skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm still a work in progress! I'm working on a PhD and passed my oral exams because of these books. I have a weekly schedule that balances reading/doing math, writing and coding and producing toward the dissertation. These books have helped me 'discover' the process for becoming an expert. Cribbed from my notes:

One very important idea is the idea of intrinsic motivation: the best motivation is perhaps a really compelling and or interesting problem. Also, time is needed to learn and practice, and this practice comes at the cost of time spent elsewhere (eg producing). So there is a natural division of time into learning (incl. practicing) and producing. A lot of the Talent book is the sort of nuts and bolts of deliberate practice.

From the Habit book: Have a plan for what to do when the pain or other emotional event threatens to derail your action. Such as when this happens, I will do __. Having a plan helps people to get through the event, encouraging will power, and continue on until the will power action becomes a habit (by being incorporated into long term memory I suppose). (Incidentally, this is why having a daily plan help one to be more productive. When you get tired and easily derailed, and are low in will power, you can fall back onto your plan).

1) Cue, 2) Routine, 3) Reward. That is the habit loop.

A book called Moonwalking with Einstein, as well as a number of Cal Newport's books have also been helpful with these goals.
I've actually heard really positive things about Walmart Labs from the Node community.

They've even built and open sourced the popular framework hapi (http://hapijs.com).
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to be confusing Microsoft with "the government". I think you meant:

> If you're government, the possibility of the government spying on your data isn't shockingly worrisome.

which makes little sense to me. If you're government, you should be quite concerned about the possibility of Microsoft spying on your data.
You mean to say the scientific consensus at this point, which is that they are indeed safe. It's silly to refer to people who believe in scientific rigor as "religious".
Some more scale: One 390MW plant = 300 thousand households

If your average bird-killing building uses less power than about 500 households, the power plant is still coming out ahead.
I was about to mention it. I still find it hard sometimes not to get into long winded arguments with people, but after reading this book I've gotten much better at picking my battles.
I don't think anyone has indicated that there are any plans to enforce key pinning (which is completely separate from Certificate Transparency).

Certificate Transparency is required for some CAs (with known mis-issuance events) in Chrome, and I expect it will become mandatory for all publicly-trusted CAs within the next couple of years. I doubt this would affect custom (internal) CAs.

I'm not sure I understand the rest of your argument.
Exactly. Also, there's a meme that "the Russians beat us to space in the '50s because they were cutting so many safety corners".

Bullshit. Not only is it not true, it's not even a good story to teach your kids. "So, you're saying if I cheat I could win?" Good job, dad.

Reality not only has the advantage of being, well, real, but the story is that much better. The Russians won the first round because they were laser-focused on the goal, while America was twiddling its thumbs. They had a genius engineer, Sergey Korolev (pronounced: Karalyov), who was like von Braun and James Webb put together, only better, and was dreaming of sending people to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond. They had a forward thinking leader in Nikita Khrushchev, who was a passionate supporter of the space program, and would give Korolev nearly a blank check each year. And they never put any airgap between military rocket research (ICBMs) and civilian space programs - Korolev & Co built both. It also helped that Korolev was an excellent leader who could motivate his teams to crank out 80 hour weeks and love it and be proud of it. Kind of like Elon Musk, come to think of it.

So of course they were first to throw Sputnik 1 up into space, and the first to send Gagarin on a world tour in orbit.

And then in the mid-60s Korolev died, and Khrushchev got sacked and replaced by stuck-in-the-past Brezhnev. Political will disappeared, funding dried out. They didn't have money to do proper testing on the N1 (their Saturn V equivalent, the Moon rocket), so they did all their testing "in production", during real launches - with results that you could sadly very well imagine.

And meanwhile JFK gave his famous speech ("this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth"). And billions of dollars started pouring into the industry, and the sleeping american industrial complex giant woke up.

And we won the second round, the race to the Moon, fair and square.

It turns out, if you are 100% focused, and you work really hard, and you're passionate - you win. Who knew? And it worked for both sides in that race, but during different rounds in the game.

And only afterwards did the Soviets start cutting safety corners, and only then did Vladimir Komarov crash after re-entry.

Always tell true stories. Bullshit doesn't help anyone in the long run.
It's odd they are using Netflix as a poster child for this. Isn't 30->15% of your subscription really a big deal for them?

I'm an audible, spotify, and netflix subscriber currently. I have to purchase (or use tokens) on their respective sites then I can stream the content in the app.

What is the value add for companies like these to "take advantage" of an app store subscription?
A jailbreak is worth $1 million. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/06/26/china-...
Some threads I read on another site described it as perturbations of a periodic wave moving around the pole in a circle.. modeled something like this:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+x%5E2+%2B+y%5E2+%3...)
or
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=r+%3D+1+%2B+cos(6*theta...
"users"?? Hardly.

Instead, it shows that should copyleft people desire, they can severely damage permissive projects by simply not doing what their own license requires. They kind of prove the point that you have to force people to give back, because given their own tendencies, they won't. LO could have easily been a bilateral partner, instead of a simple consumer.

Even so, LO benefited greatly by having AOO to consume, as I have mentioned elsewhere. You simply can't ignore that nor hand-wave away it's significance.
I remember on one of those restaurant impossible/kitchen nightmare type shows where the restaurant was a BBQ place.

Host: do you know BBQ actually is?

Restaurant owner: the sauce?
Do I understand correctly that you run the converging process on every single point?

Couldn't you have a situation where points really far from a cluster would still converge to that cluster by this method? Something like a long string of points slowly getting closer and closer?

Does the mean shift algorithm have any guarantees on running time and/or the quality of the clustering it finds?
Apache wouldn't permit that due to their distaste for LibreOffice's licensing (read: copyleft).
Nobody is arguing that they should.
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Nobody got hellbanned, and the response was less than reasonable as you can well see. Even more so given that the post was asking for feedback. The only content was that the birthday attack doesn't apply.

If the comment was so canned and pointless then don't reply.
Show HN: Simple approach to responsive tables using data-attr + pseudo elements
You were walking past student accommodation in the summer holidays.
Cool, although I sure wish they had gone with Postgres. I can't live without the occasional JSONB anymore.

I know MySQL has made some half-hearted attempts to make headway on this front, but it has completely changed the way I model certain parts of my data.
People expect HTTPS to mean you either have a trusted CA certificate or you see a big, red warning. Changing these semantics would be terrible for security.

No. You and some other folks on HN expect that.

The general public does not know or care that HTTPS conflates multiple issues. Some random person who just wants to have a secure way to hit the login page of their blog does not know or care. There's room for a spectrum of things and ways to indicate where on that spectrum a particular site is, but HTTPS has been forced to be the one-size-fits-every-entity-in-the-universe solution and so has bundled in things that just aren't relevant to a lot of use cases and made it a binary "either you implement 100% of this 100% of the time or else" proposition when that makes no sense to do.
Well, for starters, it sure looks like France has some problems.

Or it's the same group/people/individual hitting the same place again and again.
I hope they don't force the use of this. I have a web app with subscription working now. Added an App that only works with existing subscription. What if I'm forced to this?
> the initial citizen who sold the property

These people are pensioners (or soon-to-be) who:

a) vote in droves
b) need to flip their houses at a huge profit to pay for their retirements because they don't have enough savings otherwise

> Can anyone explain the purported benefits to society of allowing non-resident foreigners to own residential property?

It's an easy and popular (amongst voters!) way to have foreigners pay for the care of your aging population. I'm not surprised at all there's little political will to stop it.
Maybe soon we will have some malware written in rust.
You know, for security.
I'm kinda intrigued why there are `74` affected accounts (higher than any other country) for a single submission in India.
More precisely When a drunk driver crashes their car, the total damage they're likely to cause to others is about equal to the total damage they'll cause to themselves. Sometimes they'll hit a family car and kill 3 people, more often they'll run into a tree and kill only themselves. It comes out pretty similarly if you look at other harm caused by alcohol.

When you use antibacterial soap, you hurt everyone in the world equally. You hurt me as much as you hurt yourself, but you also hurt 7 billion other people. That means antibacterial soaps cause 7 billion times more damage to others than to oneself on average, while the ratio is about 1 for alcohol.

So someone acting purely in self-interest will mediate their use of alcohol fairly effectively, while a self-interested antibacterial soap user won't mediate their use at all.
I am guessing pfffffft is the sound of JavaScript blowing away the competition
The Hyatt in downtown SF has a rotating restaurant, but it broke down in 2007 and was never reopened. Here it is.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJoyN2P-M_M
Forget JayZ& Beyonce, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Are the Real Power Couple
>turning the other cheek a lot at work this summer

Interesting to contemplate that gesture as being active or passive...

http://dharmagates.org/other_cheek.html
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The memory of most ant species only lasts about 1 day. So for the group memory of the hole to persist there would have to be some sort of pattern of ants going to the hole and not going in, or some sort of warning sent near the hole. Otherwise there isn't an obvious way for this memory to persist in the colony.

Otherwise group memory can persist for years or decades to things such as the location of food sources. Which I learned in the wonderful book: "Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior"

https://www.amazon.com/Ant-Encounters-Interaction-Networks-B...
I may have misread it. Does that still count as AI?

Also, they have a robot grading the GMAT essays since 1999 (http://www.800score.com/content/essay.html)
So your solution is to put an end to the rental market?
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Wikipedia cites 652,375 MWh of "solar only" production in 2015, with natural gas consumption listed separately. That works out to an average 74.4 MW output from the sun alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility#I...

Out of curiosity, why did you subtract the potential natgas from the actual solar output, instead of the actual gas output you just cited?
Interactive Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
No, because many of the middle men are there because you don't trust yourself.

Imagine you wanted to build a Hubspot/Triggermail/Vero type system, where you send emails to users when certain events are triggered.

Now suppose you use Sendgrid or Amazon to actually transmit your mail. You are unlikely to give very many developers actual sendgrid keys or access to call sendgrid. Most developers will call an internal API to send mail. This internal API will then perform a bunch of sanity checks - duplicate detection, rate limits, dirty word filters, etc.

Can you "cut out the middle man" by letting each internal service have their own internet connected SMTP server, and stop paying sendgrid and fire whoever builds the internal API? That would be pretty silly.

Similarly, a bank can't really get rid of the risk checks, money laundering checks, data normalization checks, etc.
As others have pointed out there isn't really a social hierarchy among ants. Their a mostly decentralized autonomous colonies. The only real hierarchy is who gets to walk on top of others in a tunnel, which it usually the workers going back outside walking over the younger ones who aren't old enough to leave yet.
Most Americans don't know what Libre means. It just sounds like a European word... French or Spanish, perhaps. They also don't know how to pronounce it... Lee-Bray-Office, Lee Brooff-iss, Li-berr-office? It always felt like a missed opportunity when they chose that name.
I was really hoping to see more happen in line with the interactive database querying tools and demos. Slicing and dicing data, some simple analytics, maybe a little about how to get the data in and out to/from other systems. Something to show that it's almost at a practically usable point - then I'd be on board.

That's the kind of thing I could use now for my projects, but I get the idea that it's not the focus, with this new effort on the programming language. I was really a bit shocked and disappointed to see Flappy Bird to tell the truth, I felt that the project has maybe lost its focus.

After some reflection, it makes some sense, because I guess it's showing how the database is used for state in the background, so it's showing the close integration that's possible. OK cool - now please back to the data exploration/querying/analytics focus!
I like that they've done this. Are there examples of companies that have done this and users or the media noticed when they removed it?
P.S. I've been toying with your API (very cool service). I tried to break the API a bit triggering 500s successfully. Based on the error messages I saw, I think it's running in debug mode. I'm happy to help provide suggestions.
Ribbon is part of Windows UX guidelines these days, and has been for a long time now.
Your description also helps for musicians whose font just doesn't display that symbol...
You hardly have to do anything. Various agencies will do everything for you. You'll never hear about your tenants.
Trappers/hunters who work in the wild wrap plastic around trees so otherwise adept tree climbing animals such as mice can't climb up the tree to eat their stored food (when bears aren't around in winter who could bypass the plastic). I'd imagine the machined metal used for the vents serve a similar purpose. Just not enough traction to climb that high up.
Though interestingly, their EV cert pricing is quite competitive.

https://www.digicert.com/ev-ssl-certification.htm
The Coriolis force is strongest at the poles and weakest at the equator, so I presume there would be more rotation and thus less banding near the poles due to this effect.

The origin of the banding is supposedly similar to the banding on Earth, which has three broad 'bands' driven by Hadley cells (polar, mid-lattitude, tropical), driven by convective heating moving energy away from the equator towards the poles, except presumably Jupiter has much more energy and therefore more convection and more bands.

I only have a very crude understanding of atmospheric forces, though, so paging someone who knows better.
It's also fascinating to think about how TCP is ineffective at that distance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet is a good starting point to learn more.
weird this isn't on the front page even though it's only 5 hours old as of now
hkmurakami made a very astute comment a few days ago about this:

> It seems that we made a pact with the devil by positioning housing as an
> investment asset. By doing so, we've encouraged people to commit a very large
> fraction of their net worth into a rather illiquid asset, tying their financial
> fates to the future assessment of that asset. As a result, protecting the price
> and appreciation of this asset has come to overshadow the other crucial roles
> that housing plays in our society.
> If I bought shares in AAPL at $50 (now
> $100+) and someone comes along asking that AAPL let them buy some shares for
> say, $65, I'm obviously not going to be happy since the value of my investment
> is under threat. This is the kind of reaction we've unfortunately promoted for
> ourselves. It didn't have to be this way, as other countries have shown us.
> But now that we're here, it's hard to imagine a way to turn back time.

I live in Boston. My peers and family are pouring out their savings of the last 10 years to buying property in Quincy and Jamaica Plains because they feel it'll gentrify soon and in another 10 years they'll be making good money from it (by either renting or selling). I feel extremely conflicted about this. I think they're probably right.

This housing situation is the most fucked up thing I know of, and I just cannot think of any happy answers to solve these problems for the benefit of everyone in society - it seems any and every decision will favor one party and fuck the other.
What laptop and BSD flavor do you use?
Well, one famous story about dining with Nero is that he would round up local Christians, dip them in oil, crucify them, have the crosses planted around his dinner table, and light them on fire so that the burning Christians would serve as torches for his banquets.

Let's see...he became emperor when he was 17. He had his own mother executed. He banished a wife for not bearing him children, and then when his wife after her died, he had her body stuffed. He spent all of his time faffing about with his lute and his chariot-racing, but of course being emperor, he would have all the great chariot racers fake losing to him and all the greatest artists say how much better he was than them, and then he go around talking about how he was the greatest of all time.

He grossly mismanaged the empire, and when large portions of Rome were burned during a great fire, he took the opportunity to annex huge chunks of downtown real estate to build an enormous, gaudy palace (featured in the linked video). The palace itself was such an embarassment to the administration that successive political leaders of Rome tore it down, sold off the valuable bits, and used the land for public benefit (the Colosseum stands over part of land annexed for this palace).

So, I think dining with Nero in this structure would be a bit like dining in Saddam Hussein's palace. It would be shocking to piss in the gold toilets and stuff but you wouldn't really have the capacity to take it all in because you'd be in abject horror of being burned alive for failing to praise the beauty of the emperor's singing voice.

Some people believe that all that shit in The Book of Revelations about 'the antichrist', '666' etc was code about Nero. Before Nero, the Romans pretty much regarded the Christians as weird hippies, mostly broke foreigners who spoke Latin with heavy accents if at all, but hey, if they wanna talk about love all day and live in communes, who cares. Nero, however, needed someone to blame for all the troubles (mostly caused by him), and so he looked to the Christians: poor, foreign, weird...perfect people to scapegoat. So he's the one who really got Roman persecution of the Christians rolling.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/reddit-removes-wa...
Taxation shouldn't be used as a tool to modify behavior. That's actually the exact opposite of good tax policy. Taxes should be broad based, with few exemptions, to raise the needed revenue while minimizing side effects.

The distortions in housing markets are often partially caused by tax policy, and those areas should be addressed (tax deductions for mortgage interest for example). Other than that, it's best to actually deal with the root problem: outdated zoning laws.
SpaceX is hardly green, I would imagine. That doesn't change the realities of what they're up to.

I don't support the green label on solar panels that are only profitable because of government dole. However, I still believe the methodology for determining risk (internal to SolarCity) to be sufficiently safe (for me to invest). I'm familiar with what they're up to, though.

Could it be the case that a 6.5% rate reflects the risk, but also the difficulty of securing operating funds. e.g. a sweetened deal for those willing to support them.

I'm interested in finance, but not a financier... so, my opinion could benefit from correction.
You might look at YAML: it is a superset of JSON that allows unquoted strings.
To put it bluntly: The inconvenience caused to you (and other users who might be able to make an informed decision when facing a certificate warning) is less important than the risk that a non-technical user accepts a certificate mistakenly and falls victim to a MitM attack.

Oh, and every browser I'm aware of allows you to import CA certificates, so why not just do that once and get a nice, green lock?

I don't know many non-technical users who use SSH regularly, but even for technical users, I doubt too many check the fingerprint, so the TOFU property of SSH is still a problem. That being said, SSH's TOFU is not all that different from the process of installing a CA certificate in your browser so ... just do that.
Ssh it's ok. None of us will take your place as a "real programmer" :)
I'm rarely home and have a small studio apartment. I don't have AC (most homes I know don't have it in Oakland), and there's almost no point in running fans when I'm gone.
Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" changed me when I was younger.
Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" changed me back when I got older.
Reddit did.

https://m.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4ct1kz/reddit_dele...
I can't live without the occasional JSONB anymore.

Some can't live without Aurora anymore ;) - they start their projects with MySQL(even thought they prefer Postgresql) to be Aurora compatible, just in case they need it.
Yup. Most of the energy actually goes into building up kinetic energy to be able to circle around at tremendous speeds. Lifting the thing up to that level only takes a tiny fraction of the total energy budget. Blue Origin can only climb up, then fall down - for now.

But who knows what they are working on.
AOO is neither, per the security problems that brought about discussion of retiring the project.
Or conversely the lack of upward mobility is a suitable reflection of the socialist environs.