skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swahili has words for different types of computers e.g. Taraklishi(regular computer), Taraklishikuu(super computer) and Tarakilishi kiunzikuu (mainframe).
Ok yeah that does make sense.
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Max-Q, looking good!
Ever talked to someone who works with technology for the government? The government's technology experience is already difficult.

The government already has e-mail inboxes with a nearly-unusable UX, messages that pass through so many unreliable contracted-out systems that they might not get delivered for several days, hideously obsolete "smart"phones... and yet this pain isn't felt by the people making the laws, just by their staff.

We're talking about a place where the Blackberry is advanced technology.

Your suggestions would involve companies dropping their government contracts out of spite, for an effect that the government would barely notice.
Whats really happening is the the really big players are now extracting wealth from the middle ones. For the American people, this means the middle class gets destroyed, but the key here is that lots of people that are technically "middle class", are really in the top lowerhalf of the 1%, but many of them don't realize the wave to come.

So once even the 200k/year lawyer down the street is suddenly homeless because he actually had negative net worth, then it will be too late, but the real point is that there is no more money to be extracted from the lower classes except by death by a thousand cuts (taxes), so all the middle men hedge funders etc are going to be mergered and acquisitioned away as the banks learn how to manipulate the blockchain market and take it over just like they have everthing else.

Digitalization of the financial industry is just the buzzword scapegoat they are going to use to get it done. The same way in which, you see the former director of NSA leaving and joining a bank, and then yelling doom and gloom about hackers zeroing out accounts. All that tells me is that is what they have already planned.

I can see the headline now: "Hacker breach $BANKS, transfer $BILLIONS. Another bailout unavoidable to prevent collapse."

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the elite oligarchical international bankers are closer to terrorists than businessmen.
I really miss DriveNow in SF and the South Bay. It was really convenient if I missed my shuttle in the mornings, or if I had to come back to the city on the weekends. One more reason to ditch SF and move to Seattle I suppose.
Usually those doofuses are referring to the govt though. The govt knows your social security number already.
Sorry for not being clear.

I was hoping for an already completed or partially completed set of feedback on an existing idea, that is an idea that maybe your company made up or a "case study" showing the benefit of the service.
I just signed up as a business and decided not to proceed. I don't like the upfront cost, I would much rather a pay-per-click model or a percentage of sales achieved. Feels like too much risk for an unknown, unproven service.
I think, also, that Apple is serving an entirely different market with the Mac Pro than the PC makers are (mostly) serving on the high end.

PC makers can get a continuous incremental revenue stream from gamers and independent professionals. But most Mac Pros are likely sold to companies (even if just tiny one-man companies) that refresh them on a set schedule rather than whenever a shiny new thing comes out.
Is Swift actually a good language, what's good about it? From a general perspective. Been using Go, and love it. Many innovative changes to basically be a C for our century. What's Swift, what have its designers learned from the past to make a better language?
The team I work with made the software that Wisconsin state legislators use to store their communications with constituents. None of our experience bears your statement out. Our software was built in close collaboration with legislators and their staffers, who requested the means to store and report on the contents of communications in a wide variety of formats.
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This is California... I'd expect the larger Silicon Valley to have the means to have a proper state-level lobbying force to prevent this kind of nonsense?

Or should I not count on corporations who pretend to have our best intentions at heart to actually care? :P
I've never understood why congress does this. The USPS is undercharging. Deutsche Post charges 80 cents (USD) to deliver a letter within Germany. 70% higher rate to cover only about 4% of the land area.
Having reliability seems more important when it comes to these things than being able to iterate fast.
I haven't lived in Brooklyn in 20+ years. Is Stuy Town the new name for Bed-Stuy?
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Only the French could describe asking for a coffee with "please" on the end as "exceptionally rude".

It's almost petty. You will forgive any other faux-pas as long as you start the interaction with "bonjour"? And if you mis-pronounce "bonjour"? Do we need to seek forgiveness from the President? I like flying over France and going to Spain and Italy where none of this nonsense exists.
This law is very politically touchy. Outrage happens all the time for many different things. Plenty of people are willing to stake their very lives, let alone their livelihoods, over issues they believe in. If anyone doesn't need more publicity, it's Bruce Springsteen. He has it in spades any time he wants it.
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This headline completely passes over the reason why stamps got cheaper: there were price hikes after the recession so the Post Office could recoup some of the money it lost in the Great Recession. Given this information, the article isn't very noteworthy.
At present, just about everything they do with regard to postage or the pension fund has to do with damaging the post office's bottom line in the interest of union busting.
That sounds as stupid as the Accept cookies popup.

Politics and internet...
My field is programming languages.

I think any conference run by the ACM charges speakers, unless they're keynoting.
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In more hilly/mountainous areas (like Connecticut or upstate NY or even parts of Pennsylvania) cell service kind of stinks. I've been to plenty of places where I get no service, even outside.
Apply HN: Want hire a car at the best price? but tired spending hours in search
When I look to hire a car, first I look on rental/search web site then the main rental provider and do comparison, I spend few days doing it hoping to get the best price. But I still think the price I pay is too high.

I was thinking what if I submit a request with options/features I would like and a threshold price for the car, in return I get personalized bids from local dealers.

Fill one form, takes couple minutes, leaves dealers to come back to you with bids, what left? choosing the one you want.
No doubt. I'd prefer my information stay private. But that liability lies with the party that loses my data.
does the eye on the background intentionally evoke the nmap logo?
I'm not aware of anything like that existing, but this would be a nice side-project.

The solution I'm thinking of - pretty much the same thing Plex is doing, but more generalized - would allow clients to register a DNS label under a generic domain (think: DynDNS) and then request certificates from Let's Encrypt for that label (or any sub-labels) using DNS-based verification. This would support something like ip.userid.example.com, which could then resolve to your router's IP (or any other LAN device).

Deployment could be completely automated behind the scenes. This could be hosted for free like various DynDNS services (possibly by Let's Encrypt), but vendors could also easily run a service like that on a custom domain for the branding effect.
When you say "neither party", you're talking about 2 parties. Was the other party the company? Or was it with the founder? This is an important distinction.

This is why seemingly simple things are defined explicitly in contracts.
I think it has to do with the fact the first four paragraphs are 348 words, but only 5 sentences. Any time you are using a single sentence for a full paragraph, multiple times in a short period, you should probably examine those sentences (at least if your intent is to inform or educate).

Long sentences make us keep more state about the current thing we are parsing in our head, as later portions of the sentence may cause reinterpretation of earlier portions.

What you may be seeing is less that people are becoming incapable of reading long-form prose, but more that prose itself has shifted to using shorter sentences and simpler structures, at least in contexts that have to do with reporting.

I don't find it surprising that people that are exposed less to longer, more complex sentence structures will have more problems parsing them correctly. In any event, it's stylistic choice, and one that some may find pleasing, but it does make the work less approachable (those used to longer sentence structures should have no problem with shorter ones, but the opposite is not necessarily true).
I prefer that too, so I can sing "I am the very model of a modern academical."

I guess it could work with "scientifico", but not quite as well.
I really love using Car2Go in Brooklyn. I transit/Bike/Walk 95% of the time, but it's great to have a one-way option when I take a trip that doesn't line up well transit lines.
Congress does this because Republicans in Congress want to privatize it. See also their bizarre retirement and healthcare prefunding requirement.
There's support for "dirty NIFs" in new versions, R19 will make it the default. Dirty NIFs allow for long running NIFs managed by the VM. In older versions, you can use nif_create_thread to create background workers, and your NIF will only block for as long as it takes to acquire a lock for your queue.

You can also use c nodes (or the JVM interface, which is pretty similar to c nodes I think).

... You can also use ports which define an interface for communicating with external processes.

The world is your oyster!
Depends what sort of developing you do if your working as technical programmer there are plenty of areas where you want as much CPU and memory as possible.

Look at the average node in a big data cluster
Apparently fixed:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/commit/4...
I suspect that the ones you worked with were the exceptions rather than the norm, but it is good to know that there are exceptions to the norm.
Criminals will always have encryption, regardless of any laws, so your dichotomy isn't really correct.
Not relevant to the WordPress part, but can someone explain to me why websites like eBay don't run on HTTPS except during login? Doesn't that allow any sniffer to steal your authentication cookies?
They did it! On the ground!
WooHoo! NAILED IT AGAIN!
Yeah, it's a strange complaint since in English word the word for joining two ropes is also splicing.
my bad. it was the ram that they soldered on and you can't replace or upgrade unless you purchase it at checkout. you still don't have the option to have two drives though.
First successful landing on the drone ship

Also, primary Dragon deployment appears successful as well.
FWIW the perf gains of doing large bulks are usually not worth the risk of blowing up your memory usage. Bulks in the hundreds are usually just as efficient as bulks in the thousands (YMMV), and don't cary the additional memory risk.
Well, the question is - does that app have the potential to outgrow the SaaS offerings?

There's plenty of things that won't, for a long time, so you're fine to save the time since you won't need to re-do it later.

But if you can really see the product expanding to a large scale, you need to think a year or more into the future when planning your infrastructure.
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History in the making. Successful landing on 'Of Course I Still Love You'.

Very, very inspirational.
It's worse then that, they've got your money.
What are people's thoughts about using constraint kinds in the prelude, so you can make things with class constraints monads? Like making a Set monad.

This stack overflow answer shows what I'm talking about http://stackoverflow.com/a/22314189/1080531
Some people actually prefer the workstation class mb and there ones designed for use in place of x99
The classy way to make fun of the error would be to do it in Portuguese.
Yesss! They landed it!
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Gorgeous success! Fascinating to hear chants of USA USA USA in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M&t=37m13s
Do you mind sharing how long it took for the indexing portion?
In a similar sort of vein, "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" is a great recaps of the initial Windows NT days with David Cutler and his 200+ ex-Digital OS engineers.

It was published in 1994 (so covers up to Windows NT 3.5 and touches on Chicago/Win95) and features a lot of info gleaned from 1:1s the author had with Gates, Cutler and a host of other executives.

(The design decisions made back then between 89-93 for NT are what enabled things like 'Bash on Ubuntu on Windows' to take place today.)

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...
Successful landing on the autonomous drone ship. Awesome to be witnessing the amazing progress.
Wow! Mind blowing stuff today
Green threads are probably not going to be as useful in Rust as in other languages. Having something like await/async built into the compiler that transforms into state machine (like in C#) would be more powerful it seems.
Yes, that title shouldn't have been posted to HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and we've changed it accordingly. If anybody suggests a better title, we can change it again.
I'm a bit curious, what is the advantage of using netconsd over a centralized syslog server?
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That really felt like watching history being made. And damn, that ship is getting some waves.
Actually saw one of their BMW i3s driving on Bellevue yesterday. Was impressed at how quickly it accelerated. Doubt the battery life lasted long driving like that though.
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> The legal question "is not whether the government should be able to force Apple to help it unlock a specific device; it is instead whether the All Writs Act resolves that issue and many others like it to come," Orenstein wrote.

That's the whole issue, and also the best way I've been able to explain the magnitude of these decisions to people who haven't read as much about these cases. The news thinks the case is about encryption, but in the courts, it's about whether or not the government _already_ has the power to compel an uninterested 3rd-party to act against its will.
why do we need self-driving cars?
Never heard of that one, thanks.
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They're not going to relinquish the only platform to develop iDevice apps on, not to mention the mindshare they get from being a super important dev platform for all kinds of creative leaders. It's just not a financial question, there are tons of downstream implications.
My phone doesn't seem to have the option to automatically connect to open networks. I only spent a couple minutes looking though.
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> any conference run by the ACM charges speakers, unless they're keynoting

I can believe that. As a sidenote: What a weird world we live in, where accredited professionals pay to speak, while dilettantes are paid.
Just seeing the first stage come in for a landing was amazing. Being able to stream that video was a wonderful surprise.
I've run into this several times the last few days. I give fake emails. Usually something on aol, and a name that hopefully nobody has.
Wow iqonik! Very insightful feedback, thank you so much! I'd definitely like to give some form of value to businesses who sign up for the promo, but if necessary I can always lower the upfront cost.

So, do you think it would be better to charge a business, for example, $0,20 per visitor to their site. Therefore, they lose nothing if no one visits their site through their promotion.. ?

I'm very thankful for your feedback and interest! Let me know if there is some way I can help you too
Watching the webcast feels like being at some blockbuster movie premiere. There's a largish crowd following the launch and applauding on every launch stage completion.
Not that it's a bad thing per se, it's rather the opposite, it however, feels quite weird and staged as opposed to launches done by ESA, Roscosmos or even NASA.
On the other hand, it's pricy and last I checked, licensing is based on the number of machines (ridiculous in a cloud environment).
> don't try to make it small, thin, or round

Maybe they'll go back to the cube. Developers seemed to like that shape.
kinda seems like a poorly thought out idea in the first place... i mean a train, maglev capsules shot through tubes, a normal car, a bicycle, ok makes sense... self-driving car? not high on my wish list, i guess
Very nice, congrats SpaceX!
Seriously, once you get into the habit of it, it's awesome and definitely a better way to go about it!
What is Peer? Their site is empty. DuckDuckGo says: "Peer is the first feedback app that leverages the power of the work calendar to prompt for feedback right when it's fresh.", which doesn't mean nothing to me.
No don't move to Seattle it rains a lot and there's no sun for 9 months.

Also, volcanoes.
Yes and it doesn't even protect the password appreciably either.

User logs in with HTTPS, gets redirected to HTTP site and the MitM throws up the "Incorrect password try again" page. User types their password and transmits it over HTTP or JS steals it etc. etc.

eBay does it because they aren't sufficiently interested in protecting against MitMs.

The web isn't ready for HTTPS only yet but it will happen over time.
Yeah, it's absolutely an amazing thing to watch.
I'm embarrassed to say I was screaming and cheering like a little school girl upon landing.
Does anyone know how do they "secure" it to the drone?
LE allows you to put many names in the same cert. Adding www is extremely simple.
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You're right about the prez, but wrong about rep elections.

The whole point of having two houses in Congress is that they'll have a different dynamic. The Senate is supposed to be the more stodgy of the two that prevents crappy laws from getting passed, while the House is supposed to be the more agile one. The idea was copied directly from England's Parliament, with its House of Commons and House of Lords. The House of Commons directly represents the people and proposes most new legislation, while the House of Lords is full of unelected aristocrats who act like an overseer and limit what the other house can do. Over here, the House of Reps are directly elected by the people by "congressional district" and serve short terms, while the Senators were elected by state legislatures and served longer terms. The 17th Amendment changed it so Senators were elected directly by the people in each state. But the effect isn't that much different: they have longer terms, and they represent all the people in the state, not just a smaller district as Reps do.

Having the House members represent only their district is a good thing: if your district is a minority in your state (like if you live in rural, conservative California, or you live in liberal Austin, Texas), this means you're able to elect someone who represents you. If the reps were elected by everyone in the state, you wouldn't have any liberal Reps from Texas, nor any conservative ones from California. When you lump everyone together, it just creates disenfranchisement among minorities.

As for the prez, yeah, the current system with the Electoral College and first-past-the-post voting and party primaries is total crap. But personally, I think we should scrap the whole concept of having a President, and adopt something like Canada's system with a Parliament and a Prime Minister. With the PM elected by Parliament, there'd be little conflict between the executive and the legislative branches, and voters would concentrate only on voting for their own representatives and senators, and do a much better job of that than they do now.

But you're right, gerrymandering is a big problem. I wonder how other nations deal with that.
You are completely right. Speaking French is actually more than a different set of words, a different grammar and an accent (it probably applies to a lot of other languages). It's also a different mindset. We tend to use a lot of words and expressions to say something that can be summed up in one word in English. Moreover, French people like to speak with images instead of words. So, a word-for-word translation from French to English, which is what most of us do, results in confusing sentences that are hard to follow. Even if I'm a native French speaker, I always have a hard time trying to understand my fellow Frenchies speaking English, but I might be biased...
why not get a wildcard certificate for *.bestcrabrestaurantsinportland.wordpress.com? or just set the "Subject Alternative Name" for www in the cert... what is the problem?
Thank you very much for your feedback!

I'll think about supplemental materials, it's an interesting idea....

And I am definitely planning to create original content. I have just started working on my own video series about rationality - http://lumiverse.io/series/orangemind. Right now I'm working on them alone, but in the future I would love to assemble a team. And it's possible that I'll recruit other video creators as well.

I am also very interested in producing series about hard sciences, it's one of my major goals. I will start CS and programming, and then possibly do math and physics. But that's a more of a long-term thing.
It's not speculation. It's section 2 of the paper, titled "Analyzing Risk Analysis System."
Thanks SaaS_throwme, I appreciate it!

I aim for negotiating at least a 50% discount for a limited time. The higher the discount, the less I ask for the business to promote. Does that answer your question?
30,000+ traffic deaths each year? Vastly increased convenience? And in the long run, potentially reduced parking footprint and higher capacity road lanes.
>I don't know what the answer is

What's the question?

>acting like anyone who supports this legislation is just after more control is immature.

It's mostly driven by fear based emotional responses rather than logic, the terrorists have successfully hijacked their amygdalas[1], a classic social engineering technique.

When a target cannot be directly and effectively neutralized, scare tactics are used to make the target compromise themselves.

"As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:—Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!"

-Epictetus

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack
Bonjour is easy mode. You should see how many words you have to say when you leave a store :D
Holy cow, congratulations to everyone involved. This almost made me cry.