skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda amusing that it looks like the girl in flight is about to slam hard!
How an Entrepreneur Can Win in This Age of Disruption
Show HN: lptrace – Trace any already running Python program
nowadays commercials of Insurance companies actually tout that they pay the settlements.

It would be like me, a Developer, touting that I actually finish apps, I don't just take the money.
Yeah, she is transparently a boring establishment proxy, but so what? The US constitution is intended to preserve the establishments power, and you think its fine to celebrate that like a holy relic.

I don't get this overhyped aggression towards Hillary, her crime is basically to be a career politician. How can that be comparable to the idiot scumbag running for president?
Micro:bit developer community
Yes - the article is not very good but I couldn't find anything decent (didn't search long though). Put this up mostly interested in what actual people might have to say.

Data point - in my 40s (doing DevOps atm). Truth is in my company (one of the big ones) I do not see a lot of older folks doing technical work (I might be the oldest in a team of about 40 people). So I'm wondering - where is everyone (and why am I not there too)?
In fairness, it's my understanding trampolines are really honestly fairly hazardous, despite their pedestrian appearance & our fond memories.

More than 1 million people went to emergency departments for trampoline-related injuries between 2002 and 2011, with nearly 300,000 of those injuries involving broken bones

approximately 900,000 consumer trampolines sold each year

Doing some extremely crude correlation- For every ten trampolines sold a year, one person will visit the ER that year, and for every thirty trampolines sold, one person will break a bone. Yeah, I can see why insurance doesn't like them.

They aren't saying you can't have one, they just don't want to cover them.

http://theweek.com/articles/472062/dangers-owning-home-tramp...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/trampoline-injuries...
No, an injured guest could sue you and your insurance company would be required under the policy to defend you and pay any bodily injury against you.
Taken to it's logical conclusion you can argue that every business is going to try and cut every possible cost and service to maximise profit.

Insurance is not about helping people cover expenses though, it is about pooling risk for the benefit of the group. This does mean that if you are a stunt helicopter pilot then other people in a low risk pool may tell you that they don't want you in it anymore.

America has a whole bunch of weirdness around insurance law etc. so I can't really speak much as I'm foreign - but there are good reasons that insurers don't cover Skiing on default travel insurance for example - and it isn't to screw the consumer.
My mistake is expecting anything from Twitter at this point. I don't care about being able to save a search.
First off, this company makes a really big claim, "The credit card was broken. We fixed it." Super sweeping, no? Then they say "The next time you hear about a big credit card breach, you can relax." Both of those statements clearly aren't true, IMO, so if I was harsh, it was partly in reaction to their over the top hype. Don't claim you solved the problem of credit card fraud when you really just made a disposable number generator that's already available from two big national banks, and didn't do anything new to address the issue of physical card use and all the associated forms of fraud.

Anyway, in terms of constructively mentioning more specifics, I was thinking it can solve:

-Hacked E-commerce Merchant... [since they get a virtual number]

-Malware on Consumer PC... [since you would not be storing/entering the actual number any more]

Less so, now that I think about it:

-Physical record theft [from] Merchant, government agency... [Kinda - if you pay all government agencies and merchants virtually, you're fine, although those you pay physically are still vulnerable to theft]

(Processor breach is still going to catch your physical purchases, but using virtual numbers online could reduce the attack surface of that particualr vector... So I guess it's two clear solves and two half solves... depending how much online purchasing you do vs physical)

Also, anyone who thinks i'm completely dismissing the company is reading too much into my comment. By "no thanks!" I just mean it doesn't solve any problems for me right now. That's not a dismissal of the company's long term prospects, just because, IMO, the MVP is weak, for me. (As I said in another comment, I happen to bank at a national bank that offers free disposable CC numbers to all customers through standard online banking web login... not everyone has that, so maybe they'll sign up.)
Is taiko short for tai kong (太空) = space in Mandarin in this case?
I guess you live some place with free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare.
Hardware exploit allows ASLR side-channel attack on X86 processors
Absolutely. I just opened my home policy online and I have $300,000 coverage for Personal Liability in addition to coverage of home, property, etc. The description for the Personal Liability insurance says:

"If a claim is made or a suit is brought against an insured for damages because of bodily injury or property damage caused by an occurrence to which this coverage applies, we will:

* Pay up to our limit of liability for the damages for which the insured is legally liable. Damages include prejudgment interest awarded against the insured; and

* Provide a defense at our expense by counsel of our choice, even if the suit is groundless, false or fraudulent. We may investigate and settle any claim or suit that we decide is appropriate. Our duty to settle or defend ends when the amount we pay for damages resulting from the occurrence equals our limit of liability."

Some people also take out a personal umbrella policy which covers personal liability beyond home or auto. For example, a former employer's daughter and a friend were in an auto accident. The parents of the friend sued my boss for personal injury on her behalf, and my boss had to pay about two million dollars. Her auto policy probably covered $100-500k of that, and the rest was covered by the umbrella policy.
I think it's the opposite. People used to raise children more communally. People knew each others children and would scold them if they misbehaved while out in the street etc.

Nowadays, people are fearful to give misbehaving children feedback for fear of the parent getting aggressively offended.
You cannot isolate yourself from corporate crimes based on where you live.
For text yes, but not so much for sending attachments like documents or other arbitrary files.
I agree with this 100%! I grew up free to explore the woods, build forts, climb trees, jump off rocks, swim unsupervised, ride mt. bikes down steep hills, drive dirt bikes from age 10 on, drive snowmobiles, carry a pocket knife, whittle, etc... Yes, I cut myself on occasion, even broke a couple bones, but it was completely worth it and helped me grow up to be self sufficient, self confident, and know my limits, strengths, and weaknesses.

I really do feel badly for most of the kids today, who are so hampered and restrained.

Don't let you kid fall into a bonfire, but DO let them burn themselves on the stove (after you tell them - that is hot). Inform but let them learn from their own mistakes. There's nothing wrong with a few cuts, bruises, scrapes, burns, etc...
It’s 2016, why are you still going to the office?
I'm curious how you feel about the leaked Donald Trump tape.
What is 'satire logic'? Has it got a different notation from the predicate calculus?
It's a reflection of the societies we live in. More difficult to avoid that in the suburbs than it is in the city.
Over the past year I've gotten increasingly frustrated with the overall Quality of the Amazon shopping "experience."

I used to be able to trust Amazon. I could simply type in the type of item I wanted, search for the highest reviewed / rated and click buy.

Now, I have to:

1. Wade through the Ads and crap products to find what I actually searched for.

2. Read all of the comments, perform some type of judgement whether these are fake reviews, sponsored reviews, etc.

3. Figure out if it is "Fulfilled by Amazon" or sold directly (I only recently realized all of the "Fulfilled by Amazon" items get commingled, so I'm getting basically god knows what).

4. If Fulfilled, now I have to research how reputable the selling company is. Just yesterday I found a company selling baby formula, whose domain name was registered last month, and via a privacy service!?!!? If you can't list your business address, I'm not buying from you.

5. Now I need to determine whether the sold by Amazon item is fake or legit. Lets hope some other sucker buys it before me and posts a good review.

At this point, I would rather just goto Target or Walgreens, CVSm etc and buy the damn thing. Taking 20-30 minutes to research every purchase is getting very old.

...But hey 2 day shipping for $8/ month right!
Please read the report. The term "secret law" is purposefully used with quotes. While not all of the above categories are technically "laws," they often have the force of law and are significantly influencing the actions of the government and its citizens.

Do you think that given the potential impact on such issues as torture, extrajudicial killings, and mass surveillance, this growing body of "secret law" should see the light of day? This is the key question.
Are various ethics irrational? Quite probably.
Being more specific on which ethics you mean might give more to chew on.

Humans are notoriously great at pattern matching, and seeing things that aren't there simply based on a prior mental model. Stereotypes of all kinds are a result of this.
My wife and I are not "helicopter parents", but that doesn't mean we don't believe in healthy boundaries. Mike talked about wanting to believe that his kids would respect his trust, well part of that respect can also be earned in demonstrating that you do, in fact, "know better" about some things by virtue of your age/experience/wisdom. As a parent I don't use my "wisdom" as an excuse to prevent them from learning things for themselves, but in the case of playing on the roof for example, I would put a limit. C'mmon man, don't kill your kids for an ideal.
Paxos: I've been trying to look for that. Having cloned the code and grepped for paxos I'm getting no hits. Where is the paxos implementation?
What's the basic difference between coredns and classic bind based dns??
There's a guy at work whose position is unclear to most. It's just that random guy.

Typically, on monday mornings and friday evenings, he's very loud and looking busy. This is an age-old trick to superficially keep your job.

Ever so often one would hear his odd sounding voice pierce through the office talking about some idiosyncratic evidence while looking proud of himself.

Truly, if this guy was a programmer (which I doubt), he would be using lambdas. See, lambdas might have a use after all...
Facebook embraces utility with food ordering and ticketing
Reader view isn't perfect yet, which is probably why (useful as it is) most people don't use it.

Also, as more readers use it, the ad industry will try to circumvent it, e.g, by tricks like turning part of the text into images, et cetera.

Eventually, you will probably be better off by OCR'ing the rendered webpage (i.e., as the user sees it), and using AI to only keep the relevant text and images.
WTF does the person's race have to do with it?
There are also a couple of forks of GitX, and IIRC Google doesn't bring the best-maintained one to the top of search results. You may have to dig a bit to find it.

The tree visualization in GitX is also pretty decent as such things go.
on hawkpost the encrypted blob only goes through the sending queue and is never stored permanently on the machine.
Payment processing industry is very heavily regulated, moving your infrastructure to a new solution is extremely costly from the audit/compliance perspective and in some cases it's downright impossible to move to "the cloud" because of the physical access restrictions etc. To my knowledge all of the big boys - V, MC, AmEx, Discover host their own infrastructure (or partner with certified data centers).

That "piddly little local co-locted hosting company" (whoever they are) is subject to some pretty intense level of scrutiny and has to pass gazillions of tests outside of your normal hosting SLA stuff just to claim that they are compliant.
An old joke about this:

They go to the elephant graveyards of IT, banks.
Back in 2010 when I first heard about Khan Academy and started using it the videos were incredible but the exercises were limited at best.

Over the past six years I've seen the quality of the videos, the exercises, and the tracking of student progress improve at least 10x on the whole.

Ben has played an massive role in the development of Khan Academy and though it, has effected the lives of millions of students myself included.

If you are reading this, thank you so much for all of your hard work.
I definitely agree with that. If there is somebody who actually writes a few units of production code, a few units of test code, and then refactors, then I expect things would be pretty close.

However, for me that's a hard set of behaviors to stick to. If I let myself say, "Oh, I'll test that later" I'm likely to get lost in the problem, write bunch of production code, and then say, "Well, it already works, but I guess I'll add some tests." There's no clear stopping point.

Test-first programming, on the other hand, is easier for me to stick to. If I don't have a broken test, I write one. If I have made the test pass, it's time to write another test before I write more production code.
There's a lot of activities that the AAP recommends against and we did almost every one of them as a kid. I'm eternally grateful to my parents that I enjoyed an amazing childhood full of trampolines, dangerously unstable and high tree forts, homemade fireworks, driveway skateramps, pocketknives (and plenty of sliced fingers), and all of the other cool shit that parents don't let their kids do anymore.
At GitLab we're exploring an idea that may turn the tide. I agree that online editors don't seem the way forward. The problems are:

- People have wildly different preferences (TextMate, Sublime, Atom, VScode, vim, emacs, etc.)

- It is really hard to get an online IDE right. The most advanced version is probably Eclipse Che and they have an API to do autosuggest by looking in all the files.

Also see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22863

"It ought to be enough if one can trigger opening a buffer in a local editor, which accesses a local webserver provided by your browser, backed by the textarea, and having a means of updating the textarea on save via a POST issued from, say, Emacs to Firefox's textarea-httpd."

I think the better approach is to sync the entire directory so you can do global search and replace and autosuggest.

My idea of how to make the IDE sync work:

1. You click on an icon in GitLab, it is next to where we now show the url for the terminal.

2. The icon opens a url, with a schema specific for our solution (although we should open source the protocol so others can reuse it). In the url is the following information: server and project location, pod and container to connect to, a token to identify the user.

3. Beforehand the user has installed a local client that is registered to handle this type of schema.

4. The filesystem of the container is synched to the users machine by the local client (I propose to a default directory system specific to the local client).

5. The local client also opens up the favorite editor of the user (make this configurable with smart default by seeing what editors are installed via which).

6. The local editor talks to an endpoint of GitLab, similar to how our terminal works.

7. GitLab uses kubernetes/docker exec to run unison and fswatch on the container (this is a different approach that the volume approach suggested in https://github.com/leighmcculloch/docker-unison#docker ).

8. GitLab makes a reference implementation of this for MacOS, using unison and fswatch. The community will hopefully make Linux and Windows clients.

What do people think?

Also see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22876
Solar Roadways after $3.9M in funding and 6.5 years of development [video]
You can continue to use apt and just reboot when your kernel package is updated.

If you don't want to reboot, then you can add livepatching.

It works with the existing kernel packages to fill the gap before you reboot. In other words, it's not a bypass for apt; it works in addition to it.

But livepatching doesn't cover all situations. Currently it's only high priority CVEs, and the article talks of situations where it's not possible at all. Given that apt is the fallback, I don't see how anyone could consider it to be lock-in.
> I'd argue that making stuff modular wouldn't even solve that problem in the first place, you'd just have piles and piles of PIECES of phones instead of piles and piles of phones.

Presumably, with better parts standardization, you'd have companies buying off broken phones and reassembling the still working components into new phones. Sort of what happens in Shenzhen, but on a larger scale.
Yes, I do! I actually had pretty bad RSI almost 11 years ago (not in my wrists, but in my arms), which have made me use a break program, a split keyboard and a pen-mouse. These changes, especially the break program (using MacBreakZ now) have cured my RSI.

More details here: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/
I mean. I've yet to hear for anyone seriously calling for Theresa May's dismissal and a re-election, and her Government has asked for exactly that - companies to report on their foreign workers to the Government. She has overrode the Home Secretary on whether this data would be made (partially) public with companies "named and shamed", but has stated since that she would still like the reporting to happen.

On the other side of the Channel, the National Front, a far-right party with ties in its leadership to neo-nazi ideology and Holocaust denial, is showing in the polls as likely to win the first round of voting in next year's Presidential elections. While I don't follow French politics with any great detail, I do understand that they have policies of turning a blind eye to hate crime towards Muslim people and making life difficult for Muslim people and those who associate with them. Which is, IMHO, a pretty surefire way of further pushing Muslim people into secret mosques run by radicals.

Across Europe, the far right is rising with similar proposed policies - shut Muslims out of society, label them, make it mandatory to report on their actions, make it difficult to interact with them.
“What are the chances of falling off the roof?” he argued vociferously when we tried previously to hash it out. Have I ever known anyone who has fallen off a roof? Anyway, he said, it’s not as if he doesn’t give his kids any limits: They are not allowed to play ball or tag up there."

Yes, but most kids are not allowed or encouraged to play on their roofs. If they were, the rate of injury would likely be much higher.
I turned 40 this year, most of the developers I work with are older than I am. The answer is in Federal contracting.
You could, and you'd add your name to the long list of people creating bad statistics about CVEs.

See this talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sx0uJGRQ4s
I think the issue that people have with Thiel supporting Trump is that if America needs an anti-establishment president to "shake up the system" that is not Clinton/Romney/Ryan/etc, then it's hard to believe that Trump--with all his flaws--is the best choice. You're telling me there is no one better that Thiel can throw his support and money towards? I find that hard to believe.

I guess some people just like to watch the world burn.
> You realize that a US President merely hinting that we won't defend our NATO allies is a direct path to World War III?

You realize that any attempt to implement Hillary's proposed no-fly zone in Syria would require the US to shoot down Russian aircraft? You realize that is an act of war?

We are way closer to World War III than you realize, and it's most definitely not Trump's rhetoric that has brought us here.

> Enough of his supporters legitimately believe the election is rigged that we're looking at the delegitimization not only of our likely next president but the entire political system.

Hillary's team[1] is the one training protesters in methods of provocation and escalation to violence and then sending them to Trump rallies to cause chaos and anarchy. Hillary's team is the one celebrating that their covert operations succeeded in having a rally in Chicago shut down. Hillary's team is the one subverting democratic institutions and promoting escalations of violence and anarchy.

These shenanigans wouldn't even have been attempted if the Clinton Machine operatives thought that the press would cover the stories fairly and objectively. (Or, if they really buy into their own propaganda that bird-dogging provocation is somehow blameless, they would claim hostile press). Either way, it took an independent journalist (who is maligned and whose credibility is still attacked by corporate media) to expose the operation and offer the people the chance to really understand what happened in Chicago, San Jose, and elsewhere.

Without a functioning 4th estate, you cannot have real democracy.

[1] Yes, she had "plausible deniability" but that's irrelevant at this point. Whether Hillary is actually the calling shots makes very little difference. Her so-called "political machine" is all she has going for her.
Revolut no longer wants American customers, so likely not much mention on HN.

(It's impossible to reload a Revolut account from a US one now.)
> Author confuses standard math notation with erlang, missing the fact that other,

The article is silly whimsy, you know that? Knowing the author from online presence, I can assure you the author doesn't really think Knuth was writing Erlang at that time.

> that other, more pure, functional programming languages

Maybe the author doesn't care about other more pure functional programming languages. They care about Erlang so they wrote about it.
Trump has nothing that wikileaks could report.
"In children younger than 14 years, rates of swimming injuries were similar to those for trampoline".

"Injury rates attributable to bicycling and use of playground equipment were higher [than trampoline injury rates in comparable age groups]"

Sounds a bit overblown.
What was that old Dennis Leary monologue about how all kids' toys in the 1950s were actually a Darwinian means of weeding out the weak and stupid before they could reproduce?
Stephen Wolfram on How to Tell AIs What to Do
That's very literally survivor bias.

How many kids swam unsupervised, jumped off rocks and rode down steep hills and didn't return home?

They're not here to tell the tale about how it "worked fine for them".

I'm not saying that things haven't gone too far the other way, but anecdotes about how things were fine aren't good data.
Great. Where can I sign up for this service, outside of Final? Bank of America is not an option (see: 2008).
Vision. Vscode folks have a great vision for an open source js based editor. They aren't an add on like Google cloud shell, it's built on ground up to be a developers favorite light weight editor.

I'm glad language server protocol is getting more adoption.
One would assume that would be for facebook employees only.
Asked and answered decades ago[0,1].

[0]: https://people.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncer...
[1]: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/vetta/CS764.dir/bounded.pdf
They become architects / development managers / product managers / pre-sales engineers / professional services consultants / founders of startups / project managers / security advisors / dev ops managers / tech recruiters / biz dev managers / even sales...