skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's inherently cumbersome. The traditional banking system has really bankstrong safeguards against this sort of thing. A technical glitch can't just make millions of dollars disappear - if there's a glitch the bank and/or the authorities step in and reconstruct what the actual balances should be.

Keeping Bitcoin requires you to be really good at both storing a specific string of bits, and also keeping that string of bits secret. Even for a really skilled sysadmin, trusting your life's savings to your own ability to secure and back up a single string doesn't strike me as very wise - compromise or misplacement of digital secrets is almost inevitable.
Having a job you hate is not beneficial to you or your family in the long run, other than keeping food on the table. You don't want to look around the day your kids leave the house and feel like you have lost yourself completely, and no one in your family wants to see that either.

Have you started to look for other work? It's not easy to throw a job search on top of everything else on your plate, but if it gives you some of your own life back, it could be well worthwhile.

I have a 3-year-old son, and it's been an interesting ride. This year was supposed to be more relaxing because we got into a better living situation, but then my wife was getting bored staying at home every day. So she got a really interesting job, but the job ended up being way more involved than either of us expected. So our schedules are pretty hectic, but it's worth it to see her mentally stimulated and avoiding the professional detachment that can come from stay-at-home-parenting.

I have some really interesting personal projects going, which have been affected by family stuff. I have responded by stretching out the timeframe on these projects. That is better than giving up these projects entirely, and it is way better than ignoring my family in order to finish the projects.

If you limit yourself to one or two kids, your kids will be grown up and out of the house in no time, and you'll never get that time back with them. "Out of the house" doesn't mean 18 and living somewhere else, it can mean 6 and in school most of the day, or 12 and in all kinds of activities all the time. Those early years are prime family time; I hope everyone is able to let themselves enjoy that period of life.
Here is a calculation that might put things in perspective...

Your age + 25

This is how old you will be when a kid born this year graduates from college (typical undergrad.)

If you are waiting to have kids add those years to your age.
"How can I explain to you The Gods and Angels had clipped Daddy’s wings?"

Because they didn't. Daddy's own choices and values have apparently clipped his wings. Hope you're OK with it.

It's nice writing but ultimately it reads like a thin excuse. I hope daddy uses better time management in the future.
For what it's worth, I often do something like this:

(!) = flip ($)

Which then allows me to do things like

mycommand ! grep "error" ! sort ! uniq ! wc lineCount

Which is nice because it visually resembles `|` (which is a reserved symbol in Haskell).

Similarly for fmap:

(<!>) = flip (<$>)
result <- get <!> table <!> lookup "foo"
print result ! liftIO

Or for function composition:

(~>) = flip (.)
doStuff = reverse ~> head ~> negate ~> print
doStuff [1,2,3]

That being said, lisp does seem far more suited to shell programming than Haskell, because every function is variadic. What would probably be nice (and probably has been done) is a Lisp with syntax extended to include a few symbols to allow bash commands like |, >, etc:

$ def nth-line (n) (read a | head -(n) | tail -n 1)
$ ssh -i .ssh/some.pem (python show_servers.py | grep 'cool server' | cut -d ' '
-f 3 | nth-line 1)
Social network Secret brings its ‘anonymish’ gossip to Android
Cannabis Chemistry and Cooking
"gradle" is nothing but "ant", though not in XML. Gradle is appealing to the crowd that likes ant. Also gradle is super slow compared with ant or maven.
How Working Out Can Help You Become A Better Software Engineer
An original post about software engineering.
The probability of missing out on kids' childhood milestones increases as more time is spent away from home.

Trying to equate a 9-5 job with startup hours in this regard is intellectually dishonest.
Ahem! This is really an empirical question with an easy Google search answer. :)

If you go to http://www.immediateannuities.com/ and say you're a 50-year old man (the age at which at least in some CA cities a police/fire municipal worker can retire with 90% pension), with a 40-year old wife, and you invest $2 million, you'll get an immediate income annuity of $88,560 a year.

That's in the ballpark of what the Forbes article was saying ($80,000 a year). The numbers don't change that much if the age of the wife approaches 50.

So <ntrails> has the better of the argument, I think: There's no evidence you can buy an $80K annuity for $1M. And I suspect it would cost even more if it were indexed for inflation, as many municipal pension benefits are.
This rule is so easy to bypass. All it means is that ISPs can't "offer" fast lanes anymore - as in premium access for certain companies, for which they would charge extra.

However, under this rule, they can still do what they're already doing: slowing down everyone's Internet, and then charging websites money to "get it back to normal". This way they didn't create a "fast lane". It's the same "normal lane" - for which they now charge extra money, unless you want them to slow you down. Like this:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious...

Wheeler is either a fool, or playing ignorant, if he doesn't realize this.
The same project seems to offer NFL play-by-play, but only for two seasons:

https://github.com/opensport/american-football.db

The best public football repository I am aware of is this, though:

http://www.advancedfootballanalytics.com/2010/04/play-by-pla...
Move over, Old Man Ruby – your Java moment has arrived
Static, static blog generator on GitHub pages
It seemed that he was trying to move the existing users from costing him money to at least a break even situation. In this case grandfathering existing users would have propagated a negative cash flow.
WWDC ’14: Women in Technology
I did this once, but not in such a general way.

http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/ctk8c/i_made...
We did run into a few roadblocks and as a result we were forced to carve features out from the final product. However, the decision is not final and maybe if we manage to convince the app reviewers that these features are vital to the users we may be able to bring them back soon. We are working on these very hard and also trying to find out other workarounds.
They're selling an experience, not a widget.

Of course the app store revenues don't hurt, but at the most basic level they don't want the user to screw up the 'it just works-nesss' of it.
Unfortunately this is exactly the kind of anecdotal which just doesn't work. Popularity of tools and technologies varies greatly between geographies, industries and maturity. E.g. English-speaking world and German-speaking world value tools and techs in entirely different ways.
Debit cards mostly give you the same protections as credit cards. They're worse in that the money comes out of your account immediately (but is supposed to be returned when you report fraud), and the rules are different and less favorable if your PIN is also compromised, but overall it's not too bad.

A compromise of your routing and account number for your checking account is potentially much worse. It's harder to take advantage of, but it's also much harder to fix.

(I'm not sure if you were treating the debit card as analogous to credit cards or account numbers, so treat this as confirmation/correction/elaboration/whatever as appropriate.)
Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses
I don't think VCs are interested in anyone who wants to work at a sustainable pace. Also, the piece we're discussing doesn't make it sound like the author works at a sustainable pace.
"Enjoy youself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think."

Live each day as if its your last; do the things you won't regret. If you die tomorrow, was all your hard work at the 24-7 startup worth it? Or did you get to spend as much time with your family as you could?
Studies show that if you work 14 hours a day, your productivity falls below 8 hours a day output after six weeks or so. Basically, you get tired and sleep deprived. So, while 6 hour a day may be too low, 14 hours a day is probably waste of time in the long term.

Just saying.
If they start flagging mail from your domain as spam you'll have the opposite problem.
EBay Tells Users to Change Passwords After Hack Attack
> their switching costs are orders of magnitude lower compared with Scala's.

How so? Scala may have more ways for features to interact and I guess a larger library ecosystem to become aware of (though it seems perverse to count a large library ecosystem as a downside), but IME most of the cost of switching is in tooling support and finding a developer community to answer questions - both areas where Scala is far ahead of something like Kotlin.
They're different.

Jekyll has a very simple, convention driven feel to it. Templating is based on Liquid which can be a limitation in some cases.

Middleman feels more like Rails for static sites. Out of the box templates are ERB, which is messier but more flexible than Liquid.

StaticGen.com is built with Middleman, and that made it easy to add a Github extension that would pull in all the repository statistics from Github during the build and make this available to the views.
That's how reading their positions becomes easy. They coin a weasel word term and dance with it. I prefer the langauge EFF is using, which appears fairly reasonable.
"Ultimately you should remember that downtime is precious. It’s not healthy to be in front of a computer, let alone working, all day and night. You might not be doing other people harm but you may be doing harm to yourself."

This is spot on - screen fatigue is real - and spending 8 hours in front of a screen at work and then maybe 3-4 at home is not natural for the human mind or eyes in my opinion. I sleep much better if I shut everything off by 8 or 9 pm for an 11:30 bed time.
Is Google slowly dying?
Seems like since the heartbleed blug Google has been slow and unresponsive. SSL errors, 'connection was reset', stuff not loading when you do a picture search, slow queries , etc

The stock is down a lot too. Doesn't bode well
Not sure for LiIon batteries.

However, back in the days of NiCad batteries, some formulations could cope with really fast charges - and in fact would behave better and last longer after a very fast charge than they would after a slow charge.

We're talking about shoving 20 amps into a C cell for five minutes here. You needed to carefully monitor the cell temperature - the charging process wouldn't generate much heat until the cell was nearly full, at which point nearly all the energy going in would convert to heat. 20 amps would heat a full C cell up very quickly indeed.
These startups aren't just targeting 20-somethings anymore, either. It's either that, or else the people who contact me (mid-30s) haven't thought about what my college (graduate and undergraduate) graduation dates imply about my age, or they have an edited version of my resume and can't see these things.

The small number of times I've been interested enough to take the discussion to matters of compensation and effort have been an effective deterrent for me. I earn more base salary and get better equity by my investments, and have much more time to spend with my family and working on income-producing side projects, working my 9-5 as a full-time contractor.
VCs are just butlers for big money. Instead of handling phone calls and dinners they handle relationships with companies. Passive capital doesn't have time to handle this stuff and I don't see what alternative there is other than using a service provider like the VC system?
For static websites, Github Pages is free, nearlyfreespeech is very cheap. For full-blown web apps, didn't you hear the guy? GAE has a pretty generous free tier to test out stuff. So does Heroku, and it's way more user friendly. I still prefer GAE because I can use Google's tools. If you want to rent instances, you're going to have to pay from the beginning afaik. AWS and GCE are the usual suspects here.

https://pages.github.com/

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

https://developers.google.com/appengine/

http://heroku.com/
It's a bit of a disturbing read for a couple of reasons:

- Going to an early stage start up as a young father is not a sacrifice, it's a selfish act. You are thinking more about yourself and what you want to do (and not do) rather than what's best for your family. Hate the idea of a 9-to-5 job? Well, suck it: the regular hours and clockwork and guaranteed paycheck will go a long way toward making your family more stable and stress free. Maybe it's a good time to also ask yourself if there are no hidden reasons behind choosing this line of work. I know I've seen fathers do this because they didn't realize they were not interested in the chores involved in raising a young age infant.

- I'm guessing the infant is less than two years old (the text mentions diapers) so I'm shocked that this text is not giving credit to who really, really deserves it: the Mom. At that age, the infant doesn't really care much whether Daddy is around at night time or to play with toys, but this father really needs to realize how much stress his work situation is putting on his wife.

I have a two year old son and I quit the start up I was working at before his birth. I felt it just wouldn't be fair to my wife to stay there. There will always be start ups to join should I ever want to try this again, but a child growing up is an opportunity that doesn't occur often in one's life.
On the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, they called them "User-Defined Graphics" or UDGs. I think I wrote a pixel-flipping grid font editor for characters on every computer I had access to! The ZX81, the ZX Spectrum, the Apple II (once I noticed that one of the games I had (Taipan?) hooked the text output routines into a hires character generator), and eventually various x86 programming environments, although there you were editing bitmaps, not changing the character generator source. :-)
Are you sure that your password is actually 29 characters? Try changing some of the last nine characters and see if it will still let you log in; they may just be dropping the last nine silently.
Badly phrased. It will compete with Burp but not as a one-size-fits-all type of security solution.
Wow. I just read the first link "In Praise of Idleness" and I have to say it completely turned my thoughts on work around. I had no idea how fundamentally the work culture has influenced me.
>Hatha yoga at least twice a week.

Does that work for you? I would have thought one has to do yoga pretty much daily to maintain the flexibility to be able to do the asanas. Depends partly on which asanas you do, of course. Saying it because yoga exercises some muscles which are not often exercised by other types of workouts.
I think since the web is known for inventing new meanings for old items we are used to, we should accept the skeuophonic meanings to existing real world items, menus, breadcrumbs et al. and even try to invent new ones.
I'm getting tired of sites that limit password length. Microsoft limits you to 16 characters.

Storage is cheap and you shouldn't be skimping on the most sensitive field in your dataset.
I would like to thank you for creating go read and making it open source, it's what I use as RSS reader, using my own free quota of App Engine. I hope I can contribute back some day.

"30-day trial: This action cost me about 90% of my users. Many were angry and cursed at me on twitter. I agree that it is sad I did not say I was going to charge from the beginning, but I didn't know that I would be paying hundreds of dollars per month either."

Honestly I think the sense of entitlement nowadays is way too high, people use a product that is free and needed weeks or months of your own free time, and then complain about it when you change it.

If you decide to charge for it, you're a greedy bastard, instead if it's free, they say "if you aren't paying, you are the product". Other complain that the product doesn't work, when instead it's a case of PEBCAK. When it's not, it means you're going to say goodbye to a couple of night's sleep or a weekend or too, or maybe it's ONE feature away from being perfect (again).

...sometimes I hate people :(
>Sure you can. Double-blind randomised controlled trials.

(p > 0.95)
You should calculate the value lost by a dollar in a savings account for that argument, not a dollar stuffed in a mattress.
Astronomers have Caught a Star Eating a Planet
Everything you said is true of Paxos and Raft which are the "better known" replication services.
feelings/insights/experiences are fine. Comments were condemning the author for staying at work till 2am.... that's just plain crazy to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he took some creative licenses and that's totally OK to do in a poem. I'm just glad that he shared a work of art which is relevant to our community. If it evokes emotions, reflections, that's fine... If we look at it as a blog post asking us to solve his problem for him, that's something else. We don't need to solve the author's problem (i.e. by giving him advice on finding work life balance).

Quite frankly, this piece made me think of the illusions we create for ourselves. In some ways, we're happy to always be busy. I for one, wouldn't really know what to do with "free" time (probably start another side project).

I agree that this is the place to discuss this matter. I guess I typically hold HN to a higher standard and generally the comments are very insightful.
nothing about our trains is "Real Time".
Absolutely. That is, you're correct that congresscritters (the preferred politically correct gender-neutral term!) "show a reluctance to reverse already existing laws regulating drugs." But that's adequately explained by non-religious theories of political action, including wanting to appear tough on crime and memories of the Willie Horton attack ad.
A more apt comparison would be if someone was fooled by an Onion article on the domain http://www.cnn-news.com that had CNN at the top of the page. I'd imagine the vast majority of people would simply assume that was CNN.
Facebook Adds Shazam-Style Audio Recognition
In the UK this rule applies: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/copy/c-otherprotect/c-databaseri...

For copyright protection to apply, the database must
have originality in the selection or arrangement of
the contents and for database right to apply, there
must have been a substantial investment in obtaining,
verifying or presenting its contents. It is possible
that a database will satisfy both these requirements
so that both copyright and database right apply.

They would have a "database right" if they had placed a person at each match to gather the data and verify it, as that is a substantial investment.

How they originally acquired the data is important and shouldn't be presumed.

However that doesn't stop you from implementing your own database and re-acquiring the facts in some trivial way. Just bear in mind that accessing historical data may breach someone else's database right.

Database rights are usually proven by fake data inserted into the database to catch people copying it.

For example you could argue that the Rare Record Price Guide ( http://www.rarerecordpriceguide.com/ ) is just a collection of facts, and decide to copy it... but you'll discover when sued, that a few of the bands in the guide are fictional and designed to demonstrate that the database is theirs, and that it's not trivial to acquire and verify the data.
Big Data Pipelines at StumbleUpon
How about the plain old traditional 'stop words' list to solve this issue?
Overall this is not good. Sure, the govt can do what they want. But what useful information they got from these emails? Did it make the country safer? Did it make the world a better place?

Using the law is one thing. Using the law for the intended purpose is a different thing.

Not sure whether the law is really used for the right purpose.
I too yearn for the 32-64GB Mac laptop. Usually I'm in front of an iMac, spinning up AWS instances for parallelizable and time insensitive tasks. What kind of setup do you typically use?
But don't use DuckDuckGo's password generator.
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/random-passwords-using-duc...
I recommend Blosxom whole-heartedly.
Why do you place so much emphasis on what art other people value?
That's a great news. We have been using fiddler inside a windows virtual machine just to do that.

I know everyone is asking the same kins of question but how does it compare to fiddler?

Our use case is kind of simple. We are building APIs in top of websites that don't have APIs. So a lot of "spying" is required. We have to use fiddler because it was the only one to correclty handle flash forms, file upload forms and to be able to globaly search for a particular token in every requests has been so much of a life saver.
Snowden doesn't hate America he wants it to be better. A lot of his fans just want to see it destroyed, he is not that dumb.
Google buys translator app Word Lens – and now it's free
That linked preso was terribly salesy. He did a poor job of actually backing up some of his graphs with data.

He has a point when he talks about NBNCo's CPE device offering. But that's not really a big deal. Most of his griping seems like nitpicking. Te point of the NBN is getting fiber in the ground that no one company owns. Once that is done all of his other complaints can be dealt with. We can argue incessently over what kind of CPE device to deploy, and change it, without altering the fact that NBNCo now has the fiber in the ground.

He also has a point about the number of POIs that NBN will require the wholesalers to interface with. But again, this is missing the forest for the trees.

>Frankly, the less of Labor's NBN that gets built the better.

Simon doesn't make that argument. His argument is to do it differently, which is completely different than not do it. In the Q&A he makes suggestions to do some parts of the NBN differently, but it's clear he is generally in favor of it.

The NBN is about getting non-monopolized fiber in the ground. Once that's done everything else about it can be changed to suit his or your desires.
I saw that you got some flack for this comment, but I think your comment is very insightful. If it were possible to construct a regression on start-up inputs vs success, I suspect average hours worked past 6 hours every single day would not account for much in explaining success. (The occasional crunch time is a necessity, of course.)

Working hard is definitely a must, but I think market timing, number of competitors, and other features have more of an impact on success than whether you put in another 4-5 hours a day. In some new markets, there are so few competitors or such a huge distance between the leader and the laggard that hours worked doesn't even matter.

In some cases, capturing mind-share does enough to get you further resources and that alone buys you luxuries that free you from 14 hour days.
If as humans we learn from existing concepts hence skeuomorphism - our new concepts would mostly be analogical to existing ones?
Is there anywhere to get real-time play-by-play data?
easy solution. just keep jumping from company to company every few years and you'll never settle into something that you hate, be placed in progressively more senior roles, get paid more and still be able to do the 9-5.
At some point the amount of copper needed to carry the current becomes heavier than the batteries themselves. 120kW is already outlandishly strong, at 120V it's 1000 amps!