skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But you can't launch a car without airbags. What complexity can the software folks eliminate and still have a viable product?

This is a very insightful comment. Take as an example the recent 1.0L three-cylindre 120hp Ecoboost petrol engine by Ford. It's so small the entire thing fully assembled fits onto an A4 sheet of paper. It's not actually a very big part of the car.

Meanwhile, the Ford Fiesta which this goes into has increased its total weight by almost 50% since 1980. Factoring in weight reductions in the engine, that's 350+ kg worth of increased safety and comfort, none of which is particularly simple engineering, and none of which can be eliminated in a modern electric car.
I totally agree...
Very few residents choose to live in Evanston for any reason other than proximity to Northwestern. It's unpleasant and overpriced to live in, and there's nothing magical about their development beyond affluence and train service...

New fantastic development idea for communities! Build a famous university 100 years ago... profit.
This is a service publishers use to show ads when a user has a adblocker enabled. It works on the most popular adblocker, adblock plus (firefox/chrome). Not sure if it works on ublock origin or ghostery/others, but those are still a small proportion of all adblock users.

Noscript would have protected you though, which has a pretty large install base.
This[1] is the first Google result for "has the global warming stopped".

In addition, this is an interactive page that lets you plot yearly global temperatures up to now. Now look at this graph and please tell me if temperature did not rise in the 21st century.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_o...

Finally, this page [2] compares IPCC's 2001 prediction with observed temperatures up to 2010. Look at the graph titled "2001 Projections vs. Observations", and see how closely the prediction matches reality starting 2001. (Which is not surprising, considering that it's only 10 years.) And now ponder what would happen if this "trend" continues for another 90 years.

[1] http://www.csicop.org/si/show/has_global_warming_stopped/

[2]
http://www.skepticalscience.com/lessons-from-past-climate-pr...
How much testing did Tesla do for Autopilot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwxEX8qOxA
5 Practical Examples for Learning the React Framework
Worst career advice. Which would seem reasonably translated as "words presented as advice for career improvement which actually require serious analysis and may not be right for you in your context".

But that's not as catchy.
Is this a case them being told it's improving so they perceive it to be doing so?
And you used to be able to get an RSS feed from twitter. Things in walled gardens tend to have a habit of disappearing when interoperability no longer seems to be in the proprietor's interest.
Except WhatsApp and until recently, Google Chat / Hangouts.
Can't be open source then, or spammers would just delete that code.
There was no 15 year pause in global warming.
Well we have more ice forming and still the label "denier" is being bandied about. Maybe there are fanatics on both sides?
I get the page loaded fine but with no css or javascript (it's very snappy!). Will probably be back to normal soon.
A big ad network is fine in theory, just stop using foreign javascript. Or any javascript.
What reasons would I use this library over React?
Craig Venter creates in laboratory sparking debate about 'playing god' (2010)
D'oh! You're right of course.
Can I use my old vim configuration in NeoVim or do I need to rewrite my vimrc? Do my old vim plugins work in NeoVim or do I need to find new versions?
I really would have hoped that Google would try to live without asking people to link domains to Google accounts. At least that's what I understand they are doing here. If so, this is a step towards their interest, not ours, and their slogan "don't be evil" pales more every day. Yes, of course some newer competitors of theirs are leading this course by attempting to win over people to their own closed messaging worlds, and users at large don't care, so all of this is sad. (The language on their blog post about this (linked from the mentioned post) is laden with a disappointing amount of weasel words, too.)

So what I'm saying is, no, I don't want to link my domains to my Google account just so that I can send mails to them. And I'm going to hold out hoping that their systems are collecting enough trust in my domains and/or IP addresses in other ways so that it won't be necessary.
Is it? I hypothesize that smaller exchange have less resources to develop secure systems. While they maybe smaller targets, I think their architecture maybe less robust. Hence why I trust gmail to run my email rather than rolling my own server.
You may ask and decision makers quite often will be happy to grant you N worthless stock options for reduction of your today cash rate.

You may ask for an actual stock but it still won't be a fully vested grant but some conditional trickery promise.

I'd rather take maximum cash squeeze and re-invested [part of] it into some more dependable.
Hmm. Wonder how I missed these. I recall going looking for such a setting, at least once. Thanks!

P.S. Found the described setting in the web client. Those settings pages look a bit different than I recall. I think they have added options to them since I last looked (months ago). Or, I am simply clueless -- wouldn't be the first time.

Thanks, again.
The military uses IRC.
I hate the misleading + provocative title used to get me to click. It actually takes away from the nice framework for 'work' communicated in this article. The title seems to suggest that 'passion' should not be a component in ones career goals, which is bs.
This is a very difficult sell at most startups, particularly those who have done A rounds, as it requires legal maneuvering in most cases.

If you want startup stock, I'd think "Charge biggest/most sophisticated companies a LOT of money, reinvest a portion into angel rounds." This does mean that you'll have stock from companies you didn't work for.

Note that angel investing is, for most angel investors, a fun way to lose money. (I have three small angel investments.)

An angel who invests $50k into a startup at a $5 million valuation gets a MUCH better deal than an employee who is offered 1% of the company, by the way. Ask me why if this isn't immediately obvious to you.
Which company, which software?
Here is a summary of : So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport, which is about this subject.

http://www.kevinrandom.com/1-page-summary-so-good-they-cant-...

Quote:
"The passion movement started in the 1970s. The core illusion: that there is a magic job out there that’s right for you, and will solve all your problems. This illusion applies to relationships too :) "
Ah that's the market taken by the old EOL models where the line is shipped to China Russia or India or south America.
Are Bitcoin and Blockchain joined at the hip?
A court expecting the contract to be legally binding.
Could you elaborate on why her page was edited after your comment to correct the typo on your website's name?

It seems a little strange that that was the course of action taken here.
I don't use Slack because they had a significant security breach and I'm not convinced they are doing things differently or better since then.
I haven't allowed myself to run into it, but I seem to recall having read that it is after circa 3 episodes.

Nonetheless, if you are in the habit of dosing off, many nights, that can still result in a lot of "wasted" bandwidth, particularly with some of the more miserly caps being described in the (U.S.) press as having been imposed or "coming soon."
The author's recognition that luck is a critical factor is refreshing.

Happiness != success.

Career != life.

Work != career.

Life is not one-dimensional, and luck is a huge factor in all of these.
Time Might Be Running Backwards Inside Black Holes
I did a `ls -s .vimrc .nvimrc` along with very few changes (like replacing Command-T with Command-P). Everything ran just fine. I still don't use nvim daily, mainly due to my old habits. Perhaps I should alias nvim as vim.
> Also hardly anyone sucks at their passion

Anecdotally, I know far too many people who have devoted years to areas they have little to no aptitude in (in the arts, and in business). They have no natural talent and are getting nowhere (by any metric, not just financial), but they do love their field.
If you're counting "short term tenants" in the demand, it seems really dishonest not to count the properties that serve them in the supply.

If we're talking about the supply and demand of all housing, supply has not changed because because using properties to service short-term tenants is still keeping it in the supply, and demand has not changed because you're conflating demand with transaction quantity.

In other words, when Airbnb allows the supply of short-term rental properties to increase, this decreases equilibrium price and increases transaction quantity of short-term rentals, but demand itself isn't affected. The number of people who _want_ to visit San Francisco at any given price point hasn't changed, it's just the number of people _able_ to visit that's changed.

Really, all that's going on here is that Airbnb has lowered the barrier of entry to short-term rentals, allowing landlords to more easily address market inefficiencies created by rent control.

Not that rent control is wrong, but it does work against market forces, and markets tend to route around regulations that work against market forces, in the form of black markets, or scalpers, or whatever. Your enemy really isn't individuals or companies so much as market forces themselves, and while sometimes it's necessary to fight them, honestly, it'd be easier just to legalize building denser housing. Unlike Airbnb, that's what's _really_ restricting the supply.
I don't see why Apple couldn't win this one as well. His criticisms are correct; ordinary software crashes all the time and people are cool with it. Heck, I even spent all of Friday discovering a Swift compiler bug. I'm sure Apple appreciate that certain kinds of software need to be more sturdy and can find the expertise somewhere.

But I don't think Apple's products tend to win because of better engineering. They somehow do OK on making the product and a stellar job of selling it. They've built a cult around their nice looking things with simple interfaces. Whenever they make something new, you can always find a friend (non technical) who praises their stuff. Undoubtedly, when they build this car, that same friend will be praising the 8th wonder of the world.
In my experience, vim configuration and plugins tend to just work.
(Your account appears to be killed. Maybe send an email to the mods if your other posts are dead? (check using incognito mode))

(I would have sent this by email, but you haven't put an email in your profile. It needs to go in the about: field, not the email field. )
Anti-caching is _literally_ caching. The system may be fantastic, but that's what it's doing.

Consider the following key characteristics of "anti-caching":

(1) Cold data is moved from RAM to disk.

This is cache replacement. Eventually, caches fill and you have to choose what to evict. While there are many replacement algorithms, one of the most popular is LRU, which is what is used here. In conventional CPU caches, data is moved a cache line at a time, moved transactionally. Here, it is a tuple at a time, moved transactionally.

(2) There is only one item present in either RAM or disk.

This is (almost) exclusive caching, which maintains exactly one item in all levels of the cache hierarchy (as done by the AMD Athlon). The key difference is removing it from the bottom of the hierarchy. This approach may be novel, but as far as I can tell, it is the primary novelty.

To be clear, adapting all of this to DBMS architecture may be a great idea, but let's call things by their names.
Everything should work out of the box. Just symlink your configs and go.
Just serve all third-party ad code inside of an IFrame served from a different domain. Even if malicious JS is loaded, it's sandboxed away from any session cookies.
> But did that persist, or was it just "switching cost"?

Opinion differs, but I think thanks to EU we were forced to accept a reasonable legal prevention to most egregious acts of economic crime. If that didn't happen, we would look.. probably kinda like Russia. In a sense it persisted because the people who got rich during the "gold rush" (usually through botched "privatization" of former state enterprises, but also through various scams) of course didn't lost their wealth.

Anyway, the point is, free market left to its own devices is not very pretty; I have seen that as a teenager. Arguably, Americans should remember that lesson from late 19th century.
I would think it is just a good use of YC resources towards protecting capital investment to remind founders not to invite public ridicule when none needs to have occurred.
InstallMonetizer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
It is actually... It is going straight to native and built in on the browser instead of a call to a plugin and then a VM and finally to native.
Hi, how is your company such an absolute colossal failure? Reading the replies of this thread, it keeps getting worse and worse. You should be doing a hell of a lot more than "ask him to contact you". DELETE THE FUCKING ACCOUNT!
I don't think I agree that OSX helps Apple - Apple succeeds inspite of OSX

Look at finder its worse than windows 95's file explorer
I've been using nvim exclusively for four months now. Perfectly stable (I think even more so than my vim was, I use lots of crashy plugins) and a perfect drop in, basically nothing changed for me when I renamed nvim to vim on my systems.

I wonder what their roadmap is for a 1.0 release. Is it a specific feature set, or stability in their MessagePack APIs? Is it years off, or just pending some big bugs/refactorings?
Twitter Spam on Behalf of Bleacher Report (Time Warner)
This afternoon, while searching Twitter on the string "Le’Veon Bell" in the wake of his injury, I saw that the live results returned a large number of bot accounts spamming the same headline and link to a story on the site Bleacher Report. [1]

A subset of the bot accounts that spammed that story have Bleacher Report URLs in the majority of their links. [2]

Bleacher Report is owned by Turner Broadcasting System whose corporate parent is Time Warner.

What's going on here?

Is it an independent action by a Twitter bot operator unconnected with Bleacher Report? It's hard to believe that an outfit with corporate
roots as deep as Bleacher Report's would stoop to Twitter spam. Has some Bleacher Report employee gone rogue and hired a Twitter bot
spammer to tout BR's articles?

How is Twitter supposed to sell advertising when it appears that major potential ad buyers are instead paying spam services?

[1] http://imgur.com/a3JbLls

[2] http://imgur.com/a3JbLls
what I have learned is that no amount of evidence to the contrary will convince one side or the other. It simply has become to controversial.
You seem to be assuming a lot from my posts; please don't. I'm not saying we should keep the existing system, and I'm not saying you should have to accept tracking. What I'm saying is that bad_user has a point regarding redistribution, and that anti-advertising advocates should deal with it instead of whistling and pretending it'll only affect Buzzfeed, like the post I originally replied to did.
What's STARVIS?
With navigation being one of the key features of smartphones, it seems like Apple Maps would certainly be mission critical to Apple. Furthermore, it seems like we've already forgotten that telephones are supposed to be reliable.

Take the Android Hangouts App for instance. In using it for a year, I've yet to have a non-buggy experience. First, the phone would stop ringing for incoming calls. Recently half of my outgoing calls will fail to open the audio device, so the other end can hear me but I can't hear them. Nevermind the everpresent dropped calls where the app just disappears. If your response is to say "yeah, but that's a downmarket VOIP app" then you've proven my point, given that it is published by one of the largest web companies around.

Bell engineers made reliability a design goal. Internet engineering assumed poor reliability could be compensated by endpoint software - this works really well for layer 3, but by the time you get to layer 6 and 7 you should really stop kicking that can down the road!

Your landline keeps working in a power outage because every CO is full of lead acid batteries, all the equipment runs off of a 48VDC rail, and power is even supplied to end-user devices so they continue to work as well. From the SV viewpoint this is obviously a complete and utter waste, but it's awfully nice to be able to communicate in a power outage (especially as emergencies tend to compound).

Nevermind the modern standard of ridiculous UI latency. The general guideline for an imperceptible delay is 10ms - that's 10 million instructions at 1GHz. Yet anything that gets "modernized" with a touchscreen inevitably has input lag 10 to 100 times that - amateur hour!

Yet these horrid devices are invading everywhere you'd traditionally have a simple well thought out interface with tactile feedback - including cars. Why bother spending design time up front when you can punt to soft controls, and then release "updates" if you're ever taken to task?

So no, I have little faith that our self driving car future won't involve a lot of abrupt stopping (because presumably the motor controllers will be engineered [correctly]) due to some undiagnosable error, and then a 2 minute wait while the system reboots. I can only hope the windows aren't LCD panels that turn dark for the process.
Bring back the Inquisition for these guys.
I'm always sad when I see a startup/service 'fail' that I would've used had I known about. I've been searching for something like this for a really long time. I didn't think something existed and hobbled together a solution using fedwiki.

Thanks for open sourcing!
> Linus' first reaction to systemd accidentally flooding the kmesg queue was to make an ad hominem flame...

Are you talking about this?

"Key, I'm fcking tired of the fact that you don't fix problems in the code you* write, so that the kernel then has to work around the problems you cause."

If you are, then you have to know that he said that because Sievers has a history of aggressively refusing to own up to (and fix(!)) the bugs he introduces into his code. [0] Contrary to popular understanding, Torvalds doesn't dress down people unless they've demonstrated that they should know better and continue to fail to meet their demonstrated potential.

Most people call that sort of management style "stern" and "meritocratic".

[0] Indeed, it is this behavior that led to Sievers's Linux kernel commit bit being unset. Because of this, Greg-KH had to become the front-man and shepherd for the kdbus project.
I'd also add that this is probably the worst time for them to do sit like this, considering twitch is launching twitch creative
I remember comparing a Sony minidisc player with an iPod. Same track, same compression, same headphones. The sound on the iPod was hopeless in comparison to the minidisc. Maybe the iPod improved later, I don't know.
IS+McCAIN+RESPONSIBLE+FOR+DOWNED+PLANE+-+YouTube
I've vouched for comments, but not submissions.

I find it much easier to flag than vouch, which is weird because it should probably be the other way round.
Passion should not be a component of ones career goals. Something that you enjoy doing can be, but is not always, something you're passionate about.

I obtained a degree in one of my passions and I do it as a hobby, I would hate doing it for a living because of numerous reasons even though I'm good at it and people would pay. Instead I found something that I am not passionate about but enjoy greatly that has a better working dynamic for my personality.

It's my opinion that the concept of 'passion' should only play into career goals in so much as determining if the field you're interested in actually aligns with what you enjoy about the concept of that field.
Wow, this is unbelievable. More than two hours have passed and the page is still live. Someone even fixed the typo, which is even more insulting.
Netflix has to pay for every "view" to whomever they're licensing content from, just as Spotify has to pay for every listen (although, the rules are much different for internet "radio" than they are for video streaming agreements Netflix has).

All services check if you're still around so they're not spending licensing money they don't have to.
The Force of Pliers
Sort of similar in the Netherlands, we had Marktplaats (marketplace). Pretty much totally dominated the market, eBay bought them actually. Now? I barely hear anyone about it, haven't used it in a long time. It, too, is pretty much dominated by professional sellers now. If you look for product XYZ the first full page of hits (it's beyond ridiculous) are dedicated sellers who paid for the spot or just spam the same stuff. All of the 2nd hand trading by me and my peers now goes through FB trading groups, a natural platform to communicate in text, post images of the product, negotiate prices, get a sense of identity/trust etc. This was great for about a year, but right now all of the few FB groups I used to frequent are seeing timed posts advertising professional services and products which keep popping up on my feed, drowning out the real sellers and causing me to delist myself from the group.

New niche marketplaces pretty much keep popping up that grow pretty quickly until they're big enough to get spammed by professional accounts looking for new sales channels.
Your philosophical views are very extreme. No coercion, ever? Then there's no role for government, as the government exists to "guarantee" things (notably, life and liberty). That is anarchism, not libertarianism.

I'm curious -- when you simulate your ideal society in your mind, at what kind of stable state do you arrive? I understand and sympathize with some of the same philosophical _first principles_ you do, but when I play it out in my mind I don't get to a world in which I'd like to live. In fact, the world I end up with is one in which life and liberty are routinely and casually stolen from others -- not by a state, necessarily, but by other forms of powerful self-interested organizations. Gangs, mafias, private armies. Coercive forces.

Of course there will be positively intentioned organizations to attempt to counteract these coercive forces. Unfortunately, they won't be able to compete because they suffer from a huge handicap: they lack the ability to coerce others to their cause.

So that's where it ends up in my mind. Epic failure, for the exact reason marxist Capitalism would fail: human self-interest.

Where does it end up in yours? If you've played this out and it end somewhere good, I think you must have a very positive and optimistic view of humanity.
How to write a shared library in Go that can be loaded by Ruby-FFI
Would you mind answering the question?

Does your lease permit this kind of a sublet, or does it not?
The Strange Beauty of Paleo Art
Not sure why you think a GC is a good thing. Deterministic object disposal is to me way more convenient and safe than a GC (haven't you ever experienced a race when the GC dispose your memory too soon or not soon enough?)
A website for AMAs(Ask Me Anything sessions) online
I created ama-live.com a few weeks ago. Please take a look. Recently Greg Kemnitz(one of the creators of PostgreSQL) has given an AMA. Check it out at http://www.ama-live.com/#!/room/5623b05f2d34521b00ac2e7c
bs. first she says that she is one of the lucky ones finding the perfect job, 3 of 3, and in the next paragraph she says "Plenty of us aren't so lucky"... ... "of us"??? You've just excluded yourself from the unlucky in the previous paragraph.
Tim Cook: Sales of the Apple Watch are increasing.

Analysts: SEE! THAT'S PROOF THAT SALES HAVE CRATERED!