skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! I'm also a PM at Microsoft. I especially care about all scenarios related to publishing and distributing mobile apps. Would love to hear about any current pain points or how we might be able to help the mobile developer community.
I started making a spreadsheet of interesting folks but then realized it wasn't worth the effort. Some of the more famous folks (e.g. stevewoz, brianchesky) don't post any more after their initial activity years ago. And the ones who do (norvig, BrendanEich, alankay1) have names that are immediately noticeable, and I almost never read the name on a comment before reading the comment anyway.

edit: It's been more interesting tracking first announcements of products/Show HNs done by the creator of now-famous products/services, e.g. the oft-referred to Dropbox thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863, or Github Pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402648
Nor did anyone (in this thread) say he was.

The quote has bounded context. And in that context, seems generally valid and applicable.
Ask HN: Designing robust on disk data structures in Java
I was wondering if anyone had resources, books, or articles describing how to design and implement robust / performant on disk data structures in Java.

Writing bytes to disk is straightforward, but seems to elevate quickly to fine art when considering concurrent online access, robustness, transactions, etc.

For many NIO classes, there is often a disclaimer (e.g., MappedByteBuffer : "Whether or not such changes occur, and when they occur, is operating-system dependent and therefore unspecified.") which makes semantics of (probably important) corner cases yet more inscrutable.

Lets say you would like to design something like H2 MVStore, or MapDb - where does one go to get the knowledge to do this?

For some context: I'd like to store time series sensor event data in my mobile app. I typically rely on trusted things like sqlite, but this doesn't seem like a good fit for time series data.

There are plenty of prior art for suitable representations, like Apache Hadoop RCFile and Dato SFrames - but I have not found a Java library suitable for Android - so I may have to create my own solution.

Because its a mobile (Android) app, and processes can be killed without warning, it has to be robust. Multiple threads in the app will be reading / writing to the store.

- Thanks
I have friends in Shenzhen who regularly walk across the border to connect to HK LTE just to get important work done.

And their office has 4? different ISPs, so I know it's a bad day on the firewall when they're working from HK.
"Natural rights" are mostly a thing insofar as a mob of people that sees person A taking away what they consider a "natural right" of person B, will attack person A.

Thus, if the populist sentiment of the people of some land-mass is that you don't have a right to be there with them, then you don't, no matter what abstract arguments you might give to the contrary. Your rights only extend as far as others' willingness to enforce them for you.
That's pretty much what Tay did with Twitter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
That reminds me of another one... (Ubuntu htpc) I can "shut-down" and the remote startup works, but if it actually goes into suspend, I have to hit the actual power button in the cabinet. And more often than not the audio is broken on resume from suspend and I have to completely shut down to fix it (reboot doesn't work)... this is with a core i3-5010u, which is a relatively common intel audio chipset.

I agree there are aspects of every OS that I don't like... I just wouldn't single out Windows (again other than privacy) as particularly bad on updates... updating my mbp to el capitan took a wipe as the upgrade broke half way through.

TIP: Never update when you're tethered to your phone on vacation, always update a week before leaving for vacation by the way. lol
Why is agreeing to help someone that you don't have the time, money or expertise to help a good thing? Isn't it extremely misleading to tell someone you'll help them when you can't deliver? Isn't it more responsible to direct that person to someone who does have the expertise to help?

(edit: There's an assumption here that because one company can't help, that none can. Should we make this assumption?)
> I also realized I'm dumb, you can't really mash raw carrots.

I'm equally dumb then, but in our defense, someone has probably tried

> Kitchens also take up space - which is probably a bigger concern here in New York than your rural area.

Probably, but an urban area is in a much better position to contract with a local group to buy meals appropriate to the children. I look at it as a point of contention that can blow up. Your now mixing work and life in a very personal way. The easiest way to handle that is to provide the meals and document any issues for individuals that the provider (be it you or a contractor) need to handle. Avoiding problematic parental choices is worth quite a lot in the sanity of your child care staff.
That's a spurious argument. What's important is that the OS forces updates _by default_.

Sure, some of the people that turn it off overestimate their own capabilities, and that will lead to infection. But that's a very small portion of the total population, the vast majority of which will leave everything set to default.
Accessibility benefits everyone. Everyone wants easier to read, easier to understand, websites. How does a harder to use, harder to understand website help a business?
The threads link at the top should work for recent topic replies, but you can also use a service like HN Watcher if you want to be emailed when someone replies to you. While I find the emails useful, I don't think it improves the quality of my comments.
It is not just accessibility. It also happens with sizes of clothes. Companies aim for the easy 1-sigma chunk of the bell curve, and ignore a large chunk of statistical "outliers". Or take airline seat space for example, where companies simply assume that people are no taller than 5.5 feet.
Sequential A/B testing at Optimizely
Show HN: First Tutorial Published – Request for Feedback
I've created a React tutorial series about displaying GitHub Trending Repos - http://myappincome.co.uk/react-redux-tutorial-trending-github-part-1/. It's aimed at the beginner so isn't anything earth shattering, but uses Redux and Redux-Thunk.

I'm working in a virtual bubble, so although my apps "work", I don't have a way of improving beyond self-learning.

I would really appreciate any feedback. So please, take a look at let me know what you think. I'm open to all comments, so feel free to pick apart my writing style, the content, the font, the site anything.

I'd also really like anything positive...which there hopefully is!
As it's unlikely to be a competitive race by then, I would expect that certain people will be reminded of certain aspects of the power of the executive branch and that will be that.
While you're very much correct that seems rather irrelevant to the question posed to the community. At least I do not know the OP's intentions with such data and distinguishing comments may not be a concern of theirs.
The Downsides of Data-Based Transportation Planning
I dont remember any of the posts Attacking Appelbaum being flagged...
Dramatic overgeneralization as a rhetorical device isn't great for this community. What you've said is not a true statement, even apart from its inflammatory snark.

True statements include that the community is divided on most controversial issues and that there's often a tug of war between flags, vouches, and upvotes when it comes to stories like this.
Thanks for the info! Wow, even more nonsense encouraging excessive weight, I had no idea but am sadly less and less surprised :-(

This whole situation is especially horrible in light of research [1] that shows that extra weight on motor vehicles is more dangerous to other road users and that any extra safety for those inside the heavier vehicle is strictly speaking being achieved by an equal and opposite "zero sum" reduction in safety for all other road users

[1] http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/fall-2014/pounds-kill...
Learned that the hard way on my primary development machine. Have a crazy long randomly generated password for my Microsoft account. Had to reset password on a different machine.
> I love that there are many people on here clamoring for physical copies.

It's hilarious that people in tech clamor for physical books, even at the cost of trees, environment, poor accessibility, poor maintainability, poor upgradability and poor portability. I suspect it is because of the sucky "format-hell" of ebooks and sub-par reading experience. And the fact that ebooks are still not a first class citizen of the web I agree that these trends will continue. And that's exactly what publishers would want. To be able to make more money!
you're suggesting the guy should throw himself off a cliff?
This really is not true. The vast majority of people have zero illusions about their own basic computing skills.
If it's not profitable then why should Airbnb be the one to subsidize it? Why not the government? Or some charity? Or you?

We don't expect anyone who meets a homeless person to offer them a place on their couch. That would be unfair. And an additional incentive to avoid homeless people. We have (well, not everywhere but at least we aim for) a systemic solution. There are homeless shelters for example, sometimes run as charities, sometimes tax-supported (ie. everyone is required to chip in).

It's weird when we try to offload these problems on the first person who touches them.
This is not uncommon for those like the above poster that think the constitution is a "living document".
But there are cases (my common case) where something the customer wants is really a great idea and many other customers would benefit (and we would have eventually gotten there). So it's not always a bad thing :)
I kept hearing that code quality at Cisco is poor, so perhaps this is an opportunity to clean house and pivot?

Not all layoffs are bad, and the good engineers most likely jumped ship already.
I'd say a public option would be the way to "soft introduce" single payer. Just expand Medicare to anyone who wants it on the exchanges. Once the premiums shake out, "big bloated government" likely will be pretty competitive.

Of course that would require a major shift in the House of Representatives, which probably won't happen until the 2022 election, after electoral maps are redistricted in 2020 post-census, and the rampant gerrymandering might be fixed. And some kind of political cover from the caterwauls sure to emanate from the health insurance industry.
the problem is he is comparing a brand new maintenance cost to a car with 300K miles on it!! any brand new car is going to cost less in repair compare to a car with 300K Miles!
Is there some foreign government or organization that buys large numbers of ASAs, enables SNMP on them, exposes SNMP to the Internet on them, and uses predictable SNMP community strings? (For people w/o net ops experience: the SNMP "community" is your shared SNMP password, and in competent networks will be approximately as unguessable as a login password).
> Can anyone succinctly explain the benefits of having a market for private health insurance companies, rather than a single provider of health insurance (government, aka "public option")?

Government provision of health insurance means that every procedure covered is a political issue (e.g. abortion for the left, sexual-orientation counselling for the right). This means that there will be nationwide winners and losers, and no-one but the rich will be able to simply change providers, as with a private market. As an example, look at how public schools are run: only the rich are able to opt out of government schooling.

American governments are not capable of running efficient programmes, because to a first approximation American government employment is a make-work program for people who can't get hired at anywhere that cares about competence. That means that a government insurance provider will be incompetent and inefficient.

To make things worse, the employees of said provider will be unionised, and that union will do its best to make it even more inefficient (e.g. take a look at the prison guards' unions).
Precisely why I've started buying technical books from ages past. I'm working my way through Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth, Constructing user interfaces with statecharts by Ian Horrocks and Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems. The last one has been especially enlightening.

Do you have any suggestions for which 'better wheels' people should be looking at?
The issue with those blocked payments is that the program was established to deal with an uneven distribution of unusually expensive customers. Insurance Company A makes more than expected so it pays into the pool. Company B loses more than expected so it draws from the pool. Thinks were expected to even out overall.

But what has happened is that all (or most) companies are losing money on the exchanges so there is no one to pay into the pool. Congressional Republicans have blocked funding the pool with government money because the pool wasn't supposed to cost money in the first place.
Those seem like interesting questions, but is a comment section attached to an NPR article any good for those? Users typically comment on the content of the story, at an unfortunately low signal-to-noise ratio.

I think it's also worth considering the vast number of organizations receiving federal funding directly (and indirectly through tax breaks, subsidies, etc) and how practical a mandated per-organization discussion mechanism would be.
>In the UK
Yes; also Chrome is a browser not an operating system.

(I know, ChromeOS. That's not what I meant!)
Agreed, but I think there are a lot of somewhat well known figures in tech who haves accounts on here and they are trying to be anonymous, but also newer HN members may not know who they are. I don't feel like we need this mapping but I could see how some might find it useful.

We DEFINITELY don't need people's account to be de-anonymized who are trying to remain anonymous
If you just want these to show up on GitHub specifically, you can use the friendly names like `:ring:`, `:art:`, etc. Then there's no Unicode anywhere but GitHub will still show the emoji. That's how `atom` committers do it.
Show HN: Fr8, an Open-Source Cloud Application Integration Service (iPaaS)
Not sure if you were being serious, but along these lines, I stayed in a Shenzhen hotel late last year that strangely provided unfiltered internet. Of course it wasn't advertised as such, but Google worked (redirected to google.com.hk). Given the hotel was right on the border with Hong Kong, one could only speculate how this worked and which option was easier: always-on VPN or antenna :)
I very much disagree in cases where the argument is nuanced and I don't have time to do substantial research. In this very common case we resort to heuristics, and "who's making the argument" is one of the most effective heuristics there is.
am I the only one that thinks this is pretty clearly satire?
Seems more natural to take Evan Miller's approach and use the random variable defined by the difference in conversion counts between the treatment and control populations. See:

http://www.evanmiller.org/sequential-ab-testing.html

I could be wrong though, I only skimmed the paper.
They have some examples of dynamic apps, like reddit style.

See: https://bit.no.com:43110/Talk.ZeroNetwork.bit/

However, how they are doing this is by having the owner's bot accept writes and perform a git merge with one big static JSON list. At least that is what I remember reading.

Which doesn't seem scalable or fast. We're trying to solve that problem with https://github.com/amark/gun , and hopefully will be able to team up with the ZeroNet guys at some point. I love their work.
Dev team online to answer any initial questions...
cheers Alex
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Define "middle class".
My understanding is that yes, he could, but then Microsoft is paid for the Windows license which he does not want and will not use, so they lose out on the profit from that license by him paying more for an exclusively Linux laptop.
P2P networks like BitTorrent and Freenet are designed such that the most popular content is the most replicated and therefore, quickest to access. Popularity makes these networks stronger and faster, not slower.
I wish that were true. Too many conversations on HN essentially drill down to 'my experience contradicts your experience/theory/proof'. It never hurts to know if the person asserting his experience actually has any experience of note.
Netcraft would be able to confirm if only their Cisco gear wasn't pwned.
You can use SSL with GitHub pages if you're using CloudFlare.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-wit...

And I think it works only if you're using CloudFlare. I've always heard that you can't use custom domains and SSL but this works perfectly for me. But can anyone say why? Since my website is now hosted by github, I'm not so paranoid about my website going down or DoS attacks, and would like to not depend on CF anymore.
I'm not suggesting he do anything. In fact, I think his story is a great example of what makes the economics of health care so challenging.

I was merely pointing out a connection from his personal story to the general topic of conversation that a lot of people don't seem to realize.
> “Teenagers in the U.S. are a golden audience,” he said. “If you look at China, the teenage culture doesn’t exist — the teens are super busy in school studying for tests, so they don’t have the time and luxury to play social media apps.”

LIES. WTF. My mother's friend's kids says that every one of his classmates is on WeChat and mobile gaming is HUGE. And look at how websites like Bilibili and Anime related 'Two-Dimension' culture prosper in China.

According to this report: https://www.gitbook.com/book/fhggogogo/bilibili/details

10-19 teenagers is the second largest demographic group of Bilibili's users, which is the NicoNico+Crunchyroll+Twitch in China.
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Is it possible to request random certificates for a competing company which you know uses Letsencrypt? If yes, you could force them to not use Letsecrypt because of these limits. What count as an issued certificate?
hi, thanks! I am not sure why I would be interesting though? Could you share some of your motivation for wanting to talk?
But what if selling Product Y allows you to become ramen-profitable?
I think describing FB login as "solving" the problem is definitely overstating it by a lot. I've seen plenty of dumpster-fire comment sections that allowed only FB users to comment.
In that case, it was using Azure Tables and an ElasticSearch cluster. Also, you'd probably want to manage databases used by multiple systems outside your dokku anyway, but I would just assume use a DBaaS offering given an option is suitable, I have less desire to manage a database/backups, etc.
I must have missed those. They sure didn't have the sticking power of this whole Windows 10 thing.
However, in order to censor data, you'd have to have all the nodes connected to the target be Sybils. This would be hard. If not, I think IPFS uses gossip-style protocols to query the rest of the network if your local node links don't have the data. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The issue op has, is that it's difficult to sift through that, especially older comments.
Not just in NYC, this is an almost universal element of taxi regulation. The city will either require that taxi companies operate a certain number of ramp taxis as a condition of their medallions (thus implicitly subsidizing them off other taxi rides) or directly subsidize operators of ramp taxis.

The State of California recently required all of the ride-sharing companies to produce reports on how they "planned" to accommodate disabled riders, but so far as I know, nothing has come out of it.
Nope. Switching fields from something that had a stable pay (civil engineering) to something where I am likely to be homeless (math, especially since I am not a genius), was one of the many nails in the coffin our relationship.
Win7, 8, and 8.1 updates are moving to cumulative patches next month. Assuming you still patch at all, you will be unable to avoid installing the telemetry on older MS operating systems too.

I assume that like Win10, there will be ways to hack around and disable the telemetry there. But you can't avoid installing it in the first place for long.
well some one's trash is another person's insightful comment. that isn't to say there isn't hate and trivial comments but far too many will simply dismiss any comment as ignorant that they don't agree with. This is most likely to occur with political or religious discussions.
That's not actually true. IPFS is like BitTorrent, maybe, but it's not BitTorrent.
API gateway takes a bit to set up, and there are silly limits on error responses etc still, but returning a html page is very easy. Check out the web HTML example project for Claudia https://github.com/claudiajs/example-projects/blob/master/we...
I'm not sure what you're saying here: the value of a commodity is measured by the probability distribution of being able to buy that commodity for a given price. If it's hard to find a unit to rent at price $X, that's the same thing as units being more expensive than $X. Imagine paying an agent to watch MLS and leap on offers for you, or paying other people to temporarily leave the market, or just spending your work-hours at home on the phone to realtors, etc. The inefficiency of those things is, itself, part of the cost of the unit.
Ask HN: State of the art in dashboards
Look and feel seems much less important than the ability to deliver information and help users to understand complex data; what's the state of the art and where can I find it?
He also literally explained the situation of any IT department in a reasonably large corporation. N departments equals M custom features with M > n.
Yes to your second question.

Maybe the government can offer a tax return bonus to cover it. And pump more money into fully general cures for all disabilities. I'm not against making disabled peoples' lives better, but focusing entirely on the supplier side is a mistake.
I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread of conversation.
I wonder if an IQ test would be able to meaningfully capture the difference between the two groups, considering that Google kung fu is only helpful for a certain set of tasks that in my experience are often very macro-scale.
I've been running Linux on all of my home machines for many years, including an HTPC, and I've yet to have an update break anything.

Should we trust your anecdote, because it has more words, or mine, because it mentions more than one computer?
Politics is interesting if you ask me, because it have the property of ruining every other interesting thing.

We live online.
This is crazy, but the pattern isn't terrible if you replace slack with your selfhosted irc / chat server.
I'm torn. Sometimes I think Trump would be the most average President ever, and sometimes I think we have no idea at all what he would do. I'm quite sure it's unlikely he'll do anything that he's campaigned on. Wall-building is work.
We are listening... :)

https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/07/microsoft-is-bringing-sql-...
The demographic you are failing to take into account is private corporations, who have a constitutionally protected right to freedom of speech, and whose board members believe they have an overriding ethical obligation to protect and increase shareholder value.
I scanned. The answer seems to be no, nobody is doing that.
> They erected a firewall because of centuries of Western imperialism and foreign bullying.

What a crock of shit.