skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it wasn't 500M pages, but 50TB of data; for some reason the press (or whoever is feeding them) is really set on demonizing this guy and making him sound as sketchy as possible.

See this discussion from a couple weeks ago where HN decided Martin was basically an eccentric guy who liked to take his work home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645210
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12751829
When you are in it, you don't have to look at it.
I think it's a reference to this:

"The operation is a conversion, such as the Object.ToString method."

But this only pertains to the conversion of the object on which the property is defined. In other words, you should have methods like ToString or AsEnumerable, rather than properties like String or Enumerable, even though other rules would indicate property to be valid (idempotent, fast, no arguments). This rule is just an indication that properties represent conceptual attributes of an object; and the result of a conversion of an object to something else is not an attribute.
>new builds under $500k aren't even remotely comparable.

Look beyond crowded cities and $400k will buy you an amazing house. The cost is mainly in the land.
Because armies of Democrats, including pundits, elected officials, party functionaries, and the action Presidential nominees, never claimed 2000 or 2004 were rigged in any way.

Please, spare us the pearl-clutching. You're only fooling people who don't know their history.
You can totally build a lavish 3000 square foot house for 400k in most of the US.

(the median price of new homes sales is about/under $300,000 https://www.census.gov/construction/nrs/pdf/uspricemon.pdf )
Do I have to learn python to contribute?
If you extrapolate from the last hundred years of progress to the next hundred, it's plausible that there will be at least as much technological progress as these ideas would require.

The problem with such prognostication isn't so much that these things can't happen. It is that unexpected events that will happen first turn the future in a different direction.
Yup: http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-secur...
She doesn't even get into the main thing (in my opinion) that makes them so distasteful--car dependency for everything. Having lived in that situation vs a situation where I was in a smaller house, but walking distance to town, I much preferred the walking distance house. Being in a subdivision a half mile into a windy 25 mph road is not such a fun experience.
If Mark is unsure about what makes Peter throw his weight behind Trump, why not ask him?

Not that he is answerable but if he has good reasons I'm sure he wouldn't mind talking about them.
Not mine, FWIW. Ten out of ten score on mail-tester.com, a clean IP that I acquired 15 years ago ... and further, gmail watches people daily remove my one-to-one correspondence from their spam folders.

And yet, most (but not all) new gmail recipients will not see my emails until they remove them from their spam folder.

Google does not want people to self-provide email and there is no incentive for them to do so.
>The number where you use it to harass others?

Who, specifically, is Thiel harassing? Let's have some names, since you seem so confident in your accusation.

>"Political beliefs" is another word for "opinions", and the crazy thing about opinions is you can change them. And the ones that you hold reflect on you.

Exactly. All those screenwriters have to do is change their opinions about Communism, and they're good to go.
From a user standpoint, when we speak of "cartridge" we're talking about the packaging - 8-track tapes were also called "cartridges". Calling any game cart "ROM" has been a little bit off in that old cartridges were PCBs that could contain arbitrary chips, custom hardware, battery-backed RAM, etc.

With the modern carts, it's all flash memory - both the game binary and any user data can coexist. That said, it's much less common than in the NES era, but not unheard of, to incorporate custom hardware on the cart. For example the DS Game Card[0] has an infrared variation. With this change the overall performance model now is guided around working with flash memory - you have big mass storage, longer load times, and don't get to do any fancy bank-switching tricks or rely on an additional co-processor or an extra RAM bank.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_game_card#Nintendo_DS...
> Why would them being self-diagnosed matter?

Because the self diagnosis is largely made up by people who don't understand what PTSD even is. It's like someone declaring they have cancer without going to a doctor.

> Why would you react to it having been “made a mockery of” by reinforcing this supposed mockery?

Because it's become part of the lexicon now. I don't think there's any going back. My usage was the "new" usage, no relation to PTSD was intended.
Interestingly, one of the features announced for the new Google Pixel phone is some kind of free live support, though they didn't say which Google products are covered. It is an expensive phone but if the support includes help with other consumer cloud products it might be worth the price of admission.
I have Travis builds against nightly, beta and stable on Linux and Mac. I have to say, with the exception of OpenSSL breaking on Mac recently (fixed with OpenSSL 0.8), I haven't had a compiler failure or bug introduced in any of my tests in the time since 1.0 (at least I can't remember one).

Even these, which obviously effected others, didn't effect my code. Cudos to the Rust team for being on top of this!
I really enjoyed this comment and you're one heck of a good writer. Thanks for telling your story!!
Most people buy homes to live in, not to look at and show off to other people. The majority of your interactions with your own home will be inside of it. None of these articles even acknowledge the fact that these might have nice interiors that offer more conveniences than a 1000 sq ft home built in 1932.
-F vs -f: -F figures out the new inode if the file is deleted (*notify are inode-based, if you see DELETE_SELF for a file you'll never get any more events)
I work in a digital marketing agency and my answer is that while I love trying new tools, this would be a nonstarter for us.

Why? Clients review our work in Google Docs. That's something they're (for the most part) familiar with and already using. We're not going to complicate their lives without an exceptionally good reason.
One of the biggest beefs I have with Europeans who take issue at NSA spying on the EU is the misconception they have that their own spy agencies aren't doing the same thing to everyone else: us, Russia, China, and other states in the EU.

More annoying about this argument though is the fact that the leaders of the most powerful EU states, regardless of what they may say to their own citizens, demonstrably benefit from and invite NSA spying. The German NBD, for instance, spied on Austria in collaboration with the NSA --- got caught doing so just last year. It's easy for EU SIGINT agencies to get away with this stuff, because they can launder the unpopular spying they want to do through NSA in private while "blaming" them in public.

If we want to have a world without spying, we should be honest about it. More honest than the conversation is today.

But we should also be careful what we wish for. The prevailing sentiment on HN is that NSA is more or less spying on behalf of Disney's copyright enforcement corps and the Moral Majority. But a lot of the reason we conduct foreign surveillance is to avoid large scale armed conflict. To allow us to head conflict off surgically, and to prevent intractable problems (for instance: unchecked proliferation of nuclear arms to countries that we'd have to invade to keep them from deploying).

I have real, bigly problems with NSA and think it needs drastic reform and completely restructured oversight. But I'm not in the (very large) faction that believes surveillance to be intrinsically evil. I personally feel fortunate to have made it out of the 1970s without disintegrating in a nuclear barrage. That threat is not gone; it is far more realistic than evil AI.
lol but it's not... it's the actual contents that really matter! Google around...
One concept that seems feasible - if the portable device is vented but lacking airflow for cooling, power that airflow with fans in the dock. Then, when docked, overclock the chip (or underclock when undocked).

This all presupposes, though, that the hardware they're packing in the portable unit is comparable to what's in the PS4/XBO or their newer equivalents.
>For one thing, that's not what he said. That's not even a paraphrase of what he said.

Did you even read the article? That's pretty much exactly what he said.

"Government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs...,” Obama said.

I'm guessing Obama knows this because he's also run a few successful startups in SV....

“Sometimes I talk to CEOs, they come in and they start telling me about leadership, and here’s how we do things. And I say, well, if all I was doing was making a widget or producing an app, and I didn’t have to worry about whether poor people could afford the widget, or I didn’t have to worry about whether the app had some unintended consequences … then I think those suggestions are terrific."

So again we have the guy in government who's never been in business "schooling" the guy in business.
With kit homes is you do all the labor yourself. If that is factored in, you can get a bit closer. Menards, which is a home improvement retailer in the midwest, sells kits for homes still. See here: https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/books-buildi...
$70k in materials for a 1700 sq foot home.
As an outsider to Switzerland, I'd say the Swiss see quality-of-life (including things like education, transportation) as a national security issue, as a way to remain competitive and relevant in a globalized world where most people can underbid them, and therefore they invest strongly in projects that promote an educated, happy, productive, globally competitive populace.

The Alpine tunnels and motorways are a part of this, as they ensure that Switzerland will remain an attractive option for cross-EU freight (instead of going around) but so are more local initiatives that improve conditions in the cities and cantons.

EDIT: In many ways, the same applies to Japan. Meanwhile SF feels no such pressure. Plenty of people (and companies) are all-too willing to move there regardless. If/when at some point SF experiences a decline, these skipped investments will begin to be sorely missed.
Holy crap... these numbers are absolutely nuts. 8.1 billion dollars for 2 kilometers of subway tunnel? What are they doing? Switzerland has just opened a 57km tunnel through the alps, some of the most difficult sediment to tunnel through, for ..... just over 10 billion. That's 175M/km or a factor of 23 less, in one of most high priced countries in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

So... too much veto power and too much corruption (construction lobbying) leading to enormously inflated prices?
React is actively maintained and doesn't have any known security vulnerabilities.
I take deep issue with anyone who refers to anything that kids do as 'stupidity'. They're kids playing a game. We have no idea what their home lives are like and we have no idea what the game represents to them. They're kids, not professionals and frankly, they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
The scale is supposed to be a scale of the quality of the design.

Neither tiny houses or well-designed mansions qualify as 'McMansions'.
Enjoy the return and watch for unemployment
Sorry, instead of "upgrade" I should have typed `full-upgrade` (which is the same thing as `dist-upgrade` and is unrelated to moving major distro versions)
I basically agree with her while cringing at a lot of the academic jargon around design language. I do believe that consistency of style in architecture is a thing while recognizing that homes are in service of how people use their interiors.
Facebook caught an office intruder using the surveillance tool Geofeedia
Discovering a breach is arguably the hardest part.
>Also, it's hard to see how "a few entitled people" control what people are doing with their property, unless that's become new slang for "the majority of voters".

In this case, that's exactly what it's slang for. The only people who can vote for these things are the ones already entitled enough to live in the city. Everyone else that was forced to the east bay and down south has no voice.
"Avoid embedding images or other content, unless absolutely required for understanding. "

This. I don't know where the theme of sticking inane moving GIFs separating every paragraph began, but it downgrades Medium content in many eyes.
The quality is only the "Mc" part of "McMansion" though. and Mansion implies large house.

Edit:

> Neither tiny houses or well-designed mansions qualify as 'McMansions'.

Yet they're on the McMansion scale.
Isn't this a machine learning problem? If so then more data means more learning.
Not sure but I think I have seen hotmail/live do this?
I think you just need more RAM, it's convenient having it all on one page instead of paginated.
Re Android: No we don't, but I'd be interested to know what we can do with Android to be helpful to you. Send me an email (max at our domain) if you want to talk more.

vulns page: yeesh that is slow. This is the first time I'm sharing our vuln pages outside of our logged-in users, and yeah, that index is definitely not ready for public consumption yet.
Zika Virus Causing Increase in Guillain Barre Syndrome
What's the deal with Cina's live streaming apps? We make money by eating cookies
GCC at least has an annotation that can be used to tell the compiler that a function call never returns. I don't have the details, but I presume it causes the compiler to omit any save/restore code, though I would guess that the return address is still pushed (x86 call instead of jmp) so that you get decent stack traces. 16-byte stack alignment across calls means that the average cost of pushing the return pointer is 8 bytes. It's not free, but it's cheap.
I'm not sure what you are responding to, but general-purpose humanoid robots that could be shown how to do things like picking strawberries (rather than a purpose-built strawberry picker) would literally be the world's biggest industry by staggering margins overnight.
I've hypothesised something like this. Or rather dreams could be generative based on random input (or random 'memory key frames') rather than real input. This assumes that mostly what we 'see' when awake is actually generated by the brain based on incomplete and noisy sampling of the real world.
NIMBYs are not constrained to conservative people at all here. I know very liberal people in SF that constantly vote against any improvements to the city because they 'don't want the feel to change'.
Kodak is an "innovators dilemma" case study, and what they're doing by bringing in an outside group to compete with itself is exactly one of the solutions that is often prescribed.
Good design doesn't have to be expensive. And surely the larger of these badly designed houses (which seem to be the worst) can't be that cheap?
I am curious why you felt the need to mention it at all.
Ask HN: Do you not like this?
I'm building an app to solve the problem of how difficult it is to meet people with similar professional interests and goals.

It may be relevant to ask y'all since my target market would be professionals in tech. ;)

How can I improve this from a product level?

https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/YX8KA9LPA#/screens
Holy shit! It's like Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, HR Giger, and Frank Frazetta had a love child and locked it in a closet. Thanks for the link.
> this is a gorgeously written piece

Agreed. Much of the blog is of that quality: Thinking and writing on a level of nuance and sophistication well beyond almost all competition. There is no compromise, as far as I see, to the widespread style of hyperbole and incitement on the Internet, which makes it is such a pleasure to read.

The topic of the blog is a little narrow, law as applied to national security issues (from international laws of war to domestic law and courts to privacy), but it's a pleasure to read if only as a signal of intelligence in the world. It's like SETI found something on the Internet.

Also, I highly recommend their daily international news summary.
>as a lobbyist perhaps

Impressive. The OP gives a well thought-out comment and you basically respond with an accusation of being a shill because he/she wants more public transit.
IBM Watson launched by Sloan Kettering for genome sequencing
It sounds like it wasn't realistically exploitable until recently.
Here is a link to the prototype: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12757843
That's correct, blocking operations within an actor need to be wrapped in a Future[1]. But Akka itself can be extremely performant if the bulk of your processing is non-blocking. Any non-blocking or long-running operations should be executed in a separate thread pool (if there are many), or just a separate thread.

[1]: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.4/general/actor-systems.html#...
I've filed a bug against Android Nexus/Pixel kernels. Will take a look tomorrow. I'm sure someone else already beat me to the punch.
Talk about "...You'll know it when you see it..."
In fact, you can easily add a streaming server in the middle (and many-participant WebRTC servers do exactly this), it's just that you can't have it happen unintentionally.
Either that or many people realize how stupid that tweet was and downvoted it so nobody else wastes their time on drivel drawing equalities between unrelated things.
> I like DRF, but I think its allow-by-default mentality is a security risk.

Completely agree. But DRF is useful even if you don't use any of the serializers. E.g. you can just use it to handle auth, requests, and responses, and then validate things by hand and save them directly to the Django model. You still pretty much need serializers when validating image files because you can't trigger the Django code to do this by saving to the model directly, but for everything else it's often more readable just to serialize and deserialize by hand.
Breaking Down Sports Tech
The work of 90s as I know it (sorry, no references, I was quite young then, do not care to loop up at the moment), was taking some corpus (and not an English one) and letting a generative algorithm run on it. This was not a research but art, literature, and as such, actually could have been very regional.

Of course the current state of art is on the different level but in basic principles not very different and as such not very surprising as an form of art.

PS. it does not imply that no interesting results may grow out of this.
I've never come across a self-checkout machine that doesn't work, but that's just anecdotal. It seems silly to base one's general opinion on the concept of self-checkout machines on how broken the ones you've experienced are. When I was traveling, I spent time in countries where toilets would back up more often than not, and that didn't make me think "Toilets are ridiculous,why do they exist".
Thrive Market's Multi Channel Content Machine: A Study of Content-Based Growth
Note that the machines have many tolerances that can be set to trade-off theft vs. annoyance of the customer. (E.g. the product weight when placed in the bagging area.) The machines can we way less annoying when they are set to be more trusting.

I also generally found them to work better in Australia than in the US, though the technology seems to be the same. I guess it's because of these tolerances being set differently, but that's just speculation.
(Transitive) Dependency Hell (In Java) Part 1
Who Should a Startup Hire First?
Last sentence makes me a bit sick :)
I'm okay with that. Why should people in the East or South Bay have a say in how San Francisco governs itself?
I hear there's an ancient Chinese curse about living in interesting-something-or-other. I don't think it was houses, but I bet they'd have adjusted it if they'd seen these.
I hear K-mart has a discount on tinfoil...

I mean the only thing more ridiculous than the hysteria around this election is the helplessness with which a foreign entity is actually accused of supposedly leaking emails from government officials.

Sometimes I wonder if folks actually get paid to spam every forum, even the most apolitical ones.
She also frequently points out that "McMansion" homes often have design problems that make them unpleasant to live in, like:

- Use of cheap materials, like vinyl siding and EIFS, which are likely to fail early and require expensive repairs.

- Poorly conceived interior spaces. Rooms that are awkwardly shaped or placed, which are impossible to furnish sensibly, or which simply have no purpose but to fill space. "Grand entrances" are a frequent offender here. These aren't just ugly; they make the house uncomfortable to live in.
OLEDs are coming--everywhere
Why do you think the American spooks have any credibility?
You only need to look at 70s/80s fashions to know that "don't think they look all that bad" isn't the same thing as "not bad", though.
I think you may have a point, although as a resident for a combined ~25y I tend to have less rose tinted glasses about Swiss government. Here's my take on it though: Swiss people do have comparatively high trust in their government. Not because they like the people sitting there, not because they are deemed very competent (in fact Swiss governments are almost by-design boring and just cogs in a machine), but: We feel safe in knowing that if they go just moderately crazy they can be shut down by popular vote within months. The social safety net is another huge factor I think, and probably a bigger one than the citizen rights: There's lots of comfort in knowing that if all goes wrong, you still have a comfortable apartment, your medical bills are covered and you can still send your kids to be best schools in the country - basically all that happens is that you can't take any vacations abroad and you can't go and buy expensive toys you don't need. This makes people much more relaxed, which in turn is often necessary when working together on big projects - if everyone is just in constant ass-covering-defense-mode, things like these will just either never happen or the cost will go through the roof.

The thing is though, the US was by far the best nation at this just 50 years ago. The interstate system, the moon landing, Bell Labs, Xerox Parc, MIT... the US is still basically running on top of these efforts from back then. Was it just Reaganism that destroyed it, with later democratic presidents asleep at the wheel? (e.g. Bill Clinton pushed through and signed the money-for-work social program, destroying the old safety net)
Honest question from a non C++ developer: what's the main point of Rust? What's the primary reason for choosing it over any other language? When would it be most appropriate to choose?
I just stopped from the js community to the Python one cause of js fatigue and the first thing I learned is Django restful APIs and now this happens....