skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father is a hunter- he observed foxes, with lots of fleas ripping out hair and then going slowly into ponds, letting the raft of hair float away with the fleas on them.

I have to admit i never observed this myself, so for what is worth is currently hear say.
A J-pop band for the crypto craze
That sound ridiculously good.

Like esports, for DBAs
To be fair, I'm not sure if I could either, so don't assume it is valid just because I used it. I tried to look it up, but didn't get anything conclusive about it within two minutes so I just assumed people would understand what I meant.

It's really fascinating that you're able to understand Dutch newspapers though! Despite knowing quite some German as well, Norwegian doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I can correctly guess some Swedish (which I seem to recall is similar?) words when written down some of the time, but far from often enough to be able to follow newspaper articles.
Someone has to make the cameras in the phones. That plausibly could've been Kodak, in an alternate reality.
Not disagreeing with you, but if it had been handed over to specific people it might have worked, but what happened is anyone and anyone in the local area just went into the farms and took whatever they wanted. No production, no employment on the farms, no taxes or foreign exchange from the produce -> economic collapse.

I worked for a telecoms company back in 2006 and a Zimbabwean cellular network wanted to buy our software. They had the money in an escrow account, but pulled out of the deal before it could complete. It wasn't as bad back then, but that was the year inflation hit 1,000% so it was clear what was happening.
> Also as other commenters note, if it succeeds and lowers air pollution significantly it might save more than it costs in fines and respiratory disease treatment & lost productivity costs.

I have not seen these calculations.

> Affordance is one thing, convenience is another. I can well afford to buy a ticket, but not having to? Not needing to plan for queuing at the vending machine for an individual ticket, or seeing my bus/train leave because I was a bit short and had to make a stop? Not suffering the hassle of finding my passcard and seeing NFC fail because it's too hot, too cold or Tuesday? Not being caged in/out of the public transport system?

That's all non-problems for most people. Here in Hamburg many people have month or year cards. Buying tickets via mobile phones is easy and common now. There is also no NFC involved. If I'm moving in Hamburg, I usually get a day ticket on my mobile phone - which is cheaper than two normal trip tickets. The ticket is valid for local trains, bus, ferry, ...

> bus/train leave because I was a bit short and had to make a stop

The public transport system is really really dense. If your bus leaves without you, the next one comes in a few minutes.

> 20 years back there were no porticos anywhere, you could walk/run from the station's entrance to the train without having to stop anywhere

standard in the whole of Germany.

> People who have to take public transports during rush hours won't take it even more

Sure they would. Demand would go up over much of the day, which means infrastructure investments.

> Car tax doesn't just affect cities with good public transport infrastructure.

Why not? Even German cities with extensive public transport systems have lots of car traffic.
Just about anything is better than their burritos. Stick to tacos and quesadillas (and French fries, seriously.)
Content Scraping (Fight Back or Ignore?)
The head-first strategy may allow for higher speed before the transition. From the journal article:

> Head-first impact is the primary (approx. 80%) transition strategy and often occurs at higher wall-approach speeds
EchoJS Is Back
No. I was just busy being CTO of Cloudflare. I have research completed on about another 6 films/TV series and I'll get to them at some point. Some of those videos took a lot of work. Hours and hours of research.

For example, for Westworld [1] I had to track down original 1970s journal articles about the making of the film and manuals for long dead hardware. For The Terminator [2] I had to buy scanned copies of Nibble magazine and then track down the exact references to what's on screen.

All of the research in my videos is very carefully done and original and I make sure that what I am saying is accurate. That takes time. So a three minute video might be hours and hours of work even before writing the script, getting suitable screenshots and recording the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzvbAm0y8YQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRnnjoiSV-U
Except the switching cost is essentially 0: just type Bing or Yahoo into the address bar
During the period Hitler came to power, there was deflation, not inflation.

Inflation means your saving go to zero. Deflation means your mortgage and mortgage payments stay constant, while your salary and the price of your home falls by X% per year.
Good leaders take responsibility
Passive Investing is for wimpy quinoa-eating men
I think the orkut dataset is already in a tab seperated format, to turn it into CSV you only need to add the column labels.

http://snap.stanford.edu/data/com-Orkut.html
For an example you can have a look at the import scripts: https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests/blob/master/arango...
This does not make sense.

If the citizen (as you say) is deciding between paying taxes or buying transit tickets on a monetary basis, he or she will choose the cheapest option, and the city will lose out on revenue. On a purely financial basis making this the citizen's choice cannot be a win-win for the citizen and the city.

Besides the above argument, it is also unlikely that there is any possibility of net revenue to the city. Even if a few people irrationally decide to pay more taxes than they were paying in transit fares, and hence generate some revenue, there are presumably only a small minority of the population who make this decision. But these additional tax revenues have to cover not just what these citizens were spending on their own transit passes, but also the loss in revenue to the city from everyone else in the city not paying for transit anymore.

Certainly, it is likely that free public transport enhances the economy and generates revenue in other ways, but it does not add up in the way you have presented it.
Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. Using default configuration invalidates the result at best, at worst it's knowingly misleading.

Why? Because nobody who cares about performance runs their database with default configuration. Plus some databases, like PostgreSQL are well known to have very conservative settings. So benchmarking with the defaults like that is knowingly trying to make your product look better than it is. You didn't know? Then what are you doing benchmarking databases?!?

Seriously, this is shady as hell.
I tried doing something like this with Flash back in the day and fell on my ass pretty hard. Well done
That would be a better approach, for sure, but it works much better in Europe, or Japan -- places where the general population is very unlikely to have guns. Europe also has better mental health support systems, so they have fewer crazy people on the streets, too. Until those are fixed, Tazer seems to be a "good enough" option.
You can check this interactive fallout map to see why it makes sense for France and Belgium to build them at their eastern border:

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/atomkraft-diese-in...
Can you please tell me what is stopping big companies like INTEL and AMD from implementing a processor like IRAM project does? I am really curious to know more about this.
It's not entirely clear, but I gather one of the following occurred: either 1) The person convinced Reddit they are a wealthy app developer, by using fake sources, or 2) The person is actually a wealthy app developer, and is trolling Reddit by telling them he was faking it.
"Just" that. But the reality is that if I'm looking for a commercially licensed photograph, font, or whatever, there are already plenty of sites that I can go to and pay for. And, if I'm looking for something free in a situation that clearly doesn't fall under non-commercial (e.g. marketing materials), I'm just going to skip over anything with a "non-commercial" only license and pick something else.
Nvidia and ATI were already making 3D accelerators for the professional 3D rendering market.

Were they? I don’t see any professional cards in Nvidia’s early line-up, at least not the one shown on Wikipedia. The first Quadro doesn’t show up till 1999 and the verbiage suggests the pro cards were an offshoot of the gaming cards, not the other way round.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proc...
And why I regularly download backups of my email from Fastmail.

The only concern I have with them raising prices or disappearing entirely is the service interruption of moving my DNS to some other email provider.
Generate realistic datasets with the Trumania open source python library
> How do you deal with multi-threading in C89?

Certainly not by means of the abhorrent garbage that has been added to C for threading.

POSIX is a standard. POSIX started as a branch of the Unix C library that didn't belong in the language. So for instance that's where "open" and "ioctl" went, while "printf" and "malloc" went to C.

There is no need for C to start adding its own versions of POSIX requirements (let alone toy versions); it just adds complexity.

Now what it means is that we can end up with some mongrel project where we have POSIX threads being spawned in one module, ISO C threads in another and so on.
Geth 1.8 – Iceberg¹
In-house performance stats are the least trustworthy thing on the planet. Are there any independent studies?
> "loosen immigration restrictions on the people of our industry"

I don't think a U.S. union would try to loosen immigration restrictions...they'd care about protecting the rights of U.S. workers...also, why would a union representing U.S. workers want to increase the labor supply?
Can Blockchains Reduce Social Inequality?
Performance tests - especially those of databases - are a very complex and resource-consuming venture. And because each use case is different, the benchmark published somewhere does not fit your specific problem and the available environment/budget.

Unfortunately, there is no independent organization that believes in this and defines scenarios that are tested in different environments.
When the problem is too much money chasing too few goods, regardless of the cause you can drain the oversupply of money. If supply constricts, then you constrict the money supply. One way you can always do that is buy borrowing, taxing, or selling and extinguishing the money received. The fed does a version of this to target the overnight rate.
Maybe, although she doesn't worry about messaging me at 8pm?
Logo Creator Box → Os Melhores Logotipos Para Seus Clientes
I didn't dive into this deeper, but that's at least how it was being thought at school here in Belgium (~year 2000).

Summarized from memory: At the end of the 1st world war, Germany was given a huge fine. The Deutsche Mark, deliberatly or not, devalued a lot. The large recession and poverty gave the opportunity for facism and the Nazi party to gain popularity. After the 2nd world war the allied forces realized that giving Germany a huge fine had been a mistake, and thus they didn't repeat that after the 2nd world war.
To be clear this advice is for small early stage startups that are pre-product market fit.
Interesting map in this regard: https://www.electricitymap.org
The countries with the lowest amount of CO2 almost all have nuclear power plants.
If anyone wants an awesome starter kit so you can start hacking GraphQL out of the box, I strongly recommend the Apollo Universal Starter Kit. [0] It's a very resent project with a lot of amazing developers getting behind it contributing code to several branches every day. The documentation is lacking but there are tons of amazing examples on how to solve most of the common web and native app features. If you are using Apollo for a project, they have recently removed the Redux dependency opting for Apollo Link State instead meaning that there isn't two different stores, only one.

[0] https://github.com/sysgears/apollo-universal-starter-kit
>If OpenZFS were relincensed and developed outside the mainline Linux tree (as it is now), FreeBSD would be able to get all changes, but it would still be annoying to actually use ZFS in Linux for the same reason it is annoying to use it now, even though the legal uncertainties would disappear

Couldn't it be developed outside the mainline Linux tree but still have improvements ported to the kernel? If I understand things correctly, thats basically how xorg handles drivers.
I suspect this is referring the world of software at large, outside the SV sphere of influence.
It's more that the Normans used French to make a class distinction. English wanting to ingratiate themselves borrowed terms.
Show HN: SPAM Fighting IT Job App, Blacklist Lookup Exposes Unethical Recruiters
Nice! After I wrote that comment my brain gears got turning and I started wondering how I might build something exactly like that.
In my humble opinion, burning fossil fuels to create electricity to “mine” this “currency” is unethical because it literally has no net gain to society, not even entertainment. The same goes for the manufacture of the electronics used to mine. You hear a lot of condemnation for businesses willing to pollute to create wealth, but many of those same people don’t see that cryptocurrency mining is exactly that.
> Ehh, crashing tomorrow or in 100 years is not necessarily different outside of the timing.

Yes it is. The frequency of events occurring in a specific measure of time is both mathematically and financially meaningful. In particular, the periodicity (if any) of such events is very important.

> Also, mining makes crypto coins negative sum, to be positive some they would need to generate more value than the cost of mining which is unlikely.

At this point you’re introducing new measurements, and you need to rigorously define the “game” to determine if it’s zero sum or not. Proving that a set of objects and their actions on each other is zero sum is very difficult because it’s very rare. As a trivially obvious example, for any integer n in the infinite set of all integers Z, there exists only one -n such that the sum of the pair is exactly 0.

Most real world systems do not satisfy that property, and you’re sort of hand-waving to make it fit. When you model a bid and an ask, it satisfies a zero sum because trading is specifically designed to do that. But the aggregate activity of the market is not zero sum, because it results in net positive growth in aggregate financial value over time.

> Also, mining makes crypto coins negative sum, to be positive some they would need to generate more value than the cost of mining which is unlikely.

If you’re defining your game as the interactions comprising cryptocurrency mining and cryptocurrency trading, then mining generates net positive value in conjunction with trading. If it did not, it wouldn’t be sustainable due to gradual decay over time. Again, frequency and periodicity of profit and price movement here are meaningful. We don’t have to talk about what’s likely, because it’s demonstrated for us economically.

The only way forward for you to assert that cryptocurrency trading or mining is negative sum or zero sum is by introducing new, reasonable interactions to the game and quantifying their relationships with the existing interactions.
> Hyperinflation can't happen without a government problem

Somalia hasn't had a national government in 25 years, so there's no central authority to regulate the money supply or print currency.

Consequently, 98% of the bank notes in circulation are now poor-quality counterfeits, and buyers and sellers know they're fake.

The market has reached an equilibrium, with a single 1000-shilling denomination that trades at approximately the cost to print it.

Hyperinflation ends when the value of the currency equals the cost to print it, and when the population won't accept arbitrarily larger denominations.

You don't need a government to create a useful currency. Hyperinflation can begin and end with or without a government.
Note that this isn't about Hungary in 2014, as I thought (and which shocked me). It's about Hungary in 1945–6.
Considering that the selfie drone can only stay in the air for 15 minutes, I think society is safe. For now.
But the course doesn’t exist yet... it will be available in ‘2018’ and ... wot? Another lean training Kickstarter? Pass.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafficcontrol is an open source cache control layer (working with ATS) that has features for header rewrites, ssl, and custom urls (among others). It is built for video but can be used to cache any content. Probably a bit heavy for your use case infrastructure wise though.
I worked with and later became a “student programmer” when I was in college. I had classes with some of these guys and I would ask them how long the homework took. “2 hours”? That’s crazy. It took me 10 and I knew people who were 15 hours in and not done yet.

Then I got on a new project as a dev. Within months I was down to 3-4 hours for similar assignments. My last class at school was the first time we had a shortage of hardware (good school). I would sit at home and remote into one of the machines, get my code to compile and show up to the lab the afternoon before it was due to debug. And everybody looked at me like I looked at my old coworkers.

It’s been a while since I’ve talked to undergrads but I always tell them to beg borrow or steal an internship or a job on campus. You have no idea how far a little concrete experience takes you.
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Liza Pro is one of my favorite fonts for demonstrating OpenType features: http://underware.nl/fonts/liza/features/OpenType_features/
It's only dishonest if you send in a fake interviewee before you in order to get the questions.
"I’ve seen the rates for senior developers because I am one and I had project managers that had me allocate timefor budgeting purposes. I know the rate is anywhere from $190-$300 an hour."

What magic world is this and how do I get there?

The norm here is maybe $50/hr if you are lucky with a phd and 20 years of experience.
So one could setup an automated crawler thatbruns frequently to keep everything in cache?
Intel expands bug bounty program
London actually works fine. There were two public companies running railways: the national rail system, and the London system.

They designed a credit-card sized paper ticket. You can buy a ticket from any station in Britain, to a destination that requires you to change in London (e.g. Brighton), and your ticket will work to travel between the main stations in London. Or you can buy a ticket to a destination in London.

However, this does make some more novel ticket types difficult or impossible. In many other countries, you can buy tickets online and print them at home, or buy rail tickets with a smartphone. These aren't possible in Britain.
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The toll on I-66 inside the Beltway hit $46.75 on Wednesday morning
Still saving up for an elecraft rig.
I don't think the license can be done retroactively. I mean Oracle owns copyright to major part of ZFS and they can change license to that. But the contributions done to OpenZFS each developer owns copyright to their own work.

I believe the original code could be treated as either CDDL or GPL, but the code that was contributed before license change would still be under CDDL.

I think OpenZFS project owners would need to track down every contributor and get their permission to change the license. Perhaps it wouldn't be terribly hard with git/svn blame command. The only problem would be if the original authors were no longer available, but hopefully that code could be just rewritten by someone else.

Things would be much easier if every author would surrender their copyright to OpenZFS project, but some people might have problem with it since then you surrender all claims to the code.
Can you share more about this? IIRC web isn't ready yet so mobile only.
Ask HN: What's happening with usevim.com?
I really enjoyed checking in on usevim.com (the domain has since expired and you have to go to https://medium.com/usevim) every couple of months and getting a nice curation of plugins and features to check out. I know the maintainer said s/he was going to be very busy with a new child, but I'm wondering if anyone knows the story here. Do they plan on ever starting it back up again? Otherwise, does anyone know of a similar effort? I haven't had any luck finding anything. I'm specially talking curation-based, so VimAwesome, while awesome, isn't what I'm talking about and vimcasts has slowed to a crawl.

I also ask because this is the type of thing that I'd not-not be interested in taking on myself, tho I might not be thinking through the full impact that would have on my time. --thinking face emoji--
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I'd be interested to see how they intend to make this plan successful, then. There's no other avenue for the rail to collect revenue in that case, unless its economic benefit is already a significant net profit for the government. It may be, for all I know, it allows higher population density and encourages market participation, both of which increase taxes collected.

It is hard to see how it'll really convince many people not already taking public transit to use it, though. Cars are pretty expensive to have anywhere in Europe with the price of gas and typically more discouraging laws for car ownership (not sure what they're like specifically in Germany), I can't imagine it's a large cross-section of the population that drives because it's cheaper.
The price of a small apartment in an expensive city is still high enough to create a massive chasm: in a cheap city, you could easily pay less than $1k/mo for one, or live with roommates and a log commute for closer to $500.

Not to mention that the rent in expensive cities only rises. It’s even more important to become an owner if you want to stay more than a little while.
Interesting, although I specifically wanted to build a push CDN (where I can push the content) rather than a pull CDN (that works with an origin) to avoid the added latency with cache misses.
Unless you hit a very specific use-case/bottleneck, which I only ever witnessed once.
It's not clear to me whether these neurons and genes are present in all fish, and were co-opted for walking by both those walking fish and the land vertebrae. Or whether land vertebrae are actually closer related to those walking fish than to other fish.