skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you on crack? In what respect does SpaceX's achievements equal large government pushes like the Apollo program, that got a man on the moon almost 50 years ago!! Or the Manhattan Project? With almost complete certainty I can say that government projects could have achieved everything SpaceX has... now wether as efficiently or quickly I'll grant is up for debate.
Yeah, that doesn't work out as well as you might think.
>>If you had taxed Musk at 80%

He would have thought about futility of giving one's whole life to building something and then watch 80% of it taken away by someone else.

A few options remain for such people. Tax havens, countries with better respect for individual merit and contribution or plainly make money till a point and quit. All the three are equally damaging to any society for a long time.

Eg: See USSR, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba etc.

You don't achieve anything by making the rich poor. Apart from the sadistic pleasure to soothe your flames of jealousy towards their wealth.

The end result is you scare almost any genuine contributor to the economy, and they learn they are better off in some other place.
The new Kiko.com
Those numbers seem easily plausible, but that's not really what I asked - do we have any actual transparency into it, and where else does the money come from? There could be 3m members but that still represent a minority of their support.
It's great to set for Amazon Smile. Along with the Smile-forcing browser plug-in.
Viral Video About Health Insurance Pokes Fun at SF Tech
I just rip off pages from textbooks and eat them. Much, much less time consuming and the calories aren't that bad. Great source of fiber.
What did you use for auth, uploads, ssl? Are there good libraries out there?
You're right there is an element of that, but I think I'm fairly objective about Toronto because I wasn't born here and I tend to visit a lot of other cities as well.

At the end of the day, you simply can't get around the weather. If you're really in the mood for snow, NYC is definitely more exciting around Christmas-time, and even Ottawa, Montreal or Quebec City have more going on in terms of public events.

Toronto's a wind-tunnel during most of the cold-season and the snow is not the fluffy fun kind, but quickly freezes or turns to dirty slush.

For 6 months of the year Torontonians are just trying to get between their preferred indoor heated spaces as quickly as possible, and public gathering spaces are very limited.
I don't agree with you rajacombinator. Some people using youtual at the moment without any extra instruction except the info button on homepage. there is only two option: create or join. but thx for your valuable comment.
It sounds like you're a libertarian somewhat "by default", as you say you don't trust the political system anymore. But, to be fair, shouldn't you compare "mediocre/bad government" vs "mediocre/bad libertarianism"? Both could be as bad, so that would not be a decisive reason to prefer one vs the other. Or the latter might even be worse than the former.
But shouldn't one's email program handle all that in the background, so you get the equivalent of a browser's padlock icon showing whether authentication has been successful rather than getting the PGP (or whatever). Yes, there will still be ways around people but this seems like it should be a standard and basic part of all email programs now.
With React/Redux you can reverse time! :D
John Regehr observed a proven-correct C compiler generating incorrect code. The reason? An error in a system header file. The truth of the matter is that for most of the software systems formally proving every single piece of the system to be correct is too expensive. Perhaps as the rate of change in the software industry inevitably slows, this will change, as slower change will increase re-usability, but at the moment it is the sad state of things.
> Are you kidding?

No, I was genuinely curious.
no. u'r welcome.
The app looks interesting! I'm nt sure if I'd stick to entering in every purchase, but I'd be willing to try. Worst case you could add Plaid integration as an option too. I do think there is value in simplifying way more than Mint.

One idea I had recently was for a similar interaction, but instead of for expenses it would be for every time you "saved" money. So for example, if you were in the super market and saw some $5 cookies and debated buying them. If you decided not to, since you wanted to save that money instead, you'd open then app and quickly enter $5. It would keep a tally of all of the savings you had instead of the expenses, to incentivize that mentality.

You might be able to easily incorporate that already (or I could after signing up) by adding a "Savings" category. But if there are any places where expenses are graphed or totaled it would need to be discounted.

Anyways, congrats and good luck with the launch! I like how clean it feels.
From MailChimp's website

http://kb.mailchimp.com/reports/about-open-and-click-rates
> You don't achieve anything by making the rich poor.

Who is proposing to make the rich poor?

The most anyone here seems to be proposing is to make the rich less rich but still rich.
T-Mobile:

“T-Mobile utilizes streaming video optimization technology throughout its network to help customers stretch their high-speed data while streaming video.”

EFF:

T-Mobile seems to be arguing that downgrading video quality is not actually throttling, but we disagree. "Throttling" means that when a video stream hits T-Mobile's network, its bandwidth is capped. If the video provider's server has the capability to adapt the quality of the video, then the server can do that—but it is the video provider that is using "adaptive video technology," not T-Mobile. In other words, T-Mobile just constrains the bandwidth, and it's up to video providers to make sure their videos stream smoothly.

This isn't semantics—it's apples and oranges.

If T-Mobile wanted to give its customers more choice, it would have made Binge On opt-in, not opt-out. And if Binge On was really about helping customers stretch their data, then T-Mobile wouldn’t have automatically enabled Binge On for customers with unlimited data. They would also zero-rate all videos they throttle, not just the videos of providers who have enrolled.

- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/binge-lite-ask-truth-a...
Show HN: A Machine Learning Model for Salary Estimation
On the other hand, Clarkson assaulted a member of the production crew because the hotel he was at didn't have hot food. It's plainly obvious that he should (and was) have been fired for that - had they not it kickback would give the BBC much bigger problems.

The Top Gear brand is still owned by the BBC and they're rebooting it with a new set of presenters, so Top Gear is far from over yet.
I kind of agree about the wine sommelier, I don't want to go into that much detail about the history of wines. The movie "Somm" was enough for me. But I do like history, especially if it's directly related to the person I'm talking to, or the place I'm in.

This Reddit thread was one of the most interesting things I've read recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/3zgffa/what_is_the...

And I'm in Phnom Penh now, having done the tour of the Killing Fields and S-21 prison. Learning about Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, and even refreshing my memory about communism, the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, etc. I'm finding it all very interesting now.

But also I agree with the commenter above you, "creative hobbies" would make more sense than "instigative".
Portal for Engineering students to get Project ideas
No. The default assumption is not disagreement. And disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing that forms the basis of academic debate is frowned upon.

Personally, I find point by point counter arguments to be a tedious form of flame warriorism...I call it "the internet pick apart". In my flame warrior days, it was an effective tactic because it opens many fronts and then allows cherry picking the weakest counter-counter arguments and as the chain develops jumping back up the ancestor tree to score flip flopping and inconsistency points by cherry picking previous answers...well and that sort of brings up another big difference, HN awards internet points mainly for intelligent comments and interesting submissions rather than for insulting others or telling them they are wrong.

Of course, here I am offering a counter argument. And that's a reason that meta-comments are mostly frowned upon as well...talking about HN, though intellectually interesting at times, is generally argumentative and hence unproductive.

Good luck.
GnuCash ?
http://www.gnucash.org/features.phtml
8K on a smartphone means a reasonable resolution for VR headsets, so don't discourage them. :)
The emails were sent via Mailchimp, the open rate was gotten from Mailchimp's reports (analytics).
FreeBSD jails is the same concept as Docker, even it has been around for longer. Can somebody explain why it has never gained more momentum?
> LAX to AKL is about 11 hours travel time.

Plus another 6-7 hours to get to LAX from New York. This is a New York Times article.
How Crowdfunding Has Changed Real Estate Investing
U.S. Missile Mysteriously Turns Up in Cuba and No One Knows How It Got There
Not because Amazon sold it with prime, a product many people already "used" and loved?
I would be interested to know more about this, as I've always considered MSG something to avoid entirely. Unfortunately, the article doesn't really offer specifics as to why MSG is safe, apart from "so-and-so said it is".

Edit: Wow, thank you all for the information!
I wrote more about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866416
I think that, regardless of which side of the political spectrum most of us are on, we all want things to work better than they do. The problem is that taking the steps to make things work better reduces the opportunities for graft and corruption on the part of people who are in positions of power within our government.
The parent's wording was a little sloppy, but the point was that the grandparent was incorrectly using the Halting Problem to argue that you can't even do it for a meaningful subset of programs, which of course does not follow.
It's more like getting a "warrant" (it's not really a warrant if it's absurdly general as this one was) that since bank robberies were happening, gives the police the right to send a SWAT team to break into the house of anyone who walks into the bank.

Why not just have a judge sign a warrant that gives the police the right to search the homes of "all bad guys?"
True, I already pay a higher premium due to living in a large city. However, my point is I believe insurance companies will intentional use the data they gather about one's moment to moment driving habits in order to justify premium increases they otherwise couldn't - even for safe drivers.
Sure, but most (all) virtual setups have automatic snapshots, and backups for a few bucks a month. The rest you mentioned, you SHOULD learn if you're getting your hands into web services. What happens when something goes wrong, who is fixing it if you have no idea how any of it is running? I guess I'm old school. You learn the basics first, and build upon it. It's not reinventing any wheel.
I think it might be possible to infer the colours of some objects based on how old black and white film worked because each type had different spectral sensitivity and probably has a signature that can be determined automatically. Once you know the film you might have a shot at inferring what colour that car is for example.
From a purely utilitarian perspective, the rich often leverage their capital to achieve things that would be impossible or difficult to do without access to the capital they created.

They also often waste their capital on complete failures. Whether the rate of wasted spending among the rich is greater or lesser than the rate of waste in government is open to debate. But "from a utilitarian perspective," you can't ignore the fact that there is also massive waste and fraud in the private sector.
Yeah, I think there are at least a couple somewhat unrelated points.

- Getting from, say, freeway autopilots to more or less arbitrary self-driving under a wide range of road and weather conditions without a competent human even present is going to be a lot harder IMO than a lot of people credit. I actually don't think the NIST autonomy levels are that well thought out. I can't help but think there's a bit of "and then a miracle happens" between 3 and 4.

- Peak demand is definitely an issue. It's not just commuting. Going away for a weekend has definite unidirectional patterns. There are also lots of reasons people will prefer personal vehicles, such as keeping stuff in them.
Wait. I have solar and love it. But if your electric bills over a 4 year period do not amount to the install cost of the solar, the technology used is meaningless? And because install costs do not decrease with more efficient tech, and things like the inverters are just as expensive, I certainly cannot pay off my system in 1 year. More like 10 years.
Assignment of blame is important, but it is often an opinion.

If one program misuses another, usually the fix can be an alteration in either one or both. The used program can be expanded to accept the "misuse" which is actually legitimate but not in the requirements. Or the using program can be altered not to generate the misuse.

Sometimes what is fixed is chosen for non-technical reasons, like: the best place to fix it it is in such and such code, but ... it's too widely used to touch / not controlled by our group and we need a fix now / closed source and not getting fixed by the vendor {until next year|EVER} / ...
Secure Access Tokens with AWS and Single Sign-On
We already have a "Long Depression":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

There are some interesting parallels to the current time - that was the era of the robber barons, for instance.
What's wrong with that? The gap between the rich and the poor (and the problems this creates) is at the core of the economic inequality issue, in comparison with the poor, it is possible to be 'TOO rich'.
> There is an entire league of entrepreneurs out there doing things that aren't as well-publicized but still very fundamentally important to our society and how it works.

I'll happily agree to that.

> And your ignorance of the fact is probably that you never stop to talk to some of the business owners in your area, and see what they're planning.

You're incredibly funny.

> As for buying mansions and yachts, you can't tell me that
> that's any different than you buying the latest iPhone or
> car when you already have a perfectly usable phone.

> Hell, we could all be getting by with Nokia 3350s if we really
> want to take that argument there.
> We don't really need color screens, or internet in our pockets.
> It's really just a convenience after all, and there are many less
> fortunate out there in 3rd world countries without phones at all.

I'd have bought another one if they let me but I'm still on the nokia dumb phone that I bought 5 years ago and I probably will be as long as it works. I have some smart phones lying around for development and testing (ubuntu, an android phone and an older iphone), but I have never felt the need to carry one with me when I go out the door.

> Here's where we begin to argue about what poverty means and what 'filthy rich' means. They aren't clearly defined.

We're all filthy rich.

> I'm for people who earn money, fairly and legally, using it however they see fit. If they want to build space ships, awesome. If they want to buy yachts, awesome.

Sure. But the space ships are a tad more impressive to me than the yachts.
I'm not ready to give up my privacy because it'll make me safer. You shouldn't be, either, but what you're saying now points exclusively there.
No, the italics aren't helping... Although this probably says something about how easy it is to fail to notice word-doubling errors?
Log Compaction: Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community Jan2016
I wonder if it would be possible to rebrand MSG as "umami salt"
> Without those the argument goes, that firms would never get so big because competition would sprout up immediately to cut into their market dominance.

That's how the argument goes, but this is neither a proof nor an observation--just a piece of economic theory, and there are others going against it.
That's pretty dishonest. I would never charge like that. I would rather be completely upfront with a client and charge them $500 per hour for 1 hour, if I know that I can get it done that fast, and it's really providing that much value.
Who says they can't do both?
use -std=gnu99 instead
I think that a lot of people that are against higher/progressive taxes or see these level of inequality (income and wealth) as a good thing believe in the "self-made man" myth.

But that is just a myth. When someone "makes it", can you really disregard?

- his teacher from school

- the doctor that saved his life when he was young

- the guy on the street that maybe said something that
triggered a chain of actions that ended in his success

- the books he read

- the peace of mind provided by living in a safe place

- etc.

Is it enough that you paid for that doctor appointment? I don't know. But you would not be here at all without it, and that doctor himself benefited from all of the above.

A different way of looking at things could be that, as we as a society don't know what works and what doesn't, we invest in people. Some are lucky, and based on their circumstances (and on their personal merit, I won't deny that) will manage to succeed in life.
Read the Plaque
Yes indeed, and of course we must not forget Singularity/Midori which were implemented in a derivative of C# and .NET

I'd really like an OS built this way to become competitive. 64 bit flat address spaces and fully type safe designs really let you simplify things a lot in some fundamental ways. And you'd be able to run existing Java desktop apps without much in the way of porting effort.

Unfortunately all the Java OS's out there are hobby/academic projects that never got very far beyond a basic window manager.
How do you put your hand in the bag without opening it?
A site to collect historical plaques from around the world. A project of 99% Invisible, it was originally started by 99% Invisible host Roman Mars and Fusion.net editor Alexis Madrigal. Origin story here: http://readtheplaque.com/about
I grew up there too, and I agree. If you're going to pick a Dakota for tourism, South Dakota is better.
Thanks for the advice! Right now, we;re working on MVP version of the app, but there are some things on the roadmap already. I'd definitely think about this feature!
> SpaceX has made several firsts that no company or government ever has before.

Not meaningfully, not yet. They've landed the expensive part of a satellite launch system, which is very cool but the USG did it 30+ years ago. I don't think the difference between a vertical and a horizontal landing is that important.

And fundamentally there's no magic private industry pixie dust. A company is just a collection of people, as is a government; they both have to obey the same laws of physics. In some cases competition drives private industry to be more efficient. In some cases the government's long time horizons, trusted position, and ability to do things where the benefits are widely diffused make it more efficient. But it's only ever a matter of efficiency, not of can or can't.

> Receiving money from the government doesn't mean the government could have done the same thing.

It means that government money was a vital part of making it happen. SpaceX built their system on the back of $X from Musk and $Y from the USG (among other sources). If we took some money out of the X pile and put it in the Y pile, maybe the result would have been worse, maybe it would have been better.
Many pet projects you can run for Free on Heroku. Their docs are pretty straight forward, not sure what your hiccups were but I've deployed quite a few sites to Heroku without much if any issues.

The asset pipeline in rails use to cause some issues but I think that has all been resolved with the 12 factor gem.

Also setting up a VPS is in no way easier than Heroku. You have to install nginx, ruby, mysql etc. Then you have to setup routing. Then you have to learn all sorts of sysadmin stuff so you don't get hacked. Setting firewall permissions, mysql permissions. Then you want to deploy that app. So you have to setup capistrano or whatever. Next thing you know day wasted.

Heroku?

git push heroku master
It's a bit more complicated than that, too. I don't know about NV, but in California the power company never actually buys net power from you. At best you can owe $0, you never get a check from the power company, even if you pump all of your juice to the grid. So it's only paying "retail prices" insofar as it's offsetting the retail prices you're paying for your overnight/cloudy day power. And incidentally, overnight/cloudy days are off-peak times for power cos.
Depends on what you define as goal. It's mainly dedicated to developers. http://elioqoshi.me/en/2016/01/schrodingers-firefox-os/
Timeline of GM's ignition switch defect
In the course of selling his New Deal to the impoverished American public, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt pitched his reforms by stating: "It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach."

The most frustrating part of this "longest depression" is that in our hyperconnected age, there more ideas than ever to at least try, from guaranteed income to subsidized apprenticeships, yet our elected representatives spend at least half of their time asking for money to run in their next election, and nothing at all gets done. For at least the United States, any substantial economic reform will require a corresponding reconstruction of how our representatives campaign and are elected and held responsible to the needs of their constituents, lest the economic engine be left to muster no more than a tired sputter.
The situation is far more complex than you assume.

It is impossible for one person to make a billion dollar 747. One man simply doesn't have enough intelligence or strength to do construct such a sophisticated device. If a 747 is worth a billion dollars then creating a billion dollars of paper money or making the plane itself are both equivalent concepts.

Thus why is it possible for one man to make a billion dollars in paper money but it is not possible for one man to make a billion dollar 747? Why do billionaires exist?

Billionaires exist only because the paper money was taken from the wealth produced by other people. The Billionaire needs to employ workers to build a 747.

In short, for Billionaires to be Billionaires they must be an owner of some corporation where the wealth produced by the labor of employees is unfairly distributed to them. This is wealth inequality. This was the problem your old country attempted and somewhat failed to resolve with communism.

Whatever you think communism is, wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism and it is fundamentally unfair because it is taken from others.
Ah, good point. I didn't know about that.

> He and his five sons had lived in the house for three years, which Musk rented before he felt financially secure enough to buy.

Is an interesting line in that article. The 'still rents a house' line stuck with me from somewhere, I didn't know what kind of a house it was. It's a bit larger than mine, that's for sure :), and I hope he enjoys it.