skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's stupid to make business decisions based on just that (of course, the content of the speech matters - e.g. if you are a coal miner and the speaker says she will bankrupt coal miners, it's prudent for you to exercise extreme caution in dealing with such person). But that's not where we are at. We are at people trying to shame YC into making business decisions they obviously don't want to make based on shaming mob's political preferences.
That's my understanding as well, and there's a lot of sources for that just a Google search away.
"self-defeating"

(though I thought OP's comment was actually quite funny.
Or VB classic in the '90s.
I do hear you, buddy.
I'm french, and I do say "Astronaut" when I speaking about space. I'm just stating that in newspaper (not always), they say "spationaut".
It's just how it's supposed to be said. But not everyone is following this. And it's ok.
I was just highlighting the fact that there is a different name for people going to space regarding the country they are from. That's all.

But yeah, the american word it has probably won in the popular culture and in the day-to-day language.

Sorry. I didn't want to sound like Mr. know it all.
Schiaparelli lander status update from ESA TV live stream (20:35 CEST):

- already two sources confirmed losing signal during landing sequence (GMRT radio telescope in India [1] + Mars Express orbiter [2])

- still more data coming around midnight CEST (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter [3])

- processing new data will take some time (ESA team will work on it through the night)

- press conference with hopefully more news about lander's fate tomorrow at 10:00 CEST

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Metrewave_Radio_Telescop...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Express

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter
Yeah I recently bought a hard drive enclosure there that is barely functional. I'll admit it was cheap, but it was also one of the first ones to come up in search and had good reviews. It's not the first time either, lots of the electronics I buy turn out to be no-name knock off brands. Including some Apple chargers that claimed to be real. Sometimes you pay more at a dept store, but they also typically don't sell straight up garbage.
> What do you do during index creation: Do you drop write requests on the floor? Do you store them in a persistent queue somewhere? Or do you remove a node from the cluster, create the index, re-add the node to the cluster, and repeat this on every other nodes?

The last of those -- for small indexes, we just replicate them out like normal queries. For large indexes, we take that node down and add offline.

> So, basically, you're doing a rolling upgrade? Have you evaluated compiling your stored procedures to dynamically loaded libraries, or using an interpreted language like Lua/Python/JavaScript?

Correct, rolling upgrades. It's worked well to date, but the idea of putting the plugin into a dynamically loaded library is really interesting. Our plugin system is relatively new (only the past few months) so it hasn't really been considered. Great idea!
This looks very promising. Stripe seems to have sometimes let surprising payments through up to now, even with all the card details security checks they provided activated, and they've never supported 3-D Secure. They've also suffered from surprisingly high rates of unexpected declined charges in our experience. Hopefully if they're now rolling out more comprehensive fraud protection, that will go some way to addressing all of those concerns, so best of luck to them with this new development.

Edit: It appears there's a small per-transaction charge for their enterprise customers on custom plans but it's now included for free with the standard pricing. Can anyone confirm this?
Few people think that moving an office from a suburb to a city will make everyone happy, clearly those that live in the suburb next to the office will not be happy that they have a longer commute.

But unless the company is small enough that a significant portion of its employees live in that suburb, moving to the city has the potential to ease the commutes of many more employees since the city in general has more housing density, and better transit connections.

I worked at a company that moved from one suburb 40 miles away across the bay to another. Within a year they lost about 30% of their employees that didn't want to make the commute or move. Since I lived in the city, the only different in my commute was taking a different train system... and the new location was a bit more bike friendly from the train to the office, so made my commute better.

So while you may not want to give up your 10 minute suburban commute, the employee living 2 suburbs over that fights traffic ever day for his 30 minute commute to the company may be happy to take the train his suburb to the city to the new location.

Public planning and transit is not about making your commute better for your job at one particular employer, but about making the commute better on aggregate for everyone.

The Bay Area is not a good example of good transit oriented planning, or Google would have been allowed to build housing near its campus, Apple wouldn't have been allowed to build a 13,000 employee office even farther from BART+Caltrain than its current office, and the 49ers wouldn't have been a 70,000 person stadium without regard to existing transit connections.

Since communities largely do their own city planning, they optimize for their own growth and tax base, ignoring issues of traffic.
Among my cohort, no one died in childhood due to an accident. The closest was an older guy due to an ATV accident... after he graduated high school.

Among children / classmates close to my age in my hometown, I'm not aware of anyone who died, due to accidents or otherwise. So our mortality rate was somewhere below 1%, and I don't see anything to indicate we were unusual in that regard.
Yes. I'd love an answer for this as well.
Please consider using a thicker font. This one is not very readable on my device (Windows 10 + Chrome + 17" 100PPI display). I can read it, but it's not a pleasant experience. [edited]
Lessig: On the wikileak-ed emails between Tanden and Podesta re: me
We don't have plenty of mobile bandwidth though. 56% increase resulted in 50% degradation of speed. What happens next year to speeds with continued growth in usage?
> It's also rather unbelievable to me that big companies like Apple haven't come down on them like a ton of bricks for such large-scale facilitation of trademark violation.

Well, it would be like a ton of bricks coming down on another ton of bricks.

The outcome of such lawsuits depends in a fairly large degree on the size of the bank accounts that support the litigation. So they would be fighting an equal.
I grew up in Chicago in the 90s and once I was old enough to understand the seriousness of being careful around traffic and crossing the street safely I was allowed to walk to the home of friends who lived a few blocks away on my own. I learned how to navigate the city: oh my usual route is blocked by construction, I have to find a different way.

I see so many children nowadays who are oblivious to their environment! I have to step out of their way, as they run straight toward me on collision courses! They don't make eye contact, and they don't interact as if I'm a person. I remember this happening in malls, in parks, and on the street.

I've been in classes, where we're playing a multiplayer game, and you can't tell a kid to "figure it out." Many kids just freeze until you lead them through what to do, then they just robotically do exactly what you showed them -- no generalization and no independent thought, and if you never show them what to do, they just sit there and do nothing.
What was the result of the police call?
> Prose like this is exactly why writing in the first person can be so powerful.

Indeed. And if the piece had been written in the first person I would agree with you, but it's not. It's written in the third-person.
Just ask a human teenager.
I saw this a few days ago. Creepy stuff. Please do your research when choosing a bootcamp. Or learn on your own.
Ask HN: Any Dumb Email Client for iOS and Android?
Hello, I am searching for a dumb email client: one that simply connects to my IMAP and SMTP servers (even if they're Google's servers). The ones I've tried so far (Outlook, Spark, etc.) seem to all want OAUTH access to my Google account. I don't want their servers accessing my mail, I just want a dumb email client. Any suggestions?

What's really annoying to me is that Outlook and Spark on iOS both let me setup IMAP for Fastmail, but as soon I enter `imap.gmail.com` they prompt me for OAUTH access.
AnnealMail: post-quantum fork of Enigmail
> [...] whether TDD is effective in general.

If you read the actual article (even just the abstract), you would realize that evaluating TDD in a general professional settings was neither the goal nor the conclusion of the authors. You are arguing a straw man and hoping to make inferences that are unsupported by the paper's claims. The authors do a good job of scientific communication about their methods, results, and limitations. This is good practice for scientific communications. Don't think it's sufficiently generalizable? Fine, feel free to expand upon their work. That's how science functions.

("truth", "prove", and "rigor" were verbatim, primary components of jdlshore's comment. The two former words have very specific scientific meaning.)
A Boing Boing article about this was submitted last month, but it didn't get much attention. For a $500 yearly membership fee ($400 after the first year), you can receive a mobile hotspot and truly unlimited (no throttling!) 4G/LTE data. The Calyx Institute is non-profit, so the membership fee is a tax-deductible charitable donation!

Here's the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12560605
> using 4G and LTE interchangeably which I find troubling

I think in Europe HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA+ were more consistently called 3.5G, 3.75G and perhaps 3.9G, so 4G and LTE can be synonyms.

In America, operators are marketing HSPA+ as 4G, so then there is a need to specify when 4G is LTE and when not.
This is why Stripe is my favorite startup out of the so-called unicorns. They are really good at finding ways to make more money, while at the same time improving customer experience.
Because HTML isn't sexy.
What is the advantage of this vs SiftScience or other tools?
Yeah, their bandwidth decreased noticeably.
KVM is 10 years old today
Nobody is saying that they're incapable, they simply don't bother.
London Bus API Demo (JS)
There is no large or rational part of MGTOW that advocates this. If a single idiot somewhere mentioned it and some idiots agreed, it doesn't represent MGTOW. Red Pill (similar to MGTOW) is a strong advocate of being a family leader and taking care of your kids and wife and I have to imagine MGTOW is overwhelmingly in support of this too.
I unashamedly like IJ, even though it's a white male nerd trope to like it and is the kind of thing anti-hipster hipsters will make fun of you for.

And, having said that: it's unfortunate but you probably need to get past the first third of the book to appreciate it. And that's a high-risk endeavor, because there are legit reasons why you might never appreciate it. True believers say you actually need to read the whole thing twice; I can't make myself do that.
Uber’s in-house marketing platform
Good point that we need to think about. I'm more worried about caps in landlines. A similar problem exists there, however. Here's a good article on it.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/
Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All
this is perfectly readable:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
In the case of tracking counterfeit Apple products, how would a blockchain solution be better than a simple database of serial numbers maintained by Apple for example?
The Rust team puts a lot of effort into not gratuitously maligning anything, including a "competitor" language like C++: discussions of other languages try to be as factual as possible, and, Rust is very happy to adopt the good ideas of them (and of course acknowledge this), e.g. Rust's closures are modeled after C++11's lambdas.

As with anything, some people who like Rust might get a bit enthusiastic about discussing its benefits compared to other languages, but this is frowned upon and IME usually called out, especially in spaces with some sort of "official" Rust moderation presence.
Sure, my point was not that it cannot have these things embedded or implicit, but that they are not lifted directly into the story as the focus of narration.
For some stuff I sometimes wonder if the author can actually remember the logic behind e.g.: flags order or the syntax.
The data is from Stripe's handling of 100,000+ businesses' transactions, probably a better dataset than SiftScience.

That's a big probably.
I had a similar thought, but then a few hundred pages beyond that you get to some incredible stuff. The stories from the AA meetings and Don Gately's time in the hospital are fantastic
Shopping on Amazon has become terrible and I've stopped doing it unless it's the only option (which is very rare). There is seemingly just no quality control at all in their catalog; it's like shopping in a flea market or junkyard and they need to take responsibility for it.

Two screenshots from last year, when I was trying to shop for electrical receptical covers:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTQroCDU8AAw5U7.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTQqWPnVAAArZM1.png

The first is categorized under "Tools & Home Improvement > Power & Hand Tools > Hand Tools > Pliers > Snap-Ring Pliers".

The second is categorized under "Musical Instruments > Drums & Percussion > Folk & World Hand Drums > Timbales".

How does that even happen? Can't they use some machine learning to detect that this is so obviously wrong?
Yes the more people that use it slower it goes since people have to share the same bandwidth. However given all the datacaps the faster the speed the faster you hit the datacap so I guess you can look at the positive side.
I completely agree with you. Pointing out a study's flaws is indeed part of the process of 'caveat[ing] the knowledge gained from that study'.
The bias can't be larger than child mortality though, which is 0.59% in the US according the us CIA factbook.
Media vulnerable to Election Night cyber attack
Names are only protected if there is an associated license or certification process. These processes are generally in place to insure that your doctor/lawyer/electrician is competent enough to do their job, there are major ramifications if they fail to do their job correctly and they can be punished by the system, take away their license, if they fail to meet accepted standards. The way I see journalism is your sources and reputation is what gives you credibility in place of a license, do a bad job and people are less likely to listen to what you have to say.
As far as I can tell, "better".

Because they have their payments dataset, they're relying on having access to more non-public information to better train their models on.
If you've ever seen the movie Stranger Than Fiction, which is cutesy but good graded on the curve for cutesy movies, that's the narrative mood DFW seems to be going for: the detached narrator who is not in fact entirely detached. The third person perspective is often meant to be partially ironic, as is (when he uses it) the first person.
"How does releasing information on one party and not the other invalidate their position as activists? "

A consistent series of attacks focusing on the Left while the Right is doing lots of damage makes them activists against the Left specifically. Different than activists for civil rights or honest government/business.

" No information on Republicans means WikiLeaks no longer cares about fighting corruption and increasing transparency?"

It's odd that we see revelations and reports on both of them consistently from groups like The Guardian and The Intercept but not this activist.

"And that they're somehow profit driven because of that too?"

He was before that. Constantly fund-raising then charging people for little Assange parties. These days he seems to be driven by ego and/or hate of government. His leaks and reports in the old days were a mix of evil government and business.

"Should they have looked for information on all of the detainees at guantanamo when they released the guantanamo files"

Now you're just making stuff up. That's nothing like a supposedly neutral organization covering two, known-dirty candidates who are constantly pulling stunts.
I wonder if this marks the point where diversity (of thought) is officially a luxury afforded only to the wealthy. After all, this is the same Zuckerberg that warned employees that replacing "black" with "all" in "black lives matter" was racist and grounds for termination. This is the same Facebook that is deeply preoccupied with hiring non-white/Asian males regardless of intellectual background.

If a lowly employee had publicly made a donation to Trump's campaign would we see the same statement from Zuckerberg, or would that employee's time at Facebook come to an end at the next HR-approved opportunity?
You have a point but let me make a counter -- it's the subordinate who must prove their trustworthiness to the superior. Which in your view, seems to be the people and their government, respectively.

If you had said, "The government acts in a trustworthy manner, and the people, in turn, trust their government", then our viewpoints would be in alignment.
I think that a lot of it comes down to designers needing/wanting to justify their job.

If a designer or typographer does good work, it goes largely unnoticed, since navigating the page and reading the text is easy and fluid. This can lead clients to believe that the designer is not doing much at all, when in fact they are doing their job exceptionally well.

This leads to designers adding unnecessary ornamentation (often at the clients behest), just to make it seem as though they are providing more of a service.

As others have pointed out, no one is sitting in meetings reading the boiler plate text on designs, they are just looking at the overall page to see if it 'pops' or whatever. So really, it's as much the clients fault as the designers, although a good designer should be able to communicate why the flashiest, most cutting edge choices are not always the best.

Also, I'd like to recommend this book, The New Typography. It's an old book, but they do a really great job of explaining the goals of typography, and how one can be creative without sacrificing readability, etc. https://www.amazon.com/New-Typography-Weimar-Now-Criticism/d...
oh god! the horror!
Keras – Deep Learning Library for Theano and TensorFlow
U.S. government officials frequently leak information more readily than Russian officials. I get the impression that Russian officials practice much better security with their public statements.

U.S. PR efforts strike me as ham-fisted and in reaction to current events. Checkers vs chess is the metaphor I'm trying to express.

An observer can glean more information from a U.S. government press statement than a Russian one.
> I grew up free to explore

Same here. But back in that day there was so much less to keep occupied with. That is at least part of the reason you did those things. You typically weren't allowed to watch TV for a long time at least and you had to find something interesting to do. Today the things that some kids can do are way more exciting than taking apart an old lawn mower and seeing what makes it tick.
Mobile networks in a way are seemingly destined to be victims of their own success. I find that no matter what mobile bandwidth I'm getting, I can always use more. For example, considering adding a dedicated hotspot to my existing plan, just for my car. The better it works, the more I want to use it. And by "it", we are talking about a fixed physical infrastructure, otherwise known as a capital investment.
The Art of the Conspiracy Theory
But the mobile experience sucks :-(
For me, the main advantage of printf debugging is that it gives a lot of output at once. With a debugger, you have to stop at each breakpoint, print something, and go on. In case the breakpoint is in a hot path, this takes forever. With printf I can get a nice text file to skim through.

This doesn't mean I use printf debugging often, just that it makes sense in some cases and I use it then :)
That is some incredible burying of the lede. Well spotted!
FYI, AT&T will shut down their 2G network by the end of the year: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM10848...
I usually look through a few brands that haven't irked me yet on OpenWRT's HCL since I'll stick that on anything I'm likely to buy anyway.
Another thing is we don't have much practice as parents over our life time. A quick google says US has 1.87 children per family. So we end up having ~2 kicks at the can, raising our children the best we can, with the results only coming years later and obfuscated by different cultures, wealth, etc.

We end up relying on "back in my day" anecdotal experiences. Often just based on our ideals and preferences which will be different from one family to the next. Yes, empathy without judging would go a long way. Crazy to think that my way is the best for everyone.
I used to get eyestrain after about an hour of using a CRT. I can (and do) sit and look at an LCD all day without eye strain. I still get eyestrain if I'm using a monitor with PWN brightness control. That's easily fixed by turning up the brightness to max, or choosing a well-designed LCD from the start.
Doesn't seem to be a way to use this without using stripe. Would be handier to send them info, have them give a pass/fail or score, and return that info. And charge for the service, vs having to migrate to them.

Thanks to uladzislau - wasn't aware of SiftScience - will have to check them out...
It might help if "disrupt the film industry" would be defined. Seriously, what does that even mean? Disrupt it so "the little guy" can make movies? You can put together a feature-length movie with an iPhone, a good microphone, and free editing software. Actors might help, too. Want some snazzy vfx? You can do your own. Want your product to be seen all over the world? Thanks to the magical internet, you can have it up for sale on numerous sites. So what do we mean by "disruption"? Oh, you want people to actually see your masterpiece? That doesn't require disruption; what you're talking about is old-fashioned marketing. You need a "Paranormal Activity"-style marketing campaign (a movie, BTW, which cost $10K to make).

Chances are, though, your movie is crap (as 95% of anything is) so nobody is going to want to see it anyway.
(I work on Radar at Stripe) thank you, and do let me know if there's anything we can do to help you get set up on Radar. Additionally, we actually do support 3Dsecure in private beta -- mind emailing me (tara@stripe.com) for access?
There are a few high-rises in SF with gigabit fiber optic to the premises. It's nice, but it makes me sad that "anti-techie" sentiment is so strong that most of the city won't get it.
The ancestral environment was way more dangerous though
"Chaos Monkey even periodically terminates itself."

Whoa, that's meta.
If Belichick threw his paper notebook^1, would you assume it's because of the notebook? Or because his team just threw an interception, missed a field goal, or lost the game? I don't think we have any context as to what happened in that gif.

[1] For example: http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Fuck....