skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the want to filter out people mentality, but I completely disagree with thinking that just because a person does not want to provide a credit card upfront that they are not a valid customer or don't have the money to spend.

I look at it this way. Let's say I come across Acme Corporation's website. They are selling what appears to be a really cool product. I figure I will give it a try and signup for the free trial and at the same time enter my credit card info. I give it whirl, but in the middle of testing it out I get sidetracked with a phone call or whatever and forget to finish testing. I wasn't impressed enough with the little testing I had completed to go back immediately and after a couple days I completely forget I even signed up. Now 29 days later my credit card gets whacked for a $20 monthly fee. I have two choices at this point. I can file a chargeback, which isn't fair to the company. Or I can eat the cost and cancel immediately, which isn't fair to me.

In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason to demand a credit card upfront for a trial.

*Edited to fix a typo.
An Austrian "projecting"? Hah.

So you think after May 1971, Switzerland and France redeemed USD$50M and USD$191M, respectively, in US products and soldiers? Because my sources tell me they redeemed it in gold.

Has Germany been trying to redeem their US deposits in US products and soldiers? OR did they ask for gold?

So much for your "is and always has been". Seems like depositors don't really care about US products and soldiers, more like, just its gold.
Does this solve any of the in-browser encryption issues that are outlined in these links [0][1][2]?

[0] http://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto
[1] https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/blog/2011/august/javascript-cryptography-considered-harmful/
[2] http://rdist.root.org/2010/11/29/final-post-on-javascript-crypto/
I plan to sue them after the universe ends, as that is before "forever".
pretty sure it normally goes on your profile page.
You're right, but current agile dogma frowns on that. I think a lot of us like being a "full stack" developer too. It's part of our ego that we like going from our procs to the css
> EDIT: Except the part where you apparently didn't pay out all of his winnings. I'm not fine with that part. Also doxing one of your customers just because he made a profit out of you.

They asked him to stop playing at that point and he created a new account to evade that. I'm not sure why you feel people don't have the right to refuse service.
Using the Couchbase ODBC Driver with Microsoft Excel
The free tier is for 1 year, so technically, it's a limited time trial and does require your credit card up front (which is their main method of converting free accounts -- upselling on that credit card).

I think AWS is the type of free the GP supports: limited time, credit card up front, clear upsell channels for the limited service.
>$1.00 at the beginning of 1900 had the same purchasing power as $5.38 at the end of 1972.

I wouldn't call 2.3% Annualized Inflation Rate "little to no."

>$1.00 at the beginning of 1990 had the same purchasing power as $1.86 at the end of 2014.

What's interesting is that in the past 25 years we have a similar AIR. 2.5%.

72-1990 may have just been an anomaly, especially if you see that 1972-1980 alone had a AIR of 8.6%. I think a lot of the gold standard weirdos are purposely being disingenuous by ignoring the big economic issues of the 70s and 80s to play up their pet theory.(war spending/war debt, oil crisis, government overspending/massive deficit spending, manufacturing leaving, savings and loan scandal, 1980s recession, etc)

If the gold standard is the only that that can bring out sub 3% inflation then you're simply wrong as we've been in the 2's since the 90's. I don't think many younger people on the internet really appreciate how crazy the 70s and 80s were. The loan my dad got on our house when I was a kid is like 3x or almost 4x my interest rate, which is insane. Clearly things have stabilized since then while we're still not on any precious metal backed currency. I think you guys are missing the forest for the trees here.

Calculator here:

http://www.moneychimp.com/articles/econ/inflation_calculator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
I do know that families with small children often board between the A and B groups. Which is nice, because families often want or need to sit together, but it still makes having an A ticket special.
When I'm busy at work I turn on "noprocrast" mode. I still open hn all the time but the "get back to work!" message helps me close it quicker.
MSVC will very confidently warn on cases like this by default:

int foo() {
int bar;
return bar + 5; /* C4700: local variable 'bar' used without having been initialized */
}

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/axhfhh6x.aspx

In the same situation, GCC says "may be used uninitialized in this function" if you enable the warning (-Wmaybe-uninitialized), despite this being a trivial and certain case.
I tend to agree with you, but there are things that can/should run on both - validation of input for one. But I'd like to hear other things - I hear "use the same code on the server and client" all the time, but I haven't found a lot of use for that personally.
I like your tool from a UX point of view, but nothing can fix the security issue that you use passwords created on a website which could at any time choose to store them.

PAAS (Password as a service) can and will never be a thing ;)
I suspect the parent is more referring to people writing code that does e.g. foo(i++, i++); or e.g. relying on signed integer overflow behvior based on observing a toy program on their own machine - assuming the code will behave the same in all contexts, optimization levels or minor versions of the compiler
I'd be willing to place a bet on what sort of database technology they weren't using. Hint: it has three letters, starts with an S, and ends with an L. ;-)
I think it really does come to a case by case basis... it depends on your costs, turnover and conversion rates.
Supreme Court Denies Google Appeal on Oracle Suit
My ISP only blocks common ports on dynamic ip ranges. If you order a static IP, you do whatever you want with it. They even set reverse dns record for me when I asked, because some blocklists/mail servers want it that way.

Issue with running your own mail server nowadays is spam. Gmail does a decent job filtering all the crap.
first point is enough to kill this and similar services for all times.

Nice simple UI though. :)
> I’ve got momentum, I don’t feel like stopping, I’m running late.

This is what baffles me the most. The same could be said for cars, not to mention that every red light/stop sign stop-and-go wastes a lot more fuel/creates more pollution. This is a ridiculous excuse for cyclists.
To the people recommending white noise, be careful. I developed tinnitus from listening to white noise. Now whenever I hear white noise, including fans, etc., there is a high-pitched ringing in my left ear. Not fun.
I assume ln, it was the only one that gave me reasonable values.
I don't disagree with you, but the analogy of fixing the bug upstream is a legislative amendment.
> > There are times when, as a cyclist, I blow through a red light. I’ve got momentum, I don’t feel like stopping, I’m

> Cars have momentum too. Physics makes it so they can't come to an instant stop. Then cyclists wonder why they get hit by cars when they run red lights.

While the justification does not make any sense whatsoever, the way he explains it also doesn't, since it fails to capture the difference between cars and bicycles:

Cars don't fall over when they stop.

The thing that makes intersections a little annoying when you have to stop at them is not the effort of stopping and starting, it's the physical AND mental effort required to evaluate all the possible options for stopping and then balancing the bike, then choosing and encating the right one.

Do keep in mind that proper bike configuration means the leg is almost at full stretch when the pedal is in down position, which means you can't just keep your arse in the saddle and put a foot on the ground. (Unless you've extraordinarily long legs.)

That said, there are no justifications for running a red light as a bike, only excuses made by fuckheads.
Probably the exact same reasons that motorists rarely strictly obey the speed limit.
While I appreciate your ideas the point with this thread was to find problems not come up with solutions. Maybe I am reading them wrong but they sound like (great) ideas, but are they actual problems?

For instance do my grandma really care about cryptography?

By turning it around and ask for the problems I am hoping for a more open ended list where the solutions aren't given already.
Major Xen update fixes over 20 vulns, including guest/host escape flaw
> many programmers fear servers, which I don't think is healthy

I fear the consequences of doing it badly or wrongly. It's like building my own car - I could probably do it and drive it around for awhile, and if nothing goes wrong nothing would go wrong - but if something does, suddenly it goes very badly indeed.
say what you will about Wolfram, but he took a risk, got things done, and shipped something people wanted
Ask HN: What are some podcasts you listen to?
Wolfram's decision at worst did not impede the development of a tremendously successful software product. At best it enabled it. Mathematica is 27 years old. It predates the i486 which was the first mass market CPU with an FPU. In the early 1980's betting on Lisp was betting on Lisp machines and workstation class hardware. The first version of Mathematica ran on M68000 Macintosh machines. It's hard to imagine overcoming the pain that something slower than C would have inflicted on users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve, in exchange for $20.67 (equivalent to $376.58 today[4]) per troy ounce. Under the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the recently passed Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933, violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 (equivalent to $182,185 today[4]) or up to ten years in prison, or both.

I think central banks still trade a little gold now and then, though , as you point out.

Gerald Ford allowed legalized gold in 1974.
And see this recent patch [1] from an Oracle developer to make PF SMP proof. It's under review.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=143526332700004&r=1&w=2
>There are times when, as a cyclist, I blow through a red light. I’ve got momentum, I don’t feel like stopping, I’m running late.

Yet if a driver of automobile obeys all the laws and hits this person, they get sued. This flagrant attitude is the primary cause of tension between bicyclists and motorists.

You can't behave like that and then get angry when drivers are rude. This seems like pretty base level common sense.
For EU mainly, US had some alternatives like these, but they seemed to be shut down due to legal issues.

A place where I, or anyone trying to contact me, can send snail mail to. These then get scanned and forwarded to mail mailbox and/or dropbox and/or stored online with an OCR PDF.

This would allow me to
a) send my bills, invoices there
b) able to move house more easily without having to keep track of address changes.
Why Xiaomi Can’t Succeed Without India
Why This Tech Bubble Is Less Scary
A cyclist wiped me out at a crossing back in '02 after blowing a red light. I was on foot. Put me in hospital for 3 days and off my feet for two months. He rode away and was never caught.

If you find any justification for this you're just a selfish idiot.

Edit: Counted 6 downvotes so far. At least explain yourself. I want to hear the reason.
Someone turning left into you across several lanes as they face you has more time to stop and better visibility, as compared to someone turning right into you from the nearest lane.

(Note that I am not saying that anything in particular follows from this, just that it seems to be missed in the immediate parent.)
It's hard to "home in" on something that's only in the last line of the article. But before coming to the comments, I too chuckled a little at the irony of an ad for an ebook being disguised as a polemic against consumerism and distraction.

If you do not see the irony in this, that's fine; you are still a special person and your life or viewpoints are no less valuable. But that's not a reason to personally attack those that do notice this irony.
I only have any of the problems you mention when I put my phone into airplane mode or generally have no reception- sometimes I'll get a notification way after I get reception again. Otherwise, I have no immediacy problems.
Ooops...my bad
Anything relying on HTTPS is not "100% confidential".
I just did submit it by my own. Sorry for that hassle.

If you have more detailed error information, I would be glad if you put them into the comments.

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans/issues/9
Why would I go to a website to make a password when I could avoid leaving my terminal?

alias mkpass='head -c 9 /dev/random | base64'
Reddit Founder Speaks at His Old High School, Gets Kicked Out for Swearing
then what's the point of a savings account? to get screwed over?
Stats – For Twitter. Track ‘Any’ Account
I thought Posteo [1] is already 100% confidential? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

https://posteo.de/en/site/privacy_policy
This is a very biased, not well-researched article.
I never said that Lisp didn't have arrays. I said that representing a matrix as a list of lists would not perform well.

What I meant to be saying is that Wolfram plausibly may have looked at a bad data representation for matrices on Lisp, and concluded that Lisp was inherently 100x as slow.
I don't think the author's main conclusion follows logically from any of the supporting facts. At best, one could conclude that bikers run lights because other bikers do (which is stated about halfway through the article). In no way do any of those facts conclude that bikers run red lights for an adrenaline rush.
Cyclists in the US ride their bikes like people in the third world drive cars.

If you think this is a good thing, ask any immigrant from outside Europe if they like our well ordered system or if they prefer driving at home.
Real estate title/escrow API for California (then USA, then world)

Currently most title/escrow companies are local brick and mortar shops, largely due to slight regional differences in how the process works and who pays what (these differences are mostly historical artifacts that we don't want to mess with) [0].

At Open Listings [1] we're building the slickest real estate offer/transaction platform in the industry but it involves a fair amount of offline coordination with other agents, inspectors, banks, and title/escrow companies. Essentially, we're building an API on top of a lot of human interactions and an interface for our clients and agents to drive that API. We'd love to be able to plug into a preferred escrow service to do the title transfer and replace one slow, expensive interaction with an API call.

[0]: http://www.firstam.com/assets/title/ca/respa-reform-tools/wh...
[1]: https://www.openlistings.co/
Yes, it seems likely that the capsule and at least some of the contents could have survived if they had opened the parachutes on descent. Of course, I don't know where it would have landed or how long it would have taken to get a ship out there or.... Anyway, I imagine it just wasn't in the plans for something like this.
Congrats! This was really difficult for me. I recently packed up my desktop as well (three weeks in so far) and I'm starting to see much more self-engagement in activities I enjoy but were easy to push aside to play fallout instead.

My wife and I have been trying the KonMari [1] method of tidying up recently and this dovetailed nicely into that work. Note that I don't necessarily agree with everything the method prescribes, but it was an interesting exercise either way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo#KonMari_method
I have a theory that there are a lot of interesting and successful businesses that could be build on insights that people have gathered over the years.

For example, I would love to talk to a series of very experienced (read older people) people working in various industries what they consider the biggest problems they have to deal with. People who are on the verge of retiring.

This is why I asked the question this way, so far some really good problems to tackle.
The distance between you and the impact of your increased fuel consumption or environmental impact is massive compared to the distance between you and the impact of stopping/starting at every single stoplight. For drivers of a car, it's almost imperceptible. How do you quantify the difference? How much more are you going to pay at the pump? For the cyclist, you feel the impact immediately, paid in sweat.

I'm not saying it's ok or that it's a good justification. I'm just saying that there's a clear difference in the way people will weigh one against the other under different circumstances.
I try to avoid OOP in my JavaScript code like the plague, I'd probably write it like this:

function doSomething(obj){}

var objs = [{},{},{}];
objs.forEach(doSomething);

If I need late binding I'll use something like clojure's multi-methods. Both closures and prototypes aren't needed for this :)
Key to Successful Product Management
Or one that find problems for businesses to be built on.
"Do keep in mind that proper bike configuration means the leg is almost at full stretch when the pedal is in down position, which means you can't just keep your arse in the saddle and put a foot on the ground. (Unless you've extraordinarily long legs.)"

Arses can leave the saddle, and - more importantly - bikes can tip (substantially shortening the distance from saddle to ground).
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
It isn't a language but Tabletop Simulator [1] is basically the ultimate in simulating any board or card game.

1: http://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/
Ask HN: What C++ IDE do you use for windows?
Your last point doesn't follow from the first two. You describe artificial barriers but fail to take into account job-specific differences that attract and repel certain genders and races. I think that the pushback on this topic is largely due to this last point. It is reasonable to expect equal opportunity but it is unreasonable to expect equal headcount.
"The discussions here are supposed to be about the content."

He complained about the readability of the content, I think it's a valid complaint. You might be able to read it just fine, but you don't represent 100% of the human race.
His name is Robin Hood... Rich beware.
Airtable (Node.js) raises $7.6M to democratize the database, hiring engineers
No worries I understand the urge. I have it myself.
The original comment was talking about the website as a whole. Nice try though.
Sometimes I feel like I'm part of a very tiny minority that prefers honesty in most situations. If I don't like a question at an interview, I say that I don't like the question. Or just answer the question. Giving vague answers or even lying at a job interview seems like a good way to get a job I'll not like.
"take advantage of one's system architecture."

Yes, if your system is essentially a PDP-11.

I don't mean that sarcastically; pcwalton's sibling message only begins to mention the ways in which C is not a match to modern systems. Vector processing, NUMA, umpteen caching layers, CPU features galore... it's not really a match to the "architecture" any more.

(To the extent that you may think C supports those things, I don't really think "lets you drop arbitrary assembler in the middle of a function" constitutes "support". YMMV. To be fair to C there's a lot of features that seem to be unsupported by any high-level language today. Hardware moves way faster than programming languages. If you want to figure out what's coming after the current generation of languages, "a language that actually lets you use all the capabilities of modern hardware without dropping to assembler and giving up all the safety of the higher-level language" is at least one possible Next Big Thing.)
Even with an internal class you're still doing lookups for properties. A closure can instead use local variables which are accessed by index. Why do you think its good practice to pull properties out of objects and into local variables before a tight loop?
Do you have a link to these macros?
Kruhft – microsound [2015, music]
How programmers freed Hollywood
As indicated at the bottom of the article, this is only the first chapter of a book in which he does offer solutions and strategies. http://www.raymundtamayo.com/p/simplify-life-and-make-it-cou...

Regarding use of "we". Clearly (at least to me) he is referring to societal trends that are fairly common. Not a specific groups of "we"s. So clearly there are plenty of folks who are not effected by these challenges. It's fairly pendantic to get hung up on this word.
Nikita's blog posts are pretty good. I found this one to be informative: http://tonsky.me/blog/datascript-chat/
Tangential anecdote - In bootcamp, our drill instructors were famous for giving us a countdown and then counting us down along the lines of "You have 10 seconds, 10, 9, 7, 3, 2, 1, you're done!" In addition to skipping numbers, the "3, 2, 1" portion was said as quickly as they could manage. I think we only ever got about 50-75% of any supposed allotment of time. To this day, I still can't hear a countdown without wondering what numbers will be skipped, and of course, I expect "3, 2, 1" to only take up about a second and a half.
> 728 bike deaths, 30,000 car deaths.

Bikes have significantly higher deaths per vehicle-mile of travel than cars; so, if your goal is to get one person from point A to point B, bicycling is more dangerous. If its to get N people from point A to point B, and N is greater than 1, its even worse, because persons/car can easily be greater than persons/bike.

> When a cyclist breaks the rules, it only kills them.

Bikes kill or seriously injure pedestrians, too, and sometimes other bike riders.
> Well M-expressions to be more precise.

M-expressions is what I meant, I think I misremembered the name.
Ask HN: Should I ditch Wordpress for Ghost?
Hi all, me again,
I am in the process of switching my website provider and I am wondering: If I invest all that time I might also think about switching from Wordpress to Ghost [1].

Don't get me wrong, Wordpress is awesome and did a lot for bloggers. But its also a huge target and kind of bloated.

I really like Ghost, but I am not sure if it's ready to go yet. My posts are mostly text and pictures, that shouldn't be a problem (although I hear its not easy to migrate pictures).

My main concern are the plugins: I use few, but I want to keep stuff like the 2-click-social-media-share [2] or the Cookie warning (not sure if I need it, but hey...).

Basically, what I am asking: Did anyone switch his blog from WP to Ghost and how did it go?

Thanks for your time (currently in Greece, answers might take a while).

[1]: www.ghost.org
[2]: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff
Haskell Cast - a Haskell / functional programming-focused pod cast: http://www.haskellcast.com/
SneakyNote – Send encrypted messages with self-destructing read-once links
The problem is that it will be a case by case basis.
I haven't had a chance to try React.js koans yet, but recently completed a tutorial in the same vein, a "workershopper", from nodeschool.io: https://github.com/tako-black/learnyoureact. As a React.js noob, I found it to be a helpful introduction.