skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Valuations are fake, so who cares? I don't mean to be flip, but valuations are only important to other VCs.

When a company decides they want to go public it becomes very important.
Two reasons,

1. CMU is the top CS school nationally; the basic quality of the education makes up for the lack of previous experience

2. CMU crafted a program specifically for students without previous experience to counter this effect; most schools do not
One thing that I can't prove, but is likely true, is that .gov links are highly undervalued by google rankings. There are many many cases where a government web site provides the most obvious best result, but the fact that they don't do SEO or pay google forces the result too far down the page.
Even if you limit yourself to a purely textual pass, you can implement much better preprocessing.
The Google Maps Geolocation API only uses the access point's MAC address (aka BSSID).

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geolocation...
By baroque I mean it is overly complicated. Clojure syntax or LISP syntax for that matter is everything bot overly complicated.

> People won't learn this.

Say that to Uncle Bob or the guys who maintain ClojureScript, Cursive (JetBrains based Clojure IDE) or Om which is a port of React not to mention Apache Storm which was written in Clojure.
"One leading hypothesis is that firms employing low-wage workers—such as fast-food chains—have significant monopsony power in the labor market; that is, they are the principal purchasers of low-wage labor in a particular job market. And a monopsonist facing a price floor doesn’t necessarily buy less, just as a monopolist facing a price ceiling doesn’t necessarily sell less and may sell more."

- Krugman, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/12/17/robert-reich-chal...

"The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage."

Schmitt, https://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf
They said they reset it, but I am surprised they didn't buy a completely new one to guarantee a different hardware fingerprint.
Why do so many of Brazil's babies have microcephaly?
KnowMe Is a New App for Making Better Videos on Your Phone
If I were a regular phone thief, I would do exactly that, no?
That reflects more a demographics shift. For every gentrifying neighborhood in the inner city there are several rotting and dying small towns.
Just a few days ago I spent $200 to purchase a multi-domain wildcard certificate so that I could host multiple secure domains, with multiple subdomains, on a single elastic beanstalk app. It was such a headache to figure out that I needed the multi-domain wildcard cert, then to find one to purchase for a reasonable price.

Now, 5 days later, AWS lets me create one for free in 3 minutes, with zero hassles. I cannot select it in beanstalk yet, but I am sure that will come. I am consistently amazed by how frequently AWS satisfies needs I barely knew (or didn't know) I had.
I took the cross-fit as a sarcastic point about (its) gp- essentially making the point you are making about it.
> But pumping capital into a capital glut doesn't do much.

I believe this is a phenomenon captured by the term "Pushing on a string."
Well, yes, actually. Tumblr has most of the same echo chamber problems as Medium does.

WordPress isn't a destination, it's a background technology, so it doesn't have these issues. Blogspot isn't popular anymore, so it doesn't have these issues.
It's worth noting that, afaik, none of the reactors that have failed have been built using the "newest generation" of reactors, which are supposed to be much safer. This is a double edged sword, of course, because that also means they haven't been tested nearly as long. But I don't think the math to scaling nuclear power is as simple as we've fucked up 4/500 times, just extrapolate the numerator and denominator and you've got it. As we get more experienced with the technology we'll get better. And any conversation about the safety of nuclear needs to contain the relative risk of not using nuclear.

> More generally, the problem I see is that which was the real core message of the 1972 book Limits to Growth. There are limts to growth, and at exponential scales, those are reached rapidly even with increasing resources or pollution-absorption capacities by powers of 2, or 10, or 100. Those limits need to be embraced.

Embracing those limits requires, as far as I can tell, eugenic-style control over breeding. Personally I'd rather the human race burns itself out than go down that path.
What is a cryptocurrency pool? Are you thinking of a mining pool? No, there would be no need for that. Why would a taxi driver need to mine bitcoin?

Let's ignore that taxi drivers could avoid using any cryptocurrency. It's possible to have the ride hailing and rating systems done without bitcoin.

If we assume that bitcoin or a clone is the right network to use for the dispatch and ratings systems, then someone the taxi driver trusts has to run wallet software to verify that transactions are valid. It might be a good idea for them to have their own node for certain functions as well.

Wallet and node software could be run very cheaply in the taxi driver's home, or even in a project shared between drivers. So the objection about mobile bandwidth is easily overcome.
They aren't raising prices, however they are firing 16,000 employees:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/walmart-fire-16000-...
I never understood why we don't do geothermal? I guess it's just more expensive to dig giant holes than do prettying energy sources?
What do you mean when stating that applications aren't supported for developing around libcore?
I have heard that a wide variety of addictive behaviors have been successfully treated with psychedelics. Naturally, as most of them are schedule I substances, and thus not widely available for experimentation, sanctioned and reputable research on this matter is rather scarce.

The [flawed] studies already in existence suggest that a single dose of LSD is more effective against alcoholism than an entire year of AA meetings. Anec-data from self-experimenters reporting online suggest that ibogaine interrupts the psychological component of heroin addiction and eases the acute physical withdrawal symptoms for several hours.

Nicotine addiction seems especially tenacious, to the point where you have to pass the 3 year mark of continuous abstinence before anyone can even be 90% confident that you have quit for good. 90% of freshly resolved quitters relapse, most within 3 months.

By those standards, 23.6% is great, but I wonder if that is evaluated at the 3 year mark, or at an earlier time, when the confidence that the person will not relapse is lower.
I don't find Medium to be particularly white label, it seems very overt in it's branding. Loading an article off their front page on my phone, this is what I see:

http://i.imgur.com/tJuLn0W.png

What's interesting is that I remember back when I first looked at Medium, it seemed more whitelabel than that screenshot. But I guess that's the point of the original authors post. Medium is a for profit company, and they're going to change the platform over time to try to make money. That may involve changes you don't like, but are unable to act on since Medium has all your content.
I use and highly recommend hexo.io with it's S3 deployment plugin. It's as good as Jekyll but easier to modify and theme if you come from a web dev background as it's written in NodeJS rather than Ruby.
Moltex is claiming they have a design for a nuclear reactor with capital costs cheaper than coal:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:A7XF4_1...
> don't wait for someone to do the obvious

For what it's worth, I would not for a moment consider that someone might use Medium when publishing something in a blog post. I'd expect some Wordpress install, or perhaps Blogspot or wordpress.com if they're lazy. In fact if I'd have to rank methods of publishing by likelihood among my friends, a text file might be higher up than Medium.

Perhaps in Silicon Valley it's very popular and perhaps this 'friend' (that posted it, to his dismay, on Medium) is indeed from there, but it's not as if it's that obvious that everyone would post to Medium.

But yeah I do agree, if you think of something like that, you might as well say it instead of waiting.
Single cell RNA-seq analysis tutorials
Specifically, there are two 'weak lang items' that need to be defined. Lang items are not yet stable. So while you can build libraries with only core, the final binary still needs to be compiled with nightly.

For now.

Furthermore, you can use a no_std library with an application that uses std just fine. The use case not quite covered is "I want an application with no standard library at all, period."
The dom0 is not the hypervisor. Guests are not running on top of a dom0 in Xen - the dom0 is a management domain that is a VM running on top of the hypervisor just like any other, just with some additional privileges and management functionality.
Instead of injecting money top-down through the Federal Reserve and large banks, they could inject it bottom-up in selected industries. Invest $1 trillion in biotech. Some will succeed and produce amazing advances. Most will fail, but they'll still drive employment, education, services, etc. targeting that industry, driving down the cost of inputs to the biotech sector for decades.

Of course, this can be done not completely blindly, by investing 10 to 1 with existing investors, or providing a guarantee to return 50% of lost capital, or having milestones companies need to hit, or have experts in the field provide "votes" toward getting higher levels of funding after examining their progress so far.
Symboldb: ELF and Java Symbol Database
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Costs are actually the problem of nuclear power, not of renewables - at least in the west. The costs of nuclear power are rising significantly while renewables are dropping in price. The feed in tariff for newly installed photovoltaics in Germany today is lower than the feed in tariff Hinkley Point C will get when it will get when it's finished in 2023 + delay. Additionally the feed in tariff for Hinkley point C will get inflation adjusted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
Yea, but it's unclear how the "find my iphone app" could ever lead to reasonable suspicion by itself. Among other things, they seemed to be cooperating, not resisting, and all the evidence is from a third party—no immediate evidence would have produced any reasonable suspicion. This is an abuse of police power from a position of ignorance.

Do you really think that would hold up in court? I sincerely hope not. The man should have been allowed to use his own bathroom.
Perhaps he means that blogging services would be more likely to have user interests in mind as long as there's multiple of them and they have to compete. By this reasoning using a competing underdog service is a useful act even if it's just as 'closed' or whatever.
> such as lead battery recycling plants in Africa resulting in lead poisoning in surrounding communities.

This is a social problem, not a tech problem. There's no reason to have any "surrounding communities" -- the lead recycling can be performed in isolated factories.
Something similar happened to me. I moved maybe 5 blocks a couple years ago and for the first couple of weeks my location-based stuff would have trouble deciding where I was. Eventually the combination of GPS and cellular triangulation must've forced the SSID database to update but for a little while it was a minor annoyance.
Lots of restaurants have used MULTIPLE products like this before, but they suck. So, they're a bit snakebitten and less likely to trust services like this.

So, make sure you do a good job of explaining how things will be different this time around. Good luck!
Not so much data driven. Catalyst is Founders deciding to go in different directions with company. Essentially splitting off and going separate ways.
And a major reason workers are spent out is because of high rents. If the US would build enough housing in the major employment centers that the highly skilled workers wouldn't spend 90% of their after-tax income on fixed expenses, they'd have more money to spend to drive other businesses.

All the disposable income is being sucked into rents, and eventually that will make the economy run slower and slower, fewer sales to be made, businesses to close, more people to be unemployed, in a feedback loop until all the capital is held on one side of the table and there are a bunch of unemployed people on the other side who are willing to work, able to work, and want to buy things, but have no capital.
But the US can't just block offshore companies from its market without absolutely destroying its economy.

What do you think would happen if the US suddenly decided that no company can do business in the US without paying taxes to the US for their offshore profits?
What's sad is how the local police seem to have some sort of learning disability or amnesia about this problem. They showed up there repeatedly and harassed the occupants.
No, but two wrongs don't make a right. Also, as a society, we should be better than that.

I'll give you an example. Some of my friends made disparaging remarks about Muslims. I made it clear that was a generalisation and pointed out a (predominantly Australian) area with a lot of crime, "what about that? Is that any different?" I've slowly but surely educated good people to show more tolerance.

Having said that, I'll be the first to condemn inappropriate behaviour from a Muslim, Asian, white, feminist - I don't really care who. I don't have a PC bone in my body.

There are some great comments in this thread. The one I can least relate to is that we can't talk to people who listen to different music or watch different TV. Really? I was involved with an African woman, Asian, European, Australian. I have had mixed friends all my life. I never honed in on TV shows, but, I honed in on honesty, integrity, attitude (eg. I can't stomach arrogance, victim mentality and aggressive people). Is this so rare that people can converse beyond skin colour and gender?
The aliens are silent because they are all extinct
Only in a black and white fairy tale world.

There are myriad of other choices than just "ads like now" or "no ads". There are also other revenue streams, other forms of advertising, other forms of commerce. The way you picture the situation has nothing to do with reality of choices.
The more I read through the Brave website the more it feels like this is actually vastly worse than the status quo.

All quotes are directly from the FAQ:

"We do not even have access to identifiable user data". Except for the "in-browser targeting engine" which has "substantially more information about the user's activity available to it than traditional tracking methods", which are stored in the browser and then exposed to advertisers "to maximize user, publisher and advertiser value."

"Each ad request is anonymous, and exposes only a small subset of the user's preferences and intent signals to prevent 'fingerprinting' the user by a possibly unique set of tags". Except that the only reason advertisers need to fingerprint the user is in order to collect enough information to decide which ads to serve to them, which is precisely what they'd be getting from Brave (and then some.) Great, that information is stored in the browser instead of the cloud, and only subsets of it are exposed to the advertisers for each request -- but that doesn't benefit the end user at all. It benefits Brave, by maintaining their middleman position as the de facto controller of which advertisers gets access to that data.

"We block trackers, that’s a big win compared to the status quo." It is! For Brave. Because the whole browser is now an ad tracker. Ok, the data is keyed to a UUID instead of a name or other "personally identifiable information". How does that benefit the end user? In no way at all.

Throughout the site is repeated handwaving about how nothing is sent in the clear, they don't even have the encryption keys, nothing is personally identifiable, but none of that matters, because the end result is the same. It's still an ad tracker designed to enable targeted advertising. But with much, much more data to work with than in existing browsers. Offloading the tracking work into the client instead of doing it server-side is just misdirection.

And how about those content creators? "Our goal is to make better revenue for all publishers," they say, but I see no explanation of how stripping out websites' individual ad sales and replacing them with Brave's benefits the publishers. Congratulations! Brave's "revenue sharing" program means your ad space is worth 55% of what it used to be! [1] Oh, don't worry, they'll get around to building a micropayments scheme someday, which they'll also take a share of.

This is just. I mean. Gah. Flames. On the side of my face.

[1] (I can't find that figure on their site, but it's quoted here: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/267089/new-bro... "...revenue derived by selling ads through Brave will be split four ways: 15% each will be distributed to the user, to Sonobi and to Brave, with 55% allocated to publishers.")
That's because they know they can't do the lawyer job but believe they are inteligent enough to understand the field without the help of an expert.
Much of this makes sense, but the main thing that keeps me from using Java is the dark cloud hanging over it, called Oracle.
You can probably manually specify in EB config files for ELB. Haven't touched that in a couple years but support should be able to help. If not reach out and I'll try to reconstruct.
I wonder if any of the issues she faced were due to being female as well. Not exactly a great diversity story in that regard either. :/
Stories like this further my conviction to simply never answer the door if it's a police officer unless they specify having a warrant. They can't detain you if you don't answer, and chances are the officer will escalate the situation on his own if he wants a reason to detain you. There is nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Express isn't like Rails. It's more like Sinatra, but has probably even less stuff. There's no official or popular Rails for Node yet. People have made stuff like Sails but not many use it.
Once this is resolved, we might temporarily have a way to fool the 'illegal' surveillance gear used by law enforcement?
Unless they use some completely different scheme to snoop on cell phone users?
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Would love to help but Ive used every data science resource I have to find your identity but ive failed. Maybe a last name and city you reside in will be sufficient...
I have an nginx Letsencrypt integration example which might be helpful to you:

https://github.com/DanielDent/docker-nginx-ssl-proxy

My solution is to simply include a self-signed dummy keypair that gets replaced by the letsencrypt keys when they get issued.

An alternative approach would be to remove the SSL listener entirely until the certificate is issued.
How do you prevent a local government from shutting down whomever is running this open source hailing system? What happens when this person no longer wants to spend money running a hailing server?
Anything of intellectual interest is fair game, and historical material is particularly welcome.

When considering what's relevant to HN, make sure you've read the first paragraph of the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You've been using NPM3 on many large projects with many developers, many commits, thousands of nested dependencies, and not run into a single problem? If so, that is a remarkable achievement, and I hope you'll write up how you've done it somewhere.

In particular, I envy whatever combination of dependencies and development platforms you get to work with, because I haven't seen a single project with no problems due to updates since NPM3 arrived, never mind all of them. (Edit: This is not intended to imply NPM3 is the only reason for the problems, only to define a comparable time frame.)

Even if you're in an environment where shrinkwrap is working well, we seem to find transitive dependencies of installed packages that introduce bugs or break something without correctly updated semver with alarming frequency. As some of us were discussing here on HN the other day, this has happened so often with Gulp plugins over the past few months that one project I work on dumped the entire Gulp ecosystem (and instantly and dramatically improved developer productivity as a direct result).
I don't have experience with Om, but another comparable React wrapper in the Clojurescript world is Re-Frame, and it has a top-notch community. The original developers are still active, but there are many new contributors who are adding substantial new features and polish.
There isn't any definition of memory safe, nor any published version of C++, for which this is a true claim.
Very much reads like the paradox of saving, where saving for a downturn, actually causes the downturn.

It would be an interesting experiment to pay out a chunk of it as a bonus to their employees. Basically dump it into the economy that way.
Guava is much better than average Java, even written at Google by experienced engineers. There are few who have the luxury of polishing to the extent they do.
You can definitely take issue with his cantankerous and opinionated views on open access to information; but Dave Winer as "hipster-ish"?! That made me spit-take coffee all over my keyboard...
1. Comments about X place changing always fail to mention the observer of said changes may have changed. It's easy to conflate the personal loss of youth or time with some "other" loss or change "out there."

2. Or the idea of "weirdo" itself has changed in a way not recognizable to aforementioned observer. Namely, "weirdo" may not be an ostentatious display as it was in the 90s but something entirely different...
May the libc event never occur again (at least, I think it was libc with the wildcard dependencies). That's great to hear.
A Soviet Artist’s Lifelong Search for a Universal Artistic Language
Realtime collaborative database for the masses via iPad
Are teachers, accountants, mathematicians, scientists, doctors, or lawyers known for practicing to get into their respective fields in elementary & middle school? Not so much. Even for the most demanding fields, we expect them to begin to specialize only in their high school years.

To my mind, the fields which are known for requiring training from childhood are sports and the performing arts (music, theatre).

And if I had to guess, I'd speculate this is less because it's intensely difficult to play sports or learn to play music, but because so few people can become professionally successful in these fields (there's only room for so many sports/music/film stars). CS doesn't have this problem (the demand for programmers is skyrocketing), so we shouldn't expect folks who learned to program in childhood to have any more than a mild-to-modest advantage.
I've poked at the language a bit over time and while I don't think I'll ever "get" rust, I can say the folks in #rust on irc.mozilla.org are friendly and helpful, which can't be said for all languages.