skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same boat, same job for a long time... it started out fun hammering away late at night to get this prototypes working to please investors and then reworking new features keep me going. However the work has shifted into maintenance mode and micromanagement crippled my passion. I've been doing some research in the evening since Xmas break and I'm priming myself to go this year. I'm paid a comfortable amount with decent savings, mortgage, wife and kid and their support. I'd say go for it.
I'd very much ask you to go into the weeds here, because right now basebands implement specifications that are diametrically opposed to any notion of security from the "application processors" and users perspective. They trust the network unconditionally.
It's a problem which will go away as popularity grows.

If you have your own garage then you're all set now, obviously.

If you park in a shared garage, it's pretty simple to install a charger there. Garages still have electricity. It could be dedicated for you, or shared with metering. Either way, it's pretty straightforward. What can be hard, depending on who you're dealing with, is convincing the garage owner to let you do this. As EVs become more common, catering to their owners will become more desirable. It's one thing to block installing chargers when one tenant wants one, and quite another when 10% of your tenants want them.

The same story plays out with street parking. In terms of infrastructure it's no big deal, and the main obstacle is political. As EVs become more common, that will go away.
People breathe, people have shoes, people have cars, people have toothbrushes, people have phones, people have email addresses, people work, ... must be something else.
If you want to become a Web Developer there are some good resources for free like:

www.coursera.com

www.udacity.com - WebDev with Python

www.theodinproject.com - WebDev with Ruby

www.freecodecamp.com - WebDev with JavaScript
After some long searching, I found it. The story is a bit olderd than 1 year though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858065
We're currently working on exactly that. If you want to be part of this, swing by the channel. Details and backlog here:

https://github.com/letsauth/letsauth.github.io
Sounds like some tried and then get DDOSed
No, it does not seem like a rational requirement. It's also none of our business what these institutions do with their earnings. Most of us will never go to Harvard and we need to get over it, regardless of our race.
Sounds like a tinder / airbnb mashup waiting to happen.
Too much federal money goes to subsidizing the automobile/roads as a means of transportation. Drivers should bare more of the cost of driving, then a real market could emerge in mass transit. This would also eliminate an immense amount of energy usage
Netflix doesn't need Silverlight anymore as long as your browser is up to date. Maybe if you use IE. Chrome and Firefox use the HTML5 viewer instead.
Well I think the end result is the same right? Your credit goes down, and you lose your down payment.
Actually I think it's just a difference in definitions. You were looking at practicing dentists, while the number I quoted was licensed dentists. If I'm interpreting the numbers correctly, there are only 13088 dentists actually practicing dentistry (I don't speak polish, so I'm not sure if the difference is explained in the report). I'm also not sure how the world bank data is derived.
You still don't get your downpayment or any money you put into a house back.
Now it's been updated to use dd, and can run with /bin/sh.

It's sad that languages rise and fall by the feature base present in their standard libraries.
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This is a promotion video where you can find more about features, effects, image results etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJcFarqdh4

Gallery and video are on the Exeone site, not yet transferred to Vintager.Photo, sorry for inconvenience.
Torrenting is wicked fast for me. I don't do it very often, but when I do they download way faster than realtime. Usually something like a 22 minute TV episode will be done in 5 minutes.
No it's not. The article explicitly says "But what if you're in Arizona? That state's on Eastern Time." And the tel: links are in the very first example listed. If they're not necessary to help with the example (and they make it much more confusing to boot), then they shouldn't be there.

I mentioned these points on the post to notify the author. I mentioned them here to add to the discussion. As you can see, the discussions in both places are different and no one has responded to the discussion on the post so I would argue that there was a need to mention it here.
I also recommend them to everyone, but between all the praise they're getting, I think I should also give a fair word of warning - while great, it may not work for everyone.

I used the service once; I tried to discipline myself out of a poor financial situation using Beeminder - very quickly I found myself consistently slipping, had to pay the money, and I ended up in a worse financial situation and stressed to the point I could barely function.

Now don't treat it as a negative - instead, like a warning on the razor box: this thing is sharp, do not use when your hands are shaking. It's great as a motivator, but be sure you're in a good enough mental shape to handle both your commitments and the eventual slip-ups.

That said, I also have to praise Beeminder for having a great tool with lots of little nice features (I'm particularly fond of the graph aesthetics), amazing and responsive support (and proactive - I screwed something up once, they fixed it for me pretty much immediately and sent tips on how to avoid this happening again), and wrote a lot of interesting things on akrasia.

EDIT:

To 'dreeves - long time ago I shared this experience over at SlateStarCodex, and I missed your reply then. Referring to it, and that you're "extremely averse to people paying money to Beeminder that they don’t feel was worth it" - no, I feel it was totally worth it, even if it contributed a bit to one of my biggest stress episodes in my lifetime. I'm not scared of Beeminder, I'm scared of myself. I treat it as a combat scar in battle against akrasia :). So thanks for your kind refund offer, but a) you're totally entitled to the money, and b) it was long time ago :).

Oh, and thanks for supporting SSC :).

And, to everyone else - did I tell you already that Beeminder people are really great, friendly and radiate honesty in a way that's pretty much unseen in this industry? I do very much recommend the service despite the fact that, by my own fault, I managed to cut myself with it.
It is not rational to quit, seems more of an emotional decision which you aim to rationalize (justify). A rational decision: pay a tiny portion of your 200k to someone else to build the prototype. Do the same to try to sell it. There should be a ton of programmers out there just as good as you are that can deliver a good product. Meanwhile, running this on-the-side-startup might take some of the emotional pressure off, give you fresh air and motivation. I am talking from experience, now I have two companies: the consultancy work (which mostly I dislike but pays the bills) and the startup that takes a little of my time to steer, it's fully staffed, self-funded and it's walking into its 3rd year of profits (which are now enough to pay half the bills). Think rational and controlled transition, not jumping into the void. Also, I did get to program some of the code on the startup so it was fun and distracting!
Why federal government needs to invest in this?

Generally I agree with the sentiments you express here, but I just remembered the murderdeathwar on which many in the federal government would prefer to spend $4B. Compared to that, even if this is a total waste, it's not that bad.
JS framework to dynamically generate portfolio site from a JSON resume
Is this a case of the squeakiest wheels getting the grease? What if these problems aren't representative of the overall user base? What if far more people prefer a more simple, minimalistic interface than an ultra-customizeable interface with myriad custom actions and events. I've always appreciated software that deliberately keeps things simple (Basecamp and Workflowly come to mind). It sounds like these people want a full blown Jira/Stash installation.
In section 7, Additional Terms: b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it; or...

Author attributions seems to be quite clearly considered as compatible with GPLv3.
Indeed, it seems really early to throw away blockchains because one change to the consensus rules for the Bitcoin blockchain ended up not being popular. There's still tons of other unexplored space on the Bitcoin chain itself, not even counting altcoins - there's a lot of flexibility with Bitcoin script, and new opcodes are being added (OP_CLTV got turned on very recently).

Some of these allow you to develop altcoins that are backed by Bitcoin, called sidechains (see Elements Alpha for an example [1]). There's other clever ways to use the scripting system to do fancy things that could help lower the cost of transactions, like the Lightning network [2].

[1] https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements

[2] http://lightning.network/
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I am interested in understanding how much recurring revenue Github is receiving for hosting these projects.
I found the Super Cloud bit interesting. 350 employees haven't been able to move an e-commerce store onto Amazon's infrastructure in 27+ months. "For well over a year, Van Beek wasn't even sure the migration was technically possible ... the difficulty of this effort is almost unfathomable". Are the services Amazon makes available to its own teams substantially different from AWS? If so, why not just use AWS, and figure out the internal billing?
SmugMug is great! It's a little bit different from Flickr though -- SmugMug is more of a personal photo hosting/portfolio website, while Flickr is more about photographers community. I believe the social aspects of Flickr are much more important than it's actual photo storage capabilities!
Interested in the answer to this question.
In Windows, you right-click on the font and choose "Install".

In KDE, you right-click on the font, go into the "Actions" sub-menu and choose "Install...". Gnome may be similar, but I'm not sure.

In most Linuxes, you can copy the fonts to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" (as a GUI-independent install mechanism).

I don't have a Mac available to test, but I'd bet that there's a font-installation capability either by right-clicking on the font, or in whichever viewer opens when you double-click on it.
Would really love to see this upvoted more. This basic truth should be common knowledge for privacy-minded or security-minded technologists/developers.

There are lots of reasons GSM won't/is hard to make work. What are the options? As more and more carriers in the USA provide wifi-dongles that are connected to 3G, maybe it's better to just do that, and move off making calls directly from your phone completely?

For example, it might make sense to buy some phone, connect it to a device (or flash it with some software) that makes it essentially a portal for phone calls of sorts, and give it sandboxed access to your network. It's significantly harder for GSM backdoors to be effective if the entire device is sandboxed right? Maybe this way, as you roam around, you can somewhat securely communicate over IP to your call-making device, and make/receive calls?

[EDIT] - Thinking about it, the suggestion is moot, since all someone would have to do is write some software to replay messages, or leak messages or some other nefarious thing, and stick it on the baseband of the device -- even if it can't damage your network it's still quite insecure.

Maybe we should just give GSM up altogether, and start trying to move ourselves (and the world) to only communicating over IP (which we have a shot at securing, assuming modern crypto isn't completely broken)? What is the situation like with completley open source wifi connectivity?
I do that as well, but in my branch. When I merge to master I tend to squash into bigger commits so as not to pollute the timeline so much. If someone really needs to see the small commits they can always look at the branch.
You're talking about converting the entire US car fleet...

No one is talking about that. Poorly-driven vehicles will be with us for decades, because freedom. Everyone knows that.
When I spoke to John Callas he said there was a serial link to the baseband on the Blackphone. I might be misremembering, but it certainly is an issue that designers are working on solving.
Lots of angst in this article on university admission could be avoided if selection was thought of as a chance to get in, instead of automatic entry and a right.

Barry Swartz, in my view wrote the definitive article about the mess elite university is in. Read it, "Do College Admissions by Lottery"~ http://nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/03/31/how-to-improve-t...

Still getting wound up about credentials? ~ http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html
How about those http://www.cryptophone.de/en/company/news/gsmk-introduces-ne... phones? Is a "baseband firewall" just a gimmick?
uh huh, and we are just gonna ignore the continuing need to actually move stuff around?
Most drivers spend time driving in rural areas where mass transit is useless.
“Orson Welles’ Sketch Book,” a British TV series from 1955
I'm extremely happy with seedboxco.net, the SB-50 package more than meets my needs (of downloading Linux ISOs, obviously. Ahem).

There are other higher end packages with stupidly fast upload, but SB-50 is vastly faster than my linespeed anyway.

They do week trials for a couple of quid.

There's a slight learning curve, but as you're on HN, I doubt you'll struggle with the basics. And you will pick up the cool extras.

Do check out the VPN (iirc) tab, for creating OpenVPN accounts.

The only app thingy I used was Plex, and it worked flawlessly.

Ferral Hosting's seedbox hosting was fine, but it had a steeper learning curve and didn't give me anything compelling over SeedboxCo.
The Adobe building in Lehi, UT provides 12 free EV chargers. (It's not just for Adobe employees, either). Anyone is free to come and use the chargers.
“scrum vs. kanban vs. XP vs. LeSS” 2004-present
Miners produce a stream of bits by consuming CPU cycles, energy, data centers and admins. First, China is a low cost producer across many product categories. It is not surprising that bitcoin mining is also on that list.

Second, there are economies of scale to be exploited. Over time, it will become more profitable for the largest miners to increase capacity vs the smaller miners. The largest miners will get cheaper power contracts. That alone gives them an advantage that will allow them to take market share from the smaller miners.

The end result is fewer, but larger, miners doing more work.
Like you I don't have any valid use case right now, but I'm interested in Service Fabric[1] though. It looks like Amazon Lambda, it screams vendor lock-in but much less than Lambda, as it seems easier to code and import dlls

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/
Well any RF equipment that you either modified or built yourself is per default illegal to use. You can buy a bluetooth-stack-on-a-chip and talk to it with your Arduino but once you sell that as a product you'll still require FCC certification.

But the FCC isn't overly concerned if you're doing WiFi or Bluetooth, their area are the broad analog strokes, correct bandwidth and correct power. As such, if you use something that has the correct filters in hardware, you'll be just fine though technically breaking the law.
This is incorrect.

You are simply not adding in rent. A $262,600 house would generate $1400 monthly rent, ~$117k in rent for the 7 years (not raising rent).
> This is also related to how engineering is often viewed (correctly or not) as a young man's game

Startup engineering is a young man's game in part because it's harder to fool more experienced engineers into drinking the koolade.
Azure is like 8 years old at this point, so it's by no means a new field for them. It's just that before there was no Google forcing everyone to cut their crazy fat margins.
And doing even more analysis, there were 87687 practicing doctors (not including dentists) in Poland in 2014, i.e. 2.3 per capita, which is close enough to that it could have been World Bank's data (which isn't available for 2014). Comparing those numbers to the US it just seems that Poland has a smaller dentist/doctor ration than the US.
Huh? The GPL already requires an appropriate copyright notice.[1] This is not the same as the BSD advertising clause [2]. I don't see how attribution is any different.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html...
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/bsd.en.html
I'm sure all those renters will be much better off and safer now.

I understand the need to register for safety and health reasons, but it seems silly to require it for a couch in the apartment.
Here's how I would think about it:

If a number N is composite, then it is a product of two numbers smaller than N. Let's call them n1 and n2.

If both n1 and n2 are greater than sqrt(N), then their product would exceed N, violating the assumption above that they equal N:

N= sqrt(N) x sqrt(N) < n1 x n2

A similar argument applies if both n1 and n2 are smaller than sqrt(N): n1 x n2 is less than N, violating the assumption.

So the only other possibilities are:

a) n1 and n2 are exactly equal to sqrt(N)

b) one of the factors is less than sqrt(N) and the other is greater than sqrt(N)

So if either n1 or n2 are not exactly equal to sqrt(N), then a composite number N must have at least one factor less than sqrt(N).
Also, the president mentioned redistricting reform in his State of the Union address. http://www.vox.com/2016/1/12/10758738/obama-state-of-the-uni...
It's always seemed to me that we could get much higher-quality VR if we could manage to set up a foveated display: a high-DPI display embedded in concentric rings of progressively-lower-DPI displays. It's easy enough to get quality-control clamped for a 600DPI display if you only have to make them a square inch in size; and your memory bandwidth and parallel processing needs go way down if the outside rings can actually be treated as a small screen, rather than as an extremely-high-resolution screen displaying a (monotonous and blurry) image.

Of course, the big obvious problem with such a display is that the eye moves, and moves faster than you could possibly move around the display. The real key, I would think, would be something equivalent to a metamaterial convex lens, that could be "tilted" and "flexed" in the same way the lenses in our own eyes can, to redirect and "refocus" the centre of the image to the new eye position without actually moving it per se.

We already have a technology to achieve this sort of "tilting" and "flexing", it turns out: magnetic deflection, as seen in CRTs. No reason you couldn't use it to deflect a continuous parallel matrix of rays by a constant amount, rather than one continuously-shifting beam. Heck, you could use an array of coherent emitters (laser diodes) rather than point-source diodes, and use phosphorous on the intermediary panel like the good old days.
consider that running a complex piece of software on o&o hardware is very different than amazon. You have to re-architect your app to tolerate (1) hardware just disappearing (yes that happens in a data center but much less often than in amazon), (2) generally lower-powered hardware (no giant db servers running on TB+ ram / fusion-io drives / bonded 1g ethernet hardware), (3) often shitty network and ebs performance, (4) generally a very different HA architecture. Not to mention ops relearning everything they know about how to keep your site up.
Yes it is fairly bizarre that Github don't dogfood the issues function. I'm sure they have an internal system that they prefer, but even that internal system could have a public interface. Also, if the internal system is superior then its superior features could be added to the public system so that we could all benefit.
I'd like to see a good response to this because I'd be way more fucked by malware on my laptop than on my phone.
There's a good document on equity compensation that was recently posted to HN, it has a few notes on secondary markets: https://github.com/jlevy/og-equity-compensation#what-is-your...
What is the advantage to using Bitcoin over the mobile banking which is already widespread?

http://qz.com/462044/the-battle-between-africas-mobile-phone...
Perhaps it has to do with a certain expectation of your own behavior in that environment?

From my own experience if I'm drinking with friends at one of our places I have no problem staying 'responsibly inebriated'. I don't even have to try really, it's just how I behave in that setting. However, when I go out to a bar with friends I tend to drink too much. I think the change in setting and context influences my behavior.

I think that part of it is that I have this feeling that I have to make the night 'worth it' in a sense. I don't go out a lot so it's sort of like trying to get all my fun in at once (which ends up being not so fun). It also feels more natural to always have a drink in hand at a bar... or perhaps I feel uncomfortable without a drink a in hand, I'm not sure. Next time I go out I'll try and keep these possible biases in mind and see how my behavior changes.
Being happy because someone is leaving a FLOSS project is considered a "personal attack" on HN?
I think the fundamental problem OP puts here is that true power always seem to be in hands of few - whether its physical currency or crypto currency. Look at it this way: Every currency needs to have attribute of being produced through some work. However ultimately most of the work is owned by who have wealth or power. Thus no matter what currency one comes up with, ultimately few handful of wealthy individuals or governments can completely control its production as well as evolution. In Bitcoin case, few governments or individuals can own 95% of the production capacity because that's the proportion of wealth/power they own. So fundamental premise that general population's computing power would outweigh computing power of governments/wealthy is wrong due to simple fact of inequality that necessarily has to exist. No amount of forking would prevent this scenario to occur again.
Not a Groupon expert but will take a shot at this from the consumer side.

Dropping the terrible stock photos they use and going with an Airbnb approach of helping businesses create their own high quality photos would be a huge improvement in my eyes. Would improve the authenticity and reduce scammy feeling. I absolutely hate the photos they use currently.

I agree with HNcow that there is an implicit concern you are going to get screwed when buying a Groupon (either the business sucks or will treat you poorly). However, in my case, I've almost always had positive experiences with it, and Groupon has done a good job of taking care of me when things when wrong.

Ultimately, if my memory serves me correctly, I think the "best Groupon" was in the early days when it was much smaller and offered a sense of exclusivity for the merchants - resulted in better deals. The challenge with maintaining that is it draws copycats and even Groupon themselves are tempted to scale it too big, leading to what you have now, just another oversaturated marketing channel.

But, I could be wrong about that last paragraph. To my surprise, there are still good deals on Groupon, and I occasionally buy from them.