skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Good work Storm people! Some nice features here.

Anyone privy to what changes they made to yield the performance improvements?
BuzzFeed missed 2015 revenue targets and slashes 2016 projections
Building a 'quality-first' (hosting) business
Projecting Disk Usage Based on Historical Trends in a Cloud Environment [pdf]
just think of the millions of dollars they could save if they stopped doing double spaces after sentences
So there should be greater support for working to fix the entire situation, to build organs as needed, and remove the enormous expense and scarcity in the existing system.

Decellarization to make more donor organs viable, or enable the use of pig organs. Tissue engineering to build new organs from a patient's own cells. But people spend too much time focused on what is and not enough on how they can help to make a better situation through technological progress.

Anyone can help the New Organ project, for example, as it consists of advocacy and research prizes to accelerate progress. You don't have to be a researcher to help make a difference in the matter of organ availability.

https://www.neworgan.org/
Or, we all stop assuming that people are here to "humblebrag", and contribute different points of view. In addition, maybe we all use terminology that is widely understood by others, since the purpose of HN is technical communication.
Just flip the battery in the laser around and it will pull instead of pushing.
Leaving beta? They don't even have a Windows/IIS client yet. They're nowhere close to "release quality".
we should legislate that all men must be under constant video surveillance. not being on camera makes it too easy to break the law.
The plan calls for ultra-reflective coatings that are tuned to the wavelength of the laser. Apparently these exist, though I have not checked the numbers. In my class I abandoned laser propulsion quickly for just this reason (incinerated the target), but with these coatings it might work.
There are quite a few banks that don't have physical locations you can go to.
"And there is an explicit threat against assholery: perform it and you'll be excluded"

Yet, this guy has performed it. And he's not being excluded.
HN discussion about Weave being slow [0]. I dont know if the issue has been addressed since it was first posted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9498139
Which is ridiculously cheap. Remember that today the cost of equity for GS is > 14%, that's the 2016 figure. In the financial crisis, that rate probably skyrocketed to a much higher number, as did the cost of debt during the credit crunch when nobody was looking to lend because default risk was going through the roof and everyone needed to pad the books with cash and deleverage.

So the government stepping in with debt at this rate can be considered to have been very cheap. And that's why they took it. If they could've gotten a better market rate they would've, that should tell you enough about how good that deal was. Did the government make a bunch of money? Absolutely. And so would anyone investing in highly risky assets in a highly risky time when the bet pays off, it's just called compensation for risk.
Not really anymore: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/hyping-vulnerabilities-is-n...
>presumed ten sigma event

How are financial people even calculating that kind of rarity?

I remember seeing a recent article here on HN about a guy that lost a ton of (someone else's) money playing with oil contracts. He went on about how he diligently planned for "huge" failures, such as a drop of up to 30 percent in the price of oil.

I don't think it's fair to bring in finance. Natural disasters and nuclear reactors are far more well behaved and understood.
I think having a recent date on the newspaper prevents reuse of the images. I'm not a Photoshop expert, so maybe that's trivial to change. When I look at my support ticket history on the website, the ticket attachments are gone, so hopefully they're shredded after the support person views them.
The 1-800-FLOWERS example in the F8 livestream was pretty neat. In the example a user ordered flowers through only a chat.

Somehow they were able to do this without entering their credit card details. I wonder if the payment was a Facebook Messenger feature, or if the user had just already entered their details on the 1-800-FLOWERS site.
not too happy about having $HOME as a git repo... but I have to say, it's a clever solution. I will probably stick to symlinks though. They are not silly, they are actually extremely useful if you know how to use them.
Even the fact how often he widnessed drone attacks is simply mind blowing. Poor guy :/
Actually, according to the the story that Isaacson and others familiar with the situation told, it's fairly certain that he would have made a full recovery. Of course it's possible that he would have died by now due to other causes - his plane could have crashed etc - but he would not have died as a result of cancer. In this case, his belief in alternative medicine killed him.
Crowd Valley Inc Announces Enterprise Service for Banking Institutions
Yes, not only is this bullshit, but this article's premise is too. It takes A LOT of personal experience in the world to draw a true pattern about relationships. Even the opening sentence cries 'perceptual bias': "When was the last time you met a couple where one person was attractive and the other was not?"

I see this all of the time, but how often do you think the author sees it too and consciously or unconsciously brushes it off as, "they must not actually be together." This article is like intellectual white-nighting, though not directly offering to save any girls - it's implying that the author knows better than the women whom are caving in to the wrong stimuli via "online dating."

This is also a denial of sex statistics. If this new environment is keeping you ugly men from getting laid more today than you could yesterday, then who are all the ugly women banging? Otherwise, the author needs to claim that attractive men are actually getting laid more, while unattractive men are getting laid less or not at all. I don't see any evidence that less attractive men together have worse access to women in general than they had before. If anything, physical attractiveness of masculinity has decreased in some female's selection criteria over a long period of time due to the fact that a man's ability to physically defend himself and his family has become less necessary. Furthermore, studies have shown that the use of birth control causes women to be attracted to different (more feminine) men than they would otherwise - a side effect not often discussed or listed on the contraceptive package inserts.
They count fake download buttons as social engineering. Excellent.
Regardless, to fix this PR disaster, I suggest you add some strong and perhaps just as importantly modern security features in the future that would regain you good will with HN types (and therefore everyone else).

And although it's not you area, can I just say that Namecheap's website is just way too slow since the redesign? I appreciate that you even did a redesign, but for some reason it's one of the slowest websites around. I don't know if it's because of the large images you use on your pages or what's the problem, but I suggest you fix it. It may be losing you customers. A web services company's site should be snappy.
>If, somehow, a DMV employee was publicly and proudly making people they don't like go to the back of the line, and they had powerful people aligned with them, there would be some outrage.

What about a county clerk refusing to sign legal marriage certificates for gay couples?
Node.js – Node Js ECONNRESET – Stack Overflow
> If society is, in fact, "feminizing", it's a far safer place for the vast majority of humans than it was before. And out of that safety come a whole bunch of voices that weren't traditionally given much credence.

And what do they do? Attempt to silence other voices.

This isn't progress. Respect for all voices is progress.
It does and it doesn't. The modern pop music that's most formulaic seems to be there mainly because then the managers can concentrate on promotions without worrying about what used to be known as A&R.

As an Olde Phart(tm), what DJs do looks very much to me like "a human avatar" and aggregator.
Stephen Fry is a childish buffoon. How are we taking anything he says seriously? Most public discourse happens online, and I see the opposite of Political Correctness taking the forefront, and Racism and Nationalism on the rise. The people who cry "stupid SJW!" or "go to your Safe Space you liberal cuck" are the same people who cannot handle a shred of criticism about Institutionalized racism, or the rise of fascism in modern society. I am pro free speech, people should police themselves before they use profanity or insults, I rather they identify themselves than hide in the shadows. I am a white male, since that bit of information may matter to someone (considering the context of the conversation), and when I speak out about institutionalized racism people say "You're pathetic, you're such a cuck wallowing in your white guilt, kindly stfu". Or if I defend Muslim war refugees or Muslim Migrants, I'm told "You stupid cuck, you just want your girl to get raped by those terrorists, they are going to take over, and impose Shakira(sic) law" (not to mention the rape mob thing ended up being incorrect, still parroted daily on reddit as fact).
Can't wait until Google has to block websites using AdSense because they themselves served such an ad through a reseller.

...or until they don't and have an Anti-Trust suit on their hands.
Interesting... EarBits (a YC alum, I believe?) was trying to do a similar "promote indie artists" thing but built around a system of artists paying for increased exposure (I believe they wanted to be the "Google AdWords of Music").
Curious decision, as lz4's terrible compression ratio burns you both in monthly storage fees, as well as Glacier (or other service) restore fees.

Most of my backup set is pictures and compressed files, so maybe the lz4 decision was because they figured the majority of their customers fell in that category where no compression algorithm is going to help?
I did. It doesn't change anything, email is still a way better verification method than ID scans that the company will be unable to authenticate.
The seawall was shorter than it should have been, that is a planning and design failure, not just ignoring warning signs.

There also doesn't seem to have been any planning for a situation where the seawall failed (the inundation rendered the on site backup power inoperative). Adding a second layer of protection to such an important system would not be particularly aggressive.
An Overview of Conversational UI
Wouldn't want to program that particular timer. Talk about hard real time requirements!
They have a little quiz with 8 blocked comments, to see which ones you would allow. Here is one of the ones the Guardian blocked as abusive:

"“The Guardian, once a standard bearer of quality journalism now contains football journalists so in love with Mourinho it makes me sad. This is just the latest in an incredible long campaign for the despicable one to join the club of Matt Busby and Jimmy Murphy. I am astonished that the editor of the paper allows this dross to be published. You are a disgrace to the profession.”"
Dogs are just a proxy for the racist, hateful attitudes of the police. After all, their accuracy is no better than a coin toss [1]. It's clear they are there so the police can claim they're not racist/hateful/etc. while still being so. Any other claim is instantly disproved by both science and common sense.

1. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/8/7/1409751/-Court-rules...
Not to mention supplying these hypothetical moon lasers with enough power to blast these mini-probes into another star system.
> not some guy programming the guitars, drums tracks and bass and then does the vocals himself?

Some highly regarded albums that use that exact process, all are five stars on Allmusic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_a_Riot_Goin%27_On

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

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

Another that legend has it was recording the same way, albeit under different circumstances:

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

Another recent one that the verdict is still out on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currents_(Tame_Impala_album)
I don't know what battle.net is so I was speaking generally. Since pictures don't have security features on them it wouldn't be too difficult to photocopy your own id, change the name/address, print it out and glue it on a plastic card. You now have an Id that looks good enough for photo verification. It's a lot of work but if the steaks are high then it will be done. There's also the case when these pictures get leaked, there's a lot of people who have scans of my id. Or just photoshop the pic after its taken.

There's services on the darknet where you can buy these fake Id picture/scans as well.
Perhaps it's only counting 2% of the DNA that we didn't already share with Neanderthals prior to cross-breeding. As in, 2% of what had diverged from a common ancestor. So, you could look at DNA of neanderthals and humans prior to cross-breeding events, and then eliminate everything in common, which would probably be the 99+% you would expect. Then take what's left and look at how much we picked up after cross breeding.
I suspect it likely is the subject matter. An article about something fairly non controversial (like say, a popular game or film announcement) is by definition going to get less personal attacks and troll comments than something about a heated political/religious matter or anything involving 'social justice' related issues (from any side).

If more of the female writers write the latter type of article rather than the form, this could lead to the stats shown.
Setting incredibly ambitious goals has definitely lead to impressive achievements in the past. I think it's definitely worth studying. Worst case, we'll learn something.
Migrating from the Heroku Mandrill Add-On to the Mailgun Add-On
EMTs don't perform medically useless procedures on people who have refused them.

Also, according to the complaint, CBP offered to pay if Ms. Doe signed a consent form. This was after they found nothing.
So apparently I should look at my comments after I post them, so I can edit the bad formatting.

Also, is there a HN formatting guide somewhere that will tell me how to do italics, bold, make links, etc.?
Dude! Can you please post that?
Why should I be tolerant of people who clearly are not tolerant of others? I mean, we're not talking about some benign disagreement, like whether you like PHP or Ruby. We're talking about someone who has flat out said that slavery should return, and certain classes of people are not deserving of basic human dignity.

I'm sorry, but I see nothing wrong with not being tolerant of those views. Tolerating them sends the message that they are acceptable views that have merit.
No worries, though I would be interested to hear your thoughts on my position...do you see yourself ever "embracing nihilism" as another commenter put it, and using it as a source of encouragement rather than depression?
What are the best practices for database migrations when trying to setup continuous deployment? Are there any existing tools/solutions that solve/simplify the problem? This is the issue that is almost always missing in articles/tutorial about CD
Is it just me or is this really not all that exciting? Some NTLM MITM and downgrade stuff mostly, hasn't that family of protocols always had those issues? From all the pre-announcement hype I'd expected at least something on the level of unauthenticated remote root over UDP :P

Also this web site seems to be overloaded, and there's not even any links to the relevant MS16-0xx patches. Not so impressive :(
OpenStack Users: Backup Your Cinder Volumes to Google Cloud Storage
These guys: https://www.jukedeck.com/

There will come a point when one of the easiest ways to make money for a musician - sync licensing - is overtaken by computer generated tunes.
Why would a label want to do that? How would the label survive? If the creator's are paid the lion's share of the profits, would they also keep the lion's share of the losses?
One amazing video that shows the potential of the physical web
What's the plan if LE ever goes down / commercial / rogue? Millions of sites will have to get new certs manually within 90 days or less or they will all break. Wouldn't it be healthier if LE had some "competition" with compatible protocols as backup?
Hi, mates!

I released this project yesterday. The end goal is this to become the go-to "Python Toolbox". I believe this could become a viable place for package discovery and comparison.

I will be more than happy to receive any feedback or ideas how the site could be improved and become more helpful.

Thanks!
"Here's a lock and here's what inside it, but you still can't break it because you lack a separate secret of no mechanical relevance" is the only way to make a system secure. If it is possible at all, you WANT a system where knowledge of all the mechanics do not allow people to crack the safe.

See encryption. A secure crypto mechanism is not vulnerable to disclosure of its mechanism. The key is the secret. The mechanism is not. Having a secret mechanism that relies on its own secrecy means your main weakness is someone explaining how it works to the outside world.

RSA is perfectly well-known. So is rot13. rot13 is crap, disclosure or not. RSA is not as crap, disclosure or not.
A Real-Life Tax Scam: This Is What IRS Phone Fraud Sounds Like
Forgive my ignorance, but can anyone please explain this a bit more? I've only configured SSL on small, single server sites, but when I buy a SSL cert once a year. I believe LE certs expire after 6 weeks? Why would you ever even need to issue 5 certs for the same domain in a week?
NeWS wasn't the only windowing system to use Display PostScript. The other big one was NeXTSTEP which obviously became OS X.
If you are running Windows Server as your Webserver (many Enterprise places do), and the version of IIS is <7.5 (i.e. Server 2008, still under extended support until 2020), you can't assign more than one Cert to the same IP which sucks. SNI is only available from Windows Server 2012 onwards, and that doesn't work with Windows XP as the client (Still approx 10% of users globally).
> That said, I'd still opt for a wildcard certificate for anything enterprisey.

Many sites use wildcard certs because they're the simplest way of getting SSL for your entire domain. There is one huge problem with that, though: Sharing the private key between different services means that the security of your private key is only as good as the weakest link. If any of your services suffer a compromise that leads to a private key leak (i.e. Heartbleed), all your other services are now vulnerable to MitM as well. Not just that, but weaknesses in your TLS configuration on one service could have implications on other services as well, as demonstrated by the DROWN attack.

That is not to say that there are no valid use-cases for wildcard certificates. If you're, for example, hosting a SaaS where each customer gets a custom subdomain, but the infrastructure behind each subdomain is essentially the same, there's no additional risk and wildcards are the perfect solution. If you're just getting a wildcard certificate because it's the most convenient solution, however, you're probably weakening some of your infrastructure in exchange for that.
"Semicolons in JavaScript are optional" <3

http://mislav.net/2010/05/semicolons/
I don't know how much it helps but if you shop on Amazon, EFF is a sponsor of LE and EFF is an option for Amazon Smile. Tricky part is remembering to use smile.amazon.com instead of www but Amazon has started reminding users to go there and there's also browser plugins to force it to go there.
Good question... I guess I don't really care as long as the projects I get to work on are interesting and I actually get to work rather than dealing with bureaucracy. I like when big companies essentially create internal startups which are independently managed.
Do you agree with the conclusion that those that are building smarter machines might make themselves obsolete, when computers are better at math and science?

Will there be a continued need for humans to plan and improve machines, or will they do all the improving going forward (already programmed to find improvements that benefit humans)?
It has, now Weave is kinda fast :)

See
http://weave.works/weave-docker-networking-performance-fast-...
http://rp.delaat.net/2015-2016/p50/report.pdf

Full disclosure: I work at Weaveworks
Airlines in America are stamping out multi-city airfares
The labels that didn't come out ahead don't exist any more.

Nobody says this: In the 1980s, you could establish the sort of relationships to get priority at CD plants and resell back catalog that was already universally known. So the people who won did that instead of so much trying to break new acts.

The last gasp of a flood of new acts actually getting on radio was the SubPop ... thing in the 1990s. After that, nothing unless you followed R&B or "indie." That monoculture ended than. But to be fair, it only started in the first place because radio transitioned from being mainstream to being a "youth" market.
This is a totally confused issue. The popular Reddit forum for women calls itself "TwoXChromosomes" but also disallows transphobia. Now, in some people's books, even this equation of having two X chromosomes with being a woman is reductively cisnormative or transphobic.

As gender reassignment doesn't affect genetics, I think the fairest interpretation is to consider that we just aren't there yet in terms of the biology of gender reassignment. But even stating this is unacceptable to some.
> a seemingly remote cascade event can wipe out life on the planet

What is this cascade event?
Some meta feedback on the article: this font is too big to comfortably read on mobile, fitting about five to seven words on a line (the typically recommended line length is about 14 words).
> The getX() and setX() is an anti-pattern of good OOP.

No it isn't, it provides encapsulation, which the most important aspect of OOP.

I agree with the rest.
Yeah, given the symmetrical evidence: no Neanderthal Y chromosome DNA, and no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA - it seems most gendered hypotheses you could come up with should also work with the genders switched?
In the US, we have thousands of Navy and ex-Navy personnel perfectly qualified to safely maintain nuclear reactors, and who (as a group) have an extremely impressive safety record.

But we're not utilizing this resource for civilian purposes. Not even slightly.
Syncano – iOS – Swift – Tableview – Data and Images
This is the kind of 'learning experience' that becomes part of corporate culture and future training. When someone says 'Why bother with all this?' the response can now be 'Read this writeup of how ONE person NOT doing this correctly cost the company a ton of marketing $$$ and STILL left us with a black eye with our more technically-savvy customers.'

And how many people at Namecheap do you think aren't aware of this by now?

But yes, technical solutions should go in but those take longer to implement. Among other things, it seems to me that re-prompting for the account password might be a good idea before any VPS reinstall/reinitialization that's going to wipe an existing VPS (not that it would've helped much here).
> > Can you provide an example of any action he has taken that is not merely expressing a view?

Apparently, the answer is: No.
Randomly who designed the website @ https://letsencrypt.org/ ?

I love the landing page, it's clean, well organized and simple.
Looks really cool, would love to use this in a project of mine. Is it possible to attach a layout to an existing react component and run it inside that? From the documentation I see that passing a DOM element to init() is possible, not sure if that's going to make it in my case..