skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I get better interest rates, fantastic customer service, unlimited ATM rebates and a host of brokerage services, all for free.

All great points. The customer service in particular is just outstanding. If there was the opposite experience of calling into Comcast support, it'd be calling into Charles Schwab. They know their stuff and are willing and able to patiently explain things well beyond a script. The yearly free financial consult is awesome, too.

Only annoyance is that some of the procedures require printing out a PDF, filling it in, and physically mailing it or faxing it back. Hopefully that'll be less common in the future.
Methane == climate change.

> Pound for pound, the comparative impact of CH4 on climate change is more than 25 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period.

https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/ch4.ht...

This is heavily discussed in a documentary I watched recently, "Cowspiracy."
The problem with Ubuntu? Lack of games and applications... and a desktop that people have to learn to use vs tried and true Windows.

Ubuntu has games and applications? Come back when Call of Duty 87 or Office 2016 works on Linux...
If there were some kind of general carbon tax, I assume the fee for "greenhouse equivalent of 1.7 million cars for a year" would be pretty big.
Excellent work here! I've only started looking into Kubernetes recently, but it's obvious that a truly magnificent amount of work has been sunk into this project, and the sophistication of its features really shows it.

One thing that's probably obvious, but which I was having trouble confirming specifically while reading the article: are Ingress load balancers updated automatically as new pods are added or removed from a backing service?

Also, one other random thought for any Kubernetes engineers that haven't to be canvasing the thread: I (and I suspect I'm not alone here) would really like to have a way to play around with Kubernetes a bit, but am having trouble committing to launching a full cluster on GCE or AWS. I could fire one up for a few hours at relatively low cost, but it would be more interesting to deploy a toy app to one and observe it over a long period. It might be nice if there was a fast bootstrap script that would allow you to bootstrap Kubernetes on $5 Digital Ocean boxes (like the scripts that already exist for GCE and AWS) with the understanding that the cluster is nowhere near production ready.
Impala supports LAG and LEAD, etc.: http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/archive/impala/2-x/2-0...
He was wrongly charged under the CFAA which does not apply here. Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA) have been pushing for "Aaron's Law" to curb the judicial abuse of the CFAA in cases like Aaron's and many others. They need all the support they can get to have this legislation pushed through. They are both Clinton supporters, btw.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/aarons-law-reintroduce...
Most of LA in the rainy dark is absolutely terrible. There are no raised markers or reflectors for lane dividers, so combined with the often faded lines and reflections of headlights, it's impossible to tell where the lanes are. Most drivers (myself included) just kind of slow down and say "this seems like about the right place...".
reminded - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufa_train_disaster

"The explosion occurred after a pipeline began leaking liquid natural gas[1] (mainly propane and butane), creating a highly flammable cloud that was soon ignited by wheel sparks from two passenger trains heading in opposite directions near the site of the leak. "
Maybe they are now able to get posts from private subreddits and private messages, without warrants...
Can we talk about the visible catastrophe of the exurban development? I'm a lot more upset about the total lifetime cost of the depicted subdivision than I am about the one-time industrial calamity.
Start Your Own Game Company with John Romero
The Chinese middle class are all about status. The iPhone is a status symbol.
Yup.

Imagine all that methane coming from ~1.5 billion cows on a yearly basis. I don't have to, it's happening already :D

Methane is 80 times more potent (long-term) than CO2 for global warming.

I personally can't wait for the economic prosperity of India and Africa. The beef and dairy business will top the oil one as the biggest pollutant, if it isn't topping already.

Why are there no regulations and taxes for them?
That's interesting, I got an email from them a few months after signing up to be contacted at a Career Fair and they left the {{CLIENT NAME}} placeholder in the email. So I figured they were incompetent :P
"Reports about the number of federal agents assigned to the Clinton probe have ranged from roughly a dozen to fewer than 50."

That's not a range.
IANAL, but I think given Lavabit's experience it's best to get a lawyer before saying screw it. The ACLU and EFF are probably at the forefront of expertise and curiosity when it comes to NSLs.
https://www.aclu.org/national-security-letters

I mean honestly what's so difficult about "Congress shall make no law"? We're not talking about someone yelling "fire" in a theater. NSLs are facts, the searches they authorize are facts, and the gag is also a fact. And it's also not like this even remotely resembles treason or sedition.
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Brazil use machines that can be very easily hacked.

Also, the deviation in the last elections from the mathematically expected was about 4%...

But the end results was 51% vs 49% meaning that if the result went as expected, the 49% candidate would have won (with 53%).

So, in some situations is not that hard to cheat.

EDIT: also even when there is blatant cheating going on, nothing much can be done about it...

Example, during elections for a minor office in one of the smallest Brazillian states (Acre), the number of invalid votes, intentionally blank votes, and voters that didn't show was exact the same, and the total number of votes was higher than the number of voters.

The losing candidate sued, the government argued that "the computer counts, and thus a recount is not a valid request", and FINED the guy that sued.

And the whole argument stopped there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11401388 (10 minutes earlier)
> Because cuda matrix multiplication is so optimized that no one with a bit of sense would roll out his own

Really? What if you have, for example, special matrices, not general ones? What's going to be faster, generating a matrix and then running the fastest general matrix multiplication code money can buy on it, or, even a somewhat slower code, but one that can instead use some extra invariants?

> Addidionally, the main issue in gpu kernels is not the ugliness of c itself, but the need to optimize algorithms to the hardware of the gpu, thus making the code much more verbose and ugly than the naive c code.

But that sounds like a compiler issue to be solved. And then you don't have to do it by hand, you let the machine find it out. (And I can't help but think that C is terrible for array based programming anyway. Granted, pure Lua might not be great either for the same reasons.)
C# and .NET have been around for 16 years. C# is on version 6. Both are open sourced under MIT license (including runtime, compiler, etc.).

You're welcome to other reasons to avoid C# and .NET, but worrying about their longevity doesn't look like a rational reason.
Fantastic news!
Are you sure they are on Danish salaries? Isn't the most of the company in San Francisco?
Reiteration:

Meditation can be catastrophic for people with depression.

There is a reason any meditation retreat will reject you if you answer 'yes' to currently going through depression.

Empty your mind, empty your feelings? Ummm.... Well, a depressed person has most of their feelings wiped to begin with, except for a heavy, sick, sinking, feeling.

A depressed person cannot think. You catch yourself just standing and sitting, hunched in one place and the whole day has passed.

Meditation is redundant for a depressed person. On top of that, there's so much stress hormones in the system just crossing the legs, and focusing on your breathing get become a source of distress.

People really have no idea what they're dealing with in depression because everyone assumes they've been through it, because that's what psychologists have always assumed. Then a real depressed person comes their way and they have to come up with a different name for it. Add a chronic, or a clinical, or some such bullshit -- it's the difference between alternative medicine and medicine. One is real, the other fake. One requires an MD, the other does not.

I have been going back to meditation my entire life to see if it will help, and it never does. It's good if you're feeling stable to begin with, but can really loop you out if you're depressed.

You don't get how serious it is. SUICIDE is a constant demon. You get that? Kill yourself kill yourself, evolution's kill switch, for the good of mankind, constantly going through your head is not some to be dismissed. If you say, meh, I can tell a depressed person what I want about what they should try and what might work, you are playing with nuclear fire.
The first Amazon review directly contradicts you[1]. Accordong to it, the book does not say that we all commit three felonies a day. [1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/1594035229/R11HC7ZWMQV2QY...
I can sympathize! I'm using an encrypted database on the device and there are some real slowdowns.

For as far as I trace the code, the only part I can't really optimize is the db open commands

For the most part it's pretty slick, but I can still feel it. It could be faster.
Show HN: Composer's Sketchpad, my “painterly” and Pencil-ready sequencer for iPad
Also youtube.
Ah, sorry. Assuming the worst isn't always a good strategy, even on the Internet :)
Nobody would be complaining about this if it didn't ask for a login.
In light of the iPad Pro release, I just thought I'd mention my new-ish music app! In short, it's a musical notebook designed for jotting down quick song ideas and working on your rough drafts — a kind of "living staff paper" that you can use almost like a drawing app. You can extend your notes to any duration and bend them to any pitch, allowing you to create twisted solos and complex rhythms with ease. All the controls for editing and playback are right there by your fingers, eliminating the "UI fatigue" that tends to set in with most creative music software. There's a free Lite version[1] if you'd like to try it out!

I've been doing a series of blog posts on its development, currently up to 3 and with many more to come:

1. http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/02/05/composers-sketchpad...

2. http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/02/27/path-rendering-in-c...

3. http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2016/03/24/liberating-pitch-an...

Since release, I've added MIDI/JSON export and support for iOS's various multitasking features. After a few maintenance updates, I plan to start working on more interesting stuff like microtonal scale support and instancing (as in canons and fugues). Eventually, the app will be open source.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/composers-sketchpad-lite/id1...
> It only costs $50 more not to participate in something as ethically distasteful as Chinese manufacturing

So, you don't own any recent electronic devices either, I presume, like smartphones, computers, home appliances? And who do you think manufactures the components for your not-Chinese-made electronics?
We can, maybe you should submit an article instead of trying to redirect the conversation?
Or Twitter sent then a C&D. All your birds are belong to us.
Thanks for your insight - it helps knowing there are so many sides to the story.

Would you have liked to reverse that order? Go to the startup first, then go to corporate. Or stay in a startup(s)?
Yeah that should be EDT.
> I'm really beginning to wonder where the ad-blocking wars are going to leave us.

I don't know all of it, but a lot of it will result in a big increase in native advertising.

By its nature, it's harder to block due the lack of uniformity.
The talk by Chris Urmson is often misconstrued like this. The 30 years statement is for when self-driving cars will be able to completely replace human drivers in basically all situations and all locations. This is very different than how long it will take for self-driving cars to replace human drivers in some situations and some locations.

Most people in the industry are still expecting self-driving cars to be able to operate on normal roads in CA and some other favorable locations within 5ish years, which makes sense given the current state of the tech. In 6 years Google has gone from no self-driving car at all to many self-driving cars logging over 1.3 million miles with a single minor fenderbender of questionable fault. Given another 5 years to develop the tech, train the software, and expand the corner cases, there's no reason to think you won't be able to hail a robocab in San Jose in 2021.
...it would shake rattle and roll every human to death to save itself.

Was there some discovery I missed that Earth is sentient?
Druid committer here. We spent a lot of time in the early days on making sure the system worked (at scale) and now we're spending more time to make it much easier to set up and manage.
CEO of Reddit Steve Huffman, username "spez", writes:

"I've been advised not to say anything one way or the other." [1]

when asked whether he withdrew the canary voluntarily. The comment directly beneath sums it up:

"In case anyone is still confused or in disbelief, this is where he confirmed it. He really can't say it any more clearly without teasing the law to go after him."

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4cqyia/for_y...
How Mark Zuckerberg Ruined Instagram
From my reading of the blogpost, I don't see any reason to infer that he "didn't like demonstrating coding in interviews", per se.

He did suggest that some of the problems one gets asked to solve are gratuitously hard, which correlates with my own experience. He also fairly acknowledged that he was getting a lot of rejection for other, e.g. cultural reasons.

So it would seem that it's getting rejected, not "demonstrating coding in interviews" that he doesn't like.
> I don't understand people who whine about services while they are enjoying them for free.

It's not hard to understand. Just because you call something a service doesn't make it valuable to your customers. In fact, it could very easily be a burden on them.
Thanks for the note. I'll admit that when I was Greenfield on my current project the "we don't support Windows" stuff on the react native homepage was enough to ward me off.

The timeline was to strict for me to risk running into a massive "gotcha."

Ionic was a known entity and the "we will deliver successfully" choice as opposed to the "it will be so cool if this works" choice.

In my heart I definitely wanted to make the cool choice... But pragmatism won out.
Surely if you write with expounding in mind you'll take that into consideration in your text. You DO write the expanded text after all...
Here's a 70 year old deadlifting 683:

https://www.facebook.com/tommy.mason.9237/videos/10207393442...
Very nice and clever. I like it it fits seamlessly into the text.
I definitely aim to remove things like that, but I tend to sneak it in with something else (partly because the fix likely came as soon as I used an editor properly configured to strip it).

I'm not sure if that's a 'bad' practice or just not the purest. But I don't think removing trailing comment space is bad in itself. As above, it probably didn't take any time at all; done automatically by a well-configured editor.
Sounds like we found the cause of carbon emissions.
Interesting to see Google Keep brought up as an example, since Google summarily killed Notebook [1], which I used, and which seemed similar in many ways.

[1] Google Notebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Notebook
Is 8200 really considered to be just a "technological unit?" They're one of the most advanced military SIGINT organizations on earth, aren't they?
Not necessarily, they could send them to Trash and then delete them from Trash itself.
Carnegie Mellon, Mental Illness, and Suicide
You are doing your Debian installs with debconf set way too high. I always set debconf to "low" but I am 99% positive this is a default question during installation.
It is just plausible dependability for the candidate. This is traditionally how organized crime works.
Well, Romans, from what I can tell, had better multiculturalism than Ottomans centuries later. They did not split the society into religion-based classes. So "the West" was quite a bit more progressive centuries earlier in some ways.
Druid isn't even close to being the leading solution. The overwhelming majority of places doing big data analytics will be Hadoop/Spark using core HDFS.

Then most places will augment this with a range of database solutions depending on how structured/clean the data is and the various workloads. Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Teradata, Oracle, ElasticSearch, Greenplum are all pretty common place in most enterprises.

And of course the ridiculous array of SQL engines on top of HDFS/S3/whatever else e.g. Hive, Spark SQL, Presto, Drill, SAP etc.
> It's pointless to compare the United States with third world countries. You should be holding it to much higher standards.

Not in the context of self-driving cars. For that, US roads should be good enough. If they aren't why not just provide roads that are prepared with aids (electronic or otherwise) just so self-driving cars will work properly?
might be current cost of energy is low here. and yes we get tons of sunshine, amazing amounts.
> But then rebase, squash, and edit the commits before
> sharing them.

And then realise that doing it properly in the first place most definitely would not have been a slow-down!
Researcher links mass extinctions to 'Planet X'
I don't think there is a way to check if a file has been completely uploaded on the client side. On the server side, use something like inotify to monitor the uploaded file.
For those that wanted a visualization

10^-35 - Planck length
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It might be helpful perhaps to provide some kubernetes configuration set up (or like a presetup kubernetes running in vagrant) that has all the nodes correctly configured out of the box to easily get started with development and prototyping.
Expect that they don't. Or if they do, not consistently.
It's amazing that it lasted this long. Given how I assumed the government was handing these things out like candy I would have thought just about every major tech organisation was getting dozens at least every year. In a weird way, it almost increases my faith in the system. Or it decreases my faith even further in the competence of the security agencies .. I'm not sure which. (after Facebook and Google, Reddit is probably one of the most obvious and valuable places to hit they could go to ... how did it take them this long?).
Has anyone done a meaningful private benchmark comparison with http://www.scylladb.com/ ? I didn't find one online.
15 Memorable Quotes from Tech Industry Greats
This is a very thinly sourced article.

It's surprising that "law enforcement officials" would be sharing details about this incredibly high profile case, but only with a reporter for AJAM, a channel that is in its last weeks on the air. And that presented with such a big scoop, Al Jazeera apparently hasn't even bothered to post an article about it to their website. So there's just an unofficial clip of what the reporter said on the air in a brief report floating around. Not saying it's false... it's just very thinly sourced.
No, I don't believe I do. I think this could be implemented into a blogging platform— a new medium.
Personally, I'll be happy when they close Google Groups.
at a certain point, fast approaching, we should start optimizing road markings for electronic sensors over human sight. How costly would it be to strip the middle of every lane with a small magnet or RFID that could detected by vehicles and even convey static metadata, such as mile maker, speed limit, number of lanes, distance to next stop light etc.
Yes it is. There were multiple estimates. The lowest was "roughly a dozen" the highest was "less than 50". The two ends of the range use different units and have different significant figures because they came from two different calculations.

In theory the author could have tried to unify those points on the same number line with the same sig figs, but I'm not even sure what the rules are for ranges built from two separate calculations. If there even is a rule you'd get something like "range from 10 to 50" and only math geeks would have a clear picture of what those zeroes really mean, and even they would've lost the "not 50" and "quite possibly less than 10" information the existing phrasing provides.
> Felt like a cheat code.

Until the day you use an ATM with a skimmer. Private machines are a dangerous cesspool.
This piece was a perfect opportunity for the New York Times to use data and charts to visualize the magnitude of the problem and the timeline of the discoveries and activities.

Instead we got a wall of text, and numbers without context like '97,100 metric tons'. I'm sure somewhere deep in there the context was provided, but it wasn't readily available for me as a reader to make a quick assessment of the issues importance, and whether to dedicate 15 minutes to reading it.

Specifically, the lack of subheads and figures made the article really hard to skim, which is rather inexcusable in the age of internet publishing. The only images are a guy with a rolls royce, an overhead shot of the area, a pool, and a gate. Not exactly compelling stuff, nor highly descriptive or additive. The article is very well researched and real journalism went into it, and its a shame it wasn't put together well.

EDIT: dove into this problem more on my blog -- http://www.nickpunt.com/2016/03/31/journalism-and-user-exper...
Maybe they are? The question is, what am I doing differently in this universe compared to the universe where the canary is still present? It seems like your answer is "In this universe (canary removed) I no longer treat reddit as a secure and private communication platform." My personal threat model assumes that reddit is not a secure and private communication platform so the status of the canary does not change my behavior, utility schedules, outlook, etc.
I mean honestly what's so difficult about "Congress
shall make no law"?

The exceptions are numerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Disagree with the restriction on free speech on its actual merits, not by saying "there's very few restrictions on free speech" when in fact this is not the case.
Druid's main value add to the data infrastructure space is around power user-facing data applications at scale. The queries it is best at are OLAP/business intelligence style queries. It isn't really designed to be a general processing tool such as Hadoop or Spark. The open source data space is very complex, and there are many different solutions targeted towards many different use cases. Druid is better than other solutions at some of these use cases, and worse than other solutions at others.

I wrote my interpretation of the current open source data landscape here for anyone interested: http://imply.io/post/2015/11/04/big-data-zoo.html