skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am disgusted with the NYT and media in general. I am a lifetime democrat, and in my opinion the news media has treated outside candidates like Trump and Sanders very unfairly. People should have information to make their own judgements, and not have the 'news' be a one hour infomercial for one candidate or another.

I am also unhappy with so many of my friends who only see one side of things, one side not respecting the opinion's of the other side. We need more civility and more respect for other people's opinions.
This is so encouraging and right on point. Great work and beautifully distilled.
> and shown to be secure/stable

For various definitions of "secure/stable".

For me, anything which Google can reach and amass information from, and thus NSA, is not secure. Rust on Linux where I am playing with, is fine.

And its not only the "conspiracy style" "why would Google put backdoors in its 'Play Services'", no its more like

"oh Google receives and sends notifications for every Signal message sent and recieved, among other information, such as Device ID, phone number, android version" - in short who is using signal and when.

Signal is amassing huge amounts of information for benefit of Google. Look at their github page, where they even say they want more to amass more data and to "annoy the hell out of users" to make them update - shove updates down their throat a la Microsoft style.
i think it can be very useful
Another example: Paul Lutus (of Apple Writer fame and @lutusp on HN), gave it up for solo circumnavigation of the world in a small boat and photographing bears, among other things[0].

0. http://arachnoid.com/administration/
What... no flaws.... impossibro!!!
Push back and you'll just be replaced by someone younger or more naive or willing.

At the end of the day programmers are mostly just factory workers of the 21st century. The best ones are perhaps closer to the mechanics of the industrial revolution.
Why does there need to be a 'next'?

I've tried cheaper competitors and they aren't even close to how well Roomba's work. As long as they keep building the best quality robots, I'll keep buying them. If they divert resources to a new market and forget about their main product (kind of like Apple has with Mac), I have no issues in buying a competitors product if it's better.
I always wanted to make films. Probably specifically small documentaries about people and sub cultures. But I never really saw that as a profession or much of an option. And ultimately I never really put a tonne of effort into it. I had talked to a few people who I thought were interesting subjects, but they backed out and I realized I didn't have the skills to try and rope them in and get them to do it (in a nice way). Maybe it's just because I don't have very many friends in that field that would support me.

On top of that I think I'd like to own a cafe or roast coffee or something.

But ultimately I got into development work because I was so motivated that the time it took to build experience on my own came easy. And doing the work day in and day out comes _pretty_ easy as well.

Though of course sometimes your interest wanes a little. But I know that it's a lot more satisfying than any job I've ever had. And I haven't thought much about others that I hear about.

In addition to that I just honestly don't think I'd make as much money anywhere else. So as long as I'm into it and it's the best place to make money, I don't see why I wouldn't keep at it.

I just hope I can try to do my other interests in my off time, which over time has become a lot harder than it felt previously.
Academic computer science or mathematics. Or writing (about technology, videogames, and humans). These are stuff I do as hobbies now.
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Not entirely true, there are some overlaps. See: computational linguistics[1] for example

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_linguistics
I think what GFK_of_xmaspast is saying is that, even if you think that all (remember third party!) Presidential candidates are equally bad, you should go vote for the other things on your ballot. Local/state initiatives, local representatives, etc.

Honestly, in many ways, those are likely to directly affect you _way_ more than the President anyway. Most (all?) states will let you leave parts of your ballot blank; just don't pick a President if you don't want to.
IPv6 != No NATing.

Example: Verizon Wireless.
Chat bots. Still don't think I've heard of one that is actually useful.
How can I get in touch with you?
I can't help but feel like the word "normies" is somewhat insulting. Although I never read it before, but it sounds very condescending.
Meh, this is a bit alarmist. We've been using machines and statistics for classifying human behaviors from the get-go. It's one of the most important things in analytics, mainly because money comes from people.
Here in France, there have been leading ISPs (Free ADSL), good citizens (SFR), and laggards that keep on dragging their feet (Orange, Numericable). Things got worse when Numericable bought SFR, halting progress with stupid rules in place that when you get the budget version of a contract you don't get IPv6 because reasons.

Let's not get started on "pro" versions where you just don't get IPv6 at all, ever, and on the phone you can even get them mumbling that it's not even on the table (Completel).
Thank you. I want to add that, my priorities are to make this project available for everybody, my intent is to make it functional, on the prototype I didn't see the need of security because, my own network is private so testing it was a breeze, but now i did implement an authentication because many people requested it. My main goal of building something that's like apple's touch bar , is kinda finished but that doesn't mean i won't evolve the project , all i need is just some ideas and I will happly implement them because I love programming
That article is complete bullshit. I sent them a big email pointing out mistake after mistake and of course never got any response nor did they publish anything to correct their "journalism".

There are legitimate concerns with Telegram that I share with all other technically inclined people, but this article is like saying "use a firewalled Windows 95 instead" because something is wrong with Vista. You really should disregard everything they say because the true parts are too interwoven with fabrications.
"People want a"

In summary, aspiration scales very well. In more detail:

You're very close to correct. People want to pretend or aspire that they could get into a twitter conversation with their favorite actor or whoever. Less than 1 in a hundred thousand viewers do, of course. Its similar to my grandparents generation sending physical postal fan mail to pretend they could have, I donno, one of the Beetles maybe, as a penpal, but nobody actually had a relationship like that. They just want to feel cozy that they could, if they want. Fanmail in 1960s IS twitter in 2010s.

In that way I'm not seeing any problem with simulating that on enormously larger scale legacy TV. TV has cratered such that popular show in my parents generation meant 1 in 3 americans watched an episode of MASH, now legendary ratings mean roughly 1 in 30 Americans watch Survivor and all of them can feel cozy that they could have a personal relationship, well, as personal as twitter gets anyway, with Jeff Probst if they wanted, although statistically rounding down to zero none of them want to actually tweet him.

Yes its easier in theory to talk to a guy with 1e3 viewers than a guy with 1e7 viewers, but since people are cozy because of the feeling they could if they wanted to, they never actually do it on a statistical basis.

Maybe rephrased its infinitely more important that Lady Gaga respond to "a" fan's tweet, so all her fans can feel they're that one lucky fan, than to have Lady Gaga respond to a fixed fraction of her total fanbase.

How about phrasing it like "The now mandatory use of social media for a famous person scales to a very small fixed constant number regardless of the number of fans".
"Yet" is the key word. Even rumors are sometimes enough and as powerful as lawsuits.

Market forces are really powerful. See Samsung's recent troubles -- once everything was fine, and then -- BAMM! - their phone sales went down without any external regulation. (pun intended.)
enough about all of THIS... Suffice it to say that the NY Times is a tool of entrenched power and serves as a pseudo-intellectual gatekeeper that is willing to publish stories based upon leaked information but is unwilling to stand-up and defend the sources of such information.
It's willing to be like NPR and appear to be thoughtful, but won't actually do anything to change the status quo.
With their International Herald Tribune arm it becomes all the more apparent that they are more-or-less a mouthpiece for the American executive branch: State Dept, CIA, DOD, etc. as well as the entrenched specific corporate agenda that's been masquerading as the public interest for over 60 years.
That they have no credibility with regards to altruistic token gestures doesn't even begin to describe why I could care less about their crappy content that they seem so self-impressed with as to think merits payment.
This is the Internet. I would think a publication like the NY Times could have figured out a way to transfer their same advertising-based print model to the net, what with minimal distro costs and all the rest of us doing so and what-not... very well. They shall remain the valued premise of a tiny market segment that is only shrinking. Good luck with that one.
It is as insecure and secure as Signal is, that means, for some actors, that is for some governements and corporations it is secure, while for others it is not.
Probably is because the content seems interesting but no one had time to look at it obviously ;)
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I would try doing anything that doesn't involve sitting in an office. Fixing bikes and cars, I would love to have a garage and do things with my hands, there's something incredibly satisfying about getting an old car to work, comparable excitement with getting your program to work.
The conventional wisdom is that you must cannibalize your existing business yourself, otherwise someone else will.

Seems to me that VW and BMW are not really pushing for EVs as much as they should – at least, I don't know anyone who is buying them instead of a VW or BMW with an internal combustion engine. Then again, I live in Finland, where nobody has an EV anyway.
Regarding "too late":

You work in a particular field, is it possible to take your knowledge of the "daily grind" to one of the development houses making tools you use? Is there some software that would be particularly useful that doesn't yet exist? Can you write plug-ins for existing tools (and sell them, a friend did that for audio processing software)?

You have domain experience, you don't have to forfeit it if you make the switch to programming.
I got a formal education and degree in software engineering over a long, hard fought four years, which still has me about $25K in debt.

I got my job by getting noticed through my GitHub blog, to which I dedicated only about a half hour every other night for a month or so.

One night I got an article at the top spot of HN's front page. I had a great job offer within hours from a dev at a company which I've always respected.

Content on my blog was self taught, 99% of what I do at work is self taught. Formal CS education is still useful, but the ratio of cost/reward is terrible.
> they sell hardware
Not always:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/17/massachusetts-laws...

Also, you cant know how much Apple stores about you.
Video games aren't made out of thin air. There is an art and a science to video game creation that involves novelty, difficulty, and mastery. That takes a lot of planning and designing. Obviously that means that video games need to be designed BEFORE they're created. ;)
Tracking EIG Brands Post Acquisition
The 2016 election violates everything we know about data
But, as with other flavors, you'll pretty much have to use the Google Services to get your apps working (notifications etc.)
I've heard that oral contraceptives slow the metabolism of caffeine.

Edit, tiny study: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00544361
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Trying to learn some more about crypto, what sort of answer would you be looking for? Would Diffie-Hellman be appropriate?
I think keeping the network as an attribute name would allow it to do multiple networks in one box in the future.
Also (same site):
Misconceptions – http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html
thank you for the guide, I will add it to the repo
Great point.

Personally, I find myself enjoying 10-minute youtube videos from Lindybiege and Nerdwriter much more than traditional 2-hour documentaries, for once. It's just better content, regardless of the delivery method. But it could never been created in the age of TV networks; they didn't have any incentive to save viewers time and put out interesting stuff in small chunks.
I have several websites with a reasonable number of users running on both MySQL and Postgres. On the balance I think I prefer MySQL - I find the replication in MySQL quite a lot simpler and the issues are not that big of a deal, and well known. Although I will say that both databases are fixing their faults as time goes on. For example Postgres is getting easier to configure replication and as of MySQL 5.7 the silent truncate default STRICT_TRANS_TABLES/STRICT_ALL_TABLES is fixed (although generally implementations I've used set SQL_MODE='STRICT_ALL_TABLES' by default, so it hasn't been an issue).
you're arguing against a straw-man.
Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/report-vw-sees-elect...

Speaking of the fears: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/studie-was-den-deu....
It may not be a great insight but it is an important fact to be aware of, especially in the context of something like Signal. It does need to be drilled into our heads again and again that the weakest link breaks the chain. Lest we forget... and we will. Or at least, I know I will.
> Java chicken farms

The idiom would be monkeys, so monkey typewriter farms?

centers of typewriting excellence?
As a former Roomba owner with allergies I have mixed feelings about current robots.

The cleaning and coverage is pretty good. My Roomba didn't have massive cleaning power but because it revisits the same spot over and over it got the job done.

It required quite a lot of attention though, both emptying it and removing hair and carpet fluff from it.

However the real reason I got rid of it was that I suspected that the filtration wasn't very good and that it was just sucking up allergens and blowing them into the air as it went.
A site we've been working on for a while that does something similar, but with d3.js and dc.js to bring the charts to life: https://www.sizzleanalytics.com
Dear author of the website: Nice article. Please fix the TOC links on "whyhard2.html" to point to "whyhard2.html" and not to "whyhard1.html", and remove the huge whitespace between TOC and content. This was a very confusing experience and likely others will fall in this trap. Thanks!
> Not only has Tesla created the greatest external challenge to the German auto industry that I can think of.

The greatest challenge they faced is one they still face: the Japanese auto manufacturers. Toyota remains unbeatable on quality; the pursuit of Toyota is claimed as an element of VW's recent fall from grace. At this point Tesla is barely a blip on the radar in comparison considering volume (current and planned) or quality.

> I believe one of VW, Mercedes Benz and BMW will bankrupt in 5-10 years. None of them have taken EV serious yet and I fear it's soon too late.

Daimler took it seriously enough to invest in Tesla, and to use Tesla as a supplier in their own B-class EV sold in the US. The BMW i series feature some pretty innovative thinking with respect to construction, materials, and design. The payoff is that the BMW i3 is the most efficient EPA-certified vehicle, more efficient than any of Tesla's models: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/extremeMPG.jsp (e: and the i series are likely produced under a more efficient and sustainable production process, but it's hard to find a single link in support of this claim)

> Both are still concept cars but they represent what they expect their EVs should look like.

They are concepts, and so are explorations of design elements, features, etc. DFM changes the design significantly, even if one tries to keep to the concept.

> How are the Germans going to catch up?

They already have, they are just much more conservative in releasing their products because of earned experience. e: When the demand is present, the Germans and other incumbent manufacturers will be ready. This article reflects Tesla playing catchup with respect to automation, something the incumbents have already figured out.
For me just the fact that they are not looking at gas cars as something to change as fast as possible and don't talk about its health problems mean that I don't want them to provide me with EVs in the future. I have a BMW, but it's my last gas powered car.
I am the same poster who posted above (liking the data being there). I was just pointing out that is "is" possible to do it without google handling it.

Personally I actually do track some "hourly" data, maybe 2-3 hours in total to set it up and it's running for 2-3 years. I suppose you could add some time to run it through some encryption software and put it in Dropbox without too much of a hassle.
Seems like a fear-mongering advertisement with no relevant context on it's own. Wikileaks has a political agenda of it's own, so you still have to take their commentary with a grain of salt. It's particularly ironic that they use climate change as an example, what with Trump being a huge climate change denier.

Yeah, HRC has some issues, but I have no doubt that a Trump presidency leads to a lot of social setback as a country, which is a true shame given the progress women, minorities, and the lgbt community have made over the last several decades.
I feel that the breakdown of gender norms is not necessary, and many people in our country are trying to do so right now in the name of "equality."

However, that's just my opinion. If other people disagree and see potential in the market, then let them design that game and prove me wrong.

Please try to be a bit less condescending on this site. We try to be more professional here.
They could add several seconds of latency by default and sell high speed premium to trading bots. Humans don't care about a few seconds.
Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking only in the candidates and I completely misread what GFK_of_xmaspast said. My fault.
Ikea Poang. I work with a laptop in my lap.
This appeared while I was searching for something related to Angular a while back. It said something like, "You're speaking our language. Ready for a challenge?" Unfortunately, I was insanely busy at the time and lost the tab. It never came back and I had nothing in my email :-(
Trade votes with voters from swing states
There are two threads about Elm on reddit's /r/programming right now. This is one of them, the other one ís about "Elm is wrong" (http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong)

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5bsanc/elm_is_...

I found it interesting because I have not myself looked into Elm yet but kept it in the back of my mind to do so some day, since thus far I only ever read extremely positive opinions.
If you have terrible tech there is no way you could succeed. (I am not saying about Karhoo, it is just an example) Think of buggy app, unreliable, slow backend, bad predictions, billing issues and so on. You really have top notch tech to have things running smoothly. What you probably had in mind is excess of features instead of focusing on the core ones.
IMHO wikileaks has been loosing all credibility due to the way that it has been behaving on this campaign. I'm European and always looked at wikileaks as an interesting source of data (with some salt).
Interactive Periodic Table Reveals Exactly How We Use All Those Elements
Indeed, this is a poor example specifically because House of Cards makes heavy use of digital backlot.

> Steve: We have a visual effects supervisor on the show who’s been working with Fincher for around 20 years. Let’s say we’re shooting on stage, and out the window we want to see the Washington monument, we’ll shoot green screen out of the set window. Then we’ll coordinate with the VFX department, telling them that we need to add a certain image out the window, and then we will go back-and-forth on how much expense it will require and how best to accomplish it.

> We actually do a fair amount of digital work in post on the show. All the driving in the show, anything inside the vehicle is done on stage, in a room that is a big three-sided green screen space. The car does not move, the actors are in the car, and the cameras are set up around them. We have very long strips of LED monitors hung above the car. We had a camera crew go to Washington, D.C. to drive around and shoot plates for what you see outside when you’re driving. And that is fed into the LED screens above the car. So as the scene is progressing, the LED screens are synched up to emit interactive light to match the light conditions you see in the scenery you’re driving past (that will be added in post). All the reflections on the car windows, the window frames and door jambs is being shot while we’re shooting the actors in the car. Then in post the green screens are replaced with the synced up driving plates, and it works really well. It gives you the sense of light passing over the actors’ faces, matching the lighting that is in the image of the plate.

> And as you mentioned, one of the bigger computer-generated things that we did in the first season was the VFX extension of the exterior of The Francis J. Underwood Library. That was a one-story building on location, which was not very modern. We added some elements to it when we shot it, then in post the top of the building was extended per the design that we did in the Art Department to create the modernist look of that building. There were a few other spots where we did visual effects work to enhance things on the show.

From http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2013/12/29/production-design-o...
Okay, I can see that. One could then argue that Tesla is too expensive as well. From that I'd say that high premium EVs are too expensive in general.
HOL is written in OCaml. The likely answer is because integrating OCaml and TensorFlow would be painful -- and OCaml isn't one of the languages Google supports internally [1]. Probably was easier to reimplement than to try to do all the contortions needed to use it in this context.

(I work part time on the Brain team, but I haven't asked the authors about this -- this is a best guess based upon knowing TF, not an informed statement.)

[1] https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-languages-does-Googl...
I'm aiming for Quant development since I read quantjob.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-avoid-quantdeveloper-black-hole.html

Software dev is less about enjoyable hacking, and more about "housekeeping", or a million yak-shaving data management tasks that you are paid to care about.

I'd sooner do something else that merely involves software, but has some other domain of knowledge, and keep the majority of my coding as off-work hobbying.