skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The map notes a "resiliency" factor for each country. A country with a single link has very low resiliency. Most likely a lot of people lose their connection while higher paying customers/more important data gets routed to satellite communication systems.
You mention Grove Square...they were the worst. Interesting thing about them was to get around the (now expired) filter patents, they used instant coffee rather than using coffee grounds. They were much worse than your standard Keurig.
I've run into some serious performance issues with chart.js on Firefox with moderately sized datasets.
To add to another reply, the big perk of bitcoin mining is that you can launder your money through the purchase of equipment, real estate and power directly into US Dollars.

It's as that comment said, basically just a way to turn Renminbi into Dollars without the Chinese government knowing about it.
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It's a b<>b play. They're not looking to sell to consumers, they sell to companies that need this map for reference.
Number one feature request for IFTTT: support multiple conditions, i.e. if this AND this AND this then that

As is stands now, for me, IFTTT is cute (I've played around with the app and website) but not really useful for many things without multiple conditions.
They might still provide a useful service to somebody who wants to test anti-satellite weapons.
Yes, you have that right, but I still think we're talking about different things. When you're talking about web apps, you're talking about apps hosted by Microsoft, Google, etc. I'm saying that those have their own issues, but the issues are issues with Microsoft and Google, not server-hosted applications made with HTML5, JavaScript, and PHP.

The right way to do web apps is to have something like a Debian Freedom Box, where you have your own server running free software sitting in your living room and you can access it from anywhere. Another pretty good option is to buy hosting from someone you trust with your data and run your server in their data center, preferably encrypting your data client-side before it's sent to the data center. These privacy issues you mention with Microsoft are due to using their particular implementation of web apps.
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I really love vim keybindings and I use them wherever I can (firefox with vimperator, the shell etc), however I'm not sure that modes make sense on a window manager. In my opininon it doesn't have that many operations, and they don't differ that much from each other, I think that having to think which mode you're on and which one you need to use would only introduce friction and slow you down (in this case the normal mode is not that normal, i switch windows as often or more than I create new ones or switch layouts).

Another thing is that the operators, motions, and objects each need its modifier keys; in my opinion that just misses the point of having modes and one of the strong points of the vim keybindings. Because of that it was really hard for me to understand how to use Howm:
the first time around I skipped the configuration part and went directly to the examples, and you don't mention anywhere there that q4c (for example) is really Alt_L+q, Alt_L+4, Alt_L+c. When I read the configuration part and the configuration file, to see each keybinding I got it, but still it took some googling to figure out that I needed to use xmodmap to know which keys are the MODXMASK.

EDIT: It seems you do mention that the operators, motions and objects need a modifier key, I missed it. Still, I think that it would be clearer if the keys to press were explicitly indicated (like Alt_L+q, Alt_L+4, Alt_L+c)
I have seen these.
I use G+ heavily, there is a great Android dev community that use it to communicate.
I sometimes stumble on a post that matches my google search query. It is extremely useful and does not feel invasive since it matches my query.
It just appears like a normal search result, with the contact picture.
Well, when "mining" happens at the break-even point, the value of Bitcoin represents the amount of money that was transfered from the real economy to ..this.

Since "waste" is a loaded term, let's call it "the cost of Bitcoin".

Current market cap is 6.7 billion $, with 13.2 million of a total of 21 million btc mined. Early "mining" was very cheap, but now costs are only going up (barring any surprising breakthroughs in computing).

Anyone care to speculate the total cost of Bitcoin?
Make the source/topic more visually prominent. Many of these headlines don't make any sense without context.
I don't understand why this article so entirely avoided an extremely important factor - the youth of those being cured. If you give sight to a 3 year old or a 10 year old or even a teenager, their chances of developing normal sight are good. If you give it to someone after puberty, their chances drop quickly, getting worse the older the brain is. Neuroplasticity never goes away entirely (as was believed before), but it is still radically reduced compared to during childhood and especially adolescence.
I'm schooled in Plato and Aristotle, and the quote above seems to me very like their way of thinking, and also seems both logical and intuitive. Can you recommend some authors or titles representative of the kind of "basic contemporary abstract thinking" you're referring to?
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That's a slippery slope argument, that's not particularly convincing, in particular given that experimentation on humans with informed consent is very much a routine thing to do, both in psychological and in medical research.

All new drugs are tested on humans at some point, when it's not really known all that well yet what the reactions will be, that's experimentation on humans right there, and very crucial experimentation at that, as that's how we figure out what's safe and what is not. The one thing that you can not do without, though, is informed consent.
Having a bunch of people in a state like that all together would make for a curious picture. I usually find asian languages better to fall asleep to, there's just something in the way they talk that just does it for me. I'm taking french classes now, so my inner student would try to comprehend what's being said and I'd never fall asleep with that language.
"note: it has a free quota of 100 queries per day"

Gee, thanks Google!
There are alt coins that try to address this. Prime coin is a good example, the algorithm used in mining is trying to find new prime numbers.
3,600 * <Current Cost per Bitcoin> is probably a pretty good approximation of the daily cost.

Since Bitcoin is currently ~$500, that's ~$1.8mm per day.
We have the rights for social media services. We don't care about people using it as descriptive text, we care when they use it to market advertising services.
This is a very enlightening view into React - reading this and thinking about complex application challenges, I think React can supplement even the large frameworks (such as Angular and Ember) well.
Underground vaults, offline servers, armed guards: the Fort Knox of Bitcoin
Yes? Going either by volume or number of transaction, Bitcoin transactions are currently ludicrously expensive, though this is somewhat hidden by subsidizing the miners.

I don't know why you mention paper currencies and gold when most money today is transferred electronically, in a far more efficient way than Bitcoins.
> Natsu was worrying about the ability of a technological civilization to function near the heat death of the universe.

Unless by "heat death" he meant a cold death, current thinking has it that the universe will gradually cool off, and ultimately freeze, because of the endless expansion provided by Dark Energy.

The fact that the universe is expanding exponentially, i.e. with a positive second derivative, was the first shock. The second came when the implications of this observation began to sink in.
I'm really interested to know this too. A few benefits I can think of:

- Their shares go farther if they buy another company with stock

- Helps recruiting and retention if their employees can sell their options on secondary markets
> I'm going to avoid your straw men

Hey, I asked you three simple questions with pretty much boolean answers, in order to try and clarify where exactly you end up disagreeing with everyone. Please be charitable.

> Here's one of the suggestions: "multiply the last digit by the number of children and divide by ten".

Hey, that one was clearly meant as a joke, and is not the suggestion I was referring to. If something is a strawman here, this is. The one I asked about is the "My parents used the last digit on a stopwatch to decide which of the kids got to pick the radio station in the car and similarly trivial decisions. (If 0-9 couldn't be divided evenly among the kids present, leftover digits would result in a re-roll.)".

In light of that, could you provide the answers?
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning (BRML) by David Barber is an excellent introductory textbook. It's also free: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.barber/brml/
Yeah I am just wondering if there is any way this can be compensated for in software, either in the receivers or in the satellite itself.
The number of layers of management between a CSR and someone with actual decision-making authority at a bank is staggering. The entire financial industry is more like fast food than it is like, say, medicine. In medicine people regularly interact with doctors who actually know what's going on. In the financial industry, the vast majority of workers have no clue how it works under the hood. They are mostly technicians and sales people. Unless you have made a concerted effort (it took me four years) you have almost certainly never interacted with a banker with actual decision-making authority.
This only holds true if you believe that finding new colossal prime numbers is a good use of time/power.

Given the application of new primes is far less than, say, sending humans to live on the mars, I imagine the vast majority of people would not.
Can you provide more commentary on the history of all this and why he's so respected? I think that would be helpful. The news is pretty slim on that subject.
What sort of tech is it built on? Looks like Mapbox.js plus probably designed in TileMill, then self-hosted? What else went into making it?
Why is the real estate industry not consolidating?
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I have some more ideas for operations to add, this is the first release I have done and so it is lacking some features. I agree that some people might not find certain commands to be in the correct mode. You can change that from the configuration file though. I certainly take your point on board about moving being in normal mode and will have a think about whether or not this should be the default.

That's really great feedback about the documentation, I'll make it more obvious which modifiers keys need to be held down. Again, you can change the modifier key used for operators, counts and motions so that howm only uses one modifier key. This is how I had it for most of howm's development. I changed to using two modifier keys as I felt that it was nicer to have a logical separation between the commands and the operators, motions and counts. It also meant that some keys could be reused but with different modifiers.
Thank you, I like it.

Are you going to have an archives/history section so we can look back at the popular stories for a particular day?
Sure, but might end up on a slippery slope if you let any random person say "hey hospital, please treat me with that experimental drug; I give my informed consent and will pay you $100k for that".
"You have no right to tell people what they can and can't agree to"

I know you said you don't care to get into this, but I'm honestly curious; where do you draw the line (if at all) on that position? Because the concept of enforcing an inability to consent to things is the basis behind minimum wage laws, age-of-consent, the unenforcibility of draconic EULAs and non-compete clauses, and probably some other laws that I can't think of which are wholly designed to protect people from being able to make terrible choices that hurt not only themselves, but the rest of society by validating that choice as a potential option.

I'm not trying to slag on you and I recognize that you don't want this to turn into a debate where everybody shouts at you, and that's probably what's going to happen if you respond; I'm just curious about the boundaries of your position.
On the topic of tmux, has anyone created a nice way to save an active tmux configuration layout?

tmuxinator and the like let you specify the configurations ahead of time, but I want to save an active layout for later use. I haven't found a tool for that yet.
Unfortunately, the case Google (or more specifically Cooley) is that the term is still too vague, regardless of the limit of your context.

This seems analogous to a company trying to trademark "Skip the lines" when advertising an online store.
I have run into 2, 3, 4, 5 as well. And in general, I often feel like the tool is not telling me what it is doing (especially while handling large repos when operations some time take considerably longer)

I have since switched to SourceTree and it is working out well so far.
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Quote: "We believe in the power of open source and global collaboration. That means anyone can download, use, modify, and contribute to the code we've written to bring their ideas to life."

A noble sentiment, but over time this makes Luna another version of Linux, with all the advantages and drawbacks of a kitchen with many cooks.

I hope this project succeeds, but I don't see how it differs from other Linux distributions, apart from how it's described.
6 figure valuation is in no way inflated.

When you get a job offer with a 4 year stock vest in Microsoft, that's a 6 figure valuation on your contribution to Microsoft.
Well, you could be at the other end of the communications, their 4 word description is "Connecting Inmates to Society".

In a "Three Felonies a Day" (http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...) society the odds of your ending up in one or the other position are probably greater than you think, certainly greater than you hope.
While dispelling any possible notion of "blame" or "responsibility". Instead, some out-of-this-world power caused the satellites to "experience" an "orbital injection anomaly".
They only have one LHC, but they do have two detectors (ATLAS and CMS) which are operated by seperate groups.
Liquidation preference.
> people trying to jam new theory into already crammed areas

Those 'theories' are very limited in scope, ad-hock theories. Not theories in the meaning of "abstract or generalizing thinking" (Wikipedia).
I think Google intentions to deliver a Drone program, are much bigger and will try to create a great value proposition for buyers to use their eCommerce solutions and payments. This way you will more eager to choose Google and not Amazon.
Unrelated to Tmux, what did you do to get the cool prompt?
If you're so concerned about the waste of space represented by two "[1]"s, why'd you waste so much space typing this?

>if its a list of one item, its not really a list

unless you're a programmer.
I agree completely. It seems such a waste, especially given that mining bitcoin is deliberately made difficult. The main cost/waste of bitcoin mining is electricity, and yet we could reduce the cost to almost nothing.

In an ideal world, imagine instead a variant of bitcoin that works like this:

* All miners do their hashing & number crunching for a second or so, then report their peak hashing rates to each other.

* Instead of one of them randomly mining the next block of bitcoin, the next block gets divided out proportionately according to hash rate.

* All miners then agree not to do any more hashing for (say) a minute or so.

* Process repeats.

Ta-da! We have a bitcoin system which uses a fraction of the electricity. If we were back in the days of mining on general purpose computers, then we could even put them to some other use at the same time as mining bitcoins.

Obviously, this has massive flaws. How to trust that everyone doesn't lie about their hash rates? Perhaps this could be solved by keeping the mining but setting the difficulty so that a block would only take a couple of seconds to mine. That way, there's still a numeric problem that requires real CPU work to solve.

Secondly, how to ensure that the systems don't do any more hashing for a fixed time? Perhaps the system could be tied to an unguessable source of randomness that won't be known in advance of the next block mining time. (This is the really tricky bit; you need a source that is trusted by everyone and not predictable or alterable or knowable in advance).
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If you believe in evolution, then presumably not, assuming humans really are fit, which our current situation would seem to indicate.

On the other hand, generally what happens is that species grow larger and heavier (because that allows for increased energy efficiency at the cost of reduced adaptability), and then disappear. That's why larger animals are disproportionally likely to go extinct. We are quite large.

So the short answer is : the jury's still out. After all, if we are not in fact better than other species, why should we survive ?
There are tons of ways this is relevant to Hacker news, the ability for labour, management ,customers and vendors to stick it out for a fair society is un-heard off.

Lots of companies (Tech) and non tech speak about ethos and values they espose off but rarely follow up on. I respect those who walk the talk and not just talk the talk. Clearly Arthur T walked his talk and his employee stood up for him. If I ever get to a leadership, I only wish I can do some of the stuff he has done for his employees and customers.
Ask HN: I bootstrapped a business, and I'm now looking for a job
Hi HN,

I graduated from an engineering school a year ago, and I've been bootstrapping a small online B2C business for about 6 months. I did everything on my own for this project: ideas, code, marketing, optimization, etc. And I managed to make a decent amount of money (low 4 figures).

Now I need to have a stable income, so I plan to start looking for a "real job" soon. The only problem is that I don't know what I want. I'm a versatile guy, so I think I could be a developer, a product manager, a growth hacker, a consultant, etc.

Any advice on what are the best options available for me? What skills are in bigger demand? Where could I leverage my small business experience?

Thanks for your help!
Exacy! It also works the other way around! My eye got seventy damaged and the retina ripped. The doctor managed to stitch it back together but I saw the fold (a 'dent' in my vision, everything had a fold in it. Took 4 weeks for my brain to re-calibrate and the fold's gone.
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Not to mention that, after he complied with no signs of resistance, he still gets a boot in the back from these thugs. The guy even jumps off his back foot a couple times, just to make sure his entire body weight is on him. Good thing he could hear them over the headphones, or he'd have likely been shot in the back. That's the price you pay for not resisting.
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Bitcoin could become a means for payment and other things, but can not possibly replace the current systems of currency, since those are essential political instruments.

Consider the impact of minimal fluctuations of exchange and interest rates. No one could just say "fuck it" and buy into a completely unpredictable new system. Governments would give up control, and random people who happened to have mined Bitcoin until that point would hold the world's wealth? I don't think so.
I got all fired up and now I'm going to set one up. My carpentry skills are zero, so I'm thinking of just taking an Ikea Nornäs, painting it waterproof and adding a plexiglass door and a better roof (I have some spare tiles left from the previous owner that should do the trick).
The Market Basket story will go into the B-school textbooks, or should. An amazing lesson in the triumph of good leadership over bad. Everyone who wants to start a business could learn from this guy.
I'm not sure if by the time you factor in all the costs of banking (including bail-outs) bitcoin is still ludicrously expensive.

And one block will include a whole slew of transactions, that's fixed overhead with economies of scale built in.
>He, like Thomas, would not follow the risen Christ unless he saw him himself

An extraordinary statement without evidence. People today have all kinds of beliefs without evidence. People also could lie, be pressured into belief by conformity, have hallucinations, etc. Not to mention people 2000 years ago didn't have todays strict standards delineating fact from beliefs.

There are numerous contradictions and discrepancies in these "accounts". The historicity of Jesus' resurrection is very much in doubt by the preeminent new testament scholars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJE7cetkB4#t=81

And indeed the historical method can't be seriously compared to the scientific method, because it is vulnerable to errors in the accounts, falsification, forgery, intentional lying, biased interpretation. While science relies on repeatability.
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The attitude of your posts is disgusting. Both the firm, and the startup made big mistakes here. The answer should be to get a lawyer, because none of us know all sides of the issue, and that is going to be the end result anyways. A lawyer, or drop it. There is no need to attack the above posters for having an opinion opposite of yours. And your analogy is worse than the one posted above. Regardless of whether or not you are in the auto technology sector (why do you even assume people know that about you before commenting)?
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The vast majority of fiat currency in circulation isn't in the form of banknotes or coins. (Gold isn't really a currency anymore, so let's ignore that one.) It exists electronically. In a fractional-reserve system, it's also mostly created by its users, but that happens as a by-product of normal economic activity. And it takes a lot less computer work per economic transaction for a fractional-reserve system to create money than it does in a cryptocurrency.
Can you explain here, why it is bad idea to send URLs in emails?
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Eh, AFAICT, from the bank's perspective, it's a matter of convenience that can be written off with insurance.
I'm just curious as to why it's a bad idea? I click URLs in emails all the time. I just hover over it to make sure that the hyperlink matches the text. Is there another possible security issue that I'm missing?
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I think they shouldn't use modifiers at all, ideally you would enter the mode with MODIFIER+modekey and then press the normal keys: q2c. I don't know if that's possible with your current program but that's what I meant.
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Of course negative results are valuable. But as signal-to-noise there have to be many, many more of them to help define what is there by showing what isn't. They have individually less weight than a positive value, is the argument.
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