skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on how you want to round it off, I guess.

$EMPLOYEE_COUNT * ($PRICE_OF_MACBOOK + 5*$PRICE_OF_SODA) + $PRICE_OF_PING_PONG_TABLE
> You’ll recognise some Pocket Edition features in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta, along with potpourri of cool extras.

Interesting. Sounds like they're working from the C++ code base of the mobile port, rather than starting again from scratch in C#.
> Why is it considered separate from the floor?

Because it can be easily moved. That is the property all objects share. There are a few exceptions, but they are illustrative. Consider a rusted on bolt. Can it be moved? Not without a lot of effort. However a fresh new loose bolt of the same kind demonstrates movable-objectness. What about a chair bolted to the floor? It was once loose, it's an object. What about a chair welded to the floor? Same thing. What about a chair that's constructed of the floor its self, like a large lump or bend up from steel or molded? I would submit that that's the floor acting like a chair, and not an object chair, but a chair like part of the floor.

An even more technical definition would be along the lines of "Objects are the static locus of continuity within a sharp boundary." And by static I mean to include floppy objects like plants or leather. And by sharp boundary I mean in relative space to the observer and their understanding of their environment. From the ground a cloud looks like it has a relatively sharp boundary, sure, it's complex, but the difference in the color and shading from the sky gives it away. If you're IN the cloud it just looks like fog. Is fog an object? Sure, it's in high contrast to the regular state of the air. Is air an object? Sure, it's in high contrast to the ground, and from a certain perspective interstellar space.

Does liver fit this definition? If it's separated from the organism, sure. If it's still in a living body, it's an organ, not an object.

>all objects are mind created.

I would go even further and say that "All patterns are mind events."

Phurpa drop!

(A phurpa is a triple sided ritual dagger which in Buddhism symbolizes the slaying or destruction of foe or obstructions.)
The sense of panic in this article is quite the thing to behold. Lost it at "Entirely new technologies we haven't dreamt of might never have emerged. We'd have been stuck with the Internet that we now have, forever."
Well, the guide seems to be explicitly for AWS, so that would make sense.
I think you are underestimating the SE. They have the talent but not the employers. I, like most educated young folks I knew from FL, had to move out of the state for non military tech jobs.
Well, most of the items in my list exist in one form or another, but all are optional and/or not widely used.

As you mention we can use aliases for unique emails (which is what I do, but I had to create a software on the side of my mail server to manage them, as my mail server never intended to use aliases that way, and for instance makes the list of aliases visible to everyone on the server, and does not allow to assign a keyword to an alias).

It is possible to have guarantees on senders by using spf and dkim, but not many server actually use them and you currently can't make it a hard requirement for your incoming traffic, so pretty much useless.

Smtp encryption has taken a step back with TLS, as with STARTTLS we are now forced to use optional encryption that can be downgraded by a MITM, whereas before one could elect to only have an SSL port open.

Content encryption is possible using PGP but clunky and almost no one uses it.

And people can buy their own domains if they know it is possible and how to configure a DNS server, needless to say not many people do.

What I suggest is that we would need a protocol that does all that by default.
Wow! Great news thank you
Who said anything about a product?

You can solve real world problems with code without creating a product. Things don't have to be monetizeable to be useful (and indeed many things that are monetizeable aren't useful (except to make money)).

And experimentation is totally a necessary part of solving real-world problems. I'm not sure where you get off representing "solving real problems" as being anti-experimentation.
AWS really needs to step up and provide DDOS mitigation if they want to be a challenger to CloudFlare and other DDOS-protected VPS services. While some companies can certainly just scale up to 1,000 instances to "out-compute" a DDOS, that is not feasible for a majority of AWS users. Although, it's unlikely they will provide such a service, since doing so would mean fewer AWS resources and hence, less money for them.
We go through this a few times a year. "Email is broken, we must replace it", only to realise a few short seconds later that email is not broken, and does not need replacing. Its long lived for a reason - its simple, its textual, it delegates all the fancy stuff to the inbox provider, e.g., videos in emails are usually a link the email provider, say Gmail, shows as a video.

If I had 10 pence for every "email is broken" post, I could have had a free pint down the pub.
I don't understand why people want to get rid of emails. It's the best asynchronous way of communication.
Sounds like there could be awesome features here.

Remotely triggered black holes for VPC? Elastic Firewall?

Not crazy about firewalls in general, but they would help in the case that you are paying for data-out.
CryptoNote-Based Bytecoin Plans to Implement Colored Coins and Smart Contracts
All it does is change the background color and bounce the pages. Why would you draw attention to your blatant failure?
A sensationalist headline for a simple fact we already know—the world is switching gradually over to IPV6, and has been for some time now.
One step at a time. It took 11 years to get from the Spirit of St. Louis to the first commercial transatlantic flight.
https://voat.co
> I didn't realize they had made these changes. Interesting. Historically, western investors avoided the Chinese markets because none of the data coming out of China could be trusted due to lack of transparency and the different reporting requirements.

It still can't. The existence of standards does not imply compliance. I view the Chinese market as similar to Russia's: there are rules, but there are a lot of people who are effectively exempt from following them (at least until someone more powerful decides they aren't). Add in the lack of cultural taboos against defrauding others and it's a very difficult market. Accounting standards were (some might say still are) a problem, but not the problem.
I think you greatly underestimate what means 50C+ for more than 40 minutes in a completely sealed box packed with people and no ventilation at all. I'm a healthy male and I nearly passed out. The continuous sweating combined with the feeling of suffocation due to lack of oxygen is anything but 1st world problem.
Yeah, I think it may be used for the actual watch feature (displaying the time) and display control so the main processor can sleep almost all the time.
Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach mentions aspects of self-reference and logical consistency in Escher's works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach
Those benefits aren't funded from taxation, they are funded by your employer. And they most certainly count as compensation. If your employer promised you a full pension, wouldn't you consider that a part of compensation?
Is this not just folksomomies for taging email, it will suffer the same problem that tags do, consitancy of the tags, how will it know that kitties, cats, felines and pussys are all the same stream. How will people know what to name the content in the stream. How is this different to adding [CATS] to the front of the subject line, and having the software partition on that.
That seems less a replacement and more notes on a random idea with lots of questions. Some of his ideas in there are questionable, too.

Seems like he's increasing the bandwidth usage for an MX in a big way.
Nice game, though you can wrap all your JS in an anonymous function to disable direct access by the user (i.e. the bot written by axemclion won't work anymore); but one can still trigger "left press" and "right press" keyboard event, so be aware.

Another thing is, this game does not work on mobile because mobile user cannot use keyboard to trigger the actions; maybe give those two boxes clickable?
Doesn't seem to be working for me. Firefox 39 on OS X.
for real -- i feel like the entire existence of the stock market depends on lots of people disagreeing about what things are worth.
What kind of Web Components do we need?
When someone gets out a piece of paper, draws lines or quadrants on it, and starts writing down numbers, refuse to continue the conversation.

This is new/used car dealer tactics.
Symbolic Self-Completion, Attempted Influence, and Self-Deprecation (1981) [pdf]
...followed by a UI that totally could have been shown while data loaded in the background.
Also in Belgium. It should be relatively fine the next few days. Some rain tomorrow to cool it down.

Open the windows during the night, close them during the day. Have a fan with an ice pack pointed at you if it's really getting bad. Love the other tips with evaporation, going to try that.
> we should avoid talking about ecology if the communication itself has a non-negative carbon footprint

No, we shouldn't. But we often advertise non-green products as green solutions, and that's terrible because it disrupts people's understanding of global climate change. People believe the electric car is green, whereas its carbon footprint is sensibly equal to the petrol-based car if you include the electricity/petrol lifecycle. People dodge the idea that the carbon footprint will always be further reduced by carpooling/public transports/not moving across the Earth every week, rather than by saving 5% or 10% of the petrol.

Yes, we should advertise about ecology. No we shouldn't advertise anti-ecologist products. If you read between the lines, that's what the author is demonstrating.
No idea. Mine looks like starshadowx's image, and I use it for contact search and as my default way to open apps.
Not really. Go doesn't fit Google hiring process "we only want CS Phds".

It is also not one language that one can use on the interview exercises.

So given Rob Pike's statement about an easy language for newly hires, one has to wonder where they are coming from.
Mondo. Boing Boing as a zine. Fringeware Review. I used to have all of 'em. Wish I'd kept them, but at least I absorbed them.

All I have left from the late 80s - early 90s are 2600s. Small enough to keep around.
"and now, it's activated the end-times protocol that will see the few remaining addresses out into the night."

Jeesh.

The sensationalist rhetoric might have been bearable if the article didn't contain statements whose inconsistency should have been immediately obvious to the author:

The original designers of the Internet thought they'd only need around 4 billion unique combinations...

the unique numbers that we assign to each and every smartphone, tablet and PC so they can talk to the Internet.

So either the author believes there are fewer than 4 billion computers/smartphones/tablets in the world (...), or else is just exceptionally careless.
I don't follow. []byte comes up anywhere I marshal and unmarshal types for transmission and storage, but nowhere else. In fact, compared to Ruby, I think Golang is somewhat hostile to []byte and string.
A gentle introduction to Shaders in Unity3D
And before Mondo 2000 there was ELECTRIC WORD [1], edited by WIRED's founder Louis Rossetto. How many of you remember that?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Word
Node.js is a good option if you’re a front-end web developer who wants to add server-side functionality to a relatively small site.
I'd recommend "Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge" which is a compilation of articles from the magazine about drugs, technology, music and other topics:

http://www.amazon.com/Mondo-2000-Aphrodisiacs-Artificial-Tec...
> But nobody wants to have to subsidize anyone else when they
> do work, so they fight regulations around burying
> extra/empty conduit tooth and nail.

The funny thing is that sharing dig costs would not result in a subsidy for anyone. It would actually save costs for all parties, but competition being what it is, large players would rather take the full cost hit than allow a potential competitor to also lower their costs. Barrier of entry and all that.

The EU is actually about to mandate shared digging to solve this problem.
I was most interested in the toolkit for dynamic languages providing garbage collection, bignums, etc.: http://t3x.org/s9fes/s9core.pdf
I agree that it's nice to have this kind of write up and code, but "works" is a low bar to pass, especially in image compression. If this were written up as an academic paper, a few questions would have to be answered:

* what is the related work?

* can you put any bound on the error of the reconstruction?

* how does performance vary across resolution, noise, and content?

* how does that compare to the other state-of-the-art methods?

Without that, how do we know whether this is worth using?
This seems to ignore the fact that they will null route traffic at levels high enough to cause degradation for other customers on the same physical equipment. How is this even a solution in a world where a 20Gbps DDOS attack for a few hundred dollars? Real DDOS solutions are still big money only because AWS does not invest to solve this problem on the core network. It's becoming common practice to a hire a 3rd party to direct the traffic off their network (cloud flare, akamai, etc) and do the filtering there.
Could you elaborate on this? This project seems to be moving in the same direction the React team is with Relay and GraphQL – the component describes the query it requires to render itself, and a query/caching layer executes the query automatically.
before you literally compare someone to a mass-murderer in your grammar naziism.

I want to believe this was intentionally meant to be hilarious.
Pretty much all open source projects need some work done to them. Try to find something that you find both interesting and appropriate for your own level of skill.
If the attack is over 10Gbps good luck with that... This stuff is best effort.
The choice of I/O model has nothing to do with Ruby (see eventmachine for a commonly-used evented NIO setup). If you want asynchronous io with an event-driven model, there are good options for most languages.
Show HN: Password Hasher for Chrome
So there's two reasonable strategies. One is to maximize the score per action by doing the mental arithmetic to determine whether you can still add the current number to the larger number and maximize the diff, or whether you need to add it to the smaller one. The other is to simply maximize the number of actions by always clicking on the smaller of the two numbers which requires much less cognitive effort.

I tried both strategies, and on clean runs got scores of 266 (maximize score per action) and 270 (maximize action count). It's a bit unsatisfying that the dumb strategy can be effective. I think you'd need to be only about 30% faster when executing the simple action than the complicated one to break even.

Maybe it'd make sense to make the scoring rule non-linear? E.g. instead of 0/2/4/6/8 points give 0/1/2/4/8.
or: how I stopped worrying and accepted making programs that are hard to reason about
Source: https://github.com/hirak99/ChromePasswordHasher
>>A murder seems to be ipso facto a hate crime. Blacks kill whites far more often than vice versa.

Wrong. Murder committed in the course of a robbery is not a hate crime. Even robbing and killing a white person because "white people got money" is not a hate crime. A quick Google search will let you know the real definition.
Some things I'd do (I'm from Australia):

* close curtains/blinds during the day (as long as it doesn't make things too dark).

* leave as many windows as possible open during the night (outside will cool down quicker than inside, so a breeze coming in a window will be very nice).

* chuck a few drinks in the fridge (a late afternoon cold lemonade will be amazing if it's almost 40 degrees).

* turn unnecessary lighting off.

* have a salad or something not-cooked for lunch/dinner

* accept that you'll struggle to get six hours of good sleep.
Sheet music evolved when it would be difficult to produce a different representation for each instrument. Now this can be automated it makes a lot of sense to produce specialised formats, such as tab for guitar or this for keyboard. As a novice keyboard player I'd certainly prefer to use this than sheet music. Having said that there are advantages in sheet music that a professional musician would find lacking here. There's no rhythmic grouping (the beams provide this cue) and I'm sure there are many others that I'm unaware of.
It looks like a keyboard doesn't it

Not really.
Are there no editors at this outlet? How does something with so many blatant errors ever get published?
> If your crossing pavement, it makes since to add conduit.

Yes, of course. I'm not advocating direct burial in all circumstances, just that it should be considered on it's own merits in rural deployments. Likewise one should not always build a full conduit system.

"It also makes since for cities to require anyone tearing the concrete/pavement up to allow other companies to lay conduit at the same time- it doesn't cost anything extra to the company doing the tearing up to let others install conduit into the same trench."

It always takes a bit of time, effort and planning. Subcontractors also want to be paid for any extra work, so there is always the question of who will carry that cost.

There are a lot of models for sharing digging costs, from simple co-dig projects to full scale infrastructure sharing efforts as in Stockholm.
It's not hard to argue that materialism implies emergentism, since materialism assumes nothing but physical properties and processes exist. No one really believes that individual neurons are conscious, yet no one disagrees that brains are conscious. Brains are made of neurons and thus have a property their parts do not; ergo, emergent behavior.

So it's either emergentism or woo, by my reckoning. YMMV.
I don't get this article's math re: Billy's age.

It says he's 40, so he was born in 1975.

Then it says he was the inaugural recordholder for several Guinness video game categories in 1985 -- i.e., when he was 10 years old.

Then it says he started playing video games at age 16.
I really love this. When I was young, I was really excited to learn to play the piano. The biggest problem I had was being able to read the sheet music. It was incredibly difficult for me to read and understand the notes for both hands at the same time. A big part of this was that when individual notes were off the normal staff (e.g., C is below the staff), you either had to have an innate sense of how far from the staff it was and what note that corresponded to, or you had to stop playing and count to see which note it was. This seems to solve all of those problems.
Show HN: RNN against the Machine – neural net making Rock
That's all well and good, but Google can't exactly ask all their users to download Xcode and deploy some workaround to get a prebuilt Chrome binary bundled with Blink on their iPhone.

Jailbreaking it and installing it via Cydia would be easier.
> Scaling buys you time to analyze the DDoS attack and respond with countermeasures.

They're not saying "scale up and just pay for it", they're saying use autoscaling as a tool to give you time to respond, Without first going down.
Show HN: Silicon Valley Dictionary – Urban Dictionary Meets Silicon Valley
It's not really new as it's used in most MIDI software to represent chords over time [0], or in many music videogames [1]. I think this style might work for very simple music sheets, but would become way too confusing and imprecise for complex ones.

[0] http://www.musicmasterworks.com/MMScShot.gif

[1] http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rNg50UGkXfw/maxresdefault.jpg
How a phone glitch led to a whopping £2,000 bill from Vodafone
Found your email, I'll hit you up a bit later.
The reason I responded to someone else rather than you is that you do not appear to be making much of an attempt to understand the things you are replying to. You are, to my best estimation, simply being argumentative. For example, in your previous post, you said you could just write echo "Hello World" over and over, which clearly does not give you any practice at writing code and is clearly not related to the conversation. In this post you talk about monetization, something I didn't mention at all, and while "product" may not have been the best possible word I could have used, it makes me think you didn't make much of an attempt to understand my point.
Would that be a bad thing though? What's the use case for needing it? Any sender initiated contact assumes that the receiver is in acceptance of your need to contact them. This is the failing property of email that allows for and implies that SPAM will always exist.
I buy something from Amazon. I'm initiating the contact, so I provide the means for replying / providing an invoice etc. (currently an email address etc.)
The traditional notation system has lasted so long for a reason. It's super difficult to figure out how long notes are meant to last with this notation system. It also takes up a lot more space than normal music notation. Moreover, it looks really difficult to write because of how note durations are represented.
Open source versions of GMail, Google Calendar and Google Apps.
This post is basically saying "I don't understand programming and I won't even try"
Dutch city of Utrecht will start experimenting with unconditional, basic income
I really wish Microsoft, will some day push Mojang to rewrite Minecraft in a different language.
The Party's internal crackdown on corruption is apparently pretty comical according to mainland Chinese of mine as everyone there knows that pretty much everyone in power is hopelessly corrupt. C'est la vie.
Yeah, this only makes sense if you already know the song. trying to infer the correct timing spatially would be difficult.
1. Math - You probably should know real analysis, abstract algebra, linear algebra, and some logic.

2. Whatever else interests you
On the whole, it's that arrogance that keeps me away from Rust - for now.
Ask HN: Do you get your side projects reviewed?
Let's say you're a developer trying to hone your skills and you have some side projects on GitHub but you would like to have someone review them, both from a technical and product viewpoint: how do you do it?
If you're looking to shed weight ASAP without undercutting the future of the organization, HR is an easy target. Maybe not wise, but you can understand how executives could come to the decision to cut HR before Engineering, for example.

Also, I'd imagine at least some of the decline is for the same reason we've seen decline in lots of other sectors -- HR processes are some of the easier ones to automate (no robotics, often tasks are fairly well defined)
Forget buttons on the saved stories page?

It would be nice to be able to forget saved comments too.
Good idea about javascript. Thanks.

Forgot to mention: You can swipe on mobiles, I had already added it :)
Yeah, I couldn't see it until the graphic of it next to the piano.