skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asking for a quick fix without knowing what the problem is. Lack of motivation is normally a sign of some other problem. If the problem is that you just don't like the work any more, maybe the only fix is not just a new job but a career change. If the problem is the project/manager/team then it might be possible to move to another team in the same company. If the problem is that you haven't taken any significant vacation in 5 years...
OpenSPARC with something like Piton:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3111693/hardware/open-source-...

Also, I keep suggesting appealing to Intel or AMD's "Semi-Custom" business that modifies their processors or I.P. in customized ways. This undoubtedly cost millions of dollars. However, just taking out the ME or other bloat with only custom work being re-integrating proven components should be an easy job for their engineers. It's also way, way cheaper than designing an Intel- or AMD-class, x86 CPU. Maybe no patent suits either.

A company like Amazon or Google could easily pay for this to be done with their servers using enough CPU's to create the necessary volume to bootstrap sales of it. If it gets popular, Intel and AMD will likely release it as a product themselves.
This is actually pretty close to how I envisioned the terminal emulators of the future will be like. Shame it's based on Electron.
European browser-related fines in 10, 9, 8 . . .

We had a saying in Xbox that you didn't get to become a Microsoft VP until you'd cost the company a billion dollars with some boneheaded mistake. (Data: The Xbox 360's lack of a pad for its DVD drive, the Kin phone -- which was actually a $2B mistake). I guess someone wants to be promoted.
Great insights. Given the investment in time and money required to simply get to prototype, how did you develop the conviction to plunge ahead into the business at the outset?
As does the EU.
Hey - I previously worked on a prepaid debit platform that worked slightly farther from the metal here (post-processor).

I'm interested in two pieces of data we couldn't get there, but that I had really high hopes for.

1) Dynamic merchant-type filtering before auth. For example, if tom has spent 50$ on food this month, all merchants that identify as "food" will fail auth on further transaction attempts. I'm not sure if these are still called MCCs outside of the US, or "merchant codes".

2) Level 3/line item receipt data. For example, instead of showing I spent 5.00 at QuikEMart, it shows 2.50 on soda, 2.00 candy bar, 0.50 tax.

Will your platform offer that level of control/visibility?
"Absolute control" would imply I can import javascript modules and interface with blockchains directly, so you're right that it wouldn't be Root's job to utilize the blockchain if I have this ability. There is nothing to indicate this is the case, however.

edit: if it is the case, I would be excited to see some docs
You don't think that history and politics were the purpose for forming Airbus?
> Yes, and Tesla's top models cost what again? What percentage of families starting out with two young kids are able to buy Tesla's top models?

Model 3 (or Chevy Bolt) price sticker is reasonably within the range of currently best-selling sedans (Toyota Camry, Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic). If the electricity costs are $0 (public infrastructure and Tesla supercharger network), the 5-year total cost of ownership figures start adding up in favor of electric vehicles. Another variable is service costs - those oil changes can add up, whereas an electric vehicle can reasonably go without a service center visit for a year or more (Tesla's 12-month service consists of washer fluid top-off, wiper replacement and battery replacement for key fob http://www.teslarati.com/what-goes-into-tesla-model-s-annual... )

So while the initial price sticker might be higher, TCO figures favor electric for most people.
Neat!

When I first learned about bitcoin I spent a fair bit of time navel gazing about how to make something like siacoin. Excellent to see an ostensibly well made implementation.

Any experience actually using it for storage?

Also any other coins actually doing some innovative work?

A friend of mine got excited about Golem, but somehow I don't have a good feeling about that, wish I could easily short it...
Could you specifically address his concerns for those not in-the-know about ML?
I'm not sure I understand the connection? My argument was that War and Peace sounds like an incredibly big thing to load because it took people a long time to read it in high school, but it's actually pretty simple, structure-wise, when compared to a discussion forum.
The numbers in that study make absolutely no sense as anyone who has exercised will tell you.

Bicycling at 12-13mph same level of energy expenditure as push-ups? Nope.

Running at 9 min/mile more exertion than push-ups? Nope.
I figured as such :) looks neat - although I think businesses would benefit more than a normal consumer would by making use of it.
Thank you for your suggestions. I can assure you that we are working very hard to get the key exchange working as soon as possible. The recycling of used keys is no easy process, but I am sure we will get proper results soon.

One more thing: Is it okay for you if we use part of your comment for our early-tester testimonials?
Leibniz didn't say happiest did he? I thought he meant the best of all possible timelines, compromise-wise.
> Can students install anything like Steam on Chromebooks without jailbreaking them?

Turning on "developer mode" isn't exactly jailbreaking, so yes, they have access to the underlying Linux and can even run a Linux desktop environment of their choice on top of ChromeOS. They can't install Steam because that only supports x86 but you can't blame ChromeOS for that.

I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do that with Windows S, so, no, it's not exactly like ChromeOS.

edit: See http://www.dudleymediagroup.com/Detail/id/how-to-game-with-s...
It seems like they're just copying other companies here, Google/MS/FB/Apple/etc.
OpenStack continues to grow
MOC quits tech blogging and is now a novelist
Have you seen the moderators on reddit or stack overflow?
Custom orders. I just had a rubber stamp created from an illustrator file via Etsy.
> I guess I'm just more cycnical (possibly pragmatic) than you, because IMO it is "apples to apples". I believe that the US was captured by corporations long before Trump made it to office, and the only way to sway corporate opinion is to hit them in the wallet.

Corporate power is indeed an issue, but I feel like you are changing the subject here.

> Sadly, as a foreigner, what I purchase is the most effective way to be heard.

I don't think your theory is logically coherent here. If you desire to punish the corporations which you say have captured the U.S., then which candidate was elected President is irrelevant. More than that, although Trump is an entrepreneur and far wealthier than Clinton, he is also far more independent than Clinton, far less in the pocket of the mega corporations. On this concern you should favor Trump over Clinton.

> Besides, how successful is a business that blames potential customers for not buying their products? "We're gonna bomb them until they buy our cars dammit!"

Sorry, I don't understand your point here.

> I also disagree with you about why Trump was elected. I hear this condescension argument all the time but I think it's total BS. I suspect it's more about jobless (white) men and is a much harder (and real) problem to solve than simply being polite.

Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but as a non-foreigner, I think you are completely wrong. In fact, your "jobless (white) men" line is merely repeating the leftist media's racist, sexist propaganda. Note that it is, by definition, racist and sexist. It's inherently condescending, but here you are protesting that condescension had nothing to do with it.

It's disappointing that you seem to be uncritically accepting this belief. It doesn't even cohere with the data: Trump received many votes from non-whites, non-males, and the employed. The votes were split primarily along geographic lines! But don't let that stop you from blaming angry old white men for all the problems in the world. Obviously, if it weren't for them, everything would be great...
I agree completly. Not having a car or space for camping gear is a huge barrier to getting outdoors.

Imagine two groups of people: 1000 suburbanites with SUVs and garages, and 1000 urban apartment dwellers with no car at all.

Which group is going to have more hikers, hunters, campers, fishers, ect?
Yeah definitely. The classifications of transactions is generally poor. Even with Simple, which is very generous in allowing you to (re)assign arbitrary tags on the fly and provide nice data metrics, I'd still like to generate different graphs than they choose to present.

The ability to aggregate the data from all my accounts would be amazing...
> Any semi-decent country

Feel free to replace with "No true Scotsman".
Yes! Microsoft supports RN for Windows and Ubuntu made a Lib too. Apple hasn't spoken up but some fans are working on one...
Yes, many games do use credits. And Stripe/Braintree/Paypal will all let you build games that use credits on their platform.

However, I don't know of any games that allow you to redeem the credits for cash - which would be incredibly useful for incentivizing production of goods in a digital marketplace.
The worst part is that teaching kids about alcohol safely at home, European style, is ILLEGAL in much of the US, meaning that social services might come take your kids if they discover you gave them a glass of wine at Christmas.

I grew up in Europe. I was planning on letting my kid try a small glass of wine with food in their early teens. But doing so in the US, I actually risk jail and loss of parental custody. Let that sink in...

The US has a really unhealthy attitude towards alcohol that results in binge drinking and excess in college, and society here almost prefers it that way which is depressing.

PS - I know many parents ignore these laws, but the point remains, the law makes no exception for parental consent or at home.
This. MADD really is fighting the wrong battle and should be a lobby for real mass transit in most major US cities. The idea that America is "too spread out" is a terrible myth.

Every America city I've lived it use to have amazing tram systems. They're all gone now; killed by the desire of Ford and GM to see us a car future. There is an amazing amount of advertising that trained Americans to love their cars and consider buses as the means of transport for the poor.

More walkable spaces and better community transport; removing the necessity for a car, would greatly reduce the amount of drunk driving more than fines/jail-time/campaigns. It's insane that the US drinking age is still 21 when so many of other countries, from most of Europe to Australia to Canada to Singapore, all have 18 as their drinking age.
What specifically about Detroit makes you not want to live there?

disclaimer: detroit resident
When we ask for you to say "we will never mine and sell your inbox" and you instead say "mining and selling your inbox data isn't our business strategy," I hope you understand why that would make people nervous about using your product.
I just dumped my last Windows pc. All ubuntu. There are finally some good ubuntu laptops. Put your money where your values are.
OK, good to know about D.

As far as zero cost, my understanding is that D is still trying to get rid of GC from the standard library.

And I'm explaining why I think Rust is having a hard time getting adoption. It makes an effort to be compatible with C, but not with C++. But really C++ is its "competitor", not C.

And C++ has the network / lock-in effect I described. All languages have a network effect to some degree (libraries, documentation), but I think the situation with C++ is especially acute.

Also, I would say that safety and zero-cost abstractions are the goal of Rust. Those two goals conflict somewhat -- e.g. in the decision over bounds checking. Although I guess you can say that without bounds checking you have no abstraction; you just have a pile of buggy code at zero cost :)
For the most part, people getting Medicaid under Medicaid expansion don't have any assets to speak of and won't owe the government anything for services they receive under Medicaid (they are the "working poor").

It certainly is the case that the nursing home care paid for by Medicaid is intended to be a last resort, after other resources are exhausted. So of course it examines other resources.
What % cost savings are customers seeing?
Then how will Trump make America Great Again?
> It’s fair to say, however, that back in Harcourt’s day, and for much of human history, punishments skewed harsh—perhaps because it preserves order and promotes cooperation among social species. Hungry macaques, for instance, often attack those that do not alert the group that they’ve found food, likely to teach a lesson about sharing; elephant seal pups caught stealing milk from unrelated females are often bit, and occasionally killed. We’re no different, and it seems humans’ elaborate legal institutions and procedures haven’t significantly altered the psychology we evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago to respond to wrongdoing.

I think that this article spends too little time discussing another aspect: deterrence. Whether or not one thinks that harsh punishments deter criminals, it's certainly true that it has inspired a great deal of legislation all the way back into the era I studied for my PhD (eighteenth century England). Sure, there's the tension between mercy and blame, but deterrence is in there, too. Sometimes clemency isn't granted in a case where otherwise it would clearly be warranted because the perceived need for deterrence is so strong. That's what we're seeing above, when punishments "skewed harsh". Despite the implication (or what I see as the implication) that we've moved beyond the need for harsh punishments to preserve order and promote cooperation, I think that they're still very much in evidence. It can't be ignored here, because it's certainly a part of the rationality of punishing criminals.
Well, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. And Spotify is a bloated monster and a disgrace just because of "only the view".
that's so cool. have they open sourced this yet?
Anything that threatens the SLS is NASA's mortal enemy, even if it offers a far cheaper route to Mars.
I really want to try out OVH but I don't like their requirement that you need to send a copy of your passport. None of the other ones DO, Scaleway, Linode etc. requires this.
> I think the whole "fake news" thingy seems to politicaly motivated.

Sure, branding real news as fake news is politically motivated, whereas labeling what is the clearly the equivalent of the most absurd supermarket tabloids as "fake news" is accurate and appropriate.

It is curious that many people are somehow oblivious to tabloid headlines when they appear on the internet, whereas nearly everyone discards the supermarket checkout stand "The Pope is a space alien!" stories.
Agreed; I actually thought asset forfeiture would be the subject of this article until I read it. Perhaps that's because I know that asset forfeiture is ongoing and never thought something like Colorado's "Exoneration Act" could ever exist.
Your page shows a sample bit of code (the beforeTransaction function) that approves a transaction. Does MasterCard (or whoever) still run their approval magic before that?
The demo video reminded me of WarGames :)

Made a short video using https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term to get an even more 70s/80s feel, but some of the characters don't come out too well...

http://vimeo.com/215864177
Eh you're going to have to do better than a smiley face to support your statement. Taxation's purpose is to pay for the infrastructure in which those who are taxed may thrive. Of course the effectiveness of that arrangement varies from taxation being theft to it being the lifeblood of Utopia.
Hey RickS, they are still called MCCs :) (2) is a bit more tricky to get our hands on, at least in South Africa
Demonetizing the most widely-circulated banknotes and now 'no consent required' by the government to get fingerprints. So much for the world's largest democracy.
I basically use Etsy as a mobile storefront so I can display wares to people via my phone. Sale happens cash-in-hand, check, or credit card (I had to get my own reader since Etsy would never send me my plug-in card reader) then I just remove the listing on Etsy.
The goal of Caspy is to not just allow users to manage their Inboxes from anywhere in their browsers but to also help them build stronger relationships with Email contacts that they actually care about. It does a bunch of things (copy/pasting for the second time :P):
1. Which Emails are important and need a reply.
2. Which sent Emails require follow ups and what is the best time for a follow up.
3. Which contacts are important to you and which ones are drifting away and need to be reconnected with.
Refactoring a Python Codebase Using the Single Responsibility Principle
What do you mean by a pad for the 360's DVD drive?
You can't buy more RAM in most small laptops anyway, and even big ones have limits.
That sounds like a great arrangement, as long as I get to be be patriarch, the boss, or the moderator who has dictatorial authority over who stays and who goes, and what the rules are.

Sound good?
It doesn't take rocket science to realize that the reason our politicians are so unpopular and that faith in our institutions quite low is because the people you refer to have no legitimate representation. Maybe they want hunting and public lands, but one "side" clearly wants guns and hunting to go, while the other "side" clearly wants to sell off public land. The key thing to realize is that "lesser of two evils" really is a choice between evils, and that until people can feel that they have a choice between "the most decent of two goods" things are just going to get more and more wild.
Yeah i recall various ROM patches coming complete with special fonts so they could fit the english text into the boxes etc of the original game ui without having to hack in extra pages of scrolling or similar. Kanji allows for some very info-dense UIs.
> It's clear women on the whole are not drawn to STEM.

It's also clear that girls on the whole are not driven toward STEM by their adult mentors, and outside the bubble are actively discouraged from it.

> It's certainly not primarily socially constructed.

Certain, are you? Based on what?
Websites don't have that blocky '90s shape/look now either. There's an eerie parallel where both the Web and LEGO have moved increasingly from a place of "limited aesthetic suggestions so you can build anything you want" to "it's gonna be much easier for you if you play/watch/live within a walled garden with highly scripted interactions from the entertainment/advertising industry." It's interesting that Minecraft has risen as a reaction to this trend.
Brilliant project. Congratulations.

What is the original source of the Tile Data? I'm totally ignorant on these topics and even after a pretty close look I can't see who provides the actual geographical data. Is this something that can be sourced from OpenStreetMap or something like that?
"They boggle your mind. But they represent the will of the people."

How much can you actually say that. Were there polls done? Was it done by referendum?
The example of your son's school is fine, but imagine that your son lives in another country. Cash has other problems beside being slow. It's insecure - a person could steal your $20 bill from your mailbox or his, or from the Post Office. It's untraceable - if your son's school says "We never got your payment" but your son swears he gave them the cash, you're stuck in a situation where either your son or the school is ripping you off (I'm sure your son would never do that). And last, it takes both time and money to convert cash to another currency. Taking the cash to somewhere where a person can convert it to the preferred currency is bad enough, and then it costs you money on top of it.
Ask HN: Why would seller broker not put their skin in the game?
As soon as I listed my property for sale by owner on zillow, i started getting 100s of calls(10x more than actual buyers) from realtors wanting to be my seller broker. Though i offered to pay 2.5% buyer broker commission most realtors were selling hard to be seller broker instead of taking advantage of the buyer broker commission.

So i offered the following:
"Besides giving me the listing price also give me estimated lowest sell price. And then i asked them to put their skin in the game and lose their commission if the property were to sell below their recommended lowest sell price"

Since nobody accepted, i am curious why would the seller brokes not put their skin in the game?
Can't help but think of Deming's famous advice on how to deal with quality issues: "Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place."

If Mark Zuckerberg and his product teams could travel back in time a decade or so, would they still have built everything the way they did?
From the article, Facebook's rebuttal is: "Any meaningful discrepancy based on the complete data is clearly attributable not to gender but to seniority of the employee."

To play devil's advocate, this result is exactly what you'd expect if in the recent past, it was noticed there was a big shortage of women coming out of university with CompSci degrees, and companies had since been moving to fix that by recruiting junior devs that had since been trained in tech boot camps or other programs (e.g. https://girlswhocode.com/).

To play devil's advocate against my devil's advocate, it's well documented that the wage gap is not primarily caused by women being paid less than men for the same work (the gap is around 4% less for the same job, so this is still a factor), it's by women not being promoted into higher paying jobs. So under that narrative Facebook's rebuttal doesn't address the root cause of the imbalance, and just kicks the can one hop down the causal chain.

As with most news stories on this subject, we really need more data to be able to form an opinion; nobody should be updating their priors based on this article.
What do you mean by their "approval magic"? There are other fraud filters etc built into various places throughout the payments system.
I may have replied to the wrong parent. We are in agreement. :)
Nova App Review
I tried using this in my day to day for a short period of time. If you like GUI and native apps, it's a dream. If you prefer using things like Sublime or Kaleidoscope, over vim or the native difftool, Black Screen is what your workflow has been waiting for. It has native OSX text selection/manipulation, great (if a little wonky) autocomplete, easier directory browsing, the ability able to click to add files to git commits, notifications when long processes finish and several other nice touches.

The typical hacker news user probably isn't going to love this. It's certainly not as performant, and probably a slower workflow if you're someone that prefers to never let your hands leave the keyboard.

That being said, it's definitely not ready for full time. I ended up switching back to terminal for now, but I keep watching this closely.
What's wrong with Razor?
Wells Fargo is introducing an API for small businesses last I heard.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/its-bonkers-that-...
Bikes too. Mountain bikes are currently banned from Federal lands. There's an uphill battle right now to open it, and I fear that e-bikes are going to kill it.
I just don't get how killing another living being can be a sport?
I've always preferred a metallic construction set (meccano clone probably).