skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow, heart attack at 40? Can you elaborate on how that happened?

I mean, they never really know exactly what causes any particular heart attack. But there are definitely specific risk factors I can single out, and beyond that, I can speculate.

For starters, I was a bit overweight, and I am diabetic. Those are both risk factors. But on the flip side, my diabetes is well controlled, and while overweight, I wasn't exactly the stereotypical 400 lb slob that you look at and go "how is that guy still alive?" But while I was pretty active at times during my life (on an "on again, off again" basis), I was one of those people who eats a shitty diet and imagines that he can make up for it by working out more. So even though I wasn't huge outwardly, I'm pretty sure the crap diet, over a period of many years, played a role.

But beyond that, I was working crazy hard on this startup, and doing really nutty shit like working 100+ hours a week (between the day job and the startup), not getting enough sleep, and consuming simply ridiculous amounts of caffeine. I'd go to Barnes & Noble or Starbucks to work on the startup after getting off work at my other job, and sit there and drink a triple-shot latte, chase that with a Red Bull, and eat a box or two of chocolate covered espresso beans... 4 or 5 times a week.

I've also had some minor, but annoying, knee issues since I was a teenager and I've used a lot of ibuprofen over the years, including taking more than the recommended amount and definitely taking it longer than you're supposed to. Well, guess what? In the last couple of years they've found that sustained use of ibuprofen increases your risk of heart attack.

All in all, my personal hunch is that the main things that contributed to it where: 1. my diet, 2. stress, 3. weight, 4. excessive ibuprofen
I was just about to ask if Hacker News has an NSL canary, when I saw this: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11402439 >.
If you can afford Oracle licenses, RHEL licenses are a rounding error.
He wasn't trying to look down on the guy. He just pointed the obvious; calling this guy the Arab spring instigator is far-fetched.
> In fact, if Earth were 50 percent larger, with a correspondingly stronger gravitational pull, no form of chemical propulsion would contain enough energy to launch a spacecraft into orbit.

This is quite a strange statement. Not even with multiple stages? Not even Saturn-V would be able to lift a cubesat - with necessary extra stages? I'd like to see numbers which support that.
Redash is around for 2.5 years only and probably AirBNB engs thought it was too early to have a look at.
I'm reminded of the infamous quote from Star Wars prequel producer Rick McCallum: "It's so dense; every single image has so much going on."
Cannot remember having seen it.

Tip: on my mobile at least, swiping works. (Protip to googlers around here: no, stop doing this on default blogger theme)
> Brazil is meeting the demand for soybean by cutting the rainforest and selling it to USA.

The problem isn't demand for soybeans. If there was less demand for soybeans then they would be producing palm kernel oil or something else. And there is nothing wrong with soybeans grown on land that wasn't previously rainforest. What is necessary is a law against cutting down the rainforest which is actually enforced. The result of that law may be that the US will have to get its soybeans from somewhere else or will have to buy something else instead of soybeans, but that is a consequence not a cause.

> So yes, USA needs to stop producing that much of livestock.

It probably doesn't. Agricultural practices are more advanced in the US and the land is already converted. If livestock is to be raised anywhere it is more sensible to do it there than most other places.

Not all countries are the same.
Confusing UI!
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paa3niF72Nw

I was planning to assist but had something else to do.
Perl 6 fills me with a sense of childlike wonder and hope for the future and excitement about the world.

Hacker News takes that excitement and beats it into a nasty pulp on the floor.

Perl was my first language after QBASIC and a failed attempt at C. I thought it was super cool.

I love how it's optimized for being awesome instead of pandering to dumbass lazy coworkers who won't RTFM.
Favourite so far, the "whatever" operator :-)
What a Startup Owner Should Know About Vanity and Sanity Metrics?
You just said "yes its the wrong name, but we are doing it anyway and hoping StackOverflow will fix it or compensate for the wrong decision that we have made but are unwilling to fix because the politics was already so stressful that we don't want to go back there and besides a more important Microsoft manager than me made the decision, so it can't be changed.".

Don't underestimate the critical importance of being able to effectively search to resolve problems with any given technology. Programming is the process of using Google to find why some thing isn't working as expected, interspersed with writing the occasional line or three of code. Your product name "functions" breaks this process.

You know already its a problem you should fix it now and consider it not a software bug but a branding bug - the beta program has revealed the defect, how you should fix it early before polluting the search engine space with this ill considered product name.

You guys.... so corporate. It's like a Dilbert cartoon.
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If you cant fight with free but unsupported, be free and unsupported. :) I was expecting this for quite some time.
If I'm understanding you, you're wondering what to do with the information, and comparing it to an identical situation where you don't have the information.

You're right that an early-warning system hasn't been developed. We have no way of knowing what the NSA will decide to analyse after the fact. Indeed, we do not know if an asteroid will hit the earth tomorrow. At one level, there is a limit to our ability to predict the future.

So it's up to the individual. We self-censor, or don't. The chilling effect of the knowledge of surveillance is well documented. Are you making a point that thinking you're being spied upon is more damaging than any fallout of the actual spying?
And a more recent statement: "Was reflecting on how the quality of my email inbox had become less awful lately, then remembered I added a rule to drop pgp encrypted mail." https://twitter.com/moxie/status/709492776635752448
Here the power company was split up into a generation unit and a distribution unit. What you're talking about is having a third type, a storage unit, to help manage demand.

If you can pull power off the grid very cheaply, even get paid to "dispose" of it, then later return it at a profit, you could arbitrage solar capacity.
Theranos is getting some well deserved regulatory attention.

We need better healthcare tech but we also need to know that it works.
Are there no limitations at all with this then? No limit to the number of machines it can be deployed on? Any stipulations about it being for development only purposes?

Reading the article suggests it's developer only and so for low cost production deployments, Centos is still much cheaper(free).
Upcoming Let's Encrypt intermediate changes
> endless operator-obfuscation nonsense a la C++

C++? Ever looked at some "advanced" Haskell code?
I was speaking in the context of my parent post.

It is good to know there is some legal haven where post-transaction EULAs are disregarded, though, thanks.
They're all dated November of 2015, which was right around when the WSJ investigation brought out. Is this the first time this document(s) was open publicly? What is the new information here?
Did you have a lot of bad experiences with malware on Linux?
Its not about the payload. Its about the geometric growth in fuel required to lift - the fuel.
Yes, you are absolutely right about "repeatedly solved problems", so it is definitly one in the series of "yet another ...". I'll try your program on our project files to see what registers it can extract from it. I'm assuming that there is no perfect universal solution, and I agree that Verilog-to-C (just having C in the back of your mind while working on the FPGA) is better here than C-to-Verilog. So in our case there is no automatic generator, code just helps you to avoid errors. Python program imports Verilog parameters/localparams (just constants and the the ones derived from them using expressions) and catches most of the typos when I write the generator code (not dramatically shorter than what it generates). This allows me to be flexible - the instantiated modules are not very uniform and not all have exactly the same interface - many were developed a long time ago starting as early as 2002. Not many are that old, but there are still many interface variations, and I do not mind going once more through them before switching to the C work from Verilog. I want just two things:

- reduce the number of possible errors as a result of the manual translation and

- make this (somewhat hand-crafted) converter be able to synchronize future changes in Verilog code to the C code that uses it, so five years from now it will be easy to add functionality to the system.

And thanks again for the links - I'll look more into your code.
Casting one interface type to another involves a dynamic lookup, since you don't know what concrete type you're going to have at runtime. See http://research.swtch.com/interfaces for context.
Locus of control. Are you in control?
Thanks for the insight. I am going to back off on how aggressively I increase the load and go to work on flexibility and technique.
If you are issuing and building up your certificates manually (e.g., using acme-tiny), use the latest intermediate otherwise Firefox and Android will be unhappy.
That's what blinds are for?
Yeah build our own isn't a good option for us for a few reasons.

1. Our problem set is not novel, we're more or less like many others out there and collectively we are a market that a vendor can build a product for

2. Since we have significantly more revenue than a startup like AirBNB we can rationalize and amortize an ongoing expense

3. We actively try not to do things that aren't our core competency

4. Even if we wanted to we have plenty of human resources but not the talent to build our own analytic DB or data visualization tools

I think AirBNB is likely a much different company than most. Their approach to talent attraction/retention, novelty of problem set, ability and tolerance to make a multimillion dollar capital investment in analytic database and visualization tools, etc, etc. In their case the upstart cost of building a custom thing and the value prop likely makes sense.
Login to account, push "Export", select "JSON".

It would be nice if they had OAuth support or a formally documented API, but it's still a good start.
If your car has any "Telematics" system (OnStar, mBrace, ConnectedDrive, Car-Net, etc.) it definitely uses a SIM card to phone home. It varies based on the car, but I know as of ~MY2012, every single GM car comes standard with the OnStar functionality. I wouldn't be surprised if other manufacturers are the same.
This reminds me of when people asked Linus Torvalds if the NSA had approached him about putting in backdoors. To which he answered "No" while shaking his head yes...

Red Hat and Systemd anyone?
0-60 in 6 seconds is really not all that fast anymore. Source: https://www.0-60specs.com/0-60-times/

Even the Volvo XC90 managed to slide under the bar at exactly 6 seconds. You really have to work hard to move downmarket enough to still be over 6. Sorry Kia owners.
This is not really a great thing about Redis.
They won't reduce emissions until they're mandated by law. And yes, one would expect lots of people to get rich off them. That's kind of the point; it's a market solution.
Invisible Software Restarts
Those people are drunk on themselves, no need for an open bar.
I'm using Archlinux on Thinkpad T440s with 8Gb ram and i5-4300U processor. It usually gives me on average 5 hrs of battery and it's lightweight to carry around.

The primary factors I chose thinkpad was due to 1. Battery backup 2. Awesome Keyboard 3.I wanted 14inch screen size.

Answering your question, Even a chrome book would suffice for web development, all you need is a browser and editor. It's really upto you to see which laptop suits your need.I suggest you do this..
1. Write all the specs you think you need like screen size, battery life, if you need a GPU or not, weight of the laptop...
2. Check the top brands (Lenovo t,x series, Dell xps, HP, toshiba...) using those specs as filters and make a list of laptops you want to finally choose from
3. Go to a store and try those laptops out firsthand, see how comfortable you're with the keyboard etc..
Taste is of course subjective, but when looking at good pictures of the car it looks pretty sweet:

http://imgur.com/a/V0BxU

I think the front is very clean, and seen from above and behind the large rear window makes it look great. In my book this is way better than a Prius.
3 Popular Podcast Apps for Windows 10 Mobile
Planet Labs has released "Esoterra": https://www.planet.com/pulse/esoterra/

With some interesting images of Area 51, among other things:
https://www.planet.com/gallery/groom-lake-april1/
Advanced Economies Must Still Make Things
A programming language for living cells
Some large companies use it: Google of course, canonical, coreos, cloudflare, dropbox, docker, sainsburys, gov.uk, booking.com. Not many hipsters. There's a longer list here https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
Q42018... Sales won't start until the end of 2017 (if things stay on schedule) and production will likely ramp up, I'd be surprised if they sell 100k Model 3s in the first year. Still, the average revenue to Tesla will probably be on the higher end, $45-$50k since they'll likely prioritize the performance versions as they've done for the S and the X so far, so 100k x $45k still gets you to $4.5B.
There is an accompanying article [1] that gives more background. The part on there internal quality control tests show the tech just isn't there.

> The inspection report showed that 29% of the quality-control checks performed on the company’s proprietary blood-testing devices in October 2014 produced results outside the range considered acceptable by Theranos.

> In February 2015, an Edison-run test to measure a hormone that affects testosterone levels failed 87% of quality-control checks, the report said.

It doesn't look like they are using Edison to run most of their tests, so we can excuse the experimental tests if they aren't being used for actual patients. Chalk that up to work-in-progress.

What is absolutely inexcusable is their treatment of patients, especially when they found out that results were incorrect.

> Inspectors also found that Theranos sometimes released patients’ results even when the Edison devices used to run those tests produced erratic results in quality-control checks.

and

> The inspection report said Theranos didn’t notify doctors treating patients potentially affected by the erroneous results until mid-November, or seven weeks after the inspectors first identified the problems.

Seven weeks to notify customers that you may have fucked up a medical test? We reach out to customers about potential software bugs within an hour.

This is an instance where I am glad to have government slowing down innovation. "Move fast, break things" doesn't work when people's lives are at stake.

[1]:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-devices-often-failed-ac...
> Hacker News takes that excitement and beats it into a nasty pulp on the floor.

You're as much a part of HN as anyone else is, and tons of people here like Perl 6. That's presumably why stories about it such as this one get upvoted so highly.

Instead of dissing the community and adding to the negativity, it would be better to ignore it (which is hard, I know) and share some things about what you like so much.
Can someone tell medium? They're still buying comodo certs for their custom domains
Jesus. That sounds like the path I am headed down. Overweight, workaholic, ibuprofen taker.
Okay...

Well, I just don't understand why it's hilarious that "this website" liked Apple Music's curated stuff, as a context for me not being a fan of Spotify's curated stuff. To me it's just like, a bunch of people liked this one thing, and now I dislike this one other thing, ha ha?

Here's Spotify's Chief Revenue Officer glowing about the advertising potential of their curated playlists:

> “Music is an integral part of life, day in and day out,” said Jeff Levick, Chief Revenue Officer, Spotify. “Our new targeting solutions based on rich behavioral insights combined with our global footprint in 58 markets give brands unprecedented ways to reach streaming consumers.”

https://press.spotify.com/se/2015/04/16/spotify-launches-pla...

Sure, I pay to avoid the actual jingles, but the playlists are still part of their advertising program. And yeah, I think placing these suggested playlists in my visual field every time I launch the app constitutes a form of advertising.

Mostly though I just have a visceral aversion to the copy they use. They give me the same bad feelings as when I look at billboards or hear radio jingles. Right now it's suggesting me to "go out and own this day like if you were boss of the world." I would prefer to use a Spotify client without this stuff.
GDP will become increasingly diverged from technological progress and standard of living I think, though it's quite a poor metric even now.

Mobile phones getting internet access doesn't show up for example. Software mostly shows up as productivity improvements, advantages in the personal sphere are ignored. Economic gains from growth increasingly going to few oligarchs doesn't show up either. Even longer life is interpreted as a minus: Longevity and longer retirements show up as expenses.
VNC Roulette “Hacked”
It's nor just referral credits, they gave me same notice on educational credits from github pack.
Could someone ELI5 why FOV is such a difficult problem to solve?
Serve looks much better
Maybe they'll find out a way to squeeze it down even more. There's "computers" that look exactly like a jack since there's really not much else in there.

The Xport for example: http://www.lantronix.com/products/xport/

Now that's not as great a CPU, but it is pretty much invisible.
Design is pretty subjective, personally I think this is far more attractive and looks way more premium:

http://images.car.bauercdn.com/upload/32029/images/1040x585/...

Interior:

http://media.caranddriver.com/images/media/547435/2015-merce...

http://preview.netcarshow.com/Mercedes-Benz-C-Class-2015-160...
They probably do not want to deal with LE's rate limiting and shorter renewal periods.
Kayak goes Arcade mode
Part of the signal of a degree is can you do a good job on things that are required but are not interesting. It's called work for a reason; you're not worth much to an employer if you can only do thing that you find fun.
The European Human Brain Project Releases Progress Update
> sed -i 's|PasswordAuthentication yes|PasswordAuthentication no|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Will not work if string is commented out:

> grep PasswordAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# PasswordAuthentication yes
> sed -i 's|PasswordAuthentication yes|PasswordAuthentication no|g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> grep PasswordAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# PasswordAuthentication no
List of April Fools' Day Announcements – 2016
Following last year's example, instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
Staging isn't magic. It just lets you get rid of some dead weight. The fundamental problem is that the "future" fuel you need to carry with you gets too heavy to lift.
List of April Fools' Day Announcements
Copying last years concept - instead of cluttering the front page with fake product announcements, let's just post them in here instead. One thread where each top-level comment is just a title and a link.
The next major Python version will be Python 8
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-March/1436...
William Rowan Hamilton and Quaternions
Google Cardboard Plastic

Announcement: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/cardboard-plastic.ht...

Site: https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/plastic/
This is true or yet another April fool hoax?
The leftpad() system call added to Linux kernel

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1108
Whenever I dabble in type design or vector graphics I'm cursing Bézier curves. I do understand them rationally. But I just can't move the control points such that the result is what I want.

It's a pity that Knuth's Metafont curve definition system (with on-curve points) hasn't gotten more attention.

Or Karow's Ikarus software also had something with on-curve points, IIRC.
Here are the numbers: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi...

Note that the 50% figure refers to escaping fat-Earth's gravity well with a single launch, as opposed to putting things into orbit.
I disagree, bmw 3 series and basic Lexus are not "luxury" cars, they are called "Premium" cars. Luxury cars are Porshes, Maseratti, Bentley, bmw 6 series, mercedes CLS etc... Honda Fit and Ford Focus are small budget cars, Nissan maxima and accord are regular sedans.
If you call bmw 3 series a luxury car - then what would you call a porshe than?

Edit: Mercedec CLA is considered a luxury vehicle in a different class (just like you mentioned SUVs and trucks), it's a compact car, compact cars have a different starting price compared to the class we were talking about, thus it's considered luxury in that class.
It's a reporter with a juicy story. Just like with Woodward & Bernstein with Watergate, someone smells a Pulitzer coming if they can single-handedly trigger the collapse of a beloved unicorn.
It should be multi-layer safety glass like the front window. Those are very tough as they keep shape even when shattered.
The SEC doesn't mind if you cancel a planned stock sale as an insider - 'no insider trading without a trade'.
It's an entirely plausible that there's "no speaking about a gag order without speaking".
For the first few years perhaps not to force current systems to move in order to keep receiving updates?
It's not a moral judgement, it's economics. When MS started out, like now, they didn't have the market power to push people around.

If I come across as anti-Microsoft, it's more that I think the US needs better anti-Monopoly laws. That's something we're still screwing up.
How Microsoft Tricked It's Users Through Games
Trump is not going to be president.

It's nearly statistically impossible.
I think the argument is that this a scheme clearly setup to flout the law. If those haikus kept going by a business exec until an associate should sell the company's stock, would that be an acceptable way of insider trading?
> "Tesla struggled to get 50,000 cars out last year. BMW sold north of 2 million cars in 2015"

Please do not compare all the models BMW sold with a single Tesla Model S. BMW only sold 142,000 of 3 series in 2014. http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2011/01/bmw-3-series-sales-figu...
Honestly the reddit admins lie so much and have so little respect for their users that I don't think we can conclude anything about this.
Here's some of the open source work we've done:

https://github.com/openvstorage/alba
https://github.com/openvstorage/arakoon/
Top Ceiling Speakers for Your Home Theater
You're right, they're dead
Although it seems like the acronym should be CMMS, it's actually CMS.
You can do this 10x cheaper at home
A browser and an editor is far from enough for web development. At the very minimum you will need node.js at the very least for task managment and build process, all the browsers and VMs to load IE and Edge testing plus maybe Photoshop, or at least some kind of industry acceptable image/design software.
But that would nullify the canary, no?