skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. If you have deeply nested data, multiple properties that may change, or arrays, then it becomes quite difficult (and/or slow) to test if there's a difference.
Ah! I remember this site. I thought the idea was neat. I heard on a podcast there's a niche for wedding handkerchiefs actually. Maybe look into that. Cupcakes have gotten popular at weddings.
>(I've mostly automated this).

Can you talk about this?

Also, how many ads and what formats/sizes work best for you?
Any chance of going into detail on this one for the curious? Automated in what way, putting bets on low odds results? Through an API?

If anything I'm interested more in how it works than how I can do it myself!
One shortcoming of the OP's approach is the out-of-band process for updating dnsmasq's hosts file. If you want to use something like fig to start a cluster of containers, you still have to wrap a script around the fig command to update the hosts file. I wonder how hard it would be to modify SkyDock to update dnsmasq (update the hosts file and then kill -HUP dnsmasq).
looks cool! will it have a file explorer?
Holy cow! I'm taking a guess; is it some sort of aggregator website?
You can implement the pin-pad via the square app. doesn't need to be implemented in hardware.
If you take your geographical advice from football federations; Australia is in Asia.
"I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers. I'm sure they'd be fascinated to hear it."

Shark attacks are statistically rare. Lightning strikes (of a human) are statistically rare. Adrenocortical carcinoma is statistically rare. Having to explain this to the family of a victim doesn't change that fact.

In 2001, a banner year for terrorism, America lost more people to heart disease than terrorism. This should surprise no one. What's a little more surprising is the scale of the difference - not just more people, but 200 times as many people. To put it another way, if something on the scale of 9/11 happened every other day we'd still be losing more people to heart disease than to terrorism. Sure, there are criticisms to be had (e.g. we should be comparing years lost or quality of life not simply lives lost) but none of these come close to overcoming that 200 fold difference - one year lost by a 70 yo would have to translate to 200 years lost by a younger person, and those lost in 9/11 weren't especially young (average age was 40). Car accidents disproportionately kill the young, and also killed more Americans than terrorism that year. And of course those (and still other causes - many of them!) continue to kill many times more people than terrorism did in 2001 - terrorism does not.
Looks good. I wish the US Government wasn't hosing the USPS...
If I know your PIN I still need to have your card with the chip on it to commit fraud. How does that part work?
I get nearly all the traffic from Google. AdWords never worked for me. For a few months I got a lot of great traffic from Cake Central. They have a cupcake forum [1] which is hyper-relavent to my site. Also, I reviewed myself [2] in their reviews section, and it sat in their sidebar feed, getting the placement of a $1000/mo ad, until it fell off.

[1] http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-forum-33.html
[2] http://cakecentral.com/products/cupcake-wrapper-creator/revi...
May be expand this hotel wifi speed ranking to local spots? https://www.hotelwifitest.com/
That’s pretty much just so the card is usable in the US if you travel there though.
What do you find so amazing about the Surface Pro btw?
Thanks! I was wondering if it supported aggregating the extra/unused storage of all the client desktops, but it sounds like you are using it for the server stuff.
Worth mentioning that the meandering streets that annoy people in the suburbs are a classic Christopher Alexander architecture goal. Minimizing cross-town high-speed car traffic is intended to make areas more walkable, shifting the balance from automobiles to humans.

Obviously, suburbs categorically fail to accomplish the strategic goal behind creating windy streets; it's almost impossible to live in one without a car. Suburban city planners probably were not inspired by Alexander. But they are safer places for kids to play in the streets than Chicago blocks, where residents often lobby for speed bumps to deal with speeding cars.

Suburbs bad. Windy streets? Maybe not so much.
What marketing do you do? I think I an write a decent book on a technical subject, but my big worry is I'll spend hundreds of hours on it and it'll just be another entry on Amazon.
Thanks for the feedback, I am going to add that.
If you're saying that a flipped bill may still be illegal, I'll grant that. What I was saying is that flipping the other stuff does not present a legal problem (or at least not any that I can imagine).
I wouldn't have said it was much like a rootkit. It's more akin to a container or a chroot, except run without special permissions.

What am I missing? (Or is it just that some rootkits use ptrace/Seccomp?)
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So far I gather that the expressjs.com domain, the GitHub repo, and the npm module were transferred to StrongLoop's control. I don't believe that Express is actually trademarked (and likely isn't trademarkable at all, being such a common dictionary word).
There was also a key liability shift, in that the bank would not accept liability for fraudulent transactions which had been signed for, if chip and pin was available.

No surprise, then, that chip and PIN pretty much became the default, purely because no retailer wanted to take the risk.
Ah, the new Airport. The butt of many a joke for decades to come. I'll see your airport and raise you a lock, the dutch envisioned another channel in the North of the country (the 'dollardkanaal') and pre-emptively made a gigantic lock complex. Which they then had to demolish again because the channel was never dug. At least they managed to re-cycle the lock doors (these are now in the Nieuwenstatenzijl locks a few km to the East).

You can still see the scars in the land:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dollart/@53.3007551,7.0831...

Fortunately Berlin already has three airports (but Tempelhof is closed) so for now the crisis is not imminent (and I think that is one of the reasons the new one is delayed, delaying it is not going to cause any disasters other than waste money, which is of course bad enough).
That's what they currently do with the magstripe readers. You then get a credit for the amount of the reader (limit 1 per account I believe). That makes it easier to avoid losing a ton of money when someone figures out another use for them.
It's an artificial debt... their pension plan is way oversized. Congress has put them in the ridiculous position of literally pre-paying pension obligations of employees who haven't been born yet.
~100$ / year from an Amazon Price Tracker (http://www.rankique.com/) I wrote a long while ago.

It's 100% passive and is free to run, although some SEO should increase that, which frankly I neither have the time nor the expertise to do.
So is parking cash in Ukraine at the moment.
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Ask HN: How to get into robotics?
So I recently grabbed a vacuum robot off Groupon and the thing literally blew my mind. I have seen videos and played with drones, but this thing did a pretty damn good job cleaning my basement. Needless to say I am impressed. There is a future here. (Not in vacuums, robotics. I know, welcome to the party.)

Let's pretend I had one of those life changing moments where I want to pursue robotics. As a software engineer, what shot do I have?

- How does one get into robotics?

- Do software engineers play a similar roll within robotics firms?

- Is it an easy transition or is there additional education / skills needed?

- Anyone work for one? Is it as exciting as it seems?

Other thoughts in this realm are welcome.
Atomic hydrogen welding is basically taking a COTS plasma cutter and blowing H2 thru it and welding with it, not welding with H2 but with hydrogen ions. On a scale of hazardous welding technologies, its up there. Possibly the only thing I'd less enjoy doing by hand would be explosive welding or some of the thermite processes. Its not "is there going to be a fire" but "how much damage will the inevitable fire cause vs the cost of alternative fabrication"

On the bright side (oh the pun) during the welding its pretty efficient at preventing weld pool oxidation. On the bad side, if long term hydrogen embrittlement is an issue with the base metal, this is an interesting way to find out. Also you can get some gas porosity problems as the weld bubbles while cooling, exactly CO2 in soda water, although hydrogen is better than the noble gasses (like argon in a plasma cutter)

Burning homemade H2 in a modified acetylene torch like you're talking about is comparatively harmless with the exception that H2 can find leaks that acetylene can't find, although its not that much worse. Oh and the regulator is different because acetylene comes out of a coke bottle solution like CO2 out of soda, but hydrogen comes out of a tank like O2 so the pressures are a bit higher.
Because there are dozens comments saying the same thing, and many of them are sort of rude.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition, looking forward to this.
>I suspect, but cannot prove, the wikipedia number is more likely to be correct.

The Wikipedia number is not correct, because even a single blast has long term consequences, and in a full scale war, the consequences are more significant than the initial damage.

Even if the blast was just one a of a handful, survivors would have to contend with fallout from other detonations, followed by nuclear winter, followed by years of famine, mutation, cancer, and other diseases.

In a full scale war, nukes are targeted at nuke power plants, so there would be even more fallout - enough to sterilise many parts of the US.

Initial casualties would be a small percentage of the eventual total.

Even a limited exchange in a distant part of the world would have global consequences. See e.g.

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-nuclear-war-civilization-famine...
My company has already created an 11main.com (Alibaba's first US ecommerce website) account and setup a significant amount of our catalog. The site is still in private invite only -- but hopefully will go public soon.

We expect Alibaba to come into the US on a storm. They are huge - they have capitol, and they can afford losses in the hundreds of millions per quarter just to compete with Amazon (and snuff out part of their market) - amazon just posted an 800 million USD loss last quarter without flinching.

Their revenue last quarter was greater than Amazon's and eBay's combined.

I think we are about to witness a clashing of the titans in a big way.
Not if you want approval from the payment card industry you can't.

They'll want proof that no other app can access the screen, that screen presses can't be recorded and lots of other stuff.

I'm going through this with a hardware pinpad at the moment, the list of requirements is very long and quite stringent.

--edit-- I'm not saying this is impossible, but I find it very unlikely. All the other EMV devices I know of that are designed for use with iOS and Android devices have built-in hardware pinpads because it's just easier... the PCI is very precious about PIN data. For good reason.
My sister used to work for a Prop studio, and one Christmas she gave various members of the family fake $100 bills. They said very clearly "For Motion Picture use Only" on them, and it was quite obviously not a real $100 bill. My brother jokingly decided to give it to a cashier who then proceeded to start counting change. Embarrassed, he had to explain to them that it was all a joke, and the money was fake.
The interest on savings is probably smaller than the inflation these days.
I had assumed that, but thought it best to ask :)
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From reddit[0]:

>Hey, everyone! This is BitPay. We know you have a lot of questions so we'll be doing an AMA at 12:00PM EST (today) on r/Bitcoin

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2c510m/bitpays_new_...
I make an average of $70/day on my app in the Mac App Store called HD Cleaner. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hd-cleaner/id836769549?mt=12. I wish I had more time to invest in making more apps like this one. I've been really surprised by how well the app has done with little to no marketing.
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They didn't like how I described 'my approach'. Nothing specific.

It said I can register again, but something tells me I probably won't be making the cut for this challenge.
> I'd like to ask how you would explain the statistical ridiculousness of terrorism to the families of the thousands of people that died in the twin towers. I'm sure they'd be fascinated to hear it.

Logical fallacy: Appeal to emotion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_emotion
To answer your first question, yes.
John Scalzi's response to this piece of self-serving agitprop is worth reading in full:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/

(Shorter Scalzi: Amazon are presenting as "good for authors" policies which, in fact, are only indisputably "good for Amazon"; the only authors they might be good for are those who cleave unto Amazon like limpets and don't do business with the other 70% of the book distribution business, and even then, it's somewhat questionable: Amazon's T&C's for authors publishing directly are invidious and include binding arbitration clauses and boilerplate giving AMZN the right to vary their terms unilaterally -- meaning AMZN basically have those authors by the short and curlies, in a manner that no real publishing company even attempts in their author contracts.)
A friend of mine works at a company in which the "company language" at a certain level is French. It really depends on the company and which direction it wants to go.

If the company wants to globally recognised, it might be useful to use a Global Language like English instead of a local one. Especially in a field like software development. Where all tools are English anyway.

So I think your point for using English are valid. (Especially since the plans for making Finnish the world language won't become reality anytime soon.)

P.S. I currently have a heated discussion with myself in what language I should use my computer. Mostly because I've seen so many badly translated UI elements, which also comes from the fact that my native language loves combined nouns which can be very long and usually destroy the layout of a webpage or app. But when I use English I think I often don't get the content I want or I'm looking for. Google Now uses e.g. Miles when locale is set to English (UK). On the other side, it can be vey frustrating to fix the translation of projects. I tried.
Nice project! I found a few in my height/weight range that were very inspirational!
I'm glad this exists. I wanted to do something similar, when I first heard about Native Client.
Love this! But I'm surprised not to see main Spanish cities on here. I took a short trip to Seville and was amazed how cheap everything was (I live in London).

There was an abundance of Airbnb accommodation, eating out was cheap and you could get a bucket of beers for 5 euros in many places. About the same as a pint in London.

I'd make this list a little more interactive, perhaps have a forum/comments behind each city. Could become a really useful resource.
Well, no, you wouldn't want to do both of course...
Just launched http://www.smscmd.net/ so not much at the moment.
I use it all the time here in the UK but if you bend/snap the card at all, it totally breaks and doesn't work at all. Even though the stripe and chip works.

Probably not a big problem but I have a tendency to sit on my card every so often.
I spent the first 10 years of my career as an editor at newspapers and magazines, and after switching to full-time software development, I was itching to write again.

I got the idea for the book while rocking my son back to sleep in the middle of the night. I realized that I had been doing lots of informal experiments, and I thought it would be really cool to adapt real experiments from various fields of child-development research so that parents could perform them on their own children, with no special equipment needed.
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I had the same issue after about 5 or 6 years.

I took a bit of a side-step into something entirely different (online ads) where I basically had minimal chance to code, apart from the odd ad hoc tool or script.

Now the only code I could do were trivial little hacks at work, or my own projects at home.

And now after about 3 years not coding for a living, I now realise that coding really is what I want to do. I work for a great company now - great equity, great facilities, free food and all that - but I miss coding and am pretty unhappy in this job despite the great conditions & super-smart colleagues because I now understand that I want to code again.

This time I will probably not go back to a big company, and would more likely go to a small place or even work for myself.

tl;dr - take a break. you don't know what you've got until its gone.
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Yes, that's how for I've got, too. But then you have a problem if your React component has multiple attributes. Suddenly your check beckomes much larger:

return (nextProps.attr1 !== this.props.attr1 ||
nextProps.attr2 !== this.props.attr2 ||
nextProps.attr3 !== this.props.attr3 ||
nextProps.attr4 !== this.props.attr4);

Which would result in a lot of boilerplate code if you had to do this for every single attribute in every component in your application. It would be much simpler to just do this check:

return nextProps !== this.props;

But that's impossible if you're using JSX, because the JSX compiler automatically inserts a normal JavaScript object into your code, instead of an immutable object from this library.

So from my point of view this immutable-js library and JSX seem incompatible, which is kind of weird since Facebook apparently uses JSX internally for their React code.
> Emotional arguments quickly become ridiculous if you leave out the greater effects to society and the relative danger of the threat.

No, but numerical arguments quickly become ridiculous when you ignore the fact that the emotional reaction of the nation to 3,000 Americans killed in a terrorist act is itself a physically cognizable phenomenon that must be given due weight in the analysis.
Wrote a Fiction Novel.

Still in the red, but I've handed out about 10,000 free copies...
> you probably need to remain constantly connected and moving data through Tor 24/7

You almost have it. The problem is that just moving data through isn't enough. Given enough sample data, you can eventually figure out enough information about the traffic to correlate with another host moving the same traffic.

The most effective way to mask the effects of passive statistical analysis is to employ either a masking effect or a countermeasure. Either make all the traffic look identical (and have its rate be identical and constant), or make all the traffic look random, insofar as garbage is injected or frames are truncated at every hop.

Also, you don't have to control both ends. You just have to observe a given percentage of the traffic along its path(s), and you can determine a probability of which hosts lead to/from what traffic. If you're just trying to trace an unknown adversary, it may be able to [at the very least] identify the network they're on.
Sure, but neither Frankfurt nor Munich had as much backlog as Berlin. Not even close. I remember counting 50 construction cranes in Berlin at some point in the early 90's. The rate at which stuff was being fixed was nothing short of incredible. And that's work-in-progress, it will take 100's of billions before you could even begin to call it complete.
Ah! This was a TechStars Cloud^H^H^H Rackspace company that got bought by Rackspace.
Userlytics, Mixpanel, maybe?
Lived in the Denver metro area and it definitely couldn't be considered to have that much in common with most of the rest of "The Empty Quarter", besides a cultural preference for rugged individualism and limited government interference in personal affairs.

Denver has an impressive light rail system, and Denver / Boulder are responsible for Colorado being one of two states first in legalizing Marijuana and the first in allowing public sales (though Washington state shouldn't be far behind once regulations are finalized). Polyamory doesn't have much public acceptance but is fairly common in the area. Programs and policies concerning homelessness are very progressive compared to most anywhere else in the US.

Denver/Boulder metro area, and to a lesser extent other communities along the Colorado Front Range, have much more in common culturally with SLC than Grand Junction, CO (the state's western capital) or any of the rest of the supposed "Empty Quarter". Peter Warden's Mormonia (if including Denver), being completely surrounded by the Nomadic West, is a more accurate division, though the name is a little inaccurate and not especially representative (at least half of SLC isn't mormon, and neither is most of the Colorado Front Range, though Colorado Springs is very evangelical).

If Joel Garreau still thinks Denver/Boulder and SLC are "Empty Quarter", and at least not aberrations, he doesn't understand the culture very well. It's almost as bad as placing most of NYC within "The Foundry".
Well, had it been my choice between a nuclear war where 90%-95% of the population of the UK would have died in optimistic scenarios and surrendering to the Soviets (and yes, I am fully aware of how badly they treated people in their own country and the countries they controlled) I know which one I would have chosen.
Yet oddly enough Amazon seem to have gotten stingier with the flash memory on a Kindle. 2 GB? Just give me a damn microSD slot so I can bump that up to a level I'm happy with. A few biggish PDFs (e-Textbooks come to mind) will obliterate that space.
I believe Tim Ferriss said he wrote his first book entirely in Evernote but now raves (with others) about Scrivener.

Keep up the good work.
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Anyone paying 7% is doing so to compensate for risk.
My take: the zero-sum game is not solely about people having a fixed entertainment budget in purely financial terms -- incomes go up and down and it depends in the aggregate on the economic cycle. Rather, people have a fixed entertainment budget in terms of leisure hours per week that want filling. You can get a pay rise, but you can't get 5% more hours in the week than the 168 that your clock gives you.

Another issue is that some recreational products are rivalrous of time; you can't read a book and play a computer game simultaneously, or combine one of those with doing the ironing or cooking dinner. You can watch a video or listen to music while you're doing something else. Oh, and some products are use-once, while others are use-many-times (and in some cases this varies from individual to individual: do you re-read books, or read them once and discard?).

TL:DR; There's a zero-sum game in the picture but nailing it down is a whole lot more complicated than it looks at first sight.
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I spent some time in Thailand, including Chiang Mai, and it didn't strike me as a haven for driven individuals. Most expats I met there were more interested in prostitutes and beers than starting businesses or work. There are also huge inequalities between the people living there. Overall, I found Chiang Mai more depressing than stimulating.

But maybe things are different when you really settle down.
I made an overview of advanced drag-and-drop features and their support in browsers (with examples):

http://mereskin.github.io/dnd/
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