skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and have been continually attacked for this opinion for some reason I'm sure has nothing to do with people on both sides ignoring scientific procedure when it comes to either of their political interests.

I love this. You're being attacked because we think you're siding with the fascists. When you get fired for your speech and pilloried in the town square, come talk to me about your victim status.
I would love to see more work-for-benefits programs. Where you are required to do some labour work for the community (cleaning wild areas, swiping side walks, planting trees etc.) in exchange for some better than average benefits. IMO everyone should be entitled to such a work. This way we would eliminate involuntary extreme poverty.
Perhaps that belongs not as an extension, but as a fork?
ISTR slash works in most, but not all contexts.
You did well to have billing alerts enabled. Exactly the same thing happened to be, but I didn't notice for three months - no emails because I'd created an account and domain for a side project. Didn't notice anything on my card because the charge had been declined, but my bank didn't contact me. Finally found out because I knew the local AWS rep (was the relationship manager for the accounts we use at work). Had to apologise and explain the situation in detail to AWS and they forgave the bill. That was tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm not sure I would be that cynic:

- Statoil took over Hywind in 2008 when they acquired the O&G division of Hydro, and set up the first test turbine in 2009

- Shell is also active in offshore wind, so this is not limited to majority state owned companies

Offshore wind could be competitive in the early 2020's without subsidies, depending on your assumption of fossil fuel and CO2 prices

Bottom line: Floating offshore wind could be very promising in areas with deep water, such as Japan, so I would not call this busy work
what an absolutely worthless comment. you should be almost as ashamed as me for posting this comment.
Because, in theory, if anything goes wrong during the course of a patient's care the doctor can just say "Watson agreed with me" and the chance of litigation drops dramatically.
Good grief! I'm not sure where you got that, but https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=... and https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date... and
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html.
yep, thanks for all the hard work @ mefi

great interview
Do you need to cover every _line_ of code, or do you need to test resulting behavior? Also, while nothing is 100% foolproof, the example here would probably have been caught.
Delta in particular. Whoever runs their twitter team gets it. They've always responded fairly quickly to dms and mentions.
well youtube has a video associated with it, i usually plug my phone into the car and listen there. Plus the youtube "mixes" thing isn't remotely the same thing as a good set from a real dj.

The dnb subreddit focuses mainly on new releases of individual tracks and discussion about artists, not so much for people to post mixes.

I dunno, soundcloud was just better. I could sit in the car and search for an artist and find a mix (bootlegged or otherwise) and listen to it within a few seconds and be on my way. Other things are just clunky and requires a lot more planning in advance.
This is a great table, a friend sent me a link to this a while ago and I ended up choosing a VPN from the list. I found that Mullvad and IVPN are a couple of the better choices based on the tables' criteria, though I went with IVPN. Their connection pool allows for 5 available devices now, not 3 as the graph says. Aside from the $100/yr pricing I don't have any gripes whatsoever.

Very descriptive and broad amount of information here.
Screenshots out yet?
Police find illegal Bitcoin farm at Ukrainian state institute – KyivPost
Writing a Markdown compiler from scratch in Ruby
We have very different views as to what makes a minor accident. ;-)
In theory, one could make an amoeba play piano somehow, if we think of a piano broadly speaking as just an array of notes with various associated variables (pitch, force, etc).

I'm thinking... using chemical signals of some sort to force amoeboid cells to move in certain directions or take certain shapes, we can control gradiants of amoeba in sequence, and thus "teach" them encoded piano music.

But I'm not sure how this applies to AI.
I've been working on a (soon to be) open source version of this, I didn't realize there was a real business version out there. So far it works great alongside Salesforce e.g. "Find me appointments in San Mateo today set by Jason Jones".
My S/O used to work at a company AuntBertha. They're a "search engine for social services" but they are a for-profit company (a B-Corp).

Their biggest clients are hospitals and insurers. There are people called "frequent flyers" who come to the emergency room frequently and while they might only be 2% of clients they account for a huge share of costs. It's actually cheaper to hire social workers to provide these people with the things they actually need (i.e. treating the causes) instead of the symptoms.

Here's an example. Guy is low income. Cannot afford food & insulin for diabetes. So he chooses to not buy insulin and the food he does buy is high in sugar (think cheap whitebread). Goes into diabetic shock and gets sent to the emergency room. Instead it's much cheaper for everyone involved if a social worker finds out the problem, helps him research some foodbanks to cover his nutritional needs or gets him on a discount insulin program. It's not free, but it's much cheaper than trying to clean up a mess after the fact.
FWIW, I totally disagree with this comment being downvoted. It's a fair response made in good faith, very polite even seeing that I did come on kinda strong. So thanks for being a good sport about me ranting.
Uber, AirBnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, etc will all crumble. They may continue to exist, but they'll be more like Twitter than Facebook. None of them are anything special.

Maybe Dropbox will get acquired after their failed IPO. Snapchat could also get filed away in a similar fashion, but it may be too late.

I wonder why they invested so much in a taxi company. It only makes sense if all cars are replaced with Uber autonomous vehicles, but what are the odds that will happen? Uber only makes sense in larger cities.

The "brain" trust may as well get started on teleportation or something else deserving of billions in blind/naive/"stupid" faith.

Is this the mobile bubble forming and collapsing live? As suggested by historical timings (8 <= year_ipod - year_founded <= 12), IPOs for all "big bets" should technically happen within the next year. I strongly doubt it's going to be pretty.
Fairly sure hywind is a 'demonstrator' project used to assess feasibility of large scale deployments +1GW, not just something to keep eco warriors at bay.

Subsidy free traditional offshore wind is happening, but this requires good site conditions for installation, cracking subsidy free floating wind would open up much larger spaces of ocean to development and thus more power and profit! Win win!
I run/develop/manage a private MMOARPG game server for a dead game called Hellgate: London that we call London 2038. You can see more about it here http://london2038.com

Not only do I not make money on the project, it actually costs me money! :)

I have seemingly undying motivation to work on it, knock out bugs, release patches, catch cheaters, etc. The community being so active and excited helps keep me going. I probably spend 30-40 hours of week on the project.

Edit: grammar
If it worked in that way, which it currently doesn't (see comments about question answering systems and Jeopardy) in terms of the state of the art, we're... maybe 30 years off that, like as in we're 30 years off fusion.

Think about the human condition, think about human biology. Be clear- these are systems beyond current science... and doctors deal with them every day!
For those talking about this being a 'serverless' problem or not, think they point is that it's a lot easier to shoot yourself in the foot. Great power + responsibility, etc. On regular servers (outside of unbounded autoscaling) mistakes cost a flat rate.
There's only 9 of them.

If you disable JS, they'll be shown all at once.
I have been looking for something like todolist for a while now to help me keep track of stuff. Very cool & Thank you for building this!
Try to find a startup near you that's currently looking for a tech lead / CTO, you'll do more than CRUD hopefully!
Do i have this right?

Google: "we want to hear how you think? It's safe."

Googler: "you suck."

Google: "just kidding. It's not safe. Bye bye."

Seems like dirty pool.

Is that what occurred?
Well, for multi core workloads AMD is a clear winner. Other features are nice too: ECC memory; no thermopaste nonsense. I'm really waiting for future Intel offerings, they must do something extraordinary to gain lead.
Yep, as recently as 2016, a certain candidate lamented that CFCs were not responsible for the ozone hole: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/05/trump-on-hairspray-and-ozon... .
Ask HN: Do you develop with the lights off?
I have a preference to develop with lights off and headphones on. I find it easier to concentrate.

A lot of people find this odd. Wondering if anyone else prefers this.
i've always noticed that there are more loner guys than loner girls.
Filecoin ICO raises $200M in 60 minutes
Land in sparsely populated sunny places is cheap and the panels are easier to access and easier to connect to the grid when they're on land.
As a physician, I say most doctors would enthusiastically welcome it. With today's constant threat of litigation, practically all doctors are getting second opinions on every diagnosis anyway to help defend their actions in case something goes wrong. If they can say "Watson agreed with my diagnosis" instead of "Dr. Jones agreed with my diagnosis", work gets done quicker. Waiting for second opinions is hugely annoying and a big time waster in a doctor's day.
While I get what you mean, we're very used to using "/" to concatenate components into full pathnames: we do it every time we're using the shell. "/" is the canonical pathname concatenation operator, and tricking a specific Python class into also using it feels a lot more natural than the joinpath stuff.
Can't help but wonder what the sound quality of a downloaded youtube vid converted to mp3 would be vs a straight up mp3 or FLAC.
I don't dispute that moderation exists on HN. I just think MeFi makes better trade-offs.
OTOH, for anything that's not a toy project, this is one of the viable approaches. Power tool is powerful (which also means you can hurt yourself using it), news at 11.
So basically their cost of revenue is going up? They need to spend more to earn every dollar this year compared to last year, which makes reporting their overall revenue feel very misleading!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Ants?
Wisconsin won’t break even on Foxconn plant deal for over two
I would be very happy with all birds being extinct if that is what would take to come up with a solid replacement for fossil fuels. The problem with wind power is it will not replace anything. Wind cannot provide reliable power so it has to be backed by something else that is reliable. Also, wind provides variable power so infrastructure has to be setup such that it can handle such variation.

After accounting for initial setup costs and maintenance of wind turbines (it is worse than Solar in this regard because of the wear and tear in mechanical parts) and power infrastructure (which has to be designed to handle such variation without any impact on consumers), it will take a very long time to break even, if at all. And don't forget that we will still need something reliable like nuclear or fossil fuels to back it up... which we already have enough of to last for thousands of years.

So, basically, all we get with wind is more work for no gain at all (not to mention the unnecessary environmental harm). I am sure Statoil is not ignorant of this. They are just using a small portion of their 100 billion dollar yearly revenue in this to please the eco-terrorists.
(4) WW3 THE QUEENS LEAKED SPEECH OF WW3
> The company has been urging investors to think of it as different from Facebook.

I remember when Twitter tried to convince investors that it wasn't like Facebook and their stock is down from that period. You might not be like Facebook, but Facebook is going to try and be like you.
This isn't necessarily a death knell. If Microsoft wanted to continue with the product, they can do what is called a "lifetime buy" where they buy up enough chips to carry them until their next iteration with a different CPU.

This is especially common in industrial electronics where volume is lower and product life is longer. Some lifetime buys can cover production builds for over ten years or more.
It would be interesting exercise to compile cells into object files as they are entered and load them dynamically into a persistent process, doing needed linking etc on the fly in-memory. You'd also need to generate a header file from the current in-memory symbol table and implicitly include that in compilation.

That might actually work relatively well for simple cases. But I imagine there would be a ton of problematic edge cases, considering that with C you can end up with all sorts of weird stuff.
Do you actually gain anything from two-pass encoding for streaming? It helps with file sizes but not with momentary bandwidth requirements, as far as I know.
This isn't how empirical evidence works. It's a system you know nothing about that has never been compromised, unlike a faked passport. It's impossible to prove you wrong because the burden of evidence is on your table.

What you are asking me to do is impossible because there is no way I can convince you when you've turned your back on facts.

Aside from that, the system you've described which works pefectly fine in Canada is extremely similar to the voting system in Iraq, Russia and Serbia, places where telling on liars obviously isn't hindering elections from being manipulated.

You may be safe right now, but you're protected by the people running your system, not the system itself.
Makes no money but it does helps me discover new music and I really enjoy the community :)

Also the development challenges are super fun (real time chat, multi platform, AI).

https://www.jqbx.fm

Come join the fun!
Healthcare, like, the mandatory profits for insurance companies?

Immigration is a loaded topic. We can't afford to let every single person on the planet who wants a better life to move here. Maybe they should work on improving their own countries instead? Mass immigration is unsustainable with growing populations.

And calling an argument intellectually lazy is being "intellectually lazy" itself.

You're delusional if you think the Democrats and Republicans by and large have any real interest in the American people. They are both in bed with corporations and they both need to be rooted out and removed from office. If you vote Democrat you're just as bad (maybe worse since you should know better) as Republicans.
You're fucking high if you think any VC is going to choose to protect their "founder-friendly" reputation over their $9BB investment. Any institutional investor would be making the exact same decisions as benchmark here.
When I used to play a lot of StarCraft, and then later with Total Annihilation, I wished for the ability to customize the AI.

So then BWAPI came along ... and ... AI is hard. The best SCBW bots are still pretty pathetic compared to a human player, never mind an expert human player.
Charged at a flat rate like the cost of a Digital Ocean $5/mo instance, would developers pay for such a service to provide automated notifications of service overages for all the major cloud providers?

All a developer needs to do immediately after adding a credit card to AWS/Azure/GCP would be to create an IAM role with permission to automatically add and track fine-grained billing alarms and notify via email/sms for any potential billing overages.

I think a $60/yr service like this would be useful to protect against future events of bill shock.
> I honestly don't know what your point is

I think you do. It was the sentence before the one you quoted
I've almost had hot coffee spilled on my laptop. I've learned to keep an eye out for anyone walking by with anything spillable and hide my laptop. I get that sometimes they can't avoid it with turbulence/people bumping into them/whatever.
Happens to a lot of us.

Lately just for fun I been working with unreal engine. You can do some really cool stuff quickly and customize in C++.

Now that VR is becoming in bigger and bigger might be marketable some day. That startup magicleap seems to be doing lot of stuff around this area.

Can pair unreal with houdini and do some python scripting / 3d math learning.
I see it more often used to mock a male mono-culture and the pitfalls that derive from it (ex: brogrammers). A bit like the term douchebag has become a synonym of 'jerk'.
I don't know where they can get their figures. $15 sounds a bit high for a median. The average tho is in the S-1: $2.33. Maybe the average is heavily skewed downwards by some very cheap penny options?
I only own one on my personal computer for gaming, but I have 4 Titan X's on my desk at work and access to hundreds (maybe thousands?) more when I need to. Kinda gonna miss this when I leave...
Is it common that employers pay 100% of healthcare costs? I've never heard of a company doing that outside of big tech companies. I work at a startup and for us its about 50/50 employer/employee contribution, which is similar to the deal I've gotten everywhere I've ever worked.
It moves the trust to the code rather than the entity. Code analysis does not need to be done by all, either.

I'm not saying it's the entirety of kickstarter but I think you're being overly dismissive of the concept. It could work well for things like bug or feature bounties, or other similar situations where having a company to sit in the middle and hold cash requires building up too much reputation than it is worth. Running costs become just the transaction & code running costs on whatever network you're using too.
Here ya go
http://skatelescope.org/cradle-life/
"Oh, look, new tech. It shines! It heats! Ouch, it also burns!" The comparison to fire is quite fitting.
Many people who are currently homeless are not the bums you see on the side of the road. Many have assets (computers, clothes, maybe even cars) but have been temporarily displaced from a home. Usually due to unforeseen financial hardship like an unexpected medical bill, or an auto accident etc. These people don't have a safety net of family or friends they could borrow money from so they get evicted. These people may currently have a job but no place to stay when they leave form work.

Many of the successful homeless programs are "housing first" programs. Search for "colorado homes first program" to read more about it. In many cases it's also the cheapest way to do it as well. If you want to organize a group of currently homeless people to do some task, you have to coordinate travel, pick them up, have a van or a truck, hire a coordinator to plan the events and oversee them, and then at then on top of it pay for housing. It's actually cheaper just to provide housing.

Anyway, just wanted to say the issue goes deeper than "why won't these lazybones work".
People will pay for indie music, it's been happening for a long time. It still happens today. Particularly if, as we've been talking about here, it's focused on electronica/hip-hop people will pay so they can perform the track in public. There's a real stigma against playing stolen music like that. Plus you can pay for higher quality versions. Lower quality versions don't sound as good when timestretched so they dont work as well for mixing.
I think we don't need this off-topic flamebait here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What's weird is how often I see this argument and how loudly it contrasts with the speed of software development and the variety of preposterous things already being attempted in the space.
Very much this. Some simple search tools would go a long way - multiple tags, sort by upload date, "not including" negative search, filter by like/download count, downloadable only etc
Terashuf – shuffle multi-terabyte files where shuf just won't do
Removing “Send to Watch”
From the Medium post about speed improvements in this version:

> The size of a function, including it’s signature, the white space and even comments can affect whether the function can be inlined by V8 or not. Yes: adding a comment to your function may cause a performance hit somewhere in the range of a 10% speed reduction.

Uhh... byeee
> It is a serverless issue because if you were using your own server, a mistake like this wouldn't have cost money.

We dynamically create and instantiate new servers based on load and if it's sustained for a while. Once it's up, it's added to the load balancer. Once the load of them goes down, it's spin down after it's spent some time idle (it costs to instantiate so might as well keep outside of the queue for a bit before completely removing it).

This all runs automatically. If we don't limit it, it's on us.

How is this not a problem with how he managed it?

> This is probably the most stupid thing I ever did. One missing return; ended up costing me $206.

He clearly mentioned it's his error there.
Not necessarily.

With a regular server you could go viral, your server dies, so you lose also without a bound in lost business/good will/whatever.

Also need to take into account the time/effort spent on making the regular server scale, albeit this is also a relatively flat rate.
DevOps for Big Data Applications
Sometimes I wish I was wealthy enough to buy out horrible companies, just so I could have the power to dismantle them and end the suffering.
Kalanick is owed control because Benchmark agreed he had control.

I agree. Given what was negotiated, the default starting position for the lawsuit is that Kalanick is owed control.

so many VCs wanted in, that they were able to dictate very favorable terms.

That is what I failed to fully appreciate. There is so much dumb money sloshing around that it forces smart VCs like Benchmark to agree to dumb things.

Here's now a Fortune pundit described the investment a Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund made in Uber last year:

Uber needed the money, and where else are you going to get $3.5 billion? No doubt, it must be tough to fundraise after you've already tapped out venture capitalists, private equity firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, Wall Street high-net worth clients, and strategic corporate and other sovereign wealth funds (yes, including from noxious Qatar).

http://fortune.com/2016/06/02/ubers-no-good-very-bad-deal-wi...
Gig Harbor, which is about as far from Seattle as Sunnyvale is to SF.
Show HN: Super simple SMS API
100 Million Books -- mission is to promote intellectual diversity.

It's a Chrome extension/homepage that shows you a new book every time you open a new tab, plus a special hand-picked idea that teaches you a new perspective/fact/concept.

I'm evaluating a couple different paths to make it profitable, but it's not currently making anything since Amazon cut me off its affiliate program.

http://www.100millionbooks.org
Let's just say if you live in a country where you cannot get insulin if you need it, that is a pretty fucked up country.
I'm not sure what they're supposed to be bargaining about in your view. Have you ever been in a long term relationship? Because what you're describing does not sound like a healthy relationship.