skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Move Over, Bitcoin: China Wants to Issue Its Own Digital Currency
that's stereotyping, plenty of companies in Europe have good access to capital and plenty of startups in SF don't. I do think there has been a culture issue in SF (and I think that party is coming crashing down) but not everyone in SF acts the same
Giving Time Gives You Time [pdf]
Mate, I have nothing but the greatest of respect for you as you know, but this comes off a bit... arrogant. I think I know you well enough now that you aren't, but it would be good to answer the question, even if it's to say "have a look at this resource here (insert URL)".

I'm definitely no fan on Bryan Cantrill, who I consider to be insufferably arrogant and hypocritical (he of the "have you ever kissed a girl", but would fire someone who he didn't employ over a personal pronoun...) but he does have a lot of experience and whilst his views are often controversial, it's probably better to counter them with information :-)
Sounds like 80 people dodged a bullet....
Aftonbladet, the largest news site in Sweden, went live on the web in 1994[1]. Here's a picture of their first server[2]. Aftonbladet was founded in 1830. Their article archive isn't nearly as impressive though.

[1] http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/aftonbladetse18ar/article1...

[2] http://gfx.aftonbladet-cdn.se/image/12090393/496/normal/5b4f...
Not sure how things are where OP is located, but some parents may not be able to afford something like this depending on their income.

If this works well integrated with school activity maybe it could be payable through that?
This doesn't surprise me. Product Hunt is largely successful because of its community. That didn't happen by accident, Ryan Hoover, the face of PH, puts a lot of effort into curating the community.

OpenHunt on the other hand was just a technical solution to a problem that was mildly annoying for some PH users. And guess what, PH just opened its gates. I got an "invite" this week to become an active contributor, without even asking for one. Thank OH for this, I'm sure they forced PH to make the decision much quicker.
Doesnt sound like a very knowledgeable headmaster. Larry invented PageRank and did a respectable implementation of it before he had other engineers take it over. And only googlers know what he has done inside the company.

Bill Gates gets a bad tech rap too, even though he was coding successful compilers himself for several years.
Here are a few things I would do (not exhaustive):

Before you or team members get "sold" on a particular vendor or product, write down (on a wiki, IM such as Slack, or other internally accessible spot) what your requirements are. For example, it must cost less than $x/user. or, we need features x, y and z, but feature a would be a nice-to-have. Also list any show-stoppers. (If it doesn't do z then the answer is "no", etc.)

Be aware that a cheaper/better product may not always get approval from the powers-that-be. Being able to show in terms that matter to the powers-that-be why your pick is the best certainly helpful.

Use the criteria to help you narrow down the products you wish to trial (maybe the top 2-4). It is important to try out the product in the environment you intend to use it. Especially, if the cost of the software is high.

Schedule time to try out products.

Actually try out the product.
Google agrees to pay £130m in back taxes after an audit by UK tax authorities
I agree, and I've been thinking of replacing what I have with a better sample program. The problem is finding a small example.

I mean, sure, I could post the code for my memory allocator, which showcases lower level raw memory manipulation, or a the formatting code, which showcases runtime type information, or some of the traits for iterables, but all of these take some time to digest, especially without first reading an introduction to the language.

What kind of example would you like?
I use a low brightness setting on my laptop because I am uncomfortable looking at bright screens for extended periods of time. I prefer the body text to be #000 on something close to #FFF (this website uses #828282, which is fine for me.) The Times uses #333 for their body text which is probably enough contrast for bright screens, but it is noticeably poorer on the dimmer screen that I use. I don't see a reason to make the text more difficult for the people with poor vision, especially elderly, who on the whole have poorer vision, to read. I can use extensions and overwrite their CSS to change this, but I shouldn't have to.

The fixed headers are very annoying on small laptops, where vertical screen space is already limited. It makes no sense to stuff the main navigation menu into a hamburger bar on the FRONT PAGE of a newspaper web site so that a tiny amount of white space may be added to the sides.

A navigation bar shouldn't scroll down the screen with me and steal screen space when I'm reading an article. I would rather hit the back button, change tabs, or scroll to the top and click on a different section when I'm done reading an article. And the layout is just ugly when Javascript is turned off because there is no spacing between the full size images and the body text.
That's fair. My point was that in reality, a ton of people end up doing it wrong in some way or another. You should cover your bases and keep your systems up to date with security patches regardless of how segregated you believe they are.
> Just because something is in vogue doesn't mean it is the right answer in the long term. Their mission is NOT about generating more pageviews in the short term to rack up ad revenue

Nothing I mentioned was abouut trends or short term page view revenue. It's about making their site more functional, improving their content by taking advantage of multimedia (hardly a trend by now) and making their excellent content more available to their readers.

> there are tons of articles with embedded media, here's one: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/nyregion/bronx-school-embr....

In that article, the photos are what I meant by 'decorative' media (I'll agree it's not a perfect choice of word). the not integral to the story - you could skip the photos and not miss anything. The video is separate from the text of the story; they are not integrated; from reading the story, There is no indication that the author of the text knows that the video exists.

What I see many amateur bloggers do is tell one story and use the right tool for the right moment. Where text tells the the story best, use that; switch to video/audio/whatever when that does best. The story is what matters, not the media used. As one possible example:

At New Visions Charter High School in the Bronx, here's how one innovative class starts its day:

<video of segment class>
Click <here> to watch the full class (45 min.)

What you just saw is a new school program that seeks to use hip-hop music to reach teenagers who may not respond to more traditional counseling. Called hip-hop therapy, it encourages them to give voice to their day-to-day struggles in neighborhoods where poverty and crime are constants, and provides a foundation for school leaders to engage directly with them in a way that seems more enjoyable than intrusive.
We're (Creative Commons) writing something up about this right now.
I'm pretty sured it was indeed used, at least as part of emergency drills. I think that is pretty good, to know that your backup system works in case it is ever needed.
It seems to me that "flushing the pipes" in this manner would only affect the amount of lead due to joints within the house. It wouldn't hide a problem with the municipal water supply. So if not flushing causes the test to go over, the implied fix is for the owner to replumb (deplumb?) their house.

It would be nice if the article spent some time detailing the mechanics at work and resulting implications, rather than only touching upon the actual specifics once, spending most of the article beating around the bush with tangentially-related scare stories.
I assume you've read this and are familiar with what happened with Internet Archive CU:

https://blog.archive.org/2015/11/24/difficult-times-at-our-c...

Clearly buying a charter is the same model as starting a bar in SF these days; buy one as no new ones will be forthcoming!

This is why I want to opt out of the traditional banking system altogether.

Please provide a method for me to request my employer to pay me via bitcoin.

The whole system is corrupt.
Very interesting. I see that asymmetry is one of the indicators: "In fact, on one of the skeletons we have looked at, the surface area of the joint between the lower arm and elbow is 48% larger than on the joint on the other arm."

I believe there was a lot of arm-and-hand labor in being a sailor, but without the bias that archery creates.
The bulk of symmetric positions are those with 180 degree rotation or reflection symmetry, and there are at most 3^{10x19} of those (I had mistakenly bounded it as 3^180).
So it's actually less than 10^90, meaning that L19/8 is correct in the first 80 digits.
That's the textbook model of money creation, but it's outdated. See "Money creation in the modern economy", by the central Bank of England: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

Money creation in practice differs from some popular misconceptions — banks do not act simply
as intermediaries, lending out deposits that savers place with them, and nor do they ‘multiply up’
central bank money to create new loans and deposits. (...)

Whenever a bank makes a loan, it
simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the
borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.
Sometime fake valuations. "I give you a boatload of money for a small piece of your company" Doesnt mean the market or the prowess of the company will scale way up beyond that small piece. Reminds me how they pumped IPOs in the late 1990s.
It's discouraging when new employees expect a certain lifestyle on joining your startup but you're runway is less than a year. Startups have been portrayed as having so many perks that there's an impossibly high standard to strive toward.
It’s a paraphrase of Linus Torvalds’ announcement of Linux in 1991: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/4995SivO...
please email me ... no NDA needed - z@zbruhnke.com - would love to chat
Rent control is city-specific. San Francisco confuses this a bit because it's a one-city county; city and county are the same.

County ordinances only have effect outside incorporated land (cities). So, for example, you could have a Berkeley mailing address but actually live in unincorporated territory, in which case an Alameda County ordinance, if any, would apply, but not a Berkeley ordinance. Years ago, I lived in an unincorporated parcel with a San Jose mailing address.
Engineering Diablo III's Damage Numbers
How to detect 3XX redirect responses in XHR
Yeah for sure. Nothing is constant/static.

As they grow up, they will want to do things their way, explore things on their own. It'll be tough since I care of them so much but it's part of life: it's natural that your kids will leave you eventually (especially boys).

My interest in the field (hi-tech) is still sky-high. I'm blogging when my kids are asleep. I dislike NodeJS/JavaScript but I still learn it on the side (yeah, it's a weird relationship...). But when kids are awake, hi-tech is far from my mind.

There was an article about valuing Time because you can't purchase Time. When I'm old, I probably won't remember anything about Java or Rails or Tomcat v5.0 or Linux Mandrake but I'm pretty sure I will remember the time I spent with my kids when they were toddlers. I probably won't spend much time with them as soon as they have their own partners/family.

So I suppose I've come to realize that my time with my kids are even more limited up until they're 12-15 years old, become sparse up until they hit college, and becomes very limited once they have their own family.

PS: my kids are almost 4 y.o. and 16 mo's. They're constantly asking for attention and all I can give them right now is just that: attention. They're not asking for toys or gadgets (yet...).
Great way to present it, but we're still talking about a prediction that can't be tested, even in theory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Can an Algorithm Eliminate the Unfairness of Gerrymandering?
Already emailed you ... looking forward to a chat
I enjoy a lot of what vezzy-fnord has posted (e.g. discussions of init systems) when I see it, but I am also woefully behind on it. I'd love to put these links together in some way that's good for people to browse through and quickly get familiar with options for OS and plumbing design -- would you or vezzy-fnord be interested in helping out with such a website?

I'll warn you that I have a serious bias towards systems that are or could be in wide use, though I think part of helping systems get to wide use, or at least get to the point of informing current development, is making information on them easily accessible. I've discovered a few interesting OS projects in this thread alone.
Unfont Design
texImage(canvas) isn't gpu->gpu yet. texImage(video) is the only gpu->gpu right now.

Because of the shape of the API though (support for arbitrary unpack format/type requests), depending on the underlying pixel formats, gpu->gpu blit isn't guaranteed.

We're looking into ways to provide a reliable fast-path.
Well, "decacorn" for $10B already exists, although that's just a variation on "unicorn".
I think the FBI should have been burned to the ground after what Hoover used it for.
I mean, usually those perks are a distraction from anomalously low salaries and probably non-valuable equity..
How about building a company withs tens of thousands of people, many of whom are working on hard problems that will benefit billions of people?
>is it really sarcastic?

obvs
It's pretty obvious when you connect the dots, but lactose intolerance (like many things) is a spectrum. Personally, milk with my cereal occasionally is fine, but I have a pretty bad night if I mow down a full bowl of ice cream (or as I am wont to do yearly, several glasses of egg nog).
I wonder what's the smallest Go board such that the number of legal positions is a legal position?

(Not expecting an answer anytime soon.)
Lets hope you can innovate on the "overdraft business model" and offer people to buy into a credit card as opposed to egregious graft on over drafts.

Further - you should have full transparency in charge ordering.

The method by which banks order charges to algorithmically produce the most overdrafts should be a capital crime.

I used to bank at a CU and they posted their monthly overdraft profits on the wall: ~$250,000 per month they charged their customers in overages. When 2008 hit, this number balloned to ~$500,000 PER MONTH that people were paying in overdraft because everyone was getting fucked so hard by the banks.

On paper I make a lot. I would literally pay a sizeable amount to have a true banking partner that actually had my best interests at mind and wasnt trying to rob me.

A friend of mine recently complained that she had dropped to $22.00 in her BofA account, which had a $25 min balance req. They then charged her a $35 fee for being under $25 - this caused her to go negative, and then for being negative they charged her an additional $35 PER DAY.
> That said, it would be great if we got a compromise

Wouldn't a better compromise be to support MP4/WebM videos in the IMG tag? Videos embedded this way could play without audio by default (just like GIFs).
This is the limitation of the Incognito mode: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/Wz14mr...
Here you can find some samples: https://www.rivescript.com/about
Using a C preprocessor as an HTML authoring tool (2006)
META: Am I mad or has the term "Unicorn" suddenly blown up and now every news outlet has to somehow shoehorn it into all their articles when dicussing anything startup related?

I really don't recall the phrase before maybe a few months ago?
The U.S. Pays a Lot More for Top Drugs Than Other Countries News
Not entirely; see, for example, page 703.
There is this: http://www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/research/2010/05/the-anat...
My go to name is Keyser Söze, which I use whenever I'm writing examples in documentation and such. It also has the advantage of containing a unicode character.
Surprising Results of What It Would Take to Transport a Million People to Mars
What is your source for this? It directly conflicts with Ambrose's book, which is perhaps the best-researched history of the trip.

Members of the Corps all had a meat ration of 5 lbs. a day (when available) for everyone, including native guides (none of whom was on the whole trip) and Sacagawea.
And in cases like this, standardization is just about the only way to ensure the feature's success. If every blog/publishing engine developed their own proprietary service for tracking linkbacks/mentions, it would likely never get off the ground at all.
Can you run the unikernel under a debugger when testing? Can you get crash dumps? Stack backtraces?

Unless you're running your unikernel on bare metal, it's still running under an OS. It's just that the OS is called a hypervisor and is less bloated than most OSs.
Plasma Mobile’s Vision
looks like the site is down now? Running a lookup gives a 500 error.
What about the following scenario:

They buy this chartered bank.

They make a mechanism for certain types of users to create accounts -- lets say only those with a valid HN account with a karma and age of over X + Y

I create the account and get the account and routing number

I then use this to direct deposit some portion of my pay into this account.

I have no access to the account aside through their meta app.

I give full autonomy to their bank and app to the funds in that account -- and I only get reports on usage and spend through the app - and I gate keep all transactions with a yay/nay -- but I never have access to the account itself in the chartered bank.

Instead, I just must commit to depositing say $1K per month in the account.

In the app - I can then only sign up for transaction types or vendors that fit within that particular deposit level.

They don't raise money for the bank at all.

They raise money for the app only.

(needs tweaking -- but the seed of what I mean is there)
The network effect lies in the chicken-and-egg relationship of riders and drivers, no? Drivers drive for the service that has the most fares, users pick the app with the most cars available.

Similar to selling & buying on eBay, though maybe not quite the same since both sides can be on multiple apps at once.
There's a lot more that can happen differently there. Docker doesn't hide all the details of the filesystem, kernel version, or the like. With EC2 instances you're still running a kernel that has a lot of moving parts of its own.
The Uber network monopoly effect is on the seller side, not the buyer side. It's having a large majority of the drivers under your control that makes it work, because the biggest seller is most likely to have a car nearby.
It seems that the local minima aren't actually a problem in these high dimensional spaces because most of them are either very close to the global minima or are saddle points, which can be escaped. There was a lot of work on this out of Bengio's lab. One such paper was Dauphin's "Identifying and attacking the saddle point..."
So Now Microsoft Axes the Yammer Community Team
Game developers, IBM rolls out open source Unity SDK for Watson services
Yahoo to decide on its next strategic steps after releasing quarterly earnings
Any proof would obviously be classified. But there is a lot of circumstantial evidence.

1. He made the statement in the OP. That implies that normal people using modern encryption does not impose a significant barrier to the NSA doing their jobs. Contrast with the 90s when the NSA pushed for the clipper chip, presumably because they couldn't eavesdrop effectively otherwise.

2. The NSA uses its own secret suite A algorithms for things they really care about keeping secret, not the suite B algorithms like AES that they recommend for the rest of us through NIST.
Updating the FreeBSD base (to the next major release) without updating the kernel is Not a Good Idea. Backward compatibility is there, down to version 4.x, but no one guarantees forward compatibility!

Applications will usually work, but the base system will likely break in some places.
The lock-in originates from (1) immediate (< 5 min) availability of a ride and (2) high density of customers, so drivers aren't idle. Ultimately, it comes down to the numbers, which no one outside of the ridesharing companies really has.
Facebook friends are almost entirely fake, study finds
Thanks-- that's useful: "More than 90 percent of the entrepreneurs came from middle-class or upper-lower-class backgrounds and were well-educated."

I'm curious about the socio-economic background of the parents as well.
Cocaine Is a Hell of a Drug That Could Make Your Brain Literally Eat Itself
In the house analogy, it's less of a backdoor and more like just walking through the wall.
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I think Cantrill is doing a massive favour for those who are pro-Unikernels - he's essentially trolling them and will force them to come up with responses to some of the issues he's making.

Given how invested Joyent is in their current positions, I can see why Unikernels may seem a threat, but none of the things Cantrill has raised as concerns seem insurmountable.
Can+Amazing+Turmeric+Cure+Absolutely+Everything+that+Ails+You?
are you offering a flat CPM rate or RON on a specific site?
Note that I said almost sensible. As in, "that motorcycle almost jumped that gorge." :)

And the techniques didn't exist, certainly. I'm more interested in the information itself, though. Before computers existed, all of a person's personal information was likely held on paper somewhere, either on their person or in their car or home or bank. At worst, the papers of a dead person would be locked in a safe—and law enforcement could always get a subpoena to have a safe cracked open.

Computers made the safe figurative, but FDE made the safe uncrackable, and put everything the person owns in there rather than just the stuff they think needs protecting. We really did lose something, and it's not just convenience for law enforcement; many people's entire life histories now evaporate upon their death, having been held entirely as digital artifacts on FDEed devices.

I'm not sure what to do about that. Manufacturer key escrow is obviously not the solution. I have a feeling that having a culture of peer key escrow might be, though. Teaching children that having escrowed backup keys is important, in the same way that having an emergency contact number for hospitalization is important, might help quite a bit. (We could also teach them the value of good passwords, while we're wishing for a pony.)
Former Defense Secretary Marches into New Territory: Videogames
For me, the most hated app in the previous company I worked for (Treyarch, part of Activision) was Kronos (kronos.com). It was the "vacation"/time-off/etc. application.

Almost all studio was Windows, and you had to use specific browser, with specific Java installed (for some reason our integration/use of it required java in the browser - that was at least year ago).

When you open the web-app, sometimes it might not work, when it does it starts with the "bereavement" page (wtf). Then if you want to request vacation that crosses weekends, you have to do it for individual ranges of normal work days. e.g. Also had to be careful not to select work holidays (MLK, 4th July, etc.)

That was my use of it... for very short amount of time I was manager to an intern, and had to watch and clock their hours. I had to be trained for 2hr, and still did not get it (I'm a software engineer... duh).

But then people claimed it had better new UI, which we did not use (reason unknown), and was pretty powerful.