skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious if you had to deal with any injuries over the years. My body seems to be the type that gets injured easily, no matter what I do I seem to get injured. I am obsessive about form, I seem to get "overuse injuries", shoulder impingement, sensitive it band ect.
I don't really understand this story.

If I read the LA Times article (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clinton-email-probe-2016...) which the main article links to; running a personal email server and using it for official business was not illegal at the time for mrs. Clinton.

Yet there is "roughly a dozen" FBI agents on the case.

Why would that be if it is slamduck that nothing illegal was going on?
HN members also write server-side code in JavaScript.
Of course not _all_, but then the hit rate is pretty low in any industry which relies on some sort of artistic merit.

I recall an Apple 'meet the filmmaker' event with Noel Clarke about his latest film. I asked him what he saw as an essential attribute for a filmmaker to cultivate. He mentioned that for every project which hit the screen he had literally a dozen which didn't. A thick skin and not giving up were essential in his opinion for being a successful filmmaker. He was incredibly intense in his reply. He then yelled at me "don't you never quit trying man, ok?"

I think that tenacity is what separates a lot of top businessmen, architects and artists from the rest. For every success which gets out there there are many attempts along the way side.
If one of these databases included a really good SparkSQL connector (including great predicate push-down), I could see that being hugely beneficial to growth. Part of why people are using these systems is because you can connect in many different types of data. Make your database part of that ecosystem and you can gradually take in more of the analytics workload without the users losing the ability to also throw in some plain old text files or something and join between multiple worlds.
No, I'm working under the assumption that the NSL was a first step in mass collection.
Here's an example.

Let's say you frequent lots of subreddits that might be considered outside societal norms. Right now that data is ONLY available internally at Reddit.

If the NSA hoovered up this data, suddenly they might learn a lot about you that they didn't know before (although there's probably a fair argument that people probably leave enough other clues scattered across other data sources they likely have access to that make this redundant).

Maybe you aren't looking at things that would set off their alerts for today's hot media topics. But what about the future? What if we end up with a President with a radical discriminatory agenda (a scarily likely possibility at this point unfortunately)? What if suddenly things that may have been frowned upon before by the general public are suddenly made illegal by Executive order or some other horrible twisting of our laws? This provides the government with a great way to narrow down the list and identify targets that have become "inconvenient" for them.

Think it can't happen or that this is an off-the-wall conspiracy theory? Germany and Russia would like to have a chat with you.

Sure, the mainstream users probably won't have any noticeable impact on their lives. For now at least. But this can still have a chilling effect on free speech today, without the nightmare scenario I outlined above occurring.

Case in point from a couple days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11374839
Sure, fees are under 5%, but what about that one month that you didn't pay off your bill in full? Enjoy that ~30% interest rate on your account balance.
Maryland court is the first to require a warrant for covert cellphone tracking
It's proprietary. And Microsoft spies on its users. So there's that. I don't need any more justification.
Please use the correct title of the article (stackoverflow question) so users don't have to guess what's behind it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Uhh... it frequently is (and it's only getting worse):

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/the-siege-of-mi...

You are aware these things don't just suddenly happen all at once. Right?
> No, but people wanting a stable no-fuss desktop with everything (from laptop sleep to device drivers) working, access to proprietary software and all kinds of 3rd party drivers available, will.

Have you used a recent Linux distro? They are mainly stable and no fuss, and they don't require you to run proprietary software.
Paying the Coverton Ransomware May Not Get Your Data Back
Compared to the 5820K i7, these don't seem much better... Is there something I'm missing?

http://ark.intel.com/products/82932/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-Proc...
Let’s Recognize How Fast We’re Moving
Druid has a SparkSQL connector: https://github.com/SparklineData/spark-druid-olap
Seriously? That sounds like the perfect job for Common Lisp (which appears more or less set in stone in 2016, albeit without the usual concomitant stagnation, given its malleability).

Plus, in fact, I get the distinct impression that your second sentence describes what COBOL actually did for companies decades ago, so the first one makes it sound like a contradiction.
Inappropriate transmission of classified material on the system. If people were knowingly sending classified info to the system, it's a problem.
"It's proprietary" is a fully legitimate pain point. It means that I can never fully trust that part of my toolbox, what if it has a bug that gets neglected by the developer or it gets abandoned. The open source ideology is not attractive just because of its ethics.
What better way to profit than selling developers the tools they need to build projects? Again, Microsoft is focusing on developers. As for being locked in to their products, it doesn't look like Visual Studio is going anywhere, and as others have said, their stack has been around at least over a decade now. The only newcomer is Visual Studio Code and that is open sourced anyway.
Lol yeah, I feel like I want more examples to read. Easy way to filter data you already know. I think I could learn so much faster with this if texts are written properly.
I think the reason is because there are easier, legal, ways to exert political control than to commit election fraud.

Why mess around with petty vote fraud when you can just make large donations to both candidates and guarantee the results you want?
Apparently the Internet Archive got one ( and can speak about it)[0] and a few years ago there was a talk at the 27c3 [1], about getting one.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-its-like-to-get-...

[1] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/speakers/3156.e...
Nah, I'm Greek and I work for a US company, so I'm sorted :P
That is definitely false - single core performance still matters a lot in many ML applications, where utilizing many (>8) cores is still difficult.
I think a more poignant question would be "Is privacy being stigmatized?". The answer has unfortunately always been yes.
A number of cars including the Infiniti Q50 have a variation of the "follow the car in front of me", I used it the other day on the highway it is more about cruise, but combined with the stay in lane feature that it also has it might quality for what you are looking for.
Based on the PGP pathfinder here[0], it is likely this is a valid key. I'm only a few signatures away from this nginx signing key.

[0]http://pgp.cs.uu.nl/
That's precisely what I said, if you read my comment again. (But since this is the internet, I should have been more explicit.)
I'm too lazy to read this but not enough not to throw my two cents.

Non-human mammals are amazing considering how many of them are incredibly capable very early. I'm thinking mostly of large prey for whom the ability to walk and run is crucial. Basically they need to be able to do many things very quickly. It's incredible to see how fast so many new-born grow in so many species.

Also, I've searched for the word "play" in this article and found no occurrence. To me how young mammals play and more importantly what drives them to do so is the core mystery behind the development of the mammalian brain. I suspect that once this is cracked, a big part of the work will be done.
> Not to sound arrogant. However I think Go (golang) is still in the hype wagon / cargo cult phase.

I'm not going to comment on the "hype" point, since your probably right. I just wanted to mention that I found out the other day that the Go garbage collector doesn't free memory. So your process will never shrink in memory usage (on Linux it uses MADV_DONTNEED and on BSD&Solaris it used MADV_FREE -- which means that essentially the page of memory becomes an overcommitted page that doesn't exist anymore). But that still won't stop your kernel from killing it.

> It's popular as in the "popular latest javascript UI/UX" sense. Not to diminish Go _extraordinary_ achievements, however it's still to early to say.

> E.g. Ruby - used to be _mega_ popular, everything was Ruby at some point. Hype is over and it doesn't look too promising. Niche is taken and it stays there.
oh come on! it was working so well, I'm so tired of this company cancelling services. If MS made EEE an entry in Wikipedia [1], we need to coin one for Google...

1. Experiment, Excite, Evaporate ?

2. Google SDLC: PoC, Beta, Retire ?

"Google it" starts to sounds like "Kill it"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
> Australia just outlawed warrant canaries. Scary times.

Outlawing warrant canaries per se is not scary at all. They're a method of communicating information that has been deemed to be forbidden, so it's just a way of preventing the rules-lawyering method of still conveying that info. The overreach of such things in the first place is the scary part, not the stuff around canaries themselves.

The focus should be on getting rid of the overreach of these things, not on preserving a loophole.
> Clinton should at a minimum be banned from handling classified information in the future.

That sounds like a good idea for many more politicians of this world.
I read an article about this a few weeks ago. Basically it's not possible because of the amount of energy required to pump the water. It's a HUUUUGE amount of water. Sea levels are rising 3mm/year, which is ... hmm

Surface area of Earth = 510 million km^2 = 5.10e14 m^2.

~70% is water, so 3.57e14 m^2.

Multiply that by 3mm (3e-3 m) = 1.07e12 m^3.

1.07 trillion tonnes of water. Per year.

Or 33,907 tonnes per second!
What a narrow view - I assure you, there are thousands of companies around the world paying real money to qualified admins to handle such equipment.

Not everything is a startup in SF, and not even every startup does DevOps.
To get technical on you, 95% of methane from cattle is from burps, not farts.
Very cool. Can it discover itself? :)
A more interesting question is how it compares to OpenStack, no?
That was the scariest and the most unsettling thing I've seen for a while.

Don't take me wrong -- we're at a great spot now.

But can this continue? Or at least remain? Or can the same forces that brought exponential growth eventually cause exponential decline?

I just don't think exponential growth and stability go hand in hand.
Jupyter Notebooks with R in Azure Machine Learning Studio
"relegated"?
Developed and shepherded by one of the most powerful companies in the world?
Also, even if the difference is 100% in the diet and exercise regimen (which I consider vanishingly unlikely, given the established and increasing knowledge base of how genetic factors influence major age-related illnesses), a 14% increase in muscle mass between "sedentary" and "world-class athlete" doesn't suggest the greatest ROI for a more moderate regimen.

I think there's value in this study; the study of extremes often yields useful hints for future research. But the way it's reported here is pretty bad. This kind of crap will continue until the prevailing attitude shifts away from the concept of "successful aging". Where would we be if Jonas Salk had focused on "successful polio"?
Shivon Zilis on the Machine Intelligence Landscape
So, one disadvantage of these loophole canaries is that they only work once. What happens when another NSL is issued at a later date?
st3v3r mentioned two valid points.

On top of that I will add "It's propietary". Because it is. It's a security risk, it means I have to buy it and I have to manage every license I buy. No need for the Stallman pasta here to express clear reasons why it is unacceptable for me and many others.

Other reasons:

- Bloated by default. Comes with many things I do not need, and some I outright despise.

- Resource hungry. It's gotten much, much better with the last few versions, but I can take my Linux set-up to a lowly Chromebook, a discardable netbook or a cheap SoC like the RPi and barely notice a difference for most of what I do. I cannot do that with Windows.

- Not POSIX. I could switch to OS X or BSD tomorrow and barely notice the difference for most of my computing. Not on Windows.

- Carries a particular culture of everything having to be done on the GUI. And what a bad GUI it is.

- Security wise it's terrible, you can't simply brush off the threat of malware as I do on Linux.

- No first class package management. The App Store is a joke.

- It is a completely different system from what I run or would run on my servers anyway.

I could go on but I think it's enough to justify why Windows is not a good option for me (me, as in, me, not someone who's really happy now with Windows).
Oculus hints of issues shipping (or billing) Oculus Rift CV1 on Reddit
> When clouds roll in, people are not OK with their TVs turning off. So you'd always need the traditional grid in place, even if it's for a few days a year.

Sounds like a great argument for municipal generation and storage. If nothing else, it's both cheaper than "everyone on his own" and could lesser the strain for long-distance infrastructure (which could still be nice for geographic smoothing).

> So, yes, a huge amount of solar can figuratively blow up the electrical grid.

Demand-controlled EVs could take a lot of the load. In fact, it's probably one of the sanest applications of massive solar installations (beyond the potential of future power-to-gas tech).
> >The tone here sounds very angry. You aren't "bit" by the GPL, you choose to participate in the usage of the license and the community of code that comes with it.

> It's not like you had a _choice_ if there's software you want to use and it's only available as GPL.

You can either write it yourself, don't implement that feature or comply with the GPL. The GPL would be a pretty bad copyleft license if companies could just ignore it because "we want to keep our stuff proprietary".

The authors of the software wanted to ensure that all users of their code would have perpetual freedom. Complaining about it without recognising their reason for using the GPL is quite a selective argument. They don't want you to use their code if it means that you'll take away your users' freedom.
Humans will be gone long before the sun. Pessimistically, we'll extinct ourselves within the next few centuries. Optimistically, any remnant progeny of ours will be so distant from us today that they'll take the idea that they're descended from filthy animals (us) as as much of an affront as creationists re: our primate descent.
You certainly can do this. Though keep in mind that your functions are running on Windows, so make sure to compile your native binaries to target Windows.
Thanks for this clarification.
It's also important to see her work in the context of the unbuilt design output of the Architectural Association School in the 80s (in London) and her past tutor there, Rem Koolhaas. He has been a lot more intellectual and always questioning on a political front, even if working for big clients requires political compromise.

More recently Zaha had collaborated closely with Patrik Schumacher, an architect that, to my understanding, many of the British architectural intelligentsia generally dismiss as a capitalist running dog and a vacuous poser when it comes to theory: http://www.patrikschumacher.com/
He is maybe someone of interest to those on HN who read Christopher Alexander.

Her own strength of character is indisputable: http://hughpearman.com/zaha-hadid-commands-the-guggenheim-bu...

'There was one question I was, I admit, too chicken to put to Zaha face to face. So I texted her later. What about that office-tyrant reputation, then, I asked? All that raging and smashing stuff up? Did she recognise that and did she think it mattered?

Gingerly I put the phone down and watched it. Seconds later, it chirruped. The screen read:

“I am actualy too kind…its best if you ask the others no one talks abt that. Does anyone write abt the male tyrants. It’s very understandable – and it’s such a cliche. ZAHA is difficult. To whom exactly.”

Er..thanks, I replied. The phone chirruped again.

“Trying to push ideas is very tough on all counts. Thanx for the effort see you soon ZAHA”'
Awesome - great work!

A tutorial on how to link it to a mysql database would be greatly appreciated :)
Well, it's hard to express using numeric operators, but still comprehensible.
When faced with abusers [1], it may be mentally healthiest to briefly indulge in slightly-unpleasant words like: "Rather than mislead everyone..."

Why? Abuse stays with people during the day, and it is better to ever-so-slightly reflect it back on the abuser, than for it to come out on your employees (or friends, children, dog...)

[1] "You have no clue what are you talking about", "how much people can be stupid and naive", etc.
I've found it to be just as easy to get going with as Laravel. The documentation is good.
Haha, you bastard :P
Introducing Implantuino
I used it in "normal" usage here:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/building-cheap-home-sensorcontr...

EDIT: I've added a "real-world examples" section to the page with the above included.
I disagree about the service being bad. I've had nothing but positive experiences with Simple's support team.

Also, they offer a JSON feed of my transactions, which isn't something any of my other banks provide.
Here's some screenshots from the original reddit thread

http://imgur.com/a/rAnZs
Agree 100%: "You mean I can't circumvent the plain meaning of a court order through information-theoretic trickery? Truly, fascism is upon us."
Man... it's so disheartening to read about these things. I feel like even if I reduce all my emissions to the best of my ability - use only renewable energy, don't eat meat, don't drive etc - my net effect is only a drop in the ocean compared to catastrophes like this. And this is a total accident: it's not something that could be blamed on apathy, or laziness. Maybe negligence? But it feels like the expulsion of carbon gases is so hard to stop even with good intentions. I can't help but feel so powerless against this.
> It would be trivially easy for an engineer to add a GPL-licensed dependency to a project without realizing it, perhaps via a transitive dependency, thereby causing the company to be in breach of the GPL.

Just as easily as it is for a designer to use a copyrighted work. The GPL isn't a boogieman, every project that's under the GPL says so. If a developer isn't mindful enough to realise that they shouldn't randomly copy-paste library dependencies without knowing anything about them isn't a very good developer.
In all honesty, cache should be in here too. Getting a daxpy to fit into cache is the most satisfying feeling in the world.
> Vice President Bill Clinton

I don't think that the First Husband would have clemency powers ;)
Sure, you can boil anything down to a contrived sentence that misses the point, but I never once mentioned it being painful. It's much more about building habits, and it's up to you to decide if habits are meant to be painful or not. Choosing healthy ingredients, researching recipes, cooking while I listen to a podcast, and then enjoying a nice meal with good company isn't what I consider painful.
New evidence of Viking life in America?
> I can't think of any other reason why we still use camelCase, for example.

I know you said that on purpose ;)

In any case, I am also a proponent of tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment, and in fact only recently did I succumb to using spaces for Python projects, for the sake of consistency with the rest of the ecosystem. I was merely pointing out how "many people use it, therefore it's probably bad", just like "many people use it, therefore it must be good" are never good arguments.
Godot Engine aims for mainstream
Also:

‘John Doe’ Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order After 6 Years

http://www.wired.com/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/
ECC ram and multi-processor support. But yeah I see what you're saying and I agree.
Have you considered why the original authors chose the GPL? It's so people who use their code will never take away the freedom of users of the code. If you're complaining about not being able to take their code and make it proprietary, you're missing the point that THAT'S WHY THEY CHOSE THE GPL.
So Pooling is a performance tool for both cases? Native and GC.
Some of us are not newly minted grads. I've worked at one job longer than half of hacker news has been working total.

I've seen it go the other way too. One guy used to show up at 6:45 and his bosses were not amused that he was nowhere to be found at 4:15 pm.

If we're being perfectly realistic here in this thread, some guys just want minions. If you're getting dinged for something it may have nothing to do with that thing. You're being kept in your place and/or raises are being controlled by getting you to agree that the things that make you different from everyone else are bad and you should feel bad.

If they run out of things that actually matter, they'll declare that every team member should be exactly as good at every responsibility of the group as every other team member, and everyone who isn't exactly average will have work to do (and get a smaller raise).

One of my favorite bosses derisively called this "punishing people for their weaknesses instead of celebrating their strengths."
Wouldn't SSDs - and even better system-bus-connected storage contraptions - also drive the use of different algorithms? I can see how merely cutting the disk latencies by two (or more) orders of magnitude leaves you starved for computational resources, but you don't have to do many things at that point. Data packing is different (could be even CPU matched now?), access patterns can be more random, etc.
Developing applications with Laravel 5 – Part 2
From what I just read, it doesn't even sound that deep.
If you ask me whether a good act was "intentional", I'd assume you mean whether the good effect was the purpose of the act. But if you ask whether a bad act was "intentional", I'd assume you wanted to know whether the bad effect was known in advance. That is, there seems to be different connotations for "intention" in relation to good and bad intents.
LKML: New syscall: leftpad()
As I understand it, Bancorp is just contracted by Simple to hold the funds and interface with the banking system. All of the policies, support and user-facing parts are handled by Simple itself.

Ally, on the other hand, literally is GMAC.
Methane breaks down in around 10 years into CO2. So, it's not quite that bad.
Agreed. This could be very powerful.

I've at times been called wordy. But I am fastidious when it comes to diction. If the word is there— it's there for a reason.

I'd love a way to fold.
Examples of how to make Drupal outside-in – Dries Buytaert
Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report
Reminds me of ipix 360. I remember trying to pirate it when i was in highschool. I guess its cool that we no longer need Java Applets to do these things.

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