skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried doing some work with their code base around 5 or 6 years ago and at that time it basically didn't work out of the box and had no tests. Or at least their released code didn't.

Some of the problems were actual bugs that seemed odd in a production code base, and others were because they had stripped everything relating to some paid services they used for search or indexing or stuff that I don't remember.

In general it was a huge PITA to do anything with compared to what the leadership was hoping. (That it's be like the WordPress in terms of required investment was what they'd been hoping for.)
Sounds like an automatically generated Java interface
I gave my (company's) $50 to get Nexus (which includes GE and TSA-Pre). If a tiny slice of that makes it's way to TSA, it's still massively worth it to me.

I can land and Logan from an international flight and be in a cab headed home in 10 minutes from the gate. On the way in, I can pretty reliably plan for 15 minutes from the cab to my gate. I don't actually cut it that close intentionally, but it's a massive win compared to the cattle lines.

For the $50 I paid to be interviewed by 2 US CBP agents and 1 Canadian border agent, I don't think they're making a profit on the Nexus program that I need to worry about my largess funding the establishment.
Hand-tinted silent film from 1897
chicken actually eating, ie. killing mosquitoes, suggests similar technical solution - like miniature anti-aircraft weapon consisting of small laser and either camera or radar (like Google's recently demonstrated 60GHz penny sized one) which one would hang over the bed. By focusing laser right at the position of the mosquito it can be pretty safe for humans around. Can be a tool against flies too.
You are correct and it depends on how you want to save your data (poor or bad!). In the article it does use log as an example. Perhaps that would be a more convincing-ish example.
Since upvotes are invisible, I will comment to say I second this. Keepass2Android is a amazing and I love this solution, even though I've always otherwise hated password managers.
Unidirectional User Interface Architectures (2015)
The problem is most high quality advertisers don't want to have their brand promoted along side user generated content. So while Reddit has a ton of traffic, much of that traffic is worthless to the most desirable advertisers.
According to your link, there are about 10,000 new units under construction. That's about 10-20 buildings worth. Not exactly a huge boom.
> There is the possibility that they are taking too large a cut, and not charging enough to be profitable.

How? How can their margin be too high and simultaneously not enough to be profitable?

The only other alternative is that you think consumers should pay higher prices.

You present two perspectives, but only one can be correct: either it takes 20% to support the service, or it doesn't.
Makes sense. I know FlightAware operates their own network of ADS-B receivers, which augments the FAA data. I should look into whether or not that changes things, but I imagine the SWIM data feed doesn't have many holes.
Ask HN: How do I use the Firebase Hacker News API with their 3.0 version
Since Firebase was bought by Google they have released a 3.0 version of their SDK which no longer just takes a URL to a DB but also takes an apiKey. I've done a fair bit of googling and reading the docs but I can't find a way to connect to the Hacker News API with the new SDK as I'm not sure where I'm supposed to get an apiKey from.
Great read, but I don't buy it. I've not been to Kazakhstan but traveled Africa and South America extensively. I've been to war zones. A lot of things don't add up:

* A cop takes a bribe, is surprised the tourist is in some computer and then returns the bribe? I've never ever encountered a cop who takes bribes but does not know how the system works. They are not this stupid. This, by the way, is the best way to avoid bribing: Point out you accept punishment and let them work out the consequences for them - paperwork, getting you to jail etc. All this for a visa that expired a few hours ago? I'm sure they'll find a less work-intensive way to let you go.

* Cops being happy to have some "criminal" around for getting drunk and they even pay? No, they rather take your money and get drunk with their friends.

* The girl's story did not make much sense (abortion, breaking up, being raped, leaving school, being arrested, being dug on by a male guard while making out with a female guard and all of this within 24h? wait, what, I am missing some connections here).

I'm not saying that the base of the story ain't true, but there is, IMHO, a lot of storytelling in there, too.
The very same book introduced the equals sign, so it's not complete madness.
Are you kidding me? Fiduciary duty ring any bells?
Sure. Any choice might have some downside. One thing very interesting I always think about is, as I hinted at in my post, is the concept of series. Consider this example

1 + c_1 a^2 + c_2 a^3 + ...

Common syntax makes multiplication between factors implicit, basically grouping factors together in a compact form. The exponents further compactify the visual presentation. This, in a way, makes each term in the series stand alone and appear as a unit. It seems then no coincidence that in physics and math we often consider partial sums as approximations, and concentrate on particular terms seperately. In physics for example, people think of "order \alpha^2 terms" or "higher order corrections" or physical quantities which are often taylor series cut off at some order, of course, assuming the quantity. A very familiar example of this are Feynman diagrams which are fancy taylor series in powers of force coupling constants.

One wonders which came first. It may be that the notation followed this focus on individual terms, but it is interesting that no one considers "expanding" transition amplitudes in infinite products or continued fractions. Also, there certainly exists much more knowledge (theorems, technology) around series than products AFAIK. Again, I don't know which came first because I don't know too much about math history, but it seems reasonable that the causation may be reversed.
I won't say that it is impossible to have something like Emacs out, and get people to make the relevant packages, with a list of them just as long. It has to catch on, though. Many Emacs packages are full-fledged application programmes, and there is a large set of both core and external libraries powering them. But certainly if this Kilau or sth. else gets a big traction, everything is possible.
That's only needed for the coordination... that said, it would be easy enough to segment channels based on a certain precision of geohash... messages sent target 9 channels, your current and neighboring channels... you subscribe to the channel you are in, and this updates every N seconds.

Channel position/calculation can happen client side, and subscribe/unsubscribe can happen server-side. Though that may leave room for unscrupulous behavior, it could be locked down a bit more by moving sub/unsub server-side.

The issue will be growth/routing/rerouting of channel data... even then, you can get pretty far with RabbitMQ backed socket.io ... you might need to custom create something before hitting 10M simultaneous users, which at current growth rate would be an issue anyway.
> Liberal values and constitutional government preceded true democracy by hundreds of years in the West. Why do we expect otherwise anywhere else?

Also the lion's share of economic and scientific advancement.

For some reason democracy is being treated as the all encompassing headline act and receives applause tenuously related to its performance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12138284
My son liked Fishtronaut / Peixonauta [1] which was made in Brazil and released in Portuguese, Spanish, and English simultaneously, I think (it's on Netflix in the US).

1: http://tvpinguim.com/peixonauta/
How does that work? I mean what is the basis for the counter claim in law? I don't mind writing a couple of letters to get this going.
Developing Polaroid
Perhaps "efficient to use" was the more correct phrase for me to use. As a physicist, I can definitely tell you it's easier than zenzizenzizenzic.
This is the difference between easy and simple. Easy to use is often hard to learn. This is simple. Many of the best tools are this way. Violins are another great example. I like clojure for a similar reason:
Rich Hickey explaining the difference at rails conf: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
Don't do that... calculate a geohash, and send to self and neighboring chat channels identified by geohash. Then you don't even need lookup, only chat routing... auth/isolation/provision of connection is a related issue though.
This would be more interesting if Mir was being compared to Wayland.
Here's the plot of the Imgur and Reddit pics market share on /r/pics and /r/gifs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cgoFF6njlyv1W0DQ3IF5...

There is growth in Reddit Pics and decline in Imgur, but it'll be a few months before the lines intersect. A cry from the Imgur killer everyone expected.
I have no relation to anyone working at PageDuty. I'd like some real customer experience (but I can't tell if you are really a customer or not). Sorry if this is not allowed.

But why PagerDuty? I looked at it many times (especially I am an AWS customer so at every convention I see them). I can set up an alert as email or even as SMS message with AWS, by feeding only CRITICAL issues to the ops team. What other features do PagerDuty offer and how did PagerDuty save your day?
Someone experimented with this. See the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia article. This seems misguided to me -- why use a curve family when fitting is so hard -- but it has been done.
Thank you... was my thought for channels as well, geohashes of varying precision for chat channels, and for more static resources using something like you suggest.
It's not just that the site was that way, a free-speech zone, for many years. It was their official policy. They were quite pretentious about it as well, leading the reddit community to believe that this would be the permanent policy. To be honest, that is still mostly how it is; the admins only ban a subreddit when it generates a critical mass of bad press.

They don't want to drive away their users. They know how Digg died. They're smart enough not to piss off the community enough such that any significant number of users will leave.
Since Alexis and Huffman returned I've seen more happen with the brand than in the several years preceding. I don't know who made their mobile app but it is damn good. I resisted at first but am now using it as my primary means for consuming content on Reddit.
Unless at some point in the near future you turn off the imgur spout.
Is that story legit?
Is somebody writing a new 4clojure/exercism/job interview coding problem?
> barely more than minimum wage.

I hear this all the time, but when I want to employ a lawyer they want $400/hr.
Where is the actual guide? Is this the TOC for a book? It looks good but I don't see the actual content, just a check list and a table of contents.
I was board incredibly fast, the popups were distracting and then the tone of the text didn't hook me back into it beyond the title.
See also housing crisis in the UK.
Not being able to comment at low karma is a cause of low quality answers from new users. They post answers that should be comments, and get down voted to hell. I think account age should also factor into a few of the low karma thresholds like being able to comment.
> I'd have gotten on the GUIs an clicked my way through, with an uncertain outcome, split across various banks and over a few days.

Because you're sophisticated market participant and have sat on a desk. You understand the price impact of showing potential flow to the Street, and how to break up an order in order to hide your intent. Would you expect a random corporate treasurer know how to do that?

Not to mention that there are structural barriers to what you describe -- it costs money to buy Bloomberg terminals and live market feeds, and not every treasury department can afford to do that.

What upsets people is that when traders interact with less sophisticated clients, the latter tend to get fleeced.

It's the same reason people hate car salesmen.
Most cloud providers have a BigTable solution already, though not the same as C*, would leave you to build the app over provisioning/configuring a cassandra cluster.

Depends on your application of course, but if you're self-indexing anyway, may as well lean on your environment (given a proper backup/exit strategy).
A distributed system is one that can fail in new and novel ways
What if I ask for something and dont leave a tip?
> Putting aside how [President] Elon Musk pays for it all,

facepalm you can't compare the side effects of a massive government spending plan without looking at that!

It'll all come out eventually. Either we borrow, and tax our future generations, or we tax more businesses now, which would also repress business activity and American competitiveness.

There's a few items that could be solved with the market. Like: Remove city's zoning laws with a federal mandate, to encourage the market to build urban housing. You don't need the gov. to do it, just remove the limitations. Disallow internet providers from offering kickbacks to condo/apartment managers to open up the market. We should probably tax semi trucks & cars with snow tires more, because they're the ones that cause 90% of the damage to highways.

In order to justify light-rail & subway construction, we really need to look at the costs involved. And the costs are getting out of hand, and are way more expensive in the US than in other countries. http://www.citylab.com/commute/2011/11/1-billion-doesnt-buy-...

Your Massachusetts background is showing.
Yup. If I look at my phone right light, I can see the key to unlock the phone on the glass.
Ask HN: Feedback on My Site/Startup Concept
Hey everyone!

I’m working on a media related site/startup at the moment, and I’d like some feedback from the community here in regards to the concept and the potential for it in future.

Basically, the concept is this. A user created gaming news platform where you can post news, reviews, guides and other content related to games and make money off of it. So in short, something akin to a news version of Medium for the gaming market.

To try out the concept, I have reworked an existing gaming site I had running into a prototype of the idea. This can be found at https://gamingreinvented.com

At the moment, the site is pretty basic. You can post content, see roughly how popular it is, choose how its monetised and earn a share of the ad revenue. There’s also integration with a forum section and other related features, but that’s something that’s more a part of the WordPress modification I’m using.

There’s also the option for paid subscriptions, which is going to be tied into content monetisation. I have some interest in this from my current audience.

The style is really simplistic too. Blame the fact I’m not a designer for that (I’ve worked in a few agencies as a developer). If it ever catches on, I’ll hire someone to actually design a more professional theme with some sort of actual character to it.

Either way, more features are planned in future.

You’ll be able to post video and audio content, as well as livestreams. Quickly post content through a mobile app in seconds (because even solutions like Medium and Reddit seem to favour those with a lot of free time). Get access to press only materials and anonymous submissions through SecureDrop as a normal writer.

Basically, I want something that’s more of a true hybrid between open publishing and traditional journalism. Where the normal contributor gets the same benefits as a professional journalist.

I look forward to any feedback you may have.
Most Canadian companies, as well as most of the US government before 2005, used BBM the way most people use slack today. it was the killer app of enterprise.

What were you using in 2005 to communicate internally in your company?
Yeah the gym analogy didn't work. My point was simply that the gym isn't responsible should you do something stupid, because there is plenty of ways to educate yourself on avoiding that.

The internet provider offers a service with certain penalties that are typically made clear enough if you read the contract. It is up to you, through whatever means you have available, to not use it in a way that gets you excess charges.

I like your speed trap analogy but I still don't think it is the ISP at fault. If you can't afford the overage and your phone has no metering then there are plans and pre paid plans available to suit that need. You are still the one signing up to the service and using it, you don't have to if you think the situation is unfair.
Jeez, I write too much. Sorry if it doesn't make sense, I had to cut out about 1000 characters to fit the 2000 character limit for a self post on Hacker News.
My apologies, when I said "comes to mind" I didn't mean "is an example of."

By the way, here's his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beneisenkop

And here's a Wikipedia article about him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan
>Instead of the government paying for air traffic control (currently funding comes via an excise tax on fuel and airline tickets), flyers would pay for it directly. A portion of every gallon of fuel or ticket sold would pay for the national airspace and air traffic control system. If air traffic control were self-funded, then the use tax could be lifted and ATC could get immediate access to cash without having to appeal to Congress.

I don't get it. There is already a fuel tax and a tax on tickets (as the article reports). That's how flyers pay for it directly now. I don't see how that's different from a portion of every gallon and ticket sold. That's literally what it is today (and what the article is reporting).

What am I missing?
We have a keg at work. It's used enough to not go bad, but there's never been an issue with it. People will have a beer on a Friday or during a lunch on a really busy day. I'm not a beer drinker and bring in cider for those times.

This probably goes without saying, but alcohol isn't the problem. I imagine problem people and problem cultures often like to involve alcohol, so there's a correlation.
Not just that; Americans want choice or at least the illusion of it, especially in healthcare.
> To blow 'use of lethal force' into the be-all and end-all of the purpose of government is over the top rhetoric.

If your counterexample is what tribesmen in the jungle allegedly do, I think that's evidence that I've hit upon a fairly universal quality :)

I'm not sure how you perceive my use of the point as a rhetorical ploy. I introduced the idea into the discussion to emphasize a key similarity between ISIS and other governments... Except in anarchy (or perhaps in jungle tribes) someone will control lethal force. In a majoritarian democracy the majority does, sometimes tyrannically.

In a fledgling grassroots Islamist movement, the same requirement exists, but it's handled differently... so differently that my analogy seems inappropriate to some.

Political groups are aggregators of power. Those who want power gravitate toward them. I de-emphasize whether the sort of power desired is financial, coercive (force oriented), sexual, or ideological... all scratch the same primitive itch.

So it follows that ISIS will seek all of these kinds of power in order to become a respected and dominant institution in the region.
If you're really interested in the foundations of filing a counterclaim, I would suggest Brian Blum's seminal work[0]. It will explain in great detail more than I could summarize.

However, I'll relay a parable told to me in first-year law school contracts class:

A man picks up a hitchiker on the side of the road. beautiful girl. She offers to fool around with him while driving (use your imagination). after the act is over, she says "I forgot to mention: I'm a prostitute, and that act cost $50."

Without missing a beat, the driver responds, "It just so happens that I forgot to mention: I'm a taxi driver, and this trip costs $60, so I'll take the $10 you owe me now."

0. https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Contracts-Brian...
Are we more civilized when there is no anonymous free speech, and people are abusive only in semi-private situations?
Do you know where I can find the announcement of the death of the pledge and analysis of how it likely violated SEC rules?

I believe Y Combinator was the force behind the pledge, why would they push for and publicly announce something that they couldn't do?
I have a thesis that is basically identical to yours about unmanaged expectations and community being the main root of the problem that reddit/twitter/etc are facing, which is part of the reason why we started Imzy https://www.imzy.com/imzy

We got some press early on that really told an untrue narrative of what we are trying to do, but we've made a ton of progress in a few months of our private beta and our communities and platform are really beginning to come together. The link I gave above is to our company community and if anyone wants to try Imzy out I will approve your request as soon as you make it.
I would like to see something like that. Not as a replacement for welfare or unemployment compensation, but as a program where anyone who needs a job right now for whatever reason can get one easily.

In the Portland area we have a large park (many square miles) that's being over-run by English ivy, and that's not going to be fixed without a lot of people going out and pulling it up by hand. If the city were to pay a bunch of workers with nothing better to do minimum wage it might be a lot cheaper than paying a team of regular permanent employees, and it could address part of the unemployment (and possibly some of the homelessness) problem.
You're using 128 byte identifiers? Why?

And actually, yes, if I were using 128 byte identifiers for some reason, I would still be concerned about malicious parties being able to cause collisions. Securely generating random numbers does not seem easier than authenticating.
You're right about that. In light of history I was using "white" to mean "not black". Over the decade we haven't seen any problem in displacing black people by the thousands to build even things that weren't worth having, like the Cypress freeway and the Western Addition.
I would love to "fail" by steadily increasing growth, becoming #1 in a ~year.
Musk is just your stand-in for techno-progressive visionary, but given that you included Hyperloops this hypothetical platform should also include solar panels for every roof, the nation's powergrid rehauled to support electric vehicles, and a new Space Race...
I thought he meant aluminum foil.
Processed meat and cancer
Try doing this with the MTA or LIRR workers or the prison guards and see how far you get in the next election before they strike and clog up the city.
Too Big to Jail [NYTimes]
The issue isn't really the amount of asshats. In the physical world, it's generally really unlikely that you'll get more than a couple of particularly egregious asshats with similar beliefs in the same place. When you do, it's often a news story. Online, just as people with good intentions can find each other, people with bad ones can find each other and band together.

In other words, the unmoderated Internet is an amplification device for small groups of people who might otherwise not get a voice, and it doesn't actually matter what they're saying.

Of course, it's a lot quicker and easier to cause damage than to do anything constructive, resulting in unmoderated spaces online probably doing a lot more harm than good in the near-term. Long-term? No idea.