skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much the same as playbylyrics.com[1], something I made, except you run it yourself. I really like it!

[1] (Note that the site is broken as of a few months.. it never caught on and I'm going to let the domain expire unless someone wants to have it (for free, just tell me what you're going to do with it).)
What do you recommend is a good primer (something similar to the article OP posted) for Python folks?
An Intro to Python's argparse
Well it's cases like this that cause people to win/lose respect for the system.

If they throw some engineer under the bus, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Agreed, but that's kind of off topic.

Real estate is yet another asset class which should be included in a diversified investment strategy, but my point was that there's no evidence that money should be kept in a bank savings account.
>Why are so many people keen on defending VW with the claim "if VW are doing it, everyone else must be"?

Well for one reason, sanctioning one manufacturer for behavior that all manufacturers engage in means that selective enforcement can be used to pick off unwanted competition in the marketplace.
So, if I have here:

Taxi service, provides rating, has app, can pay and rate via app, fully insured, hired and trained drivers, transparent rate (rate set by law and shown in app), guaranteed arrival, etc.

And it costs 5€ less than uber.

And it existed since 2008.

What I am wondering is why this only caught on in some european cities, but never worldwide?
All hail youtube-dl :)
These days, even project managers (PMP) are getting EB1 green cards, if they know how to play the game right. I know a few who got through tthat route.
Thanks for the paper, and for answering questions. There are a couple of hypotheses I wonder about:

1) Politicians don't care about constituent's current opinions, but about their future response to actions the politican might undertake. For example, recent articles indicate widespread support in the U.S. for gun control, but a politician might anticipate: If I support a gun control measure then the NRA will run ads in my district; that will change many opinions [1], spread other negative stories about me, and galvanize my opponents both in public discussion and when getting voters to the polls.

2) The large differences between different subgroups explain the difference: All constituents, all voters, primary voters, and the few who vote in state legislative elections. (I challenge HN readers to name your state representatives without looking them up.)

If these issues are covered in the paper, I apologize; I read what I could now and searched the paper for related terms, but won't have time to finish reading until much later.

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[1] I don't know that ads have this effect. My impression is that most people's opinions are weakly held and that they follow the herd on most issues (whichever herd they feel they belong to).
I don't think the GP was saying the Amish are poor per se.

I think the GP's point is that, from the perspective of the survey, the Amish's income and/or expenditures might look the same as someone in poverty, even though their quality of life is much better.
Archos to give away 200k devices in Europe to create PicoWAN network for IoT
No, I meant Uber-Prime, Inc., a competitor to Uber, Inc. Every driver for Uber-Prime, Inc. would be a direct W2 employee of Uber-Prime, Inc. and would offer a premium service to displace/defeat the evil communists at Uber, Inc.
I had difficulty figuring out, at first, if you were serious or not. I'm still not sure if you realize that the secret documents he showed are easily and publicly available to the internet.
I'm self taught, and I did. For game dev. Nothing like trying to build an RTS or 3D engine to force you to learn as much math as you can handle.
II reject the idea that you can judge someone as a cultural reject based on the salary they take home.
AVG Web TuneUp for Chrome: Worst Browser Extension Ever
Imagine you're at an automated restaurant. There are buttons for "order fries", "order cake", "order sandwich", and "do not order pie". Can you see why the last button in that list is not as useful as the first three?

Positive sentiment needs no explanation because it inherits the context of the thing it is agreeing with; negative sentiment needs explanation else it is somewhere between useless and nonsense.
>There were stories about how they used to deliberately tweak the OS to break competitor software.

The reverse, as far as I know:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/15/55296...

This is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to application compatibility. I could probably write for months solely about bad things apps do and what we had to do to get them to work again (often in spite of themselves). Which is why I get particularly furious when people accuse Microsoft of maliciously breaking applications during OS upgrades. If any application failed to run on Windows 95, I took it as a personal failure. I spent many sleepless nights fixing bugs in third-party programs just so they could keep running on Windows 95.
NZ has a similar minimum wage to Australia, right?

I think some of it is (stupidly) driven by new credit card / eftpos machines that have the tipping option built in.
The value proposition of an HSM is that sensitive key material never leaves the hardware in plaintext (or at all, in the case of the SafeNet HSMs used by Amazon). An attacker who compromises a machine with access to the HSM is therefore able to perform whatever operations that machine is authorized to perform, but nothing more. Crucially, they cannot steal the key material and then go off and use it elsewhere. They have to stay connected to the machine that has the access they need. Protecting against offline attacks is a pretty big gain.

> Amazon says they don't have access to your HSM but presumably they do if they wanted to.

I wouldn't be so sure. As far as I can tell, once you've provisioned an HSM from Amazon you have full administrator access. That includes control over all trusted SSH certs, users, etc. Of course Amazon has physical access, but that doesn't give them access to the HSM's crypto functions or the key material.
Thank you for all the information.

I don't have a Microsoft account, so the account personalization link doesn't work. Unfortunately, my machine is still constantly contacting Microsoft. It's a problem because I'm often tethering my computer to my phone and I have pretty limited bandwidth caps.
It seems like a no-brainer that one of the largest programming languages in the world should have strong machine learning tools. Maybe the reason ML isn't done in Java and Scala is simply because the tools haven't been there. Python's great, but if you want to do ML/DL with distributed systems working with Hadoop and Spark, it makes more sense to do that in Java and Scala.
Well seems we got the hn death hug :)

Contacting the server admin, here's a google cache of the content, sorry for the trouble folks!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NqbcMBC...
Volkswagen America CEO blames software engineers for emissions cheating scandal
The last line was a bit of a bummer, but it's in line with the US's non-military spending habits.
It's probably safe to assume that tapping the "Like" button will still like it, and you have to long-press to get reactions (since that's what the video seemed to show). On desktop, it's less clear what the appropriate interaction metaphor is; maybe hover shows you the other options, but clicking still just Likes it?
Definitely agree with what BlackJack said, Jared was absolutely fantastic when I went through the recruiting process at Scribd. Excited to see what's to come for him at YC.
Did any of us choose our parents? Parents are the purest luck anyone has.
Two days ago we had an article about this topic, maybe the same article?

This article claims they just changed the baseline poverty rate. I think they changed other numbers, but can't prove it.

Two days ago, I went to the world bank calculator and the poverty calculations were based on $1.25. I and other HN'ers noticed the calculator didn't seem to account for inflation.

Two days ago I played around with the calculator and used $1.90 and $2.00 as a "the input for the poverty line". I was getting final poverty levels that were doubling. With my numbers the poverty level was not below 10%.

I did the same experiment today, and someone updated all the numbers, or just changed them? Or, I my memory is wrong. (I have not confirmed this on The wayback machine.)

My point is two days ago at $1.90 the poverty rate was close to 20%? Today, my calculations are not close to what they were two days ago?

http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1
Restated: no. Monetization depends on the ads. Using such a tool is equivalent to using an ad blocker. If you're comfortable using an ad blocker, you're not doing much different here.
Run Node.js Anywhere Using Docker and Nexe
> I've heard 192kb files and they sound like complete garbage.

I'm curious, did you blind test yourself? I blind tested a friend of mine who kept saying so, and he did barely better than random.
Sure thing, I'm currently using it in docker as a lightweight way to set config files from environment variables. I'll put together a write up of how/why we are doing that and post the link in reply to this.
Python has a monopoly in the field. Just because 1% of users write in non Python languages means that machine learning is extremely diverse.
Let’s Modernize Our Environmental Laws
So reaction!
There's a lot wrong with this. Availability when you're managing some servers in a rack in a Colo is a whole other kettle of fish to what you get with AWS. The key is how leverage those AWS resources in different zones and regions to avoid single points of failure. But that's so much harder outside of the cloud.
We are actually hiring for Android! We haven't posted it yet, but you should email jobs@farmlogs.com to get in touch.
The thing is, you are currently defending the prominent executives.

We’re talking about the heads of R&D and the head of engine development – both more business people than engineer.

Additionally, 2 CEOs have resigned over this (in just 6 months!)

And it’s known that the first of these CEOs tried to focus on engines without Urea injection – which did get 280mpg, though – because he personally was invested into their development and tried to push the heads of R&D and Engine development to do this.
I'd be interested to check out some of that functionality. We should connect. Drop me a line at Cooper@landt.co
As one of those new fangled 'young people' I'd like to chime in here and say the problem lies with the reverse. Politicians are not too enthusiastic about engaging with young people, be it due to our more progressive stance on social issues, generally better understanding of the technologies they find so frightening, or just because most politicians are lying, cheating, manipulative people who took advantage of a good system then ruined it for future generations. I can only speak of Australian politics but in my case I've had representatives refuse meetings, not write back or totally ignore the sentiments of the younger population in favour of maintaining their existing support base. Its rather annoying.
“early adopter”? It’s already a fad!
If you have an ActionScript background, I highly recommend Easel JS.

http://www.createjs.com/easeljs
No. Slack has innovated literally every advancement in chat for the last 20 years.
I wonder how a researcher who readily admitted to trying to get permanent residency would be perceived by his peers.
> "ha ha, I'm enjoying your tragedy!"

That's not the semantics of the Like button however. The Like button's semantics, as used by most people, are "I have read your post, don't have anything meaningful to add, and agree with you and/or express my post-appropriate social action but do not feel affected enough or close enough to you on the social graph to leave a comment."

The meaning of a Like is extremely contextual. And most people know this.

Granted, a lot of newbie users get confused.
Huge fan of Jared. I met him a long time ago at a random party and he agreed to have coffee and share startup / YC advice.
Here is an idea for the FTC: break Amazon into 3 companies: cloud infrastructure, online merchant, and logistics company.
Yes, completely different families.

EA189 was a Pumpe-Düse system able to get up to 280mpg in production vehicles, at the cost of high NOx emissions.

EA288 is a standard common-rail engine with AdBlue.
I wonder if one of the new options simply gets adopted as "dislike" by convention, maybe Yay would be a good candidate.
How's the battery life and thermal management? Those would be my two main concerns with a gaming-oriented laptop. I do agree that it looks quite slick.
They are supporting the LoraWAN "standard" (one of many in that field). They use different public frequencies in different countries (9xx Mhz in the US, 8xx in China and Europe, also 43x Mhz in Europe).

The cost for a producer of IoT devices is 50 cents per year per device to use the network. People hooking up one of these routers in their homes can earn 50% or the profits made through their uplink.

Another competitor in that field The Things Network (http://thethingsnetwork.org/) who are based in Amsterdam. I think Archos is making a clever move here, for device makers it'll only be interesting if the network size is substantial, ideally covering parts most of a country.

LoraWAN claims a range of several kilometers per hub, even if they are located inside buildings.
The work on Surface Book probably started before Nadella even got the CEO job -- shouldn't Ballmer get some thanks for putting Microsoft on the right track?

It's interesting to see how much positive personal acclaim Nadella is getting for the hardware strategy that was initiated in the Ballmer/Sinofsky era.
I think there's a Dilbert cartoon coming up here ;<). So the VW CEO greenlights development of a diesel with 40X the allowed pollution level. Some rogue programmer operating totally on his own hacks the software so it will pass emissions tests. No one asks any questions, how is this even remotely possible?

I think the VW CEO was channeling his inner Sgt. Schultz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmzsWxPLIOo
I've really enjoyed being able to congratulate friends on the birth of their children or their birthdays, with just one click. Super excited to be able to send one-click condolences now!
They worked well on Path and Slack
"Angry" will probably fit "dislike"...
Why shouldn't be you explaning why do you believe in their methodology? That's crazy. You don't even know what methodology they use and you are taking your time to defend them here.
Love it. I find the harder the hardcore Unix(-like) or CS geekery is, the more likely you'll find pages still like this.
How about http://fabricjs.com
I don't really like it. Users wanted a dislike button, they should have gotten it.

Dislike on this! :)
Added to RTC News:
http://www.rtc.news/posts/xrSeZ5Tp7ssdejPNm/user-screenshare...
Not an ISP, but I think this was a reference to Lenovo's recent Superfish scandal.

[0]: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with...
Why would Yay get adopted as "dislike"? Something like angry or sad would make way more sense. It'd be incredibly hard to create this culture in 1.4B people when the UI indicates otherwise. Perhaps among younger audiences? I'm still very skeptical.
Agreed. They don't get enough credit to be honest.
I have just been reading the front page Reddit thread, where soldiers are talking about the pointlessness of the Afghan War (can't believe its been 14 years) and the difficulty of coming back home and dealing with first world problems.

And then I see this Facebook stuff at the top of all the tech news...sigh...how did we get here? I have no idea.
I thought youtube-dl defaults to "best"
I have the impression that it's working (from the NSA's point of view): There is hardly any research being done in universities in the US with the trove of data that Wikileaks has provided.
You’ve never seen a girl wearing a flower barrette?
envsubst will really just perform variable substitution, not perform any logic or command substitution (e.g. $(hostname -f)). It's also limited, from what I've seen, in support for other bash variable actions (such as defaults). You can also write loops with output similar to other templating languages here as well.
> Their age doesn't predict their accuracy.

I was actually asking about the case where the demographic they're predicting the opinion of is age restricted -- are they good at predicting the views of a particular age range, even if they're not good at predicting the overall opinion?

My question was just about restricting the age to be near theirs.
I don't have enough karma to downvote you, so I'm replying to you to tell you that everything you posted is a load of hogwash and your analogy is bad.

Of course negative sentiment also "inherits the context of the thing it is (dis)agreeing with."

You glean just as much information from someone clicking Like and leaving no context as you do someone clicking Dislike and leaving no context.
For js error tracking, how does this compare to trackjs now?
It's got nothing to do with deceit or skimming, it's power. There is no fraud, it would be simply taking advantage of people beyond the amount of value that I would be interesting in providing.

Your allusion to a market that would correct the price doesn't account for a market which no tenants can enter because none of them can afford the entrance (a 20% down payment).

They'll get the benefit of housing no matter how much I would charge, but if I charge more than the value of the maintenance and accounting them I would be exploiting them, taking advantage of their inability to produce capital in the time it's taken me to produce it. And everyone else who is in the position I am could exploit them just as easily so the market doesn't help there.

It's like gas prices: if so many gas stations can compete, how come they prices aren't driven down to nothing? Because of the entrance cost to the market. You can't start a well and refinery, so you have to go to one of the established ones.

For luxury items like phones, art, fancy cars, etc., I don't care about charging people a lot of money. But for water, air, food, medical and housing, which people have no choice to acquire or consume I'm not going to gouge them.

This is not some rational choice about what a person or market theory can or should do, this is my personal code of ethics.
Did they call their shot in advance, or is this another case of arbitrarily picking the best model by hindcasting?
Isn’t it more of a recurring motif?
good idea. Easier to protect your pack.
Really you don't keep £50-100 for small purchases on you what happens if its late at night raining and your card gets eaten by the machine and you need a taxi home?

Also if its a crowded pub waiting while you dig you card out and slowly use the one machine your holding every one up.
Not quite. Sometimes "bestaudio" downloads webm files because Opus audio tracks report higher average variable bitrate. If you don't want to download video+audio and don't want to transcode or deal with Opus stuff, you need that m4a flag in there. Since nothing supports Opus and you need to transcode and remove video, webm seems like a losing proposition. And higher bit rate is deceptive since AAC is a much better encoder even at a lower bit rate.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10355556
Hey Matt, thanks for replying.

So right now when we have a need to send a stacktrace (error or panic) we use Raven-Go's NewStacktrace to create a stacktrace and attach it to the packet we send up. In the UI I see the exception with surrounding lines.

What makes releases different from what we already do? Or, do they do the same thing, but the difference is crafting the stack trace in our code vs just upload the code and letting you figure it out?
Under all conditions? Under normal conditions? Low-temperature? High-temperature? At 10,000 feet? Only when attached to the test harness?
IMHO it's absurd: 5 ways to express positive, and only 2 for negative. If you're not positive about something, then you're either sad or angry. Odd continuum from "Like" to "Angry" -- not the one I think most people operate on. It seems Zuck just really wants only positive feedback. Feedback from "angry" and "sad" people is easily dismissed and ignored.

Oh well, reason (n+1) of why I'm glad I don't use Facebook. It is a more a phenomenon to be observed.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Because there's criticism and constructive criticism; the one is easy, impersonal (in the form of downvotes or dislike buttons), and completely useless because it just goes "I don't like this" - or, in relatable terms, a Linus-ism of "This code is shit".

Instead, both the criticism-giver and the receiver are better off if you went "This code is shit, /because/ so-and so, and you can improve it in this-and-that way".

Of course, a "I like this /because/" is also more constructive than a "I like this". But I'm sure there's been plenty of examples that no matter how many "I like this"-es you get, it only takes one "this sucks, you suck" to demotivate someone.
> It is likely that those particular positions benefit and are motivated to cheat on regulations for the benefit of the company? No, the bottom line of the company is affected, and it is far more likely that business people are applying pressure.

I agree with most of your comment, but not with this point. Being the Head of R&D who is able to boast about bringing a "breakthrough" new diesel engine to market is bound to come with some personal perks.

You can re-define this as "business people are applying pressure" if you like, but that does not change the responsibility of those position - and besides, it's kind of a cop-out. With that thinking, you can re-define everything as being down to market pressure.

Somebody made a decision to do this, and I can easily see an unethical head of R&D making that call for personal career reasons - just like unethical researchers cheat by making up data. I'm not saying that that's necessarily how it happened, but it's a definite possibility.
This is not intended to be silverbacking, condescending, anything like that at all: Have you ever tried to provide uptime with physical equipment?

I have been able to provide the same level of uptime over ~15 years (in various environments, ranging from corporate america to the department of energy to startups) with physical servers as I have with AWS. The initial capital expenditure outlay is higher, but its cheaper over 1-3 years than AWS.

AWS isn't the only solution out there. Its great for proof of concept, its great when you don't know how much capacity you're going to need, but it is very expensive comparatively.
But the word "like" has connotations and it looks _awful_ to have a post with someone pouring their heart out about a tragedy and then have "Janine and 99 others like this" directly below it.
That's probably just a matter of time before they add the different emoticons to their algorithms.
Ask HN: How to outsource marketing for my bootstrapped 'lifestyle business'?
I am bootstrapping my 'lifestyle business'. I have a good product in a mature market: traction will be slow to come and I am running low on my savings and I don't want to blow them on expensive adwords. SEO with long tail keyword will take a long time to convert. I am thinking I should take a contract job 9-5 and outsource marketing and promotion to someone else. I know this is a bad idea but bills have to be paid. Has anyone done this before ? who do you outsource to ? What does it cost ?Please share.