skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ridiculous. It illustrates that most central banks’ primary mission has become asset price inflation (primarily the stock market) more than anything else. Pension funds, retirement savings, the top 1%’s majority of assets, and so on are all in the market so governments of the world have decided that the market shouldn’t go down, at least not very much.

So we are stuck at zero percent interest rates going negative. Give out the money to keep the party going. Any hiccup in the markets and banks cut rates. Our economies will continue to struggle with malinvestments until interest rates are in a more reasonable long-term range and all the zombie businesses can die and free up resources for stronger players. Amazing how supposed proponents of ‘free markets’ try to micromanage entire economies.
No Exit: The Case for Moving Security Information Front and Center
Helen: an influential think group that answers to the highest bidder.

It doesn't seem as complicating as the article suggests.
TechCrunch tried to find out more information about Helena in response to the Gawker article: http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/unboxing-helena-a-new-non-p...

They hit the exact same roadblocks.
> The open question is whether Travis would consider whether open science is related to open source, hence whether it's legitimate to use their free CPU muscles to do science.

The way Travis sets it up, it's free to run tests on any public repo. So OP's mechanism is a neat way to do repeatable (science) experiments, but I feel Travis would be in the right to say "hmm, no, you can't eat up tons of compute for free that isn't in the service of building software".

That said, 45 minutes of compute on an n1-standard-1 is just 3.75 cents. So this only becomes a real pain if lots of people do it and start triggering say 100 builds a month ($5 is my mental threshold).
Ember Conf 2016: How I learned to love Ember
Curious if there is a story behind the development.
Also an OMSCS student. Funny. On my iPad, it's less than straightforward to use Udacity on the website, and I've never been able to get the mobile app for the GT login. I have my IOS course bookmarked so I can watch the lectures on my tablet.
Society needs colleges/professors.

Grad schools help produce them.
This is harsher than it needs to be. A lot of us as sophomores started clubs, companies, organizations. I sincerely think this guy is trying to do something similar. He just seems to have better contacts. We also made (or projected) embarrassing mistakes at our first ventures. He maybe doing some of those too.

But from the look of it, it is simply an intellectually curious kid trying to keep himself busy. He also has a venture firm which backs that he has that kind of flare.

Not every 20-year-old student venture should be a Snapchat. Relax and let the guy do what makes him happy.
Why do you need data for somewhere the car may never go? The car knows where it's going; it can get the data it needs when it needs it.
> and told me that you have to always stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk regardless of the traffic signal

Well she's right; of course you have to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk. You can't wilfully hit someone and just say 'my right of way' and be all in the clear.

I think in the UK pedestrians actually always have priority, as long as they are travelling in a straight line and you as a driver are making some kind of turn. So for example a road joining another road at a T junction, pedestrians crossing the joining road have priority over cars, regardless of lights or markings.
The original argument is based on the assumption that the opposite of 'revealing 0-days makes us safer' is 'not revealing 0-days makes us less-safe'. I am not sure that is a correct assumption. On the surface it seems reasonable but it is also very simplistic. If one party knows an exploit that others do not, then that party has an advantage over everyone else, and everyone else is less safe from that party. Does that mean less safe in general? That depends on your opinion and relationship with the advantageous party. Those who feel less safe by this are the ones that distrust the FBI.
Top comment on the article is probably partially correct, if snarky:

"Well, at the very least, it’s the most elaborate iteration of “Daddy needs a tax deduction” that I’ve ever seen."

That the pocket-square emblazoned founder of a sexy non-profit is the son of a well-heeled VC is old hat.

"Changing the world" is one of the well established paths for masters-of-the-universe in training.

But the attachment to also running his own "Venture Fund" as a 20 year old made me realize what a crazy good time to be young, in any Ivy / forward thinking school and have a pocket full of cash - just saw the official UC Berkeley House Fund (1) news last week in this vein.

As an investment thesis getting your money first in line before the next Zuck or Gates drops out of Harvard / Yale / Berk ain't a bad idea

(1) http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/04/22/the-house-fund/
I accidentally misspelled 'BackBlaze' in the title; can someone fix it please?

Interesting decision by BackBlaze to stuff an extra row of drives in, lengthening the chassis to 33" instead of just under 29". It is their design, so they're free to do what they need for their own racks, but this does mean anyone trying to install a pod based on the 6.0 design couldn't use many closed-back racks or other kinds of racks.
I don't think you seem to understand how self driving cars work, or even how computers work.
Firstly, the car itself need not have traversed the same road for it to have full information. It can be gathered from collective data from all the self driving cars. That means even if one car went through that intersection, it has some relevant data on it.
Secondly, you're handwaving that humans are better with the "use best judgement", which is pretty much unquantifiable. Not to mention humans have "used best judgement" and still managed to crash into things. How are you sure that the algorithmic path taken by the onboard computer isn't far superior to best judgement? We already know that computers outclass us in terms of reaction times, why not this?
Thirdly, you don't need to store terabytes of data to do anything in the same way you don't need to download the entire database of HN to browse the front page. Localized data would be sufficient. Even if everything is offline, the car would most likely just revert to its learning mode .. which is how most of the Google cars that are on the streets currently started off.
Lastly, you're right we aren't 100% there when it comes to distinguishing zebras and couches. But for self driving cars, we don't need that. What we need is object detection, its velocity relative to us, and data on where its heading. All of which we have become pretty good at.
The Joy of Deploying Apache Storm on Docker Swarm
Posts like this are much needed in HN
Central banks are very hesitant at being seen as a market maker, except in money markets.

The article mentions these are being held as ETFs. In addition, the future liabilities the central bank holds should be written-off against current assets vs. future tax income required to fund these liabilities.
The prior article was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11543439.
It's a networking/social/party group, like ivy.com.
Only two days left now until Mandrill will shut down their stand alone service
Because ultimately voting with your dollar doesn't matter. It's ineffective and it does nothing.

It's a myth that if people don't like [x], then they won't buy from companies that support/enact [x] -- the market can take care of collective action problems! It ends up being a convenient way to push the responsibility onto some amorphous other person and say "not my job".

People don't like sweatshops. They don't like abusive monopolies who engage in shady anticompetitive practices like Uber. And yet most products are made in sweatshops, and Uber is wildly successful.

I'm not sure why people (myself included) don't do this. I suspect a lot of it is information/guilt overload; our global capitalist system is so dysfunctional that almost any purchase you make is contributing to something morally abhorrent. So in order to get by and have a daily life we just have to turn that part of our moral compass off when we make purchases to some extent.

In the end, it will never be effective to allow the market to decide matters like this: if a bar of soap whose purchase guarantees the murder of a baby for $2 is sitting next to a normal one on a supermarket shelf for $4, people will fight tooth and nail for the chance to kill that baby. Because they figure if they don't, somebody else will, and why waste $2?

That's assuming they are even informed -- businesses, when necessary, will spend millions of dollars on PR and advertising campaigns to ensure their customers are uninformed and that the market is dysfunctional.

The only solution is regulatory power, to through taxes or some other means delete the businesses with immoral practices from the market.
"Most people figure out what they want to do first and then start a company."

...and then figure out that no-one wants them to do that, and hopefully pivot to something people do want?

</cynical> ;)
The number of subjects doesn't really matter all that much. You can get a statistically significant result with a single subject under the right circumstances. This doesn't happen much in biology and the social sciences, but it happens all the time in physics. The best example is how the precession of Mercury (one "test subject") confirmed general relativity.

What matters is how likely it was that the result you got simply arose by chance. This can only be measured relative to some a priori probabilistic model. If the odds of the result having arisen by chance (the "null hypothesis") is low, then you can confidently "reject the null hypothesis" and conclude that something else must have happened. Of course, the statistics can't tell you what that "something else" was. That requires an explanatory theory.

The problem is that the probabilistic model is also kind of arbitrary. For example, suppose you flip a coin ten times and it comes up heads every time. That odds of that happening by chance are, naively, one in 2^10. But that is only true if you only do the experiment once. If you have, say, 2^8 people flipping coins, then the odds of someone seeing 10 heads in a row is one in four. Parapsychology experiments and stock-trading schemes often fall into this trap.

This is a general problem with "big data". The more data you have, the more likely you are to see things happen by pure chance that are intuitively unlikely.
I believe this motion is to support surviving First Nations culture.
I started raising bees last year, and think I am set to learn a few new things about consciousness. I am starting to think that the "Hive Mind" recognizes me. After I get more experienced I for sure plan to do more experiments.
...which is exactly his point. People will do things that are objectively not in their best interest (become scientists, poets, or French poetry critics) because we've been strongly inculcated in that whole "do what you love" "everything is worth it as long as [you touch someone with your art] [your science is remembered after you die] [insert reason here]" philosophy.
Which means those fields get a free pass to treat their members horribly, and people will still gravitate towards them in huge numbers, because "do what you love" is so strongly ingrained in us.

A perfect example is that game dev crunch article that was going around a few days ago: if you're complaining about 80 hour work weeks you don't really love what you're doing!
Helena sounds vaguely like Builderberg Jr to me
Fair enuf - everyone has their own way towards keeping some footprint once they are gone.

I personally realized half-way through undergrad that programming would help me achieve that goal - or even contributing to open source vs writing papers and trying to get published.
one instance per file, no tabs, no toolbars and a simplified menu (all of that configurable)
> Chrome books are the best college laptops for the vast majority of students.

If they're not the best laptop for everybody outside of college, then they're not the best laptop for college students IMO. I wouldn't want my kids learning on something that next to nobody uses.

- How are graphics arts students supposed to learn how to use Photoshop, Illustrator and other programs that professionals actually use in the real world?

- How are CS students supposed to learn how to use the plethora of tools that don't run in ChromeOS?

- How are business students supposed to learn how to use the full Office suite, which most of the rest of the world is using on Windows or even OS X?

The "ton" of apps is kind of a moot point since Windows and Mac both also have a ton of apps.

I don't get your other point - you want to avoid issues with Word by using the "Microsoft suite on an App" (which presumably includes Word)?

> THE ONE ISSUE is Printing.

There is way more than just that one issue I think, if we're going to be completely objective here.
One wonders why they didn't invest that effort in making an awesome OpenCL 2.1 compiler instead.
Typically when you shop around for insurance, your agent will make you aware of whatever benefits/incentives are available to you through the specific plans. In terms of keeping overall cost of your plan down, just do whatever you can to make sure they don't get sick/go to do the doctor and use insurance. A high deductible would be beneficial, for example.
Hmm. Of course now I can't find my original source. :/ According to this article https://ranwhenparked.net/2013/07/22/30-years-ago-bmw-launch... Mercedes' and BMW's interest in car diesel engines goes back to the 1970s, though Peugeot was there too. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_the_di... is oddly written and fairly uncited, but it does state "The diesel car markets are the same ones who pioneered various developments (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Peugeot/Citroën, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Volkswagen Group)".

Moving towards the politics, Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel's Environmental policy-making in Britain, Germany and the European Union's Chapter 5, "The catalytic converter versus the lean-burn engine controversy" seems very informative. Particularly the section "The diesel engine", which contains this:

"In America and Japan, diesel cars almost disappeared from the market in the 1970s after the adoption of stringent limit values for carcinogenic particulates, although this was disputed by the car industry. The EU introduced relatively lenient particulate limit values in the late 1980s. The German government demanded the [Best Available Technology] option for both petrol and diesel cars. However, after heavy lobbying from Mercedes and Volkswagen, fiscal incentives were granted not only for the three-way catalytic converter but for diesel cars which met the lenient EU particulate limits."

(Seen through Google Books at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0719073340 )

Industry and Politics in West Germany: Toward the Third Republic by Peter J. Katzenstein (seen at https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0801495954 ) adds

"Moreover, since diesel engines get the same break, the European regulation also favours those German producers who are leaders in diesel technology, especially Daimler Benz and VW."

However, Wurzel clearly asserts that the move towards US-style catalytic converters on petrol cars in Europe (which is apparently what first made diesels attractive as a regulatory end-run) was initiated by Germany in the teeth of opposition from German car makers (especially Volkswagen): there was a perception in the UK government that Germany was obliging its automakers in this, but it was wrong. Also, http://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/2190-4715... says that tax incentives for dieselisation in the domestic German market are relatively modest (and that there was a small tax penalty for buying a diesel until 2009, though not after actual fuel costs were taken into account) (2.3.6, 2.3.7). Interestingly, it also suggests that a supply glut of fuel oil (which can be converted into diesel) was the original incentive for the European diesel boom (2.3.1) . Then again, further on down the road it seems clear that the EU's lenient approach to diesel emissions had the effect of advantaging European automakers collectively against competition from the Japanese, who had bet on hybrids instead (2.3.6).

In summary, TIL.
This is a well-worn sentiment, but I think it is at best only partially true. A substantial aspect to the way modern businesses run has little to do with sheer, naked profit seeking and much to do with culture. Specifically a culture of class distinctions, power, and "winning". There are countless instances of corporations doing dumb things that hurt their bottom line but are done anyway because it aligns with the culture and values system of those making the decisions.
I also enjoy the side effect of keeping the rate of return for savings accounts at zero.
once it passes, you can add "Wizard" to the official list of professions.
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Title is somewhat incomplete. Apple accounted for 40% of profits for the 150 biggest public companies in the Bay Area. Private companies are not included, and neither are most of the big players in the mobile hardware space (ex. Samsung). Still very impressive, though, considering how long everyone has had to catch up in terms of product offerings.
Bots and WeChat of the West
A large fraction of users seem to disagree! Ubuntu is the most popular server distro in the cloud, by far.

http://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-linux-is-the-most-popular-operat...
https://duh6oa3w9hopv.cloudfront.net/uploads/pdfs/RightScale...
etc.

The must be doing something right, but of course as quickly as they rose, they could loose the market equally quickly. I do see interesting directions, though: Ubuntu seems to be the default choice on OpenPOWER servers (at least for now) and it will likely be a strong contender; see e.g.
https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47791.wss

One group that has certainly contributed and needs to be given credit is Debian!
Manifesto: Things we believe about hiring
This is really funny. Maybe not intentionally. It belongs on Comedy Central as a series.
If you were hiring a mechanic, why would you test them on their ability to design engines?
I was referring to gitlab's hosted option (maybe I'm not the only one that didn't know this existed until recently) - https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in

I assume you're running your own VPS with gogits/gogs running on it?
I like Canada. Social Capital is a good balance between capitalism and socialism.
Uber just came to my town. I won't be using it.

We have had a thriving taxi ecosystem here forever, and the money stays locally. I don't want the new worldwide taxi monopoly moving, thanks.
1. Unlike Wikipedia if there is enough data, you are guaranteed separate pages for work and people just like what you have in IMDB for movie and actors

2. With those separate pages you will get links in between them

Try the links on this page:

http://www.theymadethat.com/people/tony-fadell
Even if it were possible to corrupt the repository, corruption would result in obvious failures rather than subtle data loss because of git's use of cryptographic hashes for everything, and the fact that local copies are full repositories makes it easy to nuke the Dropbox repository and recreate it if you need to.
I don't get the math about diesel. American refineries produce 12 gallons of diesel and 19 gallons of gasoline on average[1] from a barrel of oil(42 gallons). I seem to remember that figure being lower and it looks like googles answer was 10 gallons at one point using the same site reference. I think that there was a push to get most cars off of gasoline and on to diesel before the VW scandal, and that diesel was going to save the world. I didn't see how we were going to make that work when there is 50-80% less of the stuff per barrel of oil. I think in the real world the MPG gains are 25-35%[2]

I don't know that EVs are the savior they're pitched as, unless we can make battery tech and power generation cleaner. It looks like there is progress in that arena, so hopefully that continues. I think that we have demonstrably cleaned up gasoline cars while also increasing power output and MPG, and progress in that arena should continue as well. I think that diesel for passenger cars is a dead end, and it should be left to big rigs and heavy duty vehicles.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=327&t=9
[2]https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/di_diesels.shtml
Wow - well said. I have often said that modern computer security is akin to trying to float on the ocean in a sieve while constantly plugging each hole in the sieve all the time.

I think the world is ready for a new kind of computer. Want to start a company? ;-]
Nothing wrong with what you said, value is subjective after all.

However, couldn't you say this about about a plethora of things?

I got kids/built a commerical building/wrote a book/made a youtube clip/participated in official sport (records lasts forever whohoo!). All of these things will keep existing to some capacity when you die.

Seems pretty trivial for it's own sake.
I wouldn't call it unfocused. I think it pokes holes pretty accurately in the psychology behind the pieces (and those like it) which it was a reaction to. It shows a lot of the pot-shot-taking and one-upsmanship for what it is; namely, a psychological defense to feeling like a failure in a society where to simply be adequate is perceived as failure--you have to be better(™) than some other class of your peers. It could just as we'll be a piece about how we all gather around to defend ourselves or join in throwing stones when there is a new "Why Johnny Can't Code" or "Fizz-Buzz" article.
Got it, ok, thanks.
NIH
A Lyft driver told me the other day that it was something like a 30% bonus on whatever you had earned that week when you hit 80 rides in a calendar week.
It does change the availability of low-prices debt but so would the government failing to issue debt in the first place. In both cases there's less distortion than if the government starts blessing specific stocks.
We banned your many accounts from HN because of what I can only call obsessive obesity trolling. That's an abuse of this site and one you've done a lot of damage with.

If you want to be unbanned you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com and promise not to do this any more.
Not necessarily true in the case of government intervention
You should check out YC-backed Hellofax:

https://www.hellofax.com/info/pricing
Why Rails 5/Turbolinks 3.0/Action Cable matter, and why dhh was right all along
Microsoft R Open 3.2.4 released
Taking on Tesla: China's Jia Yueting Aims to Outmuscle Musk
Seems pretty sensible policy to me. The expected return on the stocks if probably something like 7%. The government can borrow at about 0%. Why not borrow and buy stocks? I would if I could borrow in that way. Also it helps the economy - win all round.
Ask HN: How do you deal with so many project management systems?
I deal with a lot of clients, many of them have their own internal systems and teams, and they add me in to their projects.

I've noticed that now my life consists of having multiple Basecamp, Trello and Asana projects all open in different tabs at the same time. Then they want me chatting in Skype, or they text and email. And I have to remote with Join.me, Zoho, GotoMeeting.

No longer are project management systems keeping me organized, it's turned into a mess.

Do you deal with this too? Are there any solutions out there that can interface with all these major systems at once?