skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaaha as someone from Eindhoven, where Philips did and still does most of its R&D, this is frighteningly recognizable.

The scary part is that most departments in Philips still prefer heavy processes over progress. I, for one, didn't last more than 6 weeks there.
Do you work for SpaceX? You have it in your username and comment like you're part of the company, but also spend your time discussing the merits of the NRA. Do you represent SpaceX or are you just super enthusiastic about them? It's not easy to tell.
He may have worded it slightly awkwardly, but the point is that you're looking to predict results, not pluck them from datasets.

If you start with data, and then look for patterns you can almost always find them. Whether they are predictive is what you're trying to understand.

I would also note that he didn't say 'discard data that disagrees with the hypothesis', which I think is what you're commenting on. This is as you correctly point out dangerous, and not how you science.
Commercial mass mail for informing isn't sent in envelopes. I presume that's what the parent was talking about.
> - Never (actually) scold people. Being right is not the point. Moving the needle is the point.

Nice one. Worth remembering even if you are not a programmer. Thanks.
Ask HN: What's the matter with delicious.com?
After several owner changes it seems that delicious.com has a new owner. The service quality seems to lower since then (sporadic errors when adding a book mark), the design was uglified, the domain is del.ico.us again. And now the site is effectively unusable since days. Even the blog doesn't work anymore. http://blog.del.icio.us/

All this is not professional. I'm worried about the future. Does anyone know what's going on here? What bookmark service do you use and recommend?
wow i like the simplicity.
I just wondered how you will monetize this site?
Are you going to add adverts?
For example, I am grateful for Walkers' Crisps and add link to Walkers page?
The first one definitely will (unless negotiations break down and they decide to launch without a customer, but that seems unlikely). Eventually when it becomes routine maybe not.
023 (Fnord) has been fired? I must have missed that. Got a link?
Wow, knowing nothing about Baldwin until just now I did not expect it to be that good; I don't think I have ever seen such an amazing and convincing speech. Naturally, I searched the internet to learn more about it, found this essay:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/education-oronte-churm/...
They should also implement a generics/template system.

(Barking at the wrong tree intensifies.)
Most kids want to make games and have their friends and the world play them. Desktop software isn't dead either. Real artists ship.
The good stuff was always buried deeply on threads, and mainly pre 1996. I should do something better with the archives to pull out the specific good stuff.
That is alla amazing, and very impressive. Thanks for doing it all, and sharing.

A super-picky note from the embedded developer corner: a serial port with a clock signal is not asynchronous, so the "A" in UART becomes wrong.

Peripherals capable of doing both, which are common on modern microcontrollers, are often called USARTs, which of course means universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter. Other names for more fancy capabilities are also common.
Ya, but they don't need a lane everywhere to park if there's 80% fewer of them
Very cool. I believe that this is a very instructive piece of code to introduce in a concrete way what a compiler does to optimize your code, at least to unexperienced people like myself.

I'm very amazed by the simplicity of this example. Are there more serious optimization that can be seen with simple code?
Multi-threading was far more popular on Windows then other OSs because starting new processes was so damned expensive.

On many other systems the overhead of bringing up a new process was so much closer to that of bringing up a new thread that you only needed threads for really high performance parallel code and/or when you needed fast shared memory and/or were very memory constrained. Any time the individual tasks are fairly independent, had noticeable bottlenecks other then CPU, and data larger then the process itself, say a web server, processes were more than adequate and you don't need to worry about certain potential concurrency issues.
Awesome webbased VR editor demo (360+3D)
Are you running boutique recruiting firm now?
Why? In order to have a Mondo account, the user must have our app installed.
I am not against HTTPS per se. Use it for sensitive content.
Edward: A Python library for probabilistic modeling, inference, and criticism
That's because they share flats until their mid 30s. As for having a family, better be a banker...
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This has been my experience when trying to interface with some legacy LPT stuff, much of the software of the era is basically hard coded to do that and won't play well with (or sometimes even recognise) the PCIe add on ports. YMMV, clearly.
On Mondo, there simply are no passwords at all. Instead, when the user wishes to log into our first-party apps, we send a login link to their registered email.

We'll almost certainly add additional required factors to this process (eg. biometrics), as we see the user logging into the Mondo app on a new device as one of the most critical from a security perspective.
Press release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uks-200-million-polar-res...

BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36225652
You seem to be confusing the interface between systemd components and third parties, with internal interfaces.

The latter are expressly non-documented, and non-stable, to allow the systemd devs to change them as they see fit.

As for logind on BSD, got a link? Last i recall they were struggling because it was a sprawling and moving target (Consolekit2 is also having that problem). One example is that recently logind took over much fo the job upower used to do, with upower now being a compatibility wrapper around logind.

Oh btw, dbus is massively more opaque that being able to run a command, look at the output, and then pipe that to another with the proper flags and such.
better sense of equality, but greater inequality
Been there, done that. I was comparing clang and GCC. Clang had dead coffee elimination but not GCC. I was surprised by seeing the speedup by using clang :P
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> Unlike almost everyone else currently in the workforce, there is absolutely no expectation of any future change in income.

Social Security is adjusted for inflation: https://www.ssa.gov/news/cola/

Likewise bond yields and stock prices will change with inflation/deflation.

Any retirement scheme not adjusted for inflation is a rip-off at best and a scam at worst.
On a smaller scale, you have these problems in germany too. Gentrification has been an (not so small) issue in Berlin since the early 90ies. And no one I know who lives in Berlin (or Hamburg for that matter) is satisfied with their rent-cost to living-quality ratio. A notable counter-example is Leipzig (cheap rent, lots of parks, good quality of living [my opinion]), but things are changing here as well...
Yeah, gnunet.org wins the single highest coolness factor to website quality ratio in my opinion (they have other projects besides GNS that are even less well documented), although there is stiff competition. Here is a short paper on GNS: https://gnunet.org/sites/default/files/paper_cans2014_camera...

The thing I don't like about it is the distributed hash table aspect, making it a "publish by default" system (with some obfuscation, but still). All that is really needed is a way to communicate your petnames with people you want to have access to them. I'd rather that be done more privately. Besides that, I think the system is a great way to do distributed names to values (send keys with names is much better than PKI).
Something which is missing entirely in this concept (or, hopefully, only in the blog entry), are security updates. For example, let's assume I use an HTTP library whose TLS dependency has an error where it doesn't properly match the domain name in the certificate to the hostname of the server I'm connecting to. My Cargo.lock file references a TLS library of version 1.7.1, but the security patch is applied on 1.7.6 which has some breaking changes. Thus, the security update cannot happen silently (which would violate the predictability property of cargo anyway). Instead, we need a command to selectively update only packages with security updates and respectively we need a way to mark version bumps as security critical.
I'm not sure that's a valid statistics. Simply requiring that prostitutes are disease-free would mean that as soon as a prostitute gets a STD, she can't be a prostitute any longer.

To actually confirm that prostitues are protected/healthier, you'd need to track people who used to be prostitutes vs. people who never were, and measure incidence of STDs for e.g. 10 years.
It isn't? At least in Germany, commerical mass mail is always sent out in envelopes.

I guess that, in this particular case, the reason for the envelopes is to conceal the ads inside them until the recipient has taken the time to open the envelope.
How do you get around the risk of MITM attacks? It's a sensitive site, given the level of authority it carries for the average user.
Curious though how this is done... Ill read further :-)
Well as a freelancer it's something I've sorta given up hope on being able to do. Thanks again for the information. Hopefully it'll give me some ideas.
I'm curious now :). How do you answer this need?
How the Jeans Capital of the World Moved from Texas to China
iPhone autocorrect :-(
Yeah, squeezed by two major trends - landlords optimize for profit maximization, while employers optimize for wages minimization, gives no other choice.

It is exactly the case of losing ground/territory to better competitors in ecology - manual laborers would be pushed out of overpriced neighborhoods by JavaScript-coding hipsters and their managers.
I always try to watch the webcasts and I can't help but cringe so hard when they start chanting 'USA USA USA', every single time.

What is up with that?
Sales of Ping Pong tables rise and fall with the startups that love them
I don't think I could live where I do without utter misery if it weren't for temperature-controlled housing, so at least personally, I'd rather be able to live in comfort as today than to be a king from ages past.

Perhaps some would be attracted by, say, the authority of ancient rulers. But I'd much rather live comfortably in the modern age than claiming imperium sine fine, ordering men to die in the Colosseum, waging war against the Gauls, having a salad bear my name or whatever exactly it is about being Caesar that's supposed to be attractive.
It's funny how much value can be created out of nothing by setting artificial rules. Like a domain name, that is designed to be unique.
Can men loose unemployment benefits by refusing a military job? In an ideal world, you could object both prostitution and military jobs by saying you find them immoral ("conscientious objector").
Eustress
I wonder how this scales to other single-defect diseases? After the initial R&D, do you just swap out one sequence of genetic material for another in order to repair other diseases?
Always good to take a look at the outputted binary. There's also other things lurking that you may be interested in, for instance security snippets that you might not need.

I've run into this problem several times. Something like a for loop that doesn't do anything but is supposed to eat up time will easily be eliminated, making your attempts at measuring the time taken a bit meaningless.
I do work for SpaceX although I'm not in engineering or software dev. I work in the technician/skilled labor side of the house.

I don't think I've posted anything specifically discussing the merits of the NRA, although I have posted on the subject of gun control and self defense. In any case I'm not sure why discussing that topic and working at SpaceX would be mutually exclusive.

Obviously it should be said that I don't represent SpaceX and the views I express here are my own and not the company's.
Completely agree.

41 with two kids, all that time spent working should have been spent experiencing the world and having a lot more fun.

I think a combination of getting more senior at work and having kids reduces your choices in how you can spend your time (To be fair it opens up new options as well). It highlights the value of your time and how little you got in return for it when it was abundant.
> If you're paying for sex, assume you're in the slave trade.

If you paying for a fast food burger or for an iPhone, assume you're in the slave trade.
Pretty much.

My wife and I have chosen not to have children as neither of our careers allow us to afford it and still live in a place where the career could be continued.

Academia doesn't pay, and being a developer doesn't pay enough to choose both home + children in London.

I'm sure some people will come along and say how they've had children and have a mortgage, etc... but I guess the key difference is that I was homeless, and neither myself or my wife have any family who could support or help at all. We live without a safety net, and there are no luxuries. To continue with the work we both find very satisfying, we must live within commute of our work, in or near London... and there is no reasonably priced housing that allows us to do that whilst also stretching to children, pensions, etc. Hah, pensions. Might go cry already.
There's a very reasonable expectation of advertising when you access a website.

No such expectation exists for exploit packs and proxies like this.
I've lived in several European cities and owning your own car has been a liability full-stop.

Interestingly, everyone I know in a city in the US has a car. All they do is complain about traffic, but they own one nonetheless.

For everyone owning a car today, I think tomorrow they'll want a car with self-drive feature.

Its not strange that a survey conducted by car interest groups find their readers uninterested in self-driving cars, as their readers are car enthusiasts. The kind of people who aspire to owning sports cars. The kind of customer who probably doesn't want an automatic either, nor cruise control etc? ;)
A vanishingly small proportion of suburbanites farms, weaves or works in furniture factories. Indeed I wouldn't be amazed if more apartment-dwellers are engaged in those activities than McMansionites.
Native App vs. Responsive Website: How to Choose Between Them?
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Yeah, it makes me wonder if cb18 isn't right there among them to be so willfully ignorant of its true nature. His posting history here suggests sympathy to the /r/european mindset (e.g. citing infowars about crime statistics specifically to paint black people en masse as inherently more criminal, citing a ridiculous blog that says most advances in modern history are only due to white people, etc.)

Also the whole 18 being a symbol of neo-nazis.
It works from Italy.
> You make it sound as if Joe or Jane sits down one day, after finishing highschool, pondering life options and just come up with: Hey! I'll be a prostitute, money is good and if I am careful no harm should happen to me. It's just a job!

Given that people freely choose very similar jobs (porn actors & actresses), it would appear to me that some consider this a legitimate and good life choice (plenty of sex, good money, good working hours).

Having said that, I personally don't understand why anyone would choose that life path. But I also don't understand why anyone would voluntarily go into the military. Different people like different things!
Experience:

1) Small business in Russia 1997-1999.
+ Getting second Master degree in Marketing and Management.

2) Back to programming in Russia.
2000-2003

3) Moved to the US.

4) Contracting jobs in the US and waiting for a Green Card.
2003-2010

5) Job board business - postjobfree.com
Full time since ~2011 (but started part-time in 2007).

What would I do differently:

Skip my second Master degree (Marketing and Management).
While somewhat helpful, it had a significant opportunity cost.
Instead I should have focused on programming from the beginning and moving to the US sooner (~1998).

Join startup (preferably Google :-)) as early as I can.

Create my own startup with other founders (not solo).
> Sure but insurance companies have already determined and society has accepted the value of human life.

Same for abortion.
Can Twitter's infinite monkeys write the complete works of Shakespeare?
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Pros of asphalt:

- Upfront cost is lower

- Cold-resistance: Preferred in cold climates as it’s less likely to crack and snow removal is easier.

- Aesthetics: Because of its dark color it won’t show stains easily

- Repair: Patching is easy as it can be repaired or re-layered and does not need to be replaced.
Thinking about GNS and the Sci-Hub issues got me wondering. Isn't there an interesting application for blockchain technology as a DNS "ledger"?

Is this a feasible application? Do there already exist projects that do this?
It's more likely that the server isn't expecting a bunch of techies from hackernews to be hammering it! :)
> It's generally exploitive of women.

You mean the same way as any other job is exploitative of women (and men) who perform it?
I learnt Qbasic not that long ago it was my first taste of programming. However back then I couldn't afford a computer, so I had this Qbasic book and just had to 'imagine' how my programs run.

Fast forward 13ish years and I own my own mac and know more programming languages than most of my workmates :) Although now I try and specialize in just three Rust, Javascript and Python to avoid being the 'master of none'.
Tech Urges Presidential Candidates to Embrace Trade, Visas
It's an American company, hiring American engineers, and successfully competing with the interests of entire nation-states?
Namecoin is one
Frameworks everywhere! :)
World's first 3D printed supercar wins 2016 Technology Innovation Award
That's the response I was hoping for. My only critique then is please register a personal account. You can't have a name like SpaceX_Tech and not expect us to take everything you say as something that they would endorse. I'd be appalled if a programmer I employed created an account under my company name, for use of expressing every personal opinion under the sun. I hope you understand the position I'm coming from and that others may be thinking the same thing when reading your comments.

Ps: keep up the good work
ResetPlug for Wi-Fi routers tries turning it off and on again
McDonald’s lets you DJ with your placemat
There's namecoin, but I'm not sure if it is widely used: https://namecoin.info/
Meet Valkyrie, the humanoid robot that's heading to Mars
>A gram scale is highly recommended for getting the proportions right; a teaspoon can mean something completely different depending on whether your leaves are rolled into tight balls, loosely packed, etc.

Maybe this is why I find I brew them inconsistently. I take my coffee game very seriously, but I've never bothered to weigh tea. Maybe I should.

I learned another method for oolong tea from some Chinese coworkers called grandpa style. You leave a few oolong leaves in the bottom of your cup and just continuously top it off with hot water.
When it becomes routeine all clients get a discount as price per launch goes down.
Show HN: Mini-cluster of RPI3
Eh? MyPy already implements generics. It would be a pretty useless type system otherwise since you couldn't give precise types to e.g. lists of ints.
I came across an online version of this several years back here on Hacker News, does anyone know where that went and/or if it is still up?
Autonomous Driving Experts Weigh 5G Cellular Network
I am in Tokyo and both versions are blocked for me.
> I was debugging the boot on a server recently. It mounts a bunch of NFS filesystems

Don't do that. It's a bag of hurt.

(Still sore about the hours that workstations with not-working-fs mounts spent waiting for each other on boot after power failures, ages ago. Nevermore.)
There are also coffees (Ethiopian, Kenyan) that when light roasted are especially tea-like and fruity. Not roasty or bitter at all. Like, you'd wonder if it's even coffee if you're only used to the homogenous dark Starbucks stuff.
Mobile design best practices
It's well known, and I think the general response would be 'Pinboard'.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pinboard&sort=byPopularity&pre...
I found this on namecoin: https://bit.namecoin.info/

Looks interesting.
No, it's something else, a cultural quirk among Americans.
I don't agree with "Every top 5 song, from 1958 - 2016, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good".

Because "top 5" doesn't mean "good", does it?
>VR world where we all spend 100% of our time

<sarcasm> Farmville !! I can't wait !! </sarcasm>

<!-- Sarcasm not towards you, towards my thought of VR farmville -->
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Location: Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara (moving to CA mid summer)
Remote: OpenToIt
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: python, Mathematica, JavaScript, go, ruby, julia, C, google, bash (zsh)
Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n91fu9wialf1qud/rigsby_resume.pdf

Email: stephenrigsby at gmail dot com

Have of late been setting up custom server solutions for small clients; automated systems both numerical and NLP based.
For a recent client I worked with their software and hardware team to expedite development of their "cloud" data sharing service as well as their pressure sensor algorithms for back country skiers interested in avalanche risk. Prior to this I worked on a DoD funded embedded system used in combat theaters, i.e. built and coded systems that ran in countries I've never been to.
Please feel free to contact me if I may be of help to your team.

...and just in case some nefarious Dropbox/NSA/ISP/coffee shop hackers/hckrnews are trying to alter my words or document.

sha256sum rigsby_resume.pdf -> output
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and if you don't use pgp.mit.edu https://gist.github.com/srigsby/ebbe9651fb5b946171e3e3942d5e...
AWS CLI inhuman output and what I suggest
"A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden -- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." E.Durkheim [1][2]

In this sense, liberal democracy, with its rituals (eg. PC) and non-provable beliefs ("we are all equal"), etc. can be seen as religion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Durkheim

[2] http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Summaries/forms.html
It's not a big deal, since all modern shells have move commands (e.g. "shell-backward-word" in bash) that allow you to jump to the second-to-last argument with a simple key stroke.