skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very much the party line, and very much incorrect. Greece has - rightly - been unwilling to crash its own economy in pursuit of some fictional idea of austerity which has been proven to fail whenever it's been tried.

The UK has tried a more moderate version of the same nonsense, and if you look at the facts and past the propaganda it's clear that "growth" is stagnant. In fact there's no British recovery to speak of, beyond a trivial dead cat bounce and a foundationless wave of QE-induced share price inflation - which makes the "recovery" the slowest since the Great Depression.

The problem is entirely political. Who runs the government of Greece - the Greek people, or the IMF and the ECB?

The IMF and the ECB want to prove it's the latter. Unfortunately a Grexit would be a disaster for the EU and possibly the rest of the financial world, and the Greek negotiating team is well aware of this.

I think it's quite likely anyway, because in international banking it's more important to save face and status than to save an economy. But we'll see.
500startups: make your app a mobile growth engine
I think calling the basics of the data model its 'precise implementation' is excessive. It's like complaining about having to learn the precise details of your display server because someone tries to explain to you how windows in a typical window manager work. The underlying model of git is not terribly complicated, is distinct from (but maps reasonably closely to) its implementation, and it makes understanding all the operations on a repo and working directory a lot easier, as well as making it easier to google for help if you get stuck or want to do something new.
Compete Against Yourself (founders/startups)
> The buyer shouldn't care if they are in place or not

Sure I do. Given a finite pot of money, I want 100% of it to go into incentive-based payouts. If the new company doesn't hit the goals, then I didn't lose so much money on the acquisition.

If the money pot went to feathering the nest of the investors and the acquisition doesn't work, then I've lost the entire pot.
The first commandment of San Francisco: Thou shalt not construct.
x86 LOOP
Any yet their e-reader business failed. And they don't seem to have done so well on mp3 players (they were big money for other companies a few years ago). Their phone sales are weak compared to other companies with a similar product.

The thing these companies miss is that non-tech people ask their tech friends/family before purchasing new things... So piss off a few 100,000 of the techy people and that can translate over the next few years to millions of lost sales.
America's Vanishing Worker
> I really doubt Elon cares about anything but his own driving ambition. People who can't prioritize their own loved ones over their jobs, surely don't care for "humanity". They are the very definition of selfish. They simply do what they want first and then rationalize it afterwards.

No, I think what you wrote is selfish and is a typical rationalization of having a botched moral compass. I should prioritize my own over the rest of the world, so it's ok to fuck everyone over as long as I and my family are happy. This is how a lot of world seems to operate. You wouldn't have companies polluting rivers, or shoppers cheating you on every occasion possible, if those people were not prioritizing themselves and their families over other humans. It's easy to rationalize the harm by saying to yourself, "I have kids to feed, so fuck those other people, I need that money".

> On top of that, these selfish people expect/demand that their employees work infinitely harder than they do on a ROI basis. Example: A start up founder may worked twice as many hours as the founding engineer but the founder stands to make a lot more than twice as much when the company has it's liquidation event.

While this may apply to many startups, it doesn't apply to SpaceX and Tesla, and it's disingenuous to discuss them in such terms. The ROI on electrification of transport, switching everyone away from fossil fuels and enabling life on another planet is fuckton lot for every single human being. It dwarfs most of the personal sacrifices you could make. And still, no one is telling you to do it; people who join those companies know up-front what's the goal, and how much dedication is required.
When I open the page, I get the following warning: You do not have permission to preview drafts.
Its wasn't that they were totally oblivious to the fact that junk/crapware were bundled with their OS, it was that they couldn't have a say in it because then that would be deemed as an anti-trust violation. Antitrust laws are really good to encourage competition but it also has side effects like this.
Ask HN: Domain Registrar to Switch from Moniker?
I've been using Moniker for about 10 years, everything was fine. But I can't live with their new UI. It end up with charging me twice because of that shitty UI and numerous errors. Finally, now it shows that I have no domains at all. So I can't set my IPs, DNS, update records, etc. Ticket submitted, but the quality of response is ultra low. What domain registrars do you use?
I like that SQLBolt starts with querying (Khan does not). Even though a logical proceeding would start with CREATE and INSERT, many/most people will probably never do anything more than SELECT.
In my 6+ years of using Ubuntu and derivatives, and frequently installing PPAs, I've never had a problem or been bitten. And I've only exercised a little bit of caution.

On the other hand, I ran into massive headaches when I used to try to pin apt repositories. No more of that for me.

PPAs are the main reason I use Ubuntu distros now instead of Debian.
I guess you are a software engineer now.
> Of course, it's worth considering that if there was an inhabited alien city on Ceres, the chances of them not knowing we were here would be nil.

What makes you say that? If they are there, then we don't know about them (yet).

Also, imagine they're at the same level of technology we were 100 years ago (or 1,000, 10,000 or even 100,000)
Imo every developer should be comfortable with sql, upto joins at least. Basic data modelling is also invaluable.
I don't try think that's feasible. The vtable is stored in the binary's data block, so that's usually a pretty compact region of memory, maybe even referenceable by 16 bits. Except that's no longer true if the type's impl for the trait is defined in a shared library.

It should be possible as a compiler option if you are compiling every object that you link to and statically linking them into a single binary. Even then there's be a performance hit.
I was going to post exactly this exact comment.
In other countries everything in-store is available online...
It's probably being flagged, because with its lack of context, it's more of a smearing job than an actual revelation.
I was being sloppy, but am referring to the following sentence in the article.

Approximately 30% of unicorn investors had significant protection against a down round IPO.

So you're right. If the company goes bankrupt, unicorn investors are going to be first in line to get their money back. This matters, and does help get funding at higher valuation.

But it is not nearly as inflationary as terms that say that the investor still gets paid on a successful exit that is merely not as good as hoped. And the latter is the kind of term that could cause the valuation placed in the company to be totally disconnected from the value that the investor thinks the company should be worth.
Sorry to hear that. We've come a long way. Email me ryan@flexport.com I'd love to hear what went wrong and how we can learn from it. We'll hook you up if you're ever brave enough to try us again.
> A Rust enum isn't even "quite close" to a C enum

This is incorrect. The following Rust enum compiles down to a single byte, whose variants are represented by the numbers 0, 1, and 2:

enum Foo {
Zero,
One,
Two
}

You can even give them all numeric values explicitly:

enum Bar {
Ten = 10,
Eighty = 80,
TwoHundred = 200
}

And you can also just tell it where to start and let it count from there:

enum Qux {
Five = 5,
Six,
Seven
}

If you throw the #[repr(C)] attribute on any of these then Rust will make sure to size them as C would on your particular platform (on my machine this attribute inflates them from 8 bits to 64 bits), making them usable directly from C as well.
A listen through the old Woody Guthrie Columbia River Collection [1] suggests that powering heavy industry was a key justification for building dams on the Columbia River.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Columbia_River_Collection
I recently started using www.netlify.com for this, $9 plan allows custom domain + ssl, and it can build your site for you from w/e tooling you use.

It's an interesting approach and one I'm hoping will play really nicely at scale with a cleanly separated static front end on top of an API hosted elsewhere.
Show HN: Feature Requests for Precursor, Built with Om/React and Datascript
Good luck separating from the class and pursuing the claim in court. Though honestly you might have a shot if the hardware is something you could push in your local small claims. Think the "windows refund"
Hospitals and experiences differ, neither of my kids' births were like that.
If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend reading "The SUPERMEN" by Charles J. Murray.

http://www.amazon.com/Supermen-Seymour-Technical-Wizards-Sup...
I don't think it's a coincidence that hitchhiking became vilified at the peak of the mid century crimewave. It well and truly _was_ more dangerous then. Now, even though the crimewave has subsided, people have scare stories from infotainment journalism and they overestimate the risk, thanks to the availability heuristic.
True, but this "cult" says up-front that it cares about the end-goal and not profits, and is inviting people who are willing to think alike. I've noticed however that as both SpaceX and Tesla gain media exposure, there's an influx of people who want to join only to get a good line on their resume. These companies are definitely not healthy for such participants.
Not excusing the comment, it's pretty harsh.

It seems that everyone praises the prioritization of family over work. The quote that's brought up goes like:

"When you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, ‘He never missed a meeting.’ Or one that said, ‘He was a great father'."

This supposes that the acceptable thing to do for any human being is to desire having a family and caring for your own kind. It also supposes that work can only be a succession a meaningless events.

I see another take on this. I see that some projects can be life projects. Some of those life projects can happen to be 'work'. Desiring the completion of a life project, as your mean to live your humanity, is as valid in my opinion, as the desire to fulfill your humanity through the experience of family.

When you look at someone like Elon Musk and criticize him for not caring about family, you criticize him for having a different set of priorities than yours. The argument is an appeal to emotion and some assumed higher truth. It's not valid. There's more than one way to focus your life. You don't have to focus on having and raising children. You might want to do that. Or not.

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That said, it's pretty rude to expect other people to focus their life on a project instead of their families. However, I can understand that a leader desire that their company be formed of people likely focused and minded.
On the far right side of the picture, near the vertical middle, there's a crater with straight sides, like a ... hexagon. And there's a similar sized pentagon near the top.

Looks like Ceres is a Goldberg polyhedron.

Oh, and the bright spots are thermal exhaust ports.
On what ideological grounds did your turn down ms?
Why do I care how many intelligence agencies have their hooks into CAs? DNSSEC is permanently compromised by the two I'm most worried about: NSA and, worse, GCHQ, the world's most unhinged SIGINT agency.

I gave a whole list of ways in which "the security system formerly known as X.509" is being repaired. You rebutted basically no part of that list. For instance: I remain totally unclear on why you think CT logs require government cooperation.

You've also oversimplified pinning. Pinning isn't simply "trust on first use" for TLS. It works in conjunction with the CA system. To break a pin, you have to implicate a CA. That means every time someone tries to deploy a fake CA certificate, they risk bumping into one of the tens of millions of deployed browsers that check pins; if they do, the browser vendors get evidence that the CA is compromised.
Hello das2, sorry for the late reply. Yes, it was down to Fujimori.

It's true that Fujimori is in jail right now, but not for corruption. He's in jail for his overzealous approach to the antiterrorist campaigns that took place in the early 90s.

When the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path, a Maoist terrorist group that nearly managed to overthrow the state in the late 80s/early 90s) were at their peak, Fujimori came to power. Very shortly thereafter, the SL hijacked the Japanese embassy on a night when they had a big event on, kidnapping everyone from the Japanese ambassador to the directors of large Japanese corporations (Toyota, Sony, etc.).

Fujimori ordered a replica of the embassy to be built in the desert, and special forces trained there for weeks in preparation to storm the embassy. The operation was a great success, the kidnappers were killed, only one soldier died, none of the hostages died.

High on this amazing success, Fujimori ordered more campaigns against SL, and managed to pretty much eradicate them from the country. Two campaigns, however, did not go as planned. One at a university called La Cantuta, one in a poor district of Lima called Barrios Altos. Innocent people died in these campaigns, which had received his direct, personal go-ahead. That is what he went to trial for, and the reason he's in jail now.

Fujimori took over when the state itself was a failed state: hyperinflation of both the old Sol and the new Inti, had all but destroyed everyone's savings, political processes were sclerotic, there was enormous bureaucracy, no foreign investment, etc. Fujishock, as it has come to be called, was the process of undoing all this. Fujimori created the new Sol currency which has been a very stable currency ever since. Parliament was closed and replaced with one single congress and a super-simple process of election that elects both the percentage of parliamentary representatives and the president. Bureaucrats were sent home and the machinery of government simplified a great deal.

A lot of investment went into infrastructure, too: where it used to take more than a day for a farmer to take his produce to the nearest city, it can now take just 3 or 4 hours, which means they don't just go once a year but once every month, which puts them more in touch with the market and more responsive to price signals. Many things that would take forever to start (companies, brand registrations, etc.) can now be done online in a couple of days. The country has seen between 6 and 9% annual growth ever since the mid-90s, reducing poverty from over 50% to around 20% today.
Can you clarify what changes you would expect Felten to bring into the government? I'm a little frustrated by the lack of specifics in both the article, the Wiki page, and these comments. What about his technology background and history make him a particularly viable candidate - and what changes will we expect him to bring to bear from his background?
Did he do you any harm?

Otherwise it's just a great anecdote.
Ask HN: How to check if e-mail belongs to a “work” domain?
Hey everyone!

What is the best way to verify that an e-mail address belongs to a business ("work") domain? For example, I don't want _john.doe@gmail.com_ or _jane.doe@outlook.com_. But I do want _johnny@apple.com_ or _ma.baker@thebakercompany.com_.

The first thing that comes to me is to have a rule to exclude gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com, but there are huge amounts of those and it feels stupid to me.

Any thoughts?
You could the server timezone to UTC to avoid those problems.
(Podcast) Ivan Kirigin Talks Growth Principles vs. Tactics
Funny he mentions Latent Dirichlet Allocation. If you want to see it applied to Harry Potter, you're out of luck. However, if you want to see it applied to Harry Potter fanfiction, Kaj Sotala wrote a post three days ago! http://kajsotala.fi/2015/05/harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-...
In fairness, in the days before MSDOS shipped with `edit`, using Lotus 123 was a big step up from edlin because you didn't have to hold so much in your head.
Let's hope the universe doesn't have an anti-virus.
EU theory contains a lot of supposed explanations. I do it injustice (as do themselves) by labelling it as one all encompassing theory. It becomes easier to dismiss as a whole since not every single thing presented under the umbrella might be truthful.

That being said, here's one that you might benefit from thinking about. The modern explanation of redshift from astronomical bodies seems just plain wrong. Why? There are large currents of plasma which are observed to connect two objects whose measured redshift (according to mainstream astrophysics) would put them at different sections of the universe.

Since we use redshift to make assumptions about the nature of spacetime, the big bang and an accelerating, expanding universe; the latter invoking necessary dark matter and dark energy (a purely theoretical, abstract idea by scientists which might never be found experimentally) this point deserves more credence than other points which fall under EU.
Was this before or after the arrest of Ivan Milat?
DMCA Friendly Hosting
Is there such thing like DMCA friendly Hosting? This website claims to be DMCA friendly http://www.farthost.com
It's easy to scale a KV store with no online updates.
– tl;dr: What is the new law?

The new law [...] makes it a crime to “collect resource data” from any “open land", meaning any land outside of a city or town, whether it’s federal, state, or privately owned.

– What is its purpose?

The state wants to conceal the fact that many of its streams are contaminated by E. coli bacteria, strains of which can cause serious health problems, even death.

– Where does the E. coli come from?

E. coli [...] comes from cows spending too much time in and next to streams. Acknowledging that fact could result in rules requiring ranchers who graze their cows on public lands to better manage their herds. The ranching community in Wyoming wields considerable political power and has no interest in such obligations, so the state is trying to stop the flow of information rather than forthrightly address the problem.
> In fact there's no British recovery to speak of, beyond a trivial dead cat bounce and a foundationless wave of QE-induced share price inflation

http://i.imgur.com/hIfnD7N.gif
You also can't just put a building down where the road is either. As long as we're discussing magical solutions, "build up" seems as feasible as permanently closing the 1400 block of McAllister Street.
My wife picked up a couple of hitchhikers while driving from Ohio to Central NY last year. She had a good time with them.
The intuition is that the cryptocurrency miners act as a large decentralized first-come first-serve notary for the transactions they append to the blockchain. If a peer submits a valid transaction and it gets included in the blockchain, it means the majority of the other peers have accepted the transaction as valid and will continue to serve it to other peers. As a side-effect, any data within a transaction gets included and served as well, and (this is where the proof-of-work comes in) it cannot not be retroactively altered without first retroactively altering the blockchain itself.

Onename leverages this fact to bind your human-readable username to the hash of your passcard in a first-come, first-serve basis. When you sign up for a passcard, the (username, passcard_hash) tuple gets submitted to the blockchain as part of a valid transaction, so that once the transaction gets accepted, the peers will continue to preserve this information. There's similar process for changing name ownership and revoking names and credentials.

The trust you place in the validity of Onename records on the blockchain comes from the steep cost of silently altering it. You have to launch a 51% attack to alter it at all, and you have to alter every local copy of the blockchain without drawing notice to do so silently (otherwise, a fork will be observed). This means once you're committed the requisite information in a transaction, there's a good chance it will persist.

The situation is much more fluid with PGP, since the number of endorsers can be somewhat smaller than number of miners, and there's no guaranteed "paper trail" of what bindings have have processed (thereby making silent alterations easier to come by). Moreover, trust is not transitive--Alice trusting Bob and Bob trusting Charlie does not imply that Alice trusts Charlie--so the degree of trust you get from a web-of-trust is hard to quantify even in the absence of malicious behavior. This in turn makes it hard to reason about the strength of your endorsements, as compared to the strength of your adversary's claims against you.

At the end of the day, Onename gives me the ability to say "I am jude-, and my passcard is ..." in a non-repudiable manner, and I can quantify how strong of a testament it is by measuring the blockchain's hashing power versus my adversary's hashing power. The passcard itself is stored elsewhere (but its hash is incorporated into the blockchain), but the passcard can include information like your public keys, your identities on other services, hashes of digital assets you created (e.g. pictures, documents, etc.), and so on.
> I think it's a shame Windows doesn't ship with devtools out of the box, also. If it came with devtools, would be one less hurdle to getting newbies into programming. Offer good tools at every level - an assembler, a C compiler, c#-level tools, javascript debugger, visual basic. Microsoft's grew from a successful devtool company.

It does. Since Vista the framework .net is bundled with Windows and it contains a C# compiler (csc.exe in one or more subfolders of %WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework). That's how I started C#: notepad and compiling in command line. But I agree it is not at all user friendly and I'm pretty sure it isn't here to be used by final customer anyway.

That being said, bundling WebMatrix or put a download link in the Start Menu could be a nice idea for creating vocations.
Ron Wyden, too:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/10/ron-wyden-nsa-surve...
I, for instance, am on call and required to have my work phone on my person 24 hours a day unless I'm on vacation with a pre-arranged backup.
Volvo: if one of our cars hits you, its now more likely your fault since you didn't apply our line of reflective paints to your person and property before crossing the intersection.

I'm not in favor of shifting the blame, in an accident between a 3-ton vehicle and the 200lb union of human and pedal-operated-device, to the more vulnerable.
I think GP is assuming that Ceres is not their homeworld, but the city is just a colony. This would imply a level of technology ahead of ours.
This makes me really sad. I used to really enjoy hitchhiking, I met so many interesting people that way.

When I got a car, I used to pick up every hitchhiker I came upon.
You don't need a boot camp. There are plenty of good books on these topics, which are fairly inexpensive. Also, stack overflow (for all it is ridiculed) is a great place to ask a question if you are confused about something. Also, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re... is a great way to learn javascript.
He was a board member of the EFF, which should tell you enough.
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