skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are, ListHub, unless you don't think it qualifies as a "good" source? We've been happy enough with it, but we're only on the rentals side of things.
> Market failure is a subjective term that assumes a problem can be always be solved fairly (no one is made worse off). That euphemism tends to be used by those who believe "free market" (no such thing) solutions are inferior to state-imposed solutions, which often involve force and/or benefit the ruling class. There's plenty of empirical evidence to support that.

Market failure is defined as a situation in which markets fail to achieve pareto efficiency; pareto inefficiency is definitionally the condition where someone's situation can be improved fairly, as you call it. A few heterodox schools simply choose a different definition of efficiency to wave away the problem of market failure, but this is circular logic: They define markets as the best system of allocating resources and therefore it is impossible for markets to fail.

If that's the position you want to take, please be forthright about your assumptions. I no longer think we're using the same basic definitions and I am fairly certain I am talking about well established mainstream concepts in economics.

P.S.

> state-imposed solutions, which often involve force

Private property as it exists is definitionally a state-imposed by force concept. I don't think your moral claim about people who use the term market failure is as biting an indictment as you think.
Hadn't noticed that. Thanks for the pointer :)
This is my favorite part of the readme: "Any similarities with a current event concerning (but not limited to) a multinational automobile manufacturer are purely coincidental."

(and speaking of coincidences, my co-worker told me about this right before I saw it on HN)

On a more serious note, I genuinely love black-magicky metaprogramming stuff like this. Maybe one day I'll write a version of this for Python's unittest module.
I think the num pad is a huge addition. I use it both in Excel and Photoshop. that being said i love this device more than anything ive seen since the XPS 13
If a = b = 0 then a - b = 0, but it was shown that a - b > 0 and a and b are neutrino masses.
And for those of us early adopters with the Surface Pro 3, I can upgrade my pen and use the new charging doc. Well done. Feels thoughtful, not something I can say about my Asus Windows tablet experience.
Interledger Protocol: Payments across payment networks
Manchester, UK: CloudFlare's 63rd data center
The Adobe suite works on both platforms, OSX and Windows. The files can be shared. I have not seen performance or workflow improvements on either. If anything, Photoshop on the Surface hardware is great for sketching and painting.
> I don't know what rational investor would take US Dollars and invest them in Treasuries for no return. The treasury has default risk (however small you feel it is) and only pays back in dollars. So you incur the dollar risk anyway, yet you add the treasury risk on top. There's no advantage when there's no return.

If the Treasury default risk is smaller than the alternative expected costs for alternative storage of the same dollars (either bank failure risk or, for instance, cost to store and risk of loss of physical bills), then there can be an advantage to 0-interest treasury securities. There is no risk and cost free way to store dollars.
This pricing is absurd, you are better off buying the cheaper models and adding a $350 1TB SSD and 8GB RAM for less than $100...

Assuming they haven't somehow locked the hardware.
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Rackspace Announces AWS Managed Service Offerings at Re:Invent
ugh yes finding it almost impossible to scroll through this page
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The privacy implications of this are enough to make me totally reject the idea.
Totally agreed, what a great way to talk about somethings strengths / weakness.

"I'm curious about every solution's pros and cons, and I would prefer to discuss over evidence/artifacts instead of with platitude arguments."

best way to move a conversation forward I've seen in too long.
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Yup, I'm running Ubuntu in a Lenovo Yoga - for the most part it's great, but the touchscreen stuff and tablet mode do not work at all.
Here, maybe if you hear it from Microsoft?

http://www.techinsider.io/microsoft-usb-c-2015-10
I found this odd as well, especially given how competing services (e.g. SoftLayer) so often cite the performance of dedicated servers as their competitive advantage over AWS.
>I don't think this actually exists.

Yep. People have a strong tendency to take a single example, or small number of examples, and apply it as universal truth to all similar things.

"Redditor mentality", "market believes", "government did"...they are all statements you will see often on Internet forums and offline conversations, but I think they are a clue into the person making those claims.

What exists are many individual actors making decisions; pretending they are an independent, collective, conscious entity is delusional.

--

RE: Redditor mentality

All you saw were a tiny fraction of comments from a tiny fraction of people on a website named reddit.
There are areas of software development that do operate more like traditional engineering, such as in avionics software development.

For example, software developed for commercial avionics systems in the United States follows the guidelines in DO-178C:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C

Every stage of development from writing requirements to coding to verification to selection and usage of tools (including compilers and operating systems) is reviewed across a mixture of internal reviews and external audits. There's an extensive paper trail with each subsystem (i.e., software + hardware unit) being tested and enduring a certification process before being released to the public.

So while the engineers on these projects aren't licensed, the development processes and the resulting software are examined and signed off on.

Does that count for software engineering? I think it does. The next interesting question, in my opinion, is, if that counts as software engineering, then what aspect could we take away or relax, and still have software engineering? Is there a graduated spectrum of software engineering? Or is there a hard cut-off point, where we can say, "yes, this is engineering, but that isn't"?
4K 21.5 inch iMac
Should've used IE6
There does exist a mythology that we were all hunter gatherers until the first internet bubble, however, Harvard was founded in 1636, I have an ancestor who was an English prof there in the early 1800s, ancestors who were "in the area" for the last 400 years. We should have plenty of data from other ivies vs nearby similar sized towns without higher ed.
Sounding the Utilitarian alarm! Someone here hasn't done Philosophy 101. Here's the gist of it: utilitarianism is self-contradictory and by consequence self-defeating.
>If you major in "mechanical engineering", you will take courses in calculus, linear algebra, probability, computer programming, physics (thermodynamics, mechanics, electrodynamics, strength of materials, maybe aerodynamics and viscous flow), control theory (what used to be called "cybernetics"), manufacturing techniques, CAD, and maybe a management course or two.

Any ABET-Accredited program will have you taking the majority of those classes as a Software Engineer. I went for ECE with a focus in Software and this was certainly the case for me. The problem is that "Software Engineer" isn't a protected term, so anyone whose ever compiled a hello world can title themselves with it. With Software becoming a serious infrastructure to daily life, it's time to add rigor and standards to the people calling themselves such, just like a Civil would. Of course, this wouldn't apply to most software jobs. But if you're in charge of making, say, emissions control software, you should be properly vetted and held accountable.
Cloudfront works with dynamic content and acts much like Varnish does in those scenarios.
Straw man nothing. You yourself said that they don't even really believe that, they are just lashing out because of other problems in their life.
Such violation would be extremely hard to prove if the data were exported to US via secure channels.
Maybe because women were seen as inferior fighters by the British men at that time? Russians had no problems sending women to fight in WWI.

PS. Women and Men did not get the _same_ rights to vote at the same time. 1. The act for the right to vote didn't happen until WWI was nearly over, and 2. Only women over 30 (with heavy restrictions most of which tied to being married to a man) were allowed to vote when that bill was passed in 1918. The bill passed in 1918 allowed _all_ men over 21 to vote, and if you fought in the war, it was reduced to 19+. So saying, "No strings attached" is completely incorrect. They couldn't even fight to gain their voting rights if they wanted to since the bill only allowed for men 19/20 to gain those rights if they fought.

The article even states that if you had read more than the first paragraph.

Edit: Also you act as though women did _nothing_ in WWI to deserve the right to vote. Yes they weren't forced to fight in the front lines and did not die by the millions, but they weren't exactly at home twiddling their thumbs waiting for the outcome. They were in factories, hospitals and doing non-combatant roles to help the war effort. Is that any less a contribution especially given the attitude in those days that women shouldn't be fighting?
"People are happy with a paycheck..."

Hm, a rather cynical comment. It seems to me there are lots of highly enthusiastic participants on HN, and I'm blown away by how knowledgeable they are in many other fields as well--the sciences, culinary arts, music, sports....

It's quite a diverse crowd. It's safest to not generalize... ;)
I thought about using pwgen locally with a combination of domain, username and password as a hashed seed. But like you mentioned, trying to remember how often i had to change the password (or had restrictions applied only at a particular site, which are pretty ridicules sometimes) makes this not really a worthwhile solution. Albeit this, its not completely useless. If you have specific rules how to create new passwords (a counter for example) and to circumvent specific restrictions, one could iterate through the possibilities rather quickly. One thing that's unbeatable about this solution is that no password store is needed and so none could be lost, which drove my initial thought to this.
> If you don't want to give the money to the treasury where else do you put it? Your options are probably under your mattress or in a bank.

And very few people have the size mattress necessary to store the kind of money that anyone making noticeable investment in T-bills is trying to store.
Good article, but he almost lost me when he started with the passport thing: European privacy laws apply to European residents (regardless of citizenship) and not to European citizens living outside of the European Union.

The latter would be unenforceable anyways. In fact, the United States is the only major country exporting laws on their citizens living abroad (e.g. taxes).

EDIT: And, in fact, detecting the location of an Internet user (while not perfect) unfortunately works very well for "regular" users not well versed in VPNs and proxying - think YouTube country restrictions or also Google Maps' approach to display different maps depending on the user's location.
Check out https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
Ha, that's the very reason I used it at first!

#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using tcl \
exec tcl "$0" "$@"
...

I just go so annoyed with is it /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl or ... And is it awk or nawk or ... And somebody told me this trick with Tcl and I was like, "I'll just use it for this simple script and be done with it."
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If I hear them talking about USB-C is it going to magically cause 99% of regular USB devices to disappear in three months? No.

I'm sure Surface 5 devices will have USB-C in 12-16 months when people actually start caring about USB-C.
thinkpad just feels like a solid, workhorse.
Or that they see a lot of danger in other places in the next three months, and are willing to pay three months worth of inflation as an insurance policy.
Observations and 5 predictions for the Apple Watch
I do something very similar when I'm on a workstation, but I've found that running a full VM is less than ideal on my laptop because of increased battery drain.
FDIC insurance covers $250k, which is basically 0% of billions of dollars. Storing money safely is a hard problem. Cash in a vault has negative interest (due to the overhead cost) and a lot of risk, a balance in an FDIC insured bank also has risk, if the overhead cost of T-Bills is tiny then it's a preferred method. What you're looking at here more than anything is a big vote of no confidence in the stability of the big banks.
Wordpress is an extremely new framework, so it will be new to a lot of developers, but it provides an extremely performant developer friendly product. One drawback is that it is highly specialized, so it only had a few applications but luckily upvoted fits into this niche. Hosting is really still a problem as their is a lack of providers and a steep complexity curve. No one has really provided a flexible way to host a platform like wordpress and coupled with the lack of maturity and bleeding edge nature it makes sense that they went with a managed hosting service. Even as new as the organization is, they have a great array of security products and plugins which will certainly shield it from the less scrupulous users. This is going to likely be the first major company using wordpress, but I bet it could be a platform that will underpin a large percentage of websites.
The Fourteen Eyes consist of the Five Eyes plus Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Sweden. According to a document leaked by Edward Snowden, the Fourteen Eyes are officially known as SIGINT Seniors Europe, or "SSEUR".
FAA Proposes Nearly $2M Fine Against Drone Operator
In the US, there is a software engineering PE test (although I'm sure it's next to impossible to get licensed at this point though).
> But that's still a single up-front cost that is then amortized across all visits over time,

To some small extent it amortizes across time, but in reality I imagine the vast majority of benefits come from immediate usage. Interactive maps of data years old aren't that useful, such articles tend to create a lot of buzz when they are released but the benefit quickly fades away.

is the increase in sales + ad revenue minus the development + media + online distribution costs higher than the profit from newspaper sales - print costs + ads + distribution costs?

Technology isn't always cheaper. It'd be interesting to find out what the breakdown is here.
this

you never really truly appreciate what impact your commute has until you have a 5 minutes walking commute.

I did this at some point for around 1 year. It was awesome.

3) above did not apply though. I had to cross a really busy street (i.e. car traffic) and the pedestrian traffic light took around 2.5 minutes (I kid you not).
Depending on that damn traffic light my commute time could be 4 minutes or 6+ minutes. Recall being really annoyed, to the point of hating the traffic light.
The government only insures up to $250k. Beyond that, the bank is a lot riskier place to store money than the US Treasury. Maybe you could get four bank accounts if you have $1M, but what if you have $250 million, or a billion? In other words, this is for rich people.
In a very simplified nutshell - yes. HAR is the MLS in Houston, and Redfin is a brokerage in Houston. That allows Redfin to sign an agreement with HAR to access their listing data and show it publicly. HAR will have 100% of listings from participating brokerages (non-participating brokers are a very, very small percentage). Now, as long as Redfin follows some rules they'll have no problem keeping up to date listings (after all, getting them directly from the MLS is the best source you'll get).

Zillow, on the other hand, has an agreement with some MLS's, but for the most part they rely on alternative methods of getting listing data. The only reason that have any (IMO) is because they have consumers looking for property there - which gives the Realtor incentive to upload/update their listings. So as everyone else is saying, Zillow can fall out of date - whereas Redfin can actually get penalized for being out of date.
Nick Szabo is the person peoples most think programmed bitcoin. 20 years ago he developed smart contracts, which is basically programmable money that uses law as the analogue for its implementation. This is because this is essentially what is happening the mergence of software, programming, money, law, economics.
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/shell.html
http://szabo.best.vwh.net/smart_contracts_idea.html

The current leading implementation is "ethereum"
I think you can have separated services by concern without getting too deep in terms of complexity though... I wouldn't use the term "micro" though... I also think if you are only doing mutation, you can combine them, or do libraries in a control service... there are lots of ways to skin the issue...

Digging down through 7 dll projects in one solution, then 11 in another to add a small feature that should take 10 minutes taking 4 days isn't so much fun... same would go for 30+ service projects...

I'm also not big on starting with smaller/micro services either.. or ORM, or DI/IoC for that matter... Build the monolith and break pieces off as needed. I'm fine with that... I was saying it's easier to herd cats when they're not in the same space as eachother.
Coming from a rMBP 15", I found the SP3 touchpad was too small for me to use comfortably. But it was still usable.

Now that they have increased the size of the touchpad and made the keyboard better, I actually have a bit of a dilemma. You can customize the SP4 preorder with an i7 and 16GB of memory for cheaper than the Surface Book i7 with 8GB memory. I'm not sure how necessary the Nvidia card is for my purposes.
I still don't understand the model, then. How the hell do you derive a private key from a password?
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Not having a Thinkpad-style nub mouse is a fatal flaw.
That seems to be the exception. Practically everywhere you look it is like someone else pointed out "mf* programming".
Employer “unable to provide any feedback” about interview process
This is a rant thread. I know, and apologize in advance. But, if you ask me to give 8-10 hours of my time over a week or two to interview with your company and submit a take home test and then tell me you're moving on with other applicants, please at least give me some kind of feedback that might help me improve.

After receiving the email saying you're moving on with other candidates, I wrote back politely asking for specific feedback. Why did I not meet your company's expectations?

To say that you are unable to provide any feedback at this time is not only terribly unhelpful for any future interviews I need to prepare for, but also just a flat out lie.

This is most upsetting because the rest of the interview process was very professional and timely.

Has anyone had this experience before?
I really like how this site does that, while other sites flood the front page with 8 threads of the same thing.
> What this does indicate is that the fed is buying treasuries directly to keep interest rates low.

Given that the fed claims that QE is over (no more purchases, and existing bonds being retired when they mature), I'd like to hear any evidence that you have that shows that the fed is still buying. (And, in case you were going to go there, "because the interest rate is zero, duh!" is not evidence.)
yes very nice hardware, both the phone and the surface book. But the real standout here for me is continuum. This takes the logical next step where all the heavy lifting compute / storage happens remotely, and your "PC" doesn't need to be anything more powerful than the device in your pocket. I for one am overjoyed at not having to cart around a notebook, as the vast majority of my sit-down work happens in locations where monitors are available (ie office, home, client location, in that order of frequency. I personally don't do desktop-class work in trains/planes/coffee shops, even if I understand that there is a use case for this, and that's what the surfaces are for).

I'll even reconsider Windows now. My only slight concern is it would be great to get a slightly less clunky USB/HDMI docking cube. Did it have to be a cube? Surely a cable of some kind would have worked?

Now the only thing left is for Canonical (finally) to ship Unity 8 convergence. Please?
maybe it's his family of 10 [binary] kids :)

and yes, 10 kids is can be overwhelming. hell, even 2-3 kids can be overwhelming.
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This looks awesome but I am scared to keep it open for too long as it looks like an even bigger time sink than Reddit.
Heath did the diligence, so I'll ask him to chime in, but my only requirement was that we ask as little of our FT Reddit devs as possible.
> Well, on the pro-side, at least we don't have to worry about the government defaulting on their interest payments anymore.

The fact that the most recent sale of bills was at 0% doesn't actually mean that there is no risk of the government defaulting on existing debt. Because the cost of borrowing is so low, one might think it should mean that, but the nature of the legal rules -- particularly, the debt ceiling -- means that a politically-driven default with no need is still a real possibility.
Aliens have a tough time perceiving Human communications and tech
No one said anything about building law into money, nor about making digital money more like physical money. We're just adding information about who is being rewarded. That's it. Individuals can use that information to make decisions about who to reward, and that's what money is for.
Yeah, definitely kudos for the attribution. That's great to see.

> Primarily because Buzzfeed just copy-pastes content from Reddit with minimal credit.

Well, Reddit itself operates the same way. By the time it gets to Buzzfeed it's already twice removed from the original source (and Buzzfeed REALLY should find and credit where it came from). Redditors constantly take content and rehost it on Imgur sans credit. I'd really love to see Reddit make an effort to incentivize users to credit the source. Some subreddits do, which is good, but I think the site as a whole should.

It always pains me to see someone's photo, art or comic get thousands of upvotes but no link or mention of who actually created the content. Sometimes the creator will see it posted on Reddit and post a comment, but it often gets buried.
This is better than having a boyfriend
Here's a question I have; reddit is full of liars. What efforts are the Upvoted staff making to verify stuff that appears on reddit before bringing it over to Upvoted?
This is spot on. Perforce can handle enormous monorepos with all the code and binary assets of an organization. For those we're very glad that this gives them the option to use our GitLab.
> The description leads off talking about the grave privacy implications of storing scrypt password hashes. But then it stores what is in effect an scrypt password hash on the server.

I don't think it's saying that storing the hash is bad, it's saying that sending an unmodified password to be hashed on the server is bad since that server now has your cleartext password.
and reddit has gone full circle on copying digg.

digg started to go down when they started doing that. i recall ad space being used for a survey to try to understand if the Rose guy was essential to digg.

now this thing is exactly a copy of what digg become lately.