skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say I was initially excited about Startup School but that wore off pretty quickly. This "school" amounts to a bunch of interviews with a bunch of company founders. That's fine, but these are not much more than the history of these folks and their business yet, in my opinion, don't deliver much in the way of actionable value. And, as an aside, if I have to sit through five more minutes of up-talk I'll have to slice my veins (say that in up-talk).

I am not saying this to be mean. I just don't think this effort has delivered actionable value. Years ago I subscribed to Mixergy. The site is about interviewing successful entrepreneurs and delivering usable wisdom in the process. I have to say the difference could not be greater. Mixergy interviews are genuinely useful, something I cannot say about Startup School. Beyond that, the site has hundreds of interviews across every imaginable topic. I have no relation whatsoever to Mixergy other than having been a subscriber for a couple of years and thinking of going back.
I know where I'm moving
The Unix (Linux and Mac inherit this) idea of a leading dot = hidden is almost certainly from the days before file attributes were even invented (err available on Unix). Don't quote me on that and I can't be arsed to do the research but it certainly sounds possible!

In Linux it is a bit of an arse. My home directory looks absolutely rubbish when I view it on a Windows box, which I do with monotonous regularity when fixing the bloody things (Windows boxes that is.)
Sometimes, too, corporate travel fun mandates the lowest fare. So even if i would pay $25 for some extra legroom, I cannot!
Is the horrible usability of Chinese bank websites due to the awful security situation on desktop Windows, or it's it for some other reason?
Accurate description of the book. Prior to reading the book I was superficially aware that he had struggled in various ways to get where he is, and finally reading the details was fascinating.

Thanks for the audiobook recommendation – that he narrated it sounds great.
Excellent comment, I couldn't agree more! Just two things to add:

For general language skills, find authors who have good style and read as much of their work as you can. They might be well-known book authors (I personally enjoy CS Lewis and EO Wilson, amongst others) or a newspaper with a high standard of penmanship (to German readers I recommend Die Zeit, I'm not sure what an English equivalent would be).

You should read a bit of everything, but emphasize the type of writing that you are going to be doing yourself. For example, scientific papers require a very different style of writing to, say, newspaper essays. You need to be thoroughly acquainted with the type that is relevant to you. (Finding your voice comes later, first you need to master the basics.)
Oh, it's gonna happen. The technology is not quite there yet, but it's advancing rapidly. What do you think, if you can prove you have a decent shot to do it, will YCombinator support you?
A proposed proof of a famous unsolved maths problem – so why haven’t I read it?
Another terminal editor that's similar: https://github.com/rgburke/wed
Depends on the expected magnitude of the effect. If small enough, you're still good. There are also ways to mitigate those effects, such as lurking only, never tag anything, use the "like" wisely…

It's not just about shadow accounts, by the way. There are more direct effects. For instance I was once forced to set up an account for logistic reasons (they used Facebook extensively, if not exclusively). Worse, when I tell them I didn't got some news (because I didn't check that account very often, and I turned off the very annoying notifications), they say "but I sent the mail" (they only used Facebook). I have since "deleted" my account, good riddance.

So, the effect on me was direct and significant. Depending on how you use Facebook, you can have a similar effect. The worst you can do is set up events and invitations on Facebook only, forcing your friends to either use Facebook, or drift apart.
GCE does have a huge benefit in having been built several years after AWS organically grew into a set of services that now in retrospect seem to have obvious defaults. From my very limited experience with GCE, it seems to have its own oddities that make managing it from an organizational level weirdly difficult, but I can't argue about the details in a well-informed manner. I will say that while the lack of dead-stupid cross-region VPC peering is annoying in AWS, having talked to some of their engineers about the issue, it seems that their reluctance to make global features dead-simple stems from hard experience of their own in the risks of global interdependencies and the failure conditions that can result.

But to your specific details, I'm curious about the "private traffic stays private" and "no NATs required". So does GCE provide implicit NAT, or does it just work how AWS public subnets work (ie, give it an IP and it's on the Internet, don't give it one and it isn't)?
This doesn't seem to give me a single clue on what it does past the initial change of:

hub clone rtomayko/tilt

Am I missing something?
I've got no way to prove it, but i'm pretty sure agenda driven disinformation is as old as language itself.
> I mean, right now Bitcoin miners are paid over a million USD per day in order for the network to reach distributed consensus. Please, anyone, let me know which kinds of applications can bear even a tiny fraction of this cost, except digital money.

Real estate sales. US residential market, ~188K average house price, 5M house sales annually, 6% commission + 1-2% fees per sale. A blockchain record tracking the transfer of title, perhaps in parallel to the existing county appraiser records, and to the MERS system [0], would be worth something. At a flat fee of $100 (less than the property appraiser fee), that's 500M annually, clearing your bar of 365M. At a percentage of the sale, anything over 0.005% would do.

You're looking at tracking currency, but tracking assets and their ownership is another important function of banks, one that blockchains can help implement.

[0] https://www.mersinc.org/
It'd be interesting to see an overlay of areas that are inhospitable to wild animals, perhaps excluding birds. Mostly because that would be a useful indication of how much inhabitable land is monopolized by humans.
> Hiding files starting with a dot is just a cosmetic, view level implementation.

Is it? [0]

[0]: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobPikeTheHuman/posts/R58WgWwN9...
This kind of thing seems to be especially rampant in the auto industry. It's probably the result of a powerful lobby and widespread corruption.

When tires are tested, apparently the manufacturers are asked to send in the tires to be used in the tests. Why on earth would a tire testing entity do that, unless they are receiving bribes from the tire manufacturers? [1]

[1]: http://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/26/nokian-tire-test-cheat-re...
Nah, NATO is required for that to work. It's like a group ticket. The more you are, the cheaper it gets for each individual. NATO only needs to collectively have more capability than the biggest external threat. More than that is overspending.

And the US are not paying $$ for anybodys army. And they know very well how to use their own capabilities outside of NATO and for their own interests.
I'm curious how improved telepresence will change the desire/need to live in major metro areas.
> I'd like to see the same map but excluding national parks/public spaces.

This is a major aspect, I think. A lot of land in the west is federally owned. This NY Times article[0] states that 47% of the land in the western US is owned by the Federal Government. It doesn't look like there's 1-1 overlap between the empty census blocks and the federal land ownership, though.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/upshot/why-the-government...
I think Chicago is the only big city to lose people in the US in the last 10 years.
That argument would lead to the proposition that any effort to improve cognition is a net zero-sum proposition.
Truly intelligent enemies could change the face of gaming
Their webpage, https://hub.github.com/ , explains more. It includes the ability to work with github pull requests and issues from the command line, and a few nice aliases for opening up github pages in the browser.
hub compare v0.9..v1.0
Who built the PYRAMIDS? Information that should rewrite HISTORY
I personally use Streisand [1] hosted on a t2.micro using the AWS Free Tier. Some people also recommend Algo [2]. Both have all their code open sourced on GitHub.

I do have a Pi too, but after all these new laws where ISP's can sell your Internet history etc. I think it's nice to be able to hide traffic from them too.

[1] - https://github.com/jlund/streisand

[2] - https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
> Why are you so dismissive of this new technology?

I'm skeptical of the idea that Bitcoins have value in the way commodities and other things which can be traded and exchanged have value.

People might find some use for blockchain technology, but the speculation around the value of Bitcoins is ridiculous. It's a bubble like any other bubble. The notion that a Bitcoin can remain at a $2000 value is absurd.

The current top comment says "Internet companies during the dotcom bubble had market value of several trillion dollars. The total market cap of crypto-currency is still only ~$70 billion. I agree with the principle, but this boom is still pretty modest." Well there you go. I have an old worn sock with a hole in it that I am throwing away. It is worth $500. It is worth $500 because I am willing to pay $500 for it. I am capable of creating a bubble of that size. Even a $70 billion bubble can be created apparently. Once it reaches a certain point it will pop. Your point about Mooncoins points to it - as a Bitcoin is worthless, clones like Mooncoins can be created as speculative bubbles. Eventually it will no longer be a micro-economic oddity like my $500 sock, but will bump up against the market as a whole and collapse like every other speculative bubble.

It's not blockchain technology, which may or may not have worth at some point. It's the speculative bubble on cryptocoin choice.

As I said, Pets.com and Webvan made sense on some level. Just not the valuations they had at the time. And Bitcoins valuation is even sillier than theirs, since Webvan was not a bad idea, it just had a few problems including being ahead of its time.
Ok so, yet again, it seems that there should be no problem with the US doing their own thing?
The extra cost here is not the cost of the DB write, but the rent extracted by the owner of the database. For example, access to flight bookings data starts at thousands of dollars/month.
That's why you have to disable "Hide protected operating system files" in order to see them.

One of the settings, along with hiding the file extensions, that I always disable without exception.
Where does "your" money come from? What is money and why was it invented? Answering these questions will require some research. And no, the barter story isn't real, or based on any facts.
I suppose that could be, I don't know either. I think it's more likely from the early days where users were interacting over slow teletypes or terminals, and having a convention that hid rarely-interesting files by default was more efficient.
It's clearly not feasible to provide the mainland the infrastructure necessary for comfortable living, why bother?
This is a recurring theme with Kotlin: inline receiver functions with a lambda parameter are an amazingly versatile tool for building functions that implement what would be a language feature/syntactic sugar in other languages. `with` here is a good example, but `let` and `use` are other good examples of this in play (`use` gives you try-with-resource, let plays nicely with the ?. safe navigation operator to execute code on non-null objects `maybeNullObject?.let { doStuffWith(it) }`)
This is also just a cosmetic, view level implementation in Explorer (complete with a bug, also in Explorer). In fact, the fix was to use kernel fs functions directly.
Do you think if you'd have better math skills you'd be even better programmer?
Show HN: Stretch – Free limousine rides
I've followed Xah's musings about keyboards for years; I don't agree with each and every one of his conclusions, but you've got to hand it to him, he has studied keyboards and key-bindings and keyboard ergonomics more than anyone else that I've seen on the web.

I've used Emacs for decades, but still remember fondly the couple of years where I was forced to switch to vi with its modal operation (my employer was suspicious of GPL software).

Periodically, I will try out Spacemacs (nice!) or neovim (a cool project); eventually, I go back to ordinary Emacs. My next experiment with key bindings is going to be Xah Fly Keys mode for Emacs. It is such a logically designed set of bindings. While no more mnemonic than vim/vi (the new key binding will take time to learn), it appears that his careful analysis of the most frequently used commands has resulted in Xah's bindings being very efficient while working with Emac's wide range of commands and modes. For example, Xah's work recognizes the difference between commands that may be immediately repeated (like forward-word) and those that are common, but are likely not to be repeated (i.e. switch-to-buffer).

Any other HN readers using Xah Fly Keys?
You could also (in theory) put every human on Earth in Texas with a population density of only 26,000 people per square mile, about the same density as New York City.
Long lists of "chat" applications that are open source or not are the main problem I have with those applications. The dominant theme in this space is that unlike email or the web, no standard has emerged, so there are always new things like "Facebook Instant Messenger" that seem to be "AOL Instant Messenger 0.999999 or 1.000001" but aren't compatible.

If you are involved with a few work projects, family, open source projects, etc. you have to have ten or so communications apps open, deal with the overhead on startup, software updates, overhead while it is running, all the various foibles of these things.
If you read the full article, this was probably actually rape, compounded by it being child rape. But I do agree that changing marriage laws doesn't really fix the situation described. The grown men raping little girls should be prosecuted for it instead of getting the girl handed over to them by the parents.

Changing the marriage laws won't solve something so deeply sick and twisted. The situation described is a case of serious local corruption. They issued marriage licenses to put an end to rape investigations. Totally messed up stuff, not easily fixed.
The Weight Loss Trap
The vast majority of extinctions happened before humans existed.
Some serious questions - If you have technical not buzzword links for how 'the blockchain will work I'd also be happy. So far it all came to down to: smart contracts, etherum!?

Some questions:

How is user access organised?

How to remove an organisation?

How to remove old booking for hotels?

How to prevent me from exploiting an bug in the database? I.e. incuring storage or computation costs -> DDoS?

How to revoke access when a private key / access token is compromised?

If I'm having a lot of Etherum due to hacking or stuff like that - what prevents to me extort the Hotels to break their system? Blow up the database? if I have enough gas.

Bug in the database?

I'm honestly interested how this is solved / will be solved. If you have links - at best with some math / hard concepts please share!

Thanks!
Thanks for the link - but honestly, I didn't see any compelling use case listed there.
I can't decide if the investors in R3 have no clue or if they are actually smart and are using this as an opportunity to modernise, unsettle the large networks, and also take the opportunity to pose as relevant.

I'm leaning towards giving them the benefit of a doubt as there are plenty of 'trusted 3rd parties' that are charging the banks significant amounts of money. There are clearly some incentives here.

As a technical decision, it makes zero sense though.

I have tried to figure out if a shared distributed ledger could reduce the huge deposited reserves for fast money transfer, but I doubt it unless the central banks are in this somehow.
I'd strongly recommend you check out http://www.carryology.com for all sorts of bag reviews.

They are currently doing their 2017 awards, which are broken down by category such as best work backpack - http://www.carryology.com/best-work-backpack-top-10-the-fift...
His point is that people are investing in blockchain technology like it's the next Microsoft/Facebook (read: headlock on a monopoly source of thousandfold profits), when it's actually more like Canonical/SuSE/Red Hat (competitive services business with low margins).
yeah, I clicked to the colored bar to see the distribution of languages in the repo, expecting to see C/C++ or even Pyhthon, and was shocked to see that 96.5% is javascript.

Well, that explains such an extensive list of features, I guess..
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9616239
Nope, you want what I called the event stack. It lets you have your cake and eat it too.

The event stack is a record of every tip that was ever present in this repo other than unpushed commits.

You were at cset 1234, you pull in 25 csets, the event stack has two events, 1 which points to 1234 and 2 which points at the tip after the pull.

You commit "wacked the crap out of it", then commit "fixed typo", then commit "added test", then commit $whatever. The event stack is

1
2
. which points at your current tip but is floating

Now you push. Your event stack is 1, 2, 3 and 3 points at the tip as of your push.

What about clone? You get your parent's event stack but other than that they are per repo.

The event stack is the linear history you want, it is the view that everyone wants. It's "what are the list of tips I care about in this repo?". Have a push that broke your tree but you don't know what the previous tip was because the push pushed 2500 commits? No problem. The event stack is a stack and there is a "pop" command that pops off the last change to the event stack. So you would just do "git pop" and see if that fixes your tree, repeat until it does.

We never built this in BitKeeper but I should try. If for no other reason than to show people you can have the messy (but historically accurate) history under the covers but have a linear view that is pleasant for humans.
Show HN: A python IDE in emacs for working with plots
YouTube link for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Not all people. No one expects everyone to drop everything and move to Mars but there will be some pioneer types who would probably want that kind of endeavor. If comfort was everything, people would have remained in Africa.
If you go to a random spot anywhere in the world, there's a good chance there's not a lot of people there.

The site http://confluence.org/ catalogs visits to intersections of latitude and longitude. Drill down into one of the maps and you'll probably find mostly empty spaces.

Map of USA: http://confluence.org/country.php?id=1&showmap=true
UBI won't require tax increases. The government can just deficit spend. I'm more in favor of a guaranteed job program. Also UBI is really a market solution which raises prices. I would rather see more welfare and non market oriented help.
I think it's reasonable to say we are better equipped, but that's not enough.
JavaScript lives in a more diverse environments: Multiple browsers, webkit engine, now NodeJS, React, etc.

Varieties, cross pollination from different JS engine/teams make JS much stronger.

Flash, ActiveX, Silverlight, VBScript are all seem more mono-culture - Start to die as soon as the parent organizations/core dev team loss interest / move on to to next best thing.

Flash is a successful until CPU usage, security issues kill it. Just like strong mono-culture plant in a farm got wipe out certain deceases/virus.
"POG"?
Do you mean overspending as the US currently do, to compensate for European countries are not paying their fair share, while getting most of the outcome ?

Because this is the bottom of it. European countries want the protection, while not paying their share, and making fun on Uncle Sam spending so much on their military, and not enough on their social program.
Indeed the Umweltbundesamt PDF (see my other comment) states that it's at least 50% of the time the case! 50%!
A fun way to teach your kids Lisp and Clojure
Yes, that is certainly one of the "disadvantages of centralization" that I was referring to. Again, it's not clear to me that that cost will be higher than the additional costs of writing to a distributed consensus database (which are very very high).
Very nice tool, I use it a lot. But I wish they would do releases more often. The last stable release was October 2016, and it's been actively developed since then.

For example, the "release" command (which is great for using from a Makefile to do an automated release) has lots of functionality on master, but the current release only supports making new releases.
No, it doesn't. Electron doesn't open chrome and tabs. It opens a unique chrome process. And yes, I'll just close all my other work and have to reopen manually later to have a music player...
Good question. I'm Norwegian, and I always pronounce it "ya-va-lin" when I talk about it in Norwegian. Let's say that's the official pronunciation.
Glad I sold my Amazon stock in 1999.
The problem is that giving all Americans a $10,000 annual income would cost upward of $3 trillion a year — more than three-fourths of the federal budget..

It also does not make the poor stop being poor.

My alimony is a little over $10,000 annually. I recently wrote about how this stuff is a total fantasy. This is some ridiculous fantasy that you can easily solve this problem by throwing money at it instead of doing any hard work like resolving the affordable housing crisis in this country.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-world-ha...

Edit: They are talking about giving people $10k a year because they expect robots to take our jobs and there to be widespread unemployment. So forget the feel good anecdotes about how this will supplement your income and imagine living on ONLY $10k per year. That's enough to assuage their guilt. It does not buy you a middle class lifestyle. But if it becomes your right as a citizen, you can expect even more people to desperately want to immigrate to the US.
hub pull-request
hub fork # adds remote automatically
hub create # create GH repo for this local repo

And ability to use GH paths anywhere git takes a URL - clone (as you mentioned), remote add, submodules, etc.
But what's interesting, most of historic capitals happen to be not coastal, and often a bit more to the north than you would expect of comfort zone.

Beijing, Paris, Moscow, Berlin. For some reason, coastal cities don't have this push to form a state.
...or more to the point, intelligent enemies unbound by human reaction time, common grade school intellect, and the requisite hand-eye-coordination of rival human opponents in multiplayer games.
“They Basically Reset My Brain”
>Windows 10 S operating system, which will only be able to run apps distributed through the store.

This is new information for me (also I hope they burn in hell).
...or basic income.