skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the recent PyOhio conference I saw a neat trick, with PostgreSQL event triggers advanced the web hosted slides. I think it was this one http://pyvideo.org/video/2842/pushy-postgres-and-python ... anyway, the presenter was able to just simply stay in his shell, and participants could watch the slides on their laptops, and he'd occasionally refer to them on the large screen as well.
Why do you think banks don't use HSMs? They do. They are off the shelf products. If it's the "correct" solution to your problems depends on what your problem actually is.

In this case Cloudflare apparently thought it was the right solution in theory but developed their own instead of using existing products and/or standards. I don't know the rationale for this, but I'd be interesting in knowing more, as you can read in my comment above.

I don't know why I should point out that Cloudflare did the wrong thing. Perhaps you are confusing me with someone else?

What I did say is that the alternative to the described solution is to use a HSM, and that their solution should offer equivalent security.
Within fields this is taken into account. Some areas can be very quick to generate data, whereas others take longer and /or more manpower. One would not expect someone doing studies in mice, or clinical studies, to generate the same number of papers as one doing biochemistry, for example.

The incentive to publish frequently is not universal, however, some reviewing committees ask only for one to present the best 5 papers in the last 10 years, for example.
We're watching a second family of mammals adapt and speciate a bunch of new winners in this domain of man, in in our own homes!

Even the human mass extinction has given life time to adapt, by way of crops, farm animals, pets, etc. We've even helped make sure that hundreds or thousands of species across many different kinds of life are 100% going to survive along with us if it's remotely in our power.

There are likely hundreds or thousands of other species like raccoons, pigeons, rats, jellyfish, various kinds of insects, etc that are going to thrive in our cities and continue to coevolve as parasites.

I'm not entirely convinced a human caused mass extinction is really all that much worse than other kinds, because we provide some guaranteed survival routes to animals that can coevolve with us, and be useful in some way.
Part of the blame needs to be on the drivers, who are likely bad at estimating the true cost of operating a vehicle. Uber could probably do better at making this clear, but it's not really in their interest. Long story short: traditional taxi pricing seems expensive but is actually pretty fair once you account for costs and a decent wage.

Airbnb has given the sharing economy an inflated reputation, because they feed off a great business model: renting a scarce asset (land) with minimal marginal cost.
Higher taxes on the wealthy will reduce wasteful spending.
I got excited thinking someone was linking mpd and there was a discussion about it.

Not that this isn't awesome. I've actually been looking for markdown to shell presentation.
Good point, but if the goal is to avoid extinction, the fortunate few who make it into the biodome might not require "massive scales".
The effect is not only population, but resources dilution. The same population can consume different amounts of forests, nature areas, or elephants for their ivory [1]

[1] http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/15/opinion-c...
What are the best practices for SEO now that keywords are gone? Apart from the obvious stuff like create good content with proper headings etc.
http://realtytimes.com/agentnews/agentadvice1/item/27521-201...

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/wrestling-labor...

I don't hold as much hope for this as you do. It's not a new situation, although the fact that I'm citing really recent coverage here is evidence that there may be some movement in the air. There are a lot of lobbying dollars going in the other direction, though.
I'm not sure that you want to be finding kinship with sociopaths.
If the drivers had an effective app, then they could provide an api for Uber, Lyft, or whatever brand to route rides into. The rate paid to the driver, possibly combined with convenience and other qualitative factors, would naturally determine placement. There would still be value in building a brand that customers recognize, but the overall system might be more sustainable.
too cool. thanks.
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Thanks for the insight, much appreciated.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'verbosity' in this case? I just Googled and it looks like Elisp uses the same (lambda (arg) form) syntax, like CL---is this what you're referring to?
just nuke some land, worked great for wildlife in Cernobyl
How about the heavy advancement of car safety, the improved capacity for producing materials that cars use, cars being faster, and cars being cheaper? With most technologies and processes, first you create something and then you improve it and optimize it, each further improvement of the same size has a higher marginal cost. Cars have come a very long way, you wouldn't expect a car to change more in one decade than it did in the previous decade. If you are looking for a really revolutionary fundamental change, then it probably wouldn't be a car anymore, maybe it would be a plane.
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I got sick of trying to get a price out of them for calls to their API. Not having a 'pricing' tab puts people off from the get-go and dealing with their sales people is a drag: all that technology and they can't even formulate a pricing calculator?!?
>There are numerous other examples (Lyft, TaskRabbit, JobRunners, even Amazon's Mechanical Turk) where this model seems to work pretty well.

...by shifting risk from corporations to workers, weakening labor protections, and driving down wages.

This article isn't about how to maximize profit, it's about how profit is being maximized.
Peter Thiel is a businessman, not a historian of technology.
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One of the purposes international treaties and organizations attempt to solve is this very coordination problem. The fact that such organizations have had a certain level of success as far as deweaponization (as far as biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons), commerce treaties, and pollution control guidelines means that a global framework for reducing carbon emissions and increasing land conservation efforts is possible.

A minor example of this is the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, which have a certain protected legal standing, which has been fairly effective in its goal. Maritime laws and emissions control for large ships is another one where global legal frameworks have worked.
I'm guessing that you'll probably have to build it yourself. Are you sure you want to use it, though? I haven't installed anything later than 1.9.3 32 bit on Windows since I discovered that that was the latest version that Nokogiri had pre-built binaries for, and using it with anything newer would require me to figure out how to build it against that version. It seems that anything newer than that may be a minefield of bugs on Windows.

But it is still my preferred language for scripting and automation on Windows.
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It's hosted on Slack[1], which is available for Mac, Android & iPhone. The chat has different rooms for each country, private groups, search and direct messaging.

Enter your email in the form below and I will send you an invite.

https://www.sendicate.net/subscribe/5if5xc

After you've been invited you can access the chatroom via the link below.

https://nomadnet.slack.com/

[1] Homepage of Slack - https://slack.com/
This still looks like a nightmare. No discoverability, no namespaces, no metadata management... these are all implemented in knowledge management systems, but this thing, whatever it is (not a language, not a knowledgebase, maybe a collection of pre-scripted demo applications?) has none of this.
You are right and I apologize.

I relied on my memory in this case because I, quite frankly, was lazy, hungry, and about to make dinner.

I have definitely seen him described as a General before the war, in texts written by Americans, though, which is where my mistake comes from. Damn, I don't like making mistakes.
I understand the distinction and the philosophical differences. The USFS and USDA are, overall, a good thing for us to have, and they clearly serve a different role from the National Park Service, et. al.

That said, having seen first-hand an example of "low-impact recreation", I felt that the USFS was over-stepping its bounds. There was even a recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office on whether or not the USFS should be moved from Agriculture to Interior[1], the result of which seems to have re-enforced the cultural differences these two departments have had since their founding.

But I'll admit that the case of the RVs and dirt bikes might have been an outlier. I was simply not impressed by what I saw, and I hope that it's not happening much elsewhere in our national forests.

[1]: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-09-223
A lot of this has to do with incentive structures, especially in Life Science research. The grant landscape is intensely competitive, and writing up results is incredibly time-consuming. There is little incentive to take the time to write up and submit negative results to relevant journals. If institutions and grant committees were to require this practice, it wouldn't be nearly as big of a problem.
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Thanks for commenting on the actual business struggles - I found that missing here too.

I have watched Moz very closely for the last 3 years as well and was not super delighted by Moz Analytics, and this sheds some more light on it now. I do love their Moz Academy though, that was a big improvement.

On the content tool - why do you think they couldn't pull in Webmaster Tools keyword data instead of the GA keyword data? Not as accurate, but 75% of the way there. They could have also matched up rankings to content pages to still make a cool tool. I imagine they are 80% there on a bunch of features like this but just haven't finished them. Possibly related to the comment on Rand's high potential/low performance (although that take a team and that quote is quite deterministic).
Considering how well politically connected these labour brokerages are and how little bargaining power labour has in the US, I cannot see a clampdown on 1099-type pseudo-employment happen. The country would be better off if it took place, but the political realities are against it.
Isn't the kind of stuff he's talking about really hard?

We may have wanted flying cars, but 140 characters is way easier, and that's why we have it, not because we're focusing on the wrong things.
The need for more pervades everyone, it is not a matter of "I have spare cash, lets spend it!", our society revolves around the accumulation of crap. It is a broad cultural change that is needed, not a tax code tweak.
That's really neat that they give instructions on how to build your own, but I kind of want a way to just buy it and get the product (as shown in the animated hero) delivered to me.
Friend came from Lebanon to LA to act but found herself thrust in Tech startups
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Regardless of how slow the environment changes, there is no "adapt" without individuals dying (and not reproducing) due to changes in the environment.
The guy in the picture using a typewriter is not a hipster btw (well, maybe but not because of that), he was selling short stories written on the spot in a park.
Is anyone aware of some premade cheap versions of this for various phones (maybe plastic)? I'd pay $30-50 just to play with this without the hassle of putting this all together. Might make a nice short term business for an enterprising individual.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6841113
Yeah and human beings have stalled evolving ever since we started looking like a human. I mean, we look the same as thousands of years ago, right? What have we done? At this point we should all have evolved so much that our brain should be the size of a basketball and should be able to communicate via telepathy. What have we done? We've all failed.
As you point out, the speed at which programming is evolving makes maintaining relevant experience difficult for a human, which makes programming at least different in degree from other professions. The ultimate goal is to build a hive mind able to effectively share the current relevant experience to address both problems, getting up to speed, keeping pace and ultimately being productive easier.
Which should you buy, the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus?
Sales of electric cars have not stalled, they are growing rapidly. They are also a very small segment of the market but as price drops and range increases that will cease to be the case.
Hi HN,

I'm a founder of the company, and happy to take any questions.
That is indeed a difference, but perhaps not directly relevant to the bank's security.

For large scale traffic manipulation, Google is even better suited. They have arbitrary access to the DOM tree of over 10 million websites via Google Analytics, including several banks.
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> For example, you probably could not restart nuclear power in the U.S. without the role of government. But because our government does not believe in complex coordination and planning, it will not restart the nuclear industry. It’s quite possible it will just not get restarted.

Funny that you can call yourself an emphatic capitalist and advocate for central planning.
The problem with getting women into tech is that so few women finish school with a tech degree, so no matter what you do, there's going to be a huge imbalance until this changes. It's very difficult to change career later in life, for both men and women.

I think the greatest benefits come from getting girls excited about STEM careers, but this is a much longer term approach. I'm really dismayed at the peer pressure I see in school that steers boys and girls in different directions, since this is something you have to fight at home and de-program your children. Get your daughters a microscope, telescope, computer, whatever. Use it with her, show her all the cool stuff in the world and talk about how it works. Don't go for "girl-friendly" approaches, since IMO, those are condescending. Treat her like a curious little scientist, not little Suzie homemaker with a science hobby.

Having kids, it really pisses me off that people say boys are "smart, strong", and that girls are "cute, friendly". Freaking double standard.
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The majority of funding for the VC industry does not come from the super rich, but rather endowments, pensions, and other forms of institutional capital. These institutions do have many other markets where they invest their capital, most of which are more attractive on a risk-adjusted basis when taking into consideration the illiquid nature of venture capital as well as the high fees.
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Yes, and I tried with num lock on/off. No luck.
In the C family, it should be ++frustration, for speed :p
It does not follow that a poor OO implementation in one language (Java) means all OO is poor (and, in fact, the article agrees with this when it decides Haskell is an ok way to do OO).

Yes, every concept in OO can be accomplished without OO and, in many cases, are reduced implementations of more general concepts, so polymorphism is a simplified kind of type-based function dispatch. The power comes in the consistency and in the simplification itself. Instead of having multiple implementations of polymorphism that have to be developed and managed by multiple teams, you have one that is developed and managed by the compiler and understood by everybody who writes the language.

Java was very opinionated about certain aspects of OO, missing the mark of why OO is valuable in some places. It also made some very poor decisions in the implementation of its VM (int/Integer, ==/.equals) that made things worse. Finally, living in the Kingdom of Nouns[1] just sucks. But this feels like a lispers rant against Java more than a true critique of object oriented programming.

1. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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The problem, then, is somehow getting rid of the four-wheeler and jeep drivers. (I actually haven't noticed dirt-bikers themselves causing many problems, but they're often accompanied by the others.) As long as they exist they'll be able to lobby the USFS for off-trail access rights to certain locations. In the vast majority of national forest acreage, they are restricted to roads and trails that can handle them just fine.

However, a part of me wants to keep the motor enthusiasts around. They obviously cause more damage than I do as a hunter, so while they are tolerated in places I expect I'll also be tolerated.
Human population growth tapers off, even decreases, when a sufficiently advanced level of technology & luxury is reached.

We are hardly "reaching upper limits on agricultural and water availability". The problem with food is distribution, not production. Water is an issue, but desalination is very possible once the demand reaches sufficient levels.

And your "infantile religion" snipe is a non-sequitur.
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Right or move to a sales tax that discourages consumption. Instead of an income tax that discourages working.
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How is Uber considered "sharing economy"? If the term is to have any meaning, then it refers to people having spare capacity in an asset and allowing others to use it.

Airbnb: Have a room in your home or can leave your home, and allow others to rent it.

Taskrabbit: Have extra time you can sell

Say what you want about the ethics of either company, but users are free to negotiate prices.

A "sharing economy" car company would monetize spare capacity in cars and allows drivers/passengers post rates.

But that would be complicated. So Uber has adopted a fixed rate model. Whatever it's virtues, it's not sharing. It's just service for hire at a fixed rate.
I'd argue it isn't the wealthy buying disposable goods. They have the money to buy the good stuff. If any demographic is buying more often than the other, it's actually the poor, who don't have the money to spend $1,000 for a blender that may last.
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I really respect Mr. Thiel for what he has done in the past, but I increasingly find that people who publish a new book (like Mr. Thiel) come up with categorical, often outrageous, statements just to drum up the support for the book.
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No, the alternative in situations like these when you need the added security is to use an off the shelf HSM.
>> Uber is not a monopoly and the barriers to entry are lower than people think.

That is actually a large part of the problem. Competition from Lyft will force Uber to lower fares. Competition from a driver-union-app would force them to be even lower.

At some point, lowering fares will directly hurt uber. Prior to that point, it's hurting the drivers because uber doesn't care at all about drivers costs, and drivers are either not good at taking that into account, or have been screwed by falling fares.
If you assume that the basic intent of human life is to grow population then we self organise very effectively. The only way we will ever make room for nature is if population growth becomes dependant on other forms of agriculture that do not need large amounts of land and sunlight.
I think automatic favorites, follows, etc. are forbidden.
I have the same setup. Vagrant for VMs with an Ansible provisioner. I reuse about 80% of my playbooks between production and development, and the places they differ is primarily in setting up my dev environment nicely with the shell and SSH access to prod and all that. It really helps to have everything both locally and in prod "disposable"... a couple of times I've run into hairy slightly strange behavior locally and it's great to be able to blow it away, run "vagrant up" again and in 20 minutes have a pristine, matching-prod dev environment.
Indeed. Here's his story:

http://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-was-a-hated-hipster-meme-and...
...instead of the Department of the Interior...

Before praising that department too much, you might want to visit some BLM land. You might be disappointed. The rule seems to be that locals can do or dump anything they want there, unless it interferes with mineral extraction.
That sounds very similar to (though more intense than) what I go through. All I know to do is break cycles. Run out of weed, don't buy more for a while. Sitting around too much, force myself to go outside and walk around a park. Force myself to go to a social outing that I really would rather not go to.

I have found that even though I dread doing these things, and in general hate forcing myself to do stuff I don't wanna do, when I am actually doing them I am truly enjoying myself. More than I thought I would. Like, I might dread going to a get-together because the convos will be boring and I'll be waiting to leave, but then when I'm there I manage to find someone actually interesting.

I think there is a large "eat your vegetables" aspect to breaking out of this. At least for me that's the case. There's stuff that I know I should do but I just don't feel like it at all. But if I examine why I don't want to, I really find that there's no actual good reason. That's an indicator that I'm not thinking straight and need to spend a while doing things that I wouldn't otherwise do.

The only other thing is being extremely honest with myself. Honest about what I really want, honest about what is not making me happy. I was in a marriage that left me feeling unfulfilled, but I refused to admit this for over a year. That drove what turned out to be the longest and probably most severe depressive episode in my life. I am lucky though, and know that my depression is fairly mild, comparatively speaking.
Get married, have kids, invest in their lives and share with them your passion for technology. If you have daughters, they may choose tech.
> The car itself hasn't changed in any fundamental way since 1950

The form factor of cars haven't changed much since 1950. Everything else has. Seatbelts. Airbags. Hybrids. Automatic transmissions allow more people to drive, and are now faster/better than manual. We moved from carburetors to fuel injection to direct injection, dramatically increasing the ability to control combustion in each cylinder. We went from massive V8 and V12 engines (the entire 1950s Cadillac line produced about 300 horsepower from a 6 liter V8 -- a modern import sedan can produce almost the same on a 2 liter V4 e.g., the Hyundai 2.0 liter engine). Superchargers allowed greater performance, turbochargers unlocked greater efficiency. Radial tires were barely a thing in 1950, and advancements in tires have made cars dramatically safer. Catalytic converters and electronic emission controls returned LA's atmosphere to health. Etc.

If there was any doubt, check out this chart:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_otfwl2zc6Qc/TIp8lXB5h2I/AAAAAAAAOW...

Highway fatalities per mile traveled are about 80% lower than in 1950. The vast majority of that gain is from technology -- drivers sure haven't gotten any better over that period.
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Not completely the same question. The above discussion answers what to do after or when you are about to get into an accelerator.

The question is about before getting there, how do you even think about starting up and applying to YC while on an H1. How can you attract customers, when you can't legally do anything?