skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think SDCs are going to revolutionize the public transit business too. Light rail makes a lot of sense in certain places. It's incredibly expensive though, but worth subsidizing.

Buses though, are mostly failures. If you look at the numbers for buses, you see they are traveling empty far too often. I think it makes more sense for public transit to operate on a fleet of smaller vans. You go to a stop, hail a ride, and a shared ride pulls up and takes you to your destination, making stops along the way. I think fixed routes running even when there are no passengers is ripe for an upgrade.
A fascinating illustration of this being the phenomenon of Roko's basilisk.
I've been feeding it various pictures of fursuits at different angles to see if I could force it to treat one as human, but so far I've been unsuccessful.
> "Group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. [...] Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all."

Those parentheses obscure a significant point. The full paragraph is

>So, in defiance of this psychological difference, and in defiance of politics, let me point out that a group injustice has no existence apart from injustice to individuals. It's individuals who have brains to experience suffering. It's individuals who deserve, and often don't get, a fair chance at life. If God has not given intelligence in equal measure to all his children, God stands convicted of a crime against humanity, period. Skin colour has nothing to do with it, nothing at all.

He's claiming that skin color has nothing to do with the (according to him) injustice of different people having different intelligences. He's not claiming that skin color has nothing to do with why people don't get a fair chance at life. "Skin colour has nothing to do with it" is making a moral claim, not an empirical one.
This is actually a very interesting effect -- it exposes opinions people are generally not comfortable at expressing, for fear of being labeled as racist or something.

Sadly, asian guys are considered much less attractive than our female counterparts in Switzerland.

On a more positive note, now I know if a swiss girl likes me, she's probably not superficial. lol
I used backbone a lot too, and despite their obvious differences, react feels like backbone's spiritual successor in terms of being 'Just Javascript' that solved problems, rather than a fullblown framework.

For the longest time I totally saw react as replacing backbone views, but in practice that was unwieldy and the stateful, unidirectional approaches (Jesus that needs a catchy acronym!) made more sense given what I was trying to achive.
How to Face Fear and Find Your Personal Legend
Companies rarely say what it really is: cost savings. Not only can you cram more people per square foot, cubicle walls cost money.
Blog is down. Maybe they should host it on WPEngine. (:

This sort of thing almost became background noise when I worked there. I can say that things improved somewhat after the HTP compromise, at least for awhile.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect
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It lost money in four of the last five years. Ebook sales are declining, and they've closed stores.

They've also been making a bunch of bad decisions, like investing massively into 3D printing which hasn't paid off, and doubling down on Nook again and again.

Coloring books did pay off a little for them, I admit, but at this point it is more a question of "when" B&N will go bankrupt not "if."
I'm a big fan of Zen and it's ilk, but the Japan fetish in this article is way too strong. I bet the author thinks that samurai swords were way better than their contemporaries in Europe
More like getting to zero exceptions until new exceptions come in. I was half-expecting something like "Zero Runtime Exceptions because of X"
North Korea, Cuba, and Coca-Cola
Top score: if all players have them same seed for the RNG, they'll be playing the same sequence of games - unless you've played more games than any other player there'll be a high score. Need to keep track of RNG state between sessions, of course.
Lix 3D Pen Allows You to Draw in Air
Twitter introduces conversational ads
Who leaves at 5pm? People that want to have dinner with their families, maybe?

It's almost like everyone is different...
Spend more time with the data, literature, alternate hypotheses, and so forth.
This would be good if you can turn this into a mirror IoT device. (°ロ°) Just imagine how many people would buy this if Kim Kardashian got involved
What difference would the client make? The feed comes from the API, even in the official client [1].

[1] Few years ago I'm sure it was like that, they might've changed to a private API since.
I write lot of code, but I refuse to do coding at interview. For me its sign of dysfunctional company. But I do not mind to do pair coding, and fix an actual bug.

There are more reasons, in short it takes me couple of hours/days to warm up and grasp the problem.

And secondly I refuse to waste my time, on half arsed throw-away code, with zero results.
A lot of the sample photos look like they have had filters put on them. One of the things that karpathy found was that convnets were bad at images with filters.

Anyway I only got "connection error".
Which in the end will only hurt users as the U.S. government is just interested in compelling Apple to hand them user information.
Scripting languages don't have AOT compilers to native code.

Java and C# do have AOT compilers to native code, capable of producing static executables, you just need to buy them.
About a year and a half ago i got dragged into the hype (via family subscription) - and actually enjoyed the games for about 3 days. after that, the fact that they had a total of about 5 variations, with totally predictable ordering, got really boring and i went back to 2048. You don't have to be a neuroscientist to see how this kind of predictable repetitive activity will make you "get better at it" every time you play...

Cancelling took a couple of emails and threat to dispute the CC charge.

Hooray for FTC!
Article seems to quickly call "Lightning Network" a "sidechain". Not only is this wrong, it's similar to calling "zero-confirmation Bitcoin transactions" a "sidechain". It's not anything like a sidechain. Examine the evidence yourself,

sidechains: http://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf

Lightning Network stuff: http://lightning.network/ like http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

For a high-level overview of Bitcoin scalability proposals, see my 2015 scalingbitcoin.org Montreal presentation: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin/scalingbitcoin-review.pd...

Lightning Network and Bitcoin payment channels are more like restrictions around the permissible possible undefined behavior of zero-confirmation transactions (which otherwise have more broadly undefined behavior), which are inherently unconfirmed in the Bitcoin system. By using an initial committed transaction, rules around the behavior of zero-conf transactions spending the UTXOs can be locked down, while still using Bitcoin transactions, not a separate consensus system and not a sidechain.

For an overview of criticism regarding the "consensus" mechanism in non-fuggerian Ripple (aka Ripple 2?) and Stellar, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342348 and https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/msg/36135395/

For an overview of why proof-of-stake doesn't sem to be secure, see https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf and https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/alts.pdf and https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf

For an overview of what Bitcoin Core developers are working on regarding capacity increases, see the recent https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases-faq which is regarding https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015...
Yup, exactly. :)

Would probably be more verbose if named:

openssl-key-to-hpkp-pin

openssl-website-to-hpkp-pin
The drop is happening regardless. All the halt does is give space for rational thinking. Stocks actually worth something should go up whilst others plummet.
>we're still doing routine audits of the existing stuff.

This doesn't work, auditing coldfusion code is impossible without auditing the entire platform. The whole platform is so full of bugs and strange behaviour that it's actually impossible to produce secure coldfusion code.
Blockchains can count, and thus handle mutations. That's the key difference:

https://medium.com/@arthurb/what-do-blockchains-accomplish-e...
My prior job had this setup, but with low walled cubicles for everyone. We kicked the executive team out of their offices and instantly had a ton of conference room space. It was great and prevented a lot of wasted time that normally went to scheduling spaces for meetings.
That's an idea I've not heard before. I like it, a lot. It tickles my Libertarian streak, but relives the inherent guilt about the disabled and under-represented.

I'm sorry, but I think the name sucks.
No, HN doesn't like Go advocates presenting features common to all compiled languages as if it was something discovered by the Go team.
> > Bitcoin-NG

> Many problems linked https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3or365/bitcoinng_p...

Thanks dude, I forgot about my comment there. As for weak blocks, how about this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3m2wpf/bitcoindev_...
local database for iPhone?
local database for iPhone?

Is there a way to have a local database in iphone which can be updated through REST API or remote database ?
The problem isn't character limit.

The problem is missing interesting Tweets. My timeline is flooded with new tweets. Better flagging to read later, algorithms that say you might find this most interesting, filtering would be welcome and are needed.
If I may rephrase (and steelman) the parent's point:

Reality does not neatly format itself for easy plug-and-chug into your formulas. To appropriately respond to reality, you must be good at recognizing when there's a mapping to a well-tested formula, technique, or phenomenon.

Therefore, if you require problems to be phrased in a way such that that's already done, that means you're not good at that domain; blaming the phrasing of the problem is missing the point.

Indeed, 90% of the mental work lies in recognizing such isomorphisms, not in cranking through the algorithm once it's recognized, and this is a hard skill to teach. (Schools that teach how to attack word problems have to rely on crude word-match techniques to identify e.g. when you want to subtract vs add vs divide.)
> we (or at least I) nonetheless place the bulk of the blame for fraud on the malicious seller, not the hapless buyer.

I agree, and find the tone of this thread interesting because it is very much reversed. In that blame seems to be falling on the buyer for not knowing better. Yet, it was the seller that seemed to manipulate the business to inflate standard business metrics at the expense of sustainability. Further, the investment banks then turned a blind eye to the state of the business and facilitated the sale.

This reminds me of the sub-prime fiasco. Ie. we had a a system where everyone optimized their own position, but overall those optimizations led to net losses. Same seems to apply here--Private equity optimized their own position, Fund managers likewise, yet the company itself is no longer viable. The long term outcome of this is a failed economy unless systemic corrections are made before that happens.
Periodic table to gain four new elements
People are panicky animals. Even fundamentally sound stocks will fall alongside the dogs.
I feel bad for Twitter because they have a popular product that's hard to monetize. That being said, I wonder if any of the Twitter execs who think of this stuff actually use Twitter.
Speaking as a Brit, some of us do too. But I think we're in a minority, alas.
A client could periodically poll for new tweets and sort them by timestamp.
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If I could summarize PG's thesis (and his critics misunderstanding) in one sentence here it is:

Beware any promises to cure social ills that make an appeal to economic inequality, just as you'd be cautious of a surgeon trying to cure you by releasing evil spirits.

I don't know why it's taking 100+ comments to get to the bottom of this 1% of the rich "have more wealth" than the Bottom 30%. It's simple: it's a misleading statistic and there's no defending it, or anyone who uses it to make their case.

The reason why it's misleading points to the inevitable problems of using summary statistics of wealth inequality to evaluate economic performance.
I actually factored that into my purchase decision. My school paid for this laptop, so I got a cheap one with high end specs that I can replace with a beefy desktop and a chromebook in a few years when this Lenovo breaks.
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> Another thing I look forward to are links to interesting alternatives like SCP

Some "see also" on that topic, then ....

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3u1m36/why_arent_w...

http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/sharding-th...

https://github.com/vbuterin/scalability_paper/blob/master/sc...

(Unless you don't mean the SCP that was presented during Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong, and rather the other more widely known SCP....)
I was just thinking the same thing. I've been a customer for >10 years but this is getting ridiculous.

First 2013 attack was apparently exacerbated by cleartext password storage for LISH (their management shell) and API tokens https://marco.org/2013/04/16/linode-hacked

The 2012 Bitcoin attack involved a breach of Linode's customer service portal
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800...

Today's attack is some kind of unspecified or unknown breach involving Linode manager.

I guess the obvious commonality here is that all the attacks target the "soft" Linode layers AROUND managing deploys of Linux and Xen/KVM/UML rather than the "hard" targets of those widely used systems. This also happens to be the layer where Linode should be adding value (as opposed to the cheaper VPS providers out there) and I think it's increasingly troublesome that they continue to have such severe security issues.

Is this company (CEO - Christopher Aker) not investing in security staff, security training, best practices etc, or are they investing tons and just getting breached because they host so many sites? Unclear. But it's easy to imagine it's the former, from the outside, given all these incidents.
That's not nearly enough. The 4/5ths rule is designed to identify "structural discrimination", or cases where no discriminatory act can be identified, but the outcomes are nonetheless considered discriminatory. As long as a lawyer can show that some protected group is disadvantaged by the quiz, that's enough for it to violate the rule.
Generally "suspended" means "we won't fine you now but if you screw up again, you're paying up". Kind of like probation. The reason given gives me thought that they also simply don't have $50M
I can't really deny that CF is that bad, but it'd be irresponsible to just let the codebase rust as we rewrite it - and we are rewriting it.
This would just lead to 'click-bait' tweets.
Where are you seeing that Solitaire was bundled in Windows 2.1? Both the wiki page you reference and the Wes Cherry's linked comment both suggest that it was originally included in 3.0.
only 70 tools. They make it sounds so easy to work remotely. I'd go absolutely insane if I had to open a fourth of these on a daily basis along with you know doing actual work.
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The first venture capitalists
What's the significance of this? I see a definite pattern in the examples provided. Is this a silly new web trend that I'm supposed to be looking down my nose at? Should I be adding a /now page to my site?

Edit:

It's actually explained here (this might be a better link actually):

http://nownownow.com/about

I saw that link but originally thought this was a similar page that aggregated /about content from sites but I guess that would be http://aboutaboutabout.com/.
The cult of home ownership is dangerous and damaging
That would have been epic PR - but considering they may all land jobs at Google - I doubt these guys are suffering financially themselves
I see this as a directory of self-centered egotistical people who feel like they're important and want to flaunt themselves. It gives me an icky feeling and I wouldn't want myself listed there. Is this website normal and I'm wrong for feeling this way?

Some of the personal slogan things for example, sound like meaningless thoughts of a narcissist:

"I create things to discover."

"I have ideas, then I make them real."

"I listen people, then I write about them."

"I notice things and try to make them better."

"I do interesting things to make sure I have interesting tales to tell."

"I help make the world a more sensible, purposeful, and meaningful place."

"I ask 'Why not?' and then write words or code to bring ideas into the real world."

What does any of that mean? Why are they posting their picture like that. Why should I care what they're doing right now?

Please tell me why this isn't just egomania.
* disclaimer: assumes humans are perfectly rational. May seriously damage your credit rating.
yeah, take all that with a grain of salt. everyone here in SM is basically a rich NIMBY asshole.
I loved pinball! :(
As someone who works a block from the big dig, I can say that street traffic is generally not an issue. People generally use the big dig to commute through Boston, or to get to the airport, not to get downtown. (There's not much downtown for tourists!)

Those in the suburbs (of which I was one) drive to train/subway stations on the outskirts and take those in. You'd be an absolute fool to try to drive into the mess of one-way streets that is downtown Boston unless you have a really good reason.
I still don't really understand Twitter. I have an account and have followed ~50 people and organizations I find interesting, and all I see is floods of re-tweets of people I have no interest in.
Takata Emails Show Brash Exchanges About Data Tampering
These all sound they belong in the TV show "Silicon Valley". :)
> And secondly I refuse to waste my time, on half arsed throw-away code, with zero results.

That's a very wierd thing to say. Does that mean that each and every side-project that you do ends up being substantive? If writing few lines of code gets you a job at a good company where you can spend your time working on exciting problems how is that wasteful?

I do program a lot too, and I typically don't mind writing code in an interview. The only thing that sets me off are stupid level-order binary-tree traversal questions which test nothing but rote-memorization skills.
excellent, thank you for the insight
Efficient Startup Hypothesis
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It has 'reddit' in the url. It won't be re-categorized.
> Incorrect. Average wait time would be less than 5 minutes.

Average wait time for a block is around 10 minutes. You may be thinking of it in terms of buses, where if there is a bus every 10th minute, you'd expect a 5 minute average wait. But blocks are mined practically independently, you could get two in a minute, or none in an hour. Turns out, no matter when you start waiting for a block, the average waiting time will be 10 minutes.
No but you see, the Japanese sleep on the floor and they're all really really smart, so if my family sleeps on the floor instead of in a typical Western bed then we'll all be smarter like the Japanese. Plus their civilization is really ancient and they know so much about mindfulness and plants and stuff

Actual words that have been spoken to me by an adult woman with two kids.
> 50/50 growth/scarcity
What exactly do you mean by this, how does Dijkstra represent it and where can I learn more?
The Google Technology Stack [2008]
2016 is the year Twitter jumped the shark. https://ello.co/teanee/post/0M0OKQLGuxdtXpjHKXAq1w
I like my office, and I don't feel that it adds any additional barriers over a cubicle, unless I want it to.

I like initiating communication with chat or email, with the option of an impromptu face-to-face meeting if necessary, or the option of being able to defer that meeting when I need to focus.

I keep my door open when I don't mind a visitor (like a cubicle), but I can close my door to indicate to people that I am in focus-mode and should not be disturbed. I didn't have that choice with a cubicle, because anyone could walk up at any time and cause me to shift that focus.

The office also makes for a good place for uninterrupted collaboration when the meeting requires it, which is something else you don't get with a cubicle.
No, you can’t join my wifi network
Also huge for companies who have to decide between their own hardware and AWS or other cloud providers.

Previously, you'd pick a cloud provider because the cost is considered opex and you could write it off in the same year (let them do the depreciation, you get the tax savings immediately). Now, you might be more willing to consider buying your own gear if your cloud provider spend is under half a million dollars a year (perhaps even more).

Yeah, sure, cloud providers make scaling easier (but then again, you're probably not Reddit, needing to scale on a dime to thousands of VMs). But you get to spend $500K/year on gear and that gear is YOURS for its life.

Disclaimer: Devops/Infrastructure Admin/Tech Consultant who does this math all the time.
>is the MySQL implementation inherently flawed somehow but people are still using it

Yes.

What MySQL calls "master master" is actually "master slave".
Reminds of the those State fair booths where the guy tries to guess your age.
http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2013/08/your_age_weight_and_bir...
Blog Performance Issues Incident Report for Linode
DTOMMLFAAS
Thanks. Yes it did build just fine. Now I just have to figure out what's "stalling" during boot.

It compiled with zfs and all fine though :)
Probably should have a [2008] in the title. This is very out-of-date.