skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is fair. Saying "Medicare can't negotiate" is misleading because it infers Medicare is paying too much for drugs, when in fact, private companies negotiate on their behalf and pass along savings.
Not quite; there's a mechanism for this, though the details vary by department/funding source/phase of the moon. Typically one can take at least part of earned grants elsewhere, though sometimes the originating school can still take overhead before transferring the rest (leading to double-overhead, when the new school takes a percentage of the remainder).

(The funding system doesn't always make sense, but it REALLY wouldn't make sense to give a grant, especially something like a CAREER, which is given to a single PI based on the work that PI proposes to do, to a department where the PI who proposed to do the work no longer actually works...)
Drugs in someone's drink doesn't scale. Except tap water, I guess, but large conspiracies are hard to hide.
How long did it take you? The documentation is A+ (it reminds me of this compiler: https://github.com/thejameskyle/the-super-tiny-compiler ).
Through the magic of money and super PACs

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/21/hillary-pac...
I haven't seen to many marketing shills on HN.

Outside of the dedicated marketing shill startup threads, that is.
If you download a tarball, you can google the sha256sum to see if at least Debian, a couple of mailing lists etc. have the same one.

If your GPG signature is in your keychain, it's safer anyway.

HTTPS by itself does not protect against malicious content or malicious actors (DigiNotar, TurkTrust, GCHQ, ...)
I'm new to Docker, but from what I know, it makes a microservices architecture extremely easy to set up. Right?
One could argue that "affordable" long-term housing is a market who's supply should take precedence on the temporary housing market. Since the two must, by nature, compete with each other for the same real estate.
what happens if you're not in the top 3% of freelance talent. what happens if you're actually not that good?

I am not kidding. By design that site eliminates 97% of applicants -- be it front-end or mobile development or Python or Java or Go language.

Can people who are learning still do remote freelancing?
This title really rubs me the wrong way. To say one person “is” someone quite different seems like a reductive and clickbaity way to say that they are alike in one or two small ways. Better title: “Cook, Ballmer, and the Problem with Naming Successors Who Are Good at Execution”
This is what makes Eslint so great. If you extend Airbnb's (or write your own very strict) config, it will really enforce best practices for things like this.

I think running eslint --fix will even change your "let"s to "const"s where appropriate, but don't quote me on that.
Agreed. ribbonfarm is terrific. I support his work by paying monthly for the kindle version of the website publications.
> My opinion is that the failure of Microsoft has less to do with Ballmer than with the absence of a Steve Jobs.

This argument would be a lot stronger had Microsoft not begun making such major improvements as soon as Ballmer was replaced with Nadella.
So long as one executor is executing the recipe/procedure/etc it makes sense to simplify directions to make them appear synchronous. When I turn my computer on and wait for it to start, I don't literally freeze up and stop breathing. I go do other things and wait for a signal that startup is complete or I poll the status of the computer from time to time. The synchronous instruction "wait for the computer to start up" is interpreted as "do whatever you want or need to do until the computer has started up".

As soon as two parties are involved, instructions start making sense asynchronously. Try writing a recipe for baking a cake by two bakers, keeping both chefs occupied the entire time. You'll see that the instructions must be read asynchronously otherwise each baker would not be able to continue reading his/her instructions when a "thread" of operation for the other baker has been called out.
Wasn't the 432 Hz thing started by Lyndon Larouche?

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/music/revolution.html
Oh, what I said was coloured explicitly by my experiences working on regulatory development at Goldman.

Everything was filtered through the lens of "What would the regulators say? And how do we tell the regulators what we're doing?"
You could call it “Claim Chowder” and put this linked list up on a domain like, i dunno, daringfireball.net :)
Affordable cars get built because the market for cars is saturated. Where the supply of some key component of cars a limiting factor on the production capability of car manufacturers, expensive cars would be the only ones produced.
That's a valid reason! FWIW, I've been saying for years Seattle needs its own transit organization. Most of King County isn't served by Metro very well, and if I lived out in the burbs I wouldn't vote for transit funding either.

It'd be better if the transit options were actually expanded to better serve the burbs, but that's clearly not happening.
Is an Engineer an Artist?
Are 234 alien star systems trying to communicate with us?
Check out HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis - should be on interest.
Yes but that may or may not mean direct involvement with regulators. For small companies it's really hard to tell where they are in the process.
Was it possible to take control of these cameras even if they were behind a consumer firewall? Is the issue that consumers were connecting them directly to the Internet, not behind a firewall?
He got plenty of bad press, but you're right in that it was countered by (valid) good press about his success in strengthening Microsoft's enterprise business.
Mark this, will check it later. Thx
Well, it seems Apple are actually increasing R&D in AI:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/10/17/apples-new-japan-r...
Actually Apple is organized in such a way that it is not very good at executing at more than a handful of products at a time. Almost all companies comparable to Apple in size, are organized into product divisions, each with their own balance sheet, as well as sales and marketing departments. This is because it allows big companies to scale to a very large number of different products, ensuring that each product line gets the attention it requires. Apple OTOH is organized by function, e.g. hardware, software, sales, marketing etc. This allows products to be much better integrated, and it also means that there are no «sacred cows» product-wise. There was no iPod-division that was incentivized to obstruct the creation of the iPhone for instance. The trade off is that it is very hard to manage more than a handful of product lines.
Hi HN! Happy to answer questions here, which is funny because this is where it all really started for me back in 2007 when I was first thinking of starting my first company. I started as an HN reader working at a friend's startup, applied to YC and got in, became a YC partner, and then an early stage investor.

We're engineers and designers and product folks, and most investors aren't still (which is crazy, right?) so we figure if we can do what we're doing while being the investors we wanted when we were founders, that's about as good as it gets.
If it's a computer in a bank and it touches risk, trading or treasury, it's fair game for the Fed auditor.

So you tell me: what computer system of any import in a bank doesn't touch one of these three things?
Yes I'd hesitate to use Docker in a system I wanted to maintain for 10 years. We can't get consistent interfaces for 2 months!
That's the same thing that struck me. I think you end up in that position when you don't want to hire community administrators, you'd rather deputize your users. But until you build them the tools they need to do their jobs, you have to do it yourself. And if all you have is coders...
I did a presentation on using Nashorn (and jjs) about a year ago at SacJUG (our local Java user group). It's pretty interesting the level at which you can intermix Java and Javascript in Nashorn.

I tinkered with the idea of using a library called Spark on Netty to make web services in JS, but this library (and others mentioned here) actually did the job :-)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19KTud9_3I3MgJiYlVdF9...

https://github.com/roboprog/nashorn_play
The exploration and reasoning here is like a detailed report on a science experiment. I liked the layout of the presentation from noticing an incongruity to explaining exactly what was happening. Then the video surprised me by putting forth a hypothesis on why the 'world' was the way it was.

It has benefits over real-world experimentation because the fundamentals of the system are known and everything can be observed. No messy approximations are needed. Most guesses can be confirmed. But then we still end up with an unconfirmed hypothesis about how the situation came up in the first place. Reasoning is presented but there's no way to confirm it beyond asking...the creators.

The tooling used to recreate certain game situations is like a magical testing apparatus that doesn't really exist in the real world.
Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team
It gives you the liberty to move for a better job. That's enormous when you're early in your career and switching jobs results in huge pay increases.

Even within the same city, it's really nice to move near your new job and not have a commute.
> At some point (agile?) we explicitly gave up all moral responsibility for our creations, to people with money.

You hit the nail on the head. It happened when we stopped financing our own work.
It's decent analysis. Remember though that a huge QE programme is currently on the way and the UK has large foreign FX reserves. So prior to moving interest rates it's likely the latter will be used to reduce supply of the pound and increase demand.

There's a lot they can do to keep the currency stable which is not to say that it won't go lower than its current level.

Popular speculation suggests a rate cut in November against market odds or a cut in December...
Just to illustrate a potential scenario:

You use a piece of open source software that has a javascript file which the author has hosted on a CDN. In order to mitigate an attack where someone changes the content of the javascript file you use a hash[1] to ensure the file does not change. You think you are safe, but a malicious actor gets access to the CDN and instead of changing the file, instead builds a quick scripts that looks for password reset referrer patterns and races the human to reset the password first. A computer is probably going to win that game that majority of the time.

[1] https://github.com/twitter/secureheaders#hash
My argument is practical, not theoretical. Platitudes and ideals are disposable when you have to actually build something.
The EU is many countires, only a few of them have any significant exports to the UK but they all have to agree.
Gambit has exactly the same problem Chicken does: It has green threads (Gambit's author actually wrote the API for it), but no native threads.
Which would - barring a spectacular twist - mean a Trump presidency and disaster for millions.
I didn't say that "people frowning about curl|sh are the same ones plugging random crap into the internet".

That said, I wouldn't be terribly surprised to see a fair bit of overlap.
Sure, so make it clear what curl | bash is, tell your users "we dont have any packages for your system, here is the source and we use X build tool, please do ./configure && make install, or cmake or whatever", that would have been nice.

When I have to install packages from source, I have a more secure/locked down linux container, with seccomp applied, dropped capabilities etc, then if I intend to use the the software over longer time, and expect updates, I skim the source and build-system quality, quickly write a PKGBUILD or APKBUILD, build it, install it into its own new container - with iptables filtering outgoing connections, and thats it, sometimes submit the APKBUILD to alpine testing or aur.

And all this is easier than curl | bash oh watch it fail for dumb reason in the install script - and I did try that, the time spent troubleshooting the install script is longer than time to sandbox the whole thing as described above.

So, if I can do it, why cant the project? Why spend their efforts on writing an install script instead of package-build instructions to various distributions?
Anyone can create an account, with no email verification. There was/is a simple captcha.
I'm a bit confused that I just responded to another post of yours in this same discussion that seemed to indicate you didn't know what SRS was?
I just sent an email (before seeing your comment) asking after the data license. If it's an open license, it could be integrated with existing services like OpenStreetMap which 1) allows many more people to benefit from the data; and 2) allows users of this project to benefit from existing OSM data.

Let's see what they say.

Edit: 39 minutes later (that was quite quick!):

> Whoops, good catch! That is absolutely not our intention, give me a bit and I’ll extend the license to cover GPS data for camera positions.

> We are considering closer integration with OpenStreetMap. We already use them for all of our map backend, but don’t currently store our camera data in OSM. There are some concerns about corrupting their data with non-existent cameras, particularly if someone scripts interacting with Where are the Eyes. While the data is under our control we can try to detect bots and roll back their changes, but we don’t want to be “rolling back” parts of OpenStreetMap.

> I definitely agree about adding the cameras from OSM to Where are the Eyes, and periodically copying the Where are the Eyes data to OSM, but I am less comfortable with completely integrating the two.

I won't go into detail about issues and solutions I see with either option, but they seem to be considering things carefully, and I guess that's not a bad thing.
Slack Clone with Elixir, Phoenix, and React
buble is a good alternative - small and fast. Doesn't support all of ES2015, but it does support the examples in the article.

https://buble.surge.sh/guide/
Hi! I maintain a "curl | bash" installer script [1][2].

such as only working on specific variants of Ubuntu,
with specific packages installed in specific version,
and/or RedHat

Our installer is capable of automatically installing dependencies on current versions of Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. If you're running something else it prints out "This doesn't appear to be a deb-based distro or an rpm-based one. Not going to be able to install dependencies. Please install dependencies manually and rerun with --no-deps-check.", which seems pretty reasonable to me?

submit this data to that platform as an
debian/{control,etc} to make a .deb or specfile for
.rpm or PKGBUILD or whatever, and use the platforms
_build tools_ to generate a platform specific package
- be a package mantainer if you have to

Building a binary package for ngx_pagespeed isn't really practical. It needs to depend on nginx, but nginx doesn't have an ABI, so it needs to be built from source alongside your existing nginx or as part of a new nginx install. Getting into the distributions, so that they can build the ngx_pagespeed module at the same time as they build their main nginx would work, and is somewhere I would like to be eventually, but requires a lot of coordination with distros.

Another side effect of telling your users to curl | bash,
is I wont ever use your software. You didnt make the
effort to do the right thing with packaging, why would
you have done any better for whatever it is youre trying
to do with your shit software?

I do think what we've done in this case is "the right thing" in terms of how we should be spending our development time. Our installation page does still offer manual install instructions, however, for people who would rather not run a script.

[1] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/build_n...

[2] https://ngxpagespeed.com/install
The jury is out. The track record for big company mergers is not good. Content + technology has a particularly bad track record, see Sony.

However, with satellite service at&t is a nationwide provider, which makes exclusive deals possible. (Comcast could not get the most value out of NFL Sunday Ticket since so many football fans can't get Comcast.)
No, Ballmer got hate because Microsoft's consumer products consistently flopped. The stuff that those of us who flipped to Apple while he was in charge used (Zune, Windows Vista, original Surface, Windows Phone) were consistently underwhelming. However, Ballmer was simply inarguably an effective CEO from the perspective of investors. He grew the enterprise business consistently (which has a huge amount of value for legacy purposes), and some of the stuff he launched to support that (Azure, notably) positioned the company to grow in new ways that Nadella has really leveraged. He wasn't a visionary at all, but Ballmer was one of the best executor CEOs out there.
> Otherwise, http://disablessl3.com/

Says the website with no TLS ;)
The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
So how long until we start existing as Mi-Go brain boxes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-go
Likewise, but I also find that it leads me to the occasional book, TV, or movie that I enjoy. I'm a sucker for a few particular tropes, and I'll go down the list for those and seek out everything on them.

TV Tropes has had funding issues in the past. I can't help but think that they could make a significant amount through 1) affiliation with Netflix, Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, or other providers of media, and 2) integration with Amazon X-Ray or Google Play's equivalent.
Congrats to you and the team. I take it your primary focus is SF. Will you look to invest in the broader US? And are you interested in specific areas/industries or more in finding great teams/founders?
Should I fire this technical co-founder?
It's not. JS doesn't actually have built in support for async/await yet.
I agree. Premium niche is a very effective business model, and Apple does apply that strategy very well. I was only suggesting that supply chain optimization is more a function of profitability for Apple and less of a market advantage due to total market commodification.
He should have also considered the option of not loading third-party assets and analytics on password reset pages.

I'm grumpy enough to suggest not loading them period, but I'm a curmudgeon.
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There are two kinds of people, those who dont understand Apple, and those who Thinks they understand Apple but they dont.
I'm not saying iOT devices specifically. We can define the regulation threshold at mass consumer digital and connected products.

Yes, digital/software is inherently less tangible and trickier to regulate than a physical product sold at smaller volumes, but we need to start somewhere. Poorly made digital+connected products distributed in large volumes can have tremendous impact to the world population.
> , I was surprised, in my current position, to see some companies doing their complete banking back end in PHP & MySQL.

Glad to know! Now I need to find these folks so I can hide in a dumpster from them!
It's good in general to be careful of the "this is what I think people are like" genre of blogging. Especially when it's presented with such certainty. See also: slate star codex, TLP. At least those two are working psychiatrists. Venkat Rao is just a guy with some opinions that he has retrospectively derived from his own career progress, as far as I can tell. It smacks of rationalisation.
> looking at the needs and demands of users inside the computing industry where apple should be focused.

That approach would not have yielded the iPod, iPhone, or Music Store.
JS Puzzles
I highly recommend the newsletter: the founder sends out a carefully curated and thoughtful summary of the previous weeks articles so you can pick out the one's that interest you. It's my default Sunday reading.
Is this a joke? There is so much very inaccurate about this.
Finally somebody works on mobile games online testing
So tired to install and delete most games in minutes... really looking foward
http://appcazelanding.strikingly.com/
In a world where your Rushkoffs[1] go unread, we are spiraling into some sort of local maxima where social media is realized for what it is, and the problems associated with social media are epidemic.

The crux of the issue lies in the fact that nobody knows what social media is, or indeed cyber. "Cyber" as it stands now is some far off place, in a William Gibson fantasy, but infact operates in the world seemingly un-noticed by the smartphone equipped masses.

As I said; it's not long until people realize they've been played and their eyeball hours and data exhausts are being sold to the highest bidder for hard cash. It makes me wonder why smartphones even cost so much. Surely they should be 'free' given how much data can be gleaned from a smartphone owner?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff
This seems ridiculous, but I'll bite. What is the societal benefit to allowing management to discriminate in their handling of white-collar workers?
Wow I thought it's kind of official doc. Is it your website?
No, you actually had a valid point.
Building your bot's brain with Node.js and spaCy
That is a great reference, but in general I don't find myself caring much about the raw performance of individual statements that way. My concern is that this or that new syntax will prevent a function from getting inlined, or prevent the engine from guessing type information it otherwise would have guessed, or whatever - just because those bits of the optimizing compiler are newer and less robust.
The demographics of reddit users probably do lean towards a more liberal/libertarian group, but r/politics certainly has no problem with bashing Democratic party members, employees, or appointees.

A quick search proves this out: there are tons of highly upvoted posts calling out Obama, Holder, both Clintons, Spitzer, Geithner etc. This is actually what fueled a lot of the fervor for Sanders - he brought together the disenchanted Paulite libertarians, lefter-than-Obama liberals, and anti-establishment independents.
> I don't know what Amazon does for AI

A lot of people are running their AI stacks on aws.
Renting a car for certain uses that don't fit your model? That exists with gasoline cars.
Did you read the article? Where Johnson anticipates $7-10B in funding to get anything out the door? He's investing $100M of his own money to get things started. The point is that the reflexive negativity here is simply astonishing, again, given that we're all communicating via technology that, less than one century ago, would be considered pure magic.
Sounds like it, I don't know enough about Nix to know if it addresses the same scope of need that docker does, hopefully someone who is savvy can chime in :)
I want so desperately to disagree with you but when I think about the average person today, I just don't see them fighting against privacy invasions. They are too brainwashed by the terrorism drum bangers.
Anyone in the security field has used any of these sites and can give feedback? I am looking for short/remote gigs to supplement my work now, could be interesting.

I was a full-time consultant for a while but decided to go back being a full time employee due to a new baby in the house.
More on the NSF/UK Antarctic field campaign this press release is tied to: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/10/us-and-uk-plan-thwait...