skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minor correction: I would say that the new Yiwu-Madrid railway line is the longest in the world with ~10,000 Km vs the Trans-Siberian's 9,000 Km. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Yiwu%E2%80%93Madrid_railway_line
well they hit something, probably civilians living near the target.
This comment bothers me. I happen to know a number of .1% people quite well and your characterization of them is not accurate. I myself quit a really good job and gambled my life savings on starting a company at the age of 38. This company made a lot of money for all of its hundreds of employees, but naturally more for me and the senior engineers and executives that were there the longest.

I didn't hide any sums offshore (and of course I know no one that has done so--why would they confide in anyone that they had done so). How does one go about hiding income from the sale of a publicly traded company? Every bit of it is reported to the IRS. If you really do know of people hiding money off-shore just report it to the IRS and reap the rewards for turning in tax-cheats.

I'm not saying that everyone who has made money deserves it, by whatever definition one uses for the word "deserve", but I am saying that it is unfair to characterize everyone that has become successful as not having "earned" it.

I can think of only one employee in my company that may have started with inherited money (I really don't know). What I do know is that he went to a top-notch, very hard to get into, university, was very smart, and totally pulled his weight.

Everyone else in the company took a chance with their careers and joined us as a startup. We didn't hire recent graduates out of school, instead hiring really top talent from a number of companies (IBM, Sun, etc.). These people were extremely talented and already had very good jobs that they chose to give up to come work with us. They worked really hard, and we were very successful.

After years of being one of the countries fastest growing companies we sold. How is this success not earned? We all ended up paying what I consider to be ridiculous taxes.

I don't really understand how these uninformed threads are sustained so frequently on HN.
How to Be a More Productive Programmer
I definitely was thinking of doing this in the near future. I watched a documentary on a guy that took a train ride like this and the scenery was just amazing
It depends on whether the cameras are just for show (like most CCTV cameras) or whether the authorities actually care. In the Rialto experiment, the police chief was running the experiment as he was doing his master's degree with a prestigious university.

In places with a long and proud history of police brutality, with a tradition of covering it up at the top levels, the cameras are going to be bought just for show. Soon after officers will realize this and go back to their old ways.
The question was about blockchain not bitcoin, so I'm assuming the correlary is a private shared blockchain used to replace SWIFT between a consortium of banks. Bitcoin would not make sense as a SWIFT replacement because it's completely public. Banks have no interest in showing their balance sheets to the general public.
Looking at the previous submission, I found the text more compelling than the video: unsurprising me because editing is really hard and very time consuming relative to editing text or even audio. Video is linear and text with headings is more of tree and hence can surface an explicit hierarchy for conceptual importance, summaries, etc to the user/reader.

My take on launching via Hacker News is that for a vlog or even a blog, there's high impedance. Recognition is fickle; one popular submission poorly correlates to the popularity of the next and subsequent submissions; and even the most popular items fade quickly.

My intuition is that serial content, like many things, tends to obtain overnight success "after ten years of hard work" and that blogs and vlogs become successful one reader/viewer at a time.

It might be worth looking at Jeff Meyerson's softwareengineeringdaily as a peer study in the space. It's a fairly recent enterprise based on regular content that might be of interest to the Hacker News community. That said, he's focused promotion efforts mostly elsewhere. My impression is that over the years, Hacker News has fewer and fewer sources where every piece of new content stands a high chance of popularity.

Anyway, good luck.
In this case where she couldn't see for five years and then suddenly could after the stem cells it seems unlikely to be a placebo effect.
Me too. But I am too scared to go at it alone, I am worried about my stuff getting stolen ect.
Indeed it is. Brushing up on CSS here myself. Its amazing to see the different sites that use more CSS like Wikipedia.
Elixir is great for anything that uses concurrency. We're using it at my company for logging, among other things.
I think the problem here is that many people now use the practice to follow people and than mute them, so their tweets doesn't get shown in the feed (or he doesn't get notified if they like/retweet/comment them). So a person which officially follows millions of people could have muted them all and his feed is always empty. In my opinion is a good idea though.
As I wrote, HTML is fine, PDF is not.
I have unlimited data/calling/text and 5GB of tethering per month for $50/mo with T-Mobile, but it's a grandfathered in plan that they put me on when they stopped offering plans with limited voice minutes (I had the lowest allowance possible) about two years ago.
Cool. Interesting to see Starbucks make the list considering I don't see that app mentioned too much
There's many areas to be concerned about regarding privacy in the 21st century, but not this.

> show us just how public information is

Information we choose to broadcast to the world on a platform designed for broadcasting to the world.

> find this creepy

Strangers can see my public list of who I follow, and can see the public posts of those people I follow. The people I follow can choose to make their posts not public if they wish, and I can choose to make my profile not public so that strangers can't see who I follow, if I wish. Not creepy, really.
Sounds like a job for satellite...
But it's not passenger rail for good parts of its length, is it?

My minor correction to the article: Wikipedia says that China uses Standard Gauge, this means Russia and Mongolia use wider and not narrower Russian Gauge.
Ah, armchair critic from people who don't even know who those things are usually run...

As if those 100 guys matter...
To be honest, I have no idea what you mean by "read it like text". Your debugging method of

- locate the issue

- understand the entirety of the segment to avoid other pitfalls and understand the issues intended purpose

- minimize changes to avoid creating bigger problems. Rewrite entire segment if necessary (which is why encapsulation is so important)

I dont see how this is reading it like text or what that means to be honest. When I read poetry I read every single line. When I read a novel, I rarely I will glance over dialogue or entire segments because I understand the inteded gist. When I read the news I look for where the fluff ends and read the paragraph to understand what the hell is going on.

If anything I believe we should read more news to be better debuggers. Locate the problem quickly and understand in its entirety. A personal opinion of course
Similar experience here. A friend of mine had glaucoma but also did some surgery to remove a calcium extract from the eye. It helped a little but the vision is still the same
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NO. All the interesting desktop software has NOT already been written.

Short example: there aren't many - if any - desktop word processing software with word or phrase completion, so that's one thing you could still do and sell if you wanted to.

Another example: you could port the majority of desktop software from Windows to Linux and sell that to companies who want to lower their costs with Linux. Even if windows was essentially a free upgrade for a time, it won't be forever.

Some would argue that there are libre or free as in free beer software clones of Windows desktop software available, often they will cite GIMP as a suitable replacement for Photoshop, or LibreOffice as a replacement for Microsoft Office etc., but you can always find a situation that makes you wish you were running the original on Windows instead of fighting against tersely-documented software with their fair share of quirks.

Finally the desktop software term may be becoming more vague with time, the reason for that is because Android is being modifies to run software in a windowing interface by at least two companies right now, one of them being RemixOS. Also, single board computers equivalent to the Raspberry Pi are often able to run the Debian distribution for ARM. so that's another reason to program more Linux desktop software.
The spec encourages the following, if a bad bug is found (cough openssl):

1.1 -> 2.2 -> 3.3 -> 1.4 -> 2.5 -> 3.6

And in fact I kind of like this. 1.4 is rather obviously compatible with 1.1 (and 2.5 with 2.2), but also clearly denotes a new release. You're still always using the most recent release, within a compatibility number.

Even better, it avoids crap like: "Affected users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. 1.0.2 will be fixed in 1.0.2-beta2." Instead, the fix is announced simply "Bug fixed in release 4 and later".
Sometimes, M = 1,000, and MM = 1,000,000

(edit: just came back realizing that this was a useless comment since they'd both be wrong here)
Maybe a chef with a cooking show?
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How Peter Thiel Became a Trump Supporter
It's not perfect, but YunoHost is a very big step forward in that direction and it's making progress https://yunohost.org

And to fix the "ISP sucks" we have started to package an "just work out of the box" solution in the FFDN, a federation of local associative ISPs https://internetcu.be/

The trick is to use a "internet cleaning" VPN that gave you a static ip address and that this VPN is handled by an association in which you are a member and that you can trust.
Six months ago I followed the Arstechnica guide[1] to setting up your own email server. The guide is old, and some adjustments were needed, but the essential advice was good. I did SPF, DKIM, TLS certificates, basically everything I could possibly do to keep on everyone's good side. In the first month or so, I only opened up to a few users, and told them to be careful about how they used the service right in the beginning.

Never had a single issue with blacklisting or non-delivery.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to...
This is factually incorrect on two grounds: First, the adoption of Chip & Pin in Europe predates the European Union. Second, credit card fraud in Europe, France in particular, was out of control before its adoption. I believe it was either a French or Swiss researcher that developed the technology in response.
Can I make a request? Can you do a slice on the top 50 gaming apps? As a game maker, I'd be curious to see what are the most used SDKs.
Just like regular armies.
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There's also a lot of kooks who live there to get away from their "electromagnetic hypersensitivity"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14887428

> Ms Schou is one of an estimated 5% of Americans who believe they suffer from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), which they say is caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields typically created by mobile phones, wi-fi and other electronic equipment.

Similar to Snowflake, AZ:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/snowflake/

> Some people with MCS also experience sensitivity to electricity, so some houses forgo electricity, or have it routed through a single room which can be completely shut off from the rest of the house.
What is definitely missing are apps that have strong ethics grounding, open source, and minimalism.
In this case it was apparently neither of those
> (less of a problem today, with systemd everywhere)

Systemd is far from everywhere. Ubuntu 14.04 doesn't use it and is supported until 2019. Debian Wheezy is supported until 2018. RHEL 6 has support through to 2021.

Overall this means it'll start to be reasonable to presume systemd sometime around 2020, and be realistically almost everywhere from say 2025.

Software changes take 5-10 years to roll out everywhere. This is such a core change that it'll be on the longer side.
A very high fraction of the economy is arts and media-based; in some locales (such as L.A.) it may well be over 50%.

You are not going to get good architects, designers, story-tellers, graphic artists, lawyers, and even politicians, if no one is willing to obtain the appropriate education. And this is only for the "practical" careers; society also needs its academics and historians.
The question is not how many scholars do or don't believe it, but what are the reasons. In every discussion I've seen there are only three independent mentions, one of them a clear forgery, another one, also from Josephus, a mention that might refer to anyone and the one by Tacitus that... well, that's only one mention that could very well be also a fabrication. If "virtually all reputable scholars" are willing to accept that as evidence, that's OK, but not exactly convincing. There are other very plausible reasons for that situation.

Just to be clear: I don't have a horse in this race. For me it's exactly the same if there was a Jesus or there wasn't. The point that we were discussing is that you can argue the case within reason. I can't see anything you have presented to be a rebuttal.
I think Dungeon Master on the NES did it, too. It might work on a touch screen or with some sort of generated spell-making logic based on gesture combinations, but having 10 spells and 1,000,000,000 non spells wasn't very satisfying.
Certainly Kendrick Lamar, for example. To Pimp a Butterfly has a few radio-friendly song, but overall, it's an incredibly dark and experimental album, back to jazzy and soul roots of hip-hop — and don't forget the whole concept thing.
We indexed it exactly for that reason but also for the fact that it has one of the highest payment processing volume. So we were curious what payment processor they used.
I've been using radicale, and it's been a huge pain in the ass. It took me days just to get the permissions right (behind Apache), and its interaction with DavDroid and the iOS calendars/addressbooks has been totally baffling. It doesn't help that the radicale mailing list seems to be no more.

Probably I'm blaming radicale for some of webdav's weirdness, but the whole process has been one of the most frustrating computing things I've done in years.
48 hours of non-stop practice does sound a little extreme, but keep in mind that this is a one-time event in the middle of their training. Not right before the competition.

Avoiding burnout is certainly important in the long run, but short bursts of intense training, with recovery time afterwards, can indeed work well.
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As someone who spends much of the day staring at screens (more macbook than phone) I'm not sure that's going to happen in a hurry. I guess it's hard to distinguish the mindless staring from learning something useful. I can't even figure which category my own time reading the latest Trump craziness falls into though probably more the mindless category. (see also http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/admit-it-you-people-want-se...)
> working man

Is that supposed to be a good thing?
The band is sold out already!? I need the high score.. this is upsetting
Actually, a more accurate title would be "12M stolen from hacked South African bank via 1,400 ATMs across Japan"
Parody UBER movie. Sad/funny side of reality with on-demand
This is cool. I want to take the orient express from eastern europe into China. One of my bucket list items.
(1) The main link is for the article from 19th, September 2000 which predates Brexit by 16 years.

(2) Telegraph is "just" a messenger. Main source are documents that "were found by Joshua Paul, a researcher at Georgetown University in Washington".
The fact that I think this is the worst idea in the world might be the very reason this could be huge. I thought friendster, myspace and facebook enabling people with 15min of fame by displaying their personal lives on the net was the worst idea in the world.

I did think the way Google handled search was the best idea in the world, so go figure.
JIT compilation opens up a lot of new features and workflows in a language, from interactive development at a REPL to in some cases very powerful abilities to generate, compile and run code all at runtime (i.e. "eval" in lisps).
This guy also took the $23,000 Suites Class on Singapore Airlines from Singapore to NYC.

http://dereklow.co/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23000-singapore-...

edit: i learned that most of this is plagiarized. it's baffling that he would take such a trip and yet still plagiarize a bunch of the content.
Any account for travelling the transsiberian on first class? How much it cost?

I'd love to live this, but only the good parts (meet other people, from other places, diverse landscapes) and skip the bad ones (bad sleep, scarce food, etc)
tesserocr releases the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) while performing some tasks which allows threads to run them in parallel without waiting for the GIL to be available.
I believe most trains use cellular data connections for internet connections. I don't expect there to be any out in the Mongolian desert. You'd probably have to bring your own satellite internet...
Why would anybody need your stuff? There's no shortages of used trousers. Even if you carry an used laptop it's not a grand desirable item.

You can use plastic to avoid ever having large sums of cash on you.
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[tl;dr]

"Bingo" often beats going bingo.
>Do adolescents today have this kind of relationship with bands?

Last semester one of my students in a college public speaking class gave an informative speech about a rapper (I can't remember who it was. it was someone who I had heard of but hasn't gotten a ton of mainstream success) and he mentioned that he felt like he grew up with this rapper.
Correction: Some claim to have Wifi. It rarely works.
Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to respond.

Your observation over text and video is really great. You're absolutely right that video is too linear. I will consider carefully the use of video.

I will definitely check out softwareengineerdaily. You're right that building and audience happens one at a time. This is reassuring to me as it means I can focus on the long term.

All in all, this is a valuable learning exercise, and it's feedback like this which is invaluable.

Thank you.
A friend recently took this - Here's an email he sent me with the details (sorry for the formatting)

All in, it was just under £10k

Trains London to St Petersburg

London to Brussels - £100 Eurostar
Brussels to Cologne - 58 Euro - Bahn.de (about £45)
Koln to Prague - 138 Euro - Bahn.de (about £109)
Prague to Krakow (three trains) - 488PLN - Polrail.com (about £92)
Krakow to Warsaw - 140PLN - Polrail.com (about £26)
Warsaw to Minsk - 698PLN - Polrail.com (about £132)
Minsk to St Petersburg - £284.72 - realrussia.com

Accommodation Krakow - £68.22 lastminute.com
Accommodation Warsaw - £38.76 lastminute.com

Other nights from London to St Petersburg were on trains

Tour - £5995
-all trains from St Petersburg to Hong Kong
-all accommodation from St Petersburg to Xi'an
-more than half the meals (apart from when on the train)
-transfers to and from all stations
-all guides and tours
-all visas

Accommodation Hong Kong - £304.96 - Not sure where booked

Spending money - £1640

Flight HK to Melbourne - $HK9076 (about £746)
Travel Insurance - $AUD324 (about £172)

Total: £9753

Polrail.com and realrussia.com are agencies and so added about 25-30% on top of the ticket prices, but the Polish and Russian rail websites aren't in English so didn't have much choice there.
The Polish accommodation was pretty swanky and right next to the stations, there were much cheaper options, but splashed out a bit.
Travel insurance was required for our visas; we had trouble finding anyone to insure us because we weren't finishing where we departed from.
Spending money was under what we budgeted.
The tour was obviously the big expense, doing it ourselves would have been a lot harder, but would have saved a lot of money, but then we'd have to have gone and lined up to get visas whereas they did that for us. Also having someone standing on the platform with a sign with our name on and then being driven to our hotel was pretty cool :)
make an app that works exactly like Stickies.app, except shows up exactly the same on all of your devices. I'd pay about 20 bucks for that.
I'll quote the OP for you:

> and the static typing of .NET

The last time I checked on Clojure everything was quite dynamic, did they change that ?
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Jun 22, Vladivostok - Moscow costs 60k roubles or around $900 first class (СВ), just looked.

Second class (Купе) on less-posh train costs 17k roubles or around $300. I expected it to cost more frankly, given how second class Moscow-SpB sets you back $50 for just one night.

But obviously you would want to change trains / get off at some places in between, which needs more complex calculations.
The international ones (every 7-11 atm) have to accept everything. My Japanese card doesn't even have a magstripe, only chip and pin, so the hometown banks aren't as stupid as this may make them seem.
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"VMS-specific changes"

<insert meme>WHAT YEAR IS IT?</insert meme>
There are no good fieldguides to plants/trees/fungi for either desktop or mobile. (I think I've purchased every single one for iOS.)
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you need the cluttery look?
syncing text-files or evernote or something would be that otherwise.
This is a PDF of the 1st edition of another book by the same author. There is a 2nd edition, which is an excellent but outdated text covering 2D game programming.
It becomes censorship when a moderator removes a comment or discussion based purely on personal beliefs and disagreements.

Moderation should be about removing the trolls, not what it has become, which is censorship.

It feels like many people personally enjoy moderating down disagreements because they don't get any actual power in their own lives.

It's one of the reasons I stay away from most online discussions these days: because nobody can be open and honest. It really makes me wonder if this is the reason why secret groups like the masons were created. Back in those days, instead of getting moderating down, you were killed or attacked.
Agreed. The time before a competition is all about stress management.
Depends what they're commuting for. A lot of businesses want you to be there even day at 9pm on the dot, no exceptions. For people working at companies like this, minimising their daily commute is basically essential, since their bosses will not negotiate on things like start times, end times and the amount of work done in the day.

Do people really want to lose their remaining time with their family just to spend it commuting and doing the same stuff they could be at doing at home in the car? How about losing their sleep in the morning because their car takes longer to get them to work than it used to?

Some people might want to roll straight out of bed and into their offices/workplace. A lot of others would rather minimise the time spent going to/leaving work and spend it in their own home doing stuff they want to be doing.
I'm having trouble finding a hotspot for this. Would this work? http://www.bestbuy.com/site/boost-mobile-franklin-wireless-4...

Why does this one say boost mobile?