skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I see something like this, assume they mean "from scratch", read a little way down the README and it says "The following labs assume you have a working Google Cloud Platform account and a recent version of the Google Cloud SDK (116.0.0+) installed."

The irony.
Though now that he points it out, it seems like the path of Berlusconi is rather well explained by the "Emperor's New Clothes".
It's not just mixed economies:

https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
OK, so how do we do this? Is there a candidate I have to vote for, or a fund I have to finance? Let's kill all the mosquitoes already.

> Given the fact that species transmits so many dangerous pathogens it’s very unfortunate for humans that they are such great survivors, and have been rapidly expanding their range during the last couple of decades... Aedes albopictus is now considered to be one of the 100 world’s worst invasive species...

http://planetsave.com/2013/07/01/tiger-mosquito-asian-tiger-...

> The Asian tiger mosquito is about 2 to 10 mm length with a striking white and black pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus

Oh, and also the gallinippers are worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9nxljtI6I
The answer is slate.com, clearly.
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Yup.

And to put my biases on the table, I believe this is where the climate change disaster is heading. Nobody, and I mean really nobody, with any scientific training believes that humans can control the climate (yes we affect the climate but we don't yet have any way of telling it to do one thing or another). Further, our models for the ways we are affecting the climate indicate that massive changes in the way water is distributed across the country are inevitable (see this article as another example of that).

As a result we will either decide to spend the money and apply our technology to mitigating the impact of climate change on the humans, or we may (some consider it likely) experience a massive die off of humans. (which oddly some people are hoping for, they don't think it will be them. See the preppers in Montana for example)

There are many ways to create the GDP for this, one would be to employ the under employed[1]. We could allocate two trillion dollars over the next 5 years and put 10M young people to work. Or we could spend the two trillion dollars like we did over the last 5 years, adventuring in the middle east.[2] Personally, I would prefer fighting a war we can win, we understand how to survive climate change.

[1] "From April to July 2016, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old increased by
1.9 million to 20.5 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This
year, 53.2 percent of young people were employed in July, little changed from a year
earlier. (The month of July typically is the summertime peak in youth employment.)
Unemployment among youth rose by 611,000 from April to July 2016, compared with an
increase of 654,000 for the same period in 2015. (Because this analysis focuses on the
seasonal changes in youth employment and unemployment that occur each spring and summer,
the data are not seasonally adjusted.)" -- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/youth.nr0.htm

[2] http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic
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Basically, the market is a good deal less liquid than it should be. This has a surprising number of nasty side-effects.
I like namedtuples, but attrs looks so wrong to me.
Ah yes bringing back memories of expertsexchange.com

I'm so happy Stack Overflow won that battle.
As an early teen when I first read your words ~25 years ago, I immediately related. Even more so a few years later when I was kicked out of my high school computer classes, banned from touching the computers, and then when the FBI showed up at my home (unrelated).

All these years later, it feels odd to see this here, read your comment, and write a reply. Your words served as "inspiration" to probably thousands of youth. I hope you're doing well.
I've always known it was common for programmers to come from many backgrounds. I've even been trying to re-break into it. I have a BS in math and a lot of training toward a master's in economics. This comment was the labor economics in me talking and also frustration because I'm not there. I could delete the comment or leave it as food for thought.
Again, I wouldn't be philosophical about "When modifying or removing work that humans did, I'm much more hesitant."

If a robotic system can demonstrate some high bar of precision in modifying human updates, then let the edits happen. If a human mapped a road, then that road changed places or perhaps changed from being two-way to one-way and a robot can detect that reliably, let the robot edit.

That said, I don't think "robots changing human edits" is where the robots shine. Most human edits will be good, unless the data later changes. I agree that the low hanging fruit is 1) mapping new features, 2) cleaning up imports like TIGER, 3) providing "lint" type tools to give human editors feedback if their new edit might be wrong.
Most errands involving cars primarily involve transporting people, who are usually more than capable of getting into cars by themselves. In fact, that's the whole point of Uber's business model.

If I can send my car out without having to drive it myself, I'll use it for things things like picking up kids. Take my spouse to work, drive back home, take me to work at a different time, repeat.

Right now many families buy two cars, often not because they need to drive both of them at exactly the same time, but because they need to use them in different places. If you can send the car between locations then you can use one car, and the cost is that the car spends time on the road, making someone else's commute worse.

Again, this is Uber's entire business model, and if they're successful at getting everyone to use ride-sharing, regardless of self-driving cars, then we will trade a bunch of parking spaces for more cars on the road. It's literally how Uber works.

In addition, if your car can drive itself places, whole new business models will spring up around things like delivery of food, packages, etc. Businesses will be happy to start providing you the service of putting stuff in your trunk.

Yes, I'm guessing that the arrival of self driving cars coincides with electric drive becoming commonplace. They could even go hand in hand: send the car back home to charge, then have it pick us up later.

All of these things reduce the incremental cost of having your car on the road, which will drastically increase traffic.
Is it possible that mosquitoes spread beneficial pathogens among humans, in addition to the deadly pathogens they are known for? The concept of overprotective parents preventing their children from building their immune system comes to mind.
Does anyone know what they'll do with Google Apps Marketplace[1]?

It's currently piggy-backing on the Chrome App Store (only for the listing/entry, they are otherwise different).

[1] https://apps.google.com/marketplace/?hl=en
Extensive discussion of the webcam issue here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12322514

which includes a link to the currently submitted article.
Thank you for your feedback. I will work on providing that.
What about self driving public transit?;)
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Remember its also the people in Louisiana who would rather not be up to their arm pits in water at home this week. Or the folks in Texas who 5 years ago worried about dying cattle herds and now worry about drowning them.[1]

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/06/09/412236562/texas-cattle-rancher...
Those are just restricted-boot CPU's, not secure CPU's. I agree secure CPU's will make attacks more difficult. Here's you a few examples of them with various tradeoffs:

http://www.crash-safe.org/assets/ieee-hst-2013-paper.pdf

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

https://web.archive.org/web/20150315020829/http://palms.ee.p...

https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10112006-2048...

Original one that ran businesses which is still immune to lots of attacks vectors and reliability issues:

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr...

So, spread word on things like those, esp CHERI given FreeBSD support, instead of that DRM garbage that uses the word security but is more about marketing & control. ;)
This would basically be all kinds of drama. You also could not trust the feedback. Some people will down vote for terrible reasons, like a personal grudge. They would not be honest about that.

Also, some down votes are a miss-click. It is now possible to unvote, but that is recent and not everyone will notice if they fat fingered something.

I suggest you give more of your attention to the positive interactions. It is possible to make that choice.
namedtuple is a reasonable way to define a new value type in python. unfortunately the very easy way to define a new type in python is to use `class`, which brings with it a bunch of behaviour that you often don't want or need: comparison by identity rather than comparison by equality, no default support for repr, no default support for ordering, mutability, support for inheritance, etc

that said, writing generic code that works transparently with both namedtuple values and objects can be a bit irritating: e.g. you might want to derive a new value/object from an existing value/object that updates one of the attributes of the value/object.
When you have a 'wouldnt it be cool if there was an app' idea, write it down. I use something like trello to collect ideas. Then i'll see if an idea is feasible and discard or move forward with it, for e.g. Can I develop something useful on my own, what are the competitor options like, what data do I need to make this work.

If you feel like you can make something useful start working on it, day, night, whenever, wherever. You only have so much time outside of work hours so make them count. I have a few apps, most just 'exist' but one of them is now earning $12K/month.

I work extremely hard on ASO and invest my own money into marketing through normal channels (facebook/adwords).

I quit my job so I can just focus on my apps now. Im my own boss, I can push out updates fast and I manage my own support. Finally moving out of the city now to the coast, to a place much quieter with great views. People might say i'm lucky but I don't. I had an idea and I built it well, i'll never say its luck.
I've followed this case closely and those lawyers deserve to be rewarded for pursuing such a public good. In a time and age where Copyright is ridiculously abused, this is, to me, one of the best kind of battles. Music industry lawyers are, in my perspective, some of the best at their profession - a victory against them is a good indication that there are merits in exposing fraud of this type.

Happy Birthday, Dimebag Darrell. He would've turned 50 today.
> It does no such thing. Market makers prefer not to interact with people that have a directional view as they may move the market. If a market maker gets caught with inventory and the price is moving they will lose money.

Are you claiming this doesn't impact the profitability of those people with directional views?
No I don't think that the joke went over very well.
This all makes me laugh, and cry at the same time.
It makes me laugh because everyone wants to run k8s for no real reason, they havent got scale, traffic or many woes. Please just run some vms, CM, unattended upgrades, capistrano and packer.
Mostly the loose reasoning is 'simplicity', and its the new shiny. This is perceived by people thinking that deployment, service discovery, config etc. is provided for free in kubernetes, and one boot script will solve all. On top, everyone thinks its trivial to operate this, maintain it, and no one understands what 'production ready is'. I almost think people think it replaces ops, but it does the opposite.

It makes me cry because, running k8s is hard, ops is hard, and so is telling people they might be wrong. K8s consists of half a dozen components, they have dozens of config flags, and much functionality is buggy, in beta, or flux. To top this off k8s is based on etcd. Etcd is barely production ready by their own admissions (remember /production.md in github?) but if you have run it you will understand the bugs, and vague docs coupled with reading the source constantly when problems arise. K8s consists of many components, kubelet, proxy, controller, scheduler and more. These you have to install and configure, and many scripts do this badly in a one size fits all approach, and many CM methods do this barely in an ok manner currently. I cry, because of overlay networking too, its a nightmare, and the alternative cloud permissions are scary.
I'm happy to see marcoceppi mentioning juju here - i'm one of the enablers of juju big data.

We've worked really hard to make it simple to stand up hadoop on clouds, containers, and metal (https://jujucharms.com/hadoop-processing/). Juju brings the modeling, Bigtop brings the core apps. Scaling, observing, and integrating are old news; HA is landing now; your post and others like it have put security on our -next radar.

Having read a few kdc/hdfs stories, i think i'm going to miss the days when dfs.permissions.enabled was good enough ;)
After thinking some more...

Maybe Play Store for Windows and Play Store for OS X will launch real soon... as Play Store for Chrome.

In Chrome OS they're currently adding the Play Store to select hardware including x86 laptops using ... "container" technology.

In Chrome OS these apps will start to stop being available in about a year.

In Chrome on Windows and Mac they are losing access to these apps, the vast vast vast majority of users, they start losing access almost immediately and completely lose access before this year ends.

So I guess Android will be a small device OS.

Chrome-as-Android will be the tablet/desktop/laptop OS.

And if Google's bet pays off Windows and OS X will be an MS-D...OS.
> centralization also results in severely less optimal results because the information and experience available to central planners is substantially less then information available to individual actors.

This is a throwaway generalisation. A simple counter-example is pollution, where significant improvements come from centralised actions (watchdog agencies and regulation) because individuals either don't know or don't care about their contributions.
Wealthy people benefit at every step of the legal process. If the sec did this, had bonuses being used to pay fines, people would buy insurance against it, and the insurers would pay it if and when it happened. Maybe that would be helpful as insurers would want to do due diligence.

But I'm not at all sure that's a solution.
Do you know what "ponce" means? It means an effeminate man.

So a woman who might be wanting to start a family has the audacity to bring insect repellent with her to Brazil, and she deserves to be harassed by thousands of soccer fans (and mocked by a HN user)?
Netflix shows are all on torrent sites anyway. I'm not sure they would actually lose anything if they dropped the DRM.
I was asked this in an interview. This is essentially the answer I gave. :)
> Furthermore, where do you draw the line? We are very close to eradicating the polio virus. Do we know ALL the consequences of doing so? No. Does that mean we should stop? No. We have, at some point, decided that it causes an immense amount of human suffering and decided to eradicate it. Same with certain species of mosquitoes.

It reminds me of the Trolley Problem with the exception that you can't be completely sure what the lever does:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Basically, the easy option is to do nothing, avoid responsibility and potentially have the worst outcome happen that you could have prevented.
Websites with hardware access? what could possibly go wrong?

Browsers already are a overly complex security nightmare. Moreover the recent example of this stupid but rather simple battery API has shown us several, some more and some less obvious ways of how it can be abused. But sure Google will implement WebUSB and all sort of other shit they may imagine, the others will follow as always. In the end the browser will finally be the OS in your OS but worse and with a huge attack surface.
Same misleading graph as always. He says he's trying to give people an idea what exponential growth is like, but he puts this totally misleading kink in it just past where we're supposed to be now. I despise that "graph" and the manipulativeness behind it.
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I don't know about the companies you mentioned but if I were you I'd choose Sears because of the 50% higher pay.

50% is a lot.

Once you "unlock" the Sears salary you will most likely never go down from there. So in a couple of years you can go somewhere even better with an even higher salary, that's valuable.

Where as if you settle with the Deloitte salary in a couple of years you might land up somewhere else with a close-to-Sears salary, it seems like it would set you back.

One thing you could do is to tell Deloitte that you have this other offer in your hands, you are keen on Deloitte but you can't accept their offer with that salary.

If they at least match it you might get the best of both worlds.
Face pics?
If there's only one engine then that's 236 mN thrust according to your [1]. Lets call it 4.12 N - put a few thrusters on or improve the technology.

The station mass is 419,455 kg. F = ma so the acceleration is 1 µ G.

It will take a very long time to get to Mars that way.
Truck drivers are also professional drivers. They don't want to get in a wreck any more than you do. I'd trust a random truck driver to be much wiser in their use of autopilot than a random driver.

Furthermore, those trucks are expensive. Tacking on an extra $10,000 to a family sedan for sensors and electronics is huge. It's not so extreme when you're paying $100,000 for a base truck.

And finally, those fleet vehicles have regular inspections and maintenance. Everything works great when it's all shiny and new. It'll be interesting to see what happens to autopilots on cars that don't even get regular oil changes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12322514
How about a nice game of chess, Joshua?
There's been research in other fields, at least, not that much in software sadly. See end of http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons for references.
Housing is an exception to this. For housing, the primary barriers to affordability are land being finite and zoning regulations that limit density.
There's somewhere around 60 million kids in the US alone. Picking them up and dropping them off from school, soccer practice, ukulele lessons, birthday parties, etc. is a large amount of time as a parent. Ask anyone with kids if they'd buy a car that would take their kids to dance rehearsals on its own.

People will love these things, and they'll want to use them all the time, and the traffic will be horrendous.
Oh, my! Thank you for the correction. I didn't realize that we also put one into orbit.
Why does this feel like they are just giving the finger to ChromeOS users?

So basically, we have an OS that will only run chrome apps, and they are removing the ability to create chrome apps.

I'd be more okay with this if they gave ChromeOS the ability to install and run an .apk.

Does no one see a problem with this?
I can't imagine how the DoD could clean up it's books. There have been long standing complaints that the military uses non-standard accounting software. Combine that with a lack of historical knowledge as personnel rotate in and out within 3 years or so and frankly disincentives aligned against the effort at every level and you have a massive project on your hands to get the right data. I'd have to imagine it would be a 5-10 year project
The answer, I think, is that the majority aren't engineering firms but are led by sales.
The reason is that the medicine might be worse than the cure. I don't like fraudulent accounting and securities fraud, so I'm glad we have the Sarbanes-Oxley law which helps to prevent it. However, SOX now makes being a public company more expensive and complicated, thus a lot of private companies decide they don't want to be public. This created new problems, for example billion dollar companies that choose to remain private.

I don't support companies being "shady". I wouldn't work for a company that didn't give me all the information I needed to evaluate any stock options. However, unless you are giving me a specific law or regulation that intends to fix the problem without creating many more, you don't know if the solution is any better than the status quo.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

> The US-A programme was responsible for orbiting a total of 33 nuclear reactors, 31 of them BES-5 types with a capacity of providing about two kilowatts of power for the radar unit. In addition, in 1987 the Soviets launched two larger TOPAZ nuclear reactors (six kilowatts) in Kosmos satellites (Kosmos 1818 and Kosmos 1867) which were each capable of 6 months of operation.
Just to clarify, because again you're kind of misrepresenting him: digging and filling holes is better than nothing in a depression.
What's the alternative? If an app needs such functionality to work and it cannot work within a browser, the user will have to install a native app which aren't nearly as well sandboxed right now (Windows, Mac, Linux).
There's some serious head scratching going on when you watch the video. If you can, wait a day before watching the explanation. I'm not even sure what's going on after watching that!
OK, so just pain old Appeal to Authority?

The whole point the EFF is trying to make is, apparently our government has a lot of knowledge and power with regards to computer vulnerabilities and exploits, and is using it all secretly with no oversight and no restraints that we normally hope to enjoy due to things like the 4th amendment. I feel weird even needing to explain this.

So, please forgive us when you say, "just trust this guy," and we are leery.
12.7% of the world earns around that much in a year. (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/overview)
In high-assurance security, they go further by putting that functionality into a dedicated device with minimal components, a separation kernel (or RTOS), and strong isolation of networking. Idea being it always, by static design, forces networking traffic to go through the encryptor with almost no attack surface from external network. External network stack usually in own partition, too.

Examples:

http://www.friendsglobal.com/papers/High_Assurance_Wireless_...

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=BF0...
Seriously. This was the plot of Jurassic Park (the book) where the Velociraptors required lysine dietary supplements.
http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Lysine_contingency
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I'm also interested in this topic.

Is there any room left in the Wordpress plugin space?

It seems like pretty much any use case is fulfilled with a big-name plugin so I imagine you'd have to go extremely niche which would have a tiny audience.
Of course you won't see a single penny that you put in, because that's not how Social Security works.

When us younger Americans start drawing our Social Security, it'll be that era's young whose pennies we're drawing.

Social security isn't "you pay in, you get back out what you put in" it's "you pay in for today's olds, and when you're old, young people pay in for you".