skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have recently taken up a role to build a payment network from scratch, out of Bangalore, India.

It is funded by a big corporation, but will be arms-distance from their central business.

It is a large, complex and fascinating problem to crack. The potential to bring banking to 600 million un/underbanked Indians is what excited me to work on this.

In the past I have built both fast-data and big-data companies and have a few patents in this space.

We are looking to hire a good core team of full time math, physics and CS majors, who will work of Bangalore, India.

If you are interested, please email me at google's email service - takenottie. Thanks for reading.
http://reddit.com/r/thebutton if you've never heard of it.
Drug-Resistant Food Poisoning Lands in the U.S
In Germany many people live from going through garbage, you can see them everywhere in large cities. Kids from poor people need to be fed buy the Church. Pensions and social benefits were cut over the last decade, people need to work until 67 to get a pension, unemployment benefits do practically no longer exist in Germany. Germany has the lowest amount of house owners and private wealth.

But Germans should pay for Greece?
>Address space size has nothing to do with access speed

hence the comma

> happens in every graphic display interface that does not use dual-ported RAM or some kind of dedicated CPU doing the writing of the video RAM

Not quite what I had in mind. Atari (called 'Agricultural equipment' by Polish Commodore fanboys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkCboYJ-tw ) had to constantly halt cpu just to fetch pixels. This is on par with how Spectrum did video 8-9 years before it. Amiga on the other hand had a nice separate dedicated 'slow ram' where you were able to actively perform operations (think of it like a very primitive pixel shader - dma with xor/and/not/or on the fly) while CPU was unaffected (running full speed on separate 'fast ram'). Its not like it was a rocket science concept, this is how video was handled on MSX computers/X68000/Sega consoles.

Did I mention sprites? What sprites haha, scrolling? .....

Everything at the time had separate video memory bank, everything but the farming Atari ST. Yes, it was the cheapest m68K machine on the market, but it only made it terrible.
Collaborative language prototyping speeds evolution.
At least part of school is to prepare students for the bullshit of the real world.

Even ignoring the "Did you get the memo about cover sheets for the TPS reports?" level of bullshit people still face a lot of bureaucracy at work and school should be helping them learn ways to deal with it.
And RAM.
You're welcome to have them send your paper copies to me. I'll happily read them before I recycle them for you.
obesity, even if not at this levels, is an understated problem, and seems to me the US is one of the worst hit.

If you can, I'd recommend watching "Fed Up" [0], a documentary which tries to show that the problem is a bit more complex than just people being lazy ("light" food being effectively worse, complete lack of food education, lobbying at it's worse etc).
As many documentaries, it has a rather clear agenda, but it's interesting nonetheless.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fed_Up_%28film%29
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This is interesting, but not particularly profound. Pretty much it says that passing spam through multiple filters is more effective than passing spam through a single, complex filter. This is a well known and well used technique.
I wonder how effective ads are getting on the web anyway. I'm techy, and I filter them mentally. My wife is consumer literate technical and filters them mentally too. And I have Ad Block.
Latency is low enough that nobody cares about making it faster. I was at a awesome ISP 10 years ago playing quake with < 10ms ping (through clever routing to certain servers).
This is still unmatched, I would say that latency and connection quality actually decreased. Fluent "live" interaction over the internet is still decades away.
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That bothers us too. We choose this structure to make commit message more meaningful. Any suggestions to improve this?
On reading that line, I thought about what I would have done if I had been in the teacher's position. I thought: well, he clearly understands the bits that the assigned homework was to reinforce, why not excuse him from that drudgery? Better yet, give him additional problems to apply his program to that expose issues with circuit simulators, giving him a deeper understanding.
But then: that is time I am spending as a teacher that benefits him only, not the rest of the class (my time as a teacher is finite). Is that fair? And: what would happen if other students/parents found out about this arrangement - wouldn't there be complaints? Of course, what he's getting at is that the educational process should be designed to avoid conflicts like these...
how do I get in touch with these folks? I can help them not fail and charge a very modest percentage! :)
Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible'
I have yet to meet someone who's aware of AdBlock's existence and doesn't use it...
Microsoft isn't selling Kinect for Windows anymore
Greece got in European Union too easy and this is the consequence. If Greece gets out, it would shake the faith in the E.U., true, but on the other hand that may be a good move for everyone. For E.U. in the way of not having more problems that it can handle and finally spending attention on things that are rather "not so important" right now. For Greece, it would be a much-needed "time alone", to get to truly understand the price and meaning of a few things. They seem to haven't had enough time for that.
Sounds like an interesting guy.

I think he’s slightly underestimating or misunderstanding the “VC backed frivolousness” though. No one knew that a search engine could generate 20-30bn p/a in advertising revenue until it did. Even Facebook, taking their advertising “stock” into a more mature existing market didn’t know what it was worth in advance. No one knew that TV advertising would be worth what it is/was until the American’s ‘National Brands’ complex matured. It was all nearly impossible to estimate beforehand.

So… I think VC’s are making some sort of a bet that news = attention = advertising revenue. It’s vague, but that’s to be expected. It’s also not an arbitrary connection being made between media and software. The economic difference between Gangnam Style and Charlie Bit Me is that Psy has something to sell that is valuable once recognizable enough. The exchange rate for popularity to money is fairly arbitrary and difficult to determine in advance.

In any case, I think they as a business are doing the right thing. We need companies doing their job for the most part. 5% chance at a 20X return can’t be the way everyone does business.

OTOH, I’m not sure that journalistically The Economist really does do some difficult task that no one else can do. I mean, the difficult part is investigative journalism is it not? Otherwise, it’s just writers clarifying and putting their own perspective on existing work. It’s investigative in the sense that they talk to experts, I suppose. But, I still get the feeling they’re in the section of the complex which is most easy to solve.

Right now you can read the economist and get up to speed on Yemen, The Iran Deal, British Elections, and various smaller topics in the same economist style. They are not in the business of exploring and upsetting and revealing. I’m not worried that this kind of reporting is something we’ll lack for.

Anyway, one of the things that did impress me is a lack of a common Old News complaint that people should pay for journalism, that it should be funded somehow and that things are not allowed to change in ways that jeopardise the way they do things. I spoke to a journalist recently that was all complaints about how no one wants to pay for news anymore.
How do u make side money?
"It's dehumanizing to expect people to behave like robots, parts of the machine."

I disagree; I think that being expected to behave like a part of a machine is an essential, defining aspect of the human experience.
True bliss can only come from unwavering obedience and love for the gods.
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Yes. Married in 2000 and divorced in 2008.
There's nothing they can really say that isn't already made public.
Please define "smart". Searching online massively improves my problem solving ability. The knowledge stored online actually turns into part of my brain. Did I lose (or never obtain) the ability to solve these problems without the internet? Probably. Do I care? No, in the rare case the internet is down I just go do something fun.
I do. I've contemplated suicide many times, when life was very tough on me. And then I think of people who love me and what my death would do to them. It's the most selfish act ever. Other ways of getting out of suicide wishes is watching videos of actual horror in the news. If beggars on the street who have nothing and no one manage to stay alive, who the fuck am I to kill myself "because life's too hard".
There is also an economic dimension: (a) and (b) are just impossible. There's no way Greece's debt can ever be repaid in full. All along, this farce has been about bailing out the foolish investments of private creditors (mainly German and French banks) at the expense of the taxpayers of all countries, mainly the "creditor" ones (because they are the ones that could foot the bill after all). The squeeze on the population of the "debtor" countries is mostly about ideology; from the perspective of the (new) creditors, it doesn't even make economic sense to push your debtors further into recession.
I do agree that in this case perhaps Apple can't offer enough, but I'm not sure about it.

Many people didn't see the point of the iPhone when it came out. And I'd argue that especially the tech 'community' did not have a clue which exact features of the phone made it such a huge success: touch-based input with a UI built around the concept and, eventually, apps.

It's quite possible that the emphasis on new varieties of 'buzzing' for notifications, perhaps coupled with the fact that they're on your wrist, turns out to be a key feature that others overlooked.

Or perhaps the 'new' forms of communication - drawing, heartbeats, customized smileys - will appeal to people more than we think it does.

Or maybe just the UI as a whole will be enough to set this watch apart from the ones that exist.

I'm not as sure about the watch as I was about the iPhone when it was unveiled (and later the apps), but so far Apple has had an impressive amount of successes where the main reasons for this success was only apparent to many of us in hindsight.
Air France Website Hacked by ‘Algerian Mujahideen’ Hackers
Calling him names wasn't necessary, but his point remains. You don't eat at McDonalds and drink DrPepper when you want to get thinner. This guy didn't want to get thinner. He didn't want it more than death. And so he died.
The moment has passed for these cowering reforms designed to show Germany and others that Greece is going to behave now. The well being of the next generation of Greeks and the stability of the eurozone is at stake.
When you come from a place of ownership of your own life, you can accept doing whatever needs to be done.

I am a janitor with a math phd that gets to have water gun fights with kids; I work at a Sudbury school. I am much happier cleaning toilets than being in some BS academic department committee or grading kids and telling them they suck. Or even worse, teaching engineering students beautiful mathematical secrets, holding them to high standards, seeing them get there, and then hearing from them that the time spent on my course was hurting them in other courses. True story.

Being supportive of life is itself a fantastic reward. Being treated with respect is what matters, not the actual work. Cleaning toilets is really not a big deal. Being treated like a piece of crap is.

Also good citizenship is not about following orders due to fear of retribution. It is looking at the world with care and compassion for others and doing what needs to be done, speaking up and supporting one another. It is about seeing the beauty in others and appreciating that. At a Sudbury school, the halls flow with such feelings as it is the natural way that communities of human beings bind together. That is citizenship.

And not surprisingly, when a person wants to be a part of a community, then they can follow community rules and standards quite easily. It is in our nature.

Traditional schools teach gaming the system, being brutal to other people. Being excluded because of not meeting some arbitrary pointless standard is just a crappy way of living. Humans learn from what those around them do. Are the behaviors of teachers in traditional school the way humans should treat one another?
The demo page we built is a simple showcase of what could be done with the tagging data. Hope it could inspire more people to play with this dataset. "sort by relevance" sounds cool. Might add it to the demo in the future.
Here's my CHF50 (and a bit of a 100Rub)

http://imgur.com/UgqXJbn
alphabetical ? 26 entries or 2626 (aa-zz) entires ? maybe ?

But I fear, one particular element would be very much populated ? like repos like angular-, or rails-* or react-*. But still, this would at least be better than having the entire list in a single directory.
"They are the guys who have been in the industry for 10 years, just like me, but they studied specific solutions rather than principles."

I couldn't agree more with that.
Yeah, I get that he was teaching out of a book that told him (and probably every science teacher in existence) to teach this way - it just never made any sense.

It makes an enormous amount of sense.
There are many videos of T72-B3s geolocated in DNR region. This model was never exported outside of Russia. One of videos is by pro-russian UK war tourist Graham W Phillips about fights in Debalceve (after ceasefire was agreed).
Indeed this is, quite literally, a substance abuse problem.
"As above, so below; as within, so without; as the universe, so the soul."

~

"That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing." Thus, whatever happens on any level of reality (physical, emotional, or mental) also happens on every other level.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism#.22As_above.2C_so_...

# The Principle Of Correspondence

This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. The old Hermetic axiom ran in these words: “As above,so below; as below, so above.” And the grasping of this Principle gives one the means of solving many a dark paradox, and hidden secret of Nature.There are planes beyond our knowing, but when we apply the Principle of Correspondence to them we are able to understand much that would otherwise be unknowable to us. This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe , It is an Universal Law. The ancient Hermetists considered this Principle as one of the most important mental instruments by which man was able to pry aside the obstacles which hid from view the Unknown. Its use even tore aside the Veil of Isis to the extent that a glimpse of the face of the goddess might be caught. Just as a knowledge of the Principles of Geometry enables man to measure distant suns and their movements, while seated in his observatory, so a knowledge of the Principle of Correspondence enables Man to reason intelligently from the Known to the Unknown.

- http://sourceoforigin.com/universe/as-above-so-below-as-with...
EU won't lose Russia as energy source. Russia would do it already if it could, but half of its budget comes from gas and oil sales (huge majority - to EU).

And EU as a whole gets most of energy from outside Russia. It would hurt Russia a lot more than EU.

And nuclear war is right off.

On the other hand behaving like it's 1939 in modern Europe must be punished, or we will get more wars eventually, so Russia brought its own demise on itself, and it drags parts of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and others with it.
Ask HN: What shell do you use?
There's a couple different shells available at the moment, the most popular being ZSH[0], Fish[1] and Bash[2].

Which one has your preference? And how do you deal with different environments and shells (e.g. SSH into a server and you're using Bash i.o. your own preferred local shell)?

[0] http://zsh.sourceforge.net/

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
Pilots have been the most valuable component since WWI. The U.S. recognition of this and emphasis on rescuing downed pilots in the Pacific was a decisive advantage.
20 years ago today, this was the first item ever ordered on Amazon
How Paul Jarvis Was Able to Charge High Prices for Web Services
No, German banks that made foolish investments should have taken the losses, so the German people wouldn't have to bail them out by proxy.
> OTOH, I’m not sure that journalistically The Economist really does do some difficult task that no one else can do

They get people to pay for it, which is where others seem to fail.
Software architecture is difficult to learn. Unlike "small scale" programming, you don't have instant feedback on the validity of your solution and you can't easily experiment with different solutions. Actually, as a student, I don't think I ever had a class on this topic.

I think what could be great is to have a tool that allows you to "program" and analyze architectures. And then exercises to experiment with varieties of architectures.
Much as this is also just anecdotal, my experience was the opposite. Most people thought the iPhone looked 'kinda cool' but 1) thought it was too expensive, and 2) didn't see any reason to switch away from their dumb- or feature phone. I even remember being a bit embarrassed pulling out my iPhone (which was already the 3GS at that point) in public because it felt a bit 'geeky'.

And then over night everyone was using them in public.
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> Regarding 'trust' in Portugal: Draghi's 'whatever it takes' statement and actions are mainly what fixed this.

> maybe you fixed borrowing costs by eating weetabix for breakfast one day in 2010, and now Portugal has low borrowing rates.

Portugal has low borrowing rates because it didn't break promises and contracts. This allowed Portugal to be trusted again, not Draghi's statements. If so they would have worked with Greece also..

'Trust, not money, is the currency of business and life.'	- David Horsager
EU Startup Spotlight: Denmark's Fitbay wants to help you find your ‘body double’
"Without such technology, war wouldn't be profitable. Without the profits, there would be no incentive to fight."

This is without a doubt one of the most backwards ignorant things I have ever read online.

It might come as a shock to you, but humans have been killing other humans since the stone age. And, as time has gone on, it's become less and less likely for a person to die violently, at the same time that arms technology has advanced.
It would be nice to have other comparable sources, not least because The Economist is very influential, and like any other institution or person, they are often wrong.
They seem pretty aware of this, and they write their articles in way that their readers can exert critical thinking.
So in the absence of alternatives, we are kind of forced/encouraged to think critically, which is not such a bad thing in the end.
Via, yet another ride-sharing app, raises 27M
The day after Greece gets out the EU will have more and bigger problems than the day before.
Good news for those whose life depends on it's not functioning.
Or to really hammer the point home: Slovaks should pay for Greece? Estonians should pay for Greece?

That Greece's voting rights in the EU haven't been suspended yet is a travesty. I hope it will happen soon (and that Macedonia finally will be allowed to call itself Macedonia!) and that confiscations of Greek property to pay for the loans will follow.

Or maybe we could sell Greece back to the Turks? ;)
I think there's an art and technology to reusable components. This reifies "architecture" into something which can be slowly built up by the community as reusable tools. Lacking this technology one instead must fall to "frameworks" as the unit of shared community development.

This is directly related to one's ability to spin off a library containing a generalizable component of functionality and have it be repeatedly reused. My belief is that this is actually far harder than it ought to be in most languages. Actually, worse than that, most languages and the style of their libraries as supported by the community cause tradeoffs which penalize reusability quite harshly.

* It's difficult to manage documentation of interfaces
* Abstractions leak *heavily* and therefore have
exponentially complex "spooky interaction at a distance"
* Breaking algorithms into chunks must be done at
boundaries defined by efficiencies instead of as
defined by meaning (implementation privileged over spec)

Experienced Haskell users often talk about this story: that Haskell was the first language they ever used which actually felt reusable. This arose from the combination of powerful types, pure code, and laziness. The types provide clear, unbreakable interfaces between libraries. The purity ensures that libraries play together well and can be combined in more ways due to no "spooky interaction at a distance". The laziness ensures that when you cut sequences of computation into pieces you can recompose them later without losing efficiency.

I'm not going to claim that Haskell has figured out modularity, but I do think it's massively better than the status quo here. The upshot is that Cabal Hell is in part caused by the fact that nobody quite knows how to handle such massive modularity in practice.

Where that's relevant, I think, to this post is that without a genuine case for reusable modularity—supported at the language and the community levels—it is much harder to invest your time into reusable things and instead you focus efforts on frameworks. Lacking the technology to have legos we choose between prefab houses.

I think the best way for Javascript, i.e., to move forward away from framework driven development is to double down on the community's investment in purity as neither types nor laziness are ever going to be core to the language. This has already occurred in a small way with things like the virtual dom technique (which can be easily made immutable and updated purely) and the rise of things like Mori and Immutable.js.

As this pattern grows I predict the ability for people to genuinely build applications from well-cut, reusable components will become far more of a reality and the "framework epoch" will slowly close.
While the technology in this helmet may turn out to be pretty great, I still can't view the project as a whole (The F-35) as more than a failure. It's taken them a lot of time and money to develop a mediocre aircraft, here's Pierre Sprey's opinion on it (Designer of the F-16) "The F-35 was born of an exceptionally dumb piece of airforce PR spin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDSiwqM2nw
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