skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not, read again, in fact they start with a disclaimer explicitly stating they are not commenting on the allegations, only de-anonymising the data.
If you have a good CI pipeline, "patching" is all automatic.

A security bugfix just got pushed for Go 1.5. Since all my apps are dockerized based on the official golang image and are built by CI, as soon as the fix was published it was included in the next commit and pushed as part of that build.
No intervention required. Similarly all dependent packages are pulled as part of the build so patches/fixes in them are automatically updated as well (note that vendoring would break this).
I have pictures I take in Idaho turn up in Mongolia due to a sign error - these are taken with the default iOS photo app.
> a solid pro-ad argument, but I've yet to find one.

That's because there is no argument to be had. Ads subsidize the vast majority of content on the internet, full stop. Just as they did TV stations before cable. That content wasn't free, those ad companies paid for their ad spots, which paid for those television shows. The same is true for the internet, without ads, the internet would look very, very different. Without ads, there would be no innovation, and a hell of a lot less content, 80% or more less. We're talking going back to the mid 1990s, and not in a good way.

So I guess if that's your ideal internet, sure, that's not an argument for ads. But for me, I prefer the current internet. I like my websites like reddit, facebook and youtube. I like having the news at my fingertips. I like being able to watch any TV show I want.

It's a butterfly effect on a massive scale - you remove ads from the equation, the majority of what we know as the internet goes with it because they're directly responsible for the bulk of the innovation.
In order to accurately describe the situation, we have to first understand that the concept of race is bullshit. It's a societal one, not a biological one.
1h4m is 1 hr then 4 min. Order is explicit unless language rules obfuscate it.
Saudi Arabia's highest Islamic cleric bans chess; “it spreads enmity and hatred”
Sorry, but it's actually really simple.

It's the same reason why on a Jet Blue flight, my phone shows me geolocated to Long Beach, CA for the entire flight (if I don't hold the phone up to the windows).

Phones prefer wifi positioning, and that's based on the base station mac addresses. If you are in a highly wifi dense area, moving one AP can auto-propogate its new location by phones reporting in bulk groups of mac addresses they scan at once back to your location provider. ("30 mac addresses detected are know to be in Dublin, but one mac address detected is known to be in New York. Let's update the New York mac address to be Dublin now.")

The auto-location-updating is one reason SkyHook wireless died. Once they did the initial scanning, the entire wifi location database can be made reasonably self-updating (and other correlative updates can happen with your drive-every-street-in-the-world mapping vans much less often.

Wifi position is more accurate than GPS positioning (plus, faster to locate and less power intensive), so it's always preferred first. GPS positioning is worse (accuracy/power requirements), so GPS tends to be a fallback if you're in a "broad location" category like cell tower only positioning or zero-location positioning (airplanes, mountain tops, etc).
Some of your emoji are not rendering properly in Chrome. Specifically Key 1 and 2.
Vigilant scientists (2015)
Can anyone think of any advantages LetsEncrypt would provide over this offering from AWS? Or does this basically kill LetsEncrypt's usage on AWS?

The only thing I can think of is that AWS Certificate Manager only validates by email addresses which can be problematic if you don't have MX records or don't have control over it(Maybe a large organization where the people who do control those email addresses won't click simple verification links)

It seems a bit inconsistent as to when it will use the email on the whois record for the validation too. For some subdomains I try it will allow validation using the whois address, other times it's just the common aliases@sub.domain.com(which requires an mx record)
So I guess if you're nesting deeper than one subdomain(e.g. abc.def.example.com) then maybe it'd be easier to get letsencrypt set up than try to get mx records for abc.def.example.com.

Shameless Plug/Disclaimer: I had been working on a tool to make it dead simple to use Lets-Encrypt certificates for CloudFront/ELBs and handled autorenewal via Lambda. I'm not sure there is any use for this now that this exists though.

https://github.com/ubergeek42/lambda-letsencrypt/
1. Yes, I am fully aware that the complete cost of fossil fuels is not captured.

2. We have hundreds of years of coal, for example. Many people are willing to use it all then worry about it then. Surely we'll have developed better energy technology long before then. 200 years ago we society didn't even have electricity.

Anyway, my point is to not fight the system but accelerate clean energy development so that it wins in the current market. Solar prices have plummeted in the past 5 years, for example. What will it take to decrease the price further so that more people want it on their roofs, for instance?
Thanks for updating it!
The prediction interval thing was sloppy, good catch.

The r^2 and AICR comments reflect the fact that these docs were built around Statwing's regression capabilities, which default to m-estimation instead of OLS. There's no adjusted r^2 for that, which I agree is a better measure when available, and it uses AICR, where the R stands for "robust". But still a good catch, since I didn't caveat ahead of time that we were only talking about robust methods (and we don't note it in the docs).

Much appreciated.
I know enough to not pretend I'm on a higher plane of racial understanding by giving trite justifications such as "I'm the only rich white guy in a gentrified neighborhood" while simultaneously giving the example of being the target of an attempted theft, so as to not so subtly show the bias of minorities as criminals.

Not to mention the "OG Cody" at the end, once again showing that these must be stereotypical (highly presumably) black minorities, again to hammer home this sort of bizarre feigned legitimacy he presumes. The whole passage is essentially saying "I get these things that you people don't get it, here's why".

Edit: Another way to put it, he's giving the expanded version of "I have black friends, so that racist thing I said can't possibly be racist."
Fun read
"So why can't the US just tax the offshore income of the companies?"

There's 2.1 trillion reasons....
How does the garbage collection work when transpiling to c?
(Assuming you're not being sarcastic) https://svbtle.com/ is similar to Medium. Mentioning something ~nobody has heard of makes a lot of sense as an alternative to something that is too popular.
Native or hybrid app development. What to choose?
> Qualified dividends are taxed at the long term capital gain rate. One time, special dividends aren't, but that's just a reason to use a regular dividend instead.

That's not what I mean by preferred tax treatment.

If you get $120 as a dividend then you have $120 worth of taxable income. If you sell $120 worth of shares which you bought at $100 then you have $20 worth of taxable income. Even if the rate is the same, you're still paying significantly less in taxes because less of it is considered income.

> Investors could just sell shares if they wanted to raise money, but then they lose out on future growth in the company's value. Sending out profits to shareholders in the form of a regular dividend allows owners to have a concentrated investment in the business the company is in rather than it being diluted with some low risk / low return pile of investments.

Yes, that is the problem we would like to prevent.

But investors prefer that bad thing to happen over paying more taxes, so it does.

> The 2004 holiday saw about $312B repatriated. That may not be a huge number compared to the $1.9T discussed in the article but it hardly supports the claim that "nobody even really takes advantage".

I obviously didn't mean that literally zero people take advantage of it. That is not a large percentage of the total. And how much of that "repatriated" money is actually still in the country and not just an instance of people taking advantage of the tax holiday by moving money into the country during the holiday to reset their tax basis in it and then moving it back out to a tax haven again?
That's not "trickle down" economics, which is not actually a real thing at all. That's a nonsensical political term that the Democrats seized upon during Reagan's "supply side" economic policy; which has beginnings much earlier than Reagan, and likely older than Jean-Baptiste Say's formulation.

There isn't an idea that alone "capital drives growth," that's an idea that Keynes came up with by misreading Jean-Baptiste Say. Paraphrasing him to say that "supply creates its own demand," which we all know is nonsensical, but that's not what Jean-Baptiste Say was saying. The idea is far more complicated than your simple explanation offers, though I sympathize with your view (though, at least the second paragraph is almost entirely wrong), it is narrow in its scope to the study of economics.
The issue I take with this is that American assimilation is a two way street. Every culture puts in and takes out. Tacos, sausages, pizza, sushi, these are American foods as much as they are Mexican, German, Japanese, or Italian. Some of them more American than their source in ways. It's not about forcing White Angle-Saxon culture. It's about forging American culture and identity.
Hi - thanks for listening. You're doing great stuff.
I think this article is driven by OPs resistance to change. Who cares if the app is driven by 1 page or 100? IMO most users care about the same things. (Which SPA can provide.)

* Is it fast?

* Does it look sexy?

* Is it easy to pick up and go?

* Did it do what I wanted it to do well?
Doing It with Twins: The Twin Prime Conjecture
In case you want to read it on Medium:

https://medium.com/@davewiner/anywhere-but-medium-5450cb19f2...
Cache “any function” to improve performance for SMTP security and infrastructure
> and had a few people conspire to potentially remove a few select items from my house. So I started going out in the city more, and now everything's back to the nice vibe it once was. I'm just as comfortable as I was before and that process of potential betrayal and silent forgiveness (I'm not sure my friend even knows I knew he was planning to pull the jux (as my friends from my hometown might say)) is just a part of who I am.

Not entirely from his head.
My First VC Meeting – A Tale of Brutal Rejection
I would argue that the overall economy is more productive when the lowest wages meet some minimal living line (higher than we have now). This causes businesses to search to meet a higher efficiency of value creation in order to stay in business. The evolutionary culling of poor efficiency businesses drives a virtuous cycle for our civilization and economy in the long term.

If the companies are searching for a way to leverage lower wages for employees - that isn't real value creation. Driving wages too low, we get our current economic stagnation.
So, Medium is big. That's pretty much all I took from that. He lists no problems with it, except maybe they might one day be the sort of company to do something you don't like.

This isn't a criticism. It isn't even a rant. It's not focussed enough to be either. It's somebody worrying about writing on the Internet being largely controlled by a single company. Which, of course, it isn't. Never was and never will be.
It was heavily flagged and set off the flamewar detector. We reduced those penalties, because the article is substantive. We changed the title to make it less misleading and linkbaity, as the HN guidelines request.
LetsEncrypt is automated, so for hosting services who wants to issue certs for customers - LetsEncrypt currently wins
I believe this requires the use of cloudfront or their load balancer. So if you want to stick with minimal costs you can use letsencrypt with just an ec2 instance.
Serious Day at Idea Deathmatch, trolls stay away till sunday pls
It's interesting to see how some URLs are already invalid. For example the ones pointing to nimrod-lang.org
Would screening program for antibodies should resolve that?
By organically I meant people petition, change laws pass ordinances etc at their pace.

Speaking of low parking slot cities, ever enjoy having sidewalks and pavement taken up by parked cars. Slots or not, people park their cars.
What about when Julia gets those things?
I did the same http://benlowery.co.uk it took like 100 lines of Python to take take a bunch of markdown files and render a blog.

It was almost embarrassingly easy (code is on there).

Really should write more content for it though.
My choice is Kotlin. Java8 is a bit strange, and does not have many features: type inference, named and default arguments... Scala is too heavy and sometimes complex.

Kotlin is best of both worlds, highly expressive, good compatibility and pretty simple.
I've had three ideas stolen from me directly, of the 10 or so I have tried in the past 5 years. All three were from people trying to specifically harm me; not from people wanting to run with the idea.

All my business plans/documents/etc are released under a GPL license. I consider PDF's to be the binaries, and provide .ODT files on request. I just delay the release a few months so I can get a head start (unless it's something timely like a refugee foundation).
Why I bought my company back
Sorry, we don't. My understanding, though, is that the typical statistical measures of normality (e.g., Kolmogorov–Smirnov) aren't really that effective, and the best way to assess normality is a visual inspection of a Q-Q plot. I don't have a specific source for this assertion, it's my memory from having researched this stuff a few years ago.
Should government software be as good as Ubers?
Before EWSB you have four massless bosons: W+, W−, W0 and B0

The W0 and B0 mix to give the photon and Z0

The W+, W− and Z0 gain mass and the photon is left massless
> anything that hasn't been implemented yet doesn't even qualify to be discussed in other terms than hypotheticals.

Except that once you implement it, investors start anchoring to how small your numbers are. Catch 22.

I work with an actual IoT startup. Hardware--implemented. Backend and frontend--up and running on Azure migration to AWS ongoing. Customers who pay? Yep--and they love it.

So, investors?

"Ick, haaaardwaaaaare? But ... but ... but ... that's going to take actual moooooney." (yeah--well, so did Nest, thanks)

"Your numbers are too small to be meaningful" (no duh--does the word "startup" actually mean anything to you)

"This isn't going to scale." (translation--it takes money and marketing to acquire customers--welcome to a business with actual value and customer lockin).

"Big data is uninteresting to us now." (translation--"actuarials" and "business process" are only profitable--not wildly profitable and flippable)

To a certain extent, I'm looking forward to these unicorns winding up on the butcher block and being discovered to have no meat. The lead VC's of these unicorns are going to give a bunch of the initial investors a huge haircut via preferences (don't get me started ranting on the stupidity of that). Suddenly, initial investors are going to have to start looking at "sustainable" rather than "flippable".

Those of us with actual profit will be waiting.
This. Ceylon is what Java should have evolved into with better stewardship. Too bad it does not have the marketing muscle of a big corporation/consortium.
It's an invite-only blog network, for people that are sufficiently intelligent and witty. If you don't know about it or don't have an account, it's probably because you're unintelligent and not funny.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742314
Should be the other way around. You forward an email that's "obviously" spam, and then the abuse guys go "what do you mean, this is a regular project status update!"
I don't know anyone apart from myself who has ever heard of it.

They may have visited it but its pretty common these days to visit sites from following a Facebook posted link and never take notice of the actual site name.
John McAfee: We aren't talking enough about cybersecurity
You draw the line at using taxes selectively, as a means of influencing human behavior.

If you want the public to make healthier choices, do it the right way, with scaremongering and emotional rhetoric. Or rational argument, I guess, if you're some kind of quixotic masochist.~
I haven't finished reading all the posts you've referenced to but it seems like an interesting idea. My only concern is that you're not(?) suggesting an alternative for creating awareness on superior products? Ads at least gives the underdog a small chance. But I agree with the social "tax" we pay for "journalists" shoving ads down our throat and call it news.
My theory is that when the QE rounds started and trillions of dollars were pumped into the economy (major inflationary red flag), the velocity of money dropped like a rock (major deflationary red flag) as a natural reaction.

EDIT: The reason is likely tied to the fact that interest rates sat on the bottom for the last 5-8 years and holding money was just as valuable as investing it. See the article[1] on the St. Louis Fed's website.

1. https://www.stlouisfed.org/On-The-Economy/2014/September/Wha...
In your list of JVM languages, you skipped Clojure, which has the side-benefit of a strong community working on ClojureScript.
>Why I want the bubble to burst: I can't afford to pay Google, et al and unicorn salaries. My bootstrapped, profitable,

that is called market economy. Whoever can use programmer more efficiently and thus pay higher salary would get that programmer. In a big picture, using a resource less efficiently means pretty much wasting it. Do you make revenue per programmer like Google? If not, may be you need to look at where is a waste in your business process. Your employees wanna be productive and as result wanna do a lot of money for you and the themselves. You owe them efficient organization of business.

> 10 years ago the pay we offered was competitive,

the point of technology industry is to facilitate the process of natural selection out of anybody anywhere who hasn't changed in 10 years.

I'm not trying to offend you. I've been sitting in my current BigCo for 4 years already, and see how i myself starting to be the candidate for being selected out if don't do something in the near future. 10 years is a historic epoch in the industry. The industry did look completely different back then.
Haskell is less of an option than any of the functional languages that work on the JVM. I like Haskell, it's a language that forces you to challenge your knowledge and assumptions. But it is not in the same level as JVM langs. Maybe once it matures more. Hopefully.
I don't use Rust, so pardon my ignorance, but my impression is that Rust will be very annoying if you're doing something that does not require safety.

For example, these days I write a lot of data processing stuff that is closer to scripting than anything else, and is usually "one-offs" that get scrapped afterwards. But the code needs to be super fast, talk to databases, parallelize across multiple cores and nodes, which rules out many languages. On the other hand, safety is the absolute least concern. I've been using Ruby when it's not performance-sensitive, and Go when it is, and while Go is significantly less pleasant, it gives me decent performance, concurrency and access to libraries. Nim would probably also be ideal, if not for the lack of libraries. But Rust just seems like a terrible choice for this stuff because of the syntactical overhead of its abstractions, in particular memory.

That limits its usefulness. A single language for all my work would reduce context switching and allow code reuse.

In general, my impression is that Rust is good at the complex, heavy stuff, but it doesn't scale down.
They find 'non-typical' rentals, e.g. group houses (even as a married couple), trailers parks, etc. Or they commute obscene distances.
The key elements of decentralized uber are:

1) open source hailing app or dispatcher
2) rating system with identities

For the hailing or dispatcher, we don't need bitcoin but it may be useful if there is abuse to impose some cost on hails (e.g., uber employees generating fake hails, haha).

For the rating and identity, we can use a GPG web of trust.
> the 3 asshats that downvoted me

Please don't do this; the HN guidelines ask you not to.

Also, on (understandably) emotional topics, it's best if you represent your view more substantively and less angrily. People often downvote the latter kind of comment even when they agree with it.
I would think so too.

But it should also be noted they have the mandate to protect thru encryption and system security the data and secrets of the US government.

On the other hand, the job of the FBI is to catch (some) criminals; they don't care much about anything else.
Medium is just the latest fad until we abandon it too in a couple of years.
Because the US needs the businesses, not the other way around.
They would have to change the tax code.
W3C Forks HTML Yet Again
In usage, "people of color" tends to be malleable. Sometimes it means "black". Other times it means "not white" or "black or hispanic" or something else entirely.

Sometimes this is just ambiguous. Other times, it becomes a source of liguistic slight-of-hand when people use one meaning (without specifying which) but seek to equivocate with a very different usage with a very different meaning.
The only way they are going to get this fixed is to sue the company making the locating software.

Kicking in their door is the least of it - some cop is going to shoot them when they scream or react the invasion.
not only that, he wanted to push it through his platform, not another one
even medium to highly paid workforce members aren't entirely capable of spending en masse these days.

I'd love to stop paying $3500/month in rent, but any property to buy around here has a median price of $1.2 million. Unless we all move to rural Indiana, housing + healthcare is designed to eat 100% of your after-tax income with no room for further growth.

(of course, that's assuming you're just a putz serial employee like myself and not a wise investor who can share the success of 1,000 companies at once without having to do any real work yourself.)
Salaries of $125/yr were turned down. They were looking in the range of $150-175/yr. They where in areas where the $125/yr was equivalent to $75k/yr. We were looking at experienced developers only.

As I said elsewhere, we had a developer poached from Google for $250k.
With 50 employees in SF I very much doubt that Patreon is anywhere close to being profitable.
You forgot to mention Clojure which also has a dialect which compiles to JavaScript (ClojureScript) has excellent tooling (EMACS/Cursive/Leiningen) and has full interoperability with Java.
This chart illustrates the cost of those policies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/2...
Death rates rise as unemployment falls. This is concentrated in the elderly, and there is research that suggests that this may be attributed to the increasing difficulty hiring home health aides, nursing aides, etc.

(http://www.nber.org/papers/w17657.pdf)

Perhaps giving their workers full time employment and equity will help Honor grow market share at a time when it's harder for other firms to staff.
Time to move to Tallinn. ;-)
See my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10948416
I don't think you have access to the actual private key file so this would be restricted to AWS services like an ELB. With letsencrypt you have the key file as well so you can use it for securing any type of connection (not just a load balancer front end).