skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question: isn't wealth distribution thought to be fractal? So economic inequality should grow as an economy expands, but that alone doesn't imply there must be less for an arbitrary participant.

I don't know much about economics, so sorry if I'm off base. It's just the statistic "XX people have more than YY% of people" gets thrown around in discussions, and I'm curious if it's cause for concern or just an economic fact.
How does this work if the graph isn't connected? Like if there are people who are only friends with each other and no one outside their group. Surely out of a billion people, there must be some people like that on facebook.
I think you'll find that the NeXT logo was designed in a similar fashion, and that many high end brands get this kind of input into their logos and branding.

Call it snake oil? Probably, but at least a multi billion dollar brand can answer the question "Why does the swirl look like that?".

And only $1 million? That was _cheap_!
Bitbucket is generally used for two reasons:

1: better Jira integration
2: no limit on number of projects

The second reason makes it very popular among small design/dev shops.
SANs aren't magical boxes incapable of losing data.
I was half-expecting to find something along the lines of "Ignore this /\ (also this \/)" somewhere on that page, as it's the only thing I saw in the whole document that didn't look like it fell out of some broken Markov chain generator.
The Economics of Pawn Shops
Apple has not gotten substantially more buggy IMO, but they've made some questionable UX choices (and put more MSFT like stuff in their OS). Windows has gotten much less buggy but is still doing stupid nonsense that probably started with management. So their software advantage has eroded some, but that's as much MSFT getting less stupid and Apple getting more like MSFT in their approach to stupid nonsense in their OS.
There are plenty of creative people doing professional UI design work. However, usually they aren't the ones posting yet another flat or Material Design dashboard to Dribbble.
Could I get an invite too? I really love the premise of this project! Thanks
Windows had an msdos assembler preinstalled, last time I checked, which was before vista. Now the 16bit support was removed, but edge comes with a javascript engine, right?
Super Bowl 50 Further Divides San Francisco
I was upfront about it with the landlord. She could lease to a double income family, who're going to bargain with the rent at every opportunity, and complain about every issue that comes up that could possibly be the landlord's responsibility, with 3 kids, who with their parents working will have lots of time home alone, or she could lease to me, a mid-twenties young man, with high income and stability, and the kind of person who're generally quite chill about things, and will take the care to look after the house.

Now I lease the two rooms to an immigrant, and another man who came to my city to work because he couldn't find a job where his wife and kids currently live.
I draw the opposite conclusion, as all of your examples are from several years ago. Three of your four links are more than 1600 days old!

Ever since AirBnB became the most valuable company in YC's portfolio, there has been a remarkable groupthink on HN where everything they do is good and criticism basically vanishes. Yet criticism of a non-YC company like Uber gets upvoted and creates a big dogpile, even when it could be equally applied to both companies.
I actually wrote something like that for Keybase before KBFS was announced: https://github.com/jzila/kb-login-ext

The approach you detailed is the way to go once the filesystem is in the wild. Such power!
Cabin fever is real. You and I need a remote support network
Remote File System Access Vulnerability in Avast's Chrome Fork
Me need one too, thx :)

jlu@twmug.com
Adding Core Support for Promises – Pull Request #5020 – Node.js/node
If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads
I sent you the invite. It should be in your inbox. :)
Why not? How is a droplet different than any other server, including your own hardware? All of them will fail eventually, the important bit is having a sound replication/backup strategy as you said yourself.
Close enough, right?
Is there a way to make a public folder writable to multiple users?
You have no idea of the plethora of CIO/CTO digital transformation initiatives being kicked off at fortune 100s.. Everybody needs an API, even if they serve no purpose. Oh yes, and agile too.
Not really. I have several AU's on my american express card. My sister in college for one, who certainly couldn't qualify for a similar card on her own. There are a lot of AUs.

An Amex may also indicate that at one point I had good credit. I could have a 600 now.

It's a creative product but I second the notion that it hardly seems credible. It might be able to drive incremental ROI but I'd have to see it to believe it.
> BrainTree's API to calculate the species of a credit
> card, thus the minimum credit score.

Does this only work with American cards? binlist.net is showing me who the card issuer is, but doesn't seem to provide anything interesting beyond that. The small number of premium cards I have don't appear to show anything special compared to my normal ones.
Tableau Software Inc down -35.8%

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DATA
It's really hard to figure out whether to trust this study, I can't find a link to anything that's been published/peer reviewed on the OP link. These kinds of epidemiological studies are incredibly difficult, and easy to get wrong.

There is a good paper on this topic though:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7584/full/nature1...
"Treaties do not have the power to override the constitution itself."

While I agree that should be the case, it is sadly a bit more nuanced[1]:

Under the Constitution as originally understood, the short answer is: “No, a treaty can’t override the Constitution. The treaty has the force only of a statute, not of a super-constitution.”

But the full answer is more complicated. This is because the Founding-Era evidence does suggest that the Constitution enables the federal government to acquire significant—although not unlimited—additional power by entering into treaties.

...

In 1783, the Confederation Congress debated and approved a treaty with the Netherlands despite recognizing that the terms of the treaty might interfere somewhat with freedom of religion. Thus Congress impacted the exercise of religion, an area over which the Articles otherwise gave it no authority.

[1] http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/11/13/can-treaties-over...
I don't have a lot of time to spare on this and we've found a viable option so I won't be using influx any time soon. I can help you with access to my production system if you are interested and as you are watching arrange for between 1k and 10k hosts (for 2 - 20 values per second)
They're calling it a "file system," whatever that means. Presumably it means you can create encrypted virtual disk partitions that represent network storage shared with various peers, and treat those partitions as if they were resident on local drives.

Agreed that they need to work on the narrative a bit.
> Jobs was taught the RDF by his professor.

I didn't know that story. Who was the professor? What was the technique?

> This means it can be learned.

Oh definitely. Magicians learn all their tricks, and they are very useful for anyone performing in front of a crowd.

> The reader is encouraged to learn how to perform the field, so that they can defend themselves, and others, from its effects.

Which reader is that?
Would you still happen to have any invites left?

I'd love to give Keybase a spin as well! =)

(Email is in my profile)
Playboy Puts on (Some) Clothes for Newly Redesigned Issue
Because choosing Java will almost never be a mistake, even if it isn't the most ideal language. The JVM(s) are fast(ish). So much open source code to grab and get productive on. Almost any developer you hire can be effective with it immediately, even if they've never used it before. Also, Android.

I've got only ever done one project in my career with it, and I found myself feeling "meh" about it, but I never hated it.
2 possible causes for this:

1) Apple still develops the OS using waterfall over the year. Entire sweeping changes are made only at x.0 releases that trickle down to teams that have to work around the instability all year long and there's no other approved way to get in significant changes.

2) They keep adding more apps to the core OS image that can only be updated with a full software update now. This makes delivery of quick fix updates near impossible since they have to go through the OS release management teams.

It certainly sells better to have a huge list of changes at WWDC that then become reasons to upgrade, but software delivery has moved on from waterfall, so in that respect Apple's OS teams are behind.
How about the "keybase-release" package from AUR?
Because the national court asked the CJEU for a ruling on the EU's rules. That's its job.
If they put it under a section titled "drug dealers", then it would probably be a problem.
Ohhh it's supposed to be a sideways U? I thought it was a C and couldn't understand why the heck they made their logo the letter C.
True Apple software has always been buggy, Apple calls it undocumented features.

Apple always makes up for bugs with newer devices with faster CPU and GPU units that make OS code run faster. That means buying a new Apple device to get better performance. The older Apple devices are left out of updates eventually and if they do update to a newer OS version it runs slower.

Apple is driven by an upgrade model to buy a new Apple device every three years or so. In the PC world Windows 7 can still run on old Pentium 4 systems and if I am not mistaken some of them can upgrade to Windows 19, the 32 bit version but it can still work. For example I used to have a Macbook that only ran up to 10.7 and 10.8 needed a newer Intel CPU to install. Anyone with an iPhone 4 is going to find the latest iOS slow as well.

It is in Apple's business model to sell customers a new device every few years or so and phase out old Apple devices.

Apple doesn't care if their software isn't the best quality as long as it is easy to use and will keep people buying new Apple devices to run things faster.

I myself like GNU/Linux better than OSX, because it can run on older PC systems and it runs quite fast and has a good quality to it. GNU/Linux is virtually unknown to the average consumer and when people get tired of Microsoft they usually just buy an Apple device. Apple devices are easier to maintain and use. You even got toddlers using iPads, that is how easy they are to learn to use.

Apple has saved up billions just in case they have problems. Apple has done well financially in an uncertain economy where other companies are struggling.

Only Alphabet seems to be doing better for some reason. Google's parent company. Google's Android needs better quality as well and since Oracle sued them over the Java API they have to change the way the OS works. The Web Services seem to earn a lot of money and Google's AI is very advanced.
SETI Scientist Explains Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet
In context, they mean "cut" as a way to move a file from one place to another, not related to text which seems to be what you are talking about.
See comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11038588). Visa invested in Stripe.
Dropbox synchronizes files between your computer and their servers. Keybase stores the files on their servers and only downloads/uploads them "on demand". Think of your web browser accessing gmail.com versus running something like Thunderbird that downloads your mail locally.

As a benefit, it's much simpler to implement - you don't need to work as hard to handle conflicts where two people made incompatible changes while offline. However, it will be slower for bulk operations and will require an internet connection.
I want to use Safari but I just cannot deal with having no favicons.
http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-c...

https://medium.com/@johnsalzarulo/didn-t-homejoy-shut-down-e...
Of course, my job wouldn't exist without the sales people bringing work into the company.

That doesn't mean I'm not glad they all sit clear on the other side of the office in a quarantined section where they can extrovert at each other all day and leave the rest of us to code in peace.
Maybe I understood it wrong ... but you don't know how much it will cost to use their API before you submit your application to them?

Why would anyone invest any nontrivial amount of resources on developing something for which they don't know what the cost of running it is going to be?

What is lacking is a clear business overview of what their product is, its costs and benefits.
Ah, I was referring to the "Tunables" tab.
I've had that problem too, and found that you can implement a "wait" command.

If you're using Docker Compose, add this to your environment:
environment:
- WAIT_COMMAND=[ $(curl --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null http://elastic:9200/_cat/health?h=st) = 200 ]
- WAIT_START_CMD=python /code/lytten/main.py
- WAIT_SLEEP=2
- WAIT_LOOPS=10

Then, create a 'wait' bash script in your app's source code that looks like this:
!/bin/bash
echo $WAIT_COMMAND
echo $WAIT_START_CMD

is_ready() {
eval "$WAIT_COMMAND"
}

# wait until is ready
i=0
while ! is_ready; do
i=`expr $i + 1`
if [ $i -ge $WAIT_LOOPS ]; then
echo "$(date) - still not ready, giving up"
exit 1
fi
echo "$(date) - waiting to be ready"
sleep 10
done

#start the script
exec $WAIT_START_CMD

Then, finally, for your nginx container, add:
command: sh /code/wait_to_start.sh

to its specification
I'm a big fan of Uber, but unknowledgeable drivers are a real problem. Here in St. Louis I see a lot of suburbanites coming into the city to drive people to places they've never been. I had one guy try to take me across a bridge that's famously closed for construction. Every cabbie knows that bridge is closed. Shit, everybody on the entire Southside knows that bridge is closed.
So, is this Fly Maids, as previously discussed here[1]? I'm very confused.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
Strangely, the word "revenue" is not mentioned in that blog post once. Does anyone know if Broadcast.com ever made a meaningful amount of money before Yahoo! acquired them for $5.7 billion(!)?
Reasons Engineering Should Attend Sales Kickoffs
Is there any reason to use PIC instead of ARM these days? On the low end, 32 bit arm microcontrollers can be had for ~ 0.50 USD in modest quantities (digikey minimum order quantity in the thousands).

It's not like there is a shortage of compilers for the various ARM architecture revisions (though the BSP support may be lacking in the hobby market).
My personal "resume" side projects are hosted on GitHub, and my current company mirrors its open source stuff there also. But in neither case is GitHub really being used as a team collaboration tool. Also, we're not paying a dime since all repos are public.

It's basically a social networking site.

For real work, every company I've worked for in the past 5-10 years has used Atlassian tooling, either cloud-based or self-hosted. I have plenty of complaints about Bitbucket, but Atlassian OWNS the enterprise. And quite frankly, although it lacks GitHub's network effect for open-source projects... a lot of people prefer Bitbucket's interface, tooling, and pricing model for corporate team development (i.e. the situation for most PAYING users).
Pop 101 - Marianas Trench:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpWkV7IBUw

"Get to the floor

And hear some words you should know

Like "DJ never let me go"

Or "Shots and then we'll lose control"

Or "baby, baby, baby, baby, baby"

How about one more last word like

"Hey girl, we've only got tonight"

Some things just go together like

Higher, desire, and fire

Higher, desire, and fire"
"Let's be honest. Any mildly technical person knows that these kind of legal measures are technically impossible to enforce."

I'm sorry to tell you but you're wrong, videogame industry is a foretelling of where we'll be in years to come, stuff that is locked down on oneside of the internet and rented in perpetuity, that is the end game for our upper class.
And also as FlyMaid.com, DazzlingCleaning.com, CleanerConnect.com, Mopp.com, Cleanr.ca...

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10466888
> Business Model?

> We're a long way off from worrying about this, but we'll
> never run an ad-supported business again. And Keybase will
> never sell data.
> [....]
> But, as stated above, there is currently no pay model, and we're not trying to make money.
> We're testing a product right now, and we'd like to bring public keys to the masses.

I know a lot of people will see this as a pro, but honestly I see it as a huge negative. Raising capital doesn't mean that you "are not trying to make money". If you are not trying to make money, then you can't call it a "product".
Immortal Beloved: On the missing persons of love poetry
Sent an email; would love an invite!
DO credits from positive events are pretty common in my experience; not just refer-a-friend, but they give out credits through ads on podcasts and the like, through promotions for students and whatnot. I think I've had something like $150 total gifted DO credit.
Storm has the community around it, though it shows signs of decline (perhaps the release of YARN-friendly Heron will help). There are a lot of suitors for developer affection. Fink is relatively green. Samza looks good, but is still picking up momentum in the community. DataTorrent seems to have some moment with its Apache Apex.

Regardless, most of these stream processing frameworks are still very much in early days and lack a lot of the sophistication you find in custom in house systems (such as found at... Google ;-). The open source world will no doubt catch up and overtake those systems, but right now there is still enough of a gap that it is rather painful.

Spark streaming pains:

1. Backpressure & stragglers. Duh.
2. Setup & tear down is still rough, even compared to Storm.
3. The whole context singleton thing means you need a new VM for each job, which annoys the #@$@#$ out of me.
4. Error handling isn't just unclear, it's kind of disastrous.
5. You can feel its "batch" heritage in lots of places, not just the stragglers. For some that is a feature, for me, a bug, even though with Storm I use Trident.
6. When a job runs amuck, it's a pain to recover from it. Storm is no picnic either, but it is indeed better.
I guessed at your email, but would love an invite. Thanks!
In my interpretation, the sentence about "there is no sync model" only means "files are only downloaded to the client device when the client attempts to open() or read() them". I guess means that files will not take any disk space on your device.

In my interpretation, files are stored on keybase servers.

Is that correct? I agree that the "sync" sentence in the article is confusing and maybe a bit misleading.
> No, I favor open borders.

I once thought that way too. However I was advised to consider a country as a body, as a cell, tissue, or organ. Then one thing became clearer, the need to police boundaries. Not necessarily in a militant manner, or with belligerence. nature. But that boundaries are a good thing.
Apple merging MacOS with NextOS to make a Unix OS was the best move they could make at the time. It happened during the time of the $10,000 Unix workstation and Apple made OSX as an easier to use Unix. It was cheaper to buy a Macintosh than it was to buy a SparcStation or some other Unix workstation.

Because of Apple making OSX Unix based, it cut into sales of other Unix companies like SGI, and also GNU/Linux cut into sales of SGI and others as well.

But making OSX Unix based solved a lot of problems that Classic MacOS had that they couldn't solve.
The Secret Behind Advertising Campaigns – IVR Technology Group
> won't cancel on you if a better fare pops up

That depends on the policy configured by whoever controls the fleet.
In that line art picture slider it looks like they will bring me more books and a new plant? That's a service I might pay for. After the cleaner comes your house has more cool stuff in it.
I think people within our direct industry tend to look down on LinkedIn but it seems clear to me that those in sales and b2b find it completely invaluable. Their interface to me looks haggard and is filled with bugs but I don't expect this to be anymore than the fluctuations and corrections in the market.
Oh right, I remember when that blog post came out. It was amusing because I'd built an in-house metric store much like InfluxDB (using a LevelDB engine), and reached much the same inflection point and decision. I so should have open sourced that so you poor saps didn't have to experience my pain.
I feel sorry for them...

Were the kids you appear to be referencing in your comment taught to fear rain for some reason...by adults?

My experience has been the opposite...

(just curious)
so "=== gefahrlos" ?
Tell HN: I think Kotlin is great
I think Kotlin programming language is great.
:)
Thanks for the heads up on Rand Paul's campaign. I liked hearing his POV in the debates.
They mean Bitcoin can't guarantee refunds if you are ripped off by the seller. Which, of course, neither can cash. Which is why Visa's generally a better way to pay when you don't completely trust the seller (or even when you do).
>Enterprises often want assurances of uptime that carry legal or financial penalties, they need certain features for security and for accountability, and they often want the ability their suppliers to have met certain audits and standards for security, operations and so on.

That's not how you English.
Oh man, that is a rabbit hole of rage. I've been away too long.
At the opposite end of this is my girlfriend.

She's only 21, has almost no credit history, and very low annual income. She does have an auto loan from her credit union for a couple thousand dollars and just very recently got her own first credit card -- a store card (Victoria's Secret) with a $500 credit limit.

In an effort to try to help "jumpstart" her credit score a little bit, though, I added her as an authorized user on one of my American Express credit cards (five-figure limit, very low utilization, and paid in full every month).

This product would very likely peg her credit score as much, much higher than what it really is (suffice it to say, she's on the lower end of the range).
Sounds like a Tuesday at AWS.
I think that overselling is a trait of young companies, really.

Every sale matters when you don't have customers, and if it means a little back-breaking work to get that first bit of revenue, I know very few companies with the fortitude to say 'No'.

Once the product has established a foothold, reputation, or repeatable sales process that works, product managers get an idea of exactly what it is that customers want, and across more than one data point. From that, they're able to communicate the exact value they provide to the sales team, and that sales team is able to approach customers with an actual, legitimate, proven value proposition.

It isn't until the product team really knows what they have that those requests become easier to turn down.

(Or at least, that's been my experience.)
Most jobs history soon? This is as baseless as uber s marketing.
I don't see enough mention of this, but if you want immutability (to make shouldComponentUpdate easy) icepick is a better choice than Immutable.js for a great many applications:

https://github.com/aearly/icepick

It's tiny but offers a number of utilities that are more convenient than what you get with ES6 spread syntax. The tradeoff with Immutable.js is that if you have huge single objects (arrays with many elements, objects with many keys), then making copies will get more expensive than with Immutable. Otherwise, icepick is all win.