skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the subject of Lovecraft:

Ghostbusters is the best comedy ever made about
the limits of the Lovecraftian worldview.

http://www.maxgladstone.com/2014/09/ghostbusting-lovecraft/
what is the target group for tournament participants?
Most of the other manufacturers are using a urea injection system to neutralize NOx emissions. VW was able to skip that (up until the 2015 model year, around when the initial report made its way to VW) because of the cheat. It's at least plausible that cars with a urea injection system are compliant.
Dow and DuPont to merge
Do you always marry the person you go out on a first date with?
At least a few should be, like Native Americans, Muslims, and disabled. Perhaps LGBT, if they're underrepresented in SV.
The barrier to entry to installing a mobile ad blocker (and then dealing with managing whitelists when shit doesn't appear correctly) is a lot higher than an ad blocker on desktop. I think that has a lot to do with the disconnect.

I also think that mobile ad blocking was something the industry feared -- and that the more in-touch tech community cared about -- but regular users simply don't think about as much. That said -- if mobile ads continue to get worse and if the process of managing a whitelist/using a mobile ad blocker can get easier, then maybe this will switch again.

The worst part of this to me -- and I say this as someone who makes my income basically b/c I'm a journalist who works for a publication who relies on advertising -- is that if the ad industry sees this as being much ado about nothing, the ad industry won't actually start trying to force better ad practices/blacklisting awful ad exchanges. And then we all lose.
Well, if one wants to figure out why European foodstuffs often has higher quality, that’s simple.

If you buy the bread you find at ALDI for half a dollar, that’s made in factories in Poland, that won’t be any better. But most people don’t.

Go to a local brick & mortar bakery, usually there’s a bakery that makes fresh bread next to most stores in the suburbs, or, if you’re in a city, at every street corner.

Go there, and you’ll find fresh bread, rolls, crossaints, sandwiches, etc. A mix of a bakery, a starbucks, and a subways, but cheaper and better.

And of course, fresh, handmade quality bread will be better – as these bakeries’ only selling point is quality. If their quality would not be far above the factory bread, they wouldn’t exist anymore.
Dee conjuring spirits on Hackernews ?
hella creepy bro.
Any suggestion for Windows Phone 8 users?
How I built a hack for tracking baby data using AWS IoT and Service Worker push
I've a friend who has been using in production and couldn't be happier.
ie "cost of doing business"

Shlep yourself to Somalia if you don't want to pay taxes.
So that depends on what's happening.

If it's host maintenance (the machine your database is on needs to be brought down) then you should "see" the same results as Google Compute Engine live migration, which is that you hopefully see nothing :) This was one of the most common reasons a first gen instance would require restarting, alongside us pushing updates. So nixing that one, alongside the other non-restarting updates we can do now, is good stuff.

If a whole zone goes down, we start the failover process automatically for you. This is order minutes. It won't be seamless, but zones going down is hopefully a very rare occurrence.
Like LaCroix? http://www.lacroixwater.com/flavors/

They sold it all over the place in Chicago when I lived there.
Depends on the GPU. PowerVRs are remarkably general for instance.
The real question is: Scarce for whom? And that's the paradox at the heart of capitalism. It generates surpluses on the condition that they can belong, in large part, to a tiny minority. Solving for scarcity in the aggregate by no means solves for scarcity on the ground.
What do you think is on topic for HN? Why do you think that?

See dang's reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8348200
If you are an independent contractor, you need to pay the "employer" share of taxes, which is 7.6% (social + medicare). This is hidden if you are on W2, as W2 employees pay the "employee" share of 7.6%.

The other benefit of being on W2: disability & unemployment. Often times, many service workers get injured. If one is on W2, the employer's disability insurer covers the treatment and recovery of employees. I have seen many cases where many service workers are gravely injured.

Unemployment: if you are on 1099, you won't get unemployment benefits, when your contract ends after 12 months.

Health Insurance: W2 does not guarantee that. I worked as a security guard for two companies in 2002. One provided decent health insurance; the other provided super crappy health insurance (like max benefits of $20K per year, if you paid $50 per month)
Your examples are not philosophical at all. Sampling error and parameterized observations are both well known problems in statistics.

At my company, we are putting various checks in to mitigate sampling error, e.g. flagging A/B tests as potentially erroneous when they terminate at non-integer numbers of weeks. Are we somehow doing feminist philosophy?

In your example of gender differences in observations, the correct solution is to parameterize the gender of the observer. I.e., you'd have o_m(X) and o_f(X). This is no different from parameterizing the time since a visitor hit a website in a conversion experiment - a visitor failing to convert after 3 seconds gives you different information than a visitor failing to convert after 3 days. (In this case you'd have o_t(X) instead of o(X).)

The facts that are inferred do, in fact, represent objective reality. They just may not provide a lot of information on it.
Eh, the original document from WVU which the EPA used to go against VW also names evidence for several (I think 6) other manufacturers, by now, 9 are known to have done the same.

So, yes, it’s trivial to show that the EPA had the same amount of knowledge against others as they had against VW, because the original document already had that.
I say this a lot on HN: rural interests are urban interests. That's where our food and clean air are made.
Ok, fair enough, but today's Risk Adjusted ROI is quite low. And comparing returns from a couple of decades in the past with current returns seems unhelpful to me.

My point is that your standard has to be for your choices of the capital today versus historical returns. So if you compute for expected value of a million dollars sitting in a bond fund today, versus sitting in a basket of startups, are the returns less in the latter case?
You are correctly reading me.
Good question. Seems like they could -- although co2 might be toxic at given levels like o2 would be at 3-4x concentration for us. I don't know about what else they would need -- surely some other nutrients that aren't just floating around. Wouldn't it be awesome if we could just throw some single celled lighter-than-co2 algae in there that could float and produce oxygen and nitrogen. Wait 10,000/100,000/1,000,000? years and just fly around the newly atmosformed atmosphere.
Soylent, FTW
> Courts frown on rules lawyers

The legal equivalent of "rules lawyers" are just plain "lawyers", and Courts don't frown on them as a class.
Your comment is a perfect example of what they mean by 'Far-right' beyond just anti-immigration policies. Libertarianism is a far right ideology.
5 bad practices that hinder your security, and how to improve it
I would have loved to read Lovecraft's reaction when we did unlock knowledge capable of destroying mankind with the atom bomb...
There's no market need for these absurd legal employment classifications. Let people contract with other, and stop creating elaborate arbitrary categorizations as a means of applying complex taxes and regulations.
So they're guilty of making too good a product? Too tasty a food? lol
The thing everybody glosses-over is the usability issue: Git is a nightmare for anybody who's not a programmer to actually use day-to-day.

(I am a programmer, and I still find Git to be nightmarish. Sadly our company adopted it because it's trendy, not because they did any actual research or study about our source control needs-- the lack of centralized file locking bites us in the ass every day.)

The reason they stuck with SVN that most interests me is that SVN has some GUI clients that don't completely suck. Sadly, not true of Git. At least not on Windows.
Does that not count as food?
>Alan B. Krueger, a former chief economist to President Obama, and Seth D. Harris, a former deputy labor secretary, argued in a paper released this week that many workers in the so-called online gig economy should have more rights and protections than most do now. At the same time, they wrote, “forcing these new forms of work into a traditional employment relationship could be an existential threat to the emergence of online-intermediated work.”

It would be brutal to Uber's profitability, titanic valuation and possibly even their existence, but online-intermediated work is here to stay.

Since their profitability is largely predicated on maintaining the current upward transfer of wealth (from drivers who create the wealth to shareholders who don't), they would, of course, prefer to keep treating their drivers as independent contractors who can be kept precariously employed.
The top 25 #infosec and #appsec leaders to follow on Twitter
Dispel: data, identity, and location protection across online devices
Same here. ML-family languages are my favorite. Haskell seems to be the most popular though I may be biased considering I consider myself a Haskeller.
I've worked with jsmn, and it was really a pleasure. I loved that you had one big memory allocation up front (which could even be on the stack) and then no more. In my case I was filling in a data structure where I was comfortable capping the length of all list-like elements, so I also had just one big allocation for that.

Using it reminded me a lot of my days writing XML SAX parsers. I understand why some people don't like that pattern, but if you've ever written a Finite State Machine it will feel very familiar. Personally I like how the event-based model lets me break things up into little chunks.
seltzer water (i like Polar) is this. It's an enormous market in the US.
> What is striking is not so much their greater wealth ... Their relatives have started talking to them. Asked to explain how their lives have changed, one of the first things they say is that they now get invited to weddings.

This is the most interesting part to me. Their escape from "deep poverty" has allowed them access back into their social networks.
Which of the examples is considered to be a "startup"? The featured one is a 15-year-old spinoff of a public company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The second one is an actual public company with 4000 employees. The third one might be sort of a startup, but they have over 100 million dollars in VC backing.
I always thought an easy solution amenable to people and companies is you should have to pay to keep up the copyright after a certain time.

Maybe start copyright at 40 years. If you find the work valuable you could register to extend it. If you don't find it valuable and don't bother to register the work it falls into public domain. Seems like an easy solution.
A (classic?) book on writing compilers with ML:

http://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appel...
Capitalism could work if greed was looked down upon. Billionaires should be taking risks. It should be culturally mandatory to try and save the world.

There's also an information problem.
The phone support is useless though. They just open a ticket for you :/
IMO, copyright does two things. Protects direct income, and prevents derivative works. I think ~5-20 years to prevent copying is reasonable, but derivative works could benefit from longer term protection. As in, you can't make a movie based on a book in that author’s lifespan.

IMO, this is not about profit, so much as artistic integrity.

It's also likely to pass the Disney test. They are not making money from Steamboat Willy it's all about protecting the image.
For the sake of simplicity, we're using it as a blanket term for "tech company" and are happy with stickers for anything from a tiny 1 person company to a behemoth like Google (or an event like a hackathon).
Rdio2Spotify
I want to push on the "alive" issue a bit more. You're absolutely correct in that it doesn't tell us anything more about the virus - but it does tell us more about our definition of "life".

This is in line with the "tree falls in a forest" example as well - the "paradox" is not in whether the tree falls, but whether we would consider it sound. The solution is to be more precise about defining "sound", as either "vibration of air molecules" or "vibration of someone's ear drum". Similarly, the "are viruses alive" question is pushing us for a more precise definition of "alive", which we can then apply to (for example) how we might classify self-sustaining chains of chemical reactions on alien planets.
Climate Justice Movement “Extremely Disappointed” in COP21 Draft
In case anyone was curious, mailing cash is legal according to this Snopes Article - www.snopes.com/legal/postal/sendcash.asp

Can't find a current USPS FAQ, though.
Yeah, I love vinyl, not because it's good, but because it's so bad. I'll still listen to digital recordings a majority of the time.
Who would think this was not legal, and why?
What is 1ML, I've never heard of it and it's hard to google.
Data scientists will probably perform best, but it's open to all
China Disappearances Highlight Ruling Party Detention System
Media Is independent in words but all the mainstream media outlets are controlled by handful of corporates (during 1990s, most of these outlets bought by few corporate houses). These houses have interests related to military-industrial complex. Victory of policies layed out since over 5 decades [0] for dividing and conquering middle east for greater profits can't be let to fail just because Russia decided to save Syria and Germany/France started pondering supporting Russia [1] upon confronting the enormous wave of refugees.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580490
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718312
> i don't know how american culture got to this point.

Time. People don't think they have time to cook, and they may not. They also don't know how to reclaim their time for themselves from various work and social obligations.

Advertisement. Starting with TV dinners in the 60s (?) and fast food restaurants (also 60s), we have "cheap" and quick ways to get meals that don't require a great deal of personal effort, and it's shown to us constantly on television.

EDIT: Words. I can use the right ones sometimes.
It doesn't even matter if it was the engineers, the fact that management is not taking the blame itself is utterly despicable. I'm certain the claims of this article are true, but let's pretend it was a bunch of rogue engineers' and compliance people's conspiracy. It is the responsibility of the company to take responsibility for ALL actions of ALL employees, whether they were known at the time or not. That's the whole point of being an executive. That's the whole point also for people who are not executives. Most engineers could start their own firms but choose to work for others for a number of reasons, not the least of which is minimizing risk. One of the major risks that one minimizes through employment is that of being sued or holding blame in exactly a situation like this.

VW knows this, yet they're still trying to make it seem like this wasn't the fault of their upper management and executives. They're still trying to shirk the blame when they should be firing their whole upper management employees and executives. There is no excuse for not doing that, and the CEO quitting is not enough in this case. To blame it on engineer and compliance workers is absolutely despicable and irresponsible.
> Libertarianism is a far right ideology.

No, its not. Libertarianism is an ideology that sometimes coexists with right-wing (including far-right) ideologies, but also sometimes coexists with left-wing (including far-left) ideologies.

People mainly familiar with American politics may be prone to confuse libertarianism with a far-right ideology, since the label is mainly used in the US by and about either the right-libertarian Libertarian Party or by a contingent within the right-wing Republican Party, a party which has more generally adopted, particulary over the last handful of decades, a lot of right-libertarian rhetoric.
Sorry, but that's just a smokescreen (pun not intended, hard to avoid).

Yes, VW got hit hard, but there is only one party that could have taken action to avoid this: VW itself. If they cheated that's entirely their choice. If other manufacturers have in fact cheated (and the evidence seems to be mounting that they did but maybe not quite as blatantly) then their turn will surely come.
Mailing physical cash? Because it's a security concern? (theft)
The problem is, ads are inherently intrusive. If you want people to see them, for them to have any value they need to be in some way annoying to grab the reader's attention. This is why the idea of "acceptable ads" is an oxymoron at best.
> Personally, (and as a card-carrying crochety old man) I don't follow those links on principle. I'm carrying on my own little "boycott of one".

Me too, so that makes it at least a boycott of two. I'm not even a crotchety old man yet (early 30s), but it seems to be coming on fast ;)
Exposed 10 Min. Video Inside San Bernardino California Shooters Apartment Home
Go out and talk to them!
Conversely, to me non-white bread tends to taste like mud to me unless it's fresh bakery bread or somerhing similar. I'm glad wonderbread et al are the way they are.
> Shoes often offer too much cushion and thus weaken our feet.

interesting, wasn't there a lawsuit for the vibram five-finger because there wasn't any actual benefit?

what shoes would you recommend?
Actually, yes. They've been putting out new Mickey Mouse shorts for months now. They're all on youtube[0].

[0]http://youtu.be/iNT8T58G3f4?list=PLC6qIbU1olyXQe1WOKt8UJ4hEr...
I would use a Linux or OS X client. I would appreciate a good CLI as well.
It sounds like you can do the office hours remotely via Skype so the Midwest shouldn't miss out.
Lightning talks from Meeting C++ 2015
Hey thanks for the suggestion. I actually use this strategy already, but the issue is that this only tells you what the general stuff most people will learn is. As far as I know this doesn't help with finding what the current problems are in the field.

However, I think that professors generally are very willing to help people who are interested, even if you aren't a student. Actually as far as I can tell usually they don't even ask if you are a student.
I acknowledge that these geopolitical events are occurring at the same time as the VW scandal. But I find your (unsupported) assertion that the two are linked to be entirely and completely unbelievable. It seems to me like a baseless conspiracy theory.
> but also sometimes coexists with left-wing (including far-left) ideologies.

What left ideologies can libertarianism coexist with? As a far left democratic socialist, I don't see any.
>Success is addictive.

Be careful not to go too far then.
In my experience, #4 has held up extremely well over time and is the most compelling reason for choosing an ML over another language. Algebraic data types are an absolute joy to work with when dealing with abstract syntax trees. The other points are obviously great to have, but strong language support for ADTs is key, in my opinion.

I'm not certain I agree with #3. It seems to defeat the purpose of a strong type system. Either way, it can be very nice to express meta-level constructs in a matching object-level type. For example, if the language you are writing a compiler for has an int32 datatype, but you use an int64 in the language you're writing the compiler in, you'll need to simulate overflow. It would just be easier and safer to use an int32 in both places.

These days, I'd recommend Menhir over ocamlyacc unless you have a very specific use case that the former breaks on but the latter works on.
If Flash Boys is full of ignorance, perhaps you could recommend a better book?

It also sounds like the term front running refers to many different practices, this is from the Wikipedia article:

> One common practice of high-frequency traders (HFT) is a form of front running, where they peer into various exchanges and try to detect orders as they propagate from a broker's order router.

> HFT traders place many small orders that indicate buying/selling pressure. Those with the shortest lag in reaching other exchanges then place orders on those exchanges to catch the rest of the order, at a more advantageous price.[6] According to Harvard Political Review writer Austin Tymins, HFT hedge fund Citadel LLC made billions of dollars front-running the trades of large institutional investors, many of which are investing on behalf of middle-class clients.[7]
We also don't know how many, if any, engineers were asked to be a part of this, refused, and quit or were fired as a result. And possibly pressured in various ways to not say anything about what they were asked to do.
Can't wait to compete!
From what is in the github repo, i get the impression that this is not related to a RPC/IPC bus at all. Instead it seems to be a systemd analog for IoT/mobile.

Some quick LKML searching etc brings up bus1 references in relation to ARM and devicetree.
To my knowledge, they're not. From the Reuters article cited:

> Tesla, most of whose cars are built to order directly, delivered 11,532 cars in the second period and said it had an operating loss of about $47 million, for an operating loss per car of about $4,000.

An operating loss of $4k/car is not the same thing as them each car costing $4k more than it sells for. The loss includes what they're spending on the battery factory, new model development, etc.
Product vs. Marketing messaginghuh?
Wouldn't a report like this have a limited shelf life?

Maybe we get lucky and they decide to release it some time when it's not marketable anymore…
Is there a better migration path for MySQL 5.5 -> MySQL 5.6 than the existing recommendation, which is ultimately "Create a new database and port your data over"?

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/migrating
Yep, the miracles are what draws people to the work in the first place, but they can't sustain people forever, generally. With enough lucky breaks, it's possible.
Since the article chose to not cover this important detail about the 5 states in question, allow me: all five have Republican governors and extremely large Republican majorities in the state legislature. To not cover this detail is to gloss over the real story here. To wit:

Ohio: Republican governor, Republican state House (65-34), Republican state Senate (23-10).

Florida: Republican governor, Republican state House (81-39), Republican state Senate (26-14).

North Carolina: Republican governor, Republican state House (74-45), Republican state Senate (34-16).

Arkansas: Republican governor, Republican state House (64-35), Republican state Senate (24-11).

Indiana: Republican governor, Republican state House (71-29), Republican state senate (40-10).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_le...