skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I used to think this was because they were super efficient, super disciplined.

I also used to think this when I was working in hourly task units like software development or consulting. Then when I started managing people I realized that being less busy while being efficient and organized was better. Flexibility is a great asset. I am not talking about working 4 hours but having room to think outside your daily or weekly issues.
i first read it the way you did, but after second reading i think they meant that fragments were produced over the period, with old fragments in the older date and more recent ones on the more recent one.
I did not assume such a thing. I agree that it's about memes, not genes, but most of cultural values transfer occurs before adulthood.
Tell me about it: https://www.paypal.me/signup

It looks like somebody already grabbed https://www.paypal.me/login
"We have people in the back room creating new profiles as we speak."
> Similarly, as I said in a message above, there is a lower limit for how much energy your body must burn in order to maintain body temperature. You will find if you look at the rate at which corpses lose heat to ambient temperature that it is very, very close to what is listed on those base metabolic rate charts.

Do you happen to know a typical range for this? For caloric maintenance level, there is:

* Body temperature maintenance
* Operating bodily functions (pumping blood, breathing, etc)
* Basic "non-exercise" movements

For all of these, calories consumed (eaten) must take into consideration:

* caloric extraction (basically, net of calories remaining in excrement)
* caloric consumption efficiency (of those retained, how efficiently are they converted into heat & kinetic energy)

There are actually two sets of numbers for the first three points: actual literal calories required, and then the set that takes into account the last two points. How different are these numbers? I wonder, assuming this "weight plateau" while still in what is thought to be caloric deficit is actually real, could the general understanding of the last two points not be correct in all situations?

As discussed, it seems some people extract more calories from the same food (for whatever reason), although how true is that? The other alternative is that they have similar bodily behavior as someone with a thyroid problem (calories are uptaken (I think?) but not stored as fat - not sure how this works then, are they excreted?), but if on a strict diet, the body could change causing a plateau.

I don't think I'm doing a very good job of explaining myself.
The Xmx flag controls the maximum heap size. The JVM has other things that are outside of the heap (the JVM process itself, the code cache, native buffers, resource handles, etc.).
New Ebola death in Sierra Leone sets back efforts to beat epidemic
I really believe that it should be:

If you are struggling with getting your environment setup you need to take so and so class. There should be a class for just getting an environment setup and doing basic sys admin tasks.
There are 77 autonomous vehicles registered in California, 48 belong to Google
I attempted to sign up with a 50 character 1Password-generated password, and was told that passwords cannot be longer than 20 characters.

I can't see any reason for this other than that they're storing them either encrypted or in cleartext.

Use with caution.
Those are two separate facts:

1. Haskell may be a very good language to use for this particular problem set, probably better than the languages currently used for it.

2. People in general don't use Haskell and will likely resist attempts to change that.

So in theory Haskell is a good choice (because reasons) but in practise it isn't (because developers in general won't be a able to understand/maintain the resulting codebase) so he is using something else instead that avoids this problem (but he may think is a less than ideal choice in other ways).
no longer!
You're right. If the range didn't overlap at all, that might be something. It's hard to believe that professional researchers would be this obnoxious, so I somewhat suspect that Discovery has the figures wrong.
Growth hacking ideas for app promotion
Productivity hacks for regular people
Terrible site, slow load times, history of poor security. Disenfranchised workers and a bureaucratic nightmare.
Along with a history of freezing assets of popular projects for no reason. (wikileaks donations for instance).

http://www.paypalsucks.com/
https://www.aboutpaypal.org/
Just brute force basically

But there seems to be smarter attacks (ref 21) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES#Security
tldr: functional languages may be the future. Or maybe not.
If you ask 1000 people to ask a coin to identify the major trends in a complex ecosystem and make inferences about their future course... they will look at you oddly.
taking 5% for doing what exactly? I assume this does not include the paypal fee right? so those guys are basically charging at least 1,5% more than paypal for handling what a wordpress+paypal does? what about the analytics of the sale? do they even provide some service around that?
> It clearly was not made with threads in mind

What exactly are you trying to do? Golang was designed from the start for high concurrency programs. Instead of threads, they use go routines.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#goroutines
New music notation system could render modern musical instruments ‘useless’
I suspect it's far more likely for "foo_xs[k] += foo_dxs[k]" to be auto-vec'd than for "foo.x += foo.dx" via templates to be auto-vec'd. The first is very straightforward and obvious with a clean auto-vec route, the later is not.
For technical reasons Haskell is a good choice.

For people reasons it is not (currently at least).

The second point trumps the first at this time. Unless I'm missing something the logic here is not as intractable as some seem to think.
They won't allow me to take PayPal.me/sex or PayPal.me/Google :(
Ahh I tried doing this with Stripe and Stripe Checkout on StripePal.com but they wouldn't let me do it because money services businesses aren't allowed :(

I really like this concept though. If I wasn't paranoid about frozen assets I would be happy to use it.
> Version control is perfectly acceptable for that, but the key point is that access keys aren’t part of your production configuration.

Why not? If your production configuration is stored as static-file in version control, then either those credentials have to live in that version control, or they have to live outside it, as a separately-backed up file of configuration variables, which are then fed to a static-file-generating tool, which means a) that one has to select a templating system and maintain those separate templates and b) that there's another step involved in developing the prototypes for those templates. This isn't a bad course of action, of course, but it does have its costs (just like storing production configuration—including credentials—in version control has its costs as well as its benefits).

> I personally don’t allow my team to have long-lived AWS access keys that have access to production.

Of course! Developers shouldn't have access to production systems, period. But operators can, and must, and I've no problem with them having access to their own version-controlled repository of information that no other team can access.

> Production is only changed via an assumed role requiring MFA or an IAM instance role.

Of course! I'm certainly not arguing for personal credentials to be stored in an operations repo.
A matter of scale. Your subconscious isn't going to make big plans; but it can solve knotty problems. Its tactical. And of course once you come up with something, you can do all that planning-review stuff on the brilliant idea, confirm its really a good idea.
This is nothing new. Men have been complaining about abuses in the family court system for years. States receive federal dollars each time they collect child support so they are really aggressive about finding potential payees. Get a vasectomy.
It happens with cookies as well. It's especially bad on the developer sandbox. If you ever have trouble using the sandbox it's either because your cookie is too big or it's broken for the 11th time this week.
> Because the only thing worse than a market with collapsing valuations is a market with no valuations and no liquidity.

> In the tech bubble it was Broadcast.com, AOL, Netscape, etc. Today its, Uber, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Umm I think there certainly is value in Facebook and all their apps of WhatsApp, Instagram and FaceBook. Just link bait article to me.
What is the likely hood that I will live past 60?
So its like Square cash but owned by PayPal? Thanks but no.
I've posted a couple adds and usually get 0-5 hits. I think that it has to do with what time you post, how exciting the post sounds, and what technologies are being used.
I grabbed https://www.paypal.me/test

root was also available, sadly 404 was not.
I think what happened is that people building a complex system, who knew they needed schema etc would just use the XML/ws-* ecosystem, because as repugnant as some might feel it is, it is all written, debugged and works. If people didn't need complexity, they used JSON.

The XML option kept complexity out of JSON.

However, its inevitable people starting with simple systems (using JSON) would become complex - perhaps partly due to dramtic success. And converting everything to XML would be time-consuming and error-prone and... repugnant. So. This is where the demand for json-schema comes from. And it does seem inevitable: the inertia of back-compatibility is one of the more predictable features of software.

I can make the hopeful observation that things aren't quite as bad as the cynic take above: people do learn from some of the mistakes of previous technologies. There is some progress.

I dislike JSON-schema because it's like a JSON version of XML schema. I think a simpler scheam would better serve JSON and its typical uses.

Is your "lightweight schema" a simple schema written in json-schema? Or written in a lightweight schema language?
Those are not practical attacks. But your argument hinges on their being non-theoretical attacks on 3DES. Are there others you were thinking of?
> Just switched to OSX for work

Ouch! The pain I see the guys go through in the office who have OS X is unenviable. I'm very happy with Debian on my laptop. Everything works, it works well, and most importantly it works to my specifications.
How long ago were those experiences?

The company seems to be undergoing several large changes since they became independent from eBay

EDIT: I'm also curious the kind of bad experiences you had?
The best way to buy used products since web 1.0 has either been craigslist (local, negotiating) or ebay (online auction). But both are terribly run companies that have let their business models fail. Sadly, they're the de facto market leaders, and network effects mean they won't easily be replaced or "disrupted".

IMO this isn't a failure of auctions, it's a failure of ebay.
I don't understand the idea of living so frugal that you don't get to enjoy life just so that you have some money left over when you die. Get rich slow doesn't really make much sense when there is a very good chance I will die before I retire.
“I hear it all the time,” said Michael Lombardo, the president of programming at HBO. “People going, ‘I can’t commit to another show, and I don’t have the time to emotionally commit to another show.’ I hear that, and I’m aware of it, and I get it.”

That doesn't really happen to me at least. I've come to love serial television (mostly drama/scifi/adventure/etc) and I'm often hunting for something to watch because I've watched everything of interest. I think this is mainly because a) There are a lot of shows that hold no interest for me and b) the stuff I do like will be binge-watched over the course of a week or a month.

I treat these serial, scripted programs like novels almost. When I find a novel that looks interesting, I read several chapters most nights before bed until I finish it and then look for a new novel. With TV, I can skim HBO Go, Netflix, etc. for something that looks good and then spend the next week or more just watching an episode or three every night when I'm at home and not working on something.

There really does come a point where you exhaust just about everything you might want to watch and it sucks because I've gotten spoiled. It's as if I finished all the entertaining novels out there have to wait a year for one or two more to trickle out one chapter at a time.
Yeah, how does Uber not have real value?
As the requirement was "layout control for cache friendliness" value types are all you need (or 99.99% of what you can possibly need). For interop, there's Panama. Let's not nitpick.
But until they file IPO papers, they can still say anything.
You seem to think that by 'wealth' they mean access to millions of dollars.

Even 'sustain comfort' and have a little something leftover levels of wealth is not available to a sizable percentage of people in the US.
Yeah, I'm super impressed by the element matching both when editing HTML and CSS. Plus the autocomplete for CSS was a nice touch.
Tried /reddit, /cocacola, and my first name - all taken. Got /sjg, my initials, but now I want to go back and get /rocketships, since that's my domain. Damn! They only let you have one!
> Small cautioned that the carbon dating was only done on the parchment in the fragments, and not the actual ink
I grabbed https://www.paypal.me/pages - suprised it worked considering https://www.paypal.me/pages/faqs, https://www.paypal.me/pages/terms and https://www.paypal.me/pages/1337
Value Objects in Ruby: Creating Custom Data Types
It's WIRED of course it's bad.
Deja vu?

For those of us who have been around a while, we might remember this as being PayPal's original purpose in life. I remember paying back friends for lunch using PayPal and feeling like we were living in the future.

Only later did PayPal move into the merchant space more seriously. Maybe my memory is poor and they launched with merchants at the same time but it took a few years for me to ever purchase anything with PayPal, it was all between consumers before.

So ya, welcome back PayPal?
They really need to vet these signups, just got, http://www.paypal.me/official
Anyone have any evidence of traction for equity crowdfunding products? My ignorance over anything, but I wasn't under the impression that these had significant penetration (or penetration anywhere close to that of the tech stocks in the late 90s)
Moving on from MVC with CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)
It is only worse for those people with enough capital to invest in the private market.
New messaging experience comes to LinkedIn, finally
I dig it - I'd like to be able to use twitter for this (I suppose I could, nobody's stopping me) however I find that the twitter platform isn't really conducive to this sort of application - too much noise. A domain-specific tool like this has a place, I think.
>You couldn’t go anywhere without people talking about the stock market. Everyone was in or new someone who was in. There were hundreds of companies that were coming public and could easily be bought and sold. You just pick a stock and buy it. Then you pray it goes up. Which most days it did.

So people trading stocks without understanding the business or how the valuation of that stock was related to a core business. But simply pumping money into a market causes a correction eventually right? To re-allign its value against the actual value?

Nope wrong author goes on to talk about how tech business has imaginary worth.
From the FAQ:

> Is PayPal.Me available in my country?

> We’re adding new regions as fast as we can. Check back often to see if it’s available in your country.

That's just seriously bad. "Check back often" -- they won't even provide a list of currently-available countries, let alone a simple "leave your email for updates" box.
While it is clear that one's access to capital is an important consideration, the article is weak, because it overlooks several important points, some which have been mentioned here by others. I'll mention two that I haven't seen being pointed out elsewhere in this discussion. I hope they are of interest.

1. The article states:

... and found that most were white, male, and highly
educated. “If one does not have money in the form of a
family with money, the chances of becoming an
entrepreneur drop quite a bit,” Levine tells Quartz.

Given that the daughters of rich families are just as well-off and educated as the sons, and have as much access to parental/familial capital, having a wealthy family background cannot be the whole story. We can have long discussions about why this is, but the key point is that this disparity really undermines the article, regardless of cause.

2. The article doesn't reflect on the what exactly entrepreneurship is. One could argue that poor people in the developing world are much more entrepreneurial because most of them are in some form or other self-employed, ie. are entrepreneurs: the cigarette and waterbottle seller on the street corner, the coconut seller on the beach, the fisherman fishing with his own boat and net, the garbage picker who sells empty plastic bottles by the kilo for recyling ... They often are not employed. In a sense it's poverty that forces them into Entrepreneurship. It's the absence of large structured firms with the stability of employment that provide that's missing. By cherrypicking specific forms of glamorous entrepreneurs, they arrive at a skewed conclusion that more careful analysis would undermine.
For those who would like background on Karl Deisseroth, whose lab is involved in this work, I recommend this New Yorker article:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/lighting-the-br...
Please do this, sorting out the sandbox cookies problems should be at the top of their priority..
How China and Russia are mining major U.S. data hacks
Ask HN: Good UK-based elastic container hosting providers for LXC?
Who are some good elastic container hosting providers for LXC, in your experience? What makes them so good? Who should be avoided, and why?

I'm not looking to provoke an "X is better than Y" debate. I'd like to hear personal stories of merits and gotchas.

My customers and I will be UK-based, so a good UK presence is preferred -- or at least a good European presence.

I'd far prefer LXC if possible. Frankly I'm unconvinced by Docker -- I've been reading too many bad reviews perhaps [0], [1]. Also leary of Kubernetes due to Google's track record of shuttering big projects, and the fact that they don't appear to eat their own dogfood. Having tinkered with LXC and Docker I felt instantly at home with LXC. Docker frankly got me very frustrated. (Again, not looking for debate here, just background info about me.)

Why I'm asking: I'm drafting a technical plan for a web-app I want to write. While I've considered a monolithic website to service all customers, I'm increasingly drawn to giving each customer a separate instance of the app in their own container. This would help achieve separation of customers (in case one does something nasty and consumes all disk space, or thrashes the CPU into the ground). I'm also hoping one day to allow new customers to instantly access a brand-new instance of my app. The customer pays online, a new container is provisioned and app deployed inside it (guess I'll have to work on that part), and the hosting provider increases my bill by £X.Yp per month.

Customers will be (very) small businesses of 2-20 people. The web-app will offer basic management of rooms, equipment, staff. Traffic and processor/RAM demand is likely to be minimal.

Many thanks.

[0] https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/the-case-against-docker

[1] https://blog.abevoelker.com/why-i-dont-use-docker-much-anymore/
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HILARIOUS Onesie video
The internet?
Mill has two issues:

1) It doesn't exist. Theory is irrelevant, build an actual chip and run some actual software on it and then let's talk.

2) VLIW of 33 operations? Ain't no way in hell they are keeping that fed. Not happening. AMD couldn't keep a VLIW of 5 fed on their GPUs. They dropped to VLIW4, then switched to a RISC SIMD approach. And that's with a compiler that only has to deal with a very constrained grammar that almost never encounters branches. Which is about as far from general purpose workloads as you can get.
I don't think that's the point. Uber is just going to decrease in value to some extent if the bubble bursts. Some companies, like amazon, survived the dot.com and became a phoenix. Uber would likely do the same, but it would just face some adversity in a turbulent credit market, maybe have to IPO earlier than it would like, etc.
> Does it matter in the long run? All civilizations eventually die out.

Does anything matter in the long run? Everything will eventually die out, universe included.

> Let's not pretend like we care about future generations.

Well, I honestly do.

> I doubt the glorious Roman empire or the Egyptian empire were worth anything to ordinary folks living at that time

I don't know about Romans or Egyptians, but as an ordinary low-to-middle-class citizen of a developing country I like it in here. Yes, the western civilization has a lot of bad aspects. But I like the stability we have, the progress we've been making. I want my children to live in an even better world, where various disabilities can be cured through the advancements in medicine, where people have some, if limited, time for intellectual pursuits, where there is a base on the Mars. Where people can believe in whatever god they want, or none at all, and generally don't kill each other over it.

So I apologize if I'm being too protective of the civilization I live in, but I like it and I want it to continue. For myself, my children and their children, and every other human too.
Talent is more important the more competitive a field is.

The bar for being a Doctor, Programmer, Quant, or most other fields is actually fairly low. What confounds the issue is many things have a random selection process. The number of girls physically capable of becoming an Olympic gymnast is restricted not just by talent but also by family situations. Getting the right trainer early is less about talent than luck.

So, it’s a question of the talent pool making a serious effort plus how fair the selection process is. Which is why getting into the NFL in 2015 is vastly harder than it was in 1970. Superstars in 1970 might not even make it into the modern NFL because the talent pool is vastly larger and the number of slots have not increased much. It's not really a question of size, it's speed that's really changed the game.
The value of FaceBook acquisitions like WhatsApp and Instagram is somewhat recursive though, having been set by Facebook itself when it purchased them mostly based on the value of its own stock (itself a bet on future profits).
They need a more complete word list. They specifically disallowed "paypal" and "bitch", while allowing "official", "pay", etc.
Or they just have length bounds on every string input that they have (as they should) but the person in charge of deciding the bound for the passwords did a bad job and picked too low of a limit.
I agree, it seems a bit like link bait. From what I understood, though, the author's point has some merit -- in stocks, you are at least always able to cash out, to change your mind, to have new priorities. In the modern form of start-up investing, your fate becomes inextricably bound with that of the start-up, with your only options being an eventual pay-out or loss of your investment. I'm not saying I think this indicates anything about a "bubble," just that (if I understood the article correctly) there is a distinct difference between the value modern start-ups provide and the value that a public investment provides.
I'm a 10x engineer for a very specific x.
I also use this system based on Todoists @tagging system. Great option for the reasonable cost of Todoist per year.