skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credentials or other secrets aren't a good idea for the environment variables.

I know I'm not the only one who thinks so... Here's what the Docker security lead says about it: "When you store your secret keys in the environment, you are prone to accidentally expose them"

Details are here:
https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9176#issuecomment-9954...

In many cases the env vars are stored in files and those files have the same problem regular config files have when they are checked in to a repo :-)
GP is incorrect. HBP has only blown through 200 million dollars. It is planned to blow through a billion Euros over the course of a decade.
I don't know about the source (would be interested to know if anyone has more information) but the app was releases as part of a humble bundle along with other games and a voxel tech demo: http://blog.humblebundle.com/post/13163342831/introducing-th...

I love the stuff Introversion does.
"If someone tells you “coding is the new literacy” because “computers are everywhere today,” ask them how fuel injection works. By teaching low-level coding, I worry that we are effectively teaching our children the art of automobile repair."

I think this article misses the point that "fuel injection" and other vocational skills are nowhere near as prolific and impactful as code on daily life.
Would you personally adopt a six-hour workday? Assuming you got paid 25% less? (Also assuming you currently only work eight hours, which may be a stretch.)

I wouldn't, not at this stage in my life anyway. I'm all for flexibility, but that goes both ways.
I recognized it quickly because I implemented a version of the paper as a project 10 years ago during college. (And made a very similar webpage as my final report.) Your username makes me suspect you might also have more than a passing familiarity with the paper - is that so?? :)
What should I do after college if I have a dream to persue?
Interesting proposition though; can Google's search algorithm's ranking be construed as libel or something legal like that? Has anyone ever sued Google for lost business, and won?
Ask HN: Anyone know anything about Skillify?
These folks came to my kid's school to promote their program. When I see stuff like this my alarms go up quickly. By the time you are through their three level program they are into you for almost $1,200. Who knows if three will be other expenses along the way.

While not opposed to prepping kids for the real world (which is what they purport to do) I try to be very careful about this stuff. These days high school kids get hit with marketing from every imaginable angle and some one might not imagine.

I'd appreciate feedback on this from anyone on HN who might know a thing or two about this service. Here's a link:

http://www.skillifynow.com/programs/

My first reaction is that it could be a total waste of time and money.
The WALL-E future is now, just not evenly distributed.
Constructivists reject the notion of an integer whose value is not known (more precisely, whose value cannot be computed in finite time) so there is no room to even ask of "it" is odd.

Infinite vs finite is an important distinction. A fact that takes infinite time to prove is not constructive and is likewise not computable.
Where In Our Solar System Are We Most Likely To Find Life?
Looks cool! One question - Why android switches on an iphone app? Is it just for the screenshot?
It would be cooler, easier, and would yield better battery life to reprogram an Amazon Dash Button [1] to do this. Most Samsung TVs can be controlled from the network side, as well as with an IR remote.[2]

Of course, the Netflix button just brings up power and puts you at the Netflix menu. At that point, you need another device to tell Netflix what you want. Authorized Netflix-compatible TVs already have a Netflix button.

So the logical thing is to have something listening to the TV's state to dim the lights, close curtains, and such. There are home theater accessories for that.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=10667898011
[2] http://www.gemote.org/
He had a short TV show that I loved (also called Connections)
Reminds me of the Vonnegut quote from Cat's Cradle:

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.”
I couldn't even focus on the product after seeing this ridiculousness:

http://imgur.com/soIclkv

Why would a phone have both capacitive navigation buttons and onscreen navigation buttons? Are they intentionally trying to be funny?
Like the Amazon Dash Button, this is a great reminder of how hardware is still useful in the age of touchscreen interfaces.
Could the U.S. adopt an eight-hour workday? In my experience no.
Paradoxes of Data Science
Humans have 92% DNA commonality with mice, and 98% commonality with chimpanzees. There's a lot of handwaving about how special humans are, but it's not showing up at the genetic level.
Decorators in Python are basically special syntax for higher-order functions, so I don't think there's much there to evaluate. The lambda calculus is usually used when you want to ignore syntax.

Introductory resources on programming language theory usually have examples, after giving you a thorough grounding in the basic untyped lambda calculus. In particular, this is how they usually introduced type system features, but there are interesting things like continuations that don't necessarily involve types. Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin Pierce is a great resource, but you can probably find free lecture notes to the same effect. (I'd look them up, but I'm on my phone so it's a bit of a hassle.)

The most interesting non-introductory (but still self-contained) example I've seen was Barry Jay's Pattern Calculus book. He introduces pattern matching and first class patterns, first without types and then with, all building upon the lambda calculus. His ideas cover functional, imperative and object-oriented features, and it's fascinating to see a whole language developed piece-by-piece like that. If you're curious about PL theory and want to dive pretty deep, I think this is a book worth looking at.
The purpose of a six hour workday is that you wouldn't get paid 25% less.
The entire health sector is rotten to the core. The fate of two of my friends is a great example of where priories lay.

One is a registered nurse. She has seen her overall compensation shrink over the last 5 years as hospitals merge into regional cartels and medical practices consolidate. These cartel entities play rough, breaking unions and shipping in visiting nurses to keep wages low. Fortunately, her husband got a job with better insurance -- her family plan on his insurance costs less than her individual coverage.

The other person is a pharma sales rep. She makes about 2-3x the nurse, gets a car, and usually wins 1-2 vacations to beach resorts or Vegas every year. For awhile it was peddling a viagra competitor, now she has a stable of different drugs to push.

So when I hear about of the money needed for "research", from companies with huge sales forces pulling down $100-150k plus cars, etc... My first thought is "bullshit"
A friend created this one
http://loopjs.com/
The strongest case for lost business due to Google (it was Maps though, not search) that I'm aware of was: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/08/restaurant.... Unsure what the outcome was.
Akka Streams: Streaming Data Transformation à la Carte
I'm afraid not.
Right. Yes. I believe I said that here:

powered by exhaust gasses, which is known as a "turbocharger"

Yes, a lot of energy goes out the exhaust and turbochargers use some of it to compress air for the intake. Even with that there's still energy wasted out the exhaust. If it is hot and makes noise there's energy going out the exhaust. Principle of Conservation of Energy.

At the most basic level thermodynamic machines are about max delta T.
Title is clickbait and inaccurate - they raised €550k at 100,000 users.
So they bootstrapped until 100k users (still a great achievement), but hardly to 4mil users as the title would suggest.
I do recall SEO/Ad spammers have sued Google, but they lost.
You mean the way Obama remarked he didn't know how to say something in Austrian, or how he hadn't been to all 57 states?

If you follow anyone around with a microphone 24/7 you're going to come up with some pretty dumb stuff.
Electric wiring is a vocation that is far more important than coding and yet society isn't constantly encouraging everyone to be an electrician.
Nothing you're saying makes any sense.

> since the mass of the photon acts exactly like mass in most things except when dealing with change in velocity

Right: inertia. Funny that.

The fact that photons are affected by gravitational fields, even though they're massless, was a major victory for the theory of general relativity. It wouldn't be a big deal if you could just say the photon has mass. Because it doesn't.

A photon is massless. Fullstop. To say otherwise is to use a nonstandard definition of "mass". At best, people won't know what you're talking about. At worst, they will assume you don't. You should be more specific next time.
SF Mission Anti-Eviction Block Party Targets Serial Evictor
We seem to be moving the opposite direction: fewer people working longer hours. It is part a consequence of the fact that there are fixed costs per employee which make it more cost effective to have one employee work 80 hours a week than have 2 employees work 40 hours a week each. It is also the case that more jobs require extensive training, skills and experience that are scarce. I don't society should encourage anyone who spent 20 years learning something useful in school (e.g., surgeons) to work only 6 hours a day ...
If they wanted the peasants away, they wouldn't charge zero tuition for peasants and keep 70% of the seats open. The legacies pay tuition for the peasants.
I too am a happy Evernote user, for text-only note-taking. Prior to Evernote, I used Xnippet, a mac-app which wasn't well supported. Evernote is a big part of my work flow, and I'd hate to see it go away. I find all the other features (web-clipping, image-editing) superfluous, and it feels like they are concentrating too much on the fluff features. Every time there is an update, it feels like they are adding more features I don't need.
Coincidentally, if you're thinking of adding pattern matching to the underlying calculus (not just as syntactic sugar), the book I mentioned in another comment (Pattern Calculus) is worth a look. The author explores what a language could look like of patterns were first-class and used to express arbitrary computations.

At the very least, it could be fun to have an extended version of the system (or a plugin of some sort, perhaps) using his ideas about pattern matching.
The President is "elite" by any reasonable definition . amd Barack Obama went to Harvard Law, which is OPs textbook example of an elite position.

The key is that Obama and Clinton were selfmade, while Jeb Bush plowhorsed through life doing what he was told and riding the Bush family name train. (GWB actually worked a bit harder -- at politics -- to be the leading Bush of his generation)
I don't know really, but I was under the same impression, python taking over. That wouldn't be surprising since it's a more general, more expressive, more known language that has been embedded in many other softwares (blender comes to mind)
Exactly: food is fungible, and the threshold to compete is "to have some land on which food can grow".
It doesn't matter either way. Google doesn't distribute their software (except for android, chrome, etc... which does have sources available).
Why the Floppy Disk Is Still Used Today
The proposal is for a six hour day with no change in pay. Quoting one of the articles referred to on the article: "The 1990s saw several experiments with the six-hour day for a full wage in Sweden."[1]

The theory is that people should be based on work output, rather than hours input, and the six hour day typically sees an increase in productivity, so the output is maintained and the pay is maintained.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/efficiency-up-t...
The whole industry? There's quite a few companies that sell hardware and software. This company being one of them.
I'm surprised a person as knowledgeable about the field as Mr. Atwood would write a column that seemingly endorses the notion that Computer Science == Coding/Programming. The public already has a large misunderstanding regarding this point (not to mention the difference between IT and CS). And I think politicians are under the impression that teaching students to code is the same as teaching them computer science. I'm disappointed to say the least that Mr. Atwood would further encourage this misconception that does serious damage to public discourse. We can't discuss a subject when we don't understand its terms/definition.
I know people usually equate WiFi with "The Internet", but the distinction is important; in particular, if Facebook's misleadingly-named Internet.org wanted to "put WiFi in train stations", they could say the same thing, but it'd just be like one big LAN. In this case, however, it really does appear to be the full Internet:

"We’d like to help get these next billion Indians online—so they can access the entire web, and all of its information and opportunity"

On the other hand, it makes sense for Google since most people use it for the search engine; "free Google access" is not very useful if you're not able to actually visit any sites in the search results.
Seriously.

But I'd rather formalize the 10 hr workday and switch to 4x10s. I think it's superior to 5x8s because you can get longer continuous periods of work and an extra day to actually rest/recover.

I don't really see 6 hr days working in office jobs. With emails, meetings and lunch, I feel like I don't really get going until 3pm.
I think a big part of it is that the expectation is that college/university is training you for your career. It's not. University especially, is learning for learning's sake. Why do companies care about a degree then? They want you to show you can learn.

In the same way, extra-curricular activities show that you care, and that you're motivated. Same with dressing well, and learning how to interact with people. If all you have are technical skills, you're this centuries' version of a factory worker. You can be a cog in the wheel (maybe even a moderately well paid one), but nothing more.
Adapt or Die (How news is different)
Americans have paid a heavy price for this in terms of large reduction in the number of new pharmaceuticals coming to market, long delays for new cures, and, of course, huge price increases.

See "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman.
Java – FileSystem Requirements Mapping
Get more netflix to your life !!
I think you have a typo. They raised €550K at 100,000 users.
Experiment: Firebase and WebGL Globe
Kindle – The Sleeping Social Network
On what basis could you judge Wheeler favorably? Because he backed down after a monumental backlash from the public combined with several very powerful and wealthy corporations?

Wheeler can't claim credit for net neutrality after attempting to destroy net neutrality and losing.
Plenty of interesting ideas given by the author. I wonder how likely it is that someone at Amazon reads this and starts a similar effort.
I just googled you too.

Sorry, I have nothing else to say, except: damn, you look so cool.
Only HTTP is text based. TCP, IP, and link-layer protocols are binary.

HTTP is text based because it is a protocol for transferring (hyper)text and so was intended to be human readable like hypertext is.
There's a huge difference between shooting a person and forgetting a password.

Further, any random assortment of bits is potentially an encrypted volume. At least with a murder there is a body. With a "forgotten" password -- or a password you never had to begin with because there is no encrypted volume -- nothing bad has to happen. So it's far more likely to be abused to put people behind bars that "we know did it" but where the police or whoever can't get them on anything else. Like how mobsters often go to jail for tax evasion rather than the violent stuff.
Killing Primitive Loops and Conditionals (2010)
No, because the workplace in the US is too focused on competition. Workers try to put in more face time than the other guy, to climb the ladder and out-do their neighbours and co-workers. If everyone is forced to work the same amount of hours, how are they going to out-do others? BTW, the average workday in the US is currently over 9 hours.
There's a distinction between going out and censoring people, and not letting them post anything they want on your domain.
I think conscious isn't a binary yes/no kind of property. It's more a range, where you can put humans arbitrarily at 1.0 and then a mouse might be 0.05 or something like that. It certainly has self-awareness of somekind, even basic biological homeostasis requires self-awareness of a limited kind.

Other animals then present more consciousness, like chimps, dolphins, elephants etc and would place somewhere between the mouse and humans.
Also because it's a stressed member, which is significantly easier to build in a V layout than a flat layout.

The lower CoG thing with flat engines is kind of a myth. You end up with the exhaust headers below the engine, so the engine sits higher than an equivalent V layout engine would.
Given the famines that regularly happen in countries that don't have free market food supplies, I wouldn't take it as a given that food is implicitly plentiful.

The inexpensive prices for drugs cited in the article happened before the US government got heavily involved with running the health care industry. Maybe that's a coincidence, but I doubt it.
It looks like a lot of good work went into spacy - I hope that you are sucessful monetizing it with the MIT license.
Lack of evidence is not evidence of lacking. You'd have to do a lot better than that to disprove the most successful scientific theory of all time.
> Have you ever done any Windows NT kernel driver development? Compared to OS X (xnu) kexts or Linux, it's a disaster.

I have done NT drivers and linux kernel modules. I disagree with your statement. Can you be more specific?

I'm not saying there are no warts in NT, but your comment doesn't demonstrate any knowledge of where they are.
Breaking down a Ford recall with stats
-> One concern would be if this provides a larger userbase to Baidu to be used by the Chinese government for attacks against folks like github again.

You are talking about 3 separate issues here:

a larger userbase to Baidu - most likely

Baidu being used by the Chinese government - maybe

Chinese government for attacks against folks like github again - some serious assumptions here, accusations != facts
Real-Time Noise-Aware Tone Mapping
Wouldn't all these problems disappear if the entire drug industry was nationalized? Once you remove the profit angle, there is no more incentive to raise prices dramatically, make minute changes to a molecule to extend your patents, or only focus research on medicine which is the most likely to make money.
Your tax dollars do not fund drug R&D. Think KickStarter for issues that matter to us.
On the one band, Baidu's cloud service was serving malicious builds of XCode last week.

On the other hand, they were only being downloaded because within China Baidu is fast and anywhere else in the world is slow. At best, Win10 adoption in China can skyrocket if it can be installed easier. At worst, it's a modified version in Win10 riddled with backdoors.
Gamifying adds an artificial layer of motivation unto the educational experience. Some people accept this artificiality; others don't. You need to know if your target audience will.
I had this conversation with a person who is studying medicine.

There is obviously a limit to human mental cognition.

The idea that More years studying = better Doctor, has anyone done any conclusive study on this ?

Most doctors will tell you that it would be madness to try to cut the time doctors spend in training - and that we should be extending it. But I fail to see how a single profession could be so much more complex then say quantum physicist.

I think doctors and society would be better off if we reduced the learning curve and figured out how to more effectively distribute the workload among more doctors.

Doctors already have high sucide rates and very low job satisfaction. And I bet its because of how long they work and the stress that comes from taking so much debt throughout one's life. Also the fact that doctors marry latter.

We should try to build work around life rather than the other way round.

It seems absurd to me that doctors need to choose between living their lives and their proffesional career.
Not all websites are https enabled.
These are very good points. I'll be honest, I don't have a lot of experience with SmartStack, but I'll be reviewing it.

As far as caching, ideally you'd have no caching, however, certain optimizations can be made on this front, such as combining in-flight-and-duplicate queries.

Load balancing could be done via the SRV records, but that would be difficult since it requires that you republish the SRV record. This could be done every minute or so based on load but not on a per-request basis.

Thanks for your insightful comment!
Ask HN: What do you think about internet.org – free basic internet by Facebook?
Is it really internet or intranet?

If Mark really wants to connect world via free internet why he cant give restriction free internet with limit of some Mbs instead of such walled garden?

Collaboration with internet.org today seems free, can they charge website owners once they gain monopoly?
Which government social programs fund the $161B in pharmaceutical R&D? How do you and I have a direct say on how that money is spent?

What we need is a direct competitor to government. I am all for government regulating what is safe/unsafe to consume/use/inject in your body. However I would like for us to fund development and have/give free access to the discoveries.
Real-Time Topic Models for Crisis Counseling (2014) [pdf]
OMG. Bush has been out of office for 6 years already. “It’s Bush’s fault” is not a legitimate response, and almost never was. I’m not saying he was good for the country, oh no not at all, but you can’t blame this on him. This partisanship is a disease on the nation.

Many of the tricks are there because math in the US has traditionally been taught for repetitive manual use. You need your accounts calculated, you get somebody to add all those numbers and put the result on paper. I was just looking at a math book from the 1940s, and the first couple chapters are all shortcuts to doing multi-digit multiplication and stuff. Math education has not caught up to a reality filled with abundant accurate computing power.

This horrible way of teaching math really is the most common way it is taught in America, and it has been so ever since schools were started in America. Not all those tricks are common, especially things like horses and Jesus fish. Those stupid drawings are only a desperate attempt to use a mnemonic to memorize a rote procedure.

Every previous effort I’ve noticed has tried to eliminate this problem and failed. New Math in the 1960s. Reform Math in the 1990s. Everyday Math in the 2000s. The problem is not in the exact curriculum used. A good teacher with enough autonomy can teach well with any of these curricula. Obviously, there is a problem somewhere between concept and implementation.