skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuances of politics cannot be boiled down to a Github repository. It's not as straightforward as you think it is I'm afraid.
Young people are just smarter, apparently. Sit back and enjoy the show.
This was a great read.

Also one of the few articles that aren't broken up over multiple pages. Had trouble getting to the end though, too much content that it crashed multiple times in both safari and chrome on my iPhone.
> sugary

Sugar and alcohol is a mixture that has always been popular. A lot of traditional methods for making wine, mead, and beer favored residual sugar. For example, harvesting grapes as late as possible or leaving them to dry in the sun so the sugar was concentrated was a common winemaking technique in ancient times.

> energy drinks

A cup of strong coffee contains much more caffeine than most "energy drinks", and a lot of people add sugar to their coffee. Caffeine+sugar+EtOH isn't a new thing either - before Jagerbombs and "alco-pops", drinking "Irish coffee" and similar coffee+liquor recipes were common.

> I would prefer to see alco-pops and Redbull as a mixer banned from licensed premises.

Yet coffee is ok?

Banning something because of personal dislike is one of the larger problems of modern society. The law should not be used to enforce opinion.

> one of the only drugs that will clear your system

Unless you are a habitual (i.e. ~daily) user, most drugs will clear your system by monday if you used them at a friday evening party. The major exception is THC, which lingers for weeks because it is lipid soluble. Most drugs are water soluble and are eliminated very quickly.

This does depends on a lot of factors. A big one is the testing method. Chemical indicator tests are terribly inaccurate, while a full (and expensive) GC-MS can probably detect almost everything (including methamphetamine after a few days).
How odd. I've never had the urge to drink Red Bull or Jagermeister, separately or together. But Irish Coffee has been around for ages. The people I would see drinking it always seemed to manage to walk out of the bar under their own power,
> "the device remains secure."

A non functioning bricked device is more secure than a functioning device. Yes.
A point in their favor.
I agree, I think the ISS is an utterly amazing achievement. In so many ways I think it really is a prime candidate for humanities greatest achievement so far.

In many ways you make a very valid point, the ISS is what we've been up to for the last few decades rather than going back to the moon and the research coming from it will be essential in preparing for longer journeys. But for all that I stare up and marvel at it passing overhead some nights, it just doesn't hold the same mystique of say the moon or further afield.
The amount a doctor can learn about the functioning of one's heart and lungs via a cheap and simple tool like a stethoscope is amazing, and certainly nothing to look down on. Ultrasound tools may well one day be as commonly used but while ultrasound and other imaging tech can provide images and details stethoscopes cannot, they in turn cannot give the doctor any information about how ones breathing sounds, and cannot provide the instant and visceral connection of hearing your heartbeat directly.

Simple tools like stethoscopes are critical to medical care precisely because they are so cheap, easy to use, flexible, reliable, portable, quick to deploy, and give a direct human connection between doctor and patient. Why would you ever want to replace it? Supplement, sure. Improve, absolutely.
SOHO has closed! Didn't know. Last time I was there years ago, the whole club was high on MDMA. Personal space dissolves into nothing, your dancing becomes super smooth, your inner-calm is completely zen. Nobody is drunk. Nobody fighting. Nobody dosing off. People are fresh and energized until sunrise. Walking out into the sunrise is a good feeling.

The drunken trashy streets are just places to avoid and navigate your way to other places or home.

It's a sad irony that MDMA would actually stop the violence. It's simply not possible to descend into violent tendencies when your mind is expanded, as opposed to clouded by alcohol.

"Sir, you've had enough to drink. Can I offer you an MDMA drink instead".. would cause tumble-weeds to blow through the emergency department hallways.
Ask HN: How do I build a dashboard for customer case trends from Microsoft CRM?
AskHN: How do I build a dashboard for customer case trends from Microsoft CRM?

I manage a customer support team for a domain software package (Geology and Geophysics) and we probably don't make as full use of information of what's breaking, what customers are seeing issues with, and case volume as we might.

What path should I follow in order to be able start building dashboards for some of the basic measures?

Any pointers on where best to start this process?
I like to think of it like gymnastics or performance art: it's "worth it" for its own sake, not to mention other benefits/consequences emanating from the arts. (I use "arts" liberally, in this context)
tptacek also complains that tarsnap is too nerdish. :-)
Not sure if this would come under your defintion of an "open problem", but in the financial risk space there are many time consuming and costly challenges implementing economic capital models.

These models are used to determine the probability of an account/customer/contagion risk group defaulting (aka PD) and the loss incurred, given a default (LGD).

The current models require a lot of historical data to train them, and need to incorporate economic cycle factors.

There are some vendors in this space, but their products are very dated, expensive and leave a lot to be desired. Also the products really provide a platform for an actuarial team to build upon, rather than having an out of the box solution (which is probably desirable in the banking space)
I feel you on this:

The last couple of years it's been the first time I've
received humane treatment and spooked to start over
somewhere else.

Like you I struggle with trying to do the right thing, and put in unhealthy hours. Although it sounds like I haven't reached your level of enlightenment yet (even though I think I'm a few years older than you).

I think the trap I fall into is telling myself that the long hours are for my own good. "Well, at least this 58302-hour week is helping me to really polish my skills in this stack." Which is actually fucking true to an extent, which is why it's a seductive trap. I mean, there really is no substitute for putting in the hours if you're looking to hone a craft. And honing that craft is a big part of what will allow one to earn for one's family 5, 10, 20 years down the line.

But people say, "so look for a new job if this one's unhealthy!" like it's as easy as changing a pair of socks.

Changing jobs is challenging and disruptive and it's very difficult to ensure you'll wind up at a company with a healthier culture, particularly if you're already working at a company with a culture that's already above average for your field. And especially if the workaholism problem largely comes from inside yourself, like it does for me. Changing companies won't fix that.

It's even more complicated when explaining myself to family because of the bizarre image that people have of the tech industry! People see Google's "adult playground for engineers" workplace image in stories on 60 minutes and think the life of a programmer is just playing around all day long. It's not even that way at Google, much less your average tech company.
So, IBM's just going to free Watson?
Why the Assholes Are Winning: Money Trumps All
The words idiot, imbecile and so on used to have a technical meaning of someone landing in a specific IQ range. Idiotic is a synonym of retarded.
What if that "repair" was done by NSA, CIA, etc? Should the phone boot like nothing happened? Seriously?
Ryan Walsh wrote this version for Vice, but I found his original for BDCwire even more compelling.

http://www.bdcwire.com/danvers-dude-makes-23k-musically-spam...

It's all focused on an artist who sits halfway between legitimate music and spam. It raises questions about what counts as art, and what artists need to do to avoid obscurity in a world with more content uploaded every day than anyone could stream in their lifetime.
Show HN: GrapesJS – Open source tool for building templates easily
You should watch the pitch video, which features McAfee himself[0]. It's rather amusing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFNRkd1g-kg
There is still a lot of work to do, but it took me quite a while to bring out what you see now, so I'm looking for some feedback.
I accept your correction. In fact, now I think about it, essentially 0% of apple customers would likely be aware of this possibility at the time they make their purchase. I should have considered that most consumers won't follow stories like this as closely as the tech crowd.

I do stand by my assertion that it is legitimate for apple to behave in this way though. They get to present their business as they choose to just like any other company and the customer get to choose whether to accept their terms. Personally I don't but, empirically, most other people seem to.

I would however support requirements (as legislation) that consumers should be made aware of such practices at the point of purchase such that they can factor it into their buying decision.
This is a spoof right?

From the policy platform this could be Bernie's VP running mate.

FTA:

- Single-payer national health care.

- Free university level education.

- Ending homelessness.

- Legalizing and regulating personal recreational drug use.

- Shift bulk of electrical generation to solar, wind, hydroelectric, and wave farm.

- Review/Repair/Replace/Remove highways, bridges, dams.

- Upgrade and subsidize metropolitan public transit solutions for the next century.

- Build and subsidize metropolitan high-speed communication networks.

- Ensure a minimum-wage that meets a reasonable cost of living.

- Ensure fair and safe working conditions.

- Ensure global environmental commons protections.
>Now if you google "blender is " today, you get these

Sorry, that's not what I'm getting, I'm getting

Blender is free

Blender is slow

Blender is better than maya
People with learning disabilities face significant levels of violence and discrimination.

People with short sightedness, not so much.

No one kills a person who is short sighted just because they are short sighted, but this routinely happens to people with learning disability. Not just random fuckheads in public, but doctors will put people with LD under DNR orders without the knowledge or permission of the person or their relatives just because that person has LD and the doctor can't imagine any quality of life.
How Massively Successful Kickstarters Ultimately Fail
There's a lot of stuff that depends on the secure element - in fact the phone would be quite useless without it.

In fact, when you first reboot your phone, even contacts cannot be accessed until you authenticate with your passcode to unlock the secure element. Incoming text messages only show the phone number.

You're right, however - a Touch ID sensor that cannot be verified should not brick the phone. Apple should just disable Touch ID and sever any link between the sensor and the secure element.
The search for yield... a predicted consequence of 7 years of zero percent interest rates. Last time around it was investors seeking yields in low-quality mortgages. This time, they're investing in low-quality Silicon Valley startups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
Atomic is intended to be used as a host OS and uses RHEL, CentOS, or Fedora as a base typically. And the installer ISO is that large precisely because it bundles hardware, language, and all kinds of other support.

However, if you'd like to craft your own minimal Atomic host, you can.

Making minimal containers is pretty easy, though, since yum/dnf lets you create execution trees that contain only what's needed for an application to run (as others have mentioned).

So, really, doing micro-services on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora hosts is pretty easy.
"In 2008, the State Department began denying passports to children with Mexican mothers whose births were presided over by midwives."

This practice is horrible. It means that US citizens are unable to get a passport, and are effectively stateless. (To be technical, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#Administrative_o... says they are "undocumented" not "stateless", but "As a practical matter, the longer a person is undocumented, the greater the likelihood that he or she will end up in a situation where no state recognizes him or her as a national.")

The link goes to an ACLU action of several US citizens who were denied passports because the US no longer considers their midwife births to be valid proof of being born in the US. One is https://www.aclu.org/biography-david-hernandez , from 2008. The settlement is at https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/castelano-v-clinton-agre... .

But it still goes on. Claudia Palacios was in the news recently because she's another US citizen, delivered by midwife, who has been denied a US passport. http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/13/why_has_a_texas_born_m... .
> people fluent in both languages can write code faster in Rust or Go

As someone belonging to that group, I agree. short programs are easy to write in Go. If I need to write some utility script I would do it in Go (or more likely python). However, if I need to write a whole new thing I find it very easy to design in Rust in a modular way.

Similarly, if I have a Go and a Rust codebase in front of me, and I need to make changes, it takes longer to work with the Go codebase for nontrivial changes. But this is less stark a difference than the above.

I will say that "modulo compiler perf" is an issue. I was tinkering with the Go compiler and the fact that I could try things out quickly was a big boon. However, I had to spend time figuring out which interface goes where (the documentation doesn't show interfaces implemented on types, you have to figure it out by looking at the source -- this is something that could be fixed though), so it might even out.

But yeah, fixing errors is not hard in Rust (nor do I often get borrow errors, usually it's other stuff), and in fact I find it easier to do than Go because Rust provides extensive errors with suggestions as well as showing the erroring thing inline, whereas Go just points out a file and line number (Again, this could be fixed).
Reminds me slightly of Black Mirrror's 'Waldo Moment'.
Only if you enrol, which is not compulsory.
This type of move can't work now, because Apple is losing its mojo in a very fast pace.
Failure margins and feedback loops
I'm going with ignorance
Good question. I would like to know what's been debunked in finance.

Personally, I cringe when I hear talking heads correlating then Fibonacci number with the stock market.

And I've come to realize, if Jim Crammer recommends a stock, don't buy it. I would like to know which professional out there has the best track record in stock speculation. It seems like something that we could accurately study, and publish the data?

I don't have the money to speculate in the stock market. It just seems like it's as bad as gambling at this point in history. It interests me though. If I had money it would go to realestate speculation. I'm so wrong on my stock picks, I've though about contrarian investing. Supposedly, there are such people?
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Maybe it is, didn't they just lay off like 100k people?
... until the old sensor is replaced.

Which is a good thing.

This is like complaining that forgetting your encryption password "bricks" your hard drive.

Yeah, apple deserves some flack for not making this known to 3rd party repair shops, but it's not a problem itself.
Did you really believe them when they said that?

Just like all other similar decisions made by other companies under the guise of 'protect[ing] the customers', it should be clear that this is no more than a guise. If protection is what they had in mind they'd simply disable any functionality which could be impacted by a dodgy part. Disabling the whole device has the single, self-serving purpose of channelling the cash flow from the repair businesses into Apple's coffers.
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This Video Game Will Break Your Heart
The issue is Apple cannot verify a secure touch ID replacement over a compromised touch ID replacement. Without knowing if your replacement is secure the change potentially compromises the security of the whole device.

IMO bricking on touch ID issues is extreme, but maximises the security of the device.
If you like Handsontable, you may also be interested in Sensei Grid[0], a similar, but much simpler data grid component. It doesn't aim to be a spreadsheet/excel alternative, but just a data grid with good usability.

[0] https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid
Well with how modern GPU's, their driver and API's work you write code to do something then the driver "decides" on the "best" way of doing it.

Display drivers can replace entire shaders and modify pretty much any instruction and they often do so if nothing than for the code to actually work because game developer not only have shifted allot of the "performance" optimization burden to the GPU vendors but also quite often ship completely non complaint (and nonfunctional) graphics code, there have been plenty of gem posts on gamedev.net including multiple AAA studio's that botched their code so poorly on multiple titles that if it there wasn't a generic fix in the driver already it would not display anything at by not calling D3D::Create, D3D::EndFrame/Begin frame properly or at all in many cases.

Overall the majority of the driver codebase today is abstraction and fixes, only about a 3rd of it is actual API implementation.
The story behind this game was movingly covered in podcasts by Radiolab and Reply All.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/cathedral/
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral/
That's true. I meant to say it should disable any hardware that was directly tied to the secure element, such as Touch ID and Apple Pay's NFC chip. I didn't mean to imply all encryption services in iOS should be disabled.
I would call it an Ad more than a Spoof.
I got to mark an assignment at uni that I'd also done. There seemed to be just three different versions that were "obviously" copied... then I saw one identical with mine! With just wminor differences. I hadn't copied, and I couldn't see how they could have copied mine.

On reflection, there is much convention in code (this was c IIRC), loops, indices and cordinates variables are standard. And, each level of a problem only has a few obvious ways to approach it. The same underlying algorithm - especially in a uni course about algorithms - also tends to suggest particular designs.

The eye of an octopus is striking similar to the human eye. Does that mean they are related, other than by objective?
While your interest is in fintech, do take a look at the forces shaping the broader global macro economic environment because you can literally see some of these "open questions" playing out in real-time!

List of Unsolved Problems in Econ:

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

What happens when central bankers run out of ammo and realize monetary policy may not be an ideal path to fiscal stimulus? Or having the bright idea of devaluing your currency to depreciate your outstanding liabilities results in a mutually assured destruction scenario when every sovereign on earth implements the same idea simultaneously? And when "too-big-to-fail" entities amass derivative exposure that is 100X global GDP does it become time to panic yet?

But still its innovations like ZeroCoin and SmartContracts that give one hope that out of the rubble, creative solutions will arise. As long as they are grounded in economic reality and not fantasy, humanity will abide...
As fun as MDMA is, it's horribly and cumulatively neurotoxic. Mass weekly usage would be a short term gain at the expense of a lot of long term health issues.

MDMA and alcohol intoxication don't seem to be best friends either IIRC.
Replicating the Huffduffer service in Workflow for iOS
No. But as we all know, there is practically no firmware which can be trusted. I think the issue is always about measuring risk versus the threat level. Journalists that we train every day all over the world are always going to carry out high risk activities. The temptation is always to try to build a tool for the most extreme threat model and in the process, bypass the most common threats - leaving the average journalist with even less protection. Indeed, we increasingly find far much focus amongst our trainees on high level NSA Prism the stuff while little consideration of the basics - passwords, who has access to information in your own office, dealing with physical surveillance etc etc - all of which oir experience has taught us is far more common security hazard to journalists.
It doesn't have to be either or. Apple could provide a better fail over behavior for the home key, including a way for a consumer to validate the changed hardware.

For instance: "IOS has detected a change in your Secure Home Key. Please contact apple secure support to confirm that your device is still secure!" add a 1-800 number and some security questions. Or automate it by requiring a login to your Apple account, email validation, and email notification of the change.

Bottom line, when one authentication method fails, you need a fail over to something more difficult.
If the info fed into this machine is human generated and any citizen can contribute, wouldn't this amount to a form of direct democracy? I wonder If these algorithms are allowed sources that are machine generated...
Actually a majority of the watches, besides Rolex, in the <$5000 range use standard unmodified Swiss ETA movements, which can be repaired by any competent watchmaker. Very few watches in this price range use in-house movements.
> The Watson 2016 Foundation is not accepting donations at this time and does not intend to in the foreseeable future. We are not a political action committee of any kind, and actually support campaign finance reform to get money out of politics.

I think this is one of the most important statements on the entire page.
> "actually stealing"

A lot of people throw those words around in this industry. Here's another case of "actual theft" I worry about.

If I'm the only fan of an indie band, and I use my spotify subscription to stream that band a few times a day and nothing else, Spotify's algorithm promptly takes my $10 and uses it to pay more widely popular artists, to attract Taylors to the service.

In the loose way you used it, Spotify is "actually stealing" from both me and the indie band I love. That seems at least as accurate as saying that someone simply following the terrible rules Spotify made is stealing.

It's like if I put a sign saying "free donuts" in my office, with a donation jar. If no one donates, can I have everyone arrested? Or should I have put up a sign that says "Donuts: $1."

I wouldn't be so hard on Spotify if there was no simple way they could adjust their rules to fix the entire situation. But there is. They could just allocate each person's subscription across the songs that subscriber streamed. If there's a pocket of indie music with hardcore fans, that indie music would get fair compensation, as opposed to funding megastars. Spam would have no reason to exist.

Hat tip to Litost's link: http://markgoldenstein.com/spotify-others-use-unfair-formula...
It would be definitely illegal in France which has a law against planned obsolescence - but EU doesn't have it yet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence#Regulat...