skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mickens of fame and fortune.

I aspire to someday be the kind of guy who gets the definite article prepended to his name
The differences are mainly around batch-centric vs. streaming-centric model and executions.

Here is for example a video walkthrough by MapR: https://www.mapr.com/blog/apache-spark-vs-apache-flink-white...
Sometimes I think people need to spend more time outdoors. Because before even reading the article, I took one look at the pictures, and thought, "Oh, ok, animal tracks."
Is there a production system or game for sale that's written in Scratch?
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I know, but the parent comment was explicitly asking about root servers; I agree, though, that I should've mentioned these, as they fit more into the price range (and I imagine they're quite good, as I've mostly heard positive things about Hetzner).
And the cost of building a fab is increasing exponentially; eventually that trend has to come to an end.
OSU has a pretty good engineering school. Lot's of fortune 500 companies. If you want to disrupt insurance it's Cols, OH or Des Moines, Iowa (both have large insurance presences). Lot's of Tech Jobs, some start up activity but the state is pretty risk adverse.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/09/13/...
"for every Android phone"*

* in selected countries.
No team can catch all the bugs.

As for 'obvious', hindsight, yada yada.
There's a name for this phenomenon: "Subsystem inscrutablity". See this presentation on Alpha Go linked to from here: http://nextbigfuture.com/2016/03/what-is-different-about-alp...
It changes the page fairly dramatically. Before rolling out a page, you run it through their parser, which creates skeletal html and a javascript stub which you serve in place of the original html.

Then, when this substituted page is loaded, their javascript rebuilds the original web page with calls to eval() and whatever.innerHTML, in a way that the dependencies are supposedly streamlined.
Opensourcing the Parse Server Dashboard
Hrm, austerity everywhere, wages down .. unsurprising ?
I feel I had a similar experience. I always did all my homework, but up through to highschool I was always very fast at it, to the the point where I was probably quite annoying because I never understood why people spent so much time studying. I never revised much for tests, and then had people noticeably sigh when I inevitably would leave 1-2 hours into 5 hours tests, feeling certain I'd get near top marks.

I learned everything I was meant to except for one: I never learned to be disciplined about work and how to study efficiently.

When I started university, my CS classes were fine because that was stuff I did for fun and had done since childhood, but my electives, like maths etc. suddenly took 10x the amount of effort I was used to putting in.

In retrospect I wish I'd been pushed to do more work. Not necessarily harder, but more.

I'm not saying I wish I'd spent all my time on homework, but getting used to actually having to work for things earlier would have made the transition a lot easier.
By reporting the problem to the owner you should assume that it might get fixed before you'll manage to sell it to other interested parties.
This is a general problem:

> Being a good president has a surprisingly small role in
> being elected president.
You overestimate how much investors [and the public at large] care about this. Security issues with banks are regular occurrence - yet you don't see Chase's stock drop with every announcement of stolen CC numbers. To investors it's not worth considering unless it's catastrophic and ongoing.
You're saying people are moving away from C++ to C for the Arduino? What's your guess for reason of the resurgence?
How Ghost migrated 30,000 blogs/400,000 users with zero downtime
I just hope the new and 'improved' X files show, won't try to take this subject as an opportunity to make yet another dubious episode ... Seriously though, could simply be a deformed human hand.
'a penis'
Mouse-over actions are nice on desktop. But what happens if I use a touch device?
Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise
How to debug an autonomous vehicle
For everyone who doesn't speak swedish, in the third citation you can also read that the "alternative media" is far from the popularity of the most popular media outlets.

> Fria Tiders total under veckan var 91936 reaktioner på 55 artiklar. Aftonbladets motsvarande siffra var 936570 på 1316 artiklar.

Fria Tiders total was 100k "shares" on social media whereas the biggest news outlet Aftonbladet has 1M "shares". And there is another one called Expressen which has another 1M shares.
I hope you mean that:

It is certainly false that if you are able to get CS basics right, you will NECESSARILY be any good at deep engineering.

There are people who get the basics right and are good at deep engineering. The question is whether one predicts the other.
Few Functionalities of Visual Studio Is Integrated in Open-Source Eclipse IDE
It's not a Microsoft invention, and MS's use of it is really quite sensible. They had a problem of distinguishing UTF-16, UTF-8 and non-Unicode (possibly a single-byte "extended ASCII" type encoding, possibly some multi-byte monstrosity) text files. Since UTF-8 and ASCII-compatible encodings look similar when there aren't many >U+007F characters in use, and identical if none are in use, they could get confused. Prepending a Byte Order Mark solves this problem, in that it makes a file unambiguously UTF-8 (or UTF-16, for that matter).
I'm curious to know how much this improves page loads when resource hints are used properly. I may be failing to understand the paper, but it seems to me that strong usage of resource hints plus HTTP/2 dependency-based prioritization makes a lot of this technique obsolete.
Distributed systems in an alternative universe
I definitely appreciated it.
This is awesome, congrats to the Flink team!

For our current project we evaluated Spark and Storm, and have gone the Storm way. Personally I spent a little time on Flink, but could not convince the management for more serious consideration. Mainly because of the name recognition, Spark and Storm are so popular already. But I am confident Flink will become a great option, especially with hitting 1.0. I felt the community was very active and documentation pretty good.
nope, our network (Online.net/Scaleway) is AS12876, Free/Iliad is AS12322 neither of them reannounce the other AS to the internet, they are both independant and separated
I was thinking "Happiness" with a slight cockney.
Actually Normalcy Bias may in fact feed that kind of money spending until such time as reality hits. Assuming that people will automatically act more logically when large amounts of money is in play flies in the face of recent history. Just look at the recent housing loan crisis. Normalcy Bias played a part there.

It's certainly possible that we'll break more barriers with clever engineering and new scientific breakthroughs. But that doesn't mean the Normalcy Bias isn't in play here.
ANN: Python 201 Book Kickstarter
Sorry, I downvoted your post by accident.
Show HN: Read and post comments at your exact moment in Netflix shows
Those 70 other cases didn't involve installing a custom OS. They were running older OSes that did not do as good a job protecting the user's data, and thus could be attacked without any changes to the OS. The whole reason this thing has blown up now is because Apple finally improved their security to the point where the old attacks no longer work.
Gelman on the reproducibility crisis in social science
It's the software that's impressive. Why does how many physical computers it takes to run the software matter? It's physical footprint will almost certainly shrink as computers get more powerful.
I know where you’re going with this, but GitHub deliberately blurs that line too. For example, I host both of my blogs on GitHub.

I guess I’m saying that I don’t see CocoaPods as being a “bad actor” so much as the extreme tail of a distribution.
Image-Match: Open-source scalable reverse image search
Super exciting.
The neural net guides the search for the right move, but the program ultimately considers many possible sequences and picks the one it thinks is best. The program could justify its choice in the same way human players do: by playing out alternative choices and showing how those choices would have put it into a worse position.
Unicode is currently limited to 21 bits for compatibility with UTF-16. Eventually we might manage to exhaust all available codepoint space, and with that we'd have to move to yet another encoding with a whole new kind of surrogate pairs. Though UTF-8 could originally handle 31 bits, that's no longer the case.
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Show HN: Altro-World's Most Secure Smart Lock
Higher Education – Signalling or Learning?
That entire process described seems rather bizarre - as just glancing at that image I can see that those are lizard feet stencils - and the fact that she had the brainwave after visiting an crocodile farm underlines how clear they are.

I wonder how many research opportunities are missed because scientists hoard information that is mysterious to them but obvious to others.

I suppose it's the broken publication system that drives this behaviour.
I think it was pretty obvious nobody was "salivating",etc. but that rather it is a way of saying how excited they are about studying this new phenomenom. They are just metaphors, I see nothing wrong with that. They are used all the time and are an important part of any language.
Well, the "50 years" claim is simply not true, the whole lifting out of poverty thing started with the opening up and the influx of foreign investment to use cheap Chinese labour after Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978. Before that, the Chinese leadership under Mao were doing their best to drive all of China into poverty and famine.

Have you ever been to China? I've lived in China over for 10 years until 2011, and it has always baffled me how so many foreigners were saying that China will be the economic superpower of the 21st century, and all I saw was a nation of poorly educated people with a cult of money, lack of any kind of moral compass and rampant corruption deeply embedded into the fabric of society. To be fair, it also had more or less developed infrastructure and lots of cheap labor that has made manufacturing in China profitable for international companies. I was trying to be positive and kept repeating the "in China it's different, they have a special Chinese way" mantra. Well, now the Chinese economy has now been exposed as the pyramid scheme it has always been and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

I see your claim that "the standard of living will change" as absolutely laughable, as any people who are capable of changing that are busy getting out of China, ideally forever. Whoever is left only stays to reinforce the status quo.

Whoever was saying that "China is the future" in 2006 was at best a naive optimist. Whoever is saying that in 2016 is delusional.
Trojan Porn clicker, downloaded from Google Play can consume 3GB of data in day
Facebook Lite hits 100M users. Here’s how
Google Creative Lab 5
for exploits that don't target a single deployed instance there is a 'grey/white' market. off the top of my head: ZDI (more defence oriented. i think they distribute just signatures for intrusion detection), Zerodium (more offence oriented), Exodus Intel EIP (not really sure.. they distribute a feed)
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Except that the article just said in plain language, no, it doesn't. Having knowledge rammed down your proverbial throat doesn't make you intelligent any more than inheriting a ton of money and managing to not lose ALL of it doesn't make you a good businessman.
Can you do custom iso install?
So I have 2 kids in one school, and 3 step kids in another. Both are private, both seem to emphasize the homework/responsibility as a sign of their "excellence". At first I agreed. Now I realize its a drain. A typical day after school involves cajoling an already tired kid(it takes about 30 minutes to drive to either school so they wake up earlier than most kids) that just wants a break into doing homework so that they can go do after school activities. Kids end up having a busier day than the adults, which to me, seems horribly wrong. There are a few options, limit after school sports(which also seems to have gone off the deep end in terms of the amount of work they want the kids to do, but that is another rant...) or put them back in public schools. However, in our local district, it doesn't really have that much less homework that we can tell, but it does have about twice the student-teacher ratio. I don't know that there is a great answer, but I think that maybe everyone should stop and take a deep breath and re-assess this mess.
Obvious in hindsight, but if you grew up from a little project to a big one, built so that your "users" are cloning your git repository, is it really clear that you've transitioned from "hosting source code" to "using it as a CDN" sometime along the way?

It's not like these guys thought, "Well, we really should use some dedicated high-end host for all our traffic, but we'll use GitHub because it's easier."
The thing being described is basically a custom web browser.
That's why I said "spot instances", which are 10 times cheaper. And you actually get one hour for free if they interrupt you (as far as I remember).
Free data in? (Like AWS)
VC (and Entrepreneurship) is not a zero sum game
The comparison may be a little anachronistic but... well, in order to understand why OpenVMS made such a dent on computer history, you have to put it in context first.

OpenVMS's days of glory more or less coincided with the Unix wars. Unix was brilliantly hacker-friendly, but a lot of basic things that we now take for granted in Linux -- virtual memory, high-speed I/O and networking -- were clunky and unstandardized. Others (like Files-11, VMS's excellent filesystem) were pretty much nowhere to be found on Unices (or, if they were, they were proprietary and very, very expensive). An Unix system included bits and pieces hacked together by people from vastly different institutions (often universities) and a lot of the design of the upper layers was pretty much ad-hoc.

OpenVMS had been a commercial project from the very beginning. It had a very well documented design and very sound engineering principles behind it. I think my favourite feature is (well, technically, I guess, was) the DLM (Distributed Lock Manager), which was basically a distributed concurrent access system with which you could do concurrent access to resources (such as, but not only, files) in a clustered system. I.e. you could acquire locks to remote resources -- this was pretty mind-blowing at the time. You can see how it was used here: e.g. http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_DLM.html .

Also, the VAX hardware it ran on rocked. The whole thing was as stable and sturdy as we used to boast about Linux in comparison to Windows 98, except at a time when many Unices crashed if you did the wrong thing over NFS.
> I worry greatly about what my child is going to do. Will she be able to compete against kids from other countries (and we shouldn't forget robots) if she isn't doing 2 hours of extra homework every night?

On the other hand, is that extra 2 hours actually valuable? Or at the very least, more valuable than 2 hours of physical activity and enjoyment that may lead your child to enjoy school more and get further later in life? The data presented in the article seem to agree with the latter.
Do I hear "OneDrive"? Or was that "DR-DOS"?
> Who on HN is willing to start a tobacco startup today in the US?

You'd be surprised: http://www.forbes.com/sites/freddiedawson/2015/06/30/e-cigs-...

(Keeping in mind that the nicotine in ejuice comes from tobacco...)

Edit: You'd said in the US, but that was just the first example that google gave me - lots of US discussion about it as well.
For my understanding: One request is executed on serveral cores?
Dito, I also bought the according camera for the Samsung TV.
Yes

https://www.packet.net/resources/kb/how-does-packet-bill-for...
Visual Studio Code Introduces 'Chrome Debugging'
I'm curious: what libraries still need porting? I feel like at this point most major libraries are either ported or have an easy fork/alternative.
What Do Americans Believe Will Help Them Get Ahead?
Except yes, you can use CA-signed certificates with SFTP.
API Challenges for Developers and How to Solve Them with a Universal API
Sorry, only just seeing this.

On HN, downvoted comments "fade out" of view. The font gets lighter to start to match the background.
Once the novelty wore off, I only ever used Siri to set timers - saying '10 minute timer' was easer than doing it through the app interface.

Since iOS introduced the shortcuts to apps on the lock screen, which included timers, I never use Siri.

Although I did recently discover Siri can be useful for DnD - "Roll a d20" :)
The ultimate list of startup events in 2016 in the USA
Of all the animals in the world, it had to be a lizard. This is going to fuel about 2 more years of InfoWars.com speculation on the lizard people
Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity. Some engineer probably told upper management they couldn't decrypt the phone because the software would erase all data. Maybe because they didn't know, or didn't want to, but still this has blown out of proportion.

To be clear I don't think apple should compromise the phone, just that this is not a long con by the FBI to compromise all phones.
> High throughput and low latency stream processing

It should be illegal to claim nonsense like that without some comparative example vs a c+= zmq/tcp pipeline doing the same thing
Wouldn't it be better if all those dangerous escape sequences (like Application Program-Control, redefining function keys, alternate character sets, etc.) were disabled by default in xterm? Anyone using the obsolete software that uses them could enable them if they wish.
I'm greatly oversimplifying:

Suppose you have a series of 10 pairs of number coming from the universe, lets call them particles. After crunching the numbers you discover they fit perfectly in a linear function y=mx+b. Yep, two constants, one parameter and you can explain all those particles. Obviously, more particles could exist if they fit your curve, and you in fact discover, in time, 15 more of them!

Wow the model works, it predicted a bunch of awesome stuff. You and your peers name it "Standard Model" since it's so good. It's still just a name though.

Now suppose one more particle comes up and it doesn't fit the line at all. Sure you could "extend" the model by converting it to a Laplace polynomial with 24 more coefficient just to accomodate that new particle, but you can't honnestly say it's the same model anymore.
I was curious about the price to performance ratio comparison of both companies. (Is for example the CPU performance really worth the extra price?)
> Technically, the executive branch isn't passing laws - it's always been legal for them to do this (Congress did not forbid it in FISA & Co.). They just never exercised that right up until now.

True. But to look deeper, for an underlying cause, I think this is due in large part to Congress handing over their responsibility of law-making to bureaucrats in the Executive Branch. This has been evidence in multiple areas, including envrionmental law, healthcare, and likely financial law. Laws are passed to (de-)regulate, but the actual implementation is left up to the relevant departments in the Executive Branch.
Part of the company I work for still uses COBOL-74. We're considering re-writing everything in Django / Python 3.
If McDonalds needed to raise there prices because they had trouble accessing capital then people would eat there less. Which starts a downward spiral for the company.
Sometimes you have to add the boolean nots.

PHP templates -"WordPress" -"joomla" -"codeignitor" -"drupal"
European Robotics: Creating New Markets for SMEs
Because they aren't oversubscribed...yet.
CoreLogic Reports 38,000 Completed Foreclosures in January 2016
Even if you walk into a cave and say "that's a lizard hand", in the academic world you need to give some proof. Thus resorting to statistical analysis to confirm.

However, your comment made me ask the question "what if we had a website that was a super-hi-res tour of the cave that we all could look at". I'm suprised something like that doesn't exist. Best thing out there seems to be a book with images of all 8000 characters: http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/beasts.htm

Edit: to address the silly comments on this thread, the lizards were likely dead (not sentient) and the people grabbed them to use as stencils.
Why Bootstrapping Our Startup Was One of the Best Decisions We Ever Made
Please if you find an answer to that twett me @dev_emeka
I'd actually be OK if map and filter were also in the functools package, but the only way to be consistent while maintaining backwards compatibility is going from the functools package to built-in.
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How does it compare with HTTP/2 or even SPDY?
Its not canceled yet..Just scaled back.
Though I think the City of Somerville took some property in union square to make it work.
> the F.B.I.’s battle with Apple over encryption should prompt deep questions about a future of Internet-connected devices spread around our homes. Amazon has strong privacy protections in the Echo. It doesn’t stream anything without the wake word and it has a physical mute button that electrically disconnects the microphone but, as with all groundbreaking technology, there is no doubt we are entering new territory here.

At least there's minimal thought given to this issue...even if it is at the end of an article claiming the Echo is the next best thing since anything.
When someone explicitly goes out of their way to disclaim the sort of problems you describe, it makes no sense to criticize them for it anyway. The question itself is totally reasonable, and if it's often misused, well, they were clearly aware of that and intentionally avoided it.
The Rise and Fall
> without having all of the training data in advance

What? They certainly trained the algorithm on a huge database of professional go games. It's even in the abstract. [1]

[1]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1...
I like the yyyy.r.n versioning scheme, as it does tell you unequivocally how "new" a release is. No wondering if product version 7 was released in 2012 or 2014. I've never been able to convince an employer to switch to it though.
Wonder if they're employing a middle out data compression algorithm...
I wouldn't have a problem with a bunch of daemons talking D-Bus to each other, if their interfaces were properly documented, if D-Bus were properly documented and, in general, if D-Bus weren't quite a mess. I mean, if it weren't for this obscurity, issuing commands over D-Bus wouldn't be that vastly different than issuing them on a console, only more verbose.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of weird interaction between all these processes. It's often badly (or not at all) documented, and what plugs where is extremely unclear. It's very messy, and it doesn't stand still long enough for someone to fix it. They just pile half-done stuff over more half-done stuff.

It's really unfortunate because the Linux kernel is, pragmatically, probably the best there is. It may not excel in specific niches (e.g. security), but overall, it does a lot of things better than, or at least about as well as BSDs, on systems where not even NetBSD boots.
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defines the protocol really well I think.