skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember installing an early version of Red Hat on a machine that only had a Winmodem, not a real hardware modem that would just work in Linux.

Getting a Winmodem to work in Linux was possibly, but not exactly easy. I couldn't afford a better modem at the time, so I just kept hacking away at it and booting back into Windows and searching the web to try to figure it out. This was 1996 or so; there was far less information on the web than there is today, and search engines weren't exactly great at finding what you needed.

I think I finally got online from Linux after a week or two. :)
Nuclear has been around for a long time and has never caught on. Barring large changes in public opinion or price it's probably on the way out, too
xmysql now supports
+ group by
+ group by, order by
+ aggregate
+ single file upload, multiple file upload and download file
+ where clause on list of resource
+ where clause on list of nested resource

https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql
What would be a better solution for ensuring the video's producers continue to receive funding to make more videos?
I am hoping that http2 crap protocol will attract all the ecommerce nasties and leave http as the obvious choice for static documents.
Nobody is suggesting that a pill should replace exercise in all scenarios; most of us do it because it's damn enjoyable which is why there are so many different forms. Depression is a problem that would exist regardless, the difference is that with a pill existing depressive people would only be depressed instead of depressed and suffering from the other problems caused by lack of exercise.
Graves that are never seen are of no value whatsoever.
> Ironically, these days there are still problems when trying to share slides between computers if you used a custom font

I've not had any problems with the Embed Font options in Office (including PowerPoint) other than it is weirdly hard to find. (File > Options > Save > the last section that is only document-specific section, named "Fidelity" in PowerPoint; or in the Save As dialog box there is a tiny Tools drop down and you can select Save Options there and look for that same section.)

Embedding fonts certainly bloats the saved file considerable so often something to do as a last step. (Although possibly not as bloated as full fidelity JPGs of every slide.)

The only remaining consideration is copyright as most font licenses forbid embedding, not that everyone reads or follows their font licenses. (Use something like Google Fonts to find embeddable fonts that you won't have copyright issues with.)
Really? I often buy drugs with BTC. I have friends that use it to buy software.

I guess "but that's illegal!" is a strong argument for those that have a lot of trust in governments. I... don't... so I'm happy to use non-governmental instruments. I still pay my taxes and contribute, I'm not an anarchist, I just like having means to express value that aren't controlled by governments.
>>None of the cryptos that exist today can even function as an effective "buying stuff" currency because they are all deflationary, not just in exchange rates and short term speculation but in how they all mine at fixed / declining rates to finite limits.

This graph is evidence against that theory:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth.ht...

Note that Bitcoin's tx volume hasn't been able to increase since the blockchain reached its 1 MB limit. Otherwise it would have seen continued growth like Ethereum.
I think it's a lesson that the entire tech community is learning slowly (and marginalized people have been shouting about for years, to their credit).
Usually you will get at least a 4 week notice in Germany and this increases to up to 7 months when you worked for more than 20 years for the company. That you get fired effective immediately usually only happen if you really fucked something up.
The Trump Tax Plan Cuts the Mortgage Interest Tax Deduction
LinkedIn Executive Joins Ethereum Based Global ISP Project Iungo
Compare the male/ female ratio on dating sites
So I could inject in keep-alive at 100 concurrent threads but it was very slow (2200 req/s at 12% CPU), idling on I-don't-know-what. And at 1000 threads (still 100 concurrent connections), it immediately ate all my memory and got killed by the OOM killer :

Out of memory: Kill process 7134 (filed) score 779 or sacrifice child
Killed process 7134 (filed) total-vm:7680976kB, anon-rss:7140908kB, file-rss:1988kB, shmem-rss:100kB
oom_reaper: reaped process 7134 (filed), now anon-rss:7143588kB, file-rss:1980kB, shmem-rss:100kB

7 GB for 100 connections is a bit excessive in my opinion :-)

There are definitely still a number of issues to be addressed before it can be used in production, you definitely need to have a more robust architecture and request parser first.
Happy 9th, Small Basic
Fixed it. Thanks a lot for helping me uncovering the bug and also paying for the service :)
Jonathan Albright: "Who Hacked the Election? Ad Tech did. Through “Fake News,” Identity Resolution and Hyper-Personalization"

The data I present here suggests that before we keep pointing fingers at specific countries and tweeting about companies “hacking the election,” as well as to solve the scourge of “fake news,” it might be good to look inward. By this, I mean we should start the quest for transparency in politics with a few firms based in New York City and Silicon Valley.

https://medium.com/tow-center/who-hacked-the-election-43d401...

Albright is an ex-Googler and director of a journalism centre at Columbia University.
Most of the difference is down to currency variation and working conditions (e.g. most UK companies give 25-30 days holiday).

If you benchmark it within country by comparing the ratio median dev salary/median salary there's not a huge difference between the US and UK (the US is a bit higher by about 10% IIRC) - although SF is higher.
Question: does this create accessible PDFs? That would be a really nice _possible_ work around for screen reader users having issues with a website.
Please tell us about your big failures as well - statistically you must have had some, and I’m sure you’ve been tracking them with equal rigour?
> That is not the slightest bit true and is in fact the entire basis for the conversation we’re having.

Is it? The original article is talking about web tracking, the entire point of which is to give you more of whatever you like. Facebook just gives you more of whatever you click on, so if you're disappointed with the stuff you get on Facebook then probably you're just in denial about your own tastes or identity.
As far as I know, there really isn't too much risk associated with hormone replacement therapy. If you add that into the mix, I'd be surprised to see any significant shifts over the human lifespan.
Depends on the benefit. It will decrease fat, increase strength and increase muscle mass. I don't know about VO2 max or lactic threshold stuff, though.
I'm doing project in a similar vein right now, but in a totally different space. We call it the "Spotify model" where you host your stuff intermixed with ours, with the option to query just ours or just yours.

Good times - having to write a huge authentication / middleware layer to make sure everything is correct.
GERT: Go that runs bare-metal on armv7a SOCs
New Commands in MacOS Sierra
Maybe the pressure was slowly building up from investors/board. They wanted the returns, profit, path to IPO , VC's carry for the Nth largest site of the internet.

From the https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-overflow, the first round was from 2010 - 7 years ago. USV will like to get their exit soon.
It's because of the way the issue has been politicized. In people's mind it's a binary issue: either you agree that warming is happening, we are causing it, it is likely to be catastrophic, we can substantially improve the outcome by acting now, and the cost/benefit of this intervention makes sense, or you don't. In reality the basic science is but one small piece, and reasonable people can disagree about the economics or politics of it. But the tribalism of politics make most people boil it down to only two possibilities.
Can people elaborate why they are downvoting this? I hold a similar opinion - as long as your other investment instruments are intelligently diversified and filled-out, why not spend a small % on bitcoin? As nnfy has said, any amount in the past would have yielded payoff today.

"But a crash!" is not an argument alone. Every single other investment instrument I'm aware of has had a crash.
10-minutes isn't that big of a deal. ACH transactions used to take 3 days for example.

The real big deal is that currently, BTC transaction fees are like $5+ right now. So its cheaper to use Paypal than to use BTC at the current prices.
Among the conservatives/libertarians/etc in my life, who I broadly consider among the smartest people I know, there is a broad unwillingness to have a real discussion for fear of being shamed.

The climate debate has become more about moral posturing and smearing people who disagree as "deniers", which has made it impossible to convince anyone who's not already convinced.

It has also deprived climate activists of substantive critiques that could help them move past their own biases (which are substantial).
Not that I disagree that sqlite is fairly ubiquitous today, but remember that not that long ago, DbaseII, dbm, and BerkleyDB were fairly ubiquitous.

I give you "the relevant XKCD":

https://xkcd.com/1909/

Somewhat more practically, a relevant DLib Magazine [0] quote: "not all file formats are suitable for long term preservation, even if they have an open specification. Some lossy and compressed file formats pose a higher risk of total loss if even a single bit is lost."

And from the Library of Congress [1], in the context of format preferences for text with structural markup: "XML or SGML using standard or well-known DTD or schema appropriate to a particular textual genre."

[0] http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july16/houghton/07houghton.html
[1] http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/series/challenge/
The largest Bitcoin payment processor for retail is Bitpay, I've used them on a few websites. They enable shops to accept Bitcoin with a locked in exchange rate, shielding them from the volatility and the need to even hold and manage cryptocurrency. They charge a 1% settlement fee, which I believe is competitive compared to traditional payment processors.

Hard to say what proportion of transactions are retail driven, but Bitpay did write about their progress towards a $1B annual payment volume milestone recently[1] which is a drop in the ocean compared to the multi-billion dollar daily trade volumes on exchanges.

[1] https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/
Eh, the SEC warning a couple months ago was to Bitcoin as Alan Greenspan's "Irrational Exuberance" Dec 1996 warning was to the dot-com bubble. In 1996 the dot-com bubble was just getting started. We've got a while to go before this one goes up in flames.

The sign to watch out for is when you have personal friends investing their life savings in Bitcoin - not $100 here and there, but $100k. And not 100K people in a single day (that's peanuts in the grand scheme of consumer markets...I've run Harry Potter fansites with more users than that, and it wasn't even one of the big ones), but tens of millions.
If ever there was a case for an anonymous leak - this doesn't even have the downsides of questions of releasing military or intelligence secrecy attached to it. It would likely carry other risks to the leaker though.
I second this. Heck, the Ancillary series has paintings of spaceships as their covers, and they're some of my favorite scifi books in recent memory.
C++/WinRT and the Future of C++ on Windows
works for me.. using datareader in python
Oh yeah, my dad pays $500 a year in property taxes for a house on a creek with gulf access. Pretty cheap! But the con is, there's no tech work around. That's the reason I ended up leaving.

Plus I wanted a life change. And sticking around the kids I went to high school with wasn't going to provide that :P
There was something called experts exchange. Remember that?
It was horrible.
Still, I think, CO2 reduction would be the less costly variant, that we could do today. It might not be enough, though. But at least we should make a start. But with the current political climate, we might stop, when it is already to late. Humanity is working on its own doom steadily.

Newest reports say, that the CO2 values rose most drastically in the latest years.

And no, Mars is no substitute for Earth.
Depends on country too. In EU our work laws regulate how your employee may be laid off. My country (poland) says that employee has to be notified about termination:

- week ahead if he or she was employed for less than month
- month ahead if he or she was employed for less than three years
- three months ahead if he or she was employed for more than three years

This goes both ways however, as employee has to notify his employeer on same basis that he or she quits. This introduces amount of games to recruitment process, where company frequently not only has to make bet by deciding to hire somebody, but also make sure that they'll wont be outbid during the three months that have to pass for person to change employeer
GPLv3 was supposed to patch that hole but isn't really seeing much use. With regards to hosted services, yes GPLv2 is quite liberal and prone to abuse
Pine: A blog directory and feed search API for the modern web
The question isn't so much notice as it is severance. As long as the severance package is good, notice isn't that important.
> "only $100" or "only $1000

If they're truly using the word "only" when they describe it I do not think you should worry. If they're saying something like "I put in a $100 so this better pay off!" that's a much bigger cause for concern.
That's the problem.

If no one is actually using the coin for practical purposes, you've created a glorified Ponzi scheme. The minute that "better off holding" is no longer the most common opinion, the price of BTC will drop.

I dunno how long that will take: it took years for Enron to drop to zero for example. But I do not place much trust in the whims of stranger's opinions.
The grossly oversimplified answer... as long as a not-insignificant amount of people keep believing in its value as we approach the 21 million cap - it will continue to rise quite significantly. Simple supply and demand.

It could have literally zero utility whatsoever - as long as people keep buying the hype that this will one day be a massive store of value - it will be a massive store of value.

The better answer ...no one knows anything. 100% unadulterated speculation.
As a senior sysadmin who has had to deal with all the crap devs throw at me, I skipped the container craze to focus on VM security and other issues. Give the devs a nice powerful boxen to use (APIs in many hypervisors these days)so they can do the provisioning themselves.

Without all the added complexity another tooling like docker requires.

Real world benchmarks I ran indicated perf differences were negligible, so devs seem to mostly like docker cause they don't have to do sysadmin stuff... but I can do all the same things in a VM, plus much more.

A big shoutout to the people at Proxmox while I'm at it.
Stories about buying stocks is utterly useless.

When did you sell? And what is you track record of wins vs losses?
Very sorry for that. Thought a smaller server could handle the load because of Cloudflare but was apparently wrong. Is up again btw.
And yet, you have rentec medallion, virtu, buffet, gross and quite a few others who have quite consistently beat the market.

Each has their own secret sauce, and you won’t get their returns just by sitting at home and picking stocks. But they do prove that the market is far from random.
Yeah but your a small minority compared to the people using it as a means to speculate and trade. For the vast majority of buyers its pruelly investment into something they will never use beyond trading it back into cash.
I know a mom who intentionally ensures periods of boredom (absence of structure, stimulation, access to entertwinment) for her kids.
This is my feeling on it too.

Nobody can predict what is going to happen with BTC or the whole cryptocurrency eco-system in general. There's still potential for the technology to take off and gain widespread adoption, just as there's the potential for all the big players to lose interest and move on to something else.

If you want to 'invest'(I prefer gamble, or play at this point) - go for it. Just like every fad there are groups of people who believe strongly in the idea of the thing, and those who just want to get rich off of the thing.

At this point nobody has definitive answers on the future of BTC.

Public interest / perception is the biggest factor at play here. There can be literally 0 uses for cryptocurrency, but if news outlets are telling a layperson to buy it, they'll buy it. As long as the big players are interested in keeping it afloat, I don't see what would cause it's price to crash down to 0 over night.
I've only invested in five stocks. Four are listed above, the fifth was basically an OTC penny stock in 2009 that eventually went out of business.
That's what I don't understand in all such proposed policy changes, the discussion is phrased as A or B (with people arguing on either side) when in practice there are many other possibilities, some win-win others giving an acceptable compromise.
Paypal can't know that you're not doing money laundry even if they have the bank info on both sides. Paypal will err on the side of caution and will often block your transfers, no matter how many documents you can produce that claims what you are doing is legal.

I think you are assuming that paypal operates on reason, but it rarely does.
The typical argument why traders don't make money is not that the stock market behaves as a coin flip. The argument is that, if you see "obvious momentum," many others in the market are likely to see that too, and the current stock price already factors all of that information in.

Of course, it is possible that one beats the market if either 1) one has privileged information, or 2) one has exceptional insight. Both situations are possible, but rather implausible.
Is this the only reference to this on HN? I'd be surprised but I didn't see it. Hinton is a powerhouse and he's been wanting to make progress on this for years.
It's not only anarchists that fear government control over private life (mass surveillance, the erosion of privacy and contract rights, economic centralization through regulatory barriers to entry and gatekeeping, etc are valid concerns that many have).
Hmm, I have a problem with comparing BTC to tulips, houses, or beanie babies, because there never was a powerful and active market for exchanging beanie babies for real world product (i.e. functioning as currency) as we have seen for BTC and buying drugs or software. I also don't like the comparison to .com stocks because those are already an instrument (stocks), which represent company values, and the collapse of an industry doesn't necessarily reflect upon the likelihood of an entirely new investment instrument collapsing.

I would think maybe a comparison to other forms of currency would be a better metaphor - i.e. gold or something. Inherently value-less (gold is pretty and historically been used for currency, that's about it - it's not traded as a commodity for its usefulness as a raw good like Oil or whatever) but still valued.
This will probably get flagged soon ... You should repost in the correct thread. In case this is flagged ...

Please see the FAQ regarding job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

For the latest post, see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Your reasoning seems to contradict itself, it's a very complex black box of limited internals yet you were able to still easily glean big winners?

Stock picking is the same as gambling, you look for value and try overtime to beat the market. Also like gambling is how people remember and talk about their wins but forget/ignore their losses.
I have not-so-fond memories of trying to troubleshoot PPPoE issues.
Out of interest, is it dangerous to publicly state that you buy drugs with BTC (with or without personally identifying information attached)?

As in, is it likely that someone would/could be targeted by law enforcement because of that, and could a comment like that be used in court?
Some Pixel 2 XL units are shipping without an operating system
Here we go [1]:

This has to do with a study about the measurement of the impact deforestation of tropical forests has on global warming.

> How big is three billion tons?

Three billion tons of anything is a lot, but it’s hard to grasp just how much — particularly when it’s tons of CO2, which we don’t have any everyday experience in weighing.
One way to look at it is that the average U.S. car emits about 5 tons of CO2 a year from the tailpipe, so three billion tons is the equivalent of 600 million cars — about twice as many as there are in the whole United States.
Another way of expressing it is that this is the equivalent of about 13 million railcars full of coal, which would stretch about 125,000 miles (half the distance to the moon).
It's also equal to the total emissions from Western Europe, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, all the Scandinavian countries, and Finland.

[1] http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/stop-deforest...
This is a interesting approach and makes me want to test a indian VPN in future before i do online purchases.

Curious do you know any other than the linked examples that use such a pricing?
Inherent conflict here - programmers don't click on ads, fullstop. I can't imagine a group I'd want to advertise to less.
The US has much weaker employee protections. Aside from workers in unions and certain protected scenarios, layoffs usually occur with zero notice. (And, often, when associated with public bad financial returns, shortly after management denies any layoffs are coming.)
Show HN: The uber for pedicabs
Next proposal will be about the new C++ logo, which will be, yes, a camel!
Google has shipped some Pixel 2 XLs without Android installed
Sounds exactly like the stock market and real estate asset classes. The global economy is in a bubble.

It's the fringe markets which suffer the most (btc).
My guess is that most people who deny climate change, may actually mean that humans are not the primary reason for climate change. Since this topic has been politicized a lot, it has shifted the meaning of what people mean when they deny climate change.

Regarding the data, it's not very conclusive. Given the scale of time over which data has been collected, is it sufficient to create a reliable model and predict the future changes in climate?

Even if we were to assume that everyone agreed that human activities are the cause of climate change, it would still require huge amount of participation and co-operation among countries across the globe to fix it. That is impossible.