skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't make posts like this on HN. As bad as the SJW's are, I'd say "replying as upvote" kills the signal-to-noise ratio much more. I'm totally glad you agree with me (and thank you for taking the karma hit to post), but upvoting is enough to stave off the hoarde of downvoters.

However, for anyone taking notice, "this'ing" a post is a great way to encourage parent downvotes, which is a far easier way to divebomb an opinion. Let's see if it becomes a tactic used in the future on HN.
If you research any culture at any time period, you will find clothing as a method of control. Medieval European countries often banned commoners from wearing violet, because the color was expensive and the ruling class wanted to reinforce the idea that the nobility were fundamentally different and better. Same goes for Jews in nazi Germany's being forced to wear yellow stars. The way you get someone to dress influences the way they think.

It's the same as buying a few pizzas for your employees to get them to code till sunrise instead of paying them proper overtime. Impressionable college grads with little work experience elsewhere will take that kind of behavior for granted, and assume it is the cost of their (measly) equity. Essentially, you want them to be suckers. Comfortable suckers.
Two reasons.

1. US markets are priming for a temporary rise till approx. end of spring / mid-year 2016.

2. Gold is no longer safe bet in the light of a large scale government defaults and rather drastic domino effort that will follow.

For how long do you think Fed are going to kick the can down the road?
The 7 real reasons people want to work at Google
Which is probably why we have a lower unemployment rate, because people are incentivized to find work (any work) sooner rather than sit around waiting for the job they would prefer to have.
> ... and Java

Which is fairly dynamic language itself... Try doing this with C - mybe with enough GDB-fu, but I'm not convinced.

I think you confused dynamic languages with dynamically typed ones.
One consequence of self-driving trucks is that finally the loads will move onto the rails where they belong, instead of clogging the freeways.
Right, they chose profitable crap over quality.
Thanks, that was helpful.
DHH constantly rails against many things - it seems to be his natural idle state.
Your first one is available here: http://www.sg.unimaas.nl/_old/oudelezingen/dddsd.pdf

Have a read. Do you think it still supports your position? It says, clearly, that alcohol is more harmful than heroin. Are you calling for alcohol to be made illegal?

Or: Bob is a heroin addict. Should Bob continue to buy heroin from the street? That heroin will be adulterated; of unknown strength; sold by criminals; and may require Bob to engage in acquisitive crime or prostitution to get the money needed. It will be injected with whatever needle Bob has, which may not be sterile and may be shared with other people, some of whom have blood borne diseases. Or should Bob be prescribed heroin by his doctor. That heroin will not be adulterated; will be of known strength; will be supplied with clean needles and advice on safe injection; and will not require Bob to engage in acquisitive crime or prostitution to get it.

Again: Heroin is undoubtedly an unwise choice, but keeping it illegal causes very great harm.
> which is why I put the "approximately" symbol in front of the zero.

Ah, I missed that somehow... Haven't had my coffee.
For stating irrelevant hearsay, perhaps.
If you wanted to sell a tulip ownership certificate this century it would also be digitally anywhere in the world at a low fee...
" .. no one else is willing to spend the amount of money .. "

That's rich. I think any agency could do amazing things if they had the budget the size of the military budget. Their amazing things wouldn't be "blow shit up first, let people share cat pictures a distant second" though.

Priorities, man.
> it's clear that he does in fact think the odds of success are higher without VC

I think what is clear is that the odds of success are higher for the type of business VCs are not interested in. VCs may be better than those numbers at choosing the winners from that pile, but what of all the "VC-pattern" business that get passed over and almost inevitably fail as a result?
Hahaha, came here to say exactly that.

So, Red Hat is the next Nokia now?
well, they might have meant that they support (most of) the compose configuration file.

So, if you are currently using docker-compose, it's pretty easy to start it up on ECS
Part 1 – The Security Elephant in the Room
> Hackers and professional penetration testers can run it on computers that they have already taken control of. When it runs on a computer where a logged in user has the KeePass database unlocked, KeeFarce decrypts the entire database and writes it to a file that the hacker can easily access.

slow clap
Martin Shkreli – Turing Pharmaceuticals, Investigated by Senate
These kinds of multiple fatalities are remarkably common - 60% of people who die in confined spaces were attempting to rescue someone else.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/86-110/
No, it was one connector on one cable that had a fault that introduced latency in a rather unexpected way. The people doing this are much more sophisticated than "oops, forgot GR when doing GPS calcs."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10507474
As someone who's been following the hype, but not really jumped on yet, the difference (whether real or imagined) seems to be that rust is trying to do something new, and D looks to be (and I've seen it aggressively marketed as) C++ with some better choices and cool features. Personally, I'm not really interested in C++, but I am interested in getting for familiar with a systems language, so rust interests me.
What would be the benefit of slowing the release process of RHEL on AWS by pruning it down to the bare essentials? Is redundant stuff like WiFi-drivers & firmware really taking that much space that it matters?
Well, in this case the proposed act will basically supersede the Human Rights Act, by excluding authorities from respecting its article 8 ("Right to Privacy"), under which they've been repeatedly challenged (and defeated) since Snowden's revelations. Which is really a change in law, not a clarification.

So yeah, what they really need is a change, because current law is very clear that what they do is illegal.
Our Dynamics reseller was adamant that we run it in-house. You could run it on Azure, but we don't recommend it. It's just not there yet.
Undo Soft. supports 64-bit ARM.Useful for devs porting code to new architectures
I have a feeling Docker will get there eventually. It seems they are moving slower because are being very careful and deliberate with what they introduce.

Docker seems to go for solutions that are general and flexible whereas kubernetes is very opinionated.
I think violation of conservation of momentum is more likely than new physics. Basically, if this thing produces a general relativity effect, then it is possible that momentum is not conserved because the underlying metric does not have translation symmetry. (GR Energy Momentum conservation would still be in effect in that case, but classical momentum conservation would not.)

Apart from that, I am unhappy about your percentages, I think the non experimental error explanations are an order of magnitude less likely.
To steel man GP: pareto efficiency[1] is a model which can both tell you if GDP is too low and too high... the thing I like about it most is that rather than a simple metric over the aggregate actions of everyone, it considers individual decisions and individual needs. It respects property rights for example, which "GDP good" doesn't (though a "long term GDP good" position probably does).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
That's not a very good example since both of those are desktop applications providing virtualization and are expected to play nice with other desktop apps. You can virtualize in a web browser too, but that doesn't make it a good high performance idea.

You should be looking at dedicated virtualization hosts to do an apples to apples comparison, like vmware on bare server metal vs hyperv or any of the free tools also on metal. Not on a cpu throttled desktop.
That depends on what you mean by "lost". Look at the map of US military influence before 2000 and after 2014. Is the US today (a) better positioned to project force, (b) about the same, (c) worse? Not many people would argue (c), and the map strongly suggests (a).

We're not not engaging ISIS because we can't. We certainly could beat them back into hiding. We just don't want to. (I'm glad of that.)
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Speaking for myself here, I've tried for my whole 6 year professional career to "make it big" outside of normal work hours. I've got lots of debt to pay off, and I wouldn't mind working for myself (or so I make myself believe).

But I'm much happier now that I've stopped doing that, and am focusing on just doing a great job at my day job, and relaxing in the evenings with my wife and children. Yes, we still have loads of debt, and we don't all fit in our Pacifica. But there's no rush to solve those, they will come in time. And even once they're solved, there will always be other little problems that need to be solved. There's no end to that until I'm dead.

And frankly, I'm doing a better job at work now than I ever did before, now that I can focus all my mind on it without trying to brainstorm up the next big thing in the background all the time.
Wow. Great timing. This will pair nicely with an Html5 app I just posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506149

Also, I always used to wonder why something simple like this already exists. Well done!
Which basically means nothing at all.

Yes, we're animals, but we're smarter than the rest of our animal brethren, so why should we not use that smarts to live in whatever way we like? Animals that can fly, fly. Animals that can sing, sing. So let animals that can send machines to other planets send machines to other planets.
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> Great developers are everywhere

This is predominantly false. I would edit Great to mediocre.
Have been bitten by docker upgrade from FC21 to FC22 and docker-fig upgrade on FC21 from fedora package. I have faced problem ranging from docker daemon refusing to start, failed to run container, and SELinux alarm ringing every now and then. Not the best developing experience.

Switched to Elementary(Ubuntu based distro) combined with docker repo now.

In my opinion, FC is more suited to lightweight work (email, word, spreadsheet).
ReactJS: Cramping My Style
Wikipedia states "The average purity of street heroin in the UK varies between 30% and 50% and heroin that has been seized at the border has purity levels between 40% and 60%" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Adverse_effects). It doesn't actually have a citation that confirms that, but another quick google gives http://drugscope.org.uk/how-pure-are-street-drugs/ saying "The 2010/11 police recorded average purity for heroin was 30 per cent."

So I'm inclined to believe the 30% number unless you have a source for thinking it's much lower.
npm is an example of a bad solution to dep management. So I want you to run my 6kb node.js script you need to:

1) Build obtain node for your platform (and now you've hit the exact problem I'm talking about)
2) install npm (which I can't really define as a dep, you're just expected to have it)
3) install all the deps I've defined and hope they all work on the version / configuration of node you have (execjs only works on node 0.10 but you have v4? Too bad! You didn't apply the increased memory patch before building node? Too bad!)

The ideal here to reiterate is given nothing but your installed OS, I should be able to give you a file that will go from nothing to a running app, and from the running app to a clean system if you decide to remove it, without you having to have any prerequisites (no node, no chef, no docker, etc)
Due to political correctness, I suspect.
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I quite like that formulation too.
I think that GW2K was one of the first companies (if not the first) to ship PC-compatible machines without parity memory. The low-margin industry followed, and pretty soon all peecees were non-parity, non-ECC. The public doesn't understand that they pay for that in reliability. (Me, I buy Xeons. We shouldn't have to worry about single-bit errors.)
The US benefits enormously from military hegemony. It's the de facto arbiter of global capitalism and it controls all of the world's shipping lanes.
A Timeline of When the World Ended
I wonder what the liquidation terms were but even and highly favorable investor ones this one seems very bubbly.
The crazy conspiracist in me says it is being flagged because if true there are groups that do not want it to be known (specifically the ones targeting Linus?), and being flagged only makes me belive the story is true.
Unfortunately, as humans we care primarily about individuals who are alive, not about species in the abstract. Which means any outcome involving humans suffering and dying is an outcome we don't want.
PRISM doesn't ring a bell for you?
We'll go with this definition of irony provided by the Google: "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result."

Class warriors wanting to decrease inequality by getting the 1% to pay their fair share, not enter into global trade agreements, and keep jobs in America end up increasing inequality globally by focusing only on efforts to prop up the global 1%, the majority of whom live in the U.S. Sounds pretty ironic to me.
John Wiegley is the new Emacs maintainer, hints at Code of Conduct
This is actually a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500908
Some can be which is interesting enough to stick with them. Lisps that compile code to the target platform and give the programmer control over stack vs. heap allocation and memory layout... interesting. The meta-language features remove the need for a separate code-generation tool to handle boiler-plate like generating jump and decision tables.

However with CL and most of the popular "modern lisps" you're still stuck with allocating everything on the heap and having to compile in a GC into your image along with the rest of the ball of mud. You can get pretty fast code at run-time if you're mindful and precise... but it's still pretty hard to debug... and of course, incurs an overhead.

"Well we have the processor cycles now to make it feasible!"

Well... just barely. We tend to think people don't mind waiting thirty seconds for our browsers to load or seeing the beachball-of-doom when working on a large document... but I think that's pretty wrong.
My experience is that discussions of this nature can be good on HN, given participants with a mindset of learning and exploring rather than preaching and fighting.

For example, I suspect that a post describing the major viable positions on the historicity of Jesus, and their strengths and weaknesses, would be well-received. A post asserting one of those positions without giving mention to the others (like the pair that touched off this subthread) would be less well-received. Because the first type of post helps give people the tools they need to evaluate and draw their own conclusions, while the second type of post merely tells us what conclusions someone else has drawn and invites us into a fight.

Most people on HN like to learn, even about religions they don't practice, and this is a great place to find people to learn from. But most people on HN don't want the sort of lame talking-past-each-other and name-calling that you can get on any other website.
There haven't been backwards-incompatible changes in practice, no.

That is to say: there have been technically backwards-incompatible changes, but every compiler and language, including those of C++ and Java, make technically backwards-incompatible changes in point releases (e.g. defining new functions in the libraries and modifying undefined behavior). Rust doesn't make changes that violate the stability guarantee. It goes further than that, in fact—any change that is not breaking according to the public guidelines but is thought possibly breaking in practice is tested against crates.io and feedback is solicited from those who have any private crates that might be affected to make sure it doesn't break them either.

(Unfortunately this policy is often misunderstood—for example, it's been claimed that Rust will make breaking changes as long as they don't break anything on crates.io, which is very much not an accurate description of it.)
The people behind Opal are really awesome. I've spoken to them a few times about this project and they really do know their stuff. Opal looks very promising to anyone who's still using Ruby.
Seems like they need to do the hardware equivalent of a "git bisect" here. Instead of fiddling around with the current version of the device, trying to figure out if the observed effect is actually propulsion or just an artifact, someone should start tearing the thing apart, testing as they go, and find out at what point the observed effect goes away. That would probably be instructive.
> There is nothing that can guarantee that this ride is real

I'm not sure what you mean by "real" here. Even if demand is created from questionable/fraudulent sources, the transactions are just as real as any others. That's not to say it's sustainable or even driven by rational behavior (it never really is). Any trend, bubble or not, is just that - a trend. There may be numerous factors driving it, and it's almost never a good idea to make trading decisions based on the trend itself (the few exceptions of traders should be very aware of the limitations and risks involved in such a strategy).

> We'll see if the new fancy infrastructure that bitcoin got is rock-solid.

Are you referring to Bitcoin XT / BIP 101? As far as I'm aware[1], the support for this is still represented by a minority, so we're not really going to see any "new fancy infrastructure" tested, at least not for a while.

[1] http://xtnodes.com/
How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web
I'm the author of the article (and the 2 parts that follow). I'm attempting to draw attention to the weakness of existing web app architecture and proposing a (hopefully) better alternative.

Happy to answer questions and discuss.
> However, DHH's constant railing against the VC backed world seems a little tiresome

...and yet so many young founders and employees are swindled into starting or working for the next unicorn of the world, giving away massive amounts of equity in their company. Killing themselves slowly by working 80 hour work weeks.

At some point we need to start doing a better job of educating college grads that can program, design, engineer, etc. The more DHH's constant railing continues the better.
> I bought VPSs with it

Wow! A VPS! Something that 99% of the population has no use for. How about paying rent, medical bills, utilities, phone bill, groceries, tuition, gas, car payment, car insurance, car maintenance, tolls, daycare, taxes... you know, the kind of things that real people actually care about.

> just like I have bought them by unsafer payment methods in the past

Bitcoin is by far the most unsafe method of payment for 99% of the population. Credit cards offer comprehensive fraud protection; bitcoin offers zero protection and zero recourse if your money is stolen or lost due to a crash/virus/hack/forgot to backup my wallet before formatting (and when this happens, the user is always blamed, duh, you should have bought a trezor!). With a credit card none of this happens, and if money is somehow stolen from your credit card, the card is quickly deactivated and the victim is fully reimbursed for any fraudulent charges.

This straight up LIE about the safety of bitcoin relative to credit cards is infuriating.
Ex-NSA Head: Chinese Hacking Is ‘The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History’
What every physicist should know about string theory
Search Twitter for "new card" and you'll find hundreds of people taking selfies with their new credit cards. With the full number exposed.

Or the story of people posting selfies with their boarding passes, only to have their flight plans changed with their confirmation number and last name.
Replace: Greetings g = null;
with: auto g = new Greetings();
The idea of having your retirement income be the responsibility of the employer is archaic and ridiculous. Thank god it's dying.

It's a massive advantage for large corporations in their battle against innovative startups. Who would ever join a startup if it meant that you might be penniless in retirement? (Because you depended on a failed company instead of personal or social savings.)
Can These Glasses Help the Colorblind? We Put EnChroma to the Test
Popcorntime.io goes offline; uploads source code to GitHub
Personally this was my favourite bit:

Because while that area north of Silicon Valley is busy
disrupting everything, it still hasn’t caught up with the
basic disruption of geography.
Stagefright is the name of the native module in charge of playing media (and by the way that's an awesome name).

Since it is deeply embedded in the system, it is not possible to just push a Play Services update in order to update it.

These past months, several vulnerabilities have been revealed in that module. They allow privilege escalation & remote code execution.

The Nexus line (directly handled by Google) now receives very frequent security updates. Now, all the OEMs need to follow suit and also publish these updates for their own terminals.
I wonder how many professors who are exasperated about trying to explain fundamentals of their field to lay-people have considered that maybe "professor" isn't the best line of work for them to be in.
Microsoft Begins Sign-Ups for 'Cortana for iOS' Beta Program
I'd want to combine with pigshell[0]

0. http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/
Nobody is forced to work any job, at least not here in the U.S. No more than a lion is "forced" to hunt and kill antelope.
A lot of churches in the UK have been converted into houses or business premises.
Would you say that Machine learning is something only for PhDs and very experienced people or can a dev pick it up and be hired as one?
An explanation for why it's not interesting: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/despite-headlin...