skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could vote every day and have it count. Thankfully this is the case for many goods and services that are provided on the market. If I don't like the product I am getting or where my money is going I simply take my business elsewhere. Providers of goods and services that face market competition are encouraged on a continuous basis to be responsive to consumers or they risk going out of business.

By comparison, voting in elections feels ineffective. Monopolies, even those run by politicians elected every X years, are notoriously bad at serving the needs of consumers. Even if we could vote every day from our phones on who is in charge of a given monopoly, I still don't think it would change much.
I'd hope people who have worked at scale still are capable of recognizing when the tools they used there are totally overkill. I'd suspect they would, since they'd also be more aware of their limitations (vs somebody without experience, who has to believe the "you need big data and everything is easy" marketing).

That you wouldn't use a Boing 777 IF your problem is just a 100m track is the entire point of the article. It's explicitly not saying that you never should use the big tools.
Really? Perhaps you have an odd set-up. I find Firefox feels as fast or faster, especially since I often have 100-600 tabs.

Benchmarks suggest there isn't much in it....

http://hothardware.com/reviews/web-browser-performance-compa...
Hacker Duo Selling GovRAT 2.0 Malware Used for Targeting US Government
It's amazing how many people are ignorant of this logic, and go around wondering why big companies and governments always seem to be offering band-aids and aspirins, but never cures. :)
> I appreciate that Mark Suster is upfront in saying he's only interested in the correct pedigree.

I didn't read it in such black & white terms. More like: If your team is uniquely qualified to solve the problem you're working on, you should lead with that.

At the very least, spend some time refining a story about why whatever background you have actually is the perfect pedigree for what you're working on.
On the other hand, rifles are just a fraction (< 5%) of gun deaths in the United States.
The XNU kernel is not a BSD kernel, it's a Mach kernel. There may be some BSD code in it (the unfinished net80211 wifi stack for iOS, ipfw/pf firewall, MAC framework, some things bolted on to make it traditional unix-y), but it's not a BSD kernel.
I have recently found myself pondering what would have happened if a micro computer back in the BBS days could have handled access to multiple BBSs at the same time. My suspicion is that we would be looking at something very similar to what a multi-tab web browser is giving us these days.
It was (I think I remember it right):

"A star with plutonium in its spectra"
No, they are chemically different cements. However, Roman cements have a tenth the strength of Portland cements, so we can build much bigger structures now even if they won't last as long.
Close. You don't even need a Windows service. Just us a serialized queue using MSMQ. Write the queue listener in Javascript and register with COM+. Excel automation on the server is easy if you do it right, and impossible if you do it wrong.
'And 5 percent had errors that could be devastating, potentially denying lines of credit to them and making things like auto insurance prohibitively expensive. “To have that error level, it’s akin to 5 percent of automobiles spontaneously accelerating and having an accident, or 5 percent of planes falling from the sky,” Wu says. “We wouldn’t accept that error rate in other areas.”'

This is a dishonest statement. Having your insurance be slightly higher isn't nearly as serious as having your plane fall out of the sky. And if only 5% of software had bugs, we'd call it one of mankind's greatest triumphs.

The only thing in this article that concerns me is this statement:

"Those two states denied his application after he failed a credit check[...]"

The government shouldn't be allowed to depend on private companies to approve or reject you in this manner, because then a company like Experian is - in a small way - deciding the law. And Experian in particular is a foreign corporation(headquartered in Ireland), so it's doubly-problematic.
When I join a new team I spend 1 on 1 time with everyone. "Hi, do you want to chat some time? I'm trying to schedule sometime with everyone on the team." I have never been misinterpreted.

On the other hand, a random woman from another department thought I was into her. shrug
A few minutes fun diversion.

A bit of guess work and trial and error, and I have the following bash one-liner:

pngtopnm puzzle.png | pnmtoplainpnm | tail -n +4 | sed -e 's/232 3 138/A/g' -e 's/58 185 229/B/g' | tr -d ' \n' | sed -e 's/AB/A\nB/g' -e 's/BA/B\nA/g' | awk '/.*/ { printf "%x", length(); }' | xxd -r -p | sed -e 's/-//g' | xxd -r -p

I'm not sure the "sed -e 's/AB/A\nB/g'" bit is optimal, but it was the first thing I thought of...

...and I definitely have a tendency to use sed when I should be using tr.
If those platforms are causing issues would it be worth downgrading them to a second-class "LTS releases only" state or some such?
How much is this connected to not having a real id card?

For me is always weird when you see things like "no flight lists" and it is just a list of names. In Spain or Sweden your ID will be listed and the rest of people named like you spared of being harassed.

Another concept that I don't understand is that USA's social security number has to be kept secret or otherwise your identity can be stolen. How that is even possible? Doesn't your employer needs it?

An ID card is not perfect. 40 years ago Spain issued some duplicated numbers, before computers were so prevalent, causing problems. But it solves a lot of problems.

It always seems that private and public bureaucracy in the States is worst that it needs to be.
It might make sense to clarify that you are referencing the (late and unrelated) hollywood film vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot.
I'm human. I read things through a lens partly composed of gall.

In an early draft of my comment I thought about emphasising that it's a showdown between two strawpeople, which leaves most of the rest of us guessing where we fit.
The present study employed a targeted metabolomics approach to examine the effect of a controlled 6-day Panchakarma-based Ayurvedic retreat intervention on plasma metabolites in healthy human subjects.

I'm not sure what 'therapies' mean in the context of healthy subjects or how the data from this study might be applicable to unhealthy subjects.
Where I live in the US, everyone with any DMV interaction is automatically registered to vote, and receives a ballot in the mail a few weeks before election day with a nonpartisan voters handbook that explains issues, allows candidates to give written statements, and allows anyone to publish a for/against argument for the cost of printing – about $100.

We sit at the dining room table, do research, and vote gradually over the course of 7-10 days. Ballots can then be mailed in (with a signature-bearing outer envelope that's stripped away before votes are counted), or dropped off at a library or designated polling place all the way up until election day.

Having to take time off of work and physically go to a polling place with a handful of notes is insane to me.
Actually, just posted essentially the same thing, before reading your comment. I'm wondering as well how the performance would/will scale. It likely depends on how the data is scattered / replicated, but presumable they've worked out decent schedulers for the system. If not, it is open source! Lovin it.
The American Scholar: Writing English as a Second Language (2009)
Okay, I'll give it a look-see. I didn't mean to be overly negative.
The French don't skimp on baguettes (= evil heavily processed white bread) either. There's no silver bullet.
> specific bit manipulation

Rust absolutely lets you work at the bit level, you can shift and mask just like in C.

> explicit memory management

It depends on what you mean by "explicit" here. Most Rust code has scope-based memory management, but you can also call malloc/free within an unsafe block.
Earlier this year, Seagate were showing off their 60 TB SSD[1] for release next year.

So 100 TB in a single drive isn't too far off.

EDIT: Toshiba is teasing a 100 TB SSD concept, potentially for 2018 [2]

[1] 11th August - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/08/seagate-unveils-60t...

[2] 10th August - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/toshiba_100tb_qlc_ss...
I feel you are intentionally conflating / confusing the discussion.

For example:

> If you think you can eat say 500-1000 cals over your daily allowance with any diet and not gain weight, man you have really really been sold hard on this.

No one's saying this - at least, the article isn't, and nor am I.

I will say that you can easily eat 500-1000 cals over your daily allowance with a particular diet (notably low-carb) and not gain weight - and that's what you seemed to be arguing against earlier.

I've got 3 years of carefully recorded data that demonstrates this is the case -- but I'm just one of a huge number of people who have proven this out over the years.

So I'm not clear what point you're trying to make.
That's a pretty straightforward slaughterfest :)
The NHS overall works pretty damn well. US insurance complexity wastes at least as much as NHS management.

The NHS is also great value, costing us far less for universal healthcare than the US government spends on healthcare.

The NHS is also amazingly popular, and until the ideological austerity movement was pretty much getting better.

I'm not sure why so many people in the US think that government cannot run things effectively. The NHS is a great example. Is it perfect? No. Is it better than the alternatives? Clearly.
Reminds me of one of my all time favorite comments about Bane's Rule:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739
Homepage: https://www.geoscreenshot.com/capture
> Lord Baden-Powell would be very disappointed at the Boy Scouts as it exists today.

Lord Baden-Powell as he was or a hypothetical version of him with modern morality applied?

"No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws. So every Scout should have a religion....Religion seems a very simple thing: First: Love and Serve God. Second: Love and serve your neighbour." - from Scouting for Boys. And, generally, he seemed to consider that pretty important.
I think the main reason why Australia has such a high voter turnout is because it's extremely easy to vote. It is compulsory in Australia, but the fine is only $20 (~US$15). Voting always takes place on a Saturday. There are polling booths all over the place, and you can lodge your vote at any booth anywhere in the country. If you know you won't be able to make it on the day then it's quite easy to find a pre-polling station or lodge a postal vote in the few weeks prior to the election.
Should re-submit this when it's actually complete.
He did. He got blood work.
The credit reporting system probably wouldn't work if you had to have the account holder's 'permission' to add events to it - you have to do it in this automated way.

Although it can be a pain, the responsibility of if your credit report is accurate falls on you, the consumer. You should many of the free services to check your credit and then dispute any events that aren't correct. Most people don't have issues but you can have companies that don't report payoffs (they should be fined or something), companies that assign accounts to the wrong person/SSN, etc.
Day 2 problems don't come to mind during days 0 and 1.
There is very little chance that story is even remotely true. The story had 2 sources - Saddam Hussein, and Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka 'Baghdad Bob' (if you don't remember him, look him up - he was a meme before the Internet made memes a thing). On top of that, the story changed from a farmer to a few peasants and back again depending on who was talking and when.

It was propaganda to make the US military look weak and ineffective - the same kind of propaganda that let us watch a split screen of al-Sahhaf's press conference saying the US hadn't taken Baghdad airport and US forces strolling around its tarmac.
... some people at Google would surely argue that my problem is that my ideas are crazy and bad ...

To what extent are such disagreements purely technical (e.g. byte-oriented wire encodings vs. roughly-like-memory) and to what extent are they "political".

By "political" I am talking about your claims about decentralisation and diversity, as if you are selling Sandstorm as the IBM-PC for the cloud millennium: a neutral platform any old software developer. That is very different from Google's way of doing doing business.
Well all do so all the time, some more consciously than others. We are pack animals after all.

Still a good term, and an activity i fear is overwhelming certain FOSS projects these days.
Also, because combustion temperatures can exceed the melting point of the alloy, HPT blades often have a complex set of internal hollows and holes at the surface for cooling air. Air can be passed through to create a boundary layer on the surface that prevents the surface from heating up past the melting point of the alloy.
While this makes perfect sense and works great in the rest of the world, ID numbers in the US have been talked about, but have faced resistance from two groups.. those that think that this is somehow an invasion of privacy, and those that think that this somehow correlates with the 'mark of the beast' and signals the end of humanity according to the bible. (not joking)
I'm not sure bleach would be that interesting. It's like asking deer to evolve resistance to hunters' rifle bullets--it's too steep an evolutionary step.
I thought you only get 1 free credit report per year?
>> How much is this connected to not having a real id card?

Each state has it's own Drivers License and usually a very similar card that is simply for ID. Many places such as banks or cell phone companies will request your drivers license or ID # in addition to your Social Security # to open an account.
"Linear Algebra from Foundations to Frontiers" on EdX[1] is an introductory course in linear algebra with a manageable learning curve. There are many calculus courses on Coursera and EdX.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/linear-algebra-foundations-fronti...
The paper is frankly stupid and a great example of difference between practice and academia. it looks good because they are using a snapshot of Twitter network from 2010. In reality the work flow is complex, e.g. the follower graph gets updates every hour. 10 different teams have their different requirements as to how to set up the graph and computations. These computations need to be run at different (hourly, weekly, daily) granularity. 100 downstream jobs are also dependent on them and need to start as soon as previous job finishes. The output of the jobs gets imported/indexed in database which is then pushed to production systems and/or used by analysts who might update and retry/rerun computations. Unlike a bunch of out of touch researchers the key concern isn't how "fast" calculations finish, but several others such as ability to reuse, fault tolerance, multi user support etc.

I can outrun a Boeing 777 on my bike in a 3 meter race but no would care. The single laptop example is essentially that.
It's an EFF theory, which completely ignores the fact that Apple already controlled both the software and the DAC that enabled the headphone jack in previous models.

Apple has shown good faith on this - they successfully negotiated with/convinced the record labels to allow them to sell DRM-free music via iTunes.
Once per year per agency, which gives you three (I think?) total reports per year.
Another concept that I don't understand is that USA's social security number has to be kept secret or otherwise your identity can be stolen. How that is even possible? Doesn't your employer needs it?

Yes, as well as utilities, banks, insurers, hospitals, etc, etc. Treating the SSN as a password is idiotic, to the point where I almost wish Anonymous or someone would publish every American's number so that we'd be forced to stop doing it.
Speaking of "motivated nonsense". The millions of dollars the meat/dairy industry spends on political campaigns and the revolving door at the NIH might concern you :)

http://qz.com/523255/the-us-meat-industrys-wildly-successful...

Eating a diet based heavily on animal products is almost as stupid as smoking cigarettes. If we didn't have so many wonder drugs keeping people who make bad choices alive, it would be obvious by now. Luckily, drug companies and meat peddlers don't have to worry because the propaganda is working... as evidenced by all of the ignorant comments here.
Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry
Close enough... 43 minutes
Although it can be a pain, the responsibility of if your credit report is accurate falls on you, the consumer.

I can only be responsible for the things I do. If some shithead wants to give third-party information about me it better be accurate, and if its inaccuracy causes me harm it should be actionable.
Note the magic words were "can be faster", not "are faster".

If you'd read the entire article you'd even have picked up that he's explicitly calling out use of hadoop for data that easily fits in memory, not large data sets.
Talking to every candidate (the ones that were loosely designated as 'mine') turned out to be my most favorite part of this whole deal. In some ways, even better than having an opportunity to write an AVR emulator. These guys are smart and they have interesting stories, and the enthusiasm they expressed for what they wanted out of their careers plucked my mom strings pretty hard.

I always knew that if we continued to grow, that this part would go away, but I would have struggled to keep this going as long as I could. Even if it meant less serious $. It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect that had we grown to the point where hiring "actual recruiters," it would have been impossible to find ones with the same mindset.
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In Australia it's only a $20 fine (approx US$15) for not voting.
there is a contingent of vegan proselytizers on hn that always post this stuff when low-carb or keto diets are discussed.
It's a lot higher-performance, because you virtually don't have to parse. Remember when MySQL started supporting the memcached protocol because it'd reached the point where form simple pkey lookups it was spending more time parsing an SQL query than actually executing it? It's like doing that for your program.

But for me at least, the real advantage over JSON isn't the performance but the schema compatibility. You have a spec for your data and generate code from that, which means the spec is guaranteed to be correct, and there's clear documentation about what changes to the spec are or aren't forward or backward compatibile. (You get the same thing from the original Protocol Buffers though).
> I don't think people will "change behavior" just because somebody told them to

Telling people what to do isn't leadership.

Confusing telling people what to do and other ineffective techniques with actually, effectively leading them is part of why we have been ineffective at changing people's behavior, illustrating my point.

> I think the scientific and engineering prowess of the world would be better spent trying to help people cope with the consequences of global warming than trying to persuade them to change their habits.

Black-and-white false dichotomies are another problem.

Believing since we've already done so much that the cause is lost is another.

A better life doesn't require releasing more CO2. In fact, it can often come with less.

Effective leaders don't lose their cool in difficult times. Many shine then. Instead of throwing in the towel on prevention, we can improve the future relative to what it would be if we just say since we didn't succeed yet we never will.
What happens if she dies?
Agreed - simple, accurate, and allows lots of private time to read the ballot document and make decisions. I'm not sure why more states don't adopt vote by mail.
Don't even need to do that. Oregon uses postal ballots and they had 80+% turnout in 2000, 87% in 2004, 85% in 2008, 82% in 2012. That's pretty high, compared to the national turnout of 30% lower in those years.

http://sos.oregon.gov/elections/Pages/electionhistory.aspx
Another submission was marked as "dupe" of this one. Since it has comments in it, I will link to it from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12472671
I'm guessing it's either my Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin, but the site's broken for me on Chrome 52 Ubuntu.
I read there are tens of thousands of Anazasi sites in the Four Corners area. Mesa Verde and Chaco are obviously two of the largest but there are also small sites like graineries and single family ruins out there waiting to be found. I've done a fair amount of exploring in canyon country and coming upon a ruin unexpectedly gets my heart pumping. I find unrestored ruins to be far more interesting than the reconstructed affairs found in the parks.
Power to… the art of protest
Quite honestly, nothing beats a good caloric deficit. Especially if that caloric deficit is from a strong Paleo Diet like the one I have been using.
http://how2loseweightnow.com/2016/09/11/paleo-reboot-diet-be...

What everyone should do, is instead of searching for weight loss tips to go at google and find his daily caloric maintenance, then start eating 500 calories below that with a Paleo Diet and combine all that with a respectable workout program. The fat WILL melt off.
I'm not sure what you mean by "assault-style", but assault weapons are inherently automatic weapons, not semi-automatic. I find it very odd that you specified "semi-automatic" which is, by far, the least dangerous of the two. Are you advocating for bolt-action rifles?
Totally agree here and had the same experience. Scouts was one of the best parts of my childhood and I say that as a kid who otherwise would have preferred to be indoors playing video games.
Many counties in Washington State have gone 100% vote-by-mail. Personally, I prefer that solution-- vote when the heck you want, you have several days to fill it in and drop it in a mailbox.

I'm sure it wouldn't be popular in States where there's a big push to check photo ID before voting though.
A $40 adapter can charge the iPhone 7 with your headphones plugged in
I disagree wrt contributing to open source. There's still a lot of general software engineering that goes into these systems. I've found d it pretty easy to contribute implementations since the core of many ideas are actually quite simple. Of course they're only simple in hindsight, but implementation is just that.
Huh. So who benefits from you posting the solution here?
Well, this is actually covered in the accompanying blogpost (link in comments below), and he makes a salient point:

"At the same time, it is worth understanding which of these features are boons, and which are the tail wagging the dog. We go to EC2 because it is too expensive to meet the hardware requirements of these systems locally, and fault-tolerance is only important because we have involved so many machines."

Implicitly: the features you mention are only fixes introduced to solve problems that were caused by the chosen approach in the first place.
What happens when kids have rich parents?

What happens when kids know they don't have to steal or rob to survive?

What happens when kids know living for the good cause will never starve them to death?

What happens when kids know they can pursue their best interest without worrying about being starved?
EU to Get Tough on Chat Apps in Win for Telecoms
Which is the annoyingly weak answer. Rather say:

Spooner: No. But some humans can. Can any robot?

And see how it plays out from there.