skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bitcoin asteroid can be created by launching a sufficient mass of bitcoin pundits into orbit around the sun.
You’re Moving Abroad If So-And-So Gets Elected? Good Luck
How to get a CTO to join an early stage company?
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> When Europeans set sail for the "New World" hundreds of years ago, there was a huge financial incentive.

Religion was actually a big reason too. Perhaps in the modern era after the caliphate fails to establish their Islamic kingdom on earth, they will attempt to do it in space.

Money is a good reason to temporarily get equipment and people into space, but those people ultimately want to come back home. To get colonists to leave earth forever, raise families while risking life and limb (and their children's life and limb) in a hostile, dangerous environment forever, you'll need more than a paycheck. You have to be fanatically devoted to it. Religion will do it.
Well this is really kind. Yes, I'm pretty broke and have three young children who will be semi orphans. Cue violins.

Happy to receive on PayPal at ph@imatix.com. I will give my family the keys to that so they can put it aside for ma wee bairns...

Thanks for suggesting this.
>This is literally a repeat of Microsoft Windows shipping a browser and a media player , where any browser and media player could be used instead.

The main issue was that you couldn't uninstall or disable IE, and due to microsoft's dominance in the market the EU felt it should be possible to do so.
Right. You don't look at skin color, gender, or sexual orientation. You choose from a pool of all. The best person for the job.

It's ironic that I get down voted in a discussion about true equality, for actually proposing true equality, by people proposing discrimination in an attempt to fight discrimination.

The reality is that we don't want true equality. All of these calls for 'diversity' are merely punitive. Meant to punish the majority for wrongs they never committed in the first place.

It's pretty telling when a company can come right out and say they only want to hire women, with an entire staff of women, and it's seen as 'diverse' (this doesn't even make sense)

I, for one, will never institute these policies in any of the companies I run. I will always pick the best person for the job.
It's got the most github stars of any php project ever, so there's that.
Do you regularly need to send someone a physical copy of something you have digitally?
Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts
Wait. So Google recognizes a long time ago that machine learning would be important to their business and so invests in a variety of projects to aid with that; Google 411, Google Books, etc. But because Apple either didn't have the foresight or chose not to invest in these technologies, Google should be forced to donate their data sets? To one of the richest companies in the world no less?

throws up hands
To me that video is not making the absolute claim that the clickbait title suggests (their words not yours of course). The actual video seems to suggest to the viewer to be wary of _only_ looking at the winning perspective and being subjected to survivorship bias. That is, there's nothing wrong with hearing advice from successful people, but make sure to get input from unsuccessful people as well to get a more complete picture.
2 months with Google Project Fi: A great cell service with one (avoidable) issue
Apple rolls out a new App Store developer site
I like plotly as well but I couldn't stand the python api nor cufflinks for that matter so I created my own wrapper. It's not fully featured but it handles 90% of the cases I want.

https://github.com/jwkvam/plotlywrapper
5 Advertising Agency Strategies to Use to Grow Your Business
It is something of a noticeable absence that I'm not "Friends" with my boss and coworkers, but at the same time, I'm not willing to risk sharing aspects of my personal life with them. If Facebook would add context, I'd share more. Otherwise I'd need two separate accounts and I can't be arsed.
The "basic HTML" version of GMail still exists, it barely uses Javascript[1]. That counts as a webapp, right? That's how email "apps" worked on the internet for a decade before the one-page-app became feasible and popular.

It looks like crap by current standards, but it works just fine. I wouldn't call its scriptlessness an "abuse" by any means- that's just how it used to be done.

[1] there's a little bit that handles time zones, I think, but that's it... oh, and autocomplete and some alerts to catch you navigating away from an unsaved draft, that sort of thing.
I held off responding because I wasn't aware of this. I needed to research after your mentioning involvement in UBI research.

Yes, my views of SV are shaped by internet media, business acquisition coverage, comments here at YC news, and conventions I attend. So no, I don't live in the 'Valley per se, but have at least some understanding of it.

If I cite correctly, I found these as the UBI discussions YC is funding?

https://blog.ycombinator.com/basic-income
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982340
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056510/why-silicon-valleys-leadi...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/27/technology/y-combinator-basi...

So, yes, it does seem that YC is continuing the underlying research on what it would take to implement UBI. That's awesome!

Unfortunately, the negative comments towards "Silicon Valley and the VCs" was that: a larger discussion. I'm not meaning this to be a "YC sux" kind of discussion. That goes nowhere. I'm sincerely glad you (and YC) are getting into this tough area. But you seem rather alone in that regard. The Guardian puts it well, with this article (Feb 2016):

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/28/silicon...

So, to keep this constructive, what can the members of the (tech enlightened) public do to help? Have other organizations (for and non-profit) entered into talks to assist with your UBI research?
Why not go the whole hog (or Elephant) and call it Hadoop?
Where's a good place to buy index funds, and how can I set it up on an automatic deposit?
Chernobyl was not local nuclear. It was regional nuclear. People are investing a lot of money in this tech for some very good reasons.
The First Batch – A lesson learnt about hardware and early assumptions
David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime (2010)
I have been looking for something like this for a while, but I didn't find it so I made my own, it has been a lot of fun.
> > The challengers, in their appeal, argued that the lower court decisions awarding Google a summary victory deviated sharply from the traditional view that one who copies a protected creative work can only claim the legal defense of “fair use” if the copying satisfies the four factors that Congress spelled out in federal law.

It's weird that SCOTUSblog parrots that line from the Author's Guild so credulously. It's never been true that all four factors must be satisfied to some imagined threshold, and in fact that four factors are qualitative by design.

> We do not believe that private companies should be able to make full digital copies of copyrighted books en masse for commercial purposes under the fair use doctrine—that is, without compensating the rightsholders.

By that argument, no web search engine could practically exist either.
The problem with Facebook is the same feeling I get when any random store, event or web form asks for an E-mail address: “oh great, what unsolicited crap will you start sending me?”. And it is the same mentality that led to ad-blocking.

If entities could be trusted not to be total jerks with over-marketing, maybe people would share and Like things more.

Instead, a simple “Like” is virtually guaranteed to result in new spam.

A very simple thing Facebook could do: mandate that each Page (and even itself) may not send more than one message per MONTH. Period. And set a maximum length. Hire some editing people if you must, and make that message count. Don’t just assume you can send hourly updates to all your “followers” as if they care more about you than their own families.
Wrong. If you can buy the same amount of most things with the same amount of currency over a period of time, then we say that currency is stable.
That's the real question. 24 days in which Bitcoin was more stable than gold is cherry-picking from noise. A year would be significant.

Bitcoin is mostly driven by people getting money out of China. All the major mining operations are now in China. Bitcoin mining is "manufacturing" and "exporting" as seen by China law, so running a Bitcoin mining operation is a legitimate way to get foreign currency. Bitcoin mines even get the electricity discount and tax breaks of an exporter.
Frederic Jacobs, one of the Signal authors: ”Viber’s encryption appears to be a custom C++ implementation. Super reassuring they use MD5 for attachments.” https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/722489499779858432
Cloud Capacity Is Running Out: Can AWS Prevent a Cloud Armageddon?
Unfortunately, after a while it stops being "news".
http://bitcoinclock.com/
Ask HN: What have you invested in recently? (Stock market)
I'm not a big investor but I am curious and do intend to invest more in the future. What trades have you made lately?
Thanks for vetting this for all of us. We've inserted "some" before "coal" in the title above.
If this is true, then why are the First Solar salesmen at my local Home Depot still pushing a $40K price tag at me?
> Generally, the engineers and product managers at Lab126 quelled their own dissent before it reached Bezos, instead concentrating on giving the boss what they thought he wanted. “We spent so much time trying to anticipate what Jeff would do or say, and read into little words he would say in meetings,” said one former employee. “It would lead to so much additional work.”

That sounds like a questionable at best policy.
Yeah, I get what you're saying. But what would it take to keep folks in NYC from littering? Is that the only way people stop littering-- when they're threatened with imprisonment, flogging, or worse?
I don't think consumption method is irrelevant, cannabis contains more cannabinoids than just THC. Methods that concentrate for THC in oils will have less of these. Vaporizors that heat the cannabis to specific temperatures will release a different subset of them and your body will metabolize them differently and at different rates when consumed. I notice a range of mental and physical differences when I consume marijuana that are dependant on the preparation and method of consumption.
It might be worth taking a look at Citus, which provides a roughly equivalent distribution and sharing story for Postgres. It's also recently been reworked as an extension and now available as open source [1] so that you can run it yourself.

Also, speaking as someone who was an operator of a large Postgres DB and who is now an operator of a large Mongo DB, although Mongo has a nominal lead in this one area for the time being, by going to Mongo you sacrifice a lot (I really can't emphasize this point enough; the distribution/sharding story is really the only thing that Mongo is doing a better job of right now, Postgres is a clear winner in every other way). I'm really looking forward to (and hoping for) extensions like Citus becoming more mature so that optimal choice of database will be obvious under all circumstances.

[1] https://www.citusdata.com/blog/17-ozgun-erdogan/403-citus-un...
Show HN: JARVIS on Messenger
Stackoverflow: 6 years old 301 Redirected Indexed on Google
This is something that we're working on!
temperature != climate. This is what all of the same people writing articles like this chirp out whenever someone talks about current temperature changes having anything to do with climate change.
Look for golang support in VS Code to continue improving.
Generalized multimethods are an inherently costly abstraction. This paper[1] provides a good survey of the state-of-the-art—at least as of 20 years ago—in the context of Dylan.

I'll have to re-read that section of Modern C++ to recall the runtime algorithm, but I'd be interested on any pointers to newer research or engineering on dispatch techniques.

It's too bad that (AFAIK) no 'mainstream' high performance language has a multiple dispatch abstraction that could motivate more work.

[1] http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrb/Projects/pd.pdf
I've been called negative before. For good reason :)

I tend to see the problems with things. The stuff that is good enough, why spend time thinking about? Seems boring to me - it's already done, lets move on.

I actually somewhat don't like being labeled as "negative person" since the actual result in my thinking is usually very positive outcomes. I improve things and make them better. How could I do that if I didn't identify what is wrong with something? The new webapp you wrote for me might be 95% awesome, but I'm going to probably be immediately drawn to the 5% that sucks just by the nature of who I am and that's what I'll be focusing my energy on to improve.

This worked well for me in my personal life for some time. Identify bad habits, get rid of them. However it can be a grind and I think folks that think the way I do are much more prone to depression and negative feedback loops that result in isolation (largely out of perhaps a frustrated idealist point of view). That's when it get's dangerous.

As in all things in life I think it's about balance. As I get older, I absolutely see and believe in the power of positive thinking. I just think some people can take that a bit (or a lot) too far and use it as an excuse to delude themselves.
I'd be interested to hear if you're allowed to fly your drone anywhere.
It's not just one sided - it's not just him who isn't getting updates because of the spam, it's everybody else who also isn't getting his updates because of the spam.
I'm in Singapore, uploading to Oregon, 100mb, took minutes , I changed to upload via signed cloud front requests, takes 15s to upload 100mb now...
Beside insurance sales is their another monetization strategy with fewer regulatory hurdles and a less commoditized market?
I am proposing we slowly phase out mass producing products out of NON BIODEGRADABLE materials yes.

As for the Carbon - it doesnt matter how slowly we do it, we will still remove it all from the ground. It is a non renewable resource. Look at what we've done to slowly renewable resources like species - how many have gone extinct in the last 100 years? So yeah I think with carbon it's a foregone conclusion that we will floodthe atmosphere with it. But non biodegradable plastics etc. at least we can phase out.
'She' appears exactly once in the article, 'her' never.

You are complaining about a single instance of 'she' involving a hypothetical person.

I hope for your sake you are trolling, because you have some warped world of priorities if not.
But they also don't ask why she chose a male protagonist.
If you could build this into weekly email newsletters and let others rent out the survey space, it would be huge for customer development.
Scenario: Servers has to be restarted (or crash) during rush hour with 100M active users.

Even being generous and allowing for 10000 logins per second, it will take almost 3 hours for everyone to relogin. Oops.

Ok, so that 100M is clearly not viable for services that actually expect a significant amount of their users to use the service at roughly the same time (that is - it would clearly not handle Facebook amount of load).

A much more relevant metric would be how many simultaneous sessions you can handle while being able to claim good service (say, the 99th percentile being able to login without getting time-outs).

Also, generally speaking, most authentication systems will involve at least a few server-side writes for logins, meaning the difference to new registrations shouldn't be all that big in a well designed and compartmentalized system.

Disclaimer: Yeah, I used to work for a company that did authentication servers for ISPs.
The sweeping recommendation on STM was especially hollow to me since the software I work on doesn't use a database at all.
True, I think in this case you could argue that the title is warranted as it is exceedingly common in our society to examine and emulate successful people whereas it is exceedingly uncommon to do the same for (or even be aware of the existence of) unsuccessful people
But how else can you make sure your pad_left function is well written and widely tested?
More like a Lotus 7 with a bicycle trailer
But you can't base an argument on "please accept my claim as fact," is what I mean.

I'm not aware of a clear scientific consensus that cannabis is harmful.
Sorry, no. I've just read a couple anecdotes about it online recently. One was about a TV show in a foreign language playing in the background causing ads in that language. Another was about a guy talking to a friend about an upcoming trip to Vegas, then getting ads for Vegas. I've never wanted to install the app on my phone so I haven't been able to test it myself.
Has BitCoin finally reached equilibrium between malware ransomers selling BitCoins to malware Victims (exchanges mediated) for recycling?
Installation cost isn't proportional to panel cost. On the contrary, I would expect there to be little to no correlation at all.
Hacker News law of Betteridge's law of headlines in full force today: If the headline is applicable Betteridge's Law will always be mentioned.
Quantum physics has just been found hiding in game theory
This is the best answer. You have to know the factors influencing the market. If you are strong in at least some subjets you can spot the opportunities. If you know about economy, you could benefit when the economy is growing and it could benefit almost all companies. If you know economy is weak, you can short, just as an example. Other factors like market, management, managers, consumer behavior, govt policies, foreiegn policy, technology, raw material, rent, trading laws, stock exchanges, accounting etc. will help. Read business magazines and dailies but dont believe everything. But whatever you do, there is chance of failure. So if you are in market read Fooled by randomness and Black Swan. Investing rules from the masters say there is really no rules. You can be daytrader, long-term investor, options and futures, stock picker, index trader, etc. Actually, each style suits personality.
Why? Wouldn't a more informed view be to assume that the sites (and companies, politicians, etc) will behave in the way that economics favors them to behave?

In this case, you're not paying, so you're not a customer and they don't really care about your needs as long as you stick around.

They make their money from the companies that the article goes on about, and they will do whatever they can to make more.

In short, wouldn't it be better to assume that if the NSA can listen to you, they will? And if a company can make money from your data, they will? And if a politician could be taking bribes, they are?
This story made my day, thank you for posting it.
From what I've seen, it's becoming the most popular PHP framework out there.

Disclaimer: this is just my feeling based on people I've talked to and talks I've seen, and not backed by any hard data.
You are correct integrated mills use blast furnaces and thus can't stop. However Mini mills are secondary producers. They process scrap into finished steel. Since they use electric furnaces they can start and stop production.
Re. handwriting, you're looking for https://bond.co/
So what would you recommend that function look like? I think it is bad taste to say (with-read-txn db-name (put! db-name)) - no reason you should specify again what db you are dealing with.
I just use homebrew and skip the virtualization all together. I only use 2-3% of my battery while riding the train and working for 90 minutes.
> But because Apple either didn't have the foresight or chose not to invest in these technologies, Google should be forced to donate their data sets? To one of the richest companies in the world no less?

No, I’m not arguing for Apple. I don’t care – they can afford it. I, as a student, can’t afford it. You, if you wish to start such a startup, can’t afford it.

And you know what? Google couldn’t do any of this on its own. Instead, they tricked people into working for Google for free.

And now they try to make others pay for the work of volunteers that transcribed YouTube videos, that solved Captchas, etc.

headdesk
Totally agree, which is why we're looking to solve this problem a different way. http://www.facebook.com/greetpoint - join our #handwrittenrevolution! :)
From https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news/blob/master/haxor_...

haxor
Unofficial Python wrapper for official Hacker News API
Just make sure they regularly withdraw the funds, Paypal have a habit of freezing accounts. Perhaps a bitcoin address too?
I know that I've found that above the base features that many frameworks provide such as DJango - if you start pulling the thread on features like forgot password / reset password - I quickly find there is a lot of coding to be done.

Click reset, store a unique id, send the user an email with a link including the unique id, verify that ID on the request and then allow a password change. Then to be secure that unique id needs to be timed out once it is generated to ensure the link is only good for a short period of time, etc.

Not to say anyone couldn't code all of that, but some of the simple features once fully thought out end up being fairly complex. In my experience many of the out of the box options still need to be extended to be fully realized for enterprise usage.

I don't have a ton of experience with DJango specifically so I could be mistaken - perhaps it does more than I know.
Escaping the Avast Sandbox Using a Single IOCTL
I've been surprised that Facebook never did anything like Google+ Circles. People in your family don't need to see everything that your coworkers see, and your coworkers don't have to see who you are dating.

If Facebook had circles, I'd share more. The fact that they don't makes me believe that either there's a patent in place, or Facebook has an ideological position. Something like "we're making the world better by making more connections and interactions transparent." If that's the case it's both sad and doomed to failure as "context collapse" shows.
I've been using Marten which is a document DBA built on PostgreSQL for .net, https://github.com/JasperFx/marten

It's awesome, PostgreSQL is awesome.
How do global temp avgs not have anything to do with climate?
I must admit though "Global Warming does not mean Global Warming" is at least a new one I haven't heard before, lol.
>> “A discussion of cost in the lab is meaningless."

Agree. If it read American solar company out produces, sells, etc. that would be meaningful.

Does the US even have the raw materials & production capacity to use the research? If not, sounds like a complete waste of money.