skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the world has ever seen a decade without any major armed conflict. Immediately after WWII we had the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, the first Indo-Pakistani war, war in French Indochina--and virtually all of those involved either major world powers or extremely populous countries.

There hasn't been a direct conflict between two major powers since the Korean War. Such a conflict would result in unprecedented levels of death and destruction even without nuclear weapons. With nuclear weapons, it becomes impossible. Sure, sometimes there are wars between tin-pot dictators and insurgents in pickup trucks, but there have always been those wars. What we don't have anymore are modern, industrialized nations killing millions of each other's citizens in an attempt to press their respective claims on Alsace-Lorraine.

And if anything, that's a sign of hope. If Alsace-Lorraine can move beyond decades of being a bomb-wrecked hellscape, perhaps Damascus or Aleppo or Kirkuk or Mogadishu can some day achieve the same peace. Just as (fingers crossed) Sarajevo has.
No it's not. OS-level virtualization is the abstraction. Docker is a set of tools to manage Linux containers and virtual filesystems. You can argue that libvirt is an abstraction because it does actually work over several different virtualization technologies.
I also think that Apple design and quality has plummeted. However: Android is a Google product. Google makes their money selling data on me. Apple makes money on hardware. It's an easy choice.
"Boy that escalated quickly..."
https://youtu.be/ipsPgNEmAXI?t=301
Anchorman fight scene aftermath
No, as I explained up here. It can use the money to grow.
Dark tale of triplets split at birth
Delivery of video bits costs next to nothing compared to the content. Netflix will spend 8 billion on content next year. They won't come within even an order of magnitude of that on infrastructure.
I'm guessing a lot of people take issue with the term because it feels out of place. Software engineering doesn't use a lot of greek derived terminology like mathematics, chemistry, etc... Rather it seems to primarily use English derived terminology.

At least that's my reading of the situation.
Intel's new cameras add human-like 3D vision to any machine
Many places unify this flow to prevent people dropping out halfway through

Even the link in the header to subscribe leads to a wall of text where you have to hunt for the right link. The first link several paragraphs in is for group subscriptions?? Why?

My bet is that the people landing on have mostly decided to subscribe, or are interested in more details about the cost. Yet 90% of the page is still about convincing me about the merits. I was already convinced by the single paragraph header on the article!

The page presented is useful for those coming from an FAQ or something, but not well suited for the person coming from that header.

It might sound super nitpicky but there's huge amounts of behavioral science about the benefits of simplifying these kinds of flows. Saying it doesn't matter is going against a lot of documented evidence to the contrary.
I wouldn't put my money there. There is a lot of better choices with more return of investment. But, it's my money, you can do whatever you want with yours.
IOTA is not made to be a currency to shop online or buy coffee, it's an IoT currency. Stop trying to shill what you've bought. It's also deeply flawed, centralized and its wallet is not user friendly.
Their government doesn't have a launch pad.
You can find several high yield bond funds in that range.
Here's a 5% bond fund: FIHBX https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FIHBX/performance?p=FIHBX

Here's another at 6% : PHYSX https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PHYSX?p=PHYSX

Less risky (municipal) at 4%: MMHYX https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MMHYX/profile?p=MMHYX
Designing VR interactions to allow users to interact at a distance
I'm the only person that speaks my mother tongue at home too.

Something that worked well for me was making it a game when the kid wasn't expecting it. The first time was over breakfast. I brought a boogie board and told him we were gonna learn some portuguese. I drew a happy chubby boy and asked him who it was. He shrugged. I told it was him. Now I had his attention, so I drew a strawberry and asked him what that was. Once he answered, I told him "yes, morango". Then, I drew him eating it and said "Calvin come morango" (pointing to him and the strawberry as I said the respective words). Then, I said "Calvin come..." and picked up a real strawberry. Now, the exercise was kind of a guessing/memory game for him. I only covered a few words and it involved a lot of repetition and high fives, but he became a lot more open to the idea of learning portuguese after that.

When my kid was learning to read, making some flash cards also worked really well - drawing on one side, word on the other. The trick is in making a few verb ones, and nouns that can complement, plus one with a drawing of the kid, then do permutations, e.g. "Calvin come bolo" (cake), "Bolo de morango", "Calvin come bolo de chocolate", etc. "Eat" is a good starting verb, "go" is also very versatile in combination with types of vehicles and places, then you can try expanding to other daily things.

Would love to hear how that works for others
Deploy to Google Kubernetes Engine; `kubectl create secret`; set the env-vars of your Deployment to be derived from the secret.
The Reasoned Schemer(2nd Edition) March 2018
I run a bunch of Kubernetes microservices which use Postgres, and I treat Postgres in the same way as etcd - it runs on its own box, or RDS or CloudSQL, and the containers talk to it there. When you do it like this, you can use all your favorite postgres management tools, and not have to worry about Kubernetes doing something unexpected.

If you want any semblance of DB performance from Pg as a container, you've got to give it its own data volumes, mount that into its container, etc. Not sure what the benefit of containerizing it would be. Shared tenancy on kube workers makes your performance unpredictable as well, and if you use affinity to run it on a dedicated worker, what's the point?
Seems like an great candidate for something to counterfeit.
Generate an officer name/cell number pair for each card and then charge monthly for someone to answer and say the card is real.

Since these are not strictly speaking legal anyway, there probably isn't much recourse.
Some opinions.

Unhampered!=Free

Unhampered~Abuse of Human Rights

Loosening some protections for terminal/near terminal patients who may want to take a gamble on an untested treatment may be warranted, however.
The non-aggression principle. The only time violence or the threat thereof is acceptable is in response to unprovoked violence or threats against you and yours.
Oh goodie, a PowerShell thread on HN. I'm excited to see how many variations of "I hate PowerShell because I've never bothered to spend time learning how to use it, so I don't, and it's also not X, which I use and like" will show up.
Bus service in a population center without dedicated right of way is horribly slow. You can dedicate some right of way to buses (BRT, for Bus Rapid Transit) but for any large passenger volume, the economics of trains become similar or better.

Flexibility is a disadvantage - you shouldn’t plan your life around a bus route remaining high-quality or even extant, because the planners could revoke it at any time.
Panspermia as a theory has been around for a while, but there’s no real evidence to support it yet. The weaker forms of the theory don’t postulste life as being extraterrestrial, but the complex organic building blocks of life could be.

Until a rigorous model of life can be developed, until life can be created in vitro from non-living stuff, or until evidence of life or complex organics can be found beyond Earth it’s hard to prove or disprove.

The same can be said of pretty much all theories concerning the origin of life on Earth though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
With buses you would still have traffic problems even if in theory it would help reduce traffic. As long as we have humans driving vehicles, there will traffic. Realistically, this won't change any time soon (probably never).

It is much faster to get from point A to point B with rail (metro, for example) than a bus.
Yeah. It's depressing. The start of the ruling made me think, "This could be a triumph for federalism - states can still pass their own laws and we can put Net Neutrality to the test." Then I read the rest of the ruling. So much for states' rights! It's... still the Democrats' fault, right?
I wouldn't bet on it. Coinbase valuation will drop drastically when Tether bubble pops and bear market sets in.
I’m in Germany. My internet and phone bill is 27€/month. I – as many Germans – watch via satellite, so I pay 0€/month for private TV. The public broadcasting fee is 18€/month per household, no matter how many people live in one.

Netflix is definitely not going to be cheaper, and adding Amazon Prime and the other services on top even less. And I still wouldn’t get all the same content.
Or any small ISP that wants to be able to compete with those large nationwide ISPs. It's much harder for small ISPs to comply with Title II regulation than large ones with tons of employees.
edpichler's description of P/E is correct. Quoting from wikipedia for a slightly more formal definition:

"Trailing P/E" uses the weighted average number of common shares in issue divided by the net income for the most recent 12-month period. This is the most common meaning of "P/E" if no other qualifier is specified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price–earnings_ratio
How stock price follow it ? In a hypothetical scenario, if company declare not to pay any dividend any time in the future, nobody will invest in it no matter what.
I’m pretty sure you could do similar things with Clojure and ClojureScript.
Investors buy Amazon because it's popular, not that its financials make sense.
> Coming from France, this seems completely unreal to me.

Probably because no one talks about it.

Corruption is largely a taboo issue in France. Neither government nor independent researchers have conducted any comprehensive and empirically based analyses of the phenomenon in the recent past. In addition, the French government does not report publicly on organised crime,
and academic research is very limited. The information available publicly nevertheless provides sufficient evidence that in certain geographic (Corsica, large cities, or South-Eastern France) or economic areas (public utility contracts, energy, real-estate, or defence sectors) corruption is
often encountered. At the lower level of organised crime, police (information leaking, or direct involvement in OC activities) and local authorities (regarding public contracts) are most often targeted by criminals. At
the higher level, judicial corruption and undue political influence over the criminal justice process occur in relation to financial and corporate crimes. The scale of the corruption problem remains unclear due to lack of data. In Corsica, parliamentary reports indicate that the problem is
commensurate with the one in mafia-affected regions of Italy.

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/do...
If they have a box in your ISP with a cache of the content, those Gigabits are coming from a a LAN and are basically free, only limited by the infrastructure.
Not really, it indicates how long if nothing changes over the long term. Which never happens. Netflix is growing very rapidly which makes P/E all but meaningless for "how long" questions.
> You will need to provide massive objective evidence (i.e. not 2-3 links from googling "china solar" ) before anyone believes that giant assertion.

* "slavery-backed price dumping": There have been more than enough reports on the gruesome working conditions in Chinese factories. They are so widespread and notorious, they got dedicated their own Simpsons "couch gag" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEki-IBdop8). And yes, I consider this dumping - because a company that operates to Western working conditions has no way of competition against people with 80-hour workweeks, armies of children and adhering to safety protocols.

* For industrial espionage, the same (e.g. Nortel, Dupont, Transrapid, Volkswagen/First Automotive Works, plus countless cases in the German Mittelstand - even the German Constitution Protection Bureau warns about this: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verfassungsschutz-china-spi...). According to a (bit dated, though) report, up to half of Mittelstand companies have reported Chinese cyber-espionage: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/industriespionage-was-...

* For buying shells of doomed European companies, have a look at e.g. https://www.morgenpost.de/wirtschaft/article207409333/Chines... - companies from as humble as trash burner EEW to such household names as Krauss-Maffei and Syngenta.
Note on this topic: "Solar panels imported from China already have hefty tariffs, but proponents of heavier tariffs say Chinese manufacturers get around those trade remedies by establishing operations in Vietnam and Malaysia and exporting to the U.S. from those countries."

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/369838-week-ahe...
You probably can't short a large enough amount to make it worthwhile. Also, due to Murphy's Law the price would probably go up.
Who is Zinke? Is she someone like Madonna, whom we readers should know from her single name in its single mention in TFA? Try harder, editors!
Yes, exactly.

So how is having an escrow that is subject to US law an answer to "I want to have a trustless network with no government intervention"?
A lot of people trying to defend being a jerk as necessary in these circumstances. I think Google culture proves the opposite: Googley code and peer reviews, blameless postmortems, and a host of other mechanisms that de-escalate and de-personalize things.

The Meltdown work at Google probably didn't begin with a rant about morons.

It's possible to construct a culture where people can air grievances and criticize others without inducing flame wars. It only works for Linus because people won't go nuclear in the response, but for rank and file engineers, especially of equal stature, if you call someone a moron in a thread, it's likely to kill productivity and create a negative testosterone ladden atmosphere of people trying to avoid being wrong, and counter attacking others.

I've worked at a lot of places where engineer got into heated shouting matches. It's is not a way to increase the probability of zeroing in on a problem, or reaching agreement faster.
A high P/E shows that the current profits are very far from the stock price. The expectation of grow are high. Good companies has high P/E too. On this case, 230 P/E is a really high expectation.
More info here: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html

Maybe you can convince the powers that be to do something about these. :)
NZ police will carry firearms on their persons in very specific circumstances, but it's not standard.

There's also the "Armed Offenders Squad", maybe analogous to a SWAT team, who are armed. Don't know too much about them, you just hear them mentioned on the news when there's a gunman who has shot someone.
You really think Apple isn't selling your data?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/11/02/apple_pla...
Coinbase and GDAX products operate differently.

Coinbase is a counter-party in all trades e.g., people buy FROM Coinbase or sell TO Coinbase. So $1B revenue number would include all deposits.

GDAX accounting would only count commissions as revenue.
>From investor pov you can short dinos and ride disruptors. ez $$. Not saying tsla isn't overvalued though.

Except the "dinos" of GM, Nissan, BMW, Ford, and Hyundai are outproducing Tesla in the EV market, with a clear lead in affordability. Nissan Leaf is far and away the most popular EV ever built, having sold thousands more than all Tesla models combined (discounting unfulfilled preorders).
I'm surprised about my lack of being surprised of this existing in (some parts of) the USA. How can law enforcement function if it's not separated from profit, greed or other common forms of influence?
Here's one, people want to use bitcoin for transactions, as these blocks of transactions fill up, new hashes are needed for each block. The miners are finding these hashes and facilitating the continued use of the blockchain. I'm hazier on this one, but I believe transaction fees go to the finder of the hash? Anyway, wouldn't the value be is the protocol/platform itself, that's what people are buying in to, they want a usable, distributed ledger.
There is an equivalent to a PBA card and that is support the police union charity kind. That gives some perks some times.
I find this a remarkably accurate description of addiction/withdrawal.

“Take reaponsibility” does absolutely nothing to help, except maybe satisfy the commenter’s obvious need to feel better-than.

A lot of people are born into families of addicts, myself included, and although the substance may change, it really isn’t our fault at all that they we are addicts.

For most people it takes a big, dedicated support team of other people to get clean. “taking responsibility” is a good start, but it really isn’t enough.
T-bills are headed that way...
Qtum: A Bitcoin / Ethereum mashup
> I've never seen a soldier here guarding a shop or a bank.

As an anecdote - I have. It was somewhere in the southwest about 15 years ago.
>optimal way to connect major cities

Major cities that are relatively close together. The Northeast Corridor works pretty well for the most part--at least the two ends of it do. The whole thing is a full day and probably costs more than a couple hour flight.

Various city pairs also work but anything longer haul has to be for the experience (or avoiding flying) even if everything goes according to schedule. NY to Chicago is about 20 hours for example. (And would be very hard to make fast because of the Appalachian Mountains.)
Italy is the same way (albeit not so on-time as the Swiss). There are train stations which are always fairly near both orange "long distance" busses that visit smaller towns not served by trains. The train station is also near a blue, city bus station in reasonably sized cities. It makes it fairly easy to figure out.
Gold and diamonds both have industrial applications. They have intrinsic properties outside of their scarcity that also give them worth (for gold, their corrosion resistance, for diamonds their hardness). Even if they had no aesthetic value they would still be mined and sold, because they have practical uses. Is the same true of Bitcoin? Right now, I don't think so.
seconded. As far as I know, EBS makes no claim to replicate a copy outside of your availability zone or anything to garuntee data integrity in the event of a major region wide issue
That's under the assumption that all you can do with a stock is hold onto it and pocket all the profits.

If I buy a house, put in a pool, then sell the house for $100k more than I bought it a year later, it doesn't matter too much what the initial price was, except in comparison to other investments

You can always sell the Netflix stock after pocketing some dividends or something. The purchase price is not money lost, because now you have the stock.

I get P/E being important for someone trying to buy a company.
I've wondered about the fuel for large cargo ships. From my understanding, freight train engines are basically gas powered generators to produce 480v output to power an electric engine. Not my area of expertise, but this is supposed to be much more fuel efficient than straight combustible engine power.

If that is the case, why would this not work for cargo ships as well?
It's definitely complex. A strong network doesn't necessarily signify wealthy background, although it is likely. Rather, it demonstrates an ability to connect with people who can aid in your success, and that ability is a necessary component of being a successful founder.
> Average income in Switzerland is over 5500 € gross / month. I won't even bother to calculate the employer's cost to give an employee such income, because the figure is already way higher than the French one.

Oh, no. You forgot about the tax wedge. Everyone forgets about the tax wedge.

Swiss tax wedge: ~20%

French tax wedge: ~50%

In France, you cost your employer about 2X your salary. In Switzerland you cost your employer about 1.25X your salary.

Source: OECD.

So your Swiss costs €6,875/month and your French costs €6,000/month.
Right, particularly they're homomorphisms that admit inverses. I confused myself into thinking that the fact that they admit an inverse implies that they're structure preserving but that obviously isn't true. Still I don't see anything here that doesn't basically apply to running the same code on client and server. Since the entire point is that you are preserving structure, Go is supposed to have exactly the same semantics on client and server.
Loading and unloading Lightning channels creates separate transactions. Depending on how often an open channel is used, Lightning can increase the transaction load.
Interestingly Transport for London claims that the US embassy owes them ~£12 million in unpaid congestion charge fees, which exist as a disincentive to drive in central London. The embassy claim it's a form of taxation and as such they are exempt -- unsurprisingly TfL disagree. For context the next highest amounts supposedly owed are by Japan, Nigeria, Russia and India.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/us-embassy-congestion_...
Real-world business servers are complicated even when you tease apart the different elements.
Yes earnings is for the past 4 quarters but by time component I mean his assertion that "P/E ratio 230.24 is meaning that you need 230 years of profits to return to you the price you are paying today" which is utter nonsense.
At this point, my bet is on CockroachDB and other database systems built from the ground up to be natively distributed. It will be far easier for them to build functionality (especially the 80% that most people ever use) then it will be to bolt on and coerce the same distributed behavior for a single-node RDBMS.
>>Evolution has been pretty effective to this point

Survivorship bias, pure and simple. In terms of evolutionary timescales, the success of humans is an anomaly, if not an outright accident. The overwhelming majority of all species that have ever existed has gone extinct.

Gene editing has the potential to not leave things up to chance, moving forward.
Yes! And the history of far left labor movements like the IWW (“Wobblies”) in MT is interesting too.

Butte, for example, has historically been very blue collar, socially conservative / Irish Catholic, and left wing in a “you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union” kind of way.

Something like 13% of Missoula County voted Green Party in 2000.

Way I see it, MT has a mix of hippy-left, labor left, and truly moderate right wing politics that make it far more purple than red.

EDIT: Also a multi-generation Montanan with homesteading ancestors.
Ask HN: How will ICO’s affect YC and other tech investors?
We’re seing the rise of ICO’s which disruptes the way startups raise money. How will it affect companies like YC? Will wealth become evenly distributed among the global population and not only the ‘elite’ people? Anyone can invest in an ICO. Happy to hear your thoughts.
> Well, I'm saying that most every improvement to labor laws that benefit employees make it more difficult and/or more expensive to hire.

Yes, and it protects those with a job and more qualified, and who pays for it is those unemployed, especially young people coming into the labor market.

Strict labor laws at some point end up increasing inequality. Surprise!

PS: And that's what happens in France. Inequality isn't between those making a lot and those making a little, it's between those who have a job for life, and those going from short-term contract to short-term contract for years, usually unable to rent or buy a home or a car (those usually require a CDI).

Been there, seen that.