skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> XHTML 2 would have sucked so much!

why/how? because you'd have to close your tags and validate your code?
> Physicist admit they don't fully understand what glass is, let alone playdoh, etc.

People love to throw around junk like this, and it's maddening to try to argue against such vague statements. Which physicists? Have you interviewed all of them? How many material science PhDs do you know? What properties of glass are not well understood? Is it not possible to engineer structures and objects out of glass? When in fact, physicists know tons about glass. What is made of, how its crystalline structure looks, its tensile strength, shatter resistance, acoustic and thermal properties, molecular weights, melting points, optical properties. I could go on and on and on, and it'd eventually be clear that physicists know a hell of a lot more about glass than /you/ do, and then you could still make that vague statement with a derisive smile.

It's just absurd argumentation to say some group doesn't /really/ understand something.

What is memory, what is an atom /really/? For that matter, what is language? Art? Feeling? Love? Hackernews?
Peter Watts: Repeating the past a lesson in family history. Nature,Vol 450, 2007 [pdf]
I bank with them and will continue to do so for a while.

years ago, they were the only bank to open an account with my history from another country. all other us banks had the same bullshit "you won't even have a credit card with us until you have credit history in the us, even though we have branches in the country you have history".

then they were the only ones offering investments with no administration fee and with returns above the monopoly of .5 point under official inflation. they were actually 1 point above.

but yeah, every time I travel and forget to tell them before, my card get lots locked. and they claim they didn't call me before locking because it was sleep hours in my home timezone, in case I wasn't really traveling.

also driving in the us, every time I stop in a motel 6 and such, locked card.
Or they want to get rid of a business that doesn't borrow money...

There is no money in banking services if they can't charge you extravagant fees.

It's ironic :)
Who can replace Xavi? A passing motif analysis of football players
I have extremely high hopes for your app, and I'd very much love to see it on the frontpage again, but you make it very difficult to tell what changes has been made since the last time it reached the frontpage (and just a day ago someone reported that it was still getting flagged by anti-virus software on Windows - I think you might want to either fix this, or open source it, before you attempt to promote it again.. otherwise it will just continue to scare people away from using it)

I also believe that if you want to get votes from those who browse the new section (and I think you should assume most of them already know about your app), then you better wait until you make major announcement (e.g. code being open sourced), or at the very least make it clear what's changed.. In this case it seems like you've added Facebook support, which I'd consider worthy of a new announcement. However, while you should expect people browsing 'new' to be familiar with 'eul', you shouldn't expect them to have memorized which clients were already supported the last time it reached the frontpage (especially since you at that time mentioned clients that hadn't received support yet)..

Perhaps in your future Show HN threads, you can add a comment linking back to the original thread, and explaining what changes makes it worthy of being resubmitted, after being on the frontpage less than two months ago.. I really worry that attempting to promote your site with 3 (perhaps even more) accounts, two different websites, and constant deletion/resubmission, will end up severely hurting your chances of success with the HN crowd. That being said, I do believe that you have 90+% chance of reaching the frontpage if you make a Show HN submission with the Github repo after it's been open sourced, and I'm sincerely rooting for your success :)
Is Your Mobile Carrier Your Weakest Link?
Their online banking is truly appalling, too. No full history of past payments to make a repeat payment easier. Weird distinction between 'current payments' (or whatever they call the default 'account' screen) and 'past statements' — seems like a hangover from the days when we used to get paper statements. Still a crazily short session timeout.

I would add to the list, but I can't login to my account at the moment since I don't have my bespoke HSBC 2FA physical device (despite having a far-superior, non-polluting equivalent on my phone...)
Is not running Postgres in Docker in production still a thing? What kind of problems are people running into? I love having everything managed using the same deployment techniques and I was on a team that ran Postgres in Docker in production for a couple of years and never ran into trouble. Of course that doesn't mean anything so I am curious.
I used to work on a system that used mmap for basically everything, including a proprietary database that processed financial transactions. The original production system ran on a commercial Unix. (It's been about 15+ years, but I think it was AIX.)

At one point, we ported it to a different Unix platform which had slightly different mmap semantics. It looked like everything worked, except for one minor detail: the data was never actually synced to disk. Ever. Until shutdown. Unfortunately, since the system ran 24/7, it effectively never synced. First time the system had a power failure, there was massive data loss on startup.

Oops.

(We were able to recover through log replay...)
On one side, you would have elderly people who would be forced out of homes they've lived their entire lives in and raised their families in. On the other side, there would your pragmatic but rather cold-hearted analysis. Which side do you think public opinion is going to come down on?

A home is more than a structure that one happens to reside in and its value has other dimensions than what the market might be willing to pay in dollars for it.
> The only way to solve in the short term is to spread the risk across many banks, and never keep your money in one place.

not only banks, you also have paypal, prepaid cards, etc.

and not only "short term"

eg. always avoid the "single point of failure"

the real infuriating part here is that those problems occur on a business account (not a personal account), if you pay extra for business you should get extra/faster service/resolution.
From this paper's reference [5] ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0308 )

"We introduce the the concept of "flow motifs" to characterize the statistically significant pass sequence patterns. It extends the idea of the network motifs, highly significant subgraphs that usually consists of three or four nodes. The analysis of the motifs in the pass networks allows us to compare and differentiate the styles of different teams. Although most teams tend to apply homogenous style, surprisingly, a unique strategy of soccer exists. Specifically, FC Barcelona's famous tiki-taka does not consist of uncountable random passes but rather has a precise, finely constructed structure."
I guess ARM is safe for now … Is it not?
> There are token sales that are not scams.

This whole discussion would be much easier with an example.

I have spent quite a lot of time debating cryptocurrencies with people and explaining why they could be useful. But with ICOs I find myself on the other side of the fence. I have yet to find a white paper that isn't either useless or impossible.

> and thus doesn't meet securities regulations

In this context "doesn't meet regulations" more often than not means "we lie about what we will use the money for". I'm not sure that's a good idea.

It is impossible to be serious in a space dominated by liars as they will outcompete you every time.
Show HN: Ladder9 – A Shadowsocks cloud hosting platform
After I spent about half year on hosting Shadowsocks servers for my friends who are travel to China to work and to do businesses, I decide to make the whole process fully automatic.

I have run the website ( https://ladder9.cloud ) for few weeks in public beta, during the time, all my friends' servers have been migrated, also, I received some checks from random visitors. :-)

Now, it's still in public beta, but, I want to share it with you because, I think Shadowsocks is a good alternative to regular VPN because, it's really fast (closed to local connection), and anonymous your activities from ISP (it encrypts and obfuscate all traffics between your devices and your server).

Disclaimer:
I create a new account to post this Show HN due to I know this kind of service is sensitive to China.
Doctor Who and the Micro:bit – Live Lesson
It would be interesting to look at those countries that rank poorly and look at the effects of American global liberalism and try to understand how those countries are affected by the American kind of corruption.
The majority of the web servers where performance matters, run on top of .NET and Java.
I had 28 days to keep my startup from failing. Here’s what happened
What do you think the military-industrial complex is? The entire purpose of the whole stinking pile of corruption, is for armaments manufacturers to have more money to transfer to politicians, bureaucrats, officers, think tanks, journalists, and lobbyists. They're not monsters; they're not really motivated to kill innocents in other nations. It's just a convenient way to make more money!
On a related note (and this seems a good forum to ask), are there any typed databases available similar to sqlite?
Well, more accurately you could chart a centile, but it would hide the very latency patterns you're looking for. The outliers in a given time bucket are the important data. If you're looking at one bucket, it could be useful to do a centile (though 99th is not really high enough to be meaningful), but if you're charting centile buckets, then you're missing the real latency spikes.

For all we know, KCM/KTLS generates the highest peak latency, but fewer times per bucket. That difference would completely change the interpretation of these data. If userspace data frame handling produces higher 99th percentile latency, that does not tell us anything about its maximum latency. Further, if we're looking at the 99th percentile, 1/100 data frames have latency higher than that percentile, this will happen hundreds, thousands, or millions of times per second depending on your interface bandwidth and typical frame size!
You'll be happy to know that the Trump administration is dismantling it.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/17/trump-reverses-obam...

The presumption of guilt turns the entire concept of justice on its head. A 'cashless' society at best is one that ensures that only those at the top might get to enjoy the fruits of fraud and corruption.
I agree with you that we don't have the evidence for dietary exposure. My polemic generalization in my earlier comment didn't make it clear that I was only speaking about "commercial and heavy-residential use", that is to say, people whose job or hobby it is to spray RoundUp for hundreds or even thousands of hours a year.

Much like how you shouldn't weld without a mask, you shouldn't spray RoundUp without a mask. But the difference is that things that can be inhaled are very tricky compared to things that are just bright.

So even the right precautions can still lead to problems.

If someone who worked at a fiberglass plant told me not to breathe in fiberglass splinters, I would believe them, regardless of what the research has confirmed.
Chronological snobbery? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_snobbery
> America ranks low in corruption? How are you quantifying that?

There's the Corruption Perceptions Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

In the 2016 version, the USA ranks 18th out of 176 countries, with 74 out of 100 points (higher is less corrupt, best actual score by any country is 90). If you accept this index (and don't assume things have changed dramatically since the 2016 poll), then it's fair to say that America does rank low in corruption.
Regulation is only on the surface about investor protection. The main driver is usually taxation (only what's regulated can be taxed). If these investment schemes become too liquid allowing anyone to invest in anything in large sums, tax evasion and tax fraud become even harder for authorities to track (especially since there's no legal framework for ICOs - and creating those takes time). As many others have pointed out, there's no legislation that will hold you back investing in the companies behind these ICOs in one way or another. Just talk to the founders, ask them to sell you some shares and you're good to go. But then there's a well established track record when you buy and transfer shares (for example in the books of the company that sold you the shares). The same is not (yet) true for ICOs.
> Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall had a huge advantage, they only had to care about a 320x240

Honestly this isn't a big deal it's massively overstated. OS X managed to pull of Aqua and MS managed to pull off Aero both with arbitrary UI sizing.

I feel this point is only stated by people who came to UI when they only had to worry about 1 size and then were shocked at the idea of treating the UI as anything other than a Photoshop flat.
Besides aversion to any particular vendor in general, is there a reason you wouldn't want to use them?
yeah, I should just blog my response so I don’t have to quickly, with typos, post this point again. I feel like we’ve had this same conversation before about crowdfunding and micro-transactions.
So how do people grant tokens then? They do need to log in somewhere?
I don't think drug cartels have any trouble finding banks that will accommodate them.

and I doubt it will be hsbc nowadays since they become scapegoat on this issue a while ago.
Whether the ideographs are the "same" or not is definitely a can of worm, both academically and politically speaking.

I am aware of the limits that the original Unicode specs were subjected to, which adds to my grief on how things could have been. Now that it has taken over the world we have to deal with wrong characters displayed for many applications. (Even modern day iOS has problems displaying mixed language content in system text fields.)

I don't know much about the history of western languages, so I cannot comment on the issue, just that it feels unjustified that during development CJK languages got crammed together and messed up (no matter who did it). More and more emojis and other symbols just rub salt into the wound.
What do you mean by typed? :-?
Yeah, its definitely been forced, you can see it in the team's faces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-ldg1IPn4&t=1766s). Its possible that the HTML Modules spec will hit browsers in the next year or so (the fact that the ES Modules spec does nothing when the resource mimetype isn't JS means it'll be very easy to extend), in which case Polymer 3.0 will have just been a crash course in tagged template literals.
We were just about to move our business banking over to HSBC, but this is appalling. I'm going to bring this up with the people we're dealing with and politely decline to go any further with the process for now.
One really really simple thing they could have done in that communication is (using their casual style):

> I will reply again in 2 hours (or XX time) outlining action taken and what we're currently doing to restore services.

And actually reply spontaneously.

> Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns, and I'll be more than happy to help!

Very canned.
Programming as if the Domain (and Performance) Mattered [pdf]
There better be some serious god damned compensation for that company at the end of this. Jesus Christ, I wouldn't even know where to start in estimating the damages.
Ha. I once heard ADHD described by a behavioral scientist as "making a list of chores and putting it up on the fridge so you'll see it every day, and every day you see it but forget the moment you're out of the kitchen" (not verbatim)

Having severe ADHD, coupled with a seemingly unalterable indifferent outlook on life due to manic depressive disorder and childhood trauma has given me a morbid sense of satisfaction in making time to squander my time here on Earth... And intense salf hatred. I just hope I can consolidate these two aspects of my personality in a reasonable timeframe. One half of my role models are all polyglots, men of science and patrons of the arts, and the other half are all dead from speedballing or suicide.
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Some banks are already moving to Amsterdam (or have plans), like Royal Bank of Scotland and MUFG, Japan’s biggest bank.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/04/rbs-plans-m...

https://www.ft.com/content/158dcffe-7535-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9...
Following with interest. I would also LOVE to see a SQLite clone in pure Go. That would be amazing.
It's interesting that you give Switzerland as an example since many would regard it as the most libertarian country today. Could you imagine this [2] happening in the US?

Public spending to GDP ratio [1]:

Sweden 51
US 42
Canada 42
Switzerland 34

When the Swedish welfare state has collapsed (I'm Swedish, and it's not looking good) you are welcome back to the small government camp :).

No 1 is a good argument against libertarianism. A counter-argument is that more libertarian-style decentralized decision-making would mitigate negative externalities and the "common good tragedy". Research suggests [3] that negative externalities can be managed in smaller communities; smaller government also makes it harder for parasitic organisations to suck out money. Pollution can also be taken care of in the court system rather than regulation.

Before advancing an "how would X work?" argument, you should consider whether X really works better in other systems. Last time I checked, there was a ton of flooded houses in Houston, plenty of people smoke, and there is quite a bit of organized crime (a popular one in Sweden is "assistance compensation" paid out by the government to people who take care of sick relatives at home. Who would ever think about abusing it?? Surely not the mafia and IS). No-one is claiming that liberty will produce a perfect world, but that it's the morally right thing. As a bonus it would also likely produce better outcomes (on average) than what we have today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/switzerland-pu...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
Works only in some countries.
> Does anyone have any pointers?

Sure, here you are:

void *x= malloc(16384)

(Couldn't resist)
That's a leap.. The year in prison was related to embezzling charges, not the collapse of Mt. Gox due to his "crappy PHP code full of gaping security holes".
"Sitting and watching TV for long periods, especially in the evening," she says, "has got to be one of the most dangerous things that older people can do."

This will also be an issue for my generation (Millennial). I'm guilty of sitting around and Netflixing after a day's work. Imagine how different it would be if the Wii became extremely popular a la Netflix - entertainment that required you to move around.
The million-dollar prize just appears to be the Clay Institute's prize for solving P vs NP. I am guessing that the queens problem (a special case of maximum independent set in a graph) is NP-Hard.
Paris Hilton backs an eyebrow-raising crypto project
You might look through their published papers, find someone in the area you're strong in, and ask them if they need help, or if there are likely openings in the future.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1837

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1884 (bonus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depression_of_1882-85)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1896
Show HN: An distributed key-value store using hashicorp/raft and dgraph-io/badger
I'm Winning My Battle with Smartphone Addiction
I left HSBC and have been much happier with Bank Of Scotland small business account.

I also get the feeling HSBC would like it if you were in debt, or had a loan. At least they would be making money from you!
A true step to equality, in a truly global sense.
SQLite will ignore most type information, instead choosing to focus on "type affinity": https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
The problem about the free Cloudflare SSL certificate is that you share it with a lot of other sites, most of then with "strange" purposes...
You can also claim the $1 million by being good at Mario and explaining your techniques:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1895
Oh no, I agree. IE got its bad reputation due to neglect, not because it originally wasn’t good.

It just wasn’t good enough to last 10 years without updates
Oh man, that 2FA device... what a weird, weird product to deploy in this day and age. I still have mine somewhere.
Coinbase != bitcoin so the same benefits don't apply.
No internet connection, no sale. That's why cash will always rule.
The point is not that Anon and /pol/ are the same group. The point is that there's nothing structural about anonymous online fora that necessarily gives rise to a politics centered around personal rights and freedoms. It can just as easily go to mob authoritarianism as to individualism.
Id put that firmly in the “budget” category myself, based on sales anyhow.

Would be nice for stuff to get down to that price tho.

For the record - I haven’t had any issues switching devices with my Beats X
I mean, I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't learn that empirically. But I am totally glad you caught it and had a chuckle.