skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent points throughout. Strongly agree with all of them.

>Maybe not knowing more about our cousins or our friend's friends is a sort of social lubricant. It's easier to be polite to my bigoted grandfather at Thanksgiving if I don't have daily reminders of his racism and homophobia

This has actually been how I connect to my friends lately, haha. I ask them what they've been upto, and they mostly go "you know, the same thing on facebook". And then they remember I'm not on facebook, so we go on hours and hours of heart-to-heart bringing up one another up to date with our lives.

As the resident twitter fanboy (most of my karma comes from one pro-twitter comment), I couldn't agree with you more. To be fair though, twitter can be sometimes toxic too, but then I just mute the people and they fade from memory. Twitter feels more like the community I _want_ to be a part of, and facebook used to be the kind of community that I didn't particularly like (i.e, the facebooked version of my friends and family). I'll repeat what I say often on HN: the Twitter network/community makes me feel smarter and more excited about things in life. Facebook... never did. It made me want to gain the 'likes' (I wish they'd rename it to something less emotionally attached).
A cost center doesn't "run at a loss", it performs something critical to supporting the profit center. Advertising is what customers pay for; search makes that advertising worth the price. No search = no advertising. Google's core is "know everything, to maximize advertising revenue". Yahoo's core is...well, it became famous because it provided a curated index to the then-unsearchable Web, but now that's moot and Yahoo is, um, yeah seems that's the problem.
Air Pollution in the World: Real Time Air Quality Map
I would never go back to smoking cigarettes. There is no comparison to e-cigs and cigarettes, obviously this is backed by the tobacco industry and that is the reason why its not a comparison of cigarettes and e-cigs; which is the real story that wasn't written.
The biggest problem with forking Android is that all of the apps will be developed for Google's flavor of Android. Which generally means you need to try to remain compatible with it, with ends with "you have to follow Google's development direction". And Google's development direction, of course, is selected by Google's business interests.
DO you have any credible cites to show that vaping e-cigs is anywhere near as harmful as smoking tobacco?
How long have you been married?
In my experience, walking twenty paces behind a vaper vaping is even more unpleasant than walking four paces behind a cigarette smoker smoking.
No, that's a false equivocation.

It's not the fact that they were able to quit that makes the dangers not equivalent, it's the growing amount of unbiased research that shows that.

Sane health care providers and policy experts tend to agree, as well, that harm-reduction is a much more attainable goal. Full on abstinence is routinely shown to be an untenable goal.
+1

I do not get it either.

Gears by themselves are just gears and those gears barely form a fractal structure, though once there was something a little bit resembling third/fourth iteration of a Sierpinski triangle[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle
I think pinterest is the most useless thing on the internet and don't really know why even people use it at all especially people that don't sign in, you can't even scroll half the page before it completely puts a layer and forces user to signin/create account.
The fact that I cannot zoom is infuriating!
Yup. That was one thing I was really hoping Ubuntu Touch would give me a chance with, their whole "install on Android" thing. But it's supported on a pittance of device options.

Currently mobile hardware is in a space where the OS has to be custom built for the hardware choices of that particular phone manufacturer, unlike PCs which have a robust system of drivers you have some manner of control over as a user. Seems to be the biggest limitation.
There's this website ( http://isslive.com/displays/index.html ) with amazing amounts of live data hidden behind a horrible UI.

For example, right now I can see that control gyroscope #1 is spinning at 6,601 rpm, drawing 0.67 amps, and have a vibration of 0.007Gs, with bearing temperatures of 39.1C, and 35.8C.

I looked into snarfing the data at one point, and concluded that it was doable, if a little painful.
Thanks for the link! I will definitely have to listen to this later. Black Hat Python and Grey Hat Python are great cookbooks and references for learning offensive Python skills, and I've used both books quite a bit to help others learn Python for security.
Save Crypto: Tell the White House We Can't Sacrifice Security
1984 was the year that CS majors began to drop off. You're not talking about girls that were begging their parents for a C64. You're talking about girls that were born circa 1962-1966 and after.

Many early programmers in the 1960s and 1970s were women because it was seen as the equivalent of secretarial work, a sector of the office labor that women were confined to due to overt sexism. The profession was then masculinized in overtly sexist ways. If women fled CS, they were fleeing an overtly sexist niche (which both locked them into submissive, secretarial roles as well as undervalued their technical accomplishments).
http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
Yes, reference counting is a form of garbage collection.
The first Hollywood connection surfaced by my quick googling is the Semel arc, 2001-2007:

http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoos-ceo-reaches-out-to-hollywood...

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-vs-yahoo-clash-of-cultures-1...

http://www.wired.com/2007/02/yahoo-3/

http://metue.com/06-18-2007/yahoo-ceo/

The Wired article looks particularly painful. If memory serves, Yahoo first declined to buy proto-Google for one million. Then again in 2002 for 5 billion.
Ask HN: Do you want a service which will alert you about an airfare drop?
Hello HN!

This is a question mostly to travellers, but maybe everyone else will find it useful.

A part of our travel is a process of finding the lowest prices for tickets and the best connections. But sometimes the price itself is a good option to have a trip.

Do you think it will be useful to have a service, where you can enter your departure / destination city and subscribe to an airfare change?

Do you use any existing service?
You can find his article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html

I'd summarize it something like this. "Americans are individualists and Chinese are collectivists. No one knows exactly why. Individualist nations have been more successful economically, but looking at China's recent success perhaps that will change. The idea of a harmonious collective might prove attractive, since our relationships are so central to our well-being."

... Except that he adds this snarky last line: "It's certainly a useful ideology for aspiring autocrats." Which seems like it ought to be accompanied by some sort of discussion of what he's afraid of, what might be done to stave off the danger, etc., etc., etc. -- but no, he just stops there.
Yahoo purchased viaweb which made YC possible. The startup community owes yahoo a lot.
Hi, id suggest starting with the codecademy courses they give you a pretty good picture of whats used for webdevelopement. The execises are well explained and the community is full of friendly helpful people.

codecademy.com
Can't speak for GP, but it's an embarassment that in 2015, Android still doesn't have built-in multi-window support. For crying out loud, even Apple beat Google to this, and they're typically behind when it comes to these things.
I didn't say "Don't try to get it right" I said "eh, shit happens."
They could have agreed to license the trademark to the project instead. Not cool!!
The entire document is written in a pretty informal style.
Well, since phase changes are just discontinuities in some thermodynamic variable, I think it's fair to say we're in violent agreement =) I take your point that political activists will misuse any information that comes from this, but they'll misuse anything, even--or especially--the lack of evidence, so I'm not sure that's compelling one choice or another.
Just goes to show how deeply people here cannot empathize with being poor. You said "passport is like $70 bucks" which people down-voted assuming you were were being naive and dismissive of the problem where you were really pointing out an even more immediate challenge.

The takeaway from all this being: This man's potential employers are unlikely to even begin to be able to fathom the challenges he faces day-to-day.
I always hated those ads and also thought the name was silly, even at the time. But hey, they're still here.
The most powerful marketing method no one ever uses
I won't mind if my Comcast Internet suddenly gets a free speed boost here! (But I won't sign myself up for an ISP that's primary business is tracking your data.
What Happened to Yahoo (2010)
They at least did doubtful experiments [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinker...
This is very detailed as well: http://www.pentesteracademy.com/course?id=1
I've been running my own site for displaying images; for backup, I have a dedicated server + synthing.

It's the archives I'd really, really miss, from people who more or less stopped taking photos.

If Flickr was to offer what Smugmug and 500px does for pros ( like direct upload from Lightroom, eyecandy portfolios, etc. ) instead of focusing on an app that uploads every picture it finds by default, I believe they'd see a return of the many and probable could become profitable. But this would need immediate and massive changes, which I don't think will happen at all.
Isn't "offensive cyber security" just cop-talk for breaking into other people's computers?
> It's weird how this article finds so many things wrong with Facebook, but it cannot even think of an alternative.

Why should we think of an alternative? One can "find so many things wrong with smoking or using drugs", without being requested to "think of an alternative".
Did I miss something?
> Monopoly requires player elimination.

Absolutely. I love Monopoly, and when I mention this, people always say "but it lasts so long!" It only lasts so long because just as someone is about to get knocked out, someone else loans them money to stay in the game...

> There are a bunch of great, easy to understand, easy to play games
> that are much better.

My favorite with family is either Carcassonne (I even have a tattoo) or Ticket to Ride.
You obviously have the luxury of being in an area with lots of potential employers. Some of us are not that lucky.
Can you make it keep an arrangement up for longer?

I don't have time to properly think about any one arrangement before it's disappeared and moved on to the next one.
> Zuckerberg is not responsable for the existence of the Friendship Paradox or our natural instinct to envy, etc.

Nor is the tobacco industry responsible for nicotine's addictive effects.

The question is, do the benefits outweigh the problems? As I've never used Facebook, I can't really judge.
Interviews Suck
You mean there isn't some large advertiser-driven conspiracy to hold back girls by only marketing the cool stuff to boys? Marketing actually does the things they do only to make money and not push some regressive social agenda? Clearly you haven't been on the Internet lately.
If whatever development system you are using is showing signs of being slow to start, I would say it is time to find a better, faster alternative?
This does not work for me. I'm using 'ghostery' to block ads though, not 'ad-block'.
TOSHI – Open Source Bitcoin Node in Ruby
Yahoo management lacks vision. They had the most popular brand names in social media space, still couldn't innovate.

1. Messenger

2. Mail

3. Flickr

4. Tumblr
Zerodb: an end-to-end encrypted database protocol
The "use cases and opinions" section is pretty nice, and I agree with it.

I would expect Rust and Swift to have the same execution performance on Fibonacci. In fact, I'd expect them to generate essentially identical LLVM IR. The fact that they have differences in performance leads me to believe that it's some sort of "LLVM IR optimization didn't trigger because of a bug" sort of issue—perhaps the optimization pass that converts recursive functions to loops.

I have to say, though: Beware of Fibonacci as a benchmark. I believe it's vulnerable to a compiler that optimizes it to the closed form solution [1]. I don't think compilers do this optimization today, but if you popularize a Fibonacci benchmark you will create market pressure for them to implement it and ruin your results. :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_e...
“In response to people who say you can’t go back. Well, what happens when you get to the cliff? Do you take one step forward or do you make a 180 degree turn and take . . . one step forward? Which way are you going? Which is progress?”
-- Douglas Tompkins
pics or it didn't happen (i mean the real layer back light see-through stuff).

preferably before and after substraction of what can be seen without the backlighting..
FR is a log of all regulations and you are referencing an old GRAS notification. GRAS is valid and up to date FOR INGESTION ONLY. Here is the most current information on GRAS food additives (not pharma additives) from the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/GRAS/

Here is the inactive ingredients database for approved pharmaceutical additives which depends on route of administration: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/iig/index.Cfm
This would be an awesome screensaver

+1 while really cool, this isn't really a fractal. More like a 'gear cloud'
untick autoShuffle in the controls.
The History of Modern India
It's core business is owning Alibaba shares, no?
>complain that they've been overpaid

Is that a typo?
The Up Next Program Preps Kids for College by Texting Them
Tumblr is very culturally significant but not financially successful.
According to their 10K [1] 76% of their advertising revenue and 68% of their total revenue comes from advertising on Google properties. Reducing their revenue by 76% surely wouldn't allow them to "run the ad business without it."

[1] Page 24, https://investor.google.com/pdf/20141231_google_10K.pdf
Preparing your team for Continuous Delivery
He is that irritating combination of someone who lacks humility and is unable to ever admit being wrong (except superfluously to make a larger point) and yet is demonstrably, objectively a genius.
Not available on mobile.
The image of the computer scientist/programmer/data scientist is changing pretty rapidly within the younger generation. STEM degrees garner a lot of respect, especially CS degrees, because everyone has suddenly become obsessed with "intelligence" as an indicator of future success and wealth, to the detriment of professionalism and altruism.

Programming is now cool and desirable - you can see the shifts everywhere in pop culture. Being a nerd or a geek is a badge of pride for many.
I think thats what we call Biomimicry no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics
TL;DR: The device in question, Gene Radar, is a "tricorder" only in the sense that it's a mobile health diagnostic tool, not in the Star Trek sense of a handheld external scanner that will will give you information about a person or object from a distance without direct physical contact. Based on the video in the article, it still requires a blood sample to be inserted for direct analysis. Really cool, but not quite a Star Trek tricorder just yet.
It may have been contracting agencies. They can be pretty uneven, in my experience.
"Google it" rolls off the tongue a lot better than "Yahoo it". Plus with Google's minimalist design (at least in the early years) they can get away with the silly name.
Wolfram has never freed up anything. I would be extremely surprised if he ever did it. Leadership of his company would have to change, I think, before he considered releasing anything as free software.
It's added (flavor) not formed afaik. After initial research and warnings several years ago, it's also been removed by many manufacturers (and yes, sometimes replaced with other bad stuff) and they advertise this fact.
That is unfair.

JonnieCache didn't bring this up, in response to what reads as an honest response by someone not familiar with Wolfram.

This quote is a succinct way of pointing out that Wolfram is, in fact, famously lacking in humility and self awareness, to the degree that many find it detracts from his legitimate achievements.
Author must be still editing it, I can zoom in now (Android).
Yahoo has done a pretty good job with the languishing part all on its own. Though, snark aside, I think part of the issue is that it's not entirely clear what a next-generation photo site with a pro/prosumer slant looks like that's different from today. (And, of course, whatever changes you make are going to be hated by some percentage as was the case when flickr went through a redesign a few years back.)
Good Gifts
HypriotCL: Docker Cluster Playground for Raspberry Pi
Cogent Communications Sues Deutsche Telekom for Congesting Internet Connections
Not that I'm the person you ask, but for the sake of addressing your unspoken implication: 20 - and I concur with most of what the OP said.

So does pretty much any therapist working with couples.

We can quibble about details, but codependence and abandoning your individuality is the path to misery.
Good share, but
why is this Show HN? Did you create it? It's not new...... etc
Ask HN: Poetic.io, super easy file transfer – make it open source?
Hey guys, I need some feedback from you!

Few months ago I’ve deployed poetic.io (https://poetic.io), a super easy file transfer with a simple and nice UI.

Before trying to charge for a PRO version, I started thinking to make it open source and change completely the business model, making it much more like gitlab or wordpress. A free and community version (and later an enterprise version (paid) and paid support... let's see)

The main reason behind this is because I think there is a lot of good technology in poetic.io and I want to share it with the community. I think the community could also improve it and give to the project a boost and good ideas.

Main details:
- It’s mainly built in ruby on rails, angular.
- It uses s3 and direct upload for multipart resumable upload. With multipart upload the only limit is the s3 storage and the user bandwidth.
- There is a built-in preview system which uses aws lambda to create previews. The previews can be viewed straightaway from the transfer page.
- The user can download the single file or a zip of all the files of the transfer.
- There is an admin panel where you can have the control of the transfers, customise the background, close the page with a password, set expiration time and many other things.

I would like at first to make it less dependent from aws (s3, lamda) giving the option to choose between a own server or s3/lambda.

Do you suggest to make it open straight away and only then start building a wizard setup, write documentation and polish the code, or the other way around?

Do you have any advise on this big pivot?

Thanks!

Alvise
> health authorities and activists, who see second-best (e-cigs) as the greatest threat to what they think is best (total abstinence).

The comment you're replying to cites the British Department of Health, who's final quote is

> All of our local NHS Stop Smoking Services now proactively welcome
> anyone who wants to use these devices as part of their quit attempt
> and increase their chance of success

From the middle "Despite this trend all current evidence finds that e-cigarettes carry a fraction of the risk of smoking.".

That's hardly a battle against e-cigarettes.
I only saw what appears to be a document of blank pages.
Memory use and speed of JSON parsers
The "Great Cannon" only targeted foreign traffic destined for Chinese websites. This one is not.
If you can't watch the video, or have audio for whatever reason, her company news room page has plenty of content about the device http://www.nanobiosym.com/index.php/news-room/

rant: I've never liked article titles like these
Just use 'emacs --daemon'!
I think it's the individual child's (intrinsic and extrinsic) motivations. Case in-point, my eldest daughter (14) is a studious introvert with a strong mastery of Latin and formal logic but loves beauty and wants to be a hairdresser (meh) or Instagram model (barf). Programming and robotics just don't do it for her even though I'm certain she could be good at it.

My middle daughter is wicked smart extrovert with zero patience an excess of confidence and absolutely loves robotics, electronics, Goldiblocks, etc... I'd hate to work with her on a software project because she's so agressive but chances are she'll wind up in STEM.

So that takes care of intrinisic motivation, as for extrinsic, both thought programming was something only nerdy anti-social boys do. In fact boys and girls chastised my middle daughter for liking so called "boy" things like building a trebuchet or going to the comic book store.

If we assume that only a small percentage of children will have both proclivity and potential and that we then also have to play peer-pressure Russian-roulette until they get to college then it's no wonder so few girls are still getting into STEM.
Parent comment links to a Reddit comment by kanzure dated 2015-12-09 01:24:30 UTC which contains what could be reasonably interpreted as a death threat:

> "gwern's gonna get doxxed and left for dead"

Quoted to create an enduring record in case the comment is edited. Kanzure, you should probably step back and reconsider what you're doing here.
It's completely true. This content would never be targeted for MITM.

It's a dashboard for displaying the global locations of DNS root servers and links to their authoritative organizations. Not only is this an incredibly niche site, all DNS root server information is replicated around the world by multiple organizations. Nobody uses this site to maintain their DNS trusts, it probably gets incredibly low traffic, and going out of your way to MITM it would be a lot of work for no payoff. This is a terrible target. Nobody would bother.
That's really interesting, thanks for the link.

But it still doesn't make sense, because if you remove the commas from 1,00,000 and 2,00,00 you end up with 100000 versus 20000. Based on the examples in your link I'm assuming that the last figure should be 2,00,000. In the examples all the high number always end with three zeros.
Well I'm using Privacy Badger. It is not about the used technology. It's about the idea, the concept. If you don't want to see ads, you pay a small amount using bitcoins. I don't see it working unless it's forced upon you.
I saw him give the same talk in Chicago, and the impression that I got was that the body he was advocating for had nothing to do with salaries. The AMA and the Bar might increase salaries by creating scarcity in their professions, but they aren't salary negotiating organizations like a union.
It depends if you want backup or sharing in the flickr vein. If the latter, Smugmug is probably the closest equivalent. It's not free but neither was a flickr pro account.