skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as glad I didn't get a ticket ($20? sure. Scalper prices? Heck no) and waste the time. This whole thing is going to turn into a real fiasco for some time due to the number of people who bought resold passes (so the original seller sold it and now gets their original $20 back), people who traveled (I know many got hotels, not sure how many flew in), and questions of how they're going to get that in-game currency to people (reportedly some are still in line to get in, while others are waiting in a not-quite-as-long line just to get out).

Each person attending has a uniquely-numbered wristband pass, and apparently on entry they're getting an envelope with a patch and a unique-to-them QR code which needs to be scanned after spinning a special "Pokestop" and effectively checks you into the event. Since the game is crashing basically at startup for most folks, that makes it a bit of a challenge just to get in. Still, I suspect the in-game credit is going to be based on people who checked in with that code since the ordering process didn't involve providing a game login.

Also, I've seen some folks questioning why they didn't have WiFi set up, but I'm pretty sure that the way WiFi works would make that almost impossible anyway (2.4 would be a bad joke no matter what, 5GHz might be possible over most/all available channels, APs that can handle hundreds or thousands of simultaneous connections are rare and probably require major advance planning, AP broadcast power would probably have to be quite low to allow large numbers of APs in a physically small area, etc.).
Not sure if Wirth designed Pascal to be beginner-friendly, but IMO, it is.
> Even at big music festivals, mobile networks are usually totally overloaded just by the sheer amount of people logged in at the same time, without even doing anything

In Germany, ordinary political demonstrations (from my experience, everything from 2k to 80k is enough) are sufficient for O2 service to totally break down, even in the center of major cities.

The Oktoberfest in Munich has similar problems despite operators putting up dozens of small BTS, but then again, it's up to 350.000 people concentrated on maybe 200.000 m² and it's really hard to get them all serviced good enough to live-stream their Brathendl and beer Mass to Instagram...
Here's a modern 16:10 monitor: Dell UltraSharp 30 Monitor with PremierColor - UP3017 http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/accessories/apd/210-ajgt
Fantastic analogy. Most of economics, especially macroeconomics, is quackery and neoliberal political agendas masqueraded by complex equations and mathematical models divorced from reality. The fact that only a handful of economists saw the recent economic depression is extremely telling. The data is often so aggregated that a lot of the broad conclusions are practically useless. The obsession over maximizing faulty metrics like GDP and the U-3 unemployment rate is ludicrous.
About the brain, you're correct AFAIK. Any expert on the subject that I've read has said (with explanation that I don't have) that we are working with "outdated hardware" in a way.

The neocortex is a relatively recent evolutionary advantage, but as long as humans have been humans (in the latest evolutionary stage), we've had the same stock parts.
Have there been any recent developments with automated truck driving? Has anything actually happened? We all agree that automated transportation will have an Enormous effect on society. It's been talked about a lot before. But stuff is actually happening today in Bitcoinland.

Currently the #8 position on the HN front page is an article about Dell releasing a new monitor.
How does this work? Where is the store list stored?
Interestingly enough, I speak a regional language well and English well. Of course my regional language is also English, which makes bilingualism hard for people like me!

Actually I'm not just being a smart-ass here, I do have a point. The major reason that so many Americans are monolingual is that learning a second language doesn't have much if any day-to-day utility, whereas in India a second or even a third language may have tremendous day-to-day utility.
I agree, but since its difficult to know that ahead of time, you end up applying to multiple companies
Ask HN: Have you seem any “scam news” popunders?
The other day I was on a file sharing site that a friend had uploaded a file to and I got a popunder that looked exactly like CNN with a headline + article claiming that a certain local politician was involved in a scandal. Of course, it wasn't actually CNN.

Have any of you seen something like this?
This exact situation happened to me. I founded a magazine with an amazing woman. In the beginning, we were just close friends, but as we went through ups and downs, our feelings for each other changed.

Like everything else, this kind of relationship has good and bad points.

The best thing was the degree of understanding. I've never been in a relationship with someone with such an incredibly innate understanding of my career. It was truly magical.

But, then there was the bad. Until you've been in this situation, you can't understand how deep the conflict of interest can get. Sometimes, co-founders need to have frank conversations about performance. When you're in a romantic relationship, frank feedback can create deep wounds. Then, in our case, once the magazine died, our relationship died too. The double whammy of a failed startup and failed relationship was unlike any other breakup I've ever experienced.

All that said, I'd do it again in a second. The relationship was so good while it lasted and Stacey is still one of my closest friends.
I wouldn't drive a Porsche or Aston Martin in Norway during winter. I'd drive it in Monte Carlo.

Alcohol is probably taxed because during a six month winter with 16 hours of darkness just about anyone and their mothers would develop chronic alcoholism.

Of course a wealth tax brings very little because anyone wealthy enough would move their assets to other countries with lower wealth taxes. Tax the rich is just an excuse to tax everyone else.
There's a limited amount of "space" in the air, ie not everyone can be transmitting at the same time. This is fixed using a few different techniques depending on the cell network but for GSM something called TDMA (Time division multiple access) is used. This basically gives your phone a certain amount of time to broadcast on before it should leave the airwaves for someone else to transmit on. Too many people in one location means not enough time for everyone to transmit.
I started doing squatting and deadlifts - very carefully and with very light weight - about five years ago. There seemed to be many potential upsides, and doing it with much care about my form and going too heavy, I found it's helped me in many ways.

In the last year, I've been doing Bodypump classes at my local gym. There's a good amount of squatting and lunges in this, and with good music and fun instructors. If you're looking to try it out and have this at your local gym, try it out; it's a good hour-long class that will get you sweating, and you can set your difficulty level to whatever you want, light to heavy weights.

The music is pretty catchy, too! Here's the latest playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8gGCsYhXV4RSJ_kJft_cs...

P.S. The author of the piece said start squatting at the beginning and you'll be hurting by the time you finish reading. Thanks to my squats on my own and in classes, I was in a squat for the whole article and for the minutes it took to tap out this message on my phone. Squatting is good and can be learned!
Side note, please don't hijack normal navigation keys to do something unexpected. In this case, page up/down navigates the sections instead of the normal behavior.
One micro-solution to the "what's deployed right now" problem is to have a health-check url for your app, which includes info like what git commit was used to create the current build, when it was deployed, and some basic application health info.

You can monitor this for basic uptime monitoring and refer to it to sanity check which version is deployed. We do this at my place and it's super convenient.
Yeah, I would have gone with the wifi option as well if I was setting up an event like this.
Thanks! The idea behind adding a chat interface is to ease the process of accessing to the information while driving. Using Conversational UIs, the driver doesn't need to filter and look for the information himself.

> ... Imagine driving down in the street, looking for a place to park in. While driving, you open your phone, look for a map or a mobile application that provides probabilistic estimation on where you can find empty spots, you take some time to open it and start looking on the map for the nearest parking lot .. how much time do you think you will spend scratching the surface of your phone before getting a ticket ?
People in a stadium aren't going to be quite as focused on their phones, but lots of people in a tight space isn't an unusual occurrence for networks.
Wouldn't implementing that mean giving control to a specific party, as opposed to the level of inflation/deflation? How could the system determine it automatically?
They are books produced by pirate printing factories whose major business is making duplicates of famous children's books. Quality is great, they are basically indistinguishable from the real thing.
I'm just about to pass my one-year mark as a software developer with Amazon, at Lab126 in Sunnyvale, California. I have never seen any restroom behavior like the sort this article described, either here or during my visits to the offices in Seattle. Where I come from, males don't speak in the restroom beyond a quick greeting. If someone did try to bring up business while I was in a stall, I hope I would politely suggest he continue the discussion at a more appropriate time (as opposed to me getting angry and saying something very rude and inappropriate).

I've also never seen a software developer bring his laptop into the toilet, but then I'll grant you that I'm focused on minding my own business when I'm in the restroom. In general, though, this seems a lot more like a place we go in order to take a break from work, rather than a place to catch up on it.
Yes, it's as much the company's responsibility to be able to justify their valuations of employees as it is the employees' to demonstrate their value.
This whole eschatology is bad, and politicians getting sucked into socially acceptable myths is also bad. The only way to protect religious freedom is with secular governments, otherwise you're asking for a religious "war" (of words to start with) that just escalates as more people get entrenched into thinking these conversations, let alone policy, belongs in public space.

Kindof strange is not how I would put dispensationalism. Demonic is the nice way to put it, and I don't believe in supernatural anything let alone evil: Armaggedon is a real place, the final battle of good and evil will happen in our lifetime, the anti-Christ leads Muslims in a war against Jews and Christians, 2/3rds of Jewish blood is spilled on the soil of Israel to bring about the 2nd coming of Christ, who then ends the war. And the remaining Jews convert to Christianity. And now there are no more Jews or Muslims. It's genocidal make believe vicious nonsense.

This eschatology is rejected by probably most Christians globally, certainly the Catholic church does. But then, WELS Lutherans consider the Pope the antichrist. So even within Christianity there's language that begs and pleads for religious war.

Anyway I suspect this ends up at the Supreme Court, making a political position illegal is unconstitutional proscription of freedom of association and freedom of speech. So I'd kindly tell these Congresscritters to go fuck themselves. Take that bible and shove it so far up their righteous asses until they choke.

See. Religious war.
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I believe it's the backhaul capacity that's the problem. Even assuming "only" 1 MBit/s constant traffic per customer, an uplink of 1 GBit/s can only handle a thousand clients tops.

Cheap-ish providers are worse - they usually don't run fiber to every tower because laying fiber is expensive, but instead only to one tower which then distributes uplink via directional microwave to nearby towers. Once that link gets saturated or has issues, the whole area is screwed.

Providers like Deutsche Telekom (or other former monopolists) usually have it easier as they have huuuge amounts of fiber and especially conduits in the ground, which means it's easier for them to wire up even small towers with real dedicated fiber uplink.
> Most Muslims don't do any of those things, either.

most soviets never hurt anyone. most nazis never hurt anyone.

> some Christians do ...

with what structural support? how often do they quote verses and present a religious arguments that millions are sympathetic to?

> it's not where you seem to think it is

your dialectic of equivalency that you engage in legitimizes religiosity and by proxy religious violence, and delegitimizes secularism as well as non-religiosity and atheism.
It is a good idea to pay someone for escrow services.
I wonder if Go could avoid full genetics by supporting union types, as seen in languages like Ceylon and TypeScript.

For example, you could declare a function as Foo(thing string | []int). In other to use "thing" you'd need to do a type assertion. That'd allow "generic" functions where the author could decide which types to support, without going all the way to generics, which tend to open a few cans of worms. Same thing for structs and such. Obviously this has an impact on internal layouts; union values would need an internal type tag similar to interfaces.

With this in mind, I would hope that Go could get better pattern matching with destructuring; switch statements currently only allow you to extract one value, and it's confusing that a single name is shared between all cases. But I'd love to be able to do something like:

switch thing {
case s := string:
...
case [x, y] := []int if len(thing) == 2:
...
}

or whatever.

If we could get proper Rust-style enums on top of that (with appropriate pattern matching) that'd also be neat.
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Because it started a flamewar. Comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823319 are particularly bad.
It seems that the "moved online" part is less about FTP and more about the "closed, membership-only" part.

Colloquially, "online" pretty much means "available online", and data that is on systems technically connected to internet but accessible only to a few people isn't considered available online.
1) accept that you're never ever going to be able to absorb all the news, even in one narrow field, even if you spend 80 hours per week trying to keep up with it.

2) ask yourself what's the worst thing that could possibly happen if you missed an article or comment that didn't make it to (or didn't stay on) the front page.

3) find an alternative habit to fill those minutes between tasks at work or when you're killing time at home. A puzzle game on your phone, a book to read, a project to work on.

4) force yourself (via content blockers or just disconnecting from the internet) to avoid reading those sites for a day. Afterwards check in with yourself and notice that nothing's wrong. Do it again, for 3 days this time. Then a week.
Anyone who has ever tried to send a photo at Soldier Field during any large event could have predicted the crippling of the network that happened here. Maybe I missed it in the article, but did the event organizers not set up an ad-hoc network for this?
> bitcoin (and the other cryptocurrencies in existence) seem to have quite a few fatal flaws going forward from just our understanding of normal economics

How long would Bitcoin have to survive these flaws before you start to question your understanding of economics?
> Pro sports is an example where knowing salaries is fine because there are a lot of objective measures of talent.

I would argue that although recent advances have made this possible, it is generally not the dominant mechanism.

Simply I think even with the hard data showing exactly what each team member did, it is still a long leap to valuation. Contribution is still hard to identify in any team sport, even if you know what everyone actually did.

When it does come to valuation, there's a major problem. New entrants have some data to support their value, but they have not been tried in the same pool as veterans. This will most likely lead to the new entrants coming at a discount, as managers will be risk-averse. Or call it model-conservative, since they objectively don't have the data.
north, electro magnetic fields. Before we implant anything, we need an interesting small sensor in general.

Any small sensor that does anything interesting for me? Requirements: For prosthetic learning it must react fast and the signal should change with muscle/body movement.

How I wire the signal to my body is antoher issue, but first show me an interesting sensor. Best I can come up with is remote temperature sensing, still booring.
Pretty sure the article is sarcastic.
and when no one can do what they please you know you live in America.

Now, get back to flipping bits.
People have been trying for 6 years to go past proof of work. It's not really ideal. There are also problems with mining capacity concentration. There's still work to be done in that area. Looking forward to see how proof of stake plays out.
True, and that might be worth mentioning in the title as well - but my post was not about how benign the contents of the article are. The point is whether "hacking a Paypal server" makes people expect what the post is actually about. This Paypal-administrated server might give you access to the nuclear launch codes, but the title is still misleading.
Yet nature is not scale-invariant. E.g., you can't take a carbon atom and scale it by a factor of 10 and make it behave in the same way as the original atom.
Just didn't want to go back home with wife and went partying/looting with friends but then someone rewrote the story to make it look better, add some gods and monsters and you have a best seller made of the stuff legends are made of.
Disclaimer: I worked at an OEM phone company.

Cell towers get saturated pretty easily by crowds. Network providers probably did not account for the crowd, or even if they did, it wasn't enough.

I would assume a company like Niantic asked network providers to install additional cell towers beforehand, so my best guess is they tried their best but still failed.

The technical details are quite complex, and you would need to read up on GSM,UMTS,LTE,TDMA,CDMA, but the bottom-line is, the overall technology isn't good enough yet.
Ask HN: Is it still doable to make money in the App Store?
With people downloading fewer apps, I'm wondering if it's still doable to make $5k+ a month from an app in the store? Has anyone had recent success?
This article has a number of bullshit-y red flags.

>> There are very few journalist in the U.S. or Europe who have the courage to report fairly on Israel’s seemingly endless illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.

Not true. The European press in general has no issue calling the occupied territories in Palestine 'occupied territories', and the Israeli colonies 'colonies'. This is solely a US media problem, and even then it's known enough that Jon Stewart famously mocked it [1].

>> The ridiculous allegations that the Russians helped to elect Trump by directly interfering in the great American democratic process

Ho FFS, if this information was questioned, we would here about it more often, and from more credible source than some random film-maker.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmCKZYKsiGM
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It can't. For example if you target a certain level of money velocity people could just spam large fake transactions and cause inflation.

Bitcoin does enable some interesting monetary ideas like demurrage, or constant recycling of the money supply. It also runs "open loop". This is implemented in some super small cryptocoins like Freicoin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)
I think that's certainly debatable.
Some economists have argued for replacing central banker judgment with a fixed function as a way to bring clarity to policy and make the rules fairer. Something like the Taylor rule perhaps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_rule
I agree with you, but I'm not arguing for a single "Decider", but rather a small group of what the comment I replied to referred to as "higher-ups" being responsible for making decisions in their areas of responsibility. I think this works in your ship analogy as well, but I don't know enough about sailing to say what those people are called - mates? In any case, you get the drift :-)
Unwearable textiles can be recycled. In fact, that's what this article is about.
The reason money ends relationships is because severe lack of money creates tremendous stress.

Overdue bills, not being unable to put food on the table, losing your house, ruining your credit score, not being able to afford your kid's college, not being able to afford medical care, etc.

Not to mention it helps cause or bring out depression. Which is a crippling mental condition that requires a lot of awareness and fortitude on behalf of the people around you (aka your significant other).

The kind of stuff people often commit suicide over. In fact, I'm shocked the suicide rate in startup founder's isn't higher. Never mind the divorce rate.

Now you can argue up and down that "all you need" to whether those things in life and a relationship is "strength." But not everyone can be strong all the time.

And it is even harder to be strong when, for example, one partner is the cause of most of the money troubles and you know leaving them would solve the problem for you. At some point the basic human instinct of self-preservation comes in.
Nice article on the history of Shadow Libraries. They've come a long way since their Russian roots in the 90s.

We just released a study titled "Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature". Preprint at https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3100. There's an accompanying interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub.

Some highlights:

> As of March 2017, we find that Sci-Hub's database contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals.

> Coverage also varies by publisher, with the coverage of the largest publisher, Elsevier, at 97.3%.

> we estimate that over a six-month period in 2015–2016, Sci-Hub provided access for 99.3% of valid incoming requests.
Disconnect from the sites for a day or more. So you miss out on a bit of news, what is going to happen? If you stay connected nonstop it is not likely you are really paying focused attention to the content.

Balance is critical in everything we do.
I think it's twisting the meaning of crossing the chasm to insist it means you have to be doing traditional enterprise sales. Twilio, along with Atlassian and others showed that you could build a business by marketing directly to developers and bypassing the C suite.

I've got a friend who is very plugged into the enterprise telecom world. He's been using Twilio since the beginning and told me that no one in that world even knew what Twilio was until two years ago. Now he sees telecom execs being routinely asked what's your strategy to respond to Twilio?