skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify, as someone seeing "instead of wifi" and "acts as a large antenna" from the parent comments may come to an incorrect assumption.

In PLC (power-line communication), wiring is not meant to act as antenna. All transceivers are wired. It's an undesirable, unintentional side effect of limited (to the extent of complete lack of) cable shielding - because, well, power lines are usually meant for different application than data transfers.
I'm not convinced on servers must be set to UTC timezone. Maybe just write your server code to read/store UTC time, which is easily calculated from any timezone.
That's useful. The mapping cars could carry some other useful sensors. Air quality is obvious.

The refineries in the Houston area play all sorts of fast and loose with monitoring the chemicals they let go into the environment. If Google could measure stuff like this across wide geographical areas near the refineries, some good could come of this.
By this logic should we have autonomous refueling already?

After factoring in the cost of the robotics I suspect paying humans minimum wage is quite a bit cheaper. Especially given the diverse outdoor environments such a system would need to be maintained in
Password reuse, possible impersonation. If you work in a sensitive area, or deal with those who do, possible career, safety, or life risks.
> I think there's a strong argument to make that university programs are too focused on theory

What would you see dropped and replaced?
At the least something like a 1 unit weekly seminar on how to approach interviews would be super helpful. It would also make it feel like Unis were coming from a good place if they said "Hey, we're gonna teach you the theory, but we're also gonna make sure you kickass at an interview as well so that you come out strong when looking for a job". I'd really appreciate that attitude more.
One reason to avoid explicit lists of "error types" (exceptions) for methods is that method parameters are usually covariant whereas you really want exceptions to be contravariant[1]. This has big implications for higher-order functions and it's why everybody rightly hates explicit "throws" clauses in Java.

[1] Or to put it in more practical terms: Imagine two classes/interfaces A and B where B subclasses A. Any method on B that overrides a method on A is free to accept a "more restricted" parameter than the method on A, but since it (presumably) does something more specialized it must also be able to throw more exceptions that A's method was. (Maybe it's accessing files and needs to be able to throw FileIOError, or whatever.)
I don't think they are as successful in the state as you might think
How is LendUp rated on Thumbtack?
People would quickly come to depend on their data not being lost when they leave a page, and then be very unhappy when sometimes it is lost.
Moving Away from Python 2
Been exactly there.
Started using Loomio[0] Open source, Selfhosted, Collaborative Decision-Making and surprise many issue resolved.

When you and involved people voice the opinion, cast the vote in open and in written - was like a miracle. It's also very easy to go back and review the reasons / arguments.

Wish you good luck, not easy situation.

[0] https://www.loomio.org/
Its all about how much energy hits the eye, and for infrared lasers you can't assume someone will blink, so you cant use short exposure times.

From the paper, they are pulsing the laser, so the laser is hazardous out to ~1.5m. Pg 5 of their paper goes into detail on the calculations one needs for laser safety.
It sounded really interesting until I found out that it doesn't really exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island
I've been pondering your point for a while.

The problem, I think, comes down to this -- more people use lots of different applications on one platform, than the same application on multiple platforms.

If you're going to use one application only, on multiple platforms, then I could see how a consistency in the way that application behaved would be useful. But I can't see how anyone's workflow wouldn't involve interacting with some number of other applications on each of those platforms.

At that point you could assert all applications on all platforms behave consistently. This is not likely to be a well-received suggestion. Or you could try to make all applications on a particular platform behave consistently. The latter seems to align with people's UI expectations, and, for the most part, is what we have out there now. The pain point is where expected behaviour from one platform bleeds into applications running on different platform where that behaviour might best be described as 'surprising'.
is it even verified that the data isn't again the warmed up stuff that surfaced from LinkedIn's 2012 breach? This is quite common these days.
If they only charged $1.50, they would lose a ton of money due to all the defaults. The people who need these loans are high risk for default; there is no avoiding that fact.

They have to charge a high enough rate to not lose money. My big problem with payday loan companies is that they do a very good job of hiding their true costs to their customers.

If we completely ban high interest rate loans, however, the result would be no one would loan money to a high risk applicant. There are situations where a high interest loan is preferable to no loan at all.
Thanks for replying and pointing that out. I've corrected my comment.
TCP Stealth
The idea of land value tax is to create value by building on that land. Decreasing the tax when there is nothing on the land goes against that.
> To authenticate your access to the Bloomberg Professional service, your finger image is scanned and associated with your account.

Does that mean that anyone with a picture of my finger can access my account?
Ah great stuff, they are curious arent they!

Here is another couple I just found:

http://i.imgur.com/q4F7odF.png

http://i.imgur.com/6lJEyeJ.png

It is is also useful for superficially judging game popularity - eg:
http://thehivemind.online/?eveonline
http://thehivemind.online/?WOW

and companies:
http://thehivemind.online/?nintendo

The microsoft and google queries are ... different
Exactly, and it's sad they didn't add such additional sensors (aside from the wifi ones ;-) some time ago)
Does it work with Django? If so, how?
Not naive, thanks for the advice though!
How selection bias makes the internet self-righteous
Ask HN: What's the *right* way to debug a program?
Perhaps they won't get into your account without your password and phone. However, you've reduced your 2-Factor to 1-Factor since the password is now known. You're still relatively safe - at least safer than not having 2-Factor auth - but changing passwords is cheaper than the risk of relying on 1-Factor auth.
Livecoding Table View Controllers in Swift with Chris Eidhof
Reading the Labels of Canned Beans
The third option is doable though if you write on paper that is thin enough to be seen on the other side - then just write on the back of the paper, reversed :)
Bernie Sanders says YUGE too :-P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3-GAsMEHQ
Is it not actually possible to implement this with an addon? It seems possible with a small script embedded in each page. If an addon can't do this, what could it possibly actually do?
>In 2009, virtually nobody considered themselves a "Javascript programmer".

I'm guessing the "Javascript is my identity" era began with Nodejs. Before 2009, Javascript was something that was "tolerated" because it just came with all the browsers. Back then, having any point of pride in being a "Javascript programmer" would be a little weird as if a homeowner proclaimed he was a "Panasonic keypad microwave programmer instead of a Samsung microwave programmer". Nobody cares what buttons you press to pop your popcorn. Likewise, the "Javascript" stuff was just something you had to do for interactive webpages.

However, for someone to have the audacity of duplicating the Javascript environment on the server side... that means subsequent programmers get to make an invested choice, which means... flame wars.
I wonder why they chosed to support rust, ruby and scala.

Shouldn't they support c an c++ over rust ?Shouldn't they support c#, coffeescript and go before scala or ruby ?

All the latter programming languager are more mature, more used than the supported languages.
I've realized there are things I can change and there are things I cannot change. I try not to feel too strongly on the things I cannot change, because it distracts me from the things I can change.

For politics, I try not to feel too strongly about Trump and the electoral process. I would still vote, but I know it would have a minimal impact, no matter how strongly I feel.

Instead, I focus my energy on my business, which I can change.
Yeah. But then they build devices like the Pixel C, which were clearly supposed to be Chrombooks[1] and they have both groups reporting to the same managers.

So.. read the actions.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/12/the-pixel-cs-bumpy-ro...
Labels might make you "dumber", but there's a huge tradeoff: you can arrive at a conclusion a lot faster. Of course in a discussion you wouldn't just jump to the conclusion, which is why labels fail in the situations Graham described.
Agreed, though the explosion of desktop applications (that are bundled with a browser), although understandable, is annoying.
It would be nice if Google's streetview/mapping could be used like lint(1) to produce reports about conflicting
or potentially confusing road signage and markings,
so transport agencies could tune their presentation.
This would all be moot after self-driving transport
conquers the planet, but could be useful in the meantime.
What I Fought for – Michael O. Church
Note that it took eight years to put the first men on the moon for a short stay. It's quite likely that within the next eight years there will be men on the moon, maybe even to establish a base.
Property tax is common, land value taxes muss less so. Although arguably they're much better in many ways (assuming regulation isn't otherwise broken in regards to zoning for example).
I typed in Ada as in Ada programming language. That one will get obscure or interesting results. Results: "is short for (Ada Lovelace?); is enforced by (semi-accurate if DOD); is bullshit (popular opinion); is invisible fallout 4 (used there?); is op (huh?); is missing fallout 4 (meant to be used for gaming?). So, three answers are a definite hit, one way off, and two might reveal a secret deployment that's a sign of things to come in gaming. Same kind of results you get using the Ada compiler to assess program correctness. Interesting...
To really take control of your keyboard, you want one that supports hardware remapping, then you get your map on every machine and every OS.
Your contributions will eventually be counted when your branch is merged to master.
They could switch from Subarus to Priuses. :)
Couldn't a rate in between these 2 extremes work? Like a 70% APR?
This most likely depends on the way you look at it (or rather how exactly he did it): did he take the word list, generate hashes from it and then check them against leaked hashes? Rainbow table.

If he took the word list to run login attempts against a server (or a local endpoint checking the leaked database) it's more of a dictionary attack.

Same result, different ways to get there. If you're able to run your cracker locally against a leaked db, it probably doesn't really matter.
It was damn-near a super-intelligence on that one!
ngs – Next Generation Shell
I have been thinking about getting a filco mech keyboard to replace the bloomberg keyboard at work - and I would just need to make custom keycaps with the yellow keywords printed on the f keys, but i'm just wondering what do i do with the row above the f keys- menu, news, message, and the fractional shortcuts - those seem quite important to me too.

oh yes and the fingerprint reader too that i forgot. what a pain.
Source code: https://github.com/ilyash/ngs/
That is a good choice, and it is what I recommend to whoever will listen to me, and a few that won't.

I use and recommend 1Password. To evaluate a password manager, check this page https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/15416/1password... for good questions to ask. For example, what data they can turn over, what their encryption practices are. Key phrase: "There is no data of yours that we keep, so there is nothing to turnover".

This can't be said by all password managers.
Blog posts on the subject: https://ilya-sher.org/category/ngs/
Whats funny is this theory pushes us to be more like computers. Less passion and more logic. Not to mention people on the Internet say and talk about options in forums reinforcing maybe a small part of ones identity. while in the real world you might get punched in the face. I still favor this theory but I would say spend less time on Internet interactions, so you don't have your personal held beliefs blossom into something more toxic for rational communication and real human connection.
Being at the computer is a suit of idealogical armor and you can disengage from conversations like I am about to do.
Dropped: I don't know.

Replaced: At least one class where they have to deal with a decade-old million-line-plus code base, and get to experience first-hand the consequences of decisions that seemed like a good idea (or "the right way to do it") when the code was written. Nothing punctures "too much theory" like a hard dose of the real world.
how is this top item? seems unfinished, unpolished, not very useful and very run of the mill as an achievement.

no easily found windows installer and has obscure dependencies whilst claiming it has none etc. etc.
To me it seems very real ... What's the point or posturing or maintaining a facade? I'm going to make a guess that its's liberating in its own way too (why can't I live like this? Oh yeah, office politics).
Pretty heartening too...for awhile, I was worried that computerized education would be limited to tablets.
Trump gives: is a Democrat; is love trump is life; is awesome; is right; is good; is Mussolini. Based on three of those, I conclude the algorithm is a fascist and correctly identifying with one of its own. This alliance with a secret, state apparatus explains aspects of my Ada answer in another comment where it was concerned with enforcement and had Fallout 4's trade secrets.
I'm still trying to figure out the heraldry of their flag. Is orange being used as a metal and gray as a fur? Either way, I'm not liking the design. Because of the similar brightness in colors, if you tried to look at that flag from far away, it might not look like it even exists.
You really are presumptuous, aren't you? OK. Let's assume my goal is not to be morose and listless, but to enjoy life no matter what. What is your suggestion?
> sometimes you still need to glue things together with CMD

why? is there something cmd can do that python can't? one example is enough...
I posted Batsh long ago, but it's totally impractical. The multiplatform PowerShell is the best option. Anyway, we need a new shell and NGS [0] looks like it. Neither zsh, nor Fish offer what a shell scripting language needs so that you don't have to use Python, Go, or another language for a slightly more complex stuff!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11734622
That is an expression that returns Void.
keepass + dropbox works ok.
Chrome is lately behaving even more unpredictably when scrolling with the spacebar, because now if you click on either the back or forward buttons it puts a focus rectangle on them and now pressing space will go back/forward again instead of scrolling down like I wanted.
​Apache Software Foundation Founder to Lead Blockchain Hyperledger Project
do we realise that so many people will read this and not realise its not real?

misinformation can be amusing, but its also harmful :/
Even that few years ago, the percentage of companies doing exactly that was pretty large. The message about bcrypt has in fact made its mark.
Mr Bug is a philosopher for our times.

I see his ideas spreading everywhere, directly and in derivative form.

I can seriously see him being studied in academia in XXIIth Century. Him and Satoshi and a handful of other radicals in our midst who should not be named. The Net is like a flower unfolding, the people who intellectually influence the beginning are sure to have some of their number be rockstars much later on.
Why do people insist on using sms as the second factor? Let me use TOTP (e.g. Google Authenticator). I don't get reception everywhere!
You'd be surprised. Esp in Palo Alto.
"You will pay $1000 to recover your now encrypted data, unless you pay $59 per year to backup service x to backup the data we have locked which may be important you you!"
Are there vocational schools that offer good programming programs. We were trying to find community colleges in the bay area that had good programming programs where we could post jobs, but didn't really find much.
That's breaking even at a ~5.83% default rate, which is still unrealistically low. If they have a default rate of 20%, they'd need at least 240% APR to break even (assuming 1 month loans).
It's not about can or can't I think. Examples: Language runtime can't be installed, system locked down with deepfreeze, not enough permissions..
Oh, I agree. People should understand their place in life and not be encouraged to strive.
I typed in 'kindness', and my faith in humanity was reassured.
I'm happy to be part of a community, where even when I spew out something ignorant there is a clear explanation that makes sense.
Thanks for your answer.
When corporations move across state lines to avoid their tax burden, it's good business. When people move to avoid a debt burden, it's deplorable.
> I think Black Swan was mostly propelled forward by its extremely poignant timing: It was published just before the financial crash, an event it seemed to describe in pretty high detail.

If true that's ironic, since Taleb is the first to say that the mortgage crisis and the associated problems were not black swans (they were predictable).
Unify Fixnum and Bignum into Integer
Not even going to read this but cancer is pure environmental and can be avoided. some people get exposed to things and it sucks. yeah eat healthy and move spontaneously.
It depends on the kind of program. Is it client-side, server-side, is it a console command line application or a daemon process?
I can understand the sentiments. And I'm not Pieter.

That said, at times the realisation is that you are going to die, that parts of it are going to be awful. And yet there is so much more in life you wish you could have accomplished.

So you do what you can, with the time you have left.

That doesn't just apply to Pieter. It applies to all of us.

So, no, he's not going to get better. He's going to die, fairly soon. But he'll use some of the better parts of tech to do parts of what he'd hoped to do. And I wish him every comfort while that happens, and appreciate his insights.

The Shanzai concept was new to me, but resonates deeply with ideas I've had myself, and is something I've wondered "well, why can't that happen?"

It turns out it is happening.
If people won't do the 4 year engineering degree why would they do a 2 year vocational program instead?
I bought the book on Amazon, is there a way to get the .epub before it ships?
Exactly right. Bank of America alone spends $420m every year on Bloomberg terminal fees.

http://nypost.com/2016/01/14/bank-of-america-set-to-cash-on-...
I'm about to be the last one on a sinking ship. Advice?
TL;DR:
I've been working for the startup since November, and I don't think I could have picked a worse time to join. Right now I'm the last remaining member of full time staff yet to hand in notice, and wondering if I should secure a new job first, risk riding this ship till the bitter end, or, if I should bail now and hope I can pick up something good and new quick enough.

FULL:
I'm a fairly recent graduate, with a years placement experience, and a lot of open source contribution. The company I work for right now was small when I joined, however had been around a few years and was/is part of an incubator of sorts. Since joining though the only other (senior) developer has moved onto a better role elsewhere, and the MD was removed shortly after when a couple of new investors came on-board.

When I started it had a great vibe, the team worked closely together, and we all believed in the product. There was also the promise of imminent funding to hire more dev's to really polish off the product. Unfortunately we're now a few months in and no cigar just yet. To make it worse all but myself, and the new (hands on, but never seen) investors, are going to be gone due to better offers elsewhere. It turns out that the management and guidance from the incubator has been not so great, and has been on the decline for a while.

However, the company (whats left of it) is finally about to sign on the illusive investment which could give it a chance to actually bring on new developers, and have runway to get things through till the end of the year.

I'm currently looking for something else, as at this point I'm surprised things haven't just been shutdown. Though I'm not sure if I should:

* bail immediately,
* wait till I have something new secured,
* or, risk sticking around to make the most out of this new investment and using it as a growth/learning opportunity.

Does anyone have any experience in this sort of situation or advice on what they would do?
I don't even see the ability to iterate through files or am I missing something?
Omgosh, please tell me this has actually been proven and there's a paper (or blog post at least) to read about it!
> Microsoft recognizes this

MS also tried to improve PowerShell by installing the PSReadLine module by default.

Read https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine for instructions on how to make PS a bit more usable.
If a payday lender was making outsized profits on the loans, wouldn't that attract more lenders and competition would drive the rates down?
I'm responding to the claim that it's a "white elephant" project in China. I'm not asking why we can't do it here.

Yes, China can build a 21st century infrastructure more easily than the US. They already have 10,000 miles of high-speed rail, for example, while the US has none.
"I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity"

You might also say that people have identity and religion and politics use those to advantage. But is it wrong to have identity? I'd argue it as a basic human requirement.

Religion can be considered a technology of group identity which was refined over millennium to be most effective at generating a unified form. Like all technology it was disrupted by something better and more efficient at transmitting shared consciousness.

That definition also fits the web which is the most powerful method of transmission yet invented, and is the fruit of the science religion.
"I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity"

You might also say that people have identity and religion and politics use those to advantage. But is it wrong to have identity? I'd argue it as a basic human requirement.

Religion can be considered a technology of group identity which was refined over millennium to be most effective at generating a unified form. Like all technology it was disrupted by something better and more efficient at transmitting shared consciousness. That's the web.
Idiomatic Swift shouldn't really be using inheritance though, protocols (which support associatedtype, making varying errors types not an issue) are generally preferred.

Functions would be free to just "throws ErrorType" (probably the default for blank "throws", to avoid breaking backwards compatibility) if they really wanted to though, just like they can accept and return "Any", and the behavior would be identical to today.

I prefer Result though, which just solves the problem of disjoint error types by using "mapError" and a sum type.