skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can never really trust a system's assertion about its Secure Boot state, so refusing to run when Secure Boot appears to be disabled would be more of a feel-good approach than anything else. You really need a measured boot process here, and if you have that then Secure Boot's not buying you a great deal in this case.
Chicago's tech talent often grows away
Not disagreeing with you, just adding some color.

We have a monolithic application (well, an application composed of many libraries that have a dependency tree, but live in the same process) that contains individually deployable services that talk to one another over RPC. So when you're patching part of the codebase, you can deploy a branch to the servers that are executing the code you've just changed, thus no need to restart the whole thing. But you still have the benefits of shared libraries, moving functionality between services, collapsing service calls that are no longer performant, adding new calls temporarily, etc.

In this model, you can introduce and remove service calls when it's useful, as opposed to as a result of how the code was put together. You will often do this for performance reasons, but just as often you'll do it for deployment flexibility. When you want to prototype something new, you can create a new service, branch the codebase, and have it talk to the rest of the infrastructure via service calls. When you're done you can keep it as a service, or, just as often, you can collapse the service back into other services so we don't have excessive RPC calls.

When would we consider moving to services backed by different codebases? If our company were to grow so large that highly disparate teams would want to manage their own dependency trees--that's around when it makes sense to me to go microservice. (I not sure I'd call it microservices then, more SOA).
Please note the small text on this page that says: "There is no guarantee this device will remove debris from the airway."

http://www.dechoker.com/pages/dechoker-usage-instructions

It is a 510K-exempt Class I medical device, according to the FDA. So its manufacturer has registered with the FDA but there is no FDA approval of its claim of being able to dislodge objects from a patient's airway. Nor is any data provided to demonstrate that it is at all effective.
I think you underestimate the excellent journalists from The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal if you believe that they:

a) cannot find good stories without social proof from TechCrunch
b) use TechCrunch as a source for what is up and coming
c) value a story already reported in TechCrunch over one that has not received attention.

Your best bet is to build something that matters. Good journalists are smarter than we give them credit for.
Alas, dead too…

$ wget https://butterproject.org
--2015-10-23 22:10:49-- https://butterproject.org/
Resolving butterproject.org... 184.168.221.24
Connecting to butterproject.org|184.168.221.24|:443... failed: Connection refused.
"Taking a joint to court?"

If, by 'taking a joint to court', you mean, 'had a joint in her purse, whilst being a passenger in a car that committed a minor traffic violation, and having the police officer demand she identify herself (why? She was the passenger in a traffic violation), arrest her, and take her from there to the County Courthouse', sure.
The first self-lacing Nike Mags are here and… they sound like a dying cat
This is a desktop calculator for my personal use. I would like to know what you think and what would make this calculator useful for you.
TechCrunch is essentially a business-to-business
publication, which provides market intelligence
on technology companies

I couldn't disagree more. Most charitably, it's Sports Illustrated for technology.

If I run a fashion start-up, for example, and
spot on TechCrunch a story about another
fashion start-up securing $5m in Series A
funding, the first thing I'm going to ask
myself is... who participated in this round?
Then I can ping them an email to get on
their radar.

Dear VC, now that you have skin in the game in this sector, please develop a conflict of interest by investing in my startup that competes with a company you've already invested in.

Here's an example of how/why this doesn't work: http://www.bhorowitz.com/instagram
Not everyone who smokes weed does harder drugs, but everyone who does harder drugs did smoke weed at some point. This argument makes sense and is not some version of "all spree killers eat bread, so bread must be bad", because the percentage of the population that smokes weed is relatively low (in Germany).

I am for legalization but I do allow myself to think differentiated, even about things I support.

I have seen people with psychoses caused by marijuana and I know smokers, who struggle to get something going in their lives.

I am not saying that weed is evil, I just know, that for some people it can be really dangerous.
Python Cryptography Toolkit
Perhaps.

Although 'effective', or in this case 'useful' definitely does not have to be a synonym for "a positive thing", as you state.
From the article - There’s something delightful in perusing Medium this way: the awkwardness with which the modern retina pixels need to accommodate the blocky, jagged font

They're certainly talking about their own experience, obviously on a retina display, but they don't include a picture. Which in a very image-heavy article implies that anyone should be able to imagine what that looks like. I can't, because I've never used a rMBP.
Is this OK from a privacy perspective?
Python in a hacker's toolbox
The only thing that matters for startups – by Marc Andreessen
I looked at the three competitors he listed in his letter and this describes his idea in a nutshell:

The goal was to make a mobile app that worked something like; install, find your doctor, take a photo of your drivers license, “sign” on the phone (to validate identity) and then magically (after a few days time) you have copies of all your past health records, accessible on your phone. Obviously, we had many ideas of what you could do next (visualize your health history, find correlations and causation, compare with norms, share with others, enhance with other data…) but we wanted to make it fast, easy and free to get your records. After a few months, we had this working (with lots of issues) and it was really cool!

I am having trouble understanding why medical records are apparently central to his vision. Why? I mean, if you are frustrated with how medicine currently works, why not do something "non medical" as a real alternative?
>The problem with Fusion has always been that R&D associated with it has no bearing on any first order weapons technology.

actually i think it is quite opposite - the inertial confinement approaches have from the start been the most promising, and they are relatively easy to miniaturize - thus paving the way for the neutron weapons without fission primary. No first-rate power - who already has nuclear weapons and thus has no real need for new types of neutron weapons - is interested in second-grade players obtaining such weapons bypassing the need for fission primary, as all the hurdles related to fission primary is what provides for non-proliferation.

Thus all the government funded research has been only in non-miniaturizable (as seen decades back) Tokamak and laser confinement. Sandia Z-machine (great inertial confinement approach) could have been burning DT targets at the end of 199x, yet they started to do it only 15 years later (at least officially) - somebody definitely wasn't in a rush :) With tremendous progress in solid state lasers i kind of curious what fate (ie. government funding) is waiting for NIF as upgrading its warehouse size 3% efficient lasers to container size 20-50% efficient solid state would obviously be in order. Yet it doesn't seems it is going to happen - the last monthly NIF's status update was in May 2014 and officially it has stopped ignition experiments and back to material research (simulating plutonium compression in the nukes)
Disney's ESPN withdraws content from YouTube
Not quite the same mechanism, but how about stud finders or voltage detectors?
Well designed decentralized systems scale better than their centralized counterparts (see bittorrent vs. rapidshare et al).

It's more difficult to keep them clear of spam, but hardly impossible. You can run spam detection on every client. You can require some obstacle to posting content (proof of work, or maybe payment of 10 or so microbitcoin). Most effectively, you can design your systems to allow for distributed moderation.
An honest question - has Martin Fowler ever written any code that makes him so much of an authority on software design?

I don't disagree with everything he's said, but what contributions has he made that makes him so much of an authority on how I write code?
Here is a thought exercise. God is looking at Earth and agrees with you, mindcrime. He says, "It's a shame people need to spend so much time raising money - raising is only a means to an end, I want my People to improve society for one another. So I will make a change - anyone can get an investment from me, no questions asked, but with one caveat -- I will look ahead (simulate the universe with my omniscience), and see if they succeed in building something big and good and useful and returning my money, in case I invest; if they will, then they get my investment, but if they won't, they don't. For example if a physicist (no business training) wants $1B to build fusion power plants, they'll get it as long as they will succeed and it'll be great for society and they will return my money."

In this world, you do not need to convince anyone that your idea will succeed; you can just go ahead and build it, even if your idea requires investment rounds to execute on.

This is not the world we live in.
Lots of "smart ass" comments, but effective :)
>I've personally never met someone that played the lottery that thought they had tremendous odds, or otherwise failed to understand the nature of the lottery.

This is besides the point. Even if you believe it's not the government's responsibility to improve the lives of the poor, I think we can all agree that the government has no business actively making the lives of the poor worse, which is what the lottery does. It uses the public's trust of the state to promote a get-rich-quick scheme that a.) people have almost zero chance of winning and b.) will most likely not even improve their lives past the first few years even if they do win.

The fraud being committed is the state using its advertising and trust to convince people that they could be a winner, when they basically can't. Whether people 'understand the odds' is irrelevant. The government is convincing people to divert what little money they have into a bottomless pit.
The Cloud Is Raining Cash on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
"police officers in Florida have an x2-x4 higher rate of domestic violence" isn't quite the same as saying all police officers are out there to beat up whatever person they encounter in their day to day lives. They're still people and they still need social skills even to be able to work with their bosses and co-workers. For example, I've met a pretty tough police officer in a Toastmasters club who I'm sure could under some circumstances be very assertive but at the same time can obviously interact with people like a normal person under other circumstances. I've also met plenty of non police with hot tempers and violent tendencies.

Anyhow my point is the outcome isn't pre-determined and you have some ability to influence how things go by using some people skills.
Have patience. Your situation will not always be so bleak. The time will come when you can focus more on meaningful work. Just be ready for it when it comes -- Don't get trapped by a personal burn rate that needs a 150K salary, when you could really live on half that.
They seem to have moved to https://butterproject.github.io/

which has a post from today (23 October 2015).
Perhaps they're questioning the perpetuation of the "women-are-personal-assistants" stereotype? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm just waiting on RedTube's new paid service called RedTube You.
HN Show: a new open source drag and drop Big Data ingest tool
Like with this post, the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads also have many listings where the HN user says "Remote Available," but when browsing to the linked jobs listing, all the positions list a specific geographic location. It always makes me wonder if there's really a remote culture at the company. (See the concerns elsewhere in this thread about being the only remote dev in an organization). When I was looking, it made me think twice about applying for the position. Yes, I imagine it's usually just some 3rd-party HR software that requires a location in the job listing. But if you're looking to hire people, I think removing any doubt in the potential candidate's mind about wether or not there really are remote positions available might be in the company's best interest.
Perhaps they would have lasted a bit longer if they'd gone to San Marino! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino
What we have now is generic xenophobia. It's not "yellow peril" in any meaning of the historical sense.

There are no pogroms, where Asians have a "Chinaman's chance" of avoiding lynching. There is no "Asiatic Barred Zone" from which people could not immigrate. American women who marry an Asian alien do not lose US citizenship. People from India and Japan can become US citizens.
Why wouldn't it be? All the data provided by the HN API is public.
I don't believe an IQ would be a worthwhile investment for anyone trying to decide if a career path is for them. I'm sure many of the "top tier programming gods" you're thinking of are of slightly above average intelligence and just have exceptional communication skills.
Sad, but inevitable.
Row-bot: Energetically autonomous MFC-powered robot with artificial stomach [pdf]
I found Shippey's "J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century" a compelling read. It examines Tolkien's fascination with myth (which, I suppose, is effectively redundant; can't very well write a biography of him without it).
Instagram (2012)
Fairphone 2 hands-on: Modular phones are finally here
The Navy already is investing in fusion research through the Polywell design. Nuclear reactors on ships are big, heavy maintenance intensive, relatively fragile, and require a rather involved port call for refuelling. Any sort of fusion-powered craft would be quite literally floating on its own fuel supply, making it cheaper to operate, safer, and cleaner, which makes the end of life costs for a ship lower.
Texas did both. They diverted the funds from lottery and cut funding for education.

[0]http://www.texaspolicy.com/blog/detail/tracking-the-distribu...
I'm not arguing for any particular "narrative" although you seem to be.

You seem to be suggesting that more criminals behind bars leads to lower crime. Is there any evidence that this is true? Could this be a coincidence, or could there be some other factor lowering crime? Are you jumping to conclusions based on your own favorite narrative?

The OP similarly lists two facts and then jumps to the same conclusion: Crime rates have plummeted, and we are all much safer than we were decades ago. (Therefore) our incarceration system working?

I think to make that claim one must "show one's work".
Ah, yeah I could see that being the case. I was just curious.
Wouldn't have made much of a difference as Odoacer simply bypassed Ravenna (and would have bypassed San Marino) on his way to sacking Rome. Rome at that time had fallen far from grace, but the sacking was the nail on the coffin.

The true strength of Rome had already left, gone east to Constantinople. 4th/5th century western Rome was just a slow and painful decay. The East survived until 1453.

Fun little fact: the Roman Empire existed until 1453 and was finally destroyed by the Ottomans; the Ottomans existed until the end of WW1; the Cubbies last won the world series in 1908; which all means: the last time the Cubs won the world series, the empire that destroyed the Roman empire was still around.
I have that habit, though not because I read my stuff out loud and use pauses as an indicator for comma placement. It just reads better to me, with having "semi-separators" that I don't quite feel justify a separate sentence, but help with the flow of what's being said.

Looks like I did it twice just now.
I am using "positive" in the sense of "gainful", contextually meaning "furthers the cause in question".
This could have more utility for a user with a feature phone. Their notes app is likely more difficult to access, its data not backed up to the "cloud" or just not be a feature at all on the phone.
Being unfamiliar with popcorntime, I don't know why this was inevitable.

Why does the status page say "I cleaned all server before switch them down to keep all Developers safe"?

What happened? What was gandi.net's role?
Trouble is, there was no San Marino at the time.
While I have no idea whether or not this was the inspiration for Tolkien, some element sort of match, from the capital being moved to the following reconquest of Ravenna under Byzantine rule, and also the presence of marshes to the north of the city (if Middle Earth map is oriented North-top South-bottom, which I'm not sure).
I don't think I've ever seen a piece selling the benefits of microservices which didn't mention the scaling or reliability benefits as a primary motivation.
Yes we should.

Technically OP should have prefixed with "Show HN:" which is what it is perhaps.

Not all "Show HN:" posts exhibit brilliance or originality or solve a problem or as in this case solve a problem for the OP for which there is already an outstanding solution (I guess originality), but the existing solution doesn't fit their use-case.

And you know as hackers (I still am at 48 yrs old) if there's an itch needing to be scratched why not show off a bit of code, it's one of the best things about HN, we learn so much from each other this way, either through (constructive) criticism or just looking at a nice bunch of code.

So, yes, hackers unite.
Almost all brands of cars have. You should read the NIST database sometime - the list of recalls is much longer then the ones you see in the news.

While you're at it, read the FDA list of food and medical recalls too, so much risk!
(Incomplete) List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
It appears you are assuming 100% efficiency for conversion of solar energy. The maximum efficiency possible for solar cells is the carnot efficiency at 86%.
Yeah I mean new cars have electronic steering, there is no real mechanical linkage to the wheels.

My steering works even with when the power assist fails, though it is much harder to turn at low speeds/standstill.
Cydia+download++iOS+9.0.1+.iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
Martin Shkreli Won't Suffer Because of That $1-A-Pill Competitor. Here's Why
>Two years ago we invested $250,000 in Instagram. Thanks to the spectacular vision and effort of Kevin Systrom and the Instagram team, the investment will be worth $78,000,000 when the Faceboook acquisition closes.

My Goodness me. What a return on investment.. That's massive.
A good book related to the topic of clear writing is "The Pyramid Principle". http://www.amazon.com/The-Pyramid-Principle-Writing-Thinking...

This book was recommended by a fellow HN'er a few years back in a different thread. I bought a copy and read it and was suitably impressed. I'm still working on integrating the ideas from the book, but I think it's worth reading.

Basically, the book teaches you to organize your thoughts (and writing) in a hierarchical, logical structure, and to present the most important idea first, and then branch out below that with sub-points and supporting material.

If you're interested in clear writing, I think this book is worth the money and time.
If you found this interesting you'll get a proper mindfuck out of these essays:
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/mr-jaynes-wild-ride/
http://www.meltingasphalt.com/neurons-gone-wild/
Nice idea but I don't really see why I would use this over something like Simplenote that does a fantastic job of syncing a simple text list.
This is analogous to saying "one of the absolutely critical considerations for banks undertaking mortgage lending is that they believe each loan is likely to be paid back. I fail to see why an outsider would embrace more risk than such banks."

But that is precisely what happened leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. And it happened because of outside financing. When banks were risking their own money, they maintained careful underwriting standards. When banks were risking someone else's money--and reaping fees instead--they relaxed their underwriting standards to increase volume.

A law firm undertaking a contingency case better be damn sure they are likely to win, because they are risking their own capital. A law firm with outside financing will get paid whether or not they lose.
I would concede that it only happens at scale but I would contest that it is rare.
Show HN: Music Hunter – Ask strangers for a song name
The point is that globalization happened outside the US too so regardless of any one president this was made possible by technology not politics.
Nothing in his original vision seems off to me, of course I can see why people would be wary to share that with his service, though. (As he listed in the reasons for killing the project)

>do something "non medical" as a real alternative

What do you mean? Are you talking about alternative medicine?
I was mistaken. The way the paragraph read seemed to state that she told the judge she couldn't pay and was fined, then fined for a joint found in her purse; I did not see the joint was actually discovered during a previous instance.

Still, if you are already in trouble with the law, it seems incredibly foolish to continue to willfully break it by carrying around illegal substances with you.
I've been disabled since 2003 and out of work. I got too sick to work and ended up on disability. Been trying to get better so I can return to work one day.

Almost everything I know is out of date, new stuff keeps being invented. I can't afford college anymore and try to learn online but MOOCs aren't the same as having a professor you can ask questions when you get stuck, because of the honor code. Even worse a lot of the AI/ML MOOCs need MATLAB or Octave and MATLAB has a 120 day trial and then you can't do anything with it, and Octave doesn't seem to work with Windows 10 and runs slow in a VM with Linux at least on the computer that I can afford to own that isn't as fast as I'd like it to be.

So I have problems trying to keep up with the latest stuff, no one to work with me and help me. My friends and family left me when I became disabled.

I've gotten so depressed over it I sleep most of the day, and my medicine makes me drowsy so sleeping is how I deal with it. There are no groups that can help me, my mental illness I developed with stress schizoaffective disorder is rare and misunderstood.

I can still write code in older programming languages and I've been able to pass a MOOC on Ruby on Rails. I can still write HTML code by hand. I'm trying to write some books and self-publish them, but most of the day have to get around writer's block.

I'd much rather be working and I'd still be working if I never got sick.
Who is 'they'? What do we want? What was stripped out? Who was made wary?
Department of Energy: “recent graduates” only job
It should be noted that, for millennia, violence and destruction are considered perfectly acceptable means for accomplishing political objectives. But only when performed by state actors, of course.

IMO: the riots start out as protests. Then a minority of people choose to cause mayhem. Another minority are criminals and they do what criminals do, which is act opportunistically. And yes, agents provocateur do exist.

But sure, I can understand why people who are directly affected would prefer to have no protests at all out of fear that a riot might happen. They love order more than justice, an attitude which, ironically, has helped to create the very same conditions that people are protesting.