skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
am I the only one, or does putting more radiation out into the environment pose substantial health risks.

All of this excess radiation is bound to cause some potential mutations in DNA. Adding even more is only going to increase the probabilities.
> Second... 960 pages. If you really want to advance the craft, if you really want to become a better developer, then you don't measure by the number of pages (<sarcasm>what a sacrifice, I have to read</sarcasm>), you measure by the amount of gold advice on the book. 960 pages is a lot of gold.

I think that comment on the page length was just on the volume of stuff that one would have to memorize if they were to memorize (rather than internalize) the knowledge.
Yes it does, but we've brought that on ourselves by insisting that pre-existing conditions (such as obesity, high blood presssure, etc.) cannot be cause to deny coverage or charge higher premiums. Smoking, interestingly, seems to be an exception to that standard.
Windows 10 upgrade will soon be easier to reject
well im surprised to be the first person in this thread to ask this question (if i am not mistaken) but what about supplementing the protein instead of working out?
Awesome CSS3 Effects
To Be Continuous #21, Redpoint's Scott Raney on Why Continuous Delivery Matters
Are you seriously suggesting that everyone who has a retirement plan that holds an index fund that has VW in it should be held accountable?
What about trademarks?
Player is pretty nice no doubt. I also really like Vagrant + Virtualbox. Just works. And I can't believe Virtualbox is from the loins of Oracle.
Out of those not mentioned here for me it's beets and cmus. My go to for music for years without a single issue.
If you really want minimum time but still some benefit, taking a walk around the block 2-3 times a day is probably your best bet. But that's "fitness" in the same way the 15 year old with a pirated copy of Photoshop is "a graphic designer."

I don't think anyone who has done weightlifting would say you can do it quickly or that it takes minimal time or effort.
Enjoy your limited life span, lack of energy, and general attractiveness. There's no secret here; you get out what you put in. Everyone wants to be in shape, no one wants to lift heavy things.
I found VirtualBox to be super wonky at times.

Trying to run an OS X VM on an OS X host on it was "fun". Clang doesn't work out of the box and you had to set some weird and nonintuitive flags to get anything to compile on it.

I pretty much will try to use anything else besides VirtualBox when I need a VM.
I'm not 100% sure. I do know that sets of questions are able to be DMCAed, so solutions to problem sets are likely to fall under that, though IANAL. I have worked for a company that took down answers to such questions in response to a DMCA. Our lawyer pointed out a specific clause that made it risky. In almost any DMCA case, there is some set of case law that backs up one side or the other, and all you're doing is deciding whether you think the content is valuable enough to go to court over to protect. It's usually not worth going to court over :/

To be really tested, it'd have to go to court.

I noticed when searching a lot of solutions were still up for this course, so maybe the solutions alone are OK, and it's only the base code being DMCAed. That said, there is a lot of base code still up too, so it's likely that this person just hasn't come around on their whack-a-mole cycle yet.
I've seen some pretty intricate and complex bongs.
It's really quite simple: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/74172/28974
This would encourage sprawl-y and inefficient land use.
Yeah I think I failed to communicate my point.

In the Bhagavad Gita (chapter 2 verse 49) there's a statement to the effect that those who work for the fruits of their effort are misers.
In our R&D Slack instance, it's amazing to see a program with great UX (Slack) enable engineers to post awk, grep, sed, jq, etc. one-liners to solve other engineers' questions. IRC has the same benefits, I'm sure, but Slack is the first command-line-style chat application to gain enough non-engineer mindshare to make it ubiquitous at any company I've worked for.
1 step ahead of you . . . but this staircase seems really long . . .
fog creek / trello
"A UI error has occurred trying to display a UI error" or something equally unhelpful.

When eclipse gave me that error message I immediately wrote it off as useful software.

Also it is dog slow compared to intellij
This reminds me of the Adam Curtis film "All Cared For By Machines Of Loving Grace." Indeed, "eat your vegetables" itself is as much an environmental idea as a nutritional position. Curtis attributes environmentalism in its present form to systems-think grounded in the computer industry.

The deep irony is that computers themselves arose from the ashes of Bertand Russel's (failed) attempt to systemically automate mathematics.

I'm always amazed that techies, who have to deal with the fragility and foibles of computers, aren't leading the charge to be skeptical of this sort of thing. Of course, the incentives are not aligned with that.
CSS is only Turing-complete in pathological cases. Pathological cases do not make a good basis for policy decisions. In reality, the loss in performance from losing the style sharing cache alone would probably swamp any gains you'd get from DSSSL.
There's an assortment of codecs that can be used by the Bluetooth A2DP stack, the protocol is extensible but the only required codec is SBC. Apple supports AAC and Samsung backs APTX so that doesn't help. You usually end up with the lowest common denominator.

I've tried out a number of in-car bluetooth setups over the years and I've found that the quality varies pretty significantly between both auto makers and aftermarket units. Ford and Toyota are pretty solid where as Chrysler and Honda are pretty awful. As far as aftermarket solutions go, GROM is decent and USA SPEC is horrid steaming crap.

Another unfortunate occurrence I encountered was that Android paired with certain systems (Honda) will prefer to stream audio over the HSP/HFP stacks instead of A2DP or will switch when a call is incoming and stick. This is tons of fun because HSP/HFP use very low quality codecs meant tuned for voice applications.

Now that Bluetooth is high bandwidth, I would like to see them add a new audio streaming stack that just accepted PCM/FLAC/AAC/MP3/OGG in all their glory.
we have the best roads in the world. go to any other country, you will not find 4, 5, 6+ lane freeways that are free, have excellent signage, interconnect without stoplights or city streets, that extend for thousands of miles. i can drive to any region in the country for free on uninterrupted highway. if i drive to go skiing, i know the roads will be plowed, i can even check on the status before i drive. our roads have dividers in the middle, we have shoulders on the side, we have lines and botts dots between lanes. many larger freeways in cities now have lights.

this country has modern infrastructure
"we wrote integration into our GUI apps for users to create tickets..."

Very cool.
No, nothing has changed on that front. If you have not received any National Security Letters, it is legal for you to say "I have never received an NSL" (as other commenters have suggested). Warrant canaries rely on the idea that it is much more legally difficult to compel speech than to restrict it. There is no (non-secret) case law indicating that a NSL recipient could be compelled to lie and include the warrant canary paragraph in a future transparency report, while there is case law indicating that NSL recipients can be prevented from actively disclosing the letter (gag orders are fairly well-established in particular aspects of our legal system).

The reason why warrant canaries are binary is that once an NSL has been issued, the case law that the parent commenter linked comes into play: companies may only indicate in buckets how many they have received (0-249, 250-499, etc). So you couldn't have your warrant canary say "I have never received more than 3 NSLs" then "I have never received more than 5 NSLs" etc.
Something like commandlinefu?

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
The question here is with is "a bit less readable"? Many people with run with that advice and start playing code golf on a production codebase.
Now that Go has been added, I see a good amount of votes for Go.

Since we're talking about server-side web apps, I'm assuming this entails an HTTPS API endpoint, some datasource, and some business logic. What packages/libraries/toolkits to you use to build a (micro-)service such as this?
In the vein of not "shaving yaks", my list is software that, when something goes wrong, it's almost always my fault. I don't care that it works well, but that it works consistently and predictably. Sadly, that's a rare trait based on some of the tools I have to work with daily. On to the list:

vim - going on, what, thirty years of use and it rarely surprises me.

bash - same thing. The only surprise is my own ignorance of it after so many years.

SQLite - so small, so useful, and so reliable for what it is.

I guess that ended up being the list a lot of others posted. Which ought to say something for the products mentioned.
I just started playing around with ffmpeg for a side project of mine. I'm sad because it's C++ (and I didn't write enough C++ in my life to be any good in it) and I was looking around for a good C# wrapper exposing a media player that I can simply use in a desktop app, but everything I found was extremely buggy and laggy.

I'm currently trying to make an exact copy of ffplay.exe (since the source code is available) in C# using an tiny SDL2-C# wrapper and a tiny ffmpeg-C# wrapper, instead of finding a library that does everything. I'm glad to hear that ffmpeg is reliable and solid, I hope I can make it work in C#! (I'll probably put everything up on github if it works)
30 years old TGV is not possible, but somehow Hyperloop will materialize :-(
GNU/Linux.
It should be a really big deal when a company makes an intentional decision to harm people.

It should be a really big deal when a person makes an intentional decision to harm people and that person should be punished.
How much subsidies do public roads get?

Are they profitable?
SMS Backup (Android app) - literally "just works"
Metaprogramming scales very well. Every high-level program + compiler is metaprogram for assembler code.
No, since it would be much more expensive.
Agreed on all three recommendations. My use of Trello grows and shrinks over time as project management influence shrinks and grows, but it's a great product. Instapaper and Inbox are just amazing.
I'll throw out a guess that part of it is the character of the bike being tied to the drivetrain.

Even outside Buell, which was a bit of a neither-fish-nor-foul anomaly, they've had the odd innovative model here and there--the V-Rod comes to mind. And I've seen some interesting things in their ABS systems and some other components. But I think the most successful models have been very conservative about their drivetrain as it's part of their signature sound/feel.

My hope is that Polaris' recent critical success with the Indian Scout (which I bought over HD--far better bang for buck than a Sportster) gives the segment a kick in the ass.
A better way to visualize pipeline development? (WIP)
Physical Web
I make charts with R/ggplot2. Standard workflow is to construct chart and save as static file. (PNG/SVG etc.) But with the plot.ly bridge, I can convert to an interactive chart w/ rich tooltips with very very little tweaking. (See this notebook: https://github.com/minimaxir/interactive-facebook-reactions/...)

To convert D3 to SVG, I believe all you need is a helper function but that is not my area of expertise.
All of it. As long we're not talking extremes, all kind of aerobic exercise, is beneficial for both cholesterol (HDL), lowers triglycerides and it's (very) good for the heart.

There are other beneficial side effects like: endorphins, high quality night sleep, bigger amount of oxygen reaches the entire body and the brain.
It is illegal for Oreos to make it so. We are talking about goods distributors.
Interesting product. However, our problem is usually the inverse. We have a name + company + LinkedIn, but want the email address.
Trying not to pick fan favorites/well knowns -

SecureCRT - SSH and more client (win)

Quicksilver - OSX launcher

Pathfinder - OSX finder replacement

Notepad++ - Win text editor

Gawor's LDAP Browser - still my favorite (Java)

Cog - OSX Music player (ala winamp)

GCalTookit - Doing Google Calendar Magic (Java)

Plex + ShowRSS + Catch - Netflix but better

Synology - Their NAS platform is pretty amazing. You can do
just about anything with it.

Workflowy - Bulleted List Magic (web)

Xee - Simple and effective image browser (osx)

YNAB Classic - If you don't budget, you should. If you do, you should check out YNAB!

NFSManager - OSX NFS Manager

All of these apps do what they do well and I've never had any issues with them.
All this legal tape and bureaucracy is really an impediment to a young startup, especially if you're trying to bootstrap. I was personally hit with the california LLC fee of $800 a year (was three years behind) and one day I logged into my Silicon Valley bank account and saw $3,300 withdrawn by CA Franchise Tax Board. Not the happiest day of startup life.
960 pages is a light reading IMO :).

One can hardly find a better time investment than reading a good book on a useful subject. Especially today, when quite often you can easily get access to the best knowledge mankind has on a topic. Books are awesome!
Show HN: A URL shortener in Rust
I'm from the EU and opened an LLC in the US. I think this list just applies. Except for the visa, that is actually the biggest hurdle. Unless you invest > $500k.
I was just talking about this broad subject last night.

It feels as if the interaction of people with the internet especially through phones is causing a ADHD of sorts.

It is affecting peoples ability to interact with one another. I try daily to strike up a conversation with people I encounter. Years ago, you could have a really great conversation. These days it seems increasingly difficult to find anyone interest in having a discussion about anything.
Arguably, the ability to rent your house is a constitutional one:

* https://fee.org/articles/private-property-and-government-und...

There seems to be a common misconception about zoning laws. Zoning laws fall under city planning where placement of certain types of buildings in organized locations leads to a more efficient city. These laws typically address traffic flow, utilities, etc.

So to forward the AirBnB context, the city zones an area as residential, a developer builds residences, and a private owner (again AirBnB context) purchases the property. From there I would contest that the city should have limited (if any) ability to limit or dictate how the now private owner choses to "use and dispose" of their personal property. Renting of the property does not violate the residential zoning...this would be as opposed to the owner tearing down their home to build an office sky scraper.

But if a private owner buys a house, they should be able to choose how to use that house. And again, this is off topic from the original thing I objected to: whether or not your neighbors should be able to dictate through government how you can/should use/dispose of your personal property.
I learned Python/Django, then JavaScript/Node.JS, so somewhat similar to you. I recently started using Go/Beego and it has been a real pleasure and performance boost. Go is statically typed and compiled rather than run-time interpreted, and Beego is one of the more robust web frameworks for it. Go/Beego is huge in China but has minimal NA/Eur following. This works okay though because the docs are all in English.
FileSearchEX, a file search tool for Windows 10 that is so beautiful in its simplicity, astonishingly quick, and priced like ya stole it. You'll be driven to madness when you don't have it with you.
StatHat is profitable.
But if we raise the price of helium to prevent depletion of resources, helium will be expensive too.

Although artificially raising the price of diamonds seems to have been an effective strategy for the diamond industry, that is in part because they found a marketing angle where the high price of a diamond engagement ring is a strong emotional signal between a prospective couple. In most markets, people simply are not going to pay more for something than it benefits them. Raising the price can have the consequence of pushing people to go look for other alternatives.

Price has to be reflective to some degree of underlying value or benefit. Further, if creating helium comes at the cost of destroying more real value than it creates, this is simply a lose-lose prospect across the board, regardless of the price tag you can attach to helium.
> Also, please compare the easiness of setting up CI for a hundred of repositories compared to a single one with tens thousand of files.

It's not so black and white though. There's plenty of difficulty in keeping a mono-CI system running and being helpful.

* The CI service becomes a single point of failure for all developer productivity

* Running a full build on every commit while accounting for semantic merge issues (so serially) is non trivial.

Jane Street did a pretty good write up of how hard this can be: https://blogs.janestreet.com/making-never-break-the-build-sc...
> ("map" could be confusing, as this usage is borrowed from functional programming.)

On the other hand, both Python and Perl have 'map' as a built-in function. There has been spillage out of functional programming for a while.
Our teacher of programming told us something like this: if your program has so many lines it cannot fit on one screen, it contains at least one bug, so don't make them, keep them short. I try to make all projects made of small files, where each one can fit on one screen. Great for comprehensibility and productivity (less scrolling). Sometimes, a procedure gets longer than one screen, so what one needs to do is to put as much source as possible on a line, so that the entire thing fits into one screen.
In all the world there are only three high speed rail systems which pay for themselves. All the rest are subsidized and some heavily.

with the price of air fares why would you not fly other than for the TSA? it was air travel that did them in the US simply because it started here faster and there weren't borders to worry about for the majority of travelers.

Rail is a romance that too many people never look past the haze to see the truth. Sadly even light rail is a boondoggle and the tens of billions if not a hundred or more in deferred maintenance is going to bite a lot of local transit authorities in the butt (it already smacks the Washington DC Metro)

What is really sad is this warning appeared on cato awhile back about the change to the contract presentation and most places blew it off because of the source
I once random lost my complete library. Above that, there was no way to get it back. Spotify people however did recover my playlist. I do use Linux client though, which is not officially supported.
VLC Player! I didn't even think to include it on this list because I rarely think about it, which is a great sign. I always install it on new OSs and make it the default media player. But it plays all the things I've thrown at it well and even changes its icon over the Christmas holiday to have a little santa hat!
> Again with the condescending study suggestions.

I'm sorry it came over that way. But there should be nothing condescending about pointing out that you are misunderstanding the field. Knowledge and science are a real thing, they don't exist to inconvenience you.

Complex systems (including chaos theory) is a fascinating area of math, for which there are a lot of learning resources online. It is not an insult to encourage you to go down the rabbit hole and move beyond the superficial (and wrong) stereotypes.

> It's a bit rich from someone who asks for a pie in the sky "social oracle".

Different person. Check the GP. Also probably straw-man, but you'd have to ask the GP.
I imagine light rail that with smart cars that can combine/merge/release so that they can run on a web rather than a mere lines.
GitHub's Government Takedown Request from China
You can't compress after encryption.

Encrypted content should be indistinguishable from random data. So encrypt than compress shouldn't be able to yield any reasonable compression.
This is a shameless plug, but I like the approach in my book React+d3js -> http://swizec.com/reactd3js

Code samples in the book still use D3 v3, but my most recent experiments have been in v4. There's a lot of content in there on animation and transitions, which seems like the hard part.

Currently figuring out how to do mass 10k+ element animations. Adding it to the book when I figure it out.
i'm all for mass transit, but maybe HSR just isn't the right place to spend the money in 2016? perhaps spending all this money on making self driving cars working, legalized and a common thing would be a better choice?
CFML
Couldn't it also be that your Viral K-factor was below 1?
Bring on the hyperloop!
"Transportation officials have identified about $57 billion in repairs needed for state roads in the coming decade ..."

https://calmatters.org/articles/long-neglected-road-maintena...

But, though the dollar amounts are similar, this comparison is not direct, because the HSR would not cover anywhere near as many miles as all California state roads.
Right. Google is going to reduce the code size to a million lines of code. For Search, YouTube, Maps, Docs, GMail, Hangouts and all the infrastructure projects that go with it. (And probably a ton of things I forgot to mention)

Compare, to, say, Apache alone: 1.8M lines of code. Or Riak: 250,000 lines of code.

Just because it sounds like a lot to you doesn't mean it actually is quite as much as you think.
> If you can live a sedentary lifestyle and still produce children, then evolution doesn't care.

Hunter/gatherer humanity did not have the luxury of a sedentary lifestyle, so it did have a negative impact on your ability to produce children for a long time.

> In fact, an indoors lifestyle is much more fit in the longterm than a life of hard labor.

I think "hard labor" is a bit extreme, but even so, working a physically demanding job is still better for your overall health than a sedentary lifestyle of office job + sitting on the couch watching Netflix.
sorry - aren't those all protocols and not applications?
Interesting question. If we assume competitive sports to function in relation to testosterone or other hormonal drives when played or watched, an argument could be made that if the competitive hormonal 'itch' of men is scratched through sports, the desire to compete in war is lessened in the population, which in turn may affect politics. Purely speculative comment.
Two explosions hit Istanbul's Ataturk airport
I know I come to Hacker News specifically to hear software junkies make bad analogies about health. I also go to my local paper's opinion column for the best tech news.
People adapt to their environment, and if their environment is dominated by shallow, fleeting interactions, it's hard to imagine that it doesn't have at least a temporary effect. The thing is, I don't see it being the dominant force in the life of healthy people. Young or old, your majority of social interactions won't be online, and you're going to be more shaped by consequential interactions.

Friends and family are just going to exert more pressure on who you are, and how you behave, than distant people you don't really know.

For a healthy person. For someone who is very isolated for one reason or another, then it can probably get very strange and unpleasant. That strikes me more as another symptom of whatever isolates, rather than an underlying cause though.
This is why it may be up to the voters to decide in the November election.