skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A visit still helps them - it is still counted in server-side stats (which is used to sell ads

This is totally nonsensical. If they have no prospect of recouping the expense they incurred from your visit then you are not helping them, you are worse than worthless to them, you simply cost them money.

> Are you saying it is moral for publishers to track my usage behavior, and to force me to watch any ad they want me to?

You aren't being forced to watch anything. You have the option of leaving their site and living without their content.

Your attitude is the definition of entitlement.
Consider using Primus [1] instead of socket.io, backed with either ws or sockjs.

[1] https://github.com/primus/primus
If you are looking for the fastest possible guide for playing around with Kubernetes check out the vagrant single machine instructions: https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/kubernetes-on-vagr...

This will get you to a "single machine" kubernetes cluster and a working `kubectl` tool in a few minutes.
I think the central concept is believe a smart engineer when he says something can be done, but not always when he says it can't be done.
There are many reasons to use credit cards, and some of what you said is just not accurate:

- The vast majority (probably 95%+) of cards have rewards built in. Everything from miles to redeem on travel and accommodations to the most common being cash back credited against your account. These can range anywhere from 1% to 5% outside of special promotions where you typically get even more.

- They offer increased consumer protection in the form of warranties on items you buy in addition to the manufacturer's warranty.

- They offer increased consumer protection in the handling of charge backs, fraud prevention and being able to easily dispute charges (typically online).

- Of course if a card is stolen the number is invalidated and the physical card replaced - I don't know where you got the idea that this doesn't happen.

- None of this is at direct cost to the customer - assuming you pay off your statement balance prior to the due date, you are not charged interest and unless you have a card with an annual fee (most do not and if you have even decent credit it's trivial to upgrade to a card without one) all these features are free.
Not when it's Ann Richards
Very different in the US.

US consumer protection laws treat credit and debit cards differently. They favor credit cards. The gap between the two is up to the goodwill of your bank.

I prefer to rely on law than goodwill. I have never had a problem with getting a refund on a credit card charge I claimed was fraud.

I have no idea why people choose to use a debit card over a credit card here.
Is it all frontend? I have experience with all of those but really prefer backend or, even better, operations roles.

What operating systems and platforms do you use?
When Microsoft sold the Xenix license to SCO it took its payment in stock. Mircosoft owned ~25% of SCO during these legal battles.
That's one of the problems I have in this debate. "How can we have the best advertising possible?" includes the premise "We should have advertising", which is probably not true, for the very best values of society.

It's one way to monetize the world, but not the only way, I hope desperately that I see a day when ad companies are remembered like telegraph companies.
U.S. Stocks Fall as Rate Decision Spurs Global Economy Concerns
I wouldn't be surprised that Bobby has a pleasant demeanour in real life, but ElComradio's point is also valid. The nerds, when they harbour resentment against the jocks, are playing the same power game as the jocks ... and as such are, ultimately, no better than the jocks themselves (except for the jocks being more successful). As Eric Fromm said: "There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."
Medical problems are difficult to class action because they are so distributed and so private.

Earlier this year a doctor killed a family member of mine by telling her, across multiple visits in the same week, her swollen ankle was a sprain and to just rest. It was actually a blood clot due to being overweight and on birth control pills. The day after her last visit, she threw a PE and died alone on her couch.

Another doctor told another family member his chest pains were end-stage cancer and he would die within a month. A second opinion showed it was mesothelioma treatable by state-of-the-art radiotherapy delivered by only one lab in the country. He's still alive two years later.

I've probably got another half dozen stories just from immediate relatives about doctors seemingly doing random or nonsensical things instead of driving proper diagnoses and/or treatments forward.

Doctors are in general awful unless you can afford to buy an entire private "council of doctors" to consult and berate each other into actually getting shit done.
I've been there and often am there. The problem for me is that I consume too much irrelevant and useless content. Browsing reddit, HN and other sites, reading many news stories and blog posts, all of this impacts how much actual work I can do and how much I can learn that is really relevant to my work. So to be more productive you have to select what you think is important to read and realize you can only read so much in a day until your brain says "stop".

But to achieve productivity you have to learn discipline. Motivation doesn't last and there are no "tricks" or shortcuts to being productive if you want long-term benefits. As Jim Rohn said "suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret".
This is actively malicious. There had better be criminal charges filed.
the internal mechanism of how a computer does it seems like
mere trivia/jargon rather than anything fundamentally
important to intelligence. A computer may have reading
comprehension without having it in exactly the same way that
a human does.

Yes, it is trivia what we decide to call it, and computers may someday have "intelligence" or "sentience" without having it in the same way that we do. However I think mechanically structuring data and building a querying tool over that cannot be considered "intelligence" or "comprehension" in the sense we seem to speak of here.

since it's pretty clear computers can handle the
"informational retrieval" side of reading, we should now be
focused on generating a "world model" based on text.

Yes, that's what Google's working on with Knowledge Graph. It's quite good, it's integrated with search already.
From the title I readily thought about the Windows kernel and how it can't be tweaked and recompiled and improved like Linux. Now I know better...
I sent the site over to our lead designer. He wants to crank one out on our prototyping table in the next couple of days to try it out. We may be able to figure pricing pretty easy.

It's two medium-ish sheets of double wall so board cost probably is less than $50 even with the laminating. The rest is all the variable costs.. labor, production, transport, and the SGA.

They could go lower but at the moment I imagine they don't have the scale to get the costs lower and their market isn't established yet.

$250 is definitely cheaper than the standup desks we have - those things are pricey. Really anything marketed as office furniture is over priced.

For home or SOHO, I think it's value is for more of a novelty or for making your office stand out. Kind of like those ridiculously over priced Herman Miller chairs...
> Go to Microsoft Learning, you'll find lots of JavaScript tutorials (NodeJS or WinJS or Angular)

And also quite a bit of Python, including general language courses, Django, Python/Flask/SQL, Python w/MongoDB, etc.

> When Microsoft decided to hire people behind IronRuby and IronPython, I thought they decided to adopt those languages but that didn't last long before they cut them loose...

Microsoft is still a significant backer of Python, not just a PSF sponsor, but also directly employing Python core devs, and doing a lot of direct support for Python. [0]

IronPython and IronRuby weren't Microsoft adopting the Ruby and Python languaegs, they were efforts to alternatives to the core implementations of those languages tied to the .NET platform.

[0] See, e.g., http://pycon.blogspot.com/2015/03/for-microsoft-python-suppo...
You would be surprised at how unreasonable people can be once you start talking about taking a percentage of money they get (be it donations or business revenue or something else).

It's the financial equivalent of having a tumor that will kill you and refusing the surgery because the doctor says you have a chance of dying on the table.
Statistically significant means statistically significant and is independent of sample size. If your p-value is less than 0.01, then there's less than a 1% chance that the pattern you're seeing is due to random fluctuations of the variable itself that you cannot predict.

The problem is that the statistical model (in my field we do a lot of ANOVA and t-tests, along with the occasional chi-square) can only account for what you model. So there could be some kind of systematic error that influences your results in a fashion that is not modeled by the statistics. Having a large-N study makes it harder to have that systematic error (but not impossible - as an example: look at complaints about how much psychological and cognitive science research is only on WEIRD subjects - western, educated, industrial, rich, developed).

The other problem, of course, is that one time in a hundred, you'll get a p < 0.01 significant result by chance. Which is a lot in the long run. Worse, you can induce type two errors by running hundreds of trials (or testing hundreds of variables) and not accounting for that - just pick the one thing that had significant results on a single test. This approach is unscrupulous, but not unheard of in academic circles where you need to publish tons of work to get promoted.
No, Billy hid his pre-existing company from the team. Bobby doesn't have himself to 'blame' for this deception. It's perfectly valid for him to respond the way he has.
This is really funny to me.

First, the Fed tries to not spook the markets by raising interest rates, deciding instead that the market would do better if interest rates stayed near zero. Then, the market gets spooked by the Fed's decision to not spook them, visualizing the previously noticed yet ignored global economic weakness.

How is it possible to make sane economic policy decisions when the market is perpetually a skittish deer?
They're certainly refocusing but Azure and Office 365 are both growing rapidly. Of course, they're cannibalizing their own stuff. The interesting question is the effect on revenues a few years down the line....

Microsoft has also overtaken IBM in annual turnover, having given it a $50 billion/year start. That means it's refocusing from a healthier financial position, at the moment. It remains to be seen whether Nadella can do as well as Ballmer, who tripled turnover and doubled profits. That's quite a challenge.
Immediate Railways – 256 byte demo
I'm an engineer so I can't really give you an ETA in public. You could certainly talk to one of our sales or product people about it.

The thing you need to remember is that you do have options. If you choose a gateway with good fraud tools, or a gateway that integrates with them, we upstream that information to you. Traditionally Recurly has left fraud up to the gateway because they are much better at dealing with it, but we are now seeing the need to offer some more professional fraud tools by default at the Recurly level.

Feel free to email me if you want to have a discussion about it: ben@recurly.com
>Please don't suggest micropayments, people don't want to pay anything to read a website.

If no businesses can profit/sustain off ads and this is the only avenue to obtain any content - people will pay. Or they'll go without content. When there is no content - there will be a demand for content. And people will pay.

If there are sites that can sustain off ads and still produce content that people view - and you can't do that - you're fucked. Too bad. That's business and unfortunately your competitor is beating you at it. There is nothing wrong with that.
Yes, the community is working hard to make k8s scale to 1000s of machines and beyond. There is a great blog post about the engineering effort from the various communities (k8s, etcd) to make this happen: http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/09/kubernetes-performance-mea...

In fact someone recently made a video showing a 1000 machine cluster; let me find that.

UPDATE: here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWv9sVTIYQ
Do you think that Billy being muscular or confident or saying stuff is gay has a lot to do with the business dealings?

Author is stuck in high school.
This is a pointless distraction from the issue at hand but most free e-books are thinly veiled ads themselves. Their objective is to get you to pay for the author's products or seminars or whatever. It's quite different from the discussion here.
Pro Leagues Embrace a Big-Payout Evolution in Fantasy Sports
"NVC" and "Active Listening" are jargon, and not terribly impressive jargon - I'll warrant that.

But "oppressive language?" That just seems like a good descriptor of a communications style that we all encounter from time to time. That's the reason these "systems" have picked it up.
San Diego Hacker News Meetup 66 Next Friday 9/25
The guys who did the hack chose the Jeep exactly for this reason -- an unregulated data pipe between the entertainment computer and the critical-systems computer. They analysed hundreds of cars and chose the worst-designed one they could find.
Volkswagen ordered to recall 500,000 cars due to emissions cheating
We don't make money on this particular product.
Is it more oppressive to utter two words or kick someone out of a social gathering?
Yeah it's definitely hyperbole most of the time. In Uber's case it might be more truth than hyperbole though, since the taxi racket is pretty widespread, and they're actually changing how people travel (which is something large swaths of people do).
I'm in the UK and I'm used to it - used to it being a crock of shit.

It's a complete flip of a coin whether the dodgy collection of forwards and cookies and iframes will go wrong somewhere, and such failures are always handled in the most user-hostile ways. I can completely understand why Amazon and so many other retailers just don't bother with it.
Algenol – First to Sell Algae-Based Fuel in Florida
Sometimes I wonder if we're having problems due to trying to make a successful AI. If you really think about it human thought is a culmination of failures from both an evolutionary standpoint and a life-experience standpoint.

Aiming to have AI successfully identify, say, dog breeds better than humans can could be a mistake that we are making.
> A $100M company takes years to build. You think in 2020, if these guys walk away from the table with $400k each for ~20 hours of work they did in 2015, that's reasonable?

Yes?

It's a lottery ticket with less than a million-to-one odds. The expected value of the hypothetical payout is arguably lower than 20 hours of contract work.
Even the scrap that gets cut off and punched out is sucked into an air return that gets mashed into a big bundle. We ship those back to RockTenn for cash. Corrugated gets used over and over.

"Corrugated is the single most recycled packaging material: 91 percent of corrugated produced in 2012 was recovered for recycling, and almost all of that material was recycled into new products." - http://www.corrugated.org/ViewPage.aspx?ContentID=38
Blabbed about curl at Google
Cisco, Backdoors, and speculation on the matter
I have no contribution in it .Its by Koushik Dutta , Koush[1].YOu should check out his other projects too.I use his apps on a regular basis.

[1]:http://koush.com/
Installation of discourse isn't that hard. But it's overshadowed by your behavior banning all TDWTF users from your support forum, hiding bug threads, etc.
Embracing Language Diversity
Or just push it to GitHub. Git records the author of each commit with it, assuming you've set up your .gitconfig correctly. In the absence of a contract stating otherwise, copyright remains with the person who wrote each part of the work. 'git blame' will show exactly who wrote what. GitHub gives you a third-party, subpoenable, record of who committed when.
> 20-30% covers risk to absurdity

No, it pretty much covers uncollateralised default risk and pre-payment risk.

If it were otherwise, for example, if were a cartel keeping the prices up artificially, then you would expect the same thing from the collateralised market, no? YMMV but my credit card rate is ~25% and my house secured rate is ~3%. The only difference is the house; lender and borrower are the same.

The other argument against undercutting the market and making billions is a variant of the Fermi paradox: why isn't everyone doing it? Maybe not you or me but an institution that can borrow a lot at bugger all, or is cash rich, would hoover up. Or at least drive the rate down substantially.

If there were only one or 2 players then, fine, you could have a big illiquidity premium but there aren't. There are loads of players. In the UK, cash rich companies like the supermarket chains have got involved and have had some impact but it's small, primarily squeezing operational costs and profit margin. But the cards are still running at rates substantially over base.
That is a succinct validation of that 'curse'. App store full of beautiful, worthless apps? Because nobody can tell which idea is a good one. Thus, marginal value of 'idea' is pretty near zero.

Go to any 'meetup', its almost all 'idea people' and no tech talent. That means, its very hard to find that talent.

It doesn't take a 'dream team', no, but it does take some team at all. To get that, you have to convince Engineers your idea is good. Almost as hard as convincing the money men.

So lets reword: its hard to get the money, and hard to recruit the talent. That leaves the ideas, which are a dime a dozen. Clear?
While other have insisted on how that photo is a technology feast, taken from billions of miles away, from something we have never seen before, it's also breathtaking from what it shows: a multilayered atmosphere, completely unique in the Solar System; mountains of water ice next to vast plains of what may be ice nitrogen, also features never seen before on any other body of the Solar System. Before July, many people thought that maybe we would see just another round rock full of craters, ala Mercury, nobody expected what we see now. How many times in your adult life a photo has shown you something that you could never have imagined before?

On top of that, the backlit quality of the photo makes the relief jump at you in a staggering way. It's not like the pictures taken from above, where you can see the same features from very high, in a detached way. Here the landscape just feel real, like if you were there looking at it. Also it gives a sense of the size of the mountains, especially compared to the curvature of the horizon.
I can't believe such a large company would cheat like that. I think there must be more to this. Maybe a rogue employee?
I have a radical suggestion for your problem :)..

Buy one of those cute robots in the house things.. Have the user speak to these robots instead of generally speaking into the room.. It feels a lot more natural for human beings and feels less weird since you wont have a feeling of talking to an evil bot that lives in the ether and knows everything about you.
I had that same feeling rather early on when I reached this:

> Opponents have frequently maintained that an interspecies gene transfer done in a laboratory—the insertion of a bacterial gene into corn to make it insect-resistant, for example—would never occur naturally and is therefore unethical and potentially unsafe.

> The new study, published Thursday in the journal PLOS Genetics, undermines that argument.

> "You realize that nature is creating genetically modified organisms all the time,” said Salvador Herrero, a geneticist at the University of Valencia, Spain, and co-author of the study. “It’s not so weird to transfer genes from one organism to another.

I don't see how these results undermine the argument in any way, _whatsoever_, Mr. Naik.

The only way it can undermine an anti-GMO agenda is to "equate" human genetic modifications to nature's genetic modifications. The gene vectors we create are different.

Herrero's point laid out here also appears taken out of the scope of the results of the original study. Or, more accurately, Herrero's point was taken out of context by the authors of the WSJ piece.
It seems like, in light of the mathematical proof, it may be reasonable to say "does not contain exploitable software vulnerabilities".

Unfortunately, it's true that might not be enough to prevent attacks in some settings. For example, see Govindavajhala and Appel's "Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine".

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf

In this case, they show that even given correct software safety guarantees, they can write a program which requires only one bit flip in any of a large number of RAM locations in order to achieve privilege escalation or violate the safety guarantees. They can then heat or irradiate the DRAM chips and make such a bit flip likely to occur. Since they can't control which bit will flip, it might sometimes crash the computer, but it's more likely to make their attack succeed.

So, one thing to study with systems like this is whether hardware fault injection can compromise the security guarantees in a way that would allow an attack to succeed.
This is a good idea, because it also avoids all those transportation or mining related results you often get with general "rails" or "ruby" searches.

I'm not entirely joking. I do the same thing you do (using ActiveRecord), but the way I got there was 1) searching "rails", 2) throwing in a term like ActiveRecord to avoid unrelated results, and final 3) realizing that "rails" was no longer necessary for the search.
> If there is no way to get paid for producing quality content, no one is going to produce quality content.

I don't think this statement (or the contrary) was ever proven true. I'm absolutely sure the problem is awfully complicated and we can't simplify it as "no money - no quality content", especially as some sort of universal dogma.

That said, if anyone knows of any research/experiment in this area, they're most welcome to share a link.
It's one of the best stories I've read on HN in a wild.

My question is - why did not he take off his life suite as soon as he get out of the water? Since t was filled with water, having it on your body will only increase effect of freezing, no?
> Are you saying it's moral for you to read their content but circumvent their business model?

This is the best argument I've heard so far for not blocking ads. Thank you for putting it so succinctly.
How would this benefit Volkswagen? The article says the device activates emissions control systems when it detects the car is being tested... so it's not as if they're saving money by emulating a system they're not manufacturing.
What database people?

Maybe those dealing with low value, fluff data in their attempt to be the next social media breakout, but for those of us who work with data containing anything with real business value, inconsistent == corrupt. No other definition is sufficient.
The GPL isn't "cancerous. If you must use a negative biological term to do the work of smearing it, try "congenital".