skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard not to read the whole thing and think the people involved were very foolish, and it's an example of the lengths to which people can push wishful thinking and confirmation bias and ignore basic arguments like 'how could someone bury treasure in such a difficult to excavate way without anyone noticing them constructing it all, and how did they ever expect to retrieve it?' For example, we're repeatedly told about the scanty traces of things dug up like coconut, and then later this bombshell is dropped:

> In 1937, Hedden and his contractors returned to Oak Island. This time the company would encounter intriguing findings. Burrowing down one of the many auxiliary tunnels pock marking the island, the team stumbled upon a number of fascinating items including a miner's oil lamp with whale oil and unexploded dynamite at 65 feet.

Where on earth did those come from? Are the pirates supposed to have brought dynamite with them a century or two before? This suggests to me that (1) all the previous expeditions and drillings have littered the island with all sorts of equipment and junk, and hence nothing found after the first expedition means much of anything or (2) the flood tunnels and other geological oddities move debris around and that is responsible for the dynamite, in which case there may never have been anything to explain in the first place.

> It appears far too simple to dismiss the efforts of respected lawyers, businessmen, doctors, actors and even an esteemed president.

Does it now.
What if an artist leaves a cheap camera chained to a bench with a note saying "Take photos of yourself!".

Who owns the copyright there? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/238859335/leaving-a-dis...

http://laughingsquid.com/new-york-shots-leaving-a-disposable...
That is a feature we want to implement
Right now buttons only work with source code hosted on GitHub (although the button can be added anywhere). We want to extend that to other source code hosting services, though.

The challenge is that we have to resolve the [app.json][1] file to generate the deploy UI.

[1]: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/5/22/introducing_the_a...
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Okay, yeah sure. Good point. If you want to get down into those kinds of philosophical details, I'm not sure I'm prepared to do that. Right now, I'm kind of like the Supreme Court on pornography, I recognize understanding when I see it.

I think Feynman handles the question incorrectly. The question is about his understanding of magnetism, but he places the burden on the receiver of the explanation. If they don't understand the explanation then it doesn't matter. I do get his point in this and I'm not entirely saying it's wrong. But I think also that it's a deflection.

Lets assume a "presently omniscient" listener asking the question, somebody who may not have the knowledge before it is presented to them, but will understand the explanation perfectly as it's provided.

Suppose a Feynman or some other physicist has such a listener and they go on a deep dive into all the myriad and intricate details, the sum of all human knowledge on the matter -- this kind of listener would be able to follow along entirely with every last detail.

This listener would still not have an answer to the question "how do magnets work?" Because science doesn't actually know the answer to this. We have excellent descriptions of what magnets do, and what produces magnetism. We can predict to some nth decimal point of precision the outcome of just about any given experiment such that we don't really bother much with experimental physics about most of the day-to-day magnetism.

But why do those things produce magnetism at all?

The answers to this is basically "it just does". And that's as good as all our knowledge is. That's all we've arrived at. For all we know, every time an electron starts circling something, invisible universe fairies produce "magnetism" magic that does what we observe.

We don't know why magnetism does what it does, only that it does it.

But imagine if we actually understood it, at a fundamental level, if we "groked" magnetism and were the masters of it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148377
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As someone else already stated - beautifully put.

I've been reading through all the comments from yesterday. This one makes a lot of sense to me.
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Did JSFiddle go account only?
I just tried to make a fiddle and the save button is gone and replaced with a pair programming collaboration button. The save is there when you create an account though. Lame.
These passwords don't seem to work. Do they work in your side?
Poll: I disagree with you, is it ok to downvote you?
A lot of the recent "Don't be a jerk" thread [1] revolved around downvoting. What is the right way to use downvote privileges?

I see the reasons to downvote a comment as:

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8148068
A) Someone said something mean/racist/sexist
B) Someone said something that I disagree with
C) When I upvote one thread and downvote the others my input seems twice as valuable
D) I dislike someone and didn't even read their comment
E) There are no rules so act how you feel is appropriate
Silicon Valley Bank, if you can get an account with them. Not sure about their online service, but the operation (which is obviously much smaller than the US one) is pretty slick, runs great events for startups and is generally supportive of startups and the particular difficulties they have. So - probably worth checking out.

In terms of what to look for - integratable bank feeds to sync with Xero/FreeAgent/accounting software of your choice (most UK banks do it now, not sure about the US), and transparency of pricing - I discovered, by trawling through the small print that the bank I was about to go with was going to charge me £0.34 for EVERY incoming transaction. Not a great option for a subscription based system dealing with ~£3 payments. It was incredibly difficult to find.
> If you think about purchasing a device

don't.

the work so far can all be done with emulator. DO NOT BUY A DEVICE. and as the parent just said, the performance on the emulator is MUCH better than the real device.

it is just more waste in the world.

Also, if anyone want a couple firefox phones msg me. i have a couple left. i got them when i believed that since they were going to be sold in stores, they would be consumer ready... and hence i needed to support them on my site... big mistake on all accounts. to being with they are not consumer ready. and it was close to impossible to find them in stores (despite them being advertised on billboards all over the city)

anyway, if you want a phone, msg me. i have a few left. be warned that is harder to flash than a re-purposed android phone. much. much harder. (extremely closed components and hard to crate kernels)

This is not hate on the project. just on their careless aggressiveness to go to market. the project has lots of future. just take your time before polluting the world with pure garbage.
i think that's exactly what i was getting at: it should be something everyone on the team is doing.

i doubt that this is the intent, but the term seems to be exclusive rather than inclusive. i'd be happy to be proven wrong though.
I'm having a hard time understanding what he means by "hyperexponential". If N grows exponentially and there's some function of N that's O(N^2), it's still exponential.

He can't mean the hyperexponential probability distribution, that's something different.
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> C) When I upvote one thread and downvote the others my input seems twice as valuable

Wait, do people actually do this? (outside of Reddit, anyways)
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More accurately, I think families define the mainstream. A superhero movie that is PG-13 makes a lot more money than a superhero movie that is R rated for example.
It's currently a bit hacky but works — I think I'll put out a basic demo in a few days and then build from there.
Exactly. I am constantly astounded by professional scientists who try to find a deeper meaning in mathematical models whose only purpose is to predict experimental results. Human brains work on intuition, but when dealing with imperfect models such as Quantum Mechanicns (QM), there is no intuition to be had. If Quantum Mechanics or General Relativity were perfect, we wouldn't actively be looking for a unifying theory to resolve their mutual inconsistencies.

Once we have a theory of everything, then we can begin trying to form an accurate intuition underlying the model. Until then, there is no point trying to intuit probabilistic models which are designed to predict experimental results, and nothing else.
Do you have any advice on how I can go about figuring this out? I have a feeling it's not a black and white thing. EG: That module I wrote may have made sales easier, but not impossible.
> Facebook, Twitter, reddit, the Internet itself, the iPhone, and on and on and on—most people dismissed these things as incremental or trivial when they first came out.

With the exception of the internet itself, I think they still are. Are we really that much happier with our social media and iPhones than we are without them? I think that for the most part, the answer is no. Most use is superficial and procrastination rather than meaningful connection with people.

Check out The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook. He talks about how we've made all of this "progress" in our standard of living, but that it isn't actually making us happier.

However, I agree with the central idea that "toys" are often dismissed prematurely.
"Facebook, Twitter, reddit, the Internet itself, the iPhone, and on and on and on—most people dismissed these things as incremental or trivial when they first came out."

So, are Facebook and the iPhone bettering the world right now?
The button only works with GitHub repos at this time, but if you can place the button on other sites by using the ?template= parameter to point back to the GitHub repo. If you would like to have an app.json in a non-GitHub repo (or any source in a tarball for that matter), you can use the app-setup API (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference...) to do the deployment.
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How about linking to a zip or tar file?
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My apologies for going off topic for a second, but is it well-known that Amazon seems to use Uber-esque surge pricing?! I (like apparently a lot of people) went to Amazon to buy the book cited as soon as I saw it (and it looks like a great book!). There were eight copies left in stock, and I bought it for $62.69.[1] When I went back to Amazon a few minutes later (following someone else's link), there was only one copy left in stock, and it was listed for $98.60.[2] With my apologies again for being off-topic, is this a known phenomenon?

Anyway, thanks for seconding their recommendation of the book; I'm looking forward to reading it -- and glad I saved the 35 clams!

[1] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s249/sh/53d7b93a-d737-41c4-8e...

[2] https://www.evernote.com/shard/s249/sh/a1c55244-d64e-40cc-a6...
It is founded by a brazilian designer in Brazil... but I think it always adressed the "english speaking market". This is not huge in Brazil, for example.

That said, I guess not being in USA is why it is not a household name (as it came before Pinterest, as you said). Not because it started in brazilian market, but because its founder lacks the right environment and connections. Pinterest got heavily funded and exploded, I have the impression that Weheartit was a little bit hesitant about being funded on a crucial time. The slow and steady strategy worked fine for them, but I guess they missed the opportunity to be Pinterest.

Just my opinions about it, and I have no insider info of any kind on this.
Hyperexponential I would assume is an order of magnitude higher than exponential. Although if I remember my video game terminology correctly, the proper hierarchy is exponential, then superexponential, then hyperexponential.
I second this recommendation. Excellent book.
it's all hacks and fun until you realize you now can't run any extension or global change in the 'browser'. :(

though another hack should be able to take of this easily... maybe even without forcing extension authors to change their extensions...
It's already possible, we just need to put out an example of how to do it. :)
Its very hard to trust this website when there is a massive misrepresentation of the number of viewers.
I am sure I missed some perfectly reasonable answers, so please let me know. I have only ever used the downvote button a few times, mostly for reason A, but there is also at least one out there that I would take back if that were an option.

I have also been downvoted myself, and I know that especially for someone with low karma it can be a real blow.
Ask HN: What helped you leave your day job and start on your own?
Question to entrepreneurs who left a day job to start their own company, what helped you make the decision? Did you already have a running business before leaving or just had an idea or left your job and started searching for something to work on?
I have a few things in which I want to do, but leaving the comfort of monthly salary seems very difficult specially because job enables me to financially help my family. Does that mean I am not motivated enough and it would be idiotic to leave the job? My job doesn't motivate me to do anything challenging and is full of enterprise politics.
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F) someone posted a useless (thanks, cool story bro...) comment
Ask HN: Why doesn't car insurance price decrease as car depreciates?
When I get insurance on my new car the price is $N/Month. After several years the price stays the same but the amount I would be reimbursed in a scenario where my car is totaled goes down. Seems my monthly premium should go down as well....
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I am curious about the technical details here, but I suppose they can't have zero knowledge of your files if they're able to share them via link anywhere.
It's not out of the question, just use your mind. If your financial upfuckery is implemented as a wide array (say 1000+) instances of a Go program, each of which is capable of saying "stop sending me traffic, I'm about to stop for a full GC" a few milliseconds before actually stopping for GC, then latency will not be impacted and throughput will only be degraded by the time required to cork and uncork the input with respect to the time required for the GC round.
This should be mandatory reading for everyone running a Kickstarter or similar. Great breakdown of costs.
Why would we blame Silicon Valley for this? Silicon Valley largely builds problems that solve issues for Silicon Valley.

This isn't a bad thing, it just means that we have to decentralize the concentration of developers and entrepreneurs from one concentrated physical location.

If only there were a way for people to communicate at large distances with each other in an interconnected way....like a network of devices or something.
I had not caught this article when it was originally published. Thanks for the share! I really like how one man, with a lot of time on his hands, could reverse engineer the designs of some of the most secret weapons ever created.
What about doing both? I've spent about 5 years in college, including 3 years of time-wasting on an economics/applied communications/English degree, then a 2 year diploma in Computer Systems Technology, which covered programming and hardware as well as other useful stuff such as technical writing and public speaking. I did co-ops and got my current job through the college job board. So I think I've had the full college experience. I also have on the job experience as a programmer. However, I want to learn more, get out of web development and into business software, learn some new programming languages. I do best in a classroom environment, but all the "hacker boot camps" and the like that I've seen seem much too basic for where I'm at right now. What route should I take?
Oh boy, this comes up every few years. I guess the words "unsolved mystery" must excite some specific neural pattern in our brains.

It's far from the last great unsolved mystery, though, as claimed in the title: I would definitely put (i) deciphering the last part of Kryptos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos), (ii) deciphering the Voynich Manuscript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript), and, if you insist on adding treasure to the equation (iii) the Beale Ciphers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers) on any list of unsolved mysteries that fuel the imagination.
It's actually pretty impressive, what do your licensing terms look like?
Why do people assume that cleanup in reference counting has to be synchronous?

You can deal with deallocation chains in reference-counted systems without having arbitrarily-long pauses. You keep a stack of <pointers to items to be removed + current child index in item>. When something's reference count goes to 0, push it onto the stack, with a child index of zero. Every so often, pop the last item off of the stack, if (the child index is after the last child) {deallocate the memory}, else {decrement the reference count of the child of the object indexed by the child index, pushing that onto the stack with a child index of 0 if the child is now dead, and push it back onto the stack with an incremented child index}. You can do any/all of this in batches.
In the classical 12-part monomyth, the visit with PG could be considered the "Supernatural Aid" part. [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth#Supernatural_Aid
It would be nice to narrow the timescale down a bit from just Roman era. Or, better still, to be able to look at how it changes over time.
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> Are the pirates supposed to have brought dynamite with them a century or two before?

Yup. Didn't you know pirates have the ability to transcend space and time? Captain Kidd regularly traveled to the late 19th century in his tricked-out DeLorean to score all sorts of goodies for his crew. Not just dynamite, but also souvenir coconut monkeys (they make great gifts) and clean-tasting pasteurized lager beer.
I have no idea. I just spent a few minutes brainstorming for reasons why someone would use the down arrow. In general I have learned that if I can come up with something (even if it disgusts me), then there are at least a few people out there who will do it.

I also had at least one option that I considered adding to the list but didn't because I didn't want to suggest it as a possibility.
That's only for 3 domains, not 100.

Nobody said otherwise.

3 domains at $30/year is $10/year/domain which is no different than buying individual certs.

The problem was that shared hosting plans didn't support multiple certs, forcing people with a few sites to purchase a plan for each. The multidomain cert solves this problem.
"Sorry, you found a dead link."

I guess the author did quit.
I don't recall airlines checking passenger visas. Either they don't or I'm not observant enough.
How does this compare to Huxley (https://github.com/facebook/huxley) ?
I smile every time I read that story. I'm up-voting for the link alone. (But yeah, it really sounds like they didn't have games in mind when they designed Go.)
It sounds like your peers level of commitment is not inline with yours. This can turn into a pretty significant problem.

IMO, one of the roles of an early stage leader is to set an example for the work ethic expected. Those long hours aren't sustainable forever, so when it's time to throttle back, it's the leaders job to set that expectation as well.

For us that has generally meant that the leaders needed to take time off and also encourage others to do so.
uggh. I thought money pit was a reference to the scam tourist trap businesses that operate 'tours' to this thing. The worst lamest thing on a family trip to Nova Scotia years ago that we still laugh about. "It was just a hole and a sign!"
Squarespace seems to be killing it lately. Wix is also popular. If you're looking for something that may be more customizable/flexible in the future as you add on features then a hosted wordpress solution is a strong choice. I've used wpengine.com with no complaints.
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Because the amount of damage they can cause (Property and Life) does not decrease as the value decreases.
In many ways, yes.

In foreign countries (not first world), Facebook has persisted as a primary means of communication; including finding lost relatives or friends and connecting people who have lost someone or something during catastrophic events. There's a lot of additional ways other countries are using the technology that we, here in the US, haven't dreamed of: setting up stores and selling things via Instagram, forming action groups and protest events on Facebook, etc.

The iPhone helps in many of those same instances, by connecting people to resources and other individuals.

Can there be simpler ways to accomplish the same goals? Absolutely! But the argument isn't to say these technologies are the be-all end-all. Instead, the point is to make it clear that these technologies can absolutely do good for the world if used to do so.

Just because you and I use Facebook to stalk our exes doesn't mean it's a useless tool for good.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm just trying to give you an example where a "correct result" is far less-important than a "deterministic result".
I had a similar read on things. While I love a good mystery, and I'll indulge a good conspiracy theory (if only for the entertainment value), I feel this writeup takes the mystery too much at face value. In doing so, it misses a golden opportunity to mine the irony of the situation.

There's money buried in that pit, alright, and it's the money, time, and effort of dozens of fruitless and unintentionally self-replicating expeditions. The zeal to uncover a money pit has become, in and of itself, a money pit. That this zeal ensnared the imaginations of respected lawyers, businessmen, doctors, actors, and a future president speaks volumes about human nature.
I love the old one, it looks like he matched the tie to the sofas. And those weird wires on the right. Great photo. Obviously not if you're trying to look credible, rather than perhaps... wacky.
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Those are two different books you've linked to...
I've been a user since it was a Kickstarter project. It works quite well, actually. The device comes with a globally activated SIM card inside that sends an email/sms to you every time in you in a new location. There's also an Android/iPhone app that has a a bluetooth locator that you can pair with the device so you can track the proximity of your luggage inside the airport. The location is also shown on the app but it's just a webview of the website.
TV sizes are no longer a problem since oil money and South Koreans manufacturng huge screens for cheap. Now the primary constraint is the size of apartments, which are often tiny by US standards - shiny large screen won't fit comfortably.
Spot on. Capitalism generally is all about the illusion of progress, rather than real progress.
Given the breadth and variety of board and card games there are, I'd say this is pretty versatile already.

Though, having given it a quick try, it seems like it's a pretty powerful engine. I'm sure someone has used it for purposes other than the intended one.