skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Thanks for the nice words, folks!

Wasn't thinking of saying much but I'll chime in just once.

Was it what I expected when I started? nah, I remember when I thought having a IRC channel with 30 people was crazy-insanely huge, it took off at completely unexpected rates. Just to get some early looks at it from Seth Vidal and Jeremy Katz (and a commit or two!) was awesome enough for me at the time. It wasn't engineered with the idea that it would be a business at that point at all.

BTW, extremly huge thanks for this really should also go to all the contributors out there and people that helped spread ansible around, that was completely unpredictable and a lot of fun watching it take off, especially stuff like seeing so many AM tweets in Japanese and then trying to translate them, or seeing someone automate random vending machines or electronics projects. This got built trying to help people like you, so a huge thanks for all of the input and help!

Anyway, those words mean a lot, and I greatly appreciate them.
Agreed, great story. Now we just need a copycat to get hired onto Blue Bloods and do the same thing. Add a 'is dumb' to that one too perhaps. A good place might be on a fridge magnet of a house the main guy usually barges into without regard.
Interestingly, although Meerloo seems to think that the Reichstag fire was a Nazi plot, the Wikipedia article on the incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire) makes it sound like the current consensus is that Van der Lubbe set the fire after all.
This is a serious question: Why does my washing machine not dump the clothes into the dryer for me? Why do I have to come back and manually move them? Can't we put the washing machine on top of the dryer and build a gravity fed vibrating teflon hopper or something like that?

This bothers me every time I go down to the laundry room.
Thanks. I'll have a look at it.
Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?
It was interesting to notice in the discussion of the announcement of the VC fund that no YC company has ever gone public via an IPO.

After 10 years of success, and a lot of VC-backed companies that would be looking for eventual exits, that seemed like a surprising statistic.

Is the market for private funding that attractive, or the public market process that unattractive, or is it something special about the YC ecosystem that tends to not culminate in an IPO, or just the luck of the draw?
it's fun to read the glassdoor reviews of Theranos:

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889_P2...
Obvious question: did it already happen? Did previous iteration of humans leave us some messages? Maybe the pre-Deluge civilization[0]? That would sort of explain why I sometimes look in a mirror and feel like the reflection was telling me something about cloud model being bad. s/.

[0] - the story of Biblical Deluge tells that part of the reason God had to sink the planet is that because angels descended from heaven and started breeding with people and corrupting them. If one believes in that story and is particularly imaginative, one had to ask just what level of technology did we have back then, after being 'corrupted' by what would be aliens?
I think I was starting to realize that the only image I had for total artificial intelligence or total artificial reality was Borges’s Aleph, a point in space that contains all other points. In his story “The Aleph,” which may be his greatest, Borges managed to envision this Aleph without computers or anything like them. He skips the issue of what it is and how it works. It just sits there under the stairs in the basement of some old house in Buenos Aires, and nobody says why, but you have to go down the stairs, lie on your back, look at this thing, and if you get your head at the right angle, then you can see everything there is, or ever was, anywhere, at any time.

Here's the short story (10 minute read) for anyone who is interested:

http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html
Ask HN: What visa do foreign YC founders use to stay in US beyond 3 months?
Is there a minimum funding they need to raise to qualify for a long term visa ?
Here's one link, but all you need to do is search google for "NO2 life expectancy".

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/isee/p-3-30-13/
Recognizing patterns in data is so easy to do, that how easy it is, turns out to be a major problem in machine learning. You can always find some explanation that perfectly fits all the data you see, but that doesn't mean it will fit the data you haven't yet seen.

The challenge is finding the simplest patterns that will generalize to explain the most data, while wasting as little effort as possible on the irrelevant patterns. In high dimension data, the number of possible relationships to analyze explode, you can find patterns everywhere you look, so it's deciding where to bother looking with your limited resources that's hard.

That patterns are nothing special doesn't seem obvious to us because, evolution has done a pretty good job solving this problem(in the domain of inputs we evolved to deal with), and we only perceive those patterns that are likely to generalize.
Exactly. You still need something that holds a template of the stack somewhere. Ansible can play that role very well.
Yep! These are called plasmons[1]. They are sort of like sound waves for electrons, in that they are compression (i.e. longitudinal) waves.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmon
Using an unmaintained networking stack should terrify you.
Yep, there are tons of SDKs being used that aren't actively maintained like ASIHTTPRequest on iOS, for example. There are two reasons we've found:

1. App was written a while ago and is only in maintenance mode

2. Developer got started early on and hasn't kept track of the industry

The latter often happens with internal dev kits, where someone drops a static library in (say, to add a wrapper) and then never updates the dependency. New apps inherit it when they use the internal dev kit.
> Kinda sounds a bit like venture capital...

"But does it scale?" :-)
From a CBC radio program that aired a weeks ago, they interviewed a facial recognition expert who typically work with law enforcement that confirmed it to be Billy the Kid.

Apparently four people in the photo have also been identified as those known to associate with Billy the Kid, including Sally Chisum. Her diary seems to confirm this event taking place - which was a cattle drive and the wedding of Charlie Bowdre (on the horse).
The realization of just how fragile the Internet is scares me. It's even more ephemeral than personal digital storage. Keep in mind, your typical hard drive in a data centre wears down after 3 to 5 years, maybe less, and has to be replaced. Everything we store on-line exists only because of steady and flowing manufacturing and supply of new hard drives.
Time to buy Netflix stock that fell 10%.
You can fit a lot more bikes into a smaller space.

Next time you're in a traffic jam, look at all the cars around you, likely most of them have only one person in it.

Now try to visualize how much space each of those people would take up on a bike instead of a car. All of a sudden you're surrounded by empty space.

Sure its possible to have traffic jams with bikes, but that threshold is so much higher.
Rumsfeld was not a biotech CEO before he got into politics, he was a pharma CEO about 30 years after he got into politics, a few years before coming back as SecDef ~25 years after holding that job in the Ford Administration.
I'm surprised Realm is not on here.
One thing to note: Carthage usage is invisible, since frameworks built with Carthage are just Plain Old Frameworks. So people that have migrated from Pods to Carthage will be hard to track.
We (MixRank) help several SDK companies track apps that are using location services. This can be very useful for sales, marketing, and business intelligence. Reach out of you'd like to chat.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10400401 and marked it off-topic.
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ox3zi/if_you_...
Hmm... Looks like Mazda also has something similar. Mazda Radar Cruise Control. I wonder if I can get it set up on my car....
None of that excuses their behavior.
Yeah. Same here. I used puppet but it's documentation is horrible (at least for newbies),the errors are not informative, the simple stuff is complicated and the puppet did not run things in order IIRC. In the end, I had a very fragile puppet based system and some bash scripts which I could not rewrite in puppet.

I moved everything to ansible and couldn't be happier. The documentation is excellent and since ansible executes in the order you specify, the flow is much easier to follow
My thoughts exactly on all points except the last one.

It's definitely good to not be forced to use agents everywhere + a dedicated "mothership" instance, but sometimes I do wish I had Ansible agents on my instances, just so I could "git push" the whole thing and forget about it.

Looking forward to Red Hat following on their good old habits and open-sourcing Tower.
Why 50%?
Giant 'hole' in Sun is 50 Earths wide
This is so baseless I don't know where to start.
How a dial-up modem handshake works
Scala Up North 2015 talks now available on YouTube
You're agreeing with the post you're calling silly.

"drivers qua drivers don't care" says that while the part of a driver which cares about driving doesn't care, it very strongly implies that there's another part of drivers that does care. Otherwise the OP would have just said "drivers don't care" instead of "drivers qua drivers don't care".
Do Educational Standards Work?
e-book != DRM

EDIT: To be more clear, it says "We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom." But every single benefit it notes of printed books is also true of non-DRM'ed ePub book, except that non-DRM'ed ePubs respect your freedom even more—your freedom to freely copy and distribute it, your freedom to have it displayed by a screenreader or braille device.

If you want more free e-books, just go to m.gutenberg.org, find one, and open it in your app of choice.
"In the 80’s, workers were motivated by the ability to provide food and shelter. In the 90’s, “culture” was about winning and achieving goals. Generation Y doesn’t have the same needs. They feel they don’t need to work unless they truly love their workplace and the company mission."

That is unbelievable bullshit. Almost everyone works in order to provide food and shelter, the difference between now and the 90's (in the US say) is that now working a fulltime job wont even cover those basic expenses for a majority of people.
Facebook implements strong encryption, fortifies the platform for human rights
My point wasn't to start a philosophical debate on the term "intelligence". My point was, the intelligence that was recognize in humans (our only real guidepost at all, in terms of "AI") is closer to neural nets than the symbolic and expert systems of the AI winter. And that human intelligence is fuzzy and you have to accept the good and the bad.
Ask HN: How to switch from software engineering to sales
I have worked as a software engineer for over a decade. I have always been fascinated by the sales process. Any suggestions on how to switch?

My big problem is that I have only limited sales experience. I have done some non-profit fundraising. And I taught programming classes for a year, which I sold with some success.

How can I acquire the kind of sales experience that would make me get hired into enterprise sales?

Are startups a good place to try? Or should I aim for larger companies?

Any tips or suggestions would be great. Thanks!
If you want growth, you need to focus on buying perishable food items instead of furniture.
Sgt Jonathan Frost Shoots Dead Unarmed Deven Guilford in Michigan
Looks like it's an embed of a CSV file on GitHub, which is cool, since I didn't know GitHub supported that, but they've definitely got some funky JavaScript that doesn't play nice on mobile.
My EE professor said to me once:

"Quantum electrodynamics and shit. I'm not a physicist."

I wasn't all that impressed with that answer until many years later after reading Feynman lectures.
This is a great point. As much as it can be a bit annoying to see the same conversations over and over again, and as much as we make fun of supposed groupthink, it's all a long slow process of consensus building and idea dissemination.

Thanks for reminding me of that; I was previously sitting here thinking, "oh geez, here we go again!".
The benefits become very clear as soon as you need to manage more than 10 entities (instances, VMS, etc) in a consistent, reproducible, clean manner.
I'd be interested in hearing how this stacks up against simply running the tasks via shell scripts, because the time to install packages/do other tasks is orders of magnitude higher than the connection overhead. Things will always be slow when doing `serial: 1`, so I'd definitely recommend a canary setup where you run a play with a small serial batch followed by a play with no serial limitation - that'll speed things up considerably.

Finally, when using ControlPersist with pipelining mode in Ansible, it's as fast if not faster than zeromq or our own accelerated mode (which we will be deprecating at some future point when older SSH installs are not as common).
Correction: they really mean 'what is good for big business is good for america'
I agree with you entirely.

Implied death threat (to him) sent to his wife from someone whom he has now gotten imprisoned who knows where he lives and confirmed it by sending a card... he seems awfully calm about all this and perhaps half-jokingly states he'll visit Fly in prison to meet him in person.

I'd be getting placed under a witness protection program (is this even applicable?) and relocate. Move somewhere that doesn't have risk of being burned down if Fly manages to contact anyone.

Anyone deep enough in the criminal scene has connections to people that can make bad things happen to other people for the right price. This isn't something I'd be posting about on a blog as if it's some sort of crime detective story... his life and his wife's life could potentially be in danger.
Even if they cheated during the tests, they were exactly the same cars before and after the reveal of that fact, so I don't see why people would suddenly stop liking their cars.
I felt that way too, they always felt like a quiet retreat from anything you may be experiencing in life really. It was always so calm and peaceful in there. Never anything offensive to the senses going on. Finding that place in the back corner where there wasn't any foot traffic and getting lost in a book was possibly one of the best things I remember about childhood. It was also one of the few things you can do without needing any money.

Knowing all the different information that could be hidden inside these walls of books that I was surrounded by that might be interesting to me was also something special. You can get that with the internet but there's really no visual, material feeling you get actually seeing the amount of things you can learn about.
Any messages in the console?
Sort of agreed. I'm not convinced the alternatives are actually that much better, and I really like the agent-less design, but it has tripped me up in unexpected ways often enough to be quite wary. ("Why doesn't this variable substitution work?", core modules clobbering config files because they are not allowed to contain specific magic strings, ...) And a lot of it seems like stuff that a better encoding than YAML could probably fix. Right now it feels like an awkward mix of a programming language and a not powerful enough encoding that's great for simpler stuff.
It's a great idea, but I doubt it'll scale. That doesn't mean I don't wish them the best, and really hope to be wrong. But they face an uphill battle to make it as a startup-startup.

If it works there'll be a bunch of competitors that will pop up. Sure a bunch of them will just cargo-cult and not understand why they're supposed to do things a certain way, but plenty of them will understand.

The other problem is that these guys could make their own product and once they do that, they're probably out of the "helping other people create products" business.

Finally if competitors don't spring up and they do somehow manage to capture enough mindshare to keep people beating a path to their door it's going to be tough to keep hiring VP-product kinds of guys and employing them and not having them get poached.

It's possible to do this of course, just look at Bill Gross' Idealab: http://www.idealab.com/

If you compare the track records of Idealab and YC, I suspect that YC is coming out ahead at least in terms of financials. Idealab might have happier employees versus the difficult grind that founders face and that's not necessarily good or bad, just different. But I really do suspect that YC is a better model if you're in it for the returns.

http://www.idealab.com/our_companies/show/all

http://yclist.com/

I suspect that while difficult they could make something like Idealab work for hardware, but I have no idea how they'd make something like YC work for hardware. But I think you have to if you want to make a real business out of it, or else just making your own product will be way, way more profitable than continuously doing it for other people.
And to serialize it from whatever the in-memory representation is.
No, I'm not saying that the 40 hour work week was sufficient to bring out that change, just necessary. I'm just pointing out that a confluence of many things led to the result of women working/not dong all the housework, not just 1.
Finding Similar Items (2011) [pdf]
There's a very reasonable distinction to be made between "gambling" bets, which are zero sum, and investments, which are not.

If I invest emotional energy in a friendship, that's certainly a risk which might not always pay off. But unlike playing horses, no one else has to lose in order for me to win.
I notice that no off-the-shelf web view wrappers (e.g. PhoneGap/Cordova) or non-web-view JavaScript frameworks (Titanium, NativeScript) are in this list. Would Xamarin, RoboVM, or RubyMotion be detectable with this method? Or can we safely assume that all of the top 100 apps are native ObjC or Swift?
Amazon Redshift:: Working with BIG Data
Source please?

It isn't an ego thing, it is a consistency thing. People go mad about getting higher end grinders, machines, etc... because they are trying to control for all possible variables. Espresso is incredibly finicky about those variables, but you can control for them with the right equipment.

It is pretty easy to demonstrate that the higher end burr grinders have greater adjustability and consistency than the lower end ones. It is also totally obvious that they are needed on any higher end machine.

I used to think it was all bullshit too, then I got a Silvia, started with a blade grinder, then a low end burr grinder, then a rocky before I could finally get the grind both fine and consistent enough to pull a proper shot.

It isn't a subtle difference between a good shot or a bad one, anybody can tell the difference.
I Built a Botnet That Could Destroy Spotify with Fake Listens
If your utopia is powered by virtue, prepare for bitter disappointments. If your utopia is powered by vice, prepare for happy surprises.
Developer behavior is pretty varied along a number of angles. Since even indie apps can hit the top ranks (especially in games), it's a little less useful to talk about apps by rank and instead more by company background.

Swift is growing but not huge yet. Certainly there has been a flood of experiment apps in the long tail, where someone used it as a learning exercise. Some of the larger companies are using it for a new project once in a while, but it's certainly been most popular in games.

What never ceases to surprise me is the influence a single developer can have, even in a large organization. Someone picks up a tool and then suddenly it's used everywhere in the company.
Is TLS w/3DES still considered safe (TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA)? My guess is that it's the next to "go", but is it a risk currently?
This has some interesting implications for the YC Continuity fund. Curious to hear others thoughts on it.
He is an amazing actor with a great range, and I'm hoping he is not the next James Bond. It would be a waste. The thought that some studio is not willing to do something original with someone like that troubles me greatly. Plus, recycling these roles with simple replacement just seems insulting. Its basically saying that there is no original thought to culture and audiences cannot accept the new.
I doubt it, this isn't a drug cartel kingpin or mafia don we're talking about. He's just a troll.
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Already happened. Consider peafowls as an extreme examples, but there are many other animals displaying so elaborate patterns that the most reasonable explanation seems to be that someone in the past long gone was playing around with embedding vector displays in DNA.
Tcl/Tk would like to have a word with you.
True. That's why Tcl was invented.
Feynman explaining electricity as mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS25vitrZ6g&feature=youtu.be...

Tragically lacking in armadillos though. Maybe he could have got further if he'd included a few.
3DES (the cipher) is secure but incredibly slow. It's often included in server ciphersuites to support old clients (the alternative for old clients is RC4, which is not secure).

Edit: I should mention though that 3DES as used in TLS is vulnerable to BEAST if not mitigated client-side and possibly Lucky 13 too, so the ciphersuite ought to be the next to "go" along with the other CBC ciphersuites. Still better than RC4 though.
Not calling the post silly. OP has a good point. Saying that it's silly to consider anyone a driver qua driver.
I don't really understand the thought that Apple created the smartphone. It was essentially a logical next step in mobile development. Phones were big and clunky, then they got smaller, then they hit features, then they got bigger to accommodate features, then they got more powerful to deal with the features, then they were mini computers.