skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Report: Philip Seymour Hoffman to be Digitally Recreated for Hunger Games
Understood. But I imagine that his work isn't quite as "steady" as one might expect. He invests time by trying to find security exploits in hopes that the affected company compensates him. He doesn't set his price or even determine if he gets paid for his time.

I think that might be the rationale...or it might just be that he's found himself in a position where he can collect bounties AND donations :).
Sure, and I value that, it's how I got started myself. But the experience of working on your own projects only translates to a fraction of the work a professional programmer does.

10 years experience would put you at the level of a lead programmer, or an entry-level architect.
Autoscaling groups with ansible-pull + cloud init to configure instances as they are spun up by AWS is what I've had the most success with. So your autoscaling group spins up a new instance using a prebaked AMI, and on first boot cloud-init will run ansible-pull locally to grab the latest configs and start up services as needed. Alternatively you can just use ansible to bake a new AMI as needed and skip the ansible-pull + cloud-init part altogether.
Bigelow presents new habitat concepts to NASA, includes plans for lunar base
A bill that requires manufacturers to offer phones that have this feature and phones that don't have this feature I could see as being okay, but to require all phones to have it and leave the user no choice (fwiw, being able to disable it after purchase is a false choice) is ridiculous.

Kill switches are never the right choice to solve this. Once this technology exists and is widespread (as the article points out, manufacturers are unlikely to maintain two models, with and without this unless legally required), what stops oppressive countries from using this feature from disabling the phones of people legitimately protesting like those in the Ukraine right now?
ExtraKey – Secondary Input Device using NodeJS and Tablet/Smartphone
I see programming mostly as janitorial work. Why? Because it's mostly complex rather than hard. Of course "real programmers" are upset with RoR jockeys when it turns out businesses pay for delivered value rather than technical complexity.
We don’t believe that we signed for anything personally, but who knows.

This sentence bothers me. How is it possible to not know if you're personally responsible for debts?
For yourself, yes.

For the other people who might be gay, and for the children who might be gay (at least 1% of them even at maximum oppression, and much more in an accepting society), no. You have no right to interfere, to force your unscientific and bigoted ideas on them, or to harm, oppress or imprison them. Your law is wrong. Your culture is wrong. Stop.
Looks like an interesting service. I'll have to wait until you guys make it to Boston.

On a side note: The picture at the bottom.. isn't it from Scribe Winery? The tasting there was a great experience.
Escrow'ing is not my business, it's just a measure I'd like to take to protect consumers against other (fraudulent) consumers. It's how AliExpress does it (and maybe ebay too, but I don't really know ebay): you buy an item off the website, pay AliExpress, and when you received the item you can flag it as received. After that, AliExpress pays the money to the merchant that shipped you the item.
I don't care about the programming, what I want to know is why is using a spellchecker so difficult?
Nice, but the API seems pretty non-RESTifarian.

/get/latest/dweet/for would more naturally be /get/dweet with a time parameter, or some such.

/for/[device] would more naturally just be a device parameter.

Etc.
I live in a town of 120k. We have neither - the nearest Whole Foods is over 75 miles away, and the nearest Trader Joe's is farther.
Facebook up and down intermittently starting around 1:20p PST
An Interview with John Foreman, Chief Data Scientist at MailChimp
Isn't LinkedIn supposed to be for maintaining contact with people you've already met? So you should already have experienced the excitement of meeting the person before you see the boring generic message.
"market cap is how much shareholders think that profit stream is worth"

=> Wrong, Market Cap has little to do with what you mentioned. It is calculated by determining the total dollar market value of all of a company's outstanding shares.

Ref: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.asp
I don't know enough about The Mismeasure of Man to say whether it's correct or not, but Steven Jay Gould is about as eminent a biologist as there has ever been. The allegation that he is a "noted fraud and liar" is a pretty gross mis-estimate his work, and my personal opinion is that a misapprehension at this level makes it very unlikely that you have good reasons for believing what you do. To casual lurkers: what the user "truthteller" has just said is essentially alarmist garbage, and you should regard their claims with skepticism of a pretty high degree.

In the future, note that calling someone a "noted fraud and liar" is a very serious claim, and you should think carefully about who you level it against. It's powerful language, but used against the wrong person, will make you look silly, and not them.
A two-hit-wonder. 50% of their revenue comes from search and 50% from adsense.
I'm really curious why you have chosen delivery by reply (if that wasn't a term before, now it is), and if the reply is parsed automatically. If so, I predict plenty of costumers incorrectly spelling Focaccia and what other fancy bread names there may be, and not getting delivery.
- Self driving cars
- Robotics
- Connected home electronics (Nest, etc.)
I think that YC embraces technical debt.

And there's nothing wrong with technical debt in and of itself. Just like financial debt it's a tool of leverage and time-shifting costs. However, just like financial debt, it can bite you, so it's generally a good policy for companies to be open about what debts they have and their plans for dealing with it.

Relevant to the discussion, a level of debt for one company may not be appropriate for another kind of company, and this is especially true of financial companies.
25 years ago, you might have said DEC was the puck.

15 years ago, Yahoo.

The ball is round, the game is 90 minutes. Everything else is just theory.
bark.io? People tweet, machines bark orders at each other :D
It's a dream job for developers, in some ways a lot more so than the big boys like Google and Facebook. They have a hiring pipeline any tech company would kill for. They probably don't have the deep security talent that say Google or Microsoft have, but they should have enough.
I actually think this is a good idea and requires government intervention due to the positive externalities involved.

I just wrote a blog post about it: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7198054)
"But the key point is that is always BS when the person you are talking to thinks he knows better about your business than you. And that there are some obvious thing you should and you aren't doing it that will fix your startup."

YES. YES. ON POINT.
I did and Hacker News made it so easy!
Thank you. That's a really inspiring story, and I expect it'll help and support more people besides the OP.
I just applied to several jobs within the last few days; Jobvite lets me "one-click" apply with my LinkedIn profile, which is so much easier than those "upload your resume and we're going to mangle it in our web form".

Disclaimer: Received several calls back same day/next day, in my mind that means its working as its supposed to.
The Finkbeiner test
Using HTTP for this is ridiculous. CoAP or MQTT would have been the obvious choice, considering they were designed for exactly this use m2m use case.
I found the parallels interesting -- many people would like fast cheap payments to anywhere in the world without interacting with a bureaucracy. Though there's almost no demographic overlap right now in who uses the various techniques for this!

I wonder what hawaladars' techniques for information and communications security are like, and what efforts people have made to spy on their communications -- or to defraud them by impersonating another hawaladar and originating fraudulent payments.

By using personal trust relationships, hawaladars don't need to solve the full Byzantine Generals problem, but they do face authentication and confidentiality problems from outsiders.
This is exactly how we should value companies. Depending on the chaos it would cause if they disappeared tomorrow.
Arithmetic can simulate physics. Wouldn't it make more sense to simulate the thinking machine in a standard computer?
Programming is not difficult.
Replace whoever proposed this bill IMMEDIATELY.
It's something that accumulates organically in any real world project, because the real world doesn't care if your code is a paragon of programming excellence or not.

Which is short-sighted, really. Technical debt has somewhat the same properties as financial debt, which is why public companies have to disclose monetary debt and have plans for dealing with it. It's high time that the culture caught up to technical reality and started to treat technical debt in the same way. This is especially true for finance!

In a way you are basically saying the same thing, but the warning sign to note is your observation that "the real world doesn't care." It would be insane for the real world to not care about a company's financials, particularly its debt. It's just as insane with technical debt.
One Question remaining is when Google's market value will surpass Apple's. That'll likely happen before the end of this year, so get ready for the repetition of the same HN discussion, replacing Apple with Exon.
Prosthetic Bionics Give Danish Amputee the Power of Touch
Wireless should be free because it can be.
Facebook is down
Still down for me
This is a reasonable thing to point out. When valuing equities, i tend to use a strategy out of the playbook of a less famous fund manager, John Neff. That is, one that includes total return.

Indicator: Neff Ratio = (EPS growth rate + dividend yield)/PE

This is similar to the inverse of PEG, a much more common indicator, but it includes yield as part of total return. It's one of my primary screens when looking for equities, because both Exxon and Google would have good marks, even though their return would be from different sources.
Why do you despise Google's Advertising services?
Technical or mathematical smarts doesn't necessarily translate to wisdom, and as many of the comments herein show, perhaps hinders wisdom.

Perhaps we are governed by idiots. Yes, I'm sure that if we were governed by people with "HN smarts" and worldview, I'm sure society would be so much better off. After all, look at all the great things Silicon Valley and startups are doing to make the world a better place!
It amazes me how you were able to deduce the depth of my knowledge about the tax law and financial law and English and current events from one comment and one typo (albeit repeated a bunch of times). Obviously, you have a direct access to my brain. That makes further discussion completely redundant, as you already know all my answers as soon as they form in my brain, thus eliminating the need for me to spend time on typing anything. It is only a pity that I can not possess the same ability - I'm sure you had very interesting and insightful comments on the topic itself, as opposed to my spelling, but being busy with the latter, could not find time to get to the former. My fault entirely, of course.
And 15 years ago you might have said Apple was overvalued. It goes both ways. But "value of the underlying assets" is a poor way to gauge a growth stock.
While I can understand the advantages the author of the article mentions, I must say that one should think about making the move to OpsWorks, because you can't compare their prices without considering other costs / tradeoffs.

A friend of mine and I have been working on a startup for the last 8 months. It has been tough as we have been working full time for a company and hacking like crazy once we got home, or on weekends.

We chose to use Heroku because of the dead simple workflow that would allow us to spend time developing features instead of maintaining the infrastructure. This may sound like a cliché, but boy was it a good decision. The platform is rock solid, deployments are a bless and the add-on system is just one of the best time savers you can get.

We know OpsWorks (or earlier Scalarium) from our full-time job, and we know how cool it is. But we also know that it requires a lot of time and additional effort to keep things running.

This may pay off if you run a company which can afford it, but you should think about it twice if you have limited resources (and other, more important things to do!).

Even now, after we have launched, we still see no reason why we should move from Heroku to OpsWorks (or another platform). We have made some optimizations and clever (to us) decisions to avoid running into scalability problems. Maybe we will think about migrating once we get a ton more clients and even more traffic. It is cheaper to just add some dynos than spending time on server administration.

In the end, it's all about making the right decision, so don't hurry and if you think Heroku is too expensive for your business, maybe you are not making enough revenue from your customers. On the other hand, if you have the money and time, than go for it.
That was manned spaceflight 23+ years ago. It's debatable how much that was true after Apollo, and it certainly not was the case from 1991 onwards. NASA's manned space flight purpose today is to learn how to live and work in space, aka develop the skills and experience required for permanent settlement.

For confirmation just look to NASA's vision, mission, and strategic goal statements, and the report of every blue ribbon commission to have looked at NASA over the past three decades.
Assessing future value is the point of the stock market, isn't it?
No, if the company pays out dividends, its price ought to fall. For example if a stock is at $100, and then pays out $5 in dividends, afterward the price will be $95. The company is worth less after giving away a pile of its cash.
>> I don't agree.

> Evidence trumps opinion.

I understood the parent to be saying that they disagreed that "someone that smart would have known IQ is bogus", not that they disagreed that "IQ was bogus".
..and this service won't be available in your area any time soon, either.
Their search revenue is still advertising revenue though
There are a lot of similarities. I see a lot of pump and dump terminology used in discussions of both topics as well, such as:

If you buy only one single (bitcoin|oz of gold) now, one day you could be rich beyond imagination!

The potential future price of (bicoin|gold) is over $100,000.

There are only xxx (bitcoin|oz of gold) produced per year so it must be scarce and valuable!

I'm in (bitcoin|gold) for the long haul! Buy and hold! Keep on stacking!

The price of (bitcoin|gold) is manipulated downward. Buy now while it's cheap.

The global economy is going to crash soon! Buy (bitcoin|gold) now or you will die when the crash happens!
Actually, both definitions are essentially the same. The market consensus sets the price.
For me, ready-to-eat health foods. However, healthy is subjective in a world where low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets are promoted by the American Heart Association. I'm not paleo, but it's the best litmus test I use for if food is healthy.

I don't want to discount what you guys/gals are doing. I think this is great and don't let my one data point detract from your mission. There are tons of bread lover's out there, unfortunately I'm just not one of them.
from time to time doesn't work for people who have full-time gluten intolerance. you need to either support it fully or don't bother diluting your brand.
Actually, he is right.

We presume that no one owns shares of a company just for bragging rights. (This might not be 100% true.) We presume that no one owns shares of a company because they're irrational. (This is 100% false. But hey, economics has to assume something.)

People own shares of a company because they can get money for owning it. They can get money by being paid dividends, and they can get money by selling it to someone else after the price rises (or stays the same, or goes down). That other person will only pay for it based on the same thing: dividends paid plus the value of selling it to someone else.

So the total value of the company should be the current value of the company's total future dividends. We calculate it by multiplying the current price by the shares outstanding, but it's presumed to be an estimate of the future dividend stream.
A very mature extremely well documented CI infrastructure built around Gerrit can be found at http://ci.openstack.org/

I'm a big fan of Gerrit though it can take a while to understand.
Man hide 100 Bags of Heroin Hidden in Anus and
Good question and no, though do not see people confessing yes too that question it would be detectable and maybe it is already, maybe it ain't. But if you do the right thing then it is a moot question, even if interesting.
Having Facebook issues here. Won't authenticate.
"What's the catch?"

The whole world sees your machines. :)
So half from ads and the other half from ads?
Or exchange for goods outside the traditional financial system.
As long as you're creating something, what's the difference?

Are you not an artist if you've only painted things for your own enjoyment, and never any commissioned worrk?
It's a hack when a YC company does it, but it's a dirty tactic when anyone else uses it to the detriment of a YC company.

This is, after all, a site sponsored by YC.

That being said, I'm surprised this conversation wasn't junked
That's far more true of Google which has produced only one successful product under very different circumstances to the ones they now find themselves.

Google is literally unproven.
Docker doesn't prevent use of ZFS.

It's common and easy to mount your host FS into the container, putting mutating data where you can take full advantage of the superior architecture and ops capabilities of whichever FS you prefer.

The images' internal AUFS/BTRFS layers are then only for keeping your binaries-at-rest and static configuration straight. They may as well be in highly indexed ZIP files, for all you care.
Would you all be interested on hosting a contest to do something cool with this?
German doctor cures mystery illness after recalling a Dr. House episode
The Templar is interesting history, but every society everywhere in the world has done this before. Because what do you think came first: regulated or unregulated banking? That's all hawala (and bitcoin, and the Templar system) is: unregulated banking.
What's behind Apple's Bitcoin crackdown in the App Store?
The problem for me wasn't learning the lesson, it was having the proper motivation to get off my ass and do it. But I agree. If you cannot trust yourself, give yourself a reason to, and then do it.
Would be interesting is there was link on profile page to see all upvotes, and one for all downvotes; also with total counts for each.
I'm excited about this.

I think you'd be better off with a delivery fee instead of rolling it in to the cost. My local wine shop sells fresh baked bread from the local bakery. I go in 2-3 times a week for bread, and they've gotten to know me as a regular. Each loaf is $3 and I'll buy one or two depending on what I'm doing that night.

If I just wanted one loaf, I'd be okay footing the extra $3 for the bread. Walking to the wine shop is pretty freaking annoying, and I think they might resent me for rarely buying cheese/wine.

But if I wanted two loaves, I just can't imagine spending $12.

That's just me. If you take anything away from this post, let it be this: When you come to Boston/Cambridge, get Iggy's bread. Or pick a few North End bakers.

Another thought...maybe go cheap on the bread and build margin into cheese/meats. Call it the Car-cuterie ;)
Russia is a joke of a country. Their dictator just spent $51 billion looted from the people on a failed winter Olympics.
How does Responsive Design affect conversion rate?
* ZFS is a volume manager.

* ZFS is a RAID manager.

* ZFS is also a filesystem.

* Writes are handled in transaction groups (TXGs).

* Every transaction group is written atomically.

* ZFS keeps a revision history of the past 128 transactions written to disk.

* ZFS is a Copy on Write filesystem.

* As such, due to the previous 2 features, snapshots are free.

* Snapshots are first class, read-only filesystems.

* Snapshots can be upgraded to read-write clones.

* Snapshots can be sent and received to other locations.

* ZFS uses block-level deduplication.

* ZFS supports transparent compression.

* Every metadata and block data is checksummed with SHA256 by default.

* Other checksum algorithms are supported.

* ZFS uses a "slab allocator" to minimize fragmentation.

* ZFS implements an "intent log" for synchronous writes.

* The intent log can be migrated to a fast SSD or NVRAM drive.

* ZFS uses advanced caching implementing for MRU/LRU and MFU/LFU caches.

* A secondary cache (outside of RAM) can be installed on fast SSDs.

* ZFS uses dynamic striping with its RAID arrays.

* ZFS supports triple parity RAID.

* ZFS autoheals bit rot when a block does not match its checksum, if the pool is redundant.

* ZFS fully supports advanced format disks (4k blocks and beyond).

* In fact, block sizes are dynamic from 512 bytes to 128K (or 1M in the proprietary ZFS).

* In the proprietary release of ZFS, native encryption is supported.

* In the Free Software release of ZFS, "feature flags" have been introduced to add on "plugins" without changing the core of the filesystem.

* ZFS supports native NFS, allowing the mount to be available before the export.

* ZFS supports native SMB for the same reason.

* ZFS supports native iSCSI, also for the same reason.

* ZFS can create static sized block devices called "ZVOLS".

* ZFS pools can be exported and imported.

* ZFS "scrubs" data to find blocks that do not match their checksum.

* The Free Software release of ZFS is supported on GNU/Linux, OpenIndiana, SmartOS, FreeBSD, and many other operating systems.

* Administration of ZFS is done via 3 commands: zpool(8), zfs(8) and zdb(8).
Yes. Endorsing your friends for the most bizarre thing you can think of, is always great fun.

Never accept an endorsement for anything boring like work.
And their market is limited to people who go outside and move about. Who here would'a thunk it?
You make a lot of posts defending the Russian government.
What's the logic behind giving out dividends then, if you don't mind me asking?
I didn't even know you had to accept endorsements. And as ridiculous as they are, I never did bother to return the 'favor.' Perhaps this is just another incarnation of "you didn't Like my post" Facebook drama.
Agree with most of what you say, but adding dynos increases concurrency but doesn't do anything to reduce response times. Sometimes you just need a faster box.
The idea that revenue from Apple lines quickly fades after 2 years doesn't seem to square with history. Desktops growing for over a decade, finally fading due to laptop cannibalization. Laptops growing for over a decade, perhaps stable now and fading in the future due to tablet cannibalization. Music player grew for better part of a decade until heavily cannibalized by phone. Phone still growing 7 years after introduction. Tablets still growing 5 years in. But even if you throw their growth away and say they do 0% for next 4 years the market cap doesn't add up.
Beautiful ... thank you for sharing.
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All I know about this I learned from that Joseph Gordon Levitt movie about bike messengers in New York