skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make 0 sense. I'm not sure if you just have trouble following what I wrote or what the issue is.

> If your assertion is correct that Everett truly "broke" Stellar

1) That is not what I said. Much like the person who doesn't understand what "farming" means in context, I'm just going to assume poor comprehension on your part.

2) Even if that is what I said, he gained internet points and attention. That is still technically speaking "gain", at which point...you are still wrong.

So, I think the issue here is:

1) You can't understand what I wrote either due to me or your poor reading comprehension.

2) You don't realize what you said is inherently false, regardless.

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At this point, I'm mainly just amused by how everyone leaps up to defend a guy who basically stole Stellars and then waited until he was called out to say anything.

I wonder how well that would work at a bank. Care to try it for me?
We might think that smoking can be bad for individuals, and decriminalization is good for society at the same time.
However, a seven month time period is not enough to read the experiment on many the variables claimed in the article (blight, drop outs, etc.)
Depression and anxiety are often comorbid and it is more likely that you will see both disorders rather than one in absence of the other. There is a lot of research going into determining why these disorders are often tangled together, some studies [1] suggest that depression can stem from anxiety disorders and that depression can exacerbate anxiety further. Of course there is anxiety-depression and depression-anxiety, finding out which of the these an individual has is a crucial step towards providing sufficient aid. One of the large issues is how hard it can be untangles these two disorders which is an important step in therapy.

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010440X00...
My news is a bit delayed, but from what I know of WA, the political atmosphere is a bit frayed. Local government is hampered by a complex web of bureaucracy and the state government may not be willing to play along.

I'm sure there are plenty of people there that want to follow the same example, but they may not have enough momentum to organize and push through as CO did.
I don't know of any purpose built app for a static website.

However, if you are comparing it to the Wordpress app? Ya, that is easier. However, you aren't comparing apples to apples at that point.

If I built a purpose built app for my static blog, yes it would be just as easy.
Everything Is Fast For Small n
Real estate prices in Sebastapol are still 3+ times higher than in most of the United States.
> One thing that git stinks at is line-by-line code review, for example.

Really? That's one thing I haven't ever seen anyone do better than plain old 'git log -p'. I use this alias:

[alias]
review = log -p --reverse

After `git fetch`-ing I copy the hash range that I fetched and paste it after `git review`. Then in Less I can type "/^diff" to use n and p to skip back and forth between commits. I find this is much easier to read than Github's html diff views and infinitely more efficient than the millions of clicks I need in web browser to do anything (plus there's absolutely no lag, unlike the browser).
$2500 for a mobile developer job in Tokyo? Does that even pay for taxes and rent and food?
The going rate in the bay area (also expensive) is about 4x that. Why would anyone with mobility choose Japan then? (Other than as a language immersion class, perhaps?)
>UK government had weird ideas about right to peaceful protest being wrong if it was effective at making people change their behavior. Thus animal rights groups are sometimes terrorist organisations

check out AETA laws in states.
I'm not sure why DRM would be more prominent than other applications? Software diversification is a big topic right now, in the hopes it can make all software more secure. That could help virtual machines, network stacks, and really anything from web browsers to entire OSes.
I wonder if this phenomenon might be the primary factor in certain kinds of delayed marriage. I'm thinking, for example, of two people in their late 20s who have been dating for 5 years, figure marriage is in their future, but don't "feel ready".
I can actually be hired to throw sarcastic comments at your product and or idea for as little as just 99 cents per message.

In addition to offering 'hired guns' users could get suggestions automatically mined from other users with highly rated replies (similar to A.L.I.C.E) . The UI could be mass effect style with an array of choices:

I.e

T: what are you up to

derivative conversation detected! (read in a protoss voice)

Y:

nothing u? (swipe left)

busy go away (swipe right)

returning video tapes (swipe up)

robbing a bank (swipe down)
if not for that "moral inconsistency" we would still be cutting live dogs without anesthesia in the name of scientific research.

> The Rhesus monkeys will perish so that we can improve treatment for millions of people suffering from anxiety and depression

moral ends where horsetrading starts.
Which vendor? I have experience with two brands in similar condos, one good, one not so much...
I will say that I've had similar experiences. I wouldn't have a pi that does a large amount of reading/writing for a mission critical task. I have one pi, that I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or what, but I've got to the point of just restarting it every 6 hours, if I don't, it hard freezes.

I've also already ruined one (admittedly, cheaper no name brand) SD card on another raspberry pi. That one went after 2 weeks of hard usage. I now have an ever growing collection of SD cards (4 gig cards are too small for more than basic uses of the raspberry, even 8 gigs can be a bit limiting)

That said, the raspi's are fun, but I wouldn't trust the SD cards on them with something like this.
This has been national news all day. It's been the top news story in Ohio all day. National news has moved on.
It makes no sense to suggest he donate it to charity. He found a pile of people willing to sell him the goods at a price both they and he were happy with. If something like Stellar is to succeed you can't put limits on the free market and the transactions that are allowed to take place using them.

Just because he didn't use his real name doesn't make the transaction less valid. And just because the task didn't use an identifiable account name doesn't make the transaction less valid.

What you're insisting is that you can't buy something from someone on Craigslist using a fake name and meeting in a place that nobody else can tell where you made the transaction. In other words, 99% of Craiglist transactions.
There is lots of undefined behavior that causes crashing, although usually of the target program, not the compiler.
Crashing compilers is nothing new though. I can't count how many ICEs I used to run into in certain versions of certain other compilers...
HN always sinks the threads I find interesting, here's this same subject from earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8125881
¿it's hard to put a next/previous button?
An example of regular glibc Linux running on Nvidia Jetson TK1 board (same chipset as in Shield) on fully open stack (nouveau + Wayland):

http://www.codethink.co.uk/2014/06/12/no-secret-sauce-just-o...

I wonder if there are open drivers for other components in Shield (WiFi, accelerometer, etc.) to enable running fully open stack on it. I'd really like to have something like Nemo or Plasma Active running on top of Wayland there.
I can definitely agree with your point about no such thing as easier money than IT money.

Prior to working in programming (still in college, but I've done a few internships) I worked restaurant jobs--prep cook, dishwasher, busboy, etc. I'd come home from those jobs and not want to do anything for the rest of the day. It was completely mentally and physically exhausting.

Now I'm working for a software company and get to sit in a chair 8 hours a day and take breaks whenever I feel like it. When I worked at restaurants my managers would be all over me if I wasn't moving around and doing something.

Working in software I'm basically paid to do what I would have done in my free time. I find that pretty remarkable.
In general I agree with you. It is important to separate experience from capability (there's probably a better word here).

Much of the social psychology may not fit easily into that division though. To pick on a common whipping boy in these arguments, Milgram's obedience study, what is the role of experience in any set of choices like those given to the participants. The asymmetric responsibilities when there is a power dynamic is something that some people learn somewhere along the line.

I'm rambling a little but I feel that some of the observed effects in these experiments may be things for which experience may provide a learned immunity
I saw this a few days ago, I have not done it myself, but here's the link: http://www.zdnet.com/raspberry-pi-extending-the-life-of-the-...
Wow that's a tiny carrot to dangle, Yelp.
Why not just use Ruby, all of this is already built in?
MinHash for Dummies (2013)
If all the ice melted
Does hypocrisy invalidate an argument?
I hope I mentally parsed your comment correctly, it was tough with all if those negations, but the claim that all companies who have long user lists will always monetize is demonstrably false.

Off the top of my head:

1. Friendster
2. AltaVista
3. AOL's AIM. They tried, and failed.

I'm not saying that a huge user list is worthless, that would be silly, but until you're making money it's all just pie in the sky thinking.
Likely. You have to be able to see the trade offs and cascading effects. It is similar to the ethical question where if you reroute the train track it kills someone and if you don't it kills two.

Of course, it is more hairy than that. There is an estimate of the number of people on the original track as well as a probability that the reroute does not save them.
As things get easier for most people to do on their own, the value of
the task decreases. At one point, putting something on the web meant
needing to know how to compile, install, configure and connect a server,
as well as how to manually write correct HTML code. These days, we often
just type out some text, and click "submit".

Just like everything else, theme creation (configuration) will continue
to get easier for most people to do on their own. As the barrier to
entry is reduced, the market for themes will be reduced.

Can you think of any recent advancements enabling most people to create
or configure their own themes more easily?
Relevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Crevasse

Tracy's referring to this when he talks about the show being about his life:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Righteous_Cowboy_Ligh...
> It's easy to get a rosy view of things, reading Hacker News, as Hacker News is attached to one of the few parts of the USA business community that remains dynamic.

But isn't YC focused on proving some idea and then getting acquired? YC is thus primarily a pipeline for the enlargement of older, established companies, not a mechanism for creating new companies that will be viable in the long term.

So, if we consider the trend mentioned in these articles to be a problem (and clearly you do), then wouldn't YC -- and, by association, HN -- be more a part of the problem than part of a solution?
TIL (today I learned): It appears a 'diversifying C virtualizer' is an application that takes C source code, compiles it to an AST and transforms it to bytecode, and inserts a bytecode interpreter in place of the function. It can generate many different such bytecode/interpreter representations of a function, thus making it more of a challenge for crackers.
I'm not sure why this is here. I don't see any recent substantive changes on the RecentChanges page[0], and there's nothing on the page really indicating why this is HN-worthy. Unless this is supposed to be illustrative of questions in desperate need of revisions...

0: https://wiki.python.org/moin/RecentChanges
Hi,

The site seems pretty slick - you've obviously spent a lot of time on this, not just thrown something together over the weekend.

Are you all affiliate-based? I usually just go to ThemeForest when I want to buy something, and while I hate their browse (why would I want to see some logo for the theme instead of a thumbnail??), it does basically work.

I think you need to focus on content marketing and building an email list, so that you have some kind of community around your site (like DesignModo does). I don't think the theme search is enough to pull in customers, especially because you'll need to rely on organic search and not PPC if the margins just aren't there.

FWIW, I own www.themepuppy.com, which was originally meant to be a gallery of commercial Drupal themes, but that's not really much of a market, so I'm not using it right now.
I bet that the unsuspecting Mechanical Turk workers, who traded their 6000 Stellars, did not realize that this was a one-time deal, rather than a repeatable revenue opportunity.

Mechanical Turk workers are used to low-paying and high-volume jobs. The $1.00 fee is very attractive for the steps involved, if this was a repeatable job. It's only natural to assume that every worker would attempt to create another Stellar account and retry the steps anew, only to be confronted with a an error after the first attempt.

And, unbeknownst to them, if Stellar does become a success, those workers will forever be left on the sidelines. Considering that Stellar has the potential to include the world's underprivileged into the global economy, often without bank accounts or identities, it's a shame that we are the first to take advantage of them.
What happens if the download is cancelled/aborted/ruined/interrupted during transfer? Is it still possible to download it?
Any japanese company can get a visa for a programmer incredibly easily just by filling out a form and submitting some documentation. Very different situation from elsewhere.
Submarines communicate using extremely low frequency radio transmissions to penetrate water. They have a bandwidth of 2-3 characters per minute, so the messages are almost exclusively orders to surface and switch to standard satellite based communications. Oh, and the transmitter requires a very unique piece of land with low ground potential that only exists in a dozen or so places worldwide.

Completely impractical for SCADA systems. :)
http://nypost.com/2014/08/02/cop-who-used-deadly-chokehold-s...

Loosie seller killed by NYPD.
The talk is great. For those who do not have the patience, this is the doc of Moose
https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose

This is the Moose Cookbook
https://metacpan.org/pod/Moose::Cookbook

I think this is pretty much everything you need to start using Moose.
A good postmortem... and a clear example of a Type 1 Outage. There are pretty much only two kinds of outage in a decently-run system:

1. Two or three things go wrong at once. Some of the problems are spontaneous, and some were always broken but it took the other problem(s) to uncover it. (Here, the SSD failure was presumably spontaneous, but the "not completely successful" routing engine failover sounds like a case of rarely-used-hence-poorly-tested.)

2. A systemic failure hits all redundant components at once (DDOS, fat-fingered global configuration change, calendar bug, etc.)
I must be missing something, was that not an OK thing to say?
You are right, but it is on its way to Perl Core.
https://github.com/stevan/p5-mop-redux
I think it's your UX. You have two big flaws:

1) You don't have a search. You have four filters, three of them with over 20 choices each. You've well over quadrupled the number of choices a visitor has to make before they see any results.

2) You don't let me quickly browse a list or grid of themes. You show themes one at a time, which feels like the slowest possible way for me to find a theme.

If you can fix your UX, something I'd think about for your marketing is talking about how many additional (quality) themes people will get a chance to see. I buy or recommend themes to buy for clients pretty often, and I pretty much only go to ThemeForest. My impression is they have the largest collection. If you can convince me I'm going to get a lot more good options, from one place, and be able to evaluate them as easily as I can on themeforest (reviews, Wordpress & browser version support, etc.), I'd be interested.
This is why I get most of my news from the Internet. The other news stories are definitely important but being in the toledo area (thankfully in a town that doesn't get water from Lake erie) kind of gives this one a bit more immediate relevance.
This question is about fit. I've interviewed places where this kind of question led to discussion that resulted in both sides realizing it wasn't a good fit. That's useful to know. The company doesn't want to hire you if you won't stick around and you'll just end up unhappy and looking for work again quickly.

Here are some things to consider when answering this question:

- What areas of programming do you like? Do you want to work on databases, low level coding, front end web dev stuff, etc.

- Do you like starting things from scratch or would you rather work on adding features to an established code base?

- What type of scheduling do you like? Are you okay with tasks changing rapidly or do you prefer your work schedule to be more planned in advance?

- What size of team do you like to work with? How do you prefer to interact with your other team members?

- Are you hoping to learn from more senior devs? Do you want to move up to take on more responsibility (senior or lead positions)?
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> “It’s simple,” she says. “A high tax rate drives black market growth. It’s an incentive for risky behavior.”"

I disagree, as a smoker , I'd prefer buying the legit stuff somewhere safe rather than going into a dangerous neighbourhood to get a 33 percent rebate on a product with questionable quality. the premium is worth paying for my safety. And at least i'm not financing some gangs that will later be raiding my house or mugging my friends. I just want to get my shit legally. How many adults buy their booze illegaly today? none.
iOS app reviews are mostly positive
5k to help yelp? please.
Or Stellar flops and the guy just spent 24 hours of his life and $50 or so dollars to accumulate a bunch of useless not-even-paper. It could go either way. The mechanical turk workers implicitly made the bet that stellars will not be worth much more than they are worth today in the future - and were thus, reasonably, willing to trade nothing for real actual money that's there right now.
Not sure is RO can, but a regular carbon filter will remove it.
That's not a loaded question when the person in question has a history of beating their wife.
The network problems seem to have started earlier. I received a penny for my NYC2 droplet just before this major incident. Luckily, I decided to shutdown and move the droplet to SFO before this incident. Over the last couple of years dealing with cloud providers, I have learned to dust off the contingency plan as soon there is whiff of issues at a location.

Though the recap is good, there are red flags that show gaps in DO processes and incident management.

Upgrade of software before the original problem was diagnosed and resolved. This is a big no-no, never introduce a new variable in an existing problem even if the service provider or lab testing shows the chances of failure are minimal. I have worked long enough with technology infrastructure to experience situations where service provider insisted on upgrading software during unrelated incident and made situation worse.

A better approach would have been to fail the network to good switch first and when the bad switch was fixed, upgrade the software on bad switch first then failover to the upgraded switch and upgrade software on good switch. This time you guys got lucky but sooner or later your luck will run out.
I heard about it first on cnn.com - it's not the top story, but it is on the front page.

It's not really major national news because everyone expects it to last only a short time, i.e. a non-issue for everyone else.

If it lasted a few days it would rapidly rise.
Really? Because although I came from Ruby (and before that, C, ASM), I spent 4 years in Perl with half of that doing Moose stuff. Now I'm doing Python, C, and hardware stuff.

I really miss Moose. Pythonistas generally can't believe I could possibly miss anything from the Perl world, and usually aren't interested in hearing my reasons why.

But honestly - I miss doing 75% of my work in bashing out an declarative specification with Moose, especially with the type system (as slow as that can be at runtime; the work-around is making objects immutable which leads to cleaner code anyway).

Python does have the traits package by enthought, which has some vaguely similar stuff in it but nobody seems to use it. Being out of the ruby loop for a while, what's ruby's answer to Moose?
On the other hand, it's now a source of tax revenue, and governments can generally be counted on to find the balance to maximize tax revenue.
He found a pile of people looking for a job, and willing to perform a set of tasks for a certain price. Nowhere was it disclosed that this was a one-time deal, and by proceeding they would be forever limiting the upside of their personal economic prosperity.

If you disclosed to these people that this is a one-time transaction, and that they will forever be parting ways with their only allotment of currency which might appreciate in the future, and which is currently valued 50X higher, I bet you wouldn't get as many takers.
If you are affected by this, a regular carbon filter is effective in cleaning the water. Make sure it's not an old (used up) filter.

Paper/poly/string filters will do nothing.
They also don't usually ask for an unsigned card.
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What's your indication that it's stagnated? Other than a guess?
I think the site is definitely slick, but I have two main problems with this:

1. The site doesn't really add much value on top of existing template sites that already have a search feature. In some cases an even more feature full one.

I think for me the value would be in not having so many filtering options but actually less. Build something smart that figures out why I want without me having to make many different selections. Reduce the options.

2. Even if you do that, is the market for templates that big and is what you're building hard enough to replicate that the template sites won't copy it immediately if it succeeds?

aka. are you solving a real problem? or is this solving a problem that doesn't exist?

I don't buy templates but I'd guess the market is fairly small and most template buyers aren't recurring buyers.

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So what do you do - I think you should explore what you've built and look for something you can salvage. Then apply it to a real problem.
> Request early access... invite 20 of your friends!

No thanks

Also, your password to the account is a 4-digit pin? What?
Requesting Failure Analysis (FA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) from equipment provider is pretty standard after major incidents. It helps customer understand the issue better and put process in place to handle similar incidents. Similarly, vendors do it willingly because it allows them to learn more about issue and either address issue with product enhancement or put out alerts to their service org/ other customers with potential troubleshooting and resolution guidelines.