skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're all assuming content comes in constantly, but that's not the case. I imagine they spike heavily at peak times, perhaps 5-6 fold (judging by my own site statistics). Serverless might be good for them because they can handle small loads with small costs and large loads with no effort.
Mt. Gox didn't defend against transaction malleablity, and they claim this allowed free buys by malicious users. Some say that was just a cover for defrauding their customers. In any event, this was not business as usual for Bitcoin.
In which case you need to re-examine the assumption that government policy is dominated by national interest.

You can reverse engineer the government's motivation by looking at the policies it seeks to introduce and asking​ your self what worldview would motivate such policies. There's a nice little ML project.
I thought that was the joke
Android App Development: The Tips to Remember
Developers who practice Android app development follow a sleek process to ensure the success of mobile applications. A number of tips are also there that should be followed to bring success to the app.
Please don't reply to a poor comment by making the thread even worse—especially not with personal attacks, which we ban people for.
Google's styleguide for all major languages
Visiting the Play Store link using an iOS device I can't see any of the reviews.
Water is not the only problem. You'd also need soil as not much can grow in a sand.
I love watchmakers, it is such a blend of skills that I don't even know where to begin with my praise or interest in the field.

I just want to throw out there that Dan Spitz, of Anthrax fame makes watches as well, and has an interesting story too.

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/interview-meet-dan-spitz-a...
This is a toxic comment for HN. Please keep political flamewars way far away.
Can someone tell me how something with just 3 points appears on the front page? I feel there must be some way to game the HN sysem but I don't know what it is.

http://imgur.com/a/VeLRo
Object-Oriented Declarative Input/Output in Cactoos
Luerl lacks tail call optimization, coroutines, and "proper handling of __metatable". Without those three things Lua is just a simpler JavaScript and not that interesting.

(Lua also has a first-class C API, but we'll let that slide.)
You're asking great questions :)

EFF isn't necessarily a fan of the way that current institutions of governance or the law operate, but when those institutions attempt to interfere with the development of technology, we step in to try to mitigate the damage and make the case for sensible outcomes.

In the case of general-purpose human level AI, which to be clear is an extremely speculative kind of technology that might not happen in our lifetimes, I don't think anybody knows how humanity would deal with it. If it does happen, I think the biggest responsibility of participants in that process would be to minimize the risk of instability and conflict while humans and the new species (possibly species, plural; possibly not a species at all), figured out how to relate to each other.

How best to accomplish that is largely a very difficult and mostly unanswered research question, though you can find some pointers to some interesting early work in the safety section of the Notebook.
Imagination Technologies Up for Sale
We've banned this account for ideological trolling. Not what HN is for.

Posting like this account has been doing will eventually get your main account banned too, so please don't create accounts to do this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14608078 and marked it off-topic.
Web Apps Development: Taming ReactJS, Redux, and Stateless Functions
Perhaps something like dp/dt? #points/(time of last point - time of first point)
On a lighter note, people complain about google over updates. See they are not bad!
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Tumblr
Purpose, not profit, is business key to success amid turbulent global economy
Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications
Simple Habit (YC W17) Is Hiring Growth Marketer
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Yunha
Thanks! The non-disposable is a good point.

As for my 2nd question it was related. Often time spammers rely on tools like nbox to create a massive amount of accounts on services like Winterest, so Winterest has to flag your domain as potentially malicious.

I was wondering if you have any countermeasures to this problem, such as a rate limit on the number of accounts one can create per service. I'm sure Winterest would appreciate :)
Because you all got trolled, which produces the most tedious kind of thread there is.
The requests are not uniformly distributed throughout the day, so you can safely triple the calculations you just made.
Presumably people in rural areas care about rural broadband.
> manufacturing industry

> in my hand

Gloves, dirty and thick.
Your comments in this thread have unfortunately stepped back into incivility, which you have a long history of doing on HN and we have a long history of warning you about.

Fortunately you've mostly fixed this on HN, though not entirely. Please make the adjustments needed to correct this so I don't have to starting pleading with you not to get banned all over again.

(Also, please don't feed trolls. The thing to do with accounts like that is to flag their comments so we can ban them—not pour fuel onto the flamewar.)
Uber drivers are entrepreneurs like the fry-station cook at mcdonalds is a small business owner.

Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station. Or lease it from McDonalds at high rates:

For examples, Experian estimates the average weekly payment for a new car
lease is $96, while a 2013 vehicle through Xchange costs $130 a week.

[...]

After reviewing the terms of one lease, experts estimate that a driver would
pay $25,210 plus $5,000 for the residual value for a 2015 Honda Civic, far
more than the Kelley Blue Book fair purchase prive of $18,142.

https://consumerist.com/2016/05/31/5-things-you-should-know-...
VueJS Resources by Salvatore Di Dio
The issue is not just that Uber AND lyft business model broke the law.

The author is pointing out that the business culture at Uber was designed and intended to break the law, and this is evidenced by a large list of illegal actions.

To be explicit – Uber’s board, chose to pursue actions which were clearly illegal, not actions which were “morally dubious”.
More over, their legal counsel worked to aid them in this endeavor.

This leaves behind a firm geared towards condoning and considering illegal activity – an issue which is not matched by Lyft.

This is the critical difference. Its also why I have long recommended that people stay away from Uber.
Digital Art by Salvatore Di Dio
I thought it was common knowledge that cryptocurrencies get pumped and dumped. And they're unregulated so it's legal to do so if you are a whale.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605200
I've started browsing by user name instead of topic. Animats is consistently good.
Enigma’s variation on IT security is sweet music to those at risk
People are incorrectly complaining about google when they should really be complaining about the OEMs. You can blame google for that business model but generally they aren't deciding when Android phones get updates.
We use quite a bit of SPARQL to reason over medical ontologies. It's not exactly "semantic web", but ontological knowledge (such as the Gene Database, UMLS, etc) are naturally serialized in graphs, which makes them an excellent fit for RDF triplestores, hence SPARQL. We regularly query millions of concepts with billions of relations in milliseconds. True, RDF under the hood is just a EAV model, but thinking about the identity between triples, graphs, and logic programming makes a lot of sense for us.

https://joelkuiper.eu/semantic-web
In your example with a phone call and a pharmacy, how would that work (the exact mechanism)? I assume that you imply that this is happening in a first-world country, of course.
I'm not sure how it works these days, but I imagine it still has some relation to the arc sources

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L26...

It is essentially what you suggested, but raising the bottom line to a power.
For those who like to know a conceptually a bit more about RDF/Sparql: https://joelkuiper.eu/semantic-web

Bonus: my SPARQL Clojure wrapper https://github.com/joelkuiper/yesparql
I'm reminded of the Hemingway quote:

"How did you go bankrupt?"

"Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

Without diminishing the impact of Susan Fowler's blog post, Uber has already been "going bankrupt" slowly for years before this point.

I has been surreal watching this unfold, but I'd hesitate to compare it to the butterfly effect - unless we're talking about many, many butterflies over a long period of time ;)

I do hope that these events have inspired companies to pay more attention to their workplace and culture - festering problems like these are easy to ignore, but reveal their consequences suddenly and severely.
For one, NSS is not the kitchen sync that is openssl. With openssl you can do anything with any file you can get from the anywhere.

Secondly, when using openssl-based servers it's usually easier to specify certificates and keys. You don't have to import them into a database, you only configure the filesystem path.
It's definitely not quite an apples-to-apples comparison. The article mentions the old API used to do things like storing the results in a database which "[...] had grown to store a massive slice of the internet", while the new service appears to be stateless, aside from the cache. Not needing a couple of large database servers alone is going to save a lot of money.

That's not to say Lambda was the wrong choice here, the overall cost is pretty low and it's hard to argue that maintaining their own servers would end up being less than that.
If the problem is already solved then why are people still saying it's not? (E.g. This post).

I'm an engineering grad (as opposed to a CS grad). Most of the people who graduated from our mech eng course studied thermodynamics, control systems, fluid mechanics, acoustics.

Most of those people are now working jobs where they use those skills (or some of them) day to day. A CS grad studies algorithms, discrete math, fuzzy logic, compilers, possibly some networking/telecoms. And Day to day, most CS grads are writing CRUD apps/glueing APIs together.
I wonder if US military takes part in the project: ultra-precise pressure gauges may be exactly what's needed to detect subs
> Which candidate do you think people will vote for?

the one that is taller, talks with more confidence and has more gray hair
It isn't that bad. One can be productive without getting into the minutiae of ES6.
Sounds a lot like what happened with LiveJournal. About 10-15 years ago LJ was where all the LGBT and niche erotic interests where, like fanfic. It's been bought by a Russian company and they've been turning the screws on the LGBT users for years.
Yes, we've also thought about the "meta metric" idea. We may try to make one if we feel that the taxonomy is at all complete and trustworthy.
Think of cell towers or wind power turbines: they both are primary hacking targets in today's world, and they are placed in the wild, in uncontrolled and unprotected locations. This means more or less anybody can just walk by, temporarily cut the power source, take the harddisk out, plug it into their hacking laptop, install an OS trojan on it, place it back into the original device and restore the power. From the PoV of the cell company or the power company this was just a short power cut, and nothing changed. I reality the system was just hacked. And in order to protect yourself against that OSTree can't help you, because disk accesses aren't validated. The only validation takes place during downloading. dm-verity OTOH will protect every single access, and if deployed properly then such "offline" modifications to the OS will result in the device not booting anymore, which is much preferable over accepting that the device was hacked with no scheme to detect it.

And it's not just cell towers or wind power turbines: pretty much any device which is around people not unconditionally trusted needs to be protected against such offline modifications. In fact, if people today build cars, TVs, surveillance cameras or anything else like that and do not deploy dm-verity in some form to make sure the devices cannot be modified offline without noticing are just participating in turning IoT into Internet of Shit.
Switzerland. I don't know and they don't tell :) But probably he has called his concierge or family office, who called his family doctor, who told the pharmacist to release the medicine on his behalf.
One’s Self-Washed Drawers
Firebase Costs Increased by 7,000%
QuickBooks, even the online version, are decades old and have major issues that prevent the teams from getting much done. They took a year to do clean-up and basically didn't introduce any new features. Not much got done just due to the complexity of changing anything without causing problems.

FICDS, on the other hand, was spun up more recently and is in much better shape. I wouldn't look at an application like QBO and see much that would inform a behind the scenes service like FICDS.

The more interesting product, to me, is TurboTax. The seasonality of it allows Intuit to basically rebuild it from the ground up every year. It's really a different mindset on the San Diego campus (where TT is developed) and in Mountain View (where QBO is developed). San Diego is much more willing to take (non-security) risks with the product because small changes can add up to big wins. I remember a talk by one of the guys in charge of A/B testing on TT who said that a tenth of a percentage point increase in conversion rate was good for tens of millions in added profit.

Contrast that with QuickBooks, where the difficulty to use is actually a feature. Accountants spend years learning the app and learning the work arounds for those bugs you mentioned. That knowledge and experience becomes a barrier to entry into the field and a job skill that they're compensated for. The result is that QB/QBO is aimed at accountants with years of experience in the product. Their livelihood depends on it and they don't like change. So the teams there do as little as possible that can cause problems and know that they'll still get good reviews if the get almost nothing done so long as they don't cause problems.

It's deeply disfunctional and yet explains why you can put a lot of trust in FICDS. They too have had bugs for years. For example, they don't save cookies between scraping sessions and so are always an untrusted browser to the banks. I have at least two accounts that constantly send me 2FA tokens whenever Mint tries (and fails) to sync. But no one gets fired for not fixing bugs. You get fired for compromising the security or stability of the service, and the easiest way to not do that is to push as little possibly vulnerable code to prod. It's the anti-Zuckerberg environment...move slow and don't break things.
what would you suggest instead? numbers?
Being the Boss in Brussels, Boston, and Beijing
We are already suffering greatly in computing because reduction of rigor. People who can't handle rigor in mathematics, the tool that every freaking scientist in STEM should seek a different, more enjoyable, field.
Startups boil down to "build and sell". So a nonbuilder must have the skills, dispositions, contacts, etc. to make the sale and optionally to guide the "what to build" (but never the how).

Alas, from what I have seen, business school students as a whole often see sales as beneath them and would greatly prefer to be in marketing or product management.
Also https://www.toptal.com/developers/sorting-algorithms/
Object-Oriented Java Primitives, 0.8 released
I made a poor choice of words: I mean the agreed price.

No tips. The price is the price and being begged by some asshole won't make the experience better.
This whole comment is a huge non sequitur.

1. China is of comparable size to the US and has a population of nearly 1.4 billion people [ OK ]

2. Wee need the best here if we plan on staying a global superpower [ Huh? What does this have to do with territory size and population? ]

3. It's like watching a slow moving train wreck and there is nothing we can do to stop it. :/ [ How does this follow from any of the above ? ]

To make an actual point, China is vastly over-populated, to the point that it had to take draconian popuation-control measures. The result of those measures is now that each generation must care for itself and the previous generations, each of which are roughly twice as populous.

China is a slow-moving train wreck that can't be stopped...
I don't see the relevancy to today's Bitcoin price? Presumably MtGox was able to execute the fake trades because they didn't have to provide the money for it? It was simply a number in the database, if the dollars couldn't actually be withdrawn?

Sure, another market could try to pull the same stunt, but do they even have the same scale nowadays? There are many more markets than at the time of MtGox.
Please don't post political flamebait here.
Product Development: If YOU build it they will come
Exactly this. For those who weren't around in the first dot com bubble, he has a certain reputation which he has managed to bury. Benchmark used to be a much bigger firm back then, and due to poor fund performance, they had to scale back and "reboot" the firm. Along the way, he managed to bury his lesser know reputation. This was critical to getting deal flow in the current investing environment which is much more founder friendly given the increased availability of capital and competition for deals. Tolia also managed to rehab his reputation after lying about completing his Stanford degree and working for McKinsey (and teaming up with Gurley to screw over his other Epinions cofounders). He's now running NextDoor with significant investment from Gurley.
Looks like we have gone full circle now.
Twist looks like email with prettier UI
I watched the video - which is quite rare for me, it must be said - in which it started out by telling me how broken email and Slack were, and then proceeded to explain how Twist was much better, by apparently letting me do things in my own time and organising stuff into channels. I came away totally unconvinced as to how this was really any different from Slack, where people post crap, I look at it when I feel like it, and things are organised into channels.

It seems there's some nuance where channels can have a sub-category inside them, but I'm sure if you throw humans at it they'll still just post irrelevant crap and animated GIFs all over the place.

Skimming through their Twist vs Slack document (https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003654569), it does seem like there are some mildly compelling reasons why this might be an improvement over Slack - but this is a very busy space and it's hard to imagine why someone would try this over Slack when it has so much mindshare right now. I don't wish to sound overly negative - this looks like an attractive and thoughtful product.
Reminds me of Construct : https://static2.scirra.net/images/fresh/c2/gallery/fullsize/...
This, plus the fact that benchmark is one of the major sharehold of snapchat, and the main shareholder of zenly, plus the fact that snapchat is currently having a not-that-good user growth, and that the share is tanking...

All of this makes me wonder what kind of financial trick is under that deal. Any proficient VC that could explain what could be going on here ?

EDIT: the stats are 4 millions users not two. But that's still 70$ per download .
So, people are status conscious.go over to overcoming bias.com and read it from the master Robin Hanson. Every thing we do is based on stay.including pretending to care about inequality
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14602674
Wow this is incredibly cool.

I also found that he produces his own benches for watchmakers and other tinkerers. Looks really great: http://danspitz.com/watchmaker_bench/
Have you tried erlang.mk with relx? Setting up the project takes literally no effort, building & running the server app is as easy as "make run".
Regarding coloring, I created a simple Ruby editor with syntax highlighting that features...

- Indentation based coloring of whitespace

- Nesting-based coloring of parentheses

You can try it out here:

https://broxp.github.io/ruby-ide

Of course, these ideas are not new.

There are plugins for IDEs for some languages, one that I recall is the F# depth colorizer:

https://cyanbyfuchsia.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/cool-visual-s...

And there is parentheses highlighting in Eclipse (when touched by the cursor).
And the funny thing is, their apple slice are likely even less healthy than the fries.
The laws restrict the right of people to do with their labour and private property what they want.

When the choices you make with respect to the use of your property cause harm to other people or their property, they have the right to stop you and to recover damages for harm you've caused. When your voluntary transaction has involuntary (for other people) effects on others' property, they have the right to stop your transaction.
OK, we've changed the title above from "Spectral, the first parametric Google font".
Or programming in the RPG Maker:

http://d289qh4hsbjjw7.cloudfront.net/rpgmaker-20130522223546...
I think that the keyboard should always stay present and there should be no dialog appearing when he edits the symbols. There should only be a textinput at the location of the symbol. Also, some icons on the right could be present so that you could do some more actions.
I have actually thought about this idea before and really like what they are trying to do.

But I do not like the idea of installing one more app and adopting one more platform. Why not just use existing infrastructure of emails and integrate with that nicely?

The channels on Twist could be folders on gmails (with google integration at first) and users could reply to threads from their favorite email client. If they want to use a dedicated app they could easily install the app.

I think this would help them with growth a lot more since it would use the existing infrastructure of emails. Of course, it doesn't solve the notifications problem that they are trying to solve but that's what the app is for.
Mint is read only but it's not clear the site-specific password is likewise readonly.
You realize he actually did take that into account, and tripling his estimate is exactly what he did?