skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any suggestions? I'm always looking for other places to read a variety of tech news!
Watching people code won't solve the interview "problem".
Again: nobody doubts there was a "rendition" planned. Snowden had been indicted for multiple felonies. "Rendition" is what happens when someone is extradited.
And where do you think this "complexity" is coming from? There are ill designed standards - but you can leverage that. There are tons of frameworks - you can ignore them. There are broken protocols - wrap them into something sane.

PureScript is the right thing indeed, I like the approach, but what exactly makes PureScript so special? I quickly skimmed through, expecting something cool and innovative like, say, gradual typing, but it looks like something fairly standard, I could not find any particularly new ideas there. What did I miss?
I agree with this! ;-)
The Content API Goldrush
Completely agree. It's not going to happen overnight. It'll happen piece by piece, until one day you wake up and you review your Tesla OTA update release notes and it lists "Level 4 Autonomous Mode" as one of the updated features.

And none of us will be overly shocked.
Wait what? It feels like you're trying to argue with the results of Moore's law. How does it make zero sense that what would have taken years on 1990s hardware now may only take weeks on 2016 hardware?

Why do you think recommended password length and complexity has increased?

Why do you think the default for RSA key length is 2048-bit now instead of 1024?
The CA dmv also publicly reports all accidents involving autonomous vehicles [1]. Most accidents are caused by drivers taking over control manually, or by other actors on the road driving erratically (or rear-ending the self-driving vehicles). The entries on the page report Google, Delphi, and Cruise automation as having incidents, though they're all minor damages, if there are any at all.

[1](https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...)
This. But then again, when you join a VC funded start-up, end game should be pretty obvious.
Why stop there? Why not disband the United States and put them into a receivership managed by Iceland?
Can confirm. Now that I'm not used to having soda all the time, when I occasionally indulge my tolerance for the stuff is really low. 3-4 ounces and it's starting to gross me out. Sodas on the sweeter end of the spectrum (Pepsi, my old favorite Dr. Pepper) are entirely unappealing.

It's a triumph of marketing that having a big-ass glass of soda (free refills!) with most meals isn't seen as just as indulgent/gross as eating a couple big handfuls of candy or having a bowl of ice cream with every meal, when in fact it's probably _worse_, since at least chocolate & nuts or decent ice cream will have _some_ redeeming qualities (vitamins). Yet no-one's going to buy a tub of Ben & Jerry's every morning to have at their desk at work—they'd be too ashamed (maybe at home, but not among co-workers). A 32+ ounce cup of soda, though? Sure. Very common.

To anyone looking to kick the habit: I found that even _unflavored_ sparkling water or club soda just about totally eliminated any immediate desire to have a sugary soda. The carbonation bite was the main thing I craved, turns out, not so much the sweetness. These days I mostly drink plain water, but I went through tons of that stuff when I was quitting, and I think it was a big help.
Where is their words that Protobuf is not good at encoding raw bytes? I don't see that anywhere. There is a "bytes" type specifically for that purpose.
>it's like you stopped reading at "it didn't work".

Are you disputing that poverty rates were cut in half or are you claiming that this is irrelevant because there are queues for toilet paper and TVs?

>What's especially insidious about this logic is the fact that poor people in Venezuela have no international voice; if you're hearing complaints, they must be from the relatively well-off.

I've been to Venezuela and I have met the rich, the middle class and the poor. I'm pretty clear about aware of what each group complains about and why.

It's not any real secret that the (often very violent) protests in Caracas are usually confined to the wealthy white neighborhoods, nor is it any secret that the very poor formed the bulk of Chavez's base (they adored him).

>That much is probably true, but look how that logic works to support the ineffective government of Venezuela: the well-off aren't complaining that it's too hard to buy BMW sedans. They're complaining that they can't fucking buy toilet paper. You think that means the poor people can?

I think that if you think queuing for toilet paper is the apex of poverty then you have no clue what true poverty really is.

>Or, what, food and toilet paper are bourgeois concerns?

Food and medical care is easier to come by these days for the very poor (what on earth did you think I meant by cut poverty in half?).

That's assuredly not a "bourgeois concern" although the obsession with removing price controls in order to eliminate queues most certainly is.
Where the heck do you live that you can get a 2BR in the NY metro area for $1100? Even the scuzziest areas start at $800-900 for a 1BR.
Writing release notes for consumer software doesn't make sense. They are a throwback to boxed software and should be abolished:

1. With A/B testing and server-side feature flags they don't reflect what the user will see.

2. With technology like React Native and PhoneGap changes are decoupled from shipping an updated ipa/apk.

3. With most apps shipping quickly (some every 2 weeks) localization of release notes becomes a long pole.

4. Simple text is not effective for showing users potential benefits or training how to use something.

5. They can be misleading...saying something like "fixed a startup crash" doesn't mean for a particular user the startup crash they are experiencing is fixed.

6. More and more users have automatic update turned on and don't even see release notes is the app store UI.

7. Users don't read release notes (or anything really). HN folks may read them...normal people do not.

Do you know what version of Facebook.com you are using and all the new features they push out daily? How about Gmail? Nope, you use products for core functionality and then discover what's new in the course of actually using them and not in a text pop-up up front. This is how apps should be.

A much better and more effective strategy is contextual in-app callouts / new user experiences.

The above only applies to consumer products. I believe release notes can be valuable for enterprises/frameworks/libraries/tools/etc.

PS: I know all about the tradeoffs...I wrote release notes for Mac OS X, Firefox, and Facebook. I was the one that decided to stop doing them at Facebook for the above reasons.
Speaking of monoculture: It is nothing wrong to start to build something on your daily platform firstly, then test if it will be accepted by users. Eventually, if it is loved by everyone, the founder should consider making it cross-platform (native, please!).
I think there is a point where assisted driving no longer becomes practical, and either the evolution of autonomous cars has to stop to allow the driver to have a continued say in how the car reacts to its environment or move on to where there is just no place for time-sensitive human input any more. As drivers trust their cars more they will pay attention less (not to mention practice less, an even deeper problem for post-autonomous-car generations than those before), and their ability to meaningfully react to stimulus will be roughly nil.

If we chose the former we are probably arbitrarily limiting our safety in order to save the ego of a human driver. If we chose the latter we will reach a point where we won't have a steering wheel for a driver to potentially become a hazard rather than a help.
When we calculate averages, are we including the number of drunk driving accidents, for example? 10,000 Americans are killed every year due to that. If we calculate equivalent accident rates that include impaired humans, I'm not sure that's good enough. Computer + human should be able to address this problem, right? Reduce speed, pull over and stop, if someone can't drive between the lines or they are driving the wrong direction on a road.
they spread more disinformation than journalism,

Specifics?
I live in Mountain View and I see Google self-driving cars around all the time (day and night). My personal feel is that they look "different" and my attention will deliberately focus on them (which may or may not affect my driving when I'm around them).

Why not test with cars that look "normal" (think early 2000s Corolla). Wouldn't this further decrease the chance of possible accidents?

I guess what I'm saying is, who's decision was it to make it look like a toy car and not just an actual regular car that doesn't divert my attention off the road?

*edit for better readability
how ironic! Google auto generates everything and bans you for doing the same thing!!
I don't remember ever reading a post on HN of somebody wanting an entirely state owned economy.

Also, you are accusing the "just give them money, and stop babysitting adults" crowd of supporting cronist populist micromanaged social programs.
CSS Variables
This TED talk from last year makes a pretty convincing case that you can't (from a technical perspective) incrementally improve driver assist to be fully driverless: http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_s...

Also there is the argument that driver assist can lure drivers into a false sense of security where they don't pay attention when they should be. The worry is that driver assist systems could cause accidents by seeming safer than they actually are. I really like Tesla though and hope for everyone sake that that doesn't happen.
Cybersecurity: Beyond the Mirror
Yeah I'll agree with you. I don't usually proofread any of my comments online (maybe I should). Funny thing is that I once considered getting a major in English.
"The two most important points are that you have to book at least seven days in advance, and can have at most four one-way reservations active at any point. By my math, that means you’ll get at most 16 one-way tickets booked per month. At most." [0]

[0] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/02/03/unlimited-...
>The strongest argument in favor of the Constitutionality of these laws is that they are outlawing speech that could not have been made but for the violation of another law

What is the precedent of this argument? I'm guessing it can be found in the justification behind certain laws which make certain speech illegal.
Luxembourg Looks to Make a Big Splash in Asteroid Mining
> I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post, “Dear @ElonMusk: You should be ashamed of yourself”, was a personal attack on you.

Is this a parody article? How can "you should be ashamed of yourself" be construed as anything but a personal attack?
And, personally, I think that this stack rewrite path makes a _lot_ of sense and probably should be planned from the beginning.

The business requirements to the architecture — not functionality! — change over time. At first, you have to be lean as hell and try a lot of different stuff. Then, you need to scale, and performance becomes an issue. Some time afterwards, you want to add more features to increase monetization and retention, and here you start needing good, abstracted out architecture for all this stuff not to interfere with each other. And finally, you find the sweet spot, and start to really care about bug-free experience, maintainability and reliability.

And all these different business priorities are best suited by different languages, different design approaches, different architectures and people with different personality traits.
Jim Dalrymple on Apple’s App Problem
*accident
> The equation to get to safety is sensors + computing + map / map geometry.

The equation to get to safety is actually what you mentioned + roads where 100% of vehicles are tied in to a common network orchestrating each vehicle's movement in relation to the others and the environment. Without that, differentiation in software is likely to lead to unanticipated dangerous scenarios, just as the HFT market is susceptible to flash crashes... except on the road, they will be real crashes with the potential to be more destructive than human-caused accidents.

Hopefully when that network becomes a reality, we can build it on top of some kind of open, distributed platform (perhaps related to blockchain technology) that no single entity can abuse.
> It may be something else that caused the cancer, but I doubt it.

Like bad luck with your genes. Which is actually one of the most important factors in getting cancer.
It has improved but it still has pain points, it's good to have backups. Had to revert to enact for dealing diffs and git commits.
Amazon May Launch 300 to 400 Retail Bookstores
The headline is very, very misleading.

What's being discussed here is not what a world without oil would look like, but "what would the economy look like if we pretend the energy sector doesn't exist, but we're still somehow getting oil from magical fairies".

If you were looking at the performance of the US economy lately and going "huh, it keeps going up and down, but some of that is 'cause of oil prices changing, what would it look like if they hadn't?" then this is the article for you.

If you were thinking about literally any other question (and especially the question of what the world might look like without oil) then this will be a puzzling waste of time; the payoff is just a graph of US industrial production over time excluding the energy sector.

(Spoiler: Recent fall in oil prices has not been good for the energy sector, but has been good for the rest of the economy, so if you pretend that the energy sector doesn't exist, then the "economy" looks better. Also, if you pretend that the unemployed don't exist, the unemployment rate is amazing. On the other hand, if you pretend Canada doesn't exist, it raises some very troubling concerns about maple syrup supplies. In other words, this is pretty fucking pointless.)
OP here. Engineer/tech lead.
All the obscenity cases they ruled on. Each and every ruling had reasoning and precedent that would be directly impactful to any political ruling.
Also, it seems like a big leap from "unsuitable for systems that require routing of messages but for some reason don't know the schema of the messages being routed" to "unsuitable as a network protocol message format"
ELI5: a reduction in demand from china will have a huge impact on japan. i don't know what other weird yarn about robots you're trying to spin with my words.
Putting a stop to all bullying
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Also, talk to your kids about death "When Mommy Went to Heaven" by Evon Latrail
A lawsuit is meaningless unless the government enforces the end result.
This appears to be similar to a Lemons market [1]. There is probably a better term for it in this case, but basically the consumer doesn't know what they are getting. They see a price point and maybe a fat %, but they don't know how the animal was treated, so they naturally will go for the lower price point items. This means producers will cut corners where it saves on cost, because they will not be held accountable. A solution would be some form of regulation controlling the way animals can be slaughtered. Whistle-blower laws should protect people who report violations, rather than the opposite we see here with ag-gag laws.

It is the same thing with the unsanitary practices exposed in The Jungle. Consumers didn't know know that their food was being processed in unsanitary ways. The exposure provided by Sinclair's book eventually led to the formation of an organization that would become the FDA, which regulates sanitary conditions for food production in the United States.

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
True. If you set your expenses to match your expected income, and your income is from oil, and the price of oil falls spectacularly, you're in deep trouble. It doesn't matter whether your expenses are social programs (Venezuela) or loan payments (frackers), you're just about doomed either way.
Apple would effectively be shifting the tax burden onto Dropbox, since it would be up to Dropbox to repatriate the funds.
Nowhere did i say, "Dropbox should be the same size as 37 Signals." I merely suggested that they would have been better off trying to be the right size for their revenue profile (which is probably larger than 37 Signals, but certainly much smaller than their current growth target of Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc. size).
Nice to see that Sublime Text is not dead yet.
Warning: autoplaying video w/ sound on.

Here is the main takeaway:

YoY EPS Growth
S&P 500 With Energy: -2%
S&P 500 W/out Energy : 5%

"We commonly hear that corporate earnings are 'rolling over,'" wrote the analysts. "It may be more accurate to say that commodity sector earnings are collapsing, while profits for the remainder of the market are still posting moderate growth."

These short Bloomberg pieces have truly perfected the art of explaining nothing but looking like its explaining something, then slapping a clickbait title on top of everything. They've stripped out 3 quotes from an analyst report that they don't bother linking to, and tenuously tied together brief blurbs on the industrial production index, EPS growth, and core inflation without explaining any of them in a satisfactory manner.
Deep Learning Research and Startups
A pure protein diet will cause "rabbit starvation". If you are eating low-carb, and you get diarrhea without any sugar alcohols to blame it on, you probably need to eat some fat, ASAP.

Not every trans fatty acid is bad. Rumenic acid and vaccenic acid, which naturally occur in meat and dairy, are fine.

But pretty much every trans fat formed by the hydrogenation process on unsaturated fatty acids will poison your body in some way. And thanks to US nutrition panel rules, a food can actually say it has zero trans fats in it when it actually has some. So you have to check the ingredients list.

Fructose is about as bad for your liver as an equivalent amount of alcohol. Dextrose is a synonym for glucose.
Fair enough. I missed the part where this is an employees perspective.
WRT being selfish. It's often the last thing a founder wants. Boards, family members, and even sometimes employees - often pressure a founder into an acquisition the founder themselves isn't as keen on.
I think the question remains what happens when a certain mutation takes hold in the stem cell line? I'm guessing we'd need to a genetic map between your family members then (parents, siblings, etc)? Obviously radical life extension isn't a one solution problem, but I have to wonder how much will need to be done before we get something close to Aubrey de Grey's SENS program.
Oral history interview with Allen Newell
There was no doubt in my mind, as I read the article, that he had to have been an incredibly positive influence in the lives of many...what a wonderful opportunity to learn a trade and develop a solid work ethic at the same time...

It sounds as if you've done well for yourself...congratulations!

Thanks for confirming with your post...
I commute 2 hours each way per day and you get used to it. It sucks but so do home prices in South Bay.
For what it's worth, I think I recall where I read it. "The Power of Babel" a popular science linguistics book by John McWhorter. I'll see if I can dig up the quote later and report back......
Great idea, but one suggestion would be to make the site as light as humanly possible. Homeless people probably don't have stable or fast connections. Every kilobyte counts.

This file is 66KB out of the total 137KB: https://cloud.typography.com/7948374/730248/css/fonts.css - I would remove it and just use a:

font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;
I never said it wasn't. The theme is small, entrenched industries that seem way bigger than they are. Hollywood seems so much bigger than it is because geopolitically, US culture exports are a big contributor to global goodwill.

The watch industry is sheltered by old, old money, patronized by the kind of people who could comfortably buy up the entire industry if they saw the need.

Market logic is a useful thing to grasp, but there are bigger things in the world than markets, and it's really useful to be able to understand how they work. What looks small often isn't. Bigger, better, faster, stronger are not the only rules the world lives by. There exist points at which normal logic upends and irrationality rules.
Very inspiring article. Great thesis backed with excellent execution - very impressive work from a vc.
70% is if you sign a document promising not to publish your eBook on any other websites. Standard rate is 35%. Someone rebranded my most popular eBook and uploaded it to a bunch of small eBook websites. Amazons filters caught it, and I was told if I take them down from the third party sites I'll get full revenue share again - but emails didn't cut it with some of the little players (no responses), and it's not enough money to hire a lawyer over.
Scientists in Germany Take a Major Step Towards Nuclear Fusion
Yes. Hopefully soon.
That's a 19 year old report...

> Who is saying to limit intake of carbs?

NHS[0]. US Government[1]. Harvard nutritionists[2]. Health Canada[3]. American Diabetes Association[4]. American Heart Association[5]. Need I go on? Who ISN'T saying limit carb intake?

[0] http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/pages/eatwell-plate.aspx
[1] http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
[2] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-...
[3] http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/basics-base/...
[4] http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/planning-meals...
[5] http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/HealthyEating/Nu...
There's no mention of why they don't have redundant systems in more than one datacenter. As they say, it is unavoidable to have power or connectivity disruptions in a datacenter. This is why reliable configurations have redundancy in another datacenter elsewhere in the world.
Why not contractually give up rights to privacy, freedom, and all the rest? The problem here is that you can't contractually give up your right to a jury trial and that the courts act as if you can is a travesty to justice.
Microcontainers: Iron.io's New Hack to Shrink Docker Containers
Absolutely, could not agree more - we already have an open ticket for this actually! Thanks for the feedback.
Ted Cruz Is Sending Me Fake Checks and Telegrams
Hey, this is kind of offtopic, but figured still appropriate to ask;

How come Google Cloud Storage can be used instead of HDFS? I'm comparing google/amazon/azure right now. Both Amazon and Azure have 2 types of storage options - the regular object storage (S3a and Blobs) and block storage (S3 and Data Lake Store). S3 and DLS can act as the file system for Hadoop themselves (meaning you can let the data sit there and fire up clusters just for processing when needed), but they cannot interface with tools like the regular storage.

Meanwhile, Google's storage is like regular object storage, but you can run map/reduce (dataproc) and Spark on it.
the mother of click bait titles
Now this is clearly the pinnacle of cable engineering :)
Well, he is 3 hours out. There are alot of cheaper areas in that big of a radius.
Which is the most translated website in the world
When there's an obvious misrepresentation of the competition like in this piece, it's a big red flag for me. I think it hurts PR in the end.
Marketing. You want people to notice and think, "Hey, that's one of those self-driving cars, that's cool!"
Dumb question: I've looked through the demo and the tutorials and I'd like to know how does this compare to using something like OpenHab?