skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been doing Soylent for a month. I had the idea on a Saturday, placed my order and Tuesday morning I had 14 days worth of powder delivered, in Canada.

After 1 week of eating it, I was happy and subscribed for 28 bags a month. My wife likes it too, it's convenient when she doesn't have time to cook and wants something filling and healthy.
It might have been flagkilled. It was interesting information, but perhaps not the best source or most balanced coverage.
I'm torn. On the one hand, I just spent a few minutes rating about 100 films, and the quality of the recommendations is so much better than Netflix's garbage that it's mindblowing. As in, we've spent half an hour browsing Netflix trying to find something to watch and settling for something meh, whereas here I have a full page of recs with 5 minutes input.

On the other hand, I don't know if I'm very impressed with anything yet, the recommendations seem obvious. It's more like a neat visual collection manager, I'm not sure I "feel" anything crazy going on in the background beyond what looking at IMDb best-of lists would produce. In other words, the value seems to be in the Netflix-ish "cover collection" display, unconstrained by the limits of their selection.
That's the whole point of an immobilizer. To prevent the typical physical methods (break window, hotwire ignition) from being accepted unless the security token is also present.

I don't think Porche et al are under any illusions their windows are rock-proof. ;)
Regarding your web gateway, you might be able to use heka with the HTTP Listen input and AMQP output.

https://hekad.readthedocs.org/en/v0.9.2/
I think it was even before Facebook, remember how everything was completely public at first (and by first I meant when it was already launched globally, just before it became a hype). I remember being utterly surprised seeing all girls (I know) phone numbers out in the clear. So I guess we were already not naive anymore about the web.
Or, alternatively, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake.
Where do you see Soylent marketing itself as "completely safe"? Their website is pretty nuanced.
The minimalist HTML style reminds me of Stallman's site

https://stallman.org/
The Hidden Power Dynamics of Open Source
Excuse me… SQS, Route53, Auto Scaling, and Simple Workflow are “niche”?
"No­body asked me to write this, nor did I ask anyone’s permis­sion. It’s the week­end and I’m at my cot­tage."
Neat! Thanks for the additional details. The part I was curious about was the dealership being involved in the process. In other words, who is authoritative: if the car queries the manufacturer for authorization, or if the dealership is updating the car.

Both with pros and cons, ofc.
This isn't about saving manuals so people can keep running 80-year-old systems that are still in service.

I think it would be more correct to say that it isn't only about that. As somebody above pointed out, "technology never dies". You'd be shocked what you'll find still running out there if you look in the right places. Forget Silicon Valley for a minute... go find a manufacturing plant in the midwest or in the southeast somewhere, or even in the rust belt. A plant that makes some kind of goofy sub-assembly for producing something, where none of us have even though about that sub-assembly or would know what it was if we saw it. In that kind of place you'll still find all sorts of seemingly archaic technology... old IBM mainframes with drum hard-disk drives where the drum weighs about 50 lbs and stores 50MB of data. IBM S/36 and S/38 minicomputers, DEC PDP/11's, old VAX machines, you name it, it's out there. Heck, go check in some non-profit telephone cooperative somewhere in rural america... I'd be you'll find more of the same there. And so on, and so on...
Well then don't use either Bart or Caltrain during high commute times. Is it not viable to leave earlier or later?

> plus a huge number of showers installed at downtown employers.

Is this an impossible endeavor?
Thank you very much!

Yes, on my 2nd generation low power i3 running my normal desktop at the time, I get individual ~200ms response time, and that is with 115 32kbyte requests per second.

I am rewriting the high level protocol code that is a bit rickety because it is snowballed from the earliest code in the project other than the asyncio SSH library I implemented from scratch.

When that rewrite is done (a week or two), that will decrease latency greatly, and improve efficiency greatly, and thus should even improve throughput (although that is already max out your pipe with actual data as it is low overhead).

If I switch from 32k blocks to 512k blocks which I did some testing on (Freenet is 1meg blocks), that gives me a 10x !! throughput improvement with same CPU usage and no increase in latency of per request.

The only reason I am 32k blocks originally was the ssh protocol is 35k max packet size and I don't want to break spec so as to be able to hide as normal ssh traffic :) The 512k blocks test I did as multiple packets and was 10x faster, because that means 512k per FindNode operation instead of just 32k :) I was sitting on the fence on switching to it because I want to do the rewrite of the high level code first because the multiple data packets per request complicates that snowballed code even more :)

Also, I am using pycrypto which initial tests show is actually much slower than the other library I will likely switch to (it is called simply cryptography, it wraps platform openssl instead of implementing itself as pycrypto does). I went with pycrypto to minimize dependencies. I will have it detect if you have cryptography installed and use that optionally. I've already abstracted the pycrypto api so I can easily have it switchable at runtime. This should decrease latency a good amount as well.
Why did Tesla's stock go up? Reading between the lines of Tesla's $500m offering
And I believe him 100%.
If humans didn't evolve to be the dominant species on earth, perhaps the octopus would have taken things over given a million more years of evolution.
I tried many things. In essence, I try to eat healthy, and exercise in moderation. The biggest though is trying to sleep properly as much as possible.
I found that when traveling too heavy for too long, it's hard to do any of these three things above.
Not sure the point of the comparison. Yes, some of our encoding technology beats some algorithmic generation of content in performance. If the goal is size of encoding, though, it doesn't come close.

Tricks like this can help show how less than a gig of data is enough to encode an operating system. Or a person.
Guess that goes to show you how long it's been since I've had a false alarm. Makes me feel even better about it.
None of them has a large company behind it, and none of them is within two orders-of-magnitude from the leading batch of languages (the leading pack has 5-10M developers each).

So? I'm not making a claim that a language needs adoption on that scale to be considered "successful". To me, Ruby, PHP, Python, Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc. are all very much "successful". The languages I think of as being less so, would be things like Nice, Fantom, Frege, Forth, Modula-3, Rebol, etc.
Thank you for 0), you may be able to guess why from my user name.
Excuse me, compared to Hollywood produced multi-media presentations, consumer goods, and literature?

Yeah.

Edit: Someone better throw up a definition of 'niche' that explains the downmods.
You do know VMware/Pivotal pulled their support for Groovy in March this year and no-one else stepped in, don't you?

I do, but I also know that Groovy is becoming an ASF project[1]. So we'll see how it goes with volunteer support, and perhaps a few paid people here and there from companies that use Groovy.

[1]: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/groovy.html
Same here. But I use Google via https://search.disconnect.me :) So there's no personalization.
The Pander R package renders objects into Pandoc's markdown. This allows you to generate a wide variety of output formats, including ConTeXt or LaTeX documents (and subsequently PDF).

http://rapporter.github.io/pander/
> Bad code will make your programmers groan and occasionally threaten to quit, but it usually won't threaten the existence of an organization.

You're joking, right?

I have seen companies be "eclipsed by a faster, nimbler competitor" because they have a crappy codebase.

The reason for the implosions were that, "during the growth & competition phase of the industry," they could not grow because new developers really could not ramp up on the crappy, woefully-undocumented codebases, whilst clients left for less-buggy products that were adding new features.
Let's say that I'm that guy you see in movies that want to write a book for ages and always postpone it... -_-
> When do we stop pretending our MacBooks are multi-user UNIX mainframes?

My computers at home have multiple users, because they have their individual preferences setting their desktops and browsers the way they like

My computers at work, laptops and otherwise, have other devs' accounts on them, so they can ssh in and grab stuff, or play with setups I have on my machine. It's a particularly easy way for me to distribute VPN keys... and of course, users can't read each other's private files. If I'm away and someone needs a computer to work, they can use my machine without each of us messing with each other's setup.

Multiple-meatspace-user machines certainly aren't as popular these days, but they're not as dead-and-buried as you're implying. Just because mainframes are no longer the big cheese doesn't mean that there's no call for multiuser machines.
Don't call a security flaw a UX feature please.
According to section 3(2)(a) of the initiative, it appears that bona fide antiques 100 years or older are exempted given they are no more than 15% protected animal part/product by volume. Musical instruments get the same exemption.

http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_78...
Use this to find remote retreats for startups
There's an exception

Section 3 paragraph 2 http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_78...

"The covered animal species part or product is part of a bona fide antique, provided the antique status of such an antique is established by the owner or seller thereof with historical documentation evidencing provenance and showing the antique to be not less than one hundred years old, and the covered animal species
part or product is less than fifteen percent by volume of such an antique;"
I always get hungry when I see squid or octopus, they sure are intelligent, and tasty too
Well, the perhaps frightening scenario is that you arrive at a point where everyone assumes that someone else is 'taking care of it', when it fact, that person may be the only one even aware of it.

I'm not sure we're quite in that situation yet, but certainly there are severe inequities in how similar situations are treated (which is supposedly not allowed).

You would expect to see exactly that in a degraded democracy.
A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937
DDG supports site: searches too. :)
Ask HN: How to get a referral code for FBstart application
Facebook's FBstart now needs a referral code by a VC, accelerator, or incubator.
We are just starting out in India and don't have a referral code.
Which VCs, accelerator, or incubators in India are FBStart partners?
DD SiD
Does a Startup Need the .com? A Rebuttal
Facebook: MVC Does Not Scale, Use Flux Instead (2014)
A single person will likely need 5-10 seconds to grab a manual from a shelf, place it in a banker's box, and move on to the next one.

If you look at the pictures like this one:

http://ascii.textfiles.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_69...

I could probably grab 25 or more of those at a time and set them in a box in 5 seconds, hence 5 per second. Getting the first ones out (because there is little "gap" to stuff hands into on the shelf) will be slower, but once the gap is made the whole pile easily comes out. This isn't about pulling one out at a time, spending another few seconds inspecting it, and then putting it in a box; it's about getting them off the shelves and out of the building ASAP.
According to the Agricultural Research Service, the average amount of water intake a day is about 3.9 cups or under a liter.

We'd have to know if the EPA based their figures on the ideal intake or the actual consumption figures.

http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12355000/pdf/DBri...
Yep, that's correct. I still remember when I registered the name. It has grown far beyond anything I had imagined.

The whole CPAN ecosystem (CPAN, CPAN Testers, search.cpan.org, metacpan.org etc) involves a lot of people and a lot of resources. It's not just open source software -- it's open source "software as a service". So you get to push some code and also worry about uptime!

Lots of volunteers and more than a few sponsors make sure the ecosystem keeps on ticking. My thanks to all of them. :)
Nietzsche on Solitude
Is it just me or is this another in the series that can be generalized at:

"How DDG attached itself to <latest event> to make it look like it's popular"

I have nothing for or against DDG but it's like once a month I see what looks like pro-DDG propaganda.
Vital Ingredients of a Trading Plan
I'm beginning to become annoyed with you for insinuating the same falsehood every time one of these stories comes up. You've done it countless times, and it puts us in the position of either saying nothing and letting the falsehood stand—which isn't right—or having to answer it, a dreary chore that steals cycles away from things that actually help the community.

It's time you supplied some evidence (which you won't, because we don't do the things you say), or dropped this. Repeating the same falsehood ad nauseum is not legit.

The only thing that happened to the present post is that users flagged it, presumably because it was an obvious duplicate. We didn't see the post until a few minutes ago, and the only moderation we did was unkill it so discussion can continue. That's standard practice.
I think Ruby is too small to be considered an industry-wide success.

I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of the TIOBE index, but in this case I'll cite it, as it is "close enough" I think. Ruby is #13 right now, which isn't bad. And while I think TIOBE has some warts, I think it's safe to say that anything in the top 20 is fairly successful, and anything in the top 50 is "successful" to a certain degree.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Build yourself a hut. Pretend to live off nature while women from the town one mile away bring you pies. Thus is self reliance.
Yet half of everyone on HN actually wants IPv6 so we can have less privacy...
This guy picks apart many of the global warming 'studies' as non-scientific and has some really good counter-examples, which is actual science:

http://www.climate-skeptic.com/

There was a study about butterflies migration and everyone just took it as fact that it was due to climate change. When another study came out proving that it was wrong (with more science), the original study was never withdrawn and is still used to this day as an example of climate change.

It's not even a debate that CO2 is causing warming. It's that CO2 isn't causing it at anything near a catastrophic rate.

It's used by the likes of Al Gore to make billions from things like carbon credits and the politicians to attack their political opponents. It's not the first time the scientific community was used as pawns in someone else's game.

So much of the data is either: changed, doctored, or even hidden (climate gate brought out many issues with some of the leading climate scientists and showed that much of the data isn't actually being peer reviewed. I thought this would bring about a discussion about real science...but it was covered up and scoffed at by the scientific community because it made them look bad.

We are spending so much money on global climate change, while ignoring many other pollutants that might actually save some of the environmental disasters that we have created(which cost much less to fix).

You don't have to be a climate scientist to see bullshit science. I was part of the academic world for many years and it's unbelievable how much politics plays into the research that is published. It's why I left it forever.

This post will probably be modded down. Mostly because when something against the narrative is posted here on HN, it's not even discussed. The person who posted it is bullied into submission or silenced because you not only can't see something you disagree with, you can't bear to have someone else see it either.

I see it as the tactics of the intellectually inferior. Those insecure people that can't have ideas discussed freely and without prejudice because it goes against their core beliefs.

Even the name 'climate skeptic' is a pejorative used to make the other person look like they are an idiot that knows nothing about the climate or science. This has no place in science. Science should not be about personal and ad hominem attacks.

That's the funny thing: I'm demanding more science and the climate change zealots are basically saying that the science is 'settled'. The science is never 'settled'. When it is, it's called religion.

I'm sick and tired of politics ruling over science and you should be too.
Ok, try testing with packets of around 128-1024 bytes.

A 'good' result for an i5-i7 core is to get at least 10k requests per second on that situation.

You are gonna live or die by this measure dude, so work on improving it. You are around 100x far from it but if you're lucky you can get there with 'just' two 10x improvements. I suggest you to look into Flame Graphs [1], they are awesome. I have used them to pinpoint exactly where are the 10-100x bottlenecks on my code and unclog them.

Also, about your website, just make it sound less like an infomercial and you'll be fine.

And last but not least, best of luck!

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html
Watchdog group says Soylent’s cadmium and lead levels violate CA law
Waiting for an argument about how Rust is better than Go...

Neither the language nor ancient game have generics yet.
Show HN: REPL utility to run gremlin queries over HTTP on Neo4j
> I'm not sure I do understand the motivation, but I don't think that I'm beyond understanding it.

From an archaeological perspective, think about it 100 years from now (assuming there is no catastrophe -- a different topic).

Information lost now is lost forever. People in the future trying to reconstruct the past may well need various kinds of information that does not seem valuable today.

It's parallel to any library. Only a small fraction of any library will be of direct interest to any given person, but the collection overall is trying to serve a community, whether individuals see why various parts are useful or not.

> Why are these even worth anything or worth keeping, tidy your life, lighten up, etc.

This is an individual's thinking. The other point of view is about serving the larger community -- and not just now, but with very long term benefits.
While I've moved on from DDG and prefer going directly to resources... you can use DDG to redirect searches to Mozilla developer network usign !mdn
the government needs to be held accountable, soon
The videos of Minsky's lectures on Society of Mind are on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
"Hostile Work Environment" != Miserable working conditions.

From blm.gov,

"A hostile work environment is
actionable in the EEO process when it
is based on allegations of discrimination;
e.g., race, color, sex, national origin,
religion, age, disability or sexual
orientation1, or reprisal."
I did read the article. The title of the submission here on HN is a lot more sensationalist than both the title of the article as published, and what the content of the article bears out. To use your own phrase, it comes across as very link-baity.

I don't have any strongly held beliefs regarding bitcoin. Given the title, I was expecting an article that convincingly explained how this threat would kill bitcoin. The article described a challenge to bitcoin, but did not meet my expectations in bearing out its thesis. So, if I saved someone else that same disappointment with my hipster comment, that was my intent.
Passwords are both security flaws and UX features -- they're inherently flawed, cannot be fixed, and are the only authentication system most people can use successfully.

Security is always in tension with usability.
Are the Olympics even relevant anymore?

When I was a kid, I can remember people getting excited about the Olympics. People would sit glued to their TV screens, it would be a big deal.

Now it just seems meh, like people have more pressing things to worry about. The story seems the same for every country that hosts it:

- Yay we got the Olympics!

- <insert controversy here>

- Oh no! They most certainly AREN'T going to be ready for the Olympics!

- <insert controversy here>

- <insert sudden turnaround here>

- These Olympics were a fantastic success!

- <insert years of debt here>

It's a shame too. Maybe having them in one place would take away a lot of the distraction.
I think there's more room for competition. Google is obviously very good at their core product, and arguably very good at delivering most of their other products as well. These attempt's like Microsoft's Bing I feel like are just attempts to copy Google's search but there hasn't been much in the way of innovation in years. I wouldn't mind using a search engine that takes an entirely different approach than the "type in a box and get a list of text results" (and maybe a little box of information also)

I liken my feelings about Google to my feelings about McDonalds. Most of it is delicious and satisfying, they have a core product that is the best done, some other products which are pretty good and then some other ones that are off the wall. I generally try to avoid what went into making the burger just like I try to avoid thinking about what Google is doing with the information it collects about me. In spite of any short comings you don't try to copy McDonalds, their supply chain is too massive and well oiled and their brand is cemented in people's minds. Google on the other hand has a supply chain of top tech talent, a ton of servers and stuff, and they have a huge brand. I think there is however room for other types of search even if there is not too much room to take them on directly. We will see the Chipotles and Five Guys of the search industry, things people didn't even know they wanted until they were available.
Is there a way of reaching future generations of Chinese effectively? A lot of Chinese antiques are, to my eye, quite gauche. Are they still status symbols for the new, rising middle class?

I believe Yao Ming has done some work raising awareness around the ivory trade. Any other revered Chinese celebrities?
Here's a 256b web compo from 2002 (!)
http://wildmag.de/compo/

A lot of the stuff looks almost trivial compared to what we do today. (And unfortunately a lot of these won't work anymore)
Turning Regular Code into Atrocities with LLVM
The drug war should already have taught us that it's counterproductive to view offenders as generic nuisances rather than people to be negotiated with.

The ivory trade, like the drug trade, is entrenched. There are a lot of people involved. There’s a large, complex, long-standing, and covert structure to deal with. As law enforcement has so clearly demonstrated, you can’t solve behavioral problems at scale with contempt and violence.

The really thorny problems in the world won’t be beaten into submission. To negotiate our way out of this problem, it’s necessary to see the offenders as real, valuable human beings.
Towards the crash-proof aeroplane
Mine was close, but wrong neighbourhood. One of my friends said it wasn't anywhere near him.