skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this spam? If I were to guess, this looks like some marketer trying to make a product go viral. But I looked at the poster's history, though, and brown-dragon doesn't seem to be a shill.

Am I missing something here? Are people actually excited about a minor change to the design of an umbrella?
My partner and I found that there are a ton of books that often contradict each other or promote fads with no evidence to back up their assertions. So we deliberately eschewed all (parenting) books during baby's early years.

This decision turned out to be good for us, we weren't stressed about sticking to the "rules" from one book or other. Instead we listened to our instincts and feedback from the infant under test. Humans have done this for a long time (and it works).

Whatever you choose, do give yourself time for introspective evaluation of your parenting and discuss with your partner what you think is working/not working. This can be hard to do after 3 hours of interrupted sleep but it has paid dividends for us.
I don't think Swift is so influential as everybody thinks. Apple turned so fast after her open letter, it makes me think they were already thinking about it. Not that Swifts letter was meaningless, but stuff usually takes a bit longer in the corporate world.
for what it's worth, that was neither flippant, nor snark. A lot of people listen to Dr. Oz and he has promoted the use of palm oil as healthy.
Ask HN: How to report coworkers who use WeChat to spy on my personal device?
First, I was invited to a WeChat group and then a link containing a hidden spyware was sent. Personal (phone and live) conversations with my family were recorded and listened to for more than a month.

Frankly, I was too naive to trust the links sent in WeChat.

Still can't believe such acts can happen in a well-established tech company, which has always claimed user data privacy is its top priority.
An open letter to Reddit, Inc
1) Ignore people's opinions

2) Parenting is not a competition against other parents

3) Literally tens of billions of people on this planet have had children. It can't be that hard. And it's not

4) Spend as much time as you can with your child: not only now, but for as long as both of you are alive. Be there
> hosting provider sysadmin

You should kick them out for repeated DDoS attempts on their IPs, like any sane host does.
This is a dilemma for plenty of businesses - do you spring the cash upfront, or pay through your nose later for the .com if your business becomes popular?

I would say spring the cash upfront. I know domain traders and they'll squeeze you hard if they know there's already a successful business with the same name (but on a different extension)

You DO lose a lot of type-in traffic when you don't have your name in .com. This traffic is also one of the best converting around.

If you're in enterprise, you HAVE to get a .com or at the very least, a .net. I've been in enough meetings with old-school business guys who scrunch their noses and think of you as an idiot for having one of those cool new extensions (.ly,.io, etc.)

Think of it as an investment. Most good domain names appreciate in value. Even if your startup were to go kaput, you'd still make money from the domain a few years down the line.
What's funny is they used to do this stuff with much much slower computer systems back in the 70s and 80s.
Just do what works best for you. Don't ever expect anything to be easy. I tried to read a few recommended books prior to my first being born and I just realised it was mostly author's opinion. There are very few books that are based on reason and evidence, mostly subjective opinion.

All you need to do is love your kids and spend as much time as possible with them. They are only babies for a short time and while it might suck a bit, it's also amazing watching them grow.

On another note... really try to figure out how you want the birth to be. We had our first in a private hospital and our second at home supported by the hospital (Australia). The second one was a much nicer experience (although I wasn't pushing a baby out of a small hole in my body).
He means those Alexander Calder spinning hanging sculpture things you hang over the crib.

http://www.houzz.com/photos/1211969/Blue-and-Grey-Whales-Bab...

so your 1.5 year old is already swiping ? maybe hold off on getting him an oculus rift, okay ? :)
Honest answer? It seemed simpler. I haven't used Om yet so I won't try to compare the two, but Reagent presents very simple interface. Components are just functions which emit Hiccup. Reagent's ratoms are, I'm told, much like Om's Cursors, but different in a way that I haven't investigated enough to understand. Looking at the READMEs for the two projects, Reagent just seemed more approachable to me.

While I've really enjoyed working with Reagent (I haven't encountered any real deficiencies, though that may just indicate I haven't used it enough), I'm totally open to being convinced in favor of Om.
Cool. I tried your app and went through the reddit posts too. I guess I'll post in reddit after fixing the current issues in few weeks(Have exams in next 2 weeks). Few more questions though.

* The login function isn't still available in official API?

* How did you promote your testing community(g+ page)?

* How are the donations coming?
How about not wasting your life? I mean dude,
you're spending at least 40 hours a week working.
Why not find something you love doing?

I do. But I enjoy what I do outside of work much, much more than I do offering my employer unpaid overtime. So, I make those 40 hours count. I work extremely hard, and then I'm done.

Sure, there's the occasional night or weekend that I'll work; I'm not going to leave my project in jeopardy, or my coworkers in a lurch...But, I don't owe my employer anything more than they owe me.
Poland recent progress is mostly non-currency related:

1. Still a lot of catch-up grow. Well educated workforce, great productivity, proximity (geo/legal/cultural) to advanced countries though way lower salaries. If you are from software company in SF Bay Area and looking to build up global presence, this region is likely your best bet.

2. Healthy banking sector. Low number of defaults. No collapse of real estate value.

3. Good use of EU development aid funds. A lot of new roads and infrastructure spending when crisis hit Europe.

4. Responded well to crisis: raised retirement age, froze public salary budget, increase some taxes (by 1% VAT).

Let me give you a couple of other examples countries with euro or currency pegged to Euro. Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovak Republic:
https://www.google.pl/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&c...

All of them have down GDP in 2008-2009, but all of them has recovered and grow a lot since then. However, they all don't have deep structural problems as Greece and got governments who can act in crisis situation effectively.
Since when are designers F1 experts ?
Collaborate with your manager on more detailed work schedules. Ex: if you do week-to-week deliverables, switch to day-to-day. They'll have a better notion of expected cadence.
I'm guessing a backup technically existed (to satisfy any requirements or boss's-orders to the "letter of the law"), but nobody bothered giving any thought to restoring everything from that backup.

Of course, a backup that can't be restored (or nobody knows how to restore) is more or less equivalent to not having a backup, so this distinction probably doesn't matter.

// always remember to test your restore plan
Government holding biometric data is unsafe for citizens. There will always be problems, security of data and security of citizens.
I would not call it a minor change. Umbrella design hasn't changed for centuries and it always had the same problems. This design fixes them, so I, for one, welcome it with open hands and I'm happy it reached HN, because I wouldn't learn about it otherwise (sadly the Kickstarter campaign ended so I have to wait until they open for the rest of people).
Dr. Sears... you mean the anti-vax moron?
Oh yeah- I do the cooking too. Rules are, especially at the beginning, no processed meats, nothing not pasteurized, no shellfish, no alcohol, limit caffeine, no soft cheeses like feta and blue, be extra careful about coking meat until done and kitchen sanitation. Your wife will probably need lots of fiber, so anything incorporating that is good. My wife has been chugging milk like crazy. I don't know if that's unusual or not, but something I noticed. She generally wants comfort food because they're in such discomfort. She'll eat lots of small meals because her stomach will be squished. So lots of healthy snacks lying around just in case. Fruits especially. She'll have cravings so you just have to go with the flow.
When people discuss Greece they act as if every Greek person is the same. It is easy to use stereotypes. Greeks are lazy, they retire early, the pensions are "insanely high compared to even the Greek economy before the collapse". The European Union frames this conflict like this the whole time. Sure there are people that screwed up, that took advantage of the situation. There is corruption and extremely poor government for many years. But when you look past that, to the normal Greek person, trying to to the best and make a living then things aren't so simple anymore. DO you really belive that an entire country is evil and corrupt? My 2 uncles have both worked 6 days a week from 10:00AM until 22:00 PM, and 14 days a year vacation. They started working when they were 14 years old, worked until they were 78 and 79 (While we fight the 67 yr retirement rule in the rest of Europe). When they retired, they had to wait 2 years before their pension would start being paid out (normal practice). Only to find out that it was cut in half when it finally arrived. One of them died, the other one (84) now lives on a pension of less than 650 Euro per month. 300 goes to the rent. That leaves him 300 Euro to buy food, pay the bills, get healthcare, support his children (3), of which 2 have been fired and cannot get a job anywhere. And their grandchildren don't have jobs either (which is far more concerning imo). He has a heart condition, yet cannot pay for any medicines. His son has cancer, there is no money for medicines. So when you say that people aren't starving on the streets, then you may want to think about this situation and let it sink in. There is huge poverty in Greece, you may not se it, but it is there. My uncle isn't in a unique situation, this has happened to many, many Greeks.
I used this for a long time and really liked it. It's very easy to set up and works great.
Grass-fed Kerry Gold butter, pastured eggs (not just free range or cage free), and maybe the pre-natal vitamins. I credit those with no evidence that they were key. My gf was healthy and had no problems whatsoever, and was the only one of her immediate family that didn't get sick. Even I got sick from a sick dog, and I used to almost never get sick. I now have the most beautiful baby girl and it's not because of parental bias - she is complimented just about every day by strangers.

There's more to it I'm sure. My gf was an athlete before this and I made sure she got plenty of protein and healthy foods, but the above was part of it all. She also walked daily for miles.
A lot of money is spent on sustaining Greek economy. Not only by lending money to it, but by EU funds stretching back decades.

This money can be spent in other means: maybe a highway in Estonia or increasing pensions in Slovenia. Unemployment is not high only in Greece - Finland can also use funds to lower its own unemployment. Why would the money be spent on sustaining an early retirement in Greece, instead of adding Balkan countries, for example Albania, Macedonia and Monte Negro, to the European Union?

After support from the EU for such a long time, I believe Greece should be at a point where it can help support development in other countries.
Reason for minimizing TV? I have never restricted my children from watching TV and now at 5 and 2 they prefer to be running around outside most of the day.
We live in a fast-changing world. Just because something was good for Germany/Greece once, doesn't mean that is still the case.

I'm reminded of something PG wrote in a recent essay: "When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world."
Because open wheels are aero inefficient.
We hear you taylorswift13 and indie artists. Love, Apple
Funny, but impractical, IMO.

Takes more room (envision this in either a car, a bus, or a train), cumbersome to carry (you basically have to hold it up your shoulder, parasol-style, which means it will catch wind even if it doesn't rain), and the in/underside of the canopy will be wet by the time you deploy it.

(Opinion formed on basis of the front page. Didn't watch a video)
According to the FAQ, it will not break like others, because it was actually designed to fold that way. So yes, it will fold in a strong wind, but will not break and you can open it again easily.
Sounds like a criminal offense, you should talk to the police.
Airbnb and Uber have nothing, 0.000%, to do with sharing. They have simply built a digital infrastructure for renting out rooms and selling taxi fares. Their success lies in the fact that digital communication systems are significantly lower cost and more flexible than pre-internet ones. They now own that infrastructure 100% and aim to become monopolies.

(Edit: Another good example of a digital infrastructure company is Amazon. That's what they are, not a retailer or anything else.)
Deploying OCR in an emergency seems like an insane thing to do, to me. Especially if you CAN just hire a 100 people to do it.
LOL, where did you get that from?! That's absolutely not true.
That will be awesome, I want one.

I shall keep an eye on the progress

http://www.megaprocessor.com/progress.html
Water is trapped inside so basically this umbrella is a cup. All the water spread on its surface will be at the bottom of it after half an hour on a bus / metro train. Be careful when you get out and open it. You better turn it upside down and empty it.

Apart from that, it seems to be more convenient to open and close in a crowded environment (metro stairs in rush hour) than the traditional design.
You're not alone.

Welcome to "growth hacking".
I use retain.cc for SaaS customer management.

Apart from tracking customer registration, they could even track anonymous behaviors too.
Risk based monitoring
> Typical quote: "We knew we could run it on one node. We needed to have one very powerful node."

As someone who has done government contracting...it's always alarming when this path is suggested. The last time was a beefy server with about 50TB of ram to keep all data in memory with multiple hard drives to keep backups. Ugh.
The article suggests that such services don't really need a central company to make it all work. It could be much more distributed, or federated.

This should be even more true for social networks - what value does Facebook really add? Yet no one has a successful distributed social network. We used to have Usenet, but few use that any more. (It still works fine.) There's software for federated social networks, but nobody uses it.

The two main problems are lack of promotion, and asshole amplification. Without heavy promotion, a new networked service has trouble overcoming the noise level and getting enough users to be useful.

Can one jerk ruin it for a large number of people? If so, the system is vulnerable to asshole amplification. 80% of email spam is generated by only 100 spam operations, according to Spamhaus. Many approaches have been tried to fix this kind of problem, from crowdsourced reputation to proof of work. There's still nothing that works really well.

Solve those two problems, and we might have a non-exploitive sharing economy. What we have now is exploitation of the masses by the ruling class.
This scandal blew up because one of her classmates posted a lengthy rant about her lies on a /r/askreddit thread. The post was widely shared on Korean media and was eventually picked up in the states, as you can see from the original link.

For closure, it appears school officials met with her and her parents and decided on expelling her.

The classmate deleted the post shortly afterward, but you can read a copy of it below.

[Archived Post] - https://archive.is/pYQeg

[Original Post] - http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/395g6c/what_is_th...

[Korean coverage, including forged admission letters] - http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/06/12/2015...
How interesting! Just look at the estimated size of the complete megaprocessor. It wouldn't fit in any room at a regular home!

It's a really cool exercise, however, I imagine that James must spend about 99% of the time soldering, so it's more like an artisanal process than an engineering one. An amazing feat nonetheless.
Lol at least one is working, not like in Spain (;

Edit: forgot to put a reference. This is the official website to renew the National Identity Document:

- https://www.citapreviadnie.es/

You also got the big warning notice saying 'This Connection is Untrusted' on Firefox and Chrome? Yep, it's been a feature for many years.
Twayne nasty freestyle
PAPIs ’15: come meet the makers of Predictive APIs and apps
I've worked for the government before & that is more like it.
Actually some do complain, but no one hears them.
From another Ars article:

"It would be incorrect to say that these older systems (especially the COBOL code) couldn't be updated to support encryption, however. There are numerous software libraries that can be used to integrate encryption schemes into older applications, including libraries from PKWare. Other government agencies and financial institutions already utilize such software, according to Matt Little, VP of Product Development at PKWare. The problem is that, as DHS Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity Andy Ozment noted during his testimony, OPM didn't have the kind of authentication infrastructure in place for its major applications to take advantage of encryption in the first place. Encryption, he said, would "not have helped in this case."
Facebook Bluetooth Beacons
> hacker news is telling me to slow down.

Sorry about that! There is a rate limit on brand new accounts because of past activity by spammers and trolls. Unfortunately, it also applies to really excellent brand new accounts like yours.

We marked your account legit so this won't happen to it again. Please answer as much as you like.
I'm not an European, and I get my information from an openly biased source, but this is my understanding:

There is a parliament, but there's no real pan-European parties. So the parliament is dominated by a center-right and center-left coalition which work together to make up the government. The opposition is largely made up of "fuck the EU" protest parties who pride themselves in not participating in any sort of political affairs. And since the voting is the European tradition of "you vote for the party, not individual members," you tend to have members that toe the party lines (unlike the US political system). The end result is that European elections tend not to be able to effect any change in policy in the European Parliament.

The term I heard used for this is "democratic deficit."
some people like to watch a screencast video instead of reading through documentation. It's not a bad way to get introduced to a new language or framework, for example.
Oh, they could easily let things slip: but it's not the kind of information that would create a sensation from an anonymous tip. If someone would go on record and tell the journalists the whole story, yes — but Apple is known to successfully avoid this kind of disclosure. And if some PR person would tell it a friend over a drink in a bar, I don't believe that this could potentially explode.
I highly recommend that you do not read these books. Maybe look into Baby Led Weaning, putting everything into a blender made no sense to me.
It's a funny article, but I was actually disappointed that the sincere question of how to "moneyball" college admissions was not explored. I don't think there exists much evidence that college admissions officers at places like Harvard add much value beyond merely sorting students by grades and test scores (which themselves are highly predictive of future performance). My suspicion is that admissions officers have about as much predictive acumen as active fund managers (i.e., not very much), but I would be interested to see this tested empirically.
I also see a slight health risk. Imagine a closed up, wet umbrella that is left in the umbrella storage bucket, and then it was forgotten to be opened to be dried. Mould and other fungus could grow, and spoiled the umbrella.
The good news is pretty much everything important has already been decided. The bad news is that almost nothing you do now is going to make much of difference to how your child turns out.

Be loving and forgive yourself for all your failings as a dad. Don’t forget about your wife’s needs as a person and not just as a mother or else you will only be seeing your child every second Saturday.
Ask HN: Is Revenge worth it?
Have you ever been wronged in a relationship, job, etc. in a very unfair way that made you feel powerless? Did the system fail you?

What happened to you? Did you seek revenge?

I'm not really interested in a philosophical debate, more real life stories.
> Water is trapped inside so basically this umbrella is a cup.

How? It looks like the opening is opposite the handle, so assuming people are holding their umbrellas by the handle, any water on the umbrella would just gradually slide to the ground, just as if the umbrella were the normal sort.
Congratulations! We have an 18 month old daughter, and while I don't consider myself an expert on parenting (far from it), I can share some points:

1. Having a child is both the scariest and the coolest thing that happened to us. You constantly feel like you have no idea what you're doing, but in the end you will always manage.

2. Don't be fooled by people that say that "your life together will be over" and "enjoy your time together while you still can". This is bullshit. This is your own family, so you can make your own choices in how to spend your family time and together time. For example, when our daughter was small enough to still sleep in the stroller, we regularly went out for dinner together and let her sleep next to our table. Maybe this doesn't work out in your situation; the point is that there are no rules on what you can and cannot do once you have a kid. Don't let yourself be forced into the "now we must always stay at home" mantra, because it is total nonsense.

3. If you are free to work from home, and you have a quiet place in the house where you can do so, then I would totally recommend it, even if it's only a day per week. I'm working from home full time myself and it's amazing how much time I get to spend with my family. Not just breakfast and dinner, but also the seemingly mundane things like kissing her "goodnight" when she goes to bed for her afternoon nap. Again, this may or may not work in your situation, but I find it awesome.

4. Love your child: tell them that, and show them. Show them that you love their mother.
Yes, good advices. I'll add this most important one: don't believe you owe your kids your life. Continue to see friends and get drunk if it's something you do now. If you can't bear stupid cartoons or books (and who does?) just don't buy them, you'll find something to do together that both of you like to do (kids mostly like to be with their parents so anything but watching horror movies will do in fact). I spend a lot time with my two kids, we do things I like and they like it, this includes Lego, reading Tintin, camping, doing huts in the forests, etc.

But never think you should become a slave of your kid, or otherwise sacrifice anything to them, this is a way too heavy burden on THEIR shoulders.