skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never thought I'd see the word Gambiarra at the top of HN. By the way, Portugal has a word with a bit of a similar meaning (https://i.imgur.com/7YHjJHs.jpg)

For anyone interested in how Cubans do it, I recommend this 8 min video from Motherboard (it has subtitles):

> In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-XS4aueDUg
I know what gas is. It would be more accurate to call it a unitless number describing the relative resource cost factor of each opcode.

If you define the term gas as a unit then it refers to both a value, and the unit of that value, which is where most of the confusion comes from. The language "1000 gas" could mean either "1000 wei/szabo/whatever of gas" or "1000 gasCost" which are 2 completely different things!
I heard that one brazilian guy who also worked for TW and now is working for DO was famous for advocating for hype techs such as Ruby and other shitty stuff and after a few years he was vomiting critiques about thoses things. He was also the lead architect for TW in a "Titanic" project in a publishing company in Brazil which of course sunk after the company spent millions on the project. It couldn't serve a handfull of concurrent users. He is quite famous in the country but never delivered anything substantianlly successful. BTW he calls himself by a 2 letter acronym.
Germany is not the new leader of the free world
First two minutes of that video states the issue is limited to the case where the agent represents both the buying and selling parties which is only legal in canada.

I'm not canadian. I dont know how commonplace this is. But as an american it sounds pretty foolish of someone to accept a deal on your next mortgage with someone who openly controls both parties.
Making GitHub better
I am strongest in the backend. I find the front end a bit confusing. Currently I am trying to get around it by sticking to one front end stack.
I remember standing in line for Maker Faire in San Mateo several years ago. We arrived a half-hour early, so we had plenty of time to chat with the people around us. Turns out the guy in front of us was a Blue Man, and he was there because they were always on the lookout for interesting bits to add to the show.
Check out https://golem.network or https://sonm.io they are making a world computer on ethereum
Show HN: Public Datasets for Machine Learning
Elon Musk's big battery brings reality crashing into a post-truth world
I'm sorry, but what major, high-flow, long-distance pipelines are you referring to having existed prior to 1859?

I'm not aware of any particularly significant examples.

The major exception would be water aqueducts, but these were not generally pipelines.

No major city had a long-distance water conduit or sewerage system by that time. London was just building its own sewerage system in 1860, and that comprised vaulted chambers of brick.

New York City's Catskills water system wasn't completed until 1915.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/drinking_water/history.shtm...

What was difficult was that, fundamentally, industrial manufacturing did not exist. Other than a small number of powered looms and ironworks.

That's cast and wrought iron. Bessemer steel had only just been patented (1856), but production wasn't scaled up for a number of years (initial attempts to license the method failed when licensees were unable to properly implement it).

Industrialisation is a rather significant bootstrapping process. Titusville Pennsylvania was a rural region, on the frontier, without access to viable transportation (that is, rivers or canals). Railroads existed, but with iron rather than steel rail, had limited tonnage capacity and were prone to splits rails.
All I saw was a request to use my camera, which I declined. So I have no idea what Autoretrato is.
I'm excited about flow batteries too, but they still have their analogues of the above.

1) Are prices publicly available yet? I haven't found one online, would be keen to know how much their 10kWh unit costs.

2) The cell has a finite lifespan which is analogous to cell degradation - the warranty covers up to 36,500kWh of delivered energy for the 10kWh model, which equates to 3650 full discharge cycles. This is more than lithium batteries, don't get me wrong, but they're not immortal.

3) I don't believe lithium batteries need constant cooling in most cases, especially since for bulk storage your discharge rate is going to be less than 1C.

4) Fair call, lithium batteries have some scary failure modes.

Also, the round trip efficiency of these batteries is only ~77% which is a fair bit lower than lithium (I think they're 90%+?) and represents a large loss of energy over the life of the battery.

Overall I agree that there are significant advantages to flow batteries, especially at grid scale, but they do have drawbacks too.
When I type in a URL, the character counter doesn't go down as I extend the URL. So there is no upside to doing it for me.
>Isn't trespassing, regardless of what you do once you are on private property without permission, already illegal?

In most states you have to follow pretty strict rules around how and what you post in regards to no trespassing signs - and a failure to properly post is an automatic granting of rights to the property. Furthermore they'd likely have trouble actually following the letter of the law given the amount of "unknown" people that need to go in and out of the farm on a daily basis for deliveries/etc.

In other words - if you've got 30 truck drivers a day coming and going, and you haven't given each and every one explicit permission to enter your "private property", you likely have no grounds to sue the person you didn't want there. There is no concept of assumed rights that I can find in Montana law.

http://codes.findlaw.com/mt/title-45-crimes/mt-code-ann-sect...
Rabbithole warning:

- https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

- http://popurls.com
Ask HN: Does your job feel like a production line?
In my current job and previous job there has been a huge emphasis on estimates for work and estimates vs. actual.

This is on the level of all tasks, even 2hr ones.

I find it causes stress as I am always looking at the clock and sometimes taking shortcuts so I don't feel the shame of going over or asking for more time.

It also means I don't bother thinking or exploring ideas to make things better as there isn't a JIRA ticket for that and i would have to get permission first. Probably they'd say no because backlog takes priority.

I've been taken to task for how long something has taken many times. I'm sick of it.

It was a big reason I quit my last job and similarly might quit this one.

These are in otherwise prima facie great jobs: good pay, good side perks like you'd imagine from Google.

Is this the trend towards holding a stopwatch up to he developers head?, have I been unlucky, am I being unrealistic to go back to the old days where your boss broadly trusts you?
I wrote a bug asking Mozilla not to implement HTML5 DRM. It was closed as RESOLVED WONTFIX.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590
What's the benefit over throwing it at a cloud provider?

There's an active downside of random people being able to see your data, not to mention randomly sized boxes and shoddy network connections (which is a big deal for the microservices which they are touting as a use case, and also for big data. Data transfer is one of the slowest bits of data science). Running a web service on random devices where keys, sessions, whatever end up in memory on some box would be a security nightmare. The government doesn't need a back door if all they need to do is host some compute nodes.

Is it just that for some tasks that are very parallel and not sensitive it might end up cheaper?
FYI, Kainoa seems to be male. It's an easy mistake to make, since names ending in "a" strongly tend to be female in many (especially European) languages, but this one is Hawaiian.
I'd say Punch Drunk (https://www.punchdrunk.com/) is a big (up-and-comer?) production group in that space. In NYC and Shanghai they put on Sleep No More (consists of an entire multi-story old hotel gutted with stage detail work almost at the level of a spec of dust).

Edit: I'll add another 2 production groups heavier on the physical comedy/circus-side: Strut&Fret -- mainly AU-based but tour int'l. http://www.strutnfret.com, and spiegelworld (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegelworld) --mainly in NYC and Las Vegas (put on Absinthe).
Is it called binging? Or a wikibinge?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wikibinge
Please come back and share some resources if possible, googling variations of “centralization” and “information/graph theory” as we speak!
http://cdm.link/

Create Digital Music
Facebook's Phabricator software has this exactly built in, but I think it's a relatively little known feature.

The only difference is that you need to upload a selection of base images and assign shortnames to them, instead of entering a general search phrase.
Probing a chip means attaching probes directly to chip's circuitry/cells
Acxiom has done this in a more invasive way for decades: figure out women's menstrual cycle and then mail them ads when they will be most likely to make a purchase according to prior research.
Wow! "I'm afraid I just blue myself."
Products aren't hierarchially ordered first by type, then by colour, then by material, etc. These are all attributes that have multiple possible orderings (or no order at all).

Of course, if the site is designed such that it forces you to pick those attributes in a specific order, that URL scheme would make sense (but that would be a poor design for other reasons).
Last Words From Death Row (2015)
I agree that the police are doing a difficult job (NOT a particularly dangerous one, however: http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/data/the-most-dangerous-job...) and they deserve and get my respect when they are doing it properly and let themselves be held accountable.

However, there's a strong movement in the US to undermine accountability. Preventing citizens from recording the police, lying on behalf of colleagues, refusal to hold the police legally accountable in court, and the manufactured outrage whenever somebody says something critical about the police are all part of it.

Ultimately, accountability is what separates the police as citizens in uniform (who deserve and get my respect) from a taxpayer funded gang (who deserve no respect).

And if you think "taxpayer funded gang" is "disgusting" and "hyperbole", read this article and then tell me what's described is NOT gang activity: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-off...
I was fortune enough to catch a screening of this at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX for $3. It was my first exposure to Adam Curtis, and I have been hooked ever since. His work is hypnotic, unnerving sometimes, misleading / biased often, but always a good jumping off point for exploring ideas and people on your own.

I read a description of his latest, "Hypernormalization," the was something like "a three hour journey through 100 wikipedia tabs" and it perfectly described his documentaries. They start with a basic premise but then veer wildly through topics whose links are tenuously held together by their relation to each other + stock footage and great music.
If you're using non-destructive editing a URL might indeed be helpful for sharing the progress and evolution of a file with others. Something like photoshop.app/jdavis703/file/oceanview.psd/layer/colorcorrect might be really useful.
I'm sure that was posted earlier today.
On the other side of Atlantic also means a cable for light extension. :)
I switched to DuckDuckGo, but for a while I had a browser extension that would fix Google URLs for me. Recently I added another one for Twitter links.
Yes. But it's a rare programmer, or even a programming language designer, who thinks of well-typed programs in terms of proving theorems.
In my case I'm using an old grandfathered free google apps setup. So I don't have anything to really setup/configure myself. I know it's possible to do it with postfix and other mailing agents.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-postfix-catch-all-...
- HN

- Lobste.rs

- Reddit (occasionally)

- Google News (rarely)

I find myself reading a lot more books in person though, namely educational books about topics I'm unfamiliar with or want to review. I think it's important to read about something that you don't know about but want to learn more about, e.g. for me: economics.
ETW might be what you are looking for.
Because anything against capitalist thought gets mulched up, repackaged, and spat out. If you can commodify being a maker, you take away from the people who are actually subverting basic consumer thinking.

I think we're seeing the same problem in the modern form of the "gig economy" versus what people initially idealised for a freer, less contractual workforce.
After one year I have more followers on Medium than after nine years on Twitter
Wouldn't whatthefuckisethereum.edu make more sense for an educational site?
Yes microbatching is a great way to get a fixed write rate regardless of traffic, can even do it right at the application layer. The trade-off is that you can theoretically lose one interval of data when your service goes down. This might not matter for analytics workloads with a margin of error but some usecases require confirmed writes
Move to the Next Level of Load Balancing on AWS
An Online Development Environment for Answer Set Programming
That's a really interesting idea.
That Drip "thing" is so cringe..how the ..well..wannabe socialites. Egh.
crookedtimber.org
> You can't even trust the browser's link preview tooltip because it can be overridden in JS.

What!? Just tooltip, or status bar also?
It's a peaking plant, you don't run it flat out all day, you charge it off-peak and then use it to help cover the 4pm-7pm demand surge.
> How do you identify when it's appropriate to reach for one of the many NoSQL tools?

Despite the flag on the post, this is a pretty good summary of why you might choose one of several: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697230
A reasonable voice finally joins this discussion.
Yep. The DNS hierarchy exists for a reason, and if you have a bunch of machines, you want to use it.

Also, I'm a single person, and I have multiple independent web sites. Many of them live under the same domain. Lots of companies have many more. You can play annoying tricks to smush them all into a single name (at least, most of the time), but why?

I think the world is ready to internalize the idea of hierarchic names, at least insofar as understanding they're independent entities grouped under the same name. Haven't seen any studies, but it seems like we're past the 'do I need the "www"'? point.

All that said, I also like short. The magic comes from knowing when to choose what, and I don't think you get there with rules-of-thumb alone.
That's a very funny joke. I wonder if there are any other examples of people missing out on investment opportunities.
You lost me at

> Hacker News - Quality tech news and opinions
> abundance of examples of media companies favouring DRM over user experience.

I don't think media companies particularly care about user experience. They care about control.

Once you have a piece of content (which you didn't produce) in your hands, and an exclusive distribution contract to guarantee the content producer can't go elsewhere - you have a monopoly over the content in question. DRM is an abhorrent, if natural, extension of this control-freakery. After all, you don't want to provide consumers control over how they view YOUR[0] precious content.

The ingrateful bastards might find a way to enjoy the content without going through the hoops you've carefully put in place. What good would a monopoly be? As the sole content distributor, the last thing you want is competition.

0: Nope, you still didn't produce it. Someone else did. But now you own it.

EDIT: grammar fix in footnote
They are gonna merge I think. NNs will be used to extract rules.
you can breath some value into your comment by adding a link to the previous discussion. else just flag.
Apply the Strangler Application pattern to microservices applications
.edu addresses are restricted to educational institutions in the US afaik.
Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14723853
I've gotten so used to Arq Backup (macOS/Windows) (and Time Machine (macOS)), neither of which are convenient to run against Linux, that I've actually come to avoid using Linux as something to be backed up except as a container or VM, wholesale.
On a phone so I can't really crunch the raw data, but looking at that chart example, Is the difference between 48 hours and 60 statistically significant?
Roughly $4800 per household. The price of huge flat screen. If it scales, it's acceptable solution for rich countries with cheap wind or solar.

(if it truly scales, the price will drop dramatically when volumes grow).
Plus it would be a bit ironic if the Google Search page itself cared for SEO :)
Cited from Matrix:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/quotes?item=qt0324307

which cites Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rabbit%20Hole
> we know for sure that anything non-medicine does, by definition, not work.

We don't actually know that. That something is proven to work to the satisfaction of the FDA and the doctor's lobbies is too high a bar to say that anything failing to meet it does not work.

Many treatments that "work" either can't adequately be double-blind tested or have a status such that the current US regulatory climate makes it too hard to get them approved as treatments. For instance, treatments that are "medicine" in other countries (China, Japan, Russia...) but not yet accepted here. Treatments that can't be patented so it doesn't make economic sense to get them approved here. Treatments that probably work but are legally or ethically problematic for other reasons (eg, ketamine for depression, alcohol for social anxiety, or cigarettes for weight loss).
- Daily, the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSNewsHour/videos

- HN

- A whole bunch of other site/blog/channels as feed that I look at when I have time.
I was of the impression that the situation was the reverse: the Berlin office was spaired while the San Francisco, London, and New York offices were entirely laid off.
I think we should be looking at efficiency. If we can find a way to maximize the tradeoff between productivity and hours worked it would greatly benefit employers and employees.
here's my go-to playlist - I added a few tracks every week. Mostly softer songs without lyrics:

https://soundcloud.com/sound-of-dev/sets/milieu
If you want a laugh, read the ethereum sharding document.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ
Just to get the full quote from original article: “their metric space is a social coordinate space. It’s not Euclidean.”

If the space being considered is a probability space like you say, then there is no metric, there is a measure.

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Why am I so pedantic?

Because I feel that the liberal arts mindset of writing is not serious enough for subjects where there is a ground truth to uncover.

In the article you link, where is the empirical study that compares how this model predicts reality?

I wish that people who publish on SIAMS, or ASA, AMS, IEEE affiliated journals were the ones trending on HN, and getting interviewed by journalists. A pessimist would say those people are too busy with their work for publicity, and that an empty barrel echoes loudest.
How I failed to land a remote position
Milan Favorites to Sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Great job!

I was just looking at collecting race information and historical results data a month or two ago and was struck by the lack of available structured data. Heck, I couldn't easily find any for pay options either.
Managed Apps and Music: A Tale of Two XSSes in Google Play
With slightly different server-side handling, that could work.

HN would still remove the ? though.
Programming is Magic
What are some useful but little-known features of the tools used in mathematics?
Also, everyone is convinced that their proxy is the best achievable, although of course they test it only against false positives, not false negatives.
Don’t want a 7S because it’s boring, don’t want to spend $1200 on iPhone Pro
I made passagemaster.com, an online app for memorizing anything. It used a review system that focused on not only memorizing things, but not forgetting them. I mostly made it to learn about web development, but half hoped I'd get at least a few users. The only marketing I did was emailing a blog to ask them to add a link, which failed. It's been up for about 6 months now, and I currently have 0 regular users. I only spent about $40 on it, so it wasn't that much of a loss. I ended up using it when job searching, and I now have a full time web development job, so it was definitely worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Pu_JuPILw&t=2m45s
Interesting theory from Gruber ! "If you want to argue that Apple should never create an iPhone with a higher starting price than what we have today, you’re implicitly arguing that Apple should never put any components into a new iPhone that can’t be made at iPhone 7’s scale. I think that’s dangerous strategically, leaving Apple open to attack from competitors making premium phones with components (cameras, displays, new sensors, new battery technologies, etc.) that can only be produced in single-digit millions per quarter."
Check out Third Rail Projects. I saw one of their productions in Denver, and it was incredible. http://www.thirdrailprojects.com
It's both, https://www.google.com/search?q=richard+brautigen
The article wrote about the challenge in making pipes two miles long. And the challenges written about in the article about early pipelines were about leaking, never about flammability.
Probably a good thread to mention the fairphone http://fairphone.com/

Not the prettiest phone but it does what it says on the box/ it's easy to fix it yourself
> 1. Data can we used against you in ways you might not understand or have considered.

> 3. I don't like the idea of people making money off my data without my knowledge

Ditto.

Collecting massive amounts of intrusive data can lead to regulation, possibly intrusive. An (extreme) example of this is in 1984, where the data collect Oceania does (i.e., telescreens) allows them to control the population.
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Worth adding perhaps that Bitcoin is intentionally not Turing complete, as the complexity opens up a very big space for vulnerabilities. And indeed, we see a lot of those in ethereum contacts.
Fair enough. There was some recent thread about it lately but I can't find it at the moment. Here's an older one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12702651
I took my first antidepressant this week. The effects were frightening