skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels a hell of a lot like an updated version of the KLF's "How To Have A Number One The Easy Way", except written by someone who decides to get off the ride before it gets to the end. http://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/

I sure did roll my eyes and make wanking gestures during the opening paragraphs. No, people aren't at a club to sit back and sip weak tea slowly whilst listening to the intricacies of a beautifully difficult piece of music. They are here to dance. And as the DJ, your job is to give them beats to dance to and keep the party going. Any number of these people may be listening to and loving that difficult, cerebral music at home, but you can't dance to that shit and they are in this place to move their asses.
I totally agree, but your average EV driver who charges at home is going to use way more than 100 kwh/month.
If Steve Jobs was still Apple's CEO, the only thing that is certain is that he would keep the Skeuromorpihsm UI.

For anything else there is no proof.
Postmark just dropped our outbound email for high bounce rates. Falling back to SendGrid :/ Try again in 5 minutes.

Edit: Ask HN: Any suggestions for solving this? Hitting the frontpage means people are spamming the login form with bogus addresses like a@a.com that bounce and cause trouble for us and the ESPs. Not ideal, but I'm not sure how to solve this for a small scale side-project. Discussion in https://github.com/portier/portier-broker/issues/96
I'm not only talking about the latest event, there has been quite enough stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station

And considering that the first reactor was designed to work until 2005, it's only natural that more parts will start to fail until 2025.

Furthermore, if people didn't oppose new reactors as vehemently as they do, there would be less pressure to continue lifetime of the old ones.

You're just reinforcing my point. If a government can be pressured into running a nuclear plant beyond its safety limits because it refuses to take the popularity hit of telling its citizens to choose an alternative, then that government can't be trusted to run any nuclear plant at all.
I did assume that. I was also adding another data point to the discussion. Running this business made me realize thats some cars rarely break down. Numbers are ridiculously low on some models and that is one the major reasons our business is sustainable
I wanted it so I can learn to drive around downtown Boston at my leisure and without stress of getting lost, finding parking, getting honked at, etc.
That's very compelling. Maybe I'll wait until there's some used Bolts on the market.
Dang, just looked up the suicide doors. That's... interesting. The driver and passenger seatbelts look like they are attached to the rear doors, so when you pick up someone, and they get in the back, you have to unbuckle so they can open the door.

Are the major car companies even trying to make reasonable electric cars? They all look so weird and have weird design decisions that make me not want to buy them at all.
"While Jobs was explaining why he thought old tech giants had fallen from grace, he probably wasn’t thinking about Apple at that time. "

I doubt that. Just read Ed Catmull's "Creativity Inc." (highly recommended) and all his thoughts that went into making Pixar (Steve's other company) sustainable and returning a fallen Disney animation around. The question what went wrong elsewhere is central to that. Also there are the early years of Apple where Apple fell from grace. Steve was acutely aware of the fragility of his businesses and wanted to protect them.

Steve knew about the critical importance of culture. The spaceship follows his earlier work on the Pixar building. Enabling people to come together and build something great, insanely great.

Apples products tended to deliver value seen from the customer perspective. Proper waterproof phones is a step forward that does not look great, is hard to do, is hard to charge for but delivers value every single day. The "insanely great" perceivable customer value was missing in the presentation of the last macs for a lot of reasons (memory, keyboard, cable integration with iPhone out of the box, mag-safe, extension cord, higher price etc.).
First, households have more than one car. If you assume on average cars last 15 years and the average household has 2 cars that's.

116,211,092 * 2 / 15 ~= 15.5 million new cars per year which is within the ballpark of 17.5 million new cars.

Next, averages tend to be well above median. One BMW might bring the average up relative to 20 Honda Civics. Further, the low end of the market is more likely to buy used than new. So ~1/3 of the market is buying new cars, 15% of that is buying the expensive new cars and your looking at top 5% income earners at $167,000+k/year.

Granted, not everyone making 150k is buying a 50k car, and some people making less than 150k are buying 50k cars. But, if you think in terms of that kind of income then a 50k car is less ridiculous than you might think.
Sorry, but why hold any of these people out as purveyors of truth?

I could rip a apart Thiel, Adams or Taleb on ___(their own dumb kryptonite). For example, listen to Taleb on religion. He's a buffoon. On power laws...very insightful.

I see no reason to glorify individuals outside of their domains.

Regarding Trump, he's just a Republican, as Hillary is just a Democrat. They are the faces of the machine. This is how most Trump-backers get comfort with Trump.

If Trump TRULY TRULY was anti-establishment, he would sound more like Lawrence Lessig and less like Archie Bunker.
>From that point forward, the binary format will be reset to version 1 and WebAssembly will be versionless

Why?
That is not what it is currently for a majority of plants. Maybe there is few plants here or there, but I posted the data directly from eia.
Hah! If your plan is to escape SF life by going to Seattle... Well... Good luck with that.
This is wrong. There's no warmup period.

What there is is that, if the battery is completely full, the energy has nowhere to go. So the car does not use full regen. This could be mistaken for a "warmup".

As another poster commented, this changes the accelerator feel, not the brakes.
Thank you! It's a good thing I haven't gone for any business consulting interviews lately.

This context helps to explain what's going on, especially the cars per year metric you added. It would be nice to have more information, but it appears that 11% luxury segment can have an outsized effect on the mean sales price of the vehicle sales.
> I guess that's the kind of polish VC money buys :-)

quite possibly. I've also read some of their bug threads and they're quite discerning (protective?) of what makes it in from the community. so, money+perfectionism, perhaps.

but honestly - their 'questions' interface is a hell of a lot more fun than sql. thanks to ORMs, my sql knowledge is really quite rusty as well and the simple/constrained "select, filter, aggregate" options on a single table or data source lets me faceroll what I need.
How should I price my software as a service?  I'm targetting developers
So I've been working on this application for 4 years, part time. The key features are:

1. Create CRUD REST API very quickly.

2. Create a REST API that fetch information from a third party REST API, merge it with some in-house information, taken from a CRUD API, then output it to the user.

3. Create REST APIs based on 1+ sql databases, create specific sql queries with the request, and output results. This is used to create a micro-service architecture on top of an old sql database.

4. Create websites that relies entirely on REST APIs as their data source.

------

The key advantages are:

1. Write code in less type.

2. Do not bother about the internal architecture of your APIs/Websites. The compiler will take care of this. Just focus on your micro-service architecture.

3. Do not bother about framework signature changes on version updates. The compiler fixes those on re-compilation.

4. You also write the Functional and Unit tests in the DSL, so maintaining those are very easy and NOT time consuming.

--------

I'd like to create a startup with this application. I was planning on launching the compiler using a software as a service approach.

It would be free for everyone to create projects where the code is visible to everyone. Basically, on my website, there would be a list of users with the list of projects they are working on. If they use the free service, their code would be visible to everyone.

If someone wants to make private projects, they would be charged on a monthly basis.

I was wondering, based on the information I stated in this article, how much do you think I should charge for such a service, in your opinion? If you could elaborate on why I should charge this amount, that would be be VERY appreciated!!

Thanks a lot in advance guys!
Seriously: Why wouldn't everyone manage their manager?
Ah I see, I figured this was just plain Minesweeper that you could have played on an Apple ][e! Thanks for the info, it isn't quite as bad as it initially sounded. Shame that there is still advertising in the OS though.
Dishonest? I do not know why violent revolution was fomented in Syria or have a reasonable explanation why Libya was bombed. You should explain your comment.
If the problem is worth solving, from a monetary standpoint, then sharing is actually more important than building.

I know that's heresy here on hacker news but I am an internet marketer and I have not seen the "if you build it they will come" mentality work very often.

In most cases it's "if they want it you should build it."
Did similar at Link Packets, http://linkpackets.com/ - more of a proof of concept / handy thing project.
I bet there are a lot less carpenters "worth their salt" giving away their designs and "sharing" furniture for free than programmers. Still, if you want and afford to profess for fame and good will, do it..
Their competition is dsl, arch, raspbarrien and other small/IoT OSs. Not to say their product is worse. But why are they forking instead of supporting existing technologies?

Not saying their work isnt useful. But theres an argument to be made for "why"?
I didn't go look but that was going to be my guess. Since Debian is volunteer-ran, each architecture needs people to manage it, as well as having adequate hardware to test/build on.
Client cert support has been built into the browser for a long time.

One problem is that you basically have to build out non-cert authentication to give people certs to install. That, and there's little to no mutual trust, so every institution needs to issue and manage its own certs.
Amazing article!!!
That all sounds lovely. Except modern automation means further concentration of wealth in the hands of a microfraction of society, leading to not being able to pay for any of that because a monopsonistic economy means very bounded demand which leads to crushingly low wages. And any sort of skilled-service jobs require an economic base to get into in the first place--money that you don't have because the money is not in your or your parents' hands. BRB, reinventing peasantry. Or worse.

Economic activity doesn't magically happen when all of the lubrication for the engine is left in a bottle on the shelf, which is what modern automation is happily barreling towards barring a significant reworking of society that will have all the invisible hand fiction-peddlers in the tizziest of states.
Go back and read SB other messages[1]. After the first message, it seemed like a PR stunt by a foreign intelligence agency, with this impossible auction designed to throw people off, but all of their messages since have been designed to explain the auction process more thoroughly.

Try imagining yourself as a young sysadmin who stumbled across an entire dump of Equation Group while investigating an infection. You realize the value of such a thing, but have no underground contacts to use to fence it. You can't walk into a Chinese embassy and try to sell it, they might kill or report you. So now you have to try to get rid of the thing and maximize your return while not sacrificing complete anonymity. You don't want NSA on your ass for the rest of your life. How would you proceed?

The messages are getting a bit more desperate. They went from the $1,000,000BTC in the first message (which SB says was interpreted incorrectly), to a public release if 10,000BTC was crowdfunded, and now they want a cool $million.

One of the Q&A questions answers the "why trust us to deliver?" argument. They say this is about reputation. No delivery=no reputation. Imagine the kind of deals SB could make in the future with SB PGP key signing stuff if they delivered on this transaction. You would catapult yourself to the worlds most famous cyber arms dealer in one day.

Reminds me a bit of Trainspotters or the guy in Neuromancer who steals the mechanical talking head and fences it to The Finn. People who come across extremely valuable items with no way to easily sell. It rarely ends well.

Of course this could be all misdirection, but I'm leaning towards the much more interesting notion that this is legit. I just hope we hear about how it ends. It would be pretty boring if they quietly sold the data to some foreign service and we never learned anything more about one of the most interesting chapters in recent cyber warfare history.

[1] https://medium.com/@shadowbrokerss/
Cheating in Agile
sounds like it could be interesting, looking forward to seeing more
is it a monolithic kernel or a microkernel? hybrid? :P
LOL, for how smart we like to think we are, we are incredibly stupid people. Who doesn't know about bikeshedding by now? Yet we still do it.

Logos should never be created by the community. The community should always appoint a logo dictator and either accept their selection or overthrow them and appoint a new dictator.
I ran `cloc` on the minoca/os repository, here are the results:

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.70 T=22.43 s (84.3 files/s, 63498.9 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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C 1023 296251 262652 530443
C/C++ Header 438 93833 117592 69529
Assembly 95 9588 7773 13383
make 270 2236 6402 4784
Bourne Shell 38 799 1198 2787
JSON 4 4 0 1367
Pascal 4 232 28 718
Python 4 194 257 589
yacc 2 99 4 481
awk 3 25 11 263
Markdown 3 27 0 172
Windows Resource File 3 18 0 86
lex 2 44 142 84
Perl 1 7 10 35
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SUM: 1890 403357 396069 624721
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OK, so she messed up with some emails.

No, against all advice with anyone with a clue about security, and the law, she set up her own private email server and transacted all her email State Department business on it, including the transmission of HIGHLY classified information.

Every bit of what I said in the above paragraph is a matter of public record.

That's still not enough to make me want to vote for a pushy business guy whose platform consists of impossible claims and juvenile name calling.

Not germane to my comments, unless you want to widen the scope of our discussion.

Me, I'll just note that Trump doesn't palpably want to start a shooting war with Russia, and in general, Hillary's warmongering (e.g. "We can, we saw, he died"; you do know we're fighting 5 undeclared wars right now?) and her general way of "doing business" that goes all the way back to her first real job, a stint on the Watergate Investigating Committee, from which she was terminated with extreme prejudice, which along with failing the D.C. Bar exam forced her to accept Bill's outstanding offer of marriage and exile herself to 1970's Arkansas, makes her an existential risk to the United States if she becomes President.

Foreign policy is, by law going back to the Constitution, largely the remit of the President, so it's an area where it doesn't matter that "The president is not a dictator and they can't bs or bully their way into getting changes made.", the Commander in Chief can most certainly get an earnest shooting war started (I've in fact gotten into arguments about whether the replacement for the SAC could legally and in practice refuse to her resorting to the nuclear football). And as the email server debacle shows, Hillary is not one to worry about long term consequences.

You do own a paper copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills, I assume? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills you need a paper copy to get the dimensions of the Kearny Fallout Meter correct.)
It's Ff (capital F, lowercase F). Don't know why there's a difference between big and small 口, though.
You describe yourself as a "technologist and entrepreneur"?

Yeah, you definitely belong here....
Sure, but technology always gets better as well, including many safety features in addition to convenience ones. For example things like backup cameras, blind spot monitors, cross-traffic alerts, collision avoidance, adaptive cruise control, might not have been available on most cars 10 years ago.

Also, there is a certain value in having a reliable car with predictable monthly costs. Sure, you can get an extended warranty to cover unexpected expenses, but there is still the hassle factor of having your car constantly in the shop after a certain point.

There's nothing wrong with buying a car and keeping it for 10 years, but there is also nothing wrong with having a new car every X years.
Deep Learning is Revolutionary
> God/creation doesn't solve any of the mysteries we still have left

Really? So, tell me then, why are we here? What is the purpose of our life, if there is one? What happens after we die? Or are these mysteries not still left?

> All it does is create an infinite regress of what created god.

Yes, that's right. But saying that, "Since we then cannot answer the question of where God came from, God must not exist" is not logical. The existence of another turtle does not disprove the previous turtle. By your logic, since we cannot explain what created the universe, the universe must not exist.
Ironically, you just asked us to use intuition in order to support a baseless claim that voters are using only intuition.
Smart glass taps into beer drinker's data
"lean, maintainable, modular, and compatible with existing software." - i wonder how long that will last.
Microsoft CEO Envisions a Whole New Reality
We've been working on a a data science template that bakes in a number of these practices. Currently leans Python, but could definitely be useful for scientific computing generally:
https://github.com/drivendata/cookiecutter-data-science
The networking giants at least aren't planning on selling hardware for much longer: they want to become purveyors of SDN technology that runs on commodity OCP-style hardware. I am guessing they are part of these initiatives so that they have some influence over what their code runs on.
It is electric. It just happens to haul a generator too.
As someone who grew up in my Java career on Eclipse, have had a paid IntelliJ license and then started using Netbeans despite all warnings against it I strongly encourage everyone to at least try Netbeans on their own.

Main benefits:

- The whole thing is free. No pro or enterprise version. (That said this isn't cheapness on my side: I can have an IntelliJ license any day I ask my boss as he is an incurable fan. For me it is enough to fix his IntelliJ once in a while. ;-)

- Happily uses Maven poms as project models. No more problems with out of sync IDE configs. What builds on the build server is exactly what I see in the Project view.

- Standard keybindings follows modern OS conventions and you can switch to Eclipse or IntelliJ keybindings in options if you want.

- Doesn't scare noobs the way eclipse does. Not a problem for me, I used to love eclipse, but for a team lead this might be an advantage.
Minoca was previously posted about 6 months ago [0], but it was not open source at the time.

I guess this is kind of like a re-release after not generating much buzz and seeing a lot of comments asking for open source.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662057
"Minoca OS was written by two developers, Evan and Chris, over the course of a few years."

Big kudos.

Going to look at it when time allows
The bad ones are typically well-known desktop anti virus scanners that try to score by showing you a high number of threats they allegedly defeated. If you look at those threats in detail, they turn out to be browser cookies, or bookmarks, or something similarly trivial.

Identifying good vendors and products is generally harder. I've heard good things about canary.tools and bromium, for example. Both explain what they do in terms that don't make a techie roll their eyes (too much at least): https://canary.tools/#how-it-works and https://www.bromium.com/advanced-endpoint-security/our-techn...

A good (but not exhaustive) test is to look at what the vendors promise. If they promise you full protection of your machine or network, you know they are full of shit. If they talk only about one aspect (identifying attackers, reducing the attack surface on a browser), things start to look better.
I'll second this. I'm sure the same comments here could be made about Linux when it started, and I don't see any point in negativity.

Good luck to these people, I hope this becomes one of the major OSes in ten years.
Why does report-spam and block not suffice? Victim?
Because they can. There's your why.

Now you get to answer the "why not?".
This http://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html
It is only more cost effective to fly if he is the only person in the car. As soon as you add one passenger, the drive is the better value (depending on value of time).
Finding bugs in the code of LLVM project with the help of PVS-Studio
> How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/global-warming-helped-cause-sy....

This is embarrassing.
Well, considering that all iOS devices now have P3 Wide Color displays, you'll need a computer with a wide color screen to accurately create and preview content for iOS.

To my knowledge, aside from the new MacBooks, Retina iMacs and the new Surfaces your only options would be external 10-bit-per-channel monitors, and those can be expensive.

The Razer Blade Pro has a wider gamut too but as far as I know it's Adobe RGB and not DCI-P3.
60 Liters == 15.8503 Gal
$1 AUD == $0.76 USD
$180 AUD == $136.8 USD

So it costs you $137 USD to fill up your large tank twice.

That's pricy, but not as bad as it sounds without unit conversion.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9386261/
Emacs's elpy package is also great at auto-complete. I haven't used PyCharm myself but Emacs is more than enough. Also, most of my other programming are done in Emacs.
Thanks for injecting some sanity :)
I don't think people realize the parallels between this and startup life.

Lots of people who have succeeded in the startup world attribute it to one thing or another they did but a lot of it is just damn pure luck.

This woman faked her way through... if she had wanted she could have continued down that road and be a bona fide DJ and none would be wiser.
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Work communications are not a place for fun. They are a place for productivity and focus. If your company's work is not fun by itself (interesting problems, no bs, etc.), that's a problem! Fix that, don't gloss over it with distractions (that thrash people's CPUs).