skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think postal services in all of Europe are heavily improving as a result of all the internet orders. They started rolling out pin locked boxes here which you can install for a fee at home and they put the package in there and then throw the one-time use pin into your mailbox. I think this sort of stuff has potential.

//EDIT: these things: https://www.post.at/en/personal_receive_mail_collection_box....
In my experience Referral program is the best solution
I think the hipsterism point stands. In the west it seems that, as long as it comes from far east, specially China, and specially specially Japan the land of manga, it's going to be magical and unique.
Superficial? Definitely. Art?, well, I'd say cratfy, rather than artistic.
Dan Bricklin invented the spreadsheet–but don’t hold that against him
Same here. I thought the first images are the "bad" ones and didn't get it.. I couldn't even fill out the "new" form, with those tiny spaces.
Why customers stay silent and what you can do about it
> Facebook or any other social sites did not take away any freedoms from anyone.

The freedom from data being stored about the respective persons?
ShiftIt will do that: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
The Age of Shoppable Content
For Asylum Seekers this year the figures are 72% male and 54% aged from 18-34. So maybe about 40% of them are young men of military age.

I somehow doubt there are many toddlers indoctrinated by ISIS among the refugees fleeing from a conflict in a large part caused by ISIS. A lot of people seem to be under the illusion that the victims of ISIS that have been driven from their homes must, because they are mainly Muslims, be ISIS supporters. But I'm afraid that's the level of coherence I've come to expect from in anti-refugee rhetoric.
Know your endgame before you start playing
Some of your political opinions just disseminated out right there.
> "Why would you expect hashing power to become more distributed?"

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151216005453/en/BitF...

"Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury, said: “We are very excited to launch mass production of our super 16nm ASIC Chip. The final results of our hard work have fully met our expectations. We understand that it will be nearly impossible for any older technology to compete with the performance of our new 16nm technology. As a responsible player in the Bitcoin community, we will be working with integration partners and resellers to make our unique technology widely available ensuring that the network remains decentralized and we move into the exahash era together. BitFury warmly welcomes all companies interested in joining our integration and reseller program.”"
Trump+and+Merkel+Are+Proof+That+Fear+Drives+Politics
And you suddenly introduce a single point of failure for the return part of the mission.
I think what pissed me off the most was Facebook's reaction to net neutrality. Instead of attempting to reflect and revise their free Internet service so it can better serve the masses, it just attempts to slander and point fingers at net neutrality advocates. Like "ooooh no! We ain't the problem for your not having "free" Internet, it's those guys those over there arguing that free access to all of Internet is better than a free access to the websites we limit you to!" Seriously Facebook, you're not fooling anyone here. As if you haven't had enough fun screwing developed countries, now you have to go pick on the poor too?
PDF version, with better formatting: http://larrysanger.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/How-and-Wh...
"In 2013, The Economist described its countries as "stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies" while also looking for ways to temper capitalism's harsher effects, and declared that the Nordic countries "are probably the best-governed in the world":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
> All of this needs to be properly supported on modern desktops and laptops and tablets. That's what systemd does.

This has been done by Linux and udev for about 12 years now, if not more. Systemd is a recent player in this field. You don't need systemd to properly support hotplugging.
Some intelligent people know when it's worth to take risks and don't bother themselves about consequences that will probably never happen.
Writing fiction, writing poetry, translating fiction, translating poetry, debating things on the internet.
In Win10 you can also do Super+U (or Super+D) after either Super+L or Super+R to move the window into the upper (lower) right or left quarter.
Meetings I have with my friends are either planned over email, or via something that is specifically designed to pick a date, like http://doodle.com/.

The network effect works both ways, I was one of the few people initially who didn't adopt facebook, so anything that involved me had to be communicated over mail.
Whiz Gary McKinnon the 'most dangerous hacker of all time'
How much does a half-gigabyte 2G pack cost in your region?
Yeah, I have seen this for small periods of time. Anything longer and to avoid the battery drain the shutdown is used.

This is why I mentioned hibernation. Standby is ok only for a few hours at most on laptops.
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This effect seems to be frighteningly powerful. Apparently professional athletes are disproportionately more likely to be born in the 2nd half of the school year [0]. They simply grow bigger and show athletic promise a few months earlier than their peers, which leads to them being identified as promising athletes.

It seems to be incredibly powerful to give a child a positive label in this way. It also makes you wonder how many talented kids get left behind for the opposite reason.

I guess I have a tendency to root for the underdog, but I think it should be part of a teacher's job to consciously avoid falling victim to this effect.

I'm not saying this is what happened to your son - if he learned to read at 3 I'm sure he's pretty smart anyway. And if I ever have a child, I'll do anything I can to give them an advantage. The education system, on the other hand, should be aiming for fairness, not labeling kids as "smart" or "sporty" while they're still in primary school.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/18891749
I'm mainly sysadmin, but I also do some occasional embedded development, and use systemd-enabled Arch on the desktop.

Systemd solves so many pain points in all areas that I don't care about ideological debates.

And most of the touted "advantages" of sysvinit are, in practice, a nightmare. "people should just know what they're doing"? Well, too bad, nobody does! Distribution maintainers don't know how to write robust init scripts, software vendors don't know how to write robust init scripts, nobody does!

Taking away the "freedom" to introduce the halting problem to service definitions is, in practice, godsent.

"With BSD init, I can just edit the /etc/rc script and replace it with arbitrary shell code."

And now try to debug it one year later when you don't even remember that you did any changes to it. The shit I've seen on Linux systems' /etc/rc.local would give Lovecraft nightmares.

And the ability to sprinkle echo statements all over your init system does not make a system "easy to debug", unless you're a PHP "devop" who thinks that OOP is the source of all evil in the world.

"The way systemd does parallel startup bothers me. If service A depends on service B, they were traditionally started in sequence; A only starts after B is done starting."

Unless it doesn't, because init scripts _cannot_ reliably determine whether a daemon has started up. Grab, say, debian's sysvinit sctipts and count the amount of sleep statements sprinkled all over them. That's not sequential startup, that's a race condition waiting to happen!

"Why should systemd implement NTP when ntpd already exists?"

Because ntpd is a steaming, insecure pile of crap. And no, openntpd is not a solution, it's just a nicer problem. Why do I need an ntp server on a pure client machine? Just because ntpdate is an even bigger pile of crap?

"Being unable to shutdown the system."

As if that never happened with sysvinit. Badly behaving init scripts can cause a lot of havoc, at least systemd has a configurable hard cut-off.

"Debian should not have adopted it for at least a few more years; they’re supposed to be the slow, steady, and stable distro. "

Debian profits the most from ripping out the unusable joke that was their own "parallelized startup enabled" sysvinit. I've seen more Debian stable+sysvinit systems unable to boot up than I've seen Arch+systemd systems.
It flew 100's of kms away from the launch site, flipped around, flew back and landed a mile or so from the launchpad.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/by-making-a-historic-...
Quickly denouncing anyone who expresses certain sorts of opinions thus preventing certain sorts of discussion seems much the same to me regardless of which opinions it is aimed at.
People seem to forget that it is NOT in BitFury's best interest to perform a 51% attack because, bitcoin's value will plummet if they do that.
> 'burbs

is that supposed to sound like burp?
Note on the new one the right side: You can go online and directly instruct the post office on how to proceed (Hold it for me, try a second delivery, forward...)

Additionally I like their email service: Get a mail as soon as somebody sends any package to your address. Get a second mail as soon as it is delivered.

https://www.post.ch/en/customer-center/all-online-services/b...
> Germans don't care at all about stuff like this.

No, this is not true. Me and my circles openly disgust that. Only because there is no public outcry doesn't mean they don't care. But indeed it's rather the younger generation that cares about these topics.
apart from the very centre of london where there is an unavoidable shortage of space, the main cause is planning restrictions, with the refusal to expand on to "green field" sites the biggest barrier to more affordable housing. rich speculators cannot hold up the price of property all on their own without very strong supply side restrictions...
I'm somewhat floored. In what way do you find a bunch of Americans expressing pride in their country like that toxic? Good for them. I don't find it objectionable any more than us Brits signing Rule Britannia at the end of the Proms, but I know some do.

I have to admit though that once on holiday in Germany, while siting in the ruins of a castle overlooking the Rhine at night, myself and some Brit and American friends of mine burst into a rousing chorus of Deutschland Uber Alles, much to the dismay of our German friends. So perhaps I have an odd sense of humor in this respect. And no I'm not some kind of proto Nazi. I also once memorized the words to much of the State Anthem of the USSR, and knew how to use them, but alas it's since largely slipped my memory. Life's too short to spend it walking around with a stick up your arse about these things IMHO.
Interesting. Why it would be more creative to work on UI/UX than building tough algorithms on the back-end? Just due to the aesthetic characteristic in the UI/UX tasks?
Tech policy group brands Elon Musk ‘Luddite’ for daring to question AI's future
I dont't see how there is more outrage and shaming on social media than in the real world. Empathetic and benevolent behaviour could be expected when Twitter was a small community. Would everyone get Justine Sacco "joke" if she was yelling it in the streets ?
We don't know who is coming. I don't want to learn in the Paris way. And I think the probability for that kind of events is scarily high.

I didn't say they are "inherently evil". I say they are being taught since birth to be evil, and they naturally internalize it. "Being from somewhere else" being a problem, is totally irrelevant, I didn't say or believe that, and you are distracting from the real issue of what are their learnt since birth values and beliefs.

"We are all humans."
Well, my VM is running Linux. Maybe I should try win 3.11. After all, "they are all OSes". Maybe I should try to "improve" and "integrate" it. Or maybe I will continue running Linux.
When you cannot work with other experience people or participate in open-source projects. Try these things.

1. Take a task and implement it in the most laziest way (like implementing everything in a single code file)

2. Try to make the implementation "look beautiful" (with proper indentation, etc)

3. Try to make the instructions in your code analyze the return codes, check the input parameters to functions, catch exceptions, split them into various files, functions, classes etc by adding more code.

Third step is where you will try to learn more from the programming language that you have chosen. See https://gist.github.com/nareshv/50fa0884d09622792e34 for example

Once you master the step-3, you will always do begin with these things when you start implementing your project.

Source: Personal experience.
You might be slow from traffic, but just in case that's not the case, the linked article loads fine but the home page does not on a 2nd gen Nexus 7.

I see the top navigation followed by a white page, no scrollbar.
If you haven't already, you should consider opening a pull request.
I don't think there is any loss of significant future opportunity. When someone will be able to afford the Internet, they will start using whichever service they find fit.
Till then for those people, I can't overstate how important free access to even this limited Internet is. Even free access to wikipedia and facebook helps a lot of people in a lot of ways.
Fun Story: One day I was with the brother of a friend of mine. He said facebook helped him a lot in SSC preparations. I thought he was joking, but it turns out that there is an entire ecosystem of services on facebook which help several people in several ways and for those people, this free access matters a hell lot.
Do you mean Informix Time-Series Extension? It's been around for a while so maybe there are existing things that came out of IBM recently. Last time I checked its schema it was basically storing serie as a blob not unlike OPC historians like Pi.
Google to pair with Ford to build autonomous cars
Honestly you kinda did things backwards from just this little description. Usually you want to gain people's interest and feedback before you build and launch anything. This way you already have cultivated a list of people to help you spread the word. But you can still succeed.

You have already mentioned many common ways and there is no magic one. Traffic takes time to build and while there are formulas to developing and retaining traffic it doesn't happen overnight. The crazy stories of a startup getting 10k or 100k visitors in two months from launch are usually skipping a ton of details and somewhat hiding reality.

Blogging and guest blogging are two things you didn't mention too. Also my 2 cents Adwords PPC is not a good way to start traffic unless you have a highly targetable audience and you know who needs and wants your product already. Facebook ads are cheaper to experiment but IME do best with consumer type products.

Reach out to people that would be clients and offer them a free trial for feedback. Then also incorporate referrals into your solution, they are usually your best source for growth early on.
As a parent of a toddler, I am considering teaching my kid the music instead. There has been interesting HN discussion about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9067377

In a way it also contains reading skills but also develops the kid's emotions (books as well, you could argue), sensitivity, coordination, patience and perseverance..
Book reading is kind of lone activity, while in music you learn to listen, cooperate with others.. Seems to me that it develops the human being in a more wholesome way.
It's kind of that they give the impression it's a fair vote when it isn't that's annoying. And indeed the world isn't fair. However individual sites can be. It reminds me a bit of the early days of Google vs search engines where you could buy higher placement or Stackoverflow vs Experts Exchange neither of which went so good for the unfair players.
Indeed, but

a) you need to have the seed of having an open mind, that can help you later on. If you learnt to have a closed mind, then it's a fortress new ideas can't come in.

b) There is a upper limit of mixing proportions, above which the incoming mass of people is just too high, they stick together, and don't change / mix up with the existing population. This invasion is too big, too fast, for possible integration.
Reading the word tree could be described as de-constructing the letters that make up the word 't r e e', re-combining them into a whole, 'tree', then recognising the 'sound' and associating with a concept 'tree' then comprehending it's context to give it meaning 'the tree of life', 'it was like climbing a tree', ' the tree was bending'.

During early years teaching it's apparently fairly trivial to identify the children who are recognizing shapes over the deconstruction technique, there's a test where they are shown lists of words with nonsense words thrown in, for those recognising shapes, when they see 'strom' they cannot help but unknowingly correct it to 'storm', their brain just fixes it for them, it's close enough and the word 'strom' has probably not been encountered, children implementing the deconstruction technique will have less of a problem.

Why teachers care is that it helps them identify children who may have issues identifying letter shapes but can pass other tests by recognising whole words, early diagnosis of dyslexia can have a very positive impact on a child's educational progress.
What is the future of AI in Web?
Really, more skills the better? I have 3yr old son and I've been reading to him / teaching him to read only as much as he can concentrate while enjoying it. It is really easy to be too pushy and have a child lost interest. The skills does not matter nearly as much as the learning experiences. I rather hope that he grows an interest in learning itself than teach him read under 4 of age and possible hating the experience.
I think you should consider trying to find a different specialist. Mental health conditions are notorious for requiring highly individualized treatment. From what you've said it also sounds a bit like you might have a panic disorder and not just anxiety.
You wouldn't get death threats, that's for sure.
Lise Meitner: A Physicist Who Never Lost Her Humanity
About time. Since the advent of java 8 the platform is rejuvenating. This is clearly an example of that.
I hope you weren't reading my comment that I feel less inclined to visit a site where only the old boys club get to comment as vitriol or a personal attack of all things. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10762260

Just as a matter of taste I don't want to spend time on the outside looking in on an invite-only community. I'd simply go elsewhere. I'm not a huge fan of elitism and exclusivity in general.

One situation where it's not quite as bad if there are very transparent, specific criteria. E.g. "you can't comment unless you've built a product >10,000 people use" is much better than "you can't comment unless you're on our social graph".
> "We are all humans." Well, my VM is running Linux. Maybe I should try win 3.11. After all, "they are all OSes". Maybe I should try to "improve" and "integrate" it. Or maybe I will continue running Linux.

I would actually like to think that I'm having a discussion with someone who is above such ridiculous analogies. I wouldn't even say "racist" but you did just compare "immigrants" to "a primitive operating system nobody wants to use".

To address your other point: I'm french, and my sister lost somebody in the Paris attacks. This doesn't mean we have to close ourselves down in a bubble.

I'll elaborate on this another time (maybe when you come up with better arguments) - but the mentality of closing borders for fear of what might come through is akin to never going out for fear of hitting a car. And car accidents happen a fuckton more than terrorist attacks.
Full ACK. It makes so many things so much easier and, notably, much more resilient. Ever had to debug a broken init script?

The ability to "simply edit init scripts so that it works" often results in nasty, broken hacks ending up in production.
Rs. 125 for 15 days on the Idea network. Should be similar on others.
50-100k nodes, as posters above said, it's very variable on the network structure, but for me I get highly information clusters. Try increasing your cutoff for interaction via edge weight might help.
I am really bothered by the expression ‘the online hate mob’, as if this was a consistent and coordinated group of people who have an active and positive role in hatred.

It’s just a set of people who a. had a bad day; b. disagree; c. have arguments, or agree with people who do, and resent the fact that those arguments were openly dismissed.

“Troll” was an expression used by feminists (Ellison) 20 years ago, when they switched from presence-based meetings to on-line forum. They were confronted to dissent for the first time, didn’t know what to do with it. And roll all dissent into a intentionally de-humanised collective, where counter-arguments were gladly mixed with abuse to discredit them.

That kind of conflation became so prevalent, that is –ironically– also what drove people to miss Sacco’s cynicism.
The cool point in your answer is that you gave 5 activities and they all involve "writing" in a certain extent. Coding is also writing, so the conclusion we might draw here is that writing, in its various forms, is a very creative task. About "debating things on the internet", though, I would disagree. Debating things on the internet definitely demands more resilience, but I really don't think you need to be very creative. Actually, besides being resilient, you need to be good at rhetoric.
If your ROI is very important, than letting someone print is probably the best way.

Most 3d print owners print for other people and ask a small fee. Enough so they can buy materials in more colours etc. I make about 200$ revenue like that a year.
Money is returned to the economy via energy company profits and wages just as effectively as via bankers' salaries. It's the labour and energy itself that is wasted.
literally anything is better than init

What a peculiar thing to say. The init process does almost nothing -- it just spawns getty processes and launches /etc/rc. On FreeBSD, init.c is a mere 1737 lines of code. For all practical purposes init is just a boot loader; the important parts all come later.
That's a long way away, by then either bitcoin becomes popular, bitcoin evolves into something else or bitcoin dies.

Right now all comments about "inflation" etc are downright silly, usually form people regurgitating sill cons against bitcoin that are not a concern at this time.

But lets not have fact get in the way, downvote away.
The people who would hear it would be her friends, who would laugh at the intended irony; anyone around over-hearing would grasp that is was meant as self-deprecation.
I used to use bspwm, but ended up moving back to i3wm. While i3wm is not perfect, I always found it to be more practical than bspwm. The ability to stack, for example, is very nice. What's the thing that you really like about bspwm? As much as I wanted to really like bspwm, when it came to using it for work, I just found it lacked something.
Quit your fucking Job – Why we need to rethink German Company Culture
Not really, bcrypt is the only bet, SHA-256 is also too fast
We don't know if all of them are victims of ISIS. We don't know if one in a thousand isn't ISIS, planning on attacking. ISIS actually has said they are doing that.
Social media has far more vitriol and shaming because it is radically different in very important ways:

1. Anonymity

2. Mixing of cultures that rarely (if ever) meet in the real world

3. Loss of nuances when speech is converted to text

4. Loss of context due to text constraints (can't write many complete, complex thoughts in 140 characters)

5. Less potential for physical consequences