skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy hell.

>So much for "Do No Evil." There's no technological reason the 991/2 doesn't have Android Auto playing through its massively upgraded PCM system. But there is an ethical one. As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Mountain View, California. Stuff like vehicle speed, throttle position, coolant and oil temp, engine revs—basically Google wants a complete OBD2 dump whenever someone activates Android Auto. Not kosher, says Porsche. Obviously, this is "off the record," but Porsche feels info like that is the secret sauce that makes its cars special. Moreover, giving such data to a multi-billion dollar corporation that's actively building a car, well, that ain't good, either. Apple, by way of stark contrast, only wants to know if the car is moving while Apple Play is in use. Makes you wonder about all the other OEMs who have agreed to Google's requests/demands, no?
I heard they wanted to see what would happen if they did NOT bail out a major institution, as part of the mix of reasons.
> British financial regulators ... declared Lehman's assets frozen

As did the US regulators. What the FSA did was refuse to allow the assets in the UK to be repatriated to the US head office. They did this on the, not unreasonable, basis that once the money was back in the US, the chances of UK creditors getting paid was next to zero.

What Lehman's did do was, as you say, speed up the inter-bank liquidity crisis. It also put the clearing houses at risk. That's really what tipped things over the edge and force the governments to step in bug time.
If I may just air a pet peeve: Why do projects name subsystems things like "sniffle", "howl", "jingles" instead of something that gives a freaking clue about what that system does?

OpenStack does the same thing with "cinder" and "nova" and "horizon" and "neutron"

I guess it's trendy but what's with names that have no relation to function? It really adds to the learning curve or ability for someone on the outside to have a conversation about the system and understand in broad strokes what is going on.
...four years ago. This has been discussed here before?
Do We Still Need Dedicated Testers
On the other hand, it did just enough to get me hooked to read all the way through the background content to get to the meat.
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Just a quick FYI. I looked at "Fred's Scripts" a while back for a commercial project I was working on. Have a look at the license, if you ever plan on any commercial work using those scripts.
> I know that if I use Yandex, at least some of my data is going to reside in Russia. If Dailymotion, France. I consider it up to me as a consumer to decide whether that's what I really want. I don't consider it my local government's job to force those companies to change their business models.

This is a ridiculous position to take, because it requires a humanly impossible amount of research to know whether the privacy of your data is protected. And that's when the information is even available.

Privacy is a basic human right. When corporations collect your data it becomes the responsibility of those corporations to protect your privacy. Individuals simply do not have the resources to enforce this, which is why we elect people to enforce this. This isn't some crazy responsibility for governments: this is the fundamental reason why governments exists: to protect the interests of their citizens collectively when it's infeasible to protect those interests individually.
They almost certainly do. My Trek carbon fiber bike (~$3000 fully built brand new in 2008) was the lowest-end full-carbon bike they had that was still made in the US. It has a registration # (on the bottom bracket I believe). In fact, every bike I'm aware of does, for registering with the police in case of theft.
The outer borough Green Cab system also plays a huge part— the licenses to drive a green cab are available for a few thousand dollars, and thus the formerly illegal-but-accepted car service street hail system has been brought into a legal framework.
That sucks. Maybe we should try to change that.
Linus only calls people idiots and morons when they submit code with issues, so yes, we should exclude those who fail to live up to coding standards.
We need to worry about 'designer babies' about as much as we need to worry about 'hostile AI' and other far-removed science-fiction concepts.

In reality, in-vitro fertilization is a lengthy, complicated, painful, expensive and emotionally wrenching slog that often fails. The idea of choosing between embryos is laughable when so often you're hoping for one, just one, that actually has a viable shot. Anyone who would object to a little screening that helps prevent a woman from finally getting pregnant only to go through a miscarriage a few months later is a monster.
Chat with your local legislator. Anti-money-laundering laws exist.
In the end we ended up with a requirement to ensure more and more prominent information. Do you think it's bad that more consumers are aware of the potential privacy impact of their actions?
The other part is the good sense of not taking them (I mean, they are "bad decision", they should be avoided by definition).
Can you check again?
Not quite disagreeing with you, but I think in this case there's a difference between your trolls and the "argumentative/easy to be offended" types. The latter are what I'm referring to.
You misunderstand carbon fiber. Steel and aluminum are a bit different. But yes, there are many "off brand" names that are well-respected and trustworthy -- Motobecane, for example.
I recall (from the last time this was posted) that its like a few molecules of H2O per cubic meter. So more like a 'cloud of water vapor' or even 'a cloud of water plasma'.

It was made by the expanding shock wave from a supernova, through a gas cloud of mostly hydrogen. Lots got fused to oxygen, and then they combined. The tremendous amount of water is because its a vast expanding volume of space.
The Euros are jelly they did not invent profitable Big Data. So they will be putting every roadblock possible against those who did.
OK, how about this for starters: do you agree that the following two statements are inconsistent:

1. Increasing tax dollars does not benefit the world by increasing the services provided by the government.

2. Rich people should pay more taxes.

The fact that total tax revenue must ultimately equal total government expenditure in the long run, is not bullshit, it's basic accounting. And the things you listed don't come close to canceling out the benefits of aid (and what is wrong with the IMF in the first place?)
You're giving me flashbacks.

But the parallels are eerie. Someone gives a nomenclature to a style of architecture that many people were already using (just last week I heard that Netflix "invented" microservices), and suddenly the attention of the industry pivots. Technologies will be invented to ease adoption (yay!), but people will forget that this architectural style is one part of a solution for a particular type of problem -- it is not a solution for every problem, nor does adopting it mean all of your other problems will go away.

But consultancies will rise, debates will rage and conflicts over what truly constitutes a microservice will ensue.
I think a better solution for medium would be to hire moderators not to remove unwanted comments but to elevate the desired comments into a "medium highlighted" area. This would then drive thoughtful competition to get your post to the top.
I don't think so because reddit has an open source licence
I think the first humans on mars will go with the understanding that it's a one-way trip. And there will no doubt be people willing to sign on for that.
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That's a fairly succinct definition.

There are non-profits that make millions of dollars in positive cash flow. All that term means (At least in the US) is that it doesn't ever pay dividends to shareholders.

I'll be intentionally vague because I don't want to stray too far afield but there are some large organization that make a lot of money but are classified as non-profit. They can pay excess revenue as bonuses to directors and executives.
The enigma behind America's 20-year lobster boom
I saw one at the IBM PC outlet in Morrisville (now closed, it was just outside RTP in NC) and almost bought it. But then realized that it had a 486SX CPU and was woefully underpowered for what I needed. Super cool design.
No guarantees, but in general it does. Look at, for example, graphs of GDP vs life expectancy.
The mark-up in bars comes from the cost of rents, human resources, some advertising and a mark-up for smashed/lost/stolen glassware.

Source: worked in a bar long enough

Edit: Also, licensing and inspection fees tend to be ridiculous. And as soon as you serve food in your bar and not just alcohol, you're thrown into yet another pool of regulations, more licenses and more inspections.
For the record I hate the word cyber.
Find a book. Seriously. I find books a lot better than the Internet when reading a new language. For one thing, reading on paper is a lot more relaxing than on-screen, secondly, studies indicate that we actually do remember more that way. Find a good book (the Head First series is a great place to start) and get reading. Do the examples and exercises. If you find something that sparks your imagination, give it a shot as a first project. Stay simple, the 3D multiplayer shooter game can wait. If you don't understand a section, read it again. And again. Skim through the whole book, then read in more detail.

Yes, it will take time. You are learning a new language and a whole new way of thinking. Don't think it will be easy. Don't expect to be able to get a job programming after a month's practice. (Peter Norvig wrote a great article on that: http://norvig.com/21-days.html.) But keep at it. Practise, read, practise, read more. Start reading open source code. Increase the complexity of your projects - make sure every project contains something new, but avoid projects that are way too advanced. Eventually you'll get capable enough that somebody might even consider hiring you.

Be committed to making it work, but most importantly: don't forget to have fun along the way :-)
They should have held out for a Michael Lewis interview. They would have sounded a lot more pithy and heroic.
Great read. I wish it was higher up, below the posts about how to buy said knockoff frames. Thanks.
No, absolutely not. Science is much different in 2015 than it was in 1915. The remaining problems are much harder and require the efforts of many, many more people to attack, but the archaic structure of the Prize means 99% of them can never be rewarded.

I used to work on an extremely similar experiment to SNO and Super-K. I played a small but key role in getting the thing to work at all. (I like to think things went a lot smoother with me helping out than they would have with someone else doing my job, but you never can tell, can you?)

Did this year's Prize recipients contribute more to science than the people at the bottom of the ladder? I don't know, I didn't work on those experiments. I also know that you should not under-value leadership. On the experiment I worked on (and now you see why I'm not naming it), one of the top people -- one of the candidates for any major awards or prizes -- was a total and complete fool and roadblock, in the classic style of legendarily terrible senior managers. Yet he has received a lion's share of the credit for this mismanagement. (To be fair, there were plenty of other top people who were good at their jobs.)

My direct supervisor on this project seemed to deal with this by wanting his fingers in as many pies as possible. I can only explain his behavior by speculating that he really, really wanted a Nobel Prize. But he will almost certainly never win one. To get a Prize in experimental particle physics these days, you must be a senior member of an experiment, and you must be very, very lucky that your experiment turns out to be Prize-worthy. This guy seemed to want to be involved in as many experiments as he could so that one of them would work out. But that meant he had little attention for each project, could not rise to the top levels of any of them, and generally never made as much total impact as if he'd concentrated on just getting one thing right. If our hunches were correct, and his life goal really is a Nobel Prize, it's kind of sad to think this talented scientist is on a life course that will only distract him with mirages, never bringing him towards his real goal.

In any case, the hundreds of us working on the experiment knew that we would never receive any high-level acknowledgements of our work, no matter how important our contributions were to the project. And that, I think, was a small but meaningful contributor to why I left science for engineering. (More importantly, I found while working on the project that I preferred engineering and am personally more fulfilled, as well as better paid, this way, but observations like that aren't going to improve modern science.)
I don't have mobile reddit app.
Debugging like a Detective
You're describing how to maintain the status quo (which is simpler than any other option, indeed). Changing the behaviour of communities is instead how progress works (well, also regression, but I hope you got the point).
Yeah, I agree. I think I didn't actually mean homogenisation; more like "ghettoisation". I'm really referring to the fact that you have to have a disqus account to voice your opinion on quite a few unrelated sites.
Yep that's the soot part I mentioned.
It's a shame that receipts don't have machine readable output.

QR codes can hold a little over 1,200 characters, which should be more than enough for most receipts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage

Edit: related link: https://www.quora.com/Can-and-how-cash-register-receipts-be-...
WBC to protest meteorologists for ‘stealing God’s glory’ by predicting weather
get_close_matches is such a godsend. I've already used it this morning to deal with matching up 2 lists with about 100 things in each.

One trick I've found is to use it in both directions and then only using results that agree both ways.

Something like this (very terse version):

closest_or_none = lambda l, options: (difflib.get_close_matches(l, options, n=1) or [None])[0]
dir1 = [(l, closest_or_none(l, list2)) for l in list1]
dir2 = [(closest_or_none(l, list1), l) for l in list2]
one_to_one = set(dir1).intersection(set(dir2))

Interested to hear how you approached the rotation thing.
For both :)
I don't think it has been down since launched, but it may be a problem of DNS propagation.
> "You god damned idiot, how could you write something so full of logic errors, you should have been aborted".

vs.

> I'm sorry, I can't accept this patch because it's full of logic errors. Please fix them and resubmit.

Same approximate character count, same message, no coddling or doing someone else's work for them. But also no insults.
I've worked with people who technology choices based on how good it would look on their CV and people who have refused to work in particular areas because the technology wasn't sexy enough for them.
If It Is on the Internet, It Can Be Analyzed
So they created a less successful Wonga?
Alfred has completely changed my weekly routine. Whereas I used to scramble to balance my work/home life, I can now come home from work, not worry about my to-do list, and spend quality time with my family. When I signed up, I never thought it would have such a great effect on my day-to-day. Really enjoying this service!
So we need a new Australia where we send all our criminals?

How is "segregation, not punishment" materially different from what we do now with prisons.
Just tiny :P
You should always consider yourself as a possible cause of the problem, but I don't see how you can say that without any detailed information.
they have a pretty bad reputation already. I'm sure they won't be able to hire anybody with non-competes. Remember there are Microsoft/Google/Facebook and many startups in Seattle; ppl have choices.
Laws mean only what they are interpreted to mean. So, as in the drift of interpretation of the 2nd Amendment over the years (for example), any formal DSL you could devise would be at the mercy of any sustaining cultural narrative going on around any particular law in question. People aren't computers.
I'd have to agree with the other commentator on this, the BBC is hardly unbiased, it's under huge pressure to tow the conservative party line via threats to its funding and it's coverage is often populist (a lot of stuff about the royal family) and shallow, I gave up watching it years ago.

Channel 4 news is better, but still i despair at some of the trolling for soundbites that goes on, it's still about the best of the mainstream UK news channels.

Recently The UK Guardian, which i used to have a very high opinion of, got into quite a bit of trouble (with the readers) about it's biased coverage against Jeremy Corbyn's labour leadership campaign.

I imagine the US media is way worse, but in todays horribly co-opted world, sometimes the best you can hope for it to take a cross-sample of biased sources and somehow average it out in your head :(.
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I haven't noticed any issues with sync. Perhaps in part because they switched from an undocumented API to the publicly-documented one about a year ago.
Martin Fowler identified a lot of the same tradeoffs in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yko4TbC8cI

One benefit I haven't seen mentioned yet: microservices are effective at reducing the mental "page size" when working on any particular part of the system.
Similar : https://github.com/hail2u/node-csswring

Written with PostCSS too
I can agree with you here.

> Conversely, there should be no expectation that the community of Linux developers is going to adapt to Sarah Sharp. Nor should they---what they have works very well.

I hope we can agree, though, that she can't be blamed for trying. I really don't get the hostility to that (not from you).
With applications due soon, I thought this could be helpful. I would appreciate any comments/critiques. Happy to answer any questions, as well.
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Lehman didn't fall, it was pushed, by Goldman Sachs. A veritable scapegoat, the meat of which was then eaten by the remaining players. Take a look at Henry Paulsons activities surrounding them for more insight. Financial terrorists, the bankers are.
If the only reason something is bad is because a big guy will send you to hades, then once you stop believing in that then nothing is evil and everything is permitted. It's not really a moral code at all, since there is no understanding of morality. It's just "don't do X or God will whack you."

Two of the least moral people I've ever meet were raised fundamentalist. A part of their atheist conversion was to realize there is no morality and that humans are "just animals" (in the words of one). It's a perfectly rational conclusion if force wielded by God is the only basis for moral action.
Just because my initial comment was a short sentence, doesn't mean it was snarky; like this one.

And although I agree with your definition within a professional legal context, that context is irrelevant to the discussion, since we are discussing a person's personal relationship to the discipline.
Not only that but I guess they will accept they won't be able to live for long there too. Radiation and muscle wasting due to low gravity being the top two problems and growing food. Not much chance of overcoming those obstacles in even the medium term, if ever.
So we are building a messaging product for organizations. I am wondering how this can impact us if an org that uses our product has employees in both EU and US (assuming that national regulators in EU go ahead and bar personal data transfer to US).

* Will we need to partition user data based on location, even if they are in the same organization?

* What happens when a user in EU sends a message to one in US? So right now the chat history for one-on-one conversation pairs is stored in one place, does this ruling mean that now we have to duplicate this chat history for both the users?

* Even worse, what if multiple EU and US users are part of the same chat group? Is there any way we can store the group's chat history in one place?
Simplicity :) I've just started learning Redux, so this may be not accurate - but when I was reading documentation I had impression that Redux was rather a set of design patterns/paradigms (message passing, reducers, immutability) and simple library to make use of these patterns easy, than a framework.

Am I wrong?

But I think that is very good. I think that best thing is that you don't have to use React to use Redux. This opens many possible uses for Redux in future (imagine use Redux with Phaser.js or ThreeJS to make HTML5 Game, for example. Message/action passing can be very useful in making games).
Civil nuclear facilities worldwide at risk of cyber attack
tjyang516, mpkenny2, cac277 : three very positive comments, all from people with 1 karma point.
Highly suspicious.
"graphical programming workflow coordination services"

Those things are always sold to CIO types based on the idea that "you won't need developers" and then you end up with some eldritch graphical abomination where being being able to visualise things just makes it worse....

Draw a rough diagram and then write your code - fine, generate a diagram from code - fine, generate code from a diagram - nightmare.
I agree that programming as a career sucks a lot more than it used to. I understand that part of my saying so is the result of changes in me or my own circumstances. Life was better when I didn't have to deal so much with product and project managers, when I didn't have to be the "leader" creating momentum and mentoring those who don't want to be mentored. I do miss the days when I was an individual contributor minding my own business.

On the other hand, that doesn't explain everything. As the computing industry has become bigger and more lucrative, it has also become less like a gentleman's race and more like a cage fight. The primary mode of interaction has shifted from collaboration to competition. There are always more projects in any given space, creating more factions each more determined to sling FUD at each other so that their project and their investment in it stay relevant. There are more sub-sub-domains of knowledge, with those on the peaks of each sneering at the others. The environment for women has become measurably worse than it used to be; I worked with a higher percentage of women on Encore's kernel team twenty years ago than I do now even at Red Hat. It's a nasty, aggression-soaked environment, and anybody who doesn't believe that must not have read the other comments on this very page. I can tell you, it didn't used to be that way.

Programming as an activity has its ups and downs. Programming as a career has started to just plain suck.
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I wouldn't go that far, have you not seen Google Deep Dream?
Sure, but I think what ckozlowski was saying is that even though these particular users may have no value in themselves and their (lack of) discourse, they bring attention of other well-mannered users that then get into intelligent discourse.

Trolls are a bit like political extremists: if they weren't here, you wouldn't talk about the ugly stuff so much and make sure it's kept in check.
Have you ever seen a work that is perfect?

Do you feel the Linux kernel is perfect by any metric?
I'd love to have similar things for super-markets (food/goods shops), for those without cars and buying lots of stuff. It might be more efficient to get onto a metro/subway and travel to a distant shop that is very close to the stop than to walk to a - physically - more proximate shop that requires you to walk and carry both ways.