skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am still waiting for them to prosecute the fake business loan scams. I get calls daily with the message that I have been approved for a 250K business loan.
The American Nutrition Association is not a credible source. And they're using a discredited source - he's promoted several outright conspiracy theories. (I mean, fucking chemtrails even).
I went to a university that used to be a normal school. I am not sure the math ed. majors "showed little aptitude" ( they got better grades than I did ) nor curiosity, but they were quieter people.
> when nobody uses desktops anymore

I'd argue that this isn't true, especially for high-end artists, developers, gamers, and... well, my anec-data (gathered in only the finest biased areas) shows that this is blatantly false.
A better question is why even use lightening?

IMHO it's an anti-feature not to use USB-C on iPhone.
I must be silly but I expected the web worker version to run faster. I must have understood "many threads". It ran nearly 200ms slower :)

That said, not locking the UI thread and showing user feedback is totally worth 200ms extra for most tasks.
The article includes the following words of Seneca: "All the previous fighting had been merciful by comparison. Now finesse is set aside, and we have pure unadulterated murder..."
Agreed - for really hard problems I've never found that pounding away directly is effective. I load up on the required information and then intentionally go and do something else (ironically cooking seem to does it for me but overnight and in shower also works) and out of nowhere a solution will appear.
Let's try letting private banks issue money as debt just one more time, I'm sure it will be fine!
What comes after iptables? It’s successor, of course: nftables
I got a text message from the RCBS notifying me of the breach as I was reading the article describing it (already knowing that I was likely someone affected as a person who has regularly donated and participated in university challenge drives) followed by an email. Felt their disclosure and follow up has been appropriate although obviously disappointing they so sloppily allowed data to be left around on servers.

Was interested to read that there is a security body Australian Cyber Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) to deal with this stuff

- this is the link the text message sent me to: http://info.donateblood.com.au/
Bingo. I have worked with PhDs from overseas who lacked basic knowledge of things like hand tools.
> an underpaid person is a time-bomb

I disagree. There may be some instances of this, but there are also instances of people who love their job and would not change it for more money.

Money isn't the only motivator.
It's not a big deal. If you're using ES6 then TypeScript should be straightforward.
In your logic you equate statically typed and object oriented vs dynamically typed and functional.

Object oriented programming is by origin (Smalltalk) dynamically typed. Class based programming languages (which we really shouldnt consider typical for oop) tend to borrow all their modern type features from functional programming languages. (Think polymorphism, generics, interfaces, etc.)
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It's not clear that capability was that much of a factor. As the scion of Scots emigrants from the 19th Century, at least the 20h century version of my family was made up of bright capable people but hardly brilliant.
> and boasted about their overdesigned web infrastructure for a business that did two transactions a minute

They made more money with that two transactions than some other high rollers.
Just FYI: The net effect of this will be to make it more costly (both in terms of actual money/time spent and potential risks) to hire freelancers, and thus serve to protect existing regular employees from competition.
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Great story. Sadly, by the time I got to know Firefox (and thus Mozilla) the dino logo just looked strange, and seeing the pictures like that it becomes clear why: You really need to make that your design to make it work. It shouldn't be the one small glimpse of the past.

See https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/now-for-the-fun-part/ for some additional context. There is one small nod to the old design, but nothing picking it up. Or look like https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ looks now. That's the note on the dino:

> The classic Mozilla dino head logo served as a symbol of the organization since our earliest days, but is now reserved for select uses and executions only. While you may still see it pop up on certain sites and campaigns, please use the Mozilla wordmark on all properties and materials instead.

A bit sad. A complete sovjet union dino mozilla with the current web design refinement would be awesome (^for some definition of awesome).
>If they had "offered a touch screen instead", the users would have to hold their hand horizontally which would get tiring in about 5 minutes and unbearable after 10.

Works fine for iPad users on the sofa.
He's not talking about the first web browser commonly used by people with access to Unix workstations, which was basically nobody outside CS departments and industry. He's talking about the web browser that made the web a household word.

It's also kind of cool that you're arguing the history of Mozilla with the guy who wrote a whole lot of Mozilla. I am not in all respects a huge fan of jwz, and I often find his uncompromising style and go-fuck-yourself attitude grating, but it is a lot easier some days than others to understand why his web server is configured to bounce HN visitors to a picture of a testicle in an egg cup.
I've seen a few like that, and they're good. I've seen some which cram a lot into 5 seconds, and then tell you you can skip the rest.

But I've also seen weirdly long ads - 10 minute ad on a 7 minute video, 30 minute ad on an hour long video.

I'm also noticing some ads have a loud noise at the beginning of a 30 second skippable ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxg7fse74MY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1crwU9aUNHE

It's really annoying.

This is the kind of thing that drives people to ad-blocking.
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Thank you for that.

To add to that, this reminds me of the kind of Epaulettes Feynman talked about in SYJMF -- creating titles, awards and distinctions to create an aura around experts. This kind of "aura" of trust and distinction is something that I think in 100 years we will look back on the same way we look at experts of our past: imagine how you view religious leaders who held the keys to understanding life and the universe, or doctors who did more harm than good.

Here's an anecdote. Post WWII the Nobel Prize was awarded for the lobotomy procedure... Experts with authority and all the fanciest Feynman-epaulettes that the world has dreamt up have failed us, that's a certain fact.
Ask HN: Why do I almost always find out about new technology many years later?
I'm not saying that adopting an alpha or beta product is the best way. But once a product becomes mainstream, how do I find out immediately ? How much time does it take you to find out about new tech ?
Running an open source stack means you're not completely at the mercy of someone else. I'd cite Windows 10 desktop editions as a paragon of "you buy it, but you don't own it, then you suffer" proprietary products, but it's not a server component. So I have to cite FoundationDB, the proprietary database, which was seriously awesome, but so awesome that the downloadable binaries vanished overnight.

I have at least the assurance that such a thing cannot happen with Postgres (there are a multitude of for-profit companies working on it full-time, in addition to pro-bono community contributors), or with Apache Cassandra; and it's a similar assurance that keeps users of RethinkDB able to continue to operate despite the company being bought and folded.

----

Other advantages of open source: the very freedom to inspect and modify the software we run. This freedom is how OpenResty was born. In fact, Postgres itself comes from another GPLed database.

On a minor note: this freedom is what allowed us at my last job to create a patch for an internally required function in Nginx, in ten minutes. Had Nginx been closed source, we'd have had to request the makers, wait days/weeks/months, and if accepted they'd include it.
This is the same logic as "iPhone users only ever use the bundled headphones anyway so why need a jack?" (which also can't be used with the new MBP)
Because humans hear frequency in log scale, pink noise has more "even" distribution of amplitude to our ears.
Pink noise -> 100-200hz has the same power as 10k-20k ie each octave has equal power AFAIK.
Youngfaceworld – health, education, jobs and career information
That people overwhelming switched to Netscape suggests there is some truth to the difference in usability.
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Youngfaceworld – getting information of jobs, historical places
Oh, heck. Didn't notice that, yet. That's a bit rough!
How is using an e-cig trashing your health?
Cool demo! Web Workers are nice, and well supported by the evergreen browswers. Lots of apps do CPU intensive stuff on the server though and don't actually need them.

I am more interested in "Shared Web Workers", since it would allow for synchronization between tabs. It's got pretty poor support though, only Firefox, Chrome desktop, and Opera :(
You might enjoy this site then, which has several different noise "colors", each has a different kind of effect or feeling.

http://onlinetonegenerator.com/noise.html
Net loss in hosting fees.

But hey, it's not even close to being done.
Is this demo supposed to highlight the strength of web worker? It runs 300-400ms slower on web worker.
> select uses and executions only

Executions? I knew marketing speak was weird, but wow! Or do they actually have a sandlot out back with a post at one end and a firing squad at the other, with the great grinning glower of the red-star Mozilla presiding overall?
> If I had to be in a wreck, it would be in an S class. Hands down.

To be honest, I'd rather be in a Tesla, since no amount of smart sensors can replace a crumple zone. The S class in particular has a big engine (usually a V8), which won't play nice during a front end collision.
reddit and hackernews both use human moderation, as did slashdot, as and I mentioned it in my comment. Human metadata generation (this comment is good, funny, wrong, sad, incomplete etc) is a great first step in turning a sewer into a watertower.
I'm not saying Psychology is bullshit, why would you frame what I said as such? I think it's in general super interesting. I'm just saying that you can gain a lot more from it by evaluating things critically than you can from swallowing anything and everything that's in vogue uncritically because some authority figure tells you it's the Truth.

Also, to nitpick, Dunning-Kruger is certainly ok when the top performers do it, if you care to look at the actual graph[1].

Elon Musk is very much involved in the engineering of his projects, he's not a Steve Jobs-style CEO. As tomp pointed out[2], Elon was willing to look at things outside of his area of expertise, and guess what, he actually managed to learn quite a lot about those things.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/bJXQWRY.jpg

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12814851
> Sometimes I'll go 3-4 days doing nothing but work and sleep.

I know this is HN, but that sounds awful.
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There's serialization costs for going back and forth.

In some contexts launching multiple workers is possible if you can split up work, in which case it would be faster. Sorting a single array is not such a context though.
It is indeed. Cool applications too. I remember at least GUN - a graph db engine - uses them to great effect, and its author hangs out here, iirc.
The idea Geoff presents, of whitelisting the source addresses of the 8000 or so most frequently used recursive nameservers, and giving them priority service, is a good one, and should help. However, something like 20% of the Internet can still spoof source addresses. That 20% can spoof whitelisted DNS server source addresses, so end up in the priority queue.

An interesting question is how many of the bots in these IOT-based botnets are behind home NATs - if it's most of them, then even if their ISP allows spoofing, the IOT device won't be able to spoof. However, it does make it all the more important as IPv6 rolls out that BCP 38 is enforced.
For personal use perhaps it doesn't.

For professional news having data corruption is not something that you'd like, especially if you handle client data (as in backup) or even more importantly if you handle payments.

Overall for pro use lack of ECC is just a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Fun fact: Do you know how vitamins got their name?

When the first scientists to study food tried reducing it to its basic components, they concluded that it contained: carbohydrates, fats, protein and minerals.

Then, based on this knowledge, they started to feed animals a mixture of these four macronutrients, but they wasted away.

Afterwards they began to discover the 'vitamins', so named because they were vital for life.

Today we know even more, and have discovered that we don't just eat to feed ourselves, but to feed our microbiome.

I can't imagine though that we've discovered everything that is necessary in food for humans to thrive, and we may never do so.
It's the attitude of the Angular 2 team that makes me glad I decided to choose Aurelia instead. Nobody seems to realise that Angular 2 exists first and foremost to meet the needs of Google's internal Green Tea team and not the public.

This is just one of many things that should make people think twice about using Angular 2. The fact the team seemingly take input from a select handful of "Google experts" to guide the framework should be an alarm bell in itself. NG2 is a monolithic and over-engineered framework backed by a company who have proven they conflict with themselves (Polymer) and deprecate popular services on a whim (Google Reader).

I personally use TypeScript in my Aurelia applications, but I think you should allow developers to write using straight-up Javascript. We're getting to the point (or if you're writing evergreen focused web applications, you're there now) where we will be able to write Javascript without a transpiler soon (for most things).

I love TypeScript, but we can't forget what it's a subset of and some have the view that Javascript doesn't need types or interfaces.
so what? sometimes public services cost money. the comment i was replying to mentioned connecting humanity without creating a sewer, not profit.
It would make sense that birds do fall asleep while flying, as they are sometimes prone to fly into buildings or windows that were obviously visible.
That's quite a conclusion, given so little data. Priors may vary I guess.
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It is a very complex area, but the sections that are thought to be valid don’t really say much about Jesus. Even if they did, Josephus was not contemporary with Jesus.

There really are no historical records of Jesus that are contemporary. The earliest are the letters of Paul and they were written decades after Jesus lived. Paul himself says he never met Jesus (except by revelation).
...no "Soylent makes you soil yourself" joke yet?

Maybe it's actually made from something else than what's written on the label, ya know, just as in the cult classic they probably got the name from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green ;)
"That 1.74GB was simply a mysqldump file that had everything in it... The database backup was published to a publicly facing website."

This cements my opinion that we need sysadmin licenses.

As a sysadmin myself, when I read that in the article, I physically cringed. No wonder you can't trust anyone with your private data these days!!
Sure, but that's not structural and there are definitely parallels in the American civil war.

war is an exercise in stupidity to begin with, it shouldn't be surprising there are pockets of even worse. But to claim that structurally Americans refused to get out of the trenches in a certain way in order not to get killed whereas docile Europeans were led like lambs to the slaughter is not something I've found in any history of World War I (or II for that matter).

Both wars had extremely heavy casualties on both sides, and in both wars there were quite a few instances of CO's treating their men like disposables. The Christmas Truce is a beautiful story about such behavior. Even so, both sides were desperately trying to win the war and the rule would have been to not take action hastening the demise of the men on one's own side.

I've yet to come across any substantiation of the anecdote related above, if it was structurally true you'd think it would be more than a mere anecdote.
M2V is artificially low since ~2008 as banks recapitalized and sold assets/bonds, increasing the supply of money as calculated by M2 but not putting it into circulation, hence velocity decreasing. If you look at M2 and M2V they are nearly opposites of each other since the recession.

If capitalized reserves were not in M2 we would probably still have seen a decrease in M2V in 2008-2010, but not nearly as drastic, and it probably would be about flat since then, approximately tracking inflation.
But speed limits and distances are in miles. That also seems to use the 'imperial' system.
No I don't but that's not the point.[1]

When glucose is bound up in fiber for example, it is released at a slower rate. This leads me to believe that there may be 100s of other beneficial side effects of getting your nutrients via natural, minimally processed food.

[1] I'm not the original poster.
Well yes, though the OP was referring more to those making the statements not having skin in the game, not a general consensus of the market. If you asked 50 investors their views on the market a month before the '08 crash, I am guessing only a small fraction of them would have responded with negative indicators as well.
This is all fascinating stuff, thanks.

Of course, in the future when all cars are connected (even if they're not self-driving), combining all this sensor data and sending it to the vehicles behind you would save countless lives. The number of times you hear about pile-ups in fog and heavy rain - that could all be avoided by cars talking to each other.

But I'll bet there's still no open (or even closed) standard on inter-manufacturer comms yet?
Abstract it to nuclear physics and it has. Countless of cancer survivors can thank the nuclear arms race and all research from that for their life.
It's pretty awful to read how people regarded the Highland Clearances, like this from the Scotsman:

"Collective emigration is, therefore, the removal of a diseased and damaged part of our population. It is a relief to the rest of the population to be rid of this part."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
Yup - true - if I've eaten it won't make me nauseous, and having food mass (chyme) in your stomach acts as a buffer for absorbtion.
I have looked for Androids with hardware keyboards. Only the Blackberry Priv. is recent enough. The Priv has other properties that make it a strict no-no, but the keyboard isn't exactly what I'd like either: it's too small.

Whatever happened to landscape slide-out keyboards...
I worked in data and business analysis for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service for several years, and I know the tables mentioned in the article well. I have spend many hours of my life worrying over the potential risk of a data leak, especially for medical questionnaire and medical test data. Not mentioned in the article are blood test results for HEPB, HEPC, syphilis, and so on, but I presume they were also in the leak. (EDIT: on learning more about the nature of the leak, this data probably was not in it)

An outsider might suspect that this occurred because ARCBS is the sort of organisation that simply doesn't have the speciality/budget/staff required to manage data security properly, but this isn't the case by any means. My retrospective impression is that they had capable teams covering data warehousing, data security policies, network security, etc. All of my experience in the field tells me that they were better protected than the vast majority of organisations of their size.

This event has solidified some of my more apocalyptic thoughts w.r.t. info-sec. Namely, that a guarantee of secure data is essentially out of reach for almost any organisation of any size. Partly this is due to increased connectivity of networks, but equally it is due to better tooling and analytics staff making thorough organisation of customer data the norm.

The cause of this problem is the hoarding of knowledge, as Zhuang Zhou realised two and a half thousand years ago:

> In taking precautions against thieves who cut open satchels, search bags, and break open boxes, people are sure to cord and fasten them well, and to employ strong bonds and clasps; and in this they are ordinarily said to show their wisdom. When a great thief comes, however, he shoulders the box, lifts up the satchel, carries off the bag, and runs away with them, afraid only that the cords, bonds, and clasps may not be secure; and in this case what was called the wisdom (of the owners) proves to be nothing but a collecting of the things for the great thief.
No, you should definitely listen to what experts have to say. You should then proceed to evaluate it critically. Be mindful of what methodology they use. What assumptions they bake into what they're saying. Ways their model doesn't fit reality. And so on, and so forth. You should seldom defer to them.
Crumple zones assume a nice, controlled, head-on crunch. Not so useful against getting whacked in the side by a truck. But then, probably not much is.
I replied to the wrong comment but no, you don't need a Mac to want to learn about options available to people you might work with, or to find a feature you then try to find an equivalent for on your OS, or to know about if you get a Mac later, or to get inspiration for your own offering.

I'm shocked people on here of all places are so shortsighted they'd mass downvote for implying that software announcements are useful even if you can't use the software yourself. Are hardware announcements are pointless unless you plan on buying the hardware at the moment it's announced?
3.5 seconds on Chrome.

Native code does this around 10000% faster.
This goes for almost every war that was ever fought.
CEO?
I agree with your statements about needing to 'play with' mathematics to properly understand it. I don't think that's a good explanation for why Americans suck at it, though, because the same goes for software development and it's really hard to argue that you guys suck at software.
Brexit Vote is an indication people are not drinking neo-liberal kool-aid. You and I might have benefited from Internationalism, but not every one and they are making their voices heard. They may not be as sophisticated as you, but their concerns are from economic insecurity, either solve or at least empathize rather than reach out to some stupid propaganda play-book and stamp them "bigots".
The angular core team from Google even has technical PM that handles business relationships. I've recently been to AngularConnect in London - from what I've gathered their future focus is also very much about ease of use. They try to establish angular-cli as the de facto toolchain by incorporating best practices from the community, similar to ember-cli. There are a lot of nice features with the new compiler infrastructure (AOT with lazy loading support from the router) and types obviously help here.

As a counter point, with ngrx/store being so popular in Angular2 land I doubt Angular2 is as friendly to the Enterprise as you make it sound. On top of Redux you have Rx, many people will have a hard time wrapping their heads around this.