skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh lots of 'fightings' are needed. Those fightings are very strange and pointless work to a westerner, but actually are the necessary and normal things to do in the Chinese business environment, things like 1. thorough research on whether it's in your best interests to operate in china now, _really important_, 2. much _much_ more carefully than you would do in Europe to examine your potential partners' credentials and validity of their claims, 3. establish connections with government officials (no, you don't need to go crazy on bribe or shady stuff, just good relationship and name recognition), 4, find capable and trusty locals to work together.

The key for anyone to make it in China is to understand that although China is utterly different from the west, it is _NOT_ a random and chaos place. It has its own well-oiled system running for the most time successfully for millenniums! It's scary to foreigners because it's so different so people tend to avoid it altogether. But in fact every issue has a well established way to be dealt with, obvious to locals but not obvious to a foreigner. So getting there and doing the right moves, you might emerge victorious.

Also in comparison to other industries, internet-related intellectual property protection is much easier to enforce by the Chinese central and local government, because they can order ISPs and Cloud service providers to pull plugs on the perpetrators web sites with enough poking from you or your liaison in China. Power to the censors and GFW related technologies! :) So be confident you will find ways to solve the problem. Good luck with your venture.
Any chance you'd be willing to post the form reply?
Dispatch definitely looks farther along but are they even targeting food delivery ? I just saw a techcrunch article about them that doesn't mention food but packages and mail.

Food delivery may require a somewhat higher speed, more road based than sidewalk based approach, especially if they are targeting cities and suburbs rather than campus-like environments.
They lost a golden opportunity to start this with "Congratulations on your purchase of a Space X Falcon 9..."
Yea after reading some of the apply HN threads I realized it's really meant to gauge which startups existing HN users like, versus a general voting contest.
My point isn't whether it could be useful, but that it might be more annoying to have that in a chat conversation...

I was half joking about the single responsibility thing - I do kind of think though that chat should be for chat, and not for searching for movie timetables.
VAX was the hardware, VMS was one of the OSs that could run on it.
TaskRabbit has an "actual employee" system? If so, it's probably because the law has forced them.
Yes, while workstation chips are insanely expensive (from a consumer perspective) they do often underperform enthusiast chips like the Core i5 series.

The point here is that the FX-8350 does not. An older workstation-class chip outperforms it pretty handily. And once we move into consumer-class chips, its Ivy Bridge class equivalents totally outclass it, as do even its Sandy Bridge class predecessors. The Bulldozer architecture is absurdly bad for gaming usage, and should never be recommended, full stop. Single-threaded performance pushes frames, not multi-core performance.

The AMD equivalent is likely several times as much as the FX processor as well. Not quite as much as the Intel, certainly, but not $160.
"For example, GNU can be run with its own kernel, The GNU Hurd"

My understanding is that this statement is a little optimistic.
That's the entire point of this part of the discussion, there are people that think it is awesome that the people at SpaceX managed to achieve this but they really don't care that it is an American company. I wouldn't be any prouder or whatnot if it were a German company.
Instagram is by far one of the easier APIs to use (among the social media services)...I've never used a client library for it, in Python nor Ruby.

In Ruby, the best API wrappers (or at least, the ones I used back in the day) for Twitter and Facebook are maintained independently:

https://github.com/sferik/twitter

https://github.com/arsduo/koala

The koala gem for Facebook is a godsend...the FB API and models are not trivial...and that's before trying to keep up with the many and frequent changes to the API spec. It's hard to imagine that FB would put the resources into continually maintaining that gem if it were an official gem...not when (I assume) so many more of their API consumers use iOS/JS/Android.
that it's a pleasure, not a chore, to use
This is also why New Shepard (with a minimum TWR < 1) has a much easier problem to solve (on the scale of 'solving problems related to rockets).
As others have mentioned, if you need to login to the SMTP server to send, WordPress needs to have access to that login and password to be able to send email. And CMS need to send email to send out password resets, notifications of software needing manual updates, content update notifications, etc.

The issue here is that the login and password to send email is the same as the one to receive email. So, if someone gains access to WordPress and gets that, they can then hit the IMAP server and read all the email associated with that account.

The sending mail account for the server should have been separate form any used by any users. Realistically, it should have also had either a separate password for SMTP vs IMAP or, even better, used a mail spooler of some sort either self-hosted or third party to handle the actual mail sending. I use SendGrid for many of my Drupal installs, for instance.
How do you feel about encryption? Do you think it is a good and worthwhile thing for the modern world?

If multi-billion dollar companies were mandated to spend their development efforts on ineffective, insecure cryptographic systems, do you think that would be a positive or negative thing in terms of the availability and proliferation of the kind of effective and secure cryptographic systems that 'customers use themselves'?
Of what? Being involved with Russia? Is that bad?
When I read about the idea I like it a lot, but when I look at the actual thing I realize it's not for me, it seems like a lot of spam content I would skip, even if coming from my own choices (I often skip many entries in my feed reader).
You are technically correct, but the comment is irrelevant to the discussion.
Having gone through two degrees, I have rarely found getting help from others to be more efficient than learning on demand myself. I definitely deliberately avoided tutoring apart form the occasional sampling.
>haven’t been able to validate that our home is safe to live in.

Why should anyone believe that you'll just figure all this out later after you're given money? You haven't even been motivated enough to solve this problem manually for yourself yet.
I thought with .com domains you could have them deregistered for fraud?
I'm not sure that's always the case. If it's e.g. RDS, moving to your own Postgres cluster is doable when necessary
I'm not sure that's always the case. If it's e.g. RDS, moving to your own Postgres cluster is doable when necessary. You can certainly get vendor lock in in many cases though.
How many machines did you have on the cluster?
I wonder, if those folks are so bad at marketing, where is the $120 coming from? Is this a new venture for them that's doomed to failure unless they get better at it?
Why does he keep claiming that MacOS uses GNU code? Isn't the MacOS userspace almost entirely FreeBSD?
The first stage of rockets launched from the US end up over the Atlantic. Unless you want to launch many percentage points more of fuel to propel it farther than it would otherwise go, you're going to have to catch it in the ocean.

The ocean landing is much more technically difficult, but it gives them the ability to use those extra percentage points of fuel on payload.
Heck, I'll just be pedantic and say you have 7 DOF since you really should use a quaternion to avoid the gimbal-lock singularity when using Euler angles :P
I've seen people being proficient under complex GUIs (final fantasy) with game pads. I'd love to lisp on a paddle.
The Ivory Tower Architect
For every Levittown there are also hundreds of neighborhoods that never got any better after they were built. I would argue that Levittown can't be disentangled from the economic period in the United States - and it reflected the improving economic position of the working class. That ended in the 1970's for the United States (the GDP kept rising but it has gone to the rich. And home ownership is the same percent right now as it was in the mid-1970's.)
Clearly they need to be doing A/B testing to determine their optimum pricing.
The context was of speeding other computer operations by removing data.

With a sufficiently robust indexing system, file search time is independent of corpus size. E.g., Google isn't scanning the Internet each time you submit a search query. Time to build an index increases, but not searches against it.
I'm not sure I agree that there's enough clean, renewable energy - indeed it's the one thing we're most desperately short of - but this is the right way to think about economics. Too often people get distracted by the pretend numbers, and forget to look at the "raw" situation which provides insight. This can lead to absurd opinions like "breaking windows is good for the economy because it employs glazers" - yes, careful thought shows that the reasoning is fallacious (the money spent on glazers could have been spent elsewhere), but it's much quicker to trust in the common-sense principle that breaking stuff can't possibly create wealth.

Example: UK housing. There are hundreds of thousands of empty houses in the UK, roughly 10 for each homeless person or family - and yet there is a "housing shortage". The economics of supply and demand tell us that this shouldn't really happen, but it does. Investigating further, one finds that many of the empty houses are owned by people who cannot afford to renovate them to a standard where they can legally rent or sell them; like with the minimum wage, our so-called "standard of living" so impacts the liquidity of the market that many are forced to do without entirely. That doesn't mean that standard should be lowered, only that liquidity needs to be restored somehow - if those landlords were only lent the money they need to renovate the houses, they'd soon make the money back in rent. Therefore we do in fact have the resources to house everyone, just like we have the resources to feed everyone. But, through the pretend numbers, we've convinced ourselves we can't.

All economic resource problems can be categorised into "not enough resources" (increasingly rare nowadays, and soluble by technological development) and "not enough liquidity" ( e.g. "we have enough to go around but the pretend numbers say we don't").

A cute liquidity parable: http://economyblog.ncpa.org/the-tale-of-the-100-bill/
http://example.com/ perhaps?
Having read the chapters on Writing and Publishing, I'd say it was an excellent resource, and I think it'd be great for graduate students.

Take publishing an article: beginning grad students often perceive a much higher barrier to starting to write a paper. They have too high an expectation of what an article should constitute in terms of novelty or significance. Instead, the author helpfully puts it in terms of something concrete - 'between 1 and 5 figures that show a coherent story'.

I'll be adding this to my list of recommended reads for beginning graduate students (FWIW, I'm a big fan of 'How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab' by David Chapman, and 'How to Be a Good Graduate Student' by Marie desJardins)
I wonder if it makes sense to provide cloud and noncloud versions with the cloud version priced higher to fund cloud services.
That's just true at all.

Try reducing your Microsoft O365 subscription. Unless you are paying retail, they'll link your "subscription" to your EA and threaten you with a SAM if you try to unlink them.

Other providers are just using the subscription as a way to jack up your "maintenance" they shift that 20% cash flow to 35-40%, and you retain no perpetual rights.
> youtube-dl actually has quite sane defaults too; e.g. "youtube-dl https://......" will Just Work (TM).

Are you sure that this is true? Starting many updates ago, but continuing into the present (I just updated to 2016.04.06 to be sure), I encountered a weird situation where

$ ./youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE

fails but

$ ./youtube-dl wbKJt1NQtZE

works. I have no problem with the second working, but don't understand why the first fails. It seems to be fine for other video services; only YouTube requires this URL-processing step.
Props to succeeding on growth. However, pretty sure your success doesn't mean that one-time purchase models are unreservedly better than subscription or that subscription products are subpar.

Pricing and monetization models are often strategic decisions that can have a number of different short and long-term implications for a company and for its product development.

@maxpupmax has a great point about aligning incentives with referral structures.

@compumike has another good point about b2b customers many times preferring a recurring subscription in return for certain enterprise type features like Support and SLAs.

on the P&L side, @lukebennett makes a great point about ongoing cost with cloud services. This is generalizable to any sort of ongoing cost incurred to provide the service (e.g. support, guarantees on service, security, or even processing costs in ecommerce).

Additionally, subscription contracts provide some means making cashflow predictable as some flexibility in creating more immediate cash flow via prepayments or in letting companies borrow against existing contracts. Tomasz Tunguz (http://tomtunguz.com/) has a bunch of fantastic posts on this.

Finally, on the product side, I'd actually argue that in many cases a subscription model actually better aligns incentives between customer and company. In one-time purchase models, new customers are king. In subscription models, churn is a huge concern and customer success eventually becomes paramount and I think there are more than a few cases where that creates a better product. Tomas explains this better and in more detail than me: http://tomtunguz.com/renewals_percent_rev/

Not saying that subscription models are categorically better, just saying that it's a decision that might make a lot of strategic sense and shouldn't be disregarded out of hand.
Run towards it or away from it?
seamless="seamless" doesn't do anything in any browser.
Apple products use this one for hotspot detection:

http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html

I just have it bookmarked now. It's the one bookmark I use.
Not handling an error from something you called into will lead you to be bypassed when it jumps "directly to the right place".
Do you not understand that events can have multiple causes? Rarely does disaster require just one single thing to go wrong.

In any case, it wasn't just egypt that had uprest that year. Egypt wasn't even the first country to have problems.
I love `Termux`, but I never thought of using voice commands. I'll have to try that...
While you're mentioning the Internet Archive, you might also recall that our advertised purpose is to digitize all the world's knowledge :-)

I just had a chat with our book guy today about OCR corrections using captchas, one of our volunteers suggested it. We expect to scan 500,000-700,000 books this year.
I've been in China from 2004-2014 and built a startup there that was sold to one of their internet giant.

I can confirm that the parent is on point. Imo, your best bet - if you dont want to give up the Chinese market - would be to raise from a reputable Chinese investor. Without that you wont have much pull with any partner you find in China and they will happily stall and then copy your stuff. That is completly "fair game"
to them and most wont even comprehend what your trying to tell them - a bit like the guy telling you that he admires/like what you've done after you asked him why they copied your stuff as-is...

If you want to chat feel free to contact me, email in profile.
I target a very small group (<10000) and subscription SaaS is the only way it works. Not just on-going cloud sync stuff but product improvements, maintenance and continuous updates to a changing legal landscape.

For a stagnant product I don't know what the right model is.

For one that must keep iterating and maintaining and improving (based on direct customer demand) subscription works.

When revenue (and profit) comes from only one source (subscribers) the model is solid
From the rules:

"Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative."
this isn't a software hack that I can prototype in a weekend, validating that this idea is feasible and has a market would take resources
These examples depend on the use case. If you are guaranteed to only have one sender and one receiver, then having them in the same table is already normal form.

Perhaps (?) a less controversial example is a table of flights between airports. Should a single flight have departure_ids and destination_ids? (assuming we treat legs as separate flights)

Or what about package delivery? Do we need sender_ids and receiver_ids there?
Think good way, they create a market for it. If those customer don't satisfy they will moved to your site. Still need to remember 30 days development e.g will not same with your previous development days and also no matter money and developer they hired, time is essence.
> The bottom line is that this is technical forum, and that kind of crap simply doesn't belong here.

This, we agree on.

The "men's thoughts" bit returns to the 'reductio' stuff. It's ridiculously under qualified. Consider more 'boys' than men, more opinions on other people's bodies than just women's. Consider both genders make jokes, judgements and, comments at the expense of others' on any number of factors (socio-economic status, hygiene, neck-beardiness, hair colour, musical taste...)

People are mean. This isn't "men v. women" it's just crass, unfunny and, unwelcome.
Can others confirm/deny this:

Google this, no quotes: snopes Skincential Sciences CIA

Then duckduckgo the same, no quotes.

Did anyone else get disturbingly little response from google, but very detailed and recent results from duckduckgo?

I searched this precisely because I was skeptical, but that search result was just weird.

EDIT: For me it happens both in regular, tracked search and in an incognito tab.

EDIT2: Dropping snopes gives a regular result from google and searching just snopes does too. I think google's ML initiative may not be working out as well as they hoped.
It doesn't matter if the mutations were there to begin with. Even when the mutation occurs after a change in the environment, it's not the change in the environment that caused the mutation, mutations are random. What matters is if the treatment made the mutations viable.
>> none of my businesses use any software on a rental model where it is critical to our business and having it changed or switched off in the future could cause serious damage.

That makes sense.

I do wonder why nobody offers a subscription service but with some kind of a lease like option, when after paying X months(or when stability is at risk, or too big of a change happens) - you can with a button click port it to a 3rd party hosting and pay only hosting fees ?

That seems to better align with the customers , right?
Well, you see, the common view on HN is very against anything related to government intelligence and military efforts. Usually, they want all the governments to topple and be replaced by, usually the proposed solutions on HN, anarchy, anarchocapitalism, or some kind of Marxist utopia.
The DDG results are about snopes, or Skincential Sciences CIA, but not both. If you remove snopes, the Google results look fine to me.
This is a shameless plug, so I'll take my beating if it's appropriate. For the last few months, I've been working on a Python library, beekeeper, that's all about that. It essentially consumes a JSON description file that gives all the specs for an API, as well as information about its object structure, and then provides an intuitive, native-Python interface, typically with little to no additional code required.

You can check it out on GitHub at https://github.com/haikuginger/beekeeper, read more at http://beekeeper.rtfd.org, or just install it with pip.

I'm biased, but I think it's pretty cool.
Original paper is here :

http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247%2816%29... CRISPR/Cas9-Derived Mutations Both Inhibit HIV-1 Replication and Accelerate Viral Escape

Supplement here : http://www.cell.com/cms/attachment/2052606220/2059839343/mmc...

Known strain to start with. They claim "Both viral targets are very conserved in HIV-1 sequences that are registered in the HIV database (Figure S1B)."

See explanation of figure S1 in supplement for more info.
That was actually NASA's plane that was doing the filming!
does landing on a sea drone make them any more competitive in terms of cost vs having to use the regular launchpad?
Übersicht, a geektool alternative for OS X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
I don't think you could call the general lack of diversity in tech a "raciosexual conspiracy". Rather, it seems a lot more like the result of classic pressures - institutionalized racism and sexism, combined with the general tendency of people to prefer other people who look like them.

The fact that certain groups of people tend to test well (or, taken conversely, that there are so many reasons why otherwise "intelligent" people don't test well) just exacerbates this problem and I think the central claim is still reasonable: things like IQ tests aren't necessarily strong predictors of tech skills, are dangerously close to pseudoscientific when misapplied, and have enough other theoretical problems that they should probably not be utilized during a hiring process.

As to my own linguistic skills, I contend that a lifetime of reading as well as a MS (in computer science), a Ph.D (in cognitive science and education), and ten years afterwards in academics including a professorship has prepared me as a writer. Did I have some initial Potential that gave me a head start? Maybe. If nothing else, I had the head start of my general introvertedness and a love of both reading and geekiness. A short test that purports to measure a fixed potential somehow inherent in someone is going to be pretty flawed.

But my "I don't doubt" phrase was more along the lines of ceding a central point: there probably do exist certain inherent characteristics that vary between people and provide some kind of predilection or head start. I'm just not yet convinced that the scientific community has really identified them yet, or that they're really able to effectively measure them yet. Instead, we get proxies that have a very high false negative rate, especially among otherwise-marginalized groups.

Anyway, four paragraphs is probably enough here.
I understand both sides. I expected a SpaceX chant more than a USA one. And yes nowadays patriotism is devalued it seems.
Hotel or airport wifi operates in that way because they can do so without inconvenience too many customers. If it becomes too cumbersome that they need to send in a technician every time a customer is not a sysadministrator who can figure out how to get the wifi to work, then market forces will make sure that they use something else.