skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because they don't want to measure "success" but knowledge of basic math.

Which is par for the course for an educational institution (and a business one could argue).
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I've been using the Linux client pretty much since its initial release and it's been nothing short of perfect for me. No problems with updates either. What problems do you have?
> Replacing it is a Java course, which will emphasize the Spring application development framework. This can be used in a variety of contexts — from back-end services, to mobile and web applications.

The cycle has completed. If there was anything that Ruby and RoR seemed like a salve to, it was Java (and perhaps C#/ASP) web frameworks.
You have to look at where the attrition is coming from; what is the demographic shift in the running population. Also, everyone is a year older with every passing year.

If you want a sport to stay vibrant, you have to have the fit youngsters coming in at the bottom, and the old people retiring out the top. This is not controlled in any way in public mass participation sport like in pro sport.

Really, this whole thing is meaningless. When I first saw the headline, I thought it would be about competitive running at the collegiate level or whatever.

Nope! Clickbait about changing jogger demographics.
I feel like this counter-argument is glossed over and not thoroughly refuted. The stats go back to the 80s and yet it's not till the last two years that participation starts to decline? I think it's very likely that more and more amateurs are signing up for smaller races that didn't previously exist. There's probably enough variance that one year of decline is not enough to prove that participation increase is not a factor.

Also, I think there's a chance that the running races are losing some of their top athletes to triathlons which are also growing in popularity.
Please stop calling it JavaScript Fatigue. The complaints are web development related(specifically the browser) not language specific. The distinction is important because people keep trying to compare the issues with other languages.
Thanks for sharing. I was curious and checked out the view from Hohneck:

http://www.udeuschle.selfhost.pro/panoramas/panqueryfull.asp...
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Ya, these also can totally be gamed with the right amount of prep.
Not saying everything the article says is wrong, but some of the comparisons are really off the mark. Vue and React are front end frameworks. They don't replace Rails; they can be used together. Node has many benefits but its not really better for single page apps. In general this article the purposes of front and back end tools. Also, even though there are increasingly more node positions, ruby and rails still have a large number of job postings.
Just to be clear: do you want to read more or less texts where it is ok to call people bitches and hoes?
"no one was ever fired for buying ibm" no so true anymore =p
>What country uses '.' as the thousands separator but speaks English?

A better question is: how many non-native English speakers and writers neither know, nor particularly care about the english world thousands separator, and use what they regularly use whatever the language?

Answer: millions.

Especially when they are not writing in English to appeal to English speaking countries, but to appeal to a worldwide english speaking audience using english just as a lingua franca.
I struggle with point number 4, "Did token holders rely on the efforts of others for their (expected) profits?".

It is the effort of (early) investors that make/made Ether out of their own work (mining) that creates the token supply and because Ether is needed in order to interact with Ethereum DApps, it's the demand for the token that makes it gain market value in exchanges. This seems to suggest that there is an effort on the part of the investor.

Many ICOs will simply state they are out of limits for US investors and again we see that regulators like democracy and capitalism but don't really want it to be accessible to _everyone_.
I assume the thinking goes like this :

ZFS was designed for enterprises. Enterprise software has requirements of high stability, scale etc. Google is probably on the extreme end of these problems. So if Google considered and rejected ZFS it probably means it was not very good.

What probably really happened was that Google was already too invested in Google File System and therefore did not give other file systems a fair chance
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I built a smart scale that keeps track of my cat's food intake, compute trends, and text me when has been too long since eating:

https://github.com/rodrigosetti/smart-pet-food-tracker
I've got more plans than finished projects. One is an attempt to build a GPIO-connected synthesizer using an old OPL-3 chip and the DAC chips that are designed to be paired with it. The plan would be to add direct hardware output to Adplug and Dosbox.

Another is a quadrupedal robot (more like a puppet to start with; autonomy would come after I've got the gait control code working). Control would be through a bluetooth game controller. I've got a laser-cut acrylic body for the thing and a servo control hat to deal with timing jitter.

Third, I've got a Pi-Zero and a broken PSP. 4.3" Backup camera screens are the right size, shape, and resolution to fit in the PSP case, they can be modified to take 5V instead of 12, and the Pi-Zero has 2 contact pins for the analog video out. I'd need to experiment with audio out; I've got a couple ideas.
A millennial would demand 13 billions
I believe what's currently known is that some amounts of THC lead to lower "default mode network" activity in the frontal core. The default mode network - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsd-may-chip-away... - is associated with daily activities we think of as distracting - anxiety, worrying about the future, going over the past failures, incessant needs to check e-mail, Instagram or respond to a push notification.

Subduing default mode network provides a pathway to concentration, if one's mind is set on it, like reading the book or going over the test question bank. But it could also be squandered on other activities unrelated to learning.
I find I am just like this if I'm sleep deprived. In general my memory is incredible, but I occasionally have terrible recall outside of my current train of thought. I used marijuana quite heavily for some periods of time in high school and college and it did have some effect, but not as great an effect as sleep-deprivation. For me, the two are correlated.
Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails?
I am building a web app that will send SEO reports via email and I am on the lookout for a decent provider to deliver emails.

I understand that Amazon SES is the cheapest when it comes to sending emails. I am not sure how good their email deliverability is.

Other options are Postmark (somewhat pricey), Mailgun and Sendgrid. I would like to know which email providers are preferred by the HN community.
An interesting analysis of the evidence here:

Breaking open the MtGox case, part 1
http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html
That's one big thing I was worried about. Also, "We included only races with an average number of finishers greater than 2,000 (for all four distances)" could be a major confounding factor. What if many "competitive" runners switched to smaller events as big events became more "general"? Until this major issue is addressed, the conclusions can only apply to the self-selected set of American runners in large races.
I'd imagine they're mostly the same kinds you could have in gcc
> I don't think your comparison to widgets holds up. Would a company invest capital in more production capacity to sell more widgets at zero margin (all else being equal)? No

Who said anything about zero margin? You're claiming that if I can sell one widget at a high price (high margin!), I should be unwilling to sell any at a lower price (but still high margin!) than the first one would sell for, because my rate of return on investment would go down (assuming the cost of producing a widget is dominated by variable costs). This does not describe the behavior of anything.
Yeah my favourite pharmacy just closed - pretty sure it was a money laundering op. Huge warehouse, fully staffed, inventory from pharmacy to electronics, hardware to perishable goods (but just random retail packages). In a couple years I've never seen more than 1 other car in the 50-space parking lot. Amazing service.

And of course there's no victims in money laundering. It's a victimless crime that has the sole purpose of helping prosecutors when they aren't able to find a real crime.
Windows servers are legacy - even SQL Server is on Linux now...ok jokes aside - might be PR move to not make nervous their old-school corporate customers
EU Threatens Poland with Sanctions Over Court Overhaul
I'm glad you like it! It's pretty rough around the edges yet, but it solves the same problem for me (iterating on complex queries). Let me know if there's anything you're missing!
That's what I thought. If I buy an Apple stock, I can't meaningfully contribute to the success of Apple (outside of investing more money). But if I was an early investor of ETH, I could build an Ethereum smart contract that is useful and thus provides value and thus makes the price of ETH go up as more people buy it to use my smart contract.

Would it be correct to say then that as long as there is at least 1 useful smart contract that the Ethereum Foundation does not solely control, ETH would fail prong 4?
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None of that unparalleled power is needed in this case. Greece and the US have an extradition treaty, the crimes alleged by the US are serious, dual criminality exists, they're not political offenses, the guy isn't facing the death penalty, and he's not even a Greek citizen. This is a by-the-book extradition.
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Pretty sure that won't matter. Monero will hinder blockchain analysis, but if you're wiring out millions they can just demand you prove the legitimacy. "I got untraceable coins" is on the level of excuse as "I got this sack full of cash".

So long they prevent people from cashing out big time, then they're on the same level as cash (see, needing to deposit boxes of cash with HSBC).
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I've been using a standing desk in various forms[1] since 2009. I've also been using dual vertically stacked monitors for a long time and love it when using a standing desk. I wrote my thoughts about how to be successful 4 years ago[2] which break down to.

1. Get a padded mat or soft shoe inserts
2. Don’t force yourself to stand 100% of the time
3. Always start your day standing

I also wrote about how to modify your existing desk[3] or build/buy[4] a standing desk. I haven't taken pictures of my standing desks since ~2014 but my setup hasn't changed much.

[1] https://goo.gl/photos/cUuQvoguMoz7Czj7A

[2] https://medium.com/@rothgar/how-to-be-successful-with-a-stan...

[3] https://www.howtogeek.com/99961/how-to-modify-your-existing-...

[4] https://www.howtogeek.com/100748/15-ideas-to-buy-or-build-yo...
I've heard they're incredibly common in Japan as well.
The average OSS project probably is better about that than the average software company though - at least with OSS projects you can be reasonably secure that they won't send lawyers or the police after you for finding bugs.
Liability protection from what?

If you have a company and don't do any work for it, then you can't possibly be liable for anything because you didn't do anything.

If you did something then you did work for the company which is something you're not allowed to do.

Ultimately consider that if it ever comes up, you'll be dealing with a suspicious immigration official, who has the power to deport you and no reason to give you benefit of the doubt.

You will be deported if you fail to convince him that you registered a company but didn't do any work for it. And I don't see how you can claim that with a straight face. Your explanation of wanting liability protection doesn't make any sense.
Off topic rant: if I get redirected to the mobile site the whole time, why doesn't it do the inverse for desktop users?

(The answer is probably: because it would inconvenience developers.)
13$ in 1944 adjusted for inflations would be 180.38$ in 2017. Still a small payment for the DoD.
> My problem is that I find it much harder to concentrate while I am standing

similar experience. i find sitting with good posture more comfortable and better on the knees
GFS does not really solve the same problem as ZFS, I think.
That doesn't solve the problem because you still have to set 'size' manually.
Standard IANAL, or an accountant.

Personally, I wouldn't bother incorporating unless you have investors or creditors. Or if a tax person says it's in your best interests. You can blow a lot of money on lawyers and tax preparers for no good reason.

A corporation (or LLC) doesn't protect you from being sued. Anyone can sue you at any time for anything. If someone wants to sue you, they'll sue both you and the corporation. Even if you defeat the lawsuit, you'll still be on the hook for a big ol' lawyer bill.

Also, if you plan on borrowing money, a bank won't lend you money unless you have collateral. Until your company has assets, such as inventory, accounts receivable, publicly traded stock, a building, etc., anytime you want to borrow money you'll have to personally sign for it.
I was recently pissed off at seeing how many open source projects use Slack despite so many issues with it.[1]

Like others have mentioned, I tried several chat clients (open source and non-open source) and realized none of them fit the bill/don't have the customizability that I wanted.

So, as stupid/crazy as this sounds, I sat down over a weekend, wrote a simple chat app on Phoenix/Elixir, hosted it on Google Cloud AppEngine, and Bingo! We were done.
I know many people will advise against this, but:

1) I'm not into devops, so this setup works really well for me since AppEngine is precisely meant for this.

2) AppEngine allows you to setup firewall rules within their interface, so I restricted access to the outside world and whitelisted only my company's IP. So, I don't really need to worry about security much.

3) Because, this is a custom solution, I was able to integrate stuff such as time tracking, verifying that confidential docs aren't shared between teams, etc.
Also, our own custom branding, client support integration within the chat (you can answer to support tickets right from within the interface).

4) I enjoyed the experience thoroughly and it integrates with my entire Saas I've developed[2] very, very nicely.

Ironically the Phoenix open source project (and similar others) themselves use Slack (why god, why?) and it's really terrible because Slack doesn't allow you to search for more than 10,000 messages. That's the last thing you want in an open source project - the inability to search for solutions / snippets of code.

Hope they move it else where or did what I did.

[1]http://sircmpwn.github.io/2015/11/01/Please-stop-using-slack...

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785209
I used to get random crashes when I ran it on Ubuntu. This was over a year ago, so things might have changed.
>It's a comstruction of a pure subset variant of Lisp.

We viewed it as the core of LISP and this is just one view of LISP.

>The actual LISP wasn't pure. Not before this particular paper and not after.

LISP I is not pure and I agree.
Look at the actual charges in the indictment. All the BTC-e stuff is not what he's charged with. He's charged with transferring stolen Mt Gox Bitcoins to Tradehill, a San Francisco based exchange (now defunct). That's the US connection that will seal his extradition.

They also allege that BTC-e is (at least partially) hosted in the US and does business with many US companies, which is likely true. But that's not what they charged him with. Maybe that will come later after he's extradited and they have a chance to go through the evidence they no doubt collected when they arrested him.

On an unrelated note, it looks like the traceability of Bitcoin transactions played a major role in this. It turns out that Bitcoin is really not a great way to launder money, unless you want a record of your money laundering archived forever, redundantly, on a distributed system of computers around the world! I expect future crypto-locker viruses to switch to Monero instead of Bitcoin now that they can no longer cash out through BTC-e. Subsequently I expect to see Monero delisted from any exchange that follows KYC after some pressure from law enforcement.
the family feature is absolutely killer.

equivalent office 2007 for 5 family members is like $750? That's 10 years of 365, with no feature update (if you like that sort of thing) and no onedrive.
if you don't mind me asking for your opinion, what about using vanity TLD for shortened URLs for PageDash? e.g. bit.ly, goo.gl, amzn.to, etc. Would you be cool with that, and if not, why not?
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Wait what? She knew that was a possibility and that it is highly illegal and still she went through with it.

I would say that is having intent if anything. I love my country but I think she should be punished a lot harder. Arkebusering på slottsgården. But since that will never happen, 12 years in jail is probably enough.
I bet the author use space instead of tab.
It's nothing. Even if Google is invented something we will never see a product customer can purchase.
This is interesting to me. I've used it at the last three companies ranging from 15 people to 1700 people. No issues really. Considering how often HipChat went down prior to Slack, Slack is a welcomed replacement.

As for alternatives, I don't really know if many do exist. Slack offers their free version, which allows teams to use it pretty much without any strings to see if they like it. It provides great functionality in a simple UI (you may disagree, that's totally fine), and solves a problem - Office Communication.

It has been a productivity increase for the teams I've been on as it is much, much better than email chains, easier to add code snippets, images, and the fairly rich ecosystem of plugins/bots is icing on the cake for me.

The other day it took me an hour to wire up a couple endpoints in Node, add them as slack slash commands and boom, I was able to add three commands for QA department that resolved some heartburn for them.

I think Slack did a good job with a base product, and they simply solved a pain point in a better way.
People keep saying that but is it true? There are some problems;

1. The seller would like to keep their identity secret so that they aren't prosecuted or attacked.

2. The buyer would also like to keep their identity secret.

3. The seller wants money. How do they know that the buyer will send them the money if they hand over the exploit before getting paid? Normally you'd report theft to the police but you're not going to go to the police and admit to selling exploits. Also you don't know who the seller is.

4. The seller wants the exploit. If they pay first then how do they know they will get the exploit.

If you contact some agency directly then surely they will not want to pay you out of fear that you will inform either the public or another government or agency about the transaction?

If there was a darknet marketplace for exploits (maybe there already is, maybe there already are several ones?) then that might solve it. There you can have both some degree of anonymity, you can have reputations for sellers and buyers and the DNM can offer escrow of funds.
I think JAVA is a good choice for a bootcamp, not because of any merits of its own, but because there are a lot more opportunities for beginner/intermediate level JAVA developers than there are for beginner/intermediate level Rails developers.
Also, starting out with something as opinionated as Rails might harm you in the long term. JAVA, once you're over it, leaves you with less things to unlearn.
You might allowed to be much more optimistic.

A 50% increase could be much much more significant depending on the parameter optimised. Tokamak magnetic field strength for example has a factor ^4 effect towards net energy.

Have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk , as previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14834390 .
Unless confessing suspects (forced or otherwise) regularly get acquitted in espionage cases I'd say the "even" is appropriate.
Raise money now on much more preferable terms when you don't need the money, store it in a war chest, improve morale/buy-in with "money on the table" for your employees/early investors.

It's pure win for Slack right now.
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I wonder how much the domain name played in their favor. I recon expedia is older and I'm surprised how far behind they're valuation is to priceline. (Or maybe I'm reading valuation wrong).
>I think the argument comes because your initial statement was "The original LISP is pure functional," which isn't true.

Since LISP I is the real first implementation, I don't mean the original LISP in the sense of the first LISP, but rather "a core of LISP defined in the original paper". I called that the original LISP. I have explained this view many times so far.

>McCarthy's original idea of Lisp was not purely functional

At least McCarthy had some pureness in his mind for LISP and it is not black or white argument.

>the original Lisp implementation was not purely functional.

True.

> but what you and Paul Graham seem to be doing is saying that that pure Lisp is the real Lisp and what was called Lisp before that (in theory and implementation)

This is not my intention.
Good point. I think it will take a fairly significant transition away from fiat currencies before that situation is eliminated...

But one of the incentives of getting rid of cash is to transform the money into something that can be efficiently sent over a large distance, which is something cryptocurrencies already do.
Recently, Indian government led by PM Modi declared their plan to sell only electric cars by 2030 as well [0]. Both are great examples of how technology is trying to fix technology's side effects.

[0] : http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/03/technology/future/india-elec...
You're right, despite being downvoted, although such an arrest would almost certainly become a major diplomatic incident.

OTOH someone who broke a Russian law we don't find objectionable (and who isn't connected or famous) would be unlikely to get much assistance from the embassy beyond basic legal advice and help hiring a lawyer.
Note that we also emphasize that we don't think most travelers would want to do this.
Except this isn't an experiment, where they control the conditions. It's monitoring natural behavior. Just saying "placebo" makes no sense for this kind of study. That'd be like asking for a placebo in a national poll.

The kind of thing you're talking about would be an experiment, where they bring people in and use various measures to quantify various types of intelligence after smoking marijuana. In that situation yes you could use a placebo as one group. But even then it's not always appropriate, and just skimming an article and dismissing it by saying "no placebo!" makes no sense. Not all experiments do use or should use a placebo as part of their methodology, and this isn't even an experiment.