skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not conda all the way? Anything of concern?

Incidentally is the buildscript of anaconda itself opensource? Couldn't find it anywhere.
I like to think of this as screaming rather than a satisfied sigh.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!
As a sysadmin, I fully agree. I shudder at the thought of using Alpine Linux (or Arch Linux, or...) in production.

The value that stable, long term support distros provide shouldn't be underestimated.
Awesome, thanks. I'll check it out!
Because making healthcare mandatory by law is a free market, and so is having local monopolies on internet access.

You sound an awful lot like the people who ask for tighter gun laws after a shooting in a gun-free zone.
One of the most consistent frameworks in LÖVE I know is https://github.com/necrophcodr/fuccboiGDX/
Amazing, thanks for that explanation.
Ask HN: 11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?
My day job strait up closes from the 24th to the 1st - including the weekends, we're off for 11 days! (fully paid no less - awesome perk!)

Other then family get-togethers, what would you learn with your time off?

I bought some Swift courses from stackskills.com last week but I need it more as a refresher - I'm pretty decent with Objective-C as it stands and the Xcode tools so I got it just to get up to speed on the new language.

I'm very proficient with AngularJS 1.x, html, css, javascript, jquery, php, wordpress, server administration / linux, pen testing, etc...

Maybe React? Scala? (if it's there)

Docker?
You may not need to research so much by talking to too many people before you come up with what people want. If you could come up with something that satisfies one of human's basic needs, then you have created what people want. And as a human being, it is easy to figure out the basic needs of humans. When you have designed one, roll it out, let the people have it and wait for the feedback. Use the feedback to improve and consolidate. Success is a process that abhors delay and postponement.
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You value African wildlife more than improved living standards for the 100s of millions of Africans? I think we should preserve the wildlife as best as we can but I think we should also value increased standards of living for 100s of millions of people....
Hi there :)

I've had great success with teaching Javascript by being the go-to person to talk about the very well written http://eloquentjavascript.net IMHO Javascript is a great language to get enough bits of instant gratification to be motivated to continue learning.

Merry xmas and have fun pairing :)
They're not separate. The valuation of a thing is dependent on how much money the owners of that thing are willing to accept for it. The common stock holders' interests were poorly represented in the price negotiation. The decision to structure stock ownership in that way is, again, entirely the company's, not the tax system's.

Sure, employees share some responsibility for accepting compensation that includes stock which can be sold on your behalf without your having any say in the price you're willing to take... but companies choose to offer comp packages which include that kind of stock precisely because it's hard for employees to value, and it's easy for employees to overvalue.
Do you really think that dirt poor countries are better at preserving wildlife than countries where people do not starve to death, die from diarrhea or burn every bush within reach for firewood?

I think it depends a lot on what any growth is based on. If I understand this report correctly, their definition of economic complexity ranks countries with varied exports a lot higher than single minded commodities exporters. A Kenyan drug or machinery maker is unlikely to hurt wildlife much.
"If you always have your phone on you..."

How is this clearly not a deal-breaking problem? Tons of people don't have their phone on them 24/7.

Lets just say I lost my phone. Now I want to log into iTunes to use the find my phone feature. But I don't have my phone to use to auth.
Hands down, my favorite new library is schema:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/schema

Here's a schema I use in production, see how readable it makes the parameters of the API and how quick all the validation and normalization is:

https://www.pastery.net/mhwwnv/

At the end, you get an object called data, and you can do data.title, data.language, etc, and be sure that everything is as you expect.
Another “critical” VPN vulnerability and why Port Fail is bullshit
Our simple business strategy. Business and Integrity = Success
Jeff Bezos: "... Welcome to the club!"
https://twitter.com/jeffbezos/status/679116636310360067
Really neat stuff. Can't wait to see it in FOSS software so we can save some space in our video collections. :)
I was on a sf kick this year apparently.

Full list (why can't amazon show me the read dates of my kindle books?!):

- Ancillary Sword

- The Magician's Land

- The Three Body Problem (incomplete)

- Libriomancer, Codex Born, Unbound

- Thank You, Jeeves

- Omon Ra (incomplete)

- Stations of the Tide

- 1Q84 (staggeringly incomplete)

- The Desert Spear (incomplete)

- The Lost Fleet: {Dauntless,Fearless,Courageous} (third
one incomplete)

- Superintelligence

- Nexus, Crux (incomplete)

- Another Fine Myth

- The Annihilation Score

- The Man with the Golden Torc, Daemons are Forever

- The Fractal Prince (incomplete)

- Crooked

- Ancillary Mercy

- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

- The Traitor Baru Cormarant

- Excession

- Hive Mind

- Seveneves
Because the idea could ultimately be backed by the force of violence in the state.

E.g. You will use weak encyption in your product, or we will take your money, your company or even your freedom.
This is a candidate to ostensibly lead a world superpower over the next 4-8 years.

Simply having the mindset of desiring to ban or hamstring encryption (or build perpetual motion machines) is indicative of far greater issues (likely in that domain, which we as tech-citizens should be aware of and active against) than merely chasing dragons would imply.
"But I suspect that was a problem.

You see, it would probably be difficult to sell those VBR files — some of which were quite a bit lower than 256 Kbps and a few even lower than 128 Kbps — because customers might perceive a loss of value."

The vast majority of customers do not care about the actual Kbps, as long as the sound quality remains above certain standards. Just market the different quality levels at different prices and most people would never think twice about it (and most would choose the cheapest version).
Thanks for the reply and kind words! :)

See also answer to Catnaroek above!
This is what I mean. Syntactic ambiguity is evil, and pretty common. Even C has it (google "lexer hack"). And I definitely think that Scheme could do with a bit more syntax. Some of the whitespace indent extensions (WISP, for example) are nice, and I could do with hash table literals. So I'm off to go write those...:-D
This is because 95% of the time throughout human history, true political freedom from authority is only ever won via extreme violence.

As nerds, we're neither inclined nor skilled in the ways of killing, and we enjoy our modern comforts, so we opt for technical workarounds instead.
JMAP homepage: http://jmap.io/
am i missing something at google.co.nz?
For those interested, you can also get nice styles with just matplotlib (including seaborn style) using stylesheets:

http://matplotlib.org/users/style_sheets.html
> The task was designed to produce Nash equilibria that would fit story they wanted to tell.

Unfortunately, this kind of malarkey is common in the social sciences today. In fact, more than half of the results are non-reproducible[1][2]. Whether published in Nature or a lesser journal, the current research climate forces me to treat social science results as noise, especially when the results happen to fit one of the major ideologies currently vying for political domination.

Sure, this heuristic is unfair to well-designed, dispassionate studies, but since I'm not qualified to evaluate the merits of each study, I have to make conservative assumptions.

[1] http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/09/18/whats-to-be-done-abou...

[2] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-repl...
standard public union claptrap that pretends public resources are unlimited, and that their works is the good lord's.
It's all about risk. Unfortunately, this risk did not pay off.
In your example each separate server would involve separate incidents and thus be separate crimes. What about one person uploading one file to one server in a persons home country?
...Which is why we have WISP. And SRFI-49. And editors that can indent LISP code. All of these solve the problem rather nicely.
The problem that SpaceX has is that Blue Origin did it first. Even if the technical challenges were larger for SpaceX then Blue Origin.

In the mind of the general public that cares, it's all the same thing. The technicalities of a suborbital flight of a small capsule verses an orbital flight carrying a payload is meaningless. They just saw the Blue Origin rocket do it, and then the SpaceX rocket do it, and they looked about the same.
Fair point. I did make that assumption.
Ask HN: Does your mind get relaxed and focused when doing the dishes?
I noticed for a long time that I get really relaxed and focused when doing the dishes which carries over for couple hours afterwards. Does anyone else experience this? I also did a quick search and found this:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wash-the-dishes-and-cleanse-the-mind-1443457611
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151001165852.htm
Build an MVP in 2-3 days, release and market. You'll learn a lot about business :)
> Coming out of college I was in the bottom 5th percentile in the nation from random medical debts and such, and within a year I was in the 95th percentile.

This is only possible by virtue of having little to no actual credit history. If you're in your 30's with a mortgage, paid off student loans and paid off vehicles, you're not going to make massive positive changes to your report in a year without major negative items falling off.

> For instance, you would think it would be a good thing for your credit to pay a delinquent bill? Almost never. It's acknowledgement that you owed the debt to begin with, so it hurts you.

Are you referring to items at collections? Then yes and no. Collection agencies will usually offer Pay-For-Delete if you ask for it in writing, in which case you pay the item and it's removed from your report altogether. You still end up having to pay the bill. The alternative (if it's a valid delinquency) is to let it sit for 7 years until it falls off.

> In the case of your doctor's office, the best thing to do is NOT pay the debt collector, and then go a different route through the doctor's office instead.

I've never had a medical bill sent to collections, but I did have a (thankfully small) student loan sent while I was diligently paying the other loans because the mail was going to the wrong address. However, I can say from that experience that I could not pay my school at that point. The collector owned the bill. They had paid the school for it, so the school had already gotten its money.

But there's no HIPPA violation in sending a medical bill to collections, and making false accusations like that to get out of paying a legitimate bill (or getting a legitimately delinquent account removed from your credit report) is slimy at best.
Thats great, my company owned ahhhhhhhhhhhh.com got approached to sell, no idea it was coke, found out later, but glad they did something cool with it.
What a perverse view of the world our twisted regulations have created. Patents and copyrights were created explicitly to encourage distribution by providing limited financial incentives (monopoly), not prevent it.
> To pay those taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money.

Investing your life savings and/or loaned money into a single stock is always a huge warning sign that you're being foolish.
If you want risk, be an entrepreneur. If you want security, be an employee for a big company.

And I suppose I should add, "If you want to get screwed over, be an employee at a unicorn startup," based on this new information.
I understand your point. But don't you think the wildlife are equally important?

There are 7 BILLION people on earth... but there are just 5000 rhinos, for example. That's 1.5 MILLION people to a rhino. This is one of the most magnificent species to have ever walked earth - why shouldn't we prioritize preserving it over human comfort? Why do you value increase in living standards over a sentient species that all things considered, is a form of life just like humans?
I mean YouTube gives content creators a slice of ad revenue, so...

I don't know if this program was implemented before the copyright crackdown, though.
In kdb, GET requests are normally mapped to .z.ph[1] which synchronously returns the HTTP response. dash supports this as well (sync mode) when it doesn't understand the query string parameters, and then dash works just like a faster .z.ph for KDB.

Async mode is designed when dash knows what the HTTP response will be and can send it immediately. It then relies on kernel queueing to send the same message to kdb which allows for logging (or other processing, like HLL or anything else). This gives a significant performance boost so it's worth optimising.

[1]: http://code.kx.com/wiki/Reference/dotzdotph
I wonder at his premise that consumers are choosing things based on wanting larger file sizes and higher bit rates. Most of my friends literally could not tell you anything about their mp3 or movie collection in terms of bit rate. Half of them you'd need to explain what "bit rate" means, before even asking the question. I only think about it for my DJ music collection (and VBR is fine in that context, I'm just ruling out CBR stuff below ~192kpbs, because sometimes it sounds a little harsh on the high end over the big speakers); never worry about it for video or music streaming. If it's HD and looks/sounds OK, I don't think about it at all. Netflix and Amazon both have acceptable quality, so I don't think about it, I just consume it.

I think the success of Spotify and Pandora and Rhapsody are proof that consumers don't care about quality. I don't know exactly what bit rate they're streaming at, but, it sounds pretty bad on mobile, so I assume it's something quite low. But, even though I recognize the crappiness of it, sometimes I listen to them in the car (my truck has a crap stereo, anyway, so no big deal there).

In short: Cool article, but the suggestion that consumers will stop it because they want bigger files seems weird.
> If they cannot prove that an inmate's scheduled release date is incorrect, they would be released.

I would hope so, but I think that at the very least the language was chosen to suggest that they would err on the side of keeping people incarcerated. That this could be seen as politically rewarding is... scary.
The #1 problem when technical people consider politics and law: they expect it to follow any sense of logic.

That is a threat to the tech industry, as part of the ongoing campaign to paint tech companies as "selfish and unreasonable" or even "aiding terrorists" in the public eye. At no point is any kind of "Manhattan project" actually intended. That's just a clever talking point used to frame encryption for the general public.

The long-term message for tech companies is "stop challenging our power and authority". Encryption represents a power shift, which is something the people used to having that power cannot allow. Their traditional weapon is the power to control the framing of any topic.

The end game isn't breaking encryption. If the tech industry doesn't submit to the demands for a backdoor, the tech industry will be declared the enemy. If the economy related to the internet and encryption crashed (which can always be accomplished with punitive regulation), the power situation is improved form the perspective of traditional politicians.

If they want to survive in anything like their current form, internet corporations should be fighting this hard to counter the framing in the public eye. Spending a few hundred million (or even a few billion) spent on media campaigns to make people want encryption is preferable to being forced to implement backdoors and watching entire markets dry up.
Sorry - but the phusion images are unnecessarily bloated. The existence of the them has been defended by 'fixing' many so-called problems that are actually no problem at all - or at least shouldn't be a problem if you know what the hell you're doing. No well, written software won't spawn zombie-processes - sorry. Reaping dead child processes is something pretty basic if you're using "fork".

And then - a logger daemon. Guess mounting /dev/log into a container is too complex if you care about this?

Logrotate - sure, useful - but if you care about logs and aren't sending them to your logger daemon or /dev/null, you probably want to store them externally - in a volume or mounted host directory - and have a separate container taking care of that.

The ssh server... Containers are no vm's, if you have to log in on a container running in production - you're doing something wrong - unless that container's only job is running SSH (which can be useful for example for Jenkins build slaves).

Cron - again - same thing: run in a separate container and give access to the exact things your cronjob needs.

That is for me the essential thing about containers: separate everything. But sure, you could treat containers as a special VM only for one service - nobody is going to stop you. I however prefer isolating every single process and explicitly telling it how to communicate with other processes. It's sane from many perspectives: security, maintainability, flexibility and speed.
Ask HN: Should I learn Node.js or Python?
I'm in the process of developing specs for a system that will be using Go and PostgreSQL its functionality.

There is a part of the system that will ideally utilized AWS Lambda and another part that will require some logic within PostgreSQL functions/procedures.

Lambda AND PostgreSQL functions support both Python and Javascript. In an effort to minimize the long term support burden for anybody else who picks this up at the company, I'd like to use the same language for both parts.

What should I use and why?
Particularly he has CFG as a true god, for ease of parsing and tooling. Bright hangs out here so if he wants he can come in and expand but I think it's a case of look at the moon(CFG) not the finger(parsing ease) pointing at the moon.
Oh sure, there's lots to say about the design and effective use of a backup regime. I agree with all that stuff.

But if you're going to condense it to a "rule" that will help people not well-versed in the field, that rule can only be "MAKE BACKUPS!", because at least 90% of the data loss scenarios in the real world happen because simple backups weren't made.

Don't make it more complicated than it is, because someone will stop to do it "right" and then lose data because they didn't just make a copy on a USB stick.
Nope.

SpaceX did it in 2011 w/ Grasshopper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)
I plan to play around with D3.js library. I love to play with drones. I want to produce beautiful visual charts to display many drones stats while it is flying.
React sounds good, I've been wanting to watch https://egghead.io/series/getting-started-with-redux
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While that does suck... they exercised early for the capital gains tax treatment. If there was no risk involved, it doesn't really deserve a lower tax rate.
If enough "audiophiles" repeat the claim that Apple or Amazon has worse audio quality, it could seriously hurt their brand's reputation.
This sounds tautological...
> First, higher birth rate and net migrations are usually a (short-term) drag on GDP, not a boost.

This was my thought as well. Germany has publicly declared that they will take 800k refugees (plus there are likely to be several hundred thousand undocumented immigrants). That will be a huge drag on their economy for a few years, but the long term result is projected to be very positive for their economy.
On the other hand, that is 22.7 million dollars in lost revenue for the company/companies running Washington's prisons.
When viewed from that perspective, the move to recapture those released early makes a bit more sense intuitively.
A lot of cool concepts come from languages like OCaml and Haskell. But for better or worse, we live in a world where simple languages rule the day (C++ being one notable exception), and if we get lucky, we get some of cool OCaml/Forth/Haskell/LISP/Erlang features to play with, in our simple little worlds with our simple little toy languages like Java and C# and Go and Javascript... it's sad in a way, but it's reality. I'd much rather write F# (basically .NET-hosted OCaml) than C#, but no luck finding gainful employment with that...
Well, I look at it from the perspective of history. Wherever modern human development has taken hold, we've had a degradation of animal life. It happened in Europe, it happened in China, it happened in America after it was colonized.

A lot of African people live in harmony with their environment. It is external development (investment from China, globalization etc.) that is hurting wildlife in their areas. Why should we accelerate the process of their development? There's absolutely no indication that an industrialized people are happier than a people living as hunter-gatherers, for example. Just let Africa be.
If Good was a unicorn, that definition needs some work. Good was in a downward arc since 2011-2012 imo. How many new customers did they acquire compared to Airwatch/MobileIron/etc?
Does anyone know if it is illegal to pursue a debt that you know to have passed its SOL? I don't mean suing the debtor but for a collections agency to continue calling and writing after the SOL has passed.
I interviewed at this company a couple years back and a huge selling point at the interview was their upcoming IPO plans. They eventually gave me an offer which I turned down because enterprise and security is a boring area to work on. Based on these recent series of articles on startups, its becoming more and more apparent that while starting a startup is a fantastic thing to do, being an employee of one has mostly downsides. Its a much better career move for non-founders to work for large established companies.
> The common stock holders' interests were poorly represented in the price negotiation.

You're mistaken here. Your point rests on there being a possibility that Blackberry paid the same amount for the company (the valuation), but common stock holders got more (the waterfall). This was not possible.
Any relation to the Clojure Schema?
https://github.com/Prismatic/schema
They also like to go after legally protected parody and win by bullying:

http://consumerist.com/2015/05/19/walmart-is-now-the-rightfu...
Yes, this strikes me as very Enron-ish throughout.
It says in the article that Encore's argument is that they buy not just the debt but also the terms and conditions, including the arbitration requirement.
I think the intent was that he joined an RC club so he knew what planes/parts/tools/etc were quality and which were junk. Not that he had to actually join a club in order to purchase anything.
Potential energy is energy, so it's not quite correct that New Shepard had 0 joules at 100km. At 100km and 0 velocity it'll have about 1 gigajoule of energy per metric ton of mass.
I often simply change the colors for those.

{} [] () , ; get the same colors as whitespaces (I enable their visibility but make them just a bit brighter as the background)