skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stanford pioneer of praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point
Have to agree, had a lot of pain when they first switched, their initial release/update was broken/poor to say the least.. the hangs and performance issues aside even.
Uber's China unit now valued at $7B, raised $2B
I've tried using the gateway published there to send an SMS message to my phone, but my wireless service provider won't accept messages from my email server.
VLC for Apple TV Now Available on TvOS App Store
It's kinda important to note here that the "M50" designation indicates that the excercise is an "unsolved research problem". It's not an in-joke; Knuth is presenting unsolved problems with the intention that the student would consider trying solving them.
that is some hardcore planned obsolescence
At what point is this just a matter of complexity growing beyond its masters' capacity to manage it? Computers interacting with all sorts of analog systems are going to have a million edge cases.

But it's just beginning. Give them the ability to interact with other connected objects, and your potential problems proliferate. Add a smart garage door opener, and you may not figure out how that's connected to your thermostat cranking the heat too high, or who's to blame.

Seriously — listen to this: http://iotpodcast.com/2015/12/episode-36-a-total-breakdown-i...
You are making arbitrary choices as to which people get the credit for productivity that is generated by machines not people.
My feeling is if you haven't proven yourself as someone who deserves respect, people won't want to learn from you. They will just think you are arrogant and don't actually know better than them.

If you deliver great results, people will naturally want to emulate you.
* developed world population (demand) doubling, repeatedly

* easy to harvest oil exhausted
Hey, wow. The site looks really good, so I connected a domain to try it.

Initial feedback:
* I spent about 2-3 minutes to trying to find how to get to the main website settings. Only just before giving up I found the "..." which contained it. I think the "Manage your website settings" settings should be prominently displayed.

* All subdomains (and the domain itself) needs to point at the same ip address? This seems to be a pretty big limitation

* This is definitely the most confusing of the UI:
https://i.gyazo.com/dc0f848525e98a08944f839aabbea44e.png I thought it was all a single form. I'd break it up a bit better, and when adding a subdomain explain the steps better (aliasing)

* While my ssl certificate is being provisioned, my site is serving a certificate from organkimlan.com I'm guessing that's another one of your customers?

* I love the idea of real time stats, and route-specific feedback (page load time , errors etc).

Some questions:

* What's your content policy in comparison to cloudflares? (That's probably the single biggest thing I like about them)

* Do you have any guides on how your site respects caching? I really love how cloudfront handles this (unlike cloudflare)

* Are you guys able to eat a DDoS? Is this one of the services you're providing?

Anyway, one of the most impressive Show HNs I've seen in a while. I wish you guys great success and will be following closely
VHS didn't win because of pornography, it won because it was cheaper and was actually a superior format in certain respects.

Listening to music is now "buffet-style" because of iTunes, not Napster. Napster died.

AC kicked DC because the latter was financially non-viable.
Oops, sry, I meant https://github.com/Zewo/libvenice
> I'd be very interested to know about AJ Arabic (and I don't speak Arabic at all). If you don't mind sharing a little more: How does it differ from AJ English?

In general, the "feel" of the channel is different, to the point where if AJ English had another name, you'd have no idea they're related. More specifically, AJ English is a bit more general in its global coverage, whereas AJ Arabic focuses more on the region. The two channels are completely independent entities actually, and it seems to work well.

> Also, maybe 15 years ago I'd hear how AJ Arabic was the only real journalism in the Arab world and a force for democracy and reform. Was that your experience? Is it still?

Personally, I believe yes, it's the only channel that actually cares about the Middle East. Granted, I've only been watching it for 8 years or so.

> Finally, how and how much does AJ Arabic serve Qatar's rulers' interests? How much better or worse is it than the other government sponsored competitors

As with any other news channel, AJ Arabic has a clear agenda. Put briefly: anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, anti-Egyptian government, pro-Brotherhood, anti-Iran, anti-Syrian government. Even with their clear biases, I feel they do a good job showing both sides of the equation, especially in their discussion programs.

The other competitors in the region are Al Arabiya, BBC Arabic, and France 24 Arabic. Al Arabiya is sponsored by the Saudi government I believe, but is headquartered in the UAE. Similar to AJ, it is anti-Israel and anti-Iran/Syria, but the rest is the opposite. So as you can see they usually cover regional news differently. BBC Arabic and France 24 are pro-Israel and neutral when it comes to Iran.

> The best coverage I've found, in English, of the Middle East is Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post, both from Israel. [...] They cover important stories I don't see in AJ English and cover other stories better - though I read all three anyway.

I have not read it to be honest. I might take a look at it when I get the chance. However I would be truly surprised if it was actually neutral.

The way I see it is that there simply is no neutral news source. For me however, I feel that AJ Arabic properly represents and covers the Arab/Muslim causes, and does so in a professional manner.
I did a Vipassana retreat a few years ago. Definitely an incredible experience, and I could see directly measurable positive effects on my thinking, on how I made decisions, etc. afterwards (although the effect does wear off after a while if you don't keep meditating regularly). However, I feel I must mention some negatives as well. First, the course emphasizes many times that it is purely secular, but towards the end it slides into the more religious aspects of Buddhism (reincarnation and even some explicitly anti-scientific ideas). I feel that this can turn off a lot of the more analytically-minded/secular/atheist people, which is a real shame because Vipassana still makes a lot of sense without these religious aspects. Secondly, towards the end of the course there's real pressure in the lectures to accept Vipassana as the "one true way" to meditate, and I got a little bit of a cult-ish vibe from some of the returning students and especially from the volunteers. Not to the degree that it's going to be a problem for most people, but I can see how a small minority of "brainwash-susceptible" individuals, especially in a vulnerable stage in life, may throw themselves 100% into Vipassana after a retreat, instead of critically thinking about this powerful experience afterwards. So my advice: definitely do it if you can, take it seriously and give it your 100%, but don't turn off your critical thinking skills during the lectures or after the retreat. If you can do it, there's lots to gain.
Seems like somebody does a "story" on this every 9 months or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9414211
"What we realized is that while many women shared similar workplace stories, most men were simply shocked and unaware of the issues facing women in the workplace."

This point is bang on. Nice guys often assume other men think like they do, but that's not always the case. Ask some women you're close to about their experiences -- it's likely to be educational, at very least.
TL;DR version:

- Urban highways cost more money than urban transit

- They divide cities logistically.

- Introduce pollution

- Are very unsightly to neighborhoods

- Steal traffic from roads in commercial zones and undermine regional commercial activity.

- Put emphasis on car-first neighborhoods and businesses (which give little ROI).

- Encourage urban sprawl and community inefficiency.

My take:
These points are understood and expected from urban highways, but then again urban highways were meant to solve a different problem. The points are simply what the solution costs.
Well yes and no.

This tech is SUPER cool. It can find strength / weight combinations that are very difficult to arrive at via the standard analytic means. That's worth a lot in some contexts.

However, these structures do not map well to existing manufacturing. They do map extremely well to additive manufacturing, of which ordinary 3D printing is a core component.

CAD continues to segment:

The very high end of CAD is serving the major vertical markets, and typically what happens there is tech like this will get licensed, reverse engineered, duplicated, whatever and integrated into a greater whole ecosystem that goes well beyond geometry create.

Middle, or ordinary CAD, is being used for all sorts of stuff, and people don't mind a bit longer workflow, or missing out on some features. They want an effective tool at a great price, and their access to manufacturing tends to be as mainstream as the CAD is.

On the low end, CAD is being used for maker / hobby tasks, and a whole lot of experimental type work. This tech is something to come out of that, and it's currently being supplied to the mid or mainstream CAD market by a vendor looking to move up and own more of the stack.

Whether that's successful or not remains to be seen. There is a lot of legacy data, operations, systems that just can't be ripped out. Users of those systems may well adopt this feature in whatever system it's present in, and simply move the resulting geometry to the larger system, perhaps automate doing that too, and move on.
>Any portfolio of early stage startups is destined to perform worse than the S&P500, as is any portfolio of series A startups

Serious question: what's the point of angel investing?
That depends on whether you consider a Jeep Wrangler to be a car or a truck.
I look around where I live, and its hard to believe that the US could possibly have a problem with too little consumption.
It doesn't honor DHCP lease expiration

I don't know what you're using as a DCHP server, but the servers I've used try hard not to hand out the same IP address to a second device until after handing out all possible IP addresses. Which means my network would need something close to 256 different DHCP clients before having a problem.

I do have some flexibility at home because I run my own dhcpd on OpenBSD, rather than relying on something in a router. Which means extra flexibility. So I lock down the IP addresses anyway. E.g. I have entries like this in my dhcpd.conf file:

host foo {
hardware ethernet 00:1b:63:95:1c:4f;
fixed-address foo.example.com;
default-lease-time 3600;
}

That lets me define IP addresses in a single location (my zone file). I don't need to configure devices individually. The DHCP server recognizes the MAC address and knows what IP address to give to what device.

It's a little bit of hassle to set things up this way, but there are never problems even if devices are stupid about when they renew their leases.

That's not to take anything away from your comments, it's just a workaround that has worked for me. Your entire list seems like annoying problems for the Nest.
Wow I never knew the Nodejitsu guys became part of Godaddy:

"Nodejitsu has joined GoDaddy
We are excited to join GoDaddy to help spearhead their largest Node.js product: Website Builder."

That has got to be the saddest acquisition I've ever heard.
Replying just to the last part of your edit:

> Witness the neo-Nazi group that tried to take over a town in North Dakota as an existence proof of the phenomenon. That's the kind of thing you'd explicitly have to allow, if you pursue the concept to fruition.

If you are referring to a military takeover-type situation, the concept does not endorse that as in that instance the group members are not being represented.

On the other hand, yes, if the group members choose a set of rules that you (an outsider) disagree with, they should still be allowed to do so. To quote from the post itself:

Through awareness of the mortality of all systems (including our own), we should ensure a means by which any group is able to abandon our system in a conflict-free manner if its members want to adopt something else—even if we might disagree with their choice. Systems that explicitly allow such secession are called voluntary systems.
https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Monetary_circuit_theory
Case IH and New Holland are both under the CNH (Fiat) umbrella, so at least you don't have to choose between them.
I've saved roughly $30 in the Christmas season. Glad I did.
Yes, and well put too.
Evidence seems to suggest that the placebo effect can occur even for those who know they're getting a placebo (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/dec/22/placebo-effec... methinks some 'conscious placebo' product could really help people without deluding them...
I'm curious, would this adds considerable amount of latency to the DB queries? I'm guessing connecting to RDS from an EC2 instance would have less latency compared to connecting to RDS from a Heroku or DigitalOcean instance, but how much is the difference and is it significant enough?
This November was my sixth 10 day Vipassana course (first was 12 years ago). I achieved momentary clarity on the 8th day which helped me get rid of some of unnecessary but deep rooted complexes of my mind. I believe that it was possible only because of the continued practice and focus of the past 7 days. If it were two courses of 4 days each with some gap in between, I do not think I would be able to experience what I did. In other words, I feel that my brain needed the 10 consecutive days.
The weakest application in your server farm can provide a way into the local network. One of the reasons Amazon uses their own software-defined network switches is so they can limit internal connectivity within their "cloud" to prevent such attack escalation.
Thanks grapehut.

* No excuses, the website settings look like shit and will be fixed.

* You can add subdomains that point to the same site. (For example, www.example.com and example.com). If you have a different site, you can add a new one in the top right corner. (For example, 2 different websites of "test.com" and "dashboard.test.com")

* On the SSL cert issue, Sorry about this, this is a bug. Our engineers are looking into it. Do you have an email that I can contact you with? You can email us at hello@kloudsec.com and our engineers will immediately help you with this.

* We have no content policy as of now. (This is a schlep and we'll fix this. We'll send an email update once we have this)

* Caching is based on file hashing. Not filenames. You can also manually clear the CDN cache from the dashboard itself.

* DDoS defense. Erm well, we're just lacking 1 last step. Having enough traction/capital to buy lots of bandwidth from our DC to stomach it. We're on it.

Thanks for this feedback. This is insanely useful. We're very excited about this space.
The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub
Dude, did you try rebooting your thermostat?
Constraint solvers and geometry kernels are big, very expensive, beasts of software. They have grown over the decades, bit by bit, research yielding new approaches, as well as empirical, "Hey, I couldn't make this." use cases contributing to a very smart body of code with millions of man hours in it.

Setting this tech aside, I would still classify CAD as an unsolved problem space. Even advanced kernels can and do fail, or generate erroneous geometry on what one would think is a common, or simple use case.

That said, we are getting really good at basic geometry now. Those basic cases are much fewer and far between with most users just seeing robust operation now. It's taken many years for this to happen, marking time at the dawn of affordable solid modeling CAD in the mid 90's.

Now, it's about getting computers to do what people can do, and that's infer intent as we do with our minds eye and analytic skill. It's also continuing to be about feature create, and that's all about how to boil down the UX of shape and intent description to the system. Also quite challenging.

This kind of thing, as a branch in the "what's possible with CAD?" tree is pretty damn exciting! There are going to be a whole class of great use cases for this in the near future.

Bear in mind, old feature create means and methods almost never die. They get sidelined, used less, whatever, but they continue to exist because there continue to be use cases they are excellent for.

A lot of people think, "replace" when the real questions should be, "Add to, and what new things can we do?"
On a related note, http://editor.swagger.io & http://petstore.swagger.io provide a similar UI for exploring REST APIs which have an OpenAPI (formerly known as Swagger) specification.
> I've been hellbanned apparently

No, by definition that's banning someone without telling them, and we told you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545474.

Pretty much the only accounts that we ban without telling them are brand new ones that are spamming or trolling. If a user has any real history here, we tell them that they're banned, and there's a standing invitation for anyone who sincerely intends to improve their behavior on the site to email us and get unbanned. There's also now a mechanism—as other users have explained in this thread—for comments by banned users to get restored by the community on a case-by-case basis.

We're thinking of abolishing shadow-banning altogether and making a big announcement that we've done so, because there's still a lot of misunderstanding around this, and we barely do it anyway. But I don't like to make any big change without first letting it simmer a long time. It's simmering.
Sure. Any recommendations on an open source license?
I've always heard that if you're leaving your home for an extended period of time in winter, you should set the thermostats to 55F to prevent freezing.

So 60F is surely fine.
“Ladies, You’re Fine Just the Way You Are”
As a tandem instructor I used GoPros every day (had a glove that would stack 2 - one for video, one for pics). I used the GoPro 2 and specifically did not upgrade when new versions came out. The GoPro 2 was fine, it did the job, and I didn't have to deal with bugs. Also, I hate dealing with MicroSD.

If I were still jumping I'd use a Hero Session because the form factor is much smaller (rather than just slimmer).

What DZ do you jump at?
I think a little Bill Burr is in order:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pn1RVZu-24

The bits that stand out for me is "If you had your own big club and I was standing outside of it you'd never fucking let me in," --- "We are all eating a giant shit sandwich out here, nobody cares, I don't care".

Good luck.
(Well, a BBS is more akin to a website, but the shifted argument is still valid if one thinks "web 2.0" is a good thing. And MAPHIA seems irrelevant due to its significant findings of editorial control)

"Frena" wasn't necessarily a correct decision, especially given the extreme power imbalance between parties. Would the same decision be reached if the defendant had been a well capitalized business? Similarly, the modern inverse of an individual file sharer trying to hide behind the DMCA likely wouldn't fly.

The decision certainly goes against what one would expect from general legal principles, but I suppose that's inevitable in the face of cancer like intent-free criminality. The same reasoning would have indicted him for a cd-r tossed onto his lawn.
Oh no... They charge you annual minimums anyway. Plus lots of taxes for social security, unemployment, etc
Cute trick, but what is 36 * 25? Why is the problem harder when you take out the most trivial part?
hmm
does the order change when you have multiple base classes with different arguments?

ive always believed that you should be able to target a specific base class with the super statement..
I think the fact that you are reaching out for help means you are on the right track in rectifying whatever situation you may be dealing with. Without sufficient background knowledge I can't necessarily say what exactly you can do to fix everything, but I think its a positive reflection of your character to reach out for help.

A book that really helped me was
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

Best of luck to you!
"pacakge" => "package"
"tty" => "TTY"
Also, use title case.
"It's an AWK system. I know this."
I'm really getting tired of "st" ligatures in sans-serif fonts. Who came up with this horrible idea?
Powerball winning ticket sold in California
So basically the journalist is amazed by the "weakness" of radio signal... which is it can be (either in reception or in emission) localized by triangulation ...

Wahou! A great re-discovery of how our two ears can localize the sound of anything.

(I will let people search by themselves a little bit on how a RADIO receptor can also be tracked with radio triangulation, emission is trivial. It implies you can create stingray detectors with a big enough budget... ouch)