skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Pyramid schemes have pyramids."

Almost every business has a pyramid structure - that's literally basic business management for all but the most n00b of startups. It's the behavior that defines a Pyramid Scheme and this behavior matches it almost 100% to the definition.

In fact there's a nice database of plenty of other companies acting EXACTLY like this and subsequently getting their butts handed to them in court - http://www.mlmlegal.com/legal-cases/Illinois_v_Unimax.php is one of my favorite cases to read because it very clearly demonstrates what Uber is doing here is illegal - just because you aren't required to do it or buy into it doesn't mean it isn't illegal in the first place.
When click into the resources links all open in blank pages?
I've definitely used csvkit quite a bit when I was trying to understand the data quickly. Grabbed the headers + couple first rows of each set.
Thanks. My understanding was that the MWP is thought to be localized to Europe, not Greenland and Iceland.
Materialism, theism and atheism are all religions.
please delete, cat + keyboard
xbox one also hasn't been hacked.
OpenFaaS: Serverless for Containers Made Easy
It wouldn't be the first time an island had been terraformed, from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena:

"Between 1791 and 1833, Saint Helena became the site of a series of experiments in conservation, reforestation and attempts to boost rainfall artificially.[5] This environmental intervention was closely linked to the conceptualisation of the processes of environmental change and helped establish the roots of environmentalism."
Sure that's what the splash screen was actually hiding right?
In no small part because any alternative is inconceivably unbearable.
The death of the startup: is big tech squeezing out the competition?
As Danny Meyer Continues to Eliminate Tips, His Staff Struggles to Adapt
Mostly trailing the rest of the developed world I believe.
Do they? I have a feeling that Apple knows that much of their software is sub-par. If it wasn't for their hardware....
No, that is a logical fallacy.
Looks pretty neat. I might give it a go.
This is more like hand-decoding Huffman tables in an especially convoluted representation when using Gimp to crop a PNG image.
I don’t know much about it, but some other users were implying that they now use freebsd when previously they rolled their own OS. If that’s the case, it makes sense.
When i pray to Amazon they deliver.
The thing about the self replicating probes is that they are sufficient for taking over the entire galaxy.

That doesn't mean that they are optimal. The Fermi paradox does not care about optimal, just possible.
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You’re the reason why floating point rounding errors happen.
I hope that JPEGs don't count as 'rich web content'!
I think you must’ve taken my comment too seriously... I agree that Firefoxs success does not depend on the meaning behind the name holyjit lol. It was just a joke.

The main point was that if they came up with this name without the intention of punning holy shit, I have low confidence in their abilities to succeed in general and with Firefox in particular. But also don’t take this too seriously.
a-theism literally means "lack of belief". Bald is not a hair color.
I found this a while back, it works great for compiling a cross compiler for Linux and Windows.

https://github.com/lordmilko/i686-elf-tools

There's also a bit of information on OSDEV if you are wondering why you need a cross compiler:

http://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler
The world is finally moving to a post-theological era.
Theism refers to a belief in one or many Gods. But materialism and atheism are not religions.
The goal is to optimize the code both at compile-time and at run-time. We need to optimize it at compile time to prevent slow start-up, and we need to optimize it at run-time to benefit from profile guided optimizations.
Globally atheism is dying out. Not religion. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11518702/Mapped-Wh...

One in five Americans were not born in America. Most of the host nations where these people come from are rather religious.

It would be good to see data about how religious future generations are, coming from these new host nations. My hunch is that as the older [European] stock is phased out of the population (low birth rates correlate with low religiosity) religious affiliation will rise in line with the global trend.
Correction... too late to edit. The Chritchton book is just "Disclosure" not "Full Disclosure" incase anyone is curious.

Here's the scene from the movie adaptation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o
The soil type in iceland has volcanic parent material with very high carbon content that results in a low nitrogen to carbon ratio so has little nutrients available to support biomass production without adjustments.
Atheism is a religion in the same way that not golfing is a sport.
Less conflict around religion, and more social progress without it standing in the way.

That sounds pretty good to me.
Why bullying in Japanese schools is especially traumatic
It is a hair style.
No, it will detect a nearby magnetic field. I had to try that just for fun when I had mine hooked up.
Yeah no. Is 'bald' a hair color? Is 'abstinence' a sexual position? Is 'not collecting stamps' a hobby?
I think not.

Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. [1]

Atheism: Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods. [2]

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/religion
[2] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/atheism
Praise Allah.
Bulma is very far behind.

* Lacks all the JS components

* Lifts from Bootstrap for most of the CSS components, sometimes down to the class name

* Makes the mistakes of early Bootstrap, namely heavily nested classes like .card .media:not(:last-child) that are difficult to overwrite and cause great pain when customizing

* Uses antiquated non-extensible syntax/naming conventions for breakpoints, such as "is-desktop" instead of "small, medium, large" etc

* grid system is not flexible, breakpoints are hardcoded and there's no easy way to generate your own grid

* no mixins I can use in Sass instead of using classes in HTML. There are a few helpers but no way to setup columns without HTML classes (like you can in Bootstrap)

* overall lack of easy customization, no theming tool and very limited variables. in BS almost everything can be customized using Sass variables

It simply isn't as mature or battle-tested as Bootstrap. There's a reason it's not 1.0 yet. BS can do everything Bulma can, the reverse is not true.
The point he is making is Religion is replaced by Ideology.
lets not reduce ourselves to "word-play".
My 2cents would be balance your life. Workout, read, meditate and look for another gig where you find the work interesting. Going to college would just delay this phase . Last advice would be travelling, it would do wonder to your mindset .
> Do you mean "chaga" the mushroom?

Yes, because it only grows on birch trees, but harvesting the mushroom can damage the trees. That was sort of the point. :-)
They might be systems of belief. But they're not religions.
If you do enough computation, everything starts to behave like a spatial object. Every large enough computer is technically "on space".
That's true, and does mean one has to drop down to C/C++-style pointers and manual layout when the default enums don't work. However, that's somewhat orthogonal to the semantics about what they can express, especially for function arguments where the value isn't being stored in memory. One common approach is for an enum to be teased apart to be stored, and then rematerialised at the API surface (e.g. HashMap and it semantically storing an Option<(K, V)>).
Show HN: I launched a Musk scented air freshener called Elon’s Musk
> otherwise good men who might do bad things when shitfaced or on drugs

What is an "otherwise good man"? Someone who generally most of the time doesn't do horrific things? What a meaningless construct - you are the sum of all of your actions, all of your choices.

That includes the choice to get into a state where you behaved badly even if you would not, whilst sober, behave in that way
Wi-fi is my invisible power that surrounds me. Sometimes I ask it for guidance on things like what restaurants are open.
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I am certainly excited about the possibility of a new competitor in the aerospace industry, but it is absolutely stupefying how much press Blue Origin manages to... obtain... in spite of having done absolutely 0. Literally - they have yet to even put a single thing into orbit. They've done some "landings" but these are suborbital launches, which in other words means you go straight up and then come back down, like a model rocket. Orbital launches involve accelerating along the x axis to incredibly high velocities. As Douglas Adams said the trick to flying, or staying in orbit, is to simply keep missing the ground as you fall.

To say a 3 second half power static fire is "sending jolts through the aerospace industry" is plainly ridiculous. Yet, of course, I clicked on it -- something I never would have done if the title actually represented the contents of the article. Ahhhhhhhh....
Appops reloaded – Istio, Kubernetes home-lab, Prometheus and pause-lab
Pounds in Ireland? I was curious if that was a typo or an old fact from pre-Euro days so I dug around a little about this subsidy/stipend, but couldn't find anything. Any ideas what it could be?
There is plenty for everyone.

The problem is it is not being distributed fairly.
Absolutely packed with tech this week from Michael Hausenblas. Good read and wanted to share.
Already posted and being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15510428
I note with amusement that I had to delete the last three characters from this title to get _Hacker News_ to accept it. We have an identifier too long to be a _Hacker News_ title.
Try passing around 64bit integers in json. The majority of json implementations only implement double float numbers and will mangle your 64bit ints. The usual solution is passing int64s as strings, nasty.
NewsBlur is closest replacement I could find, been using it since Reader died. I like it.
I'm not sure what the intention of choosing to define "religion" so as to include atheism, but it might be more productive to directly state what you are getting at.

When I google "religion", I get: "the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."

It reminds me of when a friend once said, "World War II just happened", and I said, "Me tying my shoe just happened, World War II happened 70 years ago". It was both our faults for arguing about the definition of a word instead of both trying to understand each other. What my friend meant was that, since WWII, culture and education hasn't changed much, and another such disastrous event could happen again. Which is why I'm now asking you to rephrase your statement in a way I can understand your intent better.
My 1919 Royal Manual typewriter. I have written 11 novels on it.
The same thing that determines what counts as a planet. Flawed humans trying to categorize things so they're easier to think about.
A Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations
PS3 was out for ~3 years before it was hacked.
Time is fixed and the things we want to learn is expanding. I'm not sure how to deal with that. For me, there's a real tension between breadth and depth and finding the sweet spot between the two is hard.
Uh no it's a lack thereof.
Do the email client still default to TXT nowadays ?

Regardless how basic the email, it seems Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail always send them in HTML and I need to do something special to send it in plain text.

At work, the mail very often have some sort of minor formatting. A bold sentence here, a reply in a different colour there, or even simply links. Except for automated alert message from a system or another, the emails are basically always HTML.
Demo of running NNs across different frameworks
"'Progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative." --Chesterton.
Doesn't red-zoning break the fundamental contract of a stack pointer -- i.e., that it marks the end of the stack (and hence the location of the next item to be pushed)? This feature sounds like a bug to me...
+1. I did the same too. imo their aren't many feasible options
This seems like a perfectly valid excuse to name and shame that startup.
Besides the overall result, another fact that surprised me:

The devices vary in price, but the biggest expense is the data-storage cost. In Washington, M.P.D. officers collect about a thousand hours of footage a day. About 40 percent of it is deleted within 90 days, while the rest is to be kept for months, years or decades, depending on the statute of limitations for the charges connected to the footage.
During my first startup as the CTO I made the mistake of thinking this way. I was so wrong I burned through 2M like it was nothing.

The "product" of a startup is a sustainable business model that can scale fast. The core technology may or may not be a key element part of that model.

So they solved a customer problem with interesting technology - regardless of arguments if it ACID compliant, or as good as <replace with whatever you think is "better">.

Where they sustainable at the beginning? No.
Are they sustainable now and did they scale appropriately? Yes.

As a startup that went through it stages, they did it. This is not easy because it requires all the elements to work properly (market need, sales, marketing, engineering, operations, etc).

So what if RethinkDB/or_other has a feature that is better? Irrelevant.

Even better they did this ethically, which is more than I can say about other "startups" with insane funding and dubious and questionable strategies.
The superdraco engines in Dragon have a printed combustion chamber. But these are (relatively) low pressure engines.

Chamber pressure is limited by the fuel injection pressure. The simplest, fastest response time way to provide the fuel pressure is to use a high pressure bottle of gas to push the fuel through. Since those are important features in a launch escape system, that's how superdracos work.

But... chamber pressure is directly correlated with efficiency, so a main engine uses an extremely powerful fuel pump to achieve higher pressures.

That fuel pump is itself, a rocket engine with a gas pressure fuel system like the superdracos.
I just wanted to come here and show some respect for religious communities that work very hard to help people and the world become a better place. On hacker news, I would hope we can be rational and respectful about beliefs that are important to (many real and good) people. There are many religious people/beliefs that I agree with - and many I disagree with - we can discuss that like adults. But sarcastic, unkind remarks in the HN comments are not productive.
You're using the fact that all are ideologies to attempt to smuggle in the connotations we have with "religion" and apply those to atheism and materialism. Examine those connotations directly and you'll see they don't sensically apply. For example: religion requires faith without evidence, materialism and atheism do not. Almost all religions make demands on the actions of their adherents, atheism almost by definition does not, except as in that as a category defined by lack of belief, those in that category won't believe in supernatural powers. There are legitimate semantic boundaries here, and attempting to blur them is only useful if you're trying to wage a war of connotation and emotion, not if you're trying to argue in good faith or build a good model of the world.
No the point GP is making is that atheism is a religion (it's not), which is in itself wordplay.

To try to stay on the subject of the article, I find it interesting that it's Protestants who are abandoning their faith which is most of the downward trend in the graphs presented. I find that makes sense as Protestants are generally less dogmatic and more questioning (at least historically they were from my understanding) than their Catholic brethren.

Another way to put it, I feel there are some structural differences between Protestants and Catholics which help to explain the downward trend in one, and less so in the other.

edits: bad grammar
No problem, per se, just facts too often ignored by those trying to work out a formula for how to succeed in business or get rich quick or plan a comfortable retirement.

Those simply trying to avoid getting crushed by the system already know: "Them that's got shall get; them that's not shall lose. God bless the child that's got it all." If you want to get rich, you usually have to be rich. Making your first fortune is always the hardest.

If you aren't already in a position to invest anything--if you are living paycheck-to-paycheck or worse--the only way to own a robot is to build one, because you can't buy one. You can be outbid by anyone with a dollar that isn't already spent. You're already screwed. But you knew that, because you're pinching pennies so hard that Lincoln cries out, then the Lincoln in the monument on the reverse side squeaks out a protest. And if you do manage to build a robot, you'll probably have to sell it at some point for less than it its true worth, due to a crisis.

It even says it in the article. All you need to do to buy enough Amazon stock to retire is to already own a chain of grocery stores in New Jersey! Meanwhile, the employees of those grocery stores have to cut each other's throats to get an Amazon warehouse job, because that game of musical chairs took so many seats away all at once.

"Just own the damn robots" is a surrender to the zero-intervention inevitability of an ownership class that owns everything, and a dispossessed class enslaved to them economically, yet also almost entirely useless to them. Owning things is a solution that only works for problems that rich people have. It's advice maybe good enough for the top 10%, worried that they will backslide. It doesn't do anything for the bottom 90%, who either can't get ownership of a robot, or can't keep it long enough for it to solve their financial problems.
I'm running Gnome on my retina displayed laptop and I can confirm that this is not true.

The high DPI suppport on gnome equates to 'SCALE ALL THE THINGS 2x DERPA DERPA DERP'

And the scaling is integer-based. So, I can choose 1x, 2x, or any other whole number. Useless as hell for me, who wishes it was probably 1.25x.

It sucks bad enough that I actually WISH I was on a 1080p screen, because with the 2x scaling i effectively have a 1324x768 pos screen.
The links in the first column under References all have "http://" as their destination. The links in the other columns seem to be fine.

Also, the links under Implementations all result in a 404 page.
One CPU would be fine with just one user, but that's not enough RAM. I would consider 2GB the bare minimum, with one app server instance and one background worker process (sidekiq) running.
Coming Apart by Charles Murray is an incredibly important book that goes into detail about this including immense amounts of statistical data. The core of American civilization is based on Judeo-Christian values and the fact that faith in those are rotting away is directly leading to slow-motion social collapse. I understand the average HN reader is probably areligious (the book goes into the class dynamics of why this is) and skeptical of anything not science-related, but the deleterious effects are serious and real.

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-State-America-1960-2010/...
Reminds me of my own experience. I "beat" Duolingo French, but not conversational at all. I can ask the perfect question, but can't understand the answer. Most of the time, no one can even understand my pronunciation.
G7, tech giants agree on plan to block jihadist content online
I think it would be really interesting to look at regional differences in the growth of religious 'nones'. Does it track internet or cell phone penetration? Educational attainment? Incomes? Has this ever been studied?
Correct. An interesting symptom: the US ranks 33rd out of 34 in the OECD countries for belief in evolution.
Technically, sort of true. Although on a global scale Atheism is dying out while religious affiliation flourishes. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11518702/Mapped-Wh...

But even with that aside, when's the last time you attended a busting bias sermo...seminar to atone for your original sins of racism, sexism, and homophobia comrade? :)
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> What if every employee became a shareholder and reaped rewards for such, making companies employee owned and 'SHARING' everything.. ---it's a more privatized way of running socialism and imho works better...

There is nothing stopping this from happening. You can start such a company now. Heck, you can start a communist commune within a free market system. It doesn't happen much because it doesn't work well enough. The classic corporate structure is far more common because it works.

Even if you took all the shares from the shareholders of an existing company and gave them to the employees you'd revert to inequality soon enough. How much are the new cashiers at Winco foods worth? How many of the old Winco foods employees are still rich? How many of the ones who got rich and stayed rich are still working as a cashier? How big is Winco foods compared to Walmart? Most people who have a million dollars don't want to work as a cashier, a few counterexamples notwithstanding. The basic principle of making employees invested in the success of the company is a good one, but the government shouldn't force that model. Let businesses apply that model where they think it works. Google gives stock to employees, great! Company X doesn't, also great.

> I do think gov't should cover healthcare/education

I agree, the government should finance this for people who can't afford it, but the government should not be running the hospitals or the schools for the same reason that the government should finance food for people who can't afford it, but they shouldn't run the supermarket.

> -- maybe require service in military, or local community initiatives for those who are pacifists/not fit enough to serve.

Why? The all-volunteer military works well. Compensate people for the job instead of forcing them to do it.
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Like all things, there is another side to the story too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/is-the-wolf-a-rea...
I was in Iceland recently and was told that if you see a tree over 3m tall, it was planted. And we heard this Icelandic joke: "If you are lost in a forest in Iceland, don't forget to stand up."
Isn't the same true of membership-based organizations in general? I'm a member of 5-6 national and international membership societies, not including my church, and they are taking huge hits, especially those that are still spending like they did in the 1990s. I was surprised to get an email just after one conference: "We have run out of funds." Well, oops. But seriously, it's kind of depressing.
Maybe cpr is british?
Beauty without life is mostly about textures. It's easy to miss if you're looking for bright colors and motion, don't find them, and stop looking.
Yeah, but a good weld is stronger than the metal around it. Win!
Link previews in IM apps and privacy