skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this is not really relevant these days, and dates back to the 90s.

All the "fun" problems start later - kernel architecture, USB support, modern disks, multicore CPUs, network stack, all sorts of drivers, all sorts of filesystems, and by then you're barely getting started on having something more than just a hello world printed out to a screen using legacy BIOS that is starting to get phased out by now.

Then, there is the 64bit mode of the x86-64 architecture, which is a whole new can of worms.

You'll end up rewriting the whole mess a dozen of times from scratch as you learn new things and encounter new problems.

And in the end, only the knowledge gained would be of any value, since there is exactly zero use or market for a custom OS these days, even in the niches.

Source: Wrote my own OS over the last 15 years - http://orbides.org/aprom.php
You're missing the point. The OP isn't claiming that Lets Encrypt is impossible to configure, so telling them that there are ways to make it work is a bit pointless. The key is that Lets Encrypt can be very difficult to configure and get things working. In a way, the numerous methods available to set up LE add to the confusion, you can search around and find lots of conflicting 'best' ways to do it.
Ha, I'm on the anti-Angular2 bandwagon due to Angular1. I use React and Typescript and love it. Curious if you've tried React. Or Angular1

(TBH Angular1 was pretty great at the time, but after React I look back at those monstrous template files, ng-everything, plugins and workarounds, and only the bad memories surface).
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that doesn't mean it's a good thing
https://haveibeenpwned.com/

edit: not sure why I was downvoted - this answers the question.
Interestingly enough, the Typescript compiler team doesn't even use classes. If you want, you pretty much write just functional code.
I don't know how crazy we're talking about here, but I just wanted to point out that Reddit has been doing a lot of anti-privacy crap in the last few weeks and just a couple of days ago, there was a post which got to the frontpage, originating from multiple subreddits as well, and that post pointed a lot of this shit out and also quoted the Reddit CEO talking down on users like you'd expect it from Mark Zuckerberg.

Here's the post, in case you want to read it yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4ll9tc/it_looks_li...

In other words, maybe these upvotes are legitimate and there's just a big portion of really pissed off Reddit users here...
That's a nice 3B$ flop right there, 3.5B$ if you take the dropcam into account.
Why couldn't they just focus on small inexpensive products that sell without thinking? Take chrome cast for example, great product, cheap price, don't really have to debate if I want to buy it.

Hey Google, here is an idea, why don't you make an IoT button that can talk/control other devices like bttn or flic but costs just 5$ (I'm looking at you Amazon dash).
They will sell like hotcakes!

After that you can introduce some other products, maybe under the home brand, like a device that control your AC (it just needs to work, doesn't have to be apple like the Nest) or one that monitors your water heater.
What about a small device that checks for leaks in your pipes.
There is so much stuff todo here.
The Snowden story was vast and limited to the Guardian. In the UK the other media outlets didn't cover it at all, or actively attempted to undermine the reporting (e.g. with stories planted by the British government that were carefully worded to sound like they were from Snowden even if they weren't).

The vast majority of people have not read any of the Snowden leaks and have no idea what they contained beyond "the government spies a lot". So the concept that they might be targeted themselves is just unimaginable to them.
It has four bedrooms, not ten. You can't reasonably fit ten bedrooms in 2912 square feet of living space.
Doesn't matter. Landlords who are in the business of renting aren't a charity. Somebody will be paying for those expenses and it's the goal of the landlord to make it not them.

Most of these kinds of arguments seen to stem from some kind of fantasy that renting is a smart choice because look at how we're pulling one over on landlords with all that free stuff they have to give me.

But no rental market can survive when landlords are losing their shirt to paying for other people's expenses.

And yet rental markets are full and robust everywhere which means landlords make money on the exchange, otherwise the entire rental market would be controlled by rapidly impoverished idiots, which is obviously not the case.

Landlords make money in several ways simultaneously, but providing charity to renters is not one of them.
You're correct regarding the sentiment on HN but I don't think the general public sees it that way.
In Munich you pay 4.00 - 4.50 EUR. That pretty much erases any advantage of Zurich vs German salaries.
Somehow I can't stand listening to Hejlberg.

Often it feels like the CS professors I met at university, who wanted to teach you about "real programming languages and not such toys like JavaScript"
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> But rooting oneself in one labor market (vs. being mobile) decreases one's employment options and therefore their salary.

True, but in most places outside the US (at least certainly in mainland Europe) moving great distances for a better job opportunity is unusual.

The main appeal of owning real estate vs. renting is the long-term and intergenerational perspective. At some point it'll be paid off and the housing cost will be extremely low - and the children will inherit something of value.
I have the Hue dimmer switch which makes them infinitely more useful. I can now control my lights without having to pull wires etc.
The name is rather poorly chosen, given that thousands of banks use Thaler (with an H) to handle their payments...
"The sphere could have actually been produced by a natural occurrence known as concretion"

'Concretion: The Enigmatic Stone Spheres of Franz Josef Land'

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/07/stone-spheres-concre...
My own anecdotal experience I heard a much larger competitor in my line of work have 3 teams competing against each other for a product. All failed except one which tagged up with an external partner to build a solution for them. Apparently many large companies don't know what to do with all their employees. I spoke to some of them later after my company hired some and all some engineers hope for is to actually complete a project.

Something similar happened to one of my previous employers. We were less than 100 people and cranking out many successful projects. Once we got acquired and nearly quadrupled in size, none of the projects succeeded. Many of the early contributors left one by one due to frustrations and pressure including me. The new management style had changed everything.
I really like your slide-html, very simple and looks great!
can you clarify? Do you mean enjoyment of going alone, or others questioning you for your lack of compatriots?
I think it depends on how well your social needs are being met in the rest of your life, if you are lonely going to a event like that alone can make you feel worse.
And even if you have adblock on, you still get to sit through 5 seconds of the Forbes Thought of the Day: containing inspirational business quotes.
Have you considered Discourse? It isn't a true Q/A platform like Stack Overflow or Quora, but if you treat the initial post a question and the replies as answers it works. Also, this guy claims to have written a plugin that gives it Q/A functionality:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-discourse-suitable-for-use-f...
Evangelist. Not developer.

"did lots of work on these issues" is misleading. He was an imposter and that was precisely his official role in the tor project.
Congrats! A premature baby in NICU might appear even cuter to many on the internet. The game and app reviewing public is less charitable to premature software, however.
That assumption is unnecessary. The only assumption needed is that taxes belong to the state. Property is defined by law.
UK Labour Party Taking a Close Look at Universal Basic Income
I saw this exact failure mode in the wild - a C++ Newton-Raphson implementation that relied on the order coming out of the mean calculation. In this case, the ordering put the N-R algorithm out and instability resulted. I seem to remember the fix was to put some simple bisection around the N-R guess, and if it went outside that range, truncate at the bisection range. It worked! (If anyone really wants the details, I can probably find the exact fix in our source control history.)
Honeywell has a wifi thermostat for $80?? Which has a lot less problems than a Nest. Doesn't look as cool I guess.
Contracts.coffee was great but sadly didn't live long. It would be worth reviving if there is an easier way to maintain it alongside mainline (iced) coffeescript.

http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/
> As seems to be common with graphical programming things abstraction can be a little hard unless it fits into the node-with-fixed-inputs-and-outputs mold

In other words, you're trapped in a first-order box: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5157#comment-85605
For stupid sites who cares? If someone wants my hackernews or reddit passwords, cool. I am not going to go copy paste passwords so my hacker news password is safe.
See also what happened to Sears when the CEO tried to apply objectivist principles.
I really wanted something like scratch for api design. I can't load vvvv right niw for some reason, but i was hoping/looking for something like a cross between scratch & balsamiq to design programs.

For example a crud app, you could visually design the routing, db structure auth flow ect. is vvvv like this?
Definitely.

I went to high school in Vancouver but left for college to Waterloo, which is on the other side of the continent. The only way I could have kept in touch with friends from high school who went to college in BC was through virtual mediums like Facebook, online gaming and voice chat.

Now that I'm back in Vancouver again, we naturally started hanging out physically again, but I'm fairly certain we would all have had a much more difficult time doing that had it not been for all the time we spent together virtually over these years.
Correct. When rents get too far ahead of mortgages, people simply buy property instead.

In your first example, the landlord is amortizing expenses by charging rent above their ownership costs. It doesn't have to be at or higher than then current new mortgage rates.

The second example does happen. However, if the landlord's bet is wrong, and they have the runway to float the extra expenses for a while, they can simply wait for rents to rise and over decades make it back and begin amortizing then. Or they can sell and hope to make it back.

Property owners have many more financial options with their property than do renters.
What worries me most about this LinkedIn breach is that somehow, some way, they showed my email address.

Not once in my life do I recall ever setting up a LinkedIn account. Ever. But somehow, I have one. :/
That sort of thing is supposed to have been a lot of what was going on at nokia towards the time it started to really founder.
You're not Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked.
Twitter and Pinterest Accounts Hacked.
Twitter and Pinterest.
Not Facebook.
If I was MZ i would use "password" as a password on Twitter and Pinterest...
What are the security and nda requirements? I recently got an invitation to a show and tell meeting (a recruiting event) but I didn't end up going. I'm afraid of having to sign onerous agreements, similar to a "never tell anyone that this was bad". I unfortunately fell victim to that at a startup, and I want to maintain my freedom to praise or criticize the government and politicians as appropriate.
> Just imagine you could connect to all your devices (washing machine, heating system, warm water system, garage doors, TV and hifi) from the same app om your phone

Why would I want to.
It seems reasonable to assume that any earlier iterations of a global civilization would also have relied heavily on the burning of coal and oil for energy, at least for a while. And yet there has been no spike in atmospheric CO2 concentration in the last 400,000 years like the one we have now:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html
Yes! Well, I don't know if it is particular only to the USA, but.. that is one of the freedoms I gained when I moved to Norway. Perfectly acceptable to go see music in a bar by myself, or to any social function, etc. - and I don't feel out of place doing it. Nor do I get hassled about being a female walking to/from home during the night after going to the same places.

Doing the same things in the states, you feel the aloneness more and it is much more rare for folks to do.
> Charging $100 is pretty punitive

Not really, considering there is zero reason for anyone to ever lose a password assuming they are using a password manager. You could even make it free for the first few hours after the account is created or the password is changed in case the user pastes it into their password manager incorrectly.
More specifically techniques such as Momentumn https://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/cs449/momrate.html (great article visualizing the problem space discussed above) and thigns like RMSPROP http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~tijmen/csc321/slides/lecture_slid... are used.

The rectified linear unit also converges about 75% faster than the classic Sigmoid or Tanh. the ReLu is F(x) = max(0, x) so the gradient propogated is 1 rather than a more "curvy" value.
"Why do we hire hourly wage labor as if though its was permanent?"

At the current cost of hourly labor if you made it even more like temporary labor than it already is the quality of worker you could obtain at that price would be terrible.
> . I can tell when people enter or exit my house, and I also have ~10 cameras for security. If I get a notification that someone is around my house while I'm gone, I can call my local police department a lot faster than any alarm company.

What kind of cyberpunk dystopia are you living in that you need this?
2 factor auth is not a defence against phishing. This is such a common misconception. All two-factor means is that someone with only your password cannot log in, or only your device.

What's happening here is that Google accounts without 2-factor but with a phone recovery path set up are being "account recovered" by a bad guy. It's just plain old phishing.
Meredith and Andrea were, according to too many people yesterday: untrustworthy and biased. Many comments here urged everyone to suspend judgement, not rush to conclusions and not take allegations overly seriously. (Not always a bad idea, but apparently much less important today.)

Now that Nick has written his story however, it goes back on the front page of HN and the comments here basically support it as totally credible. (Which of course, Nick is pretty solid, so it likely is. Just as Meredith, Andrea and many others are solid and credible.)

Don't get me wrong, I very very much think that Nick should write up his story and feelings. But I think a lot of people need to examine themselves closely for why they couldn't believe the women who shared their stories yesterday, but now can today.

This is why women come forward less often. People have a shocking tendency not to believe them, no matter how credible or well known they are.

Please learn from this.
Your comment was intriguing enough to get me to go look at the book... which led me to download it and its source code in to my good intentions folder. I'd love to hear more about your enthusiasm, as a prompt to eventually rescue the book from my good intentions folder, as things tend to accumulate there.
Fragmentation of various sorts is a problem though some of it is probably inevitable to a certain degree as there's probably a need for, at minimum, a variety of protocols and physical interconnects.

That said, even if you hand wave away this problem you still need to have solutions that mainstream consumers find genuinely useful/valuable. Yes, lack of interoperability adds additional friction. But I see a lot in the consumer IoT space that I'd still have zero interest even if it were completely standardized and interoperable.
One important difference: Redux keeps your entire app state in a single store.

In other words, this adheres to the last two principals of Redux, but not the first: http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/ThreePrinciples.html

Still beats the hell out of using `setState`!
I have an actual magnetic whiteboard, which I carry with me to the store and erase as I put things into my cart. The magnetic marker+eraser goes in my pocket, and I put it back on the fridge when I'm putting away my groceries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842301 (78 points, 2 hours ago, 8 comments)
Love vvvv and use it for all my graphics nonsense. The graphics is all DX9/DX11, that might be a little bit of a turnoff for the hacker news crowd, but the ability to string together and debug shaders in real-time and just generate gobs of data for visualization and interaction is unbeatable.
I'm not sure how this is very different than Goldman saches both hiring former members of the SEC and having many of its employees go on to fill top financial regulatory positions in government. People are not up in arms about that. I am sure other top banks in Europe do similar things ie have people they can influence in top positions or hire them.

It is mostly likely google is the nrw kid on the block trying this sort of thing, and the first tech company to try it at this extent. People just don't like change, and the people who used to have that power (large financial institutions ) don't like that the weird kids from palo alto are moving in their territory
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It's proven incredibly successful as an approach for Dentsu in Japan.
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There are two kinds of exceptions. A bug in the data or a bug on the code. The only action to take is to pass detailed info to the user and/or the coder. Fix the bug and try again beats any precanned exception recovery code one might waste time implementing.
I still think it's a very cool product with a real need by a lot of people. Hell, even I have always wanted one!

A couple problems. First they were way ahead of their time. Secondly, the barrier to entry for space was/is too much.

I think we are on the cusp of changing this dramatically. With SpaceX forcing launch prices down. Micro-satellites becoming a real thing. Plus a possible new company; Vector Space Systems. [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/26/vector-space-systems-aims-t...
I lived within the broadcast area of a station that employed Oprah's long-time friend, Gayle King. They aired a special about Oprah and Gayle that showed them talking to one another, and both of them sounded waaaaaay different from their television personae.

Credit to Oprah where it's due: if I know anything about people in broadcast television, I'd say most of them don't even realize how fake they are on the air. They think they're just as genuine with the cameras off as on. The switching of registers and mannerisms becomes habitual and unconscious.
Love VVVV. A purely dataflow programming language that you create "code" while it is already running. It's great for experimentation.
I think I remember a time where LinkedIn was getting a bit of flack for their practice of "encouraging" new users to share their address books with them, which would mean that, at best, LinkedIn could create "ghost" accounts seeded with relationships and waiting to be claimed, and at worst, sending not-entirely-wanted emails pimping their service to one's entire address book.
While I understood the idea, that you would pit your own resources against each other like that was kind of foreign to me. My own personal learning from that, having watched them for 15 years, four of which from the inside, is that as a way of managing a company it produces few viable products and no viable businesses.

I can't find any good citations online, but Electronic Arts was reputed to do that as well. Supposedly they'd put several developers on the same title, and whoever finished first got to ship.
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Technically, you can say that even a single perceptron unit is a artificial neural network -- a single-layer ANN. Multi-layer neural networks (such as a multi-layer perceptron) have at least one input layer, one hidden layer, and one output layer.
What kind of password did it have for you?
why is this book good?
So is this laziness on developers' part? Or management explicitly mandating?
I was just about to complain how TS fails totally for typechecking backbone models or immutablejs datastructures: both situations where obj.get("foo") and obj.get("bar") return a particular type but there's no way of having TS handle that except defining them as any. But it turns out string literal types in 1.8 will make that work. And this was out since February! I should reevaluate TS for my omniscient project.
To each their own, but in this case if Zuck had used a password manager he wouldn't come out looking like a chump. And honestly it's easier to use one than type even a simple password--one keyboard shortcut and you're automatically logged in.
I can't imagine the generally public caring about Zuckerberg's passwords in any capacity at all.
Not from the point of view of Google's business model.
Vsauce has a fantastic animation of this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObiqJzfyACM&t=16m4s

Deal yourself five cards every billion years. When you finally deal yourself a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket. If the ticket wins the lottery, throw a single grain of sand into the Grand Canyon. As soon as the Grand Canyon is completely full of sand, remove one ounce of rock from Mount Everest. By the time Mount Everest is level: take a look at the clock. You'll have to do the whole thing all over again 256 more times before your timer reaches zero.
If I was the underwriter for FB's D&O / Cyber policy about now I'd be making some very uncomfortable phone calls to important people.
Thanks for all replies. For some reason I felt that ANN has to be large to perform something useful, and small ~10 neurons ANNs seemed like a toy compared to ~1e6 nets. But, as you pointed out, if it does the job then it is good enough, no matter the count of neurons.
I've lived in Switzerland for a decade. My rents have never gone up. They have gone down once though, because the law here mandates tying of rent to interest rates and when they are lowered, you can write to your landlord and demand a reduction.

Unfortunately there are caveats. Last time I tried that, my landlord claimed that my rent was already lower than the market average for my area and thus I didn't qualify for the reduction.
Here's a link not behind a paywall:

http://canmua.net/world/the-fall-and-rise-of-iridium-882149....
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Is it a bad thing that Google plays a more involved role? They have on numerous occasions lent their technical expertise to improve horibly broke aspects of the federal govt (Healthcare.Gov is an example) . If they can improve the technical aspects (open apis for govt data for example), it might help bring more light to the parts of govt that are unavailable to ordinary citizens.