skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why is there anything in this thread besides your post is beyond me.
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You have got it all very wrong. Not a single thing you've said is correct.
> I've even pointed out point-blank that their salaries are paid for by the same taxes they rail against incessantly

In fact, this very idea is a matter of intense discussion about libertarian types. What exactly can/should you do that makes you benefit from the government? It may seem obvious that working for the NSA would be a no-no, but where do we draw the line? What about working as a public school teacher? What about using public roads?
> With constraints, you get true source order independence, so you can layout any group of elements within any other regardless of DOM structure...

That would be awesome. Does that means you can have a modal dialog box centered to the appropriate parent view and still allows user to dismiss it anywhere in the viewport?
I may well misunderstand how Social Security works. However, the point of my comment is that it's hardly the only system to which one might contribute funds, incurring some future obligation of (re)payment on the part of that system, which is later discharged using funds that were most recently in "someone else's pocket".

Either it's a trivial point that applies pretty broadly outside of SS, or you meant something more significant and I'm interested in knowing what that is.
I could imagine this being quite dangerous, like being on holiday, there's a power outage, fire, ISP error, etc at home and no way to control your server.
But then you still wouldn't know that the function could be used for any two integers, including those in the trillions of zeros.

Also, you would have to anticipate what possible uses it could be used in, and that's impossible to know with certainty, so how could your tests be accurate?
Yes, as I understand it, real banks don't use ACID databases because their software dates from before before the era of modern databases, they uses a lot of batch processing, because indeed they've grown by knitting together multiple institutions and etc.

To further clarify, an ACID database, used correctly, are a drop-in solution to problems like that of someone attempting multiple simultaneous account withdrawals.

And, of course, "you can still run into these problems using an ACID database" (lol), yes, all you have to do is not understand transactions and not use them.
What are the "details"?
Yes, you are right.

However he doesn't owe anything as long as he just holds the coins.

Just as you don't owe any taxes on inventory of goods that you have produced from raw materials.
I figure as long as Paul Lamere is around it will stay open.
As a junior, you're expected to ask stupid questions. Despite what you may fear, otherwise you can't learn fast enough and it's too expensive to keep you around.

Also, if it's not obvious on a cold reading, it has a good chance of being poorly designed in some way as you've discovered.
Yes, they have issues with IPs having been blacklisted.

I ran into that in connection with MIPSpace. Large swathes of DO IPs are blacklisted by MIPSpace, which impacts my deliverability for a small double opt-in hobby list.

- Digital Ocean says they can't get MIPSpace to remove IPs.

- MIPSpace will only deal with me if I can get DO to add rwhois/SWIP for my IP

- Digital Ocean doesn't offer that feature (of course).

So I'm somewhat stuck there. Not as though things are going to be any better elsewhere on another cloud service, I suppose, though I never had these issues at AWS. But moving back would triple the cost of running an equivalent mail server.

Hopefully some of the funding here can be used by DO to actually clean up their IPs and manage the issues with the less reasonable blacklists like MIPSpace - who doesn't send abuse notices, and seems pretty capricious, from what I'm reading. Since DO are in the business of renting IP addresses, it would be good if those IP addresses were not usually on some blacklist somewhere.
I've been considering for some time to write the documentation to an app first in a README restricted to Cucumber grammar and language, and see how everything develops from there.
Isn't that what professional journalists routinely do?
The answer is REALLY simple here. Say "I don't understand what this is doing" and then have add a comment.

Just like there's a rule "you're never the smartest person in a room, there's probably someone smarter than you" there's a rule "you're never the stupidest person in the room, there's probably someone stupider than you". Someone in the future will be confused too.

Just push for a comment.
That's not how logic works.

The statement was very causal.

> If you've got a slow test suite, that mean's you've got a bad test suite.

Or you have a fantastic test suite that also includes integration tests. See?
This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes
Even if it was, lawsuits are entirely public, and filing and litigating one would result in exponentially more publicity than this article has already given him.
you are absolutely right. ha. i'll have to make that edit. wouldn't it be cool if we could transcend though?
Satoshi Strikes Back
Yeah that sticks out. Author should have the courage to not be anonymous, especially for something silly like this. For all we know it could be a disgruntled Linode employee faking this or something. :)

But if true, I'm moving everything away to a more professional hosting provider. You don't just shut down a hosting account because of a single anonymous complaint. That's just a silly thing to waste your time with.
Hearing jokes about it and having a reporter turn up from a well-known national news publication seeking an interview are two entirely different things. Really, these are the sort of arguments I'd expect from a surly 13-year old.

If he was some coincicentally named private individual, the obvious thing to do would be to deny being the celebrity Nakamoto, and possibly to advise the reporter to discuss the matter with his lawyer.
Gee. You mean that Congress is upset because a government agency over stepped it's bounds, and violated 'agreements' that it had made with the Senate and other government agencies?

Imagine how we felt when they violated our agreement (little thing known as the Constitution)?

Sincerely,
The Citizens of the United States of America
Why would Bitcoin be illegal?
Minor correction. Slander is oral; libel is written. Nothing to do with public figures or not. The distinction you're looking for is that, for public figures (which may or may not apply in this case), actual malice--as opposed to just falsehood--may need to proven in order to get a judgement.
> My understanding from my Libertarian Ron/Rand Paul friends is that they believe the Federal government should not have a single program that's not explicitly specified in the U.S. Constitution.

The Constitutionalist argument is mostly an outer limit on their support for government programs. They also believe that the federal government shouldn't do many things that it is expressly empowered to do in the Constitution.
My company outsources to Vietnam. At the beginning, we had time to review all the code, and we always had feedback on it. Only after several iterations would it be ok.

We would review the code manually, and later also used tools such as Jenkins and Sonar.

However, as the number of FTEs over there increased and we switched to paying per month instead of per project, the amount of the code we would received became overwhelming (about 5-6 FTEs over there per 1 FTE here), and the focus moved to getting functionality right in time.

Later we would discover horrible things in that code when we'd have to fix some issue. Which was difficult in itself because we did not know the code at all.

Very low code quality and constant issues and delays lead us to start hiring people here and slowly phase out Vietnamese programmers. We (as the local dev team) already feel much more in control of our product.
Right. The whole SpaceX/Armadillo Aerospace/etc. situation that is developing now is almost definitionally Libertarian.
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I've been seeing a huge response since we released Glyphr Beta 3 earlier this week - it's been very exciting! I'm trying to answer all the questions i'm receiving. Until then, please play with the app and let me know if there is any feedback. Thanks!

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why not do both? I program, and have a small self sustaining micro farm. Just placed my order for 28 spring chickens, and 3 turkey's which will provide most of the meat for my family throughout the winter. I will supliment with fish and meat that I catch or hunt down.

I also have a vegitable garden which we can most of our food from or preserve in other ways. :)

If I want a chicken that tastes just as good as the ones I raise I have to shell out $20+ for a 6lb whole chicken.. Crazy.. I get it for about $1/lb.
Ask HN: Why hasn't college changed in the past 100 years?
Last night I read paper books. Today a professor talk about the books and used a blackboard. I took notes on paper with a pen.

Why has nothing changed since my dad went to school.

YOU: Take notes on your computer. Use Evernote, penultimate, etc.
Me: I tried to take notes on my computer, but I've realized how inefficient this is. It's impossible put diagrams and text in one place.I've tried dozens of iPad and computer programs.

YOU:You can read books on your computer or iPad or Kindle. You can highlight and make notes.
Me: I can write in the margins or highlight in a paper book. Why don't digital books incorporate video, audio, or interactive exercises. They are not customized to me or my learning style. Why are they so expensive.

YOU: Your parents used a type writer or pen and paper - you can use Microsoft word.
Me. Is Word a modern program? No - it was released before my birth (came out in NOV of 1990).

YOU: What about powerpoint? That has changed classrooms!
Me: In a good way? NO. And once again, powerpoint is nearly 25 years old.

YOU: You have all information at your fingertips, Google and Wiki didn't exist when your dad went to school.
Me: Both are well over a dozen years old (Wiki founded 2001, and Google '96).

ME: I'll change my point, things have changed since my dad was in college (word, powerpoint, google, wiki).

But nothing has changed in schools in the past dozen years.

Has it? What am I missing?
Some more regarding GRSecurity:

https://mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg127100.html
The bitcoin community needs to come together and prove that legitimate self-regulation and sufficient transparency can work. We need to shed the Mt. Gox's by choice, and choose firms that are willing to undergo third party audits (like Coinbase did recently).

I'm a firm believer that there are better avenues than regulation-at-gunpoint, and cryptocurrencies are looking like a big part of that, but the community needs to prove this.
I think OP was writing a parody piece and not actually serious.
The biases of this article aside, he sounds like a very interesting man. It saddens me that the way we found out who he really is was by a very gross invasion of his privacy. A sit down interview (in person or virtually)would have been much more interesting. I would have liked to have known eventually, but not like this
I've done a ton of work with Chartserver, and I'm continually impressed by how elegant it is in every detail of its implementation. Although, I'm also a huge fan of D3. Not every chart should be built in JavaScript. I can embed it, I can drop it in an email, I can serve up 20 charts on a page in milliseconds, and I can do it equally quickly anywhere in the world.

Services like this, are one of the things that keeps up 'Google's not just in it for the money' cred, I'm going to be really sorry to see it go.
> In fact, there's only one case where I can find working for the government while thinking it shouldn't exist is workable, and that's working for the government in a capacity where you can dismantle the government. Which is often what happens right?

Where do you draw the line? What about using tax-funded roads, or regulated industries like air travel?
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La gran mayoría de las mujeres se preocupan por los síntomas de embarazo, pero esto se debe a que no saben cómo se manifiestan o cuáles son, con el solo hecho de saber de que si estás embarazada. Esto no te preocupes por que es lógico ya que ese es un momento sumamente esperado por muchas mujeres que quieren ser madres, pero en algunas ocasiones olvidamos cuales son los síntomas importantes por estar ansiosas.
That's unintentional and doesn't happen for me. Can you elaborate on how to reproduce? :)
Murder is terrible

brb gotta murder someone.
Thank you! It's a work in progress, but it's fun to work on something you're passionate about. I'd recommend it :-)
We have no strong evidence that is he is super-rich, even if it is likely. And outing his personal details would be just as wrong if he had kept none of the coins.
I agree. The guy specifically told the reporter he didn't want to talk to her, and her to leave. He also told her he was no longer involved with Bitcoin, and no longer wanted to be.
The site is powered entirely by MeteorJS. There's a no-script version generated by Phantom but I guess it's not made for viewing. Sorry about that.
The A-10 is extremely vulnerable to man-portable air defense systems (MANPADs), which are difficult to spot and nearly impossible to avoid at the low altitudes within which the A-10 best performs. MANPADs are more and more common on the modern battlefield, and the supply exploded after the 2011 Libyan Civil War. Furthermore, the GAU-8, while an impressive weapon, doesn't hold its own against any tank built within the last twenty years. This leaves the A-10 as a slow, unstealthy delivery platform for AGM-65 Maverick missiles and JDAMs, a role better performed by higher-performance aircraft.

I say all that as a huge fan of the A-10c, with many hours spent in the DCS sim. People seem to get bizarrely hyperbolic over the capabilities of this plane, but it's really a dinosaur.
Yeah, totally agree on that. We noticed this as well when approaching it naively via simple clustering then going through different color spaces and methods until finally getting some decent results.
It's true that most self-identifying libertarians would not self-identify as anarchists. But it's also true that the origins of a lot of libertarian thought comes from anarchism.
Your misunderstanding is, at least in part, in thinking that contributing to SS incurs an obligation to you on the part of the program. Technically, it doesn't even have an obligation to current recipients, let alone future ones.
Kind of the main core of Glyphr is to make font design accessible to the masses. How can you know if you are a horrible font designer if you can't even try? :-D
Ask HN: Which Linux disto is the most power efficient?
You'd like to be a zombie in North America? You know North Americans don't like zombies - just watch their constant anti-zombie propaganda, it's disgusting. And all for a bunch of folks whose only fault is a high appreciation one's brain.
Oh man people that have used python for a while have come to expect datetime to just be strange in general. Essentially the default is to be in your TZ from midnight, you need to convert and there are different classes for epoch, and some of the members seemingly willy-nilly are not there or named differently then! And that's just the start, that's why things like arrow exist: http://crsmithdev.com/arrow/ time and datetime in python show their age.
This is almost certainly the military equivalent of an urban legend, but I remember hearing a story once about an A-10 that ate an anti-aircraft missile. The missile entered the engine nacelle. I don't know whether the missile detonated or not, but, according to the story, the plane turned around, flew back to base, ground crew replaced the engine, and the plane returned to service.
A big influx of people results in more sales, no surprise there. I'd be more interested to see how the average tip amount changes and if it's for better or worse.
Hi Sunir. Great questions. Hope to get more people answering this.

Please also take a look at a parallel discussion in proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zqbx1/10_ways_...

From my experience in Codacy, some of our users use it to grade and quickly send out comments from the tool to the outsourced team. They like being able to review the code as it's being done (since it's per commit) with the help of our linting code patterns.

We also give out grades which is an overall vision of the project without having to go into much technical detail.
"Why is this a C?" is a great question to ask :)
I'd love to hear more about your experience and your pains and check if we can be of assistance. Here's my email: jaime at codacy dot com.
I envy you. :)
Interesting with a side note about toying with Excel.

When I plug in:

1/(3 sqrt(7)-8)

and

-3 sqrt(7)-8

...into Excel, there must be a rounding error. They resolve to:

-15.9372539331939000

and

-15.9372539331938000

...respectively.

Time to plug these into Wolfram. I get:

-15.93725393319377177150484726091778127713077754924735054110500337760320646969085088328117865942363083184519373501549238...

and

-15.93725393319377177150484726091778127713077754924735054110500337760320646969085088328117865942363083184519373501549238...

...respectively.
Except that, as far as I know, their main source of revenue is government contracts.
Yes, I noticed this too (it's mentioned in the footnotes). That's not the concept refer to in the post though, and I was a little bit annoyed when I first found out about it after having drafted the majority of this article :)
Suppose you write a method that takes two inputs and returns the sum. What would you do next? You'd probably do something like you just suggested, verify that when you add 2 and 2 here, you get 4. So, save it. This isn't a complete or perfect test. In fact, this particular test is risky, because later, when someone decides that addify should multiply, your tests will still pass. I'm not going to pretend that this solves your problem. But if you had written 5, 2, and 3, it would have protected you from that later scenario. And IMO, it's not the dev's fault who turned addify into a multiplication function - how is he or she supposed to know it broke the code if there aren't any tests?

To me, though, the bigger problem is when you're trying to figure out what your code is supposed to do by writing code, and then shoehorn that process into TDD. Like, write down 42, then make it fail, and then make it pass.
Never been, but as I understand it from others' comments, that feature was removed several releases (years) back.

----

P.S. Had a friend who moved to Austin... jeez, quite a few years back, now, for the sake of her budding music career. I gather now that she was, or has certainly since not been, alone in this.
Also the look is brilliant, especially with the current trends in flat design. I so infrequently see it used to it's full potential.

Check out: http://smashrun.com/chris.lukic/overview
It uses both D3 and ChartServer, but there's no way I'll ever get the page load to something comparable using only d3.
Most drones only carry IIRC a single hellfire missile. Not particularly useful against Infantry, and a 1 shot and you're done.

An aircraft like the A10 (and a helo like the Apache, as noted below) has a huge benefit over a drone in its ability to stay on station. As also noted above, other aircraft like F16, F15, etc move fast and generally come in, take out a single target, and move out. A10 can circle, move slow, and continue taking out targets as they appear.

You may take out one or two armored vehicles visible on the battlefield, only to have more pop up over a ridge after your CAS has departed. An aircraft that can stay on station has a tremendous benefit.

Survivability of course matters in something like Close Air Support, with a long on-station time. As I recall, the armoring on the A10 is staggering (Wikipedia says 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of armor just for the cockpit and main aviation systems).

With the Apaches as well, the advent of the Longbow mast (360º radar mounted above the main rotor) after Desert Storm gives it an incredible ability to stay out of view, and pop up just long enough to get a weapon off. I believe the concern with attack helicopters though is tremendous susceptibility to fast movers, and even ground attack by RPG (Al Qaeda in Somalia perfected the art of short fuse detonation of RPG rounds near the rear stabilising rotor. See: Black Hawk Down)
direct link to the dashboard: https://chartio.com/project/16192/dash/sxsw-alcohol-consumpt...
> Try talking to any self professed libertarian about free movement of labor.

I self-identify as a libertarian (with qualifications, if you want details). If you try talking to me about free movement of labor, I think you'll find that I advocate it fully.
Oh come on, you're a smart person Chuck. You don't get the journalistic value of tracking down the person who founded a $10 billion cryptocurrency economy that is in the news on a weekly basis? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Nice! Clothingparsing very cool.
It's already illegal to steal bitcoins. And if an exchange represents that it takes certain measures to secure wallets when it really doesn't, that's fraud. Other than that, what is there to regulate?
It is mentioned in the App itself, but not in GitHub anywhere. I'm going to look into it and update the license. My intent is that it is totally free / open source - even if i'm fuzzy on the legal mumbo jumbo.
Actually not everything is scripted. Actually, in the original show, nothing it's scripted, the sameness comes from following the same procedure and the director knowning how to edit it for drama.

You'll hear people saying BS things that you'd never expect a business owner to say, much less a scripted one.

And not all businesses he talks to are "saved" in the end. Some are just hopeless.
Ask HN: How do you determine the value of domain names?
We're looking to sell a few of our unused domains and wanted to see how best to evaluate the value in the market. Also, seems like there's a lot of different brokers/auction sites out there, have you had any experience with good ones?
I believe this system can be used today, even though there are people out there who may abuse it if you do. But I think we're already seeing the fruits of this behavior, especially in this space.
And well all know that 1-1 = 1. You're confusing concepts here.
You need to provide some context, otherwise I'm obliged to answer "Android" based on the small amount of power required by the platforms on which it runs.
>>> that is, Obama underperformed Kerry in white demographics, despite doing better overall

Or, in another words, Obama outperformed Kerry in non-white demographics. Statistics is a wonderfully spinnable, isn't it?
This guy totally misses the point of TDD. You write the test first because it is the first client of the interface you believe you have finished designing. While writing the test, half the time you will realize that the API sucks and you need to change it.
thanks for point to that, i hadn't seen it before, and
it's a great example of the experience many have had,
namely that giving away an e-book can spur sales of it.

-bowerbird
Why is American Internet so slow?
"Location contains the timezone information for the time."

So it should really be spacetime.HereAndNow :P
I'm an interaction designer by trade, and learning JavaScript the hard / laborious / crazy / way by creating Glyphr. Nobody said it was pretty under the covers.
A hundred times yes. Actual tests that test an actual purpose are great. But I've seen tests that are something along the lines of

var thing = new Thing();
thing.shouldBe.instanceOf(Thing);

There are some things you don't need to test.