skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's designed to help the enterprise customer not you; i.e. they aim to get paid for services or products that you provide that they resell (directly or indirectly) before they pay you.

Example; one day 1 you provide a service to enterprise customer (the clock starts ticking), on day 2 they resell that service (with added value etc). The enterprise customer's customers either pay upfront (B2C), day 5 through 9 for customers paying by credit card, bank transfer etc, or pay on day 32 (B2B). Then on day 60 they pay you. So in the case of B2C your enterprise customer has cash in the bank earning interest for between 51 to 60 days, and for B2B customers for 28 days. So they always have a positive bank balance (no need for a rolling line of credit and risks involved), and they earn some extra cash because of it.

EDIT: further technical info.

The technical accounting term for this is positive cash flow. The opposite (paying you providers before getting paid by your customers) is obviously negative cash flow (like a old fashioned mom and pop shop; they buy the stock before their customers pay for it. Please note that modern supermarkets work nothing like this).
This is a relevant lecture of his which goes into more depth about how to teach QM as a probability theory over complex variables: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html

When I read this, I thought it made so much sense.
And, you'd have to assume, in at least private versions of metasploit and wifi pineapple already...
Apple charge $100 per year to be a registered developer, not "no charge"
Slow load times on my computer for...a site to tell me to come back on my smartphone. No. Not even 'No thank you', just no.
Occasionally, when we're really busy with non-gardening tasks during the summer, we follow these "principles" by default. No vegetables other than the tomatoes end up producing. And actually most years even the tomatoes require something for the hornworms, although we've had some success with the Bacillus thuringiensis spray.

There must be more to this method than just not doing anything in the garden.

EDIT: OK, I'll read this book. I have to ask: have you, or anyone you know personally, managed to grow useful plants from seed without cultivating, fertilizing, weeding, or pruning?
Here's an example that really happened to me:

I legitimately wanted to use my Canadian credit card to buy something in the US and have it shipped to me in Vietnam but the merchant naturally was unwilling to take on the chargeback risk and I was unable to complete the purchase.
You can try messing with it yourself by, doing (if you already have node/npm/git installed and familiar with terminal):

git clone http://github.com/amark/gun
cd gun/examples && npm install
node express.js 8080

Then open it in a couple of browser tabs on different devices, change their system clock, try refreshing data, crashing things. etc.

I'm also trying to figure out how to write simulated tests (like Jepsen) that will do all of this for you and give you the results of what failed/succeeded. Till then, let me know if you see anything break.
I wouldn't really say that the second Iraq War was "lost", per se; it did meet its objective of eliminating the regime of a dictator, after all. It's the swarm of smaller-scale conflicts following it that the United States struggled with.

I agree with all the points presented, though. Very well put.
Ryan Dahl (ry) the creator of node.js started working for Joyent during its early development.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lWo0MbHZ6Tc

Edit: just noticed a delicious bit of prescience from isaacs in the thread:

Right. And if Joyent is a douche, they're going to find
themselves empty-handed, as the node community will find a
new champion.
The idea of disc dark matter is highly speculative, and requires a subdominant dark matter candidate with significant self-interactions (We know that most of the dark matter is in a roughly spherically symmetric halo).

Also, the correspondence between disc crossings and cratering looks tenuous at best...someone should check my work, but I plotted the tabulated impact pulses that the author associates with extinction events as a function of phase (assuming period = 30 Myr, t0 = now) at http://imgur.com/dfTkNEW . Running a Rayleigh statistic shows no evidence for non-uniformity (Rayleigh=0.16, N=13) and the mean phase is close to pi/2 too.
Finally, they acknowledge the issue!
> "Many consumers today expect their devices to receive ongoing feature updates without having to take an action."

This is a statement by Microsoft, not by me.

What do you think it means?
Yes! Thanks.

LocalStorage implementation is just the default plugin, and I chose it first because of its compatibility. I'd like to get IndexedDB support in there as well. Interested in helping?
Unity also has zero royalties.
Consul 0.5
On my Samsung ATIV (QHD+), I found that running the display at half the native resolution dramatically increased battery life and didn't seem to look any worse than a normal panel with a ~72 DPI native resolution.
This worked back in the day, when printers had no network-level access control, maybe not anymore... Go through the printer's settings, and select the one that prints out all the current settings; on it may be the printer's IP address; also note the make and model; get the Linux driver (PPD) from the manufacturer, either on their website or by requesting the CD in the mail; install the driver on your local machine with CUPS and print directly.

If you're djb you might even get away with it.
Consul 0.5 brings many new features including automated clustering, seamless UI integration via Atlas, enhanced ACLs, simple N+1 deploys, node and service maintenance modes, native HTTP health checks, ephemeral keys, session TTLs, and key rotation among many others.
How does that work? Do you send out the first invoice at 98% cost, wait 30 days, and send a second 2% invoice if the payment still isn't there?
I think there is one more party involved here that no one talks about. Microsoft! Sooner or later Microsoft will have to reconsider their partnership with hardware manufactures such as Lenovo for consumer products.

Too much of choice and too much of competition has made consumer PC laptops shopping an unpleasant experience. Windows Surface Pro 3 however is an amazing device. In my opinion Microsoft should now come with their own laptops made by MS well integrated with Windows Phones, Xbox and Band.
There is no way this can work. Merging data changes can inherently not be automated in the general case. Deciding if a change from foo to bar should win over a change from foo to baz depends on the semantics of those strings. There are some cases, for example counters, with simple and clear semantics where you can build reusable and robust solutions for. You can also handle the general case with simple policies like last write wins. But there is no way any algorithm will ever be able to figure out whether to choose bar or baz, not at last because I could arbitrarily declare any of the two outcomes correct.
Agreed! PHP really needs a non-backwards compatible fork, something to go back and refactor all the built-in functions so they're consistently named and the arguments are consistently ordered, and with sensible defaults all around.

If the fork did nothing else, that would still be a huge leap forward.
This could be an artifact of how these valuations are communicated, rather than the actual valuations. It's common for companies to not disclose their valuation when announcing funding, but for journalists to make assumptions based on rumors and educated guesses - those assumptions make their way in the headlines surprisingly often. What starts as "approximately $2bn, according to our sources", pretty soon becomes "$2,000,000.00" in an analyst's spreadsheet.
Why does Superfish sign new certificates on the fly? Why not just use wildcard certificates?
I like this language because it doesn't try to do anything too fancy. It's "just" a streamlined C++.

I do wonder how they're planning on avoiding overhead with the garbage collector, though. Once you have a single garbage collected object on your heap, it seems like you'd have to start scanning the whole thing to make sure the garbage collected object is still alive.
4 Reasons Why PBN Links Are Dangerous
this seems like a great tool. hosting firebase on my own is what I want to build real time apps, is this possible?

I have the same concerns for meteor which I have for this as well, which is security and scalability.

How does Gun address those two things?
Last time I tried to get Induction working, it refused to load any of my databases :/
I love redis! My first proof of concept of GUN used redis as the persistence/storage layer. But I moved off of it since I wanted a fully embedded solution.

Data wise the difference is that Redis doesn't support graphs. But you could easily build that on top of Redis, so you could argue GUN is just graph data ontop of Redis (well, not anymore) with a conflict resolution algorithm baked in.
Tink, a New Voice for Proudly Imperfect Women
May I recommend that you just read everything. Maybe I'm just a grief-stricken fan, but I'm pretty sure that Oliver Sacks hasn't written a sup-bar or un-interesting sentence in his entire life.
I see what you're saying about the table filtering! Very slick. Dragging columns around feels very fluid. Great work, I think I might have to go ahead and purchase this one!
Inside Ashton Kutcher's celebrity-powered media empire,which no one knows exists
What I mean is, we are reading about it because it worked.

It's the lowest hanging fruit. I doubt he expected to find the password just sitting there, but since he did, here we are :)

But yes, keeping sensitive information hidden in plain text considered a security flaw.
I believe the source of your concern here is a misunderstanding. The points are principles by which to develop a locally sustainable method, rather than the method itself.

For instance, Fukuoka makes it clear that for effective pest control in particular, certain patterns of planting are critical to a encourage healthy insect biology that will protect the plants from devastating pest invasions. He also emphasizes that trial and error combined with observation are the most important considerations, and that one should draw initially from local seed stock and local established plantings. This will result in better results with less effort, ie. a superior process.
The second brain in your gut
i think you dont understand bitcoin or money at all. that is not meant to be dismissive, i think a lot of people dont understand how money creation actually works, just that it does. for some reason people think bitcoin is so strange that they could not use it but if they stopped to think about how fiat currencies work they would be equally confused.

so the first thing you say, about the US government printing money and the existing money becoming worth less, this is known as inflation.

Yes mining bitcoin is similar to printing money, however you cannot 'print' bitcoin infinitely as you can with US dollars. This is why bitcoin is known as a deflationary currency and many people think this is a negative aspect to its adoption, but if there was no artificial scarcity i.e you could make as many bitcoins as you wanted when you wanted then there would be no value to them whatsoever.

>currency gets destroyed buy (sic) governments
Do you mean by inflation or do you mean they are putting it all in a furnace somewhere?

They destroy old used notes yes, but that doesnt take it out of circulation. if they burn $100million then they have $100million in fresh notes to go back out into circulation. That money comes from banks, those banks are holding it as deposits for customers. If the government 'destroyed' it then those people would not have any money in their bank accounts.

Far from destroying money or removing it from circulation many governments have been printing money like nobodys business over the last half a decade. Google Quantitive Easing to see the offical description of it and what they hope to achieve as a result.
THE CURSE
We (at Olark) are wondering the same thing. We just recently talked to Poll Everywhere (S'08) - they are also bootstrapped and well over $1m / year in revenue. Wufoo was as well (they were acquired in 2011).

If you're a bootstrapped company (let's say < $100k in outside funding) and you have revenues >> $1m / year, we'd love to hear from you!

Does it count if you raise after you hit $1m / year in revenue? I'll let you decide.
What's wrong with that? Why would you raise at 1.9 or 2.1 instead of 2?
Maybe so, but ...

> Additionally, the spy agency targeted unnamed cellular companies’ core networks, giving it access to “sales staff machines for customer information ...

So these corporations had customers' personal data stolen. I believe they're obligated to inform those customers, and possibly other obligations. (No direct knowledge, just spouting off what I've read during the Target and Home Depot breaches.)
Matrix: a new specification for federated realtime chat
Every change can be preserved in a history/append-only/log/stream. So you don't have to "lose" data from another "winning". However, the algorithm will by default select one, you can then code it at the app level for the user to select a new winner.

The general case here is very UUID based key/value pairs. Anything beyond that, you should be using CRDTs and OT like algorithms, which I will be building on top of GUN.

However, in the meanwhile, I challenge you to try running the example folder from the GitHub ReadMe and seeing if you can break the automated sync and cause data divergence!

Edit: This person (in the comments below, please upvote him), and my reply, best addresses the most important questions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077969
BACS transfer in the UK.
I'm not going to spin this up on 1000 nodes to make sure it handles the kind of load needed to simulate actual production traffic (which is what you would need to actually figure out if this would hold up to some kind of large scale load that Riak or Cassandra would be able to handle). Maybe you should do that yourself and document it to prove how good your product is!
Mindy pokes fun at Silicon Valley
I mean Safari, yes.
I understand how its supposed to make the universe look so much bigger than a human. But I think that saying "you're not the center of the universe" isn't very relevant because the size of the sun doesn't have anything to do with a "tiny human being's" everyday affairs. I don't know, that idiom annoys to me.
Can you expand on that? Why would you still prefer io.js?
This article is just stupid. Pretty much any billion dollar company is meaningful by definition. You can't just manufacture something like that out of thin error. And what's the scary danger?
How about:

A scientist trained in the liberal arts has another huge advantage: writing ability.

It might not be an "interesting" argument, but I remember my best college professor expressly lamenting that engineering students no longer knew how to write.

I also remember discovering the steady decline in the quality of datasheet & manual technical writing, starting somewhere in the late 80's.
IIRC, it is now. There was a lawsuit about that in I think 2011 where merchants settled with credit card companies and payment processors that they are allowed to charge less for cash transactions. That had previously been prohibited, which was circumvented to a degree by the pervasive "minimum purchase" sign.

I'm pressed for time at the moment, so I can't provide a link.
Yes, that is where the meat is.

Do the slides from my tech talk help at all?

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VIOJc0bdzUNs7yXMLKCc...

I'll be working on getting a recording of the tech talk up, more blogs/documentation on the algorithm specifically. And as others have mentioned, some actual academic papers (but that could be a while).

Anything specific I can address?

Edit: This person (in the comments below, please upvote him), and my reply, best addresses the most important questions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077969
It takes a peculiar kind of narcissist to convince themselves that the point of a business isn't making money, but rather to self-actualize themselves.
Dandelion: A Compiler and Runtime for Heterogeneous Systems
I have used a 15 rMBP in coach on a plane before. It's really not that big. At some point being smaller and light makes no practical difference imo.
- There are no chargebacks

This is a huge negative for the customer, though
Lots of places take Bitcoin as a method of payment--therefore, it's a currency. Sure, its exchange rate is volatile due to speculation, and its future is relatively unknown right now, but that doesn't mean it's not a currency at all. Bitcoin has real value as a form of digital cash, and lots of people are using it that way.

> Bitcoin's value is mostly dependant on demand, which is being pumped up and perpetuated by investors and those with vested interest in the ecosystem including those who own Bitcoin and larger amounts of Bitcoin - who all want the value to go up 10x - 100x.

You're absolutely right: since Bitcoins aren't backed by anything real, their value is purely based on demand. But I disagree with the notion that speculation is the only reason they have any demand. Plenty of people are using Bitcoin in the real world, e.g. to make purchases anonymously or to easily send money overseas.
Cloud-Based Bio Lab Transcriptic (YC W15) Lands $8.5M in Series A Funding
there is no mapping to leak, there is no join between your identity and the bitcoin ledger, there may be some sites such as coinbase that can say "well coins were sent from this address controlled by Mr. Bob, to a new address". Mr. Bob says he sent it to a gambling website, exchange, merchant, localbitcoin sale, in person trade etc. After that he has no idea where it has gone or no way to link the identity of the current owner of those bitcoins, add in 3 or 4 more steps and it doesnt become difficult to obfuscate the trail enough that there is no conclusive link.

that says nothing for coins mined directly, wjere there is no link to any real world identity held anywhere, just a bitcoin payment address.
UberX stealing cabbies' jobs say protesting taxi drivers
You make it sound like raising is bad. there is absolutely nothing wrong with raising and in fact it is a good thing.
> This might be the most tone-deaf handling of a potential PR disaster so far this year.

I think you're assuming that the broader public shares the indignation of HN about this. On mainstream news sites, it's down under the 'technology' heading. It sounds like Lenovo is scrambling a fix that will remove the certificate. If that's out in the next day or two and they have a way to get most affected users to apply it, probably hardly anyone will get clearly 'hacked'. They'll keep playing the 'honest mistake' card, and it will mostly blow over.
While interesting... is there no commentary or discussion about the causation? Thanks for posting the graph, but I'd be very curious why people think this has happened.
You don't need to spin up a 1,000 nodes.

You can just spin up a 1,000 tabs.

Since they all run the same algorithm!

Yes, I am working on more tests to prove myself wrong or right. Please bare with me as I/we make progress, because it is literally only a few contributors and me.

This is v0.1.0 for a reason, not v1. Lots ahead, but please play with it while we work on developing the test suite.
Except more and more, calls are going over VoIP, which is essentially never encrypted. Even calls from one landline to another, even to a neighbor, might end up on VoIP. And in any given call, there are probably multiple resellers. Each with full capability to intercept, redirect, modify, etc. any call. And tech support is often given access to capture any call, as a troubleshooting measure.

Even companies like AT&T, who you'd think with exorbitant prices would always pay for proper direct connections, actually try to find the cheapest bidder in any way possible. For some destinations, they might a list that's 20+ resellers deep.

In short, tapping major connectivity points is probably enough to capture a lot of calls even if you place them from a landline. (Not to mention there's no real security mindset in telecom at all.)
I heard that Karpeles wasn't even running the site when things went down. He'd sold the site to Ross Ulbricht, and then Ulbricht tricked him into taking over Mt. Gox again right before everything hit the fan.
From a corporate perspective, Hortensius approved the bundling of adware (so he's ok with it) from what he thought was a reputable third-party software company. He was wrong!

http://marcrogers.org/2015/02/19/will-the-madness-never-end-...
Interesting, I updated to the latest version and it still just barely starts to load on Safari before crashing.
...over-grazed lands (any place in the western USA)...

Anyone who has spent any time in public lands in the West naturally will be skeptical of this "cattle preserve grass" theory. We need more detail about why this hasn't been the case in USA public lands, and how policies could be changed to make it so. (The most obvious change would be "keep cattle off public land so the taxpayer isn't subsidizing certain beef producers".)

That said, I'm confident that cattle aren't as bad for plants as horses are. Cattle lack upper incisors, as do deer and antelope. This means they tear off the upper portion of the plant, rather than extracting the plant along with most of the root as horses tend to do.
"pass the discount"

You can say "if you are dressed like a clown today we will give you a 10% discount". Point being that there is nothing to prevent you from giving someone a discount as long as it doesn't break any laws and as long as you are offering it to everyone that falls into the same category (or the discount has been negotiated).
> 400 Bad Request

https://github.com/amark/gun
The last time I bought a Thinkpad (which was admittedly ten years ago) it didn't have anything I'd describe as bloatware. The quality of some of it was lacking, but it was all useful.
No, it really doesn't.

Forks are highly dangerous and fragment communities. Massive BC breaks kill adoption of new versions.

If you want nicer functions, add a new, parallel API.

(Speaking as a former PHP internals contributor.)
Yes it is legal:

"Beginning January 27, 2013, merchants in the United States and U.S. Territories will be permitted to impose a surcharge on consumers when they use a credit card." http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp
I agree that some use "billion dollar company" as shorthand for all the things you mention (a great lasting company, solving a real problem, and making a real impact). My point is that while it's often used as a proxy like this, it's a dangerous proxy because it's easily disconnected from the company's original mission(s). In this sense, it's an unhealthy simplification. Surely there must be a better stand-in for a startup's hard-to-measure progress towards achieving their mission than their valuation.
That's quite nice; well done. The Lego definitely helps communicate intuition. I also like how you're very thorough in the computations -- it makes a good introduction.
i think it is most likely to be successful not as a consumer level product but at an infrastructure level. businesses will exploit the blockchain and end users will be using it without realising it, so moneygram and western union will use it to send money for you, you wont know, you will be sending euros, dollars, shekels, whatever but you benefit from lower transaction costs, say half of what WU currently charge but for WU they would be making more per transaction as a result of leveraging the blockchain and low cost bitcoin transactions.