skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I guess that depends on what we pay.

Everyone gets more value than what they pay, from Bill Gates (Insert the US's largest tax payer here) on down. I can safely say that I get more than my money's worth and so do you. That doesn't make it any more fun to pay taxes but it helps ease my pain a bit...YMMV.

And, while nothing is perfect, there are some Really Bad Problems that we need to address.

Overreaching government regulation doesn't even hold a candle to having so many people living in poverty -- even people who work full time. Nor does the tax burden register on the scales compared to the shoddy state of our health care system. That's what I meant to say -- that, while your concerns are valid and I am not advocating ignoring them or letting things tilt out of control, we've got much bigger fish to fry.
As somebody who is interested in history, the Nixon administration has always fascinated me. The man was probably one of the most complex and dark people to become president. Because of Watergate, his administration is also probably the one that is most opened-up to the public (and to the historic record)

But before folks pile on to the guy (and he was widely hated), some things to keep in mind:

1) As far as taping conversations go, Nixon did nothing new. It's known that he simply carried on the tradition that LBJ, JFK, and Eisenhower before him did. Whatever happened to all of those tapes?

2) Before we go praising the Pentagon, I've read reports (I apologize for not being able to source them) that the Pentagon bugged civilian leadership. They almost certainly keep extensive dossiers on Congressional members and anybody in their civilian chain of command. Good luck getting eyes on any of that.

3) Nixon's problem was that he got caught doing something bad enough that crossed a political line. Lots of folks felt that he did nothing that others didn't do or try to do. Things like using the IRS for political hit jobs are perennials in DC. Using spies on reporters? Please. I can go back as far as Jefferson and show presidents using and attacking the press as they saw fit.

As the author points out, what concerns me a tremendous amount is the amount of information we don't know about all these other administrations -- up to and including our current one. With wholesale data collection underway against the American public, I would be astonished if 100 years from now it isn't widely known how many folks suffered invisibly from things far worse than Nixon ever did. The fall of Nixon was a harbinger of leaving an age of corrupt, small, overtly powerful presidents and entering an age of pervasive, huge, subtly powerful presidents. (Or rather, the system itself, which controls or is controlled by various presidents depending on their skills and staff capabilities)

If I'm still learning what Nixon did, 40 years later, what chance in hell do I have as a voter to make decisions about the value of any current or recent president? The office is so controlled by the political/governmental system and what we can know or not is so constrained, he might as well be anonymous.
May I Have Your Attention, Please?
Why Roboticists Should Join the Trillion-Dollar Driverless Race
operator+(int) is fine. The libstdc++ code is using std::advance, which will compile down to operator+ for random access iterators (and will be O(n) for forward iterators, but performance is already going to be awful). The vector issue requires care but is fixable (I'd probably test the total length, and branch to a more basic implementation for big ranges). The assigning -1 really is just unfixable.
> two years ago

AFAIK Falcor was announced just six months ago in spring 2015; I assume it is making progress towards a release. Relay wasn't based on it.
It's involved politics ever since more than two people were doing it.

Are you sad that it's being made explicit and being talked about or that it's being talked about in terms of identity politics?
Columbia House Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Streaming
So if he practiced stealth wealth like many wealthy americans do, he would be less likely to be caught?!
He has his political motivation, just like the CoCers have theirs. This probably applies to everyone, so it's not an argument which can be used to blanket reject a statement as such.

His political position is that open source projects should be about the code, not gender, politics and endless subjects ripe for tactical abuse and causing drama.

Personally I find that a perfectly reasonable and rational position. What fault do you find with it?
Nixon was one of the worst US presidents of the modern era but is a pipsqueak compared to some of the gnarly, currently still in power, world leaders. America has to live up to a higher standard but the level of corruption ongoing in many countries make his offenses look quaint.
Running as root in a lot of ways is to further nail home that this is a tool that is not for your day to day computer usage. You'll pull it out for testing, use it, and then toss the environment. With the environment as disposable as it is, running as a regular user gains you nothing, except a potential case of carpal tunnel from typing sudo over and over again.
um, really shitty platform i nwhat regard?
Also, VS has had a package manager for a while and Powershell is more than capable
It is uniquely bloated.
New Open Data API – Restaurant Health Inspections
Trademark isn't intended to be about creativity (that's copyright), trademark is intended to be about preventing commercial confusion.
No, You Really Can’t
I'm not sure I can define why I still use Wikipedia. The information is not dependable, and I never know when I'm reading nonsense. But I do use it at times.

If I need accurate information from an encylopedia, I now use Britannica.com (Encyopedia Britannica); it's informative, well-regarded, serious, and succinct. Coverage isn't as broad, of course. I'm not sure how the paywall works but a lot of content is free; I don't have a subscription and generally it's not a problem. Highly recommended.
5 Important “Growth Hacking” Lessons from the Man Who Coined the Term
It's neither enabled, nor supported on Apple machines. Apple's not using UEFI, they're using their own fork of EFI 1.10
ESR is against a lot of things, like 'not being a racist.'
This is pretty much what Gnip offered, but with an usable API.

My company did request an historical sample to GNIP one year ago: we had to contact the sales and send them a query blind-written following their docs. Then they run a job and gave a link to download the ZIP. I can imagine high paying customers to have direct access to their API. Still it was pretty much evident, than the extraction time was significant (say from 1 to 3 days).

The main difference thus appears to be speed. Still, you need to contact sales, so I can't say nothing about the new prices.
It's not very straightforward. It's a trade the way an Electron Hole is a particle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole
E-commerce startup Jet.com to seek $2B valuation
The gist is that he, knowing absolutely nothing about security, could figure out the exploit.

His finance audience doesn't want to know the details of the security problems, nor do they need to. However, it's valuable for them to realize how this information is just sitting around on a company DB for anyone who can Google "SQL injection" to steal.
Kali is much less of a live CD than backtrack was.

Also, most of the people Kali is targeted towards would use it every day.
Fine, fine.

Kant's 1st Imperative -- Back to universalizability: If everybody used Adblock, then many sites would shut down. That's universalizable. In fact, I'm encouraging the universalizing of this one, rather than what you're assuming, which is that I'm hiding within "It's alright if I do it, so long as the bulk of traffic doesn't".

Kant's 2nd Imperative -- Blocking ads is the outcry, then. They have the basis of free rational action to provide an ad, I have the basis of free rational action to decide whether to view it.

Utilitarianism -- Blocking ads downside: Less economic churn (might be positive). Blocking ads upside: Reduces malware vectors, thus decreasing the chance of malware targeting nuclear facilities spreading and leading to nuclear annihilation of the planet. Given the infinite magnitude of harm, even the most improbable odds outweigh. ((Seriously, trying to actually calculate utilitarian probability is a fool's errand.))

Rule Utilitarianism - I reject that your proposed rules lead to the greatest good. Alternate rule: Permitting malware vectors to run is harmful, thus blocking malware vectors is positively ethical.

Social Contract -- Websites provide open streams of information without negotiating terms. This might apply to "Wait X seconds before seeing your content" type ads, I'll concede that.

Virtue Ethics -- You might feel shame for supporting ad-based revenue systems. (Seriously. No shame here. I'll tell you to your face that I block ads. If you proceed to block me, that's entirely fair. At which point I can decide whether I think it's worth viewing ads for one time to see the content.)
Startup days are over, how to transition to the corp womb?
I'm making the jump from NewCo to BigCo after being a founder and having a decent exit earlier this year. I'm totally daunted about how to put together a resume, package myself, understand what I am qualified for. I'm doing the usual/obvious stuff (networking, headhunter, career coach, etc...) but looking for pointers from somebody who has made the jump.
This would be more of a story if the ruling went the other way. Someone threatens to kill people at work and loses his job, no shit. Imagine working with that person after you've had quite a specific and calculated death threat from that individual, completely impossible.

Some situations are just unfortunate, but that doesn't mean they're unjust.
Someone at DEF CON Made a Drone That Hacks Computers
@HDScores has created a public API which contains the unified dataset of 1,285 jurisdictions across 29 states covering 615,526 restaurants showing 4,088,978 inspection reports & 12,287,898 violations.
Design - maybe. Craft - doubt it. The OP, as I read it, is talking primarily about craft being lost.

Maybe I am cynical, but it's easier to hire couple students filling outlines all day than to have proper artists that can do coloring, shading..

This happened to architecture and interior decoration before. We have a nice railing in my house (Prague, middle class appartment block from 1890s) that would be too expensive to replace today, you would be lucky to find a blacksmith who can do that.

Apparently, it was a normal thing 120 years ago. How come that with all the technology we have today, we can afford intricately crafted designs less and less? My only explanation is economic - people are cheap and so-called "simple" design is good enough. I think we are losing something. Instead having people skilled in craft we have them either unemployed or having some bullshit office jobs (I am no exception btw).
Wow. That thing is right from the loony bin.
VS 2013 and 2015 have added at least most of these features and if you really want some of that more fancy stuff, as said above, there is Resharper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043432
Turns out that 'c' is for 'cookie', which will always be good enough for me.
Maybe I should mention Rate My App, my video channel to provide feedback for Show HN projects. I didn't know Kevin was going to provide feedback, but I hope I can add value, too.

I enjoyed providing feedback on HN in the past (post #2 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863).

For credentials, I used to have my own app before Y Combinator started and I did everything myself -- programming, design, marketing, and customer service -- like many of you are.

https://angel.co/spoof-proof-software

Just reply to this comment and I'll try provide a 2-5 minute video overview of everyone's product. I wanted to have a daily show (and podcast!) but the goal right now is quality over quantity.

Link: http://ratemyapp.com

YT: http://youtube.com/ratemyapp

FB: http://facebook.com/ratemyapp

TW: http://twitter.com/ratemyapp
I think you're right. It's worth the hard look as it would let us take advantage of the existing format instead of push a new one. One's always easier than the other. Looks like we'll be doing same for MP3 soon, too. Glad you mentioned that one as I was going to dodge it for a future project for licensing reasons. Might not have to. :)
> First, in most cases PR spin has a "smell"

How do you know?
Sorry, this is a bit nuanced and my comment was unclear.

We implement a variety of modes for reading and writing that allow the user to select different trade-offs for consistency and performance. By default: writes are always safe; reads are safe when the cluster is healthy, but can sometimes have anomalies in failure scenarios. You can also do `majority` reads which are completely safe even during failure scenarios, but are slower.

However note, that the default read mode isn't an "anything can happen" implementation. The guarantees are precisely defined, and 2.1 passes all tests in a large variety of failure scenarios with respect to these guarantees.

My comment about not relaxing consistency guarantees was meant in a slightly different context. The OP was talking write transactions (and implementing individual writes with Raft vs. using a different way), and I pointed out that we don't relax consistency guarantees for writes despite not using Raft.

I realize my comment was confusing -- sorry about that; I didn't mean to mislead.
The Many Things Wrong with the Anti-Encryption Op-Ed in the New York Times
How secure was that deletion of the tape? Has anyone taken 21st century technology and tried to recover what was on it?
By '1 IPv6' you mean at least a /64 (for the lighter plans), right? Otherwise, this seems very shortsighted...
Also, 82.148.96.68
It's like watching magic. Granted the effect is enhanced by the accelerated speed of the videos, but, wow. I wonder how long it takes to learn Illustrator/Sketch/etc well enough to be able to create art like this (e.g. watching the tire tread get put on the taxi - what voodoo was that?).
The meta problem is trying to discuss specific examples of rules lawyering when the purpose of one CC is to eliminate detailed rules lawyering isn't going to philosophically work well.

None the less, for a corporate interpretation of the exact same topic but with respect to email:

http://www.emaildisclaimers.com/Sample_disclaimers.htm#Liabi...

Generally speaking identifying yourself as a legal representative of a project or community has all kinds of interesting legal problems; you don't want the project sued because some idle conversation between some contributor and a service provider was seen by the provider as a verbal contract between them and the project for their services.

Another example would be copyright, if the project owns the copyright to your self made pr0n example (because you posted it on the project wiki) then you're probably in huge trouble, but if everyone legally agrees you own the copyright and not the project, well, its kind of hard to argue you represent someone you're clearly not legally working for.
Amazon changed the image format, and we've been working to update our images to use it. Here's some more detail: https://github.com/rethinkdb/marketplace-ami/issues/1

If you like, you can launch a 1.16 AMI, ssh into the instance, and run `apt-get update && apt-get install rethinkdb` to update to RethinkDB 2.1.

Thanks for being patient -- we'll get the official images updated soon.
Let me suggest you run your experiment again. Use a different value amount, something higher than 20 cents. Consider actually charging the money via PayPal or Bitcoin or whatever. Yes, if you charge say $1 via PayPal you get something like 60 cents of that. If you get enough volume, so? And you need about a third as much buy-in to do just as well in theory as your 20 cents amount, a lot less to do even better in reality since all of those figures are phantom dollars that never actually got paid. If you are really committed to keeping it a very small amount, charge 20 cents or 25 cents per recipe but get your dollar upfront and give them credits for viewing other pics on other recipes. This might also incentivize return visitors. Some people will come back just because it is killing them to waste their remaining credits. Then you might hook some of them.

I read this with interest because I have several blogs. Some have ads. Some don't. Some have tip jars which used to be donate buttons. I have never made much money but I have always done better with getting cash from readers than with ads. I am starting the process of looking at Patreon as one possibility.

I am a woman and I started a food blog in June. So I really was excited to see the title of the article.

But having read it, I think your problem is basically mental bias. Recipe blogs are caught in an internet Pink Collar Ghetto. You are helping to keep them there by trying to find a way to charge a pittance and lamenting the lack of a small payment platform instead of putting together something actually viable in the here and now.

I served as a moderator at one time for a forum that was the biggest thing in its niche. The forum owner wanted it to make money but his mental models had a stranglehold on the income stream. Nothing was really acceptable to him. I see shades of that in the reasons you keep giving for why this, that or the other won't work.

Repeat your experiment with whatever modifications are necessary to make this real and not theoretical. Come up with a payment platform of some kind. Charge actual money this time. Improve on the model from there.

Best of luck.
Deleted a prior comment on "why not theora?" because this link is what I was asking for. Thanks.
How does this compare with Flux? Is it intended to be used with Flux or instead of Flux?
Hackers busted in insider trading scheme
WAN replication works out of the box, and RethinkDB was designed with multidatacenter setups in mind. Feel free to email me at slava@rethinkdb.com if you need to discuss a specific use case.
Motion JPEG isnt resilient. H264/H265/VP9, etc all build on some of the ideas that JPEG introduces, but introduce features that allow for the stream to be resilient to dropped packets or frames.

Its a cool idea, it just doesn't work in practice. Especially since a lot of these video standards are transmitted over UDP.
Gist of the release, it enables connection sharing with third party tools like chrome developer tools or firefox developer tools.
This is not true.
However, this athletic merino or cashmere textile has nothing to do with the traditional thick wool sweater, socks or mittens.

We're talking stuff like this: http://www.smartwool.com/stay-comfortable/mens-nts-micro-150...

Not what comes to mind when we think "cashmere pullover". :)
Wildcard Debuts a News-Reading App Designed for Mobile
If I understand correctly, these are planned orders that are un-planned days if not hours before they go out to the exchange, not orders that are sent to the exchange but cancelled before they can be filled. The latter is what the market makers are doing.

So it is more effectively the same as deciding not to do what you have been doing every month. It would be impossible to enforce a prohibition against that, as that would effectively be a requirement to sell.
Excuse my naive questions, but this left me very curious.

1) Have we reached a phase where the difficult part is finding the genes responsible for X? With the delivery being now boilerplate code (CRISPR?).

2) What exactly are the limitations of gene therapy?

3) How does aging fit into the picture? For example, if grey hairs are the result of cell aging/damaging, will we be able to reverse/restore it?
Hackernews module is coming in next release...you'll be able to add it to your Wildcard feed. Happy to talk product if anyone wants to dig in
BroApp - Your Clever Relationship Wingman

http://broapp.net/

Fun side project that blew up with world-wide media attention last year. Intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_2zr5EYbDk. On Jimmy Fallon tonight show here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTf7g59LQ_Y.

Working on other projects and not really interested in building out more functionality / monetizing.

Looking to sell all source code (Android + iOS), domain, US trademark on BroApp, email lists, etc. Facebook newsfeed cost-per-install is ~$0.21 with a lookalike audience built off our install base.
Male writers who hide their gender to attract female readers
Seems like there's a lot of good information there, but I'm way out of my league so YMMV.

It's too bad they dismiss using radioactive decay for "practical reasons". There's a guy[1] who has been playing with that, off and on, for over 30 years. He's still at it, I just got some fresh random bits from him a few minutes ago. His hardware doesn't seem that expensive.

BTW we just had a discussion on weak RNGs on the web a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030036
As usual with HN, the comments are at least as informative as the article itself.

[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
I would not get insider trading advice from Martha Stewart…
WordPress is not just a blog. It's used for so much more than that: http://wordpress.tv/2013/11/07/aaron-holbrook-wordpress-is-a...
You can theoretically succeed at this as long as you stay within a statistical random probability and can maintain absolute secrecy.

This is essentially what Alan Turing realized he had to do with the information decrypted from Enigma... He had to let enough bad things happen so that German analysts wouldn't see a statistical red flag, signifying an information leak, but he had to divulge enough to steer the war to victory for the Allies.
> Can there really be people that are willing and able to build their own IOT but do not want to learn about Linux?

Absolutely, and especially in corporate environments. I'm not saying Windows 10 IoT is any better (I think it's very unlikely to be, but I also haven't evaluated it), but I can say for certain that I wish I had a single, identical python library for any IoT platform that handled interfaces as simply as:

with pin_1 as p1:
p1.output(1)
time.sleep(2)
p1.output(0)

Now, there are some libraries that approach that level of simplicity once you have your system configuration set up, but that doesn't lend itself to agile development. I want something that works like that out-of-box -- flash it, load code, press go button -- which simply doesn't exist. And, after spending a lot of time writing my own hardware IO library using direct memory access in Python, I don't think there's an OS out there that's capable of doing it (yet). I've spent just way too much time accommodating unfortunate abstractions taken at the linux kernel level (that I understand for historical reasons, but disagree with for future ones). An operating system for IoT done right is, in my opinion, a very lightweight exokernel with some really smart abstractions that just gets out of your way. Then you need a clever (and native) secure networking system, and you're in very good shape.
Seems like the under-definedness of integer addition would allow the compiler to emit better code, not worse, because it doesn't have to check for overflow.
Once you see a full sample you can run a Kalman Smoother (after The Filter). Main difference is that KF extrapolates and KFS interpolate.
It might be about the percentages as well: 70k out of available 120k in total (first case) is 58.3%, much lower than 90k out of 200k (45%).
Some new features have been leaked about PS4 beta FW 3.00
To "drink the koolaid" is to blindly place trust in or unquestioningly accept something (that could in all reality by a solo cup full of poison).

So it's not so much that they're praising highly in and of itself as that they're (implicitly) praising highly because they're buying the hype without questioning it, because it's not like they've used it in anger yet or heard 3rd party testimonials.
I'm not saying it's hard. But {?variable} isn't hard either.