skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There used to be a comedian (can't remember who) who joked "All those people who ate right, exercised, and got plenty of sleep are gonna be awful embarrassed when they die of nothing."

People believe this kind of stuff on an emotional level because they can't face their own mortality. I have a theory this is why we're so interested in how other people die. It's so we can disconnect other people's deaths with our own - "I don't have to worry about dying that way because I eat plenty of vegetables/don't smoke/don't drink/don't associate with violent people and therefore I don't have to think about dying."
Reaching a human being is a common problem with all Internet businesses. I've had similar frustrations with Google competitors. As an industry, we have to do much better with customer service. Our users are real human beings.
What if you've compressed a life's worth of tea drinking into just a few short years and they don't have anything new?
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People who become homeowners aren't buying condos analogous to their current apartments, they're buying (comparatively) enormous houses with front and back yards and 2-car garages. This is not just trying to recover sunk costs, this is a substantial upgrade in consumption.

Also, remember that interest is front-loaded in the amortization schedule, and that disappears into the void same as rent. You can pay your mortgage for a long time without building substantial equity.
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Show HN: Ohne I/O, a Python 3.4+ coroutine library without any I/O
Right, I'm not saying hosted solutions are never the answer, they are just less often the answer than people seem to think. Too many people buy into the cloud-hype, and never look at the numbers until it's too late.

And that doesn't even touch the trust you have to have in your provider.

And I love virtual more than physical. But I set up my own virtual server and run them myself.
I'm 26 and I almost nearly don't care and can't relate to half the things the article said. According to (unscientific) Myer's Briggs, I am very strongly introverted, however.
Linux's abstract namespace for Unix domain sockets
building services on Google Cloud that could also be ported to AWS or Azure or Docker or private servers is incredibly easy.

Google Cloud in many cases is nearly free, or very cheap... use them while you can, flip the switch and tell the world if they screw you over.

using Google App Engine, Cloud SQL, and the built in Memcache services costs a few dollars a month. using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with RDS and ElastiCache can cost upwards of $40/month. Both of these services are meant to scale, and the costs scale as well.

If you're building your business spending more money than you need to, you're building your business to arbitrarily go bankrupt.
GitLab keeps surprising me with the consistency and quality of their releases. They are really putting GitHub on the spot at the moment and I for one love the competition in this space
Agreed, but even rules aren't followed. If you go anywhere in the summer in New England you'll find people in shorts (even in upper class areas). In NYC this summer I feel bad for the finance people who probably suffered from a heat stroke while wearing a suit during our hottest days.

People online will make up rules like "men who wear this are children!" which are never based in reality. And to keep on topic, I'm sure they too stop caring by age 40 :-)
> Putting 100 million into play on a position is completely different than 10k.

True. But it's also true that in order to make living from profit of 10K investments you have to make 300% as retail investor, not 30% as institutional investor.

I.e. you may be compensated to choose alternative strategies, but as disadvantage you have to have much higher ROI than institutional investor.

And as you will pursue to make your 300%, you will take significantly more risks.
the author recognized one problem (hairball perl left undocumented by previous coworker) but replaced it with another problem (overly complex and needlessly configurable java)

what the author replaced was a classic "first system"...but he created a classic "second system".

I wish people would just realize that the best route is to solve the problem at hand...and JUST the problem at hand, with the smallest and simplest codebase possible....these tend to be the near-optimal "third systems" that eventually emerge.
Certainly if you go outside the US there are. Supposedly Stiftskeller in Salzburg was established in 803. Yeah, over a thousand years earlier.

http://www.stpeter-stiftskeller.at/en/the-restaurant.html
Did not read the article; but is anyone looking at the kooky square-wave action on SPY and DIA today? I'm totally hopping on to the next 60m cycle! Can't lose.

Or... maybe not
Conjecture: this is done via automated scripts that check for vulnerabilities and then execute the appropriate exploits on them, a la Metasploit. It's a comprehensive binary (or a few of them) that is supposed to be deleted when the work is done. :P
My uncle Guus has been playing viola with an orchestra in the Netherlands for many, many years; he gave me a great way to describe some of this:

> When I was young, and my beard was not this gray, and someone at the orchestra was angry with me—could be personal, professional—I would ask myself "what's wrong with me, how do I fix myself?" But I have noticed that now that I am older, and my beard is very gray, when someone is angry with me, I wonder, "what's wrong with him?"—and I don't try to fix anyone.
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Don't neglect your education so much. Test scores will only get you so far.
That's my typical piece of advice for "younger" folks looking to find themselves. You don't find yourself by trying to conform with what everyone else is saying and doing. You find yourself by taking those things that are "weird" about you and owning them.
Google Cloud publishes a Root Cause analysis after technical incidents. I wonder if this non-technical incident is worthy of a root cause analysis. As a potential customer, I know I'd feel more comfortable seeing this organizational "bug" fixed.
There should be integration tests for documentation.
Maybe some machine learning could be applied to that?
Maybe I should set that up on some cloud service.
Let me check the documentation for how to do that...
If there's no evidence that beating the market depends on any particular skill, that would seem to be saying it's essentially a matter of chance. If that is the case then it stands to reason that, as the period of time observed grows longer, it becomes less and less likely for anyone to beat the market.
Eh, I agree it's kind of a strange choice of words, but you don't really expect people to want to spend more time with somebody who doesn't provide any value? Just being pleasant company is useful and has value.
If every leader flies in on the world's least fuel-efficient plane, alone, and the conference is heated by a giant coal bonfire, and they adopt rules that improve CO2 emissions by 0.0001%, it's a big win for the human race.

It's like complaining that you should never invest your money, because it costs money to drive to the bank to deposit it.
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Great to hear and thanks for the work you're putting in to support GitLab for Danger. The other day a colleague said "DANGER IS AWESOME".
Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat
Power is only meaningful to the degree that it gives you independence. Power means nothing except as an escape from powerlessness. It's like money: money can't buy you happiness, but poverty can buy you sadness. Power can't make you happy, but being powerless and forced to do spend your life doing things you don't want to do can make you sad.

Mediocrity comes from seeing money and power as ends in themselves, rather than as mere escapes from poverty and powerlessness. Happiness and independence enable personal growth and achievement. Those are the only things that matter, not somebody's ability to make someone else do something that they don't want to do. If all you care about is acquiring the ability to make other people spend their time doing things they don't want to do, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm sorry if you don't think you are capable of creating great things on your own if given the opportunity, but you almost certainly are.
Because love should be compartmentalized, and falling in love (or even love at first sight) with a coworker should be shunned, right?

This kind of thinking would have killed millions of succesful marriages and/or long term relationships. Not to mention tons of steamy short term relationships.

Besides, after a certain age, that there are "enough women in the world" doesn't say much. After university, the place people most tend to socialize and meet other people is work -- in fact there was an article about this very fact this week on HN.
LOL I didn't mean to imply that they only come from romantically driven situations. Of course we've all had them at some point or another whether it be with someone we are attracted to or not. But the point is, right at the beginning there's nothing been invested yet. The risk isn't anywhere near as great as we hype it up to be in our own mind. We didn't know this person an hour, a day or a week ago, they had no bearing on our life prior to that, yet we drum it up to be this huge event in our mind that realistically, even if we get shot out of the sky in a flaming wreck, is it really that big a deal... after all, they had zero consequence in our life such a tiny piece of our life ago, what's the difference if they go back to being such a tiny piece of our life 10 minutes from now?...

The converse is also true though, there's a much greater risk for not taking the leap given a). the amount invested (lack of it) so far and b). the real risk of them saying no (I mean if they say no, then what?). What if this person is the key that unlocks the meaning of life for me and I don't take this leap? Admittedly they're probably not but weighing these risks against each other, it would appear more foolish not to ask than to ask. If you don't ask, or you ask and they say no, you're exactly at the same position you are now (except your ego is a little bruised, but that'll recover). If you don't ask, you'll spare your ego potential embarrassment but you'll always be stuck where you are.
> How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself

However, the hard truth is that both evolution and capitalism don't care about mediocre people, and whether or not they are happy with themselves.

I think that's a missed point.
There are borrowing costs with shorting, but you usually don't go long on shorting stocks its more of short term thing. In that case borrowing costs are not too bad.
Notional values can not be usefully compared between asset classes. That's why it's so dumb that people keep reporting them in the media. Comparing $1T of CDS to $493T of derivatives is like comparing Fahrenheit numbers to Celsius numbers. Comparing either of those to GDP is like comparing Fahrenheit and Calories.
Is be very happy with "all on" and a temperature knob. I have no idea what half the settings are. "Eco"? Really? I should probably read the manual.
I think it's a usual tendency of NNs to produce output that looks meaningful to non-experts, yet is complete gibberish to experts. At a PLDI2016 keynote, the presenter gave this example from running an RNN on all PLDI submissions:

"We present a convenient alias analysis that attains a number of queries in a typedef style." (fuller context, with the surrounding sentences being more bizarre may be found here: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/PLDI2016-keynote-final-zorn....).
So, if you believe in this sort of analysis at all, why doesn't the individual retail trader do "week trading" or "month trading" where the effects of machine trading may be smaller?

(Disclaimer: I'm a "buy and hold" guy. Of broad-based mutual funds. And I beat 80% of day traders...)
And probably more focused on the toilet[0].

[0] http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e35/13269334_17...
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Personally I really value comments like this and therefore feel the need to point out that the statement "Our team mission is to Reduce Customer Anxiety." seems like a bullet point for a status meeting and likely does not convey the desired effect of such a post: to have a somewhat personal response from a normally faceless company.
That's pretty badass.

Does someone know what the name is of the song used in the video? It sounds familiar, but I can't come up with the name.
BTW The Black Swan book sucks!
>Right. So if there is a backdoor, they won't commit the code to a repo, but write it from scratch every time FBI calls them.

Ethics aside, this seems like a very lucrative gig for software companies that bill by the hour
Thanks - you are right about the IQueryable/IEnumerable distinction - it's been a long time since I worked with C#. I think it is somewhat unfortunate that IQueryable is a subtype of IEnumerable because the semantics are so different and one can be so easily coerced into the other.

For an alternative example of limitations induced by lack of higher-kinded type abstraction, imagine implementing an Option/Maybe type [1] in C# and piggybacking on LINQ. Under the LINQ API, if you try to do anything with an instance of your Option/Maybe, its static type gets obliterated into an IEnumerable, which destroys the semantics. (The fact that the thing is an Option/Maybe and not, say, a list of things, is important for reasoning about, building, and abstracting over things.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type
> That’s right, those hours of labouring away with long division et al. really did have no hidden use.

Except using it on polynomials
I guess it depends where you live... here in NYC obviously there are plenty of places that make coffee better than me. In many areas people only have Starbucks though (which I can handle without acting like a snob, fortunately).
Signed updates aren't secure either. Ask Microsoft.
I bet you do mind, specially if they ask you to do these on the whiteboard. What we do has nothing to do with basic CS questions... unless you have a very unique job.
It can be done conversational if you know how to conduct an interview. Unfortunately, this is a skill that most programmers lack.
best way is to pair program on a real world problem. Get your candidate to pair on fixing a bug on your system.
May be the next medical breakthrough is really going to be TODO lists.

Which reminds me of Lotus Notes. 20 years ago it widely used to automate workflows. But I haven't seen anything similar widely used since.
I work in Wichita, KS and could easily get a house in the country with <30 minute commute. Software developer jobs are everywhere. You just have to be willing to trade some job mobility.. I probably wouldn't be able to immediately find another job here working with C++ at the same level of hardware.
Some of them had minimum age limits or forbade children living there.

Pretty sure the Fair Housing Act would like to have a word with the landlords ("55 and older" communities excepted).

Some places child services will take kids away if they share a bedroom with parents

I'm pulling the [citation needed] card on this one.

That's not to say that renting, in whatever form, doesn't have its issues. I simply think that some of the issues you raised aren't real.
>very generous green courtyard space that let kids roam around and play

I don't know why this isn't more common. Designs that maximize surface area for windows lend themselves to courtyards naturally. I particularly love the buildings with apartments on 3 sides and a fence/gate facing the street - you get both a nice community area, and an extra security layer (buzzers at both the front gate and the particular stairwell).
Yeah.
I didn't get what the big deal was about it until I read the 30 second and turns he mentioned in his explanation.
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Making sure a message doesn't contain identifying words/phrases/idioms/slang and making sure it cannot identify you through statistical analysis are not steganography and both are things I would expect any security expert (you know, like the people working for the NSA) to do if they want any hope of remaining anonymous.
> One thing I'd like to see explained is the location of "Programs" at the top of the Start menu, rather than right at the bottom where it would be closer and less mouse movement.

If you move the taskbar to the left or top, this problem is dealt with. (As is the problem that later versions of windows -- before they got rid of it altogether -- moved "Programs" below the dynamically-added links to things that Windows thinks you are more likely to use, which keeps those more-likely things farther from the start button if you keep the taskbar at the bottom.)

I wonder if the taskbar was originally planned for one of those two (top/left) locations, but got moved to the bottom later.
My understanding is that Portland and Seattle have effectively the same cost of living thanks to the same boom in Cascadian urban real estate prices. Seattle is building, though, so it's possible that its costs will level off or at least grow more gradually.
Cancer risk is influenced by diet and exercise. You may not believe that it matters, but quite a bit of excellent scientific research disagrees with you.

But you can never lower your risk to zero; there's always a chance. So given enough individuals there are always some with "perfect" lifestyle choices that still get cancer.
Pretty costly for me in India, I'll pass and feel curious.
Palo Alto is in serious trouble - little (new) housing stock, tremendous affordability issues, no zoning reform, most housing projects rejected... The city is bleeding human capital at an astonishing rate - and not just teachers and fire fighters, even those earning high salaries such as techies and attorneys struggle to afford to live here. The response ... "move some place cheaper", "don't buy expensive lattes and you'll be able to afford a home here some day", "your generation is entitled", "we have too much traffic already", "stop the jobs", "it's Palantir's fault"...

What do you say to this? Young people in Palo Alto and renters are subsidizing existing residents. By heavily restricting housing supply residents have built an investment machine. Foreign-owned "ghost houses" are a testament to that.

Questions: Can anything be done to build more housing in Palo Alto? Should we do it? Does Palo Alto care? And at the end - is Palo Alto even worth it? Maybe we all should move away...
"The cloud" only works when there is unlimited high speed broadband available everywhere. That's not even remotely close to being reality, and so long as the ISPs in the US are allowed to continue down their current path, it will never be reality.
This is the reason I keep "Block third-party cookies and site data" option checked in Chrome.
I already use javascript, c, c++, PHP, python, ruby, css, less, sass, jade, sql, etc for my daily work. However I do avoid java/tomcat and .net ecosystem, they're either too heavy, or not my favorite ecosystem. My comments are simply a reminder for those in the same boat so that they can save some time.

Are you going to pick up _all_ kinds of tools from a store? I do have my preferences there.
Fair enough. My objection was that the OP implies this is a passable substitute, but okay, in the larger context it's clearly a joke.
Theory 1: "Arsenic" spent $3500 to lose an auction for a $180 tablet.

Theory 2: "Arsenic" laundered $3500.

I'd wager a penny it's #2.
There are older restaurants, but for example, Cafe Procope in Paris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Café_Procope) was opened in 1686, and is still in operation. It was worth it for me to eat at a place where (for example) Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin ate.
That's biting off way too much. You have to realize the scope of the actual problem "making humans understand something they previously do not understand". If you can do that you might as well apply it to fixing education instead.
I'm not going to wait for legislation to fix problems I can fix myself. You don't want this to happen? Make sure you have ad-blocking and third party tracker blocking on. I go a step further and use 'Quick JS Switcher' for chrome. By default JS is off and I only turn it on for sites I want. The percentage of sites that I turn it on for is minuscule. I'm seriously starting to question why this isn't the default setup for any freshly downloaded browser.
Title is misleading, it implies that Chicago pays women less for the same job. Quote from the article:

> In conclusion, it’s true that the gender pay gap exists, and that on average, women make less money than men. However, the claims that it proves gender inequality are false because women are simply doing different kinds of jobs.
So it's an ETL library? Useful, but there are dozens (if not hundreds?) of free and commercial libraries, services, etc that do the same thing.

Hell, some companies (Teradata, Informatica) have built their entire business on this. Of course, their solutions are far more complex and scalable, but this is definitely not a new problem (or solution).
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> Applebaum might've been an epic plagiarist

What are the plagiarism charges against him? I'm only aware of the sexual harassment/assault/rape allegations.
I don't know much about the medical field, so excuse my ignorance in this, but couldn't we train Pathologists on the same data we train ANNs on? That way we could establish similar speed in feedback loops.
> What happens if the banks don't meet their collateral requirements?

That's equivalent to a default on the contract. It'll end up in a legal settlement whereby the currently posted collateral, if any, will be used in the settlement.

The general idea with collateral is to ensure that, if one or other counterparty defaults, the net loss for the non-defaulter is kept relatively small.

BTW the regulation change that this article refers to is really just a change in how certain collateral balances are calculated. It's a pain for the banks as there are lots of regulators who don't really agree and keep changing their minds. Also, you now have to "show your working" more or you get hit with a punitive charge. It's not conceptually hard but requires a lot of coordination both inside the banks and between the banks and regulators.
We've designed Fr8 to facilitate that. You can run both Fr8 Hubs and Terminals on your own network, and you can connect you local Fr8 Hub to whichever public Fr8 Terminals you want. For example, you might have a local Hub and a local Terminal that's integrated with your proprietary code/systems, but also opt to connect to public Terminals for Salesforce.com and Slack.
Never been there but as soon as I read the title of the post I knew (and confirmed reading the story):

Bugs Bunny: Of course, if you really want to make something good, nothing beats a good old Louisiana Back-bay Bayou Bunny Bordelaise, a la Antoine.

Francois: A la Antoine? ZE Antoine of New Orleans?

Bugs Bunny: I don't mean Antoine of Flatbush.
I'm stunned that this would be legal

It hasn't been since 1988. You can no more refuse to rent to someone with children than you can someone who is black.
Being memory safe (and here we implicitly assume the compiler ecosystem is behaving as intended) does not guarantee the code is generally safe.
What they're _planning_ is not relevant. What matters is whether they're competent enough to keep such keys secure. (Such as by not allowing malicious actors to get copies of them.)

What is relevant is that they are demonstrably _not_ competent.
Ofcourse. From the Deadpool movie, I remember now. Thanks :)
Condos are generally much smaller than houses, so if they weren't cheaper something would be deeply wrong.