skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least for the American Indians, not much depends on their claim of being "first nations." Their legal relationship with the U.S. is defined by virtue of their occupancy of the United States at the time of the founding and subsequent expansion of the country, and our displacement of them, and their formal agreements with the United States during that period. I don't think anything would change for them if it was proven that someone else was in the U.S. first.
Orion, as a spacecraft name, originally referred to the plan to build spacecraft propelled by pooping nuclear weapons out the back and exploding them behind a gigantic pusher plate. It may not have public approval, but it's quite practical (aside from the bit where you poison the planet and trash every piece of advanced electronics in a thousand-mile radius) and very well known among nerd circles, so it's worthwhile to disambiguate.
She looks like a vampire on the photo, perfect for the VC profession ;)
"- Level of business regulation. From left wing Marx style central production control to pure capitalism."

This is about private property. Marxists deny the right for individuals or companies to own the "means of production".

"- Level of redistribution of wealth. From high taxation with redistribution of wealth and strong infrastructure for all citizens (think Sweden or Denmark) to low taxation."

This is also about private property because aggressive redistribution of wealth is by definition impinging on the right to accrue private property.

"I believe some form of capitalism mixed with somewhat aggressive redistribution of wealth would yield the highest productivity and the most humane society. This is basically how Sweden operates."

This is socialism which sits in the middle of the one dimensional spectrum of economic systems.

Also how do you define productivity? Because I assure you that a sweatshop is more productive per dollar than any shoe factory in Sweden.

Unless you mean maximizing the sum productivity and humanity at the expense of one or the other. But humanity is a little harder to quantify eh? :)
Self-publishing is the way to go. I built my own platform to sell my book Mastering Modern Payments[1] but if I were starting from scratch I would strongly consider something like Softcover.

Since launch it's made approximately $35k. Not quite the solid success that the OP talks about, but then again I invested far less time than the OP suggests.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
Agreed. I will be honest and say that although I did enjoy playing with this service, the only bad thing I can say is that it does not carry the overall punch I was looking for in a pre-workout service when I would do power lifting.
No problem. I included the essay + videos in the title because the paper previously submitted to HN has the same title, so I didn't want to look like I was submitting the same thing again.
> If you can afford that, great; if not, you can't write a book.

Sure, there's a reason I scoped this to technical people. Most of us are able to pay our bills and don't have to work much more than 40 hours a week.

Given that, we all have free time. Much of that is filled with friends and family, but many have room left for a hobby or two. Writing a book can fill that slot. I wrote this book while working full time and raising a family. It takes longer, of course, but since I'm not in it for the money, I'm not rushed either.
I don't get these comments, where's the glitch/gif/sound?
The SEO person sitting next to me says that this doesn't appear to offer anything that Trends and AdWord tools already have. I'm not well enough informed to have an opinion, but can I ask (for their benefit) what differentiates this from those other tools?
Thanks for the comment and criticism.

Yeah, I felt the same way. Most papers do not mention about features, why they chose them, what they learned about the dataset. Only, a high level architecture of the system, and possibly some comparisons. One of the reasons why I wrote about the post is because I wanted to shed some light on the parts that books and papers do not focus on.

I get some feedback around proofreading and grammar for the post. I will definitely try to make it better next time, possibly making someone do the review. I guess I cannot correct non-native speaking, but at least next time I could be more careful about sloppiness and the things that are related to grammar.
The simplest option is to pay for the plan you currently are on through COBRA. This guarantees you 18 months of coverage at whatever rate your employer currently pays for you. This what my founders and I did for our last startup. It does require you have enough saved up to cover the cost yourself, but it's very simple and easy, and you keep everything the same.

You could also see if you qualify for a cheaper plan. Go to HealthCare.gov and enter your information and you'll get a list of plans and what they cost.
No. Windows need not support Docker.

Lets be honest. How many people are deploying WebLogic on Docker? How about SAP? How about any large enterprise back office application at all?

You see, Windows Server serves an entirely different market.
The kind of applications being deployed on OS level virtualisation just don't get deployed on Windows anyways.
About as close as you are going to get are Java applications which even then are usually deployed on a point of abstraction like an application server. (At the end of the day RHEL is still much more common for big Java apps)

That is not to say that Windows would not benefit from some sort of OS level virtualisation, only that it means absolutely nothing that they don't have it right now (or even for a few years).

Windows Server will continue to dominate back office deployments ad infinitum.
Not just run a development program for vertical landing but figure out a way to make customers pay for much of the testing, too. Part of what's so brilliant about their reusability system is that it can be included on many regular launches without any additional risk to the payload. So instead of having to make expensive special launches just for the test program, they get to fire satellites into orbit and carry out testing on a flight the customer purchased.
Yeah, it wouldn't make much sense for Google to do that. When I'm searching for something specific I tend to scan each search result, open the promising ones in new tabs, and immediately just close the ones that don't have what I'm looking for. But that doesn't mean they're not useful in their own right, just that I didn't find what I was looking for there.
PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time to Fix PACER
There needs to be a rule for HN to tag [Paywall] for all articles that's behind a pay wall.
It would be really cool to use this with pyQt. I know Qt has styling already so maybe it isn't needed?
Unrelated, but I am curious: why do you have the phone app on your dock, and the contacts app on your home screen? I would like to know the motivation behind this, because the contacts app is embedded in the phone app.
Linux 3.17-rc2 Release Marks 23 Years of the Linux Kernel
A really sad, odd thing for them to do - I guess they realized they were never going to make money at the old app, and decided to do the new? Wonder how that is going to go, if they lose their user base (that they are replying on to generate new content).
Interesting, I have never seen this in Asia.
I have had nothing but good Airbnb experiences too, but trying to build an argument out of that is a little like trying to argue that online auctions are safe because you're an honest person. Some problems only shake out when the market runs at scale and attracts bad actors.

Of course, we tolerate chicanery in online auctions because the damage from chicanery is limited to the dealer and the buyer. But that's not the case with Airbnb.

I hope Airbnb works through these issues and, if I had to bet, would bet they will.
That's definitely the exception, not the rule, which is the point of all of this!
China is sending a robotic rover to the Moon to bring back rock and soil
While capitalism has serious problems, it actually produces objectively better results than most of the alternatives. (Capitalism with some state socialism on top seems to be the only alternative that does as well or better.)

If you dispute my statement, can you show another system that produces objectively better outcomes than capitalism?
So now you can punish those annoying click-baits by clicking them and then returning to facebook as fast as possible? Nice. Also, this could be used to "punish" legit links someone does not like...
LOL

I should really just move contacts to the bottom. I don't use my iPhone as a phone very often (mostly use it to listen to voicemail). I DO bring up contacts more often, to get addresses, notes, etc - so like being about to just go directly to contacts, instead of opening up the phone and clicking on contacts.
"Before, we had only off-the-record reports from possibly-official sources that something might be happening. Now, we have off-the-record reports from definitively official sources that something might be happening. But we can't, y'know, prove that."
This search should give you a good mix of stories for Australia. It's a bit of a hot topic lately as 'bulk billed' GP's, which basically means the government picks up the fee is being challenged. The current government is attempting to bring in a minimum fee. This combined with a private health system which is increasing being encouraged and allowed to offer a 2 tier system is concerning for those that believe in universal health care. You will find similar stories for the UK with a quick search, albeit done under a different guise as they are more about moving to privatise parts of the NHS.

https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=...
You could also 'disable page style' to read it.
Case like that are straightforward, and people still manage to botch them. Which is why I suspect there is something deeply wrong, or at least fundamentally different, about the minds that produce such mistakes.

Though for this particular mistake, it may have come from some misguided notion about performance (like perceived overhead of constructing a string then passing it up the stack).

As for things like recursion and closures… I just avoid them because I know my colleagues will recoil in horror with such uselessly indecipherable excess of cleverness.
Thanks. More than 27,000 words....
Personalised recommendations using Spark
Surely it'd be cheaper (and work better for internal morale) if News Corpse let its more brilliant employees loose on skunkworks projects? You know, something like 20% time to create something that might become a future success or at least head off some of the upstart competitors?
>Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and improve it later on often leads to better results in the long run than planing and over-engineering a solution beforehand, because you can start refining details much earlier or throw away bad approaches without investing too much time.

If it's something not too big, sure. Won't work so well if you don't know what to even do because you don't have any idea what the structure of the program's going to be like. I've found planning much more beneficial for myself.
Sounds like Debian is perfect world then :)

I must confess to using a few blobs for drivers, software that school wants me to run (for UML designing) and the occasional game. But overall, I'm pretty clean of closed source software.
The article hits rather close to home, as someone who, for better or worse, is committed to improving Common Lisp's ecosystem. I often feel this existential dread of "Is it worth it? Whose lives will it change? Will I spend years labouring in obscurity for nothing?". And while the answer to all those questions is probably not what I'd like to hear, I still do it.

This is why ecosystems are, for most people, more valuable than intrinsic language features: Tribalism along the lines of "We have X thousand people backing us up"/"X thousand devs can't go wrong". People don't care about monads or macros, they care about feeling like they're part of a large community.
Forbes says It was antitrust concerns and disagreement on the size of a breakup fee.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/08/25/amazon-pounce...
Facial Recognition to Improve Home IoT
Dylan was my favorite language back in college. I remember following PG's essays to Lisp, and then Lisp to all the newer dialects like Dylan or Goo. Dylan had it all: a metaobject protocol, generic functions, optional static typing, infix macros. I even got started working on an Eclipse plugin for it, which I ended up shelving after like 3 weeks when I lost interest.

Unfortunately, there are large network effects to programming languages, and the stuff that really makes you productive - libraries and tooling - Dylan just lacked. It wasn't practical to write anything larger than an ICFP contest entry in it. So I went from Dylan to Python, which lacks many of the really cool language features and is a lot slower, but at least comes with so many batteries included that you can whip up a prototype for anything really quickly.
I suspect there are some HN readers with experience with how electrical grids work. Can somebody speak to this increased night load and presumably decrease in variance between daytime load and nighttime load. How would those changes impact grid operations? I'd guess that having a more consistent load is overall beneficial, but it's just a guess.
JSCSS: easily insert JavaScript variables/functions into your CSS
This reads like something from a parallel universe in which Google doesn't do quality work, where legacy media companies adjusted to the Internet (by losing two thirds of their revenues?[1]), and where the US has a lot to learn from Europe because we here are clearly at the cutting edge of the digital revolution.

Americans came up with Google, Amazon, Twitter and every other company named in that article when we are implementing some ridiculous memory hole ruling and hiding links in search results. That's where our "aggressive officials" have led us[2].

The best part though was a worry over the absence of the Frankfurt School thought at a web2.0 conference.

[1] http://www.aei-ideas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newspape...

[2] http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac...
A female involved in hiring might mean the process is less discriminatory. Thus a female influencing hirings wouldn't necessarily be illegal, but potentially more legal.
Just checked out the demo. This inflicts too much work on the watcher. Why would I want to draw curves after watching a video? What do I gain as the user?
It asks me for a state to ship the stickers to. I don't live in a state.
In Japan, the alert is accompanied with magnitude and epicenter information. This alert seems to be also distributed by broadcast SMS. Apps on the phone determine if it crosses a threshold to alert or not. Even after the shaking has started, it's good to know just how strong it will be. So if it's 3am, I know whether I could ignore or I should do checks.
The only thing I know about they are the projects[1] on github on frontend stuff.

Their odometer[2] saved me on my last project, bussiness people love it.

1 - http://github.hubspot.com/
2 - https://github.com/HubSpot/odometer
Came to say the same thing. This is while running it on Windows 8.1 through Parallels 9 on a rMBP.

http://i.imgur.com/aieLXtJ.jpg
A streamer also mentioned that recently Twitch send out an enquiry to partners about what kind of affiliation programs they would be interested in. My bet would be that Amazons angle is going to be integration of their storefront and other services into Twitch in the form of affiliate programs ("Buy this game now"-buttons, adding Twitch Turbo to Amazon Prime and the likes).

I wouldn't even be surprised if down the road they'd announce a Steam-like digital distribution thingymagick. Steam and it's competitors are rolling in cash and have been getting quite some flack recently so now might be the best time.
Actually I've never seen this before, it sounds pretty smart.
If you can afford it, COBRA. That saves you quite a bit of time and energy finding a new plan and minimizes or eliminates surprises like changes in coverage or needing to change doctors. For only a 3 month window, as long as you're relatively healthy (and are certain you will not get pregnant) I'd take the gamble and go without insurance, but I'm a gambler. From my experiences, the stress of not having coverage is pretty comparable to the stress of enrolling in a new ACA plan.

Depending on your work, you can also inquire about taking a leave of absence. I've worked with a couple of people that have done that. Most never returned but some did.
The grid doesn't really care about load changes provided they are predictable (and peak demand in specific areas doesn't exceed maximum capacity).

There's normally a 2 hour lead time to bring larger plants on line so provided you can predict changes in demand with that much lead, there's no real problem.
Can't we just let people conserve resources without complaining that they aren't doing enough in other areas?

I own a Prius. I don't care about being "green". (I'm not some "drill, baby, drill" wacko, but I do think that saving the environment is a collective action problem to the extent that "doing my part" won't make any real difference.) I bought it because it's a really nice car, the price was right, and I really enjoy infrequent, cheap visits to the gas station.

Similarly, I'd love to own a Tesla, not to be "green", but because they're really nice cars and I enjoy the thought of never buying a gallon of gasoline again, even though I know it won't save me money over the Prius unless gas goes up to about $500/gallon.

I don't think I'm very wasteful in my life as a whole, either. I believe my house is smaller than average for my area and the size of my family, although I wouldn't call it "small". We use public transportation a lot, and specifically moved near a Metro station for that. We have lots of LED and CFL bulbs. High efficiency equipment keeps my electric and gas usage down. But I do all of this to save money, not to placate my inner Greenpeace. And if you want to bring large-scale change, that's the angle to push on. "Save money," not "save the planet."
Can you add in how much the service charges? If it is 0$ then make it that. I get the feeling* that you're going to hold my items for ransom after someone finds them. I suggest you make it obvious that you're not a bad actor.

* I think the negative connotation comes from your logo's dollar sign, $. It looks like a scammy pay-day loan or something. I'm not saying to change your logo, or your website sucks -- it looks awesome! -- I'm just letting you know my take on it.
Bike with automatic gear shift
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Nailed down the whole Windows Metro style experience.
Not downvoting. An automated penalty kicked in on this submission. It wasn't related to NSA/Snowden content, by the way—there used to be a (weak) penalty on those, but we removed it, as I think I said we would the last time this discussion came up. The one in this case was related rather to general politics.

We normally take this penalty off of clearly major stories, but we missed this one. Someone has reposted it, though, and we'll make sure that the penalty doesn't kick in on the repost (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8224529).
I would really like for this to be answered.
Ask HN: When do you hear back on your YC application?
Do they send all the responses at once on October 28th, or do they send them out as they read applications, and are done by October 28th? Presumably the former but I thought I'd ask.
I believe the biggest opportunity for human progress is the development of some kind of affordable, portable & clean energy system. From 'energy' you can get most everything else you need. People could pull water form the air in dry regions. Grow food indoors where the environment is not supportive. Power computers and mobiles for education and information distribution. Run bug zappers in malaria prone regions. It really does seem the foundation to further progress for much of the developed world. I believe once we have this we will see progress on the scale of the industrial revolution.
This is weird:

Millennials "want to buy into a brand not just from it," said Mr. Easterbrook. He said McDonald's is developing mobile apps that will enable people to access information about the company's social responsibility. "What we've got to do is find interesting and engaging ways to share that information with millennials, not old-fashioned corporate lecturing.

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Right - mobile apps = increased sales for terrible hamburger.
Twitch.tv is more important for anyone who follows E-Sports than any other property out there, Cable or Net.

I'm on Twitch.tv more than ABC, NBC, CBS, etc for 8 months out of the year (football season excepted).

And I'm definitely not the only person who is like this.

No kids are leaving Twitch as long as it doesn't get rebranded. Amazon just needs to run it as a separate product.
Here is how on-demand services grow and share their workforce
I agree. What are some ways you can think of to make spending Bitcoin easier?
The Last True Hermit
Does RFID work over 10 meters? I thought the issue was that the reader needs to power the tag. If the tag is self-powered, that means it runs out of batteries and that you're carrying something that constantly sends signals everywhere you go.
Show HN: Creating a website should be as easy as creating a Word doc
S1 filing here:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404655/0001193125143...

Hubspot has always been a high burn rate business and it looks like it may be catching up to them. According to TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/with-money-tight-hubspot-lo...):

HubSpot’s slim cash load and expanding losses — the firm had a deficit attributable to common shareholders of $16.37 million in the first six months of 2013 — are contravened by its rising revenues: HubSpot had revenue of $51.27 million during the first two quarter period of the year, compared to $35.08 million in the preceding-year calendar period. HubSpot’s days of hyper-growth appear to be mostly behind it.

The theory is that they can control their burn rate and become profitably, but I am not so sure. As great as their software is, selling marketing software is a tough business and there is a lot of competition. Their S1 filing seems to indicate that they plan on keeping the burn rate high after the IPO in order to compete.
Apple and IBM: This Time It’ll Be Different
I know some have mentioned white/black lists, but in addition to known malicious stuff, one feature that might be really helpful is a known list of what connections are used for, or processes/executables.

i.e., "spynetus.microsoft.akadns.net" could have some clearly Glasswire edited note that said something like "Used by Windows Defender". You could even add a +1232 Safe/-12 Unsafe that linked to a crowdsourced/forum sourced "what's this" registry. Sort of like reviews on processes or hosts.
Does a user need an account at each individual exchange, or is an account with SFOX sufficient? In what states does SFOX hold a money transmitter license?
It's a good article. But it has been posted here several times recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993.
Something no-one else seems to have mentioned in response to you is avoiding monopolies. Various changes to youtube regularly piss off people uploading content to the platform, so having a competitor (twitch) gives them somewhere to run to, and competition in the video market.
Fuddling Cup
How do you know software isn't security related if you can't see its source? They might tell you it isn't :)