skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think the most common way to distribute drugs, weapons, and child porn is over Tor hidden services? I'm incredibly skeptical.

Doubtless a significant percentage of child porn is distributed that way, but I'm under the impression they prefer to use Tor to access encrypted blobs others host for them, like on Usenet. I've met many drug users, but only two of them were even aware of hidden services. And however many guns are sold on hidden services will never compare to the number purchased by the US military, or sold at gun conventions, etc.
About half of all new establishments survive five years or more and about one-third survive 10 years or more. As one would expect, the probability of survival increases with a firm’s age. Survival rates have changed little over time.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BED

Small business loans are inherently risky and an 80% rejection rate accurately reflects that risk. How would creating a bigger market for bad/risky loans help the situation in any way? Sure, it might boost employment/wages temporarily, but in the end a majority of small businesses fail and enter bankruptcy. They bring their loans to bankruptcy court where they are renegotiated, leading to a haircut for the banks, less liquidity, and a waste of time/money/effort that could have been better spent elsewhere.

Remember, bad loans in the mortgage market caused the great recession. Higher loan standards are a good thing - and a necessary outcome of the 2008 fiasco of irresponsible/non performing debt getting pushed off bank balance sheets to the fed and ultimately the public.
Feds say they'll count computers as human drivers
Show HN: Highcharts – JavaScript charts in one line
Nothing's more frustrating than Googling a problem and finding that the first result is a post from someone with the exact same problem as you, with the only response being "Google it yourself".
My toxic relationship with fitness wearables
"4. Women’s changes are larger."

If you control for change size, does the effect still show? Large changes are less likely to be accepted on some projects.

Also, all this is for people who have "google+" accounts. Does anybody still use that?
I was thinking the same thing. Tons of satellite pictures, no in depth information about the actual problem.
Encrypt Act of 2016 aims to preserve your ability to encrypt your smart phone
Hmmm, we're using EC2 mainly, not S3. I've seen an option to encrypt disk but haven't researched it fully.
> The researchers say our typing techniques are often a
> reflection of the task being performed on the computer.
> “The touch typing system was developed for typing
> sentences on typewriters,” said Feit. “It is not
> advantageous for Photoshop shortcuts or gaming, often
> done with one hand on the mouse.”

> Developers could use this research to create better user
> interfaces both in software and in keyboards
> themselves. The interfaces should be tailored to the
> way we type today, not how we typed a long time ago.

So much this. Writing English sentences on a typewriter with touch typing works well. But many people don't write prose exclusively and computer keyboards are not typewriters so it's no surprise that touch typing doesn't often work so well.

As a programmer I find typing {, } and \ with the pinky the biggest problem. There are layouts especially for programmers.
The ones that I'm aware of are Programmer Dvorak[1] and Neo[2].

[1] http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Neo
C Modules
Ignoring the Wiggles
Don't touch the malware at this museum
My bullshit detectors are leaping off the charts.

There are so many completely uncontrolled experiments described there, and the article just jumps to the conclusion that they demonstrate an effect. Add on top that the theory makes not a fleck of sense, and you have no credibility left.
that counts to performing good in a job, too.
It's just I hate people who have biases against, anything.
What I really wanted to say is that I don't get these articles, people should never evaluate people against their outside. no matter if an IT job or anything. the outside appearance has nothing todo with how you really are.

and i dislike it so much. I mean yes I know that some groups of people can't go well with others, but thats just something in our minds, because of our past.
“Rock Star” developers in a nutshell
Read article I section 8.
And she's only the second worst justice.
Chelsea Peretti Opens the 9th Annual Crunchies
Turning Viral Apps into Sustainable Businesses
Thanks for your response. My concern is that they claim that "each of our selected asset classes is represented by a low cost, passive ETF." https://research.wealthfront.com/whitepapers/investment-meth...

So it is supposed to be a long-only strategy and therefore, theoretically, in their case their 13 F filing should be consistent with their reported AUM.

What do you think?
> Based on my own experience of github and open source, however, the only times I have ever seen women contribute to open source, they were always being paid to do so. I cannot recall a single time that I came across a pull request or even just a regular patch from a hobbyist woman. Not sure why that is, but it has been a constant throughout my career - men do hobby programming and women don't.

Possibly related anecdata: from my not insignificant, but still far from comprehensive experience nearly all the women who are developers in my area (not SF—I know nothing about that market aside from what I read) are with bigger companies (not necessarily software companies), and in fact there are quite a few women working as developers with those companies.

OTOH, startups and small software businesses around here do hire lots of women—but mostly as graphic designers, or in sales/marketing, or as project managers. Very, very few women even interview for startup software development jobs here (for whatever reason—I don't claim to have an explanation).
Slack got four of its black female engineers to accept a startup award
EULA recommended by EFF?
Is there a stock EULA recommended by EFF (or someone similar) with language that protects the user?
Introducing VyprVPN Server Beta: The Cloud VPN Server You Can Trust
This is another example of the "ends justify the means". The charity work does not change a iota of what he did in the sports arena. If that was possible, then for example a thief could take a good portion of his gains and invest on charity to undo other wrongs. In fact, in retrospect his charities can be easily seen as a tentative to buy favorable public opinion.
The interesting thing about the luminaries of tech is that they are willing to publicly display their prejudices and ignorance. You don't see leaders in finance or airlines doing this with similar regularity.
The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets.

Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly.

It is already a mess, can't see how adding this will improve the situation. Opposite of the minimal, fast, realtime platform that so many flocked to in the first place. I'm close to deleting accounts for both.
To be fair that is exactly how the Internet itself was treated by the media in the 90s.
Fortunately lake Peepí, Bolivia's third largest lake, is still fine.
So if the problem with lists is that they require effort to maintain them, how about lists with algorithmic maintenance suggestions? People that are hands-off can leave it fully automatic, whereas others could still make use of suggestions to maintain their fine-tuned lists more easily.
Yes we do plan to be doing this for S3 archives.
UX and Product Change Over Time
Or because they failed to build a high quality text-reflow like opera's , so they found an excuse ?
Alternative hypothesis: Men are harder on other men because they can be more honest, with less fear that any criticism will be misconstrued into something that ends with an -ism.
I think that the value is "adding another provider" to the market, where in many places there is only one or two choices for internet, from entrenched providers with low levels of service.
From a quick glance, this one you just posted feels way more idiomatic than the Java port.

The ultimate idiomatic thing to do would be to expose rethink as an IQueryable<T>, but implementing it can get hard/tricky.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/System.Linq.IQueryable
So I just started developing a react native Android app and a react desktop app in electron and it's actually been a very rewarding experience so far. Some thoughts I have on this:

1. I'd be interested to see the Android emulator and live reload in Deco. I'm using Genymotion and the live reload seems to work about half the time (as in I usually have to save the file twice to see my changes). It also sometimes can't connect to Chrome devtools. At some point I'll dive into webpack, genymotion, watchman, and devtools to see if I can fix these things but it'd be nice to have everything work smoothly out of the box.

2. Speaking of devtools, devtools! I could imagine some really nice UI that wraps devtools directly into Deco but I didn't see that in the video (admittedly I skipped around a little).

3. I love the built in styling bar. Right now styling for me involves having a color palette tab, a CSS reference, and an HTML/React native UI components reference tab open.

4. I have one more problem that could probably be solved with a 10 minute investment on my part: react with electron and react native require different nodejs versions. React native needs at least v4.0 and I believe electron only works with 0.12.9 and below. Currently I switch between them using "n". I suppose this problem is unique to my situation but this is also the kind of thing an IDE could handle with project settings.

Well this kind of devolved into me listing my pain points with React but I'm excited to try this editor and I just signed up for the waitlist!

EDIT: clarification on point #4
On the other hand, I'm a casual user and nothing you've said matters to me. I think they're making (the reasonable) bet that there are more people like me than there are like you.
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There are a few free file transfer programs out there often limited in size they can send or one at a time), but I think AExplorer may be one of the only dummy-proof options out there that installs the "receiver" script for you on the Amiga side while also providing an easy to use file browser on the PC side with few file limitations. If the ones on Aminet do that, too, then that would be very cool.
Thanks @Rauchg
Only Bookmark with full text search. We change the total's idea of Bookmark.
Not all of them, but yeah, it's close. The main issue with 3rd party libraries is keeping them up to date with the official drivers. The way this driver is written, updates can be automated
> I'm not sure anyone will trust you to store their log data without at least encrypting data at rest.

I know something of logs.

Speaking for requirements inside other's logging use cases is pointless given privacy needs vary from use case to use case. While your statement may be factual for some use cases, claiming it's "a huge oversight" is blanket blaming statement across all use cases and thus becomes worthless.

Besides, if you want search for things in the logs, things have to be kept hot and moving unencrypted. That means no at rest encrypted storage for near realtime search use cases.

I wish I had a stick I could hit people with to get them to stop creating double bind arguments. If you really want privacy for your logs, deal with them yourself on your own equipment. If you absolutely have no time to deal with your logs yourself, then get comfortable with privacy issues.
If you want Ivy League then Scheme is a good choice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
I even agree that there should be some acknowledgement about this issue. But when it comes to the Armstrong discussion, this is a mute point. Even if doping were allowed from now on, it doesn't change the status of this practice in the past (i.e., cheating).
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> You go through the list, find every successful open source project, and try to explain why it doesn't count.

Wrong, I explain why in each case, they've completely changed the market, they didn't just come in and take over from a successful and dominant proprietary player.

>Oracle was the big dominant proprietary player when Yahoo decided to risk going with MySQL

No, they weren't. Oracle was never big in web databases. Ever heard of the LAMP stack? There was never a "LAOP" stack. Oracle was never used as part of a stack with Linux and Apache and Perl or PHP. Oracle was used in a bunch of big-iron systems back then (and still are), but they were never a serious player in small webservers. MySQL helped create that market.

This is something like claiming that Harley-Davidson took over part of the market owned by the Ford Model T truck.

>Now think how many websites are running on WordPress. It pains me to say it (because the code quality is so bad), but that's an example of successful open source project.

Which proprietary product did it out-compete? That's right, none. WordPress created a whole new market. It's just like all my other successful FOSS examples. It never successfully out-competed a dominant proprietary product.

>Git is up there too.

git is probably about the only FOSS product, now that you mention it, that's made any real inroads against proprietary products, and even here, not that much. It's used all over the place for FOSS development of course, but there was never a dominant proprietary product used for source control for FOSS development. BitKeeper was the closest to it, and that was only used for a single project AFAIK (the kernel), and using a special gratis license. FOSS development has always been done with FOSS VCSes: CVS, SVN, Mercurial, etc. Now, git has made some inroads against ClearCase and Perforce in corporate software development (as have all the other ones: SVN, CVS, Hg, etc.), but usually only for new projects. ClearCase has been very hard to dislodge in the companies where it's been standardized on (even though it's an absolutely abysmal version-control system that only succeeds in hindering progress).

>So if you define the category narrowly enough

I've already stated my requirement. Show me a good example of a FOSS product completely taking over for a highly successful and dominant proprietary one, instead of just creating a new market or expanding the market (while not displacing the proprietary product at all). I don't think you'll be able to come up with a single one.
Android creator Andy Rubin is making a free dashcam
My point is if every new feature was off by default after several months/years of adding new features most users won't have them enabled and more than likely will have a worse experience overall. Turning on the new features by default but with a warning about them and an easy way to turn them off makes perfect sense to me.
So I'm not sure if this article is a hunk of lies or true, but when I want to induce the placebo effect, I just google some random ingredient in the beverage I'm drinking with "{ingredient} Cures Virus".For example "Manganese Cures Virus". You're inevitably going to find someone who says yeah it's pretty effective, and I just kinda say sure why not, I believe it. This way you know it's not expensive I mean you were already drinking it, but now that you KNOW it's there helping you it helps. You're like I'm going to feel better I've got "INGREDIENT" on my side! Additionally because it was a drink you'll probably drink some more fluids.
How is that "crony capitalism?" Companies try to shift opinion in their favor all the time.
Having gone through PCI compliance before, technically you cannot send us data that includes card numbers since we're not PCI compliant (yet). But if you don't log that type of data, there is no issue.
Thanks for the detail! My personal experience is generally in strategy 1 as you outlined, especially in being that lead person. I know a lot of people like the appeal of strategy 2 (myself included) but like you mentioned, there's a number of ways that critical code can fall through the cracks. It's great for a general "good work, I like the way you did that" or "what about doing it like this" kind of review but beyond that doesn't provide many safeguards. That being said, I've heard a number of complaints about the organizational/cultural aspect of strategy 1.

In full disclosure, part of the reason I'm asking is to do some research for a product of mine: https://pullapprove.com. Currently I feel as though it serves as a fairly flexible platform that can accommodate either (or both) of the strategies in various ways, and just want to make sure things are headed in the right direction. As you mentioned, the process for choosing reviewers could be handled several different ways and I wonder if there's room for some tools to assist in that. An interesting one to me (which PullApprove doesn't yet support) is automatically choosing reviewers based on git blame information (https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot) -- which could get at your last point.

I feel like there's a ton of value in doing code review that, I personally, drastically underestimated for a long time. I'm interested to hear more about the kinds of problems different groups have with code review and trying to figure out if/where/how a tool like PullApprove can alleviate some of the pain and make it an easier process to adopt.
Best free Mac OS X app for quickly limiting CPU usage
Happy to see the shell back in action somewhere. Well done!
Well I'll say it then, you really should unfollow more people. To a point, the more you unfollow the better the signal to noise ratio improves. You just have to find that point.

It isn't crude or destructive at all because you will see those good quality tweets from people who are heavy users. You will see them when others who you still follow retweet the good ones. Your feed should be a solid mix of tweets you curated by following interesting people, and tweets those people curated for you by retweeting.

It can be a bit awkward to unfollow people you know because there is that social pressure to 'follow back' but this idea is worth it for the positive results.

To give a specific example, try unfollowing all local media outlets (newspaper, TV, radio) and instead follow one or two reporters whose feeds you find interesting. You will still see all the interesting local news and you avoid all the marketing and fluff that pollutes the media outlets' Twitter feeds.

I read every single Tweet in my feed every day and it only takes a few minutes. There is usually a ton of interesting and relevant stuff in there. I couldn't do this before, when I was following too many people.
Journalism as a Professional Model for Data Science
I think it goes both ways. The employer may have talked to 30 people looking for comparable job roles in the last month but they almost certainly haven't ever talked to the 10 other companies in the area that are hiring for similar job roles.
The world economy has seen plenty of downturns but the whole developed world turning to negative interest rates is a new thing.

Is this a sign that the economic dogma underlying central bank decision making is not really based on anything solid but rather just follows keynesian trends of the day combined with the race to the bottom of "europe is doing it so we need to as well!"

Fortunately I hold a large bitcoin position which I believe hedges me pretty well in this situation.
In concede that. And I'd love to say "that could never happen" but if they want to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain then they need to extend the 1928 copyright yet again...
> It has been used to host chat room with more than 70,000 concurrent clients, scaled on 7 m3.large EC2 instances and one relatively small Redis server.

Knowing nothing about anything, 70k clients on 7 servers does not sound immediately very impressive. That's roughly 10k clients per server, and this is 15 years after "C10k problem" was coined. Could someone comment if I'm missing something major here?
"All right, I'll stop using that word, sis."?
No worries, just pointing it out. Honestly this should be on by default on the AWS side.
Given the connection with Chrome Developer Tools' "Copy request as cURL" I can see the usefulness of this in a general sense; however, I was personally somewhat sad to see that it doesn't actually convert to code that makes use of libcurl.

As such, the resulting project is very limited in exactly which cURL commandlines it is capable of converting, and, particularly, it is only able to handle HTTP connections (unless I missed something).

A generator that could generate libcurl compatible code would have the full power of cURL!
Out of curiosity, at what point am I allowed to start flagging people as trolls?

My comment was substantially more flamewar after the edit. Shame on me for that, but there were some fairly obvious troll comments there.
The Ocean Space a specific set of characteristics
Just my take:

I really don't like RQL. Why couldn't it just be a document flavored SQL? Having a DSL for writing in-database procedures is fine. But tying all external queries to a Builder is, from a purely aesthetic POV, pretty ugly IMO.

But that can be addressed down the line I'm sure. If nothing else by other people just building new DSLs on top of the Builder interfaces.

(Note: Yes, I realize the Builder supports map/reduce as well. In practice I'm skeptical how well that works in an on-demand fashion.)

Having only one fully-managed host available is a minor negative. Though we use Cloudant right now so that's a bit hypocritical perhaps.

Lack of integrated full-text search makes things (application-side) a lot more complex than Cloudant or a traditional RDBMS with integrated full-text search. Maybe not in a "look what I can do" prototype-ish phase, but definitely in a "what would Jepsen do to my system" sort of scenario (see the "Warning" here: https://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/elasticsearch/).

That means you're going to want to routinely compare and reindex. Which ugh.

That's just my 2c on why I'm not super excited about RethinkDB. Doesn't seem a whole lot to differentiate it from other NoSQL databases outside of being a better MongoDB. It doesn't integrate full-text-search like Cloudant. It doesn't have transactions. It's got this streaming thing. Which seems like a pretty niche feature. But maybe that's just me.

It is free though, so that's definitely something. If I were a cash-strapped startup that might be enough to move it near the top of my list. OTOH if I'm paying for a fully managed, hosted service that matters a whole lot less.

Feel free to educate me. :-)
Hi there,

I wasn't aware there were several startups every few months in logging. For us, it was an interesting space. Lots of changes happening.

Yes you are somewhat right. It is sending text to a server. But then you send more text and more text and you need to search for all this text in a split second. If you've ever run your own ELK stack for example, you'll realize quickly that you're spending most of your time scaling elastic search to handle the data volume. There is a challenge to doing that.
People downvoting me: the title was something completely different when I wrote this.
Demystifying pkgbuild in OS X
Ask yourself, honestly, what percentage of the entire budget was that end of year splurge? In my experience it's very small, much smaller then the year to year cost inflation.

There's tons of waste in any large organization. In my experience, private companies have more waste (resources and personnel) then public organizations as they have much less oversight.