skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and because various interested parties know that will happen, no matter how much evil anticonsumer shit they pack into the deal, there's nothing holding them back during the negotiations. We've heard about the awful IP shit because EFF is on the ball, but there's no doubt we'll find out about even more once this takes effect. I'm not talking about e.g. Vietnam rice farmers vs. USA rice farmers vs. rice eaters everywhere, but rather all of those parties getting screwed by the ag corp interests who were actually represented at these negotiations.
My favorite part:

"Japan’s other barriers, like regulations and design criteria that effectively keep out American-made cars and light trucks, would come down"

Take our crappy cars Japan!

I also didn't realize the US had a large (25%) tariff on trucks.
> Do you seriously believe that being publicly disrespected should be part of the learning process?

Full Metal Jacket opening monologue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lft6EQh-Y
Checklist for Security Incident Response Teams
Not overtly masculine? I can imagine the temptation was there for some to promote an overly aggressive logo.
Yeah I wonder if there's a name for this "eh, it's not so different here" fallacy. Just because we have related problems here doesn't mean that the magnitude is on the same level.
Ask HN: I will work on your Django Project (completely free)
hey I am learning Django and looking for some cool projects to build if you have anything in mind share your email with me i will work on your project for free
Yes. Pretty much been that way for a long time.
Podcast with Greg Lamp, Cofounder of Yhat (YC W15)
The page looks fine. I think the "Fun" and "Whatever" pages could be merged. The front page should probably explain more why someone would want to use the language.

That said though, none of this is going to matter unless there's a good tutorial. Nothing currently available is cutting it as a tutorial.
What the Heck Is Mutation Testing?
Yes, but I'm not paying for the wars humans are waging all over the globe. I would rather have power in Bangalore than waste it this way.
Beginning Clojure: Cursive
You can use the config file option - it's just not the default anymore in openldap.

Also, having config in the db means you can make online configuration changes that take effect instantly and are replicated to all other replicas.
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Once flying from the US to Delhi, a flight attendant came to get me in the middle of the night, and waved me over to an open window row to show me the border. It's quite pretty, but it is striking how few lights are on other than the border itself.
Those helpers are basically the equivalent of seamless-immutable, which uses native JS objects but updates them by copying. You make the exact same tradeoffs as if you chose it over Immutable.js. Comparing those two libs represents the choice of either persistent data structures or copying JS ones.

(Note that seamless-immutable also enforces immutability by using `Object.freeze` in development)
Secret laws governing what I do in my home on my computer is not a "trade agreement".
Working yourself ragged is not a virtue
Says you are hiring a customer support specialist in your post but the job is not listed in your careers section. Is a customer support role still available?
The Rise of the Outrageously Long Commute
Because too many people misunderstand that change doesn't have to imply wrongness.

We are good. We can become better. Becoming better doesn't mean we're bad to begin with.

Too often, the suggestion or request to change is viewed as a personal attack, which in this context is highly amusing.
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This blog post is patently false. If Uber wanted to rip the riders off, or maximize revenues, they wouldn't have dropped UberX prices in every city to below taxi rates, and they didn't have to provide the ability to wait for surge to finish. By using the button, they are doing exactly what Uber wants, which is time-shift the demand to another point where there's enough supply to properly service the customer. It's not a trick or some secret discovery, it's exactly the point of the service!
Prepare for a decade or two of people snarking about Alphabet breaking that motto if it does anything they don't like, and prepare for a similar period of a smaller group snarking about Google dropping the motto, despite neither being correct.
Its my understanding that "surge" is also linked to number of open Uber apps - and not necessarily the number of people actually requesting a ride. Can anyone confirm this?
Ask HN: How does Amazon keep its best engineers from quitting?
Indeed. Everyone has their sensitivities, vulnerabilities and emotional/other needs. A company that has figured out how to push the right buttons in its sales pitch/ad has found its subset of "gullible people" - who will be driven more by animal passions than by reason. Humans are very well capable of overlooking potential long term harm in favor of short term pleasure, or even convincing themselves that the ill effects won't apply to them.

That being said, I wouldn't agree that every single human being is gullible when attacked from the right angle. Example: there are many stressed out people who don't smoke, it doesn't matter how or how much you try to convince them. One can peddle snake-oil on the streets, but only a subset of passersby will stop by and an even smaller subset will buy it - this does not imply that only the most afflicted are the ones making the purchase.
Yeah, because people who go on mass murders are looking for fame and power.

Yeah. It's not that they're mentally ill, need help, or are lashing back out on their community for the pain they've incurred from it. It's because they're looking for fame.

What a joke.
Oops:

> The data seems to have come from a debug version of the site that was visible to the Internet. The debug version included a “snapshot” of the production database.
Musical timeline of genres since 1950
I agree that if you strip out all the complexities behind what you see on the screen, then yes someone can definitely build a bootstrap-y clone in a weekend.
AV-TEST Laboratory Says Free Anti-Virus Apps on Linux Are the Worst
800 Christian developers and designers in one global hackathon
Canada's War on Science Brings Us International Shame
Sorry, that's just still a huge overgeneralization. If you are deriving significant therapeutic benefit from a drug, this statement is completely false.
>I find it hard to believe they'd risk losing a lawsuit over a few dollars worth of flash memory?

Do you find it hard to believe a car manufacturer would risk losing far more than a mere lawsuit by cheating emissions tests, despite the inevitability of getting caught? Or would design their cars in such a way as to allow the brakes to be tampered with over an open internet connection? Or would willingly allow cars on the market with a fatal mechanical flaw, because the calculus tells them paying out death settlements would cost less than a recall and redesign? Auto manufacturers consider the cost of human life and breaking the law as a matter of course, and there is always an acceptable amount of death and illegality they're willing to risk.

Nothing about this scenario requires autonomous cars anyway. They could already be packed with cameras, and streaming panoramic video to the police, yet they aren't. That 'few dollars of flash memory' would have to scale up to a few million dollars or more of something far more persistent and regulated to even be relevant - otherwise the volatility of the memory itself becomes a legal liability. It would also eat bandwidth and require infrastructure and maintenance, all of which would add to the cost of the vehicle, and subtract from its profitability.

While it may be a plausible attempt at futurism, it is far from being certain.
Now THAT is how you do it. I have been looking for something like this for a while now, thanks for sharing.

Here's the demo of sassline's sexiness: https://demo.sassline.com/
> "a personal website on a server in your living room"

Which you pay for. Otherwise, your information, and activities on the website belong to someone else.
From http://www.citizen.org/fast-track

"After dogged, diverse grassroots pressure delivered major blows to Fast Track, proponents used procedural gimmicks to pass Fast Track through Congress by a one-vote margin ... Fast Track has only been used 16 times in the history of our nation, often to enact the most controversial of "trade" pacts, such as NAFTA and the establishment of the WTO. Meanwhile, hundreds of less controversial U.S. trade agreements have been implemented without resort to Fast Track, showing that the extraordinary procedure is not needed to approve trade agreements."
This point seems to be counter-intuitive but I believe it to be true. David Ricardo had deep insights into this very idea in the 1800s. I remember his arguments as being very persuasive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ricardo
"And strict mode, which is the default in ES6", this is not true, I think you probably meant "in ES2015 modules". "Loose" mode still very much exists by default in ES2015 (ES6).
Britain’s booming sharing economy mapped
Are you using the 'Notify Me' feature?
> IRC is dead

I assure you, it is not.
> for muslims, Islam is the religion for the present, and the future.

Well said.
The idea that masculinity is akin to misogyny is as dangerous and harmful as misogyny itself. As is the idea that aggression is a purely masculine trait, or that any of the traits Larry listed are exclusively feminine.
Please remain civil.
I'm not a huge fan of the CEO of two companies thing, but Jack has been interim CEO for 3 months. At least if they changed their position on this they've got the evidence that he can handle both roles.
States (and the federal government) are stripped of sovereignty which is given to unelected judges. Now, if you really want to appeal to democracy, then it's pretty tough to criticize democratic sovereigns delegating their authority to other parties.

Do you also consider the regulatory state (in which various unelected bureaucracies such as the EPA or SEC write regulations with minimal democratic oversight) to be a problem?

In any case, I do favor the rule of law, which includes allowing unsympathetic parties to have their day in court and to have those cases decided on the legal merits. I also have no particular affection towards democracy or national sovereignty (I use protection of individual rights as my normative basis, and favor sovereignty and democracy only insofar as they protect individual rights).
Once that would become a law they no longer even have to mention it in the EULA, because it takes precedence. In addition to that all companies would be doing it so it's not like you can "vote with your wallet".

So I'm still not following why EULA has to do with anything in this context.
in my project HashcashIO[1] i get around that using iframe and loading main script for same domain. while restrictions exist, i believe it is easier to get around them (basically write code in secure fashion) rather than trying to break work into junks in the main thread.

Although, depending on task i see cases where chunkify.js will be useful, since i myself used this idea, granted with adhoc implementation instead of using well defined library.

[1] https://hashcash.io/
Socialism defined as the "forced redistribution of wealth" is a highly revisionist view, and makes little sense. It would retroactively make almost all governments throughout history and in the present be socialist (via land laws and taxation), in addition to most political ideologies, even ones firmly right and capitalist.

In fact, it is completely devoid of meaning. You're going to have to make an actual case, rather than just engage in red-baiting.
You are narrowing it to only Linus. It goes much deeper than that.
Nice article, but I think some of the ideas need some clarification.

> For example, keys of a Map object are value equality checked... This has a lot of really nice implications.

I'm not sure how immutability helps here. And it's not possible to use reference equality, since with queries, you're converting user input into a data structure.

Edit: never mind. Precisely because you're dealing with input, you have to use value-equality.
Using a fission primary to compress and heat fuel to create fusion is probably, in the context of a weapon, easier, smaller and cheaper than anything remotely like the NIF.
IBM Acquires Cleversafe
Project Comet
Life like virtual office with occulus rift
Both Democrats and Republicans will support whatever benefits their sponsors - big business. It is wrong, but why is it still surprising to so many people?
I'm not sure how this even makes sense. The whole treaty will be public for months before Congress votes on it. What's the "give to get" you're thinking of here?
> It's not that your article isn't worth a nickel, it's that it's not worth my mental energy to debate whether to spend a nickel.

I agree with the above, but disagree that this makes micropayments for online content a futile venture. There are a couple ways that come to mind to solve the mental fatigue issue:

1. Automate all the payments

2. Automate all the payments w/ a cap

3. Automate payments from whitelisted domains

4. Don't automate payments, but ask to whitelist new domains (similar to: "remember me").

These could all just be user preferences, just as described in the post.
It isn't free trade without also free immigration.

Global free trade without global freedom of movement is just profit rearranging for corporations.
I was speaking mostly of FreeBSD -- that's the only BSD we had direct support for. We did have some friendly interactions with OpenBSD, but not directly with Theo.
How about women?
Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners
This article helped me understand a frustration I have with millennials.

>>I feel powerless in a community that had a “Code of Conflict” without a specific list of behaviors to avoid and a community with no teeth to enforce it.

It never would have occurred to me that I was ever entitled to procedures for handling conflict in a community. I have operated under the following rule for community bullshit:

Endure it, fix it, or abandon it.

The fashionable "sad departure" missive just reeks of entitlement. Reading these notes make me feel embarrassed for the author.

Younger people seem to be celebrating a style that whines about community. It isn't leadership.
"Undemocratic", meaning that a tiny minority of legislators can't filibuster the bill preventing the majority from passing it?

All fast-track really does is put a timeline to an up-or-down vote for the final treaty. People calling it "undemocratic" are really saying "it's too democratic".
How to Tame an Internet Troll
Show HN: Dasherize – Open-Source Dashboard for Project Health Status
Japan Display outs an insane 8K, 120Hz laptop-sized screen
Spot on - see my post above (In this subthread).
>Anecdote, data, yadda yadda.

Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience?

> when I was smoking weed frequently, I had no problem just doing nothing with my life

Sounds like pot isn't for really you then. I'd even be OK with a statement like "A danger of pot is that some people find it makes them OK with being bored".

But making sweeping generalizations that don't apply to everybody (and haven't even been shown to apply to most or many people) is exactly what is wrong with anti-drug propaganda. First off it's bad because, you know, lying is wrong. Secondly, it destroys your credibility with anyone who decides to see for themselves, and doesn't have anything close to the experience you described.

And with drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin out there, it's probably a good idea for kids to have someone with a little credibility to turn to when they want to know what's up.
Which phone company?
Indeed -- it was the subsystem maintainer (and a few people on the list) that were the problem. We never dealt with Linus himself.
So the objective is to humanize the corporation but the solutions they've wound up at are essentially gamification (points, badges). I wouldn't necessarily call gamification a humanization: it seems more like a tangent to a different rabbit hole. Instead of HR Policies that try to come from a human place you get "game systems" that become just as stressful to "play" if not more so...
EULA is something that is imposed by the company, it is totally optional but companies use it to restrict you what you can do with their product or service. They could mention that they would send data about you, or they could just say they have to follow US laws.
How Mars rovers scientists work together remotely
Dude, where do you live?
Recipe: Apache Logs and Rsyslog (parsing) and Elasticsearch
I am with you on this. While the idea of being manager-free sounds good, at Zappos it will look like my career has stagnated. "But look at all these cool badges I have!"

We'll see.
> probably more common

It depends. The idea with unsafe is to wrap it up inside of a library, and expose a safe interface, keeping the surface area as small as possible. So libraries will sometimes use unsafe code, but application code generally doesn't. Cargo, for example, has no unsafe in it. Regex, currently at the top of the benchmarks game, has no unsafe in it, even as a library.
This comic is godawful, and it's embarrassing that it keeps coming up on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982411
Deploying Microservices Architecture with C#, Part 2
The main issue I've had using immutablejs with Redux is debugging. Whereas previously I could simply mouse-over a data structure when I hit a breakpoint (or crash), I now have to do a REPL dance to see what's in any of my data structures.

I also find myself often having to do trial and error stuff to fix my code (also while in a paused state in the console). I mean it's pretty nice that you can actually do this, don't get me wrong. But overall, I am slower and less productive with immutablejs than I am with vanilla JS / JSON objects.

It's a trade off people really should keep in mind before pulling the trigger on immutable data structures. Sure, you get that performance boost, but do you actually need it? Are your React views really so slow (or are you running on slow embedded hardware like I am)? Or are you just drinking the kool aid because immutable data is hot right now?

You get runtime perf improvements in certain cases, at the cost of opaqueness, productivity and complexity. Make sure it is worth it.
If he had been appointed CEO of a fortune cookie factory would he have made the announcement through fortune cookies? What about a tattoo parlor?
IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct
Can you reliably erase memory? You can't even do that in pure C in a cross platform way currently. I'd be surprised if rust offered this...

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-09-04-how-to-zero-a-buf...
You're right but regulatory approval is still difficult even for generics.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/gen...
The problem with Immutable.js is that you have to remember to convert them to regular objects to use with third-party modules that expect plain JavaScript objects. One way to address that is to use Object.freeze instead. There's a nice library called icepick[1] that facilitates using Object.freeze to create immutable plain objects.

[1] https://github.com/aearly/icepick

*EDIT: Clarification
...e.g. winning/losing a war.

Is "winning" a possible outcome from wars? It hasn't happened during my parents' lifetimes. All of the losing we've been doing doesn't seem to have affected our commitment to outspending the rest of world combined to support the military-industrial complex. Do elections have something to do with that?
A few interesting links:

* MSR blog post reporting on this research: http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_microsoft_research/archive...

* The full publication is available here [pdf]: http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp15/current/2015-Monterey/250-hawb...

* Experimental IronFleet code: https://github.com/Microsoft/Ironclad

* Ironclad resources: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ironclad/

* Previous HN discussion on Ironclad Apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640656
High+Maintenance+Woman:+Yes,+I+Am
Not sure if that is the occam's razor for me...
The plush toy is cute, but it's the fact that Google monetizes an open source programming language by selling plushies that I find ridiculous
You're not doing yourself a favor telling him not to share these things. He probably wrote the post for the same reason you wrote this comment.
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A similar system would probably work for ALL web content.

With the obvious proviso that it would need to be simple enough for everyone to set up in order to get the traction necessary to be useful. Simple enough for everyone means one button with a single 'Yes please' screen (eg OAuth). Anything more complex than that is destined to fail.
You should read the parable of The Racist Tree.

http://lardcave.net/text/the_racist_tree.html
I figured this was just an ad.
Businesses can obtain damages from governments, if those governments are found to have enabled trade policy that contravenes the treaty. Businesses cannot go to ISDS for damages from citizens or companies in those countries.

I don't know what one thing you don't like in the TPP has to do with the level of transparency involved in its ratification. If the ISDS process is a grievous flaw, rather than a mechanism that is similar to those used in many/most other trade treaties, surely it won't be ratified.

Either way, you'll soon have the full text of the treaty, months before it comes to a vote.
Logistic Regression – Geometric Intuition
How is career development and mentoring going to be handled?

Good managers aren't just bosses, they provide mentorship and help break through and across organizations. Not everyone is emotionally equipped to do the intra-organizational networking.
Hi! Does Counterpoint have any interest in hiring interns?
There are several highly relevant and clearly apparent reasons:

1. Snack food is very highly consistent. As with other mass-market goods, it's entirely homogeneous. You know precisely what you're getting. Information goods are virtually by definition not homogeneous. Virtually all successful sales models for information goods are based on some level of subscription or branding (frequently by author, venue, or publisher/publication, particularly periodicals).

2. The typical vending-maching payment mechanism has no extended-tail risk. Deposit a few coins or bills, receive your product (yes, I suppose there are debit/credit based vending systems). Every time I make a debit or credit card payment, particularly online, I'm creating a risk of future account fraud. That's something I weigh heavily, have experienced in the past, and quite simply do not consider worth any putative convenience benefit. Paying cash is a very reliable stop-loss risk mitigation strategy.

3. Privacy. Particularly for information goods, leaving a perpetual trail that I specifically paid for specific items of content is ... highly unappealing. I don't pay for my physical books with credit (or use "loyalty", a/k/a Snoop Card programs). It's why I don't and won't use Kindle or similar apps (I do read eBooks, but open, untracked formats, on other devices).

Oh, and I really don't buy much from vending machines. Prefer fresh foods or a good street vendor if I can find one.
I definitely don't think it's automatically a good thing.
I think proposition #2, ala flattr, is the only viable one out of this lot.

The other three all fall on the sword of "should I pay $0.05 for this mouse click?". If the user ever has to ask himself that question, the game is up.
Sounds like you just skimmed the top of the blog post.
New Quantum Cats game launches to build better understanding of quantum concepts
A new drama every day.