skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you so much for taking the time, and writing such a candid reply.

Also:

> Yesterday was a very big news day for us, which resulted in 6 new signups.

Ouch. (otoh, a steady 2% daily growth is nothing to sneeze at - you'll be at 10x in 116 days!)

In all seriousness; best of luck. I think there should still be a bright future for sandstorm - a few more rounds of polish, a bit of luck and pr and sustainable growth should be very much in reach.
JeffBezos: .@nypost, whoever your anonymous sources are on this story http://nypost.com/2017/02/05/inside-amazons-robot-run-superm... – they’ve mixed up their meds!
https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/829054770308485120
A full open version would be a major undertaking.

What I've been thinking about about is step in the datomic direction, built on top of plain old postgres that wouldn't attempt full time travel, but would use the same general schema/model with history. It's seems crazy that in 2017 that we don't have a decent general option for most business apps to store facts that doesn't over-write the past as is done in current sql databases.
they're refocusing what areas to target, so they're laying off + hiring -- some of those people will be asked if they want to move to their new teams else they'll get some severance + job placement help
I generally wouldn't criticize someone's situation, but he decided to make this a political argument.

He bemoans the government deciding that 11 million people not having health insurance was more important than his right to not have a job. You don't have a moral right to work on open source projects all day, people do arguably have a moral right to healthcare. The government did exactly what it was supposed to, move money from people who were existing extravagantly to people who desperately needed it.

All due credit to his wife, but generally if the marginal cost of insurance was what was keeping you employed, how much value were you delivering?
regarding #3, My philosophy with emacs and friends is not to try to learn too much. I have to confess that with paredit, all I know to do is slurp and barf (which sounds funny now that I've written it). I personally find the overhead of learning the jump around commands isn't worth the benefit to me.

I just use the vim aspect of spacemacs for efficient navigation.

Regarding #4, yeah. It is what it is... lein makes it all about twice as slow. 30 seconds sounds pretty crazy, but I don't do a lot with clojurescript. Most of my stuff will startup in about 5 or so seconds with lein, 3 without. even on a wimpy vps.
Paypal tries very hard to encourage customers to pay them for conversion. Clearly an example of hostile UI.

For the longest time it wouldn't save your currency conversion settings.
Oracle is laying off a decent chunk of its hardware teams
>How do you define "as we know them?" It seems to me that you're supposing that there's some "overall message" to Christianity that exists within the modern population of Christians.

No, I just mean "as we know them" as books -- the words in series. Not their interpretations.

The various churches and demoninations, yes, they are about the teachings of Christ as they "know them" (that is, they include their historically developed interpretation on top).
I'm on the NBN now. Configuring OpenWRT had been a pretty steep learning curve but it's worth it in the end.
Once there is more than a single product being produced by an organization, hiring and firing is not generally correlated.
>Currently, up to 40% of all healthcare funding is wasted on operational inefficiencies

Your inefficiencies are someone else's revenue.

Or to say another way:

Healthcare is ~20% of US GDP

Reduce spending by 40% would reduce US GDP by almost 10%. That's a tough sell politically you have to admit.
More like it destroys more white collar jobs & that is scary for economists that actually are part of white collar America.

(technology has been destroying blue collar jobs for a while now)
Certain communities are extremely sensitive to disruption through trolling, especially if the group inherently places high importance on highlighting differences between members and in-groups.

"Modern left" leaning groups are so easy to disrupt and destroy it is child's play. Trolling is an exceptionally powerful weapon if targeted communities have a particular outlook. It has been a full on blitzkrieg the last 12 months and until fundamental issues are addressed by targeted groups, they will be vulnerable.

An interesting area of research would be the relationship between individual trolls, collective trolls and emergent behaviour of these.

edit: A group defined by division, will divide and die.
Well, after all that reading to challenge your views, the original poster came to the conclusion that god is real and Christianity is the religion for them.

I am wondering what the reasoning behind that is.
Any more details from Canonical on this or which part of the team?
Is it impossible to implement restarts (a la CL) in Clojure? They are way better than when the interpreter tells me that my program is dead and here's what happened. It's sad that interactive debugging within the repl is not embraced by everybody.
Well, for one thing, the Lords as presently constituted being instrumental in something that is later see as important to the nation but on which the Commons alone would have failed is fuel for the argument against abolishing the Lords, further eroding their role, or replacing them with an elected body, which seems to get proposed every few years.
We didn't go with TypeScript because we were burnt by CoffeeScript before. People don't know TypeScript or CoffeeScript nearly as much as they know vanilla/ES6 JavaScript. It's easier to hire for and easier to get contributors for.
Can you explain why you think it's NIH? As someone who's written a lot of code to parse lsb_release (including an installer script that starts with "apt-get install lsb-release", because you can't even depend on lsb-release being installed on Debian/Ubuntu), I certainly agree with just about all of the FAQ in substance, if not in tone.
Learned in another area of this post that yes, they are soldered on, but that's Intel's choice. They only offer the CPU in a BGA (ball grid array) form factor. There's no such thing as a BGA socket, other than some specialty test unit things that aren't suitable for real world use.
Federal Agency That Ensures Voting Machines Aren’t Hacked to Be Eliminated
It's a Bonfire of the Vanities reference which was a He-man reference for sure. It's tongue in cheek.
I worked for FedEx Ground HQ and that is basically how it works. Often UPS and FedEx trade high volume customers back and forth because they basically make no profit on them but it keeps the network full of packages. I think UPS, FedEx, and USPS handle my Amazon deliveries.

In my opinion it would be more likely for amazon to follow the SmartPost business, if they don't already do this. They would move packages between their hubs and rely on a 3rd party to do the delivery to the house. In the Smartpost network, FedEx would move the package to the closest hub and then hand it off to the USPS for home delivery.

Also, FedEx is tiny compared to UPS. I'd guess about 1/3 the size.
>> Add to it an insane 4 years in college + 4 years med school curriculum that does not incentivize more people to even attempt getting into med school.

While I agree with your points in general, this point is wrong. There are far more applicants for medical school (both MD and DO programs) than there are slots. I've been told this was done by the AMA to keep the supply of physicians in the US low to maintain high wages (and arguably high quality).

I do think we could allow students to go to medical school directly after high school, which is what some nations do.
I've seen some people with CS degrees (both recent and >10 years ago) go through a bootcamp and become incredible candidates.
DF's gameplay is more complex, but the interface is (or easily could be) functionally identical to Crawl's. Status area that shows the currently selected thing, menu with commands and submenus, viewport with layered graphical tiles, overlay dialogs for large menus.
With a GTR power plant. A pretty awesome sleeper if it weren't for the 24inch Mickey ts sticking out of it.
Monitoring and Tuning the Linux Networking Stack: Sending Data
I think that out of all the bad things about Haskell that may or may not be reflected in Rust, this is one that annoys me the most: a lot of libraries have very strange interfaces that they do a poor job of explaining, often seemingly enabled by fancy uses of the type system. A recent example I ran into is formatted reading/writing of date/time objects in the `chrono` crate, which seems to be the blessed option for all I can find on Google. Anyway, just getting the bare minimum functionality that I could use in other languages by calling e.g. `strftime("%Y-%m-%d")` required researching a bunch of interlocking types and traits scattered across the crate, documentation nearly or entirely absent, and resulted in some pretty ugly code to boot.

I expect that the interface works this way in an attempt to avoid parsing format strings at run time ("zero cost abstractions" and all that), and that's great, but the lack of documentation made it pretty miserable to use, and I would classify my Rust skills as "intermediate". I expect a beginner would have just given up (and taken to HN to complain about the learning curve).
I think the UI is the least of the game's problems. It seems like each release Toady introduces more bugs and game design problems than solutions.

It is still worth playing for the weird level of detail and depth but I have a hard time having as much fun as I once had.

I recommend rimworld if you just want to have fun, though it doesn't quite have the level of emergent shenanigans happening in it yet.
Yep. A new store type will enable them to achieve "profit margins of between 22 percent to 40 percent ", when the gross margins of Walmart are ~24%.
Klei is one of my favourite studios. They are behind or have been involved in tons of great stuff. Mark of the Ninja, Don't Starve, great stuff indeed.
Don't use your work computer for things you don't want your work to be able to detect, intercept & modify.

with that logic, don't get mail sent to the office because your employer has every right to open and reseal the envelope.

You know who also has that right? Prisons.
Once Rails 5.1 comes out and we upgrade to it we'll probably switch to Webpacker. It was an awesome development in the Rails ecosystem and really verified our investment into Webpack.
To say emacs is not complex is absurd. Still my favorite editor though.
100% in agreement. Red flags, run.
Ask HN: Is it possible to get a Merchant Acc. in US for overseas Corp?
The question is not only for bank's Merchant Acc. but for as well for payment processors or getaways.

We are incorporated in Uruguay and we have 0% taxes here. We want to have a 2.9% + .03$ fee like US processors offer or less (we are processing 1M+ annually)

My question are:
1) Is a US Acquirer bank legally allowed to process payments for a Non-US company? If no why, which law? If yes, why is it so difficult to know which one?
2) Same 1) for payment processors.
3) Do you know any of them and/or whom to contact?

Contact me privately if you are acquirer or processor who can help us g [at] black.uy
Thank you
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Additional data intake would greatly increase costs as well. I guess I'm not fully understanding, is the implication that getting more data would lead to more useful information?

From reading the source documentation itself (not editorialized coverage), it seems they are already swimming in almost too much data. Their focus is much more likely to be aimed at data refinement at this point, as adding even more data would make it far more difficult for analysts to do their job.
I think it's really cool that you are pushing on this.

I'll probably pursue the jvm for a little while longer but I can see the attraction to clojurescript for this and will check in down the road.
JavaScript: An Honest Preview
Also lives where the majority of us are obligated to be
stationless indoors in front of screens 9 hours per day.

There's an unequivocal improvement in certain metrics. It doesn't mean there aren't other serious issues often proprietary to the time we live.

I'd also argue that those metrics don't always correlate with happiness beyond a certain level.
Some interesting points here:

> Though political issues in the US may appear polarizing, the politics section has one of the lowest rates of post flagging, similar to tech.

That's baffling. Though if I had to give a possible explanatation, maybe it's because people expect worse in a political debate? Maybe being a troll has become normalised in political discussions?

Hence less people would flag comments considered trolling elsewhere?

Honestly, I don't know.

> paired t-test reveals a small, but significant increase
in negative behavior between 11 pm and 5 am

Presumably, people are more likely to act grouchy when tired. Might also be because of time zones though. I mean, maybe trolls like staying up to late to argue with people on the other side of the world?

For example, a European troll might like to stay up late to get into fights with American users. Or vice versa.

> Figures suggest that negative behavior can persist in and
permeate a community when left unchecked

This is a fairly well known point as far as community management goes, but yeah. The more a site allows trolling (or flame wars, or spammy content, or anything else), the more it spreads on the site. This is also why webmaster forums crash and burn so quickly on a quality level. Because once one user gets away with posting meaningless fluff, you suddenly start to see more and more spammers and one line posters appearing.

Just some thoughts here.
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I think this has historically been the main reason. The computers where introduces to reduce the operational costs, and that mentality has stuck.

But I think most banks have realized that they need to do something, lest they will end up the non-significant bill for the infrastructure but a dwindling list of services that they can make money on.

Regarding third party screen-scrapers, from what I can see there are challenges both in the legal framework and technical issues like security and performance.
It's worth adding that they successfully had a multiplayer session... with 400 concurrent users that was actually playable. There's not many games that can run 400-player sessions on a desktop computer (albeit a powerful gaming desktop).
Not really. The world is data. Anything you need to know about the world is in a table somewhere, and the web has done a great job of making the planets data accessible to machines.

Other areas may be more complex, but complexity isn't as big a barrier as it may seem.

Also, those areas are probably not as complex as people think they are. I'm reminded of the AI that started making breakthroughs in oncology by looking at the cells around a tumour, despite the scientific consensus that there was nothing to be learned from the cells around a tumor.
JRuby isn't an option for us because we use too many gems, many of which have compatibility issues with JRuby's implementation of Ruby. This is especially a problem for gems with C extensions.

I think Truffle is the most interesting new development in this realm, if it gets support for C extensions as they plan for it to, it may eventually be reasonable to run GitLab on it. That wouldn't be for a few more years though.
There are some libraries for this. A great overview of the problem and some of the libs is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp0OEDcAro0 and a good set of corresponding notes at https://gist.github.com/msgodf/6f4e43c112b8e89eee3d
> he stated his belief that it is multiple times (100 times?) more efficient to help refugees from the Middle East and Africa in their home countries or local region rather than he to help them in Sweden.

Does anyone have a citation for this, I'm not able to find anything on google.
Organizations must understand, use, and control the stories that define them
I agree wholeheartedly. He made this "mistake" of stating correct facts in a broken debate that is emotional. And like clockwork the Swedish "establishment" shut him out of the spotlight.

... and yet here we have the main political editor of the largest Swedish tabloid (aka main representative of the people who feel rather than think):

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8dn4A/lamnar-oss-nar-vi-...

wherein she basically reclaims his legacy for her own use. This is.. rich.
Perhaps I hoped someone would say something about it that I have missed. So I can keep reading that authors books and blogs without just seeing "indentation errors".

It will (most likely?) be the style used in the upcoming Learning Perl 6 book.

That book will probably be the most read book by newcomers so it might set a precedence for P6 style in the wild.
I don't think you can fault the ACLU? In my experience: I donated a few times in the past and now I am a guardian of liberty (monthly donation) and I've never gotten any solicitations from any other charity/organization. However in college I never donated to any charity (wasn't stingy, just prioritizing being able to eat and pay rent at that time...) And I got piles and piles and piles of solicitations for those organizations you've mentioned. I don't know where the "leak" came from.
> and Cathy – who grew up poor and thus finds a state of no income viscerally terrifying in a way I do not

I had to laugh - somewhat grimly - at that. My wife is the same. She came from an unusually tough background and it has a profound impact on the way she feels about being short of cash. I'd say Mr Raymond's going to find himself in a job whether he likes it or not - unless he really pulls off a coup.
Nethack's menus and extended commands are much better thought-out and consistent than DF's equivalents.
I wonder if there could ever be another Dwarf fortress?

Nethack would like to have a word with you...
I think tech happens to avoid trolls because trolling tech really only happens when someone who's a little clueless asks a dumb question. How many "How do I do (x)?" questions get a "rm -rf /" as the response?

Politics is probably because people take serious positions that may as well be trolling.
I found the end funny:
While today the Mac’s app ecosystem is somewhat stagnant compared to that of iOS, it is still rich and broad. While there will always be Windows-only enterprise tools, almost everyone else can get by with a Mac and a modern web browser.

The same is true for a Windows PC at 3/4's the cost.
what about excess drinking?
Thanks for luminus btw.

I only use the repl for exploratory-figure-this-out type work. Once I have it figured out, I rewrite the function and reload the environment.

I find it is too easy to have a messed up environment (state) when tooling around with the repl.
It should be noted that Gogs was recently forked to Gitea due to disagreements about the management style of Gogs as an open source project.

See https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/
Ask HN: Ideas on tracking time spent watching cable TV?
I am trying to be more cognizant of where my time goes, and as a side project I wanted to build software that automatically tracks where my time goes. I can't, however, figure out how to automatically track the time I spent watching cable TV with software only. Do you have ideas?
Medicare Part D plans are run by private insurers and
they certainly do negotiate on price.

Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they're smaller, and have less leverage.

physician administered drugs are paid for at a rate
that is the average of what private payers pay.

Why is a third party negotiating for Medicare, rather than Medicare negotiating directly? Because they're smaller, and have less leverage.

From http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/health/us-pays-more-for-drugs/

-- Gleevec (a cancer treatment): $6,214 (per month/per customer) in the United States, compared to $1,141 in Canada and $2,697 in England.

-- Humira (for rheumatoid arthritis): $2,246 in the United States, compared to $881 in Switzerland and $1,102 in England.

-- Cymbalta (for depression): $194 in the United States, compared to $46 in England and $52 in the Netherlands. In fact, there is also a generic version of Cymbalta so these prices reflect having a cheaper alternative.

Some molecule. Different price.
The fact that they are syntactically formatted as comments is irrelevant. There is a spec, and that spec is respected by many tools besides systemd, including insserv (which was used for parallel boot on Debian for quite a while before systemd became default).

Because shell scripts are such a terrible format for init scripts, they were standardized as comments to the shell. But they are not comments simply for human use.

An analogy is the type-checking syntax in Python 2, which couldn't pick up a syntax change like Python 3 does. They're formatted like comments. They're not arbitrary strings for amusement, and a type checker is entirely right to complain if the appropriately-formatted comments are invalid. If you want to express things for humans, you're welcome to use normal unstructured comments.
WWII Propaganda Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark
Maybe he's a GNU zealot, they exist. The type to refer to Linux as GNU/Linux. ;-)
Articles like these really ignore the true problem with jobs and technical fields. Most individuals who have to have factory worker jobs are not the same individuals who can spend years learning a highly technical and competative proffession. Programming is not something you just 'go to school' for, and even if it was, college is very difficult by itself for many, especially if you have kids. The mindset you have to have to partake in something like engineering, in any form, is years upon years of effort. For younger individuals, this can still be possible, but our education system is far too broken for that to work out for the individuals it should.

I don't think "everybody should program" is a realistic goal. Companies are not willing to invest in individuals to 'learn', because they don't have to. There's so many already that they can pick and choose individuals who already know how to solve the problem they have, even if sometimes that person lies and then somehow turns out a decent output. The time when places like Google or Microsoft hire people to 'figure out' how to do something is when they require extremely advanced skills, skills that by their nature maybe only a few hundred, or dozen, in the world have.
This project might be of interest actually https://github.com/datacrypt-project/hitchhiker-tree
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Have you played modded Minecraft? The automation systems there are extremely elaborate, leaving redstone in the dust, and it's been like that for a very long time now.

We've got lua-scriptable actors, we've got elaborate Redstone circuitry, we're got about six different item transit systems, and several power systems to choose from (I believe RF is the most common one now). We've got machines for automating just about everything, and IIRC, we can finally build moving structures again.

We've got at least two magic systems, if not more, endgames of your choice, and many dimensions to pick from.

And all of it plugs together, and you can pick and choose exactly what you want and customize it to your specification.