skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Whilst I am guessing which legal system you come under, if it's the one I suspect, the owner of the property has the responsibility to ensure reasonable levels of safety. Walmart does not have a responsibility to maintain the sidewalk outside someone else's house. If the last dozen people delivering there all were injured and WalMart knew about it, then you might have some kind of case.
So when a node picks up a block to process it gathers up all of the pending transactions at that time?
Open Source Startup Incubator in San Francisco
So I am starting an open source startup incubator in San Francisco. It's a pay what you can model, but we don't imagine desks going above 300$.

- Lots of Conference rooms
- Lots of light
- Lots of white Board
- Capability to test "at scale"
- Great Internet
- 24x7 access

Contact me @ posix4e at gmail
I suspect the phrase on the internet nobody knows you're a dog gets a new meaning now :-)
I'd argue that special forces training is not a matter of complete control, I'm sure that people bump up against physical limitations (eyesight, coordination, etc.) that would allow them to be a regular soldier, but they never know until they try.

Similarly, things like carefully choosing your co-founders, advisors and investors... doing good customer development, understanding your market better than anyone, give you more control over your fate.

Nothing is absolute, but the analogy seems apt to me: You're not a statistic.
This is what I was going to suggest. There are already other people offering courses on UI/UX there, as well.
He doesn't sound any different to me than most of the people here on HN that talk about scaling. SV has its own Kool-Aid ya know.
You can lead a horse to metered water but you can't make him put a quarter in the booth.
It's possible, but not practical. At this stage the amount of computation you need to do to mine one block is so high that you need special hardware (not even GPUs work well now). Java script is waaaay to slow now. You'd be waiting years.
Maybe my reading habits are just weird, but I've found the recommendations from Goodreads to be fairly bad. (Assuming you're talking about the personal recommendations engine, that is — I find their per-title "Similar Books" to be much more useful.)
Per your query: ctrl+a ctrl+a is how I switch between two windows (tmux calls them windows, they're basically tabs). If you want to switch between two panes (divisions inside a window, the equivalent of splitting the screen in a regular editor or visible buffers in vim/emacs), use ctrl-a o. I also have these bindings in my tmux conf for moving between panes painlessly:

# use hjkl for moving
bind h select-pane -L
bind j select-pane -D
bind k select-pane -U
bind l select-pane -R
This is one of the Five Hazardous Attitudes that make you an accident-prone person, a risk factor identified by the FAA

http://www.avhf.com/html/Evaluation/HazardAttitude/Hazard_At...

Reduce your risk and improve your expectation values by rationally using decision theory and correcting the systematic sampling biases in your head.
Show HN: Introducing SignedForm for Ruby on Rails
Here's more information about it:

http://www.mattmahoney.net/barkley/
Bitcoin: The Cyberpunk Cryptocurrency
Two things I missed from screen last I tried tmux: an equivalent of 'screen -xRR' and an orthogonality between terminals and windows so that distinct terminals connected to one session can display different windows. Especially the latter of these is integral to my workflow.
Thanks for the reply. It seems peepcode is just video lessons - signup, review and try your best at it. I'm looking to actually make a community here where I put up video lessons but also interact with my students to help them become better.
Reminds me of Steven Jay Gould's classic "The Median Isn't the Message":

"If the median is the reality and variation around the median just a device for its calculation, the "I will probably be dead in eight months" may pass as a reasonable interpretation.

But all evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence. Variation is the hard reality, not a set of imperfect measures for a central tendency. Means and medians are the abstractions. Therefore, I looked at the mesothelioma statistics quite differently - and not only because I am an optimist who tends to see the doughnut instead of the hole, but primarily because I know that variation itself is the reality. I had to place myself amidst the variation."

http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html
When you made that comment, it was the middle of the night here. Everyone was online at USA after-work hours.

The reason the world was near-pristine was because I messed up the storage for this deployment, which made so every once in a while it would regenerate the chunks.
How hard is it to own your own Firebase servers when you scaled up and decided not to use Firebase anymore? That's my main concern with Firebase.
There are varying degrees of "firewall happiness" and reasonable minds can disagree as to how far you go to balance convenience/security, but...you don't do any network segmentation as a matter of principle? Either I don't understand what you are saying, or you need to make a case for the immediate termination of everybody in charge of your network.
I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable, and can be used with a fresh copy of emacs (without any packages installed) and everything works just fine.

If you want to try it, just brew install emacs --cocoa and clone the repo to ~/.emacs.d

A coworker and I trade snippets of elisp for our configurations over email, and whenever I update the repo on one machine, the other needs to pull it down and evaluate the file (eval-buffer)

I have not found sharing customizations of emacs to be very difficult, but I also don't use any god packages like emacs starter-kit, or prelude (which I haven't heard of). I have let my configuration grow organically.
From the FAQ:
Do I get something in return?
We offer all our finders a free 1-year subscription and a starter kit of tags to protect their property. No payment is needed. On top of this, five grand prizes are awarded each December to five finders. Prizes include $250 gift cards to iTunes, Amazon, and Macy's and a lifetime subscription to IsThisLost.

I find this fun and good-spirited :)

I am not sure about the monthly fee though, I'd rather get a set of nice sticker and keycard. I understand the middle-man/passive income thingy but it's a little bit hard to sell. On the other hand, 2$ isn't a lot and nothing bad should happen if the venture disappears.
0.1% of a house's value seems like a fair amount of money. I doubt it would seem strange to put a lot of effort into getting that much money, if it was framed differently.

Admittedly, not spending 2-3 months to work out another deal is worth quite a lot of money as well. But this behaviour doesn't seem obviously irrational.
No, sorry. I try to learn by observation and as a developer that's enough for me.
The collections on Goodreads are generally more comprehensive than those on Amazon. I've added over 750 books on Goodreads, but fewer than 10% of those were purchased through Amazon.
I use byobu http://byobu.co/

It binds the function keys which makes life so much easier. F2 starts new window, F3 and F4 rotate back and forwards. It also has a pretty neat status line.
Thanks. Yes, I meant panes.

I also did the thing to get rid of the tmux prefix for pane switching. But since I don't use the function keys, I mapped keys F1 through F9 to various tmux functions. F1 = next pane, F2 = prev pane. One less key to press. :)
tmux has been a great recent upgrade for me -- switched from a bunch of nested screens. really highly recommended.
If that were true, there would never be any entrepreneurs. Employment is safer than a startup, for example.

Now weighing your comment against really long odds like the lottery, its definitely more correct.

The point I wanted to make is that its fine to hope in things that are seemingly unattainable, and to be somewhat ignorant of the realities. Imagine, for example, how bad college basketball would become if players started realizing just how long the odds are in the path to wealth through the NBA.

It turns out, a lot of our economy runs on hope.
Consider that the OP creates a marketplace for such services. He can funnel in enough customers that someone offering services in his marketplace can easily find $100/h gigs to fill their whole working day. He can scout out great talent who would be more than happy to make anything close to $800 a day, or half that much for that matter.
Maybe that's true where you live.

I left home at 16, spent ten years homeless and hitchhiking, am told I'm quite good at what I do, and have spent the last 3 years or so exerting the herculean effort required to rise through poverty. I currently live half on a couch of some good people I know, and half in the office of the web shop I work in. I have never had government assistance. I wouldn't have known where to find it, nor been in a situation to be given it in most cases.

As far as handouts go, when you are zilch-zero-nada poor, at least in the US, there are a lot of things in life that will be higher on your priority list than either figuring out that they're there, or going through the process of acquiring them, keeping them, and then becoming self-sufficient. In many places in the US, government handouts are a joke.

I'm not going to try to go into detail, but I can tell you that I know a lot of people whose reason for being dirt poor is not so glaringly obvious as the ones you know, and a fair amount of people who aren't poor because they had the luck to be born to the right people in the right place at the right time, regardless of their work ethic.

I've been thinking a lot about socio-economic disparity amongst technically competent people a lot lately, I should probably try to gather my thoughts more cohesively.
awesome. I hadn't thought of that but it's much better. thank you.

I've now switched last-window to bind C-s last-window, because it's fast to tap out.
E coli related ER visits up since San Francisco restricted plastic grocery bags
Objective C and C++ can leverage it for performance? Objective-C is a strict superset of C and C++ a near superset. If you learnt Objective C or C++ properly, you already know C (!).
Hi. rsync.net here. I wonder if you concur with us that ZFS does need a defrag utility ?

I know you can (and we have) do the copy back and forth method to rebalance how things are organized on multiple vdevs inside one pool, but it would be nice if that were not a manual process, or could be optional on a scrub.

Or something.

People can and do run their pools up higher than 80% utilization. It happens. It's happened to you. There should be a non-surgical way to regain balanced vdevs after such a state...
I wonder if the colony would have died if you had not harvested it.
Actually, the standard Django documentation on forms is an excellent guide: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/forms/
It's variable. Each miner decides (in software) which transactions to include in a block.

Everything is in here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification

Or read the source code for the standard client:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp
From my experience if you are familiar with both C and C++, you do not end up writing C++ code that is completely obnoxious.
I was just looking into using Firebase for a project, alongside trying to choose between Angular and Ember. This might be what pushes me over to Angular.

Not to derail the thread, but can anyone give their experiences using Ember with Firebase? I found a Github project but it's apparently incompatible with the latest version.
It's a good thing Monsanto has purchased Beeologics. They can help us find the real killer since they are showing it is cannot be the pesticides.

Without sarcasm, I am amazed the burden of proof is on studies to show pesticides are UNSAFE. If there is colony collapse disorder and we know they are feeding on pesticide laced fields, shouldn't they have to prove they are not causing it. It is not that the pesticides kill the bees outright, it affects them subtly including their navigation.
> I can choose whichever Government / Central bank fits me the best.

Bitcoin actually provides a new choice: government or no-government. People that want government/cb currency are free to choose it. People that want no-government money can choose Bitcoin.
Ask HN: Name of the startup with registration as a service
I remember seeing a site where devs could use one library to integrate a bunch of different services as a login (such as Github, Facebook, etc). Whats the name of that company?
I like this idea. Thanks for the reply.
> The decline of honey bee since 1947 has nothing to do with the top two points this guys claims. (Removable frames and opening the top)

not agreeing with either :). but he points that this brought a boost in production not the downfall. later he argue it wasn't sustainable in the longer term. but he never says the introduction of that type of hive start the decline of bees.
I'd summarize this way: Code Might Suck, But It Still Works (better than your beautiful unlaunched stealth project).
If you click on the small triangle/"arrow" in the bottom-right corner (when the "New Message" window is open) you are given the possibility to "temporarily switch back to the old Compose".

Borrowed time, I know, but...
I'm not sure how much you would love maintaining it though.
Nice one. I've now also added resize variations of these.

bind-key C-j resize-pane -D 8
bind-key C-k resize-pane -U 8
bind-key C-h resize-pane -L 8
bind-key C-l resize-pane -R 8
thanks @pkrumins - the download/compile/install cycle took about 30 seconds - the compiled executable seems to work perfectly.
Thank you - I'd love to help others and teach them what I've learned / built up over the years.
It sure sounds like it is!

I'm a far cry from a Haskell expert unfortunately, so I'll have to leave it to someone else.
Agreed - I plan to give away some free content and help in order to build trust and a community. Thanks for the post.
Do you really believe that, or are you being sarcastic?

Because I hate to tell you, someday you'll collide with real life. If you put your mind to it, can you become president? Chances are simply, no. A lot of people have put their mind to it, like Romney, McCain, Hillary, Kerry... it's not like they were lacking in motivation or desire.

So... no, sometimes, no matter how hard you want something, you are not going to achieve it. I know there's a big self-help movement, believing in attracting positive energy, believing in yourself, and whatnot... but a lot of people can't seem to always tell the difference between realistic expectations and self-delusion.
Agreed. Which is why the correct answer is to create a ZFS fsck program that is a no-op to make these folks feel better.
I'd use zfs (consider freenas as your os, i like it) with raid-z3 (triple-parity, thus 3 drives may fail w/o data loss) on the remaining 7 drives.
You then may use zfs snapshots + replication to the other machine or just use a cron job to wol the backup machine and simply run rsync at a certain interval.
Of course, Amazon's purchase of IMDB took place several years before Wikipedia even existed.
I think the idea is to be able to pound on whatever the defined escape key is to be able to toggle buffers, not that's he unable to find a command to switch to the next window.
Actually you don't, unless you never intend to take out on ounce of debt. Deflation is very bad for the average user.
Managing memory in Java is not common, but it's not exactly weird either. Off the top of my head, you need to make memory related API calls for dealing with ORMs, object pools, and native externs.
Here’s the ‘Very Anonymous’ Building Facebook Demanded From a Starchitect
I was a heavy screen user for years, and 'simple' is not what I would use to describe screen.
You can also leave off the dash: `tar xvf`
"Cheap dorm room"? Every dorm room at my university was more expensive than the surrounding (better quality) apartments.
Sounds pretty cool! Now we need somebody to do this here in the Research Triangle Park area.

You might want to post some sort of contact info as well, so people will know how to get in touch. Note that the email in your HN user profile is not visible to the public, just to YC / HN staff.
as state by the other bee keeper friend post above, nobody adds chemicals to the bees directly, it's mostly impact of the environment they feed.

are you sure there's no pesticide on the plants on the lands nearby? that would also explain the CC of your friend's if he lives in the same area
Colony died well after the harvest, though. We harvested about a month after the die-off and got about 8lb of honey (it's a small hive, that was a decent amount).
I'm not terribly familiar with the details of Dart. How does it know that something can never be null? Maybe an external caller sends null to a method not expecting it. Or, can you not call Dart compiled code from JS?
I already covered that in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5459646
Feds Accused of Hiding Information From Judges About Covert Cellphone Tracking
Unfortunately not much info yet about any results on that page.
NeuroLeadership Institute’s Chief, on Shared Goals
Why does it play the wrong song sometimes? Why do you keep deleting?!
I disagree. Statistics about start-ups also ignore how prepared people are, and how committed and talented they are.

Many personal achievements in life are a "complete mystery" to many or most observers, or to science, or to mainstream intellectual discourse, but they still draw on rare and special qualities of individuals. Even if you don't "control" the outcome, that doesn't mean it's not a function of who you are (in the broadest sense).
A lot depends on what they do with the companies they acquire.

Lots of people were afraid of what would happen to BookDepository post-sale, but pretty much none of that has happened. (I'm particularly grateful that free worldwide shipping didn't disappear!)
C programming is still alive and well is many parts of our profession. The biggest reason why is that even though c++ _can_ do memory management like C most of the time programs implemented in it don't and you can really start to loose a grasp as to what your asking the computer to do when you abstract away where your putting all the stuff your unknowingly asking it to make.
Teamocil author here, glad you like it! :)
Yes, it easily can be chrome plugin, or Java app. It is designed to be accessible from any modern device or browser, and I hope it is only question of time.
Running PostgreSQL 9.2 on Travis-CI.org
I can't give you any numbers to support or refute your suspicions. However, if you genuinely believe that there is a need for something like Bitcoin, honest individuals using Bitcoin will help legitimize the currency and hopefully drive down the level of fraud and other unsavoury behaviour. If that is your only objection to it, then presumably honest folk like yourself staying away from Bitcoin are also preventing it from becoming more acceptable (not that you have any duty or obligation to do otherwise).

Or, are you implying that there is something fundamentally immoral about Bitcoin itself, which cannot be affected by having more honest users? I admit that this could also be the case, for example, if Bitcoin turns out to be such a massive success that it destroys the ability of nations to collect taxes, affect monetary policy, etc.
I bind C-z as the escape character (in screen). It seems to serve me well :)
I don't follow. How do they know which traffic is "bad" and which is legit?
I also hated tmux mouse wheel scrolling.

But tmux 1.8 mouse wheel scrolling seems much improved over tmux 1.6 - to the point that it looks quite usable.
basically the app takes your search query and uses the spotify api to find results (or itunes for the top 100 and new releases). Then when you double click a song it searches youtube for with the query "song name - artist name" and plays the first result. 99% of the time the first result is the song, but for some songs (usually newly released songs or non-english ones) you get a random video.
Sounds like an attempt to posit away the fundamental attribution error.
It's a game of more skill than the lottery, sure. But it's still largely a game of luck.
I agree that there is an abundance of information online. Its that abundance that took me YEARS to fully grasp design and get to where I am now.

I am confident I can help others learn design much faster than trying to sort through all of the tutorials and tips online (which is a ton of trial and error).
As a country the USA needs much more top down (you can do this now! don't you wanna learn how?) rather than bottom up (learn all this math, all these concepts, all this stuff over here, then do it all again for in college, then gradschool and maybe you'll make more money in 20years) education.
Switching from Jekyll to Hakyll
More information at my blog:
http://ashraful.me/?p=7
It is, however, a Field of Plot Device. She wasn't piloting but she was essential to the story, so the probability-function collapsed in a way that preserved her ability to contribute to further events.
Windows 8 Apps/Games
I just created a Windows 8 game called Space Bugs(http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/space-bugs/df756f37-8bb6-4fc3-b240-219d829f0d29) to test out the market. It's been released for 3 days now and there are only 2 downloads - me and my friend. Yes, I didn't spend any money advertising. I thought that it would at least get several hundred downloads. I've released a few iPhone/iPad apps and that's always been the case. Has anyone been able to get traction without spending money on advertising? Any tips on where to get free or very cheap advertising?
I like your slides and I'll probably check out the talk later on.

I think that depending on what the future looks like (no zombie apocalypse, massive wars, etc.), there will be some kind of cryptocurrency that basically replaces gold. It's very exciting.

At the current time, though, given that bitcoin hasn't withstood the test of time, it's a bit hard to claim that gold is outdated. It's not hard to convince someone that gold or silver have value because of all the historical precedents. That counts for something when considering in which money to invest.
> ...was on purpose to put people on notice they cared (like driving around a neighborhood to let people know they are watching, showing the colors as it were

Police officers follow what is known as "force continuum". This basically outlines how much force they should be using in any situation. Without deviating from the topic, this is where the public gets upset when an officer oversteps their bounds to use excessive force on someone. The first 'level' of all continuum protocols is simply 'presence'. Knowing a cop is around does stop a majority of people who would do illegal activity. Think about how you act next time a cop is behind you on the road. It's a passive power-play move; they need to keep up this presence to ensure the public knows they'll be a moment's notice away if something happens.

Moving cops to social media sounds perfectly logical to me. A lot of none-the-wiser people put this information on the internet, thinking its safe. By making an online presence known, they look to quell some people's actions.

You could argue people will just find other ways to circumvent the system, but I'm reminded of the constant rat race between White and Black Hat security specialists; each party trying to top the other.