skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here we see the culmination of the great Frameworks vs. Libraries divide. Frameworks alleviate the need for the type of articles like the one linked here because they eliminate choice paralysis and imposter syndrome. Everyone is worried about whether or not they're doing things The Right Way™ and so they either blaze ahead and hit the same pitfalls everyone else does (and then write blog posts to warn others) or they hold off on adopting the tech until they are shown The Right Way™ by someone else.

The truth is, libraries and frameworks both end up being equally complex to work with, precisely because the problem of building large applications is inherently difficult.

It all comes down to personal preference:

Are you the type of person who is more likely to believe you can do something better than everyone else, or are you the type who is more likely to defer to those you believe to be better than you?

Are you decisive or do you agonize over the smallest choices?

Do you feel a compelling need to understand how everything works, or are you willing to implicitly trust other people's systems?

I find it amusing that people who gravitate toward smaller libraries like Backbone.js and React.js rail against frameworks like Ember or Angular for being overly complex, heavy, and "magical", and then proceed to cobble together a Rube-Goldberg-esque system of disparate dependencies to achieve the same goals. When React first started getting popular all you read about was how simple the API was and how it was Easy to Reason About™. Fast forward to today and you need to have working knowledge of WebPack, ES6, Redux, immutable.js, Babel, and a bevy of other dependencies to be aligned with the React ecosystem's ever-evolving best practices.

The exact same thing happened with Backbone.js and it will probably happen again with the next shiny new view-model library to ride the hype train.

It's important that I point out, however, that none of this is necessarily a bad thing. Smaller libraries like React.js and Backbone.js encourage a cavalcade of innovation from which awesome things like Redux are born. But let's not pretend that this doesn't result in a heckuva lot of churn for the average developer whose job is to simply get shit done.
What if someone want to cure a disease that the government doesn't care about?
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There is a difference between refusing to send aid, and actively attempting to exterminate democracy, governments, and populations. Churchill largely did the first, and perhaps in small amounts did the second. Stalin generously and with great relish did the second. It's quite ridiculous to claim that Churchill is just as evil as Stalin, even if you believe Churchill is on-the-balance evil.
I find LilyPond has slightly prettier output, and is a bit more capable overall, but converting MuseXML to LY is easy, so I can write the score in MuseScore & make final stylistic changes in the LilyPond file if needed.
I tried this during college, and nearly ended up hospitalized from hallucinations and a mini seizure. My sleep cycle was ruined for a year.

I had to pay around a thousand usd for a sleep study, and had to see a sleep specialist for a year.
He told me I was pretty lucky, if I tried it any longer I could have gotten permanent brain damage. He was suspicious of polyphasic claims, because he often saw people use modafinil in conjunction with this(especially among lawyers).

Maybe some people are genetically predisposed to this form of sleeping, but running experiments on yourself may not be worth it.
Could someone do this for Transformers? Not for the Bots, for the Humans. Dub Japanese or German in there and subtitle it. 1000% better movie.
I dunno, man. My 4000 pound '85 land cruiser stops fine with the drums. And Toyota still runs drums on the rear of Tacomas.

Discs are probably better, but I don't think the safety gains for them are that significant.
"I really like the idea of torrents being used to distribute anonymous derivative works of copyrighted media."

This reminds me of fan-provided (third party) commentary tracks.

Are those still a thing ? When I first heard of this, many years ago, I was very excited about the idea of seeing interesting films with interesting background/commentary/metadata provided by well-informed commentators.

Did that ever go anywhere ? Do people still do that ? Any golden examples of this kind of work that I should look into ?
A speculation will remain a speculation my friend, no need to try to make it look scientific. I think the point is correctly argumented, then you might agree with the arguments or not.
yeah, I don't know how you do it. In that same situation, I'm actively contemplating the dead people in the laugh track to distract myself from the insulting of my intelligence.

You should consider that skill to suffer fools a superpower.
After reading The Big Short and discussing its contents with people who know a lot more about the financial industry than I do, I was surprised to find how much the book stood up under their scrutiny. So many popular books seem to lead me down a deceptive rabbit-hole of semi truths and poetic license given for the sake of sensationalism whereas Michael Lewis just seems to have a knack for telling the facts as a compelling story.

Also, this quote from the article struck a chord with a lot of the internal dialogue I have about doing what I know is important as opposed to doing what is profitable:

>> "They had been so transformed by the rates of pay and the needs it had created in them, they couldn’t escape from it. “
The Villain of CRISPR is the Bayh–Dole Act.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10961131 (102 points, 1 day ago, 45 comments)
When someone has a legitimate claim to be an owner, that person will have sway to do crazy things like make it closed-source or change the critical constants. Not saying it's a deal-breaker, but it's more risk than if no one can claim to own it (if bitcoiners are angry about the excessive power of the people with admin permissions to the github repo, just imagine how difficult it would be to wrench control from a company that invented the product and has copyright claims to it). I guess what I'm saying is you don't get much leverage if you convert a bitcoin dev but if you convert the owners of this company you'll get a lot of leverage.
> "I find [the index] a critical part of git's culture of making small commits with one logical change each."

> I've never understood why the index has to be forced on everyone for every commit.

You can generally bypass it if making a simple commit; I use "git commit -a" all the time. But every time you use tools like "git add" on individual files, or "git add -p" on parts of files, you rely on the index.

Understanding the index also helps greatly when you need to do a merge, cherry-pick, or other similar operation; you need a staging area to work in, separate from the work tree.
"svn: renames that aren't awful and keep history
"

No, it was "atomic commits and single revision number for a change"

Remember CVS had non-atomic commits (part of the commit could succeed, part could fail), and per-file version numbers.

Disclaimer: I worked a lot on SVN :)
That doesn't make it any more meaningful. It's a ridiculous thing to say in any context.
This was (for the most part) debunked on several reasonably reputable sources: http://www.businessinsider.com/head-transplant-hoax-2015-4
His research was intended to increase pilot survival for when they had to eject from a damaged plane. This was at the dawn of the jet age, and previously a pilot would just open the canopy and jump out. At jet speeds that wasn't possible, so ejection seats were built. The problem was: How fast should the seat accelerate to get him out of the plane? If it killed the pilot with excessive g's, it wasn't much of a safety system...

Only later was his research used to design restraints, and also create the instrumented crash test dummies that are used in automobile crash tests.

There are videos on Youtube of the early crash tests that were performed - they're rather comical to today's eyes. But they were serious business that was top secret - the car companies didn't want it to get out that their cars could crash and harm their customers (despite everyone knowing someone who was in an auto accident). Compare that to the publicity of the Ad Council's PSAs from the late 80's with crash test dummies Vince and Larry, with the tagline "You Could Learn A Lot From a Dummy". Big change in attitudes.
More Guido and a couple of vocal people than CPython. I truly hope the switch wasn't the reason for Mackall to quit.
I have found the exact opposite with Flash Boys (and, to a certain extent, with Big Short - although that is less my area of expertise) If you have read Flash Boys and you are interested in the other side of the story I suggest reading a very well edited point-by-point rebuttal:
http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
Thanks for the data, but it is worth mentioning that in a major metro area having services like private drivers, chefs, maids, butlers etc is unheard of at a mere $400k.

But if you can call it with an app, then welcome to the new upper-upper middle class.
Multiple security vulnerabilities in Rails
I was thinking to myself in the shower a few days ago, it must be incredibly boring to be Bruce Sterling. Where most of us can open HN and see something new and shiny and even sometimes unexpected, he saw it all clearly 20 years ago.
I haven't read the paper, so correct me if I'm wrong: I think the "multi-party trusted setup" isn't about a blockchain or something complex. It's just an algorithm to set up some initial values.
There is RiffTrax: http://www.rifftrax.com/
>Zcash isn’t intended to facilitate crime, but also notes that the company isn’t liable for any criminal applications for which Zcash is used. “The people who built the first cars weren’t held responsible for car accidents or bank robberies,”

Good luck with that, especially as a registered for-profit organization.

Car manufacturers are required to report VIN numbers and allow for license plates, on top of a number of other mandatory regulations. Road access is also a priviledge, and automobiles not meeting certain standards are not allowed.
Neglecting things is a big issue which needs to be addressed first.
For your fitness regiment start simple
At home
When you get up (Look at youtube videos if you do not have a clue what these are)
- Stretch
- calisthenics

In the office
Use a timer and every 90 minutes go for a 10 minutes walk.
You could also do chair exercises but that would depend on your sitting configuration.
Do you have any examples/references pertaining to The Big Short?
And you can get a random one for free each day you visit https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning/
There's a lot of obsession with head-on collisions in regards to safety but there are two things commonly forgotten about. The ability to stop quickly and rollover risk.

I've always felt a large family sedan like a Ford Taurus was probably the overall safest thing you could drive. Decent stopping distance, low rollover risk and lots of crush zone room for modern engineering to absorb impact.
Back in the day I worked for financial traders on early automated trading systems, and I think your summary is fantastically poor.

First, people have long had questions about the societal effects and costs of trading, even when humans did it. Second, the automation of trading isn't merely replicating what humans do at a lower cost. I'd call it a fundamentally different activity. Third, one of the things that has become more and more attenuated is any sense of moral responsibility. Traders were never known for attacks of the warm fuzzies, but algorithms not only don't give a shit about how the affect humans, they can't. And fourth, instead of saving everybody money, finance eats up an ever-increasing share of the economy, and I think automation is part of that.

Automation isn't universally good. Sometimes it makes things better, sometimes worse. As technologists our job isn't just to automate everything. It's to use our professional skills and experience to improve the world, to improve human lives.
Here is another. At first you may think they show successful insertion of GFP, but it turns out no! Instead all that needed to happen was mutation of an early stop codon:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712628/

That is why I am asking others to provide their own references. The papers I have read do not seem capable of distinguishing between modification vs selection after careful inspection.
Hmmm

I am not so sure this is a fair comparison. One thing I think it lacks is patronage competitors (and thus competition).

The article seemed to indicate (unwillingly) that it was a unique combination of non-reproducible scenarios i.e. talent and talent scout. It's not like there weren't other places with other talent and patrons.

Also SV teaches us the exact opposite since it didn't start with a city with lots of money and lots of patrons (they came over time)

I think a much more likely explanation is the same that spur many other sudden sparks excellence within a short time and geographic location and that is. Some sort of right combination of progress in a number of fields, the availability of money and a fairly progressive time in history in that area.

I.e. luck more than anything else. (Just like nation building btw)
Bitcoin is already very untraceable. Yes, there's a public ledger of all transactions, but it has no identifying information. There are some public addresses whose owners are known, because they volunteered that information. Exchanges also know the owners of certain addresses. But that's about it.

Bitcoin's address space is huge, something like 10^48. I can make a thousand of them in a few seconds, along with the private keys. I can send the money to any of them, and you will never know who owns it. I can send my money between these 1000 addresses as much as I want, and all you will see in the leger is money going from A to B to C, just like the rest of it.

Bitcoin network doesn't know any difference between me buying something on Overstock, or me sending the money to my brother across the globe, or to myself.
What makes this cost $17 million?
Science-based medicine versus the Flint water crisis
This seems much relevant to the parent
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334260/

A very disturbing movie and not just because of the inevitable gruesomeness of it. The complacency with which everyone in the film ultimately acts is just as horrifying as its premise.
Thanks. I'll reach out after giving it a try.
After seeing this article, I just migrated from Dinghy to Dlite. I saved about 5GB of disk space, got much faster VM startup time and basically no hassle. It was a cinch to work my docker-compose startup into a LaunchAgent and now I finally have all my services running on boot. I highly recommend giving it a shot; my eyes nearly popped when I saw how quickly it downloaded and started the VM (must have been all of a 10MB download).
Also, your statement is so completely idiotic I actually laughed out loud. What else in your narrow view does every POC have to have experienced ? Do I have to love rap music ? Do I have to have used the N word ?

If you can't see how idiotic your statement is, I feel sorry for you
Eh, using computers to replace people in front running was really not an improvement to the situation.
Hence

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FinishingEachOthe...
This is super interesting to me - got any resources of people counter-pointing Lewis's writing? Would love to dive in a little deeper.
its really awesome what they accomplished, but does the drilling diminish the achievement?
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First of no need to rush. You will get there in due time. You are on your own journey.
second master the fundamentals of web/app development and design. This will take time and experience.
Have an area you want to be a specialist but have a solid knowledge of every area.
Make sure you learn something new everyday.
Becoming a Truly Customer-Centric Product Manager
Ironically if you're employed but don't drive, you either take the bus, walk or work from home; all these options leave you with extra time in your day and less of a need for Uberman.
Where Twitter's execs went to
Those Smash articles were a welcome surprise! Follow'd. :)

I love "owning" my content on my server (since '09) but in the past year I've been thinking of going back to a "serviced" solution. My initial thought was WordPress.com since I run WP, but it's $99 a year! It decreases the hassle of upgrading versions constantly, but still, that's a dealbreaker.

What's attractive about Medium is the same thing that attracted me to Facebook: all profiles/posts use the same theme, and that theme is pretty good. In addition, following people to get their content in your feed feels great.

However, I'm not sure if I'm completely ready to give up control yet. Will probably continue to check into Medium + custom URLs for the next year.

The decision would be much easier if my posts were written for a large audience, but they're mostly just self-involved journal entries I doubt people want to go back and read. :) Right now I just publish short fiction to Medium, which is what I want people to share, like, etc.
Thanks for the reminder about audio books! I would love to see a list of HN recommendations for audiobooks similar to what has been scraped together a few times from all the various book recommendations!
This video should give you a better idea of how anonymous Bitcoin is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AypRF9q0llU

There are also several startups dedicated to performing Bitcoin blockchain analysis for this specific purpose.
Obviously, I don't know which stories are bogus and which ones are real, but you can do a quick google search and find all kinds of cases of people claiming government cover up.

You obviously don't entertain the idea that those could be legitimate. What makes you think you'll entertain the idea if it were to happen to a lead cryptographer that you've never met before in your life?
This is a man in the middle on the mobile app, which relies on the certificates on the phone. You just need to add your phony certificate to the OS's trust store. It's an attempt to find any private APIs that the APP is using, rather than reverse engineering the protocol between Alphabet and the nest device.
Your anecdote is inconsistent with the "universal" short gap, and I think you are more correct. The "universality" comes from averaging that smears away individual differences
Not really. REI is a consumer co-op.
If I "just used Vagrant," I think I'd end up with a virtualbox VM, just like if I were to have used docker-machine.
For my previous employers most were not aware of the benefits of having ergonomic hardware, those that were already had a pretty nice and adjustable setup for employees before they started working with the company. For those that were not aware, normally had no issues purchasing ergonomic hardware after reviewing the benefits after bringing it up to them. Some have even made changes to their own executive office hardware due to it and some have even seen back or neck problems reduced or completely gone over time due to it.

For me it is pretty important to have good ergonomic hardware as it makes working more comfortable and easier to concentrate. I have not seen height-adjustable desks probably due to the added strength requirements to actually adjust the high quality heavy desks versus having height adjustable chairs. As most of the cubicle desks are fixed height but allow for the storage cabinets above to be adjusted or completely removed.
> a cloud-based recording service

Well, there's the rub, right? I think what those of us who consider themselves self-hosting partisans would say is that we'd prefer a device that allows us to send its signals to a server we own and operate. The recording and image recognition would then occur on that server.

In my ideal world, Dropcam (and later Nest) would have provided software I could install on my own server (located either on my home network or at a data center). I know that sounds like a far-fetched dream, but that's the ideal I want, and I will pay twice as much or more for devices that recognize the emergent demand for self-management.

I have a Dropcam, and I enjoyed using it for a while. But I stopped using my Dropcam about a year ago because I grew increasingly unhappy with the idea of its video stream being sent to an untrusted third-party (Dropcam and later Google/Nest). Since there is no "self-service" mode for Dropcams, it has become a decoration in my house.
How does one eat a share of the economy? Do I have to assume it to be zero sum for the concept to be clear?
And Han Solo shoots first!
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> You obviously don't entertain the idea that those could be legitimate.

Not when proposed by apparently paranoid HN users, I don't.

> What makes you think you'll entertain the idea if it were to happen to a lead cryptographer that you've never met before in your life?

I happen to be involved with cryptography. I'm very familiar with three of the people on the Zcash team, one of whom I call "friend".

Instead of worrying about stopping every logically possible attack, I find it more productive to focus on stopping the 99.9999% of plausible attacks. If the government manages to pull off something theoretically possible but unbelievably improbable, they simply deserve to win that round.
> But I don't believe that this fear is wrong on my part and that I should do something about it.

I agree. And I think the article is saying the same. Fear (the emotion) is an appropriate response to numerous things, including someone entering your personal space.

My response, poorly worded, sorry, was intended to say that a fear response is different from fear (the emotion). Even a non-stranger could elicit a fear response from you, even a trusted person or lover, by entering your personal space. But it may not trigger the emotion of fear. That is, if I know you and trust you, you could be in my face during a conversation. I wouldn't fear you or the situation. But I may still experience the heightened senses, the increased heart rate, due to your proximity because of a physiological response (fear response).
svn eventually got a fairly hacky answer to merging edits to a renamed file. For a long time it didn't even try, and git was a godsend compared to straightening out messes like that.
I just thought of what might be a silly question: In a situation where we can't prove that a probability distribution converges to some theoretical assumed limit, can we assume it even converges to anything? All we have is circumstantial evidence. Or who is to say that somewhere along the line it doesn't converge to something else? Even if tested to the billionth digit, it's still practically zero compared to testing to the billionth busy beaver number etc. etc. I guess this is more of a philosophical question - given no mathematical proof, why is any sample size of N that is tested not better in any sense than a sample of value N=1?
No need to apologize! I wasn't sure why things were they way they were, but that makes sense to me. In your position I'd be equally clueless as to a better option. Cheers!
That is a narrative that (correct or not) explains U.S. car standards. But I'm pretty sure that, last time I was there, government and politicians exist in Europe. What's the explanation for regulation that (apparently, at least for the GP poster) works better?