skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to this problem is well known: an abstract. It's clear that many news outlets see their job as entertainment rather than delivery of information, and it's also clear from comment's like snookca's that some people like this. (I hate it, but to each his own.) So this is never going to be solved by complaining to the author or to your fellow readers.

What could effectively solve this is if HN attached a short abstract to each article, written and updated by user submission. (The initial version could/should be provided by the submitter.) Maybe minimal GitHub-like version control with pull requests accepted by vote. This could be useful not just to save time, but also to keep article quality higher, if submitters are required to justify the intellectual value of the submission. The abstract would be more valuable than normal comments, so accepted modifications could get extra karma.

This would have similarities to summaries on slashdot (which are written by moderators and so not very scalable) and the "submission statement" required in certain subreddits.

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/3yh1ll/introdu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/1p4gqg/new_poli...
Guessing they use API gateway so that's:

$3.50(cost per million calls)*15 = $52.50

Lambda is pretty cheap.

For example a 256 memory function running for 300ms being called 15,000,000 times would cost 21.77.

All together that's $74 a day for just lambda and API gateway without any extras (cache, bandwidth pricing etc).

Maybe more expensive that raw infrastructure but it's a pretty inconsequential amount of money per day for close to no ops.
Taken from the previous discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722775):

"This is from Netflix, it downloads Netflix content and reports the speed back.
This is important because unlike your average Internet speed test (which ISPs take pains to optimize), there's a very real possibility that your ISP is happy to let your Netflix experience suffer - assuming they don't throttle it outright".

It's not for deep network testing, it's just to see if your Netflix is being slowed down or not.
That's highly inaccurate. First of all only Maria Strydom died, not her husband. Eric Arnold does not appear to have been vegan. Second, altitude sickness and exhaustion are completely different things.
No, if ZFC is inconsistent, then you can know the number of steps needed. Every statement, true or false, is derivable from ZFC if it is inconsistent. If there's contradiction in ZFC, it can be found in finite time by enumerating all the theorems.
I agree, it's super impressive on video - also could not find the learning algorithm.

I would expect it to eventually "learn" that it can go much faster on the straightaways, or find the best line around the curves.

It is definitely exciting, impressive, and very cool. So much opportunity, and so much progress already.
From my scanning of the article my understanding is that we all have it. The difference is our magnitude of response. One made animals with no allergic reaction whatsoever and predicted that these would suffer other problems over time.
All they needed for Windows back then reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
I miss that guy
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Note that this indictment includes API Gateway. API Gateway is clunky, buggy, and underdocumented. It's useless if you're not using JSON. It doesn't implement HTTP properly (e.g., a body is returned with 30x and 204 responses). The web interface is buggy to the point of being unusable.

To top it off there's no way to report non-UI bugs unless you are paying $$$.
If it shuttles things to and from space, doesn't that make it a space shuttle? I guess it depends on where you want to draw the lines between launch vehicle and shuttle.

The origin of the term shuttle is from weaving with back and forth motion carrying a payload, so something that is reusable can very arguably be termed a shuttle (especially if it can bring things back and forth to orbit).
Thanks, I knew about the Gambler's Fallacy, but I really didn't make the connection (also since they are not really uncorrelated... :) )
If you want a website that works on enterprise desktops, you aren't using flexbox - you're using floats.
It's all statistics, I would think the highly educated has a higher probability to be more successful then the less educated when a large sample pool is used?
This man speaks the truth. :-)

I think it's a lost battle but I used to rage whenever I saw a company talk about their 'Vision'. Unless you're a poet, religious mystic or philosopher king - then you're being pretentious and grandiose.
Joel wrote this same post about 10 years ago. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
I had a little funeral for my last Windows machine when I powered it off last Fall, as I no longer have much time for video games (Windows's last hold-out). Given MS's dominance throughout the 90s and early 2000s, I never thought the day would come. I still have an old Windows VM hanging around on an external drive somewhere, should the day ever come where I need to fire it up, but honestly I can't think of a reason why I'd have to do it these days.
One of the chapters of "Parkinson's Law" (the book that among other things coins 'bikeshedding') discusses hiring from a satirical point of view. He makes the point that the easiest kind of hire is when only one candidate applies, so it's good to load down your adverts with as many requirements as possible so as to put applicants off.
Helminthic therapy. I have a friend who did it for his Krohn's with good results.
Fusion also has the "dealing with vast quantities of a highly chemically active salt touching our plumbing directly over 40 to 60 years." Nobody talks about it because the magnetic containment problem is harder.
Allergy symptoms can just be poor mediation of the defensive response.
If that was your takeaway from Heartbleed, then you wheren't paying attention.
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Not strictly the same concept (although it is about language and perception) but this reminded me of the spoken word track the Bug's Eye View (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBY9YE9Zec8).
Nope. "Charging station" is widely accepted to mean the socket, its associated parking space, the control/payment electronics, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_station
Seems legit https://www.dropbox.com/s/1y7n3ey2sxblg6e/%5E9A4BEF30B1C8072...
This one does look promising. I didn't know they re-written it for PHP7. But still looks like an early days. Might wait a bit!
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Another good post on the same subject is:

We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest

http://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326940
"those in government or heavily connected to it"

Whoa whoa whoa. What's "heavily connected"? Government employees? Welfare recipients? Taxpayers?
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In a different field (digital cinema) the above is being done for color, lookup the ACES colorspace and workflows...

(Very) Basically the camera's recording goes through a process to make it into a standardized ACES colorspace. It will then being processed by editing, VFX, grading, etc... and then there's output transforms from ACES for each output device, like a cinema projector, a home TV or a mobile phone.

And yes, AFAIR, that does need grading for each targeted output device, because of how we see and perceive color depending on the environment we're in...

It would be awesome (EDIT: to have something like that) for music as well
No I'm just saying it can be a case of e.g. "don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity".
https://www.cbinsights.com/research-unicorn-companies
Doesn't that seem a little overkill just for controlling logs?

To me fail2ban for SSH seems a little strange unless it's in a shared hosting environment, as the real solution is simply key auth.
This drives me nuts! I don't know why I should be motivated by YOUR mission! Especially when your mission is to make as much money as possible in an easily exploited niche you found!
Am Dad, can confirm: kids are very, very much work. Hard work. Very, very difficult at times.

But the rewards are like no other.

As a parent, I have a disinclination to consider parenting 'work', as in 'I should get paid for this because it sucks', because I don't think that all things that suck should be paid for, in general. Life does suck. Deal with it.

And the suckiness of parenting is in no way at all the same level of suck as, say, having to do a Timesheet every single day and accounting for every 6 minutes of effort in order to get paid a pittance, and so on. Because you can't say: this human being is costing me $__ amount.

To incentivize - or even, associate - parenting work as an under-privileged system of unpaid labor is to allow the conditions of human slavery to slip ever slightly more through the door.

It speaks much of any -ism that claims that child-rearing isn't one of the truly greatest privileges for any living being, sentinent or otherwise, to experience.
> Also, humans prioritize and are sensitive to visual input more than sound to a large degree.

Our evolved ability to detect and localize sound in the dark at night is why we're here typing. Ironically codecs tend to see phase information and say "hey, we can ditch most of that and save a few bits!"

Any filmmaker will tell you that audio can make or break a picture. But for some reason audio always gets screwed commercially -- especially among technologists. The early iPod headphones and even modern MacBook/iPad audio is awful. The iPhone still only has a mono microphone. Beats headphones are shameful. Satellite radio is godawful. Anyone here want to sing the praises of "RealAudio"? Yet people tolerate it because there's no industry leader standing up for quality. And even when someone does, they're usually off in the weeds themselves (192k audio fad).

SoundCloud is a hopeless business, bleeding cash. Fred Wilson can claim he loves music but apparently he's not willing to say "Hey, maybe y'all should serve something that sounds at least as good as iTunes did in 2001." Like no other artistic medium I'm aware of, music appears to be worth significantly less than the bandwidth required to stream it properly.
> Commas are used in PHP as a sequence of things

Choosing a pipe because it's easier for an obscure language feature, is not least astonishment. Commas are used for lists. The pipe is a bad choice among a nice feature.
Is that still true? I recently joined a company whose primary audience is education, and our numbers say that less than 1% of our customers use browsers that don't support flexbox.

Are public middle schools farther along the tech curve than "enterprise"?

(Legitimately curious. It'd be pretty funny if so.)
No. Port knocking is self-deceptive and stupid.

It's a password. Sent in plain text. But because users pretend that it's stealthy they pretend that it's something else.

Yes, you can have your port-knocking be an OTP. But why? Why not just listen to an UDP port that takes this plain text password or OTP like a sane person? Why sniff SYN packets?

What exactly does port knocking add to this, except make it MUCH more probable that your raw-packet-sniffing-oh-so-coolness has a security hole than that your "open UDP socket, read packet, check for equality" has a security hole?

With IPv6 TCPMD5 (or TCP AO) becomes a much more interesting way to solve this.
Did you steal that from the Ars comments, or are you the same guy trying to get cleverness points twice?
What is wrong in using the word 'zen'?
It is not like you name your child 'zen' and other people shouldn't name their child 'zen'.

I think zendesk fears that if people use the word 'zen' and they are better then them, they will lose customers. If you want your brand to remain unique, just try to be better than all others. There is nothing to fear, If you are better, people will use your product else they will use some other.

BTW there are many alternative for zendesk and which are doing better than zendesk. I believe Freshdesk(https://freshdesk.com) is doing better than zendesk. So may be that is why zendesk fears.

Also they always exchanged words with freshdesk. Even markdown has commented about that:(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750875)
That sort of analysis is testing something on most of those that happen to be two different things on btrfs and ZFS. Specifically, corruption that passes checksums and corruption that does not pass checksums. btrfs' result was obtained by modifying it to disable checksums. How btrfs or ZFS do without the benefit of checksums should only matter for people exchanging disk images. In that case, it would be better to have a userland driver regardless of the filesystem. NetBSD is able to run its filesystem drivers in userspace for this reason.
Nothing is said here that wasn't better said by Joel Spolsky over a decade ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
Introducing clojure.spec
If every article on HN had a TL:DR, I'd be a happy camper.
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:) thanks for not spoiling it here
I haven't touched PHP in a long time, but the later releases makes me want to try it for a couple of small projects.

Is there any good introduction for people how "know" PHP4 and want to get started with PHP7, using best practises?
I use this strategy when playing WWF as well, and have stumbled across words unknown to me.

I also play illegal words to check the validity of other words formed. For instance, if I wonder whether an existing word can take an -S or -D ending, I'll play a word I know is wrong. WWF helpfully comes back with a list of which words aren't valid. :)

Neither of these work against a live opponent so I play WWF a lot differently than Scrabble. Like you said, strategy is different when playing - in WWF, I can focus more on rack management and scoring spaces playing WWF; in Scrrabble, I am nudged towards playing words I know because I can't test them. Back when I played Scrabble I studied the 2 and 3 letter works plus the hooks and didn't find that aspect of the game all that fun.
>They couldn't. They would have to show ads from other history and not the email's contents. This would also break features such as (server-side) search and reminders (eg. flight tomorrow) via Google Now.

Sure they could, all incoming emails aren't magically going to become e2e encrypted.
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Skipping. I'm basically done reading controversial new medical theories and things that "a new study suggests."

I'm not a researcher. Wait until the finding has been confirmed in lots of studies and is Boring Standard Medical Knowledge, then tell me. Until then, it's just going to give me the illusion of knowledge.

There's so much "MAYBE eating kelp will reduce your risk of LUPUS!" that we lose sight of "I should really exercise more."
"With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015"
http://venturebeat.com/2016/03/09/with-just-3-games-supercel...
The presentation is great, but it's very short and very easy. It's far from the best value I've gotten.
This is awesome. I no longer need to type the dreaded ":" , which requires the most awkward finger combination . My ulnar nerve will be so happy.
Provide Sharp Knives (DHH)
It's such a shame because it has the potential to be amazing but is so difficult to use and unsatisfying to use.

I wish that it started with the verbs rather than the resources. Set up basic behavior for GET, POST, PUT, &c. and apply it to all resources.
Yes, you're right, I misremembered. Most races got what they selected. But only being able to select one at least limited what you could research.

Uncreative races got a random one in the category they chose and Creative races got all items in the category they chose. It was far too simple to play as a creative race, such as Psilon.
From TFA:

But understanding the purpose of allergies could lead to dramatic changes in how they’re treated. “One implication of our view is that any attempt to completely block allergic defences would be a bad idea,” he said. Instead, allergists should be learning why a minority of people turn a protective response into a hypersensitive one. “It’s the same as with pain,” said Medzhitov. “No pain at all is deadly; normal pain is good; too much pain is bad.”
In my opinion, with Sirius when the digital compression is noticeable, it's a worse listening experience than normal FM analog compression and fidelity, so I'd imagine that's true for other over-the-air digital compression.
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Yup. The Standard Apple Deprecation Cycle works something like this:

1. New shiny thing is announced

2. Old busted thing starts getting talked about less

3. New shiny thing becomes the default, old busted thing hidden away

4. Official deprecation warnings issued

5. Old busted thing stops being supported. Apple being Apple, this quickly leads to

6. Old busted thing stops working altogether after something like an OS update.

We're currently at step 2. Originally I thought that Obj-C would be kicking around for a lot longer, but given that Apple dropped an entire CPU architecture in relatively short order, and their scorched earth attitude towards backwards compatibility...

I give it 2, maybe 3 years before ObjC isn't officially supported in Xcode anymore.
We all have this defensive mechanism, however, when it misfires (triggers in a situation where the response isn't necessary) then we call it an allergy.
> if it makes you feel better

Why do that, when you already give the creators exposure? Surely an lighting technician and a sound engineer can pay for groceries in exposure, right?
Why is Haskell seldom used, despite being considered a wonderful language?
Define decent. You can buy a pair of Mackie from the MR series from about $500. That good enough for a long period till you learn what you are doing.

Audio gear has the tendency that the value you get with more bucks decreases exponentially.
Depends if you have entropy in your addresses or not.

585 years to scan a single /64 at one billion packets per second.
Sorry that GitLab.com is slow. We're working on it in the appropriately numbered issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

BTW on-premises GitLab installations should be fast already
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It's sad that my first reaction was "Looks like bootstrap." I would like a few more colors. Maybe you could add pantone support, that would make this super useful esp. for mobile!
Per kilowatt, nuclear energy is by far the safest. People fall off wind and solar installations all the time. Hydro fails catastrophically.
"local government, there basically are no constitutional limits"

They certainly get a lot of leeway, but "incorporation" applies many federal protections against municipal governments too.
thanks for doing the math for me :)
Aren't the Xbox One apps only delivered via the Windows (App) Store though? So they have the benefit of being sandboxed and needing to be reviewed in some form or another by MS before appearing.
consider using Freshdesk. They have a so much and are much better than zendesk and Intercom.
If you have a mobile app then use Hotline (https://hotline.io/) they have an integration with freshdesk. This two product go hand in hand and also have a good support team.
Probably most messages through GMail would still not be E2E.
>If the mission is feeding starving children, or curing cancer, or public service

You're typically expected to take a pay cut if you're doing any of these.
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I'd be more interested in a poll to see how many actually upvote, and also that inquired about the addition of a "discovery" page that randomly shows submissions (weighted by date of submission, number of upvotes, etc) to better expose new submissions.
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The prescription drugs for some types of allergies and asthma are a form of steroids.
Indeed Zimbra was a game changer! Also using postfix by default was all good stuff!
Yes, you should validate the UTF-8 at some point before you actually manipulate the contents of the string. Before that, you can just treat it as a pile of bytes.

You don't need to go down different paths of how you read those bytes based on the codepoint lengths until you're actually doing something with codepoints.
Mobileye: http://www.mobileye.com

"It is used by nearly two dozen automakers, including Audi, BMW, General Motors, Ford, and Tesla Motors." -- http://fortune.com/2015/12/17/tesla-mobileye/
Instead of the button you can also compose a message to @ProjectMurphy
> The OP is of the former type: before you go there and photograph, first take time and enjoy the simple, dark sky.

Contrast that with what I wrote:

> 1. Install an astronomy app on your mobile phone. Start with free ones, and see where it leads you. I recommend Skeye. This is good for going out by yourself and looking up things you see in the sky.

Please don't make assumptions about me. For the record, my photographs are not for the social media. They are for me. I did not post any of my own here.

With the author's method, one might get to see M31 as a gray fuzz after they acquire a 10" telescope. With my method, they get to see M31 with a fair bit of color, when it is viewable at their location. While it's fine to go the author's route if that's what satisfies them, the reason I have such little regard for the author is his arrogance about a field that he is completely ignorant of. A beginner learning from just his article would walk away with a distorted sense of the field. I'd advice learning from someone who is more well-rounded.
I've never used Haskell, but it seems like everything in Haskell can be done in one line :).
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It might have been Jasper Lawrence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Lawrence), who wrote about his experience on kuro5hin. I think this is the link: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971, but the site is sadly defunct now.
>Programmers who haven’t learned to wield sharp knifes just aren’t going to make meringues yet.

For meringue you need only mixer and patience. Knife skill are not required at all.
> why do we need XCTest or NSCoding implemented in Swift?

Linux compatibility. As long as Foundation is written in Obj-C it can't be ported.
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> it doesn't have anything to do with 'speed'.

Even then, that means it has to do with speed but in an even worse way. An artificial slowdown added to everything.
If you haven't learned what you're doing, you're not the professional audio engineer referred to by TFA :)
Or they could run a few algorithms client side on the text, return some sufficiently anonymized data and show ads based on that. So if you are emailing about organizing a birthday party you get balloon recommendations, but if you got a ransom letter with only an address, a photo and a a big number after the dollar sign, they might opt to not send data back to their ad servers.

If they think there is money to be made on this despite the hardness of the problem, they will come up with some okay-ish solution.

Or just make e2e 5 usd/month.

Though I never clicked on any ads in GMail, nor did I see anyone do it, so maybe GMail is not a great source of ad income.
I've been working on an app that relies on parsing CSS styles for like 6 months - full time. This almost gave me a heart attack until I realized it was a joke.
ObjC will be around much longer than 3 years. It can't be deprecated until most of OS X is rewritten.

Remember how long it took them to get rid of the Carbon Finder?