skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with someone who had something similar to the author. I worked with an Iranian developer at one of my first gigs. He said his family fled Iran after the fall of the Shah because his family had been marked for death since his father was a successful businessman and owned a growing telecommunications company.

When his family got here, he was just happy to be alive. His father used his technical knowledge to land a job at a computer company. He was told the same thing by his father. Work to provide for your family, then create your opportunities to do what you love. His father told him it was more important to be employed doing something, then sitting around chasing your dreams not doing anything.

He said it was because he had to work menial jobs, it allowed him to go to school, get a degree, and move up in the world.
> by letting companies dodge other companies taxes

I think you mean "by letting companies dodge other country's taxes"!

Not many people here seem to appreciate that that's what Apple is doing. It's basically a scam.

(1) Avoid paying taxes in the UK, Germany, France etc by claiming you're taxed in Ireland.

(2) Once in Ireland, channel the money into a fake company (0 staff, 0 offices) that is stateless and isn't taxed anywhere.

> This presents zero problems for Ireland and pisses off other countries.

Exactly. It's a fraud on EU taxpayers outside Ireland. Apple gets all the benefits of state spending in EU countries -- education, health, police, roads etc -- and avoids paying its fair share of the costs.
Used both, I consider Hg a little kids Git.. which is fine for many workflows - but I do prefer Git.
I might not have been clear in my original response. I wasn't referring to VAT with regard to double taxation but on paying corp taxes in an EU country and then again when the funds are transferred back to the US.

Even though US does provide some tax credits to companies that pay corp tax in EU, the amount is based on individual agreements between the two countries.
After reading the article, I think I still don't understand what a false growth mindset is. Could someone explain?
Yes, betting a million dollars to win $1 is what most people would call "a downside."
> and, yes, you can have a reaction towards an energetically higher state.

Where does that extra chemical energy come from? Other degrees of freedom of a molecule?

In general, I'd expect the reaction H2 -> 2H+ + 2e- not to be anything like dominant. It's the separation of charges which is the source of energy of the cell, and the energy is released along the path of those charges recombining. Or am I missing something here?

> there are many abstraction layers to get through if you want to have an explanation that would satisfy a physicists.

Yes, I'm interested in the actual physics of the process, not in the net chemical result...
I am the CEO of SwiftGift, and I can tell you that the data backs your hypothesis about asymmetric relationships - it's true that many gifts are sent as professional gifts or thank you gifts.

However the friends angle is also very powerful. Most of our sales are to friends or indeed couples sending playful gifts to one another. Also to family members living far away.

We have discovered that in today's world people actually know very few addresses of their friends - so a tool that lets them "text" a physical gift as effortlessly as sending an emoji is actually very well received :)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110082
Oh god, haha! Someone picked up my original post about it on reddit and wrote an article including my original drawing.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/22/security-hole-skype-...

Ed: Oh my word, hundreds of phone, tech and malware blogs picked up on it all over the world. I didn't have a clue.
Mars has an iron core; it's just not molten which prevents it from being ferromagnetic.

I have three questions:

1. Is it merely a question of mass? That is, if Mars were larger would the increased gravity increase pressure at the core and keep it molten?

2. If it IS merely a question of mass, is there any way to add mass to Mars which doesn't disturb its orbit? Because if you could, then you simultaneously solve both the problem of low gravity AND lack of magnetosphere, which together solve the problem of maintaining atmosphere. Basically the whole planet becomes extremely Earth-like

3. If increased mass wouldn't necessarily wreck its orbit, could something be done to "steer" asteroids from the Main Belt into collision courses with Mars?

I really don't know anything about orbital mechanics so maybe there's an obvious flaw in this (aside from the energy required to reroute that many asteroids).
I like the idea! But is there a reason why it's only available in app form? I was going to try it and see what gifts were available/how much they cost, but I can't do that from the website. I'm not going to install an app on my phone just to see whether it's affordable (and so I'm unlikely to try it at all).

I don't see why this couldn't be done in a Desktop browser (just enter a phone number/email address instead of selecting a contact).
If it's that easy then you should be able to make quite a bit of money in that industry.
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Yea, forgive me if I don't shed a tear for a $20B revenue company's "tiny" margins. Revenue, I may add, accrued by underhanded and illegal means. It broke the rules we depend on for society to work, and it got away with that. Leaving its "partners" with no viable options.
Really? I would think that most people would love working for Apple...
I wrote a skill for this that has a ton of features: https://github.com/m0ngr31/kodi-alexa
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I think you're misunderstanding. If being able to support means stocking shelves or being the assistant janitor, then do that, and screw passionate. You have a responsibility. That comes before passion.
As I've said in another comment, what Apple is doing is basically a scam.

(1) Avoid paying taxes in the UK, Germany, France etc by claiming you're taxed in Ireland.

(2) Once in Ireland, channel the money into a fake company (0 staff, 0 offices) that is stateless and isn't taxed anywhere.

This is "creative accounting" at its finest.....
As a Firefox user since v1 on Linux I have witnessed how slow some parts of the browser has become. For instance, textarea text typing can be so painfully slow with a visible lag between keystrokes.. that's not just on a certain websites and with spell-checking enabled, but with all options off on a blank page with single textarea element.. I guess there is no way to get rid of all the bloat of the ages..
I soooo wish there was a way to define non-Amazon defaults for a lot of things, but I get why they'd want to lock it down. I don't suppose there's an open-source alternative to hack on?

"play some Christmas music" doesn't work so well if you want to use Spotify -- it has to become "play some Christmas music from Spotify", which feels awkward.

"order X" defaults to Amazon, where I might want to voice-order groceries using Instacart or order a pizza using GrubHub/Uber Eats/whatever.
Yup in ~2 years of EV ownership only time I've every wanted faster charging at home(~15kW) was once after ~7 hours of driving with 5% left when I finally got home.

Just ended up taking the other car we had, if I needed to I could have just hung out at the supercharger for another 15 minutes.
If you're finding something in your work to be passionate about, are you "following your passion"? I always read that expression to be about changing your life, not adjusting your passions to fit it.
As a kid in the 80's I always knew he was special. I loved the hits I'd hear, and his appearance on the Cosby show was one of my favorites memories. But I haven't heard much of his music honestly, I really should give it a chance.
> Unless of course you use Chrome,

... then you could try Vivaldi, which has nice features when it comes to tabs (stacking, tiling, vertical tab list). No tree-style, though.
> I think you mean "by letting companies dodge other country's taxes"!

No, I was thinking companies dodge the taxes other companies pay. Saying they dodge other countries taxes is not really correct as these companies are following the other countries tax laws. France etc. could have different laws which prevented companies from benefiting from Ireland's tax laws.

Basically, "by claiming you're taxed in Ireland" only works because France, and Germany etc have laws saying it works.
This is not about Irish law, but EU law. Ireland has to follow EU laws because the EU says so, not Irish laws.
Methane still forces you to run on the Otto cycle or a variant thereof, not the more efficient Diesel cycle, so unless engine makers get HCCI right, renewables-to-diesel would still be a better choice.
How are "serializable" transactions in PostgreSQL different from optimistic concurrency control? The docs say:

> In fact, this isolation level works exactly the same as Repeatable Read except that it monitors for conditions which could make execution of a concurrent set of serializable transactions behave in a manner inconsistent with all possible serial (one at a time) executions of those transactions. This monitoring does not introduce any blocking beyond that present in repeatable read, but there is some overhead to the monitoring, and detection of the conditions which could cause a serialization anomaly will trigger a serialization failure.

As far as I can tell, this doesn't make transactions any more serializable; it just fails them if they wouldn't have been serializable anyway. And then clients typically retry. That sounds just like OCC. Like OCC, I'd expect that under any kind of contention, this could lead to very large numbers of failures and retries. It's not quite livelock, since at least one client will always make forward progress, but close to it.
Not for the larger cycle IMO. Last forty years almost perfectly covers the working (productive and consumptive) lives of the baby boomers and all that went with that. It also is the first and only 40 year period after Bretton Woods, so we can't conclude much about how gold will behave in the next forty year period. And then there's the very unique 8 years and counting of ZIRP and QE which affects Treasuries. Not just ZIRP but rates generally have declined immensely since the 70s, 80s and 90s overall which favors Treasures as well as the rest of the portfolio. I'm not sure US small caps will be as competitive going forward either -- are we getting the high growth companies on the stock exchange as small caps anymore? Maybe they're all being bought by large caps, staying private until they're large caps themselves, or just not competitive in a US economy that seems to be dominated by large multinationals with all sorts of advantages. There was also a tremendous amount of deficit spending throughout this period which has contributed much of the growth and it's arguable whether that can continue in kind.

Also, maybe I missed this but I didn't see any mention of dividends in that post. Is the 11% CAGR including dividends paid out and reinvested?

Unfortunately due to the lack of floating gold price before this 40-year period (conveniently) we can't compare to the prior forty years before that.

I don't want to be too critical; it's interesting. I do believe small caps are better for a young person to invest in as they have higher risk tolerance, but I'm concerned about the quality of small caps we're seeing on US public markets these days.
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Code is Data
But what if you don't want to buy it as a present? Or know someone with a birthday in January?
AWS Lambda - Python OpenCV Module
There's an API right now. Github webhooks are coming, as is git push support. They were sidelined to facilitate the infrastructure upgrades so we could provide more bandwidth and storage. We'll get back to them.
From thew point of view of a capacity planner and performance engineer, one goes for low latency first, because for many algorythms, the best throughput is seen when latency is lowest. Some cases will be different, but starting with removing time wasted sitting in a queue is A Universal Good (;-))
The UI story of Hg is much better than Git's. The conceptual model of Git looks superior, though: it's more general and more orthogonal.

I wish some well thought-out front-end to Git became hugely popular and eventually standard. I mean, including the CLI. Git even has a "plumbing mode" to interact with other programs more easily.

But doing that is hard work.
I wouldn't want to label any generation's members in a blanket judgement (I prefer to have faith in everyone to keep the world turning). Including the "hippies" -- many of them knew what went wrong perfectly well and knew it wasn't coming back. Take Hunter S. Thompson for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az36k4-Hc94
Have had an echo since launch and the Google Home for a month. The Echo basically uses commands. There is some flexibility but not inference like the Google Home.

So with the echo you sometimes have to do a quick Google search to get the name of the song so you can tell the Echo.

The Google Home does not require the extra step. With the Google Home I am starting to use a condensed English. So I will say "play sting Gwen bottle"

The Google home will launch Sting and Gwen Stefani playing message in the bottle. But the Google Home will also turn on the TV, set the correct input and then start playing.

The Echo is older but for my family use cases the Google Home is far more useful.

This was before the new capibilities just added to the Google Home
I think he overestimates the whale size.

If indeed a whale was betting 100 million on black or red at roulette, and the total bankroll of the casino was 500 million.. it would be very easy for the casino to go under.

But if the max bet on a spin of roulette is 1 million dollars, and the casino has 1 billion dollar bankroll.. you can do the math of the odds of a whale busting the casino. Hint: It does not look good
My amateur psychologist take is that start up 'nerds' like the alcohol heavy culture because they were probably excluded from drinking with popular peers at school, and this is their chance to show they really are 'cool'.
Pay off my house, and put the remaining ~200K into buying a rental
No, because 100% of your medical expenses surely don't go to payroll for doctors' salaries.
What is the difference between serving tarballs from ftp.gnu.org vs. savannah.gnu.org?
"We do damage to nature...and we do less damage to nature when we occupy less of it." Edward Glaeser is the man.
My wireless issues directly correlate to my power bill here in Florida. The more the AC runs, the more it overheats and fails me. It's smooth sailing once the temperature drops, though.
Your counter example is a fictiona character? Or is this one of those joke things I keep hearing about?
This is the best resource I've found so far:
http://survivejs.com/webpack/introduction/
I know I will get down-voted for this, but I just never really got the Prince vibe. I can appreciate his work, and the love a lot of people have for him. But I can't name one song that struck a chord with me. Sorry
Hey! CEO of SwiftGift here.

Actually our acceptance rate numbers are well over 85%!

Reasons for such high success:
1. Sender can customise the notification message to their Recipient (calling them by a pet name or naming their anniversary etc).
2. Notification arrives directly from the Sender. Not from centralised number. Even if the Recipient does fear a phishing scheme (indeed this does happen) they will typically ask the sender what's up with their phone sending random messages. At this point the Sender explains... :)

The reputation is basically crowdsourced - the Sender explains everything to their Recipient :)
Used Tinder, Happn, Bumble and Dine for 2 Weeks. The Results Were Surprising
I'm currently taking the Udacity Self-Programming Car Engineer nanodegree; I'm currently working on the lab right before the 2nd project lesson (I'm in the November cohort). That lab is to re-create the LeNET 5 CNN in TensorFlow (we have to re-create the layers of the convnet).

Last night I spent an hour or so getting my system (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) set up to use CUDA and cudnn with Python 3; setting up the drivers and everything for TensorFlow under Anaconda - for my GTX-750ti.

That wasn't really straightforward, but I ultimately got it working. It probably isn't needed for the course, but it was fun to learn how to do it.

I would like to take this fast.ai course as well, but so far the Udacity one is eating all of my (free) time. Maybe I can give it a shot in the future.
I see a lot of criticism about tmux and other non-core items being included in the overall curriculum. I think the author is trying to portray the workflow he is currently on and exposing the full tool kit he uses.
I don't think he is saying - this is "THE" approach one has to follow. I for one think that this is a perfectly legitimate way of teaching. People can leave out pieces which do not interest them or substitute them with other tool sets if they chose to.

For me the key take away here is that - some one who has been a consistent beater in the Kaggle competition for two years and the founder of a ML company is teaching a "hands-on" course which fills a gap (from tech talk to step-by-step hands on) and I think I can live with this method of teaching.
I couldn't agree more. Those albums are some of my favourites.
> It's beyond belief that people spend money to gamble at casinos.

You're looking at it wrong then.
1) Going to the casino isn't looked at as a profitable job, it's entertainment. You can pay to see a concert, go to a bar, or in this case (maybe) pay to have some excitement
2) Free rooms are very common
3) Free drinks are standard

Instead of going to a bar and paying $8/drink, the drinks are free while you are gambling. That alone makes it "beyond belief" that anyone would go to a bar no?
React Native vs. Ionic: A Side-By-Side Comparison
I'd start with a base image of an enterprise Linux on certified configurations of hardware. This could be a VM, CD they'd burn, or Live USB. Specialize it to some more for specific roles. Semi-automate that part esp for creation, testing (esp updates), and distribution. Host it on those cheap, storage sites with verification & other tools pre-installed on their desktops by local admins.

One UNIX admin at each remote site with standardized tools for the various functions like DNS, email, etc. A centralized solution for communications, workflow, secure sharing, and so on. They just access it over the internet with replication to a few sites (or even all filtered by whose present there) to get availability or extra performance.

I'm not seeing this cost $1 billion even if I did it with VMS clusters. Even that overpriced system that ran whole enterprises was under $100,000/yr licensing per branch with mega-fee for main offices. I can't guess how much support would take but imagine local admins handling a portion of it. If it's just Linux desktops, extra load might be offloaded to vetted consultants or companies that do it on the cheap with anything they do logged. Admins or local developers come up with design improvements or tools for recurring problems.
It's not just the $20B revenue companies that provide support and services to the government. The big companies make the headlines with their billion dollar contracts, but the bulk of the support, services, and infrastructure is provided by Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses, 8(a)s, and a bunch of other tiny business acronyms. We're all trying to kick ass (because we love the country) for pennies on the dollar.
It would negate winnings from games using those specific cards where some of the cards were specifically rotated.
On that last point, you give the semantics of defmacro as defining "a function that receives an s-expression, manually deconstructs and transforms the s-expression".

You then exemplify that with (defmacro hypotenuse (x y) ...) which features automatic destructuring that pulls out x and y. The macro needs to do no further manual destructuring on these arguments.
India predicts it will exceed Paris renewable energy target by half
Google has been moving quite a bit in the direction of fewer and fewer options. I may like it the way things are, but I do agree it should be an option.
Although this week I learned that github won because some VC had just too much money to throw around :)

Jokes aside, github won because - unlike sourceforge and gitorious - their web interface did not suck.
So essentially one of them cracked and admitted it? Or they bragged to someone? I can't understand how they would have otherwise found out about the scheme. It seems as if they just kept tight lipped about it, stuck to their requests being a superstition, they would be fine.
I remember "discovering" a second hand copy of Innervisions whilst at university in the early 90s.

Up to that point I knew Stevie Wonder as the guy who recorded "I Just Called to Say I Love You", a song I hated as a kid. Well that opinion changed pretty sharpish I can tell you.

I've bought so many albums and singles since that I really, really like but I don't think Innervisions has ever been bettered. Just my humble opinion of course.
I think the best way play $1 if you win play $1 if louse play $1 and enjoy the free drinks and conversation with your buddies.
No one mentioned TV. I went from watching terrestrial channels to streaming because I was bored by the TV ads but it did not reduce the hours I spend watching TV. Being between 2 jobs I had 5 weeks ofs so I bought an indoor cycle and putted it in front of the TV. Since than I only watch TV either during cycling or during relaxing after cycling. If I would like to watch TV but I do not want to cycle I pick my jacket and go for a long walk. Since then I feel more fit, sleep better and started doing other sports (climbing) what would not be possible being overweight.
>Those were shocking events. Scientific polls, liquid prediction markets and experts, all predicted different outcomes. It would have been irresponsible to take different positions.

Those were not shocking events. People wanted a prediction with more confidence than those sources of prediction were able to provide. Faced with the hard limitations of existing predictive tools, people that should damn well know better started listening when they found someone to tell them "Nate Silver has Trump at 25%" really meant "Hillary will win."

It would not have been irresponsible to account for the possibility of the less likely but still possible outcome. In fact it would be irresponsible to NOT be prepared for it.

>Either the tools we have to measure these things are inadequate, and must be improved.

We're never going to be able to predict the future with total accuracy. The question is how we want to face them limitations of that accuracy. People who don't take "no" for an answer will read too much into unreliable predictions and attempt to rebuild systems for more predictable results regardless of externalities. The question should be how we adapt to that reality.
I know exactly how you feel.

We used to use my Xbox One to watch DVDs and such. Oh, but since I don't play it that often when we settle down to watch the movie: 30 minute download and update. Movie night ruined.

I finally bought an old, dumb DVD player that first came out in 2005. We're much happier with that.