skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting votes:

Nay	I	Sanders, Bernie	VT
No Vote	R	Cruz, Ted	TX
No Vote	R	Graham, Lindsey	SC
No Vote	R	Paul, Rand	KY
No Vote	R	Rubio, Marco	FL

Above from GovTrack [1]

Note, the Guardian [2] has Sen. Graham as voting yes.
> Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders voted against the bill. None of the Republican presidential candidates (except Lindsey Graham, who voted in favor) were present to cast a vote, including Rand Paul, who has made privacy from surveillance a major plank of his campaign platform.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/s291
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/cisa-cybersecur...
Credentials would tend to support the practicing endocrinologist. Also, the data Lustig really had to go get was the causal inference where increasing fructose had a delayed response of increased metabolic syndrome. That study has been done now.
Dead unicorn list

1. Homejoy

2. Theranos

3. ....
Interesting, thanks for pointing this out.

I am still unclear, though, how you draw the line, in general, between things that belong in dataset and things that belong in standard classes?
They would track CEOs, if only they could. I'm guessing that even in the US, mobile networks only share aggregate or anonymized data about customer location, and don't allow for spying on specific individuals.

If you want to track CEOs, I'm guessing it would be much easier to track their private jets or the license plates of company cars.
I thought family guy and bobs burger followed roughly the same production structure.
>The hobbyist. Why would anyone else be liable for something a person did that then failed and caused harm?

The hobbyist isn't the one with money. The manufacturer will be sued, and they usually settle because there is probably something they could have done that would have made the failure less likely, injury trials are bad press, and jury sympathy is always on the injured little guy's side.

This is how it plays out with physical products, I don't see why it would be any different with code.
NSUserDefaults replacement for managing multiple user defaults
One of the goals of Common Core was to fix that situation ... but then, you know, teaching to the test kind of defeated it.
Static site deployment manually with a shell script, S3, and CloudFront
> What if this used for trading purposes, e.g. price reports from an exchange?

Timestamping trades clearly is not the use case for this. Don't blame the tool but he who uses it in the wrong way...
If you have it inverted - your senior devs are no longer devs and are instead managers of three junior devs each.

If your three junior devs don't need constant supervision by a senior dev - then they aren't junior devs, they're senior devs who aren't getting their due.

Currently I am the senior dev in my organization. I'm in charge of 4 junior devs. I spend more time babysitting them than I do coding. Things ran smoother when there were three of us (seniors) and two juniors. But the other two seniors got moved to another team and my team got two new juniors to replace them.
I agree with that. Engineering managers are ex-engineers after all so the ratio 10/90 applies at any level.

What if you promote a "bad" engineer? She/he would have a much bigger impact on people = more impact on the company. The problem is not about engineers vs managers. The problem is about micro bubbles within a company which create micro cultures that are often driven by these (micro) managers. A solution would be to put everyone at the same level. That sounds very naive and provocative... but after all, there hasn't been much innovation in that space within the last 20-30 years. We manage engineers like we used to manage workers in a factory. I think the model does not apply anymore. That's just my naive/ideal world opinion...
I honestly could use this for something I'm working on at work. Thanks!
BMJ issues a correction for its bogus dietary guidelines investigation
I don't understand how this is hacking-resistant; if the car is relying on external information, then any flaw in its authentication of the external information can be exploited, regardless of any changes deployed by the city.
How I Crashed the SPECTRE Premiere and After Party James Bond Style
Couldn't those register writes required on shutdown be included in ACPI?
Why does everyone here seem to be assuming the primary use-case is some kind of interactive on/off filter?

Surely the common setting for this to be applied is in a web page where the author/photographer/designer has already selected a fixed filter and the visitor is just looking at it applied. A UI allowing someone to toggle or select filters on an image is the exceptional case here.
goldenkey explained this well in their response.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10461988
I've really never learned anything well by learning a book, maybe you'll have the same luck (or lack-thereof).

Id' start building stuff. Follow tutorials, and then starting looking at API docs and experimenting.

After that, I'd follow along with 'JavaScript Ninja'[1], straight from John Resig (who designed/wrote? jQuery), which gets into the prototypical inheritance, etc.

I've gotten past some fairly well-known Technical interviews through the above approach.

Either way, good luck with your journey.

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
wonder why they asked that
Sorry if I wasn't clear.

There are men. There are women. These people belong to different, distinct sexes. There are people who are both/neither/mixed.

There are people who are black. There are people who are white. There are people who are Asian. These people belong to different, distinct races. There are also people who are of mixed race.

Of course, different people and cultures are going to perceive races and sexes differently... For example, Obama is black in the US but would probably be white in Kenya. Similarly, it used to be the case that doctors would operate on mixed-sex children and make them single-sex (usually female), but now they often leave them mixed-sex. Regardless, there appears to be practically no confusion about the non-ambiguous single-sex and single-race people.
This is great, I wish more people where into live programming, it is the future.
Are we being trolled ?
Do you know what “founder bombs” are?
30% shared parts doesn't sound like a shared platform.
Both wholesale rates and retail rates have been regulated for a decade or so now, so larger carriers can't charge smaller ones ludicrous rates.
This is awesome!
I've too have had apps rejected for arbitrary reasons.
Hopefully Apple comes around on this one.
Open sourcing it might help flood Apple with different apps/ use cases for the weighing idea.
Maybe a "Mechanic's Lien" could work for that[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanic%27s_lien
Privacy is a resonably coherent subject, especially in the context of telco/internet regs. It's also a coherent area of constitutional law (bill of rights).

The "tech world" just seems like a straw man and easily falls down, for the obvious reasons.
Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll)

- Good UI, easy to use for both employers and employees

- $29 + $6 per person/per month

- Features: https://gusto.com/benefits
Where the innovation stops (2011)
You are correct. We can now do just about anything we want short of redistribution or commercialization.
If they are in school all day and then pressured with all sorts of homework at night, when do they actually get to learn something they want to learn? Something they are really interested in, but isn’t assigned by a teacher?

I think there is value in giving kids time to learn things that at outside the subjects that a school teaches. Eliminating homework gives kids more of a chance to do that, not to mention the other things that people have mentioned like spending time with family, playing, etc.
This was just an easy way of making the tutorial usable by everyone (not just Verizon US customers for example). Hope you liked it ;)
thanks for this I think Dan Harmon is a creative genius really enjoying this explanation of story structure
There was that time in the 70's when you had to re-up your Copyright, and a lot of stuff fell out, like Night of the Living Dead.
3. Evernote

4. Fab
Offer HN: I'll turn your hardware product idea, into a functional prototype
I run www.jibly.com, where we design and develop experimental products. Was thinking of ways to make hardware prototype development more affordable and accessible to people with cool ideas. Figured this would be a fun experiment. You will get the working prototype developed in a couple of weeks (based on the complexity of the idea) and delivered asap to your frontdoor, all for $5.000 - $12.000 (based on the complexity). If interested, contact me via the website. I have no idea how this will pan out, so feel free to give feedback thoughts or give the service a try.
You can't be serious? Here's them asking for regulation of digital arms:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/zero-day-exploit-sales...
Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10460318
Deploy and manage your static HTML website straight from Bitbucket
Those refugees are crossing over land into Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and anywhere they can find. Don't assume that all Swedes are just happily opening their doors and pocketbooks to this influx.

And as for Swedish student debt, also please do not insinuate that they are not taking on debt of their own. I know plenty of people (event into their 50s) still making payments CSN (Student loan authority-thingy).

Now if you will excuse me -- I have to read the article :-)
For your eyes only: The Times goes inside GCHQ
There is also similar language in the licensing agreement used when authors choose to exclusively license to ACM rather than transfer copyright to ACM [1].

Under both agreements the author also has the right to publish, before peer review commences, a copy of the submitted version to non-peer servers, which would cover things like arXiv.org.

[1] http://www.acm.org/publications/ACM-PubLicenseAgreement.pdf
Hey, good work! I've never had to work with phone numbers in a mobile app, but I have with web development, and so many people do it just so, so wrong. I like what I'm seeing here, and will definitely keep it in mind should I ever have need of something like this.
The huge jump in quality would give the game away!
And consider installing the Amazon Smile Redirect browser extension.
9 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Startup Job
Problem with IoT devices like LiftMster is that they rely on the same 'rolling code' technology (see 'Programming' https://www.liftmaster.com/CatalogResourcesV3/en-us/shared/f...) to give the connected device (internet) access to open/close the door. This is long proven to be very insecure: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/hackers-tiny-device-unlocks-car...
I don't understand why this purchase was not turned down for on grounds of anti-trust. There will be less competition for lowering drug costs. How is this a good thing for American health care?

There are four large pharmacy chains in NYC and now Walgreens owns three of the four. Not long ago Walgreens purchased Duane Reade. Now the competition is limited to Walgreens and CVS.
It's not shameful, JS is one of the most complex languages out there. And most web developers just ignore it and go for jQ like it's the new JS.

What I did once is I worked on a project only with pure JS, and did some complex ideas there and since then I feel comfortable working with it. I work with it purely only on my personal websites since it's take longer time.
In 'Soda Politics' Big Soda at Crossroads of Profit and Public Health
The CIA Fine Arts Commission?

Is there an FBI Jazz and Bebop Directorate?
I disagree. The only point people on Wall St pay attention to is how to make more money. Apple depends a lot on iPhone for it's profits to trading at other companies' P/E.
I did always love Rite Aid though Walgreens is good as well. CVS is the only one of that type of store that I routinely avoid. I wonder if Rite Aid and Walgreens will follow suit in not selling cigarettes anymore.
Rocky fits:

Daring enterprise
a bold leader; an object; an adversary
Both them and Theranos suffered the suicide of their technical lead ...
This is from 2012.
Crash course to protect your computer
Netflix could not become what it is today without net neutrality.
CVS at my college never had my drug, so i avoid them in order not have my time wasted.
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine (2012)
It's interesting how different people draw the line in different places.

I think Behind the Laugher is the last truly good episode. That's a deeply unusual format, of course. I'd count Homer Simpson vs. the City of New York as the last truly good normal episode. I mark the decline as the beginning of season 9. I think season 8 holds up as well as any. I think I've seen others draw the line as late as season 13ish, and as early as around season 4.
As I have to in every post about Elixir on HN, I'm going to say it again: Aside from some syntax, Ruby and Elixir have nothing in common.
Customer says Oracle tried to strong-arm him into a cloud sale
I just know there is a "There Will be Blood" joke in here somewhere..
This is just an announcement that the two companies plan to merge. Following this announcement, the government will analyze the deal and decide whether or not to oppose it.
The false equivalence here is off the charts.

Let's compare: http://image.baidu.com/search/index?tn=baiduimage&ipn=r&ct=2... to https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=%E7%8E%8B%E7%BB%B4%E6%9E%...
This. And it would be cooler if you used GitHub as a dictionary of keywords while the trends being checked on Twitter.
Well, that's been more or less the situation for everyone since the beginning of history excepting a very small slice of the population born into or married into a privileged elite class--and not even all of them.
If a car starts moving independent of a city's models, it would easy to identify as a possible hack in real time. If a car gets hacked independently, there may not be much evidence of how it happened. The idea is a city based system can send help faster. A completely independent system can be hacked in multiple different ways to trick the controls, such as through the model, but a city based system would also have minimal interfaces in the actual car.
That's still "competition". Coke or Pepsi, Comcast or Time Warner, Everything is condensing down to two options.

btw... I'm not arguing with you. It sucks.
Just to be clear, this is the chart that shows how much the growth of Apple's 1 product is "slowing"..

https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/659107811549274112
I read that but it still isn't clear to me.

What is the namespace in question that we're polluting?

Where do you draw the line? Eg, take something a simple as creating striped table rows. Is something like 'class="oddRow"' wrong, because technically that's an enum value -- the rows can be "odd" or "even". Should we instead write 'data-rowtype="odd"'?

Basically, I need to see some more examples to understand the distinction better.
im not surprised of being downvoted ... i sound like a whiner no doubt. Whining that if your born rich and affluent or have strong ties to such then getting your startup funded is a ton easier.

Pardon my whining about how getting funding works for a good majority of start-uppers. Like how many Ivy Leaguers has YC funded? Is it a majority or minority amount?
Hearing rumbles that this deal isn't going to go through. But I will say from experience that when companies announce such deals they have already done their homework and generally feel pretty good about anti-trust issues. We'll be interesting to watch. Either way - Wall Street is selling Walgreen's on the news.
Out of curiosity... where did you grow up?

I grew up in Chicago (where Walgreens is from) and I routinely avoid CVS and shop at Walgreens if I have the choice. My girlfriend is from NY so she never saw Walgreens until her 20s so she avoids Walgreens and goes to CVS.
Okay, then I'm definitely old.

Why? Because I look upon the iPhone, or any smartphone, in whatever incarnation you are holding, to be a amazing feat of engineering. The fact it works like it does is something nobody could have forseen 10 years ago.

And here we are bitching about a glitch in a transition effect. You need some perspective, brother.
Now I'm lost. Isn't that all categories of carbohydrate, meaning they're correct?
A 17.8 billion dollar deal yet every time I go in I'm asked to donate to 'the troops' which are not a charity to begin with.
I can't help it. I love books and have a huge collection. I used to have a really bad habit of buying something almost weekly but have since recovered to only go through buying spurts every 3-6 months. My dream is a house with a massive built-in bookshelf. Sick? Maybe.
Surprising facts about real Docker adoption
Wow. It's not every day that Oregon gets to show up WA and CA at the same time. :-)
I've read that the show took a hit in quality when Groening took some of the shows better writers over to Futurama.

It probably wasn't the first bad episode, but I remember really disliking the one that starts off with Bart getting chased by a dog ("The Lastest Gun in the West").
Number one reason I use the mobile site. Or mobile sites in general.
That kind of makes sense, because the bill cleared its cloture vote with overwhelming support, and if you follow the amendments from the beginning, pretty much everyone seems to have had their fingers in it. There's nothing anyone could have done to change the outcome.
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, [...].

[...]

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
The NRA's power comes from its perfect political triangularity with a certain, vital voting bloc. There is no equivalent for digital rights.
I don't see the anti-trust thing. In addition to the "drug store" chains, there are pharmacies embedded in (many|most|all?) Wal*Mart stores, Target stores, Publix stores, Kroger stores, Harris Teeter stores, etc. I would guess there are other grocery chains that have pharmacies as well. Plus there are still independent pharmacies. I don't know what the situation is like in NYC specifically, but just to share an anecdote from where I live - there are two "indy" pharmacies within walking distance of my office on Main Street in Durham, NC.
My general impression, based on the success of shows like The Sopranos (and Breaking Bad--although that's more complicated) is that at least a significant slice of the US audience is more willing to tolerate unsympathetic protagonists than was historically the case. Films have always been more varied but they don't require the ongoing commitment that a TV series does.
While this site looks interesting enough and even the comments below sort of say the same thing. What is this? I mean really. I look at this site and think. I do not know what this is. And even worse there is nothing on the site that even remotely explains it. Why was it even posted?
CTO by day (apps and search)

http://helloaviva.com - By night I work on a niche app for city-parents to find changing tables, nursing rooms, and play areas

http://www.3cosystem.com - where I map out all the tech and startup events for 60+ cities world-wide
> Well, if you want to compare apples to apples, North American landline costs were/are waaaaayyyy cheaper than Europe's

Wait... what? Bell used to charge me more for a basic landline in Montreal than I paid for 20Mpbs internet + free unlimited international calls + a hundred TV channels or so in France. The historical operator's plan for bare landline was cheaper as well.

That was back in 2007 so maybe things have changed, but from my experience landline costs in Canada were hugely more expensive than in France. I actually ended up using my parents' VoIP account (provided on the aforementioned plan) to call Canadian lines most of the time because it was cheaper than using my phone. Perhaps generalising "North America" and "Europe" just doesn't work in this case, though.
or...you know...use an adblocker.

I found the content interesting and the writing awkward.

Always interesting to hear story of how projects get shipped. Overall worth a click and a read.
Or you can use a service like https://www.imgix.com or https://www.filepicker.com and let them to the hard in real time.

That way if you want to change your image dimension later you don't have to go back and resize the images.
Faxes from the Far Side of the Moon
What is a "legacy payroll company?" As far as I can tell, ADP is online too.
DRM can be totally baller, but if it has to be shown on a screen and played through speakers you're going to have an awfully hard time stopping anybody from making a DRM-free copy it.
My 8 year history indicates my strong points are ideas, marketing the ideas and building them out some with teams of consultants who are not 500% vested as I.

I'd love to find a true startup partner who has connections and is vested the same as I. One who will and drop everything to help me take advantage of all this opportunity.

My favorite uncle is my father's cousins husband. His brother was the CEO of large well know retail store.
Joke theft sucks (if you've ever tried to write standup material, it's hard) "can I steal that" is more akin to asking permission to use a joke than actual theft. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke_theft
right now some genious at ATT is calculating the business case for roaming charges between US states. not like the US has anything like the EU commission enforcing rules against corporations. oh man, the billions to be reaped. and hey, how many really travel between states? and aren't most voters against the federal government and for more state-level government? make some GOP doofus to run with it, next step - profit!
I've been a heavy Amazon shopper for years and there is no doubt that there has been a huge spike in fake reviews recently, and they all seem to be marked as Verified Purchase to the point that the Verified Purchase tag now makes me more suspicious that it's a fake.
What is the bigger picture here, what is really happening?

Europe also wants to regulate internet traffic, at the same time an internet law is passed and both us and europe want a broader commerce union with TIPP.

Are all these tools implemented to eventually censor people who will disagree with all that is coming with this new union? something like china does with everything that is against the party? what are they trying to do to our society with these baby steps?
How about that! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10451365
If you're talking about Ghostrank than that's totally opt-in. If you're not then I'll need to see some evidence of this because their privacy policy mentions nothing about selling browsing habits: https://www.ghostery.com/about-us/privacy-statements/ghoster...
Well, yes. Except, internet access isn't going to be the first problem they'd want to solve (or be solved).
I don't know much about Wallgreens, but didn't like how they've been opening stores across the street from RA here in Los Angeles, instead of the next deserving block.

Also hope they don't get rid of the Thrifty (drug store) ice-cream, it is one of the only places to get a decent scoop at a low price for families. Not to mention lots of good memories.
The London Times got a guided tour of a the once-secret UK intelligence headquarters and left behind their journalistic integrity. They are being used to disseminate propaganda ahead of the introduction of draconian surveillance legislation. "Snowden did enormous damage", "tiny bit of data", "only metadata", etc.

Letting in a journalist is an astute move on behalf of GCHQ and the government, but, in this instance, they have accidentally chosen a stenographer instead. The absence of a single challenging question regarding the dangers of mass-surveillance is embarrassing.