skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think those things are different. How many people in the world can create music like Beethoven or Mozart? How many people would have been able to beat Deep Blue in chess at that time? I can imagine there would be music that could only be rendered on a piano or violin, by only a hand full of people in the whole world.

In a similar manner, do you know a program that could only have been written by an 'expert' programmer, or only a hand full of expert programmers in the whole world? I don't think so.

The essence of what I am saying is that, programming is not a hard enough thing to waste those precious early years on.
How about the cultivation of "straw"? I mow one meadow by my parents' home once every year or two and wild strawberries and raspberries survive in the undergrowth. In another meadow which I mow three or for times a year only the starwberries remain.
Heaviest current production SUV is 6274 pounds for a Lincoln Navigator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlative...

Federal interstate MINIMUM construction standard is to assume 105500 pound semi trucks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bridge_Gross_Weight_Fo...

IF you could get the big trucks off the roads, maybe use very small pickup sized autonomous self driving trucks running on and 3 inch thick concrete like a driveway, THEN $600K would probably be achievable.

There are also correction factors that a SUV probably never exceeds 5 MPH on a driveway and usually doesn't park there and frankly most cheap driveways would be destroyed by a vehicle that heavy anyway, whereas the road has to survive 24x7 service at 75 MPH. The pounding the road takes at 75 MPH at 105500 pounds must simply be incredible.
"I suspect you'd find most GMO critics are fine with the former"

Most GMO critics that I have spoken to don't have a clue about how it actually works. "A fish gene in a plant?!?" being the sort of quote they will come out with, not realizing that we share a huge portion of our genomes with fish.
Since Go is compiled its going to be faster.
That would be a good hypothesis if politicians wouldn't be constantly being caught lying, cheating and breaking promises, starting wars or saving bankrupt industries with people's money. But since they do that, with little consequences, the theory that they are actually good at getting what they want without paying the cost we would pay for something far smaller seems more likely.
The finding that people with an "Overweight" BMI have a lower rate of all-cause mortality is consistent and has been called the "obesity paradox." A very interesting study came out this month that addressed it.[0] Basically, they did a prospective study of 55,000 (mostly elderly women) where they measured their body fat percentage directly using DEXA scans. It turns out that when you control for body fat percentage, it's actually better for all cause mortality to have the highest BMI category and the lowest body fat percentage. Of course, the measure "BMI after controlling for body fat percentage" is kind of unintuitive, since BMI is supposed to be a crappy proxy for body fat percentage. But basically, as long as your body fat percentage is low, being bigger is healthier than being smaller.

0: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2499472 (this paper used to be available, because I read the whole thing, but I guess it's paywalled now)
may you share your url here ? :)
It is pretty relevant at the speeds being discussed.
Effective Steps to reduce technical debt: An agile approach
I'd say there's way more than that - was a meetup and met plenty of folks operating SaaS companies whom I have never even heard of. Told me they were profitable as well.

My best guess would be to say potentially few hundred thousand worldwide.
I object to this. The .NET Framework is top tier and sets a high bar for standard libraries, in my opinion. It also runs on any OS just fine, especially now that Microsoft's own implementation is open source and MIT licensed. The community is also very strong with tons of docs and libraries and SO Q&As and plenty of jobs and local user groups. And if you don't like the C# boilerplate, F# has all of the same benefits.

Enough with the FUD around .NET/C#, I'm a full time Linux greybeard and even I'm sick of it.
We Roam – Travel the world while working remotely. Thoughts?
SF is not the world. The POV is of SF city only.

SF also does actually sit right on top of a fault line, so it is not a staid place by any stretch of the mind. It was just over 100 years ago the entire place burnt to the ground and was rebuilt by greedy logger barons (Cowell, Lick, etc.). It is a matter of time before another bad quake happens again, though maybe to Market as badly the next time. I agree they want the amenities, but SF is a port and it needs its vices, despite all calls to the contrary. People that need the amenities move to Napa or Dublin. Also, SF has never had real problems with flooding like St. Louis does (see: the hills) or the bad air like on Mexico City or LA (see: the bay fog rolling in).

I've no idea what drives the romanticism when you can smell the streets even in the rain. Then again, the French are like that and their streets are covered in doggy land-mines like SF's are.
I've always figured an HTTP 410 response would be sufficient for that.
Yup. "Paul McCartney has frequently spoken of his affinity with the album, citing "God Only Knows" as his favorite song of all-time, and crediting his melodic bass-playing style to the album. He acknowledged that Pet Sounds was the primary impetus for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The interplay between the Beatles and the Beach Boys thus inextricably links the two albums together."
I wasn't trying to call out the art as a significant reason for station expense, but rather like a marker of extravagance. Much like how you can assume that someone wasn't very frugal with their car purchase if they are wearing a Patek Philippe watch.
I use it as a borrower. I was able to get better rates than banks to do some consolidation. I like the platform from this side. I just worry who my loan will get sold to if they tank.
How does enhanced for loop works in Java?
Geography and density matter. It's way easier, and cheaper, to build an at-grade rail line in a low-density metro like SLC than it is to build a rail line of any type in a comparatively high-density/geography-restricted metro like Seattle.

SLC has plenty of available space in which to build it's rail line, Seattle does not. Even before construction costs become a consideration, Seattle's rail line will be more expensive because of the additional cost of acquiring the land (or easements) on which the rail line will be built.
Maybe some jobs will be replaced, but the industry is facing a shortage of truck drivers. One of the most common job listings on Craigslist is for truck drivers with paid training. The lifestyle of a truck driver can be brutal and unhealthy.
A guy just transcribed 30yrs of for-rent ads. Here is what it taught us
Efficient != cheaper.

The only thing that matters is what people are willing to pay, and that's not much for medium distance. And for the billions it costs to install the track in the first place, you can buy several airlines and operate them for years.
Whats the current price for a 1080 delivered by Friday?
Why is the standard session lifetime 24 minutes (1440 seconds)?
What’s Innovation Worth?
Thanks for posting this! I wonder if part of this paradox is also explainable because people with high muscle mass will tip towards the high end of the scale.

Very cool!
Are you too lazy to use the Google?
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> It's really important to separate what someone thinks from what someone does.

I agree. That's why I said that people shouldn't be subjected to legal consequences for their thoughts. They should definitely not be morally absolved.

> Having violent thoughts about people is very common, acting on them far less so.

I would argue that a person that looks at paedophilic content is arguably being violent themselves. If you went to a ancient Roman gladiator arena and eagerly watched the bloodsport, or to a current-day dogfighting event as a spectator, then you are participating in the violence, even if you aren't actually conducting any of it. What separates bloodsport from horror movies is that in movies, nobody is actually getting hurt.

There is definitely a relative aspect to right and wrong, and we all have ways in which we are wrong. It's important to recognize what is wrong and what is right, and to work to become more right over time.
It is very charming once you get past the slurs. Folk are nice, if stabby and strung-out.
Yes, they mention this in the article.

"Failure rates with a small number of failures can be misleading. For example, the 8.65% failure rate of the Toshiba 3TB drives is based on one failure. That’s not enough data to make a decision."
> Here I was thinking literally animal sounds informed the sound of pop music.

They certainly seem to inform the sound of certain genres of 'music,' which sound more like the grunting of animals than Euterpe's uplifting tunes.
Principal Components Regression, Pt.1: The Standard Method
PairForce was initially created because I wanted to give test driven development interviews for remote candidates, but I quickly started using my prototype for mentoring junior engineers and pair programming. I was frustrated with existing tools because they were either slow (screenshare), restrictive (all users had to have accounts), or limited (no terminal).

I hope you find it as useful as I have. As a thank you for trying out Pairforce, get 6 months free with promocode “hackernews”.
Is there a natural justification for the logistic distribution though?
It puzzles me too, that people are not using the most powerful development technique.

I cannot imagine not using macros for pretty much everything I do.
Even in Toronto, where house prices have doubled in 5 years, anything in the $3M and up range will often sit for quite a while.

There's just not as many people with that kind of money around.
That much you think?
How chatbots are moving from the consumer's space into enterprise
I very rarely write raw HTML today as a web developer, but if I hadn't created my first personal webpages from scratch and known what it's like to publish to the entire world instantaneously, I would not have had the impetus to learn web dev as an engineering practice. Learning literacy is not a linear path from concept to output.
The restore process on their consumer process is simple, but takes some time.

You logon or use their app, choose the folders/files you want to restore and await an email from them letting you know when the folders/files are available for download.
The elevated steel tracks have not "held up just fine" in Chicago. They've been neglected for decades, and they recently had to shut down a major line for almost two years just to perform necessary deferred maintenance--essentially, rebuild the line--to keep it go.
I was disappointed that planning methods didn't come into it. US business and civil culture has shifted heavily to very plan-oriented approaches. But there are other ways to do things.

As Mary Poppendieck explains, the Empire State Building was built on schedule and under budget in 18 months. When they started work on the bottom floors, they hadn't even finished designing the top floors. But that was fine, because they were working in a flow-oriented approach:

https://chrisgagne.com/1255/mary-poppendiecks-the-tyranny-of...

(It's also covered in one of her books, and I think it's "Leading Lean Software Development".)

As we know with software, big up-front design approaches can get unnecessarily long, confusing, and expensive. (See, for example, the healthcare.gov fiasco.) But we also know that approaches that optimize for cost- and time-effectiveness can work much better. (See, for example, Lean Startup methods or the healthcare.gov rescue.) We haven't really learned the lesson in software yet, so I can't blame people for not rediscovering it in other spaces yet. But I hope one day they will!
yuuup... I built one of these for a friends company. 10 years later that is still the default home page for the internal staff...
I think it was the other way around, Adobe didn't dump Flash on mobile. Also until the "sun comes out tomorrow" why can't a part of the market (smaller/bigger) enjoy the better experience that Flash offers and HTML5 cannot? (animations, games, livestreaming and so on)
"We saw that allocating memory and retain release calls where dominating when profiling. So why not just do the same bare bone thing that C does. Write a bunch of functions which read data from a byte array without allocating any objects."

Good, but this can become a problem if you are not properly clearing the buffer and suddenly start leaking data. OpenSSL is the current big example.
Linux performance monitoring just got a lot easier
Rhino iPhone Battery Case – Charge with Both Micro-USB and Lightning
Link to the actual article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/05/10/1508081113.full
The MIT prototype, and some of the other proposals, are really a maglev system. The original Hyperloop proposal called for aerodynamic support, with very tight tolerances, but that turns out to be iffy.

A maglev system needs a much more expensive track and/or a lot of energy from the vehicle to power the lift. This is the big problem with maglev - track cost. Maglev works fine; the Transrapid system in Shanghai has been running for 12 years now without serious problems. Top speed 300 MPH.

The Hyperloop is only interesting if it's far cheaper than a maglev. The Transrapid maglev system has far more capacity, can corner better, and can climb steeper grades.
Trickle-down contracting -- the many guys on top rake in big $$$, while the guy on the bottom who actually builds the thing gets a few cents.
Project home: https://github.com/firehol/netdata/

v1.2.0 released today, supporting also Linux Containers monitoring.
I meant upgrade installs on OEMs.

Like specifically HP, because HP had a default account of 'HP User' for years.
Here is why you can't use your smartphone wet handed
> To get “faster than C” you need to hand-code in assembler, and know your target CPU really well to outsmart the compiler.

Ada compilers can beat C compilers, and languages with some restrictions such as Fortran can beat C.
I would say this is absolutely a political decision and a marketing decision. Google has gone to great lengths to help the public feel comfortable with autonomous cars, right down to the 'cute' buggy look of their vehicles. The trick is to move slow enough so people's interest out paces their fears.

The implications for self driving cars is nothing short of an existential threat for so many people in this world. As we know, it's just the beginning.

Similarly, Apple moved very slowly in introducing the iPad even though the under technology had been available for years. They started with the iPod, then advanced to the iPhone. At the time the iPhone caused a great amount of tribulation. People were very uncomfortable and large portions of the tech sector predicted it would be a monstrous failure. Their apprehension was cloaking a deep-seated unfirmiliarity (and maybe some fear). Once the iPad finally did arrive it was easily digested by the market. That was the mistake HP and windows made when they introduced the tablet in 2001. People had no concept of what a tablet is or how to integrate it in to their lives, so it was a miserable failure.

The lesson is don't move so fast that you scare your ultimate market, the people.
How to Encourage Networking at Your Event
+1

Worked on a commercial strawberry farm for a little while and we would cover the strawberry fields with straw around November to protect the plants over the winter. It would also prevent weeds during the next growing season as the parent post mentions.
Multi-Dimensional Scaling
Dorico: Announcing the New Standard in Scoring Software
Not sure if you are looking for specific data about "brick and mortar" classrooms or if you are open to digital and blended classrooms, too. You can see videos and papers about new educational technology here: https://www.imsglobal.org/2016-learning-impact-awards-public...

I haven't looked at all of them, but you should be able to see some data/research by the participants supporting their educational technology.

Also, voting is open to the public until 2016-05-24 @ Noon.
BMI is a terrible metric - it's just a function of weight and height and a terrible indicator for health - most professional atheletes would have high BMIs due to a high muscle to fat ratio (muscle tissue being denser than fat tissue). It's not abnormal to be "overweight" - "obese" at 10% body fat depending on what sport you're doing. (long distance atheletes are normally quite lean, sprinters are bulkier)
I'm actually wondering if one of the reasons that they're having trouble buying WDC drives is because WDC keeps trying to add a clause into the purchase agreement saying BackBlaze can't release information about WDC drive failure rates. Anyone from BackBlaze able to comment on that?
Couldn't you have said that Apple pre-Jobs, or pre-iPhone?
It's in his submission history.

http://assil.me/2015/11/07/roadomatic-node-vs-go.html
It can easily be used in tandem with the encrypted drive, to create probable cause to suspect the drive.

And MiTM is far too simple to do. One of my friends was able to rickroll many a person with about $100 of gear. It was always troubling to watch my computer connect to my home network while at a conference, with no real notification to me.
You can embed a video in a Word doc too. I don't know anyone who watches movies like that.
Think you missed the sarcasm.
Doesn't invalidate the fact that Swift could eventually be used in similar scenarios.

Usually in these scenarios I believe it just requires a company to bully developers to accept it and an eventual generation change.

If tomorrow Apple decides, for whatever reason, that new kext or IOKit modules are to be written in Swift, then whoever cares about their Apple OS customers will just comply with it.
Demon in the Freezer
Aquiring land to build for transit projects isn't typically an issue because these projects are either built below ground at a level that doesn't interfere with property rights, or on existing public rights of way. It can matter for stations (and that definitely gets worse the bigger and more extravagant that you build), but not the lines themselves.
If I remember correctly, a major limiting factor of cartridges is the time it takes to get them manufactured. If I remember right only one company was allowed to make those official cartridges, and you had to reserve a specific timeslot 8 months or more in advance, that you couldn't slip that date, in order to get your cartridges made.

I can't remember if I read this or if I was told this by veterans of the game industry (I used to work with some guys that have been in the industry for a long time). I think I was told this, but there's probably articles that mention this out there somewhere.

Anyway, they said it was a nightmare for scheduling, and sometimes you'd have a game finished but have to sit on it for months because that's the earliest you could get a slot reserved.

I think this is still an issue with the 3DS (I think they were complaining about it for DS at the time, why they didn't really want to work on another DS game).

Not sure if publishers would be as keen on this nowadays, especially compared to the speed and immediacy of the mobile world. Might make them stay with Microsoft and Sony, yet again.
It made first page by having popular values for X and Y.
Are there any private forum/communities for SaaS owners?
Thanks, that was a very interesting read!
Employees generally don't get paid during a strike.
What is the title referring to then? why the "end" of the end of the world?
> The article's author touches on the license problem with python's own pretty damn good QT lib.

> If only someone could find a way to make a good tool without fucking up licensing.

The rest of your comment is quite intelligent, but I find these lines to be quite the opposite.

PyQt is available under both the GPL & a commercial license (https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/PyQtLicensing). What you & the article author seem to want is for other people to write software that you can use and modify for free while you charge your own users to use and modify the software you write.

That's, in a word, hypocrisy. If you want to distribute a commercial PyQt app, then buy a license; otherwise release under the GPL (or a compatible license).
Actual source: The Box by Marc Levinson. Highly recommended. First chapter is available online: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8131.pdf
That is very cool subcosmos! I am also very interested in both cooking+nutrition and AI (see for example my web site cookingspace.com). My contact information is in my HN profile - shoot me an email if you want to talk about AI, food technology and business, etc.
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This is a remote code execution vulnerability.

I understand how this vulnerability can be used to corrupt the heap, as it's writing more data than malloc was asked to reserve, so it can overwrite memory allocations from other parts of the program.

I am curious as to how would one create a reliable remote code execution exploit out of this? I guess that one may be able to find a function pointer somewhere to overwrite, and use that to control program flow to your shellcode - but as this is dynamically allocated memory, could it not be adjacent to pretty much anything?

How would an attacker approach making a remote code execution exploit, given these constraints? Is it possible in practice or more theoretical?

(I'm not challenging this classification, just would really like to know how this works!)
That sucks for people with names like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_%28disambiguation%29
The poor security of Flash is most definitely a major factor.
I'd still consider a 410 as a broken link. The article states

> Pretty much the only good reason for a document to disappear from the Web is that the company which owned the domain name went out of business or can no longer afford to keep the server running.
Trying to Pin Down the Mosaic of Millennial Tastes
I've heard that Google is working on that problem. They have way more resources than my one-man part time nonprofit operation, so I look forward to how awesome their thing will be when they finish it.

Will probably opensource this, since I want to grow up a nice research community around quantified self fanatics.
You shouldn't have anything security-critical on bleeding-edge or alpha, particularly because you are the canary in the coalmine.

I like to encourage people to be those canaries, for my own selfish benefit, but they should be careful.
TheDAO – The End of the Corporation?
Yeah, I personally wouldn't buy one at this point. It looks a lot like some sort of design or chronic manufacturing flaw. Seagate's version of the IBM Deathstar.
I wish some other companies that use massive amounts of hardware (Dropbox, Amazon, Google, Facebook, NSA) would release data like this. I love that Backblaze does it, but having an even larger sampling of data would be great.
I just assume that anybody who uses backblaze and is serious about their backups just uses it as a true DR. They keep a local backup which will be used for 99% of restores. BB is just for the case where you lose the backup as well. I honestly don't know how they do it at $5/user/month. They must have a ton of very light users to offset the whales.
Codeship: How to Get Started with a Content Security Policy
That same as when a trucker-driving truck kills someones, usually nobody. But it will happen less often, so that's a good thing.