skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you actually maintain your car and don't treat it like a toaster, it's not too bad.

This. Never forget basic maintenance. I had a 1981 RX-7 and had over 194,000 miles on it when I got rid of it in 1998. (I still have the concrete blocks I'd put in the back when it snowed.)
Whoever likes this as a business model might be also interested in looking at https://www.meinespielzeugkiste.de/
It depend on what you want.

HN/TC/... are good to show a new product to people that want to see new products. Thats it.

That did not mean that you get customers or a wider audience.

One year ago i launch http://apidocjs.com (OpenSource for RESTful API documentation), i show it to HN and got 2.500 Visitors in one day (yeah!), but the next days nearly zero.

Further development and step by step more users find their way to apiDoc -> organic growth.
>> Creating jobs is a strange goal.
> Why? Who says efficiency should be humanity's goal? Is humanity a machine to be optimized?

I think saying that creating jobs is a goal is more accurately the viewpoint that humans are cogs.

Say there's an efficient way to do something, for example: a machine that weaves fabric.

If the goal is to create jobs, we could stop the machine and hire people to do the job. In fact, I bet we could force people to do it in a really inefficient and tedious manner that would require lots of people to replace a single machine.

The disadvantages: slower. more expensive. more error-prone. people's time-wasting.

The advantages: these people have a job so now you have a 'valid' excuse to give people an income.
Even if you believe we have free will, algorithms might decide to steer your course anyway. Bit frightening!
I fully agree. Athletes, pregnancy, high-stress jobs, depression, etc. Each have different concerns and specific nutrition focusing on them can be quite efficient at mitigating symptoms/improving results. Also location as you mentioned and genetics as well can influence the requirements of certain nutrients.
Thanks! I tried it and it is indeed similar to what I had in mind.
The article doesn't really highlight the full extent of his messages and behavior though!

While it's likely that Mateen's conduct was influenced for the worse by their relationship and break-up(s), it went pretty far into 'misogyny' terrority, and can't really be justified.

I mean, I've said some nasty things in the heat of the moment through and after a break-up, but nothing like that.

That said, I agree the author could've done better. I was very confused by the introduction of 'Munoz' without describing who he was, for example. I get the impression the article was written in haste for maximum 'relevancy'.
IANAL so maybe I'm reading this wrong - please correct me if so - but is the penalty really just "The circuit court also may award to the Commonwealth a civil penalty of not more than $2,500 for each violation, reasonable expenses incurred in investigating and preparing the case, and attorneys’ fees."? My understanding is that the court will not allow outrageous attorney's fees to be passed on (i.e. defendant can claim $100k in fees but court will only make plaintiff liable for $5k if they feel that's 'reasonable'). So this is probably going to be "less than $10,000 per bad faith lawsuit that the plaintiff has to pay" if I'm reading this correctly.

Sure, that's a lot of money... but would it stop you from suing for $10,000,000? Of course not. Would it stop you from suing for $50,000 though? Probably. But how many patent lawsuits are for such a low amount? I have no idea.
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phark!
Are you prepared for DDoS Attacks
It's the politics of envy at its worst. Better that the rich die earlier to make things more fair, than everyone live unevenly longer.
When you have to review their code, you have a very good reason to care about what it looks like. I also feel that I have an obligation to do what I can to improve the accuracy of our research.

"They do the minimal they need and nothing more."

In other words, they work on their program until it runs to completion without throwing an error message.
Yes, the exchange fees are astronomical.

It looks like the spread if you wanted to trade 10BTC is around $2 (just looking at the last hour or so of data).

On BitStamp the exchange fee is 0.2% (at minimum - can be higher) so trading 10BTC twice (one buy, one sell) would cost you $20 in bid-offer spead, but about $26 in exchange fees - insanely high!

Usually you expect the exchange fees to be 1/10th to 1/5th of the spread. With fees this high and no rebates, I wouldn't even be sure I could make a profit as a market maker even if you could exit every position immediately.
I'm speaking more to the viciously anti-technical-interview sentiment that is so commonly seen on technology sites. While there are a lot of shops that do the whole process in a ridiculous fashion, similarly there are a lot of frauds among us: we have experienced such a number of people who claimed skills that they didn't begin to have, even when warned well in advance that they were going to be tested, told how they would be tested, and given a full ability to leverage the internet. Whenever those interviews ended, awkwardly, I always imagine them heading to Reddit or wherever to tell everyone how technical interviews are so much bullshit, and can't people just hire them on their resume, etc.
I wish there were small supplements that contained maybe 10-20% of the recommended amounts of things. I eat reasonably well. Most of the time. So I probably get enough of most of the vitamins and minerals. But I'm sure some I get more than others so a small boost might help overall.

But I don't want to take one of the multivitimins that has 100% of everything in, that just ensures that I have way too much of some things.
No, that's far too short.
Well this is an American organisation :-) an expat mate of mine who worked for Citi said that if he wanted a pint at lunch time he went to the other side of town as if he had been seen people would have started leaving AA leaflets on his desk.

I remember talking to a trainer who gave training for managers on dealing with employees with substance abuse problems his comment “its the ones that have multiple stashes of vodka hidden at work that have a problem not social drinkers”
I remember this, but it was very different from Street View; it was made by sending students on rollerblades to snap pictures of buildings; it only concerned itself with big cities (mostly Paris at first if I remember correctly); and on the client side there was no stitching of any sort: you could just see a picture, then another, then another.

The idea was there, but the execution was poor; execution is what matters.
Show HN: Free, security-focused domain monitoring
I'm not arguing that one goal is better than another, just saying that goals cannot be (solely) derived from logic, because nature or logic cannot dictate what is good for humans. Deciding on common goals is exactly what politics is for.
no offence if you could give up that easily I doubt you where an actual alcoholic
Yes, I really like its philosophy, but it had some rendering issues when I tried.

Also, I've yet to accept that javascript is taking over (Atom, Lighttable..)
It's working - the virtuous circle of open data
Atom persist the workspace per directory.

$ atom some/where/to/my/project
# open files
# close atom
$ atom some/where/to/my/project
# atom reopens everything I had open for that project

Much more sensible for me than the reopen every single project I had open last time.
While it's possible that you got downvoted for having a point of view that others disagree with, I like to think that you're downvoted mainly for bringing this up at exactly the wrong time.

Imagine you wanted to discuss, as objectively as possible, the role of clothing in relation to sexuality, and the different perspectives people have on that. It's quite possible that people would not downvote you for expressing that you think that, generally speaking, there's something to be said for modesty in clothing (unless of course it'd be just about women dressing down). Even if they disagreed.

But imagine posting that opinion in the context of a post on rape and sexual abuse. It would immediately be linked to the surprisingly and unfortunately wide-spread view that 'those women were asking for it by dressing like a slut'. Regardless of whether your points have merit or should be accepted, the context makes it unacceptable and, quite frankly, a bit suspect.
Greg Cochran has been making that argument for some time now. Here's his take on the issue: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/rasmus-nielsen/
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In your case, you don't want to protect your data from (illegal) seizure and searching (since you also keep unencrypted BR discs).

But seizing the key-holding devices from your inner circle can be used by law enforcement (or an unfavourable regime) to recover your data without your consent, and you have no way of stopping them.

I don't know a solution to the problem - in the case you lose knowledge of your pass-phrases, external memory is a requirement and such an attack would probably always be possible.

If someone knows a way to have both amnesia- and dictator-proof encrypted storage, I'd love to know about it!
yes in the UK it tends to be poor working class out for a night out "binge drinking" ironic as the HOC has so many bars open all hours.
They are required to register for selective service. If drafted, they declare themselves to be a conscientious objector. This may include working in a hospital or other non-military role, but usually they request and get a farm deferment, to work on Amish or Mennonites farms, producing food as their "war effort."

See http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Course_Pages/Legal_Sy... for more details.

Basically, the Amish found that of the men who do non-combantant military service or work as nurse aides in hospitals end up being away from the Amish community for a couple of years, "only about half of them chose to return to their communities when their service was done, and not all of those chose to join the church." The Amish set up a committee to negotiate with the US about a solution which would work with both the US government and their own community.
C doesn't enter into it, any way you look at it. Unless you are using some obscure Java -> C compiler.
That's a peculiarly American view of the role of corporations. Another valid goal for companies is providing sustenance to their employees first, and "value" later.

Indeed. Even stakeholder-driven commercial institutions like co-ops or credit unions are somehow culturally not-quite-corporations in the (American) usual sense.
"... so far as I can tell."

Look - anyone of us can just spout our opinion. What separates HN is that people take the time to explain their reasons and often credentials. If you said, "Here's why and BTW I've worked in this industry as an XYZ for 25 years" - your opinion might matter. But as stated you've just stated your own personal opinion as though it is fact. Downvoted for that reason.
And I'm happy to worry about this problem for as many trillions of years as it takes.
What if you could profit from your posts in Social Media?
Hi all!

Me and my team are working on a web player that allows people to tag their products in photos and videos they post on social media. We're introducing a brand for the action sports market, featuring sponsored athletes that already generate thousands of views on their posts, resulting in tons of traffic for their brands' websites.

The idea is simple: the athlete (or a regular user) adds the products featuring in the shared content through our technology and they become available for purchase next to the photo or video within the player (it looks just like a facebook post). If you start getting lots of views on your posts, probably you'll be contacted by one or more brands featuring with good news.

This is the overall picture. Now a question: as an end user, would you upload your stuff and add product tags for share on a PPC model plus a chance of getting sponsored by one of those brands, or would you need a stronger incentive?

Tips and Feedback are highly welcomed! :)

FYI: http://www.radlegacy.com
Great story of a fantastic project; Street View is still the main difference between Google Maps and other alternatives (Bing has "Streetside" but with a much smaller coverage; and AFAIK OSM / Mapbox have nothing).

What an excitement it must have been to work on such a project! Thanks for sharing.
Just wanted to say that I enjoy your submissions.

Alas, there's no way to "follow" on HN.
yeh it's very cultural UK or European Alcohol consumption makes a lot of American think we are all borderline alcoholics.

And unfortunately in the USA there is the sectarian (religious) aspect to this.
SSSS is worse than using OP_CHECKMULTISIG because one has to put all the secrets at once on a single machine to produce the final private key. If the machine is compromised, such key can be stolen right away. Using multisig script allows you to have several (possibly compromised) machines sign a transaction independently without ever producing any "master secret".

Here's my suggestion on how to use multisig with blinding so you can lock your bitcoins with N friends and have your financial privacy at the same time:
http://oleganza.com/blind-ecdsa-draft-v2.pdf

Prototype for iOS (using my CoreBitcoin objc library):
http://github.com/oleganza/blindsignaturedemo
From the offhand "if you have a secret, patent it" remark, are we to gather that one secret is that Peter Thiel believes in patents?
Old Nokia saved tourist's life.
Paris has great public transport. This is the subway (metro) map:
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/12/56/aa/1256aa0...

The numbers are subways, the letters are trains. There are busses too, but I never use them. And there are rental bikes in the streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9lib%27

I don't think Paris needs shadow transit.
Hey, I've replied to you as well. Thanks for the insight, a lot of people are warning me to be cautious and I was definitely wary of this offer from the start.
While thinking about these things is important, it would be good not to lose track of the greater picture. I couldn't possibly say it as well as Nick Bostrom, so I won't try: Death is bad; it needs to go.

This seems like an apropos time to re-read http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
I'd say that assuming good health, which is kind of the point of the article, any fixed number of years is too short. Every human should be able to die by suicide at the moment of their choice.
> fat arrow: (a) => a * a is the same as
function(a) { return a * a; }

No, it's equivalent to the following:

(function (a) { return a * a; }).bind(this);

The fat arrow has lexically scoped this.

On an entirely different note, I never liked how generators are marked with an asterisk. A generator isn't special, it is just a function returning an iterator. A generator should be able to return normally as well as yield.
I agree completely, there is a big difference between how it should be and how it actually is. But its obvious that Disney's vision of reality isn't how it works. Culture works by sharing, still. How it will work going forward is up in the air yet; we can still control the outcome by not giving in.
"According to the source code will be labeled as extremists in XKeyscore users when they search the internet for anonymizing tools like Tor or Tails, thanks to the global monitoring of search queries."

Holy fuck this is disturbing.

Does someone have access to a human-translated copy or similar article?
Nice catch. There might more to the story here.

E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foothill_College#Controversy
Yep, a lot of times the driver will ask you where you are going before letting you jump in.
Forget Dinner. It's Always Snack Time in America
As soon as I saw, "owned the Super Fruit in Chambersburg", I knew who this joker was. Man, I doubt this guy even sold the Super Fruit, I bet he went bankrupt. That place was a dump. He probably only told everyone he sold it for a lot of money. And even if he did sell it, what he thinks is "a lot of money" was probably only a few dozen kilobucks, maybe enough to live a year in Chambersburg.

I grew up in Chambersburg and the surrounding area. I now live in DC and am trying to get my parents to move out of Chambersburg. It may be cheap to live there, but there are other cheap places that aren't as awful. There is a certain culture of two-faced, get-rich-quick scheming there. Every redneck and his brother is trying to work an angle, trying to convince everyone they know the score, they did the leg work, you should invest, when all they really did was watch something on Discovery one night. This entire story is just not terribly surprising.

See, the problem with the Amish isolating themselves so much is that it makes them incredibly naive about the rest of us that they call "The English". They think we're all awful people, that we praise Satan with our morning cereal. You do anything that clearly demonstrates that as false, like... I don't know... letting them see you be a normal person for more than 15 minutes, and it breaks their brains. They don't know how to deal with it. So Moffitt handing out free fruit probably short circuited everything they knew about "The English" and they just lapped up his bullshit with a deer-in-the-headlights-look. But if they weren't so cut off from their surrounding community, they would have never paid attention to the guy.

Read up on their history. Their reason for coming to America, as well as a bunch of other other Germanic religious groups around the same time, was basically, "you know what? I may be a simple farmer, but I think our local church is wrong and we should be a lot more strict about our religion. But what's this? Most of the other people in our town don't want to be flogged for not going to bed at 8pm? Religious persecution! Let's move to America!"

So they cut themselves off and didn't live in their geographic community. If they were involved with The English, they would have known Moffitt was an asshole. I've seen this script played out so many times IN THIS VERY TOWN. It's probably the reason I haven't ever fallen for an MBA idea-guy's scheming, I had plenty of practice listening to the bullshit streaming out of old guys' mouths back home.
Interesting story on the nature of trust. In this case it wasn't some random guy turning up on the doorstep with a dodgy investment, but somebody they had known and worked with for years. Is it the case that you can never absolutely trust somebody, regardless of how long you've known them or what they've done in the past?
Here's my understanding:

In model-checking, you describe an abstracted version of your system and you can automatically check some properties. Your model has to be small enough (in term of number of states) to be processed by the tool, and the class of formulas you can express may be limited. Typically, you can check safety properties (such as assert statement in your code).

On the other hand, using a theorem prover (I think "proof assistant" is a better term, you can work on more accurate representations of your system and express any properties, but most proofs have to be done manually which requires time and expertise.

As for dependently typed language, I think most of them are not expressive enough to express complex properties such as "the system will eventually reach a consensus if no more than half of the process fail". And those that are are more akin to theorem provers.
Generally when people are talking about extending human lifespan, they're talking about extending the active, healthy lifespan. Obviously, what we did until now with medical advances is prolong old age and delay the inevitable. If it's possible to slow aging, then being 80 doesn't mean anything per se, it's just a number if you're biologically like a 20 year old today.
Israel has always had 'Sherut' taxi vans. These usually follow regular bus routes and actually pot the bus route's number. The biggest use case is Saturdays, when public busses don't run, but it's not unknown for a 'sherut' van to arrive in some terminal trying to put together a route for any potential travelers sitting around or even to go along a long haul bus route 5 minutes ahead of the official bus and pick up passengers.

Different areas/routes have different conventions. Price is sometimes by negotiation, sometimes the bus fare and sometimes twice the bus fare.

Makes sense to the people who use it regularly but very hard to penetrate for a newcomer. Virtually impossible for tourists. Ironically, a lot of guide books tell tourists to use these.
More detailed infos would be nice, I wonder how these compare to the following AVR 802.15.4 SoC modules

http://www.dresden-elektronik.de/funktechnik/products/radio-...
Looks like a really good product. I've been thinking about writing something like that for some time. I'll give paperbox a shot !
Some of it can be used today in TypeScript.
I think the idea of the anti-aging drugs from the article is you're supposed to remain youthful well into your elderly age.
I think the idea of revolution as a result of age-disparity is a tad overstated. At the point most people would become sufficiently aware of any age-gap, and angry-enough to want to riot about it, you'd probably be suffering age-related effects and want a nap.

Also, drugs eventually fall out of patent and become available at far lower prices to everyone. The poor have far larger problems than whether they get to live an extra 10 years or so once they get to 70.
I recently swapped out two mechanical mx blue keyboards for the Ergo 4000, never going back the reduction in pain was amazing inside a few days.
Expedia says Bitcoin usage has exceeded expectation
NYC's bus fleet is slower than San Francisco's, with some routes netting 2-3 MPH.

Note that urban traffic speeds, net of stops, are often quite modest, and that "dwell times" and stop frequency have a profound impact.

Even BART, with its 80 MPH peak speeds, averages about 35 MPH for longer throughway routes. You can verify this roughly by comparing BART travel times with driving distances in Google Maps.

But cities with slow average transit speeds are also generally pretty dense. Remember, SF is 7 miles square, do even 8.1 MPH gets you from one end to the other in an hour (and that's pretty much a worst case).

Google Maps shows the SF Ferry Building to SF State (a cross-town trip) as 21 minutes by car (good luck with parking), or 39 minutes by transit.

Worse are trips between less-travelled areas. The Marina to SF Zoo is a 21 minute drive, but 1h2m by bus.

Driving from the Ferry Building to the de Young Museum in Golden Gate park is only 5.8 miles but would take 21 minutes -- that's 16.5 MPH, by car. Access to highways vs. surface streets makes a big difference.
You should get your facts right:

As per Wikipedia -

Ken Thompson states that, initially, Go was purely an experimental project. Referring to himself along with the other original authors of Go, he states:[11]
When the three of us [Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer] got started, it was pure research.
You're absolutely right! Fixed, thanks!

(PS, repository is here: https://github.com/espadrine/New-In-A-Spec)
I think it needs to be very clear for the athlete what brands are on the platform and who they're sponsoring.

Also, while I think it's cool that your platform solves a pain point (getting sponsored) for the athlete, please don't let it look like just a bunch of infomercials. Badly done product placement sucks for the fan.

Good luck, guys!
Spam in May: An Education in Fake Notifications
Chinese Military Creates High-Level Cyber Intelligence Center
There's a wrapper to get RVM working with fish, in case it matters to you now; details here: https://rvm.io/integration/fish
It's based on a report by the TV station ARD. The video shows source code printouts, here are screencaps:

http://i.imgur.com/3flJ50Y.png

http://i.imgur.com/NRMY6Qo.png

Edit: some say it's not really the XKeyscore code: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=ad4bdd72