skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clicked on it hoping that this is a new browser feature that I can access from the web page via JavaScript... but this is just a dev tool. I hope that this feature will eventually appear, currently taking snapshots from the client side is a major pain point.
It would require changes to the core of the protocol itself, and that all deployments update to a version of the app that implements those changes. Pretty hard, yet possible.
They completely avoided this question in their reddit AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3mzrl9/hi_im_hiroshi_...
Don't forget the song is in a very simple form (basic chords and melody) and is incomplete. It will sound a lot more acceptable I think when it is put together in a proper arrangement at the end.

Personally, I wouldn't say it is awful. I think it is surprisingly coherent.

Regarding Great Man Theory, I find it hard to be convinced about that. Doesn't linking to a Wikipedia link rather than say Britannica illustrate that the crowd has produced a more useful source of information than the experts in this case :)
For comparison, from the WHO:

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.688

As always I'd say that you'd have to be particularly pessimistic to believe these numbers. To hit these numbers would require the present revolution in capabilities in biotechnology to produce pretty much nothing of practical use. It would require the present sea change in the aging research and broader medical community in attitudes towards aging, the growing advocacy among researchers to treat aging as a medical condition (e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4468941/ ), and greater funding directed specifically at the production of ways to treat aging, all of that to go nowhere.

I don't think that is realistic. There are startups now working on ways to repair the specific known causes of aging, forms of damage that contribute to a wide range of age-related disease. Oisin Biotech for senescent cell clearance, Human Rejuvenation Technologies for clearance of metabolic waste that contributes to atherosclerosis among other conditions, Gensight for mitochondrial DNA repair, and so forth. Is all this really going to go nowhere, have no real impact on the present very gentle upward slope in life expectancy?

Betting against leaps in technology progress doesn't seem a winning choice given the past 150 years and the present environment especially.
PwC, and other Big 4 and even small accounting firms in the UK already have a school leavers program.

You join the firms out of school, they will ask you to register with ICAEW/ACCA and study to become a chartered accountant (CPA in the US), the firm will provide you with books, exam fees and tuition fees while you earn on the job. After three years while your peers finishing up at university you will have a solid work history with great qualifications with no debt. You can even get a degree if you join ACCA for just ₤200 for submitting a thesis and no additional exams.

While in the US, to become a CPA, you would need masters level education in most cases to even appear for the CPA exams. UK and almost all commonwealth countries have programs and institutes that offer professional qualification opportunities with even more prestige than the average university route. Accountancy is one of the few fields where one can get-qualified-on-job in the Anglosphere (US, Canada excluded).

ICAEW : http://careers.icaew.com/school-students-leavers

ACCA : http://www.accaglobal.com/uk/en/qualifications/accountancy-c...

ACCA + B.Sc (Hons.) :http://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/help/oxford-brookes.html
> People with genuine talent in the industry have extremely little to worry about...

This is probably true in just about any industry. But you're ignoring the fact that most people employed in tech don't have the kind of "genuine talent" to which you refer.

There are a lot of average/mediocre developers (who are not "no-talent temporary programmers") making six-figures building and maintaining run-of-the-mill CRUD apps at venture-backed startups who at some point are not going to be able to hop to another six figure job when their startup runs out of cash.
Agree - rate of energy release is everything.

A pound of hamburger releases about 1152 kcal, or about 4.8 megaJoules of energy when metabolized over a day or so after it's eaten.

One pound of TNT releases about 2 megaJoules of energy in a few microseconds when it's detonated.

Big difference in the results. One makes me fat. The other makes me dead.

I'd be worried about a super capacitor that contained a week's worth of my laptop energy, and that might release it in a second.
Life expectancy by career might be much more interesting and specific. Or if a career is linked to specific diseases.
I'm also curious, which state in the US has the largest life expectancy
This was in the B6700 era, not B5500. Even so, that was a long time ago, and my memory is hazy. However, I do have an Algol68 book that dates from those times and I doubt I would have bought said book if I didn't have a machine to use it with. This old book also seems to imply that there was Algol68 on the B6800: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/ALG...
"Do what you love -- the money will come!"
So we brought JavaScript to the server from the browser and now we can embed it back in the browser? Excellent!
I posted this because I like the writing: a few paragraphs of metrics/details, then key points.

This is what I would want if(when) I was a manager requesting an update on a software/development project.
Ask HN: Declarative database migrations?
Hi HN, does anyone have suggestions for a declarative database migration tool, ideally compatible with Postgres?

I've used a number of imperative migration systems, most of which are baked into application stacks. They scratch an itch, but I've always found them a cumbersome and time consuming.

What I really want to do is declare what schema I want, and have a tool (ideally separate from an application stack) which will look at the existing schema and create a diff to update the schema based on what I've declared.

I actually implemented a very basic tool like this for MySQL for a project I was doing a few years ago which created and altered tables and indexes, and there were some pitfalls around destructive changes but on the whole it was very pleasant to use as long as you understood the pitfalls. I'm having trouble finding any similar tools around though and would love to hear any recommendations.
No. That's not my argument. It has absolutely nothing to do with dumb luck.

The EPA has a set of standards, and manufacturers optimize for those. That's it.

Cheating != optimization. Cheating is like a kid copying someone else's answers. Optimization is studying before the test. Completely different things. And optimization isn't illegal.

If you still don't get it, I don't know what to say, I can't explain it any further.
In order to find evidence an investigation needs to be conducted. So, if there is no investigation, there is no evidence, and thus no law breaking.
Slack and Asana are completely different, I'm not sure how you can say they accomplish the same thing. Slack is a group chat and Asana is for task management. My company actually uses both, and Asana is integrated with Slack. We can create Asana tasks directly from a Slack conversation and assign them to someone. As a software developer, ideally I want to be using Jira. We're a small company of 8 and decided we needed something for everyone, not just developers, and right now we've settled on Asana and I love it. Our business and marketing projects are organized very differently than our development projects, and that's great.
Theo mentions a hackathon in Croatia in the second slide, and some might not know this, but the OpenBSD project actually invented the concept of a hackathon in 1999 as a way of gathering their global developer community together in one place to hack on OpenBSD in a festive atmosphere.

Sixteen years later, the concept has been completely co-opted by (often VC-backed) tech companies as a means of promoting their products and extracting unpaid labor from developers.
Isn't part of the point of college to no longer unquestioningly accept what you're told by adults?

How can you go through 4 years of college and never even once google starting salaries in your chose profession? And none of your peers do either? And not notice any of the constant flow of articles on reddit and hackernews about this issue?

This is neither unknown nor secret nor obscure knowledge.

> Every single adult and authority figure said the same thing.

Not me. I've said otherwise for 40 years.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306025
> "get a degree, it doesn't matter what in, you'll get a good job."

What generation is that? I was in college in the late 90s and growing up I was never told just go to college. It was always become a medical doctor or lawyer.
Awesome site idea, but most of the stuff takes a LONG time to load.
If you worked for the banking industry, on the other hand, things worked out pretty ok!
> Well, everyone breaks rules.

That's not valid justification for what occurred at all. They broke the rules, and Apple gave them what many consider a light punishment.

Ifixit has learned a valuable lesson for a cheap price. This was not ok.
Many of these appear to be from "The great international paper airplane book", which lists the top contestants from the first International Paper Airplane contest (1967?). It's a great book and I highly recommend it.
Weird McDonalds Interview Questions
Isn't it just ⌘+⇧+4?
Yes exactly, with a pinch of salt. Exactly what I was trying to say.

And yeah, I've driven a Chevy Spark, and that thing was so slow I could get out and walk faster. I could totally see people driving with their foot to the floor in it.
The only catch is that the new lenders don't seem very good at lending. For example, I can get a 7% loan at a credit union and 10% at a bank but Vouch/Affirm/Avant/Prosper/LendingClub/etc want 20-30%.
I hear people say this all the time, but I don't remember being told this. I remember being told to go to college and to get a 'good' degree (this was well before STEM was a common term) meaning something not liberal arts and preferably something math heavy (although business is also good). I was told to meet people and talk to companies which come to colleges campus a lot. I was told to try new things and experiment and figure out what I liked and who I was. I remember having people who didn't go to college come in and talk to us, and people who went to vocational schools and people who enlisted in the military. They all said "if you college isn't your thing, there are other ways to having a fulfilling career." I was never told, "get a degree no matter the cost."

This was evident during the first semester of freshman year of college. Freshman everywhere were sure they were going to be the next bestselling author, or the next insightful historian, or the next psychologist to make a huge breakthrough. They all knew it was hard to get a cushy job in those soft fields, they just thought they'd be the one to do it out of every incoming freshman in every school in every state in the country.
The point is there's a difference between ambient outside air leaking into the car like a sieve, vs completely sealed with air supplied via biohazard rated filtration. Also, you'd be surprised how long you can function fine in a sealed box the size of a car cab.

If you haven't seen waves of pollen wafting thru the air for miles, like we regularly see near Atlanta, you may not grasp the interest.
Great article. At the risk of fear mongering, the point about supermarkets was very powerful. "Greed is good" is fine until the money controls the entire infrastructure of society.

I live in Argentina, where so many factories were abandoned in our 2001 crisis that workers decided to re-open many of them. Would American workers have it in them if there were a serious liquidity crisis?
And when the big crash comes, there will be enough time between the 2008 crisis and the next one for the general public to have no understanding of the context and causes. They will be unable to connect the dots. And in their confusion they will give the politicians carte blanche to solve it. The politicians will turn to those who gave them the most money, the banks and their lobbyists, the very people who are behind the crisis, and give them complete power. Then these people will squeeze even more wealth from the system to line their pockets. Rinse and repeat.
> Of course it does. I may or may not choose to buy X product because of how easy or difficult it is to take apart and repair myself

Then Ifixit should have waited until it's available on the market then did the tear down. They consumed a valuable and limited resource that is known as the dev kit. A dev kit, which I may remind you, could have ended up in the hands of an actual developer and put to real use. Instead, they broke the rules and tore down a product that's not on the market yet.

They got off easy, and anyone who attempts to argue that they are in the right simply have not done their homework regarding the matter.
They make patent peace with themselves but not with the small guys?
For that matter, why is "hides" quoted in the title? I thought it was sarcastic or something.
About as hard as it is to understand that correlation does not imply causation, but these people were still expecting career success out of their education anyway. The downside of making education available to everyone is that you get everyone.
Cleaning up AWS with Boto3
Cellular Automata Using Comonads (2014)
Cracking an Encrypted Database
brilliant! one small criticism - 60, maybe 99 channels MAX!

yes I am sure some folks had more, but double digits were the standard. and yes I'm a 90's teenager, 80s child.
is there a way to guarantee the binary we get from the control system in the vehicle is the binary that is running on that vehicle? That was the concern NickM had for this style of verification.
This is Lewontin's Fallacy. Briefly, there is no contradiction between the existence of clusters and the notion that there is more variation within clusters than between clusters. For example, the variation in height within the categories "male" and "female" is greater than the variation between them (i.e., the difference in mean heights), but this does not negate the validity of the clusters "male" and "female". Indeed, only a small number of traits are needed to determine biological sex to high accuracy—e.g., height, skeletal density, cranial volume, waist-to-hip ratio, etc.—even though in every individual case the variation within traits exceeds the variation between traits [1].

Likewise, simply because the variation within sub-Saharan Africans is greater than the variation between them and other groups doesn't mean the cluster doesn't exist [2]. Indeed, it's easy to tell from a genetic analysis what percentage of a person's ancestry comes from each cluster, including sub-Saharan Africa [3].

The study in the OP indicates that fingerprints are like DNA in this regard. That doesn't mean the study is right, simply that it shouldn't be rejected based on Lewontin's Fallacy.

[1]: This is why anthropologists can reliably determine sex based even on fragmentary skeletons (such as "Lucy").

[2]: The edges of the clusters are often fuzzy, but again this doesn't negate their existence. The clusters "red" and "green" are fuzzy, too, but that doesn't make the categories meaningless.

[3]: For example, this is the premise behind Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s PBS show "Finding Your Roots" (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/). It is true that the label "African-American" is imprecise, as most African Americans have some European admixture, but typically over 70% of their ancestry is sub-Saharan African (http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/02/henry-louis-gates-exactly...).
You could technically do that using NTFS permissions.
> Not necessarily.

100% absolutely "necessarily". Ifixit broke the rules, and got a light punishment for it. It doesn't matter how you feel on the matter, or if the end product is the same as the dev kit.

They broke the rules, and saying things like "Not necessarily" is reckless and an uneducated statement, which is simply not acceptable in HN comment sections.
> Google Drive doesn't even work on Linux.

Completely true.

> Linux Desktop will never be more than a VM host or Web Browser host.

I did mention this on a developer-specific context. AFAIK, most developers tend to use Linux nowadays - at least in all the companies I've been in during the last 10 years, windows users have always been a minority.

(YES, I'm perfectly aware that this is not true for average users, or anything outside IT).
Are those safety tests accounting for electric cars that carry large Lithium batteries? Those can be very dangerous...
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10308378.
Is this only for theoretical discussions about language design, etc.? Or can we ask dumb questions about how to do simple things in k and q? Not really a fan of Google Groups. It would be great to have an IRC channel for common questions.
College is a scam. All you need is HN and a computer. Six figga nigga in no time!
Easter Eggs in Tesla Vehicles
As it relates to lending, banks absolutely have a lot to worry about. But so too do many of the alternative lenders that are stealing their business.

Many of these lenders are products of the 2008 economic crash and they have thrived because of the interest rate environment coupled with a period of historically low defaults. When the next downturn arrives, we'll see how the portfolios of the balance sheet lenders fare.

The alternative lenders in the business of securitizing loans avoid the biggest risks balance sheet lenders have to deal with, but to generate revenue, they have a never-ending need to originate more loans that they can package and sell to investors. When interest rates rise, or the economy sours, that could get more difficult. A lot more difficult.

Alternative lenders are here to stay, but a "wipeout" for banks would take a long time to occur, if it occurs at all. The alternative lenders are going to have their own problems to deal with soon enough.
It's both a glorified todo list and bona fide project management software. For examples, it handles in-app notifications around the task lifecycle, task hierarchies, a calendar, a "team" abstraction, and an abstraction it calls "projects" which I believe can be configured to a custom business workflow. In our 6 person org, it has indeed replaced email (we have Slack of course, too).
IMHO: keys should be the default. Password only used on a factory-reset device, and only usable to set a login key. Period.
Data Design Patterns
Knowing both of these researchers, they are a top-notch team tackling a very interesting problem. Adam is an expert in the area of differential privacy and Vitaly is an expert at finding subtle attacks that unexpectedly leak private information.
Isn't that the same feeling that comes when one believes what is popularly construed as a conspiracy theory? I mean, you have this bit of information that the entire world doesn't know (or doesn't care or believes differently), and you _know_ that it's correct. Granted, one like this story is factual information where as conspiracy theories are theoretical (obviously), but the sense of responsibility of knowing that information makes people want to share it as wide and as far as they can muster so they can be the leader or originator of a movement changing the status quo.
Worked fine for me.
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Porting Linux to a new processor architecture, Part 3
same here, no upgrade prompt
The lessons of the crash were: absolutely no one went to jail, and every banker involved made nearly as much money during the worst years of the crash as during any other year.

So, what's the problem?
Says the work ethic, discipline, and knowledge of top 20 students. Would you rather work with someone from Stanford or the University of Hawaii?
> Big difference in the results. One makes me fat. The other makes me dead.

Well both makes you dead, but at different rate...
I'm in the same boat as the parent: ALL my clients use Slack, and none of them wanted to use Asana, so I gave up.

Sure, Asana does task management... but that's about all it does. Slack is a lot more casual, and you can create channels for each project and have conversations there about who will be doing which task.

Internally, we actually use Trello for task management. Honestly, it's far superior to Asana in terms of ease of use and flexibility. It has less features, but that just encourages keeping things organized in simple ways, which is great.
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I used to have a 90s TV with a bad color chip. To prevent my game of Sonic the Hedgehog from going completely puke brown in hue I had to whack the side of the TV. (Sonic wasn't weird then... another nostalgic memory.)

Of course, much like cartridge blowjobs, hitting the TV may have been based more on superstition than reality.
Flipped through channels, saw a Wallflowers music video, stopped.

Same thing happened 18 years ago. Nice to relive that.
The Canadian numbers are problematic for a few reasons: 1) LTE mainly means you can run through your (typically <= 1gb/month) "bucket" in about 5 minutes, with overage charges starting from the first byte over. So what's the point of LTE is artificially constrained?

LTE has wayyyyyy better reliability, lower latency and jitter than 3G. Interactive browsing on LTE is a night-and-day better experience compared to 3G. My dad uses his phone to collect payments with Square and on 3G it can sometimes take over 5 minutes for a transaction to go through; on LTE it rarely takes more than a second.
Jurassic Pork: What Could a Jewish Time Traveler Eat?
also, channels used to change instantly. Digital TV introduced the channel up and down pause ;)
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My bad, was not very clear, I meant TFA does not mention the 14M judgement that Google was slapped with, marking it as the only company legally proven to be abusing patents.
Psh, it's already localized...

..to southern ohio. I miss my missouri commercials.
The operating system of course! (It also lets you charge the battery by placing the phone in a microwave.)
"I think the Comic Sans is most likely a troll of other websites where the formatting, UI, etc, look like they got more polish than the content itself."

This issue has come up multiple times. At this point they're only trolling their own users.
Came here to say the exact same thing. I really dig the concept, especially if you keep a nice small list of curated items.

The product loading is way too slow though and made me feel frustrated.
>Would American workers have it in them if there were a serious liquidity crisis?

Asian real estate tycoons would own the area before the workers could pronounce "transpacific capital monitoring". much less before they were told factory was being shut down.
Years ago we built what we jokingly called a "light canon". It had 504 very tightly packed 1 Watt RGB LEDs for a total of 1512 W. This thing was so bright it was actually dangerous to look at directly. Truly scary amounts of light.

That project then evolved into something else. Still, I have the prototype off in a corner of our R&D shop. Every time I look at it I think about adding a Fresnel lens in front of it. One day...
Normal people don't all buy new cars, and they don't buy the average new car. They either buy used or they buy an entry-level new car, say in the 25k range at most. You can get a freaking Audi for 35k. Audis are not entry-level cars for normal people, they are luxury cars.
I am not even a webdev, but this feature makes me so giddy with joy.