skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to own a Model M. Must have been twenty years old, but it still was in great condition. Then I gave it to my parenty, hoping that such an old school keyboard would make them feel more at home when using the PC.

Turned out they never used the damn thing and then - I hope you are sitting down! - threw it out. They're my parents, and I love them dearly. But that made me kind of sad.
Exactly. Capital punishment is a deterrent in the sense that once you execute the murderer, (s)he will never kill again. How's that for prevention?
Can somone explain what the article means by:

> Germany also loosened regulation of rental caps sooner than many other countries,

Does that mean the amount of rent control was deregulated? I thought the rent control here in Germany was pretty strict -- at least in the sense that the landlord can't increase the rent during an existing tenancy.
yes and the topic of discussion in this thread is ..... core banking systems.... which do have to be highly available. If the topic had been bank print servers and I had made my comment yours may have made more sense

My comment didn't say "banks print servers need to be highly available" anywhere.. at all..
What about running K8s on top of DC/OS?

I find the idea of using Mesos as the resources scheduler much more interesting, especially for multi-tenancy where each tenant launch their own k8s cluster on shared infrastructure.
Never seen credit cards outside of the US/UK/Canada...
Do You Know How Healthy You Are Eating?
Same for Austria. Then considering that you might change jobs every few years... and the jobs are mostly in the cities, where you can't afford building a house.

We live in a small to medium size flat for 380€/month, including some running costs. Buying it would cost roughly 250k. That just doesn't pay off. Most medium sized houses are about 700k€ in the region, with typical software developer wages at 2-4k€/month before taxes. So 1.5-2.5k€ after taxes. Now go figure how long you will be in debt...

And of course, people are older nowadays when they start to earn.
For example, my parents started working with 16.
I visited a technical school up to age 19, had to do a year of civil/military service, then worked 2 years to save some money, then did a CS bachelor. A bachelor alone is "no real degree" here, so also doing an MSc. Working while studying to afford the studying prolonged the studies a bit.. and in the end I started with my first real OKish earnings at age 28 when I started with my PhD. So... yeah. At the bank they laughed at my income when asking for a loan for a flat.
Monitoring Microservices (Part III) – Investigate
"Why does this even bothers you?"

Because he's human and despite every fibre of his wit possibly thinking otherwise, he has some unshakeable suspicion that he has a spirit or is at least more than a mere golem?

I dunno, that's what puts me off the idea.
Parse argument options in same way as with Minimist
Based on the fact that there hasn't been any known alien encouter during human written history, that we haven't found any artifact of such an event, even in a distant past, that a 100ly radius is really tiny at the scale of the galaxy, that we haven't found any sign of life outside earth, and that anyway, if an alien civ is advanced enough to come here and invade us we can't really hope to do anything againts that, there is indeed no need to spend time worrying about that.

Considering the evolution of computing and technology in general in the last 50 years would you consider the two things to be remotely comparable?

I personally don't.
The myth of the balanced budget.

The article speaks of consumer debt, I spoke of consumer debt.

Government debt is a different thing, and a government without any debt doesn't sound like a wise thing if it is even possible in such a highly integrated and globalised world.
1. Set the daily goal

2. Identify steps required to reach it, write them down. It's better to do it with pen and paper, no to-do apps or anything like it.

3. Take the first step right away, do not postpone it.

4. Log your progress and time on each step. Archievements and failures too.

5. At the end of the day look through your log, asess your achievements on 10 grade scale, set goals for tomorrow.
Is Klout still a thing?
Didn't you just describe the Lenovo x1 carbon?
At least, this kind of media campaigns might span interesting conversations.

"- Artificial Intelligence is really bad for X. I lost Y because of it. Ban Artificial Intelligence! Let's keep our jobs and our family safe!

- Dude. You have no idea what you're talking about."
Overview of JavaScript ES6 features
Anyone have any experiences with their support?
In the US, at least, the shutdowns don't have much to do with our actual spending/borrowing habits. It's a structural quirk of government operation that provides a handy perennial disaster to use for political brinkmanship and finger-pointing. Basically "if you don't start being reasonable by caving to my demands, then you're going to cause a government shutdown".
You buy the car you can afford.
I would only take a credit if I wanted to buy or build a house.
"Despite its incredibly intelligence what I found more unrealistic was its control of all internet-connected systems in the US (traffic, remote control drones, phones, different OS, etc) "just because I am an AI and I can do whatever I want""

On the other hand, "Mirai botnet". Even the "mere humans" are doing pretty darned good laying hands on vast powers in the current environment.

The hard-to-believe part is an AI that is much smarter than human. Once you have that, I have no problem swallowing that it could pretty much hack whatever it wanted in our current world as long as it could get a connection. That's not because I believe in magical hacking powers, it's because we demonstrably don't really care much about security and we get exactly the systems you'd expect as a result. My local red team [1] seems to be able to get past pretty much anything it wants to and they're not superhuman AIs.

An AI that operated in a world where all programming languages were memory-safe would at least have a harder time of things. Though between things like Rowhammer and much higher-level hacking (social engineering, for instance), I suspect it would still not face much challenge.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
playok.com might be a good reference. it has all the bases covered and a great balance between simplicity and features, plus an active community. I played your othello bot and it was really easy, maybe you could use some of the open source othello programs like edax to make a more challenging computer? http://abulmo.perso.neuf.fr/edax/4.3/index.htm
I appreciate your candor.
I'm not convinced that employing 3D Touch to do the typical things of mouse hover is a good idea. Displaying help text to users being lost when they do a very specific gesture? It needs to be something that every user can immediately pick up on.

Maybe a stare-o-recognizer using the camera? If the user looks puzzled at a button, display text to explain ;-).
The ctrl key also seems in a bad place if you're the kind of person who uses keyboard shortcuts a lot e.g. ctrl-c, ctrl-x and ctrl-v will all involve significant hand movements to achieve.
Looks interesting. I have a Dell Latitude E6320 (my second one because they're great). Here are the features that are cool in my opinion:

* SIM card slot for 3G (remove battery to place and forget).

* Magnesium & aluminum.

* Very good plastics for keyboard (short travel for digits, springy, dense, slightly concave).

* 180° opening (you can set it flat, very practical).

* HDD removable without opening the case. 4 small screws and the HDD is free, you just have to pull it to disconnect. Very useful. You just plug it back and screw.

* DVD drive removable without screws. You just press a mechanism and pull the drive from the laptop.

* SD reader.

* Ability to pop out the keyboard without opening the case, for cleaning.

* Hardware switch to kill wireless card (because turning it off and back on again is just one of those things you'll still have in flying cars).

* Can install a 'double battery' instead of the normal one.

* It's 13.3". This size is great. It's not a 12", which I find small and it's not a 14" which I find big (my laptop goes with me everywhere in all positions).

I find these features very desirable, hence my reluctance to buy other laptops (can't use Lenovo / Dell Inspiron / HP Pavillion to save my life.). I haven't checked their XPS series yet.
Depends on liquidity
If anyone is interested Manning released a decent book on the	subject a few months back. You can download a couple of sample chapters here:

https://www.manning.com/books/practical-probabilistic-progra...
Tesla (TSLA) is about to publish its Q3 2016 financial results this week
Is it FLOSS ? or librejs friendly ?
Using credit cards does not preclude being able to afford the thing you are paying for. I regularly use my credit card for every day purchases despite having ample money in my checking account. The regular payments allow me to develop a good credit history without much worry.
I'm pretty sure that it is! :)
They normally support around 11 languages for their competitions:
C
Clojure
Common Lisp
C++
C#
D
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Python
Python 3
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Why not have a URL that identifies the reset request uniquely but also requires a code that is entered manually?
Why One City's Data Revolution Is Good News for Startups
The GOP has made it clear they don't want a libertarian a la the Pauls. I don't think it can happen with the hard push to the social right they've made in the past 8 years.
I use them in continental Europe and Asia all the time. Maybe they're not as common but they certainly aren't anything like unheard of even if they're not as universal as in the US.
When its gone I'll miss the justice it provided because of its controversy.

We already know that Y% of death penalty cases are overturned before the victim is killed due to judicial misconduct and Y% is ridiculously large. We can assume that whatever the percentage of justice system failure is for mere life or mere 20 yrs w/o parole, its much higher than Y% due to having less attention paid to it.

The end result of getting rid of the death penalty is we'll be stuck living with (100-Y)% of really bad people, which is an inherent bad for all of us, and we'll have far more than Y% serving life and 20 yrs and so on unjustly and unexamined because those aren't death penalty cases anymore.

You can't seriously claim the people overturning unjust death penalty cases are going to transition to overturning unjust 20 yr cases.

Obviously some fraction of the (100-Y)% of those deserving the death penalty today will find a way to cause more human suffering years after they'd be dead if the penalty existed.

The net result, paradoxically, of getting rid of state killing of people, will be more total human suffering due to massive increase in false imprisonment at lesser sentences and obvious increase in number of victims of the worst of the bad guys because the worst of the bad guys won't be dead.

There are also weird cultural double standards issues, where its great and patriotic to kill brown people on the other side of the planet, but not here. Why does the dirt they stand on matter more than the flesh they're made of?
Article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights from 1948 (which the US voted for):

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Now, obviously we as a society cannot always guarantee these three things for all people, since criminals infringe on the rights of others and thus human rights are violated daily. In order to prevent this we choose to infringe on the liberty of criminals (by imprisoning them), in order to prevent their (greater) infringement on others. But since it is possible this way to prevent their infringement, by limiting only their liberty, there is no way to justify killing them instead, taking away not just some, but all of their liberty along with their life and their security. Yes, in order to enforce the human rights we must (somewhat ironically) infringe on them ourselves, but we cannot justify performing a bigger infringement than is absolutely necessary.
I agree it is a good thing for Germany to have so much renting. Indeed I think home-ownership will be the #1 driver of inequality in other contries over the next generation or two.

Those countries will have policies that lcaim help poor people buy houses, but the effect is to just inflate prices and increase financial risk -- as the world has already seen. The one thing that would really help -- increased supply is blocked by a powerful home-owners lobby damanding zoning rules and other restrictions.

In Germany the bloc is powerful, and probably gets more goodies than it should. But at least here they are constant building new housing.
Primary Model Predicts Trump Victory
Remapping CAPS LOCK as CTRL is the first thing I do when setting up a new laptop.
It makes sense that you sell more through Lulu: I'd never heard of Lulu until I read this self-publishing thread here on HN
It doesn't matter whether the application is abstracted on bare metal, on VmWare or on AWS.

There's still physical hardware down the chain that calls for maintenance. When the physical hardware require maintenance everything on top is fucked or need to be moved.

For planned maintenance:

- If you're bare metal. You cannot migrate to a working server.

- If you're virtualized, you have to stop the service and restart on another host.

- If you're virtualized on GCE or vSphere datacenter, they'll migrate the VM live while it's running.

GCE has supported live migrations for multiple years. VmWare supports that for about 10 years (yep, no kidding ^^)

> VMs have to deal with servers dying plus evictions plus control and management plane failures, which significantly reduces the availability of a single instance. So strictly speaking, cloud instances typically have lower availability than physical machines.

Bare metal servers have to deal with hardware dying plus evictions plus control and management plane failures, which significantly reduces the availability of a single server.

So strictly speaking, cloud instances and physical servers are the same thing. They both live on physical hardware.
All punishment is intended as a deterrent, including capital punishment. https://www.law.columbia.edu/law_school/communications/repor...

But, even if you don't agree, it's also in no way the cheapest or most effective way to handle this punishment. Google it. Here's one page for you: http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-d...
So you have no idea what is Gluggaveður then=)
This being the time for character assassinations also means you shouldn't trust anything from him. He's only doing it for character assassination too. The time he was doing it merely for transparency and accountability is far behind us. And this is hardly the first time a former associate points out Assange's own lack of transparency and accountability, and his dictatorial attitude.

Though it contains information I didn't know yet, nothing in this article seems out of character for him.

While the US government seriously screwed over Manning and Snowden (and I'd really like to see a pardon for both of them), they haven't actually done anything to Assange. He's only wanted by Sweden for rape. I don't doubt some people in the US want to see him hang, but it's doubtful there's even a good case against him, as he only published information, and didn't personally steal anything. And he didn't do so on US soil or as a US citizen either. (Though it's true that recent US governments haven't been overly concerned with the rule of law.)

On Donald: the media is mostly giving him a lot of free publicity. The worst things about him are coming out of his own mouth. He's worthy of so much attention because he's running for president. Clinton is hardly a saint, but her actual crimes and misconduct are rare and minor in comparison to those of Donald. There are certainly a lot of accusations flying about, but they've been investigated to death (excessively so, in the case of Benghazi), and little to nothing stuck.
Does it work for mesh networks? In ad-hoc or similar modern modes?
Ask HN: What do you think of all the curated products?
So many curated collections around these days.

Just look at HN today, and you've got The Remote Freelancer [https://github.com/engineerapart/TheRemoteFreelancer] on the firstr page and in the comments there's nodesk [http://nodesk.co/remote-work/].

On Product Hunt, there was recently Internet Curated [http://internetcurated.com/] a curated collection of curated collections.

I do find some of these products useful, but it seems that most rely on just listing any resource. Quantity over quality.

What do you guys think of all these curated products?
Really? I always thought it was very powerful. Any place to read up more about this?
From the PoV of someone who once co-owned a small business in Germany that accepted card payments:

The reason they are "evil" is that they charge the dealer the by far largest fees. Cache: no fee. EC card: small fee. Credit card: large fee. And of course I can't ask the customer to pay for it, I must have one price for all. It was something like 1% vs. 3% (approximately(!), just to give an idea of magnitude).

It's not even any more convenient. Except for a few places like car rentals, where the credit card serves an insurance function (the rental deposit), there is exactly zero reason to point to convenience. Just use an EC card or a bank card that's attached to the major payment processing networks, everybody has one.

On the other hand, most credit cards cost a yearly fee of 20-70 Euros or so. The only reason I grudgingly pay for one is because I rent a car occasionally.
> And Germany's budget is far from balanced.

Hmm?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/germany-pl...
> Obviously it's not about the value added because of extra functionality, it's about the new technology having lower marginal costs

Is that really how supply and demand works though? If people are willing to pay more for the extra functionality, why would you not sell it at that higher price?
The only liberty that renting provides is the protection from the whims of the housing market.

Aside from that it takes liberties right left and centre. I cannot structure my house and life as I want from painting and shelving through pets and kitchen appliances.

I cannot fix something without causing a hassle and days off work.

I cannot register a business here.

I am at the whim of my landlord.

Renting in the UK is a pain in the arse. I do to see renting as particularly positive for the individual.
I am a German CS-Student and currently renting in a shared flat with 4 other students. We call it WG (living-community) and its really popular not only with students, but i know a lot of young professionals and even middle aged ones that share an apartment (it gained popularity in the 60s, so i think its more of an culture thing that older do not share a flat). If you are in a partnership, you can move out and share a smaller one with your partner, but if your not in a partnership (or not that close yet) i wouldn't want to miss living in a shared apartment. You come home, talk about your day, cook together and on the weekend you can go out together. There is always something going on. I can't imagine living in my own apartment all by myself. Working long and then coming home into an empty, dead, dark apartment with no one to talk to.

Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries?
The home ownership percentage is still 43%, so not that low. Landlords seem to be the usual mix of older, upper-middle proffessionals that you see in other countries. It's just a bit more concentrated.

Also there are many houses which have two or three appartments. The owner will live in one appartment, and either have a different generation of their family in the other ones, or else rent it for money.
Evolution of the Storage Ecosystem
Obviously, the drawback is that you've introduced a javascript dependency to a core function which definitely doesn't require it. Having said that, I notice that paperhive.org renders an entirely blank page if javascript is unavailable, so I guess the password reset is the least of your concerns in that scenario.
> Aren't Macbook Airs about 800 euro?

we wish... the cheapest Macbook air is 999€ -> http://www.apple.com/es/macbook-air/
How does Germany handle retirement? In the US, your home is seen as an investment, one that can partially fun retirement or depending on the market, pre-retirement income.
But do you really want to get into a legal battle as an individual with a law firm?
Zzyzx, California
If I am not mistaken the word "debt" either has the same root or derives from the word "sin" in Protestant tradition.
Catching integer overflows with template metaprogramming (2015)
Intel is shutting down File Protect app
It clearly seems better for both sides. Here is a recent thread talking about similar options you gave me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775983
They're probably not jumping to give away the plans for a treaty-compliant superweapon.
Here in the Netherlands credit cards are used almost exclusively for online purchases. If you're a (brick) store owner and you would like to accept credit cards at your payment terminal you pay a hefty premium for that transaction. It's usually around 5% of the total amount.

Debit cards, that's another story. Most people pay with their debit cards instead of cash. It's convenient, even more so since the introduction of contactless bank cards.
To each their own. After graduating from school, the last thing I had any interest in was a shared living arrangement.
>And Germany's budget is far from balanced.

"Germany recorded a Government Budget surplus equal to 0.70 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2015. "

While it's true that the budget is not balanced, a 0.7%/GDP surplus is pretty darn close.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/government-budget
Laws and debts are collective agreements too.
I don't think I misunderstood your point at all. Your comment here seems to be splitting hairs between whether I think that you are claiming that you "have to" fix things or whether you are claiming we "should" fix things. I don't think that the distinction between "have to" or "should" is particularly relevant.

You're right that the JS community is quick to dump a project. You're also right that sometimes code is beyond saving and it's better to start afresh. As someone who claims to be an outsider to the JS community, maybe you don't understand just how broken NPM is, and how much we welcome the appearance of something like Yarn.

This is the real beauty of having a separate package repository and package manager, and the beauty of open source software when it's made out of components with well-defined interfaces. Yarn can still use the NPM repository, but Yarn will suffer from far fewer of the deficiencies that NPM has. The exact same thing has happened in other communities many times. Haskell went from Cabal to Stack, Python went from easy_install to pip, and most Linux distros have been through their fair share of package managers. As someone who has personally migrated from Cabal to Stack and from easy_install to pip, the change from NPM to Yarn seems familiar.

Or in other words, the replacement of NPM (the package manager) with Yarn is a healthy thing that is happening for good reasons (because reporting issues, writing documentation, and submitting PRs will not make NPM do what you want, and saying that we "should" do those things is wrong).
This article mentions a study saying CNTs are too weak. Here's a New Scientist summary of the flaws in CNTs: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093356-carbon-nanotube...
Active 4G LTE vulnerability allows hackers to eavesdrop on conversations
You can also buy new cars with cash!