skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the project is short-handed, but wants to take on scouring analytics to start packaging common things people are doing with the software.

If you're too busy to do this "right" why bother? Are you hoping making more shortcuts will increase adoption?

Current employer doesn't much care about these things, but last employer did. Having shared this thread with their IT folks, they've decided to cut people off from homebrew while they figure it out.

I guess costing yourself users is one way to free up some time.
> Of course, people taking public transport are in my experience usually of the most dubious mental health

For a brief moment I thought Mrs Thatcher had risen from the dead and signed up to HN. Whew.
You may be assuming 'public transport' = government-run monopoly transport: government-run services almost never make money, but that's not a transportation issue. This econtalk podcast has a interesting discussion about how Chile moved from private to public: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/07/munger_on_the_p.htm...
Not far off if you throw lunch in there as well. It's growing fast though. The area I'm living in went from relatively quiet with few cars on the road to serious traffic problems in probably 5 years (pulling from memory). Some of that might be increased shopping options in the city pulling in regional shoppers who previously didn't have as much of a need to be in the city. It's hard to say without real numbers though.

Maybe I'm just hanging with the wrong crowd, but pretty much everyone (locals) I know has bare bones possessions. The head of the household has a T.V. and a fridge as an addition to my list. That's friends, family and neighborhood.

There is a lot of money coming in through remittances. Getting money coming in as a basic income (not work) doesn't seem to do much for the work ethic from my experience. Often these remittances are covering a large family with basic living expenses.

I don't have much more than anecdotal evidence, but the profile of a typical person here is way different than that of where I came from (US).
If you think more access to heroin will not lead to more addicts, you are really unaware of human nature or reality. It definitely will. Now, the question for you is the fact at least it is "free" is better for society and some notion of "freedom" that having more addicts in society.

You cannot compare the "addictiveness" of alcohol and heroine, although there happen to be many addicted to alcohol and many alcohol related deaths.

I'm not sure why you are not convinced, is it because you don't want to be? There are already tremendous amounts of people addicted to legally obtained opiates, I think this is a terribly naive view.

If you believe the only thing that matters is for all drugs to be free then just say that but don't pretend the quantity of addicted decreases because the accessibility goes up. Imagine if you were a gambler, would you really make that bet?
This would be wildly surprising and very hard to believe for those in the bitcoin space who know Erik.
Has he tried getting an OBDII reader (they're really cheap) and resetting the fill status himself?
public-key crypto as kristofferR pointed out, but it's so common nowadays that people don't realize how weird of a concept it might have been a few decades ago.

Last year I came across a "fair" version of the Socialist Millionaires problem. How can two persons interact with one another to compare their bank statement. If you think about it, you might consider that in any interaction, a party might abort the exchange as soon as he learns the result and would then have an advantage over the other party. But not too long ago cryptography found a way to make this fair :) (https://www.cryptologie.net/article/279/how-to-fairly-compar...)
Appreciate any feedback on our mapping / route implementation. Thx! Sam
> If people need to know or understand this stuff bitcoin will never work. Success rests on the what not the how.

Bitcoin is an inflationary private currency with $10 transaction fees that is mostly used for illegal activity. Its value and success is predicated on the ability to buy drugs and pay ransoms with Bitcoin.

> The end user doesn't care if your website was written in php or node.

The end user also gets their wallet stolen. So yeah, I'd say that not understanding the basics is critical when dealing with crypto-currencies.
Recreational Marijuana, they only actual great new product from the past few years
NodeList object is finally an Iterator
That was the only thing cigarettes were ever good for! Back when I smoked, if I was stuck on something, I would go have a cigarette. Most of the time I would have the answer (or at least a hint) when I came back in. Some say that nicotine temporarily increases brain function, so I just chalked it up to that.
Are we allowed to mention our own blogs? :)
http://datagenetics.com/blog.html
> Instead of forcing readers to follow a single, linear, flat sequence of sections, just offer different routes between articles or items.

This is kind of nit-picky, but I get bothered when someone uses the word "just" right before suggesting something that's really difficult to do.
Flex and Bison in C++: a short parser generator example
Over the years I've had a huge number of visitors (33k over the last year) to this tutorial I put together as a grad student (http://www.jonathanbeard.io/tutorials/FlexBisonC++.html). I spent a bit of time over lunch updating, and incorporating comments via e-mail. Any suggestions on improvements/enhancements? Thanks!
Interest rate has a huge impact on housing price, as most people borrow to buy houses these days. People evaluate monthly payment more than the price. If they can afford the monthly payment, they can afford the house. Lower interest rate lowers the monthly payment. People can afford higher priced houses. When everyone does it, the general housing price goes up.
Looks like there's an essay too: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2008/Mungerbus.html
Then you aren't living in reality. People all the time think "this won't happen to me." I think you have a lot to learn about the world; I mean that in a nice way.
How disappointing. I was expecting something more concrete, like “every node is a sequence point and every edge is a possible transition” or “every node is a point at which a nondeterministic event occurs and every edge corresponds to a causal relation between events”. But if you just say “a computation is a graph” and give no further details, then there's no actual benefit to modeling computations as graphs.

I'm even more annoyed by your use of the word “isomorphic”, which, FYI, doesn't mean “vaguely similar in some way I can't articulate”. It only makes sense two speak of two mathematical objects being “isomorphic” when they belong in the same category. What category do you have in mind, that includes both computations and graphs as objects, and what are the morphisms between them?
I figured something was up when I noticed a new hidden file in my home directory: .homebrew_analytics_user_uuid
"It won't happen to me" is, yes, what many young people actually believe. I mean, if you have a logical discussion with them, they'll admit that, theoretically, yes, they will probably become addicted. But as with many other areas, they don't really believe that, and their behavior proves it.
Oh no! You might get "targeted." How scary!

This thread has been really illuminating for me. I didn't realize so many people were so afraid of "criminals" that they can't even get good sleep.
I'm pretty sure that usually, in the last situation with Arby's, the computer would automatically combine things that are part of a combo and apply the discount.
same question, but indeed looks great
Spreadsheets in Medicine: A Public Health Warning (2006)[pdf]
Yeah it’s not implemented yet. We’re doing it incrementally and actually started shipping the first bits one month ago (but it was opt-in for tests). Bottling the most used options is something we’re really excited both as maintainers and users and is IMO the number 1 reason these analytics will benefit everyone. We’re currently looking how it behaves and will add them soon.
An accessible dialog window library for all humans
That's interesting, although, if it is more than just chance, it seems like it would say more about pg's attitudes towards desireable comments than about those of the broader community.
The Complete History of MLB
I ran those checks and most problematic packages are related to ruby, as I ran redmine which uses Ruby.
... me too! And since I read about it in this thread, I also have sleep apnea and ADHD. Very interesting :)
Good review. One thing mentioned is that the author was able to remove Kitematic amongst other things. Kitematic is a GUI for Docker. There is currently no replacement for it.
If you're wondering what flambda is: https://blogs.janestreet.com/flambda/
It's high time for CVE-like identifiers for privacy violations.
Data Elixir 76: Web apps with R. Python analysis libs. TensorFlow for beginners
Does anyone not remember the candidates' interviews at Google?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yVlPqeZwo

The Barack Obama one was likely the most viewed, as he was relatively unknown then.

Interesting the answers he gave and the state of politics and regulation 8+ years afterwards.
The issue is turnout ... oh wow. Well "if only all the people that want my product, bought my product, my startup would be a huge success .... It's just all those that want to buy my product can't get around to buying it ... Will you fund my startup Mr. VC?"
How do you build the documentation? I can see files in the docs dir turn into http://www.chartjs.org/docs/. But I couldn't find any npm plugin etc.
Serious question: are you really so afraid of the tiny possibility of someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping that you can't sleep well in hotels?

If that's true, I seriously wonder how you ever get in a car.
Treating environmental disasters as 'random' events is too kind. I think in just about every major recent environmental disaster you can without too much difficulty, trace back the disaster to cost cutting measures where decisions were made to put off long term risks in favor of short term profits.

The BP oil spill, shortcuts were made in the safety of the drilling equipment emergency cutoffs, in the Los Angeles methane leak, the company had put off maintenance to try to make rate payers pay for improvements instead of out of profits to the company. The Northern California San Bruno pipe explosion - safety funds had been diverted to executive bonuses.

Smart investors (and insurers of these companies) should be digging into long term risks. It is not that we cannot predict it - we are too cheap and profit oriented to pay to mitigate it.
Except the universe seems to be infinite, so yes, the economy can grow exponentially forever.
Even within current physics, it's possible to put billions of habitable Earths in our solar system, by importing mass and energy from other systems. There's A LOT of empty space.

Given interstellar distances, the annual rate of growth would be small, but still positive.
Instead my brain was totally distracted by those colorful nodes in the graph, it looks fancy but I remembered little afterwards. Maybe this is more helpful for those visual learners.
Postcards from Google Earth
> I'm aware of the shortcomings of the ARM-based Windows notebooks. But they mostly failed because there are no great "universal" apps.

Smartbooks were not Windows notebooks. They still failed. Why the Surface RT failed is another matter, but the major reasons included (a) price and (b) the inability to run traditional Windows 32 software.

> That Core M was $280 (that's what the OEMs pay when they bundle them in their devices, possibly with some light negotiation).

Hard to know what OEMs pay for Intel chips, and unless you work for one, you probably don't. (Even if you do work for one, you probably don't.) However, it's not going to be $280 on a $599 selling price.

In fact, Intel listed the Core M with a "Recommended Customer Price" of $281. Selling them by the thousand to OEMs, I'd guess it might get half that, though I'd be interested in hard evidence to the contrary.

Looking on amazon.com, most Core M laptops seem to be heavily discounted, possibly because they don't seem to offer particularly good performance for the money. The Lenovo Core M Yoga that hit the UK market first (at the end of 2014) roughly halved in price within months....
don't know if we talk about the same. DRM (Digital Right Management) is just the overall term, there are different systems out there (Widevine Modular, Playready, Fairplay, Primetime, etc.), which are used e.g. by Netflix. So, why do you think DRM is a problem for legitimate users?
The US Fed was a very large buyer of Mortgage Backed Securities, lower the rate of US mortgages. This means that they directly contribute to the housing rate increase. (This is in addition to the indirect aspect of lower long term rates raising equity prices, and people putting that money into houses)

https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/mbs_faq.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-28/fed-sees-a...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-bought-up-half-of-agenc...
I'm not American so I'm not the "you" you're referring to in your bizarre "aim higher" lecture.

That said, the comment I was answering implied the US is an unfree country. That is simply not the case. To illustrate this, let's see how some other countries, including the ones you named, compare to the US.

Freedom House ratings[1] for selected countries (100 is best):

Switzerland: 96

Norway: 100

Australia: 98

France: 91

Canada: 99

Russia: 22

China: 16

United States: 90

So the US is roughly equivalent to France, one of the countries you named. Russia is lousy, as expected, but certainly not the worst.

[1] https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-...
> What isn't being said today because of the way speech and power is structured in the USA?

Let's try an experiment: you post some of the things that you think aren't being said, and we'll all see what happens.
Not necessarily. You wouldn't have to include the data itself in the transaction, just a hashed key. You then just set the data to expire at the requested time.
I had some friends in high school, and during my first couple of year in college who where in the BBS scene who started experimenting with heroin. They started smoking heroin because it was cheaper than pot, and they started smoking pot because they couldn't get beer as easily. All three of them ended up addicted, 2 of them where only into 'smoking' heroin, the third started injecting it. The first guy, who was/is insanely smart, just stopped, but went through severe withdrawal--he learned his lesson when I bumped into him a decade later. The second guy was from an insanely wealthy family, whose family eventually sent him to rehab. The third guy is still a junkie as far as I heard.

I never started because of the education/indoctrination by Nancy Reagan's "just say no." I just said no thanks when offered, and was only able to watch as these guy's lives spiralled out of control.
Well... Table of contents and index are "different routes". Hyperlinks to sections that give more detail on a topic that is mentioned is a "different route". If you limit yourself to those, "just" is a reasonable word - but then the concept is pretty uninteresting, because people have been doing it for ages.
Heap (YC W13) is hiring a business ops engineer
“Growth Over Revenue” Is Bad Startup Advice
Ask HN: What's your greatest weakness?
Time and time again I'm asked this question, and yet I still don't feel confident with any of the ones I've responded with. I thought it would be fun to ask here and see what others normally say is theirs.

So, what would you say is your greatest weakness?
Yeah, the Home Depot thing sounded similar. Sure, this particular data breach has no bearing on their general financial position, and you can make a compelling argument that you should ignore it: it's a one-time weird thing, and they're not going to have data breaches every year.

... or are they? At least, will they have data breaches every few years? What's the annual cost of doing all the work needed to prevent data breaches? If it's less than the averaged-out cost of cleanup, why weren't they doing it all along? If it's more, and they're accepting data breaches as a cost of doing business, shouldn't they be reporting that cost?

And if they don't think it's going to happen again, why not?
I love the knee-jerk hostile reactions to any sort of phoning home by an application. They've provided extensive explanations on what is collected, why they're collecting it, who has access, what it's for, and even the code that does the actual collecting and it still isn't enough for people.

While I'm against this type of thing typically, this information is exactly what someone who is concerned about it needs to see, and if they don't want to be involved they include the opt-out on the very same page. I don't see how this could get any better, this could be held up as a gold standard for Microsoft and Google moving forward.

This type of data is invaluable to developers, I can't tell you how frustrating it is that so many people now refuse to share it because of overblown privacy concerns. The data is anonymized and no one cares enough about what you're doing to de-anonymize it.

There are real threats to your privacy out there and spending time on stuff like this just adds to the noise.
So... FreeNet?
Ever heard of the "kids for cash" program?
Judges would sentence kids in exchange for money from the prison industry.
Cruise Automation is definitely looking for ML interns. There's just a general intern job posting but we are looking for interns for every team.
https://jobs.lever.co/cruise
This seems about right. The tech industry is one of the few industries where you can break out of the ceiling of the local economy.

Otherwise, what might be (or once was) considered a solid middle wage job back in the U.S. is probably closer to what the call center manager is making.
What would be, for example, a passive attack against a CS-RNG?
Oh that doesn't happen anymore. It's 2016!
If this short bio is interesting, you may enjoy the much more in-depth biography, _Titan_, by Ron Chernow.

In addition to an incredibly thorough (and even-handed, IMO) treatment of Rockefeller, I found it an interesting perspective on the post-war period in the US.
;-) No probs. Thanks for checking.
This "review" is the technical equivalent of a YouTube unboxing video. Screenshot, screenshot, something I already knew from reading the press release, screenshot, platitude, one big technical error in the conclusion, and done.

If it really worked (especially on Windows) Docker would post the binaries instead of treating this like Wonka Golden Tickets. Love Docker, am actually waiting to be approved so I can get to building something, but posts like this are a symptom of a larger problem.
you trolling me or what? I mean that in a nice way.
Why do people value that so much? I really don't care if a tiny VMis running in the background.
Also, running that VM gives me more confidence that it will also run on the production machine (since they use the same kernel and the same docker version).

The only problem I had with docker was that I did not use to support shared volumes that are outside the home folder on Mac (I think they changed that now, but I'm not sure).
Good point.

Although, I never really was able to reconcile Thiels' criticism of an 'indefinite' worldview. It appears to me if the factors that influence things are not only the unknowns but the are unknown unknowns (i.e. you don't even know what you would need to know that will determine the fate of the company/country/whatever). In that case, how could you be anything but uncertain and just try to structure your life to benefit from convexity or as Taleb coined, anti-fragility?
The site looks quite clean and intuitive. I'm impressed that you already have 36 properties. That must have taken a while to set up. How long have you been working on this?
As somebody who previously was in charge of a large (tens of thousands of staff) finance company's Asia Pacific IT workforce, I looked at dozens of Filipino CVs for new remote hires (we were moving away from India).

The salary the worker was expecting was often written in the resume directly ("Expecting no less than 40,000 peso a month"). All of the figures were higher than what they would net, because of the overhead of the remote office in Manila that acted as local HR and a place to work).

Only one resume I looked at didn't have a photo insert on the front page. Only a few didn't mention religion and hobbies. These are asides. Salary was $400 US per month for programmers working full time (we paid $1200 including the "HR/seat/office fee" - we were to look at coworking spaces in the future).

All the staff travelled roughly 70-95 minutes each way - we offered remote (at-home) work if their conditions were ok, but most didn't have a decent computer, had no aircon, had noise issues and couldn't guarantee an unoccupied room for six hours per day at least, so the risk was too high, given that we were tipped off that any worker could eventually try to incorporate something else on the side [part-time remote job] and do both at once, appearing present on IM but half-assing two jobs). We decided that an office with a roaming/snooping manager was a necessity in our early testing stages.

From speaking with many people in that country, average wage is definitely lower than you might even think. Management is the way to earn better money over there in IT. Salaries, if they exist, for non-corporate staff are probably abysmal all over Manila. There will always be somebody willing to work for less, fresh out of university.
These might help, but there's always bias, as when somebody's benchmarking 6 dev languages, only 2 of which they know well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/4fl6kk/try...

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/04/deep-learning-vs-svm-random...

https://www.quora.com/Which-classifier-is-better-random-fore...

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume15/delgado14a/delgado...
Swedish nuclear weapons program
Bitcoin solved the double-spending problem with its revolutionary blockchain tech.

Before Bitcoin came along a working decentralized P2P currency had been considered impossible, since nobody could figure out a way to make a P2P currency unforgeable (and therefore work as a currency) before that.
This morning, I thought of using public keys as an address - like an email address. What do you guys think?
This is part of the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...

In effect, the manufacturer can only deny warranty claims for a specific part iff the consumer's aftermarket repair/modifications were responsible for the warrantied part failing. i.e. "I tinted the windows, and now the brakes are failing" does not result in warranty claims on the brakes being denied. However, "I replaced the brake pads [with faulty pads], and now the brake rotors are failing" can result in a denied warranty claim.
>Soon every piece of software will be reporting, silently.

Not ethically written, free software. You would never see this behavior from a GNU program.
I've been hearing more and more about BIM (building information modeling) recently. Seems like that their total commitment to BIM was a key component of this massive project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling

I'm wondering what might happen if the wealth of structured information within some of these mega-projects finds its way onto the internet. I recognise that a lot of the construction data must be proprietary but what if were possible to open up some of this construction data? Perhaps this is an area the Open knowledge Foundation (or someone like them) should be tracking, assuming they are not already. https://okfn.org/

ps: Superb in-depth article. I love me some mega-project info, don't know why!