skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met a guy here in Spain that mines with X gram /ton of a given metal and makes money.

In America, with 10 times more grams/ton they don't exploit it, because "it is so expensive, not worth it".

In America over half of the mineral(you can analyze the terrain in the laboratory and compare what is has with what you extract with industrial processes) goes away with the drain because it is in a different physical shape that what the industrial machines are designed for. They just couldn't care less.

This is what prosperity could make to you. Like bears eating the livers of salmons and leaving the rest. We used to open a coal or oil well and BURN(without using it) THE NATURAL GAS first. A 1 meter of diameter burning pipe could burn for years!! In fact, in lots of places in America, where there is no gas pipeline they continue burning the gas, because it is so cheap, not worth it.

Old American cars use to be machines for wasting oil. This is what happens in Venezuela today, when with the money it takes to fill the tank you could fill 1500 tanks in Venezuela. People have problems eating in Venezuela, but they could use the biggest 4x4, or speedboat you could dream of.
>Are you pushing for better laws, despite that they might hurt business?

Come on now, they founded a for-profit startup and are raising money from the VCs. The conflict of interest is obnoxiously obvious.
A distinguishing use case for open source intelligence is being able to counter lossy consciousness factors with open source counterintelligence.

Readily able to read and write due diligence are literate, educated, emotionally-intelligent populations who can be a part of (the granular war to determine) distinguishing records.
Awesome input. cheers
Hmmm. I worked with the Paypal API a long time before Stripe even existed. What was impossible with Paypal's API that was possible with Stripes?
Netflix has already killed cable for a lot of users. Cable is an ancient UX where you rely on programmers to decide what to watch for you. That model was never good; it existed only because that's all the technology supported when cable TV was developed. That model is now outmoded.

The only reason Netflix has yet to achieve utter dominance is the copyright cabal that no longer sees why it should entertain Netflix's money-making when they can create Streaming Video Clone Site #2019 for their properties and collect all the money from subscriptions + ads themselves. Netflix eventually realized that their model was utterly fucked as long as copyright law stayed as it is (since their existence was dependent on the continued cooperation of third parties) and has been forced to rely on its own content to carry subscriptions, since everyone and their dog started making unrealistic demands and pulling their content, many to host on their own sites instead.

Consider that under current copyright law, almost the entirety of film history remains inaccessible without an explicit license grant from the rightsholder. If our terms were a little more reasonable, say anything pre-1980 was now public domain, Netflix may have had a chance to exist independent of Big Media's permission. Under current conditions, Netflix can only stream content published prior to 1924 without permission (plus a smattering of mostly-unwanted films that lapsed into public domain due to registration errors or technicalities). Consider that in 1924, sound had not yet been added to film.

Cable television as we know it is doomed. People don't like relying on programmers to decide what content they want to watch, they want to decide for themselves and get their content instantly. Netflix was one of the first services to offer this to the masses, but it can't reap the rewards because of the oppressive state of copyright law.

Once Netflix really breaks away from dependence on Big Media's copyright grants, they may become one of the biggest champions for modernizing our IP laws to reflect the realities of the digital age.
Key point to take away from this is: Wages constitute the majority of the increase in startup expenses. Real estate costs add only 5% of per employee costs.

The market has driven up salaries ridiculously high.
Furnish us with your definitions of money and credit
One thing to keep in mind, that most people don't understand, this only works if someone KNOWS which one is empty, and shows the door.
Not really. What is the Paypal rest API missing that Stripe has?

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/

I don't even use Paypal as a payment gateway for any site I operate currently. I'm using Authorize.net at the moment. It took about a day to implement. It wasn't as easy to use as I'd hoped, but it wasn't that bad. Certainly not worth a higher transaction fee.
The ISLisp programming language
I think that if you dig a bit deeper, real estate really is a major driver of the cost of doing business in San Francisco. Particularly now that companies and employees are more resistant to the process of migrating elsewhere after the startup phase.

A startup's office space is just one way that venture capital is getting funneled directly into a landlord's pocket. And office rents are rising like crazy, while pushing lots of other types of businesses out (particularly in SOMA).

If a landlord thinks they can come out ahead by evicting a long time tenant and refurbishing a mechanic's garage into office space, then you're clearly paying a much higher rent than that space used to command.

Salaries are still a larger overall expense for just about every startup, but consider how much of that employee salary goes straight to rent. 30% in pre-tax dollars is completely normal at this point, and I expect for some people it's even more. Ownership is out of the question for anyone who hasn't had a stock windfall at a previous company (or who lived here 20 years ago). When a 1 bedroom in a shitty neighborhood is over $3000/mo, there's a minimum to the salary you can accept -- even doing the normal salary-for-equity trade with a startup. Just to hit 30% of pre-tax dollars, you need to make $120,000/yr for that 1 bedroom.

There's no reason for landlords to stop until they've milked the tech economy dry. In most cases they're entirely within their rights to charge whatever the market will bear, and there is currently no shortage of people willing to pay more for less.

In the long term this will hurt San Francisco and the tech industry. The money won't last forever, and eventually the city will be so expensive that the benefits of locating here become irrelevant. SF landlords can't levy a tax on the innovation of the entire tech industry forever.
Given you have vested shares, would you like an upside to the company?

If not, the advice already given about legal advice seems appropriate.

Not mutually exclusive to legal advice, but if interested in on-going success, just update your social media profiles that a potential customer / investor is likely to review on due diligence with something like 'founding member of___', no longer involved with operations / strategy of ___ but support their mission [state mission URL here] (assuming you still support the same broad mission statement)'
The people who are to blame are not the landlords that are merely reacting to market conditions, but the NIMBYs who refuse to let any development occur in the city or anywhere on the peninsula.
You, sir, are a badass.

I was thinking of giving my very young son my EeePC 701 when he is a little older, now I might change my mind.
How is it 10x more complex, exactly?

I have developed an application that uses Paypal's subscription plan API's. I just looked up the invoice that I sent to that client I did work for: 20 hours of work, including custom integration into their word press platform.

Are you suggesting that if Stripe were available at the time, this work would have been reduced to 2 hours?
The killer app for the apple watch?
'YouTube for Kids' app looks to show video clips suitable for young children
Seems an odd statement. Australian economy is awesome, transitioning from resource to service long before it needs to... Which part of the future isn't bright?
Perhaps as many criminal have access to a punch or a chisel plus a hammer as have access to a $2 file.
Elixir Cowboy with IIS 8
>democratically elected government of Mr. Poroshenko

interesting how democratically elected Poroshenko is ok while democratically voted separation of Crimea isn't. Democracy is supposed to be a principle not a substitute for the "i like the outcome" label :)
Where is this person getting their salary data from?
List of authoritarian regimes supported by the United States
Skyping the dog and training in a cupboard – athletes' winter tales
Yes i want the company to succeed, but not on my back: for example the deck states me as founder plus my experience making VC believe that the product is "secure". The product offering is based on customers trust and encryption techniques, kind of IT security app. I think i worked hard enough to get the vested shares 2 years ago, but by now i have hardly any impact on the product or the management; only attending yearly board meetings. I have other companies invested/founded which would be affected if my reputation is damaged by THE company misusing my name.
I'm not blaming them, as I mention the majority is likely acting within their rights. I agree that part of the solution is to create more housing -- but it's also too late for that solution to work before there is a downturn in the startup economy. If there's a next time, it might help then.

Even at San Francisco's current relatively frenzied building pace, there will only be another 4000 units or so this year. That will not make even a slight dent in rent for a city of 700,000+ people.

The other problem with building more units is that a lot of the available space sucks. There are whole huge swaths of the city that may as well be on the moon for how accessible they are to locations with offices (SOMA, Financial District, etc.). You can build condos in Candlestick Point, but how are people going to get to work?

The infrastructure of public and private transit in the city (and the larger region) is woefully inadequate for even half the number of people that currently live here, let alone if the population significantly increases. And these kinds of projects work on 10-20 year timetables. So again, it's way too late for this to be fixed in this economic cycle. Maybe next time.
why would you feel that this is un-reasonable. If getting a less than perfect MVP out can help the company meet certain important deadlines, what's wrong with that?
http://www.howtogeek.com/186775/how-to-download-windows-7-8-...

Use the serial from the COA. Initial activation will fail, but when you perform telephone activation it succeeds.
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Q: Is it true that the return value of any Haskell function depends only on its arguments?

A: Yes, barring tricks like unsafePerformIO. But you can write perfectly good programs that do IO without these tricks anyway.

Q: Okay, genius. What about functions like getLine, which reads a line from the console?

A: getLine isn't a function.

Q: What?

A: All functions in Haskell have types like "a -> b" for some a and b. But you'll notice that the type of getLine doesn't have an arrow in it, it's just "IO String".

Q What do you mean, it's not a function? I can call it right here, by doing "do name <- getLine"!

A: That's not the syntax for calling functions in Haskell, that's monadic do notation. The syntax for calling functions is "foo x y".

Q: This is outrageous. So you're saying that getLine is just an inert value?

A: Yes.

Q: But what is that value? What's inside the type "IO String"? I'd always assumed that it was a kind of wrapper around a String, with some type system nastiness so people don't misuse it.

A: No, I'm afraid it can't be anything as simple as that. And it certainly can't contain a String, because then getLine couldn't be the same value all the time.

Q: Wait, you're saying that it doesn't even contain a String? Then what is it, really?

A: The implementation of IO types is kind of private to the runtime. But you can imagine that for any Haskell type X, "IO X" is a syntax tree of a side-effecting C program that produces an X.

Q: I see. So getLine really is the same value all the time. But how do you "run" the syntax tree that's hidden inside getLine, to actually get a String?

A: You generally don't. Instead you combine them together into one large tree and call it "main", and the runtime takes it from there.

Q: That seems like a lot of work. At the very least, why doesn't the language add some special syntax for combining syntax trees, so people don't have to deal with plumbing?

A: Yeah, that's what monadic do notation was invented for. Unfortunately, it was a bit too successful and some people started confusing it with actual imperative code :-)
I think one of the big issues here is that for an intelligence agency, good defensive security is essentially silent. There's not a lot of money or political capital in "nothing broke today."

On the other hand, good offensive capabilities, even if kept secret externally, are loud and flashy within the organisation, and come with lots of political capital beyond it.

Because of this asymmetry, I think it's almost impossible for an intelligence organisation to stop its "defense" mission being swallowed by the "attack" one. And so we all end up less free and less safe.

I do sometimes wonder what the world would be like if the NSA took it as its mission to secure the internet and chain of encryption, rather than constantly breaking it. If, for example, they used their resources to seek out vulnerabilities and exploits and fix them.

Maybe such a world is impossible. But I do think there's a valid space for a national cyber defense organisation that runs counter to this trend, that acts to shore up the infrastructure rather than constantly subverting it.
OpenDNS hasn't done ad pages for non-existent domains in ages. As for "hijacking" Google search, that's simply setting a different default - you can change it and nothing tries to stop you, and OS upgrades won't change it back (I believe).
> None have tried to replace all of it that I know of.

https://github.com/domokit/mojo/tree/master/sky
https://github.com/domokit/mojo/tree/master/sky/specs
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it is that the tech sector is one of the most profitable sectors in the US economy that rakes in millions per developer. The salaries are high because they should be: the companies are raking in record profits, why shouldn't the employees see some action?
>It is arguably the most successful arm.

depends on the definition of "success" :) I'd say that no number of AKs would have protected the Assad regime the way the S-300/400 has done so far. The Su-27 platform has been kind of AK of multi-purpose fighter planes.
Interactive Go source to assembly
Can people who have the relevant knowledge give their input on how good of a starting-point this is?
Re (1), doing full-page rendering on the server is not up to the current state of mobile apps. You can already partially update a page. Zero latency is on par as well on the mobile web, as a web app can load its code on the first render, store some data for offline (though this is a lot more work than it is on native because of the bad state of web databases implementations) and request data to the server when it doesn't fit on a phone's memory (surely, the native Quora app doesn't store its terabytes of data on every phone)

(2) is bit hand-wavy in my opinion

(3) is spot on, bookmarking to homescreen is something people don't know about; typing a password is okay if it's only once I think

(4) is about prioritizing resources to the most popular platform: a website on desktop, a native app on mobile
Ask HN: Remove and reinsert the SSD in Thinkpad T500, continues to run
I can remove and reinsert the SSD in my Thinkpad T500 without it crashing, after a few moments (~15 seconds) the laptop continues to function normally, and continues to run for weeks until I reboot it.

The OS on the drive is Linux Mint 16.

Is this ordinary behaviour for Linux, this laptop, or some combination of the two?

What hardware and software technology is necessary to make this possible?

Since when has this been a thing?

I discovered this when I dropped the laptop off the couch while the drive bay wasn't screwed shut.
"this almost suggests that people trust LINE more than the credit card processing infrastructure"

And to think that until recently LINE used to send things unencrypted over plaintext when using mobile internet.
A thought just struck me. The phrase 'death and taxes' must have been coined by a wealthy or upper class individual (Daniel Defoe it turns out)

If your well-off these will be the only hardships you will certainly face. Defoes less well-off contemporaries would probably rate the inevitable struggles to attain adequate food, clothes and shelter as more relevant certainties.
Fuck off, Founder Dating
Doctors say fitness trackers, health apps can boost care
Expose your self by making your professional profile in LinkedIn and tech.pro
Just small correction here,

> When your website goes down, we take care of your customers and make sure they don’t run to your competition.

I think the last word should be "competitor" not "competition"
What were the first two times?
BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 roll-out starts for BlackBerry 10 devices
Hey, let's compare comparable things. I.e. native apps to web apps, not native apps to web sites, ok?
The market has also drove San Francisco based startup valuations to ridiculously high levels - you have to take the bad with the good.

All else being equal, a Silicon Valley/San Francisco based startup is able to achieve a much higher valuation than an equivalent startup outside San Francisco. However, this Silicon Valley/San Francisco based startup has to deal with higher real estate and salary costs.
The other side, though, is that it might be much easier to raise the necessary capital (taking into account changing costs due to location) in san francisco or the bay area in general than other places.

It might also be easier to find qualified people in the bay area. Certainly they'll cost more than just about any other place, but how important is it to you to find say 5 people within the next month or two instead of the next say 6 to 24 months?

I've never needed to actually do either of those two things, so I might just not know what I'm talking about, but for a startup that isn't bootstrapped I'd think that getting a long runway (for wherever you are) and advisers/investors who are knowledgable about your company's market are more important than the raw monthly expense figure, and that quickly getting qualified people working on the product might be more important than saving, say, $75,000 in salary per employee per year.
>with the German government picking up 1/3 of the cost.

probably cheaper than having these people unemployed.
Do you really do ANY iOS development? Because you talk shit.
Cocoa Touch is very consistent and I don't understand how can you call web tech mess superior to Auto Layout.
Yeah, what's up with that? I know India and Pakistan aren't exactly best friends (Kashmir and all that), but they're not at full scale war with each other are they? Why the need for all the arms? India's arms imports in particular are shockingly high, especially for a country with so much need for investment in infrastructure and poverty alleviation.

No idea where Bangladesh and Myanmar stand in relation to all this.
In regards to AirBnB not solving a problem...I remember before AirBnB when I traveled to NYC and looked for apartments to rent for a weekend or a whole week. It was kind of scary because I didn't know if the people were legit or would come by and try to kick me out. AirBnB provided confidence that you were actually getting what you wanted--an apartment as opposed to a hotel.
In my experience, linguists are not terribly punny, though -- what accounts for this difference?

(FWIW, my first-hand experience has mainly been with psycholinguists and functional programming folks)
It Would Be Weird If Apple *Wasn’t* Working on a Car
No, it just speaks how far behind (and the wrong origin) of the mobile web apps tech is compared to native SDKs.
> On the other side (first mile), the CDN then connects via a second SSL certificate (say, origin-www.destination.com) to the origin's datacenter(s) to retrieve the necessary data.

Perhaps. Not all CDNs require TLS to be used to connect to backends when the frontend is encrypted. This is completely obscured from the requesting client, and is a breach of user trust in my opinion.

> PS, most origin-www.destination.com origins are extremely vulnerable to DDoS since, at that hostname, there is no CDN to protect them.

This is a big problem that is rarely addressed until it bites you. When you're accustomed to a >90% hit rate and all of the nastiness of the Internet being handled upstream, you aren't going to be prepared for even a slight uptick in origin traffic.

I saw one place whose site was served via Akamai DSA (http acceleration service), and routinely served >5Gbps. The origin consisted of two machines behind a Cisco ASA with a 100Mbit Ethernet port.
The only way Google "needs" to collude with corporate MITM tools is its desire to court user base from corporate IT depts (allowed de jure in many countries that have weak privacy legislation).

Usually Chrome is eager to show security-related notifications but for this there isn't even a yellow notification bar with "OK, got it" option.
Why prefer this over something server-side, like Pygments, when you can use the latter? I don't see many advantages to the client-side approach.
I am really not sure, but maybe people will value the watch that way. We will see.
Planes come to mind.

Basically, back in the age of the slide ruler, engineers "overcompensated" in durability. This is why older planes are much heavier (so more inefficient and costly to run) but also last forever.

PS: Not to crap on the structural engineering of more modern planes, don't get me wrong! Check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0
Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers
So really you did not do it? You had one complex app which was not cross-platform and then several experiments, but somehow you extrapolate what is possible and what is not?
Show HN: RPC with plain Java interfaces over MQTT
For some reason, the author disallows people from viewing pages on his site without running scripts from his domain and from jquery.com.

You can get around this by opening up your web inspector, and disabling the `hidden: true` rule on the top `container` element.

Nothing on the page (or in related linked pages on his site) seems to require JavaScript.
Your SATA controller must be AHCI compatible for this to work (i.e.: your SATA controller tells the OS whenever a drive is connected or disconnected).

Look up SATA hotswapping.
Note that this uses Eclipse Paho for Java, which contains some issues, the Github issues on the project reflect this.

I've been thinking on creating a version of this library which uses AMQP, as Eclipse Paho for Java does not seem to do yet what it promises.

Any comments, suggestions?
Socrates, Aristotle and Plato's work has been relevant for 2000 years and I don't see it becoming irrelevant any time soon. Same with Descarte, Kant and many, many more.

Mankind's greatest goal and challenge is building a society. Building space rockets might help that, but they might not. One might argue that ancient Greece and Rome had better societies or at least equal to what we have today.
"India's arms imports in particular are shockingly high"

If you are a country with China for a neighbour, and have experience of having already fought (and lost) a war with China, I bet you would import a lot of arms. India is (among other things) importing arms to defend against China, not Pakistan.