skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
please do introduce me to your generous VC. At current low interest rates, building a stack that is reliant on KDB, will cause a large valuation hit because you're effectively locked into a negative -250k/year cashflow in perpetuity. At a 5% discount rate for example that's more than 5m USD of inflexible negative NPV right up front. Look there are fintech applications where this will be seen as fine (right tool for the job might be the big difference between success and failure) but you'll admit that it's a big ask for the less conventional "disruptor" style businesses which may not have big ticket upfront funding.
Ask HN: What's so bad about 3D graphs?
With the availability of different 3D technologies like OpenGL, WebGL, CSS-3D etc., one would think that 3-dimensional graphs would be more popular visualisation technique today.
But it is extremely rare to come across any, except for certain special visualisations.

I would like to know why you think that is:

1. Is it due to the unavailability of popular 3D-graphing libraries/products?

2. Is it due to the inconvenience of interacting with 3D-graphs, like awkward to read the labels or zooming in etc.?

3. Is there something inherently better in 2D graphs?

4. Any other reason?

Would love to get an opinion on this (or any pointers to relevant resources).
No, she leaves it up to the reader's imagination (note the evocative final sentence) to bridge the inch-wide gap between what she's willing to say, and want she wants to be able to say. Clearly the type of person you want on your board.

And that's a very curious example you cite considering Iran was the place the neocons wanted to invade next under the same set of false pretenses.
Would anyone be interested in an Epiphany dedicated servers a la Rasberry Pi collocation (https://www.pcextreme.com/colocation/raspberry-pi)?

I've always wanted to play with these units, but buying one doesn't make a lot of sense for me (where would I put it?). I would be super interested in making them accessible to folks.
One plus point over the norm is that it's not open to enumeration attacks. At least on the user endpoint and the link you posted.
I use OpenRC on my servers, systemd on my desktop/productive-mode laptop.

On some servers I use s6 toolset. Those are nice. OpenRC is nice. It gets the work done, its so small, its easy to do things with it, and it has less problems than systemd - which I experience on the desktop. Example, started using networkd for managing networks, because hey why not, and NetworkManager is shit, I had gotten tired of typing wpa-supplicant and dhcpcd commands manually. But then, systemd apparantly takes control over the networking subsystem not only the network interfaces - it changes sysctl flags and doesnt delete after itself when asked to stop - it leaves any addresses and other configuration changes it had done. What!?

edit: As all things, systemd-networkd has its place, its just not on a developers laptop, maybe it would be great to have in some kind of cloud environment where you have to configure hordes of machines and virtual machines in them, with networking and networking subsystem configured correctly. Then its nice to have a "do-it-all" tool, but then you should also probably swallow the rest of RedHats output, such as Ansible and look at Project Atomic.
What is Dependent Typing?
Just to put some perspective on this, you are likely unable to survive >9g when experiencing it for more than a few moments, definitely so if you lack proper training for high Gs (there's a few techniques that help to avoid harm). The higher the G forces, the smaller the acceptable time scale is. In a crash, you will only experience such forces for a few milliseconds. Well-trained fighter pilots can handle ~9Gs for a few seconds. Apollo reentry had like 6Gs for ~50sec (take with a grain of salt, very rough numbers), which is brutal but manageable.

And – no matter what the designers/operators say – in a roller coaster, you will never experience more than 1.5Gs for more than a fraction of a second. If you ever thought you experienced G-forces comparable to a rocket launch, you haven't, unless you had the chance to test/train in a centrifuge.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921
It looks like a standard Rails app, so you should just be able to clone the repo and google the rest.
Normally when things are citing @aphyr, I tend to give them some weight, but even aphyr's post is rather old. Thanks for the heads up, I'll do more investigation before posting the link again.
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If the data is 3d, no objection. If the data is 2d then a 3d plot is redundant, usually ugly and prone to mislead (see "How to lie with statistics" and anything by Tufte).
You're right. I did not think this through.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634577 (1 day ago, 229 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12628921 (2 days ago, 176 comments)

See also: "Everything is fine with JavaScript"

Link: http://www.macwright.org/2016/10/04/everything-is-fine-with-...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641473 (1 day ago, 10 comments)
I am disappointed the FDIC decides that risk can be purely evaluated on which loan product you offer and worse, taking away methods by which others can borrow at competitive rates if at all. I don't see the risk anywhere near as bad as if they had been heavily vested in mortgages.

Still there has to be more to the story, I cannot imagine the FDIC just arrives with such orders, especially changing management, without some other red flags. If its merely over to whom they are lending then the FDIC needs to be checked.
Ask HN: Why is the National Airspace System so dated?
Does anyone here work with the FAA, ATC, commercial aviation, NextGen, etc.? Everything about the National Airspace System seems dated and wrong. Here's a stream of questions that immediately come to mind that all sort of convey the same thing: Why do we still talk over the radio instead of receiving instructions digitally to accept/change/deny? Why don’t controllers and pilots have the same information? Why aren’t the arrivals/departures at many major airports fully utilized? Why do controllers so frequently step aircraft down instead of letting us reach our ‘top-of-descent’ and utilize more efficient vertical navigation capabilities? Why are new aircraft, with processors from the 80s, considered "advanced"? Why do I get slowed down, then sped up, then slowed down? Why don’t controllers just control the aircraft themselves from the ground since they’re the ones who know what’s happening? Why are so few airlines approved for LPV (and why do we still use ILS)? Why is it true that an airline pilot today could operate in 1970 without missing a beat (the competent ones, at least)? Why does my job still exist? So much more is possible, but nothing seems to change.

Source: Current airline captain.

(Traveling today. Sorry if I don’t comment much)
>"Service industry" includes financial services, which have been hugely lucrative to the West.

For whom?

>It's a globally integrated supply chain, and cannot be otherwise. There is no way countries are going back to a blast-furnace-to-car vertically integrated manufacturing world.

The most competitive manufacturing though is "blast-furnace-to-car vertically integrated", just not within the same factory (which it wasn't even in Ford's time as you said) but within the same country. That's why China is so much better at it, because it has the whole manufacturing supply chain next door to the final assembly line. Of course you need materials (rubber, metals, oil, etc) but that's something different and at a lower level than manufacture.
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I think I'm gonna try and teach myself to work on this in its new open source incarnation, because I was rooting for it hard while it was still a company, but it was perpetually in a state of "soon, not yet", and now "not yet" is never unless the people who want it step up.
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Considering the desirability of a two letter account name, it seems likely this was a social engineering attack on Instagram support staff. Sadly, humans are often the weakest link.

Hope you manage to get your account back with all the photos intact.
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I'm getting away with npm, webpack, typescript, babel and react (with jsx) with some lo-dash.

Never learned browserify, barely grunt and bower, happily forgot thorough knowledge of gulp. Actively pushed out all of the awfulness of angular.
It's not like Google Wave Or Google+ took the world by storm...
Qt is not bad.
I got interested in libui (https://github.com/andlabs/libui), but it stalled a bit, after a couple of months of very promising activity.
Seconded. I had to do trial and error several times to understand why systemd didn't start the programs I could start with the same arguments on the command line.

The documentation is not that bad but declaring with configuration what you programmed with a script has some limits. Basically you have to learn another language on the top of the scripting one that you still have to use in other parts of the system.

Nevertheless I found that past that point it's easier to read a short configuration file than a long init script. I didn't run in big problems so far, but that systemctl reenable is wierd. Why can't it figure it out by itself?
Yeah, I hope it was social engineering (seems a better option than hacking Lastpass :-) ) but not sure how they could have done it given the information that was on the account/unique to the account. Will be interesting to see if Instagram return the account to me.
I'm a developer and I don't use Dash. I wonder how much I miss.
Electricity providers, water providers, road maintanance, phone systems, etc... Infrastructure everywhere is either in public hands or tightly regulated. Infrastructure provision is simply not a problem for which unregulated markets are a good solution, for fairly obvious reasons.

Sooner or later the IT infrastructure companies will need to be regulated like infrastructure providers.
If you wait for all the pieces of a proposed business to be functioning properly, you will have missed the boat as an investor. It's perfectly reasonable to take a bet on someone who appears intelligent and well connected, with a "maybe" idea.

There's all sorts of hurdles that a company might not get over:

- Tech turns out to be a red herring
- Tech works, but competitors also get it to work
- You can't scale the team
- People buy the product, but you need critical mass to make it worthwhile
- etc
Corrected link to "Everything is fine with JavaScript": http://www.macwright.org/2016/10/04/everything-is-fine-with-...
Will Cozmo Be the First Successful Home Robot?
Looks great even for just refreshing the basics again.
Great work. Thanks.
In general, I don't like those X-to-Y translation pages, when the underlying concepts fundamentally change. You can't use your existing sql mindset to translate to their query language, but instead try to learn from scratch.
I haven't used RethinkDB in ages, but when I did, I used it exclusively for a year.

It took a few weeks for ReQL to really sink in, but once it did, I much preferred it to SQL. As my sibling comment says, its very linear: do this then this then this then this. It also feels very much like sequence processing in functional languages (and I was using Clojure at the time, so it really meshed very well).

I also found it much easier (than SQL, at least in my limited experience) to reason about performance because I knew what it was doing. Is this looked up by index? Yes, because that's the command I used.

So, yeah, ReQL actually ended up being one of the things I liked most about RethinkDB.
I still haven't been able to find a high-end Android smartphone that is actually any good. I returned an HTC One after multiple repairs failed to fix the broken microphone. Maybe marketing is the real problem with HTC, but I'm also disappointed with the quality of the engineering of most manufacturers.
It depends what your app stack requirement is.

Google appengine is PAAS based, has competitive features and low priced than AWS EBS comparative. Google compute service is IAAS based and EC2 comparative.

I found, transition from AWS to GAE is usually not that easy and quick at least for a simple rails app deployment using Postgres.

Appengine has still less developers community which is why learning curve is high and you need to dig and troubleshoot more than AWS which is abundant with tutorials, gems, plugins etc.
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Having worked for a successful(ish) database vendor, I can say that user stupidity (ignorance) is a major factor in database software success.

Literally no users, and almost no employees at the vendors, I would bet (if my experience is not unique) have any idea of the qualities of the software they use/peddle, its semantics or guarantees, or its performance characteristics or how to use it correctly.

This makes the technology secondary; what is most important is how well you carve out mindshare. Whether that is even primarily down to "good" marketing is something I doubt. In the modern saturated database market, it is entirely unclear to me how you win sufficient mindshare and trust to obtain a wide enough (paying) userbase.

I have no idea if RethinkDB was "good" or not, as I did not take the time to investigate; I have little interest in "document stores". It actually seemed to me they had some pretty solid engineering foundations; the kind of thing that the industry should value highly, but due to poor information is unable to price into their purchasing decision, and as a result is missing in many modern (especially OSS) database offerings today.
I can second that, I've tried installing it a couple of times and gave up after some driver/hardware issue. I like the idea, and the virtualbox environment works without any problems.
On debian you can reinstall sysvinit-core.
He's not.

This exists because the tools existed to enable the author to make this in a reasonable timeframe/effort.

If something better/smaller exists, use it. If it doesn't exist, it might be because making it smaller requires tools that take more effort/time to use and thus no one has bothered.

I've traditionally liked crapping on bloated software too, but have come to realize that the plethora of software is fine and I can use whatever I like and abstain from what I dislike. The simple fact is that the alternative to bloated software is a subtraction of that software. And sometimes they happen to be useful, despite their size.
There's this website where you type in things and it searches those things for you. The url is google.com, you should check it out.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/01/10/wbr.smoking.gun/
What about the case where your car insurance costs twice as much because some of your neighbours are serial car wreckers?
Show HN: JavaScript multiple inheritance with correct instanceof
That's how I see it as well. A cash cow, a kind of infrastructure that never really adds anything new. Perfect for PE.

I was in their office last year, talking to people who had nothing at all to do with the core product. There seemed to be all sorts of APIs and whatnot that they are trying to push, all of it marginal in relation to what most people think of Twitter.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1610.0/00878.html

Actual email, rather than just the cherry picked quote from it...
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And yet we have many 'web developers' constantly telling 'real' developers how Javascript is the best thing ever, and all of these 'old' languages are outdated.

Why is JSON praised, but XML shamed ? Java is old, bulky and slow, but Javascript is the answer to everything ? The debate goes both ways.

The correct answer is that all languages, etc. are suitable in the correct scenario, and none should be 'special', whether that be praised above all others, or condemned.
It's a problem with how society allocates it resources to make technological progress.

Payroll goes to pay people to do something non-optimal. As for equipment, well it's great for me because I can pick up used lab equipment cheaply on eBay. But when a startup buys, say low-yield back-thinned CCD cameras and then never uses them human effort is wasted.

As an aside, the startups themselves rarely purchase used equipment (how do you present it in your budget, how do you explain the increased risk that comes with buying a used piece of equipment to your investors?).

So, the economy keeps functioning... but the economy is just money moving around, not necessarily people doing actually useful things.

Edit: Not sure I really understand the downvote. It would be great if you'd comment directly. Particularly given I was attempting to clarify my previous comment as requested.
Theres a bigger difference than you think.

I have here a Sony Xperia E1 and a Motorola Moto G (2nd gen)

The Xperia is also $59 and Sony is a more widely known brand so let's assume they're similar.

The Moto G was $179 new some years ago the Xperia is $59 today.

On paper, they're similar in terms of ram, cpu cores, flash, gpu, etc.

But in practice... there is an absolute world of difference, and we're not talking flagship phones vs cheap ones, we're talking one cheap phone vs a slightly less cheap phone, but still low-mid range.

The screen on the sony sucks by comparison, its all washed out and grey (not IPS), the speakers also suck, the camera sucks, the letters in the SONY logo are falling off it now says SO, the thing is a bastard to hold on to because the case is slippery. It's also just slower for some reason, even though the CPU is faster, so I assume the flash is crappy? And the digitizer sucks, scrolling goes wobbly all the time. (I thought, oh, I'll buy a cheap Sony, they make good stuff... I guess cheap shit is cheap shit no matter whose name is on it.)

and that's Sony, so I can only imagine Blu is worse.

(just FYI, flagships are better at everything in terms of speed, display quality, camera, feeling, etc, but they also do A LOT MORE physically, i.e. they have NFC, they're waterproof, they read fingerprints, they have multiple gyros, etc)
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I disagree. But then again, I want a good version of Unix, and not a free competitor to Windows.
I've actually wondered about this too. I would happily pay rethinkdb.com for hosted rethinkdb :-(
97.7% of which is images.
Also, PageSpeed gives it a 48/100 on desktop.
For a relatively angry-toned comment, I feel you hit the nail on the head.
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Could you elaborate on why `systemctl disable` was not working? I do not uderstand the difference between mask and disable.
If you like, I can forward you my emails from their recruiters too. They're starting to get a little passive-aggressive since I never reply to them.
You realise that something can have bad outcomes for a given group without anyone intentionally seeking those outcomes, yes?
This scheme might even cause a class action lawsuit from the people who bought it AFTER they knew it was fraud but BEFORE they removed it.

Class actions suits have to show damages, no? After the money is refunded, what would the plaintiffs allege?
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Great ! Can't wait to render videos with it
I increasingly get the feeling that systemd is the maven of Linux administration.
I've done both blue-collar, shitty industrial jobs and white-collar cushy programming jobs. If they both paid the same, I'd be very tempted to take the blue-collar job. There's something very fulfilling about working with your hands and producing something tangible. As bad as turning wrenches or pumping a grease gun can be, days of endless meetings with obtuse stakeholders or perpetual yak-shaving aren't any better.
Any unavoidable monopoly is indistinguishable from a government. Whether Apple has reached that point is obviously debatable -- I think most people would say 'No.' But still: their goal is to be the only game in town, and if they reach that goal, we will have to change the rules.

When a corporation behaves this way, it needs to hurt.
> People for thousands of years have used the plant for pain relief and spiritual well being.

Actually, I've been wondering how widely spread was the usage of cannabis. While there were some use of it here and there, has it ever been widely used for recreational purpose in any society?
If you think the function may improve in the future, import the library, if not; copy the code. Remember that you will not go back later to see if there is a new version to copy in.
Frontend and backend developers | Florence, Italy ONSITE | Italian language proficiency needed

Develer is a not so small company that develops software for third parties; our team is composed of passionate people who enjoy coding and learn new technologies. We are looking for software engineers to grow our web-oriented team. Here are some things you will work on:

* full-stack development of performance critical web applications;

* development of HTTP APIs for mobile and web applications;

* full-stack development of real time monitoring dashboards;

* UIs based on web technologies to control industrial appliances;

* mobile application development using React Native.

Our preferred technologies are Python (Django and Flask), Go, React, React Native and frameworks for single page web applications, but we welcome any passionate developer.
If you also know any of AngularJs, Ruby, version control systems or other programming languages (eg. C or C++) you have our attention!

We require at least 2 weeks per month onsite and proficiency in Italian language.

Send us your CV and some code examples at https://www.develer.com/jobs/
people actually had to learn a bit about how their tools worked.

They didn't, though; they just muddled through and asked their friends or some tech support service to reinstall Windows occasionally, when the viruses, adware and other crap made the computer too slow, or when the ramsomware encrypted all their files.
I'm also at Google, so I'm biased.

We're working on releasing the source code for this as well - nothing proprietary about it. Kelsey's hit the nail on the head - it's just an OS that's optimized to run on Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/containers/vm-image/fa...
3D CAD developer | Florence, Italy ONSITE | Italian language proficiency needed

Develer is a not so small company that develops software for third parties; our team is composed of passionate people who enjoy coding and learn new technologies. We are looking for a software engineer with solid experience in building 3D modelling software, with particular experience in the following areas:

* real time mesh visualization using OpenGL or Direct3D;

* development of mesh manipulation algorithms, for example local or geometric transformations in real time;

* interaction with a 3D model, for example free drawing on a 3D surface.

Our tech stack is composed mainly of C++, Qt, Python and OpenGL.

We offer a developer-centric environment with the following benefits:

* 24/7 office access: work any time of the day you are more productive.

* Large desks in quiet offices, with large or multi monitors and powerful PCs

* Symmetric 100Mb internet

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We require at least 2 weeks per month onsite and proficiency in Italian language.

Send us your CV and some code examples at https://www.develer.com/jobs/
This reminds me of the saying: There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
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