skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, fixed. Page is now public. I've done some d3 for my last job (custom internal reports) but it was painful. I've done real-time stuff through websockets recently (http://editfight.com/). And a little canvas to teach my oldest son that he can make Mario in the browser. But that's it.
While this sounds nice, I've heard too many Kaiser horror stories from family in the DC area to ever consider them even if it were an option. They've nearly killed at least three relatives of mine. If your current doctor's approach is not working, there's usually nothing you can do about it. You are only allowed two opinions, both of whom work for the same people.
Online resources are often shallow in content. I prefer to deep dive into a topic and truly learn it inside and out by reading a good book. Blogs and tutorials don't give you that deep insight.
Hi all!
Despite the huge profit we earn, we are closing our activity. Let me explain why.

I'm bitcoin enthusiast since 2011. When we started this service I was convinced that any Bitcoin user has a natural right to privacy. I was totally wrong. Now I grasped that Bitcoin is transparent non-anonymous system by design. Blockchain is a great open book. I believe that Bitcoin will have a great future without dark market transactions. You may use Dash or Zerocoin if you want to buy some weed. Not Bitcoin.

I hope our decision will help to make Bitcoin ecosystem more clean and transparent. I hope our competitors will hear our message and will close their services too. Very soon this kind of activity will be considered as illegal in most of countries.

Cheers,
Bitmixer.IO

If you take what he says at face value, it's that he's no longer interested in supporting Bitcoin because it didn't live up to his privacy expectations.

Edit: commenters below are right and I was wrong. He's really saying that he no longer feels like the Bitmixer service is needed because he no longer believes that Bitcoin should be anonymous.
On one hand, the Democrats did not have control of congress to pass whatever they wanted when the ACA was passed. On the other hand, the Democratic party of the US has never fought with any fervor against Republicans on pretty much anything. The closest I have seen in my lifetime to democratic resistance was to the most blatantly and obviously stupid and racist decisions Trump has made like travel bans and appointing fossil fuel and wall street banker execs and investors to every cabinet position. In the Bush years, there was practically no resistance at all. Bipartisan support for the evil Patriot Act and disastrous No Child Left Behind. No adherence to any ideology or conviction.

Probably the most important realization for the average American in the current political climate is how no party establishment represents you. Both have their sponsors, and none of them are the American people. Individual politicians might have more empathy than others and some might try to help the common man more than another, but they all still have their bosses and despite whatever rhetoric we throw around in almost every election (aside the scant few in contested states and counties) the people are not holding their leash, so they don't work for you.

It is like climate change. It doesn't matter how you want to argue about solving it, it is simply acknowledging the reality that has to happen first and moving on from there on a unified foundation of fact.
On Python's lambda and closures
See: Japan where the government decides the price of procedures.

On national health insurance (monthly cost depends on your salary but for an average person it is a few hundred bucks per month) the hospital pays 70% and patient pays 30%.

It means basic visits to the doctor or dentist are very cheap here. Like $20 for consultation + medicine. ER+X-rays and MRI (appendicitis, sigh) was a little bit over $100.
You are right, that's been the issue.
And I thought I stumbled upon some mystery part of HN that I've never seen before lol
This is relevant http://longorshortcapital.com/wp-content/att_history_chart.j...
I've wanted to do work like this too and build sites but then I think why wouldn't they just use Wordpress?
> So yes, Apple's attempt to kill the aux jack was definitely premature, even among young tech savvy people.

Not sure what you mean by this, it is the best selling iphone.
It isn't "new" of course, but it's been greatly, greatly expanded. Back around that time, if you considered, say a school district... it'd be nearly a given that most of those people were employees of the school district. Nowadays? Practically the opposite.

So I guess what I was trying to say was, while it isn't new, it's become so common that one could say that things have basically "tipped".

And it's the idea that this state of affairs is somehow "standard" -- is what's the invention.
TIL you can hide domain registration and of two companies which aid in this. To be honest this concerns me more than the fate of the website.
Plain old copper has seen similar "appreciation":

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1219210/000119312513...

Of course none of that ever makes it to the consumer, investment is stagnant or down and all this tech ends up achieving is accommodating higher Internet penetration (and customer counts).

Here is the DOCSIS evolution:

http://www.cablelabs.com/full-duplex-docsis/

All this cable infrastructure previously wasted on free to air crap has turned into a veritable gold mine with no further investment and tech again making up for all the growth so you don't have to spend any.

Sure, Moore isn't helping dig trenches but he sure has been tremendously helpful in turning that ole shitty copper wiring financed by Uncle Sam into a lot of green.
Owner says: "Bitcoin has no future with drug/weapon traffic or any other illegal activity."

Cash and gold trade has done well for thousands of years. As another commenter put it:

"If you truly believe in bitcoin as a currency then it should be used to buy anything and everything good or bad."

The most likely explanation is government pressure coming from side channels, but nothing specific. Likely has a warning shot fired across his bow and he's getting out of it with these idealistic words as his message.
The gyromagnetic ration of a truly elementary particle is g=2. With the current theories, a electron has a cloud of virtual particles, but no internal structure. With this assumptions the theoretical value is approximately g=2+2.alfa/2pi+...~=2+1/(137*pi). The experimental value of the g of the electron agree with the theoretical value up to 14 digits, so it's a very good hint that the electron is really an elementary particle.

Obviously there can be future theory were the electron has internal structure, but it will be a breakthrough, not a small fix.

The theoretical and experimental value of g for a muon almost agree, but only 10 digits. So there is a small chance of something interesting there. But IIRC most people think that it may be a new particle in the cloud of virtual particles, not an internal structure of muons.

Protons and neutrons have internal structure, a lot of internal structure, so the value of g is a difficult to calculate number that is not 2. In particular, g=+5.6 and g=-3.8.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136832
Yes, you would possibly need to get a job for a few years. 18 is an arbitrary number but there needs to be a limit, and there will always be an example of a person who falls into this 'tragic' category.

Rationale: to prevent a massive influx of immigrants draining the treasury for free income, some of which they would probably send home, too. That wouldn't sit well with many people, nor be sustainable. There will of course, be people like in the situation you mentioned who feel marginally cheated, at least for a brief time.
You don't need it on a mac. You can take a screenshot of a part of the screen only, and it saves it to an image on your desktop, you can send to anyone.
I totally thought this was a different ReadMe. Do you ever get confused for these guys?

http://www.readmei.com

They're one of our licensees (of BeeLine Reader), and sometimes people send us customer support requests because they think they're owned by us. I had no idea there was a different ReadMe, but I suppose it's not surprising.

Presumably since you're in different markets, you can each own your respective trademarks?
That sounds more like he no longer believes that privacy is a good goal for legitimate cryptocurrencies and is stopping the service as an ideological stand against using bitcoin for anonymous transactions.
Unfortunately for the DNC, the costs many voters were measuring last November wasn't healthcare spending compared to GDP it was actual out of pocket costs that have risen dramatically for many working class Americans.
At least they are only a monopoly in one relatively small sector. They have 1/3rd the revenue of Facebook, 1/10th the revenue of Google or MS and 1/20th the revenue of Apple, and unlike those companies, they probably won't be able to leverage their monopoly to gain a huge advantage in other sectors.
It would be nearly impossible for Apple to make an iPhone that doesn't sell well. The point is that people still use aux cables.
Well, at least they aren't exit scamming ...
Affluent Confidante: Anonymous thoughts of the wealthy, made public
I'm liking Paintbrush: https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/
Warrant canary?
> The organizations with enough resources to hack iOS devices aren't interested in sending mass emails to steal bank account details. The average iOS user who keeps their device up to date simply doesn't have to worry about malware and suggesting otherwise is misleading.

Again, no. Here's another counterexample (which is recent and appears to have been active on the App Store for ~1yr):

https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/acedecei...

"These malicious iOS apps provide a connection to a third party app store controlled by the author for user to download iOS apps or games. It encourages users to input their Apple IDs and passwords for more features, and provided these credentials will be uploaded to AceDeceiver’s C2 server after being encrypted."

That's not state actor stuff.

However, I shouldn't have to keep providing counterexamples to convince you of your absurd claims of practical invulnerability. Apple has not made any kind of security quantum leap: no one has. Apple's systems are vulnerable to the same types of flaws, by the same types of attackers, as any other system in wide use. The main difference is that Apple has restricted their platform to the extent they have an easier time implementing security best practices. iOS is still vulnerable to flaws Apple doesn't know about or hasn't patched, and those flaws can be exploited for as long as Apple remains unaware or fails to act. That's not fundamentally different position from Microsoft, Google, or any other similar company.
This reads to me like someone writing while a gun is pointed to his head.

It makes absolutely no sense, and it doesn't feel natural.

My guess is that they have been chased by some government agencies and now they are closing down and putting this message to show good faith.
I'm not the person you asked, and not a patterns expert, but will try to answer, using the Template Method Pattern (a GoF book pattern) [1] as an example:

- In Java [2] or C++, to implement that pattern, you may have to define an abstract class, or a class with some abstract and some concrete methods, and subclass it, and in the subclass, redefine some of the abstract methods (of the superclass) concretely. (Maybe interfaces can be used here instead of abstract classes/methods - in Java. Haven't used Java for a while, so not sure right now.)

- In Python, you can just do:

def transform(input, output):

# Code here to read data from input, transform it, and
# write the transformed data to output.

Now let's say the code in the transform function does input.read() and output.write() (with maybe some way to indicate when the end of input is reached, like the null string is used in Python). In other words, methods like those of Python file objects are used for reading and writing. Given all this, you can now pass objects of any types as arguments for the input and output parameters, as long as they implement a read and a write method respectively, and the code will just work.

This has been described as "smooth seamless polymorphism" in Python. It's also known as duck typing.

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

[1] The Template Method Pattern is one of the ways in which frameworks (as opposed to libraries) are implemented. The abstract methods of the framework are implemented concretely by your code that the framework then calls, using the Hollywood principle - Don't call me, I'll call you, a.k.a. Inversion of Control (IoC).

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

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

[2] Note that what I wrote is based on knowledge of older versions of Java - newer versions may have features that make the pattern simpler to implement, maybe without abstract classes/methods.
Figured it out, my ad blocker removed the URL from the discussion you linked to, so it ended up looking really odd on my end.
As a lyft rider, I am surprised to have had 3 lyft drivers who moved to the bay area in the 80s, own several houses and have a net worth of several million.

The conversations I have had with lyft drivers have been very interesting. Besides the convenience of not having to drive myself, meeting the drivers has been a wonderful experience. I've learned a lot.

Just today a driver told me:
if you are sad, you are too focused in the past,
stressed ... too focused on the present,
anxious ... too focused on the future.
Distributed Backups with Git and Etckeeper
Yeah, who would have guessed that money laundering could be profitable?
Show HN: CodeceptJS hits 1.0, with end to end tests for web and mobile
Lanyrd is a dead site walking. They were acquired by Eventbrite ~4 years ago, and haven't seen any meaningful updates since May 2014. Their social media accounts have been completely dead for two years. The site has frequent uptime and spam issues, and attempts to reach out to Eventbrite folks are met with complete silence.

And yet, it still exists, running along with juuust enough inertia to crowd out any potential replacements.

If you're reading this and work at Eventbrite: Please, lobby internally to put Lanyrd out of its misery.
He probably made so much money that he said "Hey, why risk it by continuing to run this business when I may someday face jail time. I know I am aiding criminals". Smart move to shut it down on your terms and look like a good guy rather than to continue profiting from criminal activity. Whatever your on opinion the various issues at play here there is absolutely no doubt that running this sort of service is extremely risky from a legal / political standpoint.

I wonder if the shutdowns last week played any his decision? Maybe he saw a large drop in volumes after the darknet markets were shut down and realized those use cases were much larger than he imagined.
SMS-based 2FA also gives companies a good excuse to collect users' mobile phone numbers — particularly sites for which one might not otherwise feel compelled to provide that information.

Not saying it was a good idea for security, but that probably made it easier to justify internally.
> Regarding the other comments: "if you somehow manage to write it correctly, the DAO might reverse your code by hard forking" and "the only solution they have is to break every contract in the system except the one large enough to perform a 51% attack on the blockchain."

> In one sentence it sounds like you're saying the DAO contract somehow reverses 3rd party correct code, and in the other that every contract gets broken (?) except one contract because it's large? and the contract (?) performs a 51% attack on the blockchain (?)

Yes. When the DAO broke, the Ethereum community banded together and performed a 51% attack on the Ethereum block chain, potentially breaking every other contract in the entire system, even correctly coded ones.
its actually aimed at lifting. athlete was probably the wrong word. What i meant was, its for people who need to lose weight and build muscle to meet weight classes / physique competitions etc. Its not for people who need a diet but don't want to exercise. Lifting is perfect.
I have used it, and it's ok, but snip feels like the evolution of it.
Because premium growth actually has slowed since Obamacare was passed: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/slower-premium-growth-under...
Ianal, but I thought that contractors normally get paid more than FTE, for the risk contacting implies.

Seems to me that a company is justified in treating them differently.
Any app that prompts m for a review is an automatic one star.
You can simply use SatoshiDice or any other gambling site to mix small quantities.
Mastodon first got on the frontpage 292 days ago, then a second time 203 days ago (https://joinmastodon.org). Federated network now more than 2,000 servers, 720,000 users, GitHub repository closing in on 10k stars. Pretty happy with that!
Aggregate bandwidth or rate is limited and is what costs money to increase but that's not what ISPs are charging for.

Do you think that everyone gets the aggregate rate they pay for? Do you think any ISP has capacity to deliver everyone their aggregate rate simultaneously? Does the combined bandwidth consumption of all customers over a given billing cycle approach the maximum theoretical bandwidth of the ISP? No, no, and no.

ISPs are charging for bandwidth like it's a commodity you buy at the store but if you buy a bag of rice at the store, the store doesn't take your left over rice at the end of the month and expect you to buy more. ISPs do though...
Ditto for both books, though I prefer The Effective Engineer to The Pragmatic Programmer. I found that quite a bit of the tactical advice in TPP is already standard practice (e.g. "always use source control"). Comparatively, TEE has more of an emphasis on project planning and team/company health, and I found that more useful for my work.
I was trying to suggest that it's already a lot to learn Javascript, CSS and HTML for absolute beginners. I don't think adding Rails to the mix does anything except make things more complicated. In another comment, I added that I wouldn't use Django, either, and suggested that Meteor or Firebase are probably a better place to start brand-new developers. The fewer new things you're throwing at them in one go, the better.

And if you look at the recently published (and fairly well received) IEEE language rankings, you'll see that Ruby is ranked 9th for the number of jobs, and has Java, C#, Python, and PHP ahead of it - all languages with one or more major web frameworks. Any of them would be a better choice for someone looking for work, according to these charts.

Also, let's be honest - in the scheme of things, no-one uses Ruby on the front-end.

[0] http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programm...
> A not so convincing conservative (counter) narrative that lumps up the arguably questionable nature of trigger warnings

Conservative? Can trigger warning exist without fearing something? I think the author describes evolution of fear.
You can measure whatever you like, but my costs have gone up nearly threefold and my plan is worse now than it used to be. I'm not interested in solving world peace here. I just want to understand why insuring a relatively healthy family of three under a very high deductible plan costs $1700/mo, and why is it now illegal to not go along with this ridiculous rip off.
>Joy is much harder to manufacture than dread

Is it though? And is it just harder in our current configuration or absolutely harder no matter how resources are allocated?

I'd argue that Joy is easier/cheaper to produce, we just haven't optimized for it (yet).
Not that I think the our system (US resident) is all that great but our government runs two of the worst systems that exist in the country, the Veterans Administration which nearly everyone hears about but also the Indian Health Service which sadly flies under the RADAR.

so it is a very hard sell to get more Federal involvement when we have constant stories of VA issues and more available just by searching. throw in rules that actively prevented insurers from making multi state offers and the system was bound to be a mess.

however one of the problems not discussed is that many receive their health insurance from their employers and while this has been going away slowly, this idea like income taxes, tends to remove the cost component from people's minds. you don't see the cost in whole or in large lump sums so its easy to not think about it.

the big hurdle will be convincing people there will be limits of what can be treated. the US infant mortality statistics are one area of exaggeration to the bad simply because to the extent money will be spent to save a newborn that many other system won't
While it may not fill an urgent need, have you considered finding a comfortable and stable remote job? Hackernews 'who is hiring' is a great spot; weworkremotely.com, remoteok.io.

You seem to have experiences, which is excellent. In the short term, if you're in the throes of an emergency, perhaps get some help from love ones while you get your feet back on the ground.

Looking for a project under stressful circumstances feels like it might create an uncomfortable environment to do good work and sustainably remedying what you're going through.

Good luck, whatever route you choose!
Definitely better than 200mph cars. The Veyron drinks 2 gallons per minute at top speed. (And only gets 8mpg at city speed.)
While not technically a "Show HN", 576 days ago @tilt submitted my react-boilerplate to HN. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10794502) The submission garnered a bunch of votes and was on the frontpage for a good 20 hours.

The project went from 50 to 550 stars overnight, eventually reaching 3,000-something stars when the hype died down. (it's now at ~14,500 stars and growing)

That submission kickstarted my career. Among other things it led to me speaking at over 20 international conferences, to being featured in Forbes Austria and to the privilege of being employed as a full-time open source developer. (which eventually led to the creation of styled-components)

I wrote a bit more about my journey on my blog a while ago too in case you want the longer version: https://mxstbr.blog/2016/12/a-dream-come-true/

It's been an awesome ride and I wouldn't be where I am without HN!
The content providers don't have a product to sell to local distributors if they don't have significant control over online distribution, so it's not like they'd be complaining if that were the case.
I agree with you. I remember skimming the paper and finding it interesting but wondered if selecting that term might set too many imaginations running. I don't have a problem with their calling it imagination, though.

But consider that many would object if I stated jumping spiders have an active imagination. Yet, this is not far fetched if you accept that imagination includes planning against a learned model.

Insects are known to be capable of learning. They need to be able to remember routes or learn which locations to prefer or avoid. Jumping spiders are known for their ability to carry out and hold complex plans in their head. Though a form of imagination, most would hesitate to call it that.

(1) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6327/833, https://youtu.be/exsrX6qsKkA?t=44s
http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

This worked really well for me.
He could have sold it for some serious money and he didn't expose his identity. I think his identity got uncovered somehow and now he is looking to shutdown operations.