skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't always make a market. If the beekeepers and insurers can't agree on a price (premium) that works for both of them, then they won't transact. Here, I think there's too much information asymmetry, with the insured having the upper hand, for it to be profitable for an insurer.
>More or less. Not sure about appkit, but the Apple dictatorial control bothers me. E.g., Apple apps on iOS have tight integration unavailable to other apps, and they don’t improve their apps for power users or broader use cases.

This is what drove me away from the whole ecosystem, iOS included. The fact that all of their APIs are closed source headers only is a complete nightmare. I'd rather spend my time working with open Web standards than digging through some arcane Apple manual page.
I just recently joined Spotify. I have found their "we will play similar music after your music ends" feature to enable me to discover lots of new artists. I find it interesting you found Spotify lacking here, because I am finding the opposite.
Representations of families, by race, in news and opinion media [pdf]
No, just the name of SGI's lava lamp random number generator, referenced as prior art.
I built a system for Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) as part of my Bachelor's degree Honours project [0]. I tried to make a framework that is modern and easy to use, but also has great performance.

[0] https://www.github.com/JedS6391/LGP
It’s tptacek. He’s probably spoken with Cloudflare directly or consulted for them.
designing the next level serverless platform, and trying to prove at the same time that we live in a simulation. xd
I think BBB is a bit of a scam, but I trust worldreader.
The article explains how it works, without any mention of the inspiration.
(1) No.

(2) No love lost there.

(3) That is a weird comment to write.
It does in one way: priorities.
That's because the people who fell in love with Bitcoin pre-2014 see the world-changing potential in the project again.

Bitcoin Core has killed any practical use cases by refusing to scale and causing $50 fees.

Bitcoin Cash works today and puts the original vision back on track.
You can pretty much chart the downfall of OkCupid as a result of selling out to Match. When it was a sort of overgrown hobby project run by a couple of data geeks, it was fun. (Hell, even if you weren't necessarily interested in, or comfortable with the idea of, "online dating", the extensive quizzes were a great signup engine.)

When the founders sold to Match, and presumably also got less involved in the day-to-day, suddenly I stopped hearing anything good about it anymore. I can't personally vouch for it, being out of the market at the time, but it went from being a pretty reliable recommendation that I'd often hear friends talking about, to quickly developing a reputation for having a high creep factor, lots of low-effort and fake profiles, etc.

As with many businesses, I think the demand for growth uber alles killed it. If they had been content being a niche service, they would have survived and served that niche well. But too few businesses (especially startups that get sold) are allowed to do that; their management requires they either shoot the moon or burn up trying.

In particular, I think there is a solid niche for an OKC-like dating site that actively rejects "mobile first" low-word-count design in favor of the desktop (check your messages when you get home, no "swiping" from the shitter, etc.), emphasizes profiles with lots of information and underlying data to construct matches on something other than photos, and basically serves a very literate demographic. Basically OKC circa 2004. Though today, a modern version would also need tools to aggressively block users that are abusive or just plain "creepy", because there's an Eternal September aspect to the Internet today that didn't really exist back then, that you'd need to combat -- spam-type adaptive filters would probably do the job ('is this spam' is a pretty vague question for a machine, so is 'is this creepy', but you could teach the filters over time given a good dataset and feedback mechanism).
I thought you did not understand but rethinking I think Marco is mostly right, actually.

If I am a right hand user, the right part of my keyboard is covered by my hand, and is easier to be used. I've seen this in keyboard which don't have any keys on a 1/4th circle on the bottom right of the screen.

If I am a left hand user, the left part of my keyboard is covered by my hand and is easier to be used. But the left part of the keyboard has less important keys than the right part.

Essentially, a mirror of the keyboard would be more optimal for left hand users. Although the issue is less important than on say QWERTY. Because the amount of space on the outer rings (most strain) is still the same for left and right hand users. And that's Marco's point.

The amount of space your fingers can move back is smaller than the amount of space they can reach up. Going back puts more strain on the fingers. (Anecdotal experience.) (EDIT: and the arm, as well.)
And this language policing reminds me of antifa extremism in an also off putting way - but why mention if if not to speculate on a potentially insulting label?
I'm an H1B visa holder, I think this is a step in the right direction. American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act - should have never existed. It allows H1B visas to be extended beyond 6 years. No one should be forced to remain on abusive H1B visa for more than 6+ years of their life. It hurts everyone expect the SV tech giants.
I got a pen plotter (AxiDraw v3) and it's been a great creative outlet. I wrote a couple tutorials on techniques I learned or discovered:

Fractal generation with L Systems: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/fractal-generation-with-l-sy...

Surface projection: https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/surface-projection.html
It's worth nothing that the lava lamps are visible street side through large glass windows, so it serves as an eye-catching artpiece for passerbys.
I really wish that someone would do the right thing and fix H-1B by attaching the visa to the person, not the job/employer.

That would help fix sooo many of the objections to this program. But perhaps most importantly it would mean people on this visa would not be indentured servants , with the possibility of visa revocation hanging over them.
I bought some book of his in the late 90s and upon reading it kind of quickly realized he was pretty much a grade A douchebag. It was a shock, I remember. How could a douchebag be the creator of Dilbert?
here in Colombia it is a really only a vehicle for prepagos(prostitutes)..
Some background, this is regarding the intermediate status once you have maxed out your 2 H1b visas for 3 years, and have applied for a green card. There are queues per country, with the one for India being the longest at 12 year (1).

Not allowing green card petitioners to stick around will hit hundred of thousands of foreigners that are almost certain eligible for a green card, but just have the bad luck of being stuck in a queue. They will have to leave the USA and many will abandon their green card efforts.

I'm sure a lot of employers will not like this, so the chance of this happening would seem slim. However with the current government one never knows.

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visa-and-immigratio...
Confirmation bias may be unhealthy but that one sentence gave me a good chuckle.
It's time to let yourself learn the truth

https://youtu.be/5tuf59ex-U0

It's time to give up
I'm not a fan of the program, after what happened in Disney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff...

It really soured me on the whole program.
Put a fountain in the lobby and have a microphone listening to the splashes.
Thanks! I try!
> Thankfully I still get lost on Wikipedia (and Youtube), in a kind of what-is-all-this-I-need-to-know-more learning spree.

I know what you mean, but should we be thankful? Learning is stimulating, but are we just indulging in it with little or negative results because we are acquiring misinformation?
None of those ideas are ready for public use yet. I mean they work, I use them daily, but the interface for non-programmers is still in the works.

https://github.com/alin23/spfy is the core of that idea. If you want I can help you or your friend set it up. Or I can let you know when the finished website is ready.
Warren Buffett just won a $1M bet
A friend and I created https://quicktype.io to generate TypeScript, Swift, Go, C#, C++, etc. from JSON sample data and GraphQL queries.

Many have tried to solve this problem – we've found at least 20 projects that attempt to turn JSON sample data into code to represent that data, but they're almost all abandoned and they all have the same fundamental flaws (they generate invalid code for most non-trivial inputs).

In the past two weeks we've created Xcode and VS Code plugins. I've had so much fun with this project! We'd love to create a business around quicktype but we haven't figured that part out yet.
Would anyone else honestly blame tech companies for generating the costs of deradicalizing UK people? Doesn't the blame lie more on the people themselves or the ones radicalizing them? The UK is free to block access to parts of the internet if it thinks is people aren't fit to safely access it.
I continued working on my modem https://github.com/quiet

This year I got it and its dependencies to compile in Windows (MSVC) which was a major undertaking. I also got underway on creating better documentation and bindings in Python.
If only there was a good (emigrant-based a la US, Canada, Australia) and sunny English speaking country in Europe...
I wrote http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-debt... based on Twitter conversations with BrendanEich and others.
Whatsapp outage
I think there's a lot more going on than they are publicly letting on.

If the general public starts to believe that there is an Android successor in the works, many people will stop buying Android devices until further notice. This could be absolutely catastrophic for the Android device market.

If I were Google, I would bury the name Fuchsia, call the thing Android 10, and let it be known that it's years out.
Bees provide a service to society, not just to the bee keeper. Why shouldn't society help offset some of the beekeeper's risk?
LetsEncrypt PayPal Phishing Certificates
How will anyone know if they are interested if you don't write it?
The Rakudo compiler: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/

Feeling a lot more optimistic about it today than a year ago. \o/
I bootstrapped and launched my Customer Success Management app Akita - https://www.akitaapp.com

It's been a LONG road but we've finally got happy customers and revenue.
A bit pedantic but that XKCD doesn't apply if your standard is an overlay to another standard, for the most part.

USB2 didn't fragment the "USB standards " space, because USB1 devices work on it.
The Pragmatic Programmer, The Design of Everyday things, Peopleware, Hacknot, Clean Code
Unfortunately, because the officer was Somali and named Mohamed, I've heard nothing but bigotry back home regarding this case. "Wouldn't have happened if the officer was white", etc. If the officer had been white, I could envision the following responses, in order of likelihood:

1) Damond must have done something unusual or stupid to cause the officer to fire on her, making it her fault, because what officer would be threatened by a Pretty White Woman?

2) As mentioned above, officers make mistakes, and this is a terrible tragedy, but they put their lives on the line every day and they were trying to do the right thing, so we can't punish them for this.

3) This is one of the "rare" cases of actual police brutality and the cop deserves to go to jail for murder.
Started 2017 working remotely, from home, in a rather depressing environment. Through this year I rented an office space and hired 3 other people.
Semver-checker: a PHP utility that verifies a library's API is semver compliant
I left my job to work full-time on https://sublimefund.org, with the goal of getting more people involved in philanthropy.

I'm working on donation matching right now.
Not trying to show any wit here. Considering that a mistake in identifying whether a weapon is held by a person ended in tragedy and that modern force are equipped with displays on their rifles; I asked whether ML based solutions can help.
I left my full time job about 3 months ago to start my own software consulting venture. Ive maintained projects from old clients I had on the side, and also created and launched a new project for a client (RN mobile app). Still have to get an online presence setup for the company. Its been going well so far, and I am looking forward to new projects and clients in 2018.

I launched ScrumGenius (https://scrumgenius.com). Its a side project I started for fun at my previous job (it was just a simple slack bot script back then) and decided to actually build a service and launch it a few months ago. I did not take it too seriously at first, I was just using it to learn. However, after reading indiehackers and other people launching products I was really inspired to give it a try. Its been steadily growing and it makes around $300/mo.

Hoping to continue to grow it even more in 2018.

If anyone is looking for a end to end consultant that does Full Stack Dev with experience in mobile and web! Please do reach out, would love to talk! I am based in Canada and UK.
AWS' Elastic Load Balancer took minutes to spin up such that it was pretty useless, god forbid you're getting DoSed.

I have a hard time believing that their other products don't have the same issue when auto-scaling.
New Image Shows Antarctica's Melting Iceberg Broken Into Pieces
Hi how are you is a phatic utterance, like talking about the weather. It's how people acknowledge each other (which is a kind thing to do) without having to go out of their way to talk to people (because sometimes you have other stuff to do).

I've found southerners to be very genuine people.
It sounds like you're projecting.

Bitcoin Core trolls and bots are a common problem on reddit.

Adam Back (CEO of Blockstream) has admitted to hiring teams of people to control the narrative
The Pixelbook and other Chromebooks don't have an active ME?
Cloudflare's own blog posts about this:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...
I built https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/

It was a site I put together to help me understand myself a lot better by asking myself the hard questions in life, and constantly reiterating it.
Smalltalk’s Productivity
> When I read 1984 back in 1980 ...

I just read it for the first time last year. I found the book incredibly frightening. It wasn't because the ideas discussed painted a scary picture of the future. It was because the ideas painted a picture of the present.

Because Orwell's dystopian vision has progressed so quickly, I'm worried we're too late to fix things. In the future, I think I'll look back and see my reading of Orwell's 1984 as a milestone that changed the course of my life. I've never in my life felt so empowered while also feeling so incredibly helpless.
The difference is that Lambda is a) way more annoying to use, b) gets way more coverage, because developers are locked into the AWS ecosystem and often don't pay the bills.
Humberto Cruz, "A family records organizer", in the Boston Globe, 2007 ----
https://archive.is/SjTWI

"In essence, "Read This If I Am Dead" is a living, loving, and constantly evolving little book I write for my family. You can do the same..."
> In general, serverless computing tasks cost 100-1000× more per cpu cycle than a counterpart running on a cloud server.

Citation needed. With Serverless you have to do zero system administration, patching, maintenance, security hardening, etc.

In the early 1900s, cars required tons of maintenance. You had to hand crank the engine to start it, and if you went on a long trip, you needed to bring along a mechanic, as your car was likely to break down. I know it's tempting for engineers like ourselves to believe we can do system administration better than Amazon, but it's just not true. Do you think automobile owners long for the days when they had to hand crank their engine to start it, and do maintenance just to travel 100 miles? In a decade or two, the idea of doing manual system administration, load balancing, scaling, etc, will be just as archaic.
Atari Video Music Teardown [video]
The office pays tax and employees in the UK already pay personal income tax. To avoid double taxation, it's very difficult to establish how much revenue should be charged to a particular tax jurisdiction.

Legally, "operating in" means whatever you claim as your home country. Otherwise, it turns into a morass.

However, tax laws are NP complete. Every time you try to close a loophole you introduce unforseen interactions with other pre-existing laws. How do you think the double Irish got established? Totally legal, and not taking advantage of it would be foolish.
> Plus, you'd need at least some planning to not get stung.

That is just what I was thinking.

Without a bee suit, attacking even a single bee hive seems like a very bad idea. Last year, I got stung by a bee that got trapped under the straps of my bike helmet, and it really hurt. Plus, I had to remove the sting. And that was just a single bee.

EDIT: Yeah, I did not take the winter into consideration. When I got stung, it was summer. facepalm
"Independent economists"

Adorable. Can you name one that is not in the 1%
I worked on an open source project at the end of the year to help track your Coinbase profits: https://www.profbit.info/
https://github.com/joshblum/profbit/
Facebook UK Ltd. is a UK limited company who received £842 million in revenue in their 2016 filing.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06331310
Not really. In a world where self interest is put above most things. It's pretty difficult to not be at least a little cynical.
Et in Arcadia Ego
yeah an obvious way to improve the program is to require the applicant to have much more added value than the average American worker. I would argue that salary is the best but still a very poor indicator. What about fields where the average salary is low like agriculture or areas like North Dakota where the cost of living is low and therefore salaries are low? I think the USCIS should start to calculate these numbers per industry and geographical area
Treble doesn't overlay an existing standard in all cases, it completely replaces them in some areas.
Really? I've heard of the FBI becoming involved in the investigation of a crime seemingly due solely to its large monetary impact.
I launched two projects.
1) http://instant10-k.com/
An efficient way to search 10-k and 10-q filings for publicly listed companies. A Form 10-K is an annual report required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance. 10-Q is the quarterly version. If you have ever purchased an individual stock you should read the 10-k and 10-Q reports.
2. http://datasetapi.com - A platform to host clean curated datasets.An airport dataset is live, More to follow.
Too many beehives to believe for pure vandalism.
I could believe one or two.

Imagine someone tipping 50 cows, or spraying 50 buildings.
The high amount makes its weird.
Economics has made some progress since Biblical times.

Taxation drives the economy. By creating demand for money. No taxes, no economy.
> Does every single human endeavor really need to make a profit for someone?

No, but endeavors that are profitable tend to be more self-sustaining and less fragile and less susceptible to the grace of politicians and special interests.

Note, I'm not saying that markets are the solution to everything, nor am I saying they are the most optimal solution to everything. I just think it's important to consider what you give up when you give up a profitable enterprise.
I would pay for that pocket-to-kindle service
This article. Others make the association clear.
What about all the goods you consume that you do not pay for, but were developed over the decades, centuries, and millennia and by your contemporaries too: Language, liberty, civil rights, the system of laws, security, roads, economics, finance, wheels, computers, mathematics, much of health care and education. Are you paying the Einstein estate for relativity? King James' translation team for their Bible? Alan Kay for all he did that you use? All the FOSS developers? The Suffragettes for your vote?

If not for taxation, who will pay for the police that keep you safe, the education programs that likely educated you (assuming you had some publicly funded education) and most of your customers, employees, and business partners? Public health that prevents epidemics? The list goes on forever.
> I have to assume that in general females find the same men attractive. I think this is the biggest flaw in this analysis, but currently there is no other way to analyze the data.

This seems like little more than an exploration of the ramifications of that massive assumption. It would only take a small amount of variation in preferences to make the concept of a "top 20%" inapplicable.
I left my old job and built a lot of things, even built some things with friends. A lot of which have become open source. Also did a lot of reverse engineering.

1. https://labs.maplestory.io

2. https://maplestory.design

3. https://maplestory.wiki

4. https://github.com/Inumedia/NXLDownloader

5. https://labs.crr.io/maplestory/PKG1

Those are the main ones.
I'm a long time Spotify user. I love that feature too and it worked very well for me when it first launched. But after a while it started playing the same songs that I have already heard many times. Spotify's algorithm is very unpredictable so I can't say it will work out the same for you. But if it will, at least you can have another try with what I'm trying to build ^_^
Hosted Comments https://www.hostedcomments.com/ , a Disqus alternative with a focus on privacy. The learning experience of building Hosted Comments was great : using iframes to embed comments in websites, building a commenting system with voting and some features which Disqus does not have : locking comments, hiding comments (not yet deployed https://imgur.com/a/R89Cw ). It started out as a sideproject, then decided to go the SaaS route and now a little confused about whether I want to pursue this as my main project. I'm thinking about releasing an open source self hosted version and continue offering a managed service.

Bored Hackers https://www.boredhackers.com : a public chatroom based community site. Think of it like reddit, but chatrooms insteads of forums. I just deployed the first version a few hours ago. Bored Hackers is an experiment at building the community site that I wish existed : public chatroom based communites, pseudonymous users, transparent moderation logs, an open source code base and a site that is welcoming to non-technical users. Currently, there is a single chat room for all discussions and support for user created chat rooms will be added shortly.
While this is anecdotal it does worry me that we invest (as a society, in the general sense) in educating people in the US and then don’t do enough to keep them here. It should be easy to obtain a permanent work visa after graduating. You’d need controls like perhaps a minimum degree earned, minimum number of credits earned/years in school and approved institutions but it seems feasible. It would do a lot to retain people that not only we’ve invested in, but who (hopefully) have had a chance to integrate culturally at a young age and formed friendships and connections that will help anchor them.
> We're not the first ones to do this. Our LavaRand system was inspired by a similar system first proposed and built by Silicon Graphics and patented in 1996 (the patent has since expired).

-- https://blog.cloudflare.com/randomness-101-lavarand-in-produ...
It’s a side project.