skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't look good that the leadership must constantly "reinterpret" Article 9 to do this, though. Though I don't necessarily disagree that Japan should be beefing up its defense right about now, the whole situation would smell better - and probably have a better result - if the government just rewrote Article 9 out of the Constitution entirely and allowed itself to provision armed forces on the same level as other nations without having to justify everything. (And, for God's sake, just leave the press alone already.)

Maybe the Overton Window just isn't there yet, though.
Tell HN: I spend so much time solving problems I feel like giving up
I spend so much time trying to understand the development ecosystem and fighting my way through the build tools and development frameworks that I can barely get to write a single line of code. Every problem I solve leads to the next roadblock and on and on and on. It's depressing me and I'm feeling like maybe I don't have what it takes to be a programmer.
Ask your doctor: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/635-poop-pills-cure-d...

cost is relatively low (compared to typical C. diff treatments) and seems very effective, but isn't without it's risks. Research is still very early.
Is it that much longer in today's 8 year minimum timespans for IPO? Especially as founders with %75 majority control and no investors saying no, you can pay yourselves pretty great salaries.
> the US that forced Japan to demilitarize after WW2. Now we want to ask them to fight our wars?

To be fair, the U.S has literally been asking Japan to change its constitution since 1968. They've been trying to get them to be actual military allies for 50 years now. Understandably, Japan has been perfectly fine with the status quo. And who can blame them? They had Uncle Sam footing their defense bill -- at least, until recently. Now Japan has to pay the U.S for that protection in a cost sharing agreement. The U.S wanted to close up shop and leave. They also wanted to leave South Korea as well, believe it or not. Both countries now pay the U.S to be there.
It's incredible that he thinks that sort of labeling would be ok. "I'm selling you this drug, but the FDA hasn't agreed that it is effective." This is just not the way things are done.
Is there enough demand for that much creative work? Who will consume it, if this trend widens the income inequality gap?
I’ve read conflicting arguments (which range from pretty bad to incredibly bad)… The Guardian estimates 230-950 thousand tons of NOx per year for seven years, “equivalent to the emissions of all power stations, vehicles, industry, and agriculture in the United Kingdom over a one-year period.”

Not a percentage, which would be more useful, but even the lowball estimates indicate a measurable change in pollution levels.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/22/vw-scandal-c...
or they could host it on steam

(now that's a bad joke)
Sounds awful. What happens when I lose it, I lose my entire life? Battery dies? Drop it in the toilet?

Having all the important aspects of your life a little distributed isn't the worst thing in the world.
Founder equity is typically on a completely different scale than that of employees (even first hires). So we shouldn't be surprised that their loyalty is on a completely different scale, as well.
I'm not sure that a class is necessarily the place to start or that expending capital on courses is the best allocation of resources. There is a lot of sound advice available as open source. Even Sam Altman has some: http://playbook.samaltman.com/
It's happening in New Zealand to a similar extent. This current government is raiding journalists homes who publish things they don't want[1] [2]. Even more worryingly the government recently bailed out the other major broadcasting company, and replaced the CEO with a friend of the prime minister. It didn't take long before journalists who were sometimes critical of the government were replaced [3].

1 https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/hager-police-rai...

2 http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/290989/police-raid-du...

3 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_i...
Apple TV Now Has Over 2,600 Apps, Largest Category Is Games
Do you just watch ycombiner, reddit, and other sites all the time or do you use something to crawl the sites to see whenever someone says "Backblaze"?
Depending on the timeframe and how many customers they need to email, they do need to stagger sending otherwise they can be blacklisted.

TalkTalk (UK ISP) got public backlash for using the media to announce their compromise via the media before notifying customers by email. The CEO said, the media was the quickest way as sending that many emails would take days.
Humans can always do the jobs that robots feel too overqualified to do.
You shouldn't have to, but it makes a lot of sense to discuss your professional aspirations with the company who is currently a part your professional career. The only reason I wouldn't want my boss to know what my professional goals would be if I don't trust him/her to help me achieve them. If that trust isn't there then I'm already looking for a new job and this topic is one I make sure we discuss at some point if interviews get serious.
Bayesian Learning rivals human abilities
I've never used it, but contactless payment from a watch seems like it would be an improvement over retriving a card from my wallet to make a contactless payment.
> Go's scheduler is a single threaded event loop

No, it isn't.

> like every other scheduler on the planet

This is not true either. In fact it doesn't make sense. Schedulers are not single threaded event loops. The scheduler (any scheduler) is entered in various scenarios. Sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not. Sometimes the scheduler code can run concurrently, sometimes not. Sometimes the scheduler code can run in parallel, sometimes not.

The Go scheduler is both concurrent and parallel.

> It runs, sequentially, in different threads which makes the situation confusing

I don't know what this statement means. The Go scheduler certainly runs on different threads. So what.

> It's also cooperative.

Actually it's not purely cooperative, it does voluntary preemption, very similar to voluntary preemption in the Linux kernel. The check happens in every function prolog.

> More importantly, there's a number of simultaneous syscalls that will kill a go program.

There's self-imposed user-configurable limit that defaults to 10000 threads for running system calls. The limit has nothing to do with the Go scheduler, it can be set arbitrarily high with no penalty.

> It doesn't have the basic isolation that OSes provide.

The most basic isolation provided by operating systems is virtual memory. Go is a shared-memory execution environment, so this doesn't apply. What other "basic isolation" is provided by operating systems that's missing from Go?
the job is inherently dangerous and the officer goes into it knowing that

I think that forums heavy with computer desk jockeys like HN tend to throw this idea around too casually.

If outsiders kept callously telling us "you signed up for it knowing that you would work 80 hours a week" or "you signed up for it knowing that your stock options would probably be worthless", we'd be up in arms and demanding that no one should be treated that way.

Yet we expect officers to put themselves into situations where they'll be hurt or injured unnecessarily. Take, for example, the Eric Garner case: "They didn't need 5 officers to tackle that guy who was resisting arrest". Really? That was a big dude. If he had decided to start punching; officers could have suffered knocked-out teeth, irreparably damaged eye sockets, and broken bones. Can you imagine going to work every day where the public expectation is that the risk of your knocked-out teeth when confronting someone resisting arrest is perfectly acceptable?

There are very few jobs I would never do, but being a police officer is one of them. The public is just way too callous in thinking that it's okay for you to be injured or killed because "you signed up for it".

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Two thoughts:

1) Contactless uses (needs) the same terminal technology as Apply Pay & Android Pay. So all three are in the same boat, and benefit from the expansion of the others.

2) Just speculating, but Contactless will probably move towards a PIN or something of that nature. The whole payment industry is moving towards 2-factor. Contactless by itself is not 2-factor.
I am more willing to have the market punish VW long term, the owners of said cars already have suffered because of VWs actions but beyond any step the government can do public opinion has already shifted against VW and Audi.

If any punishment were to meted out I would assign a value similar to how insurance companies must when a vehicle is less than a year old is involved. There are loss of value rules already in place. Use those.

As for noticeable changes in pollution, that is laughable. You already see more significant changes to pollution just by the school year ending and all those buses being off road. Let alone in winter pollution goes up as more cars run rich to maintain operating temperatures.

We should not use government to punish innocent buyers. Government should be used to protect them
Hi. Old time Jira user here. Used to use it heavily ... 5-3 years ago.

Last few years we use Redmine mostly. In the beginning I had mixed feelings about it. Now I'm OK with it.

We sometimes need to switch to Jira in our projects. It's always a pain nowadays. I used to love Jira time reports, now I just don't get them.

My perspective: Redmine covers the basics we need, don't have the feature creep problem and does reporting (time reporting) really really well.

Rant mode continued: In several projects we use YouTrack [0]. Initially I was very excited: e.g. great UX etc .. But! It's time reporting capabilities are just rudimentary.

In the end we do the following: created internal tool too fetch time reports from different systems and to push to our Redmine system (via REST API). Redmine serves our reporting needs well. Still, in some extreme cases also use excel via ODBC..

[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
"I know that people wouldn't usually rap this

But I got the facts to back this

Just last year, Chicago had over 600 caskets"

For the criminals creating urban chaos, they don't expect to live to 25 years old.

However the police do have a reasonable expectation to live to see their kids grow up, and that means they can't get into 50/50 situations with borderline suicidal gunmen.

I think all us sheep on HN will rue the day the good guys are selected for low-testosterone personality.
This is awesome. What are the most informative times to test after you eat?

My fasting glucose was 99 so I'm not sure what to make of that. I ordered a glucose monitor just to learn how different foods affect me.
Are you sure about that? There are officers already making a very good salary...

http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/state-pay/arti...
Hi! No, I use a program for that, it's actually kinda cool, though I don't get "alerts" I just monitor it. It's mention.net. Highly recommend it if you have a lot of internet chatter you want to stay ahead of.

Funny story, Ycombinator is one of the reasons I got it. Since there's no great way to keep track of threads, it was a way for me to catalog and follow up with threads in these posts.
The ‘eh,’ the Bad and the Ugly: Cloud Service Level Agreements
Why Go is a poorly designed language (revisited?)
Not to nitpick, but it would have probably been far better for the ecosystem if the money was spread more evenly. Few at PayPal made it super big of course (not even the "leaders" in relative terms) but they where also quite young and hungry to do something else. I'm sure they are all going to try and pay it forward as best they can and funding opportunities will increase, but that doesn't necessarily create this dynamic diversified ecosystem that PayPal left behind.
PlanGrid co-founder here. It's definitely useful for a project of any size, but the value definitely scales non-linearly with the size of a project.

If nothing else, if you have a construction project that has paper plans, PlanGrid is the best way to make them digital, shareable, usable by multiple people.
The Washington Post and the New York Times both seem to have excellent engineering teams and both of their websites are in my opinion some of the best news sites that I've seen on the web. (Vox is also very nice in my opinion though they do not have ssl support apparently)

I would gladly pay a netflix-like subscription that gives me a "pass" to top news sites with no advertising. I just don't want to manage a dozen subscriptions to sites and it's difficult to choose between the different options that they offer like "tablet, web, paper" "web, paper" "tablet only" etc. Just take the difficulty away and give me access to the content in whatever format I want, with an addon fee for print delivery.
Yesterday on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10706203
Don't surgeons work best when they can treat their patient as an it instead of a person? One of the reasons behind banning someone from doing surgery on a loved one is because they have a strong pre-existing emotional connection that reduces their effectiveness, no?
Seems like good advice. I think this is recommended in the four hour body too. I'm not sure why it was down voted.
You don't really have a good mental picture of how your political opponents think -- you're just running them as stereotype models and arguing with the stereotypes.

Just as a for example, if you actually paid attention to what they say and how they'd behave, you'd notice that Republicans, while supporting soldiers generally, don't like deserters (and especially deserters who badmouth the Army and the U.S.) specifically, and especially didn't like the idea of trading five high-ranking Taliban commanders for such a person. Their reaction to Bergdahl is therefore not particularly surprising.
Hell, if we're lucky maybe the testing center can flash the update themselves right there on the test rig over OBD-II if the car doesn't have it. Would save everyone- the State, the consumer, even VW, a lot of heartache in handling a mandatory update.
Really beautiful work, I'd love to see a technical write-up on how this was achieved and would definitely follow something like that.

I'm interested in joining this, however I don't have such a wrist device. Which tracker would be best for receiving the most accurate data? Is there a recommended tracker (Fitbit vs. Jawbone vs. etc.) that provides more data, so this app can track more things for the user?
I'm curious to hear your opinions on Numenta's work on emulating parts of the neocortex.
And sometimes that's the difference between making a buck, and making a business.
DoD CIO Says Electromagnetic Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain
Or the links are turned into archive.org links automatically at publish time? With any pages not captured immediately captured at that point?

EDIT: This is a hack until the content addressable web arrives.
It looks like there are some wordpress plugins that let you check and at least fix the links, but I don't see anything that takes the extra step of archiving.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
Well, as of now I can't use port 22 and also phpMyadmin. There is no official update on that.
It can be very handy. Five or more years ago, when you returned an item, they'd manually mark the line in your receipt, which works well enough. Yesterday I had to return an item for the first time since then, and after they read the barcode on my receipt from 2 months ago, I saw the whole receipt, or at least the end of it, flash on a small user facing LCD, and they didn't have to do anything else with my paper receipt. For a product quality return like this I can see many ways in which this would be useful.
I've never had a problem with a card reader not properly reading swipes or the magnetic strip wearing down.

Although it seems less common over the last several years (perhaps because now physical cards are often replaced several times before they nominally expire?), this used to be a serious problem. The most common fix for a read failure was to put the card inside a plastic grocery bag, pull the bag tight, and then reswipe it. I have no idea how this fixed anything, but I witnessed it working many times.
> What makes it even harder to understand is that it was basically the US that forced Japan to demilitarize after WW2. Now we want to ask them to fight our wars?

That was 70 years ago - the world has changed a lot in that time.
There's been a lot of funding for fusion research over the past half-century, but politicians in charge of funding have grown weary of "Real soon now" promises.
(I see "it would seem that my writings have touched a nerve" as provocation.)

Well, for one thing, are you asserting that it's not self-evident that he was incensed? It's pretty evident that he is. If the gentleman is indeed in a state of cognitive distortion driven by hate and groupthink, it could be useful to point it out to him. Getting him to at least the point where he acknowledges his hate, then has to justify having that hate is a step in the right direction.

Also, pointing such out for 3rd party readers may be beneficial for related reasons. He has at least admitted openly that he is in a state of anger and is in the process of justifying why he is right to be ruled by this mindstate.
I was heavily into neuromorphic hardware ~5 years ago when the hype seemed to be at its peak. We funneled a load of time and money into it. It was working okay for what we were doing and everybody was generally happy.

Then the NVidia Tesla C2050 came out and CUDA reached a somewhat stable release. The neuromorphic plane has crashed into the proverbial mountain.

EDIT: Maybe I should elaborate - we accomplished the same task using the Tesla card, but it was about 100x faster and each card was $2500 and usable for other tasks. The general rule of thumb became: design a neuromorphic system, wait for the next Tesla chip, then simulate it in software.
The number I see bandied about for one-bedrooms in Richmond/Outer Richmond is between $2,400 to $2,600/month. [0] Given that you're goddamn not raising a family in a one bedroom [1], I'd say avitzurel's rent estimation sounds fairly reasonable, and definitely below average for the entire city. [2]

[0] http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion-par...

[1] Especially many of the tiny places that pass for "one bedroom" apartments in the city these days.

[2] Of course, the trick is finding an apartment to house your clan.
You brought up a good point about VPN. We considered in the beginning but at the end we decided not to. We feel since our market and our customers are mainly in China, it will be best to use what's available within China. From a technical infrastructure stand point, that'd be better also since we won't have to deal with so many potential point-of-failures. We did sign up for a few VPN accounts so we can reference things from time to time.
Wrong? Nothing. It just tends to attract the attention of regulators when done at scale. Even Nevada doesn't allow casinos to run proposition bets on anything but sports.
But the number of people using the Internet was relatively small, so nothing has changed really. The only difference is that the majority began using the Internet in the first place.
Did you read what I wrote?
OK, but that doesn't change the point of their post. It can easily be rephrased as something like...

"Would an employee feel honest telling their boss their 5-year goals? What if it isn't "leading a larger team at this company" or "designing and developing more and/or more-important portions of the company's projects"?
iPhones for the past few years have actually been tracking steps and other data in the background & storing it in Healthkit. You won't be able to get heart rate, but a lot of our views can be powered with just software.

Our new healthkit app (gyrosco.pe/app, currently in beta) loads steps from the iPhone, and we also integrate with other apps like Moves which also run on the phone.

The idea is you can get started within just a few minutes and not need to buy anything. We can also backfill the last year of data so you don't start with an empty site. Then you can start to add hardware to get more data you care about, like a wifi scale or heart rate monitor.

There are many other apps that also write to healthkit, like sleep tracking apps Sleep++ / Sleep Cycle, which will then show up.
Honest question: do you really think talking much with computer scientists would help? My impression is that most of the improvements (besides Moore's law) in the power of simulation of physical systems has come from either new physical insights, or computational insights developed by physicists who were mostly self-taught numerical techniques. It seems very plausible to me that there are honest-to-goodness CS insights that remain unexploited, such as better parallelizing physical simulations, but the track record hasn't been good. Why aren't CS people coming in and showing everyone how it should be done?

(For what it's worth, I'm a physicist, but not one who does anything numerical, and I'm happy to admit arrogance by physicists could be a problem here.)
PhpStorm 10.0.2 released, comes with new JetBrains branding
If an employee is so valuable that it hurts when they leave, maybe they should have been given more incentives to stay.

You can't say that an employee is selfish when they're the ones doing all the hard, laborious technical work and getting almost nothing out of it aside from a below-average startup salary.

This might come as a shock to some, but engineers have feelings and ambitions too. In this highly competitive market, it makes sense to give your employees more equity if you want to hold on to them. When you consider supply and demand, the ratio of founders to engineers is now much higher than it ever was. Great engineers are rare.

I've left quite a few companies, even a promising startup - Would I have left if I held even 5% equity in that company? Probably not.

If you don't give your 'valued' employee decent equity then you are the selfish one and I hope that they do leave (if only out of respect for the profession).

I've seen too many self-important founders who think that they deserve twenty times more equity than their best employee (just because they're friends with a rich investor). Taking risks is easy (and kind of fun), doing mind-numbing programming every day for 10 years is not (and working for a single company, in a single problem domain for that long IS mind numbing).

Also, let's not pretend that engineers aren't taking risks. 5 years of a young engineer's life is a huge risk especially when you consider that a lot of engineers start to slow down as they get older.
Less is more. Don't be ignored
How do you ensure that Aurora and S3 stay in sync?
> apple-like perceived simplicity

Jira's a workhorse, not a consumer device. If Atlassian went with "apple-like perceived simplicity" their product would probably be terrible for most of their users (enterprise customers) who want customizability and integrations over prescribed use cases.
We haven't found a replacement for Google spreadsheet. We however found a great replacement for Google Doc.
https://shimo.im/
You bring up a really good point around adding vs. extracting value. There are definitely a few well-known large enterprise software companies that seem almost entirely focused on the extraction side once they reach a certain scale and level of entrenchment.

To me that seems like a sign they are ready for new competition, but I really wonder what the mindset is like internally once an org makes that kind of shift.