skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So it's a circular problem that the American education system is itself political."

Out of curiosity, do you think it is possible that a government-monopolized school system could be anything other than political?
Nobody inspires for ever. There might have been other Kings half as good as Alexander but nobody remembers them. People remember Mohammad Ali most people don't know who Joe foremon was. You great grand parents were probably very good people but they are likely forgotten as well.
No. It's not for real. These are novelty/gag gifts produced in a run of 500 bottles, and it's picked up by the Daily Mail doing an article on Those Crazy Chinese. They advertise about 150 breaths per $30 bottle.

The notion that anyone is selling an actual air supply here to any substantial portion of the population is sensationalist in a fairly racist manner; Like http://gizmodo.com/5897678/chinas-urine-boiled-eggs-are-a-cu... , a "hot commodity" consumed by a few hundred elderly people in one neighborhood of one city. Or the show at Wangfujing market in Beijing of skewered, roasted scorpions & seahorses, consumed exclusively by tourists. "Fast Food Beijing Style" - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041266/Scorpion-keb...

Generalizing an extremely rare cultural or entrepreneurial novelty over 1.36 billion people is somehow okay when the generalization level is "China". Not enough people know enough about China to understand that these exoticist stereotypes are not founded in statistics, but in a freak show / link bait mentality.

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Take a statement which is more true than "Chinese people buy canned air":

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"Crazy Americans Run Out Of Vomit, Have To Purchase Fake Vomit For Social Purposes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_vomit

Has sold tens of thousands of units. Surprisingly, not a cultural touchstone.

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"Americans So Oversexed They Require Penis Cage To Prevent Erections"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_belt_(BDSM)#Chastity_...

Big deal in BDSM subculture. Not an "American" thing, though.

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"Americans Are Now Buying Dedicated Cars To Use From Their Superyachts"

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/marine-mono-supercar-superyacht...

Technically true. But what does the headline imply?
Thanks! I was just reading the neo4j source and noticed the bitmap indexes which apparently have several advantages to B-tree indexes for indexing graphs:

https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/tree/3.0/community/lucene-ind...

ps:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9541541/b-tree-vs-bitmap-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap_index

Thanks for showing me triplestores! Good to know that it's better to use a database engine optimized for triples for graphs vs rolling your own in SQL.
Sure, if I stick a screwdriver into the door interlock, or peel off the choke ring seal. Why?
After a decently large RAID failure, I needed to gzip and send as many large files and send it over to S3 as quickly as possible on the risk of another failure. The script would gzip the file and then sync it up to s3, all in its own backgrounded processes. If two large files would get sent at the same time, both would die, then /leave incomplete files/.

After leaving that running over night, all of the files appeared to be uploaded... until the owner of the company needed to use them.

I'm still not sure if that's an exceptional use case, but it left a pretty bad taste in my mouth about S3 ever since.
Been using Stripe for years. There is no more fraud protection there than any other merchant credit card account.
Is it actually irrational to believe in something if your evidence is 'I just know it because God told me'?
Evolving Microsoft SmartScreen to protect you from drive-by attacks
Timestamping is a different problem since there is no need to prevent double spend and less need for extensive data retention other than by the particular people who care about a particular timestamp. You don't need everyone to agree about anything and can cross reference with arbitrarily many external systems for greater reliability. Two of the papers that the bitcoin paper cites are about distributed timestamp systems, and while they aren't exactly what I am looking for they show some basic ideas.
I'm pretty sure human beings won't make it anywhere close to that far. But either way is irrelevant to our lives now. All we have to worry about is living and making a good impact on the people in our lives - and hopefully leaving humanity slightly better off for having lived.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10746496
In two words: actuarial tables
As a fellow Lutheran from the Midwest I think you've done a good job in this thread at representing a minority opinion on this forum.
I agree, but the Wright's went counter to common thought at the time. Like Peter Thiel's favorite question, what do you believe that few else do?

Ever since I played around with Prolog in the nineties I came to believe, just like digital eventually triumphed over analog, that neural networks will eventually triumph over rule sets based software. I did not know when it will become apparent, but I firmly believe that it is coming.
As someone who deals with several hundred thousand dollars a year in online credit card fraud, I would advise you to check out sift science or Kount. It's easy to integrate and is vastly superior to the checks you have and the other suggestions in this thread. We have killed numerous credit card rings with this. They typically go somewhere else that's an easier target now.
NASA E-books
That's not viable. There's no way any major media company could survive by selling one-time fees to remove ads forever.
Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Gun Violence
> my "landlord stack"

How are you liking xero? Did you have any accounting software experience before that? I'm still using desktop Quickbooks, and I'm afraid that the online QB or xero may be missing features. Haven't made the time to eval them yet.

Are you paying Rocket Lawyer in perpetuity? Once you get your single lease and your initial questions asked what else do you need? Do they give you a discount on the evictions?

Cozy looks interesting, I'll have to check it out.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10746396
I guess it's just speculation because of the lack of any clues what they could be used for. You can only eliminate some possibilities, if they were used for food storage or people staying in there temporally you would find some rests of food on the ground, but they didn't.
Even so, a government could still block them until they realized it's futile (or something). The end effect is in their favor: users to move to other platforms that are not as secure.
Seems like the author's coworkers didn't follow semver, a feature/method was added in a minor release, they should have bumped the minor/minimum when bumping... locking to x.x.* is the new npm default iirc.
Well answered by other comments here, the whole "eventually consistent blob" vs "directed graph of mutation operations" problem. FWIW, this is a good distributed systems interview question :-)
Reframe the question: how do you trick yourself into believing anything when you realize that "belief" is just the random firing of neurons?

I went through a similar existential crisis in high school when I became aware of the laws of physics, of thermodynamics, and of cosmology. After all, if we are all just random interactions of sub-atomic particles fated to intertwine in a certain way and then eventually disappear in the heat-death of the universe, what's the point of anything?

And then I turned that logic back on my own thought patterns, which are after all just random firings of neurons that happen to form patterns which the random firings of other neurons interpret as "me". Certain patterns lead to ennui, hopelessness, and the eventual suicide of the organism through chronic depression. Other patterns gratify the other circuits in the brain, leading to a life that would subjectively be described as happy and fulfilling.

I might not actually have a choice in the matter - after all, it's possible that the paths we follow through life were all pre-ordained at the birth of the universe. But I also know that the question is meaningless, because as we established before, there is no actual "I", only random firings of neurons with electrical impulses that happen to make up a pattern that I perceive as "my thoughts". So given the inherent contradiction in my existence - why not choose the belief system that continues to ensure I have a happy existence?

tl;dr: Prove that you don't exist. Then you can do anything and believe anything you want.
When is visual programming too visual?
As a progressive liberal who grew up and spent many adult years in a a "deep red" religious state, I received similar treatment when people discovered I was a damn liberal atheist. I was called communist, lazy, and entitled for supporting social programs.

This isn't a thing only liberals do to conservatives, it goes the the other way when conservatives are in the majority. I experienced it first hand.

Most people treat politics like sports teams, you're born a republican/democrat the same way you're born a fan of the local football team. So they automatically divide the world into the "in-group" and "out-group" and just blindly rage against the other "team" like the home crowd boos the opposing team.

There is a reason the founders were fearful of tyranny of the majority.
I'm more afraid if it knows I'm doing something else.
Please read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3ulzdy/e...

Raising the minimum wage WILL increase unemployment. That's Economics 101. Companies are going to find ways to fire people, or give them fewer hours. Raising the minimum wage to something like $15 would be ludicrous.
I see free will as an illusion. Things may be predetermined or there may be true randomness, either way our conscious decisions can be reduced to the laws of physics.

But it is an illusion that I am still subject to, and it is useful to believe that I can choose, insofar that anything is useful. If we can't choose then there's really nothing to be said about anything. Isn't it somewhat ironic to comment on someone's behavior while calling free will into question?
Yeah, that's a good point. At 120 workers, that's still under $10k/year. That seems to support the idea that this is more about unionization than raw pay.
Well there's no other way around it - you can either publish all the dependencies with each project or share them in a central place.

Central places don't work very well and again, file space is very cheap. Most binaries compress down very small so there really shouldn't be a disk space issue. And you can always remove dependencies if necessary.

It's just not something that has ever been a problem in over a decade of building and publishing .NET apps.
I think this is a really interesting idea. If you could issue stock as a million "units" on a block chain, then you could transact fractional units easily. Assuming you trust the ledger it would mean you really wouldn't ever have to split the stock. More units, more ownership, minimal brokerage fees/control.

Of course stealing the private key of the hot wallet representing 10% of Overstock.com, well that would be a very juicy target indeed.
Seems nifty for the intended purpose, but then the unintended uses are many. Anonymous threats, for instance. Any mechanism for reporting abuse?
I think in this context it might be interesting that WhatsApp is actually using the same end-to-end encryption employed by Signal/Textsecure for some users. This encryption is in general considered superior to the strange protocol Telegram employs.

The problem WhatsApp has right now in Brazil MIGHT be caused by them simply not posessing the information the judge wants them to hand out. But I am heavily speculating here, since I neither know what information they were asked for, nor whether the data in question was end-to-end encrypted.

The problem with WhatsApps encryption is of course that you have no way to check the encryption status of a conversation. It seems to only work for one-to-one messages between Android users as of the end of last year. Maybe this has changed in the meantime. Maybe the encryption has been enabled for more or less users in the meantime. Who knows.
I'm sure you believe your country's laws are fair, just, constitutional, and parliamentary-approved. However, so do Thai people believe about their laws against insulting their King. Do you think Facebook should be in the business of censoring posts insulting the Thai King just because some judge there gives them a court order?

I maintain that Facebook should, in general, ignore foreign court orders and just do what's right. At the risk, of course, of being blocked entirely in that country.
EA's Origin and TeamSpeak (-> most PC gamers), VLC (-> most young tech-savvy media consumers), various device bundled software like the stuff that comes with TomTom GPS, the LightScribe control panel, ... it just accumulates. Germany's official tax app is Qt so that's a whole country right there. Many HN users might use VirtualBox which is Qt. The new Radeon Control Panel is Qt, too, so anyone who buys an AMD graphics card and installs the drivers. Many slightly geeky users use qBitorrent ever since uTorrent turned bad. Lots of one-off mini apps such as game launchers and settings apps are often Qt. And lots of weird random stuff people use for specific interests ... knitting pattern software, kids edutainment apps, language course CD apps, scientific citation managers, IRC clients and other messengers (Telegram desktop is Qt), ...

This is before you get into pro apps like Mathematica or Maya (and half of Autodesk's other apps and Nuke and so on). Or not-pro but widely used and semigeeky stuff like Avidemux. Or Valve's video making tool for Source engine video games like TF2 used by game YouTubers and esports people.

Qt is a pretty common way to write GUI apps for Windows. Just go to any regularly used Windows PC with a 20-something user and I almost guarantee you will find a few qtcore DLLs.
If something is going to have an effect on profits, you can bet on the fact that a company will fight against it, hard. Because SHOCKER the point of a business is to generate PROFITS.

I think you're wrong in thinking that businesses will just give up, and take lower profits. No. They're going to cut hours, fire anyone they can, etc. to maintain their existing profit levels.
Marissa Mayer throws $7m Yahoo holiday party, sits on white throne
S3 is more of a simple key-value store than a full filesystem (and for good reason). I suspect the reason their docs push the filesystem metaphor so much is because filesystems are more familiar to many people, and most filesystem semantics can be implemented using a key-value store. In that sense, there is no update() or append() in S3, just a simple set().
I remember it was that way for a long while.. but other than Python 2.x, and having a recent VS (Community Edition works) installed, haven't had many issues... at least no more than I've typically had with Linux.

I spend about equal parts of my development time between OSX, Linux and Windows... they all have had pain points for me. The only difference is in OSX dev you're likely to have XCode & homebrew. In windows, you may have VS, and probably won't have Python ^2.7.0 installed.

Part of why I've at least participated enough to raise a possible bit of help with the situation[1]. There are times when all you can reasonably do is raise the issue, and suggested fix... there are others where you should proactively fix it.

Node/npm's community is very open-source driven, and very diverse. I don't liken it as much worse than any other platform, and far better than most.

[1] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3694
> finally know what the truth is.

Not quite. The current substantiated hypothesis is always provisional until a better idea or contrary evidence turns up. That's not what most people call truth, and certainly not the kind of truth religious people have in mind.
Some feedback:

1) I think the pricing is too low. If someone has more than 1 property chances are they can afford much more than $10 or even $50 a month. If you're offering such a robust platform, charge what it's worth, not what you think will help you gain traction.

2) You might want to reach out to the folks at NoAppFee.com (https://www.noappfee.com/). I see both companies being able to benefit from some sort of collaboration. If you need an intro let me know.

3) Make this mobile/tablet friendly. Most property managers are out in the field managing their properties and would likely appreciate the flexibility of managing things on the go.

Great idea. Love the added value of the reporting. You may also want to think of adding some sort of scoring system for the renters based on their history so Property Managers can see quickly how much of a risk someone is. Seems like this would be pretty simple to do if you are already grabbing the data.

Happy building! :)
I think this is an inversion of cause and effect. The reality is much less inspiring; It's "What you achieve affects what you believe" not so much the other way around.

I know this for a fact because as I become more sceptical/pessimistic over time, my achievements increase. If I was a blind optimist, I would probably fail as soon as reality reared its ugly head.

If someone is really lucky throughout their lives, they will have an optimistic view about the world and the people around them.

Unfortunate people might find a statement like this offensive because they know for a fact (based on their own experiences) that this isn't true - It's almost like saying "It's your fault for being poor; it's all in your head!".
WhatsApp does/might (who knows, they are not transparent about it and it is closed source) employ the same end-to-end encrypted protocol as Signal does (for some users):

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/19/whatsapp-m...
There are times on windows, where I just have a linux VM setup, where I can SSH into that in a couple of consoles, and map my home directory in windows via CIFS so I can use a gui editor in windows... VS Code is surprisingly good with node code, though they really should include most ES6/7 features for syntax highlighting at this point.
Would you like a socialist society? Do you want a welfare state? I don't. Why shouldn't some people be able to afford luxuries like names on buildings?
At least MGS2 only has epic cutscenes at the beginning or end of each "chapter". That's actually bearable compared to MGS4.

MGS2 is my favorite entry in the series. It certainly had the most ambitious plot (about information control, and how being a soldier in a game is nothing like being a real soldier.), the mixed reaction to which made Kojima dial it back for all of the subsequent games.

It also has incredible production values, being one of the best looking games on the PS2 while holding an almost-solid 60FPS.

The series certainly has it's ups and downs, but on the whole I enjoy it. The worst parts are a silly science fiction-themed soap opera, but the best parts are some of the most compelling and exciting gaming I've ever experienced.
I guess the main intention of the current US immigration system is to keep the immigration balanced based on origin. Personally I understand that it is unfair and very frustrating for you, but on the other hand to keep America great there needs to be a balanced immigration system to avoid clusterization in the country.
I'm a B&N fan and shop there often, but that's one thing that always gets on my tit - they have totally screwed the pooch on the whole "clicks and mortar" thing. They should leverage the fact that they own retail stores and have an e-commerce side and an e-reader and make one nice, seamless experience. But no... Even worse, the experience on bn.com is pretty much shyte, especially compared to Amazon.

The whole "one click" thing aside, bn.com totally fails at coming close to Amazon in terms of discovery / recommendations / search, availability, and even visual aesthetic. I almost cringe every time I wind up on bn.com for some reason.

Somebody in another comment said their IT is stuck in 1995... I could totally see that. I hope they get things figured out, but I'm not real confident.
PR = shorthand for Permanent Resident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10742362
"Happy" in this context means satisfied over time, not instantaneously ecstatic. Think of it as the integral of happiness over lifespan. Few people care about how happy they'll be when they're dead; that seems like optimizing for something pointless. Similarly, few people want to be really happy and then be dead the next instant.

Think of Jeff Bezos's regret minimization framework. You want to be able look back on your life from some point many years in the future and say "I lived it the best way that I could". You don't want to look back on your life on your deathbed and think "Man, my whole life, I knew that this day would come and render it all pointless, and now I've proved myself right!" Nor do you want to look back on your life tomorrow and think "Oh shit, this is it!"
You can set that globally... Many windows devs already have a version of VS installed. Though less common than say build-essentials in ubuntu, or xcode in OSX. You're likely to see the same issues there if you don't have them.

Python 2.x is the bigger oddity to me... seems like python's role with gyp should be replaced with something self-bootstrapped at this point.
I think it's a combination of work ethic and also relative freedom to do something different . As Americans we seem to want to innovate or do something different.
It makes a huge difference. Chinese dictionaries today are invariably listed in pinyin order (or zhuyin, I guess, in Taiwan) because that is a vastly superior system. But the difference between a sequence of 4000 items and a sequence of 25 items isn't the same thing as the difference between a mostly-phonemic spelling system and some other arbitrary spelling system. If Latin had been written with unrelated abstract symbols representing the case endings, that wouldn't have posed a huge problem because there aren't very many of those (depending how you want to count, somewhere from 6 to 60).

> If there were 214, would you remember the order?

I might; remembering a fixed sequence of 214 things is certainly well within human capability. But if I did it would be as a point of pride rather than because that's something I think is reasonable to expect of everyone.
Because only guns kill:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teacher-who-allegedl...
Thank you! Checking out NoAppFee.com and thinking of how I can incorporate this into the platform.
The site should be mobile/tablet friendly, was it not working for you?
NYC subway may be better in other aspects but as a New Yorker, I agree with parent that DC system is way cleaner than NYC.
I'm talking about native apps. Not just a responsive site.