skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But most people do self insure most risks that are as small as $10k. The most popular forms of insurance are for risks that are much larger and could not easily be self-insured.

For instance, with home insurance, the potential risk would be hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace a house that was entirely destroyed. With health insurance the potential risk is millions of dollars to treat something like cancer. With car insurance, the potential risk is hundreds of thousands of dollars of liability if you injure someone. You can't exactly expect someone to keep millions of dollar lying around to cover the possibility that they get cancer or their house burns down.
Whenever I read a news article where politicians congratulate themselves on almost balancing the budget after raising taxes a bit, I'm struck by just how low the bar is placed, even for important things.

I also keep thinking about the book childhood's end, where aliens land and basically force us to run our things properly, cleaning up the planet's problems in a matter of a few years. I always wonder if we got put to the challenge as a species, whether we could meet it.
Not only because it was free, but also because "worse is better".

Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses. ["The Rise of Worse is Better" by Richard P. Gabriel, included in "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook"]
No need do this, come to China prepared everything for you like this.
WaPo, funded by Bezos, who has plenty to lose from a Trump presidency will obviously do anything he can to tout that Trump = Hitler.
Maybe a more direct question would be: Do you see any scenario where it is possible to pay writers to regularly write about interesting events or topics?

The reality may be "No, get another job journalists, the world does not value your contribution in any economically meaningful way."
I really like the analogy but Smaugs' gold might track inflation if lucky whereas cash carries inflation risk. A nice problem to have in the realm of "first world problems" for sure but still a problem. Also, if the companies had good enough perceived growth opportunities they would be investing instead of carrying hoardes of cash.
You guys might not be noticing, but we've thrown the "Hitler/Nazi" stuff around so much that it doesn't have meaning anymore. It's actually been rehabilitating fascism and anti-semitism.
Show HN: Add a map to your site with every place that you have visited
Sage advice. As a CTO who still answer support calls these are good things to practice and to teach the team
Agent Orange.
I think it's important to remember that Hitler didn't exactly run with the Holocaust as his campaign. So if you compare the relatively benign climate that brought him to power, and see something similar today, it's worth bringing up.
Let's say for the sake of alternatives, that Plan 9 was released to the public in 1995 under the MIT license. I think at least one of the BSDs would have used the C compiler, but I think it would have been bigger than that.
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what's AS number? how can I find out what a AS number for a domain or ip address is?
Jawbone stops production of fitness trackers
If I remember right, Digg was a combination of changing the UI drastically in a way that most everyone hated, combined with "power users" having disproportionate ability in getting posts visible.
If it helps, I can actually provide several data points from companies I've worked for. I've managed 3 (4?) large Jenkins installations and after the initial exploration almost all developers I've worked with understood what the weather icons meant and liked them. Managers definitely liked them :)
So never simplify anything? Let everything become more and more complicated with band aid fixes until no one has any idea how the hell the whole thing works or any clue why things happen. Sell people a faster horse, because that's what we've really wanted all along? Is that the moral of this?
Medical researcher rediscovers integration, gets 75 citations https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...
On the list of reasons for the rise of the extreme right in Europe (for example), I doubt that cracks the top 1000.
I spoke to a guy who does pentesting and vuln finding for a living. He told me that if I'm interested in doing the same thing, I'd be better off doing a little reversing work and then going into open-source analysis as soon as possible. His reasoning is that, if you're doing this as a career, then you're working for companies who are asking you to audit them, and will almost always give you the source to work with.
That would be the glib response I was afraid that line would provoke, but then I thought no one would go there. Slavery as told in the linked story is very different from the more limited abuses of capitalism in a modern country. Be better than that.
No, it is perfectly within anyone's right to question or be sceptical of immigrants who enter. If they are to be allowed into the democracy, they absolutely should be questioned, it is naive otherwise, that is how agreements work and with immigrants we are agreeing to let them in. If there is a difference in cultures, it should be looked at, not ignored. We can't set two standards of cultures, there should be one standard we use and all should be asked to adhere to whether immigrant or not. That some Scots fail at it does not mean there should be no standard. If it turns out that immigrants are doing anything disagreeable or hostile, why isn't that an issue that should be raised? This is wholly apart from having any compassion for suffering.
That you see.
They are poor for showing relative proportion. In this application they would be fine since it would only be ancillary info that doesn't need to be scrutinized.
While not to diminish what SpaceX has achieved it's really a far cry from "curing cancer".
While what they've done too allot of engineering it's not nearly as complex as identifying all of the biological pathways for even a single form of cancer and finding a reliable cure.

That said we do have good treatments for the vast majority of forms of cancer, the problem is that your survivability is directly tied to how early it's detected, surgical removal, radiation and more notably modern chemo regiments are very effective in early stages of detection.

Many type of cancer today have 90%+ survivability rates if they are detected early enough, detection isn't always easy allot of them can not turn symptomatic till later stages, and many of them won't show up in blood work / body scans clearly either.
Look for an estate sale. (Not an auction.) When my mother passed away, we had a firm come in and handle the estate sale. They priced the Persian rug that she had gotten from her mother at $400-$500. My sister did not want to sell it and took it home. The Persian rug dealer she talked to about some repairs said it was worth around $8,000 before being repaired.
Having gone the traditional engineering/cs route through university, I was trained to be a systems engineer. So C, C++, and Java were my first languages. Web has taken me away from that in recent years so I'd like to reexplore what systems programming looks like in 2016. Rust and Go are on the top of my list.
How BuzzFeed Makes the World Go OMG, LOL and Win Every Day
Don't try to fix things. Just pile more garbage on top of it until it sort of works. Sounds like modern programming
You need to structure your brilliance to focus it in one direction.
I had to do a bit of programming for NT4 only a few years ago (shudder), and the earliest OS the MSDN docs mentioned was always Windows 2000, even when those functions existed on NT4.

Microsoft isn't very interested in maintaining docs about their ancient OSes.
The problem with Gosu is that it never gained any significant traction.
There are a couple of factors that could make Olympic travelers much more likely than the general non-Olympic traveler to contract or spread the virus.

1. The Olympics venues are in places that have been particularly hard hit by the virus.

2. Much of those non-Olympic travelers are business travelers on short visits. Olympic visitors will typically visit for longer. Risk of infection should go up as length of stay goes up.

3. The virus can be sexually transmitted between humans. I'd expect that Olympic visitors have a higher probability than the average visitor of engaging in sex during their stay.

It's not the full set of hundreds of thousands of people that fly in and out of Brazil each day that you should be comparing against, but rather the subset of those that are there for vacations lasting at least a week or two.
Yes, http://ipinfo.io/AS32934. True for most organizations: http://ipinfo.io/countries/us
https://ipinfo.io/AS32934

You can also confirm this is the only ASN for Facebook by searching for Facebook at https://ipinfo.io/countries/us
Agreed, and it is not limited to web development. Effective developers seem to know what they are trying to do, have a plan for how to get there, and have a mental map of where they are, while poor developers are groping for a solution in a fog of confusion.

The author's claim is almost self-contradictory: if technical debt is bad, then anyone using it to create the illusion of being a high performer will end up hamstrung by his accumulated debt.
There seems to be a lack of emphasis on 'shipping working software' in this list. As a developer, that is what I ultimately want to be judged on. Nothing else. And too many managers judge developers by how closely they adhere to their silver bullet development process which they read in a random website.

It seems like the only ways to do this are

1) Create a startup, ship something awesome, have a great exit
2) Work for wall street, in a position where your success is judged by how much money you make, which directly drives your bonus.
Do you mean the weather icons? They are not the alternative to properly designed status indicators. Take a look at this https://jenkins.io/images/post-images/blueocean/pr-view.png

There's more about why and when we use them in my other comments.
NSA has a MAC address prefix??
This implies that they weren't before. I'd argue it's more that trends were slower to change in the past, for better and worse.
Or, in so many words: Cry!

Let it all out, there's nothing to worry about. Just... cry.
You can use https://ipinfo.io - either search at https://ipinfo.io/countries/us, or use the API (note the org field):

$ curl ipinfo.io/`dig +short facebook.com | head -n1`
{
"ip": "69.171.230.68",
"hostname": "edge-star-mini-shv-17-prn1.facebook.com",
"city": "Menlo Park",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"loc": "37.4590,-122.1781",
"org": "AS32934 Facebook, Inc.",
"postal": "94025"
}

See https://ipinfo.io/developers for more details
What I learned from being an internet entrepreneur since the age of 12
I was agreeing with all his points until he decided to ban ripped jeans !!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=AS+number

etc.
The nazis have been reduced to an abstract symbol of evil. The ways that they co-opted liberal institutions to seize power is ignored. They happened in real life. They used the same levers of power everyone else agrees are legitimate. They weren't a dark cloud of evil sweeping through Germany, they were human beings acting with purpose and intent. Their means can be analyzed. The fascists today work the same way as the fascists of yesterday.

There's that apocryphal statement "fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag". Maybe, maybe not. But I know that if fascism manages to seize absolute power again, and it is getting perilously close with all these far-right governments getting elected all over the place and the ever increasing audacity with which liberal governments bring their weapons down on the human beings that stand in their way, it will do so while shrieking "free speech" all the way. Free speech is such a, such a sacred institution, and it's supposed to keep us safe from tyranny. Just like democratic elections, right?

And everyone will act surprised how suddenly it seems we are in their grips.

Sticking to ideals and trying to have an ideology of "freedom" doesn't stop nazis. Fascists of all stripes need to be treated as engaged in concrete power struggle, not abstract ideological debate.
They also should be interested in case of security updates. If Apples update numbers are true, they somehow manage to get the majority of their users to update to the latest version and this is something Android should aim for too.
How to lie without statistics - ProPublica edition
He should have mentioned Chuck Norris in the discussion.
This 'imperfection' probably needs to be weighed against the fact that Tesla drivers apparently drive 2.5 million miles a DAY on autopilot. Cars have other imperfections that lead to accidents as well, like obstructed vision and blind spots for example. The real question is, is the autopilot, imperfections included, statistically a better driver than a human pilot also with imperfections. One or two fender benders does not make the case.
While UNIX has it's downsides and I have seen beautiful non UNIX OSes such as OS/2, most non-unix oses simply suck, too, and usually more.
You need the DoD Root CA to be trusted for most of these sites to not pop on the alert, and it does not ship with most OSs if any.
Science isn't a computer program based on some simple algorithm. I understand that it can be difficult to spot crackpot to a layman.

1. String theory doesn't assume 20 crazy things and its axioms aren't its only predictions
2. String theory does have a basic equation from which you draw many results, leading to falsifiable predictions that is not covered by standard model. Some of them may not practical with today's experimental tools, but that's not all of them. I take you haven't seen any string theory papers. I'm saying we're suddenly going to see superparticles this year at LHC, but it is entirely plausible that if they exist, LHC should eventually detect them.
3. You're probably talking about this http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466 recently posted on HN. In case you missed, that is an experimental paper.
I would actually do it for Google. But, we all know we have became to dependent on them.
But...isn't Java a "safer systems language" in much the same way Swift is? So, it's a lot like Swift in that regard, in that Google is pushing it. And, there are other JVM languages, including some that are at least as nice as Swift. Kotlin looks really promising.

I'm not sure why Java should be excluded if we're talking about systems languages other than C/C++ that are safer.
Consider a project that is small, based on idea that's big.

Projects often end up being bigger than you plan, and you don't want to end up in a big project based on a small idea.
Opera will be sold for real now
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/05/26/opera-software-sale-greenlighted-by-shareholders/

Opera, once known for revolutionizing web browsing and pushing boundaries had to suffer in the last few years quite much.

First their origin engine was abandoned in favor of Chromium to be able to be competitive again which many users have not liked as many features have been taken away, then the possible news of a sale and now this.

What will the future bring for Opera? Nobody knows, there is only once constant: Many people feel not in favor that Chinese investors take control over the company and will leave Opera.
> There is one good thing about affiliate marketing though: ad blockers do not harm your business.

They can if you use something like Viglink. That's another reason to roll your own solution. Really don't understand why they decided to go through them just to avoid a bit of regex.
Augh, I've been trying to like Perforce for a year and have hated it at every turn. I invariably wind up having ~3 workspaces open so as to map to different parts (or different views of the same) of the depot, constantly swapping back and forth between them whenever there's a problem that requires attention on some stream or another. Code reviews are awful; I need to balance tonnes of CLs (and their shelves) so as to save _my_ current work, grab the reviewed code, reset everything etc (or I could just make a new workspace for each review! hahahah).

There's also this ever-present feeling of dread whenever I invoke any p4 command -- if I absentmindedly submit something with unshelving the change that I had shelved after making a previous change but reverted when trying out a new change, I can wipe my old data and lose work. Or some issue comes up in a deployed environment, so I have to grab a new workspace (or dance through shelving/unshelving all my open CLs), have a 10 minute coffee break while it syncs, sync up to the release line and work on that one. Also my IDE doesn't like being switched rapidly between repositories all the time. Also it's difficult to just _commit_ some code after making a change and wanting to save progress. Every operation is just so stress inducing; how do you handle it :/
There are some fine insights but generally it's the old view of managers vs programmers as passive workers. For example, the advice for managers to encourage programmers to do refactoring as part of normal (business-oriented) tasks is skewed. It's programmers who know the field and they should have some power to give refactoring tasks the same value as business-oriented ones. They should be partners.

My view is also probably skewed compared to what a typical "software development" company does, but I don't believe that Google or YC startups do this kind of management.
Maybe you're just reading low quality threads. Your complaints do not match my experience at all.
Look at how fast they're monetizing: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/snapcha... (from the article). I'm sure the first half of 2016 has been insane.
Technically true, but blocking all Facebook domains breaks comments on many sites and the login feature on a few crucial ones too.

<sarcasm>It also 100% breaks your social life, but maybe there's little of that left to disrupt anyway, amongst the typical target audience for these lists :P</sarcasm>
Facebook/Oculus is sort of like having someone walk up to you an offer you a free suite at the hotel of your choice to do whatever you want to do. Invite your friends, have a party, whatever you want. The one condition is that the suite will be laced with hidden cameras and listening devices and whatever is recorded belongs to a corporation and that content is managed by a bunch of people you have never met. Does that seem like a good deal? For me Oculus is not even an option. Look at Vive. The room scale is a big deal for me although that might not matter to you. Initially there will be differences in what releases on each platform but over time it will be less of an issue. Eve Valkyrie already has cross-play
Yes; take the premiums you would've paid for 6 months (effectively without coverage during that time regardless), save them, and reduce your living expenses to allow you to build up the cash cushion from there. If you're in that income bracket you really should be able to structure your expenses so you can save a decent amount, even in a high-cost city (there are minor exceptions to this, for instance child support obligations, but moving to a shittier apartment or not going out to eat for N months to build up savings is a valid alternative to incurring an extra recurring expense like this if you're living on the margin of insolvency anyway).

Unlike these benefits, depleting savings isn't taxable income, and again, in that bracket you might even be able to wrangle in tax-advantaged savings (eg saving in a Roth account that gives you extra option value, converting to a Roth at your now-lower income bracket & withdrawing the principal, withdrawing home equity, etc). Once you figure in the fact that it's paying out effectively 1/4 of your income, after taxes, for 6 months max, minus the state unemployment benefits, it really does look to be a minimal payoff.
! is both bitwise and boolean negation, depending on the type (bool vs some numeric)
Not your silly little crackpot site, the Mayo clinic site. Now take your meds.
Well in this case it is the company's money, and lots of people within the company are "competing" for funding of their projects. Of course there is the reverse NIH effect which is that any technology invented outside of the company seems more impressive to leadership than technology created inside the company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

"If at the beginning of the war and during the war twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the nation had been subjected to poison gas, such as had to be endured in the field by hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers of all classes and professions, then the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain."
Sadly it is so overused in politics is diminishes the impact of the word and obscures the original meaning. It seems to be the anti-intellectual grown up equivalent to "YOUR MOM".
Approach #1 lands you in a dependency hell where you have to maintain multiple incompatible versions of each internal library or framework, or each external library that's in use, multiplies the work involved in upgrading dependencies, and in other various ways leads to its own problems. There's no panacea but I can see the appeal of having a single shared codebase.
Seems to be saying that Plan 9 introduced one thing now on most unix-like systems (/proc) and another thing now on most systems period (UTF-8). However Plan 9 was a total failure and a waste of time and teaches us not to solve problems if they aren't a big deal. ?
>The whole world, sans programmers, keeps moaning on complexity of computers, and Unix, and how hard it is to learn all those arcane commands and abstractions and why things can't be just plain and simple. I'll skip rants about how it's related to file abstractions

It says "no one, in the unix world". People outside of the unix world are not in the unix world. The point is, unix became very popular despite being bad (or perhaps because of being bad). Even within unix, the worse a system is, the more popular it is in general (see a typical linux distro full of randomly tossed together junk).
If someone were to provide you with variously doped n-type, p-type semiconductor, with enough time you could make a transistor by trial and error. The key I guess is that you probably wouldn't have considered using (or even had for that matter) n-/p-type material unless you had a background in solid state physics in an industrial lab in the 1940s (i.e. everyone associated with Shockley). But at that point, and being in such an organization, wisely you'd be inclined to work out the math & science first on blackboards, and thus economize your limited person-hours and R&D budget.

As an aside, and probably the main reason no one would ever have created a transistor or even IC in the 19th century or earlier is because, they really didn't need one yet. A transistor controls electricity (in a circuit) using electricity (from another ideally isolated circuit). In the 19th century, mechanical relays existed which controlled electricity using mechanical means (which could in turn have been controlled by electricity). This was "good enough" for most applications. There was not yet any large-scale telecommunication system (requiring better low-noise, low-power signal amplification), large populations within nation-states (requiring high speed digital data processing by corporations & governments), or potential for world wars that could destroy the planet many times over (requiring data secrecy and cryptanalysis by nations only fighting in proxy aka Cold Wars). These were 20th century and, remain at this point, 21st century concerns that benefitted from, and in some cases sadly, were enabled by the transistor.
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I thought he was going to make a more general point--that as discussions go on, more and more extreme references and analogies will be made, until inevitably comparisons to the "best" and "worst" things in history are made.