skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the claim that Firefox/Mozilla is in bed with Google sourced by the use of Google for data about safe browsing? Is there any other reason to think this now that they no longer receive revenue from Google?
With things like subway stations it's not easy to compare the cost because more 'extravagant' design will drive the cost up.

Apples and apples type comparison would be comparing things like cost of building one mile of the highway.

If you look at those figures they are very comparable with US having a slight edge over the EU - $6-10 mil per mile vs. €7-12 mil per km.
My default is to browse with JS turned off.
I suspect HN will be seeing more of this particular user/comment combination in the future…

Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
You really can't, not for any substantial length of time.

First, you create horrible traffic distortions - a place like LA or Boston simply can't load adjacent streets with more traffic and expect good outcomes. Second, you effectively shut down any business on that block, especially in an area that isn't walking friendly. You also cause huge problems for anyone living and parking at that street.

High density areas are a small portion of streets by area, but not by use (and therefore wear) or by cost. I suspect that a mile of highway is often cheaper to replace than a block of dense urban road.
Axolotl and Proteus (Wire vs. Moxie)
That falls under the category of "bad deals" too.
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Regarding this statement -

"I noticed in the past that we should not encourage too much age difference because it's harder then to form groups that work."

Shouldn't a startup founder be then allowed to reject any 30+ candidate with the same reasoning if their company already has a bunch of 25 year olds? Can't you detect the blatant age bias in this statement?
You want a true transit authority horror story go read up on Washington DCs. The unions are not their big issue though they do cost the TA a lot of time and money, its the money games that came about because of years if not decades of mismanagement by government appointees and officials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/met...

and its not just infrastructure. Canada privatized into a non profit entity their air traffic control to good success. We have the TSA running security in airports where if you want timely service it will cost you hours of time and nearly a hundred bucks for membership and even that is not guaranteed. The worst example of how government mismanages everything is sadly still not fixed, the VA

There is just too much up front cost in government projects that weighs down the economy but the real danger is all the deferred costs from maintenance to pensions.
"Smilansky is not advocating policies of Orwellian thought control." He's just advocating policies of Orwellian thought control against scientists who don't take his advice to stop telling people free will doesn't exist.
The creation date isn't always that relevant, and may in fact be confusing if the page is later updated.
The load and traffic that a typical driveway sees is far less than what a city block would be expected to see. There's more concrete, rebar, gravel, etc for every square foot of surface. Interstate-grade highways have 8-10 inches of reinforced concrete. Driveways are typically 4 inches and are not reinforced.

The same goes for asphalt, if that's what they're using. It'll be cheaper because it's not designed to last as long, but the scaling factors hold.
For me it seems like you probably leaked gorutines/not closed os resources or you encapsulated some data structures in themselves which then can't be garbage collected. It really looks like memory leak caused by app logic. But as i said you should report this if you are certain that is Go bug.
I did. Look at the second line of the macro expansion.
Thoughts on the Current State of Messengers and Why I Created Yelo
Shameless plug: I'm working on a small graphics environment to teach my 7-year-old brother programming. It doesn't have any advanced graphical GUI, instead it has a Scheme/Lisp REPL connected to OpenGL window and it lets you draw various shapes (such as triangle and squares) as well as load shapes from .obj files exported by blender. Once you load a shape, you can assign it a color or texture from PNG file, then move, scale and rotate the shape, and get basic keyboard and mouse inputs

https://github.com/kostyakow/skomakare

Note that error handling in my language isn't great, and I don't have proper tail-call optimizations, but I'm working on v2 which will add more real-world features to the language.
Pre-DMCA. If this gets an update, TBL should add legal reasons and law enforcement as a reason for URI change.
Go to an interview and get asked an algorithm question after another realizing you've never had to implement a meaningful algorithm from scratch since you graduated College, because there's a library for (almost) everything.
The Order of 10 Has Arrived
Does anyone think that these reports have shamed manufacturers into decreasing failure rates?

When the FCC started doing reports on internet speeds, ISPs took notice and in the second report, an ISP's actual speeds better matched advertised speeds. It would be awesome if these Backblaze reports were likewise improving hard drives.

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad...
Microservices EVERYWHERE
The exam showed that Doe accessed or attempted to access more than 20,000 files with file names consistent with obvious child pornography

Is nobody else alarmed that OS X apparently logs any and all( or at least 20k records )file accesses by default? This is way too many to be found in the HFS journal, so it's clearly intentionally logging all accesses.

Edit: They also appear to have been able to deanonymize the defendant's FreeNet usage, though this could have easily been OPSEC violations rather than technical shenanigans.
This is going from bad to worse, shareholder lawsuit over financial/operational controls:
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Y81QT
That's a total stretch. Stop moving goal posts, and please provide one example of function or variable in either python or JS that behaves in some special way only because of the name.
I doubt they can get shipping cheap enough to make much of a dent in local supermarkets. Music and books can be downloaded. Kitty litter, not so much.

Spend 10 minutes outside of a typical suburban grocery store and try to estimate the weight of everything coming out.

Will it be used? Sure. I think it's more likely that it will push grocery chains to start/improve their own delivery services. After all, they already have "distribution centers" all over the place.
All the facts you bring up are true but it doesn't make supply and demand less applicable to public works projects.

Recently the Green Line Extension near me was partially abandoned because estimated costs to complete it had gone up from $2 billion to $3 billion. If the project had a reasonable (by international standards) price tag there's no way it would have been canceled even if the overrun had been 100%.
I thought people who cultivate Strawberries put straw underneath them to prevent wet rot or grubs from getting them?
Well, they're entitled to their opinion. It's possible that the problem was fixed and that there are new drives with that model number that don't have the bug.

I personally wouldn't use one for anything more critical than a door stop. Been there, done that, lost some data.
This Power Supply for Wearables Is Soft, Stretchable, and Solar-Powered
Idk how it works in the UK, but in the US you can't charge someone for the same crime twice.
I don't know what HN you read but on mine the "Go sucks" trend has fully started.
I'd love to signup to 42, specially after E.E. to become a soft. Eng. In fact I've been looking something like this (an internship or codecamp) that will accept someone from abroad. But as always, the need for the in-person signup and test it's what deters me.
I would prefer that we apply the idea to elected legislators. Our privacy laws would be overhauled overnight if they were routinely spied on by the general public using metadata that is supposedly so harmless that it doesn't require a warrant. We might even get a 28th amendment to update the 4th.
> * Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports

> Google news and search ( 44% of Google searchers scan the news results [2] ) already provide these features. I used to use Yahoo Live Scores, but now I use Google.

Yahoo Sports is a lot more than just sports news and scores. The traffic is heavily driven by fantasy sports, which Google doesn't have.
Sort of like that hilarious systemd bug with parsing the 'debug' kernel argument.
Goroutines communicate data via channels, so you can just pass a channel a message (which can be anything). The channel will sit and wait for a message, processing the message when it's received.

That said, for anything like a website or an API you probably won't need to worry much about channels or concurrency at all. The stdlib handles each web request on a different goroutine, so you write synchronous code, yet your server is concurrent.
Is this really the best compromise?

What about NodeJS + Rust (for the heavy tasks) via Neon?
https://github.com/rustbridge/neon
Source: The Wire Season 2.
This. I worked in the PTC space in the early 2k's. The person that the FRA send to be their regulatory representative to our program did not trust transistors over electromechanical switches, because you couldn't see how the transistors were failing. As you can imagine, our progress was slow.
> Air travel is already very streamlined and inexpensive for crossing big distances and has the advantage of not requiring the infrastructure and real estate that a train needs.

Hyperloop is very specifically aimed at medium distance routes. SF to LA, for example, where the plane has relatively little time cruising at altitude, where it can fly efficiently. If a plane is spending most it's time flying through denser aid, then it's not flying efficiently, and burns a lot of fuel on a per-mile basis relative to a longer flight. Hyperloop is specced to be more efficient than air travel at the distance it's proposed.
Is it still faster than C with this mistake fixed? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713486
Reminds me about the 2002 bug in Debian Unstable where something in PAM incorrectly allowed password-less ssh logins for all the system accounts, because "*" in /etc/passwd was parsed as "empty" instead of "no valid password", so you could ssh in as "nobody" and be greeted with a shell :)

https://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-177
Supergiant.io – Container Platform for Stateful Applications
A woman tried that on her ex-husband, got caught, and went to jail. Read the related note here:

http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2016/05/14/what-if-youre-in-p...
Must be a regional thing, for it's Great Value here in SW Missouri, where Wal-Mart opened its first big store in the '70s: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=great+value+walmart&FOR...
We need a corollary to Betteridge's law: newspaper headlines that start with "Why..." do not answer the question.
> Another thing I found bothersome were the generated GoDoc pages. They were ordinarily not as easy to understand as hand written Node.js GitHub readme pages and came with very few, if any, examples.

I'll definitely agree here. It's not obvious right away how to write examples that get included in the generated documentation, and definitely unintuitive that it's a completely different process than the comment-based approach.
I've seen similar things happen when using very large maps in Go, memory being eaten and never released.
The site should be in control of what it sends, the user should be in control of what they see.
Do you also fail to see how someone can become an expert food critic because everybody eats?
The original design did not have a 'track' along the full route. Cars would more or less hop between different sections. On Mars that represents clear reliability issues, but the ability to avoid building load barring bridges over gorges could be a major cost savings.
70,000 users is now big data....?
Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, Answered 18 Questions
I had another incident like that earlier in my IT career.

I was a 'terminal room consultant' in college... back when we had serial terminals hooked to Unix systems. Part of the job was the care and feeding of a couple printers, a big ol' line printer (green bar paper) and a Printronix graphics printer (dot matrix, for printing out fancy lab reports you wrote up using troff).

So over time, from loading paper and clearing jams, I had accumulated hours and hours of hearing these two guys chatter as they went about their business.

At one point, I noticed that the Printronix printer sounded funny. Just off, in some way. So I call it in for maintenance, but they don't seem to care what an undergraduate punk thought about printer sounds.

Sure enough, a week later, I see it is down and taken apart for repairs.

Your ears, your nose, all your senses should be used for debugging and general investigation.
Its an old book. But has a lot of interesting aspects.

Business @ The Speed Of Thought By Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_@_the_Speed_of_Though...
But still - not being able to recall a password NOW is real possibility.
Anyone has an idea? Angel.co has 10k listed, but I think many are not. What do you think the real number is?
I don't understand either.
I think you know you've got a winning idea when the esteemed commenters on HN all dismiss it out of hand.

I hope I can Hyperloop from NY to LA some day, and if we can leverage the current high investment traffic to get that to happen, I'm all for it.
Shouldn't there be some tradeoffs?

Say I sign up with service x with the name y. My URL is www.x.com/users/y. Years later I delete my account. Someone else signs up with the name y. Now www.x.com/users/y goes to someone else's resources. The old URL is broken.

The only way to prevent this is either give the user a url (that they will want to share) that is not meaningful or disallow anybody to sign up with a name that was ever in use and names are a resource that is very limited.

Neither seems ideal. I do agree on principal that URLS shouldn't change, though.

Hotmail actually has this problem, or at least they used to. They delete accounts that are inactive for a long time and someone else can sign up with that name. The new person can get email addressed to the previous owner.
I think dang will take care of this comment (and the account?) in short order, novelty accounts are verboten on HN (as they provide no value).
Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector
Did you reply to the wrong post?
In this small town there's like 3 or 4 miles of commercial streets and dozens and dozens of miles of paved streets.

Of course streets don't get shut down for weeks of prep work, but the paving will be done when the machine and crew are available and probably not at night.
How fucked is my database
Messaging Apps Are Eating the World, Here’s What to Do as a Business
The argument that metadata on you can be acquired my law enforcement without a warrant is not that it's harmless. It's that it isn't your data. You are mischaracterizing the legal justification.
Yes, I get theory, but I haven't seen much use for them in practice.
LendingClub isn't the counterparty; even if they went bankrupt there would be procedures to move the loans to a different servicer.
I feel weird about an app charging (admittedly, a negligible one time fee) solely for access to images where all of the various creators intent was for them to be free.

Am I overlooking the value of curation?
I feel for those who fear GMOs. Food is incredibly intimate. They're terrified that the stuff they literally subsist upon is being fucked around with in ways they don't understand by people they don't know for reasons they don't grasp. They feel their fears aren't being taken seriously and engaged with as reasonable concerns. They feel dismissed and belittled by people who look down on them.

There. Some sympathy. Feeling better? Cool. Because basically none of the concerns and fears that most consumers have are reasonable. Most of them are nothing more unjustified, baseless terror of the fishberries someone said are here to poison them.

How should I - or anyone - react to that? You cannot reason with a person possessed of such terror. I've tried. You cannot educate them. I've tried that too. You can't listen to them, offer sympathy and compassion and understanding, and then try to reason with them. I've tried that too, and it blows up in spectacular fashion.
I was talking to somebody about how education ends up being so expensive in the US, and I kind of feel like there are similar reasons.

Subcontracting out work + massive federalism creates $200 textbooks. Now I know national textbooks are a bit much, but I would be interested in seeing a state completely co-opt the textbook creation process and produce some textbooks and learning material at cost.

As for the budget distribution, this pretty much happens in other places too. My French school's expansion was half funded by the ministry of industry, some by the region, some by the national government... I think that's a side effect of how budgeting works.
Do you have a picture of that? That sounds cool. What do you plant there that's more delicious than strawberries ?
Ok, totally true. I was thinking in terms of the article, so primarily about NYC. In places like that there's a lot of frontage which is basically never supposed to close.
Well, considering the PCRE regexes are nearly Turing complete, you can parse (well formed) HTML.

Someone better versed than I: https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular...

Of course, the money quote is: Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should.
I am on the SRE team for Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow mentioned in the article. We have had a lot of issues with 503 errors (Cloudflare cannot reach our origin servers) occurring in various regions on a monthly basis. That combined with a few other issues (DNS change delays, missed deadlines) has lead us to look for another CDN provider.

We just signed a new contract and plan on switching off CloudFlare in June.
It does, I don't disagree, but it seems worth separating "bad deals we actively picked" from "bad deals our laws forced us to make".
The task of setting up a well rounded Help center is often overwhealming and tedious, espacially after long dev sessions. We've build this tool to make it super easy to create a sleek and a powerful help center in minutes. It's super simple to build and edit and has a powerful stack overflow-like built-in support community. We're beta testing it right now and we're open to all kind of thoughts and feedback.

A live demo: http://kmetrics.haash.io/help

Thank you!
Yes, Amazon is good for books and electronics, but I'm getting really tired of low quality household goods. I don't even know if the reviews are fake, or if people are just uncritical and give five stars for junk.
not really an answer to your question, but it could give some guidelines: http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/
There are good reasons other than `it models the data well' to use a logit. Of course, the perspective that much like least-squares, logit regression does best when your data is generated from a logistic GLM is true, but not the only story.

In my opinion, the best justification for the logit is that it is a easily-optimizable member of the family of surrogate losses:
http://fa.bianp.net/blog/2014/surrogate-loss-functions-in-ma...

The papers cited in the article pretty cleanly explain why the logit and other surrogate losses are the 'natural choice' for classification. This also explains why other non-generative models like the SVM perform similarly well to the logit in practice.
I think something like this could get really good at estimating calories too. I'm saying within +\- 50 calories.
There seems to be an incomparably tiny sample size for about half of these... 1 out of 47 drives gives a 8.63% annual failure rate.
The original plan was to reuse existing infrastructure and have very few stops outside city center. For that scenario the number were holding up.

Now the question is what problem is this solving: you have cheap novel transport system for passenger between 2 points nobody is really interested in.

And that's the wall all the project around hyperloop are hitting. Either you need the government to step in to make it competitive for endpoint that people are currently interested in. Or you keep the original design, but you need the government to step in to ensure those uninteresting endpoints become interesting.
That is a graph of absolute numbers comparing two companies without equal market capitalization.
I agree, and looking at the story that is available to us here, the guy in question is very suspect.

However, that does not mean we can or should change the rules (or define new rules) to put him in jail. I'd prefer they use another way to convict this guy. I'm also careful not to condemn a suspect based on what the media reports about him and his case (the court of public opinion is a dangerous thing).

The fifth amendment is one of the few defenses you can call on when facing the incredibly skewed US legal system, and should not be chipped away at, even in a case like this.
Let's not use euphemisms like "kiddie porn" and realize the danger that child pornography feeds the child slavery industry. The core issue is that the suspect is potentially hiding his network, clients or victims' identities. Until he surrenders his hard drives, the truth may never come out.
As a loose comparison, the Rhodes Scholarship has an age restriction of 18 to 24 and I'm not aware of any legal challenge to it.

http://www.rhodesscholar.org/applying-for-the-scholarship/

When it comes to providing a gift of free education via scholarships or unpaid teaching, it seems like the donor can attach any criteria he/she wants. E.g. A billionaire wants to provide scholarships to females aged 20 to 25 that can run a mile in less than 6 minutes. Even with those restrictive conditions set, it seems like the philanthropist is immune from lawsuits filed by males and handicapped people claiming discrimination.
"Old enough to see, better start teaching them some C"
Ask HN: How do I build a Magento plugin?
We're trying to build a plugin that embeds our analytics scripts into Magento.

Just wondering if there are any Magento develoeprs who can help point us in the right direction?
Given the meteoric adoption of Docker and its nuances, this number is completely unsurprising to me. I am surprised it is not higher
Millennials Savings: 7 Explanations for Why You Are Doing Poorly
It appears this is about contact with a different people, the Jarawa, I don't see anything indicating contact with the Sentinelese except the caption to the photo, is there any documented evidence? It appears the author has incorrectly labeled any tribe on the Andaman Islands as "Sentinelese."
From their site:

WELCOME TO 42,THE MOST DARING
CODING UNIVERSITY.
DISRUPTIVE EDUCATION.
TUITION FREE. NON-PROFIT.
OPEN TO ALL.

False Advertising.

"OPEN TO ALL"
"42 is open to anyone who is between the ages of 18 and 30"

Perhaps someone there should attend a class on demographics.

I suspect in the land of 42, you don't exist if you are <18 or >30. Such special little snowflakes they are.
Low-tech snoopers easily identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces
We have both here, with Price First being even cheaper and with a smaller selection of items than Great Value.