skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God made it.

Have you seen the movie, Contact? It's that.

God says...
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I got a fucken talking SETI, you dumb nigger.
> Also, the timing is only applicable to European options which expire on a specific date. American options have no expiration date!

Umm, American options still have an expiry date. They can be called earlier than their expiration date, though unless there is a dividend to be paid, its never advantageous to do so.

But American options absolutely have an expiration date. They wouldn't make sense otherwise.

I mean at price would you sell someone a put or a call if they could wait forever to exercise it?

No matter what implied vol you put on the underlying, you would still have to price it at infinity wouldn't you?
The ISS is more Russian than it is western. The West has contributed more money to it, but Russia was an essential partner and contributed most of the core technology due to their experience with Mir.

Regardless of that, while RT has its biases, do you really think they extend to a mundane article about bacteria on Mir & the ISS? It's hardly a discussion about the rightful sovereign of eastern Ukraine.
I'm not sure if GitHub Enterprise supports protected branches, since the feature is still considered experimental but it should definitely be possible. I'll be posting a Docker image to the index in the coming weeks allowing you to run your own instance, hopefully that will include GHE conntors
I had the same naive thought today.

Perhaps Dropbox will open source the project and the community can keep developing features and maintaining it.

It doesn't matter how much you are going to pay, someone paid more (Dropbox) and now they want exclusivity on the garbage can they are going to put this in.

I would love to see more companies shutting down services open sourcing them, but it's a lot of work and once you decide to shut something down you want to also cut the losses.
> If you want to make someone afraid for their life, prepare the tool you can use to end it.

If you want to make someone afraid for their life, second guess them every time they prepare the tool they can use to save it. Remember, it is not just black people getting shot out there.
Besides Case and Hart's piece, we have a few other concrete examples of how computing could be a medium for understanding systems.

Only a few? There are a lot of them, actually. Games are starting to become these, particularly ones which encourage exploration and making, like Minecraft. I think we're only at the beginning of our exploration of the craft of emergent sandbox worlds. We're probably at an analogous stage in emergent sandbox worlds as the cartoon doodles found on Japanese temple beams from around 1200 years ago. One day, we'll get to the sandbox world equivalent of "The Watchmen."
Tweaking QoS settings is largely a waste of time nowadays, but only if your router is running an OS new enough to include modern self-tuning QoS algorithms (and preferably a community-maintained project like OpenWRT, because the commercial vendors screw up their deployment of said algorithms).

Even if you aren't going to be hacking on your router much, it still definitely pays to ensure you're using hackable hardware.
Drone nearly collides with helicopter, operator gets caught
I think you're referring to the "midwestern palate", it's more geographic than ethnic in my experience.
Url changed from http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/drone-nearly-coll..., which points to this.
Smart cities and IoT to spearhead growth in Asia
This case was based on: "We should pity David Brooks, because he is not getting laid. And he is slowly losing his sanity."

The author is free to write that. But I'm not going to spread the link.
Are you calling me insane in a roundabout way?

It takes one to know one.

But it's pretty rare.

Pretty rare? That's back to the beginning, because every acquisition means the bought company has explicitly failed to become "real" in a make-more-than-we-spend (and continually grow the "make more") sense.

But better than chapter 11 if that's the alternative.

I'd rather see 20-somethings lose everything and learn tough, introspective, life changing lessons, than see them running around with their "soft landing" $10 million paydays just because they had the right connections.
Is Canonical actually profitable yet?
That actually gets back to my original point.

I have a friend who also uses Python as part of his job, but he's a hedge fund manager. Although we're both ostensibly programmers, there is no way we'd be able to successfully do each others jobs, at least not without several years of training. Nor do I think that just knowing Python makes me qualified to be a professional biologist, astronomer, filmmaker, or whatever else people are using it for these days.

That's why I think it's weird to ask how much a programmer should make, since in most cases it's actually the analyst part of the job that determines how much value you're able to create.
Note that Wikipedia is not exactly correct on Vista and later. See http://www.siao2.com/2008/03/25/8334796.aspx for the real story.
Your code only builds static libraries

Therefore, all projects in Go are doomed to fail. Somehow, I think not!
Also used on the Elliott 803, but the 4100 series used .050 core memory, hand-woven.
Why? I'm genuinely interesting in your line of reasoning.
From the article

> The English name, Turkish Delight, is no misnomer

Of course it's a misnomer - there is nothing delightful about Turkish Delight.
> Why, as a user, do I give %#@%! what the underlying transport is?
> I don't understand: Receiving messages on any of the transports is done every day and billions of platforms. After receiving, loading the messages into a common database, including mapping metadata such as sender, date, etc., seems relatively simple. Once in the database, sorting and filtering are simple.

I agree with this completely--so much so that I decided to make my own communication protocol (and client-server implementation) that would do whatever I wanted and still be backwards compatible with email. You can see the results here: https://github.com/Zombition/nsmtp-monolith. So clearly it's not impossible.

> What am I missing?

The biggest difficulty isn't from pulling out metadata and mapping it to whatever you store locally. The specifications of different protocols determine the user behaviors that are possible with each protocol, and mapping behaviors between different protocols in a way that makes sense to end users is much more difficult if you want to retain quality communication with users who are not using your software to pull everything into one place. What I found from implementing a new protocol that aimed to be backwards compatible with SMTP was that maintaining backwards compatibility with SMTP guided 99% of my decisions for making the new protocol. If I wanted to add a feature, but it would be confusing for end users who might be trying to communicate with regular SMTP users (or the SMTP users that they were trying to communicate with), the only practical solution is to axe the feature or rehash it in a way that would be less confusing for communication between the two.

In practice this is quite difficult, because you have to balance awareness of both protocols with awareness of how data sent through one can be meaningfully translated to the other, and while you're considering those things, you also have to consider what the user experience is going to be like for people on both ends of the software. If you're trying to maintain compatibility with a widespread protocol like SMTP, there may be an enormous number of different client interfaces that can add a significant amount of variation to the user experience. It's a bit like unfolding a fractal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688893
It really depends on how big the community is. HackPad was open sourced; it hasn't been touched in months.
Ekanite author here - thanks for the comments.

This is not about replacing those systems. If you want to run the ELK stack, Splunk, etc for your logs, that is great -- they are all good software, mature, and do the job very well.

Ekanite is about the challenge of building the same functionality all within a single binary, and seeing how well it will work. Drop a single binary on your machine, don't worry about Ruby and JVMs, and you're done.

It's also about helping people understand how search and indexing systems work internally, as it is quite interesting.
There's a much better solution than posting off-topic comments like this: click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch'. This indicates that the comment shouldn't be dead. When enough users vouch for a comment, the software restores it. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before a user sees 'vouch' links.)

In addition, moderators review the vouched-for comments and in many cases have unbanned accounts that didn't need to stay banned.

amyjess's comment was killed by a spam filter. Users vouched for it, so it was unkilled by the time we saw it.
At least they could do was open source it!
Monetization around email is just hard. Except for one like Google.
So it's like Google's Inbox?
I agree with circuitous. Most tachometers just take a pulse train from the ignition, so all you need to do is vary the pulse frequency instead of the pulse width.

On my Honda NC30 project bike, I'm feeding the stock tachometer with a variable-frequency pulse train from an Atmega328. The tacho just wants its input pulled to ground with a frequency equal to 4x the RPM, so one external transistor is all that's needed.

(The 328's main function is for talking to the wideband O2 sensors and sending that data over the CAN bus to a Microsquirt ECU, but it works nicely for also reading engine RPM over CAN and outputting the signal to the tacho.)
I have to do the same thing, click the zoom buttons on the thumbnail view of the slides. That's a really weird user interface interaction.
Being "foiled by the executive board" was pretty much routine at Commodore, unfortunately. The executive chairs were spinning at high speed.
Seems like it is a good way to peacefully fight religion.
Does this include the free cross-connect to the NSA?
I think many founders would disagree that company success matters more than product success. A lot of companies are started purely to develop and promote an idea. This is obviously so for companies spun off from academia or from internal projects at other companies, only a bit less obviously for those created around preexisting open-source projects, and not uncommonly for others.

Maybe you care more about the company. You certainly shouldn't project your personal beliefs onto others. Many founders would love to see their pet idea continue without the tedium of running a company. Many founders and employees would be similarly happy to trade in the company letterhead for a bigger paycheck. It's only "selling out" if one was more in love with the idea of the company than with the idea of the product, and frankly I can see few reasons other than ego for that to be the case.
You have to be philosophist with a degree and specialization in philosophy of science to consistently make that argument.

Are you?
Direct link to the list http://ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/
> It takes one to know one.

I think we're done here.
>Is it an analogous dynamic if the cure for almost all of the emergencies in the basket is reduction in harmful levels of pollution including inefficient farming/manufacturing/transport methods, noting the associated benefits such as food security that comes with unpolluted waterways in poor villages, not acidifying oceans, not tainting arable land with heavy metals etc? Belief in a certain God among many seems more variable than reduce pollution, aim for zero.

But what you really want is a method of weighing the harm of a given amount of pollution against the benefit. "Reduce it" doesn't translate into a heuristic for deciding which uses should be targeted first, and regresses to the original problem of "for which crisis is it okay to emit an additional unit of pollution to emit in service of fighting?"
in order to do that, you can send an unique link as content so you can have total control over what you sent. doubt that many would click but i couldn't think of any other way.

other than that, i don't think receivers like the idea that others can control what's in their inbox.
Thanks. Seems like thefunded.com was created when MySpace was a thing. AngelList is just more of LinkedIn. Nothing but positive reviews ("where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average")
Subjectively true databases. If it's not objectively true - it's not a blockchain.
What if it's not about raising money? Sometimes it's about gaining access to markets, or to technology, or to other things that the acquiring company controls. How is it "failure" to gain access to those things, and money besides?
I think shapeways nailed it by having also a gallery so people who don't know how to design can buy cool stuff. That's something I haven't really found for now in laser cutting/engraving, a good gallery.
Are you asking me if I use percentage values to do fluidly responsive designs? There's definitely some of that but most of the time it's even simpler than that - just defining a max width or height on something and letting things expand to fill their containers. Then you only have a few big containers in the entire layout to worry about :)
What's the best solution, then? Some kind of "Do Not Resuscitate" that should be used for people going on personal expeditions who don't wish to impose that burden?
Precisely. The big problem with 5GHz's reputation is that most access points, by default, pick channels where only low power is allowed. Lower power than 2.4GHz == lower range than 2.4GHz.

Although I believe all channels are high-power channels now (as of late last year or early this year?), switching to one of the old high-power-allowed channels can help. 149 is recommended.

I have yet to see any scientific paper that says 5GHz penetrates structural elements worse than 2.4GHz. Rain, yes. Walls, no.
He's dead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10691269
If you like books on making things, you might like my book: http://brianknapp.me/creative-pursuit/ It's $0.99 on Amazon, but if you want a free copy, just email me hi@brianknapp.me and I'll send you one.
Mailchimp and such aren't for everyday emailing between you and me. They're for emailing large lists of users one email a day or week or whatever and using tracking information based off referral links users click on in the email.
You made the front page of HN... Hope you've got a rev limiter installed by tomorrow!
Interesting--sounds like a similar challenge to what I face. Just to make sure I'm grokking you...are you describing the use case where you might have a single project, potentially have it live in multiple boards/lists (Trello) or projects (Asana), and update all instances from a single place? That's been a major headache for me where we might have a Marketing calendar in Trello, but then want sub-boards for each individual project, while still keeping all of them current. Or having an individual have their own board pulling in cards from a parent team board.

Is that the problem you say Brightpod solves?
I submitted the same post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689371 11 hours ago. But 4 hours ago, dang moved my comment to this post which was created 3 hours ago. It's very weird.
With a little digging you can trace back the development of the consenus surrounding this issue over the past 25 years or so, which would probably be worth an article on its own.
I'd agree if the rescue team was comprised of draftees, but I'm guessing that it is an all volunteer group that is aware of the responsibility before signing up. The complaint has the same sound to me as cops that moan about the risks involved with their work.
Would give an impressive new meaning to 'ghost writer':

http://shackletonsolo.org/2015/12/07/day-24-get-up-early-and...
Burning cycles is the glue that binds a new block to the chain. The strength of this glue is what enables bitcoin's censorship degree of resistance. You may find censorship wasteful (and I don't particularly need that either), but the entirety of the bitcoin economy disagrees. Similarly I think people who have a two hour drive to work is wasteful.
How can Trump go after a man that's worth 5x as much as him?

By all Trumpian measures, Bezos is yuuuge.
Malbox alternative for Android
I had stopped using the desktop version on Mac because of bugs which weren't fixed for a long time. But i still had it installed so that I can go through my emails swiping them to archive.

On my android, it was the primary mail app. Throw some light on other alternatives, which make mail easier?

A desktop client is a plus point, but not required.

Or defaulting to GMail would be better now?
NixOS (the inspiration for Guix) has supported something like this for a while: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/index.html#ch-containers

There's even support coming in Nix for building standard layered Docker containers in a fully deterministic way: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/11156

The deterministic properties of Guix and NixOS allow some amazing things. I personally prefer Nix as it has a more complete and mature ecosystem, but everyone should check out both projects though.
Profiteering in comment sections pollutes the incentives for commenters. Sure the links were useful, but they were much less useful than a person providing a really insightful comment about a typical article that shows up here. I don't want one person making monetary gain over another.
There's no rule that says the author must find Kay's talk to be more compelling than his VPRI memo, and it isn't evidence that the paper was poorly researched.
The network burns precisely as much energy as is needed to throttle the rate of consumption (roughly 25 btc per 10 minutes). It is bounded by the intrinsic and speculative value of Bitcoin.
10 influential data scientists and why you should follow them on Twitter
This story already had a major discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688207), but the current article contains more information about what is actually planned.

Instead of treating this as a dupe like we normally would, let's try leaving it up with the request that people discuss the specifics of this experiment, and perhaps what other sorts of experiments could be run and how one might evaluate them—and leave the more generic for-and-against basic income stuff to the other thread.
Not everyone lives in flyover suburbs without real foreign food. You should take GP at face value.
The thread starter's point (which I tend to agree with) was specifically that this particular article was ad-hominem and mean.
A Chinese University Just Topped MIT as the Best Engineering School in the World
New title: Person alleged to have flown model aircraft above legal limit, following a complaint that the activity interfered with a manned flight.

New subtitle: Alleged offender may face prosecution for the standard charges associated with this activity.

This aircraft could only loosely be considered a drone to begin with.
A particularly interesting and relevant account of the south sea bubble can be found in the Brief History of the Corporation post on Ribbonfarm:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-...
Ah, well I was commenting on the portion shown above. Taken in your expanded context, it's not something I would endorse. That said, I still stand by my (revised) point, regardless of whether it was brought about by a poor example, which is that a witty evisceration of an argument or point of view can be very satisfying.
Fascinating! I'd love to read more about the challenges involved in both airfare pricing, and email! Can you link to any posts that go into greater technical detail?

Also, regarding Inky-- I just spent a few minutes browsing your site, and it didn't answer my first question: why should I switch to your product from gmail?
Apple's “Black Wednesday” (1981)
It definitely doesn't seem like that would be a referral code from a driver, since I'd expect those to be more unique and auto-generated. I doubt drivers have the privilege of writing their own coupon codes like this, but I could be wrong.
Yeah, that's a good point and I see where you're coming from. But generally when I hear the argument about consensus, it seems to end with nothing other than an implication of "and therefore they're obviously wrong, simply because of the current consensus".

But yeah, I see your point.
Hasma is very expensive and reserved for special occasions. It's like saying that American desserts incorporate gold leaf and Tahitian vanilla beans.

Source: I ate hasma. It was sort of like tapioca but harder to justify.
A Year of Reading the World
it would likely burn up on entry
This is the first I've heard of N1. It looks appealing, but after following the links and looking at it on GitHub, it seems like installing the sync server for self hosting is still non-trivial.

I went to the "releases" tab on GitHub and it looks like the last one was in 2014. I see things in the GitHub repo that suggest there are Dockerfiles and Debian packages, but I don't see an actual Debian package repository or an entry on the Docker Hub. Is the recommended way to use it today just cloning the git repo? Or is there a stable release of the sync server that's tested/known to work with the binaries of the client?
Doesn't the RPI have a backlight dimming PWM as part of the default board setup?
They do not require a doctorate in nursing -- it's a masters degree. ("MSN-NP")
I went over the numbers with vitalik a couple weeks ago - he'll corroborate my claim. You can tell roughly how much energy is being burned per day based on calculating the token price multiplied by the daily issuance rate.

Vitalik knows the Ethereum chain won't scale so he's renovating the entire thing to Proof of Stake. (Which is a bad idea as well). Hunt around this is public knowledge.

Claims: There are so many. If you haven't seen them , watch the videos of the Ether team during the crowdsale.