skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It brings to mind the "moving paintings" in the ride wait queues for "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" (a dark ride with a moving car on an articulated arm). I saw those things up close and they had a wonderful canvas texture laid over the screens. It really seemed magical -- though I admit I'm one to give myself over to the magic of theme parks when I can -- and it made me wonder if this effect could be reproduced by using a matte silicone mold of actual canvas or something like that.

As an aside, there is a lot of amazing technology in play in that ride; I read an unauthorized treatment of how the ride works and I was blown away at the systems/mechanical orchestration necessary to pull it off. It's no wonder it breaks down all the time.
Thanks for this post! well reasoned and well written!
But that's the point of crime surveys - you ask people what crimes they've experienced and count the results.

That's not because courts interpret the law narrowly, it's because crime is under reported, and under prosecuted.

Plenty of people get prosecuted, and convicted, for common assault that only involved verbal threats.
For all the extensibility and speed of development, the Atom ecosystem is still missing features I can find in any other major editor. Off the top of my head, there's no way to automatically (hard) word-wrap text. The vim plugins only implement the basics, and they all seem to be missing the command bar entirely.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902323
Is there an easy way to verify that the workaround is effective? ssh -v doesn't display anything related.
Fallacy of relative privation

http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallaci...
Probably as soon as they started trying to sell you shit.

I's not absurd at all - it's only absurd if you're in the demo that finds it absurd. And that's quite a small demo compared to most of the population.

You can't sell most people shit unless you create an emotional response.

Hacking psychology - for good or ill - is the basis of all UI and UX. It's a completely different problem to hacking code.
This. I was using WebStorm for a while, but with all the inline jshint support and es6 support, atom has been really nice. I have a strange issue where [esc] doesn't close my search box, but other than that and the CPU usage it's been great. I wanted rainbow brackets for a long time, and it finally looks like someone's done it: https://atom.io/packages/swackets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10896670
I believe in the afterlife and for that reason, I don't take my own advice. I do what is virtuous, not what is always enjoyable. However, for someone like the OP, it sounds like they don't care too much for philosophy or religion since they're pulling their recommendations from scientific studies, so I offered them something that might help with their general psychological health. Hopefully one day they'll seek something deeper and not ask existential questions to computer nerds.
In the short term I would worry about consumers adjusting to the lower prices and start buying more gas guzzling vehicles. In the long term, once the supply glut for oil is over the prices should normalize. Right now oil producers are basically playing chicken to see who can outlast the others, but I would expect prices to creek back eventually as the competition clears out.
For 2 Days at Least, Bloomberg Is Just Another New Yorker
Not true. If you want to have electricity, only when the wind blows or only when the sun shines, that is true. Otherwise, you need thermal (coal, nat gas, nuke) generation to produce electricity when you want it.
Even more, contracting is primarily about finding clients and getting paid, not the technical work.
Ask HN: Calacanis calls it “controlled deflation” Is the Bubble talk over?
Jason Calacanis says on CNBC that the Bubble talk is over and Angel Investing evaluation has been cut in half, in cases two thirds. He calls it controlled deflation.

What's your opinion/insight?
Thanks. If it really outperforms Cassandra, it's pretty impressive.
I already added the mitigation, but I wondering if my servers can be patched on the weekend.
Greenland has something like this, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland's_Grand_Canyon
Show HN: Keepasswd – Script to automate changing ssh passwords from KeePass DB
Links:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jason/status/686949878094630916

video link: https://amp.twimg.com/v/53817e94-a35c-402e-b347-4fc7f3ae502b

article: http://calacanis.com/2016/01/13/the-controlled-deflation-of-...
Have you ever asked someone if they would still be working at their job if they weren't getting paid? Or even the weaker version, if they didn't need the money?

I have asked many people this and only two people have said yes to this. One was someone who already sold his startup so probably didn't have to work ever again. The other was someone who could have retired but he was afraid if he shut down his company his employees would struggle to find new jobs.
completely agree, syntax does matter
but your link doesnt show much syntax
better look here
http://tutorial.ponylang.org/expressions/methods/
It's funny, since Flickr was at the beginning the best of them. Google's PicasaWeb was comparatively bad.

Yahoo really let themselves get leapfrogged on that one.
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Something seems wrong about the dates in this article. The article has a byline for today, but the bill was proposed in June 2015, and would have an effective-of date of the first of this year.

nysenate.gov indicates that it's still in committee: http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a8093 ... hopefully dead there.

edit: from the Ars Technica article, it's been reintroduced -- see: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term... . The EFF thinks it'll not get anywhere, though.
This is extremely biased. A lot of people, myself included, find it easy and pleasant to use. Honestly, I'm not aware of a single alternative with a better UI/UX -- 500px maybe?

As for programmatic access -- Flickr has a good API interface.
Thanks DrRobinson ! I added it to my .ssh/config
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That message actually means that your client has roaming enabled and is therefore vulnerable.
I have to agree. Or even if people know of it, it's simply easier to press Enter than Shift + Enter.

Thinking about it I don't think I know a single person who uses shift + enter aside from myself. I went back and checked my last 20 chats...no one used it. In a way, the separate messages help organize separate thoughts a bit better.
That's really irrelevant here. I think we should focus on what an incredible contribution this is. Perhaps a sign of good things to come from Yahoo.
Show HN: Greta, our script for decentralized data distribution
Why? They probably negotiated a license deal and one of the conditions of that deal was that they try harder to block the grey market. The fact that this announcement comes at basically the same time as their global expansion is a hint.
Somewhat unrelated but reminds me of this: I enjoyed skimming through Resig's personally-annotated version of the first public release of jQuery (annotated April 2015 of the release in 2006 [!]).

http://ejohn.org/blog/annotated-version-of-the-original-jque...
I had to wait for, I think, a bunch of images to load and then scroll forever before I got to their products.

Scrolling made the animations run. I didn't see a skip button so I probably get to enjoy those no matter what every time I visit.
Hi everyone. I’m Dennis, one of the founders of Greta, a small startup from Sweden. We currently support video (dash, hls, mp4), audio, images and arbitrary data. Happy to respond to any questions or comments you have! :)
This could be a contender for best, at least, the manuals referenced here are better than most: http://www.helpscribe.com/2008/12/great-examples-of-technica...
Wow, $2500 USD fine.
I'm not sure how many pilot areas there are, but one is in the north of my district, it'll feels odd to walk amongst people who have a 5Gbps network connection

http://www.superfastessex.org/ruralchallenge.aspx
Well, if the entire point of your site is to let people get started, ok, remove all navigation.

But if it's useful for something else, like if there's an actual product in it somewhere, with actual features, or if there's actual content somewhere you'd want your visitors to read, it's good to give them the option of doing anything besides "getting started".
As long as only a few locations pass laws like this, it only kills their local phone shops. Nanning sale locally really is stupid. All it does is remove protection for those that can't afford to get something from outside the state, and everyone really interested in encryption (including bad guys) is only "a bit" inconvenienced.

But it sets a worrying precedent, should it pass...
> Given that only 60% of women reported unwanted advances, it's safe to say that it's not "at any point in their lives in any context."

Do you have data on the level of unwanted sexual advances over the course of a woman's life? I just googled it and cannot really see too much.

PS - Although boiling down a definition of an "unwanted sexual advance" is required to compare/contrast different data sets.
The obsession with money in this town boggles my mind. My parter makes ~$100k <1 year out of college working for a very big company. He likes what he does, has no commute and practically sets his own hours. He's already feeling antsy about the pay: Is it enough? Could I be making more?

The way I see it, he's already better off than a vast majority of people. Good pay, interesting work, professional validation. Why he's willing to risk it for a job he might hate for more money I can't figure out.
Agree that its possible (and that Mr. Robot is great haha) I just think that the way things are moving socially with millennials who hang out together and barely look away from their phones it is more likely they will binge watch more shows rather than less. Just an opinion though.
It's too bad this isn't on github. I've always wanted to make something similar, but using computational art instead of paintings. My dream is to make a thing that slowly adapts to the room its in, but doesn't seem like a computer hanging on a wall.

Does anyone know where I can learn more about the lighting techniques described here?
This is the same state that banned selling sodas over a certain size, IIRC.
I've stopped using atom due to horrendous latency issues. Pretty disappointed. Would really love a modern open source text editor, but noticeable lag between pressing a key and having it appear on the screen is a no go.
Big picture first
OK, but even now Windows folks have largely given up on pressing <windows>/<All Programs> and looking for what they want.

There's simply too much stuff on a typical computer these days for a user to pick out what they want from a dropdown, yes, even if nested.

It is the same problem that Yahoo once had back in the day when it tried to "Categorize" the internet. At some point such attempts at categorization break down and you gotta look at more sophisticated strategies for search.
From a money/self-interest perspective, most of the fortunes in carbon have already been made. The people who get rich off renewables today will be creating new dynasties.
I personally got into web development with jQuery. Some years I go it was a must, now a days, I find it unnecessary and I don't use it any more. Is this just me or is transition people is doing ??
Why the Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will Be Vertical
Do you mean to technically get access, or to be legally allowed to use it ? Because for the latter, merely having a .edu isn't enough.
I agree with your facts but disagree with your assessment. I believe that the drop in clean energy prices is what drove the crash in oil prices.

The reason the Saudis are trying to drive the frackers out of business is because the Saudis no longer believe that we're going to get all the oil out of the ground before clean energy takes over. Previously they were fine cutting their own production in order to maintain a particular price because they were certain that eventually ALL of the oil in Saudi Arabia would get sold on the global market. If that took 100 years, that actually was even better for them. If you believed in peak oil, then being the last one standing with reserves actually would be awesome.

With clean energy beating projections it looks like we're not going to burn every drop of oil in the Earth. Given that, the Saudis are no longer patient. If they hold back their reserves to maintain a particular price it's very possible we'll get off oil before we run out of oil. Thus the Saudis would have left money on the table if they didn't shift strategy.

It seems like their new strategy is to extract every dollar they can for their oil reserves. In the short term that means fighting off the frackers, but the broader picture looks like a race to the bottom for all oil producers.

The good news is I don't think we're going to burn all the oil on Earth. The bad news is low oil will slow down the rollout of clean energy because it makes ROI worse.
The Guy from the Men's Warehouse Commercial Is Making a Comeback
How confident are you in this belief? Are you shorting a diverse set of oil company stocks and/or buying oil futures, or just posting on the internet?
Medium.com is down
Ask HN: How much development is enough?
Someone recently asked me to build an app similar to Tinder. Factoring in testing and laziness, it would take me about 3 months if the back end was completely finished.

So I offered to do it for $5k max. Tinder pays minimum $100k annually per engineer. That's a huge difference!

I'm wondering where my calculations went off. Obviously they're paying a premium for the best talents and have the money. Let's not discuss money, but rather why engineering is endless.

It's an interesting case study when you limit it to just apps.

A back end might be endless work - it needs to be scaled to handle 1M photos per hour and have 99.99% uptime and so on.

Front end has no issues with scale. Whether there's 10 users or 1M users that hour, it just handles what the back end gives it. Users won't notice most optimizations. Heck, you can have a memory leak and most users won't mind a couple crashes. At some point, further development stops translating into money.

If Tinder suddenly fired all Android engineers tomorrow, would their users notice?

Similar question goes for other mature apps. Why does Trello have multiple Android developers? Why are mature companies like Facebook and Uber still hiring more app developers?

When does a company have enough developers?
Word2Vec!
It is OpenSSH, the clown car of bugs in obscure features nobody uses.

Does anybody know if LibraSSL has released an SSH client yet? I can't code well enough to make security code safe, so I won't be able to help them out on it, but it sounds more and more like OpenSSH can't either.
Actually, more example code at http://tutorial.ponylang.org/examples/examples/
Suggestion: read his book "Pro JavaScript Techniques" (2006), it explains how JQuery works. Even if you don't use JQuery, one can find several good code snips and advises.
The article is a bit misleading with it's focus on "generation capacity" as opposed to "production." Consider the situation in the U.S. The latest data shows that natural gas increased it's share of electricity generation from 27% to 32%. Solar increased from 0.4% to 0.7%. Wind held steady at 4.3%. http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec7_5.pdf

Yes there's a lot of spending on renewables and they are building a lot of capacity, but that overlooks actual generation.
A customer in some countries (USA, major EU countries, etc) is entitled to the ability to pay for certain content. Why shouldn't GP be entitled to the same thing? Is their money and advertising-eyeball-hours worth less? This isn't to say regional differences don't exist (you can't gift games between some countries on Steam due to currency / local market prices). When you want to pay for content though, and the option is just not there, I think entitlement is the wrong word.
https://zipit.io/
Yes, that command is connecting to an ssh server on localhost, but you could connect to any ssh server that you trust...

ssh -v -T git@github.com 2>&1 | grep -i 'roaming'
Yeah, I saw that in the past.

I also wrote an article in 2008: "Why do dating sites charge?"
Investors Feed Datadog a Hefty $94.5M Round
Hidden from whom? Regular users? Very few regular people are using Linux or any variant of Unix other than OS X on a desktop. Those of us who install Linux are the kinds of people who are most likely to mess with deep system settings anyway.

Even my kids go into their .minecraft directory to install mods.
Which is why they're appending a newline and Host *?
Some of the things people call subsidies aren't. That depends on who you read. "Hundreds of billions" maybe, worldwide, if you include every tax item related even peripherally to energy related industries.

The Wikipedia article on this subject is all over the map:

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

The problem is that low fossil fuel prices support people of low income. And if (say) you and I are roughly in the same income band, your spending on alts effectively subsidized my use of fossil through demand reduction.
They should disable the http version.
I would argue jquery has been more instrumental to the success of the web than javascript. It was the stroke of pragmatic genius riding the back of a half-baked language ( a prototype-based language trying to ape the style/name of Java, solely as a cheap cash in of its popularity).
I have no idea what MS pulled to make Electron fast, because all other Electron-based apps that I've used have been absurdly slow.

VS Code isn't the fastest thing ever and uses more RAM than I'd like, but it definitely hits tolerable performance for me.

It's definitely the exception rather than the norm. I wish they'd publish something about writing efficient Electron apps.
Homebrew should not add anything outside of /usr/local iirc.
Slightly unrelated -- John Resig's "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" is such a well-written book. It allowed me to not only understand but also appreciate JavaScript. I believe understanding JavaScript as a functional language is key to being a good JS developer.
Yes, but shouldn't you ask that question too? It's extremely relevant.

The law was written in the context of how it would be applied. It was not designed as a metric for sexual violence in our society. It was designed as the legal rules that judges, just one part of the process, must apply once a case is brought before them. And only then in the context of constitutional law and old common law like de minimis.
Looks Very cool, a toolkit to build all kinds of things. Does it work with dynamically changing objects, e.g. for transmitting an image from one user to a group of others?
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When considering investments in power generation, the price of coal/natural gas is likely a better indicator than the price of oil. And it does seem like the price of both have been decreasing.

Its highly likely that the investments that happened in 2015 were planned before, when the the prices were higher.
Sweet. I like how this is not tied to one provider. Scheduling emails is helpful when you write in batches, and recipients are better to receive the emails step by step.
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Agree that "impact on the world" is naive and meaningless. It's like new grad resumes that hype leadership skills.
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Your friends also probably regularly exceed the speed limit on the freeway. This could have potentially deadly consequences, so is arguably a much worse crime than non-commercial copyright infringement. But both crimes are socially acceptable, so they do it.
> choosing the technology first

Lets say if one of the main goals was to build a very easily extensible editor, one might still choose to build it on web technologies.

While I don't use atom, I can see the reasoning. Since I'm comfortable with webdev, the barrier to entry for extending atom is much lower compared to other newish editors.
You should not see swings that big at the retail level. I'd say whoever your supplier is isn't very good at managing price contracts.
this is what I was looking for, thank you :) I should have kept scrolling clear to the bottom of the nav, I gave up early.
No, that was NYC's municipal government, not the state.
>and then taken the idea and started building it into their machines by default.

And sold it and kept all the money to themselves? Sounds like a great deal for them.
I can think of two main areas that jQuery is useful in which have diminished in importance over the years

a) smoothed over differences between browsers. With the web being taken more seriously by everyone, the browser implementers are much more careful about all following the same standard so with every year that goes by there are fewer cross browser quirks to worry about (it's still a major pain today though)

b) providing convenience methods for manipulating the dom and working with data etc. I think jQuery has less of a role to play since ES5 and ES6 are how javascript is written nowadays and have more advanced features than js did in jquery's heyday. Also, for advanced client side apps, frameworks like angular and ember also provide such features.
What's the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I've heard great networking things about both, but never really seen them compared side by side.
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Because updatedb needs to look at your system's private parts. Try

find /. | grep [string]

which will look everywhere for [string]
I've always (or, for many years) wondered why this wasn't more common. Every network I've ever built has been routed by Linux or a BSD, though I've maintained a few with Cisco routers. Partly because it's what I know, and partly because there's never enough in the budget to to everything the client and I wanted to do with Cisco or even Juniper gear.

Now, admittedly, I've never worked on big networks. But, I know what I like, and I know working on a Cisco feels like 1996, and that working on a full-blown modern UNIX/Linux system feels like home. And, fast network gear is available for Linux and the BSDs. 10Gb interfaces that work with Linux/BSD are not difficult to find, and 1Gb interfaces (sometimes several of them) have been standard on every server and barebones rackmount on the market for a decade.

I understand there are special purpose boxes that do things no off-the-shelf commodity box can do (I don't know enough about high end networking to know where to draw that line), but I honestly doubt 95% of business networks need them. And, yet, a huge percentage of business networks that have real routers (rather than little wifi routers from LinkSys/NetGear or whatever) have a Cisco of some sort, even when they don't have anyone on staff who knows how to work the thing. I've walked into several businesses that had expertise in house for everything except their router, which is also weird...why pick a Cisco router for your little ~100-1000 node network, if you've got Linux or BSD guys hanging out in the server room every day? They'd call someone and sit around waiting when their network was acting up.

I learned how to use Cisco routers just so I'd be able to replace them easily (enough knowledge to read the routing tables, firewall rules, etc., but not enough to do much useful), when I found situations like that.
which is not very helpful if you for example want to run git via ssh or similar commands on the target server.

There's places where there are two alternatives: agent forwarding or copy the key. Using ssh agent forwarding allows me to use a smart card for the key. It still has it's problems but it's much better than having the key on the remote machine - for example the use of a smartcard mitigates this vulnerability since the key never enters the process memory.