skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moralizing is fairly effective if someone already classifies you as part of the in-group. That's how social stigma works, and generally how racism was broken in the US.

With the advent of TV, many people could see the effects of racism first-hand and could no longer justify it to themselves. Their disapproval was fairly effective at getting the more hardline members of their community to moderate their actions.

In Virginia for example, traveling Klan members found themselves suddenly unwelcome in small towns, since either (a) cyncially no small town wanted to be the next one on the news as a lynching ground, or (b) small towners were legitimately disgusted by the seeing children beaten up for no other reason than their skin colour.
While this seems like a great idea, their privacy policy [1] has me slightly worried:

> We collect and use the personal directory data on your device to provide
the App’s functionality, to improve our services, and in some instances, to contact you.
This directory data includes, but is not limited to information in your address book such
as your contact record IDs, contact names, phone numbers, and email addresses. The
App will not collect your contacts’ addresses or zip code. By downloading the App, you
consent to our use of this data.

So they won't collect addresses or zip code (why are those separate?). That means they likely will collect name & phone number (which, if landline, means they have address as well), and any other information in the contact card (relationship, company, job title, etc). I would want to see the vast majority of that anonymized–or, better yet, not collected at all–before I'd consent to using this.

So yeah, great idea, but don't be data-greedy. No thanks.

[1]: http://www.civicinnovation.com/img/VoteWithMePP.pdf
If anyone is looking into this sort of stuff, you can check out the relatively new DO-178C as well, which adds some more details about tool qualification, formal methods, and model-based development. Signed, your friendly neighbourhood aerospace systems engineer.
Good riddance, a vile site full of self appointed internet police with handpainted badges with a sense of importance

They falsely flagged a a website I ran a while back (social media management tools via approved APIs) as: pharmacy, scam and spam. Due to this mails from our server were not getting through.

I tried contacting saying they are all false. They updated saying we sold facebook likes and fake followers. We did nothing of the sort and did nothing at all with facebook anyways. I tried contacting again to which I was told we were a scam because the domain has privacy enabled nor had my personal name and address on the site. I value my privacy and do not have my full name and certainly not my address anywhere online.

I asked our customers via a support forum post if they could post an honest review of our site and service which did nothing to the score - it seems a couple of users have all the power. We then got branded as spammers for trying to manipulate our rating (with actual reviews, but as it was against the power users (who had never used our product) we were in the wrong.
Does anyone know if Bill Gates also opposes Microsoft's manufacturing of other hardware such as Surface products or was it just the mobile phones?
> Google invented containers long before it was a thing

I had to laugh at this one, then again I am an old dog.
You can still crack Adobe products with a simple /etc/hosts entry. There will always be ways to circumvent licensing.
I actually think Ballmer really was the perfect finance-oriented CEO between tech-oriented Gates and Nadella. Except instead of 14 years it'd probably have been better a 5-8 years period or so. Sadly, 14 years was a too long period and maybe Microsoft lost some good trains along that time.
The purpose of the law is to prevent the labor market in general and the H1-B workers in particular to be exploited. The purpose of H1-B is to make it possible for employees with extraordinary skills to work in the United States.

Over time, companies have figured out ways to use intermediaries and others means work around the legal controls to exploit immigrant labor.

If you work in the technology industry, this should concern you, as allowing organizations to do this sort of thing is ultimately reducing your compensation. If you don't believe me, look at the salaries & benefits (which are often public record) at regulated or government organizations that require US citizen labor. Line employees tend to make more in those environments.
Hindsight is 20/20

More important decision would have been "consumer" vs "business". Even if they invested in phones earlier, it would have made no difference if the company was still run by salespeople focused on business seat sales.
wouldn't have to put out fires fueled (apparently) by magnesium
"Consumption" is an old-fashioned word for classes of tuberculosis, which can affect the liver. So you could still be right :)
You clearly have not traveled
OK, so it is open, but not free ? Is it available for academic purposes free of cost ?
I wish I could use mostly mobile sites instead of apps but the biggest thing that hurts the experience is the fact that ad networks still allow for ads on mobile which hijack the browser to open up the app store (at least this has what I've seen myself). So it's why I try to avoid most sites unless I use an ad blocker but even that doesn't guarantee some sleazy browser hijacking ad won't appear. If that issue gets fixed I can see more people using mobile sites over apps.
I'm with you on this (especially because if this election).
> note there is also devicemapper

You know that trick the post mentions about how you have to keep removing images to stop your machines running out of disk space? Yeah, removing images doesn't actually reclaim disk space on devicemapper (!!):

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/3182

Oh, and devicemapper is the only natively supported storage backend on the AWS official AMI.
So Apple invented carrier subsidies for cell phone purchases just for the iPhone, and that's why the iPhone worked?

Yeah. Solid reasoning there, Ballmer...

They were a thing long before the iPhone.

But then again, hugely successful people almost never say: "yeah, I was an idiot who just didn't see it".

And he was very successful in terms of increasing revenue and working the markets.
So if H.264 is magic, what is H.265 then? :)
Of course, that seems to be exactly what is going on:

>"These considerations of mechanism suggest that at chronic doses close to the toxic dose, any chemical, whether synthetic or natural, and whether genotoxic or nongenotoxic, is a likely rodent and human carcinogen. Not all chemicals would be expected to be carcinogens at high doses; the MTD may not be reached (101) or the chemical may be toxic without causing cell killing or mitogenesis."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC54830/
The whole Heartmath thing seems to me like an exotic way to teach and practice consistent slow, regular, deep breathing (which is definitely worthwhile thing to learn!).

I believe the "coherent" HRV curve they claim brings all these benefits is simply the effect of respiratory sinus arrythmia (why your heartrate decreases when you breathe in) while breathing at a very regular interval—the HRV curve just happens to be a good indicator of how regularly you're breathing.
That's odd, we've been using Docker for about a year in development and half a year in production (on Google Container engine / Kubernetes) and haven't experienced any of the panics, crashes yet (at least not any we could not attribute as a failure on our end).

Clearly, Docker itself has a a few annoyances, like no garbage collection and poor tagging process, but we're using it on a daily basis, and nobody complains about it (nothing a few bash scripts can't fix).

Finally, the biggest benefits of not just docker but containers in general are consistency and immutability which brings me to the final point I agree with the author: Your database shouldn't be containerized. It's not your pet (from pets vs cattle), it's your BFF.
Modern (US) Anti-Trust law requires prove that the end user is actually harmed. Proving the existence of monopoly is not sufficient for conviction (This is a change that happened in the 70-80s and has been adopted and accepted as a useful defined interpretation of the law).

Do you want everybody to just not do anything until there is a standard? The modern web you have to start by having a working implementation for testing and refinement. Once that is done, you go for the standard. Mozilla also 'just implements' stuff and then tries to standardise it later.

> You simply cannot do anything on the web without Google seeing in one way or another.

without Google seeing SOMETHING, but that does not mean that SOMETHING is useful
I don't think it actually does. That was just 'sympathetic magic' - you eat cholesterol, it doesn't really end up in your blood vessel lining?
Not sure where you live but in my country we already don't let minors smoke.

In most parts you can legally have sex before you can legally smoke.
I asked this earlier today on its own thread:

Why don't browsers default to trying HTTPS if there is a DNS record but no response on port 80? Or better yet, default to just trying HTTPS first. I understand I can add my site to browser based HSTS lists, but this doesn't really help people developing command line applications or API client libraries where a 302 could be followed without the developer even noticing and if I want to develop a MITM proof application I currently have a usability problem.

Is there a reason to support HTTP at all, other than current user experience in the browser?
Node is actually best used with Promises, which aren't even mentioned in this post.

Promises, aside from being far more concise with a huge amount of utility, do not leak errors or exceptions.

doAMillionThings()
.catch((err) => handleAnything(err));
I'm constantly losing/breaking my credit/debit cards and forgetting about the services I have subscribed to. Usually I'm reminded by an email from a service telling me that they were unable to charge my credit card. Does it mean that next time it happens and i'm subscribed to your service everyone related will be notified of my death?

Edit:
I read the description one more time and it seems that you send an email three times. But still I don't see how not answering email is a good way to determine that I'm dead.
Dyson opens Britain’s first degree where students get paid
Cortica, Clarifai Show AI Isn't Just for Big Players Like Google
Magnesium.

But, yes, operator error, unless auto-pilot is found to be involved.
If you only read HN, you'd think that the only application of machine learning is image recognition. Just once I'd like to see a more interesting example...
thanks for linking, I'd like to see if there's a news article on it as well.
Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery [pdf]
Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.
Ubuntu has 'umake ide' that installs or upgrades it directly from the MS download; no .deb yet AFAIK, though.
URLs.

View source.

Standards.

Cross-platform.
How to Choose Your CI Tool
They put out gasoline and diesel fires. Is it because they are not yet prepared to deal with battery fires? I feel like all vehicle fuels are volatile in an accident, including batteries.
Clean docker images:

docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q --no-trunc)
> I've seen some horrific car fires from conventional combustion engines.

Yay anecdotes! The real question is whether or not battery fires are harder to put out than gasoline fires.

The current recommended practice for a lithium ion battery fire is to let the fire burn itself out...
Smoking a pack a day for a year causes 150 mutations in lung cells
iTunes I understand, but what don't you like about Preview? I think it's actually one of the best parts of the mac. I'm also confused at what you mean by blurry monitors and Xcode dictating what goes in your machine?
It has 8MB of NOR storage. Sure, you aren't putting Debian on there, but it'll take your wifi creds.
Voting machines are products produced by private firms. Getting them to publish the source code is about as likely as getting Apple to publish the source for iOS.
Vertabelo Blog:  Learn how to design and use database models
Red meat doesn't cause high cholesterol? Huh?

No offense, but unless you post some really reputable source, I'm gonna trust my cardiologist over some guy on the internet.
I have unlimited vacation time - I'm a private contractor. But when I take a day off, its just 'not getting paid'. So I have to be careful, try to get some hours in every day.
A typical cost comparison between GCE and AWS
As you get into advanced data structures, you often need the gory technical details to make correct decisions about tradeoffs and usage. Succinct data structures, for instance, which are a specific thing and not just a generic adjective, are almost miraculously powerful, but you'd better understand exactly what the preconditions for using them are (which is a fairly mathematical discussion) and what the tradeoffs are before you use them because you will not be able to just "tweak" them and fix them up later if you're wrong.
This book is often recommended, but I would dearly love to know how many of its recommenders have actually read it.
When I went there (around 2004, IIRC), they claimed to be "accredited", but their credits were unlikely to be accepted elsewhere if you transferred. I asked, and that's what they said. They did, however, accept many of the credits I had from my local community college, and I was able to test out of a few more courses.
If I wanted to learn more about open source, reliable microkernels, where would you point me?
What a great example of really bad webfont. That page almost broke my eyes, when saving island of bold fb comments came to the rescue. People lost in thin-line madness.
Solaris zones ~~
Show HN: Friendly CSV, open-source merge variable sanitizer for outbound sales
> You only need walk down the street in India to see ads for private engineering colleges run in shacks.

What are Indians going to do when there few good colleges.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/kkk-paper...

His campaign immediately distanced themselves.
I'm perfectly fine with cigarette advertising being illegal, mandatory blank packages, and so on. I'd be very angry if they completely banned cigarettes, though.
I would argue that productivity is probably a good proxy for mental health on a per-employee basis. It's not the goal, but it's an easily measurable correlated value.
You will get 3 emails before it happens or you can use email only but then you will need to click on a link every month, whichever works for you.
An interesting blog post, not sure it really meets the spirit of 'Show HN' since the link is not to something that people can try out or play with. Might be better suited as a regular submission.
The point they made about mobile carrier subsidies is surprisingly big. A $600 phone even today languishes without carrier support (though I believe on a carrier subsidy, the total cost of the phone ends up being something like a grand to the customer). But Apple kind of invented the concept of "phone-as a-service"?
>It's intellectually dishonest to claim something isn't happening while, in the same breath, fighting against any reasonable way to verify it.

To be honest I'm not sure what you're arguing. As a quick rundown, people register to vote and then they vote. If a person checks a voters id before voting, they are ensuring the person casting a vote is the same person who registered. This in no way prevents an illegal alien from registering to vote. Ensuring illegal aliens don't vote actually happens during the registering to vote, as most states require some proof before registering them. So as best I can tell you're advocating a solution that doesn't work and has nothing to do with a problem that doesn't exist.

For a dose of reality, election fraud does actually happen, but again, the ways in which it happens aren't addressed by voter id laws - again, because voter id laws aren't being pushed to solve any real problems.

"""
This sort of misdirection is pretty common, actually. Election fraud happens. But ID laws are not aimed at the fraud you’ll actually hear about. Most current ID laws (Wisconsin is a rare exception) aren’t designed to stop fraud with absentee ballots (indeed, laws requiring ID at the polls push more people into the absentee system, where there are plenty of real dangers). Or vote buying. Or coercion. Or fake registration forms. Or voting from the wrong address. Or ballot box stuffing by officials in on the scam. In the 243-page document that Mississippi State Sen. Chris McDaniel filed on Monday with evidence of allegedly illegal votes in the Mississippi Republican primary, there were no allegations of the kind of fraud that ID can stop.

Instead, requirements to show ID at the polls are designed for pretty much one thing: people showing up at the polls pretending to be somebody else in order to each cast one incremental fake ballot. This is a slow, clunky way to steal an election. Which is why it rarely happens.
"""[0]

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...
There's an algorithm for that ...
Isn't it because LiOn batteries have their oxidizer in them? So its like jet fuel or something - fuel and liquid oxygen mixed can't be 'put out'. Neither can battery fires. They have to burn to exhaustion.
"Curmudgeonly skeptics" love to think about themselves as realists. Skeptic is not a realist, however - when you think about yourself as a skeptic, you already set the limit to what you can experience and how your mind and skills can change and evolve. "Mindset" by Carol Dweck comes to mind.
I blame non-technical managers who push "microservices" and "node js" because they went to some conference and heard that it's "the best".
Yes, you don't need the machinery of learning when you already have an algorithm you're happy with. Adding a table of numbers, I don't think anyone hopes to do much better than we already do with our circuits and computer architectures.

With video compression, I think most would agree that there might be better architectures/algorithms that we haven't stumbled upon yet. Whether specifically "neural networks" will be the shape of a better architecture, I don't know. But almost surely some meta-algorithm that can try out tons of different parameters/data-pipeline-topologies for something that vaguely resembles h.264 might find something better than h.264.

Neural nets are expensive to train. But so is designing h.264.
Came here to say exactly this -- of course, at his level of wealth, he probably never noticed that the phones were subsidized as a matter of course (unless you broke your phone) in the US.
Microsoft was working on its own MacBook Touch Bar – The Verge
In my country it is illegal for minors to smoke, and a majority of smokers start smoking as minors.
Show HN: Use Markdown with Tufte CSS
This happened in June right?
That was discussed here, starting with [1]. tl;dr: Too many broken sites out there, and this kind of opportunistic encryption doesn't hold up in any adversarial threat model (MitM blocks :443 and forces downgrade to :80).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872100
code here: github.com/ryanckulp/friendly_csv

most of my email campaigns look something like:

hey Ryan, i'd like to learn more about Acme Co.

however, many of the lists i build have a few problems:

* merge variables are in weird cases (ie all lowercase, all upercase)

* names aren't split first/last, but have middle initials, etc

* company names include artifacts like 'Inc, LLC, Ltd,' etc that make the message less personal

so, i built this tool to sanitize all this for you (and me), which then spits back a CSV.

no catch, no costs, no email signup, etc. just your leads, fixed.

edited to fix bullets
IIRC if you pay for the "Pro" version of Windows, you can defer updates.
Question: I'm about to start a hobby project on Android. I use Scala in my day job and strongly prefer it to Java. How would you rate its usability (coding, testing, debugging, performance) for Android development? Ideally I don't want to be fighting the tools, I just want to hack stuff in Scala and have it work on Android. If all else fails, I'll revert to Java 1.6, but I'd rather not.
Right, but my point was rather about the differences you mention. I was under the impression that 0MQ was superceded by nanomsg for technical reasons (UNIX-iness, 0MQ's threading model, etc).

Whence comes the impression that nanomsg is inactive?
OpenPOWER Summit Europe 2016 Recap
You will need to lose access to all (3) of your social accounts and your email, highly unlikely. One of the reasons why we don't have our own account management ...
Well sure but I'm just pointing out that the analogy isn't great. There are already plenty of things minors can't legally do and we don't try to ban them for everyone.
He clarifies right after that he got to those numbers because he used a lossless vs lossy encoder. Really should've kept reading
Absolutely. I was surprised to find how big the semi industry is in ATX, we have (off the top of my head):

1) Intel

2) AMD

3) Nvidia

4) NXP

5) Samsung (they even have a fab here!)

6) ARM

7) Qualcom

And several hardware start ups, etc. It is actually a pretty major part of the local economy.
Taking a quick read, I see all sorts of issues with this dataset. Jay Hoag was not founder/CEO of Netflix, he was a growth stage VC and these are likely not his personal shares but his firm's. Dick Costello wasn't a founder of Twitter. TripAdvisor was acquired by IAC in '04 and then spun out; Barry Diller wasn't a founder.
I've stopped smoking a week ago and brain fog is killing me, I'm not able to do my job any more, any advice ? I just sit and stare at monitor without my brain working :/
I have actually been drinking it for a while to help with a GI issue, was wondering why you drink it. Thanks for the input!
> We'll need to renew our focus on training users

Totally useless, studies show that user just don't look or care. This after all the effort put into this.

The solution is new authentication that takes into account the domain.

This is exactly what has been done in the new FIDO standards, UAF and U2F. If you use U2F as a second factor on google, dropbox or github phishing is already a problem of the past.

These standards have now been given to the w3c and they are working on a further standard based on the fido ones.

https://fidoalliance.org/specifications/overview/
This can also be dangerous. If Globalsign starts sending bad OCSP data again, or your browser vendor blacklists your CA due to bad behavior from the CA (no fault of your own), you'll end up with a site that now can't be accessed at all. Not even to display to the user, "sorry, we're having some technical issues, please check back later", with all the login stuff disabled (and the site using secure cookies by default anyway, so they won't leak in HTTP mode.)

It is really difficult for the average user to clear HSTS/HPKP data. You can't just clear your history, you have to go to about:permissions or chrome://net-internals#hsts to do that.

Maybe that's the experience you want. But I think it'd be a tough sell to any business to have their users presented with a certificate error message for up to four days because Globalsign screwed up.

Public key pinning is even more dangerous. Not the least of which because there are no longer two free providers of SSL certificates for your backup cert.

This is yet another problem that could be solved with DNS signing -- both the risks of HSTS and HPKP would be gone. The domain could have a new TXT record of "TLS=Always" that you could flip on or off as needed. The TTL on that could be 3600 seconds instead of 4+ days for a bad OCSP response, or the suggested (by SSL Labs) 6+ months for an HSTS response.