skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are we even talking about here - "quashing abuse"? Are we talking about going to work deleting spam, statementless insults, etc., literally combating people abusing the platform? Or is it about stopping people abusing other people, deleting hateful comments, and maybe censoring certain ideologies (nazis, etc.)? I'm just wondering what abuse is, and what a twitter moderator's job description even is.
I've always liked Bret Victor's site, due in no small part to the amazing content: http://worrydream.com/
No idea, sorry :(
Healthcare is a human right. Cars aren't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_health
A few that I've bookmarked for such purposes:

http://www.pascalvangemert.nl/

http://johanbrook.com/

http://dustandmold.net/
There is a similar scam in the US, but it collects differently. After tricking the mark into interacting with the "beautiful girl", the scammer contacts the mark claiming to be her father (or sometimes a different role) and saying that the girl is under 18, and to pay a ransom or be reported to the police for sex crimes. This scam is so common that it is a "sticky thread" for Reddit's /r/legaladvice .
This version fixes issues reported with the new Zeus Python 3.5.2 scripting module.

It updates the Rustfmt and Rust Racer tools to the latest versions.

It also updates the Go tools like the delve debugger, goimports, gocode, gorename etc.

Finally this version improves on the C# auto-completion, go to definition features etc.

Zeus is a language neutral IDE for the Windows platform.

Jussi Jumppanen

Author: Zeus IDE
There's some others in the opposite direction: using linux desktop but running windows in a vm, spoofing user agent to look like windows, or running ie in wine, pipelight/silverlight etc.
It doesn't help that Tesla tends to have long delays for cars.

For instance, let's say I pre-ordered a Model 3 now. But I won't get it the first half of 2019. And then a month later, Tesla announces Model 3 with Autopilot 2.5 hardware or whatever, holographic HUD, and so on. And that new car will ship within 2 months. Then I'd feel pretty screwed by Tesla...
Can Android be considered Linux ? :)
>Here, we're exposed to a company that does that and there's contempt about how the organisation expresses itself.

HackerNews hates banks. SV's capitalism is good, Wall Street's is not.
> In some ways I feel we had to use our brains more before technology and data became so universal and cheap!

Maybe. Funny thing is, we have more opportunity to use our brains better now, and yet it seems we're not taking it.

For instance, books. Many people say that they don't read much books anymore - even though today you have access to much better selection of books than before. Issues like being an adult = lots of bullshit errands aside, it's easy to be distracted by blogs and other short-form texts today. I have to constantly remind myself to keep reading actual books. Today you can literally just Google "best book on X", browse several discussion threads and pick out what is possibly the best resource whole humanity has on topic X. It's that easy. But for some reason, it's not an obvious thing to do. It wasn't for me until recently.
The Creator of Google’s Self-Driving Car Now Competes with It
Samir receives a phone call from an unknown woman. The woman sounds really hot and sounds like she likes him. Samir arranges to meet the woman at his home, only to find it's actually a man. Samir is subsequently tied up and robbed of all his money and belongings.

Is Samir an idiot (Y/N)?:
If you lost 2% last year and you're down 2.01% on 12/1, you are out. At that point everything is roulette and you have no incentive to make conservative trades. You're out anyway so it's go big or go home, because you're probably going home.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Welcome to the world of phone firmware modding.

I suspect you got much the same back in the microcomputer era. Just look at the various phreaker stuff salvaged from BBSs.
Streisand effect will ensure Samsung is remembered for their exploding phones, just as Sony is remembered for their root-kit.

At best it doesn't become worse, but I can see this suddenly popping up in other games as there is a good incentive - guaranteed viral video.
Problem with overly polite self driving cars
When I did put myself in potential recruiters shoes, I came up with this one page drawing to quickly showcase what I am and what I know

http://www.rsudhakar.in/assets/professional-me.jpg

It was even helpful to kickstart conversations in meetups / other technical gatherings
Every time a big company tries to strong arm an individual to take down something, esp something that is already viral in nature, the end result is it ends up getting more views and news. Yet, these companies never learn. Also in this day and age I think it's impossible to take a video down (s01e01 black mirror anyone?)

On the other hand, a detailed breakdown of what went wrong including details of the fuckup, with black and white details on what was fact and what is fiction (like Tesla's response to BBC) and the measure the company is taking to fix it generally helps to gain the trust back quickly.
Comment did nothing for me.

Come on, you can do better than this. You're wasting your own time more than anyone else's with these sorts of comments.

To GP: Your website is just okay (on mobile). I recommend getting rid of the carousel since they're generally useless UX-wise and in this case it also repeats content with the feed below it. Not a big fan of the typefaces, but it is "approachable" if that's what you're going for. I'd get rid of the shadows on text and personally I don't think the boxes behind every feed item is totally necessary. The content without the cards behind it looks fine to me!

Also maybe making the medium/github/etc links stand out a bit more (on mobile they're overlaid on your picture). They look a bit decorative but in fact seem quite important for users to notice.

EDIT: Looked at it on desktop: The cards seem to make more sense, but not a fan of the background photo (just a bit dated). I also see now that the carousel content isn't completely duplicated, but I'd still advocate swapping it out for a single highlighted project – your magnum opus – that you dive into more extensively. Just to offset the deluge of information that's in the feeds below. Cool site! Tasteful blues and shadows goin' on.
Firstly, I don't think this way "easy". It may be easier. Secondly, I don't think that's obviously true. In fact, I doubt it. If you get into millions and millions you've probably already encountered and solved most every scaling problem you will ever have. When you are in the lower numbers there are multiple different levels of scaling, all of which need to be solved.

I don't think the apples to oranges comparison helps make the point anyway. It's just a throw-away. If someone writes "Toyota makes 9MM cars", I discard as "wrong thread". Even if the difficulty curve changes shape against Tesla starting right now, Toyota's production capacity remains pretty irrelevant.
subtitle: "Robotics pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building an open-source autonomous car."
+1 for etymotics. I've found they're pretty much the only things which reliably stay in my ears without pain.
No link to the original comparison by Google? It was only presented on a private event?

Well, it's impossible to know the context in which this comparison was made. BigQuery is very different from the rest of the data warehouse solutions, I wouldn't think a standard benchmark suite would be appropriate for it.
Odd how few seem to mention property (real estate)? Even those alleging actual returns worth a damn on stock portfolios. Surely the most obvious route on the planet is property. For two reasons:

1. It's leveraged. I.e. a bank will usually give you a 4:1 loan (mortgage) to buy property. Interest will usually be close to the central bank rate, so it's about as cheap as a loan gets, especially right now. If you then rent the property you are receiving a monthly return on the leveraged sum having only invested the deposit...

2. Property is an appreciating asset (US,UK,China,FR,etc). It's a systemic matter in many countries because it ties in a large part of an individuals net worth and retirement expectations.

Your 200k leveraged with a mortgage will net you more than most stock portfolios unless either you're Renaissance Capital or you just like a gamble.
> don't like how things are going it pretty much seems to me your narrow path is selling the stock

I don't know the law or the precedents, but it seems concealing info might be an the exception that proves the rule here. The point being you need non-lying results if you are going to decide whether to sell the stock.are lying about results, you can't
At some point my brain got tired of thinking about doom and stressing over death, and so I somehow just stopped thinking about that.
Jump to Full Encryption
They're also targeting prominent political conservatives like Ron Sandack, loudmouth State Rep. from Illinois. If you're one of the likely members of the lynch mob who would attack someone who has fallen for this scam, you're a likely target for this scam.
I don't know why they specifically chose 9% but I can say that substantial redundancies at a large corporation are horribly complex for both legal and logistical reasons.

Reasons why they might have chosen a number of this magnitude?

10-15% annual attrition for a large corporation is fairly normal i.e. losing that sort of experience spread around an organisation isn't particularly challenging (although you would normally backfill some/all). You wouldn't have to do some massive re-org just for this reason (there might be other reasons to do one of course).

In many jurisdictions there are different rules for layoffs over a certain size. So they may be choosing to trigger rules in some areas and not others. Occasionally I have seen companies choosing to "overcut" in a particular jurisdiction in order to take the legal pain once rather than drip feed pain over a long period.

It may also be that they can cut or sell specific areas so that pervasive impact is limited. This might produce a number that's larger or smaller than needed for cost purposes but helps to control the morale issues as many people see no direct impact.

Edit: another very popular reaons is that that's the number that the analysts are expecting. I didn't say it's a good reason, just a common one.

There are plenty of other reasons for ending up with a number up to and including "ip dip sky blue" that I have seen over the years. Generally though, it's tricky and often unpleasant.
... why not just fake your phone's GPS coordinates and perform a binary search?
I think this would be great. As a non-US guy I don't even bother to install it (though I'd need android anyways).
I find quite interesting that before receiving/taking an offer, you ask such a question in a very public forum, under your real name.

I have no idea whether it is good or bad for you, but I am surprised by such a high level of transparency.
I guess I'm just cynical of this since it's usually baseless fearmongering. Has there been evidence of serious problems with this? I haven't seen any but I also haven't gone looking either.
> I would rather commit seppuku than fail -- Elon Musk on failure

Project Titan is not a failure but it has suffered major setbacks, the credit or blame for which lies with Tim Cook. It takes unrelenting passion and fanaticism to wield the fortunes in your favour. Jobs had this and Musk has it too.

If project Titan is not about building a car then it's just about components. Apple has historically owned the vertical and there is little exciting about being a component supplier. It's a losing bid. Google does mapping better than Apple. It does voice recognition and AI better than Apple. The car manufacturers desire a steely grip on their UX and design so Apple's strengths there won't come into play either. Ive's own ambitions seem to indicate the poor state of cars:

> “There are some shocking cars on the road,” Ive said. “One person’s car is another person’s scenery.” To his right was a silver sedan with a jutting lower lip. Ive said, quietly, “For example.” As the disgraced car fell behind, I asked Ive to critique its design: “It is baffling, isn’t it? It’s just nothing, isn’t it? It’s just insipid.” He declined to name the model, muttering, “I don’t know, I don’t want to offend.” (Toyota Echo.) [1]

I for one would have loved to see an Apple Car and disruption of the auto industry. Am hoping Apple hasn't conceded on the bigger vision but it does seem bleak at the moment.

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-come
What is property-based testing?
Is God an Accident? – We've Evolved to Be Creationists (2005)
Since Win8, if a relative, who only needs a browser and a word processor, asks me to reinstall his computer for him I just install Ubuntu without asking and telling. Most can't tell the difference and no one switched later to Windows. Most like the intuitive new "Windows" UI ... Imho the times where Windows was easier are gone. Ubuntu is the new easy.
Feels like deep learning is here to stay so I don't see how they are going to have any fighting chance.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback on the ecosystem map!

AWS ECS: AWS ECS is not on the "Containers and Orchestration" category line because the inclusion criteria is for technology that you can download and run anywhere. Happy to discuss further whether this should be changed.

Haschicorp: This was an oversight, it will be added in the next rev.

gRPC: Protocols such as gRPC, JSON-RPC, etc. are not currently part of the inclusion criteria for the Specifications line.
Ask HN: How do you split your SaaS features into plans?
I'm doing a side project which purpose is to experiment if I can build a SaaS product and maybe earn some dollars. The app is a web-based REST api monitoring/tester tool, and I've been struggling with splitting features into packages that actually makes sense. The core features are like having API calls defined with parameters and assertions as cases, and then you can run them in every 1/5/15/60 minutes and get a report in email/slack if something went wrong.
I have no experience on what works in real life so I'd appreciate any feedback from similar people who has done A/B testing or has any experience regarding this.

My current idea is:

- Basic: max 1 user / max 5 case / 60 mins frequency

- Startup: max 5 users / max 100 case/ 5 minutes frequency

- Enterprise: unlimited users / unlimited case / 1 minutes frequency

And the main selling point for the most expensive plan would be an ability to run collections through an API so that it can be wired into CI build.

Any thougths? Thanks!
What's blocking Wikipedia to just archive the referenced pages on edit?

It would be far more reliable than depending on Internet Archive when it may not have the page archived and more likely the time of the archive would differ from the time it was referenced.

It would cost some more disk space and bandwidth, which of course is already pressuring them but in turn would greatly improve usability and reliability.
Verbal Tics – As bots grow up, like us, their bugs become their features
Average monthly income in Morocco is $533.
I used a linux desktop but needed something a mobile without a hefty price tag. Got a HP Chromebook 13 and with crouton and it's brilliant. Beautiful hardware at a reasonable price. I just wish there was a crouton app launcher but its good enough anyway
I use http://www.howardleight.com/earplugs/laser-lite for sleeping and occasionally when walking through London. Good value in bulk from Amazon.
Random fun fact of the day: this is also called the hidden node problem [1] when applied to wireless networks, and it can cause problems with certain collision avoidance algorithms! Just learned about this the other day :D

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem
Was there a reason you went with NVidia hardware and closed source drivers? Did you really need graphic horsepower?

In my experience the easiest solution is AMD hardware with open source drivers. They just always work. It is just that if you need more graphic horsepower you might be better off with NVidia hardware and closed source drivers, and then accept the hassle.
http://abc7chicago.com/politics/i-team-ex-state-rep-sandack-...

>Newly obtained police documents suggest that a cybersex blackmail scheme was behind Rep. Ron Sandack's (R-Downers Grove) resignation from the General Assembly.

> According to Downers Grove police reports, in early July Rep. Sandack was engaged in a video conversation via Skype with a woman "in her early 20's with long black hair." The woman, whom Sandack told police he didn't know, had originally contacted him on Facebook.

> Rep. Sandack, 52, and the woman had several text exchanges on Facebook that "could be characterized as friendly conversation, like two people getting to know basic information about each other" investigators say.

> A short time later, the Downers Grove father of two connected via Skype video-where internet users see and speak to each other on their computer screens. Although the nature of the conversation between Sandack and the woman is blacked out in the Downers Grove police report, similar blackmail schemes have resulted in disrobing and sex talk between the participants.

> In Sandack's case, the woman on the other end of the Skype hook-up told him that she had made a video of their encounter and would distribute it to all of his Facebook friends...unless he paid her a sum of money...which he did. This scheme is fairly widespread in the U.S. and well known to federal law enforcement officials. Authorities have screenshots of Mr. Sandack's communication with the woman.
To put this another way. It's really not difficult to find mom & pop who made 300k on a small property portfolio with no special skills because of systemic capital appreciation, a liquid rental market and leverage(loan/mortgage). You'd struggle to find such a high success rate in any other asset class.
> Getting access to health care is what matters

And how do you provide access to extremely expensive health care without insurance or government? Risk sharing is the issue and in this case it seems fraught with moral hazards regardless of how it is done.
The market for widely used generic drugs in the US is incredibly competitive. It's niche and patented drugs that see crazy prices.

As far as doctors, the US currently has a surplus of medical school graduates and not enough residency slots to train them. I imagine the most immediate thing the US could do would be to train even more physicians assistants and nurse practitioners and then do a better job of billing less for lower levels of service.
Untangling the Immigration Debate
Right, the main differentiator with a person who does this stuff is willingness to do this stuff.

Let's not glamorize it.
Future will always be fear and uncertainty. I can only testimony for my experience, positive!
If the whole damn place would go under we might get a little bit of our Republic back! Unrestrained, unrepentant, regulatory capture. The nucleus of corruption in the United States.
Are you living in a dystopia?
I can't recall any recent design wins for NXP and/or Freescale in the smartphone market.

NXP really had no Cortex-A solutions before acquiring Freescale, and Freescale's i.MX series hasn't been in a phone for years, if at all. They did have some early wins in mobile books, but not much more.

NXP is now targeting the i.MX line for automotive HMI/IVI use. The automotive-class chip domain has always been a specialty of NXP (nee Freescale nee Motorola Automotive nee Motorola Semiconductor)
This is very good advice.
Content, content, content and then presentation.

You need to think of yourself as the product and work out what's the best way to describe and package the skills and experiences that you have already acquired and how they can be applied to whatever your target companies are looking for.

Also think about whether you are using your portfolio site for lead generation or lead qualification. Lead generation means that you'll have recruiters finding your portfolio off the back of your SEO and they contact you. Whereas lead qualification means you are selling your self to a hiring manager/expert after they've read your resume and decided that they want to check your credibility before interviewing.
I'm surprised no one has posted about Andrej Karpathy.

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/
How much do you have?
GPU acceleration in DataBricks
I'm sort of surprised Google and Apple don't have a "private mode" camera option. Some way to mark a photo or the next X minutes, and those photos won't show up in the default camera roll. Maybe they trigger a second dialog before sharing. Just to try to minimise accidents.
Show HN: Chrome Extension which adds notifications to the Hangouts webchat
So what are you bugging shykes for?

All I did was ask a question.

Is critical thinking, even just asking questions, undesirable now, unless someone is being praised to high heavens? Is that what we're down to now?

"ha! someone put all that effort in even though NixOS already existed"

SmartOS virtualization is based on Solaris zones, which existed long before people on GNU/Linux even realized that containers were the way to go. The groundwork, and my own work was laid down long before any of this became hype. Project Kevlar, nee zones was started around the same time as NixOS, and another participant already mentioned that large companies did large scale deployments and configuration management via OS packages, which is both true and correct.
Ask HN: How do you split your SaaS features into plans?
I'm doing a side project which purpose is to experiment if I can build a SaaS product and maybe earn some dollars. The app is a web-based REST api monitoring/tester tool, and I've been struggling with splitting features into packages that actually makes sense. The core features are like having API calls defined with parameters and assertions as cases, and then you can run them in every 1/5/15/60 minutes and get a report in email/slack if something went wrong. I have no experience on what works in real life so I'd appreciate any feedback from similar people who has done A/B testing or has any experience regarding this.
My current idea is:

- Basic: max 1 user / max 5 case / 60 mins frequency

- Startup: max 5 users / max 100 case/ 5 minutes frequency

- Enterprise: unlimited users / unlimited case / 1 minutes frequency

And the main selling point for the most expensive plan would be an ability to run collections through an API so that it can be wired into CI build.

Any thougths? Thanks!
Sure. And if we decided that rampant razor blade advertising was causing systematic pricing imbalances that dramatically impacted the greater public good, we could ban those too.
Also I can think of at least one employee - the founder! This title is cringe-worthy.
How  Hybrid Cloud Computing Can Optimize Your Business
In 2009, the company I worked for was laying people off while it had job openings listed. They would even interview for some of those roles. But it was all window dressing as they never hired anyone for quite a long time. The openings are for when some real superstar comes along and can be exploited. That way, there is an open req they can use.
Very interesting. The fact that Groupon buys a rival for pennies on the dollar sends the value of Groupon down 14%. Assuming people see this low purchase price as some sort of validation that the model doesn't work? Typically you would see this type of transaction as Groupon gaining more pricing power in the industry. Groupon might have been better off just letting Living Social ride off into the sunset.
A billion Android phones dwarfs BSD installations. I know this isn't really that important, as Android is mostly Google stuff sitting on top of a Linux kernel so they could probably dump Linux fairly easy if they had a decent alternative. Fuchsia anyone? Or better yet, Fuchsia on risc-v...
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