skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, these laws are more like anti-trust laws. Free market economics, according to its primary academic proponents (academic economists) is not the same as, nor is it even consistent with, the government enforcing arbitrary contracts.
Yeah, some religions are more benign than others, to put it mildly. I'm not religious personally, but I find it interesting that a lot of these religious movements practice stoic values and do some sort of meditation. Those two aspect are now mainstream treatments (AKA CBT and Mindfulness) that doctors recommend for mental health problems. That's just scratching the surface though.
> Please provide some credible evidence accepted by mainstream archaeologists and scholars backing that up.

Backing up that it was published in 1830? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon#/media/File:The....

And that the account within it originates ~600 BC? See page 1 of the text.
The principles of parsimony and falsifiability still represent an unbridgeable gap between the two camps.
I've been trying to figure out where Facebook chat is going to end up -- the only thing I care about: will there be a way for me to build a simple, command-line client that can use an API/interface that's document and won't disappear over night? As far as I can gather the answer from Facebook is: "Fuck off! This is a revenue platform for us, and we're too big to care about any additional network effects a more open system could generate."

Of the current crop of messaging platforms, I'm cautiously leaning on Signal (it works with sms, I might get some of the people I actually communicate to use it -- even if I would prefer it was more federation/multi-server/self-host friendly) and http://www.mattermost.org/ for an xmmp/irc/etc work-a-like.

I've given up the idea of using IM with facebook users, iMessage users, or Google hangout users. I might occasionally use slack or gitter[1] via the irc interface, or very rarely via the awful web interface (not they're any worse than other web interfaces, but it's just as gaudy and slow and insecure as other web apps, by virtue of being a web app (image libraries, font rendering have issues, they require downloadable code (js) to run -- they can be expected to have a security record comparable to MS office documents with macros enabled)).

I somehow don't see the irc interface to gitter and slack as being good ways to integrate with a single Android app though. Maybe mattermost will help with that, so I can have one app that does sane IM+SMS, and one that does email. Hopefully without the "5 different accounts that can't talk with each other"-nonsense of having separate AIM, XMPP, MS messenger accounts in a single monster-client. It was barely tolerable on the desktop, I won't abide it on my cell phone.

I am indeed sad people couldn't just get together and agree on a sane XMPP sub-set with client-server and server-server TLS, and optional server-side message storage.

But that didn't happen, so now I'll just be without a "big" messaging/chat service (other than IRC, IRC still works).

[1] https://irc.gitter.im/
This. So much _not_ this. You're suggesting self-flagellation as a solution.

When I was last unemployed, I made connections with people I had no intention of talking to other than for or about a job. I also kept my tech hobbies up, not cramming about algorithms and whiteboarding code. These hobbies led into questions from interviewers, which led into conversations, which eventually led to a job. My full-time job was finding a job, not memorizing algorithms and CS trivia tidbits.

My point is, you don't have to treat the job search like an exam. In my case, I've had to relocate several times when my network in a certain city couldn't come through and I needed gainful employment. In order to succeed in this industry, you need to be flexible like that if it comes down to it.
Wait, so you think orange and white is more standard for an office than wood colored and white?

The Newsweek office looks like it could be anywhere. There's nothing even remotely non-conventional about it. The Hubspot one screams pretentious start-up, probably in SF or someplace in the US following its lead.
There's no reason the ISP couldn't intercept encrypted traffic or related metadata. They just can't read it.

Since wireless ISPs have been collecting and indefinitely retaining messaging data for many years, it's not beyond any reasonable expectation that wireline ISPs aren't retaining various things.
I put Bhyve support in pfSense so people could do this.
Like Google Photos, this might just be something I have to see to believe. However... Google Photos routinely categorizes pictures of my dog as Bear or Cat. My greatest concern is about being able to acquire the conversations necessary to train these niche applications beyond a laughable state.
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That's really good advice! I'm going to use this one for sure.
Dude, you aren't actually comparing the two are you. Do you actually believe that tanking the global economy comes anywhere close to what you described? May I ask where you work? No one not working on/with ties to Wall Street would have this opinion.
We use alembic, a python sort of DSL, for migrations. We can go forward or backwards. Any schema changes need an alembic script for both directions. We generally try to do 'mini-migrations' that go with each change, as opposed to big bang migrations. In the past building stock exchanges it was generally big bang with a mass of SQL that could only run once. This are better these days. :)
If you wish hard enough, anything is possible!

Unfortunately, we're left to examine the evidence. He could easily defuse all of these situations that have led to him being disinvited in the past. In fact, he made an article specifically for this shitstorm, and nowhere did he disavow these writings.

Tying yourself in knots to come up with a way he's OK just makes you look silly, at best.
Nuclear power is plenty safe when compared to other sources of power. The 'incompetence, corruption and other systematic errors' apply to all large power projects. Dam failures displace and kill people, coil mines collapse and kill people.

Efficiency can help, and long term I'd love to find even safer sources of energy. However, we need to start building more nuclear power plants to reduce pollution and global warming so we can prevent even bigger catastrophes.
The free market solution to contract enforcement is something like credit ratings where businesses form a network to enforce penalties. Without government, assuming society would be able to reach those levels of sophistication, it seems probable that capital would still enjoy a strong balance of power over workers to force them into undesirable contracts.
Left authoritarianism and right wing authoritarianism are two sides of the same coin [1]. I couldn't accept one without the other as they operate on the same principles. Which is why I am willing to go to a tech conference as long as the subject matter is entirely about technology. If it included political discourse by said people it would be a different story and I wouldn't attend. Attendance is voluntary. And as far as I'm concerned people are free to attend whatever political conference they please. The only time I would support forcing a speaker not to be able to attend is if he planned to give a speech specifically involving inciting violence, coercion, or other blatant criminal acts at that specific venue - and specifically a venue residing within my local community/country. The internet is a different story.

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-29/emergence-orwellian...
The "radioactive waste" that lasts for 1000s of years is Plutonium. It's "waste" because existing reactors aren't designed to use it as fuel. New reactors could.

And we already have tons and tons of the stuff. All the existing reactors in operation produce it every day. The only way to actually get rid of it is to build new reactors that use it as fuel.
It depends on which parts of these claims we're talking about, but this article mentions a few of them, summing up their research less technically: http://ldsmag.com/article-1-1634/
One of the team members at OPNsense "liberated" the source to his former employer's fork of pfSense (they were using it for their product.)

That's how they got to where they are. The pace of innovation in that project has slowed since its launch.
"The theory that the Book of Mormon is an ancient American history is considered to fall outside academic credibility." https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/arti... page 37
I knew those clowns couldn't have done it themselves. The FBI are more or less inept.
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How do you build sales for service-type startup?
Hi, me and my co-founder run a software dev platform. It's a scalable business model, but the core is a service. The majority of high-end sales folks I've talked to (who sell SaaS for $50M - $100M per year) said we should focus on outbound sales + make our clients talk about us. How would you build sales for that type of business? Should we do some content marketing too or PR?
I'm ready to receive the down-votes here, but I've been reading through those posts along with scientific articles for years and I'm still not convinced that the Bible was made up. So it's refreshing to have actual open discussion rather than atheist and bible bashing fights.
I finally gave up trying to get a copy from those guys

I had a similar experience. IIRC TransUnion was the problem one. They wanted something like 3 credit card numbers as part of the identification. But I only had two active credit cards. Fortunately I was able to find an old cancelled one in a drawer and they accepted the number!???

The problem is that you're not their customer, you're just an irritant that the federal govt demands that they give "free" information to.

They treat their real customers much better. E.g., go to a used car dealer. Give them your SSN and they'll have your life story in front of them in about 10 seconds. They get good service because they're paying for it.
Very near future. We're changing the installer for 2.4 (based on 11). Should be available later this year.
There is most definitely a frontier spirit emerging there. I actually thought of Detroit when I was reading PG's essay. The food scene is really exploding with new restaurants opening all the time.

http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/dining/restaurant-o...

Even month to month when I visit I see the changes. There's getting to be a real cluster of tech people living and working near Grand Circus park.
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I find this cultural aspect fascinating. Can you please explain more about the interaction between engineering and their management? Why do you think engineering has a lower status in Japan compared to the US? Respectfully, AG
> Prof. Edward Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. “The process of transmission was much more complicated than scholars used to think.”

Theology Student Here - MY TAKE This is pretty Bogus Study in terms of these are Statisticians' work based on one outpost on one piece of pottery. Someone had to publish something to make use of the research money. This is also out of their domain. Seems like trying to try a new approach and this is all we get?

It is MUCH more complicated and the Oral Tradition of ANE (Ancient Near East) is pretty amazing. This also is not taking up the fact that the majority of the text have very different vocabs, writing styles and different mediums for delivering ideas (Think Epics like Noah and personal stuff like Job and politics like the kings) All very different writings.

I would say that Theology and Archeologist and other disciplines are more and more agreeing that the scriptures have more evidence for a much later date then 300 - 50 year ago "liberal" scholarship believed. Heck I remember old Priest saying the Gospels were written in 250 AD and nothing was written in the first century (To bad we have a bunch of manuscripts from the first century now) Heck Pontius Pilot (The Roman leader who sent Jesus to the cross was believe to be made up until 25 years ago when they found his name inscribed in an unearthed building. This is interesting times.

TL:DR Bad statistical work and very little meat. Nothing to see here.
The value is in making a legitimate platform for the lowly CLI app then. I like it :)
According to a screenshot I took during the presentation (http://i.imgur.com/pncUg0Q.png), the probes are estimated to have around 200 grams. There's no way you could fit a battery, a RTG, a camera and propulsion system within 1 gram.
> most countries in Asia not exactly full of "anti-nuclear hysteria and high-inertia bureaucracy"

Here in India, a fair number of people are anti-nuclear.
I think most people couldn't do it. Wouldn't consider the FBI inept because they don't house programmers specifically for a single purpose. If they have the resources to get someone else to do it that is the opposite of inept.
Mormons who study the book of Mormon don't exactly qualify as good sources, nor are Christians who study the Bible, nor are Muslims who study the Koran as all are extremely biased by their beliefs. Such people look for evidence to justify beliefs rather than looking at evidence to decide what should be believed.
New account...
Ask HN: How to build something like redis purely in Node.js
I want to build something like redis purely in nodejs for fun. The caveat is that I want the data structures to be "distibutable". That is, I want this node-redis thingy to be horizontally scalable via adding more processes or servers. How can I go about this?

Thanks
Hmm, we're not talking about American history here.
>Backing up that it was published in 1830?

Of course not, that isn't even remotely controversial.

>And that the account within it originates ~600 BC? See page 1 of the text.

Page 1 of what text? Surely you're not suggesting people take the Book of Mormon's own text as evidence, that would be ludicrous. Page 1 of the wikipedia article wouldn't be credible either, so I don't know what text you're referring to. Although Wikipedia does point to a lot of pages questioning the Book of Mormon's authenticity as having an ancient origin, I haven't found any which actually validate it. Of course I'm not going to look very hard, since I already know that evidence doesn't exist and I strongly suspect you're trolling.

No, I'm asking that you point to actual manuscripts which were incorporated into the the Book of Mormon which originated from ~600 BC, tell us where they were excavated from and by whom, and in what museum or university those documents currently reside. Independently verified evidence as to its antiquity. And don't cite any sources actually connected to the Mormon church.
Of course the Bible was made up, it didn't write itself; it's a work of fiction by men, nothing more. Nor is there a lick of evidence to the contrary.
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I felt as if I was welcomed because I was cute to keep around, not because there was any expectation of my doing useful, good work.

It's hard to do the latter - I think I'd succumb to welcoming women in the workplace to avoid being sexist, as opposed to the expectation of the colleague doing useful, good work - now that I think about it - ironically in trying to reduce sexism in the workplace, I would make a sexist situation worse. Maybe it would be better not to have read the article at all.
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I assume it's some kind of solar sail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
This comparison doesn't make any sense to me. Why should comparing the yearly revenue of a company to the market cap of cryptocurrencies tell us anything at all? They're not even measuring the same type of thing.
"Where do you work?"

"I'm a web developer, I work at a small startup! I do X, Y, and Z"

Not that hard... especially since no one has ever heard of whatever small company you work at anyway.... It's really not weird.
And just think ... Uber and (mostly Silicon Valley) companies like it thought all along how easy it would be for "software to eat the world" and thus merely "disrupt" the establishment, "disrupt" the old school, "disrupt" and "democratize", "disrupt" the 1%'ers / elite power structures which pull the puppet strings of the state and federal regulators. Meritocracy eh?
It's amusing that you use the term "whiter than a Klan meeting" as a critique of an article written by Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot's desi founder.

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http:...
I do. However, my worry is that most people in the HN community do not have organic chemistry experience as such they wouldn't understand the significance of the venture.
> Is creating a new radioactive wasteland only once a century, until forever, acceptable?

I think it's perhaps fine, depends on how radioactive the place is and what is the unsafe area radius. After all, radioactivity reduces with time. Wasteland seems like a misnomer, it's not like all the buildings have been destroyed by a nuclear bomb.

> Leaving glowing holes in the ground

Source?
Sure! Would you mind fixing my revenue generator for free while you're at it?
a postcard is mailed

If you want them to go thru the trouble of mailing something, at least require it to be a letter. Inside an opaque envelope.

A postcard is the exact opposite of something you want to use to send sensitive information.
Is a 50/50 training:test a normal default ratio for an ANN? I expected to see a higher amount of training data represented as the initial setting.
I am pretty new kubernetes. What are some of the gaps with docker compose vs kube's deployment orchestration? I am pretty happy with docker 1.10.3, but am always interested in hearing about something better/cleaner (I don't know what I don't know). I'm looking over your github for some samples at the moment.
There isn't any outside collaboration I have ever read at all about the Book of Mormon BUT then again I actually had to read it in college. Never had a good conversation with a Mormon at my house. I get put on the list with the Jehovah Witnesses. My crime (I can read Greek and Hebrew) next time tell a JW that you now Greek and Hebrew and would love to talk with them. They leave nicely and their elders won't send a person to you for three years at least.
> And that the account within it originates ~600 BC? See page 1 of the text.

The Book of Mormon is not evidence for itself; without other accounts from non Mormon sources, there's little reason to believe anything stated by the book of Mormon is anything but fiction. The same applies to all holy books; they cannot be evidence of their own truth.
Lots.
"$280 million was invested in Pittsburgh technology companies in 2015."

https://www.innovationworks.org/Portals/1/documents/Pittsbur...

Off the top of my head, Duolingo, 4moms, Treatspace, Wombat Security, Redzone Robotics got big $$$. That doc has more that I'm less knowledgeable of.

Exits:

Vivísimo acquired by IBM 2012 (I was a part of this one)
M*Modal acquired by One Equity Partners 2012
Carnegie Learning acquired by Apollo Group 2012
BlackLocus acquired by The Home Depot 2012
The ExOne Company IPO 2013
BodyMedia acquired by Jawbone 2013
Mobile Technologies acquired by Facebook 2013
BPL Global acquired by Qualitrol 2013
Shoefitr acquired by Amazon 2015
Giftcards.com acquired by Blackhawk (I think 2013)
LightSide Labs acquired by Turnitin 2014
Powered Analytics acquired by Target 2014
Millennium Pharmacy Systems acquired by PharMerica 2014
RedPath Integrated Pathology acquired by PDI 2014
Aesynt acquired by Omnicell 2015
iGate acquired by Capgemini 2015
Blue Belt Technologies acquired by Smith & Nephew 2015
Ottomatika acquired by Delphi 2015
In this business, the proof is in the results.

I imagine many YC folks have seen these types of companies before.

I can name 2 in my head, but they don't do the tinder style interface.

eversnapapp.com
PrettyInstant.com

Godspeed. I think you're on to something.
It sounds as though you are asserting that the Book of Mormon is credible evidence accepted by mainstream archaeologists and scholars.
We're not having a religious discussion here. We're talking academics: research, primary sources, etc. When did this become about beliefs?
Didn't say it was a standard office. I can appreciate a company doing something different like painting their walls orange. But to critique a company based on its colors just comes off as childish.

Boohoo, the office is branded and colorful.
Which is kind of a silly theory, since writing was invented in that part of the world circa 3500 BCE.

It's more likely that their religious practices were limited to the priesthood, and it wasn't until the exile that they were written and compiled into a standardized format.

In fact, this theory isn't foreign to Jewish tradition, nor to how other religions have operated throughout the years.
We would've liked to have it constantly training, but didn't want to abuse your CPU :)
It's easy to think about interacting with a computer as a programmer, but "Computer, when does the next star wars movie come out?" is much easier for most people than "SELECT release_date FROM ...". Unstructured language is just super accessible to more people. Everyone knows it already! It's not just about conversation, but conversation towards tasks.
Upvoting this. It's at least as well reasoned as the original article.

BUT it doesn't matter because it wasn't actually written down (and/or "revealed") until the 1800s, right?

Is there a good academic treatment of the origin of the stories in the BoM?
I feel that the non-compete thing is one of the biggest problems that PA technologists face. I'd be willing to put money on a state legislature candidate who would vow to get rid of them.
I think you have to better explain the key difficult or problem for those who try to build satellites.

This sounds cool at first glance, I think you have to elaborate a lot more on the user pain intensity and who they are.
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According to whom? You can't use the book to prove itself, just because it claims to have been from 600 BC doesn't make it so.
I don't think HN is the place to discuss religion except in a completely dispassionate intellectual way, which this article suggests isn't possible with the current HN community.

But if we're going to accept religious discussions on HN we have to accept all of them. It is entirely unfair to give credence to one sect while demeaning another.

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Edit: Okay, lots of down votes. How does this comment not contribute to the discussion?

Like many other comments in religious discussions, you are assuming facts not in evidence. But it is unfair to single you out. However, it would also be inappropriate for you to interpret the opposition you are seeing as confirmation of your position.
I was just trying to outline specifically what was bogus about his argument. That claim 4 is pure speculation is a pretty serious flaw. At no point did I make a comment about the conference - I don't even know what I think about it.
Have at it: https://discover.imaginecareers.com/
GSD, also known in the literature as "Graduate Student Descent."

I'm not even joking. Trial and error. Having good "intuition" about past ideas the basic building blocks to guide that trial and error. Reading research papers and seeing what other people did well with and using that.

As an aside, this is the principal reason I am skeptical of grandiose claims about deep learning.
Yes, but all of the algorithmic advances in academia, and most of the advances at Google/Facebook, have been out in the open.
I think men have relatively few social experiences where they see women create and maintain a driven, competitive environment -- for one another or for both men and women. I experienced this only rather late in life when I took ballet.