skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a direct answer to your question, but you might also consider a subscription to Safari books online with the caveats that I don't know if it is available internationally and it is not necessarily cheap. My work covers my subscription and it has had a copy of virtually every technical book I have searched for.
How much of Watson's NLP success can be attributed to IBM acquiring AlchemyAPI (http://www.alchemyapi.com/)?
Can you share more please? merci
Not really - it's more because the dollar-based economy is massive in comparison to Bitcoin and thus has much higher capital requirements to move the market. If you think that centrally managed currencies are great, you should probably read the multitude of horror stories. Here's a recent one: http://bloom.bg/1ryY2ZK
I really like reading these articles but the comments here on HN provide even more helpful suggestions and links.

As an ex marathon runner, I'd like to add a few comments on my personal experiences which in summary are: interval training helped me achieve my goals, I kept total milage down to avoid injuries, and it would have been impossible for me to do a marathon without the long slow runs every other week.

Here are more details for those that are interested:

I started at age 50 and used the run/walk/run method promulgated by Jeff Galloway[1]. This worked well and I ran my first marathon in 3:48 (and lost about 25 pounds), not bad for 50 year old programmer's first real try at running. The walking phases (about 1 minute out of every 10) seemed kind of amateurish and so I stopped doing the run/walk/run method but found it difficult in the subsequent years to do any better than my first marathon--the run/walk/run method really works.

I finally qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon. I changed my training for this and added more intervals at a track and on hills. I kept the total milage below around 35 miles/week just to prevent overuse injuries to my aging body.

For an event like a marathon, the long, low intensity runs seem very important. They thicken the skin on ones feet preventing blisters, they exercise the small supporting muscles of the legs and feet which eventually adapt to running on pavement for 26 miles without failing, and they give one practice at efficient running style (staying relaxed and not over striding, etc.). Furthermore, just getting a handle on ones long-distance physiology is important, and the long runs give practice with water consumption, salt intake, snacking to avoid bonking, dressing for the weather, and bathroom management.

[1] http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/run-walk/
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I can imagine how something can expand if it's infinite. Imagine an infinitelylong rubber band in front of you. Now imagine grabbing it with two hands and pulling them away from each other, causing the rubber band to stretch. If you take a sharpie, and paint dots on a spot representing planets or whatever else, they will pull away from eachother as you stretch the rubber band.
US is the 5th biggest user of Sci-Hub after Russia, Iran, China and India
"helps with cancer research and patient care."

What does that mean? I only hear good sounding phrases but nobody ever gives me any detail.
Debt markets were a lot different in WWII, currently key rates are at 0%, most government debts are being taken on by central banks. Deleveraging isn't a good option, because it can cause deflation...however, if we look at markets like Japan, their increased debt burden and NIRP policy, is effecting currency markets heavily. There is no good solution. Taking on more debt can push the string, and we can pray for economic growth to cover it, we can deleverage and cause a depression, or we can try to keep at near current levels of GDP. There is no good solution.

Given that there is no good solution, I feel policy makers are much more prone to making massive mistakes that cause asset misallocation which will force deleveraging in private markets when that pops.
I think you are justified in feeling the way that you do. Nobody is suggesting that the "front runners' posts only made it there because of bandwagoning"

I think you and all other applicants deserved all the community interest they got.

What is being highlighted by myself, and other users (who have no vested interest, unlike me and you) is that engagement did fall off sharply after the first 2-3 days. As a result of which applications submitted after the first few days didn't receive the as much scrutiny from the community.

HN ranks posts by upvotes/square of time since submission. It is possible that a mere 2-3 votes can make the difference between a post reaching the front page and receiving several times more eyeballs vs getting buried. And the sharp drop in interest in ApplyHN's from the community can and did make such a difference for several applicants.
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Well, he got really successful through his connections. There wasn't that much negotiation involved.
That parenthetical history is wrong, at least according to Dave Cutler. He traced Windows NT's threading back to his work on VAXELN in 1983, years before POSIX was even thought of. He also was quite obviously deriving the NT API in part from OS/2, again not POSIX, given the whole "mutant"/"mutex" affair.
Okay I think we're talking past eachother a bit.

You're worried they'll lock DreamWorks/Universal films/NBC TV shows to Comcast customers only, because of their position as an ISP. We can agree, that's bad, if they do that, and if they do end up trying that, then I understand action (with some caveats, I am in favor of net neutrality, but I think there's a balance between what the government helped them build and what they built themselves).

But they haven't done that yet. As long as they don't do it, I think regulation is premature.
Ask HN: Selling software to a foreign (Brazil) company
A foreign company (Brazilian; though in the past I've gotten inquiries from other places as well) is interested in purchasing a "licence pack" for my app, whereby I'd provide a custom build with a few customizations for them to use.

When I originally got the email, I replied with a few questions and $ estimate.
Now they are interested in going forward with the negotiation/process.

My initial thoughts are to put together a simple contract whereby I assume no liability (ie. the sale is final, non refundable, "as is"), and get paid via PayPal.

The sum isn't much, ~$2,000 USD.
But I'm worried about all the weird taxation laws kicking around. Is this something to worry about? Any options/suggestions/thoughts on how to deal with this?

(I understand none of this is legal advice; I'm located in Canada)
What are your thoughts of this app?
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This is one reason why I love mercurial's named branches if you are going to allow people to push "1st draft" type commits to your main repository. There is no question which commits in the history are "topic branch" commits and which are mainline.
That's a stretch to call it "related", but this one reminded me of another story related to file names in a surprising way - "The $5000 Compression Challenge": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163782
In general, if you are using ELBs you should have at least 2 instances per AZ or cross zone load balancing enabled. I've seen this get teams several times.

The other thing to consider when deploying to the cloud with load balancers is to use an immutable architecture. Taking hosts out of service, updating them, and putting them back in service is a bit cumbersome at best and leaves you vulnerable to service outages.
Interesting.. I feel like I've definitely injured myself from not warming up enough. I actually don't even see how you can sprint at 100% when you are cold.

That's not to say I don't believe but that I wonder if there is something more nuanced which explains the differences in our experiences.

If you don't mind me asking, what kinds of sprinting do you do and how fast/fit/flexible are you?

Your evolutionary point makes sense but for example, my cats do stretch whenever they wake up. I imagine it's not necessary for them to stretch before moving but by stretching every time they remain very flexible. Kids for example don't really need to warm up and seem to have no trouble running right away, but they also are way more flexible than adults typically are so I wonder if that has something to do with it..
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
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Prince doesn't always get his due as an entrepreneur as well as a musician. This is a perfect example of how skilled and courageous he was.
Fair enough, not a use case I'd encountered a need for in my code, yet. Still not that "ugly" from a winky frown perspective:

;[a, b] = [b, a]
Right - "subjective assessment" being the key here. Hopefully each criteria is considered at least a little bit, but even experts are going to disagree on what's worthwhile to keep. Beyond that, many libraries out there have very limited time/resources to make weeding decisions.
Why? I believe you know the answer but I'll bite. He's not experienced in building software and yet he commands that much in salary. He can pass tests with flying colours though. I don't think he'll last that long at the company. It will be a grind and not well-suited to his personality.
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It's a cute little play. He's not charged with anything, so he can't claim his rights under the Fifth. Of course when he does reveal, assuming there is, he can be charged, and cannot retroactively apply the Fifth.
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What kind of details? Like exactly what it's doing?
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But then a question is whether the risk profiles for various investments will change - high risk/high reward is one thing, but high risk/low reward is not worth it. So it would be interesting to see what the experts think on how low risk investments will perform vs. high risk, and if those differences are diminishing, how that might impact decisions on one's portfolio.
This isn't just planting evidence of a crime.
This is planting the crime itself (Possession of child porn).
I think you missed that stated I do a few warmup sets for all of my main lifts and that I lift heavy (5 rep max, sometimes 3rm and 1rm depending on lift and day). However, I believe most people do too many warmup sets which limits their working set and slows progress and gains. Doing 3-4 working sets in reasonable increments is just fine. I know people that do 20 total sets per "body part", only 3-5 of them that are working sets (because that's what the bodybuilding magazine reported <today's Mr. Universe candidate) said they lift).

The running thing seems less likely to be true though. I wouldn't put my bed in a field, sleep 8 hours, hop out and go full out on a sprint, but I'm not going to do 20 minutes of stretching or ride a bike before doing a few sets of sprints.

Long distance warm ups seem even less likely to be needed than Sprints.

And, for what it's worth, I've done "max effort" deadlifts without warming up once or twice. Mostly to show off, but I had lifted those weights before (that day in one case, a couple days back in the other), and didn't have any issues. I could have been hurt, I guess, so my 'anecdata' is no evidence, but even so, not warming up isn't a guarantee of injury either.
Perhaps the defense attorney is an overworked public defender which no understanding of technology who had no ability to challenge the stupidity of the "expert guessing".
If you have an iOS device and like Advance Wars, check out WarBits. Single purchase, no microtransactions.
I'm not answering your question as written because I disagree with the concept of cash and "bricks of drugs" as being equally suspicious.

Being suspicious of cash is very dangerous. Historically, the poor rely on cash far more than the rich, so if we start demonizing it, really you're demonizing the poor. Politicians know this and often exploit it to help their rich friends.

Bitcoin has the capability to be the great equalizer, not just across economic bands but also across country borders. Your fear of it seems unfounded, though the paranoid part of me does wonder if you work for Visa or some other financial institution.
This is absolutely done if the library has the time/resources to do so.
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It's a good example. I'm really liking asio so far. However, I've been using the standalone version[1]. Maybe you could do the same with your library?

[1]: http://think-async.com/Asio/AsioStandalone
This would be very useful. It'd be great if accessible via desktop not just mobile. It would be cool if it ultimately ended up being incorporated into the main HN site. Not sure why the opprobrium against it - it's a fully optional addition to one's use of HN.
I know it's a wimpy answer, but it really depends on the site.

Ideally, you should run some usability tests to figure out the bumps within your website. The tests don't need to be fancy. Just ask someone with fresh eyes to complete certain tasks (and ask them to verbalize their thoughts as they work toward that goal). Along the way, jot down any bumps or confusion that those users experience.

Afterward, you can use that guide to find specific tactics to overcome those bumps.

Hope that helps!
So if he ends up forgetting his password while in prison, he's facing a life sentence?
Its mostly similar to github, in that its a central place for you to talk about your data (for github its code), and there is a very strong track of each team members actions.

similarities to git; 1) we are making a portable datastore where the entirety of a body of data (metadata, discussion, data itself) can be moved around in a plain text format. 2) versioning and tracking of all evolutions to the data.

differences; obviously the diff'ing since a lot of datasets are non-text, or are very large (which we can handle).
Those people don't have access to bitcoin either.
The government doesn't have a case with that evidence alone, that's why they are trying to compel the defendant to decrypt the hard drive. Here is how that's an end run around the 5th amendment:

> State: you are under arrest on suspicious of possession of child pornography. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand your rights?

> Defendant: yes

> Witness: I saw what he has it in that computer

> State: now reveal the password

> Defendant: I invoke the right to remain silent. Have charges been pressed or am I free to go?

> State: no charges pressed, you are detained until you reveal the password

Here is how that could play differently in the future:

> State: you are under arrest on suspicious of murder. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Do you understand your rights?

> Defendant: yes

> Witness: I saw what he did to the victim

> State: now reveal the whereabouts of the body

> Defendant: I invoke the right to remain silent. Have charges been pressed or am I free to go?

> State: no charges pressed, you are detained until you reveal it

If the All Writs Act allows the government to do the first it also allow the government to do the second.
True enough; founder is stretching, but there is definitely a link there that as an outsider is difficult for us to really measure. If I had called it Kadabrascope though; most people wouldn't know what I'm referring to ;-)

No doubt though he is a smart business man with multiple ventures under his belt. I do believe he really has a passion for what he does as well; the fact that he is still doing this in his 70s when he surely has plenty of F-You money says something about his passion for this industry.
I honestly can't answer this, I've been here less than a year and am just a front end person. My team is v small.
Procedure and integrity holding back law enforcement is like not being hungry holding back lions from eating a gazelle.
I'm very looking forward to playing with this library. Thanks for making it!
Sure, but teams shouldn't each self-select their own inter-team API.
Even after the birth of Alphabet, Google still has a lot of seeming unrelated parts. Should it have been broken up further? Does it make sense to have YouTube, Google Cloud Platform, and android (but not Fiber or Google Capital) all in the same company? Is there anything other than "profitable" that determines who is in the google-core?
At this point there are many people who simply have bitcoin. Maybe they bought it a long time ago, maybe they bought it recently. The acquisition time isn't really a factor anymore, it's been around long enough that people simply have it, and they would like to be able to spend it directly.

There are not many people specifically acquiring bitcoin just to pay for steam games with it, where it will be converted right back. Maybe some to test. Questioning the value as a result of the "usd -> btc -> usd" transfer isn't really applicable because it just generally doesn't apply anymore.
Yes, what does it do?
That's just how the real world works, in 99% of the cases. You need to know your stuff, but past a certain point, it's almost always better to expand your network + meet new people than to put in an extra hour honing your craft.

People don't just magically get handed a $200-300-500k job. You tend to get recommended by someone, through someone you know (i.e. friend, acquaintance).
Also upvoted for the involuntary visual of giant cave bear rampaging through paleolithic camp while people get cramps and groin pulls from running away without stretching first. lol.
>>And to add to this, it doesn't even make sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

You aren't thinking it through. Humans evolved to be long distance runners, not sprinters. Early hunters were all about patiently chasing prey at a very moderate speed over miles and miles until the prey literally collapsed out of exhaustion.

In stark contrast, you have felines such as lions, which are all about short bursts of incredible speed and agility. Their entire bodies are designed for quick acceleration to very high speeds, but if they couldn't catch their prey during that short interval they would be screwed.

Edit: your scenario of "a predator attacking a camp of humans" is not realistic. Most predators are afraid of fire, and even fewer would attack groups of other predators (which humans are).
"helps with cancer research"

Sure... Show us a single publication.
I went through the same process to get Visa for Canada and the USA, only with more documents.
Maybe your issue is that the `get` method in Java sounds pretty innocuous, but in Rust the `unwrap` method is notorious. Every Rust user knows that it can panic. Requiring a match would increase verbosity and decrease clarity.
> Discrimination in employment law only refers to specific classes of people based on race, religion, gender, military service, etc. Passing up on someone who isn't qualified for a job isn't discrimination.

A central idea of empirical science is Occam's razor. (Nearly) all religions violate this principle since they introduce assumptions that are not necessary. With this argumentation one can easily argue why a religious person could not be qualified for a job in empirical science.
We experienced something like this a long while ago, something like 4-5 years. We still employ our workaround, which is to have a tiny "keepalive" instance in each AZ in the ELB.
Ok, I think I can follow some of the points you are making. When I said I think you were being pedantic I meant you were taking the discussion to a meta level which is sort of beyond the scope of the interview. If you say we have to have a discussion about the nature of consciousness before we can talk about whether a function matches a reality then you have sort of put the cart before the horse, don't you think? I mean the whole purpose of mathematics is that we can talk about phenomenons in nature (such as consciousness) on a mutually agreed basis - if you take that basis away, I doubt there is very much left to talk about...
I kind of want to find out!
Very nice!!! :)

If I had a penny for every site that follows such a convoluted, tiring, mind numbing and thoughtless way to market one single product with lots and lots of "blah, blah", "more blah, blah, blah", and then "just sign up for free" to sell more stuff...

I really don't understand why marketing something has to be such a long winded story with the hope that at least one of the anchor points would catch the patient reader who somehow has the attention span to read several paragraphs. It's highly irritating and doesn't really help your (marketer's) reputation or that of the product you sell. It's like a long switch case statement in C with no breaks. :D

What could be worse? A site like this that has a popup on page load to get your email address first so that you don't even have the chance to know about the content before thinking about deciding.

P.S.: If this comment seemed long winded, that was intentional. :)
Those Americans who believe that persons cannot be held without trial are completely naive and need to spend time watching what goes on at an actual courthouse or police station. There are countless persons held without any allegation let alone formal charges. Material witnesses top the list. Jail (as opposed to prison) isn't about punishment. It is about the state holding people it deems useful to hold.

As a lawyer, my advice is always to stay as far away from police as possible. Do not volunteer anything. Do not participate. Online, always work under the assumption that you are the target of an investigation. Encrypt everything. Use VPNs, preferably overseas VPNs by default and Tor where necessary. If asked, never speak to any investigator without first talking to an attorney. Do no rely on some lay interpretation of a constitution. That document is not the friend people make it out to be.
The courts have always held the power to compel disclosure of evidence, and to hold those who refuse in contempt.

What this shows is that encryption does not lock justice out and that it's really no different than papers in a safe in a person's house. If prosecutors have a valid reason to access the information they can go to a judge, get a lawful court order and serve it against the person who owns the safe.

Encryption backdoors aren't about justice. They're about the government's ability to conduct fishing expeditions: to surveil massive numbers of citizens without their knowledge and without their right to a day in court.
Winding forward to the present: I recommend a look at kevent/kqueue.
>Procedure and integrity. Which are in play in almost every aspect of law enforcement anyway.

Procedure and integrity are in play in almost every aspect in life. The problem is that when you give absolute power, the ones who aim to use it the most are the minority who seek to abuse the power.
Haha.

Art Imitating Life.
Excellent onboarding, it's not common to see it well done.

By the way, the Scheduler widget's text is black, which doesn't appear well on the dark background.
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I'm not assuming anything, except that you don't know the costs involved in supporting 4 people, while raising and paying for the education of two children, and while putting together the few millions of dollars it takes to live, pay for medical bills and assisted living for a decade or three after you can no longer work.
21 inc's ideas are a horrible scam. Why would you pay hundreds of dollars, to buy an inefficient miner that is 10% as efficient, when you could just buy hundreds of dollars of bitcoin.
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