skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A strong portion of the middle class seems to love it there. For many, it is all that they can afford.
It costs $1500 just to change the tires on a Tesla.
>Have you even used a good ORM?

Well, I've professionally used Hibernate in Java, Django's ORM in Python, and Sequelize in Node. Also used Active Record for (more CRUD-ish) Rails stuff.

I'm sure someone will point to some obscure "better" ones (like there's always the "use a different distro" answer to Linux issues), but those are the most commonly used ORMs in their respective environments as far as I know.

>You mention all these things and yet in 10 years of experience they have not been a problem for anyone I know.

I could anecdotally point to people I know, but let's have a measurable metric: the support forums for those ORMs are chock full of questions and reports for such problems.

Besides, the description of what an ORM can handle as if it's impressive, namely several FKs and joins ("I have tables with two dozen FKs that participate in 7 or 8 joins and it's still not a problem")is hardly the pinnacle of data modeling that a modern DB is capable of.

Simple multiple FKs and JOINs are nothing, or course an ORM should (and could) be able to handle them (although even there you can see users struggling with performance issues, over eager bring-the-world-in queries, etc).
WebGL, blending, and why you're probably doing it wrong
The cited statistic doesn't tell you anything of the kind. It tells you that toxic employees are by and large (~75%) not toxic players, and the following sentence repeats that toxic employees aren't always toxic players.

That followup sentence also supplementally tells you that the sweep of toxic employees happened to catch most of the toxic players. That information is unrelated to the given statistic.
Honestly, most people don't want shit. They accept what they're given. It's not like anyone is even honestly asking them what they want.

(And if they complain that things are worse than they were, they often misattribute them anyway. My mother blames a lot of things on her computer being too slow, even though half of them aren't really the fault of the computer, but of the lazy-ass companies putting increasingly bloated shit on-line.)
First off, I'd like to say that I think this is great and we need more books in this space.

I hope this can be seen as constructive criticism but I do have a few comments on the layout and content.

1. Free chapter - perhaps chapter one or two may have been a better choice. I'd like to know the philosophy behind monitoring expressed in the book before diving into the details.

2. capacity planning - A chapter on this would have been great. Most teams I've worked with have struggled with sizing, planning resources required and archiving strategies with their monitoring solutions.

3. Monitoring strategies for different levels in the stack - where do I start, what should my short term goals be and so on.

4. naming of some of the chapters are too focused on the technology- for example the chapter on logstash could have been renamed to something to do with application logging or log scrapping.

5. visualisation and communication of results - there could have been a chapter on dashboard and reporting. This is a common issue with teams trying to understand how to do this.

This was written in a bit of a hurry but I hope my points came through.
Why would a car need a new intake manifold?
Or searching "man cp" instead of typing it in the terminal...
Poked through the JS to find the list of search terms since I didn't want to ruin my search history, silly list. The last one was a funny easter egg "OH COME ON DONT JUST COPY AND PASTE THE LIST FROM THE ARRAY YOU CHEEKY SCAMP"
I always use a VPN so I am not worried about my IP address getting listed somewhere but I only hope Google does delete my search history... Yeah I'm on that list now.
Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't -- corporations fail all the time. The crucial difference is that when a corporation gets it wrong, it fails and is replaced by another that does not get it quite as wrong.
There was an interesting article in Scientific American a while ago that the jets from a super massive black hole, from a different galaxy, had the potential to wipe out all life on earth if we passed through the "jet wash". The interesting bit for me was that as the equivalent of a massive solar wind (of exceptional strength) it rips away the atmosphere. That hurts no matter where you are.
Huh? Enthusiast car blogs routinely ignore Motor Trend's car of the year picks. It's rare to see any crossover between MT and what enthusiasts actually drive, though it does happen (contrast with the Car and Driver 10Best list, which is much more representative).
Why don't you ask a recent BMW owner about spark plug & coil replacement cost sometime.

Even mention ignition coils around some of them and there will be much cursing.
I have assumed that searching things like "How to make a bomb" will bring you on government radar. How government does it does not matter. I will not be surprised if the government has malware infected your computer to occasionally steal your browser history.
Or the best schools are typically in affluent suburbs vs the city.
I feel silly. I guess I fell for the same trap. I think he meant to say he did 3 miles for every dollar...
I may have miscommunicated but I wasn't concerned with the realism of the costs - I was questioning the relation of the values.

If you have two sets of numbers, S and T, then I'm quite confident MEAN(S ∪ T) must fall between MIN(MEAN(S), MEAN(T)) and MAX(MEAN(S), MEAN(T)) inclusive.

In this case, the costs of maintenance for a given vehicle model are the sets and, so, the cost for a brand as a whole would be (S ∪ T ∪ V...).
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803869
That is terribly interesting. Thanks.
I was curious and just checked -- until you click on an image in google's search results to see it fullsize in the semi-lightbox, you're actually getting the "thumbnail" sent from google as a b64 encoded string
I find the serious conversations that came from this funny, seemingly silly project very interesting.

1- The chilling effect of people being scared to click on a link that may do searches their government cares about

2- The idea that if many people used a browser add in like this, it would make surveillance of search history much more difficult

3- Google accounts getting banned

All from one silly site.
Nice. Although I'm still on the fence about bug bounties at their current price, as I can't help but see this as potentially manipulative, like hackathons where a company owns what you make, this guided hacking seems to be taking advantage of people's passions in order to underpay them for work.

But, I can't really say it's underpaid, as I have no idea what the black market for exploits is like, so maybe they are fairly paid.
In the US, the query "where to buy guns" seems perfectly legitimate.
Very happy about debugging Node.js in DevTools. Hard to imagine any third-party debugging applications having that amount of features and polish...
People didn't just use a guerrilla mail or an equivalent?
blerp -g
Use google ha!
> Brands most likely not to start: Hummer

There's something ironic about it. Here they got a car which "looks" like a reliable military vehicle, that you'd think could take it to some remove off-road location (desert, camping, etc). Yet as a brand, it is most likely to fail to start.
With NoScript and Ublock Origin one gets to read the whole article without any autoplaying video starting at all.
12 Best Practices for Boosting Product Page Conversions
By that logic my Nissan Leaf will have $0 maintenance costs.

The only listed maintence items to 120,000 miles are: Replace brake fluid, Replace in-cabin microfilter, Rotate tires

https://owners.nissanusa.com/content/techpub/ManualsAndGuide...
I don't think you can have "Riot" in your handle at all unless you're an employee.
FDA Has Strong Words for Cancer Drug Developers
Talking Points Memo does the same.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker
They should have said "Cadillac" here, based on the table. It's a mistake.
Sets up a pitchfork
The Ford Flex isn't available. They ran out of 2015 models and haven't got 2016s off of the production line yet. Great vehicle, but only when it exists. Not kidding, go the Ford Flex page and hit "search dealer inventory," put in your zip, and hit search. 0 results.

The Transit Connect isn't appropriate for consumers, it hasn't passed any of IIHS's tests, has no safety ratings at all, and is considered a commercial vehicle. I'm not putting my kids into something with no safety data on it.

But, yes, the list isn't exhaustive. I just wanted to make the point that Mazda in particular has slim pickings for tall drivers with long legs.
Heroku Container Registry and Runtime
>"it should take an exponential investment to produce a linear impact on the award"

I'm not sure how we would manage that but, assuming we could, doesn't this cut both ways? As long as money is in the equation, then don't all parties still benefit by having as much money as possible?
Totally agree, you can write software thats perfectly MISRA compliant and still contains lots of different bugs.
I'm not usually a fan of articles about "Why X Sucks", because almost invariably I think X doesn't suck as much as the author thinks. It's like I'm hard-wired to disagree with any headline that tries to make an assertion. But this is one case where I think we can all unequivocally agree that suburbia sucks in a way so profound that it escapes description.
"This data reveals which companies live up to their reputation for reliability (Toyota), which brands sacrifice reliability for prestige (BMW and Mercedes-Benz), and which models deserved to be discontinued (the Hummer 3)."

Ouch. There's one more reason to laugh at people who bought the H3.
The name of that program was MUSCULAR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_%28surveillance_progr...

That was the famous slide that showed where Google took off SSL with a little smiley face--which reportedly caused Google engineers to "explode with profanity."

The NSA actually did not do the actual hacking. The British GCHQ did, with technical assistance from the NSA. Thus the NSA could pretend that since the GCHQ collected all the information, it was foreign-sourced and therefore not subject to FISA court jurisdiction.
It's not the problem of JS, it's what is being done with it. It's about bullshit and bloat, about lazy-ass developers, designers showing off and the web being fashion-driven industry. It's about ads and tracking.

The only way to fix it JS-level is to bake a requirement into the standard that the code size limit for JS is 256kb. If a company can't fit their "value-added features" in it, that's their problem.
If you are properly preparing your assets for web distribution you really don't want those files in a git repo. it messes up your commit history and doesn't provide much value. I think gh-pages is fundamentally broken for this reason. IMHO its best to keep your source files in a git repo and publish your compiled assets to surge.
Parody of every TED talk ever
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Absolutely correct, but modernity has elevated convenience to the level of an unassailable requirement of life.

Rural areas are superior to urban areas by nearly every possible measure, but the decreased convenience makes them instant no-go zones for most in The West.
It's still a huge fuck-you move on Cadillac's part.
> That's only true up to a certain baseline.

And that's true enough for me.

> Maybe. The DOJ's conviction rate isn't appreciably different between divisions, including white collar crime:
> (all around 90%).

Interesting report, thank you for the link. I think 90% in and of itself is high enough to warrant scrutiny, any higher and it would be grounds for an investigation. Japan (99%) and China (98%) appear to be significantly higher still but many other first world countries are significantly below that (the UK for instance at 74%).

Surprising too that in the 1970's the US was at 72%, 18% more convictions in such a short period should be another cause for worry, either in the past people were more likely to walk when guilty, or in the present a lot of people that aren't guilty end up in jail. (Or, alternatively, a lot more stuff that is easy to prosecute got added to the list of offenses but that would have to be an immense number to skew the totals from 72% to 90%.)
I visited rural Holland as a teenager and my mind was blown by the fact that you could live somewhere rural yet get around by bicycle. Most Americans don't know what they're missing.
Thanks for your feedback.

1. I decided not to do this because my experience is that people like to do something practical first. I've had a huge response to that chapter - lots of folks have gotten into Riemann that had previously been stuck. That alone is a solid +++ for me.

2. Each chapter contains some discussion of capacity planning for specific tools, where relevant.

3. The capstone chapters (11-13) discusses this, as do the chapters covering logging and application instrumentation.

4. Thanks - I'll consider that.

5. I discuss in various chapters visualization but I've found that most folks have very different needs and desires. So I focussed on discussing what to show in small segments as well as some visual design discussion rather than a specific chapter on dashboarding/reporting. Hard choice but a 750 page book needs to stop somewhere. :)

Thanks for taking the time to comment - it's awesome when folks share their thoughts!
So I assume they won't give a bounty, if somebody finds a bug like the possibility of calling their testing tool trough a chat message?
What's with Porsche's choice to use thin-walled Hankook tires on their cars lately? Why put the worst fucking tires you can get on such a nice car?
Ruining your search history not your livelihood.
I think it's an issue of copyright law being ridiculous.

Nonfiction and scientific work should be treated differently than fictional works. I don't really care if Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain. But it's crazy that 100 year old scientific works can still be under copyright and illegal to distribute. These objectively have value to society, and the argument for the existence of the public domain is much stronger.

It shouldn't last indefinitely. Maybe only 10 or 15 years. I believe 99% of all works make most of their money in the first few years. Having copyright last a lifetime, let alone much longer, is just crazy.

Put a cost on renewing copyright. This is actually how it used to be. Half way through, you could pay a fee to have copyright extended. Very few people paid this fee (because most works aren't economically valuable), so most works went into public domain much sooner. Journals charge $30 to access obscure ancient papers. But I bet they wouldn't pay even $30 to keep the rights to those same papers.

Don't put everything into copyright by default. And again especially works of nonfiction or scientific papers. If the authors want that, then sure. This wouldn't fix the issues with big journals that demand it. But it still seems like a sensible idea to have copyright opt-in, not opt-out.
Or outed as gay for Googling linux manual pages.

"Honey, why do searches for 'man date' and 'man find' appear in your your internet history?" - My future wife.
It would be cool to see a $2/mo option for people that want to support the project (same features as the free tier).
Policy-rc.d is an awful ui for a choice admins often want to make.
An article on open access without mentioning sci-hub?
I'd also be afraid of the "theoretically more reliable pure electrics" suffering from premature failures due to poor implementation, as has happened recently in other markets.

Compact fluorescents should last ~6x longer than incandescents, yet since the commoditization of them, you'll find the circuits in the cheaper ones often fail long before the fluorescent tube itself would have failed (I recently did a teardown of about 20 of my own failed CFL's. About 2/3 had functioning tubes with blown circuits).

I similarly lament seeing an LED traffic light or LED vehicle tail light on the fritz, knowing that the individual LED's themselves probably had another 20 years of life left in them, yet met their fate early due to a bad solder joint or blown mosfet, etc...
That's wrong on quite a few levels, thank you for that insight, I did not fully appreciate the details. As much as I dislike Gawker that's a personal vendetta fought through the justice system and a third-party's lawsuit on top of that.
"Choose" is an interesting word. School funding is largely based on district property values in the US, so when you build enclaves of $400k homes that ends up being where the only good schools in the area are. Hard not to choose that if you have kids. Mortgage interest deductions also encourage the choice. The development model for suburbs also passes along the cost of infrastructure, so that it isn't necessary for buyers to pay for it in the form of property taxes. Local governments just approve more suburbs to pay off old infrastructure debt, until they eventually default and leave the state with the debt. It's easy to choose infrastructure someone else pays for. Roads into and through suburbs are paid for out of states' general funds to the tune of 70+%, again, easy to choose that.
This isn't his argument; he's arguing that people expect X to work for some set of cases (either because it's the latest hotness or because X's maintainers advertise it for those cases) but it ends up being more work in those cases than the proven solution. This is different from "doesn't work well in all cases".
> Would it change for the ACLU if they were purely funding it and not actually providing lawyers?

This is an interesting one. If the answer is "yes", then donating to the ACLU should itself be criminalized.
For many first-time Porsche buyers (the kind that buy the ones you DD) it is their entry level.

The danger of buying a Miata first is that you might skip Porsche altogether.
I had exactly this last week in Vancouver, very swift given how long the queue was (British citizen if that helps).

"Why are you visiting Canada?"

"I"m here for a conference"

"What's the conference about?"

"Computer vision, you know, programming research"

"How long are you staying?"

"A week"

Stamp

There was a point on the outbound journey where they were checking everyone's passports by the scanner (i.e. you'd go through and everyone would set the alarm off, but it seemed to be a passport check rather than anything else), as soon as they saw it was British they lost interest.
I sense an amazing income opportunity for about to be closed games. Its not like they have to tell you they did it anyway. I'm sure some of those PvP conversations would be sought after by many interested parties.

[to the down voters: I'll take bets on when this will happen]
That's about how I feel about it too.

My concern with this growing "no assholes" or "no toxic people" sentiment is that it sounds great, but who gets to decide who is and who isn't?
Thanks - I considered that but I don't like to put barriers in people's way - especially for free content. I don't like to be too marketing-esque. Just not in my nature. :) A couple of thousand folks signed up to the mailing list using the current approach, which I'm pretty happy with.
I sincerely hope nobody is buying a 911 as their first sports car.

Or daily driving it.
Thats too short for some fields. The real problem is that tech moves so fast that a lot of the assumptions and hard coded values in the law simply don't work in tech.
I didn't click on it since I don't want a site to do anything whatsoever to me ever.

But it wasn't evident at all to me that it was a site that would do what it apparently did.

It seems like having a link like that on a major, moderated website like hn is a serious problem and failing.
Sms scam detector online
This is incredibly common among high-end luxury cars. The better handling that results from staggered wheel sizes is considered a luxury. The owner is assumed to be willing to shoulder a higher maintenance cost burden in return for a superior driving experience.

None of what you describe is unique to Cadillac -- this is what it is to own a luxury automobile. If it is not worth the price, don't buy one.
The entire car industry has supply chain overlap, to be honest.
Hack Reactor Cohort 32 graduate here -- 50k bump in salary
If you're doing a startup trying to innovate in the research and academic journal space I'd love to talk to you. I've put out requests for contact in HN comment threads like this before and gotten great responses and great conversations, and one even resulted in a funding round.

I'm a shareholder and board member of SAGE Publications, which was founded by my grandparents. SAGE is about the 5th largest journal publisher and is and will remain a private family-owned company. I know it's hard to believe, but publishers aren't one homogenous evil entity plotting how to rip off the public. There are lots of fucked up things about the journal system, many of which publishers have caused or been complicit in. But there are also a lot of complicated factors that are entirely outside publishers' ability to change. Academia is a mess in a lot of ways, and much of the overall dysfunction of the whole system has manifested in what has become the hard to comprehend journal publishing system of today.

I live in Oakland and would love to meet up with anyone who happens to be in the Bay Area, or just have Skype calls no matter where you are. My contact info is in my HN profile. Drop me an email and I'd love to pick your brain to hear about how you're approaching academic publishing.

We've funded two startups in the last few years. PeerJ is an open access journal undercutting the traditional publishers AND most OA publishers (like PLOS) on price. Publons is trying to provide incentives for peer review and encourage openness in the peer review process. We'd love to find a few more good companies doing truly innovative stuff that will have an impact on academic publishing.
Maybe, but it depends on whether the location of the query is taken into account. In that case, the majority of the people who clicked through (which is based in the USA/Europe) won't get picked up as opposed to the small percentage of people located in the MENA area.
> The DOJ's conviction rate isn't appreciably different between divisions

Conviction rate doesn't tell you how much the deck is stacked against defendants, it tells you how good the prosecuting agency is at assessing its ability to secure a conviction before initiating formal charges.
It's interesting to compare this US survey with this one from a 2015 UK survey of 50,000 car users.

In summary, Japanese cars were deemed the most reliable and relatively cheap to maintain, while German cars were the least reliable according to the survey's respondents.

The rankings were calculated according to how often a car needed to be repaired, and the cost of the repairs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32332210
> Whenever I read these sort of anti-ORM posts I wonder exactly how simple the data model of these people's software is that they would rather write SQL for every trivial operation in their data model by hand than use abstraction layers that are nowadays well-established, mature, and far better tested than whatever ad-hoc intermediate layer people make by hand for their data models.

I prefer SQL query builders--they remove the pain of writing raw SQL--without the complexity of an ORM. You simply compose your SQL query the way you would compose any other data structure, and for statically-typed languages, you get some compile-time validation via the type system.
It does mention Sci-Hub.
Damn that's a significant hit. Are shareholders that paranoid? I mean, this will in no way affect ARM's total domination of the low power SoC design market, at least that's the way I see it.

These guys basically print money through licensing. It's a dream revenue model imo.