skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> var dogs = Dog.FindAll(And(IsNull("Age"), Equal("Id", guid)));

That's pretty ugly and not idiomatic for .NET which favors using typed LINQ providers for data querying. We develop OrmLite, a fast, code-first POCO ORM which lets you use LINQ to query and map to clean POCO's so you could instead query the above with:

var dogs = db.Select<Dog>(x => x.Age == null && x.Id == guid);

You can see more OrmLite features and try them out "live" with just a browser with the Interactive Tour on: http://gistlyn.com/ormlite
They paper launched like 4 years ago, but FWIH they're still not in vol production yet. Many tapeout delays.
“Greedy” developers: the end of indie app developers?
No problem, thanks for making such a great product. Keep it up.
Somehow my doing work on my own time creates an obligation for me to do more work on behalf of others.

Can't I just flip this around on you and say you have an ethical obligation to spend some of your time looking for vulnerabilities? If you started looking, you'd find some. Why do you get to free-ride on my work by refusing to scrutinize the stuff you run?
I don't know your specific situation, but I've seen others with the same mindset who are actually wrong, e.g. trying to optimise for a hypothetical scenario that is unlikely or whose costs outweigh the benefits...they just don't realize it because they don't have enough context or domain expertise.

I'm not saying that's you, but it might be. If you have this trait, you better be right a lot, or nobody will want to work with you.
No, they will use that money to diversify out of oil (energy).
> It's valued at more than $2 trillion — or about four times the biggest technology giants

Powerful reminder of how pervasive & huge the energy economy is.

... now imagine that, if you refined oil to reduce its mass by a factor of a million or so, you ended up with an edible substance that extended your lifespan by DECADES.

Stakes is high, right? Nicely done, Frank Herbert.
And DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)
Worked with the US govt (selling to it) and can tell by browsing those files, there is a high chance it came from a 3 letter US govt agency. It was just by looking at stuff they reference, packages, tools they use. The language and phraseology in comments (excluding bundled software like requests and scapy of course). After many years you start to get a feel for stuff like that.
I was hoping the show would be more like the third act of Fight Club, where the protagonist's struggle with his alternative personality really drives the plot. Instead, the season doesn't appear to have any direction and the fight is between the protagonist's two personalities is one of the most boring parts.
Also, I think that replies accompanying down-votes should be displayed directly next to the comment as a sort of tag (i.e. you can’t click a down-arrow alone, you have to type out something like “not accurate” or “flame” or “I don’t like his hair” or whatever the reason is) and then the comment appears as: foobar_user 1 hour ago | -1:“not accurate” -1:“flame” -1:“I don’t like his hair”.
Lagrange points redux
Isnt tesla one of the most shorted companies currently? Cant be too hard to short it
And China has a root CA under their control. I'm on my iPad at the moment so I can't provide the fingerprints of it right now, but I remember "un-trusting it" on all of my machines a long while back.
The Wretched, Endless Cycle of Bitcoin Hacks
Uber got 20% of Didi when it left China. That's hardly a failure.
Maybe I'm making a good case for eliminating comments by contributing to this tangent. On the other hand, maybe I'm making a good case for my claim that HN's comments are not nearly as plagued by groupthink as people claim.

The problem is treating GMOs as a category. Maybe there's good reason to be concerned that genetic modificiations that make crops less attractive to pests are hazardous to long-term health (I have no idea if there are), but what does that concern have to do with the risk of introducing genes to grow larger fruits?

I'm sure you can find reasons to be worried about any possible application of genetic engineering, but if you're willing to get that creative, you can find reason to be worried about any agricultural innovations. Maybe you claim that the introduction of a lentil gene to soy will indirectly create come carcinogen through protein interactions, but why don't you worry about the same issue when a new fertilizer is introduced? It seems to me that it's only because transgenic plants are new and scary and people are uneasy about "playing god".

Asbestos was ALWAYS known to be dangerous [1] so not a great example. I can't think of a case off the top of my head where long-term safety was incorrectly assumed from short-term studies. Perhaps some medicines? Anyway, in principle you're right that short term studies say little about long term impacts on health.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#Discovery_of_toxicity
"It is very hard for me to countenance any military use for a giant, slow, fragile aircraft in the era of microsatellites and UAVs."

Are you familiar with the AWACS? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry)
We are talking about taxi drivers.
My main interest is my startup. So, what I really care about is my development system and, then, my production system. Since the development seems nearly done and is in alpha test, soon I will be highly interested in my production system.

One of my concerns is a standard, old one: On a system used for development or production, don't change any of the tools until are ready to accept the extra work of fixing any new problems the changes cause.

So, just delay changes to fit my work schedule. E.g., I don't want some change, intended to be good, break something in my tools or my production software. Such things have been known to happen; I haven't seen such in Windows, but at one point I was around some high end production systems where one hour of outage in a year meant that the CIO lost his bonus and two hours, his job. No joke. Walk around the raised floor? Not a chance! They were uptight. A change or update? Fine: Run it on the side for no less than six months. Well, the fundamentals of that situation have not changed.

Really, soon into production, I will want a test system on the side, put any changes on that system first, run it with the best test workload I can, and after some weeks usually implement the changes on the production systems.

On Windows, I've gotten good at using the old NTBACKUP to backup a copy of a boot partition and, later restore it. I have several such backups for my current, main boot partition.

When I get closer to production, if some automatic updates were applied to a production boot partition, I might save the partition but I definitely would restore back to the version before the updates.

My main interest is not as a consumer user but as a developer of a startup that could become serious, maybe an average of an hour a week of 75% of the people with access to the Internet -- IMHO my software has by a wide margin the best solution for a problem serious for nearly every user of the Internet. That's my main interest.
Only if the replies were visible on a buried comment, or perhaps instead of hiding or automatically collapsing, they could be "moved" to the user's Threads page.
Likewise. This is very important. It takes the full-time efforts of both a mother and a father to raise a child. The father should be out winning the bread so the mother can provide the children the attention and care that they desperately need. The benefits of forgoing some luxuries so that a family can be raised by a single breadwinner are so self-evident that it's insanity to willingly choose to do it differently (recognizing that some have it thrust upon them due to accidents or the choices of others).
What's illegal about selling them? Is there an anti-security-consulting-market legislation?

In general what are some risks invovled (I am just not very familiar and wondering in general). Is it a tax issue, the chance IRS could come after you for undeclared income?
EntityFramework? In my 5 or 6 years with .NET I've had more problems with EntityFramework than not. Most of the time it's overkill or just not optimized for the queries I could write myself. I'm a huge fan of Dapper.Net. Looks like there's initial support for core as well.
Show HN: Sell with Postcards
Well, yes. I used to think like this, but when I placed said bets, it turns out that the market was fully capable of remaining stupidly wrong quite a bit longer than I was able to remain solvent. It was shocking to say the least. Even when the facts were obvious - an inexplicable stubborn attachment to remaining wrong. I think there's even a famous quote along those lines - so I'm guessing that I'm not the only one with the experience of learning that you can be correct and still have bad timing.
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my email is my first name at the domain I posted if you wanna reach out.
Maybe I'm tired but where is the link to the study? It's their own PR department!
Grokking Deep Learning
The right time? They should have done this in 2007, when oil was $150/bbl. I would say this is a move of desperation...
As someone who has to take a LOT of supplements under supervision of a doctor, this would be great. Unfortunately, of the 7 supplements you offer that I actually take, you can't even get them in a high enough concentration to replace any supplement that I'm taking. I guess these are just for healthy people without any actual deficiencies? B12 for example, is basically impossible to overdose on but your 100mcg is useless to me when I inject about 2CCs of it a week, and your 100mg of Vitamin C is useless to me when I take 2 grams a day. Can't take the B9 because my MTHFR problems make me require Folinic Acid instead. I take 5,000IU/day of D3, and I have no idea how much "0.05 mg" is since D is measured in International Units.

The other, less common supplements I take like Acetyl-L-Carnatine, L-Arganine, and R-Alpha-Lipolic-Acid, you don't offer.
If you are using Tor Browser in Tails over a coffee shop wifi while you are laying down under a blanket in the back of a truck driven by a stateless hobo with no fingerprints who you intend to murder later in a country with a healthy democracy, you are probably still not anonymous. If you are not doing those things, you are definitely not anonymous.
An important part of keybase is that all proofs are publicly verifiable. When i prove i own a github account, I have to post a public gist. When you get my key from keybase, your client automatically looks at that link and verifies that the gist, and the text within (which is signed by my key) is valid.

Keybase is just the place that connects all the proofs. The actual client verifies that they are correct. As such, if keybase was every compromised they would only be able to change the link to the gist, which wouldn't do them much good without access to my github account.
Thanks! We'll announce an awesome new feature this Monday.
Kiosk Mode appears to be part of the Commercial Suite [1]

1. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/holographic/us...
> I work in a short-project part of the industry

I remember at one point you were talking about becoming a CTO for hire. Is that what you're doing now?
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good job guys, you did it! Ok, one small peeve: I think a directory name like `site` would have been better than `docs` because it has a more generally applicable meaning. But hey, I can live with `docs`, even if it means having a `docs/docs` path. I'm just glad this is finally a feature! Kudos.
I couldn't get this to fire, even after disabling my ad blocker.
Someone mentioned selling vulnerabilities on the black market as a better alternative than doing these "responsible disclosure" and bug bounties. What's your take on that? Is it a better route to take?
They discount it because it's not true. Nothing illegal about looking for vulnerabilities in products and being compensated for your findings. It's only illegal to attack someone else's deployment.
Wow. I've never heard of that. I read a couple and it's really great: accurate, uncomplicated, and to the point. Definitely gonna share this around!
The headline, yes. But if you read the actual article, it seems it's working with the same endorphin receptors without the dangerous side-effects; further, the article hedges its bets by explaining that this is purely in mice so far, and this drug candidate has a long way to go, but as it's a novel opioid that isn't derived from morphine, there is reason for very cautious optimism.

Numerous other novel opioids that aren't morphine derived have shown that it is possible to come close to the pain relief offered, while mitigating the negative side-effects. This is not impossible, I believe, but it'll be interesting to see whether PZM21 is 'the one'.
Curious what shortcomings you're finding in Spring Boot that Dot Net Core would solve?
28 billion seems a stretch, maybe 4B. How far into the future does a valuation speculate for?
No worries they want to drive price down.
How can a throttled vs debounced xhr request "lock out the UI"?
I have the exact same problem on my car. Thanks! Now to translate this for my (quasi-incompetent) German mechanic...
True, but that attack used an HTTP resource.

An HTTPS MITM attack burns a CA; browsers will remove it from their trust stores. And we're getting close to the point that it can't go undetected, either; once browsers enforce Certificate Transparency for all CAs, it'll no longer be possible to conduct an undetected MITM attack.
Is the concern here specifically related to the NSA Shadow Brokers hack (where they're supposedly auctioning the goods for bitcoin), or just more generally that a state adversaries will try to fully identify parties on the network?
"If there is hope, it lies in the comments threads." -- John Derbyshire
1.) It might be possible, but that would probably take time, a lot of work, and likely intervention with laws and money. I'm not all that hopeful that it could be done. Right now there are a lot of people with inadequate to no health coverage. They have issues and problems that are going to need taken care of, which means that the first 3-5 years are probably going to be more expensive than later on. Some are just things folks have been putting off - surgery for carpal tunnel, for example. A few folks will have much larger problems that they can't do much about without insurance. Maybe they don't take care of their diabetes well enough or should really be taking heart medicine or anti-depressants.

Basically, gotta get everyone caught up to the healthiest they can be, and afterwards there would be a lot better maintenance, which in return would mean that the companies have a chance of not needing to worry about the adverse selection.

It would probably also help to get rid of the networks and simplify the insurance end at the doctors offices to both reduce costs and get rid of some of the redunancies in addition to having some sort of care and coverage standards that spread across insurances, just so that people are able to get the care they need instead of going with not-quite-so-good-for-them alternatives because they happen to have a crappy prescription plan.

Other changes I would make would be to require all insurers to sell directly to consumers and decouple insurance from employment - much like most folks get their car insurance. In addition, I'd require insurers to use the exchanges if they want to be in the business and make it so that insurers have a national license instead of needing certified in each and every state they sell in. This would not only standardize coverage, but reduce overhead.

Unfortunately, this sort of thing requires planning on a rather large scale and fixing a lot of problems such as affordability of care. The current political climate hasn't been so keen on that sort of long-term planning nor cooporation, not to mention that the companies themselves might not be too keen on that last one either.

2.) I tend to think all pre-existing rules are bogus. Though they say they help with their risk, I'm skeptical. Most the plans I saw wanted folks to have continuous health care coverage to go around some of the rules (I've always gotten insurance through and employer when I lived in the US). Yet having coverage doesn't mean you take care of your condition. The opposite is also true. Obviously, some folks don't take care of x,y, or z because of lack of coverage as well. And things such as gall bladder surgery are more one-time events with few lasting needs after the surgery for most folks.
Competitors always have it easier because they can see what works and doesn't work from original competition. Which means they can spend less and make more. Which means they can charge less and / or pay their drivers more.
A lot of journals are starting to do this. For example PNAS (a top ranking journal) introduced a required "significance statement" in addition to an abstract, which is meant to be understood by a more general audience. So do the PloS journals, and many others.

http://www.pnas.org/site/authors/procedures.xhtml#significan...

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/s/submission-guideline...

PLoS says "The goal is to make your findings accessible to a wide audience that includes both scientists and non-scientists", and PNAS says it is meant to "explain the relevance of the work in broad context to a broad readership."
From a capacity planning perspective, your goal should be 100% cpu utilization per box. Allocating excessive, unutilized wall clock time is wasted capacity. Same applies for ram/heap per call. These are the same considerations that played out in client/server vs mainframes for so many years.

Mainframe budgeting of cycles, memory, an IO was highly effective and efficiently utilizing resources. It's a model of computation that has disappeared, but is still relevant. When google app engine first came I had hoped it would utilize this model, but instead went the containerization route.
This really hit home as I was involved in another startup in the video streaming space. The founder was chasing every shiny use case and before long we had followed many rabbit trails and not moved on core product.

And you're 100% right: this resulted in us becoming glorified consultants.

I'd add that staying focused on the product is hardest for those from a sales background, who are accustomed to following opportunities. In all fairness, having an engineering background, I'm prone to the opposite problem: not recognizing fast enough when it's time to pivot...
4chan is so toxic I'm surprised it hasn't been declared an EPA Superfund site.
It was insulting to every person that works in the government, and especially to those people you mention that are "good competent folks".

If your only experience with government employees is asking them to provide service to you, then all you can comment on is how effective they were at doing that job. You cannot know what their general competence level is, nor can you know how they'd do outside of government employ, because you don't know what their job actually entails. I'll give you a hint, though - it's a lot more then helping you.

Even if you've worked for a government agency, which sounds unlikely based on your most recent post, you've only seen a tiny sliver of government employees. You can talk about the competence of that tiny sliver if you care to, but not all government employees.

Look, I get it, it's easy to complain about government workers. It's like complaining that all used car salesmen and mechanics are crooks. Using it in an attempt to prove a point though, is foolish, and that's exactly what you did.
They're desperately trying to sell as much as possible before renwewables eat their lunch.

This is not the case. It may be in the next 10-20 years but the real reason is due to fracking. The fact is that the US / Canada has added additional supply to the market and no longer imports as much oil from OPEC.

http://www.drillingcontractor.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04...
I think it's more than that; it's a psychological thing. You're not likely to shell out five bucks to spew an epithet at someone - you have to think about it. You have to get your payment info together. You have to think about your budget, even a bit in passing.
They're full of people who just have to get things off their chest, but at least they don't have cheerleaders encouraging them to be even more asshole than they already are.
It is a failure in terms of developing their own business. The 20% stake won't ever translate into a better valuation of the product, just the corporation. As you've recently seen with Yahoo!, this won't save them.
Once you've famiarized yourself with the notation, which is standard, it's easy to understand and very efficient.

The set script-X, the random variable X, and the value x refer to three different but interrelated concepts. Using entirely different letters would likely make it harder to understand.
That might be one way to look at it, but I doubt that is relevant. The total money that uber handles would be equivalent to ebay's "gross merchandise volume". The transaction takes place between the rider and the driver and uber is only facilitating it. You wouldn't say that a credit card company has the entire economy as its revenue, so you wouldn't say that all ride charges are Uber's revenue.
I was in the first round of layoffs a couple years back and it was so nice. I got severance when their guilt to cash ratio is still high, no survivor's guilt, didnt have to worry about how to keep everything running with fewer backup people and a few missing experts, and I didn't have to worry about which round I would be in, or who else they would let go who made the job bearable.
Hey Cookiecaper - yeah there's something going on making our appeals not show for some people. For better or worse I'm trying to fix that. :)
I have definitely connected my devkit to a WPA2 Enterprise network before. Works as you would expect. Not entirely sure why they're implying that.
Indeed, I do not see that menu item.
Someone should take laser precision measurements in case we need to 3D print another David. Can you 3D print marble?
The problem with HN is that 90% of the downvote justifications would be "this differs from my worldview".
This is exaclty the kind of reasoning that makes library writers stumpble into using abstractions that turn out leaky. The whole point of the OP is to show one (of many) machanisms through which it does cause an observable change in behaviour.

And your example of a big calculation in a library is particurly bad, because the user can threadify that herself if she wants to.

#include <thread.h>
#include <yourlib.h>
#include "my_eventloop.h"

void launch_da_ting()
{
std::thread ting_doer([]{
Result rez = yourlib::do_da_ting();
my_event_loop::post([rez](){get_rez(rez);});
});
ting_doer.detach();
}

Now it's true those five lines would become a single function call if your library forced the user to user a particular dispatching library. But I think that would be poor seperation of concerns.
"Factors such as cost per flight hour (CPFH), information gathering rates, mission readiness, adverse weather operational capability, distance to targets, and onboard power still favored the U-2."

The U-2 apparently has a higher payload, higher service ceiling, higher mission success rate, and a lower cost per flight hour (maybe).

http://aviationweek.com/awin/global-hawk-u-2-duel-resumes-15...
Anecdotally, while Britain's medical system has less wait times, doctors working for the NHS are chronically overworked and underpaid. Many move to Australia or go into private practice after completing their residencies.
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There are enormous network effects for their carpooling options such as UberPOOL, UberHOP, etc.