skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well I've just checked the front page and it seems extremely focused on a small range of issues.

This is by "design". These are almost the only things that are on-topic here and we mostly like it this way. I'm sure you know.
I think the secret is out[1].

[1] http://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
2) They have never been the lowest prices - you could, and still can, almost always find better prices elsewhere. But for the majority of people, the convenience is worth the extra cost.

3) No other stores sell stuff from China? Or maybe you're not used to seeing the cheap import items displayed next to the regular items?
Why? All they did was create a speculative market, not anything of any real value (i.e. I can't run compute workloads on it today).
The tracking error is not really "a cost", it's about variability. An ETF can have low tracking error but high cost if the returns are highly correlated with the index but systematically lower.
http://www.etf.com/etf-education-center/21030-understanding-...
So this appears to be an ad for pay content. I really don't know what /free/ content to read and thus have an opinion.
I spent some time in Seattle last summer. I was really impressed by the LEED certifications that a lot of the buildings in the downtown area have; most of them are certified gold - the spaces seem really nice for working!
FWIW, the author (Arfon Smith) had a recent Microsoft Research talk on github and open collaboration for the scientific community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XOuJFwy270
Offer free minecraft servers for coding teachers running this course: https://github.com/teachthenet/TeachCraft-Challenges

(cough, cough, ... I could use one)
Karta 0.7 - Geospatial Python
Tech is disrupting many existing industries, meaning ultimately more money will flow from those sectors into tech. I'm extremely bullish on tech for the next 5-10 years.
I agree. In this specific case, assuming the author had to type-out (or paste) the actual contents of the list, then "hand-rolling" it into a HTML list using a decent editor will be less (probably much less) work than plugging in all that JS cruft.

And, it only happens once, instead of wasting a tiny bit of electricity for computing the exact same thing for every visitor.
Very cool. Definitely deserves to get noticed by HN.
Scihub, though I can't find a functioning mirror right now.
I dunno, lunch was pretty well enforced at amazon. Go out and get food, come back and eat somewhere (conference room, kitchen area, outside, wherever). Took a full out each day.

Way worse where I am now, 25 minute lunch break. ugh.
Ocean acidification affects predator-prey response
Actually it's just a short drive away. https://www.facebook.com/CWUBiologyGreenhouse/photos/pcb.102...

Sure probably not the same bananas, but maybe one day it will be cheaper to grow in a local greenhouse or greenwall than to ship them from another hemisphere.
I generally agree with you, at least as far as i want all the machine-provided help i can get.

Programmers do not know what we're doing is a little harsh. People can get a lot done in python for example. As things grow, it gets tougher and tougher to do the right thing all the time. But there's certainly room for that quick, fluid interaction of a less constraining language.
Perhaps you're referring to Prof. Ken Birman, inventor of Paxos and slayer of CAP? I could barely contain myself at his recent MesosCon keynote[1,2].

[1] https://mesosconna2016.sched.org/event/6ljt/keynote-a-real-t...
[2] http://go.linuxfoundation.org/mesoscon-north-america-2016-vi...
I use NetSurf on a Raspberry Pi B regularly. Does the job unless you need JS.
Aren't you claiming that you don't need to terminate SSL?
Did you click "listen"? That's the content (this is a podcast after all) and it's 18 minutes long. The text is just a summary.
The startup that wanted to dethrone Craigslist is officially shutting down
The index "magically performs the swap" doing a calculation equivalent to selling at the rebalancing date the stocks that get out of the index (and buying those that replace them) at their price that day.
No an average HN page consumes less than 20MB on my computer. And you didn't tell us how much RAM TMZ.com is consuming, 165MB on my computer (a 4GB RAM , quad core N2940 laptop), so 8 times more RAM.
Wow. I don't think I've ever been on the front page of the washington post. Here's a headline up there now: 'Her shocking murder became the stuff of legend. But everyone got the story wrong.'
A Deep Dive into iOS 10 Messages Extensions
Translation: "Hope they keep doing this experiment until it matches my expectations!"
How to Compromise the Enterprise Endpoint – Symantec Norton
Banned from the mailing list, and from github.
> discussion of the weather comes up, I don't see that when folks talk about London tho.

Really‽ I'm from London, and pretty much everyone I meet makes some comment on the weather there.

I've had people insist to me that London is rainy and foggy for months on end. I think this comes from the usual depiction in cinema, which is pretty much opposite to the weather in TV series set in the countryside surrounding London. The reality is closer to the sunny weather, fog is very rare.
Good points and your comment and the other sibling comment definitely make the same valid argument. I got hung up on the phrase meta-analysis, which does seem to be misused, or at least not used in the typical sense (which as was noted in the post was brought up by a reviewer as a problem). It's not a meta-analysis of existing research, it's purely new research to present multiple replications attempts, all of which failed.
You probably need to go to Contacts and long-press on the proper number, and use "set as default" (or something similar) option.
Frankly speaking, I don't know what is pricing for IBM Datapower. Is it really only $1k per month?

I am pretty sure that it's a kind of good option for some enterprises. But most of our customer has high volume applications deployed in several datacenters, with CI/CD and DevOps approaches used. For them, hardware security boxes are almost impossible to use. What they are looking for is DevOps friendly tools that scale and orchestrated well with their application. That is why we're partners with NGINX to provide all the flexibility of our filter nodes.

Moreover, IBM thing will not help you to figure out security flaws in your apps and network perimeter. It will not provide you with details which of millions of malicious request you really need to care about as they are targeting existing security flaws.

I would like to get your feedback about this IBM product. Do you use for some time? It's not that popular among security community (at least, that part we usually talk with). If you give you access to test it, we'll show you some bypasses — unfortunately, there are dozens of them for almost all old-fashioned security solutions like this.
The Impact of US Politics and Brexit on News Apps
to howls of "VOTER SUPRESSION!"
The expense ratio for VFINX is 0.16%, compared to average yearly returns of 6%.

Over 30 years, that's the difference between 5.74x and 5.48x your starting capital. Noticeable, but insignificant compared to the taxes you'll pay.
Karta is a package I've been working on for a while now. Originally, it was intended to be a light-weight pure Python module for geospatial data, but it's gradually grown C and Cython extensions in the name of performance.

It doesn't wrap a large C library like Shapely or rasterio, but instead tries to be more general and provide the set of geographical objects and spatial algorithms that I would otherwise need to frequently reimplement.

Anyway, I'd be interested in getting some feedback on it. I use it pretty extensively in my own work, and would like to see it be useful for others.
Or you could make sure they're happy, and be willing to pay market rates for your talent. But that would indicate competition, and lord knows we can't have that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001859
But let's say our "gender-bias free" method leads a manager to hire 7 men and 3 women. This leads the manager to draw the conclusion that "My next hire is more likely to be a male than a female". The manager wants to acquire a good candidate pool as quickly as possible, so now he changes his mental search heuristic to favor male applicants, if he can discern their gender.

Haven't we just reinforced his bias further, now cemented by hard fact (and faulty reasoning)?

edit: missed a word
How Google is remaking iteself as a machine learning company
You're buying the same stuff on Amazon as you would buy from Wal-Mart and that's your fault. You dropped your phone so you go on Amazon and buy a new phone, but you could buy a new screen, and a tiny screwdriver too.

I think you're right about the need for real recycling, and consumerism is a debate worth having, but I don't see how fragmenting the marketplace works towards a solution.
You're not actually answering his question.
I can think of many reasons why folks would want to use a custom browser built on top of Chromium rather than Chrome. Take Opera for example - Adblock and VPN are two services that can live more efficiently deeper in the core versus the extension layer where they are on Chrome. And these are two services that Google does not want to promote any more than they have to in order not to shed users. Browser competition is great for the market, the last thing we want is to end up in an IE6 type situation (and yes it can happen to anybody, even Google).
No magic here :) Sure, we need to terminate SSL. Either before traffic is going to Wallarm proxy node, either by Wallarm Node itself.
> What if it works perfectly and you still end up hiring more men than women?

I think the idea is that the company can then say: but we used a gender-mask, so you can't blame us. A form of plausible deniability.
Flashback: Here’s what reviewers said about the original iPhone
Previous discussion of Clinton tech plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12001859
Massive Ransomware Attack Hits Millions of Microsoft Office 365 Users
If I was a billionaire, I would create a news site called "Who, What, Why, and How" that answered all four questions in detail for every news item. No opinion (Lord knows you can get that elsewhere), just sourced facts and original documents. Pointers to previous articles via a timeline in the sidebar.

Ahh, to dream.....
Conkeror (n.b. not Konkeror) is quite good too.
Conceptually? I'd say it can be tedious, if done by hand, but the concepts are pretty simple.
Someone off-topic but: Laws forbidding sexual and racial discrimination in hiring are a waste for everyone's time involved.

Do I really want to work alongside someone that "isn't racist" or sexist just because the law forbids it? No of course not. I'd rather work next to people that aren't racist and sexists regardless of if the law forbids it. I want to work at companies where people actually want me. How difficult is that to understand? =(

Most people want less racism/sexism. But this is not the way to do it. I'm in favor of removing this law and letting discriminators be upfront about it. So that I can knowingly avoid them without wasting hours and potentially years of my life.
Sure, but that's not another entity doing it, that's due to your own actions.
> Have you considered creating an FAQ?

For me, we have a FAQ, "man" pages, on-line web documentation, and documentation in the config files. There will always be some idiot who is incapable of reading any documentation.

My personal favorite is a debugging error messages which is something like:

Failed reading file X: no permissions. Please check that file X is owned by user U and writeable by group G"

People post such messages to the mailing list about once a month, asking "What does that mean?"

There is no good answer which will satisfy them. If you tell them that the message is self-explanatory, they get mad at you for not explaining it. If you ignore there messages, they re-post repeatedly, asking "Why doesn't anyone help me?"

There's a subset of people who just shouldn't be using software.
> we like to complain that almost all software is shit

People like to use hyperbole, but IME I've never met someone who thought all software was bad or equally bad. There is a very wide range of quality.
I believe you spelled "open source POSs" incorrectly. Also if you want an FIR filter go here and press the button. It provides the source code for you, too. This may be the most trivial algorithm in all of signal processing, which is why it's so frustrating to see somebody completely whiff on it and a bunch of HN amateurs upvote and defend it.

http://t-filter.engineerjs.com/
Why would you use electron for this instead of just modifying chromium?
You don´t get it.

Labelling dark skinned electron as experimental browser is bs.
US Govt. website for health data
After using Firefox for the first time in forever I noticed that I'm liking a lot of what Mozilla does to try to educate people on web development practices. I am curious as to how others find Rust to use in practice. Looking to augment my knowledge in Java with another language that's quite different.
I own many of his books. A highly recommended author.
The Third Wave is probably my favorite, especially in the way it accurate anticipates the information age, which in his opinion, begins with the invention of the barcode.
It's the same as any other compiler, just generate javascript out of the backend.
Biden threatens to defund universities that don’t publish cancer trial results
Warranty void if removed stickers are illegal
You are right, I didn't think the example through.

You are right, you can use tests to prove a function if
- the function has very limited arguments and
- the function is pure or does very limited amount of state change(side effect)

Generally speaking tests are not the right tool for proving program correctness.
Sure, I agree that the search tool is the best place to fix that problem. But when I'm encouraging external libraries to include IA materials, often they ask me to filter it first, because they can't do anything about how their search tools behave.
"Google, she said, uses “its dominant search engine to harm rivals of its Google Plus user review feature;”"

Maybe not the best example.
I understand your point, but there is inefficient vs. efficient use of resources. You could say it's ok to package a toothpick in a shoebox because cargo space is meant to be consumed.

When the ASCII text of a webpage is measured in tens of kilobytes, and the RAM in hundreds of megabytes, something is wrong.
>The Internet is a perfect example of having a lot of things that would be better off not existing in the first place.

I just can't agree with that. Sure, there are things like malware which shouldn't exist, but outside of that I just can't agree that something shouldn't exist because some don't like the business model (or the technology used).

>A static list like that should not need anything more than plain HTML/CSS and a little bit of JavaScript sprinkled on top to do the click effects.

It doesn't need more than that, but having more than that provides a lot of benefits. A nicer look and feel, a more "responsive" view in terms of massively changing UI depending on the screen size, inline search, a unique and pretty useful way of showing different possibilities of each phrase, etc... All while being very simple to make (which is an extremely important point for something like this).

I know many people don't like those things, but to dismiss them as "something very wrong with the industry" is incorrect in my view. People want eye-candy, and they want it instantly. If they can't get it through the web, they will get it through downloaded applications, or apps in closed app stores, or some other methods that we haven't even thought up yet. And blaming people for wanting it isn't the answer, nor is "fixing" it against their will.

Just like how you could make this website with plain html, then layer css and javascript on top to make it look nicer, you could make a package manager on linux that has 0 dependencies, then add python and perl to enhance it. But nobody has the time or money for that, and in the grand scheme of things it's not going to hurt anyone.

This is a website about voice commands that you can say to your phone, have them sent to google, analyzed, and a result sent back (which might go to a search page which uses more data than this whole site does). Building the website in the way you feel it should would not have improved live for many people at all, and it would have possibly made the author never want to make it in the first place.
The link is to NPR an "American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization"[1]. I cant think of many other media organization with more free content then NPR in the US.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
29°C is not a record heatwave for London, that's only 5°C higher than the average high for July.

"On average London will see 31 days above 25 °C each year, and 4.2 days above 30.0 °C every year."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London#Climate
The solution for that is to ban the person.
> P.S.

I expect this is a joke, but even if this were true, I don't think it'd be a valid 'validation of the point.'

Incidentally, "candidate" is not a subset of "date." It's from Latin candidatus, "white-robed." Date is ultimately from Latin datus/dare, "to give."
Why are you answering nature vs nurture with (I paraphrase) "100% nature and anyone who says otherwise is an irrational charlatan"? This debate is cliched at this point.

From the study you linked to:

"As suggested by previous literature and the present study, interests stabilize at an early age. Given the essential role of family and other environmental influences in the socialization process of children and their interest development, it may be important for parents, educators, and counselors to be involved early on, when interests seem more malleable."

i.e. the study accepts the theory that environment, family and in general socialization, contribute to a child's interests. This is the exact opposite of what you claim in your comment

"It is important to note that group differences do not speak for every individual within a group,and it is not the purpose of the present study to reify the stereo-types that men and women are interested in their “traditional”areas."

The study is talking about d < 1 effect sizes. That means that there is a still a significant part of the group that is more interested in a subject than a significant part of the other group. Think of two mostly overlapping normal curves.

"it is beyond the scope of the present study to provide a detailed exploration of the environmental, social, and biological factors that have contributed to the development of these sex differences"

The study makes no claim as to the cause of these sex differences. They only point out that there is a difference and suggest "environmental, social, and biological factors" as the cause. Again, the opposite of what you claim.
Yeah, there are shady techniques from companies offering cart abandonment solutions that do exactly that (e.g. VEInteractive). If you type in an email address and don't submit the form, they'll still send you chaser emails.

I think there are valid reasons to store incomplete form data, but I don't think it should be used for reasons the customer did not intend (e.g. receiving emails).
User-centred security awareness empowers employees to be the strongest defense
Actually, for startups with no or small revenue, we give a license free of charge.

If you need more than four nodes, the price is more than flexible. Also, we always try to understand better customer infrastructure and, case by case, give node free of charge at all—to cover all the customer's network perimeter. Don't want them to sacrifice part of the infrastructure because of stupid license/price limitations.
Only the naive believe something is "free"
Wouldn't it be possible to assume that by default, the user will be placed between both microphones? It would be less than ideal but just keeping the sound that hits both mics at the same time could be a nice default improvement.
>an endless stream of economists and social scientists posting exchange rates and share indexes and bad news

Except they are not representative of the truth. The elites are on damage control when they found out that their brainwashing didn't work. Share indexes are going up and will continue to rise for the UK and continue to fall for the rest of Europe. You did well. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
The supply of women with related degrees from uni is too low. If only 20% of the candidates qualified on paper are women, then a perfectly blind hiring process would result in 20% women. Expecting something else implies some fundamental misunderstanding of math.
> For it to be a golden ticket, someone has to hire them at a good salary. If the person went to 4th rate school and has no skills to compete in the job market, it's not really a golden ticket and not a drain on the economy as they don't qualify for a lot of things.

Right. The danger is not a flood of bozos, because a green card is no guarantee of a high salary job. The actual problem is that as soon as a U.S. degree comes with a green card, the schools in America will jack up the tuition for foreign students.

Two ways to solve this: we could offer the same deal for foreign schools, or require U.S. schools to charge the same tuition and fees to both foreign and domestic students.
There's a point in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c where I realized he is a brilliant comedian, but also pretty far left, and a lot of his funny criticisms just boil down to criticizing for not being as far left as he is or wants you to be. So I don't think his mind is being poisoned -- it's already poisoned, from the point of view of someone not as far left. ;)

I think a lot of tech people lean libertarian, which is a strange double-think ground of left and right views, because the role of a technologist has inherently anti-left and anti-right components. Technology is upstream of culture, upstream of society, to work on it implies defying authority whether in the form of a single sovereign or public opinion. While much of the world is still the same, much has been remade according to man's desire, through technology, and there is still much more to be remade. And often not a collective mankind, but an individual, often male, or a small group of individuals, often male. That kind of influence is inherently anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, but anti-authoritarian as it is highly individualistic. Yet its benefits can be made private (until someone else figures out how to do the same, anyway) or open to all according to the whim of the creator, because it's fundamentally just knowledge that once derived can be shared endlessly.

The comments about techies not going out of their domain to try and solve things is just nonsense, as cross domain work happens all the time. Applied technology is often the catalyst (and money source) that brings multiple disciplines together who otherwise would be perfectly content sitting around in academia pursuing their narrow focuses for all time (this isn't to say that such narrow pursuing can't bring great fruits). Ok, it's not the only catalyst, and maybe a lot of technologists have that habit and viewpoint of being able to do better than narrow field experts, but either they succeed and are shown to be right all along that they didn't need outside help, or they are wrong, and they fail, or they change their minds as they realize they're failing and study up and get consultants. I don't know anything about Google's anti-aging prospects but if they aren't already in contact with Aubrey DeGrey and the other biologists and doctors he's in contact with they soon will be once they realize how hard the problem is.
I'd like to offer you the chance to buy one of my personal rock collection for $15m. As my rock collection contains only 5 rocks, this offer represents 1/5 of the total number available worldwide. This is a chance to get in on the ground floor of something big!