skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're the one sticking your head in the sand. You act as though _we have a choice_ about how to continue past global warming. Do you know about methane production from thawing permafrost or melting subsea clathrate deposits?

God is my witness, this has shades of Steve Jobs going vegan to try to treat his pancreatic cancer.

Human civilization as we know it is on the edge of an existential crisis, and action on it is being postponed by a small group of extremely wealthy individuals because they want to become more wealthy. That is it, period. Look at where the anti-global warming money comes from.

If you think I'm being 'hysterical' then by all means tell me:

1) how we plan on moving the populations and infrastructure built by the sea when sea levels rise 25+ feet when the Greenland ice sheet melts.

2) how we plan on feeding the world when temperatures render the American midwest to warm for wheat and corn production. Same for the bread/rice baskets in China, Ukraine, Africa.

3) how do you think the economy will be affected by #1 and #2. how do we deal with it.

I think that a good percentage just assume they'll be one of the 1-in-4 to survive the next century. Sorry if that is too pessimistic for you.

EDIT: And right on cue, it's flagged off the front page. Denial, it ain't just a river in Egypt.
By the time I finally got a Simple/BankSimple invite, the online features and offerings from my local/regional bank (Frost, for those of you in TX) matched "close enough" to what Simple was offering at the time that there wasn't any advantage to moving everything over and leaving a bank I've been with for 18 years. Sure, the UI's not as pretty, but that's not everything.

I still have the account, and like my USAA one, transfer money into it every month as a secondary emergency fund in case something happens with my Frost account and I get locked out over a weekend.
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If you're so drunk you can't solve a CAPTCHA then you also probably can't sit at a chair and type on a keyboard.
Have fuel costs and taxes also done the same, though? Fuel will make the majority of operating costs if you fly with any frequency, I suspect.
I work around this problem in a couple projects by putting my code in modular directories in ./src/node_modules. no npm magic, no having to make symlinks or change path, just plain node. it also makes it very easy to publish your modules when you are ready, just take the module directory out, give it a package.json, npm publish the module, npm install --save the module back in the project.
Yeah but that slick phone app means you find out immediately when $.02 of interest is added to your account. Hard to overstate the importance of that, you know.
If our approach to AI is to model the human brain (i.e. passing the Turing test), this probably won't happen.

Friendly AI is a silly research project at this stage of AI research. It's like trying to figure out how to make horseless carriages safe before you have an internal combustion engine, or even know what one is.
Kunvay Allows Freelancers and Businesses to Easily Transfer IP Rights Online
why don't inurl: site: etc. work properly in startpage.com anyway?
I suspect the hackers are targeting one of namecheap's customers, not namecheap directly. Because that's usually the case, a good approach is to not give all customers the exact same nameservers.
Easy, above fairly junior level you're either told to be in one of the big offices at the point of joining or they'll hire you then crank up the pressure to move.

Places like the Seattle office exist mainly to get people in the company, then to drag the ones they like further south. Many of the rest will effectively be being paid to not work at MS or Amazon.

There's a good reason I described MV as a world apart.
Yes, I was in early too. I never committed money to them because they just kept missing features that I needed. Like transferring money to another bank. Or transferring money to another bank to an account that isn't mine. Or a savings account (or the much ballyhoo'd but never launched automagic movement of spare money into a savings account to get the interest working for you).

It ended up that customer service ended up being pushed as the differentiator (the interface I can get with Mint), but I've had great customer service experiences with both Ally and Charles Schwab. And I get all those previous features I wanted, plus things like ATM refunds. So Simple ended up being a feature-bare product in comparison.

I think their customer growth tailing off was a direct correlation to their feature launch velocity tailing off, and I attribute that to the legal stuff around banking being really hard, rather than any slacking on their part. Hopefully the purchase will allow them to leverage more existing agreements to get more features up and running.
> $117M? That seems like an astonishingly low amount of money.

That seems like a lot of money for a mobile banking app. They didn't actually hold deposits themselves or make loans, the activities that are worth money in banking. They were sort of a VPS for banks--a "bank" sitting on top of real banks that made some painful things easier. Hard to profit that way though.
I see. No one I text pays per message or is in a different country. I'm not sure what you mean by "cross-platform", since every phone you can buy supports it as far as I know. The character limit is a small issue. The delivery confirmation is a bigger issue to me. I don't care about end-to-end encryption when one of those ends is a major company that has ties to state-sponsored surveillance.
That's mostly because of fast food, to be fair.
Beginning Python 2.x users are going to be confused by slide 2, which says that division produces floats. Not in my Python they don't!
Aereo will only let you sign up for its service if its antennas are located in the same market as your address.
Google has no problems recruiting. They will have 100 resumes to fill his shoes in hours. So they get to set the rules still.

It won't always be like this for them but it is right now.
ironically !c# brings you to a forbidden place :p
renice works exactly as I'd love expect, changes the priority of the thread with id $id
or group of threads in a group
why would there be confusion?
Oh sure, it's Austrian German :) But I still couldn't get anything they threw at me, except when they spoke Hochdeutsch

But then again since my German is not the greatest they would switch pretty quickly to English.
How so? I efficiently budget with Mint. It's able to consolidate all of my family's accounts and seems to do a great job at categorizing.
that breaks control centre
"I think we did really kill the entire issue for at least a year."

hmmm.
I live in Vienna too and one thing I like in particular is that despite I live in a metropole with its 2 million inhabitants, I can jump on my bike in the summer, ride for twenty minutes to Donau, Vienna's river, and go for a swim, while being in nature. I can't think of any other city that offers what a world city has to offer, and being able to enjoy nature to the extent that I can swim in its river without worrying about pollution. Beat that.
Anyone loses points (in my eyes) for tipping an exact amount regardless of the quality of service. It's a tip, it's supposed to reflect how well you were treated. If you do 18 or 20% no matter what, you're missing the point of tipping. If I'm eating spicy food and my glass is empty for the entire duration of my meal because the server is not paying attention, you're lucky to get a tip at all. I've left 50% tips, I've left no tip, and I've rounded $9.99 to $10 and called that a tip.

Anyone working in a restaurant expecting a tip for bare minimum service has my pity, but not my money. You get my money by doing a good job.
Austr.* markov chain? Kangaroo ebücher? ;)
I don't think there ever was a serious risk for that for WhatsApp: multi-device support isn't just missing, they are actively making it a pain. There's no way to obtain your password, the password changes regularily, logging in with a second client kicks the old connection, etc.

So people would be forced to make a choice: use it on your phone, or on your computer. Aside from the group of people who don't have a smartphone, most people would chose phone.
My expectations for service with a $70 meal are much different than a $7 meal; so having a different tip makes sense.
Do you eat out enough that tipping is a significant expense? I just estimate 20% and round to the next dollar, $0.40 isn't going to bleed me dry and most servers make crap anyway.
This is so embarrassing for me. We just put out our school computer group's website up and boom - murphys law.
Interesting, every question in this quiz is about the concept of covering indexes, and figuring out if the query in question is covered by the suggested index or not.

I'm surprised people didn't score better on this, it's a very simple concept. :-/
They could better protect against it by not assigning the same list of DNS servers to every customer.
Really? Read the WhatsApp founder's blog: http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/06/why-we-dont-sell-...
Your startup is too young, white and rich.
That one was somewhat overstated. It entirely depends on what circles you move in. I know plenty of people that brag on their drinking, and/or like to deride others for being lightweight. Surely there is a large contrast between Japan and the USA on this matter, and the article writer was probably influenced by that. It certainly would be safer to act as the article suggests, because it is true for many situations, and the average tourist (that would need this guide) wouldn't be able to suss out the subtleties.
The driverless vehicle can probably calculate a lateral acceleration for the vehicle that won't roll it over but still avoid the animal, then monitor the application of turn input to further ensure the vehicle doesn't roll over.
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It seems like secondary DNS is not supported, but you can change your primary DNS with the "Transfer DNS to Webhost" option.
There are a lot of those here, but no. I'm Australian. I think Vienna is monstrous.
The title forgot the part where they flushed it down the toilet.
Demanding an indemnity isn't a fantastic way to get me to look at a site.
> Apple's iMessage works fine with Android in the western developed world where you can get unlimited/cheap SMS.

No, it doesn't. It works in simple cases as long as none of the iMessage participants invites someone else into the conversation and starts a group conversation. Once that happens you can only participate in the conversation if you have an actual iMessage client.
I have accounts at both. Simple's draw is the UI - budgeting & reporting tools. Ally's draw is the (relatively) high interest rate.

Simple has one great downfall, in my opinion. They don't offer joint accounts. For me, that's a fatal flaw.

I've been at Ally for a year and was at ING Direct for several years prior. I never went to the physical bank, so I was happy to trade a brick & mortar branch for a higher interest rate.
To be fair, this is probably the best solution. They can only hope the Kansas legislature shifts a little by the time another challenge is presented.
Perhaps the most liveable city if you speak German...
Can you prove the real owners don't live there already?
Breakaway Park Airport Community, near Austin, TX. (http://www.breakawayairport.net/).

I understand they get very cranky if you try to take off or land too close to sunrise or sunset.
I think you're taking it a little too literally, like trying to parse an idiom.

The concept here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
DHL Pranked UPS Into Advertising For Them
Neither of those things are true at all, from my experience and from what I have observed working in the Seattle office for five years. Where are you getting this information?

The Seattle/Kirkland offices have over 1,000 employees and are growing. They have people at all different levels including directors and principal engineers and lots of important projects going on. These aren't minor little operations.
Here are all of the supported ! searches:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

or just search ddg for !bang
DDoS on FreeDNS and Default DNS v2
Message in their customers dashboard.

"Dear Customers,
We're experiencing a DDoS attack on our DNSv2 system at the moment - this means that any domains that are using DNSv2 or FreeDNS nameservers may experience intermittent availability issues.
We are currently in the process of mitigating the attack and are working hard to ensure a quick resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused."
I was worried for a while that it might be FaceBook but after yesterday's overpriced acquisition of WhatsApp that fear has subsided.
street naive or in a street gang is you will.

Sorry, but your teenie being able to get anywhere easily on their own is not always a great solution. Lack of safe affordable housing drove many into the burbs, the gated communities that some became merely copied the gated buildings some lived in.

Many cities are not walkable at all, they are far too large to be so. Sure some have subways or the like, but going by my friends account its an hour by train on good days to and from work. Most of his friends bring their lunches because local eateries are not a good use of money on a day to day basis. As for walking, yeah if the weather permits it.
I took the test twice so I'm guilty of skewing the stats. My reasoning - first time I got 4/5 and it told me 'you know a little bit about SQL performance tuning.' I was curious about what the 5/5 message would be. It's interesting on many levels that the message was the same.
> Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec

That son of a bitch... ;)
Perhaps it should be revised, then, to say,

"If you're going to get sick, make sure it's in a place like Austin, Cleveland, Rochester, Baltimore, or New York that has a great hospital. And make sure that you get taken to the premier hospital in the region (e.g. don't let somebody take you to Kings County instead of New York Presbyterian). Be prepared to pay considerably for care at these facilities. Quality and cost are highly variable overall."
The difference is probably .1us. You may find it interesting why browsers match CSS selectors from right to left (though this is a useless bit of trivia). see:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5797014/why-do-browsers-m...
Message in their customers dashboard.

"Dear Customers,

We're experiencing a DDoS attack on our DNSv2 system at the moment - this means that any domains that are using DNSv2 or FreeDNS nameservers may experience intermittent availability issues.
We are currently in the process of mitigating the attack and are working hard to ensure a quick resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused."
Ask HN: Facebook.com missing from Google?
I searched for "facebook" on Google, and the top result is now the Wikipedia article. I do not see a result for the homepage either. Anyone else seeing this?
Systemd 209
Meanwhile the Alfred Wegener Institute reported (October 2013) that the Antarctic sea ice coverage is the greatest for 30 years. I don't know what this means but it's odd that apparently good news (if it is) is more or less ignored in the more widely read media accounts.
I'm sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.
Would this mean Apple is going in the car business?
> The big potential in this space is building a new banking platform from scratch, instead of relying on existing/legacy technology.

It's likely nearly impossible to build a bank from scratch because of regulatory hurdles. That's why Simple had to team up with a partner bank instead of going it 100% alone. I remember reading a blog post from Simple about it, it seemed they had no choice to partner with an existing bank (if I find the post I'll share it). The banking system is broken on purpose. This is why banks operate like it's the stone age and get away with awful service and fees - there's little chance of nimbler competitors coming along and eating their lunch.
Thanks for the awesome work to all Arch packagers.

I really think isync deserves being brought to [community]. It's an awesome IMAP syncing tool created by the same guy who coded mutt and used by a lot of people.

It really deserves moving to [community] to get to a wider audience. IMHO it's much better than offlineimap.
Early user of simple here and, while their design was excellent, there was little else to recommend them. Plenty of other banks offer no-fee atm access and have apps. Those banks, unlike simple, reliably process transactions. They went down more than once, which meant my card was declined. The customer service rep was nice when he told me their servers were down. No advance notice. It would be nice to have a bank that, you know, works.
Government Bravely Prosecutes Nun for Embarrassing It
I think you have a lot of good point here.

Friendliness is definitely something that people come to expect from retailers. Could that be why Japanese lines are so fast. Maybe since they are only buying a few goods at a time the lines go quicker.
I read somewhere (pre internet, so it must be true!!!1!) that the wing loading of a fighter is roughly equivalent of using a manhole cover as a frisbee.

In other words, anything can fly if you give it enough afterburner.
There is now an API to build low-volume hardware products
The author has a website and sells a book devoted to teaching people about SQL indexing, so that's where his focus is. I wonder what kind of a pool he got; given that he seems to have given it mostly to people reading his site, you'd think that it'd be people who know more about SQL indexing than the average.

Most troubling to me was how people who chose the MySQL option did so much worse than pretty much every other database. (I took the MySQL option, even though I work on MS SQL these days, and got 4 out of 5.) I suppose for people who consider MySQL to be a toy RDBMS, that's less "troubling" than "confirming current perception."
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I'm pretty sure the more awesome VCs, like hn-user pmarca at a16z, would have no problem writing checks for $100mm+ to fund a team to fix banking. The other day they were actually bemoaning the lack of people trying to do so.
Along with 10 million physical laborers, just to kick in the teeth of the middle class a bit more.

The middle-class doesn't benefit Silicon Valley. Cheap nannies on the other hand...
From http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe...

32. Even by the standards of the world’s best technology companies, WhatsApp runs lean. With only 32 engineers, one WhatsApp developer supports 14 million active users, a ratio unheard of in the industry. (WhatsApp’s support team is even smaller.) This L E G E N D A R Y crew has built a reliable, low-latency service that processes 50 billion messages every day across seven platforms using Erlang, an unusual but particularly well-suited choice. All that, while maintaining greater than 99.9% uptime, so users can rely on WhatsApp the way they depend on a dial-tone.
Same, the rounding step was just implied. My point was that for a lot of people "just estimating 20%" in their head is wizardry
I applaud the DDG spirit but without their own crawling data their future is doomed.

If their data sources ever cut them off, it's over.

They need to build their own crawlers like gigablast.
You can also toss in Michael Moore and Hollywood:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130308/hollywood...

"Sean Penn sat grim-faced at Hugo Chavez's funeral Friday -- one of a clutch of Hollywood stars who lionized the late Venezuelan leader, in defiance of America's fierce antipathy to his regime.

Following a long tradition of Hollywood liberals, Penn was joined by Oliver Stone, Danny Glover and documentary maker Michael Moore in lauding the charismatic Venezuelan president after his death this week."
I live in Houston and walk to work. It's just a 2-3 minute drive for me to get to a grocery store, a movie theater, restaurants, and museums.

But I'm unmarried with no dependents. I couldn't afford to buy a home here (they're seemingly all $1M+).

As a consequence, with a city the size of Houston, simply increasing the density probably does not have the desired effect. The urban core of Houston will be completely re-invented in the next decade. It will consist almost exclusively of only two groups: (1) the rich; (2) the well-off singles and DINKs (dual-income-no-kids). If you're not a successful lawyer, doctor, executive, or someone with pre-existing land ownership, you will never be able to own a home in inner-city Houston in 10 years (barring some economic crash). Even now, it takes two highly paid engineers to comfortably support a family life in many inner-loop areas. Moreover, very few new single-family homes are being built--it's almost exclusively townhomes intended for childless young professionals.

Everybody else will be pushed to the suburbs, which will actually greatly exacerbate the traffic problem and further insulate the vast majority of kids from urban life.

This is why I'm of the opinion that it would actually be better for everybody if more emphasis were put on suburban development. Make the suburbs less suburban, provide them with more infrastructure, create more walkable centers in them, and also invest more in providing public transportation from the suburbs into downtown business districts. There are already a few park-and-ride bus services (e.g., from Sugar Land or the Woodlands into Downtown, Greenway, etc.), but most suburbanites, so caught up in the car culture, won't swallow their pride and use them.
On the topic of living costs for Vancouver, coincidentally enough WorkSafeBC (Vancouver's version of OSHA) just released a cost of living calculator for the BC region. You can see that housing will eat up the majority of your paycheque for an average wage (maybe not rockstar IT devs) [1].

http://www.costofliving.welcomebc.ca/

[1] Median family income in BC is $69,150 as of 2011. Source: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/f...
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot ?
Also depends on the size of your home. Buying a week's worth of food for me and my SO means we'll be playing Tetris all week.
I'd also like to add that we have redunancy on our DNS V1. I advise switching over to this, in the meantime. Please find the tutorial here: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
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I wonder if the information they are collecting can be just as useful to the bad actors (particularly the government). As in "Oh look there's still an open bakery in this sector! Let's start shelling."
If double up votes were possible... This isn't uncommon though. Try search "yllow submarine" on Spotify. Is there any other thing this could refer to? Not only do they not have the Beatles, but the search is awful. Nearly as awful as Apple mail. I suspect the real problem isn't that others are bad - Google has spoilt us with how good it is.
> It is already a highly selective query.

Is it? The first query is always O(1). The worst case for the latter query is that it must aggregate over 999,910 rows.

Consider the case where all values of 'a' are 123, and all values 'b' are 42, except 90.