skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did sort of announce that (though it doesn't recommend it for production yet):

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-plus-r7-released/

"The update provides a fully supported implementation of the new HTTP/2 web standard, the first of its kind for a leading web server."

and

"Note: Based on user testing of the alpha-level patch, and with the early support from corporate co-sponsors Automattic and Dropbox, the final open source version of HTTP/2 will become available following the release of R7."
My belief is that most connections ends with a disconnection. Any discourse that focuses on the connection and does not detail the question of the disconnection is, imho, missing the point completely.
Medical marijuana is not subject to any special taxes (aside from normal sales tax on all goods, which is 2.9% across the state + any local sales tax). That amounts to less than $10MM, and it dosn't count towards the tax revenues from Amendment 64, which was the constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana.

It's also worth mentioning that because it is relatively easy to access a medical marijuana card in Colorado, heavy recreational users have an incentive to get a medical card.
I can't recommend "The Little Red Book Of Selling" by Jeffrey Gitomer enough. I have a copy in my desk right now.

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Book-Selling-Principles/dp/...
You would have thought they would have had systems in place to ensure that it would take more than just a simple email from the boss to transfer thousands of bitcoins.
As I already said, green threads are not faster than native threads. That makes no sense. Green threads, due to smaller stacks and cheaper context switches, are more scalable and predictable at the cost of extra user land bookkeeping.
I believe the discrepancy comes down to whether you count opposing counterparties indivdually or not. i.e. If 6 trades involve 6 non-HFT/non electronic market-maker (referred to as 'naturals') trading against 6 other naturals, and the other 4 involve naturals trading against resting HFT liquidity, you could either count that by counterparty that is HFT - (4 out of 20 counterparties) = 20%, or the number of trades that involve someone taking HFT liquidty - (4 out of 10 trades) = 40%.

So the 17.7% of HFT counterparties squares roughly with 30%+ HFT trades.
You're assuming that just giving the bed net to the person is the only way of reducing their risk of malaria. You are not even considering, or allowing the person to consider, the option of trading their own wealth production for the bed net.

In other words, you're assuming they can have either independence or a reduced risk of malaria, but not both. What if having both is possible--but only if the charity is not there, so the person is forced to consider the third option? In other words, what if the second-order effect of providing charity to people is to make them unaware of other options that would actually provide more overall utility (because they would provide both independence and reduced risk of malaria, or whatever it is they're worried about)?
The Wii had an innovative controller and an exclusive game library, though.

The Fire TV instead copies the controller from the XBox and the game library from Android devices.

It seems far more similar to the Ouya console that recently got discontinued.
I believe the IKEA desk you are referring to is the IKEA BEKANT. In the standing desk world, this is one of the cheapest ones out there. I was able to test one out at a local IKEA store and my initial reaction was: this could be pretty cool! The wirecutter has an extensive review of standing desks that you may find helpful if you did not already come across it. You will discover useful information in the comments, too.
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-standing-desk/
I'm one of those people who take a long time to warm up to others. I'm not someone's buddy just because we happen to be in the same situation, place or because we agree on something.

So this exercise would be artificial and forced. And, yes, for sure, I can put on a show, but it's not me and I'd be doing it because that the game or expectation and further, I think it's rather beside the point.
Yep, this is what you have to do. I know a guy, smart developer, not even a college graduate who had dropped out of community college, who clawed his way from 60k to 150 in less than 6 years using similar tactics. You need a decent safety net, brass balls, and willingness to actually walk away of it doesn't go your way.
"The game show also had an award for cleaning up gross stuff, including bugs, and a Mattel lawyer fretted that it sounded as though Barbie was encouraging kids to cruelly squash insects. Chidoni agreed. ‘‘PETA will come after you,’’ she said."

This paragraph filled me with despair.
Organized crime groups are regional, and by necessity they are somewhat parasitic, i.e., relegated to black and gray market economic activities.

The key similarities are use of force and intimidation, taxation, hierarchy, and propaganda.

Once a criminal organization gets powerful enough, it becomes able to whitewash its own image and branch into legitimate/legal economic pursuits. Also, with sufficient growth and power, the very laws themselves can be bent to legitimize past and current actions.

Criminal organizations also utilize principles of decentralization as a scaling strategy. There are elaborate transfer of power rituals, some resembling democratic processes and others not.

The goal of any criminal organization is to become larger and more powerful, but there are extra spoils due to premium prices for black market endeavors. Criminal organizations seize opportunities where laws exist but are poorly enforced... or in other words, where there is no de facto prohibition against black/gray market activity (such as the tens of thousands of asian massage brothels in the US).

With additional revenue comes better propaganda and the freedom to clean up the organization's image. There is also a turning point when the group benefits more from harnessing moral indignation against certain behavior, and the wise populist criminal group will not let this go to waste.
If it's like two parents, then one of them is abusive, and the other one is trying to gently steer the kid away from the abuser.

Sometimes authority figures need to be undermined. Doing so is not "vilifying" them, even if the abuser might see it that way.

Why does the situation need to be "cooled," exactly? There aren't any riots over this. The only person who was harmed in any way was the 14-year-old kid who was arrested and interrogated at length without a lawyer and without his parents. Why are you more concerned about the feelings of the people who did this than about him?
The Mafia is much closer to one-party governments like China, than all government.
All states in the United States have unemployment assistance programs, as well as programs like Medicaid to provide health care to the poor. OP's dad is nearing retirement age and can probably take advantage of some state-provided retirement benefits, like social security and/or Medicare.

While things may be less extreme here than in Europe, you aren't just left to die if you become unemployed. Government-provided insurance that you have to be either poor or old enough to get is actually much better than a lot of the private insurance plans that are the only option for the middle class.
I've used bitpay and liked their service. Seems like these social engineering hacks can happen to most anyone. Although Im suprised such emails wouldnt require a two-factor authenitication or at least a PGP-signature.
I know this is OT but on the off chance someone from FC sees this- these videos are painful to watch with the low frame rate.

I'm glad this one has the soundcloud link. Some of the others I've enjoyed don't and it's much easier to just listen.
Have Laptop Will Travel: The “How-To” of a Mobile Office – Immensely Social
Show HN: Aha.io – Business Model Builder
It sounds like you might enjoy "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra. There's a free PDF version online.
Cool app! Is it free?
no, Amsterdam does not have the size amount of peering it does because of submarine cable landings, and DE-CIX is largest by bits exchanged in one single metro area (Frankfurt)
That isn't the US model. US corps report only to shareholders and governments who provide access to markets. What you describe is closer to German model whereby corps also report to employees who elect board members. But in no country does a corporation respond to the people at large. If they did, then we would probably call them a government agency rather than a corporation.
Considering that most roads and bridges are falling apart and that healthcare is woefully underfunded in some areas and the police are overfunded and have enough $$$ for military-grade gear, there's a good reason to put infrastructure in quotes...
> I'm curious as to what are some alternate theories of how to do the most good besides a summing-like equation across individuals?

See, as one of many alternatives, Rawls works (perhaps most particularly Justice as Fairness, but also the earlier A Theory of Justice) which present an approach which considers the position of different individuals and groups, but does not optimize a summing-like equation (unless you take "summing-like" very loosely.)

But, ultimately, what constitutes what is desirable -- "the most good" -- is a subjective decision. Any philosophical/moral discussion of the most good is either about which axioms are most subjectively desirable to choose or which particular things fit a given set of axioms.
Theft has been a recurring problem with bitcoin and everyone ends up blaming the users or the institutions.
so you're saying they should give up?
Ouch! It is the cardinal rules of demos, chances are it won't work as you expect it too.
The insurer made some arguments that seem weak, for example that the policy protects against the theft of money from "inside" the building but that the stolen bitcoin was stored "on the web" and therefore not in the building and not a covered loss. This shows to me that buying insurance on bitcoin hot wallet balances is more of a marketing ploy than any substantive protection. The coverage amount is negligible, and the insurer has no intention of paying out in the most likely type of breach (social engineering attack).
The article is saying that content producers will monetize by moving to Facebook.
> Whenever you see "we" in a title, it doesn't mean the author believes every single member of the human race feels that way.

Good comment. Unfortunately however, it's implied in it. Do note that there is a click-baitish aspect to the title - albeit, it's a very well constructed title; it implies that if you click on the link and read the article, you are one of those who admire said criminals.

I wouldn't call this a "royal we," but rather a "journalistic we." It annoys me too sometimes....

Its understandable some HN commenters who proverbially "take a step back" in their analysis are left with a bad taste in their mouth.
And install node... which I don't use...
I think it's the whole life, liberty and pursuit of happiness thing. He can purse his dreams and we should be building society so that other lives don't have to be ruined in pursuit of happiness.
I've thought this would be a good new feature for Stripe. After payment, allow user to leave a review. Then you know the person bought the product.
Zig Ziglar
It's only literally impossible in an abstract mathematical world where the rule is somehow manifest as a law of nature.

In the real world, the rule can be nothing more than a belief that is applied by individuals in their decision making. One can easily see how this could lead to a wide range of perverse outcomes, primarily because the idea of a 'utility function' is not a real thing in the world and cannot be universally calculated.
You miss the part where mobsters don't only make their money from illegal but moral activities. There is plenty of theft and creating the problems they charge money for protection from. Reliable, maybe, but still oppressive.
10 traits of successful leaders
We Men of Science
I guess the easiest way to do that would be to collect the "EU cookie warning seen"-cookies.
I've read SPIN selling and now reading Challenger Sales.

SPIN is much easier to read, know and understand while I found Challenger Sales a lot difficult to follow and put into practice.

Challenger Sale's major premise is the assumption that SPIN selling doesn't work anymore for some reason because of the 2008 recession. I'm not sure how true this assumption is but I'll leave this up for the real sales people.

I'm interested in hacking enterprise sales. ANother HN user's blog on the subject here is excellent as well: http://doanhdo.blogspot.ca/
Oops, I got socially engineered and sent all my money to this Bitcoin account that totally doesn't belong to me or my brother in law wink. Please double me up, Mr. Insurer.

Come on.
No we probably won't...drug synthesis requires large amounts of reagents. It wouldn't be practical to keep the variety of reagents around to synthesize any given drug.
Cahokia’s Monks Mound May Have Been Built in Only 20 Years, Study Says
Why the new Russian “personal data protection” law is not a problem anymore?
The problem is there is no utility function and choices are path dependent.
Udacity Says It Can Teach Tech Skills to Millions, and Fast
As you note at the end, human history is nothing if not a lesson in the build up of power and influence and eventual corrosion of the same. There's a cycle to these things, and I think the great issue is that we've all begun to believe the futurists who imagine that technology can solve the problems inherent in human communities.

Also worth noting that the vast majority of these doom and gloom prognostications are coming from media companies that don't actually have much to sell. As someone else pointed out, the world only needs a few BuzzFeeds and TechCrunches.

The market is a harsh mistress.
Death of the Party
Realtime iOS 9 Adoption
I'm reading a book on Utopias by Lewis Mumford and he explains that most of the utopias always tried to make sure children weren't too attached to their families. Family can prevent people from pursuing their goals or the skills that they're very good at. The most obvious is example is geography where you can't move to another country.
So many screw ups here because of bad or no company policy. It's hard to feel bad for these guys. No live/voice confirmation between the CEO and CFO during the transfer of $700,000 worth of Bitcoins? No confirmation with the purchaser? No two factor authentication on their Google accounts?

Sorry for your loss BitPay, but that's on you.
The objectives of "your genes" do not have to be your objectives. So you can be rational, but have different goals from what you were "meant" to (for some value of the word "meant").
The point is: who cares? Do you really need 3 million threads (particularly, 3 million threads that aren't as efficient as ordinary threads for many tasks)? Ostensibly Google does about 3 billion queries a day; that's less than 35,000 queries per second. Obviously, there are many services underlying any Google search, but most of them will be distributed among multiple cores, machines, and datacenters. So what eventuality are you preparing for where regular threads won't be sufficient?
HTTP/1.1 1.37s

HTTP/2 1.46s
Looks nice. A few things you may want to consider:

1. Going to the demo site, it really doesn't tell me much about what the app is, does, or what makes it special. Maybe I am missing something, but it's not clear what it is all about.

2. If I click on the "App" link in the top right, the page has three images of phone screens that all they say is "Preview Coming Soon".

3. Why only use this in a library? To me the app seems more appropriate to be installed on an individual's tablet/mobile device and let them explore on their own. Some schools are issuing tablets to students now, why not come up with a partnership with the school to have the app pre-installed on the tablet? That to me would seem the more logical approach. Maybe I am wrong, but I just can't imagine a student standing there in the library spending more than 30 seconds on the app.
I was already thinking about a whole industry that could be spawned based on this premise. You could hire people that would inject "noise" into the internet on your behalf, and you could ask (other) people to measure the signal-to-noise ratio that remained.
> Whatever the reasoning behind your actions is, you are going to choose a single action (at each step) -- this forces you to choose the best.

This works at the level of individual choice, but it doesn't add up over multiple individuals, because you can't compare different people's utilities on the same scale. But the key claims of utilitarianism under discussion (the ones that are supposed to motivate people to donate to charity instead of purchasing luxuries for themselves) require adding up utilities over multiple individuals. Your argument doesn't justify utilitarianism in that sense.
PayPal's Braintree is now likely bigger than Square and Stripe combined
You don't think they thought of that?
Big moral hazard problem. I'm sure someone would write a policy that covers social engineering attacks (and I would say arguably the Hartford policy also should cover this loss).

But the loss limit, as with the Hartford policy, would be so low compared to the risk as to render it largely useless. I mean come on, I have a higher loss limit on my freakin car insurance than BitPay has to cover their hot wallet balance.

To date, as far as I am aware, insurers will only write policies to cover small losses on hot wallet balances. Most of the big exchanges and processors are probably well-capitalized enough that they could in effect self-insure against such a loss. And the larger magnitude risk of a deeper-level intrusion, or flat out physical robbery of the private key components for cold wallets, is not insurable.
This is a good point.

However I'd argue that a stable, two-party corporatist government is essentially the same as a one party government.

Note that Hillary and Trump and Jeb are running pretty much the identical platform when you consider the substantive parts.
You can read her civil complaint here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/wawd/220713/1-0.h...

It's interesting reading.
Yes, and if the police won't actively police every square foot where there are people, they could at least let citizens do so through concealed carry of a weapon.

And yet, somehow, there's a large group of people that is always for people meddling in other people's business by telling on them (including calling the police when they see a citizen legally open-carrying!).

It must be because laissez faire is not easy to spell.
This is an admirable display of tactics, but a poor general strategy. His repeated threats to leave, as well as lies about other offers, only worked because the company in question was already struggling and needed to hold onto him for fear of not finding a replacement. A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant.

However, the advice on initial negotiations is solid. Companies generally allow at least 15% headroom on their initial offer for negotiations, and potentially more for those with less industry recognition and thus less negotiating power. I've exploited this headroom in virtually every job I've gotten.
Does Facebook M prove humans are the missing link in AI?
I'll never understand why people characterize White's arc as empire. The show I watched had him utterly fail to build an empire and self-sabotage at every turn out of crippling fear.

He was certainly capable of destroying an empire. Building one? Umm, no.
It's impossible for me to know about what happened to the ex employee. That said, class action seems to be a strategy to bolster the image of the suit by making it more visible.

If it's clear the clams are truthful, then hope the plaintiff prevails. That said, given some people statistically will be overcompensated and others undercompensated as a consequence of imperfect measure and assessment, how can companies guard against this kind of phenomenon which is bound to happen in companies with thousands of employees? That is, if on average things are proper, but individually, some individuals are disadvantaged, what can be done?
It looks like the "shut-up and calculate" school is the one with most adepts. It's also very zen-like to me (or I completely don't understand what zen is, not an unlikely alternative).

The problem is that the imaginary journalist has an agenda and will completely ignore any "shut-up and calculate" answer. The author really needs to make a better case about the interpretations having different empirical outcomes, because it's not obvious at all.
Initiatives like No Child Left Behind would indicate that my statement is closer to reality than you might choose to believe.
The police aren't spending money on military-grade gear, they're being gifted surplus from the military. It's a minor distinction, but it's the difference between "we spend too much on the defense industry" and "we are allocating local budgets to militarizing the police".
> And yet these are rare

They are too rare, which is why it's important for (even/especially childless) engineers to be actively involved in the after-school activities offered by surrounding schools.

> and never given the same prestige that sports does.

This might be true in some schools, but in every school I've worked with (which have included everything from blue collar suburb to pretty depressingly poor urban), academics are values much more than sports.

Kids who do well at sports get validation. And they should. Performing well in a competition -- any competition -- requires equal parts skill and dedication.

So why don't academics get the same sort of social validation from adults as sports?

It's worth remembering that the social validation is probably the only validation high school athletes will receive.

In contrast, most people assume that academics will be validated by scholarships, and that the intermediate social validation is therefore unnecessary. That painfully over-estimates the maturity of the typical high schooler (even a bright one), but it's a common mindset.

So it's not that academics isn't valued over sports; rather, it's more like the value of academic achievement is perceived to be self-evident and therefore doesn't require social validation, whereas for sports that's not so much the case.

> Being a member of many of those clubs will likely negatively impact your ability to socialize

That's not true at all! It will absolutely improve your ability to work on problems with a group. No one on a robotics team is going to ostracize someone because they are on a robotics team...

> as you will be ostracized by the larger groups.

Bullies are everywhere in life. Knowing how to live life and get work done in spite of bullying is an important skill.
>For example, food stamps are mostly used by white people.

Not how ratios work. In absolute terms, there are more white people who use food stamps than non-white people because 3/4s of the country's population is white. Per capita, many more non-white people are on food stamps than white people.
The phishing attack on the CEO to sign in to "google docs" subverts two factor.
I run studies. Guilty as charged. The key is to remember to how many you tear, and to always tear the same one off (5th from the right for me), so you know which poster locations are getting actual traffic and merit re-posting later.