skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone can "fork" bitcoin.. No one will accept their fork, but they can go right on and do it. This is my first hearing of Mike Hearn, but I don't understand your attacks on him. For one, I'd be ok with Tor traffic being de-prioritized in an attack since that is commonly where an attack is coming from anyway. The centralized list is concerning, but de-prioritization rarely matters anyway (ie, outside of when the network is attacked) All of his other proposals are just that, proposals and "lets talk about this and the problem". I hate to think if I proposed/discussed a bad solution to a problem and suddenly I'm part of some conspiracy theory.
The Economist has swung increasingly right-wing in its editorial stances and even editing over the last several years. It will be interesting to see if this change has any impact either way.
These aren't approvals to grow the crops in the EU, which is the core issue, they are approvals to import products grown elsewhere.
Effective ECommerce: How Bohemian Guitars Increased Mobile Sales
Wow. "Ultimately Crash fit into the PS1's memory with 4 bytes to spare. Yes, 4 bytes out of 2097152. Good times." - the things we take for granted today!
Not even remotely true.

REST is what it is in practice, not what some guy originally proposed as REST, in the same way modern words are not their etymology in Latin or Greek.

And in practice it's a re-invention of RPC, similar to XML-RPC, over HTTP and JSON, but with less rigor.

Kind of like any big C program has an ad-hoc implementation of half of Common Lisp thing.

>REST only involves HTTP conventions to the extent that one decides to use it over HTTP, and only because HTTP involves (obviously) HTTP conventions.

Ok, then you should have no issue with not using HTTP conventions and just use HTTP for transport.
What about files with newlines? evil smirk
At 1$/week you can pay for 1 author per ~2,000 subscribers. That can work at a really small scale as long as the rest of your costs are kept low.
Saving for longer than 20 years already has a name, and it's called "saving for retirement."
Was kind of hoping they'd enable IFF_MULTICAST (https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/3043), but am glad to see it's slated for 1.9.0.
I fear The Economist may be one of the only examples of how for-pay content can work. (Not curated, their content is original.) I'd love to know more about how well it's working for The Economist, too, is there anything public about their financials?
Keep in mind that there are also experienced studios that don't get all their funding from Kickstarter. I don't know (and doubt) if this was the case with this Kickstarter project.

$50,000 could have afforded them an artist for 6 months, or helped them to secure some essential software, or just supplemented the incomes of the existing team, while they continued doing 'side-jobs' to generally pay the bills.

Now ideally, they would get all their funding from one source (so we know what they received) and it would be enough to pay for everything. But I think a lot of people who pledge on Kickstarter have a gross misunderstanding of how much money a game takes, considering each team-member may have a salary ranging from $50k - $100k is not unreasonable at all.
Yesterday I was trying to schedule an AMA for a subreddit I'm a part of.. I needed to keep sending pieces of my message over multiple DM's since this limit still existed at the time. Painful.
>While git itself is open source, almost nothing else that Github does is open.

This makes it sound like Github develops and open sources git, which it doesn't. They just built on top of it and have no control over the roadmap.
And user namespaces are really close to being merged: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15187
I subscribed to the economist sometime in the middle of 2012 and did not have a positive experience.

I'm convinced that much of the allure of the economist comes from that it is frank contrarian news source.

I don't like the anonymous authorship for reasons which have been stated on hacker news in other economist posts.

The economist is sneaky. All of the articles are fact/numbers based and then shoehorned with a political interpretation that you can't realistically argue with unless you are an expert in the some very niche domain. This leads to many people in my field (finance) having strong opinions on an impossible variety of subjects which ultimately boils down to parroting the economist. The culture of "lying with statistics" comes to mind.

I realize many of these problems are inherent in journalism but the economist relies more than others on being opaquely unimpeachable. Reading the economist felt less like a dialog and more like "believe us or appear uninformed in public."
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Ah. You learn something every day. I guess the guardian was therefore incorrect in their definition and should have said "congruent copies" ... but "copies" is also probably wrong. Congruent congruencies?

>"If you can cover a flat surface using only identical copies of the same shape leaving neither gaps nor overlaps, then that shape is said to tile the plane."
I'm sure you're right about a native Cocoa app feeling nicer than a Chromium-based one. But on Windows, WPF is notorious for poor performance; a Chromium-based app might actually be better on that platform.
But... he provides somewhat actionable advice that helps get there.

The lottery example you provide is one in which even the winners can't give good advice on how to win.
Yeah, even though I prefer this behavior, enabling it by default feels like an overstep to me. It could easily be handled by an extension.
Alphabet: An Update on Ruth Porat's New Google
Thanks. Have there been documented breakouts or it more theoretical?
Collision detection is a ball ache even when you use an off the shelf solution. There's still loads of problems and edge cases to handle. There's the bullet through paper problem, where fast moving bodies will skip through thin objects. There's scale issues when dealing with large bodies colliding with small bodies. There's floating point precision if you're too far from the origin, how you handle narrow things tag can get stuck in geometry. Writing a robust character controller is difficult too. Handling jumping and crouching are both full of collision nightmares.
Is it illegal? I would expect it to maybe break the ToS or something contract related, not be criminal.
or `git diff`
As a subscriber of the economist since 2003, I'm curious to know which articles and views you are referring to. If anything, the Economist is one of the most (if not the most) balanced magazine I've ever come across.
awesome! very useful:)
Show HN: Arbiter – an instant feedback es6/7 coding environment for classrooms
The issue is that someone may happen across a cloned repo and have no idea it isn't the only, or original, one.

So how would they look at recent updates and compare differences between the repos if they only know of the one?
Analyse Asia 51: The SoftBank Group with David Corbin
I understand this looking from the content provider (the website). However, I am very curious for visitors using this: leaving your email to all websites whenever a title seems interesting (even more incentive for click baiting ?)

I normally leave 'read later' opened in new tabs. If I still like it after a while, I add to Pocket. Seems to me most 'structured' readers use a service like Pocket for this.
Why does it look wrong to have SQL in the UI code?
This has nothing to do with searches made from within Firefox. This is Firefox intercepting searches made from Cortana and sending them to your chosen search engine. Cortana uses Bing and there's no way to change it. I disabled the Cortana search bar for this reason, since I don't want to use Bing.
The advice is only sound if you can find some investment that will consistently generate over 2% for you over the life of the car loan.
I don't understand the use of 3D in 2D/2.5D platformers, as it is. Just use vector art. It's cheaper, looks better and is simpler to code for.
The Things That Happen When You Fall in Love with a Programmer
A snake game for two players made with Pygame
Should your company upgrade to Windows 10?
They don't participate in the open source community. They're similar to Apple in that they take open source stuff and build a closed ecosystem on top of it.
Sonar has allowed us to provide personal customer service that has ultimately increased conversions and keep customers happy! Adam - Bohemian Guitars
Matthais Wendel has some really cool projects, like the copy carver, a 'manual cnc' if you will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNu8lpQI1g
Ask HN: How can I learn about global payment systems?
Hi, I recently received a Masters in CS and I'm scheduled for an interview with American Express Global Payment Systems in US. And the questions will be on the database/data structures/algorithms side of the GPS.

1. Could you help me with any learning resources? Ebooks/videos/books/articles etc...
2. Anyone has any idea what kind of Fermi questions are asked by AMEX?

Any help is much appreciated. HN has been very helpful for me and this may be my first job in the industry.
Also, just so you know, everytime you use facebook which uses react.js they have data access code in the UI as well.
This is true, but I think the amazing thing about free software is it is free to use however you'd like. Just like free speech, sometimes the outcome of FOSS isn't completely desirable.

Again, lots of good has come from GitHub, not limited by:

Competition

Publicity of Git

Awesome free hosting for countless FOSS projects!
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I like the long-standing definitions of the words: the company is the entity composed of the workers in their official capacity as well as its other resources, legal rights and so forth, and the project is the work the company has undertaken, and you are a beautiful if monomaniacal human being.

>It’s far better to be thought of—and to think of yourself—as a project than a company for as long as possible.

'You' are neither the company nor the project, even if you are the sole person in the company. Startups are of course typically single-project companies, but the two are still not to be conflated.

If any of these things were synonymous, there would be some serious implications. If your project fails, then you as the projectcompanyperson, are a failure and may cease to exist(instead of you still being an alive person whose project failed and whose company may or may not be on the rocks). If the company is the project, then after a pivot the company is not the same company (instead of it being still the same company with a different project). But with the real concepts, definitions and identities, these are different abstraction layers essentially, and everything is more transferable, fault tolerant, and so on.

I get that with sufficient dedication and focus these things can feel like the same. I also believe that I have been someone's project.

This being said, I agree with the general analysis of the essay, specifically with regards to throwing bureaucracy to the wind in favor of lean-and-mean experimentation (and who really wants to grow up?).
72k USD per year seems quite low for even a fresh junior developer...
I agree that the same issue, to different extents, applies to all non-public schools. I don't think the issue arises from being "at home" necessarily, I think it stems from the natural bias introduced by choosing activities/settings/groups to socialize in.

Home school doesn't inherently reduce "exposure" in a general sense, as you have illustrated. But it makes it easier to stick to your (or your parent's) comfort zone. If a parent is committed to not shying away from uncomfortable social situations, and enthusiastic about engaging people with different views, they can probably provide this exposure to their child. I am just saying that is definitely a challenge that should be acknowledged and accounted for. Based on many people's descriptions of home-schooling, this is a concern that is often overlooked unintentionally.
I believe it was Vernor Vinge who made the comment that perhaps unexplained gamma ray burst were the last gasp of a planet or star that had been obliterated in anger by an adversary.

That said, if, for example, humans kill themselves off with a climate change it would have very little external signature.
The dunning kreuger effect is useless. Dumb people think they are smart, smart people think they are smart. Nothing to be gleaned from that. Only at the very fringe of the intelligent side do the lines of actual intelligence and perceived intelligence cross.
This kind of article are very interesting. Have a glimpse of what big player do for their backend can inspire many of us.
I'm really enjoying reading these blog post

Also this product look very cool and well thought
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I did the same - subscribed in 2007 and cancelled it in 2012. And I am here in minority but I cancelled it BECAUSE of its content. The barrage of anti China news, anti India news, and then the lack of any standing on any issue except free market. Economist consistently backtracks on everything if it somehow results in more free market. It is why it was established in the first place so why complain? The height was when they published an article saying how Iran is against hezbollah but two issues later they said Iran must stop supporting hezbollah. Then they once went on for several weeks about chinese government's crackdown on prostitution and how it is fomenting dissent. Then a train crashed and again they went harping about how dissent was just around the corner. Moving out of West in 2010 suddenly showed me how Economist is just a high end mouth piece of British government, hidden behind sophistication and the prestigious name. So I decided to just cancel my subscription.
Its a python book targeted at people who have just had a rudimentary introduction to the language. It aims provide a deeper understanding of the language for such users.
It's either subsidize $100/week and free health care or subsidize food stamps, emergency health care, etc...

The whole point of a society is to NOT act as an individual.
In my opinion this is a bad precedent. Call it a non sequitur but what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets?

I mean, the thing I liked the most of Twitter was how simple it was, but they have started adding so many things to it (especially GIFs, Twitter Cards and videos that auto-play) that it will eventually be Facebook!

And yes I am very concerned of something like that because Twitter is my social network of choice since 2008 for a reason!
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The irony here is that the publishers/developers working on Sega platforms DID understand 3D development, thanks to Sega's arcade business. They just weren't given the hardware to do so...
You can't usually count on consistent returns, no, but as an average return that's pretty safe (assuming a mix of equity and bond index funds). My mutual fund have averaged that much in the past ten years, despite two major stock market dips when they went negative.
Both open source and close source have their place, and a bias towards either should be avoided. It frustrates me that so many view the two as mutually exclusive company decisions.
Would .NET be preferable to WPF?
Part of this was that I became an expert in python before learning much bash, so it was just much easier to write in the language I already knew, and I found the bash syntax strange with a bunch of gotchas. I'm sure though, that if I did a ton of bash scripting I would not even notice the gotchas.

You are correct that the main weakness of ipython is that it doesn't have pipes, and that chaining is very limited. But usually this does not impact me. And if all your scripting is in python, then you just import functions and run them, rather than chaining scripts together.
A couple of reference for further reading on the subject.

"...if a product polluted the air, victims could sue the product maker, who in turn would pass the costs of restitution onto the consumer. Higher prices would discourage use and decrease pollution..."
http://www.ruwart.com/environ2.lpn.wpd.html

The only reference I know of in modern time where property rights were actually used was in Canada. Look up Terence Corcoran and clean water. He produced a documentary how Canada's waters have become polluted after property rights were abolished in 1955.

This is a good reference on the history of environmental policy. In an interesting section here, the book states how property rights in the US were purposely weakened to allow for pollution.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqRjI6JcgrMC&lpg=PA127&pg=...
This was not obvious to me from the title, but what they're talking about is ways that with tomorrow's telescopes, we could infer via observation how a technological civilization had destroyed itself, and therefore that an advanced extra-terrestrial civilization had been on that planet.

They seem to say that given Fermi's paradox and the possibility that most civilizations self-annihilate, this is actually a good way to do SETI. Makes sense.
I'd think 6% is more reasonable, 7% is very often touted as the long-term inflation adjusted figure for e.g. S&P500 returns but as others have pointed out, there's reasons to believe it won't be quite as sunny down the road.

10% inflation adjusted I'd think is pretty ridiculous, either it's short-term, not inflation adjusted or he's a one in a million financial miracle worker, but you can't not have any of them. Actually the S&P500 return since inception is about 10%, maybe he's referencing it. But the real return of 1950 to 2010 or so has averaged about 7%. And that uses CPI numbers which may underestimate price increases, particularly in some areas. (e.g. you probably want a better ROI than the national average in hotspots like San Fran considering you need to keep up with things like housing price increases if you're investing in stocks and living off of the returns).

But even there you need a strong stomach as these are just long-term figures in what in reality is a volatile market. It's pretty trivial to talk about a 'the real returns of 12% in the 1980s offset the 0% real returns of the 1970s' and conclude 'oh the average return ended up pretty good around 6%', but it's another thing to actually live through the 1970s, experience ridiculous inflation and stock returns that can't keep up, and sticking with your 'live off of capital' strategy, when nobody promised the 1980s would be different and you have a kid who's going to college by then, a spouse etc.
How is it better than any of the other Python books, or even LPTHW?
A 5% arithmetic average nominal return over a multi-decade time horizon is not too difficult to achieve with even fairly low risk tolerance for undershooting the target. Change any of those qualifiers and it becomes a different story.
It may not always teach you how to interact well with them, but it at can improve those interactions, and it at least provides exposure to those situations so you can be prepared for them later and relate to others who have been in similar situations.
That's the theory, but changing the consensus algorithm would be a far bigger change than just adjusting the block size, which is causing plenty of controversy already. If they do try to move away from mining, they'll have to first get agreement from the miners, who've already purchased a lot of mining equipment.
Hmm.. are there really no good cross platform GUI toolkits? Why is Linux being ignored often even by companies that target developers?
I imagine that has to play a HUGE part in how he's able to stay out of work. If it's exactly "a few hundred a week" that still adds up to ~15,600 a year. I know the cost of living is pretty high over there but that's a really healthy chunk of change to be able to count on.
Your "reading" it still, what is this 2005?? The audio edition is amazing! After three years of listening to every issue I think I may be picking up a British accent in my day to day life.
My free web hosting is limited. It seems the maximum view limit has been reached. :/
It actually looks like it may be possible to cross-sync back and forth between two buckets, but I haven't tried it. In our case we're ok with going into read-only mode for a bit.
This is a case study that talks about how Bohemian Guitars increased mobile sales by 98% by allowing customers to ask questions just before deciding whether or not to make a purchase. The guitars are really cool and I just bought a ukelele on their Indiegogo campaign! Check it out: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-boho-series-2-0-by-bo...
Not in recent versions.
Games are extremely hard to get right, ship on time, and make an actual profit. This doesn't surprise me.
Same here. I was expecting something built using Electron.

I am also building a Git client but building it using Electron.
Don't forget that they get a good chunk less than 72k. You gotta factor in KS' cut and the cost of obtaining and shipping the physical rewards.

I feel like a lot of people underestimate the work/cost involved in physical rewards. I remember reading a game devs blog post about the subject.
I think they are going to eventually drop the limit for tweets and rebrand into a mico-blogging platform with a built in user base.. There will still be a character limit probably in the mid hundreds, but it will help them monetize.
And if you do win, all the Court can do is make DuPont write you a check.

That check will almost always be for far less than the answer you would have given before the injury to the question: "How much money would I have to give you to allow me to cause this specific injury to you?".
Jesus, that is massive. I hope people are safe.
The assets of this company are, essentially, worthless. I think the liquidator would jump for joy on a bid of, let's say, 5 or 10k euros for all IP of this game. I've seen cases where IP that cost orders of magnitude more to develop sell for less, sometimes under the condition 'you have to take the office inventory too, because otherwise I have to pay for getting it disposed of' (where 'I' is the liquidator).

If anyone is motivated enough, it would take just 500-1000 people who would chip in some spare change to make this open source (I'm not interested in any of this, before anyone suggests it - just hinting to those mentioning 'open source').
If you're stuck indoors/in front of a screen, NASA will live stream starting at 9pm Central (US) time.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc
Hmm.. it seems like most of his strategy depends on "middle class welfare," public healthcare, and public schools. I don't know much about Australian taxes, but I assume that with his low income and high savings he's paying less in taxes than he's taking from the public. And he's doing it because he likes the lifestyle, not because he fell on hard times. If I were an Australian taxpayer, I'd want to know why I should fund the early retirement of a tech exec.
No, it's just be frugal. You can still pay for insurance and kids.

In fact in TFA he says he has a kid.
That doesn't sound like the same thing. A fuller quote: "In the last few months there have been increasing runs of full blocks, causing backlogs for a few hours. More recently, someone deliberately flooded the network with normal-fee transactions for several days"

It sounds like the full blocks happened spontaneously for several months before the stress test.
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I didn't fund Limit Theory, but I've been following it because it does look cool. You may have missed it, but the developer recently resurfaced. Hopefully he'll get things back on track...

http://forums.ltheory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4492