skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FASB ASC Topic 820, Unobservable inputs for Level 3 assets/liabilities.
I think this is the best advice you could get. Add to this Sam carpenter's book "Work the system" and making $100/k a year is pretty easy.

We're a two person team and we've been doing it for the past 5 years like a clockwork. On of our recent sites makes around $200K/year so what you're after is definitely doable.

You just need to understand two things:

1. You can't be the entrepreneur, technician and manager. You need to create an organization first and define the roles clearly on paper.

2. You need a system to do things. Even the smallest of the things need to be part of a system. Systems helps you improve what is working and discard what isn't. What this means to you is that is helps you to repeat your success over and over until you make it big while preventing you from making the mistakes from the past.

It's easier said than done but these are the only two things you need for your goal.

Bonus tip: If you find my advise useful, learn a little about BPM (business process modelling). It help you organize and create systems faster (though I've learned everything the hard way).
Wow, what a story. You're one of a kind, most people would be rather thought of as kind than actually be kind. Thank you for writing this up.
You got VolksWagen's initials backwards every single time.
Do you download binaries? Do you build or install projects you've downloaded?

Those have the same risk as curl|sh
But none of those things will ever really bottleneck the browser except for maybe the PDF viewer. The performance of bookmarks, tab management, search, and basically all your other examples doesn't matter. The parts of the browser that benefit from speed are written in C++.

Not that I'm convinced simply compiling with ICC will actually have a noticeable impact on the day-to-day performance of the browser, but it might speed up layout and other specific CPU-bound tasks. I'd love to see some benchmarks, but I think it's silly to shrug it off by saying that it won't matter because the browser UI is written in JavaScript.
http://linux.palemoon.org/
I don't understand how that follows. From all I've heard, people suspect that the difference between cheating and test mode is large.
Am sure you could unsubscribe from those emails if you wanted to though, right? It's not like they're raising the money specifically to spam people.
FTFY: Learn Emacs Lisp Syntax in 15 Minutes

Lisp syntax is simple; the learning curve is in the difference of technique. I'm assuming the learner is coming from an imperative language background.
I tried the beta: it was fast, easy and boring. How it should be.
Indeed. When only the rich and wealthy can afford legal services and everyone else is forced to plea-bargain to things they didnt even do in order to avoid the threat of decades behind bars ... something has gone wrong.
To add to the anec-data, conversely, I was refused antibiotics for years in the United States as a child, and it was only after switching physicians and careful monitoring that they realized my sinuses were severely infected.

I've been put through the gamut of antibiotics since, and noticed no change in digestion, temperament, allergies or any other adverse effects.
Is Fidelity unimportant enough for this to diminish deal flow?
" but we're not looking at them deciding his guilt or innocence here"

Yes, I got that. My point is that positing the various ways the case plays out with whether the person is guilty or innocent is outside the scope of the question. Alito's avenue of analysis was misguided. It doesn't matter whether they're guilty or innocent because we're asking what the government should do with the funds before we know the result of the case

And I understand the point of appeals courts. I'm making an argument based on a plain, layman's understanding of how the system should work. I have no doubt that for those inside the system, it all makes some kind of weird sense. "Hey, we took all of your money, but look! The paperwork has been done correctly!"

I also understand that the Supreme Court disagrees with me. Probably isn't the first time, nor will it be the last. Those guys are a hell of a lot smarter than I am. My best argument is that at some point it makes sense legally but yet you lose consent of the governed. Taking somebody's money so they can't afford a lawyer -- along with a half-dozen or so other bone-headed decisions over the last decade or two -- begin to cross that line. Somebody should speak up. That "speaking up" is not a legal argument; it is a political one.

Sometimes the law is an ass.

Thank you for the instruction on the split between the Fifth and Sixth Amendment issues. Lots of detail to consider here.
Not sure you will anything more than anecdotal evidence but the propensity of people I've interviewed to go to a site like Stack Overflow and cut/paste "solutions" into their shell or terminal is sadly quite large. I much prefer people who can internalize the core knowledge of their craft over those who are living with all their technical knowlege currently swapped out to the web.
It also forces people to buy multiple devices, so that's a win for shareholders.
Is it possible to use Javascript libraries from Cor?
Intellijel Metropolis Eurorack Sequencer [video]
The syntax feels like Go, but without types.
I generally find it worth it for the simple risk that you may end up breaking stuff without anything malicious on behalf of the site.

E.g. cut and paste a command and get a linebreak in the wrong location and the "rm -rf /var/tmp/foo" turns into "rm -rf /var/". Fun times.

These days I'm more and more often just spinning up temporary containers as well. Not so much for security as to avoid making a mess of my environment with all the stuff I'm testing. So trivial to start out with a "docker run --rm -t -i ubuntu -v /some/suitable/host/dir:/mnt /bin/bash -l" or similar to get a fresh container with a directory I can dump anything I decide I want to keep in.
Organizations are not people. They have a mind of their own, independent of individuals and yet controlled by the autopilot psychology of humans, unless systemically organized otherwise.

Things like this happen every day in organizations all over the world, when systems are not understood or willfully guided. It's just that most of them don't make the news—they simply silently eat at productivity and joy of work until a modern joyless inhuman organization is created. Everyone saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil—and it still happens.

It's not pervasive organizational intent—it's pervasive organizational chaos.
> At this point they seem to be simply trying to figure out how all this happened and went on for so long.

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!"
I did not imply the treatment had no benefit. I stated that one third got better, one third had no change, and one third got worse. This is not a good result - a third of the participants got worse.

In addition, 13% of the participants on the trial had already recovered before the trail began, but were not excluded.

Finally, the thresholds for being “recovered” demonstrated worse health than the scores required in the first place to demonstrate the severe disability needed to enter the trial. This anomaly meant that some participants could get worse on physical function and fatigue during the trial and still be included in the results as being “recovered.”

“I’m shocked that the Lancet published it,” said Ronald Davis, a well-known geneticist at Stanford University and the director of the scientific advisory board of the Open Medicine Foundation.

“The PACE study has so many flaws and there are so many questions you’d want to ask about it that I don’t understand how it got through any kind of peer review”, added Davis.
No one has cracked that business yet. CambrianHouse, Assembly. My own attempt. Goodwill doesn't pay the bills.
MIT Quantum Physics Lectures
I understand the cynicism but....a lot of people I know have dealt with a lot of VA incompetence (myself included). This is a necessary and productive step in the right direction.
Lisp users thought that the standard LOOP was dumbed down from the real MIT LOOP, so they invented a new one, even more powerful:

https://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/
I think Mozilla is trustable (not being biased since I worked briefly there).

But to be fair:

> This reasoning just doesn't apply at all to open source software like Firefox.

This is not true. You can't tell what is actually running on the server side, so the protocol must be able to handle the encryption on the client side and server never able to read the plaintext in the first place, and this is actually problematic for many products out there claiming "oh our code is open source so you can trust us."
Almost exactly but not as good. FlightFox doesn't make you link to the ceiling price, so you can pick a price you don't want to go over and then you don't pay if they can't help you. While Flystein makes you prove your price with a link, which isn't all that easy considering that many rates can't be deeplinked.
Shouldn't we really be looking at the growth in usage of other drugs in that case?
Facebook is testing Snapchat-like disappearing messages in France
So, here is the list of unicorns that Fidelity has invested with individual gains/losses shown. Turns out for the entire unicorn fund, it is about 36% above cost.

http://www.valuewalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fidelity...
I never implied i cared really, don't be so defensive.

My point, is that city living is objectively better than the suburbs, which is why i don't understand why people prefer to live in the burbs aisde from irrational and unfounded fears of crime.
And now I upvoted this comment just because. I guess my point is that voting on HN seems largely random to me.
isn't that what my taxes are for?
The poor pay is why I switched my first job was on campus at Cranfield university working for a world leading rnd Lab.

I used to get paid about 1/3rd of what the scientific civil service paid for the same entry level.
Yes, that idea is silly and that's why none of us have seen anyone making such a polemic argument. I think you know the answer, people vote with emotion, not with facts.
Had similar experience. Had allergic reaction to penicillin first prescription, which triggered my full body to come out in itchy hives. Went through 3 courses of different antibiotics until I was fit enough to get out of bed. Had bad guts for a couple of years following, which was usually an alternation between diarrhea and constipation. Sometimes I'd sit on the throne several times a day and no movement, except mucus or eventually, blood, as I'd developed piles.

I went on a super high fibre diet, ate as much low calorie food as I could a day to keep things moving. Ate lots of fermented foods, mainly dairy, sauerkraut, cured meats. Eliminated sugar, took up cycling to work to get fit. I've not been ill since, my bowels are moving, and piles are gone. Not the most pleasant story, but thought I'd share it.
Upvotes for GitHub Issues
How the River Thames was brought back from the dead
Show HN: Honukai Theme and Colors for Oh My ZSH and iTerm
What are "probiotics"? How do we know which bacteria are the ones we need, and do all probiotics contain the same cocktail or different strains?

Seems like saying "take probiotics" is insufficient.
In theory. I can't remember the source but I've read that studies have shown some benefits while probiotics or yogurt are going through your system, but no lasting "colonization" of the bacteria. I have an irritable gut and I've never really noticed either yogurt or probiotics having an effect on that in either direction. (Antibiotics really screw it up for a while.)
This offer does not apply to upper management, depending on where your cutoff for "upper" is. From the article, "The offer applies only to workers who are covered by collective bargaining agreements; it excludes top management."
I could never quite get those tar flags right and often have to `man tar`.
In-Store Analytics Hit Prime Time
AI Could Tell When Your Dark Web Drug Dealer Is About to Scam You
This looks amazing, can't wait to see it motivate the v8/blink people to deliver an equivalent. Storing allocation stacks is essential for troubleshooting leaks and I've never been able to get anything remotely close to that on the web.
For a second, I thought that this was going to be an open source project and I was excited to be able to contribute.
My school gives undergrads one warning before kicking you out for academic dishonesty. However, we've been repeatedly reminded that graduate students know better and we'll get kicked out for a first instance of plagarism
FYI, the new vets.gov is a collaboration between the US Digital Service, one of the startups that came out of healthcare.gov (Ad Hoc LLC), the VA, and others:

https://adhocteam.us/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-service

https://www.fastcompany.com/3046756/obama-and-his-geeks

If anybody has questions, I know there are USDS and Ad Hoc people who read HN.
> Thing is, studies have shown that too much use can dampen the brain's ability to absorb (not produce!) dopamine, making everyday successes feel less significant.

isn't that basically what "anti-depressants" do?
You should absolutely try iCab Mobile. See my post here¹.

iCab has been around for a really long time on desktops. Seriously, it existed before even Mac OS X², so it’s no surprise that the dev would carry all that experience over to the iOS version.

――――――

¹ — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554192

² — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICab
It won't be long before their email servers are going to be impounded. I assume they've long since been scrubbed of evidence but then there are the backups. It's going to be very tough to keep that house of cards standing if it isn't grounded in fact.

Personally I wouldn't write a line of code like that even when authorized by management, I'd rather resign (but then again that's a argued from a position of relative luxury), but I hope that German programmers working for VW or Bosch would want to see some very explicit authorization that this is exactly what it is they are supposed to make with a note to the effect that they believe this is not legal or ethical or both.

If not they may very well end up holding the bag, I have no doubt that this thing will be researched to the bottom.
Argentina Has More Women in Science–But It Hasn't Fixed Sexism
Something significant has happened and is still happening. Again, your opinion according to your burden of proof.
What's fast about it? I see a larger download, slower to start, choppy animations, and worse performance on JS benchmarks than Firefox latest.
awesome tool, I HUGE help would be allowing us to diff snapshots to catch leaks, I can see something is leaking but can not exactly track down what it is.
We've given it a shot. If anyone can suggest a better title we can change it again.
Top link points to a non-existent AMI so this "recipe" -- like almost every "here's how to ..." recipe on GitHub that gets posted on HN -- doesn't work. I swear, it's like 100% fail on these types of posts.

Also this "real GPU" is explicitly called out in the Google docs as unsupported.
Pseudo-Therapy Apps: The Fad Diet of Mental Health
in my younger days i used to see people get so stoned they threw up.

it's definitely possible, but you're not going to get to that level smoking the odd bowl or two, or joint. this is almost exclusively caused by overcommitting to bonghits above your paygrade.
Agreed, but this has to be more than just software. The engineers must have some idea of emissions then suddenly it's not a problem any more? And they just think "that's lucky".
Even the way you present it is as if users of AirBnB are ripping everyone off ("consequences of his actions...").

No, my observation applies strictly to those who rent their apartments in violation of their leases and/or local ordinances.

..even if the thing is bad, which is debatable in this case.

You're welcome to debate whether "the thing" (subleasing his apartment in violation of his lease -- for a huge profit) is bad or not, but to me it seems pretty clear.
The only possible protection: LOTS of cables. With the regular transmission advances, I think one cable (with some dozens fiber strands) could carry the entire bandwidth between e.g. US and EU.
And before that it was announced that general availability was going to be September 14th: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/16/lets-encrypt-launch-sched...

It's a shame they've pushed it back twice so far.
I didn't think that GI was known to be in co-NP.
YouTube launches Music App
Yes I know. But when Westerners cook vegetables, they are often (too) throroughly cooked.

And in a proper Chinese hotel, even orange juice in the breakfast table is hot.
How would you free up space on your disk if for every removed file the OS has to keep a copy in order to let you undo the removal?
Most unexpected dupe of the day.
http://seed7.sourceforge.net/faq.htm#lisp_comparison
The Hunt for the Tinmouth Apple
Wow I'm really flattered!

And also a little worried given your description of some of your students :P But sure, it should be interesting, also because Svven is built in Python and I see this is what you teach.

I just followed you on Twitter, I'm @ducu, let's DM there.
I would expect that most of the folks working at computer company labs would write their own code and be very knowledgeable in a certain domain.
Your Text Editor is Malware
If you'd be capable of injecting this sort of trick into stackoverflow that would be news. It's all about the source...

And truth be told, I have used stackoverflow to look up things, even things that I knew before but somehow lost due to inactivity, a lack of RAM refresh so to speak. I'm not ashamed of that and the IT field is now so incredibly broad that I don't feel that I'm the exception there, it's very hard to keep all of the moving parts of a webstack in your head and even harder to keep up when the platforms are changing right underneath you.

And yet I don't feel as if I fall under the 'guy that hasn't internalized the core knowledge of our craft' rule :)
Exactly. It’s useful to know who of your managers was responsible for what so you can use that in court against them.
Arstechnica's article title is a little misleading by using "healthy":
"A study with kids in Cambodia is the first to examine the transmission of dengue virus from asymptomatic but infected humans into mosquitoes. ... It found that asymptomatic and presymptomatic people were even more likely to pass the virus on to mosquitoes than people who were actually sick with dengue."
As I said, an ordinary person has little interaction with the state, so there are fewer direct opportunities for harassment. Moreover, the state has little reason to harass the usual persons offered amnesty from prosecution, since those people have usually not been in direct opposition to the state itself – they are usually just criminals.

However, if they had been in opposition to the state itself, it would probably be a different story. For instance, I don’t think Snowden could ever fully trust a (theoretical) offer of amnesty from the U.S. government. A similar situation (to the VW one) exists with employees of the state who continue to be employed by the state – they interact with the state more (in its role as their employer), and more interaction means more possibilities of harassment. Also, even some people who quit their jobs would be affected; these would be people who were employed by state actors which have a lot of interactions with people in general, like the IRS, the DMV or the Police. I would imagine that former employees at any of these organizations who quit their jobs and turned whistleblowers would experience trouble from their former employers. On the other hand, a whistleblowing former clerk from, say, the Department of Veterans Affairs, would probably not.

What I’m saying here is that there are two factors: The degree of interaction a person has with the organization after the event, and the degree to which the person was percieved to be in direct opposition to the organization itself. The VW employees score very highly on both these factors, while the median person offered amnesty from prosecution from the state usually scores low on both.
Very few people are going to get rich off of cannabis. There's really nothing novel about any part of the industry except that it's now legal. Indoor growing / hydroponics are used for a wide variety of plants, so the tech on the production front is already mature (if not commoditized). Because it's pretty cheap to produce and doesn't take a ton of special knowledge, wide legalization will see a race to the bottom on price (along with razor-thin margins for growers). Prices are still very high right now because nobody can achieve sufficient scale (again, thanks to the weird legal environment) but once they do, prices and margins will fall and a lot of growers will get bought out or go out of business. It doesn't really cost much to grow super-high quality marijuana on an industrial scale.

The rest of the value chain is really nothing novel either if you ignore the weird regulatory environment that currently exists. A retail store selling weed is not much different from any other retail store. A delivery service is still subject to the same fundamental issues as any other delivery service -- and when weed becomes really cheap, a $10 delivery fee may not make sense when you're buying $20 worth of weed. There's room in the market for differing tastes and consumption methods, but those too are more or less commoditized and can use general-purpose industrial processing equipment.

There's a boom right now because the market is growing quickly, but there will be a corresponding crash once the consumer market starts to hit the point where scale matters.
Ask HN: What type of phone system do you use?
I'm looking for advice on setting up a phone system for customers to call in. We've experimented with both Twilio and Grasshopper and had some reliability issues (calls not going through, voicemails being left on employees phone, etc).

Any operationally heavy startup out there figured out a good option on a budget?

Matt - Founder at ScriptDash
Nord Stream has very huge strategical value. It allows to sell gas directly to Germany while letting Poland and Ukraine to "starve". It is in my opinion the enabler of crisis in Ukraine which possibility was obvious for me since the Nord Stream was announced - the question was only the timing.

At the same time Nord Stream can used as an excuse to strengthen the Russian military presence on the Baltic Sea. In this sense the discovery of a UAV is strongly in favor of Russia.
I think the problem is not the lack of "career path" or a title, but that the is little credit given to code. (To the point, that usually no public code is being shared, even if the publication bases on it!) Why?

- sharing code may mean risk of being scooped (instead of milking the same code for years),

- cleaning up code takes time, which can be used for writing another publications.

In short, as long as publications (i.e. papers accepted to prestigious journals or conferences) are the only credit in academia, quality programming is lost.

See my longer answer: http://academia.stackexchange.com/a/23238/49
MongoDB (Series F, 8%)

$32 M	$16.74 M	$14.77 M

I'm not surprised