skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I do fair amount of international transfers and I'm painfully aware of the costs. (both of the transfer and the currency exchange fees) Still, 1. huge majority of my transfers go via local bank only, 2. huge majority of people don't have any reason to send money abroad. It's not esoteric, it needs to be addressed, but it's still definitely not common. Please take a moment to reflect on that and not try to offend me about being oldschool :P

> Bitcoin gives you all the internet-based benefits of PayPal (low cost)

You mean the benefit of being a hosted service, handling payment cards, processing complaints and funding item returns, integrating into bank payments, contacting other side for dispute resolution? How do I access those features in bitcoin?

As for the actual fees, for example lloyds uk will max out fees at 10 GBP and I guess for frequent / large amounts you'll find out what that "promotional code" field is for. For once-every-few-months international transfer 10 GBP is not a huge amount either. In general: depending on your usage pattern bank transfers averaged over months may not be bad at all.
You're attributing a statement of causality to me that I never made; I merely said that plate tectonics would make an earth-like exoplanet more interesting -- for exactly the reason you note: it appears to be a prerequisite for an oxygenation event.
And it has for a long time (in terms of page performance):

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/21/3034825/the-verge-page-per...
Where are European startups to solve Europe's biggest issues?
...and write into that contract compensation worth $100s of millions of dollars if a later goverment decides to cancel the project. Also, fail to release the unfavourable cost-benefit analysis.
Depends if they rejected waiting for better buyout, maybe.

If they rejected to better execute their vision, probably not
Ask HN: Is there an alternative to JSPerf ?
Since jsperf.com is down, testing easily the performances hacks is harder (I have my own system).

I was thinking of hosting my own jsperf but I'm asking in case there's already a good one running
I'm voting for "bowl of petunias", and it got cut off before it could say "not again".

The relevance of the "not again" is immediately apparent to people who've gone through a few GUI toolkits.
Stored Procedures and Functions in MySQL- Part 1
The problem is that they are too easy to use. As such Excel gets used for everything data related. Access would be a far better choice in many of the cases I have seen, but it just doesn't make any sense unless you have had some sort of introductory course on databases.
A thought about life
I wish Mozilla started using that instead of GTK Firefox, but they seem to be stuck with it.
This is getting even more offtopic, but I'm kind of curious if anyone knows if it would be illegal to distribute a copy of something copyrighted, if it's "encrypted with itself" -- for example, an encrypted eBook with plaintext metadata that tells you how to derive a decryption key from a long sample of words in the book. In theory the copy is random bytes until you possess the book, which should mean you have the right to possess the copy for personal/backup/interoperability purposes. (The usecase in mind, which perhaps applies best to books, is being able to turn physical media into high-fidelity, open digital formats that can be distributed lawfully, without the cooperation of the copyright holder.)
New patent troll group that is.
Good point - this could create an incentive for people to stop taking the medication that they need just so they're allowed to compete.
The 7 Laws for Twitter Marketing
Awesome comment, saved me a lot of time. Thanks!
Show HN: Ripple – a proximity based method to spread information
Hi HN,

I've been working on a concept called Ripple. It allows users to create content and send it to people geographically near them. If these folks find the content engaging or relevant, they can pass on the content to more people near them. Information on Ripple travels so long and so far as the content is found relevant or engaging.

So far, Ripple has been attracted an audience made up mostly of photographers, artists, and bloggers who are looking to expose their work to a large audience.

We're excited about the potential for Ripple to be the go-to platform for people looking to expose their views and work with people near them and around the world, and as a great way to allow for local updates on events and other information.

Take a look for yourselves!
http://getRipple.io

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ripple-explore-your-world/id946792245?mt=8
Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.KefiLabs.Ripple
Mutant radioactive flowers in Nasushiobara (half-way between Tokyo and Fukushima)
I tried. Radio silence.
Felt the name sounded familiar and realized that I'd previously read that Tom Knight (of the Lisp Machine fame) is also one of the co-founders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Knight_%28scientist%29
> The fund collects and invests proceeds from the extraction of oil and minerals in the state.

This is not at all "Socialism".

BTW, state-owned factories almost always failed (numerous examples in 20th century Europe).
Rented gear in someone else's racks, and it's only that cheap due to Supermicro. I did calculate what the providers premium was, and it didn't seem too unreasonable given the services such as remote hands and taking care of replacements that were being provided.
I haven't seen any activity around the Qt port for a long time.

Really the main visible difference is the file/print dialogs. I think maybe XDG would be a better way to standardize that, and would fix many other apps as well.
> All public spending involves some sort of "corruption" [1] because it's always other people's money being spent, and there's always someone in charge of spending it.

In an ideal democratic system, opposing parties would seek to expose corruption in public officials and use it to their advantage, thereby dis-incentivizing the misappropriation of public funds. Obviously no democracy is perfectly ideal, but your armchair analysis hasn't exactly blown a hole in modern governing theory.

In any event, this article specifically makes the airport's woes out to be more of mismanagement than corruption, and you haven't linked to anything else in your response.
Posts without URLs get penalized, so you'd be better off posting this with a URL, then adding your text as a first comment to the new thread. Good luck.
> What if it's not random but π?

π is known to never repeat (that is, it's irrational); it is not, however, known to be normal.

That means the digits in its decimal expansion (to pick a base) are not known to be normally distributed. This means that it is not necessarily the case that every possible sequence of decimal digits is present in π.

For example, for all we know it's the case that beyond a certain (massively huge) number of decimal places, π never contains another '7'. That would render some sequences impossible, while still preserving the proven-to-be-true property that π never repeats itself in its entirety (that is, that it's irrational).
For those who want to try it out in San Francisco, Reboot Float Spa[1] is a great facility.

[1] http://rebootfloatspa.com/
And it is not japanese but korean. He is zainichi.
After reading this article, I decided to try reading the verge in a more "limited" browser which doesn't support endless Javascript and too may advanced features:

Emacs built in web-browser, or "eww" (that's its name). It's sort of like Lynx or w3m, except you can click things and it shows actual images!

You can see it here: http://imgur.com/FqJVB0U

You know what? The site and all content loads instantly. It may not be beautiful, but it works a hell of a lot better and is just so feather light it feels surreal.

Maybe I'll seriously start using eww for more stuff. This was surprisingly nice.
That's not YC's business model. If you're not shooting for internet scale, you don't need YC's money in the first place.
On the other hand, if legitimate use is allowed, there are doctors out there who will give you a prescription for faked symptoms.
What about bandwidth costs?
I regularly ask questions before seeking knowledge on my own, just to check back on my post a few hours/days/weeks later.

The point of asking the question is to leverage others experience to guide your learning, and provide a reference for those in the future that have a similar question.
And don't forget that VR that is available now is still a "version 1.0". Imagine what we will have in 5 years time Videogames of 5-8 years ago where good and immersive too... compared to current ones they just feel "meh".
I wonder about the state owned investment funds and if there is a parallel to state owned factories. Norway has a giant sovereign wealth fund built off of its oil industry, but does it perform as well as a private fund would? What about the California pension funds. I understand that they get screwed by their private equity and hedge investments all the time. I wonder if they weren't public funds if they would have more clout on wall street and could work out better deals to get better returns.
> I don't like tracking scripts either but why can't the ad networks get together and create a shared script instead of so many that seem to be redundant?

I've asked that myself many times, and I mostly decided that part of the reason is at least partly related to why there were so many browser engines back in the day (Mozilla, IE, Webkit, Opera, etc). Each company thinks they can track something differently/better than another.

Even if ultimately it just lowers the bar for the industry.
> anything the EU publishes, [...]

Google Translate grew up on EU parliamentary publications.
>> A bribe is an investment

> No, it is a criminal offence, in most places.

You say that like criminal offences can't be investments.
Many of these examples might be more specifically seen as a variety of Georgism [1]. There are a bunch of variants, but the general idea is a claim that everyone has a right to their share of proceeds from economic rent, especially land rent and mineral wealth, in some forms also proceeds from utility-like infrastructure. Since everyone is held to own an equal share of these by right, the revenues should be either distributed equally to everyone as "shareholders" (as in the Alaska dividend), or used to finance public goods.

There are some overlaps with socialism, especially social-democratic models of government. But clearly the full social-democratic program is nowhere near popular in conservative areas of the US. If you look at why only these specific ideas are popular in those areas, one commonality is that they have a Georgist feel to them. Or at least, I'll propose that as a hypothesis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
More and more people are spending more of their lives downtown. It's a growing market.
no no no, you gotta give it back to /dev/urandom!!!
They're not shutting down as a company, though. Presumably they've burned through only half of those $4 million and will have enough air to execute something significant.
dunno the s3 isn't really that expensive, if they fold to micro instances for delivering the photos in a reduced service mode they could probably extend the service life

otoh it's hard to justify this kind of investment in a folding company, also I don't think people who can't download photo in a month magically can given three months.

anyway if those photo were important to the owner and him used an internet startup as his sole backup well, shame on him :D
because almost all the funds are doing business using money from other people. having highly sophisticated formula, models,algorithms and Ph.D from top universities is intimidatingly convincing to investors to put money in.
on the other hand, investors, most being institutional, who are hardly convinced either, nevertheless would invest. after all, it's not their money. they just need some justification.
it's business, rather than arts or science.
I did the same thing several days ago. But after 30 seconds, the web page did not finish loading. It has downloaded 7+ MB. I closed it.
Humans should be able to mostly understand word-for-word literal translations between English and German (in both directions).
Zute
Can I say thanks for clarifying my thoughts on this topic... I benefited quite a bit from understanding your arguments.
The site took 4 seconds to load because of a 5.2 MB .gif used at the bottom of the page. These guys have a lot to learn.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

DWIM: /dwim/

[acronym, ‘Do What I Mean’]

<snip>

Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it
was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone
else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus
claimed that the acronym stood for ‘Damn Warren’s Infernal Machine!'.

In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter
used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete *$ to free up some
disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original
file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing
sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM
helpfully reported `*$ not found, assuming you meant 'delete *'`. It then
started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it
with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost.

The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's
office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type
delete *$ twice.
Someone, somewhere, is paying for this bandwidth...
Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, has openly admitted to wanting customers who stay and work in the store cause of this.

"You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there."

“We’re not in the coffee business — we’re in the experience business”
I've heard that the prices are egregious only in bandwidth charges and that other things were not as bad. Does anyone have concrete numbers to compare?
This is a specious comment because you now have the value of hindsight. I suppose you also probably advised Mark Zucherburg to not sell?
Syrup: A minimal Promise-based dependency injection framework for Node.js
Apparently, yes. [ https://plus.google.com/112174839778779720402/posts/BB586bhi... ]
A website that calculates the total time you spent watching TV shows
> Moreover, contrary to conventional opinion, studies of the comparative efficiency of modern public enterprise show rough equivalency to private firms in many cases. (They aren’t perfect, of course: Many public agencies, boards and corporations that control enterprises are not fully accountable or transparent in their operations.)

Companies get efficient if they have to. Competition is one way to force their hands. (There might be others, like public oversight?) Private vs public ownership doesn't make too much of a difference.
In this case, that would be my employer: https://www.nucleus.be/en

Most ISPs/hosting providers have some bandwidth to spare, to be able to cover the spikes in traffic and support their growth. As long as this Infinite Downloader doesn't consume _too_ much traffic, we'll be happy to sponsor it. Bandwidth/peering agreements are made in terms of commitments, and as long as you stay beneath your committed data traffic, additional bandwidth isn't charged.

Once it starts to saturate uplinks or pose in any way a problem to other clients, it'll get shot down. But I don't see that being the case any time soon.
Perhaps in your use-case it was cheaper / less risk to rent than to own, but for sizable concerns, it's a no brainer that owning is far, far cheaper.

(For smaller stuff/side projects: In the UK, ByteMark.co.uk is awesome, flexible (colo/rent) and cheap. In the US, Pair.com is great. Linode is also decent.)

(For bigger stuff, there are datacenters in the middle of nowhere where power is cheap. That's the often limiting factor for green-field projects... cost of renting circuits from DC's, not the rack real-estate.)
We must also take into account what the alternative is. If the alternative presented to Gerogism is that the natural resources would be taxed, and these proceeds will be spent by the government, many conservatives and libertarians will side with the Georgists. The conservatives and libertarians are not necessarily supporters of basic incomes or similar schemes, they are often simply against increased (discretionary) government spending, and believe that distributing the funds to the people will have cause less market distortion and malinvestment.
Advertising accounts for about 25% of revenue.

http://www.quora.com/What-is-LinkedIns-business-model
State-managed capitalism and socialism are not the same thing. Putting a state-run monopoly in private hands (which is what's usually done), instead in state-run hands ... where the risks and profits are held by the same entity instead of the public bearing the risk and the private sector getting the profits? That's socialism? No...

This guy's a professor of political economy ... what a terrible word choice he's using.

According to him, not blindly gifting away the collectively-held public commons into the hands of private capital to sell it back to us is now called "Socialism".

What's next? Insisting cities which build private sports stadiums with public funds participate in profit sharing instead of just presenting the stadium with a little bow on top to some billionaire? Woah, Socialism cometh!

The real thing that's happening is that people want a fair shake... "If we're going to be on the hook in the bad times, then we should see some of the good time too." The companies that were bailed out with public funds now have record private profits ... that's the problem. It's got zilch to do with socialism.
This is a problem in regular sports too
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> BTW, state-owned factories almost always failed (numerous examples in 20th century Europe).

Industrial factories, yes. Local utilities seem to do well enough in Europe.

I wonder if there's a principled difference?
I disagree. With ads revenue in free falling monetizing eyeballs without any sort of premium service attached makes hard to get any return.

Players who suceede in this space have either 100x the eyeballs and/or their internal ad network with better revenues.
Ohh.. take a look at the home town of the Hungarian prime minister:

https://goo.gl/maps/JXK9w

The town has a population about 1700, the stadium on the map has capacity for 4500.
Did NASA discover Earth 2.0? Maybe. Here's what we know
I'm curious, does it run on AWS in the sense that when I launch an instance I might be collocated on the same physical machine as an instance doing work for amazon.com or do they have a separate deployment of the AWS stack in a dedicated part of the datacenter?
The post has no question marks, nor does it seek knowledge. Instead, it makes declarative statements implying that the knowledge is actually probably useless.
After I started working on my own RSS reader, I started converting more and more website to RSS feeds (e.g. twitter, youtube, all news site) where I only extract interesting bits. It's faster and cleaner, not to mension no ads.
Why? Why colo and not rent dedicated servers...? I tried to understand the logic behind colo but I can't.
I agree that's probably a factor. But I think many conservatives in these cases also prefer a nonprofit or dividend-type model to a more libertarian-style private-ownership model. The Tennessee-valley opposition to privatizing the TVA is an example.

And in Alaska, the choice isn't only between paying out a dividend and letting the government keep the money. Alaska could simply abolish the severance tax entirely, and just let private mineral-rights owners reap the full profits. But that's not popular at all, even among people who identify as conservative. My suspicion, besides people voting their interests (probably a significant factor) is that unlike in the case where someone creates a product through their own labor, in the case of oil extraction, there is doubt that private land or rights owners really "deserve" the full profits from exploiting a resource they didn't create, but for various historical reasons happen to now own. Rather it seems to be more popular to allow them a profit on their extraction effort, but recapture some of the underlying value of the mineral asset for the people in general. (Texas also has a severance tax based on this kind of rationale, in its case used to fund government in partial lieu of an income tax.)
Why never to use budgets in your adwords account
Today’s teens are having a lot less sex than previous generations
Be wary of Software as a Service
Bad management? Thinking HP wouldn't release and putting people on other tasks in prep for Win 10? Not believing they were critical? Some messed up test or compatibility interaction that ended up slipping the release? Anything else interesting? How long do you think these will go unpatched? If they patch them in a week, will you change your opinion to "wow MS has talent but made a mistake"?

Coming to the conclusion that the world's largest software vendor that ships a rather security enhanced OS (how long did it take OSX to add ASLR), shipped plenty of memory analysis/protection features in their compiler, etc. simply lacks the talent to fix a few bugs... Someone screwed up but it's unlikely to be a technical talent issue. You need to update your priors.

PS: IE kicked ass at the beginning. I was rather excited with it around IE3. And let's not forget they invented XHR. It only totally went south once MS's management thought they'd won and disassembled the team. And hey, MS went from the leader in instant messaging (which could easily have been turned into the dominating social network) to buying Skype and dropping the MSN brand. They know how to drop the ball from a management perspective.
San Francisco rent control policy is another example of weird and conflicting policies in the U.S. I can't believe a policy like that is in place in the United States!
Mandatory "What Colour are your bits?" post.

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
Value Investment Opportunity is staring you in the face
He's writing for the NYT. I haven't read Gar Alperovitz's works closely, but he seems quite a serious thinker. I'm currently giving him the benefit of the doubt, that he has to phrase his message in certain ways to get published in NYT.
>In theory the copy is random bytes until you possess the book, which should mean you have the right to possess the copy for personal/backup/interoperability purposes.

In what theory? We can very well theoritically conceive that you just ask for those "sample words" from someone else who has the book either legitimately or illegitmately, and he gives them to you.

Even if the set of sample words is different for each metadata file, the book would be the same, so you just need a person willing to share the words with someone that doesn't own the book.
Ianal but I think it would be illegal. Bits have flavour. Even if you randomly generate them with the intent of matching them with an existing copyrighted bits is enough to give them enough flavour to get you in trouble
OmniSharp-Roslyn is planning on utilising VS RefactoringEssentials[1] sometime in the future[2], which used to be NR6Pack (and part of NRefactory 6). RefactoringEssentials is based on Roslyn.

So don't worry about OmniSharp too much :)

[1] https://github.com/icsharpcode/RefactoringEssentials

[2] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn/pull/247#issue...