skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A core problem for Stack Overflow is the lack of people willing to curate material. Its not an easy job and is quite thankless.

Are you serious? Whenever a community allows for more-or-less self-appointed authority figures, they ALWAYS emerge, as they are drawn to the perceived power.

Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, etc. They all have their toxic "lawyers". Users who have passed a certain threshold of "points", or else are simply willing to invest the time to squat on a topic, and enjoy abusing the power to delete or revert contributions from others.

To a certain degree it's probably a good thing, as the sites would be overrun by trolls without them. But they also tend to calcify the culture after a few years, and drive down any incentive for new contributors to step in.

StackOverflow's core problem isn't a lack of people willing to edit questions or vote-to-close. It's core problem is that it's been at least 5 years since I last felt like reading or answering any open questions, or even posting any new questions of my own, and I don't think this sentiment is uncommon.
It's been a little over two years since I quit my job, and we have about 10x to go revenue-wise before we can support our families. We thought we'd easily get there in a year, and by the time it happens - if it happens - it will have been at least 3-4 times longer than our estimates. This, of course, all depends on team and circumstances and luck and savings and what your business idea is.

I had some blind spots & weaknesses I didn't know about beforehand, and an overly optimistic outlook. The other people on my team admit to the same. We wouldn't have learned those things if we hadn't quit & gone full time, and learning this stuff is super valuable. But I can see now more clearly why so many entrepreneurs say that big mistakes are inevitable and why so many people talk about businesses really taking 10 years to get off the ground, rather than 1 or 2.

I have started doing some consulting, and it's super helpful money-wise, but takes a lot of energy away from the startup idea. I find that consulting for 20 billable hours a week is roughly equivalent to working 40 hours at a full time job. With a family, that doesn't leave a ton of time to work on the startup.

When I do it again, I will look for at least 2 years of runway before I go whole hog, whether that's savings or VC funding. It's also a good idea to find your family's minimum comfortable burn rate (with wiggle room for emergencies). It might be less or more than you think.

Also it's important to have a good sense of how you get customers. I'm still working on that, but I truly had no clue when we started. It's a lot harder to get the word out than I thought, the internet is extremely noisy, attention is extremely scarce, and using the internet for advertising has changed considerably just in the last 5 years. Next time I will probably try to bootstrap to cost-neutral revenue before going full time. We quit our jobs before we were making any money, and just built the product for a while. It has been awesome in many ways, but we'd be in a better spot if we'd started selling sooner and waited until we had revenue to go full time.
Using US elections as an example is generally flawed because they are usually very poorly run. Proper election procedure doesn't have that failure mode. You run a lot of small precints each with representatives of all parties. The ballot box doesn't leave their sight during the whole day. When the polls close the same people will open the box and count the votes together and since they are adversaries they won't allow any one of them to steal. This is a highly scalable method that's very cheap to run and that also has the extremely important property that whoever lost is also fully convinced he lost.
You can find ongoing development on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Malwareunicorn

https://twitter.com/MabbsSec

The latter user (@MabbsSec) is trying to get legal representation for him, being a citizen of the U.K.
Most likely not using electricity for heating/cooling?
Uhhh I feel accomplished if I get through 3 a year
How and why road-pricing will happen
> Right - it seemed like they supported "the people" in the early days. They exposed Bush and Obama when they had things worth exposing.

Well they're still supporting "the people", just not the ones you align with. Which of course means they've lost all credibility and we should ignore them now, right?
It also enables the local political machine/union/gang to come to your house post election and force you to show that you voted they way they ordered you to vote on pain of pain.

Not allowing people to photograph their ballots, to vote in public, etc. is a protective measure for the voter making it difficult to prove how they voted.
A minority hashrate attack on Bitcoin Cash
Machine Learning Infrastructure at Stripe: Bridging from Python JVM
You watch too much tv
Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016)
They'd probably refer you to the Foreign Office in that case.
SIGGRAPH 2017: 'MEETMIKE' Project for Real-Time Digital Human Rendering in VR
This is not directly answering your final question, but we have a saying in Dutch about owning a boat: "Koop een boot, klus je dood." Translation: it might be easy to buy a boat, but you'll be repairing things till the end. Application: it's expensive to own a boat. Advice: think at least twice.
1. I feel that I get value from the artist/podcaster/writer and in our capitalist society value == money.

2. I have a budget that changes. But if I cannot afford to support someone new I will wait until I have more income or less expenses.

3. I support people until I feel I no longer get value from them or can no longer afford to support them. Money gets tight sometimes.
It really is, because the more generic the tangent, the more force it has to carry off the entire thread.

IMO it's an important point that needs to be better understood.
I wrote about it recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14917723 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912821 if anyone's interested.
I'd have thought that fewer bars == more attenuation == more packet loss?
Yeah, sure, I've got it right here... oh wait, I'm just a random commenter on a forum.
I mean, apart from the moral issues here, what you are doing is illegal.

And that's fine, if it wasn't for the fact that your HN profile advertises your business.

Do you also do this to your clients?
An extraordinary claim requires an extraordinary proof.
CFR (the publishers of Foreign Affairs) have The World Next Week and The President's Inbox (and other more specialized ones)

Carnegie Endowment does The Carnegie Podcast

FT has World Weekly

BBC (e.g. Global News, Newshour, The Inquiry), NPR and PRI (e.g. America Abroad) all have a few to try out, and CSIS also have a good one. Universities like Oxford and Harvard have their own podcasts as well.

Try them all and pick your favourites. I just listen to CFR and Carnegie these days.
1 every two months or so.
> Is it possible that you are expecting the cryptography community to be one organized around being newbie-friendly and encouraging to beginners?

Not at all. I'm not actually expecting anything. All I'm saying is that as a matter of common courtesy (in any field) if you're going to say, "You just have to know X" then you should do at least one of the following:

1. Check that if someone doesn't know X that they can get at least a lead on how to learn about it by searching for X.

2. Provide a pointer for someone who wants to learn about X to follow as a starting point

3. Provide a brief in-line primer on X

If none of those conditions hold then it's not constructive to say, "You just have to know X." What you're really doing in that case is not providing useful information, but rubbing your audience's nose in the fact that they are ignorant and you are not, and worse, that you acquired your knowledge through some privileged channel to which they do not have ready access.

Honestly, what possible reaction could you reasonably expect other than frustration?
When I tried to reset my ICQ password they wanted me to message 5 friends and have them vouch for me, people with whom I haven't talked in 15 years.. otherwise they wouldn't unlock my account which is coincidentally, for some unapparent reason, in some sort of restricted mode where I can't send any messages. Support would not budge and unlock my account even after I provided ample proof.

Why is it more difficult to get back in to my 20 year old ICQ than it is to reset any other password I have, even "high security" sites like Bitcoin exchanges or Domain Name providers.
200m2 is about 2/3 of the area of what a McMansion would be. Many are twice that.
I don't understand how one couldn't see this as an obvious issue the way, especially today's youth treat discourse on any level wether political or social. The way people are being deemed racist, nazis, fascists, problematic and one of many other terms that have been trivialized because they don't understand how to disagree is scarry. To hand over that info tied directly to you is the most "problematic" suggestion of all. The discussion in this thread is disturbing.
Audiobooks are a great way to increase your book intake considerably. "Reading" while washing dishes, other house chores and commuting can easily get you through 2-3 extra books a month (depending on the length of the commute :)
Ok, so out of curiosity I googled "singular for pierogi", and it seems to be "pieróg". But there are a number of (seemingly) Polish people scattered around the Google results saying that this is never used, or incorrect, or refers to only the general form for filled dumplings.

Now I know that in real-world usage it would be unlikely to refer to one, but what if there was a need to? Let's say someone made a statue to pierogi, but due to budgetary problems only one of the several pierogi planned was constructed. A tourist asks you how many pierogi make up the statue. How would you respond? Would you use the singular, like "only one pieróg", or would you rework your response so there was no need for the singular, like "sadly only one of the several pierogi was built"? Which seems more natural?
Nope.

There are two flavors of monthly payments - $x every month, and $y for every post the creator marks as a paid thing, up to a maximum of $z - but you can't leave someone a tip for that one cool thing.

If a creator is on the $x every month scheme, then you could sign up for that, and then turn it off again. Patreon charges you immediately, so that you can't raid someone's paywalled content for free.
> That's also why I don't care about all these fears about us not having enough lithium

Who is afraid of that? Take a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

Lithium is #33, estimated at 20 ppm of the crust. We presently mine 64000 tons per year. It is more common than lead, which is #37 and only 14 ppm. Yet we mine 4.8 million tons of lead per year. Now examine boron. #41, 10 ppm and 9.4 million tons per year. Are these unsustainable? Are we on the verge of peak boron and peak lead? Probably not. We have twice as much lithium so we probably aren't going to run out of lithium even if demand increases by a hundred-fold.

I am not a geologist, so maybe much of this lithium is more inaccessible than I'm assuming. But everyone who says we are going to run out of lithium have been only looking at the known deposits and are ignoring the possibility that more mines will open to meet demand.
I don't get it.

>Do not send any password you actively us to a third-party service - even this one.

So I can only test password that I am not using (and by extension that I am not going to use in the future).

>oh no - pwned!

>This password has previously appeared in a data breach and should never be used. If you've ever used it anywhere before, change it immediately!

If I cannot (shouldn't) submit any password I am actively using, what does it matter if I used it before?
Now I already changed it.
Well, either way, you and me should (and are?) both quite happy to know that neonicotinoids will no longer be being used in many expanding markets for bee-based products .. at least, I am.

Glad, also, to hear the bees can bounce back. In my neck of the woods though, it has to be said: there are as many bees as ever, and that is to say: lots. Happy summer!
Toyota Steers Clear of Silicon Valley in Its Talent-Hunting Spree
Depends on how many hours it's running. 24 ? 20 ? 16 ? someone mention two shifts so I guess it's gonna be above 10.
> It makes me wonder how much of T-mobile's speed is lack of congestion and how much is just better investment in hardware.

TMO poisoned pill a couple of take over bids and used the money on infrastructure [1]. Their network has greatly expanded in the last couple of years in both coverage and speed.

> The towers near my new apartment seemed to be in bad shape

Many (most?) towers are no longer owned by the providers. Separate companies now deal in 'vertical real estate', and sell space on the towers. It's possible this was a legacy TMO owned tower though.

> It's interesting that t-mobile offers free unlimited roaming in some other countries (like Canada) but the performance there definitely suffers. One reason for that is all traffic getting routed back to the states

Are you talking about data or voice? TMO offers international as part of their normal plans, and they are one of the main reasons I use/like TMO. The free tier is 2-3g speed, but the pay for/regular tier is the same thing you would have anywhere else.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/att-admits-defea...
I love SO, but the danger with it replacing documentation for developers is that the temptation always exists to just copy and paste code from SO without actually understanding the nuts and bolts of why the code works. SO should complement documentation, not replace it.
There are websites that track these things. Here's one: http://www.vexen.co.uk/countries/best.html
Excellent. Glad to hear he hasn't been disappeared.
If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef
Mars Climate Orbiter too (http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/)
how many promises of "no personal information will be stored" have we, as people in various levels of the tech field, know for a fact is a tricky worded lie.
Can we just have a successor to the current dns system that isn't owned and controlled by the US already?
Indeed. If he didnt get permission to stop WanaCry, then he violated the CFAA.

No, a "crime" is not good justification of a different crime.

I wish I was making this stuff up, but thank overly-broad '80s laws regarding "access", "permission", and that sort of language which weaponizes EULAs.
If someone posted a message on HN about doing DIY appendectomies with Arduino-controlled robots and I pointed out that you need to go to med school to do surgeries, you would not in fact be harping on me for not having explained why.
Amazon Is the New Tech Crash
I was the same way until I realized reading fiction before bed helps me sleep better. Turns off the mental to do list. Now I'm at 3/month fiction.

For non-fiction, I need to be stuck on a plane or have a clear weekend morning.
I've built Anders Pink (https://anderspink.com) to help with content discovery. It allows you to follow topics just by entering a search term, or by creating something more specific (e.g. must contain term X, but not term Y). New articles get pulled in every few hours, and get emailed to you every morning in a digest.

It also allows you to pull in content from rss feeds, then filter it. There's boards to save articles to, and team features to allow collaboration if needed.
No one has indicated they're unhackable. The argument is that ballot stuffing is pretty well understood how to mitigate enough that it's not a factor in altering outcomes.
Don't Be Too Hard on Apple for Bending to China
With enough effort you could implement something that still requires printing a receipt but doesn't require the ballot box. The identity issue isn't even a problem in most modern democracies. But that system would be less efficient and be easier to seed discredit since normal people don't understand it. That gives you a riot or two quite quickly. That's the other properly of paper and ballot box that technologues dismiss way too easily. >90% of the population would be able to run a paper election successfully and yet would be hopeless at understanding a complex crypto scheme. That means you quickly lose a key property of elections which is that whoever lost actually accepts that result. From the previous discussion:

"Electronic voting is the reverse FizzBuzz. FizzBuzz tests if you know the absolute basics about technology to implement something extremely simple. Electronic voting tests if you are able to reject the use of technology when it doesn't add any advantage and instead creates very hard to solve failure modes. Voting benefits from the use of the extremely simple ballot and box. It benefits from it not being programmable and from the counting method being something that almost all the population is able to carry out let alone understand."
Unless you are using a passphrase, which is becoming more and more common.

With a limitation of 27 characters it's not possible to make my password be "if i forget this i'm in a lot of trouble".
Before I settle into a day of staring at screens, I like to listen to the news on the BBC World Service[1] (it's an old habit, I used to listen to it via shortwave years ago), as I find most of the news outlets in the US lacking.

1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_world_service
They degrade extremely quickly in the usage pattern of a typical consumer device (alternating between full charge and full discharge). They last fairly long if you keep them between 30% and 80% charge.

It's not the most long-lasting technology, but we replace most infrastructure every 20-years already. A 10 year lifetime wouldn't be that bad.
HTTP referrer header is set to allow those incoming from social media to get X articles free a month.
Even if the hottest part of the day is past prime solar hours, with a solar system you won't be discharging the battery as fast since the system will be powering the AC for most the day. Also, with that much usage, it might be time to investigate insulation.
>If a password is not found in the Pwned Passwords set, it'll result in a response like this:

Wait, so I test my password to see if it's "good" and now you have a copy of a password I will be using. Am I just being paranoid?
it should be using less fuel than if the aircraft was fully loaded with passengers right?
I read about 1-2 books per week... but I also have a 45 minute commute by train each way, so I get a solid 90 minutes of reading in. I'm also a fairly fast reader, though, and I love to read more than just about anything, so maybe that contributes.

I also have a 10-15 minute walk in the commute for podcasts, which, combined with walking the dog and running, gives me about an hour of listening in. I haven't listened to any audiobooks in the last few years, but it's definitely an option for if I suddenly lost my commute or had to drive myself (and thus couldn't read).
As an artist supported by Patreon: we really don't give a damn about your particular contribution unless you are someone we have a personal interest in. Or if your contribution is notably higher than everyone else's. If you subscribe at $3 or whatever for a few months we're not really gonna notice you coming and going.
Show HN: Addap's – internet social browsing
Hi Redditors,

Addap’s is basically a browser-like that rethinks completely the way you interact with the web. It allows you to create in a matter of seconds as much as online environments as you like, each composed of multiple web content and apps, all active simultaneously. It further allows you to socialize about it with friends and communities and to enhance your web content knowledge.

To be very clear, Addap’s is not a replacement of the current amazing search engines and other related browsing technologies available in the market. Actually, Addap’s allows you to keep your browsing habits and even to improve and increase the use of such existing technologies through our platform. What Addap’s does, is to add extra critical steps allowing you to structure and consume the web content in the way that is the most convenient to you, and to exchange about it within the Addap’s community and even outside of Addap’s.

Addap’s is an app, with a pending patent, similar to a Browser that you can use for leisure or work. You can interactively access your Addap’s environments through a computer or mobile without the need to synchronize them. This app will not replace the current main browsers of the market. Finding the answer of a question will probably go faster with your favorite browser, which you perfectly know all the keyboards shortcuts. But if you have the feeling that you are often doing repetitive tasks on the web (opening multiple source of information, opening multiple social networks, sharing multiple links…), or interact with few web contents at the same time (double or multi screening), or if you need to simplify or harmonize the access to specific web content, or if the standard way you browse is lacking of social capacities, you will discover something that was not possible before and really amazing with Addap’s.

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This has been noticed as an issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/7#issuecomment-2781...
This falls into the 'announcement of an announcement' bin, and thus off-topic. On HN we can just wait for the actual thing.
Seems like you're missing the point. If a set of parts costs you X, and you can sell it as one product for 2X and as a different product for 3X, which one yields better profits?
I'm part of that younger crowd, and it's probably because they associate it with a) their first CS class b) 90s Java applets on the web while growing up and c) Oracle.

I love Java, and I've learned to let go of (a) and (b).
Here's a list of the books from the glory days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120916000422/http://www.gbn.co...

The book club had nice reviews of each of these books.
I agree. I've should have said

If an employer names a range, many applicants would be demoralized if they don't reach its upper end.
Heptio launches Ark, an open source Kubernetes backup and restore tool
Sure, but can answers be un-accepted once technologies have advanced and better solutions have become available? I see a lot of accepted answers that were correct and relevant once, but not in (Summer of) 2017.
I've heard they are not effective with our extremely high humidity levels.
"We're as good as Burma!" isn't saying much.
I've had my Model 3 reservation since the day they opened... but it's highly unlikely to assume that Tesla can hit those production marks with the (admittedly) limited line up it has.

Across their entire lineup BMW sold 2.4M cars in 2016 (including MINI) [1]. I just don't see them selling 500k/year in the immediate future. Once they add models (the Y, a replacement for the Roadster, and a Truck), then they very easily could blow through that rate. But baby steps... I'd rather see Tesla exceed modest expectations than fail to meet unrealistic ones.

[1] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T026708...
I have a similar idea (currently on the backburner) but instead of focusing on "peak" season I thought you would define your own criteria. Some examples:

1. When is a good time to visit (ski resort) based on your chances of catching a powder day? What about a sunny day? What about no lines? What about all 3?

2. When is the best time to visit northern Thailand when it's not too hot.. but air quality is still decent (ie not peak "burning season")?

3. When is a good time to visit San Francisco if I'm into music (perhaps during a festival) but I can't stand rain? And how does that correlate to hotel pricing?

Etc..