but also with WebAssembly. Then you could use a more fitting language of your own choice.
Show HN: Made a website that uses machine learning to help you explore new beers
The Australian Government's response to the GFC 10 years ago included a $900 payment to most taxpayers.
> People who can pass today’s interviews, doubtful but maybe. People who are actually good, who can get mental hooks into what is going on and use their tools fluently to address it, probably not.

Wildly amusing that these two things are mutually exclusive. There's a clear difference between an expert engineer/architect and an expert computer scientist.
This proof exploits an edge case in dualistic human reasoning which occurs at the intersection of ontology and epistemology.

Lets do some term re-writing, so we can move away from the emotional trigger that is the God-word.

1. God, by definition, is that for which no greater can be conceived.

This conception of God is equivalent to what we call 'The Universe'.

Rewritten: The Universe, by definition, is that for which no greater can be conceived.

2. God exists in the understanding.

The Universe itself doesn't exist in the same way a planet, or a galaxy exists.
The Universe is ALL things that exist.
Conceptually it's the set of all sets.

Planets, stars and galaxies exist ontologically as members of the set.
The Universe exists only epistemologically as a category in your head.

Rewritten: The Universe exists in the understanding.

3. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality.

Rewritten: If The Universe exists in the understanding, we could imagine The Universe to be greater by existing in reality.

Uh what? We could imagine The Universe to exist within The Universe?

From a contradiction anything follows.

It's simply a case of Equivocation fallacy. Godel uses the word 'exists' in multiple senses throughout the argument.

The premises could have been about anything.
I honestly don't understand why people use packages like this. If I need this functionality, I will simply write my own. Plus, I will never able to find this specific package. I guess PureScript uses this because its author is also the author of rate-map.
Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Common Components
Your answer:
ls -lha

Correct answer:
ls -lah

Oh dear.
...wow. I literally did not believe that until I clicked the link. JavaScript has gone too far.
Did Gödel even prove step 1?. In Gödel's argument, it's relying on very arbitrary definitions of what many have defined as a god and that their god is "great". OP defined what is "great" to him, it's not necessarily what's great to you or me.

I think OP here is meaning "great" in some intellectual capacity, that you are just as powerful or great if you can make up your lack of greatness in one area with another form of greatness, something I don't see as greater but equally great. Is it greater to be successful by bootstrapping off the success of your forebearer or greater to be as successful when starting from nothing? It's a classical argument but to me it stands on just as rational ground as Gödel's argument.
If you are postulating that "greatness" is infinitely conceivable, then defining "God is the greatest thing that can be conceived" would mean that god, like the largest number, does not exist.
Not that this makes the Bombardier problem trivial, but that seems fairly simple compared to most cars on the road today, which have over 100 micros. Software can be done well in complicated systems if you have the expertise, design, time and money to get it right.
Better yet: use encryption keys to verify identity.
Good point, the Windows ARM devices on the market today significantly suffer from this.

Apple has a very significant ecosystem advantage, however.
> Or if someone high on shrooms was trying to drink bleach?

Wait, what?
I got a lot of questions about the names of root level linux directories, which while good knowledge doesn't seem to fit under the title description.
What is bps in this context?
Once you witness a robbery or an act of violence on one of those trains and it scares you silly, you'll quickly rethink the "over surveillance" stance..
This could be an argument against assisted suicide, which probably has a higher completion rate than unassisted suicide. If people want to kill themselves, let them do so themselves. There's a good chance they won't actually follow through.
Not convinced. There were literally only ~21 million software engineers in our world in 2016[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
Here's a Barnum story that in my mind illustrate his genius for marketing. This is from, "The 48 laws of power by Robert Green."

"Barnum’s first big venture of his own was the American Museum—a collection of curiosities, located in New York. One day a beggar approached Barnum in the street. Instead of giving him money, Barnum decided to employ him. Taking him back to the museum, he gave the man five bricks and told him to make a slow circuit of several blocks. At certain points he was to lay down a brick on the sidewalk, always keeping one brick in hand. On the return journey he was to replace each brick on the street with the one he held. Meanwhile he was to remain serious of countenance and to answer no questions. Once back at the museum, he was to enter, walk around then leave through the back door and make the same bricklaying circuit again.
On the man’s first walk through the streets, several hundred people watched his mysterious movements. By his fourth circuit, onlookers swarmed around him, debating what he was doing. Every time he entered the museum he was followed by people who bought tickets to keep watching him. Many of them were distracted by the museum’s collections, and stayed inside. By the end of the first day, the brick man had drawn over a thousand people into the museum. "
Hmmm. It takes wisdom and humility to gain an advantage from the networked human culture. And in other cases it makes one dumber or less wise? So plugging in a few reasonable initial values it appears the median wisdom will drop to zero unless a coterie of wise folks are able to partition themselves off in ycombinator or kuro5hin Or Slashdot or reddit.
Yup, this is basically it. No other options, middle management maybe shudders
It would be interesting to talk to these people and ask if it was the suicide attempt itself that made them not attempt again. If you prevent the attempt will it have the same effect?
Looks alot like the modern stylus that you might use on a tablet today
It's not socially acceptable, perhaps, but most people already have access to plenty of ways to kill themselves if they really wanted to.

Anyone with a car has a number of possibilities, one being carbon monoxide poisoning which we understand to be pretty peaceful.
I think this is more of a cultural shift than anything. Americans in particular used to be tinkerers and makers to a much greater degree. While admittedly many of these examples are influenced by gender roles, it was much more common than today for a mid-century American man to be a tinkerer and handyman who might work on his car in his own garage, do his own home maintenance, and stuff like that. HyperCard and the early days of personal computers arrived at the tail end of this era, where it seemed perfectly natural for "owning a computer" to naturally entail "doing basic computer programming" in much the same way as owning a house, car, or motorcycle entailed doing basic work that entailed having some understanding of the thing. (One complaint you hear about cars these days is that you can't just work on them in your own garage anymore!)

America today is a mass consumer culture where people by and large don't really do that kind of work. Contra Heinlein, Americans today are increasingly specialized insects, less likely to even cook their own meals let alone write a HyperCard stack to manage their recipes. It's in the culture even more broadly than anything Apple might do.

It's not hard to see Apple as making the problem worse instead of better. Apple loves hardware designs that make it impossible to take the machine apart, for instance. Steve Jobs always had that bias--compare the original Macintosh 128K to the Macintosh II, for instance. Even HyperCard itself only came out after Steve left and the hackers briefly took over. And I get it, because a platform that allows for tinkerers and dilettantes is never going to be as beautiful and elegant as a something that was thoughtfully designed from a single perspective; just think back to MySpace or Geocities. But it also makes people dumber in the practical sense of being less capable of changing, repairing, and fully comprehending the world around them.
The wealthiest people I know work 6-7 days a week. It’s no coincidence they’re rich. The money is nice but that’s not their motivation.
Just hired a remote developer via Upwork. Looks to me that he's installed a script to open random files in our repo and move the mouse around. There are ways around it. Based on his output over the last 7 days he won't retain this contract....terrible stuff.
I read a book about Chaser shortly before I got my pup. And I followed much a what I read, naming everything he came in contact with, talking to him using familiar nouns and verbs, not wasting words. At almost 3, he's not Chaser smart, but he has developed an ear that can recognize the most subtle variations in words, and he can figure out novel combinations of nouns/verbs sometimes with a direct obect. For example right after he learned the word window, he could generalize it to any glass that you look out through, and then I could tell him to "take the [object name] to the window" and he would find the nearest window (or glass door) and bring the given object there.

He was way ahead of a human child in terms of linguistic cognition up until maybe the age of about 1 and a half, then he maxed out. Having a dog with the verbal understanding of a toddler comes in handy sometimes...but rarely, mostly I just wish he could learn to walk on leash.
Here's what Atkinson said about it in 2002:

https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard-what-could-have-been...

More clues in this (2016?) Twit interview (including the phrase 'Sculleystink' at about 16m in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INdByDjhClU
No, people under-rating their expertise is a garden-variety variation on reversion to the mean. D-K, if it means anything, is an effect on top of that.
Well, it's entirely anecdotal, but there's a book devoted to the walking habits of many prestigious philosophers and other artists and thinkers: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1865-a-philosophy-of-walkin....

Sure, any conclusions you can draw from this don't have the rigor of those drawn from carefully accumulated scientific observations and controlled experiments...but it's also possible to be such a stingy devotee of scientism that it paralyzes you and divorces you from truths that are otherwise intuitive and simply a part of being human.

If you try to incorporate exercise into your daily routine you'll also have a direct experience of its benefits.

We don't necessarily need science for everything and we also don't need to establish proofs for everything. A clouded, unflagging allegiance to the scientific method is what distinguishes a dogmatic acolyte from a rational thinker (just as it does the religious fanatic and the rational practitioner)--it's just as important to circumscribe the space of the actual utility of science just as much as it is to stand firmly by its methodological principles.
How do you handle the logistic? Using third-party storage and shipping? Creating and running self-host shop is not difficult, but I found the logistic of handling inventory and shipping that tie you up.
> What does it mean for non-logicians? Well, if you buy the premises (which is key!), it shows that it's not irrational to believe in God (as defined by the argument). Again, it doesn't prove the existence of God, but it does show that the logic of the argument makes sense.

This understates what the proof shows. It shows that if you buy the premises it's not rational to believe God doesn't exist (as defined by the argument).
Can you really just refinance a fixed rate mortgage that's now priced at an above-market interest rate? Surely the bank has you on the hook to pay that higher interest rate for the remainder of your loan term, they're not going to accept an early termination without some kind of penalty. After all, they've presumably backed your loan with some kind of equally long-term security.
Think the heatwave was bad? Climate already hitting key tipping points
Being that it's the internet you should think more outside whatever country law you are referring to. For example Spain blocked google news because of aggregating the news as is with little to no transformation.

Plus moving it to the client side would free up whatever resources they are currently using to feed summary info to us.
But it's great for resume and portfolio.
What I Do When It Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good Enough
This was first posted 16 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=garrood.me
There is not much difference between hiring a local developer vs hiring a remote.
Would you ever say:
Just hired a local developer. He has been sitting on his desk playing games and reading HN? Terrible stuff?

If that were to happen the problem would not be the "local" developer scene. It would have been most probably your hiring practice or your bad references.

My point here is that there is no free meal when you try to hire a remote person via Upwork. The only difference is that you leverage the global talent pool and most probably you can find someone in weeks as opposed to months (or never).