skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame?

The US government is to blame here, the companies are penalized for our governments belligerent behavior. The alternatives (war, sanctions) are much less appealing or viable.

>These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat?

In the case of physical goods, this has been happening for YEARS, and in both directions, in the form of import/export tariffs. For years, the tariff on corn going into mexico from the US kept local corn farmers in business, with NAFTA this was no longer in place, and a LOT Of them went out of business.

> Companies like this don't come out of Europe for a reason.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wireds-100-hottest-european-s...

Europe has a thriving start up scene, and quite a few major tech players (SAP springs to mind as the largest). Not to mention interesting efforts like Raspberry pi and Arduino.
I've paid a few bucks for theme packs on the XBox based on other games like Halo and Skyrim. They include skins, textures and maps for about $5. I'm glad there's nothing like it on the desktop, I'd hate to be getting in-game DLC ads. But with Microsoft in control, I'm afraid it will eventually happen.
In addition. What's your point?
How is this better than https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark, which also carries the same name?
> In order to maximize your usage of this feature, you'll want to use modules from the ecosystem that expose Promise instead of just a callback.

Bluebird which is one of the most popular promise libraries converts entire callback APIs to promises in one go:

Promise.promisifyAll(require("fs")); // fs is now promisified and methods return promises.

(full disclosure, I'm a bluebird contributor)
I'd say length-of-action is just as big a factor, especially with prescription pain-killers. When people take drugs with short half life's, they tend to 'dose up'. Which, if you're not careful can easily lead to addiction.

Also, I do believe personality comes into play. When I was taking the max dose of Tramadol for over a year, I stopped dead three weeks post-op. The only noticeable side-effect was a runny-nose for a few days, hardly a big deal.
Went back to GitHub Pages. Went back to Wordpress.com. Ghost just doesn't compare to Wordpress, even still, when it comes to installation and integration with an existing Express.js app is a joke.
Attempting to build my own:

https://github.com/syegulalp/MeTal/

(Been dormant as I've been busy with other things, but making slow progress)
Docpad (Node.js/Coffee Script), generated on Travis CI and published to Github pages.. but I don't blog very often. Mostly I use it to keep my portfolio up to date.

I might do something different if I were starting from scratch today, but it's worked well enough so far.
Show HN: Guess who’s back? cult game remake on iOS
Facebook is beneficial to society, it has dramatically changed how people organize and communicate.

You can always tell the difference between facebook users and non facebook users now.

The non-facebook users don't hang out as much and don't show up to group events as much.

"Why wasn't I invited?"

"I hit everyone in the FB invites"

"Oh I don't have facebook"

"You're not using the tool our entire social group uses to organize our social experience-- there's your answer"
Any specific reason you guys chose MySQL over PostgreSQL or Oracle?
Well with Amazon's cult-think, every single person is a "leader" yet also, no one is as important as the shitty middle manager above them. So someone will take the fall but it'll be spun into some type of reckoning consisting of: Ownership, Dive Deep, and Earn Trust [1]

As long as you can add to your cult karma, you can do anything at Amazon!

https://www.amazon.jobs/principles [1]
> governments should still be viewed as instruments of the voters to a significant extent.

At least in the US at the federal level, certainly not.[1]

[1]: https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
At least she had a good reason to not trust the US government. The interment camps were a disgrace.
>You know, I'll never understand the immediate and swift "who cares" response when people are discussing a subject as some sort of "Excuse me but...". If there's a disagreement you wish to voice, voice it-let's not act like people aren't interested in it because of your disagreement.

Sorry Dave, not how I meant it. You stated a fact (Thiel spent a lot of money on the litigation), so its not like I disagree. And my "Who gives a shit", is not a dismissive "who cares", but an honest probing question: who is behind raising Thiel's financing as an issue. I back it up with legitimate instances of litigation financing no one else would care about (credit cards, loans, family, etc...). In other words the forces behind these disparaging articles about the concept of litigation financing is the result of the very same backroom deals and undue influence that is raised by the articles themselves (its pretty brilliant really). Yes, that last part is pure opinion.

Further, I highlighted the actual legal mechanisms Gawker had to mitigate its legal costs. This is mostly because I think a major argument against Thiel financing is that he unnecessarily bleed Gawker, the counter is they bleed themselves by not settling.

>with the intent to win not on the merits of the case but by exhausting legal resources of their legal opponent.

9 out of 10 cases settle, this case actually went to a judgment at trial, that is the very definition of winning a case on the merits. Its almost insanity that Gawker didn't settle it knowing they would be hit with punitive damages is found liable. Not to say you are part of the HN status quo, but HN takes a strong stance against settlements/pleas and this case epitomizes the concept of winning/losing on the merits. (For the record I am a strong advocate of both settlement and pleas)
It doesn't look random to me when the biggest IT companies all originate from a small area in or near San Francisco.

The US government spent a massive amount of money over decades in infrastructure and in government contracts which in combination with the right legal framework (and capitalism) created this dominance.
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Apparently not. I stand corrected! :)
A gamer? :-)
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I'm glad `unhandledRejection` exists (and I thank you for your work).

Unlike Chrome, without setting up the handler manually, you still don't find out about unhandled rejections. Maybe it's something we could enable during development (`NODE_ENV` = 'development' perhaps).
We use MySQL internally.
I use Drupal for my legacy website: http://www.dmuth.org/

Medium for updates on my latest project: https://medium.com/septa-stats

And Jekyll on GitHub pages for a side project I did awhile ago: http://www.allaboutcheetahs.info/

The reasons behind these:

- Drupal: My website used to have a lot of static content, and I wanted to keep the content there while writing blog posts going forward

- Medium: There's a lot of people on it already, and I really like the interface

- Jekyll: I wanted to learn a static site generator as well as brush up on my CSS. (and the world needs more websites about cheetahs, tbh)
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There are two tiers to Docker's support, for certain, but as pointed out on the Github issue by a Docker team member here (https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-2...), there's a definite urgency sensed by the team.
Sorry about that 404, we did a bit of content re-architecturing last week and it looks like that file got missed, should be fixed now.

Our XYRS (X-postion, Y-position, Rotation, and S[ide|ize]) is combined placement and bill of materials format. For several EDA tools, we extract that automatically (Eagle, KiCad, Diptrace, and anything ODB++), but it provides a complete set of details for us to do the assembly.

For helper visuals on DIY builds, have you seen Copper App? They have one of the best DIY-walkthrough for building that I've seen, on-par with what we've built for our assembly techs, but very clean and polished for casual users.

As you finish building out the platform and start thinking about whether or not you want to provide some direct ordering connections, please keep us in mind. Also, if I can help with structuring data for our service in any way, please don't hesitate to ask!
To be fair to the layperson in the case of SpaceX they're not making it any better. It's called the "Falcon Heavy" now, but it used to officially be "Falcon 9 Heavy". If they didn't want it to be confused with a minor reconfiguration of the "Falcon 9" they couldn't have done worse.

Ditto with "Dragon" and "Crew Dragon".
So many times at work, misspelling "hotbot.com" and typing "hotbat.com" which brought you to a porn site with some half-clothed woman suggestively holding a baseball bat on the splash page.

Pretty sure it was just a generic porn site (never really looked into it) and the "bat" thing was just a thinly layered gag to make an excuse for taking advantage of the common typo.
Same thought here; uncached (re)installs feel like bad practice. Bad disaster planning... But also prone to inconsistencies in your software deployments.
I wasn't sure if it was just me, but in that case what makes Uber so valuable? Are they banking on putting all the taxi companies out of business and then monopolising the market?
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"Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea’s case as well as others"[1]. I don't know how much it's tons, but certainly not only one, and so far seems like the only non-frivolous by that definition.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-th...
Poet[1], a simple node blog generator which plugged pretty nicely into my existing node personal website. I did a quick write-up of the process of using it.[2]

[1] http://jsantell.github.io/poet/

[2] https://tomjwatson.com/blog/using-poet-as-a-blog-generator
That weirdness is kinda just a consequence of wanting the scores for different questions to be added together. A simpler (to me) but equivalent way to frame it is to use scores that you multiply together. These scores are "the probability of the true answer occur, assuming the students odds."

That is, if the student gave a probability of 1 and were correct, their score for that question is 1. If they were wrong, they get a score of zero.

The interpretation of their final score his interpreted simillarly as a joint probability, assuming independent trials.
Correction:

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Agreed, it's kind of my point,

- because a complete simulation would require infinite means

- simulations can only be incomplete

- incomplete simulations would exhibit metaphysical
irregularities

- yet to this day, metaphysics seems coherent and consistent

- therefore we are probably not in a simulation
A custom static site generator written in Go. It's tailored to me and has been written in various different languages over the years. Can't bring myself to stop using it :-)
If you're backing up encrypted data, then yes, you need to (facilitate that your family) back up the keys to that data as well. Obviously not in the same place, as that negates the purpose of the encryption.
> If Thiel didn't have a history with Gawker, I would believe to this nobel cause.

Thiel's history with Gawker is irrelevant to whether the cause is noble. If the cause is noble, it's noble regardless of who is funding it and why. If funding cancer research is noble, it is still noble even if you became interested because you had cancer.
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jibber, an html publishing platform i made, accessible within IRC http://jollo.org/LNT/doc/jibber/screenshots.html
This is mostly a good assessment, but the maintenance cost should be reduced - one part of Uber's lending program is covered routine maintenance. Gas at least should be deductible, I don't know whether the car payments can be counted in whole or in part.

The overall point is well taken, though. There are several hits to real income for Uber drivers that aren't shared by other types of low-wage worker, and while "set your own hours" offers more upside than a normal part-time job, it's limited by how many high-demand hours there are in a week. Rather than extra overtime pay, I imagine hours past her current 28 would give steadily diminishing returns.
The closest thing I know of is Scott Alexander's Reactionary Philosophy in an Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell [1]. It's more of an essay/argument than an impartial overview, but (besides being a good read by one of the smartest and most interesting bloggers on earth) I think it's the most even-handed, neutral and informative thing you're likely to read about Yarvin's beliefs.

(NB - the article refers to Yarvin as "Mencius Moldbug", his nom de plume for political ranting)

[1] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-...
You're looking at the output of a disassembler, not at the original source code. It probably reads something boring like sizeof(Identifier) in the original.
Without wishing to take sides on the controversial issue of whether taxation is morally permissable, I would like to add that what I call "lawful taxation" is different from arbitrary confiscation. I call taxation "lawful" if it is collected according to rules that are knowable at the time is incurred.
I apologize for that and take fault and responsibility, I have a PR waiting on that: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6439

I'll try to get to that that during the weekend and I humbly apologize :(
> No, the simulation would not be able to fully simulate physics!

Yes, whatever the simulation simulated would be the physics observed within the simulated universe. They may not fully match some idealized physics (perhaps those of the external universe, perhaps some alternative designed for the purpose of the simulation) for which the code of the simulation is an approximation, but from the inside of the simulation the rules by which the simulation determined outcome would be exactly the empirically-discoverable laws of physics of the simulated universe.

The only way to observe a discrepancy is to escape the simulation, find out what the creators were intending to approximate, and then compare it to the results of the simulation, but you can't do that from within the simulation.
W2 jobs are not comparable. Driving for uber is flexible - you can drive whenever you want, for however long you want each week. Obviously that value will come at a lower price point for wages.
Maybe you are being downvoted because your comment is too short, but it's something that crossed my mind when reading the end of the parent comment.

The best thing is, this might end up being the best proof of why you need to embrace devops methodologies and maybe take advantage of tools like Docker while doing so :)
It's a different style (CSS). Color is obviously different, different people prefer type of different theme. That's why it's host on userstyles.org. Should i call it GitHub Night instead?
Whatever you want baby
Home-rolled solution using Markdown, pandoc and make.
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Replying to my own comment, because I'm out of the edit time-range and this kind of blew up.

If I had to point the discussion of this comment, I'd point it away from what I did wrong personally (I know I f*cked up in probably more than one way).

What I learned from this is that there are no situations in which I would personally host a file server of this feature level and control over my documents. I think "all in one" (dropbox/backup/encryption/sharing/file storage) personal solutions like Owncloud try to do too much, and end up with some seriously rough edges that can turn off very large portions of their user base.

I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"?
Jekyll is cool!
Hey HN, I'm Denis, one of the creators of Mediachain. Happy to answer any questions!

This Co.Design article does a great job of explaining how Mediachain helps creators:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3060426/could-blockchains-solve-...

Here is our official fundraising announcement with more details:
https://blog.mediachain.io/mediachain-labs-funded-by-union-s...
Probably because without these regulations, there would be no visibility for niche productions, no way for them to reach the few people who want to watch them.
That may run contradictory to capitalist beliefs, but the system intends to allow existence of films/music/cultural products which (regardless of quality) have too few customers to survive in a non-regulated market.

If you wish to keep having diversity in your cultural industry, that's not a bad thing.
Perhaps.

As far as I can tell though they successfully kept the news that they were running a financially fraudulent cult completely out of the mainstream media for decades, until the invention of the internet made that goal increasingly impossible.
I've been using BUP with rsync.net for years. (for those who don't know, BUP is git based backup). I love how efficiently it identifies the deltas and only saves that. Admittedly, my use case is very light. It is for my personal PC --- and doesn't have any critical production databases that are constantly changing -- but for what it is worth, I've never had a problem. I started using it v0.24 (now it's 0.28) but I heard that earlier versions crapped out on a large VM images. As far as my usecase, I use bup's fuse-mount over SSHFS for backups stored on rsync.net ... and browsing the backup file-system is incredibly slow... I mean like 10 - 20 seconds to get an ls output.
I've made a decent amount of money selling apps through the iOS and Mac app store over the last few years. Making $35-40k online shouldn't be too hard, if you put your mind to it. However, most of the projects you can make money with won't be exciting from an engineering PoV. I found it's often either 1) a cool project; or 2) a money maker.

Another thing is that you need a decent amount of savings. Even if you have a product that brings in 3-5k per month, having another $50/100/200k in the bank gives you tremendous piece of mind. It also helps with potential cashflow problems. I personally don't take on debt, unless it helps me make more money (i.e. on an investment).

Where are you based? Living somewhere with a low cost of living + low taxes is probably the best way to do it, so you can build up capital to kickstart an investment portfolio. For example: having $200-500k invested in the stock market will yield you, on average, 7% per year. That's $14-$35k per year. You want to be working towards a number, so you can achieve financial independence.
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No gas, it's just hourly after the car lease. Another commenter arrives at ~$12/hour after expenses, but depending on how good the routine maintenance coverage Uber offers is something like $13-14/hour looks about right (pending assorted tax complexities).
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Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark is an extremely relevant book. I'm only about half way through it but it's been very engrossing. It's so far been a pretty concise overview of our current understanding of physics and supposedly ends up claiming that the ultimate level of reality is made up purely of mathematics.
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Works for me (Chrome 51 stable on OS X)
I use jekyll with Github pages. Github pages doesn't support https currently (right?) so I'm thinking of hosting on S3. Or maybe ipfs :)
Except the finite observable universe made of matter and energy that comes in quantized packets would not take infinite means to simulate. It would take fantastically large means, but not infinite means.

Therefore, it could be a simulation. Or not. There's no way to tell the difference.
Chrome 51.0.2704.79 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 16.04 here. Not crashing.
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I agree. I guess the question is just how much Thiel's money actually affected the outcome.

Money="justice" is a problem, I think you'll agree. This is the red flag that I think many people are raising, not because of this particular case, but because of the potential of abuse of justice that such a scenario would allow.

On the other hand, the outcome of this case could've been exactly the same even without Thiel's money. So maybe people are being too overly concerned about this angle.
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MinecraftEdu has existed for years. That new one is just crippled and much more expensive...
I have been hearing good things about SyncThing, though it lacks an iOS client.
Although async and await do look great, I am not very keen on using try/catch for everything. Is this not going to end up with more verbose code? I appreciate it will be impossible to ignore errors though.
Yeah, we (if you are 30ish plus or minus) probably had TV shows and cartoons as shared reference points - this generation will have which Youtubers they watched as those reference points.
The parent comment suggested the burdens of wealth are somehow bad and we should all aspire to be BI paupers. At least, that's what it sounded like.
Haha! After reading the site and your HN profile, I was thoroughly delighted. Pretty neat.
Is it open source? Just curious to check it out.
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That hurts AMZN credibility
I hope that people will learn that the fact the giants are so big is what the core problem is, even for American citizens. For example, the filter-bubble is real and dangerous, along with operation mockingbird (I'm sure under a new name now) propaganda pushes, and the giants become useful mediums for things like pretending a war or invasion is OK or the banks "need this next bailout of 200zillion dollars".

What we need is to move to decentralized platforms not controlled by any one company of person or government. Centralization is a weakness, not a strength, and decentralization is a strength. These are fundamental lessons of the internet, and it's high time we made sure the fresh geeks who didn't live through the 90's cryptowars are taught it's lessons.

FOSS is where it's at, and I am convinced RMS will be seen a visionary to ahead of his time to be fully understood or appreciated in the capitalist society he spawned in.

When Microsfaceboogleslapple Brain interface comes out and everyone starts plugging in, I will either be using the GPLv6Brain or nothing at all.
I use Ghost on Digital Ocean with a $5 VM. The writing interface is very clean and simple. Plus it's very nice to write in Markdown and see an unstyled real-time preview of the content. Ghost fulfills everything I'm looking for in a blogging platform. It is also pretty easy to write your own theme.
It's probably worth it for a VC who has a diverse portfolio, but as a founder you really have to think about what you really want.

Do you prefer a tiny chance of becoming the next Facebook, or a good chance of building a stable business?

Do you prefer to fail 9 companies before finally founding the one that will have "reason defying growth" (or not) rather than build one solid business?

I'd say it depends on your character, but it's important to know what you want rather than blindly following Paul Graham and other VC prophets.
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