skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It thought about this before you and is currently running on hundreds of thousands of zombie home computers unknowingly infected with malware.
Here's my idea for all these publications. Make it possible for paying subscribers to post links to articles that are free to anyone if they click through. That increases the value of being a paid subscriber way beyond just being able to read the article. They can post to Twitter/FB and people will (eventually) know they can read whatever that person posts. Ultimately the WSJ/WashPo/Atlantic could gamify it and give reduced costs or even money back to the most prolific people on social media. Turn their readers into affiliates. Get more readers. Get more subscribers.
cool, there's my next Shadowrun campaign sorted
Is that people from rural areas or just people in rural areas? Because less people in higher education in rural areas shouldn't suprise anyone.

People generally move or commute to cities for higher education and that isn't really news. So depending what those numbers really mean could be significant.
No were not, because very few transactions require an escrow. I do 90% of my in person transactions without an escrow using cash. These transactions can be replaced with crypto for a very very small fee, negligible compared to the card processing fee. The essense here is that currently a card transaction is like an escrow transaction, but most tranactions don't require that level of security, notably in person transactions. And thats where cryto is a next level tech, it can func in the same way as current card transactions and it can also operate at almost the transaction cost of cash.
I believe that you are correct. A corporation has to publicly disclose some of its officers (in my state, a president and a secretary, who can be the same person or not, but must be persons) and an address so that it is available to be sued when the need arises. The states also require that corporations have some minimum number (sometimes one) of human directors (members of the board) who are responsible for overseeing what the corporation does. Humans must also sign the forms that disclose all this (typically each year) and sign the federal and state tax returns.
It took me almost eight years
Every time this comes up, I always have to wonder, why is it so hard to not be a jerk to other people? That's really the essence of "being PC". Treat others with respect.
It uses the same ranking system, but only counts votes from very early users. To me the interesting thing is how little it differs from the regular front page, although I think the explanation is disappointingly boring: the main predictor of upvotes—for all users, early or not—is already being on the front page.
The article specifically says:

>All that momentum is then harnessed to catapult a payload into space at speeds one source said could be around 3,000 miles per hour.

So that's what I was working off of. Admittedly, it's unclear who that source is. And 8k is still less than half of LEO.

And right, I'm familiar with orbital mechanics and would never turn down free dv, but you get ~90% of that even out of somewhere as far off the equator as CCAFS. The bigger benefit would be if you're looking to launch into a low inclination (equatorial) orbit you can avoid the dv required for the plane change, but that would work just as well out of CSG.

The altitude itself would be the only advantage I could see over somewhere like CSG.
Yes its a variation on the interview suit injustice problem

If you require job applicants to buy a $1K suit to wear to interviews, that's merely a weird tax if there's one applicant per job and therefore everyone ends up with a $100K job for their $1K investment and everyone who buys a suit is ridiculously happy and thinks everyone should be forced to buy a suit to be as happy as they are.

Of course if you have ten dudes buying ten $1K suits to interview for one job, thats net $9K of injustice, and the vast majority of people who buy an interview suit see it as a wasteful horrible racket designed to extract money from the very people who have the least opportunity in life to begin with, etc.

The army recruitment analogy is similar. The army needs 200K recruits, as long as more than 200K show up, its not a problem (for the army, anyway) if 350K show up one year or 375K the next year, only 200K are gonna make it anyway, so trying to make a relevant story about 350K vs 375K is going to be deaf ears.
This is fantastic news. I think there is definite potential in both the token itself (given that it holds about a billion dollars now) and in the language backing it.
So, what you're saying is that, apart from buying goods and services from rural areas, that the rest of the countryside should somehow assist, with tax money, the rural citizens?

Strange that you'd say that, from a population historical of voting for anti-tax candidates. Perhaps not you personally.

In other words, you'd like to socialize the downsides of living in remote areas of the country?
Are you asking me why blockcerts stores certs in a blockchain?

Or whether using certs (really long passwords) is a better option than submitting unhashed passwords on a given datetime to a third-party in order to make sure they're not in the pwned passwords tables?
I've been on that highway. Trouble is you're still a few thousand metres of relatively technical climbing or a helicopter ride away from the top. I mean, people can work in some pretty inhospitable conditions if the cost advantages are real, and the payloads you've got to get up there have to be relatively comfortable with being moved to get fired into space anyway, but it's hard to imagine anything on a Cape Carnaveral scale happening there even if Ecuador decides the dollars from supporting space programmes are worth more than the scenery and symbolism
AFAIK, HN has no OAuth2 or similar, so a SAAS would not work for this task; the users would have to host such software themselves on someplace that they trust with their HN password.
Forget colleges - I would guess a higher number of rural area citizens are doing skilled jobs like welding or diesel repair than in cities.
Depends. A corporation can be owned by another in turn owned by another. And a US corp can be owned by, say, an Isle of Man corp. You can find an address for that corp and send them nastygrams; whether they respond is a different question.

You can be pretty sure there's a human down there somewhere, but it can be very difficult to actually find a name.
If you live in a city, you can likely attend a college from your parents' house. For those of us in rural areas, that is not even remotely true.

If you intend to attend college, but live in a rural area, you have to prepare for all the expenses of living on your own, on top of quickly rising college expenses. You need a place to live, a budget for food, possibly even transportation.

There is also a general wealth disparity, since the cost of living in urban areas is generally higher, wages in urban areas are generally higher. Because of this, the average (mode) person in a rural area has a much lower income than the average person in an urban area.

In a country where education is leaving people in lifelong debt, it's not surprising that those of us who are born in rural areas are left behind.
This is the way Wave ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.

I remember seeing how incredible Wave was at the time, such a shame to see it end like this.

But that's how the world goes sometimes.
Its been going so long, the talk show named after it has flipped script and is uncomfortably PC now. Oddly, back then, 'PC' was associated mostly with the conservative crowd.
Like paying $1 for today's print paper at your local news stand?
We just did that. It seems like a neat way to tell people about https://news.ycombinator.com/front, plus it's amusing to look at how HN was on someone's 'birthday'.

We also made older timestamps say "May 4, 2009" instead of "3124 days ago".
My experience is that you can speak about nearly everything here if you keep it civil, relevant, and substantial. Being nice and polite helps as well. There are exceptions of which I sadly have made my share of experiences (and my own mistakes!), but I still consider HN to be a remarkable place.
Many colleges have a 'parietal rule' where Freshmen must live in a dorm. So maybe not so different.
Huh? You’re seriously telling me that an algorithm can be the sole owner of a corporation? That doesn’t sound right. Typically when opening financial accounts and establishing credit for the business the bank would ask for the SSN of a real person, I would think.
While I agree that the more investment is probably required in rural areas, I think your assertion that the reason why rural areas are being under funded is incorrect.

Reality is that more people now live in urban areas[1]. Democracy being what it is, most funding goes to the majority - which are in the city. Add to that that setting up this infrastructure is often not cost effective for a private business (due to a lack of customers) and that most rural communities prefer less government intervention (ie less taxes), we have a situation where there is little impetus to invest in rural communities by private companies and governments (at least local) don't have funding to pay for service.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/acs-...
> How was Google making a living before advertising?

It wasn't. Every search engine at the time had struggled to make money. It wasn't until Google "borrowed" pay-per-click auction bidding from Overture that advertising became their focus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing#Patent...

I suspect they'd planned to roll out enterprise products. (You know - "the box" - like they did in Silicon Valley). That business started later (circa 2002):

https://enterprise.google.com/search/products/gsa.html

But, by that stage, their ad revenue was killing everything.
One possible reason that no one's mentioned...

It isn't about the money you pay, but the money you keep.

If I buy a few things for £4.99 then without a bag I can pay with a £10 note and get a £5 note back, but with the 5p charge I receive loads of coins in change.

Plus the cognitive pain of monetary amounts like £5.04
Not German, though IKEA has a particularly complex corporate structure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA#Corporate_structure

... which apparently funnels into trusts in Caribbean countries that are not required to disclose beneficiaries. Basically, it sounds like tax evasion at a grand scale.
> tool that was, for a while, built into gmail

Do you have a source for this? I don't remember it ever being part of Gmail.
You sound like you have very eclectic political views. Nothing against that! But I think you'll find it hard to find a place that you substantially agree with politically.
Cleaning up the big muddy: predictors of sunk cost bias [pdf]
I have been using Waze for a couple of years and I turn it on for the same route to get my daughter to school in the morning and back home through traffic.

Recently, their routing algorithm has gotten so bad that I am on the verge of discarding it and probably try HERE maps.

The issues are

1) There was a railroad removal which block the road for several weeks. Waze didn't detect it and I arrived about 15 minutes later. I went home and tried to edit the map and to my surprise, I couldn't do it now whereas I was able to edit the maps once upon a time.

2) Recently, it has routed me to another supposed faster route to my daughter's school. I took that route once and we were late for school.
From then on, I took the route which I am familiar with (which incidentally was what Waze had always been showing me till recently) and I keep seeing the ETA dropping. The ETA for the my regular route is about 5 minutes faster than the new Waze suggested route which is about 35 minutes
The Fall of Intrade and the Business of Betting on Real Life
> 512 MB of RAM with 64 bit is a pain

Hence why all extant Raspberry Pi 3s have a full GiB of RAM.
Widespread genetic signatures of negative selection in human traits
If we had as few deaths from knives as China has head from knife attacks as we in the US have die from firearms in a single month, maybe even weeks, it'd be historically significant.

Add to that the social utility aspect that someone else mentioned. Firearms are explicitly designed to make it easy to hit a target with lead from far away, which just so happens to coincide with killing people in perhaps the most efficient way possible(barring weapons of mass destruction).
The problem is that nowadays stating one's views, convictions and principles that those "other people" disagree with is considered an offense. It's either agree with me or you're a Nazi.
Not so. The state takes our taxes and runs the schools. The rural areas get little funding for their schools, even for the same size school (the same tax base approximately).

No, its city folks voting all the money to their schools. Its democracy, but its not pretty.
Meh. I get to see the front page, but can only read teasers, not full articles :( And it did try to grab a screen fingerprint. I'm using Firefox in private browsing mode, through a VPN service with an exit in Germany.
“Most real-world strategic interactions involve hidden information"
"Tay’s objective was to engage people, and it did. “What unfortunately Tay discovered,” Domingos said, “is that the best way to maximize engagement is to spew out racist insults.”"

So, even if the next Tay has "behave in a civilised manner" as a objective function, it will be hard to implement as the ethical rules we presume in reality are not written out as the rules of a video game. In fact, they involve many grey areas and not so many strict right-or-wrong-statements.
Very cool! I did come across this when I was working on `self-blame` and was (and still am) very impressed!
Mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ctuft161j42r46f/2018-wai.pdf?dl=0
Could they land something like this on the moon and build a quick habitat?
Apple ‘text bomb’ will crash your iPhone with just one letter
> Muller assumed office in May 2017. The allegations of Russian interference we’re going on in summer 2016, and at the time there seemed to be nothing of substance to them.

I understand a certain degree of skepticism around the conclusions of national intelligence services, especially on topics directly related to government, but the fact that such services do not immediately release the information underlying their conclusions is not unusual even in cases that have the strongest support; about the only time they’ll publicly release detailed evidence is if action is being sought by some body like the UNSC, or to the extent necessary after the matter moves from intelligence to law enforcement to the courts.
I like almost everything about the design of vgo, except for the removal of what we call "vendoring" in the go tool.

I agree we don't need vendoring anymore for reproducibility. But I think vgo, and the go tool, should keep some form of "vendoring" for availability. For small teams, caching proxies are not a good solution, because it's another thing to maintain.

Would it be possible for vgo to maintain a "mirror" of downloaded modules in a project subdirectory, that we could commit? This directory would contain the .info, .mod and .zip files. It would have the same effect as a caching proxy, but without any additional infrastructure.

Yarn, a JavaScript package manager developed and used by Facebook, has an "offline mode" with an "offline mirror" that does something similar. Many Facebook teams commit and share their “offline mirror” in their monorepo, which means that most dependencies for new projects are often already checked into that folder, so the cost of storing the packages in source control gets lower the more projects use it. More info at https://yarnpkg.com/blog/2016/11/24/offline-mirror/.

This approach, without requiring a caching proxy per se, seems to work at scale (see Facebook), but also for small shops.

Anyway, thanks for the great work on vgo!
This is without a doubt the weirdest article I've read today. That does it, I've had enough internet for today.
I do not want to install an app to read tech news. The web, while not perfect, is the ideal tool designed for this.

Literally why?
Could be a popular VPN. For example my VPN is very popular so I would be shocked if others weren't using it, and it must look like all users are coming from the same place.
Correlate your unique identifier with credit card transaction data? Maybe ad networks provide this information as part of a profile?
The problem, at least for some, is giving up the discretion to decide what "being a jerk" is. Once you've let others decide the list of things that are jerkish, you've also given them the power to put their idea of political dissent on that list. You don't need political correctness to realize when you've been a jerk to someone.
It gets complicated, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16440811 has the basics.
Comments higher up on the page also get more upvotes. Not everyone reads all of the comments and you get this effect.
Another option that product development ought to consider is choice.

Determine the ongoing cost of maintaining two different user interfaces versus the benefit of permitting users to choose their preferred interface.

If properly engineered, with low impedance mismatch between API and UI, the cost could be kept reasonably low for most applications.
And these Disney's digital copy's redemption "terms of service" is the subject of judge's ruling. Because those terms force consumers to acknowledge, that they own the physical copy, which means that these terms put restrictions on the resale of physical copy (i.e. basically forbids reselling), and it's not ok for the judge.
The hidden cost of a high coupling with an external C++ framework
Actually I was claiming the Bible's stories in general copied from other cultures' mythology, not stories about Jesus specifically. Certainly the Old Testament comes from Jewish tradition as well as others.

I'll look into the sources you mention, though. I haven't gotten deep into the study of religions themselves but I'm sure I'll want to at some point.
Not having done anything in python in a few years, it is nice to learn that it's catching up. It may be hoped that the npm-bashers will learn to appreciate the new features available for python.
Hadn't noticed the link aspect of the date. Cute touch! If I read into that more like a horoscope, I think it's suggesting I need brain training.
I know a few people in category 4.

They were all owners of lifestyle businesses that had been running for a while. They either hired a full time manager to manage the business, or everything basically ran on autopilot and required less attention.

Some of them got their by working their butt off, some got there by inheriting the business and never really having to work all that hard.
Facebook is "the internet" not everywhere. In Russia (and other countries with many Russian people) major social websites are: vk.com (vkontakte) and ok.ru (odnoklassniki). It's a lot of users who don't like Facebook. Honestly, as a former user of both vk and facebook, I can say thay facebook is very inferior website, it's absurdly illogical with terrible UI. I have no idea why Facebook is so popular. The only reason is network effect, when everyone uses it, some people don't want to stay alone.
Other architectures (like SPARC) have had split PTs for like, always. (And they're not optional, either)
You can also edit the URL and replace wsj.com with fullwsj.com, which employs the same redirect technique.
I wonder how big one of these inflatable stations could get if your strap it on top of the BFR ^^'.

Any takers for a quick, back on the envelope calculation?

Although, come to think of it. One reason why the BFR has such a f* huge passenger capacity is because structure that would normally be dead weight and only used for payload packaging like the nose cone and adapter, are replaced by the spaceship itself.
I don't want to clear the birthday field from the contact. I just neither want to be notified of it nor see it on my calendar.
I'm wondering if the Wall Street Journal still qualifies as quality journalism or would something like Bloomberg or the Financial Times be better?

(The WSJ editorial page has always been terrible, but the news organization at least used to have a good reputation.)
You talk about burden of proof like the overarching topic of contention isn't whether or not Neanderthals had the capacity for symbolic thought at all. The observation that we keep inventing new OOA migrations and then pushing them back by hundreds of thousands of years is entirely noteworthy as is the fact that these conclusions about Neanderthals are based on certainty that humans arrived in Europe 40K years ago instead of 60K years ago.
Performance wise they are very similar, but you mentioned upstream support. That is actually a major point of differentiation between the two.
Yes, and the cute furry animals get all the protection too. But its nonsense, if avoiding environmental meltdown is your goal. If its about feeling good about yourself when you throw that pop can in the recycle bin, that's theatre.
http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364...

"people who were strong at math were able to effectively solve an analytical problem. However, when political content was added to the same analytical problem – comparing crime data in cities that banned handguns against cities that did not – math skills no longer predicted how well people solved the problem. Instead, liberals were good at solving the problem when it proved that gun control reduced crime, and conservatives were good at solving the problem when it proved the opposite"

Not an endorsement of this paper, just something I've seen going around on social media. When I followed the citation for the statement quoted above, it didn't seem quite as cut and dry, that summary is eliding quite a few details of the the experiment I think, but I just skimmed.
it wasn't.

when it was release, it was actually introduced (internally) as something like, "what would email look like if were invented today?"
That's all correct except "remarks from high-karma accounts linger higher, longer". Account karma doesn't affect ranking.
It sounds like you guys basically left it in as a cross-check to make sure the community isn't deviating too far from the original premise. Very cool.

Thanks for the explanation!
The last place I worked was great. If you caused a bug and you were available, then you fixed it, because who else better understands the context you were writing in than you? We had a mutual understanding that a) the work is complex, b) given the opportunity you are smart enough to get it right, and c) sometimes people make small mistakes and that's not a disaster.

It gave you the respect of offering the opportunity to learn and be better, and it treated you like the professional you were hired to be by giving you full responsibility.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! My Bash skills definitely have lots of room for improvement—I think I learned at least three new things from your comment alone. :)

I too had never really used global git flags until they came in very handy for `git self-blame`!