skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purpose-built software systems allow you to ask a lot of important questions, but they don't allow you to ask all of the important questions. It's useful to have a tool that you can fall back on that gives you a basic representation of the data that you can manipulate with simple tools. For most people that will be a spreadsheet. You can also do it with *nix tools but they're really unapproachable for the uninitiated.
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(29 points, essofluffy, 10 months ago, 3 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673101

(219 points, jonbaer, 2 years ago, 85 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605015
You've missed the point. Namely: If one person's semi-trollish advocacy of monarchy under a pseudonym several years ago means he's too dangerous to be allowed to speak at a tech conference, then surely other people's absolutely sincere advocacy of Communism under their own names, today, would make them even more dangerous, and they should also be barred from speaking... right?

If not, why not?
We built up, no way to avoid it. People get caught in our neighborhood unless they're keeping it way under the radar.
Microsoft axes experimental chatbot that became too offensive
Right now I see it as a technological boon that ensures that I have access to software irrespective of my OS platform. That used to matter so much previously. Now it doesn't, and that's great.
You can't go wrong with http://cryptopals.com which isn't a book but rather a set of practical exercises.
I've seen congestion charges in many cities (personally in Singapore and Stockholm) but it doesn't seem to make any real difference.

Singapore is now developing a new congestion charge system based on GPS that will have high granularity. We'll see how that works... http://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/default.aspx?scr=yes&keyword...
Without a good ident guide, I never quite know if I'm at a top-level comment or a second-level comment.
> Presidents are

I'm not sure if you mean to refer to only American Presidents or national Presidents globally, but there can be a wide range of them, as far as I can tell. Unless you've looked and found that leaders of even the most far-flung of nations are as described?
This isn't telling depressed people "everything is happy rainbows" It recognizes that depression is shitty and makes people feel worthless, even though they aren't.

Depression isn't necessarily "the world [being] shitty in ways that make people who are predisposed to feeling like shit for no good reason feel even worse." I know people who have pretty decent lives by pretty much any external measure you can imagine, and they're still depressed. Some of them are hanging on because they know people would miss them if they died.

So, no, don't tell people who feel like "everything is worthless and [they] have nothing to lose" that everything is awesome, even if it looks like it. But, this article isn't doing that. It's about someone who was loved, who is missed and who died from a terrible illness.
America's 2015 Marijuana Sales Higher Than Dasani, Oreos
Asset Managers: The tide turns
Singapore is now developing a new congestion charge system based on GPS that will have high granularity. We'll see how that works... http://www.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/default.aspx?scr=yes&keyword...
-We have a high volume of payments with low margins.

Based on this alone, you need to get your own merchant account and gateway. I highly recommend Beanstream in Canada for the gateway. A proper merchant account (interchange plus pricing, either Chase Paymentech or TD are good) will boost your margins. For example, processing a debit card has a much lower interchange rate than a credit card (I don't think the rate is as good as the USA, but its still 1%+ difference).

Beanstream will also give you the option of Interac Online - which is a flat transaction fee between 20-50c.
s/polite request/politely-worded threat/
What? Presenting all the facts is exactly a journalist's job. If a journalist is presenting a "narrative" instead of the facts, that journalist needs to quit their job and become a novelist.
I hope this isn't obnoxious to suggest, but: give up equity. No free lunch.
Ask HN: Feeling “bored” by software engineering?
I've been programming for 15+ years now, and in industry for 7+ years. I've used all sorts of languages: web dev (HTML/CSS/JS/etc.), C/C++, Hypercard, BASIC, Python/Ruby/Perl, Lisp, Go, Java...etc. I've worked at a very large company, and also small companies, and on lots of side projects. Of course I still have things to learn, but I feel very comfortable with most of the coding tasks that come up at work.

I've enjoyed programming since pretty much the beginning (BASIC on ancient Apple II's in school :) but lately I've been feeling a bit "bored." Most of my day to day coding work is around domain specific business logic and data modeling. There isn't much that feel like inventing something new, or applying "computer science." In-so-far as there are "computer science" challenges, like "How do we handle X amount of requests per second?", those challenges are quickly and easily solved by using a pre-built DB/library.

I've been browsing job advertisements (South Bay Area), and nothing seems to catch my interest. Startups generally have product/market fit problems, not tech problems, and working at a big company (FaceGoog, etc.) doesn't really appeal to me.

I didn't always feel this way, as I mentioned before I've really enjoyed programming since the start. But I just can't find anything to get excited about.

Have you gone through a similar phase in your life/career? What did you do? Any suggestions?
Feral Concurrency Control: Empirical Investigation of App Integrity (2015) [pdf]
hi, yes there is an excellent online course developed called trading strategy launch framework, helped me go from zero to cracking hubdreds of robust strategies
It's good to see they seem to be handling it well. Especially the public announcement on their web page. Even better will be that they're probably going to improve their computer security now. If they got ransomware, they've probably already got plenty of other invisible viruses too.

To me, ransomware is a wonderful development. Normal viruses are easy to ignore. People unwittingly contribute to botnets that harm others. Ransomware kicks you in the pants and says "sort out your useless security and stop being part of the problem".
There are many variables that do not vary linearly with the speed (e.g. rubber's stiffness) so it could be that the sound is indistinguishable at higher speed.

The goal is clearly to slow people down, so that would be really surprising if it would work the same way at higher speed, wouldn't it be? Maybe I'm just too naive..
Moons of Saturn May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs
Only American Express offers name verification to merchants. When it comes to address verification, only the numeric data gets checked. So for an address "123 Main Street" would match "123 Bryant St" as well
Camera+Filters+Canon+|
About half that money is in their healthcare and other benefits plans. Worth keeping that in mind. They're not walking home with $130k.
American corporate profits are too high
The title refers to "posts" being downvoted (flagged is the only mechanism I know of).

I think most posts that are flagged are flagged because they are dupes (or blogspam/derivatives of existing dupes).
From Maker’s Mind to Mainstream: Launching Invention
Yes, but using the word "unlimited" as a temporary marketing gimmick needs to stop.
If you compare Office 365 Home pricing with the popular Dropbox for example you'll see its absolutely worth it.

I have both Office 365 and Dropbox Pro. But as online storage, they are really miles apart. The OneDrive client is flaky, slow, and does not do delta sync, the Dropbox client is pretty much the absolute opposite - fast, does delta sync, and LAN sync. Applications that upload through the OneDrive API (I use rclone and Arq) often fail with API errors.

In the end, you cannot simply compare prices. Office 365 is great if you need Microsoft Office, the OneDrive storage and Skype minutes are the cherries on top. But if you need to move significant amounts of data, Dropbox Pro is a steal at $9.99 per month compared to Office 365.
Will its propulsion system involve sucking and blowing air over a "special" airfoil to increase the air's velocity?
> Last year America’s airlines made $24 billion—more than Alphabet

As long as we're comparing entire industries to one company, I'm sure there are more vivid examples.
Hrm, I assumed it would be obvious I meant a technical sin
Terrorists, Bathtubs and Snakes. We fear the wrong things
The feelings are certainly real. That said, feelings aren't fully based on the external world for any of us. You're right that you can't just wake up and be happy or something, but you can slowly notice the disconnect and reshape it to your advantage.

A lot of things in depression are downward spirals of energy, motivation, etc. Recognizing the fact that some of these spirals are self-causing and taking back control is one of the things that helped me turn things around.
FYI: contracts can specify a lot of different payment terms. The term that you apparently desire to be in contracts you sign is against the interests of your counterparty. Most of them will have asked a lawyer how to write their contract. Their lawyers will often draft that contract to protect their client's interests. You will find that lawyers are rather good at doing this and are about as likely to be out-thought by a programmer's parsing of the English language as you are to be out-Fizzbuzzed by a randomly chosen attorney.
> I often feel my line of work is grossly misrepresented by dizzying fields of esoteric numbers and references to ancient cryptography when I'm happy to find myself many of my days engrossed in the security characteristics of some powerful technology used right now in the real world.

Have you never worked a custom written crypto algo in your line of work ? For example, countries' army are the bane of sysadmins since they implement about every standard of networking since computer exists.

Working in infosec, you hardly have to crack an akbash cipher, but I'm pretty sure you'd had to understand a closed source algorithm.
This what it's like if you live and work near BART in San Francisco. You don't plan your commute. You just show up and wait on average five minutes.

Weekend service is much less frequent, though.
Points to Consider While Moving from Web App to Mobile App
If the situation was that ciper suites based on NIST algorithms were being forced out from TLS and replaced with the new suites I might have agreed. But that is not the case. The new cipher suites with new algorithms (yes developed by DJB) just adds to the suites availble. They present an alternative to the NIST monoculture. Complement, not replace.

Also, there is now a cipher suite with AES in OCB mode. And the licensing terms as stated in the ITEF IPR disclosures makes the mode easier to use. There are also a draft for Argon2 as KDF (an algorithm not by DJB).

I was more worried when everything seemed to end up being based on AES. Not because its a bad algorithm, but beacuse we didn't have a fallback. That is actually why the ChaCha-Poly1306 suite came about. RC4 was no longer a usable fallback for AES.
10 Tricks for Limitless Creativity
It's hard to sort out disappointment from depression, but if you're feeling hopeless and despairing, it might be a good idea to talk to a professional counselor. http://www.networktherapy.com/CA/San-Francisco-Therapists/
I think you're absolutely right. There are now larger phones that do most of what a tablet does yet are much more mobile. Phones are also a device everyone can justify buying.

For everything that involves producing content, a laptop is going to be more comfortable and more powerful than a tablet. And the new Surface tablet's killer feature is... A keyboard! So you can use it as a laptop. Of course you're going to need a keyboard. Every student out there needs to write essays. Everyone else is writing e-mails, reports and blog posts.

Lastly, the price point of tablets, and their specs, are just awkward. Less than 500 gets you some device with a weak processor, very little RAM, and almost no storage. To get a higher end model you need to pay 700-900. For that price, you can get a very good laptop.
They are so backwards. First the reduce it from unlimited to to 15GB. And now to 5GB. And blame it on the user. Way to go. End users are completely knocked down and are questioning cloud services.

And Win10 with its spying, so nice to the end user. No wonder their brands are burned, the global market share of WinPhone fall to 1.1% in Q4 2015. So sad, because the products were damn fine until Satya Nadella (and Bill Gates in the background) took over from Steve Balmer.
I've been a programmer at the Folding@home project for about 8 years now. It takes massive computing power and a lot of time to simulate even one reasonably sized fast folding protein using the state of the art methods. Simulating a whole cell ab initio is way beyond the reach of current technology.
Until someone dies.

While ransomware may help force/raise awareness, disruption of critical services can't be considered a "wonderful development".

I know at least one drug dispensing app that is likely vulnerable and would be disastrous if ransomlocked.
I think I've been in a similar situation. I'm not a fan of building simple I/O apps, and I'm actually not very good at it either (even though it has been done a million times by others). I do much better when people give me challenging problems, so I think we may be similar in that regard.

First I'd ask how long you feel you've been bored for? It could be that you're just in a lull of interesting things.

Do you have any of your own projects? Do you contribute to open-source? Have you considered work outside the 'regular' IT space?

I almost always have a project on the go, and often find some interesting challenges in there. What worries me most is when I don't have any side projects, but a new idea always eventually pops up.

When you talk about 'product-market-fit' being the big issue with most startups, that is what makes me think you're not looking at the start-ups that are doing the challenging work. It often isn't in web or typical software/service companies.

IoT security is something that constantly comes up as an area still in need of being addressed. Or have you played with BlockChain and distributed contracts.

There are lots of problems to be solved, maybe it's just finding the ones that interest you.

I think meetups can be a good source too, just don't go to the 'language' meetups, but maybe pick an industry meetup or two where you might be interested but wouldn't normally be in scope of what you're familiar with. Worse comes to worse, you can always leave.

Those are my thoughts, but I don't think you're alone.
(OP here) @shurcooL raised an interesting point with me while chatting.

If I commit a 50 MB file into a git repo, GitHub is just "OK, download as much as you want". But if I put it into git-lfs where it really belongs? "No, you need to purchase data packs for >1GB bandwidth!".

I mostly just submitted this to warn others of the nuances here.
Singapore's income taxes are low, but they tax newly purchased vehicles at significantly over 100%.
Performance is always important. That's really been the main point of DJB's work -- crypto isn't widely used because it is too slow, so let's build fast crypto.
You can say the same thing about any service. Or product. Nothing that holds data is trustworthy in the long term, except specialty paper.
Avoiding Complexity of Machine Learning Systems
no, but i will try and see where that gets me.
Maybe they'll use vacuums to create downforce.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/ki9rasv6uh...

(It's the Chaparral 2J https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J)
Bug Makes It Impossible to Opt Out of Apple Messages
In Sweden, most public transit agencies cover somewhere around 50% of costs through ticket sales, with the rest being paid by local governments.

AFAIK aside from perhaps planning considerations, there aren't really any other hidden subsidies (e.g. while the rail they run trains on may be owned by the public rail agency, they still have to pay usage fees)
Of all the fighting that occured last year about new curces, the MS Curve25519 initiative was the ugliest and most dishonest.
That would require a lot of work. There are parts, at least, of the Nik collection that use deep hooks into Photoshop; it's not just a set of typical 8BA/8BF "give me a pointer to a TIFF I can play with" plugins.
The RAMPS shield burned up because the $20 knockoff shields don't use sufficient connectors or copper weight on their boards. We see this quite often in #reprap and I always advise people not go cheap on the board. Ultimachine ramps cost a lot more for a reason...they don't catch fire...and if there was any issues johhnyr would make it right.
Show HN: UnityPack, a Python 3 deserialization library for Unity3D files
As someone who codes and does a lot of wet biology/chemistry... What calculations would you suggest be accelerated biologically?
Cloud hosting can be a real business, since it solves a real problem. The problem is that Microsoft/Google/etc. sell storage with little profit or even underpriced to grab market share as quickly as possible.

Maybe they are figuring out by now that the vast majority of the people who fall for free/cheap cloud storage will never pay up. The real money is in business customers who are not data hoarders, but pay 10 dollar per month per user for a Dropbox Pro/Business, Google Apps, or Office 365 Business account anyway.
A prepaid debit card is different from a plain old 'debit card'. The debit card is accepted everywhere a credit card is (as long as it says Visa or Mastercard on it).

In fact a few places accept debit cards but do not accept credit cards as fees with debit cards can be lower.

There's just a handful of subscription merchants that don't take prepaid debit cards.
Note the hit rate on predicting lethal knockouts - not much better than flipping a coin
No. Someone suggested that, to pop a bubble, you must 'short' by renting. I explained that no, that's technically not shorting, and no, if shorting the market is not an opportunity to you, then renting will indeed contribute to sustaining a bubble more relative to getting out of exercising demand on the market completely (i.e., not buying or renting but relocating). Both of those statements of mine are completely correct, and none of them imply that renting in and of itself creates a bubble, which are the words you seem to be putting in my mouth.
Did you read the OP? It is addressed there.
>You shouldn't bring cats and dogs onto public transportation because it's rude, immodest and impositional.

and it doesn't look like you're kidding. Interesting that the people who try to impose their own standards of modesty upon others never feel that such imposing is immodest. Holier than thou.

>I have the same objective to your bringing a cat on the train as I do to your boarding the train without pants on.

such an internal repression! interesting where it comes from (homeschooling? or religious family?). Sounds like there is also some deep-seated phobia that in particular manifests here itself toward cats and probably "germs" and "chaos" in general. Sometimes people do surprise ...
A shrink wrapped product (without DRM) can be used forever, even if the vendor vanishes. Many computers still run old DOS based systems or Win95 with software that still runs just fine in a VM or on old hardware.

A subscription based service has disadvantages in this regards, it's like a rent. You don't own it and can't control it.
That was the point though, no?
Well, the Shibuya-Ikebukuro section of the Tokyo metro is 12 miles long and was built between 2000 and 2012.

It cost 250 billion yen, or just over 2 billion US dollars. [1]

[1] http://www.treehugger.com/cars/trainspotting-new-subway-line...
AMEX gift cards => pay cash => leave => enjoy.

when paying with said card? provide address, fake name, 3 digit code on back of card "A HAPPY CUSTOMER4U" as name on card. Done.
I don't know whether you're right or not, but I do know it isn't prudent to have ZERO doubt about anything - but especially legal matters - without first doing the relevant research. And even then, courts disagree all the time, so I can't imagine ever being 100% certain that a ruling would never go a certain way.

To be even reasonably certain in this case, I would need case law of similarly well-known brands being challenged. Do you have some? Capturing 40% of their target market seems pretty well known to me, but again, that's meaningless without the case law.
Hello HN!

Unity3D is a popular game framework (https://unity3d.com/) in C#. Unitypack is a library that deals with the unity3d files it uses at a very low level.

This is an alternative to tools like Disunity. It can deserialize into python object, and included are tools to extract/convert raw files and convert entire bundles to YAML. I have explained the reasoning in the README.md file.

The library is still in an early alpha stage. It does not support all versions of Unity and some features (such as cross-bundle references, Mesh conversion to .obj, several texture formats etc) are still missing.

Unitypack was written as part of the HearthSim community (http://hearthsim.info). Come check us out (#hearthsim on Freenode) if you're into Hearthstone and AI/Reverse engineering/Simulation :)
Whoever works on this & put it together / posted this. Thank you. I just recently learned a while back that paypal had something similar but discontinued it. Whatever you have to do to keep this service running & any help you need in spreading the word, I'm willing to help out. This is needed badly for those who are privacy conscious.

Thank you :-)
"Currently, my favorite is Vertica, but I do have concerns about its future under the stewardship of HPE."
HPE employee here (Not a vertica team member, though)
Many teams within HP are very excited to use Vertica. Many more teams are looking to use Vertica for our own product offerings. There's no reason, in the short term, for HPE to shift away from Vertica. On the other hand, I'd say that HPE will invest more into Vertica.
There should be an option to report posts like this; it is just a cheap way to gather emails for spam..
Behind email and possibly Paywall.

Having never heard of theinformation before, I decided to check out their pricing, or what the are looking for. They ask for your details, including "name as it appears on credit card" which makes me think they are going to ask for my cc next.

The thing that I don't get is why a publisher with no track record and no brand thinks they can get people to sign-up to read their news when news orgs that have big brands and history of great reporting struggle.
Am I reading comments right that this isn't work with an existing credit card, or say, paypal? So I have to give you my debit or bank account info?
That wasn't an argument. It was an uncontroversial factual statement. Citing things is nice, but you can also just google 'suicide rural'.
I've often wondered about practical ways to reduce this in society. It must be one of the biggest causes of death for the under 50s - for the US traffic deaths are 10.6/100k/yr vs suicides 12.1/100k/yr taking the figures from Wikipedia. Personally I had some depression issues and found the cbt & buddhist type stuff helpful - not sure how general that is.
The silly loaded dice metaphors in this article are too much. No matter how you spin it our one data point of humans on earth is just one data point and it doesn't tell us any more than that unless you also know that life elsewhere is similar to life here. But we don't know that.
I think you might want to have a look at “Implementing SSL / TLS Using Cryptography and PKI” by Joshua Davies. A bit outdated, but very interesting.
Call me crazy but I can't help but think that the large majority of Valve's customers don't care whether the design is open or not.