skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. FTL travel not so much, but working cryonics (with revival) isn't _that_ far-fetched in a reasonable timeframe.
Tim Ferris
As you're on here - will a new alternative to Smugmug Vault surface again soon? As far as I can tell, smugmug doesn't support raw at all for new users at this time?

So far the only real alternative I'm aware of is pics.io.
The jobs aren't always real, and the candidates aren't always even remotely qualified for them.
The concept of the "three Bs" has been around for longer than I have. In my talk ("everything you need to know about cryptography in one hour") I added a fourth B, "guantanamo Bay", aka. torture.
Also they basically provide public toilets
But Nextbus already knows what stop you're at using AGPS. What's the point of the beacon? Perhaps you can come up with a use for beacons, but you need to deal with the fact that users don't need or want another intrusive advertising channel.
I disagree. The founders seem insane. imo it's a trait that tends to do well with the chaos and adversity of startups. It's not for normal people (at least in the beginning)
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I wonder if you would consider it heretical to question whether and how well Terrence can differentiate between what he does know and what he does not actually know?

For example, you used a rather non-rigorous descriptor, "weird". What constitutes a weird phenomenon?

Can we subject said constituents of a weird phenomenon to the same kinds of validations we can make about known true facts, i.e. observable existent things?
thanks, i hope that happens relatively soon, though i've been a bit buried with getting life in order, though thats finally moving along nicely.
While not directly related to Anonymity, I also strongly recommend Warren and Brandeis: "The Right to Privacy" as reading on some arguments against the "... if you have nothing to hide"-arguments:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
Please post the email. LinkedIn is scum, the more people know it, the better.
Anaconda is a fine distribution where many otherwise hard to install tools work right out of the box.
Slightly off topic, but since no one else had mentioned it, just wanted to say the rest of his blog is incredibly well done (at least on mobile.) Clicking through to his "Greece" link (http://paulstamatiou.com/photos/greece/two-weeks-in-greece/) was a great decision. Great photography, great layout/design, and good UX overall (I love how it tells a story, and keeps track of what you've seen)
Not only that but I found when I didn't have a LinkedIn account, the recruiters who found me were of much higher quality. They found my github account, my blog, etc, and actually had potential jobs that I found interesting. On LinkedIn, they just stuff their emails into a giant cannon and spray away.
Because it's a fun game to play. I view life as mostly a game. I like seeing how far I can go. I work hard because it's fun.

I also like the feeling of helping people around me. It's a great feeling to teach people something they don't know or pulling people up with you, or simply inspiring them through my actions.

Really I don't have any specific motive like "success" or "fame" or "money". I barely even look at my bank account tbh (though I should probably sit down one of these days and analyze my financials and do some stuff I've been putting off).

I'm generally a pretty zen guy these days. I haven't always been like this, but I really really like my current state of mind. I'm enjoying life a ton, because I removed all external expectations.

How did I do it? Exercise, Diet, and Sleep. That's really just it.
Text shouldn't have a loading spinner. React can do server side rendering so I'd take advantage of that.
You're a coward. Posting on a throwaway because you know it's a shitty thing to say. You're a loser.
Yeah I think that the organizer has been pretty overwhelmed with work recently. Maybe you guys should talk about someone else picking it up?
Whoa, I gotta check out your scene!

(Earlier this summer I was contemplating the notion of a VR startup in Calgary, partly yeah because of the winter factor :) guess I should switch the idea to Winnipeg.)
It always feels like this from the inside:

> I used a bit of tongue in cheek snarkiness to drive the point home

But the dynamics from the outside are different. The snark doesn't "drive the point home"; it calls attention to itself, obscuring your point.

Of the people who read that, some will not experience it in a tongue-in-cheek way; of those, some will feel hurt and angry; some will typically respond with incivility—feeling justified, since they were provoked. These provoke others, and down the tedious spiral we go. Maybe it's their problem for being offended, but when is that not the case? The thread goes up in flames anyway.

This problem is intrinsic to a large semi-anonymous internet forum. Think of it like a campground in an area that's high-risk for forest fires. You'd automatically be careful there, to protect the shared space.

HN's solution to this problem is to require comments to be civil and substantive. A thoughtful comment like your reply here raises the whole quality of the discussion. You obviously have some nuanced things to say about this topic. Please give us the nuances.
I've rolled this around a bit and have come down on the side that there are two factors at work.

1. Just plain Microsoft Hate. Couple of times someones asked me about what language to use for some GUI that messes with a database and does some other thing, running on Windows and 'maybe Linux' I tell them that C#/.net was made for that kind of thing. And they recoil in horror as if they just realized that I'm Satan. Then they go off and mess around with QT/C++ for a week before giving up.

2. C# has good inter-op with C/C++ libraries. So if there is an open source widget in C/C++ you need you can usually just build it as a dll with some wrapper magic and reference those in your project.
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And building skyscrapers on a 2d surface doesn't scale ... so the only other option doesn't work either.
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.NET Native [1] promises to speed up C# code so that it is comparable to C++. Universal applications stand to benefit as the page says, and I assume that traditional .NET desktop apps can take advantage of it as well.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx?f...
whitetruffle is pretty good (I have no affiliation w/ them whatsoever, I just hate LinkedIn that much I would like to help out its competitor)
You omit a key point. The oxygen event (initial uplift from near zero at 2.3Ga) is not directly related to plate tectonics. Instead, plate tectonics appears to have helped the oxygen boost at 1Ga: increased volcanic activity released large stores of phosphorus, which is required for photosynthesis, which produces oxygen.
Try whitetruffle. Much less useless spam.
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Are you trying to protect your identity or just make sure the bill doesn't go over a set amount? If the latter then it shouldn't matter if ID is required.
Yes, except those pesky infoboxes.. Google is starting to serve answers right on search result pages, which to me seems a bit murkier.
> When .NET developers say SQL they mean SQL Server 90% of the time it seems

I've never experienced someone saying SQL and meaning SQL Server. In fact it's always been about SQL the language, agnostic of the fact that SQL Server has a SQL engine.
Stuff like this is why I never signed up for LinkedIn in the first place.
> Dan Ariely (behavioural economics)

I enjoyed Predictably Irrational, so I would love to hear some recommended reading from him
It seems the development tool that builds and obfuscates the application is not available, which makes it a dubious classification of open source.
Author here. My intent was never to say that this feature is something unique to Elixir. The intent was to introduce pattern matching to people new to it with a solid example. It just happened that my choice of language was Elixir and I'm aware that it wouldn't have been possible in Elixir if Erlang didn't had it in the first place :).
Anything for Latin, Asian (non-english), Russian folks?
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1. James Gosling
2. Bill Joy
3. Guy Steele

are why people took Java seriously and used it to solve hard problems.
There is one, it's called elastic wolf
Any time someone says something has zero carbon footprint I know instantly they're full of it. No carbon was burnt in the fabrication of your brand new aluminum coffee cart? Ok.
As a long time resident of Thailand also with a wife and young child I'm curious why you consider Vietnam a better choice. There are some similarities like flip/flopping government policies and the whole face thing. One difference seems to be that Thais are generally very nice and polite on the surface (often while they are ripping you off).
Worth considering that he's talking about a furnished and serviced apartment.
Doesn't your design need to handle reset anyway? If so, then the initial block is redundant. If your design doesn't have a reset, that's highly unusual.

If your target wasn't an FPGA (but an ASIC), the initial block would be completely ignored, so who knows in what state your design would start. FPGAs are nice, they let you specify initial values. Real chips don't. Just put all initial values in your reset clause, in the same always block you assign those registers. Let the FPGA compiler optimize the logic if it can, or infer a mux if it must.
Ask HN: What reaction is expectable from the atomized reactants?
Let we have a reaction that starts from some reactants to produce some products. When the activation energy is provided to the reactants they will be atomized and produce a gas of individual atoms. The gas contain the whole atoms that can either form again the reactants, or form the products, or instead form the elemental molecules of themselves from which the reactants or products can be produced in other reactions. Now that the gas of all individual atoms is common for all these different reactions my question is what conditions decide which reaction to happen?

Can I say the reaction happens in the direction at which the Gibbs free enthalpy decreases more rapidly? Or thermodynamic conditions (like temperature, pressure and especially concentration of the species) also play a role therein, independent of the variation in the Gibbs function?

Thanks
Did you read our comment thread? I'm complaining that there isn't parity for the dotNet/Roslyn development. You reply that you're working currently on CoreCLR as a response to this, so I asked for where I can do this. You state, it's not at parity. I jokingly refer you back to my original comment, and you glibly try to insult me? What the hell dude?
I agree wholehartedly! There is a lot of value. Is there so much value such that an employer cannot allow any remote work?
Awesome, I will give that a try.
$30 Aeropress is all anyone should need
FYI: You can't export contacts from Facebook either. The API no longer supports getting the entire friends list (restricted to return only those friends who have also installed the same app).

There is a "download all my facebook data" option, but that only gives you a plain "firstname lastname" list. No contact information there either.
Thanks for your feedback and advice. It's very valuable. And much appreciated, especially considering that you are both technical and non-technical.

I don't think I will actually do Genghis, it was just an idea that popped up! I saw it as something to help first time founders get started in startups: both technical and non-technical people.

I think the message I would have personally tried to get across is that your first one or two startups are going to fail, so your best bet would be to get started, meet new people and get some experience. I saw data that that indicated that the majority of successful technology companies are founded by an average of three people, all of which have known each other for many years and have worked together on previous projects. The conclusion from that was to "just get out there and start your first company. It's the best way to make the contacts and find the cofounders for your next startup."

What are your thoughts? Would love to hear them.
OP is suggesting that C# is competing with languages people are picking to replace Ruby or Python. A recent example is Parse[1] moving to Go. C# and .NET was their second choice.

[1]http://blog.parse.com/learn/how-we-moved-our-api-from-ruby-t...
1. NYC taxi cabs are actually pretty clean. Most have AC. Most are only a few years old. You can pass on the hail if you don't like the vehicle.

2. Today Uber has clean, nice smelling cars because it is new. Let's talk after Uber matures a bit like the cabs. We'll be back to where we started, only under the influence of an international monopoly. That does not bode well for the consumer.

3. Uber cannot really solve the imbalance of demand between Manhattan and the peripheries. Uber forces drivers to have a certain acceptance rate threshold. NYC forces drivers not do discriminate based on destination. In either case, drivers will try to game the system to avoid the less profitable journeys.

4. Look to places like Russia and India for the future of Uber. Drivers have 4+ cell phones, subscribing to different services in parallel with holding a cab license.
So this may be true. But if it is it is still a skill that is not widely held. So there is either a need for a simple-to-use curation utility, or an inexpensive curation service. I don't have a specific idea how to create or implement this, but I think there is a market for it
What if I don't have Nextbus installed, or have location services disabled?

Or even if I have location enabled, what if Nexbus could figure out which stop you're at without having to spin up GPS, in turn saving battery?
>This is a real shame as Homejoy seemed to have a great team leading it

How does that follow? Who else is responsible for such an overarching part of their strategy? It sounds like the talked they talk and too much.

Fwiw, I don't think that customer/supplier retention was their only problem, according to a number of people I've talked to who tried their services.
Neighbourhood with Uber is commercially better than neighbourhood without Uber. Thus, rent should go up.
The barrier to entry may be lower if you consider a user who has never used either software and is trying to make a decision. But if you have a user who has used Excel for the past 2 decades and is comfortable with it, low barrier to entry is still higher than just "go with what I know."
I'm trying to understand why large companies use AWS for their primary infrastructure. Both AWS and Azure are obscenely expensive when compared to buying servers and colocating them somewhere. The cloud model works well for bootstrapped startups, but anyone with the resources to buy and manage their own servers is crazy if they use AWS or Azure as their primary server platform.
Off Topic, Previously I was always put off by Amazon's design. You can click on anything Amazon related, AWS included and see some fugly UI and layout.

And i got to check AWS again and i am pleasantly surprised things have improved dramatically!
Chill out .. there is nothing made by man that has a "zero-carbon footprint". Even if you don't burn fossil fuels, merely by breathing you release co2.

This is a techcrunch PR launch, and you know what they meant.
I only use LinkedIn to find former coworkers and classmates. After that I email them directly.

However I get lots of connection requests from recruiters. I always accept them. I figure that greatly dilutes whatever value linkedin might have once had because most of my connections are recruiters who wadte their time on me because I dont log in a whole lot.
What if I'm in a country without Nextbus?
there is no server side
In a more general sense, quite a few businesses rely heavily on complicated regulatory environments that virtually ensure than only people who can afford lawyers can compete.

Of course, there's a difference between continual legal battles and just needing a lawyer.
some city near SF, but not in SF and not in my city!
Congratulation for your first contribution to the Open Source universe! You put a great attention in your commits messages and this is a pure joy to read. Keep working hard. You'll probably do many projects in your career but only a few of them will be finished. Each finished project is a victory for OSS.
Yes. I meant, we already have that situation cbhl described with there being no ext in the source tree, but ext2, ext3 and ext4.
i use the engine for some commercial work at the moment, i might open-source it eventually as well (if there is enough interest in it). but at the moment it's just a bunch of make-shift scripts thrown together which are not really in a publisheable shape
The United States Navy still has at least one wind- powered wooden ship. It's used for training.
Why? Just add an enough of an activity that has negative carbon footprint, and---voila---zero carbon footprint.
Comment was in respect to .Net 1.0. They had a BSD version well before this,too, but just for "research".
Don't worry, I took some discrete math, and I know that A is a subset of C and B is a subset of C does not imply A intersects B.
Carbon neutrality does not mean that atmospheric CO2 is not released at any point, but rather, that any release of carbon is offset in some way. Offsets might include planting trees, purchasing carbon credits, etc.
The question is, would you also puke if you were doing the Mirrors Edge jumps, rolls, swings across large vertical drops in real life?
Restaurants (and probably coffee shops) seem to have an easier time attracting customers when there's someone already in there. So, at high utilization you'd be a cost, but at low utilization every bum in a seat is an advertisement.
Capital lease principal payments are absolutely charged against operating profit per GAAP.

If Amazon is breaking out a segment P&L for AWS, they are no doubt making a good faith effort to correctly charge operating expenses, including capital leases, against that P&L. They also don't break out their electricity costs to run their DCs nor their engineering costs attributable to AWS, yet I'm confident that they are charging those costs against the AWS segment as appropriate.

What evidence do you have that Amazon is not removing the capital lease principal payments from the operating profit they're reporting? It's not like they could possibly imagine that's going to "fly"...
Good to hear, a managed PostgreSQL service is the one big thing missing on GCE for me.
Really? Its like the web isn't intuitive anymore which is sad really :(
>> The MVC as if Microsoft originated the design pattern

RoR did not invent MVC.

MVC (Model, View, Controller) was created by Alan Kay while working at Xerox, when he created SmallTalk and that was back in 1972.

Edit: My apologies to Trygve Reenskaug as it appears he was the one responsible for adding MVC to SmallTalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93con...
Honest question: How is Bluetooth insecure?

There are some specific insecure devices out there, and Bluetooth has some optional anonymous pairing modes, but my understanding was that the default pairing process provided a reasonable level of security for most applications.

Notwithstanding that, I thought Bluetooth LE beacons are broadcast-only, which avoids the pairing issue anyway.

And to answer your first question: I leave bluetooth on, both to pair with my car (USB connections don't give enough power to charge with GPS running, and don't provide live audio) and because it's a much lower power way of tethering my other devices to the Internet compared to WiFi tethering. Oh, and my smartwatch uses it too. As does a few other devices at home (BBQ thermometer, conference phone, headphones).
"They sunk my submarine!" -- a friend of my father's, when Mom came to take me home from his son's birthday party.

The Sinking of the USS Gitarro

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/16.52.html#subj2.1

I Swear I'm Not Making This Up.
The carbon footprint of manufacture could be offset with carbon credits.
They scrapped the plans. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/olympics-japan-stad...
Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works (2014)
Wow, this was a great read. Fellow Djangonaut / Pythonista here, and I really enjoy reading David's blog posts. I've learned from and been inspired by him since what seems like early 2011 or so. I also didn't know Armin Ronacher worked for Sentry (re: his comment herein). What a cool company.

Also, great call on truncating that table. I've witnessed situations where nobody has been willing to accept loss, snd the result is a conference call that lasts until 4am and a lot of angry customers.
Is it?

Cloud providers bring you not just localized infrastructure, but distributed infrastructure, with clear mechanisms for scaling as needed, plus support, etc. With AWS, you have a predictable cost, predictable up-time, and ability to scale at peak, and your costs are spread over time, rather than all up front.

With your own servers you have to build out to handle peak load (and run mostly dormant during non-peak hours), across multiple locations, to achieve the same availability.

I'm not sure the costs for the convenience of AWS are so obscene in such a case. They may still be higher, I honestly don't know, but the convenience benefit is huge. They key bit is that AWS' costs are largely -known-, whereas the costs of DIYing aren't.

Per Netflix's blog post about why they use AWS for serving everything except video content - "We could have chosen to build out new data centers, build our own redundancy and failover, data synchronization systems, etc. Or, we could opt to write a check to someone else to do that instead."

Oftentimes for enterprise, having all your infrastructure in place, done right the first time, with someone else eating any costs associated with the unexpected, and ready to start building your application on, is worth the cost. For enterprise, paying a known amount to avoid risk is oftentimes worth it.
As a Melbournian, you should know better than to call Espresso "expresso".

Also, and unfortunately in my opinion, Starbucks survives in Melbourne. I think it lives because it stays open longer than most places, giving those who enjoy a late night coffee somewhere to go.
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