skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy made a lot of financial mistakes. His earnings are many many multiples higher than people from less fortunate countries, even after adjusting for cost of living.

>"Ate eggs for days, while waiting with my last 5$" ??
Eggs are no-where near the cheapest food you can get. eggs are 12$/2000 calories!! He should've gotten oatmeal -> at 70c per pound, it comes out to less than 1$ per/2000 cals. And I'm sure this is only the tip of the ice berg of financial mistakes, as he's making over 50K per year average.

But, there's a bigger message we can draw from this.
1. We desperately need better personal finance training - it should be a primary subject taught in k-12

2. We need to get housing costs down. The most important money you spend is shelter - everyone needs shelter, everyone deserves it. It's appalling that in over a hundred years we haven't made any progress at all in this industry. And by progress, I mean, nationwide: the cost of housing relative to inflation has not decreased at all. Some states have been regressing to the extreme: California. Part of the solution: Get rid of all housing regulation that prevents innovation in this industry.

Outside of housing cost, there's many ways to save, it just takes some research.
I made a python module / cli utility to collect all the log events that would usually be emailed to me throughout the day, aggregate them, and send digests on schedules based on their importance: https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify
Smart Contracts by definition aren't hackable. The "attacker" just found a loophole or unintended effect in their contract and used it. An Ethereum hack would be like, I dunno, finding an exploit in the implementation of the VM or something.
All those claiming that coinbase is planning to run segwit2x, please link to a statement provided by a representative of that company. I think you are just talking bullshit.
Something like this has been around a while in the enterprise world. Take a look at Cucumber for Java or the C# port SpecFlow. The test cases are the documentation.
I personally do 9-5 with a 30 minute lunch, maybe 60 minutes if I meet a friend or something. A lot of startups tend to have flexible hours, especially for software engineers. I've worked in places where some engineers don't get in until 10:30, but they stay until 7:30. There are a lot of people who work overtime, though, like 9am-9pm, but I've never been that type, and nobody has ever complained about my productivity, so it seems like a personal preference. I prefer to come in early and leave a little early, because I value my time with my family and friends much more than I do a couple more hours at the office. I learned a long time ago that there will always be more work to do tomorrow.

I think the hours that work for you really depend on how much time you need to be by yourself. If you're busy with meetings during the 10am-4pm hours, then maybe you want to get in early at 8am or leave later at 7pm so that you have some alone time to get work done without being pestered by others.

I contrast this experience with my jobs in Chicago and Atlanta, where 9-6 was expected, and if you showed up late you would get in trouble. I haven't really experienced that in SF or SV, unless there was a 9am meeting that I missed because I was late. (Hasn't happened yet, but it's the only reason I would get yelled at.)
These cases are not subtle at all. You can understand a good number of them with barely the knowledge from an Intro to Java class- iterator invalidation, data races, etc.

There is no need to understand the particulars of C or C++ to do or appreciate safe systems programming.
Party City invests $4M in Punchbowl
No, OP said:

> I'm obsessed with performance. The entire application is about 4 MB, and it's never going to be more than 10 MB. In fact there are still many things to optimize. It's native, so you don't need to download a 100 MB browser just to use your IM client.
I'm genuinely surprised that Facebook hasn't capitalized on the social aspect of watching TV. The prevalence of "watching parties", immediate episode reviews, and instant commentary on the released episodes/shows should point to the large opportunity here. I've wanted to create a startup around this - the ability to "watch a show with your friends" remotely. The problem is that the content is often locked down via Netflix or something, so you'd need an in there. But the opportunities are huge! Imagine watching the presidential debates, or sporting events, in tandem with other people. That would be amazing. Unfortunately, locking down the content is still in the way.
You are the exception though. The statistical fact is that most people are like notyourwork, myself included. I'm absolutely horrible at this. I buy a huge bag of potatoes because even if I waste half the bag (although usually I'm not that bad) it's cheaper than buying a few as needed. I want to use them all but I just don't get around to it in time.
> There are no ads

There are ads. Audio ads between songs.
Trump Administration Allows 15,000 Temporary Worker Visas
I'm sure nobody is saying that it isn't worth trying if there's no risks. It's just that for a lot of therapies that aren't studied, we haven't really figured out what the adverse effects are.

Like, look at homeopathy. At it's surface, the theory behind using natural "things" at different doses causing either therapeutic or toxic effects isn't really wrong. In fact, it's probably our foundation for pharmacology. But telling someone that it's probably safe to take x amount of something that hasn't undergone any clinical trials for toxic or side effects doesn't sit well with me. Of course, I'm also assuming that these clinical trials are rigorous and transparent.
How did they make Cider proprietary, when WINE is Gplv2 (as far as I know)?
Launch HN: Audm (YC S17) – Longform Magazine Articles in Audio
Hi HN! We are Christian and Ryan (rtw2101) of Audm (https://www.audm.com/ and https://appstore.com/audm/audm). Audm is an iPhone app that lets you listen to the best longform (3000 words or longer) magazine articles from titles including The Atlantic, Wired (plus Backchannel), Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Foreign Policy, Outside, The New York Review of Books, and a bunch of others.

We were big podcast fans, but we knew that most of the world’s best storytellers write for top-tier magazines. We also love audiobooks (when they’re read by really gifted narrators), so we knew that stories written for print often work well in audio. So we built Audm.

We release most stories in the app at the same moment they hit the magazines’ websites. Right now we produce 5-8 articles (3-5 hours of audio) per week, and that number is growing fast as we onboard more publications. Our subscribers seem to have an insatiable appetite.

Something that we didn’t fully appreciate when we started (although our users did) is just how skilled a narrator has to be if they’re going to sound good reading articles that are dense with information and nuanced ideas (which often means very complex sentence structure). We’ve become extremely opinionated about narrators.

We’d love your feedback!

Thanks all,
Ryan and Christian
What's the alternative? If it becomes trivial to fabricate voice recordings in general, surely you wouldn't advocate that we continue allowing them as evidence?
On the subject of stripping the watermarks, Custos says this on their website:

Custos employs three roles in the search for infringed media.
The first group is the bounty hunters who are anonymous
individuals in the piracy communities who use Custos’s freely
available bounty extraction tool for their personal gain. The
second role is that of Custos’s trusted enterprise partners:
these are existing providers of web crawling solutions that
are enabled to search for Custos-protected content too. The
third role is that of Custos’s internal forensic team, who can
also discover infringed content.

The note about their "Internal forensic team" implies that there will be a secondary watermarking system, whose implementation is kept a secret. This means leakers will never be able to be sure whether they have completely removed all of the watermark systems.
It's not so much that people end up with a lot more food than they need and throw it out. It's the wastage at the supermarket and elsewhere in the distribution chain. Furthermore, I suspect the meal kit companies are tending to replace takeout of various sorts and eating out more than they're replacing conventional shopping and cooking.

And there's lots of waste throughout in those cases even when it's not visible.

It's hard to quantify any of that but, plastic bags or not, I suspect Blue Apron is relatively environmentally friendly.
I actually just reset my Mint account yesterday to try and budget better! It wasn't connecting to my bank and credit card accounts before but it seems to be okay now.
At the heart of it is piss-poor basic education. Math, reading comprehension, decision making, critical thinking.

Budweiser is the king of beers, it says so on the label.
The World Series is the world championship in baseball.
etc etc etc.

However - this is great for the overall economy. The US is breeding the perfect customer, that can be sold anything at any time.

You can see it in startups too, you can sell product based on a powerpoint, a "vision". 9 out of 10 with nothing behind it. It would never, ever, fly in Germany for example. People there assume a scam before anything else.

So, shit for individuals, great for the overall economy. Pick your poison.
As someone who has used and enjoyed meal kits (Good Eggs, not Blue Apron), I don't think this is a slam dunk for Amazon. Meal kits are a lot more than recipes and portioning.

I have 2 small kids so meal planning is hard to do consistently. I can whip up a chicken breast and veggie, but what I get from Good Eggs is seasonal recipes and fresh produce sourced directly from local farmers PLUS prepared elements including marinated meat and sauces.

So when I cook a meal kit I'm getting a much better meal (more like a dinner party meal) for about the same effort as a barebones meal I would make otherwise.

I have used Instacart and bought prepared stuff from Whole Foods, and there just isn't a comparison. In SF, I often get or see old/bruised produce in Whole Foods which used to be consistently good.
From my understanding of general health evidence, your best bet is:

* Avoid smoking and excessive drinking (excess is easier to reach than you think!).

* Eat a healthy diet (not too many calories, not too many carbs, not too much saturated fat -- in order of descending importance).

* Get regular exercise. Aerobic and anaerobic, plus flexibility. You want to be supple, strong and healthy.

* Avoid occupational hazards -- for the HN crowd, probably eye problems and posture problems. Just taking regular breaks from the screen will go a long way here.

* Make sure you get good healthcare, especially when you're older (60+).

* Have good genetics. (Sorry, not much you can choose about this one.)
An article that talks about the purpose of SegWit 2x:

https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/the-corporate-takeover-attemp...
If ColinWright could read the millions correctly, what is your problem, Talbotson? Anyone with simple common sense could read that as millions. You seem to be just sprinkling your comments rudely everywhere, including in my post.

What gives, Talbotson, what is your problem?
This is really anecdotal, and I don't have a ton of experience with iPad versions of board games, but I've tried several on Android and it feels like all of them are just slightly rough around the edges. It's really hard to put my finger on it but something about them is just slightly unsatisfying to use. Maybe it's the performance or lack of snappy animations or sounds. Hearthstone is one that feels pretty good to play.
Heres an idea then, don't make bullshit claims you cant back up.
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Loans are not given out freely like that, easiest loan you can get is credit card and loans from loan sharks. But a bank loan? You have to explain for what, and have a collateral.
I think music was far more important in the early/mid 2000s in terms of getting people to buy Macs and iPods. Just anecdotal experience, plus remembering when iTunes wasn't available for Windows.
This sort of personal attack will quickly get an account banned, so please don't post like this here. Instead, please (re)-read the following, and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
You could always pay $2 for 0.001 bitcoin. ;)
I think it is about the quality of life, otherwise you might not live 100 years, but you might feel like it... My recepie is enjoy everything in moderation and this includes single malt and cohibas
I've always liked this visualization of the Bias-Variance tradeoff: http://www.eggie5.com/110-bias-variance-tradeoff
Preserving the file structure and deriving information from it at runtime (__FILE__, require, etc) is still totally not AOT compilation..

I can understand that you're just starting on the project and don't want to discourage you in anu way. But it might help if you reflect your projects goals but also the current status in the readme :)
Google guillotine falls on certificate authorities WoSign, StartCom
Is it just me and my biases, or does the author seems to have a consistently misguided view of each individual area and example described.

Perhaps this could be taken as interesting from some kind of "10th man rule" perspective? Otherwise it just seems like a lot of assertions based on causality I can't quite logically wrap my head around.
The only support it needs is hash power support. That's it. If enough of the hash power can be pulled into it, then it's game over for a minority chain. Running nodes costs almost nothing which means the network can be flooded with segwit2x supporting nodes, and companies will be motivated to switch over.
I always wonder how people external to an organisation can judge the work of an executive. Are you maybe solely looking at outcomes, that may only slightly be influenced by his decisions and dominated by randomness and other factors anyway?
I am not fan of Blue Apron, but just ability to have this kind of stupid patents is clearly anti-business and would support any measure to get rid of those.
Putting retention in the manager's evaluation without also supporting his efforts (e.g. with an appropriate budget) isn't fair to the manager.
Amazon is going to have giant advantages which will allow them to push the prices through the floor. The only thing that Blue Apron had going for it was the fact they had a giant markup on their product.

Amazon now has regional distribution centers in every major city. They have a network of vendors, they have a fleet of delivery trucks and contract drivers. Blue Apron is F'ed.
This seems to be a common practice in documenting exploits -- to purposefully leave out details that would make it able to cause actual damage in the wild.
I remember testing a web app on that in the early 2000s!
> A non-networked engine control unit is super hard to hack by simple virtue of being unreachable from the internet. I bet if you run a fuzzer against your perfectly safe aviation code you'd find lots and lots of security issues. But those issues aren't important.

Those examples are interesting, specifically because history has shown us this point of view to be erroneous through those exact systems.

Automotive control units that are supposed to be segregates from certain data channels sometimes aren't. That was the cause of the Jeep remote hijacking stuff.[1] Any automation has to have some inpute and output to be useful for more than anything as a heater, and assuming your inputs aren't "networked" may not be valid given you likely can't control exactly how it will be used now or in the future.

For aviation, there have been problems with assumptions regarding the integrity of the channels used for communication between planes and the ground. This has led to certain systems being exploitable, even if not as bad as the initial hype made it sound.[2]

1: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

2: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Pols...
Politico now has 20,000 paid subscribers that account for half of its revenue
WaveOptics Raises $16M to Create Optics for Small Form-Factor AR Headsets
Unless your family owns the company, no such thing exists.
WINE wasn't originally licensed under the GPL. Because of Cider's predecessor making a commercial fork of WINE, WINE relicensed to GPL to prevent further incorporation of WINE code without releasing source. Thus, Cider is ultimately based on a really old version of WINE. A lot of it will be original code.
Canistream.it exists. Most popular content is part or totally exclusive. Content is still king.
Meal-kit companies of today think they would re-shape food industry and build global ( or at least national brands ). If the market was split between the meal-kits ( Plated, Blue Apron, HelloFresh, HomeChef etc etc etc ) then it is possible that one of them would have become something rather big or at least profitable.

Instead what we have now is Amazon not just eating Whole Foods but taking away the customers from the meal-kit industry by taking them back into Whole Foods. So it is Amazon's global logistics + Amazon ops + Whole Foods supply chain in food business + Wholefoods profitability v. upstart with at best a couple of warehouses, some engineers, and a dozens minimum wage paid workers assembling kits. The pie available for the upstarts just became much smaller.

For Whole Foods entering a national meal-kit business is a no brainer. It has the needed footprint that dwarfs their meal-kit competitors, it has the logistics of the supply chain and places to distribute the deliveries out of ( Whole Foods stores ) and it has a brand familiar with and trusted by the same people who are targets of the meal-kit offerings. Blue Apron simply won't be able to complete with 2-3 hour delivery from Whole Foods. Not to mention every single thing that one needs to create the most complicated Blue Apron recipe is available at pretty much every Whole Foods immediately. Oh, and Whole Foods is profitable already. Oh, and they can make even more money upcharging.

Who can compete with Whole Foods? Your neighborhood grocery store. Why? Detailed local knowledge means knowing exactly who buys what, who lives where and when they are home. Delivery windows of 15 minutes. Prices lower than the prices at Whole Foods.

[Late addition below:]

The other advantage that local grocery stores/small chains would have over the nation-wide chain is that being Ramen Profitable after all costs is a great result for a stable business not looking at expansion.
Show me one instance of an underbanked person who achieved a line of credit thanks to cryptocurrency. Just one, please.

That's right, they don't exist, and this argument is bullshit.
My guess is that the returning of the supplies could result in a lower carbon footprint. The whole delivery system is optimized for getting products from supplier to receiver, so there's a decent amount of unused capacity for getting items back into the delivery system. The "last mile" delivery trucks progress from full to near empty throughout the day and likely already pass or get super close to homes that could be returning packaging thus keeping the vehicle near capacity throughout the day. Once back into the delivery network the returning packaging should fill existing extra capacity especially as it get's closer to the supplier where they're already shipping out a much higher volume than they are receiving. Just a guess, but that's how I've rationalized it ;)
Middle-east Faces 10,000-year Drought, study shows
Thanks! I have some videos online of presentations I did at last year's OpenVMS Boot Camp. Some with diagrams :-) My apologies for the sometimes poor audio quality.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwebt4CzDP_hT2rHCm8Sw...
Culture is everything that outlasts us: buildings, language, tools, social calendars, contracts, habits, etc.

Changing the buildings is changing the culture. You identify a complete resource cycle, like a weekly grocery habit, and design a replacement. Drop it in, look for another one.

Demand is a trailing indicator. Significant demand for integrated permaculture living won't happen until long after the concept is proven and started scaling.
My view here is that crypto-currency doesn't have to be better, but it has to exist so that fiat currencies have something to compete against, and then the users have a choice. It should be guided by normal market laws as any two financial products, e.g. if your view of insurance proves a valuable market insight, I am sure that insurers will consider doing it for crypto.

News like this are common for any emerging markets and technologies. Same amount of volatility was probably present in the first years of dollar, and same amount of insecurity was present while banks and credit cards were still being established.

I wonder how much different the crypto-currency conversation would have been if they appeared around the time when dollar lost its gold convertibility.
Ask HN: How much are you earning as a freelance app developer?
What are you averaging per year, as a freelance app developer?
42% of respondents from a 2006 gallup poll said they paid off in full: http://www.gallup.com/poll/22879/Credit-Card-Owners-Average-...
From what I saw based on my app (released over a year ago), installs lags, but reviews don't. I think installs lag only for a day, but maybe they lag for longer due to some factor such as a different country or a holiday/weekend
If you carry a $10 balance, you're probably giving up the free float. Since I pay the card off each month, I get between 31 and 61 days of free float on purchases. If I don't pay it off in a given month, finance charges accrue from the date the charge is posted.

As to having utilization on the card, normal usage is enough to ensure that there is always a balance due on the card anyway. (If you spend money on the card regularly, the payment you send in August is for things you bought in July and by the time it posts, you have more August charges on the card, meaning the balance is only ever zero if you do a massive return or if you have a multi-week spending embargo hit at just the time the credit company pulls your report.)
However keep in mind that WoSign is also used for Authenticode timestamping - so fully distrusting it might be tricky on Windows systems.
I don't think those two things are necessarily permanently linked together.
I'm not sure that will ever happen, at least without changing languages.

Autovectorization alone is difficult in C and C++ because the languages provide almost no useful information about aliasing. Precise aliasing info is just the tip of the iceberg regarding what you would need for GPU-based autovectorization.
> No one is going to have a monopoly of the food business, ever. It just doesn't work that way.

http://imgur.com/pnMMj

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ConAgra_brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum!_Brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.

We aren't there yet, but the trend line is pretty clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcE4OvnqAY
Fair, but it's also down >2x in 1 month so...
Bitcoin = Death Processors
Eggs are $1/dozen which is 1000cal, unless you buy pasture eggs.

Oatmeal is low on fat and protein
Can you explain why for those of us not following as the bitcoin turns closely.
Miners can mine segwit2x blocks all they wish, but since services/exchanges are running core client, they are just mining invalid blocks from their viewpoint, and those blocks are ignored. That means miners can't sell their mined segwit2x bitcoins on exchanges. Mining blocks that services don't accept would be very, very stupid, essentially throwing good money to trash.