skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Install Vagrant.

2. Install git.

3. Check out the complete, working development environment and run its Vagrantfile.
These guys are doing just that: http://www.remotehamradio.com/
The Ethereum community proposes to roll back their blockchain to reverse the theft of 3.5 million ETH.

Here the thief proposes to independent ETH miners that enough of them refuse to rollback the ETH blockchain, by virtue of staying with the old version of the software.

If the ETH blockchain is not rolled back, the thief proposes to share the loot - about $10 million worth - with the agreeing miners, making them collaborators in the theft.

Apparently, the attackers also shorted ETH before the attack. Given the resulting ETH price cash after the attack, the attackers made off with real bitcoin by closing the short trades, even if they fail to withdraw any of their stolen ETH.

Amazing.
Are you guys profitable? I feel like it's super hard to be profitable for any length of time in any developer tools business, because there are many perceived alternatives including build-it-yourself.

In contrast, if you want to build a small profitable SaaS business, I think one of the best pieces of advice would be to focus on an under-served group that can't implement software for themselves.
Ugg, stop turning Hacker News into a political platform. We get it, lots of people want gun control, including gun owners.

Can we just stick to technology news, please and leave bipartisan debates to other sites?
See any recent article about Venezuela.
Or, ya know, the government and corporations can collude to keep wages down via immigration.
That was a mistake. Fixing it now.
The UK doesn't feel that way either. The country is largely run by, and for, a small sliver of our society and does little to help vast swathes of it.
This article is the origin of the infamous joke about Haskell:

> Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
This is what Xanadu was all about...
It is. But while it sounds absurd, there are cases where it makes sense. For loads that are parallelizable, both the 1.78 THz chip and 65KMPH car make sense for similes.

I wouldn't say they are a 1.78THz chip or 65KMPH car, but like them.
Italy is one of the founding members of the EU, so I am a little puzzled by this statement.
When did they join the EU?
Still not the end of food: Results of the 2016 soylent eaters survey
Then the OP was making a strawman argument. I've worked in big companies, and I've seen long-term planning, and it's not like what he complains about. He's alleging that all big companies use this mythical rigid central planning, and it simply isn't true, he doesn't even have any examples.

If big companies were all like failed communist states, then these big companies would have failed long ago. They haven't. Maybe some have, and maybe some small fraction of those did fail partially due to overly-rigid long-term planning, but to claim that this is a common problem among big companies is quite wrong IMO.
LocationIQ wasn't meant to compete with paid offerings. It was merely a way for the team at Unwired Labs to give back to the OSM community. We think the good folks at OSM deserves a great free tier.

If geocoding needs are enterprise-grade / you are OK with spending a bit, you should look at Mapzen, OpenCage, and now, Geocodio.
Though perhaps it will take a second of inductive thinking to understand why, it's worth noting that all fresh water that exists on the planet is heading for the ocean unless it's frozen permanently or evaporates first.
I have a bash script and a PowerShell script stored in a web-accessible place. I pull it down and it bootstraps Chef to run chef-solo on the machine from a repository stored in a trusted location.

Dotfiles are stored in Dropbox, too, which is handy for keeping zsh and Sublime synced.
I use Ansible with Brew and Brew Cask. I've found using Brew for everything makes it easier to upgrade all applications for security reasons and it also gives a high level view of my system. Here's the relevant config file of the things I install:

https://github.com/arianitu/setup-my-environment/blob/master...

The ansible script also links to my dotfiles, which can be found at:

https://github.com/arianitu/dotfiles
That absolutely has not been my experience in major US metropolitan areas. They've been universally gross.
I have heard an explanation for these vegetable regulations is that all the member countries had their own rules anyway, so having a single EU rule was better than what there was previously, and the EU wasn't getting involved in vegetables where previously government wasn't.

I have also heard that these standards only apply if you want to describe your vegetables as meeting the standard. If you don't then I have heard that they don't apply.

I don't know if either of those are true or not, or if it's a meaningful excuse for anyone, though. You could argue the EU should have got involved and got everyone to agree to abolish the regulations, or you could think that a common way of describing vegetable standards is good.
What you 're suggesting is essentially that britain leaves the EU to join the US ?
That's impressive...I submitted this clip from So You Think You Can Dance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtSfYX8tJk

The results:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~gyglim/work_public/autogif/gif.fcg...

...and while it's debatable which of the segments are most interesting (the performance has a lot of highlights), at least all of the extracts are of actual dancing action, and none consist of cheering-crowd-announcer shots.

edit: Just tried it with the Game of Thrones Season 6 trailer:

http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~gyglim/work_public/autogif/gif.fcg...

The first 2 GIFs have decent action...the other 4 are relative duds in terms of action...but I do like the shot of Tyrion simply holding a torch in the darkness.
FWIW, Amber Alerts have already begun to include domestic custody battles

From my observation Amber Alerts have always been domestic squabbles. Before I turned them off on every device in the house, I don't recall a one that wasn't a divorce dispute. In other words, not a one was a reason to make every phone in the office make noise. In other other words, we collectively found out that all of these "abductions" wouldn't fit within the definition that most of us use for the word.
Techcrunch appears to have deleted critical comments on Deepak Chopra's app
Techcrunch appears to have deleted critical comments on Deepak Chopra's app.

See for yourself:

Old: https://web.archive.org/web/20160611130251/http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/09/deepak-chopra-launches-jiyo/

Currently:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/09/deepak-chopra-launches-jiyo/
Yes, this. It seems almost too obvious but a few interviews can be incredibly revealing. You should also do this with your exising happy customers, and ask them how they'd explain the value to someone else.
This is actually why we had to setup our own servers in the first place!
Perhaps unrelated, a year ago at an Ubuntu event I understood from a Canonical salesperson that they asks a kickback from providers when they advertise with Ubuntu. In London Canonical has an EMEA sales team dedicated to negotiating these kickbacks.

In my understanding this business model emerged after the Cloud providers needed patches very fast after Heartbleed [0]. In return for the kickback, Canonical offers fast patches and Hosters/Cloud providers can use the Ubuntu logo.

[0] https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20140407.txt
How This Tiny Country Became the Most Tech-Savvy on Earth
So only poor people should work excessively long ours, then.
Well, anytime Israel give them a little more room they use it to move their rocket launchers closer. That is not a particularly smart move unless you want to keep the conflict going.

Also: Arab citizens in Israel can vote, - Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank can vote in Gaza.

As for the media filter that is really interesting (I think there is a grain of truth to it) but more than that you have to show evidence.
Since there is no authentication done for the free service I can't really track users, but just to give you some numbers, the free API serves over 10 billion HTTP requests/month. An educated guess would be 5% of users ended up paying.

Initially, I just wanted to make the service pay for itself (hosting, dev., data mining costs) and allow me to dedicate some time to provide support to users, so I asked myself, as a dev/company, how much would I pay for this service. I started with €80/year, and doubled the prices a few months later, to €160 (€13/month). The price increase seemed like a good business move, and surprisingly, the number of sales improved as a result.
Actually , the far right movements in the continent are loudest against immigration from outside europe.

Oddly , anti-immigration is a thing that seems to unite europeans at this time.
How much of each? Just interviewed with a Norwegian company
The devil is in the details. If my neighbor works sixty hours a week measly for food and shelter, is he or is he not infringing on my right for fair pay for my own work?
I took it a step further, and just closed the majority of my social network accounts. The main culprit being Facebook. I also put away the phone on the charger before bed, and don't pick up until after my day has started. Now I read more books, go on long hikes, and have more time for my personal projects.
Submitted incorrectly, correct link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939005
The (Israel) AR-15 75-Round 5.56mm Drum Magazine
by nils

CAD Files: https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo/tree/master/Rifles/AR...

Photo Album: http://imgur.com/a/bMWqO#0

Retweet: https://twitter.com/fosscad/status/414613195601362944

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Firearms/comments/1tgnro/fosscad_pr...

defcad search: http://tinyurl.com/npt9onf
Depends on how the whiteboard is meant to be used.

It must be perfectly fine if it's meant to draw figures and overall ideas about the solution. That's what whiteboards are for. Sometimes a picture's worth a thousand words, and drawing diagrams or illustrations is frequently indispensable for actually solving a complex problem (as opposed to having a picture in the head, or described in writing).

But I'd say it's borderline offensive to ask a person to write any realistic code (i.e. not very-high-level pseudocode that's more of a human-readable notes than something for a machine) on a whiteboard.

Never been to Google, so no idea what they ask for.
Also it's copy-pasted from another source:

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/12/12/scientists-discove...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896779
> Could the title of this article be any less informative?

Apparently so.
I wondered this too. Twitter's app is broken - numerous complaints by power users that they should be addressing but instead they're busy buying companies?
It's funny you should take this particular tack, because this is a place where the United States has already been. We weren't able to resolve the question of which allegiance meant more, by any means short of a rather nasty half-decade-long war that maybe you've heard of. (It's also funny that you should mistake the primacy of modern American national identity as having some other cause but that, but the error is more or less ubiquitous these days, I'm afraid.)

And that's what it took to enforce a federal union upon just a handful of states with strictly limited experience - a couple of centuries, tops - of regarding themselves as essentially sovereign but allied polities. In light of that, I've always found it faintly amazing that anyone imagines the EU will endure without resort to similarly drastic measures. (Also that it even came into existence, given how badly things went last time Germany was involved in trying to unify Europe. And people say Americans have little regard for history...)
I think the supranational organisations argument is a bad argument to make given that throughout the world everyone else is devolving, and splitting into smaller countries or presently trying to split off.

Off the top of my head, countries/peoples recently or actively trying to split or setting up a new regional government, several that are actually in the EU:

Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Catalan
Scotland
Wales
N. Ireland
The Kurds

I'm sure there are many more as I really don't keep up with African or South American politics.

So why is everywhere else in the world seemingly moving to devolution, apart from Europe which is trying to create a super-state out of very, very different peoples.

And I know that they're very different. I'm half-dutch, half-english, my Dad lives in France, I've been to Belgium, Spain, Italy and Germany. Each of these peoples have very different outlooks. And the Germans, quite alarmingly as one of the key leaders of this change, still consider themselves more German than global citizens[1] compared to other countries. And don't misinterpret this, nothing to do with Nazis, everything to do in that they're obviously not doing it out of a love for the EU.

So why the need for the super state? Look at what happened to poor old Spain and Greece being forced into what is now a very disparate economic relationship with Germany, the Germans have even effectively rescinded Greece's national economic decision making.

There don't seem to be any rational arguments coming out of either camp, and of all the arguments, the "supranational organisation" one has got to be the most ridiculous. To make it a quasi-mathematical one is even more absurd as our countries have much better labor laws than America which is bound by exactly that sort of organisation, and we had the bulk of them before the EU was involved. The Social Democracies of the EU came way before the EU even existed, before the EC, before the EEC. Before the EU we certainly didn't have zero-hour contracts, so there's clear evidence his quasi-mathematical arguments don't hold water.

And I say this all as a pro-remain. Posts like this honestly don't help because they are partisan bullshit dressed up as 'logic' with little in the way of facts.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36139904
cough physical layer cough
How DNA Traced the Ashkenazic Jews to Northeastern Turkey
Fwiw, Deeplearning4j is also quite easy to install:

http://deeplearning4j.org/quickstart

https://github.com/deeplearning4j
This was predicted in Atlas Shrugged, it just turned out to be Venezuela instead of the US. well, minus the sci-fi part.
Pretty much every western country has similar standards for economically important agricultural produce. They just specify what you're buying if you buy Class 1 Cucumbers. If your cucumber is too curvy, you can't sell it as class 1, you have to sell it as class 3 or unclassified. That's all.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843539
Switzerland has one the best quality of life indices. Just becoming as good as Switzerland would be a massive accomplishment.
The point of not including this is that every time it is mentioned people cherry-pick sentences from that regulation without context just as you do. What we see here is a regulation of cucumber labels not cucumbers itself. Your quotes are minimum standards for certain classes of cucumbers. It's still fine to sell other cucumbers but you just can't sell them as e.g. "Class 1".

The regulation was abolished in 2009 because it was mentioned in every debate the public had about the EU. Guess what happened then? Almost every contract of cucumber merchants now contains a verbatim copy of that regulation.

Merchants love that kind of standardization (and if not, they were free to ignore it by not using the defined labels). It makes it easier to transport produce and allow for better planning. If there is no central definition of quality classes everybody is creating their (likely slightly incompatible) ones. That's not less bureaucratic, it's more bureaucratic. Now every small business has to deal with dozens of different company-made regulations.

Because we are on HN think of it as an RFC standard with the addition of being legally bound to it as soon as you declare conformity.
Point taken (after the correction; I run a nonprofit so yes, you aren't entirely correct), but it is still forgoing a sizable income, and that is admirable.
I concur with you. I do not have any allergy towards whiteboard questions. Couple of whiteboards is reasonable, but five of them seems totally unnecessary.
∈ The European Union
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A Probabilistic Analysis of the Fermi Paradox
Geofabrik also provides OpenStreetMap based Nominatim geocoding as a service, and can set it up for you on your own machine if you want.

http://www.geofabrik.de/services/server.html
Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
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I can feel it already:

"Show HN: Chrome extension that randomly inserts read-later links from Pocket into the HN front page."
Where is Twitter getting this money from?
Fortunately for Rust that's not an issue since you don't need any special privileges to install it; hell, it doesn't even have to be installed. As long as you point your $PATH to Rust's bin directory you can use it, as far as I know.
The problem with supra-nations is that, as bigger monopolies on government, they are much harder to vote against with your feet. You know, in case they become captured by special interests and impose burdensome taxes, oppressive laws, and smothering regulations.
May 20 the AlchemyVision and Watson Visual Recognition Beta services merged into Watson Visual Recognition - http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

We're continually improving them (as everyone in computer vision is!) but for now one key feature of Watson Vision is the ability to train a custom classifier for your own data by just giving a bunch of example images. The service also provides general image tagging, text extraction(beta), face detection and a fixed list people for celebrity facial recognition.

We see this as a green-field area where rapid progress is being made across the board... I wouldn't count anyone out yet!
Where can I read the paper?
Google, and the other big players, will continue doing this, as long as people keep lining up to their doors in droves. When you literally have the pick of the litter, you can do whatever you want.
The latter saving on heating costs.
Yep, this is what I do for Windows systems, and it works well for me. I have a *.bat file. The first line installs chocolatety, and the subsequent lines install packages that I want. For example...
http://pastebin.com/cpbdbfAN
Geofabrik can set up a nominatim geocoding service on your own servers for a one off fee, if you don't want to do it yourself. http://www.geofabrik.de/services/server.html
Would Uber and Lyft Really Pull Out of Chicago?
It's also super click-baity. The idea that a protein coding region of DNA can also have regulatory function is not new or a revolutionary idea. The science behind it is certainly useful and interesting, but not worth deceptively proclaiming we've found a second programming language. The linked article is also just very poorly written. The click-through links are way more accurate (and less click-baity).

Go look at how HIV encodes itself. It's got regulation in protein coding regions, on both strands, with overlapping reading frames. It's incredible. Kind of like Mozart's Mirror Duet - sheet music designed to be played right-side up and up-side-down - if it were also a fugue. Exotic compression gets interesting quickly.
It was discussed by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wilson-wanted-uk-to-be-us-...
> "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads."

The best minds of the previous generation were thinking about how to kill Russians. I'd say it's an upgrade.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the 2016 NBA Finals?
There's got to be a ton of basketball fans around here.

So what did you think of that crazy ending?
> This American identity was forged through centuries of migration and assimilation

I think it was forged during the civil war, when "States Rights" essentially ceased to be meaningful. Quite literally, the civil war was started because Lincoln declared he was not going to allow states to leave. Post civil war, after the horrible destruction of the south (in part by Sherman[1]); there was then a ~15 years following the civil war where the U.S. "reconstructed" (or reeducation) of the south[2].

The point being, it was really the centralization of power that removed people from feeling any/minimal association with their state.

> While the elite of Europe may have a stronger European identity than that of their country of citizenship, what you are seeing with the recent polls and movements in Europe is that for many of the common people, their national identity is stronger than their European identity.

My argument here is that, of course they feel stronger with their current country; their country has not been centralized. I would also argue, that overall the centralization of the U.S. has helped very little and infact has harmed more than provided good. That being said, it might be better than the EU collapse IMO.

[1] http://atlantaforward.blog.ajc.com/2014/06/13/was-sherman-a-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Era
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6481969.stm discusses this and some other urban legends of British-EU compliance.

Notably, the fruit and vegetable size/shape standards declare three categories for each item, and a producer can then advertise them as such and a seller can rely on the product being as advertised. "Extra" class conforms completely, "Class 1" mostly conforms, and "Class 2" is much looser.
> The advantage of OSM geocoding is that, unlikely Google Geocoder, there are no terms of service barring you from using the data on a non-Google product or for storing the data for your own use and analysis.

Basically correct. However the OpenStreetMap licence (ODbL) may apply to geocoded data. So it might not be as simple as "no terms and conditions".
Reminds me of: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
Seriously one month of studying algorithms and he's prepared? I had the impression google interviews were a lot harder than this.
Numpy specifically doesn't require Fortran. (That was the reason for the original separation of numpy and scipy.)

Numpy will compile f2py (to allow running fortran code in python) and I think it uses the Fortran lapack bindings in some cases if a Fortran compiler is present. However, both of those are optional. Numpy deliberately avoids requiring Fortran in any way.

Scipy, however, uses quite a bit of Fortran in addition to C and requires a Fortran compiler to build.

At any rate, as you noted, it's hardly dead. Modern Fortran is a domain-specific language, for the most part, but it's quite popular within that domain (scientific computing and HPC).
The ideas they talked about at this summit were really exciting: my favorite is the Interplanetary File System: a decentralized way to share files without a server. They did a crazy demo of a chat room where you could chat live, drag and drop to share files, even watch streaming videos inline, all without a central server! It was completely peer-to-peer, and all done in JavaScript!

Corey Doctorow also had a really good talk, I encourage everyone to watch the stream. There's a summary and link here: “The Internet is the Only Weapon We Have Left” @odbol https://medium.com/@odbol/the-internet-is-the-only-weapon-we...
Efficient way to search a stream for a string
I don't know if advertisers are the villains here, or at least they're not the only ones. People want things that are expensive to run and maintain (journalism, social networking services, accurate internet search), but don't want to pay for them. AFAIK, advertising is the only way to square that circle.