skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you die a meaningful death, like the heroes of yore. Use your life and death to inspire others, and your "honor" will live on.

But if you live only for yourself, then of course, you won't matter after you die.
Ah the naivety. Just like 50s AI research :D

History keeps repeating
"Basically, what I think Google and some other companies find attractive about SDN is the ability to affect policy more directly from a single location with one view of the network as a whole."

That's "Software defined networking", which is a lot like virtual circuits. The first time A tries to send to B, a request is sent to some central server which decides if A can talk to B, how A gets to reach B, and whether it's desirable to listen in or MITM the conversation. The central server then sets up the routing, but doesn't handle the traffic.

This is amazingly like Tymnet, circa 1969.

Amazon has something like this internally, which they use as a big patchboard for their servers. This gives them freedom in allocating IP addresses. It's am example of "There is no problem in computer science which cannot be solved by adding another layer of indirection."
I might be making this all up, I'll need to actually test it out now. I swear when watching Netflix on a computer, you start an episode and your cursor is auto-hidden. At some point, maybe even when the second episode starts, I swear the cursor becomes visible again on the screen. I then instinctively giggle my finger on my touchpad to make it hide again. After watching couple episodes in a row and doing that, if I don't I feel like it pauses and ask if I'm still there within 20 or so seconds.

Has anyone else noticed that? My theory is that they reveal the cursor after every new episode to try to get you to move it and hide it. If you do that each time, they could assume you're not paying as much attention.
Yes, I totally hear you -- this is why we treat any API unavailability as such a huge deal and feel so bad about it. Whether customers can or should retry is a question we sometimes get from users after API errors and so I wanted to be proactive about answering it. (And our users often have Stripe.js tokens or customer tokens that they can retry.) But, you're totally right; this definitely doesn't solve all cases.

In the unlikely event there's anything I can do to help, definitely drop me an email.
If unions could compete with each other for workers' influence they would behave better within the market economy. They used to. It was a boon for businesses to be able to make their shops single-union.
Winter comes when exits dry up. After all, the exit is where the VCs make their money. Valuations don't mean anything until a VC can get out of his equity position and into cash or another liquid asset.

We are starting to see valuation corrections with large funds writing down investments in startups in later rounds, and IPOs proving to be very tricky to sell correctly to the market.

A recent example: Square IPOd at $11.20 for a market cap of $3.5b (was valued at $5bn in 2014) and, more importantly, only floated 8% of its stock on the IPO. This means that supply was so low that they essentially guaranteed a pop in price as there was bound to be more demand at this lower price and for such a limited number of shares. This is not how an aggressive, confident IPO is structured.

So once the exit round starts to gum up, it will have a chain reaction on all earlier rounds as people re-evaluate the likelihood and size of an exit. The crash will be swift.
It's appropriate, ironically, because they do spoil the bunch in the police force. If people in your police force are committing crimes and you are standing by, your police force contains exactly zero good cops.
I hate to break it to you, but you have a bunch of people in Congress right now gaining politically by being disruptive. So your failure scenario is occurring now without your mechanism.
Cool project, the prices seems a bit too low.
The <link> tag is similar in browsers to a meta tag, it doesn't cause browsers to take any behavior, so this doesn't cause a ping to any server. The AMP HTML version of a page does require a javascript src to make these transformations, but that's cached, so you aren't going to send a ping to request it on every page load.

The AMP version of a page doesn't add any banner or other visual style, the author has full control there. Here's an example, just pulled at random:

Original: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/theater/broadway-is-gettin...

HTML Mobile: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/theater/broadway-is-get...

AMP: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/theater/broadway-is-get...
How do you define "directly"? Who gets to judge? Who enforces?

You haven't really answered these questions. You've just postulated that someone will, implicitly assuming that nobody involved will ever be partisan.
Yep. And I generally take such "this is how we got here" reconstructions somewhat less seriously than I take laws / principles that can be experimented with and used to do things (and somewhat more seriously than predictions of the future based on said reconstructions).
But on a long enough timeline, everything you do is pointless. Eventually the universe will be destroyed by entropy.
Right now we (https://actor.im/br/) are trying to launch free and open alternative to WhatsApp/Telegram with Open Source community in Brazil.
That is a good equivalent and it gives some idea of what happened for those familiar with the concept. Thanks for the clarification.
Those animations on the homepage are jarring. Sometimes they show jumbled text too. Get rid of it.
HTTPS with Nginx and Let's Encrypt
Moore's Law is slowing down, and PCs and laptops are having longer effective lifetimes. I've got an eight year old laptop that's still serviceable - actually runs better with Windows 10 than it did with the Vista that came on it. It's not obsolescence every eighteen months any more. That's where phones are now. In a few years, they'll mature, and it'll be how VR goggles or the next gewgaw are killing the PC. Meanwhile PCs will still be there anywhere actual work and creation needs to happen.

Or maybe I'm a prematurely old man, who's looking for kids to yell at about getting off his lawn. But I haven't found a use for tablets other than watching TV or reading, and I can't even really do those functions on a phone. Much less use a phone as a phone. What percentage of smartphones are primarily used as uber-expensive, complicated digital watches or alarm clocks?
Agreed. For example, there are too many kickstarter products using unproven science being posted onto PH. Like the laser razer for example. I was shocked when I read the comments in the PH post for that and found people praising and backing the product but not questioning it. Would expect more from a community that claims to be from the smartest hub in the world and is made up of engineers, designers, etc. People need to be saved from themselves sometimes.
Needs some polish, but nonetheless a fantastic concept!
There aren't laws against driving while teenage:

"Nationally, 963,000 teen drivers were involved in police-reported motor vehicle crashes in 2013, which resulted in 383,000 injuries and 2,865 deaths"

I'd worry about that more than the odd geek with a laptop.
Rolling in a little late here, I am actually wondering what substantive rationale exists here. There are super competent people in the government, and they do percolate information out to Congress. So I don't think it's fully appropriate to call the Congress-critters chumps (although it's a national pastime), and I do also wonder what the effective means of altering policy are(No, I don't think the EFF is being effective).
You can have a shared log between multiple parties where no one entity controls new entries with immutability and known entry ordering.

Private blockchains don't need to be as inefficient as cryptocurrencies either because they can have a very small, specific use case and feature set.
I think they are banking on the fact that fewer people are inclined to return their phone and order a new one to save $50 than would claim a $50 refund outright.
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This is super useful. If only it had a widget on the home screen that automatically showed me the text from my clipboard...
It seems it's related to a narcotraffic investigation, unrelated to corruption scandals, at least for now.
How is it even possible to have a subscription service with Bitcoin? I haven't seen such a thing.
On the off-chance that you're not the awful person you sound like: "There are lots of (negative adjective) people (in area)" always reads poorly.

Especially if you're from another area that is known for being hostile to people in that area.

It makes it seem like you're just another closed-minded jerk perpetuating the hate that your area is famous for. Which you almost certainly are.
For context, India requires 12 years of lawful residence before naturalization.

Is it an injustice that I have to wait so long to be a citizen of India?
once again, a "Black Mirror" episode got it right. In "15 Million Merits", they pause the ad when you close your eyes or look away and will keep saying in a stern voice to look back at the screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
Looks like it was a stripe issue.
Photos Taken 100 Years Ago Capture Rare Look at Paris in Color
The whole point of Keynesian theory is that, in times of economic contraction ('a glut' in the old money), you should borrow from the future and buy things - any things - now.

You could make the argument that buying worthwhile things - like dams or power stations - makes this true. But for two things : if it's worth building a dam for positive return, you should do it at any time, as soon as you can. The second is that governments do not spend money on buying good things. In 2008/9 they spent money buying and crushing old cars, which is about as close to paying people to dig holes and fill them in as you can get.

The believers in 'aggregate demand is all' absolutely do believe that giving people money makes us all richer. They may not say it like that, but that's what they mean.
Decentralized store and decentralized trust. The latter is hard with a publically accessible & editable mysql.
Damn, did you forget to eat your cornflakes this morning?

Yes, everything is pointless and we'll eventually burn in the sun. But on the other hand, maybe that's not true. If we live as if there is a point, life will be more fun and more interesting, and that's good enough for me.
China is headed for a 4.5-day workweek
> What would an American judge do if WhatsApp were to ignore a lawful subpoena?

Fine WhatsApp. Not compel all telcos to block it...
Is this maybe a western cultural bias, that somehow God blesses you with talent and that's it? Some residue from aristocracy?

When you look at things like Japanese martial arts, it's all about learning from someone more experienced and lots of hard work. The limiting factor is your endurance, and the general sentiment is that "if someone learned before me, I can too".
My wife is a judge and she is not alarmed. She is terrified. We are green card holders and came back to the country 16 years ago. Tonight was the first time we had a conversation about leaving this place for good.
Telegram: 1.5m New Brazilian Users, SMS Gateways Overloaded
I guess I'll check it out. Not having expense tracking in the demo account is a bummer. That's the kind of thing that a buyer would care about. Actually, without expense tracking, its hard to imagine what the product does. Contacts/Calendar? google apps. Document storage? Dropbox/google drive. CRM? SugarCRM(This was state of the art 10 yrs ago, I'm not hip to what people use today) Bookkeeping? Quickbooks (again it was state of art at the time, but maybe today there are better ones)

I understand that $10 is a pretty cheap to test out the features, but whenever I need to put real payments into something, it changes from "sign up right away and kick the tires" to "put it on the list of tools to eval becuase now I need to schedule time to review this"
> some criminals

You mean suspected criminals, right?

It still seems pretty reactionary. The solution isn't to block an entire service.
Pricing isn't bad. Typical management companies come in around 5% per month around here.

That being said I echo the calls for more information about the product. I know it does lease stuff, "reporting" and some expense tracking. But otherwise what does it do?

My management company may be annoying sometimes because it feels like I'm losing money I shouldn't have to, but on the flip side I don't have to do anything. Tenant has an issue? Calls the mgmt company and they dispatch someone to take a look and/or call the professionals. Tenant late on payment? Mgmt company harasses them until they pay up.

Also, I realize you're probably one guy but the support SLA of 7 days for the first level of paid account is... useless. If my tenant can't pay rent because the system is broke, 7 days is not going to be kosher with me ... just to get an answer (let alone a fix). To me, that's the sort of thing you look at and decide you need to raise your prices. Maybe its just me but I wouldn't consider anything less than the $50/mo edition and I have exactly one place to rent out.
> Chapter 14 is twenty-four carat gold

Maybe, but the bounds-checking optimisation [14.2] just looks dangerous. If you end up with an erroneous 'int' index of -1 then the original code will error out, whereas the new code will interpret it as 2^32 - 1. This is a perfectly valid index in an array of 2^32 values. This optimisation just isn't equivalent if INT_MAX < size <= UINT_MAX.

Am I missing something?
"... is ingenious, a deep thinker." vs. is dumb, a shallow thinker.

Vs. is able to explain things so that they seem obvious.

"... values artistic, esthetic experiences." vs. values uncreative, ugly experiences

Vs. values practicality.

"... is inventive." vs is uninventive

Vs. understands the value of having standards.

"... is sophisticated in art, music, and literature." vs. knows nothing of art, music, or literature

Vs. enjoys things as things rather than solely on the meta level.

"... likes to reflect, play with ideas" vs likes to avoid introspection, take things at face value, and move on.

Vs. prefers using ideas over taking them apart.
I'd hazard a guess it's only limit is path length. Path length / average package name length
The NT 4.0 source code leak was in 1999 or so. How did it take so long for a compilation project to get underway?
That and that Facebook may have to comply with valid court orders. How outrageous a judge telling what Facebook should do.
Price discrimination is an important aspect to consider but I don't think it's directly relevant to the post.

From a business perspective, price discrimination probably has more to do with accounting, support, and long-term sustainability.

A transaction that includes 1000 seats requires 1 account to manage them and will likely have in-house support staff to help solve with technical issues.

A 1000 transactions for 1 seat requires 1000 accounts to manage and 1000 potential points of contact that need to be supported when things go wrong.

In addition, companies that have the resources to buy a lot of seats up front are more likely to be more 'stable'. Those are the customers who will standardize their internal processes to use your software, thereby guaranteeing consistent payment over the long term, and higher likelihood of return sales in the future.

That's probably why a lot of SaaS sites offer free accounts for individual/small-team usage. Early adopters tend to be more technically inclined, will evangelize the product if they like it, will be more sympathetic when minor bugs are encountered, and the 'free' aspect means there's no guarantee of support. They're essentially buying a community of QA testers with free seats.

The 1000 seat customers cover the bills (ie CAPEX+Fixed-Costs). The lesser customers cover the rest (ie OPEX+Variable Costs). The latter keeps things in motion, the former signals it's safe to scale up.

To remain profitable it's important to minimize CAPES+Fixed-Costs as much as physically possible because when feast turns to famine they're the hardest to reduce.

In accounting terms, favoring financial liquidity means favoring flexibility to adjust to changes in the market. This is a key deciding factor behind companies shifting to 'the cloud'. Even if the upfront costs are higher than maintaining bare metal servers, it takes little/no effort to ditch redundant infrastructure when it comes time to reduce costs.
Having used both Node and Go (truly love them both as well) I can safely say that Node.js is far more of a pain to deploy than Go although once you set up the CI/CD pipeline it becomes less of a pain.

One note I would say though is that I find my team moving much faster in Node than Go but this is likely just the dynamic typing more than anything else.
Agree, but with a disclaimer: I have a feeling the biggest part of Windows' marketshare 20 years from now will be Windows Server Core instances (running on Azure and elsewhere), with "Windows as PC software" no longer contributing much-at-all to the bottom line, and possibly made entirely free. Business workstations (everything currently running Windows Enterprise) will run something-or-other-that-doesn't-matter that can run Microsoft Remote Desktop, and apps will mostly be delivered via RemoteApp connections to said Windows Server Core clusters.

Microsoft is becoming a cloud company, and enterprises are finally starting to accept thin clients (because now thin clients are actually kind of fat, and thus much less annoying to use.) Windows-on-the-desktop will basically be in a race against ChromeOS, which is fundamentally a thin-client OS as well.

(Meanwhile, OSX will probably... continue to just be OSX. Unless Apple has some big new shift in vision, they're nowhere near being a cloud company, and OSX is nowhere near being a thin-client OS.)
There's a difference between citizenship and permanent residency.

Becoming a permanent resident is mainly about not having to worry about immigration status anymore, but doesn't necessarily give you the same civil rights (namely with voting or running for office).
>The solution isn't to block an entire service.

Oh really? What else are you supposed to do when a startup flush with cash decides to ignore the laws of your nation, exactly?
Yes. Former Chief Economist and Managing Director of PIMCO:
The deficit is too low.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdhv2WuoYGM&feature=youtu.be...
Nothing prevents implementation of any of those features, other than the fact that browser platforms don't allow some basic features to work.

Copy paste? No, not without Flash. Calendar notifications that work when the browser is closed? Custom fonts? Vertical text? Software that doesn't rot? Accurate page layouts?

If these new functionalities were so good and browser integrations were so powerful, then phones wouldn't need app stores, GMail/Google Docs wouldn't have a mobile application, etc. I'm more than ready to bet that in a decade, there will still be a desktop version of Office.
Better an entire nation go without WhatsApp than one guilty man go free /s
I agree, a "grow mindset" cannot be coerced. You can't believe you can grow when you really believe you are fixed. Perhaps all you can do is add "at this point in time" at the end of all your sentences, and hope for the best.

I’m one of the people who’s not good at math at this point in time.
Every label gets stuck to its progenitor. The first things that we owned that were computers get called computers. The second set of things we own, that are also computers, but have some other defining qualities, get called something else to distinguish them from the first thing.
I believe everyone should have a growth mindset, but the paper from Dweck is popularized and interpreted a little too loosely. The stricter interpretation is less compelling:

In the Bloody Obvious Position, someone can believe success is 90% innate ability and 10% effort. They might also be an Olympian who realizes that at her level, pretty much everyone is at a innate ability ceiling, and a 10% difference is the difference between a gold medal and a last-place finish. So she practices very hard and does just as well as anyone else.

According to the Controversial Position, this athlete will still do worse than someone who believes success is 80% ability and 20% effort, who will in turn do worse than someone who believes success is 70% ability and 30% effort, all the way down to the person who believes success is 0% ability and 100% effort, who will do best of all and take the gold medal.

It might seem pedantic, but I worry that propagating this loose interpretation will lead to many people believing their positive "growth" attitude, and not years of concentrated practice, is enough to grow.

From: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/10/i-will-never-have-the-a...
I thought if you leave US for more than 3 (?) months you loose your green card status.
There is always more than one side to a story, particularly when it involves conflict between two or more groups - say, employees and an employer.

Covering only one side of a story is dangerous, particularly when that coverage is used as a source or inspiration for further coverage, which then itself gets used, and then eventually edited into Wikipedia articles because all these reputable news sources are reporting it and that's all that's required for "truth" over there, and so on, and so on.
Except that this isn't decentralized - its a controlled blockchain that's only available for public download (which http does just fine) As does archive.org
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People voluntarily use WhatsApp because they consider it the best service. If it starts replacing "sugar" with "salt" I'm sure people will voluntarily start using something else. What should not happen is government force you to use something else.
Doesn't http do this just fine? If you trust each other - there's no need for a blockchain.
Perfectly acceptable - and great advise. You're actually making me think I should open up more to the free users so I can get more feedback.
1. Buy USA short term (till summer 2016, market poised to up)

OR

2. Buy Gold (long term)

OR

3. Buy Bitcoins (long term)

OR (if force to trade in countries longer term)

4. Buy 2017 LEAP Puts on China and Greece.