skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the same as "Suggested Sites"? If so, you just click the gear in the top right on the new tab page and uncheck "Include suggested sites". Pretty simple to disable, at least on the latest beta and dev editions.

Another tempest in a teapot like when they integrated Pocket (right click > remove from toolbar takes 2 seconds)?
PBS Space Time made a video[1] that drew from this study to argue that it makes sense to have the first mission to mars be all women because of the issues in the study.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEagBK4Xb1w
It's a simple information problem: identify who the dopers are and put them into their own events, with separate record keeping. We can have a world record for a 100 meter doped sprint, and one for the undoped sprints.

Already there are men's and women's separate records. In some sports there are additional categories, like weight range. Also age groups.

Doping itself then isn't cheating, but rather competing, while doped, in an undoped category. Analogous as a man pretending to be a woman.
From the frontpage:

Will the game support multiple platforms?

Yes! Windows will be the first platform, since it is currently the most
common gaming platform, but the series will later cover (at least) Mac,
Linux, and Raspberry Pi. Portability will be a major topic in the series,
so all the code will be structured to demonstrate how to write code that
is easy to port to new platforms.
This is really neat, but not having a spare Android tablet lying around, I'm left wondering: is there any cost-effective way to magnify a small screen, say that of a SGS3, to a larger size? Anyone have any tricks of light, like angled mirrors or prisms, up their sleeves to achieve such an effect in a thin depth? I don't get the impression that resolution is all that important if all it's going to be used for is a few lines of monochrome text and symbols.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7860531
Unless the prevailing opinion can be backed up with evidence then both opinions should be taken at face value.

Just because everyone claims pigs can fly doesn't mean that they can, not unless you can show me proof.
Just for the record the iPad2 still updates. Though the hardware can barely handle iOS8. It's almost unusable. It seems crazy to think there would not be an end of support for something that old. Maybe Apple doesn't allow updates because they don't want the original iPad to become completely unusable?
It's a bad argument, but I wouldn't say it's the worst. "Hitler thought of it first" is worse, but still probably not "the worst".

"I am rubber, you are glue" is a good contender. "Such-and-such argument is the worst" is probably pretty high in the running, too.
Space Whisky
Oh I totally agree. Trying to value an asset that someone else controls in a meaningful way is very difficult. Like you pointed out with Apple or whatever.

Valuing an asset based solely on income in a true market is the best way to not get screwed. True markets are few and far between, though. The degree to which your market is regulated determines your external risk.
How did you approach Nathan Barry to ask him to be on your show?
A little bit more than most things but certainly not like what the idealists would prefer. Somehow they do not believe that high end college careers, name-brand companies or knowing lots of good people have merit.
National Geographic fans worry re: partnership with climate skeptic Rupert Murdoch
Nice of you to say. Thanks!
Everybody thinks Uber wants to make robotic cars so everybody will just use uber robotic cars.

But, why won't people buy their own robotic cars and put them on day time "search" mode for fares that get directly paid back to the owner of the vehicle? Then the vehicle can still return home for evenings/weekends when real people need immediate on-demand driving without waiting to be picked up.
The "this is a metered connection" toggle will only appear for wireless devices. There is no way to enable it when on a wired network.

Source: Much googling after I found myself on a hotel's low-bandwidth network for a week.
The debate over whether there's a new tech bubble, explained
I use OSX most of the time. It usually prompts me to install things. That doesn't seem like "automatic updates" though.
Houses can also be made much more fire resistant than they are. Use metal and masonry for the exterior surfaces rather than wood and asphalt, for example. Keep the fuel and vegetation away from the walls. Build a masonry fence as a fire break. It's all just common sense.
My objection is that people come up with the metaphor without any evidence. Of course if you know that the author intended the metaphor, go ahead and say it, but I seem to see many more people reading things into a sentence just to have something to say.
And they are deeply committed to their flood defence infrastructure. They even have a democratically elected regional government dealing only with this. [1]

They are also moving houses out of the flood plain to make it work. The culture in the U.S. Would make that really hard I think. Lots to read about it here. http://www.dutchwatersector.com

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board#Netherlands
The narrower the rules, the more merit counts. Unfortunately (actually, fortunately), in business and in the world, there are few if any rules.
Skinnywhale helps you make smaller containers
If you have a spare screen, this is a nice low cost alternative: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/magic-mirror/
GrandIllusions for gentle and peaceful demonstrations of toys.

Lindybeige for minimal monologues to camera about historical and warfare misconceptions, and swing dancing.
Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions
That's different. Of course a work of art should evoke feelings, memories, thoughts, etc to you that are personal to you, it's a big part of what art is supposed to be.

What I have a problem with is ascribing these to the author without any evidence that they actually meant it that way.
Ronald Reagan asked if he could use it as a campaign song.
Direct link to the build process: http://michaelteeuw.nl/post/80391333672/magic-mirror-part-i-...
Most floods are only a few inches deep. It isn't expensive to simply build the house up a foot or two, or bulldoze a mound and put the house on that. It'll greatly reduce the probability and severity of flood damage.
That sounds dangerously like it's "telemetry," and that's a dirty word around these parts now.
>There's generally a shortage of tenure-track jobs relative to the number of qualified PhDs, so when companies poach faculty, it improves everyone's career options.

Good for the PhDs; bad for the schools, who must now find more funding to retain the same level of talent, thus making future academic research (e.g. the next gen of robots) more challenging to accomplish
So many amazing features that are incredibly relevant to modern web development. I've switched over a personal project from MySQL to PG recently and this time I'm not looking back.

On 9.4 I have the HSTORE and JSONB types as well as range types which are incredibly useful. If you have a solid language library wrapper for PG you can spend far less time mangling data from one format to the next and just get to work. I love it.
Thanks again pavornyoh!

Since we develop the products ourselves and ensure that entrepreneur goes out and talks to customers, we fix both the problems. As we have seen from experience, many entrepreneurs fear for the first time. And, mostly its about the fear of failure and validation. We help them overcome it and do what is necessary.

We have created a process for converting the idea to startup. If you have noticed, the entrepreneurs that succeed in one venture, are more likely to succeed in their future ventures irrespective of the domain. Once the entrepreneurs know the process, they can execute the details as per the context. We also connect entrepreneur with the expert in that particular domain.
Destroying Apple’s Legacy… or Saving It
SQLite json draft
That's lyft's model, no? :-)
I copied and pasted directly from the article. Stealth edit I guess.
Does the same part of the comet face forward(relative to orbital motion) after perihelion? They don't mention the dust that is affecting Rosetta affecting Philae but it must and maybe a switch in the direction of the dust could help.
Performance Regression in Go 1.5
I like the definitions, but I can't be the only who notices that according to these definitions data is "information and ...", while information is "data that ...". It looks like a circular definition, which definitely cannot help with distinction.
I wonder if you could also rig up a few microphones to enable touch controls.

I remember reading an early Stephenson novel, where a stereo system was described as a blank black slate, with essentially invisible controls. Having something like that behind a mirror would be a fun hack.

edit: Or do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10205457
No

I wonder whether it's smart enough to adapt its keystrokes for non-Windows platforms, or whether it just does random things to peoples' computers in that case?
This or that? I would bet: either way, one regret.

Until now, this thought will vet — a better look.

The past is done; the future not set.

Just keep on going, and watch your step.
Don't know why you are voted down, string processing is indeed unpleasantly difficult in C. Partly because a built-in string type would conflict with C's simplistic compile/link schema.
Thanks.

Sounds like when the wave function of
the electron is moving, likely it
is following the local geometry
of space-time but otherwise is
essentially lost to the universe.

Then whenever we do detect a field,
gravity, electro-magnetic, strong, weak,
etc., necessarily we are detecting
just collapsing wave functions, each
of which happens at essentially just
a point in time. Then after the point
in time of the collapse, the electron
is just a wave function again off
on its way to another collapse.

E.g., when an electron accelerates
going around a circle and radiates
photons, each photon radiated
is from a collapse of the wave function
of the electron at which time
the electron creates a new wave function
and continues on? Sounds like that.

Hmm ... So, all we are seeing, feeling,
detecting, observing, measuring, etc.
are just high rate point processes
of collapsing wave functions? Gads.
Why didn't they tell me that back in
high school?

Where am I going wrong?
Many USB drives have a FPGA that can be reprogrammed. So even off-the shelf USB drives can be used as an attack vector. They can become keyboards, bring up a console window, move it off-screen, and bootstrap malicious software.

DEFCON had a number of demos about this at DEFCON 22 that you can find on YouTube.

Someone doing this as a "feature" wasn't thinking. I'd never plug a USB device that anyone handed to me into any of my computers.
The title is deceptive. This more a history of programming hardware platforms than of the activities of programming.

A second defect is that this is the viewpoint of an academic who worked in small group rather than a commercial organization that created and maintained software. Even back in the era of mainframes there were tools and best practices for groups of programmers to produce commercial software.
Deploying Windows Server with Foreman in VSphere
I really liked what he said about the venn diagram of your products. You have to make sure they're all related in some way, driving your customers toward the next. This is a good lesson for a product creator at any stage.
I think their iPad app is the best in the business. No frills. Just content.
I agree that it is similar to security theatre. The federations want to give the impression that they are clean without the pain of declaring their star athletes dirty. No-one has an interest in a failed test. They do have an interest in appearing to be clean.
That's because C never has problems with buffer overflows. What's far worse: strlcpy truncates the string in case it wouldn't fit the buffer!
I cannot, as I didn't read them, I don't need to. The quote itself is enough to show that Frost's intentions with the poem weren't straightforward, despite what the actual meaning of his words was.

He could well have intended on a specific person that was hit, in a specific way, but that still implies deception, what he wrote was intended to be read in a different way than how he truly meant it, that the number of people who really grasp it are going to be smaller than the number of people who read it.

What I was saying is that you could have, if you were really interested, go and research Frost's letters, instead of holding on to your traditional way of reading the poem, for that reason. That would be my response if I was interested in maintaining that viewpoint for those reasons, to investigate them. To make sure I have enough context to support the conclusion I'm making.

The manner in which you dismissed the new way of looking at them indicates that you are more interested in retaining the old meaning. New context is thrown out, not even worthy of consideration. It's this binary response I'm interested in.

I take an article like Orr's, which tries to color things in history with additional context, work that new info into my understanding, and try to find a new conceptualization of the past. I'm not so much interested in retaining my experience of the poem as much as all of the clarifying context, how these poets interact with each other, how America tends to view poems and culture and itself. To me the actual meaning of the poem is somewhat of a side show.

You took it and read it as an attack on, well, what exactly?
Someone above suggested adding a motion sensor, so that it would only turn on when you were in front of it.
The touchscreen device? Probably not that well, certainly not better than a smaller monitor/display.
I cold-emailed him and just asked, and he said yes. Turns out he had already heard good things about the show, so he was inclined to accept my invitation.

Get ready to hate me - getting guests for my show has been pretty easy, in general. Nobody has ever refused to be on the show, although a number of people have had problematic schedules.

Actually, wait - one person declined my invitation, but that was due to being uncomfortable doing an interview in English (it was their second language).

I hear some podcast hosts express difficulty in getting guests, but I'm going to keep riding the "just e-mail and ask" bus until the wheels fall off! Nathan was a great get and a cool guy and I'm really glad I was able to share his story with my listeners. :)
I don't know when I made this change, but apparently I use my middle finger to hold down the starting knot. I tie it exactly as pictured (left hand/yellow string behind, right hand/blue string in front), except starting at step 1 my left hand middle finger is holding down the starting knot. This keeps the tension while tying the knot.
I think that's because the practice has many parallels with bad science. Ascribing a metaphor to the author without any evidence is pretty much an untestable, unfalsifiable hypothesis, and therefore has no value.

If you tell me that author X said that the boat is meant to be a metaphor for the protagonist's life, I will be the first to be excited and read the text looking for all the little easter eggs that the author put in, but without any evidence at all it's just your opinion.

This is also exacerbated by the lengths that people go to stretch their theory, which makes it even more obvious that they're grasping at straws in the face of evidence to the contrary.
This topic gets brought up and beaten to the ground on a regular basis, while the answer seems quite apparent: "No, but then again nothing is." It always struck me as rather odd that tech was seen as some exception where all of the typical powers of politicking, luck, opportunity, and networking/positioning savvy went out the window for some exalted ideal that people would only judge and succeed based on merit.

There may be some draw, I'll grant, in the ability of the individual to have truly massive impact via tech as a force multiplier, but beyond that I've never been convinced as to why tech as an "industry" wouldn't pick up the modus operandi of more matured industries, anti-meritocratic practices and all, once that force multiplier is effectively harnessed, understood, and boxed into just another means for a worker to deliver productive output. All of the same management and incentive structures are relatively comparable across industries.

As is my tendency, this was a bit of a rant, so in summary:
There is certainly some merit based reward in tech, perhaps to a greater degree than in other industries due to the aformentioned single-dev-power. But as in all things this is heavily influenced by the opportunities one is presented and the tools one is able/willing to use. (trying to encapsulate everything from "working overtime" to "playing political games" in this)

The greater question to me seems to be, "how do you unseat those with vested interest and power in maintaining the status quo, if you're playing by a set of rules that they aren't (and are starting at a disadvantage)" (if I may handwave at the recent bigCo wage/hiring collusion), or perhaps more deeply, "is it possible to have a complex societal/corporate structure without there being loopholes/social constructs that can be exploited to detract from there ever being a pure meritocracy, and do we even WANT the constrained system that would allow for this?"
> To me, all the lit stuff seemed completely arbitrary and made up. There were no testable hypothesis, no experiments to run. "The author was trying to tell us that ..." - well unless the author actually documented that later, how do you know that with any degree of certainty?

This seems like a pretty common complaint. You seem to assume that literature should work like science. But the purpose of literature is not to rigorously refine a certain predictive model of the world. I don't want to claim exactly what it is, but maybe the telling of human experiences (and the analysis thereof) provides insights that help people better understand the muddier, less quantitative dimensions of the human world? And to that end, it doesn't matter at all whether a claim is based on what the author intended, as long as it provides some useful insight. (Yes, you _could_ use this to justify any claim at all about any piece of literature, and that's part of what this article is about. A lot of people may be "wrong" about what Frost intended, but it's insightful for them anyway, and that's just fine. Typically, academics expect that claims are based on evidence in the text, but that's still subjective and open to many interpretations.)

Similarly, the most effective way to communicate an idea is not always to present it logically and directly. There's the proverb: "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." IME, it's almost always more effective to communicate an idea by causing the reader to come to it themselves. That's why narratives can be much more effective at communicating truths about human experiences than simply stating it outright. That's (one reason) why the story of Macbeth is more compelling than just telling someone "your obsession with power may make you miserable".
I definitely agree, but the GP was talking about symbolism, which, as far as I know, isn't one of the main ways to evoke emotion.
Deprecating the RC4 Cipher
The employment status of Ubers drivers is a tiny proportion of the impact autonomous cars will have, and to be honest unfavourable legal rulings is factored into their model (Uber seems to be going after 100% of all taxi regiemes, but if they get locked out of only x % - where x is some unknown factor say around 60% - then they are still a vast global cash cow.

But just look at the changes that autonomous cars will have apart from solving Ubers W2 and pension provision:

- 1/3 of major city ground space is parking - replace that with new housing, or nice green parks.

- we think drones will revolutionise delivery - but put a lock box into every cars trunk and add in clever routing software and see what happens - freight and passenger changed the railways. What happens when my commute is merely part of a longer freight haul.

- social effects - an hours commute facing forwards and concentrating suddenly becomes ... Family time? Sleep time? Work time? Sex and drugs and adultery?

- ownership - I own my car. I choose the colours. If Uber buys 1 million cars they won't ask me my opinion - or will I rent my car to them when I am not commuting in it? Will I part own with several others I am fairly certain will not be doing sex and drugs on the nice upholstery?

- it's so big it's scary.

PS - completely agree with the "it's out of the labs into the real world - great !" idea you wrote at top of the page.

PPS

A more useful answer would be that Uber developing autonomous cars to defend against regulatory difficulties is such a huge leap it cannot be defended as a business strategy and only as a VC style investment. These unicorns are not planning on surviving by growing their current business but by starting up totally new ones. It's as if Barclays Bank said, well, we don't need all you employees, we're moving all our assets over to that 12 line peel script over there
You could do that... and Uber could be handle all the fulfillment in "search" mode. Heck, there is precedent with "normal" cars already [1].

[1] https://help.getaround.com/hc/en-us/articles/204371664-Guara...

Under this model, you're just providing capital investment in a depreciating asset in return for special privileges. You'd have to do a cost-benefit analysis to see how it would work out for you. Personally... I'd leave the capital investment in automobiles to others and just pay surge pricing in the few instances where I need immediate transportation.
YC at Hack the North
Perhaps 70% could be LIFO and 30% FIFO. This will give an incentive for people to visit when there is no queue at all, but everyone will eventually get served. The problem would be to uniquely identify someone to avoid cheating.
Taxes and subsidies are two sides of the same coin.
They are often used in conjunction to achieve specific policy ends. If you are pro taxes, you are pro subsidies. Perhaps not on the specific, case-by-case basis, but overall you are arguing for free market distortion through the yin and yang of government policy.

I won't address your specific points as everyone has different opinions on policy, but no one has the data to rigorously defend their opinions.

I simply want to refute the notion that we can allow free markets to allocate all resources within the economy.
UX Design Misconceptions
You may also be interested in Jasper:

http://jasperproject.github.io/documentation/

So you can do voice activated mirrors.
Hah...I mean I think it's a bit arrogant for OP to try and rename all of a company's services. Sure some of them are confusing and could be named better but Amazon is a trailblazer here with lots of these services becoming available on a cloud.

"S3 - Simple Storage Service" describes pretty well what the point of the service is without making strong claims around what it may or may not be. It's a service for storing things; it's not a database or a filesystem. The devil is in the details of course but even when I was really new to cloud services I got the gist of what S3 was supposed to do.
Introducing self-driving cars might harm Uber as well. Drivers might leave en-masse in protest since they're being replaced anyways. If Uber can't roll out SDCs fast enough (maybe parts shortages or whatever) they'll be screwed.

Now that I think about it, Uber might have to stockpile the SDCs and release them all at once.
Fusion Research: Time to Set a New Path –  Robert Hirsch