skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but the name of the phenomenon is arbitrary. It doesn't really make sense to say that it should be called something else.
Reminds me of Yahoo Pipes but on a OS level, which is very interesting. I hope it gets the ease of use it deserves so that it's not just a fringe of users that end up automating their tasks. Thumbs up from me!
Ahhh, yeah, I totally misread that. Sorry!
China doesn't have a lax regulatory environment. You're right that what attracts is $.
Hopefully its UI isn't as inscrutable as Automator's.
This is fair to a degree, but vendors have VIPs that make failures fairly transparent. But if you need low latency on a large data set is there something better? Where low latency means <100ma reads
This is my first time putting something up, everything is breaking, fixing it now.
Can you say as to how long the trump-email[dot]com was active before it started SERVFAILing?

Also, I'd love to see the evidence if you're actually able to provide it.
Yes, it's how ctr works.

Alternate theory: hacker news has developed a culture where people actually know the real person behind the usernames, (think of patio or sama) so users that are afraid of being associated with wiki leaks create new accounts to post it.
Today even smartphones are ARM64.
They are powerful, yet power limited.
Worldwide Market
Would you publish the code too? Congrats!
Very nice. Two features you could add is - more templates and - using local storage to cache what's been typed and remember the fields contents.

Agree with the others, you probably want to mention what you're saving on the server and a privacy statement.
great stuff man! congrats! good idea too
Ensure that your logless VPN provider runs their own DNS service. Test at https://dnsleaktest.com
Obama: "Look at me and my rich friends. We upgraded from BlackBerry to iPad."

Meanwhile, normal Americans are finding it hard to find any normal jobs, because they've all moved overseas.

Silicon Valley is also out of touch with the common Americans, because STEM jobs are plenty, so people on Hacker News do not understand the struggle of the average American who can not find a normal job (that is not in the STEM field).
How have you found ATPi as an incubator/mentors?

For the HN audience, ATP-Innovations has one of the better track records as an incubator in Australia and works mostly with universities to commercialise research projects. This is one of the few examples I've seen where a student-led project (through Sydney University's Incubate) has progressed to this stage.

I'm hoping that's a sign of promising things to come!
> Hardware encode/decode

Of text?
The article wasn't arguing against being data driven, it was warning how you can fool yourself into thinking you are being data driven when in fact you are simply following intuition.
Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely?
I hold a PhD in applied machine learning, and have been working as an engineer at a startup for about 10 months now. A few weeks ago I moved away from where my company is located for a few months for personal reasons and have been working remotely. I really like this setup, as I'm in the comfort of my home throughout the day and have the discipline to carry out my work despite the change of place. And it is something I expect to do often in the future as my wife is in a profession that requires her to be physically present when dealing with her clients, and I realised that there may not always be the most interesting opportunities for me in some places where we live together (for example now).

This got me thinking about what I should pay attention to if I wanted to have a successful career working remotely. What kind of companies are more open to allow this form of work? How about freelancing? Are there any forums or groups online where I can find more information about working remotely? I have little idea about this as I have always been physically present at my place of work during the past 9 years of my professional life.

I thought this would be a very good place to get various points of view. Thanks in advance for any useful information you have that you share!
Side note - Is anyone else's CPU going mad on that page? Chrome PC just goes flat out sitting on that page.

UPDATE: it's my adblocker. It blocks a part of the page and the javascript tries to constantly load it if it fails, resulting in about 1000 errors/second in the console :)
Yeah, we do. However, since our primary audience of people we are talking to are on a Mac/iOS device, it doesn't really matter. And when we are on a non-Mac, we know what the square box symbol is supposed to be.
You wanted to understand why a Trump supporter is voting for Trump. The Trump support tells you of his experience and why he is voting for Trump. You then demand scientific data to back it up. You are not even listening to what he has to say, and you are not listening to his experience. And this is why you can never understand why he is voting for Trump.
Python Insider: Python 3.6.0 beta 3 is now available
Nice work! Would you be interested in sharing anything interesting you used or learned while making this?

These are the kinds of posts that made me fall in love with HN over 2535 day ago.
Math and Physics Taught by Robin Williams and Steve Martin
Finding Best Online Casinos
OPA: A live memory debugger for C programs
Perl 6 supports arbitrary run-time predicates as "subset" types:

subset Foo where /foo/;
subset Bar where 0 .. 99;
subset Baz where * > rand;

my Foo \foovar = 'Some food';
my Bar \barvar = 42;
my Baz \bazvar = 0.5; # Fails typecheck half the time
Honestly, the inside looks rindunculously like the NT kernel.
What made you be done with Photos? Just curious before I move 100GBs of Flickr photos into it.
To Fix Financial Technology, We Have to Fix Financial Education
It goes into specific details that only someone who is linked into these events would be able to describe and recognize. Someone like Assange, before he was exiled. Of course most of these people aren't open about these kinds of things either. I'm very interested in how large tech companies are wielding their power politically, because they get to bypass borders governments cannot. We've seen this with multinational corporations for a very long time of course, but nothing with the capabilities like Google-when practically everyone is living with a smartphone in their pocket at all times, with all the data, big and small, that creates. I think despite his biases, Assange does a great job at capturing how this is currently evolving.
Why Big Data Could Pose Big Problems for Healthcare Privacy
P(A|B) does not equal P(B|A). The Bayesian fallacy is inappropriately conflating the two. In this case, The commentator confused P(scoring | long possession) and P(long possession | scoring). It is very similar to the base rate fallacy to the extent that if someone commits the Bayesian fallacy they almost always also commit the base rate fallacy.
> If we were to make, say, traffic signals more efficient by synchronizing them, or somehow increase capacity on freeways, people would just drive more.

Or say, invent self-driving cars...
It's not just you. (Though I know this one weird trick that you won't believe to help!)
Might default the date to current date.
"It has said it intends to be profitable, without tax-related expenses, by the end of next year."

That's a bizarre interpretation of "profitable".
Misleading how?
>What's the disconnect?

The millions of immigrants who have to leave their homes because of Hillary and Obama's failure in the Middle East probably don't want any more of that incompetence.
On the follow-up mail you got, click "no" for the problem begin solved and call back.

You should mention that it's a safety issue and use this verbiage: "Could you pull the Andon cord for this ASIN?"
No offense taken. Basically I'm jealous of people that can get by with Macbook Air or Macbook. I see no reason a Macbook Pro can't be much lighter. I do WebGL and Unity stuff and both the air and macbook just don't cut it so I have to have a reasonable gpu option. I also do lots of cross platform stuff so I run lots of VMs (Windows, Linux, even older versions of OSX) so I need lots of storage and lots of ram.

Given the MacBook Pro has been 4.4 lbs for 4 years and given other companies have managed to make much lighter 15 inch machines it just seemed inevitable that the new MacBook Pros would also be much lighter. Maybe not 2.4 lbs lighter but certainly more then the 0.3 lbs we got. Basically it's not enough to justify upgrading so yea I'm disappointed and given I'll probably have to wait another 2+ years for any hope of getting something lighter from Apple it's certainly on my radar to consider switching.

As for my body, for whatever reason 4.5 lbs on my shoulders or back feels much heavier than 4.5 lbs of fluids in my body. Especially in hot/humid areas like pretty much anywhere in Asia in the summer.

Let me add, if they had announced machines that were significantly lighter don't you think people would be more excited? I can even imagine Apple coming up with some name like "The new Lighter MacBook Pro made with AirSteel(tm). The Macbook Pro's AirSteel case is 1/3 the weight of aluminum and twice as strong!"
Advanced High Availability Architecture [pdf]
While I have never used LaTex before, the package situation that you talk about isn't anything new. It's just another twist on "Not Invented Here". Writing new code that does exactly what you want is usually easier than picking up something that works and modifying it to suit your needs, making sure it's backwards compatible.
Location Based Networking app for professionals
As explained they wanted to tradeoff consistency for availability. Surely using Consul DNS would be less available than an independent cluster of DNS servers?
What he learned from reading the Redux source code
Doesn't appear to be standardized yet, but some of the goals are outlined here.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat...
> it still has the decryption keys

No, they (usually) work similar to PGP/GPG, i.e. each file is encrypted with a different AES key and the AES key is encrypted with a public RSA key. The original AES key for a particular file is immediately deleted from memory after the file is encrypted and the private RSA key (needed for decrypting the AES key that is stored in the file) only ever gets delivered to the system if the ransom is paid.
I have a mid-2012 Macbook Air with 8GB of RAM. Today I had open and used the following apps, with lot so windows open at once:

- MS Outlook, Word, Excel

- Safari, Chrome, Firefox

- Slack, Preview, Terminal

- Parallels - Windows 7 VM with 2GB RAM

- Photoshop

It worked great all day, with no beach balls. This is only a bit heavier than my usual usage.

So: I somewhat share the perplexity about why 32GB of RAM is needed by so many people. There are certainly some uses like compiling that I don't know much about, but I can't imagine that is huge segment of the potential audience.
There is also the matter of the timing of the blog post too.
Regardless of whether operating systems get involved in tasks like re-encoding text, they really should at least carry along the metadata about encodings whenever they're handling bytes that represent strings. Completely ignoring the problem and leaving it up to applications further up the stack just ensures that there will be incompatible competing standards for how to tell applications how to decode the string data they get from the OS. You don't want some apps trying to write filenames in UTF-8 while others use UTF-16, but allowing it to happen silently is even worse.
Except this issue is _local_ privilege escalation that is mostly only relevant for defense-in-depth scenarios that involve sandboxing.
MacBook Pro – There is something VERY iconic missing from Apple’s new laptops
Very cool. Pretty much flawless on iOS (8.3) right down to just opening the pdf in iBooks. Loads fast enough that I can grab it between stops on the metro.

Is the date going to pre-fill with the current date in future revisions? On my red. It was 06/15/2016 I think.
Likening their religious duty to finance was not the right way to go.
https://system76.com

It's not as pretty as a Macbook, but they do exist.
Maybe someone that's more familiar with wasm can enlighten me, but isn't this still extremely limited in the capabilities it exposes? With so many limitations in place, what are some example use-cases that this helps with? Am I being too negative and unrealistic? I don't know what kind of expectations I should have. I'm not writing this to bait responses.

It seems to be that until you get lower level network capabilities and some form of file system access, you're just too limited.
They have that. Check out Quest/Dell/whatever ActiveRoles and other Identity Management type competitors. I think any big enterprise vendor has an offering. The problem with a lot of them is the price-they're pretty spicy. But they are going after enterprise players with deep pockets.
Because of the need to do it in a way that is both plausible and not readily detectable.
Neural Machine Translation in Linear Time
What if the UUID is secret?
It's a tough balance. Often we (in the US) don't invest, then complain when jobs shift to other countries. We've seen so much bashing of $0.54 billion for Solyndra (a tiny gamble); but now most solar panels are made in China. Need to gamble, but wisely.
No test like a production test.
When I've asked the mods in the past, the response I've gotten is that it's generally OK to try 3-4 times (over the course of a few weeks) if your post gets no comments or upvotes. Truth is, assuming your content is compelling, getting to the front page is very much a matter of luck.
>It seems to be that until you get lower level network capabilities and some form of file system access, you're just too limited.

JS doesn't give you those things either but would you call it limited?

I think its a very early preview and we can expect a lot of limitations removed as the technology progresses.
The problem with having access to massive amounts of data and information is that it's too easy to see patterns and connections where there may only be noise.

20 years ago, I imagined that access to endless amounts of information would accelerate global enlightenment. Now, new conspiracy theories seem to come out almost daily. And, they quickly get passed around carelessly, especially by my family and friends. It seems too much information just causes a lot of panic and paranoia.

He could very well be right. But, I only wish that there were alternative analyses to consider.
So what? what does the United States care what anyone else thinks? We need to have a strong country first before we can share our prosperity. Nothing he has said is unreasonable...
How to Make a Pistol Using Pen That Shoots
I think it's pretty fair considering his role in the Tech community
True!

Plus this would allow the author to host this service on an cheap and robust s3+cloudfront setup!
"A git repo per machine, recording an audit trail further verified by the block chain"

This is just a list of technologies. It's not the start of a solution, and it isn't even really clear what problem you are trying to solve.
In my case it was more around dating. It was more about being immature on my part than any issues on anyone else's. (If it was being defensive, that's more conscionable than being a jerk who didn't think enough about others)
Hello everyone,

Thank you all for your time, your radical and innovative ideas, and most of all the outpouring of love and support.

Although this was not my goal, over the past twenty four hours I've received several contacts from people all over the country offering to loan or donate high-end VR gear, set up private demos for free, and even help with physical rehabilitation and assistance for the real thing.

We'll have to regretfully pass on that last one, due to my sister's rather unreasonable objections :)

We are going to attempt this at Christmas time, hopefully with the help of a few technically-inclined family members. If anyone else has any further suggestions, finds any good content, has some clever ideas, stray thoughts to bounce around, or even wants to help out please keep them coming. My email is seanrdurkin12 0x40 gmail.com for anyone that doesn't have it.

The results will be posted as a Show HN after Christmas, if my grandfather is comfortable with it, so keep an eye out if you're interested.

I hope someday we may we all look back at our lives with only one regret; and, if we are truly fortunate, a small army of hackers willing to make that final dream a reality. Even if that reality can only be virtual.

This experience has been truly amazing. It speaks volumes not only about the generosity of this community, but selflessness of all of you. Thank you for helping me to give a great man this chance to accomplish his last silly, wonderful, youthful wish.
Implementing Higher-Kinded Types in Dotty (Scala 3.0)
The problem is when it can be enabled in elections that do not use Single Transferable Votes, and discovery can be plausibly denied as a configuration error (oops, it's still set to weighted voting from a previous election and wasn't reconfigured correctly).
I'm not yet sure whether I agree with the action/timeframe here, but but broadly speaking the argument is that you need to set a deadline, and enforce that deadline in order to pressure companies to fix their issues.

It's not just that people affected by this vulnerability are being protected by its disclosure (though there are reasons why that might be the case) it's that in the future vendors will take deadlines from P0 far more seriously when they realise that their reputation is on the line if they fail to patch in time.

If you let vendors get away with "we know that this is being actively exploited, but we haven't been able to come up with a timely fix, so please don't tell our customers how screwed they are", then that becomes the standard line and you need to keep letting deadlines slip. Or you don't let them slip and you end up with this sort of situation.
The Secret that makes Your BANK pay you an Extra $500 – $1,000 every month
We can see the transaction history and balance in financial accounts, and when there's a mistake we can and do get it corrected.

Don't forget that Wells Fargo was able to open millions of accounts without consumer authorization. So maybe financial accounts are less secure than you think.

I'm also surprised by blanket assertions that electronic voting is inherently bad. But I'm equally surprised by assertions that electronic voting is inherently good.
I think that it's the articles colloquial expansion of EBIT. EBIT (Earnings Before Interest & Taxes) is a somewhat common financial metric. I think it is useful to look at if you have a concern that a business has tax/interest portions of their balance sheet that might be skewing the other measures of profitability.
I can answer this because I too wish I could have had my son sooner. I was scared to death of having kids for all through my 20's and early 30's. I now realize I was just selfish and didn't want the "burden" for lack of a better word, of something that doesn't go away. I now realize how wrong I was.

My wife of 10 years convinced me finally to have a kid when I was 33. I risked, at that point, a failed marriage if not giving her at least one. We agreed to just one kid. Had I'd known how hard it was going to be for us to just conceive of one, I would have agreed to start trying much sooner. It took us 5 years of trying the old fashioned way as well as some basic medical help until we finally agreed to pay the price of a new small car for IVF. The stress it caused my wife for five years of trying was hard to watch. She'd tear up seeing a teenager carrying two kids but we couldn't have one.

My life changed the day my son was born (who is now 6) and I can't put into words how much joy he has brought to me. He is like a mini-me and my best friend. To watch him grow, learn and pass through some early life moments (kindergarten, etc) has choked me up at times.

So the regret is because of not knowing how hard it CAN be to have a kid. And you aren't even in the first phase of it yet in which you have a mate you can devote to. Plus you hear about it all the time but it is so different to be living it, but children are exhausting. You want that to be hitting you in your 20's and 30's at peak energy. I am past 40 now and I feel like a zombie at times and many other area's of my life have suffered. I think back how much easier it would have been just to play soccer with him longer if I was 10 years younger.
> Consider replacing "We take privacy seriously" with "I take privacy seriously".

There's some tension between wanting to be taken seriously ("we" makes it sound like there is a team supporting the product) and using the correct pronoun number for a single author. I see the appeal of using the royal "we" everywhere, even when there is only one person behind the project, because at least then the pronouns don't need to be updated once a second team member joins.
> These are the kinds of posts that made me fall in love with HN over 2535 day ago.

And are sadly relatively rare these days :(
I am not associated with the Kafka dev team or Confluent in any way but have been using Kafka since their 0.7.x days. Speaking of their open source commitment so far, I haven't seen any kind of problems in the way they deal with the community. They have been open to bug fixes, feature enhancements and other contributions.

Many of the Confluent employees you see currently, started off by contributing to the open source code and still do, from what I can see.

>> There was a recent thread about their open source status

I am not sure which thread you are talking about, but if it is that thread which involved adding REST server within Kafka core then I completely back what many of the Confluent employees and other community members decided on that topic. From what I could see in that thread, the whole reason of "we should bring in REST server within Kafka core" was not related to technical reasons but hypothetical reasons like "there's a project out there which already supports this REST feature but what if they don't like my contributions and don't allow me to push features that I like into that repo". That proposal of bringing in the REST server within Kafka core was, IMO, rightly rejected but at the same time, the users were allowed to state the technical reasons why they want that feature within core.

Given any production usable project that has a large user base, discussions and decisions like these are common and that doesn't essentially mean they are moving away from open source. Overall, I have high respect to many of the members of Kafka dev team, many of whom are currently employed at Confluent, for the way they have so far dealt with suggestions to enhancements in the project.

Of course, Confluent builds on top of Kafka and has/will have they own commercial interests, so some of the features that they develop might/will be commercial.
Show HN: Landing page generator [10kApart]
Hi,nice work! found a bug only worked for me when filled all the fields. Internal Server Error when i left "cc" field empty. Keep up the good work.
Overcoming less-than-favorable unit economics when a business is at scale is never fun.

That said, I appreciate this startup's continued hustle.
You still have to trust the machine that prints it. Which, I will admit, is still better than the current system. However, there are public ledger voting systems with stronger anonymity guarantees. So, my opinion is that if we're going to do it all over again, we might as well do it right.
See if you can sell it first. When piracy becomes a problem, then look into software protection.

Niche software rarely gets pirated because the demand is low.