skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's worth that much money to you, how much of your time would you say?

The reason I ask is that Hashicorp's Packer[1] is awesome at doing things like that.

Personally, I have an automated Packer build that spins up Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, provisions it and installs all of the necessary software, and then preps it for Windows Deployment Services.
I originally based the work off of packer-windows[2] but ended up re-rolling most of it again from scratch.

If you don't mind spending roughly a day or two figuring it out, then it's well worth it!

[1] https://www.packer.io/
[2] https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows
The one thing I am missing in the non-ROOT universe is a powerful fitting framework that can do multidimensional and simultaneous fits in disjoint function domains.
Hmm, I wondered a while back if anyone was keeping track of these. It seems to be a manual list so far, so added my main server, as that's been transmitting the clacks overhead since he died. Can't wait for the crawler to go live and then we'll see how many people did add it, including any big name sites.
What Chatbots Reveal About Our Own Shortcomings
...in the framework of your country.

If you are U.S. citizen, you probably would prefer Obama over Enrique Peña Nieto. Personally as a Finn I like Sipilä and Niinistö over Putin. In a way any Finnish party head would suit me better than Putin. It matters little which of them, but it matters a lot that it's one of them.

In medieval Europe, vassal dukes would bargain who king they would pay taxes to. And you had situations where Britain was ruled by dude who spoke French and lived in Normandy.
You are uninformed.

Look up Musicology on Wikipedia. My company at the time supported Prince's webmaster in innovating an astonishingly ambitious online fan club UX, giving he and fans a direct dialog, that sold tickets through his own web site (not ticket master) for a package of interaction with him, digital downloads, intimate concert venues, and physical album, so innovative his approach garnered a lifetime "Webby" award in 2006.

Here's press from the beginning of NPG Music Club:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/business/mediatalk-prince-...
In the intro we wrote quite shortly about our company, so here is some more information about our motivation for doing this:

It's known that diversity improves organisational performance and competitiveness. Diverse teams improve ROI, increase innovation and solve problems better.

Still only 25% of the IT workforce are women, and over 40% of them leave tech mid-career. We think people who build technology should represent the people who use it.

There is a lack of talent in STEM, so in addition to attracting new talent, we need to find ways to retain current talent, who will build the future of technology.
A career in tech can be very rewarding if you find the right company and job.
On the other hand though, if they cannot get on track for a role in academia, once they get a job in industry they'll likely make less than you because of lack of practical experience. In such an ageist marketplace as programming in particular, being older and inexperienced is really unattractive.
downvotes? I'm not sure how this rates those. Accuracy isn't really helpful to a five year old who doesn't yet have all the concepts needed. The tooth fairy isn't accurate either. Accuracy will get you an endless cycle of "but why dad?"
Hammer Dark Legend – Best of Bowling
In what way is it inaccurate? It seems a fairly decent summary of the Carbon cycle.
Wow, so in a fast paced FPS people have time to worry about how their gun looks?! I'm getting old.
Aurelia CLI, Debug Tools and Microsoft Collaboration
Anonymous Cash = Freedom
They have been doing stuff like this for ages.

If you sell a product on amazon and they decide they want in, you are forced to give them your source or they terminate you. Then they go to your source (or more likely their source) and buy in bulk then undercut you or minimise your listing... and so you are priced out of the market.
The mentioned attack vector is not "fileless". It is covertly assembling several files on the disk of the computer directly in memory to then run them from there.

So, quite a number of files and system calls involved that permit to recognize and react to this attack.

An example of true "fileless" attack would be the one demonstrated by Conficker, where an infected computer attacks by brute force password guessing the other computers on the same network, gains access to the new machine and then runs the virus code without storing any files on the local disk.
Re-Usable Test Automation – A Case Study
4 years of focusing on one subject, going to conferences all over the world and coupling them to vacations there, working with smart people of the same age, working in a "students atmosphere" while getting paid, having the time to really find out how things work, picking courses you like... Why are not more people doing PhDs? (Or this is a Dutch perspective?) (Granted: I didn't have that publish or perish attitude that landed some of my colleagues in places like MIT, still I have a very nice job at the moment.)

Don't know how it is now but we used to work 38 hrs, the additional 2 were given as free time on top of the standard 25 days/year giving you about 7 weeks off each year. You have no kids yet (in general) so you can travel a bit (as said, often after a conference so the boss pays the ticket.) I had a blast.

I did have some problems finding a job afterwards but this was end of 2009 when companies here basically stopped hiring for some time. But I spend 8 months applying while getting 74% of my last paid wages as a PhD student. Still, that was not as fun as it sounds.
I generated a random password for Facebook, put it in my phone, and then promptly logged out of FB in chrome.

I can look at facebook on my phone all I want, but the app sucks anyway and I feel like an obvious slacker if I look at my phone for a long time, or glance at it more frequently than once an hour or so.

Works for me.
AI researchers get ready for a deathmatch with Doom gaming challenge
No Anonymity for Plaintiffs Suing Ashley Madison Over Hack, Judge Rules
The point of the article was that you can easily get that performance boost in any language - especially when network latency is involved; it will be there no matter the language used.

You can make fast things in C++, but your competitors using Clojure will crush you. Developer performance isn't about sacrificing app performance, but rather getting there faster and making sure the competition doesn't catch up.
When does the future begin? A study in maximising motivation
> Not everything in life is about the money, otherwise all people would try to become investment bankers.

This doesn't follow at all. Most people aren't capable of becoming investment bankers and wisely make no effort in that direction. There's no reason that would change even if they all really wanted to be investment bankers as an end in itself.
How to make the world’s fastest flexible silicon transistor
A battery you never have to replace
It has nothing to do with size, and everything to do with an electoral system without proportionality.
You can now be identified by your ‘brainprint’ with 100% accuracy
It's coldest about 30 minutes into dawn. Spring suicides could just because the new amount of daylight has yet to have enough impact to reverse the depression of the dark winter.
This a thousand times over, there are so many job opportunities out there at the moment but relatively few outside of the Valley are willing to up the market rate even though there is a huge lack of talent.
Even better, call the boat Sir Boaty McBoatface. Everyone takes a Sir seriously.
> "I rather like the concept, but I can see it having some interested and unanticipated side effects if you allow people to select their delegate by category rather than individual bill by individual bill."

The point is that you can delegate for individual bills, as well as taking back your power to vote on individual bills. You can delegate by category, but you don't need to if it doesn't serve you. The idea is that the people you delegate to have to stick up for your best interests, as their power can be taken away at any point if they do not.
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Well, that's embarrassing - I just started weeping in the office. Probably because my own father has been diagnosed with cancer (in his 90s though, ripe old age) and we are both pretty much following the communication guidelines set out in the article.

Thanks for posting and thanks to Pieter for writing.
Promising! As ever the proof is when they make a working prototype to demonstrate this in an everyday battery, as stories like this abound. Fingers crossed.
When you're deep blue in the winter, people tell you that the sun will come back. When you still feel blue in the spring things sort of fall apart.

I wish I could move back north, even so.
All of those viewpoints you alude to are extremely fringe movements and are in no way populist.
Ask HN: Best Cross-platform development tool that you've come across?
Apple Filemaker vs Force.com vs Microsoft Powerapps vs Zoho AppCreator.

The space seems to be crowding at the moment. Could users share their experiences?

It will help my ongoing evaluation. Thanks.
Hammer Black Widow Legend – Best of Bowling
Dame
I'm simply suggesting they structure the story different.

Begin with a short abstract in which you present your conclusions. Then follow up with how you arrived at that conclusion for people who want to go in-depth. Basically the way scientific papers are organised.
Norwegian fighter jet helps save dying patient
Yes, though either way it's good. If you can manage 400x more discharge cycles for little extra cost that could REALLY bring the cost of electric cars down, though the article doesn't say whether this design can in principle manage the power requirements of a car..?
DMCA Takedown.
Nothing good can ever come of getting kids interested in science.

Next thing you know they'll want to be doing science themselves. Where will it end?
I would be dubious about the "more employable" bit. There are plenty of examples where having a PhD makes one less employable. It would vary by field as well, so at the end it would be a wash, and not specifically a reason to do a PhD.
Chatbot Fail
This article was really an eye opener for me, especially what not to say to a dying person. We should be careful about that thing.
It isn't just a mater of terminology. Plant breeder's rights are different from patents and generally give much less power to the rightsholder. For example, the US has them via the Plant Variety Protection Act, but they only give protection to one single variety of plant, they allow researchers to use that variety without having to get a license, and they permit farmers to replant saved seeds. For this reason, US agribusinesses invested a lot of legal resources in convincing the courts to let them take out normal utility patents on plants, which had previously been considered unpatentable. (Plant patents were not the same thing, no matter what Monsanto's propaganda department have been claiming.)
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Well yeah, but that's not the same.

And exactly what problem does attaching the name to a real boat cause? I think the objection to the name is far more childish than the name itself. "Oh no no no, we can't call it that. This is a serious boat, for serious grown ups."
The rep who orders just vegetarian pizza will have a bloody revolution on their hands. I have pretty much three criteria for pizza selection: No anchovies, no pine apple, and at least one form of meat.
I think people need to stop and think about the ChainAnchor project without jumping to stark conclusions about its intent.

ChainAnchor is an experiment born in MIT. The project is lead by Sandy Pentland and company, who have a strong record in pursuing rights online. Pentland's group releases papers, as all academics do, to foster peer review.

In the case of blockchains and cryptocurrency, practioners like Peter Todd (author of this blog post) could play an important role in that peer review process. However, in this circumstance Todd responded in a public, inflammatory way.

Consider for a moment what an entirely academic-led peer review process would be like if controversial papers such as that about ChainAnchor were publicly attacked and its authors humiliated. This would quickly become an unsafe environment to explore and challenge ideas.

If academia is to partner with practitioners / experts, both groups are going to need to achieve a mutually beneficial arrangement to advance the field together. This is now a case of what such an arrangement would not look like.

for the record-- I currently have no commercial nor academic interests in this subject
Because they're children and can't use real money.
The point is, it doesn't have to be accurate. It just have to make sense to a child.
In the US, the "salary" you earn places you in the "poverty" designation of the economic earnings scale. Now do 10yrs of that and see how you would retire, buy a house or even have children any time soon.
It's not an either/or scenario. Unless you have a trivial environment, you still need something like Ansible to configure the application in question. Things like setting up monitoring, log transports, certificates, databases etc. needs to be orchestrated outside the container.
I can't say I have been that successful. We have been featured a few times, including Life Hacker: http://lifehacker.com/coursebuffet-organizes-online-courses-...

For Life Hacker I found the people who wrote about learning online and then wrote each one a semi personalized email.

The email said hey I have read your posts on X (something related to learning) this is why you and your readers would benefit from using us. Might be obvious but how can you benefit the readers is the focus not all about how you are cool.

Btw sometimes you contact writers/bloggers never hear anything then 4 weeks later without warning they write about you. Don't get discouraged because they don't get back to you. It doesn't mean they are not interested, just they are busy. Of course it could mean they don't care.

best of luck.
Demystifying Logistic Regression
Non-OSX BSDs don't include bash, some things like the ... operator don't work on older versions of bash.

Many people, especially Solaris and BSD folk, don't like bash scripts, and want you to write shell scripts in Bourne shell instead.

Many other people, who code on OS X and deploy on Linux, enjoy the extras bash adds, and only deploy on platforms that include bash.
are they even drones? RC quadcopters. Thats what people are afraid of RC copters.
How CockroachDB's query planner chooses indexes
The thing that bothers me most about root is that some parts of it are basically not maintained at all.

There are serious bugs in RooFit which haven't been fixed in years. Wouter Verkerke has abandoned it (from what I can tell). Lorenzo Moneta is fixing the worst potholes, but it seems is has no authority or no time to tackle the misguiding interface and the broken scaffolding of RooFit.

Maybe ROOT7 will be a chance to take ownership of RooFit again.
Also, consistently refer to the person overriding the competition result as Sour McSourpuss.
If you only use *nix platforms the default to bash, why not write bash scripts?
This is mildly in conflict with the finding that there's more suicide in Greenland in summer than in winter, but worth considering.

I've seen some theories that people in general don't commit suicide while under active hardship, but after the hardship lets up a bit and they have time to reflect on it.

Also relative hardship is far more important than absolute hardship. During the winter everybody is a bit miserable and under the weather so you don't stick out so much. When the summer comes and everybody but you cheer up the contrast becomes a lot more noticeable.
its just a wordpress theme... http://newsmartwave.net/wordpress/porto
Antbo: An Insect Robot Anyone Can Build
One has to wonder if someone will decide to apply an unauthorised paint job at some point..
We have no particular reason to trust any of these images though. An image built from a reproducible-build-only distribution (if that exists) would be valuable in this space.
> My degree isn't even in an I.T. field. I have a B.A. in Journalism!

You are probably a bit of an outlier in that any credentials in journalism, never mind a postgraduate degree in journalism, are only recently a way of increasing your chances of gaining employment in that field.

If non-commercial journalism grows that might change. But for now I'd venture to guess Ph.Ds in journalism are rare among those working in the field.
First steps into React Native
"Your chain of reasoning is so wonderfully self-contained. The deduction of the dimension number 4 impressed me very much as well. The decomposition of your invariant of 'weight' zero is also very striking. Except for the agreement with reality, it is in any case a grand intellectual achievement." -- Einstein to Weyl
If HN news threads suddenly started to be filled with comments such as "made $500 betting on the Falcon 9 first stage to tip over after landing", would you also answer "you are upset that people are interested in news for different reasons than you"?

Rather, I would expect the community/mods to either downvote/remove comments about betting, making it clear that betting should be discussed somewhere else, or upvote/tolerate them, making it clear that people who prefer not hearing about betting should go somewhere else.

Of course, going somewhere else requires effort, so my selfish hope as someone not interested in betting is that the communities I browse will pick the first option.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that people stay indoors more in the winter, thus being around other people more.

And yeah, this isn't a problem limited to Greenland. There has been a lot of news lately about the suicide strings at Attawapiskat. And Alaskan natives are twice more likely to commit suicide than non-natives.
If only Spitting Image was still around. This whole thing is like designed for a solid round of mockery.
Haha! You sound like a psychopath. Got any good code?
Document 17 Declassified – 9/11 attackers may have had links to Saudi Arabia [pdf]
I thought its power was precisely in the extremeness of the simplification. It is interesting to think about types of software that don't fit this.
Something that looks abandoned, but is the most interesting idea ever:

- http://content.cultureandempire.com/appendix1.html

- https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/edgenet#/
When people are really depressed, they don't kill themselves. Because they have no energy to.

Once they go on antidepressants, they go on suicide watch. It's the most dangerous time. Because they'll still be depressed, but they'll finally have the energy to get up. And they just might have the energy to do themselves in.
University itself is elective, no?
The bash COMPAT page? http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT

Also, just because you may not know what I'm talking about, don't assume no-one else does.
Nostalgia time. In 2005 the university of Bologna set up OSzoo.org: A repository of dozens of ready-to-run VMs for all majors free OSs: http://www.aboutus.com/Oszoo.org https://web.archive.org/web/20081206082548/http://www.oszoo....
We're really excited about all the polish in this release. If you have any questions please let me know. Plans for GitLab 8.8 next month are massive. The plans include a delivery pipeline view and a container image registry https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
Introducing the C++ Core Guidelines
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As opposed to "panties", "burglarize" and "bangs"?

There are words in all dialects that sound whimsical to outsiders, but internally they're so normalised that no one considers them whimsical at all.
They are independent (trust and mining). Mining is just one solution to minting, and only chosen to limit the rate of inflation. Other solutions exist. Don't get the cart before the horse.
But there's no need to stop. Animals kill and eat other animals without any guilt. We're doing the same thing, only more efficiently. That said, we should have stricter rules on treating food animals better, which has proven to produce better food anyway.
Yeah, that is definitely not the US perspective on it. Here you have to pay to go to school, unless you are one of the lucky few who gets some sort of research grant, or teaching position. In which case you get to live on basically minimum wage, and travel is a extremely rare occurrence. You have now spent 10+ years getting yourself into debt, rather than making any money beyond what it takes to survive, and your job prospects aren't greatly increased. Its not that great a deal here.
The shock of suddenly being average. No one warned us.
1) Would demand a lot of creativity. "Plausible deniability" when you are the prime suspect is hard to achieve.
2) I don't believe that for a second. Not because the US are not willing to kill people, but because of the level of scrutiny.
3) He would certainly go to trial. I don't know how that'd turn out, but I don't see that advancing the political career of anyone (that said, I'm not American, maybe I'm misjudging the American public).
Seeking whale meat to tourists is completely against the spirit of subsistence whaling, and the reason Greenland lost its official whaling quota in 2013.

I'm thinking of visiting, but there's no way I'll be eating whale.
I guess devs don't make as much as the media would have you believe.

If you like a service, $5 is a trivial cost to bear.
Hi Jaruzel, the crawler is live :D you can see in the bottom which page it is crawling right now.

It's basically scraping all links on every page it hits and tests the headers if they are containing the clacks value.

I added the form so people can submit pages to speed up the development of the list, even though I believe eventually the crawler would get to their pages :D
What sort of dynamic language? And what sort of environment?

I know people working in very dynamic/interactive environments who feel exactly the same way when they can no longer "touch the objects".
I don't recommend that founders pose for photos in their office in their bare feet (and while eating!). Yuk.
As the article makes clear, this wasn't a bait and switch, it was clearly said at the start what the parameters were. They were there to avoid this type of situation where people chose a crass name.
Sorry everyone, I was wrong about that as is pretty obvious. I was remembering the story about google building a datacenter in Finland confused it with Norway.
Colombia+issued+a+warning+against+OneCoin:+“illegal+MLM”
Ok glad you voiced your opinion that you disagree. I hope you feel better now, since it's clear what I have to say is so true that you're tormented to post a response. Next time that would be better done with a downvote because you have zero to add.

Reading comprehension is key. I was defending against those creating conflict. There's nothing more political than Python3. And overthrow all BDFLs. That was the whole point, that went right over your head. You are not an engineer. Go back to Reddit.

The irony of lazy people calling other people lazy is pretty hilarious. Since you harass the PyPy team and 90% of the Python community to port to 3 while you remain a non-contributing zero? There's only one thing to say to you:

Get to porting.
I tought angel had to move like a chess king or extend the movement. That restricts the extra 9 moves.

But I see it considers movement as multiple movements of a chess king, so you're right. It doesn't have that restriction!