skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is out, blockchain is in
- It was much lighter; entire websites used to weight less than a single JS file today. We've increased the size of pages by an order of magnitude (and processing expense by at least two) for no real reason except laziness.

- The SaaS/cloud model wasn't so popular, which means trying to lock you in by stealing your data, or doing absolutely ridiculous things like IoT does, wasn't something you saw.
bugfix - the sample order:

{
“symbol”: “BAR”,
“venue”: “FOOEX”,
“direction”: “buy”,
“qty”: 20,
“price”: 5100,
“type”: “limit”,
“account” : “OGB12345”, // your trading account (game gives you this)
}

should read "qty": 100 to jive with the response ("originalQty": 100, 80 filled, etc).
Sure thing. I always laugh when I hear "full stack developer" in its main use. I'd think the title shouldve been reserved for people like Wirth who develop apps, OS's, firmware, compilers, assemblers, and the hardware they run on. That's literally every part of the computing stack.

Oh yeah, look up Juice project. Will need to use Wayback Machine. It replaced JavaScript in browsers with Oberon so you get safety plus native speed. Sent as compressed, abstract, syntax trees so used little bandwith without losing typing info. Faded like the rest but would've been awesome compared to the JS that bogs down even a Core Duo.
Depends. I accept the capitalism's ability to raise resources (capital) for larger-scale projects, but generally profit motive fucks everything up. The Internet was fine until every pathetic "enterepreneur" out there smelled easy money and come to ruin it all. It happens in every industry. Capitalism creates abundance - but abundance of worst possible crap sellers can still get away with.
I was unaware that using toilet paper meant I couldn't ever shower. It seems strange that a person should only ever be allowed to use one method to clean themselves.
I'm really not. The principle is that advanced civilizations are able to harness more energy.

I'm going to assume that if you're on HN, you're generally an advocate of technological progress.

I could use very little energy by living like a caveman, but is that really the way to the future?
Show HN: NewTabNotes – A synchronized markdown notepad for Chrome
(deleted 5 paragraph dismissive rant until I found out that this is part of a project for tools for STEM education, i.e. this is meant for educational samples only) I think it's rather important to look at it with that in mind.
The secret is sales and getting those first few clients. I have built a web application for professional and trade associations. I used to be Director of Research at an executive community with high annual fees - so I was building for a market that I had some direct experience in.

So far it has been much harder to get association leaders to change and try something new. I have feedback that it is cool and a premium product relative to what they currently do, but so far no one with money has gotten excited enough to actually buy.

On the other hand there are certainly people who have made your vision happen. If I had better answers I would have already solved my own sales problems.

Bringing innovation to a market is hard.
Looking for some honest feedback on this idea I had for a new tab page replacement where I can keep some notes.

Currently alpha as I have not cleaned up all of my original hacks from a prototype and there is currently no version control.

Source can be found here: https://github.com/kkamperschroer/NewTabNotes
Seconded on Personal Capital.
What's the point of any entertainment?
> Who would ever want just the text aspect of their notes synchronized across devices, but not their photos that they took of powerpoint slides, their data tables, their diagrams, their emails, etc.?

That's one thing I don't get. Dropbox could have made a decent markdown or (please, pretty please) org-mode editor and would have blown everyone out the water. Editor over Dropbox is a perfect thing - unlike every other butt solution out there, including Google Drive, it doesn't limit you to your butt provider. Files on Dropbox are still your files, in your own filesystem, and you can do whatever the fuck you want with them. A simple editor for people who don't like (or don't want to, on a particular device) playing with file juggling, and it would be a perfect note taking solution.
Is this the ‘ultimate’ battery?
Odd. There are no redirects for the old articles to the new ones.

For instance, this example:

http://www.wired.com/1999/07/pilgrims/

Originally showed up here:

https://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.07/pilgrims_pr.htm...

It doesn't redirect.
I live on a couple of acres and there is no trash collection. We have to take all our trash into town.

I started composting a year or so ago. Not little barrels or bins or anything like that. I wanted to the compost to get hot and be able to really bury green kitchen wastes so animals didn't pull it out. So every few months I have been buying a large (500-600 pound) bale of ruined moldy hay ($10 at a hay yard near here). I cut the strings and fluff the hay up with a pitchfork. Then I add a quart or so of fertilizer and wet it. Then I pile it into a cone and wet it again. The cones are about 5 feet tall initially with maybe a 5-6 foot diameter base. I keep my eyes open for any additional organic matter I can add. All the weeds, leaves, grass clippings... I even added some tall weeds I cut from the roadside this summer.

We bury anything compostable in the pile. All vegetable scraps, paper plates, paper towels, cardboard egg cartons, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, I even put in a couple of big (non-shiny) cardboard boxes that were completely consumed. About twice a month I turn the pile over. As the pile starts breaking down and shrinking to the point it doesn't really heat up anymore I start another one. At the end I have a tiny little pile of compost maybe 2.5 feet cubed. It's amazing how much all that stuff breaks down. It's a lot of work but the compost is really great for the lawn and gardens. I couldn't buy something of similar quality. I estimate it's cut our trash by about 1/3 and importantly it also keeps most organic matter out of the trash which makes it less stinky (we don't eat much meat and the dogs help with the scraps from the little we do). Composting is a lot of fun. It's like farming microbes.
It really blows your mind how it's all about the government trying to increase their power at the expense of everyone else.
Heroes and villains: 11 instances of 4chan vengeance played out in real life
Can Vitess perform connection pooling? Such as aggregating connections from multiple threads locally into one connection to your master or replica?
well actually the ability is a huge and obnoxius problem on desktop, particularly for accessibility. there are lots of autoplaying videos. i do not know what web you are on where there isn't. I'd be happy if the deaktop browsers turned off autoplaying video and audio. or at least add that as an option for me, the user who has to jump for the mute button every time some jerk developer thinks they are being clever. aside from that, mobile is a different story- I doubly don't want a loud car salesman voice telling me about his get rich quick scheme on the train ride home- eating my precious mobile bandwidth, costing me real money.

as for your special api abilities, again, you can do all those things now, even on iphone. so again, what more do you actually want?
> Randomly picking stocks - which is heavily advertised on TV, radio, and by your personal broker - has at least as bad of a chance. Yet we glamorize it, do we not?

...do we?

Most of the investment advice I read says to use things like Vanguard ETFs for broad market funds.
That's what's happened in western north Dakota! lol
Thanks! By the way, if you click "Doc & Examples" (at bottom of blab), you'll see several of these dynamic demos under the "Demos" column.

For the main demo on the home page, the editable table returns a vector x containing the values of the editable column.

You could also have it return the computed values (kxx). Here's an example of how to do this: http://blabr.io/?70b9f256088478e4d861

Edit the first column (x) and you see both x and y (x*x) displayed in the computation eval box. Down arrow in the last cell extends the table. Backspace in an empty cell removes the row.

For more table examples, see links in http://blabr.io/?0a248098997a6f95635c.
Likewise. I assume your broker isn't the guy running the local bank branch and instead is a Vanguard online portal or something with low fees. But the majority of average people who have retirement funds don't trade or invest this way.
Hello from the "Eastern District of Texas" (I live 27 miles from the US Courthouse in Marshall). The lack of educated citizens with critical thinking skills is overwhelming. This is why juries hand down absurd findings in patent troll cases. "All this technical mumbo jumbo just makes my head spin".

I've sat on mock juries for corporate law firms before (IP/patent law is interesting and easy money to sit for mock jury) and more than once I've skewed their findings because of my technical/electronics background. During the breaks the folks that are participating are total block heads that don't understand even the most elementary explanations given.

I now often wonder if patent cases should be trial by jury or trial by subject matter expert panels. The lack of technical literacy shows that the populace is woefully unprepared to serve as jurors in these cases.
seems to be broken for mac os x, installed from 4.0.0 and seems that npm is broken, running npm install gives me npm ERR! code MODULE_NOT_FOUND.

i reverted back to 4.0.0
It's cool, but I always found such things to be cargo-culting and going in the completly wrong direction. You don't want to make a web shell, you want to use normal shell for web.

For a proper "Web UNIX" we need:

- websites talking in structured data (not just plain text)

- less propertiary bullshit (hint: keep sales & marketing people away from APIs)

- ability to conveniently pipe them together anywhere (not on a third-party, complexity-hiding, feature-limiting site like IFTTT)

When I can start typing things like these in my own, local shell:

@twitter.com/me/tweets/latest | sort > tweets.log
echo tweets.log | @facebook.com/me/post/new --activity "Feeling: Happy" --photo /tmp/HN.jpg

(where @ is a somewhat general web communication utility)

then we'll have a web UNIX.
I was surprised to learn that NCLB was remarkably effective at making some schools shape up. [1]

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/27/443110755/no-child...
Looks okay now.
I've done similar work with R and Shiny which I think is great for communicating models but the R learning curve is sometimes a little steep.

Blabr looks like it would be great in education, particularly if few galleries of common maths and science concepts were created.
Shoot people who game the system.

Seriously, there is no solution to the problem of humans abusing systems that is not GAI-complete. We can't design solutions that strong, but we ourselves are that strong. We have a pretty good solution available, that we don't use as often as we should: recognize and punish assholes (or, more formally, people who defect in coordination problems).
You're correct - I believe it's the handset manufacturers that do
The problem always comes back to existing systems. Trade agreements, beef between nations, religions and ethnicities, etc. coming up with sustainable solutions is great, but dismantling these deeply entrenched institutions and shifting the emotional realities of the uneducated and the despots will take hundreds of years.
> What I am definitely arguing here and now is that there is an inherent hypocrisy in the way we legally treat lotteries ...

Yes, and I just said we should regulate lotteries tightly and limit how much people can gamble on them. That removes that hypocrisy.

> That really depends on your perspective. I personally think that using wealth as a proxy for... well, really for anything other than wealth, ...

If you read my other comment, it has more to do with the risk of them surviving [financially] poor decision making.

Someone who makes $100k and puts $10k into risky bets is more likely to survive than someone who makes $30k and does the same thing. Its a question of scale.

> then you should focus on providing better financial education, instead of restricting the fiscal agency of everyone else in the same income bracket.

Education requires the student to be motivated to learn. There are plenty of resources to learn about financial decisions and community colleges teach relatively cheap personal finance classes.
I remember seeing this a while back: http://www.columnfivemedia.com/work-items/infographic-stick-...

It's a MINI ad but still interesting.

I have a gut feeling that people who drive manual cars are less likely to get in an accident simply because you kinda have to pay more attention, its harder to text and drive, etc. Also, in the US it seems like generally the only people that drive manual these days are people that enjoy driving and take it more seriously so I would expect less accidents due to that as well. I don't have any data to back any of that up so take it as you will.

Still, even the best driver isn't gonna react as fast.
Hey, send me a message, pjlegato at databaselabs dot io.
It's one or two bucks for a very large hand-scooped ice cream, compared to ~$6 at a parlor. I'm not sure what you two are expecting--any less and they might as well be giving it for free. Also they're at all the RAs I've been to in SoCal.
No there's a minimum spread that will exist because market makers won't make markets so tight that they are losing money. If they can't make money on the spread, then what's the point of posting that spread?

These discussions always happen whenever HFT is brought up. I've thought a LOT about how to remove a latency advantage from this game, and I just can't find a way to do it. I'd love to be proven wrong though. (And actually, so would the HFT shops - they hate the speed race).
It's meaningless to say cognitive scores "halve" or "double". That depends entirely on how the test results are presented, not the person or even the test. What's half a human intellect? Is that being as smart as a dog? As smart as a drowsy person? Certainly not the difference between IQ 100 and IQ 50 because IQ is scaled so as to be normally distributed with 50 being almost impossible to achieve.

Even the linked paper (great that it's linked and free access!) doesn't appear to explain what the scores mean in its "Cognitive Function Assessment" section but identifies the test as using "Strategic Management Simulation" software.

So perhaps the conclusion should be "stuffy offices reduce cognitive function by an unknown amount".
You can creatively degrade the user experience based on geoIP. Probably would go undetected in Cupertino.
Amazon Shutting Down Its ‘Register’ Credit Card Processor
It looks like "ctrl-c" is mapped to "sendkey ctrl-c".

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/twitchinstallsarchlinux/tw...
Quick guide: how to update Babel 5.x – 6.x
> But the majority of average people who have retirement funds don't trade or invest this way.

The majority of people only have like 401k type situations [which is basically like Vanguard] that are essentially that or essentially no savings.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is the specialized patent appeals court. It was created in 1982. Before that the regular appeals courts heard patent appeals. The idea was that subject matter experts and scientist-judges would be better able to adjudicate complicated patent appeals.

What we got from the CAFC was the explosion of software patents, regular messes of abusive patent rules, an overwhelming bias against small companies accused of infringement by monster corps with patent portfolios, legalization of patents based on abstract ideas, and regular rebukes by the Supreme Court that has to try to rein them in with regular 9-0 decisions that the CAFC then finds ways to ignore.

The problem is that anyone who could get appointed to such a court is probably personally invested in the power of the patent system. His history is probably in mega corps with thousands of patents to block innovative disruptors. Such a judge's future prestige and professional respect is determined by how much he supports omnipotent and unlimited patents with little review of validity.

So these judges are inevitably judging their own careers in every case. They are as biased and corrupt as you might expect anyone to be when asked to judge the limits of his own power and influence.

No. Cases should not be tried by juries of subject matter experts. That just leads to more corruption. We do need better rules that make it harder to abuse the system, but we're better off with ordinary judges and juries making the decisions, even though they sometimes screw it up through ignorance. At least they aren't screwing it up by malice like certain federal judges.
Only one error

300 / (300+100) = 3/4
And not equal to 1/4

Nice read!
https://webscript.io is also pretty awesome, if you're willing to learn some Lua.
There’s No Escaping Competition: People Need a Way to Decide Who Gets What
That part about Brad Katsuyama in the beginning made me so angry. Here's a 'hero' trader making literally millions of dollars per year, and he has no idea how the stock market actually works.

It would be like UPS getting pissed off at Fedex for using this crazy contraption called the airplane to get freight overseas faster.
> The first person to create a tool that can pipe a table from a browser into a spreadsheet...

Wait a minute. This is called the clipboard. Try it -- you can just copy and paste the table into a Google Doc and it Just Works. What's missing?
The whole "safety" issue is a bit of red herring, used to just keep surfing exclusionary and to accuse others of malfeasance if they get in someone's way.

The serious risks in surfing are relatively low provided you're at a sandy bottom beach break with waves under 5ft. No one is taking these soft-top boards to the Pipeline and endangering lives, they're mostly just showing up at mellow low-risk breaks.

Yeah it's annoying when someone bumps into you, and yeah you might get a bruise in the worst case scenario, but no one is dying or drowning in 3ft waves because of too many surfers.
plus, Apple more then likely has full access to your device while it's unlocked...
How a tea kettle can kill your cloud
A Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Will Produce 15M Higgs Bosons per Year
Weconnect
Yes - STEM is a primary focus of Blabr. In fact, an initial application we had in mind was to convert interactive Excel spreadsheets from the Space Math @ NASA website (http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov). We have several examples here: http://spacemath.github.io. These are all for educational purposes.

The advantage for students is that they can view the modules directly in a browser (desktop, Chromebook, iPad, etc.), and interact with the modules immediately. No need to download spreadsheet documents that require compatible spreadsheet software.

However, we also see Blabr as a candidate in other science/engineering areas. For example, these blabs are for phase locked loop design:

* http://blabr.io/?01bec2bf0256d05f5b2d.
* http://blabr.io/?0d6aa64641772d438350

We think that these are viable alternatives to using Excel. They could serve as online, interactive data sheets for semiconductor company websites.
I tried that once. If you are looking to invoke HTTP web services or SMTP mail services from the web then it is good. ie., as online services not stored on your system.
> Why can't they just adjust their schedules so the DST change is irrelevant??

Because it's known to be bollocks. Lowest grade quality article.
I've been using an equivalent method, after reading about imdb's method for comparing the best movies of all time.

I extend it, hackily, to allow categories to be declared to apply to objects with arbitrary confidence at any time, and to declare the same categorization multiple times.

I then consider both the confidence amounts and number of declarations in comparing the overall confidence in different categorizations.

I use a 0-1.0 scale for confidence, then product adjusted confidence for each potential categorization as (sum of confidences) / (num confidence declarations + 3).

This is equivalent to assuming a prior of three declarations of zero confidence; this effectively rewards higher binders of votes, such that a single declaration for category A of confidence 1.0 will tie three declarations for category B of confidence 5.0.
Because we've tapped into all stored carbon and managed to invent a way to turn nitrogen from air into biologically usable form - the latter, Haber–Bosch process developed long after Malthus was dead, has pretty much single-handedly quadrupled the amount of food we're able to produce. Current world population would already be far beyond our capacity to make food if it wasn't for this process.

So yeah, Malthus was "wrong" because we've found some ways to temporarily extend the growth curve. But, unless you believe that we'll keep lucking into high-impact solutions, we still have a problem, because his basic reasoning was sound and "limits to growth" are pretty much laws of physics.
I don't buy that the order books are shallower than previously. I'd love to see evidence of it. People also complain that 'as soon as the markets move, the HFT firms get out of the way and the liquidity disappears.' As if the humans in the pits were making markets during big moves and getting run over (losing money) during high volatility. Give me a break.
If you are looking to host a "PHP script" free, you should consider 000webhost. OR any shared host, the host you are using now.
I don't understand why this is an EFF fight.

From what I gather the line of reasoning is something like:

> eff cares about technology, in particular
electronics and communication.

> sometimes electronic systems, and the software these
systems employ, may be patented.

> patents in general may foster innovation, but
when misused, they may also stifle innovation.

> technological innovation, generally speaking, is
something the EFF cares about.

> in texas, there exists a group of political
activists colluding together to willfully
stifle technological innovation through
the careful misuse of U.S. patent law.

> although the manner in which these political
malefactors operate may be subtle and
convoluted, there is an obvious sense of the
goals behind their actions, and those goals
threaten to harm, not just a select group of
actors mired in interpersonal grudge matches,
but every participant in the American civil
justice system, by establishing dangerous
precedents with long reach and odd side
effects that may be weaponized to create
widespread strife and conflict amongst anyone
coming up against an opponent with the time,
money, and the awareness of said precedents.

> how the EFF is so certain of such intent
among these political actors remains
unclear, but because of this, the EFF is
willing to invest not-insignificant
resources in confronting and disrupting
their malignant behaviors.

> strategically speaking, should certain
specific legal decisions come to pass
in an American jurisdiction, it could
spell disaster for technological
innovation as a whole (really?), based
on the implicit logical corollaries
established by carefully chosen
legal battles won by this group.

> for this reason the EFF seeks to
challenge the validity of their
actions and their authority to operate
in general.

Is that about right?
> If all the world population lived in a area as densely populated as Tokyo, they could all live inside Texas.

We could fit even more people if we're willing to self-factory-farm ourselves, but I think people won't be happy living like mass-produced poultry.