skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've build complex app for managing vineyards and wineries. It has tons of features: time tracking, input tracking, harvest and production features, mapping, tons of budget/cost analysis.

It turned out, it is hard to convince farmers to ditch their trusty excel sheets and notepads and start typing all those info into computer program. I managed to find few customers, but they haven't stick for longer than one year.

I spent about one year of fulltime work (spread over two years). I always tried to expand the product: I started with vineyard management software, then add the production part and then started coding all the CRM, POS and warehouse management. I hoped to attract more users with more complex solution, but I was wrong.

After three years I am still using it daily (I do own winery), but I am only active user right now and I did give up trying to sell it. I do some occasional development, from time to time when I need something in my farm, but thats it.
At the ISCA conference last week, Yoshua Bengio, of DNN fame, talked about their early efforts in analog computing. Here are some related slides of his: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/talks/Brains+Bits-NIPS2...
> "You can totally quit heroin! Just stop taking it"
"Oh and if all your friends are doing it and are wondering why you're not having fun with them, just ignore them"

The heroin analogy is lazy and irrelevant. The reason people say stuff like "try doing X to quit or cut down" is that, unlike heroin, a fairly large chunk of people who've recognized the problem have been pretty able to easily cut down or stop their "dopamine addiction" to the level that they're comfortable with.

If heroin had such a high success rate from going cold turkey, you can be damn sure that people would be saying "try going cold turkey" or "try this specific path to quitting", because it's worked for so many others. There are successful suggestions on this thread that amount to "I deleted my dealer's number from my phone and poof problem gone".

That isn't to say that these will definitely work for everyone: some people have a more severe problem when it comes to their relationship to dopamine. But it's awfully self-centered to complain about people talking about things that have been successful for them and others.
Original Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Semi-official Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page
>What extra thing is the broker doing?

The broker is causing the closing to happen by finding and satisfying the buyer along with the buyer's many, many issues with most properties.
I think it's because you know significantly more about the legal battle than the average person. Now, a jury may not be convinced by this stunt, that I'll give.
>10 years later the interest you earn on it will be more than the 30% you are putting in.

How?

5% interest, $1,000 monthly injections, compounded monthly over 10 years. $120k in deposits, $36k in interest.
Let me offer a different viewpoint.

Redfin absolutely serves a purpose, but in some markets, notably for my case very hot markets, it's a significant impediment. I really wanted redfin to work, shopping in seattle 2 years ago. I tried for almost a year, but they would consistently be not as contactable or prompt as we wanted, and gave us very erroneous advice when it came to crafting offers on some houses we wanted. As a result we lost out on houses when we could have been competitive.

Eventually we got a very solid realtor, who was aggressive in finding us houses that would slip through our normal searches (the house we ended up buying had been on the market for a long time at a higher price than they eventually relisted it for, in an area we had discounted.) When a bidding war started, he worked with us by being connected with the selling agent, gave us very accurate hints on how we'd need to push and what would work to our advantage, and landed both the deal and some back and forth that happened after.

Downside, this was after 2 years of searching and losing out on houses I frankly today still regret not getting. An hour+ commute sucks, and I attribute some of my early failures to not getting an experienced/knowledgeable/active realtor earlier.

YMMV but that's the caveat from my experience.
>Did you call it pixel mixing in the 80s? I've been doing image resizing for decades and never heard the term before tonight.

I hadn't either. I just searched for a name for the algorithm I also came up with independently. The imagemagick docs had a particularly comprehensive discussion on resizing options and linked this page with this naming for the algorithm.
That's not particularly relevant to the question of whether a fraudster should be able to shut down your account simply by offering to pay the current bill.
That would eliminate fees entirely as well, unless you're proposing an additional "fee" output. That would take additional space, which means it won't flow as space is at a premium. I don't know of any wallet software that would let someone do this, so this must have been a manually-created transaction.
If you've received 10 $1000 payments from your job in bitcoin and now want to buy a brand new $10 000 toaster, you'll have to create a transaction that has 10 inputs and one output.

A more typical example is a miner who receives very frequent payouts from a mining pool over the course of a few months, and then wants to send all of their money to a bitcoin exchange to pay for their power.

Some people create massive transactions just to mess with the bitcoin network, too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: Someone lower in the comments asked why people create large transactions to mess with the network, and I don't really know for sure--some people have unknown motivations, or want to prove a political point. Some are public, and I assume some are done secretly. Here's an example of one that was public: https://multibit.org/blog/2015/06/23/bitcoin-network-stress-...
The investors don't control the company. Only the board does. Sometimes that includes investors but it definitely doesn't control all of them. The board is required to do what's best for ALL shareholders, even if that means lower returns for some of them.

Uber raised $9B (1). Presumably this is all preferred stock or convertible debt, which is paid out 100% in an acquisition. That means investors only lose money and if Uber is acquired for under $9B. Over $9B, then investors and common shareholders splits the proceeds according to their ownership (2).

I'm simplifying as the liquidation preference matters based on the different valuations that investors paid.

For example, if Uber is acquired for $30B, then all the investors who paid above that valuation, would get their money back first. Then remaining investors and common shareholders would get their % split of the remaining pool of capital.

1) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber#/entity

2)Usually this is how it works, but sometimes the terms vary.
The best? Write your own blockchain; speaking from experience.

The easiest? Read https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/.
Thank you! I had a ton of fun with that, so there are a lot of cute details to find. (For example, check out where the social media "share" buttons on the blog posts go)
The problem is there are multiple new implementations that are better suited to do fast cheap transactions. Bitcoin is the Myspace of crypto.
One line that made an impression on me when I read this book a few years ago:

"Having GNU Emacs is like having a dragon's cave of treasures"

Meanwhile, the best I can muster about most tools I'm required to work with on a daily basis is:

"This mostly works, I guess"

RIP, Bob
Yep. https://github.com/mikemaccana/eslint-must-use-await

Gotta add it it to the README.md!
I love https://www.cloudpeeps.com/ to find jobs (esp freelance / contract)

I've had some luck with LinkedIn auto-fill (I got one FT job and I don't recall the interview rate). But not the best.
The fastest dogs
I would love to see some real data on this. I hear the blame for high real estate prices go to Chinese foreigners very frequently, yet I have never seen any real facts.

This is what I see happening with real estate right now.
I feel like the majority of people who are driving up the prices are the people who were lucky to buy property at the right time and right place in the past and are cashing in now and trading up to a much nicer property in a different less expensive city or even in the same city they live in.

It can make sense to stay in the same city and trade up, the economy is better now, they most likely have higher paying jobs and their profits from their old property effectively reduces the cost of new properties to house prices many years ago assuming they use their profit as a down payment.

It is the people who were not homeowners before who are suffering in this market. This is why house values have no attachment to wages. Wages are not what are determining prices. It is the profits from previously purchased property which is fueling this market.
Back before I switched to FastMail, I did actually have to keep an eye on my Gmail spam folder, because stuff I wanted would end up there every now and then.

And the very subject of this article is emails that people want to receive getting filed into spam by Gmail (but not by other mail hosts).
If you read the indictment, you'll see that it is very clear that it was not a straightforward or honest mistake.

Here's just one small tip, of many: If you're buying antiquities from a war-torn region, and the seller tells you to instead wire the money to eight different people, none of whom is him, it's possible that this transaction is not on the up and up.

Oh, and a second tip: if you're legally exporting things you think you bought lawfully, don't disguise them as something else.

But yeah... I get it, you're not really interested in the truth of the matter. You're just trying to pretend that you're smart or some crap like that.
Meh, there are plenty more cracks in sidewalks, open fields, and poorly kept yards than there are mowed lawns. Dandelion evolution probably isn't optimizing for mowed lawns any time soon.
No, I'm saying content that users find helpful and useful will get rank naturally. Tutorials for example, teach people something, they'll link to it. No one likes spam, you can't dress up spam and make it useful, if the only point of your site is selling stuff, you're always going to be fighting for rank and traffic because your site isn't useful. Build a site that's useful first, monetize it second; sites that only exist to make money will not get organic traffic, they don't offer anything useful.

People have to want to come to your site and get something useful for free, interesting content. Look at your site, take off all the products, what's left... if it's nothing, your site will never attract organic traffic because it's a spam site hocking someone else's products. Build a site that attracts and builds an audience first, then monetize it with relevant links to affiliate stuff and you won't have to always play the SEO game. SEO is for shitty sites that don't offer anything of value in and of themselves.

Viral is just another word for extremely interesting, but normal interesting has quite a long tail. However viral marketing is the proof of what I'm saying, first be interesting, that gets eyeballs, and eyeballs can be monetized. If you're just a shopping cart site selling someone else's products, you have no draw, why would I ever come to your site, I can just go to amazon or one of the other big name sites. So you need either something interesting, or something unique you're selling I can't find anywhere else.

This guy https://www.culturehustle.com/collections/frontpage/products... can barely keep up with demand, you know why... because I can't find another product like that anywhere, it's unique, so it doesn't have to be interesting.
Not to be trusted. Likes JavaScript.
>If you image is not a square power of two, pixel mixing will have artifacts.

I've implemented it generally by weighing the pixels by the actual area overlapping so border pixels get weights <1.0 for non power of two reductions. Haven't seen any artifacts from it.
I didn't really believe the hype until I tried it myself this year. My primary focus had been just lifting heavy and doing regular cardio, but with diet as a secondary factor (lift big, eat big mindset).

Fasting really opened my eyes to the complexity of human metabolism. Even a humble OMAD/IF (one meal a day/intermittent fasting) approach is apparently worthwhile, as it produced benefits I have never experienced during or after exercising.

The effects to me are mind-blowing, even without really modifying any other variables (I probably consume similar/more calories when doing OMAD/IF). My favorite change by far is the improvement to cognition. I feel like regular fasting is akin to what the drug from the movie "Limitless" would do if it were a real thing. The focus levels alone... Basically the hardest coffee buzz you can imagine, but with a tremendous sense of calm. BDNF is a hell of a thing.
Since you didn't provide your domain name, I can't troubleshoot for you.

I recommend reading my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720344 and following the troubleshooting steps I outlined.
Imagine that Stripe has received a few hundred Bitcoin transactions in the last hour and they want to move all that BTC onto an exchange.
Well, the Bitcoin supporters are composed of a wide range of people. Some of them are too optimistic about the technology. Unlike some people thought, transactions are not cheap (although there are scaling plans to bring the current high cost down). Being your own bank is not easy. All the things that the current banking system does is not useless overhead. So, you can't just throw it all out. OTOH, crypto-currencies potentially allow nearly anyone to be a bank if they want. That could lead to innovation and reduced banking costs. Right now, it is the "wild west" and so caution is advised.
Google's new startup uses energy from your lawn to heat your home
An excellent question.

Perhaps around the same time that underlying beliefs supersede reason.
This is beautiful. What exactly is preventing you from monetizing through ads? Also, did you post the site on r/gaming and /v/?
LiveGQL: GraphQL Subscription Library on iOS
alas, still google...
There are actually quite a few protocols whose clients use SRV resource records.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html
It's weird how you can provide significant economic resources to a terrorist organization and get off with a paltry fine, but the FBI is willing to sting mentally-disabled people and throw them in jail[1]

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-an... http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-pey...
>"Yes, and just as sometimes a pre-existing unaffiliated business signs up with a commercial franchise, sometimes a pre-existing unaffiliated jihad group would join al-Qaeda."

No you are completely wrong. This is exactly how you become part of Al Queda - you start an affiliate. This is not some grey area:

"As such, AQ’s dominant strategy since 2001 has been to encourage affiliate organizations to attack the West, sometimes with financial or operational support. [40] AQ gained affiliates post-9/11, as several groups either emerged or reoriented themselves to pledge allegiance to bin Laden. These groups included Al Qaeda in Yemen (AQY) (which later became Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP), Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which have been among the most deadly AQ affiliates throughout the 2000s'

Source:
http://web.stanford.edu/group/mappingmilitants/cgi-bin/group...
The question isn't does it work, it's how long does it work for.

For example, diets work. But most have a fall-off-the-wagon rate in the couple of months range.

It's definitely easy to quit a social media platform cold turkey. The hard part is quitting social media. I have yet to see anyone who's actually quit social media as a whole (yes that def includes email and texting) and kept with it for more than a month.

Social media addiction in the modern world is a lot like food addiction. Sure you're addicted, but you still gotta eat or you die. Sure you're addicted, but without social media you can't be a functioning member of current society.

Hell, I had one of those "I quit the internet" articles on the frontpage of HackerNews a few years ago. You know what happened? I quit all social media, but I needed access to Github to do my work. So I started friending people and being all social media on Github.

[1] https://swizec.com/blog/my-ideas-are-shitty-so-im-going-on-a...
[2] https://swizec.com/blog/the-end-of-my-internet-diet-experime...
A big list of startup grants for the UK based entrepreneurs
How Instagram Learns from Your Likes to Keep You Hooked
More complex though, is the ripple effect each has on others, dependency on others etc...

Far more nuanced than Maslow's

A shitty team can produce great code - a great team can produce shitty code. A shitty leader can kill a great team. an existential problem can destroy the value of any data-set. etc...

overall I totally agree with you and OP, and thinking through this is a great idea.
Interviewing Borgmann, Part 1
These are fair points. I feel like it was a net positive for me, personally, but yeah, results may vary.
That issue should have basically been in the press release; it's a lot clearer when they dump the branding and focus on actual concrete features they provide.
Give it another million years or so, assuming humans last that long.
“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me"

Orwell, 1984 - A very sad day, a very poor decision:

"Today, the W3C announced that it would publish its DRM standard with no protections and no compromises at all, stating that W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee had concluded that the objections raised "had already been addressed" or that they were "overruled."

"EFF understood that the W3C had members who wanted to make DRM, so we suggested a compromise: a covenant, modeled on the existing W3C member-agreement, that would require members to make a binding promise only to use the law to attack people who infringed copyright, and to leave people alone if they bypassed DRM for legal reasons, like making W3C-standardized video more accessible for people with disabilities.

This was a very popular idea. It was endorsed by Unesco, by the Internet Archive, by the creator of the W3C's existing membership agreement, by hundreds of top security researchers, by the competition expert who coined the term "Net Neutrality", and by hundreds of human rights organizations and activists from the global south. The Open Source Initiative amended its definition of "open standard" so that DRM standards could only qualify as a "open" if they protected legitimate activity.

Now, it's fair to say that the W3C's DRM advocates didn't like the idea. After a perfunctory discussion process (during which some progress was made), they walked away from the negotiations, and the W3C decided to allow the standardization work to continue despite their unwillingness to compromise."[1]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...
A trash bot would really be something to see. I'd pay a lot in taxes for that. Add in some ML matrix-stirring to watch out for fauna, and you have taken out ~70% of forest rangers jobs. Heck, just make a Park Ranger bot, cleans trash, scolds tourists, takes entry fees, fights fires; it'd be pretty nice.
http://lickth.is/new

I built the first version of LICK in 2015 because I was frustrated with the (then) state of distributed note taking. And because I wanted Sublime Text-like editing capabilities. I... didn't really have a business plan, but I guess I had hoped to retrofit features into later versions. Being a (not) starving bootstrapping developer filled a fun space in my life, but then life got in the way.

I made the 'new' version to prove a point last year, but it's riddled with bugs and flaws. I still use it religiously to plan my smaller projects, and my shopping. If I had to do it all again, I would have shipped sooner. Duh. Maybe someday, it'll dethrone the mighty Evernote – but until then, it's my glass castle... :)
I'm not sure how are you interpreting the "constraints". Yes, it's difficult to adapt existing games to VR, but it's possible. Having proper artificial locomotion for 95% of the public and comfortable teleport based motion for the remaining 5% sounds like a good compromise.
As someone who bought my first house without a realtor involved at all. I don't know what value they could have added. Thanks to Zillow, Redfin and the like it was a piece of cake to locate a house. I found one that was for sale by owner that I liked, we negotiated on a price and came to an agreement. There was a lot of paperwork, but I'm literate and can read. Most of the complex stuff was with the loan and the title company, both of which were more than happy to walk me through the steps of each.

I really have no idea what tens of thousands of dollars extra would have bought me. I don't need someone to hold my hand and look at cars with me either.
As a former ICPC world finalist who later worked at Google, I would say that practicing for programming contests is almost like cheating as far as Google interviews are concerned. The Google interview format is almost identical to the ICPC practice sessions I did in college.

I've seen this video before, and IMO the extreme similarity between programming contest questions and Google interview questions could explain the negative correlation. Specifically, borderline engineers with programming contest experience are more likely to get hired than borderline engineers without programming contest experience, and therefore the set of Google engineers with programming contest experience includes more borderline people than the set of Google engineers without programming contest experience. Thus the slight negative correlation.
Semantically that is problematic. You don't know who the person who successfully mines the transaction is going to be so there is technical no "output" to give it to until the block is mined.

Perhaps an extra header field with the fee amount that needs to match the unspent inputs would work.

Edit: and as another commenter pointed out, if you set the output to someone other than the miner you are doing a 0 fee transaction which is discouraged and in bitcoin, highly unlikely to end up in a block.
The title of the post understates the claim in the link, which is that, "being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job".
Cool, I wasn't talking about cost though. I asked if coal could be made clean enough to compete with other forms of energy generation in that context.
Oberon.

Details in this excellent summary comment by someone else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9848097

I specifically recommend studying the "Project Oberon" book which is now available as a PDF from Prof. Wirth's own site, I believe.
heh, the famous "I can't believe that you would doubt me! I've gone through the data five times already... ...oh..."
https://zonewatcher.com
After having multiple clients change their DNS settings without warning and then email us when shit hits the fan I knew I needed some type of warning system.
This checks every X minutes and saves each version so you can see the revision history for all your DNS zones across many providers.

I make ~$50 a month right now with it, which is enough to cover the hosting. I haven't really marketed it much beyond my twitter circle of friends but hopefully others will find it useful.

It took about 3 weekends worth of work to complete and is based on Laravel Spark.
FWIW there are other mail clients that add snoozing behavior to arbitrary mail providers. For example, the Spark app will snooze emails on my FastMail account. I don't personally use that functionality, but I know it exists.