skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About 2-2.5 months ago I got tired of Windows 10's shenanigans and went full time Linux (Ubuntu MATE) on my personal laptop. Also installed a new SSD so my boot times are less than 15 seconds from cold to ready desktop including entering a password.

So far I've been able to figure out everything I need. I may have to do our taxes on my wife's computer, unless the tax software will run under wine. Although I suppose I could run a VM with Win 10 just to do the taxes.
How do you manage the partitioning? We've thought of partitioning events (by time and/or by type of event) but we haven't found an easy way to migrate to partitioned tables and we aren't exactly sure how we would maintain the partitioning.
A self-signed certificate for a site that I expect to be delivered via HTTPS (either because I typed "https://", or clicked a link that starts with "https://", or because I opened a bookmark that I know to be secure) is definitely more likely to indicate a MitM attack, yes.

If you're arguing for opportunistic encryption for "http://" links, I'm fine with that, but if I'm expecting HTTPS, I want either a trusted certificate or a big, red warning that's hard (or impossible) to bypass. I'm also not convinced that opportunistic encryption is worth the effort nowadays, given that the price of a certificate is zero in all but the most obscure of use-cases.
Are you sure you're not confusing the FDA with the DEA?
Or you could convince some other banks to vouch for your transactions if you vouch for theirs and then get rid of the middlemen.
The Art of League of Legends
The cost would be astronomical, I do not think it would be worth it. Much better to build this here on Earth, only 4x more panels needed, still easier to build and maintain.
Influence - Psychology of persuasion

Gun Germs and Steel

Hero with a thousand faces

Starting Strength
I was clarifying the sentence which the poster had pointed out as confusing, not the entire description of the algorithm.
Actually, businesses fired a lot of people after the government made it easier to fire people, especially for "out-source-able" positions.

Hmm, seems that your intuition is generally wrong.
Why is a US bank account necessary while being a US citizen is not required?
I have actually done that commute. The company I was working for relocated to London from Birmingham, I moved with them. However there was a few months when I was still in 'Brum' and having to get stuff setup in London.

I did have options to stay with friends in the Brixton area. However the walk to the bus, the wait for the bus, the bus journey to the Brixton tube, the tube journey to Green Park, the walk from one platform to another, then the connecting tube journey followed by the final walk to the office took longer door-to-door than my commute up/down to Birmingham. I could walk to Euston, hop on the train and get a taxi at the other end. The time on the train was 'productive' rather than noisy and stressful (compared to going south of the river). Fortunately my employers were paying my train and taxi fares, had they not done that then I would not have had an economically viable commute.

Top tip for anyone needing to work in London - don't go by public transport and live somewhere without a tube station. Get a bicycle - it is quicker - or an electric scooter.

Although these central London properties might look like amazing places to live, bear in mind that the air in central London could kill you...
> .. and it's back on the front page after a spell in the doghouse?!

This post hit the flamewar detector (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flamewar%20penalty%20dang&sort...), and we removed the penalty when we noticed.
You can use mk, the successor to make, which does not have the TAB requirement (you can use TAB or spaces interchangeably).

Regarding JSON, it is more verbose than Make. You need to use quote around strings, commands, everything. Compare:

foo.o: foo.c
gcc -c foo.c

with

{
'foo.o' => ['foo.c'; 'gcc -c foo.c']
}
As a developer, I would buy a Mac. Everything "just works" on it. Apps are sometimes blocked from the App store (Famous example, Flux perhaps? https://justgetflux.com/), but that doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't use them.

That said, I'll be checking this out for my Windows 10 rig (for gaming).
On Mac: there's a setting in System Preferences->Security & Privacy that allows you to install and run apps from "Anywhere".

It's a walled garden, but the walls aren't as tall on the desktop OS. Yet.
I would look at a few design and user experience books... "Don't make me think", "Thinking fast and slow" and "Designed for use" come to mind.

As developers, and even PMs we will tend to overload our users with too much... simplification, structure, clarity come to mind. Another deep issue, and I don't have any books to recommend center around nomenclature... Too many projects don't take the time to concentrate on naming things from a high level... From project features to user roles and the language/platform that integrate them, there's often confusion and blurred lines with the same names used in different contexts.
Interested. Contact info in profile. Thanks.
I reckon people with $25-60/month to rent out these properties would already have enough money to buy their own homes slightly away from the city center
I have had trouble with this as well. I have quite a few side projects. "CEO", "Founder", "President", "Owner", "Managing Director", "Director of Operations", etc all sound a bit too pretentious for the caliber of projects I tend to build on the side. I've put "Head of Customer Support", and "Head of Customer Success" in the past. Does anyone have any other recommendations? Something that doesn't make it look like I'm Will Ferrell and John C Reilly pushing "Prestige Worldwide".
based on the obvious banding from the side i always assumed the top might in fact look like a hexagon.. looking forward to seeing more!!
And it's also worth noting that the default option, "Mac App Store and identified developers" allows you to run apps from anywhere by right-clicking them and choosing "Open".
People without applicable skills having trouble in a modern economy. Regret over not buying something expensive when it was cheap. In other news, water is wet.
I love that this story basically contradicts another trend that is in Hacker News at the same time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414764

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/09/02/gradescope-brings-a...
Ivanpah is a black mark on renewable energy.
Its price was ridiculously expensive, and it has failed to perform to expectations.

The good news is that the industry has learned from it.
Almost nobody is doing concentrated solar thermal anymore - photovoltaics are better in nearly every way.
This is probably the only article where I thought the photos would be better off as gifs.
Fine, but then don't make brazen statements like

> but it seems reasonably credible to the layman

> proven to contain significantly increased doses of POISON in food on the supermarket shelves
The Scott Adams book "How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big" is surprisingly good. It's too early for me to tell if it's made an improvement, but I have a ton of highlights and I've been reviewing them every couple of weeks. [I've had a similar reaction recently to "Everything I Know" by Paul Jarvis as well.]
So you think the current browser behavior, with a scary warning and an accept button, is bad?

If they were treated like http there would be no dialogue.
Is there a reason they didn't tax non-use? The "foreigner exclusion" sounds like fighting a symptom.

Simply require proof of residency in the property (or an active lease agreement / market listing) to qualify for a tax break. Otherwise, if you're parking-and-holding-without-using, you get slapped with a higher tax rate.
What you're looking for is system administration basics.
This story runs counter to the other story that on the HN front page at the same time, which I enjoy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12414746

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/02/massachusetts...
On April 19th [0], it read: "If you have an app with auto-renewable subscriptions, you have the option of offering free trials to new users."

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160419200531/https://developer...
The Bible.
That's a fight you'll have to take up with various root programs and the CA/B Forum. There are provisions that allow root program operators such as Microsoft to force Let's Encrypt to revoke certificate, though as far as I'm aware this should be limited to domains hosting phishing sites or malware.

I'd argue Let's Encrypt's policy is as good as it can be while still following the policies required for root inclusion. Here's a relevant blog post[1].

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html
Seems to me that containerizing your dev environment with something like a well-constructed docker-compose YAML should mitigate this.

By "well-constructed" I mean that the backend services for a given project should only be available on the container network, and not be exposed to the host network.
Iran rolls out first phase of domestic internet
El Capitan definitely doesn't require you to create an account OR enter a credit card number, I've done it on plenty of machines. Obviously you have to create an account if you want to use iCloud, but you can simply choose not to.
FBI reports multiple logins from Tor to the Clinton email server
I don't know how organizations are running Windows 10 with all the information Microsoft is getting from the OS. I checked with the resource monitor and even Explorer.exe is opening network connections beyond my company.
That would almost require Apple to allow developers to have an actual direct relationship with the customers. As far as I can see, they are Apple's customers that you are just renting.
It's tough to figure what pulls a place out of the dilapidation phase. I've heard people say a microbrewery is a good harbinger. I have this unformed suspicion that a hipstery cheap-fancy restaurant can do it, or the "right" art gallery
But we don't use the antibacterials in soaps as therapeutic agents to treat infections. So if a bacteria becomes resistant to triclosan, it has no impact on the effectiveness of antibiotics.
Interesting. These appear to be JOBS act short-form mini-IPOs.[1] That's something new, which just became possible this year and hasn't been used much.

Here's Farm from a Box's SEC filing.[2] Typical crappy terms - no voting rights, no anti-dilution, no transferability for one year, insiders have control.

Nobody associated with the project has a farming background. They have two employees. One is a liberal arts majors from UC Berkeley and one has an unspecified degree from UCLA. They do not have a working prototype farm according to the SEC filing.

The filing for Youngry [2] is more interesting. They want to start a glossy web site for young entrepreneurs. They claim lots of good contacts. (Miss Las Vegas?) They're only asking for $50K, which isn't enough. Two-person business.

Republic takes a 5% cut; that's how they make their money.

This is a reasonable concept, but the current set of deals isn't very impressive. These are people looking for Series A funding and would probably be rejected by YC. The idea behind the JOBS act short-form IPO was supposed to be that when your startup got too big for angel/friends and family/Kickstarter funding, there was a next level and an exit strategy for the original funders. It wasn't intended for startups this early.

You can look up these companies on the SEC's EDGAR system. If you scroll down all the way to the end of Republic's pages, there's a link.

[1] https://media2.mofo.com/documents/120416-pli-quick-guide-job...
[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679373/000167937316...
[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679372/000167937216...
Well, if you think about it, there aren't two planets which are 100% alike, so each planet can be called unique.
You won't have feral cats for long if you hunt them like wolves and rats were hunted in the past.
Blue do have a plan for an orbital launch vehicle. And seem to be fairly far advanced with developing an engine for it (BE-4 -- also planned for use on ULA's new "Vulcan" launcher)

They've got a launch site at CCAFS, and have started building a new factory there as well.

I'm a SpaceX fan, and definitely consider them to be ahead at the moment -- but certainly wouldn't write Blue off completely.
Any wrench or hammer or saw you happen to buy will easily last you a lifetime, even if you use it constantly. I've seen some really cheap silverware (stamped out of sheet metal, and practically unusable) and some shoddy knives, but spend even a few dollars more and you can easily find something that will last for many years. The inexpensive silverware I picked up at Target a few years ago is solid cast stainless steel, and I have no doubts that it will last a lifetime; I doubt I could break a tine without tools. A cheap cast-iron skillet can easily last multiple centuries.

Most furniture is actually pretty shoddy, made from MDF and glue, but even so I've managed to find some that I'm happy with. My first office chair was not very good, and failed catastrophically in a few years, which was annoying. I managed to replace it with a much nicer one that I trust to last for decades. (It was rather overpriced though; I won't break even for something like 50 years. On the other hand, I can sit in it all day without hurting my back, which is more important to me.)

I have 8 year old computers that are perfectly good (aside from a hard drive that had to be replaced a year ago, and a new power supply the year before that), a 5 year old laptop that does all I could ask, etc. Computers are no longer advancing at such a breakneck pace that they're obsolete in a year, and the operating systems no longer have a lifetime measured in years either. I expect them all to last quite a bit longer.

I'm sure my washing machine will fail in a decade or two, probably the motor will burn out or a capacitor in the digital timer will fail. Neither are impossible to fix; the only question will be whether a newer washing machine would have enough extra efficiency to make replacement a better choice than repair.

Cars routinely last 200k miles or more, and replacement parts for most cars are easily had.

I would say that most products have a pretty good lifespan. Obviously my experience isn't universal, but I would say that most things are built well enough. It is worth paying attention to what you're buying, but most products are not actually intended to be disposable, except in areas of rapid technological change.

On the other hand, you could look at something like the jet turbine or transmission in an attack helicopter or tank. Those have a very definite lifetime, and a very strict maintenance schedule, and they're measured in hours, not years. If you do all the maintenance correctly, your jet turbine might last 500 hours (or some similar number, I'm not very familiar with the specifics) of use. Once you've used it that many carefully-logged hours you take it out and replace it with a new one. Maybe that's what you're thinking of? It's certainly expensive, but in military hardware you want to extract the maximum possible combat performance from everything; lifetime is pretty far down the priority list.
I think it is from apps like Solitaire and News having ads in them.
An investor in gradescope here... As a former TA at Berkeley, I can recall how painful it was to grade exams, especially for lower division classes where you could have hundreds of students. I love the idea of using machine learning to help group common answers. It leaves the judgment in human hands, but helps reduce the grunt work of identifying where that grading applies. A good example of man and machine working together to produce a better result than either could do alone.
I'm personally of the camp that for most users, usability matters more than privacy. As trakcers violated both.
Free Orientation to Zen Course
Windows 10 will upgrade your computer at any time of the day without your consent. A med school student friend of mine has to take tests on her computer. 15 minutes before the test, Windows 10 was updating and rebooting.

Found out, unless you have the pro version, you can't even tell Windows not to do that. You can only set a period of time where Windows will do it (like 2 am) so it doesn't do it at more inconvenient times.

OS X upgrades are worse, in my opinion. For any given version, Apple just nags me to install it. But if I go from major version to major version, suddenly selling my MBP gets complicated, because I can only install the version that it came with after I wipe it. It's up to the person who buys it from me to log in to Apple and update the OS to a more recent version.

Then there's iOS which nags you constantly to install updates that have been known to brick some devices...
I'd be surprised if OS X doesn't have telemetry ("spying").
Probably the best to start with is "How to read a book". That opened my eyes and helped me a lot with deciding what to read and how to read it.
Heck even $2000 per person is a reasonable start. So much could be done with that.
$5 a cat skin would be in line with the solution that almost drove the bald eagle to extinction
Actually, two ants have escaped the pit by climbing out.

One was only but a child ant. The other, much later, had its back broken before being thrown into the pit. That ant eventually healed and it too amassed the willpower to climb out.
It's an interesting story with an awkward headline and opening quote. The word "unique" is being pressed into duty as a terse synonym for "interesting in all sorts of ways that will require you to read entire paragraphs of information to understand."

I'm inclined to forgive NASA on this one. The accuracy/brevity trade-off tortures anyone who tries to popularize science.
I feel like if this happened on the other side of the Atlantic, there'd be a punchline along the lines of, "So that's what happened to the alligators!"
reminds me of Erlich Bachman in Silicon Valley, who is a pesca-pescatarian. "I only eat fish that eats other fish"
Do you happen to have one of your own? I'd be interested in joining.
The Colossal SAAS List (create issues and contribute)
I am trying to compile a huge list of SAAS products/companies.

GOAL: To help people trying to find SAAS products that fit their needs.

Check it out and feel free to contribute!

https://github.com/Ryanb58/the-colossal-saas-list
Does it? Essay questions are a special case, and this story doesn't claim that they can solve them. But they make improved tools, based on MOOC grading tools (from what I've seen of them) available for paper exams. Which e.g. would allow to spend more time manually grading an essay, instead of wasting time on checking simple questions of simpler form, which in many cases will make up most of an exam.
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

This should be a required reading for anyone who does UI design. It helps explain why items you interact with subconsciously frustrate you and why product simplicity is typically better than more features.
Could you subscribe to receive/buy weekly/monthly coins(virtual currency)?

Or is this only for app usage.
The answer is we don't. Unlike the other three gas giants in the Solar System we can't see Jupiter's pole clearly. So Jupiter is unique to our solar system, and we don't know much about the visual details of exoplanets.
It's absurd that private citizens can own land now. What was the crown thinking?
Look, you have a payment processor A and implement it in website of business B. You take a share of all the trades, have I understood that correctly? And you didn't tell either company A or B about it? I think that is probably stealing money. Don't wonder if one side figures that out that they sue you.
Never Split the Difference is ostensibly a book on negotiation, but I found it also a great primer on the more subtle and emotional side of human communication.
8 million people live in London, and the centre is full of people at most times of day, hundreds of thousands of people still live near the areas you're talking about, I went for a picnic in Regent's park last weekend and it was full of kids. Characterising it as an empty city full of vacant units or one in which professionals or parents can't afford to live and parks are empty of children is absurd.
with real estate going up the way it's been going up, do you think 15% really that big of a deterrent?
Bugs found in GCC with the help of PVS-Studio
Non-MITMable?

Any of 2,000+ root and intermediary CAs can sign a certificate for any domain name. "That won't happen", except it did: we know of at least DigiNotar and MCS Holdings.

Any hostile government can compel a CA to issue a rogue certificate, and then force them to not disclose that this happened. Our browsers today trust such certificates from basically every country on earth.

Name Constraints would help protect against this, except that no browser implements them. Probably because it'd also make self-signed certificates a lot safer in the process (much easier to trust a self-signed CA that can only validate one domain name.)

DNSSEC+DANE would also help, but again, that'd also reduce reliance on the CA system, so don't expect that to ever happen.

Plus, if you're using a work machine, your IT staff can install a certificate that Chrome and Firefox helpfully refuse to accept HPKP on and will allow said certificate to validate any domain it wants to. The same goes for any malware that stealthily installs a trusted CA for you. And 99.9% of users don't even know where their CA store is, let alone which ones shouldn't be there.

"We don't want anyone spying on you! ... unless it's your school, workplace, or laptop vendor (eg Lenovo.)"
And swap them into central london when the buyer shows up at the airport...
The most important books I've read in the last 10 yrs (with respect to professional growth) are:

Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by G. Colvin

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by C. Duhigg

These books have reshaped how I work and how I think about work. With the knowledge contained in these books it's not hard to outline the daily routines needed to be great at just about anything.
A big pain point of the subreddit system would be solved in an amusing way if subreddits were qualified by the creator's name.

Example: /r/@theymos/bitcoin. Now, instead of looking like Reddit's canonical Bitcoin discussion forum, you're reminded that it's just one person's forum at the mercy of one person's agenda.
I think intelligence it's both. Therefore :
intelligence = information || analysis
Since the first is true, there is intelligence.
I'm one of the founders of Gradescope (the company in the other post).

I see where you're coming from, but I actually think that both of these posts describe ways for students to get more open ended assessment, rather than automatically graded multiple choice questions (i.e. what's typical in MOOCs and Scantrons).
One thing I'm confused about is that everyone seems to treat "Convolutional Neural Networks" as synonymous with or as being the thing that enabled "Deep Learning", but convolutional neural networks are only for image processing, right? Are many layer ("deep") networks useless outside of image processing? Were there other break-through techniques besides convolutional nets that are necessary for deep networks to work well?
The soap is clearly on the "ban" side. But there is an intermediary category of "Ban the publicity of [something] because it's dishonest, don't ban [something] because it's about choice".
If everyone who falls down into the hole is never heard from again, would they even be conscious of the hole?

My understanding of ants is limited, but as far as I know most of their communication is scent or contact-based, neither of which could provide communication past that first step. As far as they're concerned, it's effectively a black hole...
Or we could take an approach similar to the Philippines on drug dealers.