skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At no point even during the height of Republicans' "government shutdown" was the US government ever actively planning on defaulting on US treasuries.

Their rationale was, in any case, that "entitlements spending" was too high:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/06/sandp-debt-...

The entire rest of the market (and the other ratings agencies) were just about able to determine that if you have the keys to the cash printer you're actually not in danger of running out of cash and political bickering doesn't translate into risk of political suicide.
You know... Who has the money? Who has Upwork to please? The client.

So what is your role in Upwork?

Let me tell you what I have realised...

Do you pay to use Upwork? Not directly (you're not the one fueling the whole thing).
Are you paid to use Upwork? No, because the money you get is a counterpart for the work you perform.

So... What is the your role in Upwork? Well, you're the product being sold.

In any case you will always lose. You are not putting money into Upwork, but the client is. And the customer is always right.

Plus, they have recently raised their cut, like a lot.
The solution will be in the form of AGI sold to end-users to take care of this problem. Let me explain:

In 2016 you navigate to https://youtube.com to browse videos

in 20X6 you navigate to my_agi://videos/ to browse, and it figures out how to quickly surf youtube and many, many other platforms to present your videos

In that way, personalized and ubiquitous AGI allows end users to access the plethora of video content sites in one single easy to understand endpoint that is controlled by the user.

True, the Apples of the world will sell you an iAGI that is walled-garden, and then we're back to square one. damn. Well, I tried.
My co-founders and I have been building our company https://triphappy.com while traveling for about a year now. We've lived in 6 different countries so far on 3 continents. We travel and live together, renting AirBnBs as we go, and normally stay in one place for 1 - 2 months at a time.

I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a 'digital nomad', but more of a startup founder that just happens not to have a home base. Other than living abroad, my lifestyle is not all that different than when I lived in the US.
I don't know if i could offer a "path", but here are a few ideas to try out:

1. Start using hypothesis or jsverify.
2. Play around with Elm.
3. Participate in a community that highly values types.

## Properties vs Types

Just to explain a bit, types and properties are about program correctness. So they serve the same purpose for us. Types are essentially properties that your type checker can prove for you. Sometimes it is hard or impossible to prove something, so you might reach for property based tests to "approximate" the proof.

So when I'm thinking about my code correctness:
1. write a type where I can
2. write a property where I want to write a type
3. write examples to keep me grounded

Property based testing frameworks will help you move up that ladder.

## Elm

Of course, it will also be helpful to start actually leveraging a type system. I think Elm is a good option for people who are new to using types this way. It has a powerful, but relatively simple, type system that can help you learn good type design without having to deal with all of the features that Haskell/Scala/Rust/Ocaml/etc would have. Also, it has pretty great compiler error messages. So it should be less intimidating than a lot of nearby options.

## Community

Community might be the most important element. Participating in a community that values types (again, I suggest Elm) will be a great investment. Downloading Elm and a property based testing library could be a recipe to feel overwhelmed. Be sure to have a slack channel/mailing list/irc channel ready to help you when you start to feel overwhelmed.
Many locks in real life are symbolic. Interior doors for instance are hollow and can be breached with no trouble. They serve mostly to keep the law-abiding from snooping casually, and to provide evidence of theft (forced entry).

A pity we can't have digital locks that 'break' when used, leaving some fingerprint from the perpretrator.
Ok, so IPFS isn't for hosting and it's not for unpopular content.

What is it for then? For scaling distribution, you say. What problem does it solve? How, what and why? Is it better than BitTorrent for that use case?
That looks pretty good -- not only does it have a "requests per second" generator, which I wanted, but it also presents 50/90/99/99.9 percentile results, which are a must. (Website latencies are not a normal distribution so it's inappropriate to compute standard deviation.)
On that first chart, so battery count will drop post-2030? That's what the y-axis is, battery count (is it count? production rate?), but the conclusion drawn is that oil demand will drop, which feels related to the article, but wholly unrelated to the chart.

Is the y-axis of that graph actually oil demand?
0.7.0 is the latest version of consul
what a click-bait title!
tl;dr: Recalling early based on the assumption that the fault was with one of the batteries' suppliers. Nothing about the root cause issue in this article.
Yeah, my point was that the episode did a very good job of showing the negative aspects of those things, challenging my views.

A large part of what made Black Mirror so compelling to me is that the stories were so well written I wasn't just reflexively thinking of reasons to write them off. I still don't have a straightforward answer to that episode. Perhaps those types of events are something society will just eventually move past - the shock value will be lost, an individual being forced to do something like that will cease becoming an event, and won't reflect poorly on the institution? I dunno.
This is too funny HAHAHA
JavaScript from a product development perspective
It's not actually listed on the website anywhere, but it is in the email newsletter every Monday.

For example, this is what they chose for last week's:

> Top Posts on Hacker News

• How I built a keyboard by hand

• The Hard Raise

• Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?

• Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

• Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript

• Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

• Windows 93 (2014)

• Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras

• Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality

• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 awarded to Bob Dylan

• So You Want to Learn Physics

• Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions

• Barack Obama on A.I., Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity

• It’s Been Real, Android: Why I’m Retiring from Android

• Taking PHP Seriously

• Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test

• Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

• Be Kind

• A Man Who Stood Up To Facebook

• Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?

• Becoming a CTO

• Books Programmers Don't Really Read (2008)

• Ask HN: Good books or articles on UI design?

• Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 10: New boards, running programs, mouse problems

• Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales

• What has happened down here is the winds have changed

• Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013)

• Programming books you might want to consider reading
there should be a form language that works client/server and is just for classic web such as forms, something similar to meteor or volt. i'd even resort to using those in future or write a dsl on top that makes web development a breeze.
>Who believes his prime objective is to eradicate diseases?

Based upon all the human beings that you know, personally, in your life, do you think the odds are higher that he's just a guy who wants to do good in the world, or that he's part of some evil, grand conspiracy?

The latter has some non-zero probability...but I'll go with the former. Put me down as a believer.
Ask HN: Learning Statistics?
What is the best resource for learning statistics, intuitively?
Is this at all related to the recent cries of "bubble!" in the sub-prime auto loan market that John Oliver did one of his segments on? Or do those folks just shift to selling electric cars, instead of gas cars?
What the Hell is Postmodernism?
That smells like BS, plain and simple.
I don't disagree. There are always engineering trade-offs. What I have issue with is sites that do not bother to even think about security. They operate under the false sense of security that no one will bother them.
p.s. I never said "huge margins".
Scientists Correct Mutated Gene That Causes Sickle Cell Disease in Stem Cells
I don't want to erase slavers from history books, only from positions of honor. Stalin and Hitler should be remembered accurately, not honored. Same for other slavers.
I love how coding is quickly becoming an accepted part of education, rather than an obscure thing you can do with nerds.

My kid just started school, he's 4 years old. Once a week or so they have a class where they have a TA dress up as a robot and they think about how to give him instructions to do stuff. Sounds really fun, and very far away from the rather dry things you could be doing later on. Hopefully the transition to actual coding will not be rough.
His interest is as genuine as Microsoft interest in free software.
They don't know the root cause.
There aren't many precedents for huge global industries that went from AAA-bondable to rapid obsolescence. There are some that should have, like cigarettes, but they found ways of hanging on. Or international toll calls, still a many-billion dollar business. Perhaps oil will be like that: since the marginal cost is so low, producers will keep it flowing many decades after it made sense. And like tobacco, perhaps we'll pay oil fields to not produce.
I don't believe this Mirai IoT attack is using spoofing. But on the topic of spoofing: if an ISP doesn't follow BCP38 and allows spoofed packets to leave their network, then there is truly no traceability in where a packet came from. See this talk from Strangeloop about how spoofed packets are a problem [0]

[0]: https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoof...
Gigamon, who has both an office in Milpitas and a government sales division (including for overseas governments), makes photonic tapping systems that are also pretty useful for this mass surveillance kind of stuff.

Five years ago, they had a box capable of handling 1 Tbps and assured us that bigger, beefier ones were coming. US DoD was a customer then and, I'm sure, still is.
I'm not sure how this agreement could be enforced. How could Upwork possibly find out that a freelancer has made a deal with a customer outside of their site?
I agree. The other big one is power consumption
It was a religion for a violent clan society, think Somalia or something.

Check e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmgang

A good illustration is the Swedish "peace laws" from the 13th century -- it became forbidden to steal women, kill people in church and attack others during harvest. Consider what that means about the time before those. :-)
Which is what made me interested in reading the article--from the headline I thought it had finally been found.
Elon Musk SpaceX AMA
Existing applications will work in the cloud. There is no need to use the fancy cloud stuff (multi region, auto scaling...) if it's not needed [or not possible].

At the minimum, renting an instance in AWS or GCE is equivalent to renting a physical server. Applications don't care what's the brand of the server they're running on.
I absolutely love comments on HN and they are probably the main reason I read this site a lot. Some times, the posts themselves are quite self-explanatory from the title and I just go straight to the discussions.

I created a little site called HackerNews Club

http://hackernews.club

Where you can easily search for user's submissions and comments. FYI, here's Dan's comments :)

http://hackernews.club/luu#search/52e35e01f172df6d183c59633c...

And HN users ordered by the number of comments they have made.

http://hackernews.club/#search/39a2159841122c713bf4324d6f9de...
Kaldi is used in production at the BBC: http://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/transcriptor/
> Believe me, there is nothing in "physics" that says that fixed-rail tracks are optimal for anything except transferring people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be, and for transferring large sums of tax money from one set of pockets to another.

Now that is a goalpost shift. An incredibly bad argument with an entire planet's worth of falsifying evidence, but it was an excellent goalpost shift.
Outside of rush hour there is not much difference in queuing between both the Berlin and Beijing metro in my experience (i.e. nobody stands in line in either city). During rush hour there is more pushing in Beijing but Berliners try to get through the door as well, even if it means cutting someone off.
Hm. Horses. Trains. Newspapers. Radio. VCRs.
Even this article is inconclusive... There has been no definitive cause.

My initial presumption was shoddy batteries+ quick charge 3.0 extra fast charging + hot Qualcomm 820 just to add.

It was first Samsung phone to use quick charge 3.0.
If there was a battery defect, rapid charging didn't help.
I used to think that home servers could be the best solution, but I see more and more obstacles in the way of adoption. First, even if you can create a plug and play home server box, it will still need some configuration to make it available from the internet, which while very obvious to anyone a bit techie can be difficult to even explain in layman's terms. Secondly, it is not clear if there is an acceptable solution to security issues. In such a system that by design will be accessible from the internet, this a major problem. Auto updates could be part of the answer, but it seems that human intervention would still be needed from time to time and that imply an effort of the user to keep informed and aware of such operations. Or an entity could offer a remote administration service but that would displace entirely control of the system and create a single point of failure. At that point you might as well have that entity administer a single server used for a moderate number of people. If this entity is a non-profit where governance is shared between all members it could very well be an ideal solution. In France the "association loi 1901" legal structure is a good fit and is known and understood by the vast majority of the population.
It's deflation, the fear is deflation...
Since v3 they're using grpc, which means http/2 - since than, long polling is much more efficient!
Yeah, seems like he took it down. Not sure if it was b/c of this thread)
info
early 20th century abbreviation of _information_.

information
latin: informatio, from the verb informare.
information is that which informs!

informare
in-: in (into)
forma: forma (a form)

Something is missing; informare, into a form.

ddorian43, I inform you: I am trying my best. Let me explain:

Information can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty. The maximum of information coincides strangely with maximal unpredictability or noise!

What else? Claude Shannon proved in 1937 in what is probably the most consequential MA thesis, that simple telegraph switching relays can implement by means of their different interconnections the whole of Boolean algebra.

Eleven years later the same Claude Shannon published an even more groundbreaking paper: "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". The paper asserts that:

"The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point, either exactly or approximately, a message selected at another point."

We all know how influential this is, right? But is it enough info(rmation)? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The first and third are from 2006 and the second is from 2008 or earlier, so they don't seem to fit with stonogo's request for references after mobile browsing became ubiquitous (the iPhone only came out in 2007, and the first Android only in late 2008).
>
Most successful people have a schedule planning out their days

Successful at what exactly? Enjoying life, earning money or something else?
I used to work in energy corporate finance, and this feels like a pretty alarmist article to me for a few reasons. My logic runs as follows:
- The trillions in credit are issued by a wide array of energy companies running the gamut from production, to energy infrastructure, to utilities, etc.
- When a company is getting credit, the term is significant to the pricing of the credit. Riskier companies tend not to have access to long-term debt (10 years+); this tends to be open only to companies with more secure revenue streams (utilities, refineries, etc.)
- By projecting to 2040, the article assumes creditors won't have a chance to reprice the mosaic of debt many times over until then. Riskier companies may lose access to credit completely (as we've seen during the current downturn in oil prices), while others will have to pay a higher price for their debt.
- If the projections are accurate, this market will simply shrink in step with the overall market shrinking. And if past disruptions are any indications, it will be replaced by battery / EV companies needing credit and suddenly looking a lot less risky.
- The world doesn't end. Did I miss anything in my logic?
It saddens me that machines like this are still functional after so many years while modern technology is just a piece of garbage that cannot be expected to work after five years or less. It saddens me because with my current skills I am completely sure that whatever I try to build right now will disappear in a couple of years and people will forget about me, I cannot even imagine Google being alive in a century, or who knows, maybe when the AI evolves to the point where we will have a walking/talking machine in every house named GoogleBot :D
What a Digital Workplace Is and What It Isn't
smart! thank you
I'm going to assume that you are a billionaire, wise about tax paperwork. Possibly Buffett.
The iPod turns 15 today
you could inform your users that email addresses are case sensitive much like passwords usually are or just normalize the local part along with the host and use that as the primary ID and have less issues in the future

We could normalise, and as far as I'm aware none of the largest e-mail services allow distinctions based on case so most of the time it would be OK. It would still be a security risk, though.

as for verifying the email at registration you could check to see what the remote smtp server responds to when you issue the RCTP command to check if they consider the email valid

You can, but many servers including some of the major services will just return a false positive for any mailbox to prevent that technique being used to collect addresses to spam, and even those that don't may consider such requests when not followed with a real message to be a black mark on the sender.
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> His rule of thumb is "If it isn't a major article there's probably errors"

...and if it is a major article, there are definitely errors, some likely introduced on purpose[1] (since major articles are the juiciest targets)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ravpapa/Tilt
Well, I was responding to your comment about not being able to find a $60 hotel room:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768260

As someone in NYC then, you know that Union City, NJ is very close to Times Square by transit and has low-cost hotel rooms, so I don't understand your complaint. Transit-wise these hotels are much closer to Times Square than many places parts of NYC.

I don't know anyone that wants transients in their buildings and the threat to children, women, and children is a real one. Let people go to Union City, NJ and get their hotel rooms.
Considering scalability from the start does not just mean optimizing for millions of concurrent users, but choosing your software stack or your platform with scalability in mind. I get that it's important to take the next step and that premature optimization can stand in your way but there are easy to use technologies (like NoSQL, caching) und (cloud-) platforms with low overhead that let you scale with your customers and work wether you're big or small. This can be far supirior to fixing throughput and performance iteration to iteration.
Its been talked about for years apparently: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19740004389
Where have I been leaking? Hm. You can probably tell by the WET spots.
Bitcoin:Safello Buys ICBIT and Appoints President of the ReactOS FDN as New CTO
My understanding is that the problem is trying to speed up the charging cycle and the battery not being able to dump the excessive temperature. For normal use I assume the phone is able to cope.
I'm really surprised by the responses here. It makes me wonder if any of the people opposed to this have ever lived in cities with good public transit systems (e.g. London, Tokyo, Hong Kong).
How to use your Smartphone to locate your kids
Technology has made it possible for parents to track the movement of their children. This can prevent the children from getting lost or find them, if they are missing.

Below are some useful features for this purpose:

1. Lassy Project

The goal of Lassy Project, according to www.parents.com, is to minimise the amount of time it takes to send out an alert that your child has gone missing. Unlike the Amber Alert, Lassy Project provides an image of the missing child and a real time map showing the coordinates of the child’s last known location. It works in seconds, not hours, and only alerts relevant people in the immediate area (the app is free on iPhone, iPad, Android).

2. Find my kids – footprints

Using the GPS in real time, this app helps you keep track of and automatically locate where your child goes with his phone. For instance, if he is travelling alone, you can confirm that he has arrived at a specific destination, or if he is meeting up with friends, they can confirm each other’s locations.

Location information is never shared with anyone else beyond those who have permission to see it, and the data is saved for a later review.

Even though the app is free, parents will need a subscription for the tracking feature. Download is free but the service requires a monthly fee on iPhone and iPad.

3. Missing child alerts

Missing child alerts mobile app can be found on Google Play Store. It helps notify and rapidly spread the word through social media when a child goes missing.
Source: http://www.9jatruetalk.com/2016/10/how-to-use-your-smartphone-to-locate.html?m=1
It took the treasury of a cathedral to create that one clock. Silicon foundaries today make 100's of millions of timepieces each year. I like the modern approach.
The poster was arguing against something that was never said, I was clarifying. Despite what anyone may think about whether or not the hotel industry is "powerful", the article was describing the hotel industry.

That doesn't change because someone lands on a specific side of the argument and feels they have to make an argument about whether or not the hotel industry is actually powerful. None of that is required in order to understand what the article was saying. And indeed, it actively takes away from it by doing shit like spawning this particular tangent.
It's a truism in freelancing that lawyers are terrible clients in multiple ways, so it comes as no surprise that the tech industry devoted to their businesses is not filled with the best people and/or solutions for their needs.