skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is how a website can implement git in a decentralised blockchain-like consensus.

Launch Gitcoin.com. The company's shares are called gitcoins which is a premined cryptocurrency by gitcoin.com. The aim of the company is to balance the distribution of shares according to their value, to maximize its own value. Parties who support this company's cause or want to gain a monetary incentive out of the value that gitcoin would gain would mine gitcoins or buy them in exchanges.

Authors publish the meta data about their content hashed with any private key they want. Each of these private key is a separate logical 'view' for showcasing the Authors content. For eg, one private key each for friends, business and everyone, so that one category cannot view the contents of the other, and the share the respective public keys with concerned parties using any medium. The aim would be to earn gitcoins and go and sell them at an exchange to earn a living wage.

The consumers of code would pay for the code they want to view to the public key, which is also a gitcoin address, which they already have! This automatically sends gitcoins to the author.

All code is open to everyone. If you have a public key you can view its associated code and change it, by sending money to it. Gitcoin.com takes a cut in providing this service.

This website also invents two brand new features in a website - no password and no captcha!

- No Password because you can view any code if you send money to it. Authors will keep the rates very high and share a new private category's public key to people they wanna give discount to. You can have as many identities you like and can club, fork and terminate them.

- No Captcha because captchas were invented to prevent robots. But robots are not always bad. So we want people to build helpful reddit-like robots but not bad ones. Gotcon.com solves this by allowing all robots according to an economic incentive motive. For ex, a user can build a good robot that shows the issues list corresponding to a gitcoin address. People pay this robot in gitcoins and so this robot has enough gitcoins to open the community desired code. But if a bad robot tries to spam this good robot, people will simply create a new address and copy all previous data and move to it, all of this at a click of 'block' button.

So basically, by changing the behavior of block button to create a decentralised copy of gitcoin.com itself and then moving to it eliminates the bad actor immediately and making it yet expensive for him to keep paying to see the code.
What printer? Direct connection or network? Mine just sort of work.
I hope people don't oversimplify the conclusions here. One notable thing is that students weren't forced to stand. Instead they were provided with a tall desk/stool combo that facilitated standing while allowing for sitting.
> Debian 8 has support until 2017

Wow, really? That's nothing! No security updates after that?

> Ubuntu 1404 LTS has support until 2019

That sounds more reasonable. But still a bit short.

> RHEL 7 has support until 2024 (and Centos).

Interesting. Now I understand why I hear "centos" so often lately. So far, I only know Debian based distros. I wonder how much work it would be to switch to one of these two.
Debian Twitter page has also got live coverage
https://twitter.com/debian
How is this in any way different from ... forums?
> Do you really want to hire someone that doesn't want to be there enough to spend a couple of hours coding for you and doesn't have open source code to evaluate them on?

I want to hire someone to do a job. That job requires a base level of competence. If they exceed that level such that I think they will bring positive value to the company I vote to hire them. I don't care about their motivation or "passion" beyond what is required to take them over that bar.
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Just to tie things back to other discussions that have been going on in HN lately:

>When in fact, the guy who put a $50m buy order at $98 will cancel it as soon as the price drops from $100 to $99. He never intends to let that order execute. It's 'fake demand'.

This is precisely spoofing and is illegal in the United States on regulated exchanges (not a lawyer...).

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427639

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9421119

For recent discussions.

There are lots of reasons why regular exchanges don't use the the order standing times, but the simplest one is that spoofers can easily game that. Lots and lots of spoofers put orders in over the course of long periods of time. The issue is that they pull them all at once. Of course pulling all your orders at once can happen for any number of legitimate reasons so it isn't as simple as just banning that behavior.
"Those batteries start at about $13,000, though California's Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PCG) offers customers a 50% rebate. "

For the summer, California E-6 Residential rates are $.32/kWh during peak times, $0.13/kWh during off peak. If your house is using, say, 4 kW, for 5 hours during peak - then that 20 kWh will cost save you 20 * ($0.32-$0.13) = $3.80/day in power costs, approx $115/month. Do that for 4 months/year ,that's $460/year. With a 5 year life, that battery would need to be less than $2300 to come out even.
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/05/teslas-gigafactory-may-h.... suggests that $100/kWh is in the ballpark.

@$6500 net, after rebates, that would mean the Tesla battery would have to be on the order of 65 kWh to be a no brainer, which is unlikely given that they were, according to the article, previously demoing a 10 kWh battery.

I'm sure they've thought it through though, so will be nice to see where my math around $100 kWh is wrong.
A freighter version of the A380 was planned right from the start, and some orders were taken. So it's certainly possible.

But that doesn't mean it would be economic.

For various reasons - not least fulfilment delays because of manufacturing issues - the A380F hasn't been prototyped yet, and probably never will be.
I assume it was the only non-ASCII character.
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Doesn't Republic Wireless have prior art here?
To be fair, it's not terribly common, especially to use a gold colored star. Usually a black star or a white star with a black outline is more common.

However you're right, it's not without precedent. Here's a very similar star being used by the US Government in one of their maps: http://www.usgs.gov/state/images/maps/AK.jpg
> hired someone who is willing to drop work at the moment he gets a better offer

That's grossly overgeneralized.
You linked to a release page that has a series of announcements. The most recent announcement is from March, and also a mailing list. That's all they meant.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/03/msg00...

Today they will make an additional announcement.
The author has some good taste. Those tech demos and sandboxes were just beautiful with nice color palettes and surprising polish for what they were. Like, in the first demo, how the screen glitches when they hit the mesh and how the deformation simply layers a track in the music.

The vertigo of being inside a massive sphere in the 4th demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FszskWOcRY) and the Alpha 30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=76&v=dNm0l1L8O1A) remind me of my attempts, as a kid, to imagine what it's like to be inside Arthur C. Clarke's Rama (though Rama was a cylinder).
> Not everyone retires (and at all different ages) and not everyone gets pregnant and its pretty insulting to assume a candidate's life choices and make future judgements about them.

It's also insulting to charge insurance rates based on aggregate statistics, but that's what's done because it's effective, not because it's nice.

> By the way, the fix was to make it illegal.

Right, and that's clearly not working, so evidently more needs to happen. Writing angry comments at people on the internet isn't going to fix the problem.
How about a mail[0] on the mirror announce mailing list from half an hour ago?

“As you are probably already aware of, Debian 8.0 "jessie", is just a few hours away from becoming the next stable release. This is a heads up in case you were not aware of, as there is probably going to be a higher load on the
mirrors.”

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mirrors-announce/2015/04/msg...
At what companies is paying new hires more than current employees not the fault of HR?
It certainly has a TrackPoint and maybe a slightly compressed keyboard. It's somewhat ruggedized too for grade schoolers to slobber on. Why isn't it a real ThinkPad?
That suggest feature is not working. PNR not working. I couldn't google anything. I couldn't figure out how to give a feedback. Wiki works well though.
Was wondering if this is first of its kind or we already have mature AI bots for whatsapp? I have used bots on hike and nimbuzz. They are good. You can take a clue from these.
My voice is my password. Verify me.
Shoe-T: The Amazing Race 26X08 (Can I Get a Hot Tub?)
The 'one phone interview, one on-site interview, make a decision' format is how every good company I've worked for has hired, ranging over multiple industries and multiple decades.

You can tell a lot about a company from your very first interactions with them. I'd steer clear of anything more elaborate than what she described, they are probably guessing about how to hire, and that mean's they're probably guessing about how to run a business. That kind of risk can be entertaining and instructive, but might not be great for your career.
I live in the UK, and the tiny house movement appears to be a uniquely American phenomenon. The US is lucky to have so much open space which lets people build their own homes. The reason these tiny homes don't feel cramped is because they're surrounded by nature, with beautiful long uninterrupted views out of the windows. No noisy neighbours or traffic nearby either.

But take away the countryside location of these homes and could the tiny house work in an urban environment? I'm doubtful. The future for housing for most people on the planet (including the US) is in cities and urban environments. Can you live in a tiny home where you don't have long, uninterrupted views out of your windows? Or where you only have windows along one side of your dwelling (e.g. single-aspect apartments). Do you feel you have enough privacy when your apartment or house is joined with your neighbours' home?

Millions of people already live in homes like this and have to contend with these issues. The challenge for homebuilders and architects is to design housing to address these issues: homes that give us light, space, privacy, quiet and comfort in a noisy urban setting. Sadly, if I look at the new build housing going up in the UK I'd say architects and house builders are doing a pretty poor job of it. Are things better in the US in this regard?

Also, space can be 'modest' in size rather than micro or miniature and still be sustainable or amenable to high density. For example, London has it's own housing design guide that recommends new one bedroom apartments for two people to be a minimum of 50 square metres (538 square feet). That's still less than space standards in continental Europe but it's enough space to live comfortably even if it doesn't count as tiny by Western standards.
At first I don't know his brother's name, but I know now.
some man pages are really obscure though. i am thinking of policy kit and find which can be as long and as arid.
> for a lot of people who are already employed, permission must be obtained from current employer before contributing to open source

I am always puzzled about contract clauses that try to limit what an employee can do in their free time. I understand that some people may be in a bad situation and have no choice but to put up with it. But if we're really in a seller's market, as everyone says, how can this kind of thing become a tendency?
Such statements are not legally binding and thus completely irrelevant in a lawsuit.
Software originating on posix systems is most easily ported at the libc interface level, so it's natural to target some libc on Windows. But it usually creates awkwardness, either because of version dependencies, or the system libc not having everything they need and using some specific VC runtime, like you say.

I was a developer on the Delphi compiler for some years. Statically linked, a minimal Delphi executable had no dependencies other than the *32.dll libraries. And there is no system functionality that requires use of some libc, or significant duplication of effort. The Win32 API doesn't even use the C calling convention.
> Debian 8 has support until 2017

This is incorrect. stable releases are supported until one year after the new stable release, which happens to be ~3 years, so it's 2018 for jessie. If LTS project also decides to support it, it extends to 2020.
Yea, I have a Chinese one that I've had moderate success with. I had to update the firmware on my router before I could even connect to it though.
Show HN: Ambient soundscape generator for productivity
Debian upgrades are pretty reliable (IMHO best among linux distros) but I can't guarantee you won't have problems in your particular setup :)
Why Classical Economics Is Voodoo Science
I know where you've been: Geo-Inference attacks via the Browser Cache
This definition of "the real math" is quite arguable. Doing a lot of computations efficiently is a realm of modeling and statistics; that does not clarify the very nature of computation, the inner laws of formal systems. Haskell is much more about "what computation is" than about "how to do computations".

Besides that, from mathematician's point of view, "efficient numerical computation" is a necessary and useful practically, but very ugly thing. Speaking of C-like types `int`/`long`/`uint32_t`: they are only a crude approximation of natural numbers, they are a ring modulo 2n, which we pretend to use as natural/integer numbers, silently failing when this range wraps up.

And that is not the end of the story: for integer numbers we can at least specify what mathematical model describes them (a ring modulo some power of two), for floating point numbers it is impossible: set of possible IEEE 754 values is a very weird and irregular finite set of values (NaN, +Inf, -Inf, +0, -0, exponential distribution of points density with min/max bounds) with complex modes of failure. Associative law, distributive law, commutative law? The very equality check? Forget about it, floating point numbers have none of that.
Dark blue on black? Either something has changer over the last 2 hours, or there's something with your display, because what I'm seeing is light grey on dark grey and it's quite readable.
Most awesome input device ever.
I wish it was standard on all keyboards.
> Wow, really? That's nothing! No security updates after that?

First of all, it's 2018, not 2017. For the latter point, there is now a LTS project, which provides +2 year after offical support ends, but they only support squeeze for now (since wheezy is on offical support and jessie is not released) and AFAIK it's not decided yet if jessie will be supported by LTS or not. So it may extend to 2020.

If you want certainty on this regard Ubuntu LTS is also a pretty good choice.

On CentOS, I don't use it so I can't comment on it in depth, but beware that number of offically supported packages are much smaller compared to Debian, so make sure the packages you want to use are supported. (There are semi-offical/unoffical repositories, but they may not be maintained as well as offical packages.) (Actually that same point applies to Ubuntu also, as only main and restricted archives are supported by Canonical and universe/multiverse is where big number of packages reside in.)
'We print people': The world of 3D portraiture
What about rhythm ?
The main content for me is black background/white(light grey) text. However the code samples contain blue on black and so does some content in the left sidebar.
The "hard" part of any programming problem is to figure out what the program has to do. The machine can't tell you the correct answer without you giving it the correct instructions.
Debian has a separate long term support project [1] for old stable release that provide security patches beyond the 2-3 years of official support.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
Have you talked to any existing communes about their planning and permits? While communal living isn't exactly common, it's also not exactly virgin territory.
Why are you still here? James Meek reports from Grimsby
It can also mean whoever is in charge of the current team does not stand up for them within the company.
This work of Xoring and using shared mmaps is not new and it was published in 2009 and 2010 by two separate teams. See the following papers
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1854288
and
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1640096

I am not sure how this can be patented.
Ceiling fans actually have a little toggle on the side to switch from 'blow' to 'suck'. Doing so circulates the air without the direct 'breeze' across your skin which may chill you.
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I don't really think it's the case. You're adding surface area, yes, but not that much, and you can easily compensate by being more careful with windows and avoiding wasteful features like bumpouts &c.

On a 35*50 (1750 sq. ft) single level house, you're adding 170 ft of exterior wall to an envelope that had 1360 sq. ft of walls and 1750 sq. ft of ceiling giving directly on outdoors, or 5.4%. Given a "code" insulation level of R-20, it would mean adding less than an inch of insulation to compensate.

I suspect the builders from warmer climates simply didn't build correctly for the climate: not enough insulation, problematic details. You get issues whenever builders move from one climate to another, because many of them just don't care enough to learn about how to adapt houses to their new climate. Details that are fine in one climate (if you're living in a dry enough place, you can install your windows almost without thinking) won't work in another (install a window "Vegas-style" in Seattle and see how long it takes before it leaks).
This is blatant misinformation. Please stop spreading it.

Canceling orders is something _all_ participants do. It's a vital part of risk management and a healthy market. Some markets do have minimum quote lives, but they typically fail as market makers cannot manage risk there, so trading moves elsewhere. The only time I've seen a market place survive adding MQL's is when they were on the order of milliseconds, not minutes.

There are certainly strategies that are manipulative. For example, having a hidden order on the ask and posting an inflated bid then pulling it once your ask gets filled. Since you posted it with no intention to get filled and with the intention of manipulating the price, that's spoofing, and illegal.

But the fact that someone placed an order and then canceled it when the price got close means exactly nothing -- everyone does it as a part of normal business.
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That's a fair summary. One of the use cases for discusslr is just to throw up a topic online and get a discussion going without needing anyone to sign up. You might want to get feedback on an idea or product for example.
Nothing really new here, I've seen multiple blog posts about how to do exactly that thing using exactly the same methods. But everything I've seen so far is pretty primitive, as it constructs a sequence of tones completely disregarding the rhythmic part, and I'm not sure if treating them as separate things is actually good idea: at least it deserves another blog post exploring if there should be some relationship between tone and rhythm in order to produce good results.
when was the last time the UK government was giving 65 hectares to anybody that asked?

I think it was a bit after 1066, if you had the good luck of being Norman and if William was feeling generous that day.
I've gone through something similar.

Back in 2012 this happened:

>I interviewed for a job in Austin. I had 2 phone interviews, a 7 hour in person interview with at least 10 different people including the CIO, VP's, directors, and team members, then a follow-up interview with a senior person. Then I hear NOTHING again. I call for a follow-up and leave a message and they don't return my call. So I just assume they hired someone else. I just get a call from a head hunter trying to fill the position that I interviewed for. Obviously the company is still looking and glad to have some closure (I apparently wasn't what they were looking for) but kinda disappointed that they didn't call me to tell me themselves.

A friend of mine got a little fired up about it and replied to my Facebook post:

>I think that is ridiculous! Sometimes I wonder who raised these people because it is NOT hard to send a couple-sentence email saying "Thanks for applying. We have chosen another candidate. We'll keep you in mind in the future." Heck - I'd rather get an email saying "F-U" than NOTHING. I know "they" think there are sooooo many applicants that they don't have to show people common decency, but it's JUST PLAIN RUDE. The reality is you may be looking for a job from them right now, but one day they may be wanting your business or looking for a job themselves when they get laid off or fed up; their company may be bought by one you own or even just work for; they may be on the "needy" side of the equation one day, and you won't forget how poorly they behaved. What if you weren't right for this opening, but they want you for something else in the future? Or what if they thought you weren't perfect, but they just never find perfect and decide they DO want you? Do they just think because you need a job you will completely forget about all of that? Even if they never need anything from you in their lives, I don't know how people sleep at night knowing that people like you are out there, just wondering what happened, at their mercy. {O.K. Apparently, I got a little fired up.} I don't know...fine if they don't want to hire you; fine if they don't have time to spend hours telling you what would have made their decision different; NOT fine to not respond at all. Period. Silver lining: Just be glad you DIDN'T get hired because you would have found out what they were really like when it was too late!!!
I've tried both of this sites.

https://discusslr.com/discussions/29

https://sublevel.net/tux/

Discusslr is more like chat and allows you to register without captcha and to reply you don't need to register. SubLevel you need to enter captcha and be registered to comment, it also looks more like Twitter. But SubLevel provides more features like RSS feed of your recent posts.
Do you also ask that they pay you for the time spent on site during an interview? It's possible that these projects are replacing on site time.

FWIW we have a coding project but it's part (a large part) of the on site and really just replaces the whiteboarding and such. Candidates are not asked to code on the fly in ither sessions
I usually start with google, see what open-source and "as a service" options there are. 90% of the time there's a clear leader. If not I'll search for articles/posts/topics about technologies that I shortlisted. I'll just keep on consuming as much information until I feel like I understand the space.

I'm not sure if my intuition is right, but it sounds like you struggle with not having well-defined needs?
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Over the next few months we'll add some more features to discusslr. It's pretty basic at the moment. Next up are private conversations, better media handling and a dashboard to track user conversations and interactions. Would love to hear any ideas on improvements or features.