skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one up to 2014:
http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/science/spaceflt.htm

Number of living humans who have walked on another world:
https://xkcd.com/893/
From the article:

Can a blockchain find people offering rides, link them up with people who are trying to go somewhere, and give the two parties a transparent platform for payment? Can a blockchain act as a repository and a replay platform for TV shows, movies, and other digital media while keeping track of royalties and paying content creators? Can a blockchain check the status of airline flights and pay travelers a previously agreed upon amount if their planes don’t take off on time?

If so, then blockchain technology could get rid of Uber, Netflix, and every flight-insurance provider on the market.

Really? All these applications can also be built using 'normal' systems architectures. If you build them on a blockchain, then you also get:

- A very low rate of transactions
- A very high computational cost to mine new blocks
- A very high storage cost for each node
- No way to reverse transactions in the case of error or fraud

So somehow the benefit of putting these applications on the blockchain has to outweigh these costs. The only benefit I can see is transparency. When you have information that must be publicly available and immune to tampering, then a blockchain could be a nice way to achieve that.

But for these examples? I don't see any reason to use Ethereum or a blockchain at all to implement them. Can someone help me out here?
"This Is Water" speech, by David Wallace.

Link: http://www.befreetoday.com.au/this-is-water/
Perhaps some current or upcoming EU regulation (GDPR anyone?) will stop them from milking their users.

Is it the whole Europe though, or just the smaller countries?
My wife's 6P entered a bootloop 5 or 7 days after the 1-year warranty expired. Google and Huawei said "sorry—your warranty expired." But I don't fault them. An expired warranty is, after all, expired.

How is this acceptable? The boot loop is most likely caused by a software bug that was not introduced by your wife (unless she was installing custom ROMs). Moreover, it is probably easy for Huawei/Google to repair the phone by reflashing the firmware.

Rather than going the extra mile for a customer who dropped $500+ on a device, they literally stick to the warranty period mandated by the law and leave you out in the woods.

That is terrible customer service.
What's the difference between a protocol token and the scam tokens you usually get from ICOs?
> If Purism can crack this and get a full open source phone, I hope they build a lightweight laptop using the same sort of specs.

The chip they're using is from the i.MX line with Vivante GPU. The reason this chip has open source drivers is because of the etnaviv project, which was funded by bunnie and the backers for his Novena project. So in a sense, the laptop you want already exists and in fact came first. It's just a little pricey and kind of rough around the edges.
GOOGLE’S GADGET VISION: SAME STUFF, DIFFERENT SCREENS
What it depends on is whether the people selling way out of the money options are underpricing them due to underestimating the probability of unlikely events.
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Your comment reminded me of this quotation (it's from Lord Bryce's "The American Commonwealth", describing urban political machines in the 19th century):

> An army led by a council seldom conquers: It must have a commander-in-chief, who settles disputes, decides in emergencies, inspires fear or attachment. The head of the Ring is such a commander. He dispenses places, rewards the loyal, punishes the mutinous, concocts schemes, negotiates treaties. He generally avoids publicity, preferring the substance to the pomp of power, and is all the more dangerous because he sits, like a spider, hidden in the midst of his web. He is a Boss.

You're probably right that voting on everything is not the best way to go, but this is the first Ethereum project that doesn't seem useless or some kind of money grab.
Honestly hard for me to care..They can both compete as well as integrate.No offense here but model import existing will become a common thing as things like ONNX become standard.

We play up what's unique about Dl4j anyways. It's right in the name. We're square focused on the JVM.

We also hedge our bets against spark. Most of our logic doesn't even run on spark.

Spark is just a facilitator..it's not where anything that matters runs. We could just as easily use flink or apex here too. Those are also JVM based streaming engines.

We can't overplay spark because most of our deployments won't even be with spark. We don't even use spark in our own production inference tools. We just deploy as a microservice.
This phone is as expensive as the latest iOS phones, at least ball-park wise. Yet, Google only supports its hardware for two years, while Apple does so for four, at least (still too little, but at least twice as good). I am using a "bricked" Nexus 5 right now and need to update because I get no more updates. No more Google phones for me, unless they cost half or less than the current iPhones.
Listening to DFW speak that essay makes me really contemplative.
Thank you. Will review.
"The Egg"

http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Firefox Quantum Sprint
Meditations on Moloch. In which coordination problems are incarnated as Ginsberg's Moloch. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
If they spend the money they would have to pay VAT. If they invest it in something then the invested in company spends it and they would have to pay VAT. The only way to avoid it is to stick the cash in a mattress, which nobody really does because it's more profitable to make $1 in profit at the cost of paying $.35 in VAT than to make no profit and pay no taxes.

They could avoid local taxes by investing offshore, but they do that already.
They have one - Visual Studio. It hang all time, crashes and painfully slow. Despite the fact that its written with C# and C++.
Link in op is "unavailable in my country". Anyone have a non region-locked reference to this?
Shoehorning Rsync into an FTP client
If you're interested in the nitty gritty of the mechanics of Bitcoin, check out my blog post: http://www.samlewis.me/2017/06/a-peek-under-bitcoins-hood/
Some nitpicking / philosophical thoughts:

- This can only be a lower bound: There may be privately or secretly "launched" people (e.g.: Chinese military scientists, that missing SpaceX engineer, who knows what the NSA does, Mafia's posh new traitor treatment ...)

- "People" needs a definition here (are dead people still people, what about aliens?)
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This is all based on smart contracts.

A detailed description of how it's supposed to work was linked in a blog post of theirs:

https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf

I'm interested in what kind of holes can be poked in particularly the distribution of tasks and "reputation mining".

Fascinating stuff. I hope one of these projects transforms the way we work. The payoff could be immense.
What should a four-year old know?
https://magicalchildhood.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/what-shoul...

It's common for parents to be daunted by the fact that their kids are being left behind. This fear leads to high-pressure parenting and its symptoms are much worse in an Indian society (in which I grew up). What kids need more is freedom to explore their own interests and inquisitiveness rather than forced lessons. I keep revisiting this article to remind myself what kids needs the most to grow.
Jay Kreps’ article on the log abstraction - https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Same experience here: a year ago my iPhone 5s had discoloration issues on the screen's edges. I booked a genius appointment, they replaced the screen for free, and after two hours I could pick the phone.

I also once had a problem with a new MacBook Pro (probably bad memory). Went to the Apple Store, I could either get a (new) replacement or my money back, no questions asked.

I used Android for a while when Motorola was a Google company and a brief period after they were purchased by Lenovo. My Moto X 2013 had spontaneous reboots, repair took one or two weeks and afterwards they wouldn't tell me the problem was. After a year or so, the Moto X started cracking spontaneously. I also purchased a Moto 360, which spontaneously cracked as well (known problem). Repair took one week, but the package disappeared in delivery. It took them two months (!) to send me a new Moto 360. Then there was the horror of the incredibly buggy Android 5.0 release on the Moto X 2014, which had a memory leak that killed background apps all the time.
TL;DR: "Normally, they pay you 20-60 cents per 1000 keystrokes."
Ugh, glad it's not just me though. Incredible that at a place like Google something as crucial as a keyboard can suffer from such a severe bug, unpatched for who knows how long.
As well as the German layout. But you get used to if you don't know anything else.
How bookmakers deal with winning customers
The problem is when a company which has such huge monopolies decides they won't do business with you.

This guy has a for-life veto on a lot of the leading technologies, and cannot use a lot of product (in an every increasing list).
RAM, bam, awww  man Boffins defeat Rowhammer protections
Read "The Halo Effect" instead of a Jim Collins book. https://www.amazon.com/Halo-Effect-Business-Delusions-Manage...
I went into my insurance provider to talk to them. The nice lady asked me for my name, address, date of birth as proof of identity.

I said "no need, I have my driver's licence on me which has my photo and is much better proof of identity".

She refused to even look at my driver's licence, and insisted on me giving them three pieces of publicly available information to "prove" my identity. She got quite hostile about it.

I don't understand why this is a thing that companies do. But it clearly is.
Wow, whenever I am reminded that a human hasn't been on the moon since 1972 it just blows my mind.

I mean.. I guess it's probably easier and cheaper and safer to send a robot, but I would think that at least one nation would decide to flex their muscles in the "yea that's right, we can afford to do this" way. Oh how I dream of such forms of international posturing!
Wonder -- in all seriousness -- if the BBC will do Attenborough. If you're British and you've grown up with his documentaries, all other nature voices simply sound wrong.
> that missing SpaceX engineer

what?! Can you elaborate?
I think they could block that Github repository/repositories but not the entire Github. Also I don't want them to DDOS Github and affect other uses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9275041
The experience of a Ruby developer that used Clojure and rewrote it back with Ruby
Fastmail is stupendous. The UI is great, and real humans reply pretty fast when you need support (and this hasn't been often, fortunately).

Plus, they work with SMTP/IMAP/CalDav/CardDav, so if you like the tools you're using, you can keep using them. Personally, I use third party tools on my phone, but their web UI on PC.
sorry, I missed that
Hmm, I can absolutely self study but I question whether I should self study an entire branch on knowledge just to figure how to take apart component parts of that knowledge and reassemble them.

For example, if I told you today that you need to print me a raspberry pi, you could read up all about CAD and all about running a PCB printer OR download the Pi's CAD files, ship it off to a PCB startup and drop ship it to me.

I was looking for blogs which are functionally equivalent to the above example. Just tell me how RNN, clustering, mean reversion and whatever other technology fits in with each other and how they can be remixed.

E1: I'm totally using terms and ideas I have passing familiarity with. Here's a pinch of salt.
That was merely an example of what could have happened and might have been covered up since then
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The container functionality is exposed in a WebExtension API called "Contextual Identities" (in Firefox 53+). Designing a user-friendly UI/UX for containers will take time, so the API enables extension developers to experiment with new ideas before Mozilla commits to something.

https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/cont...
Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns, Steve Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-king...
Is it a moral failing to be slow to update a Struts vulnerability? As an IT engineer that makes be nervous because I don't know which of a hundred actions I take or don't take in a given day will explode on me. Or was the moral failing to agree to build such a system in the first place?
Project Data Conversion to PDF/Image Format and Project Calendar Data Enhancements
http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems."

I personally think this is an profoundly important piece of writing.
Children are not working, students are not working, the retired are not working, depending on the household stay at home parents aren’t working that much, the unemployed are not working.

Automation and increased productivity has resulted in a lot of leisure. It’s not evenly distributed but hours worked per capita is not on an upward trend.
Back in the 1990s, I maintained a "Population of Space" page which showed exactly this. To my knowledge, nothing like it exists anymore, which is a shame. I occasionally think about recreating it, just as soon as the day job leaves me some time...

[Edit: oh cool, there's something kinda like it in the sibling comment! Mine was different, showing a less granular graph wth the population averaged out on a yearly basis. But it also included a table of all missions and notable events affecting trends in the population of space.]
The End Game for European Upload Filtering Approaches
DHS Should Stop the Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
This piece is more of propaganda than anything.
Solitude and leadership
https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Hi pass uses gpg encryption on the text files my only concern are the file names which can leak meta info, for example just searching GitHub https://github.com/zurchpet/pass shows this person has passwords in a public repository but encrypted. Nevertheless I can see that the file names are credit card info and other sensitive info. It's like having a safe with a label "important stuff inside" ! Does keybase solve this problem ?
Voice is the next big thing
How Raksha Peeli Sarso Safeguard from All Losses and Evil Eye? Vastu Remedy
Git for the decentralized web (via scuttlebut)
I've thought a lot about this too recently while working as a contract software dev versus a regular employee.

There's quite a bit of overhead in specifications planning and negotiation.

There is, as well, a lot of overhead in committees and "no hierarchy" ways of working.

A great amount of efficiency is gained when someone - almost anyone - is The Boss.
Not tech related, but helped me realise how we subconsciously view others and ourselves:

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...
The neatly itemized startup-howto advice in @jasonlbaptiste's very long comment from 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467
EU hammers Amazon, Apple over taxes
I don't want to imply that manufacturers don't have any responsibility in this problem, but I think there's a difference between recalling a defective unit or model from one company, and recalling an entire family of products from different companies... especially if the defect is so common that it could be argued to be part of the design.
Yes, it's a huge inconvenience. I got the iPhone 7 knowing it didn't have a headphone jack. What I didn't realize was how awful the adapter would be (I have two, both have problems). I barely use headphones anymore, because the adapter just doesn't work reliably. Audio sometimes won't play, so I have to unplug / re-plug many times. And when I put it in my pocket, the thin wire seems to lose continuity when it bends. The sound crackles or cuts out with any pressure on the adapter. It was a terrible solution to... I don't even know what problem it solved.
The top idea in your mind by Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
Faroe islands translate, a translation service where real humans are translating
I've had this open in my browser for about two years now. I've read it maybe 1.5 times and I know I want to re-read it, but it's so long that I rarely actually get to it.

If you enjoy the subject, these two are good reads as well:
- https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...
- https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...
You can also work around it in memory controller incorporating row access counters and forcing refresh after X accesses.
It is a lovely idea for a new company but I cannot see a big company changing its ways, especially one with a natural monopoly that has no actual competition. Another issue I see is people just giving recognition to their friends, not those who deserve it.
Who do you think is going to disdisarm willingly? Educated, well off middle-upper class, or those you describe? Why must the middle and upper classes sacrifice their safety when a substantial subset of the population violently dehumanizes them? Simply for having more, at that.

You're also imposing your cultural norms onto others. Guns and violence are simply a way of life for millions of people. Good luck taking those guns from your ivory tower.
Trump & Co are definitely talking out both sides of their mouth.

Trump is pushing the GOP tax proposal which has massive tax cuts. Bannon appeases the GOP non-rich voting base with these platitudes.

Trump trusts Bannon (or Bannon would be out of a job), despite any Kardashians-like fake acrimony.

This is just like the pre-election micro-targeting - they are saying whatever message appeals to whoever they talk to.
"How to make breaking changes and not break all the things"

would love a poster version of this

http://web.archive.org/web/20160411085134/http://matthew.mce...
> There may be privately or secretly "launched" people

It's essentially impossible to covertly put or keep anything in space. Getting into space requires expending a rather obvious amount of energy, which there are fleets of satellites from many different nations continually watching out for. Staying in space requires being in full view of, well, nearly 8 billion people. It's not something that anyone is presently doing in secret.

Once there are a myriad of commercial ships zipping around cislunar space, the potential for covert flights to slip through the cracks becomes significantly greater. But for the present Earth-to-LEO regime -- no.
Ask HN: Cheapest cloud DB service?
Hey gang, please help a front-end dev out.

I need advice on the best DB SAAS/cloud service.

I have an upcoming side project that will - if my assumptions are correct - be pretty popular, pretty quick. At least to some segments of the population.

It'll be a free(mostly) service that requires a heckin lot of DB reads. The data being passed around won't be big or complex, but I'm anticipating really, really frequent reads and moderate writes. I guess a similar read/write equivalent would be a messenger app.

My day job is mostly front-end JS development; React, Redux, those kinda things. I have enough back-end skills to get me into trouble, but I want to plan this out right. If I'd need to scale the service up quickly, I'd need it to be in a position where it would be as fast and cheap as possible.

So what kinda DB would I need to look at? SQL or NOSQL? Which service provider would give the most bang for buck? Amazon AWS? Google? Azure? Does DigitalOcean have a solid db service?

What caching solutions should I be looking at?

Anything else I might not even be considering?

Please keep in mind that it'll just be me as developer(so the learning curve should me moderate), and that I'm, shall we say, on a really tight budget.
The Legion Lonely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000729 (I always keep the HN link for the comments but its the blog post Im talking about)
On Scott and Scurvy: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
And Google makes it so hard to disable the new Google Feed for Android, but so distractingly easy to accidentally press. Their settings experience is still a mess.
Electricity Misconceptions Spread by k-6 Textbooks: http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html
Are there any release notes? There does not seem to be any on the GitHub page.
Apple’s iOS 11 voice is pretty amazing too. I wonder what they are using.
Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system
There's no way a VAT or flat tax would be progressive enough to fund the government without crippling vast portions of the taxpaying base.
The only ideology /pol/ and the chans in general subscribe to is being transgressors of norms, which leads to lulz.

It just so happens that our current cultural orthodoxy leads to hyperventilation of their adherents whenever it is violated which leads to incredible amounts of lulz.

/pol/ and the chans are just the jesters of the court, using humor to point out the insanity of society.

If culture was reversed to the extreme right wing, /pol/ would be making leftist memes just to transgress cultural norms.
Black Triangles by Rampant Games:

http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
I don’t use Homebrew, given that Go is now written in Go, how does Homebrew bootstrap it when there are no binaries available? Does it download Go 1.4, builds it with a C compiler and uses that to build the latest version?
- There are newer blockchain dApp platforms that are WAY faster than Ethereum (i.e. EOS, Quantum...)

- Proof of Work isn't the only consensus algorithm, there are ones with lower computational costs, such as Proof of Stake

- See IPFS, and there are other distributed storage solutions

- One can add new ledger entries that refer to previous ones, to correct them

Aside from transparency (and note that privacy is also an option on some blockchains), the main benefit is that smart contracts can eliminate the need for 3rd parties, but still provide trustworthy transaction settlements. Third parties such as the Uber organization, or a bank. The tasks they perform can be provided automatically via programmable transaction handling on the blockchain (smart contracts). Another benefit of distributed software is that it is more resilient (in theory - the global architectures are still being developed), no central point of failure or high-value target for attack.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Before_Civilization

Keeley says peaceful societies are an exception. About 90-95% of known societies engage in war. Those that did not are almost universally either isolated nomadic groups (for whom flight is an option), groups of defeated refugees, or small enclaves under the protection of a larger modern state. The attrition rate of numerous close-quarter clashes, which characterize warfare in tribal warrior society, produces casualty rates of up to 60%, compared to 1% of the combatants as is typical in modern warfare.
This response to someone on StackOverflow asking how to parse HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/145684
Technically, I believe that has always been the definition of a hacker, even back in the 80’s. Since then it’s been movies and popular culture that have got it wrong. I believe that what most people think of a hacker, i.e someone who digitally breaks into a system, is actually a ‘cracker’.
Not really. An H1B employee easily transfer their visa to another company and start working even before receiving approval.

But there's L1B employment... that actually binds you to a company.
14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic

http://shwood.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/21/14-years-ago-th...
Perhaps open source projects might use it as their governance model?